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I'm not having any trouble, but thanks for the advice. I guess you never heard of Airbnb, Fab or dozens of other online marketplaces (sorry, "middle man") that have become huge businesses. Lucky for them they didn't know that Google and the web made them extinct.

Thanks for sharing.
I feel the same way, although, I usually have spurts, where I will work really hard on a side project for a few days, maybe even a week, but end up burning myself out when it's combined with work. You're not alone.
Well, a tourist would probably not know German(as was my case when I visited Austria a couple of weeks ago)
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Exactly! It's funny how you could take something so broad and even try to make it something specific. To me the definition will always be very broad. Maybe I'm a cloud developer instead of a web developer now?
Hmmm, a very political comment...

Firstly confusing Economics with a science rather than pseudo-science (or at least very bad science in that in most cases the assumptions required for the mathematical models are unrealistic and instantly forgotten), then stating as a fact some simple controversial (among economists too) statements which if true at all have a great deal more subtlety behind them and a number of which I believe to be flat out wrong.

I think trying to tackle the points would go way off topic but in my view the parent post gives a good example of some naive beliefs (although economics is insufficiently scientific to be able to prove them inconsistent with reality).

Edit: Changed 'post' to 'comment' and 'unrealistically' to 'unrealistic'.
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Ask HN: Is getting funded in the US as fast as it looks like?
When I browse Angel list or CrunchBase almost every single app or site has several investors, even those ones that have good competitors get funded.

I am having a really, really hard time, to even get in find "investors" here in Brazil and it looks like every american is investing in startups in the US.

What is the real picture ?

Can a regular people find funding alone without some incubator like YC ?

does it happen as much as I believe? or I am complety wrong ?
Your post as a whole is perhaps the most absurd thing I've read on patents, and I'm left to wonder whether it's some kind of parody. I guess not based on your posting history, so I'll answer it seriously.

> If this were the case, there would be no Android, and no Windows Phone 8 System either. Google would be spending years trying to reverse engineer how it all works (even with the advantage of patents they're still trying to make android work smoothly like the iPhone does) and Microsoft would be just stuck.

I don't know where you get the idea that other people's software patents are somehow a major component of the development process for these kinds of systems. It's a laughable idea.

1. The information you get from a good software patent would save you maybe 1% of the implementation effort. And most software patents are not good.

2. It's theoretical anyway, since nobody working on the iPhone or WP8 or Android on a technical level is ever going to be reading patents by the competition. Even if they were useful, having read the patent would potentially aggravate any infringement.

3. If you desperately wanted to clone something, you still would not work from the patents. You'd have somebody just use the system you're trying to copy and write down notes. It'd be much more efficient than trying to somehow translate a patent into a useful design doc.

I am absolutely, 100% sure that your claim that without Apple patents "Google [would need] to spend years reverse engineering how it works" is wrong. Most likely the only reason these patents are for the exact opposite reason - you need to know exactly what's patented so that you can work around the patent.

The suggestion that these patents would somehow be a key to smoothness highlights exactly why. There is not going to be a magical smoothness patent that would somehow be applicable to other systems with completely different design decisions done all over the system.
Perhaps you /are/ a cloud. :/
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with this logic (and if it would have always applied) we would have 1 restaurant chain in the whole world, 1 car maker in the whole world, hey we would have only one merchant in the whole world - and worst of all - only one OS maker in the whole world.
I have never commented before, but I had to reply to this. I assume you are being serious, but hope you just have a twisted sense of humor, or perhaps you have just read too much Schopenhauer recently.

I believe that just because someone is born with a disadvantage or have health issues does not mean they are defective. Everyone has as much a right to life as anyone else.

In support of your beliefs, I would be interested to know your responses to the following questions:

At what point does a person's suffering cause a sufficient decline in the global "average level of suffering" to imply they should not be allowed to reproduce or continue living? Should all sick people be left to die?

Should we serve the depressed arsenic instead of offering counselling and medication?

Should we just execute people of higher than average IQ, since ignorance is bliss?

We all have defects, should we all die to spare the planet?

How do you calculate average suffering? What is the unit of measure?

