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Ask YC: Is this a good idea?
I've had this idea for about 2-3 years.

In a single sentence: It's google adwords for the real world.

Let me explain:
Two types of users: Realestate Owners (RO) and Publishers.
An RO will login to a website and enter details about their physical location (where they live etc...). Based on traffic patters calculated automatically, they get assigned a score. This determines how much traffic (cars and pedestrians) go past that location everyday.

A publisher would then login to the website and search for locations they would like to advertise. They choose a location by any number of factors (score, street name etc..) and can put in a bid to advertise at that location.

The RO can then login and accept the bid. After the bid is accepted, the publisher would then send over a mini-billboard that the RO would place in his front yard for everyone to see.

This would not only just work for houses but will also work for cars - if a person travels long distance everyday, then they can get some money back by putting a stickers advertising a product.

I have done minor research on this and it looks feasable.

The way we make money is by takings a percentage of the agreed price between the RO and the publisher.

What does the HN community think?
Can I say woot? Or should I resrve that for 1.0?
This sounds to me like you are implying that journalism is a less important profession, since they are only criticizing things and writing about them, and not actually change them directly? Or, I don't get your point... (ok, Arrington is something between journalist and a blogger, but my objection still applies).
They are profitable, AFAIK, so that's what TC have to do with profit.
I think it's an interesting idea, possibly even feasible as a business.

But if you do it and it becomes widespread I'll hate you for it. I don't want my neighborhood cluttered with more ads than there already are.
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Thats a good point. I guess we could offer a feature where people say they dont want to receive any ads in a specific location and if enough requests arrive, then that location would be placed on a ban-list.
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Sounds like fun, although one day seems rather short.

On the other hand, maybe something like the 48 hour Ruby challenge (or what it is called) would be fun. We could arrange a weekend to hack on solutions to the YC challenges.
I could imagine that many people would be interested in this.

Also somewhat related, yesterday I read a news item about a monitor that recognizes age and gender of people standing before it and shows suitable ads.
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You'd need some way to vet users, so that you could seem credible when selling ads to advertisers. As an advertiser, it'd be hard to me to verify that you're actually displaying my ad, and even harder for me to estimate my ROI.
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beat us to it you bastards :)
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Guess it was a time-limited offer then :)
I like this quote from the Wikipedia article:

"Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy."

It's such a nice formulation ;-)
This is why Apple kicks so much ass if you can afford it.

I'm no MSFT apologist nor have I worked with them but if you think that MSFT is ignoring the recent gains by Apple in the OS market, that would be a mistake IMO (and when I say "you", I mean the collective you and not you personally). MSFT is all about recognizing what they are good at, fixing it, and taking the next step to rebrand as some new name lol.

Anyway, the software I want is a better email client. Outlook does 50% of what I want and while it does some things well there is a big opportunity for a competitor in that arena.
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He only said he's going to come with an idea a day, not actually implement it!
I see, missed that ;-) Still, I like the idea of a weekend-hackathon based on the YC list.

Since I am moving to a new city soon and need to connect, I might even make it a project to organize such an event. Is
anybody in Berlin interested?
especially after kiko
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I do a lot of reading online (one of my fav. sites being: http://www.aldaily.com/). I've been searching around for something like this for a while. Something that is easy to read on like the kindle, but can surf the web. Basically what I've been looking for is a sort of digital reader. I still print out a number of longer articles just because I find them easier to read on paper (and much more portable).

This seems like a possible solution to that problem and could be the future of the news industry.
If he keeps going the way he is, and with the quality of his content, I am sure Peteris will get 5000 subscribers by the end of the 2008.
If they mass produce Steve Jobs clones, i will buy one, or two. Just think of the uses. Cheap business consulting from an immortal entity in a microchip, thats a killer app for the CEO market :D
Any information on who actually worked on OpenMoko? Just because it is OpenSource doesn't mean that there are zillions of volunteers working on it. It might still just have been one company that screwed up it's product.
Doesn't mean that hardware has to remain hard forever. Maybe something could be done to make it simpler. Some things already have been done. For example, it is very simple to build your own PC out of readymade components.
Ask HN: Best way(s) to teach someone else to program, person to person.
I was wondering if you have any sort of experience teaching someone to program, and specially a 1 to 1 kind of teaching, and what's your advice on the matter.
17. New payment methods

I've been studying problem #17 since 2002. I've got some great ideas that I want to implement, but I don't know if they generate revenue quickly enough to make a successful startup. There's a big chicken-and-egg problem in this area.

Most of my effort so far has been on how to facilitate micropayments using only existing widely-deployed crypto such as TLS & SHA. I have a solution that should work for transfers involving two online banks. Transfers involving three or more banks are significantly more difficult to do while maintaining safety and liveliness.

Please contact me if you're interested in this area.
I have tons of classroom training experience and tons of video training experience. On those rare days when 1-2 people would show up for training, I found myself in that situation and it's tough for the trainer. 1v1 - what I would suggest is that follow a timeline. What can happen is that the trainee can get stuck on one item (big or small, doesn't matter) and then you find yourself spending 2 hours explaining what a classroom would spend 10 minutes on. People tend to get frustrated and think that asking 100 questions is the best way to learn. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes "64 Questions" just leads you into an area that the user isn't ready to go - no matter if they think they are or not.

