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Show HN: I just launched my side-project: Chatter Analytics
Well, that is just the post title on YC. My article still says $100,000 Revenues in <em>a</em> Month – Wow!!!
This looks great. How about an RSS feed?
I would disagree. Phishing spam exists in an effort to steal or otherwise harm the recipients who are tricked into responding. Prescription drug spam can tempt those who may have a moment of weakness into breaking the law, and they could possibly purchase counterfeit goods that can directly harm the person. Money is spent by companies who have to either self maintain or pay a service to maintain a spam filter. I occasionally miss important emails that are incorrectly filtered as spam, one was an offer for a side job that would have paid me real money.

Spam is harmful, plain and simple.
1 Gbps for $20 a Month?
Roy Adler made that same, which reminds me, I wonder if Erdos offered money for this one?
It's always a big red flashing warning sign to me when investors who've stood by a company from the beginning take a major cash-out _before_ an IPO. Nobody can argue they didn't know an IPO was coming soon.

If you don't believe you'll make more money from an IPO than a private investment, then what does that say about your faith in the company's future profitability?
There are some redraw issue on panning the map. It seems that GoogleMaps won't redraw unless the panning distance is large enough. I will try to smooth it in future release.
Windows had never made it into "essentially .NET". Longhorn was going to be the first one, but it was scraped and Vista is essentially Win32/Win64 APIs with pre-installed .NET framework. I doubt there's anything in Windows client that is written in .NET - server is a different story though.
Using the "Like" button on posts to drive web analytics
I would love to hear your thoughts on pricing, the homepage/demo, and the product in general!

I've linked to the blog post describing the launch. The homepage of the product is http://chatteranalytics.com (obviously)

Thanks!
No, this time is completely different.
I definitely dig on the core concept of making it easier to get content to mobile devices. However, having done this exact type of work for an agency in the past, more often than not content was shared between web and mobile platforms. Do you have a plan to support importing content from popular CMSes or some other way of sharing data between CMSes?
And those particles don't really behave like waves either. It's much stranger than that.

Basically, quantum mechanics throws out the notion of a path of movement. You can tell where something is, when you observe it, but you can't tell where it has been in between.
Spamming works and so AirBnB is here
How many of these mission critical business systems are written with WPF or Silverlight for the native front-end? I don't know the numbers, but my guess is that the bulk would still be Winforms.

I think a lot of people who develop desktop front ends for .NET (and want to develop on new projects) would have put effort into learning Silverlight and/or WPF and are afraid that the effort is going to be wasted, as they need to learn another technology.
The fun thing is that there WAS something from Microsoft themselves, called Volta. I've never heard anything about this project for 2-3 years already. RIP, I suppose.
The platforms that I, when doing .NET development, care about are:

-Windows
-Windows Phone
-Xbox 360 (for games)

And maybe Linux if I'm feeling really charitable and want to make my stuff Mono-compatible.

JavaScript is not a first-class language on at least two of those platforms. It's not a cross-platform application development language on three of them.
I believe you are correct. Moreover, since every rails tutorial know to man builds a twitter/microblogging/messaging clone, odds are likely that this will not be awarded simply because the application's technology is obvious at this point.

I may be too optimistic though.
Whereas Plivo's lowest layer is FreeSWITCH, a pretty solid base. I'm pretty stoked about this, if only the page would come up.
How do you measure the productivity of a math department?
Great App to See Installed Version of Apple's Safe Download Definitions File
I always wondered how Salesforce became so successful. Their saas is janky garbage. Their software is everywhere, but they excel at nothing.

