Who Put the IPv6 in my Internet? - <AUTHOR> http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/09/who-put-the-ipv6-in-my-internet/

<comment><USER2> Well that's reasonably promising.

I think there's still a race between IPv6 adoption and carrier-grade NAT. If the big ISPs deploy CGN rather than IPv6, that will eliminate the big motivation behind v6 (the IPv4 address runout), while at the same time neutering the Internet into something resembling little more than interactive broadcast media. Given that the major US ISPs--which tend to either be broadcast media conglomerates (threatened by P2P media displacing traditional broadcast) or telecommunications conglomerates (threatened by VOIP displacing more profitable wireline services)--would seem to have a motivation to go the CGN route, I'm holding my breath a bit.

IPv6 seems to be winning, in the sense that I don't think we'll all get stuck behind CGN and IPv4 forever, but I'm not quite ready to call the race just yet.

<comment> bjelkeman-again I had never heard about CGN before you mentioned it. Thanks. CGN is certainly not where we want to end up. I believe it is time to start pushing the local ISP harder for IPv6. /rolls up sleeves/

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Windows 7's Home group requires IPv6 to work, I believe.</comment>


In California, Where Cancer Warnings Abound, Coffee Is Next in Line - <AUTHOR> https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-drink-coffee-in-california-be-warned-it-may-cause-cancer-1516795200? <comment><AUTHOR> One of the interesting effects of Prop 65 is that it allows private citizens to bring suit alleging violations. This has wrought a similar effect to the ADA violations lawsuit racket.

I don't think there is enough public pressure to get this changed now, but I'm glad more people are becoming aware of how these "well meaning" regulations can be abused.</comment>


Show HN: Twitch stream of a bird sitting on her eggs - <AUTHOR> https://www.twitch.tv/b1rdgang <comment><AUTHOR> Putting up a blog post seemed like overkill, but this was a fun project to pass the time during lockdown. At the same time I find watching her sleep extremely soothing and it's helping a lot during this crisis.

The setup is as follows:

\- Amcrest 4K PoE camera outputting a RTSP stream

\- PoE injector (I have some left over from my networking setup, and the main PoE infra in my home isn't close to the nest)

\- Pi4 2GB acting as a firewall and WiFi bridge

\- Intel NUC i7 transcoding the RTSP stream to RTMP for ingestion

* I originally did this with ffmpeg but the particular incantation I used seemed unstable and had some weird keyframing artifacts. I migrated to a trial of a "professional" live streaming toolkit which is able to somehow re-encapsulate the RTSP as RTMP without live transcoding. I'm just guessing this given how low the CPU usage is with this method.

\- RTMP to Twitch

* YT Live requires 1) a 24h wait before streaming and 2) an audio stream along with the video, which made it more annoying than using Twitch

* Streaming to a DO instance (my original plan) would have been fine for 10-20 people but would have been more brittle to maintain. Also it costs money.

This is very easy to do and should work for essentially any cheap RTSP camera for direct streaming. Stay healthy out there!</comment>


Ask HN: Entrepreneurship for Non-US Citizens - <AUTHOR>

A bit of background. I'm an Indian citizen on a H-1, just finished my Masters and I'm working on my first fulltime job.
I've realized simply remaining as a programmer for the rest of my life is simply not going to cut it and I was looking at starting something on my own. But so far, everything I looked at is disheartening. Let me briefly state my concerns -
It's impossible to get into incubator programs like YC/TechStars.
As far as I understand, I don't think I even should build anything and raise money from investors when on H-1 working in a US company. (Including something as trivial as an iPhone app)
To top this off, you're not even supposed to be "developing" your own business part-time if someone with a green card _did_ start the business for you and you're a partner / investor in it.
And yet the apparent contradiction is there are a few indian entrepreneurs floating around in the valley, with H1s, so I'm not really sure what in the world is going on here.
Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks, Teja.
PS: I know there's the Startup Visa movement, but I somehow feel it'll take a while before something materializes. <comment><USER2> Your business is not necessarily where you are. A business is a legal separate entity. You can have a business in, say, india that makes iPhone apps and is registered in India and banks in India and as far as apple or anyone is concerned it is an indian company.

I would recommend focusing on the business idea, refining it and getting it going rather than looking for investment or finding an incubator, etc. Being on an H1 visa with a day job is similar to any American with a day job. You have to be careful to balance your time.

There lots of advice about how you should do a startup, and a lot of it is valid. But every startup is different and none of that advice is as important as the simple act of starting up. Worry about what you can do and don't worry about the things that are beyond your control. Where you were born is beyond your control and beyond your ability to change.</comment>


Snippet?? App Facilitates Social and Business Opportunities Right Around You - <AUTHOR> The Snippet?? iOS app is an on-location socializing & networking tool to find people around you and make valuable social & business connections without working an entire room or leaving it to chance. Approach & engage in in-person conversations with confidence using common interests as an icebreaker.  With Snippet??, you don't have to waste time trying to work an entire room to try and find people with common professions, social hobbies, interests, or networking goals (ie find an engineer, an investor, a fellow salsa dancer).  You never know what valuable opportunity or connection you could make with someone at the same venue.  Now Snippet?? shows you and encourages in-person interaction, where the real connections are made.  It all starts with a conversation.
About:  Founded in October 2018.  Currently only in the Apple app store, with Android & mobile web versions soon to follow.
https://www.facebook.com/snippetconvos
https://angel.co/snippet-4 <comment><USER2> I like the idea of being able to network but not necessarily sharing my profile with everyone, is their a way to protect my privacy while still being able to network?</comment>


Texas Rejects Letting Academics Vet Public School Textbooks - <AUTHOR> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-rejects-letting-academics-vet-public-school-textbooks-35290952 <comment><USER2> The organizing narrative for James Michener's novel _Texas_ is the preparation of a statewide textbook on the history of Texas. As a plot device it's so blunt, that it only Michener's craft expressed in the historical sections makes it readable.

[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12659.Texas](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12659.Texas)</comment>


Any thoughts on collaborative invention (e.g., using human-based genetic algorithms)? - <AUTHOR>

<comment><AUTHOR> Just to take one example, one might build a service where users invent board games. This could be done using human-based genetic algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_genetic_algorithm. Users of the service would be able to modify rules to try to make a game more fun. A fitness function would take into account how popular various game variants are among players. Note that users of such a service need not be programmers: the domain is sufficiently restricted so as to make visual point-and-click rule creation/modification possible.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> As another example, consider using human-based genetic algorithms to create daily news shows, perhaps in the style of this site (but using people rather than computers): http://www.newsatseven.com</comment>


Galaxy S2 comes Friday, Watch These Fun Galaxy S2 Ads to Pass the Time - <AUTHOR> http://www.i4u.com/47434/galaxy-s2-comes-friday-watch-these-fun-galaxy-s2-ads-pass-time

<comment><USER2> New phone, big hurrah.

Is Samsung going to strangle the upgrade support on this phone too? It got tiring as a (former) first gen Galaxy S owner watching every other phone keep up with the Android release lifetime to the point that the Galaxy S was the last super model Android phone still running 2.1 by a year.

I eventually ended up on an HTC Evo, but that was an unrelated move.

</comment><comment><USER3> Hi-tech and modern feeling until the end of each ad, with a logo from the 90:s and a Windows 98:ish sound. Samsung really needs to get a better audio jingle.

</comment><comment><USER4> I see what you did there. Nice try.</comment>


Show HN: Awesome JavaScript - <AUTHOR> http://js.libhunt.com/ <comment><AUTHOR> The author here.

This is the third similar project I'm releasing this week. The end goal is this to become the go-to "JavaScript Toolbox". Currently, this is based on the official Github "awesome javascript" list.

Again, I will be more than happy to receive any feedback or ideas how the site could be improved and become more helpful. I already received some excellent suggestions in the context of Python and Ruby.

Thanks in advance!

<comment><USER2> This link is down: [http://js.libhunt.com/categories/10-mvc-frameworks-and- libra...](http://js.libhunt.com/categories/10-mvc-frameworks-and-libraries)</comment></comment>


Why so many developers hate recruiters - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/free-code-camp/the-tech-recruiter-red-pill-967dd492560c#.yzix5cjmq <comment><USER2> Seems like recruiting has the same basic problem as every other human-to-human matchmaking in that it is possible to identify potential, but not to predict the future.

There are some advantages to employee-employer matchmaking in that the relationship is primarily based on money and there's a one-to-many pattern that repeats frequently.

I didn't know that the spammy recruiters were literally stealing your identity to apply on your behalf. No wonder they're hated. Still, I wonder how low the response rate would have to drop before spam is no longer profitable. Seems like that industry runs reasonably well on extremely low response rates.

</comment><comment><USER3> _" Since they get paid based on your starting salary, they are inclined to help you negotiate as high a starting salary as possible."_

It isn't quite that simple. They get paid nothing if you don't get hired and thus aren't going to negotiate very hard for you and risk losing the placement. It's like the real estate situation where brokers won't keep a house on the market as long for a client as they will if selling there own house.

[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17jO_w6f8Ck](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17jO_w6f8Ck)

</comment><comment><USER4> Recruiters, real estate agents, car salespeople, etc, in general seem to be people that have no actual skills and get by in life as a warm body that's generally accepted as a required party when two other parties have a supply/demand situation.

<comment><USER5> If you comb through HN threads related to recruiters, I promise you'll find less biased comments than mine, but I want to clear up your misconception.

I'll grant you that most sales professions have a low barrier to entry, as they're commission-based (no harm in throwing as many rookies at the wall as possible and seeing who sticks). Therefore, everyone on the receiving end has been disappointed, frustrated, or angered by a salesperson at some point.

