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recurly.com is another subscription payment service.

I guess it depends on the support of your preferred merchant account/aquirer and fees.

Spreedly, Chargify and Recurly are from a feature comparison view 95% the same.

If ~100$ a month is too much for you at the moment, go with paypal but do not waste too much time with their API. I would try do switch as early as possible away from Paypal.

If you do ruby, using any of the three services mentioned above is a pleasure to use. Paypal is not.
Yeah but it's possible to look up things in userspace right? So just change poll() to assume that the pointer points to userspace. I don't see the need for copying.
Yeah, I was thinking that too. Maybe Apple should make a $50M lab for designing parts for phone testing. That would work!
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Really cool idea. I have some feedback after visiting your site. "wikipedia of sounds" is not at all how I would describe it. It's more like "twitter for sounds".

When I arrived at your site I was really quite confused as to what the hell soundkey did. The main part of the site shows a big list of social networks, and says "use soundkey here" ... Ok... but what exactly does soundkey do?

I would focus more on the aspect that you can record sounds and then link to them (or embed them). It's really that simple, but you've managed to overcomplicate it and it took me way longer than it should have to figure out the following: Soundkey lets me record a sound, then link to it.

My suggestion: put the record tool right smack in the middle of the front page. Make it the primary purpose of the site. That is, I should be able to go to "soundkey.com" and conveniently record and share a sound, rather than seeing a splash page. You don't visit bit.ly and see a whole page explaining the benefits of short links, and where you can use shorter links. You see a textbox that you can immediately use.

At any rate, this all might sound very critical, but I love your idea. Put that recording thing front and center, emphasize "record sounds and share them" [twitter for sounds], and your users will figure out the rest.
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My impression was that the home page lacked a unique value proposition; "X made easy" is rarely unique enough. The "on steroids" tagline is a step in the right direction but unfortunately too vague. Also, the screenshots seem to be switching too quickly (the interval). I also found the features/benefits portion below a little wordy.
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I think some of you might enjoy the "School Sucks Podcast" about compulsory schooling and its effects.
http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/
You can use this technique to mention people/companies/political parties on Twitter but who you don't want easily finding the tweet (e.g. the vile racists of the BиP ;-)).
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Correct. Subjectivity is key--and thus, my point was regarding your second statement. My point is, while you may have dropped out because you thought going to school is a pursuit of the asinine (or parts of it maybe?), some of us didn't see it that way.
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Ah, but there were many search engines touting themselves as better. Better won't cut it. Google was so much better that people were willing to switch from Yahoo and the others, and that's an empty pitch. You would have to back that up, and to back it up means already having achieved your goal. Of the two, in my opinion, pets.com had the better pitch.
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Reminds me of a blog post from J. Fried : http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1555-learning-from-failure-is...

I couldn't disagree more with what Fried has to say, which surprised me because it doesn't happen very often, this interview expresses why quite good.
"Feil i databasen" - that doesn't sound good and I can't see anything there.
Many women (including my wife) have to be taught how to breastfeed and for some or many it involves a lot of struggle to get right without pain or too much discomfort. From an evolutionary point of view why would the mechanism be so difficult to get right? Shouldn't it be easier and, well, natural? Are modern women somehow fighting against nature in the way they breastfeed? Have the "natural skills" been lost in the modern lifestyle?
I completely agree. This is exactly the area I'm interested in.

There needs to exist something in between high school and college. In other countries especially, a lot of people take a "gap-year" and travel and work elsewhere in the world. That's one option.

Some other possibilities are (I'm curious to hear what others think of these):

- Find a business/company that would hire you as an intern. Low pay is OK - the experience is what counts. It's OK if you don't know what industry to start in, doing any decently attractive job to you brings you one step closer to figuring it out. (We need to encourage adults/businesses to take in young adults and provide them with experience in different areas, basic mentoring and training).

- Attend some sort of career/passion finding school where the entire focus is on you and your development into a thinking being (this wouldn't be needed if public schools did a better job). I'm curious if places like this exist and how effective they are.

- Take a gap year or two and travel and work remotely in various places. Learn about the world and what exists in it. This will almost surely develop character faster than waiting tables in your hometown.

- Go to a community college or take random classes at any university that interest you until you develop some interest somewhere.

As you pointed out, a key factor in motivating someone to follow any logical path is for a person to understand that the paths exist and are as possible as any other, and perhaps even more lucrative. It should all be part of the initial education.
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Which is why I used the word "much" rather than "all". I may be a ninth grade dropout, but I have been a prolific and voracious consumer of all things educational, sourced ridiculously large amounts of recorded lecture content online on even larger amounts of subjects in general. I know there's a lot of good information and a lot of that information comes from educational institutions, at the same time I know there is much pointless rote droning by people far more interested in a by the book approach than one that works.
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your site seems to be down.. how consistently is there this strong of a correlation? have you simulated any trading based on your system?
I can spend 8 hours programming a computer with just 1 or two 20 minute brakes for eating or a mug refill, but i found it impossible to concentrate for a 40 minutes high-school chemistry class. Could it be that school is just BORING?

