skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to think it's more that the majority of the people buying these games are casual users who will try to play, get frustrated and toss it in a drawer and never complain.

And won't think twice about buying the next one that looks appealing.

it's not that they don't care, but more like there isn't enough of an investment on their part to get worked up about it.

Just about everyone I've heard/talked to about this launch are people who care about gaming and/or game dev.

That only counts for a small fraction of the audience and customer base
Thanks, I'll add those.
Seems like a good idea. One issue--

What if the investor doesn't immediately respond to the e-mail? Wouldn't that be sort of like the "partial yes" free option from the article, where they could wait until terms are (or are not) more favorable but still have a seemingly valid claim on an initial agreement?

Perhaps there should be a time limit, or the start-up can have the option of sending a second e-mail withdrawing the initial one?
That's the point. If the impact of your life is measured by the number of people you affect, then you want the have best possible affect spread over the most amount of people possible. Some people have lived such meaningful lives that their impact outlives them.

If you can have an impact on the living not only while you are living but while you're dead, that's quite the accomplishment.
And, even without plot holes, a lot of the strategies that he uses work for him because he's a huge guy, with years of hard experiences in the military police. For example, he may have problems getting people to pick him up when he hitch-hikes, but he rarely needs to worry about his own safety with whoever gives him a ride.
I'm not sure how to tell you how to give back but I have a couple of suggestions that might help you figure it out on your own:

Love Does by Bob Goff - http://bobgoff.com/love-does/

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Miles_in_a_Thousand_...

I just recently finished both of these and found them incredibly fun and inspiring. And contrary to what some of the posts on this thread seems to be saying, I think giving is one of the best ways to improve your life.
False. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/adobe.com
More or less her words, yes.
You're not really disagreeing with me. You get to block other players for the length of your turn; if that length is infinitesimally small, that's still true. It just becomes meaningless; that's the entire point of blitzkrieg chess.
Why not title it, "How to use StackMob," or something like that?
Is there any stated reason for deprecating CalDAV support? I hope the new Calendar API is open enough for platforms like Blackberry, Ubuntu Mobile, Jolla and Firefox OS etc to tap into.

It's increasingly looking like Google is making it hard for other platforms except it's own Android and iOS(can't ignore iOS because of the number of users) to interoperate with its services like Youtube, Gmail, Calendar etc.
Again, please, have a look at Seide et al 2011 before commenting. Besides that I am not complaining, just saying, wait a little more before you claim the breakthrough of the decade.
I'll admit it's unlikely that a single user / group is going to 51% the network (and in that case we're all hosed anyway), but you know that in that case, they could perpetuate a fork for a very long time in the darkness, and break it out later when they are ready to "unleash the fraud" on everyone, after the merchandise is received and they have permanently left the scene of the crime.

I am not an expert on Bitcoin but I think this kind of attack is possible. In that case as long as you spend your bad blocks before they can be invalidated by a longer chain, it becomes someone else's problem. If someone who knows more than me can enlighten us to why this attack would not work, I hope there is another reason than "it's unlikely that anyone would be able to 51% mighty Bitcoin now."
pilots call this cockpit-tower protocol a "closed-loop communication".
That's right. People like you and me work with the top 5% of programmers! It's because I'm smrt.
Thank you. I'll add the missing ones. Crowdsourcing will be fun when my app becomes collaborative, and I won't hog all the credit for the data :-P
This is awesome, really seems to solve all my Google Alert and filtered Google search problems that I have hunting out press mentons of our products.

If I flag a Tweet, will it remove other good Tweets? For example, I see this Tweet I'd like to flag as spam, but I'm afraid it will kill good Tweets:

Gaia GPS - Gaia GPS ScreenshotsDescriptionSPRING SALE - Gaia GPS is currently $9.99 (50% off)!Gaia GPS is the... http://t.co/e6l95crUL8

Google indexes too many garbage sites like AppAnnie and WorldAppz, so it ends up being hard to filter good results day-to-day, but I think Mention kills those pretty nicely.
There should be some time limitation mentioned in step 3. Otherwise, there's nothing to stop step 4 from occurring several months later, which ideally would nullify the deal.
Very suited for the next week upcoming Document Freedom Day: https://www.documentfreedom.org/

Google is risking their credit in supported open standards.
If anyone wants some solid background on understanding the Higgs, I highly recommend this set of videos from minutephysics:

pt1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uh5mTxRQcg

pt2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRpIym_jFM

pt3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6guXMfg88Z8
Wordnik Developer site rewritten as single page application
>"No, it is arrogant to claim that you know everything and this guy is a total moron because he did a great job of 100% completely and totally covering all vitamins "

Emotionally charged strawman. He's done some homework. My argument is that it's simply not enough. IE it's possible to be ignorant of how much one is ignorant of. There are also unknown unknowns that exist.

