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There were some companies involved in putting together the financing for this charitable cause.
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Ah, well, they'll find the right person to pay eventually and they'll be a real business in India...
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Online fashion retail has 10-20% market share today, and is growing. There are plenty of start-ups working on virtual methods of fitting clothes. That , with generous return policies, good brands , and cheaper prices because of online savings holds a lot of potential, not to speak of interesting online experiences.

There are some companies that do online furniture. First they use the price advantage ,and stuff like group buying. They also try showroom models like: showing a few couches in some coffee store, or showing miniature models of furniture , to save space. I bet there is also some work on 3D and virtual reality that we might see when the occulus rift becomes popular.

If think amazon's strategy is to let other companies solve problem and the rapidly copy them/buy them and use their resources to scale the business. They just recently started doing so in fashion.
Even in a hard real-time system, allowing the garbage collector to "catch up" whenever the mutator is idling sounds reasonable. It should make the system slightly more robust in the face of irregular heap usage.
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Bitbucket is great. I use it for all my private projects since it offers a much more sensible price structure than github (for me at least — github's model is based on number of repositories while bitbucket's is based on number of users).
They're providing transaction processing, inventory tracking, and in some cases (e.g., http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/9380349300 selected at random from the gateway) fulfillment services.

Given the scope of their 3P seller business in other markets (say, the US), this constitutes a much larger entry into the market than some comments are making it out to be.
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Technical debt pain points are great areas for startups to tackle IMHO.

I'm working on a large upgrade project for custom messaging workflow, developed ad hoc during the past six years, without tests and specs.

If a startup offered developer tools to help with this, we'd pay many thousands of dollars.

Here are areas where I'd pay money right now-- because right now I'm essentially writing simple tooling for my team, and it would be better, cheaper, and faster to buy professionally-developed tools:

* Replatform from one MVC framework to another. For example from TurboGears to Rails.

* Refactor unchecked exceptions to explicit error handling of return codes, for example from Java to Go.

* Some kind of visualization that highlights the business value of various code paths, for example to discover the code paths that my highest-value users are taking.

Perhaps these kinds of tools exist already-- if you know of them, I'd be very happy to know more.
"Assuming there's no fraud" makes two very nasty assumptions: That there is no fraud, and that fraud is the only way this can go sour for the donor.

If both of these were the case, I imagine there would be no reason at all for articles like this or most of the comments here. As it is, there is fraud and there are other issues at work making this riskier than it should be (from a prospective donor's point of view).
Trees and buildings are static environment and can be mapped. I don't see how bird traffic can compete with road traffic, this comparison don't hold much to me.

The third dimension is only an issue at takeoff and at landing which are by far the greatest show stoppers here. With maybe economic feasibility.

Cars also have road navigation to handle with ugly stuff such as dynamic roadblocks and obsolete maps, all of which don't really apply to flying.

Maybe in a mid/long-term future we'll see regulations for drones but it is very close to free for all as it stands right now
I think the key to successful ecommerce model in India is hybrid of online and offline experiences. I had the following idea floating in my mind for long time now . Let me know if it makes sense

a) You franchise out "ecommerce" physical shops. This is a physical location where customer can come in surf ecommerce websites and place an order.

b) There is someone at this shop who will collect money on behalf of ecommerce websites. This could be cash credit debit whatever. Make these shops available at every nukad (every street). Hell give other shop owners these ecommerce terminals (just like sim card selling process or prepaid minutes fulfillment process) .

c) The packages are shipped to this shop or your home. Since these shops are conveniently located, near train stations, in airports, malls, picking up packages is not an hassle.

d) serve complimentary hot tea while people are shopping.

The actual order is fulfilled at an warehouse just like amazon.
Wouldn't you need a valuation to achieve that? Most seed rounds are convertible debt.
I believe you're referring to Mimeo.com.

Mimeo's printer driver also let's you preview the finished product and choose options like binding, tabs, opaque covers, etc. it's really neat.

http://mimeo.com
But small urban retailers have some disadvantages: Higher prices, small selection and lousy experience.

E-commerce might improve the total value.
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Click this patent[1]. Click "Original document". Tell me with a straight face that this is not patent trolling.

They patented "the ornamental design for an electronic device" which is a "thin rectangular cuboid with rounded corners"[2]. Tell me with a straight face this is the point of the patent system.

[1] http://worldwide.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=USD...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electroni...
Sorry, but why exactly is the founder of Referly posted on HN as if they actually have credibility? I've seen a bunch of posts by them, but if they can't generate $40k in revenues... do they actually know what they are talking about?

