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Rails Developer / Technical Co-Founder – Wine Industry Web App Start-Up
HarvestPoint (working name) is looking for a founding technical partner to play a critical role in architecting our mobile-friendly web application targeted at managing the relationship between wineries and grape growers. We recognize this is no Facebook. While specialized, it’s a sizable market with little competition. We estimate the TAM is ~$200M in North America. We’re building a substantial and sustainable business, and we believe our probability of success is high. We have a strong team that’s very well connected in the wine industry and well grounded in technology and entrepreneurship. We’ve already spoken with numerous potential customers. The response has been outstanding, and we have several beta customers already lined up.

We’re looking for a strong Rails programmer (no rockstar, ninja, frogman, or otherwise) who is comfortable with and enjoy owning everything (MySQL, Rails, Javascript, jQuery, CSS). You may be stronger in certain areas, but you must wear many hats. We understand the challenges of the work and highly value your contributions. We are not creating new, cutting edge technology, but we do want to be clean, responsive, and innovative in the way we combine existing technologies for elegant solutions. That alludes to the fact that we want to emphasize agile/lean practices and lean heavily on TDD/BDD. It generally goes without saying, but you should casual and fun, yet know when it’s time to get down to business.

This can be a side project for you, as long as you're committed to working hard and seeing it through. We’re open to various combinations of equity and cash for the right person.

This is a unique opportunity, especially if you have an interest in the wine industry.

We’re based in the North Bay, but welcome anyone in the Bay Area. If you’re interested, please contact Chris Farkas - cfarkas at gmail.com.
Considering Twitter isn't turning a profit yet, I'm not so sure that "the next Twitter" is such a great thing to invest in.
Good idea. Maybe geofencing via SimpleGEO, with a little Skyhook SpotRank mixed in http://help.simplegeo.com/entries/209049-what-is-spotrank
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librecolor.com

democromatic.com

demochromatic.com

spherecolor.com

mysticolor.com

are all free....
Color Founder Bill Nguyen Explains Why You're All Wrong
The demo video has a few screenshots of the UI, and the rest is text. Perhaps they should have shown some 3D animation!
Unless you make it the default camera app, I guess. (Which still doesn't guarantee people will click the 'Color' button once they've taken their pic, or keep it enabled in the settings, but it's still a big head start.)
What a lame commentary. He's surprised why? What about google search, gmail, facebook and twitter? When the "product" is free, YOU are the product.
In all honesty, they have the vision, team, and strategy to justify this 'ridiculous' amount of funding. It seems like people are afraid of someone outsmarting and outhustling everyone else in this already crowded space. A very human thing to feel. I wish them the best and I hope Facebook doesn't end up buying them.
My guess would be to start by offering a free trial to all visitors. Next on my list would be to identify the top 50 sites that you think most directly reach your target audience and work out some sort of arrangement whereby they offer their members/visitors some sort of discount or deal for using your service.

Thanks,

Bryan
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Fuck this guy, and everything about him. I can program in Assembly, C, C++, Java, and Lisp fairly competently, but frankly I like C# because I can see results almost as fast as I can imagine them. It has an amazing tool set. Does it really make those other programmers better than me because they prefer needless complexity?

If I need a 1.7oz hamburger, I'll use one of those other tools. But 99% of the time 1.6oz is just fine.
* you save 40 weeks per month for your users*

that sounds big and important, but it doesnt really mean much does it?

the difference between a 1/100th of a second and 2/100th's of a second is too small to translate to enough time to get any increase in productivity.

There must be someother reason that load time is that crucial.
Hey, can we get a transcript mr. Odio?
How long before Color becomes Chat Roulette? What protections are children afforded where the content is not "personally identifiable?"

And how long after that before Apple drops Color from their App Store?
Are EXIF tags added by the iOS when taking a picture? Or by the app calling the camera API after the photo is taken? I would guess it's latter.
To actually get the data they are going to mine, people have to actually use the thing. This is where I think color will fail... plus they spell colour wrong! (sent from Canada)
Segaway Tycoon dies driving of a cliff on his Segway:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315518/Segway-tycoo...
I totally disagree, this tells me that they're not afraid to make/poke fun at their own expense and would make me want to work there. It may be polarizing, but it can also be worthwhile. We recently released an Awesomesauce edition of a WordPress plug-in I've been working on and our entire website is ridiculous. And yet it generates sales, we have great and fun customers (who are joyous we're solving an issue or in this case that they're getting a deal) and today I even got an e-mail saying that this guy has been pitching our website as the way Awesomesauce business should be done. It's self selecting, and if done properly, it helps brand and build the culture they want.
I used to use f.lux, but after I got my latest MacBook air, I started having severe eye fatigue. It turns out the MBA screen has a lot of flicker, especially when scrolling. If the screen is dimmed and f.lux is on, the flicker is more pronounced. Counterintuitively, when I turned off f.lux and cranked up the brightness, my eyes felt better. I felt f.lux had no impact on my sleep cycles or intermittent insomnia.

