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Show HN: Site collecting the best entrepreneurship posts daily - useful?
Hey, everyone!

I've got a new project that I'm hoping will be of use to ISVs, startups and my fellow web-based entrepreneurs, and I'd love to know what the assembled brains of HN think of it.

The site in question is http://www.internetmarketinggourmet.com .

If I had to give a pithy elevator pitch, it'd be "BoingBoing for people who make money on the Interwebs".

Every day I read hundreds (literally - 257 today) of blog posts from every entrepreneurship, internet marketing, PPC, PPV, SEO, ISV, affiliate marketing, and other related blogs I can find. I pick out the most useful and actionable posts, and feature them with some commentary and context that will hopefully make them useful to more people outside their target market.

I imagine most people know the big, well-known blogs (Kalzumeus, Copyblogger, Joel on Software, et al), but there are a lot of great writers out there, and a lot of great ideas, and I know I've been surprised by how many useful titbits I've picked up following them.

All of this grew out of my daily RSS trawl. I've been doing business on the Internet for 13 years now, and throughout that time I've found some bloggers consistently valuable, but I was always aware there were more writers out there - I'd occasionally read a post linked from HN or similar, but whilst running other projects full-time I just didn't have time to follow 400+ blogs consistently. And I think most people don't.

So it hit me that what I wanted was a site that recommended me the must-read posts of the day, from all those blogs, so I didn't have to wade through the less useful stuff.

I'm figuring other people might find that valuable too!

So - I'm really interested to hear what you think. Is the site useful to you? Does we feature the right stuff? Is there something we should be doing or not doing?

All feedback very much appreciated!

P.S. - http://www.internetmarketinggourmet.com 's the site, once again. I know I've kinda committed a wall of text there :)
Yes and no.

The original New Deal guys had mechanisms in place to deal with those sorts of things. But in order to keep funding in place for the Vietnam War and other things, the Congress accelerated cost of living adjustments in the 60s and 70s -- basically using Social Security as a political tool.

Since adjustments were made long ago, many other tweaks have affected Social Security. Welfare reform pushed folks who were chronic public assistance recipients onto the SSDI rolls. The ceiling for payroll tax adjustments hasn't kept up with inflation. And of course, the Obama administration decided to cut the payroll tax in the short term to stimulate the economy.
One thing I would add is either reducing title size on the front page, or adding an adjustable title size on the front page (and remember that title size). I wouldn't mess with the font size otherwise, it just throws everything off.

Otherwise, this is terrific! Only bad part is endless scrolling may keep me on HN even longer.
It's either a Red Dwarf or H2G2 gag, can't remember. "We're slowing down?" "Sort of. We were accelerating so quickly that we're now just accelerating slightly slower than we were before."

My point is that Groupon is the sound of a bunch of people inflating a financial bubble. All this post-IPO bullshit about growth is intended to make it seem like they took a few hits early to get them done with, but once the dust has settled they'll be in a great position. They aggressively scaled a patchy business model and are now trying to fix it.
Yes of course. Date, Gmail labels and IMAP flags (READ, UNREAD, ...) are preserved.
Otherwise it is a bug so please refer to http://gmvault.org/report_pb.html
The F-22 doesn't cost anywhere near $2billion dollars per plane.
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India launches an antitrust probe into Google
Oh, for the day when the brogrammers will follow the metrosexuals and soccer moms into the memory hole...
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Backups are only as useful as the 'restore' strategy. If I had a zip of all my email somewhere I wouldn't really know what to do with it (and it'd be obsolete pretty quickly).

I mainly use Gmail via IMAP (and the web version when I need to set up filters). Therefore, I'm intrigued that folks seem to be interested in a 1-click-download kind of solution.
I don't think it would. That would then be something I would have to set up reminders for and then what if I forget it for a few days? I would have to remember when I last backed up and set that as the starting date. Of course google could remember that for me but we're now getting closer and closer to what IMAP already does better.
I've really got a tech-hard-on for Laravel http://laravel.com. It's an up and coming MVC framework, and just a joy to work with all around.
Normally yes or as I said above it is a bug and you should report it there: http://gmvault.org/report_pb.html
Has anyone any idea what made this game so successfull? I consider myself a hardcore gamer and I am interested in game development. I grew up with video games starting with game and watch, C64 and NES. I have been hooked by so many games over the years playing hours everyday. I tried angry birds for 10 mins and got so bored I never played it again. I just don't see any fun in it. Anyone like me? Any idea why people love this game?
if python is in your path, just edit gmvault, delete the PYTHON_BIN stuff starting at line 24 and add PYTHON_BIN="python"

That should work if python is on your path.
Apple ‘iTV’ details emerge from source claiming to have seen a prototype
Ooooook. My wife makes hundreds of dollars a month doing this; it was a serious comment.
This kind of poster makes some sense - if the company is working on a drug for cancer or eradicating world poverty etc. It might make some sense if the organization is a non-profit, saving lives.

