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Yeah, I'm aware that some companies prefer to have their content available only within their private networks but different big enterprises have pretty different requirements.

Right now, I want to focus my efforts to create a great product for folks like myself, who would enjoy and benefit from easy and no-fuss storytelling with screenshots.

I might consider an enterprise version down the road, but creating a great product to scratch my own itch and help others like me comes first.
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Check out Outright too, their big draw is integration with plenty of other web services.

Basically when breaking into an existing market, you want to be at least 15% better than the competition to convince people to switch. That doesn't mean you have to START better, but you should have a good idea of what you can do to accomplish that.
Is receiving a good for your own personal use or resale the same thing as receiving it for the purpose of reporting on it then returning it right after? Intent here seems to be overlooked by quite a bit of the commentary.

That said, is there a public good for having obvious trade secrets reported on to the public? I am not sure a good case can be made there. However, there are like 3 secret IPhones running around. Clearly, if it's a trade secret Apple is not working as hard as usual on keeping it for some reason. How many times have we seen leaks like this from Apple? Not very frequently.
Didn't Alan Kay dream it up a couple of decades before that?
I've written a SPARQL query parser, which is somewhat similar to SQL. Parsing the string into your internal memory representation is not the hard part of writing a query engine. It's really not difficult to transform SQL into the JSON/SQL shown in the article.
I don't know if programming makes me less social, but I do know that I'm at my most social after I've already been socializing with a lot of people. So if I've spent my day doing anything that isn't socializing, I'm not going to be very social.
If you want to go to away fast, you could ride an ion engine. It gets you faster for the same mass than chemical rockets can. The concept was tested on the Deep Space 1 probe with great success. IIRC, a Vasimir engine (a variation on the ion theme) will be tested on the ISS. Ion engines are pretty much off-the-shelf (or, as much off-the-shelf as deep-space probe propulsion go) now.

Another alternative (that still would require some work) would be a solar sail, to be deployed after the probe uses the Sun as a gravity assist.

You could, conceivably, use both. You would shot the probe towards the Sun with ion engine on. Ideally, it would reach escape velocity from the Sun during this first leg. When passing close to the Sun, it would deploy the solar sail and get as much impulse from that as possible - discounting the sail mass, it's essentially free. When the solar sail is spent (it's a very thin foil, degrades and becomes less efficient as it gets farther from the Sun) the probe jettisons it, turns on the ion engine again and rides it until all the propellant is spent.

That should give it some serious speed.

Mind you, speed was not Voyager's priority. Voyager 1 and 2 were great sightseeing tours of the outer solar system. The fact they still work is a testimonial of the genius of those who built them.
Because if your way of interacting with the database is encoded in a consistent JSON format, then the server can analyze it easier to decide what to do. That should make sharding and clustering a lot easier.

This wording makes it sound like this is an advantage for the server, that it enables things you otherwise wouldn't be able to do in the server. But even with SQL, something, usually the server, parses the text/string based query into what is essentially a format similar to this. Sharding and clustering would be "easier" too if you didn't need to do them in your application, if the server side stuff just handled it. Removing the need to parse SQL can remove the need to do that from your stack, but the server usually handles this anyway. The way we think about sharding and clustering now usually puts that functionality into the application or into middleware where you need to be aware of it. There's nothing stopping a server from taking a text based SQL query and offloading all those scaling features from the app itself.
That will be Voyager 6, after it falls into a black hole and ends up being rescued by machines.
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Counterexample: classic kung fu movies. You rent "Snake and Crane Styles of Shaolin" because you want to see people beating each other up using the snake and crane styles of Shaolin. (insert "Snakes on a Crane" joke)
Go for it! Start with a MVP.

Steve Blank's post on the subject is a good read: http://steveblank.com/2010/02/22/no-accounting-for-startups/

Fred Wilson also shared this thoughts: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/accounting.html
Doesn't Freshbooks do really basic accounting?
Well, with regard to ordering, as said, I have no idea how people bear with pivotal's complete lack of any way to express dependencies. Those are at the heart of any project I've been involved with, as stuff naturally gets delayed and shuffled around all the time. I have yet to find a sensible way to get a comprehensive status-view of a given Goal (consisting of multiple stories) in pivotal.

Take for example this mantis ticket, esp. the "Relationships":
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=11330

At a glance I can see what state this Goal is in, what the progress is, what it depends on, what it is blocked on (if anything) and who is involved.

