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My simple advice is to stop looking for ideas and to start looking for problems.

Look for the pain, and to do that talk to people.

The challenge will be that most people accommodate the pain in order to get something done, but they don't like it.

A recent pain point I came across was that 501.c(3) organizations are good at organizing but often poor at "the Internet". That suggested that if you talked to a half dozen charities you could probably find a way to offer them a 'internet presence service' that would be a combination of tools to do calendaring, outreach, donor management, payment/donation processing, testimonial pages, event landing pages, Etc. Think of it as a mashup of Calendar, Wordpress, PayPal, Salesforce, and Quickbooks online. You make their interface to the site both simple to get to (suggest a hardware token) and the web sites appearance to be professional to people visiting.

If you architected it right you could also make it a onestop 'election' website (similar sorts of things and similar reporting requirements for donations etc)

Find folks who would like to get more out of the Internet or have trouble with it, and solve their problem in a way that saves them real money or real time. Then sell that to people in the same situation.
Thanks for your gentle answer. I have no solution except to say we must believe in our intelligence and throw away prosthesis. Today my answer is in what I call the {lambda way} project, http://lambdaway.free.fr/. A small blocknote with a kind of dialect of lambda calculus for dummies (like me). A dwarf on the shoulders of web browsers, the modern giants.
Sometimes I come here in Hacker News and ask « Is there anybody out there? »
How can they? There's no captain.
Like most B2B things, quite a lot, even just for hardware:

https://www.barcodesinc.com/cats/pos-workstations/
Oh agreed; just pointing out that Apple likely could do that, and would even probably legitimately win such a suit.
As a consumer/customer I have no way of knowing. So as far as I am concerned all products Fulfilled by Amazon are co-mingled inventory, possibly items directly sold by Amazon as well (I don't think they have commented on this).
It would be great if Mozilla ran a VPN service. :)
I wish Slack has multi-window view, like many IRC clients.
This is highly reminscient of the iOS vs. Android app distribution model. If Amazon aggressively curated its platform for quality, I expect we’d be hearing a deafening and righteously indignant chorus against its existential threat to freedom and consumer choice. Also makes you wonder whether “Amazon, but with quality control” might exist as a smaller but more profitable niche, similar to Apple.
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> Hari Seldon, hero of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, was deliberately put into a wide variety of situations

This refers to the books Prelude to Foundation (1988) and Forward the Foundation (1993).
I have ideas every 2nd day. Here is one: Your own highly individualized, probiotic and noncancerous toothpaste. Professionally attuned towards your taste/mood and hygienic needs. Send a cheek swab. Get the lab results. Taste the samples. Order your own mix. Colorize it. Share recipes online. Order retro toothpastes. Order bloody vampire toothpaste. Mix it at home. Put them on the blockchain. Make toothpaste fun again. Who wants to revolutionize toothpaste with me?!? Oh gawd, I can't stop.
Definitely, just going through YC rejects there must be at least one that has a great idea :) .
If you have a hard time coming up with ideas, you probably shouldn't start a company.
I'm 20 but I can still hear 20 khz, albeit not very well.
I completely agree with you on the commercial part, it has gotten ridiculous. If it was not for the NFL Red Zone channel, I think I would have given up also.
Gah, I read it as the opposite, even though that was what the grandparent had already stated.
Certainly he wasn't going to stop and troubleshoot the problem when a 3 minute install would work as a temporary solution but it is funny.
Funny, i have 2-3 really good ideas that i feel are genuine and have large profit potential, yet i have no team and hardly any programming skills to launch them.
How about an investor service for scoring startups from their pitches? Use historical data from YC applicants over the years to train the fitness function.
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It's simple - WebGL should never have been enabled without user action in the first place - it's a security minefield.
decentralized social such as mastodon?
Very fond memories. Never thought it would be so (relatively) easy to hack wide open such a well protected system like the Xbox. It was so much fun and i learned a lot in the process about BIOSes and firmware.

It also taught me that any device can be (ab)used to the max if you just have the right tools and knowledge. Some exploits are so amazingly easy.

XBMC/Kodi is awesome. I bet there will be a lot of copy procjets if they ever try to lock it down.
That sounds like a great idea for the OP. Although any company with some traction won't be so easy to take over.
In the case of many, many people I have met in the Midwest: the answer is racism. These people for some reason can't seem to grasp the simple fact that players are protesting the fact that black people are being shot and killed for either petty crimes or no crimes at all. You certainly don't have to agree with their protest, but not being able to empathize reflects much poorly on you than it does them.
Most large retailers already do this and have been doing so for a while (pretty much all grocery stores and chain retailers) and you most likely never "opted-in" to those either.
Depends on the POS system, but older products like NCR ACS, ISS45, Toshiba SurePOS Ace, etc all make huge assumptions that the cashiers will remember 100+ four codes, and can deal with all the curveballs that both systems throw at the user. There are better POSes out there, where you don't have to spend a few days training each new employee for them to be productive and competent.
Sleepspam... that would introduce a new level of super-evil :-)
Let's say you take the NFL's revenue and it drops by 90% (as I think it will relatively quickly once "TV" ad rates start to come in line with online video -- oh yes, all these issues are related). So the salary range would have to shift to say, $2-3M a year for the top stars and about $200,000 for vets; with rookies making $50k-ish. Sure there would be endorsements, but it wouldn't be the ubiquitous stardom. You're just another Instagram influencer.

