skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pivot options for App / Feedback on options
I developed an app to track who owes me money and to whom I owe money. simple and effective.
Then I thought if I liked and used it so much, others would like it too. I launched it and added the social element of agreement to it. users could Agree / Disagree to certain transactions, making promises to pay friends back. It seems to be working out well and people have been recording payments for things like lunch, cab payments, and rent, among others.

However, the nature of the app doesn't require users to stay in the app for too long as they note down the details of the payment and are off. So in the next release, I'm looking to increase user adoption, virality, and engagement.

(If you want to see screenshots for a better understanding check out this link: http://taps.io/OTI1MTI)

For engagement, I'm currently exploring two options:
1. Allow users to link up with collection agencies to sell IOUs for money owed to them through the app. This would allow users to get paid back faster and will also bring in more business for collection agencies.
2. Incorporate a group planning system which allows users to invite friends to plan a group getaway. this would include things like booking a hotel, flight tickets, events for the getaway, concert tickets etc. where all the money management would be taken care of by the AgreeOn app itself. This would simplify group travel in terms of pre-trip planning, expenses during the trip, and post-trip account settlement.

I'm considering these options as pivots for the app but don't know which option is better and presents a larger market. I am hoping to learn that here.

How you can help:
In the comments section, please select which option you would prefer, how it would help you, and what problem it would solve for you.
If this gets enough votes I will build out the more popular voted option into the app.

Here is a link to the iTunes page for the app
http://taps.io/OTI1MTI

Thanks for reading!
Nikhil
Important context, and if you didn't RTFA:

India recognizes patents just like anywhere else. What they don't recognize is when drug makers trivially re-formulate their drug upon patent expiration in such a way that the old medicine cannot be made generically without also infringing on the new patent. India called BS on that, and rightfully so. Now millions of people in India don't have to die because even though a drug company made several multiples on their investment already, billions in exclusive profits per year still isn't enough.

Edited to add: This is informally called "Evergreening". I'm not an expert in that field but you can read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening and linked sources.

In this case, they wanted to charge Indians $2600/month, and the generic is $175/month. If you have this condition and do not take this drug, you die.
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Working at home is not for everybody If you work with people who have a strong intrinsic motivation it's ok to work from home but otherwise it's a nightmare for the company.
> But a lot more convenient than switching OS

And from that point on, you only switch when you want to, not when your database provider decides that in order to get the latest feature you must also upgrade your server OS to a tablet-friendly one... And even when you switch, you realize the new software is just like the old one, just better.

> exaggerate the lack of Google's support like you did with Microsoft's.

A friend of mine worked at a Brazilian bank that made the outlandishly stupid decision to base all backend operations on SQL Server. My horror stories are nothing compared to his.
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Would have expected it to be responsive?
How will basically free energy affect your day to day life?
Is there a good place to find remote working opportunities for developers not from the US?
Thats for the exact info, I have since updated it!
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Reddit is certainly not a design with simplicity in mind. The sheer amount of links and navigation in general is completely overwhelming. I'd say it's rather a poor design.
this is the effect of the scarcity of bitcoin.
there's a tremendous network effect, more and more online shops accepting them as well as AFK.
it allows much lower fees and risk than credit cards with their 3% plus chargebacks, up to 5-10% better margins for sellers.

You can now use bitcoin to pay for services and even fines at some municipalities, cities and what not http://www2.egovlink.com/press-release-bitcoin.cfm

You can buy things on amazon via bitspend as well as other services.

And if you still don't trust bitcoin value to not go down, you can use services like bitpay that will convert for you instantly in whichever currency you want.

There's even some VISA prepaid you can top up with bitcoin for the places that don't accept them.

And you can now use bitcoin to pay for expenses and contractors http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/expensify-now-offers-suppor...

And while all this happens, the USD keeps getting printed at a far superior rate.
As does Android.
A better analogy is the early US Robotics Sportster 14.4kbps modems that could be turned into a 16.8 HST with an init string.
I am in exactly the same position - 20 min walk and an office to work with people 4000 miles away.

