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1. Should I sell the IP rights to my software?

If you don't do this then what would you do? Are you planning on selling the app yourself once it's developed? If you were then you need to evaluate both options and decide for yourself (or with more input from HN after more details are given) which is the best choice.

2. What are the disadvantages of selling the IP rights?

You can't make your app again, for yourself or anyone else. You might not even be able to use certain functions of code you've written for the app in any new apps you wish to create, depending on how the contract is written. Get a good lawyer for this.

3. Why would they be after the IP of this software?

To protect them from competition down the road. They want to make sure that you don't re-sell your app (or future derivatives of said app) to other companies while they are working on profiting with this app.

4. If I do decide to sell the IP rights, how much should I charge for it? How is this calculated?

This really depends on what the app is, what it's worth to you, what it's worth to them, and if an agreeable middle can be found. Try to guess how valuable this app is to them based on what they sell, and how well this app will add to their bottom line. There may also be lawyers that specialize in IP pricing.

5. What is a good model for a working arrangement between my company and this other company?

I would suggest having your company produce for their company as a client. Don't let them buy you. Let them buy your product. They may try to reel you in as a contractor or even employee. Just remember to operate with them as a representative of your company. This keeps your options open down the road.

6. It was suggested to me that I sell the IP rights, then have a contract stipulating the price of each feature they want built. Is this a good idea?

Well, the less ambiguity in a contract the better. I don't have any information about your app or the company, so I can't judge them. I would probably negotiate with them, saying: you can buy this unfinished app as is, with no support, and then hire me as a consultant if you need help finishing it, or you could buy this app with future developments built in to the contract price. Make sure that it is cheaper for them to spend more now, than to just buy the minimum.

Goodluck! I hope that helped!
The problem is that the notion of an income tax is considered a legitimate way of funding the government. In reality the government should be funded by property, sales, and tarrif taxes (not protective tarrifs, just a fee to offset the cost of government).

The current income tax we have now is worse than the serfs had, @least they only had to work 1 or 2 days on the fields for no pay. We have to do that on our income, let alone all the other taxes and fees we need to pay.
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Why do you say that you can't believe that people still use it in this day and age? Does Norton have a reputation for being absoluately terrible that I'm not aware of?
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Hey HN. Is anyone else experiencing an issue with exceedingly long load times for the Threads link? Recently the page has either failed to load or only loads part of the way (page is done but no threads are shown). I've had this issue at home and at school, with Firefox and Chrome (but I've only tried it on this computer).

Other info: Cookies/cache cleared, no dice. Once it's loaded the first time it's usually pretty snappy to get back to it.
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Also, three grand per person per year is what the so-called "socialist" countries spend on healthcare. In the US it's twice as much yet a sizable number of people have no access to healthcare at all.
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That's the reason for the heavily-graduated property tax -- to target specifically those who might have profited under the bubble, yet who are not profiting as much now.

I never intimated that "the government is fleecing the average taxpayer more than it is fleecing the rich." (Although Warren Buffet has said just that.) And since we own the government, I find "fleece" to be a strange word. Yes, the rich pay a higher rate on some of their income. And what we're saying here is that there should be even higher rate for income over a million.
I sort of half-expected a giant pile of money with the Joker sitting on top of it, gasoline nearby.
Yeah, but when you get the ice cream it's packed in dry ice.
You can have a Moment of Science as you drop them into warm water.

If you put a fair dollar value on your time, it's shocking how much a trip to the grocery store costs.
Unemployment in the US can be tricky to get. You need to be laid off in the proper manner and then you can only collect for 9 months on average. It would definitely be enough that you don't need to live on tents. It's different in every US state.

Here is one program in social welfare program in PA: a lot of college kids working 20 hours a week in minimum wage jobs qualify even if they're aware. I know someone who did it, apparently there are multiple interviews that are annoying. http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/ServicesPrograms/FoodStamps/ I can't find the specific figures right now but regular old welfare is now called TANF. I remember seeing the numbers paid and they were laughable, not enough to pay rent.
If even typed signature is legally valid, then what's the point in using the service?
Interesting, if a bit of a downer, regarding the singularity, particularly since I'm at the moment reading Stross's "Accelerando", which is all about the Singularity happening in the next few decades.