This is more of an issue with the MBA but just wanted to let people know in case they were having similar eye issues.
So, comment spam tools? That's deep into the realm of "black-hat SEO".
Is it not the case that you can already attach ads to an app that ties into geolocation?
Yes. I have a full time job which I have no intention of leaving. This is a personal-itch side project that I spend a couple hours a week on, at max, with a really limited potential market. If you want to be constructive, I'd love to have links to some of the posts you're thinking of or suggestions of "creative" ways to find available domain names. That said, even $2000 is more than I want to spend on this.
I completely agree in principle. I think this is the advice Clayton Christensen would give.

The example that comes to mind (and I may have some of the details wrong) is HP finally breaking through with DeskJet after stagnating in innovation by making the group _completely_ separate. They moved the group to a new location geographically and gave them huge amounts of autonomy to make something outside the bubble / group-think of their LaserJet juggernaut.

I have a personal example of this as well. I worked as a PM for a real estate software firm that owned 70%+ of the market for desktop software for real estate appraisers. 300+ employees with a lot of engineers. They decided to move into the real estate agent segment with a new product, and to avoid the group think and "our company's bread winner and primary focus is on X", they started a satellite office in another state. It was like a startup with occasional oversight from some investors and board. The corporate values were the same, but our autonomy allowed us to truly innovate.
"it is a good tool for those situations where my other choice would have been to write a massively scalable, non-blocking C program."

Agreed. I'd take a Node.js implementation over straight C any day.

"On the flip side, building massively scalable systems based on blocking IO"

Please remember that's an implicit false dichotomy. "Blocking" has to do with the runtime and the VM, not the visual appearance of the programming language syntax. Erlang is non-blocking, but it is also structured (and functional). In fact, by my personal standards Node.js is still a blocking language; you have to jump through hoops to get non-blocking behavior and you only get it when you ask for it. In Erlang or Haskell, you simply get it. Go ahead and do a lengthy math computation if you'd like. Take several minutes. You won't block anything else in the meantime. And you don't have to manually break the computation up yourself. Just do it.

I say Node is stepping back 20 years not because it feels primitive compared to C#, but because it feels primitive compared to the "really existing, I use it in production code" Erlang runtime. Also Haskell, except I can't say I use that in production code. And probably Go (still waiting for someone to confirm), and Stackless Python, and several other things.

The real reason I speak up so often on Node.js articles is not that I hate Node.js, it is that I hate the hype because it is shot through with falsehoods, which I'm rapidly upgrading to "lies" as the same blatant falsehoods continue to get around without the community fixing them. Your alternative is not async event based or synchronous; there's a third option where the async is managed by the compiler and runtime and it works. In fact it's Node.js that has to catch up to even the previously existing async frameworks, and Erlang is simply miles beyond Node.js in every way, except it isn't Javascript. (Which I freely admit is a problem. Erlang-the-language could stand to be improved, even as it is hard to borderline impossible to match the total environment.)

(If you know the choice exists and you don't choose it for some reason, hey, great. Like I said in my first message above, I've got my own async-event based program I have to maintain, and I'm the original author, it was my choice, because when I took all the issues into account, it was the right choice. But you ought to choose with an understanding of the full picture and all the relevant choices, and understand all the tradeoffs, not because you think that async event-based programming is better than everything else at everything. It's got some really serious drawbacks, and there are really-existing, production-quality, "web-scale" things that can be used that do not have those drawbacks.)
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They're probably going to attempt to use the sensor data to get more data to form a mesh grid, so as to determine what point in a venue they're shooting.

For example, say there are four phones, in a square, and they all have color enabled, it would be possible to tell that they were all facing the middle of the square. From there, it'd be cool to stitch together the images and create a reverse panorama -- think of something like 'Streets' view, wherein you can 'enter' the scene and move around in it, from a variety of angles and perspectives.

At least, that's what I'd use it for.
I second this. We've been sending out daily e-mail reports with PDF attachments to our customers and their API is easy to setup, easy to use and even makes attachments simple. To me, they've picked one thing and they're owning it.
All you need to do is update to newer drivers. You can also force enable stuff via about:config if you wish, and at your own risk.

