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Aren't 'Modest Proposals' supposed to be satire? Maybe I'm asking a lot of the modern news consumer...
Apple could, but chose not to. I'm one of not just a few people who would have happily ponied up $600 for an unlocked iPhone direct from Apple, mostly because I could then use it with both my Softbank and AT&T accounts.

As is, I have to do the unlock dance, and have a phone that crashes semi-randomly. I'm very unlikely to buy another iPhone again, at least not unless they sell them as unlocked handsets, and I'm also unlikely to use it with AT&T.

Shitting on your customers is such a stupid strategy.
[Edit: This got overly long. I'll blog it later.]
Ah yes, the modern, standard way of constructing a .com that's still available:

<name-you-actually-want>ly.com
or
get<name-you-actually-want>.com

I kind of like Remindery though :)
Hickey is the man. I've learned from and enjoyed all of his presentation videos that I've encountered online.
Great market you are in. I am currently working on a identical application for my day job, although we are focusing on a niche industry we have been serving for a few years. Great design. I know companies that spend $1,000+ a month on reminders and related messages.

Edit: looking at the HIPAA compliant feature I can tell you have done your research very well :). Glad to see you in this space. Looking forward to some "cooperative competition".
From your demo, I learned that Preview now has annotations that allows you to draw arrows and circles on images. Very handy -- don't know how I never saw that before.
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If rescheduling is the biggest problem, this site I used to work on might help: http://hourville.com/online-scheduling/
I agree actually. Sears automatically called us about a service call. And it wasn't a big deal.

That being said, when we bought a stove at Home Depot, we received a personal call from the truck driver delivering the product to see if we were ready and where would be the most convenient place for him to carry it into the house.

So, automation probably does work sometimes, but if it's not all the time, then it's just an administration problem (as noted in the thread above)
I've been a Facebook developer since 2007.

Facebook does not share private without your consent. At f8 FB released a new authentication flow that is more restrictive for developers and more informative for users. Then people started freaking out. I do not understand.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
There aren't a ton of details in the post, but I really hope this doesn't mean the end of an unlocked Nexus One, or whatever Android phones will follow.

That being said, Google needed to kill this. Along with the no retail try it before you buy it issues, Google isn't setup for being a retail company -- it just isn't in their DNA. I mean, people had to drop $500 for a phone, and then only support they get is a web forum, where they may or may not actually get an answer from a Google employee? Weird confusion over whether Google or HTC or T-Mobile was responsible for different support issues?

I'm sure Google COULD fix these things, but it would take fairly significant internal effort.
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This is why Canada needs to have DRM laws.
If any random Canadian can reverse engineer headphones who knows where it will end - we may all be forced to listen to Celine Dion.
>There’s many HTML rendering engine implementations, the best few are totally open source with Apple being the major contributor to the best one, WebKit.

Not so many people would agree that Webkit is the best HTML rendering engine (Gecko, KHTML or Opera, anyone?).
Pre-existing relationships plus http://www.fiverr.com . I think almost everybody could get an idea for something business-related they could do with $5 on that site. Sure, why not have your own rap jingle.
I'm a Flash Developer and, like many other Flash devs, I don't use Adobe's tools (I use FDT, which isn't free, but isn't Adobe either).

I agree that Flash isn't as open as many people would like, but it is way, way more open than the iPhone ecosystem.
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Yeah, I have step-by-step screenshots how to get the annotation toolbar in Preview.app, done by Storyteller:

http://storyteller.freshlog.com/instructions/d290-How_to_ena...

Your friends might find this useful :)
Try naming 10-20 commercial websites(sites actually selling things) that are successful on a .org domain name. Can't? There is probably a reason for that.

It's not hairdressers you need to worry about, it's Google...who simply won't rank you in top positions.
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I agree. Fortune wanted TC to write a story about Fortune having the excerpts to drive traffic to Fortune. By posting the exclusive content himself Arrington essentially stole the exclusive.
It looks like you're targeting medical offices with that enterprise plan, but it just seems far too expensive for them. At that price your service is starting to cost as much as EMRs or practice management software.
The control protocols are not well documented at all, starting in 1996, all cars are required to have OBD ports.

The manufacturers don't want people to know the control protocols for various reasons (security, manufacturers make money selling repair materials and codes to repair shops, licensing codes to third parties etc.)

