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Recently "finished":

eproject - file/buffer grouping for emacs, http://github.com/jrockway/eproject

cperl-mode for MooseX::Declare - http://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode/tree/mx-declare

On my agenda:

Emacs/LLVM; compile Emacs to LLVM bitcode, link with extensions written in arbitrary LLVM langauges. Right now, even my simplest attempts immediately segfault, so it is on hold for a while. http://github.com/jrockway/emacs

(Once this works, I want to make ECL run on LLVM. Then we can write Emacs extensions in a real programming language. I hear Python compiles to LLVM now also, so that's another option. Eventually Perl will too.)

HTTP::Engine refactoring; removing unnecessary metaclasses and adding support for requests inside preemptable coroutines: http://github.com/jrockway/http-engine (A threaded web server without the disadvantages of threads.)

Persistent application framework: http://github.com/jrockway/eventful (Generic foundation for web applications, TCP servers, IRC bots, ...)

Persistent command-line application framework: http://github.com/jrockway/app-persistent (Make your slow-starting Perl application start up instantly.)

Path::Class replacement based on Forest::Tree::Pure: http://github.com/jrockway/data-filesystem (I also have a binding to make a Data::Filesystem tree into a FUSE filesystem.)

Once this yak shaving is out of the way, I have a few applications to write:

Filesytem::Kindle - plug in your Kindle and see the books as unencrypted HTML (this one is going to be released anonymously, you didn't hear this from me, I was never here...)

PleasureChicken - email / im / irc message consolidator, indexer, data extractor. The idea is to let the computer read your messages for you, so you don't have to. When you buy something from Amazon, it will stick the UPS delivery date in your calendar, and remind you that you just spent $300 on your Amex. When your boss IMs you at 3am with the word "broken", play a sound. etc., etc. This might be a hosted service one day, as well. http://github.com/jrockway/pleasurechicken

Angerwhale 2 - A weblog for programmers that doesn't suck. http://github.com/jrockway/angerwhale-ng (See also: http://github.com/jrockway/angerwhale for the old version.)

Unfortunately, my time is being taken up by menial $work_tasks, which distracts me enough to not get much done. But that should all be ending soon.
A free ear training and music theory software http://www.trainear.com/ that few people use because no one cares about ear training and music theory
I think you have hit the nail on the head here.

Most of the blowout successes I'm aware of have had a long period of protection from competition while the founders became world-class experts in whatever it was they were doing. That could mean a period in academia, open source, or a long period of learning at some other company in the industry.

There are a few cases I know of where the founders were not experts, but in those cases it was because they stumbled onto a new market, so nobody else knew more than they did. And even then they were well prepared to exploit it, through related work.

Also: 40 hours a week is a LOT. If you don't fritter it away with meetings, office hours, coordinating with vendors, and so on.
Formerly: 2 years at Publictivity as founder/CEO

Now: Ramamia.com co-founder with Mark Bao. Part time side project, but may make it full time. Also, CTO of MIT Enterprise Forum in florida (nonprofit).

more: jasonlbaptiste.com
I finally registered on HN to make one short comment: Read "Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles". It's a short, readable book on pricing "for dummies" by Richard McKenzie (UC Irvine).

I have zero formal training in economics, and I found the book enlightening. It discusses price discrimination thoroughly - after all, it's a critical component of pricing theory.

I, too, find the thought of one buyer paying more simply because s/he can afford the price somehow "wrong". I don't fully buy the explanation in the book (mainly revolving around time opportunity costs, as I see it). But, at the same time, life is not always fair - morality and money are orthogonal to some extent. If this behavior were deemed harmful by society, surely it would be illegal by now?

[Edit: Minor Engrish nit.]
The STM project is clever and well-known. A traditional electron microscope, on the other hand, is of much more use to the would-be reverse-engineer/DRM fighter. Hence my interest in widening their availability.
See, if you reach for your wallet to pay for dinner, and your date/business colleague says, "oh, what a cute photo! Is that your kid?," you can just say, "no, that's my nephew," and still beam with pride. I, however, would have to say, "no, that's some kid whose photo I downloaded from Flickr; isn't he adorable?" and the awkward conversation would not end there.
Ease up on the sarcasm. I get it, you write perfectly descriptive commit messages and your apps are perfectly tested. I was cutting the original committer some slack because he was guilty of something that most of us are guilty of.
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i should be working on my startup (on profile page) but i am recovering from catching mono and have been sick for several weeks now.
Think B2B, for example. The iPhone (and the others - Android, Palm, Blackberry), combined with the app store model provide two things: 1) users effectively get a handheld computer which always has internet access, and 2) developers get much more access to these mobile devices than carriers have traditionally allowed. Pick an industry - what does this allow them to do that they couldn't before? (ideally, something that is difficult to do with a simple mobile version of a website). Chances are they're hearing a lot about this iPhone thing, but don't really know what to do about it - can you help them figure it out?

