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I was thinking the exact same thing. Is the investment really because of the work of 23andMe or because it is Mrs Google's company?
This is probably the strongest argument I've read so far against Facebook moderating hate groups.

It's worth pointing out, though, that this is not the argument Facebook is making. They are refusing to moderate hate groups on ideological grounds, not on legal grounds.

Good point, though.
On June 4 her mother asked a hospice company to bring a wheelchair for Colby so she could visit a theater to see "Up." However, the weekend went by and the wheelchair was not delivered, Lisa Curtin said.

The hospice that was supposed to care for girl can't be bothered to drop off wheelchair so Pixar flies employee with dvd to girl's bedside.

Hospice employee -> apex-fail. Don't forget to turn in your human card on the way out. See you in the primate exhibit.

Edit: Added "the" and "employee", as a comment made me see that I might have been seen as saying "all hospices, everywhere", or denigrating the idea of hospice care in general.
Yeah, I have faint hope he simply chose to say almost nothing about tending to the more complicated relationship with his wife. He sure sounds unconcerned about it, like so many parents in the thrall of remorseless evolutionary psychology.
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Google wants to own a piece of a biotechnology company because it is owned by the wife of one of the founders

Still, I've always wondered why this was an investment by Google, rather than having the money come out of Sergey's pocket.
Unlike Google, we are a small company and don't have millions to throw at hosting data centers all around the world on insanely fast connections. So it is very understandable that our code loads a bit slower. It is certainly a high priorty that our service has as little effect as possible on third party sites, but competing with Google is tough business!
I'm sorry that you feel that way. To be fair, I was not making any point about constitutional free speech, but rather, making a point about Facebook's involuntary editorial stand when they refuse to moderate hate groups on their system.

It's also worth pointing out that many people do care about this discussion without being experts on constitutional rights (I guess I'm one of them, since I'm not american, so your constitution has little impact on me).
The 37Signals people do say some silly things. Who doesn't, though?

It's one thing to argue against trying to nail down all the details far in advance, but whether you're running a business, or even, as Tim suggests, heading out on a trip, you're going to need some sort of a plan.
This article, and the last paragraph in particular, strike me as another disingenuous snowball fight. Except with semantics instead of snowballs.

It seems pretty obvious that 37signals, when talking about 'plans', refers to the massive business plans which are the hallmark of people who don't have a chance of seeing them through.

But this is really just a debate between a guy who happens to sell business plans and a bunch of guys who happen to sell un-business-plans, soooo...
I would love to hear about serious problems too. Sometimes I have even thought it might be a good idea to work for a backwards industry just to get access to problems that I could solve.
I dont think it's a big problem :) Justin.tv is certainly amongst the top 1% of sites in the world, in terms of traffic. If you have a site that has more than 5,000 simultaneous users, you are a very very large site. There are very few sites that can claim that kind of traffic.

There aren't many products meant for tracking a site like that, and the ones that do cost thousands per month. You are paying just $10 for chartbeat. They are probably losing a lot of money on your account just on the bandwidth consumed.

I mean in the nicest possible way, but we don't have any desire to track sites that big. The largest we allow is 500,000 daily page views, and sites that big are paying us at leat $100 per month.
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I agree.

However, you need to take into account that the studio will allege that there must be greater punishment to deter the crime than just the cost. Even at double or triple percent it's not close though obviously.
Though regretful they didn't fulfill her needs in this situation, I think it's definitely unfair to write off all of the humane good that Hospice has done. Many, many people have been able to finish their lives more comfortably because of Hospice.
unalone linked this to me earlier today and it got me wondering who the employee of Pixar is, seeing how Pixar declined to comment.

It wouldn't surprise me if it was someone like Andrew Stanton or Pete Docter who flew down there as they're both really great people.

