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Ask HN: Pet lovers review my startup
Spotwag launched publicly two weeks ago with v1. It is still very much a minimum viable product - functional, but with lots still on our plate. It is bootstrapped by my cofounder and I with the current design based on Twitter bootstrap, and Kim (my cofounder) handling development.

Coordinate help for your pet from people you already trust, quickly and easily with Spotwag. And never again feel pressure to leave your pet with a stranger. Spotwag makes asking for help, or offering it easy for everyone.

Spotwag was built using Facebook Connect, because we wanted to start with each pet owner's core group of trusted friends, and Facebook seemed a natural place to start. We collect very limited data from users, but use Facebook to make inviting friends easiest. We've already started to receive feedback on integrating signup via email, and it is something we plan to integrate in the near future.

We envision this being a single online source to manage your pet's needs, whether with friends or professionals. We started with this problem of finding help for your pet while you are away, because it's common to every pet owner, and the needs are real. It began as an "Airbnb for dogs," but after talking to a LOT of pet owners, we settled on this as a starting point. We learned that pet owners prefer to entrust their pets to friends, family and those they already know and trust, rather than strangers, whenever possible.

And we heard over and over from non-pet-owners that they really want to watch other's pets - many cannot have a pet of their own for whatever reason, and this gives them a chance to enjoy pet ownership without the same commitment. We exist to make those connections happen, and to remove the 'awkwardness' in asking for help, because as dog owners we know that it is NEVER easy or enjoyable to ask your friends for help with your pet.

We've already had several people make successful requests on Spotwag in preparation for SXSW next week. http://spotwag.com
I've used it a few times and it works well, it certainly didn't hurt. It's interesting to look at the stats they give and see how much bad traffic is being blocked. They definitely curbed the amount of comment spam on a test Wordpress blog I was using for awhile.

I wish I had more exact, measurable, information to provide but I used it only out of curiosity.
One would hope that in light of great compiler tools such as LLVM, different parser generators/toolkits and extensible IDE's we wouldn't be stuck writing code in a languages designed in the early 80's, manually separating definitions in to headers and using preprocessor to "include" files. Every time I see the accretion of junk/legacy design decisions in software get entrenched further (eg. Microsoft pushing for a return to C++) I die a little.
Because at first glance it will pass for a macbook air.

I don't say that with any bitterness. I have and love my air, but as I find myself using less and less of OS X, and really just living in iTerm and my browser, the real appeal of the Air to me now is the hardware. If the Ultrabook stands up to the Air in quality, I'm seriously considering the Ultrabook + Ubuntu (double-u?) for my next notebook. Also assuming Ubuntu runs well on it, which my guess is if it doesn't now, it will soon.
To get to the spec, click "Buy Xps 13", "Customize and buy", go to "Review and checkout" tab, scroll down - took me 5 minutes of clicking around to get to it. wtf dell.
Haha, I know you don't like coffeescript, so I wrote clone client library for demo in pure JS - https://github.com/progrium/nullmq/blob/master/demos/presenc...
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Very impressive! A few comments and first impressions:

Wires seem to remain in the same place as components move. I'd love to see wires that connect two components and whose ends follow those components as they move.

Typo on several elements: s/contolled/controlled/

The zoom widget doesn't seem to let me set a precise zoom level. If I zoom around a bit, then type "100%" and hit enter, I end up with 96%. Also, you might consider providing some standard zoom shortcuts, such as "100%" and "fit to circuit".

I'd really like to have keyboard shortcuts to quickly switch between components; perhaps some kind of search-based mechanism, where I can hit a key to bring up a search box, type a few letters to get to a component, hit enter, and have that component selected.

How can I "export" a schematic to some useful standard format (other than a read-only PDF)? (In particular, a netlist, or something usable as an initial input to a PCB tool?)

I'd love to have the ability to save a circuit with named nodes as a "part", which I can then use as an IC-like component in other circuits, hiding the details of that circuit normally but drilling down into it if desired. Ideally, this would support versions of individual parts, making it easy to upgrade a circuit using a previous version of a part to a new version. Also, ideally the part could have parameters of its own, and use those parameters to assign parameters to its own components.

Any plans for collaborative editing and "team" repositories?

Do you have any plans to support more of the EDA workflow? For instance, a decent PCB layout tool? This seems like a great opportunity for a future business model: find one or more good board fabrication companies willing to do small-run work, and work with them to provide an easy way to go from CircuitLab to a built board.
For me, there are combinations of the location and size of the "Fn", "Enter", "Backspace", "Backslash" and "Right Shift" buttons that could make a keyboard a deal-breaker. E.g., my 9" eee has the shift right of the "up-arrow", and this is a poor design choice that I would hate if I used it day-in-day-out for real work. (My eee is a consumption device, so that's sort of ok)
Not that it matters much, but ZeroMQ is written in C++, while exposing "C" only interface, and then additionally there is a C++ binding to this "C" interface, which IMHO is very robust design (C for API is much easier to access from other langs).
I think it's even more frightening than that. As a sociopolitical program, mass-diagnosing and mass-medicating nonconformists to tone down their nonconformity is one of the basic premises of Brave New World.

