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This thread is really inspiring. I havent found anything yet (only posted this morning :) but Im feeling confident that something cool will turn up out of all of the linked resources. The craigslist gigs idea seems like it has potential. For some reason I never considered it.
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I would check out alice.com
Dude. The guy went out of his way to be positive about something the whole internet finds dubious at this point.

Are there any valid criticisms to be made of Perl 6 or its process?
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If the hosting company says that they can't name the agency and can't say anything about the nature of the claim, that immediately makes me think of a National Security Letter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

"[A National Security Letter] is a demand letter issued to a particular entity or organization to turn over various record and data pertaining to individuals. They require no probable cause or judicial oversight. They also contain a gag order, preventing the recipient of the letter from disclosing that the letter was ever issued."
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The easiest way to get addicted to programming is by creating something that you think is cool.

Let the ego trip begin and soon enough you feel like a god.

Once you feel like god, you are addicted. Hopefully, you can live in denial as long as possible until the real world decides to kick you in the ass.
I am thinking that the subject might be child pornography, espionage or cyber terrorism. Should some of those blogs had some sort of method of communicating information with terrorists I do not see why the NSA would not shut the whole thing down.

I hate to be in the shoes of those 70000 people but from the article and evidence available right now this is a really serious matter.
Wow, that's a pretty bold executive decision to force people to come up with more creative names. Not that I disagree with it, though.
Why the extra method for converting to brightness? Why not just this:

def contrasting_text_color(background_hex_color)
(background_hex_color.scan(/../).map {|color| color.hex}).sum > 382.5 ? '#000' : '#fff'
end
Try to get it on bytejacker ( http://www.bytejacker.com/ ).
A friend and I were having a discussion about what Microsoft could do to help foster more widespread adoption of C#, and the number one thing we agreed on was fully open-sourcing the C# language and releasing it under a BSD or Apache 2 style license. It's nice to see they're taking that step with some of their less mainstream products.
Since when has Apple not be under the same "scrutiny" that any other corporation has had to "put up with?" did Apple just suddenly come upon the scene as a public technology company?
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"The gag order was ruled unconstitutional as an infringement of free speech, in the Doe v. Ashcroft case." (same article)
The problem is that anyone else can post photos with you in them and tag your name not just to the photo but to your pic in the photo.

The only way to really avoid FB-face-recognition is to delete your entire account, and hope any tags get deleted as well.

Definitely a disturbing mashup.
Could certainly do it that way, if you don't need the brightness value.

We have a color picker that sorts a hash of "available" hexadecimal colors by their brightness value, though, so we needed to have it available as an independent method.
I also had to do something like this for my Python project and ended up with this:

'#000' if int(my_color, 16) > 0xffffff/2 else '#fff'

This approach isn't perfect, but it does the job.
You say it's a low barrier, build something and try and promote it. The worst that can happen is it fails and you 'nuke the site from orbit'.

You already have a bunch of forums on which you can promote it. You also have a list of companies that might be persuaded to pay you, or buy you out.

If they can easily write this software themselves, and bypass you, then maybe you're right to be scared, and you really don't have much.

It's hard to be any more specific with this vague a question. Good luck though!
I agree with these questions. How much would it take to build the MVP? If it's not much, I say go for it.

However, if the MVP will take a long time/money to build, I suggest testing the market before you even build it.

Is there a way for you to contact potential buyers? Can you talk directly to them? Can you set up a landing page that explains this product and drive traffic to it?

If you can contact 20 potential customers and pitch your product, that would be great. You'd get an idea of whether they'd buy it or not. Maybe they wouldn't due to a problem you aren't seeing.

If 1/20 want to buy it, maybe it's not such a good idea.
derwiki replied to this comment by saying:

"The gag order was ruled unconstitutional as an infringement of free speech, in the Doe v. Ashcroft case." (same article)

For some reason, his reply is dead, but it seems like a valuable comment so I'm reproducing it.
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I second announcing it and giving promo codes away in TouchArcade. Things have changed a lot since I launched mine a year ago, but I was able to get listed on one of the top 100 category lists briefly due to TouchArcade's interest. Having a free / lite version helps with this of course.
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Well, there is a link to a thread on a webhostingtalk.com, where some people are discussing the issue. After reading the original posting by the blog service provider and some of the replies, here are some basic lessons to be learned from this.

