skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While AznHisoka has a point there - find the best program as far as commissions go - there is more to it.

There is always a risk in affiliate marketing, and at this point I'd consider the major success differentiators to be 1) innovation and 2) risk mitigation. You can make a really innovative site and get lots of quality traffic, but you had better do your damnedest to mitigate your overall risk or you may find your source of revenue gone overnight.

You can mitigate risk by spreading your site out so that it covers many products, brokering custom deals, making your own community (FatWallet.com and Extrabux are great examples), or doing something really innovative in terms of functionality (HipMunk, Mint.com).

As an example of what can happen, we had an affiliate site running for the better part of 3 years on Google AdWords. We owned the top spots in a pretty significant vertical and made quite a lot of money. The client (the agency of record for the product) was super happy, we had exclusive terms and business was booming.

All was well until one day I get a call. The merchant decided to drop the agency and eliminate their entire affiliate program. It didn't matter that we generated them huge sales each month, that was it. Nothing we said could convince them otherwise.

That was it.
I like this. 'metro' is unnecessary jargon, a design language does not need to have a trademark name. Just referring to it as what it is makes a lot more sense.
Ha!

ANY app that has "login with Facebook" as their primary Auth is a complete show stopper for me.
Just making sure.
Unbiased media doesn't exist anymore (if it ever did).
I don't have to refute all of your points, because I never said you were wrong about everything, just that you mix truth, half-truth, lies, and outright fantasy to draw a tendentious picture that contributes practically nothing to the discussion.

I don't want to argue with you because it's unlikely either of us will gain from the experience. You will simply take it as an opportunity to continue flaming, which I will learn nothing from, and I will try to keep reiterating that you aren't contributing anything useful to the discussion, which you will ignore and respond to with even more useless flames.
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The distinction between terminating debate and passing legislation is disingenuous. You can't pass legislation without terminating debate. Which means that you can't pass legislation unless you have 60%.

And of course it is arbitrary. In the recent past, the threshold was 66%, not 60%. And in the distant past, Senate norms precluded this sort of arbitrary interference.

Finally, the idea that the 60% threshold leads to more debate is silly. Consider how many judicial nominations are delayed for months but then sail through with 80-100% votes.
Great idea, indeed. My first thought was to send weekly messages to my nieces.
The key here is that they are not introducing new technology. It's old school, and that appeals to local business quite a bit.
I'm not so sure. In most legislatures, if you have the numbers to move an unpopular amendment, you also have the numbers to defeat the original bill.
I've always said that I think the ideas/businesses of famous founders don't undergo enough scrutiny. As a complete nobody, I can vouch for the fact that I have been GRILLED by VCs and angels in meetings. Some of these meetings led us to realize flaws in our go-to-market strategy, and pointed out the customer acquisition obstacles.

I feel like famous founders often aren't asked these questions by VCs, they will just invest because of the name, and then they go down the wrong path, building a product that isn't completely necessary, without a true understanding of the market. I have literally been told by investors, when I asked why the invested in a certain product I thought was a dud, that "oh well the founders did ___ and I just bet on them figuring it out, even though I knew they were barking up the wrong tree."

Sometimes the scrutiny that can come with being a nobody is valuable.
I loved the suggestion They should condense it to the "W8" or "wait" UI. I wish I had thought of that! I know what I'll be referring to Win8 from now on. :-D
They should just tweak the spelling to Windows Metwo. Then they could market it as Windows Me 2.0.

I know that's a ridiculous, non-HN type of comment, but really it's no more ridiculous than someone confusing a software UI style with a retail store.
Katy's talk at DC20 has single-handedly rekindled my interest in robotics, Hacker Dojo, and vodka. Not necessarily in that order. She seems like a wicked awesome person, and given where she's worked before, she's obviously smart as hell...
I was curious so I took a quick look. Good indicators are:

1. Most of the code is error checking/handling. This isn't necessarily a good indicator in general, but for C code it is.

2. Consistent style.

3. Functions are static unless otherwise needed.

2 and 3 seem minor, but in my experience, 2 is indicative of someone who pays attention to details and 3 suggests that the person is an experienced C coder.
Yes, bias is very present in broadcast news, but it is somebofy elses bias, and it is usually stunningly obvious, which makes it largely less harmful. When you introduce your own bias in to the news you consume, it is easy to think that the whole world sees things the same way you do. No matter how shitty and biased tv news is, at least it is another perspective.
Comparing KHTML to Webkit in the year 2012, it seems like Apple has done a much better job than KDE of "fostering a proper open source eco-system"....
Ask PG: Is RFS3 "Things built on Twitter" still sensible to prioritise?
Given Twitter's capricious enforcement of its API Rules of the Road, their willingness to allegedly crib features from apps in their ecosystem, and increasingly misaligned incentives vis-a-vis 3rd party developers and users, how long is it before this RFS becomes inordinately risky for YC to specifically solicit?
While I agree with your basic argument, I think you’re overstating the case a little. As services like Google Web Fonts have become popular, several very good, free, and reasonably comprehensive font families have become available.

