skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of a crowded category. If users try five different apps and then pick one, most of the apps will have very high uninstall rates.
Is there a way to find for how long they use the app before deleting it? Can you track the activity of the user, e.g. number of tasks added per day? Or, in other words, are you losing long-term users or the ones that are trying out 5 different todo/reminder apps just to pick the one they like the most?
what about all the ways they can unintentionally harm us, since they are bugs without the mental facility to intentionally harm us?

I take it you've never been stung by a bee before.
Aren't they researching self driving cars?
That's what you get when you bet on other startups failure
I didn't compare the results between Purifycss and this bash script[1] yet. But this alternative, not intent to compete, does mainly the same detection e.g. including dynamic class adding detection.

1: https://gist.github.com/50kudos/3028fac585eda85aea9a
I see a pattern here. (although it can't really be called a pattern with only two sources of data)

I think I'll definitely try again, despite not having "so much" money to invest at the moment.

Any good book to suggest on this matter?
It seems like you're trying to come up with ideas you think are marketable. That's fine of course, but my advice is to worry about that much later. The best source of initial ideas is organic real-world things. You can't force it exactly, except by constantly creating new interesting things. Eventually you're likely to tap into at least one rich vein of human need.

Uber was created because Travis Kalanick wanted to be able to order Lincoln Towncars from his iPhone. He expected it to be used by rich people for airport and nightclub rides. A niche service for the elite. He had no idea they would be recruiting regular people to drive other people around. Now they're on course to change transportation across the world for everyone. They may eventually spare millions of people from drunk driven accidents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935458
Even AirBnB isn't sharing though, in the traditional sense of the word. This should be obvious when you compare it to CouchSurfing, which is genuinely about sharing.

I would argue that the way it's traditionally understood, sharing is something that happens between equals, or people who have an intention of becoming equals. "Let me share some advice with you" is fundamentally about a relationship between equals or possibly a relationship between people who are not exactly equals in some aspect, but either feel like they belong to some common in-group or like they will be equals eventually.

From this perspective, it's obvious that CouchSurfing is sharing while AirBnB isn't: on AirBnB, the expectation is that there is a split between the seller and the buyer; on CouchSurfing, there is a shared identity of "travelers" and an expectation of reciprocity.

Let me also point out that by your own definition of how you use the word sharing, it's not so clear why you wouldn't call Uber a sharing service. After all, somebody might decide that their car is an underused asset which should be "shared". (Hold on, you say, those people are also selling their labor? Well, so do AirBnB hosts when they clean the room after you stayed in it...).

tl;dr: Your conclusions don't actually follow from your implied definition of sharing, and your definition of sharing doesn't match the general feeling that the word evokes.
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It's funny to ask for advice from others who barely know your passions and capability, but it will give it a few random shots:

- follow your passion, not the money. when you work on your startup, do you truly enjoy at least some part of it, or just following the hype or hoping to become millionaires?

- are you well off where money is not an issue? if money is an issue, get a job; you can choose to work with well-off Malaysian startup like GrabTaxi.

- rather than keep thinking about money making startup, just work on small projects which you found interesting. e.g. https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/
It's good to see that Bootstrap is progressing so fast. Frankly, some features like cards (or some variations of it) have been in Semantic-UI for a while now. It's a matter of personal preference, but like one of the other commentators have suggested, I've also replaced bootstrap in favor of Semantic-UI last year and never looked back.

For me, while developing a web app, it's the ability to come up with faster prototypes and then improve upon the UI at later stages that impresses me the most. Bootstrap was the first one to show me how much you can get done in very less time. But, Semantic-UI is simply miles ahead in this aspect. Semantic-UI is a full-fledged package - THe amount of custom CSS I write in comparison to a bootstrap project is way small say, 70-80% less. That's how good Semantic-UI is for me.

However, this new Bootstrap release actually excited me and I can't wait to test run it. Kudos and thanks to the team for this awesome release :)
I have no interest in food, so no :)
The premise I'm taking - coming from the original article - is that it's hard work and ability which gets you into the elite rather than social connections. If you want to argue this premise is wrong, that's a separate issue.

Also, the definition of profit is price - cost.
Good point; I'll have a look at the analytics data and see but I have already been contacted by users in the past asking questions and suggesting features I already have because they got mixed up by the other apps they were testing.
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The issue I have with that demo is that the use has to shuffle repeatedly between the keyboard at the bottom and the input at the top. Why not stick the input to the top of the keyboard?
I'm not saying you can't run it. It's just that IIS is the default.
"The family is asleep before 8 p.m. and awake before dawn, as Wolf imagines our ancestors were millennia ago, before artificial light interrupted our “normal circadian rhythms.”"

