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I dunno, porn is all about niche right?

Here's an idea: PornForGeeks. HTML5 valid, HTML5 <video>, strong use of semantic tagging, 'smarter' ads, strong query engine, etc
Polyethylene bags would be too slick. Even with the conforming shape and rigidity from the vacuum, the glass of water shown in one of the photos would have slipped out of the grip. Latex is a much "stickier" surface.
I hope they're re-releasing dabbledb for everyone to use...
Creativity and persistence are great, but the time still needs to be channelled in a constructive way. Otherwise you end up with products no one wants or ruining something with new many scope creep and feature bloat.
Ok, so you provide convenience. This only works for people who don't already have an affiliate link though. If I am BigTimeBlogger and I want to share things that could earn me some money, it would probably make sense for me to create an affiliate account for the products I recommend, just so I can earn more (you take a cut of the commissions, right?). On the flip side, if I'm JoeNobody sharing a link to the camera I bought, it's very unlikely that I will create any sales with my 25 twitter followers.

If the market of people who are bigger than JoeNobody but smaller than BigTimeBlogger is big enough, then this is a service that will likely fill the market and do very well.
If Moore's Law keeps working, this is a ticking time bomb for him. If the police stay interested and crack his crypto, he'll do more time for whatever he's concealed on his computer (if anything).
If anyone's got any questions about our web cluster which is featured in this article, drop me a line at @lmarsden ;-)
That's pretty much what we did and it worked out very well. For the first 6 months we had the baby in his crib in our room and we'd comfort him when needed. Apparently before 6 months they don't know they can use crying as a power so you cannot 'spoil' them. After then we moved him to his room and we would tend to him less.
I don't agree with your suggestion to give up. What he should really do is "pivot".
Haters stopped hatin', playas keep playin', as Dave McClure would say.
What I got from it: "It sucks so bad you won't want to use it"
Nice idea.

Tip: I'd stay away from calling it a shortener. That market is very saturated and a lot of people will leave right away.

Play on the fact that your users can get commissions for millions of products across hundreds of merchants without even signing up.

"Just give us your email and we'll let you know when you made a sale."

Bonus idea: credit your users with a few small sales in the first few days. Funny, sexy or weird things that will get them talking about your service. They'll feel like it's working and you don't have to payout until they reach $10 or so anyway -- at which point your skim should have it covered. :)

Good luck!
Let's say I have a hard drive full of illegal material, the police suspect it and have enough evidence to obtain a warrant, should I not then be obligated to show the contents of the hard drive? Much like a warrant for a home or business premises, why should it not be enforceable for digital things too?
Downvotes, what on earth for? Is it the checkmarks?

Edit: not meaning to complain, I was trying to sort out if it was the Unicode, the tone, the list format, or the "no need to discuss" which is probably a bit rude.

I was hoping to make a quickly read mark that would let people know HN had already been over this ground and there was nothing new in the article, but I failed miserably.
What's particularly vexing to me is that Microsoft seems to have given up on giving developers the best experience, as well. Why would anyone want to develop a web app targeted for IE 7.5, especially given that the market share of this new IE version will be squat for awhile, perhaps always. Will WP8 bring about a new custom flavor of IE? Will there be an upgrade, mid-cycle?

In the same vein: A lot of criticism has been leveled at the new WP7 ads, but I haven't seen much coverage from the developers' perspective. Is Microsoft implying that WP7 customers aren't going to spend much time on their phones? Again, why develop for or port to the WP7 platform if Microsoft's ad strategy is based on the idea that the customer won't actually use the device that often or for very long.

Perhaps it's hubris or just ignorance on their part, but making things harder or more confusing for developers isn't going to bring in the profit for third-party developers or Microsoft.
I'm confused and obviously missing something here - Orange UK have White iPhone 4s available for sale on their website:

http://shop.orange.co.uk/iphone/choose-your-4g-plan

Is there some other variant that I'm too uncool to know about? :)
Reminds me of one of my favorite paintings...the first one on this page...
http://chrisroth.net/paintings/paintings2.html
Also known as: Facebook privacy concerns.
I haven't seen the commercials, but I did follow the launch event. One thing was said so often and was so... odd... I had to go back and write it down:

"We've focused in on how real people want to use their phones when they're on the go -- we want you to get in, out, and back to life as fast as humanly possible."

First of all, some of the animations on some of their apps have a bit of time to them and don't really fit in with that mantra. But more importantly, I'm not sure what market they are heading for and what they want to say. Do they want their apps to be immersive or lightweight? Do they want people to enjoy their phone or try to use it as little as possible?