For example, the most popular sans on GWF is currently Open Sans, which does come in a wider range of weights and has italic and condensed versions available. Unlike this new font family from Adobe, Open Sans also renders well on Windows, including Windows XP and including all major browsers when used as a web font.
Look at the feasibility of making a version for parents specifically.

And charge 4.99 for it. I'll pay that for my kids without question. Make it so that if I have multiple kids, I swip to the side to get to the next kids panel. Make a teacher panel and a student panel. I need an ipad or multiple to give the lessons -- kid does lessons and then I review...

Seriously, youll make more money enalbing this than trying to sell to schools.

Partner with whomever appropriate to get rev support... build it beautiful and maybe Khan will buy in...

This space NEEDS disruption!

(Imagine this app being used to disrupt schooling in 2nd and 3rd world as well)

Lots of possibility.
You're not telling hard truths. You're just embarrassing.
It is indeed much harder than ever before.

SEO is something I consider to be the game of major companies...and hackers like us now as well. However, it isn't enough to make a page, slap ads on and SEO the hell out of it.

If you don't have lasting value in your site, you don't have staying power. No staying power means low future profit and therefore lower sustainable startup opportunity cost.
Elon Musk comes to mind, as does Tony Hsieh.
MS also has retail stores though.
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As much as we hate to admit it, it's a bit different than "VCs invest in people".

VCs (who also happen to be people) invest in friends (also people).

Many investors in the valley are friends and a lot of investment is nothing more than "I'll invest in your startup if you invest in mine".
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Once the article pointed it out I couldn't un see it. Mixed pixel art will forever look off to me now!!
Perspective?

I think quite the opposite, it gives you the illusion of being informed when in reality you are just viewing a tiny slice of the world as through a soda straw.

If you really want to be informed it takes a hell of a lot more leg work.
I'm not sure what you mean by an "instance", but there will likely be variations in how quickly people respond to metabolism, and also depends on what you're eating during the fast.

One possible mechanism is that the muscles of the people fasting are more able (either through genes or exercise) to burning fat, meaning that you need to convert less fat into glucose. I'm not a biochemist (I've mainly read Good calories, bad calories plus various primal/low carb blogs) but it seems pretty straightforward (fat -> fatty acids -> acetyl-CoA -> ketones): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis

Feeling sick on a caffeine detox is likely to just be withdrawal, and/or the "low-carb flu".
Looks like brand marketing to me.
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A far better recommendation than NPR, which is also "ok" but far from unbiased. PBS's coverage is generally far more even handed, far more informative, and far more thoughtful.
Is there a reason it's being brought up now?

Flamebait.
The music industry has negotiated really hard with Pandora over the years and came close to killing them off a few times by raising the rates to more than Pandora could pay. At this point the music industry is basically taking all of Pandora's profits leaving them razor thin margins. I don't know why Spotify has gotten such a better deal except maybe through the influence of Kleiner Perkins.
If you could only hire an attorney from 2 options selected by other people that you had no control over and you couldn't fire him for 4 years, who do you think your attorney would be working for?
Metro AG owns lines of consumer electronics stores. Microsoft owns a line of consumer electronics stores. The word Metro would have possibly appeared on signage, receipts, marketing, etc. in either store.
Why go to the trouble of exactly doubling linear pixel density if you aren't even going to use nearest neighbor?
Thanks for the info. Love the graphics.
Speaking is faster than typing but reading is faster than listening. This is why I prefer leaving messages to writing emails and reading emails to listening to messages.

I'd love it if VoiceGem grew into a service that allows me to either listen to or read a message, depending on the context (in the car vs. in the office, high vs. low emotional value). Right now the best solution is to use Google Voice to transcribe voice mail and speech recognition to quickly type out an email, but it's not ideal.

Anyway, best of luck!
> If it were a website/webapp you'd still run into issues with bugs, security fixes.

This was really true a few years ago, but changed as of late. Right now we are running all of our sites on a Sinatra-based engine on Heroku. It has no admin backend, no security fixes to make, nothing. There isn't even a database!

The whole thing is compiled and cached. Any changes made on a live basis come through git or via a unique caching system I did with S3/Cloudfront. The upshot of this stack is zero overall maintenance. It doesn't break as there is simply nothing to break (except Heroku/AWS)
dalton, is this your fake account?
NOOOOOOOOOO!

