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The main thing James get wrong in his advice is that it pertains to most businesses rather than hyper growth startups. In which case, his advice isn't wrong. The issue here is Paul and James are arguing semantics.

For a startup, yes, a Delaware C Corp is typical. For a small business, thats probably an LLC. Vesting is typically 4 years with a 1 year cliff in the startup world so again, thats not incorrect per say (I didn't see the quoting of the 1 year cliff).

In any event, everything realistically is a big fat "it depends" depending on the business. I'd say that James' advice pertains primarily to startups even though his 100 point list is still not perfect
Awesome. Brilliant, thanks. Completely missed the search box. If I could transfer a hundred or so karma to you, I would.
I heard stories locally here in Miami of a "consultant" who apparently had charged people to introduce them to several local key figures (in this case I was one of these people he charged people to meet). The irony (aside from anyone ever paying to talk to me), was that they were always just cold emails as I had never met the guy charging for intros in person!
yes! not only will it add value to yourself, a day will come on which you will need it so badly that you'll hit yourself in the foot with a shovel for not having learned it!
What is an Angel Investor?
I've been there before ... glad I could help out. :)
Does anyone know if anyone is working on a standalone version of an event-based system for Chef? I'm not on AWS, but I think an event-based system similar to OpsWorks might have a nice fit between chef-solo and chef-server.
But putting them in a room with 30 strangers that might dislike them is somehow going to fix it? Most high school cliques rarely get larger than 5-6 people, so simply giving your kid opportunities to meet other children (it could be some sports club, or the boy scouts, or a science club, really anything) will allow them to get a small but tight social circle, which is more than some kids have.
Giving Kids Bikes Can Reduce Drop-Out Rates
If you keep it secret, you're well-paid for cutting-edge work that's impossible to do anywhere else. And the general mission – keeping your home country's defense and political institutions the best-informed in the world – can be quite appealing. Inside, I'm sure you hear plenty about feel-good successes: lives saved and national interests protected.

On the other hand, if you reveal the programs, you lose your job, get cut off from your professional colleagues, and likely go to jail.
The Question Every Disruptive Company Should Be Able to Answer
I helped a well known cancer center create an internal mobile app that allowed doctors to browse and filter a listing of all their current clinical trials. They had the information available in a database and exposed it via an (again, internal) API. However, I'm sure that talking with the right people would allow access to the list as well, so directly contacting research organizations would probably be just as fruitful.
This post has an interesting url: http://dcurt.is/startups-ruin-you
Finland has the best school system in the world and they aren't driven by the free market.
I thought those were running interpreters via javascript. User-generated code is really okay?
No, I don't think that is true in general. I think the nozzle is almost always on the right side. Unless there is an arrow, the designer probably neglected to explicitly indicate anything.
Yes, but you claimed that it was easy to shut down crappy charter schools. My point is it's not when they lie and they will lie to make money.
You are right.

I started with haskell-platform from brew and ended up with a broken ghc build.

"inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -static -H32m -O -Iincludes -Iincludes/dist -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -Iincludes/dist-ghcconstants/header -Irts -Irts/dist/build -DCOMPILING_RTS -package-name rts -dcmm-lint -i -irts -irts/dist/build -irts/dist/build/autogen -Irts/dist/build -Irts/dist/build/autogen -O2 -c rts/Apply.cmm -o rts/dist/build/Apply.o
/usr/local/bin/llc: : error: unable to get target for 'arm-apple-darwin10', see --version and --triple.
make[1]: * [rts/dist/build/Apply.o] Error 1

I am starting over with the binary GHC distribution.
It seems unlikely that a document produced to justify funding would ever offer up anything which could give anyone a moments pause before the nodding gesture sought.

After all, it would be fairly damning if the NSA were defending a high crypto budget by filling the document with hyperbole, just as it would be a trifle suspicious if they suddenly cut the department to a couple of well fed nerds and a years supply of sharp pencils and Mountain Dew.

The meagre sentences in this document seem to sit in the bureaucratic sweet spot of positive but vague.
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There is also Guppy/Heapy, which I like in particular because you can spawn a monitor that you can connect to externally. Sadly the docs aren't very complete.
What are you valuing your time at? That sounds like shaky logic at best, especially considering how much work it sounds like this took.
I supported Downhill Battle's copywrite civil disobedience, and hosted viewings in my home at the time. I'm glad to see that an official version has been released, and that hopefully it will not be forgotten. Out of curiousity, was your copy the $40 "Home Version" (http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=3999340) or the $260 "Educator's Version" (http://teacher.shop.pbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=2445...) that includes licensing for classroom use?
Inside the Postal Startup That Wants to Stick It to the (Mail) Man
Was just having the discussion of whether or not to accelerate your company with one of the leaders of Bizdom accelerator in Cleveland.

http://www.replyall.me/zach-talks/to-accelerate-or-not-to-ac...

