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Show HN: Verelo website monitoring
We've been working on Verelo website monitoring for just over six months now. Our project was created out of frustrations with existing monitoring tools while working in the DevOps team at our past employer.

We consider ourselves different to what's out there today for a few reasons:

- Our main goal is to provide a monitoring service which can truly help you meet and prove your SLA. This means a few critical enhancements from what's out there today.

- We provide sub-minute checks. You can use us to check as regularly as every 5 seconds (for paid accounts, free beta accounts can only do 60 second checks).

- Notifications are not an "add-on service". They should be part of the core product offering, and not something that can "run out" because you have not pre-paid far enough (or forgotten to renew). We include notifications free, with the service paid or unpaid.

- We're currently working on providing a means of making your SLA known by the application. Put in basic terms, our reports should not require adjustment when you hand them up the chain of management or to a customer. This means we know about your maintenance and release periods, and adjust what we report based on the additional information you provide us.

We're allowing a limited number of signups per day right now, so don't delay! We will also be approving additional accounts throughout the days to come, so jump on over and signup for a beta account and we'll work to approve it for you as quickly as possible!

http://www.verelo.com
You can still do all of that. NetworkManager is far from the only way to get your box to connect to the internet.
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Steve Jobs cared about the experience you have when using his products. It has to be simple to use, reliable and look nice. Elegance
Walk. Now!

Your reputation isn't worth two week's salary.

And you will be the one thrown under the bus.
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Legally what you are saying could be right. But what if even this email was ignored as an unsolicited email?

Is it right thing to sue them because they have sent 2 emails for a service that was offered free? Definitely not.

The right thing to do would be to terminate the service for such a free user & get their attention.
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hrm. interesting advice. will definitely keep that in mind. added it into the our tracker icebox. will definitely talk about it with the team soon.
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Kind of ignores the work Google did in releasing Plus, which shows a lot of lessons from Buzz and Wave have been learnt. In particular, being very clear it's a "Field Test" (as they called it), inviting feedback on the site, and erring on the side of caution when it comes to privacy. (e.g. I think users were initially preventing from making something public that was shared to a limited audience...possibly overkill, but a good way to start things off). Whereas Wave was more or less designed as "Email is Now Dead, Get Over It" and introduced that way, Google have been very cautious and humble in their messaging around Plus.
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Is there any evidence for the bots theory besides the fact that some services provide a large increase in downloads without a corresponding large increase in app use? The article is pretty long, but that's the only piece of actual evidence I could find in it, as opposed to a whole bunch of hearsay and speculation.

Seems to me that bumping downloads but not usage could just as easy happen with pushy ads targeting users with a healthy "ooh shiny" instinct, especially for free (or freemium) apps, so this really does not seem convincing to me.
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This is looking like Nokia and the iPhone all over again.
After listening to Hypercritical's take [1], I have to agree with Gruber on this one as well. Some of the errors in this book aren't your run-of-the-mill misinterpretations, or lost in translation. They are glaring, fundamental errors regarding how Apple was run as a company, Steve Jobs himself and the people in his life.

When you write a book about a technology giant's CEO and you can't even get the name of the company right ("Apple Computers"), you have to wonder what else is wrong.

[1] http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42
I'm a bit younger (19, M, UK) and a lot of my facebook friends seem to use it. I think it appeals to a youngish demographic.
Nice idea and nice execution!

I would however work on your pitch since it was never clear from your description that it's actually synchronized with everyone else visiting the site.

I think you should market it more as a radio station for music videos with social features.

Good luck!
I'm not so sure. If I have 100 million and I'm suing a student and lose..my costs might be what $30,000? $50,000? and like the MPAA lawyer said, it might take 10 years.

