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"naysayers are just hipsters wanting to hate on something popular"

I "hate" Facebook since 2007, when a small forum I was part of and liked a lot decided to "move to facebook", where it died a really quick and really pointless death.

It got worse and more idiotic since then, and these days I "hate" facebook for leaving poop trails everywhere else, too (i.e. sites that only allow facebook to sign up, "like this" buttons everywhere, that sort of crap). If Facebook, its users and those who prey on them would refrain from shoving it into my face 10 times a day, maybe I would feel accordingly. For example, I never "hated" AOL, it was just something stupid that people do in private. Facebook, not so much. It's like I normally wouldn't comment on the size and shape of someone's penis, but if they keep rubbing it into my face, I get kinda bitey.

"what other free service does that?"

What other free service doesn't? There are a million things that would work the same way, if people used them. Starting with email, IM, and all the fascinating things one can install on webservers.

See, that's exactly what I mean. The existance and use of facebook leads to me having to read crap like this, "what other free service does that?". That does hurt my brain, so I sometimes snarl. That people who don't make the cut come up with rationalizations for that is kind of expected.
May I ask why this was downvoted? He's absolutely correct. I suppose that's what you get for living in a society that demonizes sex.
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I had exactly the same reaction.. "oh god... why..."
The analogy is still apt.

I imagine plumbing the Burj Khalifa needs a different and more advanced set of skills than plumbing a prefab home.
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In theory: No they shouldn't you're right. In practice: It doesn't matter. I'm not saying it doesn't have any effect, but me and everyone my age I know grew up with unsupervised internet. 'It never done me any harm.'
How is Reader passive versus Twitter and G+? It's completely active because you have to sift through hundreds of items and you have to decide what's important and interesting enough to share. That's a lot of work by the user. Passive news consumption is not Reader, but Twitter-like services where "interesting" articles are pushed to you. Twitter also doesn't have an unread count, so you only see what's shared recently. You completelt miss out on articles shared a few tweets ago because who scrolls back that far?
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I understand the point you and others are making - it is the standard advice after all, now endorsed by Tony Stark himself!

But, I still believe it's better to ignore negative feedback if it demoralises you so much that you give up on your idea, or makes you feel you're not good enough.

The keyword in your quote is "constructive", which is the bit that is often missing on HN.
Not necessarily true. I think if you aren't in those tech places (beyond SV and NYC, there are other hotbeds too), you have to get known amongst a tech community and this is where social shines. I've been open sourcing software fairly frequently lately and was contacted by potential future bosses at three very well-known companies for software engineer roles, two in California and one smack-dab in Manhattan. I've also been leveraging things like Show HN and putting stuff in appropriate subreddits to get an initial jump. Once you break the trending barrier in your language of choice on Github, it's practically smooth sailing. Getting on the most-starred today (just on Objective-C) has resulted in two extra days of blog posts, tweets and mentions from all over the internet that I didn't even solicit at all. Two of my open-sourced repositories ended up trending number one overall on Github for a day each. I think if you make stuff that helps coders, and position it correctly on sites that care about that, then it's easier to get noticed and technical directors are more willing to consider you for a job (why wouldn't they hire someone that makes their team more productive).

I have a BA in Art with a minor in Advertising. If I can get noticed using these tactics, then surely people with CS or EE degrees can too.
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>Here here, meddling with SMTP connections to my own servers one minute

I'm unaware of that, but that's a fair point.

>the next they're hijacking DNS and taking further measures to filter and control what I can and can't see. It's infuriating!

That's the thing: They aren't. It would only happen if you asked for it. They aren't filtering anything you don't want filtered.
since this is a leak, I'd suggest you americans to PLEASE press your government to reveal what other services they are imposing this, I see no reason why couldn't they be doing this with Facebook or other tech companies that are used ~globally~, and then it's a global espionage scheme. I'd like to know if I'm being spied right now too.
Keep the representative system, but add a ton of direct democracy influences to it. You can even take real world examples from countries like Germany or Finland, I believe, where the citizens can create their own bills, and then pass them through a referendum.

It doesn't need to be 100% democracy, and it doesn't need to be 80-90% representative like US, either. It definitely needs to be a lot more towards direct democracy than it is in US now.

Also another huge problem that needs to be fixed in US, is making sure the incredibly skewed "money vote" is drastically reduced, by only allowing people to donate $100 per voter at an election, and no anonymous donations anymore.

Votes are supposed to be equal, but this alternative money vote system, created by lobbying in US, has really compromised to the point that you can almost discard the real vote system. When 70% of the voters want decision A vs decision B, but 90% of the donors want decision B, in the vast majority of cases the politicians go with decision B - because they were basically paid to do it.

