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Ask HN: How to get the chickens without the eggs?
This may be a stupid question, but I'm starting a startup in the stock photography sector, however the problem is I need photographers before I can start selling images (obviously). However, from my initial enquiries it seems photographers have no interest in joining new libraries and will only submit to established sites that already have lots of images for sale.

So my question is: how can I attract photographers to submit their work to a new site? I was thinking of contacting a few prospects and offering them 100% of the profit from sales for the first year, prizes for the first person to hit 100 sales, 1000 sales and things like that.

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Thanks!
My phone is going to need a 'private' toggle just like it has a 'silent mode' toggle - right on the home screen, or physical.
That's definitely not bad considering that from what i read is not so easy anymore to sell apps in the store. But considering that the app is on the store since '09 it isn't one of those big instant AppStore hits, so i guess that the OP is aiming at seriously start building an app that has some potential to become one of those. Additional info would be appreciated.
I do that too - the downside is that it actually multiplies the spam, because my address will be in the spammers lists multiple times.
You hit it. His only mistake was in getting involved in that non-issue. The only reason that the thread got into news was because he personally got involved in it.

When you are a public figure, you should at least know to avoid anonymous criticism.
This is fantastic! I can't wait to apply with my Sydney-based startup.
In the short term ... but how to tap psychologically into new hires who never went through that experience, and whose initial perceptions and expectations need to be set?
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I'm not so sure the line is that hard. A customer is someone that you are making money of, or maybe even someone that you intend to make money of.

Not someone that pays for your apps, and where would that leave services, goods and other things that people pay for?

If you're in a long term relationship with a large number of people and they don't pay you but you are making money off them in a different (for instance indirect) way they are as critical to your bottom line as paying people would be.

Free does not always mean you have no customers, free can mean you have customers but the price is $0.

So, technically the guy has a sales funnel with 1 million people in it that need to be converted to paying customers.

If that distinction did not exist we'd never have to use the word 'paying' attached to customers in that context.
Wow, this is awesome. Anyone know any startup mentors based in Brisbane? I run (very) small consulting company and I'd like to move into software.
Have you tried calling Len Tillem, the KGO radio lawyer? He's on every weekday at noon. He'll help you out.
Depends on with whom, I think. With management, and colleagues in non-engineering departments, absolutely. But with coworkers on their own team who are hopefully their buddies, I don't think this is true. I had the enormous privilege of having met some incredibly interesting people by working with them, and being able to talk with them - whether "productively" or not (there was plenty of both) - was one of the best and most enduring aspects of the job.
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It wasn't always like this. The previous generation of senators had some old ideas but they were courteous and civil to one another. The current electives are basically firebrand, chickenhawks.
Too fast to hear.

But nice to look at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxENKlcs2Tw&feature=relat...
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I know a few people who have made significant amounts of money online, and the "throw lots of things at the wall and see what sticks" definitely works.

Zack: keep at it!
Yes, recycling glass needs more energy that aluminum. That's why reusing glass is better. That's how many bottles (including beer) are handled in Germany.
What if _why was the person who motivated you most for picking a career in programming? _why's persona is an inspiration to see programming and life in a different light for some people (myself included).
App Engine is a pain in the ass, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Heroku is so simple to use that I've many times felt that someone needs to build a Heroku for Python.

The only thing really wrong with App Engine is the datastore:

- It's very different than anything you've come across before
- The docs are not sufficient for it's complexity. You end up having to read lots of blogs and watch lots of videos to figure it out.
- It is ridiculously difficult to learn (one of the hardest things I ever had to do)
- Important parts of your stack won't work, like Admin
- You can't just add the fields you like to an object. Instead you need to meticulously plan _how_ your data is going to be accessed. This is exactly the wrong thing for a startup, since you can't get up and running fast.
- You can't iterate fast, because any schema change is very risky and very slow.
- If you don't get everything exactly right, your app will be very slow.
- There isn't much in the ecosystem.

By contrast, none of these are true for Heroku.

There are some things that are pretty good about App Engine:

- the tools are pretty good. Not as good as Heroku, but good.
- the billing is spot on. They give you about $1 per day of free stuff, which can maintain a site with hundreds of thousands of users. And it's pretty cheap from there on.
- They scale it automatically. On Heroku, it's really hard to tell how many "dynos" (whatever the hell that is) you need, except by trial and error. I would expect that nearly all Heroku apps are overprovisioned. App Engine just nails the scaling - it happens automatically, and you specify a maximum amount to pay per day, with lots of different dials to control it more precicely if you like.