As for consulting, I started out with a bit of luck, a company I was subletting office space from wanted an app made. Past that, referrals are priceless. And yes, this hasn't come up yet, but they absolutely pay if the app gets rejected - you get paid for the work you do, not for the success (or failure) of the app. Most clients are curious (and fearful) of the approval process, and it's very valuable if you can guide them through the submission process and likely pitfalls - but approval is not ultimately your responsibility.
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advertisement falls under freedom of speech as long as no spurious claims are made. people have free will. the evil advertising box doesn't force people to do anything.
I quit my job a month ago for my second crack at bootstrapping a business: http://www.shirtstastegood.com

I'm in nyc and I would love to hear any feedback! Thanks.
transitioning away from my legal work back to startup work, learning rails while working on 2 early ideas and 1 underway.

the 2 ideas i'm at will to share:

1 - .org - wikipedia-style database of case-law commonly used by pro-bono lawyers -- create something that would assist legal clinics manage their information locally but also something that stores that data and shares it with other clinics doing similar work. caselaw is supposed to be free and without copyright but somehow its come to be locked up by the lexis/westlaw duopoly. I understand they add value, but we believe there is room for a simple database of opinions & briefs, even w/o the shepherdizing.

2 - .com - brainstorming site for early stage startup development, using principles from Covey & Napoleon Hill. i.e. weekly meetings with small groups of founders discussing multiple ideas, voting immediately upon disagreements, etc.

I'd love to discuss the last idea as its the one I'm actually working on coding right now but the folks I'm working with want to remain hush-hush for now.

I'd be fascinated to hear folks' ideas for startups with a broad focus on the role technology can play in community development, government & regulation & even stuff like troll regulation / comment scoring. If anyone wants to IM or chat, hit me up at hitesh@gmail.com.
...white board cleaning spray

...which works less each time around, and stinks, and uses paper towels, and takes a few minutes of wiping each time you want to get (close to) clean again.

Top-quality surfaces wipe back to bright white with a single swipe or two of the dry-eraser, even if the text has been up for weeks. They're worth it for many offices.
Almost every enterprise product is "solution priced", with no published price list. You're getting upvoted because people don't like solution pricing, and I don't blame them. We're not doing it either.

Your general buying approach is probably sound most of the time, because the companies who publish their prices are usually the price leaders. In most markets there's a price leader (Honda), a premium leader (BMW), and a couple of niche players. Going wide with an attractive price list is the right call for the price leader.
This: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8

As before.
Besides YC, I've been working on Arc. (No writing lately. I can't seem to focus on more than 2 things at once, so it's always a choice of Arc xor essays.)

Specifically, I've been trying to do things to Arc that will make News shorter. I'm running out of room, though: News is 1886 LOC, and it's rare now when I can find something that will cut as many as 5. So I'm going to try writing some other types of applications to make short.
The problem with per-X licensing is that customers hate it. People will pay more for a flat-priced product than they will for the equivalent licensed version, even if there's a site license available.

That doesn't make per-X licensing wrong (lots of web 2.0 startups seem to be doing well with it), but it's something to consider. For instance, consider the fact that the person making the buying decision at a customer might have to deal with a honorous justification, purchasing department, and PO process every time their license needs change.
If you like any of the shirts, I made a coupon for HN readers: http://www.shirtstastegood.com/coupons/lXgcYWo4XEQ9fVAq
dons' comment is pretty much spot on. Will STM work for langauges like Java? Probably not. Does it work for languages like Haskell? Yes.

But anyway, people are very resistant to change in the computer programming community. New technologies == having to learn something new, and that's apparently a bad thing. (Look at how many people still hate automatic garbage collection, even though it's generally faster than manual memory management. It's scary and new, so let's run away!)
I'm creating an online spiritual-learning (Christian) site for kids: http://kidbuilder.net.
I do. I'll give it a try.
Your question made me think about the topic thoroughly. I wrote a suggestion what to do, by letting the customer suggest the price.

http://www.aleveo.com/ideas/voluntary-price-suggestions
I'm just working my day job over at eirestudio.net - design/dev work. I have a few side projects going which are mostly for fun and learning more JavaScript.
I'm working on a solution to unify all the major SCMs (ClearCase, Git, Perforce, Subversion, etc.) and abstract the data it in such a way that I can provide information that can be digested by all levels of an organization. I'm calling this my full spectrum tool as it's intended to be as useful for developers as it is for executives and everybody in between. Basically I'm trying to change how we communicate and access information when it comes to software development.

I've been working on this fulltime for over a year now and it seems like I can't make a dent in it. Don't get me wrong, I have a very solid foundation so far that includes an indexer and a very flexible server/client framework that should work for any organization. However, even with this I still have a boat load of work to do.

