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datacog··on Ask HN: Does App Store support non-store based paid users
It does.

AFAIK, for IOS, if you want your users to pay via 'web only', you cannot mention anything related to external payment within the app, you cannot have a payment flow within the app.

What you can do is, ask users to sign in and/or visit your web page from where you can convert users. You can run email campaigns etc. Or if your users already have a premium login by making payment elsewhere, that should be fine.

datacog··on Spouses of Some H-1B Visa Holders to Be Allowed to Work
Yes, freelancing might not be exactly legal. Lot of people still do it.

IANAL, but I think it is legal to work for a foreign company from US, as long as the company is in no way associated or affiliated to US. Someone please correct me if wrong.

datacog··on Spouses of Some H-1B Visa Holders to Be Allowed to Work
Yes. Thanks. Thats what I meant. To add to it: "Just got their H1.. and have a spouse on H4".

An efficient marriage strategy considering this proposal would be to get married after you are ~4-5 years into your H1B, and marry somewith with a STEM background. Now those would be very stringent marriage norms :)

datacog··on Spouses of Some H-1B Visa Holders to Be Allowed to Work
I'm happy too that they have atleast started addressing this. But atleast no immediate benefit for someone who are just into their H1.
datacog··on Spouses of Some H-1B Visa Holders to Be Allowed to Work
This proposal is ridiculous! They are offering the possibility to work after 6 years of H1B or in early phases of Green card process.

- Their intent doesnt seem to be providing Spouses with opportunity to work, but instead prevent dropouts of those people who get fed up of the process and either go back home or apply for Canada PR. I know few such people myself

- Important point: During the 4-6 years when the spouse cannot legally work, either they have given up on their career or have already signed up for a graduate program in order to get an F1. It is basically useless to offer jobs to someone after 6 years of being jobless and they have very very less competitive advantage unless they have a made a productive use of time by doing stuff such as freelancing and pro-bono work.

- Dependents of L1 visa (L2) are allowed to work on EAD, I dont understand why it is so complex for H4's.

- Another effect of this would also mean that the govt might not consider increasing the CAP for H1B next year, but rather try to retain the exising H1B's and try to get their green card done.

So, although this change seems optimistic, it isnt that helpful (I myself was very excited after I first saw this)

datacog··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
Are you into Data Science ? We're looking for Data guys: http://predikt.co (measure your professional data from the social web)
datacog··on Twitter Analytics
> The listed shortcomings all sound like features that over time should be developed by Twitter. Assuming those features are value adding.

Surely. Right now there are 5 different services one has to use in order to get the stats.

> Might work in the short term but long term the odds of survival are low.

FB page analytics products seem to be doing just fine. One product does not fit all, so if someone has a good product offering, a bunch of people are still going to use it. E.g. Kissmetrics vs Mixpanel, they do the same thing, but appeal different audiences.

datacog··on Twitter Analytics
> Twitter may buy some of those companies but to me, that's still out of business

Point taken. But, some companies are built with a goal to get acquired. I would define out of business (and get acquired) as those companies who arent able to sell/continue traction, and get 'acqui-hired' for talent and relevancy of what they built, not exactly to integrate their product offering.

datacog··on The Absurdity of LinkedIn
The article isn't entirely accurate about viewing 3rd degree connections. There are considerable number of profiles who have lot less information publicly viewable (on public url), in those cases this wont work. Linkedin is basically trying to achieve 2 things here: a) Show you what you can do using premium b) Convert/onboard user If you have tried premium before, they will highlight it when "you are viewing a 3rd degree profile".

There is a very very simple HACK for viewing full 3rd degree profiles without being a subscriber. Here's what you need to do:

- When you arrive at a 3rd degree profile, copy the 'name' and 'company' (or an other attribute) e.g. 'Chris Amazon manager'

- Google search for 'Chris Amazon manager linkedin', you'll get the full name of the person, but still would view a 3rd degree profile

- Now copy the full name + 'attribute' and search in linkedin, voila... You see the full profile.

datacog··on Twitter Analytics
> For example, I can see tweet reach, link click data

- It does not show tweet reach

- Link click data isnt very helpful if you dont use your own shortened urls.

