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> Everyone keeps talking about the 'white guy' as if there's only one type of person who is white and male.

That's another issue, but not the one we are talking about. There was a lack of diversity in some important areas. Maybe there was a lot of diversity in other areas, but that doesn't contradict the first assessment.
> yes, but the cost of using your car for a drive from home to work is basically the cost of car fuel.

No, it isn't. Insurance, license, registration, annual inspection, tires, wear-and-tear, maintenance, depreciation... and imagine if I needed a fully-staffed mission control at my house every time I took a ride.

Reusable rockets may reduce costs, but chances are it won't be by 100x.
Ask HN: Outsource support to US?
Hi,

I'm based in Indian and will soon release my SaaS app, and since the primary audience will be US and European users, I'll need to provide support during their daytime.

I wonder if there's any US company/service that handles phone support for non-US customers?

Ofcourse, when we can afford we'll setup an office and hire someone in US but for now we're looking for a cheaper solution.
Please don't edit the title of the post - "Is Kickstarer dead for tech?" was not the focus of the Techcrunch item - your title is just "bait".
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In addition to what is talked about below, using value semantics (with mutable or immutable objects) can be helpful. Lots of types can be given value semantics and end up more efficient (most people think copying == less efficient, always) due to the lack of pointers and the locality destroying/cache unfriendliness they introduce. In my experience if you see new/delete in C++ code you should be immediately questioning who owns that object, how it is shared and how/when it is destroyed. I can't even count the number of times I have seen one object new up something and then share a raw pointer with N other objects, who then either have to coordinate who calls delete or, the creator itself does so, and you may have use-after-free issues. unique_ptr and shared_ptr, or their moral equivalents, help avoid most of these issues. As a bonus shared_ptr enables weak_ptr, which can also be very handy for non-owning users and breaking cycles in object graphs.
You're conflating the need for diversity with throwing a few token minority people at the end of a lineup. This was addressed in the post:

> But note that Josh didn’t say “I contacted all the female developers I knew”. Instead, Josh reached out to the existing community networks that RailsBridge and DevChix had created. You don’t have to have a complete mental Rolodex of the Ruby community to make diversity happen. You just have to get the ball rolling, and lean on the community.

Obviously BritRuby didn't reach out to these types of groups, because as the OP found out, most of them didn't even know it existed.
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I already backup all incoming mail as JSON on my Dropbox and plan to do the same periodically as MBOX. I'm not entirely sure what to do with the JSON, though. It's a "leftover" from my first prototype, where I stored ALL DATA on Dropbox.
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Non-sexy is the new sexy. Good job, guys.
If you don't mind sharing, I have a few questions. How long after your public release did you start seeing steady growth? What do you think has been your most successful means of driving traffic?
Small colocated groups invested in the future of the company are always going to outproduce (comparing hours to hours) disparate resources pulled together on the fly.

The best exception to the colocation rule is the open source model, but OS can "get away with it" because the contributers are very, very invested in the outcome.
Does this case has something to do with your venture "ww.com"? I mean such a association can attract scrutiny and trouble in this country which is absurd in itself. Just wanted to know as I was quite curious the last time post came up.
The Lenovo Yoga 13 is an unsung hero of the Windows 8 wave. I tried it at a Best Buy as was very impressed with the build quality, specs and price. The story that's not being told though is that it's sold out everywhere and the order time on Lenovo.com is 4 weeks!

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/ideapad/yoga/yoga-1...
"obviously are the market leader"

Gmail only just recently (October 2012) overtook Hotmail.
So you are only taking into account the comments from a white guy while totally ignoring the feelings expressed by the minorities saying that that's their problem?
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Hi,

I haven't seen all of your user interface to give my opinion, but I know that Sparrow (sparrowmailapp.com) had a nice one. They've even been bought by Google.

My 2 cents
We're offering something to landlords that isn't currently available in the UK for a reasonable price. We do most of what an agent does, but our costs are minimal because we've automated as much as possible.

Our growth appears to be coming through helping on rental communities that already exist on-line, and being recommended by a lot of their users, as well as our own users being incentivised to share. (You get free listings that way).

Hopefully it will continue, as our aim ultimately is to what letting agents haven't been able to, reduce costs, streamline the process, and create a safe rental community.
The downward descent into distraction is slowly accelerating. HN is slowly turning into a tabloid.

People have found they can game the system for clicks, and they are doing so to their fullest.

The biggest problem is that some of these rants actually have value. It's just impossible to tell which ones.
For anyone who has to suffer with Windows 8, Classic Shell from sourceforge will save your life.
"I want something that works on anything" -- '97 Subaru Outback Wagon. Hauls the kids, handles rough roads well, gets through snow, reasonably easy to work on, easy parts availability, predictable maintenance schedule. ~$3-6000 used on Craigslist.
I like his vision. I hope it does come true.

