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Fallacies. Fallacies everywhere!

Fact of the matter is, with the internet becoming such an important part of our lives so quickly laws haven't had a chance to catch up. For the most part, DOJ and other countries interpret the laws as "if you are effecting people/business on our soil then you are accountable to our laws". Is that right? Probably not, but it isn't 100% wrong either. America is quickly converting its livelihood such that its chief export will be intellectual property. They, rightfully, should be defending themselves in any legal way they can. Until we correct the way laws are written they'll continue to interpret them to the way they see fit.

But then we have everyone here taking things to the extreme. What if I break some obscure law in some backwater land unknown to the majority of the world? Do you think they have jurisdiction granted to them by your government? Usually these things are part of a deal of friendship between governments as US and Australia would make deals with each other as there are mutual advantages to it. Would America cut deals with North Korea to hand you over for some obscure law? I'm betting no. Don't forget, there are people behind these decisions and although they may seem asinine at times they are still logical beings capable of rational thought.

It just pains me to see the article and want to discuss it intellectually on HN but all I find is fear mongering, straw men and countless other fallacies that don't really strengthen their point. I don't care whether you agree/disagree with the ruling/courts as written, I care to have a discussion or see good points on either side of the debate, not hogwash vomited forth for emotionally charged arguments.
Well, sure. P.T. Barnum was correct, after all. But we can at least try to spread some inoculation around, can't we?
they got one already: http://imgur.com/RYfYZDp
No, because the point is to get abused kids to dial that number, and before that to understand what the message is about.
I've just assumed that it tends to imply 'technology' via the long-existing term "I/O" [input/output].

Even the businesses that that use it and are less tech-heavy in business model tend to be web- and/or mobile-first type companies from what I've seen...
Lost me at the color picker. Is there any way to switch to using the standard OS X color picker?

Also, preferences aren't in the usual spot (under the Apple menu)?
I'd much rather receive an email like the example, showing giftcards that you can redeem, instead of a bunch of text. At least in that case.

Am I evil?
Consider bogosort

That's true, external inputs and true randomness is not accounted for. (However pseudorandom generators are included!)
h.264 yes. VP8 not so much.
Experiments with decoding of H.264 in JS+WebGL were done in the Broadway project, and while (as mentioned in the article) reasonable frame rates in JS alone were achieved, WebGL was not a huge benefit. The problem is that H.264 was not designed to run in a massively parallel manner like GPUs expect. There is too much stuff that is serial, so you must run that on the CPU.

But a new codec like ORBX.js however can be designed to run efficiently in WebGL, that is what is interesting here.
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I put these together a while ago, feel free to self-certify yourself:

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2012/06/this-page-is-now-certifi...
How the Banks Do It
I've had my pebble since the day it came out, AND I'M BORED.
Sure, and for every ten or so of them, there's someone more reasonable. ;) I'm not sure what the next babushka doll is, but my point is that the jobs are not completely uniform and that within the variation lies _some_ value.
Ha, no. Gift cards are nice. Though hopefully the text emails teach something valuable. Maybe a typical Best Buy advertisement would have been a better example.

Also, (unrelated) you shouldn't redeem your Chase points for gift cards (as shown in that email). $1,000+ international airline tickets are a much better value. :)
"Out of curiosity - what percentage of real, viable business plans do you think are "easy"?"

I'd imagine they vary based on the business plan. I think what others are trying to say, but you don't seem to want to hear, is that while many business ideas are say, 20% to succeed, this particular business plan is <1% to succeed.
I'm curious how the average consumer (non-tech audience) views a .io domain.

I'm planning to build a consumer facing site and use .io as it's an easy way to get a decently good domain, but I don't want to scare people off with the domain.
Well, "Millionaire Next Door" uses examples of millionaires to provide some form of guidance (at least on some level) to non-millionaires on what it takes to actually become wealthy.

Though, I haven't read it, I would assume that "Fooled by Randomness" would explain the wealth of the individuals from "Millionare" as more to do with luck than anything else, and that it's not repeatable. And that fulfilling the "American Dream" has more to do with being lucky than with hard work.
Yup, PHP, the folder is already in the 1.7.8 sdk
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Of interest is also 507movements.com, which is trying to provide animated versions of the movements.

