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Show HN: Our weekend project, 6 months on
Hi,

We have been running getinspired365.com now for 6 months and have continued to iterate the design, and add more and more features. We also now offer users the chance to get their own daily site, in the style of GetInspired (getinspired365.com/getyourown).

We originally launched on here and thought it would be great to collect more feedback now we've hit 6 months on.

Anything you like or dislike about the site, and importantly, how we can improve it, would be great.

thanks
A simple solution is to carry a dated, signed x-ray image that shows the screws. This won't eliminate the annoyance of being a constant suspect, but it may reduce the time spent proving you're not a terrorist.
This is very far from "everything". There are many startup scams out there right now that would appear legit according to this guide. I've seen startups that delay valuation, so that you pay higher prices for stock. Sometimes you are outright asked to actively improve the perceived value of the company so that that more you work, the more money you will end up paying to buy the stock later. It is important to know that startups are legally required to give you strike price no lower than the valuation, but they are actually allowed to give you any price higher than the valuation without disclosing it. There are a ton of subtle ways the founders can screw you over if they want. If they don't have your back 101%, the options are worthless. Anyone with financial background would laugh at what some developers are asked to sign.
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This rate of growth is temporary.
American high speed rail was more advanced in the 1930s than it is today. The Zephyr diesel passenger engine was faster than Amtrak's Acela speeds today.
On the Internet, no one knows you’re a bot. And that’s a problem
I've always thought the problem with A/B testing is that it's mostly hill-climbing optimization which is likely to hit and get stuck at a local optimum.
Would you recommend the experience? How does it compare to more traditional DMT administration (i.e. smoking)?
I'm afraid the title may scare people off the article. i assure you, "hacking" here is used in the canonical sense: "An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed."
Why the n-Layer approach is bad for us all
I think Primecoin is interesting; instead of mindlessly computing hashes, it computes Cunningham prime number chains, and has already set a few records doing this as I understand. This might not feed hungry children, but perhaps it has some utility in mathematics.
Amazon is already in the hardware business and it is far from dead and dusted. Sorry to disagree. The Kindle Fire is a significant component in their business, it's currently running on Android, BB10 is an excellent OS + platform. Makes sense to buy BBRY, port to Kindle, disjoin from one of your biggest competitors and keep or eject the remaining pieces of BBRY hardware available on a case by case basis. The Q10 is a nice piece of hardware and BB10 is a great platform.

It's a natural fit and like I mentioned above Amazon was quite interested 18 months ago, I doubt much there has changed except the fact that the market cap for BBRY has fallen since then, making it an even more attractive asset to Amazon.
There's something fundamental that's changing in business.

Profit = Revenue - Cost

(That's not what's changing, of course.) This admits two strategies: increase revenue, or cut cost.

What's changing? Traditional MBA-style business is about cost reduction. Provide some static service, drive costs to zero or as close as you can get it, and hope like hell you're better at this than any of the other players. That's rapidly becoming obsolete.

Everything becomes a commodity, under this view. "We need 24 hours of programming. Get it together." Excellence (which might increase revenue faster than cost, but goes against every principle of cost-cutting) gets killed off. It's not important. Also, excellence is a bitchy problem from an MBA (polymorphic management) viewpoint because you actually need to know something fairly deep about the work and the problem domain to achieve it; whereas executive-level cost-cutting is a skill that can be applied (if to mediocre results) anywhere.

AMC has been taking the other tack: a long-term revenue-oriented approach that seems to be working quite well. Why? If you're in an oligopoly providing a commodity product or service, cost reduction often spells the difference between survival and failure. However, in this "long tail" world where there are hundreds of players competing for visibility, what you have instead is a world where almost no one gets a large proportional "slice of the pie", but the pie's much bigger. The payoff curve (between investment/quality and results) becomes convex and that favors risk, but it also favors let's-do-this excellence instead of traditional MBA-style cost-cutting.
All those people with cheap Android smartphones have finally started buying apps
Does HTML5 WebSockets Work For You
That's a fair point, I didn't really take AMT into account. Feel free to leave a comment on the post, it's useful information.
Did you read the article? They're talking about how AMC releases their content on iTunes, Amazon, and Netflix sooner than other networks. It's hardly exactly what HBO does.
I rolled up my own using https://www.braintreepayments.com/

but you should also check out

http://www.chargebee.com
If you forget about them, then they don't serve the purpose of being incentive though. This doesn't work in anybody's favor.
...This has got to be the most idiotic article I've ever read. Does this guy realize that there exist fields other than web development? Sheesh.
It's beyond me why Apple hasn't leveraged iMessage in this regard.
Eh, not a wrapper, sorry. It's a helper that directly extends the DOM to provide syntax sugar. Yes, it is not pure DOM interface, but if it were, then the library would be a whopping 0KB. :)
This is an informal comment forum, so I prefer to structure my sentences as I would informal speech. That means comma splicing and lots of it. What would you have written?

