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Ask HN: Where to get feedback for your start-up/beta/demo?
Hello,

Can anyone share please any thoughts on how and where to get quality feedback? (free or not expensive)

Why? Recently we, a team of 2 people, reached beta milestone, but not sure where to go next. We can't get enough feedback from users or right users.

So far we have emailed a few bloggers and tech people relevant to the area, but didn't get anything yet, although that was during weekend. So, do I send 100 emails or 5?

Thank you in advance.
Love this. Thanks for posting this and helping us (hopefully) avoid similar pitfalls.
How to Make Visual Studio 2012 Look Like VS 2010
Sure, that's a great technique. But IMHO, don't write down the conversation as it occurs in your head. Spend the time filtering it into a more readable article.
No managers? I'm curious how Stripe compares culturally to Valve, GitHub, and Zaarly.

If I ever decide to work for someone else, I'd want to choose a decentralized place like those.
I'd want a professor who has some experience in the broad subject area beyond simply teaching it. Whether that is industry experience or publishing papers.
Would you want to go on a hunting trip with someone who had never fired a gun, or who did not know how to aim? There is a big different between knowing abstractly that you need to pull the trigger and having actually done so, especially with higher-caliber rifles.
It would be great it was true

Extraterrestrial life would be great? I'm not sure. I think the 2 most likely scenarios are:
1. ET would be far less evolved
2. ET would be far more evolved

#1 wouldn't be terribly interesting. So what about #2. What would that be like?

Well, we have some relevant experience from planet earth.

How do humans view/treat organisms that are far less evolved ... like bugs?
Consuming more calories than you expend is the culprit, but that is a fairly uninteresting fact, as it ignores what makes humans more likely to consume more calories than we expend. Especially in situations where we can easily afford to.

To me that means past data on obesity quite pointless - that large parts of our populations is able to afford enough food to easily get fat is a relatively recent thing.
Unfortunately, in my experience, Chrome's WebGL performance is several times better than Firefox's. Upon several benchmarks, there is just no comparison.
I can highly recommend both MSP430 Launchpad and the STM32L discovery boards. Small investment if you want to look at something beyond the Arduino. I'd probably go with M3 cores at this point but the MSP430 has a lot of history and is maybe a bit easier to program because it feels more cohesive than the combination of ARM core with vendor peripherals.
So do bookmarks. And this overlap becomes obvious as people inevitably ask for Chrome or OneTab to allow them to cluster tabs by topic/project -- because a linear scan is never going to 'work' for people who leave enough tabs open that it becomes a 'problem'.

The underlying problem here is workflow.

People are leaving tabs open as a reminder of things to which they intend to return. (Regardless of whether they will or not; that's another discussion.) And they're not bookmarking, because bookmarking begs organizational overhead, which leads to its own mess. (neither tags nor folders are great or sufficient)

And who knows if a bookmark will still point to the content you intended, when you finally get back to it?

So the problem is ultimately that bookmarking is broken, both for quick reference and longer-term storage. So why not fix that?

Why not a system where bookmarking a site saves a copy to a (cloud-stored) cache. [1] And then searches can be done on the content in that cache. And hits can be served both from the cache, and a simultaneously downloaded 'live' result, available with a toggle. [2]

So that one can bookmark a brag-post about a neat jquery-enabled dropdown list and not have to worry about categorizing it, nor whether or not it will be there in a year, and be confident that they can refer to it again with a simple search of any of the key words that occur to them. [3]

[1] Because one can never know what will happen to content online (changes, broken links, takedowns, etc) and doing a federated search across thousands of bookmarked sites looking for 'jquery dropdown' is going to be a nightmare.

[2] Room here for a great feature of non-trivial difficulty: change-detection and display of diffs (if any) rendered in-line.

