skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every survey that asks "Would you pay for..." is flawed. I would pay for many things but I am not paying for them. The best way to really get some data is to set up a sales page, put your price there and count the clicks on the Buy Now button. Use Adwords or whatever to drive the traffic. This works much better than surveys.
Cool idea, but the words "minimal viable product" usually aren't followed up by "As a result, we can have a photo grow a picture frame as you pick it up, and then flip it around to show a person's full profile. This careful choreography involves animating about a dozen CSS properties, including borders, shadows, margins and 3D transforms, all with custom expressions and hand-tuned animation curves. Similar transitions are used for lightbox dialogs".
Saved stories limitation?
It seems to me that you can't save more than 75 stories on a hacker news account. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Now that I think about it, that might break a few sortFunction(a,b) {//do stuff with a and b} type functions of mine...
It's 8-bit color; 8 bits per pixel for 256 colors. Nothing to do with the CPU.
Lustig is screaming "the sky is falling!"

Are you on a sugar high?

The sky's fat ass is falling! Dude, never in my life did I see fat people like the ones I've seen in US, and bear in mind, I'm in California. The median is pretty fit, but there are some heavy, heavy tails on that bell curve.
You could use with(){} in js so you don't have to pollute your global namespace and still have pretty code.
a16z would be giving a lot of money towards capturing Kony if you did that.
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I would say the problem could also be treated with less regulation, or to be more accurate, less litigation. Amounts to the same thing in the end, I suppose.

You could fix a lot of the damage by switching insurance from a gambling basis to a contractual basis. Health insurance would be a contract between an individual and a corporation wherein the individual pays little to nothing if he remains healthy, but enters into a mortgage based on the cost of the healthcare should he require it. The maximum value of the mortgage could be assessed by the insurance company similarly to assessments for premiums, and related to the individual's total income, savings, and property. Paying a traditional monthly premium would boost the person's maximum mortgage.

The current system operates counter to both private and public paradigms, as it does not encourage consumers to seek the best value for their money nor eliminate the pursuit of profit by service providers. It is a MASSIVE example of the prisoner's dilemma, where each agent is motivated toward actions detrimental to the structure as a whole.
Well i'd suggest you improve the Read Me.

Auto-including jQuery and 960.gs is a handy wee process, but you should explain why you created the script, what you think the script accomplishes, where it should be used and how your going to improve it.

Welcome to HN btw.
What motivates users to add/create contents in your web service (UGC)?
There are a lot of CGM out there, including Dribbble, Yelp, Facebook, Hacker News, and others.

What I am curious about CGM is that what motivates users to share/add/create/etc. contents within the web service.

CGM usually consists of content generator and content consumer, and it is a Chicken-and-Egg problem to start a new CGM.
You need contents to bring in traffic, but you also need traffic for content makers to keep adding new contents.

What are content makers' motivation?
Why would they add contents to your CGM?
What are some of strategies to motivates users to create contents?

It would be great if you can share your thoughts and insights :)!
Very cool, now could anyone recommend a good read about this technique and how it is/was used?
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Unix is not all-terrible though. It also has quite a few very sane ideas such as combining simple commands into pipelines and "everything is a file descriptor".

I do agree that zero-terminated strings are the worst idea ever. It's almost impossible to use them in a secure and performant way (at the least it requires a lot of extra thinking). Alternative string libraries such as bstring make string handling in C sane, but unfortunately the default C strings mean a lot of people still use char* and str(l)cpy/str(l)cat/strlen/...

The worst thing is that many are religiously convinced that it is a good idea just because it's the UNIX and C way (TM). It's so deeply ingrained.
What does CGM stand for?
My wife and I did the same and she lost 40 pounds in nine months. I happen to notice that our appetite grew smaller during the period possibly explaining the weight loss. I have good data on this because we eat pancakes every sunday.
I always cook the same amount since i use the whole buttermilk carton. Over time we went from eating 9 pancakes to eating 6 of the twelve I make. Also I cook 250g of pasta for us (including our two year old). We used to often eat it up. Now we always have leftovers. My daughters food intake has increased from one to two years old increasing the effect.
Just google Jack Houck, you'll find plenty.

