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...my first app, which allows you to enter your 20 favourite recipes. It will then choose a week’s worth of dinners at random, and compile a combined shopping list for you, and let you tick off the items as you purchase them. Now the market has decided that this idea isn’t worth paying $1 for. [...] I can only conclude – the idea sucked.

This actually doesn't sound like a bad idea at all, and would definitely be something I'd get if I stopped working late and started cooking more. Anyhow, a good idea and a strong implementation do not guarantee success.

I'd guess one reason it didn't sell well is because nobody thinks to themselves "Oh, I need an app that randomly picks meals I already know how to make and gives me a grocery list." Rather, this is an app that people will stumble upon and decide whether they think it is useful or not. Perhaps the missing ingredient for this app's success was neither idea nor execution, but rather marketing and a bit of well-timed publicity.

Edit: Found the app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/random-chef/id438618418?mt=8&...), and I would double down on my wager that it is a marketing/presentation problem: those first 2 screens definitely do not look very appealing. I'd scratch the paper texture--or if you really do want a paper texture, use something that you'd actually write a grocery list on, and not an ancient manuscript. The multiple different fonts throughout the app don't help with the readability or the presentation. Anyhow, the idea still sounds good, but how do you expect people to think it is well implemented when the first two pictures they see look like a mess!
I had been running the current version of Firefox until an hour before I visited the site running Chrome. Bad assumption from using one piece of information.
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He said "If this country ever undergoes a revolution in my lifetime, I sincerely hope that the lobbyists that acted at these levels of scumminess get tried for treason."

So the First Amendment would not be a problem there. It's hardly a prerequisite of a revolution to keep the same constitution as the old regime or to interpret it in the same way --quite the opposite.
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Thanks, this could be a valid issue, but so far my CPU and ARM utilization seem to be much less than using Firefox. Well, time will tell.
The problem I have isn't with the idea of organizations making donations, but rather when those donations create a "direct line" from the lobbyist group to the politician, bypassing the constituents.

Representatives are there to represent contituents because the USA is too big for direct democracy. If industry x really has such a profound impact on a community then it's in the self-interest of voters to reflect that at the voting booth by voting for the politician that will help said industry, and by extension, their community.

A private organization greasing the hand of a politician in order to ram a piece of legislation through, against the wishes of said politician's constituents is beyond contempt. From all the evidence I've seen, the only ones who like SOPA are the entertainment industry, and last time I checked they weren't elected to any governmental position.
The point is he should not have received anything, PERIOD.

Another point is exhausting pedantic analysis is not political --sometimes your gut instinct tells you more of what's going on. I mean, at some point we ought to be ENRAGED of such things, not discuss trivial details about them.
As long as you never get the idea that you could get ideas, you can live a happy life...
You don't walk into book stores to ask employees for the book you want. You browse, look, read, and finally select a book. No interaction with humans required. (There's human interaction at the point-of-sale, but you still don't have to speak to checkout.) Of course, if they didn't have the book you wanted, you might have to speak to a human to get it ordered ... if they didn't have computer kiosks for you to use instead.

Moving this type of sale onto the internet was not a change. Moving the food service industry, where human interaction is expected, into an environment without human interaction goes against people's expectations and habits. Is such a change technically feasible? Yes. Is it practical? Yes. Profitable? Sure, if you can change people's expectations.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I don't even think it'll be a difficult change. I personally would prefer it. But the first chain of restaurants to offer automated food service (and I do believe it'll need to be a chain) has many psychological barriers to overcome, in its investors and its customers.
Both ideas and ability can be developed through hard work. Ability comes through effective practice; ideas pop-up naturally as you're exposed to new systems, and think "I could do this better".
If Congress can be bought, why not expose the people doing the buying, and their lobbyists, and exert pressure on them instead of writing or calling Congressmen who don't care?
This is pretty cool. What are your plans to develop it further?

Would be really useful if I could plug a link into the top frame to debug HTML problems on live sites.
Polis is actually "one of us" -- he made a good amount of money doing startups. He opposes SOPA. In this case, call him up and send him some love for doing the right thing.

He's a pretty awesome guy -- check him out here entering the lyrics to "The Internet is for Porn" from Avenue Q into the congressional record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owyNvlVJ1qE
Sure, the datastore makes you think a bit harder when designing your application. But, I'd rather do that thought upfront than down the line when my MongoDB (or insert your favorite nosql solution here) instance is falling over under the load. In other words, you should probably be doing that anyway regardless of using GAE or not. ;-)

The rest of my app is just a regular .war file, so really it is just the data layer that would need to be ported. Given that the data store is pretty much just a big hashmap, it really won't be that difficult to rewrite the underlying code for another nosql store like MongoDB. The hard part of the original 'schema' design is already done.

