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I have no code written currently, and have only met with my adviser to have him sign off on his agreement to oversee the project. I'll probably go the route of getting the school to sign off on something saying, basically "I won't use your stuff, you don't have to do anything for me, just don't sue me later".

If they won't do that, I might have to change my project to use another web app-type idea that I consider less viable as a business but could teach me a lot about web development. I hope that's not the case, as currently I'd be earning 3 credits to build my dream project and if I can retain all IP I'd be golden.
Actually less than I would've thought: 831 Code LOC.

It's not impossible to manage yet, but I'm beginning to notice that it's getting harder. I think doing some refactoring and general cleanup will help with that.
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Only thing left of this list is good test coverage, so that when you refactor, you know you're not breaking stuff. Luckily, Rails has really good support for this...
Typography on the homepage could be better... large font Arial just doesn't look good.

Too many obvious photoshop bevels, especially on this page: http://www.redanyway.com/register.php

All of the pages look different from each other. You need to get one consistent look and feel.

Lose the registration process. Make someone register or connect with twitter/facebook in order to save something or send something.

When I click about, I expect about the company, not about the team.
We off-shored the manual review of submitted images! And, it was perceived by management/legal that proactive cooperation with the FBI would alleviate the risk of being charged with distribution of child pornography. As someone peripherally involved, I had to sign a release stating that I would not claim harassment because my job involved viewing sexually explicit images.

Never in my life had I imagined writing an email to a VP stating that I had just burned a CD of kiddie porn for her only to receive a terse "Thanks!" message back. We did this on a dedicated machine which could easily be wiped/re-imaged.
My schools actually listed in my profile for the curious. But no, I haven't signed any kind of agreement saying that I won't use their property. The only agreement that would be standing currently is if I agreed in my acceptance letter to let them keep any IP I create as part of classwork, etc. That's something I need to look into... very soon.
Ask HN: What are the advantages of C-style synxtax?
What is better about C-style syntax versus parens? Lisp's syntax makes macros and structured editing easier, what techniques does C-syntax enable?
Actually, most of us are undergraduates, and the project isn't affiliated directly with the university. However, we do get together and use thier lab for development, so they can still claim rights, since we used their stuff.

EDIT: Also, apparently I went to his school.
Well, my surreply would be that for those customers, there is only one one need, and Google's feature matrix attempts to address more needs than actually exist in that segment of the marketplace.

But segmentation is a good point that I hadn't really addressed. I'd presumed competitors going after the same market. A more mature competitor may simply be seeking a bigger market (and thus requires more features). If you're satisfied with attacking just one segment, everything else is extraneous.
Whatever happened to that team?
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The UAE, at least until recently.
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Do: build a better mousetrap.

It's the "better" and "mousetrap" that are the hard parts.
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I slightly disagree with point 2. The problem is that sometimes making something be adaptable to multiple use-cases makes it more complex than simply having two very similar pieces of code.
I don't really get it. So I can use the site to post my blog posts to it. Then what happens?

... 5 minutes pass ...

Okay, signed up. Now I get it. Pretty clever, actually. This allows you to follow people like on Twitter, except posting is done by just posting to your blog, which is polled by Redanyway.
Reuse implies coupling
Ask HN: Who else is attending the LeWeb conference?
Would like to meet up with some of the more technical people in the crowd & I think HN readership is a good indicator.
This is a great post. Points out two things:

1. That this really isn't about the safety of the performers, but more about the fact that people watching the films are exposed to people having unprotected sex, which influences their own action. The anti-AIDS lobby is trying to increase condom use by the public, not decrease AIDS infection in adult performers.

2. The law is worded such as to include the performers under Cal/OSHA. It could probably be reworked and let them have their cake and eat it too.
> Eric Schmidt: "His contribution to Google - it is literally not possible to overstate. He essentially architected the organizational structure."
It is a tricky one - a sensible organisation would wish you the best of luck and hope that your eventual success reflects well on them. However dealing with any large bureacracy means that finding someone who will sign off on such a thing can be tricky!
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Glass-Steagall prevented banks from running a trading desk, not from securitizing and selling their loans. You are simply mistaken as to what the law actually means.

By productive assets the original article meant direct loans to businesses and individuals instead of financial instruments.