I reminds me of the story from "a flash of genius". Yeah, he got a ton of money in the end, but he lost everything in his life that was important to him over the course of 10 years.
we view the sync experience as a collective experience where you can feel like you're watching/listening along with the rest of the world. and i feel that, that feeling of togetherness is a unique emotion that could be a huge differentiator.
p.s. we may be wrong on this.

and yes. i think i have an idea of how to skip and sync at the same time :) will definitely try to implement it.
Got the "This video is not available in your country". I guess there's no way to solve this since everyone is sync'd.
We should stop being cute. There's no need to create new authentication schemes. Just stick with username, password, email, what's wrong with that? It's worked for us for so many years. Pinterest really isn't creating a new login scheme though, but BagCheck's is really adding unnecessary confusion in the marketplace.
He doesn't have a problem with Gates's statement, he has a problem with Isaacson's lack of research. Gates didn't write the book, Isaacson did. This is just one example where Jobs says something true, Isaacson thinks he's lying and instead trusts someone else who are either lying, or don't know the truth.
right, so the email-only signup really just delays the step of creating a password. Is that better?

Would love to see usability commentary on these sites to see if/how they've decided to use one approach over another.
thanks Kiro! appreciate it
I disagree with Gruber's interpretation here. Apple wants to do everything well; excellent software is a by-product. But as a focus? Not really.

This is not to say Apple doesn't make good software, but there is very little in the actual output of the company that supports Gruber's notion.

Back in early iPhone days, one of the biggest complaints was a lack of multi-tasking in iOS -- you could only ever have one app running at a time. There were no push notifications, etc. The Apple explanation, per Jobs, was that they consciously chose to exclude that capability. A few versions later, voila -- iOS supports multi-tasking. This sort of cycle -- explain why a feature didn't exist due to some chosen policy/belieft, then include it in later revisions -- became a pattern for Apple.

Flip to the hardware side, and the story is different. When has Apple hardware, since Jobs return in the nineties, ever been a compromise? It hasn't, because Jobs focused on the hardware. While the software is important, it is really a means to an end. The hardware meets this condition too, but it is much higher in the pecking order of consideration than software.
Email deliverability isn't a guaranteed thing though. Usually that's fine, but if the argument is we're going to charge you because you didn't take action, wouldn't you need to prove it was either sent or received? Maybe I'm just really old school, but I'd think registered mail or something would be required in that case.
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I would think the ethical thing to do would be to inform the code's owner of this attempt, though you may wish to consult a lawyer on the best way to go about it.
Based on what I saw at University in the UK it goes something like this:

Plagiarism at UK universities (the good ones at least) is extremely frowned upon and the staff will happily fail you if you hand in identical coursework. In fact in many cases they will fail everyone involved without trying to figure out who did the original work.

However, in the CS dept you would get many bright students who were excellent academically but couldn't really program worth a crap.

You would also get other students who were actually decent programmers although many of them might not have been as strong academically (although many excelled at both).

This meant that a concept would be introduced in class and the bright students would easily understand the idea behind it and rush off to implement the coursework.
Of course since they couldn't program all that well they're code would be full of stuff like off-by-one errors and poor indentation/code design etc.

They would then enlist the help of other students who were good programmers who would be happy to help them (basically fix their code for them) and felt it was justified because the person seeking the help clearly understood the problem area but was just having "minor" problems with semantics etc and it was usually just a case of "oh, do your while loop like this" etc.

This meant that all students submitted different code thus no plagiarism, however it was entirely possible to pass the course without the ability to right a solid program.

I know people who graduated the course with strong programming skills but got mediocre results compared with the people who they helped.
yes there will be. :) we're figuring out a way to solve it as we speak.
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Doesn't something like the loser paying winner's cost already exist?

I've heard about it, but I don't know much about law. My lawyer once told me, here in my country, it was possible for the winner to ask the loser for compensation, but that had many "ifs". But I have no idea how it works in the US. Does it exists at all? Anyone with legal experience could shed a light?
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I agree with what your saying, but at the same time many such tests have been developed to work with biochemical grade components. Yes - they may test if X has worked, and that Y and Z are not present, but if there is no expectation whatsoever that A is present then it won't be something worth testing for normally, even if, in this rather specific example, there's more A than you can point a stick at.

