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A few suggestions:

1. Increase the padding on nearly all the divs; the text is too close to the borders.

2. Remove the "Confirm Password" field. IMO the risk that the few people who mistype their password will never return is worth making it easier for the rest.

3. The video could be shorter. You don't need the 4 second title before the video starts, and the simulation of the signup process takes too long and is boring to watch. Edit the video so that the text fields are filled in as quickly as the viewer can see them filled in, not as fast as it actually takes.

4. Consider adding a few bullet points outlining the benefits of being able to track users' mouse movements.

5. A unique icon would be nice.

6. Make the "Sign Up" button a unique color so that it stands out.
Yep, and not only does it automatically move -- it speeds up as it moves. Eg, as you get more words correct, the speed and which it moves forward increases.
Great ideas, thanks. We can't sell coffee because the landlord prohibits it, but the rest are do-able.
The definition of power is energy per unit of time. Similarly, the common usage of the word power as applied to programming languages means pretty much that: you get more out of your work. In this analogy energy would correspond roughly to computability, which is not quite so useful a concept to measure. (Of course the analogy breaks down--energy can be indirectly measured, but computability is a yes-or-no question.) http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html
Not everyone should be freelancers. (You used the term consultants, but my gut tells me that you mean freelancer, which is a different thing.) When I first started out as a freelancer, what I lacked was not ability but connections. Freelancers without a solid network of people who speak well of them will spend a disproportionate amount of time looking for engagements.

That said, someone who wants to make this transition needs to save enough for perhaps 3-4 months of not having a salary. If they can't pull that together, there might be deeper reasons behind them sticking to a salaried position. It's not likely the availability of work, because right now there are so many more opportunities than there are capable applicants in tech, you'd have to be trying hard to not find opportunities.

Factually, the problem with the idea you present (Kickstarter-esque capacity scheduling) is that every freelancer is different, there is no apples to apples comparison possible. Likewise, are you going to take every customer that is willing to pay you? I sure hope not.

I recommend that you block off some time and read The Win Without Pitching Manifesto. It is free online and seriously worth your time if you plan to work as a freelancer.

http://www.winwithoutpitching.com/manifesto?toc
Style consultants exist, but good ones seem to cost more than the price of a street clothes wardrobe (and even then there's no guarantee). I think style is too personal for a low-cost stranger to have an information advantage.

As for shops that tend to have good looking clothes, those already exist. Unfortunately full packages must be built manually from modular components, and little progress has been made on systemic solutions to this problem.
Each non-matching character counts as an error; but you can still recover. Eg, if you type "heloo" instead of "hello", it is only 1 error.
I've been playing around with it a bit. I have 3 comments/suggestions.

1) It's a bit jarring to me the way that it first displays all of the domain names, available or not, and then removes the unavailable names. It'd be better to hide the unavailable names from the get go.

2) I'd love to be able to filter the results by character length. I want to enter 10 related words and see what it can come up without having to wade through the ridiculously long names.

3) I'd also love to be able to search for non .com domain names. Specifically, showing me matches that take into account the extension would be awesome. For example, extradelicio.us or automagical.ly.

Good luck. Great start.
Try Trunk Club: http://www.trunkclub.com/

They do a brief interview with you over the phone, get your measurements, and send you a trunk of clothes every month. You only pay for what you keep. My friends have been very satisfied with that they've gotten.
Animations? No animations... perhaps it's slow javascript?
> Some alternative-inclined patients may choose to opt solely for those treatments, which will kill them.

This kind of negative feedback loop is not a bad thing.
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Good example of it here: http://risky.biz/minter (direct object reference in URL)
Actually, you can do this with Stripe Connect [1]. The end-user signs up with a Stripe account, you get an OAuth key, and can make charges on their account. You can also collect fees on top of any payments [2].

[1]: https://stripe.com/docs/connect
[2]: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/collecting-fees
I can cook some basic dishes, but I don't want to. I don't want to learn how to cook more stuff. I don't want to exert time or effort towards doing so, and the cost savings, etc... don't really matter to me. I've been eating out almost exclusively for the most part in the last 15 years. Might not be the healthiest or most ideal, but not really the issue I'm addressing here. My original point is I want a list of places open late, what they serve, and a way to get food delivered. I'd pay a premium for that. I'm sure other nightowls working late in the bay (anywhere too) would too even if they can cook, etc...
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Total functions embed into partial ones, which is why we have a partiality monad. The opposite arrow doesn't exist, which is why we don't have a totality monad.