"sacrifice your weekend for" - makes zero sense, for a corporation whose primary (only??) motive is to make money. Also notice the choice of words "sacrifice" - not "spend" or "use" etc. The first thought that comes to my head is, they are not gonna pay me for sacrificing my weekends.

I just wish companies stop glorifying extra/more/free work. There is nothing romantic/great about this - end of the day, all companies are same - they care about their profits more than anything else, they'd not hesitate to throw out a guy in a minute (even if he had worked for them for 30 years) if it improves their margins.
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>Entrepreneurship is a classic "high risk, high return" venture.

Sure, for the ones investing capital. For the workers, I can't imagine startup's mean pay being anywhere near as high as a "normal" job. A mean will cut out the Zuckerbergs, Serg, Brin, etc. Also, remember you can't compare mean startup salary to mean "normal" job salary since the bulk of startups are in the valley. To get a closer estimate you'd need to give the same weight to "normal" jobs in a given area as number of starups they have there (e.g. lots in SV, some in NYC, etc.).
Hi, I'm the developer of the Android version, if you have any suggestions on how to improve this, please let me know.
I did a similar thing in 2003 -- codes from 200 chocolate bars could be collected for a free xbox (5GBP shipping, normal cost 160GBP). This coupled with a 5 bars for 1GBP offer in a local supermarker meant I got an xbox and 200 bars of chocolate for 45GBP.
I'm not a telco, nor do I work for one. I'm a consumer, so the reason why I hate this is not the same reason why the telcos hate it. Their interest is to make money. My interest as an EU citizen is good governance. Countries where arbitrary prices are fixed for populist reasons tend to be poor.

The competition commission should make sure that the markets aren't rigged and leave it to the market to determine the right price. I'm not saying markets always work well, but the telecoms market does.
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Railways have an even lower marginal cost than planes.
DB would rather have a person travelling in the seat for 'free' and encourage ridership than have it empty.

Airlines used to think this way - the marginal fuel cost for a seat was something like $10 (essentially it only costs you at takeoff). But then airport improvement fees, security fees, faa upgrade fees meant that they were paying out $100s for passengers who were travelling for free.
I always wonder about these calculations. According to http://www.michiganlottery.com/where_the_money_goes out of every $1 players spend on the Michign lottery, $.58 goes to player prizes. Assuming they're actually counting that correctly, doesn't that mean the expected monetary return (to you, of course it's nice that you're donating to the school system) of $1 spent on the lottery has to be $.58?
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Ask PG: Can we get a HN black bar for him today?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe you need any of the :not statements, and instead or (3n) and (5n) you can just use 15n for the 'fizzbuzz'.

The cascade of the CSS will take care of the cases the div is a 'fizzbuzz'.

Sorry I can't post the example, Dabblet is working strangely for me this morning.

CSS that should work:

/**
* FizzBuzz with CSS
*/

body {
counter-reset: fizzbuzz;
}

div {
width: 100px;
height: 20px;
background: #ddd;
margin: 0 0 10px;
}

div::after {
content: counter(fizzbuzz);
counter-increment: fizzbuzz;
}

div:nth-child(3n)::after {
content: "fizz";
}

div:nth-child(5n)::after {
content: "buzz";
}

div:nth-child(15n)::after {
content: "fizzbuzz";
}
There's more open jobs for good programmers than there are good programmers. The salary is also very competitive with most other industries. I'm surprised we haven't seen more of a flood of people wanting to try their hands at programming and startups.
Heh... how this looks in IE 8: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Fz3jT.png
Not the same one I was looking for, but this one looks even better.
It's a social network like MySpace and Friendster.
ok thanks. I will study the issue and fix it.
If a theory implies an absurd outcome, I think it is a reasonable heuristic to question the theory and it's assumptions. I am not saying absurd implications indicate the theory is flawed, only that they should cause one to suspect so and perhaps find a theory that explains reality with less broadly absurd implications.
That sounds terrible! If working for Apple really is that bad, I would expect a huge portion of their employees to quit, and soon. Especially the ones who are highly valued in the industry and could get another job right away -- those folks are gonna be streaming for the exits any day now!

Right?
Maximized profit is achieved by hitting profit X unit sold

If unit sold goes up by more than the lost per unit profit, then that's a winning proposition.

If people convert to the Apple brand, then Apple is going to make tons more than just that first sale. SSD prices also have probably REALLY made that 1k MBA a high profit device (they dropped a ton in the last year)

I predict the $800 MBA will just be this years 1k MBA.