There are definitely days where I think I've gotten way over my head, but I figure I've invested too much to walk away now.
I recently switched from full-time to part-time to focus more on my startup.

Right now, I'm trying to see if it would take off. If the site is growing, I'll probably look for angel money and work full-time on it. If not, I'll keep my part-time job.
Working my 9 to 5 (which is more like an (8 to 8), and trying to learn Django well enough to start an open source product I think Django makes sense for.

Django is fun, and surprisingly productive even while learning, though with little free time it's going slower than I'd like.
Making a new spreadsheet. Trying to make it fast enough. Learning about spatial data structures.
In response to: [Ask HN: Price discrimination]
There's no LaTeX symbol for "+".
Free is a marketing tactic

This reduces the need to do "sales" as much - attractive for techie entrepreneurs.

"Free" is easier to implement for SaaS, but you can still do it for products, with a demo. The problem here is that the a time-limited or cripple-ware demo won't become as entrenched in the user's workplace as a SaaS version that is limited by the amount of use, or by the number of users etc. That is, a limit that allows the user to get some real value from you, ongoing, for free.

Actually, now that I think about it, of course you can limit a product in the same way as a SaaS version. Some limits are easy to enforce (e.g. number of contacts in a database), and for some you need to add management code or architecture (e.g. to monitor how often it is used). More code is always more complexity, and harder to test because it's interacting with the outside. But you can always just say what the limits are: communicate it clearly your website, in the license/contract, and in the product. Most people like to play by the rules, if they know what they are.

EDIT Although, I guess, if the software is entrenched, and it's a hassle to buy it, and it's still working... many businesses might find it hard to make the purchase. But the enterprise tends to be very organized about that kind of thing. ah... it's probably best to enforce the limits, if you possibly can.
I just got Ming, the Flash library, working in Ruby. I'm instrumenting the pure-ruby Ruby-AES library to "snapshot" each transformation of the AES round function, and playing with different ways to visualize substitution and permutation. I'm hoping to lay out step-by-step transformation of AES blocks, left-to-right, on a 34"x24" poster for Black Hat.

Our Chicago intern, who we found on Hacker News, is going to be helping me with this project this week. He doesn't know it yet, though.

I'm also finishing our "official" poster for Black Hat, which is a hex/ASCII chart with "interesting" characters highlighted (like a calendar with holidays).

Starting sometime in the next couple weeks, I'm coming off a solid 18+ months of back-to-back consulting projects and moving back to product work for Playbook (http://runplaybook.com), Matasano's product. I have a lot of customer calls to make. Another thing that entails: recruiting a jQ/frontend Ruby developer in Chicago. Leads welcome!
Small company. Financial software. Yeah, that seemed a lot better a year or so ago.

But I've been at this a few years, this recession too shall pass.
Those are pretty good! I can definitely see the appeal (which probably means I spend way too much time online).

How tough is the online t-shirt market? It seems like every time something goes even remotely viral, everyone and their dog tries to sell t-shirts. Do you even see random websites and opportunists as real competition (do they actually sell much?), or does your competition consist mainly of the other large t-shirt sites?
Nah I'll just use one of the many other free alternatives. Charging for something is fine but it helps to do something unique if you actually want people to pay.
Looking for people to work on interesting projects or people who need help working on interesting projects. Anything unixy/obj-c/system services/web stuff-related.
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Full time job: Largest IT Consulting firm around processing security paperwork for clearances

Startup from College: http://www.studentsherpas.com/ - Trying to help out college students. Adding a free job board for local jobs for local businesses

Side Project: Working on news aggregator where not all users are created equally. Basing it off a pseudo-physics system where users have mass and give stories/links inertia and they gain mass by passing interesting links.

Other things: Doing some coding for a fitness competition based startup. Currently working on a discussion system for them.

I have a few other ideas mulling around that I would love to have someone to work with.
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Well hopefully the author of this will give a real summary, but I had a quick squiz at the code at its nothing like a CAPTCHA solver.

Basically its a nearest neighbour classifier based on turning the actual stroke data in sets of equally spaced points after being centred and scaled. The direction between points is recoded as compass directions (so sequences of N,E,NE). These strings are matched against the training data to find the closest matches.
Now for something completely different...

I've been working on a global model of epidemic spreading for about a year now (the project was actually started about 3 years ago). The idea is to be able to forecast the progression of the disease across the globe as in where it will hit next, how many cases, there will be, the efficacy of possible governmental interventions, etc... (think weather forecast for disease spreading)

Swine flu came around just when we had finished testing a more detailed traveling model. It's been holding up pretty well so far!
Recently went from full-time to part-time day job to focus more on my startup, http://www.launchset.com .

