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Ask HN: Selling a brand
I'm in a situation some HN readers may have been through before. Last year I effectively shut down my startup - after putting in several years, it hadn't lifted off, and I decided to move on. During that time, I accumulated different forms of IP around the company name: not just the domain name, but the US trademark, all popular toplevel domains and other variants (e.g. close misspellings), social media accounts, etc.

I'm not sure what to call this collectively, so I'm calling it a "brand".

I may start another company in the future that could use this name, but since I don't have immediate plans to do so, I'm wondering how these could be sold. Certainly the complete package has much higher value, to the right buyer, than the domain name alone.

Have you been involved in the sale of such a thing before? If so, how did you go about it? Did you use a broker? (If so, can you recommend a good specific one?)

Or did you go with cold-calling specific prospects? If so, how did you identify them? Did you contact individual companies? One thought I had was to contact VCs who might be funding in a related space.

Full details, since I know someone will ask: http://mobilewebup.com/

Cheers, Aaron
Cigital is hiring software security folks!

What we do: We're a software security consulting firm that helps build security into the SDLC. We work on a wide variety of projects involving static analysis, penetration testing, architecture review, threat modeling, red teaming, network pen testing, etc. We deal mostly with the private sector and the types of applications we work with are varied from mobile to webapps to video games.

We're all consultants so we tend to travel a fair amount. As I said, the work is varied and you can really focus the type of work you do based on your interests and skills. It's definitely a fun place to work. The people here are really smart and there's lots of room to grow your skills. We're looking for everything from interns to principal consultants and we have positions open all over the place including:

• Northern Virginia
• Boston, MA
• Santa Clara, CA
• New York, NY
• Bloomington, IN
• Seattle, WA
• London

You can read more about the jobs here: http://www.cigital.com/careers/jobs/
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“Wikipedia is written by affluent white nerds, in languages only affluent white nerds know"

so his solution to this problem was to expand the volume of content for a language spoken almost exclusively by white nerdy people
Yeah, that's fine. I expect delays at rush hour. I don't expect to see nearly every departure for nearly every line delayed by ten minutes or more. That's what these plots seem to be suggesting.
This is wonderful! I see immediate use cases for drop-in username highlighting, without additional templating or '<span>' + username + '</span>' spaghetti.
Does this mean they will open source their rendering engine?
Sounds about right. I would even bump it up to 2% (even 8% is a HUGE allocation for what it sounds like you have done). And improve your tone dramatically.
They also did something like this in the recent remake of "Robocop". Some thugs are in a diner having a discussion, and it's caught on CCTV. Later, the main character goes back and analyzes the video and extracts the audio from it, presumably based on some vibrations somewhere in the scene. They don't say, but I got the impression it was from the window vibrations, similar to the technique of shooting a laser at it and watching the vibrations of the reflected light.
So, it's less about people and more about money, eh? For-profit everything sucks, it really does. People may not have the "right" to work at a place, but businesses owe employees certain rights. One of these should be serious compensation should they be sacked for "business" reasons. I can see one year's salary if you are let go for business reasons not related to your performance.

I have often said that if I ever started an IT company, I would never go public. Once you do, you lose control and are at the mercy of the shareholders. Same for many startups. IT is cheap. Implementation can be expensive, but software is free/libre, HW is cheap, Webhosting is dirt cheap for unlimited bandwidth. I don't know why so many IT people believe they have to have debt to start a company.

I've worked for a few startups before I decided to only work for non-profits, and every one of them suffered from a sick desire to make money first rather than develop good software, implement good ideas, you name it. The dollar signs are blinding to people.

One of my best jobs was for a small Web company that did it right. They built their business slowly, have a great product, and the money followed, albeit it also slowly. As a result, they retain talent, pay industry standard, and are a fun, moral, honest business to work for. They also pay for all employee's health care in full, which should be the standard until we can rid the system of for-profit medicine.
Fair enough, I can't win that one given the huge amount of material produced in commercial print over the last century.

A few more survivors: John Gutmann, Tom Harrison, Humphrey Spender, Lee Miller.
Few things

1. You say on the site: "Start your 14 day free trial" but there's no clear pricing, so what happens after 14 days?

2. People are visual, I'd put a whole flow in a gif, something, with the picture (screenshot) of the email that's being sent to the client.