I can read a thick book on a hard subject(programming, philosophy, history), but could never finish a fucking chapter from a high-school text book, without falling asleep. Could it be that the textbooks are badly written?

I can spend days and weeks writing an essay on something that interests me, but i fucking hated writing 3 paragraph short essays in school. Could it be the topics, the format and especially the time constrain made me write badly?

If school taught me anything is that unless im working for myself on what i want, its better to just half ass everything, and not do your best, because all it takes is to not be your worst. It probably made me even less disciplined because my natural rebelliousness made me pride myself as an undisciplined misfit. I was proud of being lazy, stupid, stubborn, rebellious and all of that precisely because they wanted me to not be like that. Fuck school. It messed me up, and caused me great suffering with very little benefit, when at least in my case, there was a clearly better way of doing things.
madlibber.com is such an awesome idea. You need to take some time to populate (or copy) good mad libs and artificially vote them up so that it's not a ghost town when people arrive.

Here's my contribution: http://madlibber.com/madlibs/21

Update: I just created an account with inqueryapp -- I cannot add a category. The AJAX response is a 500, you might want to check that out. Up to that, the experience was rather enjoyable and I was really looking forward to creating a FAQ page using your service.
> Isn't that like arguing that you can pick up programming knowledge on internet discussion boards cheaper than a degree program?

Nah, it's more arguing that you'd be better off learning by contributing to Open Source - then you'd get lessons and contacts for free instead of paying a lot of money to get.

> The reasonable component in the price of higher education is about the quality of the interpretation and dialogue between yourself, the professor and the other students.

$150 per class is a lot man, you can't just brush that aside. You can live on $150 for a whole week if you're frugal and live with roommates. And that's just one class. A day with four classes = $600 you're now in debt. That's a month of rent and cooked food if you're willing to slum it. Work on OSS, freelance, connect with people from the community - I say a month's worth of "living time" is worth a hell of a lot more than four classes.
>But the trouble, the reality, is that most students can't do >what she suggests, using our minds for creativity, and not >rote work. There really is a difference in intelligence, and >the sad truth is that for most students school is exactly >right.

I disagree. I don't think we're that smart, and I don't (usually) think the rest of the world is that dumb. Besides, is memorizing soon-to-be-forgotten dates and listening to other students butcher Shakespeare in a uniform monotone exactly right for most students? Is doing the same math over and over again, boring those who get it and failing to bring understanding to those who don't, exactly right?

More people need to be able to find their way to meaningful work (not necessarily creative work.) I claim that the public school system hinders this process.

> The good news is that the really intelligent rise above it and succeed anyway.

Probably only if you circularly define the really intelligent as those who succeed. This definitely doesn't work if you use IQ.
Just a question of personal taste but I'd have the conditions as functions and have search return a list if I was using clojure...

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The cool thing being that both styles are possible in a lisp.
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The Sony "rootkit" wasn't actually a rootkit. It used a similar technique to some rootkits to 'hide' itself from the user/other software, after the user had knowingly installed it.

I have no idea about the AT&T 'forward all calls to the NSA', but I'd expect that would be logistically impossible.
The thing I found most interesting about this interview is just how badly Peter Norvig has failed to understand what Facebook is all about - I don't use Facebook so that friends can give me recommendations about what camera to buy - I use Facebook because knowing what my friend Sally got up to this weekend is far more interesting to me than what Britney Spears has been up to. I might be interesting in knowing what camera she used to take that brilliant photo of Jim under the fireworks, but that's about as close as it gets.

This has a huge implication for the value of Facebook - they know who I am, really. They know where I live, my age, my sex, and they can even tell what sort of activities I like. Google tries to guess this information from my page view habits, but they often get it wrong, big time. Here's an example - if I get a dating site ad on Facebook it correctly identifies me as a woman and throws up pictures of guys. If that ad is being served up by Google, I get identified as a man because of all the time I spend on tech sites, so the same ad has pictures of women in it. Facebook gives me ads about clothes, Google almost never does.
I suspect that Google's core business is at significant risk here. People are spending more and more time in the Facebook universe, those 'Like' buttons have popped up all over the Web, and that spells trouble for Google. It'll be interesting to see how they respond, but I for one won't be buying any more stock in Google for a while.
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> The Sony "rootkit" wasn't actually a rootkit. It used a similar technique to rootkits to 'hide' itself from the user/other software, after the user had knowingly installed it.

ho hum, that sounds like a rootkit definition to me. or what's your beloved corporation's definition of this?

> I have no idea about the AT&T 'forward all calls to the NSA', but I'd expect that would be logistically impossible.

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OK, so your belief is that any program, that 'hides' itself on a computer, is a rootkit?

Does the 'root' not give you a clue as to the primary requirement of a rootkit?

May as well end here I think.
Actually I think he's got a partial point.

I think there is a review of app quality (although you could dispute the criteria they use).

But security? It would be unfeasible to do a proper security audit of every app even if they did have access to the source code. And yet many people are convinced that there is some form of security guarantee.
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On my iPod touch I use mobileOrg (http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/) with Dropbox sync and it works very well.

And using emacs+org-mode on my Mac (or Windows or *nix) machine I have all my stuff in text files (with a backup on dropbox).

