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...This is a strange discussion thread. I assumed it was an ancient Usenet thread before business method patents became common.

But, it's not. It's recent. It's in the Lean Startup group.

You already can patent business models, if they're defined specifically enough: that's a business model patent, like Amazon One-Click.

You can probably also patent business models if they're not defined specifically enough, because the USPTO will let all sorts of things through these days, and then you can saber-rattle all sorts of things out of it.

Are you really a viable startup founder when you don't understand the basics of the current practices in IP law? Given that failed startups often have their IP as their only viable asset?
Hormone based birth control for women has ancillary health benefits outside of family planning.
You can definitely fit everything in the article inside a single bag.
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When Canada introduced its federal Goods and Services Tax in the early 1990s, the government wanted to have it included in advertised prices; but under Canada's constitution the regulation of business advertising is a matter of provincial jurisdiction, and the provinces didn't want to play ball.
Reportedly, when the pill was introduced, it empowered women by giving them much more control over their reproductive options. Afaik, this is the first non-barrier method of contraception that reliably provides the same freedom for men.
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Its not ideal if it is only verifiable by one sex.
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Why are you conflating online education with lectures? Online education is as interactive as the teacher and students choose, just like any other school could be.
Presuming a uniform distribution of price endings, existing pennies are then worth 1.43 cents (you only spend them when the price is congruent to (0.03 or 0.04) mod 0.05).
Yes, this is great. It's the title that I find wrongheaded.
"Compassion is not an algorithm to be optimized."

What, if anything, do you think you mean by this sentence?
> See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DummiedOut

You bastard.

> The Cutting Room Floor is a site dedicated to unearthing and researching unused and cut content from video games.

Seriously, stop it. I have things I have to do like eat and sleep. If I'm found starved to death at my computer, you'll know who to blame.

> http://tcrf.net/Final_Fantasy_VII/Debug_Room

"In the latest case of video game related violence, shinratdr was found dead at his house today, after spending two straight weeks reading about content cut from various video games. He was about to quit when he stumbled upon the page for the FFVII debug room and all hope was instantly lost. He will be missed, I guess."
What I've described is why, in my opinion, birth control methods that target opposite genders are still mutually comparable.
Enough already
To be precise, that's only true if you pay in cash. Pay with plastic in Australia and you're charged by the cent.
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Both. $5 million becomes $3 million after taxes, and assuming I can average 8% returns, with capital gains of 15% and 3% inflation, I'd be at my current salary. That gives me the cushion to bootstrap my startup without having to work a day job, and when I get a prototype and traction, I'll apply to YC.
Ask HN: Staffing contract with IP clause, normal?
I'm about to start a 6+ month gig through a small staffing company at a very big technology company. I've already filled out the big companies contracts - IP, export controls, badges and all that.

Now I'm filling out the small staffing companies "proprietary information agreement", with reasonable things such as "at will employment" and "confidential info" clauses. Inside I found a full-on intellectual property clause, containing everything from "inventions" to copyrightable works.

Not only do I find this strange that a staffing agency is worried about IP, or even has IP to worry about, but this clause has to be in conflict with the big companies IP agreements that I've already signed.

I also don't know how a staffing agency delineates when you are working for them and when you are not. Put in your 9-5 and go home, are you still working for them? How about between assignments. None of it seems clear in the agreement.

To give you an example of how vague and encompassing it is ("Company" is defined earlier as the staffing agency), from the contract:

Ownership of Intellectual Property. Employee acknowledges that “Intellectual Property” (as defined below) is the exclusive property of the Company. “Intellectual Property” is defined to include the following categories that are generated, authored or contributed by Employee at any time during Employee’s relationship with the Company (whether as a consultant, independent contractor or employee, and whether prior to or after the execution of this Agreement):

