skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the TV hasn't been on for months, try moving it out of the room anyway. I don't know if it's some sort of 'electrical hum' or completely psychological, but just try it. I know it sounds crazy, but what's the worst that can happen?

Melatonin is supposed to help you fall asleep, from what I understand. Personally, it sometimes helps that stage, and sometimes it doesn't at all. I would definitely try it at least.

Good luck with it. It must be a relief just having that (sudden?) clarity that "this isn't right". I'm currently going through the same thing with concentration / focus... it's good to realise that you can actually do something about it!
*Thanks to a GPS error combined with complete human stupidity
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Wow! Defaulting the easy revert option to unchecked is the perfect kicker. It's like a cartoon villain curling his mustache.

The wording on that choice is incredible too.
Have they come up with a way to incentivize following through with plans, or reducing the fear of spending time with somebody you haven't had some contact with? There seems to be a very low social/emotional cost to abandoning plans you make with a stranger that you have not vetted. I can imagine a very high abandonment effect, as you experienced.
You can even (if you are iTunes 2.0, or a hater) delete the user's entire home directory!
It's a very old joke:

http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/WAPP2_cow.html
I don't disagree with your overall point but "toolbar" is not in the same class as "HIV". A little perspective please.
Tempting, but no IPv6. That's a deal breaker for infrastructure. I don't want to have to revisit machines later.

I'm also a little nervous about the unlimited bandwidth. That seems like it will attract bulk data movers that could affect my traffic. There is no mention of fairness, link utilization, or any kind of traffic allocation policy. I could benchmark it today, but that doesn't help me tomorrow.

Still, interesting enough to add to the list of options with the next project.
Some good counters but I'd counter back with:

...there may be a Facebook group for a niche that is far more active than a dedicated forum site.

Two counters for this one:

1) Activity is not always what's most valueable. Forums offer value not just in their activity level but in their archives. It's easy to find any post mentioning the word "aerator" for example. You cannot do that easily on Facebook. Besides, Facebook is also used in a more social way than many forums. People post "funny pictures of their cat on their restaurant manual" on Facebook, for example, but they'll ask "Where should I get my restaurant manuals printed?" on a forum.

2) The obvious next question is, "So they'll also search on Facebook for niche groups. How will your list trump FB's up to date results?"

It is not just about discovering startup ideas.

I think you missed my point completely with this, or so it reads. I'm saying that, for your list to be useful, people have to remember that it exists. No one has to remember that Google or Facebook exists. If they have a problem, bam - off to Google to see if other people have written about it. But where, in the order of when someone thinks "How I will go about finding niche sites" will your list appear?

if people find it valuable it is worth the effort

But if they don't find it valuable, was it worth the effort? My bookmarks are full of cool lists that I've bookmarked and have big plans to eventually come back and use...

May be I didn't made it clear but the objective of this post was to just collect such links not make a wiki on HN.

That's a good start, of course. I don't know that I would contribute though. To a certain degree, being able to find this information on your own is sort of a barrier to entry in that market. If you aren't capable of finding quality restaurant forums, for example, then maybe you shouldn't be trying to start a business in that industry.

This is a cool idea for a project in which you are learning how to code, or learning a new language, or learning a new stack. It's just not a viable, long-term "thing" IMO for the reasons listed. Prioritization is a big part of entrepreneurship - you have to recognize what's worth doing. You say it takes "a few hours" - no way. Nothing - NOTHING - ever takes however much time you estimate in the software world haha. It will take longer. You will over-optimize in the beginning, start your project, then have to scale back and re-think. It happens to everyone :)
If you're working with local storage, I highly recommend using the following library:

http://amplifyjs.com/api/store/

It has a very simple interface and internally it has a bunch of fall-back storage mechanisms in case one isn't supported by the browser.
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He changed his MAC address, which is impersonating another device, so in this case it is exactly like the use of 'another employee's credentials'.
After reading some comments and noticing that you're one of the VLC lead developers (awesome software, by the way!), I am wondering if you have a way to make VLC notify its users at the first launch (after install) and tell them something like

"You have installed VLC, it should have come without any additional software such as tool bars or file compressors. If this was not your case, you probably installed it from a third party that arbitrarily and without our consent added external programs. We recommend you to install VLC from videolan.org, etc."

That way, casual users will at least be aware of the external installs problem.
With licensing and cost issues, can Thunderbolt break out of its niche?
Jim cramer admits to manipulating the market
Try http://mentii.com -- it's still in beta but there are a few startup advisors / mentors explicitly offering help.

disclaimer: I run Mentii and happy to help you find the right mentor if no one responds (reach out to me at sumit at mentii dot com)
I always enjoy the blog posts they do analyzing big chunks of data. Hopefully they will do one regarding this.
> That's a very good point. I wonder if it's possible
> to have a party-based system which does not encourage
> extreme brands?

