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What resources do you recommend for creating landing pages? 
I am about to begin the process of testing a product idea. Before I schedule any meetings with potential customers, I would like to set up a landing page.

I am considering http://unbounce.com or building my own landing page.

Are they any other services that could be helpful for setting up a landing page? What resources would you recommend to create a good landing page?

Thanks!

- Ernesto
Could some correlation be with average age of movie-goers?
Philosophy is Hard
Why do they assume the compensation you tell them is the true amount you received?

Lie.

Bang! they just lost the negotiating game.

There is no honor amongst theives, and I might be an idealist, but as long as money exists in the world, we're all thieves in our own small ways.
You seriously just made my day.
Good idea, I found my zip and started following it. I like the groupon integration.
All these academics that lay low then pop up with problems and call Deolalikar's contribution unfixable infuriate me.

They bring out the worst in the same way that bad QA employees do. They create no wealth and add little value. They slow down and confuse the process. But in the end they are still necessary. There is something to be said about how one reports such problems. Most here know a great QA person that reports relevant problems in a intelligent manner and is there to help find solutions. Versus the QA person that just cranks out an endless stream of wonky insane problems. All make you look bad and all are difficult to reproduce, understand or address.

It's my understanding that his approach is a radical and new way to attempt to solve the P!=NP problem. So it's no surprise that at first glance the vast majority of average math and computer scientists would think it was not a valid approach. And, again no surprise to me, that has ended up to be the case. I don't pretend to understand this flaw or Deolalikar's paper. But I do understand the type of person that posts comments like that...

It looks like the math community has settle on a wiki to unofficially collect news and information on the paper:

http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Deolalik...
Agreed. I think part of the venomous nature of the remark that the author is getting at is that it automatically assumes you've understood him completely: "I have looked on your works, and the only worthwhile conclusion is that your passions are stupid". Seeing something different and declaring "that's just stupid" feels like you've summed it all up and are ready to move on (and that anyone who disagrees should expect a similar appraisal).

My dad was always fond of saying "Knowing is a barrier which prevents learning". I'm sure he stole it from somewhere...
I ran out of games on my C+4, when I was six. My father helped me write a simple BASIC program, and I was hooked.
I have an iPhone and I think I know what the GP is saying (although I haven't tried Android). I have a 3G which is basically unusable for the web because it's so slow, and I haven't even put iOS 4 on it. Apart from that, however, Safari basically just has no features. The form filling is so broken that, when I type half my email address in and it offers to fill it out, I tap on it to dismiss it and it fills the box out twice, so my email looks like username@domusername@domain.commain.com.

Apart from that, the screen is too small to navigate well, so it ends up being tedious. 99% of my complaints, however, are due to the slow speed. It's just unusable, period.
It's fantastic, very fast and responsive, thin, and light. We bought ours through Amazon's wireless site and got a decent discount over Verizon's store. I'm not a big fan of the Sense UI, but it doesn't have any major flaws. At this time, I've rooted it using the Unrevoked method, but I'm waiting for a final release of the Android 2.2-based CyanogenMod 6 before trying anything more adventurous.
You don't have to jailbreak the Droid X to get tethering either however Verizon charges $20/mo for the feature.
Kinda makes me feel outdated already. I don't use any of those mentioned newfangled web 2.0 services. I guess I maybe know what half of those even are.
Unfortunately, the Droid X does not have Froyo yet, nor is the bootloader decrypted yet, so there's no way to get 2.2 on it as of right now. Hopefully it gets it soon, since the Droid 2 announced today does have it.
Are you're asking for a MVT testing platform, information on how to build a great landing page, or a simple host for the page?

