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A simpler alternative may be to use make.

Here is what I do:
http://ergo.rydlr.net/?p=37
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How about you guys who have collectively a lot of ideas for startups but probably not the time to work on them, contribute your ideas for startups here? and we can rank them by the number of points the comment will get.Maybe the next bill gates will pick it up and do something great with it :-)
Was just browsing and saw this (changed to protect the innocent):

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- Akismet key

People should probably be careful about just throwing out sensitive data on snipt.
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Why not we form groups around ideas that people like to start hacking? We should form a collective to bang out prototypes before not too long.
So this is part lack of capital and part political posture.
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A lot of people ( like me ) registered as a developer to try out the api but never officially released an app.
Somewhat misleading comparison. Google's goal is to make visits short: to rapidly and profitably send users on to what they're looking for.
Remember, they always shut down for two weeks this time of year. There are just extending it by two more weeks. This really isn't surprising or shocking.
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A series A means that you're issuing class A stock. An angel round means your issuing a note that will eventually convert to class A stock, aka a convertible note.

The threshold between an angel round and a series A is determined by your articles of incorporation. It's usually between 2 and 5 million. Before your series A you have no valuation b/c it would be a waste of money to determine it. Once you have matured and you raise enough money to go past the 2 to 5 million "convertible threshold," you get a valuation and issue class A stock to your investors and angels. Your angels convert from a convertible note to class A stock at the pre-money valuation and they get to ride the "valuation bump" the series A investors put in for free.

Ok, I reread this explanation and I hated it. This is how I actually understand it:

// globals

double classAThreashold = callLaywers( "Halp!" );

double outstandingShares = callLawyers( "Oh noes!" );

double amountInvested = 0;

void enterNewInvestment( double newInvestment )

{

if( newInvestment + amountInvested >= classAThreshold ) {

double preMoneyValuation = getValuation();

vector< double > percentagePerInvestor;

for( int i = 0; i < angelInvestments.size(); ++i ) {

// convertible notes convert here:

percentagePerInvestor.push_back( angelInvestments[ i ] / preMoneyValuation );

}

percentagePerInvestor.push_back( newInvestment / preMoneyValuation );

for( int i = 0; i < percentagePerInvestor.size(); ++i ) {

cout << "Shares for investor # " << i << " " << percentagePerInvestor[ i ] * outstandingShares;

}

cout << "the company is now worth :" << preMoneyValuation + newInvestment;

} else {

angelInvestments.push_back( newInvestment );

}

amountInvested += newInvestment;

}

This is how I understand the whole process. It took my lawyers a long time to explain it all to me and I'm probably still screwing something up. Go easy on C++ :)

[updated a few bug fixes]
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Now they just need to let you map your own domain to it.
CNAME support is planned. We just wanted to get this thing out the door.
It will be a bit more shocking (but not surprising) in '09 when the title is, "Chrysler shuts down production - forever"
People make dumb mistakes all the time, but usually all that happens is that the pie graph doesn't render properly, or the query doesn't use the indices. That's the difference between security bugs and application bugs.

Inviting crypto to the party invites a whole host of new security bugs that you simply cannot have if you don't go down that road in the first place.
The poor life a "life of leisure", to use historical language.

Out of 36.5 million poor people, only 7.4 million even qualify as "working poor". "Working poor" == "spent >27 weeks/year working or looking for work".

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2006.pdf

As for 16k/year in the bay area, I never lived out west so I won't comment. But as a grad student living 15 minutes out of manhattan on 18k/year, I lacked few material goods available to historical royalty. Fewer concubines, better food.
I applied to MIT for undergrad, and I was thoroughly impressed by the openness of their admissions office. They are miles ahead of most schools I know of in terms of how reachable, responsive & transparent their admissions officers are.
A simple to-do list alongside E-mail (e.g. Lightning plug-in in Thunderbird) is really nice. Seeing lists, prioritizing them and crossing off items can be motivating.

When you check E-mail, there's a tendency to want to immediately respond to whatever is said, and this can be very distracting and time-consuming. You should believe that if something is truly critical, you will receive a phone call or a personal visit. So I usually check E-mail only twice a day, around 10:00 and 4:00, which leaves just enough time that morning/afternoon to deal with requests or minor problems.

