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At Startup Weekend events in LA it's popular to show Alec Baldwin's performance of the "Coffee is for Closers" speech from "Glengarry Glen Ross."

The intent is to try and rally the troops and build excitement. Really this is something I find sad and another example of missaligned priorities given the actual content of the movie and the plot that is actually unfolding.

Instead of seeing a sociopath that is driving people to commit fraud and crime, people see Jack Donaghy delivering the "truth" to some losers before heading outside to make love to Liz Lemon.

More to my point, there is this thread of unhealthy romanticized ideas about startups and perhaps work in general that some people, organizations, and publications like to promote. This is just another example. There isn't anything that says "don't be like this." It's a big fish story about the one that got away.
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For some reason CherryPy's score doesn't quite correspond to its actual simplicity.
Instead of wasting money on lawyers, why don't they focus their time and efforts on making great products? In a young space, such as printing, companies that behave like this usually go out business eventually.
"Whatever it takes" is an pernicious phrase. I shuddered when I saw the trailer/commercial for that silicon valley startup contest show and it was sprinkled liberally throughout, sometimes shouted at a group of people.
Hell, I bet Hitler felt sorry for himself after losing WWII and killing millions of people, and that was just as valid.

So do we have a link to a Downfall parody for HN startups?
For future reference, the title was "Weev Convicted :-(".
I recommend contributing to open source projects, particularly well-known ones. It is a good way to see how other people and projects work, expand your resume experience, and network with people in other companies.
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Good point. I will look to see if I can raise the price. Just have to make sure the value is there.
(OK, yeah, that title was even worse. ;P)
Small thing—but not sure I'd buy a product from a company called "Dangerous Apps"

It's been a while since I've used Goldmine, ACT, or any of the more SMB focused CRM apps but it's definitely not clear why I'd choose CRM Fly vs those products. i'd emphasize simplicity and ease of use—there are a lot of folks out there who benefit from sales tracking tools who simply don't need everything out there.

Would, however, suggest things like XL exports and perhaps consider SaaS opportunities or partnerships around things like invoice printing/automation. If your approach is "simple, easy, helpful" (cause the other guys are complicated bloatware) then think how you can do this end-to-end for whomever you are designing/building for.
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You're completely right. I will work on changing the content to highlight value vs. features.

Thanks!
That's a good idea.Open source project is good practice for programmer,especially junior.Because you can read and modify others' high quality codes.
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The role of Facebook and Twitter in Arab Spring is hugely exaggerated. Yes, people used both to communicate. But nothing was caused by it - it was caused by people being tired by old and rusty dictatorships, which also suppressed their religious thrivings (which btw may be not really all that nice if fulfilled - dictatorship is bad, but formally democratic fundamentalist regime is not really freedom either).

The reason why airdropping mobile phones would not work is very simple - first, they would not work (no electricity, no coverage in most of the territory), second, the ruling powers would execute everybody that uses it. And they are quite good at executing people for ... well, anything they like. Limiting flow of information to majority of people is quite easy, if the regime is ruthless enough to enforce it.

OLPC is possible only with local authorities' cooperation. Without it, it could achieve nothing.
How do you feel about the guy with the hole in the back of his head?
fwiw, I read HN daily and found this article more interesting than most of the posts on here.
Thanks for your time. We'll work on it.
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Next time just tell them you have medicine in that bag that you need in the next 8 hours (which is why you tried to carry it on).
He wrote a PHP script that downloads incrementing URLs. You know, like `curl -O http://att.net/iccid/[0-100].xml`

AT&T put this information on a public interface and relied on obscurity of serial integers to protect it, then cried foul when someone crawled their unprotected data and claimed felony unauthorized access to a computer system because they didn't explicitly authorize him to download the contents of those publicly-accessible pages.

This conviction is a travesty.
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The flip side of this is that credit cards are handed out like candy to basically anyone with a decent credit history (and several people without). I would go the CC route; if it's just for a month until the paycheck hits you might even make it under the grace period, and even if you don't, if you pay in full over the next month or two the interest is negligible.
Heh, my programmer view is CSS smells cause it's CSS. with aids you can work on fixing the syntax to be more logical, but it could have been done much better in the first place.
Personal contacts, recruiting agencies, job boards (but not craigslist). You're probably better off working for companies in the US/UK. Freelancing is not as common as it is in the US, large and mid-sized companies much prefer to deal with other companies rather than individual freelancers.