I had a long think about this and gave up but came back to it. What I write below doesn't reconcile with parties so well, but I expect it would discourage non-mainstream opinions, or aggressive conduct.

Two mechanisms: (1) compulsory voting, with (2) compulsory preferences for every candidate in the system.

Compulsory preferences. If you make people rank everyone, then they will tend to be harsher on groups they otherwise wouldn't bother with.

Compulsory voting. By making voting compulsory, you get input from people who are apathetic, but likely to be scathing towards people who are obsessed with a particular ideology.

I thought about negative votes as well, but went hard against it - it leads to intrigue and strategic voting, which rewards ingenuine behaviour and gaming.

Another mad option I've thought about: have an upper house, and make parties nominate five people for every upper house position. If the position is won, then the person to fill it must be randomly selected from the pool of nominations (by a computer or similar). I still have some attraction to this.
Exactly. In fact, Spielberg and Lucas tell where they got their inspiration for Indiana Jones character on the Extras of the IJ Trilogy collection: old adventure movies and comic books from the 30s and the 40s.
well web app is already built, and the Kickstarter's for native mobile app. no need to use the web app if you don't want to.

But the reason I chose web first is (1) easy access to all platforms, (2) plug into web services and hooks. Eg, there's the Chrome extension (http://goo.gl/gze94) where you lose HP for surfing reddit, facebook, etc. Pomodoro plugin, and future integration with Pivotal, Asana, etc. Integration is easier on the web.
Disk, flash, or RAM are concerns any time you have many copies of the files. One large file or millions of small ones, it adds up either way!

I picked tab-based indentation because of the flexibility it gives me and anyone else reading the code. Savings elsewhere are icing on the cake.

IDEs can automate bad behaviour as well as good, and yet spaces remain intra-word separators and tabs remain the character designed for indentation and alignment.
I just realized that I keep replying to you, crusso (lol). Cheers. I'm more interested in the demographics of the student population than the 'random distribution (1)' of students in that population to different teachers. What I mean by this is that I would expect 'good' teachers to be able to demonstrate their abilities with with relatively homogeneous groupings of students where those students are from relatively decent neighborhoods. If, however, this study included teachers in inner city schools with huge variance in the 'quality' of student that a teacher would receive at often vastly different levels of understanding in the teacher's discipline area, then I think the results would be interesting insofar as to allow others to dig into what makes these teachers effective.

1: If we are looking at a teacher who teaches a course with a pre-requisite, the grouping of students becomes more similar (ie, a trigonometry teacher is likely to have students both motivated to do well and to have passed the requisite lower level math classes, and their success is less surprising to me).
Here are the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_N...
From my work teaching I am very skeptical of the notion that it is a family's ability to "afford" books that makes the difference. It is whether the family knows that books are important and chooses to get them and read with their children. While monetary poverty is horrible, it's effect on educational outcome is dwarfed in comparison to cultural dysfunction and despair.
I don't think there's an implication that a YC company would be more moral, just that they'd be doing something a little more interesting or subtle than the same old crap sleaze balls have been pulling for years now.

It's like finding that someone has got through the YC selection process based on a business model which involves putting "sex, horny, porn" in the title of each page on their website.
MS-DOS did it, but on those days things were a lot simpler.
Evaluating teachers is all well and good, but the key to improving our educational system is not that. What is needed is improving teachers. See "Building a Better Teacher"[0]

[0]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html...
If Linux on the desktop were to get popular, I'd hate to imagine what might happen to the open source Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu repositories.

Nothing. In case you haven't been paying attention, Debian repositories were "app stores" before there were app stores. The software goes through extensive vetting and rigorous testing; no, I'm not saying every line of code is inspected, but to claim that a Debian maintainer would just blithely let crapware in is ignorant.

As for the walled gardens of Google and Apple, people are objecting to precisely that: the locked in, tinker-hostile way that the platform (not the app store) is managed. It's great that Google and Apple have finally seen the light and started curating software and making it easy to install, like it's been in Debian for nearly two decades. What's not great is telling people what they are and are not allowed to do with their property by anti-competitively denying the right the to install third party apps.
> Do you know how much effort goes into the process? Even when things are completely automated (which is expensive) there's a lot of manual labor in operating the machine, editing, and cleaning stuff up. What do you do with figures? How about typeset math? Glyphs not in unicode?

Step 1: Ask Google to do it.
Step 2: There is no step two.

