skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noticing is key for me. I have zillions of startup ideas from mundane to crazy, they are all outgrowths of noticing either something missing or someone frustrated or being frustrated myself and wanting something, or to do something, and not being able to.

Strangely (or perhaps not) getting married made me better at noticing. I could sit in a room and watch TV because there was 'nothing else to do' when my wife sat in the exact same room she saw all sorts of things that needed doing. And when she pointed them out they became obvious to me too. Perhaps I'm an inveterate slacker but those things were deeply camouflaged against the patina of knik-knacks that couldn't hide from her. Oh there is the radio that needs the knob glued to work again, that corner needs a light fixture. The top speakers are covered in dust, the board games have started tumbling out of the AV cabinet and are threatening the dog cushion.

I had invested way too much time as a youth trying not to see things I didn't have time to do or want to do, that I perfected my non-vision vision. She helped switch that off which made my marriage better (fewer arguments) and suddenly seeing things that could be better but weren't yet. One of those 'benched' (sort of ideas was a computer system for teaching computer science. The Raspberry Pi helps wonderfully in that regard. So sometimes even when I don't make progress things get better :-).
Birds and Bees solve travelling Salesman?
Does anyone know the algorithm they are using?
> There is no guarantee they won't be bought by an ass-hole tomorrow. There's no guarantee some greedy concepts won't start to permiate their management.

In which case, you're likely to run into problems whether or not they host your site.
It seems unlikely that this is algorithmic, hence, I would guess if a post is deemed to not be meeting HN standards / guidelines, moderators can "demote" a post, essentially removing it from the front page. So in this case, was the title simply too link-baity? And who judges that?

This is obviously a guess, and looking through the FAQ (Official and unofficial!), I can't seem to see it stated anywhere.

Another possibility could be user flagging, but that would seem too easy to game maliciously.

I think whilst some elements of your filtering you want to keep secret to stop spammers, it would be helpful to understand this throttling behaviour to help people submit better content. Transparency is often helpful to create less work for both sides, so if an answer could be given, I think people would be interested to know!
Does anyone remember the old Xerox "Elixir" typesetting app?
Maybe a shitty host will do this to you. I currently work for a web host and our support team will bend over backwards if that's what it takes to get a domain transferred away from us.

The title of this article should be "Don't do business with companies that utilize shady and unethical business practices."
Replicating the Pay With Stripe button
* Gene therapy to make unhealthy foods taste terrible

* Nanobots or symbiotic parasites to maintain the body [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasites_Lost
Not sure why you would expect to hear anything but the same thing over and over, in response to the same complaint being raise.. over and over.

I don't think anyone denies that adding generics, if done properly, would improve the language. The only real controversial thing being suggested is that generics are not worth an implementation that is not up to standards. Personally, I think that is a reasonable position.
Using a good registrar is key but you also want to separate host from registrar because you want to keep your content.

It is a much more common case to change hosts than it is to change registrars.

But even if you lose your domain name somehow through a bad registrar your content can also hold a lot of value and though you would take a big hit by changing domain names for a lot of sites (like blogs and other content heavy types) content is key.

See the recent incident with cyanogenmod the move to .org went rather well until the .com was given back and not having a separate host can make it so you don't even need to restore from backups/setup a new environment.
I think it would be fair to end this by just saying that we hold the list of Apple software you gave at very different levels of esteem. :-)
This indeed has gone on for too long, so I suppose all I'd like to contribute is to say you make good points :)
Good to see a (hopefully) happy ending to this story. Good on you Novus for doing the right thing!
The original claim was that computer platforms tends toward monopolies. The existence of consoles is an interesting data point but it isn't a counterargument to this.

The user-developer loop (1) is part of the reason, and API / data lock-in (2) is another part of it.

Just like in the first case, causation in the second case goes both ways. Corporations (and not just corporations) buy Word because there is Word data and there are Word users out there.

"Corporate purchasing" doesn't explain very much to me and isn't the salient difference between consoles and phone OSes or desktop OSes. Corporations bought Windows because of the more fundamental factors that I'm pointing out.
Bills aren't paid by counting up numbers of customers. Of those customers listed, most are small-fry, kicking in a few million here and there, while NASA is the main source of cash. Over the 10 years of SpaceX's existence, NASA has put in approximately as much money as all other funders (Musk, his investors, and every non-NASA customer) combined. Private-sector customers account for less than 30% of revenues.
I have to do any high-concentration work at night as well, and have likewise found that successfully finding some level of silence in life makes me more sensitive to noise...

