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I am dealing with this right now.

For me, this "post HN" or "pitch Techcrunch" simply doesn't work. To receive HN upvotes you have to Show HN a product very specific to tech hackers crowd - my product is a product social network, I am sure no bootstrapped private social network would receive any attention here. Show HN small, neat, open source projects go much better than "try my product" Show posts. And for TC you would have to be much more high-profile than me. Like eing one backed by a famous accelerator, funded or a former early employee of Google/FB/Twitter.

What I am doing is dealing, progressively with three bottlenecks: visitors coming, visitors signing up and users coming back.

For the first one, Adwords is good enough. I spent $5 daily, receive about 300 clicks (1 or 2 cents CPC). This give me a constant flow of visitors to run the relevant experiments.

For the second one, I am improving right now. I have about 4% of the visitors signing up. I am changing my landing page and will do some tests to bring it, at least, 10%. Don't be tempted to focus too much on improving sign up rate right now. The only purpous of these 2 steps is to give you a good enough flow of new users so you can test your retention (or revenue per user) rate. Nothing more. The same advice for your Adwords campaign, create a good enough one, so some visitors go to your website, don't try to be a master of Adwords (for now).

And third, the goal of all your steps so far, retention (or generating revenue, I don't know your model). For me, having 30+ new users each day is enough for me testing my retentions with different tactics. If you need more than this, than you might raise your Adwords daily budget, or try a little more to improve your sign up rate. But fix your number of new users I just work hard enough to match this number.

When you have a good enough number of daily new users, than your work on marketing match with your goal to deliver value to your customers, and then good enough is no more enough. This is when you must excel on testing, iterating and improving your product. With no excuses as "only if people knew what I am doing"....

Good luck!
This doesn't make sense to me. Tweeting a pic and complaining to pycon staff are not extreme in any way. Blogging about that experience to share information about what kind of micro-aggressions someone may face at a con is not extreme.
You think this is new? DoD delegated "Information Warfare" (what would now be called 'cyberwar') duties to NSA in 1997.
In fact, the reconfiguration of the power structure is explicitly touched upon in NSA's own journal Cryptolog, in the Spring 1997 issue (Vol. XXIII, No. 1) -- http://cryptome.org/2013/03/cryptologs/cryptolog_136.pdf.
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Some years ago I read a wonderful - and very opinionated - book entitled "The Loom of Language", which opined that had Wilkins' "Real Character" (briefly described in the article) become the norm for scienfific discourse then scientific progress would have ground to a halt, because Wilkins' scheme systematised human knowledge into a fixed hierarchy of concepts, but made no allowance for new concepts. I wonder if Ithkuil might suffer from the same essential weakness (which is not to detract from the awe in which one must hold such an exquisitly intricate creation)
That sounds like Market Manipulation. What made you think that is OK?

You can't shout fire in a movie theater (a considerably less regulated environment), what made you think shouting fire in the stock exchange was OK?
I've been loving Passenger 4 so far, multiple ruby support is great. Thank you for your efforts and advancements with passenger.
It's all part of the "euphemism treadmill". In 40 years it will no longer be acceptable to use the term handicapped:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation#History_of_...
Very good article (as always from Derek). I'd just like to point out something he didn't mention in the article: Derek was coming at this mostly from a "User Experience" angle. But there's a very clear business angle to this as well.

While most startups gloss over this fact, programming time costs money. Sure, if it's you doing the programming you're not actually paying yourself money, but that's a fiction - you're costing yourself a ton of money on opportunity costs.

So when you're trying to make a decision on whether to automate or not, you should also take into consideration how much money it costs to automate, versus how much it costs to program. A good programmer costs thousands of dollars a month, so spending a month building an automated billing system (for example) isn't a good business decisions if the alternative is paying someone $100 a month for going over 30 customers and manually doing the billing.

Not to mention the fact that a month spent building things that can be cheaply automate is a month farther from getting market validation for your product.
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This looks great. I appreciate your efforts to keep the editor minimal but effective. Congrats!

I would like to request a feature to sync with Evernote.
to your point about intro programming courses and python:

my wife used to teach python to gifted middle schoolers as an intro programming course. she brought this up at a regional educator's event when the speaker asked if anyone was doing intro to programming in a language other than VB (or something else, maybe Java). my wife raised her hand sheepishly and said "I used python". everyone was suddenly interested.

the kids did great with python, but she eventually gave up on it because the kids wanted instant gratification and slick UI games. she explored scratch but got pulled in different directions in her teaching load. however, several of her python students over the years have gone on to do interesting things at university.
<-- Downvote here and by all means, do not explain your sensitivities.