Should I be concerned? Is this just boilerplate, and oversight, or a hard core contract?
The comments moderators post are pretty condescending. They turned me off from SO. Not to mention the condescending nature of your comment here.
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Reminds me of an anecdote about a woman who balanced her checkbook by rounding all amounts to the nearest dollar. Her father eventually heard about this, freaked out, and re-tallied everything — and ended up within a dollar of her previously-computed balance.
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So you want to apply to Y Combinator...
I don't mean to discredit the content of this post, but is anyone else tired of this argument circling around HN like a windmill? (Why you need a technical X to launch your idea). If the title of this post were (perhaps more appropriately) titled "Why you need a Technical co-Founder," I don't think this would have gotten any eyeballs.
This is $3,000, so it's not a last mile technology. It's great for the "second mile" from the tower to the backbone, though.
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These questions are only suitable for interviewing politicians. That is, they just test someone's ability to bullshit convincingly. Subjective questions take a long time to think though: more time than is available in an interview. Hence, no answers you will get will be useful in any way.

The example questions are also excessively wordy and written in euphemisms.
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After calling us overzealous and condescending do you expect a hug?
By that standard, an IUD is better than this because of the battery of Stage III and postmarketing trials supporting its effectiveness. But I disagree with your standard and find it to create a false dichotomy where there need be none.
It sounds like this woman was lucky to both be incredibly intelligent in her own right, and to have an excellent family who believed in her and were persuasive to overcome some societal obstacles. And to live in a place with excellent schools and jobs.

I wonder if she would have gone to work for a big company today, or if she would have tried to do a startup.
"The company also said that it will dial back efforts in multiple consumer markets and refocus its efforts on the enterprise market." -- I think this a smart move because they make business-oriented devices, not entertainment devices, but it might be too late.
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Like the pill?
The only thing this bag needs is a GottaGo portable cardboard toilet.
Clearly we should have a hangman challenge similar to the RoShamBo challenges people used to run to explore possibly strategies in a multi turn game.

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My startup has been highlighted on Techcrunch, how do I sustain the momentum?
"If I were Paul Graham, these types of companies simply would not satisfy me (despite what look to be very lucrative payoffs)."

That's hilarious, because I'm the one who wrote all the summaries
of the startups that she's judging them by. I deliberately express
startup ideas as x for y whenever possible because that's the most
efficient way to describe a startup in a few words. Airbnb, for
example, was in its day "eBay for space."

On Demo Day we accompany each startup's name with a brief summary
of what they're doing. The goal of these summaries is not to convey
the full breadth of a startup's eventual ambitions, or even what
they're currently doing, but just to help investors watching 65
presentations remember which company is doing what. TechCrunch
reused these descriptions, as reporters often do. And now this
woman has read the summaries printed in TechCrunch and is treating
them as if that were all there was to know about the startup. It's
like a game of Telephone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers).

My standard advice to startups presenting to investors is that it's
better to start with an overly narrow description of what you do,
so that investors at least know what you're talking about, and then
expand from there.

See http://paulgraham.com/investors.html, particularly items 1 and
14.

It's surprising to me that someone who wasn't even at Demo Day would
feel confident enough to judge the startups' originality based on
the 3-5 word summaries we use on the schedule to help investors
keep them straight in their heads.

I was about to say that it's also surprising that people would
upvote such a post. But on reflection it's not that surprising.
If they do actually know how to handle the business end, then they are in fact valuable, but that is assuming much.

A lot of the "business-side" cofounders you run into in the real world are just glorified "idea men", willing to "generously" cut you in on 5% if you just code up their "Facebook, but for Cats" site they've been thinking about for the past year.
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Dealt with these guys over a position at Palantir. They're a cut above your average headhunters, but they're recruitment consultants nonetheless. Starting from a position of presumed BS is generally a good approach with any headhunters and these are no exception.
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What about gas prices? The displayed price is what you actually pay, it always includes all the taxes.

I guess the businesses are not required to do this for other products and naturally they choose to display the lower price, i.e. the one excluding taxes.
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It appears that software updates for even Nexus devices have to undergo some sort of carrier approval.

See Google employee Jean-Baptiste Queru's Google+ post and follow-up comments on this topic: https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/LG8VK9NN...

