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Ask HN: How do you store and organize your startup ideas?
A text file? Google doc? Spreadsheet? What questions do you ask when you write down a new idea?

Edit: Thanks guys, I didn't expect to get that many responses. Some interesting approaches in here :) Personally I put them into regular text documents. For each of my ideas I try to answer the six product-focused YC application questions as a sanity check.
> A credit agency that actually looks at an individuals ability to pay back a loan.

The problem with that is that just because someone is able to pay back a loan doesn't mean they will.

I had a roommate in college that financially was able to pay off a credit card, but was just so irresponsible that he ignored it.
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Ah yes, I missed that WattHour spec. That's pretty dreadful then..

So the real comparison is SP2 (42Wh) with 6 hrs. vs. MBP 11' (38Wh) with 11 hrs.
This just shows how bad the state of the US Patent Industry is, were instead of making a better product, it's easier to hamstring a competing company.

If the patent is upheld, and Apple, having the hate it does for Android tries and bans Android Phones, then in the end, all it does is hurt the users who want a decent alternative to Apple Products. People expect multi-touch on their phones, and non-physical keyboards. I can just see my mom asking me why her new android phone doesn't swipe to scroll because her last phone did.

Such a shame.
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So in essence, Apple patented the "straight line" because I doubt in nature you'll find many straight lines as they are described in this patent. What you will find though, is the kind of lines that Apple patented. Great.
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In a world with maps and folds do new languages really need for-loops? They seem like putting goto into a language as a fallback for uncommon performance cases and people who don't have the hang of higher order functions.

In particular, I don't like the fact the for-loops are often used in first examples. I had that issue when I looked at tutorials for D and Go for the first time. My initial reaction was "Seriously?"
We should have stuck to our beloved Minitel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
I'm a big fan of Trello for a visual way to lay them out and share them. It's a nice balance of feature rich but visually simple.
>I can’t see any reason why this message should be displayed so prominently.

Because an important security feature (in their eyes, DUH) is disabled.

> If a message is needed, at all, then why not display it on the System “View Basic Information about your computer” control panel item.

lol.
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Design the product, not the documentation.
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This would probably be a good thing. Right now the internet is way too US driven and focused. A more balanced, global distribution of talent would be far more beneficial.
The whole Banksy craze tells me how much of the value in art is things being famous for their own sake. It isn't that it's art (or graffiti) that causes the problem (or value) it's that it's someone famous.

There is a story in NYC about the French embassy finding they had a Michelangelo in the lobby of their building. (It was there when they bought the building) Once they realized what they had (years later) then they had a problem. They couldn't sell, it, and it required security, so ultimately they gave it to a museum.

http://www.thearttribune.com/The-Cupid-attributed-to.html
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/a-statue-for-a-...
A statue for a statue - sort of
There is even a W Hotel at the hearth of Istanbul: http://www.wistanbul.com.tr/en/gallery/exterior
We talked about this before. There's no such thing as black. The actual residual reflectiveness of 'black' depends on the medium.
Yes, cry me a river. Supposedly "allied" governments have no qualms spying on each other, or engaging in "economic intelligence" for the military-industrial lobby. Would the French DGSE (or other western intelligence agencies) engage in large-scale surveillance of their own citizens, let alone foreigners, if they believed they could get away with it? You bet.
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It's washington, politics are part of project management. A 'bunker mentality' WRT subpoenas is totally justified on this project, given how Republicans have acted. You want to pay people by the hour to give testimony while their job goes undone?

As for having medicare/medicaid quarterback it.. honestly, that makes sense to me too. It's healthcare in the government, it involves deep integration with medicare/medicaid, if they're not capable of managing those contractors then they need to learn how.

I'm not defending the execution in general, but those 2 specific decisions seem ok to me. There weren't a lot of political problems building the site, so those decisions paid off -- they just needed to execute better on the technical stuff.
Frenches don't really worry about that, they are already building the next generation of personal cloud ;) http://cozy.io
True. I'd say "Mrs Lovelace was coding before any men were".

She was first. coder. ever.
Yes, this would be very interesting. I'm trying to put together something similar for a Haskell environment for NixOS. It should be easy, but less versatile.
Absolutely. But as a reaction the others could do it openly and then be astonished when the US government objects :)

I think either this or getting as much seperated/independent from the US will have any kind of proper effect.

Though I fear nothing really will change since the other countries have spy agencies as well which they want to keep. So a few "outrageous!" will be communicated to the media and business as usual continues.
Up voted. Please post a link.
And how they can clear any potential issue?
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> and the buyer just pastes their private key and pays

I thought your link was cool, but I'm a little scared that this is your stated intention. Are you serious? Doesn't that give you, the middleman, access to all of their funds (and not just the amount they needed to use to pay the invoice?)
What's the legal situation in Iceland?