Most aren't done yet, of course, but as you click through, you can find some interesting ones:

http://507movements.com/mm_038.html
http://507movements.com/mm_123.html
http://507movements.com/mm_223.html
I read it more as he's telling aspiring musicians to not go all in on a <1% prospect, which doesn't seem all that nuts to me.
I want to be a Ruby on Rails Ninja
I want to become a Ruby on Rails Ninja. Something about Rails... just feels right! Believe me, I've fallen in love. Nothing is more fun than programming Ruby on Rails. It has actually killed my Netflix addiction. How can I prove to employers that I am a good Ruby on Rails programmer? What apps should I build as a demo? I was thinking about building a facebook clone, and showing that off to display my RoR skills. I need a guide on getting a RoR job.
I was thinking I could cold call project managers to display my RoR skills. I was even thinking about starting a blog. But what topic??? I really want to be employed as a full time RoR programmer. What should I do? Thanks guys.
"I think we got the WHOIS privacy by default on NameCheap."

Funny how that happens now isn't it? You have to ask yourself why are they so eager to give you that?

"our names and profiles are linked on the bottom of the page"

I was only able to bring up one profile. The rest you have to be connected or logged into linkedin. You have to link in to the linked in public profile. But even then the amount of info is limited unless you pay for the enhanced extra linkedin paid service. Makes much more sense to simply have some info on your site. And certainly not way at the bottom "below" the fold.

"as they may find their home address and phone number propagated all across the web"

That's definitely a valid concern.

My suggestion is simply to use a school address, po box or other contact address. For phone number as mentioned get a google voice number (or another service if you already have google voice.)

While it isn't advised and there are reasons not to do the following I can tell you that if you simply made up an address somewhere that would be fine as well. Nobody is policing that. In theory you could lose your domain but in practice that will never happen.
It's really advice to the coder on spreading word about your project. If you want people to dig into it, help them. Don't make them go on a wild goose chase figuring out what the thing is in the first place. If you don't have a reason to care about something in the first few seconds, you'll move along and look at something else that is shiny.
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"Whois privacy email addresses"

A turn off for many buyers. They look like bogus addresses. Makes much more sense to take the effort to get a gmail account that looks legit and use that to filter. Then if you get to much spam simply get another gmail and change the whois. Etc.
In addition to the "techiness" of io, a lot of the draw has been availability. They've been going at $50/yr for a while, which has kept the squatters away. Last time I looked, there were a plethora of three-letter English words available.

I jumped in in 2009, and basically had my pick of 2-letter domains.
Interesting.. I didn't realize that, as I've never bothered to pay the extra fee for the "private" registration. But I do use a less-important GMail account for the email contact, so at least my main email doesn't get swamped. But the phone number on there is actually my personal cellphone, which could be annoying if a lot of people started calling, but so far that doesn't seem to happen.
The community here has shifted it seems. Comments like mine that questioned the way in which we argue used to be encouraged.
I'm moving to Nashville in two weeks! and I want to know what are the best coffee shops to work from! What coffee shop do you work from? I'll come find you :-)
That's good advice. I'll probably give Reddit a shot at some point.
I am pretty jealous of your API docs for backgrid. What do you use to generate that? Also, my 17kb quote is minifed but not gzipped. ATable comes out to 5.1kb gzipped. That being said, 6.2kb is pretty damn impressive considering some of the extra functionality that backgrid has.
> and I encourage you to look there for recommendations of up-to-date reliable secondary sources. (I am updating that bibliography as I do more research, so there may be new entries added there fairly soon.) It would be interesting to see what new paths your writings will take after more digestion of the previous literature on our shared topic of interest.

I already know of that page, actually. I have been compiling citations for a while on 3 topics I'd like to write more about (the relationship of IQ & Big Five Conscientiousness, practical real-world correlates of IQ, and the net economic value of IQ points on the margin) and found a link to it. I don't think any of the entries proved helpful because I'm looking at such niche topics that I generally have to go to the original papers just to start.

> I like even better writings that apply statistics to examine whether data are adequate to the task of answering the question posed by a researcher, as statistics is the science of data,

A topic of considerably interest to myself, as well: I compile my own thoughts in http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#flaws-in-mainstream-science-a... but I'll take a look at your links.

> many findings on human behavior now need to be reexamined as statistically astute psychology researchers reexamine the quality of data in old studies.

True enough, but there's a lot of limits to this sort of thing: GIGO. For many psych studies, I think the same thing I do in arguments about the genetics of IQ: "why are we still arguing over this? there is no more meat on these bones. We know how to resolve these questions, we have the technology (to either replicate the experiments or look directly at the genetics), so why can't we just do it‽"
I once read of a prof that was on a rent-a-coder site, did a student's assignment, and then failed him.
Another thing not mentioned explicitly is that a huge number of emails are opened on mobile devices (some say it's close to 50%). Many of these beautiful, image-heavy email templates look awful on mobile.

Edit: And another another thing is that most email clients do not load images by default so many of these beautiful templates look bad or even broken without images.

