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"But usually after two to four weeks, the project just fails. We've lost faith in it."

Well there's your problem. Assuming you are working part time, two to four weeks is not even remotely enough time to build even the simplest of businesses. Note I'm not talking about building an application, which you could complete in 3-4 weeks, I'm talking about building a business.

I would guess a more reasonable timeline for starting something in your spare time would be about 6 months until you get your first revenue, (or more likely your first 'pivot' because you finally have enough data to realize your idea sucks). I wouldn't be surprised if it took longer. So, whatever you choose to do, try to ask yourself if you are willing to spend most of your spare time for the next year working on it before you even see any money. As soon as you start passing ideas through this filter, I think you'll find more success.

Any more optimistic timeline is a time fantasy.

Side note: this is in my opinion the problem with starting something on the side. It's far too slow. Sometimes it looks like I'm going to be 30 before I make a dime! I think I could cut down this cycle to 2-3 months to my first 'pivot' if I was full time. In other words I think working full time would move things along 4X as fast. Add a competent cofounder and you could probably almost double that.
I started sketching notes for this a couple years back. Some stupid parking lot altercation where someone started lying.. With the costs of flash and cameras becoming so inexpensive and the amount of wireless access around (GSM or Wifi) I was thinking you Tivo style record like 2 to 8 hours of video just with a circular buffer then if a triggering event happens (hazard button pressed, the record button pressed, a crash is detected, air bags deploy, the alarm triggers.. there are others) you store the video from the circular buffer and store live recorded until told not to. Then when you can contact the internet via wifi or possibly gsm, start off loading the video to some server. It seems like onstar already has most of the hard stuff done, they just need some dvr type stuff. 2 cameras in a dome light like area could pretty much cover 270 to maybe a full 360 degree view of the car. I'd guess it's like $1000, just from some past experiences, which isn't terribly unreasonable.

On the server there are 2 ways to access the video, the owner's password or a law enforcement key that could be accessed with proper court documents.

The other thing I was thinking, it's clearly an owner protection device but if you had some sort of encoded radio signal like they use to change the traffic signal lights. All of the cars in an area could be used to help when there is an Amber alert or some major crime was happening.

For a moving violation like that, why does a gun need to be drawn? Was there a threat of violence or just stupidity? The motorcyclist stopped on his own, right?
How did an article from t nation end up on hacker news... I wish I could down vote.

This is not a quality article. The article titled with the incendiary "Interval training doesn't work," doesn't say that it's primarily concerned with fat loss for bodybuilders (I guess the t nation should have been a give away), then goes on to cite studies where it does work. Its like Mark Young wrote this essay like one goes about a 5th grade science fair project. He starts off with a premise, then goes on to find evidence that refutes his premise, but sticks to it anyway?

(I admit I was baited by the title and only skimmed his essay until I realized it was full of shit)

P.S. to all those looking to get in shape: Sports "science" is junk and mostly ignored by coaches & athletes. If a study came out tomorrow that said "Interval training doesn't work" coaches and athletes would still use it because it's effective and has been for the past 50 years.
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Nudity, violence, and death cannot be hidden, they are inherit. Trying to hide them won't work. The more you hide it the more significant and fascinating the less frequent exposures appear. This isn't to say that extensive exposure can't lead to distorted conditioning or attitudes; it can. But you can't damage a child through non-exposure; it's just not possible in the first place.
That's likely what I'll do next time my contract is up... but it would really be easier and better for everyone involved if the carriers would just charge you less or pay you a cash bonus at the end of your contract (etc).
Great video. Josh James is one very busy guy and I heard you should appreciate every minute you can get with him.

Both the Omniture founders are super intelligent and family oriented guys. John Pestana is one of our Investors and Advisors for our startup (http://www.IActionable.com). We met him through the BoomStartup program (http://www.BoomStartup.com). I've also had the chance to talk to Stephen Liddle (the presenter at the start). He has lots of experience with complex architectures.

I recommend you check out the other videos too - http://byuebusiness.blogspot.com/search/label/Entrepreneursh...
How does that work out? Won't the cars and the trucks run into each other?
I saw an interview with with Mr. Graber on the local news - the camera was in clear view of the officer. A pic of the helmet he was wearing at the time can be found in this article...

http://carlosmiller.com/2010/04/16/maryland-motorcyclist-spe...
> but it does bring the American treatment of them closer together than they seem at first glance.

To my mind it merely identifies hypocrisy.
But usually after two to four weeks, the project just fails.