Isn't it likely that Iceland has – as all functioning countries – a surveillance apparatus and is cooperating with the US? For the latter, the usual legal trick is not to spy on your own citizens but to ask a partner service for data about your own citizens …

Strict privacy laws can be great, however, they are no protection from surveillance. Surveillance is usually excluded from privacy laws as far as countries are snoopy and not 'just' private entities.
LOL, I'm sure 2 days from the right guy are all that's required here.
Cannot Like and there's a problem with the live feed as well.
What if their values don't coincide with yours? What if they're teaching your kid evolution and you're a creationist? (or vice versa)

What if they're teaching your kid something that is just flat out inaccurate? How do you know?

My point is that perhaps you're placing complete faith in someone else, with little/no accountability from you or your spouse to make sure that the education your children are getting is both quality and accurate.

In my opinion, even though you have delegated the role of education to the school system... final responsibility for the outcome still rests with us (the parents).
Pretty awesome, I've steered clear of Haskell preferring Scala instead (easier syntax for me to grok), but this tutorial makes Haskell far more accessible.

Off topic but does anyone know of a Rails/Play + Linq to SQL/ScalaQuery equivalent in Haskell?

Beyond that just being able to generate PDF invoices, send out emails and have access to a decent date/time library (like JodaTime) would cover the essentials for web development.
This is an excellent piece of tech journalism and thank you for the journalist for examining each aspect of Google's strategy so thoroughly.
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> Someone needs to make a 'Haskell: the good parts' or at least a lint.

Someone needs to write a book about the good parts because you haven't learned the language? It's documented right in the Prelude[1] what this desugars into.

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/P...
Apologies, I meant CS of course.
At first glance it may seem that way, but I don't see how the privacy and human rights situation is all that different in, say, Europe and it's generally worse in places like India or China. Whenever I see European startup communities at work, they're really at their best when they're emulating US startup culture. Removing US influence may lead to an even more stagnant ecosystem in the long run.
Microsoft's products have long had broken security models close to their core, mostly owing to the fact that they pre-date the net and were originally not multi-user.

Instead of fixing this -- and to maintain backward compatibility -- they've always applied security models further up the tree, closer to the apps and the user. As a result MS has more and more complex security controls but is less secure. This complexity and security bloat results from trying to patch a boat that's full of holes in its fundamental design.

Secure boot is needed for the same reason lots of other controls are needed-- to make it harder to permanently screw the system once you've gotten malware onto it. This is so important because it is historically so easy to get malware onto Windows.
There is a linter, called hlint, which is extremely useful. It doesn't flag that, though, nor do I see any reason it should.
> Why should HTTP be a multiplex protocol though; that's the issue.

Because HTTP is inefficient due to the TCP three-way handshake, and because pipelining has many problems. These are fixed by multiplexing.

> So why not just use SSL/TLS? Why wrap it into the HTTP protocol?

They are using TLS.
I am afraid of pirates.
thanks for the reply, however I'm not a US citizen, so don't have access to the databases you mentioned. I will ask around in libraries around me. Hopefully, they can point me out to some useful ones.
Obviously open source is not a guaranteed defence against backdoors, but it gives us the opportunity to look for them. Closed source software does not even allow us that, so it is inherently untrustworthy.
I read oelmekki's comment as putting the number of monitored calls in context, not questioning its correctness.
The MRI in which I was scanned had a headset with a noise cancelling mic so I could talk to the team behind the glass - that was nice.

On the other hand, the stance I had to adopt (even though lying down) meant I had to support the weight of my arms from shoulder to wrist, and after a while this became uncomfortable and caused them to shake a bit, at which point the MRI team thought I was freaking out - which I wasn't. Maybe this was just down to bad packing and could have been avoided.

The aircon in the room had also failed so I had a combined MRI and sauna; which meant the sensor pads kept coming unstuck and so I kept 'flatlining' and had to be removed from the scanner a couple of times for more bits of surgical tape.
My opinions on patents are still evolving, but I tend to see drug patents as a good thing that needs reform. I know it's a bit of a tangent, but would someone mind explaining a little?

My main concern is that we can't expect anyone to invest m/billions in necessary drug research if they can be copied the instant the drug shows success. The R&D cost per new drug brought to market is often between 1-12 billion.[1] Even on the low end, that's more than the TOTAL US government's budget for health R&D.[2] Who is going to do this research?

