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Calling from the registered phone number and verifying address is all you need to get OnStar to unlock your car (I am not sure if its still the case now, but it was the case two years ago).

Same thing for username and password. That's all you need to log into their app. Not sure about failed attempts, but there are no other authentication methods.

OnStar by GM has many of these features (app, location, unlock, customer service representative can unlock etc.). I don't think there is a recorded hijack/hack there too.

Here's another one. They're pretty good at scale too: http://import.io

I will add to that - use FB ads just for retargeting, because it is relatively cheaper, and you know these are interested users. There is a cool YC startup https://www.perfectaudience.com/ that does just that.

I remember working for The Jerusalem Post - every time we were featured on Drudge Report we got a huge traffic spike.

It was so much that we actually had one/two day campaigns ready to launch when we were featured..

Saw it too late. Awesome!!

You cannot afford to worry about patents now. Just avoid them altogether.

Also, just don't look anything up, or send emails to your co-founder / or anyone else specifying any patents. Because if you will get sued, you will have to disclose those emails in discovery. And violating a patent knowingly is a whole different story than violating it unknowingly.

By default, these messages will not go to their inbox. It will go to the "other" box (aka spam :) so unless the user will go in and check it manually they will never see it (no notifications etc.)

Awesome!! Feature suggestion: keyword search on top of it. e.g. I can search "call" to get all the domains that has "call" in them in order of pronounceability.

driverbug.com

Thats Detroit proper (do not move to downtown Detroit or Flint :) but the cities around Detroit are good, and I don't know much about the schools there but it's worth looking into.

Oakland County has some of the richest cities in the US (a lot of old money) so you can easily find a nice city around Detroit that will be cheap and still very protected.

Probably Detroit or its peripheral cities (there are some nice ones, Birmingham, Royal Oak and more). Dan Gilbert (Quicken Loans) is trying to revive downtown and investing in new startups. Also it's only 45min away from Ann Arbor which is an awesome city.

You can rent an apartment for the cost of monthly parking in SF :)

This is one of the most fascinating HN posts I've read in a while.. nothing practical, just fascinating.

PG says somewhere that there is a direct correlation between the length of a comment to its quality.

This is the perfect example.

It looks like the main keyword is "Hangouts" Why won't you just change it to: Chill with me hangouts?

"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both." - Lao-Tzu

I've been using RoboForm, not well designed (it seems like they are improving though) but works great on both Mac and PC (sucks on iOS).

Agreed!

Do not look up patents as a strategy. Its a whole different lawsuit if you infringed intentionally (and you don't want to get there). If it ever gets to that, they can force you to disclose in discovery.

Just ignore patents. Patents are only good as their enforcer and if you did not know, it's much easier to work things out (give or take :)..

Once you grow, register your own stuff (you will have, trust me), every idea can have a lot variations of claims that were not claimed before. Get a good patent attorney and you'll be fine.

Agreed, and since the other comments are also right about the value of a degree. Tell them that if you won't get the salary you want you will go back to school. Its a win win for you (and you should follow through)..

Apple should integrate QR scanning capabilities in the native camera app.

I don't want to launch a special app to scan a code, I want to just pull out my phone, without unlocking it launch the camera and scan a QR.

If there was a way to switch the default camera on iDevices I am sure someone would've done it already..

Don't get the T-mobile $50 unlimited (I made that mistake when I moved here and I had to change my number), data is slow since the iPhone does not support their 4g or 3g networks. You will have data, but only on EDGE network which is painfully slow.

Get the ATT unlimited text&talk for $50 and buy a 1GB data plan for $25 (total $75/M, no contract). It would work perfectly on 3G.

In any case you will need to download the APN settings profile, so once you have the plan go on wifi to http://unlockit.co.nz/ and download the att profile.

Edit: "a year of OPT" (after graduation).

I know for a fact that this is not true for an MBA student. Maybe it only applies for a bachelors.

Email me if you need specifics.

Find small (3-4 people) companies that made MFI products, find their designers etc. and reach out. You'll make connections and you'll learn.

I found this company in a 1 second google search http://www.naxa.com/ find more and reach out..

This is awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0fP9zk7AM This guy foreclosed on BoA :)

Not true. Some colleges let you take full time CPT classes (3 credit) as part of their curriculum. However, if the total exceeds 1 year of full time work he will not be eligible for a year of CPT with no school after he graduates.

Where are you located?

Would work for two years, by then, with funding and you as a co-founder he should lose a controlling stake and your startup would be able to get him an h1b.

Have him apply to an MBA program that offers CPT courses and give him an "internship" position.

I agree - the question should be "What are some Internet/software startups that their technology and team flourished after being acquired?"

And you can find many examples for that.. Oingo/Applied Semantics turned into AdSense by Google would be a good example (and most of Google's successful products: DoubleClick, Analytics etc.)