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You're right and it is typical of HN that you're getting downvoted for making an argument.... but the ironic thing is, I am pro-IP and I agree with you-- government will never give you freedom. (get rid of government- I'm an anarchist- and you'll still have IP, it will just be enforced with contracts.)
My thought was an annual fee for representation, with some bonus after a search. The one function of an agent that hasn't really been picked up is career guidance. Perhaps 'manager' is a better word from an entertainment career parallel term. There is tons of guidance to be given during any year, even if a job search isn't happening.
Citizen Kane is famous for a bunch of different reasons, including advancing the state of the art of cinema and being basically a flawless masterpiece. But probably the thing that stands out the most today is its psychological depth, in that to this day it's arguably still the best character study ever done.

Firefly doesn't have that sort of psychological depth, but it does have a lot of moral ambiguity, something that's virtually non-existant in CK. That's something that would have gone a lot deeper had the show gotten another two or three seasons, but they never got that chance. It also has some of the most clever writing of any TV show, up there with only Arrested Development really. Cleverness might not be as prized by critics as authentic character writing, but it's still at the top of its form nonetheless. The main downside of the show was that it was already starting to get a bit formulaic toward the end of season one when they canceled it. In any event, I don't think you could ever put Firefly above Citizen Kane, but certainly I think it pushed the boundaries of its genre in a way that is rare.

The Avengers, on the other hand, has virtually no redeeming value whatsoever except for Joss Whedon's clever writing during the second half and the amazing effects during the NYC fight scene.
The famous example of a highly-funded hardware project that's almost certainly a scam is ZionEyez: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2012/08/20/the-truth-a...
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Thing is, factual data itself, such as "Someone is offering to the public to sell X for $Y," is not subject to copyright. Copyright-eligible works must include some element of creativity, however small. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural)

So the text of a classified ad itself is indeed copyrightable, but the mere fact that a house at 123 Some Avenue is for rent for $1,000 per month is not. Having learned of that fact from a copyrighted work, and in the absence of an NDA or something similar, you are free to disseminate that fact as you like.

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out.
Widespread cheating reveals a bigger problem. These sites are commonly used for self promotion but they lack a mechanism to give everyone a minimum amount of attention so they can see if there is any interest in their product/content.

I wouldn't discount voter ringers as unethical cheaters just because they don't follow some lazily contrived rules set up by people who don't have promotional problems.

The technology behind these up/down vote sites really hasn't moved and they will run into ever bigger problems as people get accustomed to them and learn to cheat bigtime just as content farms learned to cheat search engines. Actually content farms cheat HN pretty well already. They spew out so much crap people never learn what quality content looks like and upvote the crap.
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Could you add in a filter for "not animation"?
But that definitely is not what happened here, right? Because they are letting you sign in with the first 16 characters of your password, it means that they must have access to plaintext of your old password. OP was unable to login with the long version of his password, the two options he outlines are the only possible way this did happen, not options for how one might implement this change.
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(I work at Deployd) From our perspective, one of our ultimate goals is to create a platform where the tech stack doesn't matter to the user. We've partially solved this with the Mac/Windows installer - it installs Node.js and MongoDB dependencies itself. That way, you don't need to know the stack unless you're developing extensions (which are node modules).

However, I do agree that we need to document the stack better for those that want to install from source, or host it themselves.
I think you mean "cars in a city" instead of "street sweeping/parking"

Once the density of people per square mile is over a certain point, the usage of cars contributes to a tragedy of the commons, inconveniencing many of the residents in the city for the benefit of few. New York has been one of the more aggressive cities in removing parking and closing down roads to car traffic and it has greatly improved the quality of life there for residents.

London's Canary Wharf district is able to support 100,000 jobs with only 3,000 parking spots. San Francisco's problem is that it hasn't yet made the city sufficiently convenient for humans on foot and bicyclists at the cost of inconvenience to drivers.
I remember that decoding GIFs was pretty advanced for the Atari ST I had as a teen. Compiling C code on a floppy was pretty slow as well.
But why only sales "guys"?
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The housing crisis did, in fact, come from over the top government regulation. Further, the reason health care is so expensive is government regulation.

In the 1990s the democrats decided that the banks were not lending to blacks out of racism... later studies that accounted for ability to repay the loans showed this wasn't the case, but at the time the Clinton administration imposed regulations that basically said banks had to loan to people who couldn't repay, and that fannie mae and freddie mac woul buy up those bad loans.... this literally created the housing crisis that blew up 10 years later. It wasn't wall street, it was clinton (and a bush as well, for keeping interest rates artificially low).

