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Thanks for sharing this. I found these comments very helpful. A few thoughts from what I learned at my first company, and from someone possibly a bit more revenue minded.

-First, I recommend doing some personal strength tests such as the Gallup Strengthsfinder test. If you have a better idea what you are strong at, this may help how you approach solving the question of how to monetize things.

-Sales will not just appear, you'll likely have to email/call/meet/blog/do everything it takes to get the initial buyers group. I had no idea how to "Sell" something but I picked up a sales book, read it, put on a suit by myself in my apartment while I made sales phone calls (the suit was a confidence booster). Once you get the first sale everything gets easier...at least for a while until you hit Phase 2 which is too many people buying but that is a different Q&A.

-Have you thought about asking people or companies what they need, what XYZ would be worth to them, and then building it for them? This decreases your risk since they have already told you what they would buy. Make them pre-pay.

One of my favorite stories is of the entrepreneur who goes to a company and asks, "What product do you guys really need right now?" They inform the entrepreneur and he responds, "That's interesting, I make that!" He hadn't even built the product out but did it under their specifications. Once that was complete he went back to them and said, "What other product do you really need right now?" They informed him and he said, "I make that too." Thus started his business.
Didn't mean for anyone to take me too literally. What's I'm trying to say is I think you are in the minority. Perhaps 80% of the Mini's buyers will be previous iPad or iPhone owners. (whereas with the iPad or iPhone maybe 50-60% are brand new customers)

Or maybe I am just completely out of touch with the US consumer and their purchasing priorities (I am from Canada)
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My comment was really 2 separate statements, I don't necessarily think Disney has a 'rock star' admin(s). But you make a valid point.

Also, I think I don't get paid enough.
Your comment reminds me of the turning point in WALL-E when all the humans finally looked up from their computer screens to see the world :)

Coincidentally a few days ago I was just writing about how Imagineers pioneered UX design. And speaking of Google Glass, the Haunted Mansion at Disney World was updated last year with augmented reality effects so that the hitch hiking ghosts in the mirrors now interact with the visitors (like swapping their heads) -- http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/haunted-mansion/news/05a...

Have you been? How was it?
We have been working for 4 months to create an automatic trip planner which can prepare a custom travel itinerary for travelers in a couple of seconds.We have now completed the backend logic for the planner and working towards a complete release next month. We are looking for some suggestions/feedbacks from the hacker news community so that released version comes out as a better product.
The site demo.triptern.com shows the basic algorithm working and still have a lot of features not included. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Can't help on cost but for most things there is a another type of MVP. Minimum Viable Price. It just costs a certain amount to perform the service even if you think it's only X.
> Are the old servers being used as backups in the event Amazon has their very rare aws outage?

AWS is essentially acting as a backup of the old servers, as the datacenter is in danger of losing power.

That said, the cost, reliability, etc. had been carefully thought out, albeit as a somewhat longer-term project than it ended up being. More info will certainly wait at least until the current state of things is cleared up - Fogbugz and Kiln are still in the datacenter.
Intel is first and foremost a fab company - they're ahead of pretty much everyone in semiconductor processes by at least one generation. If Intel needed to create an ARM-ISA compatible CPU tomorrow, they probably could, and it would be top notch (though maybe not at a margin Intel wants to play at).

The biggest threats come from companies which have shown that they're willing to pour the big bucks into R&D and new fab construction (Samsung).
> Every tragedy in human history that I know of was born from good intentions.

Isn't that pretty much a meaningless statement, because people almost always have good intentions in mind (at least from their own viewpoint) when they do almost any action?
I am in no way saying that's all you get from YC. I'm just saying that I disagree with a pretty common opinion that you starting a company without being funded by YC (or etc.) is ridiculous.
Oh good, sounds like you know what you're doing! Hopefully you keep making small payments, e.g. $5 monthly fees on each card. If you leave a card unused for a long time that can lead to some nastiness and a sudden drop in your credit score later. The reason is basically that accounts with much higher credit lines than they actually use are high risk because they have a small chance of a major default.

Source: I used to work in a credit cards division at a major bank.
one 1/4 inch at a time ?
I'm working on a credit scoring related project and would be curious if you know what your credit score is? Any chance you'd be willing to post scores from CreditKarma.com and Creditsesame.com?

I'm curious to see if this strategy is sustainable.
Haha, so moral flexibility is sometimes bad, but sometimes good.
> Choice is liberating.

I find it to be overwhelming. I am routinely contacted by people asking if I am looking for work, and what they are doing seems like it could be an amazing experience, but you get comfortable in your six figure job that you love and taking the risk on something new is a huge decision. Like, "should you divorce your wife to date the interesting new girl you met?" kind of huge.