Google Books shows that Google is willing to do these kinds of tasks, as long as they can show the results on their site and thus keep people using Google services. I'm sure they would digitize all of the public domain papers and host them at no cost to JSTOR.
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There's nothing wrong with using GMO seeds to increase yield.
He sort of alluded to it, but there's the usual perceived tooling/ retraining/hiring / performance ceiling issues for shops with > N devs, N somewhere between 5 and 25 (I don't agree with his arguments, just repeating them)

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_pro...

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jap3x/im_very_tempt...

http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-t...
Presumably it's hard to get into YC without a "different angle".
why not just develop a site that lets your friends (your real friends) pick your perspective blind date?

In the UK there is a site[1] which does something similar. There was quite a bit of buzz to start with but I wasn't sure it was even still going until I searched for it.

[1]http://www.mysinglefriend.com
Here's an idea/business you are more than welcome to steal/build/collaborate if you want.

MarketingBar
Similar to http://www.hellobar.com create a service where you can install a bar on the to of your site (javascript) and allow targeting the bar with 3 types of messaging (link, question, offer).

1. Simple Link - e.g. Follow us on Twitter @username
2. Ask a question with Call to action, e.g. We love talking to people on social media: What's your @username? [input box] or even a Yes/No e.g. Are you in the market for some new pants (yes [radiobutton] / no [radio button]
3. Offer call to action - Take 10% off your order today with coupon code: 10off

Allow for a CMS like system for targeting each message based on URL and/or referal (.e.g if the refereal is twitter, show message about following or capturing their twitter username).

Bonus - integrate https://github.com/codejoust/session.js so now you can track each visitor and their entire path showing what message was shown and what pages they visited.

For ideas take a look at http://www.getbackstory.com https://mixpanel.com/activity-feed/ and http://www.springmetrics.com/

Hope that helps or gets the ball rolling on some ideas :)
Feel free to hit me up if you want to talk more.
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The users aren't the people installing the software. The users are the clowns writing the software that is so horrible it needs to pay for installs.

And those users will love this new attack vector backed by some of the most respected folk in Silicon Valley.
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Live link: http://beta.vocaltap.com

Do you think your competitors follow your progress closely is a good idea? As far as I understand from the homepage of VocalTap, it helps startups to follow each others progress, right?
App stores are just are likely to turn to crap. I've had lots of friends complain that they bought an app, and then an "upgrade" shoved advertisements in.

It's not third-party ads, it's first-party ads, which is slightly better.

Like OP, I have a lot of sympathy for software developers trying to sell in a world full of people who don't think they should pay any dollars for software. They are still gonna pay, just in terms of their privacy and computer security.
I have no idea how it happens, but I recall having more teachers that I referred to as "Coach" instead of "Mr.", "Ms.", or "Dr." while in middle school and early high school.

I'll add to this since I think these types of stories occurs more often than people think. I went to Baker High School in Mobile, Alabama (that might be your first clue).

In the 8th grade I took a required course called Earth Science, also of course taught by a coach. I recall that the last question of one of the exams was "The Universe was created by _____________". Odd. I thought this was a fairly complex answer for a simple fill in the blank question, especially for tests which were typically always multiple choice or fill in the blank. So I just assumed that the empty space below it (since it was the last question) was for writing a short answer.

So, I did my best to mention the Big Bang Theory and associated information about red shifts and such for scientific evidence. In the end, my answer was about a paragraph long, and I felt really good about my answer.

I did get full credit, but I noticed that other students also got full credit but wrote only in the blank itself. So I checked with the teacher for how I could have been more concise. Turns out that the correct answer that he was looking for was "God".

I guess the question was a simple fill in the blank after all.
relevant: https://github.com/tombenner/nui
Ask HN: Do any DE Corps have 'Registered Agents'? 
This feels like a total shakedown. A private co emailed us about being our Registered Agent since we don't have a DE address.
The raw data behind an Earth-like exoplanet
Something tells me that this won't work out the way he expected.
I think your coworkers salaries give you a scale of what your company is willing to pay for the service you provide.

I like to feel whole for my efforts, and get paid what I'm worth. If you can demonstrate your quality, and feel as if you are not being adequately compensated for your work, then you should try to change that.
National Rifle Association launches shooting game for mobiles
"Simply tell the reader what the subject is."

There's an awful lot to be said for the practice of forswearing cleverness and just writing exactly what you want the reader to know.
The idea that call colding sales is an effective mechanism for most businesses is distinctly out of date, and has been for some years now.

Online intros via sites like linkedin are much more in vogue.
How do you use this once you have an account?
Maybe I missed the point, but isn't it too easy to cheat here? I could add 40 fake ToDos each day and mark them as done. No need for them to be fake actually... I could just add eat, breathe, walk, think, work, exist, etc.

I know the point of motivation boosters is that you won't cheat because you want to improve yourself, but there are users who will cheat and that'll make the level system bogus. The most motivated users who do their homework and never cheat will lose in front of the least motivated users who never do their homework and cheat.

