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Nice concept; I'm lucky that I've (knock on wood) been in remission for the past few years, but I nearly died of the damned thing thanks to a series of misdiagnoses. Luckily, my (then-future) father-in-law has UC, so my wife was able to recognize my symptoms as an autoimmune condition and prompt me to get more effective help.

Though more info is out there now, at the time everything I learned about Crohn's/UC came from medical textbooks and journals, which is not exactly a scalable way to find out about your life-threatening illness. Something like this definitely has the potential to bring a lot of value to people who are suffering. Thanks for bringing it to life!
I don't think Color is a terrible idea. The concept of group photo collaboration, where many people who don't know each other can contribute to the same photo album (i.e. during an event/etc) isn't that bad. Their execution for the ludicrous amount of money they raised was most definitely embarrassing though.
14 year olds are not children they're teenagers and trying to protect them will never work they're young immature and incredibly horny and because talking about sexuality is taboo in our culture completely lost and misguided. Their only source of information being the internet are you surprised?

This has nothing to do with the internet and everything to do with parenting they use their phone at the diner table because their allowed it's up to their parents to teach their children manners , respect, values and everything they think would help them in adult life.

This is the result of parents ignoring their children period.

The internet is not a play ground but the same way we don't build a fenced walk way from our house to the school our children attend we shouldn't be fencing off the internet.

It's not going to protect them, anybody can jump over a fence to abduct a child and the same way anybody can bypass a porn filter.

They need to grow up and this is part of it.
I'm going to give this a serious response even though I know you're referring to a well-known cliche for startup ideas.

I was talking to a fairly smart VC recently and he made a good point -- while everyone likes to use "Facebook for Cats" as a joke about bad startup ideas, it's not actually a bad idea.

A lot of people REALLY like their pets. And they spend a lot of money on them. And they like to share pictures of them with their pet-owning friends (go see /r/aww if you don't believe me.)

It basically hasn't been done right (yet), but I wouldn't be surprised if something that looks like Facebook for Pets does actually become a thing at some point.
Financial Damage? Well, there is reputational/brand damage. Costs of defending themselves in litigation, costs of repair, costs of re-engineering systems, costs of PR responses, and so on.

But actually, fuck that dude. Vodaphone isn't the victim really. I am. Now phishing emails sent to me will be better, and can include data that I previously used to verify legitimate emails. Now I have to sort out all my bank accounts and have new numbers issued. Now I have to think about how I deal with the fact that the answers to common security questions are in the "hackosphere" for sale.

So no. I don't care about the financial damage. The guy has effectively sprawled graffiti on 2 million peoples lives, which they have to clean up. I'll reserve my sympathy for people who are at least are well intentioned...
Wait, if this was published in 1999, then how could he mention 9/11?
Ask HN: Do entrepreneurs need to learn a foreign language?
Knowing foreign languages has been immensely valuable for both recruiting and business development, even in the very first stages of a startup. Your Experiences?
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I don't get why you're using a try except block for the num_comments variable. You shouldn't be casting to an int if it doesn't have the attribute.
Some people, when confronted with a problem... bah you know the rest.
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>Some kids who have poor role models are going to ask for oral sex from boys or girls that like them.

In some cultures, healthy and loving relationships between teenagers are beautiful. The emotional drama that follows - which advocates for infantilization use to say teenagers cannot be trusted to handle relationships - is part of growing up and learning to be a person. The idea that this is wrong, idiotic, deserving of punishment, immoral, or indicative of bad role models reflects a specific view of religious morality that not everyone shares. Teaching people to be ashamed of who they are and what they wan't isn't necessarily the best approach.

It's a fascinating cultural shift, and the religious right is fighting hard to stay in the 50s, but I think we're slowly moving forward. Then again, I was raised by atheist liberals, and we're not exactly popular.
Even the casting of lead bullets doesn't require all that much dexterity from what I've read. From memory (never had done this myself), you have a mold that hinges in half, you get it hot enough, close it and pour a molten lead based alloy into the sprues (generally 2 bullets to a mold?), let it cool down a bit, open the mold and knock out the two bullets, repeat.

Skill, but not a great deal if it, is definitely involved, and of course patience as you make then two by two.

Shot, on the other hand ... well, my family has been reloading shot shells since the '70s or earlier (my father has casks of Hercules smokeless powder from plus or minus WWII that he's still using), and the regular charge of shot for a 12 gauge shell is 1 oz plus or minus a little. So let's go for the reasonable worst case, dove, which are as about as small a game bird as is practical, and they require a lot more shooting at than the bigger birds because you generally conceal yourself in a location between sources of food and water, so you've leading them in a way which is particularly difficult.

A single 1 oz load would be 337 pellets of #8 shot. It's usual to go through more than one box of 25 per season ... so, oh boy, would that require "highly patient and dextrous craftsmen", and this activity of both sport and procuring tasty animals would be way beyond the reach of the working class.

