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You leave out (B) and (C) of that paragraph:

    (B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by 
        electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 
        or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more 
        copyrighted works, which have a total retail value 
        of more than $1,000; or

    (C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for 
        commercial distribution, by making it available on 
        a computer network accessible to members of the 
        public, if such person knew or should have known 
        that the work was intended for commercial 
        distribution.

Not the "or".

Pretty sure Seibel joined after it got funding.

In my defense, it was written 5 years ago, when I was an even younger guy. Technically, I think I was still a teenager.

The political writing is going into a book, so I don't post it to the blog. That just leaves occasional side projects like the DNS stuff.

They have a nofollow meta in the head of the page, which according to http://www.seobook.com/robots-txt-vs-rel-nofollow-vs-meta-ro... is as good as rel="nofollow" when it comes to PageRank.

What would be really cool is if "NokiaPlanB was a hoax" was a hoax -- anybody could register a NokiaPlanB Twitter account and claim this.

There's a nice one around Boston (much smaller, obviously, but might be more accessible for HN readers): http://www.mos.org/sln/wtu/css.html

/topic works as well.

This piece is so bogus. If, as he suggests, Google's query data is accidentally getting caught up in some larger Bing project, then why doesn't Bing just say that in their numerous posts and tweets about the scandal? Instead, they've just thrown mud at Google.

"I tell many people that Paul Graham is a genius. He saw the opportunity to start YC."

This is a very sly insult and betrays a major misunderstanding of how the market works. Did Facebook succeed because Mark Zuckerberg saw the "opportunity" to start a social networking site? Did Dropbox take off because they saw the "opportunity" for file synchronization? The idea is nonsense. These things succeeded not because their creators were the only ones to see the need (they weren't), but because an incredible amount of time and talent was put into making them successful.

When YC started, everyone said the idea was crazy. It still is. It's worked, like any startup, because of incredible execution -- not because it stumbled into a waiting opportunity.

I hope Github adds this as well.

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ZorbaTHut 319 points 1 day ago

> A contract is a two-way agreement, so if you see terms in there that you're uncomfortable about, you can black them out.

This isn't even a housing thing, this is just a global thing. I don't think I've ever signed an employment contract without modifying it. I've never had my employer mention it afterwards.

Excessive non-compete clause? Bam, gone. Clause that conflicts with a verbal agreement I had with the producer? Bam, gone. Cross out some bits, write notes in the margin, make little arrows pointing at what you crossed out with your initials, sign it, photocopy it, turn it in with your employment paperwork, keep the photocopy.

"Your Honor, our ex-employee should go to ultrajail for breaching our horrifying non-compete clause, and also owes us a billion dollars for Section 7 of his employment paperwork."

"I never agreed to that. Here's what I signed."

"Well, fuck."

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OriginalStomper 157 points 6 hours ago

I am a lawyer familiar with contract law, though not an employment lawyer. You and sporkus are both correct (at least under Texas law and most other US jurisdictions): it is not a binding contract until both parties agree to all the changes.

Until the original agrees (by initialing the changes or at least signing the agreement after your changes are made), the marked-up document is merely a counter-offer. However, that means the employer has nothing to enforce against you. Texas is an "employment at will" state, and here 99% of the time an employment contract was the employer's idea, for the employer's purposes, with little or no actual benefit to the employee. The employee usually comes out ahead if the entire contract is unenforceable, or even if just the harshest clauses are deleted.

Protip: while you are at it, also delete arbitration clauses. Completely and whenever possible. The individual/employee will almost never win in arbitration, unless the arbitration is conducted under a collective bargaining agreement negotiated by a union. If there's even the hint of an arbitration clause in your contract (ANY kind of contract, not just employment contracts), then it does not matter how well you edited the rest of the agreement, because arbitrators are free to be arbitrary. They are not legally required to follow the contract -- they can do whatever they think is "fair." Strangely enough, "fair" will almost always favor the employer or other repeat customer for the arbitrator. Because, see, the arbitrators are in the business of arbitrating disputes. If no one chooses them to arbitrate, then they have to find a real job.

I support this project. I was hoping stuff like Meraki.net would be a good tool for this, but it doesn't seem to have taken off.

What are you talking about?

Wales admitted he was wrong to me through a mutual friend. I don't think he ever publicly recanted, though.

Previously posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539538 (68 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=951095 (1 comment)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514955 (1 comment)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492615 (0 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408 (0 comments)

I prefer Otto:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1290293/

Why don't the Android people work in public like the Chrome team?

And other browsers could just extract the key and ship it as well.

Apparently he's an official sponsor (and they took that ridiculous photo for him):

http://www.mauricelacroix.com/en/Brand/Ambassadors/Jimmy_Wal...

How much is he getting paid and is he donating it to Wikimedia?

JavaScript apps have been broken for a couple weeks now with links to things like:

http://twitter.com/mattyglesias/statuses/7.1157195777E+15

Do you really think these emails are being intercepted by third parties? Surely the recipients are leaking them and no encryption scheme can prevent that.

Of course Apple does usability testing and has since the beginning. Here's a full guide on how they do it:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExp...

Obviously they use their own judgment and market feedback as well, but the notion that they launch products without testing them first is crazy.

Are Ken Rockwell and Lew Rockwell related? They seem to share a web designer.

Sorry, but the NYT does not do fact checking for their articles or blog posts. The New York Times Magazine factchecks their long feature stories, but that's it.

I'm curious if pg agrees. He sometimes presents startups as this extraordinarily painful chore, but my experience is more like Branson's.

I found the old version more amusing:

"Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat. ... Google's entire staff is dedicated to creating the perfect search engine and work tirelessly toward that goal."

http://web.archive.org/web/20040603020634/http://www.google....

Oops!

If you don't care about getting reelected, being a member of Congress is more like running a small company. You're given a million dollar a year budget and allowed to basically do what you want with it. There are no real requirements, although obviously there's a lot of pressure to show up for key votes. You get special attention in the media because of your position and lots of people want to sell you stuff.

Getting elected in the first place is more painful, though.

There's a lot of truth to this, but the worry about investing it wrong is definitely new. There wasn't anything I really worried about that way before the money. Maybe if I had a family to support, it'd be different, and I would have constantly worried about having to take care of them. pg talks about always being worried about being broke; I don't recall ever worrying about that. If anyone ever asked me, I guess I would have said that I could always just move back in with my parents.