[1] http://lillypad.lilly.com/entry.php?id=1583
[2] http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ost...
It's good, but it lacks some features I want, like embeding youtube videos and allowing an arbitrary number of line breaks. But it is good and you should be very proud of it. I know how hard it is to make something this complex with contenteditable.
>Would the French DGSE (or other western intelligence agencies) engage in large-scale surveillance of their own citizens

They most certainly do:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/04/france-electron...
It's not their problem most of the time, it's 3rd party apps and drivers. They do however have various levels of tests and certifications for both apps and drivers, some of which focus on energy efficiency.
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This is either becoming or already is the core of Android, and it's closed source and no one wants to talk abut it. It's ridiculous.
Also the RailsCast. http://railscasts.com/episodes/415-upgrading-to-rails-4
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Time Machine doesn't run on battery power by default.
Probably quite a few more "black sites" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site#Suspected_black_site...) should be counted as part of the US Gulag. The Wikipedia article is actually pretty charitable to the US in how it counts black sites. There's rumors about a lot more.
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The Surface Pro is MS' V1. It is going to take a while for them to become as savvy at hardware design as Apple is. Is there really any surprise that the newcomer isn't quite as good as the old guard?
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For Rails/Play, we have three web frameworks:

* Snap
* Yesod
* Happstack

I think all of these have techniques to build web sites in a modular fashion, but I have only used Snap myself.

For querying, I personally just use postgresql-simple and write SQL strings, but this tends to be a major source of runtime bugs so I'm reconsidering that. For type safe alternatives, we have things like HaskellDB (http://chrisdone.com/posts/haskelldb-tutorial) and esqueleto (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/esqueleto-1.3.4.2/docs/Da...).

We have a fairly decent date time library in time (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/time) but I don't know if that matches JodaTime (because I don't JVM libraries). For PDF generation I'm actually not sure at all - but have a search on http://hackage.haskell.org and there may be something.
> I asked him why the PHP code he sent me didn't have any comments. "I don't believe in comments because they slow the PHP interpreter down." Sorry, he can be smarter than Einstein but I ain't letting him near production code.

This one wasn't smarter than Einstein. It's been a while since I've been near a live PHP installation, but IIRC running with an opcode cache like APC probably means the comments will be parsed at most once (every server restart?)
A Surface Pro is still fundamentally (well, it is, no ifs ands or buts about it) a tablet. There is no x86 tablet on the Mac side to compare it to, and I don't think you can compare one to the other. Sure, they may be the closest in function, but not in form. You'd really need a Surface ultrabook to compare the two.
I moved to Ireland a year ago (I realize they generally acquiesce to anything the US wants, but hey, it's a start) because I wanted to try something different and was tired of feeling guilty about the foreign policy my taxes were supporting. The startup culture here is excellent and the cost of living lower than SF (everything costs more except rent, which is about 25% what it would be in SF). You also don't have an entire city being run over by rich 25 year olds driving out the artists and people who make a city enjoyable.
I use NixOS, how far have you got/what are your goals?
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The sense in which they have their head in the sand is that the world is increasingly asking them to justify their existence more and more - which is forcing academics to engage in various ways more with the external world. And naturally, they don't enjoy doing this.

At top-tier research universities in the sciences, this ship long ago sailed, and many academics these days spend the majority of their time on the external world, whether it's running a biotech company on the side, or the CNN/TED/etc. interview/lecture circuit. The university is increasingly just becoming a base of operations for people's larger business/media empires. I think this generally helps funding and demonstrating impact in the short term, and deans love it. But I'm not sure it improves the production of science research; professors in this mold no longer do the classic style of blue-skies research, but have very full schedules, carefully managed labs, and an eye for low-hanging fruit (especially monetizable fruit).
You're immobilized and can't move. Oh and no one can hear you call for help.

Do you also avoid sleeping?
Holy moly. Sending unsolicited marketing emails is the very reason CAN-SPAM came about. The fines for violations would crush most early stage startups.

If you are going to continue further with email, please read up on CAN-SPAM, inboxing, SPAMHAUS, DKIM.
I wonder how Star Trek episodes involving Q were broadcast there :)
I agree. And it might ease some of the pricing issue too. There are many plans for cloud services outside the US but there's usually a lack of know-how and competitive functionality/pricing.

A current example:

Clio, a cloud provider for lawyers, recently started to offer a server location in Ireland in order to comply with European privacy laws [1]. The price, however, is about 60% higher than in the US …

Price comparison:

US = 49 USD/month = about 36 EUR [2]
EU = 49 GBP/month = about 58 EUR [3]

[1] = http://www.goclio.com/blog/2013/10/clio-online-practice-mana...
[2] = http://www.goclio.com/signup/
[3] = http://www.goclio.co.uk/signup/
Sure, apt-get is crap but there are other package management UIs on Linux such as zypper which are fantastic.
Yea, I think one can read it either way.

