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Wonder given Elon's position on patents if they've even thought about open sourcing the software; guessing they have, but never know.
I'm a bit skeptical, since "commenting on HN" is so asymmetrical compared to sinking money into a startup in terms of how much you're invested, but I think it's an interesting experiment. I think if it goes right, with some iteration, it could help to pick out some interesting things.
This is never the case. I was working in congress when the Anthony Weiner scandal hit. Behind the scenes it was absolute chaos and he almost had to be frog marched out of the capitol by the Democratic leadership. True, there was no legal requirement he resign. He could've easily said screw you, impeach me like Trafficant, but the pressure to go is immense. Mark Foley locked himself in his office sobbing, and was so inconsolable that his Chief of Staff had to hold his hand (literally) while he singed the resignation letter.
I basically never use the traditional phone features of my "phone" if I can avoid it. Talking on the phone is boring because voice is a synchronous protocol with low information density. I'd rather spend a few seconds every few minutes typing something back and forth so I can keep doing something interesting while information exchange happens in the background. If I'm going to spend the time it takes to talk with someone, I'd rather do it in person, where it is a rewarding social activity.

So I imagine those reviews of phones are simply written for people more like me than like you.
I'm involved in placing POs for CPG products (I work for a retailer). Why would the process be fundamentally different for liquor wholesales & retailers? I get that it's currently an inefficient system, but if you could snap your fingers and put the tech in place, what about it is differentiated enough from existing purchase order systems to justify focusing specifically on the liquor biz? Genuinely curious!
"In the future, he said, the “real value creation will come from stitching together photos as a fabric, extracting information and then providing that cumulative information as a totally different package.”

What? Obfuscating language that is supposed to sound "profound" or "smart" just sounds like bullshit, which is exactly what it is.

The future of photography as predicted in this article sounds depressing as hell. How much further can our society be dumbed down and turned into a superficial shell of itself? That said, there is no guarantee that the future of photography will unfold as predicted here.

But a society that values only money and denies ever growing numbers of people a stable future and the fair chance to earn a decent livelihood is a society that is on the road to revolution. The rise of a demagogue like Trump is a warning shot across the bow. There is more at stake here than photography. Laugh, roll your eyes or downvote but people who predict unpopular, fantastic sounding societal change are often laughed at...until they are proven right.
(Sorry late reply)
My post is anything but critical and skeptical of women who wants camaraderie. I felt that the parent poster fits your description though. If you read my post again, you'll realise that it's about my own experience as a 'female' in tech, how I've taken gender issues so lightly until recently and how I'm now for 'women-for-tech' women. Flipped.
>it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world, that all of them cannot be punished; and many times they happen in such a manner, that it is not of much consequence to the public, whether they are punished or not. But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me, whether I behave well or ill; for virtue itself, is no security. And if such a sentiment as this, should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security what so ever.

-John Adams' Argument for the Defense: 3–4 December 1770

http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/05-03-02-0001-0...
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How do you plan to motivate recruiters to join the platform? Having to fill a different form to reach each person means it’d take years to recruit people, no? Why not e.g. fill one form once and for all?
Maybe the author is just out by an order of magnitude? Maybe it should be 10,000 words?
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A tremendous, huge opportunity to fund the Bay Area's slowest-growing unicorn.
we're already seeing quite a few Apply HNs, so we'll add a link for those a la /ask and /show

Quick poll for the community here: I run Hacker News Daily (http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/) which many people know about; but also Ask HN Weekly (http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/) and Show HN Weekly (http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-show/). In each case the methodology is the same: The 10 highest-scoring items which (a) appeared on relevant "front page" in the day/week in question, (b) and haven't appeared on a previous Daily/Weekly.

Would people be interested in having an "Apply HN Weekly" set up along similar lines? It's straightforward for me to copy the scripts and edit a few paths (once the HN link appears) but there's no point if nobody would want to read it.

EDIT: I'm seeing lots of upvotes to this comment, which I'm going to assume is an indication that people would like to see me implement this. If you were upvoting simply because you wanted to make more people aware that I had a really lousy idea, please add a comment to disambiguate.
I think it's high time someone disrupted Linkedin. Awful UI, spammy posts, pestering recruiters - there's a long list of problems with this site. One problem would be though how you plan to get a critical mass of users? Linkedin has become the default professional network for most people. How are you going to convince them to open another account?
At the height of its extent in 1350, the Mali Empire was second only to the Mongol Empire in size, power, and population.

