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i've been asked to sign on...and honestly I am wrestling hard. In principle - as a Canadian Entrepreneur - I am for it. But, it's hard for me to imagine many scenarios where it works. What kind of non-Canadian entrepreneur still has 30% of the company after raising $150? I wish it were true that it would work this way all the time, but the odds are really slim IMO. If it is, chances are we're talking about someone who has "done it before", and in those cases they likely have more freedom to move around and don't have the same need for VISA. It seems to me a like misdirected energy. And how about a program that incents talent to come home? That's something I'd love to see today.
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The article is confusingly worded: "Most Online Service Providers pay their Connectivity Provider(s) to be connected to the Internet, which is generally based on the bandwidth they require... In both cases these charges are generally flat fees, not linked with usage..." So a content company may pay a "flat fee" per 10 Gbps port, but of course the number of ports they use is proportional to their peak hour traffic, so essentially they are paying per Gbps.
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I'd add BatchBlue. It's what all the cool kids are using, I hear.
Startups exist in Canada, but there are only a few markets that are starting to develop quickly (Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver) - none of which is as active as San Fran. The Valley is a unique place, but let's not forget, most companies are not started there.
Send me an email at carl at carl mercier.
Your analogy is flimsy and borderline stupid. Insurance is a fundamentally different thing than food and housing, because of the nature of resource-pooling. That's why there isn't a single country on earth with a working healthcare system that relies solely on people selecting and paying for health insurance on a strictly individual basis.

Moreover, without health insurance, many people die slow, agonizing, and utterly avoidable deaths. (In the US, the emergency room will fix your broken femur without insurance, but nobody will treat your long-term cancer or multiple sclerosis without insurance.) For many people, perhaps most, this adds an additional moral dimension to the issue.

I hate hearing people make this flimsy-ass argument about health care. "Should the government pay for your clothes too? How about your lawn service?" Health care is a FUNDAMENTALLY different kind of issue.

I too have misgivings about the federal government being competent to administer such a program effectively, but pretending this problem can be solved without some form of (fairly massive) collective policy doesn't contribute any value to the discussion.
Open up a few tabs for a more fun and chaotic track!

Though I am having some syncing issues when one of the tabs is active.
I'm a fan of Toronto...but I'm biased too
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Google Apps Contacts does it for me. It syncs with my phone.
No, I wouldn't want to be part of a company that encouraged an oppressive new regime to rise to power, but I think that's a straw man.

If an oppressive new regime rises, then it's bad because it's oppressive, and you couldn't blame it on the existence of freedom of communication during the revolution. Of course I don't speak for Google in any of this, but I think it's simply supporting the notion that, when in doubt, more freedom of communication is probably better. (At least at this point, where the status quo is currently, "cut off from the outside world".)
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None of the above, rolled my own.
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That's a pretty good coup there for techstars. ycombinator who? Do they have the whitehouses endorsement?

No judgement on the quality of either of course. Except for the govt. I see this failing. "Entrepreneurial" programs managed by big business or govt always seem to generate not-very-entreprenurial outcomes. Just me-too businesses and ideas.
> Ken Segall did the brilliant “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” spot for the ’96 Super Bowl, which remains one of my favorite spots. It reassured the faithful that good things were coming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE

My eyeballs just sweated.
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I'm working on a custom one too. Also manages invoicing and accounting.
GitHub is my GDrive
everything for me is on github and workflowy.
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I always answer "Bullets." It's never gone poorly.
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Sounds like text messages in the U.S.

Very strange when I got here from South Africa.
Hit me up, sahil@slavingia.com and I can get you some premium Crate accounts (http://letscrate.com/).
Highrise as part of the 37signals suite.
Leave that on your phone which you 'leave' somewhere and you have an instant key logger?
Watcom c++

Am I to old for HN now?
The answer is that money = time. Or better, money = speed.

Money buys you an employee. Things get built faster.

Money buys you a design. Things look better, faster.

Money buys you more servers. The site is faster.

Money buys you tickets to X, where you can promote your site.

Money buys you traffic.

Money = speed.

If you can add a very talented person to your 1-person startup, your chances for success suddenly multiply. If you can build a kick-ass team, your chances for success are way up there.

The startups that "run out of money" don't really, usually, run out of actual money. It just means they couldn't build something successful and gave up on the idea, often because they had accumulated costs (employees, office, ...) that they couldn't pay for anymore.