In my case I've made a concerted effort to remove all aural advertising from my life -- this is rather easier nowadays, when it's trivial to watch videos and listen to music without ever consuming broadcast media.

But now when I do accidentally encounter normal TV/radio, it's amazingly grating and completely invades my head. I was in an airport in the US with TVs everywhere, and it was like trying to do work next to a fistfight. Commercial jingles pop into my head and stay there, when I'm unlucky enough to encounter them.

I think the problem is compounded by the fact that modern advertising is calculated to break through the normal deluge of attention-seeking noise that people are drenched in, so if you are not, in fact, already swimming in other noise, the sudden bursts are overwhelming.
Agreed. It must be better than cigarettes in all ways: cost, convenience, aesthetics, reliability, experience, usability, availability, brand loyalty, etc. There are social factors too. Friends can't bum an e-cigarette. Proprietors may mistakenly enforce smoking bans. Bystanders may think vapor is second-hand smoke.

The solution will come with a combination of Apple-esque industrial design and Apple-esque advertising savvy. Basically, we need the iSmoke.
http://hackaday.com/2012/11/19/launch-day-wii-u-homebrew-is-...
Cool, glad you guys are aware. I like the custom UI implementations. Seems like you guys spent some good time polishing up all of the core animation and stuff. Nice job!
Praise before it launched? Can you mention what they praised about Color?

I live in Silicon Valley and plugged in to the startup community.

I don't know anybody who praised Color.

Their app on both Android and iOS was horrible.
As a developer who's never been entirely comfortable with the hardware end of things, it seems like there is a tremendous opportunity here. I would pay a lot for set it and forget it hosting, where if you get TechCrunched or HNed the only consequence would be a spike in the amount of your bill.

It seems like this would be a very difficult problem to solve - kind of like Dropbox getting their service to work seamlessly on every device and OS - but doable, and very lucrative for whoever gets there first.
The hyperloop is not a space based system. The little that Musk has said about it, indicates that. For example, he said it would be a vast improvement over the current rail system planned for California, and could plausibly be powered by solar. Nobody is going to use space travel to go between LA and San Francisco.
Reading essays like this drives me crazy.

No, it's not because pg is wrong or I disagree with anything he's saying, it's because everything resonates with my startup (Tinj.co, interactive movie ratings) but after 1000+ pitches I still can't succinctly articulate how I know this.

I could probably make a checklist for the criteria of great startup ideas (seems like a toy: check, personal problem: check, inspiration from other fields: check, etc) but I have a hard time imagining that to be persuasive. I guess all we can do is push on towards a beta and let traction speak for itself.

Truly disruptive ideas are difficult to communicate because most people do not have the mental framework to truly grasp them. I guess that's just the catch-22 of disruptive ideas.
I've been writing Ruby professionally for six years and this has never been an issue for me or folks I work with. Can you give a single example where you found a conflict in libraries that broke your application?
One thing that worked really well for me when I was learning was StumbleUpon. Choose the python, html, css, web design, photoshop, etc categories and stumble along until you find a tutorial or article that interests you. It will expose you to alot of concepts and topics you otherwise wouldn't have thought to teach yourself.

Also, come up with an idea that you think is just out of reach of your current skill and just dive in and build it! It doesn't have to be the best thing in the world, and you don't have to be focused on making money with it, but the process of trying to architect the thing, and then putting together all the pieces will be a more valuable experience than any classroom could give you. You have IRC, stackoverflow, and other similar resources to ask for help if needed.
The problem I had with Flattr is that not enough sites used it. I wound up putting the same money into Readability, which earmarked a chunk of change based on the domains of the sites I read that month. The catch is they had few sites sign up to claim that cash (among other reasons, authors had issues with the terms) and they caught a lot of flak for making money on the backs of others.

I don't see a winning hand here. I would happily pay $X/month ($20? $30?) to strip ads from the whole web if money got to the creators. I don't want to pay $Y/month to each site I visit.

My solution for most sites so far is to subscribe to the RSS feeds. At least the ads at the bottom of a feedburner'd feed aren't so bad, and I can sync the contents to my phone readily.
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You're focusing on the #new call. The actual #camelize call is still dispatching based on the Camelizable object which is parameterized with my_string. Ok, so it's not true call-site polymorphism...fine. I'd argue that's an unimportant implementation detail, but if you prefer (and what I frequently do in my own code) you could have something more like:

Camelizable(my_string).camelize

where now Camelizable does the dynamic class lookup to choose the correct decorator for my_string. This turns #camelize into a truly call-site polymorphic call and, at least in my opinion, is far more readable/reasonable than either monkeypatching or refinements.
Shady company. For a while if you used their domain availability lookup, they would register the domain, forcing you to pay them if you wanted it.

http://www.billhartzer.com/pages/network-solutions-registeri...
thanks great. Any info if/when there is also a meetup in December/January? Would love to finally drop by. Yet, so far, I'm always traveling (first Kyushu, now Germany on the 30th ... :S )
> It may be a moot point in this case

I see what you did there.
I did not imply that the rest don't have any issues. But for one or a few incidents do not make Silicon Valley.