On the flipside, this profession is the most pure form of Survival of the Fittest. The commission-based compensation structure actually forces people to either perform or starve (as opposed to other careers, where mediocrity is generally rewarded with salary and raises). Ultimately, the vast majority of salespeople rarely last more than a couple of years.

That leaves you with higher performers, who clearly have essential skills to achieve success; it might not entail a technical understanding of data structures and design patterns, but they are skills that are essential to keeping the machine of our economy running.

Not to toot my own horn, but just an example: I earned a degree in Accounting/Finance from a top 10 university and decided to drop out of an Ivy League MBA to pursue commission-based sales. To me, it's the most exhilerating, unpredictable, and (financially and emotionally) rewarding career. There's nothing more enjoyable than listening to my software engineering candidates from the very first contact to the acceptance of an offer. A career is an essential part of an individual's livelihood and it's incredibly satisfying to be a catalyst for positive change in one's life.

All it takes is one positive experience, then hopefully you'll have a change of heart!

<comment><USER4> > That leaves you with higher performers, who clearly have essential skills to > achieve success

The problem is that skill is usually deception, omission of information, or outright lying.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Recruiters aren't all bad, but the vast majority you're likely to encounter in the wild are.</comment>


Designing an Engineering Performance Management System from Scratch - <AUTHOR> https://blog.gitprime.com/designing-performance-management-systems/ <comment><USER2> Formal performance reviews are the worst method for evaluating your workforce that has ever been tried, except for all the others.

For me, performance reviews are the single most demoralizing aspect of working at a large company. They are doubly demoralizing because I can see so many things wrong with them, but also can't imagine any system that would work better.

So what's wrong with them?

1\. Over the long term, they incentivize people to work on things that have easily measurable short term costs and benefits. More difficult to measure costs and benefits get ignored. They also encourage sunk-cost fallacy. In almost any company, you're better off, at least in the short term, if you ship something that turns out to be a huge waste of resources later on, than if you make the decision "this isn't turning out the way we wanted, we should just cancel this project".

2\. They pretend to be a relatively objective system, when in fact your performance rating at most companies is strongly (though not entirely) dependent on how your manager views you. Attempts to lessen the impact of point 1 above will generally increase the impact of this point. Research suggests that most of what passes for rational justifications are made up after the fact to support gut-level emotional decisions.

3\. They replace intrinsic motivation with extrinsic motivation, which at least some research has shown can lead to much less durable motivation over the long run.

At one point I was very enamored of the way Valve does things, but now it seems that that sort of management approach produces super toxic cultures in the long run.

Ultimately it seems like the only way to get away from this stuff is to work for yourself or in a very small team with trusted partners.

<comment><USER3> I read about the culture of Valve a few years ago and it seemed interesting. What have you seen come out that changed your opinion?

<comment><USER4> I would love to hear more than rumor about it, but what I've heard suggested a lot of "tyranny of structurelessness" [1] problems. If the former power structures go away, then people fall back on informal tools, including charm, popularity, favor-trading, and abusive behavior, and a de facto power structure emerges. Since this doesn't really include mechanisms for accountability, it can devolve into lord-of-the-flies scenarios.

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness) and [https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm](https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

In this case, the measure is your position on the career ladder, not e.g. the success/failure of your product or company as a whole (unless that is required to advance). I feel that because of this, performance management at big companies leads to unnecessary product churn. Think about how many messaging apps Google has released, or how every product seems to get a top-to-bottom redesign every year or two... having been on the inside, I think this is definitely a symptom of employees optimizing for climbing the career ladder. Promotion Driven Development is a real phenomenon and is in the long-term detrimental to everyone. I don't know an easy solution to it, since bigger and bigger projects are required to "prove" that you should be promoted. Maybe in a few years people will have experienced this enough to think of a better way.

<comment><USER6> The phrase at my current work place is Promtion Oriented Architecture. Ive seen three general approaches, that I like.

First the role descriptions & leveling guidelines have deemphasized complexity. Words like complex, large, feature, or new have been reduced or replaced where possible.

Second there an emphasis on (business) value delivered. Fixing a broken system can provide as much or more long term value than building an additional or replacement system. Building a baroque ivory tower is actually a negative. This also ties back to point one.

Third all senior role promotions include target level peer review, alongside the manager/candidate "promo doc." The candidates potential peers perform an assessment of the body of work, leadership contributions, and results delivered. This is _not_ limited to the most recent delivery/project/team. There are typically two assessors; one organizationally "near" the candidate and one "far." For senior staff/principal/distinguished engineer positions theres also a mandatory peer review board.

<comment><USER7> No wonder so many people are kissing up to the senior engineers.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I find the obsession with performance reviews interesting. I manage teams of developers in a large organisation, and I have been doing so for many years now.

I hate performance reviews. I think they do not achieve what people think they do, they take up a lot of time and effort to decide and perform, and they often have quite a negative effect on the staff member.

I think performance reviews and KPIs for individuals just need to go. Get rid of them. If someone isn't performing, you can manage that without a KPI system. If someone is performing well, you can provide that feedback without a KPI system. We need to start having meaningful conversations, not scoring people.

People, like in this article, seem to double down on them and make them more complex and intricate in an effort to make them effective. They are going in the wrong direction. Just get rid of them altogether.

<comment><USER9> My gut tells me that these metrics are in place because upper management does not trust you to be objective or consistent when it comes to your people. Rather than actually trust your judgement, they give you a checklist and tell you to check the boxes.

Along with a lack of trust, there's also the need for a paper trail in some states if it comes down to firing someone who needs firing. Without an appropriate paper trail the company would be on the hook for paying that individual's unemployment.

I'm not saying you're wrong. In fact, I think you are right. Most people will rise to the expectations set for them (or fall, according to the expectations set).

<comment><USER10> No its really because:

1 In order for hr to justify themselves.

2 As a hypocritical way to cut the pay quanta.

<comment><USER9> Just for giggles, lets say that a large company _doesn 't_ need an HR person or department.

What are the alternatives? Is this something we could build an automated system around? Could the functions be moved to managers (hiring, firing, pay, etc.)? It seems like moving this way would be somewhat like implementing the officer/NCO relationship in the US military.

Are there benefits for non-specialized decision making as it applies to employees?

> pay quanta.

What's that?

<comment><USER11> >> pay quanta.

> What's that?

"paying a lot". So basically as away to combat a (perceived) inflation in salaries

<comment><USER9> So, amongst other things, it could refer to salary and raise confidentiality agreements as a way to reduce employee negotiating power?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> With the risk of getting roasted, here are my top three impressions of the article:

(1) The guy is very deep in the management / higher-level business bubble and is extremely disconnected from the day-to-day work that enables his lifestyle. He seeks to optimize things that are mostly managerial / consultant lingo and don't have much connection to things in the real world. That's not 100% true of course but it mostly strikes me as such.

(2) Instead of de-formalizing the process he seeks to find more and more micro ways to measure people. This can probably work long-term, _maybe_ , but many people have tried and failed many times in the past and I think it's arrogant to not take that into account in your supposed solution.

(3) He is not accounting for humans, like at all. I knew programmers that worked quietly for 3 weeks and then showed us all a gem that made us go "wowwwwww". In traditional systems like Scrum and any agile-based nonsense this is severely frowned upon. Truth is however, people are different and as long as you are happy with the average ($result / $month) of somebody then you should leave them the hell alone to find and optimize their own way of being productive.

\---

The above is overly simplified and I am well aware there is a lot of nuance. But I didn't want to write a book so I settled for a condensed and partially inaccurate summary.

</comment><comment><USER13> Fundamentally, are performance systems done objectively or "on a curve"? Meaning, if 100% of the engineers are operating at say Staff Engineer level, do they all end up with that title? Or does the Staff Engineer title really come down to some sort of percentile in a stack ranking?

<comment><USER14> >if 100% of the engineers are operating at say Staff Engineer level

Then you need to re-evaluate your definition of "Staff Engineer" at your company. Those titles are all relatively defined internally in the first place, just like junior/senior/staff/senior staff.

There is no industry-wide benchmark for those levels, so an internal curve is the only system that makes sense.

In the imaginary case where everyone in the company is a super high performer and everyone is equally as good, then it's not crazy to do away with those titles entirely as long as that's the case. But obviously that scenario won't last long as the company grows, and that's why titles/levels are gradually introduced.

<comment><USER15> If everyone actually is operating at a high level -- or at least enough to make a curve difficult -- keeping people under-titled is just a great way to allow your high performers to become discouraged and leave the company.

<comment><USER16> Titles, in my mind, reflect duties and responsibility rather then level. Not everyone can be in charge of the same things and have leadership responsibilities...therefore they cant all be staff engineer.

They CAN all be top performers at their responsibility list...

<comment><USER7> Salary isn't the only thing people covet. Titles and responsibilities are also coveted since they increase future earning potential. When people don't feel that they can get them, they leave.

<comment><USER17> Neurotypical humans all crave social status. The higher expected future compensation is a nice bonus, but it's the status that draws people to higher titles.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> I think we all tend to focus on building the system which is the most point of failure resistant rather than the point of failure itself. I've found performance reviews to be fantastically valuable and motivating when I have a good manager.

Rather than endless optimization of the system. Train your managers. Everything from giving good feedback to ignoring or forgetting a bias is a skill that can be learned.

</comment><comment><USER19> I liked the idea of Objectives and Key Results (OKR), a system that was started at IBM and brought over by John Doerr to Google and others[1]: short term goals alongside long term goals, set at the company level _and_ the individual level, constant review and adjustment of the short term goals, disconnection of these metrics from employee bonus.

The idea is to get to you goals faster and re-evaluate them for relevance as you go along. Since they are not directly connected to pay there is less of a perverse effect where people are incentivised to work on improving their KPI at the expense of the rest.