Now I know their success is hype and creative accounting.
For completeness here are some additional links for the "similar" web application environments provided by other languages listed in the post title:

* WSGI (Python) - http://wsgi.org/wsgi/

* Rack (Ruby) - http://rack.rubyforge.org/

* Plack/PSGI (Perl) - http://plackperl.org/

* Ring (Clojure) - https://github.com/mmcgrana/ring

* WSAPI (Lua) - http://keplerproject.github.com/wsapi/
Interior design trends 2011
Interior design trends for 2011 DIY is a huge trend in 2011, which means that perfect perfection and touch not exactly need a professional and personal flair and homegrown imperfections will be more acceptable.
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Audio_Fingerprint

The Picard MP3 tagger uses this kind of thing (and MusicBrainz' database of tracks and audio fingerprints) to identify files.
Tropo is also open source. https://github.com/tropo
I dunno - .NET has long felt like that silver bullet to me. It's rare for me to enthuse over a programming language, but C# is fantastic and F# great in its own niche, and .NET tends to have all the bells, whistles, and gongs that I feel benefit me as a developer.
If you try the latest foreman it should be a lot better about killing things off now. See other comments in this thread about the SIGTERM-pause-SIGKILL approach.
Since HeatCanvas is pixel based, it costs time to render. However, the calculation and rendering are processed in background, which won't freeze UI. Both calculation and rendering are in O(n) to data input. And the function you choose for v=f(d) also affectes on performance.
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Don't forget Jack (Javascript) - http://jackjs.org/
People are only supposed to get rich after the IPO, and even then, only on paper, for the first few years.

Still, VCs are supposed to be grownups who know what they're doing, if they got screwed it's their own fault.
If the suspicion that it's a paid news http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/2010/12/groupon-hype-or-pai... they'll have to shut it down when others start following that strategy.
Netflix continued use of AWS would seem to argue against cloud addiction being an automatic path to scale fail.
"As I said above, I don’t have the luxury of ethics at this stage."

Ethics is not a luxury. Properly defined and applied, what is ethical is what is needed to survive as a human (which means going by reason), long term. This is totally at odds with what spammers do, which is to defraud people, violate contracts, etc. Running or using a bot network is trespass and theft. In this context, everyone, including the spammer, knows where the botnet came from.

Yes, this guy might get some money, for a while, just like any other common criminal can (while constantly worrying about getting caught, long after the crime was committed). But compare that pathetic psychological state and the small, ephemeral trickle of income to what someone doing honest work can earn (a successful startup, for example), and you will see that the immoral is the impractical.
instead of monolithic, multi-purpose software from giant companies

I'm not so sure: amazon.com seems to fit that description fairly well.
UML Out of the Box
Companies fail when they deviate from their core purpose.
Apple's purpose is to sell "walled garden" hardware. Taking over the music industry is too big a move to remain focused on selling their hardware.
Aspose Wins SD Times Top 100 Award for Third Consecutive Year
SD Times, the software development magazine, recognizes the innovation and leadership of companies, non-profit organizations, open source projects and other initiatives in their annual Top 100 awards. This year, Aspose was included in the Components category.

Aspose are file format experts. At Aspose you will find a wide variety of file management components. Supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash & Project files. Aspose produce components for .NET, Java and SharePoint as well as rendering extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services & JasperReports exporters. Aspose helps developers to become more productive & maximize their investments by delivering reliable solutions on time.
So impressive, congrats!
Margin-top works alright, but clutters the screen a bit: https://github.com/windsurfer/jquery-ui/blob/master/demos/ef...
Site seems down.

If getting HN'ed already kills a service like this, it's not very reliable. Not something I'd want to depend on for this kind of service.
The article doesn't mention this, but their patent application actually has already been allowed. It's just a matter of waiting for the USPTO to issue it.
How annoying are all these people just acting on grey areas in patents?? How are new start ups meant to thrive in this market when every two minutes someone is being sued for not having the appropriate license??

Have these people nothing better to do with their time? And moreover, who is allowing these stupid patents through that are so vague and apply to so many different sites?