[3] Or even searching by meta-data such as date-of-bookmark, location or source-device. "That thing I was reading on my phone last spring, when I was stuck in Chicago on business..." can be surprisingly useful when searching.
On a Mac, cmd-1 or cmd-2 or cmd-3 or cmd-n jumps to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, nth tab.
A web-design approach for non-designers
just because I had about a hundred tabs open

That is a lot of tabs, though.
Is London's tech scene about to explode?
I will look into Quicken. As a sole proprietor in California, I simply use my social security number and schedule C of 1040. Is there a good argument for getting a business ID or even an LLC (aside for liability issues)?
Less Noise More Signal: Training your Brain
You sound upset. Chill out, buddy.
Understanding social media monopolies
Illustration on How Rainbows Form
State of New York | Open Data
Social Capital: How Relationship Science Captures It All
"This is only applicable to Google Chrome browser on Windows and Linux." (source: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...)

the mystery continues ...
Wrong again, there is no such thing, than well investments. Nobody beats the market portfolio in the long run - even not Warren Buffet.
I want the opposite for Firefox on android - some way to instruct the browser NOT to unload background tabs because I might have been partway through entering data in those and just gone off to another tab to check something I was writing about.

I have 1GB of RAM in my Note and rarely run more than one thing at a time. FF for android seems to have a really aggressive unload policy.
Concerning the cabal dependencies problem. I didn't tested it yet, but I believe a sane solution should be to use stackage[1].

I know fpcomplete use stackage for their School of Haskell[2]. This way, there is never any package dependency problem. Which gives them the incredible ability to execute yesod application directly on their server from the code of an user changing the code in the browser. If you haven't did it yet, you should really try it.

Also, concerning the deployment, having a single statically linked binary is very similar to having a single jar file. And this is very easy to deploy using heroku for example.

You can ask me more detail if you want to know how I deploy my application but this is mostly very well documented in the wiki.

[1]: https://github.com/fpco/stackage
[2]: https://www.fpcomplete.com/school
Scientists create formula for perfect parking
Heh...it would be something I can't go to. It sounds more like inefficient JS than any HTML5 issues, but that is one drawback to not separating tabs; if the JS on one is maxing a core, you can't do anything anywhere else.
The exact same thing happened to me with http://viadeo.com/, a linkedin clone pretty popular in France.

The way it was worded hinted that I could chose from contacts who were on both my gmail contacts and viadeo users to connect with them. Not send an add to subscribe to viadeo to my entire contact list (who would ever want to do that??).

It's such a horrible feeling when you realize what just happened.

It emailed my grandmother, who had no idea what that was, it emailed past companies HR, ex-girlfriends, CEOs... This is unacceptable. I don't know how gmail could prevent applications from doing that, but they should not even TRY to do that in the first place.
It could be an extension that froze a tab: for example right click on a tab, save the data on disk and saves ram. When you go back it will take a lot of time.

This extension opens the page again, loading it which leads to bigger time load.
Given how all manner of languages, libraries and frameworks tend to massively sprawl over time, keeping the growth of core components down is a good idea.
This is a big problem for me in ChromeOS too.
Noticed that when I use CRTL+click to open tabs from the list the tab counter still decrements even though the number of tabs in the list does not decrease. Now I'm looking at a list of tabs with -3 tabs at the top.
Mozilla has implemented SPDY.

Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft will not implement NaCl and Dart because they feel that they are technically worse than alternatives (asm.js and either ES6 or compiling other languages to JS).

The technical problems will ultimately provide a worse experience to end users. For example, NaCl is not portable, meaning that users' apps will not work on all the users' devices like they expect, and PNaCl is not backwards compatible, so the apps won't work on all browsers. Dart threatens to make garbage collection slower because of cross-language cycle collection, which results in a worse experience to end users.

Mozilla has every reason to want the Web to evolve. If the Web doesn't evolve and loses to native platforms, Mozilla becomes irrelevant and dies. How is that not incentive?
I wouldn't call this clear evidence. Is it not possible the a large asteroid struck earth, kicking up debri from earth which happened to contain micro organisms. These organisms then died and fossilized in the space later returning...
Ah, now, you're on HN. This is the place where, in threads about browsers, we inevitably attempt to out-do each other with number of open tabs.