Funny anecdote - I honestly tried to use his method of 'feeling the metal get soft and then quickly use this moment to bend the spoon'. I didn't feel anything, so after seeing everyone around me get into some kind of ecstasy, I decided to actually bend the spoon to get an idea of how hard it was. It wasn't hard at all! (Just get some low quality, cheap spoons and forks, they're very easy to bend.) Now, when Jack Houck came around, I showed him my spoon with a sad face and told him it hadn't worked for me, and I had just 'used my muscles' to bend it. He took a few moments to examine it, then proclaimed that he could see in the metal that it had actually melted, that there were features inconsistent with 'cold bending' and that I had very great mindpower but just didn't realize it.

The crowd at this party was very much into new age stuff, crystal healing and all that. In fact, Jack Houck was doing a seminar the next day to teach people healing powers using the same 'energy' that was used to bend spoons, which he had come to consider as a party trick of little interest compared to the healing powers.
Disagree. Users are most vulnerable when they are bored, staring at their feed for last 5 minutes and with nothing else to do or look at, not when they are actively engaged with a specific intent. That's when the ad gets in the way.
What bothers me about it is the claim "the one thing every entrepreneur should do". That's ridiculous hyperbole. To be accurate it should say "one more addition to your massive tool belt of lean startup methodologies". I could see some instances where this type of tool could be useful, but on the other hand maybe sitting down with one potential customer for 20 mins in a coffee shop could give you more insightful information.
CGM stands for Consumer Generated Media :)!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-generated_content
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The system does sound incredibly frustrating. It definitely needs some fixing.

But some of what the author mentions are sensible and reasonable restrictions.

> I can't breathe at night -- it's not being fat, although I am, it's that for some reason the muscle tone in my neck sucks.

How does he know? Losing weight is effective for many people with OSA.

NICE[2] have guidance for OSA and CPAP which specifically mentions obesity and the need for lifestyle changes before CPAP is used.

(http://publications.nice.org.uk/continuous-positive-airway-p...)

> You'd think sticking a mask on your face would be fairly simple to learn

The mask has to push air down an obstructed airway. Obviously it has to fit correctly. As for masks being easy to fit - see almost any facemask and check for the nose strips.[1]

> So I went to the doc and told him my problem. Told him I needed a CPAP

Imagine you're a doctor. You pay millions for liability insurance. Some guy turns up and self diagnoses his illness. Do you accept that diagnosis? Or do you follow recommended procedure for that illness? (I accept that the recommended procedure is broken because of insurance).

> My wife and I have been observing the symptoms for years, we're done the research, and now it is time for action.

See, for example, Morgellons or Chronic Fatigue or Myalgic Encephalitis or MMR vaccinations where people have spent years doing the research and have arrived at very wrong conclusions and want useless, or harmful, medical interventions.

[1] correct: (http://www.molnlycke.com/us/Surgical-Products/Product-Select...) {stupid image, sorry)

incorrect: (http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/101522/enlarge)

[2] NICE is the organisation in the UK that assesses cost effectiveness of treatment options. It's important not to waste money on ineffective treatments; it's important to use a cheap treatment if it's as effective as an expensive treatment.
From the list here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGM
- I'd suggest "Consumer Generated Media."
Looks great! Any chance that this will become available to accounts without Premium support in the future?
OK, so now we have DoS and CoS!

I dunno though, it's all technically bandwidth flood in the end. The consequences (or goals) of flood may include immediate or eventual denial of service, high cost of service, various security attacks, or probably all at once—further classification surely is complicated.

