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I'm looking for a new business to build, and I'd like to get feedback before I spend resources on it. Here's the basic idea:

If you have a strong resume, whether you are looking for a job or not, you will wind up with a ton of recruiter spam, and maybe people asking you for advice etc depending on your situation. Basically I was thinking of creating a site where you just enter your email and a price that you want to receive for each email someone wants to send to you. We give you an email address that you can post publicly. When someone sends email to it, an autoresponder lets the sender know that they must pay for delivery - whatever the price you asked for. There is a link, the user pays, and the email is sent upon payment.

Would anyone use this - on either side? It has applications beyond the basics - for example business luminaries, celebrities, etc. could also use one of these addresses and get paid. It could work, but my barometer is so far off on these things I would love any feedback before I build it.
That feature is sweet. And tight.
Uhm, why 'soon'? Just write the core of your application in C++ and marry said core with platform specific languages for UI code.
On iOS it won't be that quick: you don't get anything more than the JS interpreter, as you cannot allocate any executable memory on iOS, so any JITing compiler is out of the question.
Currency trading laws and regulations seem to pretty clearly state what they were doing wrong. This seems to be a shortcoming of MTGOX itself, not a direct attack on bitcoin. MTGOX's claims of compliance in the US seem to be hogwash at this point.
You are correct, I think I got a little carried away :)
A 40% reduction in fatalities does not seem significant to you? And here are historical sales figures: http://wardsauto.com/keydata/historical/UsaSa01summary - starts in 1931, but suggests that the number of cars in 1925 was about 1/10 that of 1990 (for about 1/3 the population).

And no amount of personal competence and carefulness can fully protect you against other people's mistakes.
It gives them more fine-grained demographic data to show you more-specific ads later.
This is the best explanation. What I think a lot of the public doesn't realize is where the money comes from when you walk into a bank and you get a loan from that bank (instead of depositing the money from somewhere else).

They basically are just creating new rows in their databases. Just like the names-on-paper example above, someone just types "+$X,000" into the row that represents the money in your account. And then someone types the equivalent of "adastra owes us $X,000" into a row in another database for their balance sheet. It really is money created out of thin air.

But then I suppose all money is actually IOU's created out of thin air... It's just that for some reason people think it's only the federal government that can create new IOU's.
Good points. You are very close. However, the federal reserve system and "reserves" are the machinery that enables interbank currency flows. The federal reserve must honor all inter-bank transactions else the system collapses. In a sense they allow overdrafts on reserve accounts forcing the member bank to pay interest in these cases. So, a interbank transaction within the federal reserve system itself will never fail. So yes if you can create a fake deposit, its is funded.
> Yes, the government is the most evil thing in the history of evil, there is no such thing as a justified law,

I agree that the quote is overblown in this context, but your argument is a strawman. Ayn Rand made strong intellectual arguments in _support_ of government and the rule of law, in contrast to anarchists and various flavors of libertarians.
This could be what pushes me to start Android development. I just traded one of my spare iPhone 4s for a Galaxy Nexus, and started to dig into dev. But from my admittedly brief foray, it looked like a lot more fiddling than I cared to undertake right now. Sure, I use a combination of vim, xcodebuild, and a small bit of Xcode now, but if Xcode didn't exist as an IDE when I started iOS/Mac dev I wonder how far I would've gotten. As soon as the download link for the Android IDE is published, I'll be taking a concerted look into it.
Truth. Makes it so much better working with people when you have those two ingredients.

You just don't realize how much better it is until you find people like that.
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> Were the FinCEN rules in effect on May 20, 2011?

It doesn't really matter, because while the form is referenced, the alleged crime supporting the warrant isn't incorrectly filling out a form on May 20, 2011, it is conducting unlicensed money transmission business.
Seems useful, How long before it is canceled? ;-)
Why does everyone seem to hate Eclipse? I've been using for a while and I can't find reasons to dislike it.
For reasons I fail to comprehend, EE, the largest network in the UK, still refuses to sell the flagship Nexus 4

Because there is next to no market for it. People who are not developers are not aware of 'stock', and don't care. People who are developers will just buy from the Play Store.
> "So I emailed him one day and said “hey, I want to do this right and I want you to know I appreciate your work. I’m raising the contract to $6,000 [from 4k].” He didn’t ask > for that, I just did it. Now, can I directly measure what impact that’s had? Not really. But personally, I feel better working with him."

For me, that's plain stupidity. As you say, your company is small and $4,000 is a lot of money. You didn't mention if it's for a bigger project so I'll assume it's for fairly similar one.

You show appreciation for someone by coming back to them rather than paying more for same service. It's one of the most important rules of business.