But it is possible to discover the control protocols, a friend and I worked on it for his Toyota Yaris I think by monitoring all the outputs from the OBD and changing a status (locking a door) and watching what bits change. We got a lot of equipment and help from a professor at school. We used a GPS and ended up making a little app that monitored where the car went, its speed, and various car statuses on google maps. There's a lot of info out on the Toyota Prius if you feel like getting started.
Excellent!!! Thank you! Used and recommended to friends and colleagues.
Very nice! Works just fine in Chrome on OSX. Found a couple of settings that I would swear I had previously set to just friends.
Your new venture seems very thoroughly thought-out, and I wish you good luck with it! I bet you've grown tired of hearing "you're an inspiration to us all".

But $770 for a 45-minute dentist's appointment?! Is that normal in Japan?
There is an existing company that does exactly this - my dentist just started using them. Some time before each dental appointment I now receive an email and an sms reminding me and asking me if I'm still going. I can either click "yes" or "no" links in the email, or respond to the sms with "yes" or "no".

Everything is white-labeled, but if you like I can ask my dentist who they're using.
There is nothing in the post that even remotely implies he is leaving his coworkers with a heap of unmaintainable code.
It's not mentioned in the article, but perhaps it has to due with the support burden?
http://mashable.com/2010/02/09/nexus-one-live-phone-support/

With having to deal with technical support, and all the small margins associated with retail, I'm not surprised at Google's decision.
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Sociopaths are unconstrained or uninfluenced by how they affect the well being of those around them, unless the effects help achieve their own goals or ambitions.

You can certainly find a sociopath that is helpful to society, they just wouldn't care on an emotional level.

I would be hard pressed to find an evil person who is relentlessly resourceful and social responsible.
He also thought "cube cryptanalysis" was going to break most modern ciphers. Do you think he's a serious practitioner? I think he's a pundit.
Sure, it's ubiquitous... but it's also nearly as cruft-laden as Java, and the Flash tools definitely don't reflect the years of "effort" that have gone into them.

Seriously, you have to be a complete fool to CHOOSE to build an IDE on top of the bug-ridden warthog that is eclipse, do a bad job of implementing it, and then on top of that charge for it.

Given the choice, I would pick Silverlight over Flash without hesitation -- because as a developer I want the tools that will let me do my job most efficiently without forcing me to do it THEIR way, and the Silverlight toolchain does precisely that. Expression Blend + Visual Studio isn't perfect, but it blows the doors off of eclipse and Flash.
Think of the targeted social engineering attacks you can do with this. If you know that an individual has access to a sensitive computer network you want access to, you can make them a targeted offer they can't refuse and point to a site with some malware rootkit or something. I'm sure there are endless devious tricks that can be pulled with this system, beyond your harmless pranks like these. Now that I'm aware of the possibility that an ad I see is only seen by me, I'm much less likely to trust them with a click.
> Polls that are collected without randomness are completely meaningless.

What?
thanks! The checks aren't too sensitive, but the one-click fixes can be flaky. FF3 periodically has issues, haven't had time to delve into it yet. I'm hoping some other Javascript pros take a look at the code.
I posted it because of this discussion where many were wondering if only geeks were seeing all this stuff about FB or if "regular people" were also starting to catch on.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1345662
This whole article could be a case study on finding an idea and starting a business.

"I want to be able to say something similar to 'Appointment Reminder will pay for itself the first time it prevents a no-show.'" - despite patio11's humility about sales, this sentence shows he has the right instinct.
ECC is extremely well studied and implemented almost by default in embedded settings. There are providers of it other than Certicom.

The reality is, you need to consult a cryptographer before you implement any public key system. RSA and vanilla DSA are also spectacularly easy to screw up.
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I don't think that most of the successful startup founders I know are narcissists. They can turn on the confidence when necessary (eg. to close a negotiation), but for the most part they're quite humble.

I think that startup founders you hear about often are narcissists. Founding a company isn't really a narcissistic thing to do, but seeking press (particularly for yourself instead of your company) is. Thought experiment: how many times do you see Dropbox in the press as a product, vs. how many times do you see Drew Houston as a founder? And compare that to how often you see Mahalo as a company vs. Jason Calacanis as a founder.
I'd buy one if it didn't say 'Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in your country or region'. I'm in EU.
If I were you, I'd drop the Wordpress and WooThemes link - it brings nothing to your business and negatively affects those who care about such things.

Do you have experience in B2B? Cold calling and searching for your customer instead of them searching for you? It's a very time-consuming task, much worse in support than B2C.
How 'bout plain old remindr.org? That's available. :p
You could argue that society is a failed platform, mainly due to spam issues...
Timing attacks like this have been successfully used against a few gaming consoles.
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It's an interesting idea, but I'm not so sure about your price structure. I guess that you don't want to bill for every notification, but have you thought about billing for prevented no-shows (maybe on top of a base-price that includes x appointments)? You could still make the case that your Reminder pays for itself after the first no-show and make more money off of users that benefit more from your product.

