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True, but they fill a niche and they aren't scaling as much.

Maybe you could have Y Combinators running in parallel.
Do people still use these apps?

The one I built years ago is out of date, and actually not on the store anymore. http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/

I've been considering rewriting it from scratch (very needed), but have no idea whether it's a good use of time.
So hopefully you have a way of generating HTML/CSS that will throw errors if you have incorrect or missing data. Beyond that, rendering a lot of things on one page is a good strategy. Among other benefits, it forces you to modularize your code in order to be able to do that. It's also a hell of a lot more efficient to look at one page with 50 items to check that they all rendered correctly, than it is to check 50 pages.
I wrote a VRML browser. Super fun.

VRML the language is still a superior scene / object graph language. The event model was almost the correct answer for describing interaction and has yet to be surpassed.

ARON (a righteous object notation) is derived from my VRML work. I hate JSON, XML, etc with the passion of a billion burning suns. So I stripped out DEF/USE prototyping and the JavaScript events and made this, cleaned up a bit of the syntax, and made this:

https://code.google.com/p/aron/
As someone who doesn't eat meat for ethical reasons, I couldn't be more excited by the potential of this.
Hotels.com or booking.com usually, plus some review checks on Tripadvisor though I despise TA for their pop-unders.
Obviously, but try telling that to all of the world's office managers. Or try convincing college students that staying up all night to get a project done isn't going to impress anyone. Knowing what to fix doesn't mean you can implement it easily.
The guy mentions that it's still possible for academics to get their hands on NT sources. I suppose, however, that it's forbidden to modify or compile them.

At some point in time, NT (3.1) was apparently shipped in source form: there was no binary distribution for the first 4 and 8 processors systems back then and you had to compile your kernel yourself on the target machine (after installing the vanilla NT first).
The Guys Who Made YouTube Are Striking Out
The Innovator's Dilemma was written in 1997, too early for Kodak to be a case study. In fact, Kodak's stock was at its peak.

Maybe Kodak's executives should have read it more carefully. Or maybe they did, but it's just a damn hard problem to tackle.
Already discussed at length here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689731
We need an elephant in Vegas. There's a plant nursery with exotic birds.

Do I get a pet elephant, God?

God says...

3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3:3
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are good, 3:4 Traitors, heady,
highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 3:5 Having a
form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead
captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 3:7
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist
the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

-----

God says...
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Samsung Galaxy S2 running Tizen 2.1b
Apps are the flash widgets of this era.

Thank you Mr Jobs for making the internet proprietary again.
>you most likely have to pay someone who is already collecting said data (Don't know who) or write software yourself and pay people to install it.

Yeah that's what I was afraid of :(

I'm looking for basic, anonymized browsing history for users over a period of time. The idea I'm trying to test is whether you can identify the users who are "trendsetters"--people who visit sites or posts before everyone else--and whether you can sniff out links that will be popular based on their behavior.

I've found a few more links, but most of them require you to be a researcher to access the data:

https://www.predict.org
http://www.caida.org
http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/
This link will make you change your Facebook password
>The Nexus line is the best smartphone bargain that has ever happened, period, and it's still outsold by the Galaxy S III.

Dont forget what happened with the Nexus 4. A pure-android device with great hardware at a reasonable price. It sold out within an hour. Availability was terrible for weeks (months?) after launch. A very large number of people who wanted the phone couldnt have it and presumably went with other handsets such as the S3.

So clearly consumers do care, but in this case it was Google/LG who screwed up. I suspect they'll be better prepared for the next Nexus iteration.
>And since DNA’s backbone is loaded with phosphorus, it’s reasonable to think that the plant would have evolved to have less DNA, so it can make do with less of this element.

>But not so. Instead, the team thinks that the answer probably involves recombination[...] Perhaps recombination is exceptionally sloppy in the bladderwort, leading to a natural tendency to delete its DNA.

Why is this presented as an alternative? Surely it makes sense that the low-phosphorus environment would lead the bladderwort to evolve a "sloppy recombination mechanism", that would shorten its DNA without damaging its function.
tl;dr - author had a bunch of startups that didn't work because they did not do customer development. (hindsight bias?) author creates site "willthisfly.net" which is a site for vetting ideas.

this was a rather long-winded post to ultimately plug a project you created. also, I feel like we get one of these a month, it would be helpful if the post explained why this one is better than any of the existing and/or failed attempts to do something like this.