That doesn't mean the alternative is to have everyone work for pretty much free. That's called open source. Different story :) (I'm probably a little off here with my logic, it's late)
Is there a way in google contacts to share you contacts between multiple users?
What a difference between that and the "Mac vs. PC" ads...
We tried a whole bunch of things, but sharing contacts, managing notes, follow-up reminders, etc. was just too much of a hack to bother with for a two man shop like ours.

So here's what we did:

1) Make a Google spreadsheet

2) Share with the team

3) Add a "follow up" column of dates

4) Sort by that

5) Learn to love the find-in-sheet command

Works great!
Joomla HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In fairness to the grads, they have just "invested in themselves" for 4 years plus a direct cost of possibly $200k or so, and really have nothing left to give at that point.

Seriously: if 4 years of expensive, official, organized training didn't produce results (other than "come back in 3 years when you have PAID PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE in exactly this industry and geographic region and in exactly the domain that I'm looking for at that time, and I'll let you compete with 300 other resumes"), what should they reasonably expect from self-study?

I'm very pro self-study and self-improvement. But I don't see it as a realistic solution to unemployment, particularly when the overwhelming majority of employers insist on an exquisitely precise blend of paid experience (often with equipment or information that is not available to a layperson).
I'm surprised no one's mentioned MediaWiki. Does it have some obvious problems I'm overlooking?
I'm aware of it but since it looks like they don't even acknowledge the receipt of the email pitches it kind of confuses us to wait and see or just completely forget about it and move on. That's when I thought of asking how long to wait till I move on to HN (since I don't want to piss them off if they really intend to write about it later and it's just a matter of time).
By posting someone's e-mail address in a very public web site, you are just making it that much more accessible to spammers. It is easier to spider news.ycombinator.com than to do so for many whois repositories, some of which explicitly try to block their records from spammers.

But even more importantly, as a matter of simple politeness, it is a good rule to honor someone's choice about how much they reveal about themselves on-line, even if you possess the technical knowledge to dig deeper.

We're talking about rudeness vs. courtesy here. The world will not be a better place if your algorithm is simply to find out as much as you can about someone and then broadcast it in as public a fashion as possible without regard to the person's wishes.
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Yes. Google Apps now allows you to share contacts across the domain.
It's not that Mark is wrong. He doesn't try to answer THE question, because there is no right or wrong answer. It's not so black and white, yes you should do it or no you should not. What he did was giving great advice that should seriously be considered, but the choice is up to you.

Read his advice, he tells it like it is. If you choose to do it, then you have answered the question for yourself. If Mark advises against it and you think he's right, indeed you're not an entrepreneur. If you do it anyway, simply prove that it's the right answer.
The phone sync is particularly nice.
At least acknowledging if they've got the email or not would go a long way from the one who sent that email and eagerly waiting for a response (positive or negative). But...
I'm a long time HN user, I created this account and a new e-mail only to provide some new information of identities that I found in the internet of pinksoda, after I give them to you I will not use this account again.

I do realize that maybe it will be difficult to believe in a new user with these claims, but I do assure you that I'm here only to help, your linkedin profile list a domain, send me a mail from this domain (with the correct headers from the correct IP, I know that you use Google Apps in your domain) and I will answer with the links that I found, I do not kow if they will be of any help, but I think they provide trails for you, some of them are right here on HN, and these ones I think there's no problem in post here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299501

With BrianHolt saying about a past website of him, I do not know if he said the truth.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320560

I did not confirm this, but searching his name in Google will bring some of the links that I found, although not in the front page.

The e-mail: XXX@gmail.com

EDIT: I will try to give the links as early as possible.

EDIT2: I gave the links and some trails for Louis, although I'm not sure if they will be useful, I will not use this account again and will only answer Louis in the e-mail.

EDIT3: Smarter to remove the e-mail... a long day programming.
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Well in my opinion and how it was founded, the stock market should be a place for 'speculation' based on the success of a company, analysis of the market, micro and macro economics etc.

Companies in need of capital and broader ownership 'go public' to secure funds and take in investors with a monetary and intellectual interest in their business model etc.

(I know this is a 'romantic' view of the stock market)

High Speed Trading does NOTHING for owners, investors, the company or anyone but the traders themselves. Essentially it works on the same principle as a the 'worm' in Office Space (geek reference) attempting to make very small amounts of money in mistakes, miscalculations and very short-time discrepancies in valuations of financial instrument.