I don't think however there are startup solutions here (well there are a growing number of office space providers) but its really a massive public policy issue - in London Crossrail, new tube investments, road building, road pricing, almost all transport infrastructure is based around assumptions about masses of people commuting daily - and if that is wrong we are building a lot of white elephants
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And does it work for your co-workers?
Sure, but it doesn't make it any less usable for the others, it fact it increases everyone else's purchasing power
This is really confusing. I'm constantly told that prices for gas[1] are high (partly because of various shenanigans in Europe and Russia) and that there's a dash for gas.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-21913374)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21903837)

[1] Natural gas, not petrol.
Nothing. Just applied to mine in fact. But:
1- H1-B Is not guaranteed. It's a lottery (literally).
and
2- You have 60 days after graduation on OPT to find a job. For many that I know (particularly not in the tech field), they are really searching for a job but can't find one at all. Even American citizens can't find a job that easily.

The tech field is an exception. I talked to 35-40 startups & companies from AngelList and other websites in a 4 months period. Ended up with 4 offers.
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I am learning to develop in Ruby on Rails. Thanks Mattan Griffel from Grow Hack who's also a teacher on SkillShare [dot] com. He has made a series of 'straight to the point' lectures guiding any person with any level of coding to create a basic version of Pinterest by the use of RoR. The series is called 'One Month Rails' (http://onemonthrails.com). I have been using and I am currently enrolled in his class on Skill Share. Personally I have browsed through hundreds of website looking for learning material and these videos have been the best for me so far!
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I once tried doing this. My colleague was very good at vim and I though I will watch him use it. It just left me very demotivated. The speed with which he was doing things - I could not keep up. At least for me it is better to learn at my own pace and forcing my self to use it again and again until I am comfortable.
I have software to do some pretty significant hacks to my BMW... and yes, I do it and enjoy it.
For reference, the previous version: http://web.archive.org/web/20120920044246/http://www.nngroup...
In Australia, they're reviewing this area of patent law to see if the parameters are right http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/about-us/public-consultations/...

Novartis said in their submission "Generic companies should be able to compete with the original version of the product after expiry of the earlier filed patents. Thus, the scope of those improvement patents must always be narrower than the earlier filed patents so that third parties are normally in a situation to use the older technology after expiry of the earlier filed patents without infringing the follow-on patents" http://pharmapatentsreview.govspace.gov.au/files/2013/01/201...
If you are first to market with a drug (RealGoodDrug tm) against X. Then you can test your RealGoodDrug tm against a placebo.

If you are second to market you have to test your drug against RealGoodDrug tm and not against a placebo (because that would be immoral).

So you can't come up with a half good drug, or a just as good drug with more side-effects.
In college days me and my friends used to do same thing on small level. He had excellent analytic skills. When ever we faced "What to do?" or "Which path to select?" kind of question, I used to throw lot of information at his path. After couple of minutes/hours he would come up with better idea to how to look at the things or some decision, which I follow right away and reach to the next cross road. repeat. we won so many competitions ( robotics etc. ) this way that that alone could have paid our 30-40% living cost in college.
When Marissa Mayer made her announcement about the work at home policy at Yahoo the reaction was easy to predict. Many people would say that she was wrong. What I didn't expect was to see so few people make the case that the answer is: it depends.

There is no one-size-fits-all work practice. The fact that nearly every writer about this fails to acknowledge context is severely troubling.
You will find that not getting riled up about "it's" and "its" is much more pleasant than letting it ruin your day.
>I am assuming that the supercharger hardware will be disabled as well.

You assume incorrect.
Google Treasure Maps
Correct, go to Google Maps and hover over the satellite option, you should see a treasure option appear.
It is useful for people who either lack a second hand entirely or might not have it available for whatever reason.
Hrm. Might be regional? Or tied to user agent? If I search in incognito mode it's still #1 but it's #2 via lynx from two different VPSes.
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The site renders perfectly fine and looks quite nice on my phone. I don't know that a site needs to be "responsive" if you first design it to look good on mobile.
"Search engine rankings are influenced mostly by (social media) backlinks."

Hilarious.

Also - cramming a keyword you want into a title tag that doesn't fit the content is shitty SEO. There's a difference between that, and doing it well.
It's april 1st where I live. As a shareholder, I was really worried for a moment.
I only regret that I have but one vote to give for bringing this comment out of the gray (apologies to Nathan Hale).

And, I would add: talent, on average, goes where the money is. We've seen it in sports, and it's true in academic pursuits.