For testing, I personally like Google Website Optimizer: http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer
Smart alarm clock lets you lie in depending on traffic conditions [2002]
I'm usually irked by socially-automatic remarks in general. I can't tell you how sick I am of someone at work answering "How are you?" with "Well, I'm here (frown/shrug)", or "It's Monday (frown/shrug)".
Just another crackpot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_M._Shelton
Software Engineer - Join Heyzap (YC 09). Gaming startup, just raised $3m
Don't know if this is specific to the Droid X. My Nexus One doesn't need rebooting ever. The last time I can remember rebooting it was when I forgot to charge it overnight and it died.
I normally don't vote up humor here because I like the snr, but this got me. Well played sir.
Extra vacation, sure. A promotion? That depends on what you're already doing, and when responsibilities a promotion carries. I've seen several instances where people got promoted but didn't receive an adequate enough raise. If you believe you deserve more pay for what you're doing, asking to do more to get a bit more money may mean you're still on the losing end of the deal.
Ok so you what if Verizon, AT&T, SPrint and TMobile all follow suit. They see WoW Verizon is making millions/billions a year via their deal with Skype. Let's go out and find a Skype competitor with big pockets; one that connects to Skype and Yahoo, MSN, etc.

With all four WISPs following the money train who is left. Some random joe who is going to start building their own national WISP that provides as solid coverage as the biggies?

THis may or may not happen but if set it stone it allows WISPs to do just that. Also If im trying to create the next Skype (a wireless IP service) the service created in my garage is not going to be as reliable and run as well as Skype runs on Verizon. If Im a consumer which one am I going to use and adopt?
The termination of benefits is a disincentive to take a new job? I would think the continuation of benefits would be a bigger disincentive to going out and finding a job.

Why not just eliminate unemployment benefits altogether? As a working American, why is it my responsibility to foot somebody else's bill while they search for a job they "like"?
Interesting, I also have iPhone 3G (with 4.1 beta installed) and I do browse web a lot. Mobile Safari was the first useable browser on mobile device, imho, and multitouch + zoom on tap makes it even better.
Android browser uses the same Webkit engine, hence my question, what's so different about browsing.
I think the move to async frameworks is primarily precipitated by the fact that a file handle (which is, essentially, what an async framework holds per connection) is substantially lighter weight than a thread. When you're talking about writing a server that can handle thousands of concurrent connections, threads just become computationally infeasible.
This is both true and irrelevant. It is completely possible to avoid blown highlights and noisy shadows with any point and shoot camera. At the size pictures are presented on dating sites, the optics and sensors of any point and shoot are also more than adequate.

More clearly: that the pictures taken with point-and-shoot cameras are crappy is not the fault of those cameras, and pictures taken at the same time by the same person with a different camera would likely also be crappy.
TMTC 31 - Time Management
I tried to recreate SimCity and ActRaiser in BASIC using ASCII graphics when I was a kid. My parents bought us a good computer, but would almost never buy us games. (I played these two games at a friend's house.)

Trying to recreate SimCity was the perfect thing for a 13 year old to do because it really gets your brain around modeling complex systems -- and sets the stage for OOP -- even when you fail miserably. :-)

Later my interest was rekindled in college when I tried to create a neural network in Java from scratch. Again -- failing miserably and enjoying every second of it.
LearnBoost Launches Online Grading Platform, Hits 1K Project Followers On GitHub
Yeah but come on, the decision-making is not "public". The average shareholder, if he even holds shares directly, really has no way to seriously influence corporate strategy other than to sell the stock. In any case, the whole premise of a democracy is that citizens are able to have equal or near-equal influence. That's why we have one person, one vote. In shareholder capitalism, the more you own, the more votes you have. Those two principles are directly in opposition, making the suggestion that it's a tossup whether corporate or government decisions are equally influenced by public interest categorically false.
> similar numbers looking only at people who uploaded all three types of photos

Um.. we’re talking about the skill of the photographer here, not the skill of the model.
No, No and No.

80% of my business is from Google, and 80% of my business runs on Google.

I can give up the U.S. dollar, airlines, and banking. But not Google.
> The Back button, it is wonderful. I said this before, and after nearly a month I am even more convinced, the lowly back button is the most significant architectural advantage for Android.