A direct loan to a business is, by definition, speculating on a corporate bond.
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This is not a zero cost channel. The companies very active on Twitter have full time people dedicated to it.
Don't you have to give mpg123 an explicit path to an mp3 file? dhun lets you play mp3 files by searching for them, through the Spotlight database.
37 points for posting a dilbert?
This is, literally, incoherent. The iPhone is a "fad", because:

most of the attention being paid to it has to do with applications and games, not telephony.

A few paragraphs later, under the list of "dead technologies", we have... "telephony".

Meanwhile, on his list of hot technologies is: alternative interfaces (where the guy actually cites the iPhone as an example!), portability, location-specific apps, intelligent recommenders, and sensor networks. All of which are being explored on the iPhone platform.
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I think your project's automated testing scripts are not keeping up with the development.
Yeah, agreed. I've found the contact information for the person in charge of our tech transfer office (called the Office of Technology Management... I assume they're basically the same thing). I'll wait to hear back from my department head and probably contact someone in OTM (whoever is appropriate) afterward.

This might be history in the making, as I potentially might have to pitch why my idea is NOT viable enough for them to care (inverse VC pitch, lol).
Another pointless person-bashing exhibition that gives no real insight into what makes the healthcare industry tick.

I think that was precisely the point. The actual political struggle has little to do with healthcare, that only defines the shape of the playing field.

If you have never worked with the puzzle that is hospital billing and regulation, you really have no idea at how helpful many of the clauses in Obama's bill will be at lowering health costs in the U.S.

I have a bit of knowledge of this. My wife works for a good-sized hospital managing the department that's responsible for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, and we've discussed this at great length. The very fact that this reimbursement requires a whole department ought to demonstrate that Medicare/caid is not a model of efficiency and low overhead as is claimed, but simply that they push their inefficiencies onto the providers.

But I'm quite surprised by your claim that the bill will lower costs. I don't see how that can be, nor can my wife or any of the industry people she talks with.
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> The pirates are ready to die, after all.

Are they? They're willing to kill, but that's different.

Remember, a robber isn't telling you what he thinks that his life is worth, he's telling you what he thinks your life is worth to him.
This story made me think. Until now I had the impression that mediocrity at large corporations is inevitable no matter how many smart people they employ, simply due to the size of the corporation. For every talented, competent employee they have 10 average or below-average employees. Even at Google, even (and especially) at Microsoft. Competent people cannot choose who to work with so whatever extra they do is lost in the mediocrity that surrounds them.

After reading this article I have realized that even at large corporations if you make isolated and largely idependent small teams of highly competent people that can select their members themselves, you can create "startup" bubbles inside the organization that can deliver outstanding results. Maybe this is the way to go when growing large, from a medium-sized enterprise to a large corporation?
While reading it, I remember thinking that posterous attacked blogging/microblog, which falls under the first section of stuff not to do, and they did pretty well.
Might have, except had no idea this was taking place right now. Hmm... I wonder if there would be some way to subscribe to a list of events that someone or something thinks might interest me.
Quick, let's post all the dilberts and xkcd. That will get us karma and contribute to the quality of news.yc!
I can see how inventors can grant _rights_ to their patents to other entities. I don't see how they can grant _ownership_ (whatever that really means) of their patents to third parties. The constitution allows the government to grant the monopoly to the inventor, and the inventor can license other entities to exploit the patent, but it seems like the ownership of the patent has to stay with the inventor. Perhaps it's just a semantic argument, but it's one that's been bothering me for a while.
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Game Mechanics will inevitably make a site less about what it's supposed to be about and more about The Game.

E.g.
Karma/Moderating systems glorify/reinforce consensus opinions to the detriment of actual discussion.

Friend counts destroy the real value of a friend connection.

Upvoting of articles leads to 'popular' articles inevitably taking the fore from on-topic articles.

etc.
1. Kind of funny..Their opportunity to share the risk is BS. I don't have to pool my car insurance with my co-workers. Health ins should not be tied to a place of employment. There should be no "pool" inside of an insurer. Every customer of the insurer should be in the same "pool"
I used to be a Manager at UNLV. I thought that Nevada was the only state that allowed IP to be retained by the individual instead of one's employer or school. In fact one of my staff created and patented 2 devices while working there.
The policies are uneven (at least unevenly enforced) throughout China. Currently:

* Peasants (a crude/outdated name, but its the one commonly used) have little to no government punishment for having more than one child. Most don't because they cannot afford it and do want to attempt to give their one child the best they can to enable them to move up in society.

