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70+ businesses in the pipeline including Tustin Buick, Togo’s, and Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Affiliate programs with Starbucks, Wine.com, Omaha Steaks and more.
Completion of mobile app for iPhone and Android
I don't know, but it's a brilliant idea.
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If you were buying a Raspberry Pi to be a familiar x86 PC with gigabytes of RAM and hard drives, this would probably be a better choice.

If you were interested in a 1 watt device with exposed GPIO pins that also had a pretty spiffy graphics engine, you might prefer the Raspberry Pi. (or three, both systems need more components to be complete).

I have plans for upgrading some telemetry with Raspberry Pis [eww, that doesn't read well, does it] but also bookmarked the Foxconn machine for the next x86 box that dies. (Beats wrestling linux onto an original AppleTV).
Creating a substantial and culturally diverse world that runs without money.
Sure... now if only they cared about security and privacy as much as spideroak. As long as Dropbox sees de-dup as a competitive advantage, they will never offer client-side encryption.
Try this in Python?

import codecs

fin = codecs.open('input.txt', 'rb', 'shift-jis')
fout = codecs.open('output.txt', 'wb', 'utf-8')

try:
fout.write(fin.read())
except ValueError:
print "Not encoded using Shift-JIS!"

Not sure if that's what you mean - feel free to clarify, if not.
Here's a problem that I just realized bothers me way too much. I despise the SEO industry. It is polluting the web with useless content that shadows actually useful one. Places like odesk/freelancer.com are bombarded with requests for "article writers" to churn out "articles" with a level of writing lower than the average highschooler. Massive amounts of fake facebook accounts with fake friends, fake twitter followers, fake +1's, and fake links are manufactured every day.

How do you make it unprofitable for SEO's to game the system?

/rant
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Gambling gets ridiculous in Australia - bet on the weather
Hi there :) I wanted to clarify, I'm not talking about the quality of care. I'm talking about just the act of choosing which health care you should get and then keeping up with all the paperwork once you're sick. I've been outside of Canada for the past 12 years, but when I've gone to the doctor in the states for something as simple as stitches or a bad cold, I've always been amazed at how complicated it is in terms of bills and co-pays etc. I know that everyone things the system is so great, but I agre with you, it's not. It's ugly. People wait months for critical cat scans. Surgery is often cancelled or bumped. And patients regularly abuse the system rather than be proactive about their health. So in summary (sorry this got so long!!) neither system is perfect, but when I came to the states, I felt like I was just totally blind as I was choosing which insurance to get. I'd love to see someone fix the issue of helping people choose the right health care that's best for them, make best use of the FSA system, and manage bills / paperwork in a more efficient way.
And you're looking for....
The brick-and-mortar version of this business, clothing exchange stores, have lower transaction costs because they don't have to deal with shipping and also let customers try clothing on before buying it.

It's still a good business though, because an online store can have a bigger selection and serve people in areas without exchange stores.
I didn't know about this, but I don't think it solves the issue. Disabling updates allows you to stay at the current version (or, by enabling updates, go to the most recent version). But you can't get any particular version. Suppose I know that version 12.1.3.135 works perfectly for my internal application but that the current doesn't for some reason. How do I get that version? With versioned software this isn't so much of an issue, but with Chrome's continuous versions, it's a little harder. And how would one roll that out to 10,000 users? I'm sure it's not terribly difficult, but not as obvious as giving everyone Firefox 8. And what happens when the CEO decides to enable updates and it breaks your web app?
jHipChat - HipChat API for Java/Android
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"Trên thị trường hiện nay máy iphone được dựng lại từ Trung quốc rất nhiều ( Hàng đã được tân trang sửa chữa thay vỏ nên hình thức rất đẹp nhưng chất lượng không đảm bảo ) quý khách cẩn thận khi mua hàng không có xuất xứ rõ ràng
Khi mua cac sản phẩm Model ZA từ Singapore khách hàng không lo về hàng dựng hàng nhái vì không có hàng dựng từ thị truờng này , anh em có thể dẫn thợ qua test , có thể mở máy check ngay tại CH, phụ kiện zin từ A-Z theo máy ."
Now I'm depressed.
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Put this together over a weekend. Wanted to put it out there to see if other people had suggestions or might be looking for this sort of integration with HipChat.

