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I think coming up with good ideas is like exercising its own muscle in your brain. I think with practice and constant reflection / analysis on whether or not ideas are likely to work, you will likely improve over time. I've enjoyed brainstorming new ideas for the web since around 2000. Many of my ideas early on I thought were good, but it turned out (on further reflection) I was probably wrong.

In the past few years, however, I've accumulated a pretty substantial stockpile of what I think are truly legit ideas that I am not in a position (without funding) to do justice to. To make things worse I'm not really seeking funding so I may never find out. Eventually I'll probably revisit the list and start putting them out there if the time that has passed hasn't made them irrelevant, or someone else hasn't already done it.

I think choosing the ideas you will pursue really needs to be tied closely to your goals / objectives.

[EDIT: After reading through some other comments it appears one in this thread is quite similar to the content that follows, but in my estimation different enough that it may be worth posting anyway]

Just interested in learning? Do a project that will allow you to learn about what interests you.

Just interested in making money? For starters my suggestion would be take an existing product / service (not patented) and make it better, or maybe tweak it slightly. The tougher / far riskier objective would be to take an untested idea to market and try to make money with it. Extrapolating that a solution to a pain point I experience is likely a viable business, or that just because a few people I know have an interest in an idea it must mean that many other people in the industry would likely pay for a packaged solution IMO is risky.

Want to do something to help make the world a better place? This, IMO, is probably the hardest type of idea to really turn into something worthwhile. Perhaps one of the easiest ways to chip away at this type of objective is take something you know well and share it with the world. Make an open source project out of it and license it with a nonrestrictive license such as MIT, BSD, etc.
Think global variables, 4k line functions, goto/jumps, completely ignoring industry standard practices like MISRA, etc.

A note about embedded programming on a microcontroller: global variables and goto can be used effectively and safely. Their presence or absence does not alone indicate code quality. Even a 4kloc function might be reasonable if the compiler couldn't be relied upon to inline functions into a time critical global update loop.
People need to accept and be willing to act on the fact that words on a piece of paper -- even if it's the U.S. Constitution -- mean nothing unless citizens are willing to stand up and insist they be followed.

The challenge we all face is that we're too cowardly, generally, to stand up to tyrannical acts like this.

The Patriot Act; mass spying on all U.S. citizens by the NSA and others; our military and taxes being wasted overseas in armed conflicts most of us would never agree to.

Many complain. And do nothing. So, the words in the Constitution are selectively ignored. "We the People" are afraid to insist that document be adhered to.

Stealing citizens' possessions, as this president just empowered, despite "presumed innocent", is just another failure on our leadership's part to enforce the Constitution. The only way to stop this kind of stuff is to insist these overreaches are set aside.

Many of us have bookmarked the websites of the Washington D.C. offices of our 2 senators (there are 2 senators per state) and Congressmen. When something like this goes down we can quickly get the phone number/email addresses from the bookmarked pages of our Reps and call them, email them.

Do that as a habit, it's easy, and you've let it be known that the government isn't allowed these arbitrary violations of our rights.

Senator Feinstein: http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/washington-...

Senator Boxer: http://www.boxer.senate.gov/contact/offices/
Sometimes the good stuff isn't even on the first page. For example, see [0] (scroll down to the follow up) and the HN discussion [1] referenced there. Also, collapsible threads doesn't have to mean pre-collapsed threads.

To me it seems like collapsible threads would help, not harm, in this case because more people would have collapsed the OT first thread and participated in the discussion about the actual topic. I realize there are two assumptions built in to the above that may not always be true: 1) OT threads are bad or less desirable and 2) more people in a discussion is better.

0 http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2012/03/29/a-womans-story.ht...
1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3772292
of course I had to scroll to the bottom of the thread to read this post. Why wouldn't be buried? it's far too useful to be seen by critical thinkers.
Be nice is a good guideline. I try to be nice.
this is happening in newark too: http://aerofarms.com/

my basic understanding is that a few decades of marijuana grow ops funded most of the r&d, but the breakthroughs (mostly cost) in LED lighting of the last ~5 years have made it commercially viable at dollars an ounce (to weed's tens/hundreds).
Only if they leave the photo as a losslessly compressed png. They might convert to a lossy JPEG on upload, which means your data is toast.
I think he meant a blog post about your entire architecture and build/deployment would be great. And I agree :)
If it helps you can take respectfully to mean "the recipient will not feel angry or attacked due to the message tone" and constructively to mean "the recipient will finish reading the message feeling positive with ways to improve their work or actions".
On a related note Ian Griggs just posted an excellent blog post ( http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001554.html ) about the corruption inherent in allowing agencies to seize funds for their own use. It's written mostly in the context of anti-money-laundering regulations and focuses on the Silk Road investigators who ripped off hundreds of criminals and extorted the subjects of their investigation.