As part of GAE leaving beta, Google has given a 3 year EOL commitment. I'm actually glad it has left beta because that means we get something solid from them now. What I mean is that once they declare that they are killing GAE (if they ever announce that), you have 3 years to migrate. I'm ok with that term.

http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html
7.2.a:
"For a period of 3 years after an announcement (the “Deprecation Period”), Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate the Deprecated Version of the Service and to respond to problems with the Deprecated Version of the Service deemed by Google in its discretion to be critical."

Seriously, I've done the research and I've used the different solutions that are available today. GAE is one of the best solutions out there at this time for my type of application, which is pretty much just a straight up webapp. The only difference I have is that I have really bursty traffic as a ton of people all try to register for an event at the same time and then go away. This means, I need something to truly auto scale up and down without requiring me to do work or know my load in advance. No other solution offers the level of PaaS that GAE offers and at the price.
Sounds like an opportunity for a web service. Post total sale and customer's state, get back the tax due and a token. If/when the sale is finalized, post the token back and have them track your taxes due to each state. Monthly, invoice the total amount due, and pay each state, keeping a service fee.
The author hasn't made any bold claims about its functionality or purpose. It is what it is.
No pun intended. Its unfortunate the word "Hacker" now has a slightly negative connotation for most people.
Please don't reply with "this". It's a kind of lazy shorthand that doesn't add anything and lowers the overall level of conversation, so you'll be downvoted for it.

That aside, welcome to HN. I hope you enjoy it.
clock rates were pushed up which caused heat dissipation to go up, and transistor counts were going up too, so you got an n^2 effect in terms of heat dissipation

Back when Dennard scaling was in effect, transistor power decreased as density increased, keeping chip power under control. The root of the problem is the end of Dennard scaling.

AMD proved that for user visible throughput, multiple cores could give you a better net gain than a faster CPU.

I don't know if that's true. AMD's success in 2003-2005 was mostly with single-core processors; I think all AMD showed was that a well-designed core and memory system beats a bad one.
Whatever happened to that petition? I just checked, and it seems that it reached the threshold.

If I remember correctly, that means they have to respond to it within a month, which would be Dec. 27th?
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No. It's cache misses, but because of cache-line hash collisions (multiple inputs consistently clash on the same cache line; when it's only 2 inputs, in that specific CPU, they all fit in L1, when it's 4, they don't -- regardless of the cache size; this case is tripped by the associativity)
Let me add that the straw that broke the camels back was not my frustration with how Firefox itself ran, but Mozilla's appearance of a trying to radically limit customer input! As a software developer I know things can go wrong, but you always insure that the lines of communication are open. The attempt to limit communicate when things are not going well is tantamount to committing product suicide!
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interesting problem. i'd like to then apply this concept of finding a needle in a haystack to satellite imagery. Using super-computing + giant image data sets, you could theoretically find some pretty obscure stuff if you knew what you were looking for (hidden treasures???).
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"Third, it doesn't mention that the TV/movie/music industry has donated large amount to those who are currently opposing SOPA."

This is what's known as hedging.
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I think you're right that Hong Kong is a comparable alternative; I've seen the two referred to as the Asian equivalents of New York and London in terms of their importance to Asian capital markets.

For myself, as an Australian, Singapore is more attractive because of its proximity.
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I don't think the author understands the pain of terminal cancer. There's often no desire for a cure, only release from the pain. People have their own feelings, values and desires, they should be respected, especially as they near death. Try not to be so selfish.
Singapore is much closer to Australia. For me personally, that's a big advantage.

If however I were doing business in China, Korea or Japan, Hong Kong would be a better base.
That's great. Let me know when they get to yesterday so they can tell me where I put my keys.
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I regularly read the complaints about the rent in SV and think:

1. I pay that much rent. In a small city.

2. ... with limited programming work

3. ... with higher expenses

4. ... with lower wages

If I could simply move to SV to work, I would. But I can't.
Ask HN: Rural DSL or how to take advantage of the Universal Service Fund?
Since my father passed the duty of taking care of my mother's internet connectivity has fell to me. She lives in a rural area where she is apparently about 1,000 ft^2 too far away from the local DSLAM for DSL. Her only options seem to be 3G from Sprint (for some reason the signal from at&t and verizon isn't strong enough for connectivity) or satellite connectivity which is incredibly lag prone, and unreliable with heavy cloud coverage.

