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Let me present another side to this, as I am sometimes the guy sitting on the opposite side from the developer :)

(I have no idea what happened in this specific case).

Usually, when someone does something mildly serious (we are just wrist-slappy about the minor stuff, unless you do it multiple times, or intentionally) without following the process, first I verify they actually did it without any accusation at all. This often takes the form "It looks like you did X. Is this right or am I misunderstanding?".

If they did in fact, do it, I then say "Hey, just so you know, this could be an issue. I need to talk with some folks, and then we should talk and figure out together what to do about this. You <do/don't> need to do anything in the meanwhile" . Whether they need to do anything depends on the issue, but I am explicit about whether anything needs to be done.

At this point, the reactions vary from "oh shit, sorry, i didn't realize i was supposed to something different" to "fuck the police".

In any case, despite me explicitly telling them they did not need to do anything, there are still cases where someone will do something like take the project down (sometimes intentionally believing it will force my hand, sometimes not), and claim we told them to.

I go and talk with various folks like I said I would, then the person involved, we all decide we don't care (or do), and then it gets put back (or not), or whatever modifications needed are made. Usually if it's put back, this is accompanied by text like you see, stating that they misunderstood some issues. In most cases i've dealt with, this is actually an accurate statement of what occurred, and not us trying to save face. After all, I told them they did not need to do anything!

Of course, I won't deny there are times i've told folks to hide/take down projects. But in those cases, we don't later try to save face.
I could completely see other companies not knowing what they are doing, and telling folks to take stuff down as a knee jerk. It definitely happens. But without more facts here, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that this is what occurred.
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A minor? You can't fine a minor because they don't have income. You could fine their parents. I would suggest juvenile hall, maybe 1 week.

If we were to fine weev, for a crime that was otherwise punishable with jail, it should be done as a percentage of his income. 15% would be hurtful enough, I think.

Tons of americans are already swimming in well-intentioned debt that's far worse than the "punishment" suggested above.
"It's a bad idea" is a very different thing than "it's unconstitutional." It shouldn't even need to be said, but this is a mistake that is pervasive on HN.[1] There are infinite shitty ideas that are nonetheless Constitutional.

The Court is empowered to throw out unconstitutional legislation. It is not empowered to throw out Constitutional legislation that happens to be a bad idea.

[1] On everything from campaign finance to drone strikes, nobody bothers drawing the very important distinction between "bad idea" and "unconstitutional."
I immediately think "kaching" as well. However this article was published in March 2011, and I imagine the advertising world has evolved slightly to prevent this fraud from happening, so your scheme would have to be clever enough to outwit any changes. If the scheme has been exposed for two years I imagine there are more players utilizing this scheme in the fraud-market. Only way to know for sure is to try it yourself and learn from experience, in which case you'd be breaking the law and taking a risk.
Definitely! What would be your top choices? And what's your ideal integration experience?
I have no idea about this specific case at all.

Could be either a genuine case of the author hearing one thing and the company meaning another, or a change of mind by the company, possibly involving higher ups.
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This is fantastic news. Had the court ruled differently, the first sale doctrine would have been in doubt, which could have destroyed ebay, craigslist, garage sales and nearly anything that involves reselling a good.
I've tried probably a hundred Basecamp alternatives over the past few years (it's practically a sickness, an obsession) and I still think Basecamp rules. Why? Because I can organize what's in my brain there, and upload files, make notes, export, etc. It's also got silky smooth drag-and-drop action.

It's like Evernote meets a todo. A perfect marriage. I also hate it for that reason. There seems to be nothing else that scratches that itch like Basecamp does. Drives me nuts.

Also, I don't do collaboration though, so the monthly subscription is a bit much for me.

I'll answer any other questions you have. Just reply here. I'm practically an expert on Basecamp alternatives!

P.S. One comes close though, and that's Trello, but Trello doesn't have a good Windows Phone app (yet), and so I won't use it.
PPA can be as misleading as CPC or CPM. If you ask for an email, it could be iframed with a more compelling offer. If you ask for a credit card purchase, it could be done with big blocks of stolen credit card numbers. This also does not include covariance between marketing channels aka the attribution model problem (ex. if you blast TV ads for freecreditreport.com then the CPA for online advertising magically drops).
This guy was only at Google for three years (less, in fact), but this reads like he was a 10 year veteran or something. I can't really take it all that seriously because of that.