3. If you have plans for integration with popular systems, like Trello, Github, Basecamp or others, I'd put logos of those with "Integration coming soon"

4. Inside the systems, the Preview of the emails are too long, when you have a project you usually need 10-20 reminders, I'd cut the length of the preview to 200-300 chars and have a separate page for each of those. (also add an edit option, so if I have a typo, I can fix it easily).
Underneath the bridge

The tarp has sprung a leak

And the animals I've trapped

Have all become my pets

And I'm living off of grass

And the drippings from the ceiling

But it's okay to eat fish

'Cause they don't have any feelings
Big fan of your Velocity.JS, Julian. How does Blast.JS compare to Lettering.JS? (http://letteringjs.com/)

Edit: It's been awhile since I've looked at Lettering, but to answer my own question, Lettering only splits on individual letters, while Blast allows for user-definable splits.
You are trolling me, yes? Next you will say Crytolocker is a Windows vulnerability (that is not to say that Windows does not have vulnerabilities).
Not really. They could let him go and find someone else (or promote internally) for much less.
OK, I get that problem, but AR glasses will solve it and many others, making smart watches and possibly any LCD displays obsolete. In my opinion, smart watches are a DOA product, no point in pushing for a market for them.

Imagine a perfected version of these with an optional front cover so you only see the displays when needed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOBo05xvSVk
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One more thing, the entire process is too manual, I'd look into how I can make it better (Browser extensions in Gmail, send an email to the system, FW emails etc...)
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No surprise to me as a spearfisher. People have this impression that we go underwater with a "gun" and fish are just lining up in front of you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Fish can tell the difference between your average scuba diver or snorkeler not just by seeing the speargun, but by recognizing body posture and watching your eyes for intent. Their lateral line is a sophisticated sensor used to feel vibrations in the water, so they can literally feel the tension in your muscles. They also learn socially, so if one fish on the reef is nearby and has had a bad experience with a diver, they will sound the alarm for everyone else.

Fish really are inquisitive, and can even have individual personalities. It's well worth getting to know them in their own environment.
You should not be asked to give up anything without getting something in return. The options you were offered are compensation for your below-market pay rate. As with any negotiable intrument, the vested and unvested options have a current value. If the founders want to offer them to someone else in lieu of pay, they need to buy them back from you first.

All the people saying "pro rata" don't seem to be distinguishing between options and actual equity. If you have options, you are offered the opportunity to buy equity in the company at discounted rates. Investor coupons. Your equity in the company is the number of shares you have removed from the option pool by exercising vested options.

The founders, who have actual equity in the company, are adding 8% of their company to the option pool, which is already at least 10% of the company, less whatever OP exercised out.

I assume the freelancer was paid in cash. That makes the current structure 40% Founder A, 40% Founder B, and 20% option pool, currently 10% allocated to Employee 1, and 10% distributed among employees 2-15. The proposal puts each founder at 36% each, grows the option pool to 28%, with 6% for employee 1 and 10% for 2-15, and 12% for new blood.

Until someone starts exercising those options out of the pool and into actual ownership shares, the founders are still 50-50 in control of the company. Those options remain just investor discount coupons. They have some value, which can be calculated.

Unvested options are worth less than vested options, because you have to apply a discount rate representing the time you have to wait to use them. The 4% given up are essentially the 4% from the end of the vesting schedule. What the founders could do is take the current value of that 4%, and pay that to OP as cash, or apply that amount towards exercise of vested options. It would replace a larger amount of future options with a smaller amount of current equity, but the current value of the assets remains the same.

You don't need to consult with a lawyer. The founders can do the right thing and pay you what they promised to pay you when you agreed to work for them, or they can reneg. If they don't at least pay you for the work you have already done for them, that's when you hire the lawyer and jump straight into the lawsuit.
What laws surround whether you can post a particular photo? For example, photos of cityscapes, businesses or store fronts, landmarks, or photos with random other people in them?
Hours worked doesn't always contribute to burnout. I can easily feel burnout working 40 hour weeks filled with unsatisfying work (e.g. bureaucratic paperwork, interruptions for unimportant issues, unchallenging problems, etc). Conversely, if I am actually able to code and develop an application that is semi-interesting, I could easily go past 40 hours a week and not feel any burnout because it is fulfilling and/or enjoyable. I could also stay at 40 or a little below.

The key consideration is (perceived) fulfillment. Time spent is involved in determining this, but isn't the only variable - importance of work, enjoyment/satisfaction, sense of accomplishment, etc.
And yet, they spend much more on marketing gimmicks than actual research and development.

(Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research And Development, Study Finds --- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...)
The Truth About Tech Company Perks
I can tell with certainty that getting cancer sux even if they treat you for free. Broken leg, hearth stroke or even flu sux to. So does most diseases and injuries known to humanity.
You're website is not user friendly and I cannot try a way to actually test this on my number one object of task management: my phone. The movie isn't playing either so I'm asking my questions here in hope someone can share some details.

