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Ask HN: Revenue sharing contracts?
Hey guys,

I am working on an app together with a designer. It is a bit of a hassle to set up a separate company for it, because it's not (yet?) a full-time project, we don't have any revenue coming in yet and we don't know what the future will look like.

We have agreed on an equal split of the revenue.

I want to set up a contract with him that we share the revenue and IP. What should I include in the contract? Of course, there need to be clauses for what happens if things go wrong, or what happens if things go incredibly good (e.g. acquisition). Does anybody have a sample contract for this? If I hire a lawyer
to write it for me, what clauses should I consider?

As this is not the only project where I'm in a partnership, I wouldn't mind a reusable contract. Can lawyers provide these?

We're both based in Europe, by the way.

Thanks!
My flight travel has lessened considerably over the past 2-3 years, but until then I'd witnessed that to be standard practice.
As a music listing app, perhaps (although it's not my cup of tea). As an app and music store browsing and iPad management and syncing app it's pretty damn horrific.
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Erm, odd rows and even rows?

Also, Ryanair have a 'priority boarding' ticket and do this all the time, so it's not a big deal.
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previously on hn: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2846812
Being at the mercy of government organization is not a better prospect, though.
Ask HN: Looking for hosted email solutions, outside the USA.
We've been using Google Apps for a couple years now. The plain problem is, google loses our mail. It is inconsistent and difficult to diagnose and as far as google is concerned, the mail never showed up on their end. But we know we're losing mail.

For various reasons, we'd like to host outside the USA. We're pretty flexible as to the country, so long as the infrastructure is decent. I don't want to debate this requirement, I don't necessarily even agree with it, but "the boss" is involved and we want to keep the boss happy, right? (This is also why, even if we fix the issue with Google, we need to migrate. No disparagement meant for google, they provide a great value, just not meeting our needs now.)

So, can anyone recommend an email hosting provider?

Preferably, an organization with a significant reputation, who cares about providing good service, who would be really embarrassed to do wrong by us (e.g.: not some tiny shop) and who either specializes in this service, or is really very good at it.

Any service that specializes in secure communications gets bonus points. I'm looking at hush mail, but they're a US corporation, though it seems their servers are in Canada. our employees use iOS devices and laptops, so I'm not sure hush is a good fit, unless they have an iPhone App.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

PS- I did try to search hacker news for this stuff, but a couple attempts didn't produce much. Google searches produce a lot of questionable recommendations, and stack exchange, et. al. close questions where an opinion is being solicited.

PPS-- I am open to the possibility of hosing it ourselves, though I don't like the idea. I have run my own mail servers in the past for many years and don't recall that period fondly. But, if there's a turnkey linux appliance that would do it, that could work. I looked at TurnkeyLinux.org's Zimbra appliance, but zimbra is a confusing thing, it isn't clear what the differences between the commercial and open source version are, and it seems more interested in providing webmail than POP/SMTP mail. But maybe that's what I need. Any Zimbra experts out there?
I've posted a follow up on the forum - in general, feel free to email suppport@sublimetext.com if something is overlooked on the forum.
Interesting. A similar feature built into Vim is `cursorcolumn`, which will highlight the background of whatever column the cursor is in. If you set `cursorline` as well, you get a kind of cross-hairs around the cursor. See e.g. http://briancarper.net/vim/cursorcol.png

I find that feature useful enough that I've never needed indent guides. If you jump the cursor to the beginning of a line, you can easily see which other lines are indented equally with that line.
Thanks for adding indent guides; that's one of the must-have features of Komodo Edit for me.
The problem comes if two people have changed the same file in different ways, and you want both changes. What are you going to do? There's no 'wrong' set of changes that you can discard. If you lose one and keep the other, that means somebody's work gets lost, and they have to redo it - so you need to merge. Will you sit there in Photoshop, carefully pasting together the modified bits? Will you open 2 copies of 3D Studio or Maya or what have you, and painstakingly join the two models together?? Well... I'd hope not.

Fortunately, as with many problems, there is a perfect solution, which is to (try to) not have that problem in the first place. It just needs a bit of process. Locking is a nice and easy way of introducing a process that works, and that anybody can understand, all without their needing to know the first thing about how the mysterious computer-ma-bob actually works. You can do without it, but it just makes life difficult if the team is distributed, tiresome if they are not, and error-prone in either case.

