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Apple Open Source Browser
As I said: you must call them "samples". It is a good idea to have "Sample" as the first word in the title of these forms, i.e., "Sample Memorandum of Understanding."

You must also stop saying that they are legally binding and valid. (They are, but...) The problem is that you are saying that these documents are legally appropriate for the purchaser, i.e., that they can rely on these documents for legal effect, regardless of the circumstances. You can't say that unless you know for certain that is the case for the specific facts and circumstances of the purchaser. This application of judgment is considered the practice of law, and this is what will get you in trouble. (It is okay to continue saying that you use them, since you are not saying whether someone else should use them.)

Nolo and LegalZoom get around the practice of law restrictions by expressly stating that their documents are only samples and are not intended to be relied upon without review by a lawyer. (Indeed, most of LegalZoom's $100 documents are merely samples released by the various secretaries of state with Legalzoom's logo added.) Luckily, they have both fought enough court cases to establish that it is no longer necessary to plaster "This is not a legally valid document." on every page. It's still a good idea to do that, but courts recognize that clearly labeling something a "sample" is sufficient protection (for you).

A possible pivot: Change what you're selling. Partner with a few local lawyers, and offer the documents as part of a package: buy the doc, get an hour included with a lawyer to review it to make sure it is satisfies the purchaser's needs. You would generally need a lawyer in every state in which you wish to do this, so I would limit it to Georgia and/or California. Depending on what sort of referral fee you work out with the lawyer(s), you could drop the price on the documents and more than recoup it from the referral fees.
For the world, building school infrastructure/education of girls in cultures that are hostile to neutral to their education

For the US, replication and forking off improved variants of the Harlem Children's Zone somewhere other than Harlem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Childrens_Zone
The first thing that pops to my mind would be eliminating homelessness by building affordable housing for the those at risk of homelessness, the homeless and the hard to house.
Real-life consequences of Internet trolling
Really sobering article. It strips what little romantic notion I had left of one day getting a decent passive income from iOS game development. Might leave it to the big boys.
I don't entirely agree with the reasoning, but I think it goes like this:

Historically transportation in NYC has been pretty egalitarian (leaving aside car service). A 1-percenter pays the same cab fare, subway fare, or (heaven forfend) bus fare as a single mom on welfare, and presumably gets basically the same level of service. The president drinks the same Coke you and I do.

Uber basically allows those with more money to jump the queue. You hear the same thing about medical services in single-payer or socialized systems, where it's seen as almost a form of bribery for a medical professional to expedite care for someone who pays extra.

Unfortunately while markets are arguably fair for groups of people with the roughly the same level of resources at their disposal (people are just expressing their preferences by allocating their money differently), they can be very "unfair" (for a certain narrow meaning of the word) because some people have vastly more resources to trade for a limited good.

It almost makes you wish you could somehow separate "spendable money" from "earnable money", but unfortunately you need a way to incentivize people to work and be productive, and giving them more spending money seems to be the most straightforward way of doing so.
I'm getting the same error
It would help a lot if the keyword 'const' were replaced by a punctuation character or shorter simpler keyword like 'val'
A free journal issue on experimental evolution
I went to the Microsoft Store to see if the Surface RT was worth picking up - I ended up being more impressed by the touchscreen Intel notebooks they had out running Windows 8.

I do think Microsoft is on to something with Touch and their new UI. Unfortunately, I felt that the touch interface was pretty useless on the old Windows 7 UI and MS Office.

I wonder how much confusion there will be with the move to Touch, and non-"Windows Modern UI"/Metro apps. It feels like Apple is moving OS X towards iOS and touch friendly, but they are doing it very gradually.
Thanks! PyCharm, Wing, KDevelop, IPython, Komodo, ... are all pretty darn good, each with its own strengths. It's a good time to be a Python developer!
Just because we believe "the hurricane is done" doesn't mean it's reasonable to expect a driver to want to drive into the area for their normal rate.
how is it not a lot at any age?
I would highly recommend no longer using those buckets for fish tank cleaning. At least not for putting water back in the tank. :-)
The Fastest-Growing Online Jobs Revealed
I love this idea - especially for those that are unfamiliar with BASH yet still want to customize their command line experience. Unfortunately due to a previous HN article I now use zsh - would love to see a zsh prompt generator too!
I think the reason Apple reversed the default trackpad two finger scroll direction is because they plan on releasing Macs with touchscreens in the near future.
There's two issues here. First is the supply-demand balance, which several commenters have addressed (would you rather have bottled water cost $5 a bottle during Sandy or not be able to find any bottled water because "gouging" law kept it at $1?).

