skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your pricing and plans need work. To my mind, there are roughly 4 kinds of people that would pay for your service. First is that lone amateur, maybe thinking about building something great, who you want to get in at the ground floor. Then there's the slightly more serious person or team running a startup website/blog, or something of that nature. Then there are the bigger companies who run a number of media properties, and finally, the SEO consultant/maven/spammer who is managing many sites at once.

This pricing doesn't seem attractive to anyone except the first group, who, incidentally, would probably sign up for only the free version. Even a small (serious) startup is going to be interested in more than 100 or even 500 keywords, and probably has more than one site (personal blogs, company blogs, product landing pages, other projects leading to the startup, etc.). And then when you talk about a bigger project running multiple websites or an SEO consultant/agency, the idea of paying per site & per month & being capped on keywords would scare them away.

I think you've sort of copied the standard SaaS pricing model without really considering your audience. Get "out of the building" and find out who your customer is (surely I'm off base with my 4 groups, its a blind shot). Then price according to what the market will bear.

My sense is that you'll want a free version, a version for people running a small company (a few sites, a bunch 'o keywords), and people running many media properties (many sites, an astronomical number of keywords).

The current caps on keywords make me think an engineer picked the limits, not someone who had done SEO before.

Edit: I realized I failed to mention I think this is a great service at first glance. Didn't mean to go instantly negative, just trying to give constructive feedback.
Which is at odds with the (correct) definition of MTTF as a rate-based calculation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_rate

The person that wrote the Wikipedia article you referenced read the same mythology you did; repeating it doesn't make it true. The plural of anecdote is not fact.

Think about it yourself for a moment. If two cars are traveling 50mph, does that make their average speed 25mph (50/2)? Applying a divisor to a failure rate based on the number of devices is nonsensical.
A lot of the successful companies I can think of were actually their founders' first-ever business attempt: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Yahoo, to pick some of the bigger ones. Of course, some luck was probably involved there that they managed to avoid a negative experience.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

Alternatively get rid of the competition so they can't surprise you by succeeding. If they succeed to much they might just turn down your offers to buy them later and suddenly you've got to play catch-up.
For those of you who know me, this is an issue close to my heart. I'll be brief.

By far, the single thing most budding "entrepreneurs" lack is encouragement. It is unfortunately that simple.

Most people will tell you it's networking, or having capital, or a business plan, or even luck. All of those things are Step 2. Step 1 is starting, it is the point most people don't get past.

Novels 3/4 done; "great idea for a movie" that never makes it to script; business idea that never makes it past the cocktail napkin.

And all of that, in my experience, is not fear of failure but fear of the unknown. It is identical to the "cold approach" in dating. You're not afraid she'll mace you, you're afraid she'll ask you to sit with her and then you won't have anything to sustain the conversation.

"Will the world discover I'm a fraud?"

There is so much self-doubt and a lack of self-confidence. There are a myriad of reasons, summarized under the umbrella "we were taught to pursue security, not happiness."

No amount of startup capital can fix this problem. You will make poor decisions, you will stop short, you will be tentative, you will be nervous with the money. The problem is you, not the system.

As time and generations pass, we don't learn to deal with failure, we are taught to avoid failure. Instead of sending the kids outside to play and teaching them how to be safe around sticks/bullies/heights, it's easier to leave them in the playroom.

The solution, therefore, is to fail. A lot. And as fast as possible, as young as possible. If you're <25 go hit on ten women a night, cold, and get shot down. Feel what it's like. It's not _so_ bad, is it? Better than wondering.

Forget about finishing your novel. Put up the first five chapters on a blog. Force yourself to read the comments.

Think you're a filmmaker? Put up ten photos-- still pics-- on Flickr. And invite the hate. See if you really have an eye for this. If you don't, now you are free to try something else.

Etc.

At best, they may love you and there's your encouragement. Or maybe someone sees your work and a collaboration is born.

At worst, they hate you, and you realize you're still ok, you didn't run uptown for heroin.

Either way, the failure will hold your hand and walk you to success.
I am willing to discuss Apple, but fanboyism is not really conductive to dialogues.
How? You're basically suggesting the old "country X will regulate what its citizens can or cannot do on the internet" idea, which fails because country X does not control the internet. Users will still leak information to sites that are not under the control of the US/EU/whoever, and those sites will accumulate these informational profiles.
Reminds me of the saying: the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
Even in those places where women outnumber men, men still outnumber desirable women, so hard work still pays off.

