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Rate my Startup:  Uzvy.com (grouping reloaded)
Hi Everyone.

The goal of Uzvy is to be an integrated, super-easy way to create groups (micro-communities) and manage all of them in a single page. Uzvy is essentially a tool for making private and public groups. We pitch Uzvy as being about interest networking--connecting with your specific interests.

We've found that the initial impression of our UI throws a lot of users off and is intimidating, but after about 10 minutes of using Uzvy many users "clicked" with it and enjoyed Uzvy'ing. (let us know what your experience/feelings are)

We'd love to hear all thoughts particularly how useful you find the service, how you'd use it, thoughts on the UI as it is, and any suggestions.

Thanks!! The Uzvy team!!
It would be neat if there were a way to view the oldest comments that have been upvoted recently. Sometimes I read old threads and upvote things I missed the first time around. It would be nice to have a way, other than randomness, to see the oldie-but-goodies other people have dug up.
Google checkout is one of those mostly-USA only for merchants things, yet again. Paypal is far more international, and alternatives tend to be even more expensive.
bravura,

My site Launchset distributes beta invites but I don't have functionality yet for other users distributing invites.
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How do you feel now? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=771935 :P
As cofounder of an angel backed startup in L.A., I think it's a great scene. The going line is that startup people in L.A. are pretty focused on monetization.

Other good sources of events here are Dealmaker Media (http://dealmakermedia.com/la.html) and Docstoc co-founder Jason Nazar (he hosts frequent panel discussions on startup issues -- followed by parties back at the office) http://www.jasonnazar.com/

Thanks for posting this, Andrew.
crap, kept refreshing, now i have 4 on my desktop...
Picurio and Divvyshot are similar in a lot of ways and they were both funded by YC albeit in different cycles.
This site has a whole list of techniques that nature uses to solve its problems. Very useful if you have an unsolvable problem or wasteful solution.

http://www.asknature.org/
The problem with morals is that they are different from person to person. If you want to have a debate on copyright law, I'm perfectly happy to have it, but I don't think anyone should rewrite copyright law based only on their own morals. After all, that's why laws are created, to unify all morals and all interests in a country.

In any case, I don't think HN should be a place to swap pirated stories (or movies, music, etc.). Especially not so when they are as terrible and uninteresting as this one.
What were you being charged before, and what are you being charged now?
Google App Engine is free up to a certain usage level (certainly accomodates low bandwidth). I'd avoid dreamhost or other shared hosts as they won't handle spikes well. Someone like mosso cloud/rackspace cloud or amazon cloud computing would be better I think. Maybe even a virtual machine with fsck or linode or slicehost.
Why is this even getting voted up?

This guy needs to join that girl in her silly lawsuit she filed against her college. I'd never hire her nor this whiner. Though maybe this is there way of thinking of the box and getting attention. They say any kind of attention is good(publicity), yet for me I still would not hire either!
ok, great article, how is this not everywhere in html form?
[disclaimer: I was on the USACO team and my collegiate term got 8th in the world in the ACM competition]

One of the most valuable things I learned from team programming competitions was programming discipline, by writing code on paper. Yes, I literally wrote code on paper. In the ACM competition, there is one computer and three team members. So you divide up the problems and write code on paper while someone else is in front of the computer.

Writing code on paper leads you to great discipline. You write everything, so you are biased against long ugly solutions that seem simpler in your head. It turns out that these solutions are usually harder to debug. By intentionally limiting your coding speed, you end up flexing your design muscle and learning to get things right the first time. This allows you to hold more abstractions in your head, which is an important programming skill.

Naturally, there are many bad habits you could form from programming competitions. But this is one particular good habit that I am grateful for, to this day.
It comes from an assertion that _heavy_ weights can damage a child's growth plates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyseal_plate) inside their bones. High rep bodyweight exercises like pushups and squats are not going to cause that. (http://www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Growth_Plate_Injuries/d...)
Really? What do you think is good about it? I took a look (based on your recommendation - the title itself turned me off) and all I see is overblown non-sequiturs.
Exactly, it's about structure. E.g. if you are an OO programmer you will be thinking "what classes do I need to represent this problem? Is this a has-a or an is-a? Do I need a Factory pattern here?" and so on. You won't literally be thinking "public static void main...".
Because now we're talking about it, and 3 minutes ago, I didn't know what Sequoia Capital was or if it even existed. And look at me now, spelling their weird name correctly and all.
Isn't a greater risk that someone sets up a fake ATM machine to trap your PIN + card information?
Kudos on the post-anything sentiment; to steal a quote from a monster, whenever I hear post-something, I want to reach for my Browning.
It looks like he's doing a version of "dive bomber pushups" which were popular at the MMA gym I previously trained at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttk8RdiIHzA
Actually, after rereading the article, many of the use cases do seem like harassment. And the fact that anyone can request it does make it more like a tool for harassing.

