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Ask HN: I'm building something for the airline industry..
..and I'm stuck at a point of whether I should allocate more resources (time and money) to building the product, or going out there and asking the airlines for ideas/needs behind the scenes.

It's really a business development question I have. I'm currently building what I assume is highly attractive to the airlines and consequently their customers, but my feature list is running low because I can't justify anything beyond the minimal stuff.

1) If you're in my position (2 person team), how would you get in touch with biz dev guys at airliners? I'm assuming they're the right people to try to contact for partnership deals.

2) There is an opportunity to take what I've done + the idea and apply to a local incubator. It's a summer program, and the deadline is approaching FAST. Biggest downside is that they're asking for 10% with $5k + $5k per founder. It won't get me in the same network caliber of ycombinator, but it's probably better than doing it on my own.

Any advice? Thanks
These kinds of posts always send me into a tailspin of jealousy. :) I've still not made enough money on the AppStore to even be paid out once. And my app went up almost a year ago!
The UK has abolished self defence, compromised the legal protection against double jeopardy, and lifted many restrictions against government agents entering one's home. Political speech is less free as in the United States as well. There's also the sizable DNA database, and the CCTV itself (which is still controlled by the government, and hence on the other side of the table from any recordings made by citizens).
As someone who spent a significant fraction of today trying to get scipy and numpy installed on one of his machines (and failed) I can totally see your point here.
I think they just want you to pay the true cost of driving rather than be subsidized by others.
Go see the mayo clinic.
I thought it was spelt coeliac?
Good point on the caching.
This is a non-statement -- if the code is IO-bound, then of course CPU performance is not a problem (except for things like, say, power usage, but we'll ignore that). The "power" of Python is to make code that should be IO-bound CPU-bound.

Speaking as someone who loves Python and uses it all the time, but has spent a lot of time learning to love Cython in recent months. A nice feature of Cython (psychologically speaking, at least) that is missing in Python is the power to say that dammit, certain constants are constant, will never be changed, and can be inlined instead of having a hash table lookup every single time.
Of course it goes without saying that the specific number is very location dependent - so 500k in the valley won't take you very far, but elsewhere it can last you for years.

That being said, it seems a good target to shoot for is to always have at least 12 months of burn in the bank. If you've got much less than that, you're in very dangerous territory since you don't have enough time to pivot in case your current course doesn't work out.

As much as it's a very good (and empirically accurate) argument that too much money leads to bloat, I think raising less money is not the optimal solution. A better approach might just be discipline - take the money if it's available, and keep spending in check.
Yeah, it's really, really slow -- and the ETA is 2 weeks! Although I have some faith it'll be fixed sooner.

We're thinking of porting over to EC2. If anyone knows of any reliable tool that supports this for production, please feel free to shout. Otherwise, we'll probably be building something ourselves...
This is absolutely not meant in slight. You should start making a list of medical hotshots - the kind of doctors that that the eponymous character in House MD is based on - and go to them.

I truly wish you the best of luck. Keep us posted.
> As another commenter noted, yes, it's far too draining to research a company and manufacture a B.S. cover letter. Look, we're professionals here. I applied to your position because it looks like a good fit for my skills. I'm sorry that you have to dig through others who spammed you with unrelated email, but that's really not my problem. Do you want you corporate ego stroked, or do you want a qualified applicant who will make you money?

Agree completely. As far as I'm concerned, unless you really interest me, I should spend about as much time researching your company as you will reading my resume.
I just read most of the thread and there are a lot of posts concerning about app piracy on Android where the user buys the app and returns it for a refund after copying the binaries.

But interestingly a user on the thread pointed out this...
"You can't backup any app on Android.
You can set the apk to non-distributable, which won't allow it to be backed up."
Others say you can copy the app if you have root access.

And I found another thread on the Android Market forums Google. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?...

Can any other android developer here throw some light on this?
Nope, it's not from Portugal. Judging from the portuguese text, I suppose it's a Brazillian search engine.

Either way, congratulations to the creators, it's rather nice. I found out that when the english locale is selected, some text still shows up in portuguese (like the text from advanced search).
You could just call the airlines and/or drop by their offices. Wear business casual.
There's always AppScale. It supports EC2 and I think it's been officially recognized by Google. http://code.google.com/p/appscale/

If you write your own, would you consider open sourcing it?
Beautiful app. I've always wanted to learn how to play the piano, and this just lowered the barrier to entry by a mile. Thanks for making it.
2- Programming language in use:
PHP: 15.3%
ASP.net: 14.4%
Java: 1.6%
Android and Windows Mobile give you very liberal access to low-level functionality of the OS. Windows Mobile in particular, despite all its faults, is a very flexible OS as far as what developers can do. For example, there is an app on Windows Mobile that intercepts incoming calls and does a web lookup on the phone number to display the name, address, age, and known associates of the caller.

You could likely do anything you can think of with one of those, and use that as leverage to get other companies to allow you access to their OS's.
Martin Gardner on The Nature of Things
Lisp is defined by the fact that the fundamental data structure is the list, and that all of the code itself are also those lists.
An approximate equivalent would be a tablet/laptop and a paper notebook and pen.
Rise of the replicators
1. Yes, just copying the default mac quicktime/itunes controls - I agree though, a bit counter intuitive.