I my opinion, if you file for a patent and don't use it in x amount of time then it should be revoked and allow someone else to use it. I don't know if this is already the case but all these patent trolls are doing my head in, GET A PROPER JOB!
Tropo provides phone numbers in 41 countries, including the Netherlands. We have a large number of Dutch customers. We also provide Dutch text to speech and speech recognition.
Thank you for adding. Anymore anyone?
To be clear, I was specifically arguing against the quoted statement, and the idea that because something is profitable, it must be valuable. That idea has implications far beyond spam. I would argue against spam, as well, but differently. S_A_P's response strikes me as a pretty good one.
That's true about EC2. However if you're using an E-commerce framework that is done well, for example a Java one that uses JDA/JDO for storage and abstracts all I/O into a datastore, you could very well use it on App Engine.

And also, App Engine gives you scale confidence and zero maintainability.
It's not a service -- it's open source software you download and run on your own servers. Their web site or ability to keep it online has nothing to do with the product.
And run a profiler, before you optimize.
I read "PHP: The Good Parts" on the train last night, and face-palmed the whole way - it's ALL written in an insecure style, except for the one chapter that's explicitly dedicated to security.
If everyone who invests in the company plays by these rules, I'm all for it. Unfortunately, the true narrative is: "Founders and employees are only supposed to get actually rich a few years after the IPO, however VCs, Investment Bankers, and their cozy clients can get stinking rich immediately."

If you are willing to make the VCs and other bankers wait a few years, I have no problem with founders and employees waiting a few years as well.
Do you have third party things installed like Resharper? My Visual Studio runs like a champ then again I don't install giant steaming piles of shit like Resharper, which has always struck me as something that was written by idiots or drunken monkeys. The fact that so many people install tons of add ins and extensions and then say 'Visual Studio perf sucks' baffles me. It is like installing a bunch of crap toolbars in IE and then saying 'IE perf sucks'.
That is quite a barrier to innovation. Labels still seem to think only the established players will create the next big thing.
Changing the root web service URL for OpenVBX requires that you change one line of code. No need to even fork it.
Very cool, and it seem simple enough for non-graphics guys (like me) to actually make work. Thanx!
Google Music doesn't currently let you stream music that you don't already own, and it's also not tied to any particular music store. I think they're referring to Google launching a legit streaming service together with the music labels in a few months.
In our cushy rich modern societies, there's a lot of room between survival and ethical behaviour.
I love this idea. Fantastic job. I'm going to give it a shot myself for an app I'm prototyping.
Rather than library knowledge, I submit it's basic algorithmic and data structure knowledge. Perhaps one could argue it's knowing how that algorithmic and data structure knowledge maps to actual libraries.

By the way, std::list::size() is defined to be O(1) (see http://www.kuzbass.ru:8086/docs/isocpp/lib-containers.html#l...). While it's possible, of course, to define a linked-list where the size operation is O(n), that's not an implementation of std::list. Hence, there was no difference when std::list::empty() was used - although I agree it's better to use it, since it's more meaningful.
The parent commenter uses "improved branch prediction, cache prefetching, better pipelining, and different cache sizes" as a "mumbo-jumbo that can mean something different." I'm in the business, so I can tell you, most of the improvements give you just some "overall speedup" so that you can happily buy today's processor running on 3 GHz and be glad it's faster than almost a decade old P4 running on the same 3 GHz. Add to that that now you have a multi-core CPU and that you have to "clear" the paths to the cores in order to prevent them from slowing down one another and also to compensate the bigger delay introduced by more modern RAM technologies, which trade bigger delay for the possibility to feed more cores.

Then, measure the algorithms that run on one core, anyway, on the P4 and the latest Core iX. Your slow languages won't be faster than your fast ones just because the quoted changes were introduced to the processors in between.
California privacy bill fails -- would have regulated social networks
so you have a before and after image, say a webpage mockup thats where the logo moved from top left to top right.

the blob finder finds the interesting pieces of each version, and the perceptual hash picks which blobs match each other, and the software can say with reasonable certainty that the top left part of the image was moved to top right.

don't eat my lunch :)
>Resharper is unusable.