I don't have any real idea how you'd go about adding such a thing to git. Perhaps it wouldn't even be possible. That doesn't make it any less useful, though. If you don't like the idea of SVN doing something useful that git doesn't even try to support, consider the two as solving somewhat different problems.
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Wonder if this makes it easier for Heroku to offer SSL support. Currently it's either:

- SNI, doesn't work with the Cedar stack or < IE8
- Hostname, strips headers
- IP, costs 100 dollar p/m.
Well governments or government organizations are at least accountable to its people. Not saying private organizations are bad (@wingify itself is one) but it comes as a (humbling) shock when they can pull you off their services anytime and not provide a reason for it.
The bizarre approach in Windows 8 that has all kinds of UI doing the same thing with no clarity around development platform sounds exactly like what Jobs talks about with people going in 18 different directions.

Do you mean adding the Ribbon to Windows Explorer and the announcement that you can develop Windows apps in Javascript (respectively)?
Does anyone know the people in the last picture? Would be cool to match the people to products still up and running
OVH do quite a good hosted Exchange solution, they're quite big in Europe and have a fair reputation for what they do. There's even the option for a dedicated server which they manage if you're worried about security
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I think you may have a misunderstanding on the non-admin part of the post..
I come to use clouds, not to build them
It's been years since I dealt with exchange... I assume we can use any mail client? EG: Apple's Mail.app or anything else that talks POP and SMTP (with proper configuration, naturally)

Is it likely that POP and SMTP are not going to be on by default if we go with OVH? (Sorry if that's stupid, I'm under the impression that Exchange uses its own protocol.)
HN-esque conversations on Reddit
The airlines I've flown with actually do enforce it. At least for the first and business, and small children. If your group isn't called they'll ask you to stand aside so that group can go. Some people really push it and the crew would rather not get in a confrontation and let them pass.
It's from WWDC '97. It's in the title of the submission, the title of the linked post, the caption under the video, and if followed through to YouTube, the video description. :P
Kind of reminds me of this story: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/08/kno-raises-46-million-more-...

I know one of the early engineers who wrote the low-level software for that device. He was one of the more arrogant engineers I've known and basically dismissed the iPad because it didn't have enough "power." When he showed me the Kno tablet, I said "I couldn't even fit that thing in my backpack, let alone on any desk. You're never going to sell this thing to people." He insisted that power was more important.

And it turns out he was wrong because he was thinking like an engineer. Kno scrapped that idea and decided to build exclusively for the iPad. http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/08/kno-bails-hardware-30-milli.... Good on them.
Please do buy it after you'll be convinced that this is the best editor you have ever used :)
How does one animation make the whole file manager "rubbish"? Seems a bit exaggerated...
I am not a specialist on that matter, but I suspect it is called "International Space Station" rather than "American Space Station" for a reason.
What I love about ST2 is that although it's very data-driven in configuration (several hierarchies of plain text configuration files + a simple python API), it somehow doesn't seem overwhelming, or that I'm missing all the cool tricks. I hope the author continues to comment all the configuration files and will document 100% of the API.

The editor itself has a great fluid feel. Looks-wise, the default theme is nice, and "Soda Dark", which seems to be a community favourite, is gorgeous.
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I am using Google's, but that isn't really the point; the point is that in real-world usage, the example in the article of a multi-Mbit connection ending up with Kbit-level throughput due to being routed to the wrong CDN is very unlikely if you live in the U.S. or Europe. It would require either a really broken TCP stack, or gigantic satellite-internet-level latencies for latency to constrain throughput that much.
I think the question is made more relevant when taking into account that the poster above omitted the 'r' ("mic2soft"), thus causing the name to be shortened which is, indeed, very hard to call a 1-bit error.
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Currently stuck on an ancient WinXP box due to my MBP frying itself, so I decided to see how ST2 runs on it. Absolutely wonderful experience @ 1.3Ghz/256RAM, and the vintage mode finally makes it a viable option for all my programming.
Metro UI is certainly one of the most interesting and progressive UI developments to come out of MS. I like a lot of the thinking in it. The fact that this explorer UI can exist in the same company is a tell. It demonstrates that MS's silo structure, while theoretically creating creative competition, simply results in missed opportunities.

This is the real lesson from Apple. It's not just that there has been a top down design martinet running the show (that's obviously key); it's that there is a real ethos of design and perfectionism (at least in terms of UI/UX) that not only functions as a guide internally, but which is so strong and clear and implicit in the apple ecosystem that the developers of apple apps have internalized it successfully. It's not just the apple HID guidelines; it's much, much deeper than that.