The second is that studies of cab drivers during rainstorms show that cabbies set a goal for daily earnings, and then leave the streets once they hit the goal (causing supply constraints). Would be interesting to see if uber has been able to address that psychological response in any way (tweaked incentives that give an additional bonus for driving more per month, rather than per day, for example).
I think a lot of the people saying that Windows 8 is the most terrible mistake are forgetting precisely this. Dell has just released a series of laptop/tablet hybrids running win8, and also has Desktops with touchscreen.
I think Microsoft has done a great job by facilitating this transition(to "all computers with touchscreen") with win8. Now that a major Software has a touch-based paradigm, hardware vendors will have the courage to switch over as well.
Oh, I can't wait to see how the future will shape out!
Are we sure building schools will help the girls? http://80000hours.org/blog/100-let-s-stop-building-schools
Right. I guess the flaw in the argument is that the poor already cannot afford taxis, and they take the bus.
EFF Criticizes Online Shopping in Ubuntu 12.10
Kim's version is definitely better. It's much simpler and doesn't rely on superfluous visual effects. The shape of the logo comes through, and it uses fewer colors -- both of which make it much more recognizable.
"So who is to blame if an airline that’s comfortable and treats passengers well fails, while a carrier that annoys and nickel-and-dimes customers at every turn is a run-away success? We all are."

All? Evidently many people (myself included) prefer Virgin America, otherwise its flights would always be empty. Blaming "all people" is not understanding how a market economy works.
This article is ridiculous. It's not until the last paragraph that they reveal that Uber is no longer charging 2x, instead keeping prices level and reducing their margin to increase supply.

It's quite likely that the increase was automatic with their dynamic pricing algorithm and when they realised the effect in a natural disaster area they corrected for it.

Paul Carr doesn't call himself a journalist, does he?
SVGs tend to be smaller because it is a vector format. It has nothing to do with XML; it seems highly likely a binary encoding for SVG would be massively more efficient than xml.
There's a lot of compelling study about early childhood education. I would fund large-scale pre-K efforts.
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No, those arguments are trotted out by the companies that hold the precious taxi medallions (~$1m a pop) and lease them to cabbies at extortionate rates. The cabbies themselves are, for most part, happier working for Uber than their current masters.

See also: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/06/taxi...
> This is an unfulfilling thing to say perhaps, but price gouging is actually beneficial in producing more supply when it's needed.

Okay, I'll bite: how? What level of Uber price gouging will, for example, cause an unflooded subway to be constructed within the next few weeks? Maybe quadruple pricing would do it?
It's pretty amazing how much Blackberry has lost the enterprise market in the first world, while retaining the low end "feature phone with a keyboard" market in the third world, over the past few years. It's rare that the enterprise market moves faster than consumers, but that seems to be what's happening.

Unfortunately there's basically no buyout value to the international business (Nokia is even stronger for that, although they lack a good keyboard); Android (and to some extent Windows Phone and iPhone) will eventually win there.

The Enterprise market, particularly the BES and management side, had value to buyout, even just as a best-in-class MDM solution to manage Android, iPhone, etc., but they waited too long to open up their management, and from what I've seen, Airwatch, Zenprise, Good, etc. are all better choices for crossplatform MDM.
Hey rprasad, big thanks for the super quick reply. I am already made some sweeping changes to the copy on the site based on your feedback. Also will be having my own attorney review the site this week.

I am very familiar with NOLO's products and in fact I have some of them myself. If you go to (for instance) their collection of contractor agreement samples here: http://www.nolo.com/companion/consultant-and-independent-con... you'll notice that they are not overtly plastered with SAMPLE notices or disclaimers, but their book does clearly state that you need to review this stuff with your own attorney to get their advice. I believe that now, especially with the latest copy changes I am abiding by the spirit of your advice. Please realize that I am not trying to do anything wrong or sneaky.

BTW thanks! I like the idea partnering with lawyers to provide a packaged service (although that is probably way too ambitious for what is a very small side project for me.)
David, our group funded that effort (development by Enthought) and the code is still out there and mostly functional, but it really never got traction. The 1st phase involved major surgery on the NumPy/SciPy libraries which they needed anyway, so some good came out of it. We'd love to see some kind volunteers finish the remaining "10" percent. It would be very useful to other .Net users as well... yeah, I shed a tear :(.
Valve: Linux is Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming
I've used Windows 8 on an Lenovo X220 Tablet and would have to say that in terms of touch-response, it's incredibly accurate and fast. It's most noticeable in the Maps app where I can zoom in and out really quickly.