How does this approach work in areas that have large seasonal swings in the length of the day? Even here in Scotland (which isn't that far North) the days are far too long in summer and far to short in winter to based your day on sunrise and sunset. Personally, I need 7 hours sleep (no more no less) and get very grumpy if that gets disturbed - which means shutters and curtains in summer!
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Modern databases are probably some of the most sophisticated software in existence. That being said, you can pick a minimal subset of functionality and roll with that.
I'm on Sublime Text 3 Build 3095, on Linux (Debian unstable) and import ssl works for me. Maybe it was fixed in a recent-ish version?
Caught, Guilty, Noted, Thanks.
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I don't "know" if any of this is a good idea, but I'm glad to see it at the top of HN & elsewhere, where people can start to consider different ways of dealing with a changing world economy. We need to allow ourselves to consider new ways of thinking about work, welfare and income
How was this behavior induced? By primatologists who set up unnatural and hostile situations for chimpanzees to see what they would do? Because that is NOT normal behavior. Don't insinuate that it is.
Now you got me thinking about a notion i have when i see photos of houses for sale. All of them show rooms to styled and pristine that my first thought is that nobody lives there.

Any place where a human lives (unless they are suffering from some kind of OCD or whatever) inevitably end up having things stacked in corners or strewn across surfaces in a semi-random fashion. You can almost trace a timeline from what is on top of what.

I wonder if designers end up stuck trying to reproduce Platonic ideals, thus making everything look sterile.
That's what I use for my own projects. If I was working with other people I'd probably just setup gitlab (if not using github), with VPS providers these days setting something like that up is marginally more expensive than free.
I suspect that their research division is nearly as disconnected from their slow services monster mothership as Oracle's flying sailboat division. And serving the same purpose, brand grooming. (Which both do in very cool ways)
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So you haven't tested those either?
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By not doing it forever. They are competing with two entrenched players, so this is probably a move to gather a larger user base. They are probably going to limit private repos for new users at some point.
They have enough premium customers, see https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/

Those services add:
- Access to GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE)
- Next-business day support

For a little more:
- 24/7 Emergency Support
- Live installation and configuration assistance
- Live upgrade assistance
- High Availability
- GitLab CI Support

An for a lot more:
- Prioritize features important to you
- Best practices training
- Dedicated Account Manager
Cost of buying solar directly from china ( no tariffs) - 1 dollar / watt.

An average person can live on 2kWh a day.

A 100 w solar panel outputs 470 Wh in bloody england.

500 dollars of installed solar.

1kWh of lead acid battery is 150 dollars.

You can go completely solar for the next 30 years for 1500 dollars and adopting a DC electricity lifestyle.

Tldr : trade protectionism is stupid, especially when some other country's taxpayers are paying for it.
Sweeping generalisation there on people in "real companies" not being able to use Bootstrap's default theme.

That's precisely what we do at my place. We don't do it for customer facing things, but for back office tools why would we spend time customising Bootstrap? There are better things we could be doing with our time.
> because they got mixed up by the other apps they were testing.

How do you know that is the reason? Could it instead be that users aren't guided well enough to discovering the features your app has?
Our product TaskPutty.com should work well for this.

You draw the steps in your hiring process, and then candidates are visualized as cards flowing through this diagram.

You can also drag&drop your own custom reports, and create automated rules. A form designer allows you to capture all the right fields that you need.

Single User mode is FREE.
There-after pricing starts at $3 per user/month.

While we are marketing it mainly as a CRM, it works well for any process where you wish to track entities (sales, potential hires, support requests) through a process consisting of various steps.
"Laws that took decades to come up with by the community in which they apply, whose intent was to established the most ideal balance possible between cab fares and consumer protections. "

This sounds a little bit too naive to me.

I am not saying that it is not like this. Just this is not the full picture and perhaps not the honest one.

I think that some industries do need disruption, but I agree with the author that perhaps not the kind we are seeing right now.
We're using a few of their modems in bridge mode and then everything works fine. It's just the routing they can't do.
I would really hold off on Angular.

The development path of that project seems to indicate a dead end. And as far as technologies go for a new project that's supposed to start quickly, it has some tremendously complex abstractions while having issues with debugging.

This is all a pet peeve of mine, but I think the kind of two-way data binding that Angular proposes will be seen in the long run as a mistake. The fact that you can't just understand what's going on behind the hood without reading tons of documentation in the middle is very troublesome.
The article alludes to the fact that you remove marginal disincentives to work by doing something like this. Many existing systems have some form of means test, which in practice results in very high effective tax rates.