PS:
b = "68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 77 77 77 2e 79 6f 75 74 75 62 65 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 77 61 74 63 68 3f 76 3d 64 51 77 34 77 39 57 67 58 63 51 0a"

print("".join(chr(int(w, 16)) for w in b.split()))
I'm not saying you should get your news from CNN. I'm saying that if you get your news all from the Internet, you should turn on CNN from time to time to see the stories the rest of the world is paying attention to.
I can use it at 2880x1800 when I'm sitting down at a table and can sit still close to it, but it's too small for casual use. I've mostly been using 1920x1200. It is impressive though!
Or call it 'Klatmi'; bastardized from 'klagt mich' or 'sue me'[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
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Can't sleep. Clown'll eat me.
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As nice as that may sound, I don't think Windows 8 is a 'wait' UI. Once you learn how to use it properly it's actually significantly faster than Windows 7.
Ok, that makes sense. When I saw 'Year to 30 June' I thought January 1, 2012 to June 30, 2012.
Fantasy? How so?

They've launched orbital rockets and demonstrated they can do so far more cost effectively than anyone else in history. They've done the same for delivering pressurized cargo to ISS. And their work on manned spaceflight, heavy lift launchers, and reusable launch vehicles is enormously credible given their current track record and history of unabashed transparency.
For those curious, those names came about because there is a Longhorn Bar in the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia.

Here is Wikipedia's list of Microsoft codenames: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames. Strangely, the article lists Metro as the Windows 7 UI. Also, the XML Paper Specification (XPS) had previously also used the Metro codename.
I think I'll wait for a more trustworthy confirmation of this rumor to get worked up about it.
I can't remember who said it, but a favourite saying of mine is "isn't funny how the world only creates just enough news to fill 30 minutes every day".

I record the 6pm news on Tivo every night. Sometimes I watch it, mostly I don't. If something big breaks, I can watch it on the news.

Generally being alert to blogs and twitter will let you find out all the necessary to follow stories.

People waste far too much of their lives absorbing non-essential news items. In retrospect, most of us would be flat out recalling 4 big news events from the prior year.
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Metro is just about the only thing Microsoft has going for it these days, as far as I'm concerned. What a blunder.
I recall hearing folks at Heroku talk about this before - basically the message was yes, there are many ways to abuse the free service but they rarely have people _actually_ doing it.

Kind of interesting, as it would be pretty trivial to use many single dynos (with shared caching, db) in one account for one application.
Bah, Mars. I'd rather live on the Moon. Less gravity, closer to Earth.

Both places require pressure suits, but the Moon is a hard vacuum, which means you can do the usual vacuum industry tricks, while Mars has just enough atomosphere to rule out vacuum applications, but not enough atmosphere to breathe. Maybe in five thousand years we will have terraformed a breathable atmosphere, but in the near future it will be a neat place to plant a flag, like the top of Everest, but certainly not a place you'd like to live.
I'm still convinced that the reason for that is the death of Bitcoinica which offered shorting.

Without shorting, the only way to make money on Bitcoin is to go long. That is, the price will keep going up until investors thinks it's too much overvalued and BitCoin will crash again to 4 or 5 USD; the value that shorting stabilized it at.
See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_5:_Trading_acro... for how to verify trades across currencies without trust.

So what you would need to do is have an account in both currencies with large amounts of currency in it, and publicly advertise that you will trade across currencies in some predetermined ratio. If your account has enough currency to succeed in handling people who might deliberately try to trade against you, then you will successfully peg currencies.

Admittedly an attempt to provide a peg like this might fail. But what is in it for the entity trying to do it? Quite simply, that entity presumably starts with a much larger amount of the new currency than they used for establishing the peg. If you can successfully create the peg, your net worth decreased by the amount of bitcoin you had to accumulate to create the peg, and increased by the amount of other currency that you had. So you make a handsome profit. (Conversely you have the risk that people will set about mining your new currency and converting it all to bitcoin through your peg, then when you have to abandon the peg you've lost the bitcoin you had to purchase to try to establish said peg.)

There are a number of tricks that can improve your odds of establishing a successful peg. But that's the principle.
I have a bootstrapped service coming soon which hopes it will be:

http://stmpcrd.com

Passbook is nothing directly - it requires third parties to make the wheels turn.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018274

This might be a thread of interest to you.
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Holy balls, @FAKEGRIMLOCK has joined the party...

http://goodwillion.com/lot/14870
Just so you know, it's the "LuaJIT guy" that you're replying to there.
Duo is more mature, but seems to be positioned more as an enterprise alternative to hardware tokens. They seem to charge per user per month, somewhere around $2, which would be crazy for someone like Facebook with a billion users.
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@moonchrome is right.

One of the world's large credit card networks processes on the order half a trillion dollars in a typical 30 day period. So bitcoin has a way to go yet before it's volume is significant compared to other ubiquitous electronic payment methods.

