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I have to comment because my wife is a dentist and I have considered entering the dental market a couple of times because the software is pretty terrible. I think there is one founder (SikkaSoft??) who has a similar story.

A couple of interesting things about the Dental market:

1) Customers are resistant to change because they want to spend their time focused on the dentistry not solving IT problems. One of the leading dental software providers, Eaglesoft, has a really bad UI/UX. Each screen looks like it was designed by a separate team of engineers and has never been updated. On the other hand, dental staff get used to the quirks of the UI and it's not clear that Eaglesoft could totally redo their product without a revolt from customers.
2) A pure cloud based solution would be super awesome except that you still need to integrate with a bunch of hardware, e.g: you need to tell the digital x-ray to take a picture. On the other hand, the need to operate on premise servers for dental offices is a giant ass-pain. Also the Dental market is still windows based which really sucks. (have you tried administrating windows servers? yuck)
3) Since this is a fairly mature market there is a bunch of vertical integration. Patterson (which owns eaglesoft) wants you to buy their kit which runs with their software, I think Schein is a distributor for dentrix so they have their own stuff as well.
4) While no dentist likes paying the maintenance fee for their software, it's really a non-issue when you come to the P&L statement.

I think one possible way to disrupt this market is to do a mashup of Athena health and dentrix/Eaglesoft. My understanding of Athena Health is they run your back office so you don't need staff to do billing and deal with insurance companies. I don't think there is someone who does this well in the Dental space (but I could be wrong). At a certain office size you need a full time staff member to run Billing. As long as the cut that you take is less than the cost of employing a billing department, it's a win.
Here's the thing: for many so-called niche industries, the requirements change about as infrequently. People aren't even considering the 90s-era GUI - they have a tool that gets out of their way, they're familiar with it, and it gets the job done quickly and well.

I've gone this route replacing a niche software product running on MS Access with a newer, better, faster one. It met all the requirements. It fixed all their pain points. It followed the latest usability guidelines. If this office had adopted it and referred it over to other offices, I would have been as well-off as the dentist described by GP.

It fell flat. They paid me for the product, said it was really great, but ... none of their reps wanted to make the changeover. It was not that the learning curve was too high - it was that any learning curve was too high.

To clarify: anything different from what they were doing every day for the past 10 years meant that they had to think about the software they were using and not the job that they were doing. And that slowed them down - the fact that it would have been a temporary slowdown was irrelevant.

I've seen the same thing played out in my eye dr's office. THey had an old 3270-based system that they used via emulator - and they could fly with that. They knew all the shotcuts, didn't even have to look at the csreen.

Over the period of a year and a half I watched them get a new system in. It had all the same features and a ton more. And it slowed them down to a crawl.

They reverted back to their 3270 based system by the time a year had passed.

So you make an assumption that newer is better - but remember that's your assumption, and it's not one that the targe audience (ultimately the end-users, not just the people you're selling to higher up the chain) will necessarily share.
If you're referring to safe deposit boxes, I believe they drill the lock and replace it.
Maybe I missed it, but does it require a data connection? Overseas, a lot of tourists aren't going to have internet outside of their hotel.
Remember usa.net/netaddress.com?

"With USA.NET® Net@ddress®, ... have one email address for the rest of your life for free!"

http://web.archive.org/web/20001218082700/http://usa.net/per...

I'm not buying into free + forever.
Pen is, still, mightier
See also this discussion of MirageOS from 2.5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726748
BitPay said they will get (most?) of their revenue from their paying Business and Enterprise plan customers: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2c5f1l/bitpay_here_...
When you run Jekyll, it spits out an `_site` folder - which is the generated HTML/CSS/JS of your site. Locally, when you run the Jekyll server it generates the site and then serves from that folder for you to preview.

With GitHub pages, you push a repository containing the Markdown files, but not the full generated site. On GitHub's server it generates the site and then serves it. You will want to add the `_site` folder to your `.gitignore`.
Or maybe the relatively few female that persevere in a field that is biased against them are going to be better on average ?

At my university in engineering and applied sciences ( weird but that's the official translation in English ), one of our teacher was the first woman to graduate. She was very good, she had to be better than the average to prove that the school did not make a mistake in letting her in.
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I was planning to write a guide on this... you know, some day...

From what I understand, Jekyll (the web site builder) automatically runs on their end. And, as the other poster mentioned, you can simulate the result of this by running a local copy of Jekyll on your local checkout.