To me (a Droid user since day 1), the back button and the whole workflow of launching other apps from within an original app started off as something I liked, but it's kind of a strange concept. When it works well (open a browser from an app, press back, and you're back in the original app), it's really nice, but sometimes these nested apps get a bit confusing. For instance: open a link from a Twitter client, and it brings you to the browser. Hit home, and then open the browser. Personally, I would expect to go to the link the Twitter client sent you to. However, this is nowhere to be found, instead you're at the last page you used the browser directly for.

I've become used to this, but it really isn't that intuitive for new users. I've handed my phone to my mom, and she's definitely had issues with where the back button is taking her.

Also, I've noticed a few games that don't implement the back button, and pressing it, rather than doing what you'd expect (bringing you a pause screen, the game's menu, etc.), it dumps you on the home screen. Granted, this is the app developer's fault, but it's just another area where the back button does something strange.
I'm getting tired of people saying there is nothing to worry about here. The article mentions potential 3d video services as a possible business model on the Internet. 3d video requires 4x the frames as HD - you're going from 24 or 30 fps up to 120 fps. So, imagine Verizigoogle offers this fancy new 3d Youtube as a premium service, not subject to net neutrality at all, on it's own dedicated 100 megabit pipe.

You want to compete with that, but Verizigoogle only leaves 20 megabits for all other traffic. You're effectively shut down. The consumer has a 120 megabit pipe but 100 megabits is reserved for "premium content". This is exactly the opposite of net neutrality, yet it is exactly what Google and Verizon are proposing and expecting us all to swallow.
The claim is that the proof is unfixable. Proofs are either right or wrong. Good academics are supposed to checks proofs of their colleagues. There is no claim as to the merit of contributions made by Deolalikar. So, why exactly do these academics infuriate you?
I think an Android phone with similar specs will have the same speed (eg G1 or Magic), but modern iPhones & Android phones are much faster.
That's tantamount to saying "I jail-broke my iPhone quickly, so I could use one of the many apps on Cydia to tether my laptop via WiFi" ... except you don't need an app for that because tethering is built into iOS.

It's built into Froyo (Android 2.2) as well.

- every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone

Don't know if that's a phone-specific issue. Haven't had to reboot my Nexus One except for the Froyo update and instaling third-party ROMs.

- no cellular data while you are in a call

Limitation of the Verizon network. If the iPhone goes to Verizon it too will have that restriction.
Well, this is mathematics as a spectator sport, so you can't take it too seriously...

The objection does seem to be at the head of the objection section of the community wiki, though:

http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Deolalik...

So it seems this is the defender our star forward has to get past to hit the ultimate math-world goal. We can now root for our respective teams... Go defenders!

I'm rooting for defenders on the principle that the present proof doesn't seem illuminating. I'd prefer a proof that seemed to give insight into the nature of complexity itself. But it's still just a diversion...
Where have I claimed to have done any crypography at all???

auto_hash is just a plugin that wraps a call to ruby's Digest library in a convenient rails plugin, the entire "crypto" part are these two lines:

salt = ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(10)
Digest::SHA2.new.update(value + salt).to_s

It just happened what my research showed to be the most common hashing algorithm recommended and practiced. This is a step up from from clearance and devise which use SHA1 by default

Which is was I was absolutely baffled by comments such as "auto_hash is an inferior password hash" and "tells me that maybe you should be using someone else's password hashing library instead of reinventing your own"