Am I wrong?
Tablets to get Energy Star ratings
I've had that happen, but the ads only show up in that one app. They can't install ads across my whole iPhone like most adware does.
FISA has also mainly been used against "bad people" so far.

Evidence?

We hear about cases where the prosecutors decided that someone was bad and proceeded. However it would "violate our privacy" for us even to be TOLD how many of us are under surveillance.

Our general awareness of how often it is misused is not evidence that it is not misused on a regular basis. And in general the best presumption is that anywhere where you have authority combined with dark spaces, there are cockroaches breeding.
It's impossible to create something out of nothing. It just takes money that was being spent in one place and spends it in another. Every job that is created by the stimulus in one place is a job that can't be created somewhere else. You just see the jobs that get created and don't see the jobs that don't get created.
Fedora 18 includes Cinnamon: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

I think it is a very good option if you don't like Gnome 3 but want to benefit from all the new stuff (ie. GTK+ 3) with a more traditional desktop interface.
Legal protections against rebundling aptitude? Something released under the GPL? Which means everyone has all of the ability to easily change the sucker.

If you're packaging something as a deb, you can potentially bundle other things, but at the same time, because a deb is a glorified tar.gz, someone can just provide information on how to get rid of the offending thing.

Or, if you're using Arch, the AUR maintainer just adjusts the PKGBUILD to do it for you.

It's not particularly hard.

And sure, having people install a different package manager requires a savvy enough userbase, to an extent. If they can copy and paste a couple commands into the terminal, they can change it (wget [somefile] && dpkg -i [somefile]). How hard.
The interface, while not bad didn't really attract me, seems too flat... almost boring i'd say. Minimalism might be fine but there is something missing...

Registration went smooth. I don't particularly like being asked to frequently to invite my friends. Specially considering that if I am registering it means I have never tried your product so I do not have anything to suggest yet, so I will not do it. If you must ask me, ask me after I tried your product for some time. Make sure I like it, other way it's just annoying.

The style of the activity feed on the profiles page seems to be broken, it goes to half of the container and it breaks http://i.imgur.com/MQblf.jpg

The front page after the first login is 90% blank, give too much a sense of emptiness that is quite sad.

You left some "debugger;" in the js files. I randomly stumbled upon one.

Overall not too bad but I think it will be quite hard to make it catch on.

Good luck.
I don't. I just have to accept the fact that I can't be up to date on everything.

I actively cut out stuff that's essentially worthless like TV, Facebook, TechCrunch, etc. I greatly limit the number of people I follow on Twitter.

I am well aware that there are tons of things I am 'missing out on' that I could read about on HN. But this is equally true of books I'd like to read.
Thanks for contributing to this thread - I've been looking for something like this for years!
Can legal changes prevent another Aaron Swartz tragedy?
I took a look at your image and started a search for Babylon Browser. Autofill added stuff like "hijack" and "took over my browser".

Sounds like very bad news:

https://www.google.com/search?q=babylon+browser
Great file name.

But yeah, these people really chose to do evil, in a shady business. Why? Why not start the next scientology, that would make them more money.
CNet hasn't been a reputable download source for some time.
When is it better to ask permission than forgiveness?
Facebook's big announcement: what will it be?
I guess that's a valid point. Though it would be an issue if there were a negative income tax.
What do you do, what proportion of your time is advancing yours or flagging them?
So? The German system as it existed 30 years ago is still interesting.
Your overall point is correct, but your "under Windows" example is oversimplified. The Windows user still needs to know:

1) What an "installer" is

2) Where on the filesystem it goes when it's downloaded

3) How to navigate to that location in Explorer

4) That double-clicking the installer runs it

etc.

Some of these are things that you can learn from general Windows usage, but then the same could be said of several of the points you listed under Linux. And there are alternate approaches to installing software in Linux (like Ubuntu's Software Center) that remove the command-line, piping, grep, etc.
I can imagine a large percentage of first uses being friends intentionally trying to send their friends on horrible dates as a gag. Having a 2-sided suggestion may work well, where you can suggest a date, D, for one of your trusted friends, F. Any of D's trustees can see D's suggestions, and vote to confirm. If the vote is successful by some metric, F's trustees can perform a similar vote. If this final vote succeeds, D & F are presented with the opportunity.
> I am a linux user (linux mint cinnamon). When I need a new software, I launch the software manager, I type in the search criteria. This gives me a list of software. When I click a software, I have a list of users feedbacks and an install button. When I click install, it asks for my password and that is all.

Which isn't all that different to the app stores on other platforms. It's quite a long way from Aardwolf's command line pacman stuff above though.
I read HN and reddit when it's all calm at work. Otherway I don't. Also, I don't watch any TV.