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Hey jeswin, first of all thank you for joining and giving it a try, it is really cool you giving it some of your time and helping out with some feedback. The question you ask is a very good one, and I guess one I was sort-of expecting, here is how I see evemi and why I think it is unique..

evemi is a platform for hanging out with new people that are similar to you, whereas I see Pinterest as more for self-expression. On evemi you follow the # hash-tag pages over following people (even though this is possible too) and anyone can post to these hash-tag pages too. I see the pages on evemi as individual communities that anyone can contribute to and follow and be a part of.. So for example if you are a designer you can reach out and post to the #design community on evemi and get some feedback and collaborate with other people around the world into design like you. The original idea was that I wanted a way to communicate with new people like me and I thought other people out there might feel the same way.

I guess I see evemi much like the forums we all grew up on and loved back in the good ol' days - it is a place to meet similar people and have a discussion around a shared interest.

Would love to know your thoughts on all of that jeswin - do you think there is something in all of that or do you think I am way off the mark lol!
I would lead off with this:

http://gyazo.com/3a3958557ec6c07e1ce34e635526a45d

it gets right to the point and avoids the awkward 'click through full page slideshows of feelgood BS' (assuming you even understand you're supposed to click words in the first place).

Those words on the slideshows ... some letters always clash because the pics are a mix of light and dark, as are the letters. Just drop it.
"MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers can only make things up to a certain size." The printer did not make the horse head. The printer produced the parts (up to a certain size) and Mr. Wenman assembled and finished it. He made the horse head.

"...but they’re not, like, museum-quality great." Notwithstanding that the printer can't finish the pieces to make them "museum quality," there are striations on the horse head that come from how the plastic is stacked up. Not Museum Quality.

While this is a fine use of 3D printing, it's not a major advance like the article tries to make it.
Haha kreutz - I think the Pinterest question is one I might have to get used to answering but lol thanks for your encouraging response - maybe that should be mine too from now on haha.
I find it somehow sarcastic that as you say "the only popular use of mono" is a platform that does not support linux.
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If I'm going to invest the time and effort into registering for an account, I'll need to know what exact benefit your service will be providing, how you plan to position the product and differentiate it from competitors in the same space, and your 6-month roadmap with projected revenues.

I know you're only 6 months into learning how to program, but if you want to roll with the big boys on HN, you're going to need to prove your worth.
I'm so glad someone finally posted this on HN. The unique and new viewpoint you bring to this site is invaluable, just like in years gone by when it was pasted almost verbatim all over Digg and Reddit thousands of times.

I hope you and many more people come here armed with the same diatribe about copying != stealing to post on the many future fluff pieces TorrentFreak and TechDirt will write just for your upvotes.
Differentiation from Pinterest/other will be one of the key factors in their eventual success. From the emails that I've received, this project is trying to get users and move forward. This isn't merely a demonstration of what has been learnt in 6 months.

As such, debate on the differentiation aspect is fair and useful to the developers.
Thanks. Let me go through the app in more detail and will let you know.
Nice work, looks great. I'm just getting started with moving to web development. What languages did you use?

BTW I would suggest on the 'what is' page to have an overlay just informing user to click as its not too intuitive
Could you tell us a little about the technology you used, your background, how you learned to code and what you found most challenging and most rewarding? Those are the most interesting parts of this story to me. The site looks nice regardless of the derivative nature, don't let the negative comments get you down, good job.
"Hang out with people that are similar to you" is a great one-liner. You should open with that instead of "follow the things that you love".
This is the first time I've read anything about what defines a "growth hacker". The people quoted in the article seem so eager to assert that they are not marketers, yet they seem to have a tenuous grasp on what marketing encompasses.

Although I work as a developer now, I did an entire business degree and had to study a fair bit of marketing along the way. From day one, it was made very clear that marketing isn't just amount advertising and promotion. Instead, we were taught to view marketing as something that is integral to product development.

It begins before the product even exists, to research the market and talk to potential users before development begins. This continues throughout development, and feedback and hard data are used to shape development of the product. The article,s assertion that marketing typically ends after user sign up is also incorrect, at least in any company that has been doing it properly. Marketers love hard data, and aren't going to stop paying attention once someone becomes a customer. They know very well, and have for decades, that current users are a key source of data needed to drive ongoing product development decisions.

Of course, that is how it works in an ideal company. Perhaps in the kinds of companies that TechCrunch focuses on, marketing has traditionally been done very poorly, so there isn't much recognition of what it really is. The risk in reinventing the wheel in this case is that it will be done poorly, ignoring hard-won lessons and repeating mistakes.

