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Using the term "kick-ass service" once is probably too much, but you use it several times and it sounds very immature and unprofessional to me. Here are some other phrases I have a problem with:

"It's super simple"

"We look after you big-time don't we!"

"Servers are yucky"

"Things couldn't be easier!"

It all sounds very childish, but that's just the tip of the iceberg ...

Where do you address the issues of discounts based on time or quantity or shipping or percent of the price, local and state taxes, shipping, and all the other issues REAL online store owners have to deal with and decide upon?

On the one hand you keep repeating the mantra "Things couldn't be easier!" because apparently you want people to think you've taken care of all these issues, but then you're apparently leaving all the difficult issues in selling online -- but in reality you're leaving it all up to the sellers themselves -- which makes your platform anything but "simple".

Personally I would not want to sign up before learning how you handle these issues if I actually had something to sell, yet I cannot find any facts or substance to show me how (or if) you're going to do anything to help me with these issues.

Perhaps the most important issue is that you seem to be dictating the "rules" by which the shop owners must run their online stores ("In accordance with the Shop Owners Agreement you agree to ship all orders within 7 days of receipt") ... but if you stick your nose into your store owner's businesses too much the regulators and tax authorities are going to determine that YOU are the merchant -- not the suppliers that you're referring to as store owners. Then you'll not only be paying all the taxes that your suppliers are not paying, but you will also inherit liability for things you probably didn't want or expect.

I think you have a lot to re-think and reconsider before getting into this business the way you've described it here. I've been in eCommerce for nearly two decades and it disturbs me the way you're going about this, because I'm concerned about the legal and technical issues you don't seem to be addressing.
playwriting & startups - feedback sucks; i love it.
If you've been devouring every bit of Clojure-related writing (which I've also been trying to do), then as swannodette said to you elsewhere on this page, you very well may not be the intended audience :)
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Do you mean PHP Frameworks like Zend / Cake / Symfony and supporting 1 click installs or other frameworks like Django/ Rails?
Why the downvote?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#IBM_dealings
If you increase the number of shares in the company (in order to give to the outside investment) all ownership (yours and the LLC) would be diluted.

But if you do invest your own money 1) Investors know that you have faith in what you are doing. (and be more likely to invest) 2) It will help raise the valuation of the company.

That being said, it doesn't make much since to invest through another company. That seems like it just complicates matters more. Investors are going to want a % of the company based on the valuation and the amount they are invested. It doesn't matter to them if you invested personally or threw a separate company.
http://www.quora.com/Are-Foursquare-and-Gowalla-going-to-sur... is a pretty interesting response to this.
You can't escape dilution by investing in a company. New investment dilutes both the common and the preferred. This is why investors ask for pro-rata rights, and have to put in their pro-rata in each new round, just to maintain their percentage ownership.

Generally speaking, if you try to invest in your own company you'll either blow a bunch of money on lawyering or you'll screw it up, resulting in a bigger bill down the road. Either way you'll be less far along than if you just used the money to put off taking investment, making progress and increasing your premoney valuation in whatever future round you do.
Yeah I can't believe anyone thinks that gathering that type of information is ok. You should be able to get any information through FOIA anonymously.
Fully POSIX compliant shell.
I guess it's just like bumping into someone that you know when you don't have time to chat - but with a 50-fold increase in the radius of my personal sphere. I'd definitely give it a shot, at least, to see if I liked it.
Why can't you upload the framework with the app like anyone else? FTP isn't difficult.
I dunno, I certainly never expected that people would want to play their lives as an MMO. :)
I assumed that filing for an IPO was just a strategy for attracting a private buyer willing to purchase Skype at a premium - someone like, say, Microsoft. If the Skype IPO occurs it'll mean these acquisition talks failed.
Rats are omnivores, eating a nice, balanced diet like us humans. However, even if they were straight herbivores, they could still find plenty of fats. Nuts are a significant food source for small mammals and tend to be fairly high in fat content.
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Modernizr (http://www.modernizr.com/) is as close as you're going to get at the moment. It's pretty solid.
Facebook is the current Microsoft: if they are going to make a move in your space, it's better to be in it than under it.
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I think this should be a "Review My Idea" given how the site looks quick and dirty.

I like the idea, but I'm not sure I'd actually want someone calling me with regular reminders. Personally, I'd probably get pissed off and stop picking up the number. like the idea mentioned by pwim; make it a one time thing. I'd pay for that. You could always have the option of a subscription based or single use.
Here is an interesting fact, that I read about Paul Erdos, He once said all babies (he used to call them epsilons, because babies are really small!) remeber the solution for Riemann Hypothesis. The only problem though is that they tend to forget everything once they reach the age of six month.
It seems to me it might be easier to put localizer gloves on the user instead. They wouldn't even have to be gloves in the traditional hand-covering sense, just enough to stay on the hand and provide orientation, just little skeleton things.

