skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reduce the amount of tags that use the style attribute, replacing it with external CSS definitions.

Is this supposed to be for performance or are they just suggesting "good practices"? If it's performance, I'd like to see some evidence that style attributes slow down the DOM. I don't know of any, and it would be significant.
If you're going to define "monopoly" and "platform" than the word monopoly loses all meaning. If I create a business making 3rd-party wire harnesses for VW Passat and VW decides to change to a different harness and that change would kill my business, should there be some regulatory body that can force VW to stick to its old tech?
The Niche Market Software Squeeze
To avoid duplicating too much information, the second part of this reply[1] provides reasons why don't feel this is necessarily a good argument.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083312
Wanted to use it with Google Analytics for a kind of recommendation engine of the form "users that liked this page also liked...". But they never approved my request and a 60k request limit won't cut it either.
It doesn't matter to me whether he desire wealth to put it under the mattress or to buy hookers, as long as he makes a good profit and is hungry for more.

That said, you may be right about the size problem.
I love to see an A/B test of the spammy look vs polished minimalism
I think you should emphasize The Four Hour Body link more, because it's confusing what a PAGG stack is. That being said, be careful to put a disclaimer that the site isn't affiliated with the author/publisher.
Have you contacted Tim Ferriss himself? One blog post from him will probably get you more business than any amount of SEO or tweeting? Even if you can't get that, you could probably get some good advice since he's been in this business for a long time.
I found that, FOR ME, the most commonly requested feature only affects my lowest common denominator of users.

It seems that the most requested feature on my primary app is a very "social" feature, meaning only the most "social" people were requesting it.

A competitor came out that STARTED with the social feature and it appears that very few people use it.

Not that the feature is off the table, but I didn't let users determine what goes to the top of the list. I've learned which features create more customers, and I'm sticking with that for now.
I think the question of whether Apple's AppStore constitutes a monopoly is a grey area.

Not even close to a grey area unless you want to argue that Nike has a monopoly on athletic shoes that have the Nike 'swoosh.'

To this, I would offer the counter-argument that prior investment (time/money/effort) encourages developers and customers to stick with (and put up with) most rules Apple decides to enforce. Choice is (theoretically) available, but many developers and users will be placed in a situation where there they aren't.

How is that different from pretty much every other market where some business decides to create a product that relies on another business' product?
The 11 rules of the HP Garage (where all began)
Great, I know it may not be possible for you to reveal here, but if you are OK with it may I ask what sort of margins such these dropshipping arrangements offer?
The design looks great; not spammy at all.

At a glance, I was confused by the table near the bottom. The large heading says "What does the PAGG stack consist of?" and the following paragraph is in a low contrast/small font, so I jumped almost directly from the heading to the table. That gave me the impression that the table was describing what you were selling (i.e. 7 bottles for $92 instead of $111), which isn't the intended effect.

An H2 more in line with the rest of the section or a prominent table caption might be a good idea.

Also keep in mind that the largest group of people buying supplements (at least in the US) have aging eyeballs. The size and low-contrast of your P text is going to be challenging for many of them.
I really like your live chat(got to talk with you directly :-) ). Also, I mentioned with you that you should try reddit.com to advertise but don't be too corporate. Looks GREAT!
Answering questions on the iPad before I go to sleep is a bad idea. My apologies on the misspellings.
Buffett's most favorite founder - The Incredible Rose Blumkin
Will execute these suggestions when I wake up tomorrow morning.
The concern isn't as much over user data with embedded device breaches - it's more likely that they're hijacked to the point that the TV could breach security on a network (plenty of TV's in corporate situations) or participate in a botnet/etc.
While I don't like the industry or the product, the site looks very good, and very reputable. If I was into that kind of stuff I wouldnt hesitate to order from that site.

Out of curiosity, since you're selling a supplement, do you have to carry some kind of liability insurance?

I would contact Timothy ferris, he might give you some free publicity, since this is essentially what he did with brainquicken.
The scenario you're describing is exactly what we focus on. Ultimately, there are three different ways we "spend" money. There's how we want to spend money, there's how we think we spend money, and there's how we actually spend money. A good expense tracking / budgeting tool is going to bring all three of those circles into alignment. Also, our opinion is that the tool shouldn't be too complicated. Most people only need 1% of the options Quicken gives you. I have more opinions on it, but I won't flood HN with them right now.

I probably won't be checking this thread super-often, so if you (or anyone) have any questions, or if there's a specific feature that you need to have available in a budgeting app, ping me on Twitter.
Will definitely take you up on your offer to help write it! I lurk reddit but would probably fail at writing!
James Gosling on in memory databases: RAM is my friend
UPS turned a profit of $3.126 billion last year. FedEx made $1.321 billion. UPS has higher profit margins than FedEx as well.
> because of some sicko's fantasy.

