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It's meant more as a service to people looking for their loved ones. For weeks after 9/11 people were posting "lost" posters attempting to find their family and friends in the hopes that they were still alive. Services were made that allowed people to see if names were on the list of confirmed deceased etc. The bottom line is that this kind of site allows people to quickly get information in a consolidated place - the information could be coming from rescue workers, or volunteers - and they may not have the access or the time to find someones Facebook to post a friendly message to the family.
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I like what you've done. As an aside, I noticed you're using Slicehost. You can get better performance, for cheaper from Linode if you want. I've switched many a client to Linode and never heard a complaint.

Just a suggestion.
I mostly agree. It couldn't work with the typical free blog business model that's been popular till now (and which worked for TechCrunch initially) because things (advertisers mostly) have moved on.

But.. an organization that went beyond the typical blog role could make money. Consider Chris McCann's Startup Digest. That's building on e-mail right now, but something like Startup Foundry could have fingers in multiple profitable pies: job listings, social events, conferences, angel/VC matching - it just needs the velocity, connections, and brand power to pull it off. (I could be wrong but I don't think it's a coincidence TechCrunch's initial big boom occurred around the time Michael started doing the house parties.)
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So, I watched this whole thing. Then I noticed the URL on the end... Here it is:

http://download.navicat.com/download/navicat8_mysql_en.dmg

Go ahead. Click it.
To be fair, you can do a lot better than Digital River, whose code is largely stuck in 1998. I mean, BCC can phone home to the server to get a registration key without the user ever needing to read their onscreen instructions (quite helpful because they frequently don't). It takes less than a day of engineer time to take 90% of the pain out of this. (Though I don't think that is an option if management has decided to go with Digital River -- then you're pretty much at the mercy of their operation.)
I'm already a happy Linode customer, but for my particular needs, $19/mo is much too expensive for a UK VPN endpoint. I'm looking for something more like prgmr.com prices (also a happy customer of theirs; they just don't happen to have any colo in the UK).

Thanks to lowendbox, I found quickvps.co.uk, which, with a 60% discount offer, offers a 256MB Xen VPS for £3/mo. They appear to be competent so far, even though they did e-mail me my root and web UI passwords :\ Anyway, if it goes poorly, I'm out less than a lunch.

Thanks again for the link!
I tried very hard to pay the NBA to stream its games online. I bought NBA League Pass Broadband two years running and found:

1. Many games I wanted to see were under local blackout

2. Many games I wanted to see were blacked out because they were the Tuesday NBA TV game.

3. I tried time shift games and found that whenever the game ends, the stream ends and snaps you to the final score. No matter where you are in the stream.

4. I found replay was flaky.

For all these reasons, I found myself often watching games on atdhe despite having paid to watch them. I also found myself really enjoying watching random TV commercials in Polish or Czech or Arabic, depending on atdhe source. I also really was impressed with the quality of the Veetle software.

Anyway, issues 3 & 4 could be solved by competent programming. Issues 1 & 2 (blackout) are likely to be with us for a long time due to the idiotic history of profit divvying in the industry.

I would still love to pay the NBA to watch the games, as long as all the games are viewable!
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The NFL's TV deals are arguably fan unfriendly. But satisfaction probably isn't high on the NFL's list of success metrics. The deals are successful in that they're very lucrative.

I don't know if I'd blame the NFL if it thinks there's little value in addressing the common complaints about its TV coverage.
From the readme: "My tribute to Nolan in "C" Language and a bit of assembly (x86) as the inception is done using x86 code morphing so that Fischer wakes up thinking that the thought was originated from his mind."

I assume it's to make that trick work. Maybe run in on a VM, just in case. :-)
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I think "via PayPal" is the key distinction that makes the fraud excuse less valid.
I don't know how much Turk costs or how well it works, so I don't know if it would be a wise expenditure if you're not making any money. Again, it's kind of a chicken and egg problem. Not charging would invite more spam submissions, but deprive you of a revenue stream to fund outsourcing of moderation. But if payment is required before you even have to moderate submissions, that would minimize the amount of spam you'd even have to see.

