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I have been working on a product idea and have something going on. I know product I have built has a future - it has some paying and non-paying customers. It is live and doing well. But like typical SaaS based service, it does not have enough users at this moment for me to be self sustainable. I am not sure if any one would interested to fund the venture in US - but am trying through variety of avenues.I have failed on one angle. That is- to keep fire in house burning through my journey, I have been through and have wiped out my savings now. The fire in my belly is much more than before and have an attitude to not give up till I get it right. I can make it happen - I have made it happen before. Dont trust history - test my current creds.

However the need of the hour is to find some one who can leverage my expertise (technical hands on) and help me pay my bills. Another limitation is that, I cannot be quite open about my personal situation because my customers would suffer and may not trust my credibility.

I am very passionate about my work and clients and past experiences can vouch for my creds. I have established creds and experience in building next gen - SaaS based multi-tenant services on several different cloud (IAAS) providers.Is there any one who can help me in my journey to be a successful individual? Please feel free to reach out on my gmail : sid4it@gmail.com. I am based in Houston, Texas.
Profit is a synonym for efficient. I couldn't care less about the money part.

Yet where there are no profits, efficiency is also generally lacking. (and don't mention free software, because the profits are just different - just not directly financial, but bankable - like reputation, experience, passion - people write free software for good selfish reason, "to scratch their own itch")
I'm going to steal that :-)
#4 ... what. I take it that goes hand in hand with #5.
It's not really unwitting. Anything that increases nutrition for humans necessarily increases the food supply for creatures that prey on humans. Similarly, boosting the rabbit population enhances the food supply for creatures that prey on rabbits.
You just need their social security number or a name. Every bank offer this. If you have just a name, they create a PIN that you send to the recipient.
It's actually a pretty nice idea. Since the wiki and issues tabs are already optional features, perhaps the "Code" tab should be optional too.
Ok, I've upvoted two articles. This link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4944163) gives me a blank page. Also, I'll note that the second article is also pretty faint praise. It's the travel agency industry association praising a TSA pilot program to allow pre-screened frequent fliers to go through security more quickly. In other words, to make the experience of flying less awful for their best customers. They don't say the TSA is doing a good job, only that this program will be an improvement.

Now, on to bias. Having an opinion is not bias. An honest examination of the facts can lead to a conclusion that isn't neutral with respect to a given issue. Do you think the HN community is disregarding important facts in coming to it's anti-TSA position?

Also, yes, it's self-serving to want less waste of government money, and less hassle in flying, but only insofar as HN members are also members of the public. I don't think anyone here holds the position that we should reduce security for their personal convenience, on the theory that a successful terrorist attack would probably kill someone else.

So, by all means, post information that might challenge the opinion of the community. We might learn something. But also, let's keep forming opinions and defending them. That's the point of all this discussion, right?
Hi everyone, happy to chime in from an Asian perspective. I'm Ryan, based in Singapore and tried to co-found an online platform for procurement of medical supplies for private clinics. Faced many of the industry's frustrations as expressed in this discussion too. Would be happy to share my experience too.
And: when I walk down the aisle and hear browsers clicking as I approach, I DO know you were on Facebook.
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> This is not something that a patent examiner has the tools, training, and, most importantly, time to do on initial application.

... which then begs the question: If the USPTO cannot do adequate research for granting a valid patent, then why are they granting patents?
>[google] probably dropped the ball midway for reasons similar to firefox

Sorry, i really can't accept this.

Google absolutely had it in their power to move us away from h264. If youtube, chrome, android and firefox were all webM centric, it would become the main codec used on the web for video (to be honest, youtube alone would be capable of doing this). Users (that would be >60% of the web) would blame the content provider if videos did not work, forcing them to adopt webM, in a post-flash world.

Compare this to mozilla, with no online video presence, and standing alone, where users would blame firefox and move to chrome.

I don't really understand google's motivation, but perhaps they were (irrationally?) fearful of losing users to IE/safari.. or the influence of iOS?
"I've been thinking lately that with the number of patents in existence, the likelihood that a newly submit patent application is truly novel without any invalidating prior art is probably very low."