Milton Friedman found that over the past 100 years government regulations drove up health care costs 26 fold and reduced availability. So that $100,000 operation that would bankrupt you now would only cost $5,000 without government regulation-- you could put it on a credit card.

The ACA is destroying the health care industry and will dramatically make the situation much worse.

But most people are never told these things. They are told political lies spread via propaganda that blames Wall Street (or "Glass Steegall" - I can't tell you how many times peple have evoked that phrase, people who obviously know nothing about what that law did).

Most people are ignorant and believe propaganda, and that makes them easier to control, which is what politicians like to do.
On a personal level, I feel bad that your best laid plans were crushed.

But from an outsider's perspective, I'm not shocked that, eventually, someone stopped you and said, "Not all is as it seems here." It's a tough economic climate out there, and people tend to get defensive when it comes to jobs.
Oh, I like this idea....

Neural net for CL postings, extract the facts, reformat for your own display...
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Airlines, too. I recently had to enter an alphanumeric password at or below around 12 characters, I think.

Some companies also add so many requirements to the password that I think it does more harm than good to the entropy of it.
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"Flip" just means "flippant".
1) For fairness and effectiveness concerns, on the top news pages, please display a number of news according to energy thresholds, energy being the same variable used to determine the position of a news.

2) Please put a mark on the last clicked news so we can vote or discuss it (often a dozen minutes after) without having to look through plenty of tiny moving gray links.
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Great advice but gotta be careful this is really only applicable to freelancing/consulting as an individual. Building a self-sustained company is a very different beast. There certainly are scenarios where you're well enough positioned to set the price you want (Barney's), but if you're not targeting a very specific niche prices are already set for you (for example .99 in the Apple store and zero in Google play) and it all comes down on having a great novel and well presented product with tremendous operations efficiency and low cost. Unless you're running on VC free money of course :)
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Apple Maps: It's all about the ads
If you want to do a different application, you can always take the WASTE code and do something else with it. Freenet is about as generic as P2P gets because it only handles storage. WebRTC should actually be a pretty good way to make P2P networks because you get a channel for sending data, doing realtime chat, audio/video codecs, all the HTML5 stuff for the UI, and JavaScript as a scripting language. As far as protocols and data standards go, I think the only reasonable thing is a protocol for status info, public key exchange, authentication, and listing the application protocols a peer supports. Everything else is too application-dependent.
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I'm legitimately curious, what way do you think that "flip" is racist? Are you joking, or just not aware of the etymology?
The key trick is the fact seperation. The information is in the public domain. So, you have to be a "reporter" rather than a "republisher" if that makes sense. The raw data may or may not be subject to certain considerations, the the only really valuable part -- the fact/information -- is more or less urestricted.

The question is, will CL now take steps to make the data more "private" (eg, member only, even if free...etc) or will they take steps to re-introduce themselves into a critical step of actionable use (must login for contact details, etc).
CL could start to look like an apartment broker, though, if they follow through with this latter approach.

So this is an interesting dynamic to watch how it plays out. It might aso still be interesting to use a-padmapper-like-service, even as a complement to CL service. If I just had to get 1-5 things its no problem. But sorting 200-400? to find 5 is a PITA, because wading CL is increasingly inneficient. Its a discovery issue.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flips
Considering the username and that this is their only comment...
An interesting article, but still promoting that old password advice that creates crackable but not memorable passwords. If you have a hash that can do ~2 billion keys/sec then you can simply brute force the keyspace including symbols.

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/936/

The 16 character limit really helps though :)
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Even if we pretend that's a legitimate definition, your assertion still doesn't make sense.
It depends. What sort of broken do you have? What is your business? What is your scale if this is additional feature on existing product.

Usability? How broken?

Performance? Might be ok if you have no initial customers.

Dataloss risk? Depends on the business.

Security problems? What is the worst case - personal photos (whose), medical data. Legal risks?
Great question powera. Two reasons

1. This is a self selection hack: The renaissance sales rep will be drawn to the problem and will want the intellectual challenge of thinking through a new problem.
The coin operated ones will instinctively get turned off by your request for a plan and will self select out. You anyway don't want to hire one of those.

Also, most sales reps spending their days staring at spreadsheets, CRM systems and drab presentations. This will be a welcome break.

2. Helps them research their probability of success: Good sales reps don't like to lose in the marketplace. These are individuals who are motivated by winning deals. They love the chase.