But what's worse is that 90% of the funds usually comes from only a handful of people - therefore the incredibly skewed system. At least with $100 cap you can equalize it a lot.
The Google Plus Hacker News community is a good supplement, which has 55K members. (I'm a moderator.)
https://plus.google.com/communities/104388679763490357266

There are some other worthwhile tech communities on G+ - just visit https://plus.google.com/communities and do some searches, e.g. for your favorite programming language, platform, or framework.
It IS a disease in the sense that it's an abnormal reaction to something.
I can't believe we let the removal of right to silence go. When did it happen? Did I entirely miss it, or was it before my time?
Or repeat the experiment with gmail or any mail client or twitter. Still useful.
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"...many of which should be blocked..."
Nothing personal, but it's opinions like this that get us here in the first place. When you make it a matter of quality instead of principle, they've won. Child pornographers should be found, charged, and thrown in dangerous jails with people who hate them, but conceding that the state has the right to control information online makes censorship a matter of 'when', not 'if'.
Interesting... maybe it's something specific to Chrome on Windows or, possibly, a plugin. I'm running it both at home and at work and it stays happy even after a week on Esser machines.
A bit of background to support this point, bipolar disorder also does not respond to antidepressants, see http://www.jnalaw.com/effectivness%20of%20antidepressants%20...

It is effectively treatable for most sufferers, of which a combination lithium-lamotrigine therapy is currently considered the treatment of choice. See http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=20732...

Talking therapies do not stop these kinds of mood swings, but they may be able to help people cope with the effects of mood swings. As importantly, they can help people follow their prescription, failure to do so being the #1 reason for these pharamceutical treatments to fail.
Fascism is a conservative ideology and believes in a fairly big government.

Conservative and liberal, particularly in American politics, are overloaded terms at times referring to social, economic and organizational preferences without making a blanket statement that covers all the three.
Flippa is over-run with low quality, built for adsense type spam. The apptopia site looks good but rarely works. It totally ignores search queries - just displays whatever it wants.

I'd be interested in taking on projects where it's being sold because the owner wants to find it a better home - not just for the $.
You're not being paranoid if they're really out to get you.
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"In today's world, web developers have it all: money, perks, freedom, respect."

This might be true only by a VERY narrow definition of "world", specifically Silicon Valley. Or maybe I live in a very peculiar place, but the developers (Web or otherwise) here are in the low to mid income range, regardless of their skills and experience. And don't even get me started on freedom and respect...
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Sorry, just to clarify - when you say "this advice", do you mean "eat everyone", or the other thing?
We are not the shovel, we are the ditch diggers, just slightly better paid. Either way, who wants to be a commodity. Your analogy doesn't make me feel lucky, but like I need to get out of the ditch.
Maybe one day machine learning will be able to better source me content better than I can curate for myself - but it sure as shinola doesn't even come close now.

In the meantime I'll spend my time with those tools that allow me to more effectively entertain and inform myself. And right now I do that with feedly... following blogs and news sources and gradually adding new ones over time as I discover them.

No one has solved content discovery - and won't for a while yet. So I'll do it the old fashioned way. Read stuff I like, follow the links that people I trust post, and occasionally find some gold through google search myself.

P.S. FEEDLY is AWESOME!
Well to be honest, in retrospect the present Germans are lucky as compared to other countries that they already are educated either first, or second hand about the issue of government knowing everything. Another point could be made is that thank god it happened during the low tech era and not today because a Hitler-esque figure armed with a German equivalent of Google would positively fuck up the entire world with even better efficiency.
This is a terrible article. It is sensationalist. It is undated. When it finally gets round to quoting a scientist, the quote undermines the certainty in the headline: “[cannabis] may offer a new road to therapy against lung cancer”. It is full of references to absent footnotes.

Much of the text is lifted directly from a “source” link at the bottom. That document is also full of references to absent footnotes.

This isn't even up to the low standards of the Daily Mail.
Yes, because of the stableness of the C compiler, bigger test audience, etc., compared to a new language under rapid development.
Good idea for a post, I bet there will be some good advice that surfaces here on the topic.

I think you are slightly off on the FB comment though.
>HN hates Facebook with a passion, and using only FB connect will make sure you don’t get any useful feedback on the actual app.

Actually, HN hates when developers use FB as the only method of signing in. I haven't complained about it, but agree with HN on this topic. Two things magnify the hate:
1) No discernible advantage of using FB for the user.
2) Asking for permissions which the user does not understand why you are asking.