It seems like the real insight is the creation of a gesture system with spatial persistence by using one hand as a reference point shared by both the computer and the human, rather than the lapel-camera. The way in which the innovative gesturing system gets into the computer seems less important than the gesturing insight in the first place; this is the first gesture system that I've seen that seems like it might actually be useful. And now that someone's had the base idea, a couple of iterations of refinements and we might actually be somewhere.

(It seems like the gestures in Minority Report represented what people thought this would look like, but those always seemed almost impossibly floaty; one metric I use to determine how well a computer could possibly perform is "could a motivated human even figure out exactly what you meant?" and I'm not convinced the Minority Report interface meets that; pointing is a pretty imprecise thing, more than you might realize because the average person's 3D model of space is shockingly bad in some ways. Anyone who has learned to draw late enough in life to be able to observe the process of learning to draw, as I am fiddling with now, quickly learns that.)
I think your traffic estimates are reasonable. http://imgur.com/stats/ says he serves around 45m images a day. I'd suspect 1 in 10 generates an ad view, so call it 500K page views/day = 15m/month.

But there's no way he's getting $5 EPM for a photosharing site. Here's someone selling ads on his photo site for well under $1 EPM: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/listings/76918. I haven't looked at his site in detail, but I think the actual rate is $0.17 EPM. Say 0.50 EPM

15m/month pageviews * 0.50 EPM = $7500. Need to subtract bandwidth costs from that.
But won't the products suffer severely once the brains behind them leave? No organization as old and large as Oracle can discount that.
At the risk of double entry...

Regarding 3) VIP filter -- That's how I'm currently using AwayFind [1] with my GMail in Google Apps. My most frequent VIP filter is {if they reply today} but for some people I'll do {if they reply this week} and I get a phone call and it's read back to me. The context and timing is the important thing for me. The really powerful feature is specific words (optional) but I'm presently inclined to rely on my own reply behavior to set the tone of my perceived inbox. It's pretty addicting.

[1] #include 'disclaimer.h' /* I'm an advisor */
You're talking about CO2; he's talking about energy.

Two completely different things!
The text below is directly lifted from the Clojure site at: http://clojure.org/state The article describes it more clearly and succinctly then I could.

There is another way, and that is to separate identity and state (once again, indirection saves the day in programming). We need to move away from a notion of state as "the content of this memory block" to one of "the value currently associated with this identity". Thus an identity can be in different states at different times, but the state itself doesn't change. That is, an identity is not a state, an identity has a state. Exactly one state at any point in time. And that state is a true value, i.e. it never changes. If an identity appears to change, it is because it becomes associated with different state values over time. This is the Clojure model.
Depends on your industry. A designer would have a completely different page than a programmer, marketer, or plumber.
The code for reordering issues is already in the app but the GitHub API doesn't provide access…
Once FB has their or enough data why can't they just add those features?
are you using some type of framework?
I upvoted you, but was your mom on Facebook 3, 4, 5 years ago when it wasn't what it is today?
Uh, right. I'm sure he intentionally followed an escort service in Hyderabad. (Or, more likely, a spammy website that claims to be a Hyderabad escort service.) And one in New Delhi.

I might believe it if the escorts were from San Francisco, LA, Vegas. But India? It seems unlikely that he's a frequent visitor to India in a context where he'd want to link escort services in two cities there.

Please. Web savvy fail. Most likely somebody with a 'circle jerk' ring of bogus escort sites spammed twitter accounts and hit this guy's, and he didn't pay attention to it.
Ok, sure, it's against the spirit of transparency but I'd be willing to bet that in 90% of the cases that got sent upstairs, it actually was quite transparent scandal-fishing. Still, agree on the principle, you're right there.

But as for policy put in place by a given administration.. citation? Are you alleging with a straight face that the Bush administration wasn't doing this? Remember that whole "Department of Justice actually frickin prosecuting people on poltiical grounds" thing?
I think that it is okay. Teaching piano has predictable hours, and it takes you away from the computer as well, giving you some off-screen time. Think of it as your recuperation hours, where you're probably even having fun, but you're making cash off of it.
>> but this kind of parallelization are easy to do in any languages.

> Not if you have a GIL. Even then the languages without that limitation do not make what pmap does ... easy.

Sure, but it is easy in a lot of not-very-functional languages. The kind of parallelization that you can do by simply replacing a map with a pmap can usually be done in one line of OpenMP in C, C++, or Fortran, telling it to run the loop iterations in parallel.
Because those using a framework do not dev directly on the server. I dev locally and then push full projects to my servers when complete.