Their possession of North Arab ship-building techniques, understanding of Greek geometry and mathematics, and knowledge of navigation makes it at least plausible they reached the Americas.

Given that the islands throughout the Pacific were colonized by repeated expeditions via sea canoe, it seems downright possible.

Unfortunately, that's where the evidence falls flat. Given that only four of the thousands of written Maya codices survived, there's no written record.

Given the environment, the ecosystem has reclaimed much of the land where the cities in question stood, ruling out most access to sites that may hold physical evidence.

The Mali Empire is also so poorly studied that even if we found a full Mali site in South America, it would be very difficult to recognize from above, even with state-of-the-art LIDAR to see through the vegetation.
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The sales reps could see it as a threat depending on how it works with them. We always say that there is a place for good sales reps, we just don't want them to be glorified order takers.

You do also have a lot of old school distributor owners that view sales reps as hand to hand combat and are afraid of losing that touch point.
I'm not sure that actually happened. Recently Jason Hughes (wk057) released some info he found in firmware (P100D) and Tesla engineers rolled back his firmware remotely, but no one called him AFAIK.
I think you misread the comment. Oil was proven and investment was pushing it to new heights. Do we really want to spend a lot of money on the same technology, and a new company, or new technology and innovation? I for one don't want another Solyndra. I want a company that is pushing a demonstrated advancement in technology.
days? I would say years.
YC is in the business of making money (along with promoting substantial positive change in the world). Unfortunately lifestyle businesses don't really work towards either of these ends, and it doesn't make sense for YC to fund them.
With just the words "zero" and "one" strung together in some combination, we can describe a JPEG image, which can be a picture of anything. (For instance, a black and white scan of the word "deoxyribonucleic" in a Times Roman font).
As a tech and automotive geek, I find this interesting and would be interested in a deeper investigation into the legal implications between the manufacturer and hacker (software licensing, etc.) as well as how, if any, existing motor vehicle laws apply.

For context, I drive an old Jeep that has various modifications (AKA lifted, with various accommodations due to that fact) and I've given little thought to any legal ramifications. That said, I do live in state (Colorado) that, legally, has little to nothing to say regarding such modifications, or only addresses them broadly. In contrast, Utah has a number of very specific regulations on such modifications.
There are 5600 distributors in the country. Our software could also work though for self distributed beers, liquor and wine, as they have to take orders also.
It seems like the new car that you just created should have to be checked out and approved as street legal. How do you know that the changes you have made still meet safety regulations and the like?
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Whilst it's not as easy as it should be, you can disable some/all of that data gathering via Group policy /setup settings.

It's a bit of a pain to do but once done should make it quite a lot better...
I would say 1) as you have it above, and add a healthy lifestyle in general, then 2) try to pair as often as you can, figure out why your co-workers do the things they do

Honestly all that time outside of work might be better spent just being happy and using other parts of your brain, so that you can devote 6 hours during your work day to focusing on improving. Sure, you can exercise for 8 hours a day and get better progress than exercising for 3 hours a day, but for how long?

Edit: Read more comments. If you got fired for underperformance in the past, it might just be due to mis-alignment between yourself and the manager in charge. I had this at my last job. Sometimes it's tough for managers to properly assess work quality and production speed.
Is the list of domains you can offer viewable somewhere?
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Disclaimer: I am getting married soon, in SF.

The Brief is a great idea, but it needs to pass some QC before being bid on. At the time of your vendor selection for a standard wedding, you don't know what you don't know. Its tough to choose well when you are not sure what to optimize for. I suggest a LONG list of questions to answer to get the details on how the wedding should proceed.

2nd. Venue selection has a lot to do with which vendors you can use, since not all will travel to all locations, and not all venues have all the amenities that some vendors need (big driveway for shuttle bus, commercial kitchen for caterer).

My experience with vendors is that they all communicate in different styles, and mostly poorly. Compared to office work, their typical responsiveness by email/voice/text is irregular (and unnerving). Maintaining responsiveness standards would be the single biggest benefit I can imagine for making the process better.

Many of the best vendors from your wedding may not be wedding vendors - Uber/Chariot both put together better cost comparisons for transport to/from my rehearsal dinner for guests than did most of the dedicated transit companies that specialize in weddings.
How is this better than craigslist or stubhub? What are you going to do that they aren't/won't/can't?

How will you get users?
Great questions
1. Github projects are just one example. Other example might be for a journalist, his article ; for a photographers, his 500px or flickr stream, for a researchers, his courses, university or google scholor links. Thats the whole point I think linkedin tries to be too generic for its users.