* Farmers (a subset of peasants) also can't afford it, but having more hands to help many times outweighs the costs of education and health care which they can't afford for even one child.

* Couples of any class who are single children are allowed to have 2 children.

* Wealthy that rely on government for their continued prosperity (which is most) usually do not have more than one child despite their ability to afford government fines and lack of social support.
Yeah, corporations are legal people, but can they invent or create? Maybe it is a legal truth that they can, but I'm guessing you could put a corporate charter in a room with pencils, paint brushes, raw material, etc for a million years and never get a creative work out of it. Can an entity unable to be creative actually have copyright or patents, under the wording of the US Constitution? I really am curious how we got to this state.
> It was illegal in 1860 to have a half black half white president in U.S.

No, it wasn't. Disagree? Point to the relevant part of the US constitution. (The 3/5ths clause isn't on point, and before you point to it, ask yourself who benefits from a higher number and who benefits from a lower number. Hint - slave states wanted a higher number....)

There were free blacks in the US from before the revolution. The males were eligible to vote and hold office.
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Its pitiful that building bug-free software is considered legendary. Speaks volumes about our industry.
If you want anti-NN arguments from people who actually know what they're talking about, look up Richard Bennett or George Ou; they usually don't resort to strawman arguments.

http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=180730&...;
http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=294
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/11/what-is-true-neutralit...
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/11/test-data-disproves-fr...
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/11/debunking-the-myth-tha...
Full article:　http://www.google.ca/search?q=http://sec.online.wsj.com/arti...
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The talk was about how to get people to do more business with you, not about keeping things on topic.
> and whatever I signed when I committed to coming to the University four years ago.

I think this "education contract" could state that the university has the rights to use your generated IP.
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I imagine having YC behind you makes a significant difference.
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Systems got orders of magnitude more complicated, time to release got orders of magniture shorter, and everything got a whole hell of a lot better.
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Timeless. Not just that this happened in the 60's, but I didn't notice the publish date (2002) of the post itself until after reading it.
I don't know how this made it up so high on HN, but I'm glad to see that there are other Discworld fans on here. It's an incredible series.
Your view on using excess males for war has some historical support. However, I do not feel most of China's leaders hold this view. China is working very hard at modernization. There are more than enough work projects to keep the excess males busy. China's leadership has shown over and over for the last 20 years that it values internal and external investment rather than military use. Sending extra males to Africa and Australia to build mining systems is far more likely (and something actually happening) than using them to die in battle.

The glut of China's males is not a particularly new problem as selective breeding for males is a deep part of their culture.

To be sure, a series of missteps could place China in a position to use its military. However, the surplus males would be used in this case simply as a resource available and not as part of some master plan.
The list is funny. I kept expecting it to keep going and turn into a parody.

Don't build edutainment.

Don't build an iPhone application.

Don't build a website.

Don't build an application that runs on any platform that is already popular.

Don't build anything that your customers can already understand.

Don't build anything that's like anything that people currently find useful.

Don't build anything that you expect to actually work.

Don't build anything that might turn on you and force you to stake it through the heart before it devours your spunky sidekick.

Don't build anything with a computer.

Don't build anything.
Evidently you haven't used Chrome on Windows?

Bookmark Bar != Bookmark Manager. Right-click on the Bookmark Bar. See that grayed-out entry for Bookmark Manager? That's not grayed-out on Windows. It should open a tab containing an app that allows you to edit/rearrange your bookmarks.

I cannot even drag bookmarks between folders in the Bookmark Bar. And as for the Bookmark Menu, I can't do anything with that at all. Not even delete bookmarks in it.
The point of the article is to miss the point. It frames the condom requirement as a protective measure for performers, a possibly flawed solution that threatens to cost lives by pushing some performers outside the very effective safety regime that is already in place. However, that is not the intent at all. The intent is to require the porn industry to portray safe(r) sex. The movies do not portray professionals in a highly regulated industry having sex with each other in a professional setting. They portray people routinely having unprotected sex at the drop of a hat with whatever babysitter, repairman, job applicant, or high school student who happens to be nearby.

Whether that's a good enough reason to require condom is worthy of discussion, but this guy evidently doesn't want that discussion to happen.
Continuing my numbering of before:

4. 'Ownership' is to a certain extent a legal fiction - it's simply a label we use to indicate when the government will use force, if necessary, to allow the 'owner' to do X and/or to prevent others from doing it.