>Pretending a single study is evidence that there's an entire family of vitamins we know noting about is so incredibly stupid I refuse to believe you are actually doing that.

Another misrepresentation. I'm saying that the Vitamin K2 group is not widely understood and only recently gaining more attention in the last few years. [1]

Also there is no pretending going on, simply advocating skepticism and that it's an extremely complex topic with ongoing studies often refuting "obviousness" of a prior generation of thought.

I haven't even started on the role the microbiome plays in our health. The fact that there are 10x more non-human cells (100 trillion cells) in our bodies should be pause for concern and a little humbleness. We literally carry around thousands of different strands of bacteria and are only now in this decade starting to map the genetic material to figure out new advances and how these interact with the food we ingest and their systemic effects. [2][3][4]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-K2-Calcium-Paradox-Little-Know...

[2] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubiome-sequencing-your-mic...

[3] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/american-gut-what-s-in-you...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Microbiome_Project
I'm getting really nervous about relying so much on Google. I'll be working on transitioning off of them from here on out for all my projects and recommendations. I just learned about the Leaflet map library for example.
The problem was in how the argument was stated. The post essentially claimed that his diet is dangerous until proven otherwise and therefore everyone should follow a "natural" diet of whole foods instead. It's a false dichotomy, even if his diet proves to be lacking or unhealthy in some way that does not make a "natural" diet automatically healthy.

Furthermore he makes the mistake of assuming correlation is causation. I.E. he claims the recent rise of processed foods and the increased incidence of poor health are a cause and effect relationship when in fact no evidence to such a connection exists other than the very weak correlation between them. He then goes on to extrapolate from this false causation that what he perceives as the opposite of processed foods, I.E. whole foods, are therefore inherently healthy.

The fact is whole foods are not special in any regard, being unprocessed does not magically confer health benefits on them. There are plenty of unprocessed substances, including various plants that are unhealthy or in many cases poisonous.

What the man in the article is attempting is a vital first step in better understanding human nutritional requirements. By breaking down nutritional inputs to carefully controlled individual compounds and then monitoring the results we can gain a much better understanding of what the real nutritional requirements of the human body are.
Well, they used a link bait title to get click-throughs, and the article didn't live up to their hype. It's unsurprising that some people are calling them out on it.

EDIT - I'm glad this is off the front page. This etiquette kick that HN is on is really tiresome. None of you or me (except maybe pg) are the arbiters of what defines polite discourse here. And shame on me for getting dragged into it. The policy I strive towards is that if it's a bad comment (egregiously wrong, trolling, etc) I downvote, if it's a good comment I upvote, and if it's interesting and I have something interesting to add I upvote and reply. It's not the worst policy.
With all the reader noise I missed CalDAV would be killed. I just checked Apple Calendar and realized that its set up to sync with my Google Calendar with CalDAV?

Does anyone know if Apple is one of those whitelisted developers?
Work for Pie sounds like a great company too, I had never heard of you before this thread. Best of luck to you.
Yikes. Anyone know how a startup protects themselves from liability in this kind of situation?
There's nothing wrong with it per se, but I'm not thinking of spending years with a company, because I want to start travelling sooner. Last time the discussion came up with a company, they said they were looking for someone for at least 2 to 4 years, and I couldn't lie to them and tell them I would stay that long.
Sorry failed to mention you Kimberly. I was just talking about this with BFC (Black Female Coders). It's a thing of visibility and perception. Something that needs to be overcome. That's why I try and become an outlet for all Blacks In Technology through my podcasts, and by spotlighting the skill set of black techs/engineers/founders through the BIT Tech Digest (http://www.bitdigest.net), and the Blacks In Technology website (http://www.blacksintechnology.net) and hopefully an upcoming conference. I feel we need to try and control as much of our "brand" as possible and not let others do that for us. Programs like BGC is making tremendous progress in tackling this very thing.

Greg Greenlee
Founder of Blacks In Technology
Founder of BIT Tech Digest
All around techie!!!
Surely this breaks calendar syncing with iOS http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a... please tell me I'm very wrong about this?
I would say it would be "easier" (in a way) to just back each of the "assent" phases (you agree, they confirm, you confirm) with an equivalent (automatic in-the-background) GPG signing. Then, what gets sent around is your signature of their signature of your signature of the final plaintext. :)
Which social elements did your site include to accommodate that and make their experience online fun as well?
Because it would be just as stupid as Google shutting down it's Reader.
Good for you. Don't eat the paste.
Thank you, the day "inconvenience" becomes synonymous with "evil" you'll know you've lost all perspective.
lightread relied on Google Reader...
>My argument is that it's simply not enough

An argument that you did not support, as I said.