I've been in Silicon Valley for 4 years. I've met and known people who I would not want to be friends with let alone be associated with.

But overwhelmingly, Silicon Valley is full of good people who tried to do the right thing which is why it still continues to thrive.
I've never heard anything about Elon Musk that indicates he speaks lightly about things like this. He has an amazing track record and a habit of taking on huge problems. There is no reason to think that he's not working on a hyper loop.
You're asking the wrong question. We didn't invent the concept of dark matter to explain the acceleration of our universe. Though if we have theories that have dark matter, we might as well try to make those theories explain the acceleration at the same time.

Here is why we need dark matter. When something is in orbit, from the details of their orbit we can tell how much mass they are orbiting around. When we carry out this calculation for galaxies, we get one mass. We also can estimate the amount of mass that each visible star has, then add it up to get an estimate of how much matter there is that we can see. This gives us another number. The two numbers are off by a factor of 10. The difference is matter that we can't see, which we know has to be there. This is dark matter.

Our own solar system suggests that the matter in a solar system is almost all in the visible star. But there are plenty of planet-like things that aren't around stars. We can't see those, and don't know how many of them there might be. However our models suggest that those kinds of objects should be distributed like stars. But we have evidence from the movement of stars around galaxies that dark matter is relatively uniformly distributed through a bigger volume than the visible stars.

The most popular (but not only possible!) theory right now is that there are lots of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) that only weakly interact with normal matter. (There is a lot of speculation about the possible nature of these particles.) Computer models with these result in reasonable distributions of dark matter. But this theory is difficult to prove or disprove directly since, by definition, they don't interact with anything we can build to detect them.
Thanks refurb, appreciate it.
> you also want to separate host from registrar because you want to keep your content.

Some diversification is, of course, a good idea. Your team chat/irc and documentation/wiki should be hosted separately, if for no other reason, then so that you have something to work with in case of an outage on your main infrastructure.

Same goes for backups. Have them somewhere else, and preferably also locally.

There are many ways to do slice it. I'm not convinced that the one outlined in the OP is really as obvious as the author implies.
I wonder what happened to Bob. He isn't even a contributor.
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It's difficult to say what Anonymous stands for, because it's not a single organisation or group. Anyone can take the label of Anonymous when advocating a cause, and "become part of it".

Before Anonymous got "good guy" publicity for supporting Wikileaks, people calling themselves anonymous were mostly known for trolling: finding emotionally sensitive people and communities, and harassing them both online and offline for their own amusement.
No one pays someone to make them a stunning wireframe
Observe everything and learn new things. This leads to (problems ∩ solutions) = ideas. Sooner or later you'll have more great ideas than you'll ever have time to execute.
Don't make your users wait for Garbage Collection
How many times have you done that? I recall iDevices had a limit of 5 or so.
i don't know how current it is, but i believe that hn source is included in the arc download - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685 - so you could try looking there to see how flagging is handled.
How to Get Your App in the Tech Press
I totally agree, I'm one of the owners of Site5.com and we would never stand in the way of someone moving a domain away. We leave it up to the customer if they want to register a domain with us or other registers.

I would also mention it is illegal under ICANN rules to prevent customers from doing this,
thanks, Ben
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Free startup idea for the day. 3D design software for the masses. It seems to cover lots of the bases in the article. I feel the need for this right now (just this weekend I wanted to print out a plastic part to fix the broken piece on my lawn mower). 3D printing seems to be an up-and-coming area. The hardware for this is still being perfected, but the software seems further behind. There are lots of competitors making 3D modeling software, ranging from FOSS to the ultra-expensive enterprise-y, but they all seem to have a very steep learning curve. Most people who are going to own 3D printers aren't going to want to dedicate their live to learning the intricacies of 3D CAD. Ideally, I'd think the software would be based on photogammetry [1], which would allow you to take pictures of an object you want to copy, but allowing you to make tweaks (i.e. extend the portion that is missing because it broke off, etc). Think of the MS-Paint for 3D objects. I think it covers the unsexy and schlep aspects, since it seems doable, but would take a lot of tedious work. It seems like it could start out very focused at first, and expand from there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry
I'm not knocking Treehouse - apparently they have a good reputation, and I haven't personally tried their product - but I was astounded at the number of employees on their About Us page:
http://teamtreehouse.com/about

compared to the amount of content they have:
http://teamtreehouse.com/library

I guess we know where the 5M went.
I was disappointed with Gandi in terms of security features. On the plus side, they allow you to disable password resets, but then this is fairly standard. On the other hand, they don't offer two-factor authentication or login notifications. Moreover, they inexplicably publish your "handle" under your whois information (as "nic-hdl"). This gives away the username, arguably making targeted attacks significantly easier.

