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Ask HN: What is the best way to reach your early users?
Hi everyone, I am trying to reach as many early adopters as I can to see if people like the idea of my startup company Mobifile. I have a few questions for you guys about reaching early users:

1. Is it worth to publish our Facebook page? and if so where should I publish it? are there any recommended websites, groups of beta users on Facebook that you think I should post it there?

2. The main thing I would like people to reach is our desktop website www.mobifile.co, where we have information about our app, and people can just sign up for the service. We also have a mobile website but it is very lean, on purpose, not to overload with information on that tiny screen. So where is the best place to publish our website and reach those tech savvy users who will be willing to try our app?

3. There are many startup and products lists. I added our product on Product Hunt a long time ago, and it is not approved for some reason. we have a running beta, but for some reason, I only see the same people adding companies, and some of the products don't even have a prototype, so the answer that PH only approve products in production does not satisfy me. What is the best way to get my product published on PH?

4. Are there any other lists? in addition to startupli.st and betalist?

5. Other ideas?

Thanks!

Illai.
I'm a little intrigued by a 15% raise year of year ? How long can you sustain that rate ?

I'm supposed to be happy if I get 5% or really happy when I get 8% after extraordinary accomplishments. And if you performed extraordinary this year, that same level of performance doesn't get you 5% next year.
While I agree with the facts in the article, my own conclusions are quite the opposite (feel free to downvote / flame, but please read the whole response first).

I guess it depends on values - for me, what matters is the value added to customer. Iterating quickly (often) yields better results in this area because it allows you to guess customer expectations early in development process. I have often encountered die-hard engineers who want 100% specification upfront... In my experience, world doesn't work this way. It would be nice if it did, but it doesn't.

And yes, I am guilty. I am using MongoDB AND JavaScript (but not Node.js - not that I have anything against it, just never had the need for it). I don't use these technologies because they are "cool", but because they solve specific problems in an efficient way. Which is probably why hackathon devs used them too. And yes, I would appreciate schema in MongoDB and types in JS, but I can live without it. Life is made of tradeoffs. Does it really matter if latest Fart App (tm) builds on transaction-safe DB and uses strong type language?

So, are we seeing a rise of "shipping culture"? Yes. Does it change how we work? Yes. Is it in some ways worse? Yes. Is it hurting us? No.
Yes, and when each player says a colour, they're still only right 50% of the time. But the strategy means the cases where you'd be wrong are the same cases that others would also vote incorrectly, but the cases where you're right, the others pass, so you win.

MMM O O O Lose
MMO Pass Pass O Win
MOM Pass O Pass Win
MOO M Pass Pass Win
OMM O Pass Pass Win
OMO Pass M Pass Win
OOM Pass Pass M Win
OOO M M M Lose
It's completely different from person to person, but I use a whiteboard to draw up different components and their interactions. Then work my way down subsystems when I need to. Having that overview is very beneficial.
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Lego is now only a 3D jigsaw puzzle, sadly.

Lego Classic has just arrived in the UK but it seems a half-hearted piece of mummery to me.
Shoegaze is still going strong in the same way that Mozart is still going strong, despite dying aged 35 in 1791.

At least in the UK, the scene described in the article was fairly obscure even in its heyday, and by the mid-'90s it was remembered mostly as a slightly embarrassing pre-Britpop phase. Having watched it come and go the first time around, its post millennial resuscitation feels pretty weird.
And yet now there are more Lego kits than 40 years ago. Maybe there is something among them for the anomal clients as well?

Do you reckon socialism does a better job with providing individualistic toys? Or what alternative to free markets would you propose?
For example, high-fructose corn syrup has become a major ingredient of many American food products within the past 20+ years. That didn't happen because of consumer demand, and consumers don't have an easy way to vote against it.

That's a pretty bad example, since that was in good part a result of the action of elected governments that have kept the price of sugar way above the market price, through tariffs, quotas and subsidies.

I suppose it's true that consumers don't have an easy way to vote against it, but it is a result of the US' "democratic" process.

On a related note, there was a recent Econtalk episode with Daniel Sumner, professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of California, on that subject: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/02/daniel_sumner_o.htm...
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Going to college.

Made me waste 5 years of my productive life, to leave me in debt that made me waste 4 years working just to pay that debt, this year will be my first real year working to actually earn money.
Not to learn from my mistakes, but regret them.
I'm glad that there are complicated kits to choose from. Sadly my kids don't stay two years old forever.
I believe it is necessary to maintain the threat of a huge judgement against a local government for the crimes of its hired employees. There is no other effective form of accountability.
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Good example.