I love HipChat and strongly recommend it if you need a simple standalone chat service for use by geeks and non-geeks alike.
And it isn't particularly unintuitive that computing the upper bound of the loop on each iteration is going to slow down the computation.

Also, none of the methods are actually wrong. These are code optimizations.

That may be true, but the optimization you're talking about is only necessary if:

(a) a language's semantics aren't expressive enough to guarantee that the length of the array won't change in mid-iteration, and

(b) the language's runtime environment can't optimize away the repeated look-up on the fly, having determined that nothing within the loop actually is updating the length of the array even if such a change is permitted by the rules of the language.

Both of these things are properties of JavaScript, or at least the particular implementation(s) of JavaScript where the optimization is required.

While this sort of detail isn't an absurdly bad idea in the way that, say, semicolon insertion turned out to be, I don't think it's reasonable to say they are somehow not negative points for JavaScript. Many other languages can and do handle similar situations in better ways.
How is this not an exact clone of http://newsmap.jp ?
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Why is it still so hard to drop a file on a LAN from one laptop to another (except for Apple's AirDrop goodness)??? I mean the easiest way to get a file from my Mac to your Win7 laptop is still a USD stick. Sucks.
Why are open-concept offices a waste?
How to Protect Your Internet Privacy Easily and Correctly
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Is there a way to stop this flood of accelators, incubators, and web startups that add little value to the billions of people on this planet who don't care about social media, apps, or tablets? Alternatively, why don't we focus on overpopulation, cures for cancer, and real alternative energy?
> dresses need to be able to come out of the pool

Why? When you receive a dress, it is set to a disabled state on the site (rendering it unavailable for others). I'm guessing a dress can be in this state indefinitely, if one desires to keep a dress forever.

> I might not even get to choose a dress I want if I'm worried that I won't be able to trade it again

When would this happen? Why would you not be able to trade it again?

It sounds like you're confused about the logistics in play. The system is effectively the same as any other buying and selling marketplace, but virtual currency is used in place of dollars.
Give Away the Diagnostic: Sell the Remedy (C. Dixon on Freemium)
This is natural for an ambitious person at your level.

You're also doing the right thing by staying where you are until you find a compelling reason to walk away. The side projects are good and will get your name out there. Go do some tech meetups if you get a chance. Don't underestimate the value of an employer subsidized launch schedule.

You will know when the time is right.
Plants can think and remember
It took a long time to realize this...
Very nice.

I see at the bottom you say "based on newsmap." Are you getting your data from them (which in turn aggregates google news), or is it just your design that's based on newsmap?

I like your look better than newsmap, but newsmap has more news.

This would be a cool way to view HN.

I wonder if you could make it so you could give your site any aggregatable site, and see the map?
You are too late. The smart people already do not come to the United States. The smart people are cancelling their US passports. Capital is not entering the USA. This type of work puts bread on the table for me. I'm in Dubai right now meeting people who need to encapsulate and neutralize the US-caused problems in their lives. Last week I was in Indonesia.

The world a big world. Someone can live a good life and become a billionaire without touching the USA. The US risks declaring itself irrelevant through its treatment of isitors and investors. And through the entirely execrable FATCA.

I remember growing up as a boy in Africa how the pound sterling went from reserve currency status to "who cares" by a series of lackluster Prime Ministers in Britain. The same is happening in the US.
Trust your instincts on this one, especially before you begin acquiring wife/house/kids, etc., as this will chain you to the biggest paycheck. I have worked in several large corporations and in general they stifle creativity and are so mired in politics that it is nigh impossible to accomplish anything of substance. The key here is that you highlighted practicing your craft as creating and being rewarding. For most corporate devs, it is only a job and they do belong and thrive there. For you and others like you, find a smaller place (or a startup that you can turn into a bigger place) that needs and recognizes the fine art that you practice.
Stock room inventory/management for the small and large business.

Must include Point of Sale recipe management/tracking. Counting is worthless without knowing what is leaving the store.

The problem with current "disruption" is that they think the cash register is the problem. The ability to scale and integrate back of the house management with front of the house interfaces is the only real way to disrupt the POS industry. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an industry outsider that will never really break in. aka Taking credit cards on an iphone is not disruption.
It seems like if women really do have closets full of perfectly good clothing they don't like, there is value to be captured.

