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It's an interesting question, both for early stage and more advanced startups. I'd put Huddle in the latter camp; they're the London tech entrepreneurship scene's darlings, they're kinda the star British startup at the moment, and it really makes sense for them to get more exposure and credibility abroad. On the other hand going to SF puts them right against a ton of baby competitors and of course good old 37s.

For those of us starting out, we have the same question and decision to make - try to start abroad and establish credibility, contacts and capital from the start, or build up brick by brick in the UK and then move once we have made our name locally. There is never going to be a right, one-size-fits-all answer. For example, I'm in Edinburgh because that's the best place to be for the tech I'm developing, but it's certainly not the best place to be for the business - so I'll move. Right at the early stages, it's more about cost of living versus opportunities than easy access to millions of VC money anyway.

One caveat to note though, as a lawyer I recently spoke to told me: if you incorporate in the US, even if you're British through and through, you're going to have trouble attracting UK money. You're also going to have extra legal fun if you do return to the UK, since most UK lawyers aren't experts in US corporate law so you'll have to hire someone specialist or across the pond. Similarly if you incorporate in the UK and then want to do stuff in the US, you'll run into fun there too. Bottom line is leave off incorporating as long as possible :P
Can the editors add an apostrophe to "pages"? Apologies in advance for my insanity, but I really did trip over this headline and had to re-read.
It's cool but I can't think of a case to use it for. What problem does this solve?
I don't know why the CEO of that company is being that obstinate about paying you money you clearly have rights to (the agreement). Given the fact that he now knows he owes you money, assuming he didn't before (although the old CEO should have filled him in right?), and he still doesn't want to pay makes me think he is going to have trouble coming up with the money, even if he wants to pay you. The economy is... well, you know.

I don't know the details of whats going on here, but from what information I do have, I suggest you work out some other form of payment (with lawyers of course...keep in mind this is to make it easier for them to pay you the $9400 they owe you, you aren't making a "new" deal per say). Instead of forking over $9400 in cash, maybe you could work it out so that company can pay in you $9400 in services, or something along those lines.

If that doesn't work, then by all means sue the guy. You have every right in the world to do so. Don't worry about if it looks "dickish" or not, you need to get that money back in one way or another.

Good luck.
If they could put it on the internet while they're airing it on TV that would certainly be the best.

Still, I give them great credit.
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If you set iTunes to automatically sync music to your iPod, you'll need to enable disk use; connect your iPod to your Mac, open iTunes, and select your iPod in the Source pane under Devices. Click the Summary tab (or Settings tab for iPod shuffle) and then select the "Enable disk use" checkbox. Your iPod will now mount as a drive volume on your desktop whenever you connect it.

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"In both cases someone enjoyed the fruits of your labor without compensating you for it."

What labour? I didn't expend any labour at all making a copy of that program. Why should I be compensated? Why should I even know?

Your thesis relies upon an arbitrary, and I would say quite baseless, link between a piece of information of whatever form and some kind of implied reward for its originator. But this system breaks down completely when copies can be made at almost zero cost. The labour and hence reward does not and should not multiply automatically in proportion to the number of copies in existence. How could it?

As an example of how arbitrary and harmful your belief system is, take, say, mathematical theorems. As you know, we have many mathematicians around the world. They work, very hard, on extending mathematical knowledge. And yet, unlike a movie or a song, a mathematical theorem is not copy-protectable.

You use any number of those theorems every day, if not directly then in the products in your life. No mathematicians are being compensated for your use of their labours. No-one suggests that unless mathematics are copy protected (life plus 75), that people will stop doing maths. Why isn't that protected too? Especially considering mathematics is rather more important for our society than a few movies?

Information in and of itself has no "reward" value, zip, zero. It may, of course, have immense "use to society" value - hence the importance of its sharing, as wide as possible and as easily as possible.

More along the "examine your beliefs" theme: why is there such a discrepancy between patents and copyrights? I happen to believe in patents, if done properly. They encourage innovation in manufacturing and technology. They are of immense importance. And yet patents are generally 20 years.

Why so short? To encourage innovation, of course.

Why are copyrights so long? To encourage innovation, of course.

Do you detect any cognitive dissonance in the two above statements?