2-4 weeks? I've been working on my current project for five years... And I still don't know whether it's really going anywhere :(

But maybe I'll find out soon. My project's latest iteration is slated for release this week, after nearly two years of development.
Not constructive.
Is it just me or do those photos make you suspect that this isn't about optimising for health? The author explicitly says it isn't for performance. Not sure how many avid bodybuilders there are at HN.
I think we all, given a few minutes of reflection, would be glad that we're not judged on a 30 second edited video highlights reel of the worst decisions we've ever made. Particularly not one which stripped the context out of the video.

That said, I'm much less concerned about videotaping cops on the street and more concerned with VPI -- videotaped police interrogations. Unlike videotaping cops on the street, they'd mostly be to the benefit of poor & minority suspects rather than tech-savvy twentysomethings who enjoy protesting as a lifestyle. The imposition on the cops is minimal (since the interrogation is theoretically under their control) and the justice gains are huge, and this can be compellingly sold to the cops as in their best interests. (You'll clear more cases with less court time because routine videos of lying perps will cause most of them to take the freaking deal like you want them to.)
Oh blimey :D ok then I retract that comment!
And there's no 64 bit Linux version nor one for iPhone&iPad.
People walk because their parents absolutely, positively would not give up teaching them to walk.

Citation, please? All three of my kids have taken the initiative themselves to learn to walk, and I've never seen a non-walking older child without a physical disability.
> "But you can't damage a child through non-exposure; it's just not possible in the first place."

Whether honest non-exposure might be fine is beyond even an academic concern. It's overwhelmingly improbable that a child could be raised without being exposed to those things; short of willful sheltering.
When its your word against that of a policeman, you've not got much hope. It pisses the police off when you introduce evidence which takes that advantage away from them. All of a sudden they can no longer fall back to lying to defend themselves.
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Your school system doesn't "file a report" until TEN CONSECUTIVE ABSENCES? That's negligent. In ours, a truancy report is filed and the police are involved after ten cumulative absences or tardies throughout the entire semester.

(I found this out the 8th time I managed to drop my kids off 1 minute late).
Original article reeks of linkbait.

Counterculture versus The Man.
Flippant startup versus entrenched corporation.
Think different versus rethink possible.

And a bunch of hacker newsers get all excited about a quote about dressing nice.

I love the irony of counterculture groupthink. "we are apple, we don't even own suits." They should finish that with a "we are legion" reference.
Doesn't this mean a defense attorney could get publicly recorded video or audio evidence thrown out on the grounds that it was illegal wiretapping?
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Sometimes I have a bunch of ideas that I often forget. How do you keep track of all your ideas? I was thinking that I may be able to use the GTD system for ideas, any suggestion?
The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, so it unfortunately looks very American. (If "American" refers to the US alone.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...
I have no idea if this is settled law or not, but in this instance where the DCF is causing irreparable harm to both the children and the parents it seems a court's intervention could at least be asked for, i.e. file an injunction on the investigation or something to that effect. I'm not a lawyer but I don't think I would feel right just sitting back and being a passive message-passer for the DCF while they destroy my client's lives.
I'm curious too — I'm moving to SF on Friday and would love to find some like-minded people with whom I can live.
While verses in Proverbs arguably align with the sentiment, the actual "spare the rod, spoil the child" construction is from a poem by Samuel Butler.
Let's just hope our economy holds out. It reminds me of a photo of a German shoveling money into a woodstove because it was so devalued...and the folks were ready to listen to someone promising a way to be a world power again.
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In the article the authors writes about being on a ladder and loosing it. That was a really hard part of the story to read as I remember that exact moment when I started to fade and the exact moment when I crossed the line. I would be foolish (and afraid) to openly talk about my thoughts and private actions during that period. On that subject, it is best left at; in my opinion, I was further gone in my mind then the author seemed to be. It may be that he fears talking about it as well for fear of charges or another investigation for making threats. This experience leaves and indelible mark and leaves you looking over your shoulder for the boogy-man.

but seriously just like the author stated, my lawyer was the only thing that could pull me back into sanity. His slow calm voice logically deducing my actions and the outcomes would allow me to see the checkmate I was in and that any of those actions would be selfish (only make me feel better) and bring my family more harm than good. He would talk about my family being abandoned via my actions. Those words hurt more than knifes given the situation, thinking about your kids and wife left alone to deal with it (whether from you sitting in jail or worse) really cures you of those kind of thoughts.