So pick a timeline, agree in advance that, "If you get stuck on something, we'll try to work it out but we must make it through this section by 3:00PM today no matter what."

2nd piece of advice - don't let them ask so many questions that they take you off topic or into areas that your timeline has you covering later. "We're going to cover that in a bit..."

Training is an area in which the trainee can make or break the experience. A trainee that lets you be their guide will learn from a good trainer but a trainee that tries to wrestle control from even a great trainer will not learn much.
Actually, we're not really an EC2 competitor. In fact, in the future we're just as likely to be an EC2 consumer.

What we provide, today, is a premium service that can take a small amount of Ruby expertise and make it much more effective.

What we will provide, tomorrow, is the above, plus an infrastructure for distributing your applications into the cloud(s) of your choice. That's Vertebra (disclosure: I designed Vertebra, so I may be biased).

Amazon has everything to gain from our efforts. We aim to make Ruby, Vertebra, and our customers into first-class citizens in the world of EC2 and beyond.
This strikes me as just a weird question; one of those, "What kind of person asks that question?" type of questions (and I mean no offense by that lol).

It's like asking, "Am I pretty/handsome?" Well, do people tell you that you are? Do you notice people that you think are pretty/handsome staring at you? If so, there's a chance you are.
I voted you up even though I don't understand what you are talking about. But it sounds interesting...
Is there anybody who couldn't guess the vulnerability from the first announcement and the test webpage?
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what about adding some sugar, and having some lemonade...
+1 to where are you getting the screen. I recently (4 months ago) was involved with a touch screen project and the available screens were garbage compared to the iphone. if techcrunch has a source for awesome touch panels that is amazing but I'm skeptical. the rest of the hardware is tricky but at least doable. the software stack will take at least four times longer than estimated, perhaps moreso now that every armchair programmer on the internet has been invited to participate.
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Makes me feel better that I wasn't the only person to do the exact same thing.
People got fed up with Web 2.0, plus it pairs poorly with "Web browsing device", so they made a new word.

Anyone else notice that they said it would support open media codecs. Does this mean the device (much like Ubuntu without added repositories) wont support common formats like mp3?
By hard, we don't mean "difficult to understand and master"; one can learn electronics on his own in the same way he can learn programming. The tools and skills required are on par with software (well, the tools are usually better); it's just that hardware requires much more capital and time to build, and you have to deal with a lot of logistics and business issues.

A small team with no capital can build a ready-to-ship software product. A small team with no capital can build a working hardware prototype, but the step from prototype to actual, ready-to-sell product requires lots of resources.
And yet, I find macs very hard to use.

I don't like the single menu bar at the top, and having only one button on the mouse makes it much harder to do stuff. (For example it took quite a while to figure out how to do a disk check on a disk volume.)

I wouldn't buy an iPod as soon as I realized you can not edit anything on the iPod itself.

It seems to me apple increases usability by removing functionality. (I hear there is no copy/paste on the iPhone?) That's not a tradeoff I appreciate.
ill stick with mosso for now as the closest thing possible. throw your app on there in php, attach a mysql database, and let it scale.
I'm near Berlin. So maybe, yes.
There is a huge difference between a $200 device and a device whose bill of materials happens to be $200...
Ok, one of the things I am working on is a music startup so I'd like to challenge this:

"The answer for the music industry, for example, is probably to give up insisting on payment for recorded music and focus on licensing and live shows."

This is almost blogosphere orthodoxy now. If anything the wild success of allofmp3 shows that people will pay if the price is right. The price point is wrong, not the model. High volume + lower price = Increased total revenue. This is the point we make when we meet with the labels.

"But what happens to movies? Do they morph into games?"

No they don't. Which is more popular the new Batman film or the new Batman game? There’s plenty of room for both.
I have no idea what to do with it. Should I enter "porn" into the search field? (OK, I just tried that, didn't work).
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Can you elaborate a bit?

I know I'm probably being dense but I'm not seeing what you mean by hiring affecting their traffic acquisition costs. All that graph shows to me is that ad revenue is growing faster than outlay for traffic.
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Is that supposed to happen?
It sounds like the techcrunchies haven't actually used the Nokia N810. Just like their dream web tablet, the N810 already uses a Linux kernel, runs Firefox, Skype and plays Flash and other media. It also just hit their $299 price point. They dismissed it, however, and said they want a bigger screen, even though it has has a fantastic 800x480 resolution and 225 pixels per inch (compared to the iPhone's 480x320 resolution and 160 pixels per inch).

Then Cubrilovic and Arrington deleted their comments. Go figure.
Stop trying to is does

Ummm, because I said that somewhere? I don't suppose you'd mind showing me where?
'Unlike novels or newspaper articles, where you can skim through a paragraph and learn the gist of it, software is inevitably full of complexities and important details that you just have to take the time to understand.'

