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Its not everyday when something we are building ends up on NYTimes as being built by a competitor and that too funded by YC. Its a double whammy though with a cherry on top - of validation.

We still havent been able to figure out how to scale this and answer the questions posed by mvkel. We have not quit our jobs and are building this at our spare time, so that shows we are not committed as Whereberry's founders. But its still cool to know that someone else thinks the "pre-checkin" aspect is pretty interesting. Another startup in the same scene would be Ditto.me. They have a beautiful mobile app as well.

Just wanted to wish these guys the best.
Congrats on your learning and success.

Just curious - you launched four days ago and have already had significant contribution to your wedding fund? Please share more details ($) or I'm calling link bait.
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Explain to me how it makes it any better because of his situation? He's selling scammy make money online products. Do the ends justify the means?
Why is this "get rich quick" crap on the front page of HN?
This is what many have done on android too, but who ever leaves a comment on an app and comes back to look for a response? I think most who comment a question assumes the dev will be able to reply to them directly, not realizing it is anonymous.
I'd be interested in hearing more about this. hit me up!
this is how HN should work - reddit your post to keep people updated on your upvote count.
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>"Or they could really go for it and buy a carrier. Perhaps Sprint might start looking tasty?"

Purchasing a carrier doesn't scale. It doesn't scale to Europe. It doesn't scale to Asia. It doesn't even scale to Canada or Latin America for crying out loud.

And scale is why the Skype purchase makes sense to me - it scales into all those markets (and more) in a way that Google Voice does not appear to be headed.
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Thanks gnok!

Indeed, an RSS feed would be cool. In the queue ;)

The reverse is solved by Instapaper or ReadItLater. This is the reverse of those apps :)
> I guess people are just trying to make the future happen sooner

Here’s why: Encouraging people to upgrade from old IEs to newer versions by making websites generic, mundane (but still accessible) and bland for them is just about the best thing that you as a web developer can do to help move the web forward. That and experimenting with the newest technologies as much as possible and reporting bugs and other feedback to the vendors.
The analysis of the results of risky blue sky vs. safe incremental approaches seems relevant to startup incubators.
Exactly: very impressive motivational speech... yet very dangerous. MLMs use exactly that approach in recruiting.
Thanks for the heads up - this is a really great point :)
> Come on... Simply holding together such a big country is really a daily miracle. I live there and I can tell you Chinese people are not what you think, they are VERY HARD to govern.

You've identified the problem, but it's not the problem that you think that it is.

Why do you assume that "holding together" and "govern" is a good idea? More to the point, what would happen if the Chinese govt stopped trying to do so?

It's not like China is going to be invaded.

I was going to write something about keeping the gangsters in check, but then I remembered that official corruption is a huge problem in China, and most of that stems from this "govern" thing that you value so highly.

> They never stop inventing ways to break the rules,

Which is another reason why 10% is no big deal.
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From what I understand, UK law recognizes this avenue for abuse, and responds (in a way American law doesn't) by making a suit's loser automatically responsible for their opponent's legal costs.

It's also worth noting that bullies (which is something the investor seems to be in spades) are famously unresponsive to anything but genuine fear and humiliation. It's a big part of what makes them such a scourge, since peaceful people of good will are so naturally reluctant to respond in kind. All the more reason to hire an experienced lawyer, since they're not only capable of making credible and effective threats, but can safely do so within the narrow, and highly technical constraints permitted by law.

If the OP is still interested in being diplomatic, he can honestly say that he and his investor have found themselves at a legal impasse that their contract did not clearly anticipate. For this reason, he's retained a lawyer to advise him on what's likely to be the most mutually beneficial resolution, and will be letting this individual handle the conversation from here.
No, I believe that I do get what you're saying. I just don't agree that the message preaches magical thinking. It very clearly depicts a process of deciding on a goal, and focusing your efforts (actual efforts) to obtaining that specific goal.

In this specific case, you seem to me, to be off-put by the fact that he hustles with motivational speaking to obtain his goals. I think, personally, that the very hustle is a great example of why he should be listened to - he's very clearly determined and focused.

That doesn't mean he's advocating his exact profession, and it doesn't mean he's telling people to sit around and let the cosmos give them gold stars for thinking positively, does it?

