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couple questions:
How does licensing work? Let's say I'm teaching a class on how to use dreamweaver. Obviously I'd like to simply launch 30 instances for 1 day and then give them to each of the students, but I don't think the license works that way.

Or, I give one to a customer to test drive my software. How do I know the customer wont just download the executable off the machine or something similar? I guess the answer is make sure anything I send out this way requires a complete installation not just an executable but there still isn't any security to keep it on the VM.
My friend does this, and pays his rent with it. Except it doesn't take 80 hours a week. This guy is doing something wrong.
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hi i'm newbie for hacking, is there ebook for being hacker, thx
Love using this with my Magic Mouse.
>It is amusing that these stern words, particularly regarding distribution, never seem to apply to the sender.

Of course, they never apply to the recipient either, absent further contracts or social pressure. You can put whatever you want in your signature; it doesn't make that able to be enforced.
I absolutely agree!
To write code (an good one) you needs years...if you spend that much time for this then you may very well forget about your startup and become a developer (in the meantime, look at your idea implemented by others).
If you have a technical company, certainly become as familiar with that technology as possible. However, recognize that it takes a lot of talent and experience to become a great developer, and if you don't have it already you are unlikely to be able to magic that up on your own just by doing a few tutorials. The best way to acquire that skillset is to buy it, with money or equity or both.

Edit: note that attaining a reasonable level of skill in technical matters will pay huge dividends, especially in hiring. There are currently no objective measures for determining developer skill. The better your technological chops are the better you will be at determining the skill of potential employees / co-founders. Making sure your startup is populated by the most skilled engineers can make all the difference between success and failure.
I really like the idea of this service. The difficulty is, I'm not seeing any "Getting Started with Websolr" guide to understand how difficult it is to get working with you. Where would that be?

In my ideal world you would have a demo instance or two where we could connect/query arbitrary test data to understand performance/behavior/etc before we signed-up to host real data there.
I first heard of this when Nokia had well over 50% of the market. It's announced now, but known for a long time.
Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, URLs and Passwords"
"First answer upfront: i have no idea why the have chosen that picture. It's completely unrelated to our media photos ;)"

Your media photos don't have any beautiful women in them. (Any people at all, actually.) Since you're a fashion startup, it makes perfect sense for your marketing materials to sell that aspect of your story -- it will get you more coverage.
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We need to separate two types of leaders that often get conflated when talking about "corporate greed".

There are:
1) CEOs that explicity break the law. Examples include Mozilo of Countrywide who insider traded, or deliberately misinformed investors through investor calls or financial reports. These guys should go to jail AND pay heavy financial penalties.

Then there are
2) CEOs/traders that made legal but unwise all-in bets. This is pretty much much of the leadership from banks in the most recent crash. These leaders should NOT go to jail, as they have not broken any laws. But they and their companies should be held financially liable for any big losses when they inevitably come. Investment banks have been pretty successful at taking their hefty cut of the pie when times are good, but dodging the bullet when bad times inevitably come. JPMorgan (and other banks) have divisions that do investments for pension funds. When times are good, they get their share, but recent losses were completely offloaded onto the city pension funds. Privatization of profits, socialization of losses. Under this scheme, it's actually economically rational for them to make wild bets. They need to feel the pain when those bets don't pan out.
My guess is the answer is probably yes, if you give your developers slower machines, they will start optimizing things for performance.

However, I suspect they won't spend the time optimizing what you want them to. Good developers HATE being inefficient. Sitting around waiting for something to compile gets your out of the flow of writing and testing code.

So instead of spending all their time optimizing the app, I suspect they'll spend a disproportionate amount of time optimizing the build process.

Not really the outcome you want...

Now, as you suggest, if there's a way to slow down only the running of the app, and not the rest of the development process, that would be useful and probably would cause the sort of changes you're looking for.
Instead of loading apache for each php call, why not have a few PHP FastCGI instances running? They're lighter weight than apache+mod_php and you don't have to wait for them to load for each call?
Most consumers of waiter service already pay up to 20% of the total bill for the waiter to be helpful and friendly.
Job listings on Craigslist are part of a general-purpose, locally targeted system. That's different than a special-purpose, globally targeted system (like Dice).

The question I'd be asking myself is: what "special sauce" do I have that is going to help me attract more programmers looking for work than, say, the StackOverflow job board.

