Jarvis - Your Personal Assistant Who Never Sleeps (opens in new tab)

Another thing I noticed when looking through my comments, this service bills itself as 'your personal assistant who never sleeps'. If they are US based, I don't see how unless they have people working a night shift.

Yea pretty much. I don't know if I'd be comfortable with other people reading my emails.

I think it is absolutely acceptable (and good business sense) to re-submit to hackernews given a major update to re-engage the community and get feedback on new features etc. This, however, is pretty obviously spam.

My advice to jarvis if they want to stay regularly in front of this audience without spamming, is to only submit when a major update to the service has rolled out, or to create an interesting blog with valuable content and submit that to hackernews. Your brand can tag along with the content keeping you in front of our eyeballs.

Yes.

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

"Cortana is an intelligent personal assistant on Windows Phone 8.1. [2] Its name comes from Cortana, the artificial intelligence character in the Halo series, with Jen Taylor, the character's voice actress, returning to voice the personal assistant's US-specific version.[3]"