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Help me launch my Australian based startup?
Hi,

I'm Dave and I am a coffee junkie! I have 3 coffees before I get to work and the count just increases from then on. The only thing I don't like about my habit is waiting like a seagull around a chip shop while I wait for my coffee to be made.

So to solve this, I have been working on PocketCafe for quite some time and I'm almost ready to launch It solves the problem of waiting by giving the cafes complete control to setup their menu and . I've got the cafe management side ready for beta, mobile web app ready for beta and I have approached and demoed to one Café who was very interested in implementing it in their Café.

So now I'm needing some help and guidance on getting it off the ground and was hoping other people in the Sydney area would be interested in helping out.

My target market is 20-40yr old inner city workers who could order on the train and pickup the coffee as they leave the train station.

Anyways, checkout the site at http://pocketcafe.com.au, I'd love to get any feedback as well
Structs can implement IEnumerator<T> as you mentioned, but they need to be boxed before any interface methods they implement can be called.

So, foreach in C# does always create at least a tiny bit of garbage -- but in the case above it's likely to be reclaimed very quickly.
If they were in the initial contract, I think it can still hold:

"You can calculate the interest payable on overdue bills by taking the relevant reference rate and adding 8 per cent.

Alternatively, you can set a contractual rate that may be higher or lower than the statutory rate. If you set a contractual rate, the statutory rate no longer applies"

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=10...
At first, the app we made was just for pure fun. It was so popular in Hungary and also got some feedbacks from the surrounding countries that we wanted to open up to the world.

We didn't have any business plan at all but someone suggested ppl might like posters if they look gorgeous. This idea is outside from our group so thought this could work. Also told some friends who liked the idea although asking friends about this is probably not the best validator.

If there where some interest in the posters we would create customized maps.
Your routes vs others' routes.

We are also open for other suggestions :)
- Putting stores on the map who can advertise?
- Sell the data to governments to use it as an input for cycle route planning?
> but sadly this might not work well if an article were all chopped up with tons of commentary

I think this should be left to the domain of the browser. Create a tool for filtering and showing certain aspects.
"The history of Groupon’s chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, was also unearthed, showing a lawsuit-prone entrepreneur who flipped a dot-com company in 1999 only to have it lead to bankruptcy a year later for the firm he had sold it to. And Groupon’s filing shows that when the company privately raised $950 million in a pre-I.P.O. round in January, it paid out $810 million of that to its investors and employees, a red flag for any investor. (Mr. Lefkofsky and his wife took home about $319 million of the total.)"

Source: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/the-missed-red-flags-...
The JSF (joint strike fighter) C++ coding standards are also a good starting point
http://www.jsf.mil/downloads/down_documentation.htm

They are a bit heavy handed on "thou shalt not" - but if you use them as guide - and really think if breaking a rule is worth it in a specific case - they are good conservative practice.
This is a clever variation on what happened:

"A more powerful variation would be to offer the same deal but without looking at the balls at the beginning, stating that you will pick one at random. The other player is then forced to split or risk walking away with nothing."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/amazing_round_...
What's your plan for revenue? I know there are people who make money by putting people in contact with others, but they're generally very important people who don't sign up for these things.
"A kid grows up & finishes college in 4 years."
Nowadays, polyglot approach is the only right path for a software company. When I arrived in Berlin a month ago, I was positively surprised that SoundCloud supports local Clojure or functional programming groups. Keep up with great work!
Hey there, really dumb question = me, but where would i find the best comments page?
Funded Startup? Don't hire to train.
Show HN: Who are your Facebook friends voting for?
I don't personally know anyone who owns a gun. Gun ownership could be far more pervasive than it is right now. According to random Wikipedia statistics, only about 40% of US households have a gun, and I imagine they're really unevenly distributed. In any case, as you imply, it's really the pervasiveness of carrying that matters, not simple ownership.
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picture of the new cable:

http://m.hexus.net/tech/news/peripherals/42705-new-usb-stand...
Yes. I used to work for the government, and the question came up on several occasions whether it was permissible to download GPL software, make a few tweaks to suit our needs, and then use it only internally without releasing it. I never got a good answer.
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Speaking from experience, Net 10 is totally unrealistic, unless you're working for one of those contracting, body shops...in which case, you're really just an employee of the body shop. Also, ProTip: the bigger the company, like say fortune 500, if you're truly freelancing/building your own business, hired directly, it's very common to get paid Net 90 (quarterly).

