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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Conventional wisdom says you should lose no more than two pounds a week, which you can accomplish with a 1200 net calorie diet, i.e. consuming 1200 calories plus any calories you burn from exercise. Using C25K, a running app, and MyFitnessP
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
p.s. I imagine any difference in salary will be negligible, especially at big companies. However, you will have different career opportunities depending on which school you attend, especially when it comes to startups and finding a co-found
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Depends on what you want to do. Other factors might rebut the presumptions below, but I would offer the general piece of advice: Go to Stanford if you want to be an engineer or would like to do a startup someday - your peers and the culture
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Any way to make this a generic tool? Would love to be able to use this with my own questions for other purposes.
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
PG, would you still feel the same if there were limited disclosure/access requirements to crowd investors, so that the disclosure/reporting obligations were no different than if you were dealing with a limited number of accredited and/or so
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Venture Hacks. www.venturehacks.com
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
I don't think tsegart is quite right on this one. Anytime you "express" words on a page, those words are copyrighted. Expressions are distinguished from more functional/factual considerations like labels, page numbers, math equations, etc..
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
For terms of use, another post mentioned modifying Wordpress's terms, which are under a Creative Commons license. For privacy policies, this area could be a little bit trickier if you have an open beta - if any of your users get pissed off
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
To protect your company's domain, you can file a dispute with ICANN. I don't think it's necessary to register your trademark first, but having a registered trademark does help in the dispute proceedings. If you do need to register, hire a l
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Again, not legal advice, but you can look at how ICANN resolves domain name disputes: http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/studies/publications/domain_... What factors guide the panelists' decisions? -Whether the domain name is identical or co
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Unless you have a legal issue unique to your startup, you can always get general legal advice from mentors and advisors and the HN community - someone just asked about terms of service, for example. You're probably too small for anyone to c
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
I assume, perhaps wrongly, that there are more efficient methods of becoming an entrepreneur than pure trial-and-error and plugging oneself into HackerNews, Quora, and irc channels, and reading books. People always ask, where do I begin? Wh
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Even if you have a legal right to do something (e.g. taking a picture or standing on a street corner), you don't necessarily have a right to sue the police officer for a wrongful arrest. Police officers and other government employees enjoy
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
I have a friend who got her BA in CS at Yale. She's now in law school and unable to apply for the patent bar because of it, which isn't a big deal since she'll be a patent litigator, but it is an odd wrinkle in the system.
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Elon Musk first made his money in Paypal and then funded SpaceX. I think Krieger and Systrom will have exciting world-changing projects in the pipeline too. Oddly, I think the most influential path to curing cancer is making a lot of money,
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
That makes sense, thanks.
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Should I post this question as its own thread? I'm new to the HN community and haven't figured out all the norms around posting yet. Thanks.
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
If I'm a non-technical person with minimal coding skills (C++, editing HTML/CSS, rudimentary knowledge of Ruby), should I invest time and effort to learn Bootstrap/Foundation? My goal is to develop a functional MVP that I can take to potent
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
What kind of data would you need to validate/invalidate your idea?
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
If settlement occurs before a judgment is passed down, then the court case doesn't bind future decisions.
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by tonyjwang 14y ago
Just because you haven't signed a contract doesn't mean you are necessarily exempt from liability. It would depend on your state's law, whether there was an implied understanding that you would work until the project was completed, and vari