I disagree that it would be wise in general to invest a lot of time in "expanding the core tech and business". I would have started working on http://WheresTheRemote.com/ sooner if I hadn't put it off waiting until I had time to build the application I envisioned in between client projects. Eventually I realized that the hard part was going to be attracting users / advertisers and that I could launch the site and just moderate and update it manually or semi-manually until / unless I had the welcome problem, as vaksel mentioned, of having too many ad submissions to keep up with. (Welcome if there are enough legit submissions, anyway.)

In any case, remote jobs are a niche market. There's an implied limitation on the number of ads that will be in play, so it probably makes sense to pace work on the technology according to the amount of interest / activity / revenue the site actually generates. In the beginning it might be most practical to just manually moderate submissions, and maybe implement something like CAPTCHA.
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I rarely let others apps access my facebook account, so I don't know what exactly you do. Which can be a marketing problem since people like me would never sign up till they saw what the app actually did.

Which brings me to your description: "Simply double click on the map and we will automatically add details to it and share it."

What details? With whom?

I would suggest that you also create a web-page with some screen shots and some example use cases so that the value proposition is much clearer.

best of luck!
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That was the original push, but lots of manufacturers botched the implementation. For example, some would apply 3:2 pulldown to 60hz and then double it instead of 5:5 pulldown. Nowadays 240hz are all the rage making movies look like a cheap karaoke video.
we use it to send & receive faxes because we don't want to buy a fax machine :-)

I have a small 50 line ruby script that converts attachments from emails into outgoing faxes, and a 10 line ruby script that converts incoming faxes into emails with a pdf attachment.

You should try freeswitch instead -- the rxfax thing from Asterisk would sometimes truncate incoming faxes. Not sure why.
I notice that no one has mentioned Hyper-V yet. While it isn't perfect it is free. Mind you, you do need to be running Windows Server, but if you are already running windows you should consider it.

I am curious how it stands up to all the others. Virtual Box didn't have it in their grid.
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Thanks for the response. Yes, there's no any particular angle I guess. Maybe only it's more focused on unfunded startups on very early stage. I'm a bit confused with how to estimate Y for now.
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I was in a similar situation, though I wasn't really worried about the architecture as such. In terms of where I messed up being a coder "in charge" of business, though, I did a write up at http://peterc.org/blog/2010/257-three-years-ago-i-sold-my-st...

The ultimate result is that I learnt tons from the experience and I'm still doing my projects solo but with a giant pile of lessons learned and a good feel on what I should or shouldn't get involved with.
I want this so much.

That sounds amazing if true, however the design is not trust inspiring.
Naah. My joke - you got it was a joke, right? - was:

They don't write meaningful comments at all. Including those with swears, meaning at least something.

Joke #2:
What would they have to put into commit messages, if you consider so much of PHP code is not written but copypasted? What to write then - "I copypasted it from X"?
Couldn't you just use PayPal as a stop gap if you don't want to spend a lot of money?
Nice. If I remember correctly, in his review of my site he said it was as ugly as eBay :)
FTA: "CEO Daniel Dreymann tells Venturewire that Goodmail was unable to make a profit after Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stopped supporting the system last year."

I was one of those who used to complain to Yahoo bitterly about spam with the "goodmail seal of approval". Over the years I noticed that the amount of spam with their seal was increasing, and I had to complain about it. They had a special deal with Yahoo, and Goodmail's emails had a special blue icon next to them. But they blew this opportunity for a little quick cash. If Goodmail had not lowered their standards and let spam through, they might even still be in business.
From my 5 minutes of skimming:

Basically, it spawns threads for each 'dreamer.' Then they spawn more threads for each dream level, and wait for the lucid_dreamer-s in lower levels to accomplish their task, while printing what's going on. Think of it like the good old dining philosopher's program, where threads represent the diners.

Here's a slightly more lucid explanation: http://calacanis.joshontheweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07...
I'm not sure what your suggestion here is instead of TDD. Just wing it?

Your whole premise is based on the the idea that your startup is going to fail. In that case why write any code at all?

If your startup doesn't fail then you've really made things extra hard on yourself. One of my favorite things about working on my startup is getting to learn and apply good practices.

It's just as easy to write good code as it is to write bad code. I find that TDD speeds me up not slows me down. It's not as much overhead as people seem to suggest.

You can write new code and then keep running the program to see if it works. Or you could write the code and keep running a test until it works. The test is typically faster for this because you don't have to deal with the rest of the program which is unrelated to what you're working on. Once you have working unit tests the implementation is typically trivial.

