jwb119

You're considering success or failure as a binary outcome. It's possible that a startup is accepted and wouldn't have failed anyways, but that being in YC makes it a bigger success than it otherwise would have been (through mentoring or other intervention by YC). My understanding is that is the sweetspot for YC anyways - everyone is a winner there.

for what its worth, that applies to trademark not copyright

he's got more issues than just morality here, as the DC rules of professional conduct for lawyers apply to him..

in part, he may be barred (or may at least need consent) from any litigation where his new clients interests are adverse to his former clients interests.

For instance... " a lawyer shall not represent a client with respect to a matter if: (1) That matter involves a specific party or parties and a position to be taken by that client in that matter is adverse to a position taken or to be taken by another client in the same matter even though that client is unrepresented or represented by a different lawyer; (2) Such representation will be or is likely to be adversely affected by representation of another client;"

See: http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/ethics/legal_ethics/rules_o...

sure, there's some cool stuff in here. but is it really enough to make anyone but a geek go through the hassle of adding yet another banking service? probably not, imo.

About time.

The policy of forcing a decision for laid off people between 1) sitting around doing nothing (i.e. "looking for a job") and being eligible for free money vs. 2) trying to start something which could have an an impact in not only getting that person back into a paying position but also on the economy as a whole (and thereby being ineligible for money) needed to end

Congratulations, you've also just described the U.S. dollar. Not backed by real life assets and scarcity not guaranteed by the federal reserve.

do you have a citation or any evidence for this?

> People are upvoting things not because they are valuable, but because they are entertaining.

That's the biggest change I've noticed as well, and I would expand your observation to cover comments too. it seems like jokes get upvoted significantly more often now than they did a year or two ago.

I initially thought this was going to let me sell my textbooks and have beer delivered to my door.

Sadly, it looks like it just calculates the beer value of your books (unless I am missing something here).

>As it turns out, the information about Morgan Stanley’s $3.5 billion discount-window loan has been sitting on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s website since last month. The panel didn’t mention it in its final report. And nobody had written a story about it before.

Makes you wonder what other sort of "non-public" information is actually out there just waiting to be found.

Not really. Speech is far from free, period.

The law recognizes a wide variety of restrictions. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United... for a few.

For a view that "There is no such thing as free speech" see Stanley Fish, etc.. http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-Febr...

>Why oh why have you guys built and application that I can’t leave easily?

I feel your pain, but isn't it obvious though? Increase the pain of leaving and you increase the likelihood of staying. Annoying, but effective.

thanks for sharing. out of curiosity, since you mention you are at HBS, are you a programmer as well? if not, what strategies did you use for building out the site?

as the posterous spokesperson alludes to in the comments, he is probably better off elsewhere.

i totally get the gripe, and i do sympathize, but it's a free service and at the end of the day it's not something that shows up on the radar screen for a large majority of their users..

More accurately, it's going to set someone up to be hit in a libel suit. The site is no more liable that tumblr is when someone starts a libelous blog using their system.

another question to ask: do I own the IP rights to the freelancers creation, and if so, can I enforce that contract?

IP doesn't automatically confer..

arguably, we actually have a more efficient market if the code is in the open or if M&A deals are revealed..

This is some sort of bizarro Erlang Day, right??

1,600 is way low

unfortunately, some of the suggestions are coming dangerously close to what US securities laws were initially built for.

the kickstarter route, where fillion owns the property seems fine, but once you're talking about offering shares of a company to fans that would own the franchise, that's hard to see how that wouldn't be a violation of securities laws as an unregistered public offering.

why is everyone hating on this kid? this is a freshman design student that put something on the web he thought was interesting. nobody should be seriously taking this as an effort to replace your beloved coke bottle!

penny stocks, for a similar risk/reward profile

i'm not sure mother jones qualifies as a neutral source either

(despite the quotes from krugman and friedman about biz cycle theory)

sounds like an interesting decision. best of luck.

one thing to keep in mind is that 200k probably means more like 100k after taxes. that only leaves you about 20k overhead after you pay your student loans. just something to think about.

thats pretty much dead on, including the fact that i'm not in law school for the money.

the only thing you are overestimating is how much of that bonus is take home. NYC taxes and even a modest % into your 401k means you are looking at somewhere around 40% of your bonus number actually winding up in your bank account.

what i'm really looking to get out of this whole thing is an interesting project to throw myself into.

by this definition most elections could be classified as insurgencies as well

shouldn't there be two massive bubbles for bear sterns and lehman brothers?

the only reason i can think of for not seeing them is that maybe they weren't counted as full "failures" since some of their assets were bought, but it would make sense to include them in something like this..

this entire article is just conclusory. why will these things happen? he doesn't give any evidence..

that's a pretty narrow definition of inefficient. i would say efficient practices are the ones that add the most value, but i suppose that wouldn't make as interesting a title for an article..

i might be able to help you out.. would be coming in from cranberry as well. still trying to figure out if i can make it though. feel free to hit me up at [my HN username]@gmail.com