I absolutely loathe the centralization and control Apple imposes on content. I am in fact a rabid Linux user. But this lesson from Apple can't be ignored.

Metro is one silo in Microsoft learning the UI/Design lesson. What they need is a design ethos, and that is much more difficult. It requires leadership, time and most of all consistency. The latter factor is almost the antonym of Microsoft.
Decent points, but it's from 2009.
Also, using 3D pie charts in an article about proper design... maybe not the most effective technique.
Most airlines board back to front, excluding business and first of course. But it just ends up taking the same amount of time as front to back. It's not the people taking seats on an empty plane that is the problem. It's the last few that are having trouble finding overhead storage and have to hunt up and down the aisle for a place to put their bag.

Also, you can't give up business entitlement. It's built into the price and the passengers paid for it. The entire reason they buy F/J tickets are boarding priority, good seats, better food, newer IFEs, and higher luggage allowances. They also get a glass of champagne or wine, something they wouldn't be able to receive if they were the last to board.

Also a coach and F/J fare is the difference between a $1/pass and $1000/pass profit.
Get your hands off my iPad you damn dirty ape
I'd like these areas touched in the article:

0) Not important, just interesting. On the moral side: did you reason going solo as to avoid loosing money/control and generally didn't bother or was it just that you didn't find someone acceptable.

1) For the skills you lacked: did you hire someone or tried to learn the skills and figure out how to lessen the importance of this part of the product.

2) Money wise: did you originally planned to bootstrap or wanted to bring in the investors. And how your reasoning about convincing the investors went.

3) Investors: when you finally met real people with money how you convinced them to trust in you

4) Co-founder: What was the primary reason of parting ways with your co-founder

5) Sum up: do you believe that there are 'single-minded' people and they will be better of not trying to find a co-founder at all. That said, it means such people should reasonably adjust their expectations about the product they can pull off alone.

Thanks!
It also contains some really great words from Jobs like:

"You think about focusing, you think focusing is about saying "yes?" No. Focusing is about saying no. And you've got to say "no," "no," "no." And you know you're going to piss off people. and they go talk to the San Jose Mercury and they write a shitty article about you. And it's really a pisser. Because you wanna be nice, you don't wanna to tell the San Jose Mercury the person who is telling you this was just asked to leave, or this or that. So you take the lumps, and Apple's been taking their share of lumps for the last six months. In a very unfair way. And it's been taking them like an adult and I'm proud of that. And there's more to come, I'm sure. There'll be stories like that, they come and go, but focus is about saying no. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products. Where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts."

You can also see why the guy questions (in OP video) Jobs: "And when you're finished with that, perhaps you could tell us what you personally have been doing for the last 7 years." -- Jobs mentions that some of the guys who "tell stories" haven't been doing anything last seven years.
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Not true. According to the git commit history it is being developed pretty actively. The last commit date is July 21st 2011.
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I love that Perl seems to be used so extensively by biologists. It's still by far the language I find myself most expressive in, and when done right produces wonderfully clean, accessible, and reusable code bases.

Until you've had CPAN at your disposal, you haven't lived! (may not be true)
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The curtain is there to keep people that don't have any business there out. Most of the international flights have layflat seats in F/J sections. And most people don't put their iPods/kindles/iPads away when they fall asleep so the casual person could walk up and walk away with something.

It's also there to keep them out of their toilets. When you have 40 people in coach waiting for 2 toilets and 2 unused ones in first the first you gotta make the firsties feel better for buying a more expensive ticket.
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I think we should be careful with Bayesian inference for the usual reason -- there is only one universe with one (or zero) Higgs particle. You can't really collect statistics over universes, so what is the meaning of probability in this case?

More concretely, what prior probability would you assign to the distribution of the Higgs mass? This depends on your theory. For instance, supersymmetric theories tend to favor a lower Higgs mass, so if you are a proponent of such theories you wouldn't expect a heavy Higgs anyway.

Note that physicists themselves do not phrase their results in these terms. The statement "Higgs excluded above 130 GeV at 95% confidence" does not mean there is 95% chance the Higgs isn't there. Rather, this statement has a precise meaning based on frequentist reasoning.