[1]:"Measure what matters", by John Doerr

<comment><USER20> Then people create objectives like:

O - Improve team efficiency

KR - Increase test coverage by X%

KR - Update at least Y outdated dependencies

Which are complete bullshit, easily gamed and don't actually make the company move forward or the team better.

But according to almost any OKR believer, these are great OKRs.

Making KRs measurable a lot of the times corrupts the OKR system. However if they aren't measurable, their value is sometimes questionable. Kind of a paradox.

Perhaps for huge corporations this kind of system is absolutely needed, but I'm experiencing this on a small company and it's honestly tiring and inefficient.

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> I think I missed the author's design goals for a performance management system: what it's supposed to accomplish.

Performance management systems have a natural tendency to degenerate into sources of toxic behavior... one of the most important design goals would be to avoid this, and one of the most instructive parts of a "how to" would be strategies in that vein.

As an aside: I've noticed that people who run performance management systems are under the impression that their system does a good job. After all, it chose them, didn't it?

</comment><comment><USER22> Should be titles : "How to demotivate your workforce and kill your productivity 101"

</comment><comment><USER23> There are two aspects to any system like this: 1) The "carrot" \- goals you set to rate yourself on to (in theory) get a raise at the end of the year. Or qualify for a promotion.

2) Career feedback.

Now I've found for both of these if any review with your manager take longer than 10-20 minutes, something is amiss. This usually means you don't see eye to eye on either the state of your goals, or your performance.

That being said, without the carrot, I think most people wouldn't execute these at all.

</comment><comment><USER24> Career ladders and 360 performance reviews? Deming would be disappointed...

<comment><USER25> I'll bite, what did Deming say about this kind of thing?

<comment><USER26> "The performance appraisal nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long- term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, nourishes rivalry and politics… it leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected, feeling inferior, some even depressed, unfit for work for weeks after receipt of rating, unable to comprehend why they are inferior. It is unfair, as it ascribes to the people in a group differences that may be caused totally by the system that they work in."

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> This is assuming that the input data is high quality. It isn't.

</comment><comment><USER27> i wonder what the guinea pigs have to say about their experience there.

</comment><comment><USER28> This website's scroll is unbearable.

</comment><comment><USER29> This site somehow manages to interfere with trackpad gestures on my MBP. I could not swipe back or forward. How is this even possible?

<comment><USER30> They've written their own scrolling logic (why...) which involves cancelling or stopping propagation of the normal gesture and events. They broke scrolling on purpose and accidentally broke other things in the process.

<comment><USER31> The absolute state of web development...

<comment><USER32> I wish there was a single flag to disable all that crap such that developers had to consider users who have the flag set, better still if it's on by default or behind a permission check

'This site would like to hijack your scroll wheel/touchpad', it's genuinely infuriating.

<comment><USER31> That flag is called "Disable JavaScript".</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Ask/Show HN: Disrupting James Cameron :) - <AUTHOR>

Hi guys, YC rejects here :D
As we won't be in the valley in January (it seems we messed up the application from the beginning, as neither the demo nor the team accomplishments were viewed - which is a shame as I'm proud of those things :)),
we want to ask THE SOURCE (that is you) about the project we're making.
You can see the proof of concept video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNWyL2WlaPk
The basic idea is to create videos with motion capture and green screen effects without any technical or animating skills.
What are your general impressions? What effects would you use from those seen in the video (animated character, changing background or both at the same time). Do you have a Kinect? If not, would you be ready to buy one to be able to create such videos?
Looking forward to your input <comment><USER2> It's pretty cool. Don't have a Kinekt, but if I did I'd consider this worth about $20. I couldn't tell whether the lighting was baked into the model or extracted from the scene.

The video is not great. you need to move around more, approach and recede from the camera, show the full range of gesture available, and have a mode for high-quality offline rendering of the tracked motion as well as realtime for a pro edition that you can sell for more. Also, how many people can you handle in the frame at once?

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you for the input.

The video quality will be much better in the final version, so there won't be a need for offline rendering. But, you will be able to save the capture data for use in another program.

Currently, there can be two people simultaneously.

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Original video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNWyL2WlaPk> You can see a couple more proof of concept examples here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZVZ7DetCFo></comment>


CalREDIE under-reporting all California Covid-19 cases for past "few weeks" - <AUTHOR> https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx <comment><USER2> As somebody down on the ground on this: it's true. The backend on CalREDIE is a message passing system common in HIEs called Rhapsody. It's essentially a capacity problem, and there is no real redundancy for messages that got dropped, so the issue was probably always present but didn't really become noticeable until the recent surge. The state has escalated the problem to the vendor, since a large number of California counties rely on it.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks. I have questions:

* No redundancy!! Can you get back to the labs with the information you have to create a second route so that tests who get dropped (WTF!) can somehow be passed on to the state and county?

* Is there any special handling of positive cases? I.e. to make sure they aren't dropped?

* Even in early July in Santa Clara County some tests come to the county something like 12 days after the test (specimen collection) occurred. Is the problem you're describing separate from this?

* Santa Clara County seems to have had the number of new cases each day[1] drop by a half around July 20; since the number of tests[2] also dropped by a half, it seems reasonable that the true number of cases in the county has been increasing for the entire month. Does this sound right to you?

* When was this noticed?

EDIT: more questions, refs

* Is this [3] the Rhapsody you refer to?

* Are you connected to the state or a county?

[1] [https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard- cases.a...](https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases.aspx)

[2] [https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard- testing...](https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-testing.aspx)

[3] [https://www.lyniate.com/rhapsody/](https://www.lyniate.com/rhapsody/)

<comment><USER2> Yes, I believe that's the product. The exact failure is in electronic lab reporting. The state is already contacting labs to work on an alternate conduit to get the backlog dealt with, but it will need a lot of manual entry. Most of the counties relied on the state system because it was much less work to do so and cases had to be entered into the system anyway. In the meantime the only cases reported locally are the minority that do make it, or are manually entered from physician reports and small outfits not required to participate in ELR. I don't know the situation personally in Santa Clara County, so I couldn't say.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> Johns Hopkins CCSE data has been showing a weird abrupt flattening of California 7-day rolling averages beginning 3 weeks ago, between 7/11 & 7/21, for both cases and deaths. [0] [1] It looks more believable if you show the daily raw counts and mentally smooth it. [2] [3]

[0] [http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid- visualization/?chart=states&...](http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid- visualization/?chart=states&highlight=California&show=west&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases- daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right#states)

[1] [http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid- visualization/?chart=states&...](http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid- visualization/?chart=states&highlight=California&show=west&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths- daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right#states)

[2] [http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid- visualization/?chart=states&...](http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid- visualization/?chart=states&highlight=California&show=west&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases- daily&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right#states)

[3] [http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid- visualization/?chart=states&...](http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid- visualization/?chart=states&highlight=California&show=west&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths- daily&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right#states)

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> A few more details today from the state [1] with a news reports nationally [2] and locally [3].

[1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGQXuC85CJY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGQXuC85CJY)

[2] [https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/07/...](https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/07/california- sorts-through-coronavirus-data-as-glitch-stymies-policy-decisions-1305972)

[3] [https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/07/california- governor-s...](https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/07/california-governor- seeks-investigation-into-coronavirus-data-disaster/)

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Florida seems to be having the same problem [1]. Looking at a graph of the number of cases [2], I see that FL and CA maxed out at roughly the same ceiling. I wonder if FL is also using the same buggy tool.

[1] [https://twitter.com/euromaestro/status/1290798878401482752](https://twitter.com/euromaestro/status/1290798878401482752)

[2] [https://covid19chart.org/#/?stat=daily&norm=none&include=CA%...](https://covid19chart.org/#/?stat=daily&norm=none&include=CA%3BFL&top=0&start=3%2F4%2F20&domain=CA)

</comment><comment><USER4> Would these unexplained glitches have anything to do with Trump requiring less reported Covad cases?</comment>


Tek Feuds – Tech Debate in Washington, DC: iOS vs. Android - <AUTHOR> http://www.tekfeuds.com/

<comment><AUTHOR> Team iOS:

Scott Tury, AOL, Chief Architect Mobile

Todd Brannam, PERFECT SENSE DIGITAL, Mobile Architect

Team Android:

Nathaniel Waggoner, XAPP MEDIA, Android Lead

Jared Alexander, CAPITAL ONE, Sr Mobile Developer

</comment><comment><USER2> so, it is a trolling contest ?</comment>


Dear Dash Users – A message to all Dash users from the Kapeli Blog - <AUTHOR> https://blog.kapeli.com/dear-dash-users <comment><USER2> This guy has shown quite a talent for self-sabotage. Apple was willing to reinstate him if he'd undo some of the PR damage he'd created by spelling out that he shared the credit card with someone, and that maybe that's not the best idea.

Instead, he was enjoying the spotlight so much, he used the opportunity to escalate further, even publishing his phone call with Apple (illegal on one side of that conversation at least).

And that narrative includes a healthy dose of goodwill, considering how close to "the dog ate it" that story about the family friend is. A friend who apparently also didn't own any Apple hardware, so they shared that as well.

But open sourcing the useless iOS app is apparently a bad idea because his customers don't know how to work XCode, which strikes me as counterintuitive, considering every single one of his customers bought programmer-centric software for Mac.

<comment><USER3> From my perspective, most of the PR damage is because a lot of other smaller developers have come out of the woodwork to voice their grievances with Apple. These kind of things happen all the time, and a lot of us feel stood on by the giant Apple. Even though this event sounds like a special case, it still highlights the draconian behavior we deal with. (That's what I would call Apple trying to get him to post a blog post with a "statement" about how wrong he was...) I have never felt so small as when dealing with Apple and the app store.