EDIT: my wife reminded me that I did have one episode. We have an ice maker in our fridge that if you put it on crushed ice it will jam up due to poor design. Anyway the DCF agent is talking to me and I am trying to get ice, one of the kids put it on crushed so it is jammed, I go to the drawer to get an ice pick and start break up the ice. The DCF agent has got up from her seat and is walking towards me and is accusing me of all kind of crap, I am starting to raise my voice, keep in mind the fridge door is in between our views of each other. She continues on and at this point I am screaming at her and I slam the door and have an ice pick in my hand, keep in mind I resemble a younger Jack Nicholson (a lot). So here she is presented with a screaming man with an ice pick in his hand that looks as crazy as Jack in the Shining. She quickly left the house and returned with a police escort and always had an escort from the point forward. My wife said it was the most frightening things she had ever seen. The ice pick was a coincident and I was not holding it to intimidate her but looking back I can see how crazy that scene must have looked.
So what did the other countries, that have less-strict laws, do?

It’s not a very nice answer but I think they have less direct democracies and delegate many of the nitty-gritty details of the law to experts. That’s also why there is no death penalty in Europe.
Losing faith will kill a startup. Having faith in a bad product can be more disastrous.
Ah, I see, the solution is to get high! (That's what the video says).
Might also be a problem that Paypal is a brand that end users want to use. I'm sure I've read reports of online sales increasing when Paypal is an option. I guess the downside is that with that increase in sales there is the cost/risk that Paypal might also give you problems.
Sorry, you would need a satellite in geosynchronous orbit to do this. And $8k satellite will get you an orbit of 192 miles above the earth. Geosynchronous orbits are over 22000 miles above the earth.
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Get some cash. It's a real spur to action.

One time I had a project that was dragging on forever, I was trying to develop a product for an existing business but I kept missing my self-imposed deadlines. 1/3rd of the way in I'd realize I want to approach it a different way and throw away everything tangible I had and re-start. I did that twice. It was dragging on forever.

Then I hand-coded a crappy html sales page and started taking preorders at half price. Got like 60 of them. So, my most loyal customers have given me money just on my word. I promised it would get to them within whatever timeframe.

Now there was no going back, no perfectionism, just had to work my ass off to get it out. And I did! Towards the end I was so burnt out and delirious from all the work and energy drinks and lack of sleep that I actually paid two freelancers from Elance to clean up some of the rough edges on my work, since I knew what was wrong, but I was too broken to fix it myself. But it got out! (Actually, it was two weeks late - I apologized profusely, gave out some free stuffs, and made the second deadline I promised)

After that I had a product that generated some sales for a couple years, so that was awesome. Get some cash. It motivates on many levels. It's like the military commander burning his ships behind him - now there's no retreat, you've got to go forth and conquer, because it's the only way out. Except, unlike burning ships, cash is cool and useful and you can spend it on things, even using the cash you got to help pay to deliver your new product or service. Magnificent thing, cash. Get some. Huge motivator.
Hey Emile, did you do the E-ship program at UNC by chance? I think I remember you..

Anyway, I'm following the same path (teaching myself to program to work on my own projects). It's been fun (some days I feel like I can do anything with a computer) and challenging (other days I want to rip my hair out and hide in despair). I've been doing it for about a year and a half now.

I think the biggest challenge with non-programmers learning how to program is that it takes an exceptionally long time to get even the most basic functionality running. So work on the most basic thing, and even if it looks ugly in the beginning, just keep iterating on it. I started with Ruby and Rails, but you can't go wrong with Python and Django in the beginning.

If you want to see what lots of time and a little bit of programming on your own can give you, check out my little app www.getsetapp.com.

Good luck man, and let me know the next time you're in NC.
Short of imprisonment and brainwashing I'd say.
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Something similar happened to me. Get into a situation with a hot-headed cop, a cute shaken looking young woman, and things might not be so favorable for impartial justice. (She was trying to pass me on the right, when I was already in the right lane, by driving over the demarcated roadside parking spaces.)

Better if I don't think about it too much.
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I hadn't thought about videotaping interrogations. Interesting.

Perhaps the question is: what parts of police activity shouldn't be videotaped and published, and why? Undercover busts maybe. You can't spend five years growing a policeman into what looks like a drug dealer only to have him outed on YouTube in ten seconds. Or do we get rid of all undercover police work?

Need to think about that some more.
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It isn't just my time. It's about making sure books get read. I can't throw a book out so I figure I'll ship it off to someone else.

A box of padded envelopes and the post office is 100ft from where I eat lunch nearly every day. It isn't so much of a hassle.