I hope Djangy takes the best of both worlds.
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I suspect a lot of "private offices for developers because their #1 enemy is distractions" talk is cover for the introverted preferences of many developers. This type of personality sees almost all chit-chat as inherently distracting.

I have been in the seemingly unusual position of being a highly extroverted - dare I say, socially dependent? - developer and technician in my career. As such, I found it gratifying to be able to talk to my coworkers easily both from a workflow perspective and, well, just to socialise. It has led to some enduring professional and personal relationships that have lasted long beyond my past jobs themselves, and has formed the basis of a number of key business opportunities for me.

So, I think a more outgoing person is more likely to find some satisfaction in being able to talk to others easily, instead of consciously having to leave his/her secluded office and wander around--looking conspicuously unproductive in ways considered uncouth in corporate America--for that purpose. Such a person is also going to find it easier to manage the distractions posed by others in more natural, intuitive, fluid ways than awkwardly putting on headphones or demonstratively ignoring someone.

There are ways to make people around you go away or pipe down without confirming their ugly stereotype of developers as Asperger's geeks; for clues, if this behaviour does not strike you as self-evident, take a look at how people in more managerial, sales-y and marketing roles do it. They say things like, "Well! I need to get back to this (gestures to screen), I'll catch up with you in a while," or, "Excuse me, I really gotta call this guy back..." That's congenial code for GTFO; it does rely on your companion to get the message, but you'd have to be dealing with some pretty thick people for them to be oblivious to the GTFO part.

That said, I definitely understand and sympathise with the plight of those stuck in noisy cubicle farms replete with salespeople and ringing phones, the sort of suit-driven sardine floor plan that inspired this whole "offices for developers" movement. To appreciate what I have to say above without running for the hills screaming, you definitely need to be in a basically manageable noise, people and traffic situation and have fundamentally reasonable coworkers and management, from the perspective of a technical implementor.
Interesting AMA from a WoW Bot-runner (reddit)
Because he doesn't want to be outed, for whatever reason. Outing someone by calling out their real name is a dick move. It used to be that HN recognized the occasional need for stealth pre-launch, instead of this braggery.

(Disclaimer: same thing happened to my company when we pre-launched.)
What day should we pick as his birthday? Since we're celebrating his persona rather than his actual person, what should this be? The day he launched his first ruby project? The day he published his first post on the redhanded blog? The day that _why's poignant guide to ruby was first published?
Fair enough - though see his point about the green card process. It's pretty painful to have that process reset on you, and to actually find an employer if you do lose a job.

What he meant, I rather suspect, is not so much as 'ethically repugnant' (in which case I might agree with you) but rather within the gray area, where unvoiced pressures such as these can affect the choices you make.
They really need to support more than Django. The Python world isn't centered around one web framework, the way Ruby is.
You should pick the day that _why would pick, of course.
It really depends on the platform and requirements.

On a desktop, a three-drive RAID0 provides about the same performance, and gives you nearly 40x the storage for a given price-point.

On a mobile platform the physical space, vibration/motion, and power constraints coupled with the increased performance may make SSDs worthwhile.
I'm spoiled by SSDs now. I've had an X25-M in my primary computer for almost a year now, and other computers feel so slow that I can't imagine going back. Even in servers, one X25-M can replace 4 15k RPM disks in RAID 10 for I/O load, not to mention the power savings.
I really would love to see this for clojure or smalltalk.
Hmm I am in Sydney university too but I haven't heard about that course... It should be promoted more! But then again, looking it up it only has 40 free spaces. :(

As students I don't think there is much benefit in "getting funded", especially for those still living at home, and probably not even for a year after graduation. (I'm guessing I could live that long in my parent's house before they start charging rent.)

You could even get a deferred student loan of $500 to $20,000 from NAB, with no repayments for up to 5 years * . (with a steep 15% interest)

If you aren't unlucky you'd also be receiving student payments from centre link also.

