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Ask HN: Feedback for seed fund in Mexico - AspireLabs.net
There was a recent discussion regarding bootstrapping in Mexico that illustrated some of the difficulties of starting a startup over here. Partly in response to people in that situation, we are in the process of launching AspireLabs!, a seed fund for early-stage startups in Mexico (we love Y Combinator, and we think we need something similar here but with a focus on ideas for emerging markets and could help lots of struggling founders). The main features would be:

-Funds to pay for (basic) expenses while developing the first version of the product (it’s not much but at least it’s a new source of financing)

-Coaching to develop product/market (using lean startup/customer development methodologies) (to have some guidance during the process and avoid many common mistakes)

-Multiple startups to create an artificial 'mini-SV'-like environment (we think this is critical - being able to work with like-minded people who have drunk the startup kool-aid)

-Develop tech ideas with a focus on ideas for Mexico and emerging countries (BRICs) (billions of potential users through mobile phones or applications that are more useful in developing economies)

-Targeted at students/recent grads/startups doing bootstrapping (usually the hungriest bunch)

-If it all works, reinvest any profits in more startups (and help develop a local ecosystem)

We believe something like this would be a good alternative in Mexico and similar places. There is more information on the website (in Spanish), and would love to get feedback from HN, especially those who are familiar with the difficulties of starting a startup in developing countries. And of course, all credit goes to PG and YC for coming up with the original concept that we believe would work wonders beyond SV. Thanks in advance,

Hugo
motivation was to be able to consume the pivotal tracker api, which is XML only with a url like:

http://xml2json.heroku.com/?callback=jsonp&url=https://www.pivotaltracker.com/services/v3/projects/27482/iterations/current?token=YOURPIVOTALTRACKERTOKEN
Strong disagree.
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Why are people downvoting an author asking that people maybe take a moment to check whether they're responding to a woman before they write "he"? Is it that much hassle to check a byline?
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These are good points. Especially, "Typically attribute order is fixed so it becomes natural to know where in a line to look for particular ones."

I don't have a strong preference for multi-line or single line, but I do insist on keeping all the attributes in alphabetical order.
If I remember correctly that's what pg used at Startup School to play his (of course) 280Slides presentation. I looked it up afterwards.

I didn't know that Chrome had a fullscreen option. Makes Plainview less useful, though I like their super minimalistic approach.
Would you care to clarify why? Apple is either upset with Gray or it isn't. Woz wearing an irreverent shirt won't change it either way.
This seems to me rather insensitive -- more importantly, it's probably not worthy of Hacker News.

Edit: Given the downvotes, I'd be quite happy to hear any legitimate grounds for disagreement. I consider the widely disseminated mocking of someone who hasn't knowingly signed on as a public figure to be insensitive (independent of how funny or clever that mocking might be, and independent of whether being insensitive will have any effect on the target's career).
How are you going to get that much spit from a baby? :P
Wozniak having a "sense of humor" about someone else's misfortune doesn't help that person. Meanwhile, there's the guy's name, plastered on a rich famous guy's belly, being mocked. I stand by my original comment and believes it sums the situation up precisely.
Also from the FAQ:

How long is a wrpme URL valid? An URL is valid - at least - thirty (30) days from its last access. In other words, an URL will be kept alive as long as it's acceded once every thirty (30) days .

If it is persistent I wonder why they have this rule. Just to save RAM?
WTF is it at the bottom of the article for?

What's that? Pageviews you say?
What beautiful devices.
Shame there are no listings for London considering Bansky is English...I would have definitely paid to see it.
This is not a new point. Everything, always, is "getting old."

http://www.mombu.com/medicine/medicine/t-ot-humor-7-stages-o...
I don't consider it a bubble unless there's a ton of "normals" pouring money into a market, artificially inflating the prices.

The dot com bubble happened because companies IPO's quickly and early and "normals" poured money into companies like pets.com. The real estate bubble happened because "normals" started pouring money into buying and flipping real estate.