But in the end, only the Jekyll input configuration/source data is required. The rest is optional.
Beyond the docs and the github repo some additional information is available here. http://ryanlanciaux.github.io/blog/2014/07/08/introducing-gr...
Pages are generated on Github servers. As somebody mentioned you can run Jekyll locally to preview the rendered pages or simply push to github and review online.
To be specific, all sites are processed through Jekyll, unless you add a `.nojekyll` file. Non-Jekyll files (like HTML or CSS) are passed transparently through Jekyll untouched. Adding the dashes to the file header simply tells Jekyll to work its magic.
I see a few driverless cars out and about each week.
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For the record, I am on this list.

1. I was not aware this was public.
2. I was told that all rankings should be taken in context compared to others in the 2015 graduating class. Clearly none of these people are any contender to be best in the world at anything.

The people I know on the list are certainly some of the smartest people I know, but take this with a grain of salt.
The question begging here is, can I find someone with domain expertise and dogfood a brilliant service for them which we can then live off, or is there something about being both a domain expert and a coder that enables you to see what could be if only ...

It's just that life cannot be that simple otherwise I want to start a VC that just finds clever coders with middle aged domain experts and fires out dozens of winners and dozens more also-rans
I just wish we had hi-res, color, e-ink monitors with quick refresh rate. I can't bring myself to read an entire book online; even if it's free.
i was in Sao Paulo few days ago, well, comparing to Singapore it's like 100 times more dangerous
We have our unit listed on VRBO, but my wife and I handle the inquires and renting ourselves. Most condo buildings will run your unit for you if you prefer. They will take care of everything for you (bookings, cleanings, furnishings, etc), but you make much less. Also, you just get a percentage of what the building makes as a whole, so those rooms are really incentivized to be as nice. We wanted our place to be nice and something we would like to stay/live at.
That sounds pretty cool! Do you happen to remember the name of this app?
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At the same time, you've got folks in finance doing Excel spreadsheets all day making six figures.
I cannot believe that this post by Sam Gerstanzang, a partner, speaks for a16z. I certainly hope it doesn't get much traction internally and there have been a few internal notes explaining to him the number of ways he is wrong.

What I don't understand is how someone who is so obviously wrong about the software craft and isn't even coherent within a short blog post can be a partner at one of the best VC firms. I sincerely hope he's there because of nepotism.
Here's a link that will work: http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2F1_0_s_0_1_a&sa...
It looks like you just commit plaintext files (or markdown, or any of several other formats) into your repo and they get built into HTML by jekyll and hosted as articles on your site.

http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/
> If your arm gets broken, you don't "suck it up" and say "that's life", you go to a doctor and get treated. It's no different when your brain gets broken.

People say this sort of thing a lot, but it strikes me as unhelpful. The stigma against seeking help for mental health exists and is real, whether you think it's absurd or not. And that stigma often exists in the very people who need help, so just saying "oh you're being silly" is super not empathetic. It's actually not that different from the founder you mention.

Furthermore, 5 separate doctors will all concur that my arm is broken. But they will not concur that I have schizophrenia, or borderline personality disorder, or whatever. There are a number of reasons why that is, but my point is that none of this is as cut-and-dried as a fracture -- not the diagnosis, not the treatment, not the patient's acceptance that something is wrong.
Man, people are really butthurt with bitcoin around here. You gave him the best answer of all and all you got was downvotes and a sympathy comment from me... ;)
No, until that point you're not sure if you have a business service that people are willing to pay for.

And that dollar amount - you'd just pay ordinary income on it -- because it's not worth the hassle of setting up a business structure. So set aside some money from your sales to pay the taxman.
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I actually disagree, perhaps subtly. Emotional reactions are still reactions, are still a thing that exists in reality, and should be appropriately weighted. But emotional reaction should be weighted in terms of considering it as a consequence, and emotions should be consulted in determining which consequences we (collectively) care about. This is distinct from responding in the short term to a demand for vengeance simply because that's how people feel now (but not distinct from reacting with vengeance if the population will long-term approve of having done so, balancing emotional consequences with others).
Monetizing a dental network would actually be surprisingly easy...you charge dentists for new patient appointments. With the average lifetime patient value being over $1k, charging $20-$50 per appointment will get a lot of traction among dentists. Additionally, using the data in dental management systems to help automate the operational aspects of a dentist's practice is something that dentists are more than willing to pay for. Companies like Lighthouse 360, Intuit (Demandforce) and SmileReminders all make a ton of money sending email/postcard/text communications to patients on behalf of dental practices. It's not uncommon for services like these to cost $100-$300 per month and be worth every penny.

