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Dangerous Prototypes are pretty well-known in the OSH/Maker scene, I wouldn't call them "some guy". More importantly, adafruit ran it on their blog which means it saw an even wider audience.

With ChipKIT, Microchip are undoubtedly trying to get a piece of the market that Arduino currently dominates.

They seem to understand that open tools/libraries is a factor there, but it seems they can't actually do too much about it.

They also seem to understand that community is a major factor in Arduino's success. I took that response to be a sign they are trying that, too.

Whether they'll succeed, I don't know. The market seems pretty flush with Arduino clones, copies and equivalents now. IMHO this article, "The End of the Open Hardware Cambrian Age", has some good theories about where things are headed:
http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2010/12/end-of-open-source-h...
Google is the company that claimed to pull out of China and didn't until they got hacked. They're also the company that just pulled a particularly sneaky bait-n-switch on it's paying customer base. Amazon is no angel but neither is Google. They're both public for-profit companies and nothing else.
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Wall clock time alone isn't such a useful metric to compare CPU vs. FPGA. It would be more meaningful to normalize by machine cost (initial investment and operating costs). (Software development/non-portability is a separate discussion.)
Seems overloaded. Found a possible alternative:

http://lamp.epfl.ch/~imaier/pub/DeprecatingObserversTR2010.p...
I'm still just getting the hang of git, but I've found this best practices[1] tutorial the most handy to just get started. I needed to play around at this basic level before any of these other more complicated comments started to make sense. Check it out, it's very short.

[1] http://ariejan.net/2009/06/08/best-practice-the-git-developm...
There is tons: Windows 7, Symbian, MeeGo, Bada, WebOS, Android...
Totally. Although the M3 has its share of weird proprietary stuff aimed at the hobbyist, like the closed source "cloud" compiler platform mbed.
Reactive programming seems like an excellent model for game programming (I know Haskell uses Yampa for this). I am surprised there isn't a canonical Scala implementation that is easily available. From my searching on the web, it looks like there are a couple of frameworks, none of which are particularly active.
So start such a community fork. That it hasn't happened yet seems to indicate that manufacturers don't even want it.

Also there might be community mods, like Cyanogen (haven't really looked into them).
1) Innovate: You need to innovate. I doubt people will be excited to talk about a new social network that is just a Facebook clone.

2) Try to get free press: For SyncPad (not technically a web app) we always tried to do things worth writing like that video with 40 iPads in drawing in sync (http://blog.mysyncpad.com/post/4293113601/syncpad-on-40-ipad...).

3) Care about your customers: You'd be surprise how quickly the word spread about your product if you offer awesome customer support.
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Not a big fan of jazz, I take it?

(It'd be interesting there if the extension were not to 70 years, but to 170 years; much of the music industry's jazz catalogue would retroactively be plagiarism, because it frequently quotes from out of copyright jazz standards, and even older folk songs.)
Ok then, it seems unlikely that you'll be able build custom hardware without a an investment and it also seems unlikely you'll be able to get investment without a proof of concept.

How about, as a proof of concept, raspberry pis, each with a 16GB SD card. I know there are obvious problems: ethernet speed, non-volatile storage speed and only 256MB of memory, but do you think that it would work as a proof of concept?
Also known as "The Dog Ate My Homework Act"

Exhibit A of the widespread pay-to-play corruption in Washington, D.C.
wow. This is a little shocking; prices just don't go up in the hosting industry. I mean, if you are charging for hardware/bandwidth, just stop lowering your prices and your margin goes up rather quickly.
My app is http://www.cliniko.com

I used the "likes" targeting in the facebook ads demographics to target occupations that my product is aimed at. I also targeted relevant english speaking countries.

I have tried quite a few different styles of ads, but individual ads for each occupation that were specifically targeted has the best results. I guess I would advise creating many ads, and wording them specifically for each demographic you want to target.

I also tried various pictures, but ultimately a screenshot of my app was the most successful.

The majority of my users so far were acquired via the facebook advertising, it has been my most successful strategy.
Online previewing:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist...
>Company loyalty is one thing, but ultra fast jumping is an another thing.

Your job hopper story is sad, but company "loyalty" is a nonsensical concept to me. You should only ever be as loyal to the company as the company would be to you. For me that means I don't consider company loyalty for one second. That being said, leaving a place too quick (or staying too long) makes you look bad so you have to way that in. Never some stupid one-way loyalty.
http://SmallPayroll.ca was a one-man-in-his-spare-time project until recently. What I did was:

1. SEM - Google AdWords mostly. I spent a fair time on this, partially because my day job at the time was in the SEM field

2. Organic - I got a great domain that contained my primary keywords, got a landing page built, and it ended up driving a lot of organic traffic. I also set up a blog on the main site. The blog was good for traffic, but not that great for conversions.