With a few plugins mantis will also add fancy progressbars and time estimates. I think there's even a plugin to compute a velocity similar to pivotal, even though I've found that feature amazingly useless in pivotal so far. Perhaps it works better when your tasks are very uniform and your teammates are robots instead of humans. ;-)

As for the higher level ordering (enforcing an ordering on Goals), for that Mantis uses the Roadmap, which can ofcourse also be modified at any time as needed; http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/roadmap_page.php

Note also that all those extra-fields that are enabled in that mantis installation (Platform, OS etc.) are optional and customizable. In my setups there's usually only one or two, which reduces the UI clutter.

Note also the concise "Issue history" at the bottom which I much prefer over the cumbersome, ajaxified, collapsing/jumping mess in pivotal.

Anyways, to each their own. Different people, different priorities ;-)
Cool, I'm adding a way for users to update Storyteller to the latest version with minimal fuss.

After that, I'll send out invites in manageable batches :)
> People keep asking for power/control

Who does? Most users I know of any system (hackers included) prefer simplicity.
javascript is clearly the most popular and widely used programming language in history. c/c with classes has the most software built on top of it, putting them at the most important languages on opposite sides of the software stack.

what would be interesting is a back of the envelop calculation on # lines of js vs c executed globally per minute. id guss c probably wins due to frequency of execution.
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would rent be applicable here?
spideroak.com has always been an all SSL site, and there are a few additional annoyances:

- You need a cert for example.com, and maybe a wildcard cert for .example.com, and for any additional levels of subdomains such as *.{x,y,z,etc}.example.com.

- Not all search engines seem to credit links to http://example.com/ and https://example.com equally.

- Even modern browsers sometimes abort downloads over SSL silently, without even an indication to the user that the download failed (despite sending a content-length header.) That's the really frustrating one.
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Another good area to target could be landlords, who may be willing to be a couple dollars per month per rental unit.
Scott Adams eats microwaved pasta?

First order of business upon becoming rich is hiring a full-time gourmet chef.
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I think people try to use his age against him. But too bad. It's his company and let him run it the way he wants.

Particularly if it goes against the old, ingrained ways of thinking I'm all the more for it.
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> those are absurd examples to bring up in this discussion.

In the context of Facebook they are absurd, but your claim was about society at large, not Facebook.

> In the context of things people typically share on Facebook, public-by-default is perfectly appropriate.

The problem is changing from private-by-default to public-by-default and forcing people to opt-out. Facebook is effectively making the decision about what individuals share using a bait-and-switch.

Put another way, it's grow on the backs of their users, then screw them.

> Out of all the things people share on Facebook, a small fraction of posts actually need to be private in the eyes of their authors.

You mean, in your eyes a small fraction of your posts actually need to be private.
I like what I've seen in Outright. Outright is focusing initially on the "single member LLC". This suits me...except: I need to account for me as a person in addition to my LLC. I want both accounts in the same system since it is common to make mistakes or to rethink the expense later: I paid on my personal credit card but its a business expense. I paid on my business card but it should have been paid on my personal card and then reimbursed as a travel expense to employee. There are many of these types of "reconciliations" between personal and business. A good accountant looks at my mistakes and ends up making three or four entries to fix my mistake. I don't even know how to fix the mistake. I want one-click fixing the books for these common cases.
The reason I said free is better is due to this blog post from OkCupid http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/04/07/why-you-should-... in which they say a lot of the profiles in pay sites were created for free or are expired which means a large percentage of the people you contact will be inactive/haven't paid

The way to make it obvious is through marketing ;). In my previous comment I tried to give some examples of how the paysites distinguish themselves from the free sites.
I've been cooking for some time the same idea exactly as you have exposed it. Maybe we will be competitors?

It is always good to have competition, even if intuit, xero, etc do the same thing.

$5 is ok.
This is really strange. Adobe is highlighting the worst parts of their product in their attempt to appear the good guy in the fight. It's as if a politician were attempting to win votes by throwing bricks with political slogans attached through the windows of his constituents. It may have worked for the Nazis, but I don't think it will work for Adobe.
I plan to :), but I just started working on it. I figured I would solicit feedback from HN when I finish in a week or two once I have an initial version.
I think at least 80% of the links in this article have been featured on SM before, actually.

Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/25/55-minimal-black-...
Not true. NYT makes most of its money from ads, but also from archives, content licensing (Amazon etc), indexing, and things like online crosswords.

Second, you might get it first on Twitter or whatever but you wont always know until later if its true, the context, and the other side of the story. Twitter wins for earthquake in Haiti but if a General is shot in Thailand I need to know more about the what, who, why, where the than some dude I never heard of is shot.