Also: I don't know who the target audience for the base-price is. If you know you have 10 and only 10 appointments per month, this plan may be fine, but otherwise? Why not change it to a "1$ for every appointment"-Plan?
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The others already answered this but I suppose writing return Boolean(x) instead of return !!x would be much clearer.
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I'm almost finished getting rid of and selling everything I own. I'll have a backpack and supplies to live out of.

I'll be in the SF area, Mountain View, Palo Alto, etc. in early June. Any suggestions? Tips? Do's? Dont's?
They write "Apps for µTorrent is a brand new web-based extensions framework that makes it easy for users to get more and do more with µTorrent without compromising the client’s renowned lightness and speed. "

Let's hope they deliver on that last part...
Misread Fabricly for Graphicly.
You're probably right. So far in my experience, that's pretty prevalent -- and the industry really does go out of its way to reward failure by rewarding heroics.

I read a bank security audit report once... it made me very concerned about banking in general. It was astonishing how many glaring security blunders these banks were making -- and this was pervasive, neither isolated nor limited to small banks...
They should have waited till the end of the year to make this call.

I bet there are a bunch of users who were waiting till October to buy a phone at the discounted rate. That's 24 months after the original G1 was released, which is when those owners are eligible for discounted upgrade.

Like myself.
Careful. Colin Percival isn't David Wagner or Dan Boneh or even Daniel Bernstein. He wrote a paper on a side channel attack during a window of time when everyone was writing papers on microarchitectural side channel attacks, wrote a pretty cool paper on a password derivation function, and, like the authors of SSH, Tor, and DESLogin (none of them professional cryptographers), built a bunch of cryptography into a well-understood Unix networking problem.

I very much respect Colin and fully expect him to kick my ass in arguments, but, in particular, I find a good portion of his advice does not square with my professional experience; in other words: he's saying things that lay developers have already heard, and, empirically, lay developers produce very bad crypto.
Looking forward to it!

If possible, I'd love to read up on how exactly you moved from concept to product.
It cautions me when I have the setting that "Everyone" can friend request me ... maybe be lenient on that one?
First of all, congratulations! There will be a lot of ups and downs, so just remember to enjoy the good times and hang in there and be persistent through the bad.

I have a couple suggestions for your landing page:

* The current overall payload is 382.1K. You could significantly reduce this and speed up the load time if you enable gzip compression on your web server. Seems like you're running this on IIS 6.0--there is a configuration option for HTTP compression buried somewhere in the submenus, I believe.

* The rounded corners have a white background, whereas the page background at the top is gray. This causes the top corners to have a very visible rectangular edge. The IE-6 friendly way to fix this is to change the background color for the top corners to match the background color of the top of the page. If you don't care about IE 6, you can simply give them transparent backgrounds.

Good luck!
Google, don't lose heart. It's not you. It's just that people in US don't know that they can buy phones in open market without signing away a chunk of income to cell companies every month.

There are bigger, more mature markets elsewhere. Go after them. You might even get more people to use your services (maps, etc.) on a mobile than they would on a PC.

Also, $350-$400 (may be even $500 for topend) is a sweet spot for smart phones in India. And people do buy these phones in open market without a contract.

All the best. Go forth and prosper.

/an iPhone and Droid owner.
AFAIK, bcrypt for password hashing is fine (although Percival has his own scheme that he believes to be better - I can't comment either way).
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I made this image previously, I wonder if it makes the cut for cute animal:

http://alvinlai.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/storyteller-i...
How does it handle the rescheduling problem? It's not the "writing down the new appointment" part of rescheduling that is the problem.
In my experience, that's much more common. Everyone at amazon complained about how bad the tools and systems were, and yet continually repeated the mistakes that were to me blindingly obvious.

But they topped it off with extra special levels of stupidity:
The vast majority of amazon's software ends up being written by juniors, and when they finally bring in seniors, they put the juniors on new systems and stuck the seniors with the task of adding features to the crap (because seniors are "good at wading into bad code").
So are posts public by default for new users? Did Facebook change anyone's privacy settings to "public" behind their backs? Mine has always been set to "Friends" since I had my account (3 years), and as far as I know all my posts have remained visible to only my direct facebook friends.
Upvoted the article because I think it's time to bet the farm on web client javascript development, rather than pursuing individual native client development (unless you have a valid marketing reason to go after one or more native clients for your app).
So what's the price point? Pay for the software or a web service? If the latter, any inclination to open source the app?
I'm not. I am now receiving friend requests ala MySpace from completely random people with 3,000 friends...