In both cases, the valuations were way out of line because so many "normals" had poured money into those investments, and millions of "normals" lost money when valuations came back into line with a non-speculator induced feeding frenzy.

Rhere are a handful of companies that are getting crazy high valuations by a handful of investors competing with each other to get skin in the game. But, a dozen VC firms competing with each other to give Groupon a crazy high valuation doesn't a bubble make. It just means that those companies are probably going to have to IPO or get bought for $500 million + for the investors to get their money back.

I suspect that what we're seeing is investors being hungry after the stock market crash of the last few years. Now that the investor's stock portfolio's have regained 60% of the value they lost the last 2 years, they are playing less defense with their money, and are willing to put some money on some risky bets with startups. And we're seeing the feeding frenzy with the valuations of a handful of startups.
You don't have to write any of your backend in Javascript w/ SproutCore or Cappuccino.

My favorite by far is Cappuccino. It designed almost exactly like Cocoa, which is a fantastic framework for writing apps with UIs. It comes with a ton of components that are already designed for you. You can completely skip the cost of a graphic designer (you still have understand interaction design).
Au contraire... He's making light of the situation because it doesn't deserve a heavy-handed approach, and the engineer in question will be just fine at Apple. Losing the prototype could have happened to anyone.

It's good-natured ribbing. Besides, Woz doesn't have it in him to be mean, I reckon.
The aricle is neglecting the most important features of the iPad: video and wireless. It's like looking at a TI-83 and comparing it to a modern cell phone and wondering why nobody walked around with a TI-83 in their pocket except engineers.
Apple stocks worth over 40 times what they were 7 years ago today
YUI is very impressive and fantastically well documented - but in the end I switched to jQuery and jQuery UI - it really makes working in JavaScript a delight rather than the chore I used to regard it as.
My guess is, at least in most places that disclaimer isn't what covers them. The disclaimer is to discourage the people who will stand at the customer service counter arguing for 3 hours to get their 5 pounds of steak for a dollar.
For those who care about foursquare, apparently there is a secret badge you get if you check into a screening and mention banksy
There are also plugins for Safari that add it such as Saft.
Tech Startups vs Rock Bands
As someone who's been in multiple bands and startups, I’ve realized the parallels between starting a rock band and starting a web company are pretty spot on...
FYI: Seems someone has launched almost the same thing just recently:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lotto-tickets/id360953651?mt=...
There's not a single pair of subject and predicate in this comment that I agree with. That's fine. We can disagree. I think much less of Wozniak for joking about someone else's career.
It's a little ironic given slow startup time was a major reason why we switched away from CGI in the first place.
Almost nothing is inevitable, and even things that are can be planned for to optimize your situation. I suppose it depends on your personality though, how you would end up dealing with the knowledge.
Would it pain you greatly to communicate in more than grunts, maybe even using subjects in your sentences? I really don't mean to be pedantic, but a comment consisting solely of "strong disagree" doesn't really lead to a productive conversation.
Aww man, I had all this righteous indignation built up that now has no outlet.
I would not be surprised if Gray Powell felt good when he saw this pic.

Hell...if it were me...I would be jumping for joy that Woz even knows I exist.
Yeah I almost didn't post because of that, but most of the article is spent debunking the rumor (which had just been posted to HN). Related http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283470
Boring. There are hundreds of sites like that already.

I also tried submitting the same URL over and over again, and I get new shortened URLs. Seems like a waste.

http://wrp.me/99Jaa

http://wrp.me/99Maa

http://wrp.me/99Oaa
Things like Mechanize and HTMLUnit are what I call "HTTP-only protocol drivers" and are not a true-fidelity simulation of the HTML+JavaScript environment. This is exactly the reason I created Selenium in the first place. I had regression bugs in IE and Mozilla that I needed to verify were fixed in the actual browsers. An emulated browser environment like Mechanize or HTMLUnit isn't a real browser that users actually use, so it doesn't solve the regression testing problem I had.