1. A lot of people have no clue as to the legal process

2. It pays REALLY well to have external backups

3. It might be a good idea to use encrypted volumes to store sensitive data, so if authorities are involved, they have to serve you with papers to get your decryption keys. This way you stay more informed.

4. Your hosting provider probably has a clause in their ToS that more or less says "we can terminate your service whenever, the hell, we want and there is nothing you can do about it". Deal with it.

5. This story still sucks.

6. Seems like this guy was simply small enough to just serve a court order and shut down his service. I don't think anyone would shutdown Google for questionable content on a blogger account or google web pages.

7. I am pretty sure, that there is no legal way for a law enforcement agency to remain anonymous while doing something like this. Either I am wrong about it or something is amiss.
Honestly, I think that's Apple being Apple. Cutting GPS quality means better reviews and a better user perception. No reviewer is going to write "Yeah, my GPS was only accurate to 14 feet", but you can be damned sure that every reviewer is going to write about the battery lifetime under normal usage conditions (including GPS). I'm not meaning to suggest that stacking reviews is the only purpose behind it - if it doesn't affect the user experience, then the battery savings is justified - but it is typical Apple.

By way of another example, their approach to being caught with their hands in the signal cookie jar with regards to the iPhone 4 signal problems (specifically, how they manipulated the bar calculation algorithms to show a stronger connection than other devices for a given signal level)? No worries, we'll fix that, but we'll make bars 1-3 taller so that psychologically, you feel like your signal is better. Apple is masterful at manipulating what people see to get them to believe that they're getting the best possible experience, but the laws of physics dictate that they have to cheat somewhere sometimes. I don't mean that to sound perjorative, but just to point out that part of Apple's ability to do user experience so well is their ability to manipulate the user into thinking the positive things they want them to.
How did you process/present that data after collection? Those look like Matlab plots - did you use it analyze the raw GPS data, or just use some GPS visualizer altogether?

If it would be helpful to you, I'd gladly repeat this experiment using my HTC Hero (CDMA) + Handy Runner, and a Garmin for reference.
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The specification for C# is already an open standard is it not? There's an open source compiler implementation as well (Mono). In fact, there are two (DotGNU).
From BurstNET:

"We cannot give him his data nor can we provide any other details"

I guess this is one of the dangers of hosting a user-generated content site- law enforcement may confiscate your server. This seems highly unusual even for something like child pornography. Usually they ask (politely then forcefully) the server owner for cooperation. It's possible that the owner of Blogerty is a suspect.
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Robert X. Cringely is doing a startup tour that's short on details but seems interesting. Might be worth a plug. http://www.cringely.com/2010/07/slouching-toward-sunnyvale/
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I thought about GEB when they paid homage to Escher with the stairway.
It was sort of funny to me how this video and Steve Jobs had essentially the same message and points - everybody makes mistakes, if you dont want an iphone 4 bring it back. Hmm. For the record i think it was a pretty good conference on the issue
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If I remember correctly the outcome of the mythbusters tests were plausible as the polygraphs showed a reaction to their intentions.
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The NSA doesn't have legal authority to do anything as you have indicated. Legal authority to bring down these sites were almost certainly done through the FBI, via a National security letter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter
During SXSW this year, I had a discussion with someone about domain reselling. They said that rather than try and resell just the bare domain, they went to an inexpensive logo design service and had the domain branded first, with the landing page showing the logo and a simple layout saying the domain and brand were for sale. You'd be offering the logo you just bought, plus the Twitter account, and maybe even the details of the project.

He said that the branded ones always sold quickly and for much more than the bare domains did, although I don't recall the figures. It was worth his time and money to have the additional work done on them, apparently.
Is common sense that if you drive a machine harder than its specifications then it will break a lot sooner. Why don't you drive your car at its maximum revolutions per second often enough and notice how fast it breaks down. Even too much caffeine is bad for you. Although comparatively speaking is a much reduced risk. Also, many of these drugs take years for the effects to show up. Just because you are able to use it for months or years does not mean that it is not damaging to you.
Does 1000 memories cost money? What are the features?