That has been true in most every version of VS I have used...almost like Resharper itself sucks from a software engineering point...hmmmm

>Crashes every 30 mins or so. Using SP1.

Try taking off Resharper. I hate how Visual Studio is so unguarded against poorly written components / extensions, but it is. The single biggest point of slowness / crashes I have ever seen is in third party crap, they just figure you'll blame Visual Studio so they don't care.
Fantastic. This feature is killer. It's missing from instapaper and I really miss those images. Especially for tech articles.
Metro + Win 8
Sure,

Recently, we had a FB campaign doing pretty good. We set up a $1000 per day limit and were getting about 5,000 impressions. Since we were getting a really good click through rate on those ads, we doubled spending the following day. Our expectation was that we would get around 10,000 impressions. What happened though, is we still only got 5,000 impressions. Our campaign (unchanged) went from serving at $.20 to $.40 that day.

FB does an excellent job of putting your ads in front of the right people, but it does better with fine tuning as opposed to big changes at one time.
If the article is correct (future really bad, tricked public going to invest on day 1), wouldn't it make sense to invest and sell very soon?

Is something special about an IPO where you have to hold it for some time?
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Salió a la luz otra infidelidad del actor
They need to move on from low margin stuff like food and physical services.

* Copy AppSumo and sell software/webapp services.

* Try to work out deals on high value items like automobiles where there's lots of wiggle room in pricing.

* Talk to Apple. They have high demand and large margins.

Do anything to get rid of thousands of cold calling sales people.
Windows developers have a bad reputation for being fixated on one or two programming languages and tools at the expense of learning other platforms. Can't say I would feel sorry for them if any of this were to be true.

There's something to be said about breadth versus depth.
You are correct. To short equivalent of my option position, I will have to short 10,000 shares.
Maybe Twitter can convince Google to sue Kootol for infringing on their logo.

http://www.kootol.com/Images/Kootol_Logo.png
Pardon my ignorance but how often do insiders get their stakes cashed out after funding rounds like this, as opposed to using the money for operations or growing the business?

My lack of knowledge about corporate finance and the part of that blog post that refers to cashouts is making me see Groupon as more of a DrKoop.com or Webvan than it may be. But nevertheless I can't see how struturing a funding deal like that benefits anyone other than the insiders who got in early enough?
Yet another example of a thread where seeing votes would be useful...
This is really interesting, but I'm sad that they skip over the step "convert to grayscale." There's a ton of ways to convert an image to grayscale, each with their own pros and cons.

How do you weight each channel? Do you convert to HSL and just use L? Do you instead use Lab? HSV? Do you do a global or local algorithm? So many questions!
Please note that I did not disagree with your conclusion - I agree that it probably won't make a difference. If it makes you feel better, I'll say it's a very high value of probably. But I'm in the business of performing systems experiments. Removing as many variables as possible is just good experimental design. If you want to know what the performance will be like on modern machines, then it's best to run on modern machines.
Seems that many people have had success using a blog as a launching platform and then using print on demand or going straight to Kindle. That said, if you can create your own .mobi or PDF that would be even better.
It's a good idea in general for small values of x:

x years experience doesn't mean much if it's the same year x times

Probably true for x < 3 and often true for x < 7.

On the other hand, a person still using the same coding skills they had in 1981 probably writes damn tight efficient code...or is a God of COBOL .
I've had people tell me that they find VS2010 to be a lot faster than 2008 was, along with people who say it's much slower. For me it's about the same (but 2008 was awfully slow to begin with).
I agree - we tried salesforce at our company and you need a PhD to get anything custom done. Way too bloated for us and way too long of a training period - then add on top of that the custom functionality we needed and it got expensive VERY fast.
A comparison between companies and how they've dealt with bitch-slapping their bitches would be interesting.
http://lmatteis.github.com/apejs/
Might just be me, but the red links on the blog gave me a bit of a headache. Any possiblity you could change those to a more matte red color? I think matching the color of your logo would be a lot easier on the eyes.