What I was trying to point out, is that the number makes it clear what the surveillance is about (and that's nothing related to terrorists).
Same hypocrisy in Germany with Merkel preemptively and officially refusing Snowden any potential request for asylum, a few months back.

All this makes it so terribly obvious that Europe literally is not entitled to and can not have or grow a pair of balls anymore. Europe's role is pretty much reduced to hosting the military bases and NSA spying facilities of the US.
I've been unable to 'Like' a page for the past 90 mins or so. I get the error message:

"Sorry, we can't process this request right now. Please try again."
Slightly off topic, but what frustrates me about all this is that there is absolutely no outrage in France about the DGSE's absolutely heinous practices in this domain. Complete domestic surveillance without ANY legal framework whatsoever, not even some stage court like FISA court.
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It does sort of bail on you instead of explaining what monads are. A couple of examples of monads is not the same as understanding what the underlying abstraction is. That said, it isn't hard or long to learn monads. A monad is something that can be mapped over and concatenated.
HTTP was intended to be a uniform state (that includes files) transfer protocol dating back to the 1.0 days, just as URL/URI's were intended to be a uniform identifier for any source of state.

It just took until 2000 for Roy to call this "REST".
You really shouldn't recommend a "mental acuity" test since those are complete and utter nonsense. I think it's a better screening criteria in the sense that you wouldn't want anyone working for you who believes that IQ tests are worthwhile.
If you're sweating the cost of buying a Mac and the annual $100 developer fee, are you really planning to run a profitable business? Those costs should be the least of your concerns.
I.M.B.S. - in memory brain storage (if it's a good idea, it sticks until it becomes a project)
If the kid was young enough, they could give them the story of their lives by telling them it was a transporter and change the room from one color to another or something (via lighting) and move furniture while they were in there.

Then when they came out they might really believe it and be thrilled. This would help for the next visit. Though it might be disappointing to figure out years later.
Additionally its folly to think servers can't gain from power management.

Most servers are idle, or running maybe 40%, might as well let those other cores sit idle if they aren't used. Example is at idle with power management our latest xeon draws 300W versus 390 without. 900W at full tilt and all power management disabled.

The excuse that windows is a "general purpose" OS doesn't fly in my boat. Granted I don't use Linux for laptops generally but power management should be something any OS does somewhat sanely. We're moving to Amdahls law now away from Moore, also is there a law yet on power requirements for appplications? So power consumption is only going to be more of a basic feature than bolted on. That and doing things like using avx or gpu's for array multiplication because the power requirements are cheaper etc...
I would put the burden of proof on the 'radicals' in this case: if you believe that the traditional scientific research system can be cut in half, and/or replaced by startups and other endeavors, and still produce the same or more advances in science, I'd like to see evidence supporting that hypothesis.

Put in Bayesian terms, I put a reasonably strong prior on the current system successfully generating science, so radical changes to it, like significantly gutting universities, need evidence to justify them. If we had metrics that fully explained where scientific advances come from and how they feed back into engineering and other areas, in at least the medium-term, we could use those as a guide for changes. But the metrics so far are about as good as lines-of-code metrics: not completely noise, but relatively low explanatory value. Metrics are only good if they can be validated: if you can come up with metrics for scientific productivity and also show that your metrics explain a large portion of scientific advances and their later use, then they might be worth taking seriously. So far, though, the metrics are relatively poor. But that does not prove the opposite: that scientific advances don't happen, and don't get later commercialized.

The fact that one doesn't fully understand why scientific advances happen, and have not successfully found a way to attach lines-of-code-style metrics to measuring them, is not actual evidence that the current system for scientific research doesn't work, or that any particular proposed change will be neutral to positive.
A response time graph isn't very useful without an axis labelled with response time...
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Thought this was sarcasm at first.

Maybe I should create a startup for an app that helps organize startups! ;)
We need an article on how to attract girls if you work in the tech industry... I suspect thats always the real problem here.

Everyone should quit being so sexist. Women are allowed to be different :/
I think Google's malicious intent is being over-exaggerated. It could simply be that they don't have enough resources to maintain old code. As to them creating closed-source apps, well, Google knows which side their bread is buttered on :) Anything that makes money for them is closed source.
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Yeah, I thought while typing it "C# prob has this already" but couldn't be bothered to check.
I work on my side projects in the early morning - before work: http://ariejan.net/2013/05/21/early-birds/
The above user's incredulous response probably warranted some downvote or two, but ksk is correct in the spirit of his response. What portion of users ever go to the control panel, let alone desire to view basic information about their computer?

That's a dark pattern itself, hiding important settings in places where users can't see it.
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