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>the generally accepted rule of the game is that the first to the finish line gets to keep the logo.

Respectfully disagree.
The generally accepted law is clear enough, as I understand it: that you have (automatic) copyright over your own design work, but not your idea. (Bad Analogy: I am free to make a for-profit game about flinging red birds at pigs, but I can't use Rovio's code or the Red Bird graphic) If you work as a graphic designer, you need to understand how this impacts on your work.

If you wish to protect your design any further, you need to specifically register a trademark to prevent confusion between businesses in the same industry.

It's clear that they haven't copied your design - the appearance of the work is quite different - and besides it seems plausible or even likely they came up with the (very nice) idea independently.

This is also important to understand for people hiring graphic designers for freelance work - in the UK at least, the designer maintains the copyright for commissioned work unless contractually agreed otherwise (even though the business can still trademark it). In theory, the designer can later prevent you from repurposing one of their designs. For example, if you later decide to start selling merch for your brand, you may have to renegotiate with the designer.

Edited to carefully note: IANAL, take this as advice at your own risk.

Further international edit, from wikipedia, emphasis mine: The United States, Canada and other countries also recognize common law trademark rights, which means action can be taken to protect an unregistered trademark if it is in use.
It should be noted that many of those labor laws were pushed by industrialists. For example, the two Robert Peel (father and son) were wealthy industrialists which passed (as MPs) various acts setting minimum age and maximum working hours for children.
I mentioned on Twitter how my earlier pitches for what I'm working on focused a lot more on the reasons I'm doing it... attacking loneliness in cities and densely populated areas, and inspiring people to pursue their interests.

As the pitches to users and investors evolved, I realised I'd moved a long way from this and now mention just the numbers, just the personal benefits to the user.

No-one seems to care so much for any wider benefit... just the selfish* ones.

I haven't lost my faith, but I hope to build what I believe in as fait accompli rather than something needing individuals to think beyond themselves.

* Dictionary meaning, no offence intended or meant
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Americanesque? 80 hours? 3 hour commute? America is bigger than SV, my friend. Here in the midwest, you'd be VERY hard pressed to find a tech person that works more than 45-50 hours on a rough week. The longest I've ever commuted was about an hour, and that was because I lived 50 miles from where I worked (that is very unusual as well). As it stands right now, I live on the far end of one side of town (Indianapolis), and work is on the far end of the other side, and it takes me about 35 minutes.

I don't get paid for my time, I get paid for the value I bring to my company.
H^3 perhaps. There is a precedent. The Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz algorithm (LLL) is often called L^3, admittedly because the complexity is O(L^3) in the bit size L. Later a quadratic algorithm was discovered, cheekily called the L^2 algorithm. Later still it was done in quasilinear time. Unfortunately, the authors of those papers did not have the sense to have names starting with L.
Well fuck me.
This presumes there is no social benefit from the Internet. But there are loads of margalized groups who have been able to find a group and community thanks to quick and easy communication of the Internet. Just look at a lot of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people who wouldn't be able to find people like themselves in many places. I'd even think the more common acceptance of atheism is a result of this too.
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Hi all, I am new here and I want to contribute to the community.

So here's something really useful for every website owner:
It's the biggest collection of links I found on the web, where website owners and start-ups can submit their website (submit to blogs, guest articles, site directories, feedback and stuff like that). Seems like it's also being updated all the time.

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And if anybody knows of something similar please let me know.
Well, the median wage in Australia was A$57,400 [1] and US$50,000 [2], both in 2011.

[1] http://mattcowgill.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/what-is-the-typi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
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I'm not talking about my business... Please re-read.
Sitting all day on a chair, then going home to sit in front of a TV makes you fat, not exercising willpower and using your brain...
Very much agreed.

In addition...

Brain power is not a fungible resource. You cannot divert excess brain power to any task you choose. It's a highly specific, highly targeted resource which seems to me to be horribly capricious and (ironically?) irrational in its choice of target.

In other words, the answer for any app entrepreneur when asked "Why didn't you work on a cure for cancer?" is simply "Well, I didn't think of that. I thought of an app."

I like the apparent contradiction in the Telegraph article too:

"Hackers/entrepreneurs used to invent revolutionary things like the PC!"

"People are only using personal computing devices for trivialities!"

Either personal computing was a great idea or it's a platform for the trivial and banal, you can't have it both ways.
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But your body does have an energy construct, in the form of fats and sugars, and we can measure them, and we can relate their levels to the amount of force you're able to exert. We know that these things provide energy because we can measure the heat produced when we oxidize them. Compare with willpower - where is the physical thing that we can measure? It might be there, but presently we have no way of knowing.
The point of this article, but not the point of the Telegraph article the quote is from.
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I'm curious how many of HN readers have never played Angry Birds. Could it be more than half? Or less than 1%?
"people have no passion for their job, care only about the salary and picture quality time only "outside" of work."