If you can crack that nut, you don't really need to worry about pricing.
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No login other than through Facebook? I'll pass, thanks.
Engineers and designers come from totally different stock. You're going to need a hell of a lot of practice to get that under-worked side of your brain humming. I'd start by examining 'learning graphic design' as a problem set- books are a key to the solution, so is practice, (as mentioned by others here), but the part you're going to have trouble with is just getting used to the differences. Design is not engineering, it is the polar opposite. Despite the fact that both involve 'creating' something, you're planning to use parts of your brain that haven't had a breath of fresh air in awhile. Music (guitar, keyboards), storytelling, rhythm (dancing, drums), writing, and many other activities can stimulate that side of your brain to get down to business with design. Get out of your comfort zone, and rewire your brain to get a chance.
£0.90 = $1.41. You sure they're cheaper in staples? Here's Staples prices in the UK [1] - £3.99 for a box of the wrong size, but roughly the same volume. And ours are printed for £0.90.

[1]: http://www.staples.co.uk/office-supplies/shipping-cartons-ma...
I was thinking it describes PhD students who actually finish. Of course apart from the friendship bit because PhD programs are still solitary journeys.
How awesome would that be if I could just believe that I am the King of England and so become it.
The theory is that stretching after exercise worsens the muscular microdamage beyond what can be repaired during the normal recovery cycle.
Looking at the financials for the past few years, Amazon is paying down its LT debt. This somewhat decreases the validity of my middle point.

Perhaps the PE is high because their profit margin is expected to increase above what is normally associated with retail operations (razor-thin). After all, Amazon is delving into more tech-centric lines of business.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AMZN&fstype=ii
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:COST&fstype=ii
> My definition of a hack is to add value to the an existing system by modifying a property, not changing a zero-sum situation in your favor.

That seems like a nice definition of hack, but I don't think it's completely accurate. For example, if a college only accepts a certain number of people and you come up with clever way to get accepted, that's changing a zero-sum situation in your favor, and I would still call it a hack.

I agree, however, that the hack seems a little wrong. More clever would have been for the friends to grab another table, set it up opposite the original one with room for two lines, and then switch half the pizza boxes to the other table. (This works better than being on both sides of a single table because the way pizza boxes open typically blocks access from one side.) Another possibility would be to just grab a box each and carry it down the line offering pizza to everyone starting from the front.
Ubuntu and just about any Gnu/Linux distribution haven't been bundling the Flash player for years, nice to see Apple doing the same.
If everything was about raw intelligence, the world would be a totally different place today. I have a similar story as yours - I once worked with a guy with a genius level IQ, but he had trust issues and he was horrible with money.

As in the OP, it's really a recipe of traits that make a startup successful.
Yes, they would be motivated to write optimized code rather than a bunch of crap. Their productivity may suffer, unless their tools were also optimized to run on these slower devices.

I normally write (or test) code in a virtual machine on an older system to make sure I force myself to think about impact to performance.
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Same. The fact that I have to do anything before I can start drawing is already a huge turn-off.
Here though it's in a context about morality and proprietries, and what's "naughty" vs "evil". So I think it's especially valuable to emphasize the subjectivity.
"Predatory lending" is a bit of a bullshit term. Not all borrowers were victims. Along with everybody else they were gambling that housing prices would only go up.

A person signing a contract for a no-doc interest only 95% mortgage in 2004 knows what they are getting into. It's not like they were tricked into it by some evil banker.
hrm, I don't think that's true that there is nothing to be learned from our intuition on this.

10^-y could be anywhere from 0 to 1, but you have to be extremely close to 0 for y to be bigger than x. Since we are here pondering this, it makes intuitive sense that it's likely we 10^-y isn't infinitesimally close to zero.
Me too. Awesome language/platform, but probably a bit too weird for where the industry at large is at these days, unfortunately.

Anybody else coming to ErlangCamp in Chicago this weekend, BTW?
The problem though is that a stylus is not enough by itself. What is needed is the concept of digital ink. With my tablet PC I can markup any object that can be printed.
That is likely the most thorough, informative response I have ever received. I almost qualified that with "on the internet", but then I realized, hell, it's probably more informative than any response I've ever received anywhere.

I recently saw a news piece about a philanthropist helping people in poor African villages by simply building wells. The tribesmen were so grateful, one said "I wish he lives one hundred and fifty years so that he can continue helping people like us."

