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Ask HN: What are sources to find customers for product interviews?
I have an idea that I am interested in pursuing but want to do it in as lean a way as possible. So, I am looking for small to mid-size businesses to speak with. I have tapped out my resources with companies that I suspect would be interested in the product and would like to find a few more.<p>What resources do you use when trying to find possible customers to interview about a new product?
But will they be using all those CompuServe disks they never sold as hipster coasters? That's what I want to know.
I'm sure Google already has an encrypted version of their Gmail service, but why would they shoot themselves in the foot and loose all that Ad revenue?

You could put that intelligence in the client, but there is only so much analysis you do do using JavaScript, I'm sure the computing power they have available on their servers is phenomenal, and add to that a huge databank of information they have available to be able to better match those ads to you. And you've already mentioned the privacy issue...
Personally, I think the bottom makes more sense. That way you can at least hope the visitor reads your post before sharing it.
I think the problem is "sync". I don't know about Aperture, but this has always been a thorn in my side.
Week political systems make it much risker to do business in Africa. Stupid people look at Africa as a growth opertunity's but few westerners got rich in Russa after the cold war. Weak government actually makes political connections more important just look at China.
No, that's vacuous and "spiritual". The disservice is in killing it.

I doubt you'd be okay with being mugged just because I also sold your shoes and organs.

Another problem with gelatin in your food is that it's empty filler, used only because having already killed the animal it's nearly free. You pay for yogurt and get worthless hoof squeezings.
Where do you think I stole the idea from? Great book.
Baby’s Life Saved with 3D printed Device from UMich that Restored his Breathing
What a twist! There seems to be a lot of related prior art referenced by the patent. I thought patents were valid only for the country that issued them. How is this a worldwide patent? Trade agreements?
Square Co. merged with Enix approximately 10 years ago.
Where are you getting that? It looks more like Pinterest than Instagram. There's less whitespace, but the old design was more complicated. It's more colorful now and there is more focus on the photos.
Well thought-out post, but probably a little sanguine on the timeline. People are still digesting App Store and other platforms.
Thinking about this and defining "value" as "what people want" (i.e. "wealth" in the essay), it seems to me that every freely-entered-into transaction must increase overall value. [Since the two exchanged items must be valued more by their final owners than their initial owners, otherwise the transaction would not occur.] This seems intuitively sensible to me and suggests that trade is a good thing :-)

However, this then leads to some, to me, unintuitive conclusions:

1 - "value" can disappear very rapidly. (I valued an ice cream more than £1, bought it (total value in the world goes up), then ate it (total value in the world goes down)). Also, simply becoming disillusioned with something destroys value (I value it less).

2 - the advertising and marketing industries create a lot of "value", by making people want more. (Yesterday I would only valued a new pair of shoes by brand X at £20. Today I saw an ad which made me covet them. I now value them at £100. If I find them for sale at £40 I will buy them and be very pleased.)

I've not studied economics, is this definition of fairly ephemeral and manipulatable "value" meaningful?
Overall I really like the new Flickr layout, especially the main photo stream. It's more of a Portfolio that one can use rather than a collection of your photos one after the other.

What I don't like is the single photo page. The photo itself is nice and big, which I like. But once you scroll past it it's pretty much a cluster fuck of information that looks very much out of place. It looks like they didn't even bother to make it blend well with the page.
Why programmers work at night?
I just open more than 10 tabs if I'm searching something.
Like opening 20 results, than closing them after I visited every tab and found out that they don't have what I searched for.

Yeah I know. Many of my friends, whos PC usage is 99% browser and nothing else, still get their 8GB RAM full with Chrome only, just because they spam tabs all over the place.

I get crazy if I have too many tabs open for too long, don't know why...
It's Kim DotCom. He's both figuratively and literally larger than life.
I don't see how this is valid patent. He just changed delivery method from mail; as described in prior art section; to more modern (SMS etc..) but he didn't invent any new process. Why change of delivery medium would be sufficient to grant patent?
Building a flask app myself at the moment, a few (non obvious) things come to my mind :

- sqlalchemy integration by "hand" (not using flask-sqlalchemy module) : managing sqlalchmey session scope and lifecycle "in the middle" of the flask request lifecycle

- celery integration "by hand" : flask app configuration reuse by celery tasks.

- google app engine deployment

- uwsgi + nginx deployment

- user credential + session management.

+ a chapter on good REST JSON API architecture (eg : returning both HTTP error code along with JSON data).
Ugly monkey patching everywhere, open classes, insecure by default (e.g. mass assignment), global states, model classes easily too much tied to a single controler, active record pattern, ...
"The complaint is that, in aggregate, for every Tesla there are countless Solyndras"

The problem with that argument or complaint is the evidence against it...

