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Tinychat is the only one of these that doesn't sound like baby talk. Skype has done well and become a verb ("Skype me") and I don't see anyone asking to voxox, oovoo, or goober me anytime soon. There is a big gap out there for someone to offer a good quality, serious competitor.
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I honestly thought it was a cool new feature of gMail where I can get reminders about calling people that is tied into gCal.
No ideas original, I guess.

I'm working on something very similar (although it's part of a larger product) with a a couple of co-founders.

Hoping to launch this October.
I'm not sure you need to sell this company to start a new venture. Sounds like you have a good staff and healthy revenues. Why not start a new company while continuing to run this company? You can hire someone to fulfill your existing role and use the extra free time to start searching for the next branch of your business.
Cool, I didn't think about mobile monetization.

Perhaps it's a better idea for restaurants to list what ingredients are not in the menu item, since most people are trying to avoid ingredients instead of seek them out. That would solve the secret recipe problem.
If you're unfamiliar with either screen or tmux and looking to learn one, then I'd recommend going with tmux.

I just made that switch myself recently, and found getting things set up how I liked them with screen extremely frustrating. With tmux, I was all set within an hour. I tried screen for a couple of weeks, then tried tmux, and was hooked almost immediately.

I found scripting tmux to be much simpler, and setting up things like having the bottom bar notify me if there was new text in a window was so much easier in tmux.

Install on OS X was easy: brew install tmux

As a side benefit, having nested screen sessions (or nested tmux sessions) is kind of annoying. My solution is to use tmux on my laptop, and run screen on all of my servers. That way there's no nesting. I don't spend much time mucking around on the server, but so far I've found this quite satisfactory.
Yes, I'd like to hear more about this too. Does screen integrate with the OS X copy / paste buffer?
"Secret" recipes should be fine, as you point out, if they it can just be marked as "secret" yet still contain flags (i.e. contains: gluten, nut, dairy, etc.).

I don't see this is too much of a problem, especially for higher-end restaurants because most of what you're paying for in said locations is the experience of the cooks and the quality of ingredients.
For people who want more substantive ideas about the topic: they talk about "positive leverage" and compare the situation to what you encounter in a hostage crisis. In economics, this is actually called the "Patient Seller" model, or the "Rubinstein Bargaining Model" - it's a basic element of Game Theory and comes out of John Nash's famous "Nash Equilibrium" (see: Russell Crowe in the movie Beautiful Mind!).

Basically, when you work in (for example) sales and have to periodically negotiate new contracts with buyers, you learn that this model is intuitive and in practice really stands up to scrutiny.

Here's a quote from a good write-up on the subject:

"What determines the final selling price? The key observation is that patient players give up less at each negotiating step because they see more value in future dollars. Therefore, their strategies are represented by flatter lines. Impatient players want the deal done quickly, and their strategies are represented by steeper lines."

Quote Source: http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/07/15/why-patience-pa...
Ask HN: Computer Science in Canada: Toronto or Vancouver?
So, it's almost (finally) time for my graduation - less than a year. I've lived in Canada my whole life and want to continue living here a while more. I consider myself lucky having experienced life in Toronto and Vancouver in almost equal amounts. I've come to conclude that, for myself, either city would make a fine home, but what about work?

Which city (Toronto or Vancouver) would lend itself to:
- Higher salaries
- More start-up companies
- Interesting jobs
- Easier to get a job (with a BSc in Comp Sci)
- More tech jobs available
- Working for Big-Name companies
- a larger IT/Tech community
- IT/Tech events/conferences

If you have anything to add to the list that is not present, please feel free to do so.

Any constructive help is appreciate! Thanks for the replies in advance!
"Talk about exuberance." It seems like this fellow wanted the stock market to crash and burn. Sad.

Here is some additional information regarding the 2010 Flash Crash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
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Great idea. I don't eat or drink things that contain gelatin. It makes me dizzy. If i was able to check whether a product has gelatin or not from smartphone app, without bothering to read through all the ingredients that would be great.

Moreover, i don't eat meat. This makes my life in "Here" extremely difficult. I would be very very happy to find local restaurants which serve food without meat.
Fabulous! I would actually be very surprised if no one else had already thought of this idea. I think it's all about executing well, because an opportunity certainly exists. I wish you all the best!
It's more of a reminder that today is actually father's day. This is not the same as not calling your father when you are fully aware it is father's day.
Agreed. Should definitely be more niche - also need to take into account internet usage and demographics such as disposable income. If someone works full time and makes less than $20K, they're probably not in your target market.
When I did the slow carb diet earlier this year, all I wanted my phone to tell me was where I could get some meat, nuts or veggies.