To get there we need better collaboration tools. Although you can make it work with IM/email/VoIP, it's still kind of clumsy.
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I suspect that the US, including the upper class that can still afford jet air travel, contains more cultural diversity than most other countries, and what you're noticing is the outliers on the right side of the noisiness distribution.

Me, I find Buenos Aires to be particularly loud, but it's only occasionally people (usually groups of cacerolaceros, other piqueteros, or football fans); mostly it's the huge superchargers on the buses, the garbage trucks, the pneumatic actuators on the buses without silencers installed, the motorcycles without mufflers installed, the cumbia villera from the cellphones, and so on. In fact, the only louder city I've ever traveled to was Lima.
How about paying a one time license fee and install the app on your own server/get your own Mailgun account etc. That way you have more control over your data.
As a broadcaster, I don't get what's 'in it' for GetGlue users - but I do get what Viggle does, so that's a very interesting pair-up. Curious to see where it leads.
To be honest: I wouldn't even consider building the email infrastructure part myself.

Good plan, especially when there's no good reason to do so.

In all honesty, I didn't go over the technical details you provided in any detail; I just got a bit upset reading the number of "I wouldn't pay for that!"-type responses.

The thing is, I've previously seen a lot of people here claim that there's no money in time tracking tools, or any other market when, plainly, these markets do make a large amount of money. I want to emphasize that any pricing advice here should be taken with a pinch of salt. And when it comes to people who would never pay for a given service, discarded entirely ;)
> yes, but the cost of using your car for a drive from home to work is basically the cost of car fuel

Not really: licencing / tax, insurance, maintenance between use - all likely to be significant cost factors in any launch platform also.
Pardon my ignorance. What does a consultant do?
According to http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/status/ it is a patent case, which I interpret to mean it's still in force. (After the captcha, select patent number and enter 5345551, note the lack of commas)(IANAL and could be wrong.) (Sorry, I can't link directly to the page, it's a crappy application).
The upcoming 1 Gbit 802.11ac standard should help mesh networks, too, in the coming years. There's also that "Super WiFi" thing (nothing to do with the current Wi-Fi standards) that is supposed to work over miles at once, but I assume the equipment for that will be very expensive and the nodes will be very centralized (owned by companies only).
In this situation all the good will is already used, and the polite approaches have already been tried. Nothing does seem to get the message to Nokia, and now we have entered to the "screw you" phase. Nokia has decent hardware (good cameras, nice touchscreen and display, and some great services). They have just selected the wrong horse to deliver that. And why did they even had to select in a first place. None of their competitors have. While Elop, and Siilasmaa is on the board, nothing is going to change. That's really a sad state of Nokia. Nokia is not anymore lead by business decisions, but by some weird politics, where neither Nokia's board of directors nor their management cannot do anything about it. But whatever they do, they have lost their face already. Nokia is not a respectable company. They don't build their own success anymore.
ha, when i saw the headline and read the first paragraph i assumed this was a sales pitch for something.. but after scrolling down to the bottom and not finding anything i shortly realized this is the author of kalzumeus.com which is the source of some of the best advice I (as a programmer) have read on the internets.

One gotcha here is that not every programmer can be as successful doing such business consulting. I think it is a different skill (muscle?) that must be developed in order to talk with suits and create the aura of instant value. I wish i knew how to train that muscle more :)
This helps but I think you really need to show more examples...I'm not the most style-focused person but I imagine most of your target audience is in the same predicament I am: I see the example you've posted, yet I cannot think of ways to better it...which is why I would be interested in the individual stylist in the first place.

Even within the single-view that you have, there needs to be more detail. Cloesups of each piece, for example (the stone pendant necklace can't even be seen). I think the product page could be much more inviting with more attention to loving-detail over each piece of the ensemble.
Glad to hear it wasn't intentional :D
That's definitely part of the B1-B program.
This is a straw man. Why would you compare one team invested in a company, to another, remote team 'pulled together on the fly'

I say this as part of a three man team, all
remote from each other, and all invested in the company.
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That's awesome - congrats guys from a fellow Londoner :)

Just curious what the business model is, though. Are you really making profit on £20 minus Rightmove etc. Or am I missing something?

Still, either way it's a great thing for London especially! Good work.
"He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation, working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron that ever lived. And YOU just put him in charge of the ENTIRE facility."

Elop's mismanagement of Nokia was tragedy in 2011; farce in 2012. I don't remember something this bad since Commodore's management decided to ram it into the ground, turning "Amiga" into an orphaned platform and target for brand necromancy.