If you find my site useful and want to use the service, let me know. email me - danny at launchset.com
Thanks! There are a ton of t-shirts out there made from viral videos, but they are really scattered throughout the net. The biggest provider would be zazzle, but the designs are generally not created by graphic designers. We want to become the definitive place to look for high quality youtube inspired t-shirts.
Do workplace Internet filters make any sense?
Most recently http://www.pdfamigo.com which lets you create PDF forms online. In fact I asked for and got feedback right here just yesterday.
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I got a similar reaction from a physics postodc.
As has been for a while, my primary personal activity is developing the x264 video encoder, for fun and for profit. I work on ffmpeg as well from time to time.

Some current commercial activities:

Working on optimizing CoreAVC video decoder for CoreCodec.

Working (9-5) at Facebook, primarily on video and photo-related stuff.

Working on the encoding backend for ShowReelPlayer.
This is really an incredible idea. What a way for the younger generations to see such a great moment in their nation's history. I can't help but wonder what future communication mediums will enable.
I just launched the online version of Bingo Card Creator and am busy iterating as fast as I possibly can before the school year starts. This weekend I added breadcrumb navigation to the main workflow, put in spinners for some of the AJAX interactions, built in some more analytics into the backend, and finished the Mailchimp integration.

Next (workable) weekend: finish QA on Windows version 3.0 of the desktop app, and get it in the hands of Mac testers.
Even if his "decent college" has such a class, and he can't pass out of it, I can't imagine that one intro class would take up that much time.
It may be safe to say that a lot of scholarship, regardless of gender, is flawed. That women do not wish to be publicly flogged is, perhaps, a tendency of the gender.

Maybe contacting the author, first, was a better way to handle the situation?

Of course, the article author doesn't try to search her own flaws in her approach.
the number of people whom can make these distinctions is dwindling.
So, maybe the right thing to do is concentrate on solving your financial problems and only do high level planning on your startup? I found myself in a similar situation and have been working for a couple years to shore up finances before doing the big push on my work. I knew that I couldn't work a full time job and do top notch creative work, so I simply put myself in tool sharpening mode and waited it out. I feel that in the end, my final result in a long term view is going to be much more favorable with this extensive preparatory period than if I had attempted to serve two masters during this time.
I'm working on rebooting my LLC for web development and training. I'm also working on a few application ideas.

I've really begun working on my blog again in earnest, unfortunately though I have had a tough time choosing technology based topics to write about. We'll see though.
Rewriting all the back end software for a big kids' TV show site (www.icarly.com). Recently launched polling system and search system (reverse index). Entire site is generated as static pages + JS data so we can server the 4 million registered users and 270 TB video/month off of one box (with Akamai's help). Next up: the user registration/login and user generated content management systems.
The answer, scientists have found, depends rather more on evolution than morality.

This is a false distinction: the human moral sense is a product of evolution.
"Maybe contacting the author, first, was a better way to handle the situation?"

I disagree. Statements made in a public, academic context should be debated and corrected in a public, academic context. This is perfectly appropriate; indeed, taking it private may well be inappropriate. This is the nature of academia, and anything less is a disservice to the greater academic community in question, who are shut out of a private conversation.

Obviously some professional courtesy is called for; such debate should not be acrimonious, and sending a note to the originator of the debated items is probably appropriate unless you know they can't miss it. But I'm not seeing anything egregiously wrong with the author's approach or tone in this article.

Many of the corrections in question involve objective facts, too. While I am keeping in mind I am seeing only one side of the story, I have a hard time seeing what justifies responding to a debate about what the objective fact of the matter is with any sort of accusations or stonewalling. The March of Dimes example seems pretty open-and-shut, for instance.
Numbrosia 3 iPhone/iPod touch app: http://amichail.posterous.com/numbrosia-3-screenshot-and-des...

Also see Numbrosia (in iTunes store) and Numbrosia 2 (under review): http://www.numbrosia.com
daniel,

not sure if you got my email. i sent you one.

thanks.
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1886 is short. Anyone else surprised?
I am working part time on my side project http://sanbit.com for fun, I would like to turn it into a startup, but now sure on the angle. I am also looking into working on some projects with other people, anyone interested in getting a project going?
Could you elaborate?

Do you disagree that using it in social news sites would result in an improvement?
Each key also sounds different. One of their attacks uses this, in a slightly extended sense.
Perhaps I'm confused, but doesn't she describe her contact with the author? "I mentioned these problems in my message to Lemon"
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There are other alternatives to no price tag.. Think Tight-Ass Tuesdays, discount coupons, etc.. Some people will buy your product whatever the cost - others will only at a lower price.. To maximise the value/sales - the price spread is a good idea...
Insightful.

But not Hacker News.
Same ol', same ol', still saving the world. http://singinst.org/
I've used it, it rules. jimmyr.com is pretty cool too, used to be my homepage.
Pople who couldn't get somehting to work can click on "Symblos" and train it.