2. Although we have to start somewhere and engineers and tech people are easier to start with hence github

3. Monetization is something we do think about in terms of areas that would not compromise with the premise of the network i.e users first. For example if the contact form works, recruiters will pay depending on how many forms/invites they can send, so like 25 free per month but then pay for next 5 till you hit the monthly cap(Yes cap please). But needs more thinking here
That is brilliant. For Mobile Safari, copy the bookmarklet source, create a "dummy" bookmark, then go back and edit it. Delete the URL and type in `javascript:` and paste the JS.
Proximity is important because it promotes persistence. Having a group of people right in you neighborhood means you can get together everyday if you wanted to. If you've had a long day at work and you get home late, you can still walk down to a local pub and sip on a beer for 20 minutes with your friends, complain about your boss, and then head home. You don't have to make plans weeks in advance.

I'm hardly able to endure traffic to see my own friends who I already know I like. I think people aren't going to go see people they don't really know yet if they have to trek across the city to do it.

Meetups are ok for meeting people, but they're not great for making good friends. They can be really crowded and intimidating, or you have to awkwardly ask someone out on a friend date, and it's likely that they could live kind of far from you. Krewe starts you out with a small group, so you're singling someone out when you're trying to do something with them.
Growth was crucial in the early days of facebook. They were laser focused on growth, because they knew they had to move fast to destroy all the competition. Now it's retention which is extremely crucial for them. As soon as users start leaking, there is no going back.
How do you solve the chicken and egg problem? What's the benefit of being one of the first 1000 users?
Google is King.

- Gmail 1bil users
- Youtube billions
- Search
- Android
- Self Driving cars

and the list goes on including an order of magnitude greater in revenue.

Facebook is the friendster, geocities the next AOL etc.

Google is a real technology company.
A majority of small to medium distributors use quickbooks, so we could tap into that API. The larger ones have custom erp systems that could be tapped into, but it gets tricky. At the lowest touch point, we could send orders to sales reps to punch.

Yea, there are things to take into account with certain states related to pricing, etc.
>You can always set 'delay' in your profile to between 1 and 10 minutes to give yourself some editing time.

I had always seen this, but never actually looked into what it did. For someone like me who typically makes a litany of edits immediately after posting, this is revelatory. Thanks!

For whatever reason, the textbox just isn't as good of a preview when compared to viewing the actual post.
Thought this was interesting, so I made it in C#. I could've optimised a bit more in the Choose function but regardless, this is super cool!

https://gist.github.com/Zyst/0da505007b0e8c21418247000f3e7d4...
This is cool. The small groups and geographic area are intriguing... Fun to think about knowing and being friends with lots of people in my immediate area
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How will you handle people that say "you mean pinterest?"

(btw, love pinboard!)
This is huge people! This is the one way to make YC great again.
Wow, didn't expect to see this here. I'd love to see Pinboard go through YC.
Science fiction works are not prior art.
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I will go through YC like a bowling ball through a python
It's not optimal but you can create your own policy settings that stop automatic update downloads and installs. It will still bug you a LOT about it though.
> Snapchat doesn't have a good way to monetize their user base though. It's probably going to be a difficult problem for them, especially with their inflated valuation.

They've already started monetizing and seem to be doing pretty well. The "Discover" channels are pretty expensive and drive a LOT of traffic (Buzzfeed gets 21% of it's views from Snapchat[1]). Additionally, ads are inserted into "live" stories and you can buy extra filters as well. As far as I can tell none of those steps have alienated their userbase. Of course, the teen/tween crowd tends to be pretty fickle, so we'll see if they can pull it off long term.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-gets-21-of-its-traff...
Yes, we have validated (at least to some extent). Here's how we've validated it so far.

1. Talking to the people who have bought a course. The most common theme has been that they were more focused with interactive animations than a video lecture.

2. Sometimes, people want to learn but setting up an environment (even though it's part of the learning) is daunting. Installing libraries, setting up environments etc. We take that friction out.

3. Research from CMU on Interactive Learning for CS is here: http://www.ischoolguide.com/articles/25866/20150916/carnegie...

4. FCC recommends use of interactive books and their research showed 30-80% increase in learning outcomes.
You have a right to not have violence initiated against you (e.g. to not be murdered in your sleep). In order to keep this right, you just can't initiate force against someone else.