Best of both worlds these days is in driving a headless WebKit (a true browser driver that includes the JS interaction), which will be coming in Selenium 2.
the clamshell design fit in the 'I wish my laptop was smaller' space...
My most successful naming scheme was using the names of Cheeses. There's a crapload of cheeses out there.
JVM is the slowest runtime in terms of startup. But it does run way faster once it has run for enough time and has profiled and optimized a good portion of your application.

In most cases where Java is used on the server, it is expected to startup once and continue running for a long time and host multiple applications. In this JVM's startup becomes a non-issue and its optimizations become a huge benefit.
China's internet as the future of the internet for the rest of the world? I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
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For the people in San Francisco, Banksy has apparently done some art at Valencia between 19th and 20th. It's above Little Otsu.

We went to see it yesterday and it's fairly awesome.

There is another one in Chinatown I haven't seen yet.
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>A UI framework is only as good as the widgets it ships with

Completely wrong. A UI framework is only as good as the widgets it lets you build, and how much it helps you while building them. I have never yet worked on a project where I could piece together all the widgets from one library that perfectly fit every use case.

jQuery UI made a few smart decisions in how to build their API. They kept it extremely jQuery-like, so if you are familiar with jQuery coding style you will be right at home. Everything is tied into the jQuery enhanced set object, built for chaining whenever possible, and relies on no external objects.

Instead of opting to build 40 widgets, 90% of which you won't need for your project and the other 10% which will only fit some of your needs, the pattern you will see is behavior enhancement. This is what gives you the power to build something more powerful than a cookie cutter widget, with only a few short declarations. You can make something draggable, then sortable, then droppable. You can make something else resizable, draggable, and selectable. You can tie all of these things together with the powerful event and method system, and make something that is greater than the sum of its parts. Then you get the bonus of everything being easily themeable with Themeroller.

I feel like web designers are too often stuck in the mindset of imitating desktop UI's, saying "I need this exact kind of treeview" or "This should be a grid, and this a combobox, and these have to be tabs" when they could be considering all the ways that JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS let you step completely out of this box and make something fresh. Things that have become mini-trends in website UIs like the expandy horizontal accordions or Apple's product scroller are what happens when you apply familiar behaviors to new things. In my experience, jQuery UI has allowed me to be the most creative out of any UI framework, and is the best suited for getting interesting stuff done.
This "warning" by Rixstep is pure FUD. Rixstep are kind of like the trolls of the Apple development community. They regularly publish "industry watch warnings" about changes in the Mac development ecosystem that are factually incorrect at best, and are intentionally misleading to imply that Apple is killing off Mac development.

I don't think anyone takes these guys seriously. Many Mac developers get upset at Rixsteps's constant barrage of fear-mongering, lies and factually incorrect "technical articles" (that are designed to make it look like the Mac SDKs are incapable of doing basic things, which they can actually do quite well).

A few random complaints pulled from Google:

http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/no_in_fact_i_dont_thi...

http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2008/02/02/fud-from-rixstep-n...

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=208976

There's even a "Fake Rixstep" web site similar to Fake Steve Jobs that attempts to reveal through satire what sort of people these are:

http://thefakerixstep.blogspot.com/
Find and replace is usually the only reason I break out BBEdit, but I thought that could have been because BBEdit was my first editor, so I'm comfortable with it. The regex syntax coloring is so helpful, I don't understand why more editors don't include it.
There's clearly no malice intended, and I'd say "mocked" is far too strong a term. He's making fun of the situation, not Gray himself.

If you find this joke to be insensitive I'm having a hard time imagining what sort of humor you approve of, given practically every joke out there makes fun of someone/something.
Saw it last week, loved it. Highly recommended.
What's newsworthy about this? I'm one vote among thousands but as much as I enjoy reading JWZ, I don't want every one of his blog posts on the front page of HN.
If you are consistent in ending your tag lines with an opening brace, :g/{$/p will work.
would you be interested (read: ready to pay for) a high performance cache or this need is just the fruit of our imagination?