If they want to be friends, they need to message me or know one of my other friends (most of my friends are friends with other friends anyways).
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Meaning the people who take this poll are self-selecting and likely to already be concerned about the things in the media; it is not a random sample of internet users
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People can pick their own new spot in the schedule without having to go back and forth to find available times that work for both parties. The empty bubbles can still be a problem.

I might not completely understand the problems he runs into, but I think it could help.
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The domainer who owns the .com is known for a resistance to selling and would want 5 figures or more, and the .net is owned by a market leader in the space. I can think of better things to spend my money on.

Many of them probably don't even really have a computer in reception.

You're certainly correct, but the market is so much bigger than me that I expect it will not matter either way. We'll see if my prospective customers routinely bring this up as an issue over the coming months.
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Did you read the paper? In the text for Figure 4.3: "The spherical cow image was created for this paper by Yulian Ng and used with her permission." (Used to diagram cow neworks.)
That's a symbol that represents an unrecognized object (on Safari?). Say if Flash weren't available on your browser, you'd see that.
Although I've been downmodded because this comment looks facetious I actually mean it very seriously.

I remember reading (probably on HN) about a business school where the students were given $10 and asked to make as much money as they could in one day.

One group spent the $10 on e.g. lemonade and set up a lemonade stand and made e.g. $100.

Another group realised that the $10 they had been given was a false constraint, and they should just set up a business to make money however they wanted. They could use their own funds, borrow from others, whatever. They realised the $10 was just a diversion. (cf exit and gjm11's top level comments on this story)

Unless someone stands to make much less than 10 additional pounds with this £10, they could have made essentially the same amount without being given £10 to start with.
So if Facebook had a search engine, or Google had Facebook's data, an ad platform could be even more targeted, and targeted to when people are looking for something.
There is nothing actually bundled. It is easier to download those things, but if you still want the light, small, fast experience, that hasn't changed at all.
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I was trying to figure out if this model is Turing-complete but couldn't rapidly prove it either way. Still, with chaotic dynamics in the model I think the odds are pretty decent that something could be found, although it would of course require absurd levels of precision by the cows even if the model was simple, and could require truly absurd levels if it does end up requiring the chaos.
Not sure about that entirely. Remember when computers were given away free with 3 years of AOL sign up in the late 90's? That fad only lasted a while.
It's funny you'd say that, because you're one of three-ish people on HN I weight equally with cperciva on security issues. But my explanation doesn't depend on his being one of the top 10 security guys in the world; just on his being orders of magnitude more reliable than an average Hacker News reader, like the one who I responded to.

Even that is more than required by the fundamental message I'd hoped to convey; which is "making something and sharing it can be useful; giving non-specific criticisms from a noncommitted, unassailable position is not useful." Reputation is simply bayesian evidence with which one can weight an otherwise-unsupported claim.
This is time well spent mjpizz. Some of the one-click fixes dont do anything. But awesome :)
Honestly, I don't care what old people like this have to say about Facebook. I was in college when it launched and I still use it every single day. People like this and Calacanis can shove it when they say the Facebook Era is over. Go ask a bunch of highschool and college students right now if they think Facebook is dead, because they are who matter. Anyone that knows that demo can agree they are hooked and don't give a shit about 99% of the privacy concerns all over the news. Give it up grandpa, Facebook doesn't care about you. We never wanted you anyways. : /
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I receive sms messages from both a taxi service(on way/arrived) I use and a physiotherapy clinic(reminder that you have an appointment tomorrow at ...) that I use. I find these useful and am grateful to receive them. On the other hand if they were automated voice calls I would hate them with a passion, I just can't describe how much I hate being called by an automatic service. SMS seems like the right way to go. Given that you do that I think you have a valuable service that I would be happy to use.
Post about Etact plug-in for Gmail (requires password or Oauth):
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/etacts-builds-what-i-want.ht...

A couple of good comments too.
They did fix the web forum issue.
Also, the <title> is "Home Page" You should instead include the name of your company and a short description of what exactly you do.
Although it's mitigated somewhat by the fact that Bernstein is passionate and has been a reliable maintainer in the past. "Bus factor" is typically an euphemism for "someone is going to pay this employee more than we do".
It's not hairdressers you need to worry about, it's Google...who simply won't rank you in top positions.

Like saying there is carbon in a water molecule, this is simply not correct. com, net, and org domains all get the exact match bonus in the US, and orgs are not noticeably weaker than coms given equivalent link equity.