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We're had a bunch on new cases involving this little bit of overly broad law recently. I don't feel too bad about the trolls, but the first part makes writing something offensive meant for your friends on Twitter or Facebook is illegal, regardless of whether you did it with the aim of offending people or not.
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Santorum just cannot catch a break on the internet.
I couldn't agree more with this post. Don't pay the money just to stroke your ego.

The cofounders at my current project were antsy about having the credibility that comes with becoming "official", so we incorporated very early. Currently, we're working R&D and looking for money -- not a single investor has asked if we're incorporated or been impressed by our business cards. They do, however, want to learn about the progress we've made with our product and the projected size of our market. Use the money for marketing and product development.

Another thing to keep in mind: we went the LLC route, and its likely that if/when investment comes, we'll have to amend the hell out of our Operating Agreement.
I don't know how long that's already been there, but if it's been some time than that's quite telling. Because then it took a long time until a person who knows the face of Moot dared to step onto Santorum's website. Says a lot about the visitors of his website.
I spoiled myself with the Apple thunderbolt display I confess, and love it. But I did not research all the alternatives and no doubt I paid the Apple premium tax.

No doubt there are better deals but if say the premium is $350 over a 3 year lifetime (at least) it's a few starbucks coffees or meals out per year for something I use hours per day :)
I'd like to see the comparison for -90,-60,-30,-15 days from election too.
There was some information in there about SRP being patented that I thought was misleading. It is patented, but it's freely licensed.
That is a question I have. At what stage should a company (limited or unlimited) be formed for a startup? If there is no company I believe you would have to do business with your own name, which doesn't look professional. All incomes and expenses would be treated as personal income/exp.
Technically, yes. Approval is better. Politically, IRV has a better chance of not getting huge opposition by the major parties
Hard to sell "apply to YCombinator" to a car-assembly-plant worker?
1. http://www.meetup.com/break-in/
(sign up if you are interested)
2. ka-ching! then why is this on "front-page".
3. appreciate the feedback/pointers/support
4. Thoughts/pointers on retraining high school non-hackers?
Ghost writers for blogs.

Isn't the whole reason for reading a blog, instead of some other publication on a similar topic, to get insights from (apparent) blog author?
Bingo, someone gets it.
Yeah, elance.com would be tough. You're competing against people in other countries who will work for almost nothing. The best opportunities would be likely to come through people you know.

My opinion on 401K's is that if your employer does matching, contribute enough to get the full match. That's instant profit. Always contributing something is also a good habit to have.

One thing's for sure, you'll probably never have more time, lower overhead, or more drive to start a business than now. I don't understand the whole hard-driving 40-something starting entrepreneur stereotype. If you have a family then, there aren't enough hours in the day to be great at both.

For business, all I can suggest is find something that's already making people money, that's not dominated by big players and do it. Doing what you agreed to do and just generally showing up will put you ahead of many of your otherwise peers.

I'd worry less about the student loan thing - if you own a successful, yet still completely non-famous business you can bank that number in a month or even a week. Not all businesses succeed of course, but I always say "be dumb enough to try and smart enough to make it happen."

I anguished over my negative net worth in my twenties. Don't read the Yahoo or other finance page articles, they'll make you feel like crap. Net Worth != Self Worth. If you eliminate risk too early in life you'll never get a chance to take advantage of opportunities that will inevitably present themselves. Give it time.

Thanks for listening. You'll do well for yourself.
I was teasing, too. There is no real evidence of a significant pattern of voter fraud. The outcry is just part of a media campaign by right-wing organizations to justify legal measures intended to suppress voter turnout among Democratic constituencies.
Offer HN: Free Front-End Development Work
I’ve been hard at work at both my day job and have recently ended a year-long run with a side client. I’ve decided to take a couple months off of “real” work, and want to work with some new blood, meet new folks, and work on some personal projects.

What I’m willing to do: I’ll happily help build splash and landing pages to get your startup off the ground. I’ll take a design, slice it, and return excellent, semantic, valid markup. I’ll complete the work in a reasonable amount of time. I’ll also build WordPress themes, and take care of general simple page buildout. Also happy to work on more “involved” projects as long as they’re interesting and give me a chance to learn. I’m an experienced developer with PHP, MySQL, WordPress, custom CMS, Javascript (raw JS, Backbone, Underscore, jQuery), and general front-end HTML + CSS.

What I’m not willing to do: Respond to 75 emails or phone calls a day asking where your gratis product is. I’m doing this to give back to the community and to remove stress, I don’t need any more!