(Edit: Aside from the blogger relationship, though, I'm curious as to what the article has to do with this site, I'll admit.)
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I read it and thought, "Ok, so what does it implement exactly?" :)
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you cynical people. This guy's faced and overcome more hardships than most people and he tells his story as a motivation for others to have a little hope that they can use the web to improve their lives and you start accusing him of MLM?

Sad - take a look at yourselves and take it as the inspirational story that it is.
I agree with your comment, but I think allowing vendors to respond to reviews would be abused for the purposes of marketing and discounting legitimate reviews.
If Nokia is the primary hardware manufacturer of Microsoft's solution then it won't matter. Three years ago HTC had no real brand in the USA but that doesn't stop them from selling a ton of Android phones. Meanwhile Motorola is widely recognized but sales are abysmal.
I'm glad that someone has finally wrote this article. This is what I first thought when MS bought Skype - they are buying into the future of telephony. It's silly to think we'd still be using voice networks and SMS in 5-10 years time when VOIP and similar services are as widespread as they are. It's a clever move if they execute correctly.
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One thing I've not seen done often on the web is timed release of content to every user, based on their start time. For things that become complex over time, i.e. learning a programming language or a framework, having the content fed to me in a specific order, without overwhelming me with everything at once, has some value.

This is the way classes are taught in the real world (although this is usually a group of people on the same schedule), but isn't the way the web works.
I don't think the post is meant to be just generally motivational, he lays out specific tasks that people should do that align with what he did. He isn't just saying 'go out and live your dreams.' He is saying 'go out and live my dreams.'

"You want to quit your job and become a professional blogger?
You can.
You want to travel around the world, living life to its fullest?
You can.
You want to dedicate your every hour to helping people and making the world a better place?
You can."
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> Also, the Mono project has made it possible to run almost any .NET app on Linux

I'd argue that the gap between 'any' and 'almost any' is larger than what you're implying - at least large enough that it can't be ignored.
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> What different mechanism? What different mechanism implements one-click shopping that isn't one-click shopping?

As I thought, you haven't read (or understood) the claims. The claims describe the mechanisms that the patent covers. Do one-click shopping with a different mechanism (that is, eliminate and/or replace one or more elements), and you're home free.

I don't know, or care, what mechanism B&N was using. (I'm guessing that you don't know either, so ....) I do know that some combination of B&N's lawyers and a court decided that B&N had used a claimed mechanism. If so, that's the result that we'd want from any other patent, so why is software different. (If B&N didn't actually use a claimed mechanism, that's a different problem, but again, that wouldn't be anything different about software patents.)

> If you have any programming skills, you should go read the patent

I've both (significant) programming skills and some familiarity with patent law. (I've even written a couple.) Moreover, I have read the patent.

> You are at a disadvantage until you do this,

Not to anything that you've shown.

>> "Patents have nothing to do with encouraging people to c>reate alternative solutions."

> You need to brush up on your patent defenses if you're going to spend any time defending them. They're for the purposes of promoting innovation,

You need to brush up on your understanding of basic English and/or logic. "create alternative solutions" is not the same as "promote innovation". It is one way, but it is not the only way, so whether a given patent encourages "create alternative solutions" or not is irrelevant. Patents encourage innovation by rewarding it.

> It is only a recent perversion of the goals of IP that they are solely intended to serve as property

That's simply absurd and has no basis in history. Patent assighment is not new, and that's a fundamental characteristic of "property". Moreover, US Patents have always worked by restricting what other people can do. That's how they funnel money to inventors and the folks who support them.

There's a reason why I mentioned AG Bell. What do you think that the telephone patent lawsuits were about if not "gatekeeping"?

It's perfectly reasonable to think that there might be more effective ways to promote innovation or to reward inventors, but that doesn't entitle you to misrepresent how patents actually work.
Wow, talk about sour grapes.
Despite Sir Howard's pretensions, Sony still doesn't really 'get it,' instead they just want to fight the old way, kind of like the English redcoats marching rank and file through Indian country.