But you seem to specialize in relatively rare skills, so you might have better luck freelancing than the average web developer. Feel free to shoot me an email (I'm out of work at the moment so probably not the best person to give this sort of advice, but on the other hand I've been in this country for a long time).
This will slow you down incredibly. Instead of ignoring your seniors/peers, QUESTION their "authoritative" commands. You will learn much, MUCH more that way.
It also might put them in their place if they are massive egoists. Never feed the ego.
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Set up a profile on Elance.com and bid on some dev projects. It's not a particularly non-traditional mean but I mention it because you say you're competent in web and mobile development.
Your first point is valid and the answer can be debated both ways. From my point of view, scientific advancements through the centuries have come at the cost of what we consider now immoral treatment of animals and humans. I feel that we're going to see a repeat of some of this behavior with simulated entities for a while once we gain the capability. It may be accepted, and not even an issue for the public at large, until some signs are being found that the entities are conscious. Hopefully we collectively approach this area of research with the foreknowledge not to repeat previous mistakes. In the end, I feel strongly that our moral definitions will expand to include simulated entities. This is vital for the existence of AI-type minds (constructed and uploaded) to co-exist in society with flesh and blood humans.

A further note to that effect is the recent movement to give sentience-rights to cetaceans and the protection that goes with it. Its encouraging to see that movement taking off, as it will bode well for our hypothetical simulated fellows in the future.

To your second point, I believe you vastly under estimate the research that will be done in the next few years. There are incredible things already done in labs around the world that aren't widely viewed yet. In the next few years that research is going to start exiting the lab and start hitting the marketplace. The last 20 years of advancement are nothing compared to the next 20. We would all do well to bet on a stranger, faster future rather than one that seems like the status quo of the moment.
Some of the points already covered in the above comment.

Some use cases you can think over:
1: The Tasks created in CRMFly gets synchronized with Outlook tasks.
2: Same goes for Calendar.
3: Have the app as Web based and use the windows client to provide offline access.

Change the name of the Company and raise the Price a bit higher, $5 is too low.
The computer held a list of addresses. It did not present that list to the public. He found a trick where he could probe the addresses, and used that trick to extract the list counter to the desires of the owner (and the owners of the addresses). I can't imagine how you think that access was authorized.

Now, sure, it's not much of a "hack" in a security analysis sense. And it was a terribly dumb bug, and a huge security goof by AT&T. But why should criminal law care about how difficult something is? You don't get off of burglary charges if someone's door is unlocked. And if AT&T is culpable for their poor engineering, they are so in a civil sense for damages; it doesn't make the hack less of a crime.

Admittedly there's a spectrum between "full disclosure" security research and grey hat anarchic asshattery, and there are cases where people have been wrongly prosecuted. But this case looks pretty black and white to me.
BTW, another approach is eventually tackle a vertical... perhaps you'll end-up being the #1 CRM app for small practice attorneys, dentists, accountants, etc... you can potentially carve out a niche there, give yourself more focus on whom you want to build for and what their problems are, and find venues for better addressing those markets. I know several folks who started out thinking "broad", received limited but helpful initial adoption, talked to their customers and saw patterns of the types that seemed to have the biggest unmet needs and were actively seeking new ideas/solutions. Then you start to double down.
the one issue I see, is that the number of movies is not so large for current human feedback systems to fail.

Ratings in general is a different story though.
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This is unfair.

If you draw out this line of thinking, pretty much all tragedy is whining. Shakespeare would go like this:

ROMEO: That Juliet chick is hot!
BENVOLIO: Dude, she's Capulet. Find some other ho, plenty of fish in the sea.
ROMEO: Good point.
FIN.

Perspective is by definition subjective. Some people are thrilled to be the first member of their family to go to college. Others commit suicide when they don't get their first choice. Almost exactly one year ago one of the founders of Diaspora took his own life. Is your eulogy "he was an ingrate jerk who didn't appreciate how lucky he was?" Even if it's true, nobody deserves that.

This story is well-written narrative. It's something many of us have experienced to various degrees, and a cautionary tale for those still in the euphoric stage. Take it for what it is -- a reminder that not every startup story is a fairy tale.

Now get back to work.
In my case, NDAs, mostly. Plus, as a savvy recruiter once told me, the Bay Area is big, but the Valley is small.
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I didn't see any email integration. Does that feature exist? Being able to have your interaction history (email, phone call notes, etc) for your clients in one place is important for many people.
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There's a way to read this piece that's neither "suffering entrepreneur" nor "first world privilege".

Pouring all one's hopes and years of effort into a startup is certainly an emotional rollercoaster. If you are the last one out to turn out the lights, it's going to be a poignant moment.

