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Re:Using Gowalla checkins to predict alcohol-related travel on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @03:40AM (#2353509)
I have to say this is so cool! Police department could use this data to do roadside random breath test. And there will be less killer on the road.
Re:Airbnb on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:28AM (#2332127)
I have to say this is so true as well.
Re:Airbnb on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:27AM (#2332122)
I am so sorry that you've wasted a minute of your time.

Will this one be more clear to you about the platform? http://ex.gs/4n7YXa

Basically the homepage is for experts, and this little url is for experts to get their clients.

Back to your question: Yes, tutoring is an important part of our service, if you type "english tutor" into that search box, you will pretty much get the idea.

At this moment, english tutor is our main focus and almost every visitor come to the site is to find tutor or is a tutor. So the search form is quite useful to them.

But we don't want to offer categorization or tagging now is because that there is not so much to be categorized or tagged. I personally don't like a 3 level of categories without any real content. And we don't want to tag our site to be a tutoring platform with those categories. So we tend not to show them at the moment.

Apart from that, everything you said is true. With the exception of we are not an online tutoring intermediary.

Re:Airbnb on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @07:22AM (#2331591)
If you are interested, we are also on our way making Airbnb for individual's expertise. http://expert.io But it is just like the Airbnb story, start from nothing is always difficult.
Re: on Monday March 07, 2011 @08:36AM (#2297030)
No big difference from what Airbnb does at the moment: a small percentage of processing fee.

But there is a big plan to monetize this thing in the future :-)

Re: on Monday March 07, 2011 @08:24AM (#2297004)
What browser are you using?

My Firefox is displaying all right, although it is a little bit too fast, I suppose...

Thanks for your reply!

Re:Twitter is down on Saturday February 26, 2011 @09:37AM (#2265600)
So many countries are using it to conduct their revolution, no wonder Twitter has been quite unstable recently.

http://status.twitter.com/

Re:You — Not Your Competitors — Define Your Destiny on Friday February 25, 2011 @05:48AM (#2261780)
In chinese: 知己知彼 百战百胜
Re:Introducing AWS CloudFormation on Friday February 25, 2011 @05:46AM (#2261777)
One new product for AWS per month. I don't think any company could do better than Amazon in the cloud business.
Re:Riseup on Sunday February 20, 2011 @05:12AM (#2241570)
Exactly, this is just what any government want. They know where you are, they know what you are doing.
Re: my 30 minutes project datetimenow.org on Saturday February 19, 2011 @11:30PM (#2241017)
how about le rabot? a small town in france

http://www.google.com/search?&hl=en&q=le+rabot+time

just need a way to find out local time, that's all

Re: my 30 minutes project datetimenow.org on Saturday February 19, 2011 @10:22PM (#2240879)
is there anyway to convert a address to its timezone?

say Lyon in France, there is only one timezone in France which is Europe/Paris, but how to convert a city like Lyon or even a small town into its timezone?

cause there might be multiple timezones in a country...

Re:HTML5 Canvas Performance in deviantART muro on Thursday February 17, 2011 @07:58PM (#2233680)
Is there any HTML5 solution to generate pretty charts like these in the article?
Re:Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3 on Thursday February 17, 2011 @07:54PM (#2233665)
Exactly!

Sometimes I just want to create some static pages, but I was forced to use either CMS or things like wordpress.

Now I guess there is a solution which is also super reliable.

AWS is just amazing.

Let's hope they will sell flickr first.
Re:Show HN: Launched my side project: Goalfinch on Thursday February 17, 2011 @01:33AM (#2230064)
It's so exciting to see people launching their new sites everyday!

Good Luck.

I won't be surprised if Yahoo is to sell its share in Yahoo one day :)
Re:Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @09:13PM (#2229376)
Yes, they've got the money. They can do whatever they want.

Jail is prepared for poor people.

Re:Venture Capital Tutorial on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @08:07PM (#2229178)
that's how university works. based on books instead of reality.
Re:You Want Some Advice? on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:53PM (#2229143)
yes, make it work first!
It's just so inspiring to read this kind of stories. We are kind of doing the same thing, bootstrap from nothing. I wish there is more help out there for people like us.
Re:Heroku's New Dev Center on Sunday February 13, 2011 @09:02PM (#2214928)
I always think Heroku has the best looking website(interface) in the industry(hosting company), now it's getting even better!

Nice work.

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