Read Geohot's blog response to the hack, and you'll get a much better read on the problem:

Traditionally the trust boundary for a web service exists between the server and the client. But Sony believes they own the client too, so if they just put a trust boundary between the consumer and the client(can't trust those pesky consumers), everything is good. Since everyone knows the PS3 is unhackable, why waste money adding pointless security between the client and the server? This arrogance undermines a basic security principle, never trust the client.

http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/
Also, please do vesting for this next guy. It not only protects you, it protects them. The guy you gave 10% could be gone tomorrow and he has 10%. Do a 4 yr vesting, 1 yr-cliff, monthly thereafter.
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How did this make the top of HN? I'm befuddled.
Which is so different from the War on Terror and the Patriot Act.
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Interesting and valid concept! The only potential downside I see with this is the fact that everybody learns at different paces - specifically, some may be eager to move forward. Possible alternative: a user could subscribe and select a desired starting point, receiving an email corresponding to the next lesson each day.
I'd love to move to my version of Paradise (Vancouver, Canada, of all places). I love hearing the stories of people who say "it's simple, just scout out a place for a couple weeks, find an area in Paradise to live, and move there". But, I looked at Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and it seems really unlikely that a large number of humanity (including myself, save winning the lottery or being a logging/petroleum worker) will be allowed to live there.

So, is it "anywhere outside the US/Canada" that's easy to live in without being rich, or are people just moving there and just kinda winging it without actually becoming residents/citizens?
> When I read the headline, I thought it was for a public high school but was disappointed to find out it was for a university. Seriously, who cares about that when the public school system is in need of such major reform?

It may be that Bloomberg thinks that he can make a difference with "yet another university" and can't make a difference in the K-12 system.
as for the part "if you work hard you can leave your job and travel the world and live a great life", I can only agree.
I did it 10 years ago and I'm still on the road.
And as PG said: it's mostly determination. You've got to believe it even in the darkest times.
And do not listen to naysayers, the are just jealous.
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Induce change sounds like a euphemism for manipulation or coercion. You'll forgive me if I don't think the world needs more manipulative interaction.

Yes, there are some folks out there that come across as pretty raw, but get outside of coding/software circles and it's shocking how fragile people tend to be in the face of any kind of criticism. I think the ideal here would be for the passive aggressive dickheads to take it down a notch, meanwhile everyone else could stand to toughen up a little.

Personally I'm put off by people that require some layer of cozening as a buffer for their communications with others but such is life.
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I've had a company retract an offer after I asked for an extension to accept. I guess they felt like a second choice.
Because someone posted it, and a bunch of people voted it up, and there's no downvote to express our displeasure with get-rich-quick junk or content-less Techcrunch stories or what-have-you.
This is an argument I've tried to put across with my site http://twittrading.com which is a pretend live stock market based on sentiment analysis of tweets.

If you could buy/sell Beiber or Gaga this system might actually work. Anything else and you've not really got enough to determine individual stocks.

If your going on the sentiment of ALL of twitter as a driver for buy/sells then maybe that might work, or maybe it will just be a useless :)
I'd imagine that if it was Apple, Google or even Facebook buying Skype this sort of article would have been all over the tech press from day one, but because it was Microsoft it was labelled a stupid deal, Ballmer obviously wanted to waste some money, or Microsoft just wants a Facetime competitor (as if they need to buy Skype for something as simple as that). Perhaps that's due to their own track record but it would be good to see more thought put into articles like this one has as opposed to just writing it off or not thinking very deeply about it.
It's not just him, it's that most of the blogging in this category is MLM, get people excited so they'll buy your junk, style of doing business. I say this as a recovering blogoholic.
Its kindof stating the obvious, but detailing some of the juicy parts of these deals is pretty fascinating. Definately gives you a better idea of the value your company has, even if your company on a whole doesn't succeed.
I agree with you on all points. The guy is on top of a pyramid scheme where there's only room for a few. However, it is posible to live a quality life in third world countries. This was the view of an apartment I had in Puerto Vallarta: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfmedrano/377695445/in/photostr.... I shared it with two friends. Price per person? $200/mo. My total expenses were perhaps $1000/mo (five years ago). Today, I'm paying that amount for a tiny apartment in downtown Toronto.

Think of it like this: if you have a steady income in USD that can be generated at a distance, your quality of life can be orders of magnitude better.
Its a nice story but not everyone is going to be a self-sufficient blogger. He's an outlier.
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I disagree. P/E is just one way of valuing a company.