I'd wager a higher proportion of people in the US feel this way about their job than in France.

At least a dead end job in France gives you reasonable work hours and plenty of holiday.
You should re-read my comment. I'm talking about our customers who have this problem, resulting in us having the problem because we can't get the right person.

The problem is not being there few hours less per week but being in vacations a lot. For example the whole month of May is a pure write off every year.

Your theory about my management being disorganized is very naive. Have you ever run a company? However well organized you might be at some point you have to interface with the outside world which is pure chaos.
Get him a job.

It does not sort out his psycological problems, but after reading his post, I assume this will at least stop this from spiralling out of control and give him some peace of mind, at least for some time.

I know this is kind of an unconventional advice, but I feel like his current down is more about his life falling appart, so fixing this is the first priority, then comes takkling the depression.

With a huge mortage and no job its hard to make him view the world more optimistically.

Just my 2 cents.

PS: Is somebody here from B.C, Canada and in need of a Web-dev?
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I think that the return on investment on curing cancer does not impact the sale of Angry Birds much. At least not sufficiently to justify the investment. Sorry for being cynical.

On another note, look at Bill Gates, made a fortune with software, now spending it on charity. Maybe that's a route that is more reasonable.
It's not about selfishness, it's just that most easy problems got solved, and we're left with really really hard ones.

Cancer is so mind-boggingly complex that one person cannot even begin to look at ways to solve it on his own.

Think about web developers, for example. We can either develop some SaaS website in 6 months that will bring us something like $500/month, or we can attack the cancer problem for 30 years and pretty much guaranteed to get nowhere.
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Well then you share the same feelings with the author of this article.
“The best model for a cat is a cat.”
I've found that those who try to impose their ideals on someone else, are usually (but not always) trying to cover up and deflect their own self-doubt and insecurities.

Do what you love, and to heck with whatever anyone else thinks. I used to work on predicting baseball. And before that, even worse, performance management software!

Now I am lucky enough to work on "socially responsible" software, and enjoy it. But I don't delude myself into thinking I am curing cancer, and I don't think I ever could. But damn anyone else who thinks I should spend my time doing something to meet their own standards.
There is no failing in documentation. The framework is the same (UIKit), and in fact the API is a lot like that for UITableViewController—the cornerstone of many iOS apps.
I actually heard about this service from the founder; I've been using it for three months now and quite happy with the choice of photos and quality of printing.
There is enough bandwidth. It is latency that is the problem. That's why stuff like streaming videos or downloading large files over hidden services works fine.
Basically, when you write your program in Haskell or, if you want to go all out, even a more powerful static type system/proof checker (COQ, Agda), you are thinking in terms of proofs, which influences your design also. Are designs by proof really that different from designs by test? Interesting question.

Fundamental limitations in the various forms of static analysis means that TDD is often quicker to work with (agility) and often way more expressive. Completeness that proofs depend on when the design is being formed is also often very elusive, which is why Haskell isn't such a great rapid prototyping language while LISP is.
Those milliseconds being shaved off forex trading are the reason that commercial and retail spreads are much tighter than they were a decade ago.

When currencies were priced every second market makers had to set a spread that would protect them from market variance within that one-second period, as that time period shrunk the amount of risk dropped as did the spreads.

Think about the thousands of currency transactions that had to happen for your smartphone to exist. It makes a huge difference to international trade when you can pay a lower premium to exchange currencies.

Just because you don't understand the value something provides, it doesn't mean that it doesn't provide it.
Thought my mate and I had a winner with http://www.ultimategiftlists.com - basically create your own wishlist (by adding any item you stumble on across the web) and then share a link so people can buy it. But it never really flew..
How is it ambiguous? Photos is plural and model is singular. That would seem to be completely and utterly clear. Also, how does the fact that this area is heavily researched affect anything?

Could it possibly be that your desire for novelty over incremental improvement in an area heavily mined is what is colouring your expectations, rather than the headline itself being misleading?
Ever consider the fact that a good part of that inefficiency in France is that employees were supposed only work thirty five hours a week? Thereby requiring employers to hire more people to get the same work done neighboring countries got done with less? Mismanagement? They are burdened with two choices, get more out of workers during the 35 hours, workers by your own choice of words who apparently have a chip on their shoulder and I am doubtful feel required to step up, or to hire more people which adds all sorts of inefficiencies. What do you expect them to do?