The bottom line is, yes, there are a lot of reasons why a text-heavy message is likely to perform better for you. But, as always, you should test it yourself. It's super easy to A/B test an email message.
"Personally I think the benefits of having valid whois info outweigh the negatives"

Agree with that. As both a domain owner, registrar as well as someone who buys domains. There are definitely cases where privacy is warranted but not for the majority of people.
That's changed recently then. I'd still like it if they would sell you any of their stuff without windows. I don't even need a discount, I just don't want to pay MS for a machine that won't be running their OS.
This is a very fair nit to pick! I think the bold presentation of the definition on their homepage (not a particularly common thing to see, alas) may have caused me to give it more favor than it deserves. It's not bad but the other one is certainly better.
If you think technical prowess is a requirement for being a boss, reality is going to be quite shocking for you.

And, I don't even think it should be a requirement (depending on the role), if said boss hired you because you have the technical experience needed and trusts you, and is willing to learn, I wouldn't mind working for him.

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/01/why-bosses-dont...
Drafting your first investment round.
FYI: it didn't hurt my laptop, but, over time, the glue from the duct tape melts and fills the depression in the Apple logo. Removing it is not fun.
I would expect a terrible bid from a high GDP country to be a better source of bugs than a terrible bid from a low GDP country.

Poor communication? Probably just ESL. Low bid? In a low GDP country that low bid goes a longer way.

If you grabbed an american with the same conditions you're more likely to get some illiterate kid instead of some Czech doctor moonlighting.
> Put another address into the whois

If you run an ICANN registrar, you should be aware that ICANN requires whois information to be accurate. Providing incorrect data is grounds for cancellation of your domain name. I guess long as you can still be reached from the address it would be fine though?

Personally, I use whois privacy because I don't want my physical address (and identity) to be publicly available.
I had one domain that didn't have privacy years ago, and I kept getting snail-mail spam every year asking me to "renew" it, from some registrar I'd never heard of.
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Thanks for the good words. :) Do you mind if we use this statement as a testimonial, with your real name and company name?
>"Daddy, why does that kid look all beat up"

Im pretty sure its explained in the ad:
"If someone hurts you, phone us"

I agree it could cause some confusion but how many kids are going to ask their parents after reading the ad? We obviously can't know for sure but I feel like the ad conveys enough information to the point that "this kid was hurt by someone, if this is happening to you call us, we can help"
Europe, Germany. Every Device I use HN on => HN is slow, really slow as hell. Taking up tp 10 seconds to refresh or load a thread.
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"I agree about publicly displaying contact info, but would like to know some good suggestions for filtering out the crap that comes with it."

Gmail account which is setup to forward to your regular email account. Or simply change to a new gmail if you get to much spam. I register domains all the time and have a single email account that represents a large quantity of domains. I don't find the spam to be a big problem at all.
OP here.

I would love to try something here. The goal is to have a good source for early stage founders.
And my advice - in the end - is also just one opinion. I would love to hear yours.

If you got your own insights to add (or spot errors) I would recommend you to submit your changes via draft[1]. I will add them step by step.

[1]: https://draftin.com/documents/57927?token=tGIgh5zd28S0cGt0Yy...
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Outlook doesn't support max-width (naturally).

Here's how to do it and also support outlook by using conditional comments: https://gist.github.com/elidickinson/5525752
<p>I realize that the majority of the web is beyond IE6, but when your customer calls you to complain that your web application is broken in their IE6 browser and their system administrators refuse to upgrade their Citrix installation to use a more modern browser, then you refactor your UI to be compatible with IE6.</p>

<p>I can't just tell the customer "You're an idiot," and wash my hands of the situation. You'll understand this firsthand when you get out into the professional world or you'll be that developer who management hides in the basement where you can quietly grumble to yourself about how stupid everyone else is.</p>
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Well this is one way to up your initial burn rate.
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"The true problem is that when crafting an email 95% of the time is spent getting the design just right and only 5% is spent on the subject and content."

I'm curious what shop you are thinking of that has this kind of time breakdown? I know that in my previous agency (political/non-profit/corporate consulting), the team responsible for emails spent hours and hours working on crafting perfect subject lines and meaningful content. The subject and the content drove the design.
Thanks, you've picked an interesting niche.

Versioning text is an interesting subject, and there appear to be a bunch of tools that are teasing at the problem (many of which get discussed on the Versioned Writing google group), but none of them have really gotten things right yet.

A lot of folks have been taking Github as an inspiration, and it's been cool to see what people pick and choose out of the experience.
Not if you don't fly internationally ;)

I'm also thinking Joe consumer would rather see some big pictures of what's on sale this week, or some new product announcement, instead of having to read
Sorry for the late reply, the lowest hanging fruit with WordPress assuming your theme isn't bloated is to implement a caching plugin.