Starting with one local niche (like vegan) sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure if there is one food niche in particular where the users are both unfamiliar with the current restaurant offerings, and also would be passionate enough to build a habit of the app.

Being the company who indexes the long-tail of all restaurant niches for consumers might be the better way to service user need. I've worked in this area before, and menu entry is kind of a solved problem through vendor incentive, mechanical turk and outsourcing - but you definitely have to be clever about it.

In any case, aspects of this idea are serviced by several businesses - menu services, mobile startups, food delivery, deals, etc. However, what I see missing from this particular proposal a no brainer value proposition for the restaurants - I believe this is a requisite for scale.
So why, then, do you think that incentives that have nothing to do with the average consumer are sufficient? The average consumer is still helpless here. They simply cannot know if a company has good security or not, especially if its new - like a startup. The end result is that most of them assume that all security is bad. We have seen this before, repeatedly, and its even showing up in the comments of HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2671441

People keep asking if good security is even practical. Security experts know it is, but nobody else does. If the incentives you describe were actually working, we would be properly assigning blame to bad security, instead of everyone simply asking if good security is even possible.
> forced

What? Use robots.txt and exclude yourself from the Google index. It's not like they're preloading the first 200 results for obscure searches. If you're one of the top few results for a very active search then I'm sure someone else is more than willing to take over if you can't handle the load.
Look at your results so far. It seems from your writing that your intrinsically motivated to learn and execute.

Really good teams coming together is a rare phenomenon. Go follow your passion.

Just keep aside enough money so that if all goes to hell you can start your degree afterwards.
What version of FF are you using? It should only sleep for a bit and come back.
What about Waterloo? We've got tons of tech companies, both big and small. It's also significantly less expensive to live here than Toronto or Vancouver.
Though it looks like there is at least one app that does this already: http://allergyfreepassport.com/mobile-apps/
You could animate after you've received all the data, then set the Y axis into the max of the values.
Anyway, good job! Thanks for sharing.
Goober is the only one with a Linux client. I may have to try that one out.
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"The Idea: Every restaurant menu item in the world is searchable by its ingredients."

I'd settle for accomplishing the first, most basic, step. As Rick Emerson said on Twitter a week or two ago "Would someone please tell all the god damn restaurants out there to stop only putting their menus online in PDF format?!"
screen and tmux have a copy mode (this is "inside" of the terminal emulator, I'm not talking about using your mouse to select text in Terminal.app) that allow you to copy text. I assume he wants copy there to yank the text to the OS X clipboard.

It's possible in tmux, but kind of annoying (the best solution I've found requires another key combo press to push your copy into the system clipboard).
This is the best explanation so far. Thanks!
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Why discount Montreal? They've got a great start up scene.
"what I see missing from this particular proposal a no brainer value proposition for the restaurants - I believe this is a requisite for scale"

Yes, I think this is a critical part of the business model. Once the product has critical mass it's much easier to offer an attractive value proposition to businesses, because you've engaged this large mass of potential customers. Before that, though, it's trickier.
If Google say "Call Dad" to users who don't have a dad, it's a bug. Bugs are bad. Google should fix it.
The intention may have been innocent, but the execution was flawed. Make it obvious it's a generic reminder & give an easy way to turn it off. Instead it looked like it was a personal reminder that someone set themselves & there is no easy way to turn it off. Heck I am not even emotionally attached to it, but I really hate nag screens, so I'd rather shut the reminder off if I've already called dad or am not planning to.

Also my point was more aimed at 'joshuafcole' who seems to think grieving over the loss of a father or the loss of a childhood due to an abusive father means that you're not "well adjusted". It's an overly broad blanket statement that expects people to deal with life events like robots in exactly the same way. Events that it sounds like 'joshuafcole' never dealt with, so he probably doesn't have the best idea on the repercussions every scenario presents. So my retort was the overly-broad generalization that people who need a reminder to remember it's Father's Day must not be "well adjusted" or really love their father.
Why do you guys keep doing the investor dinners on Tuesdays? I would have thought you would have kept Tuesdays open :)
It depends but I can say that for allergies, it isn't so sure it would be helpful.

First, with severe allergies, you very rarely go to the restaurant at all. Second, just checking the ingredients is not enough, you have to worry about cross contamination, or the origin of certain ingredients or the oil used to cook them. Sometimes, they seasonings, sauces or other preparation from an outside supplier whose content is not always known. Going after the suppliers often lead to yet more suppliers to check.

It may prove very useful for people with food intolerances, vegan or even diabetic people if you add glycemic information for the dishes.
Well, I've telecommuted myself, and I've managed employees who telecommuted. From a manager's point of view, I would say that telecommuting arguably works in very limited circumstances, but I don't think that small start-up businesses meet those requirements for it to work well. (sorry! that's a generalization, I know...)

