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Are you sure you are completely indemnified? There are several jurisdictions where liability from negligence cannot be contracted away. The same is true for breach of warranty and strict liability claims.

Another example is if you are a web service that doesn't comply with DMCA provisions, you may be liable for your users actions.

What I am trying to say is that a TOS does not indemnify as a matter of law. The question of fact for each specific issue will be sent to the jury who will decide your fate.

Whether a TOS creates a contract could also be decided by the jury. They aren't contracts 100% of the time.
> You're trying to have it both ways: you're not willing to stand behind an actual accusation, so instead you hide behind weasel language and only insinuate.

Well, how else do you present negative or inconclusive results? I would say the correct method is to ask a question: "will my startup have to compete with a clone if I seek VC?" That's pretty much what he did. He presented the evidence, and frankly, it's not very strong. That doesn't make it a disingenuous post, just a boring one.
Subjects taking modafinil can go without sleep for weeks. And studies show no learning decrement in subjects taking modafinil. So is sleep truly required for humans?

Memory in humans and other animals may so different from that of fruit flies that drawing such a general conclusion as "Sleep is Garbage Collection." may not be valid.
This article has been bookmarked in my delicious account, so when the national guard gets called into North Georgia, I'll have a good reference.

Dealing in absolutes with topics like this sure does make me cringe.
thanks, the major thing pulling at me is that I just see Emory as so much more conducive to my personality. I don't think I would stand out at Emory like I would at GT. I suppose I just need to push myself.
Maybe we could put together some sort of test...
T'was not a very serious question.
You know zilch about seo :)
I agree with you on that one.
huh; either I was misinformed or, it was a state-specific constraint.
North Georgia

Georgia the state of the United States or Georgia the former republic of the Soviet Union and now independent country?
That depends.

Can you prove the preferential TOS terms in place when you gave the data? If you don't have something in writing you will have a tough time in court of law. And when I say writing I mean you being able to go on the stand to say, "Yes we did have an agreement. Look at the TOS I printed off their site right here." A person doesn't need a signed piece of paper, although that does help. A person couldn't go on the stand to say, "So and so told me the terms of the site."

Can you prove you didn't agree to the modified terms? Using a site after terms modification can be construed as agreeing to the modified terms.
Is the test score the sole issue you would consider, or would anything else at all make a difference?
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1) You just did.

2) Intel/Mac or Intel/Linux, so you can run IE6/7 in a VM/Wine. Macs are lower maintenance.

3) TextMate/Coda or Xcode (or Scribes in Gnome) will be your definite friends, as well as Terminal and Firefox/Safari's debugging features.
Python and the relevant libraries come with both systems and are easy to add to.

4) Would not recommend any Windows version for doing either development or design. Or anything mission-critical, for that matter.
All the software you need comes with the Mac in the "Developer Tools" package on your Leopard DVD or in the public repositories for your Linux distro. You'll find many more choices are available, and you may even fall inlove with some.

Major disadvantages of a Mac over PC would be that the hardware is mostly set in stone at the time of purchase, which can, even if rarely, become a nuisance. There is some very strong classic gaming going on on the platform, but new titles often go on by not noticing OS X, which can be a bummer if you like your machine to be your do-everything, including being a gaming console.
There are no disadvantages in relation to development, however.

And now for something completely different: don't let them buy you a Mac if you won't own it when they do. That is, there will most probably come a point when you'll want to own it.
could it be that everyone fears withholding of such a basic resource (in trade) because they know they will instantly face anger and disbelief from the entire international community?
oil is psychologically different from water.
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Make a call to the Cornell's financial aid office and make a personal case for a better financial aid package. Be sure to mention you have a full ride to UMass and Tufts. They may be willing to help you out, and it definitely can't hurt at this point.
Right. This is what I find puzzling about the submitted article's report about the soon-to-be presented study

http://www.wfu.edu/provost/rethinkingadmissions/conference_p...