But hey, it's fiction.

Funny that he reckons that in order for a singularity (i.e. emergence of a super-intelligence) to make a difference to 99.99% of us, it needs to be "interested in us" - and suggests that this would be unlucky. I'm not so sure about that.
Well then, you can oppose the measure and present arguments against it, but calling it OMG COMMUNISM OMG is intellectually dishonest.
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here is the conclusion paragraph:
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Cool stuff! But this sentence makes me cringe:

"Liskov [...] was recognized for helping make software more reliable, consistent and resistant to errors and hacking." (emphasis mine)

From MIT, of all places!
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I just started using a local CSA and love it. This is a perfect site for the farmers market crowd.
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Thanks for your informative reply!

1. I was thinking there may be other avenues. Perhaps licensing? However I believe this would mean lawyers would be needed to draft up the license and ultimately would cost much more in time and effort. Also not sure if this is an attractive option.

2. I have written some libraries which I use in other apps - mainly the backend, asynchronous networking code. I would like to use this in other apps I develop in the future. I suppose this would mean a clause would have to be introduced into the contract?

3. Makes sense.

4. Yes this is the kind of ambiguous answer I didn't want but knew I would get! :) I find it extremely hard to determine the value of this app to them and this is the question causing me the most stress. They have told me they wish to distribute it for free on the App Store and that the benefit for them is the large value-add for their clients. A director also dropped a figure in casual conversation with me and mentioned that I may be able to ask for higher than that. But where did he come up with that figure and how does he know I can go higher, and how do I know how high I can go?

5. What is the difference between my company producing for them as a client, and my company being contracted by them? Or do you mean, do not become a contractor as an individual, but rather deal with them through my company?

6. Yes they seemed to like me charging per feature. A contractual agreement seems to be the way to go.
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This experimental search is very well done. Will definitely recognizes a problem a lot of us are having with trivial day-to-day stuff such as looking up documentation for a Django function or class. I know a lot of my time is spent looking up functions.

Because of this, I've been working a light-weight search-engine to sift through the Django source code:

http://www.djangocodesearch.com

Hopefully it'll help you find the code you're looking for, fast.

In regards to vertical search, I feel like the biggest barrier to competing with G/Y/M is the relative difficulty a user has to go through to reach the actual search page before entering in the information. If its more than a few key strokes away, then the user has a natural tendency to resort to the Big 3 engine which are situated conveniently in their search bar.

Adding a Firefox Keyword Search would definitely be a step in the right direction, but unfortunately the other browsers don't have that facility.
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Ask HN: SVN updates summary
HN : I want to achieve the following.

I have checked out source code from a SVN server, which is not in my control. I would like to know whenever there are new updates available and classify those as modification, new additions etc.
Googling led me to believe "svn status --show-updates" was the command I wa slooking for. However when I run it on the repository root, it does not gives me the A/M flags but just * in status column. Any ideas on how to get this? TIA.
This is anecdotal evidence, obviously...

Case 1

Background: my partner is an IT technician. He works in the school that I attended when I was younger. We originally met when I was still in school.

About 9 years ago, before I was in any way IT literate, my mum had a computer running Norton AV. It was slow, and not just because the hardware of the time wasn't up to spec - Norton was seriously hogging the resources, and the computer was loaded down with various viruses. We didn't know this at the time, and I had my partner - the IT technician - make a personal visit to my home on a weekend to see if he could fix the problem.

He was working on the computer from around lunch time on the Saturday until near 11pm, and then had to return again on the Sunday, just to get the computer back to a safe, useable state. Norton AV was replaced with AVG, and that computer never had problems again.

Case 2

My partner knows a nice lady called Brenda. She had a laptop, given to her by her son, that was also running Norton AV. We've been round to fix a few issues on multiple occasions, but none more 'stunning' than the time my partner removed Norton and installed AVG and Spybot; the virus/trojan/etc count totalled over 1000. I have no idea how that machine was even running.

Case 3

My colleagues work machine, also running Norton. I removed it last year and installed Avast. As well as finding a couple of issues, the overall performance of the computer improved remarkably.