<comment><USER4> But have they, though? I've read about this topic extensively and I've actually yet to run into a single comment or blog post about someone with a very similar experience and was entirely innocent. All I hear is the same banter that Apple does this to the little guy and everyone in solitary agreement with this notion. Very few people are willing to actually willing to put their pitchforks down and humbly admit that maybe Apple was accurate in its assessments of this developer and did more than they probably should have to rectify things.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I was rooting for him really, because I myself am also at times very frustrated with how Apple treats developers.

But I've lost trust in this guy after reading his blog posts and especially the phone call he published.

The only reason I can think of why the phone call took over 7 minutes is because he wanted to record it and publish it. Really. If you summarize the phone call. It's basically Apple asking him to publish that his account was indeed linked with the fraud account (not even that he's the one who committed the fraud) and he's working with Apple to resolve it, and rest is this dash guy complaining on and on which is completely unnecessary since Apple already knows that and is saying they understand and want to work with him to "make this right" (The Apple guy literally said "make this right").

Also it is very hard to believe at this point that a "relative" did all this. If I--or any normal person--was in the same situation (I am paying for a relative's developer account with my own credit card with my device and turns out that the relative is committing a fraud), my first reaction would NOT be telling Apple "This has nothing to do with me", but "I had no idea, I am still pissed that you guys didn't notify me, but I also understand your position and will talk to my relative to make sure this doesn't happen. After all, _I_ am the one funding this fraud regardless of whether I was aware or not aware.")

<comment><USER6> _If I--or any normal person--was in the same situation_

If you define "normal" as "milquetoast and with an Americentric perspective," then maybe.

Americans are much more submissive when bureaucratic process presents a roadblock. Especially a roadblock that seems on the face more reasonable with an American view of sharing bank accounts and old hardware.

Americans' desire for justice and fairness are paraded around. But their sense of justice is beaten out of them until they have Dwight Schrute-esque compliance "That is the law, according to the rules."

<comment><USER7> Saying "I understand why you linked these accounts and that my relative committed fraud" is not the same thing as being submissive and rolling over, and your portrayal of Americans is rather offensive.

<comment><USER6> It's an unreasonable level of deference to a business process that we now understand can err. And that even if it didn't err in this case, we now know it to be designed to err. It unconditionally resolves an ambiguity into the direction that makes their other work easier, regardless of if the data is less correct. And that even if their contracts of adhesion makes the err legally (or at least bureaucratically) robust, doesn't make it just.

 _your portrayal of Americans is rather offensive._

You have a good point. Voicing my disappointment in my fellow countrymen might go over better at HN I were doing something minor, like accusing ~40% of them of racism for not sharing the opinion that the Democrats' policy positions are the lesser of two evils.

<comment><USER7> > _It unconditionally resolves an ambiguity into the direction that makes > their other work easier, regardless of if the data is less correct._

What the hell are you talking about?

Apple spent at least _two years_ investigating this issue, and was in repeated contact with the developer committing fraud. It's clear that this process is designed to be as conservative as possible, because if it wasn't, it wouldn't take two years to finally hit the point of closing the account.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> There feels like no right side in this story.

* Apple terminated both accounts because of fraudulent activity, but only one account was contacted to let them know of this activity.

* Kapeli shared financial information and test devices with this other account, whether it was a relative or not.

* Apple said "Hey, write a post telling the whole story and all will be cleared. Just don't say we were at fault."

* Kapeli agreed he would draft and send. Kapeli apparently did but never heard back.

* Apple had a spokesperson come out that painted a different a picture that basically seem to throw Kapeli under the bus.

<comment><USER9> Generally, I don't get this:

* Kapeli shared financial information and test devices with this other account, whether it was a relative or not.

The assumption here is that for some reason a credit card number and device identifiers (unclear where they come from...but maybe mac address?) are enough for Apple to "link" accounts. I contest this for the same reason I think someone knowing my birthday and social security number is _not_ enough for them to be confirmed as "me".

While I don't think Apple is wrong to use this as a psuedo-identifier, I do think it is wrong for them to insist that, "we did nothing wrong" and fail to reinstate the pseudo-linked account immediately after being contacted.

I don't know if Kapeli is telling the truth about the situation...and his reputation is tarnished my eyes, but I definitely don't think Apple should insist that the accounts _must_ (with 100% certainty) be linked based off of the circumstantial credit card and test devices registered to them.

At this point Apple should either reinstate the account or come out with all the information they have to justify their actions. But having "closed door" conversations and throwing allegations at one another without proof and documentation is ridiculous.

<comment><USER10> Seems to me that everything up to (and including) the initial ban was relatively sensible. You don't need absolute proof that the two accounts really are linked, it's reasonable enough to see something that indicates they likely are and then take action based on that.

Where it fell apart was failing to account for the possibility that they got it wrong. They should have notified _both_ accounts and explained why both were being banned for the actions of one, then allowed a way to demonstrate than the two weren't really linked in order to reinstate the other account.

Unfortunately, this is pretty typical for how Apple operates the App Store. "We're never wrong, get lost" seems to be their motto. For example, for a long time you couldn't even appeal when your app was rejected. If it was rejected incorrectly, then all you could do is try to submit again and hope you got a different reviewer that time.

The App Store is a direct descendant of the iTunes Music Store, which originally existed to serve a handful of big music publishers. In many ways, it hasn't adapted well to serving a million small developers.

<comment><USER9> This hits the nail on the head for what I am trying to communicate. Thanks!

Basically, CC + registered devices are fine pseudo-identifiers. But they aren't guaranteed unique and therefore edge cases _do_ exist.

So if an edge case manifests, it seems that recourse is limited and at this point Apple basically is leveraging reinstating Kapeli's account to extort some sort of PR gain.

Again, I personally don't think Kapeli is without fault here...but it's possible what he is saying is _true_, so given that he _might_ have limited connection to the fraudulent behavior and has gone out of his way to try and reinstate Dash, why continue to deny reinstatement?

Apple might have more information, but until I see it its still a question.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Ok, so you get a call from Apple that tells you to write a blog post and they will restore your account. You submit the draft blog post. Then, a respected Apple SVP comes out and calls you a criminal and Apple doesn't reply to the draft. What do you do?

</comment><comment><USER12> This whole thing has taught me a lesson. I initially sided with the weaker side because I own a copy of Dash, and it is great software, and because one tends to side with the underdog.

After listening to the recording of the conversation, my feeling is that Apple is handling this in a very fair and professional way, and that I was too quick to take sides. I think it is not unreasonable to assume that: same credit card + same hardware = same developer.

<comment><USER9> I generally agree with you but wanted to point out that:

> same credit card + same hardware = same developer

is fine as a pseudo-identifier for fraud detection...but I don't think is actually an identifier. It's kind of like someone knowing my social security number and birthday but not actually being me.

IMO, Apple should have immediately reinstated the account once contacted about a potential edge case rather than insist that, "they did nothing wrong" because the implication of that is that the above two pieces of information is legally acceptable as personal identification and that the developer _did_ do something wrong.

I may not believe Kapeli 100% and his reputation is tarnished some in my eyes, but I don't agree with Apple standing on the notion that CC + device identifiers together are sufficient PII. Fine for fraud detection in a "pseudo-" context...sure...but not enough to deny immediate reinstatement.

<comment><USER13> You probably use less information to uniquely identify users in apps that you write. Assuming you write apps in the first place.

<comment><USER9> Generally, I uniquely identify users by PK sequences on a table with UNIQUE constraints on various pieces of User data.

So if Apple had made credit cards and/or test devices UNIQUE to a given account then sure...but that's not what they did here did they?

<comment><USER13> So yes, you use a single token. Apple used a token and a credit card number. That's two pieces of identifying information.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> I find it quite discouraging to see so many harsh sentiments towards the developer. Everything that he did and the publicly stated reasons behind them are plausible. In my view the data so far indicate that he played by the rules. In particular he did a charitable thing to pay somebody else's Developer Program Membership and donate a device, which there is no rule against.

Apple on its side have followed its script which also seems to be entirely plausible and in good faith. However, their course of action does apparently not cover the corner case of contacting all account owners to linked accounts before shutting them down. The agreement allows for third party account payment albeit with some slight inconveniences. In addition, the rules for account linking, and it's very existence is hidden from the developer party, so (s)he has no responsibility to relate to it, or whatever else is outside of the agreement.

People may not like the style the developer has done his part. Nevertheless his story is plausible and consistent, however improbable. Recording phone calls without consent of the other party may be legal in his country; I know it is in mine.

Apple has been caught with its pants down but because of the immense power imbalance, the developer, trough no fault of his own, is set to suffer with no recourse, unless there are stings attached. I find it infuriating that he has to do anything at all to set straight a problem he did not cause.

From this point whatever bad publicity Apple has incurred they have only them selves to blame. They should at least reverse the account lock, and for reestablishing whatever lost public confidence at a minimum produce an apology for the inconvenience.

This is how I understand it from what I have read so far. If any new indications appear to make me change my mind I may do so.

<comment><USER15> I've done exactly that for my brother in law. I donated a device and paid for his program membership with my credit card, so I can completely understand why it might have happened. Now, I'm a bit worried about this issue with Apple linking accounts.

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> I feel bad for this developer. He's clearly quite driven, and that might have inspired his family to reach for the same success. And wanting to help, he gave his card, and now his program has been terminated.

I'll keep using Dash, but I hope the dev will clear himself out from someone that is not helping.

</comment><comment><USER17> This is hilarious:

      My preferred solution would be for a fellow developer to get it
      back on the App Store, as a free app.

Especially because:

      Open sourcing doesn't look like a good solution at this time,
      as most of my users are not iOS developers and are not familiar
      with compiling an app for their devices.

I may be missing something but the author cannot open source the app, but expects a _fellow developer_ to get it on the App Store as a free app. Can the _fellow developer_ pick up the existing app (binary?) and upload it on the app store?