It points out that anytime a law enforcement agency is allowed to seize funds that flow to it's own budget, corruption inevitably follows.
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The corruption of anti-money-laundering
There's a US code that requires national emergencies declared in an executive order to specify where in US code authorizes him to do so. According to the executive order, this law authorizes him to take unilateral action in certain circumstances: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1701

He seems to also be invoking a US code that allows certain conditions of a declared national emergency to override a legislative two-year sunset? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1601 I am guessing that's why he cites it, so his executive order won't sunset.

IANAL, I just read the executive order.
Personal preference. Some people think "for(;;)" looks nicer.
As much as I am pro-FOSS, don't vehicle manufacturers have a right to copyright protection too? Why should vehicle computers be somehow different from other computers, which we allow to run proprietary code?

I guess my point is that, even being a FOSS advocate and pro-DIY, I don't see why car makers should be compelled to hand over their code, unless of course they're already using GPLed or similar OSS code.

Troubleshooting diagrams would be reasonable to ask for, or perhaps some documentation of the protocols used. But demanding that a company release their source code because you essentially feel entitled to it is pushing the buck if you ask me.
It already exists. It's called Git. You append more code in "commits" that modify existing functionality. The previous code is always accessible, though, so it's almost always strictly adding (except for cases where you have to scrub passwords from the history and other edge cases)
Once that happened to me I told a friend in the morning advised me to go for a run. I ran till I was exhausted and came home to collapse in sleep. I couldn't fall into sleep from mid night to 7am in the morning.
There are images of some of the tracking dots, along with more background information here: https://www.eff.org/wp/investigating-machine-identification-...
( <3? ). I am okay if you read me well, deeper. Vote health to intel health to mental health by a blipped flip of judgementalities traumma grammar hammer hurts.

I am fine enough to find some work. Do you judge a book by its intergenerativational grammar? We systems are trauma-sensitive much? Map(.org empathy deeper? Read us well?

I have help and medical history. Do we need me to explain vital signs to record-keep my account and read my own comments without feeling constant random erasure for talking about pain? I am often trolled for talking about pain.

Problem solving traumatic emotional regexes, is a liferacy of literacy at biteracy which needs greater disrepression at order of tools we use to pick our basic letter needs.

Feel free to ask, but first I want to check and balance the fact that I am asked that question often from fear, uncertainty, doubt, ignorance, and taboo — war word roots tear through crypto-social-emotional-legal-rational-memory issues.

(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Computational-Crys-Healantics... is a bit of a grammatical compunctu(punishh)uation of that wordy logy.)
'sha1:' (0x736861313a) and other self-describing labels can be represented in hex (etc) just fine.
To me the previous comment sounded gratuitously hilarious, in a positive sense. Not mean, just poking fun.
"Hypothetically, what would give you semi-reasonable freedom to transfer and spend that money, while still keeping it insulated from a government that wantonly steals from its citizens without discretion?"

Bitcoin.
Reading through this thread shows quite a few people in a frenzy about negativity.
I agree completely with this article.

So many people I know stayed way longer than they should have at a startup job and worked unpaid overtime for a chance at a payout. None of them got any such thing.

-One friend was a lead developer. He built the project from the ground-up and then hired and managed the team, which continued to work very well. After one round of funding, the VC installed their new COO and he promptly replaced the manager with one of his own guys and used dirty politics to boot him out of the company. The COO was also kind enough to tell my friend that if he wanted severance (which he needed at the time), he would have to sign a letter saying he was 'grossly incompetent", which I think was just to cover his own ass.

-Another friend was a founder of a company and eventually got his shares diluted to less than 1%. His Co-founder used his relationships with the VC to do this. It's sad, because even on the company website, the co-founder and all the VC are listed as the management team and my friend is listed as an employee. Personally, I would have quit if this happened to me.

The last company where I worked gave me shares in addition to my pay check. The owner created a new LLC a few weeks after I quit and my shares are now worthless. I never really counted on it anyway, but it's just another example of why you need to be careful.

I think I'm too old to be a startup employee. I can see through the Fooseball tables in the lunch room and free Red Bull in the fridge. If I'm going to push myself to the limit working on anything, I better have a 50% or more stake in the company.

This is my motivation to start my own company (which is what I've been doing for the past 3 years).
> The biggest FP project I was aware of was Twitter using Scala and they ended up completely backing away from it. Yikes.

You must be joking, Twitter is far and away the largest Scala shop in the world.

