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I'm a solo founder and have been working on Sifter (http://sifterapp.com) for going on 4 years now. It's been live for about 3 of those years, and I've been full-time for a little over a year. My salary is about 80% of what I was making working full-time elsewhere, maybe a little lower when you factor in health insurance, but the work is exponentially more fulfilling. I do my best to share my thoughts on the ups and downs on my blog. (http://garrettdimon.com)

I technically have what some people might consider a co-founder, but he's more of an investor/advisor as I've been the only person that's involved day-to-day.

I also created a presentation recently that summarized what the experience has been like and what we've done right or wrong for our situation. (http://bootstrapping.sifterapp.com)

Finally, I'd also recommend Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard as a good source. He discusses a little bit of his experience on the Pinboard blog. (http://blog.pinboard.in/)
When they say "grep", they appear to literally be running grep on four billion documents[1]. I'm assuming that is a significantly more expensive operation than their normal search algorithm as it won't use whatever search tree they've got set up.

1. http://blog.blekko.com/2011/09/13/get-ready-to-grep-the-web/
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First, I think Lifepath is beautiful. Being a developer first, and designer second, I often find myself having a hard time breaking out of the mold when it comes to designing my applications. Usability doesn't have to mean boring, and I think Lifepath is a great example of that. I could see a company like Greplin taking this and turning it into an auto-generated timeline curated from the various social networks they can tap into. It's obvious that Dustin out a ton of time, effort, and love into this project, so I hope there is a happy ending!
I had the same reaction. Even though I grasp scientifically what they do, seeing that video is an almost spooky experience.

I know it cannot be used to visualize what we dream/hallucinate yet, it only shows what the patient directly sees. But if that's the next step... wow, it would change communication and content creation as we know it if we could just dream up videos in our mind and upload them :-)
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netstat -s |grep "connections established" is pretty fast and does the job if you're not filtering for certain ports or IPs. But running plain old netstat on a system with so many connections is a really bad idea. I almost fired myself once over a crufty cron job I left running...
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I think bootstrap is perfect for internal products, generally those product have low budget, and using bootstrap give you a nice design and "guidelines",

It will also consolidate all your product with one interface which is always nice.

I think it is also good for mvp, thing is, yeah as said earlier, if everyone start having project looking the same its not going to be good, and the first impression might change from wow i like this product, to ah, another twitter bootstrap project
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Hold on, can you expand on that? I am reading that you are suggesting that facebook would just make public your (like-enabled) entire web history, whether you clicked like or not.
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Good post, when advertising is your bottom line in reference to an income using metrics and things like "I'm most likely to remember ads that appear prior to content" are things that are good things to know.

I am curious about his analytics on this. I'm not a tech person, I've been selling internet advertising for 5 years though.
Isn't it up to Congress to direct the Patent office?
Thanks for the follow up! Will continue to play with it.
As much as I agree with this sentiment, it's seems more like the rule of law has been entirely suspended, and in a such a case all die by the sword.
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Perhaps I am generalizing too much - what I truly meant was this feature enables Facebook to have even more fine-grained criteria on which to sell ads.
Is the code open sourced? The UI needs some work and so does the css, but overall is very good for the amount of code.
Should I wait for your next post where you will address any of my major points (such as those in the 2nd to last paragraph especially) or is this it?

As to your points above I have a quite suitable counter-argument in the form of the existence proof of modern, productive, civil societies that have legalized or decriminalized drug use and have not seen the catastrophic problems that people such as yourself have predicted, namely: The Netherlands and Portugal.

When observation differs from the predictions of a model it's time to abandon that model. The predictions of the model "prohibition is almost invariably worse than legalization/decriminalization" so far have a rather incredibly high batting average.
I'm the single founder of Bignoggins Productions. I do sports apps for mobile devices. My apps have been pretty successful, reaching as high as #32 overall paid on iPhone and #60 overall paid on iPad. Been full time for about 9 months now. Made 75K last year, and on track for 250K+ this year. Almost all profit as my overhead is insanely low. Currently traveling the world with my wife while working on apps (our travel blog is http://www.shenventure.com). In fact, I'm writing this from an airbnb in Venice right now and headed to Milan tommorrow.
This may actually be an obsessive compulsive effect.
I agree, few articles that I have read about this (including BBC) clearly mention this as speculation and a possibility. However probably there are people who still take this as a fact after reading the article. In my mind media has been surprisingly careful with this not to claim this as a new discovery.
I'm a single founder (Haystack Software). I wrote/write Arq (online backup to S3). I consider it a success because it pays my bills. A huge side benefit is it gets me into conversations with folks who tell me their business pain. I'm working on products to solve those pains as well.