In practice, I don't write tests for everything but I code in a way that means I could test everything if I wanted to.
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I agree. That has been a core policy / goal of http://WheresTheRemote.com/ (although the site has not really gotten off the ground yet). As a professional I don't want to waste my time reading and replying to ads that aren't worth my while, that don't offer appropriate compensation for example, so I want to know what the advertiser is willing to pay. One of the principles of WheresTheRemote.com has been to require advertisers to provide a rate or range and pay a fee based on the highest advertised rate, to encourage accuracy. In my experience, requiring advertisers to include rate information is not a common feature of job sites.
I heard about this from the team a few weeks ago, and am excited to take it for a test drive with BCC sometime after my development schedule gets less nuts.

Basically, instead of doing the traditional "send people off to Paypal to pay" routine, you have a form on your site which posts to a Spreedly server. Spreedly then redirects the user to you. You validate the token (similar to catching someone from an OpenID provider) and, if successful, do whatever was required to effect your purchase.

From the user's experience, it sure looks like they were on your site the entire time, but their payment details only ever touch Spreedly's servers. You interface with Spreedly on the backend to do any sort of charging logic that you want -- subscriptions, one-off charges, weird business logic specific to your application, whatever. (This is the main value add over the regular Spreedly subscriptions thing, which works very well if your subscriptions work exactly like Spreedly subscriptions and, apparently, less well otherwise.)

Since the data never touches your servers, you never need to go through PCI compliance work.

The big win I perceive for my business is that my checkout forms will only ask for name, credit card number, and CCV, hopefully increasing conversions versus Google Checkout / Paypal.
Might want to mention that your chart works fine in Firefox 4 as well. The "Works best in Google Chrome" gives me eerie memories of the "Best Viewed in Internet Explorer" days.
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Excellent point and thanks for all your thoughtful comments.

I use to comment regularly on HN (member since Apr 2007 and former #1 on leaderboard in the ancient days, haha), but have found that I very rarely do any more.

When I look at my thought process now when thinking about posting something that may be of value, I find myself very reluctant. This is due to the snarkiness and hot-headed emotion that often disregards logical arguments as worthless and instead values breathy spittled anger.

Cowards become brave behind anonymity.

Who enjoys "lawyering" their comments? Basically trying to anticipate and address all the possible concerns hot-head users will bring up. Yet, I feel like I've had to do that more and more. In the end it seems an exercise in futility - particularly when I can just move on to interacting directly with the thoughtful hackers I care about and avoid those that spit when they talk.

I can understand the lament of the OP since I've really enjoyed the community and associating with the gentleman-hackers I've met here.

Thanks especially to those who have added true value here - I've learned a lot from the thoughtful ones who share and help.
A ripped off version seems more appropriate. This seems...well, criminal.

I love Minecraft. I hope Notch does something to stop this. I'd love to see Minecraft on the Xbox, but not if it means stealing someone else's idea.
It was mentioned on CNN this morning.
Are they? Seems to me that they exist to feed the trolls.
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wait ... so why did you buy it then?
Sad to say but they are better than most when it comes to acquisitions. I think that's more due to the fact that their acquisitions are usually strategically related to what they want to do.

The big exception has been Flip. Although they are a great company, their limelight was too short for a company like Cisco to get recurring growth over a long period with this push into the consumer space.
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ah, the dreaming philosophers problem
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great idea, i am horrible at following up with my clients and many of them would love a simple payment plan. great job cant wait to try it out.
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Just launched last night. We are very much still improving the site and I would love to get some feedback from you to see what you think.

The site aggregates Twitter contests and lets users enter them quickly and easily. We will eventually be branching to Facebook and other social media networks and also other types of contests.

We are also going to fully explore the idea of the "dashboard" with all kinds of web app type of things like customizing your categories, email alerts, "closing" (hiding) contests that you don't want to see any more, etc. We also brainstorming a badge system where you earn badges by doing various things like entering 100 contests, entering 30 Electronics contests, etc.

The backend is fairly sophisticated. We are pulling about 1000-2000 tweets every 5 minutes based on keywords and running an algorithm to find the most likely contest related tweets. Then someone (me or the other two founders) goes through those by hand and fills out the contest information and sets them to show on the site.

