skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I have the exact same behavior towards Steam. And on the other hand, I fully embrace the Humble Bundle and GOG as they provide you with executables without DRMs - I just wish they would expand in more recent games (GOG especially).
It has been an issue, but the much less painful solution is to be more careful about monkey patches, and employ other patterns whenever possible.

In my eyes, monkey patching should only ever be considered:

1. To fix outright bugs or nasty performance issues, where the monkey patch should not have other side effects.

2. In application code, never in libraries (except as a library explicitly providing monkey patches to an application, but never as a requirement for a library to work).

3. In adding new methods, except for case 1.

Of course there'd be exceptions, but very little monkey patching I see in library code is necessary or worth it.

Inside your library, you have plenty of ways of avoiding the need: Wrap objects; convert objects; use helpers. Yes, it might not look as perfectly smooth, but I'd take that over trying to reason about code that relies on different sets of refinements in different scopes any day..
Your direct competition will be sites who focus on the quoting process. For example:

http://www.quoteroller.com/

http://quotientapp.com/
Your value will be 1/4 of what the full week of work would be, so price accordingly?
Woz designed Apple Desktop Bus, first used in the Apple IIGS and then in Macintoshes until the switch to USB.

But your point remains; Woz hasn't done anything at Apple since 1987.
So... it's a to-do list and text messaging?
Are there any YC companies competing directly in the space? 42Floors comes to mind, although I believe they are focused exclusively on commercial real estate at the moment.

If there is a YC company that competes directly with you, I could see incentive for a mod to suppress your post. </tinfoil hat speculation>
At the end of your article you said to hit reply if you want to hear more, but I didn't see a reply button so maybe you meant post it here?

I'd like an article about the transition from being an employee of a company to being a consultant. I've never been a consultant before and it's extremely intimidating to think about quitting my job. Did you/do others usually do this all at once, or is there a way to do it gradually? As gradual as possible, ideally.

Does it make sense to have a weekly rate if you only work 2 hours a day after your day job?
One of the things that terrify me about refinements is that it'll just end up as a band aid for bad designs in cases where the vastly better solution would be to redesign without the need for monkey patches. They we end up with code that's potentially a lot harder to reason about out of pure laziness.
The Best VPN Services Of 2012
A good review of VPNs -- they cover VPN for torrenting, anonymous browsing, Hulu and Netflix watching overseas and VPNs for mobile devices.
Those posts describe a smooth drop off as a function of time and votes - in some instances (such as the one linked to) that clearly isn't the case.
Cool, using it store our buckyball darts results!
> My iPhone is not an empty canvas for you to drop an arbitrary UI style on.

Sure it is. Anyone can design and implement whatever kind of UI they want. If it's usable and/or accepted by Apple is a different story. You don't need to download apps you don't like on _your_ iPhone.

The UI for this app does not look all that "foreign." I am not too sure what freaks you out about their UI.
This is exactly one of the reasons I started NameTerrific. Dealing with domain matters can be a pain, especially if there's a conflict of interest. A bonus point: almost all registrars provide web hosting services (including GoDaddy, Namecheap, Register, Name.com, eNom etc). To them there's no better up-selling opportunity.

Hover is great. It's really easy to get started and it just works. NameTerrific delivers an excellent domain experience to the other end - the hackers/developers/geeks group. Plus it's a little bit cheaper than Hover. (NameTerrific also never sells hosting. The only "extra" product we'd consider will be SSL certs.)

The landscape has been broken for a long time. The domain industry almost never evolved in the last 5 years. There's still price war, crappy experience, hijacking and spamming.
var i = 0; <--- valid
i := 0 <--- Valid

for (i := 0; ...) <--- Valid
for (var i = 0; ...) <--- Invalid

No?
Relatedly, Blake Masters was publishing notes from Peter Thiel's startup class.

Though they were public, for anyone to see, we were able to read the notes, understand his philosophy, and raise money in an area he'd never invested before.
The Difference Between an Asteroid and a Comet
The difference may be that Apple is not selling fruit, Shell crustaceans, nor Caterpillar butterflies; so their trademarks are presumably easier to justify.

To suggest that a person owns a dictionary definition of a word that predates their existence by ~800 years[1] smacks of hubris

[1] OED
The fact that its often intermingled in the frontend and php-cli is weak and almost an afterthought probably lead him to say that.
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Cheers. I have no idea what that is but let me know if Athletable can accommodate it any better :)
This is looking very polished already. My biggest barrier to entry was having to go through the invite process for each person in my office, so I'd prefer to have a single form that you can add multiple people to, then submit once. You could even take advantage of the fact that most people in a workplace will have a common email suffix, and pre-fill that.