You do that, and you take the wind out of the sails of a sport quickly. You probably have a better chance of success playing fantasy football (you know, gambling) than you would getting rich as a football player.

The adpocalypse is happening right now. We've been warning of it for years. Brands are figuring out their campaigns on "traditional TV" don't return nearly as much as targeted campaigns on online video on a per-dollar basis. The bloodbath is just beginning.
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Not sure about circles as sole UI primitives, but this is a great start that could grow to support rectilinear views as well.

The big thing I would take a look at is the animation: Ease-in with a hard stop is not a pleasant motion for a zooming UI. I'd try an ease-in-out, and see if you can synchronize the scaling and the positioning so the new circle smoothly zooms into place rather than zooming offscreen and jumping into the center at the end of the animation.

Keep up the good work!
There is, of course, zero evidence of any of the allegations you mention.

But there's ample evidence of voter suppression by Republicans.

You need to focus more on the evidence.
I highly recommend taking the time (2+ weeks) to travel as a team or even better, individually. Think southeast Asia or Latin America. Limit yourselves to a very small amount of money (outside of transportation) and experience life differently.

As many others have suggested, meeting other people and opening yourselves to different experiences will help. Maybe by meeting people and having experiences though a different cultural lens will help break the thought patterns holding you back.

Best of luck.
Reminds me of the History Channel’s “Hunting Hitler” and yes apparently a lot of stuff like this has been floating around. However even for the time hearsay and pictures may not have ever been enough credible evidence to expertly decide whether it was truth or not. No situation lead to his capture or detainment I believe following this trail of evidence lead to him having simply disappeared in South America and a severe lack of planning regarding the restoration of his leadership. Just as the title suggests he might have still been alive then.
I was wondering when the "attach guns" part comes up. Wasn't disappointed :-)
Right -- you can't know as a consumer.
I'm building a trading bot (ruby) that uses a collection of signals to trade. I have been working on the backtesting to do validation of different strategies across different pairs and intervals. The highest i've gotten it so far is 120X from start of LTC/BTC, but thats also on a fairly aggressive setting (and obviously idealistic);

SMA can work, but it can also bite you. I think using only 1 technical indicator is asking for trouble when determining entry. Use at least 2, but no more than 5 or 6.

As a software developer, its a cool field to tinker in. But theres lots of ignorance, hype, and crap.

For anyone who wants to build a simple bot, checkout gekko
https://gekko.wizb.it
In addition to what others have said: Many of us are tired of the endless micro-events in the current political scene. Give us the TL;DR. That is, wake us up when something big happens. This wasn't it. Something that the probe found, involving some of the players, but not directly related to the election? Yeah, I don't care enough to pay much attention. I sure don't need an HN discussion about it. (I know, I can just skip the HN discussion, and let those who care participate. But the point is, I suspect that many people here feel this way.)
IMO, Money.
People see kneeling as overpaid players throwing tantrums.
They see the brain issues as the risk they take for being paid a lot.
I just googled “house of cards cancelled” in Firefox on my iPhone and every result for a several screens worth of scrolling are AMP. I can’t find a single result that isn’t AMP.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but as someone who has actually maintained widely-used open source software, you'd likely be shocked at the level of entitlement I've encountered among OSS users.
like mcdonalds buying up nice sandwich and coffee shop chains
Once the NFL became political, a lot of hardcore fans stopped using it as an escape from the madness ever present in the news and social media. Seeing falling revenues doesn't surprise me.

The irony of my comment is I'm making plans to watch KC vs Denver... and it's Monday.
If privacy is that important to you then just pay cash. Otherwise your credit card company, your bank, Facebook, Equifax, Google and the store itself among others are all tracking you as much as possible across purchases in the physical retail world and across all your web traffic. All of these datapoints are being cross-correlated in a billion different ways.

"I'm not on Facebook" - oh yes you are. There's a shadow profile built of you even though you never signed up for Facebook. Same goes for Google, and many other services you never explicitly signed up for.

So now let's talk about cash. So you pay with cash and you think your privacy is preserved? Nope! The moment you walk in the store, the wifi beacons are tapping into your smartphone and adding to the internal profile the shop has of you. They know when you walked in the store, they know when you walked out, and they probably know enough to correlate your cash payment with your profile.