Edit: I should add, that if you're doing freelance for a small/start-up-ish/mom-and-pop company, it might be beneficial to get some form of retainer to do some work if you can negotiate that. Or, just stay away from this type of work all together if you can, as this is where I found most billing issues/collections in the past.
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Response from Groupon:
“Mr. Nels[e]n initially approached Groupon and our merchant advisors structured a deal to best encourage overspend and help his business grow. We also required Back Alley to cap the number of Groupons sold to ensure the feature was in the best interest of both consumers and the merchant. We scheduled his feature on his terms, on a date he selected, under a contract he reviewed and signed. According to our records, only 132 Groupons, or 18% sold, have been redeemed since Back Alley ran two months ago, and Mr. Nels[e]n has received 2/3 of his share of the revenue to date. We always hate to hear that a local business has decided to close, but the math does not point to Groupon as the cause.”

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-gurus/post/bac...
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The article doesn't make it clear; Do they get their code also? Presumably the original acquisition was of the "product" but the article REPEATEDLY points out the original founders have gained the rights to the trademark and the domain.

What good is the domain without the code? They could rewrite the code from scratch. Though, that maks me wonder... If I single handedly write a piece of SW that does "X" and sell it to Yahoo. Can I then make a new site / app that dose "X"? Is it copyright infringement (a la the android / oracle Tim Sort) since anything I write that is an identical app is likely to have very similar, if not identical, code?

How much of what is in my head is mine and how much is covered by copyright if I've written it before?
"My terms, as stated in each invoice"

Not only that, but terms on an invoice don't form part of the agreement for the work and are not enforceable. The invoice is issued post-work and hence post-agreement. The caveat is if you include pertinent terms from the existing agreement on your invoices for informational purposes.
The example you cited doesn't even use the same connector. Furthermore, the support of Intel and Microsoft is basically a sure-shot that we'll see an implementation. There's skepticism, and then there's just silliness.
It's like saying Shopify is the Facebook of ecommerce. Software company + API = Perfect analogy!
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I agree. Also it creates a halo effect. And creates more incentive to click either up or down depending on how you view the number relative to your own opinion. Not having a count gives new comments a chance (since you don't automatically look at the "minutes ago" part). So a new comment can be not at the bottom giving it a chance to gain more exposure even though it has no points.
> I see no reason why you couldn't just represent the values separately on admin panel... "You are 'earning' $200 a week on GitTip, and also got $50 extra in your tip jar this week."

Right, this is how we would do it. I've reopened this ticket:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/5
Senior level software engineer here- I just relocated to Berlin from SF and I'm not seeing it. I've also talked to a lot of other programmers / employers of programmers here and no one has ever spoken of salaries that high.

If these salaries were real, I would not be trying to do side-projects full time from home!
The most interesting story on IPD (especially from a hacker perspective) wasn't mentioned:

>Although tit for tat is considered to be the most robust basic strategy, a team from Southampton University in England (led by Professor Nicholas Jennings [1] and consisting of Rajdeep Dash, Sarvapali Ramchurn, Alex Rogers, Perukrishnen Vytelingum) introduced a new strategy at the 20th-anniversary iterated prisoners' dilemma competition, which proved to be more successful than tit for tat. This strategy relied on cooperation between programs to achieve the highest number of points for a single program. The University submitted 60 programs to the competition, which were designed to recognize each other through a series of five to ten moves at the start. Once this recognition was made, one program would always cooperate and the other would always defect, assuring the maximum number of points for the defector. If the program realized that it was playing a non-Southampton player, it would continuously defect in an attempt to minimize the score of the competing program. As a result,[8] this strategy ended up taking the top three positions in the competition, as well as a number of positions towards the bottom.

>This strategy takes advantage of the fact that multiple entries were allowed in this particular competition and that the performance of a team was measured by that of the highest-scoring player (meaning that the use of self-sacrificing players was a form of minmaxing). In a competition where one has control of only a single player, tit for tat is certainly a better strategy. Because of this new rule, this competition also has little theoretical significance when analysing single agent strategies as compared to Axelrod's seminal tournament. However, it provided the framework for analysing how to achieve cooperative strategies in multi-agent frameworks, especially in the presence of noise. In fact, long before this new-rules tournament was played, Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene pointed out the possibility of such strategies winning if multiple entries were allowed, but he remarked that most probably Axelrod would not have allowed them if they had been submitted. It also relies on circumventing rules about the prisoners' dilemma in that there is no communication allowed between the two players. When the Southampton programs engage in an opening "ten move dance" to recognize one another, this only reinforces just how valuable communication can be in shifting the balance of the game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_dilemma#Strategy_for_...

By the way, if you haven't read The Selfish Gene, do yourself a favor and read it now. It discusses IPD and coins the word "meme"... what more could you possibly want?
Can you imagine dumping 100lb of earth into a chinese one and tipping it out at the top of a hole - to build a canal or railway?