--very little information about how much student characteristics would change along other dimensions besides ethnic diversity if the SAT were not considered at all as an admission factor.
can you cite examples? :P
As someone who has had to work with BlackBoard as staff and then as student, and then as student rep on the curriculum committee, and then designing a new way to manage content at my school, I strongly disagree that there should be any learning curve. Our system is set up so you see the edit button as soon as you roll over the event, and then you login, and the login takes you to the event edit. Full disclosure, we're solving the problem for a med school, not a full on university, but there are a lot of med/law/business/etc schools at universities that would be much better served by a more focused system.

The user isn't the problem. The mind boggles that you even said that.
I went to MIT. At the time I was sure that it was what I wanted - I felt very ready to "take a drink from the firehose" or whatever.

Since actually going there, my feelings about college have changed a lot. It seems to me that I have a whole lifetime ahead of me to work like a dog, if I want to. I would have rather spent my college years exploring things I didn't know much about - like art, travel, people, languages - instead of obsessing over math and science, which I was already pretty good at.

My advice is this: If you want to do technological entrepreneurship, then that path will be available to you in four years. You're already ahead of the curve, and you don't need to do much during college. Go somewhere interesting, relax and have fun.
Protect yourself.... by registering to and continuing to use your site users agree to x,y,z.

Establish trust... if your terms are reasonable then they show you are serious. The lack of a privacy statement and terms looks suspicious to me.
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It might get you an interview, but any interviewer worth their salt will be seriously worried whether they are getting garbage Harvard grad, or a smart one. Compare this to places like Chicago, CalTech, and MIT where you simply can't fake your way through college.
I got a CS degree from Stanford and looking back I have to say I really regret going to college. If you're interested in building your own business, that time and money is a hell of a lot of opportunity cost.

So my advice to you is: Screw college. Start your business now.
those sites already exist and are fairly well established.
This seems very cumbersome. I have a hard time believing anyone is more efficient at this 7 step process than using a "normal" OpenID provider. Enter a password, click a couple buttons, you're done.

Why not just run any one of dozens of existing OpenID provider packages? If you really want the 99.999% downtime "feature", just start and stop the server when you want to log, in the same way.
That could work too, and is a lot less risky. I didn't suggest it because it sounds like he doesn't really like any of the places he got into, and it's very bad form to defer at one college and then apply to others. Though maybe he could defer for now, see what things like are like come next December, and if he's still really set on Stanford or MIT, take his name off the deferral list and then reapply to them.
Obie is a smart man. He knows when to assert himself into the situation. He has achieved his goal: advertising himself/his business. It doesn't matter what he says regarding this drama as long as it's not "don't do Ruby/Rails".
Because blaming a dynamic language for being dynamic because your code sucks is scapegoating.

If you're passing an invoice to a function that expects a customer, you don't fix it by inspecting the type inside the function; you let it blow up and you fix the bug where the hand off is done wrong.

You don't litter up a program in a dynamic language with manually written type checks. If you're reinventing a static type system, you're doing something wrong.
I can't upvote you enough. What an elegantly simple way to think about anonymous data. Thanks for the link.
There are so many more people that know how to drive a car that this kind of threat is still nothing to worry about.

Lots of car bombers don't know there is a bomb in the car before it is remotely detonated.

Also, snipers are really, really effective, and again, are much more common.
I just started reading "The hacker ethic" by Pekka Himmanen. Sounds like something you would be interested in.
I don't quite understand; why do you care if it comes via URL redirection or a direct link?

(You could crawl the declared referring URL, and if it does not contain your URL, but does contain known redirect-site URLs, you could guess -- or deduce by trying them all -- that one of those links goes to your site.)
So the schools would collude: They would quietly agree that Student X would be admitted to Harvard but nowhere else, Student Y would be admitted to Cornell, and so forth.