Why should we care about donating money to Girls who Code? I'm not a girl and I don't see any reason why I should support them, particularly when the only time I hear anything about girls who code is when they're causing some drama.

You know what girls who code should do? They should write code and be humble instead of forming a group called Girls Who Code in order to get attention and hand-outs. To be clear: I'd rather buy a shirt that makes fun of all the drama caused by girls who code and donate the money to Children Who Are Hungry.
I think that eventually, the government will learn to love BitCoin. Just think of what the states could do to tax law. During an audit, they could require your BitCoin wallet ID to verify that you paid the voluntary sales tax accurately. (Not to mention it would probably be easy to write a program to automatically calculate this from a BitCoin wallet ID for the tax payer when doing their taxes)
>They fired an employee without due process.

Are you joking? She was basically PR for the company. She obviously can't continue on in that role. What should they have done exactly?

EDIT: Further she even claimed they supported what she did...
It's interesting that we still look at platforms through the lens of Microsoft's Windows. That was a platform which achieved market dominance and generated huge revenues for its creators by way of significant licensing costs. They then also sold content (typically software - Office and various back end tools) to end users at high cost and ate a huge portion of the overall software market revenue. We view high market share as winning because usually it brings high revenues and that means high margins.

Today we have something that looks a bit like the PC market did in the 80s - lots of competing platforms, some doing well, others not. Android has not yet achieved the market dominance that DOS/Windows did (i.e. 90+ percent) and it certainly isn't generating anywhere near the kind of revenue for its creators, Google, that DOS/Windows/Office/etc did for Microsoft. Most of the revenue instead appears to be going to Samsung, but even that is only a minority of the revenue for the whole market - by far the largest share is going to Apple.

So how do we define Android has having "won"? It has no overwhelming market share, its future looks uncertain (as mentioned in the linked article) and it's only making any serious money for a company that didn't even create it. This puts the claims of winning under serious strain, but they just won't go away.

We should want lots of competing platforms. Competition is good for us. Trying to decide that someone has "won" just so we can be the one who called it most decisively, is stupid and short sighted (but understandable, given the desperation of journalists, who like Microsoft, find themselves having to shout louder and louder to be noticed at all). We should resist another dark age like the one we endured under Windows, before post-PC computing made Microsoft charmingly irrelevant.

Sure it's nice to grind an axe against nasty nasty Apple, or poke fun at Android selling lots of shitty cheap phones made from 2 year old OSes, or to laugh at Ballmer telling us Windows Phone is going to do really well.

It would be nicer if we could recognise that we have multiple really good choices available to us and that is a good thing.

Unfortunately we are selfish, tribal creatures, so our wallets and our social graphs will vote this into a monopoly, just like last time.
It's definitely refreshing to see. I don't like the Glass project but kudos to him for being straightforward about it regarding its obvious problems.

He's too nervous when he's making a joke though. Those moments are borderline cringeworthy.
Haha! I have it (synesthesia).

I always forget about it's not normal. By the way, mine was developed/intensified in my early teens due to psychedelic usage. I see the shape and colour of sounds like a video. To a certain extent, tactile sensory input, and even smells trigger visual patterns for me.

It's like having a mental HUD doing winamp visualizations 24/7. Sometimes gets a bit tiresome.
China is working with Canonical on an Ubuntu customised for Chinese users
All of these people are extraordinarily brave. Most are cowards.
As a Chinese, I guess that this probably won't happen at least for the next decade. Non-IT professionals in China aren't even aware that Linux system exist.
If most of your searches are happening on a browser, I would recommend something like Selenium http://docs.seleniumhq.org/ . Its a browser testing tool, but it can automate some of the things that you are looking to do. Selenium can also be extended if you want to.
> "You don’t need permission to publish photos of historical significance."

That's insufficient for the sort of photography I mean. There is a tremendous amount of historical value provided in even shots of the mundane. Look up the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand, Treng Parke, among many others - these are photographers who captured regular people, in regular situations, in daily life, and in doing so provide a valuable historical record decades later.

The historical record of a people is, IMO, not embodied in photographs of famous politicians and actors, but rather in regular people - and to disallow their photographing by default inhibits this. The concern isn't just historical, it's also artistic - if we disallowed photography of people without explicit model releases almost all of the photography in art museums today would not exist.

> "Or – and this can apply to street photography – if it serves a higher interest of the arts."

That's an incredibly vague - and conservative - angle on it. Street photography has traditionally pushed the boundaries of what society finds acceptable, and for the most part it is always vindicated over time. Most of the challenging, worthwhile street photography would not hit the "higher interest of the arts" bar at the time they are taken.

Your standard basically means that whatever is being done has been accepted by mainstream society already as a valuable art form. Now tell me, how much of new art is already accepted by society at large at the time of creation?