One issue I haven't brought up yet (but will) is whether a young company wants that kind of "access" or whether having to crawl before you walk makes companies iterate and get it right and get the "access" the old fashioned way. Sometimes think accelerators give companies access a little too quickly for the company's own good.
This looks great! I would be interested in talking to the creator about making a plugin based on this for DuckDuckGo if they're around and so inclined.
> [...] but there are in fact cryptosystems (such as lattice cryptography) that are secure against quantum computers.

Or at least: (currently) not more vulnerable to quantum computer than to classical computers.
There was once something call a cellarc CPU that promised a 1024 bit architecture and teraflop speeds. Hard to find any info about it now.
Oh those damn stickers. And every time I get a pair of scissors in that indestructible plastic...
The Hong Kong Startup venture fund attracts 43 countries but no Australians?
I'm interested in where the database came from. Is this all manually compiled or pulled from a general source?
GS base pay tops out at $117. There are many GS's making much more than that (also, the IC uses a non-GS scale, specifically for that reason).
> Reading from the harddrive is very slow.

Why were you reading from harddrive with Mongo? Prefix indexing is the only kind of string indexing that Mongo does, but it does a pretty good job with it. You must have a pretty large dataset if it couldn't keep the index in memory.

> It could be easily hit with a regex injection

It should be pretty easy to regex-escape the search string. Easier than building a substring searching engine.

> It couldn't handle artists with multiple names

That sounds like a data format issue.

What I'm getting at is that, while the prefix-only issue might have been enough to justify this switch, none of your other reasons make a ton of sense to me.
Thx bro. That was a grreat read.
Is this available for the Pokemon cards?
Now someone needs to use this to make a passable Magic AI. Shandalar is ancient at this point, but it's still the best attempt I've seen, and the only Magic computer game I still play.
> (I think this is called silo architecture)

Might be called that now. When I was working on big systems it was called Service Oriented Architecture.
>Learning Vim is a side project: something you do casually, slowly, until and if you are able to do the actual switch.

For me, vim didn't take until I used it start to finish on a smaller, week-long project and immersed myself in it. Everyone learns differently.
I second this. I've really underestimated how big an impact first impressions can leave, especially when dealing with completely unfamiliar tools.

My first intro to Vim could be called "haphazard" at best because I was pressed at the time, and so that thoroughly soured the relationship. It was only after I took a few steps back and went at it with a let's try this again attitude very slowly did I finally get through it without exhausting myself. I wish I took the slow route the first time.

Best way to learn Vim is to learn it for the sake of learning it. Not because "it's in the way".
This is trading imagined harm for a real harm. You trade off a loss of privacy that has zero practical implications currently for almost everyone (a few terrorist suspects might have to worry) against lost time due to inferior search result quality.

I don't follow the logic. It seems like idealism for the sake of idealism to me.
Unfortunately, PayPal has limited capabilities in some countries.

In fact, Costa Rica (where the company is moving) appears to be a country where you cannot withdraw money from your PayPal account into a local bank account. It also looks like you can't have them transfer money to a Costa Rican credit or debit card. PayPal doesn't even have my current country (Paraguay) listed as a place where I can do anything. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-approved-...

I also encountered problems with other money transfer services when I first moved overseas. They had limits on how much money I could transfer per day, month, and lifetime of my account. As I started crossing certain thresholds, they wanted me to send them my tax return for the previous year, if I wanted to continue using them. Someone else I know frequently had transfers blocked by the service he uses to pay his foreign contractors. There's some new regulation, a policy changes, or just general screw-ups.
+1

I have previously written a crawler for http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Default.aspx in Perl that was fairly effective, but never actually finished with the project. That may be a potential source for the data, though.
Billings from Market Circle - timekeeping and invoicing all in one. Has a companion iPhone app too.
Wait, so how do I use this to buy and sell bitcoins?
The mechanism behind a pump-and-dump scheme
Nothing that wikileaks released was even remotely as damaging as what might be in the Snowden docs. The wikileaks leaks were all Secret, Snowden is releasing Top Secret stuff. The difference is quite severe.
Hi, this is Doug Tygar here -- I'm in the instructor of the course in question. I appreciate all the comments -- but for various reasons, this course had a breakdown in finding TAs: so we have 170 students and only space for about 60-90 students. I'm sorry to say that the same problem is occurring in a number of other upper division (e.g., junior-senior) level classes this semester in computer science at Berkeley -- although for various reasons, CS 161 is taking it on the nose.