There's always stuff you can do like implementing user reputation systems, etc.
This seems like a show stopper to me. The inability to have server side validation means there's no way to control access to things, meaning you have to fall back to security through obscurity.

What would be really cool is if instead of a python backend, this had a node backend that used the client side validation mechanism server side to allow server-side validation without needing to duplicate the code. This could theoretically be done transparently if all the classes were named by convention.
Google Chrome Team started this kind of "bigger version" war, now Firefox/IE/Linux, they are all in it :-)
This is so important. We do routine usability tests all the time simply because it's hard for us to see the detail in our own product.

A user can stumble across the most subtle things that take two seconds to fix that otherwise we would have never noticed and we'd keep losing customers because of it.

+1 for attention to detail.
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It's not EVERYTHING you want, but I started using http://duckduckgo.com/ about a week ago and it's probably the closest you're going to get to a useful search engine nowadays. Full keyboard usage and zero tracking. Simple and clean. I'm enjoying it thus far.
The problems I see are:

1. TM syntaxes are complicated. There's lots of undocumented features that bundles find ways to use in crucial places.

2. TM is slow. You don't see this so much because it's written in C++ and there's many clever optimizations (see point 1). But it's difficult to get around the fact that a syntax is hundreds of regexes that have to be run over the whole document in a pathologically slow manner. I hate to think what it would be like in JS.

3. Many TM language definitions are dependent on features of the Oniguruma regex engine, which is strictly more powerful than any JS one. So you basically have to compile Oniguruma (no mean feat) ...with emscripten.
I think wireless power -- rather than more efficient batteries -- is the long-term solution.
Give my side project a shot! http://jabjot.com/

It has bookmarking, note taking, to-dos, Dropbox integration, keyboard shortcuts navigation, API, and much more, plus it's free.
Who are the others? Got any links? Maybe we should talk.
I would like short url encoding to be an RFC, and every browser implement it in the browser, encoding and decoding the url locally without having to query some random .ly site.

In fact, if short url encoding were an RFC, you could compress all links on your site to short, and the browser would expand them for display.

Other uses would probably reveal themselves.
1.) The average computer users fear of their own computer. It hurts me on a deep level (Deeper than just seeing a business opportunity.) to see the bicycle for the mind being marginalized in it's potential by people trying to sell things. (Microsoft, IBM, and co. Have probably done permanent damage to humanity by spreading the meme that computer knowledge is for 'nerds'. Whatever those are.) As we move further into the 21st century, and computers become ever more ubiquitous, it seems that computer knowledge becomes ever more scarce. (I'd have to run the numbers to be sure, but while the number of computer literate people has objectively gone up, I would think that the percentage of people with any sort of understanding deeper than the surface of point and click has gone down.)

I'm not even sure if it's a solvable problem. But if someone did it would be a great service to humanity.

2.) I'm 99% sure that this can't be solved by an external third party. But my 1% nagging doubt is enough to make me list it.

Quite simply, I have problems getting things done. It's not necessarily that I'm lazy, it's just that It takes more effort to figure out what I should be doing right now than it does to just keep procastinating on the same task. To-do lists help, but are ultimately inadequate. A pen and paper to-do list always seems to evade my attention when I try one. Writing it out in a text file usually works better, but it's still not a surefire thing. It's not necessarily that I need better to-do list software so much as it is that I need a better way to manage my time in a way that either:

A] I don't have to manually write down and erase tasks as I do them. Besides an erase shortcut I don't think that this is really feasible. Computers can't read my mind yet.

B] It will make or convince me to habitually update and read it in such a way that it's not annoying or somehow feels out of sync with my workflow.

Maybe I'm alone on this one, maybe I'm not. Maybe it's solvable, but I doubt it.

I'd just like to remind anyone who's read this far that not every problem is best solved by a start-up or business. If you feel strongly about anything in this thread you should at least consider the possibility of other methods of achieving your goals. (But being able to potentially make sizable sums of money while you do is a sweet bonus.)
You are thinking about products and projects, the kid is thinking about having fun in a game. Totally different perspective.