Right, I'll stop before I go any further off along this tangent : )
I bought this book, skimmed through it, then returned it. I found the fluff to info ratio a little too high for my personal needs.
this is an actual possibility, watching the flynn effect in devloping vs industrialized nations is what led to the idea (AFAIK)
there's not enough data to be able to draw any conclusions, partly due to the stigma of intelligence research.
YouTube has to do this to dig out of their gigantic monetization hole:

http://www.businessinsider.com/is-youtube-doomed-2009-4

They have a net loss of _half a billion dollars a year_. Even at Google that's not the kind of number you can ignore.

Basically, YouTube gives a ton of revenue to small video producers who are popular in niches, but doesn't earn any money from those guys because advertisers are too scared to put ads on user-generated content. So instead of changing advertiser behaviour (which would be really hard), they are instead trying to funnel users to content that can be easily monetized. It remains to be seen if this will work or just piss off their users and kill YouTube.
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Um... does this actually have anything to do with Silicon Valley?
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The legal hassles with running a legal tracker would be horrendous. I think every major contract would have to be renegotiated. How would you divide up royalties for song downloads? And would torrent distribution even be covered in current contract?
We bought one of these. It's awesome.
Right, so this isn't news in that it's new technology. It's news in that the JVM is becoming a better platform & catching up, technologically, to where other languages have been for years.

One nice thing about this is that all JVM languages get this improvement. Will it allow for more functional programming to be done? I wonder what it'll do for non-Java performance - say for Scala, JRuby, Clojure, etc.
agreed (kinda)

TDD has nothing to do with fixing bugs, bugs are where the program differs from its specification, TDD is about creating that specification, in a way that can be tested.
They have a net loss of _half a billion dollars a year_

Repeating this ad infinitum doesn't make it true. A single report, from a single analyst, speculated that they may be losing that much.
Firebug lets you change CSS and HTML and displays the result immediately on your screen. Sometimes with a strange display bug I'll go through and make a number of CSS changes until some combination of them have magically fixed my bug. This plugin will tell me everything that I've done so that I can make the necessary changes to the actual files.
I had to design something like this recently for a consulting job and here's what I did. These steps were in addition to him writing a document that covered the basics of supporting the program (that he could give to support people)

First, I convinced the client to not have phone support. My argument was that e-mail support was sufficient if you put a guarantee above the e-mail link (something like "every e-mail answered within an hour of being received")

Second, I designed a very simple system that would allow him to hire freelance help. Basically all the support e-mails went to my custom e-mail program (I use .net and aspose components so it only took me a few hours). The e-mail program logs the question and when the support person e-mails a response it turns the response in to a knowledge base article (that the users could also view)

Third, to further simplify the process I built a very simple keyword search into the e-mail program so that it could suggest solutions that might work to the support person. If the support person sees a solution they like they can send it as a reply with one click.

Finally, I had him recruit people off Scriptlance. He created shifts where people could monitor the system while they were doing other things. Because they were from overseas and didn't have to speak fluent English (just write it) this labor was extremely cheap. They were then paid a flat fee plus extra for each support request. He ended up able to afford 3 people per shift, 24 hours a day with the same money he was going to pay to get one support person.

Anyway, sorry for the long post but I really am kind of proud of the idea (now that I'm a few months out and I know that it worked). Hopefully if you can't do something like this it will at least help you to "think outside the box"
He said TDD isn't any good at fixing bugs, and the loud retort is that it isn't any good at fixing bugs. How is this misunderstanding TDD? If anything, I suggest he understands it and also understands that his readership don't understand it and he's cautioning them against misusing it.

All in all, I'd say the people who say that TDD isn't about fixing bugs are in violent agreement with Jeff.
How about getting a couple of college students who get paid on a per-call basis? Then you find a way of routing the calls to their personal lines, using for example the services that the telephone sex people use?

Get cheap phones with extra numbers, so they can answer professionally, and don't open with "DUUUDE" or something like that.
The phrase "incremental and generational could run concurrently" is completely meaningless. "Incremental" implies "not concurrent", and "generational" is a feature you add so that "incremental" or "concurrent" collection can be done very quickly over a smaller reference graph.
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Have you tried by setting up a VPN instead of just a proxy server? I'm wondering if it's possible that Hulu's flash doesn't respect the proxy settings.
Interesting that the article mentions Michael Birch, UK born but as they point out made it in SV - then again, Birch has invested in some uk based web startups.
SV has it all, really, except one thing, which America lacks in general: a culture of quality. Europe has this, and as IT growth slows down for good, there will be more lucrative opportunities in fixing existing technologies that were originally rushed out in the US.
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reddit is blocked in my router... and the available time has increased to amazing levels.
Very interesting...