How is this app different from others? Personally I use Todoist as a paid user. It has projects, tags, nesting, task sharing with other users, integration with all platforms including mobile and common applications as chrome and Outlook. In addition it has a load of other minor useful functions as email reminders, adding tasks via email and much more. What would this task manager bring me? Why should I switch?

A quick list of their key selling points:
- beautiful design (top just for fun)

- access to tasks everywhere.

- filters, searches, tagging

- collaborate on shared tasks

- projects, tasks, subproject, subtasks

- recurring tasks

- notifications

- human due dates for quick entering (tomorrow, next week, today, or pick a date)

- priorities assignable to tasks (also searchable and filterable)

- notes attachable to tasks, a bit like Evernote has.

- realtime syncing (actually really important)
You get it. That's what it is.
As gray mentioned, there was another deleted comment that was the target of the sarcasm comment.

My comment was more than the linked blog post took a bit out of context to make the article more incendiary and hit luring.
And that is exactly why web-standards are so important. It's always in a broswer's best interest to break the web.
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Shouldn't the consequence for bad decision be being unhealthy?

I mean, at least for me, my health is a very significant priority in my life.
Brilliant, very useful. Found and applied to a few that I didn't know were open.
The data comes in faster than 60 fps. A camera sensor doesn't capture the entire frame instantly every 1/60 second. It progressively scans through the frame over some measurable fraction of that 1/60 second. This is that quirk.

Suppose the camera scans 720 lines in HD every 1/60 second. Each row is offset in time by 1/43200 second. A rigid object could be slightly offset in space on each line of pixels, indicating that sound waves perturbed it in the time gap between when the camera captured each line. So that subframe video data can be turned back into audio at a much higher frequency than that apparent 60 Hz video sampling rate.

In other words, we're not just talking about 60 frames-per-second from a camera. It's really perhaps 43,200 rows per second, an enormously higher sampling frequency.
Your demo video is too small to read any of the words and there is no sound. So, I couldn't learn anything from it.
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Of course it is, because it is full of GARBAGE made by this guy

http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-this-author-10-000-wikipe...

His stupid bot pollutes wiki with useless crap like this:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepechiniella_persica
Well done. This would be extremely useful in one of the mobile muni apps. I look at Transporter in the morning to know when to leave for the N, but if it had an indicator of delays, I'd know that it's time to walk/bike/uber instead.
It's pretty remarkable how buses in other cities manage to adhere to the published schedule, but MUNI can't seem to manage. I've ridden buses all over the world, and MUNI is absolutely the worst at scheduling or latency. It's almost like they aren't even trying.

And even if you drop the requirement of "stick to the schedule", they still suck: you can have two lines running the same route up a major thoroughfare (e.g. 47/49 on Van Ness), and you'll still routinely get three busses back-to-back, followed by 45 minutes of delay. The only reasonable scheduling mechanism I've found for MUNI is to know exactly how far away the next bus is from your stop. Without real-time position information it's an unusable system, because arrivals are essentially a poisson process.
> Can there be a platform where counter-action is not only discouraged but impossible? Where consumption is truly meant to be passive?

You mean like television?
Moose is back-ported Perl6 objects, which borrows heavily from CLOS and the concepts introduced in the Smalltalk traits paper. This is a bit of a simplification of the history, but the ancestry is present, documented and obvious.
Thanks for the kind words!

Lettering.js has a slightly smaller footprint and aims to be a dead-simple "wrap spans around each letter/word in the HTML element I point you at." Accordingly, it discards your HTML then dumbly splits using spaces as delimiters. Because of this, you have to use Lettering.js in silo'd portions of your page where you don't mind losing HTML and event handlers. Further, its lack of UTF-8/multilingual text parsing means that it's only suitable for English, and only in controlled portions of your page where you already know exactly how text is written out.

Blast, in comparison, tries to be a "set it and forget it" library. Point it at anything, blast it apart, then even reverse what you've done ($el.blast(false);). You can apply it to user-generated text in real-time and not worry about a thing.

Perhaps most important, though, is that Blast.js features a sentence delimiter plus search, which Lettering.js does not.
I would love to see RestKit get re-imagined this same way. If for nothing else than to see more examples of large/complex projects written in Swift. Give other in-depth examples of the language.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire
Could I contact you somewhere to discuss the positive changes you are making in your life? I don't want to take away time from your busy schedule but I've been dealing with similar problems for the past couple years and I'd like to discuss strategies for moving past this darkness.

