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Isn't this just one step away from Amazon just being another brick-and-mortar? If this is the case, is not having an actual store that is accessible by customers (and coincidentally, the neccessary staff), that much of a operational advantage?

Or is this just a case of the more efficient company (Amazon) beating out less efficient companies (Best Buy, Barnes and Nobles, etc...)?
Isn't this essentially cannibalizing ScreenLeap (YC W12)?
(Creator of Commando.io here) - Thanks for the feedback. Commando.io is very young, and while currently only supports SSH, LDAP could easily be added. The alpha build is extremely minimal, and serves as a proof of concept. However future features are parellel execution, interactive sessions, scp transfers (maybe even Murder transfers [bitTorrent]), and provisioning.

You have to think back, when GitHub first launched, they probably had a minimal product. It takes a bit iteration to add the "eureka" features.
This is crazy - I ordered 3 things from Amazon today through Prime and started wondering if/when a day would come when you'd have same day delivery from Amazon and what it would look like. I figured it would happen someday, but thought the complexities would be too much to handle for a while. Looks like they're way ahead of me. This is why I love Amazon.
No offense, but you should probably work this out with your co-founders. If you can't get a straight answer at this early stage it may be a red flag. Explain that you thought you were getting 25% (since it is possible that you misheard something important, like getting 25% of 75%), and just want to understand how the equity is going to be distributed.
I'll seed this crap but I won't bother to watch.
Our company uses a combination of Capistrano and Puppet. It is actually pretty easy to get going with Capistrano and Puppet if you are comfortable with Ruby. Our Capfile specifies the server recipe which is propagated to Puppet using Environment Variables. The whole operation is easy to understand, and very little learning curve required.
I mean ... finally something you can use to interact with favorite users! It's just tiresome to hear "No, you can't fav a user on Stack Overflow" again and again. It's a fair request, right?
What font are they using. That is nice alas I use Linux and I also virtualize a windows 7. Is there a similar application for Linux or Win?
Writemonkey[1] is a clutter-free text editor I use for prose with a lot of customization and power under the surface--it calls itself "zenware". I highly recommend it.

1: http://writemonkey.com/
It's a bad sign if this isn't part of a large discussion with all your co-founders. I would get everyone together to talk.
Look at how long it took them to actually talk about the product...wow! Kickstarter has an amazing ability to talk about themselves as if they create everything that sells there.

I pledged the $99 level on this one, with limited expectations. I hope they deliver.
http://thepiratebay.se/search/daily%20show/0/99/0
most people on Twitter don't.
Solid analysis, the only other online community I frequent is zerohedge and they have been calling it biflation for some time now.

Things like housing, equity, and bond prices will deflate while commodity prices will continue to inflate.
Not everyone is confirmed on the project yet so we haven't all spoken together.

When everyone is confirmed we will all meet and sign our heads of agreement.
Looks like Amazon is finally bringing Webvan to fruition. Only took 11 years.
> However, once we get the node.js SSH workers polished and ready for prime-time, you may run workers on your own infrastructure.

Anyone who gives these people money is a fool.
So I work for GREE (the company pictured in the article), and while I do like ZeroCater, I actually think Munchery is way better. Just a personal opinion. ZeroCater's service is awesome and their food selection is good, but I always feel kinda sick after eating. I think because they source their meals from restaurants.

Why do I like Munchery more? Because its made by chefs who typically use healthy ingredients. They change it up alot and I've even heard stories of some employees calling the chefs to see what's on the menu for the evening. Pretty cool! And after dinner, I feel great!
It'll destroy larger B&M stores but I doubt it'll fully outdo local specialty shops. What you'll see is a stratification between hyper specialty B&M that sell luxury items only a tiny subset of people want, but are willing to pay out the nose for, and places like Amazon filling the role of Target and Walmart, being the catch-all for everything else that most people need on a week-to-week or month-to-month basis. While you might be able to buy a certain brand of organic mustache wax on Amazon, I don't see a day coming where they'll be able to do that same-day.
I don't think Amazon would ever go the brick-and-mortar route, but having these facilities in major metropolitan areas might enable it to have a lot of 'Pick up at location' kind of shopping.
The act of predicting the future alters the future. Especially true with economics.
> Commando.io is extremely early

Yes, and I think it's great, that people seem to be already interested in it on kickstarter.

Just one thought, but I'm far from a dev-ops expert. I worked with Chef and Puppet in the past, looking at salt now. There are two large benefits for me in dev-ops: 1) automation and 2) documentation - and still, chef, puppet and salt have quite some rough edges. And those are mostly command line tools - I just can't see, how a UI oriented system could simplify things and could come near those. But then again, I'm mostly thinking idempotent provisioning - for monitoring and similar, a web-frontend is a great plus.
But, but, but, those other guys got a million dollars!
I'm sorry you are having a bad experience.