No, he suffered through a hell-filled life because of some sicko's _actions_.
Startups should spend energy on thngs that matter, not email.
I attended the last one in November. It was good to catch up with like minded folks over there. Also, listening to the way other folks are tackling their startup challenges is an inspiration in itself.

http://groups.google.com/group/delhi-hn-meetup/browse_thread...
I'm only dropshipping, so I imagine it would be like buying Panadol at Walmart, you would be suing Panadol, not Walmart. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
He discusses real estate in a separate chapter, but what he says is interesting:

"Real estate isn't an essential investment for a Permanent Portfolio. Real estate offers no profit or protection to a portfolio that can't be achieved more easily with stocks and gold."

He then accepts the reality that many readers have invested or wish to invest in real estate, and goes on to talk about it at length.

Clearly real estate can produce high income and gains for those who have the capital to buy property and the time and money to manage it, but I do see his point.
The Mac App Store Launched Now to Keep iOS Devs with Apple
Open Source means that this is a collaborative work where anyone can do what he wants with his copyright.
I'm using www.pearbudget.com, I just upgraded to their paid account recently. It is simple enough not to be a hassle, and its tags system allows me and my boyfriend to track our expenses together, knowing how much either of us spent separately. I can recommend it.
Former enlisted Army. Most of my friends with officer experience are still in. They are superb leaders. They're Marines and Army. I wonder if Air Force and Navy are having problems, because I don't hear too much about them -- the ones I do know left to go to school.

I would argue that the ongoing wars have forged some great officers and have exposed many more as being frauds (see most of the last joint chiefs of staff). I'm kind of happy that Gates just announced he'd push out 100 out of 900 top officers. Definitely need to cut out some of the deadwood.

I don't think the Army is damaged -- why would you say that?
Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, July 1st (1946)
IBM got their mojo back several times, yet the founders are rotting in the ground and would probably cause a panic if they came back.
Poll: What do you think of Bem's 'Feeling the Future' Experiment?
Bem's Article: http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf

One of the many HN discussions on the topic: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068105

In a nutshell:

One of the most respected, senior and widely published professors of
psychology, Daryl Bem of Cornell, has just published an article that
suggests that people — ordinary people — can be altered by
experiences they haven't had yet. Time, he suggests, is leaking. The
Future has slipped, unannounced, into the Present. And he thinks he
can prove it.[1]

[1] - Could It Be? Spooky Experiments That 'See' The Future - NPR
I believe in ESP
I don't believe in ESP and I think Bem's paper is a waste of time
I don't believe in ESP, but I think we can learn something from Bem's paper
Well... I went for around 30% but I researched and decided that that was not nearly good enough, and went for closer to 60% due to their high profit margins.

This will allow me to market it more affectively.
Ask HN: Is Twitter ever planning to open up dead Twitter account handles?
Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
The world is changing; I believe that as we become more dependent on digital technologies, new legal frameworks need to be discussed and evolved.

It's not the same as in IP-marketplaces, or any other kind of marketplace for that matter. As long as they are not violating any law, the government should not try to regulate them, it doesn't matter how invested society is in it.

But why? - this is an opinion, not a fact.

Apple is acting as a self-governing private regulator of a marketplace - digital technologies have allowed this situation to become viable .. in the past markets have been inherently more 'free' due to their non-digital nature.
Wow, what a one sided piece. the flops from google: "Buzz, Wave, Google TV, and the Nexus One". As Paul Buchheit points out,

"They take big risks. People often point to projects such as Wave as evidence that Google has "lost its magic" or something. To me, it's evidence that they are still willing to take risks on new ideas and new ways of doing things (Wave was run as a completely autonomous project in Australia). If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either. Obviously, if everything you do fails, that's not good either, but there's a sweet-spot somewhere in the middle. Google has enough big successes, such as Chrome and Android, to show that they are somewhere near that sweet-spot"

It's not that google doesn't have problems, but with every possible negative issue piled on in such a one sided manner, it seems more FUD than any sort of earnest critique.
Will add that now. Thanks for the reminder.
How quickly the media turns.

Looking at how much effort Google is putting in mobile, and how much success they're having, I'm not sure their mojo has gone anywhere. [1][2] It's easy to concentrate on the failures, and overlook the successes.

Sure, they've had a few flops lately, but that's an inevitable result of a company that is trying hard to innovate.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/13/google-mobile-searches-grew...

[2] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375411,00.asp
No wonder Loopt got left in the dust.
2 people with DBMS and 1 person with social media experience would be suitable for a project that analyzes Tweets using Streaming API. There's more data than you can make use, getting pumped out of Twitter every second.
Do you really need the word "hack" in the slogan? Seems like it would confuse the majority of people who may be unaware of its meaning in that context?