Once we decide we want to support people on low incomes, there's a question of how the best way to do that is. The Nordics especially have built up enormous bureaucracies that in themselves cost a lot to administer various handouts and benefits. It might make more sense just to cut a cheque to everyone.
Sure, but that doesn't really answer the question: Why delete this app and not another one?
No, your maths is wrong.. in fact after 10 years the acceleration had provided a 1km/hr velocity, resulting in a 400km displacement from its projected position.
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If it were me installing your app, I would uninstall it for lack of enough features. (I did not actually try your app, maybe I will.)

Some things that appear to be missing (from the google page, I didn't actually try it):

A way to sleep/snooze a reminder for a specific period of time.

Per-todo item auto-sleep rules. (Sleep, and just stay as a notification? Sleep and go away? Sleep and alarm again?)

Options for what kind of alert - noisy, quiet, speak the alert, buzz, start quiet, get louder. (All per todo, not global.)

Does it turn on the screen when there is an alarm? It shouldn't.

A guarantee that no alerts will be "lost" if the device is off when the reminder should have gone off.

Way, way more flexible options for reminders. You need things like: Remind for 4 days, then sleep for 2 weeks. Or every other week, but only on these days of the week. There are many patterns.

They way you program that is start with a basic repeat, then you add exclusions, "not on these, days/weeks/months/dayofweek".

Next you add "don't start until date", and "stop after date".

Then you add unlimited "don't alarm on this date", and "alarm on this date", where they just add a list of them.

Next you need multiple alarms per todo - the first one is just a notification, and if I dismiss it the rest of the alarms go away. The next alarm is a short quiet one. And then a loud one. But the user picks what kind of alarm, and how much before the event. They can add as many pre-alarms as they like.

I have not found a good reminder program, very very very few have flexible enough reminders. The best I've found is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.splunchy.a... - install it just to check out how to do complex alarms, and complex repetitions. It's a beta though, with bugs, so I'm not suggesting it for use, just to see examples.

Do you want to make a comprehensive alarm program? Or do you want something simple? There is a market for both.
The "Under Construction" theme of the dependency parse tree visualization tool[0] is amazing.

[0] http://spacy.io/displacy/
1) Admittedly, my earlier startups are kinda just following the hype hence the Groupon clone and what not. I have since stopped following the hype. However, that is also the reason why I was stuck in my room for 6 months keep trying to find "the right one".

2) Fortunately, money is not an issue. I am very privilege to be in this position. With that being said, I can't just sit down and do nothing. I need to find some source of income.

3) I was messing around with Arduino, 3D printers and Raspberry Pi while I as still working in my friend's startup. Ever since then, I felt like I needed to do something more "serious" to make some money as I am out of job at the moment.
I don't know either, but I find it interesting. I guess it really needs to be tested in the real world, in order to see whether or not it will actually work.
Things like this have been posted quite often lately (some cities in the Netherlands are also starting small-scale experiments, and a rather high basic income was proposed in Switzerland a few months ago; I think all of those were posted here). I'm all in favour of a basic income (or at least of testing whether it works), but I wouldn't actually dare post here about it in fear of creating an overload...
Any thoughts on a ubuntu release?
Seeing all those "why not use X instead" makes me wonder why it appears to be a binary option? Git lets you use ALL of them. You can push to multiple remotes and even automate things with hooks if you need to. Perfect for backup and redundancy in case any single remote is unavailable...
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Is this a paid advertisement or an organic article? Is there any way to tell with such things, in general?

I am wary of reading a "submarine" and not knowing it: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

There's nothing wrong with paid content, if that's what it is, but there ought to be a way to distinguish paid from organic content. One thing I do like about traditional journalism is the attempt to separate "journalism" and "opinion", and the attempt to maintain high integrity in the former.

With everything moving online and into arbitrary structures, it's difficult to know what I'm reading. I don't want to suspect that everything I read is secretly a paid advertisement or involves some kind of kickback, but an article that's biased so strongly in favor of its subject and presents no alternative views, not even for the appearance of some degree of impartiality, reads like an article that was written around a predetermined conclusion. Which again is OK, but I want to know what type of content the page I'm reading alleges itself to be.
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I thoroughly disagree with point 2.

Having tracked the development of the Node ecosystem since its beginning, the amount of unstable libraries and endless churn continues to amaze me, and the tooling solutions still seem very immature for what should be a "serious" development platform.

Honestly, for 99% of things a plain old Rails or Django stack will be fine. Development will be rapid, the devs behind both frameworks seem to care about stability while keeping options open to making your own thing, and you have access to both language's more ample library story, which goes beyond simply making web pages.