Relevant snippet below:

As for the updates to flagship devices (including the Nexus phones), even though Google tries to get builds ready for all devices at the same time, operator approval varies from one operator to the other and from one device to the other. The 8-month rule of thumb doesn't apply to flagship devices, since all phases are designed to happen at the same time for those, but there's still a bit of operator certification and approval at the end that can't overlap with anything else, and that's what explains the slight device-to-device variance even for flagship devices.
I think OP's point to this is that doing that would not be a good business move. I don't believe that in the canonical scenario simply telling the party in question that things are much more complicated than they can possibly imagine and expecting them to accept that is realistic.

I have been a part of projects where first day in discussing the basics of the project the entrepreneur in question has the design "95% complete" which then after the first four hours fluctuates somewhere between 0-20% complete. And all these numbers may as well be randomly chosen for how much of a relation to reality they have at any rate.

Sell them the picks and tents, let them figure it out themselves. When they come back to you with their problems and ask for advice they will finally actually be listening to reason without thinking that their individual case is an exception to the rules and you're just trying to drain their precious equity.
Thank you for the clarification and taking the time to respond. I did not mean to imply that men should not have a say in the matter. I think I might have placed too much emphasis and an overly broad definition of "best."

My point was that given the biological constraints females ultimately are the most impacted by pregnancy. As a male I definitely value improvements for male birth control. However from a societal point of view I think the best birth control is one that is either controlled by women or is verifiable by women.

Since you are being so helpful and I seem to be so hard-headed/clueless on this one. What do you think the general disagreement is with my "best neccesarily implies one or the other comment."?
Comments. What about them? The close message is auto-inserted so we don't have to take the time to comment.

Irony, no. My tone here is a response to being called overzealous and condescending. It has nothing to do with my attitude when I'm acting as moderator on SO.
As far as IUD's, let's not forget there are two types: paragaurd (copper) IUD and Mirena (levonorgestrel eg hormonal) IUD. There are different side-effects associated with both although I have anecdotally heard that paragaurd's side effects are mild compared to oral contraceptives. Should someone not wish to use hormonal BC or if they cannot for various medical reasons-->paragaurd is what you are stuck with. And its great in many ways (no babies, no babies and no babies), but many women experience periods that last over a week and spotting in between as well as extremely painful cramps. I was on it for 6 years and I'm so happy I finally got it removed. In summary, IUD's are of course a great form of BC, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue more options. I don't think I'm stating anything earth shattering when I say, women wouldn't mind more non-hormonal based BC options.
Of course Somalia's not an example of something that works better. I meant it as (I guess the term would be) a co-example; there's no market regulation, & it's pretty obvious that pretty much anything else works better.

However, I do insist that, strictly speaking, anarchy is a free market system - it's the reductio ad absurdum of free-market-ism. It's only fair if you're willing to cite North Korea, a totalitarian dictatorship with absolute state power, ie the reductio ad absurdum of state regulation, as an example of such. North Korea also lacks a functional judiciary, a respect for property rights, etc etc.

I take it you at least consider justice & law enforcement to be sectors that benefit from state regulation - and I'd be surprised if there were no other such sectors as well.

To take less extreme examples:

* the (pre-Obamacare, as it's too early to judge the new setup) US healthcare system, which is less regulated than most developed countries', is the most expensive & least effective.

* In the UK, the cheapest & most reliable part of the rail network is the part in Northern Ireland... being the only part that wasn't privatised back in 1993. Everywhere else, costs have grown & reliability has fallen.

...

To try to find some common ground here: you believe in "as little regulation as possible", but that "as little as possible" is not none; I believe in "as much regulation as necessary", but that "as much as necessary" is not totalitarianism. I suspect these beliefs are, in the end, adjoint - opposite approaches to the same fundamental idea, although we may disagree on the details. Does that seem reasonable to you?
I've asked my guy friends whether they would get this procedure, and none of them will. Guys expect women to mess with their bodies, but are not willing to make the sacrifice themselves when it comes down to it, even though this is more safe and harmless than pumping your body with hormones every day.
If he were within an order of magnitude of being correct, then we could nitpick about methodology but he's not. Even with his revised interpretation he is wrong, just plain wrong.
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Aside from connections, any partner who can help you get to market faster with $ from real customers is going to be worth it.