3. Referrals - my app is mostly used by people that hire domestic help, so I tried talking to the agencies that help people find that help. Hard to measure that one.

4. Provide awesome customer service - I have been told by several of my customers that they have sent their friends.

5. Free trial - The app gives a 30 day free trial. Many customers have thanked me for that.
Delivery sounds nice but it could quickly balloon to be the most expensive part of the business. Packaging, mobile refrigeration, etc. I like that they're focusing on curb-side pickup. I know I hate shopping with kids. I'd love to just be able to scoot by and pick up my regular stuff while they're in the backseat.
It also means You can trust your music will be your own, for most of your life.
What about Happy Birthday?
Why not? Unless you have something better to work on, I'd say go for it.
In a word I find your style "refreshing". HUGE icons, big text, simple concepts, easy-to-understand rather than hipster-than-thou. Love it.
Sorry, you're just wrong.

Have you ever called a system call by hand using assembly?

Have you ever looked at glibc's source?

Habe you ever looked at the kernel's close() syscall?
Isn't decentralised and ACL is a bit of an oxymoron?
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Your app looks great. You should have a gallery of some app sites that are built using it. Some testimonials would also be nice.
I only started working a week ago. I'm currently in school holiday, so I can afford long hours. And since this is a solo project, I have no communication problems. I can just do what I have planned and thought.

These negative events are actually quite normal. Actually they present us with all kinds of problems. Every entrepreneur's task is to solve problems. And now we have more problems to solve.

Being optimistic,

Positive events == opportunities

Negative events == opportunities (for those who are smart)

You can look through some of my comments here. I have explained how I solve the security problem.

Yes, I'm using Twitter Bootstrap. It's very easy to get started for a non-designer like me.
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Agreed. The title of the article is inaccurate.
http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-launch-strategy-for-a-we...
I imagine they wanted to access the site from the OS itself, with a text-only browser.
Oh, I see. Now I realize that Bitcoin market is so much different compared to Forex market. You can easily find a Forex broker who supports PayPal.
Dane says in the interview that he decided to go with Django because "Python is like the fastest executing language in the world."

Reminds me of the story of a high school class reunion where Bob shows up in a limousine and obviously very wealthy. His former classmates are very impressed, especially because they remember that Bob had been a very poor student. So they asked him his story, "Bob, how did you make so much money?"

Bob says, "I just made five percent on some widgets. I buy them in Mexico for one dollar and sell them in the US for five dollars. That's five percent."

The moral of the story is that you can make a lot of money even if you don't fully understand all of the details.
How often are you interviewing C programmers for project work? Genuinely curious.
I'm not that familiar with the M3, but some of the PIC chips have much more expansive hardware interfaces and internals than comparable AVR parts. A lot of times, PIC chips are cheaper, too.

Microchip can't develop the libraries internally due to contracts (it sounds like) so they're appealing to the community to bring them up to speed. They're offering compensation in the form of prizes. Why be negative on their attempt? They're trying to do the "right thing," granted, later than others, but still, it's a move in the direction the community wants them to go. Don't be negative about people trying to do the "right thing."
Come to Chattanooga? I would totally shop there!
Tell that to Walt Disney -- last I checked, he built his fortune by "plagiarizing" out-of-copyright stories.
And what about all those movies based on Wells, Verne, Conan-Doyle, Christie, Austen?
One of the most successful songs ever, in economic terms, is "Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum: a blatant riff on two compositions by Bach.
The likes of Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton would have gone nowhere without the ability to ransack the humongous catalogue of blues classics -- if the original black musicians and composers had enjoyed modern copyright terms, you wouldn't have had any of that. Same for Bob Dylan and folk songs.

All art is derivative, originality is a myth.
Spot on, my friend. To highlight a few items:

"Excellent interface"

We have built a streamlined interface that is uniquely designed to handle grocery shopping. We believe that there is a fundamental difference in shopping for groceries online and the way we shop for other consumer merchandise (such as clothes or books). Being fast, intuitive and discoverable are the overarching goals.

"you should seriously consider delivery"

At a later date, perhaps. "Logistical nightmare" is absolutely right. When/if we do delivery, I want to treat it as an outsourced add-on priced at/near cost (which will still mean a hefty delivery charge in low population density areas).

"I also love the possibilities for the store itself"

Absolutely. In addition to your suggestions, consider the long-term opportunities related to merchandise packaging and private label goods. Customers are no longer walking the aisles making buying decisions based on physical packaging. The right packaging/private label strategy (think Trader Joe's on steroids) could eventually lead to some amazing gross margins.
I'd call it Shared source software or, to be precise, Later shared source software.
I agree - this is a great idea! Before you move to robots, trained employees will be able to pull groceries MUCH faster than customers will, especially if incoming orders indicate where the product is on the shelves.

