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Comment by jamesmoss | Hacker News Reader

I'd love to see a Kickstarter project for this so that author can be funded and complete the implementation.

From Kickstarter FAQ:

To be eligible to start a Kickstarter project, you need to satisfy the requirements of Amazon Payments:

  —You are 18 years of age or older.
  —You are a permanent US resident with a Social Security Number (or EIN).
  —You have a US address, US bank account, and US state-issued ID (driver’s license).
  —You have a major US credit or debit card.

So it's a big no-no for a lot of people who happen not to be residents of the US, like me.

http://www.quora.com/What-Kickstarter-alternatives-exist-for...

Not sure if any of these are worth looking into. You definitely lose out on the brand weight that comes with kickstarter.

I have no idea on the details; but is there a member of the PyPy project (or of the Hippy VM project) who does satisfy those requirements, and who you can arrange to proxy the funds through?

That sort of setup might be considered fraud by Kickstarter, or their financial services.

The "arrange" was meant to mean: arrange so that it is completely legal & not considered fraud (etc). I have literally no idea if this is possible though.

Since the results are so dramatic, either Facebook will continue to fund him, or they will have an internal team finish it (and probably release it as open-source like they did with their other PHP tools).

As an author I can say that either of this is unlikely to happen. Facebook invested a lot of time and effort in their homegrown solution and note that this one is incomplete.

It's absolutely not my call to say whether making hippy complete is easier than making hiphop fast. I can provide you estimates on the former, if requested, I cannot potentially provide estimates on the latter.

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