Now lazy and eager are properly adjectives that govern beta reduction, that is, the interaction between a function and its argument.

The short of it is that neither an eager nor a lazy monad makes any sense.

(Heh, I'm totally citing this in the monads class I teach as proof of why unpacking monads starting from functors is a win.)
It probably is a five minute switch if you know in advance that phones aren't going to be working. Blacking out the cell phone network is a short term strategy that, if used repeatedly, will just lead to different methods being employed. Phones are just cheap and effective, plus not very suspicious.

The problem here is that you won't be able to phone in a bomb sighting. You're basically screwed if you see someone setting up one.
Now my 1999 deja vu is complete.

1. Pour dumb VC money into companies with no business plan.

2. Discover that revenue does actually matter.

3. Pivot to the golden fields of B2B where money flows like water.

4. Discover B2B is hard and slow. Run out of money. Crash hard.
The second half of that challenge is to compare to how hard it would've been in Rails.
Thank you so much! I don't know how I missed that.
Have you asked DHH if they would pay to use your product? People gripe about things all the time but it doesn't mean they'd pay for a solution.
Heaven forbid that someone retain some individual control over their own medical choices. On the contrary, we need High Priests of Medicine to lord over us, to dictate to us what treatments we may and may not have access to.
No problem at all, it's awesome that someone else posted my blog to HN! I was just saying that I wasn't the one who posted and I wasn't trying to make a big deal of it. I totally agree with you, this is a UX problem and maybe someone at Wordpress will see it now that you've posted it here.
I appreciate you making your situation clear. I just pointed out that you are indeed correct that other situations end up very different, since I have experience with both.

> taking a few things out of my bag and removing my shoes are easy and quick

There's also taking off your belt or suspenders (and then trying to keep your pants from falling off, or risking arrest if they do), taking off your watch, putting your wallet on a belt where random people can make off with it, and having to choose between a pat-down search or standing in a machine with your arms over your head for a while, all for no particularly good reason.

Even the shoes thing is pretty ridiculous, especially given the state of cleanliness of the floors in airports, speaking as someone who distinctly recalls a time when you just wore your shoes through the metal detector, just like you still do in most countries. (Oh, and I should note that at Reagan National there are booties available at the security checkpoint so all the Congress-folk won't have to deal with the dirty floors like people at other airports.)

Back to your questions, in order:

The frustration _is_ in large part about the security theater aspect. Little things like having to throw out the water bottle that Israeli security already cleared through, the completely arbitrary and nonsensical rules about liquids, the perfunctory pat-downs whose only purpose is to be annoying so as to force people into the scanners, the ineffective scanners, and the general disproportionality of the response to the problem being solved. Basically, I would be a lot more OK with more stringent security if I felt there were a point to it, not just official ass-covering.

The other part of the frustration is that even the rules that are in place are enforced pretty arbitrarily. At some airports, in some security lanes, walking through a metal detector with a sleeping baby in a sling is OK; at others they will force you to take the baby out (waking him up) and hold in arms through the metal detector. You don't know which until you show up at the metal detector: it seems to be the TSA agent's call. Same thing for whether the 3-month-old's booties have to come off and go through the X-ray, just in case you stuck 3-4 grams of explosive in the soles or something.

And a last, most important, problem I have with all this is that I _do_ travel with kids a good bit. And my concern is that my children are learning that having to take off your clothes and be searched because someone randomly decides so is OK. The basic fact that government power is, and should be, limited and that there is such a thing as human dignity is that much harder to teach to kids who're dealing with airports on a regular basis. And _that_, of all the TSA activities, is what I despise them most: that they're in the business of making people be used to being treated like criminals.
Thanks for the link! I didn't specify that it would have to work outside of the US, which is my mistake.