"Short-cut to the Ultimate Body" seems sufficient.
Yes, you're correct, thanks for enlightening me.
I'm afraid I'm not even going to try the spammy look. I can't do that. Supplements is a stretch for me.
This is basically advising you to create small pure HTML pages without any JavaScript circa 1995. Just try it on Google Documents, the whole screen turns red. Deeply nested HTML Elements, lots of DOM elements are problematic?

I guess we shouldn't make fancy web pages, full desktop apps in the browser as browsers can't handle it. ^_
Real estate brokers won't share location? Google Earth to the rescue.
Down vote all you want, but it goes to show how we treat people with mental illness. Hey, someone has it worse than you, so suck it up.

Well let's disprove this path mathematically. YC would like that. I will prove by contradiction.

1. maxklein's assertion is that someone has it worse than you so you shouldn't kill yourself.

2. That means the person with the worst life in the world CAN kill himself.

3. Following that, the new worst life person can kill himself.

4. Then a new person. This can continue until one person is left on the earth. Does he kill himself?

There are different ways life can be bad. Living in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Congo is perhaps one way.
Looks great, very clear but I have a few nitpicks:

- On first visiting the site, "no items in Cart" just kind of floats there on the right. I have no interest in having a cart at that moment, so just hide that text until there is something to display.

- Don't start chatting with me immediatelly, it's kind of disconcerting (Though it was nice talking to you. Stick to two minutes waiting time or wait for them to engage you ;)

- It seems very much geared to technology minded people, with detailed comparison on costs, # of pills etc. Not everyone has read 4HB, so give us the cliffs note so we know what these pills are for.

- I think the two main buttons switching to each others color on hover is kind of ugly, and I'd use a third color on hover for both.

In any case, good idea, good website. I hope it's a success for you!
I wish to join the author, but I want to know about readers from Crimea, Ukraine.
... because using codemonkey to mess around with webpages is an easter egg. You're completely missing the point. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)
>This shouldn't be just a normal warn. 100+ script tags should be a major warning.

How do you think JSONP works? Why is this bad?
Really smart site design. Looks really professional.

Perhaps remove any doubt about spamminess (a word?!) by putting a telephone number for people to ring. Might increase conversions slightly.
Fixed the cart. Will look into the others in the morning :-)
"Can Google Get It's Mojo Back?"

Loaded question, whether you answer yes or no, you admit that Google lost its Mojo. When did you stop beating your wife by the way?
Unfortunately, being in Australia, opposite timezones, and prices, wouldn't really work.
Correct me if I am wrong: do you pocket $55.2 (60% of $92) for every sale you make? That is way higher than I imagined!
"I define it as fiction that explores questions raised by developments in science and technology."

Yup. A lot of people think that SciFi is about technology - but it's not. It's about people, and how they can react to said technology.
Yadig.com is valuable for general users and businesses alike.
Yadig.com is a globally crowdsourced, opinion based website fused with social networking that helps you find the best (and worst) places near you and allows you to read and write real-time reviews on places, while staying connected to your friends like you do on a social network.
You need it badly. People who know what it is will pass the link to people who don't know what it is.

Without better info, you growth will suffer badly.
So, as you see it, my roll in society is to work hard so that I will have money that the government can then take by force?

How 'bout the charity work I do, or the two homeless guys I got off the street and got jobs, or the orphanage on Kat Island I supported with groceries, or the goat and 2 chickens I sent this Christmas, or the tithes I donate that go to benevolence, or the family that lived with me for six months (a mother and her four daughters in our three bedroom house)? (And I mean it all and could share more!)

Do you have any idea how much more I could help if the government would stop giving me 'welfare'?

And since no matter whether they take my money or let me keep my money you'll still call it 'welfare' I guess everyone is on 'welfare' too, huh?

But the thing that gets me is that I am supposed to thank my government for letting me keep what is my personal property to begin with. Or do you not believe in personal property either? (Or are we only supposed to call 10% of our money personal and the rest is the government's and that's why I should call them letting me keep it 'welfare'?)
Stamp Scrip: Money People Paid to Use
I would make 2 most important words "losing weight" more obvious.
OpenStack guys are pretty awesome. We've had some of those guys come by at the Cloudkick office. I have big hopes for this project. :)
Let it go to voicemail. People won't actually call; only the presence of a phone should increase conversions.
Winner of Big Boss 4
I'm pretty sure that if Walmart sold something which was dangerous they would end up being sued along with the manufacturer; not saying that it is dangerous, just that you might have some liability. I am, however, not a lawyer, and the best advice I can give is to find a lawyer and talk to them about it. Don't put it off, because even if there are no potential legal issues you are probably much, much better off knowing that for sure instead of guessing.
Structured Settlement Investments
The article is very critical of Rémi Denis-Courmont, but isn't it Apple's own fault in the end? They're the ones who decided to make the App Store license incompatible with the GPL.
from the article...

the data is compelling

...