They are fundementally different concepts. A european wheelbarrow is an earth moving tool - essentially a bucket on wheels. A chinese wheelbarrow is a man powered cart. It's like claiming a sack trolley is better than a pallet truck because it can go down stairs
where would i find the best comments page?

From the lists that appear on the bottom of most HN pages

http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

to the link

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
Amazon Recommending Offers? Cool. Facebook? No Thanks
Based on the most lazy of research sessions, I'd probably just sell the debt to a debt collector, and accept the minor cost which appears to be around 10%, rather than go though all the time wasting grief of doing it myself. One, programming time is worth a lot more than debt chasing time. Two, the emotional side some people feel when chasing debt can impact on the programming (whatever), and personal time. I don't work or function that well when I am all annoyed about something. Better to have the 90% and move swiftly on. Let some one else who job it is deal with it.

I suppose, it a personal decision, depending on what we are prepared to do and accept. Some people may be quite happy to chill out and wait, some need the money asap.
Let's face it, not all types of coding are hard.
I wonder when he's going to go after Microsoft for patent infringement: http://www.google.com/patents?id=K7MoAAAAEBAJ&dq=uniloc+...
Seems like something Popehat could take a stab at.
There are a few mentioned in this article on tips for portfolio sites that might give you some inspiration: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/10-characteristics-o...

One of the ideas I thought was great was to have a portfolio blog, not a portfolio site. You can post pictures of your work, but then accompany it with a technical summary of what problem you you were solving. Great for coders to showcase the stuff behind the app's UI.
> Patents are there to stop people stealing a technology you invented and letting you have a fair shot at making a living from it.

Patents are quite explicitly not there to stop people "stealing a technology". You can already do this by keeping your invention secret (which many jurisdictions grant some form of protection).

The purpose of patents is to encourage inventors to publicly disclose their inventions so that others can benefit from and build on this knowledge, accelerating the rate of technological advance. In return the public grants the inventor a limited period of monopoly on the invention.

The patent system currently in place in the western world is not achieving the goals that the society has set it, mostly because patents are granted for "inventions" whose public disclosure has no value (because they're obvious or over broad). What we get instead are huge companies with massive patent arsenals stopping new companies from getting into business, patent trolls extorting money, and independent inventors whose patents are worthless since they cannot bear the cost of defending them against large companies.
As someone just coming across this now, the HNpod sounds fine. If I heard that I don't think I would assume it's official in any way.
We could give you a number of introductions/matches for free and if you want more, like 20 introductions to iPhone developers you would have to pay for it.
Here's my take: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4239336
Dashlane iOS app w/ integrated browsed launched.
Check the Mike Monteiro linked in another comment. Professionals use lawyers, not amateur contract terms, to get paid.
http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=stralep
Clickable: http://cansend.com/
I'd also add, that I probably wouldn't hire a freelancer with a blog article like this on their site. It shows a lot of immaturity, lack of business acumen, and experience. Maybe things are different in Australia?
To make it even more confusing, I've heard that at least some ghettos in German-occupied Poland were ethnic enclaves before the war. OTOH, never cared to find actual sources to support/disprove this claim.
The next time I'm involved in an acquisition as a founder, I'm going to negotiate clauses to reverse the acquisition based on milestones by the acquiring company. While I would like to think that this should only happen under severe circumstances that one would not usually predict, shit happens. I wasn't prepared or experienced enough to protect myself.

Talent acqhires needs to be clear and not overpromise and under deliver. There's nothing I respect more than transparency, and there's nothing I despise more than koolaid. Koolaid works for some, necessary evil for uniting a company during hard times, but not for the guys (and gals) who've been in the trenches and understand the game. Maybe this is part of the game, but who wants to go through the legal headaches to make an acquisitions and then go back to HR to find human capital replacements 1-2 years in because they got frustrated and left?...
Notch knocking down a strawman frontpages on HN.
this is all good and fine, but, i would like to see the quality of that code and how much extra time it added to refactor, test and clean up to their developers?
On the nature of our digital economies
Coincidentally, my google-managed domain was just spoofed by someone using airtel this morning (Lelia900382@foiledspun.com is not a registered user):
https://gist.github.com/3169882
While it would be easy to pass off your lack of knowledge on that link as a "newbie" or "lack of effort" the truth is that link (as was just pointed out) is buried at the bottom under the link labeled "lists". It's not on the top bar (where there is room).

So this is really a UI lesson in how if you are designing things you need to get the end user experience on your design. That link is probably missed by many people. Assuming it's something that PG wants people to see, it does need to be more easy to find. I'm sure many users have run into the same issue.