+ People complain about too many share buttons.
Sorry what's a generic? Can you explain it in Delphi 6 terms? er actually Python terms would be even better.
40 is 1 sig fig. you have to add a decimal (40.) to make it 2 sig figs. Thanks for the input, we will update.
Have you considered setting up a 'recipe' on IFTTT to monitor for posts with your desired Keywords?
The Democracy vs the representative Republicanism are irrelevant.

What matters is that we have a massive unelected bureaucracy that is its own ulta-powerful branch of the government that sucks money and makes its own laws.
I've noticed that as well in some extent in martial arts. In the beginning, you seek positive feedback -- Hey, I'm doing the thing right! After a while, you've broken past that and are looking for negatives. However, the mindset should be that finding negatives are indeed positive outcomes, and negative feedback is not actually bad at all.

I've heard someone say that there's 3 outcomes to showing somebody your work -- love it, hate it, and apathy. It's of course a spectrum, but you want to drive one of the 2 extremes rather than in the middle. If people are like "meh", then they're not going to give you any feedback.

Number 5 is correct though. If you're asking people for feedback, very few of us want to pay right now. Otherwise we'll ignore it, because spending time on the internet giving you feedback is just something we like to do and not something we have to.
Interesting thing about the price is that usually I see many comments (for very early products) saying the prices are fine or should be higher.
You can do that, I tried.
It really boils down to that the costs outweighed the benefits so they are shutting it down. I'm sure it's also about political power structure within the organization. Google+ is the current favorite group so if they feel like reader is competing with them they can successfully advocate to get it shutdown. I think the same thing is going on with chrome vs android. That's why there's no chrome store or extensions available in chrome for android.

It's just lame when corporate political decisions are presented in the guise of " people's usage habits are changing" or "it's technically difficult..."
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Someone I don't know listening to my phone conversation? Who cares. My neighbor seeing me naked? Now I care.

That's the answer you'd get.
I didn't feel like the author was trying to prove anything, or was trying to get people to pursue more "virtuous" pursuits. It is simply a personal reflection on the state of the startup ecosystem and what it means to be a computer programmer.
My version of those points would be:

1. Provide a demo option if login's required
To avoid asking for people to use features like facebook connect upfront allow them to use a demo version of the app. This gives them a chance to have a play with the app before committing to it / exposing their identity. That's particularly useful for HN audience who will pop to your site in order to give you feedback, but also useful to potential users who want to understand more about what your site is than they read on the blurb on the front page.

2. Read all feedback and decide what's relevant
Ignoring feedback on particular subject areas just creates a blind spot. Read all feedback and use your own judgement to determine if the person has a point or not. They may be wrong, you may be wrong - but at least if you read the feedback you'll have considered things you may not have previously.

3. Focus on the constructive feedback.
Pay more attention to comments which give a problem coupled with a solution - those pointing out issues with no suggestions are more likely to be ranting (~generalisation) whilst those singing your praises aren't giving you anything to improve what you've put out there (though a few such comments are always nice to soothe the ego after reading some of the harsher posts).

4. Look for common themes in advice.
If lots of people are giving the same advice (e.g. I wouldn't pay $100 for this up front, but I would pay $10 a month) consider what they're suggesting - whereas if one person's ranting that something's too expensive you can probably ignore it. As with all advice it's about using your judgement rather than ignoring the advice outright because it's about xyz.

5. Avoid asking for a credit card upfront
Same as #1 - provide a demo option which avoids the need for a credit card / perhaps give a first month free option to allow use of the product without card details. If someone from HN goes to check out your app and give you feedback, you shouldn't charge them for their advice. If a potential user can't play with the app before paying for it (or trusting you with their details having seen no more than the front page) they'll also be less likely to join.
You would be surprised to find out how finely child steers away from "bad" content.
2 guys sharing body fluid are not on 4year old minds.
Only if you force them by prohibiting it.
You are. Why don't you move? Metaphorically speaking, don't be Steve Jobs in Syria, be Steve Jobs in the USA.
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People in 20-30 ages neither have virtue, nor know the meaning of value. They structure their lives around "fun", which is definable, post-hoc.

edit: by post-hoc I mean, facebook was never meant for memes, but it does now. So you say "facbook is about fun memes", "XXXX was fun". Both of them were not in the original idea, but you express the fallacy.

The fact is, the 15-30's people doze off in a third rate movie, have fun by poking and squeaking.