I really wish we had sufficient resources to teach the class properly.
Or maybe it's an indicator that the car should pull up to a pump that has the nozzle on the right, meaning the car has its tank on the left.
They aren't duds. The problem is that they are so influential that every newcomer already knows whats they say, just by virtue of learning their trade after the books were written.
Have you gotten to affordances yet? I recall that being the major "foundational" takeaway for me (i.e., affordances, via their physical form, communicate to a user what actions can, cannot, must, or must not be taken).
Blogging lessons from breaking bad
AKA he typed "su". Or whatever the Windows equivalent is. I do this all the time to diagnose problems and no one has ever written an article about me. :/
http://mtgapi.com/api/v1/fetch/id/4960 results in a Symfony error trace page.

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Haha! Agreed, but like lots of software things--I think that's mostly because the instructions are written by the programmers. I'm management at my company (don't code), but have never had trouble grasping the conceptual issues and intricacies of code, and that makes me really good at teaching it. You just have to contextualize it properly for their perspective. Writers, or anyone that's not a programmer, doesn't care what a git is or how it work technically. They want to know how it will fulfill their wants/needs, and they want big buttons labeled with those solutions. I could teach my grandma to use to the github client if there was a shortcut to it on her desktop.
you're missing the point. No system is failproof: Obviously I have no data to back this up, but I think it's probably easier to close down a charter school that screws up than a non-charter with an equivalent screwup.
yeah, the brew folks don't understand the point of haskell platform, and honestly botch it. Their GHC formula should have something like ---add-Haskell-Platform-if-this-version-has-it (but a shorted name for it), because haskell platform is tied to specific GHC versions, rather than as another brew formula/package.

Haskell platform is tied to very very specific GHC releases, and have specially prepared and tested installers for each major OS target. Brew throws this all away and treats it like a simplistic "nice things" wrapper, when in fact its actually 1+ months of engineering time a year for Mark Lenctzer (and a handful of others) to make sure that everything JUST WORKS™ for new haskellers when they install GHC and tools on a machine.

also, for near term sanity, stick to Xcode 4.6 if you're using GHC 7.6

Without some hacky tricks i'm going to help the haskell platform folks work out, GHC 7.8 is the only GHC version that will play nice with OS X mavericks/Xcode 5. Hopefully with the tricks Luke Iannini and I have cooked up, GHC 7.6 in this fall's Haskell Platform release will work very nicely on Mavericks / Xcode 5. (but it will have to be a different haskell platform install than for systems pre Xcode 5)
I am a little under a year in, biggest piece of advice is to watch your wrists.

Make sure you keys are high enough to keep the discourage any pressure from leaning forward. Even more important if you use a mouse.

I originally had mine about 2-3 inches too low. After two weeks - major pain.
I'm not sure if you're aware of Forge or not, but it's actively developed and will probably give you a better game than Shandalar.

http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Forge
All source is pulled form the gatherer. Public Information
You should check out the private schools in the middle Georgia area. A couple good ones, and the rest teach that man and dinosaurs walked the earth together. Soul-saving bad.
No it is not, but can add that to the code fairly easy :P
Hawaiian are giving all their pilots one too (full-size, not a mini), for their manuals.

American figures they are saving $1mil per year in fuel after buying all their pilots iPads.
It is easy to claim Jobs takes credit for others work but I also think its fair to say that for most people who cofound a company, whether they are technical or not, they will often use the word "we" when describing something they've worked on.
A good idea is using a paper towel to open the door on your way out of a public restroom.

This is practical advice based on experience over several months of research and development scattered over 9 years. ;)
Honestly I'd love just a Pokedex API. It seems like the best right now is Veekun's work[1]. It just needs to be...API-fied.

Nintendo is very happy to give out C&Ds though, which might explain why such a thing doesn't already exist.

[1] https://github.com/veekun/pokedex
This gave me a flashback to Mox Perl.

Until I saw Mox Perl, I had no idea that web pages could be dynamically-generated by computer programs. It truly blew my mind and triggered a year-long love affair with Perl.
Would be sweet to search by characteristics other than id and name.

Eg all GG creatures with power greater than 3

Nonetheless sweet job!
We are all open to that. Google, MS and Apple send us software updates that have root privileges on our computers. They hold the keys to our digital houses. We allow them to enter and fix our plumbing and electrical wiring almost every week, and rarely can see or understand what they "fixed". We are with our pants down.
You just say we when you talk about your team or company to outsiders. It's pretty normal. You don't say our engineer bob spent months on it.
I agree with some of your latter comments but disagree on some of the former. I genuinely hope you give Jobs credit far more than merely his aesthetic sense. He was a skilled negotiator, marketer, and many other day to day details that we are unfamiliar with and to take away only just that one thing and credit that as the reason things turned to gold is a bit much.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_st...
Are you planning anything beyond multiverse ID and text search? I usually need to filter by many attributes. Specifically searching in the flavor text, filtering by format legality, card color, converted mana cost, etc.