A great scifi short story that examines this eventuality in the context of art & perpetual copyright : Melancholy Elephants, by Spider Robinson. http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm
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An interesting blog about being both physically and mentally fit.
The fact that religion "exploited for nefarious purposes" is what WBC traffics in was precisely my point.
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> It's not like the bacteria cause obesity as some articles suggest, their presence is itself a symptom of a nutritional problem (such as too much intake)

this article suggests the bacteria are causing obesity, and explores it by having a flora transplant into a regularly non-obese mouse that causes obesity in that mouse.
There are a few decent open fonts now (and then a whole lot of novelty display faces, and a fair number of knockoffs), but it is unlikely that the "open font movement" is going to displace H+FJ or the like any time soon. As Andrew points out downthread, creating a complete set of hinted fonts for a face is tremendously expensive and time consuming, and for the people with the resources to devote time mastering the craft, there's a functioning market for the work.
Great news! There's an amazing range of funding routes now available to startups. I'm currently considering using http://www.seedrs.com/
You have to consider that it's trivially easy to extract the full fonts from the app the enduser receives. For iOS just unzip the .ipa file, go to the Resources folder et voilà.
I've seen this quite a bit recently. It's a hack but it's a quick way to get a public-facing issue tracker out there.

Are there any better solutions for getting a tracker set up easily where non-contributors can raise bugs and discuss feature requests?
"Don't click on linkbait."
Another potential difference might be that most (not all) webfont licensing situations involve content that is controlled entirely by the licensee, but app licenses might frequently involve scenarios where the licensee's customers control the content. For instance, Instapaper has effectively obtained a license for typesetting pretty much everything on the Internet in FF Meta.
Thanks for the very informative comment. I also recognize that a lot of people's understanding of food is scarcely more rigorous than cargo cult rituals, but a few points seem a bit unclear to me.

...It's not like the bacteria cause obesity as some articles suggest, their presence is itself a symptom of a nutritional problem (such as too much intake)....

How do you square this with the claim from the original article that giving mice a toxin produced by gut bacteria (Lipopolysaccharide endotoxin) causes obesity and insulin resistance, and that "[m]ono-association of germfree C57BL/6J mice with strain Enterobacter cloacae B29 isolated from the volunteer’s gut induced fully developed obesity and insulin resistance on a high-fat diet but not on normal chow diet, whereas the germfree control mice on a high-fat diet did not exhibit the same disease phenotypes"?

It's not "evil complex polysaccharides" wreaking havoc and producing energy out of thin air to make people fat, it's (as always) people eating too much who are bringing this upon themselves.

Why, then, do some people become obese when they eat as their instincts tell them, and others do not? For example, I eat whenever I'm hungry, stop when I'm full (or even overfilled), snack frequently while working (mostly nuts, dried fruits, and sometimes Fritos), and yet remain thin, while others eat carefully and remain obese. What's the difference?
Yes: that their work, which is simultaneously an incredibly time consuming craft and a luxury good that nobody can reasonably claim a native entitlement to, deserves to be remunerated at rates that the market sets.
It is hard to imagine something that is less of a "commodity" than a high-end designer font. Literally everyone in the world with a computer or smartphone has numerous highly serviceable fonts at their disposal; if you're looking to license a designer font, the sole rational reason you'd be doing it is to de-commoditize your typesetting.
> and encouraging more competition to go for those treatments because they can make it profitable at a lower cost.

They can make it more profitable but only helps a smaller subset of people because is better to sell 1000 $10 needless than 10000 $1 needles (transportation, packaging, liability, etc); plus is a strong incentive to use any procedure that makes the patient believe that he is getting better even if he actually don't; because ultimately is the profit margin that matters. And that is not an exception; is the number one rule for business.

And data also goes against your view; the country I am talking is Denmark, the health system is 100% subsidized by the government itself; it haves a 95% health services satisfaction rate because all those events generated from the need to generate profits are non-existent.
We definitely have that idea in mind, you need to be able to filter these bounties sanely :) Filter by bounty amount, repo languages, bounty age, etc.
The idea of a flat charge back fee is weird[1]. If I think about a store where I sell things for $1, it means if I exceed a 7% chargeback rate, my business is no longer profitable. Is that really all there is to it?

Edit: [1] Not weird as in weird on Stripe's part, but weird as from the perspective of someone who does not sell online, just seems like this one-size-fits-all approach probably makes a lot of low-margin selling really hard.
Thanks, I had a blank page and was surprised. (I use the disconnect extension)
What black magic do they use to make the games run under Linux? Wine?

Are all Steam games now compatible with Linux, or only a few titles that the developers are willing to support Linux? Is there a list anywhere?
Thanks for the support. Yeah, I'm already seriously evaluating my options. I have realized that it's okay if the first job I get may not end up being what I'm looking for.
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I'll have to rethink my Paypal vs. Stripe decision.

I'm actually setting up a store right now and I'm going with Paypal just because it's so much easier and cheaper.

With Paypal:

- After a sale I can buy and print out USPS labels and postage in 2 clicks and send the tracking and shipping info to my buyer in 1 click.

