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It's not a real product. The video is a parody of where the startup industry has been heading.
Plus, with a single huge tower, your handsets are fighting the inverse square law as they struggle to pump out enough wattage to keep a connection.
Very cool article - I like the idea of taking the Clipboard + into the hospital. I really believe this product has many undiscovered market opportunities. It'll be exciting to hear about them as they develop.
It absolutely can. Unfortunately the stuff usually loaded is a crapload of antisocial share buttons and tracking crap that more that destroy any gain that the techniques you mention bring.
Yeah, there are two "experiments":

http://www.millionshort.com (the original)

and

http://www.milliontall.com (this new one)
> I can assure you won't see porn advertising on Olympics, regardless of how much they willing to pay.

How do you know? Be specific.
Not if you also register them for a conference that happens to be going on at the same time/place. I've always assumed that's the purpose of most conferences anyway.
I just Googled for, "How to do funny looking e on Mac" and got the answer I'm looking for.. like @recursive mentioned, a "significant proportion of useful search results come from the long tail."

Oh btw, é!
There is an exception in the law which allows the use of "Olympic" in the state of Washington for businesses within view of the Olympic mountains.

See the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
First off, this story is pun central! "... has not exactly advanced with the speed of Usain Bolt." Zing!

OK, with that off my chest...

What struck me first and foremost is that the interlocking ring logo is probably the source of the issue. That has to be copyrighted and owned by the USOC. That being said, the word "Olympic" has been around for long enough that saying, "Hey, we own that word in any context" seems ridiculous, especially in areas where local features are similarly named (@bcl).

Referring to a contest as the XYZ Olympics (or variant thereof) seems to be slightly more reasonable as a case for infringement, but the term has become so common use that I think you could argue that it's public domain (e.g., fridge). Maybe they're stepping up enforcement for that reason.

No one's going to confuse the Beer Olympics with the 2012 Games, and no one's going to confuse a delicious gyro with Usain Bolt.
we are working on our stretch goals, what we can do if we raise more money.

How about instead of moving the goal posts out further, just focus on delivering what was presented in the Kickstarter video.
Ask HN: Is there a good analytics tool for single page web apps?
I was going to use Google Analytics, but it's driven by page views, and there is only 1 page in my app. Everything else is dynamic.

Is there another solution?
> Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry?

Or, another way of putting it, 'Hasn't everyone on Hacker news been exposed to the same articles/knowledge/humor I have been exposed to?'

If something seems old and tired to you, yet is still getting upvotes, the answer is probably 'no'.
I'm dumbfounded that allowing users to format their own videos is considered 'Illegal Hacking' by Google.

You let people slurp in Youtube videos. Google has an issue with that. You will not get this site unbanned.

That is all I can say without making pointed observations about your business model.
Man 15 days... that's kinda harsh. I live in London and the idea of working whilst on holiday is almost unthinkable.

I like the idea of the money though. Is working really that hard in America?
If it's a single button press, people like me would start it before going to sleep or something. I'm not sure how many people are like me.
Two possible reasons:
1) Grandfather clause for businesses using "Olympic" at the time the name was passed; and
2) Geographic exception for businesses within a certain distance of the Olympic mountains in Washington, but only within the state of Washington.
I impulse purchased one because it's a $100 Android console. The "hackable / open hardware" aspect was honestly irrelevant in terms of the purchase decision, as a $100 closed hardware console by Sony (Android-based) / Apple (iOS-based) / Microsoft (WP7-based) would have received the same "shut up and take my money" response (at least in my case, and that's said as a person with a Galaxy Nexus phone). It's likely that this view is not unique, so be careful about mistaking the market as validating a "hackable open hardware $100 gaming console" and not simply a "$100 gaming console."
Is it really the European vacation schedule specifically that's destructive, or is it the mismatch between that schedule and the schedule in "competitive markets"? Or that expectations weren't set or US operations weren't made independent enough?
If only REAL teaser pages had videos hinting at what the hell you were signing up for.
Same thing here: hangouts work a lot better than skype (and we can even record our meetings if we are doing some kind of presentation).
Ask HN: How do I respond to an offer to buy our iPhone app's IP?
Long time reader, first time posting.