I hate when sites make me create a log in when I know nothing about them. It is so irritating.
The website clearly shows that the wing draws power to use its turbines as propellers when launching the wing.
I applied a while ago when their site had more details and they were just based in Boston. I learned about them from a Reddit ad. Seems like it's some tech people who made money and want to give it away in exchange for having you do awesome stuff. Maybe it's under construction because they're expanding to new cities now?
I agree with you. But if you really want to take some drug to get your high (as many people will do regardless of their circumstances), you might as well use something relatively safer.
it's the economy. this is the worst recession since the great depression. americans are without jobs. people without jobs are angry and sometimes have to resort to other means of providing for their families. most of the jobs are in the cities so you see this vacuum of life left over in some of the suburbs.
Why guess when the answer is clear on the second frame of http://www.makanipower.com/concept/makani-m1/ ?
The specification is an ECMA standard, but afaik Microsoft's implementation is not open. Mono has the unfortunate task of reimplementing everything instead everyone working off of the same master source.
> He's not really pitching a new piece of technology at all. He's pitching an ad campaign, which in turn is about introducing consumers to a new piece of technology.

You seem to be getting hung up on the fact that Draper isn't actually a startup founder pitching his own product to investors. That's almost completely irrelevant. He is definitely pitching the product. In this case, he simply happens to be pitching the product back to the company who made it.

Pitching and advertising, while they have their differences, are fundamentally about the same thing: getting people to believe a product can make their lives better. If, in addition to tossing out numbers, you can make your potential investors believe you know how to connect with your market and truly understand their needs, so much the better. It doesn't have to be in tear-jerker form like Draper's presentation: it's about knowing how to frame the product.

And sure, it's a TV show, but it happens to be a fairly exceptional TV show built on a great deal of wisdom about what makes people tick. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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<raises hand>

Loggly - http://loggly.com/ is a cloud-based log management service funded by True and Trinity. Logs are normally a real PITA, especially on something like EC2, but we make dealing with them fun and easy.

Basically you point your logs at our servers where we catch them and store them safely away. We apply a fulltext index to the logs to make them searchable. Results can be processed with custom scripts you write and then run from our shell-in-a-browser interface. Our API provides a way for you to programmatically view raw data, searches, facets of searches, or results of MR jobs to drive charts, graphs, or other mashups. We'll also support streaming of logs in via a persistant HTTP connection (and Mongrel2!) so you can send data from webapps or other client based applications.

We're planning on launching a public beta in the Fall, and we have a fun madlibs form you can fill out to be notified when we're getting close to release: http://loggly.com/signup/
Well, I think you might have a new startup idea: track people that are dead but are still online.
I like the space you are in.
I don't like the "addicted" metaphor. I think he's really saying that he wants to get into flow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi#Flow

Flow happens when you have high skill and are attempting things at the limit of your ability. The little mental rewards for achievement come quicker and propel you to the next step.

So the unfortunate truth is that he's going to have to spend a lot of time practicing and honing his craft, before he can truly get into flow. Perhaps it's better to try mastering simpler tools and simpler tasks and iterate from there.

There are programming methodologies that help you get into flow. Extreme programming is a silly name, but pairing with someone else really does help with focus. Also, building a skeleton system with lots of dummy classes or functions and "filling in the blanks" can feel extremely rewarding. A test-first practice can also help, where you set up lots of tests that all fail and make them pass, one by one.
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This is an angel backed startup from Grand Rapids, MI. The idea behind the site is to build a communication platform for mass transit (namely flying). The site allows semi-anonymous posts between those waiting around at the same airport. There is a chatbox feature for live anonymous chatting.
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The noise info presented in the FAQ is pretty useless - noise from conventional wind turbines depends on wind speed, hub height and distance - saying that the level from the AWT is "consistent with conventional wind turbines" is meaningless.

It may be that they haven't done any noise testing at this stage (and the IEC 61400-11 standard for wind turbine noise testing is really not applicable to the AWT configuration) but they would have been better off just saying something like "we'll get back to you on that" rather than setting up expectations that might turn out to be unrealistic.
A lot of strong claims here. Can you provide solid sources?

I have a hard time believing that psychiatrists and psychologists would endorse psychotropic drugs because of some big pharma conspiracy.

If you're right, I'd like to know. But if claims like, "every longterm study on every pharma drug shows that you are worse off in the long run," are so sweeping as to seem spurious.
@mkice: Please email me (echelon@gmail.com). I've got a massive engineering project that I've been working on for some years, and I definitely need help on it due to my busy education schedule. It's along the same lines of Diaspora, but a much broader scope: give all data a decentralized, ontological API and a node-based exchange platform.