But perhaps more importantly, the tone of the article is sensationalist and seems to imply that we are about to give up hope. This isn't true at all. I mean, look:

"while CERN will continue it's search at least until the end of this year, if no positive results about the Higgs should come out, Stephen Hawking ... would be able to cash in on his wager."
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It's wonderful to see the Yi editor back in business, there seems to be some new commits in the github repo.

Yi has taken a wonderfully pragmatic approach to implementing a text editor. They were working on an incremental parser framework to power the editor. The framework was inspired by Parsec and aimed at parsing incomplete code while typing. Emacs has similar parsers but in Emacs they're implemented with a messy pile of emacs lisp, while the Haskell parser in Yi tries to do it with an easy to read domain specific language.

I also like how Yi has a very flexible frontend. They ship with Vim- and Emacs-like configurations to get started.
This has been going on for over 2 1/2 years now. At that time we had this item submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419360

It looks like it's the same physicist, and the same algorithm. Further more, HN had pretty much exactly the same discussion.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

There's another submission from over a month ago here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790023

In that it's described how ...

American Airlines undertook a two-year study to try and
speed up boarding. The result: The airline has recently
rolled out a new strategy—randomized boarding.

I haven't seen any news of how that panned out.

This submission from 1300 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111416 - is a paper from Arxiv, suggesting that boarding times can be cut by a factor of 4. Guess who it's by - yup, our favorite physicist again. So he's been at this for 3.5 years. There are just 5 comments on that submission.

This latest paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5211

That was linked to from this submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2943615

It was also referenced in the article pointed to in this submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2943003

All in all, a popular topic that's been going for 3.5 years from this one physicist at least.

Despite his perseverance, it hasn't been adopted on any of the flights I've been on.

========

So here's a list of some of the previous HN items on this topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111416

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419360

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=924855

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790023

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2943003

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2943615
Recent Groupon acquisitions are in line with this strategy. For example, Zappedy (acquired in July 2011), is an online CRM platform for small businesses.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/17/zappedy-acquired-by-groupon...
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What does he say at the start?

>Mr. Jobs, you're a bridesmaid(?)....

>Here it comes...
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I like a lot the way Yi maps \ and -> to appropriate extended characters for display but leaves them in ASCII in the underlying file, but I didn't find it to be stable enough for primetime yet.
Really? The PC vs Mac war has been waging since at least the early 90s.
It's not willingness. Coach can be just as demanding but F and J are demanding more often.

Most of the coach passengers are just glad to be onboard, like they didn't think they'd get in. And they don't fly frequently enough to know what to ask for. The F and J are usually frequent fliers, know exactly what they are entitled to and ask for every time.
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I've been into strength training for the past 6 months (resistance training and sports for much more) and I don't think it does, but the exercises that they did weren't correct in my opinion.

The resistance training that they did was for muscle hypertrophy and not strength training which works less if you are obese. After you achieve the desired muscle mass, then the calories burned will be substantial.

So for an overweight person, I'd advise aerobic exercises first to get conditioned and lose some weight and increase your metabolism. And then move into strength training to develop muscular strength and neuro-muscular adaptation.
I completely understand what you are saying but I have my doubts having a design centralization is the way to go. We see now that OSX is getting closer and closer to iOS thus getting OSX less usable and discoverable (try to use Finder only with the left mouse button like most people do; the scroll bar gone by default; etc). I have the feeling having Windows 8 (for computers) being created by the same people who did Metro UI (for mobile devices) is not the way to go.
I'm a romanian and I knew nothing about it. It seems to be illegal only for governmental use because of the lack of accountability. If you think about it, it make sense. "WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE" doesn't sound promising or fit for governmental critical systems.
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From clause 13 in the Terms of Service:

(ii) Spotify has a right to allow the Spotify Software Application and the Spotify Service to utilize the processor, bandwidth and storage hardware on your computer or other relevant device for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication and transmission of content and other data or features to you and other users of the Spotify Software Application and the Spotify Service, and to facilitate the operation of the network on which the Spotify Software Application and the Spotify Service runs.

Granted, it's not listed as a "feature" but you agreed to the possibility of it.
My guess is they are, considering the footer says "This site is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 2.0 or above".

It's a cool domain though, how many three letter .com domains out there?
It's an absolutely useless feature but I love it too :)

There's a Vim plugin called Haskell cuteness that does the same for Haskell code but unfortunately it didn't work very well.