Does the momentary joy of seeing the birth of a child outweigh years of chronic pain?
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It is one thing to attack copyright for being used against consumers who wish to use media, however it is a different issue when a third party is copying your platform wholesale and then deriving revenue from that act of copying. I think in this case, copyright still has a role to play i.e. where a third party is monetising your copyright rather than simply using it.
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Reductio ad absurdum.

Care to try to explain 'why' for any of those assertions?
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That's an interesting line to draw. Both breaches of copyright involve a monetary loss.

This feels like a hypocritical stance, but I could be misunderstanding you. :\
> I just inadvertently licensed some pictures of my daughter

better find a way to undo that https://thispicturesucks.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/creative-c...
Actually the proposal made is that everyone is given an amount of money but that if you have debts you must pay them down with the money. If you don't have debts you can spend it. So there is no need to stop being fiscally responsible, you will get benefit too if it were to happen (I'm not aware of any politicians even thinking along these lines so I'm not expecting it to happen anyway this quantitative easing for the people looks more sensible to me than the current sort of QE).

It would cause some inflation but that would be largely compensated for by the cash handout.

The main entities that would suffer would be the banks as their balance sheets would shrink as people paid back their debts. The current quantitative easing process of printing money and giving it to the banks isn't really stimulating the economy just keeping asset prices up.

Read some of Steve Keen's stuff, his mathematical model of the economy seems highly plausible to me and he is one of the very few to have modeled and predicted the economic crisis well before it occurred.
Here's what helps me (with a fulltime job paying the mortgage and kids to feed as well).

Make lists. Make estimates. Identify where in your free time you can do "things" but most importantly WHAT is best doing at that time - ie product development, marketing, phone calls etc etc. No point developing something during the working hours when you need to get in touch with people. Identify when you are most creative, most interrupted, most chatty and do the task that fits those gaps.
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One interesting solution would be to have the html contain/display the exact date, so any scrapers etc. have access to the precise date BUT use a Javascript/CSS overlay the relative date on top of that exact date.
Check out the first commit to this project: https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition/commit/fcb103e966f777...
See for example [2] which is a post from a Xfce developer on why XFCE had to drop support for the BSD's.

It seems like you can run XFCE on BSD, but some features are not supported.. That said, their about page isn't entirely honest, it should mention what features are Linux-only.
Sure, but one would hope that they -would- know how to look to see whether the number for the bus they wanted was present.
It's internal combustion engine research really. The potential outcome will be massive improvement in thermal efficiency and as such, reduced emissions.
How does iOS and USB mix? Is it just a TCP protocol and the real USB i/o happens on a mac?
I mostly work on desktop/laptop systems in a workstation setting. Do you think BSD is a good choice for such platforms, or is it strictly a server thing?

Guess it depends on you're hardware and what you want to do. I boot FreeBSD on my desktop when I want to code and Windows for most other things.
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You're getting the paypal charity rate, right? I thought I saw in your faq that you mentioned 2.9%, but the 501c3 rate is 2.2%: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/donations
These Chinese copy everything !
Samsung has a wider product range than Apple. If the same number of presently-sold products of both companies are banned, it will have a bigger effect on Apple.

This is South Korea, owned by Samsung. Samsung are absolutely not going to be punished in any meaningful way in South Korea.
With a consumer, the loss is much harder to show as it's difficult to prove that if they hadn't downloaded for free, they would have purchased.

But I don't think it's hypocritical to create that divide - after all there are many exceptions already in existence to the right to prevent copying. Private use would just be another addition.

It also reflects what should be the reality, i.e. that in many cases, you will want to pursue the party that is making money from your creation, because they will be the ones more likely to have money to pay damages, plus it will be easier to show damage.
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I immediately thought of the end of the movie 'Ghost World' for some reason.
If you have stats to back up your assertions, present them. So far all you've done is made ad-hominem attacks against the authors of my study and incorrect claims about it's contents.
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It's such an outrage! Don't they know that some token glass pearls go a long way?
Prefer ninite.com. (no register. All essentials on 1 page.) But this wins visually.
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Compare with this story from April where Nestlé won. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/nestle-nespresso-i...)

See also razors with disposable heads; printers and carts; etc.