I was (and still am) hugely inspired by DHH's presentation at Startup School 08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
Yeah, you're right. Look at what people can do with just two Kinects; all you really need is enough pictures of the object from different surrounding points to construct a 3D representation that looks alright.
First you need someone who can sleep in an MRI.
I 've been living off facebook apps since 2008. Upside: life free of commitments. Downside: Too much free time. Right now, i 'm doing a PhD course.
It seems that Marco's problem isn't that people are profiting off of his content; if that were the case he'd be using a more restrictive CC license. Rather his problem is that he doesn't like BI's design (nor do I, all of his complaints are spot-on). I wonder how he feels about all of the iPad apps that profit on Wikipedia content. Many of those are well designed; I bet he doesn't have a problem with those.

I think Marco just needs to choose a different CC license. Personally I wouldn't allow BI or HuffPo to do this type of thing to my content.
You're right there, and I don't think there's any way to get a straight answer about the inner workings of a company unless you've got a friend on the inside.

The upside is that if you do good work and make it easy for employers to see it (e.g. github) then you can at least cast a wider net. Hopefully you'll get more interviews and offers so that you can pick the company that gives you the best vibe about their work environment and growth prospects.
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Ok.. first of all if you are going to be taken seriously you should really spell everything correctly in your petition, or you sound like an ass. How can i take a point away from this story hacker news?

Is this by the same guy that wants VT to secede and become part of Canada? http://vermontrepublic.org/
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if you exec the shell on your own (and make auth decisions on your own) outside of PAM you are basically destroying meaningful logging of successful/unsuccessful authentication, right?
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I have a friend who is a program chair for a web development academic program at a large community college. I have told him that most of the students I see leaving their program are just not prepared and have to bootstrap a lot of knowledge on their own, making it hard for them to get a job. In the program today they tend to focus so much on skills like HTML and FrontPage/dreamweaver that a student never truly has the opportunity to see if web development is what they want to do or gain the skills to actually help their career.

I have been asked to be one of the advisors and come up with 10 classes that would help better prepare a student for work in the industry. I know most of what I learned was self-taught and on my own time. I have followed HN for a long time and use it as a resource to keep up with what is coming and what I need to explore.

I was hoping I could solicit some feedback from the HN community about what a community college web development program could offer that would actually help prepare a student.
I use Bootstrap in this way. I just pulled the components I wanted, and appreciate how self-contained it is.
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Only thing I can spot is this twitter feed on the side bar
http://twitter.com/#!/Directgov/statuses/117169143756767232
You mean that we already tried to locate them and failed, or that we should start looking?

Anyway, my point is that if there are some neural activity pattern that is correlated to lying, it could be easier to extract that information than it is extracting full images from the visual cortex.
The light bulb, the telephone, the electrical power system, and the television -- to name a few examples off the top of my head -- were all fraught with lawsuits, and the "winners" were not necessarily the people you'd think were morally in the right.

If I recall with the telephone it was literally a matter of who got to the filing desk first.

The difference today is that the products in the center of the fights are all composed of a set of technologies each of which represents a bunch of inter-related fights.

I guess the patent system is good at turning innovation into a lottery where if you invent something crucial then you get a _shot_ at fame and fortune. And psychology teaches us that random reinforcement works better than simply being "fair", so as an incentive system the patent system seems to work. As a dispenser of natural justice -- not so much.
GRC's Perfect Paper Passwords works well for me (https://www.grc.com/ppp.htm). It's similar to Last Pass's Grid authentication but less obnoxious IMO. One member of the GRC newsgroups has written a PAM which has served all of my 2FA needs (http://code.google.com/p/ppp-pam/).
I, and thousands of my users, use them fine every day thanks.
Wouldn't such interactions create feedback loops that would, in turn, create a cascading generation of neutrinos?