I'm the head of IT for a small internet company that has developed a free iPhone app that promotes the use of our product. Due to time constraints, we haven't done anything with it for almost a year, but it still manages 200-300 downloads a week. We in the middle of revamping our entire retail operation, and have envisioned several ways to tightly integrate the app with our shopping experience, though this probably wouldn't happen for another 6-9 months.

Recently, however, a large company in the same product space (not so much a competitor as a co-existor) has approached us about either buying our app or partnering with us in some way, and we're really not sure how to respond.

We've spent considerable amount of money as well as months of our own time in developing the app, so selling is definitely appealing. While I've always thought licensing was better in the long run, we aren't sure what the advantage is for us - we don't have the time to actively develop, and the rebranded app wouldn't drive any traffic to our business.

We also have some brick and mortar retail partners that has expressed low level interest as using our app as a sort of in-store kiosk (which most likely would drive traffic to us), but that's something we haven't even begun to explore either.

I could see us "leasing" the app, where we maintain it for a certain length of time and the other company pays rebranding, our time, and further development. At the end of the lease, we'd have made some money and would also have a better app. I'm not sure if this is feasible, however, because they certain have in house IT resources that I imagine are at least as capable as I am.

My questions, then: What are the pros and cons of selling and licensing? Are there other partnership opportunities that we should explore? Any tips for questions we should be asking ourselves and our suitors?

Thanks.
> an argument could be made that it forces new capacity to be created, because landlords can't make much more money off their existing units.

If they're not making "enough" off of a unit, why would they build more units?

Demand isn't the whole story. Demand that can be satisfied profitably will be satisfied. Demand that can't be satisfied profitably won't be satisfied.

For example, there's a huge demand for $1000 "supercars". Yet, the only supercars made cost far more.
What if I told you that a few smart people at http://vox.io are already on your case? :)
"A cynic might note that no set of observations is inconsistent with climate change"

A set of observations consistent with prior historical observations, and lacking a long term trend up or down, would be inconsistent with climate change.

Edit: the following actually agrees with part of your comment. Reading is fundamental.

"Climate change" is in fact more accurate, because climate also includes things like rainfall. Even if a region doesn't become notably warmer, it may get more rain, or less, which can cause problems if it leads to flooding, or drought.

Also, given the significance of ocean currents in moderating temperatures, if atmospheric warming leads to ocean current changes, then you could get regional cooling. (For example, the theory that cold fresh water from melting ice in the Arctic could disrupt the currents in the Atlantic, which carry warm water north to the UK, which helps the UK be warmer than you'd expect at its latitude. Thus warming -> Canadian ice melting -> cooler UK and northern Europe. Not sure what the current thinking is on this being likely.)
This one is screaming for a google acquisition, especially with the new google play brand.

The support from indie devs is pretty nice too, since people have proven they'll pay for quality indie games with the humble indie bundle, and sony's co-op with indie devs on games like journey (http://thatgamecompany.com/games/journey/) is a big vote of confidence.

Ultimately, what draws people to a platform are the games, so it's good to have a bunch of proven games already, and more coming. Now, all it needs is a few killer exclusives.
They forgot one item in the list of things they make fun of: "Create a landing page and collect emails without telling why/what they are signing up for, because it will be awesome".
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I don't know if that's jaded... it's pretty realistic.
My theater company's Facebook page shows up so I guess people could still find us, but it's hardly the best way. My open source project shows up only because of my resume.
I wouldn't use this. It finds stuff, but it's pretty much always the least relevant link.
Hold on there. While it's certainly unfortunate that the top thread ended up as a debate of internal HN issues, there is within it a legitimate desire to help. When I saw that this was the intent of the parent, I posted in that thread so that anyone scanning the top of the page would regain the context needed to see the gravity of the original article.
If you still think Rails's concurrency model is sufficient, you're so f*cking behind. So I think I'm even with DHH.
Another dud, an iPhone case that blocks reception: http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2012/01/lessons-for-kickstart...

