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I almost didn't post this, because I had assumed when I saw your explore page that you had already taken it into account , but here it goes..

It seems to me that howling something is a type of up-vote (reddit, hn, digg) or bookmark (delicious, xmarks). This means you have an idea of what people have found interesting. So why don't you tell what people what others find interesting in addition to or instead of saying what has been posted recently? One reason I can see for using most recent as your exploration metric is that it would really correspond to popularity, the most popular link would be most recent most frequently (depending on implementation). I don't think this is a good enough reason though, one person has the ability to use bursts of spam to remove things they don't want to be seen on the explore page (its harder to stay popular if nobody can see you so this means spamming is an effective way to give a down-vote).
For anyone in the UK, this is more like "Visualise the Deepwater oil spill over your part of the country"
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"the more I practiced the luckier I got" - golfer Ben Hogan.
+1. Google should assume that any Apps user also has a personal Google account and design accordingly.
oh, I didn't make this, but I should have cited my source. Sorry.

Cross-posted from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/comments/c8nji/i_made...
Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but if their intent was to show what a load of nonsense Apple's insistence that native apps are better is, it sounds like they couldn't have done a better job.
This article is pretty touchy feely to really make serious business decisions on. Here is my list (not just for tech startups):
Is your business or product in a under-served niche (ie not a sexy industry that everyone is trying to get a piece of)?
Do you have deep understanding of the industry or do you have a close relationship to someone that does?
Is the idea easy to execute on (ie can you see clearly how to serve the market and all existing technology exists and is proven)?
Is the market big enough so that you think you can easily sell 1000 units per month at $10 per unit, 10 units per month at $1000 or equivalent in billed hours of service?
Can the business be revenue positive in 6-months?
Can the business be automated or are profits recurring (ie could the business be successful with minimal human resourced or still be successful with minimal oversight by the founders)?
Are there any barriers to entry for your market or possible intellectual property opportunities?
Can you start the business without substantial upfront capital outlays (ie no inventory, etc)?
Can the business stand on its own (ie doesn't need a huge existing customer base, mailing list, big advertising outlays, or additional features to make it an full product)?
Do you have any other secret sauce not covered in the above?

No need to answer yes to all of them, but having 5 to 6 of these things in spades would be my criteria for doing more exploration.
Sure!

Judging by your note, you've already spent a good chunk of several days working on this already, and that's not low-brain-usage time, so it's a pretty expensive investment already.

Looks like you're already doing a good bit of this already... Pirate Metrics... look at activation, then retention, then acquisition. cohort analysis. user testing. customer development / talking to customers. Those are going to be higher-leverage investments of resources.

And if you don't have an easy way to spend money in those areas, save it for when you can find something that'll give you great leverage, return on investment in your proj.

Hope this helps, -A
That doesn't appear to be too far from the truth:

"I spent those decades debugging the Frankenstein. In the OS crash debugger. In hex. Because wasn’t it oh so clever and efficient to build a radically new kind of database with extreme reliability requirements as a highly multithreaded kernel extension to the OS?"
He is running a hacked firmware that apparently does not have the native Android dialer, and then wants Google to remove the app that didn't run right with his hacked firmware? Sorry, but that's not Google's fault.
Did you RTFA? You could have made this a native app using the webkit control and bundled all the content in a 10th of the size.
"Why Wired Didn't use HTML5 for their iPad App?"

Because consumers are not trained to pay for web sites, whereas they're trained to pay AppStore-delivered apps, that's why.

80% of iPhone/iPad applications, both accepted and rejected ones, would work great in HTML5; the figure is of course much higher for applications that might have been written in flash.

But discussions about Apple's languages, SDK or even hardware platforms are moot; the game changer for companies is the AppStore, and access to this AppStore is the only thing they truly care about. They can, but don't want to, distribute most of their stuff over plain old HTTP. What they can't is getting paid for doing so.
Enough to cover one of the Great Lakes.

Charming.
Paul Buchheit's comment on this thread can also give you some insights. http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-to-do-with-you...

More comments on his FriendFriend link: http://friendfeed.com/paul/c34da6af/what-to-do-with-your-mil...
That's funny. As far as I can tell all the tools that are used for HTML (text editors and IDE's mainly) seem to be working pretty well for HTML5. And if you mean WYSIWYG then that market is dominated by Dreamweaver and even that has added HTML5 support.
"If it's making more than it's costing him, and he's got time to be getting on with other stuff, he's doing pretty well in my book."

If I put up a random web page on a free hosting provider, slapped Adsense on there, and started making $1/month, it would also fit your definition.

