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Much like Microsoft has with the Mac Operating system

This is a really good point. As far back as 1996[1], Steve Jobs was saying Apple couldn't win by being a little better than Microsoft/Dell. They had to be 10 times better.

The original Google was one of those 10x improvements over the status quo. +1 seems very me-too.

If I were Google, I would try to buy Github. They are quietly creating a new kind of social network around code and hacker culture. Google is much better at code than social, and with Github they can do certain things 10x better than Facebook.

[1] This interview of Jobs by Terry Gross is remarkable.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141115121/steve-jobs-computer-...
The consumer Internet was still a very new thing and he correctly described where it was going and what Apple might do if he were at the helm (he had not rejoined Apple yet).
And just as a disclaimer, I am no stooge trying to make a buck nor a troll. I would link to some product page on FoxConn's website, but the price/ease-of-actually-buying is a big part of the reason why this is worthy of discussion. (Granted, the title is intentionally incendiary.)

The real question is: how fast are cheap computers with astonishing computing and gfx capabilities going to overrun society? And what will the results be?
This is a dumb example. Should have used a root finder. C sucks with those.
Totally agree, and we're excited to bring it to them. Let us know if you have any feedback on the product.
Well... there's no email to hit you up by on your profile
The technology exists, so why aren't more companies manufacturing motors that don't require oil or electricity. Most of the machines we use can run on solar, magnetic, or some form of hydrogen power.
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I don't think that's such a huge problem, and I think it may even be preferable than the small party only having proportional power. The reason for that is that if they only had proportional power, small parties wouldn't be able to accomplish anything, ever.
Convince the general population that eSports are 1) an actual careeer and that 2) is a legitimate sport.
How does it benefit society that nobody besides Twitter can implement this fewature in any touch UI for the next 20 years?
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How does it benefit society that nobody besides Twitter can implement this feature in any touch UI for the next 15 years?
By using the buttons, 99dresses makes their system more fragile than necessary, and excludes people who could help build the community. Consider that most people won't need more than a few dresses worth of buttons. So someone who has 300 dresses has no incentive to upload them all to the site. Someone else has already pointed out that dresses need to be able to come out of the pool. Again that doesn't happen if money can't come back out. I might not even get to choose a dress I want if I'm worried that I won't be able to trade it again. The flow of dresses in and out is restricted, and that's not a good thing for the company.

Why not allow people to exchange buttons back for money, just at a lower rate?
Upvotes for being funny atleast.
When I'm in the grocery store, looking for an obscure item (cheese cloth is the one that made me think of this). Build me a mobile app to search and get info on where in the store the item is.
I know what you mean, but keep in mind the grass is always greener on the other side. It might sound idealistic now to be the bus driver but as a smart guy, which I assume you are, you will go insane doing something like that. You weren't meant to do that.

It sounds like you need more human connection, and for that I recommend time off as well as equal effort into personal relationships. Human interaction is one of the deepest needs for even introverts and I think that will go a long way in helping you discover who you are. After all, how much can you know about yourself when you are constantly focusing on other things?
>Looking at the prosecution history on the USPTO's PAIR, the patent was granted on the first try

Are you looking at the proper case number, because this application (20100199180 or 12/756,574) says it has not even been looked at yet: "Status:	Docketed New Case - Ready for Examination"
Why ate we still ok with resumes and degrees when we can instead have a full-breadth breakdown of skills and accomplishments?
How women's brain works?
A software that successfully generates correct Bluebook citations (for lawyers and law students - law students would pay at least $100 each to avoid doing this, there are software's out there, the problem is they don't give correct citations).
Substantially increased battery life. Seems to be one of the major factors holding back energy solutions and a true explosion of mobile device use.
Learn 2 and you'll be present-proof. Life's uncertain.
Build on the Sporcle app and make it head to head - Words with Friends for Sporcle.
probably 2.7 since 3 hasn't fully come out to all the world yet
There was a neat tangent on this subject when one of the more recent free online ML classes came up. Basically the free course is "ML for practitioners" and the Stanford-only course is "ML for researchers". The former group is less interested in advancing the state of the art and more interested in using known ML techniques to solve business problems.
Hatred leads to violence and war so if you could make a dent in the first, it might pay off in the long run. What about a an app like chatroulette (text only) that paired up people across the world from each other and translated text into their native language? It might be interesting to get to know someone from Iran and see their perspective on things.