I suppose if women outnumbered men by four to one then men might be able to slack off... except such a society would almost certainly reinstitute polygamy, so men would have to work harder than ever to compete for quality and quantity of wives.
Awesome, awesome stuff. Definitely the inspiration for my first blog post. Coincidentally, I just wrote it yesterday :)

http://austinbrandt.posterous.com/hustlin-aint-easy-part-1
news.arc owned your single quote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
I really like Jira too, but I could still go on and on about things I find crappy about it. :)
Too narrow. I was referring to stories that crop up on social news sites over and over, not UNIX arcana.
Having the "Yes, send me product updates (big improvements coming) & marketing tips!" checkbox enabled by default gives off a bad smell. It is the little brother of e-commerce sites that sneak stuff into your cart when you aren't looking.

Let subscriptions be an active decision instead of an accident.
The new site is really great. Notifo was one of those services that launched with such a terrible look and feel, but I still thought the core idea they had was pretty solid. I figured they could always go back later on, clean things up and do quite well. I'm glad to see that they've been able to do just that. Really happy for them.

I'd love to see more and more service adoption now; hopefully the new site + new Mac client will help foster that.
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Or, Vimium, Shift + f
Right. And this gets at what I see as Kurzweil's flaw. The emulator you need for his argument to work is the physics engine, a specification of the cell, and the necessary imitation of the surrounding emvironment. This is far, far more information than GENOME. And we know that some of this complexity matters.

For instance http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7092/full/nature0... has an example of RNA-based inheritance that is not in the genome. Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting shows that what genes you have and what genes you express are two different stories entirely.

That said, the effort of transcribing the 50 MB of genomic information into the final program is simply not a problem. And if we wanted to transcribe a much larger genome, the additional effort for that is again bounded.

This is all, of course, ignoring the excellent point that one would never want to actually do this given how slow this emulator would have to be. If we create AI in the next few decades, I can guarantee that it won't be a physics emulation of a human brain.
The particular pictures in the article look fairly awful; you'll notice they all have a bunch of bright primary colours right next to each other. I can only think of one place you'd see that many bright colours close together nowadays, and that's on a clown outfit.

Go ahead, you try looking dignified when you're wearing that archer's pants.
The problem I have with google is their collection of data. The government needs to control this.

See when it comes to Facebook/twitter only what I WANT to become public, is public. I mean I only post on facebook/twitter what I want the world to see. Lets assume everything is public. While with google I am betting they can know where I live without any sort of geolocation gps or any other technology, because they will know what I search for, where I go (directions on google maps), when I go where I go, where I work, etc. I am betting they can recite my life better than I remember it.

That I have a problem with. And pretty much everything I do online feeds google. And this applies to many online companies, google just does it better.

The days of "lets not be evil, lets be awesome" are easily replaced by "lets make money!"
The internet's not a free pass, countries regulate a lot of things for people and companies within them.

Is it feasible for Google, Facebook or anyone else mining data at massive scale to operate outside the US/EU/a couple other countries? I doubt it. The infrastructure wouldn't even handle their websites, which would be a moot point since they wouldn't find 5 digits of the manpower they need lying around in whatever little country.
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Adams, as usual, doesn't let facts and his own hypocrisy get in the way of a catchy blog post.

His choosing an airline ticket took a long time precisely because he WASN'T satisfied with "less". If he really wanted less information or fewer options and choices, he could have just used Orbitz without checking JetBlue and the United site, Or he could have just picked a single carrier and taken whatever flight they had available. But he wanted more -- he wanted to know about every possible detail and every available carrier. If he wants to know who to blame for the long time it took him to pick his ticket, he need only look in the mirror.

Coincidentally, I used Orbitz for the first time just two days ago after an unpleasant experience with a human travel agent who I felt was trying to push me into options and prices I did not want. By comparison, Orbitz was much more efficient and offered a good balance between complexity and simplicity IMHO.
I still hold to the theory that Google didn't cancel the N1 because it wasn't selling well enough - rather they cancelled it because they worried it would sell too well. In other words, they only wanted to sell it as a flagship device and as insurance in case they couldn't get wide adoption of Android. It was a backup plan. Once they had a whole array of carriers on side they no longer saw it as in their interest to have a huge market of N1s out there (which they have to support). With so many carriers embracing Android, the danger for Google now is doing anything that interferes with that.
Heres the kicker... When google/yelp/etc. control information about people which becomes public, who holds google accountable? What if that information is modified for the gains of the company (or paid off for the gains of the person). He who has money now becomes literally he who controls information, which is just as bad as fascist and communist governments. Hell its scarier even.

I think he is not creepy, hes honest. What he stands for is horribly creepy.
A really good book on this subject is Swarm Intelligence by Russell Eberhart

http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Morgan-Kaufmann-Evolution...