Great app though. I think we'll have a lot of fun with this.
It looks like this "Show HN" post wouldn't have a high "gag" score [1], so either the post has been flagged multiple times (unlikely), or, most likely, the majority of those early votes came from the same location, causing the voting ring safeguards [2] to kick in.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1782058
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3894695
Looks good, it would be cool if you added some sort of proper ranking for certain games. Something similar to ELO where everyone is ranked and you win more points by beating someone that is ranked higher.
really cool http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-con...
I'm not sure how much you know about Go based on your comment, but you have a ; in the first line that is not legal in Go (and you haven't declared the type); you have parens on your for loop and that too is not valid.

If I rewrite your comment in correct Go I get

var i int = 0 // valid
i := 0 // valid

for i := 0; ... { // valid
for var i int = 0; ... { // Not valid

Your final line there is only needed if you want to define the type of i at declaration time inside a for loop. That would be better written

for i := int(0); ... {
There needs to be a logically-valid reason to bring gender/age/country of origin/etc. into the discussion at all.

I.e., if you're interviewing an individual for a job, that means you're evaluating that individual's ability to fulfill the job requirements.

You'll get a hell of a lot better mileage out of, say, talking to them about complicated problems than you could ever get from even the average IQ in their family, let alone country or some other ridiculously large group like that. No need to get into the discussion of how valid that number is -- it's irrelevant to a job interview.

To the original point -- if maybe some large-scale study does show that young women tend to make more "social noise" than young men, I'm still having trouble imagining ways that might be relevant when noisy people enter a room I'm in.
There have been several YC-backed rental/property startups, but it seems a little far-fetched that pg/yc would get admins to suppress competitor stories.

I'm sure there are plenty of examples of competitor start-ups reaching, and staying on, the front page that could rule that theory out.
Fortunately, most accredited registrars that offer reseller programs allow domain registrants to claim back their domains and manage them directly through the registrars. So there's no stuck-with-a-middle-man issue as you described.

IMO the real danger is when the hosting provider is a registrar. Domain registrars have a lot of power, because for most TLDs the registry never touches your personal information - the registrars do. The registrars set the EPP code, which is the key to transfer your domain away. A reseller generally cannot prevent a domain to be transferred away if the registrant insists to (the most a reseller can do is to keep sending locking domain API calls).
Thanks for the tip :)

No, I'm well aware of App Engine and Heroku. I guess I'm talking about an even greater level of abstraction and simplicity - an "Apple Easy" layer where you never have to think about any aspect of the servers, and that scales all aspects of the app seamlessly without any user intervention.

In my opinion, Heroku and App Engine aren't there yet.
They can, and many do so if you can prove ownership of the license. Many companies choose not to issue cheap replacements because it is not profitable to do so.
PhewTick, a Japanese startup with USD10M in funding, pays you to meet new people
You seem to be a pretty smart individual. How could I have made it more clear that I was talking about "moot" in the context of online discussions when I wrote, "in the context of online discussions," which you quoted? Serious question. I seem to be having trouble getting even longtime HN readers to respond to what I actually wrote, instead of what they imagine I wrote. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Unless you're prepared to argue that the majority of the world uses online discussions or talks about online discussion systems, or that a conversation with your mom is a suitable anecdote when talking about online discussions, I think you should reconsider just how "completely wrong" my argument was.

Because, you're right, the examples I cited are trademarks within their respective fields, and that was the entire point of my comment.

I apologize for not making that more clear.
I had had some hope that there would be some actual feedback and a discussion about why Go is bad or why PHP deserves lauding.

And you were expecting what with your reply?
Because they don't want to, obviously. The only exception that I know of is UltraViolet.
At the moment the ranking algorithm is a blur between ELO and the one used for Tennis. I'd like to eventually give people the option per sport to decide between a few different ranking methods.
As long as you unregister each device before it breaks you can stay under the limit indefinitely.
True, but if you have to:

https://github.com/shaneharter/PHP-Daemon
That seemed like a wonderful opportunity to set up a script that looked up thousands of bogus domain names (e.g. aaabbbcccddd.com) to spike them.
Yeah, I never buy new games on Steam. Most of my purchases are < $5 and they are all < $10
Unfortunately, I know this wasn't the case - I didn't provide the link to anyone in our office, which has it's own IP, and I know they weren't aware of the HN post until afterwards. I also wouldn't publicly use this as an example if I knew I had been rigging the votes!

So maybe it was just a case of HNers flagging the story as it became popular, as the title was fairly link-baity? I was under the impression that flagging a story kills it rather than suppresses it, but regardless, if that's the case then it makes sense.