You set the bar on "pretty well" way too low. This is also the problem with a lot of startups (and why they end up failing).
I got the impression that even the text was stored as a graphic.
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A good reminder that hacking your phone (jailbreaking, rooting, etc) can cause serious problems outside of just the technical realm.
Story-based reasoning.

I find it easy to get wrapped up in this as an entrepreneur, and it took me a lot of time and energy to fight this inclination.

Basically, it's so easy to visualize mass adoption of your product and how your customers are going to benefit, you end up drinking your own Kool-Aid. Then, when trying to explain your product you get caught up and end up doing a poor job selling it to potential customers.

I think the best way to get over this this is to really listen to what the customers are saying. What works for them, what doesn't work for them, and then address these points. This means at times ignoring your visions and focusing on reality.
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This is actually the exact issue that I struggle with to really be able to invest the time into the product I'm working on. The spare time I have available to me, is actually better spent with my children.

I know some people may view that as a cop-out, that I am not really committing to my project, but I grew up with an absent father, and it's actually really important to me that while my kids are young, and looking to me and my wife for really key influence, I want to be there.

I figure that once they're young adults and want to go out drinking/partying, I'll have plenty of spare time, and I'll have wisely invested important time with my kids during that first ~15 years or so.

So right now, my project plods along - maybe 2 hours per week. I'd love to sink 20 hours a week into them. I tried working late nights, but you end up writing code that needs to be re-written, or coming up with marketing strategies/research that seems like you were smoking illicit substances at the time.

So in answer to the original question - a startup most definitely affects your relationship with your wife/girlfriend/family. Some of the structures other HN'ers have put in place sound like a good start.
I think intelligence and attitude are both multipliers. The difference is, if you glorify attitude (to yourself) it can help you improve your attitude. Glorifying intelligence won't improve your intelligence so easily.
I absolutely hate this drive of killing lan games in the name of DRM. 4 of us traditionally met up once or twice a year to play strat games like Starcraft, War 3, CoH, Dawn Of War on a LAN (2 copies usually hacked, £120 for a few nights play? You're having a laugh). Would any of us buy the game otherwise? No. Do ANY of us buy the games now that we can't play this way? No.

THQ say strat games are dead, I wonder whether the truth is that they killed them themselves. Dawn Of War 2 with the crapness that is Windows Live was horrid. DoW we played 3-4 years, all of us ended up with legit copies and expansion packs. DoW2 one of us has it, none of us have bought the upgrades, all because we couldn't play it socially.

Shot themselves in the foot imho. If they had any sense they'd enable LAN & allow distribution of temporary free keys on the same LAN. Totally one perspective I know, but I've met other people who play games this way, as a social thing, so I can't believe I'm the only gamer lamenting the frankly idiotic battle.net type solution. I care sod all about achievements in what I see as a social game.

It's like everyone having to bring their own box of Risk to be able to play it. Dumb.
Also, we're hiring: http://www.netflix.com/Jobs
I'm an independent, fee-only wealth manager, so take this comment in stride . . .

The answer is "it depends".

If you truly have "more money than I can ever spend", then you might not need to take much investment risk at all. While you're only 20 years old, you can still go through the exercise of thinking about what you want your future to look like in terms of goals, objectives, dreams, etc.

Of course, if/when a significant other comes into play, things change. Even more so with children.

Whatever you do, don't lock yourself into anything -- you don't want to paint yourself into a corner.

Do you have an interest in another startup? This will impact your liquidity and ability to take risk elsewhere with your finances.

If you really don't buy fancy stuff and can live within your means, don't let anyone talk you into anything just because "you're young" or any of that bullshit.

If you want help from a professional, interview at least 5 candidates, all of whom should come from recommendations from friends, family, board of advisors, etc.

Bottom line. . . it's your life, and you only get one shot to make the most of it. Your need to take risks with your money is only dependent upon what you want to do in the future. If you have big goals and/or short time-frames, this might call for more risk. However, if you have modest goals and longer-term time frames, you might need to take little or no risk, but be sure to take taxes and inflation into account.

This is a challenging topic to address online because the answer is and should be highly personalized based on your own situation and preferences.

Best of luck with it, and congrats on the exit.
Was hoping there'd be some reasons grounded in specifics as to why an android phone provides a better overall experience than an iphone.
I learned programming on the Apple ][+ by typing in programs and then modifying them. Nothing forces you to read the code better than being forced to type it in!
I just read through this issue of Wired on my iPad while on a plane. It was neat to be able to have the videos and such without an internet connection.

