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When I first saw Imgfave, I dismissed as just another image sharing site, but decided to check it out anyway.

Half an hour later I was still scrolling through the pictures.
Yes, Sebastian & you, the act of tracking works. Illustration: https://didthis-actionwiki.appspot.com/user/umjasnik/stats tracking of building an action/habit/lifehacks tracking tool http://didth.is (still beta lots of work to do). Way to go Matt!
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Yep. While its cool, most people apartment shop for max a few weeks per year? I don't know about others, but I tend to avoid installing anything that has a single purpose and limited use, even if its free, because I don't like being cluttered with apps and widgets and extensions and the like.

If the general public is anything like me, a website is far more inviting than something like this.
Interesting, yea I guess that's exactly what would be required to achieve this, a function capable of reliably translating between path data formats and also canvas instructions. Path data can be annoying though, so many ways to express the same thing. Happy to collab on a jsfiddle? Once we have that the rest should be fairy simple.
>If you have 10 calls to ListenAndServe

ListenAndServe blocks forever. If you have 10 calls to ListenAndServe, it's implied that you're in 10 different, concurrently running processes (goroutines). A panic, in Go, does not cross a goroutine boundary. If, in imaginary parallel universe Go with exceptions, exceptions did cross goroutine boundaries, then one goroutine could crash another goroutine.

The point of Go is to be able to sensibly write stable, concurrent programs with compile-time safety. Exception-based error handling would be a mess with Go's concurrency model.

In practice, you would only call ListenAndServe 10 times if you were listening on 10 different ports, because you had 10 different projects on the same server. That's a perfectly realistic situation. Now consider that one site has an error and throws an exception. Should all the other sites go down?

Error handling in Go is admittedly tedious, but when you work with the language for a bit you'll start to understand why they chose to design it in that manner.
Wow... this looks really awesome!

Some ideas:
- An iPhone app or web interface
- Allow you to upload a photo as a response
- Some sort of API to add things like "How many emails did you send?" or "How many Twitter followers did you gain?"
- Some way to pay you... I'd hate to start using this for a few months only to see it go away

Other then that, keep up the great work!
If Microsoft was the company involved everyone would be crying fowl about how they are a monopoly and this is the ultimate evil.
Schumer might do better to simply do less supporting of legislation that would cripple tech startups (like SOPA).

And maybe (as Jon Stewart noted) use the term "experts" instead of "nerds":

http://ispnews.com/jon-stewart-defends-nerds-as-experts/
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Sorry, I should have said 'immutable' instead.
Doesn't Amazon plan to be Amazon with 1 hour delivery?
How Do Y Combinator Startups Get Such Incredible Valuations?
pad mapper is much better than this. this doesn't work well at all. i look for housing in LA, but b/c one of the listings is in WA it zooms out and makes it difficult to zoom back in. and if you click on a listing your back to the zoomed out default focus when done with it. THIS NEEDS A LOT OF WORK!!!
That makes sense, but what remains in the letter isn't a significant grievance. Facebook using API access in an anti-competitive manner is.
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These are the types of stories that Silicon Valley generates that never cease to amuse me. What we have here is a typical example of how agents act in a competitive capitalist environment. In a system where profit is all that matters, I find it amusing to hear people bitch about 'ethics' and 'bad faith'.

We have long known Facebook's model, and the warning signs are everywhere. Facebook is a surveillance conglomerate, and it is granting you certain privileges - either as a so-called 'user' or as a developer - at its behest. Get in bed with that thing, and you just might get the cooties.
How much would it cost to run a scientifically sound research poll on this?
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Full disclosure I am one of the brother's of the guys involved in this project ! This to me now typifies Hacker News and this is very very sad. Hacker News of which I have been a member for a number of years has always been a great place to go where you get good actionable comments and discussion on topics. This thread however is typical of the 'new' Hacker News, a place where users want to snipe at other users and find negative aspects to things submitted. BusterKeaton has gone to the extent of creating a throwaway Hacker News profile to point out disparities in an interesting project that had no ulterior motive - just an idea that stemmed from a book that may also apply to a website. Why pick it apart to try to find something wrong with it ? Why then try to discredit one of the founders with threats about his current employer ? Hacker News was always a place where like minded people could gather to discuss and showcase interesting projects, often for people who are employed outside of these projects and who are trying to better their lives with interesting and thought provoking projects. Hacker News now unfortunately is a place where some of it's users are trying to discredit and prove a point. This is a very sad day and has forever tainted my view of Hacker News and reinforces my view that Hacker News is certainly not the place it once was and albeit there a lot of great users with interesting commentary and interesting projects to showcase there are a lot of individuals who want to prove a point, belittle others and generally snipe.
Why wait 1.5 months to make an open letter after a "June 13th, 2012 at 4:30pm" meeting? Did you try communicating directly with Facebook for 45 days, then let it go? What makes now the best time to incite public wrath against Facebook (I'm assuming that was the intent in resolving never to write another line of code for a "rotten to the core" company) in an open letter that was anything but conciliatory?