(I'm not affiliated with the book in any way :)
Obviously it's creepy, but Schmidt is not the creep.
Just in case anyone did not know: 'V' was a lot easier to chisel than 'U' (why they are interchangeable)
He's especially creepy because he's dedicated himself to creating the technology that will force temporary identities.

That's it, all right.

It is one thing to recognize that, say, the extinction of the passenger pigeon is inevitable. It is quite another thing to deliberately manufacture a net and then use that net to catch the last known passenger pigeon, and then publicly cook it and eat it, all the while knowing exactly what you are doing. That would be... creepy.

The other obvious point -- or you'd think it would be obvious -- is that the fact that (e.g.) our websurfing behavior is continuously monitored, collated, and sold to the highest bidder without our specific knowledge is "inevitable" only because Google and similar businesses work to keep it that way. Google's business model is not some law of nature. Perhaps the company will discover this when some less-creepy startup company steals a significant share of their market. It could happen.
Claim: "logs everything you type"

Article: "The keyboard cache logs everything that you type in to learn autocorrect ... someone with know-how could recover months of typing in the order in which it was typed"

Claim: "takes pictures of you without you knowing it"

Article: "...the phone itself automatically shoots and stores hundreds of such images as people close out one application to use another."

Article: "Every time an iPhone user closes out of the built-in mapping application, the phone snaps a screenshot and stores it"
What huge company produces high-quality pork? Quality protein doesn't scale.
No such thing as bad press?
Red vs. Blue made $250k through Blip.tv
Didn't we simply copy what we thought was their fashion sense. If their statues or architecture came down to us in colour, we would have a preference for colourful statue and architecture. Just goes perhaps to show how much influence does culture have on ones perception of such things.
While with google I am betting they can know where I live without any sort of geolocation gps or any other technology, because they will know what I search for, where I go (directions on google maps), when I go where I go, where I work, etc. I am betting they can recite my life better than I remember it.

If you don't want 'em to know that kind of information, then don't give it to 'em. Don't use google for search, don't use google for maps, don't use google for mail.

Alternatively you can hide most of your identity with careful cookie management, or by using the "Incognito" feature in Chrome, which is made by... aw crap.

Personally I don't bother to hide my actions from google since I never tell them anything interesting enough to catch anyone's attention, but I could if I wanted to.
It is a reasonable assumption that the other genomes involved in human development are selected for as well, but don't drastically multiply the overall complexity of humans and especially not for the brain's design. Thus the issue is still how complex extra-genomic data is such as the preexisting cells which actuate DNA, which is what I addressed.
I did not mean actual uniform, I meant how we all today wear t-shirts and jeans and same coats and everything whether one is in Russia, or Japan, or even China I think, or of course Europe and America and Brazil. Its like, where has diversity gone in dress.
I don't understand. My vote is meaningless; I've never decided an election. If an election is close enough for one vote to make a difference, you can bet that it will go to the courts. So it sounds like what you're saying is that if I don't like the government, my options are expensive and/or ineffectual, whereas if I don't like Google, I can spend a fraction of a second switching to another search engine.

Of course it's getting harder to avoid Google! But it's still possible, if you feel that it's net beneficial. I think another way to phrase your argument is "By using my personal information to target ads and create more valuable search results, Google can subsidize some amazing products that I love. I would prefer to live in a reality in which such products exist, but can be paid for through some alternative means. Give me that reality, please." Or you mean "It's not worth it for me to use Google products, so I don't."

This isn't like participating in politics; you can actually make a difference. Is Google worth it?
>> I'd like to see startups have a full-time technically-literate support person in the team by default. Have them sit in on meetings and such, but no time on code, only customers.

+1 for that. Although I think having a full time support person might not be feasible for small startups, overall, I feel that customer support is grossly undervalued. Developers see tech support as beneath them. while management teams tend to view support as a cost overhead. Not only can great customer service lead to a extremely satisfied customer, it also helps close the feedback loop from actual customers back to development / product features.

and i say this based on my brief experience working in tech support.
Any idea what happens if they sell their shares and/or die? Do the shares revert to ordinary shares as soon as someone else gets 'em, or is it a special class of stock?
Hey Notifo,

FYI there is a bad link on http://notifo.com/user/setup in this paragraph.

Services and projects are continually being released for Notifo. Some services require you to visit their website and provide your username. Projects send notifications to your account only and require your API Secret found on the settings page.

http://notifo.com/settings should point to http://notifo.com/user/settings
yes, and it's funny how your statement is consistent with my assertion that backups existed in 86, and that backups are a good thing. i love "arguments on the Internet" sometimes! :)
Anyone know what the spike surrounding July 23 was? Was there some announcement for unemployment data and associated stock market jump then? It seems far above the normal unemployment claims over the last 2 years, and then dropped back down to normal.