Edit: One comment in your example link by ColinWright seems to state 2 or more "flags" can cause this behaviour: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893207

If that's the case, it's probably best people don't know about it, as used maliciously it would be fairly disruptive.
That's a good idea to have the bulk invite. I might show a different form for when the account owner adds the initial players and then the single form for when there are already a few players.
Just a guess, but I'd say you're getting downvoted because of your second paragraph:

> If you don't know the difference between a CNAME and an A record, then hire someone to register your domains and setup them up, or learn enough to make informed decisions. The rash things that people do because the Internet enables them to does not excuse them.
Interesting. I wonder if my precious feeds will go away.
No threading is accurate, and that makes it less ideal than many languages.

But it does provide thin wrappers over process forking and implementations/wrapper of libraries necessary for IPC (eg SysV queues, shared memory, semaphores, pipes and sockets).
Great:

A couple of that examples dont work though:

http://nvd3.org/ghpages/stackedArea.html

http://nvd3.org/ghpages/multiBarHorizontal.html

etc.
Media and expression: theses in tweetform
Call it a Cross-platform failure!
Thanks for posting this, I have had some very vague ideas about some cool music-related side projects that I could work on, but never knew how to go about learning the theory (enough to at least formulate some well-defined projects). This looks like a good start. Hoping the discussion here will pick up to see more suggestions for math/cs oriented crowd.
i'm running beanstalkd workers in PHP using supervisord. Seems to work for me, at least for now...
> There are a number of places where Ruby as a systems scripting language (small scripts, short runtime) really clashes with Ruby as an application language (large apps, long runtime) ...

I guess this sums the problem perfectly.
I mean, if "this type of thing"=someone bringing a gun to work and your children getting threatened, I obviously agree. My point was more that there is a pretty discernable pattern of people acting like terrible human beings when they run a startup and see dollar signs in the future.

ps. I think the whole "which you can take with a grain of salt" statement says it all. These companies employ these people and ask them to sell the company by saying thing x, y or z. If those things they made up to get you to leave a job are complete bullshit, its not just like "oh well, silly me trusting a recruiter" it should be "wow those guys at Facebook are kind of scumbags for misleading me and promising me x while giving me y while our CEO is now one of the richest people on earth." Cool.
The problem is a fundamental lack of understanding of (or interest in, for that matter) digital content among the Japanese: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/15/3628376/japan-digital-con...
It's not tinfoil hat speculation. Sharp dropoffs also happened when the story of an AirBNB house being robbed broke. Rather than just seeing one story dropping off we need a way to see every time this happens to make our own minds up over whether it's above board.
Sign-up forms must die... great article by Luke that i often refer to: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/signupforms/

There's also a video version of it somewhere else.

This is why Optimizely.com is so great, you can test drive their product without ever creating an account.
I think this is the key - selling yourself as a 'sysadmin' is like calling yourself a 'programmer' - it's a commodity.

Instead you're a site scaling engineer, or a cloud automation specialist, whatever sounds like it'll solve the client's problems - which these days are frequently that a bunch of developers set up the production environment on the fly and it just about works but isn't reliable or convenient.

I think the future for sysadmin work is definitely 'DevOps' - and it's not really that much different from old school sysadmin. Yeah a pure Chef/Puppet-managed system is more like writing code than hacking away, but behind it all it's the same kind of work.

It is definitely possible to bill US$2k per week or more as a contract sysadmin, but trolling through Craig's List isn't the way to manage it!
If you don't mind my asking, what's your health plan? I'm on a Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA PPO and couldn't be happier. It's indeed very expensive, but considering what my family has gotten out of it with essentially 0 hassles, I have no grounds for complaint. Essentially everything's covered, even out to some wacky stuff like acupuncture. I can walk into a specialist's office at a world class hospital with no referral for a $20 copay. During at least two health crises, they've reached out to make sure care was being coordinated properly.

Sorry that this sounds like an ad, but we don't all live in fear of our health plans. (I dislike the term "insurer", since what they sell stopped behaving like insurance a long time ago.)
http://www.shapeways.com/ probably the closest to the Kinko's of 3D printing.
Composable hashing in Clojure/Java
This is a great looking app. I'm gobsmacked by all the negative comments in this thread. Wow. Anyway, nice job.
I agree with you here. Not sure why inDinero wouldnt offer a freemium model. Its tough for me to even request a beta invite when all I see is one screen shot of their service. Seems like the are prepping for a major roll out which would explain the limitation on your end.
There's no telling what Google will do with it. It might not be a bad idea to track down all the direct feeds for your favorite sites.
" This is over 100 years after the first mass-produced automobile was sold, with the announcement of (another) successful nano-scale teleportation experiment just the other day."

So what? This is 40 years after the first Man walked on the Moon and we are still all living on Earth. It's been about 60 years we have discovered the double-helix structure of the DNA and we still have yet to see revolutions in medical practice coming from it. What is your point, exactly ? There are clear reasons why no huge technology leaps take place at once. Most innovation is progressive, iterative and it is very likely that you will not see a drastic change of technology within your lifetime.
Thanks for the questions.