Take a look at, for example, the work of Bruce Gilden, whose working method is still controversial today, but I for one am glad he has the freedom to do it.

> "I think the general recommendation for street photographers is to make eye contact with who they photograph and check that way whether it’s ok. Also, walking up and talking to who you photographed isn’t super hard."

I do street photography almost every day. I know this - it's easy to get permission, it's hard to shove a piece of paper in someone's face and have them sign their legal rights away. The bar isn't "subjects should be consenting", it's "subjects should have signed a legally binding agreement". That is the part that is unreasonable.

> "As I already said, photographing without publishing is nearly always ok, so you can shoot first and get permission later."

You want to track a stranger on a street down later, put a legal agreement in front of them, and get them to sign it?

> "The right to privacy is one of the rights defined in the German constitution – but so is the freedom of the arts."

All around the world, almost universally, the protect of the "arts" extends only to what has already been deemed acceptable. Street photography still isn't recognized consistently as an art form, much less a protected one. Like I said before, to define acceptability as "worthwhile arts" merely protects what doesn't need protecting: art forms that mainstream society already finds palatable and desirable.
That you're being an idiot. White male is the most privileged thing to be, not some down trodden, exploited minority. Posts like yours belong in /r/mensrights with the other crap. And from your other posts, I think you're much better than this.
Probably not spelled right... but funny.

We don't store your file contents in our server, but save on your local for cash.

Need to change cash to cache maybe?... or maybe not. Nice biz model. :)
A month ago I walked through some big computer markets here in China looking for computers pre-installed with Ubuntu, calling out "Have not have Yubentu?", always hearing "Not have!" and only seeing Windows 8 on every screen.

It could be next year I do the same, and only see Ubuntu, with Windows 8 nowhere to be seen. Incredible!
It is worth noting that every major car company is working on self-driving cars, and has been for quite a few years now.
Your analogy is terrible.

The police here would be the pycon would acted responsibly and dealt with the issue accordingly.

But the report was not towards the police but towards a potential mob of vigilantes, namely the internet at large and an opinionated group of followers which would probably be outraged by the way the report was crafted.

It would be closer to printing hundreds of tracts and poster and posting them in the neighborhood and distributing them to concerned people hoping someone from law enforcement would see them than reporting to the police.

The employer is all but neutral in this issue, the neutral party is obviously the PyCon staff and they did their part as expected from reasonable and sound responsible people, respecting the privacy of everybody involved.

I wonder how you can not see how her actions lead to his demise.
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Why can't we just have a universal bytecode that can be interpreted by any browser.
I don’t know how I make money with Amazon’s KDP
> However, we hold grudges against those that invaded us.

Oddly enough, "list of ethnic slurs" on wikipedia has to defer to a whole separate page for Germans. So you're not alone.
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I didn't realise it wasn't normal until I was 11. We were on a coach trip back from a day drip to France and I said "Glad to be back in England, the road signs smell much better" and all my friends were horrified. My brother has it too, so we would often talk about it growing up, seemed normal to us...
Site wasn't working for me.

I think this is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rie-hPVJ7Sw
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Gallup: 138 Million People Would Move to the U.S. If They Could
What the universe is made of?
Anyway, whatever, her reputation is kinda ruined now

Right, like Joan of Arc's [1] was, after she got burned at the stake.

[1] http://imgur.com/JnZLsju
Why WordPress needs to get decoupled
Yes, you are right. I just woke up.
Canonical aren't enabling anything. They just repackage open source software (bar their custom themes and Unity).

If the Chinese populous don't like any of the governments additions, then those users can grab the binaries / source code directly and roll their own customisations.
Well, my wife is not a hacker, but we share the motto "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."
I have a question: Would anyone still be bothered by all the privacy stuff if Glass didn't have a camera?

I guess then it'd be a redundant technology (is there such a thing?), but I assume people wouldn't be so concerned about their privacy as well, right?
Maybe some of the same American schools that are teaching children Mandarin so they can be competitive in the world of the future will now also teach them Linux.
With all on small caps I tried to read as one word and speaking out loud sounded like a last name from a Babylon 5 embassador.
Even with TalenTrue, as said before, I am always confused if I should one or two letters when writing down names like theses.

I think you should go to use two T. Nobody says Codecademy, everybody says CodeAcademy.

But the name itself, I liked. Yes, sounds trustworthy for me. I don't know if it is some kind of HR service, but if it was, I would expect that I should use it to find (or advertise my) true talent, real talent, without all the BS cover letters and "answer just what we want to hear" type of questions.
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Interesting agreement. But at the end, the market will decide what it wants to buy. I hope it will be Ubuntu, but that it another story.
Good read. Makes me want to learn Ruby!