"The Energy Department has said that losses in the $34 billion loan portfolio amount to about 2% of the total."

This program might be a success so far, I cannot speak to past government investments which might back the "right wing" view better.
This is really off topic, but could you speak to the battery life of the pixel running Debian? What you're describing is exactly what I'd like to do.
I hope Dart's beta won't last for 10 years, like their other betas.
But let's be careful and not attribute opinions from different individuals as incoherence by the whole community. Not everyone here agrees with the prevailing opinion on the patent system.
A topic from yesterday "Apple Is Using Sass, And They’re Doing It Wrong"…

Also Square?
https://divoqsdr0fzyc.cloudfront.net/assets/core-f5784136cd1...
How we raised $6.25M as a Philadelphia Startup: RJMetrics
U.S. acknowledges killing four Americans in drone strikes
>Nice! Glad it works for you. I suspect that a lot of people won't be using Flickr for everything because of NSFW photos that shouldn't live off the hard drive. That's certainly a concern for me.

This is the most tangential and unnecessary thing I've read on HN all the years that I've been here.

I mean, DOH! Your XXX candid shots will stay in your hard drive, how is that a surprise or relevant to the discussion?
It's not whether it's already laid, but how easily it could be added.
A less snippy response is bankers are distributing the same finite pool of money so having twice as many bankers might make thing more efficient but it's not going to increase the available Capitol any time soon, ditto for having half as many bankers. Banking is important, but it's also highly automated.
Perhaps he missed the memo which clearly states that patent's are used to protect multinational corporations and governments, not individuals or small corporations.
"Entertainment for the upper middle class" there fixed it for you.
Here in Iceland we drink it and use it to store food in the traditional way (don't see that catching on anywhere else though).

The most interesting use of it though is in sports drinks. They've managed to make the whey taste ok and still keep the drink healthy. I'm sure we will see this elsewhere.
You can just use a slip ring[1] at one or both ends (along with a whole bunch of axial thrust bearings, I imagine).

There are some neat (and very non-RoHS) slip ring implementations that use a series of liquid mercury filled channels to sidestep the brush wear issue, but I don't know that would be useful here, based on rotation speeds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_ring
Open source hardware 3D printer for pizza-on-demand
I don't know what is more dreadful, a country that kill its citizens without trial, or a country where their citizens (just look at the comments) think this is a great idea and should be done more.
Flickr has long had good features for sharing photos with Creative Commons licenses, and for searching based on license. Example: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=duck&l=commderiv&ct=...

I am happy this still works. If Flickr gets more popular with photographers, there will be even more photos available to Wikipedia and other free content projects.
Consider that the modern university is based on ideas developed in the late Middle Ages, throw in a healthy dash of politics (both formal and informal), and the gatekeeper factor, why would any university feel the need to change?

To be fair, the idea of the university got started in the Middle Ages but they have changed quite a bit since; if you're interested in the subject, take a look at the latest edition of Clark Kerr's book The Uses of the University, which traces changes in American universities from the post-War period to the present. Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas is also very good.

(Disclaimer: I'm writing my dissertation on academic novels.)
I think this is more a case of "give them a taste of their own medicine," or at least that Kim Dotcom wants it to be viewed that way.

[Edit: OR maybe not, should have read the entire article first...]
Any reason why they couldn't divert the "greek yogurt" whey into ice cream like they do for "ordinary whey"?
The dig at "big data" was interesting. The article contends that their are "subtler, wiser ways of thinking in fields that it may not be suited (such as politics)". I wonder what "subtler and wiser" ways the article is referring to? Later on, it admits that Zuckerberg et. al. had to resort to lobbying to try get things done. So is lobbying the "subtler, wiser" way of thinking? If it is, I'm personally ready for something new.

Edit: My comment should not to be construed as support for fwd.us, it's policies or "big data" applied to politics. It just seems like that unqualified "subtler, wiser" is meant to imply that people should stay at home and let the _real_ political players play.
Yahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale
Our app WebCode (http://www.webcodeapp.com) is a vector drawing app that instantly generates HTML5 Canvas code. No need to write all of it by hand :-)
It bothers me that the biggest issue I have with this article is that "blue light specials" were K-Mart, not Sears.
Hahaha! To be honest I haven't got any personal NSFW pics, maybe I'm not living life to the fullest! Maybe it'll go on my bucket list.
> Do you have your cell phone tied into Google Voice...?

Only for the past few years or so.

> I mean, if what you're saying is true, they just broke all Google Voice incoming calls for all users (hint, they didn't).