See: The iPod Nano, the still sold iPhone 3GS (for $0 with 2 year contract), etc for past downmarket moves.
There is a small bug in the generation of #container .bucket IDs. Languages named with multiple words (i.e. Emacs Lisp) get an invalid ID.
Google makes Hangouts On Air available to everyone
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This is a great trick, but there's an irritating IE bug. On the pathname attribute, IE doesn't add a leading slash on the pathname (whereas all other browsers do).

It can be corrected by doing:

parser.pathname = parser.pathname.replace(/(^\/?)/,"/");

Further, because you're creating a DOM element, it's less performant than using a RegExp solution. That performance degradation will typically only surface if you're parsing a large number of URLs (for example, in a loop), rather than just 1 or 2.
If AA can turn around pressurizing other paying customers into committing perjury in order to defraud long standing customers who took advantage of a good deal - then I would like to meet their PR agency.

Remember at 80s interest rates when AA made this deal those passengers were taking a real gamble compared to putting that $500K in the market and just paying list for the tickets - compared to making AA an interest-free loan.
If ideas were worth so little, wouldn't firms tend to become more monolithic? I feel that ideas are worth more than execution now. It is cheaper and cheaper to execute, but problem solving and creativity, the things that tend to break down atomically into groups of 0-3 founders, are holding their value, or becoming relatively more valuable. I think, personally, that people like to parrot this "ideas are worthless" line but I think that it is conventional wisdom at best and flat wrong at worst. I think "no idea" rounds rely on the fact that investors know that execution risk is getting lower. But finding idea people as atoms is getting harder. If the opposite were true, individual or small clusters of founders would not be so highly valued.
I find page flipping to be perfectly suited to browsing section/feature pages. With a lot of boxy items, when you scroll you have to calculate your stops and take care to frame them correctly.

Actually reading an article is a different matter, I hate sites that "support" flipboard and do away with scrolling.
Oh! I think I get it now! I know why people write about YC when they aren't in YC, aren't affiliated with YC, and run businesses that are orthogonal to YC. They want to get to the top of hacker news and maybe get their job advert read by the selective crowd of hacker news:

"We're currently looking for a lead interaction designer. If you think you're up for it, email jobs@yipit.com" -sidebar of author's website
sure. the line that was toughest to swallow was this one:

"In a market where ­speed is critical, venture-capital funding allows young companies to move faster than they could if they had to rely only on revenues to fund product development. Entrepreneurs who understand that tend to stick around to make plenty of money later"

really? do they really stick around to make plenty of money? sentence 1 may be true, but that doesn't make sentence 2 true.

i couldn't finish the article. here are a few more choice phrases:

"Many promising tech companies place too much emphasis too soon on the business rather than the product"

"Most entrepreneurs are creative and impatient, an often fatal combination—trying to do too many things, they spread their tiny companies too thin"

it's just not my style of writing. at all.
I call bullshit. If this guy was bored because all of his software projects were exactly the same, he should have automated their creation and reused his code so that they took an extremely short amount of time to create. Anyone who can't do that is either encountering novel problems that require decisions, or just not a good enough programmer to automate and reuse.

This is the same way I feel when programmers complain about writing "just another CRUD app." CRUD apps are in fact very difficult to write because of usability concerns. If all of your "create" screens look exactly the same no matter what is being created, that means you are making no effort as a UI designer to anticipate common creation patterns. Even assuming a cookie-cutter UI, a CRUD programmer has to properly model the concepts in data, which is not trivial either.
To be fair, isn't that what most sites look like in IE8?
I only wish to have it default to follow links into a new tab.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. It's not the white background, it's the patterned background to the right and left of the content area. To be more precise, they have two div's with class "skinClick" setup on the right and left of the "content" div. You click on either one of those and it's the same as having clicked on the ad just below the nav-bar.

I tested in Safari, Firefox, IE and Chrome, same behavior. There's also the "Wait, your page is loading" popup ad you mentioned.
Why do you want to switch to a MacBook Air?
But if the AAirpass people displace other passengers who would have paid retail and instead went to another airline, this opportunity cost should be assessed at retail.
You can do the exact same thing without page flips. Headlines and pictures front-and-center? Sounds like almost every blog ever written.
You must be real fun at parties.

Any other Apple haters going to chime in about how evil it is for the company to--horror--motivate and expect the best from new hires? Please, tell us how heartless they are and how anyone who supports them is a fanboy.

If you spend more effort avoiding and trashing a company than the hipsters do seeking it out, then you are the actual hipster.
One of the things I like most about Hacker News is that it's one of the few sites left without social media sharing buttons, or as I like to call them, junk. Anything that will add those buttons to sites that don't have them is the antithesis of what I need.
The words 'thought' and 'Air Canada' aren't normally used in the same sentence.