Where would the network come in? Well, it turns out that the software made by the companies I mentioned is mostly applicable to any industry where patients schedule appointments, so you can cross market between, say, a hair salon and a dental practice to try to get patients of the dental practice to make appointments to get their hair cut and vice versa. A company that integrated with all the major management systems across industries could create a site similar to Yelp! which would help customers find and select local small businesses.

I do wish the original author had written about an area that he actually understood. The dental practice management system market is among the worst to try to disrupt. The entrenched players are terrible and yet there's so much friction, that it's almost impossible to dislodge them. All the innovation is happening from companies that build integrations to pull relevant data out of those management systems to do the interesting stuff.
Any success marketing on Pinterest? Seems there'd be a gold mine of home/crafty/DIYers who would be interested.
The actual AMA:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2c5f1l/bitpay_here_...
Lavabit wasn't end-to-end encrypted.
Oh awesome, I didn't realize that everything was going through Jekyll under the hood. Is this new or has it always been like that?
>A search warrant cannot reach beyond U.S. shores...

Well, that is also part of this case. The court is going to determine how to fit data into the current caselaw. There is good reason for why the US can't order searches in another country.

But if Microsoft has servers in the United States that can routinely access their cloud servers, there is a good argument that data is really in the United States as well.

The business records argument is a bad one. However, I don't see any good reason for why the government shouldn't be able to access American companies cloud data with valid warrant.
I joined after the SWAT/bomb threat, but it sounds like it was "exciting". I've read about Brian Krebs and how this happened to him on multiple occasions, even with advance notice to the local police department.
The differentiation between [click to view larger photo] and [click text to go to city's page] threw me off for a few minutes.
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I'm getting about $50/month through an IFTTT/tumblr/AdSense setup that I have running.

That pays the server costs for http://citystrides.com which hasn't generated much revenue, yet.
This looks like a ton of fun. Think a bright 3-year-old could play or should I wait a year?
Yes. The submitted title ("Black Hat researchers actively attack Tor users") violated the HN guidelines.
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Get ready for the next wave of "business bootcamps"
Build a quick target profile list, sort for programmers in the computer games industry on Linkedin. Then reach out to selected individuals, dialog them about your idea.
a) that's stupidly cynical, b) that would add a timing component & c) why would people be lining up to bail out the VC?
Yep. The `.nojekyll` option has been around since 2009: https://github.com/blog/572-bypassing-jekyll-on-github-pages
Lots of doubters and naysayers. I think it is cool that it was built and might be useful to recruiters.
Linux does not always have to be associated with cheap, I recollect that Dell's 'Sputnik' tie up with Canonical wasn't at the $350 end of their laptop range.

I read the grandparent comment along the lines of 'I want to see how to put Linux on a tablet. People will be hacking this with the possibility of bricking the device. I'll search for cheaper devices'
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Sounds amazing. How did you learn everything you needed? Can you recommend ways to get more background in this?
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You're right and that's an important distinction, but it looks that's actually what's in this order as well. They are not making it illegal to report, just to divulge the information. If It leaks, it's fair game.
Most Wordpress themes are highly inefficient in regards to load time and bandwidth. There are some great plugins but most are sub par quality in terms of performance and security. All large scale Wordpress deployments are tuned either by in-house engineering staff or http://vip.wordpress.com/
What is that even supposed to solve? You're just making random network connections... it really does nothing to obscure origin or destination. It's not the target traffic so it'll get filtered out, and timing attacks still work on the target data.
No, there will be an offline mode for our open launch.
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Actually it makes labor redundunt.

People talk as if everyone can become a creator, which it ain't so (partly because of the personal skills needed, partly because there's no economy where "everybody is a creator" -- for the same reason why not everybody can be a millionaire at the same time (money loses it's value then). Any large scale economy needs few sellers/creators and many buyers).

So what this trend does, it empower a few programmers/creators (ok, more than the past few large capital owners), and makes all the other programmers redundant or devalued.
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> Apparently it's a pretty good title from that perspective.

There's a lot of randomness in which stories get uptake and when.
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Google had a monetization model by then and their IPO was a quarter of snapchats valuation. So where is snapchat's four times as good monetization model?
Maybe with some voting and metamod supervision...
From a practical standpoint (which is literally what he asked for), using a bitcoin as the sole method of payment is likely to artificially limit your potential customer-base. Bitcoin isn't widespread enough where most consumers can be expected to utilize them for payment. You may create a phenomenal web service, only to see it fail because people can't figure out how to pay for its use.
I definitely agree with you. He seems to be perpetuating the notion that depression is somehow a character flaw. There are so many different reasons why people get depressed that I think it clouds the distinction between general sadness and actual psychological depression. The only thing I found to truly help was pure empathy from any combination of loved ones/professionals.
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I quizzed my interviewers for about an hour on how Booking did things and why when I had my interview, and I still got hired. Besides, like everyone if we don't hire someone we don't tell them why due to liability reasons.