I've taken some ideas from the Semantic Web community, but scaled them down so they're practical. I use a subset of RDF that maps cleanly to an SQL/ORM. Models are generative based on the ontologies you define. Types are hierarchical "Resources" that are uniquely identified (and sometimes dereferenceable) by URI and can be exchanged from the original source or via a p2p mechanism.

If this or any similar platform gains traction, Facebook is history. Blogs are history. Reddit, etc. -- it can all be emulated (and improved) on this platform and everyone can write code for it. No more data silos.

Personally, I'm not so interested in the social networking aspect, but social network tools can be built upon this. I'm more interested in creating a tool to route interesting information to and from relevant parties. I want an optimal web reading experience, and not even hacker news can provide this. (ie. I want to algorithmically find peers with similar skills/interests and fetch their highly-ranked stories/comments, data mine, personal interest profiling, etc. Can't do that without success/adoption of the platform though.)
So, if you don't mind sharing, what is your "life" idea?
I don't disagree at all, and I'm mystified why everybody assumes that just because I show a little frustration on a message board with other techies, I must be bent on haranguing users into compliance.

I feel a little vindicated by the fact that people have suggested several different explanations here, none of which seem to be universally accepted. Is the mouse unnatural? Are abstractly-minded (with respect to computers) people different from concretely-minded people? Is it a matter of being exposed at a young age? I think there are credible objects to each of these arguments.

For instance, the first suggestion, that the mouse is simply unnatural, doesn't account for variation among users, and it's only a constructive criticism to the extent that it stimulates development of superior alternatives.

The second suggestion is circular, because "abstract-mindedness" in this context doesn't seem to correlate with any other measure of abstract-mindedness. Are mathematicians or physicists naturally better at right-clicking than salesmen or physical therapists? That doesn't seem to be true, at least among folks who are middle-aged and older.

The third suggestion implies that usability problems with well-designed WIMPy interfaces are a historical blip that will naturally disappear unless there's sustained radical innovation in interaction technologies and UI paradigms. I could believe that, but some people strongly believe otherwise.

If a single one of these is responsible for the bulk of the difference between me and my mom, then conclusions can be drawn about the future of user interfaces. If the mouse is unnatural, problems will persist until someone invents a superior replacement. If abstractly-minded people are different from concretely-minded people, a way will have to be devised to cater to both. If it's a matter of early exposure, then there are usability generations washing slowly through dimensions of class, culture, age, and geography, and different usability guidelines apply to different generations.

It's an interesting question to think about, especially since new form factors have created more room for innovation. Right now, less complexity seems to be the wave of the future. It will be interesting if a new form factor emerges to prove that people can comfortably handle more complexity than current technology allows them to.
If it is fossil with an easy to use interface that would be a definite value-add!
File access and monitoring is possible in Java. Using Java will make your app OS independent though.
I am not a Python person but I am sure it is possible.
It all depends on how much stuff you want to take on, getting back into Programming.

Regarding 'no body cares for my stuff', we all have our traps.
Mine is, moving onto the next interesting project.
May be there is merit to just doing it. Finishing something, putting something out there and let it do its thing.
At some point he was bet that he couldn't go without it; he did, but then said that doing so had set back mathematics for as long as he had been off the drugs. So I'd say he thought it boosted his productivity.
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Sometimes I fantasize about doing this. I've been unemployed and tried to make things happen, but days spent alone in front of a computer really depressed me. My current job is about as awesome as a job can get, but it's still not really my own ideas...

It seems to me I was most enthusiastic about programming when it wasn't my "real" job. Maybe I just want to recapture those days.

Also, I had no idea how ignorant I was, which certainly helped.
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Your hosting provider probably does have such a clause, but after exercising it they should expect to go out of business.
It won't happen. Facial recognition isn't that advanced and I doubt this company is going to bring something like this to market without a huge backlash. I have a picture of a trail on my Facebook profile. I suppose I have been a lot of places recently.
You must not live in an apartment :-)

Have you seen the number of buttons on a modern rice cooker? Some rice cookers incorporate pseudo-pressure cooking, and some are even genuine pressure cookers. There are also combination convection/microwave ovens, and I love my combination immersion blender and food processor precisely because it serves two purposes in the same space as either one. It doesn't crush ice or blend as easily as the old stand-alone blender I had, but I compromised on features to save space. (It also has fewer parts and is easier to clean than the stand-alone blender or the dedicated food processor I used to have, so convergence didn't compromise usability.)