There are too many snakeoil salespeople that talk authoritatively on subjects, but don't actually have success to back them up. Referly definitely seems like someone in this category.
$4.99/mo seems pretty cheap for this service.
> Civil eng is very conservative in terms of the kinds of language and graphics that can be used to express a design.

I would argue that programming is far more specific in terms of the kind of language can be used too. In fact each such language tends to be described in exhaustive specs.

> Anyone doing the equivalent of currying or macros (making up ones own language) would be thrown out. I would think its probable that when programming is as old as engineering its modes of expression will be similarly limited/standardised.

Both things are very broad when it comes to what can be made using those languages. A civil engineer may use his language to build a house, a sky-rise, and a nuclear power plant. Each of those will have different complexities, and a different requirements of knowledge and qualifications. In fact I imagine the Engineer working on the latter will know how to do a lot of things that the Engineer who works on the former would consider to be akin in complexity to currying and macros.

The situation is the same in programming. Some people may be working on projects currying, macros, and other techniques are a major benefit. These are after all extremely powerful tools. Just like with the Civil Engineer, the challenge is knowing how to use them properly.
Amazon wants to deliver your groceries, in addition to everything else
Absolutely! Excel is ubiquitous, and is general purpose enough it can do essentially anything. Adding python to the power if an instant feedback and interactive data grid, and you've some serious Get Things Done horsepower for the average joe/tech/eng/manager/sales person.
Wow this has taken like forever. But congrats!
I recently stopped paying $12/month for github and moved all my private repositories to bitbucket. Since it's just me working on the repositories, it's totally free.
Glad to see Bitbucket doing so well. Their support is great, bailed us out of a nasty mess we got tangled up in our repo.
Holdbacks are held in stock although booked as cash expenses, so saying $180m in Cash doesn't mean stock was not used.
Different source (reuters.com), significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5821139
Nice. Reminds me of the http://www.suntactics.com/shop/usb-scharger-12/, but uses scrap wood instead of the sun.
I'm not picking on or singling Texas out. I don't care which state it is.

Life imprisonment for stealing $35 of food is bullshit. Repeat offender or not.

There's a fundamental problem with a society that is okay with an increasing prison population spending their entire adult lives there because of terminal sentences on the basis of recidivism.

Increasing sentences for recidivism itself is constitutionally debatable, I think, though I'm not sure if it has been challenged on that basis. This is America, though. It'd probably stand cos we like the idea of systemic incarceration as a means to low crime rates.
looks like a negative commission right now.
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I believe there is a webcam inside the machine that allows you to watch parts being made.
They're not available in the 3 zip codes I tried. Would be great to see where they are actually operating.
I agree. With gas, level of effort, energy for scanning and digitally organizing alone would seem to cost much more.
This of course violates the purpose of patenting in the first place, to create and market something not obvious to those currently working in the field. The fact that the patent system is that broken is pretty chilling.
However I believe, and so do they, that they have the potential to make money.

Every entrepreneur "believes" that his/her project has the potential to make money. They're probably even right that it has "potential". But you can't pay the bills with "potential".

My question(s) would be: Have you done any market research? Have you talked to the prospective customers for this thing? Do you have any low-cost way of validating your gut-feeling about the demand for what you're building?

I don't want to sound like Debbie Downer, but it would be tragic to burn a pile of time and energy building something and then find out that there's actually no market for it. Or, that there is a market, but that it's not large enough to sustain a business in the long-term. Or that there is a market, but that you can't serve it profitably.

I'd try to make sure I had this stuff nailed before even getting into the equity splits and profit sharing discussions with your friends.
"Is this serious?" is nonconstructive.
And to reply to your edit: I hadn't thought of it as a database. The typical use I see is using Excel as a frontend for interacting with the database data.

To be sure, people do use Excel as a DB, but I think it's handier to think of it as an interactive mesh than a DB. Sort of like how pandas with IPython is a great way to interact with and explore data.

... Dang, imagine if you had pandas running with Excel on top. That would probably be pretty cool.
I wasn't arguing that they did wrong at all by trying (although I actually hated refer.ly but not the founders from the beginning, and told them this; mostly because CPA/affiliates is a scam-filled shithole, even if sometimes profitable, and the whole lie down with dogs/fleas thing).

But sticking with something past the point where it's clearly failed is where the opportunity cost argument comes in. If they'd stuck with refer.ly for an extra year after it was clearly doomed just because they had nothing better to do, that would be wasting opportunity. Pivoting into something more interesting, either with a new business or the same corporation, is the best thing to do.