Looks suspiciously like most of the criticism was from those who didn't give more than a glance to the plugin before criticizing it. Maybe the name auto_hash was confusing some people, thinking it was a hashing algorithm rather than just a silly little rails plugin.
It been a while since i played with Rails so was surprised to hear that Rails is now multithreaded. Has any one here deployed Rails in this configuration and is it stable?
Actually, the major contribution in Colin's scrypt work is to find primitives that don't admit as well to hardware acceleration; his hypothesis is that one of bcrypt's weaknesses is that even though it's very slow in software, it might be possible to massively accelerate it with FPGAs.
I liked Sam's Learning Perl in 21 days, but I was new to both Perl and programming.
"I pine for a Mini-USB conenction, but Micro-USB is much better than some properietary connector. (I like Mini better than Micro because the slightly larger form factor seems far more durable. Time will tell.) "

Actually the Micro USB was designed to be more durable than the Mini USB... up to 10,000 connect / disconnect cycles. Plus the wear parts in the Micro USB are in the cable rather than the device. Much cheaper to replace the cable.
It's not even all that rare to lack sidewalks within traditional city limits. The street where I grew up had sidewalks, but here is Street View of the street a block away, which does not: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

The area was built up in the 1920s, and apparently at the time it was left to the homeowners on each block whether they wanted to pay for sidewalk construction. Most blocks paid for it but the homeowners on this street did not.
Deal. Wonder if I can get my greencard on the basis of this business plan?
HP After Hurd: Just Break Up the Bloated Beast
"Tour" and "Pricing" links on the landing page lead to the default Rails 404 page. Consider putting some placeholder here, or something ala "[sign up for the beta], paid plans will be available soon." The tour page could just be a couple screenshots to start, just get rid of the 404.
The self-portrait in mirror says to me: I have no friends who have ever taken a picture of me, and I'm so embarrassed about this online dating thing / have so little self-esteem that I can't ask someone to take a couple pictures of me, or even go outside and use the delay feature of my camera to get a decent self-portrait. Is that a somewhat harsh assessment? Yeah, probably, but it's the 0.5s reaction, which is, for-better-or-worse, how a lot of the decision is made.

And, yes, the semi-professional glamour shots can be an issue too, but in my experience they are much rarer. And at least in that case the person has enough self-esteem to try to look good.
I'm scratching my head trying to understand this.

My experience with unemployment is that it pays 40% of what your average pay was over the last 6 months up to a certain maximum. That maximum is pretty low: last time I was unemployed, I think I got a total of about $12,000 in unemployment benefits over an 8-month period. Most people can't live on 40% of their income and for the select few who can, it's because 40% of their income would be far above the unemployment cap, so they wouldn't be able to do it either.

What makes you think people aren't taking jobs because they don't want unemployment to end?
Remember the hilarious Salli Saddle Chair ad that went viral? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HIt3D7Ivfc

I've been obsessed with finding one of these ever since, but they seem to start at $500 -- which is too much for a chair for me. If anyone can suggest an economical alternative, I'd love to hear it!
Directing flash directly at the subject produces usually unpleasant results. Try reflecting it via some surface (white roof/wall works well)
Facebook's Foursquare competitor is imminent
Sorry to hear you're having such a rough time, it's tough when the money dries up. Good luck in the future.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

http://37signals.com/svn/archives/sanaz_ahari_just_ship_it.p... (replace big company with (seemingly) unlimited budget).
Many of the people who've done best since Reagan have been rent seekers like dentists, doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives.

So far as business creators and owners are concerned, it's fair to say that the issue of who "created" the wealth of a company like WalMart is a political question. Certainly some of that wealth was created by Sam Walton, but certainly some was created by his workers. It's obviously wrong if Sam gets 0% of the value of WalMart and also wrong if he gets 100% of the value of Wal*Mart -- there's no objectively right answer, only the issue of what different people can "get".

In the current climate, I think wealth is more likely to "trickle up" than trickle down. If Joe Sixpack can afford some beer, I see how that helps the guys at the brewery have jobs and the owner of the brewery make a profit. Now, give the owner of a brewery some cash, and he ~might~ hire a worker, or he ~might~ buy a new Ferrari (creating jobs) or maybe he'll buy an old painting (bid up asset prices), buy real property (bid up asset prices, causing inflation) or buy stocks (bidding up asset prices.) This circle jerk might nominally transfer money to some other rich guy, but it doesn't create jobs, innovation or anything worthwhile.