And because so many of my devices are touchscreens now, it's really natural to want to touch the screen and do something when I don't want to use my mouse, trackpad, or trackpoint. It's so commonplace that I'm finding that I'm trying to touch the screen on my Macbook Air too.
Though I've only talked to Justin a few times, he is one of my favorite people to get advice from. Between his five startups and entire adult life spent building them, he has not only seen most problems founders face, he has actually experienced them multiple times. This means not only do you get excellent advice, but also that he has a lot of compassion and empathy for founders because he knows exactly what it feels like to go through them.

Here is a follow up email I sent to Justin after discussing a problem we were struggling with at the time (his advice was great as always, even better was how optimistic we felt after speaking with him - that IMO comes from him being in the same place as you in the past and being able to relate to what you might be going through).

Justin I know you're a busy guy and have no time for fluff emails, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and tell you how awesome your advice was and how great we feel after office hours with you today. As you know, startups run on morale and I wanted to thank you for topping off our tank.
Bah. Another billionaire wasting money on education. The last thing we need to do is spend yet more money on the endless money pit that has become the American education system.

Well, it's his money; he can do whatever he wants. It's a shame to see this when there are so many other places the money might do some good.
Homelessness has many more contributing factors than lack of affordable housing. That focusing on solving the symptoms, not the underlying problems.
pretty small; I have some flexibility with it if it is really beneficial however.
I think this too. There are millions of unfilled jobs right now because people don't have the skills. The answer to that problem is not more crappy four year for profit colleges. Its community colleges that teah what people need to learn.
No, you don't get to "blame the computer" in 2012. That's so 1990.

While you may think there is "nothing evil" about it, a great deal of the population and, generally, the NY Legislature, disagree.
many will in eastern europe/russia. U.S is out of the question
Their frequent flyer program is basically subpar (and was only added relatively recently), which kept business travelers off. (I like the Virgin America product, but if I can fly United and get upgraded to First, lounges, etc. and earn miles toward flying in International Business or First to Asia for fun, I'll probably suffer through a United transcontinental over a Virgin America flight...)

They won the leisure market to/from SFO, but that's not a big enough market to be a successful airline.
Ross Levinsohn: Marissa Mayer needed 'clean slate' at Yahoo
I'd fly VA all the time if I could, sadly they don't do my most common route, DEN <-> SFO :-(
Indeed, it's not so much spending on education, it's spending it the same way education donatations have always been spent (university endowments, buildings, etc).
Very cool, make searching for things like "Highest rated, lowest re-watchable" fun and interesting.

On a side-note. In the above query one of the front-runners seems to be "Grave of the fireflies" which does not surprise me what-so-ever.
I think Microsoft is, at least in concept, on to something.

Whether or not they're right is a matter of execution - not only on their part, but on the part of the OEMs who have a nasty habit of doing the most short-sighted things possible.

A general purpose tablet computer, with the right feature set, with the right price point, and most importantly, with the right user experience, can be huge. But of all the Win8 devices I've seen, none of them are close enough.
Copper's a good guy, New Relic is lucky to have him. And Wishery is kind of cool, too.
It's really really big. What gets you is that it's really there, go outside and look up. All those stars, all that energy running down, without anything harnessing that energy.

There it is, running down like a forest fire. What will it turn into next? I see the universe as an egg. And it's designed to become a single super sentient entity someday that makes our sentience look like inanimate energy. Our sentience will be the inanimate matter building blocks for something we can't comprehend.

We will comprehend it as much as a carbon molecule comprehends the human mind.
Meanwhile, the District of Columbia preemptively added a $15 emergency surcharge to all cab fares for 24 hours. For a trip within the district, the fares ranged from 1.75x to 6x normal price.
I have worked on a large C++ program that uses Python for UI and some scripting components. I don't see why it would be harder for Go to use Python. Also, Lua is used everywhere.
Thanks, you're making me want to check out KDevelop to compare now. So far I thought we had the best Python intellisense hands down, but it sounds like you're a pretty good competitor :)
In NY, the governor must declare a state of emergency. This happend on Friday before the storm had hit.
Like Belize, for instance. (Mennonites, but similar idea.)
You can try https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime#Re...
Airlines generally fill their flights by charging the fares that fill them up. But in the case of VA that doesn't add up to enough to cover their costs: people don't prefer them enough to make the costs of their better service worthwhile. That in turn means that consumers' revealed preference is to prefer the value proposition offered by United/American/Delta/USAirways. People might prefer VA to the competition, but they don't prefer it enough to pay the difference in costs, which is why VA is hemorrhaging money.
Yup, same reason I stay with United. Their frequent flyer program is insanely flexible. US to Thailand with a week-long stopover in Berlin, flying back out of Singapore, in first class? Sure!