<comment><USER10> It would be tough to take the existing app and reupload it, but this guy could certainly provide another developer with a built binary which they would then submit.

You'd have to be mad to actually do that, though. We see quite clearly how Apple can react when they think they've been wronged, and who knows what that binary actually contains.

Seems like the best approach would be to open source it _and_ convince somebody (perhaps several somebodies) to build it from source and put it on the store for free. Obviously, the source release would need to be under a license that was compatible with an App Store release (i.e. no GPL).

<comment><USER7> The other developer could be given the source. He doesn't need to open source the app in order to give one other developer access to the source.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> I14n is fun — to watch for the audience.

Apple behaves as if everyone has a credit card and the mapping from credit card to (legal) person is unique. That isn't so in Romania and Apple's heuristics go boom.

The same assumption shows up again a little later in the imbroglio: Apple asked him to admit some sort of wrongdoing, however gently, because credit card maps to person to the person they spoke to carries some responsibility, etc. Bogdan rejected, because credit card doesn't map to person and giving someone $25 isn't wrong.

<comment><USER19> If you're going to put your credit card in, then you are responsible for the account. If fraud happens on one account you are responsible for, it's not a stretch to believe that fraud could happen on other accounts you are responsible for.

<comment><USER18> You're equating "paying for" and "responsible for".

<comment><USER7> Which is reasonable. If you pay for something, you generally are at least slightly responsible for it. Just because you don't want to be responsible for it doesn't mean you aren't.

For example, if I buy a car, hand the keys to a friend, and they go out and commit a crime with the car, I'm going to bet that I'm legally culpable in some fashion.

<comment><USER18> I've bought a gift to someone almost every month for the past 40 years, and, eh, I'm responsible for that?

<comment><USER19> Not the same situation. You transferred ownership,and after giving the gift, your involvement was done.

<comment><USER18> Are you saying that Bogdan did anything other than pay for the account? (Which seems a mite expensive, but I've given relatives more expensive things every year as far back as I can remember, so I'm not going to call that implausible.)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> Apple has known this fraud reviews for a long while, we are talking about 1000s and a time line of two years. I am wondering Apple would normally have terminated the account long ago if DASH wasn't a popular app.

I read a lot of the previous HN thread saying Apple blackmailing him. This point would be correct if you consider Apple was wrong, and this Guy borrowing his credit card AND account to this "relative" ( Which we still dont know if he/she exist ) committing Fraud bare ZERO responsibility for himself.

This is like iFixit tearing up the new AppleTV before NDA and being cocky about it.

I mean seriously, what the hell is wrong with these people?

</comment><comment><USER21> Weird that i find out about this here - wonder if he's able to send an email to Mac Store purchasers like myself. Regardless, i migrated my license, and all seems to be working now.

Glad the issue didn't impact me too negatively, and i hope this is true for most of his customers.

<comment><USER10> Apple tries to keep developers and their users as separate as possible. Developers only get aggregate stats from Apple, they get no personal information on the individuals, and there's no way to send a message through Apple either. The only way to communicate something to your whole user base is to put it in an update's release notes and hope everybody reads it. And of course that doesn't work if you've been banned from the store!

</comment></comment><comment> dav- A lot of people here are switching over to Apple's side, but I wouldn't be so quick to throw Kapeli under the bus.

Imagine this scenario:

You buy your cousin a fancy sword for his birthday one year, which he later uses as a murder weapon against his girlfriend. The police look up the serial number and see that although it's registered under your cousin's name, your credit card was used to purchase it.

They arrest your cousin, give him a fair trial, convict him of murder, and place him on death row. You're not in touch with your cousin, so you are completely oblivious to everything which has happened. At this point, SWAT officers storm your home and arrest you, refusing to tell you why. You're thrown in a cell and told you have been placed you on death row, and that their decision is final and can't be appealed.

Your only saving grace is the fact that you happen to be mildly influential in a small community with ties to the government, and you're able to get your side of the story out.

Articles are written about you. People are outraged at the government. Others come forward to tell of their dead relatives who had been wrongly executed as well.

The Attorney General reads one of these articles and scrambles to do PR damage control.

Se has her aid call you and demand that you make a public statement saying that The Government did nothing wrong, that you were the one who purchased the weapon so they were justified in their actions, and that they are so graciously working with you to clear your name. Of course, they completely ignore the part about their negligence and what would have happened if you were just some no-name.

\---

I believe Apple desperately needs to change their policies. These statements like "We can't provide you with any more information.", "This decision is final.", and lack of communication are wrong. Sure, they are a private company and have the legal right to remove anything from their platform at any time for any reason without any notice or explanation, but that doesn't mean that their actions should be supported and endorsed by the communities of users and developers.

Their actions should have consequences in the form of diminished trust, which may be the straw the breaks the camel's back in many developer's and user's choices to continue developing for and using their platform.

I will say that it was not smart of Kapeli to publish the phone call; at least not yet. He should have waited a bit longer, and only published it if Apple didn't follow through on their word. However, I still believe Apple is in the wrong here, and Kapeli's only real crime is that of naivety.

</comment><comment><USER22> I've only just run across this. It looks like the story here is:

1\. Guy publishes paid app to iTunes

2\. App is really good, gets a ton of good reviews

3\. Apple decides those reviews must be fraudulent, and pulls his app from the store and tells the guy he has to publicly admit that he committed review fraud to get his app reinstated.

4\. People who have bought the app can't download it, guy can't do anything to make his own app available anymore without making a false confession and harming his own reputation.

This sort of heavy-handed-but-uncareful approach to "curation" is consistent with my experience publishing to the iOS app store.

<comment><USER23> What actually happened:

1\. Guy publishes good paid app and gets a tonne of good reviews

2\. He helps out a relative by buying an apple developer account for them, giving them a machine to test with

3\. Relative also uses same "com.kapeli.*" bundle ID

4\. Relative decides to buy 1000 fraudulent reviews

5\. Apple tells the relative to stop posting fraud reviews, who refuses

6\. Apple terminates both developers accounts since they are all the same information (they look like the same person, same credit card, bank account, test machine, and bundle ID)

[https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/56uque/apple_dash_de...](https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/56uque/apple_dash_developer_had_two_accounts_25_apps_and/?st=iu5jzhpf&sh=fa17ecd2)

<comment><USER24> The accounts were linked (same devices, same credit card number): [https://london.kapeli.com/downloads/Apple_Call.m4a](https://london.kapeli.com/downloads/Apple_Call.m4a) (edit: direct link to the phone call with the Apple representative)

As much as they tend to piss me off for other things. I don't see any wrongdoing from them. It's like accusing them of cutting off the payments to a bakery that operates from the same bank account to that of a drug dealer.

Also that kind of blackmail: "You're sure you want that statement to become public?" is plain stupid.

<comment><USER23> Why is the developer being so dense? Just being difficult for no reason because he has a stick up his ass.

"You're sure you want that statement to become public" it literally makes no sense...

All he's done is posting that Apple call has burnt every bridge he had with them, and made Apple look great. Literally they sound very professional on that call and very willing to help him, and instead he is just being unnecessarily difficult.

<comment><USER25> Actually I wouldn't be so sure as to who burnt the bridge first. He posted the recording _after_ Apple went public with their side of the story.

What happened to the supposed blog post? Why did Apple go to the press without getting back to him on the draft?

<comment><USER5> No one knows what happened between the phone call and Apple's press release. So we can't make judgment on that.

That said, I was amazed how that guy from Apple was being so patient with this guy being so immature. The Apple guy was trying his best to sort this out, but for every word he said, this Dash guy would keep complaining. This phone call could have ended in 30 seconds but took over 7 minutes because all this guy did was complain (which I think he did for the purpose of making this recording), and I don't even know what you would get from complaining that way when the other person was trying to help you. I would have been pissed if I was that Apple guy.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: What did you build in March? - <AUTHOR> I've enjoyed reading these in the past, and I think some folks who have recently built or launched something have enjoyed the brief publicity and chance to get some early feedback.<p>So, If you built or launched something in March, let us know, and maybe even show it off with a link. <comment><USER2> Working literally every waking hour (22 hour+ coding sessions) for two weeks, I've created a replacement for our WinPE-based Windows repair CDs [1] in Linux, in anticipation of Microsoft's non-renewal of all WinPE licensing agreements to 3rd parties, and made them fit on an ISO that (GUI desktop environment, all kinds drivers and binary blobs, web browser, partition editor, custom repair tools, and all) is only 40MiB. CDs will (hopefully, DV) fix any and all boot-related issues, attempt to repair registry, and perform various sanity checks to get your PC booting once more for Windows XP - 7.

Now for the testing phase! (anyone interested in trying it out, drop me an email email@example.com and I'll send you a copy for free)

[1]: <http://systemdiscs.com/>

<comment><USER3> Could you elaborate on the licensing change for Windows PE?

Sorry, this is the first i've come across it, and it looks like it's affecting other vendors as well (Paragon?) but i havn't found a useful source or summary.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I took the month off work and traveled around Japan, Chile, and Argentina.

During my travels, I managed to do quite a bit of work on The Silver Searcher: <https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher> . It's a clone of ack[1], but written in C instead of Perl. I've done a decent amount of profiling[2] to find slow parts and improve the speed. For literal searches it uses a version of Boyer-Moore-Horspool strstr[3]. For regex searches it uses the new JIT compiler in PCRE[4].

Depending on the search, it can be 3-5x faster than ack. And thanks to some contributors this past month, it's now in homebrew and Gentoo portage.

Well, back to the grind tomorrow.

1: <http://betterthangrep.com/>

2: Using gprof, valgrind, and Instruments.app. See [http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/01/23/making-programs-faster- prof...](http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/01/23/making-programs-faster-profiling/)

3: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_sear...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_search_algorithm)

4: <http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html>

<comment><USER5> Add ability to replace and I'm your fan. :) Until then I'm using my own <http://github.com/piranha/goreplace> (built in March a year ago :)).