I use a revision control system, and train myself to commit exactly one "feature" at a time so that my work is focused. This prevents going down ratholes, and makes the rollback "clean" (a single version is a focused change, not some random mix of whatever you were working on). It is also a useful reminder, e.g. you come back an hour later and just ask the revision control system what you changed.
Great work. Did you build the it from scratch or did you use an open source code like Pligg?
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I've been waiting 2 months to talk about this: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2008-12-18
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Awesome! I should have assumed. :-)
This is probably more due to companies trying to protect themselves from lawsuits and a greater understanding of how to safely to things than any conservative attitude developed due to an increased life span. People routinely jump off cliffs with every expectation that they will live, given the appropriate safety measures these days, and the Darwin awards do not seem to be lacking any candidates.
Wow, I'm reading some of the entries there, and wow. All I got for you is wow.
You skipped the HTTPS part of my recommendation, which is vastly superior to homebrewed HMAC.
Heh, I have a working Turbo Slab in my wardrobe, if only I had space for it on my desk, but that's occupied by an SGI Octane :-)
The perceptions of the customer makes a huge difference. A friend works at software company which sells software to corporate and government clients. Their pricing varies from $50,000 to $300,000 with the size and type of the organization they are selling to. They originally tried to sell to larger customers for the same price as smaller, but they didn't get any sales until they jacked up the price.
Eat-a-Rama is basically a google maps mash up that combines restaurants & bars with google maps. It also throws in a social networking component into it and slick AJAXy interface. (It also shows alot more restaurants with clustering and what not on the map than vs the lame '10 random search results' that google maps gives you) I just recently created from start to finish the iPhone twist which gives you a list of restaurants close to you and an ability to filter them by name/tag/address/whatever. You can also call the restaurants or get directions. iTunes link: http://www.tinyurl.com/eatarama
Dude! Keep me posted. :)
HTTPS is irrelevant to what I said. End-to-end authentication is better than transport-level authentication. Using an HMAC to sign requests and then sending those signed requests over HTTPS is better than using HTTP auth over HTTPS.
Mixing Tumblr and Paypal/Amazon to sell something straight from a blog post. Blogs are really the way of the future, and there are a ton of people out there who blog about their business or interests and sell things at the same time. Think of a band or someone who blogs about indie music. You can sell a new product easily from each post, without setting up a store.

Both Amazon and Paypal now have micropayment options (5% + $.05). Both have code you can easily copy and paste into a post to add a sell button and both have developer API's. Both are free to implement (no set-up or monthly fees), Amazon has cheap storage and bandwidth and you only pay for what you use. Tumblr and other blog systems are also free. Its time for a digital goods selling revolution!

All this great stuff is out there, but no good interface exists to make it easy for a non-developer to implement it. The current solutions available require monthly fees that usually overcharge you for bandwidth, storage, or transaction costs, or limit you in some way (e-junkie limits the amount of products you can have). And in typical e-commerce fashion they have gawful help desks and incomplete documentation.

One big thing missing is a way to instantly direct your users to a download after they purchase something. I'm a non-technical guy who's looked into it, and believe me, its impossible to do without using a service such as e-junkie. But the parts of the solution are in place to make it happen for everyone.

I think a lot of people out there want less of a website, more of a blog, less of an online store, but more of an easy way to sell digital or physical goods. Think musicians (or musical blogs), photographers, artists (a really great way to sell artwork as you make it). Monthly fees make it prohibitive to sell artwork, because you usually only make one, and there might be some time before you make another, but a blogstore is a great way to do it.

I like Tumblr, because its non-technical yet can be messed with if you really want to dive in. What this problem needs is also a non-technical solution that will allow people to get at the nuts and bolts if they need to.

Anyone want to have a go at it?
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I hadn't heard of either of those sites. To be honest, I didn't know of an efficient way to give <$10 to non-profits without half of it going to overhead costs.

This makes it super easy for me to give small amounts, with the added social features. Most non-profits I know that raise <$10 amounts from lots of people do it in person with cash. If it works, this could give them more options. So for me, it could actually change non-profit fundraising.
VMWare is an operating system? must be some stretch of the definition; it's a "Hypervisor" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor running on top of an existing operating system.