I'm sorry but that's the world we live in.
> when the Trezor is powered on, its firmware (basically, the Trezor’s operating system) copies its PIN and 24 seed words into the Trezor’s SRAM [...] in an unencrypted form.

> If you do what is called a “soft reset” on the device—accomplished by delicately shorting two pins on its printed circuit board—you can then install the exploit firmware without wiping the SRAM’s memory. This allows you to see your PIN and seed numbers.

There's the primary vulnerability.

I fear there are other vulnerabilities that could defeat the anti-PIN cracking delays...

Old-school pay-tv hackers (Chris Tarnovsky anyone?) would probably have a field-day with micro-probers and more invasive recovery techniques on these hardware wallets. At $100 and in small volumes (plus the cost of flashy UIs and marketing), who knows how secure the silicon is.

The more I think about it, the more I think PIN-enabled wallets are the wrong way to go for long-term storage. Print your recovery words, store them appropriately (not all with one person and/or in one place, etc.) and then crush the generation device. Hopefully its random numbers can't be predicted.
Try working backwards.

Step 1: Pick your customers. Are they small business, enterprise or consumers? Are they in a specific vertical or are you addressing a cross-cutting concern?

Step 2: Start learning. Set up interviews and learn their business inside and out. Perhaps volunteer to be unpaid labor as a way to get an inside look at how their businesses run and where the inefficiencies are.

Step 3: Find the right inefficiency to address. It should be one that people are willing to spend to address, not just one where people should be willing to spend on. Also filter based on whether your team is best equipped to tackle the problem (i.e. don't try solving a really hard problem that, if you're successful, Google or Facebook could bang out in an afternoon with small modifications to an existing product.) Also look for products/services that give you a durable advantage, whether it's because you're the only one with the right data or because switching is particularly painful or a host of other reasons...much has been written on the subject, so read up for more examples.

Step 4: Go back and try to work up a demo of a product idea. It doesn't have to actually work (read do things that don't scale), it just has to show your vision.

Step 5: More interviews with potential customers. These aren't sales calls, they're a chance to gauge interest and get feedback on features and potential pricing.

You'll have a good idea whether you're ready to move forward or back to step 4, 3 or even 2 at that point, but if you hit on something, then your tech starts coding and your non-tech starts trying to find launch customers using the demo. At this point, you've probably read enough about the next steps to take.

Good luck!
Yes, a Casio cash register can be had for $99 to $250 new, and has scanner support. Credit/Debit won't be integrated, but at least you get a cash drawer and a receipt printer included in that price unlike Square's offering.
Small robots for manufacturing.

The market for large robots for manufacturing is full of very capable machines, but small robots could re-use many cheap components from cell phones and other consumer electronics.

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Or, to mashup your own list: MLaaS!
I am in an exact position, I've money, a solid product (paying customers) but no good technical team. I am having difficulty in scaling up the business all tech folks told me that my project will require a complete rewrite.
It might have something to do with the fact that only 6% of Police Shootings involved an unarmed individual, and every year more white people are killed by police than African Americans. People would be more empathetic to the players supposed grievance if statistics backed them up

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
Appeals court keeps alive the never-ending Linux case, SCO v. IBM
This thing in the second photo looks mechanically very unstable. Imagine what happens if customers are touching the base of your monitor all the time.
Most of our problems thus far have been the result of misuse of our resources one way or another. GitHub on the other hand probably dealt with these issues earlier on (or are able to hide them somehow, perhaps by throwing a lot of physical hardware at the problem), thus they can now focus on dealing with problems caused by reaching the limits of their (old) systems.
Those salary caps are really weird. In 'socialist' Europe, we have no cap on football players pay, and the sky doesn't come down.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, which you cited, is a right-wing crank group.

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/06/07/right-wing-...
I believe the worm traveled with it's code, which it compiled since it attacked both Vax and Sun systems, so if you caught it in the act. You could grab a copy of the C code.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on advertised salary ranges?
Recently I have started to notice that a lot of companies that are advertising developer roles also indicate a salary range and that this salary range is getting wider and wider. Take e.g. this role advertised on Stackoverflow [1]. A salary range from $80k to $150k (AUD), that's almost an entire salary in between! What is communicated here? We throw out a big number that we never going to offer you just to get you to respond but what we're really want to pay you is the low end? If a business advertises a role, should they not be able to put a salary against that role? I.e. if they hire the person to fill that role then they obviously match their requirements for that role..

What are your thoughts?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/158779/senior-front-end-developer-react-goscript
True. You also can't even watch your local game live either IIRC. I should have made that clear...it is NOT completely superior.
> But can ESPN exist as a network without NFL games?