When you'll approach him for twice as big project, he'll expect $12,000 and a little more instead of $8,000 he deserves and with which he thinks he's paid enough. People tend to get comfortable too quick when giving them things they didn't ask for.

I'd advise a slightly different approach. Keep coming back to him and keep an honest relationship. If he isn't happy with something (attitude, finance aspect, terms or anything else), let him know you're open to discuss anything.

But that are just my two cents and if it's working for you, why not? I know it wouldn't work with me and my team.
If you use a loose definition of "legitimate" that includes all the laws the USG enacts, then sure.

Most of these laws are just a way to increase seizures so the USG can continue to grow, raiding the population. Just so happens this particular one is federal, instead of local cops and DAs.
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Or, you know, learn to write useful comments already. I know it's hard, but doable, really.
The BIG question in my mind is: will this work on ChromeOS?
Well, it wouldn't necessarily be so hard to test a few devices on a plane.

But there are thousands of models of phones, tablets, wifi cards, 3g cards, bluetooth accessories, LTE/WiMax cards, gps devices, etc., etc., etc.

Then we get into the wide variety of planes in the air with varying amounts and types of avionics, radios, etc. And those systems are in different places in different planes.

And don't forget aftermarket alterations both in software and hardware (i.e. custom firmware, different batteries) to those devices.

So your test wouldn't be too hard, but the result it seems you want (i.e. a definitive answer on the safety of electronics use by passengers on aircraft) takes a hell of a lot more legwork.
Terrible title. It seems to me it's more about immigration laws rather than labor. The only paragraph where labor laws are mentioned is where the French vc talks about 9 companies evading social charges because they are too expensive.

If you don't want to hire talent you can get them to consult with you, but that will shift the social charges on them and will make them less secure, so they'll ask for more by the hour.
In the long run, you are all dead, as in, ceased to exist.
I wouldn't be surprised since they're not following the brand guidelines.

http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/b...
Quite so. IMHO there's no real series A crunch but there might be an angel-stage bubble.
Honestly, it's great that you're passionate about the issue, but that doesn't a logical argument make. Privacy is an intuitive concept, but it translates surprisingly poorly to reality. That's not to say privacy doesn't exist or isn't important, but that we don't actually know what it is.

Intuition makes for bad law, not least because everyone has different intuitions; it's basically asking, "Why don't programmers just program in English?"
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Currently I use Omnigraffle to produce wireframes. I've also used InDesign in the past as well as Hotgloo, which is web-based and allows for collaboration, if that's something of value to you.
They imply in the article in The Verge that they have spent it, or are going to spend it. When I asked them straight up in an email they didn't say that they didn't spend it, only that they wouldn't disclose where[1].

Anybody reading that article in The Verge would conclude that they have spent the money. That whole article was about assuring people that Mt Gox was safe.

At best they were not straight forward and transparent, at worst they lied.

Not what I want from a company who is asking me to trust them with my money. Frankly I am shocked that their setup in the USA for Dwolla transfers was nothing more than an ordinary Wells Fargo business account.

[1] The email would have been the perfect time to respond with 'well, we haven't actually spent the money on compliance, but we plan to'
Is there a person or business that does not exchange US Dollars for goods/services? Any reasonable person would understand it to mean exchanging for foreign currency. Mt.Gox does not transmit dollars (or euros, etc) from one person to another. Every transaction involves a trade of bitcoin for a currency, or returning the currency (of the original type) to the original account holder.
On the first glance looks really, good. I started with template, made few changes, added few things.

I personally use Zurb more, so if I could start with that... even if I can make my own template, it would be fine.
A fast objc/javascript bridge that works on iOS and OSX today: https://github.com/marcuswestin/WebViewJavascriptBridge
I can't count the number of times a client has asked me something like "I want my website to be more dynamic. How much would you charge?" I don't know! Why does anyone expect a specific answer to a non-specific question?

This usually turns into multiple back-and-forths to flesh out what the client really needs, and usually requires a lot of thinking on the developer's part (me) to nail down an actionable solution that could potentially be estimated in terms of $$$.

I was hesitant reading Trevor's article thinking what he was suggesting was devaluing dev work, but when he emphasized the importance of specificity I was on board with him. If a client has fully thought out their idea to the point of step by step mockups, that takes a LOT of the pain, frustration, and effort out of the equation which translates to the required work not costing as much.

Developers are one step away from computers (literally) and require a lot of the same rigour when interacting with them. Know what you want and be able to explain what you want (in detail) before engaging them ;)
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Do we actually have the right to our own data in America? Or are you just saying we should have the right?
There are a number of sites/webapps that do this already. I think the fact that it is a standalone app is actually kind of refreshing and opens them up for things like inclusion in the Mac App store.

http://easel.io
http://divshot.com
http://jetstrap.com

All do this directly at:

http://www.bootstraphero.com/the-big-badass-list-of-twitter-...