>> "I took some public lists of technology acquisitions in 2007 and 2008"

Not all startups are after the 'Acquisition' event either. I'd say if anything that would bias results in favor of the Valley. I don't know how you can really get a handle on the millions of 'startups' that just make money reasonably quietly.

Communities like HN, IRC channels, etc make me wonder more what the Valley has to offer. There's a whole array of cool online communities, and if you build something cool, people will start to contact you. I think face to face contact is needed less and less these days, unless you're trying to raise money.
> I have previously returned music to a store within my stautory rights period.

Well, if it's still got the anti-tamper strips and such on it, I guess. I've never tried to return an unopened CD, so I dunno about that (and how would I know I didn't like it, then?), but back when I bought CDs, I never had any success trying to return one that was opened. The stores have a policy against this because they assume you copied it first (to tape, originally).
The anti-California comments at the end are surprisingly hilarious, in a sour grapes kind of way.
i don't think i understand your comment, but it was pretty entertaining, nonetheless.
It's working for me. If you can give me some more details of what isn't working for you, I'll see what I can do to fix it.
Thoroughly mentioned in the post. Real conclusions would require much more data. Still, I thought it was interesting.
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And yet, on youtube it seems to work. I don't know exactly how widespread it is or what are the sums involved, but there are quite a few ad revenue sharing schemes running.

Might be because youtube (and google) are already too big to sue.
"If it's difficult, they're not going to tell me."
Ask HN: Embeddable Membership System (forum, pages)
Does anyone know of good embeddable membership systems that include forums and pages? By embeddable, I mean the system can be thrown into an iframe and manages login/logout through a cookie. I'm helping an organization that uses Wild Apricot for member-only forums and pages. Was curious if there are other turn-key solutions around.
Love the joke - never heard it before, so certainly worth repeating.

Too bad that it is oh so true...
Yaw, given the source of the lists (TechCrunch, VentureBeat-- two American Valley Blogs), I imagine there is a bit of a Valley slant.

And, as you say-- tons of startups are actually aiming for a profitable business and don't care so much for exits.
Think of Legalese as C++ for the law. Very powerful, often verbose, and very easy to get into trouble if you don't understand how it works.

Many awkward sounding phrases actually refer to a specific case law precedent. Judges are disinclined to contradict a previous ruling. By inserting the phrase into a contract and both parties agreeing to the contract you actually save time/money because when it comes time to sue the issue has already been decided by the phrase. The court just needs to determine if the facts fit the previous case law.

Think of these awkward sounding phrases as macros that other people have written over decades and now belong to the common code base called case law. They might be very difficult to understand at first, but their near universal meaning makes them more valuable than writing your own 'clearer' version. If your version goes to court the judge will have to interpret your new language instead of referring to prior case law. Since most judges are very busy and you clearly don't know what you were doing they will probably ignore your language. Just pray you didn't let the other party insert theirs.

What's more each type of law has it's own specific phrases. A construction law attorney was explaining to me that the specific phrase 'workmanlike performance' can create a warranty that may not be implied by law for the specific services at issue. But 'does good job' isn't the same thing.
We did this too, for broadcaster accounts. I was surprised to see a justin.tv beta code auctioned on ebay at one point!
Wow. The creator of this video has a rather large sense of entitlement.
Well, Sun's JVM has been generational for a long time. It's the incremental & compacting implementation that is new.
It was casual. But truthful in sentiment. You can see it as ironical in that I was educated by the Internet and not by being in the Bay Area. Yet, being in the Bay Area, making the right friends, and appropriately asking the right questions and exchanging ideas may prove more useful than the Internet, sometimes. (After all, the Internet is still by your side if you need it.)
Except that terrorism is almost exclusively seen by the public as morally wrong, it's just the governments attempts to 'fight' it that are misguided.

Terrorism is used as a tactic by militant groups that are too small to be taken seriously otherwise -- file sharing is supported by a near-majority (obviously opinion/personal experience, but as far as I can tell, there is wide support) and has only grown in strength in response to the ridiculous tactics used by the record and film industries to stop it.

Even those that do not download illegal content can experience the benefits that file sharing has influenced (to varying degrees): almost all major networks have content online, and services like Hulu have been growing at an extremely fast rate.

