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We've been using Lookback for internal testing on our upcoming iOS release @ Craftsy. It's been super helpful. We're hoping to do some user testing with it over the next few weeks as well. Great service guys, congrats on the continued growth.
Ask HN: What valuable app/company is no one building?
Exercise your mind.
Fun, but how many products have actually "made it" from such "launches"? I think you get a small bump from "da geeks" and that's all.
If it is perjury can you make a criminal complaint to the police?
Is your body a theft from the commons? You have a monopoly on it. It is the first piece of property anyone acquires.

There is no inconsistency in saying that force is bad when used for aggression but not bad when used for self defense.
I get private healthcare in the UK through my job - the only time we have used it was when my teenage son got his tonsils out.

What was amusing was that at one point the anaesthetist came up and said there had been a mistake in the billing and I'd have to pay part of the bill directly. Having heard all the horror stories from the US I was thinking it was going to be a huge amount of money - he very apologetically gave me a bill for £12.00 (yes, twelve pounds) :-)

[NB Worth noting that although we do have private health care, anything serious that has happened to us over the last few years was fixed by the NHS].
Speaking for myself and my wife. We debated for years whether to get a house cleaner. Finally, we have made the leap and have somebody come over once every two weeks to clean. However, if that house cleaning company were to raise their rates 35% to compensate for increased wages, we would go back to cleaning our own house, without question.

I suspect that kind of thing could quickly make some businesses that had been viable, no longer viable.
And then people got the point of gitchain?
I too would consider finance a very disruptive industry.
Dropbox is open sourcing its go libraries
NSA targets Tor administrators and people searching for privacy tools
54% of the US workers make less than $30,000 a year [1]. at a $14.50 minimum wage, the income floor for a full time employee becomes $30,000. You're telling me that a substantial income increase for >50% of the US working population would be bad for small businesses?

[1] http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032011/perinc/new01...
Can you buy a good after-market warranty? I mean the dealers must be getting their first-party warranties from somewhere.
Why not? Reminds me a bit of the way that CPAN is setup (author files, filesystem-based layout, etc).
What is this gitchain you write of?
Instead of working for a big company you could just freelance and temporarily contract out to large companies. You get all of the $$$ but also the flexibility for high-optionality events afforded to you from copious free time to build startups and side projects (as well as time to network with others.)

In my opinion it is far better to secure a high salary and the free-time and autonomy to work on your own higher-risk pursuits, than it is to secure a low salary and share a tiny percentage of optionality and autonomy with others on a high-risk pursuit.

The only exception I'd make is when you're truly enamoured with a vision, a founder, prone to loneliness and need to belong, or don't wish to focus on your economic livelihood at all.

At the end of the day the likelihood is that the high-risk pay-off never comes. Just like almost everybody else you'll become old, have a family and want to be able to provide for them.
Looking to name a new tool, offering a reward of $100
3 tweets this year is not what I would call active...
>> There is no inconsistency in saying that force is bad when used for aggression but not bad when used for self defense.

Certainly there is not. But what about land? What would give you the right to potentially kill someone (or at least use force to remove them) from a piece of land?

This question stems from conversations with internet libertarians who consider property rights (including real estate) as sacrosanct. I simply wonder what gives them rights to the land over other people, and how violence could be justified to protect them.
I've talked to a couple health-care startups on the East Coast that have started by tackling one small aspect of healthcare and built off of that. Prescription drug tracking. OR procedures and checklists. There are tons of companies in the medical startup space that are doing good work, there are tons of areas that traditional big tech companies have failed to innovate in that are ripe for being upset.

Playing fast and loose with insurance claims sounds more like outright fraud.
So, because you're afraid that we might become slaves of a new aristocracy, you support us being the slaves of the current government, which can't even operate a fair election?
in 2010 , "fewer than one in three (28.7 percent) children now have a stay-at-home parent, compared to more than half (52.6 percent) in 1975" [1]

With regards to healthcare ,health care in other places in the world is just as good and much cheaper.

And about real estate: isn't finding a good job while living in a small town quite a big problem ?

[1]http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/two-paycheck-couples-...
If the owners of the small business don't change their own wages after a minimum wage hike then something is likely to a problem for them. We cannot assume that their cost of living will not increase in some way after the hike.

They may indeed be already paying above minimum wage. But I pointed out that it's likely that many people who are not making minimum wage will see an increase in pay or will demand it. Let's say our small shop has two employees who make $10 an hour. They both now make $15 an hour, good for them. But that extra cost could have been a third employee. Let's say they hire that third employee anyway. Now the original two want a raise because it isn't right that a new hire makes the same as the experienced two.