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Not quite what you were looking for, but I built this: [http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor- from...](http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from- hacked.html) and this: [http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/home-made-iphone-scanner- stand.h...](http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/home-made-iphone-scanner-stand.html)

</comment><comment><USER7> I built a high performance 99.999999999% durable key-value data store: [http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-03-27-adding- durability...](http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-03-27-adding-durability- to-kivaloo.html)

<comment><USER8> Just so you know, kivaloo (or, more precisely, kiváló) means `excellent` in Hungarian.

Good luck with the project!

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> I released Pushover, a mobile notification service with clients for Android and iOS.

<https://pushover.net/>

How I built it: <http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/03/16/on_building_pushover/>

<comment><USER10> Very cool project and I enjoyed reading your notes. I'm going to look into using this for the project I'm currently working on.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> New redesign of BCC, complete with obligatory A/B test. Scroll way to the bottom and click the link if you can't see it. (Might need to click twice.) <http://www.bingocardcreator.com>

<comment><USER12> I'm not entirely sure that BCC's new redesign is rendering correctly. From the computer image it looks like your blue top area should be further down. Then in Firefox the effect is even more extreme.

Chrome (latest, Win7): <http://tinypic.com/r/2vdpfd1/5> Firefox (latest, Win7): <http://tinypic.com/r/1zbs09/5>

I like the design, but I feel as though BCC lost some of its "uniqueness." The design looks like a lot of other designs these days. Then again, your customers probably don't know or care, and it's just us who read about BCC.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> I built a Posterous export tool that backs-up all your Posterous data (posts, images, video, audio) after the Twitter acquisition announcement.

<http://exportmyposts.com/>

How I built it: [http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/03/21/launching- exportmyposts...](http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/03/21/launching- exportmyposts-in-four-days.html)

<comment><USER14> _"... If you are looking for a free solution, you can read the Posterous API documentation to create your own backups. ..."_

Love this, because the pain point costs way more than the cost of your service.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> I built my first complete rails app interacting with a remote API. <http://www.tweepsmanager.com> and then I put the repo up on github <https://github.com/pbjorklund/Tweepsmanager> for everyone to see and judge.

Some day im going to come back to it and walk through the commit history and see if I ever made any progress in my rails skillset.

It's one of those everlasting work-in-progress projects, right now I'm not sure what functionality I want to provide. Right now im thinking about collecting data and drawing some conclusions. But that will probably be another app.

It also made me realize that something like Sinatra + backbone would be a better fit. So I guess thats something atleast.

</comment><comment><USER16> It's been a good month: I'm about to launch <http://workwolf.com> : an online marketplace for parttime and odd jobs (which, for various reasons, I feel just does not exist)

I've also had a number of conversations recently on the state of academic publishing and how it can be improved, so I put together a reddit-based interface to the arxiv pre-print server, where hopefully people can now discuss up and coming papers and let the cream naturally rise to the top: <http://arxaliv.org/>

I'm also a developer on <http://lmfdb.org/> but that's a rather technical site for research mathematicians.

</comment><comment><USER17> Virtual dog fighting - <http://PuppyShowdown.com> \- OK, more like puppy pillow fighting.

It's still rough around the edges and buggy, but I should have an update ready tonight or tomorrow to smooth things out.

<comment><USER18> I really wanted to use it, but I gave up as soon as soon as I realized that Facebook is the only way to log in. Not everyone will trust your website, and requiring Facebook limits the number of users you will receive.

<comment><USER17> Yeah, I understand that. I've gone back and forth on it a bit. When I complete my vision for the site there's going to be a lot of fun features that depend on your social graph, so I decided it's worth it.

The one thing I tried to avoid was asking for too many permission. The site only asks for basic permissions + your email address.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> Just today finished building my web app search engine and directory <http://www.iwaat.com> (<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784625>). Still a ton of work and features left to build.

</comment><comment><USER20> I released my first solo app to help me capture and remind myself of my ideas. It's called "Noted! and is available for iPhone - [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noted!/id504164257?ls=1&m...](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noted!/id504164257?ls=1&mt=8)

You can read about my success (or lack thereof!) here - <http://atomyard.com/blog/How-not-to-market-an-iPhone-app/>

<comment><USER21> Very cool. Just what I've been looking for

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> I built <http://www.likelist.ca> over a weekend and a few days. (Free App Engine Account)

I built it to surface the likes, favorites, +1's, ... that tend to be hidden on most services. Basically about.me + Pinterest for your 'liked' content.

[edit]: If it is not clear enter your user name in the textbox

[edit]: source: <https://github.com/nabilt/Like-List>

</comment><comment><USER23> An interactive animated cartogram 'squishy map' <http://www.carbonmap.org/>

<comment><USER24> This is great! Very impressive.

</comment></comment><comment><USER25> Built a Ruby-based web app skeleton for Heroku [1] and then built another for Python [2].

Followed that up by making a ticket sales web app using the SeatGeek affiliate API and my Python app skeleton [3]. I also demoed [2] and [3] to the Memphis Python user group [4].

I apologize for the javascript failure on Tickets of Memphis, it seems the SeatGeek API has stopped accepting my jQuery JSONP requests so I have a ticket in.

[1] <https://github.com/dpritchett/wwebsite>

[2] <https://github.com/dpritchett/wwebsite-python>

[3] <http://ticketsofmemphis.com>

[4] [http://www.slideshare.net/dpritchett/quick-and-dirty- heroku-...](http://www.slideshare.net/dpritchett/quick-and-dirty-heroku-mempy)

</comment><comment><USER26> Scratched an itch and built LaTeX2Markdown (<http://tullo.ch/projects/LaTeX2Markdown>) - a LaTeX to Markdown converter designed for converting AMS-LaTeX documents to webpages.

Offers compatibility with AMS-LaTeX (theorems, lemmas, proofs, etc), and drop- in integration with a Markdown/MathJaX blogging environment. Pandoc can't cope with these environments, so it seemed useful to build something that did.

The usage model is effectively:

1) Write your mathematic documents (lecture notes, blog posts, exercise solutions) in LaTeX using the full AMS-LaTeX suite.

2) Convert to PDF, Markdown, or another format.

3) Use Markdown/MathJaX for blog, use PDF for distribution, etc.

Full source available at <https://github.com/ajtulloch/LaTeX2Markdown>.

</comment><comment><USER27> In libguestfs (part of our open source virtualization tools suite):

\- the ability to mount VM filesystems on the host via the API, which was a huge amount of work for a fairly small gain, mainly wrangling FUSE ([https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/libguestfs-mount- local...](https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/libguestfs-mount-local/))

\- a way to make it easier to use libguestfs from Linux distros other than our primary ones (ie. other than Fedora, Debian): <http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/>

So two deceptive features that are small, but involved a huge amount of work and wrangling behind the scenes, particularly the first one. Made much harder by the primary requirement to write most things in C.

</comment><comment><USER28> Drawium.com - Website Tour Builder. Made a lot of improvements on our interactive tour builder and the tour viewers after we hit the front page on HN and got lots of constructive feedback. Build a tour for your website at <http://drawium.com>

<comment><USER29> Do you intentionally ask for registering before trying out Tour creation?

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> I completely rebuilt <http://refer.ly> and learned just enough about the backend part to configure the entire box myself on EC2 (yay!). 350 people in the beta, and sending out the next batch of invites tonight. Yay!

</comment><comment><USER31> Backbone based Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] extensions for our time tracking and invoicing app, Paydirt[3]. They prompt you to start a timer when they spot keywords related to your clients on the pages you visit.

This is our MVP into intelligent time tracking, seems to work well for people that spend all day in the browser. We'd love some feedback!

1\. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paydirt- time-...](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paydirt-time- tracker/)

2\. [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clfnlkjacgohceabde...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clfnlkjacgohceabdeijjkifnllidcmj)

3\. <https://paydirtapp.com>

<comment><AUTHOR> brilliant! I may "embrace and extend" this idea for my workplace. I'd build a browser extension that notices when I load a new trouble ticket and makes an entry in my timecard for it. If I used paydirt, I'd love the thing you just built.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> The last day of the month I built my own screencast.com server for use with the Jing screenshot software. This enables you to take and upload screenshots with Jing, but it bypasses the real screencast.com server and uploads them to your own server instead (by redirecting screencast.com through dns or hosts file trickery).

This is useful for businesses who don't want their screenshots to go up on the web. They can keep all their screenshots on their intranet while still using the great Jing client for taking & sharing the images.

It needs polishing but it's a good 1st step into making something that is ready for production use.

<https://github.com/tayl0r/JingServer>

</comment><comment><USER33> A platform for content creation with Mechanical Turk (e.g. stories, discussions, question/answers). Here are some screenshots :

<http://imgur.com/a/RGirp#0>

If anyone has a fresh startup/website that needs content to get it off the ground, I can be of assistance.

I am the creator of the Rails/Mechanical Turk integration gem Turkee ( <http://www.github.com/aantix/turkee> ), and am an expert with Mechanical Turk and content creation. Drop me a line if you'd like to see a demo, email@example.com . I do contract work on the side and live in San Francisco.

</comment><comment><USER34> I made an in-browser JavaScript runner for the programming class I teach, which is held in a room full of PCs with IE8 installed. Syntax highlighting, logging and JSHint.

<http://jsrun.heroku.com/>

</comment><comment><USER35> I built an in-memory NoSQL _index_ (not a database) for answering subset inclusion queries, i.e. "find me all the Items with {Feature1, Feature2, Feature3}". It also supports queries by category, and by color.

It's vastly faster than SQL for this purpose.