5. In that sense, a patent or copyright conveys 'ownership' only in that the government will (upon a proper showing) enforce specified penalties against non-owners who do things they're not 'supposed' to do.

6. Congress long ago stated, in the relevant Acts of Congress, that patent- and copyright 'ownership' can be transferred to others, including corporations and other entities.

7. So basically, the brute fact is that 'ownership' of a patent or copyright can be transferred because: (i) Congress said so, and (ii) the guys with the black robes and gavels follow what Congress said, and (iii) the guys with the guns and badges go along, and (iv) ultimately, the guys with the BDUs and M-16s and tanks go along too.

8. The above doesn't automatically prove that Congress made the right call on this point -- but I don't think there's been much of a controversy about it in the past 200-plus years.
Don't build something you can't buy qualified traffic for and have a positive ROI.
I think Murdoch wants publicity more than anything, and you don't get publicity by attacking small things. The only reason Murdoch's google-attack made the news is because google is so popular.
They aren't employees I'm pretty sure currently. Unsure if they are technically contractors, or if 'actors' fall under a different category overall.

This does seem like stupid legislation.
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I agree with 2 of your points, but the third makes me wonder whether you work in the same industry that I do.
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It's true that you lose some time by doing this. But my experience has been that it inevitably improves the quality of your code if you and your team are forced to think about interfaces and common pain points by moving towards reuse. Your team members are code consumers too.

Plus, you end up in a position where you can give back to the community, which is nice.
There are a lot of educational benefits for children to playing OUTSIDE (not in a carefully cleaned house), including building sand castles or mud dams across rivulets or other activities that expose the children to lots of germs but also expose them to lots of practical information about small-scale engineering.

The study reported in the submitted article would of course need to be replicated

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

some more, but it appears to be a well designed long-term observational study that provides partial confirmation for some intriguing suggestions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy

that some forms of infection can actually be helpful rather than harmful to growing human beings.
They talk about them in (I think) Peopleware. It's part of a segment talking about how fostering a unique culture for your team can increase motivation. They mention that this culture persisted in the Black Team after all its original members had moved on. I'm not sure how long it continued on after that.
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I'm really meaning Somalian pirates, which have shown repeatedly complete disregards for their own lives. A Western robber is no match.
It's not a new concept. Look up Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works.
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Thanks for your comprehensive feedback. I think this could really help.

Only that I didnt get your second-last point. If I get it right I think we already provide that.
They did link to the (open access) journal article: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...
If you can sufficiently insulate a group from the corporation in general, sure, you can do better than corporate mediocrity. For a while. But that's harder and harder to do. Particularly for decent stretches of time.

Consider: it would be in the best interest of any project manager to steer their project away from the Black Team. They aren't incentivized to ship good software, but to ship on schedule. And should avoidance be impossible, they absolutely will point corporate HR at any and every aspect of that strong team, to break-up, slow-down or demoralize them.

Similarly, with higher-up management. They'll need certain projects to be treated with kid gloves. So they'll scheme and conspire to either defeat the team and ruin its effectiveness or defeat the process, so that the team's effectiveness is rendered moot.

It's the perverted reward structure in large corporations that causes most of their problems. There's no lack of people trying to fix those problems. But any solution (including this one) will ultimately be defeated so long as that reward structure remains.
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I wish this pseudo-technical, new-age, flim-flam of an idea would die already. Seriously, does anyone with a real technical background that is not directly making money off of seminars, books and articles selling this believe this stuff?
Maybe try it out and see for yourself. Arc is a domain-specific language for building Hacker News, not a general-purpose programming language.
That's exactly our purpose.

And I think you are right, we need to explain that better on the home page.
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Would you rather be working with a green-screen terminal hooked up to a mainframe, or a modern computer hooked up to the Internet?
Examiners take seminars on writing headlines, writing in the third person and making full use of social media, all of which are Google manna.

Google favors sites written in third person?
Any tips then if I wanted to get around this? In my case I won't be using anything from the University for the project. To be honest, I might do work on it in the library from time to time or something, but I could even avoid this if absolutely necessary. I'd literally just be doing coding on my laptop and using my own hosting.

I'd just like to see the language behind the agreement I signed I guess.