Meanwhile, both terms DoS and CoS are a bit vague, too. Say, turning off a server or forcing providers to alter their DNS records more or less qualifies as denial of service attack (which, by Wikipedia's definition, is “an attempt to make a computer or network resource unavailable to its intended users”).
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The magic is a balanced equation. Either the consumers and producers are both capitalists and strive to create the best value per dollar, or the profit has to be taken out of the equation with public healthcare, with the best value per tax dollar being dependent on the good will of the bureaucracy. Right now, we have an unbalanced equation where producers strive for the most profit and the least liability, and insured consumers have absolutely no reason to even pay attention to how much money their insurance company pays in exchange for treatment, the quality of which the consumer feels is almost totally out of their control.

Put the power, and the responsibility, back into the hands of patients who until now had no reason to care, and you will see a vast, rapid improvement in the state of healthcare.
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This is exactly what I do. Knock up a landing page, and stick up an Adwords campaign.

Its a great way to find and engage some initial customers, who will be able to help you shape your product as it develops. Also gives you a great idea on how much it will cost you to acquire customers, and gets you a web presence nice and early.

Oh- and I always talk to my other half about it- she's a complete non-techy so always has a different angle on things, which can be really useful.

I've written out the details steps I use here: http://blog.crispyfriedsoftware.com/post/19774815792/6-steps...
Interesting, I too kind of believe that print statements are better than debuggers, but I always thought that was an irrational belief on my part. (Like, I often don't have a decent debugger available, so never got much experience using them.) What are your reasons?
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Thanks for the responses.

You've been fortunate that you could utilise a tangible and working prototype to gain customer insight. Congrats on building this into a business.

Other approaches (like lean) encourage you to first evaluate your idea/concept before building a prototype. When a concept has some good potential then going straight to prototype can work. Its having this confidence that has worked for you.
Can a Java app look and work this good?
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At the time we were looking at a 2 gb commit...

$4 a meg sounds really expensive, at that point it is almost worth it going up, have room for future expansion and pay less for it, or do you do, and split the BW and cost.
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Exactly. It is especially odd considering that not adding extra sugar to ones diet quickly makes lots of things taste sweet that one formerly hasn't thought of sweet. Fruit is now about as sweet to me as cake used to be and candy or cake I cannot eat anymore. Fast food also tastes more disgusting since the added sugar is too prominent for me.
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Increase the number of saved stories one can save. For some reason I can only save 75 stories on this account, all of the ones I have saved for the last month or so never got recognized on my account.
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Ah, I knew it by its old name of User-Generated Content.
its not about irrelevant, its about changing mindsets and acceptance.
If Steam can work out of statically compiled binaries, why not use it throughout ? (that's not a question, but a thought)
Multimonitor support is VERY,VERY important for a gaming application. So is HDMI. Some games autoscale when they detect a HDMI connection - will you particular distro be able to do that ? If not, then I will switch to a distro that will.

The point is that there is nothing implicitly wrong with Linux as a technology - there is something lacking in individual distros who seem more fixated on IM frameworks than networking/sound/audio/peripherals. For Steam, these are paramount - and this will influence distros.
I had the luck to understand this very early (being 17 years old).
I've gone to math and physics competitions, and while I had good results I could see that there are the top level guys who are above my level: there is no point in directly competing with them. So I thought I should do something different and I became a programmer.
Nowadays I also see this in programming. There are markets where competition amongst smart people is too high. Too much smart people want to work for the most famous companies, too much smart people create programming languages and frameworks, too much smart people want to start their indie game studios, too much extremely smart people wanted to win the Netflix prize... While I love these topics, so I sometimes compete in these very competitive markets, I know that it is/(would be) wiser to do someting different where competition/(expected value) ratio is not so high.
Functionality is minimal, execution is polished. It's not so much a contradiction, just a separation of concerns.

And you could argue that in a crowded market, polished execution is in fact required to be viable.
Ask HN - Startup founders, what keeps you motivated?
What keeps you going? Hobbies? Sports? Music? Food? Art? Books? Meditation? Hiking? Biking?

How do you unwind and come back to your senses for the next days work?

---

For me, I have very productive few weeks and a few other weeks of slacking off.