Repeatability does not necessarily reflect functional correctness. Clearly this is a bigger issue than just DIYbio, but my point is simply that if you're working in a lab, under lab conditions, you can make a lot more guarantees regarding continuity of environment, materials, and methods than you can in your mum's spare room with over the counter laxative.

Equally, however, assuming "the traditional" is the only way to go is a dangerous precedent too. I'm just of the possibly naive opinion that it would be difficult to follow the scientific method to as rigorous a standard as is necessary, but perhaps that in itself will precipitate a new industry in low cost biotech equipment.
Couldn't the service allow you to check your private keys, rather than check a public key, without transmitting the actual key.

You know (pub,priv). They know either (pub,priv) or (pub).

Essentially, make use of your unique (probably!) ability to sign something with your private key.

There's the issue of traffic analysis which needs to be solved - they have to reveal to you whether the key is compromised, and there's only two possible answers, so they have to be careful not to reveal it to in the traffic metadata.
> Buzz was rolled out to all Gmail users without sufficient testing or input from regular people.

Excepting use of the word "sufficient", this strikes me as pure conjecture. Was Buzz a failure? Undoubtedly. But I would be literally shocked to find out that Google released it without extensive user research. It's not an exact science (or a science at all, really). When people try to make new things, they fail more than they succeed.
I can see that http://www.jotform.com/ is working fine.

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What about creating a black list for Internet pirates
Same idea (one-time URI) but with client-side encryption and sender's email notification (including IP & geolocation of receiver): https://whisperpassword.com/
It's not as much of a pain as you think. I just drop a couple of lines in a cron job and that gives me full disk, incremental, encrypted backups:

https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Bac...
OK - re-read my comment with the word 'unsolicited' removed.

It is still unreasonable to send out legal threats because you did not receive a response from an email. You don't know if the email was read, or if it was even delivered to the user's inbox (it could have been flagged as spam, for instance). Or, as it appears to be in this case, it could have a poorly worded and misleading subject, causing it to be ignored.

Furthermore, did you read the email that was actually ignored? It is linked in the article, and located here: https://gist.github.com/1833289

Note that it specifically says that "if you agree to this arrangement" to implement the link back. There is actually nothing in that email that would suggest that any action was required; the next step sans link back was simply for Gigya to then send a price quote.

While I am not suggesting that the alternatives offered are or are not fair or reasonable, the follow up email did its job in getting the service consumer's attention and more importantly action in regards to the matter.

Well, naturally. I was not arguing that being unreasonable was not effective in forcing action on someone's part. I would argue, however, that it is unethical and counterproductive.
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I have met a handful of noobs learning RoR and the portrait that you paint is really accurate. HTML Developers who don't quite have a handle on what is happening under the hood.

MS Access is easy.

thanks for the post
Announcement:

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> Cowboys can pay for their own poetry

No idea what you're talking about. I'm assuming an utterly insignificant amount of government money went to something that looks at least superficially wasteful and now the right is shrieking about it when they have better things to do.

Has the right done anything else since Obama came into office?
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Thanks for the data, that's very interesting. It's easy to see how the meaning changed as the old usage is not at all intuitive to the modern ear.

But as for 'raises the question' I'm sure it is fairly common, I get 23 m hits on nytimes.com. I have no idea where to find a count of usage like you did for 'begs the question'. I also don't really have a problem with using it in general. I just take it to mean bringing a question to someone's attention with no particular urgency (or lack thereof) attached.
It's better, in that you now at least know who to contact – someone who showed enough interest to provide an email address.
"Enter your name" reveals part of your user database to me?

I will never, ever, use your website Bagcheck.
Is there something like this that's just a web app? I want it on my destkop.
I absolutely agree; whatever algorithm (or lack of) that Apple uses is a far cry from the detail-oriented work they do on most other things.