And org-mode can do a lot more:
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I don't have a problem so much with having myriad statistics and picking the right ones, but not knowing which stats to generate in the first place from my database of results.

For example, I assume that a dogs past performance must be some indicator of its chances in the next race, but how do I account for the chances of dogs who didn't complete their last race? What weighting is the last race worth, compared to the ones before (perhaps it had a bad race, but on the whole is running well).

I just don't know how to optimise for those sort of things. I have a rough idea that some combination of genetic programming and GA could help - it would be an interesting challenge to builds software that knew how to apply a selection of mathematical functions to my data, and then breed the results like a GA. But it's tricky, I'd have thought.

I've been treating the ML classifiers and learners as something of a black box, perhaps a more rigorous approach is required.
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I would actually be curious to see ads from any advertiser specifically targeting the hn community. I think it's a bad idea to run on the main site, but it would be neat to have an "ads" link at the top which goes to a page of ads, maybe tailored for the individual, as an hn-user.

If they did this, hn should probably just donate the revenue to charity (like AVC does); startup-outreach-in-public-schools would be a great charity, and ultimately beneficial to yc. (pay travel expenses to have founders of startups speak at 6-12th grade schools)
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If you assume the set-equivalence that "awesome people get on the same page quickly" implies that "people who get on the same page quickly are awesome", you then find, by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem, that "awesome" means rational.

The question is whether the assumption holds :)
I've always wondered this too. Most mammals seem to figure it out effortlessly.

Perhaps since the time we've had hands and been able to grind up food for babies, breast-feeding has been somewhat optional so there hasn't been much selection pressure on us for millions of years to keep breast feeding working well.

That's the only theory I've got.
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The idea is simple.

1) You create a feedback request which consists of a link, and some guidance as to the feedback you want (there should be guidelines: eg - it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to provide this feedback). (Note: After the site has a decent sized pool of feedback requests, it's probably a good idea to require that a user has given at least 1 feedback before being allowed to create a feedback request, otherwise people will just "create and wait")

2) You provide feedback to other posts. Your feedback is anonymous (though of course you can provide your identity within, if you want). Feedback is measured by number of words, sentences, or some other intelligent metric. All feedback is hidden.

3) You are notified when someone answers your feedback request. You only get what you give. You must have provided similar feedback (as per the aforementioned metric) to another website in order to view feedback for yours. For example, if you've submitted 3 high quality feedbacks, you can view up to 3 high qualify feedbacks on your post. A "credit" system would work.

I believe a lot of "Show HN" posts go unnoticed because there's really no incentive to answer them. This should eliminate the problem. The process is easy, painless, and instant... go around giving feedback, and in return you can view feedback people have given you. It's win-win.

I've already registered the domain name. But if you make it, I'll happily point the domain to your DNS server, so long as the site is operational, free, and gives me props for the idea. Or, you can find your own domain name and launch it there. I just want to see and use the service :)

Thanks.
I think most of the people on Hacker News would come down on the cheap and cheerful side, are there many mainframe users here? :)
Don't just downvote. Flag it please:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1574072
I'd love to hear more about this, what's the HN-sanctioned way to do PMs or non-public messaging? Throwaway email?
That's pretty sad.
Seems like I've crashed the publication database of the University of Oslo. "Feil i databasen" translates to "database error". Seems to be fixed now.
I've never understood why a startup would choose to grow to the size where it needed two layers of management, unless the individual product they were working on was really of a complexity too high for a small team to manage (like, say, a nuclear reactor.) For products that stay the same size, but gain new sub-products, cross-products, side-businesses, etc., why not just "undergo mitosis" and become two startup-sized companies, each handling a single facet of the business but sharing a treasury and building?
I'm pretty sure this could be implemented with JavaScript.
Imo, it is. Spotify has a very well-crafted queuing system.
One thing I was not aware of until we went to ante-natal classes was that the ability to breastfeed is triggered by a subconscious control in the brain.

I always ignorantly assumed that the suction when a baby latches on pulls the milk from the breast and I was genuinely astonished to learn that when the baby latches on it actually triggers the brain into thinking 'I now need to release the milk' and the act of releasing milk is a cognitive one and not a physical one.

I don't think most people realise this fact and unfortunately the majority of the focus around breastfeeding is on the pro's and cons as opposed to the correct techniques and mentality required to feed successfully.

I can understand completely why it would appear easier for most mammals compared to humans as most mammals aren't aware how difficult the process may potentially be for obvious reasons.
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A random sample of an entire field or industry should have an exponential distribution, yes. Journals, though, are quality-gated: there are supposed to be review processes in place so that only the interesting/important/hopefully-seminal stuff gets published. That they reflect the same exponential curve is a testament to the fact that the review processes don't work.
Do you mean go down in the sense that a bottle of coke is cheaper now than then after accounting for inflation or down as in an operation that costs £100 will be £50 in a decade?

Also, you could have the American system that only seems to go up in costs exponentially.
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Update: ... and now it works, finally :-)
Strong words coming from a man who is currently parading around British TV flogging cheap car insurance alongside an incredibly creepy puppet likeness of himself.
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