The ability to delegitimize an individual's arguments by labeling his point of view a "disease" is a power accorded only to mental health professionals, and the closest historical analogs are the labels of "anti-American", "counter-revolutionary" and "heretic" (and now, maybe, "terrorist"). What these labels have in common is that they not only confer on the authorities the public's blessing to treat or re-educate the non-conformist, they also carry a freight of social stigma and fear of open association that's sufficient to scare other people away from openly sympathizing with the now-isolated individual - making it impossible to determine from that point forward whether the charges were accurate, or if the individual was targeted solely for being anti-authoritarian. In fact, making an example of one non-conformist pays dividends for the authorities running the inquisition, by cowing the rest of the population further into submission, while forcing the most vehement of the other non-conformists to expose themselves in defense of whatever is said to be "indefensible". As counter-revolutionary thought was considered contagious under Mao and Stalin, and as people were terrified to even ask where their relatives had disappeared under Pinochet, so defending a non-compliant individual becomes socially unacceptable once the labels and drugs have been applied. There's no reason to think this principle doesn't operate at the level of psychiatrist and patient, since that relationship (other than the individual's relationship to mass culture through television) is exactly where most people with the financial means to effectively contest authority are actually presented with ideas of what constitutes "healthy" conformist and consumerist behavior.
Note to sibling comment[0] by coldarchon: It looks like your account is dead, possibly due to this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145705

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Yes. The fact that people "celebrate" a funding event is really bass-ackwards when you think about it.

It says that the company couldn't figure out how to grow without bringing in a bunch of financiers, who have a low hit rate (3 go north, 3 go south, 4 turn into the living dead), who provided negative 10 yr returns even with Google in the portfolio, and who take 2-3% + 20% of exit from their own investors.

Definitely an excuse to drink, but not for reasons of celebration.
A 13" laptop a little bit bigger than the 11" Macbook Air, a little worse screen resolution than the 11" Macbook Air, at about the same price point as the 11" Macbook Air.
I've used it on a few small websites.

I think it's a great service if you don't want to spend money on a cdn.
it just looks like js generated with coffeescript.. not really the same thing
Here's our internal data on this. Based on page view data (values below are page views) and using the statistics from Google DoubleClick Ad Planner (http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/) we have the following for the last 30 days:

Wikipedia.org 6,000,000,000
Twitter.com 5,900,000,000
Amazon.com 4,900,000,000
Aol.com 5,400,000,000
Zynga.com 460,000,000
Total 22,660,000,000

Then looking at our own internal network for the last 30 days we see:

CloudFlare 27,066,719,054	﻿	﻿	﻿	﻿	﻿	﻿	﻿

So we did about 4.4B more page views than the combined sites above which would actually leave us room to add LinkedIn﻿ and Flickr to the list.
If you are an xfit'er you have probably done the "death by" burpees? "death by" anything is horrible, but burpee's are particularly horrible.

Min 1: 1 burpee... yep, then stand around for 54 seconds.
Min 2: 2 burpees.
...
Min 14: 14 burpees, you probably only have 8 seconds of rest.
Min 17: 17 burpees, no time to rest, keep going!
Min 18: 18 burpees, but you never rested after the previous 17 so you just keep going!

And so on and so on. You can do it with pushups, squats, etc. It is a great and super-painful way to break a plateau.

Used to do something similar in weightlifting if we got stuck too long at a certain max of some kind. You start at the lightest weight possible and do 10 reps and move up 5 or 10 lbs each set with no rest between them.

You lift each set to failure (easier on a machine so you aren't dropping weight on your chest or head) and as soon as you fail (no more than 10 reps) you or your partner adds the weight for the next set.

When you can't even do a single rep then you stop and start taking weight off and coming back down to 0 again (or wherever you stared, e.g. just the 45lbs bench bar or something).

You'll want to throw up, but it breaks your muscle down so completely it'll scoot past those barriers.
That only works for a short time. People do not produce good work for extended long weeks.

My business strives for a mix of long and light weeks to compensate.
Yes, it was a vendor interview piece with a linkbait-and-switch title. (Cloudfare didn't keep Lulzsec "safe", they kept their website up.)