It actually surprises me that more big kickstarters don't fail on fulfillment, but I think that is because they are Strongly Encouraged to outsource it to one of kickstarter's partners.
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Would you use this? Instant, temporary hosting for flash projects & html5 sites
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I'd notice it during googling of my own projects to find out how popular they are. Sometimes I think nothing I ever write will be as popular as the program that let people beat neopets.
Ask HN: Resources for learning about cookies
I am going to be working on a project at my new job that requires me to know a lot about cookies. I want to learn as much as I possibly can, but I'm not finding a lot of quality information.

What resources would you recommend I take a look at? Also, are there are types of exercises/sample use cases that might be particularly useful? Finally, what kind of background info would you consider to be crucial to understanding cookies?

I am open to any and all suggestions and I appreciate your input!
I suppose it could be public domain. Would that be better? It seems like that opens an entirely different sort of abuse. Without trademark protection, how do you prevent people from offering "Olympic" tickets to non-official events, for example? No free lunch. Trademark is the tool society has decided to use for this. And the only difference between this and any other trademark dispute (like putting an "i" before a product name or calling a music distribution company "Apple Computer") is in the technicalities of how the mark was awarded.

Sorry, I just don't find that interesting. It's OK to whine about the USOC being jerks, because I agree that they are. But trying to hold this up as an example of the evils of government is just silly.
I wonder how big that "(almost)" is.
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Vooza is cool, but I feel for other startups like http://zombo.com that have been working that niche for much longer. Hopefully, there's enough investment capital for everyone.
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Do you think Google's global rival will come from Russia? Yandex namely
It will be one year in September since Yandex launched in Turkey, it's 5th country of operation and first non-russian-speaking market. Will Yandex be able to compete with Google on other Markets? And US in particular.
Just bought one. The technology listed makes it totally worth the money alone. Not to mention that if this thing has as many developers making (partially free) games for it as does the Android market now, it seems like this won't be outdated for quite a while.
"how this organization has gotten so much power."

Some how congress has seen that the US Olympics are a source of national pride and a treasure to be protected by an act for the good of everyone. This is way more than trademark protection.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title36/html/USCODE...

While I'm sure it's been done in other places the only other case I know of is something similar with the Red Cross.

In contrast, in years past, I was able to use the words "IRS" on a product and even received clearance from IRS legal council in writing as confirmation.
CollegeHumor did a better parody over a year ago. http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta...
I visit many unpopular websites, often through search engines, such as to find out little details about video games, techniques for DIY organic lawncare, concepts used in unconventional programming languages, explanations of physics and philosophy from retired university professors, and many other things that have even less popularity, such as learning how to speak and write in the dialects of English called E-Prime and P-Prime. The probability that the top one million websites would include all of the websites that I use is very nearly 0%, so the probability that I would notice is near 100%.
" bunch of folks who would rather you were required to live your life to their rules"

This is a better description of the people who want me to live by their rules - the people who want to burn lots of coal, for instance. I get to live with their emissions, whether I like it or not.
Great news, but I wished the article went into more detail about the original lawsuit and the strategy used to win the case.

To me, the big story in all of this is Elsevier’s "package sales strategy". They are a much bigger foe, so accusing them of wrong doings directly would be a much bigger fight. Their dominance in the industry will hopefully soon evaporate.
This is actually what I am working on right now. The current site has been up for about 2 weeks and I am adding all of the other features behind the scenes. I haven't had a lot of traffic to the site yet, but a decent number have left their emails so it does appear there is some demand for the service.
You should remember that the rewards are not supposed to be the main goal of a Kickstarter project, but more like an appreciation token for your donation.
I think the Philippines has a lot of good entrepreneurs (both expats and native) and for a country as a whole I can't think of anywhere else in Asia where English is a near universal language where even the poor can speak well enough (Singapore doesn't really count since it's more of a city state or micro country).

Unfortunately (someone can correct me but) there a few problems with PI's startup scene (which the article mostly mentions):

1) Most PI entrepreneurs concentrate on traditional industries (mostly in the food sector). I rarely see companies in riskier and more innovative sectors.

2) A lot of entrepreneurs inherit their businesses.