It’s totally fun to just have fun without necessarily learning any important skills or developing a product that helps you make money.
1. How long have you been bootstrapping your startup?
5 months

2. Roughly how much of personal money have you invested in your startup?
Exactly $250

3. Are you profitable, if not then at what point do you make the decision of pulling the plug and not invest your personal money anymore?
Yes, we are profitable.
Python 2.x is the one that most people use.

Python 3 is a fork with broken compatibility and poor adoption.
If it would be simpler you would get something much more complex than this calculator and once again ask the same question.
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If I'm a guy who occasionally has to wear a suit, it seems like it would be a lot cheaper for me to pay the fixed cost of acquiring it than the ongoing cost of having it shipped to me every so often when I want to wear it. And it's another thing to remember and worry about.
(I'm the author of the original paper. So take my ramblings here with a grain of salt.)

The experimentation that led to Promiscuous Pairing was certainly based on the practical. It was not scientific; it was process engineering. We had no goal to make a great discovery. Rather, we had to ship software RTFN, so we were optimizing our process to do so.

The company board had told us that they were liquidating the company if we didn't have 2 signed letters of intent at the end of the trade show on May 25. We started the project in October, using a traditional development approach (what we'd been doing for the last 2 years).

On Jan 15 or so, I got the group together and asked. 100% of the engineers agreed we had a <5% chance of even having a sales demo ready for the trade show. We were guaranteed not to have enough to get a sale.

So we were desperate and had, literally, nothing to lose (and no time to lose it in).

That was why we were so extreme. We measured the outputs that mattered to us (defects, long refactorings, output), and we reviewed our process each iteration. We did 1-week iterations (industry, as we learned later, was doing 3-4 weeks at the time). We continually developed qualitative heuristics and used our quantitative numbers to filter them on viability. We needed to know what would work faster than any quantitative approach could tell us.

And then we just tried all sorts of stuff. As we got more useful heuristics, they encouraged us to try more bizarre stuff. One of those heuristics was that learning was king: rate of progress == rate of invention == rate of learning stuff (techniques, domain knowledge, ideas that others on the team had).

That was what led us to try the very short pair swap times.

In the end, we stayed with them only because they worked. And man did they work.

5 years later, Ward & Jim convinced me to write up the experience for Agile 2005. Then a couple of other teams tried it.

Interestingly, many of them had exactly the same direct effects from the practice as we did - and those direct effects led to project failure, rather than success (Mitch's team & paper is a fine example).

On the basis of that, my current assumption is that you should only use PP if you're good at removing roadblocks and are already pretty low friction. PP makes all problems glaringly obvious all at once, and gives you the info & learning to address them. But if you can't address them quickly enough (or if there are too many friction points) it just destroys morale and productivity.

I now think of this as a 400-level practice.

First learn to pair (this takes time - it's a set of skills). Do stuff to improve feedback. Shrink all your cycles (we were shipping software 2x per day and hit 100% of our 1-week, 2-week, and 3-month commitments before we tried PP). Once you have eliminated that friction (we did it by fiat, since we were basically being laid off otherwise), then PP can be an awe-inspiring tool.
Congratulations! kyle, darius.
Best wishes to all the extended forrst team.

(+ waiting to see the new team in forrst vigor)
Sure, but look at the way Venmo/Square are approaching this problem.

Venmo: You have a venmo balance. Initially, money is brought in from a CC, but they just moved to Bank Accounts. Payments are fast because it's just venmo balance --> venmo balance most of the time.

Square: They control apps on the merchant (register, square) and the client (card case, now pay with square), rendering a physical credit card useless. At some point they connect to your bank account as well (or open their own bank).

I think having a niche currency is just another barrier to success. Not saying that you shouldn't proceed with this opportunity, but you're far from the only player in the space who realizes the magnitude of the opportunity and sees what the future looks like.
I've been using Configgy which is now deprecated in favor of this, but am not a fan of executable configuration files.

Fortunately Typesafe has released a nice plain Java, with no dependencies, config library supporting similar syntax: https://github.com/typesafehub/config
'Scratch your own itch' vs 'Build what people want'
Future Of Medical Health Insurance In The US
I just had an email exchange with Patio11, which inspired the thoughts in this blog post, so i thought maybe someone else here would find this interesting given his hero status around here :)
Illinois is the first state offering legal online gambling
99pants.com

I would like a suit service just like this.