But not all harassment is wrong. I'm just saying many of them do seem to cross the line now that I reread that, some of them may have been warranted though. I also think in those cases the cops all had good intentions. Though I've always acknowledged the potential for it to be misused (you'll see an earlier comment about that somewhere above).
The Hero's UI is certainly an improvement on stock Android and the iPhone. I wouldn't say it's 'iPhonified' - the iPhone does some things quite well, but it also loses data when closing apps, has no background notifications, requires manually syncing contacts and calendar, has all icons the same shape, constantly selects text to copy when scrolling in Safari since firmware 3, and a few other choices I'm not willing to put up with anymore.
"One of the most valuable things I learned from team programming competitions was programming discipline, by writing code on paper. Yes, I literally wrote code on paper."

" By intentionally limiting your coding speed, you end up flexing your design muscle and learning to get things right the first time. "

Interesting how this matches Dijkstra's method of writing programs. I believe he additionally proves correctness before typing it in.
Well, in the article it says it was done to test a new supercomputer.

But lots of mathematicians are interested in investigating the mysteries of pi, so I'm sure they're happy to have more digits to ponder over.
My current day job is working in the public service of my country (in IT). Here, if you spend under your budget, the assumption often made on high is that you didn't really need the money you didn't end up using and so that money will most likely no longer be available to you next year.

This creates the insane situation where government agencies will often madly and recklessly try to spend any money they have left over when nearing the end of the financial year.

This is the one major difference I have seen between when I've worked in the private sector and when I've worked in government. In most areas of the private sector, you are rewarded for efficiency, in most areas of government, you are penalised for it.
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'My point with the Windows graphics driver example is that if you plug untrusted / untested / uncertified / crappy software into otherwise stable software, you can't hold the latter responsible for the unpredictable behavior you may get.'

I disagree. Stable software is well designed enough to not let unstable software break it - you have evidence of this in the article, although you as you've mentioned you chose not to believe it.
The design quality is poor. Aspects like the logo, compression artifacts in images, and alignment of main screens indicate work needs to be done.

The Uzvy groups did not seem to have information I am interested in.

The site stalled as I attempted to activate from email. (Following the http://www.uzvy.com/activate/XXXXXX link embedded in the email Uzvy sent.)

Given this experience, I don't find the service useful.
Some open thoughts:

1. Doesn't every phone these days have a voice trigger to call someone? My old Nokia has and it works pretty well.

2. It seems to require some touching to use. Tap to run app. Tap to start recording. Tap after a status update. Tap tap tap... I thought this was voice-controlled?

3. Searching the internet using your voice doesn't seem that practical. At least by looking at how I use search - using wildcards and such. So it may be a bit restrictive.

4. The voice layer on top of Google and Yahoo will, of course, require a hotspot. Not always available and it may be expensive.

5. I may see this being useful for disabled people.

6. How accurate is voice recognition and pickup really?

7. Is there no chance that Google Voice can become a competitor in the future? They have all the voice recognition expertise - just look at voicemail to text feature. Potential competition from Google must be considered.

8. It doesn't appear to be especially speedy.

In conclusion, it is not that appealing to me but seeing as it is free to try basic features, I may try it out anyway.
I read that. How is the master-master replication working for you? Also, why didn't you rather do shrading and replication considering m-m replication is experimental?
The calculator has an RSA public key in it (exponent e, modulus n). TI keeps secret an RSA private key (exponent d, same modulus n). The private key is used to sign the OS and the calculator verifies the signature before running the OS.

The modulus is composed of two primes, p and q. Factoring n into p and q is sufficient to regenerate the private exponent d. Thus, the hackers can now sign their own OS and have it loaded on stock calculators.

I suspect the 512-bit RSA key was used in order for the Z80 to verify a signature in a short period of time. It's possible they even use a small public exponent (e=3), which could enable simpler/quicker attacks than factoring.

TI could have solved this in a number of ways. Partitioning the key space so there isn't one global key (like broadcast encryption) is one solution. Another would be to use ECDSA with a fast curve.
Sorry guys...we're on the mosso cloud and upgrading RAM immediately... scratch that--we got the RAM upgraded so it should work relatively smoothly! Sorry for the downtime.
...How to kick another 7 year olds a$$.