Preparing a plan helps them evaluate their chances of success.From a career standpoint they wouldn't want to join a company only to be let go after sometime because they couldnt make quota. It reflects really badly in their next interview.

So a smart sales guy would want to research before hand if the market is hot, is the product unique?, who is competition? what are the prospective customers that he has connections with?

He is going to do this irrespective of whether you ask him or not (red flag on his caliber if he doesn't). Why not make it a part of the process?

Btw, judging the specifics of the plan is not as important as judging the process of his planning.
I'm less concerned about source being available and would rather know if AeroFS is ready to serve a replacement for Dropbox to store my 1Password files.

On a side note: Release notes for AeroFS http://support.aerofs.com/knowledgebase/articles/93285-relea...
Fellow high school IOS programmer here. This is pretty cool, It's nice that you get help with the art, that is the main thing that keeps me from making games. Instead I just make apps for psychological researchers: http://hume.ca/ix
I like the idea of MakeGameWithUs, but I don't have any Apple products... do you have any plans to include Android Development, or Desktop Development into it ?
"stole" and "steal" and "CL idea" are all in quotes for a reason. Here, quotes are intended to signify the words quoted do not necessarily carry their dictionary meanings. They carry whatever meaning you assign to them. And that is what you have done. To you, "steal" means verbatim copying. But I might have assigned a different meaning, or maybe the same one. It's a figure of speech.

As for summary judgment, I think you mean _granting_ of summary judgment, not _filing_. But I'm not going to split hairs on the words you used. I know what you meant, even if it wasn't technically correct.
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A friend of a friend recently had $500 stolen and Chase didn't reimburse him for that, so this doesn't seem to be universal. (On the other hand, Bank of America did issue me a temporary credit for my money that got stolen in the same compromise, so I know it happens sometimes.)
I think Tom is right. There's a famous case (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural) where a telephone company sued someone for copying subscribers' telephone #s in a competing directory, and the Supreme Court ruled taht you can't copyright facts - essentially the same claim that 3taps is making on the copyright side. But Rural telephone co. had a statutory monopoly and the compilation and publication of the directory for subscribers' benefit was a condition of that monopoly.

Now CL has a de facto monopoly, but it's like many others in that the market has granted that status to a large extent. CL can afford to look frumpy because it has few competitors and a massive first-mover advantage. You could set up 'Cushman's list' tomorrow and you'd probably crash and burn without them lifting a finger to obstruct you. So CL's listings are more than mere facts, they're the expression of a commercial preference by advertisers. A better comparison owuld be with stock exchange data; (as far as I know) the copyright on that is watertight because it's partly an expression of member companies' desire to be listed on that exchange as opposed to one of the competing exchanges.

The above is just my hunch about the copyright claim, but I don't think 3taps can succeed with that argument. The antitrust claim, I have no idea - but it should be borne in mind that monopolies are not necessarily bad. Courts nowadays give great weight to consumer benefit rather than abstract rules, and CL delivers an awful lot of consumer benefit by being free for most and charging very modest fees to a small class of advertisers.
Great start for a first endeavor. Couple notes:

- Would definitely recommend rethinking the header/banner area. Takes up a lot of vertical space and seems unnecessary for such a simple tool.

- You're loading jQuery twice. Recommend removing that second version (line 14).

- http://wordcount.is/js/jquery.center.js is returning 404 and doesn't seem needed (line 12).

- It's best practice to cache your selectors for re-use in jQuery. Here's a slight rewrite that does that and cleans up your event binding: https://gist.github.com/3764620

Happy hacking!
I'm fairly certain that they always truncated to the first 16 characters. About a year ago I had a 20 char password for my hotmail, and would happily enter it, but one day I was using some other input method (I think it was on my phone) and it stopped entering chars from 16 onwards. I was confused when it accepted my password, but then after some testing I realised what was happening.

It just seems they are being more explicit about it now. It is quite an odd decision to make though.
I'm glad the users now own the means of production. Long time coming. I was sad when they closed the modem pool round-robin number - I dialed it one day a few years ago just to reminisce, and it had been assigned to a real estate holding company.
Yes, how dare he go to school in the US while his mother was working there. Absolutely despicable. I mean, it is one thing for foreigners to try and steal all those cushy nursing jobs, but to have the gall to bring their kids along and above all expect that some of their tax contributions should go towards teaching them to read and stuff, well, obviously the world has gone communist.

And then to go back to Canada and go to university there after sucking the US dry of the words and numbers he stole with his brain while at school. Well that just beggars belief. That is exporting the intellectual property of the US school system to a foreign power, partly made of people who speak French. French! The language of terror.