It sounds like Facebook used some hard-handed tactics, but I'm more curious as to your choice of timing.

Edit: not trying to be snarky, genuinely curious.
They aren't even using the code.

So it's basically a domain, page rank and traffic.
That's an awfully liberal use of "bad faith". There wasn't any "negotiation" yet at all, it's just a meeting. Meetings go off-agenda all the time.

It seems to me just like you say, the extent of the harm to Dalton is that he "would not have had the meeting in the first place." So basically facebook wasted his afternoon by forcing him to listen to some competition threats and trying to hand him an offer letter.

Why should we care? I still don't see any ethics issues here at all. Hard negotiation isn't "bad faith".
yeah me too.. thot i'd spend a couple of min to check it out..
most of the issues you point out really don't matter except all the old stories lost.

> They don't employ canonical or robots.txt.

doesn't matter

> They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains "celebrity news", which doesn't appear anywhere on their site.

doesn't matter

> They hardcode CSS with styles on div's. They don't use text-transform but type headers in all-caps.

doesn't matter

etc...
I'd love to have this service at home, so I'm (selfishly) hoping Instacart becomes hugely successful!

That said, I can't help but wonder whether the company will find a business model with sustainable economics. A lot of really smart people have tried and failed to accomplish this sort of thing before. For example, Amazon invested $60 million in Kozmo.com back in the late 90's, and they couldn't make it work. (Kozmo.com ended up raising a quarter billion dollars before shutting down.)[1]

The main challenge is that same-day, point-to-point delivery is very expensive -- a complex problem. (Most delivery systems in use today rely on some kind of hub-and-spoke design.) Perhaps the wide adoption of smart phones will make point-to-point delivery economically viable for Instacart -- e.g., by giving the company cost-effective access to underused delivery vehicles as needed to satisfy the ebbs and flows of consumer demand.

I'm curious to see if and how Instacart can pull it off.

--

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com#History
same day is different than 1 hour. not to mention, you cannot order perishables from Amazon.
But they suggested they were wiling to compensate Dalton (by buying his company) which makes it decidedly less uncool.

P.S. did people here believe before this story broke that Facebook would never revoke API access when it is in their strategic interest to do so? What did Facebook say or do to give off that impression? Is this an industry norm I am not familiar with?
I didn't view that as rude. Eye of the beholder I guess.
Quick question ... how does this differ from a site like https://www.chartmyself.com/ outside of the yes/no field?
Web only? ORLY? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.padmapper&....

Edit: oh, not what you said. Granted, yes, I found the PM desktop tool much more useful than mobile, though mobile was good enough to use when I was roaming around town.
We protect through our license, not through engineering. There is no copy protection implemented in Phusion Passenger Enterprise, so technically speaking, we can't stop you. Instead, we trust that our users won't abuse this fact.
Or. Hits to a website result in a list of unique IPs accessing the site. Remove any IPs from the list which are known to be running JavaScript. The remaining IPs aren't running JavaScript or are ignoring/breaking your script.

This begs the question whether or not there was a scenario where there was a hit to the site, the referrer was set to Facebook, JS was enabled in the browser, but the resulting hit didn't result in a JS enabled request to the analytics software.

Another poster mentioned prefetching as a likely culprit. Google is known to prefetch search results for you, but it requires the use of the rel="prerender" tag. I find it highly unlikely that is what's happening here.
I think Dalton is in it for a cause, and a belief. A belief that he has strengthened and reinforced in his mind for months. One that he is totally convinced is true. And right here he demonstrated the strength of that belief and of his cause. He could essentially have sold his soul to the devil and been rich and happy, or stuck with his belief, and he stuck with it.