You mean instead of just using memcached, redis, varnish or squid? All of which are peer reviewed, battle tested, free, and optimized to perform about as close to the metal as it gets?

Sorry, but I'd lean towards "fruit of your imagination".
I'm curious how this will stack up against free, open-source libraries such as memcache and redis.
There's nothing wrong with making fun of people. I do it incessantly. But I avoid doing it to people when they're down. And, if I ever achieve the sort of success Wozniak has, I hope I'll avoid doing it to people just starting to make their way in my field.
I believe it was "Search is a way to harvest demand, not create it", minor nitpicking but I picked up on it just the same.
Even easier, if you run the firefox plugin noscript, instant personalization is disabled for you automatically.
It does cost $99 now, and it used to cost several thousand to join this same developer program. And you can still develop and distribute Mac applications at no charge to the developer (this developer program is only for additional professional resources, access to pre-release OS versions, etc).

Rixstep are full of bullshit and FUD and I don't understand why anyone listens to them.
I would be thrilled and (assuming I hadn't collapsed under the stress) I'd shamelessly milk it by trying to get Woz out for a drink.
How is this better than redis? I can't imagine needing something higher performance than redis, especially if I had to pay for it and it was closed source.
um, in this case, it's using men as a metaphor - the writer is using the voice of a woman... Or a gay man, I suppose.
I walked past the kids pledging allegiance to Tesco most days when I was in Islington:

http://images.google.com/images?q=banksy%20tesco&um=1...

Edit: For people outside of England, Tesco is one of the bigger or biggest convenience store chains, similar to 7-11. The kids are wearing traditional school uniforms. So it'd be similar to graffiti of American kids in conservative, traditional dress saluting the 7-11 logo.
Maybe, after having his name sold to Nick Denton for $5000 for making a career-damaging mistake, the guy might rather get this past him, rather than becoming an industry punch line. I don't know. Unlike some people on HN, I'm not one of his friends.
Not to sound insensitive, but who cares about JWZ's code signing problems?
Just so you know, I agree with you. Especially because most of those articles are written by nincompoops who overlook entirely where it really will change the world.

And, so you know, that's not what the article is about. It's about sales numbers.
A lot of his posts are downright goofy, but this one I can personally relate to, as can anyone who has navigated the Byzantine labyrinth of Apple's codesign process. It is time not spent coding and is a drain on developers.
The use of "asshat" made my day.

Agreed.
A small, italic, grey-on-white pair of words, one of which is an uncapitalized name

versus

The vast majority of tech writers and geeks in general being male

Downvoting the guy pointing out the incorrect assumption is unwarranted, yeah, but the assumption is one that'll be correct really, really often.
The expectations of the world in re: video and wireless were completely different in 1993. Were you there?
I really do hope this is satire. otherwise it would be the beginning of the start of 1984
Links above go to test.com

FYI: http://www.example.com (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt)
If it were anyone else, I would agree. But Steve Wozniak being who he is, I think it's a signal of 'all's well that ends well.'
If I were this guy I'd wouldnt want this joke to be dragged on for eternity, I'd want people to forget about it as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, I can see this happening.
People really like Steve Wozniak, and a lot of people think the iPhone prototype was blown way out of proportion. I don't care one way or another about Wozniak, but I couldn't disagree more about the seriousness of what happened.

Don't worry about (or waste time commenting about) downvotes. If you're commenting in good faith, your karma will reflect it over the long run.
Ask HN: Startup ideas around 4G
With Clear and Verizon covering major cities in the US by the end of this year and first Android 4G phone coming out soon, there must be a huge potential market for apps that take advantage of high speed wireless broadband. What are your thoughts on this?
Someone else (in some other similar thread that I've forgotten) pointed out the similarity to "the olden days" when everybody knew everybody else's business.