The blacklisting is simply risk aversion -- I'm sure you're familiar with the concept. A slow browser's better than a crashing one, and old drivers were crashing too frequently. I repeat: the problem is not with Firefox -- the problem is with your drivers. Chrome might be taking more chances with the stability of your drivers, but that's Chrome's problem.
I would encourage you to implement haptic feedback wherever possible. People still like to know the right thing is happening even if they turn the sound off.
Downloads from O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf, at least those in PDF format, have the account holder's name at the bottom of each page. If that's changed, it must have happened recently.
um foursquare already sort of does this, go to the places tab, and it shows you how many specials are nearby.
Well, you have to get creative with what you call experience. Don't lie, just "get creative". If you spent three years in school coding and working on programming projects, you have three years of development experience.
The first misplacement was long before this comment thread. But erik was the first to explicitly state it and use it in an argument (arguing for a position I would not agree with.)

That said, PakG1 is not stretching the definition of faith, he's correcting it. It is appropriate to classify erik's position as incorrect and his definition as lacking, but not to classify Pak's correction as a fallacy.
What was fascinating for me was how much of this is applicable to Microsoft too (in some cases, scarily so). I guess every large tech company has similar dynamics, even when Google has tried really, really hard to be different.
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To add a frame of reference, Berkeley also gives a BA in Math.

The difference between BA in CS vs. BS in EECS (there is no BS in CS!) is that BA CS is more grounded in mathematics, algorithms, logic etc... BS EECS is more grounded in hardware/engineering. Nonetheless, all have to take courses in algorithms, computer architecture, machine structures, etc... The rest is up to you. You can do a BA with somewhat of a hardware focus, or a BS with a software focus. You can take whatever classes you'd like on top of that.

Otherwise, there's no difference. As for getting a job, getting a good internship matters far more than what your degree and where you went to school. A good school will help you find a good internship. Just for $deity's sake, do something technical over the summer vacations (instead of doing nothing or working at the mall).

For what it's worth, interview questions also tend to be more focused on discrete mathematics and algorithms than they are on systems and hardware, so a BA might actually prepare you better.

Finally, the education is for your own sake, not for the sake of your employer.
shephard-mba13:~ shephard$ for x in color.com colour.com; do echo $x; dig +short $x; done

color.com
50.17.223.168
50.17.223.164
colour.com
50.17.223.168
50.17.223.164
That it is. BH SEO is (unfortunately) extremely effective.

If you're content farming by rewriting other people's content, you're not providing much additional value to the Internet at large and you're, at most, a few steps away from being a black hat as it is.
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Interesting thought:

How about a reverse color -- in which you DO NOT own (meaning get associated with) any of the pics you take -- they ONLY get plotted to and left on a map using simpleGEO.

Basically, you pull out your camera, snap a pic and it gets uploaded and displayed at is geoloc, and removed from your phone - then all you see is anon pics left where they weree taken.

One data point that would be of use/interest would be the direction of the camera, and a timestamp.
I suspect the majority of the buyers aren't looking at the SEO value. Also, most of the better names go through pre-release instead of actually dropping these days. As far as the penalties, I don't know for sure how and which names are affected.
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My general answer is "I don't get karma", because I generally read Hacker News Daily (10 top-rated articles from the previous day), so though I do comment sometimes, my comments are almost never modded in any direction, as everyone else has moved on. I don't post things -- there's more material worth reading on the front page than I can get through already.

Every once in a while I get into an interesting conversation in a subthread somewhere -- where a commenter is actually checking back -- but karma comes from the masses, not from individual conversations.

It doesn't matter much, though -- I don't have enough karma to downvote, but I'm not inclined to downvote much anyway -- so it's pretty irrelevant.

Are there other bonuses that high karma earn you, besides bragging rights? On Slashdot (I still go back to visit now & again...) I seem to have the right to disable ads, but obviously that wouldn't apply here.
Not to bring pop culture to HN, but this "photo data mining" reminds me of the ultrasound/sonic contraption in "The Dark Knight" that collected visuals on everyone in the city.

What I find fascinating about Color, though, is that I can open the app in downtown Palo Alto and actually see photos of startups nearby, peoples' lunches, offices, whiteboards, window views, and so on. Mobile/GPS-based photography is an idea that has been tried in the past, but seemed to have never taken off due to lack of traction. Surely too early to tell, but perhaps the high publicity attracted here will actually make it possible for this one?
Sweet! I would be all over that. There's really only one good coworking space there: CoLoft. But it's marketed to all freelance/remote workers--not just hackers. Would be nice to get a dedicated hacker place.
Thanks for the comment!

We actually already do offer free trials, but identifying and reaching out to partners is something we have yet to make progress on.
Ask HN: What is the color app?
A. What is it?