How are other people handling this? I know there's a federal fund for providing access to people in rural areas called the USF that anybody with a telephone or a cell phone pays into. Has anybody else had luck wielding this power to level-up connectivity in the sticks? Got any pointers?
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> If we took away all donations, only the richest could afford to run.

If we banned lobbying, took away all donations, and mandated all candidates use public funds to campaign, this would not be a problem. (Except to the very most annoying of Libertarians.)
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We also recently left the USA because one of our party is a UK citizen. We spent 6 months in the UK as US citizens with no problem, but when we came to the USA, we had to leave after 3 months, or send the UK resident co-founder out of the country at least. This visa thing is kinda absurd.

What is the visa situation like in Hong Kong? I've read elsewhere that getting a visa for China is very difficult (this might be an area where HH is different from CN). Are you able to get reasonably long visas so that you can stay there indefinitely, or will you have to relocate again in 6 months or a year?

FWIW, others have recommended Singapore, and one nice thing about Singapore is that they have a pro-entrepreneur Visa process, though it seems a bit focused on business that will be hiring singaporeans, so the traditional tiny consumer internet startup might have trouble meeting their requirements.

Singapore is an expensive place to live, housing wise (though I hear food is super cheap and super plentiful with a massive "Street food"/mall-food-court culture).... though I imagine HK real estate isn't cheap either.

The approach we're taking is that we're going places where our core costs are low-- apartment for the founders plus food, etc, and trying to make our funds last longer that way, and then working with people remotely to expand our staff.
I only know marketing agencies there, but haven't run into any groups of either hardware or software hackers. Would be interested to find out what is there as well.
In a related vein, Canabalt looks like the simplest game ever but it has similar fudges to play better. http://blog.semisecretsoftware.com/tuning-canabalt
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Veto SOPA bill and any future bills that threaten the free flow of information
Just by reading hacker news daily, you will build up ideas and skills (to build skills I recommend going through the more tutorial-based posts on HN). Most people don't even know what HN is, so you're already a step ahead of them.

I'm guessing you're into programming so pick a few languages and learn them in your spare time - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...

For idea development, keep reading posts on HN, TechCrunch, GigaOM, VentureBeat, etc. Spend a few minutes daily writing down words / trends you notice for startup ideas / startups that are doing well and others that are doing bad. As you do this more and more, you'll start to notice really great trends, and you can iterate on them. Also for ideas, go through your day and write down every pain point on a sheet of paper (the writing part is important, typing it in isn't as useful!). As you build up both pain points and trends, you'll get the hang of mixing / mashing ideas!
You are mistaken. Bribery and corruption are not protected by the first amendment. Try offering a police officer some cash next time you get a speeding ticket. Or setting up a nice deal to put kids in jail [1].

Of course, this only applies to me, you, county judges, etc. Not senators. Not SCOTUS Justices. Not the people who have the most to gain from such corruption. Not the people who actually decide such laws. Fancy.

[1] http://articles.cnn.com/2009-02-23/justice/pennsylvania.corr...
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Thanks for your input. You state some very valid points, which led me to basically posting the idea on Quirky. I don't have the money and background experience to go from idea to concept (and time). If the idea peaks the interest of others on Quirky it has a chance of becoming a product in which Quirkly will build and sell.
That is sad but true.
Almost all my CS friends went to investment banks or private funds. I can only name a few that is willing to engage in startup-like activities. Fighting against the norm is hard here. (especially when the banks and funds pays pretty well)
Continuing my theme of posting relevant google tech talks, here is Soren Johnson, the lead designer and AI programmer on Sid Meier's Civilisation, discussing this very subject with specific reference to the evolution of civ's AI over the years. Extremely enlightening, whether you are a gamer or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcuQQ1eWWI

"Artificial intelligence is crucial to any strategy game, providing a compelling opponent for solo play. While many of the challenges of AI development are technical, significant design challenges exist as well. Can the AI behave like a human? Should it? Should the game design be adjusted to accommodate the limitations of the AI? How do we make the AI fun? Should the AI cheat? If so, how much? Do we even want the AI to win? This session suggests some possible answers to these questions using the "Civilization" series as a case study. Ultimately, developers must choose between a "good" AI and a "fun" one, with an understanding of the trade-offs inherent when deciding between the two."
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All the details may be overreaching, but if I'm joining a startup I definitely want to know revenue, profit/loss, and runway left if applicable.