Not only that, but the kindle actually slows down my reading. Overall a paperbook is less of a time commitment.
Now I'm a bit confused. Does (real) breasts of an actress seen on tv count as "actual breasts"?
Agreed - these notions are born out of solving problems at a lower level of abstraction. Haskell is attempting to operate above that.
My wife and I are cyclists. There are many times when I'm out on the road by myself, and my cell phone is either in my jersey pocket or in the bag under my seat. If in the jersey, in a crash, it can fly out. If in the seat bag, paramedics may not look for it. Even if they did, it gets locked after "x" amount of time (company security policy). I do however wear a RoadID. They have a product that you wear (several different styles), and an "interactive" version. This version will give paramedics a number to call to get your information...and you can list everything - name, emergency contact, insurance, drug allergies, all of it. Since they must have your pin (which is on the piece you are wearing), it is fairly secure, but not 100% secure (I think we can all agree nothing is 100% secure).

http://www.roadid.com/Common/Products.aspx
I think it depends on what phase you're in with regards to leaving. If at the very beginning of the investigation, after the first visit from DFS, they had left for France I imagine this case would have simply been forgotten. They hadn't been charged with any crime, so they're not legal fugitives in any sense. They may never want to return to that particular state on the off chance someone from DFS who remembers the case notices them, but I imagine even that to be a very slim possibility. Even later in the case though, I'm troubled to think of a law they're breaking by simply moving to another state.

If I'm ever in a situation similar to this, I will heavily weigh moving, or at least sending my wife and kids out of state, before entrusting my family to a random bureaucrat.
Bingo, I live in mortal fear of DCF and our next encounter (that how crazy the paranoia is). I pray every day, even now, that I am off their radar. I don't want anything to do with them. I don't want their money (I have exited 3 start-ups, I have enough, I am not FU rich but enough that I don't want to bring their heat). I just want to give them a wide birth and stay away from them.
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That seems quite plausible. If so, it'd be related to the fact that fewer pedestrians are injured while jaywalking than crossing at crosswalks.
I am almost done implementing cc payments on a small app I'm doing, and it was my first time.

Advice:
First, read revorad's list. I basically found as many HN posts as I could on the topic. They didn't help me come to a decision at all, but they gave me some background information on the topic. They weren't helpful for making a decision because for the most part it seems like a lot of people just said "I did X and I'm happy with the solution".

There seems to be a lot of pricing misinformation on the topic. The threads contain a good deal of "Braintree is the best and works with customers" AND "Braintree is expensive and hard to work with".

My experience: I went with Authorize.net. It was easy to set up my account and I had my account in 4 hours after an online application process. I found shopping for the best pricing difficult because I really don't have a good handle on how much (if any) business I'll be doing and the pricing structure's seem to lack transparency. I got really close to spending 2 days researching and I'd rather just take the easy solution now and work on the app.

I think its easy to get mired in "finding the ideal solution" especially at this juncture, but its more important to find a good enough solution that lets you move on.
You know, I want every cop to wear a video recorder. I want this for accountability reasons, both as a protection to the ops, and as a protection to me. Of course I too don't want to be judged on a 30 second edited video, so I demand the right of "turnabout is fair play" and have me and others video tape the same cop at the same time. If the videos don't match, there is some 'splainin' to do.
Absolutely, it's just that since they're not going to change their ways because of specific individuals taking action it is probably more effective (and less costly) to take this on by people that have no direct stake in the results. That means a platform that is widely carried instead of individual cases against individual persons or the entity as a whole.

So it doesn't mean that you shouldn't stand up, pick your battles literally means that you decide on the battleground and make sure they can't get back at you in some sneaky way that will upset your life in ways that you probably really wouldn't care about. See some of the other stories in this thread about how those things go.
Well, what was it? and did he stump them?
I use my mobile, EverNote, GMail, whatever I have available to capture the idea.
"Think of the children" is not a good enough argument anymore. I used to work with social workers a lifetime ago, and the IRS-like you are guilty without a trial harassment is all too real. Combine this with it being a government position with bad metrics and some people who really got into social work to save themselves instead of their client, it is a recipe for disaster.

The biggest problem with reform is the unions and professions that make a lot of money on the current system. Until we can change the evaluation, metrics, and tenure; I really don't think there is any hope. My only bit of advice is to get a lawyer as soon as any possible dealing happen. Don't ever believe the "you don't need one" line. Your life and family is at stake and it is much easier to go after the people who were trying to help as opposed to the person getting "one more chance".
I'm always down for meeting other Boston startup folks, particularly on the Cambridge / Somerville side of the river.

You'll usually find a lot of HNers at OpenCoffee, by the way: http://www.meetup.com/OpenCoffee-Cambridge-Meetup/calendar/1...