And I have watch, ppt's about my company's future.
The other nice touch in Ladda is that it disables the form button on activation. Again, given your demo, not hard to replicate with a `this.disabled=true` statement.
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Yeah, that post entry gets traction when other newsworthy stuff gets canned. HN is slowly slipping into a weird dimension where Zombies are taking over ...
A cocktail party is full of pretentiousness, and nobody there has anything of value to say. If this is HN, then take me back to the dive bar full of real people thank you...
Welcome to the mid 1990s, when the sexy new "Push technology" was going to kill the fusty old "Pull technology". Pointcast was an Internet darling and people thought HTTP was due to be taken to the knacker's any day.

That being said, bad ideas from the 1990s internet have a bad habit of being reinvented as multi-zillion dollar startups. I guess I need to start reading old copies of Wired for inspiration.
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The value in facebook for me and most of my friends is in communication. Facebook is the only channel I use for group messaging. It acts as my social calendar. It lets me share things with friends that I think they'd like. The news feed is such a small part of facebook for me (and I'd imagine for most of my friends).

I've lived in quite a few countries and cities. Mobile phones come and go, but facebook has for the last 6 years provided a constantly up-to-date directory of all my friends. Interactions across facebook mean that I have ongoing social contact with friends in Australia and Canada that I otherwise wouldn't have.

If your friends are all nearby, and always easy to get hold of, then the value may well be diminished.
I'd very much like an invite, too.

Especially after reading a bit about the background, and stumbling on this link on the front page:)

http://pthree.org/2013/05/30/openssh-keys-and-the-drunken-bi...
Why is it "Fork Us on GitHub" instead of "View our GitHub"?
How often are projects forked anyway? Here I am, viewing open source project XYZ, and the upper right of the page says "Fork Us" and tends to be the only link on the entire page that points to GitHub. Most people just want to view your GitHub project page, they don't actually care about forking your project. I think almost all cases of "Fork Us" could be re-marketed as "View our GitHub" or "Contribute to our project". I mean, would you rather have a developer fork your project and do their own thing, or contribute to your project?
Really? "Well that's a pretty disingenuous thing to say,"
Those are some really broad brush strokes.
There is a lot to this piece. I do think good coders are worth it, but I also think the current social/mobile bubble will burst (not that there aren't important gains to be had in those spaces but that the gains do not live up to investors' expectations). It seems to me so many businesses are chasing playthings because solving the real problems of the day are hard. To be sure not one of us can solve any of them, but if we build our businesses with the problems in mind (rather than the hype), then we are all doing our part. That isn't a lot to ask but it seems like too much.

For my money the businesses I am starting (including the new cloud ERP start-up Efficito (http://www.efficito.com) are intended to continue to chip away at real problems. They may not seem like much but they will hopefully contribute in one way or another to helping support small businesses, the self-employed, and such against the leviathan multinational companies. Some problems (like too much corporate control) are bad matches for venture-capital backing. Other problems though may not be.
It is ideal for some judges to be elected to life terms, but not most. This is because community standards change, and most judges don't have the scrutiny the Supreme Court is under.
I was just wishing for this yesterday! Wow.
> If you don’t have a signup method other than Facebook, for the love of God, don’t put your app on HN until you add it. HN hates Facebook with a passion, and using only FB connect will make sure you don’t get any useful feedback on the actual app.

it's not only because of hate, but because people who use facebook not necessarily want to share access to their profile to every random app.
I'm trying to save him some angst.

Trying to reconcile the virtues of what he does with his economic value is pointless. They're just not connected.

Demand for Ruby on Rails plumbing is ultimately connected with the current wishes and desires of most of the planet's population and has nothing whatsoever to do with how he, or anyone else, feels about it.

In literary terms: he's tilting at windmills.
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True, although people have been painting with those brush strokes for thousands of years. Aristotle wrote similarly.
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As far as I know, the major change came in the 90s in the form of "it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court". In other words, the court can draw conclusions about something you initially refused to comment on, but then later answered as part of your defence.
Summary from the post: Continually improving your app wins hearts (and purchases). Make it good, get it out there, then be ready to lose sleep chasing down bugs and talking with your users. It’s awesome.
I would appreciate an invite. Thanks!

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In fairness to prollyignored, he's fighting broad brush strokes with broad brush strokes.
I was thinking DBSCAN or OPTICS could also be used when the number of categories is unknown, although I am no expert when it comes to understanding what sample size is necessary.
i would love a promocode for the app
You can't please everybody.

You, as a government, have to choose one of those states. I personally prefer a government that will choose to stay on line 10, especially because profiling everyone will not prevent terrorism at all, unless it's in an orwellian dystopia.

And I prefer buildings blowing up once in a while to the alternative, even if one of my family or myself get killed on the explosion.
Outlawing murder would be something I consider moving in the right direction (pun intended)
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