If you have no choice and need to work with some employees (or collaborators) that telecommute, then picking the right collaborators is key - i.e. that "D" type of personality who is always on task, works hard to finish a task before moving to the next, etc. Also, if there's at least a few days per week that you're all together physically at work, that works much better than a 100% off-site plan.
Very healthy advice which we are doing. I am replacing myself as much as possible but after 5 years I can see some opportunities in our market which would be better guided by a current player in industry.
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Colbert made a great speech. Maybe you've already seen it, but I really recommend a past commencement speech by J.K. Rowling in 2008: http://vimeo.com/1711302
Well, I just spent two hours talking to the people interviewing developers at mt.gox and tradehill.

Tradehill: SHA-1 currently, looking at SHA-512. No one certified on security. Top creds repeatedly touted was one guy that developed "300 iPhone apps".

Mt.Gox: Was NOT hacked. There financial auditor had read-only access to the database and his computer was compromised. They were asked why the financial auditor had access to the data, with no response.

I was literally yelling about bcrypt, and apparently Mark (mt.gox) said that bcrypt wasn't actually very secure and that they're were going to use (1000 passes) of SHA-512.
Yes, thanks.

He means TAM, total addressable market.
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I'd go for Toronto or Waterloo.
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There's no paywall at the Washington Post...
mtgox acts like a central authority

Goodbye frying pan, hello fire.
They should've integrated it into gMail like they did with Buzz and gVoice.
Yes, heaven forbid Google sends traffic to your site from people who might find it relevant.
I use 1Password on Windows and iOS, and on Mac when I get one in the near future. It's awesome, and I feel so much better using it than LastPass. First, it works nicer and integrates with sites much better. Then, I feel better keeping my passwords directly in my own control!
So, I've always been frustrated by the inability for me to "push" addresses to my iPhone from my computer. Specifically, when I have to go somewhere new, like a Dr's office or co-working space.

I created mppr.me - a "mashup" of sorts taking ideas from bit.ly (to shorten link locations), google maps (for making it embeddable) & using tropo (a twilio competitor for sending sms).

It's free & I've been doing some minor promo the past few weeks, on the usual tool sites (http://www.listio.com/web20/app/MpprMe/ - http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/mpprme-people-send-business-add... - http://www.feedmyapp.com/p/a/mppr-me-mppr-me-enables-your-we... - http://www.netwebapp.com/view/Mppr-Me).

I wanted to share the idea with HN. I'd really love to get some feedback on this & see if you guys think this is useful.

Also: I've got stats publicly available here: http://mppr.me/statsboard
Clean code is as important as efficient code.

Also I don't believe in the idea that the enhancements of hardware are to put up with lousy code.
This bundle includes $300 worth of Mac software, including 1Password, Billings, TextExpander, and more for $49. Plus, two eBooks on freelancing: Rockstar Freelancers and Smashing Magazine's Successful Freelancing for Web Designers. Pretty awesome deal!
I can't listen to that voice, not sure why but it was driving my crazy after 5 seconds.
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> Gay marriage is a contentious issue presently, Father's Day isn't really.

That is not the issue. The problem isn't about being reminded that Father's Day exists. The problem is the undeletable, unsolicited imperative to each and every user that they "call Dad", irrespective of how valid that statement is for any arbitrary user.
I am working on something like this. www.dietmanager.com. I also tied it in w/ the usda food database web service to break things down even further and tied in a feedback loop so that people know what ingredients trigger their conditions etc...
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Is it (1) someone that works at another firm (that you would need to poach) or (2) another company that would be better at guiding this? Sounds like the recipe for a joint venture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_venture
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Is this actually true? Obama couldn't get support to rollback tax cuts on the rich - is he really going to be able to increase them now? I believe Republican policy is to cut taxes on the rich (?)

Spot on. The Bush tax cuts have only temporarily been extended, and the Democrats have expressed interest in eventually eliminating them for the top bracket only. I assume this is what the article is referring to. We'll see if that actually happens anytime soon. The Republicans certainly aren't going to support it because, as you said, their positions generally involve further cutting income taxes, if anything. Here's a chart that compares a recent Republican proposal to the Bush tax cuts: http://www.offthechartsblog.org/pawlenty%E2%80%99s-high-end-...
The culprit may have posted to HN just hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2671766
Wow! Don't be shy about promoting this in the comments of my blog, if you'd like.