There are those who will stand by you, in this, your bravest moment, although they may want to bring a stepladder and a drysuit to do so, as you do appear to be waist deep in your own shit.

[edit] Just read the edit, and I am relieved to hear that you are making a strong stand against the pernicious stereotype of Canadians being fairly reasonable people on the whole.
There are only two types of store culture in retail: the right one and the wrong one

I see where you're coming from, but I love having diverse retail opportunities. Sometimes I want to go to Nordstrom and have a nearly omniscient person guide me to something stylish and expensive. Sometimes I want to go to the indie coffee shop where the staff is competent but aloof. Sometimes I want to scrounge around in thrift stores, usually finding nothing, but sometimes finding a vintage designer suit that fits like it was made for me.

If the entire retail landscape looked and felt like the Apple store (which I do love) that would be kind of terrible.
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It feels like a fairly passive aggressive message. Kicking off with a "blame the victim" jibe in the homework line (I'm not commenting on whether they are actually the victims here, merely the phrasing), it strikes an initial tone of "this is their fault, not ours".

Moving on to an entirely disingenuous non-apology ("i'm sorry you were offended" vs. "i'm sorry I offended you"), it doesn't get much better. Then on to an appeal to authority - we tried it with other developers and they didn't care at all.

The thing is, I can't criticise from a business level. I have no idea what their internal world looks like (we can all have our own guesses). But the message is inept at best. The upshot is that it's hard to imagine anyone building something (innovative or not) on the Twitter platform. If it's within the TOCs today, would this message give you confidence that it will be next week?

By attempting to kick out half of your hangers on, you end up kicking out all of your hangers on. Seems like a lesson worth heeding for giants and hangers on alike.
Aren't MS' margins more than Apple's?
Sorry.. I should have clarified. A sales woman shares exactly the same traits. No difference at all. Updated the post to reflect this truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system
I would not recommend hiring a sales person who you cannot trust to close deals or build long standing relationships with customers. I have been the head of sales at Zencoder for almost two years. While there were certainly deals where interaction with the founders was critical to winning the deal because it had strategic impact on the business, they certainly weren't involved with every deal. While the founding team shouldn't be completely disconnected with sales efforts, if the founding team has to win every deal, you haven't hired a very successful sales person and certainly not a partner who can help you strategically grow your business. You have hired a telemarketer (the difference between 'generating leads' and 'winning deals' is crucial here).

Also, I feel like focusing on domain knowledge too narrowly can lead the hiring process astray. I think you are spot on regarding hiring for intelligence and acumen but I think it is a mistake to think that those attributes can only be found in those with domain knowledge. I can tell you that I knew nothing about video encoding before becoming Zencoder's head of sales and had it been a requirement, I wouldn't have been hired. We were able to grow that company rapidly to acquisition with only myself focused on sales.

My opinion is that a good sales hire should be
1. fully committed to learning your product inside and out and have the technical acumen to be able to execute on that.
2. Should think about sales the same way the engineering team think about product (test, iterate, listen,)
3. Should be able to sell themselves they way you want your product to be sold. Listen to how they talk about themselves in the interview. This is how they will sell your product.
I'm not an expert on patents in the least, but the system feels broken when a company can be awarded $1B from a patent infringement lawsuit.

From what I've read (I'll add sources as I find them), the patent process takes more than two years on average to get approved, patent examiners are given patents that they don't have domain expertise in, and they don't get enough time to review patents.

It seems, on the outside, that lots of money and time is spent on patent lawsuits and purchasing patent portfolios and none of it really leads to the advancement of anything besides lawyers and lawsuits.

Do you think the patent system is fine how it is, or is there reform you would like to see?
I think the point is more that Apple understands that its retail employees are the public face of Apple. They are, figuratively, part of the PR department. So they train their "geniuses" to always be friendly and helpful.

Microsoft on the other hand may not understand this (though it's just a sample size of one.) In any case, this store manager lost a great opportunity to show his store to a journalist and get some press.
You cannot switch jobs and keep the same Green Card application. It's true you can transfer an H-1B between employers but any associated Green Card application is lost if you leave them.
Venus for example is hot as hell on the surface but there is actually a band of the atmosphere which humans could hangout unprotected in, its breathable,

The atmosphere is carbon dioxide with an aerosol of liquid sulfuric acid. (?)
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That might be true, but it doesn't follow that you can lawfully scrape facts out of copyrighted content on someone else's website.