So if you had an interview and got rejected maybe it was for some completely different reason, I've certainly never heard about someone getting rejected because they asked too many questions.

You might get rejected because you don't seem like a good fit though. I commented on this a bit more specifically in a Reddit discussion a while ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mkdl4/what_exactly_is...

Anyway, it's unclear from your post whether you tried and failed at an interview with Booking, or whether you used to work there. If it's the former I'd be happy to help you with another try.

Like any employer we'd rather not hire one right person than hire ten people we shouldn't have hired, so statistically we reject some candidates that would have been good fits.
Whatsapp also makes design decisions that I would call 'engineer-easy'. Their iOS app is pretty much all default system widgets and behavior for example, which is significantly less code to maintain than something that was customized heavily.

On the server side they don't retain conversations, have multi-session usage (many clients, one user), etc which simplifies what is required.

I haven't used whatsapp in a while so things might of changed, but before they were acquired by Facebook, that was definitely their direction.
Huge touch-screen tablet at a local railway station for looking up times and platforms. Easily 30 inches. No idea what it runs on as it hasn't crashed yet.

Bus stops: local transport people experimenting with e-paper displays for real time timetables. Kindle sized (might even be modified kindles?).

The display/info space looks like a possibility.
VW has been testing the tech for decades looks like its almost ready for testing on the public roads.

And I know they have been testing driverless farm machinery near where I live since the late 70's
You might find interesting that Palantir is basically an extension of the CIA and NSA.
I brought up YC as a lot of people on HN hold it in high esteem and look up to it for inspiration and leading-edge best practices about running businesses. Obviously not everyone.

It also appears our discussion has ended up as generalizations vs anecdotes. Sorry about that.
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Just finished Tower Lord, it's the sequel to Blood Song, by Anthony Ryan. Blood Song stands pretty strong all on its own, I'm not even sure if he ever planned for this to become a series. But book two (Tower Lord) makes it quite clear that this is now a Game of Thrones esq series.

Just started Old Mans War last night, haven't gotten far enough into it to form an opinion.
This is terrible advice. What if he invests $28,000 then earns $2,000, then talks to his accountant and finds out that if he had filled in some paper work that $28,000 could be a tax deduction?

Talk to an accountant, or at least find the local equivalent of a small business service center in your area. Small businesses are the backbone of the economy and most major cities and states or provinces (depending on country) have folks you can contact to get basic guidance in this area.
This article actually highlighted that my development of a web app has gotten sidetracked by the lure of VC investment and general tech startup mentality which has thrown me way off course. I know my industry and should be "dogfooding" it rather than trying to build something that's impressive in the tech/startup space.
That is just not true. The email address in git does not need to exist. It just has to look like one, you can use for example `anon@example.com`.
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> you're boosting the WSJ's viewership stats

That would be the case whether or not they had a paywall.
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It turns out Bucky was a lot more than the man who invented Bucky Balls, this book was written in 1971 and is still incredibly accurate.

As an aside, I have been logging the books I read over the past two years here: http://crismannoble.github.io/tabula/
Funny, I was about to post the exact same remark about Tunisia.

As a tunisian, this always confuse me. the average salary is WAY less than $1000, the tax on imported cars is very high, yet the number of luxury cars is too damn high.
I ran screaming from this article. I understood virtually nothing about it.
Baby steps. Maybe an employee will ask to be paid partly in BTC which I'm sure they'll be happy to oblige to avoid the conversion fees.
If memory serves, the feds had probable cause and a warrant when they want after Lavabit. Lavabit tried to fight it. Lavabit lost. So they shut down instead and tried to spin it as the feds shutting them down.
This is how most trust fraud seems to be handled by the bar here in the US. I don't really hear of prosecutors getting involved.
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Well as this is a news site, the title could be interpreted as new, i.e. something new and interesting is happening. It would be perfectly possible (if not slightly, or very unfeasable) for a jurisdiction to be drafting laws regarding the legal use of new driving technologies, even before they before commercially available (arguably they would never be able to be commercially available until they were regulated/legal).

Apologies is there was any condescension, I was only trying to convey that it's not that different to what's been going on elsewhere. I'm from the UK myself.