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Agreed, my startup has a two sided payment process and was flagged by Paypal very early on for violating their Acceptable Use Policy. This was for the mere fact that the business model made my business a third party handler, which violates that agreement. Some companies fly under the radar on this, I wasn't one of those.

So, the realistic options left imho are ACH using something like AmazonPayments and sending out checks, which has its issues. Unfortunately there simply aren't as many options for paying money out as there is taking it in.

Btw my startup is Sponsorist.com, currently taking $ in through Stripe and sending out as checks. For now. :)
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It looks like Readability doesn't quite like this new feature in Instapaper. From Timothy Meaney, part of Arc90, parent company of Readability:

@marcoarment congrats Marco, great idea out of nowhere to up your game re: typography. Out of nowhere!!

Interesting, considering Readabilty's app is a complete ripoff of the one-man-company Instapaper.
Two thoughts: 1. This news makes me very happy. 2. Most states don't have the economic clout that would make a retailer like Amazon hurt more from the loss of their affiliates than they would by charging sales tax. It's not only the potential loss of revenue they might incur if sales taxes were no longer part of the price comparison between local and internet sales, it's the huge, possibly inestimable, cost of complying with the wacky tax codes rates set by random politicians in every dinky municipality, county and state, which change faster than leaves fall in an Autumn windstorm. If Illinois wants to squeeze more tax revenue out of its citizens, let it join with other states and demand a single, uniform, federal sales tax. Until then, lotsa luck.
That's not accurate -- they launched the domain in Feb 2005; they uploaded the first video April 2005; they officially launched in November 2005; then Lazy Sunday went viral in December 2005.

They were already well known before Lazy Sunday, but that tipped them over the edge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

YouTube the company was an overnight success, if anything can be called that. I wouldn't say the founders had overnight success, but pretty close to it. They put in some time at PayPal and probably made out quite well from its sale, which allowed them to start YouTube. Some people just have talent + luck.
The last thing I printed was the entire source code to XV6 so I could browse through it at my leisure.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html
Companies have been doing that for years. You think factory workers or fast food employees all love their jobs (without being a little brainwashed)?

This is the trend I've seen from my friends (even before Gen Y)

Parents came from middle class, work their ass off to provide for their kids. The idea is to give their kids the opportunity to do what they love instead of having to run the rat race.

For the parents that succeed, their kids end up picking something they love, but pay absolutely crap. But they're happy right? Well, not really. So now the friends' kids are growing up in a family where money IS an issue, and they learn to work hard for things. They don't necessarily get to do what they love, but they'll work for pay. One day they'll grow up and provide for their kids so their kids can do what they love.

This ends up being a moving sine wave where each generation repeats what their grandparents did. I'm not really sure if there is a better way.
Not sure how much that has reached into China. And industries like coal mining in China desperately need worker protections, but Western consumer purchases are unlikely to have any way to cause that.
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> I think they provide a lot of added value on top of just ram, bandwidth and processor

Bingo. This is why we use them. EC2's performance is not great, and the pricing is only "good" if you reserve instances on a 3-year term. However, their full suite of services are wonderful. We're not really vendor locked in, either, because of how we designed our app.

We're willing to pay a premium in order to not have to administer parts of our stack. For example, Simple Email Service is so cheap and beats the heck out of running a mail server. We have 0 media servers, because S3/CloudFront do it wonderfully. We don't need a front-facing proxy EC2 instance, because ELB works great for our purposes. Background tasks are scheduled with SQS, so we don't need RabbitMQ or ZeroMQ. Auto-scaling shapes our server fleet automagically to our traffic.

Point of all of this is, you spend a ton more on salaries. We've been able to put off hiring because of Amazon's full suite of offerings, which is a huge win for us.
I would go as far as saying that all form of income tax should be abolished in favor of one large federal sales tax. One that's already included in all advertised prices.

I think it would make most people's lives that much simpler.
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There is no such thing as a 'pro quality' tracker.