MeeGo wouldn't have been, ipso facto a flop; they just needed to market it and commit to it. An excellent, GNU/Linux-based OS running on Nokia's superb hardware with a responsive UI that some say trounced even the iPhone's -- it could have been the thing hackers and consumers alike would have said "shut up and take my money" to. And even if MeeGo never got off the ground, Nokia had more in-house Linux experience than most of the major players in the handset space; they were perfectly positioned to use Android as a fallback and deliver AMAZING Android hardware.

So many missed opportunities. It seems as if Elop is hell-bent on augering in the smoking remains of what was once Finland's strongest brand, instead of trying to salvage it. All for what, a little bit of money? Some buttpats from his friends at Microsoft? Is this some sort of elaborate pump-and-dump scheme? To crib another Portal line, it would be funny if it weren't so sad.
it's a "todo" app, so you kind of need the checkboxes :)
Show HN: SnickSnaps.com (Take 2) - best way to browse Craigslist
It's an actual app I've been using for a week now. Apart from the local dev database (wouldn't want to show my actual incoming emails), that's how it looks right now in my browser.

I chose the NewRelic newsletter because it somewhat fit the color scheme. So there's that...
No. Based on my experience on ~130 person dev teams it's the preferred mode for programmers.
And the monopoly should scare away anyone who has business sense from putting them in their critical path.
That's not a good analogy. With chrome extension you (almost) always need a background.html, background.js, popup.html, etc. Perhaps chrome extensions would be better if you started by defining a class or writing functions without unnecessary html tags and files. This is a bit different than html and bootstrap where you often dont need most of the framework.
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Personally I don't like either but if I had to choose between them I'd go with the bottom one.

If I were you I'd just make the black "Zeb" text into black and white stripey text and ditch the zebra.
We have no idea what is in the pipeline at Apple, nor what their "vision" is. Steve Jobs and Apple never came out and announced that the iPhone was in development and that it would revolutionize the tech industry - it just did in 2007.

Let's wait a few years before we decide if Tim Cook is just riding the wave of prior success.
Very cool idea. I'd like to use the app but my main concern is spam blocking. Maybe you can partner with someone like Cloudmark? I think Cloudmark has an API or something you can use to block spam effectively.
The antennas are already installed in pretty much all 'newer'airplanes due to ACARS, only the internal antennas and software need work.

'The external antennas also add drag to the fuselage' not really. I used to fly airplanes with antennas installed, they were used for ACARS only, no changes to consumption were in any spec or manual. Those numbers are important and even minor changes are always there. If not were so small they couldn't be measured.

The upfront investment and certification process are probably the reason this is taking this long.

Companies will never make any money out of wifi, but companies that choose not to offer it are doomed.
Nope, we'd love to do that, but we're bootstrapped and the finances just don't work right now. We're hoping landlords can provide good enough photos and work with them, and we help a little bit by using Streetview if they have no photos of their own.
Sounds like Dollhouse, which was live actors.
SnickSnaps makes browsing craigslist less awful and almost fun. We show you only the listings with pictures allowing for a beautiful and quick way to browse your local listings.

Updates from version 1:
- Added more cities
- Added more categories
- New look

Please feel free to leave comments, questions, suggestions, anything! Thanks!

This was our old thread for version 1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4248299
No, not in the least. It just so happens that we all met here on HN.

Good question though!
When I read the "About Parse" page I read this, I can't quite work out what Parse exactly is, why I would use it, and how I would benefit from it. Here's what I read:

"Parse is transforming the way mobile applications store, sync, and push data. Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all the server-side functionality developers need for rich, internet enabled applications."

Can someone describe the exact value proposition of Parse, for me as a indie developer of Mac OS X apps?
> Lastly he revealed he was working on something he calls the “Hyperloop” which will be a “cross between a rail-gun and a Concorde.”

Sounds a lot like the Lofstrom Loop, repurposed for Earthside transport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
Everyone keeps talking about the 'white guy' as if there's only one type of person who is white and male.

This argument reminds me of the classic scene from The Blues Brothers: "We got both kinds of music here: country AND western!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk
Merb & DataMapper's integration with Rails 2 was seriously hindered by ActiveSupport's core monkey patching, coupled with how ActiveRecord was inextricably linked with other Rails components.

As a consequence, it really took Rails3's clean up of ActiveSupport to allow for other ORMs and libs to integrate in a safe manner.

