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The real problem is that the industries with problems don't want to be fixed and very few people want to bother with the same red tape or worse that Square, Tesla and Über have to deal with. Who wants to invest their life only to be shot down bureaucrats? Notice that those 3 firms were started by entrepreneurs with companies already under their belt.
You still see ads, but they feel less invasive than the ones people who don't have a subscription see.
The point is that you might not know you had downloaded the file, or that it was executing. Imagine you're surfing the Web one day and all of a sudden this warning pops onto your screen. It would be nice to know that something downloaded from the Internet is trying to execute itself.
Ask HN: How to set up a landing page to collect email from a niche group?
I would like to start an Appsumo like web portal which will provide ridiculously cheap deals on instruments and lab kits to a bunch of people in a particular niche group. Say for the people who are in universities and Govt. organizations doing physics and astronomy. However, I have no technical background(coding) for launching a good landing page which can collect email address from a niche group. Also I have little business experience on how to collect enough numbers of email addresses to start with.

So here are my questions.

Q1. How should I set up a landing page to collect required information.Should I go with any landing page template off the shelf to test the idea or hire a freelance developer to do it?

Q2. 1. How do I go out and collect large number of email addresses from a particular niche group?

Thanks
It's exactly the same thing as selling someone 11 pre-paid car washes. But by making the 11th car wash "free" and available immediately people perceive that as a bigger boon than a 9% discount.
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Yes, please. I used Delicious but never liked it, it was merely closest to what I wanted.

Now I use pinboard, and I mostly like it.

I actually like Firefox, so please, leave it alone.
> if you could fit foucault into that box, he would no longer be foucault, yes? Just another piece of science.

This grossly misunderstands science. If you think science is just everything we can fit in a box you've missed the past few centuries and still think everything is ultimately down to which religious leader has the most followers who haven't died of religion yet.

If you demand pithy quotes, here's one: Science is the process by which we gradually learn to stop fooling ourselves about things.

Remember, asking why the sun rises in the East was once a moral and philosophical question.
> Just how do you think ships (and airplanes while over water) navigated before GPS?

All the astronomy needed for navigation was completed in prehistoric times, as far as I know. Modern astronomy, I think, has nothing to contribute.

> How do you think the radius (and from that and the density, the mass) of the earth was determined?

Eratosthenes modeled Earth as a sphere and the sun as an infinitely distant light source; what is the astronomy there, other than the common sense idea that the sun is very far away?

I think you could also have mentioned how astronomy inspired Newton's work, which has utility. But the point here is really about modern astronomy as a field of study: dark matter, black holes, etc. -- these are not "immediately useful" topics. Studying them does not get "one's hands dirty" because it's preparation for day labor.

> Would you be able to drive your car to work if not for the effort of paleontologists (many of whom work for the oil industry)?

Yes, I think so; a few paleontological techniques are useful for exploration, but it is not a major (or essential) tool, though many geological techniques are; exploration began far before paleontologists were involved.

The standard I was applying was really that certain fields of science are as superficially impractical as humanities like history or literature. A few paleontologists employed in industry wouldn't undermine that; a few historians get picked up by industry too (arts, law, etc.).
There are some readers that do want journalists to hold everyone's feet to the fire though. Freed from the pressure of advertiser sensitivity maybe we will see more journalists taking a stronger tone. The questions if there are enough paying readers to support a robust newsroom.
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As far back as 10.3 on my iBook, I had the scroll direction reversed, with a utility that also enabled two finger scrolling on the trackpad.

The "standard" way of doing it never made sense to me, even with a mouse scroll wheel. I scrolled down and the page would go up--how did that ever makes sense?
More like Master Nitpicker on Random Points of Obsession. :)
If you just want to install the binaries, look for a binary package (Ubuntu's got one, so Fedora might have one too).

If you really want to install from source, try cabal-dev (worked for me, see my other comment) or virtualhenv.
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I understand it could be a mistake due to low numbers, but still does not look promising.

2) What are attachments.me actual usage numbers today and 1 year ago?
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Check out how many HN articles on Sundays come from the NYTimes. They put out an enormous volume of high quality content that a lot of people seem to find relevant.
But this entire post was clearly an honest question. And a good one.
That is fine. We will eat your lunch on version two.

Then hire you on a great salary because great programmers are hard to find.
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Well, you could also put them on slot-1 cards and solder them up to do dual processor. Saving yourself a few hundred bucks in the processes. For the money they weren't that bad a deal.
How do you even test for something like this?
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I'll add some comments on their finance section:

1) REALLY need a way to graph "adjusted stock price" or "growth of $10,000" instead of just raw stock price. Otherwise, mutual fund graphs fall off a cliff every December due to payment of capital gains distributions and dividends (the drop is not economically meaningful and it makes it hard to compare to an index or other security). If you look at their "Historic Prices" page they have the data (called "Adj Close"), they just don't give you a way to graph it.