They ALL suck, in different ways, and simply try to minimize their deficiencies based on the context they were developed in.

You find the one that fits your world view and your work flow, and put up with the annoyances and oddities, or try to paper over them with hacks and service hooks.
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As well that Marco has been very upfront about the competition spurring him on.

I think Timothy Meaney needs to watch the Everything is a Remix series: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
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I admire his gusto, and there is something to be said about breaking with the patterns of traditional living for even a short period of time. "The sleeper must awaken."

However, the downsides to vehicle dwelling are numerous (and well described in the comments here); It's a lifestyle probably incompatible with the focus needed for startup level productivity.

I had a similar (crazy) adventure once, based out of a minivan, and my experience was that vehicle living causes a fair amount of stress and doesn't let you easily recover from it. Vehicle sleep is not usually restful sleep, since issues of personal security and lawfulness are always on the edge of awareness. What a car lacks is the basic benefit of home: A place to just relax and have a bit of safe, secure quiet, and for god's sake not have to worry about where your laptop is at the moment.

Bottom line is that a vehicle is not a good place to personally "reset". And if you're planning on working super long days both because you're dedicated to a project and have no other place to go besides the office, that's a formula for burnout.

Most significantly though, he's going to have a devil of a time not being noticed as a potential target at night in his small sedan, which lacks non-obvious provisions for visual privacy or ventilation. A van or minivan would be much better; you can curtain the windows without drawing suspicion from your neighbors.

My minivan experiment lasted about a month. From there, I moved to a sailboat with all the attendant conveniences of a well equipped marina. During this time, I had a steady job and girlfriend (god bless her), but even with the relief of crashing at her place once in awhile, it was only a matter of months before my dreams of road-and-water-borne freedom transformed back to visions of walls and a roof of my own.

YMMV ;)

P.S. As others may have mentioned, AirBnB and CouchSurfing.com are infinitely better solutions to Kurt's stated purpose. But I suspect there will be no dissuading him. When the sea calls, the sea calls.
I agree. I was trying to pick out the wisdom in this post; I mean, the comic was entertaining I guess. All I gathered was:

1. I had an okay idea and did absolutely nothing about it for 18 months... until I saw other people built what I was thinking.

GUYS, DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE I DID OF DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Seriously? That in itself is not a lesson worth 1,000 words.
My first job out of uni was for a startup in Melbourne, Australia. After 3 years the place was running out of cash. The company was betting its entire future on this iPhone app that we were developing for them (iPhone 3G era). It was finished in about 3 months and we submitted it to the app store. Apple had taken over 2 months to reject the application and the process to get it approved took almost 6 months. This was a voip app and Apple's reasoning was that it was potentially competing with their own products. By the time it was approved the company was pretty much finished and I'd taken up another job.

As crappy as the whole process can be it is still a million times better than pre-iPhone Nokia. We had to pay thousands of dollars to get a dongle license just to be able to develop for Nokia phones. After you finish you have to pay money and submit it to an "approved" test house so they can run through a bunch of test cases. If your app failed you had to pay again and resubmit.
Fantastic. Thanks for posting this. I was wondering how you've been doing. Welcome to the startup life again. :D
Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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All the cycles end on the epiphany that cycles themselves don't exist. They are just pieces of an internal storyline you've been writing since childhood. The story is not optimized for your happiness, because you didn't even architect it. Try reinventing a suitable story for yourself from scratch.

Go ahead and skip the accomplishment part. Skip right to giving yourself success and happiness now. Time is the real resource at play here, so don't deplete by screwing yourself out of happiness every day instrospecting through these cycles. The only person that will/can give you what you want is you, and you have direct access to make it happen without the gauntlet you are imposing on yourself.

Or at least this is the direction I'd like to go...
Explorercanvas will help you out here. I am not sure if it can keep up, but it performs very well. http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/
I look forward to the day when we have super hi dpi laptops.

However, while the lower dpi of my macbook pro is noticeable, it is not tremendously so. If the screen were closer to my face it would be much more noticeable, but laptops usually have some distance to the viewer.
Audacity is AWESOME!!! It's perfect for removing background hissing on cheap mics.