But NewScientist's primary audience is not web hosting specialists. So for their audience I expect it was mildly educational.
Because if you need to "store" the information, as the author stated, you would need some kind of mechanism for doing so. It would be impossible to have such a mechanism that would be less than an atom in size, otherwise representing the set would be a superset of itself (ie: you can't represent more atoms than the universe contains if the cost of representing one atom is more than one atom).

In reality, what the author meant was "contains," which means you have a bunch of different bits with multiple simultaneous values (I believe this is distinct values in many different dimensions, but please correct me if I'm wrong), and the number of possible combinations of those values (since the combinations all exist "at once") can be more than the number of atoms in the universe. Hope that makes sense.
Ignore that, I misread your comment.
I thought the same thing. There is real innovation in tablet computing available through this avenue.

The current haptic feedback that some devices offer is really inadequate. To give you actual controls that you can feel would be a leap forward.

Also, if you think about the way Apple typically does these things, it would be a huge advantage if they got there first. Apple has a tendency to buy years worth of production from a given vendor, if they could tie up access to this technology for a year or two while production ramps to accomodate demand, they could gain a huge lead (well, larger than they already have).
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Matte displays show images more true-to-print too, I prefer my matte display both for programming / being outside / editing photos. I really don't understand why anyone would want a glossy display other than "it's easier to clean"
I suggest Google start with buy PVS-Studio license. :-)

PVS-Studio vs Chromium
http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0074/

PVS-Studio vs Chromium - Continuation
http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0113/
Here's the code:

https://github.com/toolness/collusion/tree/master/data/ui
You are right, however C bindings in other languages usually look quite ugly and non-idiomatic, but ZeroMQ did great job in that sense and their higher level language bindings are written with language specifics in mind
Sorry if this is rude, but... was there at any point a discussion about the ethics involved in having one's wife rebooted and turned into an entirely different person?
Very interesting headline followed by a total content-less fluffy press release masquerading as a news story.

I am, as they say, disappoint.
Taxi drivers don't wait all day in a parking space next to my house, charge more money, and tend to pull amusing tricks like writing down my fare in their log while swerving all over a three-lane highway.
30 March 2005: X1 announced (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude)

1280 × 768 at 16.8 million colors
1.140 kg with 58 Whr Li-Ion 6 cell
w: 286 mm
h: 25.0 mm
d: 196.8 mm

XPS13 ultrabook

13.3" High Definition WLED, 300-nit (1366x768) 720p;
Weight: Starting at 2.99lbs (1.36kg)6
47WHr battery; 6-Cell Li-Polymer (built-in)3
Width: 12.4" (316mm)
Height: 0.24-0.71" (6-18mm)
Depth: 8.1" (205mm)

So in 7 years, we've added 86 pixels and gotten bigger and heaver. I'm not sure if the X1 laptop was revolutionary, or laptops just haven't gotten that much better. Certainly the X1 was the best investment I've ever made; with a SSD upgrade it's still going strong!
People laid undersea cables for telegraphs and back then it was a big deal. However, it's been 154 years and people stopped being impressed a while ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
Link: http://spotwag.com

We're currently working on redesigning the entire site with real designers, but would love feedback on the idea, functionality etc.
It doesn't have to be iPad 3. It could be iPad 2S.
Does a cameraphone really need 41 megapixels?
It is money for time. I'm renting my skills by the hour. If my skills are poor for the job is another issue. And a lot of managers can't distinguish real work from long hours work.

Excessive overtime is the way you make a highly skilled professional useless in the long term. No time to rest, no time for recreation, no time to play and experiment with new things, no time to study more stuff. In a fast paced industry this is death in a couple of years.
Anyone care to do an analysis of the pixel density underneath that finger?
heh, best I can do yet
When I get paid to work I really care that the work I do is worth the money I am paid. That is, if I'm paid for 40 hours, I feel its important to give my employer 40 hours of good solid work. From time to time, I don't mind going above and beyond, things happen and sometimes it takes a significant effort to correct them, a bit of overtime is fine. But I strongly feel that any of those companies that pay people for 40 hours of work, but generally expect them to work 60 or 80 hours most weeks are abusing the relationship on their side. What they are looking for is a seriously large discount in labor costs. Unless there is some 'other' form of compensation that balances it out, then it is clearly abusive (and quickly leads to burnout, so they aren't even getting value for the hours worked).

Paul.
I think usually the general rule for smaller sites like this is 8-12x your monthly gross. A small site can quickly lose its money generating ability and 10 months is still a long time in the internet world.

Also, put your contact information in your profile.
15 million US drivers won't all of a sudden become obsolete, any more than hundreds of thousands of airline pilots have suddenly become obsolete now that we can build reliable unmanned aircraft.
As an "antisocial" (never had a Facebook/[other social network] account and never will) I see this as expected behaviour. They need you inside to access your data. They need you to interact more with them to gather more data.