2) Since they started displaying real-time auto-updating stock prices recently, the percent change and dollar change are often out of sync (at least in my browser, Seamonkey). Sometimes, one is negative while the other is positive, so it's pretty obvious. I'm surprised the exchanges haven't slapped them silly for this (I believe you have to register with the exchanges if you are going to display their data to ensure that are competent enough to not display bad prices).
Yes, quit. That company has a huge bus-factor.

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how did you use this to watch iPlayer? It seems like it is for giving a US based DNS for people outside the US.
I wonder what happens when one stops wearing the Northpaw. Do they lose the 'sense' of North or does it persist (even for a little)?
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No, everything is mostly open on Sunday.

Saturday night, which is when the 9th of Av actually started, most (but not all) things were closed, but Sunday everything is open again, especially businesses.

Jewish Holidays go by the Hebrew Calendar, which counts days from Night to Night, not from Sunrise to Sunrise. So when the regular calendar says that the 9th of Av is on Sunday, the actual holiday is the evening of Saturday, then Sunday 'til evening.
Feels to me like this would just further root space travel achievements in the past. How about we launch some new ambitious space projects and give them holidays.
Say your current significance number currently claims 99% significance in favor of alternative A.

A historical graph can show you that 12 hours ago, there was a stat sig in favor of alternative B (we've seen this plenty of times).

Some metrics take a while to stabilize, and the more metrics you have, the more likely you are to run into these particular situations (as you mention above). A graph helps you understand recent variability in the metric.
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Philosophy was the field that told you that falsification was a useful criterion in the first place!
I won't give you all of our numbers, but If you look at our Chrome Extension page, you can see that we have 35,000 active installations. Much of this growth has happened over the past six months.

These numbers simply aren't well reflected in the Compete score.

My coworkers and I work hard, and believe in what we're doing. Rome wasn't built in a day, let's hold of on the talent acquisition talk ;)
They could start helping themselves by making it easier/possible people to figure out what it is all about without signing up or in.
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"Removing my name from a document I have painstakingly labored over for three years and over two dozen drafts was not easy. Deciding to move on from an effort I have led for over five years was agonizing."

I feel like it's a safe investment to avoid anything that can bring about a decision that drastic.
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If you avoid the questions "why was this written" and "how did it get from the author to my eyeballs" you will never develop a working bullshit detector.
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I'll agree that philosophy doesn't really help one do science, but it does justify why it's worthwhile to do science, and real science at that.
This sounds very uplifting, but when I worked at an enormous corporation you've heard about we weren't allowed so much as to change my machine's time&date. Forget about installing anything. And even when I was able to improve anything (I got permission to install Python), there was a huge bureaucracy and permission had to be granted for anything. Just because you had an idea for improvement doesn't help if you have to mail a person on another continent, who must understand what you're doing and grant permission.

It's not uncommon for company critical software to be written by a Russian guy who no longer works there.
With the proliferation of "noise news" online, I find that my two options for filtering the noise are (1) peer curated sites like HN, or (2) to pay for (what is hopefully) quality writing from sources such as NYT or the Economist.
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I have no idea why these have to be on 28 separate pages. They look nice, but I gave up looking after page 3, so who really knows.
Being a geek this isn't too useful for me then. Say I want to keep a private journal that is accessible from anywhere I'd just keep it on my server and rsync it with the devices I want to view/edit it on... or probably just create a git repo for it on the server.

It might be interesting for the average user though!
That's a good question! I think I know but I'm not going to try it.
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For one, it uses markdown. There are not that many wikis supporting that.
Most sphinx documentation has a permalink if you hover over the title text. It will show up in this instance to the right.
On the spectrum of adherence to an arbitrary standard of Proper Written English (TM), there's counter-signaling, a great region of "You just can't write well", a region where one writes very well with errors, and then things bifurcate at the top where a) you write perfectly like the New York Times and this signals status or b) you use non-standard grammar, and that is OK, because you're a better writer than any English teacher and everyone knows it.

Just a bit of literary criticism here, take it or leave it: when I read the classic articles on your site, with the ransom-note formatting, the presentation often overwhelmed the content. I mean, anyone drawing that much attention to their rejection of social norms must mean that to be the primary purpose of the performance. I often slogged through -- and it was a slog -- to get at the meaty arguments hidden somewhere in the pink/green/etc text.

I'm totally on-board with grammar being essentially arbitrary and fluid (this is a True Statement about material reality), but given that this is true, the Dave-maximizing approach is probably not to say "stufz da grammerz!!1" but rather to write well-enough-to-be-understood and not care about the occasional transgression or three.

(There are other writers who make the stylistic choice to be near-perfect paragons of English grammar -- that totally works, too. It communicates something a wee bit different, for example that one is really going for university professor levels of erudition, but that works for some people. PG's writing style, for example, causes me to pull out a dictionary if I see a spelling mistake because it means there is probably a word I haven't learned yet. On the other hand, I generally tend to aim for about a 98% on the mechanics of standard English, don't sweat the last 2% all that much, and frequently break the rules for comedic/dramatic/etc effect. It's much more noticeable when you aren't breaking the rules all of the time.)