And sooner or later the guy shows up who hasn't closed his browser window or any tab in it since 2003, and now has essentially the entire Wayback Machine in memory.
Well, you certainly sound rational about your decision and for that I support your efforts. My concern was mainly about those who go into it without having a full understanding of the risk vs reward. HN and other hacker circles tends to idolize the noble hacker which may encourage others to follow suit who aren't in a position to make it work for them. As long as we're all clear about the risks and the likelihood of "success", then I'm all for it.
I'm willing to wager that the "ease" by which this "feature" is executed was not entirely by accident (supporting the headline's premise).
Not my site, but I think "Standard orders" go direct to you not to a warehouse. You pay shipping from the original seller, whatever they charge. You pay customs fees. Returns are going to be a pain in the ass - don't expect to be able to do that very easily.

For "anonymous orders", the concept doesn't seem thought through very well. Only 5% fee on any order from $1-$300? So I want to buy something from eBay for $1, you will anonymize that for 5 cents? I don't think so. I doubt you'll be able to do international orders anonymously.
I would be interested in doing something like this. What type of technologies/frameworks are you thinking about using?
"New York and California tend to be bimodal, with an elite overclass and an impoverished underclass"

So true.
Ask HN: On China VPN block, would you help us out?
Hi HN,
A native Chinese living in China mainland here, may I ask for your help:

If you are a hacker, online freedom NGO or a team in any form, would you develop software or technology to help us bypass the Great Firewall in China? I mean a real total solution beyond tips or workarounds.

Dictators always want to control the free flow of information, seems they’re one step closer to the target. Please do something to stop that. No matter it’s China, Iran or who-knows-who-is-next.

TL;DR version:
GFW is not new, but recently it becomes severely tight up. Things got worsen months ago, GFW got technical upgrade which enabled it to interfere even OpenVPN and SSH tunnel which had worked fine for a long time. I had used openvpn and astrill for 2 years, worked perfectly okay (to bypass internet filtering instead of privacy concern), GFW could not do anything to them but after the tech upgrade, no matter how I config protocol, port, TLS, MTU, no matter where the server is, the VPN connection could not be established or last no longer than 5 minutes. Tor? Too slow.

We guess the big brother has been collecting commercial VPN services’ data or GFW gained ability to operate based on packet behavior.

I’m not saying my whole life is total f*cked because of that but the truth is that I’m and so many people here are really angered and frustrated. It’s not because facebook or youtube, it’s about us connecting with the world. Our right to watch, know and learn from YOU and the outside world is abruptly violated.

Sometimes I even wondered there’re people like Anonymous who would bother to take down some websites (I personally think that’s controversial way to express or protest), why not leverage you tech skills, teamwork and passion to do something to the GFW? Track the GFW nodes down? Analyze how it works? Counter interfere it? Develop a new tech solution?

And Finally Unblock Us?

Thanks for your patience and hope I’ll still be able to come back to you.
PayPal Launches Next Generation SDK
Node v0.10.0 (Stable)
Some Cool Idea For Facebook To Try Out.
What is the difference between a good investment and a rubbish one? A good investment is one where you invest in a company that produces a product for which there is demand greater than supply. And where does demand come from?
Accidental Empires, Chapter 10 -- The Prophet
Who is going to PyCon this week? Share info
We are hoping to meet a lot of people at PyCon and discuss Python including Pyramid and other technologies.

If you are going let everyone know:

Twitter handle?
Sessions, events, parties you will be at?
Interested in talking about:

Our team members who will be there:
@CalvinHP
@Claytron
@GabrielleHP
@crlganz
@palendae
@davidblewett

*as a side note we are giving away an iPad Mini at PyCon if anyone is interested, find us.
0.10 != 0.1, in the same way that 0.8 != 0.80
i agree.