- I don't have to pay to integrate it into my site or buy a module ($27), the Paypal module is already included, and with Paypal I don't need SSL encryption (which can cost $50+ / year / domain).

1 way Stripe can remedy this is to make free Stripe Payment modules for major e-commerce stores.

I want to move to Stripe eventually because they don't try to get my users to sign up for a paypal account by hiding the credit card payment form beneath the paypal login and registration form. And I don't like Paypal's "side with the buyer even if they're a scammer" policy, not to mention the whole "your account funds have been frozen for 180 days while we investigate".

5 years from now I really hope Stripe branches out to cover a lot more than just credit card processing. Once they master that area I'd really love to see them become a small business e-commerce solutions provider. I'm sticking with Paypal until I get screwed over and have my funds frozen because in the short term, I'm saving so much more time and every dollar counts.

Hey Stripe, one day if you work on a store for small businesses I'd love to chat. The current options (WP E-commerce, shopify, magento, ebay, Amazon, etc...) are a pain in the ass (I've tried them all) and no one, ==> NO.ONE. <== , has made a proper packaging backend and USPS shipping calculator that doesn't screw either the buyer or the seller. Ebay comes close but even they fail terribly at package dimension calculation for multiple quantities ordered.
Thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering why the site wasn't showing up!
Wow, is indeed very good. Thank you. Where do you find out about gestures like this? I can't help but wonder what other gestures are secretly lurking.
Cool, happy I'm giving helpful feedback. The field is just starting to take off, but I think it's great that there is now a growing selection of small message/status update/microblog software.

It's possible that government agencies, universities, businesses, etc can take advantage of running status update services, which can be made either be public or private, tied to their own domain/network, and maintain administration of user accounts. Many other advantages from having this sort of infrastructure develop will be seen as well.
The fact that we're presently using a website that essentially serves as a crowdsourced, real-time trade journal counters that argument.

I'm pretty sure that "HN members" form a VERY small percentage of the overall population of knowledge workers. I don't have numbers available to "do the math", but I'm guessing "we" are well less than 1%.
What if I was on GitHub, looking at the kind of software the boss doesn't see the importance in using/writing?

Sometimes, "goofing off" is actually your employee preparing for a future job at a different company. Maybe even his/her own.
To make it short, where !=> mean "does not imply":

satisfaction != efficient

satisfaction !=> result

results !=> efficient

profit = efficiency => results => satisfaction
If you sell 10 crappy $1 things a month it doesn't make sense.
If you sell 10000 nice $1 things a month - it does.
No idea, but I guess having someone working on this issue full-time for a year will give them some idea of how effective this type of move is, and it's certainly better than no action at all.

If it is effective, I'm sure there are a variety of ways to continue to fund the initiative.
I kind of agreed with your first post; patents mean that the inventor will share with the world how to make the invention. (although, i am generally anti-patent for several reasons; much too great scope and time-length especially for the technical world).

But you really lost me here with your rookie 'causation Vs correlation' point. Alternative thesis; powerful corporations (which occur in rich nations) have more government sway to enable protectionism.
btilly already stole it from someone else. I've heard it in a dozen places. MIGHT be Peter Drucker .. ?
The effort to handle a chargeback is not proportional to the amount of the charge, so I don't see why the fee would be.

If you read around on retail forums, you'll find that nobody would be able to get away with anything close to a 7% chargeback rate with traditional credit card processing, without getting their merchant account terminated with severe prejudice -- anything more than a percent or so raises alarm bells with the card companies.
It seems that in that rig, without an enclosure, they are limited to shooting in the dark using light painting lest they capture the background. In this "shadowless" rig with the overhead lighting and white background they have more options. He even mentions the possibility of painting the inside which makes me think they might be thinking of doing a green screen. They do have to worry about the camera holes which means they'll probably have to shoot with an upward angle.
There's a list, found here: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux

Very few games are compatible, but Team Fortress 2 is one of them.
Ok so I live, eat, breath, and drink data, and I'd never heard of a "data network" before, other than as the thing that connects computers together. Is this some new buzz word I'm unaware of?
The latter. I suspect the list will be similar to the list of games that work on Mac. It's a small subset, but it's growing.
Argentina is also a fine case study for telling creditors to take a hike.
Articulation.

This article picks a bunch of things and puts good words around them. I just had a conversation with one of my employees that touched on a pile of these issues so I sent him this article as a better way of articulating how important he is to me.
Someone commissions a hugely expensive rig like that to be installed in a random garage? Bizarre. It must be for porn.
I only see a stripe at the top and two links at the bottom (which are also very near the top of the page). Using Chrome.
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Credit card companies charge at least $15 per chargeback, which makes dealing with small charges very unprofitable, especially with credit card thieves using small purchases as tests for valid credit card numbers.