Whether or not he is right, I'll give him a lot of respect for sticking with his guns and turning down something so outrageously tempting that hardly anyone else has turned down ever, just to chase his dreams. Props Dalton, and whether or not you get it, you deserve congrats and success for this.
You cannot come up for air without pissing someone off. Digg's carcass was festering the internet. I'm glad to see it being taken in another direction.
Though I still don't understand that well what Dalton's product really is, I do respect him for the tough choice he made. It takes guts to turn down a lot of money from some big player. Good luck, Dalton.
I retreat to the street when reading stories like this: FB subjected him to a hustle.
I have also had a really good experience with USPS, but I have not had negative experience with UPS or FedEx.
Most things only happen once every [polling period] so the loop would occur relatively slowly.
I bet you're less than 1% of digg's traffic and you just have to disable noscript to be able to browse it. It's not like you're stuck on IE because of your job.
Hi Matt,

It looks great. I really like that there are simple answers (yes/no!)

I wish there were a notification system, though. Like an option for "If I haven't made a report by ?pm, send me an email to remind me."

Or "If I haven't made a report for x number of hours, remind me."

Maybe implement it as an opt-in and opt-out list that's stored separately, so that your server doesn't have to poll every single account all the time.

The hardest part I have of tracking is remembering to track, and that would really help.
Instead of simply displaying the phonenumbers of the local Congressmen, they could use a simple Grassroutes widget (http://grassroutes.us/). OccupyWallSt.org and Twitpic.com used the widget during the SOPA blackout.
Unfortunately for you I would expect medicine to be something they won't deliver. Alcohol, too.
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I use a Chrome extension that automatically displays the embedded photos as thumbnails next to each listing. Per request, it probably increases the resource burden on CL's servers by one or two orders of magnitude. I can't imagine they are happy about that and keep waiting for the day when they implement some sort of rate limiting.

Or maybe it really is as they say, and they just don't want 3rd parties doing this sort of thing, even though it's far more efficient. Personally I'm skeptical.
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> So how do you attract the best 10%, the best curators, the best original creators?

You don't; at least, reddit doesn't. Reddit aggregates "original" content from other places (scare quotes due to that content often times being a repost itself.)

Did you happen to see the week f7u12 decided to have no moderation aside from blatantly illegal content? Meaning, they didn't remove reposts/off-topic material? The very first day, an image that wasn't even a rage comic hit the front page with 300+ upvotes. The meta subreddits were quick to point to that as proof that most redditors don't vote based on category. Reddit users don't care about subreddits, and they don't care about granular curation. As long as they like it, it could be in any subreddit— as is what happened when /r/funny became a dumping ground for off-topic content when the admins removed /r/reddit.com.

> 600,000 users and they run a community with very little to no layman speculation.

There are loads of off-topic, speculative, and joke comments in /r/askscience. Loads! The mods, however, rule with an iron fist, and only in the first hour of a thread's existence will you see them littered throughout the comments. Take a look at this thread[0], pulled from the current front page of /r/askscience. Do you see the top comment? It's an official mod statement about a certain joke. In most threads that get 100+ comments, you'll see this same type of comment near the top.

[0]: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/xhyhr/is_there_a...

> Other subreddits, like /r/f7u13 (or /r/circlejerk) run very anarchistic comment sections where ridiculousness is supported and mods abusing power is par the course.

I'd hardly call anything the f7u12 or /r/circlejerk mods have done as an abuse of power. 99.99% of the time, the users are pitchforking over what amounts to either a misunderstanding or something that Just Doesn't Matter. Oh my word, BEP changed the CSS for 10 minutes to prank the subreddit? How dare he! Downvote every comment he's ever made to prove how important this is!

That's beside the point, though. Excuse my digression.

> I do not understand how you can emulate the result of a strong, engaged community by preventing communities from forming at all.

I'm saying the community doesn't exist in the first place. It's a bunch of kids online who like to think they're part of a secret club of close friends. It's easy to point to the most prominent feature of reddit, the micro-communities, as the reason it has become successful, but the real bread and butter is probably the crap that clogs /r/all.
coppermine and katmai were architectural steps between the pentium pro and Tualatin, perhaps you meant northwood and prescott, the codenames of p4 chips.
Still being blocked for users on Verizon....
Hi guys,

I have had this domain for a few years (since the announcement that the games would be in London) and I never had the time to setup and get writing myself so decided to build a sort of open blog that people can share to with Facebook and add an Instagram image.

At the very least it has given me a chance to dip my toe in the API waters of Instagram and Facebook and it was fun to make over a three week period.