I other news Air canada have announced the development of a new left-hand right-hand communications system will will hopefully allow the transmission of ideas from one side of the CEO's brain to the other.
New Video File Format: "Color" is Working on Its Own
Tips for Getting Good Job References
Or Google App Engine, which is even easier. All you do is load your application into their GUI and click 'deploy'.

There are templates abound:

https://github.com/gumho/minimal-flask-gae-template

https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template

https://github.com/toomore-such/template-gae-with-flask
SSD's dropped in price precipitously. What used to cost about $140 (that 64GB drive) now costs about $40-55 bucks.

I could see them continue to sell this years model with perhaps a cost reduce step or two just like they do the iPhone 3GS.
Pfft. After watching the death of those previous companies, no retail investor would be dumb enough to buy stock in another.

I'm sure they've learned their lesson about investing in "hot" companies.
Correct, you don't need the :nots as long as the CSS is in that order, since the :after content would be overridden correctly. You would need them if you changed the order of the statements.

I started the experiment using background color instead of "fizz", border color instead of "buzz", and box-shadow instead of "fizzbuzz" which necessitated the need for :nots since the properties weren't overriding.
>Rise of the Brogrammer (cnn.com)

"Rise of another idiotic idea that applies to less of 0.1% of the population of programmers, but makes for a nice headlines (or the idiots at media outlets thing so".

Here, I fixed it for CNN.
All artists are self-taught - do you agree?
I'm really surprised at the huge lead Javascript has. I'd have thought Python and/or Ruby would be king, with PHP and maybe Java following up.
The year old iPhone and iPad seem to be pretty good examples of Apple competing on price first. They're able to, because they're selling older (cheaper) components in a product that they've already paid for the design/development/engineering for. It's not impossible to imagine that Apple would sell the current low-end version of the Air for $200 cheaper than it's current price. Doing so, should help them appeal to a new demographic of laptop buyers who buy on price first, and are willing to sacrifice performance. The same people who buy a 2 generation old iPhone for $1 are the ones who may be interested in a $799 Air.
Exactly. 1 billion people is a pretty broad target market.
I am trying to think of the last time digitimes got a rumor correct. They have an exceedingly poor track record.

It does seem natural that a portable from Apple will hit the $799 price range to capture the college freshman crowd. Portables and not tablets are still a requirement at many schools.
I hear this argument all of the time here in conservative Idaho, that social security provides more of a benefit than what's been paid in. This is fundamentally NOT how social security works. It has always been self-funded, and if not for the manipulations of unscrupulous politicians who borrowed from it to pay for 30 years of wars, it would be doing just fine today Thank You Very Much.

Most people my age (35 and younger) believe that they can't rely on social security for their retirement. It takes some meta thinking to go a step above and realize that this line of reasoning is leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy, meaning we are unlikely to fight for a system we think is doomed.

All hogwash of course. Productivity is at least an order of magnitude or two higher today than it was in the depths of the Great Depression. Most staples like food, clothing, transportation and even shelter are cheaper now than they were 75 years ago, adjusted for inflation. We have no way to predict how high productivity will be in 2030, when social security will supposedly encounter "problems".

This all dwarfs any increase in lifespan, desired affluence, or cost of medical care we are likely to encounter (once real progress and cures begin happening, instead of the phantom progress we are experiencing in tech bubbles).

People complain more about the self-funding social security payroll tax of 6% than they do about the 3% rents charged by credit card companies. Heck some people spend more on their smartphone, cable and internet plans than they do on social security.

I really worry for the future of our society, when we freely give up all of the gains made in the 20th century like 40 hour work weeks, rights to privacy, shared public land and other resources like the airwaves, immigration for the huddled masses, and most importantly shared sacrifice and that our society is only as strong as the weakest among us, all the things that Americans used to believe in. We think we are somehow better or wiser than the people some respectfully call the Greatest Generation, who survived the depression, then fought in WWII and died for the standard of living we enjoy today.

We're better than this, especially here in such a mecca of ideas and enlightenment.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm relatively new to professional programming, but I do create tools and code snippets that solves/facilitates problems that commonly exists. Isn't that the main function of creating software and using libraries? Code reuse was one of the things that my professors constantly advocated when I was in college.
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Why is online matchmaking uncool in India?
Like investing in Apple after learning about the death's of other mp3-player-companies?
WebOS isn't build in JavaScript, it's built on the Linux kernel.
C99 Developers to Microsoft: nope.
Is HN getting visited by Slashdot posters or something? You're actually non-ironically comparing Apple employees to the slaves who built the pyramids?

I get that you HATE Apple and need to write it down whenever you see anything that reminds you of how proud they are of their work, but this is ridiculous.
Thanks, works like a charm now.
I haven't seen a good OO codebase either. I've been working with them professionally for about a decade.

I've seen what I think are good OO APIs. But I haven't found a project with decent code yet.