I feel very old voicing this opinion but it just seems like the very edge of greed and 'money for nothing' attitude to create giant data clusters aimed at just nibbling away at the corners of financial markets for profit.
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Will do it very soon. I know Show HN is very effective and gets a lot more contextual feedback than just visitors.
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Your opinion is unsupported by fact. But, you know, believe what you want. Some people enjoy believing in ghosts. Perhaps you should look into that too!
You might also be interested to know that Dojo has DeferredList for tracking several Deferred objects (the equivalent of jQuery promises). The DeferredList is itself a Deferred which is activated once all the Deferreds in it execute.
Every single student at my university would cheer for joy upon hearing this news. Blackboard is as stunted a piece of development as they come and additionally is an incredibly expensive piece of software, especially considering the quality.

The user experience is so bad that many course lecturers make their own site or just avoid using websites at all. The only question I have though is how do you pitch it to universities when the people who suffer under the product usually aren't the ones making the purchasing decision?
Then, on Thursday, we had equal rights
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The flame thrower is his, but how about the operator? Double hit points if she is also the M-18 operator...
Is there an equivalent to Video for Windows/GStreamer on OSX?

Apple's media framework and counterpart to VfW/DirectShow/GStreamer/etc. is Quicktime.
"So they don't fall in the man hole."
My cable company lost my business when they last year began requiring a "box" to receive TV. I already had a newer digital-capable TV, and did not want yet another gadget and tangle of wires on my TV stand. It was the final straw, the other two being the cost and the low-value content.

I actually didn't drop them completely, but did fall back to "basic" (no box required) + internet (cheaper than internet alone, which is what I really wanted).
Well in that case, I find it hard to have sympathy for the ISPs wanting to make even more money.

Their bandwidth charges should be equal to their own costs, plus a little room for profits. A little.
Show HN: Who Groupon is Competing With in China
http://min.us/mve8Hyf

I just thought this is interesting. It's in Chinese so it'd be a little hard for non-Chinese to decipher, but essentially what it is would be the Group Buy website by the Chinese Internet Giant Tencent.

What's very interesting about this as opposed to Groupon is that Tencent is selling its own virtual currency on this image. So the deal is that if you purchase 1 QB, which is equivalent to about 1RMB, which converts to about 15 cents USD, you will enter a raffle deal in which for every 1QB that you purchase, you increase your chance of winning a 5 digit QQ ID. Unlike U.S. which the instant messaging world is fairly scattered, Tencent dominates the majority of the IM market share. You can have all the different alias on Tencent, but you are attributed to the QQ ID that you are randomly assigned once you registered (like ICQ). 5 Digit would be consider the shortest amount of digit you can have, and the beta users (about 15 years ago) were able to get this kind of QQ ID, and each 5 digit QQ ID can be sold on the online market today for about $3000-40,000 USD, depending on "how lucky" the # is.

I just thought it's interesting because instead of just having local deals, Tencent is able to expand its network into its virtual currency world. You'd be surprised at how many games Tencent has in its portfolio, and each game is free, but the company uses virtual currency as the leverage for monetization. QB, the virtual currency of Tencent, is more liquid than cash. Some freelance merchants take QB as a form of payment.

I remember recently on TechCrunch about how Groupon is going all out in China, but unless they cooperate with Tencent, it's going to be a hard task. $1 billion dollar is way too little to compete with Tencent.

I just want to recommend Tech users to follow some of the Chinese internet trends, especially in the virtual world, because I personally believe they're way ahead of U.S. in that field. I mean Farmville was invented in China in 05. QQzone, the main blog tool in China, has 500million users, and it introduced QZONE apps in 04, when Facebook was just being cranked out by Zuckerberg. Tencent haven't had many innovations recently because it has just been copying many of the U.S. trends , but when it comes to social gaming, China knows its stuff. And when you tie social gaming with social deals, it's something Groupon doesn't have.
I am not sure Wall Street needs disrupting, other posters have noted that because it is so competitive disruptions constantly occur. But one thing could change Wall Street a lot -- if for some reason the core function of capital raising, either through issuance of debt or equity, was less necessary, then Wall Street's role as a middle man would be reduced.
What could cause companies to need less capital to carry on growing their businesses? Or what could cause capital to be more readily available?
Until it redirects you to:

http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/?front_door=true
I had a better idea the other day: comparing app coolness factors. You would meet somebody who also has an iPhone, and an automatic coolness factor of your apps would be calculated (details are a bit fuzzy, maybe it could be calculated from Facebook Likes per app or something like that). Then you get to compare the coolness of your installation base.

I see an urgent need for this since all iPhones look the same. Therefore there is a need for individualization by installing individual apps.
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Connects to any Google Apps or Gmail account and does a real time sync of email, contacts, and tasks back to the connected google account. Simply drag and drop any contact to your Padmates group to share access to your pad. In the process of getting up the FAQ and video right now.