IMHO, university students don't need much funding from investors. The banks are willing to lend you money as long as they think you're will be able to get a 9 to 5 job when you graduate. Your parents can also provide you with free accommodation and dinners. I think it's a good idea to take advantage of this while we're still students. The only reason you'd apply for seed funding is the mentoring that you will get.

* certain conditions apply.
I don't know what would be the appropriate way to worship such a person, maybe a little altar or something?

A blog entry on how he inspired you, how he changed your views on programming and life?

That would do it I think.
You're missing something -- the EP101TC isn't something you or I can buy.
I don't think Asus's sales drop has anything to do with the iPad - they're in quite different markets. Look at the price difference of the machines, for starters, and also the demographics of iPad purchasers - these are mainly well-off people and I think if they wanted a netbook style machine they'd buy one as well as an iPad. There may be a small overlap of people who were looking for a netbook and would/could pay the extra money to buy an iPad instead, but at about a £300+ price hike I would think that these would be in the minority - most people who aren't buying Asus are buying other company's netbooks instead. Asus have had a period of being the dominant seller over netbooks, but I think a lot of other people are producing more competitive machines and so Asus are losing share/sales to them, rather than Apple
>Not exactly newsworthy.

Except that he is now on the othe side of the table.
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You still have to "manually" create it in the first place. After that you can automate it regardless of how you choose to render it.
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But the drawings in his Ruby book were really cute!
How about hacking just for the fun and joy of it? Like the website proposes.

@jacquesm (replying here because it seems I've exceeded the reply limit)

How about hacking on something that really has no purpose other than just being fun. Like a game. It doesn't bring any material rewards, but just stands on itself as something fun to do with a computer. Something like, perhaps, a small c library for writing chiptune-style songs
in c or ruby. you know: the sounds of ataris, gameboys and the like. [1]

[1] http://github.com/mental/bloopsaphone#readme
Actually, in the Jewish faith, when celebrating the life of someone who died (via candles etc), it's done on the day of their death.
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This link is to an excerpt of a full article in the last issue of Wired magazine out now. Interestingly training doesn't necessarily reduce stress, while meditation often does. The article contains some interesting observations on stressed baboons.
I have tenure. Part of the reason for the slack off after getting tenure is fatigue from the process of getting it. I spent 7 years as a grad student teaching classes for low wages and no benefits. Then many years as an adjunct for low wages and no benefits. I was lucky enough to get a tenure track job. Spent several more years doing a lot of extra work to prove how valuable I was. I didn't get paid extra for this extra work.

Now I have tenure. I haven't had a pay raise in 2 years. It looks like we won't get a raise for another 2 years. I make $56,600 a year. And now I take it easy.

I don't see the system changing because without the possibility of tenure there is no way in hell I would have gone this route. Unless pay was increased to industry standards but that's not going to happen either. Society does not want to pay for quality teachers.

EDIT: Take it easy for me means that I'm not going to serve on the curriculum committee. I try hard to teach well. I don't do the committee work.
On a desktop, a three-drive RAID0 provides about the same performance, and gives you nearly 40x the storage for a given price-point.

Quite a terrible idea unless you enjoy backup recovery sessions.

If the noise of 3 drives doesn't bother you then you can just as well get 4 and setup a RAID10, which is nearly as fast but much less likely to fail.
I like that. And in breadth first search, one could use a filter on a saw wave to have the breadth of the frequency spectrum manipulated by the search.
This article ignores the role of stocks issuing dividends and how that contributes to the game.
So is he saying that you should not nest refs? i.e. you should not create a vector of refs and assign the vector to a ref. Because now the state itself can change.
There is no netbook with the fun chips the phone makers added to their products.

Imagine the cool stuff you could do with a small computer packed with GPS/FM radio/phone reception/accelerometer/gyroscope.
Ask HN: What problem does Foursquare/Gowalla/Places solve?
One of the most repeated advice for startups is build something people want, something that solves a problem. What problem do these services solve? They are just games/tools for sharing where I am right now. It's fun, but I can live without it. I get that there's value for business owners, but that's just a byproduct, at least I percieve it that way. For a regular user who is just checking-in, there's no real value.

So, what problem do they solve?
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Unit testing is a poor substitute for strong typing in this context.
I'm not sure how to go about saying this without stepping on a whole pile of very long toes, but there is an element of cult worship in this that I find bordering on the unhealthy.