I'm all for advancing the state of the art in marketing, but I'm just not sure that calling yourself a growth hacker and pretending marketing is something that it really isn't is the most effective way to do it.
Funny, the same can be said of people living in the US and US allies. The west has a very "strongly controlled media" too, and the message being sent is quite clear.
If you read the OP carefully, you'll see he's quite aware of the terminology.

There really isn't any recursion in that XML snippet, none of the entities refers to itself, directly or transitively. If there was, the file would be invalid and the error probably caught by the parser before dying from memory exhaustion. There's no way to terminate recursion in XML entities.
You obviously have a misunderstanding of what propaganda means. I find this article very interesting and full of factual information, the exact opposite of what propaganda is. It is all about the rescue operation and they don't even go into what provoked the attack on the embassy. Which part of it is propaganda again?
It will rise awareness among "typical bittorrent users" how to avoid being detected.
Obviously the solution needs to be a legal framework that disallows my internet provider from sending me harassing notices or willfully degrading my service. For the latter, that might already be the case.
Okay jeswin, looking forward to seeing what you think after a bit of a better look at it.
Am I the only one who thinks this kind of stuff should be stopped? No doubt the OP is creative and has a great set of skills, but the fact he intentionally faked the information, to the extent of building a 3D model, took the rendered picture using his phone and put it on the web, really made me feel this has crossed the line.

I can accept mistakes made on good faith or a benign April Fool joke, but not this kind of deliberate lies and manipulations. It is a waste of everybody's time with no real value in the end.

Journalists indeed should check their reference sources, but it doesn't mean it is OK to deliberately faking news just to check if the journalists have done their job. Their time could be used in other much more productive ways. I am quite appalled to see people are implicitly encouraging this kind of behavior, little did they realize this is eroding the trust we have had in the tech community.

If we don't do something, more and more fake news will appear. I presume all of us love interesting and trustworthy news articles, no?

Bottom line: I recognize there are always fake news articles on Internet, my point is we should condemn and put a stop to this kind of deliberate hoax to prevent the further deteriorating of news quality.
Nice point depa, I think I have tried every one liner I can think of over the past few weeks but yeah I think you are right - after all that is what evemi is all about probably over following the things you love, thanks for that point.. Can't believe that after all of the this time searching for a good one-liner lol!
I'll start taking copyright seriously when it's no longer a joke. Right now, the terms are effectively infinite.

Scale it back to 14 years and maybe I'll consider respecting it.

(Luckily, I don't have to put up with this shit in Australia just yet. Another year or so, and I'm sure it'll be here, too.)
I posted here with the understanding I was providing everyone accessing news.ycombinator.com with access to my post.

A comparable example would be if I posted this on my blog behind a pay wall (which meant it cost $5 to access the post) and then someone copy and pasted my post here and you read my post while understanding it had been taken from behind my pay wall. That would be absolutely unacceptable.
True jeswin, I am definitely interested in having some people give evemi a go, and I am not afraid of adapting the concept if it means it is more suited to what people want and will use.
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DTD entities come from SGML, and are still commonly used as an extensibility/modularity mechanism in XML. XML power users (e.g. for documentation) commonly have DTDs that refer to entities that can be replaced to customize the format. IBM's DITA is an example for this. Having only one level of DTD expansion would make that much less powerful. I think that's a legitimate use case, but the resulting system is still a mess IMHO. Like many macro systems it's very hard to understand and debug, and on top of it you have to understand a relatively obscure format that isn't even XML (DTDs).

That being said, like many of the things in XML, DTDs and entities not very useful outside of publishing/markup use cases, and dangerous on top of it (not only for the billion laughs, e.g. including system entities).
He probably didn't realize you have to click, it's not very clear. The design looks quite nice, but if you can't tell what you're supposed to do, it's a problem (it confused me too).. esp the HN crowd probably just wants to see a description of what your service actually does, not some nice pictures :)
Maybe I've worded this incorrectly, but they're basically saying, "What happens if you get hit by a bus?" My co-founder has access to one of our three projects, but no one else has access to Heroku, GitHub, etc.

Also, the Heroku vs EC2 is another can of worms. Heroku is the better decision for where we are now.
>Supernatural explanations can be and are (sometimes) wrong.

Of course. But what reasons are there for believing they are sometimes right?

>If I tell you that a certain rock was created on the spot
by a supernatural being, and that is exactly what happened, than my statement is an explanation of what happened.

If. I've essentially got the same question as above here: what reasons are there for believing that this does actually happen?

>Testable predictions are an addagio that is specific to natural sciences. Asking to every single explanation for any kind of phenomena out there to have testable predictions is a sign of dogmatism and ideological bigotry.

