skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $150k bit seems entirely unreasonable. Are they expecting immigrants to have funding before they launch their startup? Or are they only hoping to attract rich Indian and Chinese college students/grads riding on Daddy's money? Either approach seems naive if they truly want to build a vibrant startup culture in Canada.
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I sensed that “What you need, when you need it” was written somewhere on the front page. The Live Updates were first mistaken for ads. I like the idea though, as I have been looking for something like this.
I think it'd be more interesting to have a timelapse addon to something like OhLife, add a webcam image to each diary entry and reconstruct them into videos as time goes on. (Except OhLife is email based, so it doesn't really work that seamlessly, but...)
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Is a Hip Startup Name Important?
Are your apps mostly free or paid?
When I hear theft I think of guys in masks sneaking into someones home at night and depriving them of their belongings. Associating illegitimate use of software with theft is misleading. It's like telling kids that marijuana can kill them to dissuade them from using it. I'm not saying it isn't wrong... I'd just like to see a word that wasn't deliberately chosen for it's connotative baggage.
Theft = taking something that isn't yours, and yes you can take non-physical things.

If I copy your term paper and pass it in before you do, you still have your term paper right?

If you work and I don't pay you, you still have whatever you had before Right?
Don't bother, the main premise of Idiocracy is true, and we're doomed anyway, because it obeys exactly the same logic as you do.
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Seeking nosql advice. I'd like a system that allowed for standing queries instead of synchronous queries.

With mongo, if you want to know if something has changed, you send in a query.

I'd like to have a client subscribed to the db. Essentially, it's saying, "Whenever you get a dictionary that matches this query, send it through to me." It would hold this subscription over a standing socket connection.

Does anyone know of a system like this?
Always welcome more lolcats!
(Wish there were more lolcats on programming. :P)
I'm not convinced about the need for SendGrid. Learning to set up an email server isn't that hard in this day and age, and we seem to get very decent deliverability with our own SMTP server - and don't pay a penny for any emails sent.

I'm planning to build an email subscription feature for swombat.com soon, and was looking at options like SendGrid, but I just can't justify the cost. When you send people a sign-up confirmation email, they expect it right now. If it's not there in a couple of minutes, in my experience, even the least tech-savvy have learned that they need to check their spam folder.
I use a few in that list too, but in particular SendGrid and DropBox have really been life-savers (paid user of both).

They both solve a problem that is otherwise quite complicated and boring to solve, in a very simple, hassle-free way.
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"He had pancreatic cancer in 2003. If he still "had" it, wouldn't he be pretty dead?"

I wrote a long post and then deleted it.

I just don't think this is the place for speculation of any kind.

There are tons of stats and bits of info out there ( http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/type/pancreatic-cancer/ http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/types/pancreas/... ). It's a hugely sensitive area anyway (the realities are bleak, a friend of mine passed last winter only 3 weeks after diagnosis) and where it affects a man like Steve Jobs and we all have a huge lack of information... well I just don't think we should be wildly speculating. Whatever happens, happens... so it goes.
you get decent deliverability now - what are you going to do once that stops happening?

one of the points of SendGrid is that you pay them to worry about that, so you can concentrate on your core competency.
I don't think you're wrong — I just think that for $80, we get a lot of peace of mind once we were sending thousands of mails per day. Particularly because we're sending job notifications to translators too — so if they don't see them, they might not think to check spam.
I guess the point is that it is simply impossible to distinguish between a mediocre team and a brilliant one that has chosen to disguise its capabilities.
Besides the fact that it does look like stackexchange, you have to keep in mind that the criteria to start a new stackexchange are quite high in terms of users/questions/traffic. So OSQA can be a good alternative to keep stackexchanges (such as http://semanticoverflow.com which lacks enough users to be restarted as part of stackexchange.com) alive which where created at a time as they were still offering private/seperate installations, due to its import ability.
I think the better analogy would be: "Man, EMI (née SBK) has really done well for themselves by signing Vanilla Ice. I'm sure they'll continue to sign good acts in the future."

Making popular music is unpredictable, but if you're good enough at marketing, you'll make a lot of money when a hit comes your way. I'd guess that's the Cheezburger business plan.
Don't be needlessly pissy.

Computers can solve mathematical equations faster than humans, recall vast amounts of historical knowledge and information in fractions of a second and passably translate between many languages.