Also, for some real advice, the reason these sites generally do not take off is despite the chorus of "ideas don't matter", people don't really believe that when they have what they think is a good idea. If someone has what they think is a million dollar idea they are apt to keep quiet and not want to tell anyone about it publically like this, and reveal it only insofar as it provides tangible benefits to them. Customer Development does not mean shouting your idea from the rooftops, anyway. There's a gradient between "I will tell you nothing unless you sign an NDA" and "I will post my idea to the public on the internet complete with a full explanation as to why it will work."
Tuition increases coupled with equivalent financial aid increases are also a convenient way for relatively well-endowed universities to turn "strings attached" money into "no strings attached" money that they can then use however they want. They're essentially laundering donor money.

> At most private institutions, a substantial majority of grant aid comes from endowment funds set up by trustees, alumni, and other generous donors. Many pay into the system hoping that their grants will make college more affordable for their endowed students. In the short term, it does. However, in the long term, the institution responds by raising tuition rates to keep the net price at the market value. While this may benefit especially needy students who qualify for additional grant aid, the average student feels no difference and the additional scholarship money gets diverted to other purposes. They are rarely fraudulent or scandalous. Most of the time they just involve making the institution prettier and more competitive in the cutthroat race for the best and the brightest of America's high school seniors. But looked at from a birds-eye view, one gets the uncanny feeling that colleges are not honoring their donors' wishes to make the place more affordable. And lest you think that you can avoid all of this by refusing to donate, remember that as a United States taxpayer, you pay into the system just like millions of your fellow-citizens. Are you satisfied with how your money is being spent?

http://www.stanford.edu/~rhamerly/cgi-bin/Interesting/Educat...
Yep, but they didn't aim to or succeed in 'fixing everything' in python3, just the most pressing items.

Here's to Python 4!
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I work at a firm that manufacture goods and has a few factories.

Everything mentioned in the article is true, and grossly downplays the gritty reality to make for simple reading.
Good point about Steam. The community part is more important than the visual identity. Actually the avatar as a 2d icon or profile pic could do ok. Like in all the fb games.
The only upside you seem to have there is the hardware itself, and that updating whichever OS (you don't specify) was harder before.

It's not like I don't have ssh here on my Ubuntu machine (similar model Thinkpad to yours), I don't see why you are trying to sell that as an upside. Indeed I have iPython in shell mode and a local copy of vim customized to my needs, and I have that as well as a server I can connect to at any time with all my sessions. Sometimes I might want to do an experiment locally rather than on a server though.

I can not only edit video (is anyone going to upload HD over the network to edit it on YouTube's editor?) , I can edit images, use my Wacom tablet, program things locally, I can record audio into Audacity and edit and change it. I can run LaTeX and actually work on academic documents. I can apt-get programs to resize many images, encode music or do just about anything. I can use R or python to generate graphs and save them locally rather than copy them from a server save or some crazy cloud save. On smaller data problems I can have a spreadsheet open for GUI editing in Libre Office and be saving to csv for a program to ingest after quick edits. Peripherals work without having to program an entirely new driver. It's a full desktop and it's fully featured, you can use it in a cloud-oriented way if you so choose as well so there doesn't seem to be any advantage to the Chromebooks other than this supposedly easier updating and nice sounding hardware.

The problem here is people are trying to sell an unfinished consumer OS as being good for developers or power users who already have powerfully polished desktop operating systems that are consumer oriented AND developer oriented as soon as you lift up the hood. In comparison the Chromebook simply doesn't stack up. The article was trying to push boot time as a feature for example, it just leads me to believe he hasn't installed Ubuntu in two years (or more actually).

I'm a power user so I need to work on images, video and audio, I need to be able to generate academic papers. I need to have OpenCV running locally on webcam feeds for testing things. I need advanced networking features from command line tools on localhost. It's all fine and dandy for them to come up with cut down device like a tablet with a keyboard, but after my experience of them turning off tethering on a Nexus device I am just not going to jump on board with anything until it's actually got more features and those features are actually not going to disappear at the whim of some advertising dollar driven decision. I don't think they'll ever be able to guarantee that properly. That OS sounds like it's years away from being remotely usable for a power user who's across a number of domains.
You can just ssh via crosh without having to install anything extra. ssh in crosh does not require developer mode to be on.
Just took me to http://www.facebook.com/home.php
Networked Junk Food Server
I'll report my own Chrome extension - I made it mostly for myself, but enough people find it useful too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a...
Yes, sorry for that, it may be a bit presumptuous. I tried "The Worst Way" it didn't work as much ;)

Joke aside, most training/material I saw give too much information or not enough, I tried to find the right balance to help people understand (giving a lot of information) and remember things (working hard to learn stuff).