They do sell a "bare-metal" VMWare, based on Red Hat Linux for what I know.
Yes, but what you said is irrelevant to what I said, and so we are at an impasse. =)
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Ohh yeah, you can also make the donation from SMS if you have twitter hooked up. That's kind of a big deal. Think of a rally.
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I'm wondering why they seem to have gone relatively light on the Honda FCX, but denigrated the Telsa with what looked to be willful misrepresentations (the whole '13-hour charge' thing)?
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There is some comedy gold there:

"I can't believe this. this is so incredibly ridiculous!!!!!! i'm leader of the debate team, the robotics team, the medical team, the card team, the literary magazine team, the church team, the basketball team, the football team, the science team, the math team, the environmental team, the foot lover's team, the stripper team, the alcoholics anonymous team, the science Olympiad team, the cross country team(i run a 13:30 5k and have placed first in states for the past 3 years),

i speak 13 different languages fluently including Klingon, python, c++, d--, oracle, I knit enough blankets for all the homeless people in quebec, in one night last winter, my stomach can digest grass, i've played multiple concerts in carnegie hall, i found the square of the circle, i have lots of friends(im incredibly popular), my painting of mother teresa's exhumed body is on display in MOMA, i communicate telepathically with my dog, my aunt the queen of england keeps my photo-realistic paintings on her refrigerator,

i've actually attended classes at MIT for the past 5 years even though i live in milwaukee, i tame unicorns on weekends, i worked for NASA for the past 13 summers, i've gone into outer-space, i got a 2600 on my SAT's, 5's on all the AP tests, i have 6.0 grade point average, and i'm black, hawaiian, hispanic, inuit, and native-american!

AND I RIDE A UNICYCLE!!!

i spent three years writing and perfecting my essays for mit: my interview went well, my resume is perfect, i am perfect, i just don't get it!

how didn't i get since i'm obviously so wonderful????? why doesn't mit want robots like me????"
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You're right, but the problem is that many people are hard pressed.
thnx! we're discussing a complete rewrite for 2009 but that's still on the table. our team is small and a lot of focus is on building the mobile app company right now. BreakkUp happened to... happen, and so we're going to use this holiday downtime to prioritize our goals the next few months. We also want to see what happens if traffic slows down. There are reports that free iphone app usage is akin to the digg effect.

We are indeed using the latest version of pligg, but it's been modified (a lot) to plug holes, remove old code, performance tweaks, etc. The pligg guys have been very helpful nevertheless... but the community is small and the pligg project moves very slow, it's not very viable as a long term solution IMO. But, that's not to say we're going to abandon it quite yet either.
I think that's great in principle, but I'd be wary of the communication overhead if you can't meet in person. Especially if this is something that you'd be spending only 5-10 hours per week on, it might be easier to just build a barebones protoype yourself & then see if people are interested in taking that further.
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Good idea for those with some extra time during the holiday break. Here's one I like that I've been saving for my blog (http://www.astartupaday.com) but I'll go ahead and post it here.

I'm predicting that over the next 1-3 years, we're going to start to see a major shift as users move from mouse+keyboard to touch as the primary input to their computing devices. However, today every mainstream website is optimized for the mouse+keyboard.

My idea is to get ahead of the curve and create user experiences for all the major mainstream web verticals (such as Email, social networking, news, search, etc..) that are designed primarily for use with touch. For verticals that have a high switching cost (such as mail and social networking), instead of trying to build from scratch, the focus should be on a front end that pulls from an existing service (i.e. pulls from gmail pop or Facebook connect). Users could choose the verticals that they use on a daily basis, and each service would be available from different tabs. The core UX elements would be consistent across all services, and would be optimized for use with a touch screen.

If anyone's interested in hearing more or maybe hacking out a prototype with me over break, feel free to contact me at kleneway@hotmail
You'll thoroughly enjoy this one... :)

http://breakkup.com/with-her/is-she-my-girlfriend/
I think it's still worth a try or two. If anything, we can potentially organize a few real-life coding-oriented meetups to see if anything formalizes.
We need an entire gesture language! We have language we use to speak to each other, user interfaces, and conventions, and soon we'll need a gesture language. Can you imagine if every touch app had a different way to turn up the volume? But if there was a volume gesture, people would know how to do it no matter what application they were using.
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Some of us can't build a prototype ourselves. But I give great ideas :)
Actually, hard times make many people discount the future more. Why spend a lot of money up front on a solution that will sustain you for four years when the odds that your company won't last one year have just gone up?

In extreme cases, businesses with cash flow problems are just like poor people, who are forced to patronize ripoffs like check-cashing places, payday loan sharks, and Rent-A-Centers because they can't afford the minimum balance or down payment on a better solution. They live day-to-day. So do businesses in trouble.
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Find an employee who has recently quit or been fired?

I have no better ideas. It's a very good question.
I think this is one of those times when we, as a community, are perhaps too focused on ourselves.