Now if your question is why isn't there a one click install for local dev... i'm sure it exist in one form or another. For example Python has easy_install and pip. (pip install django)
He's had experience with many managers, mind you - and if a fair number of those were from India, it would justify his bias.

In my experience, his third point (on them trying harder, and thus being more willing to treat ethical boundaries in an elastic manner) is spot-on.
Positive social feedback is super useful in achieving goals.

Also, I totally agree that it's key to have a balanced and accurate sense of self. But the vast majority of people are affected by social feedback. c.f. this study at Wake forest University http://psp.sagepub.com/content/29/5/623.abstract.
check out LinkedIn.com
LinkedIn, are you listening? :)

They already do the first two steps, and going from there to (c) may already be possible with their profile API. From that onto the last two steps is a short step.
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I might be missing the point here but paying someone to tell me I'm awesome would make me feel rather sad.

Of course, that may not extend to everyone. I imagine a reasonable portion of the self help community would embrace this sort of thing.
This may be a bigger market but it's not something that I want to get involved with right now. You should check out http://prankdial.com/
or they work in the US military :)
Some facts to think about:

a) Marc Andreessen is on the board of Facebook.
b) Facebook started working on this 8 months ago.
c) Foursquare had turned down acquisition offers from FB
d) Andreessen and Horowitz invested in Foursquare ~ 2 months ago.

Not saying that Andreessen wouldn't want to have a hedge going on, but if there were complete certainty that FB places would crush 4sq in his mind, they wouldn't have invested.
Sure! I'm not much fun at parties though.
It looks like the Valley is about to get a serious influx of unburdened creativity and talent able to get working on the next big thing. Oracle's loss may well be lots of other companies' (and FOSS in general I hope)'s gain.
I think you could mitigate some of the irritation by greatly increasing the movement speed of the highlight, and somehow fixing the snap-back that occurs when you move to the right of the bar.
Review my startup: CodeSnipr.com Learning is easy
I am following the startup space since last 4 year. Addicted user to HN. Despite strong interest and motivation never able to startup. I have lots of ideas and spent lot of time learning different programming language. But not able to focus and execute well or some other issue related to day job. Finally thought to give it a try. First thing I thought to build up a team though it is not suggested idea as per HN culture. But my idea is not to hire software developer, rather build a team from scratch. Literally the group I started they have very less exposure to computer or some never touch the keyboard. It's true. Any way it started. Guys are really hard working. I divided the team into groups and started learning small small thing at a time. One started on html,css coding, one guy started gimp, one php, one javascript/jquery, one sql,ubuntu stuff and other helping on marketing. The team expense is not much. $100 running monthly cost of living expense of all 5 people one working part time from home. As English is not the first language we had very hard time to understand the articles and learn the concept behind them. Still we persevere and able to know little bit.

Though we still learning and will continue to learn. We think there are few people like us who will face the same problem as us. And they also want the learning is simple experience. So we started working on the idea for allowing anyone to post a simple code snippet with title and explanation about that code snippet. It's that simple nothing much is there. Only one problem we found how to order those information, becoz new user want the table of content format style. If we allow the user to keep on posting the content it may be random. We didn't found the solution yet. But for the time being we are curating those articles, and making the ordering so that if user click on the HTML and click the basic tab on home page he can see a ordered list of articles. Also very small feature we added like syntax highlighting, and copy the code functionality and basic commenting functionality from user.

Much appreciated any feedback or suggestion to improve the site. And few encouraging word or feedback to keep us motivated and continue to work towards it. This is just the starting from our team and we will be continuing.

Thanks!
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You know I would love a recommendation of a good theme. Once I get the site ready to start throwing traffic at with AdWords, I'll A/B test and post results on HN.
The Nexus One is your best option.
What the grandparent post said is correct -- Oracle is a sales company. They sell a seemingly engineering product -- a database. But that doesn't matter. Most organization who buy that database could probably manage with Postgres if they had to (not saying "all", just "most").

So why do they buy it? Because Oracle salesmen play golf well and know how to lose to the right CEO/CIO/CTO person. Yes, Oracle DB is "golfware" not "software".

There is a whole ecosystem of training and support that they have built. Keeping that up is worth a lot more than rolling out better software, because that is where the money is coming from.