In the end the message to me makes their phones sound non-engaging. Not the greatest selling point in my opinion. Imagine the iPhone commercial where they run through 5 apps in 30 seconds. The Windows Phone 7 equivalent would be a 5-second commercial with someone quickly hitting two buttons and saying "Done. Glad that's over.". Interesting marketing strategy.
Just an FYI they have a free plan as well as a $39 plan.
Amen to all of that. I didn't know until I tried it with an unsupported host that it would turn around and provide a j.mp short URL, which is great, but non-obvious. Until then, I'm wondering why I'd want to use a link shortener with a seven-letter TLD.

It's a serious mistake to disallow shortening TLDs like "google.com", because that's what people are likely to type in to test the service. It's deadly to ever let a user see a hostile, wholly uninformative error message like "INVALID_URI".

Owing to unnecessary ajax and a submit button which doesn't reflect presses, if I fail with google.com and then try yahoo.com, there's no indication that the site has received or acted on my second attempt.

Labeling your only button with an image, in an oddball font, using text that's both passive voice and a negative statement, is not OK, as you implicitly acknowledge in the introductory blog post, when you have to tell your potential users which piece of screen real-estate to click.

I knew what rev=canonical and friends were, and even I didn't have any idea what the phrase "healthy link shortening" meant to you. I thought it might have been a point about not relying on the Libyan government. The introductory blog post isn't doing its job. The list of sites with their own shorteners should be on the front page, and should be longer — that's how you connect the site's value with potential users.

The service itself is useful, though I'd most like to see it incorporated into Twitter clients like Hibari, which use bit.ly for everything. Evangelizing an API is harder. Good luck.
Xbox was their last big success in entering a new market. That's just under a decade ago.

The problem is that they have a sucky innovation model. They find something that's already successful, throw money at making a slightly better version (or whatever they can convince themselves is a slightly better version).

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It worked when they copied the Macintosh to make Windows. It worked when they copied Netscape to make IE. It worked when they copied Playstation to make Xbox. It stopped working when they copied iPod to make Zune, and continued to not work when they copied Google to make Bing.

Why it's stopped working? Either (a) a run of bad luck or (b) folks have learned to preempt Microsoft's move or (c) the really good people don't work for Microsoft any more.
But if you've written notes in your notebook that are comprehensible only to you, should you be compelled to explain to the authorities what they mean?
Word War II:

✓ Old story (September 1, 1939).

✓ Thousands of articles likely omitting full context.

✓ US Constitution does not cover the British.

✓ Already covered. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1507526

No discussion required.
My projects have lifespan of 1-2 years, i do my best to get them going or to sell them duringthis period. if still the goal is not achieved, they take their places in the attic.
Great progress, congrats! Your site design is really fantastic. Not just the look but the demo video, Get Started call to action, etc.
As a postdoc, I'm not going to look at this. It would only depress me.
Yeah, I know that can sound weird. I've tried hard not to do things that are hurt people or are particularly bothersome. But part of what rejection therapy teaches you is that people don't really care that much about you. That guy has probably completely forgotten about that incident already (I mean San Francisco is full of weirdos).

I've been trying to get more meaningful rejections (see the edit I made at the end just now for an example) but at the same time, I'm going to make sure I get rejected every day. I've committed to the challenge and I won't back down now.
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How are scalpers pre-buying ahead of everyone else?

Here is a thought experiment, let's say there is someone willing to pay up $100,000$ for a ticket that's face value is $50. All the tickets were sold for $50, no reselling occurs. The difference between the highest price (presumably 50$) someone was willing to pay and the highest price of our rich patron is lost in utility. A better scenario would be guy sells his $50 ticket for some price more than the value he would get from the ticket and capturing excess utility himself. In this scenario without someone playing a scalper role, that utility is lost.

You immediately think every use of a domain is better, which is a more laughable argument. Who are you to decide what is or isn't a better use?

You also have no idea how actual users behave and navigate to things. Some people do get value out of parked pages. I see CTRs over 100%. That's right, they come back to click another ad, consistently.

Somehow the same ads on google are different than me showing identical ads on a parked page. Some integrate organic and paid search links exactly like google, is that ok?

Sorry, your arguments don't add up.
"On the other hand, almost every successful founder I spoke to, either did not have this issue (founded right after school, etc.), or did not do any work before quitting (which they did either before or after securing funding)."

That's the "Burn the Ships" idea, but there are plenty of start-ups that were side projects.

I don't think big companies care about your start-up idea at all so don't worry about it too much as long as it's not in direct competition with your employer.
If you want to make notes directly on peoples' resumes, you can use crocodoc (YC W2010) to view and mark them up online. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders!)

Just forward their emails (w/ attachments) to upload@crocodoc.com, or upload them directly through crocodoc.com. Either way you'll receive a unique crocodoc URL you can use to view, mark up, and share each resume with its creator.