Plus, it takes a helluva lot of money to get these drugs to market. Nobody gives that money to a company without a fair shot of getting it back. Hence, for the time being anyway, patents are a requirement in that field.
Will be interesting to see if car features become subscription based. Currently manufacturers derive the majority of their profit on the initial sale. Once the cars are on the road they don't see a penny of profit for most of them(ok, there's parts and servicing but the competition is generally cheaper). If they could derive profit throughout the lifetime of the vehicle it would encourage a decrease in the churn rate of cars. Currently, the used car market only indirectly drives profit for them (resale allows the initial buyers to attach greater value to their purchase).
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Here in the Bay Area, I see no less than 2 Model Ss every single day on the road.
It makes total sense when you want to actually sit down and write something like this. The point is that this is an easy, quick-to-hack-together thing, not a big project.
There's something I'm not clear about with respect to the stated problem. I have wrestled with the Django static dance myself, but the most obvious solution (to me at least) was to add a `location` section to my nginx config pointing to my static assets path.

I get all the same benefits named in the article; such as gzip, though I have to build my scripts locally ahead of time (which is trivial via Grunt).

But served this way, that route never touches the framework itself. At a glance, it seems that letting nginx deal with those assets would be much faster in terms of response time rather than the alternative of routing through Django.

Am I missing something obvious here?
Interesting to hear feedback on MOOCs. It made me consider that MOOCs are still very new and experimental. If the average quality and sophistication of of the university courses I've taken is representative of general standards worldwide, I think it may take some time for academics to rise the challenges and opportunities of the new format, and develop systems that make sense of the new format and deliver a top-quality presentation. But the breakout courses are going to set new standards as canonical courses of the global classroom.

Are there any other similar reviews of other MOOCs around?
Perfect. The article kinda hinted on this but didn't make it clear. So all those generic versions could have disappeared from the market if they had gotten the patent.

This move by Novartis makes them seem very evil (not for wanting to make money, but for actually attempting to kill people who couldn't afford their drug)

Key people at Novartis (from wikipedia):

- Daniel Vasella (Chairman)

- Joseph Jimenez (CEO)

I wouldn't hire these people. And it's a pity they will never experience not being able to afford a 10 year old drug that could save their lives.
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You have a point, although I suspect you'd end up with a division in mindshare between 'synth gold' and 'real gold', which might complicate the matter.

But I was thinking more along the lines that people will be constantly trying to invent replacements for oil and more cost effective food stuffs, whereas there's far less need for a replacement for gold (or gold mining). Besides, I imagine even if we did invent a replicator, it would still need the raw material input so it wouldn't really affect the demand for gold. It would just effect how much land we need to grow food and things like that.
Do you love or hate Google Now?
I've alternately heard that Google Now is "creepy," and that it's super slick. What do you think of Google Now? Why?
Or like putting the encyclopedia online and then, in 2013, deleting articles to "save space".
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> drug makers trivially re-formulate their drug upon patent expiration in such a way that the old medicine cannot be made generically without also infringing on the new patent

This seems to happen in the pharmaceutical industry too often. Not only this, drug companies also inflate the pricing on the older medication so that people will switch to the newer variety.
Ask HN: Your thoughts on environmental issues in general?
A recent discussion on HN regarding bee colony collapse [1] made me curious as to the wider views on environmental issues within the HN community (e.g. biodiversity loss, climate change etc.)? For example, do you have utilitarian concerns (e.g. crops, livestock, potential medicines, water regulation, climate etc.) or also include more ethical considerations (e.g. protecting the planet for future generations etc.)?

I know this may come across as a leading question but I am genuinely interested as someone who has both personal and professional interests in environmental issues and tech. I'm not writing an article, dissertation, or anything like that. I promise! I have seen some interesting discussions outside of tech issues here before, so hopefully this isn't too "out there".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5460508
The more memorable version that most of us probably remember as Nielsen's site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120530170411/http://www.useit.c... (The same design was used for ~13 years and often evoked strong responses from web designers.)
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will it compete with Youtube?
It looks like one of those websites that squat popular domains with ads and a "fake" search engine.
I couldn't figure out a way to access the contents of the course beyond the syllabus [https://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain].