I focus on my consulting / freelancing work when I'm not having a productive startup week.

I'd like to be more consistent.
Kerckhoffs's principle: A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.

So you can assume the algo is public and the salt too (assume someone has a dump of your source code and your database - how do you keep the salt secret? You can't. This is the case where all the effort to protect passwords and use strong hashes is aimed at.)

The solution of "enter your old password" when you enter the new one is simple and doesn't compromise security.
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Except there are laws specifically designed to stop people jailbreaking some devices.

See WIPO treaty and the DMCA as examples.
This is a Java app, well done. Could you let us know what web framework you used if any and on what it is deployed (Tomcat, ....)
Landing pages may capture email addresses and gauge some level of interest. However they don't properly validate your offering.

Ash Maurya (lean cannas) writes about landing pages but also the importance of doing your market research.

Http://www.ashmaurya.com/
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Now that Google Drive is out, what's Dropbox's differentiator? Google seems to be offering more space, possible better integration, tie ups with Google Docs (both online and offline) and possibly more speed.

It is possible Dropbox is prepared for this? What kind of plan could they carry out to stay in the race?
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Well, I guess they didn't quite land it.

Something tells me that NASA had a team devoted to watching Luna 15 as it orbited and watching out for funny business. Imagine the disaster that could have occurred if the Soviets had decided to use the probe to interfere with Apollo 11.

Of course, judging from the fates of later Luna missions, I doubt they could have pulled that off anyway.
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By promotional I think we're talking about "selling a product", so when I write a post like this say: http://blog.intercom.io/retention-cohorts-and-visualisations... there is no "Buy now" proposition, it's just me explaining something that I've invested considerable time into researching.

I think everyone wins when this happens.
No.

Using 94 possible characters for an 8 character password means there are 6.09568939 × 10^15 possible passwords. Removing even 20million means you still have 6.09568937 × 10^15.
If you have a demo on how it works it would be great
Wired's fake McLuhan interview from many moons ago:

What's your take on media juggernauts like Microsoft? Should it be allowed to stranglehold electronic media?

We fear that the owners of the monopoly will crush us, but this never happens. In a flash, the monopolist's products appear out of date, and competition in that particular industry becomes irrelevant because the whole basis of moneymaking has shifted to a new area. As the pace of technological change speeds up, shifts in economic power increasingly seem like magical flipflops produced by luck. The old logic of monopoly - centralized stranglehold - no longer works. The attention of consumers can shift instantly and make the most profound investments obsolete in just a few years, soon to be sped up even further. We will see economic empires crash within hours, and new ones arise just as quickly. _The task of the economic manager now is to try to hold monopolies in place just long enough for economic transactions to occur._ The capitalist understands that to improve competition, he must encourage monopolies.

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Over the last few weeks I've been setting up a personal linux server. Every single process I add has a different configuration. Systems like Postfix have nice things like "this combination of variable settings produces this behavior, but if you change one yes to a no you get something totally different".
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> That is why strong government regulation for health care is a good idea.

More like this?

>> "I can't tell you how to configure your machine or how to get data from it," the guy told me, "the FDA strictly forbids me from telling you the details of how to operate the machine except as a user"

You might well be right on a larger scale, but for this issue, the problem is the heavy regulation which is keeping a competitive market from giving patients what they want.

Also, it's not like anyone ever had to jump through hoops inside of hoops in public health care systems. The hoops just doesn't say "$2000 per jump" on them.
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Would it be possible to reverse-engineer such a device?

I have been messing with some stepper motor drivers, that had at least a few pages of spanish or incorrect documentation, or a very simple circuit, however, I wonder what you do when there is no documentation. How do you learn reverse-engeneering?
Some books in the "survival guide" genre cover things like setting broken bones, basic stitches, biro tracheotomy, etc.

I did once come across a "how to amputate your own leg" in a mountaineering magazine, but I'm pretty sure it was satirical: http://bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/tac/tac50/advertis.htm
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