I actually agree that it's not a matter of what we can (at least at the moment) test. It's too strong a requirement. But that doesn't get you off the hook. It doesn't therefore mean that anything that can't be tested can just be asserted as true.

If something is to be believed, there has to be some reasons that suggest that it is the case. These can be good reasons, or they can be poor reasons. They can be quite flawed. (I think they ultimately should be grounded in evidence, but that's another matter).

So if someone wants to say we should believe in something supernatural, they still have to justify their claim, and this justification can still be evaluated.
It's no secret he's the man behind the hack so not sure what you're suggesting.
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You might, but the expansion happens on a level that might be really hard to implement if you want to keep XML semantics. E.g. in the DOM API, each element has its own identity - you can't collapse identical objects (or you could, but the objects generated this way aren't identical, they have different parent nodes for example).
How is it supposed to be different from Twitter, Facebook or ...?
Hey kyro, I understand I have to prove my worth, and programming is already something I am becoming extremely passionate about. Your points about understanding the benefits of evemi before you sign up I tried to explain on the http://evemi.com/why_evemi page, have you checked out that page? Regarding revenue, that is really not something I am concentrating on right now, I am just trying to learn as much as I can and hopefully build something maybe a few people might find useful and fun.
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Come on. If you're gonna post to HN don't link me to some landing page with a huge jpg of 2 chicks and a form to put my e-mail in. I feel like this goes against Show HN/hacker etiquette
Actually, if you have a look at the date this article was written in 2007. So it's certainly not part of any concerted effort to make Iran look bad or a precursor to a new war.
Agree 100%. The 1953 coup was one of the worst things US foreign affairs did. It's probably the biggest reason why America is viewed with so much contempt throughout the middle east, still.

Not mentioning this fact to an audience that might be oblivious to it is inexcusable.

I wonder how the just released movie handles this fact?
The mobile version of the site is really slick. The onboarding for a new user felt friendly.

Two things:

1. I had little context of who the people were I could choose to follow (save for their photos).

2. I had no place to upload a profile photo.

Care to share your tech stack or how you progressed over six months of learning? I'd love to hear about it.
Hey dizzystar, thanks for commenting. Yeah I definitely need to add a prompt to click on that page, and I think I need to clarify the concept a little too. The site is built-ish once you sign in (still lots I want to do) but nice to hear from some people on Hacker News that have an understanding as to the learning curve I have been on.
FWIW I am also able to notice those points very clearly.
Reminds me of Pixastic (http://www.pixastic.com/lib/).

It'd be interesting to implement all those effects as WebGL shaders (massive speed boost) and to use the "pure" JavaScript implementations as fallbacks.
Imo, this is not representative. You should try to do a better job explaining what your product is, and that's it. Very little people will care about 6 month roadmaps, and asking you for revenue projections is plain silly.
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>like we have to do with every other product?

That's not a very progressive spirit. It might seem unfair, but technology has changed the rules of the game. The consumption of many goods has become non-rivalrous.

Whereas taking goods off shelves without paying is covered by other laws, copyright is about forbidding you from sharing what you bought with others who didn't buy it. That's much more debatable.

Reducing this issue to "let's do what we do with every other product" would undo some of the achievements of the technology and hold us back. Copyright has to stand on its own, it can't be justified by analogy to rivalrous goods.
Sorry about that.. I did not know what page to link to, I really wasn't after sign-ups for the sake of sign-ups, I just wanted a little feedback from some more experienced people.
From my experience, most people will never visit a second page on your site, or even scroll down to read more text. The best thing you can do is hit people right in the face with a strong value proposition. In your case 'Follow the things you love' seems to abstract, it doesn't really do anything to communicate the product to me.
Thanks David! :)
I was being sarcastic. Seems like a few commenters here are expecting a bit much from you.

Well done on the project! I'd be interested in a post about how you went from zero-to-product in 6 months.
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Vapid articles like these reinforce my impression of techcrunch as TMZ for startup geeks.
The story is about the ingenious use of diplomatic and intelligence resources to accomplish a daring cross-border mission in an innovative way. It is not to provide a balanced summary of the geopolitical structure of the Middle East.

An article about a CIA exfil from Iran need cover the full socio-political context as much as a story about a Berlin entrepreneur need re-hash WWII. One of the strengths of the Wired article is that it presents the nuclear story and avoids the proximal drama.

The preceding comment, on the other hand, labels the six subjects of the article as "active participants in the machinery used to oppress the Iranian people".
It is well covered in the film's expository introduction, which uses storyboard-like illustrations and a voice-over to explain the history.
> It's one of the better states, as far as gun laws go.