Regardless of their current valuation, my personal opinion is that Groupon faces serious issues regarding the long term sustainability of their business model. They have dominated an ecosystem that will eventually balance itself. I am skeptical that they can maintain their current valuation through that process.
At least this time around they're trying to extinguish companies that aren't innovating and actually standing in the way of further progress.
It is a prettier PayPal.

The only difference is a few features and that (for now) they aren't charging fees.
Big fan of cloudflare :)
I've always called it and its many nuanced brethren irrational exuberance or the kumbaya effect. Lots of talk of daisies and success that's easy to come by, but little actual action by the audience of posts like these. I'm aware I'm probably using Greenspan's words incorrectly, but I feel it accurately conveys and paraphrases the general idea.
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I think it was gamed.
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What are Skype's patent holdings? Could those be worth $8.5 billion?
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Lyudmil, I disagree with you, yet I voted your posting up just to counteract those that wanted to silence you.
I often wonder why the thought of moving somewhere far away is appealing to people. Leaving all this shit behind etc.

I've been there. Traveled for many years around asia and south america, worked (fulfilling?) volunteer jobs etc.

Then I returned home. Fixed all the shit I left hanging here and started to live a decent life right here.

The answer I've found is that only people who haven't been travelling, dream of travelling. Those of us who've been there, know that it's not very appealing if your mind is troubled. Your life won't magically change if you move to another country.
I did (I think). If not, it's bigcheeseatmousekickdotcom

Thanks for your comments about kickstarter. I think we are in the same boat but just interested in what others are doing.

So, national press doesn't mean like a "national" site...just lots of people all across the place. I think the tweets by Scoble probably are a lot better for buying street cred though.

I'll check out this site. We are all meeting this week and this will be something we'll be talking about (lawyer/legal stuff)
You probably should read this for some more background:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/security-experts-g...

"I have no ethical qualms about publishing the photos," he said. "They are in the public domain."

I think the quote hits the nail on the head. If you don't want something to be seen by the masses, do not put it on the Internet.
It comes in waves.

Few years ago everybody was doing search engine optimization and affiliate marketing. Wave 2 was people publishing e-books on SEO and affiliate marketing. Wave 3 was masses moving in and driving the margins down.

Sounds like professional blogging is on wave 2.
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"Can't put a lever on the outside without making it likelier that criminals can open your hood." I'm guessing you meant "door" vs "hood", but... why not?

Are you saying that a regular door handle makes it more likely that a criminal will open your door, so that's a problem with standard car doors as well?

Not that the door design is perfect, but there's no reason they can't:

- put a door handle on the outside, along with a keyhole (or possibly just a fingertip-lip on the window?)

- ...which would allow you to slide the window & door along their tracks manually if needed.

If you've ever had a powered garage door, it's more or less the same thing; sometimes the power will be out, so you have to be able to tug it up anyway (with a bit of extra drag from the motor, but hey, it's on springs so it's not too heavy).
I'm a Googler, but I am offering my personal opinion - at a high level, you should be a passionate and knowledgeable user of technology. This means you're a power user of some tools, and knows how to leverage the right tech tools to get your job done. Also - always think about how to "put the user first".
When did a consumer ever say "I wish I could read a bunch of marketroid responses to every complaint"?

Never. But I have often read negative reviews wondering about the other side of the story.
It is a bit strange to see a comic that I've seen dozens of times before on /new/ posted on HN.
As one of the people who likes being honest, I've always been put off by people who can't handle it if I call a spade a spade. As long as my criticism is constructive, I shouldn't be forced to beat around the bush. When I offer you constructive criticism, I'm offering you what I believe is a way to improve some aspect of yourself and/or your work. You should be in charge in your own improvement. Asking me to "induce change" in you means you won't take responsibility and expect me to do your work for you.
The website/organization that you're looking for is (probably) the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

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Ah, wait, you did actually mean "hood" above.

Nah, they need to solve the door problem, regardless (so the hood latch can be in the car). It's not just a question of opening the hood; you also have to open the door anyway, unless you want to replace the battery when a simple jump would do. (And electrical failures more serious than a dead battery happen as well on occasion...)
Unfortunately, NYC and Columbia haven't been aggressive in this regard. As an NYC'er, the competition will likely cause everyone, including the incumbents, to raise their game which is good for students, the city, etc.
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It prevents the people in power from deciding to enslave all right-handed people, but enslaving all left-handed people is still acceptable.