Another common example is one-way streets. If you have several sections of a street with conflicting one-way markings like this:

----> . <---- . ---->

then the street becomes unroutable (assuming no intersections at the .s). I found this was a fairly common issue on the entry/exit flares at roundabouts.
Well, if the toddlers can pick, the gendered products were there first.

But it is true that kids even make gendered toys out of practically nothing. For instance, a local kindergarten here: three-year-old boys were forbidden to have toy guns. So the kids took some flat crispbread at the midday meal and chewed edges off to make it gun-shaped, and then started playing cops and robbers. Bang bang.
Both data from foreign citizens and from your own citizens are useful, but usefulness shouldn't be the only consideration.

If you have lots of private information about someone that means you have power over that person. For starters it makes blackmail a whole lot easier. In combination with data about other people it helps you determine who you have to remove from a group to make that group collapse.

Now if somebody has this sort of power about some foreigners, that's not really a big problem for you country. But if somebody has that power about the entire population of your own country, that's a bit worse. That somebody could disable any form of democracy by silencing citizen protests before they even start while covertly controlling key politicians.

If communism has thought us anything it's that you don't want anybody to have intimate knowledge over large parts of your population, it doesn't tend to end well. Oversight is a nice idea but there was already supposed to be all kinds of oversight which apparently failed. I don't really trust oversight in things this important.
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9^(9^9) is ... wait for it... 4e369693099 bigger than 9!!

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=9%5E9%5E9+-+9%21%21
Software (in the Turing sense), removing the material complexity, accelerated the notion of automation. Easy things can be, medium-complexity too, only leaving the NP-complete stuff to be done by hand. Jobs are an endangered species.
Oh the conicidence. I'm currently reading Gleick's "Chaos..."...a little too layman so far but a fun read nontheless, recommended.

On the site...Pascal's triangle (%2 and other mods) is particularly fascinating to me.
Ask HN: CS or Business?
I have just finished my four year enlistment as a contracting specialist for the USAF and am deciding on a career path.
My question is if there is any need for a contracting specialist with a computer science background at tech companies in silicon valley? or should i follow my peers who are getting a business degree, and working at normal run of the mill companies?
The plans page is to see whether the app is something that people would consider paying for in the future. Any initial release would be completely free.

Thank you for the feedback.
There have been Lego Creative sets available for ages in UK.

I agree that other kits are just a bunch on non-general blocks and tiny pieces.
Even if an axiom system could prove its own consistency, that wouldn't be any less circular - we could believe T because T proves that T is consistent - but if T were inconsistent then it might still prove that T was consistent.

Most of us take some axioms and believe them, ultimately because they correspond to physical experience - if you take a pile of n pebbles and add another pebble to the pile, you get a pile of n+1 pebbles, and n+1 is always a new number that doesn't =0 (that is, our pile looks different from a pile of 0 pebbles). Maybe there's some (very large) special n where this wouldn't happen - where you'd add 1 and get a pile of 0 pebbles, or where you can have n pebbles but you can't have n sheep. But so far we haven't found that. So far the universe remains simple, and the axioms of arithmetic are simpler than conceivable alternatives.
It all looks great, but I wonder what happens when my model is actually a large database (or, for example, a large map), and the visual components are each observing changes in this database (or map). Would the database be one big signal? Or would the database be a large collection of signals? How would one model this (efficiently) in elm?
Plus this is the only time I've ever seen "mobile first" interpreted quite so literally (i.e. on a desktop with a reasonable connection the mobile stylesheet loads before the main styles and content and is visible for just long enough for the eyes to register the layout, producing a horrible "flash of unstyled content" effect).

n.b. plenty of people looking at the BBC site are still being shown the old style.
Underestimating own skill and especially judgement of a situation as a young employee. Fear of larger organisations, complex processes that leads to avoidance of these type of projects. I've gained confidence over the years, now its easy. But it has led to regrets about missed opportunities. Also, not starting earlier with a side-business.
The tech is (relatively) easy, it's getting that materials that is (fortunately) hard. But there is enough of it in enough places with imperfect oversight that it is a source of concern.
A child-made toy gun is not a gendered toy.