I did not have the opportunity to obtain a formal post-secondary education though, so maybe that is something you learn to manage in that process.
It's great and a blackeye to Apple because Google showed that it can deliver the same thing that Apple has failed to by making Siri only available to iPhone4S and above.
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Some examples ... insurance, mortgage, car loan, internet, mobile phone, usenet, web hosting. Maybe an app could help in finding better/cheaper deals with some of these... probably difficult to automate much of that though.
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Isn't e-ink one of the main reasons the Pebble [1] got $10M in funding?

There's a lot of conjecture in this article - it mentions it "may" be able to make a shatterless e-ink device, or e-ink "could be" made more responsive. Not promising.

In addition what does this gain? Apple pretty much set the standard with glass multitouch displays years ago, and I have yet to see a popular plastic touchscreen phone display recently (scratching and smears are two big problems).

It will be interesting to see what the prototype can offer (as I await my Pebble as well).

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...
I will; I have an iPhone 4.
One corrolary of this, if true, would be the uneven distribution of empathy will correlate with uneven distribution of analytic skill (viz: learning by doing).
Former analyst here who specialized in rewards credit cards. Changing cards or opening moderate numbers of new credit lines will have little to no impact on your credit score if done reasonably.
By filtering out answers that arrive after more than 5 hours, you're really skewing the data, and in a very arbitrary way. Why not 4 hours, or 6?
Note that filtering also caused languages to change relative positions (e.g. PHP climbed from 5th place to 1st).
Well, I suppose it's better than "neener neener".

The discussion that surfaced the supposed incivility was about consumer electronics. Maybe there's a time and place to cast off our robes, wail at the moon and set fire to the castle, but...iPads? The counterculture is getting naked because of gadgets? I understand that we seek modern proxies for long-gone tribal battles, but I stopped arguing about whose toys were the best when the Amiga didn't take over. I'm still sad about that.

Civility doesn't exist in a hierarchy of which values are most important. It's orthogonal to originality, like choosing to wear shoes. You can do the same job whether you're civil or not. No relationship, so stop trying to link it. You keep bringing up irrelevant issues, creating links where there are none and fighting strawmen, all so you don't have to explain your supposed incapacity to argue a point (or even rile someone up) using less inflammatory language. I understand you think your language is the secret sauce of your message, but you're probably capable of using different language to similar effect.

At some point you'll find the bad people you're wailing at live in your own head, not on HN. You're still making personal appraisals based on an impossibly thin stream of information, and therefore drawing vibrant (but wrong) images of who you think you're talking to. I mean, go for it if it helps you work stuff out, but you're arguing with a mirage.

Since you insist that you're incapable of conducting a discussion without insulting the (imagined) other, all I do by continuing is offering you more opportunity for that. Or as Raganwald said:

"The same is true when we see someone else violating these precepts. The downvote (and flag, where available and appropriate) are the right tools for the job. Most of the time, calling someone out for diluting the discourse simply adds to the noise while simultaneously feeding the troll."
I think that answers your question to "how is this a framework" and "what is the value in this?"

For many startups who want to get a site up quickly and have it look good and work well on a large number of sites, using something like bootstrap as the basis for their site design is a huge win.

In your previous posts you keep mentioning "designers", plural. What if started your own firm and didn't have money for "designers", plural, but wanted a site that looked good? Code all that CSS bugger yourself and test it across all those browser versions and different display sizes? Or would you maybe look for a solid, easily customized solution that is built around design and coding best practices and that is tested by an active community?

Do you code your own OS kernel and device drivers as well?

What's a good value for the ratio between your base font size and the lineheight you use? Hmm? A decent approximation is already used in the LESS code for bootstrap.

How do you implement a clean grid system that works across browsers and resolutions? How many grid implementations have you tested? Implemented? How reliable are they? How well do they work?

Are you hand coding your CSS? Bootstrap is probably what helped most of the people on HN realize the value of CSS preprocessors such as LESS.

Instead of spending a load of time optimizing common UI experiences across lots of browsers, or hiring a consulting designer who will probably reuse the code he's already written and charge you a chunk of change, you can instead use bootstrap. And when there is a point release you will find that they often included lots of little optimizations that make the overall CSS work better and across more browsers.

Frameworks provide templates and take care of the boilerplate for you. Bootstrap isn't any different from any other framework in that regard.
Your bank's scoring methodologies were probably better than mine. We raised flags if someone's available credit spiked, or if they closed cards, or if they kept a card open without making any purchases on it for several months.
I could totally hear Buzz Lightyear saying "Never give up, never surrender!"
I would gladly be owned by a turbocharged jet ski.
A subscription to something like Longform - curated stories of interest to me. For $5 per month I'd like to have ad free versions of the stories, with better than normal styling.
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That's really interesting! It could be cool to learn how to interact with Twitter, as well as Voice API's. The only downside I forsee is that hearing the news might be unbearable, with the text-to-speech type of stuff.