It's definitely possibly to skim-read code in the same way you would a newspaper article.

The article is interesting but I'm not convinced by the argument, although I might try switching off syntax highlighting for a while.
I'm sure a ton of people did. I wonder who is going to be the first person to use Gist as the source control for their app. It seems like it does enough that it could work, minus access control I guess.

No real point, other than a publicity stunt, but would be amusing.
I'm kind of impressed it only took about 12 hours for that to happen.
Not really. Erlang was born out of practical experiments in language design with the explicit aim of finding a better way to program telephony applications. The experiments were done over a few years in the second half of 80s at the Computer Science Laboratory at Ericsson.

Joe's PhD thesis which describes the design decisions and Erlang's philosophy was published much later, at the end of 90s IIRC.
He will get his for free of course, as will a bunch of celebs and media tech "stars" etc. etc., but the rest of us will be the ones who have to pay for it.
I for one am a believer that once you let mediocrity in through the door, you've screwed over your company. "Bad" people hire more like themselves, and eventually the kernel of brilliant people doesn't enjoy working there anymore and leave, and you end up left with all the ok and not-so-good people.

Yes, I'm elitist. I believe that you need elite people to achieve elite things.
'cloud computing client' == client for web applications, which use cloud computing. But I think we are still talking about having Firefox in a cheap tablet.
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It's as bad as a dramatic event happening in a cheap soap opera; which, for that matters, perfectly describes what this so-called computer security industry actually is.

Some of those guys are very brilliant engineers indeed, but at some point they should realize that there are a lot of brilliant engineers building bridges, cars and stuff as well, and they usually have much less inflated egos.
I LOVE TextMate, although jEdit can be configured to be a nice editor too...
No, The Nokia N810 has NOT similar specs. If nothing else, it has keyboard.
Yes, but may I suggest that your difficulties with using a Mac come from the fact that you are not familiar with the platform, rather than any inherent difficulty in using a Mac.

Case in point - you say: I don't like the single menu bar at the top, and having only one button on the mouse makes it much harder to do stuff. (For example it took quite a while to figure out how to do a disk check on a disk volume.)
and yet on a Mac, you don't right click or middle click a volume's icon to do a disk check. You use the Disk Utility application. I'd go as far as to say that a Disk Check is not a regular thing to do on any well-designed OS, so why would you stick it into a contextual menu for quick access.

I've been using Macs since they first came out, which means I was an early adopter for MacOSX. Since 10.2, I think I may have done one disk check - once in 5 years is hardly a justification for having the option in a contextual menu.

Another case in point: every Mac shipped in the last few years comes with either a mouse that has 4 buttons, or a trackpad that accepts a two-finger tap as representing a right click.

Yet another case in point: There have been many discussions on the one menu bar vs menu bar for each window debate. The best that we can say is that both approaches provide advantages. As someone that uses Gnome, Windows and MacOSX daily, I can honestly say that I don't even notice a difference between the different implementations.
The dark pools, or liquidity platforms, match orders up before they reach the exchange. Basically you have big orders sitting in the pool and waiting to match up with passing traffic. These orders are not publicly visible, so you get less price transparency than if all orders are matched through the exchange.
Well, what else would you put on the context menu for a volume? And it's more common then that - pull the plug on a device without ejecting it first, and you'll want to check it.

There's more stuff that just doesn't work well for me, those two just happened to be things that I noticed earlier.

Here's another: I put my USB flash disk in, and it read and read and read (it worked fine yesterday). I have no idea where I would find status info on what it's doing.

On linux it's easy: dmesg. (Ok, not obvious, but easy.) On windows it at least makes an icon immediately, and then reads it. On the mac? No clue. There was no indication it even noticed it except the light on it flashed constantly.

Mac's just don't think like me. I fight with the interface whenever I use it. It tries to hide the internals of the computer to make it easier to use. But for me that doesn't work - I understand the computer and I want to see what's it's actually doing, not the sanitized version.

Another example: in list view if you double click on a name it tries to rename it. You have to click on the picture. But I don't like that - if I want to rename, I'll use the menu and pick it (or make it be triple click). But they can't do that - it has to be easy for people to figure out how to rename, but at the expense of being able to launch something by clicking on the name.

Even if I would get used to a mac I'd find zero benefits. I don't need easy to use, I need discoverability and verbosity. Give me every single option, and lots of text.
I want a site that lets me create niche sites based on the digg style. A Ning type of creator for cooperative news.

Also - Useful apps for Facebook, Mobile or Offline without needing to know code.

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I was tought PHP that way (I only used to program in Delphi before a bit). Initially, I read the basic parts of the PHP manual (about syntax, etc), then we and my friend (a PHP master) sat for about 5 hours and wrote code that did a lot of different stuff - cycles, regexps, reading files, basic XML parsing, etc. Of course I forgot it all in the next several hours, but I later often returned to it to see how to do various stuff (we commented the code generously). Useful, especially given the lack of examples for some topics in the PHP manual. Although this is probably not the kind of teaching you meant...
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