B. It seems like there has been a lot of buzz about this software app without any proof of its viability...is this a symptom of a "tech bubble"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114920

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075953

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606333

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244824
(from the linked article):

> Then it will select the best picture and put it to the top of the photo feeds of people most interested in that image (like fans at the ballpark)

Great idea, but I don't think I've ever seen a description be so hand-wavey. You might as well put "Then some magic happens" there. Some details on how this happens (face recognition? social voting? views?) would be nice.

edit: I guess I should RTFA. It's still really high level, but later in the article Nguyen explains that they use views to measure photo quality.
I really wish Larry read news.ycombinator.com.
http://www.colour.com
I also built this tool to delay RSS feeds until after I finish work, you should check it out - http://rssafter5.appspot.com
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UIImagePickerController, which is used to take photos, does not return EXIF data. Apparently, it is possible to hack around this limitation, but Apple doesn't take too kindly to this sort of behavior.
If Color really is just a trojan horse for data mining, it's a worse Biblical character than Goliath.
Look around a bit, its an attempt at big brother disguising low orbit intelligence camera network as a mobile social picture sharing application.

It will be used against you, either in court or by your girlfriend to embarrass you.
Do you have a refutation for the articles's words? Or is this simply an Ad Hominem? Compare and contrast to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370547, which is just as scornful but also logical.
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POF uses a CDN, which runs on multiple servers, nobody has ever claimed otherwise. The claim (that I haven't seen disproven) is that it's one one application or one database server.
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CAPTCHAs were designed for identifying computers and humans apart. Initially, they were simple tests, which required users to identify certain words. However, computer vision is growing leaps and bounds. So these test have become so complicated that even humans find it difficult to comprehend CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHAs have gone from simple tests to extremely complicated ones over last 10 years but design has never changed. We need overhaul of CAPTCHA design. They need to be both usable and secure.

P.S. I'm working on the project to make CAPTCHAs more usable. We will have some updates soon. :)
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No one has mentioned their business model (page 3 of the interview). Basically they expect venues to pay for the ability to know the names of their frequent customers so that they could be greeted... but I thought they don't collect personal info.
According to this link (after a few seconds of googling), Visa's network was down for 8 minutes in the five years ending 2001. Do you have citations for any of your claims?

Edit: Oops, here's the link: http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0916/038.html
For me, the real story is the cover-up that occurred when he reported his story years ago. He did the right thing in terms of public safety and got called a liar.
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Or even:

~$ for x in colo{,u}r.com; do echo $x; dig +short $x; done
The code behind http://pagekite.net/ is probably around 50k lines of code right now. And growing every day... :-)
Yeah, EXIF tags have to be explicitly added to an image by the app (using CGImageDestinationSetProperties()), regardless of how a photo is taken.

As an aside, I'm kind of surprised that there's no easy way to add EXIF data with AssetsLibrary or UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(). I would have sworn that there was one before I went and looked just now.
So you want to do the SICP...
I use Quickbooks currently and it is great. But, it's robust, unnecessary, and I'm thinking that there are others that are overwhelmed and could use an easy service - especially for startups. I'm not an accountant or in that field, so I hardly pay attention. I was hoping to flush out some hidden gem I wasn't aware of, otherwise, quickbooks gets the job done.
technical co-founder should get >50%, he can build product without you, u cannot without a technical co-founder. If you are a marketing guy then try starting business like groupon that requires more marketing and sales talent than technical talent at its core. If the core of the product relies on building good web app/mobile app then technical guys don't need you, if the product is great people will come onboard without help of any marketing guys. This does not work in case on businesses like groupon, which relies on building partnerships with good brands, that where pure marketings guys should focus on building.
It's a great example of how bad we are at predicting things.
Looks awesome and see that Ycomb uses is too - I'll def take a look, thx!
relax, it's just so they can send Groupon-style offers to people more likely to want them (Groupon would be great... if I ever actually wanted spa treatment, highlights, or weekend breaks)

on the other hand, suprised I haven't seen the obvious 'paedo/stalker threat' brought up yet. it's not data mining you'd need to worry about, it's individual predatory users
Yes. It's possible that Color could see a 100x return. It's also possible Mitt Romney will be president of the US in 2016. I think the odds are about the same for both.

Yuri Milner's strategy makes far more sense. Where is the hedging of risk by putting $40 million in a single company that's still seed stage at best?
Mmm... Privacy is kind of hard to sell, most people weren't burned by this yet.

I think the markets for tools for small businesses are not saturated yet, even in US (most of the rest of the world is at least several years behind). If I had domain knowledge in some small business area other than restaurants (sick of it already) I'd totally build some useful service.
haters gonna hate

Frankly, it is disturbing how much of 4chan slips into the thoughts and lexicon of today's youth.