Corruption - An anonymous whistle blower site would be interesting.
exactly what I came here to say.. What happened to all the virtual buttons? Whoever currently had a dress keeps it and those who didn't ended up with nothing? Or did she pay them out for their buttons?

'She says the site was so beloved in Australia that women still email her asking when it will be back up, “I’ve proven the model in Oz."'
If it was proven in Australia, why shut it down? Did she need to shut it down for investors to take a look? Is there some YC criteria that wont let you have a successful product already?
A mobile app to share resumes, so you don't have to carry paper resumes to jobs fairs (thought of it at the SxSW Tech Career Expo)
Rep. Jasn Chaffetz famously got into a big fight with TSA when he was asked to go through the millimeter wave scanner, having just previously embarked on a fight to get rid of them.
How to disrupt enterprise software? Even with all the startups coming up in cloud, enterprise sales is still largely relationship based and takes forver to close... How does one convert the long sales cycles to rapid close?
Ouch, that sounds uncomfortable.

I have no doubt the BBS world was full of creeps, and that could have been very discouraging to someone getting into computing. My point was that behavior was far more segmented away from mainstream society than (say) Reddit.
Anyone with ideas about how to solve the issues I proposed feel free to reach out to me to discuss.
Almost 500,000 people have watched a video of his creation. What is not meaningful about attracting the sort of crowd many artists dream of attracting? Technical aspects aside, what is not meaningful about entertaining 500,000 people?
Is it a print magazine or website? Website is less risky obviously. Going the print publication way will surely lead you to financial failure and starvation.

I say do it, but be okay with not having all the answers right now, but that other revenue opportunities related to your startup will likely manifest themselves.
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> It's about people, and the people are on Facebook.

Google arguably has more users than Facebook.

Google: 1 billion unique monthly visitors in June 2011 - http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/06/21/google-notches-one-bi...

Facebook: 850 million active monthly users in February 2012 - https://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-has-over-845-mi...
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I stopped using G+ because I hated their real name policy, and when I submitted my nickname that I use everywhere else on the internet they rejected it for no good reason. That was the last straw.

The one thing I've missed about not being on G+ is...nothing. Nothing of value was lost. Virtually no one I know uses it.
I had the same exact idea as you but unfortunately could not find the right technical co-founder. As some of the comments mentioned, most technical males do not get very excited when it comes to fashion :)

I think it can still be done though, so the best of luck to Nikki and all the other sites that are trying to solve this problem. It is a big market and someone is bound to find the right solution that will work for the masses.
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At the risk getting flamed to a crisp for even suggesting the language or the title, I'd recommend PHP for Dummies and the companion book, everyday projects in PHP, as a starting point for a completely new web developer.

It's highly digestible, covers many basic concepts (HTML, loops, control flow, variables, sessions, databases, oop), and has a number of good projects to walk through. While I've moved on to significantly more advanced topics (Python, functional programming), it took me a long way and laid a pretty solid foundation for the future. They actually went relatively deep in the details of how a website works.

BTW - I'd avoid ASP.Net for dummies. Relatively little code contained in that one...
check out udacity amazing for first time programmers, or khanacademy computer science section teachs python
On this note, as someone who just moved from Canada with a special-needs child, and let me tell you, the US is light-years ahead of Canada. You mentioned you are healthy, so I can only assume your experience is fairly limited. Myself, and mostly my wife, have experienced both of these systems (coming back to the US just last year), and she absolutely loves the American system. Having seen the results myself, I can't describe the Canadian system as anything better than outright child abuse.
An alternative to incarceration or a better experience while incarcerated. Something more humane, less costly or better yet, an alternative to the current prison system that has a net positive effect on society and the economy. Apparently, there's a lot of talent locked up - what a waste: http://www.quora.com/Prisons/What-are-some-aspects-of-incarc...
Well, it didn't hurt the project much to ship it first and worry about the name later. Also I remember reading somewhere that one of the creators was aware of the OCR engine but didn't anticipate it being a problem. So googling wouldn't have helped.

Here's the issue: https://github.com/square/crossfilter/issues/1
Yes, that's the key. If the media types are documented (like how browsers and developers understand HTML forms) then you don't need to document every single corner of the API. You can offer a good definition of the media types, and let the resources and links do the rest.
Thanks. And I will likely do that. Before I do and if I could borrow some more of your time: would using Parse qualify an app as containing encryption, in regards to the AppStore submission/guidelines?