So when the best Sun engineers leave, Oracle managers are probably thinking "good riddance, we could replace them with 10 engineers in India for the same price!" and the sad thing is, -- they are probably correct for the market they are in.
That lady on the front page scares me :)
I'm not so sure they're going to crush 4Square or Gowalla. Facebook is for wasting time -- idle messaging, playing Farmville. Mobile checkin apps are sort of the opposite of that. I don't doubt that 4Square users will connect to FB and start publishing their data (and if they decide to do that instead of polluting Twitter with it, awesome), but who is the target audience for pulling out the FB app on iPhone/Android and checking in somewhere?
Back in 2009 he wrote Steps to Success

see his blog:

http://madhuyarlagadda.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-...
No that's just what they told HR and the blogosphere - they may have all left to become supermodels.
Reminds me a lot of http://twitter.com/awesomeupdater.

Have you compared the cost/effect of using Twilio vs a real person?
I usually find that random blogs online are far more truthful and clueful than the mainstream press.
I agree.

Real profit from investment comes from finding something that is below "true" price and buying it, or finding something that's above "true" price and selling it.

When small investors try to evaluate stocks and bonds, they compete with just about every hedge fund, fund manager, investment bank prop trading group.

On the other hand, small investors can attempt to profit by looking at investments that allow for relatively small dollar profits. For example, small real estate investment properties (e.g. houses with rental apartments) with values of, say, $300K, provide potential profits that are too small to be worth a large investor's time. In contrast, smaller investors should find the time spent vs. potential upside quite reasonable, and will have to compete only with other small investors -- which makes it more likely they can find investments that are a good deal.
"Are you alleging with a straight face that the Bush administration wasn't doing this?"

I just reread his post, and it doesn't look like it.
So my friend described it as an "almost ironic Saturday Night Live" type look. I'm inclined to agree, especially coupled with what has been described as the "1996" style design. But you know what? I have no idea whether that matters or not. Once I start throwing traffic at the site (tomorrow, maybe?) I'll be able to A/B test: what's better - overpriced stock photo, or picture of actual awesomenessreminder greeters?
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You and I read the constitution very differently if you think it explicitly forbids copyrights.

I wonder how carefully you're reading. I've cited the copyright clause several times and even paraphrased it. It does not "forbid" copyright. It creates it as a limited monopoly on a creative work.

the Constitution expressly promotes the idea of intellectual property

That's a big leap. It says, in short, that since they think that advancement of the sciences and arts is important, they will allow authors and inventors a limited monopoly on their work, in order to motivate them. Nothing there implies the creation of a pretend property, not does it promote such an idea. And if you read Jefferson, who wrote extensively on the subject, you'll see that he was completely against the idea of "property" consisting of ideas. Paraphrasing him from one of his letters: how can a man own something in another man's mind?
there's something special about having a real person talking to you instead of a voice. also, the uncanny valley scares me
Adults in the work force range from late teens/early twenties to mid/late sixties. A lot of times I go to lunch with people from work and they are talking about things from their high school years that occurred before I was born. So I think there's a decent mix there.
Sure, if you can represent your problem using probabilities :)

That said, I'm more excited about the use of Lyric's technology in ECC memory. I'm skimming through Vigoda's thesis, and it seems that another very interesting application ought to be making even lower-power mobile backend chips.
"Put in place" kinda implies that it wasn't happening before, no?

And if both administrations that have presided over a DHS practiced similar policies, then it's still a scandal but it's not about only one of them.
If Apple blocked fart apps of third-party developers for the sake of... I don't know what, quality or decency, then people would complain Apple are being censors.

Regarding Shoemaker, maybe Apple hired him to direct the App Store because he can run a massive online marketplace, and not because he's a talented or creative app developer.
blame facebook
Actually, it is worse. Greek politicians cheated foreign bond investors and lied to the EU about their budgets.
You might try going to professional societies or related meetups and asking questions.
Thankfully Apple's curated walled garden approach to ensuring quality (keeping out Flash, Python, Java, Ruby, anything "obscene", competitive functionality, etc.) still managed to allow cartoon panda anus farting!
A Greek default has no impact on the Euro. A Greek default will drill the French and German banks that hold their debt. That's the issue.
I'm currently working on editing the video footage from the conference. There's a lot of content in there, it will take some time but it's coming.
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This story has strangely made me think of the "eat your own dogfood" principle.
I am a soon-to-be computer science graduate. I want to promote my projects and resume.
I think this is more interesting as a one time thing. Sort of like a slightly more modern singing telegram. I just can't imagine enjoying getting that call every day.

"You're good enough, you're smart enough, and, gosh darn it, people like you."
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what if they invested precisely because they thought that Foursquare would get some extra "distribution" (and validation of what they're doing) via and thanks to Facebook?
That's fair -- especially since they don't seem to run as many ads as some sites. ($0.75 with 5 ads and ad targeting pixels, etc., can really ad up.)