Consider that they need to grow by a great many orders of magnitude to become globally economically significant, yet consider that the supply of bitcoins is relatively fixed.

How smoothly do you think that is going to work?

If you believe in the future bitcoins, you also have to believe that their value will have to eventually sky rocket by several orders of magnitude. If you believe this you should hoard every bitcoin.

So if you actually believe in bitcoins, why would you ever spend one?

If you don't believe in bitcoins, why would you ever accept one?

do you see the problem yet?
Doubtful; the primary way that mercury and lead are excreted is through your fingernails and hair.
I don't think this is a winner take all space. I am more interesting in understanding how these products are differentiating against each other, most importantly in how they plan to drive more sales for the business. I'm not sure how valuable social exposure is for businesses - do check-ins really drive more traffic through the door?
Why not submit the more substantial link from ars technica?

The Loop link we have here is basically the same one liner Gruber made but 30 minutes later. {this decribes a lot of posts from The Loop}
im looking forward to 8-bit NES in 3D!
Great feedback, thank you! I certainly see your point, and I think it really depends on the use case. VoiceGem wasn't intended as a text replacement, but more for personal messages with emotional value, hence listening to them.

However, the use case you describe has come up several times now, so it's something we are aware of.
I'm certainly no expert, and it's not OO but I've always enjoyed reading the code of some of the coreutils.
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There ate tens of cities in China with populations over several million that westerners have never heard of, too.
I am not sure about American equivalent, but in here (Czech), it operates under the name "makro" and it is these kind of hypermarkets for smaller and middle sized bussinesses and they have everything in smaller prices and bulk sizes/bigger boxes, that don't make sense for individuals but do make sense for, say, a small restaurant.

from wikipedia:
"Core customer groups are hotels, restaurants, caterers, traders and other business professionals."
YES! I love PhpStorm, one of the best IDE's around for PHP development so I am glad to see they've addressed a few major issues as well as added in support for PHP 5.4 goodness amongst other nice additions like Node.JS.
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if by coin flip you mean whoever executes the best, yep. "haven't we seen enough of these" sounds extraordinarily condescending.
Windows Me, Too? Excellent.
>CEO doesn't mean you're hiring all rocket scientists (or in FB's case, engineers). You have to hire people of all types, so you lose any competitive advantage rather quickly.

eh, but depending on the company, some roles are more important than others. I mean, in facebook's case, it'd be marketing. Facebook, really, doesn't need top of the world Engineers; paying 5x what they would otherwise on infrastructure won't kill them. (they do need good people for the places where Engineering and Marketing colide. They need people that are good at psychology and at least mediocre programmers.) But marketing is what they /do/ - their business plan and their P/E is predicated on capturing a huge percentage of the world's advertising dollars. without best in the world marketing types, they are sunk.

This is why having even a relitively small edge in hiring the best people in one particular area can make such a huge difference, and one of the major reasons why I think CEO experience is not particularly portable across fields.
Probably closer to 200,000+. Fishing net's are at least 80,000 years old.
If the entire system has ground to a halt such that it's difficult to actually get to Activity Monitor to do the sample, then it's likely to be a memory problem. If it's just one app, it's probably something else.
curiously, I have a friend who's family hails from georgia. Their old(ish) money came from after the civil war, when his great(N) grandfather started shipping grain and other desperately sought after food items to heavily affected civil war states/cities. A relatively small investment ended up multiplying and benefiting many generations :)
Is it necessary to associate feedback with the user's email address after you've confirmed their identity?

If you don't associate their information with the feedback, I think users would be a lot more confident in your promise of privacy. You can't reveal what you don't have.
Show HN:Cloud-assisted server systems documentation
www.systemsadminpro.com

Recently launched an application that runs locally and uses a service in the "cloud" to do most of the work. The application creates functional documentation for Microsoft Windows servers. Would like to do something similar for Linux servers, but MS Windows servers first out the door. Idea's genesis was mainly for corporate IT but will work for anyone that needs a quick snapshot of a server.
Sounds impressive until you realize that just Comcast and TWC alone have about 35 million subscribers. I couldn't find a total number for all pay TV subscribers but I would guess it's above 100 million.
You believe that the "illusion of productivity" brought on by fatigue can actually make you more productive than rest/sleep?
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The difficulty in mining a block of 50 BTC is far higher than it was the last time 1 BTC was worth $10.
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Why can't a design language have a name (not necessarily a trademark)?

It can be used to differentiate it from what it's not. Programmers use names for everything, why can't a design have a name?

Apple had the aqua visual style, that is no longer with us.
If employees have to resort to anonymous feedback, something's broken. A good use for this website is for companies to monitor any traffic coming from this domain, and treat it as a red flag.