Do you ever think that benefits assigned by politicians, people who do not work in the real world, somehow come without a cost? Do you understand that the large youth unemployment many countries face is because of such policies you applaud? You cannot legislate paradise, you have to earn it.
That's the thing. It gets the job done and if you need a dev to develop a certain feature that MS SQL has you recouped your licence costs right there.

This does suck for small/mid sized businesses though. :/
Why is Postgres lack of query hints not scary for people?
A good strategy is not to depend on a single bank or account.

At least in Europe it's fairly easy to find banks offering accounts with no maintenance/transactions costs , just open two accounts at two different banks, keep the same level of cash in both and if something happens you don´t have to go on a diet of canned beans waiting for the compromised account to be restored.

(Then again, some might argue that now you have twice the chance of being targeted by a scammer).
37.5 is the most normal official hours in offices over here (UK) in my experience though 40 seems to be becoming increasingly common (they tried to introduce that here but those of us on the old contract wouldn't sign a new one unless we got a 6% pay increase to go with the extra time, then newer people on the new contract spotted that we were officially doing less ...). It is usually referred to as "9 to 5" (assuming a half hour lunch break) but implemented as as 0900 to 1730 with an hour for breaks.

It is very rare I work less than 42 hours in any given week, though I don't religiously keep count of it all, but likewise if I need a few hours off here or there (for a dental appointment, family issue, or what-ever else) it "just happens" - my flexibility is appreciated and offered back when I need it, which I consider rather civilised. Occasionally there are crunch times when a lot of overtime is needed, which we don;t pay for overtime (I keep hinting!) time-off-in-lieu is arranged and there is usually no pressure if you simply can't do the extra due to personal commitments.

Working a fixed number of hours to the minute and watching the clock, while stable, doesn't strike me as a "human" way of running things. There was a time when there was a definite flexibility mis-balance and I "worked to rule" for a time to prove a point, but that was resolved quickly at that point. Of course I don't work for a massive company - I imagine the effort of policing more flexible conditions in order to make sure no one is taking the piss at the expense of others would be much more difficult for a multi-national.
Don't forget about LORAN.
Venture Capitalist primary concern is making money. Sure they'll go for changing the world too, if it means they make more money.
Or, just throwing this out there as an option, you could solve any problem for a physician's practice -- like, say, patients not complying with their treatment regimen by failing to make scheduled check ups. You might even be able to do that with a SaaS app.

Granted, it won't cure cancer, but you'll save more lives at the margin than doing Zynga ads. (And, n.b., healthcare clients often have more than $500 available to spend.)
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No, they attempt to block similar domains. And completely fail at it.

I never use my main email for anything I don't feel requires it, and while maininator.com is often blocked, I've never in my life had to refresh the mailinator page more than twice for an alternate domain that works. Since mailinator accepts email from any domain that has it's MX record set to it, if you own a domain you can set it to be an alternate name to mailinator in seconds. Enough people have done this.
I'll echo what the others have said in that it's a little confusing. It's more of a dashboard creation kit than a tool for end-users. For example, do I really need to be able to change the span of the dash widgets as an end-user?

I'm also not sure what the Queries search boxes do. I typed in an area of interest "AngularJS", but couldn't figure out what it did. I was hoping to get a list of all submissions about AngularJS (including all the metrics in the Graph widget).

You've obviously put a lot of hard work into this and I love your idea. I just feel that it's more of a tool for you as a developer than me as an end-user.

I've bookmarked you and look forward to checking up on future progress!
> more efficiently compressed, more government resistant and more easily encryptable Protocol

Probably these things should not all be done at the same layer.
There's one hiccup in this line of thought: You can't always predict how the flashy toy tech will turn out to be a benefit later on.

Case in point, Kinect. It should have been just a play accessory, but it's being used to help people with disabilities, like the wi-Go : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-17jRfX9Sw

And also aiding surgeons during operations as well as helping disabled children interact with their environment with more subtle gestures. http://kotaku.com/5950834/in-japan-the-kinect-may-soon-be-mo...

Just like cosmetics and other "vanity medicine" used in the West can have life-saving applications elsewhere, for now, we get Angry Birds. It may turn out to something else later on.