For any of you who have a lot of hissing or humming coming from your mic when you record podcasts or demo videos for your startups. Audacity can take it out in just a few clicks using its noise removal filter. Just remember, whenever you start recording an audio track, wait 5 seconds before you start talking, and then use those 5 seconds of hissing to build a profile using the noise removal. And apply that to the whole track. My brother and I were blown away at how well it took all the hissing out. I recorded on a $9 Walmart mike and it sounded like studio quality work. Crisp, clean voice, pure hiss-less silence between sentences.

Thank you and all of its developers. Audacity is a perfect example of easy to use, easy to learn, open source software.
Are you sure? I know there are lots of sites and apps but I find 99% of them completely useless. Being a biz dev person instead of a hacker, I don't always solve my problems with code.

This means while you CAN build an app, unless that app does something better than the traditional way of solving the problem, then it's not something people want. Most apps don't actually solve problems better or make them easier than their traditional solutions.
The detail I find really remarkable is that all the data collection systems are almost entirely passive! What would it take to be able to put that sort of logging/ tracking system together for the normal technical user?
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Sure, but EMC and Mozy are a natural fit. It's not like he heard a really good song on the radio, and the next day EMC bought the record label.
While it's true larger companies can get press on their products easier, if they're not building something people will pay for, it will flop. Take Apple's Ping for instance. Even Steve Job's magic couldn't make that cool.

To get your product out there and carry the WOM effect - your thing really needs to be something people crave and will pay for.
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There is a huge difference between "applications you install running as root" and "rooting a device". "rooting a device" means taking over the OS. The typical action is that once you root your android device, you then install CyanogenMod or something similar to replace the pre-installed operating system. Once Cyanogen or someting similar exists, there's no need to have userland apps running as root for the vast majority of people.
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Switch to Trello. It's practically the same thing, but far less opinionated/religious.
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I love Audacity. The only thing I'd like to see changed is labelling/splits. It is a pain in the ass to the point that I usually just cut the start and end off save that and then undo.
Reading in bed with the new iPad would be even nicer if iOS had "reverse black and white" (control-option-command-8) like OS X does.
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There was at least one more coupon site that also left the state as a result of the tax, so in addition to the 50 jobs cited in the article, Illinois lost more jobs (and presumably additional tax revenue with them).
New York managed to get Amazon to collect taxes.
You're absolutely on track here

The way he did it is nice and minimal, and in 2 months when you go back to change something you will have no idea what you did.

I've had to do a few things in R and I always dread revisiting my code. Half the time it's easier and faster to just rewrite everything.
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I honestly think it's one of those Yahoo/Facebook-type deals. If Apple tries to frivilously deny Amazon's app, they risk pissing off the dominant player in the ebook market, who could sue for all kinds of random things relating to iBooks. Prey lacks that leverage.
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That's a huge difference. I keep feeling like there is this generation of very naive programmers out there. Yes, it's true, the IP address can be used to determine where you are on a mobile phone ... If you get a subpoena!

There's a big difference from "Sure, by using this phone, I know Homeland Security can find me" and "I guess I will let every website I visit know where I am; what the hell, privacy is a commodity!"

This attitude seems very strange to me. It is certainly in line with this "new way of thinking about privacy" but it has really nothing to do with reality.
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It's in Apple's best interest to get this out so they can show off the new Retina Display with native apps. Makes perfect sense from a business standpoint.
If all shoes were built with those things in mind (like say, boots are), then I might buy that. However in most shoes none of those things seem to be given strong consideration.
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Btw, here is the repository in case any one wants to look into it
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Just listened to your Mixergy interview this past week. Guess this is a mix between being a founder and being at a 100 person company :). Congrats.
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I use triple-click on home button to do that, you can enable it under settings, accessibility if I remember correctly.
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They did make sense. Cobook, sparrow, etc.