this is the logic of someone willing to adapt to the environment around him. While the best solution would be more efficient programming, consumers are best served to max out their RAM and work with what they're given.
SQLite and MongoDB had a baby
Google Chrome should automatically shut down unused tabs and restore them as needed. Pretty much what this plugin does, but in an automatic way. Nobody need 50+ fully activated tabs all the time.
Key Apps & Services To Settle Into A New Computer
GNU Emacs 24.3 Released
Why I Finally Joined Mixergy
v0.8 < v0.10 < ... < v0.80. God damn math.
That leads to a bad approach when building applications. Not everyone has or wants oodles of RAM.I don't use much RAM on my laptop just because it uses too much power.
ex-girlfriends, ouch. I initially thought this feature, while annoying, wasn't that big a deal. I've changed my mind.
If you don't care about structured data, you suck at SEO
Not really, especially if you're doing a lot of research, or for whatever reason the page is particularly complex and it causes the process that tab is running under to consume a lot of memory.
I have a general preference for Python + Flask/Django, postgres for SQL, and redis/mongo/cassandra for db/cache. With that said, I have no issue picking up new tech, as that's half the fun. You?
I would hope that the roadways would be less clogged if people didn't have to commute ten miles.
It's major.minor.revision, not decimal.
The facts at the end of this article tell the true tale of the growth of tech in London:

200 Tech companies in east London three years ago.

1,300 Tech companies in east London in January 2013.

92,000m2 Area acquired by technology, media and communications start-ups in London in the first nine months of last year.

39 Percentage increase last year of City office space rented to tech and media start-ups.

61,300 New businesses launched in London in 2011, up from 51,000 in 2009
With all the recent audio work chrome was unusable for many sites with flash audio playback. The problem persisted for months. There was one were whole tags of content would disappear due to a gpu bug. Unplugging headphones while the browser was focused would crash it. I find it amazing you haven't seen one in the past 6 months. Everyone I know has encountered some sort of problem
"Maybe there are places where it really is cheaper to hunt food with a gun than buy it, but America is not one of them."

This is not true. Where I went to college, there were people in the surrounding area who ate squirrels. Yes, squirrels are edible, and a handful of squirrels can make a meal.

.22lr ammunition is more than sufficient to kill a squirrel, rabbit, or small bird, and you can buy it at 4 cents per cartridge. That means you can get all the meat needed for dinner for 20-30 cents. Excluding food stamps, where else can you get meat so cheaply?

There is another issue with hunting, which I mentioned elsewhere: overpopulation. In many places in America, there are so many deer that they are considered a nuisance species. I live in an area where there are more deer today than there were when Europeans first arrived on this continent. Hunting deer is a form of population control and the limits on how many deer can be taken are set to meet those goals.

Yes, controlling the deer population is important. Deer cause a lot of property damage, and that problem is worsened as the deer population increases.
Why does it always have to be Cardiff that gets all the aliens?
most of explaining REST to my wife was linking her fielding's thesis. Pretty happy with my life... :]
Show HN: Incorporate your startup online with YC's forms (built by two lawyers)
Can we have the same for Firefox?

I have 2020 open tabs!
Please file a bug with the contents of about:memory if you find situations in which Firefox uses much more memory than alternative browsers; Firefox is very serious about memory usage these days. You can cc me on the bug if you like to make sure it gets to the right people.
Sorry, could you clarify DBA please? I thought that was "database administrator"?
I've seen this many times, and it seems to depend on the complexity of the page being rendered. I did close and re-open things, much to the same result.
Totally agree. My PC, which needs replacing, only has 2GB of memory, because that's what the motherboard supports.
I think an MVP of anything related to finances (be it cash, card, or bitcoin) should include SSL and validation. I see there's SSL.

In any case, adding simple form validation there would have taken <10 minutes with a decent library (especially given that they're already "using" jQuery - though perhaps not actually "using"; it seems that they've taken the Bootstrap example HTML wholesale, and include a bunch of other Bootstrap jQuery plugins that they're not using - or have at least included it).

Apparently their MVP includes a "secure warehouse"... but not ten minutes of Javascript?

There are many things that can be excused under the umbrella of "... but MVP!".

This site is asking people to place their trust in an anonymous entity to the sum of several hundred dollars - I say anonymous because there is ZERO contact information on the site, no address, email (well, other than for Media Requests), or anything.