If that happened to me, I'd probably consider writing a blog post about it too. But we don't have to react to it as if it means anything deeper than that.
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"And until you realize that, that the only value you bring is the complete lack of value, you can go fuck yourself." makes no sense.
I think you should give it for 3 to 6 months free trial. Anyone who will use it for this long will be your happy customer anyways. Then you can charge a reasonable amount. Putting prices low may not help you much.
Data points like this always make me wonder what the non-game part of Apple's app store (and Google's, Amazon's, GetJar's, ...) looks like. Is there any good data on that?
He'll likely find both no grace period and a fee for cash advances but, either way, it will probably cost less than $250 to borrow $2k for 6 weeks. (I am broadly supportive of your advice to smooth out temporary cash flow issues with financial services. That is what banks are for. Obviously, one does not want to make a habit of this, as cash advances are very expensive ways to access one's credit.)
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Here are the various 3D-printing projects on KS:

FORM 1: An affordable, professional 3D printer
Raised: $2,945,885

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affor...

PrusAL modular opensource 3D printer
Raised: $1,777

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1530151019/prusal-modula...

Eventorbot! open source 3d printer
Raised: $137,508

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1874396831/eventorbot-op...

Bukobot 3D Printer - Affordable 3D with No Compromises!
Raised: $167,410

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deezmaker/buko-3d-printe...

HYREL 3D Printer
Raised: $152,942

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/25111729/hyrel-3d-printe...

The Vision : Not Just a 3D Printer... A DREAM
Raised: $65,346

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vision3dprinter/the-visi...

Open Source Universal 3D Printer Extruder | DUAL EXTRUSION
Raised: $73,361

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qu-bd/open-source-univer...

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All-up that's quite a chunk of change going into 3D printing projects. I would imagine this has to have raised a flag at 3D Systems. They do have a number of personal 3D printing systems shown here:

http://www.3dsystems.com/personal-3d-printers

Imagine selling product in the $1,200 to $5,000 range and having a Kickstarter campaign suck well over three million dollars from the market. This is what is called a displacement market. For the most part people are not going to go out and purchase multiple hobby 3D printers simultaneously. They'll either buy one or the other, not two or more. This means that this is three million dollars of potential 3D Systems sales that simply evaporated from the horizon.

I can understand what that might feel like from their vantage point. I have not reviewed the patent or patents in question. Perhaps someone can post links to them. This means that I really can't have an opinion as to whether these are bullshit patents or real invention patents. Having read through hundreds of patents over the years it is my opinion that most patents --software or not-- are solidly in the category of bullshit patents.

My test is the distinction between implementation and true invention. The first is something that any individual or team of reasonably qualified engineers could execute on if asked to do so. Invention is where you ask a bunch of engineers to solve the problem and only one or two out of ten might do it and the rest are left scratching their heads. If we adopted some such definition as a validity test the world might just be a much nicer place for all.

I just don't know on this one yet. I do know that loosing three million dollars in business will make anyone angry enough to reach for legal recourse if they have it.
Haha I knew someone was going to latch on to the Hitler comment.

And also, that would be hilarious. Why hasn't that been done yet?

There's this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-mviqUn95s
I have $42,000 in credit with a major bank on credit cards, and just received an $8.5k 0% balance transfer from another (they just put the money in my account). I've earned basically nothing in the last 6 years (been a student). Unsecured credit is out there, it's just about establishing a credit history, which I've been doing since I was 18.
On the other hand, I can see the point in making fun of people removing use flags and playing with -O in order to squeeze performance out of their DE. I've been one of these people, and in my experience, any such gain is too small to be noticeable in practice.
> To your second point, I believe you vastly under estimate the research that will be done in the next few years.

Odd. As my research is in simulation using massively parallel supercomputers, I'd suggest that unless there are (secretive) private research groups out there that are way ahead of universities and have access to pflops level computing, I don't think we'll be seeing accurate simulated FMRIs any time soon.
Well, I guess I know who's part of the problem, then.
My nonprofit is in the market for a CRM tool, but none of us would be able to use this — we're an all-Mac shop.