2. Hopefully soon Chrome will support the webkitEnterFullScreen API, like the WebKit nightlies - then it'll run great.

Thanks
Then why send the resume at all? If you have little interest in the company, have no interest to spend 5 minutes writing a cover letter, and expect they'll only spend 10s looking at your resume, why bother sending it?
only verified MDs or med students / professionals

I wouldn't underestimate the expertise of regular people living with a disease. Parents of sick kids, especially.
I'd just use LinkedIn to find the people you're looking for. You might have to pay LinkedIn a nominal fee to contact them with 'InMail' if they're not already connected to your LinkedIn network somehow.
> may be the coolest hardware most people have never seen

That's unfair. They made a couple good videos.
One quick suggestion, ask your doctor about Provigil. It's sort of a wonder drug for people with ADHD, Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, and a few other issues.
I love Steve Jobs but sometimes based on his statements he seems to take many normal things as a personal attack. The Google comments also reminded me of this. He seems deeply upset Google went into mobile. Google is in the advertising business and that means they need a huge presence in mobile since any numnuts can tell that's where the business is going. Google didn't go into mobile to hurt Apple or Steve Jobs; they went in because that's where the business was going. Google is not perfect, but in this case if an apology is owed anywhere it's to Google.
Monkey controls advanced 7-degrees-of-freedom robotic arm with its thoughts
In a remarkable demonstration of brain-machine interface technology, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have taught a monkey to use just its thoughts to control an advanced robotic arm and perform elaborate maneuvers with it.
Thank you for the reply. I've had some opportunity to work with Python, read some other people's code, and yes Python lends itself to regularity of form. If you squint and turn your head a bit, you can almost see the abstract syntax tree that the compiler ought to create. That is beside the point I think. For me the most difficult thing in maintenance is understanding the intention of certain functions, classes, methods etc. Why did the original author make the choices that he made? What exactly was the intent? Sometimes the accompanying commentary is short on those details. Commentary on why a particular design choice was made and what the intent of the design was is many times more valuable to me when I maintain code.
I was camping on the east coast of Oahu in a free campground one time and met these two brothers in their 70's. One of them had some medical condition, something related to being allergic to "everything". They had tried many things, traveling all over the world, and this location, with the wind coming off the ocean, sleeping in open air, no tent, with a canvas (not plastic) tarp as cover from rain, eating only fresh local foods, was the only thing that worked for him. Who knows, if I was in your shoes, I'd try anything.
They even patented turmeric http://www1.american.edu/ted/turmeric.htm
There's more that's not being mentioned, and understandably so. San Francisco will reap huge rewards in parking ticket revenue. SFpark is so smart that it knows when a space is occupied and the meter has expired. Parking Enforcement officers don't have to drive/walk around looking for violations -- their handhelds will pinpoint them! Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to seeing SFpark in action. I think it brings more good than harm.

I'm also in the parking (ticket) business, but on the other side of the coin: http://parkzing.com
Just curious, should a lack of B12 not show us in a simple blood test of some sort?
Darn, I thought this was going to be about a woman dropped in water, connected to sensors and drugged, who would dream about pre-crime. Man, that would make a great movie, wouldn't it?
I didn't say "it's Lisp." I said it is a Lisp where and then qualified it heavily. To say I was stating anything else is to put words in my mouth.

If you intentionally misread the very simple analogy that was made in order to give yourself the opportunity to make an inflammatory reply, then there is not much else I can say to sway you.

However, the comparison was not glib. I'm not conveniently ignoring anything. Perl was compared to Lisp when it first appeared, but it is not anymore. People compare JavaScript (mistakenly) to Scheme all of the time, and it is not really Scheme at all. Nor is Python actually Scheme or Lisp. It is an imitation of some of the features of Lisp, but specialized to some other purpose.

If you were replying in hubris with the intent of quashing the unqualified newbie who doesn't know anything about Lisp, allow me to offer some details.

Things Python lacks compared to Scheme: Continuations, tail call optimization, optional typing annotations (like in Bigloo etc.), direct AST construction, explicit metaprogramming, hygienic macros, formal specification (indeed, Python is not a language that can be parsed), lambdas with seq (Python lambdas are expressions only), a dynamic-wind solution for generators, and more.

Things Python has in common with Scheme: readily accessible FFI, rebindable syntax (as well as during runtime), garbage collection, eval, implicit metaprogramming, yielding, standard library with lists + associative maps + bytestring manipulation, extreme late binding as desired, symbol manipulation, lexical (and dynamic) scoping.

Or would you prefer to keep flailing around in anger?
You make a reasonable point in an, uh, illustrative way (they say "show, don't tell", right?). The vertical arrangement of comments by preorder traversal of comment trees gives some low quality comments "unfair" visibility. I don't see any solution (that maintains readability) apart from moving into a second or third dimension. The question is, is it a big enough problem to merit such a drastic response? Probably not.
I was kind of skeptical about the whole "let HN play Dr. House", but I have to admit the symptoms on the wikipedia page seem to match the OP's symptoms very well.

Even if he/she doesn't have Pernicious Anemia, it's a really good suggestion.
HTML5 Web Standards Tests for IE9
Judging by the size of the device, I'd say that this is likely a good source for the physical specs of the people using it: http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/bestbodybuilderever.html

Seriously, that thing is huge, and is easily larger than anything I needed to carry for an upper-division math class, other than the 'Advanced Engineering Math' course. The book for that was so expensive because it came with sherpas and a mule team. But I digress...

I'd like to see how they avoid the doom of nearly every other attempt at electronic textbooks: publishers that are totally unwilling to distribute their books in electronic form.

Apple and Amazon have enough clout between them with the Kindle and iPad to bring the heavy guns to the negotiating table; the verdict on the Kno remains to be seen.
I have been getting a jar of whole milk Bulgarian yogurt (don't remember the brand name) from Whole Foods for the past month or so. It has dramatically improved my intestinal health (without any other change in my diet). It has no additives, can be used as starter yogurt and is somewhat tart in taste (which is how real yogurt should taste).

Try it. I can't vouch enough for it.