Even their money fount, AdWords, is problematic. An
illustrative anecdote: I ...did this and that...

...

While I can’t quantify this, I’m confident that most engineers will agree:

the article claims to argue from data, but presents no actual data: simply anecdotes. c.f., http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011...
Writing off Google TV is probably like writing off the T-Mobile G1. For god's sake they haven't even brought the Android Market and SDK to it yet (originally scheduled for sometime in H1,2011).
Its looks like a nice idea, i like it.
Simple solution: change fees on a sliding scale based on number of applications per year. The little guys who might file for one patent in their lifetime won't be affected. The IBMs won't be affected, because they expect an actual return on those patents. The shotgun-approach patent trolls will be affected, especially if frivolous patents are rejected.
I fully understood the point. It was merely a suggestion. I'll give you a second to unbunch those panties.
There are 3 groups of developers here.

A) The ones who ported VLC and posted it on the App Store.
B) The ones who complained about the terms of the App Store.
C) The ones who are complaining now.

I'm sure there is some overlap, but I don't see how you can criticize members of group C who are not in group B.
And the problem is that trusting Google now with your data is implicitly trusting future Google with your data. Once they start to do evil, you can't just pull the plug and walk away, taking your data with you.
Feds subpoena Twitter seeking info on ex-WikiLeaks volunteer
Yet another reason I feel that Google TV, Apple TV, Microsoft TV, Roku (any others?) (not necessarily in that order) have a bright future.

For TV manufacturers, the software side of things is an "annoyance project" from a cultural as well as sales perspective. They have throw in some software to check off boxes in reviewers' checklists, but good software is expensive to design and develop, and something whose real value is apparent in daily use. Not in the "wall of TVs" at a big box store where all TVs running the same demo loop.

My TV's interface for viewing photos from a USB disk is appallingly bad. And I don't see the TV guys fixing this problem anytime soon: it's just not in their DNA.

I predict that branded third-party OS's will be common on TV's in three years (if not sooner).

Another example along similar lines is the firmware on digital cameras. One feature I would like is for my camera to take two pictures. In the second version, the image areas it used to infer aperture+exposure settings, and the focus points should be marked with rectangles etc. I've often noticed that an image that looks sharp on the LCD is not properly focused when seen on a big monitor. Such a setting would help me improve my skill.
And it should be downvoted now, before we devolve into a community where the first dozen comments are people being (or most likely: trying to be) funny.
Google is in serious decline.

I didn't bother reading past that. Just scanned down a bit. Total, utter dreck. Does anyone here take these fluff pieces by TechCrunch seriously?

A more appropriate question on HN would be, "Can TechCrunch Get Its Mojo Back?" The quality of stories has decreased dramatically, and I've dropped them from my RSS feed. I don't think this has much to do with AOL-- the rot had already set in well before that-- but I don't think it will help the quality come back.
Yes, both of these scenarios are what we hope, especially the latter since I don't envision the USPTO to just stop software patents without such catalyst. But as you know, obtaining patents to open to public domain isn't the norm. I would guess that change of leadership (or even change of heart of the leader) to ones who don't believe in the original defensive intent of the patent happens more frequently.
Good point, the article's main focus was over user data but that would be bad as well. I guess I felt like if your corporate DNS is hijacked, TVs are the least of your worries. Hackers could use exploits such as Evilgrade to take over computers.
Chemist Discovers a Non-Prank Use for Banana Peels
It's a generic form in the example, so he used a generic submit button.

Without context, how are you supposed to say what the 'submit' button should be changed to?
What kind of weak bullshit is that?!

Dismissing products that didn't have immediate traction as failures instead of recognising them as innovative attempts and experiments.

Characterising a few wildly over-echoed departures as brain-drain (too many outlets are trying to push that narrative) and ignoring the fact that they have their largest payroll yet, they bought like 30 startups last year I bet there is some talent there.

Also characterising chatter in code pages as a problem instead of community engagement. The App Engine team just released a major update merely a few weeks ago.

This distortion field these ‘reporters’ seem to encounter whenever they write about Google is astonishing, and I fear there are some alterior motives behind all this.

Edit: Also to contrast the nonsense (I am quite annoyed by it) with data:

Google Mobile Strategy Playing Out Almost Flawlessly: Ads Growing, Android Beating iPhone
http://searchengineland.com/google-mobile-strategy-playing-o...
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