There was one that surprised me at first. I think it was Xcode.
My state, North Carolina is one of the states that has this law as well and as a result Amazon pulled out of here too. I hope they take notice of this and get rid of it.
I'm sure Asian companies have already ventured into it http://fundprojectswith.me/
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Eh, I run a one man shop, deliver on the order of 100k emails a day, and do most of what you describe on dedicated boxes (redis, queued jobs, mail server), and it doesn't take that much time to administer. My 4 servers have a combined 36 3 ghz xeon processor cores, 12 TB of bandwidth, ~80 GB of RAM, and 8 SSD drives totaling 800 GB of flash. They serve about 11 million requests per day from 100k unique users at an average of 30-40 ms per request. They do this for less than $3k/month, and I've got about 4x headroom from midday steady state. It's not as redundant as Amazon's setup, but I've also had less downtime than EC2 in the last two years. IO is consistent, and almost always below 10ms. Setup and teardown is a pain, but I almost never have to do it. I've been able to put off hiring because it's not really that hard due to how powerful servers are these days. I'll admit to using S3 for picture hosting, but that's the only one :-)
Sure. But on a first run after the upgrade it is too late too. These are all apps that we're running earlier in the day. It's beta software and probably won't be released like that.
It's great to see that the MOOC (Massive open online courses) phenomenon is picking momentum. Between Udacity, MITx and others, I expect that in 1-2 years, college education for Engineering Major (at the least) will be freely/cheaply available. Other majors will follow soon.
I think you misunderstood me and/or I could have been less ambiguous. It's Instapaper's new default font on iOS as stated in the article.

I'm not a big font guy but I've been very impressed twice recently by new web fonts -- first Kottke's redesign using Whitney Screen Smart and now Elena for Instapaper.
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There are notable exceptions. Heroku is still shipping awesome new stuff at a rapid clip under their Salesforce overlords. I don't know directly, but the plan at acquisition time was that they would stay pretty independent. I would guess that that helps a lot.

I think Pivotal could be one of those. Him saying "same services" suggests that EMC isn't planning on absorbing the team into something else. It helps that Pivotal is (presumably) very profitable, so there's value to leaving it alone instead of just viewing it as a source of a ton of great devs.

If it's still really Pivotal, and it just happens to be owned by EMC, they might fade much slower than the "everyone leaves within a year and a half" that we've seen so many times.
Technically, Google has a lot of this data for each of us. It would be nice if they let us see it.
Thanks for releasing this. Looks great too. Do you have a product roadmap that we can view?
Yep! Not to mention Dominic also helped me get the jobs at both Amazon and Google. Working on Audacity in college and meeting all these people was such a great experience and opened up so many doors. One time I even picked up Monty of Ogg Vorbis fame from the airport to go to an Audacity Hackathon.
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Tiny niches? All the data tables in Wikipedia; Apple acquires Siri; Google acquires Freebase; the Google and Bing search indexes, .... This story is not over.

What those have to do with it? I mean, I don't know about the data tables in Wikipedia, but I'm pretty sure neither Siri, nor Google / Bing etc use RDF for their metadata and search indexes. It's been 15+ years now, the Semantic Web didn't caught on, and it has been shown to be misguided in the general scheme of things (could work for some specialized cases, where you control all the data, but even then, neither the tools nor the performance and market readiness are there).

Being able to cater for semantics != using RDF and TBL's "semantic web" notions.

And, yes, I mean SPARQL. Was working with a team back at uni that integrated XQuery with RDF/SPARQL and have them a little confused in my mind.
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This still doesn't sound the most secure. I think it would be better to have a multi-layer config, where the first layer is something like "Enable Enable Enable Root?", which enables the second layer dialog "Enable Enable Root?", which enables "Enable Root?" dialog, which then enables the SuperUser.apk "Enable Root for this application". You can't be too secure.

I do agree that getting rid of the ever present root shell on the USB port is a good idea, but asking if you'd like to be asked questions? Coating a knife with liquid rubber doesn't get you a safer knife.