Thanks for the suggestion r00fus
I think the market for the mini is huge, specially around the holidays. Not everyone will pay the premium, but Apple doesn't need to get all of them.

As you said if it's only previous iPad or iPhone users there are a lot of those.

What about people with small hands ? Maybe you hand your kid a $329 device that fits his hands instead of a $500 that's too big ?

Getting and ipod touch for your kid ? Bump him up to a tablet ( if he doesn't take it to school everyday )

People that like the kindle form factor will also be tempted.
Ray Kroc got his start with McDonald's at the age of 52. Never too old to think new.

http://franchises.about.com/od/mostpopularfranchises/a/ray-k...
How is writing this blog post and submitting it to Hacker News not hacking the application process?
Seems like a great way to test your DDOS toolset with real-world targets.
It can recognise my Indian English accent and feels instantaneous , moved this app to my home screen

Now apple need to catchup on Siri
Not to mention, the less stuff you need, the less money it takes to have "fuck you" money.
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Yes, it sure is.
That's like saying stop thinking about eating an apple and start thinking about eating fruit.

Startups are a proper subset of businesses. It's up to each individual what type he or she wants to start.
I'll second the "keep studying" part. After high school and summers during college, I worked at a wonderful startup. Software was a big part of what they were doing, but hardware was the real innovation and everybody there except me was a hardware guy. By my second year I was giving architecture presentations to the client, because who else was going to do it? At one point I contemplated just dropping out and going to work because I'd be coming in at a higher salary than if I graduated and went somewhere else. I spent the summers grinding at that company, spent the school year doing projects on the side, and frankly blew off school because who cared about GPA when you had all that experience?

It's been five years since I graduated college, and to this day I regret not spending that part of my life focusing on that part of life. Fact of the matter is that I realized the things I genuinely enjoyed hacking (compilers, operating systems) had all been done in the 1980's, and I had no interest in all the web stuff that was being done now. At the same time, anything else I might have wanted to do was closed off because of my college grades. You don't realize at 18-19 how much your college grades matter, especially if you wander outside the tech field.

I'm sure lots of kids are more responsible than I was at that age. They can balance hobby projects along with acing classes. But if you're not one of those people, then I suggest either doing school or doing a startup, but not trying to do both at the same time and letting both suffer. There is plenty of time in life for entrepreneurship. And frankly, outside the little Silicon Valley bubble, your chances at starting a successful business will be greatly enhanced by the signaling devices you can earn by focusing single-mindedly on school.

I do always like to point out the irony of the fact that Peter Thiel graduated from Stanford UG and Stanford Law, clerked for a Circuit judge, then went to go work for an investment bank. He was almost thirty by the time he started his first venture! Life is long, the only thing you're rushing towards is death. :D
Very interesting as well! I took a look at their site, and it did seem hard to parse with the styling.

So the current reason you aren't happy with Longform are the ads and the styling?
How so? This storm was a whopper. To the point that buoys were reporting waves 5 times taller than anything on record. Historically, Manhattan has been a fine place for a data center. Moreover, Peer1 survived the 2003 blackout, the only other recent event of this magnitude, without service disruption.

You can armchair quarterback this all you want, but unless you're actually making the decisions, perhaps you should consider the information available.
I think another aspect is SO has the same problem as HN.

Same thing posted will get a different response depending on the time of day because of the signal:noise ratio.
I'll bite, in response to the average time being just over half an hour.

> I think the time is higher than that of PHP or JavaScript because almost everything is just soooo easy with Python, so only questions with at least a bit of complexity get asked.
Technically, it is running hybrid now, albeit for somewhat silly reasons: the mail server is still at Peer1.
Wow, While trying to see reactions to the word hate, I saw ALOT of whatever statements. o.0 Anyway, I didn't hate the idea. In fact, it seems kind of interesting. I really do believe his reaction is completely cultural. Sex is doesn't need to be kept a secret. And his reaction seems to be that. Privacy is rather outmoded concept, at least when you can find anything about anyone at at anytime. Given a month and some meager resources, you could find a lot about a person. Humans aren't random. We are completely traceable, to a point where anything we do is predictable on a scatter plot.
There are UI questions with a 13 inch tablet - for example, on-screen keyboard.

Tweaking a 10" optimized OS for a 13" screen sounds like a non-trivial process if you have a UX focus.