If you see your friends taking drugs, you feel the (social?) pressure to try them too. If somebody (the drug seller) tells you that all your friends are into drugs, you don't feel guilty if you try them.
I think modules vs. typeclasses are a bigger difference. The Haskell approach to IO isolation would be much more horrible without exploiting features peculiar to the typeclass system. The IO system in early versions of Haskell did not exploit these features, and it was a disaster (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...).
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The keyboard is what I look at first as well, as I dislike laptops without a decent arrow key layout.

Engadget ( http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/10/dells-xps-13-ultrabook-an... ) had some pics recently, including some of the keyboard.
I imagine Siri will make the cut - to the extent that the iPad is a home computer replacement device, having intelligent voice control on your principle computer is indeed a paradigm shift for the mass market.
Yeah Facebook & Twitter for sure, also Tumblr. But the people you're clicking on Path are in your group right? You can't just see anyone, or am I wrong?
If you live your work life, say from when you're 25 to 65, working from 9 to 5 on something that you don't really care about but you do just to pay the bills, aren't those 75,000 hours of your life you flushed down the toilet?

For most people, the alternative is to live in crippling poverty and/or starve. That 75,000 hours is the cost of survival. Do you think that the vast majority of people on earth are just ignorant of the fact that there are good jobs out there? Well thanks for alerting us! No one will ever clean a toilet again, now that you've shown us the light.
Honestly that anecdote just proves that you were a better engineer than the 60 hour boot loader guy. It doesn't say anything about hours other than that some people will work hard even if they aren't making progress. You aren't claiming that he'd have done better by spending only 2/3 the time, just that a solution (that he couldn't find) existed that fit.

Honestly I find myself amused at the extent of the argument here. Most people I've known in the tech world who work long hours generally do so because ... they like it. It's a way to define your life. It's a way to feel good about yourself. I'm sure there are programmers trapped in death march dungeons somewhere for exploitative wages, but they are the exception, not the rule.
Apple market cap now same as entire retail sector. Thoughts?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ibubble-apples-market-cap-now-...
Please try and remember that while there may be many problematic practices and practitioners in the world of psychiatry, the majority are just trying to heal the sick like all other doctors.

Well, it's best not to think it about what the "majority of practitioners" sets to do, but with what is established as the standard theory and practice of their profession, that is, what they are conditioned to do.

As you move away from hard science like physics and math, all sorts of power plays, prejudices and societal norms come into play. You know, like homosexuality was considered a mental disease back in the day. Psychiatry not only advances the societal and power norms on those matters --it also obeys and enforces them.

A society that is messed up in many ways, will also tend to consider those that are against this mess as 'mentally ill'. It's not that different with what happened to dissidents in the USSR, just more subtle.
It was one of the innovators in _affordable_ thin and light, though. While there were very light and thin laptops prior to the Air, they were usually either netbooks, or terribly expensive. Of course, so was the first-gen Air; the second one was really the interesting one.
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> <grouch>An announcement that the announcement is next week is of interest to hackers without being even remotely something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.</grounch>

I expect so much better from you, sir raganwald.

This is a reply to you but it's addressed to HN's growing number of pedantic, obnoxious content police at large. At the time of this posting, 38 people disagree with your assessment. You've got the flag tool to register your opinion.

What is contributed to the discussion by griping about content the community obviously believes is worthy of the front page? Who benefits from this?

From a completely practical perspective, this particular post is useful because it suggests very strongly that the Retina display rumors are true. For those who are building content for iOS, the head-start on getting iPad Retina graphics ready is likely much appreciated. (It certainly is by me.)
Apple is the most valuable company in the entire US economy, sets hardware and software trends for our industry, and is interesting to the broader news media for their brand value and widespread products people use every day.

Everything they do is relevant in some way, and there's nothing wrong with covering them in a one-line story on a software discussion site like this.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. To do anything big with NFC would require cooperation with a lot of parties, and that would be hard to keep a secret.

This is purely speculation on my part of course.
I think what you will be seeing in the reflection is the illuminated keyboard. Even if they weren't right next to the screen light up keys seem like a silly gimmick to me
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It's not the right the word. Agreed. But I never said give up. The whole point was to tell, don't have any personal attachment with ideas. I used that word to make people understand what I am trying to say :)
Does anyone know how they are planning to sell off the first batch?

If they do anything besides some manner of dutch auction they will be leaving a lot of money on the table for enterprising folks to pick up by reselling them on eBay.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I always run my browsers with Flash disabled or uninstalled so Flash cookies make no difference to me.