I didn't look at the data, but the point in time the detection cuts off is also relevant - it should match the time it took the first neutrinos to arrive at the detector. If some of the original neutrinos interacted with something outside normal spacetime and that made new neutrinos appear closer to the detector, some of the original neutrinos should have arrived at the detector at the predicted time.

Anyway, this is a very interesting concept. Hope you can somehow test it.
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I'm sketching out some plans for a project that would deal with medical data. From what I understand reading HIPAA, I would be subject to all the guidelines as an outside entity or 'healthcare clearinghouse'. Does anyone have any experience making a webapp HIPAA compliant?

The regulations and potential liabilities, while understandable from a patient perspective, seem daunting for a startup to tackle.
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That's cool if you need an app to help you figure out how you are like or different from your friends, I guess. For me, it's just confirmation that Facebook offers nothing I want, and I'm glad I never created an account there.
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$2.4M!? Poor workers. As a tech company, they should be investing in ways to capture that heat and going more green. But profits are profits...
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Does the iPhone have an host USB port? I don't think it does.

There are bluetooth numberpads, though, those should work. Something like this: http://store.apple.com/us/product/H0321VC/A (just found it, never used)
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i met the guy who wrote the AroundMe iphone app last week. Top 15 overall downloaded app and i think over 30M searches a month. Hes running it all on his own since 2008, just his wife doing support stuff. Very humble and cool guy aswell!
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I like the second result better than the first, for what it's worth. ;)

But come on. While let-me-Google-that-for-you requests are annoying, they are in toto less toxic to threads than comments like yours; at least the lame question generates a factual answer.
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People do that already. Some find it relaxing, oddly enough.
Sure. Same here. I was writing js chat and realtime games back in '99.

Don't get me wrong, SPDY is cool and good to see. But users won't notice any real difference. It's like when someone re-does a flash game in HTML5 and we (as geeks) go 'wow awesome', and non-geeks go 'uh? so what'
"Your idea is only unique if it's uniquely bad, and if you can't execute better than someone else who randomly hears your idea, you're not worth investing in."

No, there really is work that really should be called 'intellectual property' (IP) and might be new and unique. And as the US DoD has understood well for decades, there really is IP that should be marked 'confidential', 'secret', etc.

A current example of such IP might be the Google ranking algorithm.

More broadly a claim that there are no ideas that are new, unique, and good is in wild conflict with essentially all of peer-reviewed original research that, typically, is supposed to be "new, significant, and correct".

Information technology (IT) entrepreneurship and venture capital nearly totally assume that all the technical work is just routine software. This is a HUGE mistake. But with this mistake, the only unique or new aspect of the project is just the 'business idea' that might be ripped off.

Such business ideas actually CAN, EVENTUALLY, get protection, that is, a 'barrier to entry' or a 'Buffett moat', from effects in the market, say, Fred Wilson's "large networks of engaged users". But getting this protection requires success in the market which takes time, and between first contact with a venture firm and the protection in place, the business 'idea' can be vulnerable to being copied and the business opportunity taken.

Some entrepreneurs believe they have evidence that some venture partners have received such business 'ideas' from entrepreneurs, told the entrepreneurs to get lost, and given the ideas to buddies of the venture partners.

So, some entrepreneurs want a venture firm to sign a 'non-disclosure agreement' (NDA) before discussing the business idea.

Alas, at least in IT, venture firms will nearly never sign.

Generally, as an opening negotiating position, it is in the interest of the venture firms to take a 'stance', if they can get away with it, that their money and business 'acumen' are really valuable and that the entrepreneur has nothing new, unique, powerful, or valuable.

Entrepreneurs can counter by saying that all the money is just green, indistinguishable, and fungible, and the venture partners are nearly never qualified to be Chief Scientist, CTO, CIO, Server Farm Manager, Software Project Leader, Software Developer, Network Architect, or Network Administrator and, thus, have at best only peripheral knowledge for the business success.
They could just mute it in Flash. Yeah, you can still extract it, but that's illegal anyway.
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I just threw mine away, after basement flooding from Hurricane Irene. But it was time anyway. To hook it up I needed too many adapters:

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I mostly agree.

That MMO that is getting away with using customers as QA, and only fixing bugs that NEED fixing? I bet they're making a nice profit. I'm sure the customers are annoyed, but in my experience, gamers won't quit playing over bugs. Bad customer service, price hikes, etc... Sure. But not bugs. Even if they stick around for years.