It sounds like you have accepted some friend requests from some noisy/energetic people, and/or from people that you perhaps don't really care about. My experience is that unfriending people I don't actually care about (people I've only interacted with a few times a long time ago, for example), making a close friends list (people I care a lot about), and moving the 25%-ish people I care the least about to the acquaintance list has improved my experience a lot.

There are always some unusual cases - a cousin you mostly want to hear things from/about who loves all sorts of games, maybe. For those special cases, you can also control specifically that you don't want to hear from them about games.

I'm not really familiar with problems with events - I get a few event invites a month, and generally they are things I'm interested in going to. How many events are you being invited to? How many different people are involved in inviting you to them?

If you're using Windows, you could also try out the Facebook Messenger app to keep yourself on chat.

(I work at Facebook, but on infrastructure, not products.)
(Disclosure: Slate participates in Amazon Associates, an "affiliate" advertising plan that rewards websites for sending customers to the online store. This means that if you click on an Amazon link from Slate—including a link in this story—and you end up buying something, Amazon will send Slate a percentage of your final purchase price.)

Do they really think that they'll get more affiliate conversions by being the honest guys? Seriously, what is the point of this?
But you can get private health care in the UK and it's much cheaper than the US. In the US if you can't get health insurance—and I mean literally can't because you are a single payer where no company is willing to offer you a policy—then you pay out of pocket at a high multiple of the negotiated prices insurance companies get. The quality of the actual care in the US is top notch, but the system is beyond fucked up, and the lies spewed by the politicians are positively nauseating.

I'm an American living in the UK and I have to disagree with your assessment of the difference. First of all, most of my medical needs are taken care of through my GP who has never taken more than a week advance notice to get an appointment with, and the wait times I've experienced are actually far less than I've experience in various US health providers in Minnesota, New Mexico and California. When I crashed my bike before I had my GP, I did have to wait at a Walk-In Center, for about an hour, and ditto for Minor Injuries where they sent me after an initial evaluation, but that's equivalent to going to an emergency room in the states, because you can't just walk in to the nearest doctor there, you have to be "in-network". Later, through my GP I was able to get several osteopath sessions, a shoulder ultrasound, and physical therapy all of which was very well administered with minimal wait times. I'm not saying the system doesn't have problems, but it's nothing like the bogeyman of socialized medicine that seemingly the majority of Americans have been hoodwinked to believe it is.
Thanks for the feedback. Our goal is certainly to make a visually beautiful product. As far as floor diagrams, racks, and specific hardware, we want Commando.io to be used by everybody, including AWS, Rackspace, Linode, so building those specific features is probably over-scope.

Monitoring is a market that already has some amazing companies (ServerDensity, NewRelic). The missing piece is management, provisioning, automation of servers within a web-interface.
...because the fact that they simply ignore the law presently means that a petition will make them willfully start following it.

Delusional. It's time to leave America.
Anonymous is not a singular entity. And since nobody who matters cares about UFC, whoever this guy is dealing with must not matter.

I'd rather be reading about the Anonymous that exposes the inept special ops contractors who are getting civilians killed in Syria for no reason.
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I think the problem is that it's difficult to think of a realistic scenario in which this could succeed.

I think the hardware could become popular as a cheap way to run pirated games, however this would probably scare away developers.
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(Not sure if this is allowed, if not let me know)

HN: I need a great iOS/hacker developer to help me build a revolutionary indoor positioning system.

We have a patent pending system for doing various things with indoor positioning/pwayfinding. We have several major (10,000+ users each) SFBAY tech companies that are interested in this with whom we are already in talks.

We have MVP demos we've built - but need to go to the next level with an actual usable client.

I need a developer that can take a lead in developing the most innovative indoor positioning system available.

If you are interested in a completely untapped market with a deep pain point, contact me.

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We have made significant improvements to our service in regards to repeats and special needs in the last 8 months.

We have a dedicated team of food scouts who are constantly searching for new, exciting vendors to send to our clients. Our current repertoire includes over one-hundred of the best, most reliable vendors in the Bay Area.

We also keep detailed notes on every company's dietary restrictions and preferences and provide labels for all items that include notes if the item is vegan/gluten free/etc.

If SeatMe ever decides to give us another shot, I promise I will personally bake and deliver cupcakes for the entire office. And my cupcakes are pretty good: http://i.imgur.com/fFlC5.jpg . :)

Daniel Piers - Engineer / Czar of Cupcakes @ ZeroCater
What constitutes a "unique compilation" is subject to interpretation in a court of law.

Adding/removing/modifying and changing the arrangement or display of items in a dataset sufficiently constitutes a dataset unique from the one Craigslist offers even if it is largely derivative from the Craigslist dataset.