He was offered a Partner position at Microsoft. That's why he left. No need to philosophize about corporate culture here.
That's precisely what I am referring to.
Thanks - and good luck !
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Not interactive though.
Or maybe "I misunderstood some issues" really means "I misunderstood some issues". Just saying...
Welcome back. Nick, if you want it to be really successful, add a little bit of interactivity, at least labels to pie/doughnut charts and hover values on line charts. Then it's perfect.
The fact that it's obvious doesn't mean that it's incorrect. One could say the same thing about many widely accepted dietary recommendations:

"Oh I shouldn't be drinking tons of liquid sugar? Eureka!!" 


That doesn't mean that recommendation to cut back on soda should be removed from public health, because obviously there are still far too many people who aren't aware of exactly how and how bad excessive soda consumption is for you.
I'm reading "The Launch Pad Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups" by Randall Stross
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But not necessarily for the students in those countries. Presumably low-cost and market-recognized quality are factors that have kept American textbooks in distribution in foreign markets (and domestic producers out of those markets). In their absence, one might think that prices will rise, quality will fall, or both; at least in the short run.

If these countries are relatively free of government collusion with established (or establishing) producers, then ultimately competitive pressures could rectify that as market demand gets satisfied; but in the short run prices up, quality down.
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Seconding Flippa. There are real deep pocketed buyers on Flippa and real sites that go for six figures fairly regularly.
I suppose we should be thankful that HN doesn't come with a share plugin.
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Wow this is awesome. My long-planned side project for the summer was to build Operational Transform as an API, but it seems Google has beat me to the punch. I'm glad to see it's them doing it though, as they know OT better than anyone else in the world and I won't have to entertain the idea that I could have done it better.
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I am a lecturer in a math department. I also despise the textbook industry.

Would you please recommend what I might do, subject to severe limitations of (1) time and (2) political clout within my department?
Yep, I kind of bled the two prior comments together.
Maybe I'm missing something- but I can't see the valuations the companies are raising at anywhere (e.g. I can see that Company X wants to raise $490,000 - but how much of the business this is for)

Surely this is question number 1 when you want to invest in a company?

EDIT- Found it once I clicked the "Apply to invest" button". Maybe it should be a bit more up front though
I believe the overarching focus at Google is search. To search Google must index.

To continue indexing and searching Google has to make money. The most obvious path to billions is leveraging the indexing and searching into ad revenue.

What makes me more nervous than Google being capitalistic is Google not having boundaries about who/what/when/where/how they will index the whole world's data.
Has anyone mirrored the original text? Just looks like the normal site to me.
We'll have a self-service platform which founders can use to fundraise privately. We make it easy to accept investments in about 3 minutes with automated legal docs, e-signature, and ACH payments.

But it'll always be highly curated for featured startups that are public on Wefunder. We are starting out with one per week.
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https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

I guess it's only not okay when men do it, huh? Adria, you are a bigot and a hypocrite. A generally vindictive, petty, spiteful child.
"All the small investors (often < $25k) invest in the Crowd Fund, which then invests as one entity in the startup."

So your company must create and manage a new investment vehicle for each startup to raise money on Wefunder? I assume so, otherwise the investors in one holding will incur the liability of the fund being sued by the investors/investment of another.

According to your FAQ, you are not charging any fees yet and have raised about $500k to support your operations. On top of operating the parent business, for each entity you will have to prepare and send out K1s, make numerous compliance-related and SEC filings, and correctly disburse funds once liquidity arises. As a fund, you'll also possibly have to prepare annual or quarterly mark-to-market valuation reports for your holdings. All told, this could run into the tens of thousands of dollars per entity per year.

What happens if your company runs out of money to properly steward the funds you raise? Do you have a strategy to mitigate legal / compliance costs?
Beans (like grains) have a lot of phytic acid in them. Phytic acid prevents the absorption of minerals. The amount of phytic acid can be reduced if the beans are soaked in water that contains lactobacilli for a day or so, but almost no one does that.
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>I think what's bothering me here is that these guys are perpetuating the notion that, literally, hiring a "celebrity"/"rock star" engineer/designer ("10xer") is something that folks should be paying a huge premium for.

Bugs me as well, but probably not for the same reason. It makes me sad how many programmers and engineers who aren't the mythical "rockstars" get left behind in all this. Average programmers. People who haven't founded their own company or created a popular software library, but are still capable of doing the work of a hundred number crunching people by themselves with a keyboard. So much rhetoric gets thrown around about ninjas and the skills gap, yet the median salary in the industry hasn't kept up with inflation in the past 15 years. A lot of time and industry effort is being spent on finding or importing people rather than supporting the ones they have or just hiring people and teaching them how to be more effective.
Between this piece and other comments I've seen in the wake of the anti-Google backlash of this past week, why is it that supposedly under Eric Schmidt, a "business guy" Google was all innovation and tech, and then when Larry Page, a very technical cofounder, took over, the company is now some sort of ad machine? If this is true, what does this say about leading personalities and company culture?
I really like the emphasis on quality of talent. In my experience, too many recruitment agencies (the incumbents) are heavily focused on volume and optimize around their own compensation structure.