A gendered toy would be a toy gun packaged in a blue box with only images of boys on the packaging.
i can't imagine how my mind can be blown any more than it already has.
Don't get me wrong, I'd gladly strangle the greedy bastards that are doing this to the world. How's that for pacifism?
I was aware that it was a logical stretch, yea. That's also why I made sure to include the 'almost'. It's just the kind of thought that pops into my head when star gazing.
Check this out

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I wouldn't take this understanding of the physical universe for granted. I think we lack both insight and perspective to make sure-fire statements about things happening to the universe billions of years from now.
This. Have you found a way to fix it?
Another option is self-enforced population decline (already happening in many developed countries) - for now it's artificaly solved by immigration from not-so-well developed countries, but this will stop at some point.
I was expecting the article to focus on this and dis/prove hypothesis of double blunder.

Most top players would comment (as Anand and Carlsen did after the game) that double blunders are relatively common in top level play.

Here is one famous case: http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-amazing-chess-illusion

In my personal experience this has been common too, when I mix playing against 2500 players and 1900 players in blitz (I am 2350fide), it is relatively easy to skip over simple hanging pieces for a move or two.

In a regular tournament game it has happened a few times as well (one player commiting a gross blunder and other not noticing).

The big question whether it is out of ordinary statistically speaking.
I have some issue with how you're generating the BB numbers, though it's not necessarily mathematical. Fundamentally, "cranking it out" is exactly what you cannot do to generate the BBs: following any one specific set of instructions for generating the BBs is a futile exercise.

The problem arises when you say that "a programmer should be able to grind out" whether or not a TM halts or not, which you use to get around the fact that a TM cannot solve the halting problem. However, I'd question if this is a trivial exercise: while we certainly are capable of recognizing infinite loops in the code we write, I'm not certain that humans can identify arbitrary infinite loops. Obviously, whether or not we can isn't a trivially answerable question, as it comes down to whether or not our brain's neural networks can be modeled by a sufficiently large TM, and even if it cannot be modeled by a sufficiently large TM, what differences between our brains and a TM exist and why those would effectively allow us to solve the halting problem.

So I'd question whether finding the BBs is "'just' a matter of computation", because I'm not convinced that humans can solve the TM halting problem.
Given how many people simply are pro-government, do they even need shills?
Gotta do both, bro.
The west scolds iran for not adhering to the npt that they signed. What treaty in this regard did israel sign that they dont adhere to?
An intersting thought experiment is to compare their economic output. If feudal hellhole is more efficient eventually only hellholes will remain.
Being caught making one is a terribly bad idea. Having one (or more) would be an enormous plus from a diplomatic standpoint especially after a test, having them in undisclosed locations and too many to knock them all out in one strike is even better. Not that that's a world we should prefer to live in but history has shown that the quickest way to increase your diplomatic clout as a nation is to join the nuclear club.
ZX81 for DM 49 is/was quite a good deal. :)
I like the design of the new BBC and Guardian websites, but I agree that if they're aiming for mobile first, they still have a way to go.

In particular, 'the flash' you mentioned on The Guardian means that often, instead of iOS 8 Safari scrolling when I try to scroll, it activates a link - or worse, an ad! It's infuriating, and it's significantly less usable than their old site in that regard.

For a truly bad mobile site, though, try going to Cricinfo: http://www.espncricinfo.com/ Go to an article, then go back. Notice that:

1) Your horizontal scroll position in the article list is lost.

2) The page renders, then re-renders exactly the same (for me at least), with a jump to the top of the page in between.
Really?

We had those for at least 50 years:

http://www.img.chh.pl/large_size/cdeeb903fbbd7e9488757bb92fc...

I don't see how it's any different?
Can you name some of those Node.js apps that have been causing problems for you?
Austrian wine makers? "The 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal involved a limited number of Austrian wineries that had illegally adulterated their wines using the toxic substance diethylene glycol (a primary ingredient in some brands of antifreeze) to make the wines appear sweeter and more full-bodied in the style of late harvest wine" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_diethylene_glycol_wine_sca...
If the math would work out that way a cluster of 25 or so computers should be able to support a full blown AI. But clusters of 10's of thousands of computers are still simply executing relatively simplistic algorithms. So I would estimate that the number of transistors required for AI would be either much higher than the number of neurons (which are not easily modeled in the digital domain) or that our programming bag of tricks would need serious overhaul before we could consider solving the problem of hard AI.
Ah thanks! How could I forget Wolfram Alpha? =)
recent studies have proven that praising a child’s
effort over the childs acheivements is the correct way
to raise a little person that will do well

I think this claim is mistaken. The article backs the claim up with a link which discusses something different: whether to praise effort or praise attributes of the person e.g. "you are so smart!". Praising achievement is a third category of praise where consequences are assessed and not personal qualities.