Speaking of anonymity, there are also no corporate registration records for "Bitspend LLC" in Florida (where the domain is registered), or the US, for that matter.

MVP or not, this site doesn't scream "credibility".
The Evolution of the Chief Data Officer
> the reality is that Google is a saturated distribution channel that is horrible at identifying quality content that is not heavily branded or pushed in mainstream media.

I'm really not sure I agree. My sister in law is a french tutor in a small English town. She wanted a Web site and I suggested that she put something together using Weebly. I did some basics with her to ensure that reasonable keywords appeared in the page names, headlines and text etc.

A couple of weeks later and if you search on "French tuition in town-x" or "French lessons in county-name" she comes up as hit 3 in Google - I think that's pretty good service from Google.
Indeed, I feel like Sam has failed to take into account the full range of tolerance to clear danger.

For example, despite growing up in a public school with a DARE program that stressed the risks, I still drink alcohol at levels that will ultimately be detrimental to my health. I fully understand this risk and, with no cognative dissonance, accept it.
Maybe Im not a "power user" or something, because I rarely have more than 3-5 tabs open at any given moment, and 2 of those are my email accounts. We have searchable browser history, and it seems like that would be a horrible workflow to have anymore than say 10 tabs open at any given time. They get so small you cant see them and how would you find what you want? ctrl + tab? Im genuinely curious as to how someone works this way.
The version is not a decimal but a dot delimited list of integers. Which gives you 10 > 8.
The Pan's Labyrinth - Pacific Rim connection
I'm sorry, but as someone who does UX full-time, I couldn't disagree more.

I used to be a developer who felt the same way. All of this stuff is just common sense. Then, I decided to do a career transition into full-time UX and spent a year studying intensely.

Now, I look back on my old self and laugh. Practically everything was wrong, and some things were horrifically wrong. There's just too much to think about and too many fundamental concepts that you must be aware of to do good UX (Gestalt principles, color theory, design patterns, etc.)

The way I feel about this post is about the same as developers out there feel when your uncle says "How hard can web development be? My nephew made me a website in Wordpress in a couple of weeks"
It does, for certain use cases (see the guitar case humidity monitor mentioned above). In the RAMPS stack for the 3d printer I'm building where the heated elements and stepper motors burn up proportionally more power, it wouldn't make sense.

This would be a specialty flavor of the arduino, not a change for the standard.
Metaprogramming a full Virtual Machine
C++ is a wonderful language which allows genericity and performance with the technique of metaprogramming, almost discovered by mistake. We will see how to implement a virtual machine with such tools.
I have a recently purchased Mac Mini which came with 4GB of RAM and whenever I happen to access a certain Flash-heavy page (http://www.lequipe.fr/direct_foot.html for the curious) Firefox just instantly eats up all the available memory, everything freezes and I have to manually restart the machine (I know the article is actually about Chrome, but I'm trying to also make a point that memory usage counts).
What are you learning at lunch?
I am not in SF but looking for becoming a CTO
How would replacing HTTP with SPDY offset Mozilla? It's not a threat. NaCL? NaCL is a different applet sandboxing, again not a threat to the browser or Mozilla. Dart? Dart is an alternative webpage scripting language (an alternative to Javascript).

Each of these does not threaten the importance of the browser. On the contrary, they both widen the use cases of the browser and raise the entry barrier for competing browsers. These effects protect Mozilla, instead of threatening Mozilla.

On the other hand, Google pushes OAuth single sign-on against Google accounts, whereas Mozilla is pushing Mozilla Persona, a distributed, no-central-authority SSO for the web.

I conclude the exact opposite of what you state. If we use Chrome, we're locked into technologies that serve Google, if we use Firefox we're pushing open technologies.
In the tech context, yes. In a business context, it stands for "doing business as." My understanding is that it basically allows companies to be officially represented under different names.
I honestly couldn't doubleminusagree with the political correctness movement any doubleplusmore.
I agree. It was the How do you make money? that made the whole page feel a bit.. off.. for me. I think taking it out would make it less confusing.
I agree, if they're doing that, then v0.8 should actually have been v0.08