And this opens all kinds of possibilities for shopping lists: I could have templates for my shopping list ("here's my usual stuff") or groups of items ("all the stuff I need to make this recipe"). I could have a smartphone app and scan the barcode of an empty package, automatically adding that item to my list.
This is one of the ideas that make you kick yourself and say _why did I not think of it first?_

Good luck to you and I hope it succeeds!
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What's the advantage you get from even more currencies that you don't get from today's basket of international currencies? The only one I see is that, if you build a big enough reputation to issue your own currency, you get to collect seignorage.

In exchange for that, you now have to carry n different currencies to make sure you can buy gas at a Shell station and an Arco; small retailers go out of business because they can't afford the overhead of combating so many varieties of counterfeiting--which, while still technically illegal, is much harder to prosecute--medium sized retailers go out of business because of the accounting overhead of setting appropriate prices when several currencies could be undergoing hyper(in|de)flation at any time.

I'm not sure that's a good trade.
Restaurant 2.0 - plausible or pipe dream?
+1 for the back button.. and for the awesome UI !
Thank you. I was misdirected by the article. And I have not peeked at the git source ever.
There is a reason for that bias - and that is credibility of the candidates. Imagine, in a pool of potential hires, having to shuffle through 90% chaffe to get to the 10% grain in a humanly impossible timeframe. Elite institutions solve this filtering or shuffling problem to a large extent - which is why people who are after credible talent go to elite institutions, pay whatever they heck the institution demands and get the required candidates.

With the changing times, many startups are getting into the recruiting space and helping such companies as google choose credible candidates without the elite institution tag.
The contest is a strange idea, unless the prize is truly massive, or the hardware target outperformed the competition. Why would anyone want to help a hardware company make their software tools better? I even kind of like Microchip's processors, but I have no more interest in helping them compete in the hobbyist market than they do in washing my car.

The Microchip guy asks: "Heck, who better to write these than the experts in the community…?" I'd suggest that a good candidate for someone better would be the people who designed the damn hardware.

In the end, I'm glad to see companies moving toward open toolchains, but once we have a couple that work, the onus is on the companies to keep up with their competitors if they want to survive.
A friend of mine took out an ad on The Deck (http://decknetwork.net/) when he launched his app. It produced quality traffic that converted into active users. It also opened some doors with people who could help him promote the app reaching out to him, including his app in a bundle, etc. I thought the cost was steep (~$8000 or so) but it seemed to pay off.
Flagged. This is an unattributed reposting of http://nfarina.com/post/9868516270/git-is-simpler

Which was posted on HN and extensively commented on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2970149
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hmmmmmmm.....
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PDF is clunky, difficult, and dangerous. Why allow posts to it?
The checkout command moves you off the experimental branch and back onto the master branch.

The merge command then takes the commits in experimental that aren't in master and puts them into master.
To quote Lawrence Lessig, "No one can do to the Disney Corporation what Walt Disney did to the Brothers Grimm."
"Your music" is just a remix of sounds and words from earlier artists. Extending copyright like this stifles innovation and future creativity.
So, you want to build an app together?
Currently our only non-trivial security challenges are as follows:

- SQL Injection

- Source being viewed

- Financial attacks

I believe that Rails has no problems with SQL injection? All my database queries are going through ActiveRecord.

Heroku protects everything nicely. Even the filesystem is read-only. There's virtually no way to control the server provided Heroku's 3-layer architecture (Varnish, Nginx and Thin).

We don't operate a Bitcoin wallet. Basically hackers have nothing to steal. Even if we are totally owned, the most that hackers can do is to get some free money and make some trades. After all, we can obviously identify and not to approve withdrawals (for unusual and large-amount ones).
I'm using IFTTT to automate a couple of things in my information workflow:

1. To allow me to feed interesting articles from my iPad into BufferApp so I can post them automatically to Twitter throughout the day:

http://red66.com/2011/06/integrating-buffer-into-your-ipad-t...

I go through Zite, Flipboard and Hacker News every morning and queue up all the interesting articles. Buffer posts them for me at set times throughout the day. I don't have to be at my computer to tweet and I don't flood my followers early in the morning.

2. To automatically post my Instagram photos to my Google+ account:

https://plus.google.com/114204703228150089266/posts/9zPZQaN2...

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great service - already can see so many possibilities. One problem I ran into : the craigslist search result URL I'm trying isn't being recognized http://montreal.fr.craigslist.ca/muc/
Add a bug reporting feature !
I believe it was mymint.com
Oh, you want to work with Bill Murray? Leave a message on an 800 number.
Not necessarily. I don't think SquareUp.com is horrific or anything if they never end up acquiring Square.com. It's not ideal but it doesn't have to be horrific either.
Ask HN: How did/would you move yourself to the Valley for YC?
I know that YC has applicants from around the country, and abroad..
I'd be very interested in hearing how you got yourselves to San Francisco for a reasonable budget.