Some constructive feedback would be welcome
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dude I just want to say I know you, I follow your posts, and as scary as this sounds, I think you are awesome. Well done sir.
I do in fact argue that CL's strategy is profit-optimizing as a market-making and competition-avoiding strategy:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4324889
The issue is that facebook and twitter have derailed from their earlier stated mission of connecting people and facilitating communication. Their goal as public businesses is making money from advertising, anything else is just feeding into that. This kind of misalignment of goals results in end users experience suffering. A thing like a social network is part of the fundamental fabric of the internet As a result the organization running this infrastructure should have very clear goals. It doesn't have to be a non-profit, but the goal should not be to generate 30% growth and billions in profits. The goal should be to make it easier for people to communicate.
Given the decrease in the cost of computing, there is no reason that it should cost billions of $ to run an infrastructure like facebook. What we need is a linux for the internet. Fundamental infrastructures like social network and search engine being run by entities with no hidden agendas! It will happen!
IIRC about 40% of diggs' traffic came from Google. But when they changed their algo ~2 years ago to favor original/source content, our overall traffic dropped by about 30%. The value of that traffic in advertising dollars was significant, but in terms of participation in the community and growth of the site, it was almost nothing. The new site isn't ad based, so I don't think anyone really cares.
Hey, appreciate the feedback.

My concern with building an iPhone app or interface is that shifts the tool from being a fill out in a few minutes at the end of the day tool to a fill in stuff as it happens type tool, which is what I think discourages people from continuing with it long term. You might be interested in Daytum if this approach suites you: http://daytum.com/

As far as paying, thank you for the offer. I'm mainly looking for feedback right now; will likely charge folks down the road via some freemium model (and you all will be grandfathered in).

Thanks again!
So the issue here is that there are people who pay for cable (C), and people who don't pay for cable (!C). There are also people who would, all things being equal, pay for HBO (H), and people who would not (!H). It sounds like he is saying that C ∩ H is larger and/or more profitable than !C ∩ H, at least for now. And that catering to the latter would cannibalize more than it is worth.

That is probably true, if short-sighted. I wonder how hard it would be to undercut them and go for the small, but possibly growing !C market. I'm guessing pretty hard.
However, my Nexus S (on T-Mobile) does have the NFC chip and the Play Store is still reporting it as being incompatible.
Surface is to tablet as Zune is to music player?
Sorry for the misunderstanding, please try it on a mobile device running iOS & Android for the multitouch/pinch stuff.
I have been waiting because I have been afraid.

I have been blogging extensively about platform-risk issues for the past month, but have never come out and said this part: http://daltoncaldwell.com/
I was thinking more like cough drops and advil, not prescriptions... would those still be outside the acceptable list of things to deliver?
I trust HN, clicked it and got the first and only "Blocked" message. Saw the ".xxx" domain and freaked out.
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It is absolutely stunning to me how badly people miss the point on here. You really wouldn't be annoyed if I scheduled a meeting with you, decided to make the meeting about something else and then basically acted like I was being a good guy when it was clear I was trying to milk as much as possible out of the deal in a meeting I lied about the purpose of while I was wasting your time? Would you then want some angry asshole on the internet to mock you and call you a precious snowflake? You wouldnt? Bizarre, you seemed to think being an ass like that was pretty reasonable.
Pun intended ;)
I don't like the site, and I think it'll fizzle quickly. I'm always incorrect when I feel this way...
I highly doubt anything would come of it. If it did, it would be pretty easy to explain. Nonetheless, having .xxx traffic originating from you on a work computer is not a situation i'd care to have to explain.
> Their only use on the page is to scare visitors into going "Oh my god, that could happen to me!" so that they tell all their friends about all these terrible things that the evil gubmint is going to do if we all don't oppose CISPA.

Sounds relevant to me.

They’re just taking a big picture approach here, not focusing on CISPA. I think that’s okay.
I truly want this on my city, and I guess a lot of people are thinking the same, so the model has a lot of potential!
wait, what? how?
That's a great idea -- thanks!

For now, try just getting through the first few days. After that it becomes more of a habit and you're less likely to forget. A sticky note can help too :)
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Why does Homeland Security exist again? Even the name doesn't suggest it's coming from a "free" country.
I just meant that I tried the Windows 8 preview VM and found the UI quite hard to use from a simple interaction perspective. I think some native input hardware would go a long way towards making things like the invisible side navigation easier to access.
We are moving into an era of the walled garden. Apple has it's iTunes Store and Mac Store, Microsoft will have a Windows store when Windows 8 launches, FB has its platform and apps that run on its platform, Twitter, on and on... All companies are looking to build walls and moats around their "platforms" because walls mean profits.

Now you need to blessing of the landlord, and not be competing against them in any way.
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