This line in particular really spoke to me as it's about all I can manage at the moment (hoping for change rather than actively pursuing change):

"I have off moments but I just remember how bad I felt when I was sat at 2am watching the moon wishing everything would end and that they will pass in time."
Sounds like an awful position. I was in a similar place recently. I was second or third engineer (depends if you count a contractor) in a very successful startup when I found that my equity wasn't as promised. I pretty easily found a job where I'd likely make more as cash even if the startup gets acquired for $500 million. You shouldn't tie yourself to a situation where empty promises are all you're working for. I know exactly how it sucks to move on from something you built.

Obviously, you could just propose an equal dilution of everybody in the pool. Or come to them with an outside offer and see what happens.
I only recently got a betta fish and have often pondered how he feels about his captivity.

His tank is about ten feet away from my desk and behind me. I remember turning my head to look at the tank, and being surprised that he somehow realized that I was looking toward him. He eagerly emerged from behind the heater he normally hides behind to swim up to the front of the tank, in the same fashion that he does if I walk past the tank.

I often feel guilty, wondering if he would long for a larger area in which to swim, and if I haven't merely imprisoned him in his five gallon tank. (In a way, I rescued him from his tiny cup at the pet store, but my demand for him is why he is even at a pet store.)

I deny my house cat the ability to roam outside, but she still seems rather content with eating and sleeping and being petted in an environment devoid of danger. But my betta fish seems to swim along the front of his tank as if he wants to enter the world in which I live, and I couldn't grant him that even if I wanted to.

I then take this thought process to a level of absurdity and wonder if our god(s) would peer at us and not fully understand when we suffer or what makes us suffer, for they are men and we are fish.
I'll toss in a few thoughts. Design is something that evolves over time. We're slowing working towards improving the design of the internet by taking two steps forward and one back. We build off each other, so you don't see huge changes in design overnight. This is no different than any other technology. If I raise someone in solitude, and ask them to design a car, it'll be quite primitive. Modern cars improve each year from those prior. Occasionally they misjudge, and take a step backwards, but over time, they improve. It's the same with design. If you ask someone that has no experience online to design a webpage, they'll fall short.

We keep building from what we assume is the best. If a popular site goes with flat design, it leads us to believe flat design might be attributing to their success. So, we try to follow suit with trial and error. If flat design is working for them, maybe taking it to an even more extreme and reducing all images and gradients will leave us even more successful. Or, maybe only some aspects of their flat design are contributing to their success, and it's a balance between flat and non-flat elements.

Which is best? No one knows. We'll try all the possible combinations, and gravitate towards what's successful with profits, and with users. You can't expect these changes over night. Right now designers are quite sure the future involves more minimal design. The only way to test this is to experiment with different combinations.

So, don't piss on someone because they try an extremely flat design and it fails. The only reason we know it fails is because they went out on a limb to try it out. Instead, thank them for trying, look towards any aspects of their design that did work, and improve on their failure. I can guarantee we're going to have an even better experience browsing the internet 10 years from now. It's going to happen because of many designers and developers failing, and few standing on them and succeeding.
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Or you could not pay Amazon "per byte fees" and use CloudFlare and get the same the type of functionality through out caching options and Page Rules.
Just out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm not trying to be confrontational -- I'm genuinely curious, because you sound like someone who hasn't had anything worse than a flu so far.

Here's an incentive to be healthy: medicine is not magic. It's not like I can opt to do all sorts of unhealthy stuff and just keep paying a certain sum to live a completely normal life.

For example, you mention smoking. I smoked for 5 years, one pack a day on the average. After a while, I was coughing my self to sleep at night. There's no pill or treatment that will fix that magically and allow you to keep smoking. Only quitting made it go away.
A software engineer could trivially illegally migrate to the US and then make money via their trade (e.g. freelance development work, app sales, pretty much anything online, telecommuting abroad).

You're right in the sense that it would be hard to get a normal 9-5 job without a visa/SSN but you're dismissing a huge number of alternative routes to income which wouldn't even depend on the person's physically being in the US (e.g. open a Google Developer account as if you were still in your home country, pay taxes there, but do it all from the US).

Plus your assumption that developers are "above" working in blue collar jobs is flawed. There are tons of fully certified Indian doctors working blue collar jobs abroad right now, developers are no better.
In 2014 a lot of us don't use shared servers anymore. Personally, for someone like me, throwing this up in my dokku sounds great. I don't think this is designed for the Enterprise.
Your partners either a) know what they are asking you to do is unfair and are asking you anyway, in which case they are assholes, or b) don't know what they are asking you to do is unfair, in which case they are idiots. This is a no-win situation, time to cut your losses and move on as quickly as possible.