To which the reply was: Yeah, but you knew exactly _who_ knew your business. This new brand of everybody-knows-everybody's-business is entirely different because it's asymmetrical: everybody knows everything about me but I don't know shit about "them", who they are, where they are, how many of them there are, etc...
At least it can handle big files. TextMate completely chokes on large files and/or projects.
I liked the leaking of the list on "ikiwleaks.org"
zooomr.com is worth a try. 23hq maybe too. tried photobucket?
It wouldn't surprise me either, and that doesn't make me happy. Even if the prototype had to get published once it was lost, there's simply no reason any of us needed to know this guy's name.
Had I lost my iPhone prototype, having Woz go to the effort to make a t-shirt and take this picture would absolutely have made my day. Anyone who knows anything about Woz knows that this was done with a good heart.
"What are the "modern" features that ooc language is missing?"

Good question; I'm not up enough on this direction of languages to answer.

It has closures, as noted.

One might say that functional programming is new again, or at least strong functional programming where you have guarantees that certain varieties (almost said "classes" there, which in this context would be confusing at best :-) of data will not change out from under you. Haskell has this, of course, as does Clojure in a weaker form.

What about first class continuations? Continuations per se are too basic to be entirely modern, e.g. Steve Russell, inventor of obscure things like Spacewar and the Lisp REPL invented them for the second implementation of LISP (on the vacuum tube 704), but they weren't first class until Scheme in the 1975 (all this according to Wikipedia, and Scheme's aren't quite first class enough for my tastes).

Modern concurrency stuff? For that matter, what's its concurrency story? A search for various keywords like that, thread and SMP didn't find anything.

I'm sorry to say that I personally am only interested in new languages that have a good concurrency story, that and languages per se are the only areas of pure CS that I find interesting. (And of course I have Clojure for concurrency.) If it's "functional-ish" but not functional enough, it might be hard to graft that onto the language.
Yes, we're much faster but I don't want to commit any benchmark yet, we want to be 100% sure.
It's saved to disk but then it gets evicted after 30 days.
F11 usually.
You finally pushed me into giving it a try. I started a 'Find in project' on a project with some multi-megabyte text files, and it not only gave me the Beachball of Death, it also was thrashing so heavily it took several minutes to get the terminal to respond enough to kill it.

I wasn't ready to give up, so I did some research and uncovered "Grep in Project", a replacement that does it right:
http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/06/grep-in-project-command-for-tex...

I don't know what it is about "Find in Project" that drives text editor programmers to reinvent grep, badly. XCode suffered from terrible performance too for a long time.
It currently only works on a single machine but we will implement consistent hashing soon.
Sparking imperatives - how to fake lazy threads in Haskell
A tip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash#Mr._Brainwash_spe...

Makes you rethink it a bit, huh.
Which doesn't mean you shouldn't point it out. (Although yes, that is something I'm fixing when I get around to finishing my design.)

By the way - the "guy pointing out the incorrect assumption" is a girl.

I'm laughing. :)
Had I lost it, I would have thought it weird that a guy like steve wozinak has nothing better to do than make a t shirt with my name on it.
I agree to disagree - I don't have insider knowledge, so I may be utterly wrong. Perhaps we'll find out soon enough.

My feeling is this is a bit of social signalling going on. Woz is saying 'Gray is one of us, we can joke around about it, because that's the kind of teasing we can do in our circle'. If the matter were serious, Wozniak would indeed be out of line, and he'd hopefully know better than to do this. There's no need to keep Powell's name secret anymore, he's part of the Apple mythology now.

There is a few bits more info in this article:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003345-37.html

Woz:"It seems clear that (Powell) kept the iPhone prototype secret enough to satisfy Apple. It's a bad accident that could happen to any of us."
Maybe before/after the next Hackers & Founders meeting you could get some folks together. I am definitely interested.