There are a bunch of web apps that do aspects of this (button, form and theme builders).
I use Eclipse extensively personally, but the one thing that drives me nuts about it is it's general speed. Conversely I'm so well versed it in I don't have a strong desire to replace it at the center of my work flow. Just been getting better/faster machines over the years.
You can already use this with cycript on a jailbroken iPhone: http://www.cycript.org/
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And most importantly, the ability to do whatever the fuck you want with your device without an evil corporation curtailing your freedom, enslaving you and draining you of your money and soul.
Awesome.

Did anyone else wonder how much it would cost to live on beaches of South-East Asia or some other cheap and sunny locale while doing this?
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Yeah, definitely, it's all an input to the threat analysis. Thanks for the great discussion. It's interesting stuff and fun+important to just think through.

Yes, you're right that someone could intercept the HttpOnly cookies, but as you said, only if they were able to compromise the server, since we use SSL and won't have any XSS surface.

Also agree that alarm or heartbeat-based IDS stuff won't cut it here. We're working on an (agent-based, with signed code deployments) IDS (https://sentryhq.com/) that sits on the server and makes decisions to take certain actions not just when an attack matches some probably-out-of-date rule, but when some ever-growing list of invariants change. It's kind of like what banks use, except it responds automatically.

We will eventually be able to overcome all of these concerns (in the daemon-based model, wherein we don't store server keys) by validating OS user key distribution commands with secure emails to the people who requested them + nonces for confirmation. At that point, if we can enforce best practices amongst our customers, we can probably reduce the security problem to the trust problem, which is as solid as can be expected.

Actually, what do you think about such an IDS? Usually the tactic is "let my admins respond," but you are quite correct that that isn't sufficient, as your IDS may pick up the attack but the response may never come. We are thinking that the response isn't usually fast enough either.
Oh my, Elance. These sites are horrible. Their goal is simply to turn programmers into sweatshop dwellers competing for tiny scraps. The signal to noise ratio at these places reaches 0 pretty quickly.
You can do this now with Xamarin's stack
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well it's 2 weeks old and an MVP so time is needed.
Here's one that halts very late:
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,0,1,1,0,0,2,3...

And here's an amazing one: it fills the canvas, getting slower and slower. It will probably take days to complete fill it:
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#10,3,9,2,1,5,2,3,8,1,...
Up-votes at first then down-votes. I guess people don't like Quest Love?

Ah well, HN giveth and HN taketh away...
I wonder if they've licensed something from JetBrains or if this "IDE" is an extensive plugin on top of the free version of IntelliJ.
Speculation: legal liability ass covering. If they allow it and it ends up as the probable cause in a plane crash that kills x hundred people it's a major disaster and likely to lose everyone's involved jobs. If they continue with current policy it's a continued minor inconvenience that many people ignore anyway.

Payoff matrix is pretty much locked on status quo for now, maybe it will soften to "up to the airline but we advise against it" at some point and some of the smaller airlines will differentiate by allowing it and after a couple years the dam will burst.
Heh, this is one of the main arguments I make in support of deterministic results - hundreds of developers are nearly guaranteed to introduce race conditions - and if your output isn't deterministic, how else can you detect them?

I don't even trust myself to not introduce them hence the harping on determinism.

It mostly falls on deaf ears though. I would love an automated tool that genuinely found these for me. I would immediately incorporate it into my QA tests.
I hope for OUYA's sake that a firmware update actually fixes this. To state the obvious, it would be painful to have to replace all of the controllers that are already out there.
great for people wanting to script games and don't want to get into LUA :)
I dream of a day when a simpler system like only taxing real estate could replace the whole thing. Sales taxes are barbaric, IMHO.
I... just realized that I know so many Zimmermans that I don't know which one you're referring to offhand.
No that is false. The money supply is endogenous. Its tied to the health of the economy and the amount of debt the private sector is willing to take on. Fractional reserve banking is a myth. Bankers do steal by using banks to create money for themselves. Research the S&L crisis and also the 08 crisis. They don't directly print money for themselves b/c regulators will catch them. They do it in an obfuscated way by creating fraudulent loans and charging 'legal' fees in the process.
If going through TS or 'having gone' through TS is supposed to improve the outcome of your startup (or ability to raise money/ get press), then yes. If investors/ press went to a disappointing demo day in TS-<insert city>, and they are invited to another demo day in your city, they may say, "Meh... dunno".

If the quality is always top notch, no issue. If the culture of excellence scales outward, great. If you are going through to make great connections in your town & get great mentorship for your business for 3 months, great. But if you are attaching a brand that you intend to open doors/ get meetings/ etc, then the brand needs to stay consistently top notch.