A team which could easily do a bunch of other cool stuff clearly has higher inherent opportunity cost than a team fresh out of college without a lot of ideas. This is kind of why medical startups often suck, because you do need to involve MDs, and MDs have a $250k+/yr job practicing medicine (with high social status as well) as their best alternative -- so anything short of a potential big win isn't worth it for them.
With this and the send snail mail through the web thing from earlier, you could mail yourself a letter without leaving the house. Internet complete.
That's great as long as you're using something with efficient random-access (SQL). If your datastore/back-end is btree-based, however (say, CouchDB for example, or Google search results) you're better off with 'next', 'prev', 'first', etc. pagination. Asking for the 50,000th record means skipping the first 49,999! So, you may be painting your back-end into a corner by counting on random-access being an efficient operation.
Assuming your car has to be towed away (for whatever reason), financially, your best bet is to probably sell it to a junk yard. They will tow it for you, and throw you a couple hundred bucks.
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I can't see the symbol you posted, so apparently not. (both FireFox 21.0 and IE8, Windows 7).
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Why would you want other people reading through your postal mail?
I've come across tools that claim to expose and measure potential technical debt, such as techdebt.org or SQALE (http://www.sqale.org/details). I'd be skeptical of any software that claims to provide an automated mechanism for paying down debt. The consequences of debt are too varied and subtle to be generalizable.
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One clause that's gone uncommented:

Transfer Restrictions:
Bylaws and option plan documents shall include limitations on
certain transfers, including on secondary markets, to
competitors, or that may trigger public reporting obligations.

In order for investors, founders, and employees to cash out on their stock holdings, companies need to have an exit. An exit can be an acquisition by an already-public company, or an IPO (taking the company public).

In the first Dot Com bubble, companies would IPO before reaching profitability and sometimes even before reaching significant revenue. For a number of reasons (scrutiny from Wall Street, public reporting obligations, Sarbanes-Oxley), companies that intend to go public increasingly choose to delay their IPOs.

In 2004, Google went public with 2003 revenues of $960m and profits of $105m. In 2012, Facebook went public with 2011 revenues of $3700m and profits of $1000m.

One way shareholders managed their longer time-until-IPO horizons is by selling their stock on the secondary market. Many startups (SecondMarket, SharesPost, etc) were set up to help shareholders of successful companies like Facebook and Twitter sell their private company stock to qualified investors.

The transfer restriction quoted above means shareholders can't transfer (sell) their stock until IPO or unless they have the consent of the board.

Investors tend to have long-term horizons and may not care about getting locked up in an investment until IPO. In any case, investors are well represented on boards. Founders have leverage with the board and can negotiate partial cash-outs (selling some of their common stock to investors), but in any case own their shares outright and can hold on to them until IPO.

Employees with incentive stock options, however, can get screwed. Options are not stock and (even after having vested!) will expire if the employee quits or gets fired. If the company is doing well, the Fair Market Value (FMV) of the stock may be much higher than the employee's exercise price, which means exercising the options will incur a large Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) penalty. This means an employee might have very valuable, vested stock options but no way to keep them upon leaving the company because exercising can put them in a tricky cash flow situation where the IRS expects them to pay taxes on unrealized (and unrealizable, because of transfer restrictions) capital gains.

This term sheet is generally founder-friendly, but the transfer restriction is certainly not employee-friendly.
I couldn't stop laughing when I read this sentence: "Even Gandhi may have had hotel rooms and dead hookers in his past."
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But... there's no word play, there. You're just using the actual meaning. I was confused by the title, because I started the essay expecting satire, and then I had to context switch when I realized there was none.
The merits of the service aside, "Outbox, a beautiful inbox" really stands out as an oxymoron. :)
The people in the comment are the first ACTUAL people I've met that use bitbucket >_>
Yeah, just think of all the lawyers out of work. It's hard enough out there for the poor JDs already!
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The reason they are in the backseat is that protectionist legislation prevented them from trading in India. The end result is that Indian book prices are quite high for a country with largely third-world living standards.
Honestly, and especially in the case of public goods like the baby box discussed here, I think people are perfectly well aware that they don't fall out of the sky or grow on trees, even if they can't articulate the entire cost-benefit structure at the drop of a hat. But people who say the cost is being forgotten usually complain that it has to be picked up by 'the taxpayer' (meaning themselves), as if the expectant parent(s) had no history or prospects of ever paying taxes themselves.