Or, if what I'm saying is true, they just broke Google Voice for a small subset of users for whom certain changes have rolled out or for users that meet certain criteria (hint, I'm one of them).
I wondered the same thing. I've not used Flask, but perusing the documentation, it looks pretty similar to CherryPy, which is the only web framework I've ever used (and thus, my first).

Django looked too confusing! :-)
> I suppose we have similar kinds of lab sessions too.

No! Not by far. The "lab sessions" in a typical non-IIT Indian engineering institutes are a joke. Ever heard of the Borland Turbo C compiler? Yeah, that's still used to teach students C/C++, with outdated (and non-standard) code.

I've had similarly horrible experience in any and all labs, be it circuits and systems, networking, or whatever else you might think of.

Thank god for the Internet, otherwise I would have never have known better.
There's one more reason to repay the loan early: it prevents the US from exercising 3M stock warrants worth about $250M. The fund raising also allowed Elon to borrow money against his other holdings to purchase more Tesla stock off the open market.

Agreed that sustainable profitability is an open question: because Tesla knew they would be raising more money after their first profitable quarter, they could pull put all the stops for maximum profitability, and go back to spending more once the round was in the bank. Will that happen? Unclear. But when you raise money you usually spend it.
As a diet thing maybe it's bigger in North America. I'm in Canada.

I'm glad, for your sake, that I was wrong here.
That's some quality trolling.

It can't be anything else, he's not an idiot.

I may not like his business ventures or his personality, but I just cannot not respect him for having a backbone and a pair of balls to keep pushing this thing forward. They did him wrong and he doesn't let go. This is really impressive.
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Actually, that's only 50x more than a person would need to spend to defend a federal criminal suit in the US. It is a big number, but not completely outlandish, especially for someone the government has it in for.
The article mentions that the target locations are standalone buildings with good fiber and power already connected. They mention 5 megawatts for one location.

I don't know why a Sears location would need lots of power (beyond tons of lights and powerful HVAC units), but I can see the need for quality and low-latency data: retail POS generates a large amount of transactional data, and you need low latency for database syncing and credit card/loyalty card transactions.
Neither. Flask presumes that you know Python and that you understand how requests and responses work. This isn't impossible for a beginner, but it's certainly not likely.

Flask's main API is heavily based on decorators, and those are a perennial problem for new programmers.
Do you speak with any experience or have any information that might be able to back your claim? I'm not saying you're wrong, just want to see an informed discussion.
There's a 64-bit version, but it only works in Xen right now.
The site was down when I tried it initially, but I just tried it on myself now, and you're right, it is pretty cool.
I'm pretty sure that it's more of a window into the poster's psyche rather than an observation of fact (esp. based on the next post.) I guess right-wing totalitarian dictatorships don't want to read your mail?
Agreed. This is nothing less than assassination. Terrorists or not they need to be tried and executed (if guilty) as traitors—not assassinated.
Probably includes a public relations team, campaign contributions and other favors in kind. Given the about-face by the NZ gov't (in a short time too) I can believe $50 million.
I think this is very, very clearly abuse of the patent system, and kim dotcom knows this. every time there's a highly-public and totally absurd abuse of the patent system it erodes the system a little bit more. I would never suspect apple or oracle of attempting to erode the patent system by bringing absurd lawsuits, but it certainly sounds like the sort of thing that kim dotcom might do. I won't be so quick to judge him, given his stance on IP in general.

of course, i could be wrong and maybe he's just a massive hypocrite.
After reading the linked http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/208-5-Reasons-Why-the-We..., I have to wonder why people still think their favorite technology must "win".
It will vary what your definition of simple app is. Simple as in "doesn't do much", or simple as in "minimalistic for a real world use case", in which case session management, login, security, authentication/authorization, template rendering, data access, etc. are all going to be required. I say "mimimalistic for real world use" because I have yet to create an application that didn't include all these things (at a minimum). Of which, you need to be aware of, so you can choose the appropriate library for your application.

Flask is like Legos in that you choose the pieces to build onto its minimalist stack. You can use if for lightweight prototyping or full-blown web apps.

Since all these things "are a worry", it's probably best for new-comers to web dev to use a full stack that makes decisions for you, that has cohesive documentation across components, and a large contingent of users.
They're not all built from the ground up: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ham...
> We have some outdated courses, we don't have the freedom to choose courses, etc.

I disagree. I have just finished (few weeks back) my BTech from an NIT and can at least vouch for my CS education and those from some other respectable NITs. We had a great amount of freedom in choosing the courses and had some of the best faculty to learn from.

Generalizing the education in India to this extent certainly paints a wrong picture. I agree that there are only a few institutes which are good, but they are surely not limited to just IITs and IISc.
Well, my guess would be that they might have similar requirement power-wise. Keep in mind that those store need power for fixtures, refrigeration / freezing ...
Someone knowledgeable around to confirm or refute ?