A 7% chargeback rate is huge and would likely get you shutdown by your credit card processor.
A bit out of context but, Who is Dustin Curtis? None of his sites mention anything beyond him being a villain and a superhero. Please, don't get me wrong, I'm not questioning his authenticity or relevance. But his posts usually end up high here on HN and generally the authors whose posts reach high have a bio page reachable. He is relevant and he created svbtle, but that's all I know. And I do respect his privacy, if he chose.
Maybe a simpler explain was that Ireland was in deeper trouble, part of it due to being bound to a currency which could not depreciate, since most of the "weight" was outside Ireland, in a german speaking country of continental europe. (and which is being far too patient with some creditors that are showing less willingness than Ireland)

EDIT: oops bad proofreading, a word was missing. It is "in deeper trouble"- fixed that
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I can confirm that this was to close actively exploited security vulnerabilities. I was one of the first to file a "bug" on this attack vector. :)
Thinking about an expanded definition of photography: I've been experiencing this often with the combination of instant screenshot uploading apps (CloudApp, Scrup, et al.) in combination with realtime chat.
Reading your edit -- yes, low-margin retail is -HARD-, for a lot of reasons that people don't really get until they try to do it.
To keep it short too.

assert patients.satisfaction.relevance > efficiency.relevance

investment.efficiency => profit

investment.efficiency !=> patients.efficiency

investment.efficiency !=> patients.health

Long version:

I am living the consequences of this in my country itself; they make you wait months for one date, even if they suspect cancer; you know why they make you wait so much time? Because they want to make sure you health insurance payments are the ones pre-paying for the specialist service (or at least a good part of it) before you stop paying or before you die. There is people with cancer standing long hours in queues just because some guys through it was really smart to overprice common medical resources and lobby in the congress for laws that help them abuse their clients (aka patients) and government subsidies.
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Thanks, We'd obviously love to work with both of them. I think we want to get the community built up a little more and work all the bugs out before we start doing that kind of outreach.
The problem as I understand it from people who have worked in the industry, is that if you have the money, you can keep adjusting the application and resubmitting, and eventually the probability of getting the bogus patent approved approaches 1.
Seing Iceland as a country, as a nation, as a state, in a modern way, is a perfect non sense. Iceland is a small territory, between Europe and Groenland with at most 200k people on it. It's not the same as Ireland at all.
WePay has had free refunds since the start. I'm also still on their 3.5% flat rate which is better for my business which generally has <$50 items for sale.
Actually, while Iceland is meaningless, Ireland is meaning more. Don't forget that without Denmark injections, Iceland is just nothing ... If not even less.
For those saying they would like to chat, I have started a posterous group called Health IT:

http://health-it.posterous.com/

Consider yourself invited.
Photographs have been used for communication for a long time. Most artistic criticism is focused around the efficacy with which a photograph transmits an idea or message. Look no further than 2/4chan for an implementation of a "picture as message" service. I think someone could create a more structured service than the 'chans, but I don't know that I'd call it photography's "third act."
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DON'T EVER tell your boss you're compelled to dip your feet in the water.

1. If you ask us for a payrise, we have to weigh the cost of the payrise vs the risk you WILL leave to get one somewhere else. We KNOW that if we turn you down, there's a chance you're going to be looking elsewhere.

2. By telling us you're dipping your foot, you've essentially given your notice. You just haven't told us when you're leaving. As of right now, you're not going to get the same level of attention and I'm looking for your replacement.

2b. If you don't tell us you're dipping your foot in the water, but we can't give you a pay rise, you'll get more attention and you'll get anything else we can possibly give you. We might give you a nicer desk, or replace your PC before anyone else's, or take you out for coffee more often.
And Amnesia, which was already supported -.-

Left4Dead was also going to be available, not sure what happened.
Let's not get too carried away. At the end of the 2010 climbing season, only 3142 people had ever reached the summit.

A lot of people go to Base Camp as tourists, but the numbers drop dramatically at each higher camp. There's probably a case to be made that Base Camp should be toned down.

There aren't that many people truly climbing the mountain.
TechCrunch credits him as a "widely read designer".

So I have no idea either.
7% chargeback rate?

Out of ~2500 orders I've had one chargeback and it was our fault for not processing the customer's refund sooner. I'm not open to disclose what we sell but I can promise you that I have some very angry customers.

Maybe you're confusing refunds with chargebacks?
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