>I'm saying that the Vitamin K2 group is not widely understood and only recently gaining more attention in the last few years.

And I am saying that just because you want to pretend there's magic pixie dust that we need to live, doesn't mean it is actually true.
Never mind the fact that tail cails are just fundamentally loops, which don't generate any stack frames anyway!

If you're application is complex enough that inspection won't reveal the source of the bug, then stack traces are almost strictly less useful than logging.
FYI, this isn't a chart. Chart's involve representing data using graphical symbols (other than a verbal description). What you've made is a table.
Where in Ohio are you serving?
Edit: probably could have just checked your profile, looks like Lebanon/Cinci area. Cool.
Let me add one more thing. I once had the experience where I was working with a recruiter who made promises about introductions and ended up introducing me to just one company that was a bad technology fit over 2-3 weeks. While at the same time I was able to land myself multiple interviews just by talking with people. Some recruiters aren't very good at their jobs and you don't find that out until you waste time working with them.
They're going down the Facebook route, they want to lock you into their AOL-style walled garden. I was surprised the other day when I went to share a video from Google+ to Facebook, turns out I couldn't, it wasn't a youtube video as I had expected.
I like this. Similar controls to spin.js in getting a certain look and feel, but for gif.
Every time I see a story like this, I'm reminded of that scene in the Fifth Element with the flying car/boat Chinese delivery and (I'm guessing) mobile restaurant.

http://www.commons-sense.net/blog-04/files/2011/05/Picture-3...

Still bitter about not having flying cars yet, but I don't necessarily see the mobile service as anything bad. It's just the natural progression of the food cart, some of which, are exceptionally good. In New York, there's a Halal cart on 53rd and 6th and everyone from construction workers to Wall Street types wait in line... and it's all worth it!
I've been using this RSS feed of top stories: http://hnbest.herokuapp.com/
Echo JS : a community-driven news site entirely focused on JavaScript
The protocol is flawed at step 4.

The investor should reply "I confirm I'm in for <offer> for <startup>" otherwise the investor could say it said yes to the wrong text message/mail, and that's it's all a misunderstanding yada yada yada

Hard to do that if you have to answer something explicit.
Not at all. It wouldn't be mandatory.

May I propose:

(foo 1 2) 3
(bar 1) 2
Lua does TCO and implements it with a special opcode that tracks the number of times a function is called, and you can get an accurate stack dump.

function r(x)
if x == 1 then
return 1
else
return r(x-1)
end
end

r(100000000)

[spc]saltmine:/tmp>lua t.lua
^Clua: t.lua:6: interrupted!
stack traceback:
t.lua:3: in function 'r'
t.lua:6: in function <t.lua:2>
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
...
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
t.lua:10: in main chunk
[C]: ?
[spc]saltmine:/tmp>

But one reason why I like TCO is in writing code to handle protocols. Create a state machine that describes the protocol. Convert each state to a function. Transitions to a another state is a function call. It works something like:

function start()
i = getinput()
if i == A then
return state_A()
elseif i == B then
return state_B()
else
return state_error()
end
end

function state_A()
return state_B()
end

function state_B()
i = getinput()
if i == MORE then
return state_A()
else
return DONE
end
end

function state_error()
return ERROR;
end

Because of TCO, each function call is effectively a GOTO. I've used this method to implement TFTP.
Taken literally - yea. But you can fix it pretty easily just by adding the standard "this is nonbinding" language that all term sheets have. That's a little inelegant though. Probably what would be best is just to have a page defining the protocol (and clarifying that it is nonbinding) and have people link to it in their handshake email.
don't forget hotel rooms ( airbnb ). I think you're point of frustration is not really about economic freedom, but a recognition of the senescence of our society ( in the US ). As societies get older, literally and population wise, they tend to get more conservative. E.g. it's much easier to be a medical device entrepreneur in India than the US.

There are pros and cons to greater regulation. Established cities like SF, DC, and NYC, limit the number of taxis because there are literal hard limits on all the gov't provided functions around taxi's, including regulation of 'expectation of legitimacy,' and managing traffic congestion. In the case of hotels and to a lesser extent restaurants, there are zoning, housing, and infrastructure investments that cities have made from a gov't perspective and a private perspective that, AirBnB and FoodTrucks throw out of whack. Reading this article you see how much regulation FoodTrucks are now starting to come under, to try and bring their 'perceived' quality in line with that of a restaurant. It's hard to find arguments against this, other than, it is now demonstrably harder to be a new business. The same is not yet happening with airbnb style 'hotel' rooms because there is more money and the players are bigger.