MMA has ruined america. There are more "tough guys" walking around now it seems with everyone so quick to want to fight. Like an advanced civilization taking a step back to more primitive ways. Now instead of team sports and learning that the whole is greater than the parts, we have 7 year olds with muscles and ego. And if you don't like it.. want to fight?
It is for me too: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.uzvy.com

Cached version: http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:QSXUVBg41PQJ:www.uzvy.c...
Forget about requirements
PayPal has always charged this rate for business accounts when selling goods and services.

So, the problem here appears to be that everyone running their personal account for business purposes is bitching about how they can't sneak around the fees anymore.
It wouldn't be so bad if we were just overpaying for our mobile plans. Americans are used to that—see mail, milk and medicine.

I get the mail and medicine thing, but are we all overpaying for milk too?
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@patio11 Thanks for this, I will make it a point to correct these kind of anomalies from the site.
Is it really a "leak" if its officially posted? Yay for sensationalism, by TorrentFreak, not the submitter though.
I think I see a startup idea ... build your own Sequoia-like, search-only, barely-usable website
Added: I have read this comment and sitting with my team today to discuss it in detail. Thanks again.
Yes, especially if he is an only child, i think team sports would be better. The childs dedication is inspiring, though. I'll do some push-ups now.
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False dichotomy. You can go to college and start a business or learn a trade. And it gives you way more choices and options, not to mention enriching your life.
A mathematician and a physicist are sitting next to each-other in a lecture about 11-dimensional space. The physicist scrunches up his nose, tilts his head to one side, and generally appears confused, while the mathematician smiles and nods as the lecturer writes equations on a blackboard. At some point, the physicist turns to the mathematician and asks, “How can you possibly follow this? I can’t visualize more than 3 or maybe 4 dimensions!” To which, the mathematician replies “Oh, it’s easy. Just visualize n dimensions, and then set n = 11.”
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Bowdlerize means change out the swear words. i.e., expurgate them. [ex = out of , purg = cleanse, ate = verb]

Thomas Bowdler was a guy who published a women-and-children friendly translation of Shakespeare.

I regret posting this, because I strongly suspect the more time-consuming process of actually looking up a word would improve retention. This is because declarative memory is actually condensed episodic memory.

Even better, look it up yourself after reading this post! At a different time and a different location!
Might not be your world, but they are probably the best known tech VC fund on the planet. They don't need more attention (they probably wish they had less).
My favorite quote from the article:

"instead, we have an institutionalized way to recycle capital from its gargantuan silos, a means for taking the risk that could be ruinous to an individual and divvying it up among the pools of concentrated capital. We call that institution VC"

This is great. It helps explain the equation I learned in econ class, savings = investment.
Enjoyable article, I would suggest a different interpretation of the Google interview results.

The Google video data suggests to me that we are in a "pre-literate" technological age (assuming that we judge literacy by a person's knowledge of standard web technology). I'm not clear that there was ever a time when people in general knew this stuff. (I still get a kick when I hear nontechincal people describing a web address: "H-T-T-P-colon-...")

Nontechnical people often don't know terms like 'browser' because they don't have to. The reason why IE has such strong market share is because most people use Windows and they just use the browser that comes with their computer.

I say "pre-literate" because as technology gets easier to use and applications become more relevant to people's lives, then people will know much more than they do today (simply compare the twenty-and-under crowd to the fifty-and-over crowd as an example of what's coming). If current trends continue, then the next generation will continue to be more technically savvy than their parents.
What exactly is the problem with swear words? He's using a word with the appropriate emotional connotation to express his message. Why hack a system that doesn't work when we already have one that does exactly what we want?
I'm perplexed by this. I pay $44/month for Blue Shield California health insurance. Prior to that I live in Washington state and paid only $37/month. Clearly, I'm a recent graduate, and I'm young and healthy, so lots of people won't be able to get that sort of policy. But the article specifically addresses young, healthy, recent graduates!

For some reason the Blue Shield website isn't responding for me right now, but I just checked out Anthem CA's website (the other Blue Cross/Blue Shield company in CA) and they have a bunch of plans listed right off the bat that start at $80:
https://express.rwsol.com/roi/getCCRecommendations.do?produc...

Now, is $80 really that expensive for health insurance?
There is that point, too, where you not have to look up how to formulate something in your new programming language, but can write it just down. Is that not "fluent"?