That seems like a very subjective measurement.
Presumably the part where they don't clearly state that the United States is responsible for all the world's ills.

Sheez. This whole thread is further evidence that off-topic articles should be ruthlessly extirpated.
It's debatable whether that's unacceptable.

Is it unacceptable to remember something you've read? To tell a friend? To write down and sell it? If you turn a profit? If you don't? If you write by hand, 1 character per second? If you use a machine to do it, 1 million characters per second? Are we allowed to quote? To teach? To paraphrase? To back up?

These are hard questions, and you're reducing them to moral absolutes. Make your case without shouting about how you're right.
Looks good, but people will forget to change the batteries and then fill the forums with complains when they lost all their data.
> less likely to like their stuff

Quantified this? Or is this something you hope is the case, without really knowing?
One other suggestion: read some research on mathematics education. Look through some of the proceedings of some of the recent RUME (research on undergraduate math education) conferences, for example: http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/Site/Proceedings.html
This book How Students Learn (PDF can be downloaded for free) covers math education (as well as history and science) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10126
it is a sequel to the excellent (and free) book How People Learn:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9853

Students need a motivating context, a reason to learn mathematics (or any topic). It's called situated learning (also situated cognition, situated action) - with techniques like problem-based learning, challenge-based learning, service learning, project-based learning, learning by design, learning through games, simulations, modeling, programming, etc.

That's one side of it. Another is embodied learning. That's how we understand math (and other) concepts. See for example work by Rafael Nunez http://vislab.cs.vt.edu/~quek/classes/aware+embodiedinteract...
http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~nunez/web/FM.PDF
great article, very well written with many agreeable points. But I doubt that the teaching of mathematics can be easily subverted into a better one, mostly because there is plenty of people that do not care enough: they think "math is hard and sucks" or simply do not care about knowing the alphabet of the knowledge. That's why at the University math is taught the good way, because there almost everybody is genuinely interested in the subject.
The point as I understood it is that if you were so glad to see that this article wasn't about a startup, maybe you'd do better getting your articles from a different source.
Oh, you mean Hal from Malcolm in the Middle?
if you are resilient and persistent you have a good chance to succeed
Oh well yeah, that was implied.
Hey neona, I definitely need to add a prompt for people to click, and need to make the description a little clearer, thanks for commenting.
I still (maybe ignorantly) vote for the candidate, not the party, which is why I couldn't see myself voting for that 3rd party that you are insinuating. Once they have a viable candidate, I may. I hope that day comes soon.
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Interesting post. This is exactly the same kind of thing that happens on smaller IRC networks. Power groups come and go. Sometimes servers (with their own regular users) join the network and stay for a few months. Political compromises are made (you can enforce your crazy rule if you bring X number of users). Fascinating to watch, but a colossal time drain.
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Great article. The lego air plane analogy is very accurate. It is certainly true that maths has lost some of its mysticism in early education but I think perhaps telling students that "maths is a set of abstract made up rules governing an imaginary universe" might alienate them just as much as before.
This is indeed a serious problem. An interesting startup that is trying to address it is http://www.mathalicious.com/. They give math teachers lesson plans which tie math to things that students care about - 'is Kobe Bryant a better shooter than LeBron James?'. Things like that.

From my own experience, I was pretty bored with Math in high school. Through a series of coincidences I started reading some popular physics books, which led me to study Physics and re-discover Math as an incredible tool.
For the record, stretta is a badass:

http://www.youtube.com/user/stretta

Mostly associated with the monome.
lol okay thanks kyro, and thanks for understanding where I am coming from - and thanks for your encouragement. A few people have emailed me about this so I will by telling a little more about my story here on Hacker News and I will do a nice detailed post on evemi.
I see net neutrality as the single most important issue in my tech bubble. Giving entrenched tech companies even more of an advantage would be disastrous. The piracy issue is also woven into the thread of the net neutrality issue.

I am getting mixed signals from both major parties though:
http://www.dailytech.com/Democratic+Senators+Block+Republica...

http://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-legislators-are-...
You can also use this illusion to make 'octveless notes': http://www.jefftk.com/octaveless/
Hey david, okay thank you for the advice, I also think I need to do a better job of getting the message across straight away on the landing page. depa had a nice idea on here a minute ago to use the line - "Hang out with people that are similar to you", I think he is right in that it spells out to people what evemi is all about from the word go.
I believe that's the standard reprap infill pattern.
I'd suggest a clear way to unsubscribe from those SendGrid emails or they're going to start getting marked as spam.