Well, Scott, thank you. I hope you live one hundred and fifty years.
Sure, but you could say that about anything the government spends money on. I happen to believe that the value of the educational system far outweighs the small amount of money wasted on 5,000 waiters. And the bureaucracy of weeding out those 5,000 waiters would far outspend the cost of just paying for their PhDs. Do you suggest that we mandate what jobs anyone who gets a state education gets?
Mostly just because I've never used FastCGI before, and I have played around with making C/C++ servers for fun before. Seemed like the fastest solution and so far its worked out better than expected.
How about because all those you list don't have user interface ties. Maybe because all those you list aren't heavily used by the majority where an outdated or exploit-prone version would matter. People who do use the examples you listed often install their own versions because the Apple versions are out of date.
I'm sorry, I saw the 'p' and thought Pound not Pence. Excuse my ignorance of British currency notation.
This would really be best handled as two separate questions -- "is a fully asynchronous approach best for Comet" and "is the node.js implementation best for Comet" are probably very different discussions. And again, "best" could mean either performance/scalability, usability, or some combination thereof.
How can you guys help me to pay for my book at the publishing company?
I urgently need your help to help me find some assistance to help redeem my book at the Vantage Press; how can I get your assistance in that regard?
If you treat your existing customers well, they'll do your bidding for you. New users are important - but if you treat your existing users well, they'll go out of their way to tell other people how great you are.

I think the most effective type of marketing will always be the personal recommendation from a current user.
PG, Aren't you misleading the young by so strongly suggesting that their start up needs a friend. Was it Mark... the Facebook founder who created the empire by himself?

Perhaps it is your opinion that friends do better, but to so strongly state it as a requirement aren't you perhaps implicitly disproving any sole founder start up and if so you are, why would you?
My experience with really large scale grammars is extremely limited so it's good to hear your thoughts on that!

My main issue so far with PEGs is that the generators seem to produce parsers that are relatively slow. That being said I need to experiment with PEGs in languages other than Ruby. Thanks!
If they go down this path, there is an opportunity for a new app store (say HackStore) with perhaps 85/15 terms for a pricing split. There is still the initial problem of boot strapping/enabling/legitimizing HackStore on the users desktop. A custom daemon would do the trick but how would you get it on the users desktop? I am not sure if the AppStore will allow an app that could trim Apples own revenues.

Then again, if they do not allow it, would they be subject to anti-trust (or is it monopolistic) practices?
Ask HN: How do you design websites for bootstrapping?
How do you design websites easily for bootstrapping your startups ? I'm comfortable with html/css/javascript but I find it difficult to design elegant UI. Any suggestions ?
What I know about coding.
I don't think that's the point of this article. The point is that you need to be able to talk to your co-founder about technical and non-technical problems. It's not that you should become so technically sufficient so that you can be the technical co-founder, but so that you can speak the same language as your co-founder.

In six months you can easily pick up the basic ideas need to converse with someone about technical issues, and at least understand what the other person needs. Maybe you'll even learn enough to help out and create the demo, or something.
Look, people. This move was done because Apple totally has your best interests at heart and is absolutely not in any way any sort of anti-competitive thing, because Apple simply doesn't have any sort of Flash-competitor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianduia_%28software_framework%...

It was done because Apple loves you and wants to protect you, like a soft warm blanket over your head, pressing down tightly.
Hello. It looks like you haven't participated much here. The HN community usually shuns these sorts of comments, because they don't really add to the conversation -- an upvote is already a "+1".
Honestly I don't think it's an exaggeration, even if technically I think they were talking about Safari crashes. Flash has crashed my Safari more times than I can excuse as 'these things happen'.
also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820891
> I'm also surprised that none of these points mention marketing - an ability to sell something seems vital in getting a startup going.

I agree. One of the best assets for a good founder with tech-skills is a business/marketing founder. She can keep the ball rolling on the business things that would halt or slow software development, and during development she can be out discussing the product with potential customers. Once a MVP has been developed, she obviously becomes the sales and marketing manager.

> Finding a co-founder is hard, though.

Are you single? Notice that I said "she" above? Consider joining a dating site and trying to meet some cool women who have business or marketing backgrounds (obviously women that you would like to date as well). I've only been on OKCupid for a month, and I've already met a couple really cool, driven women who would be an amazing asset to a startup.

I'm not saying to jump straight into a relationship just so that you can start your startup. My intent was simply to point out one way of meeting a potential cofounder, a way you probably never considered. There are countless other "hacks" that can be employed for meeting cofounders; you just have to put yourself into situations where you're likely to meet the kind of people you'd like to meet. It's really that easy.
As a qualified professional, who would you rather have a meeting with?

a.) Someone who says they have a 'killer' startup idea but no technical ability to execute it.

b.) Someone who has an idea and has already executed a working prototype of that idea for you to check out.
FTA:

> their investigations revealed that some incredibly private information was harvested in some cases.