Is anyone aware of an archive of lectures available on coursera or a 3rd-party website?
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Fonts in general and especially in the sidebar are to tiny for me to comfortably read it on my phone.
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I would like to note that not everywhere has a "road approval" process. That said, I don't have any problem with folks trying to hack the Model S.
Yeah, me to. I'd have to get at least a $30,000 raise to go into an office. Even then, I'd still probably say no. Peace of mind, family time, more productivity and fewer vehicle expenses are worth their weight in gold.
I you find this stuff interesting I found Bad Pharma an interesting read (Random Review: http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/bad-pharma-account-o.html )

They talk about tricks like mirror versions of a drug can then be patented after the first drug expires. Then the company can push them over the original, which is not necessarily bad, mirror versions can be better or sometimes worse.
Both sides are pretending its a "for credit" class. So both draconian late penalties and great concern over the grade are appropriate.
Chad has said it wouldn't be a "direct" YouTube competitor. So you never know :)
Windows 7 refuses to show the UTF-8 characters or show the login page automatically. I suppose that explains the lack of Windows UIs in the episode. It also suggests that unlike OS X users, Windows users are immune from alien Wi-Fi attacks...

Ubuntu 12.10 does show the UTF-8 AP name correctly but does not open login pages automatically.
You got there first. Sand for artificial beaches gets imported all the time, from many far flung places. Desert sand != coral reef sand (the white sand from dead coral, generally excreted from Parrot fish).

You probably do quite nicely selling white sands to the beach resorts of the middle east.
The course site was closed after the statements of accomplishments were created. Currently, the class archive is only accessible to those who were enrolled. But don't worry, the professors announced that this course will be offered again in August.
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I've taken 3 Coursera courses. I enjoyed all of them, and learned a lot (but they also required a lot of work). Here are my reviews of them:

Introduction to Databases: http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...

Algorithms part 1: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-course...

Algorithms part 2: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/02/18/coursera-algorithms-course...
Today we have a lot of generalist tools for dashboarding, task management... I think the next step is to customize those tools for all domains/sectors (marketing, finance / production, service) in order to deliver the most plug&play/expert products.
Yawn. That's a pretty non impressive redesign, especially for a company that deals in user experience. Did they forget that aesthetic factors into experience?
Since what exactly Jakob Nielsen declared underlined links harmful to the user experience?
Quite so. The class of asshole geniuses is a subset of the asshole class.
It redirected me to a parked domain. Oh wait.
So you become a better programmer?
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But this is wrong. The $50k would have gone through many dilutions. He may have owned 1/3 of Apple. There is no way that today he would have 1/3rd. That said, it does raise the question: if he had gone in to Apple, would Jobs have ever left and started NeXT and Pixar???
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It's geo-based, it seems. It's #1 when not logged in, in the UK; it's #2 (with Wikipedia #1) when coming from the US.
I don't believe the physics will be held back, the Unity engine will just spend less time drawing the graphics. As far as I can tell things look almost the same.

And yes, Jebediah is the man. Um, I mean, Kerbin.
I would recommend Harvard's CS50 program. It is the most complete package I've come across for beginners. Downloadable VM's with everything set up - video lectures, problemsets, forum for questions and so on. And the good part is that it isn't just one language - you are exposed to many of the building blocks(C,HTML,SQL,Javascript++) of modern computing.

https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x/2012/
>> " But I've chosen the wrong title for it, since the core of every UX analysis are the problems and goals each solution is trying to solve and achieve. By thinking about SEO, I've devalued the content of the story by presenting it as something it is not."

So the OP is not saying ditch SEO in favor of verbosity/cleverly-punny-vague titles, he's saying, don't write blog titles full of bullshit buzzwords.

Thanks for the insight.
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You might have a point, but don't forget that America's population is overwhelmingly immigration based. The american immigrants chose America for a reason, and as easily (for similar reasons, say because of the American environment getting harsher) a lot of them might as well leave for greener pastures, taking their inventing potential with them.
All hopes is lost when you need government to change social stigma.

Its faster to register an NGO and start a movement to change social stigma. By doing that you move the solution from government hand to your money and talent.

Now that is solvable problem.
Linux-powered, but the biggest 'feature' of the rifle is the iPad interface. Nice headline.
What really pisses me off in discussions abour Google Reader and RSS in general is people suggesting some kind of 'social news'. I don't want to rely on anybody's taste and judgements, I just want to read what I want to read and this is something social news will never be able to fulfill.
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Oh, interesting. Somewhere higher in the comments, people think the pitch is chosen at random and only the volume is controlled by the data.
Also, their April 1st http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-usability-cats/
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Direct link to the slides in PDF: http://madere.biol.mcgill.ca/cchivers/BIOL597_bayesian.pdf
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