Would love to hear your feedback if you end up giving this a try!

Note: You don't need to create a crocodoc account to use the service (which is free), but I'd suggest doing so to keep track of all the resumes it looks like you'll be working on :)

Example document: https://crocodoc.com/demo1 (note: since this is a demo document your changes won't actually be saved)
It seems that you slightly misunderstand the situation (and the article is certainly misleading on "Popular file-sharing website LimeWire" part). Limewire is not a network, it is a piece of software, which provides access to networks using Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols.

As LimeWire is (was?) distributed under GNU GPL, I'm particularly curious about effects of this ruling on any forks.
What the article misses is that Microsoft has an asset that it's competitors often don't: trust.

What technical person trusts Microsoft? I don't mean to be flippant, but the reputation they have among technical people that I know is that their stuff is poorly designed, insecure, and buggy.

Disclaimer: I got fed up with their poorly designed and buggy software in the late 90s, and have had Linux as my primary development platform ever since.
A very fast auto-complete server; to be used for as-you-type search suggestions.
It is valid, and it is morally reprehensible. In the US, the Fifth Amendment protects us from such travesties.
Playstation phone probably fake
Rent is too Damn High now Help is Here
IE is actually not so bad at the web. At least not for the end user (argument about stifling development and innovation aside). As a user of IE, I actually have a better experience with IE than I do with Chrome w/ the sole exception being performance. I'm sure there are sites that don't work on IE, but honestly the only ones I've ever seen are those posted here on HN :-)

With that said, everything I've heard from people in MS (and some who work on IE) is that this is the first time in MS's history where their goal is to actually make IE the best web browsers against the standards. They are targeting to be able to legitimately say that the best platform for HTML5 apps is IE. Only time will tell on that.

But I do think it is naive to think a phone will fail because it is based on the worlds most popular web browsing engine. Any more than a phone might fail because it has no physical keyboard, no 3G support, no Flash, and no native apps.
Offer HN: Adwords/PPC Help
Today seems like the day for lurkers to give back, so...

I've been doing PPC for over 10 years. My focus has mainly been advertising large, retail catalogs, but I've also worked with info products and service businesses.

I'm happy to help in anyway I can including:

- long-tail keyword ideas
- account organization
- ad copy
- bidding strategy

If you have a general question or don't mind sharing the details with everyone, I can answer here. Otherwise, I'm available at the email address in my profile.
Sure it's difficult to take this personally, considering pretty all of us are just semi-anonymous handles on a website and we don't know anything personal about our fellow users to begin with. I believe the perception that there is a problem here really comes from two sources: first, you almost never know why you are suddenly and utterly modded into a black hole. Second, there is this creeping suspicion that the actual purpose of the mod system is either not well defined enough or not properly agreed upon in the community.

This leads to cases where coherent and interesting comments are sometimes -4, which is exactly the rating that should be reserved for porn, spam and really gross trolling. At the same time, some users achieve consistently high ratings for comments that seem to be lacking in content, leading me as a new user to suspect that the system is either rigged in some way or at least very susceptible to ridiculous pile-on effects.

The good news is though that this doesn't happen often enough to be a serious problem (yet?).
Maybe it should be taken literally. Ask Sean Parker.
MMmmm... also from Argentina... Too bad not in Buenos Aires. Maybe this would slowly turn in something more regular?
Thank you, I hope we all will be able to find our versions of the beloved "they" :)
Sure - It isn't aimed at professional affiliate marketers for sure, but even JoeNobody might get a sale every now and again, so it still could attract that user base.
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As MC Frontalot raps: "You can't hide secrets from the future with math."
Vim has a nice plugin that allows you to handle a personal wiki. I also use it to track my tasks.

For example Ctrl-Space checks an item in a bullet list.

http://github.com/vim-scripts/vimwiki
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I'm not alone on this.

No, you're not. I remember looking at stackoverflow once and there was some sort of New here? Read this wall of text to get started! to which I responded Awesome! Maybe I'll read that when I have looked at the latest pictures on reddit!

Stackoverflow incorrectly assumed that I gave a shit about their website. They can get away with it because they have technical users who often don't react like that. But if your users aren't technical, then you can't possibly overestimate how much they don't care about your website.
I would recommend allowing moderators to use their discretion and allowing material that is tastefully non-pg. IE, if the story is legitimately sharing a funny experience of coupled or shared space life and isn't just pornographic.
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Thanks for the feedback! Interesting idea about not calling it a shortener. I'll have a think about possible alternatives :)
It would be very interesting if sanswork and KoZeN could throw up a quick blog, where each blog post contains:
(1) the original CV; (2) the CVs formatted as each of them would recommend; (3) a few points from each highlighting why the changes were suggested. I'm sure a handful of representative CVs could be chosen and the proper permissions obtained. Might be too much work or simply not of interest. I'd like to see this though. Let me know if I can help in some way.
Now is that any way to talk about your soon to be computer overlords? ;)

I don't agree that Apple is evil, just rigid. They are very strict about what they allow for the sake of a good user experience (and to avoid a black eye on their account).