Gatherer offers all of these abilities but not in an easy to use API. Even if you query gatherer programmatically you're still stuck scraping the page to get the data.
I will try to carry on somehow.
"Or, when I'm in a car without any indication of which side the gas tank is on."

Very easy: most American cars have the gas tank on the left, most Asian/European cars have it on the right.
Could it perhaps be dynamic? As in maybe they're having high traffic at the moment or being DDOS'd and so are trying to save bandwidth by shrinking down there images until they get the problem under control?
Guard nodes make it so only a certain number of certain types of nodes are visible to any client. By controlling a huge number of clients, you are able to enumerate them much more easily.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2011-October/...
Constrained media: How disappearing photos & 140 chars are conquering the world
Thank you. I posted the original article earlier today hoping it would get the treatment it deserved.

I've read the article quite a few times today and just can't fathom that there are still people who believe that we should stomach 7.9% success rates [1] for even another 5 years, much less multiple generations. I had the same visceral reaction to this article that I had to the head of the Chicago Teachers Union's celebratory declaration at the conclusion of their strike that, "Cities everywhere have been forced to accept performance pay. Not here in Chicago!"

People like Allison Benedikt are dangerous. The kind of intellectual laziness that spawns an article like the one to which OP responded is hard to read, but it's a nice reminder of why I'm working in EdTech and in all likelihood will make education my life's work.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732465940457850...
I was about to post the same comment. Forge is actually pretty good. And I agree that it's better than Shandalar. I played Shandalar again maybe 5 years ago and the AI gets predictable so fast.
It is coming, no worries :)
Wait, whats the definition of an Asian/European car. The manufacturer or the geographic location?

Cause I'm pretty sure Hondas and Toyotas have gas on the left.
Google patches bug that allows attackers to slip past two-factor authentication
it is coming :) no worries stay tuned
Unfortunately life is complicated and does not fit into sound bites as well as we'd like.

I like my comment as it is because you get the second graph and realize even great sounding rules of thumb don't apply to everything perfectly.

You are right though, my point is made considerably murkier by the fact that "paying for access" for YC was a good experience. I could counter by saying we got a whole lot more from YC than that, but I think other folks get what I was trying to say.
I'm actually working on that—hopeful to have something passable out by the release of X/Y.
Hmm, this makes sense, but I think they need to find a new neutral word - leaker seems to have moved significantly closer to "traitor" than to "whistle-blower" amongst most of the people I talk to.
Messy Code Bases Are Like Messy Kitchens
Do you have permission to pull data from Gatherer? If so, you should also have the image url in your response. That'd be awesome
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any plans to add art?
Dang. A nice looking system that does exactly what I was hoping to do with a project of mine that lost my interest.....

Oh well. I appreciate the whole api but what I would really enjoy is the source to where the database is acquired from. I presume it is gatherer but could be wrong because there is at least another site that could be scraped. That or they are scraping a storefront which would be interesting and efficient.

And does it handle double sided cards? That's the thing that buggered my scrapping to the point of annoyance. Damn Innistrad and it's double sided creatures!
Awesome! Are you using Veekun's database, or do you have your own source?

Edit: Wait, you are Veekun! Or at least I think you are, "eevee"'s GitHub profile links to Veekun's website.
It's a cool API, I like it.

Just be careful because Wizards of the Coast might disagree with you about what is and isn't public information. Especially when you are showing the rating and number of votes and rating straight from Gatherer.
"Snowden reportedly used high-ranking official's profiles to troll NSA's intranet."

trawl?
I played some with VirtualBox and an Ubuntu install, and it looks like the graphics support really isn't there yet (WebGL didn't work at all, for example), but I might give it another shot with a non-free alternative at some point.
Article is filled with speculation and extremely vague details on his purported "attack". Seems largely like a filler article to me.
Unless this audit was independent, can we really trust their analysis? The NSAs credibility is shot at this point.
No. Google is a great search engine because of what it knows about you. Trivial example: search on DDG for "ramen": useless generic information about ramen. Search on Google for "ramen": general information on the right, TEN laser-accurate local results for ramen shops. Search on DDG for "tires": ten results for sites that sell tires. Search on Google for "tires": shopping links for tires for my motorcycle. Nice.
Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets
Spring clean time at the NSA? Apart from anything he might have done, Snowden has provided a convenient dumpster, which may be used to neatly wrap up and dispose of pesky unexplained incidents.