Does your app have any way to import external data sources (preferably automatically)? Lots of organizations looking for CRM tools look for features that allow them to plug them in to tools they're already using.
Profiling by gender makes no sense - it's not like there's much choice and I see no reason why anybody would want to profile by gender for any reason, if we're talking about security. How did it look - are men picked out just because they are men? Or women are picked out just because they are women? Both sounds strange. And I'm speaking not about it being right - just about why anybody, however evil, would want to use it for any purpose at all. Nobody profiles by color of one's shoes or by third letter of the last name. Profiling must make sense at least in the mind of the profiler. I can imagine what happens in the mind of somebody who wants to profile by, say, citizenship - citizen of Saudi Arabia is probably statistically speaking more risk than citizen of the USA. But gender?
Apparently they have IRC logs of him first talking about selling the information to spammers or using it to go phishing, which makes it a little worse.
I used to work for a company that customized Microsoft CRM. Im not sure I understand this, do your client's have to buy a Microsoft license to use this? You're using their API right? It looks just like out of the box Microsoft CRM, are you sure your not going to get sued trying to sell this?

Sorry if im being negative maybe with some more explanation on the site it would make more sense to me and your customers who are probably doing the same comparison I am.
That would require almost no changes, so I'd say win-win.
"Delete that" meaning remove the editorializing from the title, which they indeed have (not delete your question.)
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It will, but that will need to be way down the line. I can basically use an ORM layer to handle the integration with legacy data.
I haven't tried it so these comments are just about the sales pitch:

Have you talked to potential customers?
What do your potential customers want, what needs aren't being matched by someone else?

Your opening sounds empty to me. Your product doesn't look like every other CRM tool, it doesn't look like peoplesoft, salesforce, sugarcrm. To me it looks a bit out of date. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I've worked with plenty of people that feel far more comfortable with something "more traditional". I would go with an opening selling the straight forward to the point nature of the product.

Personally I prefer to see the price/buying options before I click a buy now button.

You are selling a CRM product but your first screen shot is of a task list with personal items on it. Loose weight etc. As a customer this doesn't shout this software will help me manage customers and make more money.

The description on the customers screenshot is incorrect.

It looks like this is a product for a single person/freelancer as it doesn't allow sharing of data. That's going to limit your audience.

Personally I'd sell/develop the customer management/communication features more - how is it easy to keep trac of conversations, does it hook into email can I merge my calendar? I'd consider a mobile version for people visting clients on site.
I can't remember where I read it or the name of it, but just such a patent pool was founded a few years back and then the principals realized they could be making more money trolling.

So they do. Using the patents in the pool.
That's how Intellectual Assholes... uh Intellectual Ventures got started. They are now probably the number one patent troll worldwide.
If the data is guaranteed to be in memory you can use different data structures that are even more efficient — sometimes 10x more efficient. Ask the TimesTen, SolidDB, or VoltDB folks.
This was done in a very short amount of time using DevExpress' XAF. Also, this CRM looks like every other CRM. That is also true. But that is the nature of CRM tools. They all look the same.
Not a constitutional right, but one granted by public law.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/40103

"A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace."

I choose to exercise that right by paying an airline to transport me by air.
I'll never understand how people promote these things in the sea of noise that is the web, assuming they don't already have a solid presence.
The cost of research for a new drug is dwarfed by the cost to get it approved by the FDA, and dwarfed again by further marketing costs. Not to mention most "researched" drugs are just "me-too" copies of financially successful drugs. Not to mention that of the top 46 selling drugs worldwide, 20 of them do not owe their existence to patents. And the case for pharmaceutical patents just gets worse and worse, it's a great case study of patents being totally ineffective in encouraging innovation or benefiting the consumer. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/imbookfinal09.pdf
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My start up just recently received a small amount of seed funding from an incubator ($5000). My team is made of three of us, none of us have ever really done anything like this before (we're all technical). So my question is, what do we do from here? At this point, we have a prototype that works really well, but we're running it off a server that one of us is hosting and I think we need something bigger. What things should we be looking at to do now that we have some funds? Do we need to start talking to lawyers, register as a company, etc?
What is the relevant precedent in this case that helps clarify what the law means? Is there precedent that says that you have to commit fraud to be convicted? Or that making a website public always constitutes authorization? What about if the website is publicly available, but the url isn't published, so you'd be required to guess the url to access it. Anyone know what the relevant case law is in that scenario?

Edit: Actually, the EFF page that tptacek linked to earlier mentions the US vs Drew case, where they charged that a person was "unauthorized" simply by being in violation of the MySpace terms of service, but the court instead ruled that they were not unauthorized because the law itself was too vague ("the absence of minimal guidelines to govern law enforcement"), and because the terms of service weren't prominent enough.
The divs "Customers" and "Goals" have the same text. I think the price is too low. Also, a screencast would be nice.
I think Anonymous should be trashing AT&T right now.