Apart from those 3 specific incidents, over the past few years I have advised multiple people online to remove Norton and install something like AVG or Avast, and the response has always been positive. At the end of the day, even ignoring my experience, I could never trust a program that has to be released with a "removal tool", because the uninstall process doesn't remove the program from the system properly.
As any other engineer, I have used MATLAB quite a lot. Unfortunately I am not as familiarized with Mathematica. I thought Mathematica was mostly symbolic computation. I didn't know it did numerical computation (such as FEM) as well. Thanks for the info!
I don't think even printed lettering would necessarily make you a bad author would it?
Check out http://stackoverflow.com. Hacker News isn't a tech support site.
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You are talking about the structural homeless crowd which will exist regardless of the circumstance. They exist here in Denmark, where they could have a nicer home than I currently have if they could be bothered to go ask for it at the social center.

However, at the point where the homeless population becomes camps, it has grown beyond the mentally ill or critically inept.

I do not believe living inside a piece of cloth raised on the bare earth without sanitation (or anything else really) is a choice sane people would make, just to avoid work.
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I am completely burnt out working in big companies. I've been trying to get on with a startup here in San Francisco for the last couple of weeks but have had zero success.
I'm getting to the point where if nothing changes in a week, I will throw everything I am into trying to build and launch a product I have had in mind for months.

I'm scared though. I only have enough personal runway for about 4 months. I don't have contacts with any VC/angel type people. I don't know anyone who can advise me on the crucial aspects of forming a company in California or anything dealing with the IRS. Where do I start? Am I just crazy even though I'm unhappy?
More of an Etsy.
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How would you create a stand-alone executable file using MATLAB?
I use SQuirrelSQL[http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/] and it works great... it's free, open-source and cross-platform... what else could I ask for.
I can confirm that. Long before I started using Linux and OS X, I had an oldish Windows PC that had Norton on it. Replacing it with AVG not only sped up my PC, AVG also got rid of several hundered pieces of malware.
To be fair, the article wasn't advocating the taxing of capital. It was advocating the taxing of income.

Also, money never just "disappears" from the economy unless you destroy it. Who do you think buys the goods and/or services that your rich capitalists create, thereby enabling them to make new jobs and new products? In large part, it's the poor people. Or at least, the somewhat poorer people.
Since every commit (consisting of any number of files, anywhere in the tree) changes the global repository revision, you can examine the log while at the top level to see all changes that were made.

Try verbose mode, e.g. "cd trunk" and "svn log -r HEAD -v". You should see additional output that lists all changed paths with the usual "M" or "A" markers, etc. next to each. You can specify any revision number, not just HEAD, of course.

I also recommend grabbing the whole book for Subversion, which is free online (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/).
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The US IRS claims a right on your income for ten years after you renounce citizenship, which given the hoops you have to jump through to renounce US citizenship is a bit rich.
Very cool. Anything to make advertising more targeted and relevant is a great thing. Both for advertisers and consumers.

I'm sure someone somewhere will be up in arms completely missing the point, complaining that Google is tracking their every move though.
Here's the chart I'm pretty sure you're thinking of: http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AH556B_ranso_200...

from the 2008 Wall Street Journal article titled "You Can't Soak the Rich": http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121124460502305693.html

The phenomenon is called Hauser's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser's_Law

and intelligent criticism of the chart can be found here: http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/odd-numbers/2008/05/20/...
If I said "woman need to be protected from politics", I think you'd justifiably interpret that as suggesting that they be protected from themselves. Maybe you think they should be protected from themselves, but that is what you're doing, essentially, when you try to shield someone from exposure to ideas and the capacity/responsibility to make judgments about those ideas.

Put another way: you're trying to deny them the opportunity to make a certain choice (that is, vote) for their own good. That is the definition of protecting someone from them-self.
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Absolutely - I'd advise licensing if you can so that you own the code, and if you'd like to retain the libraries you will have to anyway.

You'll absolutely need a lawyer.

Lawyers who deal with IP at this level are usually hard to find - where are you located, maybe HN can help you find someone?
This "bugger your neighbor" attitude that prevails in this country is removing every freedom that we teach our children make this country great.