Obviously there's a lot of BS "biz" folks. A good barometer is if they have taken the time to learn the skills needed to get their own ideas to market (coding, design, w/e)
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There's no law against it (some places do this, most notably street carts, etc.), but if you were a cafe owner would you really want to put 15% higher prices on your menus? People would look at the numbers and leave, rather than noticing the 'taxes included' and having to do math.

Until it's a legislated requirement (and boy do I wish it were), we're probably not going to see it very often other than with fungible cash-only vendors.
Kickstarter isn't going to provide the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs to take a drug through the FDA approval process.
We can (and should!) address directly and harshly things like pay discrimination and sexual harassment (ill-defined though that may be).

The writeup in the news article you cite doesn't really address either the rigor or testing circumstances of things--I'd be hesitant to take it as gospel.

(minor note: the article you refer to is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18056796 but is behind a pay wall)
Isn't that a little much? The procedure sounds identical to a vasectomy except the very last step -- instead of cutting the vas deferens you inject this substance into them.
But who wouldn't be happy to get a Han Solo award?

I think Han Solo is a pretty cool guy. Eh shoots Greedos and doesnt afraid of anything
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For what it's worth, I'm 27, married and have 2 daughters and quit my job just a few months after my youngest was born (2 years ago) to join a local incubator and start my startup. Man, the wife wasn't exactly thrilled about that idea though :)
I really enjoyed the music and atmosphere. It really made you feel like you were in a James Bond movie. I also enjoyed all the shout-outs to the old movies too - stuff like the Moonraker level.
When I first clicked this article, I thought it was going to be linkbait. I was surprised to find that he concisely and accurately expressed what I'd been unable to for the past few years: that non-technical founders shouldn't look for "programmers", they should look for "technical cofounders". This is after reading many articles on HN stating the exact same point, just less to the point. I'm slightly embarrassed because people sometimes come to me asking for a "programmer" reference, but I've never able to concisely tell them what why their question was wrong to begin with. The way he phrases the problem captures almost all of the talking points, and it's the phrase I'm going to use going forward.
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Some would argue that your example is almost exactly as good as the other one given.
Sounds like somebody has been watching that Doomsday Preppers show.
In theory, maybe. In practice, no. Condoms are way out of fashion these days among the young sexually active crowd.
wow...thank you for that response.

I do have some stats background. Basically did Advanced Econometrics at University level and we used R as the program there. So I'm familiar on that end.

But looking to see if I can learn more about it, because I do enjoy analyzing data. But have relatively little coding, programming experience.

I searched into it today, still a little bit lost but have bit more information now. Trying to weight the pros and cons of diving into the field at this point in my life as I am not sure how long it would take to learn all of it to become good at it and get a good job/start a company.
I think its boilerplate but legally if you sign you are agreeing to it. I went through something similar once here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281193 Ask them to clarify their contract, get a specific exclusion in writing if they tell you don't worry about off-hours, personal projects developed on your own time (and on your own equipment which is important).
Does anyone know of a place where you can see visualizations (maybe even in realtime) of the bitTorrent network?
The dichotomy exists regardless of your not acknowledging it, though. I have _had_ these conversations and made these comparisons. My current girlfriend and I switched from condoms to the pill, despite the extra responsibility for her and the definite potential for side effects, because it's a better form of contraception, period. The very instant we can switch to RISUG we will, because all available data indicates that it's better in an absolute sense.
Talk to Ernst & Young. They will help startups file for SR&ED for a flat fee of $1-3k. Takes a few hours to draft the document with their help. It is not as hard as it sounds.
interesting..thank you for your response
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I thought it was abstinence..