[I'm not saying TechStars is not consistently top notch, just saying culture (or maybe performance) across all programs matters]
Intended relevance was raising the issue of what constitutes defects, the range of effects, and longevity thereof. As others noted, some of what were counted as "defects" were little more than semantic inconsistencies or obscure flaws rarely seen (if ever); counting each of those as "1 defect" on the same scale as something that pesters the heck out of a large percentage of users (or drives away many prospective users) isn't quite right.

My poor wording was an attempt to raise the point without eliciting a similar hundred+ responses as the last time it came up.
> The most interesting possiblility would be that this is the start of Apple’s evolution away from Objective-C into promoting a higher-level language for their platform

The thing is: Why would they want to transform away? As it is now Obj-C is pretty sane. The memory management is now a non-brainer so that even people who come from managed languages can grasp it. GCD is great for concurrency. And using C and C++ based 3rd party libraries is trivial.

The existing developer base is fine with Obj-C.

So maybe Apple wants to attract new developers? But why now? If they really wanted to attract new developers to their platform they would have chosen a different language for the iPhone SDK back when they released it first. But nowadays Apple's platforms have more than enough developers.

Also: Why JavaScript? JS itself is a terrible language with many inconsistencies and is unfit for larger projects - which most native applications are. There are far better and saner languages to base a new SDK upon.
You would be missing out on cool stuff like Protocols :)
> His client gave him access to the bank's internal network.

That's just making it too easy.
I believe there's still plenty of time, that BGR report seemed pretty preliminary. They've got stock to burn through. Even the Playbook stayed on shelves for longer than this. I plan on buying a First myself.
It would be cool if I could have all this data hosted on my web server/computers. Why give google your data?
This highlights what is in my opinion one of the biggest failings of modern operating system/GUI design (this and modal dialog boxes, but don't get me started). We are used to interacting with things in a physical world. When they fail it's their functionality that fails not their interface. If your DVD player breaks you can still push the buttons. Even if your computer breaks you can still press the keys, but when GUI apps break the interface itself stops working, and given all the work that has gone into helping you to believe that GUIs are just extensions of reality it's like reality stopped working.

I have always felt that GUIs should run in their own nonblocking thread at the system level so that you can still use the interface to interrogate the functioning of the program. I try to do this in my own programming. Even if the brains die, buttons still push, the focus still changes the menus still drop down, no bazar interaction queueing and if it's expectd behavior the app could respond by providing info like a waiting on IO light. If it's unexpected then the lack of response would be telling. As it is no information is communicated.
I've used JetBrains' products in various forms (IntelliJ IDEA, Resharper for Visual Studio, and PhpStorm) for a long time, but every couple of years I was also exposed to Eclipse (Aptana Studio, and one or two other installs that I forget what they were for).

Eclipse just feels clunky and not very well designed. Like they forgot to find someone to do UX work. Plus the workspaces concept is really stupid, and the versions I was using couldn't open a file if it wasn't inside a workspace.
I don't know about "plain stupidity." :)

To be clear, this project is a 100% rewrite of my current app. It has a ton of additional functionality, is built much better, includes a store for IAP's of additional reading content, etc.

It's my bread and butter.

While I could have gone back to him with another project in the future, I wanted to make sure this project went great. It's a "bet the company" project and in the overall scheme of things $2,000 isn't that much.

Can you imagine how great you'd feel to get an email from someone saying they decided to increase your pay by 50%? Wouldn't you do your best work for them?

That's the message I was going for.
Depends. I can't speak as a seller. As someone who hires, you just need intelligent filters. I've found an excellent designer and illustrator on eLance.
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I'll tell you what they were thinking. They were thinking "OMG LIBERTARIAN PARADISE CYBERFUTURE I AM JOHN GALT."
Doubtful, given it is not web-based.

edit: There is nothing definitively saying it is not web-based, but I do feel as if that would be a big talking point when they first introduced it if it were.
Have you used Elance before? I've gotten great work there from developers, writers, general admin, data entry, etc.
Wasn't the whole point of the CoinLab buyout to become compliant? Maybe they would have never had this problem if they finished the transition in March as planned.
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I agree, there is something very special about OBJ-C these days. With subscripts, literals and even in the past with Protocols doing service objects were a breeze.

GCD is amazing and I use it more than NSOperation for easy quick off stuff.

That being said, I can see how this would be useful for gamedevelopers who wanna keep their scripts in JS/CoffeeScript instead of LUA :-)
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I wonder if they could support XBox controllers. I don't even really like the OUYA controller feel, independent of this issue.
Looks stunning.
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"Developers are one step away from computers (literally) and require a lot of the same rigour when interacting with them."

Great point. Most people are not used to the level of specificity required to be a developer.