I'm pretty sure this is mistaken information. The quoted statement is about admission rather than financial aid. The colleges used to confer about financial aid offers. Then, yes, they were told based on antitrust law that they couldn't do that anymore.

http://568group.org/

Now, with permission from Congress, they STILL confer to discuss general principles of how they administer financial aid, but I'm sure that the admission decisions are not made in collusion, and I'm even more sure that the college lawyers now don't let the financial aid offices talk about specific applicants before financial aid offers are made.
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Yeah, it's a good CS department, despite being really small (only 4 professors). It also has a good placement rate into pretty prestigious companies too (Google, MITRE, hedge funds, I think we have a couple Microsofties as well).

The part I didn't like is that they really, really stay away from engineering stuff. Like, there's no course on RDBMses (even a theoretical one) because the subject is too "practical". It served me well for getting into Google, it did not serve me well in the startup world.
Residential colleges are always looking for students who are outgoing to their fellow students. Life is dull on a college campus if the students all stay in their dorm rooms and don't talk to one another.
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Superficial? The interview is with the guy responsible for cleaning up the S&L crisis. It is neither superficial, biased or sensationalist.

It sounds like you are of the opinion that any explanation of the crisis that doesn't name mortgages for minorities as the singular cause is not even worth discussing.
But it wasn't an accusation at all.

I've written clearly that both venture funds under discussion are too big to bother about a team that goes to another fund.

The fact that these companies are similar and graduated at similar times from their respective funds prompted me to think about confidentiality irrespective of what really transpired between them.

My stream of thought led me wonder how disclosure to an irresponsible fund (there are hundreds of funds all over the world now and you might have a black sheep - i'm sure you could allow me that assumption) might mean that a startup will have a clone to contend with when it graduates,and felt like sharing my thoughts.

I'm not trying to implicate anyone (I could never gather the evidence for it, and even if I managed to, it would be an exercise in futility) and quite obviously none of these companies owe anyone explanations - they're quite wonderful. In fact over the course of compiling the article, I've read a fair bit about them and appreciate the effort each has put in into identifying differentiators and competing with a rival/rivals.
get out, transfer and find somewhere that will inspire you. Indiana is one of those schools that as soon as I heard it mentioned, I knew to stay away.
I hear that child slavery is a notable high-margin sector in our current macroeconomic climate.
Foreign Policy's blog is a good resource: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/ - you can sign up to get a daily brief.

I try to follow John Robb's Global Guerilla blog (http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/). He discusses a lot of interesting topics that influence modern military thought, like systems & network theory, emergence, open source warfare etc.

But to be honest I'm not a great fan of the subject. I think this whole theme of death-porn (because war is first and foremost about killing other humans) in our society is repulsive. I can respect people like Robb dealing with this because ultimately this is a subject that should be understood well, but I've seen families tear to pieces when one member died in a war so the idea of some "War Nerd" drooling over a new missile that can kill a 1000 people is sickening.

As for War Nerd being "consistently more right", I'm not sure what you mean. I don't believe anyone can truly predict anything (except the obvious) and I can't say I see War Nerd accomplishing this. Same goes for CNN and NYT, but at least they make a conscious effort to base their reporting on actual facts.
Anime (as an art) is a delicious food for imagination.

And in general, an art of faraway countries, even movies and translated books is a very big deal.
This is terrible, the plaintiff's lawyer contacting his clients to inform that work he has done, is allegedly infringing copyright...

I hope he counter-sues and takes their whole law firm down, what a crock.
I wouldn't call it shitty -- I'd call it pretty damn clever. Better to discover and publicize it rather than letting such a technique slip under the radar of the people who want to prevent such an attack.
It is great for the entire startup ecosystem that there are more early and pre-seed stage programs coming out in more places.

YC's obviously seminal in that, and it's understandable the community around it is suss of the other players, and doesn't want to see the expansion accompanied by activities that could damage everyone, and that's clear in the posts the last few days.

But we should all be cheering on the rise of this as a class of activity bigger than any one program (no matter how innovative or great any one program like YC is).