I'd wager money on Docter though seeing as he directed the film and knew a lot of "quirky details" about the film, as was quoted in the piece.
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Hey HN, I'm trying to find startups, early enthusiastic, developers and business development folks to create new websites with in the Bay area... the question is though, how do you guys do it? Most of the early startup gigs aren't exactly dice or monster material.
Proof by example?
What a touching article! It's always such a relief to see the good that's still in this world amongst the daily headlines of corruption and terror.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
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Open Office writer has this to a limited extent - I find it useful.
A comment on the article says:

A friend told me that the people involved with delivering the movie and gifts weren't really authorized to do so but did it anyway. That's why they had to keep it anonymous.

One sad part of the story:

Colby couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed so her mother gave her a play-by-play of the film.
I have some questions. The big draw for sites like Facebook is not just the core social network, it's also the tangental functionality that builds on that core. And this protocol aims to be a secure P2P implementation of the core.

Does that mean "applications" are exclusive to users of an identity server?

How would 3rd party applications fit in?

Some networks are starting to offer embeddable forum- or comment-like behaviour - can this protocol accomodate that?

Is it flexible enough to support other (yet to be invented) uses?
You'll probably be amused to note that the Latin word "nepos" can mean both "descendant" and "spendthrift".
They would have had better luck with jury nullification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
This is interesting:

> If President Obama wants to support democratic movements on a shoestring, he should support an “Internet freedom initiative” pending in Congress.

I am trying to find out exactly what this thing is, but (a) there are too many things out there called "internet freedom initiative", some dating back several years, and (b) I cannot find any bill before either house of the U.S. Congress with that title.

Can anyone point me toward exactly what he is referring to?
However, you need to take into account that the studio will allege that there must be greater punishment to deter the crime than just the cost. Even at double or triple percent it's not close though obviously.

True. You'd think though that eventually good old-fashioned common sense would come into play. We have murderers who get punished more proportionally than this.
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Seems pretty reasonable in comparison - I pay $60/month for my Sprint USB 1xEVDO Dongle for 5 GBytes.

Now, if that $55 includes data for the iPhone as well, then I'll be very interested in seeing how ATT's HSUPA network compares to sprints 1xEVDO in the Bay Area - But I'm guessing that would be too good to be true.
They will almost always help if they've invested in you by giving you access to their rolodex or providing direct advice. Even angels who don't get a board seat will want to help you if they've invested in you. If they aren't helping you, that typically means they think you're doing a bad job or that they know you're doomed already. And usually it does take some work on the founder's part to actually ask for the help.
When I first told an acquaintance here in Sweden about the terms Apple has, 45 days to make payment and 30% cut, he looked shocked. Turns out cause that is such a great deal for developers compared to what you will get from any other player in the industry. Sure you might be one of 50 games on T-mobile and able to charge $10 for the smallest things. Truthfully it's a good price for the costs involved, the percentage the carrier takes and the middlemen to even get to the market.

People need to realize about the iPhone is that while the App Store is great, in some regards it makes people think it's the end-all-be-all cure. That there is no need to have a polished well designed application and that marketing will just take care of itself. I think the race to the bottom will be solved once the gold rush is off and developers realize they still want to be able to eat. Right now cause too few knew what the market would look like priced their apps too low and it was a snowball effect. The market will rebound, users will either pay for quality or go without.
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Agreed. You are already paying for bandwidth (which is _inside_ the datastore, and so should be free). Additional limitations are simply stupid.
A purpose of fines & other punishment is to .deter

Very broadly speaking, two things go in to deterrence: (perceived) Chance of getting caught * (perceived) Cost of getting caught = deterence. To improve deterrence you need to increase one of these. There obviously isn't enough deterrence to stop illegal downloading/distribution. Higher fines are an easier option then more fines.
I prefer this version:

'Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential'
-- Winston Churchill
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Wouldn't it be possible to organise a DDOJ attack in Minesota?

If this makes jurisprudence, you could flood the tribunals by simply, massively admitting filesharing, couldn't you (I say "you" because I not from the US)?
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It looks like a joke.