<http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/introducing_hobo.html>

<https://github.com/stucchio/Hobo>

I say it's not a database because it isn't even a Key-Value store. It's just a key-store - you query it for the keys, and retrieve the values from somewhere else (e.g. postgres).

</comment><comment><USER36> Got tired of all overcomplicated tree plugins for jquery and built my own really simple one: <https://github.com/mnilsson/treeish>

</comment><comment><USER37> Finally released the paid subscription offer for my web app and got the first customers. <http://www.wookmark.com/about/plus>

<comment><USER38> You might want to look into your permalinks (/about/about,...).

<comment><USER37> Where do you see a problem? The repeat of "about" in this specific URL? Thanks.

<comment><USER38> Everything starts with /about/: wookmark.com/about/contact, .. Did you intend this? On the main page you've hidden all the stuff like contact, help, about, etc. behind 'About' link. I understand this. I think you dont have to follow with this pattern and 'hide' all pages 'behind' /about/ in link structure. Made me unnecessary thinking about it.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER39> A quick little tool to take the boilerplate work out of using forms in bootstrap : <http://bootstrap-forms.heroku.com/>

</comment><comment><USER40> I started working on a pandemic simulator app for Android with a guy I met on Reddit (He started it but needed backend help). You infect other users with the app based on your physical location. The early beta has been well received.

April will be spent re-writing it from scratch to support more stats and other cool features.

Patient Zero: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.egondev.an...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.egondev.android.patientzero)

</comment><comment><USER41> Created one page site for browsing and filtering GitHub watches <http://gh.hnresources.com/>

</comment><comment><USER42> I launched Indie Intern (<http://www.indieintern.com>) which is a project manager for movie productions. It takes a script and will automatically start the budget, schedule, production board, and call sheet creation process. Saves filmmakers a lot of time and money over competing products which is important for low-budget productions.

</comment><comment><USER43> Helped build ffi_gen, which uses Clang's parser to transform C header files into Ruby bindings. <https://github.com/neelance/ffi_gen>

Contributed some additional Homebrew recipes.

Gave a talk at CloudFoundry Open Tour. <http://speakerdeck.com/u/jvoorhis/p/hacking-cloudfoundry>

</comment><comment><USER44> A headline generator for my favorite gossip blog: <http://robertelwell.info/mediatakeout-headline-generator/>

The look and feel is a total tribute to MediaTakeout.com. You can search for terms in the corpus of generated headlines. It was just an excuse for me to play with NLTK and CSS. Nothing too impressive :)

</comment><comment><USER45> Finished the second release of my appointment scheduling software:

<https://www.appointlet.com/>

</comment><comment><USER46> I just built <http://failrecovery.com>

I was so sick and tired of tweeting companies fails, to let them know what was going on, and just have them ignore me. So, I figured by using social pressure, maybe I can get their attention. I mean, who really wants to be at the top of my "I have bad social customer service" list.

</comment><comment><USER47> I built my first Live Wallpaper for Android: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monzonito....](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monzonito.halo_free)

Also built an android app for a manufacturer of GPS tracking systems. The app allows owners to control their assets(cars, motos, boats, etc).

</comment><comment><USER48> I built srctree (<http://srctree.net/>). In short, it aims to be a pastebin + git + canvas mix. An example of usage: <http://srctree.net/3Q-1>

It still needs a lot of work to become usable, but I am already happy I got this far!

</comment><comment><USER49> <http://superfamicom.org/text-to-8-bit>

I built a toy: Text to 8-Bit

Create 8-bit game screenshots using your own text in Fami-liar games. About 12 hours of work, most of that is in graphics work (chop chop chop). Javascript with Canvas, not terribly fancy but very fun.

</comment><comment><USER50> I kept building <https://www.wisecashhq.com/> (and we're starting dogfooding which is a great feeling!).

I also launched a little website for my favourite Ruby ETL at <http://www.activewarehouse.info/>.

</comment><comment><USER51> I built and launched Geocoda (<https://geocoda.com>), which lets developers location-enable their applications. Initial features include geocoding and a spatial database.

Thanks to the first round of feedback we got on HN, and to those who have already checked it out!

</comment><comment><USER52> <http://trackt.com> \- real-time collaboration using sticky notes

<comment><USER53> It's pretty. You should implement hammer.js from the above comment so I can use it on my iPad.

</comment></comment><comment><USER29> I've been working on adding access over WiFi to "Handbag for Android" an app that helps you create Arduino-based accessories for Android devices without writing Android code. (<http://handbagdevices.com/>)

Up until now Handbag has only used the Android Open Accessory Protocol/ADK but one of the requests I've had has been to make it work over WiFi as well.

Taking the opportunity to also re-architect the app a bit.

My project log for March is available at [http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/android-arduino- handbag...](http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/android-arduino- handbag#20120304) for more details.

(Did I mention _you_ can also start a project log for your project at Labradoc? <http://www.labradoc.com/> :) )

</comment><comment><USER54> I built BuyMyFile (<http://bmf.cm>). BMF is a file marketplace that rewards buyers with discounts for referring sales. Please let me know if you find this service useful so I can keep working on it. Thanks patio11 for feedback on this.

<comment><USER55> I haven't tried it out just yet, but you should certainly keep working on it. Great idea!

<comment><USER54> The site is still raw but I decided to put it up to get feedback. It's a file marketplace mixed with a referral system. I think people should be rewarded for sharing.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER56> Mostly worked on Kippt:

* New landing page design <https://kippt.com>

* Readability integration

* Extensions for Firefox and Opera

* Preview feature for public lists <https://kippt.com/karrisaarinen/yc-application>

</comment><comment><USER57> I spent the month doing coursework. I had a lot of pdfs open with completely nondescriptive titles, so I wrote a script to set the title of a window.

<https://github.com/ChickenProp/set-window-title>

</comment><comment><USER58> I built Filosync, which is a distributed version control system for non- programmers with a very simple UI, because I love the DVCS concept and I think everyone should use it! <http://www.filosync.com>

</comment><comment><USER59> Built a way to stage virtual bike races with GPS data. Check off a couple of rows and click "Compare Efforts" to see: <http://ridewithgps.com/segments/McBeth-Hillclimb>

</comment><comment><USER60> I launched two movie/tv related websites:

<http://checkafilm.com> \- search for a film by title and see an aggregate review summary about the movie and any content advisories it might have.

<http://tmfdb.org> \- a bookmarklet for automatically muting profanity in Hulu videos for a more "family-friendly" experience.

Both are open-source - <https://github.com/jacobwg/checkafilm> and <https://github.com/jacobwg/tmfdb.org/tree/master/script>

</comment><comment><USER61> I created a simple search for The New York Times crossword puzzle.

<http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/>

It ranges form Dec 31st 2011 back to Oct 1996. Its nothing special (I don't actually love or do crosswords) but when you search for some terms (mostly as Answers) it provides fascinating Questions.

      FACEBOOK : Alternative to Friendster or MySpace

      NYTIMES : Popular news site, with ".com"

      HACKER : Cyber-nuisance

      BACON : Strips for breakfast

Example: <http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/#/bacon>

<comment><USER62> That's really cool! UNIX was an answer eight times, but Linux didn't come up at all.

</comment></comment><comment><USER63> Bulbs 0.3 (<http://bulbflow.com/overview>), a Python framework for graph databases (released it in March, but started building the 0.3 in November).

</comment><comment><USER64> I built an api for Google Music: <https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial- Google-Music-API>.

</comment><comment><USER65> Wrote my first makefile, which was quite an experience.

<https://github.com/mustafa0x/pafm/blob/master/Makefile>

</comment><comment><USER66> I used Python for the first time to copy the information from one of my required timesheets into another required timesheet. It uses BeautifulSoup, mechanize, and selenium.

</comment><comment><USER67> I made a chat app for fun and have had the help of a bunch of awesome contributors :) <https://noodletalk.org>

</comment><comment><USER68> AutisticTouch.com for the Lehigh Valley Hackathon (hack.lehighvalleytech.org) where my team and I took 1st place overall and tied for crowd favorite.

<comment><USER46> Hi Jason,

You should setup a rewrite rule for the autistictouch.com

<comment><USER68> Oh, there are _so_ many things that need finishing (not to mentions starting). That starts today. I guess technically we launched this yesterday, as yesterday was demo day, but we built most of it in March.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER69> <http://axgl.org/> \- Wrote and launched an open source, hardware accelerated 2D flash game library

</comment><comment><USER70> Took a month off in March to relax and do some traveling. Two weeks in and I can't take any more doing nothing, this popped out: <http://www.getonthegame.com.au>

It's a price comparison website for Australian video games. Still early days yet, but it's been a fun distraction and an opportunity to learn some new tech/tools in the process.

</comment><comment><USER71> Nothing overly ambitious. A jQuery plugin (<https://github.com/jdjkelly/jQuery-haversine>) and a Chrome extension ([https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fljocfllbkbekpoaih...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fljocfllbkbekpoaihfcocfphbljohgm))

</comment><comment><USER72> Experimented with a Pinterest-like column layout (using twitter feed as example) and came up with this: <http://bjorkst.am/twcols> (resize browser window and watch transition magic)

Also re-designed my personal landing page ( <http://bjorkst.am> )

</comment><comment><USER73> I built HubStar: <http://hubstar.me/>

The missing "Star" feature for GitHub repositories.