Are you saying that your definition of 'smart' wouldn't include many of the capabilities of Wolfram Alpha?
it's taken from way up north. Where there are actual crocs :)

No crocs in Brisbane. Every year is the same claims "I saw a croc!"
Apps as entertainment, for most of us probably the complete opposite of eating your own dog food.
As usual, the only people who make money on the gold rush are the shovel sellers
Hey I was there. Fantastic work mate. Good on you.
I was referring to going and harnessing the sun's output, which is, iirc, somewhere between 10^7 and 10^9 times bigger than what the Earth gets (can't be bothered to do the calculation to figure out exact order of magnitude).

If our hypothetical AI saturates insolation output and minimises waste (most of our 5% usage is utter waste from a computational point of view. We mostly spend our energy to produce poop and move physical stuff around pointlessly), it will already have a lot more energy to spend on computation than we do today, and then if it really needs more there's millions of times more energy available just one AU away, easily harvested if it's already figured out how to do so efficiently on Earth.

So my point is, there may be a Malthusian limit of sorts, but by the time we reach that, the bottom part of the S curve is so far behind that we can't even remember it anymore. It's as if the classical Malthusian limit was that Earth can "only" feed 10 million billion people.
Yeah, for what it's worth I tend to check out a few of their properties most days. I stopped with the lolcats when the ironic crowd were overrun with the 'oh-it's-a-cute-kittie' crowd, but I still check out Fail Blog, Ugliest Tattoos, and Failbook. I think you're right that focused segments is the key to the growth and success so far.

http://failblog.org/
http://ugliesttattoos.com/
http://failbook.com/
Not sure how many emails you send a day, but I signed up for sendgrid almost immediately after I learned it existed.

ISPs have lots of arbitrary policies. For periods of time my emails have been blocked from AOL and AT&T accounts, which make for a lot of headaches and support emails to deal with. (I'm just sending out forum registration, activation and thread subscription emails. no mass mailings.) For a while, we just told people to use non-AOL addresses.

Also, I haven't noticed a delay in email deliverability. It seems to deliver quickly.

Edit: If it matters, for reference, my forum sends out 6000-7000 emails a day.
Why is stuff that makes people laugh garbage?
Just imagine all the legal and administrative budget be put toward developing new products (or even adding to IBM's bottom line).
Sorry, posted before going to bed, and it looks like you killed my small VM! The site is back up now. Thanks for all of the comments!
Same with TV and other media. The point is that 90% is garbage for everyone -- but it's also a different 90% for everyone. So I don't think this argument matters. Witness that companies building something loved by more than 10% of people (Facebook, Apple, Google) also yield way higher valuations and returns.
Apple should go for solutions in the automotive realm, personal transportation and the like.
I was talking to the guys from mailgun.net recently, which provides a similar service to SendGrid, but also makes it easy to receive e-mail via webhooks. They told me a ton of interesting things about how this stuff actually works.

Getting high deliverability is actually incredibly complicated. You need a dedicated IP address to send mail from, which you need to be whitelisted by the big ESPs (E-mail Service Providers). To get it whitelisted, you need to "warm it up" before you start using it properly. You need to be very careful about setting the right headers. You need reverse DNS configured correctly, you need SPF and DomainKeys set up, you need to make sure the IP/domain you are sending from hasn't previously been used for spam... and even after all that, you probably need to set up a relationship with AOL/Gmail/Yahoo etc to make sure your stuff gets through. You also need to watch for their bounce / rate limit notifications and dial back your sending rates to match.

There's a whole lot more to it than just setting up an SMTP server.
You completely failed to understand my argument.

Exactly. Skulls. With connection to living and feeling flesh.

The human brains provide a minimum theoretical limit, that's all. The existence of the human brain proves categorically that it is physically possible to build a computing device that fits inside a skull and has the computational capabilities of a brain. It exists, therefore it can exist.

So, any argument that "it's impossible to build such a device" are refuted by our very existence.

We cannot even model the brain of the simplest worm

See Moore's law and the relationship between computational capacity and neural network modelling.
Kongregate was acquired for this amount (~$30MM); it's also built around leisure and time wasting, but compare their content offerings. One has games developed by over 10k developers, indy and professionals, while the other offers jpegs, crowd-sourced from 4chan and reddit.

Neither is garbage, but $30 mil for an image-board? and that's not even an acquisition but investment.

meh.
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Ensuring the code fits together is an activity that happens before you start coding. If a fellow programmer creates a function and then discusses with me how to integrate this, every single time, I'm not going to get any work done.

People can only work in groups when you divvy the work up between them, or if the group all focusses on one thing (one guy holds the fencepole up, the other whacks it with a hammer. One guy codes, the other guy checks the code. Etc).