Granted, very simplified example that's rife with potential issues.

So, if Wal-Mart's costs go up they raise prices. You are assuming that the small business won't have to do the same? Plus, if prices rise to counter the increased employment costs doesn't that eventually put us back where we started?
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But it's certainly reasonable to assume most of his customers are middle class individuals with enough discretionary income to spend on occasional car washes. The articles point is not that your friend doesn't deserve credit in creating jobs, but the initial creation is only one part. Sustaining those jobs requires sustaining the customers and to do that they must maintain enough discretionary income to spend on car washes. With the income disparity ever increasing it's easy to see the middle class fading and as that happens so shall your friends car wash business.
> BTW I'm not entirely sure how the NSA can justify an anti-Tor stance, when anonymous speech is clearly protected by the First Amendment.

Welcome to America, where the constitution is up for interpretation by agencies who have no obligation to disclose anything to anyone. The problem with the NSA is not even that it does all these things. It's that they operate as a sort of rogue arm of the government and if anyone tries to question what they do from within the government they can choose not to answer questions.
It's funny, I somehow expected this would be about anything but dollar cabs - they're just a mundane part of life throughout the mid-Atlantic.

Where I grew up they were the cabs and delivery service since the 'legit' equivalents refused to come into the neighborhood.
I wrote and self-published a book in 2013 that definitely fits some definitions of success[1]. Sales to date total a little over $30,000, plus some consulting gigs.

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
On Magical Software…
Or maybe you should read what you want, and fight for your right to do so.
Textmode was fast... !

This is my only thing, make the flicker faster .. and the update should be almost instant.
The reason I was laughing was because I could imagine it happening - know I know it's true I'm not sure how I feel about it.
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Since the basis of your response is several lies about what I said, your argument is nil.
My last name looks hard to pronounce so I'd technically be their target, but unfortunately, I'm not sure that I'd actually set this up. Cool idea though!!
https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain
People invest in individuals they know and trust. So you're Johnny-On-The-Spot for this deal. No need to drop out of school completely. Try a semester with an extra light course load. Be upfront, let them know that you'll need some schedule flexibility. Moving forward, do get your agreement and action plans buttoned-up on paper. This will increase your odds of success.
We're building a simple tool to help us with our group emails, we wanted something simple, you define (or import) your contacts information, organize them in lists, compose messages, pick lists where a message go to, and let the system work the magic.

You can use mail-merge variables in messages, and the tool allow you to preview all emails before you send them. The cost of using the tool will be 1 cent per email, only for the sending part, the organizing of contacts/lists/messages is all free.

The tool is built with a responsive UI design to work well on small screens.
>* Apart from being a distasteful brag*

I don;t intend to come over as bragging, but given what is widely know surprise is simply not a sensible reaction if you keep up with the relevant news.

Constantly being surprised by this sort of thing means people simply aren't learning from the recent past. People seem to go from surprised, to offended/angry/disgusted, to apathetic, to completely forgetting until next time, to being surprised again.

I'm not sure what the answer is unfortunately, aside from maybe "stay offended/angry/disgusted and nag and nag and nag and nag and nag until things change or you are arrested".
Or an economic choke point, depending on your point of view.

The market works best when there are more people making decisions -- it smooths the curve. If we have fewer and fewer people deciding where capital is allocated, it is going to be a big problem. Sure, people can, and are, making a very good living doling out capital in one way or another, but that is missing the point.
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While I'm here.. make the scrolling only scroll by character boundries, for a more authentic feel - the header shouldn't overlap by say half a character, since textmode was cell based.
If you're in town tomorrow you should stop by the launch party for Satoshi Square- we're building a coop around free-market principles and helping startups navigate burdensome regulations.

http://satoshiatx.com
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Is uProxy dead?
They appeared to have missed their launch deadlines, the first Google Search return for uProxy redirects to a Google page not about uProxy and I see little sign of it on social media.
Same as any other lawyer : sue the firm they represent.
Tri-band Wi-Fi chips for multi-gigabit streaming coming from Qualcomm
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What is the probability of growing up in a middle-class family in Africa? There is nothing fallacious or incorrect about what Hanauer points out.
No, that is the narrative of twice as much work for the same compensation, and of the working class missing out on all of the productivity gains of the last 40 years.

>Much of the care that makes medicine expensive simply wasn't available in the 1960s, so is a hard sell as a regression

So was it only that medical care that increased in cost, or was it all medical care?