Do you have a right to a "safe and secure society"? I'm not really sure precisely what that is or how it is achieved, but that sounds an awful lot like a privilege.

For example, you most certainly do not have the right to be guarded in your sleep by armed guards. Nor do we all possess the right to be guarded in our sleep by armed guards.
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I guess what I'm getting at is what do they mean when it says it changed their life? What is fulfilling to them?

Where I'm going with this is what part of that can be increased and applied to a wider audience?
> unseated Mixi in Japan

I think it is debatable whether it was Facebook or Line that unseated Mixi. Looking at how my Japanese friends use their phones I would say it was Line.
I got mine now. It took nearly an hour. Despite that, my early tests ran solid. The apps got hosted on AWS us-west-1.
Apply HN: Sort, email lib and client that sort your emails by due date
Hi,

Sort is an email client that let you sort your emails by due date. The sender of an email can set that date using a specific syntax in the email body or you, the receiver can set/change it as well once you get the email in your inbox (by forwarding it to yourself including the due date).
You can set an email to done (again, by forwarding it to yourself), and if you never do and it's overdue, it will just keep rising in your inbox.

The idea would be to build maybe an open library first before a web-service. I'm not sure about the details but I would like someone to be able to use the Sort function without using the web-service inbox.

Some nice-to-have in the inbox would be to use colors to indicate how urgent the emails are.

Let me know if you want me to build that for you or if you have any question.
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Notice my use of the word aptitude above
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Advertisement works very well for the status quo that has lot's of money to spend on advertisement.

Wouldn't be awesome for new small companies to be able to focus less on advertisement and more on the product?

How? By having an online listing of products with tagging and up-/down-voting.

For example, imagine a new smartphone manufacturer creates a new awesome smartphone.

Instead of spending money on advertisement, the new smartphone company would publish its new smartphone on this online listing. Let's call this online listing "listing-platform.com". Then the following would happen:

1. Because the smartphone is new it gets on the landing page of listing-platform.com

2. Because the smartphone is awesome it gets lot's of upvotes by the community (Similarly to news on Hacker News)

3. In the future when users are going to look for a smartphone, they will see this smartphone because of its upvotes and good reviews.

This "popularity boost" could eventually be good enough to market new products. Without the need of advertisement.

Product Hunt is similar and it's quite nice. That said Product Hunt's focus is on the consumer side. The focus here is on the producer side. The goal here is to allow companies to market new products without the need of advertisement.

Feel free to comment negatively
Bringing on more people has additional hidden costs as well. HR, payroll, benefits/401K, management, staffing an on-call rotation for hardware issues (you still have to staff software on-call in either case), dealing with vacations, sickness, training, etc.

It's surprisingly expensive to run a full complement of web-facing IT services. Amazon (and Azure/GCE/RS/others) just make that calculus more explicit and in your face. (I also acknowledge that they are running AWS as a profitable and profit-seeking enterprise, so yes, they are marking things up beyond the lowest possible cost.)

For us, AWS is absolutely more expensive on a headline number basis. It's also decreased our latency of prod delivery and increased our agility as compared to on-prem solutions. We can get products in front of customers in hours/days that used to take weeks/months.
Someone tried to PR a large amount of curse words which I vetoed because it was redundant. Which is why I'm happy to see a more comprehensive list. :)
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You shouldn't become outraged so easily.
Looks like the creator picked up on that, as well:

https://medium.com/@mortenjust/i-doomed-mankind-with-a-free-...
I'm with you here - maybe OP's demeanor indicates they ARE inspecting them - just about every driver I ask in NY has some complaint. At least with uber, I know my profile has some certain designation (been using them since earliest days), and have had uber drivers ask me to pass on messages to "Mr. Travis" - so to me, that's weird that I'd regularly hear drivers complain and you don't
His position on patents is that if you patent something you make it public and the Chinese steal it regardless of the patent. By not patenting something they keep it secret. He is not anti patent he just understands that some people DGAF about a US granted patent and will steal your ideas anyway. As such I can't imagine they have ever thought of open sourcing the software behind their vehicles.
i wonder what a policy platform would look like if it had as its first premise that work is undesirable.
I don't like Facebook, nor do I have an account, but I disagree somewhat with them not being a "real technology company".

Facebook hired Simon Marlow, one of the creators of Haskell, and publishes a lot of research and open-source projects. Cassandra DB, HHVM, React, React-Native and Hack are just a couple examples.

They write blog posts about what scales and what does not, and employ a number of post-grad researchers. How are they not a "real" technology company?
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