Well now, slow down. If someone transmits information into the public airspace in a public street, that data can no longer be referred to as private.

If Google had been breaking WEP while they drove along they would be violating people's "reasonable expectations" of their privacy. But there's no reasonable expectation of privacy if you're broadcasting radio signals that contain your passwords. That's just dumb.
Sure, many non-technical founders can pick up enough to put together some kind of a prototype. Some will not be able to, simply lacking the disposition. No harm trying if it does not detract from other necessary tasks.
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You should try IntelliJ IDEA.
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So it was just gossip.
Fraud has always been criminal. Stiglitz wants to take a new category of behavior and elevate it to the level of a serious crime.

And think about this:

"They were optimizing not on producing mortgages that were good for the American families but in maximizing fees."

I can think of a lot of incentives that might be put in place to help align the interests of those writing the mortgages and those who are receiving the mortgages, however, jail time would not be on my list. We can have a rich and interesting conversation about what incentives might be effective. We can have a rich and interesting conversation about what incentives set up skewed motives that lead to anti-social behavior. But jail time should never come into the conversation.

Killing off innovation in the USA could be easy, just introduce jail time into a conversation about what incentives might motivate the business community to be socially responsible.
Nice. Adding a location filter wouls make it even nicer.
Check out Brian Pipa (Teenormous) on Mixergy about 35m20s into the interview... great example of persistence when dealing with competition (Gary Vee) who were getting big coverage on TC etc. PR coverage on these sites isn't the be all and end all. If your market isn't other tech people / very early adopters that kind of coverage is fairly irrelevant...
http://mixergy.com/brian-pipa-teenormous-interview/
I also wasn't suggesting that this is the right strategy for every kind of startup. Some are very tech-intensive, and actually learning everything you'd need to learn would take years. But those aren't usually the ideas that people with no technical expertise and no technical cofounders are having. Usually their innovation is social, not technical, and something that's within their capabilities to build.
Lucene is great but I wish schemas were an optional part of Solr. They add complexity and take away flexibility. If you have a photo database where you want searchable metadata describing the subject of the photographs, you can do this easily and naturally in Lucene. But Solr requires you either (1) prefigure available metadata or (2) expose field typing details to your users (so a field for birthday is actually "birthday_d", with the "_d" indicating it's a date). Both of these are very unattractive to me.

The worst part is that I have no idea what benefits schemas are supposed to bring me. The documentation vaguely promises that schemas "can drive more intelligent processing", but I have a feeling I could get that more easily without schemas. It also tells me that "explicit types eliminate the need for guessing of types," but only, apparently, by requiring users to understand and remember them.
I use EC2 for my builds. It means that the builds are fast, clean and known reproducible since they all start from a clean Ubuntu LTS install. The build system gets all upstream tarballs (eg. glibc, openssl etc) from my S3 bucket.

I also find EC2 really handy for quick experiments on different versions of Ubuntu and Debian. It is much quicker than setting up/maintaining images in VMware/VirtualBox.
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To say the ins and outs of card processing should be "well-understood" by any would-be entrepreneur seems like saying biochemistry should be well understood by anyone who wants to wear a Got Milk? t-shirt.

How many stores write the software in their cash register? Who would argue that was useful instead of working on their product line?

The would-be entrepreneur really should be doing other things with his time, and if the card processing percentage difference matters to the business model, hopefully the model is micropayments or billing itself, because for anything larger, there should be room and the entrepreneur better watch out for the much larger expense of supporting billing.

Billing is rarely a differentiator, except when it goes wrong.

On the other hand, if you're selling billing itself as a service, as I see your site says you are, then sure. You're competing with Chargify, Spreedly, etc., for a more targeted vertical. So sure, billing is your product. In that case, agreed, it needs to be well-understood.
whoops...replied to the top of the thread.

"yer fair call guys...ive changed it so you dont need to login :-) thanks for the feedback"
If you want to stick with Python, tornado is a really good async server without all the learning curve of Twisted.
I gave myself 2 and 2 halves.
There are millions of java devs, probably millions on Macs. Do you really think there will be no more Java available on Macs in the future just because Apple said they won't be working on their own implementation anymore?
In his article, PG was describing personal qualities, as opposed to external qualities (with something of an exception in the case of the cofounder item). In the case of most personality traits, if you want that trait and actually try your best to exhibit it, then "you believe it, you become it," is pretty accurate.

If you want to procrastinate less and right away you begin to finish things that you've been putting off, well then you've already won. But if you keep putting off the day when you'll stop procrastinating, well you can see where that's going.

I think most people underestimate their ability to hack their own personalities.
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