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citizens··on Ask HN: Can no longer run my company. Too much time and stress - advice?
Common advice around here would be to "charge more".
citizens··on Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston
> Strip search stations on every street corner?

...like Stop and Frisk?

In 2012, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 533,042 times

473,300 were totally innocent (89 percent).

http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data

citizens··on Show HN: Sales Tracker for Stripe
What information do you store on your servers?
citizens··on Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million
> And having seen Mailbox, it's very competitive with what is IMO the next-best mobile email client, GMail

But Mailbox only works with GMail email accounts. I wonder how many users Mailbox would have if Google shut them off.

citizens··on Wealth, risk, and stuff
> And no it's not travel if you are in the same country

You can think that but you are wrong.

citizens··on Money Trees – Rap Genius Response to Heroku
> Really? Their tone is entirely wrong in my opinion

That's just how they roll.

> The issue they are facing is certainly a real issue, but they are handling it completely inappropriately.

They've managed to start a huge discussion around Heroku's infrastructure while showing off the broader applications of their own annotation technology. I think they're doing just fine.

citizens··on Stripe Checkout
The expiration must be in the future
citizens··on How Art.sy survived a NYTimes.com homepage launch with Heroku + MongoHQ
One being a service like http://uptimerobot.com/ that pings the site every 5 minutes
citizens··on Airport Security Is Killing Us
Which, of course, has become much more of a problem since the airlines started charging for checked bags/IRS made baggage fees tax-exempt.

"...amounts paid for baggage services (such as Service G) are not subject to the tax" [http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/1002004.pdf]

citizens··on The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
Yep, totally possible
citizens··on The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
> "For the little story, Zlio, became blacklisted/sandboxed by Google 6 months after…. It killed the company…"

This is only speculation, but it looks like zlio.com was sandboxed/blacklisted because of rampant spamming. 4 out of the top 5 referring domains are porn sites (about 150k links).

Source: http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/zlio.c...

citizens··on Pod Bay Doors - Super simple sliding divs
The github url is mistyped. should be https://github.com/rodriguezcommaj/PodBayDoor, not https://github.com/rodriguezcommaj/PodBayDoors
citizens··on FBI releases documents that confirm they proactively spy on anarchists
The fourth amendment protects against "unreasonable" searches and seizures.
citizens··on Facebook changes Open Graph guidelines to stop applications auto-posting
how convenient ;)
citizens··on Patio11 launches his lifecycle emails course
Yeah, I know.
citizens··on Patio11 launches his lifecycle emails course
Amy Hoy's Freckle [app] starts at $12/mo.
citizens··on Pandora doesn't hash their passwords
Try going to the settings screen and then right-click in the password field and click inspect element (assuming Chrome).

I thought mine just said value="${password}" too, but nope, its there in all its unencrypted glory.

citizens··on Show HN: SERP Scan, SEO Rank Tracking
This is V1. Any critiques would be appreciated.
citizens··on FTC Approves Instagram Acquisition
AFAIK they only expected 500MM
citizens··on How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)
Salary negotiations are [partly] about knowing the value you'll bring to the company. If you aren't able to explain your value how are they supposed to compensate accordingly?
citizens··on Pay Pad for Stripe
Searching for "paypad" results in a "did you mean paypal?" Of course, searching for "pay pad" works just fine.

I downloaded the free version because I don't need to create or charge customers from the app. A couple of things that would motivate me to pay:

• Graphs

• Payment forecasting for recurring payments ($X expected this week, month, etc.)

• Multiple accounts. Not a big deal, but if I could easily switch between stripe accounts [without re-logging in] I would.

Looks like a nice app though; thanks for putting this out there.

citizens··on Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?
> "Then who pays for it and why?"

Many people believe social signals help increase their search engine rankings and/or conversion rates. Some of those people buy likes, shares, etc. for that reason.

> "What is the incentive to fake-like advertisers on facebook?"

Perhaps people who offer those social-seo services control thousands of robot-facebook accounts and they want their robots to seem like real, active users? It seems possible that they would automate some random activity (in this case liking virtual bagel's ad) while they're waiting around for orders.

Just guesses.

citizens··on Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?
Possibly competitors of the advertiser [who can't afford PPC]?

Another thought: An advertiser could use a bot to click on ads for keywords they are targeting. If they could exhaust their competitors daily budget they could potentially get higher placement for less CPC [later in the day]. I'm thinking of Adwords here.

citizens··on PayDragon (YC S11) raises $1.35M so hungry people can skip lines
A hungrier person (from waiting in line) might also buy more food (good for the merchant).
citizens··on PayDragon (YC S11) raises $1.35M so hungry people can skip lines
I'm not sure this app would save those establishments
citizens··on Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous
You can always throw in some noindex,nofollow tags on the landing page to prevent Google from indexing them.

You could also consider using canonical tags for landing pages that are slight variations of each other [to prevent duplicate content penalties]. This one is really just a guess.

citizens··on EFF: Americans may not realize the impacts of face recognition technology
Does anyone else here fear the combination of facial recognition + domestic drones?
citizens··on How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back
It's not that money is the root of all evil, but rather "the love of money is the root of all evil"

1 Timothy 6:10. Never imagined myself quoting the bible.

citizens··on Larry Ellison Buys Most of Lanai
That's pretty interesting. I'm curious: If he founded his own country, why did he need a permit?

Edit: Oh, right.

citizens··on Moving from programmer to entrepreneur
The real cost of acquisition would be much higher. Newsletter Subscriber != Customer
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