However, the real reason it is 500MB is the same reason the paper copy is so many pages...

It is about 50% advertising.
Thanks for taking the time - this is all really helpful.

You seem to have understood the situation well (unless I'm reading this like a horoscope) - there are currently no decent, general solutions to my problem. Most recent papers use techniques that work well on images, apply them to video, show a couple of limited results and of course the authors don't publish any code. Conceptually, everyone can see that this class of techniques is not suitable, and whenever a paper is re-implemented the results are extremely poor. Basically, it looks like a dead end and I think even a tentative first step in a new direction would be counted as a success. But yes I will make sure to clarify this.

So based on your advice, over the next few days I will nail down the techniques to try, write a short hypothesis for why I think each one can work, and plan my time so that I am able to run with a promising approach or combination of approaches for the last month or so.

Thanks again. If you're interested, drop me an email and if I have something fun I will send you a copy of my writeup later this year.
I really expected this to be about an app that impressive to the point where I had to get an android..?
"If you are building a business model that says that people can only copy things with your permission, your business is going to fail because whether or not you like it, people will be able to copy your product without your permission."

I think he is making a great point. This applies to "trade secrets", "patents", and "physics." Sharing your idea does not limit you, on the contrary, it enlarges the market. Corporations and scientific researchers do not get this fact.
Despite the linkbait headline I found this to be an amusing take on the whole smartphone craze.

Sure, his own fault for running custom firmware I suppose.
But I wouldn't have been surprised if the story had ended with "but the battery was drowned" either...
awesome,
thanks danh!
I saw him speak at Rice University a few years back and he really left a bad impression on me.

At the heart of his message there are some good ideas - but his insistence on people saying GNU with Linux made him seem childish and bitter. He also went over the time and didn't take any questions. By about the 1.5 hour mark large number of people were walking out during the talk. He mocked one of them. There appeared to be no end in sight. Around the hour 45 minute mark it was just getting rambling and incoherent and I also walked out.

There is a place for free software, but I certainly wouldn't want Richard Stallman as a spokesman for my cause.
yeah, but the "drop a big box on it" technique has been proven to not work many times in the past. i did some shoddy research that leads me to believe that its never worked. seems like they should just cut to the solutions that have a better success rate.
>People who are well-educated have less children

But that doesn't mean that a well educated farmer will have less children. He can be as educated as you like but unless he can increase productivity in some way (access to loans for equipment say, like through Fairtrade) then he still has as much work to do and still needs to provide the labour.

Suppose the education increase yields, unless we're on top of the trading practices then the value falls - everyone's yield has increased, if this means the market saturates he might make less money (perhaps none). If the market hasn't saturated he still needs more labour to gather the increased yield but gets the same income to share amongst the labourers - increasing the pressure to provide cheap labour by expanding his family.

In short the problem is more complex and IMO is not due to lack of education. What you're saying is that a poor agricultural labourer should sacrifice there own ability to earn more in order to stave off over-population - why is it down to them.

I'll go with the converse though. If you ensure that workers get a fair wage (Fairtrade again), one that can pay basic healthcare and education costs and ensure they have healthy food intake and a reasonable dwelling, then there is less pressure to reproduce (but possibly more opportunity to choose to? again it's complex).
> Obama has quite loudly proclaimed that he wants to take our economy off of oil dependence and onto renewables. He says this multiple times every week.

He says similar things about "big finance" but his actions are different.
You are off to a better start than we were. I don't think we should have been married in the first place.

However, I am not the only entrepreneur I know who is divorced with long-hours at least being partially to blame.
Slide 21 I found particularly interesting in that they are testing micro-innovations by releasing them to specific user segments.

I'll say upfront that this is a great idea, but as a longtime Netflix subscriber I have to say the "satisfaction" polling I occasionally receive seems a bit too simple for such a purpose. For example they ask you how the quality of your stream was, and on HD content I do have to say "unwatchable", but if they are using it to triage software improvements, I wish they was also a chance to say "but I know my broadband is beyond sucky and I didn't really expect anything better than that".

In other words what matters is not just satisfaction, but satisfaction as compared to expectation.
This is probably in part due to increased percentage of workers taking jobs they didn't want (but needed) durring the recession.
Honestly, my mistake.

I read something that made sense to me which was that OP was objecting to subsidies to African countries--not subsidies for Western farmers. My objection makes no sense in the context of what OP actually said.
Regarding why I went for anything but 5 stars, yes, it is true my expectation was that a novice would not expect to command the wage paid to someone with experience. I also believe that some reflection on errors and examining how to avoid those errors in the future is an important part of my job. I would not rate myself 5 stars, would you?