I'm already hacking for the fun and joy of it, if it wouldn't be fun and it wouldn't give me joy I'd be doing something else in stead.

There's a parallel in there somewhere that reminds me of Brian telling the crowd 'you are all individuals' and wanting for the crowd to go away. But instead they keep chasing him and want signs and worship him.
Disclaimer: I might be misinformed or just making stuff up about how stock actually works. I write code, not contracts.

If you absolutely must keep them off the books because they're not accredited, perhaps you could be a proxy for that investment. Friends & Family give you the money, you bring it into the company and have proportionally more shares issued to yourself, and you hold those shares on the behalf of Friends & Family.

On the upside, it might make getting that angel investment go smoothly and if things really work out your company could have an IPO -- after which you could outright transfer the shares to Friends & Family for them to hold or cash out. It would also be that "fun" investment they're looking for.

On the downside, if your company got acquired you'd probably pay more income taxes on those extra shares than Friends & Family would if they had been the shareholders instead.
I wonder if this kind of ... "homage" is what made him vanish.
Official transcripts are mailed by the school, not by the student, and are somewhat difficult to spoof.
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The main thing broken about the US academic system is not tenure, I think. It's grants, and the perpetual chasing of them, the effective cause of the good teachers having no time to teach and hardly any time do to research (if they restrain themselves to a healty working week).
I would never go back to regular HDDs. Quiet, cool, sipping battery life… go go gadget SSD!
Use of SQLLite too - does that scale and perform well against something like postgres?

I think what we're seeing here is an email/hype-grabbing attempt with an interesting vision, using the Heroku name for leverage.

Would like to see it materialise, but they really should have hardened something as simple as a signup form. I've emailed the admin telling him to lock it down.
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Team Foundation Server from MS could achieve this I reckon (might need a bit of work to get it exactly how you want).

Or possibly even (I hate to say it) sharepoint.
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department tacked on.

Years ago we had oracle sales present to our office. During questions I asked what was being done to make sqlplus feature competitive against the free software consoles like psql, mysql on basic features (e.g. browsable command-line history). The presenter was surprised I had complaints about it. He fired it up on his laptop on the projector. It crashed during startup. Laughs all-round and beyond that the Oracle reps didn't even pretend to be interested. I'm not sure who they thought they were selling to.

I came to the same conclusion as you.
Excellent post. Aside from the very interesting and important (hence many PLDI publications) work of Sorin Lerner, there is a workshop which deals with the first point of Prof. Regehr: Compiler Optimization meets Compiler Verification, which is a satellite workshop for ETAPS. So for interested people, this might very well be the point to start digging for relevant publications.
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I don't think he ever counted on the amount and kind of following that he collected, never mind the stalkers.

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You are 100% correct. On the home page is a link to 'The Story of R10Cipher' in there you can read the following:

'The encryption technology used by R10Cipher was also developed in the UK. Blowfish is a keyed symmetric block cipher which was invented by ‘Security Guru’ and renowned author, Bruce Schneier, Chief Security Technical Officer at British Telecom, in 1993. It provides excellent encryption and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Blowfish is free of patents, and back doors, and Bruce has placed Blowfish in the public domain.

Blowfish was chosen over AES for two reasons, a) It’s a fast, secure and respected encryption technology and b) There are still many concerns, specifically in the USA, about the security of AES and whether a backdoor exists to which the government has access. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant as it is a popular public conception and using Blowfish bypasses those doubts when selling to US customers.'

I did once have this information on the home page but most people were completely put off by it, only the techies were interested therefore it is there, but not jumping off the page.

Cheers - Steve
Tap into the amateur photographer with cameras on their mobile phones. Convince her that she can simply point her phone at things around the world, snap a shot that's auto-uploaded to your service, and she can make cash.

You and your team handle the categorization and tagging. And/or, the photographer can come back later on her PC and categorize/tag her photos resulting in a higher profit share for anyone licensing that photo.

On most smartphones, sharing/uploading photos via e-mail and applications is intrinsic to the mobile device. Handle uploads via your own mobile application or simply e-mail uploads.
I knew almost a whole promotion of economics and business majors at the university. Interesting enough, the economics folks are basing pretty hard on their model and don't somewhat have much distance with it other than the one a physics student would have - there is a strong need to "prove" the theory right. Should they be rather working more like biologists instead?