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Well, MtGox proved me wrong earlier today. :) Matter of fact, still down now.

Also I still think it would be interesting to see their setup, wrong or not.

Considering how volatile bitcoins are, any downtime DDoS or not, affect users a great deal. Unlike NASDAQ that can rollback/shutdown the market, MtGox has to maintain 24/7/365. I dare say their market's uptime is more critical than the regular stock market. I wonder how their stack is setup. Anyone from MtGox?

I see alot of people saying how certain configs are missing/better/not tested. So what about a "crowdsourced benchmark" instead?

Maybe a few elaborate scenarios are posted and people can simply submit their best setup/config/code to be benchmarked. I imagine devs would improve on it over time and eventually the most optimized would surface?

Being a big fan of discovering music I love the approach! Would love to check this out if it isn't hammered right now. :)

I know some cars can blink light codes (morse-like on dashboard) that you can reference online to self-diagnose the engine problem.

I did it once with a weird combination of brake and pedal pushes. Kinda cool actually. Method name escapes me now.

Interesting. Does using Stripe Connect bypass this restriction since you are not actually handling any money? Or am I misunderstanding things? Questionable site name, but well done! :) Cheers

I too, looked at both BrainTree and Balanced and decided on Balanced. However I liked that BrainTree seemed to focus more on the international part of payments.

Interesting. What Watsi has is beyond what I imagined an ideal online donations would offer.

Kudos for taking the leap Watsi!

FreedomPop user here and since the device and network are similar, I am going to say the coverage is actually pretty weak (will not comment on speed since I have not been able to use it much!)

For users seeking mobile hotspots, FreedomPop is clearly the better deal. I do not see how Karma can compete there...

http://www.freedompop.com/

Thought it was a great idea along with Amazon Lockers. Just did not know they would be acquired that quick! Any hints as to the financial terms of the acquisition?

I got a brand new UX31A recently and the keyboard does not even work...

As in, the "backspace", "d", and few other keys will not even register. Tried updating and rebooting too. I returned it for another unit so let's hope it is just a few odd batches that has this mfg defect. Googling this problem should give you more details.

The whole launch seems very poorly thought out. Or am I missing the genius of it?

* no official launch time.

* no early email notifications went out.

* no sense of stock availability.

* high phone limit (5) per user.

* constant site errors.

* constant checkout errors.

* HSPA+ feature typo.

Anyone have additional insights to what is meant here?

"...the campaign’s Quick Donate program, which allowed repeat giving online or via text message without having to re-enter credit-card information, gave about four times as much as other donors. So the program was expanded and incentivized."

- How did the Quick Donate program work? Like Amazon's 1-Click checkout?

- What was the call to action for Quick Donating again?

- How was the program expanded/incentivized?

Here is the Tucows winner. http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&...

I guess eBay was the few option available back then (fees must hurt!).

Shouldn't it just be a deteriorating reach % after your first/second post of the day? That would be a better middle-ground than making $ by suddenly handicapping user's FB page reach.

I got this site bookmarked from a long time ago so I do not know what is the PHP version tested. Adding it because it seems to contain quite alot of different tests.

http://net-beta.net/ubench/

I used this for a recipe on IFTTT. It is just PDF though, but free. Seems to be similar in that regard.

http://pdfmyurl.com

The free API limits it to 30 calls/day only.

Saw this from a few HN threads down. May be helpful?

http://blog.keen.io/post/32269955563/pricing-is-hard-we-need...

Personally I like the "Utility Pricing" (per article) for something like Jetstrap but maybe on a per project basis instead of per screen?

Slightly OT but where is the data coming from? Is there a missing child API somewhere?

A strtotime() with voice? Awesome and thank you!

Hi! Thanks for the reply! One more quick one. :) Are the "time" entities relative or absolute time or either?

I am interested in the calendar + reminder domain of it. More so if it works offline (ie- Soundhound/Shazam app).

Can you elaborate on the calendar domain?

Hah I had the same question too.

A suggestion is for a short text field for comments, to differentiate tie-breakers for the seller maybe?

So I continued my search and veered into iOS integrations which I should have mentioned was my initial intention.

This may interest some,

http://www.politepix.com/openears/ (free + does not need network) http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

I think that no-network piece is vital since alot of the solutions require a ping to the server because of sheer vocabulary limitation. Hope that helps!

How do you know you are blacklisted? Here is a link to check, http://www.blacklistalert.org/

I am not too familiar with Google Apps mailing but if you have access to the mail logs that would be a good way to backtrack what happened.

The logs usually contain server responses to your sends with instructions/link on how to be "safelisted" or at least a reason of why you were blocked. Determine the domains and go from there.

All that math just complicates the roulette-ness.

How about just toss all the credit cards in a bag/box/etc and ask your nice waiter to pick one at random.

Interestingly, I saw this comment on reddit yesterday that was a "leak" about this new easter egg. (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/stek5/what_little... )

Actually, in Starcraft: Brood Wars you could explode a critter with a "nuke" animation by clicking repeatedly on it. :)

I feel that the category specific speech recognition will help accuracy compared with a general service like Siri.

On a separate note, how does one go about creating a speech recognition backend like this? A point in direction would be helpful. Thanks!