If 10x can stay focused only on genuine talent, giving the talent a steady flow of well-paying work from businesses that can't afford to have someone under-deliver, that seems like a win/win/win to me, and I'm sure they'll do well.
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Honest question: What if the good was only sold to you with a particular assumption? For example, if a phone company sells me a smartphone with the agreement that I do not unlock the phone, should I still be able to do whatever I want with the phone (unlock it) after it is in my possession?
My #1 feature request is a fall-back that allows people to print the charts. This currently won't work for articles, unfortunately.
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> The publishers will just make sure to produce a different textbook between different regions now. Just re-order the chapters a little and re-order some questions/assignments. So even if someone ships in the foreign book it will be as useless as a previous edition.

That's fine if they do that. That's what they should have be doing all along instead of trying to destroy the first sale doctrine using foreign distribution.
My understanding of Pick databases was that they were typeless. Mongo isn't. There's a difference between being typeless and schemaless, and Mongo is a good mix for my usecases.
And it's considered "stuff not behaving as expected" that when you clear a box that says "display images" that images are no longer displayed? (One of the examples from TFA)
Opinions vary, but I have read several (about the last iteration, e.g. the T430) that are more favorably inclined to the Lenovo version of these "chiclet" keyboards. That their action is better and that the hard topped, slightly curved keys are more comfortable.

Still, though, as far as I know one of those rubber mat "contraptions", under the surface. And with the "island" style key placements (surrounded/separated by a distinct surface, instead of the keys being immediately adjacent to each other).
> I think Thiel put it well when he stated "the best entrepreneurs, like Zuckerberg, have a definitive view about the future and plan for it".

That only works if their future views come true.

I'm going to have a "billion users in 5-10 years" doesn't help anyone much. And in no way can be predicted.
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I love Bartendro -- and I'm virtually a nondrinker. It's just so steampunk and mad-scientisty.
atwebb's comment was not germane. He talked about both FPs and FNs when FPs had nothing to do with my question. If he had explained how a 90% detection rate does not necessarily mean there is a 10% false negative rate, then it would have been relevant.

DanBC said the article did not mention FPs or FNs. I agreed with the FP point so from here out lets ignore anything related to FPs. My question/point was that as far as I understood it that 90% detection rate by definition means there is a 10% rate of false negatives.
I may be biased, but I hear Sift Science is a great place to work ;).
This makes the justice system seem totally fucked. Yes, they are different cases, but they are intimately tied together. The justice system is punishing the same people that want to expose heinous crimes. It is punishing the same people that want to expose heinous and systematic crimes. No wonder they feel threatened.

There is no doubt in my mind that we are increasingly seeing the frictions of a power shift between governmental bodies and the collective action of individuals on the internet. I imagine that it will only get worse before it gets better. We need to protect the freedom of the internet, because at this point it is the only real weapon we have against (at worst) organized corruption and (at best) an inefficient government.
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Thanks - we'll consider that.
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On Chrome 25.0.1364.172 I can only reach GR1001, even if column A is the only column with content.

Can you put up demo projects with large datasets (one with 10K elements, one with 100K, one with 1M, etc)? For example, you could have one set with all of the zipcodes in the US (test for 10K) and another with the second-resolution price data of the S&P 500 stocks for a given day (test for 1M)
I wish jQuery's setter methods worked this way. It's too easy to accidentally turn a setter into a getter.
Thanks for the feedback... I have used basecamp by myself but I am more interested in the team/collaboration aspect of it.

Other than Trello (which I love) what would be your top 3 alternatives that come close to basecamp?

What's missing from basecamp that you would love to see?

Are you paying for basecamp? I think they got rid of the free plan... are you ok with $20/month?

