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I don’t do alarms, just timers, but my site does it like this: http://5.minutestocountdown.com/

One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you set a timer you can just type a single number and url autocomplete will fill in the rest for you.

Still no ipv6 for S3?

The Greatest Good

Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think I could find it?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-...

Back when I was running a disposable email service called dodgeit.com I settled on a similar approach. I would just have postfix drop the mail in Maildir style files, then had a perl script parse the messages one by one. I didn't even call it from cron--it would just finish traversing then start over again after sleeping for a second. This effectively scaled to thousands of messages an hour on a single dedicated host.

I played around with a number of approaches, like the author here. But the one that just trusted the mail daemon to do its thing and the Linux filesystem to do its thing worked best for me.

Quartz: What critics agree are the best books of 2015 http://qz.com/566945/what-critics-agree-are-the-best-books-o...

Not a letter: http://5.minutestocountdown.com/

Saw this recently: https://medium.com/why-not/how-we-re-doing-stats-at-howdy-29...

Lots of companies already trust AWS and host various services there. Many of those companies might not trust your git servers to be up and running 24/7 with Amazon-like SLAs.

That is very cool. Any chance a company could run that tool on premises? I think there is a market for that.

"When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine. Pay attention and you will see this book come up time and time again on HN. I have reread multiple times.

More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to 1 Wired Broadband Provider

And those who have more than 1 are served by an oligopoly who overcharge for mediocre (at best) service.

Are the few cities with municipal broadband or Google Fiber seeing better service and prices?

I love the http://nextdraft.com/ daily email. Short paragraph summaries of the day's news, funny, and with links if you want to read more.

A stats service for new websites that notifies you when interesting things happen on your website.

Cool! would be nice if I could select a photo I have already taken from inside the app. http://www.sipsnapp.com/ has this feature and I use it.

Have I missed something or is there no way to get notified when an object gets deleted?

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...

Search Amazon for penguin mints. I used them to wean off coffee as an experiment (now I drink coffee again these days). It takes about 3 penguin mints to equal one cola beverage.

Yep - you are emphasizing my point. The default seems to be USD.

Pick a sensible default - if you get more business from the US just show dollars. Or do some simple A/B testing and see if you get better conversions with one versus the other.

On Stamplay pricing: whenever I see pricing in pounds not dollars on a service like this, I think they are not quite ready for my business. My IP address (pretty) clearly identifies me as a U.S. customer, why not present the pricing page in US dollars?

I'm willing to admit this could be a failing in me, not the website.

http://feltron.com/

I think the tabbed navigation on: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/ is going to confuse some users. Some people will never see the SMS pricing even though they are looking for it. Banner blindness is a real problem and applies not only to ads but to navigational stuff as well.

If you are the type to have remorse when a new model is introduced just after you buy, you may want to wait a week or so. The MacBook Pro is due for an upgrade pretty much any day now: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retina_MacBook_Pro

Great way to celebrate is to give this another listen: Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn

I haven't heard it myself for years but still think of it often. It is one of the most inspiring things I have ever heard.

Have you reached out to your customers yet? @ev has obvious ties and Tim Ferriss was an early investor.

I'd recommend running this as a simple twitter account to test the concept. Reach out to people who follow the shows you are interested in. Tweet at a scheduled interval. If they don't follow it is unlikely the app would get traction. If the followers didn't grow organically once you had a core group of followers I would see that as a bad sign.

One more thought: if there was demonstrated growth and interest, you could use the twitter account to promote the app once it was released.

Randall Munroe of XKCD talks about a great puzzle at the end of this 10 min video:

https://www.ted.com/talks/randall_munroe_comics_that_ask_wha...

Simplest: 100% VTSMX

Conservative: 60% VTSMX, 40% VBMFX

I would do: 50% VTSMX, 30% VBMFX, 15% Lending Club, 5% YCombinator funds on fundersclub or wefunder.com (split over next 4 summer and 4 winter classes)

This is a great site: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

Any thoughts about forking Angular and building in Hoist support to make an officially supported Angular/Hoist client side library?

No plans to tackle this at the moment, but looks like they have a REST api. Shoot me an email (check my profile) and I'll let you know if I pursue.