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On the iPhone, photos/contacts/files/etc. can only be shared over email or MMS; so there is some utility in having a more convenient sharing method.
StartSSL requires you to respond to an email sent to the address listed in the domain registration. That at least shows you have control of the domain. It also has certificates with greater levels of verification.
I've actually gone down this path before, but I gave up when I asked this question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3644614/what-might-be-the...

Client input cannot reasonably well be verified, of course, but perhaps more importantly, once you get down to a certain zoom level, the advantages of caching the information almost disappears as the number of possible X, Y, and zoom levels starts increasing rapidly toward infinity.

The other problem is that JavaScript has issues with very precise floating points and very high integers. Check out this Mandelbrot viewer that I made:

http://janhartigan.com/creations/fractaljs

(please be kind...my site is still under construction [where's my gif??])

It might take a little while to render, but if you keep zooming in (and upping the iteration value in the input box), you'll find that eventually things just start getting pixelated once JS reaches its maximum level of floating point precision.
We wrote our own, lots of work but it's fully integrated into my company.
I think the only requirement is that you can not work for the company that you own on H1B visa. If you think what's the point of creating a startup for which you can not feed your blood and sweat to grow it...go figure...
I'm interested in whether anyone has found one that will let you log messages from within GMail. I'm not talking about the "social CRM" that can pull up an avatar. I don't want to have to forward or BCC messages to get them into my CRM, so a simple "log message" button in GMail would be ideal.
True, but they're less likely to grow your business than online customers today, even if there are more of them. Offline customers will still be there next year when you're twice as big and you can afford the higher customer acquisition costs.
The natural solution will be that IPv4 addresses will start getting more and more expensive as they become scarce. At some point, switching to IPv6 will be the cheaper option, and then the switch will happen.
I can verify that this practice is still common. I have been amazed at the size and complexity of some spreadsheets in aerospace applications.

It's so clearly the wrong thing, and yet the authors of these beasts are always really pleased with their efforts.

Besides the "old shoe" feeling of Excel, I think there's something about the automatic updating done by the spreadsheet that users find gratifying. You alter a cell and the program launches into a bunch of updates automatically. It's like seeing the array of blinking lights.
Set the lower right hot-corner to exposé and the lower left hot-corner to spaces, and navigating around spaces and windows becomes trivial.

Hit both corners in sequence and you get all windows visible, and you can view or drag windows around between spaces as needed.

Or hit the spaces hot-corner and the four-finger swipe, if you're running with a Unibody or a Magic Trackpad, for the same view.
Quick Kudos to Google, Twitter on Egypt
I am disappointed that there's still nothing in there regarding foreign founders, who account for a fairly large percentage of new startups. Are foreign founders supposed to just plunge themselves into it and hope they don't get removed from the US after their visa runs out? What can they do if they want to start a company in the US right now?

I understand immigration is a complicated topic, but if the US plans on retaking the lead without the help of immigrants, it'll have very little chance of success.
I am surprised no one is concerned about this in regards to the safety of the callers. The government is obviously taking all steps in silencing in or outbound communication - with the obvious control structure in place over communications, it would seem feasible for the government to trace calls to these specific numbers (even if they block them) and punish people who do so.

Don't get me wrong, I want to know what is going on there, and anyone willing to leak that information out is doing something heroic imho - but the safety of these individuals could be in serious threat - or maybe I am just overly paranoid...
"Safe" picture scanning is so hard that even Google fails at it frequently. Searching for "meat spin" on Google Images with SafeSearch Strict mode on yield several "interesting" images on just the first page..
I though Moodle was already doing that? http://moodle.org/ Although, they probably don't have a Tank Destroyer, or even one flamethrower :-)
Especially considering how many basic features it is missing...
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Overkill, non-salesperson friendly syntax, no CRM-specific functionality (that I know of).
I wouldn't have recognized him if he had.
"Google, in response to the internet blockade in Egypt, says it has created a way to post messages to microblogging service Twitter by making telephone calls."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/01/3126626.htm
The live stream of Al Jazeera (youtube link on here) also mentioned that trains have been stopped.
Would be nice if you could make an example with your sensitive data replaced?
It'll be welcome. It's a long time since Blackboard was the thing that actually saved us from <shudder> Lotus LearningSpace.
what do you mean by a simple log message button? what are the benefits for this? I'm curious because I'm currently using Google contacts.
This only works if you use your mouse to move around Spaces. The current model is quite a bit broken if you use keyboard shortcuts, as correctly described in this article.
Daylite. It's mac-only, but I'm mostly using it for my own purposes, so that's not a dealbreaker.
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