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by qeorge 17y ago
Alright, well can we at least agree that you should disclose when you knowingly give advice that violates US law? Surely you can see how this could cause problems for someone else who has the bad fortune of taking your advice at face value.
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by qeorge 17y ago
I don't think we disagree. Mind bearing with me for a moment? Probability of A (round 1 / selecting the right urn): 1 / 2^32 (32 games, 2 possible winners for each) Probability of B (round 2: 1 / 4^16 (16 games, 4 possible winners for ea
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by qeorge 17y ago
I'm not trying to give you guys a hard time. I'm glad you're doing well, and are paying your interns now. However , you're still advising people to break the law on your blog. Its a weird, perhaps antiquated, and largely unknown law - but
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by qeorge 17y ago
You should read the article you linked. Its actually a very good discussion of the subject. Technically, you are correct - there is a such thing as a legal unpaid internship, according to some interpretations of the law. This would be when
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by qeorge 17y ago
As pointed out in the comments on your last article: Unpaid internships are illegal.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Nice! Thank you. One thing: "this assumes you can pick a loser from round 1" You can pick a loser from Round 1, because all selections are made before any games are played. So it looks like its: 1 / 2^32 * 1 / 4^16 (And we should probably
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by qeorge 17y ago
ESPN is a great example. This year no one predicted even the first round correctly, much less the first two. In fact, only 3 people out of 5 million got only one game wrong in the first round. The main problem with your logic is that most
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by qeorge 17y ago
The article misquotes the odds of picking the first two rounds correctly. 1 in 13,460,000 is the historical odds of picking the first 2 rounds correctly if you always picked the top seed in each game. In other words: think of the tournament
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by qeorge 17y ago
And he picked two rounds in a row . Since all 64 teams could theoretically make it to the second round, the odds are more like: 1 / (2^126) I'll have to leave it to Wolfram Alpha to expand that one: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+
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by qeorge 17y ago
The lottery is a poor, if often used, comparison for the odds involved in picking the NCAA tournament correctly. Picking 2 rounds of the NCAA tournament perfectly is orders of magnitude harder than picking the winning lottery numbers. For s
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by qeorge 17y ago
Does Zenedy sound exactly like Demand Media to anyone else? "..first determining algorithmically what content people are searching for, then identifying what portion of that content could effectively be monetized through targeted advertisi
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by qeorge 17y ago
http://grasshopper.com looks nice. They can also ring through to Skype, which is a big thing missing from Google Voice for me.
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by qeorge 17y ago
It sounds corny, but the best solution is improving the quality of life in Somalia. Specifically, rebuilding their economy. The "cost" of piracy is already tremendously high by any standard. Its only an attractive option when its the only o
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by qeorge 17y ago
I do, but I also like the option of a good date picker. Ideally a text input with a calender icon next to it, instead of a calendar that automatically shows on focus.
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by qeorge 17y ago
For those who may not know (I didn't), Sass is a meta-language for CSS, which adds variables and some syntactic sugar. It stands for "Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets." http://sass-lang.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sass_%28styleshe
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by qeorge 17y ago
The problem is that unless two properties are actually going to work the same way, we can't use the same prefix. We have to be able to target individual, misbehaving browsers. Its not just IE that's quirky - Firefox, Chrome, and Safari all
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by qeorge 17y ago
A couple of UI things: 1) Can you make it so I can click anywhere on the box instead of just the company title? 2) Putting the item I selected at the top of the list is OK, but unexpected. I would expect these links to go to a profile page
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by qeorge 17y ago
Ragan is totally right about this being wrong and needing to be fixed. However, the idea that websites should use the bank's payment gateway for validation is misguided. Your fee's will be increased (or your account will be suspended) on ma
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by qeorge 17y ago
Short version: You can't have unpaid interns, unless you're really just doing it for their benefit because you're a nice person. If they generate any value for you, its illegal. This situation is clearly against the spirit of the law. I am
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by qeorge 17y ago
I doubt YC would fund an adult site, but who knows? I'm not categorically against it though. For one thing, porn is a proven money maker, and as evidenced here at least some of your potential competition won't touch it. Regarding the 3 styl
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by qeorge 17y ago
This is awesome. Great idea and really well executed. I'll fill my bracket out tomorrow. WRT getting people to come back, I'd leverage your stats. Some ideas: * Tweet during the tournament. e.g., "63% of our users correctly predicted George
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's probably the main issue. HN's authority and DoFollow'd links make it a prime target for linkspam. There's a lot of reasons I'm bummed about this, but I have to say: startups missing out on free PageRank is not one of them.
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by qeorge 17y ago
That was my immediate question too. In addition to searchyc, we lose every other HN mash-up present and future. Maybe this will finally bring about an HN API.
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by qeorge 17y ago
No, but there are rules if you do. (e.g., have to share with FBI when asked, have to delete after X months). Most search companies want to identify you. The problem is keeping them from having too many records.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Thanks, that really helps a lot. I didn't realize that the glow's colors were based on the video. Incidentally, I'm impressed with Google's Russian => English translation. I don't usually expect anything readable, but this article was f
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by qeorge 17y ago
With all due respect, what makes you qualified to say who is and isn't ready to run a business? Do you own your own business? Is it doing as well as MetaLab? The best part of owning a business is getting to handle situations like this howev
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by qeorge 17y ago
That is awesome, thank you.
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by qeorge 17y ago
AFAIK this is not available through their gateway - you have to send the user to PayPal.com and even then I believe they have to use a PayPal account to subscribe. If there's a way around this I would love to know.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Perhaps you could combine it with something like Spreedly? http://spreedly.com/info/payment-gateways/ I haven't used them before, but I am looking for an excuse to try them out.
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's where I first heard of this as well. Here's the link: http://blogmaverick.com/2009/09/05/want-an-unpaid-internship...

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