The frenzy of new activity feels to me like a pointer to a coming boom in new ideas and investment and the creation of a new generation of great companies out of a dark period.

At the same time, YC has obviously set the bar high, and it would damage the class if other players get it wrong.

But having talked with guys who have been through both YC and TechStars, it seems pretty clear to me that the folks going through them have had massively overwhelmingly positive experiences, and there is no malevolent behaviour going on here.

You're going to get coincidences, you're going to get competition over good companies and jockeying over them, and you're going to get some experiments with new stuff that do or don't work.

And all of this is awesome for startups.
You think there's any way that stuff like this hasn't been going on for a long time? Privacy has been redefined. Get over it.
I don't know about that, mightn't inefficient datacenters cost more per query, leading to worse servers, leading to higher latency, which users care about?
No. He is referring to CDOs, which were packages of low-quality loans, which could have high-quality loans issued against them. For example, if you have ten $10 loans, and expect half to pay off with $11, and half to default leaving only $5, you could have a very high-rated loan entitled to the first $25 of payments on any of those loans. The problem in this case is that the underlying loans were deteriorating in quality, to the point that even very secure loans against them ended up doing badly.
I think that a greasemonkey script could probably fish out and change the color back to browser default, since greasemonkey fires on DOMContentLoaded.
I don't see any mention of "mortgages for minorities" in the comment, much less a statement that they are the "singular cause".
I think a highly effective alternative to restraint in identity is a deep and comprehensive appreciation for all identities. That is, the interest, willingness, and passion to accommodate all relevant identities. Karen Armstrong calls this "compassion". I submit it would be healthier for discussion to deeply and compassionately embrace otherness rather than to be identity agnostics.

I concur that noncompassionate identity can poison a discussion.
I have this too. I find it disturbing.
I'm guessing he means he doesn't judge and hoping he doesn't mean he will kill you as soon as look at you.
Ironically, the current version of Ruby (that is, 1.9.1) is faster than PHP by a good bit. So, actually they're re-implementing it in a faster language.
An important thing to note is that college admissions is really a terrible, fairly unscientific process. You're clearly qualified, so getting rejected shouldn't be a terrible thing for you.

To answer your first apprehension: being around like-minded people is incredibly important. Graduating from one of the best high schools in the nation, I was around people who were intellectuals so there was always wonderful discussions to whet and kindle my growing mind. Two years later, I'm at the local state university whose stigma is entirely accurate. Few people—even in the honors college—are true intellectuals. Living here has been an intellectual nightmare for me, and I can sense my acuity and mental agility suffering.

However, I really didn't have a choice. My family could not afford to send me anywhere else. Basically, the situation I got stuck with was this: paying $40k+/year for a wonderful, private institution or paying $0/year (including room and board) and getting compensated a stipend for the local state university which still made USNWR's top-tier colleges list.

And really, if you're going for engineering, then you're going to learn the same thing anywhere. I'd argue that illustrious universities really aren't a frugal choice. Graduating debt free is really going to free me up financially to start up my company instead of needing to find a job right out of school to fund myself. Also, the local state university offered a lot of options for testing out of classes, so I'm graduating in three years, as opposed to four.

One more thing to consider: student life. You don't want to be miserable, even if it's cheaper or a better school. I've known to many of my peers who went to their dream school and then hated their life. Consider spending time on campus and getting familiar with the local scene.

Good luck.
The article seems to imply that hormones don't have anything to do with it, but I feel like it's probably at least 50/50 with the maturing brain thing! Anyone else have any thoughts or links on this?
I think you shouldn't be too sure that Yale et al. will have many "smart, like-minded students". I go to UPenn, studying business and CS and I've found that there are very few people interested in technology startups (they like finance, of course).

I also have found that though students are capable of getting good grades, they tend to be less intellectually curious than, for example, the average HN reader.

So don't make your decision simply thinking that good reputation = great students. I think the ancillary benefits of being in Boston easily outweigh any relative drawbacks of going to Tufts.
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