Intentionally or not, the implicit suggestion that the costs are being picked up by someone else is rooted in economic stereotypes that remain widespread in the US despite a lack of supporting evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen or for a more current example: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-09/politics/38405...
I don't see it. Sure Apple could do it, but usurping all of the companies that are filling its pockets right now with media payments would not necessarily be the best course of action.

I don't know how a company like Apple could do this and not piss off their media partners. "Don't worry ESPN! We don't need you for our new content streaming appliance, but we'll still sell your content on our other App store!". Somehow I don't think Apple is quite ready to open the floodgates on something like this.

Apple is either going to do an Apple TV with all of their content in tow or not at all.
What I took away was what already was obvious: most outages are attributed to maintenance/changes. In a stable system, network events are exceedingly rare. It is the fact that we are constantly changing these networks that brings about instability..
Is there really a need for a dealership lobby to protect this practice? I don't think exclusive distributor agreements are that uncommon for all sorts of merchandise.
Obligatory snark: That intro video had a serious case of vocal fry.

While looking at all this, I was mostly considering the potential privacy implications. Then again, with the amount of stuff we push online these days, it's seems somewhat comical to even consider it. That alone is weird.

Then I read up on it and realized that secrecy of correspondence isn't really that much of an established principle internationally as I have been accustomed to, living in Germany. (It seems like France even had the death penalty on it for a while.)

Still - Paying a service 5 bucks a month to invade your privacy* just seems a little more real when it is about actual stuff, not just things that are bits and bytes anyways.

*And don't tell me it won't happen. It will always happen. Somebody other than you will have or get access to that data.
Yep, real email. Not sure what the rude part was..
After clicking through a lot of FAQ entries, I found this under "I'm moving": "If you are moving within Austin, TX, we'd love to keep you as a customer." So, I guess they're just in Austin. It took a lot of work to figure that out, though. :/
They plan to manage delivery too: http://www.nextbigwhat.com/amazon-india-courier-service-297/
While I love the snark... is Zynga "failing?"

My initial reaction is that this is the same kind of knee-jerk reaction that says Facebook is somehow doomed and irrelevant.

I think this is good and worth reading, but the title is hyperbole, and if they're actually concluding that Zynga is done, it's premature. The term "right-sizing," used in another article quoted here, is at best manager bullshit; however, it's not necessarily wrong in this case.

I dislike many of the things they do and have done, but "napkin math," particularly prefaced by "basic," is pretty much Tarot card valid. Like so many unsavory companies and ventures of questionable value before them, Zynga has a serious user/cash/revenue base, and it entirely remains to be seen whether they're just hemorrhaging value or whether they're actually making moves that will keep them solvent and push their business forward.
Manual deallocation of a heap???
So out of interest; what's it like in India at the moment, buying online?

For example; with Amazon in the UK and can order before about 5pm (often later) and have it arrive tomorrow. That even works for some marketplace sellers.

Is there comparable service from Indian retailers?

(I ask out of genuine interest to see how the markets compare!)
I think you may want to re-read the article and the quote, and the comment you're responding to, and get a bit of context. You sound like a knee-jerk reaction that's actually agreeing with half the article, but in a really needlessly aggressive way.

Nothing's stopping you. But you'll find certain paths easier than others, depending on what you want. That's what the article is about.

Reading my article, you might notice that I'm arguing, precisely, that you don't need VC funding or SV or any of those things to start a successful business.

That said, if you approach it with the "build it up and worry about the money later" that is often present in typical startups, you will probably (not certainly) fail hard.

As for the comment you're replying to, he's also stating the point that in some parts of the world (most parts), you're better off getting on with starting a business that works anywhere, rather than waiting for the "magical tech cofounder" who's going to start a tech startup with you and take it to infinity and beyond. You might notice he's addressing that specifically to people who can't "spin up a Heroku instance in 5 minutes".
"Coercion /koʊˈɜrʃən/ is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats or intimidation or some other form of pressure or force,"

I don't see taxes (and I pay a fairly significant share) as our evil government squeezing out our hard earned cash by threatening, or intimidating us.

And what if you decide that you have a better idea of how to spend your money than the State, and stop paying "your taxes"? Do it long enough, they send men with guns to arrest you, and put you on trial and (probably) put you in jail. If you resist any portion of this process, you will probably be shot to death by the men with guns.

How is this not "use of threats or intimidation or some other form of pressure or force"?

All State power is ultimately rooted in the use of force. Just because many (even most?) people happily pay "their taxes" out of rote habit, or because they've grown to accept a certain measure of coercion as acceptable, doesn't change the underlying principle.
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