That said, I had no idea this existed and it's definitely on my radar now. Thank you again.
Ever since google killed sharing within google reader itself (they meshed it into Google+) there is no way for 1st tier content junkies (i.e. people who have a ton of RSS feeds) to share good reads with each other. Twitter has horrible S/N, no one is on Google+ and if they were it would have same problem as twitter. Sharing within Google Reader was perfect b/c the majority of people who used Reader were other content junkies. HN does this but only for 50 stories a day and isn't curated from content junkies with my shared interests.
It's the Boston Globe, hand-wavey is all they can really be expected to publish regarding hard abstract math. I thought they did a decent enough job for a newspaper.
That makes 2 of us! ;)
It is worth noting that Andrew Wiles' initial proof of Fermat's Last Theorem also had a bug. This was later fixed, with help.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem :

However, it soon became apparent that Wiles's initial proof was incorrect. A critical portion of the proof contained an error in a bound on the order of a particular group. The error was caught by several mathematicians refereeing Wiles's manuscript.[112] including Katz, who alerted Wiles on 23 August 1993.[113]

Wiles and his former student Richard Taylor spent almost a year trying to repair the proof, without success.[114] On 19 September 1994, Wiles had a flash of insight...
I can't guarantee that it will work, but there are some really good sites and shows out there that exist to help guys like us learn to dress stylishly without breaking the bank or needing to learn a whole domain of stuff that we aren't terribly interested in.

For example, I'm a big fan of Put This On:

http://putthison.com/

The blog is great, and the web series is really great.

http://putthison.com/post/10287901291/put-this-on-season-one
I am a woman. I want this too. I have yet to see any sort of clothing service for women, but I would definitely prefer to never think about clothes ever again, but still be well dressed.
Does every point of view have merits, and should it be given the same airtime as all other views.

He doesn't need you to point out what has merits and what should be given airtime.

His approach is designed to determine what will work, based on evidence.

He should be entitled to include absolutely anything he chooses as something that may have the slimmest possible hope of being in some way beneficial.

If his open-source approach is valid, anything that is ineffective will be shown to be so.

there is no filter or adjustment in place to take treatment suggestions and approximate a 'better treatment'

The whole open-source process is the filter.

The point is that his process, if it works, will find a far better outcome than a dogmatic approach represented by such a sentiment as "anyone with a half rational brain should be alarmed by this statement".
One major factor in appearing well dressed is having clothes that fit properly. Even expensive clothes look bad when they're not the right size and cut. It may be cool if a startup could curate clothes that match both style and body type.

This could exist by the way, I don't know of any off the top of my head though. Bonobos.com is the only thing that comes to mind. They're not specifically doing the above, but I think they offer a variety of fits/sizes. I've had a good experience with them in the past.
Sorry to hear that. Pancreatic is very difficult. I work in cancer research, and have other experience. Get multiple opinions, and find a doctor you like. If she doesn't qualify for surgery, or radiation, chemo may be the only option with data to support it. You might look into ruxolitinib, a drug recently approved for myelofibrosis, but in trials for pancreatic cancer. Best of luck.
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C# has improved greatly since this article was written, but replace it with Java and this piece is still sadly relevant today. The point is not that C# is bad, it's that using outdated tools can make it impossible or impractical to apply the kind of knowledge that many programmers today consider nigh-essential.
Check out NewsBlur. 3/4 of the GReader junkies I know moved there. (including me)
I know that feeling. One of the best ways is to just ask one of the developers on a project you like. There's always something to do.
I don't think meta discussion of HN mechanics is typically productive or helpful, because the mechanics are not controllable by those discussing it, e.g. displaying comment scores.
I get lots of email from cron jobs. I probably spend 5-10 minutes every day clicking through them and making sure that there's nothing "odd" in them which needs my attention.

I would love to have some software which reads my cronmail, figures out what's "normal", and warns me when something isn't normal.
I got better at typing with my right hand by making my password a long string of words typed exclusively by the right hand. It's helped a lot.
That's a good approach to it :)
Sounds like what this guy was trying to solve for I think: http://sharktankclips.com/season-4-episode-2-alpha-m/
We're in an interesting situation at Crocodoc (YC W10) where we're selling both to B2D customers (individual developers / small teams) and B2D customers (big organizations like linkedin and dropbox).

In our experience the trick to B2E sales is to make sure that (1) you're solving such a difficult problem that you can get over the initial "we'll just build this in-house" hurdle, and (2) you embrace the additional security/privacy/compliance requirements that come with most B2E solutions.

#1 came as the result of years of work (what we do -- displaying Office and PDF documents as viewable/annotatable HTML -- turns out to be super difficult), and #2 came from lots of customer development and lots of actual development (most B2D services don't have to worry about these types of requirements).
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@trishume are you collecting data around what errors people are making ... would really love to see what that looks like.
The focus on finding problems to fix is a bit shortsighted. Focus on building what is missing. Somehow, hackers seem to forget this important detail. A problem that is fixed is no longer a problem. But building something that was missing is now a tool used my many.