Can you name a few companies which will go out of business because of this? Instead, those startups might be bought by twitter to boost their offering, similar to how they bought GNIP

datacog··on Twitter Analytics
> I don't see why they would release it as a product for free (even if they came up with something solid)

Brand perception is huge thing! Twitter can heavily push brands towards improving the positive sentiment by promoted & recommended campaigns. Giving a Free tool to Tweeps is a great way for lead generation and getting people bought into sponsored tweets, hashtags etc.

datacog··on Twitter Analytics
It does not. I came to know this tool while using Twitter ads (they had a $50 promotion). Seems the strategy is to engage with analytics and push towards promoting tweets. But I havent seen/read much about this tool. They need to develop it much more to give out useful analytics (try comparing this with facebook's page analytics)

Here are the shortcomings of the tool:

- Clicks on URL: It shows the overall clicks on the url, if you use it multiple times, it will be summed up

- No reach metrics for your tweets

- Filters: No filters on date ranges, difficult to dig out tweets

- No sorting of tweets by number of retweets etc.

- No sentiment analysis

All of these shortcomings could result into 2-3 products itself.

Some useful things are:

- Follower trends

- Interests and segmentation of your followers

- High level overview of how your tweets are doing.

datacog··on Indian Politician Arvind Kejriwal Wins TIME 100 Readers’ Poll
That is fascinating! AK & NaMo at the top signifies the importance of the current political scene within India.
datacog··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
At Predikt (http://www.predikt.co), we have developed a technology using big data & predictive analytics to measure and make sense of the professional data spread across the web. We are growing and building products for Talent solutions and Insights.

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* Lead Full-stack Web & API developer with experience in Python and Django/RoR

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You will get the opportunity to work on our core product, engage in research and brainstormings to shape the product. You will work with our Lead Data Scientist to build an API and/or web applications that would interact with external sites or products.

##Requirements:

  - 2+ years of experience in Web and building API's 
  - Experience in working with Python/Django or RoR
  - Experience working with social web API's
  - Knowlege of API deployment cloud tools (google compute engine, heroku etc)

Compensation: Equity

Contact: amogh@predikt.co

datacog··on Ask HN: Is there any product (or api) for Inviting email contacts
thanks
datacog··on How Do You Use Twitter? A Short Survey.
How is that a short survey ?
datacog··on Who Rises To The Top? Early Indicators
Is is a very interesting research paper. Sort of something we're trying to do with this: http://getpredikt.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/predikt-aggregate...
datacog··on Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
Philosophically, yes its a very thrilling concept that you could look into the world of the blogger. But, as far as what the prototype demoed, it seems very distracting visually to be reading and seeing a person moving behind the text. As someone pointed, this could rather be some plugin for wordpress/tumblr and not an actual platform.

Kevin seems to be just testing out his hypothesis here and not really planning on building a product out of it (as mentioned).

datacog··on Hacker news for data scientists
It seems to be back live after a crash: http://www.datatau.com/news
datacog··on Now Bing copies WolframAlpha, after Google.
more and more companies seem to be doing this sort of search results now.
datacog··on Hacker news for data scientists
neat stuff !

There already seems a lot of traction there.

datacog··on Ancient Indian Texts
how does politics get to be a part of culture ?
datacog··on Ancient Indian Texts
Just found out that the Dark Knight (Batman) was shot at Chand Baori (http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/chand-baori.html)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chand_Baori

datacog··on Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies
> add signup fee to limit spam

- this assumes that there would flood of users on this site and a chunk of them will actually pay for it. Will you use HN if there is a fee? Instead, why not just write an algorithm to limit spam Or a 'report spam' button?

datacog··on MIT Actually Reinvented The Wheel [video]
And I was thinking the CopenHagen Wheel was invented by Andy Botwin (Weeds series - http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665013/how-weeds-became-a-marke...)
datacog··on Ask HN: Anyone Founded a Startup being on H1b?
I had posted this thread, might help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6841113
datacog··on Ask HN: How do I legally run a startup in US while on an F1 or H1B visa?
What are the odds of getting an O-1 ? Almost all of the entrepreneurs who get funded and get press would fit in the above criteria. Il drop you a dm.
datacog··on Ask HN: How do I legally run a startup in US while on an F1 or H1B visa?
Best shot if you are in an insane hurry: Marry a US citizen and really mean it.

> I'm already married, so this is out of the equation.

Do NOT think about get-rich-quick-start-up ideas.

> Well, I have been working on this for a while, so it wouldnt be a quick-startup-idea, and lately I have been getting some good traction for this, so its a pity it isnt a straightfwd thing to pursue.

datacog··on Ask HN: How do I legally run a startup in US while on an F1 or H1B visa?
Im from India. I will have to go on an H1B, even if I apply for a green card (EB2), it will take me 5 years with the current queue.
datacog··on Ask HN: How do I legally run a startup in US while on an F1 or H1B visa?
Hi, So I'm on F1 OPT stem extension which is about to end in June 2014. How to tackle things after the stem gets over? H1B sponsored by my company ?
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