3) Historically PI's greatest export is its English speaking workforce. To my knowledge, it hasn't changed much. Good engineers leave for western countries or elsewhere in Asia where both the pay and conditions are better. The engineers that stay on a whole are sub-par. From experience, PI has a great (manual - not automated inclined) QA workforce; programmers not so much.
If your customers are college students, yes; if your customers are Fortune 500 companies, probably not.
On the other end of the spectrum, I work with lab equipment that are more than 15 years old but still work great. The software which interfaces with it is old, but still works with Windows. Would such a thing be possible with Apple, or would Apple's insistence on upgrading every few years force the lab equipment to be replaced at significantly greater cost?
I will so do pushups in a banana suit if we win.
Internet is the only place left,at least it was the only place, where people could criticize United Russia party and discuss the current situation in the country.

Now a simple blog post like "Lets go protest our government" could be considered as advocating risky behavior, and as such get blocked by Government.
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If one subscribes to linguistic proscriptivism, which means "The right way to spell it is the way which experts, such as dictionary writers, have annointed as being correct", the one-L variant is a correct way to spell it for an American. It will appear as a variant in most modern US dictionaries.

If one subscribes to linguistic descriptionism, which means "The right way to spell it is the way that people spell it and expect to read it", people do indeed frequently spell it with one L.
Typos and poor editing.
I don't know that much about this, but it's kind of annoying to me to see the frequency with which governments are protecting people from the negative consequences of their own decisions. I have the vague sense that this happens more than it used to "in the good old days". But I also know that those days are rarely as good as people remember them. Is there any truth to it?
Is your startup constantly zig-zagging? (like mine)
Ugh. Lewis Page.
It's not the goal of the project, but I'm sure they are pretty much the only goal of the donation... Or do you think people would donate at all if there weren't any gifts?
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It's not about the joke, it's about the execution.

I laughed, a lot. Win!
> My entire point is about a different market with different needs.

This whole line of discussion started with:

>>The Segway gets a lot of flack, but it's actually catching on as a tourist device. People who would normally exhaust themselves completely - or who wouldn't be able to do a tour of a place at all - now have the option of purchasing so-called guided tours on Segways.

My point is that said market doesn't have those characteristics. My evidence is that I participate in said market.

If you have evidence about a different market, great - let's see it.

If you're just imagining a market ....

> And all I have is anecdotal evidence that the market exists.

What, exactly, are those anecdotes?

> But I find it hard to believe you don't know, or can't even conceive of, any older or moderately disabled people for whom a more-stable device that retained the quickness and agility of a Segway would hold an appeal.

I can conceive of them. My point is that they're not a significant part of the current segway tourism market. Moreover, said market is already significantly larger than the population you're talking about, so a segway alternative that served them can't significantly increase the size of that market.

> I've spent quite a bit of time with older and moderately disabled people, working in and around healthcare, and there is no shortage of these people who express a simultaneous interest in something that mobile, and a disappointment that it doesn't exist in a more stable variety.

Great, but as I pointed out, irrelevant to the segway tourism market. Moreover, it's going to be smaller than the current segway tourism market.

It's good to come up with ways to serve an underserved market. However, that doesn't imply that an existing market is going to adjust to satisfy that underserved market.
HTC has a good track record of updating their phones, at one time they were the manufacturer that was best at updating their androids.
made my day! :)
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> What you are doing is looking at the success story and saying 'they already made 100x on their investment that should be enough!' but neglecting to consider the chance of failure.

Incorrect. I'm saying that they have a big advantage and they have failed to capitalize on it.

> Absolutely Apple should continue to get advantages over non-innovating competitors even though Apple already has gobs of money.

The asinine accusation of non-innovation bured in this is worth pointing out, but not worth replying to otherwise. For shame, sir. For shame.

But hey, nice try at astroturfing.
This is like Lorem Ipsum for startup pitches. They should make the site title changeable via the URL, so you could use it to pitch any lame ass startup and get them VC monies.
I wonder if this will light a fire under Apple's ass to finally pull whatever Apple TV play they've been planning.
I agree with everything you wrote. I recently moved back to Mattersburg because my dad passed away and I took over the house. And I really enjoy living in the open again.

But the things you describe are something that many big cities have in common. It makes me wonder if you've ever been to a city with a somewhat dense population that you enjoyed being in.
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