The little full-on focus mode I get is spent on working out which code I need to put where. The remainder, simple code-monkey work, can be done in a normally focussed manner. Constant integration with everyone else's work destroys all focus.
Have you actually tried using ContentEditable in a production system? If so, I think you'd withdraw your comment.

It's hairball.
Does anyone recommend any SendGrid alternatives? They look good, I'm just wondering if anyone has had success with another provider also.
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I'll add to the list my favorite service I don't ever hear talked about. SpamStopsHere:

http://www.greenviewdata.com/spamstopshere/index.php

The killer feature for me is a very low false positive rate. Very few legitimate emails get blocked, based on the way they are filtered.
All of this apart from the relationships with ESPs is relatively easy to do if you're a competent sysadmin.

As far as the ESPs are concerned, all of them appear to accept our emails just fine, except for Hotmail. We've largely given up on Hotmail, but then everyone who uses hotmail seems to be aware that it marks everything as spam and so they check their spam box as often as their inbox, from the looks of it.

It's a nice convincing argument. It just hasn't borne out in practice for us. Email is critical to us, and it gets delivered just fine the vast majority of the time. We've had about 2 cases in 3 years where we needed to intervene manually to talk to some kind of ESP to get us unblocked, because they'd randomly decided to blacklist our IP. That's not worth $80/m.
"True, Jobs has wizened up since then"

Not sure if that was a fruedian typo, but it made me laugh.

wizened - shrivelled or wrinkled with age
wised - become aware of or informed about something
LOL. I guess we make shovels too though. So no biggie.
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Postmark App (http://postmarkapp.com) has worked well for me in terms of sending large quantities of emails in the past. Easy integration, good team, active development.
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> I even have a CD of Beethoven's Ninth which I've never actually listened to because the audio equipment I have can't do it justice.

Because not listening to it at all gives you more pleasure than listening to it with the best equipment you've got?

I think you should consider the possibility that you may be an audio geek after all.
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If lots of games used similar methodologies then people would slowly learn that "pirated game" == "buggy game". Wouldn't work unless lots of them did the same thing of course.
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For hi fi, there is Apple Lossless (the reason my music is not on my portable/iPod but on a MacMini with an external harddrive).

Still no CD player: you let iTunes rip the CD using Apple Lossless.

Besides, you assume mp3's are 128 Kbits. When you get to 320 Kbit mp3s, most hi fi geeks can't make out the difference in blind tests. (they can always if the test isn't blind and they know which source is which – just like wine taste experiments).
It's simple, but it invariably makes me smile whenever I go near it.

The custom favicon to match any generated 'smyface' is nice touch, too :o)
As a small amount of proof: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
How about cloud-based services?

Apple has indicated their interest in this direction by plunking down a gigantic data center in North Carolina. And they have demonstrated their skills, judgement, and foresight at creating hosted services and platforms with iTunes and the App Store(s).

Worlds to conquer need not be new hardware segments.

If you posit that mobile devices are the end of the line of hardware innovation, then just imagine all the new software and connected intelligence that can be created for these devices.

I, for one, would welcome Jobs' continued contributions to the future of these technological domains. I really don't see a drop-in replacement for him.
CouchDB has a changes API that can send notifications to a client of what has changed - you can restrict this to changes you are interested in by using filter functions, which are a bit like views.

See: http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/notifications.html

[NB I can't really compare this to any other NoSQL db - I've only used CouchDB, although in the past I have built various document oriented data stored, something that I've now stopped doing!].
I think we are exploring the wrong issue here. We shouldn't be looking for a non-crackable scheme, we should be striving to find a scheme to recognize customers who are willing to pay and reward them.
Unlike those things, there have been grandmas buying decorative cat plates for decades. Lolcats are just the same thing with an element of comedy.
Trouble with the mobile version is it doesn't support https for some reason and so can't be used safely on an untrusted network. The normal version supports https though...
We're asking for a username (for login) rather than your full name :-)
Why bother with stealth? My favourite approach is the Microsoft approach. It pops up, says "I'm cracked, click here", which takes the user to a web page that shows them all the benefits they'll reap if they get a legit version, just type your credit card number in this box and all is forgiven. It's hilariously easy to make your installation legal, which is the point... it's easier than pirating it, AND you get benefits.
One thing that we've learned the hard way: the more you wait before you add localization to your app, the harder it is. Ideally, localization should be thought of since day 0.

You don't need to have an actual translation, but at least you want to make sure that every string that gets added to your project is enclosed in a proper localization call. It should a strict policy in the dev team.

Once you've done that, it's quite easy to get your translation done by the community. Even Facebook does it.
> What worked for one of my projects was to allow multiple consecutive trials.