See this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2135081/does-my-applicati...
quite amusing, without even the tiniest shred of confirmation bias...
I'll just leave this here in case anyone still cares...

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...
I use pinboard. However, I have to agree that there's a lot of room for improvement in this area. Some people tell me that Evernote also works well for this.
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Yeah, the view counter is a clear case where they've gone too far. People care about view counts and it seems like every other video I watch has people complaining in the comments about the view count being obviously wrong.
Fluid/continuous education. For the first two weeks of my junior year of high school, I was learning the same version of the scientific method in 3 classes. I learned it again in two different classes my senior year of high school.

I would like to see education that is based on a knowledge map so that a person never needs to learn something that they already know.
Eh... so, they just basically just wanted to get some VC money at any cost. Ok.
> Google has never fixed anything before.

OK, that was a quick read.

Another day, another attention seeking TC writer.
Solving a problem is often about finding the right approach / fudging the problem into something you can solve. And there is actually a disruptive solution to this: online shopping. Amazon has cheese cloth.
Don't look down on a project just because it is done with low-level tools. Building a scientific calculator from logic gates may not put you on the track for a career in web programming, but it's still an impressive display of what can be made into a very useful set of skills.
It also seems to have gained solid Node.js support.
Some of it, but it's offset by the cost. Women will lend each other dresses quite often. My sisters-in-law are regularly around at our place borrowing clothes and bags from my wife.
Make television and entertainment an on demand system - I don't need Lifetime, but want Longhorn Network and can't get it. I should be able to subscribe to channels one by one. Similarly, why doesn't someone with a track record of making quality entertainment (Mike Schur, Dan Harmon, Tina Fey) bypass networks and middlemen, make a show, sell ads on it, and deliver it through the internet
http://betabait.com/ sends their newsletter subscribers (early adopters) a daily email with a new beta invite to an internet startup or app. I am a very busy college student but it's the only email I actually skim through every day. I can't speak to the effectiveness completely since I don't have a smartphone and only use the web apps but, it seems to be built around a community of willing participants. Hope that helps.
When HN started?
Ok, so then I'll use Youtube as an example. The reason it became so popular was because it had TONS of copyrighted content on it in the beginning. I can remember back in my college days sitting and watching full episodes of South Park with my study group instead of doing homework. I could very easily have made the argument back then that Youtube was "built on piracy" (whatever that means).
I think what he meant was that the majority of people on social networks are 'socializing' on Facebook.
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Don't editorialize headlines.
From a branding point of view I like this name much better. It's much easier to communicate, two simple words with obvious spellings. If I say hey you should checkout Crossfilter, they can easily look that up. With Tesseract, not so much. Crossfilter is also suggestive of what it does, and the name helps to reinforce what it's for. Overall, very large improvement, imo.
I agree that some things are hard to come up with but easy in hindsight. A bit like NP-complete. An example is a work of art - a composition, a book (hard to write, easy to copy).

But, like pg controversially suggested, maybe if it can't easily be protected, it shouldn't be protected. I'm not sure I agree; but the practical problem is: how to protect such a thing?

The legal system (patents, copyright); withholding secret sauce (closed-source webapp); or component in a larger system that's harder to copy, because of technical difficulty, commitment/resources; network effects (many users; mindshare)... or my favourite, continuously improving it faster than the copiers (like Apple). Unfortunately, many things don't admit of improvement - they're "done" (as here); or copying is much faster than improving (as here).

You can do other things, like not target a technical audience that is able to copy it quickly (as here) - instead, target a mainstream audience, for whom the idea of copying it has no interest. A related, very dangerous, one is to stoke demand without satisfying it (as here) - this is one argument for serving every market (e.g. price point): not for maximizing profit or market-share, not even for being nice, but simply denying oxygen for a competitor to get a foothold (to mix metaphors).

Unfortunately, thinking about competition is quite machiavellian, and a long way from the work (and values) of actually creating something that's really cool. But if you want to live from creating, it's important. I dunno, it's a bit of a dilemma for me.
It's "barebones", meaning you need to purchase memory and storage too. And power consumption is going to be at least 10 watts, which is an order of magnitude more than the rPi. Still, if you are in need of more horsepower and/or need to run x86 binaries, this would be a great choice.
Not an extension, but I like http://pinboard.in/

It's just under $10 for life (of the company). Does what it says on the tin.

There are extensions, some official: http://pinboard.in/resources/

The only thing I miss is that my bookmarks no longer play in my firefox addressbar, but I've gotten used to it.