Weight is just one of the problems of a larger tablet - there's also display yields, cost, processor to drive the graphics, which leads to heat dissipation concerns, etc.
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Thanks for the info. I know things must be pretty crazy right now. Quite literally in the trenches. Just goes to show what an amazing team behind an amazing product can do. Kudos!
The whole issue of "better living through chemistry" is a big experiment and the "professionals" may have better training but they can only guess as to what may or not work for an individual. In the end it's always a try and see approach.
It does, the 'clustering by hand' in categories according to hardness is completely unscientific.

I guess if done properly more categories would arise (e.g. bad formed questions) and possibly trends would change.

It's fun none the less ;)
It is possible to conceive of violating the known laws of physics if you start by conceiving of an object that violates the known laws of physics. A perfectly rigid beam 25 million miles long would be such an object.

A beam made of matter is not rigid (as we think of the word) on that scale, as others in the thread have pointed out.
Well he could always compute the median. Less robust to outliers. 100 questions answered in 1 minute, with one question answered in 1 day will give you an avg of 15 minutes instead of the more representative 1 minute
I really like your first point, but I don't see how the second follows.
Any time spent on religion is wasted time. There, one less thing to worry about.
Here is what the op said, "You really have to be working at Google or other big place or make it big in the start up area"

I refuted that, then you are now making a different point than the OP. My advice, don't live in those places. I say this as someone who was born and raised in Virginia.
Well written article. I completely agree with the author.
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flywheel has an interesting reply to this, but he has been hellbanned. Go to your preferences and turn showdead on to see it.
There's a little bit more information in the last status post, plus a picture of Fog Creek cofounder Michael Pryor hauling 5-gallon jugs of diesel up 17 flights of stairs. (We have other employees down there, too, and I know Stack Exchange's NYC employees were excited to help out, so they're probably there by now, too.) http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/diesel-bucket-brigade-mai...
JSON does not have to have a dictionary at the root. You can have just an array.
This is the world we live in. A world where being seen enjoying something matters more than actually doing it. People's need for social validation is so strong it sometimes saddens me.

The positive point is that we (as in, hackers) are on the side of building things and solving (although sometimes artificial) problems, so we can at least make what we can to benefit from people's behavior.
Just to be clear, WebPutty is not gone. It's operational for another few months on Fog Creek's dime[1]. After that (or now, if you'd like) you can easily host it yourself on App Engine, probably for free, now that it's open source[2].

[1] https://www.webputty.net/
[2] https://github.com/fogcreek/webputty
I think there's a disturbing trend in our society towards trying to get something that's competitive by "hacking" it or cheating on it somehow. Either that or working insanely hard at the expense of your personal life and personal health. It ultimately leads to a raising of the standard so that only those people can really get what they want.
"Hacking" the Y-Combinator application is an example of that. Suppose some people figure out how to hack it so that they can give the reviewers exactly what they want. Well, then the other people who aren't hacking it in that way are at a disadvantage. Then they have to hack too or be left in the dust. And it becomes this sort of arms race where the original point gets left in the dust.

The same example is true of taking adderall to study for tests. In high school, I didn't take adderall, but I know a lot of kids who did and they would remember information a lot better and score above what they should have been. So if there was some kid who was objectively a worse student than me and he was getting the same grades as me, we both look the same. If everybody started doing it, I'd be left behind or pushed into a lower bracket by virtue of being the only person who didn't do it - who wasn't willing to risk my health (I think, don't know too much about it) for a higher grade. I don't think this will happen, but there are a lot of other examples:

-Doping in bicycling

-Working an insane amount of hours on your startup/job

-Spending months/years studying for the GMAT to get into business school

-Corruption or lying in politics

-Autotuning in the music industry

-High school kids taking all these leadership roles and such things that they don't really care about to try to show passion and get into Harvard. Same for grad school applications.

etc. etc.
I found an amazing designer who did the logo for NodeSocket (http://static.nodesocket.com/home/images/logo.png) for $300. Best money ever spent, he did a fabulous job.
Owning things is part of experiencing things, no? And dont put a picture of Steve Jobs on this blog post, thats the Man who brought more devices that people do not need than anyone else. Hardly an example of Minimalism. Unless this was meant as sarcasm.
There are plenty of things I would, and do, pay monthly for. An app still isn't one of them.

My point is there's opportunity everywhere and people these days think it's only in software.
Creating higher visibility doesn't quite seem like "hacking the application process." Of course, it's a bit of a ploy, but no more so than any advertisement has ever been.
Not entirely related, but regarding the backup fuel situation: how long does 1 "bucket" of fuel keep the power going for and what is the cost of 1 bucket of fuel?
I love the cheezburger guys, and think they do good work, but wow that was terrible. I need band-aids for my eyes.
This is interesting, but I have no idea why they're spending money making a desktop thinner. Using the old thickness(which was fine) and todays technology could produce a better computer. Why do people want thin desktops(or why does Apple?).