5 stars might reflect a desire to only try safe things that can be accomplished with excellent results. On the internet development is fast, there are no experts in a technology that was only available yesterday so I was interested in people willing to try something new, risk to fail.

Regarding the rates, a job is a job, as I stated, this is a wage that I have worked for in the past, and probably will in the future, for me work is not entirely about the money, I seek satisfaction, for me that has a high value. I pay around $12 per hour, or about £8.20 which is a fair bit more than minimum wage is here in the UK (£5.80 per hour for workers aged 22 years and older a development rate of £4.83 per hour for workers aged 18-21 inclusive).
Great set of criteria -- I appreciate that this is much more broadly applicable than the narrow spectrum of web startups typically discussed here. Sounds like you've gotten an MBA from the school of experience (the best kind!).

Only other criteria I would add is (1) if your business and product have a substantially lower cost structure than whatever they may be replacing, and therefore can get traction at the low end of the market (not that premium never works, it's just tougher, in my experience) and (2) your product can be bought with existing institutional market processes (meaning, it does not take a lot of behavior modification for people to buy your product -- whether it be corporations who don't yet have a buyer for your category, or if it's an entirely new way to buy a category, it makes it much tougher to get traction).
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I have no interest to see google's editorializing through their logo. Is there a way to opt out of this nonsense?
I agree with the idea that attitude trumps intelligence, and I humbly disagree with the idea that it's somehow "better" to hire someone smart over someone who's hard-working as others are suggesting. But what kind of dichotomy is that?

The reason why languages like Lisp appeal to me is because I don't like it when my hard work is wasted. It's pissy when you spend more time trying to circumvent their poorly conceived type system than you spend on the actual problem itself. I don't like it when my code is unnecessarily complex because of my tools.
Isn't this a knockoff of http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/ ?
Really depends on what you are doing. Most of my work is coding. The big screen is directly in front of me, about 3ft away. The MBP is up against it at a slight angle on the left. I use a separate wireless keyboard and mouse. Generally I have a browser open on the MBP's screen for viewing documentation or my work in progress. On the big screen I have three or four terminal windows open, tiled side-by-side, for editing, commands line, etc. I have a boomerang shaped desk which is deep enough to put the big screen that far away. Any closer and I'm panning my head too much and that gets bothersome after a while.
> So do you think the government should have done more to prevent this? Or that this isn't a big deal and that the private sector is handling it fine?

mu.

I don't think that the govt could have done more to prevent this without causing other, more significant problems.

It is a big deal. I think that the private sector is doing a better job of fixing the leak than govt would have.

I note that govt had reasonable plans for dealing with the effects of leaks yet didn't bother. (For example, burning, which should have been started on day 1 and would have helped significantly, was pre-cleared in the 1990s for exactly that reason. Note that it never happened in any meaningful way.) It's unclear why I should blame the private sector for that.
Remember Nelson in Ep 3F17 after seeing Naked Lunch with the fake ID: "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title."
Or you can make me an offer on classtalk.net ;)
Ask HN: Can you introduce me to some good tech sales people?
I'd like to meet some good sales reps who sell telecom, hardware, consulting, web services in a "consultative sales" model. I'm considering on a new company which will focus on Fortune-1000 firms, and whose sales cycle will require a high level of consultation as the model is proven. At previous companies I've found it quite difficult to identify sales representatives who fit this role.

I'm not looking to hire, but rather hoping to barter a nice meal in exchange for picking their brains on how to build realistic expectations for the productivity of a sales rep. I would appreciate any referrals!
As explained elsewhere in this very thread, you can create App Store apps in HTML; there are already a ton of them in the store. Therefore the HTML vs. ObjC issue is orthogonal to the paid app vs. free Web site issue.
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Ask HN: Use of OpenID provider logos
My site supports both a username/password login and OpenID through RPX (similar to ClickPass). RPX is a much better fit to my needs than ClickPass, but I wish I was able to use something similar to ClickPass's widget where the logos are displayed very compactly before you ever click on it (see HN's login page if you don't know what I'm talking about). RPX's widget require you to have your own link that then launches their code.

What I'm looking for is a very compact, but understandable way to express to my users (who are not necessarily tech-savvy) what the link might be for. Displaying all the logos of the providers I support would be perfect, IMO, but as I've looked into it that seems hard to get official permission for. So any thoughts on what else I could place in a link, or how one should go about getting permission to use the images? (For testing purposes, my link just says 'Sign In' right now, but as it's next to the username/password control, that is going to be confusing)