If it's just about the concurrency story, there's async frameworks on Ruby and Python. If it's about the performance, V8 eventually ends up hitting the same walls the other languages do, albeit much slower, but with a whole bunch of language and library deficits that are best avoided altogether.

It's amazing to say it, but nowadays even the current story with some PHP frameworks is not bad, ever since some people decided to standardize more parts of their packages and make the language actually suck less.
The only reason they get a "pass" is because their share price is too high for junk bond strip mining.
Just for fun, I tried using ses-mode inside org-babel.

It didn't work for a new empty code-block, but if I pasted an existing ses-mode file into it, it did actually work.

So you can have your org-mode cake and eat it too with ses :)
I've had a few similar courses at university, but they've always been limited to NP-completeness, does anyone know how I can expand on this? That is, learn beyond NP-completeness (Books / Online courses etc)?
I see that it could help people start their own businesses since at the worst case you'll end up back on the minimum income. So that takes one element of stress out of it and you can focus on the business more.

I can see some arguments against this that would say the owner would be less hungry for success, and while that's true not every business that starts needs to be the next big thing.
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Elixir seems like a great language, but its library story is still lacking a lot of things to make for a fast web development. This will probably change in the next couple years, however.
Wow that was pretty insightful. Never looked at it that way. It seemed like local startups are getting funded with half baked ideas or clones and I thought that I could do just as well as them so I was pretty hesitant to find a job. I guess that it was a little arrogant on my part to think of it that way. But yeah I have began to apply for jobs at local startups and some companies outside the tech industry. Thanks for the heads up!
Maybe it's not for everyone. D3 has improved considerably since its initial release. What I enjoyed specifically about the game was the process of leveling a character (repeated across many different classes), to unlock the new spell casting and action mechanics. Yet at the same time, you're not "stuck" with a permanent investment in any one skill tree, like you were in D2. That provided a good sense of exploration. I think D3 defined a better equipment model where skill damage is based on weapon damage. I was skeptical about this at first - What? Wizards can use swords and do just as much damage as with wands? - but it works out well. It makes items more portable across classes, and generally makes gear finding more fun. You'll use whatever you find, including big ridiculous axes as a wizard.

By the way, they have substantially changed gear drop balance since launch. Back at launch, item stats were completely randomized, so it might take a lot of grinding before you'd find the +mainstat attribute that you want. One area where I think Blizzard excels by making hard choices in game design is recognizing when "the game essentially makes this option mandatory", and then taking it out to improve the fun. So for example, Blizzard has been removing or redesigning castable buffs from WOW due to the theory that having to cast these repeatedly is not helping anyone enjoy the game. So now those effects are just built into the classes instead. Similarly with Diablo 3, they embraced the idea that most players will see +mainstat is simply being necessary for any gear to be viable, and they altered the drop mechanic so that it's virtually guaranteed as a property on most gear. No longer do Barbarians and Demon Hunters see +int gear.

This was part of the path to eliminating the auction house. Previously, getting the right combination of every stat you needed at high level required a lot of RNG across a marketplace. Now, D3's item generation has been redone in some subtle and clever way. I think they are doing something akin to what Valve did with the AI director in Left 4 Dead. That is, D3 tracks how frequently good items are dropping, that seem like an upgrade for you, and makes sure they are in fact dropping regularly. It ensures you get a legendary item drop every few hours. (Yes, that frequent! The balance is different now so that that's not insane.) Thus players can expect to get frequent upgrades and regular new gear sets just by playing solo. This is a big improvement for casual players.

One where where I'd criticize D3 was elements of unintentional bathos. For example, the player character's interactions with Azmodan and Belial definitely veer into bathos territory. Azmodan is supposed to be one of the great evils of the world, what he says amounts to little more than, "I'll get you next time, wascally wabbit!" The dialog there is not great, but the story and graphics are fun overall.

I've recently started playing Torchlight 2 as well, but haven't gotten very far. How does it compare to D3? Or rather, what would you say it excels it where D3 stumbles?
Too many configs and maintenance.

NoSQL is really better than SQL to scale your databases. It is just sad there is no one open source NoSQL db as good as Google BitTable.
Of course, one problem with the current bureaucratic system in the Nordic countries, is that some people slip through. If for example you start a personal company, and later fail, you won't get unemployment benefits (unless your company was a corporation and you hired yourself, of course). At least, that is the case in Norway.
There is no reason to use a NoSQL database on a new project (especially one as hideous as Mongo) unless the problem space is so domain-specific that it merits it.
If you're interested in computational complexity theory, I recommend "Computational Complexity" by Christos Papadimitriou. It's a classic, though it's a bit dated.