There is continuing litigation about this patent across Europe; there's also a trademark problem being litigated in Switzerland. Nestlé is likely to appeal the German decision.
Thanks for the comment! every feedback is very much appreciated!
Just because a product uses open technology, it doesn't necessarily undermine the labour and creative skill that a person puts into creating a product from the open technology available. This could be the same skill put into a non-open source piece of software, just that the opportunity to copy isn't so readily available.

Also, saying that the person who copied the website could build around the website in no time at all rather assumes that they have the skill to do so.
What? Apple's monopoly in Korea? What on earth are you talking about?
The people brazen enough to copy .jars and source code seem to be disproportionately Chinese.
I read it that he's saying he expects people are going to disagree and down vote rather than encouraging it - the difference between "I expect this is doing to go down badly" and "I don't care what you all think".
As others have already mentioned, it's a trade off. They remember it for you, wholesale. This works out great when you need to install an app that you bought already onto a new device, etc. The people who really care/need about this type of privacy are surely not "scared". They already know how to avoid these helpful service, right? It's not rocket science. If it matters to you, then you figure out how to do it. The paid app vendors (Apple, etc) really are trying to be helpful here, not nefarious, imo.
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>reject the science of economics and embrace pseudo-science.

You seem to be ignoring the fact that many professional practitioners of the "science" of economics disagree with your analysis. You can't just say that the guys who agree with you are good economists, and those who don't are bad economists.
"I know I'm going to get downvoted for this" is not appropriate on HN.
Many (if not most) successful side projects are a success because they solve a problem that someone has. The first someone is typically "you". So if you're not solving a problem for yourself you won't spend any time on your projects. For example, A friend of mine scores little league baseball games every night and was tired of using a pencil and papper. He was interested in learning how to write an Android app, so he wrote one to keep baseball game scores. He has no intentions of releasing it, but assuming he wanted to, a big portion of the work is done already.

I think this is the reason why you see so many task and schedule planners. No-one has "solved" the problem of keep track of your tasks and checking them off. We have a bunch of people annoyed with themselves for forgetting things and writing new apps to solve the problem, from their own perspective.

So look for something in your life that you or a family member repeatedly does, which is boring, not productive and not fun. Write an app to make it productive and fun. Then if it works for you, it might work for others. They may also find it useful.
I actually prefer the second (complicated) example: everything that happens on the success of the call is right there. If it were to grow more complicated than that I'd move it to its own function and perhaps break it into a few functions: not into several objects.

I find firing events to be useful when I'm writing code that's not meant to be directly accessed, e.g. a jQuery plugin.
the business model of a merchant is to buy something cheap and sell it at a more expensive price. if this business model would be copyrightable than nobody else would be allowed (not until he/she licensed it) to buy something cheap and sell it at a more expensive price.

the one merchant who invented this concept would then be the only merchant in the world, and as the other guy who invented "licensing" would probably not have "licensed" licensing to the merchant (as the merchant would then have a license on licensing and would have just licensed licensing to other people) the merchant would be forever the only merchant in the world.

note: yeah i know this is absurd, but not as absurd as the notion, that business models are copyrightable. (or should not get copied because of .... whatever)
"While C itself is a relatively rigid language"
While I condemn what they have done, this is what you're open to if you try to create HTML5 games, as the whole UI is just one wget away.
I'm offering to switch places with you. There are no Apple stores nor Amazon here. We have sugar Coke though...
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I would say such calculations are made much easier if time stamps are expressed in ISO format where all parts of the date are in order and numeric.

2012-04-12 10:09 PST

Since it is August 2012 now it is roughly 4 months ago (and one rarely needs more precision than this).
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Carbon copying another persons work without putting in a minuscule amount of effort is different from taking a proven business model and rolling it out in a different market. It's not like the Samwers steal the sourcecode and design put a new name on it and call it a day. There have real offices, real engineers, real designers, real marketers. You might think cloning a business model is despicable but there is a real effort involved in executing it. Not to mention that unlike in the case of this article the Samwers don't go into already preoccupied markets but rather aim to tap new ones.
Samsung own the South Korean government. Samsung had the government delay the introduction of the iPhone to South Korea to give them time to clone it (the phone that Apple was paying them to manufacture!), so that they'd at least find it easier to break their domestic market with their clone.

Apple lost your respect for going against this?