A good friend of mine has been looking into applying to YC this year, and I'm trying to help figure out the logistics.
In the event that he was accepted, it seems like hiring a moving van would cost nearly $3K by itself.

You could do PODS or a competitor for $2K, but if you're coming from the east coast, that's still a huge chunk of the initial YC investment. And that's potentially per founder!

Best option I can see would be to sell/give away everything except what fits in one car, drive out, and start life with 95% less stuff.

People usually have too much stuff anyway. A fresh start isn't the worst recommendation in the world, but it's still more than many people would agree to.

Are there any other reasonable options? How have other YC companies dealt with this? Does YC/PG have any standard advice?
What I'd like to see is an easy-to-set up way to run my own version of Dropbox on a small server in my own home. It needs to have a web interface, not just rsync, because a lot of people (like me) don't have access to anything remotely like rsync on our work machines.
And just to save other finance amateurs (like me) some time: the "spread" is the difference between the buying and selling price
You are thinking of Bookmarks, which have been a part of core since 1.8 and was an extension included with mercurial for a few versions prior.
>Yes, things are way screwed up, but capitalism remains

I'd say "lingers" is a better choice of words, here.
Just think about all the now 50-year old music that would become parts of mash-ups and remixes everywhere, creating a lot of new cool music. Now this just won't happen. :-(
For http://www.hearts-cardgame.com/ I wait until you are into your second game and then I slide down a little, uh, top banner (what are those things called?) which has the text

"Hi there! Looks like you're enjoying the game. That's great! We'd love it if you could help us out by sharing it with your friends:"

And then has the usual facebook/twitter/etc buttons. There is also a discreet "Share with your friends" link that makes the banner pop down, I like that more than having all those ugly buttons visible the whole time. I wait until you're into your second game because I figure by that point you must like the game, otherwise you'd have left, and then it's maybe more likely that you'll help me promote it.

All my online card games (3 of them) also have a "Also try our other games: X and Y" links, which drive a fair bit of traffic between them.
Actually, I like the fact that this isn't delivery. I would expect to pay more for that, and driving to the grocery store would be no big deal if I didn't have to go in.

One thing that could make things speedier would be something like an RFID tag in my car that gets scanned as I enter the parking lot, so you'd know what customers were about to pick up their groceries. (You'd have to carefully consider the privacy implications for people being tracked elsewhere, though.)
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Hello Aangie,

I'd love to hear about this open-source approach you are mentioning. Could you please email me at bcromlish AT gmail DOT com?

Thanks!
If TechCrunch replaced all their writers with people who wrote in a less sensational style I might actually read it.
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I think he's outsourced security to a site that has experience in dealing with security and has (hopefully) learned something from their mistakes. For bootstrapping, I'd say it's acceptable.
Obituaries should celebrate a life, not explain a death.

I agree, but I don't think mentioning or making an allusion to a cause of death and then going on to talk about the person's life for 98% of the text really undermines that mission.
I would use the email signup % on that page as the indicator for validity. Over 5%? Do it.
We shouldn't confuse causation with correlation, but the slowing of "big" ideas is roughly correlated with the outer limit of the patent age. 1900 seems archaic, but 1960 still seems relevant (Minus those pesky, non-consumption-friendly social movements). Cars, telecommunications, miniskirts. It's like we're seeing our culture enthrone its mores in the way Americans know best: litigation, and the legal system. Our culture is slowing down in some sense, but in reality it's just becoming "legitimate" and stable.

For example: where's the big new music scene? It's not because there's no musical avenues left to investigate. It's because our culture is so laden with ideas, we're incapable of propagating new ones into the mainstream. Why not an exploration into pure acoustic tonality, a la Yoshida Brothers? Because our culture is not capable of accepting it. We've become static. Hell, the whole concept of a "hipster" was in thrifting old, expired cultures. The vogue was in retro. Bruce Sterling, eat your heart out.

So, to answer your question: if we don't see any major cultural revolutions? Soon, but genesis will always be around 1900-1960.

If we get cyborgs and AI? Never. It would be like trying to rehash ragtime. Eventually patents will melt away, and reform at the beginning of the new age.

Basically: patents are the cultural realization that old ideas are still valid and commercially viable today. I don't like that, but there it is.
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Besides the obvious mention of jazz below, how about the instrumental arrangements from (European) classical music to modern instruments; the adaptations to contemporaneous orchestra settings; the musical mashups, so praised in the web 2.0 ? etc...