And jeeze, don't get started on the "taxes discourage the rich from hiring new workers" -- because you can write off anything you pay workers as a business expense.

At the moment I'm thinking about what to do with a lifestyle business -- do I want to hire some new people? Personally, I see higher taxes on my income pushing me towards hiring somebody, growing equity, and pushing any possible taxes I might pay into the future.
An internet connection with horrible latency is like a car that won't drive up hills. I seriously couldn't work on a connection where my terminal sessions lag too far behind my typing.
Definitely. I agree that the SEO for games themselves is much harder, although I do know some companies doing quite well at it.

As you mention, there is opportunity for 3rd parties and this will increase as brands get further involved. I think it's all still new enough that the needs for (insert search term here) in the context of gaming have not yet been created, but I believe this will change over the next few years.
Notice the f-stop graph later on? There's part of your causation.
I am asking for information on how to build a great landing page.

If there are services like http://unbounce.com that would make it easier to build a landing page, I would like to know any recommendations.

Also, if you know a good place to find templates for landing pages, that would be helpful.

I am a developer, so I could implement & deploy a landing page on a server. But I just want to know whether I should use a template, hire unbounce or read more before I build it.

Thanks!
I'm sorry you've taken offense. I'm not writing well today.

Again, the core of your misunderstanding here is your belief that SHA256 is a security function. It isn't.

Also, you believe you're simply using SHA256. You're not. You're using SHA256(nonce, password), which is a construction, not an algorithm.

There's nothing wrong with constructions; every security protocol uses them. But you need to recognize the merits and problems with the construction you've ended up using. Your construction is terribly vulnerable to incremental brute force cracking. There are much better constructions that don't have this problem; scrypt and bcrypt are among them. There's also PBKDF2 and "stretched" SHA256.

But, and this will annoy you to hear: security-critical code isn't something you should "learn on the job". Take someone else's secure system (in Ruby, use ruby-bcrypt, which is excellent) and build on that instead.
Russ Cox: Construction and Maintenance of a Centralized Hash Table
Sensors, perhaps. Optics, not so much, when going for a shallow depth of field (one of the later graphs).
yes, you can do most things reasonably well on it. its fine for the average user, but power users will find issues (you'll probably lose to lag if you're playing SC2). it depends a lot on the network strength. all things that are either technical, or issues dependent upon the specific company, not the technology.
Yup, they have:

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/how-races-and-religions-ma...
I'm glad you like your phone, but of course your brand new Android phone surfs the web better than your old iPhone. It's got a faster CPU, more RAM, and a higher-resolution screen.

Web surfing is very similar among similarly-specced phones across all of the major OSes (it's mostly the same browser, after all).
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If someone seriously wants to only share their P!=NP proof privately, they need to put "not for wide circulation" as a watermark on every page.

But who know what the authors thinking was? Perhaps he hoped they'd share the paper only if they were sure it was right, perhaps he expected they wouldn't share it at all. Perhaps he expected they'd share it and he was already convinced the paper was correct. Perhaps he didn't care to what people outside the field thought...
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Very true...even Jamis recommends it over his own creation:

http://twitter.com/jamis/status/13735390978
It would be extremely unwise of HP to shut him down - regardless of whether his proof works out in the end, this is a significant piece of work contributed for the further understanding of hard math problems - which is what HP ideally wants to represent. To say no to endeavours like this would be to say that they have no soul and no will for the enhancement of human knowledge.
Pedantic note: Since 1973, Cheese Wiz or similar no longer requires the word "imitation" ..."Thanks to the FDA's willingness, post-1973, to let food makers freely alter the identity of "traditional foods that everyone knows" without having to call them imitations." Source: http://www.alternet.org/health/77330?page=entire