Not only do my Genius recommendations rarely change, the hit rate of things I actually want to play that is recommended to me is something like 4%.

Google seems a bit better at this, but Apple is awful at this... like "Dear god just acquire some company that is recommending toothbrushes and adapt their algorithm" bad.

At least from a user perspective.
Better yet, they can just publish something encrypted with every compromised public key. Only people with the corresponding private keys can ascertain if they're compromised.
This is exactly what Wikipedia should be doing. They cannot know what the truth is, they can only provide a summary of existing sources.
Um, wouldn't that enable people to ruin people's lives at will? Just sue them over and over. Even if the claims have no merits, eventually they will be bankrupt.
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I wonder how the movie studio would have liked the publicity over ruining a film students life.
If this happened me, in 2012, I would go straight onto kickstarter to get donations for the legal fees and fight these dickheads tooth and nail.

You don't know what you will do until you're actually presented with the choice. It's easy to say such things when your only emotion is outrage, because you read about the story happening to someone else. It's not as easy when you also have abject fear of financial ruin.
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Also worth mentioning Rope for Python refactoring. Rope's extract method works rather well in Vim.
Really disturbing - but not unexpected. Give people the power to choose who they want to see naked and it's inevitable that some people will abuse this power, I think.
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I work with smalltalk and java/eclipse so what I say come from this background.
With statically typed languages and a IDE to aid, refactorings like rename, pull up, pull down, extract interface and such can be done without changing the code behaviour (if your code don't use reflection).This is a characteristic of statically typed languages, not IDEs, but IDEs can do it automatically.
You could do this refactorings without a IDE, but not with text replace. For example, if you need to change the name of a method, category(), and two unrelated classes implements it, your refactor using text replace will change the method signature for both classes. You need to check every place where the code will be changed, and if your codebase is too big with too many calls, this is nearly impossible. The IDE rename the method calls based on the varible type, without risks of errors, if the refactoring is not possible eclipse warns you.
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Totally agree; other inaccuracies are:

"However, the Linux incarnation of OSS was a particularly simplicistic one which only supported one sound channel at the same time and only very rudimentary mixing."

That's incorrect. The sound channel limitation depended on the hardware you had installed. So did the mixing capabilities. If the hardware supported it, OSS exposed the additional capabilities.

Those of us with SoundBlaster cards remember very well why we looked using them on Linux (because, unlike most cards, they supported multiple applications outputting audio simultaneously).
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1) Payment receipts/tax software
Here's a pain: If I own a small business, I need something where I can forward all my payment receipts (GitHub, Constant Contact, web hosting, etc), tag it, parse it and at the end of the month/year/tax season, see where my money went. Great for taxes too because I always end up having to go back and add it all up myself. I know Mint can do this but I don't need all that bank crawling nonsense, I just wanna forward receipts to an email address (maybe using a Google filter to automate the process), and be able to view the numbers in some concise dashboard. BTW, if someone knows of any solution out there I'm missing, let me know 'cause this is a pain of mine.

2) Image resizing as a service.
It can be a small pain to resize images using ImageMagick (installing it can be a headache), or any third party solutions. If the price is affordable, I wouldn't mind paying for image resizing as a service, image overlaying, or watermarking as a service. Maybe make it a few cent per API call.
I agree (I've hired for 200 slots).

Grade Point and school are not good indicators.

If you need people to follow directions = degree can be helpful

If you need someone to lead, look for out of the box thinkers and most will not have degrees.
IANAL, but when I served on a jury most (if not all) of the emails relating to the case were not admissible as evidence because there was no way to prove authenticity, delivery, etc.
> Please do not assume that your personal opinion is shared by everyone

Sorry if you thought I was doing that.

Maybe I should explain things better: the guy who wrote the post is indeed concerned with Linux on the desktop. I'm just suggesting that, whether the Linux desktop is good or bad, the desktop OS itself isn't particularly relevant to the state of computing right now and isn't worth being concerned with.
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