I wasn't shitting on people who work at Subway, I was shitting on their awful, condescending job titles.

And I really just have to ask you to think about what you said.

> Languages change, bud. No amount of bitter internet comments will stop that.

Yes they do. Society changes, too. Companies change. People change. Countries change, laws change. (Oops, another comma splice).

I could re-use your comment to put down any criticism of any change of any kind. Just play around with some issues you care about, replacing the word "Languages" to suit. Feel any different?
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It was for iOS.
it is not a direct competition to urban airship or parse, we will still need to use GCM or Apple Push notification, all amazon is solving is to make the backend storing of the Unique push tokens simple and taking care of sending push notifications with queue etc.
Ah, true nostalgia. Making the click, waiting for the image to download over 56k..only to realise you've loaded the wrong tile.

If anyone wants to recreate the experience, Streetmap.co.uk [1] is still going (somehow).

[1] http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=531500&y=181500&z=120&s...
I'm suprised Retailmenot doesn't get called out for this link baiting more often. I've studied their practices for years now and they do alot of shady stuff.

I remember posting coupon codes to their site and having them being taken down constantly because they weren't getting commission on them. They were original company specials so no affiliate was getting paid (including me) but I posted them merely for the people who were searching could save money. They gave users 50% off hosting and the links on the retailmenot page were simply regular links to the products page disguised as specials.

When I emailed them asking why they keep deleting my posted coupon they said that any specials need to be run through them and they need a way to track aka put their affiliate id on them.

Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Reminds me of Ned - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eMMrGCjQEo !
Try: http://get.webgl.org/

Check and make sure your 3D drivers are up to par.

Make sure webgl is enabled in chromium flags.

Are you really that surprised that 3D is flaky on linux?
Yeah, there are a TON of Clojure form/data validation libraries out there. I wasn't happy with any of them, which is why I made Red Tape.

Red Tape is designed specifically with user-submitted, web-based forms. It might work with other stuff too, but that's what I had in mind for it.

All the existing libraries seem to suffer from one or more problems when you're dealing with user-submitted, web-based forms.

Some of them are pure "validation" libraries. That doesn't work for web forms because you want to not only validate that "34" is a valid user id or whatever, but also transform it into your representation of a user to make it easier to work with. So pure validation isn't enough, we need to validate and transform fields.

Some libraries use a complicated DSL of keywords and vectors and stuff to decribe validations. Red Tape just uses functions, because functions are really simple and easy to get your head around.

Almost none of the libraries handle "initial data". This is one of the things that was annoying as hell when I wrote django-goodfields, so I made sure Red Tape had support for it built in right from the start.

Initial data is important when you're working with websites in the real world. For example, you have a profile page for a user with their name, bio, etc. When they first load the page you want to prepopulate that with the existing data in your database. But if they change some of it and submit and there's an error, you want to prepopulate the form with the data they submitted. Not the data from your db, and not the cleaned data, but the original strings they submitted. As far as I could tell, none of the existing Clojure validation libraries help you out here.

Another thing to consider is "dynamic" forms, where you have some extra data that's not a form field, but that you need to use when validating a form. The example in Red Tape's docs of a "video delete" form is a good one. Red Tape uses its "form arguments" to handle this. Some libraries use a similar method, and some ignore it entirely.

EDIT: A problem I forgot to mention is that some "form libraries" want to handle generating the HTML for the form fields. Unless you're making a vanilla Twitter Bootstrap site with the plainest HTML forms imagineable this ends up being awful. In the real world your frontend developers will always want control of their forms' markup, especially if they're using something more dynamic like angular or backbone. Libraries that try to handle the HTML generation tend to hide away stuff like "what should the initial data for this field be" so you can't get to it as easily when you're trying to write the HTML yourself. Red Tape is designed to make it as easy as possible for your frontend developers to get what they need from your forms when writing their markup.

And of course there's the perpetual Clojure problem of documentation. Half the validation libraries out there have a 100-line README and no other docs.