This is entirely compatible with continuing the iconoclastic Dave McClure branding, because that branding is a consequence of thinking fairly radical thoughts and articulating them, rather than being entirely a consequence of the packaging of thoughts that are under the surface exactly the same as every other VC's.
Yeah because it is a tech demo, not a shippable product. There is a huge difference. Sometimes people want to get their feet wet and just play with something. They offer others a chance to follow their commits, and see where the product evolves. This leads to better knowledge sharing, and finding like minded people in the community. Your nick really doesn't reflect your personality in this thread.
depends what you mean by 'arrogant'.

a person could be stylistically arrogant, eg they are creating through their subcommunications (body language, overuse of first person pronounces etc) that they care about their own position greatly and think of themselves as important. (which may or may not be justified view of course - most often not)

i suspect many would align with that view of arrogance. perhaps it is also possible that a person could come across that way, but in fact be humble in what the objective facts they are making.

and vice versa..i've seen a few people who are charming, friendly, likeable and they don't 'feel' arrogant, but yet making the most arrogant claims, if you stop and think about it.
Oh, the content is relevant. Just not the newspaper.

Or in other words, the package deal in which I have to pay for content that is 90% irrelevant to me, distributed (even online) in a way I consider quite inconvenient.

Which is exactly why I only read a very small subset of NYT's content via HN. Unfortunately, there's no convenient way to pay for that kind of usage.

But I don't feel sorry for the newspapers about that. They've had decades to invest in solving that problem, and most of them have invested exactly 0 cents. They've thrown millions at online publishing and keeping their offline business going, but when it came to investing in the one thing that could possibly give their future readers what they actually want, they just bitched about "the market" not providing them with a convenient solution.
I don't see the connection. Should we avoid every open source project that was abandoned by one of its leaders? I think each spec/project should be evaluated according to its own merits rather than summarily judged based upon actions of certain associated parties.
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That just gets farmed out to google ;)
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>“Schedule 1” drugs, which included LSD and psilocybin, have a “significant potential for abuse,” they said, and “no recognized medicinal value.”

As opposed to schedule 2 drugs like meth, coke and heroin. Jesus the hypocrisy is suffocating me. Good article!
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C'mon. We're talking about a spectrum here. It's not some binary game where either you A) work to the exclusion of every other thing in your life, or B) play so hard you end up broke and without any salable skills. There's a middle ground in there, and not even such a little one. And if I might presume to speak for the author here, I'm pretty sure it's that middle ground he's advocating we shoot for.

I think what you're suggesting is a great way to end up miserable, friendless, and alone. And those are three things all the money in the world can't fix.
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I've been a fairly recent Emacs user, a year and half I suppose. I've found Xah really helpful in some cases when I was starting with Emacs. He tries to start online discussions, writes some tutorials in his blog, even starts G+ hangouts where he helps random people, and all this voluntarily.

I have no idea what discussions he has trolled or what controversies he was involved in. But there is a humble volunteer part of him I appreciate (like this HN item), and I believe in this way he adds some real value to the community.
So, from your point of view, you have a problem (lack of business) and something that would help you out (people giving you their email address). Let's reframe this: your audience has a problem (fill this in for me), and you have something which would help them out (fill this in for me), which as a consequence results in you getting their email address and permission to contact them.

You're presumably the expert on this subject, so just take this as an example: let's say your target audience spends a lot of time grant-writing. Aha! You, being the expert on their needs, might also know a lot about grant-writing, maybe specific with grant-writing-for-physical-goods-purchases. Why don't you collect your expertise about that subject in, say, a 15-page report?

Then, instead of "Please give me your email address because that would help me a lot", you'd say "Do you have a problem grant-writing? Of course you do. I'll send you a free copy of my 15-page report on grant writing, including these 3 tips which will save you time/stress and make it more likely that your grant is successful. Where should I send your report? [email address] [Get My Free Report]"

You make it clear on this page that, in addition to the report, you'll be sending them other stuff that they'll find valuable, and if they don't, they can stop receiving it at any time.

Other stuff:

1) AppSumo will tell you that, for your first 1000 customers, your issue is less "How do I collect a large number of email addresses?" and more "How do I bang down the door of 1,000 people in this niche to have meaningful conversations with them?" You can literally justify putting your email signup on an iPad and going door-to-door or conference-to-conference getting signups at this point, just to have a better understanding of where your target customer is at.

2) In specific response to Q1, at this stage, any landing page template off the shelf is better than what you have now, and paying a developer is a poor use of your limited resources. You can hook together e.g. Unbounce or e.g. any landing page template on ThemeForest.net to e.g. Mailchimp in under 15 minutes, even with no special development skill.

3) In direct response to your Q2, this question is "How do I do marketing?", and that is outside the scope of an HN comment. Don't worry about that right now. Get the incentive written, get the landing page up, and get things to the point where you can take someone out to coffee and browbeat them into signing up on the spot. If you cannot convince someone to sign up for your mailing list while you're looking them in the eye you will never convince 10,000 people to sign up for your mailing list just from looking at your landing page.
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They are schedule 1 because they have no recognized medicinal value, and no, you can't research any medicinal value because they are schedule 1!

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