>Real estate pricing is a symptom of other things going on in the economy, not a particularly huge problem all on its own.

I'm not even sure what this is supposed to mean.

>Mean student debt runs less than $30,000 and activists won't even report the median

Is this supposed to be a low number compared to the numbers from 50 years ago? And your reference, while attacking the use of the mean as deceptive, intentionally conflates the amount of debt that a student has when he/she leaves university with the cost of education.
You can usually just untick "McAffee" when you download the installer. Unless they removed this ability, most people don't read when they download software I suppose and install McAffee on their machine.
http://bit.ly/1qBIxNC
Yup broken here!
If it's the same name as your HN username, I don't see any obvious way to mispronounce it, other than whether the first 'o' is long or short. Is that the bit people mispronounce?
I actually like that my name is hard to pronounce (as in: I have yet to hear someone pronounce it correctly without being told). It means that I instantly know when the person on the phone doesn't know me.
It's not an inconsistency, it's a disagreement over property and aggression.

To you, land belongs to whole humanity and therefore it's an aggression on others to prevent them from accessing. But you shouldn't assume that everyone believes the same. To many a libertarian, lands initially belongs to nobody, and anyone can appropriate it freely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle

And of course, there's a whole field of libertarians who reject property, regardless of what the prevalence of right-wing libertarians on the Internet might indicate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism
I think you may be missing the point. The way to make millions was less about "work at a bank" and more about "invest your salary". With any decent salary and good financial planning, a few million dollars by retirement is easily within reach.
During one of my many Lyft rides I learned the driver was also one of several managers on this project. We had an interesting chat about it, and it left me wishing that the people involved in this sort of work were paid substantially more.
There's a subgroup of Asians spanning the Himalayas and east Asia that have blue bottommed babies that is generally believed to denote an ancestry that shares Genghis Khan, iirc. Anyone know whether this group is the same as the one that shares the Denisovan gene?

There's one other thing that I think people living in the Himalayas have, myself included, that helps and that is proportionately humongous lungs. This is probably evolution at work over the course of centuries.
Wait... Spagwood is an actual kids' name?
We cannot assume that their cost of living will not increase in some way after the hike.

That's true, but they'll make it up in the profit of the store, not in wages. Of course they will increase prices.
Yeah, I think it's a clever concept, but it seems almost egotistical to say, "Look, I care enough about how you pronounce my last name to embed a link in my email sig"

Many people classically mispronounced my name - it's not a big deal, I move on. If we're not going to be having many conversations where you say my last name, I'm not even going to correct you.
Remembers me of "How do you pronounce 'Bjarne Stroustrup?'": http://www.stroustrup.com/pronounciation.wav
Spaces control would be great. I rely on SizeUp for that today, but would be nice to have programmatic control.
https://github.com/sdegutis/hydra/wiki
I see where you're coming from, but to be a little pedantic– bullshit is both a noun and an adjective, so you can simply say "that is one bullshit plugin" and you'd be fine.
> Typing in long commands in the Mac OS X terminal and then them wrapping weirdly.

For all people who dont use Mac OS X:

This happens because your PS1 is wrongly set and bash cant calculate correctly the length left of your line. Try it out, by going back to default with no colors and crap and see how long it goes.

For mac os x users. The above wont help, dont even try it.
Again disappointed by the traditional meaning-warp mod change of title from the original warning claiming that Flash force installs PlayPanel without notice (something I admit I have not directly confirmed, as I don't intend to risk it) to "PlayPanel - Find new games." The original claim was supposedly a direct observation that the Adobe Flash update installs PlayPanel (with or without a hidden check-box). I don't value the "documentation doesn't mention PlayPanel" comments as having much value (as it would be actually nice if Adobe warned about such things).

I'll admit: I have a fairly strong anti-Adobe prior (actually a posterior learned from previous interactions with Adobe and Adobe products). But I still think that is better than the "eager to speak comfort to power" shills/defenders. Also, in this day an age can we fairly test this claim: what if Adobe is running an A/B test on forced install (which would cause some fraction of people to see no forced install)?

Why do I feel I have a stake in this? Because I am the stupid asshole who is going to have to try and uninstall this from family computers after it breaks something (Adobe being historically very clumsy). It isn't really relevant to my experience if my relatives were forced into it or merely tricked into it.
Trust that I have implemented no back doors.