This will serve static HTML instead of hitting your DB every page request. There are others but since this post has now aged I'm assuming you have moved on. Contact me if you want specific help.
> H.264 video is abundant, and is unambiguously "the winner" of all the current major video codecs

> The viability of watermarking as an alternative to DRM is also speculative conjecture (...) In spite of the changes in the audio market, the video market has remained firmly in favor of DRM

A week-old demo and the author is already saying it doesn't have enough market share to be viable.
I'm a huge Middleman fan. Made a couple static sites using it.
I find the argument compelling, but why do you suppose so many large companies send templates with lots of images? They have easy access to A/B testing, and I imagine if they saw better results with the text-heavy emails they would all switch to them.
When I don't want to sound snooty, I say rerunnable.

Fixed point is another way to get at it, although it requires your listener to know what that is.
What's really funny is that Nettuts have a tutorial for jekyll that goes over this exact topic. You could always use this as a starting point:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/building-static-site...
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I doubt https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.mi... would go away if Google Code did.
When you're on the client side you don't have much of a choice. On the server, there are various options.

And even then, GAE is more risky than, say, .Net - since you never actually buy the platform, you're subject to Google's changing prices and product priorities.
This is an attempt to build a series of screen casts on Apache Hadoop and its various components. I am doing this to keep myself updated and to also share whatever I learn. Your comments are most welcome.
I don't think git can show word documents. Sure, they might be XML under the hood, but getting a diff between blobs of XML isn't quite the same as a side-by-side comparison in a nice UI.
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1. Write code that you think is almost trivial.
That way it is simple enough to debug.
If you think your implementation gives you bragging rights down the pub, its waaaaay too complicated

2. log everything, write tools to parse the logs. All this turning logging off / on / up / down. It's disk space, its cheap and trust me when you wanted -vvv debugging, the live server was set to -q

3. testable code - oh yes, yes, yes. Functions that return common structures that are then sent on not wrapped up for that one specific use you had in mind(my most common crime) . But make it simple. If you cannot throw in a config file and run it there on the command line, then its hopeless. Stubs, dependancy injection - I get it, I just want to avoid it.

4. Don't do as I do, do as I say :-)
Big fan of your work, but here are a few things that raised red flags for me.

First, I make my "read" decision based entirely on the sender and subject. If an email gets past that filter, I rarely put much thought into what it looks like. Second, when I see an overly plain email, I tend to associate it with those tricky spammers who try to circumvent filters. So, sometimes seeing a brand is reassuring that it is not spam.
"Providing incorrect data is grounds for cancellation of your domain name."

Not speaking for other registrars of course but what's the chance that we will cancel your domain because there is "inaccurate" info?

In order to do that someone would have to file a complaint with ICANN then ICANN contacts us and we send you an email telling you to fix the info. And we would bend over backwards before cancelling the domain because who wants to deal with how pissed you'd be if we did that? What do we have to gain vs. what do we have to lose.

Do a test. Register a name with, say namecheap or godaddy. Purposely put in bad info (not bogus looking but just wrong). The file an complaint with ICANN. See what happens. (And that's after someone files a complaint how or why would someone care to do that?)
But in Facebook's example, the 1% who were not fine with it made enough noise to have Facebook regulated by the federal government. They are now mandated to honor your privacy settings, no matter what.

So that example falls a bit short in that if it's egregious enough of a trick, regulators will take notice.
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Wow. No, I'm sorry, but TMND explains very clearly, backed by solid statistics, how people become rich, and it doesn't have anything to do with luck. In fact, the process of becoming a millionnaire is quite boring and unglamorous; invest prudently, cut expenses, don't buy new cars, have a modest mortgage, etc. Very few of the millionnaires interviewed in the book "got rich quick". The vast majority of millionnaires in the U.S. got there over a long period of time of living well below their means; long enough for luck to be completely factored out.
It hasn't really. Google doesn't read code and summarize purpose yet...that still requires people who understand to convey they message to those that don't.
I'd rather see something the polar opposite.

"Come work in our flea-infested shack in Mexico where, if you're not battling scorpions in the dark, dank, rusty shower shed, you'll be trying to find some shade from the unrelenting heat."

The start-up life isn't glamorous, but I assure you, if you start out there, even bankruptcy court will be a step up.
"But the phone number on there is actually my personal cellphone"

Use google voice number that forwards to your cellphone. Or better use a google voice number that doesn't go anywhere.
It says it's only 8 hours a day.
This comment is more informative than the original story. Thanks.
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I think prices for .com/.net should go up too. Too many domain squatters and advertising-only domains. If it was $50 a year, some good names might become available for real businesses.
"410 Gone" is probably preferable to 404, as it would indicate there used to be a resource at that URL.