Why bother HN readers?
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Yesterday I was trying to book a flight. It was an absolutely horrible user experience. Broken redirects from flight aggregators. Changing prices. A booking that failed mid-way but still billed me. Am I the only one who thinks the travel industry is broken? What can a startup improve in this field?
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Start attending meetups on meetup.com, there is a lot of interesting things happening on there. You can get connected to a lot of like-minded people, and take it from there.
If you write your skillsets and interests in general, I know a few folks in my circle are looking for hackers to join their venture, so I can connect up.
Well, as the commercials say, it is the "Fastest 3G Network in the U.S." that you're paying for (Eye Roll)

Seriously though I think this is one practice that people should protest. I have no problem with AT&T charging for the equipment itself but if they advertise "unlimited data" than you should get "unlimited data" regardless of what screen it's on.

Don't get me wrong, I see their side of it. If people can tether they'll use more bandwidth which will cost AT&T more. So they want to charge more. I get the business reasons on their side.

But last I checked it was still a crime to advertise fradulently and that's what I consider their "unlimited data" plan to be. Just because the Cellular companies have banded together to make this pricing the norm doesn't make it right.
It's interesting that Manhattan has so many murders, diverse ones at that. Consider Philadelphia:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/multimedia/15818502.html

In the rich areas like Center City, Manayunk, and Mount Airy there are few murders.
As an Atlanta resident who's livelihood is generally in San Francisco, I'd like to note this article is nonsense.

"Nobody wants to openly admit it, but the number of early stage ventures funded in Atlanta this year is very near to ZERO."

Atlanta is a leader in new business creation - http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2009/05... - There are companies that find working capital.

And after the author's proclamation that we "drop the bullshit and deal with it" he moves on to arbitrary advice like "read Steve Blank" and "we need an open forum."

I'm all for measured comparisons of cities, particularly in the context of technology and startups. But profanity and superlatives aren't interesting or helpful. (I won't get into the childish concepts of "the jackpot handle" or "the theme park of startups.")

I suppose what rubs me the wrong way is the profound misunderstanding of how difficult it is to be successful in a startup context no matter where you are. California isn't the promised land - people there work hard to succeed, just like they do in Georgia.
Well okay, you know what? I liked this more than I expected.

I liked the look (I am sucker for bright colours). I liked the fact that I could try without signing up. I liked the fact that it is simple. I liked the popup offer of a super-brief tutorial.

So the idea is that you can sms/twitter/email your entries to this thing? If so sure, it could be useful. Personally I use neither twitter nor facebook (yes yes I know, who let Miss Daisy in here) so I would be interested in direct web entry, email and SMS.

Basically there are two kinds of personal finance applications that I would consider. My first preference would be for something quite sophisticated like wesabe.com which ideally automatically gets your transactions from your bank and so all you need is to categorise and analyse.

But, my bank lives somewhere between the dark and middle ages, and I can not automatically export to wesabe. While they do try their best to allow manual import, I find that is too much hassle especially for a task I would be avoiding anyway. So, the next best thing is something that makes manual entry as-you-go super simple, and I think you have done a good job at that. I would consider your site, even more if there was a syncing iphone app client for browsing the results and inputting data yet another way.

Little nitpicks - I did see "please wait" more than I would normally like to, and the calendar popup does not share the look and feel of the rest of the design.
Source? I feel poorly educated all of a sudden.
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That would be a pretty good argument except for this woman's particular circumstances. She's a mother of 4 children and works at an Indian reservation. So chances are, she has very little disposable income, and wouldn't buy the songs otherwise. So what message is the RIAA trying to send by going after her? That they are ruthless bastards? They should go after people who can pay for the stuff.
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That guy seems to be looking really close for things he can misunderstand or misconstrue in order to have a disagreement.

This is probably not the first time he's read something he "disagrees" with at 37signals. It reads like a lot of pent up frustration is finally being let loose.
Wow. Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

Yes, we would like to decentralize the whole process of inputting transactions from web.

Well, we build this to solve our own problems, and from years of experience, we know we hate having to sit in front of computer everytime we come back home just to input transactions.

We have started working on Twitter and email. Sms is still on plan since we're not sure if people would like to spend 25c to input their transactions.