1. A big reason more people don't rate movies is because it's unclear how or if it actually helps others (my vote doesn't matter syndrome) or themselves (black box recommendations).

2. Validation is a big motivator, seeing that others agree with you or trust your judgement is huge.

3. Funny you should mention curating beauty, individuals will be able to share and discover based on people that share the same taste in "beauty" in the context of movies.

4. Reading tons of reviews or trying to decide if 79% on RottenTomatoes or a 3.8 stars from something else means you'll actually enjoy a movie is a painful (or ugly) experience to most people I've talked with.

I assure you, @javajosh, we are taking this very seriously as a startup. The launchrock signup page is not the primary way we're finding beta testers, it's merely sufficient before we start a closed beta.

Getting back to the bigger picture though, we're really building a system to efficiently share opinions and see what other people think.
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> Eh, I think you're overgeneralizing from your own perspective here (and searching HN to back yourself up is only magnifying, not mitigating, that effect). There's an awful lot of English-speaking internet out there beyond the bubble that wouldn't know 4chan from foursquare.

4Chan has 22 million uniques per month and a million posts per day [1], and seems to be referenced regularly on all of the other "big" online forum sites. And, when Time gave in and acknowledged the poll results for Christopher Poole as their most influential person of the year, they referred to him first as "moot" and the stunt picked up coverage in mainstream publications like the LA Times [2].

So, I think you may be underestimating 4Chan's influence. But, I'll concede that I may be overestimating it as well.

[1]: http://www.4chan.org/advertise
[2]: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/04/4chan-tim...
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Obviously we can't be certain all or any of this is true, but if it is the board members should be ashamed of themselves. Failing to act for so long on the reports against Nguyen as employees were fired for standing up to him, and giving the guy a free pass because of his past successes is despicable.

I think it also shows some failings in employment legislation. His ability to apparently fire people at will wouldn't be possible in many other countries.
It is not so much an as-hominem attack as a reality check on the level of abstraction. The rocks that came back from the moon are (for insurance purposes) "priceless", but yet the moon was not a for-profit expedition. On the contrary, why not sell some "priceless" rocks for an infinite sum and alleviate world hunger? But somewhere in-between what sounds logical and what is reasonable to expect there intervenes some other considerations.

Why do so many founders build things no one wants? Because they begin by trying to think of startup ideas. That m.o. is doubly dangerous: it doesn't merely yield few good ideas; it yields bad ideas that sound plausible enough to fool you into working on them.

At YC we call these "made-up" or "sitcom" startup ideas. Imagine one of the characters on a TV show was starting a startup. The writers would have to invent something for it to do. But coming up with good startup ideas is hard. It's not something you can do for the asking. So (unless they got amazingly lucky) the writers would come up with an idea that sounded plausible, but was actually bad.

None of this is to discourage. Its more to get the dialogue on a track where what is actually hard is actually at least given some respect.
You can boil it down a lot more than that. And not necessarily to such noble criteria.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html famously boils it down to one question: Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
What I find really interesting about the PaaS world is that it's basically DRY with design-by-composition for hosting - but if doesn't continue in that direction, I can definitely see the noise failing to lead to substance.
It's a shame that V1 of this app saw so little evolution, and that there doesn't seem to be any meaningful upgrade pricing, but this will likely be very good.
I actually think of your first two points (optimizing...) as cost cutting services, while the other two are good examples.
This isn't a comment on the Surface since I don't have one and aren't likely to get one, but more on the Windows 8 store, which on my desktop has been TERRIBLE. since launch I've managed to get two apps and I've had 15 or so updating at a glacial pace. It's been slow, apps will partly download and then not install, others will just sit in the queue.
Three weeks later I still have four apps that haven't updated.

(Totally off topic but the wireless support for my desktop's card is bordering on unusable.)
The "plausible deniability" would seem significant, so that is an interesting angle
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Rather than have them host this on Elance, we've offered to help them get that prior art written on Scripted.com.
I have yet to hear a convincing argument on why planning for the edge case, which is usually a minor headache at worst, is worth it in the long run.

We can all say "it's better to have it and not need it," but some judgement should be used when it comes to the amount of calories burned just to sustain an inflated sense of contingency.
Ask HN: Why can't I upvote(and save) a story? 
I am a new user in HN news. I know that if we upvote a story then the story should go into our profile's saved stories.

But this doesn't work for me. I have tried upvoted a story,the "up arrow" will disappear as expected but then when I refresh the page, the "up arrow" will appear again like I have not upvoted before. Repeat that process and still the same.

I have even tried created new account but still no luck. I am very frustrated now , does anybody know why? Is it because my Kama(1 Kama) too low?