Business ideas are out there, in the real world, you won't find them here (generally). Yes, "scratch your own itch", "do what you know", etc. All of those are true, to a point, and there are plenty of smart people here...some of them are even working on businesses that will be a success (or already are). But, if you just ask a bunch of entrepreneurs, investors, and nerds what they want, it's easy to end up working in the very small and competitive field of "things ten other people are working on, and the entire market is measured in hundreds of dollars".

I'm unfortunately not exaggerating. I've met quite a few people at startup mixers and events and such who were working on clones of things that I'd never even heard of. So not only are they working on something where they have established (by some definition of established) competitors, but it's a field that nobody outside of a tiny set of web 2.0 early adopters has ever even heard about, and only a small segment of those even care about it.

And, of course, I would be remiss in my duties as a curmudgeon, and HN old-timer, if I didn't say this: Ideas are worthless.
Hilarious. I'm reading that and wondering "so, what's the problem here?"
It's not a forum in a traditional sense, but a blog post.
Great idea.. clearly Google has its eyes set on the OS market. First, move as much stuff to the cloud as you can, then open up NC for legacy apps.
Our articles of incorporation did not specify what future rounds would be called based on amounts raised at all. I don't think most do. And to my knowledge, there is no law requiring that. I'm pretty sure you can call your first round a Series C if you want to, though it would probably not be a good idea.

My point was that it's a custom, not a law, and the distinction between an AA and an A is arbitrary.
This can also be called apophenia see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
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I'm pretty sure I did. It was an article about writing, followed by some sort of syphilitic anti-Obama diatribe.
It can be both at the same time.
This is far more pervasive that just minimum payments. Behavioral economics research has shown the power of defaults -- make a group or policy opt-out instead of opt-in and you'll get a lot more people to join it, even though the two situations are technically identical. Seems to be the same psychological principle at work here.
It's more bidirectional than that. Higher-order cognition (language, memory, even perception and attention) isn't so easily reducible. Take for instance the hippocampus. Sure, we can simulate circuitry with precision but that doesn't explain memory formation and retrieval. More "artificial" approaches can help to explain systems from the top down even as biological constraints are more rigid from the bottom up. Both modeling approaches are likely to meet somewhere in the middle. The computational shortcuts in the more abstract models (e.g. backprop) are really just a shorthand to allow investigators to focus on less biologically-driven details or those that are not now understood in biological terms.

For instance, I know of one group using analytic techniques from social networks to correlate brain regions in fMRI data. Is the brain a massive social network? I don't think any one would say that literally. But right now, that approach is as good as any other to examine n-dimensional relationships in highly complex data.
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I think it's optimistic to state that the first 1000-year-old is alive today. We don't know anything about the challenges that a 200+ year lifespan will pose. What scares me is that imperfect, expensive forms of "immortality" will exist before the desirable, cheap ones. I wouldn't want to "make the cut" but be demented for 900 years.

I think I'll die at a relatively normal age, between 70 and 100, and that the first 200-year-old will be alive when I die. I make no projections about 1000, much less over 9000.
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"The typical American will have at least a dozen computers on his body, in the form of credit cards, rings and brooches. They'll be networked, and they'll get us through security checkpoints, monitor our vital signs, and provide GPS-style directions."

As for getting us through security check points, since Kurzweil did not predict that terrorists would bring down the World Trade Center in 2001, he also did not predict that the main bottleneck in getting people through checkpoints would not be credentialing but having people take off their shoes and carefully inspecting them for...something or other. And checking for bombs in their shampoo.

Devices for monitoring vital signs just did not happen, far as I know.

As for the rest of the computers on our body, it seems people prefer to have one broadly capable device for information, computation, entertainment, and communication, which is the cellphone (with iPhone best exemplifying the ideal of a single device with a broad range of capabilities). Having to compare and buy lots of little communication doodads worn on different parts of the body would just be an irritant (damn, wore the wrong earrings today, the podcast i wanted to listen to was on the other set and don't feel like waiting for it download again...)
It is, actually.
Agreed that diversity is a good thing, but the article asks why wouldn't I, when I am asking, why would I?

It doesn't help that today, adding more RAM costs very little, and that the new VM in Ruby 1.9 runs my Rails apps 3x to 5x faster, so I have very little reason to look outside Rails.
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This is certainly a reasonable view for a developer/hacker. For other small businesses that want an app that they can rely on, paying a small amount every month means that they can get support and that the app won't suddenly stop working. It doesn't mean that 37signals price points are correct, but for business related apps free can be the wrong price.
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