What I really like is that there's a duckduckgo bang code.

ctrl-k !pb term

gives you a list of all your bookmarks tagged with "term" followed by all the rest of your bookmarks that have "term" somewhere in the URL, title or description. Of course that works from any browser anywhere, as long as you're logged in to pinboard.

The extension on firefox works well enough, I assume on chrome also.
Free will, longer life span etc... :)

I would like an Android application that delays all notifications by a set amount a time.

So if I want to do an hour of work I could set it to an hour and it wouldn't notify me at all. After the hour is up, all the notifications appear as they normally would.
Thanks. Thats a great article: very inspiring.
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That's sort of the idea behind a project I've been tinkering with for a while called Mako[1]. It's an extremely simple VM that is essentially an idealized game console. I initially designed the system as a convenient way to play with compiler design (currently compilers for Forth, BASIC, FORTRAN and a BCPL-like language are available, in varying degrees of robustness), but having some limitations to work within has proven quite fun from a game development standpoint as well.

A few of my friends and I intend to roll a linux distro for the RaspberryPi which makes it into a physical "Mako game console", and in addition to playing games[2][3][4](etc) you'll be able to play with an interactive Forth prompt.[5]

[1]https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako
[2]http://i.imgur.com/IVNdt.png
[3]http://i.imgur.com/mJ1ZD.png
[4]http://i.imgur.com/XumXi.png
[5]http://i.imgur.com/gLknX.png
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An idea I've been mulling the past several weeks: Netflix for clothes. If you can make the econ. work it could be a killer concept.
The Raspberry Pi is 1/3 the cost, and at 3.5watts, the Raspberry Pi is far more efficient than the 150watt power supply on this thing.
Search - I'm even going to pay for it. Search for the damn terms I enter into a search field. The "app" may at most have a CSS style sheet, 1993 look. No Javascript, no images. Give me options to limit my search to date ranges, domains, urls, languages, etc.

HTTPS basic auth. No cookies, no tracking, no country detection, no redirect to see what I clicked, no guessing unless I add a flag in the search field.

There was a company once that provided something like this for "free". Then they turned to SHIT.
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Wow, this is one of the best aggregaters I've seen in terms of style and delivery. Nice touches with the color coded sections.

Do you aggregate this yourself or does it just crawl Google news?
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I would like to see our health care costs go down by an open source "health care menu" system being created - where people can enter, for example, "gastroscopy" into a field - tell where they got it, how long it took, how much it cost, and a theory as to WHY...and then an opportunity for other people to input their information on the healthcare costs...create an open market so lower cost providers will steal business from more expensive ones...and so we can actually LOOK at why a 30-minute procedure can POSSIBLY cost $3,000.
p = np? haha, just kidding. Actually, my issue is this: how do we get the average Joe to understand (formal) logic and probability (so that we can get people to understand the aspects of risk better)?
Anyone else deal with burnout at a corporate gig?
Hi HN!

Apologies if I come off a tad naive, but I am looking for advice from some more experienced in the community. I am very fresh out of college and holding a very safe developer job a medium sized company working on enterprise software. This job leaves me feeling like an incredibly small fish in a very large pond. My contributions to my team and company seem minimal at best. I don't feel like this is normal, and have had trouble dealing with bouts of burnout. I regularly work on side projects, and other outside apps that I find rewarding to the point where I get immediately wrapped up in whatever I'm creating. So for any HN'ers out there am I just suffering from "Whiny Youngster Syndrome", or could this be a legitimate cause to look for greener pastures?
Both hand-held & hands-free cell phones.
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Don't worry about it. Learn Python well and you will be future proof, at least as a developer.

I've got active projects in both code bases right now - although I prefer Python 2.7 because it has taken a while for the libraries and frameworks to move over to 3.0.

However, once you understand the core concepts behind Python, about 90% of the differences between the two become obvious and trivial to work around for most projects.

You should get some exposure to 3.x since Guido has indicated any significant new language features will be implemented in that branch and not back-ported to 2.7. They have also done a number of optimizations in the 3.x branch which may be of interest for certain projects.
I think it looks pretty cool, but I feel like outside of maybe some of the webcam games and at home applications they demo'd ...it might suffer from the "social awkwardness" (I don't know a better word) that comes w/ new stuff like this.

Siri was about my limit. I wouldn't be caught using these gestures in a public place, kind of like trying to take photos with your ipad.