What I expect in return: Nothing! A pleasant testimonial would be enough for me! Maybe a referral or two, but really, nothing is expected at all. I’d be VERY happy to help folks that are financially unable to help themselves right now get off the ground, the satisfaction is all I really need.

My email is in my profile.
The only really useful password strength test would be one that said "A stock Thinkpad would be able to brute force this password in $x hours and $y minutes."

Might make people think twice about that six character password.
In the article they talk about the 500 worst passwords of all time. Here is a gist listing those passwords. https://gist.github.com/4033452

Might be useful for some of you.
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Recently, I've been thinking about how it might be possible to improve the current model of how commercial software development is done today.

I was thinking along these lines:

A company has a Github repository with several tasks. Independent developers choose tasks, fork the repository and upon completion of the task send a merge request. The company would then review the committed code and upon approval pay the developer.

While this at the first glimpse seems like a pretty simple and feasible model there are obviously quite a few gotchas:

1.) How can companies make sure developers don't use their source code for their own purposes?
2.) How can a company make sure it's not wasting time on a developer? There would have to be some sort of rating system.
3.) How could you break down more complex tasks so developers don't have to spend weeks just to understand the software they're working on.
4.) Is it possible at all to accomplish non-trivial tasks on a complex software system one doesn't have at least some sort of training on?
5.) How would you make sure a company actually pays the developer upon task completion?

Quite a few problems, indeed. Nevertheless, do you think such a concept might have legs?
Hey Nate. Agreed, you definitely need a bit of context regarding what exactly Scripted does in order to understand this feature. The assumption was that if someone navigated their way to our weekly offering, they probably did so after grasping the basics of our business. But by announcing this as a standalone, I can see how we introduced tons of confusion. Sorry! For what it's worth, we have many clients that give byline to their writers, and a couple of them are HN regulars!
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The video about Huang is particularly interesting. It's easy for me to relate to his passion for creative expression via technical means.
Reminds me to keep the same attention to detail that he has.
No, I'm making a wry comment about the political apathy of most US citizens, and you are either not getting the joke or trolling by not getting the joke.
Here's a link to google's cache of the original blog post on Maker Faire Africa's site:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7Tim1l5...
OK, you got me. It's GNU/Linux.
Analytics may have delayed Romney concession speech
> In no event should a relatively small subset of the population in a handful of states be responsible for choosing the President of the United States.

I don't know why people love to say this; its simply not true. Just because we can predict which way certain regions will lean before the vote comes in does not imply that those regions don't matter. Does Nate Silver predicting 100% of the outcome of the election mean none of our votes mattered? Of course not.

The purpose of voting is not to "change the outcome election". The purpose is to participate in the process, thereby giving the process legitimacy.
I'm actually startled that this might become the new debate: what strains of marijuana are 'good' and 'bad' and which in the cannabidiol group are 'good' and 'bad'. People actually have serious conditions that are treated specifically by THC, which is capable of adjusting serotonin levels. This is significant for a number of conditions such as migraines and depression.

Please do not generalize like this because it's actually harmful to active patients.
I have owned a Dell Latitude D820 with a WUXGA (1920 X 1200) screen since 2006(-ish?). It is good, but not nearly as good at the Retina, and the screen is more square, making two sheets side-by-side feel awkward.
It's not that they haven't figured it out, it's that Hulu's average revenue per user earns much less than DVD sales or TV sales.

Hulu, Netflix, etc. all WANT licenses in perpetuity worldwide. It's not they don't want to offer it everywhere, it's that the licensors won't let them.

Profits for online media need to be higher to kill broadcast. The average user watches 6 episodes on Hulu per month and earns $2 for that month. Buying a 12-episode season for $30 means that a DVD buyer is 750% as profitable as a Hulu watcher. Hulu has about 30 million users, but in terms of TV profitability, you can wave your hands a little bit and equate the importance of that audience to 4 million TV watchers.

Similarly, Dish Network has 14 million subscribers, a much lower number than Hulu or Netflix, yet has far greater profit and therefore much greater purchasing power for content licenses.

It's a bitter pill to swallow, but Hulu and Netflix are such a great value that they're not providing enough of one to be the destination for the newest, best content. Which is why they're working on creating original content - hoping that, among other things, it increases eyeballs, which increases ad sale profits, which makes it more profitable to the entrenched content producers - which, finally, is their path to dominating the online entertainment market.

I think their strategy is wrong and that there's a better path.
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Interesting point... Although I find a good coffee enough inspiration to get the job done.
Yup. Which is why many of our clients give byline to our writers!
Valid points, but what Scripted does is not much different than hiring a blogger intern. To keep the content genuine, our clients have to be engaged. We simply promote them from writer to editor. Scripted helps businesses take the time spent from idea to publishing down from hours to minutes.
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I guess the idea is that non-technical founders' role revolves around persuasion and negotiation. They typically handle the business end, which involves substantial networking, promotion, customer acquisition, etc. Knowing people works for a while, but once you've tapped out your social network, where do you turn?