Most other training are also pretty expensive: I tried to a cheap version and ended up providing the exercises for free. An lot of universities don't have the resources to provide good quality/up-to-date training, I hope students will be able to learn from my exercises...

Most other training are backed up by a certifications: I tried to do something where people just learn stuff because they are interested by them and want to get better and not teaching them "just what they need to pass the cert..."

Regarding my background: one engineering degree in IT architecture, one master in Security (both done in France). Few years of sysadmin at school and teaching web tuff (mostly PHP to pay for stuff). 3 years working in France as a security consultant, where I also gave few trainings and talks. And the same thing for 4 years in Australia. I don't put that online because I didn't think it was relevant :/

Finally, marketing is hard and I needed something catchy ;)
Both the Atlantic story kindly submitted here and a recent Business Week story

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-09/college-fina...

are reporting on findings from a report by Stephen Burd for the New American Foundation, "Undermining Pell: How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind."

http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/undermining_pell

http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/...

This has been an ongoing problem for a long time. Colleges seek the advice of consulting firms that tell the colleges how to maximize revenues, and one way to do that is to skew "financial aid" policies in favor of students from high-income families.

http://www.maguireassoc.com/services-challenges/optimize-net...

As a matter of talent development across the whole country, the United States finding consistently is that it is more advantageous for a child to a be a low-ability child from a high-income family than a high-ability child from a low-income family.

http://www.jkcf.org/news-knowledge

http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=10000

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/education/scholarly-poor-o...

It's understandable why a parent who has money would want to use that money to give Junior leverage to gain upward social mobility. What's harder to understand is why publicly subsidized financial aid programs would fail to identify the most able students who lack family means to attend college, rather than being used by colleges to leverage the admission of even more average students from well-off families.

AFTER EDIT: Other comments in this thread are asking where parents and taxpayers can find information about the costs of each college. The United States federal government IPEDS database gathers data about college revenues and spending from all colleges in the country, and the federal data are presented in the most user-friendly format by the College Results website

http://www.collegeresults.org/

operated by the Education Trust. You can look up how radically colleges differ in what they spend per student and in graduation rates of admitted students, among many other interesting statistics, on the College Results site.
Kudos! Mind = blown.
This is one of the Internet's very well-thought-projects. Great idea and execution.

Quick Feedback: Always start with the pain-point you are trying to solve! It gets very-interesting from there. Put a story with the theme moving around! Case-studies will help too.

Let me put my story for you:

There is no single tool out there for --
project-resource-management. I use different tools, scattered across. I use trello for project-management, delicious for link-management, dropbox and Gdrive for project related files. And every time I can track and better understand my mind, my workflows and project-tasks if things are organized and easily discoverable.

Now with Contextinator tool, I can come back again to a task, by avoiding multi-tasking or context-switching among tasts/projects! Its like saving all your project-task links for later. One place to manage all. Something like Link management for projects. Think as a Task-resource Dashboard ? :D

Currently, I'm doing a hack to make it work by saving chrome-sessions for later, its almost the same, i.e save all your browser-links with a task-name for later user.

And I keep a workflow like -- one task for one window. HN browsing is one window. Gmail is one window. Trello boards in one window. Note: I have tried many combinations, still experimenting. Also session based saving works fine too. And all gets better over experimentation and based on your workflows and thoughts.

Finally this will be of great use to me. Thanks.
I do think one should always have an offer of sone kind. Even if its an email subscription to a blog. That way you can develop a redership for possible future offerrings. Specially useful if you see startup in the near future.
Yes, good point. However it's a bit harder to maintain a working architecture while giving a shell to everyone on Internet ;)
There is no credible non-trivial slaughter-based solution to factory farming in development, not for current and forecasted consumption levels. The economics are fundamentally impossible.
Ask HN: Is there a site or resource that lists all known startup acquisitions? 
I'm aware of Crunchbase, but I was wondering if there's a simple table/list that has all the info somewhere.
> "Don't worry! There won't be any permanent damage..."