Craigslist could argue a trespass to chattels tort or file a ToS civil suit, but there isn't much they can do to protect a dataset.

The reason Facebook makes Facebook content largely available only to those who are logged in is to hide behind their ToS and prevent scraping whether centralized or distributed.
'UX Write' for iOS Promises Powerful Word Processing for Long Documents
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Nothing wrong with "over disclosure".
This is actually based on an iOS and Android SDK that Walgreens created, allowing any photo app to integrate with photo printing.

http://news.walgreens.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=561...
It looks like they are just trying to disclose a potential conflict of interest.
Slate probably thinks it's worth giving up short-term profits for long-term reader trust, which is particularly important for an online newspaper. The referral money is still money, but it's icing on the cake.
The only advantage local retail stores have is immediacy. You can buy it as fast as you can drive there (and park/find it in the store/wait in line). Amazon has almost every other advantage. Ive come to find shopping local retail stores more and more frustrating. Shopping without reviews or videos, and having to flag down employees to help you locate items. It's really hard to beat online shopping with one day or two day shipping. Not impossible, but challenging. Target, Best Buy, and other generic mass retailers would be hurt the most
it's about full disclosure: for readers to fully trust a a publisher they should disclose when they are getting paid to discuss certain things
It's not just the staff, I think -- it's the real estate. Amazon doesn't have to have conveniently located distributed locations and the inventory headaches associated with them; they can just have one gigantic warehouse in Jersey that provides goods to all their customers in Manhattan.
Hi Aloisius,

I'm the founder of ZeroCater. Sorry to hear you're no longer with us. I'd would be great to get your feedback on how we could improve our service. I'd love to grab a beer some time.
Except to the extent that stuff like this cannibalizes existing resource use (e.g. all the people driving an SUV to the shopping mall who instead buy with one-click), and to the extent technology & automation end food/energy/resource scarcity as well (which is underway, but hard to tell timeframes)
It has to do with journalistic ethics. By disclosing this now, they avoid a bad reputation when someone "discovers" that they participate in the affiliate program.
not really. ScreenLeap is catering for a dead-simple screen sharing service used in conjunction with any communications medium (phone, email, skype etc) - whereas meetings.io is enabling screen sharing wholly within the meeting.io experience.
OmmWriter (http://www.ommwriter.com) is my tool of choice. It will fill the screen, block out notifications, has very few formatting options and even the menu disappears. By default it'll play some soft music and has a "peaceful" background but those can be removed. It doesn't have a spell checker though.
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Hey there,

I do appreciate the feedback about fast forwarding and the comment on the volume control, good ideas. Please keep in mind I'm demoing a marketing site. We have more 'functional' tutorials inside the app :)
It depends on how well I know the item. If it's a commodity where I've bought exactly the same thing before (Charmin Extra-Strong Toilet Paper), then price rules all. If it's a new item that I'm not sure what I need about it (chef knife, bar stool, etc.), then seeing the item in person helps determine which item I need.
Perhaps you could articulate further?
I guess what I mean is, simplifying server access is great and it looks like you are doing that well. However, I guess I don't like the idea of marketing it because the other automated methods are too hard to learn; market it because it is convenient and provides a nice interface. Just my 2 cents.
By building many warehouses before proving the idea works, they appear to also be repeating Webvan's greatest error.
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If I click "See an example" nothing happens. Chrome 22 on Windows. There is an uncaught TypeError in the console.
The amount of electronics required to connect a commodity LED to a commodity USB connector is so minimal. The very same sort of component goes into every single computer mouse sold today, many of these costing less than $1 to produce.

$30 is extremely expensive for such a toy. Do they think I'm spending $3,000 to make a pretty blinky-light server rack?

Anyone with a credit card can get a custom anything manufactured if they're resourceful enough and know how to communicate with their suppliers.

I think the makers of this product should do more research in how to cut costs, find a part that does 95% of what they need and come up with a way to bridge that gap in software.
Forget the review and videos. What about service?

Stores as large as mighty Wal-mart itself are hardly staffed anymore.

When I want to ask where something is I find myself increasingly having to bother an already busy person at the cash register...
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That might be true at the micro level, but I don't think it might be necessarily true at the macro level.
Thanks for the report, we'll get on it asap.
"You (as the employee) are just donating more time & money to the employer."

Not sure if I agree with this. You aren't necessarily required to eat and work at the same time just because you are getting free food. Secondly, an extra ~$10-15 bucks a day per person is a relatively minuscule amount of money for a company (keep in mind that if this was distributed as salary to employees, it would only be about $5-10 a day after taxes). So, essentially the employee is enjoying a meal that is being paid for with pre-tax money.
Is it "not having been associated" or "not being blamed due to misfollowed procedures"?
follow up - https://twitter.com/chriscoyier/statuses/223122688258998273
Hey Axiom, we certainly will. Thanks for your support.
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Thanks, agree need to work on marketing and positioning.
We will ban them.