It probably would need some development but to me it's not as senseless as it seems.
It seems to me that China is building itself a problem that it might not be able to handle in the future. Sort of like the Romans (or Germans or British or Americans) had / have with all of the soldiers they produce(d).
bounteoss.com is good.

No hard and fast rule where you stop. In general the traffic counts more than the revenue (other than you need money to do the variations). The more people typing in the more people likely to typo. Other thing is not even typos it's visually what somebody sees and then types. For example for some reason my brain thinks "boss" so I am likely to type that. That's just me. Personally I like "bountyboss" as well for some reason. It rolls off your tongue (and that's important btw.)

I point out simply because you don't want to wait until it's to late (and of course I have no idea where you are at in this project so the advice could also apply to someone with more traction! Good luck it looks nice.).
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, double clients, its marketing time
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I wouldn't have called this as patent abuse, he came up with a neat idea, and applied for a patent. He didn't use it, but that doesn't invalidate that he came up with the idea, he just moved on. He hasn't sold it to anyone, he's never used it aggressively. He's being a dick now and saying "I might have to sue you!", but it's not patent abuse in the way Intellectual Ventures approaches it.

Edit; Actually, I don't think it's patent abuse as much as it is good old fashioned extortion.
“Sears and Kmart never deployed wireless on the rooftops, so there’s no rooftop usage at present,” he added. “There’s tons of interest. I will put as many of the rooftops in play as I can.”

I wonder if they will consider covering excess space with solar PV panels? They could become a massive distributed power source, which would contribute somewhat towards the power requirements of the data centre below.

It's amazing to think of how the internet is changing cities and buildings. Reminds me of phone boxes that are being converted into other uses (such as electric vehicle recharging stations, mini-libraries and Wi-Fi hotspots) since they've been made obsolete by mobile phones.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/10/spectrum-interactive-wifi...

http://phys.org/news192197933.html

http://www.gadling.com/2012/08/19/british-phoneboxes-convert...
To be fair, I think of Facebook more as a good microblogging platform than photo sharing. Unless more has changed than I expected, Flickr will still suck for that.
they are still using java , just checked 1 hour ago.
This makes sense. Most of the spaces Sears is closing are obsolescent for retail uses for several reasons. There is a vast over-supply of retail space in general, partially because the boom generated construction for the sake of construction, partially because the bust reduced consumer spending and partially because of the internet.

Retail shopping has also changed. Malls are being replaced by power centers and urban core retail is being revitalized. And there's Walmart for household items and Home Depot for white goods and Dicks for athletic equimpment etc.

One of the biggest changes is the way in which stores are placed relative to catchment. Driving patterns have changed and interstate access is more important than a high traffic corner for big box retail. Sears locations were based on the old model.

That said, their locations on older arterials tends to correlate with high levels of utility infrastructure. A collapsing retail micro-environment may mean surplus utility capacity. Which reminds me that another trend making Sears commercial buildings obsolescent is the radically improved energy efficiency of modern retail design - big boxes have skylights, etc.

[edit] A bit more about power supply. Local power companies sell power. That's how they make money. Like the Sears stores are surplus retail space, they often have capacity in the wrong places. They will cut deals in exchange for a long term return - it's why they run lines to a site in the first place.
I guess the author thought he could get away with it since Sears and K-Mart are the same company now.
I certainly agree that its great that Google is willing to invest in this stuff, and that reminds me of Xerox PARC from the 1980's. Thus anyone who is looking to research really "out there" sorts of ideas should seek to join Google. I also think that Google should think about the PR tone (which I know they do on many things) for this sort of article too, caveat you really don't get a huge amount of control on how someone is going to use the information you give them, once they get it.
I really don't see how it says to "let the real political players play". They probably just think they have better 'method' than big data.

I have my own viewpoints about big data, but they could stop with the mystic nonsense and just actually specify what they're talking about, but that does not mean they implied that "the real political players play".
I think this is my favorite WebGL demo of all time: http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
Patents aren't supposed to protect ideas.
Same company now.
The irony is implicit -- the way to avoid the corruption of government bureacracies is to increase the size and power of said bureacracies.
One of the reasons I went with Flask over one of the other minimalit frameworks was the plugin support. There's "just enough" existing code to get you up to speed quickly without acquiring all the technical debt of a full-fledged framework stack.

I used and played with bottle first, and seriously thought about it for implementing my restful-ish APIs.
The patent clerk has about 7 hours on average to examine prior art. The clerk may not be technologically savvy.
So is salesforce funding Postgres development? Or just taking advantage of Postgres' permissive license?