Presumably you're mixing up LinkedIn's recent move from Scala to Java. An important caveat is that they're still using the Play framework (Typesafe product), just now in Java instead of Scala.

It's unfortunate that Play serves two masters (i.e. Scala and Java), but industry demands it -- the argument that FP is the one true way goes out the window in face of current reality: enterprise by and large will go with mature tooling and cheap developers in a large-team-friendly language like Java over a paradigm shifting FP language like Scala, Clojure, or Haskell.
To anyone who thinks this could be hyperbolic; every single statement here is verifiable, from asset-forfeiture being applied overwhelmingly to people who are never convicted of a crime, to the police themselves admitting that seized funds are subject to NO regulation and are routinely used for "nice-to-haves" such as Margharita Machines, office parties, and other institutional costs.

I'm all for capitalism, but it has created a vicious positive-feedback loop here that if unchecked, means this will NEVER change.

1) Ex-LE create "training" subsidiary programs like Black Asphalt and Desert Snow succeed because, they teach the "police" how to operate "efficiently" and increase their financial "earnings." This is perpetuated by the rationalization of many police that they are "underfunded," "constrained" and thereby justified in the name of "protecting the public."

2) LE adopting these programs see an exponential rise in intake, and news spreads. These training programs become the new "ideal," and earn large sums in the process for the "training" they provide--an increased incentive to keep developing them.

3) Somewhere in this process the police 'mentality' shifts from "how do I uphold the law and protect the freedoms it affords" to, "how do I get mine, while not majorly stepping outside the bounds of the law."

In many ways it's ironically American, and yet, it's also very much an automatic symptom of this feedback loop where priorities are shifted in pursuit of personal gain and rationalizations are made that create a dangerous disconnect between a true "agent of the law" and a predatory individual with knowledge of said law who is inherently looking for ways to use that knowledge to take advantage of you.

Frankly, I think we're all self-interested in some way and make many rationalizations in the pursuit. The point of legislation is to allow that in a healthy context, while preventing those rationalizations from substantially harming the culture and society.

If we want to see any change here, I think designing intelligent disincentives is the only path that will produce a lasting effect. "Punishment" as deterrence isn't enough. Additional "civil liberty" stipulations aren't either, as we learned with the tax code--more complexity just makes more holes to be exploited.

How do we curtail the ability for these programs to remain economically viable? Remove the incentive, and only then, perhaps the psychology will change.
I often have this exact same feeling after reading git documentation.
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Perth mint certificates is one option I can think of. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Mint_Certificate_Progra...
"I think the problem is that economics and all the other complex systems issues that hide behind politics are things that human beings are just not well-equipped to understand. We're bad at economics and social planning for the same reason we are bad at understanding the genome holistically. We just can't "grok" stuff like that."

I think we _can_ grok stuff like that, but not easily and not without study. I think that the main reason there are so many arguments about economics is that most people have not done that and because people know where various economic arguments lead and they've already made up their minds on those issues. Economics is just too fundamentally intertwined with public policy to be left to pure economists. Almost (and that's just a hedge) everybody who puts forth economic opinions online, for example, has some sort of political axe to grind.
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Never trust a website just because it has a seal of approval from an organization like TRUSTe.

I routinely perform code and web app audits on companies that proudly bear this seal and find security flaws that will compromise users. The seal means nothing.
> Fiat

I love bitcoin. I'm a proponent, and a casual developer of related services. But there's no way I'd use it to store sizable assets, which should be obvious--volatility (particularly related to large sell orders) and the current state of exchanges, to say two?

I'm also as optimistic as anyone, but the reality is simply that it's more likely bitcoin will devalue before established governments and the IMF, despite their MANY glaring problems.

It's just not feasible as a primary means of asset storage or point-of-sale currency yet.
I use dnsmasq for this. In addition to the speedup from local DNS caching, you can optionally use wildcards to block domains instead of specifying each subdomain.

This will get two popular hosts blocking lists and convert them to dnsmasq.conf format:
https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsmasq-blacklist
Yeah, I was also thinking in create a non-react version, but a separate react version would still be needed since we are doing DOM manipulation.
... and allows the government to decide who qualifies as a "hacker". Don't see any due process problems here. Nope.
Its my understanding that this just adds another reason the Secretary of the Treasury can add someone to the SND list[1]. The ability to this already exists for other reasons, such as "terrorism" and drug trafficking. The executive order just added "Cyber" to that list.

[1]: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/P...
Why did you not use Deis? Seems tailor made for a migration like this!
As soon as a Republican is elected. The media will remember that Constitution thingee then.
Please provide a source for this completely hyperbolic statement.
Ask HN: Money as a motivation for keeping an app installed?
I am working on a start-up with a bunch of people and wanted feedback on some of the things.