Regarding your banks. I have to agree 100% with you. Both my cofounders live in Indonesia. We hardly have proper internet banking there, let along importing transactions.

iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Pre is definitely on our plan. There are a lot we would love to do. Have been trying hard to get focus on finishing one by one.

Again, really thanks for your reply. Appreciate it.
I got married in 2007, the cost of the photographer actually included publishing rights and hi-res digital copies on DVD so we could print and share them as we saw fit.

He still retains the copyright, but had no objections to us sharing them around. Nice guy!
37Signals writes the way they do exactly for this reason. So other people will retaliate and reference them. They make everyone else look like they are just playing catch-up with 37Signals which makes them a constant leader by default. You have to hand it to them for this bit of brilliance.

However, I don't doubt that they are "planning" on writing another post next week that looks at a common business practice from the completely opposite direction. Then a thousand bloggers will write about how wrong they are.
I must admit I am a bit surprised: can you just change they way the atoms in the coin are packed, so that they take up less space? Or is something being squeezed out of the coin to make up for the lost space? Or is it actually the same size as before, only now it is thicker and less wide?

I just didn't think that the packing of atoms could easily be changed - wouldn't that be a completely new material?
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I'm happy to see an approach to social networking that doesn't require uploading personal data about millions of people into one database.

However, the cryptography in the source code (encrypt.cpp) seems to be hand-made from RSA, SHA1 and RC4 primitives. While I haven't checked details like how they choose their RC4 IVs, I wouldn't trust mortals to get a crypto protocol with PKI right the first time.
For Hackers maybe, but most people do not even see the benefits in using Jabber over MSN or ICQ
The dialog boxes could be better, and for some unknown reason, the income/expense charts always overlaps them (I'm using ff3.07 on linux).
actually, with the newest version of the kindle iphone app, you can buy books and have them sent to your iphone OTA.

and dave thomas at pragmatic programmers has been targeting kindles for a couple of months now. you pay him for the file and then it's up to you to get it on your kindle (by cable or by email), but I prefer his formatting over what you get with other technical books at the kindle store. he's put a lot of thought into making code examples readable on the device.
I've only been playing with it for a few months but I really like Scala. Its worth remembering when you look at the code that this is a compiled, statically typed, language running on the JVM. Its so easy to forget this because it feels like coding in a scripting language.
"It seems pretty obvious that 37signals, when talking about 'plans', refers to the massive business plans which are the hallmark of people who don't have a chance of seeing them through."

If it's pretty obvious, I don't see it. From Matt's article I also gather that he sees any formal "plan", i.e. a set of steps and activities put together in advance, as something to restricting and necessary. Just as on the issue of bootstrapping vs. external funding the 37signals people seem too rigid in viewing their choices as being the best and only correct.

The quotes posted below describe the situation perfectly.
> Who doesn't, though?

Those who keep quiet? I suppose it's better to be loud and wrong and get noticed, though, than silent and invisible.
Not Anon particularly but the communities it comes from are harbours of black hat and other illegal activity. Anon are a bit of a pain from time to time (only the high profile stuff like Scientology, the Time 100 "hack" & this Iran thing gets really noticed).
EDIT: at the othe poster - I never said DISLIKE. I said I should be anti-anonymous. :)
Sergey Brin could easily finance that amount himself. It's a bit puzzling why google would want to taint themselves with a potential conflict of interest.
Why isn't anyone balking at the idea of establishing an official version of history which must not be disputed? This is an even more specific and Orwellian threat than censorship in general, and we're going there because of a handful of racist idiots who apparently don't even have convincing arguments?
How do they know your tethering?
I presume the iphone reports it when transmitting but even if that wasn't the case there's plenty of stuff in the ip header (OS, browser type, etc...) to determine if it's a phone or a computer on the other end.

Plus PCs in paticular produce a lot of junk that would give it away. Stuff like IGMP calls would only come from a PC.
At the core, there seems to be just a PKI for RSA keys in terms of "yes, X is a friend of mine" attestations, not unlike the PGP web of trust.

So I'm optimistic that your distributed singing sessions (e.g.) could use the DSNP infrastructure.
Why would anyone be an idiot by reading that book?