Yes. It broadcasts < 20 NFL games per year. This is not a lot of airtime for a 24h sports network. It does spend a considerable amount of time talking about NFL, but that can continue whether it broadcasts their games or not. It has a 3-hour lead-in show on Sunday morning that gets sizable ratings while broadcasting zero games that day. Nobody subscribes to ESPN/cable just for MNF.

In contrast, ESPN broadcasts dozens of college football games per year and spends probably an equal amount of time - or more - discussing those. It spends about $1.4b per year in total on those TV rights which have lucrative advertising and cable subscriber value. That's in addition to all of the other sports ESPN broadcasts.

ESPN will bid less for MNF because they can't afford it any more but mostly because the ratings don't fully justify the current cost. The overall success of ESPN doesn't hinge solely on whether or not they broadcast any NFL games, it's based on how sensible the price is for the rights they own. They have plenty of other content to fill airtime that people watch and will pay a reasonable subscriber price for, even if that's not quite as much as they extract now from cable providers.
your father is not alone... a friend of mine visited Arcosanti decades ago and commented that in one of the studios there was a small note on one of the walls that read 'hell is other people'
Isn't that sort of work paid cash in hand and part of the black economy I am sure the IRS would be interested in your data :-)
"The man turned over the drive to a reporter at the Sunday Mirror."

Clearly the most obvious thing to do.
It would require a complete rewrite for at least the data layer, as everything right now assumes an RDBMS. Further it would complicate installation as now everybody would have to use a fancy "NewSQL" database, some of which you may not even be able to run yourself.
Mark Cuban once said (something like) "If you're looking where everyone else is looking then you're looking in the wrong place."

I think that trumps Parsons. That said, looking at ideas that "didn't work" can be a solid approach. That is, sometimes (for example) the idea was solid but the team failed. The market also changes and some ideas can be ahead of their time (and poorly executed).
I find it demeaning to call other people’s hard work “poorly understood” just because you don’t understand it. The open source world is large enough that you’re bound to encounter projects written in a language you might not be familiar with, or written in a style you consider old-school. Grow up and have some respect for the software we are using every single day.
For a decent system like what you see at a Walmart or Kroger? Figure $3500 for the hardware and a grand for the software usually, but that buys everything from the scale/scanner (NCR 7878 usually) to the coin dispenser, with everything in between included.

Though, to get towards this price takes 10 lanes or so before you hit economies of scale. Otherwise you end up with a gimped, half baked solution if you cheap out. 2x longer or worse per transaction to ring a customer out.
Pricing is fairly opaque in general, likely due to the sales structure and cycle. Probably the closest competitor here is Clover, which Google Search found with a cost of $999 for the first device (apparently subsequent ones are $1249). There's an additional software and service fee ($39/mo first device, $25/mo additional devices). So, comparable.

This is just for the hardware and software though, actual payment processing requires a merchant account that charges fees. Everyone has to pay these. If you're small, there's programs like these that are designed to get you your first merchant account. If you're big, this is a negotiation process where different sales departments will try to match or beat your current rates.
> I wonder if this is truly an advantage for Tcl.

I wonder whether it's even true of Tcl. Tcl has had moving target semantics over its lifetime so in fact there are multiple implementations of Tcl. How well does the current Tcl emulate previous versions, so that code can run unmodified, and how far back does that go?

Here is a Tcl page that lists some semantic changes from 7 to 8:

ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/doc/compiler.html

Even though many of the changes are for the better, yikes!
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ESPN's downward spiral perpetuated when their talk show hosts started pushing their politic agenda and a liberal bias (Not saying a liberal bias is wrong, but many people get turned off by it). Sports should be an escape from the daily political circus and a time to relax and enjoy entertainment. FS1 is quickly becoming the destination for many sports fans and ESPN will continue to lose viewers if they don't change.
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The real problem here is that mutable data structures aren’t entirely type sound. The solution here is to split collections into read only and mutable types, but people balk at this.

At one point long ago I did some experiments with this, and found that the most of the unique method signatures necessary to represent the data structures we are familiar with are concentrated in the mutators.

That is, the interface differences between read only data structures are pretty small. So you don’t double the surface area by splitting read from write. It’s more like 25%, and this might be partially offset by simplifications in code that has to scan multiple types of collections.
The spanner setup that can match PG on a high end x86 cluster will run way over 100K month
I don't disagree with your assessment on the impact of a reduction in ad spend. Yet I don't agree that how much a player makes impacts the popularity of football. All you have to do is look at college football where the overwhelming majority of athletes are just getting a scholarship. Most fans support a jersey not the person in it.
>>Once the NFL became political

The numbers have been decreasing for the past 6 years. It has nothing to do with NFL becoming political.

http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-losing-subscribers-not-r...
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