There is also the enormous benefit to content providers (media & software) that can now use the well-established P2P protocols [1] (mainly bittorrent).

The only similarity I can see between 'The war on P2P' and 'The war on terror' is that neither is likely to be successful.

[1] http://linuxtracker.org/
his sites don't have to rank #1 to get traffic. also other search engines might rank his sites higher. he's trying to get content to his site.
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Substitute terror with drugs, guns, poverty, or christmas.

It's all just a bunch of hoopla.
The stream was down for a while, it's up and working now, but the audio is kinda muffled. sounds like they're working on it.
Of course. I was pointing out that the parent comment was just a bunch of gc buzzwords strung together in a meaningless way.
Karma's a bitch, isn't it?
As a musician and songwriter I find it amusing that the large media conglomerates 'The Majors' did anything but create an closed system, that only that the anointed could enter.

I have watched the heavy-handed tactics of ASCAP / BMI in their 'enforcement', bulldozing anyone who would stand in their way. Not to mention the dragnet of lawsuits from the RIAA, using their copyright bludgeon.

The value you speak, was not created through true market forces but a controlled system of monopolies that relied on payola and 'insider information' to sustain their industry. It was 'services' such as Napster that opened people’s eyes to the true diversity of music, which never existed on mainstream radio.

The 'cottage industry' you refer is the power the 'modern musician' has at their fingertips, V.S. the controlled environment of the rent-a-studio producer and engineer, with a union watchdog that would make it impossible for the 'Artist' to touch a knob. If this story is to have a happy ending it will be the relegation of the Majors to marketing and distribution, signaling the end of their unsustainable business model.
As witty and funny as this comment was, is it really worth 60 upvotes?
Why there is no iTunes for movies.
Really. I completely agree. It's great to give feedback to a company on their products and services, but to tell the company 'we want this back, too bad if you can't make money off it', is going a bit far.
He's gotta realize that if there is a market for the smaller channels, either YouTube will figure it out (maybe with his help), or some other company will serve the need.
If not, than maybe there just isn't a market with a viable business model to make it work.
He can't expect a company to keep loosing money just so he has a place to put his videos.
>the majority of studies indicate...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

>that filesharing replaces demand for (paid) recorded music, rather than stimulating it

"Altin asked Wallis if there is any connection between illicit downloads and lost sales in the music industry. Contradicting the opinion of John Kennedy of the IFPI in his testimony yesterday, Wallis said that downloading caused an increase in sales of live event tickets and although there has been a reduction in CD sales, this won’t continue.

Wallis went on to explain that while some people download, these people also tend to buy more CDs than others that don’t. It’s not just downloading causing competition for the industry, other things have an effect such as the growth of computer games, he said."

"Professor and media researcher Roger Wallis appeared as an expert witness at the Pirate Bay trial yesterday. He was questioned on the link between the decline of album sales and filesharing. Wallis told the court that his research has shown that there is no relation between the two."

I suppose you did read TFA and related so you know who the man with the flower-showered wife is.
I know nothing makes me happier as a customer than calling a phone number for help, just to have it tell me to go back to the website that I found the phone number on.
Sorry, but this is not very accurate, and also quite dated (who cares about IE6 resizing anymore?)

Plus he missed two sizes: in and cm.
college student? i hear they love internships and are having a hard time finding them :)
I only see two posts about this on the front page. One is from torrentfreak, with obvious bias. The other (this one) is NYTimes. Both say that they were found guilty of violated copyright, sentenced to a year in prison and fined millions.

While I agree that we probably only need one story about this, I don't think two is really worth complaining about. This is truly a landmark case about a topic which is definitely of critical interest to many hackers here.
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Been bit by that more than a few times, that's why I always freeze rails now. It is the only way. Things should be simpler and more reliable.

ps. I love that you're running your blog through github. Very ingenious.
Ask HN: what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression
Assuming we are in a great depression, what kind of websites can we expect people to really need to use during this time? I can only think of grocery websites that people can use to find the cheapest food.
It looks like a great article (based on the beginning). Unfortunately, the whole article only seems to be only available for HBR subscribers.
I posted a reply here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=567497
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What about ad-hoc collaborative gardening/crop sharing? Skill sharing, car pooling and generally anything that fosters real community would do well I should imagine.
i think there are many car pooling websites out there already. But skill sharing would be cool; post/barter your skills. I can only think of craigslist as a good place to barter your skills
first social email filer... looks cool