Hell yes. Take more money at the point of a gun, why not? They have more money than you do, the greedy bastards. They don't deserve it. You deserve that money, or you know somebody that does. Go for it!
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Still, it's an amazing achievement considering he is a geek approaching 60. Hope I'll be just as sprightly when I get to that age.
I don't understand how the scoring works. Was everyone invited back for the next week? Or there were some people that were judged lower than Woz?

Clearly he has having a good time.
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I am located in Sydney.
So if you're a mechanic making $40K a year and win the lottery or something for one year and make $200K, you're rich and owe the rest of us a greater percentage than you did the year before?

Likewise if you're a multimillionaire video-store owner who has a bad year and only makes $40K you're poor, and deserve some money from the mechanic?

What ever happened to the idea of treating each voter the same as every other voter? It seems to me like any kind of segmenting -- by income, by net worth, by religion, by race, by looks, etc -- starts to pit groups of people against each other.

I don't think there are lines, or rather I think drawing them is a really bad idea.
Whilst I am in agreement 35 writes is serious overkill I would dispute that a single write is suitable.

Because of how standard data wiping software works one single pass would leave lots of traces. Perhaps not enough to pull entire documents etc. but with professional reconstruction software quite a lot of date can be recovered (I do this every week in my job). Given that you can guess at the contents of portions of the data (the OS :)) rebuilding is fairly easy.

3 passes is the correct method. One pass writing random data, one pass writing the 2's complement data (these passes ensure every bit has been "moved") then write it out with ) 0's. This ensures nearly untraceable data.
well ideally we would have no subsidies at all. if investors were taxed less there would be more investment money for small businesses and we wouldn't need the government stepping in. It bothers me the extent to which government creates problems and then justifies its existence by stepping in to 'solve' them. Hacker News is a natural environment for free market ideology because anyone that has ever tried to start a small business has immediately realized how inimical the state is to commerce. It's been so bad for so long that we all have Stockholm syndrome.

but yes, I just came up with that fish bit, and will be using it again in the future :)
Subsidize fishing polls, not fish.

Very nice analogy. As a libertarian, its always created a little bit of cognitive dissonance in my mind when I've had a think about something and come to the conclusion that the government should engage in some wealth redistribution to achieve certain goals. This helps sort some of that out. Hope you don't mind if I borrow it the next time I defend my views in libertarian circles...

Now I am terribly sorry, I've tried mightily to resist, but in these polls, do you suppose most salmon polled would be for or against these new tax brackets?...apologies.
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Following on from yesterday's debate on the suggested banning "coding horror" from HN here is a fun post that could get us all thinking about the very thorny issue of communicating application problems to the user.
screw that, lets take away the ability to vote from adults who act like children. The founding fathers didn't limit voting to white male landowners purely for racist sexist reasons. Landowners have a vested interest in the long term productivity of their region, as well as having shown themselves to be productive enough to get the land in the first place. On top of that, who is most affected by taxes? Producers and landowners again.
A single 50 cal. is a solution to piracy. Modern pirates are very poorly armed; they're just attacking ships which have mostly been stripped to a single pistol through law or policy.
it was down for me for at least 5 hours today. HOURS, not minutes...
That, and the fact that they are giving away their knowledge and experience to anyone who wants to listen. (Plus repackaging it and selling it to anyone who want to pay for it.) Anyone who doesn't appreciate that can simply not listen to them — it's an odd request for anyone to ask people to stop publishing stuff on their own website. I for one am thankful for their free advice.

People tend to dislike the way their advice is definitive, they see a trait of arrogance in that. Me, I think of it more as being non-fuzzy, they cut through to the gist and the focal points.
Well, there's never been this many people crammed into one government before, in several cases, and it's clear that some forms of government scale better than others, so it seems unlikely to me that everything that can be known about social organization with billions of people is already known.
hear hear. capitalism has been perverted by the mass media so that seeking profits is now considered a negative thing. but wait a minute, profit means that customers are buying what you're selling at the price you set. That means that your company is producing things people want. anti-capitalism is an impossible position. tantamount to saying you don't want people to produce things that you want.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

Wow.
They're not saying to not use an advertising model.

They're saying "don't forget about the regular old proven model of charging money for your product — it's still relevant and it has these great attributes, here's our experience with it".

Don't take their advice personally, because it's not. They're just broadcasting their own experience.
well they are tracking their every move!