I'm curious, if you don't mind sharing, how does it know what restaurants to recommend to you?
a16z was also a part of the group that did the Skype MBO; I'd be surprised if founders held it against them.
Looks like I need to update my bookshelf. Thanks for the recommendation.
Anything to do with the current RDS downtime I wonder?
Ships don't have a mathematical requirement that their internal structure be one homogenous material, thus it's a trivial matter to put a weight at the lowest point of the ship so that it acts like a weeble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeble
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Obvious causation:
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In principle, it doesn't affect that goal. An exchange doesn't control monetary policy, i.e., it doesn't set interest rates or increase the quantity of currency.

Of course, an exchange can affect the value of the products it is trading. Since Mt. Gox is the biggest bitcoin exchange, if a vulnerability is found then people might stop trading there, decreasing the liquidity and consequently the value of bitcoin. But this doesn't contradict the goal you mention.

As an analogy, if company ACME only trades on Nasdaq and there's a system problem with Nasdaq, some people will be scrambling to get rid of their ACME stocks so ACME's price will go down. That doesn't mean that the exchange controls the price of ACME.
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I found it to be quite buggy, however, so I built 4.00.03 from source and use that instead. (Lack of vertical split doesn't bother me very much.)
There are 3 meal delivery methods

1. Local Chefs

To get this info local chefs can upload their menu's. Their food items are run against the USDA food database then categorized against which dits allow those things and which do not. I currently have support for 455 diets

2. Restaurants

Some of this menu info from the restaurants uploading their menu's and some comes from info that I can get from online sources; as with the local chef menu's I use the USDA food database here to know what meals qualify for what diets

3. Recipes

This one I have not quite figured out yet.

My app does not work like others in that it does not recommend "Places" it instead allows you to search for what food you want and it finds meals based on that food item that also match your dietary preferences (which may or may not be a pre-defined diet)
We created something like it a few years ago: http://biggestmenu.com/

Flan: http://biggestmenu.com/?q=flan

Pizza: http://biggestmenu.com/?q=pizza

Coffee cake: http://biggestmenu.com/?q=coffee+cake
Lua's draw is not in its libraries (beyond a core set of very awesome GEMS). The stuff that is important is actively developed and will be ported forward if there is indeed an issue. Rarely can you go trolling for a library with a long line down rigger and find a good fish. Many libraries are out of date, the rocks system needs improvement. The addition of the bitops into core is very much welcomed.

These changes look really good. I would love to see someone make a CoffeeScript to Lua compiler.

My main area of concern is when the wonderful Mike Pall will port LuaJit to 5.2 when it is released.

Maybe in Lua 6 they can default to local vars and add list comprehensions.

Lua ranks up there with SQLite in awesomeness.
A good portion of restaurants in my area don't have any sort of menu online. As far as I'm concerned, a restaurant's website doesn't need to be anything but a menu.
>"From where I see it, anyone who has a full-time job, and doesn't have time to run errands fits in our market"

All that shows is that you didn't do any research and pulled something out of your "back pocket." It's completely bullshit from a market analysis standpoint. You need to look at segmentation, and existing alternatives.

The relevant segments have disposable income - i.e. "good jobs" and they have to live in areas where it makes sense to provide the service, i.e. where there are people who can perform the errand reliably and are suitable to interact with the target demographic - "people who want to make a quick buck" often don't fit those requirements.

Mechanical Turk doesn't really scale to the meat world - in general it's not worth $3.00 to pick up someone's dry cleaning and deliver it to their door - never mind going through all kinds of rigamarole online to land the project and get paid.

Even if there is a meaningful target market segment which is not being served, the infrastructure to provide reliable services and maintain the concierge employees is a huge problem - the key to the success of Dabbawala is the people not the internet.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala]
I'm sorry if my post led you to believe that I think the incentives are presently sufficient. They most certainly are not.

My point was that they exist, and believe it or not, as bad as they seem now, they are better than they were when I first started working in InfoSec ten years ago.

I'm not a "visionary" type person, but the only incentive that I can think of that would actually have practical implications for the consumer would be the ability to hold a provider responsible for bad security decisions (ie: Your site was hacked, my information was compromised, so now I'm suing you).

I also don't think this will ever happen (on a large enough scale to be effective); for a variety of reasons.

I know this sounds stupidly obvious, but companies on the whole will only take security seriously when the cost from being insecure is greater than the cost it will take them to secure things.

Maybe insurance will be the thing to finally tip the scale. Companies are already buying "hacker insurance", and I imagine if there's any industry with an incentive to enforce best practices, it would be the insurance industry.
COINTELPRO included "extralegal violence and assassination" according to Wikipedia. So it's weird to think that the authorities would rule out a bit of hacking to protect their interests.
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40 years until the first passeger flight?! That's eons in terms of transport and energy technology development