I think the real problem is that the gov't is poorly organized to deal with the wisdom of crowds. I don't need a hotel regulation agency as much for an airbnb type rental because the economic interests of the 'landlord' are such that my 'review' really counts. personally, I'd prefer airbnb, food trucks, and uber to their respective old-world counterparts, precisely for the reason that it's much more difficult for regulatory capture given those de-centralized models. But there are legitimate arguments on the other side, around investment, community goals, and 'safety'. Unit economics in each of these cases make it much harder to systematically screw the customer. Now if only we could disrupt telecom this way, so I can stop dealing with Comcast.
APIs Are The Key to Drive Healthcare Innovation
Some I get from companies because I've done business with them. That's OK (as long as they let me opt out). For instance, I've not really had a problem with any of those you listed above.

It's the business-oriented SaaS providers in particular that are suddenly out of control. They spam relentlessly and refuse to be ignored.
People are more likely to carry a smartphone than a sharpie.

Other than that, I really like your idea.
Classic top-ranked, snarky "missing the entire point" comment.
Look at the files on this desktop
Attorneys. No matter what, make sure you have an attorney on retainer. People sue and get sued, and businesses have much more exposure to a lot more and varied types of people. If you're an even moderate business success, you'll be getting calls from lawyers or you'll be getting someone who tries to skirt your policy based on a loophole in your TOS/AUP/etc. Lawyer up. If you don't have the money for a lawyer to review your business with you, you're putting yourself and your customers at a risk that many would deem unacceptable.
Yep. It's definitely picked up for me in the last 12 months or so.

That's why it seems like there's some new edict for SaaS providers only that says, "Spamming is now proper business etiquette. Go forth now, and spam with impunity".
I recently caught myself thinking: "How much would someone have to pay me to never use another Google product?" While contemplating my use of gMail, Search, Calendar, YouTube, etc., I wrapped my head around how powerful and irreplaceable Google and its products are to me. Now that they're winding down Reader, I'm reminded at how vulnerable we all are given this reliance.
Go for it! Put 110% in and people will take notice!
Demo of The future of Interactive Bars (by TouchMagix, indian startup)
Google Reader Data Points: estimated number of users
You need both, thats why its a steep price.
POP3 is used for migration from Gmail by major competitors, I am sure that Google will drop it before IMAP.
I'm actually fairly optimistic about this idea. Digg hasn't found its place yet really after their pivot, and I think a reader will really give them a lens to look forward with.

What I'd really like to see Digg do is move towards dealing with social sharing of news not completely unlike Kippt. They could have it so that your personal feed could be a(n easily seperable) mix of both your rss feed and your friends/folowees. Then they could make their frontpage an aggregation of commonly shared stories, sortable by tags. I think that would really allow them to be a social news hub that's different than a lot of the social news hubs out there now, with the name recognition of Digg.
This idea is great in concept, but has been tried before in several versions and has yet to gain traction. I believe in the social arena, no one has found a viable solution yet.

The real crux of this (at least one crux, if you see this more as a gimic dating then you may view it another way) is creating a verified online image / reputation. This site simply applies that to dating, with the idea here being you are not creating the profile so it is by definition verified by other people who created it.

I had friends who attempted a social network startup based on this idea. The obvious problem you run into is the temptation by friends to write jokes / things that are untrue, which I think actually increases with a site like this. I absolutely want to see who starts reaching out to my friends after I write describe them as "Avid Harry Potter fan, captain of the local quiditch team" and add a status updates like "He's in a bad mood today, very upset he scratched his wand yesterday". Our friends attempted to put some legitimacy behind their site by requiring you to accept statements before they were publicly viewed, but then you lose a lot of the legitimacy / verified nature of the profile.

Eventually they pivoted to the professional arena, with recommendations by professionals, professors, etc. People who by the nature of your relationship are more likely to respond accurately. There are issues with this model as well, such as co-workers who you pissed off writing bad things, selection bias if you get to pick who reviews you (anonymous helps that) etc, but I think there are significantly inherent advantages in the professional arena. But even in that area, I don't think the main "issue" has been resolved.

This is definitely a concept with real business potential should it be mastered; it solves a "real-problem" which many startups do not (with the specific application here being online dating, but there are 20 other great applications which could become viable businesses). I certainly do not mean to discourage the work done (I think the site actually looks good in form and function), but it is my opinion a tweaks on this current model will not emerge as solutions to the broader reputational verification issue online. I believe an outside the box and completely different solution will emerge in this area.

What do people think? Is anyone familiar with a version of this model that really does work? Or has anyone seen another model which solves this issue and works?
I think it's pretty clear that it IS intended to be a valid legal contract.
So how to fix the exposure problems. Are media outlets like Inc, Forbes, Techcrunch making a good enough effort to cover stories like this?
Doesn't this seem a bit too-little-too-late? Right now is the big shuffle, and unless there's a really big revolution I don't see another such opportunity coming for a long time.