So yeah, I definitely looked at the other options, but I couldn't find one that satisfied all of the above problems to my liking. So I wrote it!
With smart phones with keyboards and cloud sync I think more people are starting to. I do now, and have since 2008 when I started using a smart phone. I've noticed more people switch over from short nicknames to full names with easier input. It's easier than going to your contact and saying "who the heck is James?" Now I just keep as much data as possible on each person. That way I also have their address handy, in case I need to mail them something. I've been meaning to start keeping birthdays in there too, so I can get a notification on my phone.
You could A/B test two completely different business models if you had the resources to do so. Your imagination and your bank account are the meaningful limits on what you can test, not the technology.
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It's a jump to go from saying it's not "everything" (which it isn't, and which I don't claim in the post) to saying it's bad advice. From my experience helping friends who had no idea how to manager their options and whether to exercise them and even how much they're worth, this information would have been very useful. What do you think would be better?
Mozilla might win : http://browserquest.mozilla.org/
The edit link on comments and delete expire after about 2 hours or something.
> Only if freeing information is less ethical than respecting copyright

More reductionist arguments and false dichotomies.

This is not work funded by the public. It was created through the time and effort an author put into creating the work, presumably as his livelihood. He choose the channel of distribution, as is his right. To circumvent the chosen distribution model and circulate the work for free is not an ethical imperative. And it doesn't simply boil down to "copyright vs. free information, choose your side, go!"

That said, after putting their content (which by its nature is extremely easy to reproduce and redistribute) behind a very annoying modal, they should probably expect this sort of thing. Maybe that factored it in, and decided it was still worth it.
Yeah, perhaps I am over thinking it. Mind you -- the study is purposefully looking for vulnerabilities that arise from open source data, so my brain did not head off in that direction entirely of it's own accord.
Excellent point. But it would screw (even further) with their carrier relations. The carriers hate iMessage and push notifications as it is.
He addresses exactly that point with False Premise #2. It really depends on how you use A/B testing, if you only do it to test small incremental changes then yes, you're correct, but there's nothing stopping you from testing two totally different features/designs with A/B testing.
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Perhaps yes. But I feel SPDY and Redis are more "latest" than "proven". I will have to think about this.
Testflight for iOS 7: http://tflig.ht/WwNYgp
Why people keep saying this kind of stuff?

For one, whatever Tim Berner's Lee envisoned, the web is not the simple mostly textual medium it was in 1993. Get over it.

Second, for people to love reading text on the web, there was never a better time than the present. Lots of long form text by bloggers and content providers like Medium etc, combined with a widespread interest in improved readability and good typography. Plus, the fashion/preference for "minimalist" designs also helps putting emphasis on the content, even better than some 1997 site with animated gifs and black text on grey.
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A fun little program inspired by Git Print (https://github.com/zachfeldman/git_print) using the GitHub and Twilio API's
That doc looks great, definitely adding to Evernote. Thanks.
Reload, hit and hold escape before the wall part comes up.
works surprisingly well on ff mobile on my S3
I've done work for the kinds of retailers who have coupon code boxes, and most of the time, the only reason it's on there is because the default WordPress plugin/Joomla template/eCommerce solution has it there. No one ever thinks to remove it, despite them never planning on using it.

The best way for coupon code boxes to stop appearing is for developers and designers to bring it up with their client. A lot of the time, once the client is actually confronted with it has to make a decision, they choose not to have it.
Internet centralization is not a conspiracy
Yeah, i'm still hacking on this a lot. It's not v1.0 ready. The Chrome tests pass again, but the alter module still needs some work. And the new event module needs docs, and so on and so on... :)
As a frequently traveler from so cal to the bay area, I'm looking forward to an alternative to flying.

Right now what I'm actually watching is to see what happens to my local public transportation after high speed is built.

For example, in so cal, a major hub will now be Anaheim. In the region around Anaheim, good public transportation is not readily available.

What I'm hoping is as the trains links up, our local public transportation will get better to the hubs to travel up to the bay. I think something like this is important to try to get a system like BART in so cal.
Why are you calling it MBA-style?
But I was told Linux was ready for the Desktop...
Owner of Lavabit on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov’t
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There is no Pakistani government control over those regions. Osama was hiding under their nose for how long?
Class action suit filed against Microsoft for misleading investors about Surface
I do the same thing. The article described my sentiments exactly... I feel like I'm missing out on something. Especially for a bigger purchase, a 10% off coupon can save $100-200 and is worth waiting for sometimes
Not for me and I haven't registered with that site. What do you see?
Red Hat main business is services, support, training, not software by itself. In the end, their product is their people. That a lot of business uses CentOS just grows his potential market

And, btw, one of the factors of Microsoft dominance is copying their software too (along with forcing hardware vendors to include it by default, of course)
How is that a contradiction?