Facebook does not fix a problem. It built something that was missing (a good social network). Google did not fix the search problem. Is built something that was missing (a better way to search back then). AirBnB does not fix a problem. It built something that was missing (a platform for temporary private housing rentals). Twitter did not fix the blogging problem. It built something that was missing (a way for people to communicate quickly without much friction).

Look around. What is missing? Go build it.
Is there no way for you to create filters to solve this right now? Or is it too complex the way the reporting comes out?
Has someone in the US been convicted of a crime for joking about blowing up an airport? In a state or federal court? Or, has someone in the US been held for, say, a month or more awaiting a charge for same?
There seems to be a bug: when you reach the end of a line, you can no longer go back and correct letters, even though you have not yet advanced by pressing space.
I actually designed this when I hit the ok plateau learning Dvorak, so semi-relevant!
This is how I learnt typing too. I highly recommend it! Mavis Beacon and all those other boring typing tools never worked for me and I eventually did something like the OP where I had an adapted 3-4 finger typing system. I finally spent one fine summer destroying zombies and learning to type at the same time.
One must keep in mind that while acupunture works (for some things), it is not for the reasons stated by traditional practitioners, which are not scientific. Humans don't have "qi" or energy blockages or chakras or any of the (frankly) bullshit inventions of Chinese and Asian medicine.

A lot of traditional medicine works (and a lot made-up, superstitious nonsense does not), but it's invariably something that works with no underlying understanding.

To paraphrase Tim Minchin (I believe), alternative medicine that works is called "medicine".
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."– E. W. Dijkstra
No I don't collect any data, it is all done with localStorage. I agree it would be interesting though.
So I concede your point, but I think those are also smaller and smaller markets. In an efficient world those obvious-at-the-start ideas are only unsolved AND obvious because they perceived value of solving them is low. Not so low they are not worth doing, but low enough they won't support a rapid growth and investment seeking startup.
The format of presentation is highly dependent on the content and intended audience. There are many pieces of writing that I would consider broken with addition of outlines and tables; in other cases adding more visual clues for the reader is of course a good thing to do.

There is a reason, however, why those alternative to paragraphs forms of presentation are not used widely and that's just because using them properly is hard, and misusing them makes text even less readable.

Many people have problems counting parenthesis in their writing, or - more generally - they can't insert an aside into a paragraph (like 'more generally' before or the content in parens here - I'm not sure about the term in English). Heck, many people are incapable of correctly using punctuation and the mess of commas, periods and words they create is completely unreadable. I can only guess, but I think a percentage of people that would create meaningless tables and misleading outlines would be even greater.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't encourage more visually appealing ways of writing, but I get the feeling that this should not be a primary concern when so many people are functionally illiterate... On the other hand, maybe - if they are going to loose the ability to read anyway - using tables would be a good, gentle transition back to using ideograms exclusively?
Show HN: Wall of Awesome - let your coworkers know how awesome they are
When I joined my current company two years ago, we were a small, passionate team of 10. As we've grown to over 50 people, I've been thinking a lot about how to maintain our amazing startup culture.

This led me to begin building Wall of Awesome (http://wallofaweso.me).

We all use several products in our daily work routine (e.g. dropbox, google docs, adium pivotal tracker) but so few that are designed to help build a great culture. While culture is formed through the attitude and actions of the team, a product like Wall of Awesome may be able to help.

Would love to hear your guys' thoughts and if you're interested, please submit your email address at http://wallofaweso.me and I'll keep you in the loop.
I think both Amazon Flexible Payments and PayPal Adaptive Payments support everything you're asking for. They're separate products from Amazon Simple Payments and PayPal Website Standard / PayPal Pro which, as you know, can't be used for that kind of business.
That's fair! I didn't understand the design considerations. The author should clarify those considerations, then.

That would help me, the user, know what to expect and therefore avoid an unpleasant first-time experience. It would also help differentiate this typing tutor from all the other ones.

I'm a reflective guy so I was able to think of a scenario where this tool was useful, but still assumed it was meant for another scenario. Most users will just pattern match this against all the other typing tutors they've used, find it unusual, and never come back.
It does, my fork is intended for a completely different purpose.
Thread (https://www.thread.com/) is a startup aimed exactly at trying to solve this problem. It matches you to professional stylists for free. (I'm not particularly certain what it's monetization strategy is, I suspect it has something to do with a cut of your online clothes purchases or advertising or something.)
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