I'm not 100% certain about the way that refinements currently work (mainly because I haven't had time to dig into the proposal), but the case that wycats makes for refinements amount to defensive coding. When you chose to include a lib, you should be able to control whether and how it steps on the rest of your app (and w/ refinements that can be done by specifying for other parts of your app, that it should/n't listen when someone tries to monkey patch its stuff).
It looks cool, though there are still some things to fix. In split view, I wasn't able to test out the code. Also, I tried opening a link on the bottom in a new tab, but it opened in the current tab, causing me to lose my work.
This seems to contradict itself - if you're explicitly aiming to have a certain representation of all people, unless there's some bizarre statistical anomaly, there will be token people. Which is wrong for both the token speakers and those who missed out.

The intent is to take diversity into account - which involves effort and having it as a goal.

Yes - select your speakers on merit.

But unless you had diversity as one of your goals in where you put your CFPs and how you reach out to possible speakers, etc. then you won't have a diverse pool of great speakers to pick the best sessions from.

Wearing my conference organising hat. If all the sessions I have available to pick my programme from are are white guys in their 20s then I've failed already.
I think it's a really interesting question.

My candid answer would be that many factors popularize a language; and being a "great language" isn't necessarily one of them.
What aspects of it exactly would you be referring to? And do you mean for agents to use?
Agreed, I'd also be running this immediately if it was open source.
Thanks Mike! Appreciate it. Just sent the developer a note. The site was put together at the 11th hour after kickstarter rejected the application
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Off the top of my head, he might be referring to PayPal, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors.
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I have no read on market size, but it seems like there are apps that would benefit from having a fully-baked, built-in email tool.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing...
Speed and Memory usage. Both needs a huge improvement. And i could not understand why they are even trying with mRuby.
( I mean have they not heard of a thing called Lua and LuaJIT? )

Hopefully a lot of the tweaks and refinement will come from now to Final 2.0 release.
ha, when I read it I still think it was a sales pitch ... not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Ah, it is indeed cheaper, but I'm getting different specific numbers: 240 cents/88 ecu-hr == 2.7 cents/ecu-hr on demand; less if reserved or spot. cc2.8xl is also in the Oregon and Ireland regions, but not others as far as I can tell.

1) Funny that scaling up to one of their largest instance types can improve bang-for-buck, on this metric at least. 2) I wish Amazon made it simpler to sort all this out.
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"the C++ standard is written with compiler writers in mind, rather than with C++ users in mind" Just looking at the enormous lengths compilers have to go through to correctly parse C++ should tell you this isn't true. C++ does have some rather glaring deficiencies, but the idea that they're there to make compiler writers lives easier is outrageous to say the least.
Nice design, but I don't see myself paying for it.
I presume they're talking about: PayPal, Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and Space X.
> scream at each other despite being centimeters from each others face

Ah, Dora the Explorer generation...
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Full-time programmers can be had for $50 to $100 per hour, but they can create millions of dollars of value, far in excess of what they're paid. Consultants are one of several groups of people who take a share of the difference.
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They offer BaaS and for many apps can remove the need to setup, configure and administrate any form of backend. I'm not sure about OSX, but they've written a bunch of convenience methods for iOS and Android that are fantastic for rapidly iterating early versions of software.
What if you're already a consultant, but are tired of Internet marketing (and its related accoutrements)? Is there a pivot for that?
Sorry about that. We're just coding up local storage of code. Can you tell me which browser you were using during the code testing?
According to their meta description tag, "Parse is a complete technology stack to power your mobile app's backend."

According to their SDK Introduction, "The Parse platform provides a complete backend solution for your mobile application. Our goal is to totally eliminate the need for writing server code or maintaining servers. If you're familiar with web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, we've taken many of the same principles and applied them to our platform. In particular, our SDK is ready to use out of the box with minimal configuration on your part."
A lot of people here seem to like gmail.

Well gmail sucks. Its slow, buggy, now has a bad user interface and is generally not what it used to be.

It was awesome when it was first released, but there is better now,much better.

We now have outlook.com(the new hotmail) which is just awesome in every way.

And we have fastmail which I don't use, but the new ui is really groundbreaking.

I left gmail the day outlook was released; funny thing is I didnt even realize how much gmail sucked until I moved.
I use Air Display (app that lets you use an iPad as an external monitor, and to control that monitor w/ touch or the mouse) on a regular basis, mostly just as a chat window next to my MacBook so Adium isn't taking up valuable screen real estate, and I often find myself touching the iPad to move windows around, close pop-up notifications, etc... and then I find myself trying to touch my MacBook screen without thinking to do the same thing, and disappointed when it doesn't work. So I can totally see usecases for a touch laptop - it feels like the natural next step, plus you could do things like draw directly (with a stylus) in Photoshop instead of using a graphics tablet.
I'd be interested to know what they used before gyp, which is relatively new compared to Bloomberg.
Yes, very soon. I'll keep you posted. What'd be the best way to update you once we go live on this?
Haha! I see your point!

Actually, my Dell came with minimal bloat.