As far as the homepage itself, I loved the simple layout. I can't comment on the demo section as I'm stuck with IE8 at work.
A business in Russia has a somewhat fixed number of people threatening it. And if it is able to make deals with them, it can function, sort of. Whereas there is no limit to the number of patent trolls that can threaten a software business, and no limit on how much they can demand or how much havoc they can wreak.
I think that a) people need to make time when you're hiring. Like 20% of their time. and b) firing quick.

Hiring isn't foolproof, and if it's a priority, then yes, it'll eat in people's time.
Insecurity in the Jungle (disk)
Im surprised that more people aren't talking about this. If I give you $130 and say "use this to grow the business" and you pocket $120 and put $10 in to the business, that's a pretty strong sign that you don't believe in the business. That's what Groupon did.
I'm also interested in this, but as an interviewee. Personally, I like in person interviews better than phone interviews, which I've found to be very formal and unpleasant.
Living Social is next lol!
If "survival" only means continued metabolism and respiration, yes.

But I submit that "survival" means more than just that. We're human beings, so for us, survival requires independent thought, art, science, honesty, self-esteem, productive work, and a whole lot more.
Related to the recent discussions of bitcoin over-saturation and where the voting comes from, this post was linked to in an article over on the bitcoin forums entitled "Get this deflation post onto the front page of HackerNews and reddit" made by one of the global moderators there.

https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11631.0
$4 billion in revenue would be much more impressive if it could scale efficiently and without a $430 million loss.
6 Popular Ideas that Fail
Wow, this is the first time since early 2000 I've seen the "greater fool theory" espoused without irony. Maybe it really is a bubble, now.
Don't forget Enterprisy. No one ever got fired for picking SalesForce.
Paul you're a genius.
Lacking detail, but an interesting piece nonetheless. The novelty has probably worn off, and if you can't get beyond things most people never buy, like spa treatments and luxury items, then it's going to be tough to keep the momentum going.
How Project Euler taught me how to code, and what that might mean for education
From Free Love to Free Wifi: Hackers are the New Hippies
No, not at all. On the contrary, modern compilers make use of these things when deciding how to optimize.
Start-up Team
Hey Hackers
I am looking for a Lead Developer who wants to build something Revolutionary & hopefully get Rich in the process.
Someone interested in becoming a Junior Partner in an Enterprise Level Web-Site.
This will be a Social Media Application sort of like Twitter, with some FaceBook & YouTube features thrown in. BUT WAIT!!!! READ ON..... This is NOT a Facebook Clone. If you take the time to look at it, you WILL SEE that this is an Original Idea with a completely different niche group than any other current Social Media Application, and it is a Large Niche group I might add; and my features, well I admit some of them are the “same ol' same ol” but my main Guns, well they are as New & Original as the site. Sound interesting?
I need someone passionate and committed to finding ways around problems. I'm looking for someone with extensive experience with either Python(preferred)or Ruby, a good knowledge of
Javascript, and a least a familiarity with the features of HTML5. The specific technology isn't that important, although understanding agile development practices and webapp scalability issues is essential to a complete solution.
The majority of your “Services” investment will be rewarded with company shares. I am also prepared to outsource some of the site development & features, help pay some expenses such as travel and modest living expenses, meaning I do not expect my developer to wear all the Company Hats, or be independently wealthy, but I do not want someone that is in it only for the money; I want someone who is interested in teaming in a web Start-Up & is willing to take some risks(as I am)if they are excited & passionate about an idea.
If you are interested in building something New & Exciting, let me shoot you out our company NDA and you can take a look at my Business Plan, PowerPoint, Specifications Document & complete Wire-Frames.
If this does NOT interest you, Keep Hacking On, I understand, No harm done, right?

Cheers,

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I meant to suggest the near opposite. That with pop/rock/rap, a 10s chunk is enough to get a signature for the wole piece. While for classical, the music changes enough that any 10s chunk may not respesent adequately a different 10s chunk.