I would argue that a founder with domain knowledge isn't 'non-technical'. I know traditionally that term refers to people who don't code, but if I was working on an earthquake detector, a seismologist would be a technical founder, even if they didn't code a thing. Same with mathematicians. Domain knowledge in non-science/maths areas is harder to divide, but I would say there's as much weight behind saying a non-technical founder focuses on business dev as saying a technical founder focuses on code.
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That took me way too long to catch.
Do you guys hear music when you mouse click?
I seem to hear a distinct sounds for the left click and right click. Am sure they sound the same actually and it's my Brain imagining the distinct sounds. But sometimes even just clicking the left button on three different places seem to induce the feeling of three differently pitched clicks. Thereby enabling me to imagine a rhythm of beats by just left clicking at different places. For example three links pointing nowhere. Just wanted to check if it happens for others here as well?
Honestly? It's cool to see a statistician getting media love. I imagine for most people he's like a real life character from Big Bang Theory. I've seen him on tv several times and he comes off as incredibly nerdy, but he's skilled at talking about statistics and making it relatable to the average person.

In a way, he's a spokesman for statistical reasoning to the world. It's odd to see how much pushback he gets for saying "A candidate with a slight lead in October wins 75% of the time". This is a fact, easy to look up. But because the other side and the media don't like it, Nate is put into the position of defending common sense to America. And he does an admirable job.

Hopefully he can find a way to use this for good outside of politics. Maybe he can educate people about statistics and probability in other ways. Starting a blog that correctly predicts the behavior of reality tv stars might be the best thing he could do for the cause of reason in this country.
Interesting - let's make money on how-to guides
Price isn't shown because it depends on level of account support and job customization. We try not to run package deals for less than $500/mo.
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"Business guys" are people who can make business happen, i.e. make sales, strike partnerships, raise financing, etc.

What is described in this article are neither "business guys" or founders but hapless/clueless "idea people" - of which the startup community attracts a lot since it's much better to say "I'm working on a tech startup" than to say "I'm unemployed".

As a general rule of business, avoiding clueless, unmotivated, wind-bag'ish people is a good rule - "business guys" or otherwise.
Instantly create a conversation about anything.
What's more, they're leading small (?) quantities of hydrogen into a metal container which (presumably) hasn't been vacuum-emptied beforehand, and so will after a while contain an air+hydrogen mixture, which while technically not oxyhydrogen, can still be ignited and make the metal gas tank explode like a pipe bomb.
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I recommend Collective Intelligence, published by O'Reilly.

If you look online there's Ruby source code examples to go with the Python in the book.
Yeah, I'm just waiting on this to become a useful standard and for resolutions to be universally high enough to really make it work. I've disabled font smoothing almost altogether on my machine, which makes some sites look a bit odd, but it improves readability for all the PC-oriented bitmapped fonts that make up the bulk of my reading.
Depends how much you value your job. The notoriety could arguably be a net gain.
Care to help me out? I'm not seeing it.
>Predicting an election based on polls is an entirely different matter. The election will turn out one way or another. If the same people voted for President 100 times without an external factor interfering differently across samples, the outcome would be the same every time.

I'm glad someone pointed this out, since I think it gets obscured a bit in most discussion of 538's statistics.
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Ranked choice already solves this and as a bonus you get to pick whether you like Alice or Bob better.
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I'm not confusing the two - I'm saying the fact that Florida was so close indicates Nate may have been doing about as good as possible with the data available in Florida, while the fact that Virginia was so close might indicate that Nate might not have done as well as possible with the data there. Neither case is at all conclusive.

It's possible the quality of the data was just different in the two states, due to random factors in sampling or random factors on election day.