</comment><comment><USER74> I launched a pixel art app for the ipad <http://pixelartapp.com>

</comment><comment><USER75> I and a friend of mine launched <http://www.brandonacademy.com>

We'll be releasing frequent UX and content updates over the course of the next couple months as we develop new features and add more tutorials. Please feel free to make suggestions; all are welcome! :)

</comment><comment><USER76> My book, Hacking the Kinect, came out: <http://amzn.to/H8slu4>

At work, we received release to show the world the Hybrid Safety System for robots: <http://bit.ly/Hp818r>

I also cut a demo for a stealth startup I'm working at. =)

</comment><comment><USER77> Accomplished a few things:

Redesigned the layout for merchant signup at

<http://giftsmatic.com/new>

Built with 2 friends at a hack weekend

<http://eventon.com>

A cool mashup of upcoming events and ones that you rsvp'ed for. Currently it's integrated with eventbrite and facebook.

</comment><comment><USER78> We launched our iphone application Should I Break up With My Boyfriend. It is a 2-week challenge to see if your partner is the right one for you. <http://www.http://shouldibreakupwithmyboyfriend.com/>

</comment><comment><USER79> Currently building a little ditty which will send me an email notification every tuesday of all new album releases of my top artists according to Last.FM

You can check out an alpha, alpha build @ <http://smooth- wind-2063.heroku.com/>

</comment><comment><USER80> I use Youtube as a music player as I enjoy watching the videos along with listening to the music. However, the user interface for Youtube is not designed to be a music player interface so I decided to build one: <http://vekii.com/>.

</comment><comment><USER81> I built a tiny (>3 kb) JavaScript date picker. It's been done many times before, but it's my first open source project so I'm pretty stoked even if no one ever uses it. <http://sunmer.github.com/tinycal/>

</comment><comment><USER82> I built <http://keepdream.me> in 24 hour period based on a whim one day when I woke up. I fully expect to be the only long term user, but it was nice to learn about setting up node/receiving email on Heroku.

</comment><comment><USER83> I learned Objective-C and XCode in my spare time and built nd iOS Client for Pinboard <http://pinboardapp.in>

Not very pretty, but I am happy that it helped me get off the ground. Now working on something more complex.

</comment><comment><USER84> <http://www.roomify.tv> \- One click video meeting rooms. We have applied to YC S12.

Feed back been great so far. Average user time of 6mins and 15% bounce rate.

Would love some more feedback, here or @kseggie, firstname.lastname@example.com.

</comment><comment><USER85> <https://arrangemyseat.com/> :D

</comment><comment><USER86> <http://tinypag.es>

It's ultra-minimalist hosting. A bare HTML document and a short url. Built it to scratch my own itch. Bought the domain and opened the repo on March 5th. Launched 2 days later.

</comment><comment><USER87> I developed a pace calculator for runners ( <http://pacecalculator.elsasslabs.com/> ). Mostly for my own needs, but hopefully someone else will find it useful !

</comment><comment><USER88> I built a crank calling app using twilio and sendgrid at a hackathon this weekend. Its nothing special but its the first thing I've really ever made.

<http://cranksomeone.webs.com/>

<comment><USER30> Yay, congrats and thanks for using Twilio. We'd love to share what you built with the community, can you drop me a note at firstname.lastname@example.com if interested?

<comment><USER88> I'd love to. Sending you an email now.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER89> I solved security problems and made a enormous test-harness for ThisCausesThat, a research project for UC Irvine. <https://github.com/eLobato/wc_master>

</comment><comment><USER90> A full featured email non-delivery report processing module for Drupal, which has a sad lack of such things:

<http://drupal.org/sandbox/exratione/1484526>

</comment><comment><USER91> A product that lets you Build Your Own Phone System: <http://www.buildanumber.com>

Very early alpha release. Lots of UI issues and its in desperate need of a tutorial.

</comment><comment><USER92> Nothing special, just a little twitter scheduling app where one schedules tweets by sending an email with a list of tweets to it. <http://buffero.me>

</comment><comment><USER93> My first android app. Added multithreaded ability to request slow network resource, ability to issue raw SSL connections + very nice looking GUI.

Actually that was a good month re: learning new, and cool stuff.

<comment><USER94> Would love to check it out, if you can provide a market link!

</comment></comment><comment><USER95> I launched a web store: <http://mapsalesdirect.com> It's not saas but it is fulfilling a 2012 goal of "make and launch something"

</comment><comment><USER96> I taught myself exactly what I needed to know about backend development (and no more!) and launched <http://www.quipvideo.com>!

Feedback appreciated.

</comment><comment><USER97> <http://justthefirstframe.com>

A new way to discover web comics.

But also recently <http://iphoneception.com>

</comment><comment><USER98> Nice little WebGL random globe

[http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~jpmayer/hegemony/demos/backed- geo...](http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~jpmayer/hegemony/demos/backed-geodesic/)

</comment><comment><USER99> Ported my app DJPad to Playbook (it outsold Android and WebOS immediately). No port for iOS as they already have really great dj apps that are much more mature than mine.

</comment><comment><USER100> Clone of the Tempest arcade game in HTML5/ClojureScript: <https://github.com/mrmekon/tempest-cljs/>

</comment><comment><USER101> My very first public application, tracks a simple checklist. <http://solidusserver.net/ware/spike/>

</comment><comment><USER102> I started a blog in March, <http://devcodehack.com>

Working on a better RSS reader at the moment, hoping to launch it in April.

</comment><comment><USER103> We had a hack-day with our team and built this: <http://eightmedia.github.com/hammer.js/>

</comment><comment><USER104> I rebuilt my own site - <http://swapped.cc> \- not exactly "in March" though... it took closer to 9 months :)

<comment><USER105> I could barely see the navigation in Chrome, is that how it's supposed to work ? :)

</comment></comment><comment><USER106> I developed <http://theindianlist.com> using Bootstrap and Rails. Check it out to get ur curry fix.

</comment><comment><USER107> I've been working on Toour - <http://ontoour.com> \- get travel ideas from people who travel like you do.

Alpha in 2 weeks!

</comment><comment><USER108> I built <http://www.iosuserfeedback.com>

Lets you get feedback on your iTunes landing page vs a competitor

</comment><comment><USER109> updating my android app. gold price malaysia. <http://codedb.net/goldprice/> . crawl every bank in malaysia that offer a gold purchase. it can be download here : [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goldpricem...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goldpricemalaysia.sicksand)

</comment><comment><USER110> A small status board for the dining locations at my school: <http://www.isbirchopen.com>

</comment><comment><USER111> Launched IndieClean.com- a marketplace for independent housekeeping services in NYC!

<https://indieclean.com>

</comment><comment><USER112> App In Review, trying to get some visibility into the Apple App Store review queue:

<http://appinreview.com>

</comment><comment><USER113> I wrote an opensource scrabble/boggle solver.

Input your letters and we return the best words.

<http://words.gumyum.com/>

</comment><comment><USER114> Ebook creation software for the Mac: <http://contraterrene.com/abulafia/>

</comment><comment><USER115> Worked on workspaces and collaboration features for LStack - <https://lstack.com/>

</comment><comment><USER116> Gazel, a library for IndexedDB that uses Redis commands. <http://gazeljs.org/>

</comment><comment><USER117> Launched <http://www.thetaboard.com> . Lots of great feedback from HN.

</comment><comment><USER118> The TurboGears Development Blog: <http://tglogs.wordpress.com>

</comment><comment><USER119> Worked on my site which is based on Tumblr: <http://seung.io>

Used Backbone and Bootstrap.

</comment><comment><USER120> I had a small part in the building of mention: <http://mention.net>

</comment><comment><USER121> I launched my job search engine Neekanee this month:

<http://www.neekanee.com>

</comment><comment><USER122> I built Narf - <http://narf.com> \- A topic based social network.

</comment><comment><USER123> I finished my undergrad thesis!

A method for constructing a semantic graph from a large corpus of text.

</comment><comment><USER124> I launched portnotifier.com (not actually working currently) and mailtoolkit.com :-)

</comment><comment><USER125> I launched OptionBounce, a stock options swing trading system.

</comment><comment><USER126> added some features to <http://classfy.com>

</comment><comment><USER21> I released an iPhone app called the nap app which allows you to power nap effectively, making sure that falling asleep is taken out of the time that you actually want to sleep for. So you want that 20 minute sleep? The nap app makes sure you get a full 20 minutes, even if it takes you 12 minutes to fall asleep! [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-nap- app/id508709758?ls=1&...](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-nap- app/id508709758?ls=1&mt=8)

I also released updates for my other two apps My Audiobook player: [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-audiobook- player/id4593930...](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-audiobook- player/id459393040?ls=1&mt=8) Specialises in playing audiobooks you download from 'those' sites

Daily positive affirmations: [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/positive- affirmations-daily/i...](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/positive-affirmations- daily/id497578452?ls=1&mt=8) Positive affirmations sounds silly (my girlfriends idea!) but they are all quotes about success and whatnot. It really does keep me motivated. I look forward to getting my quote!

</comment><comment><USER127> I built Write.app (<https://writeapp.me>), a replacement for the Notes app on my iPhone that works across devices (desktop, tablet, and mobile versions all in one using responsive design). It supports Markdown and will soon save to/read from your Dropbox account. It's also open source if you want to help. I could really use help with UI and Dropbox features (<http://github.com/billpatrianakos/Write.app>)</comment>


Ask HN: Business Blog - <AUTHOR>

Are there any solutions other than the usual wordpress etc that lets you create a blog for your business and has core features like analytics, commenting etc without any extra bloat.
For personal blog, I like Ghost and have been trying it but for business blogging, there are a few things that matter:
1) Fast and scales well for a few hundred thousand visitors at once
2) Commenting feature but not the bloat of stuff like Disqus (for some reason, I dislike disqus)
3) Analytics. This is very important for business blog.
Sure I could take a managed WP and do all the above but is there a simpler out of the box way ? I would rather spend my time on the business, writing on the blog and not necessarily developing the blog. <comment><USER2> This may sound crazy, but Blogger has all of the above. You'll have to theme it a bit to make it stand out and should host it on your own site without the blogger bar, but I think it could be a good way to get what you want.</comment>