My 2 cents
I am not sure what response you get here because accounting is traditionally a non-hacker domain. In my own research, there is a huge need of a service like yours for the particular segment you are aiming for.

I have been offering SQL-Ledger (and its fork LedgerSMB; both open source) hosting, training, support, customization for many years. (See my info)

Though both packages are targeted to small to medium sized business, the biggest problem I find with new users is they always find it difficult to learn. This is mostly because of a large number of features even for smbs (and also because accounting software does require you have a basic understanding of accounting) And no one has time to read the fine manual.

I have been experimenting for the last few months by removing/rearranging menus, adding context sensitive help/tips, making it more user-friendly but still not satisfied with the results.

So yes I also want to target exact same segment (bare basics accounting system for freelancers, micro-isvs, and small businesses) but I need to do a lot of work/testing before doing that.
"Google encrypted all Gmail accounts in response to the hacking incidents that prompted its decision to move its Chinese-language search operation from Beijing to Hong Kong."

Its a shame they couldn't do it because customers have been asking for it.
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1. Location
2. Cost
3. Parking (I live in a fairly active city)
The two professions you mentioned (doctor and lawyer) are graduate degrees.

And no, it's not true just of programming. I'm currently working a job that I would get paid more for with an Associate's in the field... my four years of Ivy League education is totally worthless.

Basically, the only use of a 4 year degree is a stepping stool to a professional degree. For the vast majority of folks, it's completely useless.
What we need is the equivalent of "privacy mode" that browsers have. Hit a switch somewhere or go to some URL, and suddenly your searching using an encrypted connection and no logs at all are being kept.
I'd rather have Blackwater pissed at me than Jobs. I can deal with being gunned down in an alley by mercenaries, but the idea of landing on Jobs's personal shit list is just plain scary.

There's a great line in The Usual Suspects: "How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?" Lam must have thought that was a rhetorical question when he wrote that email. I'm sure he thinks different now.
"Who I know" has often, but not always, mattered in my career. But what mattered most was that what they knew about me was that I was the kind of developer they wanted to work with.
Sure would if monthly carrying costs are applicable
Also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1348871
Libre, not gratis.
You'd be surprised at the advances in Electric Blanket technology. My mother actually bought one earlier this week and I was surprised at how much better they are now.

It automatically adjusts it's heat settings to maintain a constant body temperature and to remove the chance of burns, is waterproof and has extra layers of underlay to prevent the mattresses from damage (and in the extreme cases, fire)
Sure, but talking about it being expensive 'on a large scale' is a bit odd - since revenue/profits also grow with scale. It seems to imply a greater than linear growth in costs.
just curious, is there a reason why you list the par value of common at $0.0001 and not $0.00001 (note the extra 0 there)?

i'm guessing there would be a difference in taxes under delaware (ie $100 for 10mm at $0.0001 vs. $1,000 for 10mm at $0.0001 under the "total authorized shares" tax calculation method).
This is the obvious point, and I have to wonder if it would defeat the money-making potential of search data once it becomes common practice.

Maybe it's just another feature that makes google the best search provider. If they don't do it, someone else will.
Every time I imagine him talking to his legal counsel, I see Brian Lam and Dr. Gonzo cruising down a desert road in a red 1971 Chevrolet Impala. “No point in mentioning Steve Jobs. Poor bastard will see him soon enough.”
What about if you had a laptop next to your bed and worked from home?

Sure, there's muscle atrophy, but it's a small price to pay for comfort! </sarcasm>
I've worked in several jobs that explicitly required a 4-year-degree. One of them even made me bring the physical degree document in so they could photocopy it for their records.
Is receiving a good for your own personal use or resale the same thing as receiving it for the purpose of reporting on it then returning it right after? Intent here seems to be overlooked by quite a bit of the commentary.

I don't see that the specific crime is important here; what's important is that goods which were technically stolen under California law were received by Gizmodo for the purpose of committing another crime under California law (revealing trade secrets).

And no, calling a tech-support line in Uttar Pradesh and asking if they've recently misplaced an engineering prototype would not be considered a legitimate attempt to return the phone.

As a longstanding EFF member, I just wrote to Matt Zimmerman to ask what this case could possibly have to do with journalistic privilege.
I am a psychopath and the drumming down of my achievements would not work on me. I don't hurt others to show off, I do it for my own satisfaction.

You're probably thinking of low-functioning sociopaths, the ones who commit serial murders and get caught. Those people probably do need to show off.