What do you guys think about learning just one programming language or just one human language? I don't think you can be a real expert in a language, if you just a single one. First, you will not get a good feeling of what the style of your language is, if you just know this one. And second, there is stuff, you can write easy in language A but much harder in language B. There will be a point in mastering language B where you have to be able to write the same stuff, too. But you might never learn that stuff, if you never saw people doing it in language A. (pg's argument for stronger languages vs. weaker languages is some kind of subset of my second argument)
I believe its through subsidies paid to milk farmers.
Great site/idea. Should be huge. Twitter and Facebook statuses now seem stale to me!

cheers
My wife and I are both self-employed, in our late 20s, and live in CA. We pay around $150 per month for both of us to be covered, with a $4 - 5k deductible. Office visits and prescription drugs are both covered, and we pay like $40 / month for basic dental coverage.

Now, we're both healthy, which is a huge blessing. The issue of not being able to get coverage if you have health problems is one of the main problems I have with the healthcare system. That said, $150 / month for two people is hardly insurmountable.
Its up for me!

yup .. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.uzvy.com shows it's up!
This is one area where learning a martial art with more of a philosophy behind it might be more beneficial than just training technique at a McDojo.

In a good martial arts school you will learn how to discipline the mind, and not just the body. In a good school you'll learn to avoid fights as much as learn to win fights. In a good school you will learn to control your ego.

Also, I would add that I think a person's willingness to pick fights has more to do with the kind of environment they grew up in, their peers, parents, and role models, than it does with whether they had MMA training.
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why I was changing how I use the Facebook service that Facebook decides to make major changes and become more like Twitter.
Sorry about the stalling...thanks for your comments.
It's funny, Google search does almost all of these bad practices, and for good reason.

I think that as general principles, most of these are pretty good. What I don't like about the article is that most of these seem to be cribbed off Crockford's presentations, and I'm not sure the author understands why they are good practices or when to break the rules. He also seems to lack an understanding of perspective: yes, counting downwards or manually CSE-ing expressions can save you a few cycles, but even with (pre-Chrome, FF3.5) JS being roughly 1000 times slower than C, the CPU consumption of your JS will still probably be dwarfed by its download time. Optimize for byte-size, not execution time, unless you're doing something like a JS game.

He also forgets the most important JS bad practice I know of: don't muck with the prototypes of built-in objects! Just say no: it makes it virtually impossible to build compatible libraries off of your work and version them in a sane way.
Great and Thanks! Sorry for the downtime, It took about 7 minutes or 8 minutes for Mosso to upgrade the RAM on our cloud-based app server (that's kind of a long time but anyway?!).
I'm fine with kids studying martial arts, but the current fashion for MMA perplexes me...I suppose it's the all you can eat buffet of martial arts. Oh well, plenty of time to specialize later.
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Martial arts taught me quite the opposite. Fighting is difficult and dangerous and the outcome is far from certain, regardless of the level of experience. Its not like a Jackie Chan movie. You opponents don't wait in line for you to get around to them and one hit to the head with a hard object can be fatal.

I'd submit to you the opposite. Less TV and more martial arts training would make people much less eager to start a fight.
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hm. I wasn't aware of it.

Maybe we should try it ?
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MMA has "ruined America"? Please, save us the hyperbole.

I stepped into an MMA gym a year ago, it's the best thing I have ever done for myself. It has strengthened my mind and body in ways that would have never occurred otherwise in my life of sitting in front of computers. And it is much better for my brain chemistry than gorging on passive media.

And no, I'm not particularly eager to start fights. But being confident in myself means that I'm not the target of the kind of guys that start fights. The people who know martial arts and start fights are the people that started fights before they knew martial arts.

You know, most Jiu Jitsu gyms in your area would give you a free week or month of lessons, if you wanted to develop a first-hand opinion on the issue. But be warned: it might change your life.
Curiously, I almost never think of my code as "Is this a has-a or an is-a? Do I need a Factory pattern here?" I reach for the pattern names only when I need to explain things to coworkers. I do occasionally think in terms of "what classes do I need to represent this problem?", but more accurately it's "Okay, what interface do I want to present to the outside world, what data do I have available to me, and how can I transform that data so it does what the interface claims it does?"
So, tr.im is slow and unrealiable. Not so much about Twitter and bit.ly alliance after-all.
No, it was a leak because it was uploaded to Bittorrent several days before the band posted it to their blog. The release included an almost parody of a scene .nfo file in the trademark cryptic, nearly meaningless style of Thom Yorke.
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