If you consider copy-pasting copywritten material to be bad, but the modal also bad, refusing the site traffic sounds like a completely reasonable way to deal with the modal.
Too many shoes? There's no such thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJcw4yoIseo
Oh of course. It should be investigated (if only to see what crazy red team shit one could come up with). I may be wrong, there may be a brilliant Rube Goldberg of big data terror hammering out some kickass python number that will rain misinformation and chaos down on the world. This would in fact be a better Bond villain than the Quantum of Solace bad guy. However given the way the Pentagon overreacts to shit they don't understand I really hope that they don't start REALLY worrying about this.
DAE data?
"The browser wars enter a new era with a whimper"
Do it wrong, seriously.
It's a shame when someone asking for a workaround gets downvoted on hackernews.
I had opened the Noam Chomsky link just before and checked -- it has the paywall.
Startup is pregnancy !
More here
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I was jolted by that usage as well, and dug up this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07FOB-onlanguage-...

While people can defend the use, it gives the piece a distracting buzzwordy feel.
> ... then I realized I was running NoScript.

Wow. JavaScript is so ubiquitous now, that running NoScript must be like television without ... television. I mean, NoScript makes sense -- there are any number of scams that require JavaScript to be active -- but so much online content, online experience, now relies on it.
If you don't give people their fair share...
GoComm (YC S13) Takes On Yammer Mobile For Task Management, Event Coordination
I think the change in this business is distribution, not necessarily cost vs revenue. Surely MBAs are running AMC as well. Revenue/Cost ratio is perhaps is more important - wider digital distribution leads to increased revenue over a fixed cost
it's your graphics card most likely crashing the browser.
To which I'd respond that from personal experience, on a large corporate project, it's difficult to get authorization to do just that.

And even so, testing just two different designs is rolling the dice rather than exploring feature/design space in search of a new optimum.

As examples, I personally hate what's happened to the android clients for GMail and Google Maps. The former seems a victim of incremental change while the latter seems the consequence of a radical redesign that hit me out of the blue in the middle of trying to drive somewhere when I was already late.
I believe the jibe was more to say that the CIA is dumb rather than Chomsky being unintelligible.
Email sent! I would love to do this.
Scientific Linux [1] is also a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) derivative and heavily used by government labs (i.e. Fermilab/CERN) and universities. Red hat makes lots of money off subscriptions and support, you might wonder why you would run RHEL when you could run CentOS/SL for free. Many software vendors like vmware/oracle/sybase will require you to run a "supported" operating system, so you would typically run RHEL on these types of boxes, which allows you to get support from vmware/oracle/sybase.

[1] https://www.scientificlinux.org/
Yes, the performance has been fixed. Further improvements are possible (prototype extension), but come with tradeoffs so i'm hesitant.

Apart from the dot-traversal technique (both fixed and enhanced), everything is different in HTML (see the FAQ): each(), only(), extensibility, emmet abbreviations, and the upcoming event support.
We'll have to agree to disagree.

I've been in plenty of places like SF, which, when under pressure, simply make up statistics or change what they mean.

It's simply not a "fact beyond argument", when the only source of this "fact" are a group with a very strong vested interested in high numbers and a history of not truth telling.
The 100-200 units number only came out after a lot of pushing.

They claim there are 22,000 units in planning/approval as of 2012, and we are 3/4 of the way through 2013.

Combined with the 4000 that were under construction, they should be visible by now somewhere.

Maybe you'd like to point out where you see 20k+ units under construction?

At that many, it should be blindingly obvious. SF is simply not that large, and does not have that much hidden space (open or otherwise).
I had VERY bad RSI and had tried everything under the sun. Moving the the Kinesis stopped it dead. No more typing pain. Warning: it does take a bit to get used to.
Excellent article. The points about cutting the fluff and provide a solution are critical, in my opinion, to a piece that's worth spending my time to read. Most opinion based articles tend to restate the obvious but never offer anything beyond that. Great, so you can write about what everyone already knows, good for you! Give me something to care about.

I'll be sharing this with my twitter followers.
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What a short article. It ended just as it was getting going.

Weird.
The parent wasn't claiming this; they were merely adding a single data point about a relevant topic! I for one had not thought about pre-filling the coupon code box before, and I'm glad the parent brought it to my attention.
I do agree that Macaw could be great for prototyping, but I'm adamant that it will be the death of quality code and websites if designers begin to misuse it.
Ask HN: Game background music
Our first iOS game is almost done except the background music.

Can someone please help us by suggesting any website that have some free music to download or any software to compose a simple music?
I never thought about it like this. I guess I'll try to do my best to get offended the next time i run into one
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Color Palette Picker Directive with AngularJS
Don't understand what point you're trying to make.