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point #3 isnt exactly correct. On most Otis elevators the direction you call the lift with mandates an operation. If opposing sequence of requests occur, the lift doors will close and then re-open. You'll notice the directional light above will switch upon the doors reopening. The only way to prevent this is to hit the manual reset (commonly pressing two 'secret' buttons at the same time).

When working in hotels, I use to request an elevator going down with passengers, jump inside, perform a manual reset and force everyone to ride up with me.

Google is probably making a lot of money off of Mahalo. Anyone want to take a stab at what that number could be?

I think tynt actually knows what was selected and copied even if it wasn't pasted. That nugget of data is captured and the content source can see what info people wanted a deeper dive on. ex: people commonly paste names and unfamiliar words. It's an indication of the lead generated by the article and helpful for editorial and advertising teams.

really good name! solid execution on the idea

You need to hire Jenny Ersbak. She's done three interviews with you so far and I can only say praises about her (and I'm her boss). Email me if you'd like a reference.

stop eating fish. support no fishing zones. support desert based salt water fish farms.

At the earliest stages, you should just be identifying the problem. Interview general folks in your industry and ask, 'would you like a simpler XXX'. 'what is the most painful ZZZ'. 'what would get you to try a new service'.

From that small set, draw up your idea and re-interview those folks. if they like it, you should present the same drawings to a wider scope and see if it still has gravity.

The next step is to test the market and publish your solution through adsense . I'm unaware of another method to test an idea as well as adsense. it would be great to hear some other ways of testing an audience before building.

Good idea in using Netcraft. This certainly makes some sense. As AllRecipes is almost a decade old and based in Seattle, i can understand why they are on a Microsoft Stack.

Thanks!

Similar API's are available all over the web. the best seems to be www.pittpatt.com but it's kinda pricey. A big advantage is that PittPatt can be installed locally on a server to provide a secure app. Privacy could be a concern as the images are stored on a CDN.

A big question is what is the confidence score of accurately matching images? The smaller the dataset the better but this was a big concern with the app that i was building. General uses like celebrity sites wont have this concern.

Bezos invested in http://www.qliance.com/ and they might have simplified much of the required forms customarily requested.

some of the immediate buildings to the right (whitish) have a strange bloated imperfection. kinda ruins the picture.

Zooming back is great as you really see that new skyscraper. Zooming in is pretty good too.

question of curiosity: why did you use noostr (php) and not the HN code (lisp/arc) up on github?

Bootup Labs in vancouver is very critical of this term. They adamantly stick to the word 'accelerator'. {try telling that to their last round of investments}

calling idealabs an incubator is the same as Mcdonalds trying out McPizza in the canadian markets. idealabs does not take in outside ideas/entrepreneurs.

bigdeal.com does this too. TechCrunch sponsored their jump into America and ultimately pulled out. It's super confusing for people and 99% of bidders get screwed.

The reason why bids happen so fast is that they over bid a high amount and not the next increment. And those super bidders usually have 'won' bids in a previous auction thus receiving a discount on the bid value.

Some thoughts / insights

Demand Media (DM) only covers the surface of a topic. Never a deep dive. Thus by nature, they are a lead generator. That's why they have descent ad rates and can pay real wages for content. But IMHO, they haven't begun to really profit from this position.

In content farming, whoever pays the most to their writers ultimately wins. The best writers are attracted to the best paychecks. Because DM invested hundreds of millions in established domains, they bought traffic and offer better cash versus just posting on your own blog.

DM will ultimately crash directly into the way of traditional media outlets. And it will be the aggregators like google news and huffington post who win. Like many businesses, it's the distributors who make the lions share of profits.

Aapl didnt bid on the last release of wireless spectrum gov't sales. I doubt they'd be able to do this.

downvoted? Can someone explain how the QuickTime format isn't coming from the same principle as Flash?

How can apple crap on Adobe's proprietary tools when Apple send me updates for QuickTime every week. Hypocritical.

Genius = "TheFunded.com for employees to privately rate their employers"

Re: 4chan

The $/impressions ratio sounds too good to be true. And that's exactly what it is.

If you've ever used 4chan there would be no way you'd actually spend money advertising there. The site is process based where users constantly look in the center where content appears. Ads are on the side (separated away from content) and become totally ignored by the community. Plus, most users block ads - ask how they calculate those users.

all publicity is good publicity.

Here @ HN the simplicity of Karma allows for the most inciteful and productive community discussions on the net. Would any of these suggestions actually improve the way things work here?

Also, as much as i hate blippy and swipely - if companies know who actually purchased a good - then their feedback becomes hugely valuable.

Iran is not on the list. Possibly they requested to be removed.

I know the folks at linbblad Expeditions. drop me a line with your site and i'll see if i can help. james of Adventurelink.com

I really like it but outlook has templates and Gmail has canned responses. Email tracking is nice but it's commonly used by your customers and it's a flawed metric as images are not always displayed (and counted).

It's a nice piece of work. Please update us after a month with how it's going.

can you easily update data feeds to illustrator without having to redo your drafted work?

I suppose the existence of a Tumblr business model could actually get in the way of a larger entity acquiring them.

StackOverflow got caught with a model that didn't work for them and pivoting wasn't super smooth.

cash is not a good motivator. What money affords is the opportunity to attain a desire (power, consumption, freedom, increased peer perception). What motivates people is the ability to capture what they covet.

agreed on all points.