I'm confident that positive and negative feedback about achievement are incredibly important moreso than acknowledging effort. Praising the attributes of a person is clearly just flattery so I don't know why anyone would do it or need a study to point it out.

Were you to praise effort and not assess achievement, you will train people to look like they are working hard rather than actually achieving anything and not give them the feedback that will help them truly excel.
That's revenge, not socially progressive justice. I'm sure there is something better that could have been done with BM to help society other than put him in prison. For instance serving elderly people tea and biscuits or such
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There's various automated tools to do this:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quality_assurance#Error_d...
The problem with that proposal is that we're currently waiting until all of the low hanging fruit got picked. I'm no masochist - if there are nice fruit on the bottom branches, I'm going to pick those. The problem is that the low hanging branches have been picked of all their nice fruit, just leaving the sour, the rotten, and the immature. We could start putting in the effort and climbing the tree for the nice, ripe fruits at the top, but we're being lazy and waiting until we've picked every last worm-filled mush at the bottom.
udig has been around for a while now. http://udig.refractions.net/
I only got into Slowdive a year or two ago so I can't think of it in terms of scenes or who drank at which pub in 1993. But without that context I think they made one good and one great record -- objectively so, as much as one can say that about music -- and I don't see why there's anything weird about still listening to them, or discovering them if you weren't there at the time.
Given how long ago it expired and how terrible the competition is I think Lego is the poster company for showing that execution quality is crucial.
I love the BBC. Very interesting news, fairly balanced.

I hope I can play their videos on the new website, as before they all used to require Flash.
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people working on computers in the 80s were not hipsters.
No he doesn't. Si Dunn only gives out 4 & 5 star reviews with the vast majority being 5 star. Si Dunn also isn't a programmer, he's a non fiction author and professional book reviewer. He's a shill, his reviews are all the same formulaic BS. He doesn't understand enough about writing code to actually review the book and instead fills space by using author quotes or lists the definitions of what the technology is.
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Absolutely! I live in Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, a poor, small country, which has been accepted in NATO and the European Union, but still is hosted by the past-Soviet`s secret intelligence services of Moscow, which are now illegal, but has agents and the absolute power over the legal secret services in Bulgaria. The surveillance is much larger, than in the USA, but all the info goes to Moscow.

So, what are you troubling about, when NSA is pure American, and has the purpose to protect you from the legions of Russian, Chinese hackers - officially military, or just playing and stilling criminals, and all the Islamic recruiters, who are trying to recruit American citizens for their Jihad against The Civilization...

I don`t understand, are you stupid, people, or what? NSA has the duty to protect you, and you are acting as children, whom parents has been installed a security program on your PC, to protect you from pedophiles... It`s the same case with the NSA surveillance!
> I'm not sure website development should be paid by UK tax payers TBH...

We pay for it mostly via the TV license fee. The BBC is not allowed to make money off UK citizens for any of its core services (TV, radio, news) - hence why some BBC links for the rest of the world are blocked for us, as they contain advertisements.

BBC News is primarily intended for a UK audience, so it makes sense that it's paid for by UK taxpayers. It's distribution infrastructure, just like the Freeview transmitters and the Freesat satellite - why wouldn't it be paid for by the taxpayer, who overwhelmingly demands online access to news and TV catch-up?
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You partly answered your own question. If you peers are mostly going down the business degree path, then you might be able to capture a niche due to your specialised skills and experience.

Is there any particular reason you specified Silicon Valley. With your experience there might be lucrative opportunities in other parts of the country as well.

It might be worth contacting some companies and seeing what opportunities exist. It is possible that you could find work on the strength of your current skills and experience and then you'd look at further studies based upon the needs that you uncover. It is a bit risky to get a degree in any area without research the opportunities available in that specific area.
I tried maproulette.org. It wanted me to “sign in”, but it turned out it wanted me to log in to OSM, so that was fine. But then OSM asked me to verify MapRoulette to “allow reading my user preferences”. Since it wasn’t obvious what constitutes my preferences or not – my OSM account’s e-mail address has the caption “will never be shown publicly” on it, but would MapRoulette be given my e-mail address? I decided not to risk it and closed the tab.
GREAT! :)
the future is now!
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I believe it's unintentional - I expect it stems from JavaScript event tracking (e.preventDefault(); logEvent(e); window.location=e.target.href; Or something to that effect).
I don't know either, but that's HN for you. meh

It's a shame though, because the new IE isn't so bad, but while I have to develop for IE8 it's as good as useless :(