Context: Indian Market

There seems to be no good platform which connects companies/startups to customers for surveys and feedback especially if the company is concerned about feedback from a certain section of users i.e. based on age or location.

My Questions:

1. Would you keep a simple app on your phone/tablet which pushes surveys and feedback to you. It would reward you with some nominal amount of money. ( what would be that amount for you ? )

2. I know these kind of money making apps go viral in their initial phase. What do you guys think of the long term sustainability of such an app.
> Do that as a habit, it's easy, and you've let it be known that the government isn't allowed these arbitrary violations of our rights.

You're kidding, right? The only thing that will happen if you send them an email or call, is that you'll get on their list and then they'll SPAM the shit out of you when it comes time for re-election.

Consider yourself lucky if there's an unsubscribe link.

> The challenge we all face is that we're too cowardly, generally, to stand up to tyrannical acts like this.

This has nothing to do with cowardice. The options for voicing our displeasure are quite limited and the few options there are happen to be ineffectual.

Sending them email, calling, protesting, etc. isn't going to do squat.

The only way to get them to behave is to make it look like a scandal. They don't like scandals. Scandals put their careers at risk.

E-Mail the New York Times instead. If the story starts playing in a negative light on every media outlet and doesn't die down after a few days, they'll start to get nervous and sweat a little.
bought a knock-off Lenovo S850p (which is decidedly not lenovo) off Aliexpress a few months back [1]. unit legitimately has 8-cores (Mediatek 6595 Processor), and 4GB of ram. Other than the abysmal viewing angle, it's an incredible piece of hardware, especially for $100.

I install Xiaomi's latest MIUI on them (and Play Store), and then resell them locally for $300 each. and people tell me they're stealing them from me at that price.

1. http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Original-lenovo-s850c-Max-4G-...
> it’s not possible to SSH into a server to debug a CPU or memory issue.

Not true. You can do all sorts of SSH-like things with 'heroku run bash'. Of course, your changes will be wiped when you end the session, but you can inspect things.
Maybe OSX developers should just stop asking people to pipe random scripts into their shell. This is a nice idea with a clever name, but it's kind of a false sense of security.
May you expound on this holistic hole-filling? Thanks!
> I'm all for capitalism

What does this have to do with capitalism? The word you're looking for is "stealing". That's the word we use when someone takes property from someone else without due process.

So let's stop calling it "asset forfeiture" and call it what it is. Theft.
Wasn't this board announced a while back?
I used to play a lot of relatively high-stakes poker. Some of the people I played against had a fair amount of cash (tens of thousands) on them on any given Friday or Saturday. It was pretty well known if you got robbed it would most likely be the cops who rob you.

So this isn't a new thing, it's just a little growth of an exceedingly poisonous tree.
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You believe a carefully selected assortment of facts plus commentary can't be hyperbolic as long as the facts themselves are true? Police have been corrupt as long as they have existed. We just hear about it more now, so they are forced to come up with legal loopholes to justify their misbehavior.
Along the lines of these anecdotes: many acquisitions are "small" (10-50M) and end up leaving founders with very little. Many of them make less than they would in the job market.

So it's not just employees who get screwed in these situations. Startups are a terrible way to get rich.
An acronym that is code word for ethnic, religious, tribal, and racial issues that are not to be discussed publicly and are censored by the ministry of information.

https://books.google.com/books?id=2oZQRuT78JIC&pg=PA80&lpg=P...
You do realize Eric Holder instituted a program back in January that limits forfeitures without a warrant or criminal charges - right?

"Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without warrants or criminal charges.

Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs."

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-sei...

Also in some states like Missouri, all of the money seized goes back to educational programs, not the cops for their toys as you state:

"In 1993, in response to some widely-publicized police abuses, the Missouri State Legislature passed a sweeping reform of the state's civil asset forfeiture laws. The new state law, one of the most stringent in the nation, required that a property owner be convicted of a felony in court before property related to that crime can be forfeited. What's more, the law required all proceeds from the forfeitures to go to a state education fund--not back to law enforcement. The reforms provided strong protection to innocent property owners, making it much harder to forfeit property under Missouri law than under federal law, and eliminated the police profit motive for making seizures"

source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/...

While I agree there are innocent people getting swept up by overzealous cops, the point of the program was to deny the criminals (mainly those in organized crimes at the time) proceeds from ill gotten gains to then give that money to the cops so they have more resources to go after other organized crime figures and drug dealers.

It was way out of control, but it looks like state and federal officials on both sides of the aisle agree the laws need to be changed and are already in the process of doing so.