Awesome. I have always been annoyed at shareware who refused to run after a given time. I sometimes installed it just out of curiosity, then forgotten about it, then came back to it when I had a real need for it and a chance to really think whether to buy it or not and just then... it refused working.
Codezero was a result of dissatisfaction from earlier L4 kernels and we worked through the engineering details. It is a simpler kernel with a smaller API, linux virtualization interface and source code. We also have better ARM support including multicore and focus only on ARM and Linux. See here for some of the features: http://bit.ly/ifGXxN
The trouble with hotmail is they sometimes just blackhole what they classify to be spam, instead of filtering it into the Junk folder. It doesn't even bounce, it just disappears.
I also think it's a good idea to get two separate IPs. One for signup/notification emails, and a separate one for marketting. People will report marketting emails as spam, even if they've signed up for it.
> Exactly. Skulls. With connection to living and feeling flesh.

And, unless you claim there is something inherently magical and miraculous in that, it can be reproduced or abstracted.

> We cannot even model the brain of the simplest worm…

I don't believe that's true. I am quite sure we have some models of varying accuracy (as in "good enough") for those. Maybe we cannot run the most accurate ones (modeling the chemical processes within individual neurons) in real time, but, by 2012, we'll be able to run them twice as fast as we do now.
I wouldn't spend real effort keeping transcoding out of a pipeline. One codec end-to-end for all audiences is not the normal state of affairs but a convenient aberration. Sooner or later (I doubt it'll be more than a couple of years) somebody's going to achieve 95% of the quality with 50% of the power budget, or fully capitalize on the redundancy of 3D footage, or something like that.
I think we can probably agree that if the access is available but carefully guarded, a clever and patient black-hat could make use of their access to get the data they want; but the white-hat who just wants to do their job gets blocked. While it's not the only valid choice, it strikes me as reasonable to just grant access and impress upon everyone the incredible responsibility they now have not to do unethical things.
preloading those face images would greatly improve the experience.

(or use a css sprite)
> have added features that make their games more fun

[citation needed] because despite playing a bit of Mafia Wars and watching people play *Ville - FUN isn't a word that I associate with them. More like "chore".

And I agree with the premise in TFA. My RL friend Chad has 2461 friends, most of whom are his Mafia family. So anything I post on his wall, any photo of the two of us in which he is tagged, or any of my stuff marked "ok for friends of friends" leaks out into this network of people of which 13 are mutual (RL) friends.
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I used to use authsmtp.com before switching to SendGrid. They're okay, but SendGrid gave me better deliverability numbers and a lot more features.
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Thanks , the idea was quick information about the complete site. Will personalize once there are too many users.
The two I love most on this list are SendGrid and Dropbox. Both solve a real pain point in a simple way.
this is literally ridiculous. what's this websites asset, besides the domain name? there are thousands of other blogs with funny pictures. and anybody can set this up in 5min by themselves. we're gonna hit a wall soon and hard.
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"(or use a css sprite)"

You mean like this one... http://smyfaceimages.s3.amazonaws.com/moods_orange.png ?

(yes, it's a bit of a mammoth image, but that's animation for you...)
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Can you also get ~300 million pages views/month and 11.6 million uniques/month in 5 minutes?

http://www.quantcast.com/p-75z9nhQwNH4Ek#traffic
Any ideas on how much revenue/profit they make?
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Did you guys do the design as well?
Printers + Most sexy option made me think of a 3D store. Launch it on your ipad, pick a design, tailor it, have it printed on a good 3D printer and delivered at your home. Apple takes a cut (30-70 split of the margin that the developer set), but guarantees that the designs do not leak out.

Of course, this is 'some time' (20 years?) off, but I certainly would like to see such a store happen.
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borring? really. if your doing middle/back office yeah but front office work is anything but borring. infact out of the 20 years of coding, nothing compares to finance in the interesting/dynamic environment category.
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1- I mean, it looks like you don't verify that the phone number provided is really a number and it doesn't check the presence of @ (or use the usual regexp) in the email field.
Also, if it's publicly available on the web, i'll add some captcha or similar to it.

4- I'd try offering (or A/B testing it for some time) both the pay-per-use and monthly fee option(limited number of appointments/month) and decide which works better. Intuitively i agree that the users should prefer the pay per use option, but sometimes testing proves that our assumptions where wrong. But i understand that testing this, you'll need to eventually support both contract type even if you decide to keep only one...

5- Yep my fault, i just remembered the calendar interface and assumed it had customer facing pages too.