PS: I know exactly what you mean about the sickness of trying tools. I used to do that with GTD tools. I did RTM for 1 year, omnifocus for 1 year, then built my own (Taskorami) then finally settled on pen and paper :)
Isn't some AUP violation a felony, because you're using a computer without authorisation?
Not interactive.... yet?
If the publisher did this, not only would they lose the sale at the higher price but they'd also cause confusion and mistrust among the students and teacher. There's zero upside.
Be sure to also read the follow up for the actual solution that Ad-safe implemented here: http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/03/50-of-ads-are-...
Well, what it means is he thought that he couldn't, but then he found out that his understanding was wrong, and he actually could.
It's possible they're still trying to determine congress's intent in a sense, they just give a more objective meaning to 'intent': i.e. what a reasonable person reading the statute would think that congress meant by the words they used. (As opposed to what they actually, subjectively meant, per extrinsic evidence like statements made in congress).

That's the way intent is read in contract law: it's judged objectively (from the position of a reasonable person in the position of the parties at the time of contracting), subjective intentions don't matter. [Edit: while true of English contract law, this is apparently not accurate for US contract law: see DannyBee's reply]

(I'm only guessing - I'm an English law student, so not familiar with US supreme court justices, so could be completely wrong on what they're doing. [Edit: yup, I was.])
I'm not talking about single occurence of the "bad" pattern. If you multiple it to the occurence in a whole code base... well you get the point. That's why underscore and coffee-script treat default assignement that way.
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Hundreds of small businesses compete with Basecamp so of course you can too. But that's not the important question, this is: why exactly does your client's marketing team hate Basecamp? Are they too big for Basecamp? Is the usability too bad? Does it get in the way of their work proccesses?
What about Evernote?
Yeah, that was a product of my poor reading; mea culpa and my apologies.

But I do think it is wrong to dismiss lactose tolerance as an example of recent adaption: most adaptations start as a single mutation with a selective advantage. It is disingenuous to claim phytic acid would require "a whole new enzyme", because if an enzyme were evolved specifically to break it down, the way it'd happen is that an existing enzyme would be duplicated (and there's a healthy amount of duplication in the typical genome to start with) and a small number of mutations would specialize this copy for phytic acid. It could be a single mutation on an already duplicated gene; it could be a series of one or more random mutations followed by the final mutation which begins to exert a selective pressure.

But all this is predicated on there being a selective pressure to digest phytic acid. For lactose, there is a strong selective pressure. For diet-related prion disorders (kuru), there is a strong selective pressure. Is there a strong selective pressure to digest phytic acid? Maybe there is, and the adaptation requires too many mutations to reach. Maybe there isn't, and so there is no selective pressure to drive an adaptation.

If I am taking the position that grains aren't that bad, then I am also taking the position that phytic acid -- as it is found in our diets -- isn't particularly bad. Hence, my position must be that there is no strong selective pressure to begin digesting phytic acid, anymore than there is to begin producing our own vitamin C.
If my gross rate goes up by 20% and I need to give you a 10% cut, my net rate increase is 8% (possibly less depending on things like taxes). My lizard brain will either try to cut you out of the loop or just forget about the whole thing.

Also, social capital. If you are already somewhat networked and you start telling everyone to "talk to your agent", I would guess lots of people would turn up their noses. Yes, it should be an absolutely professional relationship and all, but just ask people in Cleveland about Lebron or people in Boston about Ray Allen how they feel about them leaving and you'll see that there is more to money in any kind of relationship.

Another reason: we computer people love automation and streamlining of processes. If this actually becomes a thing, you will start seeing lots of copycats or actual startups trying to emulate parts of whatever process become established. This would just lead to either a new market norm (like the way YC has changed seed-stage funding) or forcing players in this space to go for a new level of risk/reward (the high-6-7 figure earners)

About the "Jewish" part, again I apologize for my ignorance. I think I wrote Jewish when I meant Jew (as in ethnic/cultural background, not religion? Semitic would be better?) and I was just going for last names. Coincidentally, if I had to guess, Rosenhaus sounds like a Jewish name to me.
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> What if the good was only sold to you with a particular assumption?

Everything is sold with particular assumptions. Consumers often use their purchases in ways the seller didn't foresee.
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Anyone who signs an agreement should be bound by that agreement assuming the other party did not act in bad faith.

I think it's important to stick to text books though and not venture into software or cell phone territory because it's a very safe bet that no contract was ever signed and no agreement was ever entered into other than "here's my money, give me that book."
Ah, that would be why my attempts at a character-for-character deciphering failed...
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cletus: I agree, but also think that lack of diversity in user environments is a big contributing factor to this problem. With 90%+ of people using only three computing platforms (Windows, Android, iOS), criminals and other sociopaths have a powerful economic incentive to develop antisocial viruses and botnets. So long as only two or three user environments remain dominant, people will be exposed to this kind of 'Irish potato famine' risk.[1]

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29#Pota...