One query though: All that talk about the shiny new hardware and Ruby being slower in rendering pages under 50ms and the comparison to StackOverflow; isn't that a little unfair? I am trying to understand better and not making claims of knowing better than Jeff. :)

How can you compare a completely server side solution (in ASP.NET MVC) to an almost completely client side solution (in Ember.js), which only uses the Rails API for the backend alone and say .NET is superior to Ruby? Especially when the page rendering time seems to be the only profiled checkpoint for the performance.

Wouldn't JavaScript and the whole Ember.js be adding to the slowness at all?
It seems to me it was a threat either of being stabbed with forks or sexually assaulted, neither is acceptable.

This guy has all rights to feel angry about what she did, but this is not a welcome comment and he should probably be reported to the law enforcement authorities.
For various reasons. Probably they tend to have in mind that they need more flexibility for when they have children. Also that they might have a husband who provides main income.

I don't know if people have to be pressured into having more time for their family, though. I think it is more having the option vs not having the option. I'd love to have the option as a man, but in general it is a privilege of women or rich people (not having to work).

Income is just one measurement, health and life satisfactions are others. Are men really so well off if you consider those?

Also, don't know about the US, but in my country women automatically get half of what their husbands earn. So they can go to Yoga class every day and still have a good income. Are they really so bad off? (edit: yoga class sounds snarky, what I mean is: women live longer than men, priorizing health over income might play a part).

Also, if you say "pressured into bad jobs", what is the punishment for not choosing a bad job?
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> First and foremost is the double standard afforded to 2nd wave bigotry. The smallest sexist offense incites a twittersphere rabble. Where is the rabble against transphobia taught by 2nd wave professors? Where is the rabble against the blatant misandry? Where is the rabble against anglo-centrism? All I've ever seen is a token effort. If these 2 men deserve to be kicked out of the convention, fired, and shamed then that more than equally applies to the bigots harbored by gender studies institutions. There's no good reason for such double standards.

Misandry isn't a real thing men as a whole suffer from. Works about anglo-centrism have been around for a while, although it was not a prominent part of the white mainstream feminist movement decades ago. If all you've seen is a token effort, it seems like you, like many folks, haven't had a chance to access to various material about those issues. As for gender studies, I don't know what you are even saying since I'm pretty sure bigots exist in every studied discipline and gender studies is not a bigoted discipline.

> 3rd wave feminists will defend the inclusion of such bigotry through the lense of postmodern relativity but again such inclusion is not afforded to "outsiders" and the distinction between in-group and out-group is arbitrary.

In what I have seen and read there is been a big increase in the criticism leveled at the big name feminist academics and writers for their moments and instances of bigotry. Exclusion of outsiders is still a problem and there is a way to go before feminism is actually inclusive or accessible for various communities.
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SendGrid fires staffer after her tweet exposed sex jokes
Would that be near Patagonia?
I am offended that you would be an enabler to all the complainers of the world.

Seriously. Could you stop that please?
"China" has been trying this for over 10 years. There first attempt was Red Flag Linux, and there have been a few other Linux derivatives since. The problem is that the 'users' (personal/business) want the Windows and will pirate copies as required.
I was concentrating on the pejorative use of the term as relating to criticism of people and/or things. I think its obviously fine to say, for example, "the rotation of the wheel was retarded due to friction".

> Even if you're not sensitive to peoples' feelings about words, one good reason not to use "retarded" is that it makes you sound like a playground bully.

In not wanting to sound like a playground bully aren't exhibiting sensitivity to peoples' feelings?
Sodapocalypse: Is There Room for Common Sense in the Soda Debate?
There’s a can of soda in the vending machine down the hall biding its time, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

Okay, that’s probably a stretch, but soda and energy drinks are coming under heavy fire, from New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attempt to ban large-sized sodas to a new, cataclysmic statistic that paints soda as a serial killer.
What? You thought of perl as maximally precise? Have you ever used it? I wish I could find the link about MJD doing some perl consulting, fixing an apparent bug and then finding that what appeared to be a bug was yet another perl special case.
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They are not just safe, they are also great for gaming http://www.break.com/index/hack-an-atm-play-angry-birds-2419...
My impression of it is that it's a front-end MVC library that's patterned more after the traditional MVC used in desktop/mobile apps than the Rails-style MVC that's ubiquitous on the server.
I see that you believe that, but you provide no arguments to support that.

I only learned about /r/mensrights yesterday, checked it out but didn't like their attitudes at all. I think it is important to counter misguided feminism, though.
The number of times I have gone to reply to the solar tweet bot with 'yay' or 'good for you'... and then remembered it is not a person. :D