Edit: answering my own question with the help of Google Custom Date Range search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=unemployment&tbs=cdr:1,cd...

The senate passed a law extending unemployment benefits on July 20, so I bet everybody affected for it saw the news story and searched to find out how the law affected them.
Incidentally, I think that the best gift you can give your child is a non-unique name. The ability to disappear into a crowd of identically-named folks when someone searches for your name is priceless.
funny but that sounds like a rite of passage when learning how to configure iptables :)
Pls don't be so sure when it some to TC. (Congrats on being linked by them though).
a man's ability to write a large check is directly proportional to his ability to navigate the court system in his favor.
Thanks! fixed and deployed to production.
Great point. I think this is a broader question - what are all the ways you can fund the business?
Can you have customers pay for development?
Can you file for a government grant?
*Can you take out a loan?

In many cases, one of these routes may be superior then raising external money to begin with...
I submitted this separately but it didn't go anywhere (no big surprise, it has a pretty narrow focus) but if you're interested in integrating Zencoder with a Rails app, the tutorial I published earlier today may be helpful:

http://factore.ca/on-the-floor/65-automatically-encode-video...
Ha, that was quick, you fixed it before I could enter my notifo user name in my hn profile.
Oh, how many of us (including myself) experienced such things, and yet we're unwilling to admit that there is something fundamentally wrong with tools that just do what we tell them to.
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There's such a thing as overly-expensive press. I hope that there's a sufficiently large fine levied against Zynga for this ad campaign to discourage others from following suit.

There's enough advertising in the world already. I don't want it showing up illegally on walls and pavement as well.
It is interesting how the stock markets have done compared to the unemployment index. I wonder what that indicates?
"(7) Dare to sell what you've got to those customers that want what you have instead of selling what the customer wants but what you haven't got yet and may not be able to deliver in time. Take the feedback you receive and use it to improve the product but unless something is really trivial it is better to sell what you have than to make some promise you can not keep. "

Oh man... this is the hardest and most important lesson ever, I think. The allure of "sell it first, then build it" is very strong, but in the long term, that way lies madness.
Don't you think this is kind of a ridiculous question?

"How does a relationship affect my business?"

As much as you let it. Each relationship is different. Different people. You are basically asking "How well am I doing?".
All of the examples I tried worked wonderfully in 3.6.8.
Thanks for checking it out and also for your great feedback. I'm sure I will be able to arrive at the ideal pricing model for customers and myself over time, and this gives me some good things to think about.

For the record, I've actually spent quite a bit of time outside the building. :) I've worked on large SEO projects both as a consultant and as an engineer for dozens of companies and have spoken with hundreds more in the process of building Ginzametrics. I'll continue to pay attention to feedback like yours and others as I grow.
cynicism these days seems to not be recognized.
A CLI bug tracker client is attractive if the data model is super simple and/or pure text. Once you need or want to start attaching files, especially screenshots or other media, to each issue, then the CLI doesn't fit as well. Very appealing idea, however.
Ask HN: Android app made 1st on front page of reddit.
How much do you think he made today? I bought the app.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/d3f85/the_most_sadistic_thing_ever_invented_but_i/
I've started using CSF instead of iptables since it's default adds the IP you installed it from to it's whitelist. Along with it's "testing" mode which clears the iptables rules by default every 5 minutes, it's pretty hard to lock yourself out with it.
In the same spirit, I once removed a chroot tree, forgetting I bind mounted /etc into it.

It took me half a day to recover from that.

Another one, even more stupid, is to recover a "backup" of /var, done without the proper rights to it. I noticed the problem after a lot of weirds errors cropping in. This one I did not recover - after a few hours, I ended up deciding that reinstalling linux on my machine would be faster and more reliable.
I agree from what I have heard from people working with similar YT stars. What is surprising is the incredible amount of cross promotion done between seemingly unaffiliated stars in an effort to gain subscribers/viewers. From the rough description I heard about, it seemed somewhat scammy/gross to me but I don't know enough to make a definitive judgment. Do you have any thoughts or information about that?
Funny use of a like button for a game
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Did the startup scene have a web presence where people used their real names? It does now, there are a lot of CETFOs on Quora using their real names, answering questions about startups. Lets see where that leads.
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A friend and I have a WIP lisp compiler targeting JS that uses this http://github.com/alandipert/pantless
But we would all prefer points between Y and Z to X, so why don't we enact policies that achieve that?

It seems to me that that becomes a whole lot more difficult in a society with more than two members.
Portal as a required college text
Or, in Tekken 4, A + A + L1 + Right + Right + Start + Select