:)
I love the product, it has great potential. I would pay $10 to create a tutorial personally and $50 as a company.
The future: high inflation in food, energy, fuel, and consumables, hyper-deflation in everything else except to the extent that it depends on or consumes the former.

The reply below your reply that says "The act of predicting the future alters the future" indeed expresses a truth about economics. But as a person who once predicted the future, by writing down my predictions and putting them (with classmates' predictions) in a time capsule that was opened thirty-one years later, I'd like to explore this process of predicting the future a bit more.

What exactly do you mean by "high inflation in food, energy, fuel, and consumables." Do you mean that in the developed world it will take more units of time at typical paid work to buy a meal or light up a room in 2050 than it does in 2012? That suggests a bet, a bet on which I would be willing to take the side contrary to your side. (I think so, as soon as I figure out if that is really what you are predicting.) What is included in the category "consumables," and what is not?

What is your definition of "hyperdeflation"? Does that basically mean that you or I or anyone else in the developed world will be able to obtain more and more of that "everything else" (WHAT everything else?) for fewer and fewer units of time spent in paid work? What kinds of goods or services do you have in mind here?
Hi Christopher,
We actually have a ton of personal chefs and caterers. If you talk to your office manager at GREE, we'd be happy to switch it up.

Employee ratings help determine what gets ordered, so what's probably happening is that people are up voting restaurants more.
Yeah, ok. I completely agree with everybody else. The BOM is basically a LED, a USB connector, and an ATTiny chip. It looks fantastically useful, but at their price point, just knowing who easy it is to build makes me feel ripped off.
What courts have determined that? For what jurisdictions? Seems like if they could take down MegaUpload, Grooveshark should be a cinch.
Seems like not much coding happens in America... /snark

Seriously though, the author goes into more detail about his coffee than his job. I assume the purpose of a post like this is to publicize and advertise for CfA, but it doesn't really tell me much about either the org or the work.
Nice work! Daniel is pretty much spot on. We run the search term through a regex to see if the user has entered an iTunes URL first (as we accept either search terms or URLs), then we pass the search term to the search API listed above. There is a little magic in sorting the results and a little magic in combining results from the different international stores. We started with that though and it gets great results. There are a couple of (fairly old) Rails gems for it too.
We actually don't have that feature. The point isn't to hijack a user's experience. We are thinking about the best way to get out of a users way if they want to escape a tutorial. But thanks for the feedback.
i've worked at a few startups with catered lunches. where i'm at now, we purposely only cater lunch and not dinner so that people don't feel obligated to stay later. we always have the kitchen stocked so there's food if they do, plus we order extra at lunch so there are leftovers. no one is required to stay and eat, but it helps everyone bond at lunch over non-work related things.

plus, some people go out on their lunch, and come back and eat the food at their desk. win-win. free food, no obligation to work.
If it doesn't already, you could overlay a transparent div on top of the entire body to capture all click events.
There's certain classes of non-luxury stores that should survive OK. If I need to find a screw for my (insert doohickey here), I'll go to Ace hardware, where I can try out the different screws in their bins, then pick the one that works. The same logic applies to lots of other hardware store type items.
For Grooveshark to be in compliance, they would need to pay royalties and restrict distribution to places where those licenses apply. They don't, so they're not.
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Historically some people wanted to keep their sexuality private because they felt they might lose sales / votes / whatever if people knew their sexuality.

Don't forget that homosexuality has only relatively recently become legal in England.

The Jason Donovan case is particularly interesting.

(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sad-about-the-boy-1270092....)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Donovan)

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/apr/17/law.claredyer)
Thanks for the description! I've been mulling over visiting/joining Hacker Dojo for quite some time, and this description as a "community space" where tech minded folks can come to hang out and learn a thing or two (rather than a space consisting of startups racing for success) makes the place much more appealing and friendly for someone like myself.

Cheers~ :)
Theoretically, being able to try the product before purchase is another advantage. Particularly for me where it seems no one complains about terrible user interfaces or noise anywhere near enough in reviews.

But in practice, outside of clothing and furniture, very few stores are set up to allow this almost at all. So screw them.

Returning stuff adds additional complexity for consumers (you have to repack it and drive to a drop-off point) and eats into profit margins, especially for non-clothing items that can no longer be sold as new.
It's no different than a Haskell start-up running their blog on Wordpress or Posterous.

Presumably this site is run by FB's comms department, and could be an off-the-shelf system or developed by an external agency. You don't want to tie up your precious engineers on projects that aren't critical to the mission.
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