The point is, cumulative knowledge can lead to great things later on. It's the NASA trickle-down theory.
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The issue is complex, hence why the article is so long:

> To judge by several published reports which will be discussed in greater detail below, including those by government “insiders,” there is no indication—not a passing hint— that the White House has ever considered earnestly preparing the nation for a war with China. Nor is there any evidence that the White House has compared such a strategy to alternatives, and—having concluded that the hegemonic intervention implied by ASB is the course the United States should follow—then instructed the Pentagon to prepare for such a military showdown
From reading this, I don't really know what ShipBuilder does. It's some kind of tool to help me deploy. Is it self-hosted or PaaS? Why is it better than what I'm doing now? Is the system diagram what my infrastructure will look like?

It sounds kind of interesting, but I really don't know what it is yet.
I sometimes feel like the ice-cream factory guy in this funny bit by Mitchell and Webb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zRPDvTJTo

At the same time, I'm happy Mitchell and Webb stayed in comedy rather than attempt to cure cancer.

If you feel a calling to a particular space or venture, follow it - even if its Angry Birds. On the other hand, if you think your calling is in medicine, think well before attempting a go at this "golden age of entrepreneurship", as chances are you'll regret not doing what you love.
Yes, very similar. However there is still room for improvement. Maybe Disney found a solution to make cleaner models, leading to a 3d-print ready solution. With 123D you need to spend time on cleaning the mesh.

ps. this seems to be an open source version of 123D http://insight3d.sourceforge.net/ Interesting, but havent used it yet
It's a minimalistic game demo based on the Anura engine which is the engine of Frogatto (old-school styled platformer with pixel graphics).

Why should you be excited?

Well, the engine supports nearly every trick Bret Victor has shown in his Inventing on Principle talk. While looking really old-school it's actually rather advanced modern engine with a lot of love and advanced computer science put in it. For example it's scripting engine uses pure functional programming disguised to look like something imperative.
I don't think it would happen. With some exceptions, both countries enjoy economic activity with one another.
Because they are another form of coupling which is hellish to get out of if you want stuff to be portable, which as we found out when SQL pricing went through the roof is definitely a desirable feature in your application...

Also we use an ORM (NHibernate) which abstracts the entire query and schema away from us. We load/perf test that and get on with life. If there are any blockers, it's 99.9% architectural or loading related which we cover with test cases.

For us, the database is the hole we put our shit in when we don't want it in memory any more. Nothing more.
Kintinuous: 3D mapping of space using Kinect [2012]
There's a flip side to this: if you bootstrap an actually working business in a new industry and are "only" doubling each year, you run the risk of that industry getting noticed by VC who may lavish hundreds of millions on creating new competitors to pursue market share in that new industry. Your environment will get very tough very fast if you can't ride that out.

The result is race-to-the-bottom pricing as the "sales" teams "right at the start" that you're talking about are forced to sell unproven or worse non-existant technologies, promising 3 - 6 month take on times that turn out to be 18 months.

In the meantime, an established bootstrapped business trying to charge a working price for real delivery has trouble educating new early adopters in the industry why the promises of these well funded sales teams are unrealistic and why the pricing from these well funded startups is unsustainable. It's even harder once the industry matures a little and the well funded newcos actually can deliver at least some of what the customer needs. At that point it's frankly in customers' interests to be subsidized by the seller's VC money as long as the customer can handle the transition costs when their providers implode or are acquired out from under them.

Put another way, even if your goal is to build a solid working business, if your industry is new enough and big enough, you too need to pursue funding as a defensive strategy so you too can subsidize new client market share just to keep up when new money piles into your vertical. Ideally you need to get that funding before you have enough merely organic growth track record under your belt that VC won't believe you'd know how to execute a hockey stick growth curve with their money.

That said, taking VC money doesn't mean you have to climb on the "go big till you exit or die" train. You can operate a profitable business based on fundamentals, as long as you keep brutally honest track of what your business would look like if you have to turn off the pursuit of market share spigot. Make sure the resources you're using for growth are flexible commitments you can unwind if you have to shift back to self-funded operations, and make sure you have a base of solid loyal customers sufficiently profitable to cover any financing carry costs while still growing organically.
I'm failing to find the original article, but from the quote, I don't think the author is arguing against the Internet, but small stuff like iPhone apps and other "small impact" startups.

Besides, is the Internet really an accomplishment by Silicon Valley and its startups? ARPA and BBN certainly don't fit the model.
I wish this article wouldn't make silly statements like:

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Homomorphic encryption is one of the most exciting new research topics in cryptography, which promises to make cloud computing perfectly secure.
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No, it won't. It just has the property that you can perform some operations on the ciphertext to produce a different, still valid, ciphertext.
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Markets are self regulating.
Worry why noone grows crops and feeds the country? The hunger will come, prices on food raise, and it becomes profitable to raise crops - there will be inflow of new made farmers and farms.