And you are right, we couldn't know without running it multiple times with everything the same except these random factors.
> It has gone from emphasizing the system (e.g. "magical iPad" or "I'm a Mac") to emphasizing the specs of components

They aren't saying "Now with X% more pixels", it has a name and the name means an experience: sharper text and images.
The idea is that their electrolysis unit is fed by the generator, which is in turn fed by the hydrogen from the electrolysis unit. To make the contraption somewhat more scientific-looking (and less suspect), they've put two water filters in the loop, presumably to 'purify' the hydrogen.
A reason, though perhaps not theirs, storage. If you have excess wind/solar you could use a hydrogen generator to create enough to provide some minimal power for low production times or overnight.
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Amercia != America
This is so strange as that woman is not even in or from Cologne, but located in NYC, which makes it kinda hard for her to organize a meeting in Germany. No idea what benefits such a take over could have for her.
"America" is misspelled. Took me a while, too.
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I don't know what campaign you were watching, but I heard a lot about governing philosophy. Abundantly from the Democrats side, but also from the Republicans. Of course, they won't go into minute detail about policies on the national level; most people simply don't want to hear that. But it seems clear to me that Obama's political philosophy resonated with more people than Romney's.
Urea is easier to break down than water. (0.37V as opposed to 1.2V) I'm no chemist, but I think that making an unstable chemical into a stable(er) one gives off energy.

Also, if it wasn't a viable way to get energy than it wouldn't run at all. I don't see any wire going into a wall socket or anything, so I assume if they had it run for six hours like the article implies there has to be /something/ there.

My main issue with it is having what looks like a gasoline generator run on hydrogen. Doing the necessary tweaks raises the technical complexity of this by an order of magnitude.
Also may be because in places like Africa there's scarcity of water and urine which is a waste could be turned into hydrogen is still valuable.
I can see this being useful in some circumstance, but I think the kinds of people who read HN value blog posts that aren't considered a chore. If you're offloading blog posts on someone junior, they're not going to be very interesting. At best they're meta analysis of what other, more invested writers have already said.

You're basically distilling a blog post down into a premise and high quality writing. A lot of what makes technical, corporate blogging effective is content and honesty, which are much harder to outsource.
The reason is that all good .com domains are taken or squatted. Also, ships don't use flags of convenience for their colors but for laws that are advantageous to them.
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> Who's laughing now?

Whoever charges them for the bandwidth used to serve pages to people who have no intention of voting Santorum?
You might want to ask one of your copyeditors to have another look at your website.

On the Features page:
"We'll take some basic information about what you field you're in and what you need written."
Right. It's due to interference, particularly with your monitor. Some configurations of hardware are worse than others, however.
The duress code and real code would be indistinguishable. You could simply tell the person your duress as your real one, and your real one as the duress.

Another possibility is to make the duress an option. You can fill out a fake ballot for your duress code if you want, but you aren't forced to(since most people don't need to worry about it)
AMERCIA
How is giving Hulu ad impressions or paying for a Netflix account costing those companies money? I don't see this as being much different than importing DVDs from the US. With this method someone gets paid, just not the local distributer. But why do they deserve the money anyways if they can't get you the content sooner?
You may have TLS 1.0 disabled (Tools > Options > Advanced > Encryption > TLS 1.0). Make sure both of those checkboxes (SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0) are checked.
This is something I would spend money on. Does anyone know if such an Exchange/Gmail plugin exists?
In WA, the Sales tax on liquor is 20.5% (plus the per-liter tax)
That list was more obscene than I figured it would be.
Allocating massive resources to stamping out a statistically insignificant issue (given that we have no intelligence on who those votes are for, the end result is moot) makes it hard to take Republican voter ID frenzy at face value.

Those strategists are smart and they know exactly what happens if you make it harder for the down-trodden to vote.

Moderate, intelligent Republicans should be embarrassed by Voter ID. Is this the small government you keep referring to?
trolled softly.
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At scale, they're cheaper than both Stripe and Paypal (not counting the discount for this promotion) -- once you get to a bigger volume in sales, you'd likely become eligible for better pricing than the 2.9% + 30cent standard everywhere.

Initially, it's probably as cost effective and quicker to get started with Stripe until such time as providing a 12 month P/L is easier to do, but by then this promotion will likely be gone.
It doesn't look dead for me: it's now called "Startup Pitch Night".
Where I work we use something simple like kerberos/basic/digest/custom http header authentication on our apps, and then put Apache with mod_auth_form in front of it (or ISA server).

I even wrote an authentication reverse proxy[1] in java in my spare time, so I can use that to publish my apps, and have SSO across all of them (until BrowserID becomes mainstream that is). This way I centralized the cookie auth problem, and don't need to care about it in every app.

[1]http://p.r0xy.it/
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Co-organizer here (Francis). We're dealing with it. In the meantime we would like to ask everyone to refrain from public attacks on this Meredith character who took over the group. Of course the Hacker News Meetup is still on & we'll announce a new date through non-meetup.com channels soon!
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Like a Neil deGrasse Tyson for statistics.
so if this is the more "realistic" representation of electoral college turn-out (instead of the winner take all [for all but 2 states]), what is the breakdown in terms of electoral votes then? does this make it closer?...or give obama a win by an even larger margin?...etc?