However, business applications are a different story. Businesses can't afford to be stopped from doing what they need to. And a QA person makes all the difference in the world there.

For those that don't understand why, a programmer can't find their own bugs because they've already done their utmost to find bugs in the code. They've already stretched themselves to the limit before they sent the code to QA. You can train, coddle, beat, or otherwise influence them and only get a few more bugs found by programmers. It's much better for everyone's sanity and wallets if you just pay for proper QA.
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'Chamath had been previously known to me from my friends at Winamp as "the guy who fucked Winamp," (after Winamp had been sold to AOL) and seemed like a pretty lame dude.'

Does anyone know more about this back story?
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It's up to Congress to write the original laws. They already did. It's up to the judicial branch to decide whether those laws preclude software patents. They already did: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2011-07-28

Caveat: They did opine that Congress should clarify this particular question. However, decades of inaction by Congress must be interpreted as their acceptance of the Supreme Court opinions as good law, not in need of legislative clarification.

Now it's up to the executive branch to direct the patent office to obey the law.
That's more that go has an incredibly crude GC (which is in the process of being replaced, as far as I know), and less that it is fundamentally broken.

Other language and GC implementations with a large shared heap can work fine. See, for example, Azul systems' JVM.
In Portugal you are brought in front of a judge where you will be offered help with addictions. You're still arrested for having and/or using drugs. People holding more than small amounts or producing are still jailed.

In the Netherlands they have such a problem of narco-tourism that they had to harden laws regarding drugs and I would not be surprised that more hardening will come. Additionally, not all drugs were made legal.

You seem to believe that penalizing drugs usage is wrong and counter-productive. My point of view is that it's normal for a state to regulate substances that are potentially harmful.

At some point we leave the domain of objective arguments for the domain of personal beliefs.
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A huge one for me is that for some reason I can never correctly type the word "Length". As if to highlight my point to myself, I consciously thought about how to type it, and still ended up with "lenght" on the screen.

Python's built in function "len()" is a lifesaver in this regard.
I started Blogthings.com (a personality quiz site) in 2004 by myself, and I've never had a job while working in it. It makes enough money for both my husband and I to live off of, and we split the work on it, which ends up just being a few hours a week (no more than 10). I spend my free time working on my programming / math and figuring out what's next.
From what I understand:

* If you want "Windows Certified" approval for your hardware, you have to provide and activate this by default.

* If it's active, it won't allow uncertified systems (read: Linux) to run without deactivating the option in the BIOS, which doesn't have to be provided.

* If it's inactive, it won't run Windows.

Since this isn't the first time Microsoft had troubles being fair to their competition, I'd see this less as "bullshit," and more as "people caught on more early this time." With Microsoft's past, why are you surprised people are more careful with its suggestions?
Aren't there laws against things like this?
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Reference counting is not the answer. It has too much overhead and cycles are a serious problem that shouldn't be swept under the rug. Real GC can be pauseless with the right language design and the proper use of virtual memory. I don't think any open source project is there yet, but there was a very interesting article a while back about the Azul JVM's approach.
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"If you are entrusting your life data to Facebook, or if you are depending on Facebook and its platform for your livelihood, beware."

I think you should always be careful when you are entrusting any third party with your livelihood. You can only plan so much, but when your business plan requires that one crucial system and you have no way to even have a contingency plan, then you have to realize that it could easily be a make or break deal at any point in time.
"However, business applications are a different story."

You've sure got that right. Our application conducts real-time purchasing events (reverse auctions) where bidders are ranked based on a couple of different configurable algorithms. An error in calculation means incorrect ranking, which means the entire outcome is invalidated. Considering that it can take weeks to put together a purchasing event of this type means that there is a lot riding on that single series of calculations.

Simply releasing and finding bugs in production would be financial suicide. QA isn't even a question in our business. Everything is tested thoroughly when it goes out the door.
I could not agree more. And not only should all projects include QA, but they should include QA by an actual quality assurance analyst or team. QA performed by minimum wage (or low payed) temps or short-term services tends to be next to worthless. Also, don't even think about using a spreadsheet to track issues.

QA needs to be done, and it needs to be funded. Everything you put into will return in less development time (overall, not necessarily in the short term), and more satisfied users.
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