This is close to the equivalent of using "fine print" to try to slip something by someone (not saying that is what is going on here). But it's the same concept. You can make something easy to find or hard-er to find.
New VMware is probably more expensive than old vmware and it's expensive enough already. Every portrayed advantage of virtualisation is not cost effective when you have to pay their extortionate prices. Xen/KVM and HyperV have a serious advantage.

For ref, I currently have to babysit a large vsphere installation (44 hosts) and it's a money pit.
"Company Muse’s database is in Python with displays in HTML, CSS and JavaScript."

Better than the average tech article, I guess, but still incorrect.
This is me pretty much. I crush problems under my foot at work, and then leave after putting the requisite hours in.

I've had employers tell me to work more hours so they could bill our clients more. I was naive, and asked why, as my components didn't require all-day debug sessions at client sites, and I regularly hit my milestones. I didn't understand the perverse incentives that come into play when consulting. No doubt they wanted me to work on something; but all they saw was the dollar value I was worth. In the time I would have spent at the office, I arguably put it into something more productive (long-term), such as working on side projects, or practicing a musical instrument.

These days I consult at a strict 30 hours a week. I have workaholic tendencies, so I'm on a rest cycle WRT work.
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Way ahead of you https://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/fundue.shtml :) (try the buy now button)
I second the above. The current text "Intelligent fully automated email newsletters and social media sharing for your website" is pretty useless. Tell a business owner how it will save them time or money and how its better than what you suspect they use.

You might want to do a search for "landing page copy" in an effort to increase your sign-ups.
It would be useful to be able to 'star' or 'favourite' a comment or submission, to have them accessible in a private list, and to see how many people had done this to your own comments/submissions.

I wouldn't like this to be generally visible though. As others have said, it creates a halo effect and discourages diversity of opinions.
Nope, that doesn't work. I tried that too.
You are right! I think democratizing virtualization and lowering prices has to be at the top of their priority list.
Ask HN: Help Review FantasyBuzzer.com, Came out of the techcrunch hackathon NYC
Although we did not win the main prize, we won the AT&T 5K, which was enough for us to execute an MVP on our idea.

URL : www.fantasybuzzer.com

Idea:
Connect Yahoo, ESPN, CBS fantasy provider teams with one click.
Automatic notifications on injuries
Automatic notifications on empty roster spots
Recommendations on who to pickup and who to trade
News catered to your players

What do you guys think?

Thanks,
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Check out http://www.ikeahackers.net/ for a lot of cool ideas like this one.
With her product focus, I really hope Yahoo! starts investing in Flickr again...that was a great aquisition/product at the time and could be great again.
Can't speak for GitHub, of course. They did try an experiment with Pledgie a few years back, but that fizzled:

https://github.com/blog/57-getting-paid-the-open-source-way/
How are you vetting people, to make sure I'm not introduced to a loser who will send me spam?
Seems like the "Learn to Code in 10 Days" books have finally got their charm right.
Fair enough, but I'd hazard a guess that for the majority of people, especially the more urban ones, the only time they even hear about poachers is either in movies (Ace Ventura Pet Detective anyone?) or in articles about elephants/rhinos getting shot for Chinese medicine. You gotta admit the technical definition probably does not completely line up with what Joe Q Public imagines when he hears that word. Somebody shooting a deer out of season is probably not what most people would think of when hearing that word.
Threads are sorted by comment score and by age, with newer threads floating to the top. I think this is a great heuristic.

My only beef is that this also naturally floats poor replies to great comments. It would be nice to have a good heuristic to know when to read the replies and when to move on to the next thread. I think one does exist: expandos. Give us the ability to expand and compact threads, and then automatically compact any old replies that haven't received a reasonable number of upvotes. I use the extension from hckrnews.com to give me expandos, but intelligent compaction would be so much sweeter.
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/1013/
I also agree. From what I've seen on StackOverflow, having visible points encourages posting to gain points rather than to enrich the discussion.
There is a dilemma there.

If you are only skimming a few comments, you are not reading most. But if the comments are not being read, how can they be scored properly? The extent to which points allow reduced/selective reading is the extent to which the accuracy of that selection is itself reduced.
You can tweak the pressure and speed
Comments, not stories...
How One Company Marketed Their Mobile App to 1 Million Downloads
This American Life did a show recently (in the past year) about patent trolls (focusing on Intellectual Ventures):

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w...

Their explanation of the venue choice was that the other federal courts were choked with drug-related cases and going to East Texas was a way to get a speedier trial.
In my experience with reddit, displaying the score of a comment leads to bandwagon voting, which adds easily avoided noise to the sorting process. It also leads to a certain amount of karma fetishization, which results in easy jokes and fluff.

With regards to skimming, I think that comment folding is a useful feature with few drawbacks.