My style is more to post an ad on Craigslist looking for prostitutes, find the real names of the women who respond, and then twirl them around my finger as I threaten to tell their family and friends (and then tell them anyways).

Posting on websites like this is about as much as I need to show off.
By your logic almost all of any company's revenue is ill-gotten gains. There is almost always an update or refresh to a product line in the pipeline. Consumers could always wait to get something better and cheaper.

Apple are not preying on uninformed customers, they are selling a product to a consumer who wants that product as-is, if they didn't want the product they would not buy it.
You seem to be implying that the choice is either to go to college or be a homemaker. That's rather condescending.

http://www.millionairedropouts.com/millionaire.php/The_Milli...
In the general case, it seems wiser and more efficient to do as little paperwork as possible before you have paying customers. (Assuming software/website-only business, assuming not going into field with more extreme/bureaucratic regulation, or lives are on the line, etc.) This is another argument for being a sole founder -- don't have to worry about a partnership breaking down and having to figure out who has what. Again, at least until you have revenue coming in.
Most people never change the default setting on anything, so I doubt it would have a huge impact on them. But it would certainly make power-users happy.
It's funny how you beat me to it :) I am working on pretty much the same product, about to launch in two weeks. It's good to know that you saw an opportunity in this as well. Best of luck.
Does someone seriously disagree that not showing up for an appointment is discourteous and costs someone money?
go for it! but be aware ... http://lessaccounting.com
Quickbooks sucks in a major way. If you could come up with a simple accounting system that didn't take three full minutes to load, even with an SSD, 4 processing cores, and 8GB of memory, you'd have a winner. Even if your software was really bad, it would probably still be better than Quickbooks.

You'd probably have to support these basic features:

Write Checks

Track Account Balances and Transactions - These need to be able to be imported in standard formats. The format Quickbooks uses is XML. I found it simple enough to reverse engineer that I was able to convert CSV dumps from my bank to QBO files and get them importing into Quickbooks.

Categorize Transactions - I need to be able to say what each transaction is. I should be able to setup filters to automatically categorize imported transactions. For example, at the convenience store Wawa, I buy exactly two things, coffee and gas. If the transaction is less than $5, I want it to be categorized as personal food, if it's over $20, I want it to be categorized as gas. I should be able to set this up, and never have to categorize one of these transactions again.

That's all it would really take. You would probably want to integrate with one or more invoicing systems to track receivables. You could setup an API then build connectors for popular applications, like Freshbooks. A good interface for accounting for bank deposits would be helpful as well.
One thing you might not have considered is increasing the price (depending on your service).

The reason I'm suggesting this is that you could always position yourself as a premium service as some people will always choose a more expensive option if they feel they are getting a superior product.

This of course might not apply to your particular segment, but if so, it's definitely an option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pricing#Premium_pricing
"Now, if you are on an airport Wi-Fi or other public network everything you search for is in the clear."

ok, and most search results you click on will take you somewhere not secure. There may be little value add here.

From re-reading this article, it actually contains no value expect the headline itself. cnet should start just doing tweets instead of bothering to try to fill a page.
I don't think many people mistakenly chose privacy settings. It's better to have users opt-out of your desired behavior because people are less likely to switch from defaults in general, even when they completely understand them. It's not necessarily underhanded, and given the clarity of Facebook's presentation of the options during the transition[1], I'd say it wasn't underhanded at all.

[1] http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/12/how-to-use-facebooks-new-...

> You mean, in your eyes a small fraction of your posts actually need to be private.

That's not what I meant at all. Choose a random Facebook friend who doesn't share posts with everyone. Pick a random post. Ask if she would mind if it were made public. I think the vast majority of the time, the author won't mind. Add that to the people who already share their posts with everyone and don't care.

Myspace was public by default. Twitter is public by default. The general public values privacy less than you do, and in my opinion, rightly so.
I agree. I was uber social after spending a couple of days handing out schwag and chatting with random people at SXSW.
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Well...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=delete+facebook+account,+face...

This seems to suggest that fewer people are searching to delete their account, proportional to the number of people using facebook.
Near the bottom of the article: "Diaspora is taking a different tack, according to Moglen, who has taken the students on as clients and is informally advising them."
Well, just to be clear, my point isn't that the NYT doesn't create value -- they absolutely do. My point is that the paywall won't work. It's a band-aid at best when they need a tourniquette. The only thing they'll achieve is to further remove themselves from the conversation. People just aren't going to start paying for news -- at least not enough of them to make a difference.

I'm not by any means rooting for the collapse of the NYT. But we're living through a revolution, and survival is going to require bigger thinking than paywalls.
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