Yes, you are right. This entire NSA thing is bad business for American companies. Even an erstwhile global darling such as Google suffers from this. They are now being viewed with suspicion ...
I believe it has been reported that the FBI lies about the sources used in investigations so that defendants never find out about the true sources that led to their prosecution. Your legal right to challenge sources of evidence is useless in the face of a corrupt government whose primary goal is to hide those sources from the public.
Our mobile games startup started in Dec 2013 is profitable. Our monthly revenues are 3-4X our monthly expenses (which includes market salary for Co-Founders.) In fact in the last 2-3 months, we have been able to save up almost 18 months worth of runway for our team of 8.

Bear in mind that the team is based in India, so our salary and other expenses cannot be compared to Silicon Valley, but in India we pay market rates.
Same here (Polish names unite!). I usually get embarrassed by the amount of attention mine will get. Using this tool feels like it would just add even more attention to it.
I'm guessing any pronunciation errors are caused by people misreading it and skipping letters or adding extra ones.
In case it's not clear, this comment is referring to the post's earlier title, which suggested that PlayPanel gets automatically installed when updating Flash. (Which it doesn't.)
I launched product1 of my publishing startup on Jan 1st 2013 on HN[1] and now I'm officially living, frugally, from the sales. It was a side-project, but the interest was so great that I've spent the last 1.5 years building the company. So far so good. More titles and more authors coming soon. Bootstrap funding all the way!

The self-publishing route for authors is a very interesting development. I believe it is going to be one of the more interesting strategies for monetizing content on the web. Take the best of modern web technology (version control, bug reports, quick iterations) and apply it to producing books---meaningful information products that can be sold at 60%--95% margins. What's not to like?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994367
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It will be interesting to try to see what happens in Seattle after passing the $15 minimum wage. It will take years to fully implement, which will mask the cause/effect, unfortunately.

I do this thought experiment. If I write every person in America a check for one million dollars, who have I actually helped? In my thought experiment, the prices of everything will instantly rise to compensate for the increased wealth, and everybody will be exactly where they are now, just with more zeros on all their bills and paychecks.

I suspect that rent prices in Seattle, which are already high, will rise very rapidly, to relieve these workers of their extra income. That the wage increase will take place over a few years time is unfortunate, as this effect will be deniable by those who choose to deny it. But this is what my gut is telling me will happen. So, amusingly, it will be those evil 1% landlords, who will actually win, not the minimum wage workers, who will be exactly where they are now.
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What constrains landlords rent prices?

If you increase the minimum wage won't the landlords just subsequently increase rent?

So essentially increasing minimum wage is just funneling money to landowners?
If their competitors could still afford delivery as well. Seems like most of this debate is anecdotal evidence and conjecture. Which is not a bad place to start from, but we need data.
I think about startup employee equity like this:

Salary = compensation for doing the job

Equity = compensation for taking the risk of working at a company with a high chance of failure

Therefore, in the future, an employee with lots of equity should still be paid a normal salary/raise/bonus because the equity isn't "current" compensation for doing the job, but a reward for taking a risk long ago.

But ignoring equity entirely is silly. Much better to say that you should consider salary and equity separately. One is for doing the job and the other for doing it now when uncertainty and the possibility of failure are high.

Also, some people (like me) would trade an increase in equity for a smaller salary, so it's not a perfect separation. I had a job offer once that gave me two options to choose from, which was really cool.
I made FiveStar [0], which was covered on TechCrunch [1] and it made ~$600 last month. Doesn't cost any money to run, so it just sits there. Not a fabulous success story, and traffic is decreasing, but $10 a day as passive income isn't awful.

[0] http://fivestar.io
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/03/fivestar-finds-the-best-pro...
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Is Google Search Result Removal Going Too Far?
> I'm apparently substantially more baller than I realized.

We all are. The poverty threshhold estimate for 2013 is $12,119/year for a single adult under 65.[1] 49 million people in the US are in 'food insecure households',[2], which means '“limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” 16 million of those 49 are children.[3]

Furthermore, if you don't just look at poverty, but at 'the middle class', whatever that means, as of 2004, the median income for a _household_ was $44,389[4]. The 2011 WSJ "What Percent Are You" calculator says that for a $120,000 income, (which is anecdotally what you can expect as a Bay Area programmer, at least, according to my anecdata), you are in the top 16% of earners. Glassdoor says that it's $100,000,[6], which puts you in the top 19%.

Software development is a very lucrative profession.

1: https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security#Food_Security_in_...

3: https://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-studies/...

4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

5: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/10/19/what-percent-are-y...

6: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-eng...
the link to the experiment: http://theuniversaltypeface.com/home - a download apparently follows in august