We are also doing a lot of cross-referencing in the tweet data to link contests for future reporting services.

Let me know what you think and be brutal.
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Not one of them work. We spend thousands on this problem every year.
My thoughts:
* servers aren't free.
* charging a little keeps quality up.
* free job boards usually suck, so charging helps you look more legitimate.
* I'd love to see a job board post stats about how their stats.
Yup, this is the one I mentioned in this tree a little earlier.
Don't quite agree with your statement "As the mobile app market continues to mature it will strain against its walled garden confines more and more". On the contrary, I feel that consumers will continue to appreciate walled gardens for their convenience, quality and trust worthiness.

I guess this argument will be tested by the Mac app store.
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Hyper-V doesn't run on Mac OS X, so I don't think it would be particularly useful in this case.
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I just started graduate school and have found that an enormous factor in my work is writing clearly. While I did decently in my writing classes in undergrad, I feel that I was able to hid behind obfuscated ideas and complicated sentences. Now I actually want others to read and understand my work.

Peers and advisors are good resources, but they are very busy and often don't have the time to pick apart awkward sentences and deep stylistic issues. I am signed up for writing workshops, but I also want a more instant feedback system. Hence, I have been looking into automatic grammar/style editing software.

Current solutions I have looked into are:
* Grammarly (http://www.grammarly.com/)
* Whitesmoke (http://www.whitesmoke.com/)

Does anybody here have any familiarity with the above software or other recommendations?
Live in an environment where a lot of different start-ups co-exist. I have been having a better chances of a meeting a female each day at the kitchen, every so often. Not that I have a chance in the world with them, but I have my dreams, man. I have my dreams!
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Friendly reminder:

You'll still need your own SSL for your checkout page, even though you're posting to https://spreedly.com
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Looks really nice. Sorry, but I'd rather play that than the original Minecraft.

I find it funny that lately we've had to encourage a lot of startups to keep going after they realized they have direct competition doing the same thing, but for games we yell at folks who copy but improve.
Part of the problem is the basic UI look, hence I am working on a new UI for it: http://peri.me/2B1A/
Could we get some indication of what gateways are supported during the beta?
Ah, quit being such a winklevoss. We win when there's competition of implementations.
The job of the entrepreneur is to build prototypes and quickly validate their ideas. That's what they get the big equity stake for. Once they can get funded, they can hire other people to productionize it.

Why would you do this instead of starting the company yourself? Lack of ideas?

I can think of a number of people that would interested in a service like this (search HN for "How do I find a technical cofounder?" or "I just need a programmer") However, from your perspective you're sorta getting a raw deal because you're doing most of the work involved in getting a company off the ground yet have little of the upside. And from their perspective, there will be knowledge transfer issues (if it catches on, you're the only one who knows how the software works), trust issues (how do they know you won't just steal their idea and run with it, like Zuckerburg?), and possibly money issues (idea guys who can't code themselves and don't know any technical cofounders tend not to have a huge amount of money to throw around).
So, this is basically all speculation based on the fact that no Techcrunch writer has applied for press credentials? How does this compare to other conferences?

It seems to me that Arrington doesn't really give a damn after getting acquired, and Calacanis is fanning the flames to create controversy/get attention.

The other explanation is that AOL acquired TechCrunch in part for the lucrative and growing conference business, and is putting pressure on its writers to play down the importance of a direct competitor. Again, no facts, just conjecture.

I don't know enough about Arrington to pass judgment, but I'm instinctively wary of any piece that tries to frame any controversy as a black and white battle of good vs. evil.
The question is, of course, are we entering the Eternal February?
It does sound like your boss was a particular low point, even for Yahoo.
It has a soundtrack that only a marketer could love, which seems to be the usual criterion for 'spam'.
I understand this. I'm just sick of the recent trend of silencing the freedom of speech when it may offend someone.
The idea for Minecraft came from Infiniminer.
A similar effect: The average age on the internet is younger than you, and will be for the rest of your life. Think about what effect that has on the density of quality user generated content.
That's what I thought.

I really hope that they make sure and point this out in bold font in all the docs.

Right now I don't see a mention of it anywhere and if people start to use this without SSL on their checkout page, there's going to be big trouble.