Though, out of my city I don't have a ton of options, living in a United hub.
Taiwanese will no longer need visas to visit U.S.
NY price gouging law:

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/GBS/26/396-r

In general most of the commenters here are not understanding that supply of these goods is constrained. Currently X amount of bottled water is reaching the city, and 100% of it will be sold, at any price. Currently X amount of cars for hire can transport people over the bridges, and no more can fit - the bridges have a fixed capacity. Commenters are thus making false economic arguments because they don't understand the economics, don't understand the situation, or both. Quintupling the price of bottled water and baby formula does not magically make more bottled water or baby formula appear in the city. It just takes a lot of money out of your pocket and puts it in someone else's. That's all, the only effect.
At least for me, it's a completely different interaction pattern - basically switching between individual windows using desktop hotkeys.

I've got 24 desktops set up, but mostly use just 12. F1-F3 are generally code or whatever main technical task I am doing. F4 is compile+run, reload configuration and test, etc. F5 is Chromium for html documentation of whatever I'm working on (currently the Honda Civic service manual, sigh). F6 is evince with pdf documentation, and/or a second firefox window when I want some tabs that won't end up getting lost amongst others. F7 is Firefox for general web browsing, plus any pdfs opened directly from the web. F8 is generally email. F9 is music. F10/F11 is a wasteland of quasi-temporary shells. F12 is IM. Alt+F1-F4 generally get used when I'm in the middle of programming and want a clean slate to do some multiple machine sysadmin task. The rest only get used when I have a very seldom need for more desktops, but why wouldn't I fill out the hotkeys?

Shift+key changes to the associated desktop, bringing the active window along for the ride. Changing tasks (how I think people normally view virtual desktops) happens by letting the old task's windows fall by the wayside on their respective desktops. And yes, clearly this setup predates tiling window managers by quite some time.
He's already doing that too, actually:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/george-lucas-grady-...
As Uber said in one of the tweets quoted in the linked article, by increasing the fare they increased their supply of drivers by 50%. I.e. since they were being paid more, more drivers decided to work more hours. This is the expected result from the application of basic economics. It has nothing to do with unflooding subways; just more drivers working longer hours because they want to get paid more.
Wow...this rational sounds so irrational. Simple economics tells us that when demand far exceeds supply, prices rise. A natural disaster will cause prices for many things to increase.

There is MUCH more social utility for Uber to double & triple prices to ensure there are private cars (i.e. supply) than leaving tons of people stranded.

It's just the market at work....no need to attack them, just don't pay the rate.

If you are stuck on the corner, and water is headed your way, I can guarantee you - you would pay almost anything to get out of there. Just paying 2X or 3X - depending on your perspective - is almost a steal.

I don't live in NYC, nor am I an Uber customer - but if I were stranded in NYC and wanted to leave, I would be glad to pay any rate I could afford.
I think mega ran into trouble because it was parked in a grey zone. Also didn't help mega that it was run by someone that in his previous venture ended up getting arrested, deported back to Germany and charged for embezzlement.
I don't get what your point is. Are you defending sociopaths? I mean, yeah sure they are what they are through probably no real fault of their own, but they are a net negative on society's balance sheet. They are a problem that needs to be managed. Maybe back in the day when we had to worry about other animals hunting us for food, and a bit later when we had to worry about other tribes murdering us and taking our things, then yeah sociopaths served a purpose.

They don't now.

(Oh, and sociopaths aren't very great at manipulating their environment. The high-functioning ones, maybe, but most sociopaths are poor, stupid, and often in jail.)
Except that as far as I understand it, in this case, doubling the price does increase the supply. i.e. by charging $99 for a $49 ride, provides a strong incentive for drivers in nearby cities to leave their current market and go to NYC.

So that DOES help the situation.

I am not sure if this is what you were arguing, but I thought I would provide some clarity :)
Well, that is ridiculous. It makes the language literally impossible to parts without context-sensive semantic analysis. Go Language fixes that bug by always having a type name first or a colon after introducing a variable.
It still is. Ad:tech NY is next week.
Compared to, say, SocialCam selling for $60M.