I'd also want to know exactly how they make money or are planning to make money.
I like the way Jeff Vogel put it: "Make Your Game Easy. Then Make It Easier." http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2009/11/make-your-game-easy-t...
This is why, even though he is a nutjob on reproductive-rights, I have to support Ron Paul. All these issues should be decided by the states, not the feds.
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As a counter-practicality, a 30+ year old is more likely to be legally attached to someone with health insurance.
Looking at the responses & screenshots, it seems more likely the account was suspended for spamming.
So it takes the text as input, and injects that into the frame below. A few times per second.

I'm wondering what the use cases for this are? Learning HTML basics?

I think http://jsfiddle.net/ does this and a lot more.
Entirely unrelated, but is there a way to find out why this is incompatible with my device? Samsung Galaxy S...its not that old!
My first thought when I saw the word "sovereign" was that this was a plan advocating making nation-states the ultimate certificate authority or something.

Now that I see this is just the opposite, the terror of that moment has passed.
So you're saying that some online petitions are actually meant to diffuse dissent about the thing they're petitioning? That would be a stroke of evil genius if it's true. Doesn't strike me as being the case so much as their being driven by naive idealism, but in the case of the whitehouse one, it's at least conceivable. In the long run, it's probably just going to demonstrate to a lot of people that online petitions are mostly counterproductive.
Wordpress is pretty easy to get going with Nginx. Took me a couple of hours (max) to switch from Apache on my linode box.
99% had a great video from Tony Schwartz just last week:

http://the99percent.com/videos/7110/Tony-Schwartz-The-Myths-...

Basically, he believes that mental exercises is just like physical exercise. During rest periods is when your capacity to do the exercise expands, not during the exercise itself.
You could imagine that one of these petitions might bring an issue that they weren't aware of to some staffer's attention. But this administration clearly already has a very strong view in favor of intellectual property protection by any means available, regardless of the consequences. It's one they've made manifest by pushing ACTA (among other things), and it's really hard to imagine a petition like this changing it.
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Another 'cheating' method used in games is to keep the player in a state of flow. For example, in a fighting game combos could become increasingly easier so that the player stays in the zone.
I think it probably updates on keydown, not several times per second.
> I seriously doubt all of them have the manpower or money to properly collect sales tax.

Isn't this usually when someone pipes in and says "seems like a good opportunity for a startup"? It's a complex but well-defined domain - perfect for building a paid service. Input to the API is billing zip code, the type of good/service being sold, the date of transaction, and the pretax amount. The lawyers will point out other factors I don't know about. The output is the tax to charge.

Charge by the API call, with different tiers/bulk pricing options for those who need to process many microtransactions versus those who are selling more expensive, shipped goods.

Or do people believe that once a credit card number is used on the internet instead of in a point of sale reader, the transactions really should be exempt from any taxes? I agree it's a lot harder problem to solve, don't get me wrong, but doo people really believe the "correct" solution is to just say "we should never have sales tax on the internet because it's different"?

Edit: If this law passes, such a service would also be an awesome competitive advantage for some of those startup payment processor companies that I see sprouting up.
I've seen this suggestion made elsewhere and agree. One of the concerns raised was relative tv time being that things would be skewed towards the incumbent. To this I would propose exposure (tv, radio) inversely proportional to how the candidate does in polling, primaries etc. that is the weakest candidate get the most time... Presumably, the positions of the incumbent are already well known.
I got distracted typing my response so I ended up responding 22 minutes after you. Damn.
Interesting. You claim:

1) My guy was honest and just expressing his opinion.

2) My guy had trouble raising money when faced with an opponent who also had the same opinion and whose honesty you cannot vouch for.

You argument does not refute our claim: Money goes to the corrupt. Indeed it would appear to support it.
I've suffered from depression, and random crap like insomania. For years, I'd rely on the doctor and follow the medications. These just made my life and sleep much worse.

Then one day, I ate a cookie that had been cooked with marijuana. Suffice to say, I slept a lovely 8 hour sleep that night - and the greatest thing? I've only ever had to use marijuana a _few_ times in the last 3 or so years. So, it seems to work long-term...

I've figured it's probably better for my health to stop switching weird medications every 3 months, and have a brownie every now and again.

I'm a much healther and happier person by far.