Edit: grammar.
"common" is a stretch -- maybe it's common as a regional dialect. Regardless, that's somewhat irrelevant: "moot" is far more commonly used to refer to Christopher Poole in the context of online discussions. (Even a quick glance at the search results of e.g. HN comments with the term "moot" confirms this.)

Keep in mind that UPS has successfully trademarked a color, as have many other companies; "Apple" is a trademark, "Time" is a trademark, "Shell" is a trademark, "Caterpillar" is a trademark ... and odds are, as you read each of those common words, you knew exactly which company holds the trademark.

Whether or not "moot" should be a trademark is largely philosophical and not a debate I feel like putting any energy into. However, that moot can be a trademark even if it's a "common" word seems obvious at this point.
Having worked "IT" for my fraternity, I can say that this would be about as mundane as most business software is. Accounting, scheduling, keeping minutes of meetings, database of contacts.
Depends perhaps on whether you count the Valley press and venture capitalists as part of the Valley community. Obviously the VCs were praising it: Sequoia and others put a huge pile of cash into Color. And the Valley press was breathless over them too, with TechCrunch publishing this prelaunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/color-looks-to-reinvent-soc...
Ah yes, but it is influenced by everybody else's salary.

When a business can pay a well established[1] local web agency 5 euro more than me, a single developer, who do you think they are going to pick?

[1] well established meaning they are considered one of the best 3, if not the best web agency around here
Well that's the first time one of my Hacker News comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726644) has been used as evidence in a legal document.
The look and feel is similar to ruby!
Especially seeing the price people paid for these 15+ year old games. For Nintendo it is like a mine of Gold: zero work needed to make them run, and full profits for almost no bandwidth cost. The simple fact that people are even willing to buy such old games at that price is baffling to me.
The first things that came to my mind was they would likely try to destroy the brand by buying every moot.* domain and associating it with unsavory things, flooding sites that use moot.it with horrendous crap, and DDoS attacks.
Maybe I just spend too much time around lawyer types, or maybe its usage in the original meaning is simply more common in Canada than the US (which, given the amount of UKisms we've retained, isn't unlikely), but I hear it used that way on a fairly regular basis.

"meaningless/irrelevant" is the adjectival form of moot, not the verb, and it's worth reinforcing that this is a usage shift specific to North America. To "moot it" doesn't mean "to make it irrelevant"; rather, things originally became "moot" when they were topics you could argue over but which had no further relevance in the law, and the latter grew to dominate its usage in the adjectival form in North America. But that usage didn't migrate back to the verb, or appear at all abroad.

Here's a usage in verbal noun form to mean "a meeting for discussion": http://www.themagicboxstore.com/paganmoot.htm

And there are, of course, the well known "moot courts", so named not because they're "unpractical/irrelevant/meaningless" court but instead because they're forums for the students to debate the law.
> 3D design software for the masses

https://tinkercad.com/
It dates you. 24 year old here :-)
I have been wondering the same thing about Steam, actually. Do you think we will be seeing a Steam "scandal" like that in the future, where a game suddenly becomes unavailable and you lose access to it for one reason or another? So far Valve has been able to keep things straight with everyone to make it almost feel like you owned the games, but it's just a licence to play them in the end.
Contractually, you cannot use Gandi to register domains for any sites hosting user-generated content nor any content of your own which violates their ethical code. Upholding their ethical code is part of the agreement you must enter to register a domain with Gandi. If you do or support any "deviant uses of the internet", they have the right to take your domain away. It's the strangest agreement and I'm continually surprised people choose to register domains with them.

http://en.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pd...
Capital is amoral.
Method swizzling and refinements are basically the same thing. The real difference isn't in the features, it's in the fact that Ruby is a dynamic language, and Obj-C is only dynamically typed. You can swizzle all you want in a statically compiled program, and refinements work equally well in a "static" Ruby program. The problems with refinements start coming to light when you start refining things at runtime, i.e., with module_eval. Obj-C doesn't have this problem, since swizzling happens only once at compile time.