And with them being the #1 tech company on the planet, there have to be a large number of people who really like their products. Actually, in recent surveys they were - The number 1 sought after phone OS of those ready to buy smartphones (at 38% just one point above android) - The number 1 in overall customer service (86) by a fair margin (9 points) - The number 1 in smart phone satisfaction (800 vs next in line 791).
You should check out this talk that Jason Putori, the designer for Mint gave titled "10 Things: Design for Non-Designers".

http://vimeo.com/15066599
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Offer HN: Ex-Ivy League admission officer will review your college application
I'm a former Princeton admissions officer. I did that job for two years from 2004-2006. During that time I read probably 2500 applications, spoke at about 80 high schools, and physically voted on whether or not to admit about 5,000 applicants.

I believe applying to elite schools is a total crapshoot unless you satisfy an instutional need of the university (minority, athlete, rich person, super elite academic/artist/entrepreneur). That said, it's incredibly important to make sure that there's nothing WRONG with your application before you send it off.

A good college application (like a good movie according to Siskel) has 2-3 good qualities and no bad ones.

That's where I can help.

Many applicants are deep-sixed simply because no one told them not to include X in their application. I suspect HNers would be a crowd that might have this problem.

In the spirit of this week's Offer HN spree, I will give 15-minute reviews to college applications from Hacker News members who reach out to me through my profile info.

I will not make edits or write anything on your app. I will look for red flags and inform you of any you find and my general impression of your strengths as an applicant.

Note: My experience is 100% in undergrad admissions. I have no experience with grad school applications and any advice I give on those must be taken with a grain of salt.
I really do hate these "Flash hate-bait" narratives because it only regresses progress in making the video tag viable. Which is, above all else, the real goal.

HTML5 video does not support any sort of RTMP streaming. This is an undeniably important feature. Having to wait until a video loads before you can seek to a specific point is woefully disappointing for the end-user.

Not having a reliable base of encoding across all platforms is a real kick in the teeth as well.
What an android looks like today.
Yes, absolutely: they are envious of what other people have, that makes them want it, but only as long as other people can't have it, too. They want to be the people in the secret tree house, on the inside, looking out at the unwashed masses who they are intellectually and morally superior to.

Apply practically built an entire company on this notion.
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How is it even remotely of interest that Apple is capable of producing a phone in a different color, and may in fact be doing so?
Beware of NetApp :)
Assuming your congressman visits you while you are being secretly held in a Syrian prison
Some Quora questions I was looking at yesterday that you might find helpful (I plan to comb through these and pick out books and blogs to read more of):

What are the best books on UI/UX design for software engineers? http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-books-on-UI-UX-design...

What are the best resources for learning bleeding-edge web UI and UX design? http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-resources-for-learnin...

What are the best design blogs? http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-design-blogs

What are the best books written on design? http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-books-written-on-desi...
I have a special kind of problem with my website on rock climbing weather - the most important forecast pages do not have a lot of text other than the forecast. Advice would be appreciated! http://www.climbingweather.com
I'd argue that they got the price right; they just weren't charging the right people. After all the carrier sweeteners are added to the pot, I would fully expect the margins on a subsidized iPhone to be equal to (if not greater than) those on a naked iPhone. But thinking that they could crack carrier dominance was a bit of a stretch, as laudable a goal as it was.
The sad thing is that anyone using an Internet 'Kill Switch' would do far more damage than most of the "cyber attacks" that we know about. And if the ability was built, it would definitely become a target for cyber attacks.
The difference: Money
I think a better way to put it is this:

When you hear "XPS" your mind doesn't immediately go to the Dell laptop (probably).

When you hear "Microsoft" though, "Windows", "Office", "Xbox", all the jazz, immediately go through your head.
FYI: this is about robots, not phones.
Lessons from Evernote’s flight from .NET
You googled it wrong. Try iphone porn.
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Could be -- I read it as "making NYC money on a non-NYC standard of living."
Has there been a case where the Fifth Amendment protected someone from disclosing a password? I'm not sure that giving up your password is analogous to being forced to testify against yourself.

Edit: Indeed there has been a case, and so far the Fifth Amendment is holding strong: http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/04/passwords-and-5th-ame...
I want to add that I specialize in leveraging ad spend, spending money to make lots more money.I probably won't help you get more Twitter followers, but I will help you get more customers.