What I don't understand is how we can know that?
I'm bullish.
What is wrong with CMMI
Don't say you accept donations over Paypal unless you are a registered non-profit organization. This is one of the most common reasons why accounts get frozen.

(EDIT: I re-checked, and it seems plenty of people receive donations with Paypal without a hitch... until they reach a certain threshold and get locked out.)
Show HN: FB page for sharing your pets pictures and having fun
No sense.
You can try bugcrowd, they won't qualify for "a reputable pentest organization" yet, but they will get stuff done and you can then argue that you had few hundreds hacker attacking your app.

Maybe you can talk to one of this "reputable pentest organization" and get them to drop the price if they can blog or use your startup as a show case for other potential clients. Pentest companies have a hard time advertising their services (it's "lemon market"), so everyone could win in that deal.
Glad this is getting closer! Aside from the moral issues, running sunlight, water and feed through a cow is such an inefficient and inelegant way of producing meat...
Very good point. This brings some ideas for the alternative representations of the VR...
I am very interested about seeing D3 with Angular. DangleJS is a new one. I have to look through it at a better time.

I'm currently in the process of moving our hand coded D3 visualizations to Angular and trying to decide how to handle graph's parameters (axis, colors, scale etc.), data bindings and interactivity. One option I see is to adopt the Vega D3 library and create directives for its components.

If open sourcing your work wont be possible, perhaps you could tell more about the implementation?
Don't agree entirely with this article.

It all depends on how complex the UI has to be. As long as you don't punish a user by making the same button do something "irreversible" or do something which takes a fair amount of effort to undo ("fair amount" is relative here) then modes can be very useful.

Also, Photoshop is a prime example of a piece of software that's been around for over a decade, and has grown to such an extend that it's probably impossible to not have modes.

Modes are a great way to expand a UI. You just have to be very careful that ctrl+z doesn't turn into "quit without saving". They're one of those tools that every UI/UX person should have in their pocket, to pull out - at the right time.

As for timed modes; I reckon it's all about feedback. Letting someone know what's happening, what's going to happen, and when it will happen.
What woud you estimate is the number of people traveling with a dumbphone?

http://www.freezone.google.com/‎
I'd be super happy about this.

Except if Monsanto took it over. Then we'd be paying license fees to go to McDonalds.
Thats my story. Email me. Ill tell you all about it.
This is a leader from The Economist . These are often short introduction and position statements on issues that are discussed in more depth elsewhere in the issue. I wonder if this one came from this winter's issue that included a special report on India.
> Problem?

The problem is you aren't sticking with the narrative folks here are comfortable with. This particular Internet forum assumes Google has zero support, even though this is pointed out as false in literally every Google thread. This despite HN users genuinely believing they are smarter and have higher-minded debate than other forums.
> Well do you have any figures to back your clam that this is an idiotic piece?

The article was arguing for "How India is throwing away the world’s biggest economic opportunity". I don't need data to show the arguments were weak. I just need to analyse the arguments presented.

> These are countries with comparable population,

agreed

> demographics

huh?

> history of exploitation by the West

I don't see that coming up in the article

> and they are both in Asia.

How is that relevant?

> Comparison of India and China is a common topic on the Economist (and elsewhere).

My problem is not with the comparison of China and India. My problem is with this comparison of China and India.
Two questions:

1) No species on earth "wants" to die. Every living organism has defence systems that it will try to prevent/repair any damage made to it.

Even more, (some) plants communicate and use signaling system to warn their neighbours about threats. Clearly, any species try to avoid death

How do you define "does not want to die"?
2) What about carnivorus species? Do they "allowed" to eat meat? If they are allowed, why humans can't? And more specifically, why you can't?
It's a recurring rage of mine how bad and even dangerous many appliance and real-world UIs are. The car stereo with timed modes is only one example, stove-tops with unfriendly touch screen interfaces that make it hard to tell if the stove is on or not is another.

That said, I'm not sure I'm prepared to categorically dismiss modes in interfaces. Photoshop is an interesting example where I actually think the moded interface is helpful, given that the interface makes it clear what mode is active right now.

Another example that may divide readers of this humble comment is vim, where some may argue that its mode-based interface is core to its strengths.