If you were Apple, you would love to see Samsung win?
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This is an interesting series. I've always been fascinated with Matlab and Mathmatica ever since I took a class on floating point precision errors in college. I hope one day I get to work on a program that requires those algorithms to be used.
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Hey guys,
What are the standard hourly-rate in you country for php part-time developers(or any part-time developers you are aware of).
I am currently in Singapore, so if you know anything about Singapore rates, please enlight me!

Thanks!
Chrome's Webstore[1] is even uglier imho, but yeah as far as package managers go I wouldn't want to use it to be honest. The whole Windows 8 style on XP doesn't help either.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore?hl=en-US
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Is this something that Apple would approve?
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PC-BSD is nice. But if you want to know how FreeBSD works, it is best to install it using the command line tools. For GUI-based systems akin to Ubuntu, there is not much difference between say Ubuntu and PC-BSD.
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Samsung fired the first shot when they had the South Korean government delay the introduction of the iPhone to South Korea to give them time to develop a clone.
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Great idea, but make it a website instead of a pdf (or as well as) so sorting and searching and stuff can be done?
So you have some change, either an xhr or a dom event. You want it to trigger a bunch of other changes somewhere else.

One approach is to call functions (or call functions that call functions...) that directly make that change. This method is fairly clear to read but it becomes messy when more logic gets involved.

The Backbone approach is actually similar to writing a really good jQuery plugin. When the change happens, you convert the raw xhr or dom event into a custom event that is in the language of your domain model. Then anyone who wants can do what they want with it: views can update themselves, other models can update their data and check it with validations, throwing other events, so that changes propagate naturally through the system.

If you aren't familiar with Backbone or MVC this code initially appears to be spaghetti: why does this one event result in functions all over being called, seemingly randomly, even though they're never called directly?

But after a bit of practice, you get used to the pattern. And I find it an excellent way of structuring large front-end applications with lots of reusable behavior.

My mental model of such applications is a directed graph connected by events. Each object has a set of events it is interested in and listening to, and a set of events it is responsible for and firing.
Stimulus is more about wealth redistribution in times of duress, when income equality is seriously out of whack. The only problem today is that the money is coming from low interest loans from China vs. heavy taxes on the rich (as during the Great Depression).

The flipside of stimulus spending is supply-side economics (or Voodoo economics according to the elder Bush), where cutting taxes magically increases revenue since there is more economy to tax. In reality, they basically drive up inequality, though either position can be useful in moderation and both are incredibly damaging when used too much.

Neither technique is based on scientific theory, rather they are more like strategies or heuristics to be used in managing the economy that are based more on experience and perhaps ideology. Economics is not a hard science, its a social science. So is forecasting their effects, or forecasting future economic behavior; without stimulus unemployment might have been worse, meaning Obama could have been more optimistic about the future outlook of the economy at that time.
There was a similar incident that someone posted on Reddit recently, however, not using HTML5.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yc02l/some_company_i...
The "everything is an event" paradigm is a bit overused. There is overhead to event libraries. You should really only use them when you think an object will be observed in more than one place. Otherwise an obj.onsuccess works just fine.
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No. Most of it is smoke and mirrors. It'd hard to get funding anywhere. It's just easier to find the vcs but that doesn't mean it's any easier to get funded. I'd suggest going solo without funding. I sink my own cash into my company so I can control it without having to report in weekly to someone that doesn't know my business
That's like saying a book is not copyrightable because anybody who understands that language can easily copy it. Of course things built on the web in HTML5 can be copyrighted, regardless of how easy one can copy them.

Protecting them is another matter and I agree with you on that. You can go to great lengths to obfuscate the code or whatever but in the end anybody with enough skill and motivation will be able to copy your work.
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Thanks for the suggestion,
would try and setup website as well.
In the meantime if you can have a look at this
http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month
Neither of those two solutions are correct. They only work in a some cases. You need a more advanced detection algorithm for this. Preferably one based on the Olson database, since time zones have changed over the years and you want to be able to display past dates correctly.

This solution linked from your second link looks more correct.

https://bitbucket.org/pellepim/jstimezonedetect/src/e265c8ed...

But still I am not sure if this is the right way to do it.
That is naturally a 'cosmo effect' like reading Cosmo leaves every girl with an impression that she's fat and everyone else has alot better sex. You just don't know about those have failed.