(Math is fun.)
Don't be.

I've known Sean for a few years and operate a (smaller) disease-based Q&A community as well with 2,500 members for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) - http://answers.ankylosing.org

I created it when my girlfriend was diagnosed, dismayed that Google yielded mostly information from WebMD and pseudo-FAQ sites from big pharma.

Where networks like Crohnology shine is in connecting others who share the same pains, frustrations with doctors, experiences with medications, comforts, and very personal conversations about the impact on sex and relationships with their disease.

And guess what, when someone puts out misinformation, that community hops on the offender like white on rice, even emailing me directly (can you ban them!?).

I've seen few social networks truly as tight-knit as disease communities and that's where Sean focuses his energy (whereas mine is a small side project). They're the only place to interact with a cohort that really "gets me" and they take pride in helping others to an amazing degree.

Finally, in reference to a doctor and the "first 5 minutes" comment - the reality is they only give you 5 minutes, and when you complain about a new pain, symptom, you'll often get "Yup, that's Crohn's/AS/etc." Then they'll write you a script for a drug where the ONLY real place to get good information on the side-effects/positive-effects are through networks like ours.

edit: I still always manage to spell Crohn's wrong
That might explain why people act bizarre toward me when I say that I cannot risk moving now, or that I cannot buy x, or y, or cannot do z, because my life is too instable...

I have lots of debts, and the job market for programmers here in Brazil suck (ie: most job offers I had paid less than what I pay in my loans), if my startup crashes and burns, I will crash and burn too, I have no plan B, or C... it is just, it MUST work, otherwise I am screwed.

People do not understand that, and think I am nuts.
I already had an IAP version in the store all the time and additionally the paid one (I honestly do not know why I thought that this was a good idea) - all I actually did was to pull to paid one.

It seems to have increased the sales for less than 10% in my case, but since I did this only a few days ago, I cannot say with confidence that it had anything to do with the switch.

But it did reduce confusion about the product itself and therefore support emails. (just the fact that there were 2 ways to get the full featured app was confusing to many - but this pro only exists because my own stupidity)

Long term I hope (it may never happen) that less people upload and therefore download pirated apks, because those versions are often very outdated, and some downloads out there are even broken because of that, causing additional support requests and bad reviews. (I rely heavily on Facebooks APIs, which change quite frequently)

If someone asked me if it was a good idea to pull an app that has been out there for a year or longer (with 100.000+ downloads) and resubmit it again I would definitely say no, because that also means that you basically start from zero again - from 1000+ downloads per day down to 10.

I don't know how the rankings in the Google Play store are created, but it seems to me that being around for a long time favors your ranking and downloads heavily.
That goto is considered harmful.
> Really? What is your source for this extraordinary claim? You yourself said that the equations you used are generally accepted. That means people already understand their consequences.

I'll respond only to this, as I've found here and before that you don't discuss fairly; that's unfortunately common in discussions about physics.

It's logically impossible to provide a source to show that something isn't recognized elsewhere. (This should be obvious to a smart person such as yourself, which is in part why I say you don't discuss fairly.) But you can search all you want to see that the claim cannot be found elsewhere.

That equations are generally accepted doesn't necessarily mean that people already understand their consequences. Understanding their consequences requires also experimenting with the equations in sufficiently various ways. Apparently that wasn't done until the blog author did it, or else I'd likely be able to do a Google search to find elsewhere that acceleration away can be shown by those equations. I'm confident that millions of science students would find "an unpowered projectile launched upward can accelerate away" highly interesting (maybe as well the physicist quoted in the blog post, who is mystified as to how his keys thrown upward could accelerate toward the ceiling). It should be an easy search if it was previously known.
I don't think there's a prohibition to screen scraping, but if you make too many requests to the server in a certain amount of time, your IP will be banned to prevent the server from melting.
I was thinking that the recipe for PHP would be:
1. Drink entire bottle of tequila
2. Vomit into a dirty glass
3. Drop glass
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So, an always visible table header is a requirement for correct viewing of tabular data. That means every book ever printed, or long pages for that matter, that had tabular data presents a broken experience.

I would think that people who relied on books before computers came along would disagree.

HTML provides for a means to view tabular data and performs that function in a minimal and acceptable manner. People moving the goal posts on the requirements does not mean the current implementation is "broken" nor "defective". It simply does not perform an extra feature that people would like to have today.

I also don't believe I was defending anything, I was simply disagreeing with an unfair criticism against a technology because it wouldn't do what it wasn't designed to do based on current expectations.

The simple fact that HTML/CSS/Javascript allows for it to be extended and expanded shows it is not a defective means of displaying information. It means that there's the occasional lag in updating the specs to meet people's current expectations. Blame the people not keeping the spec up to date with current expectations and not the spec.

Once position:sticky is in common use I suppose we'll wait until the next new expectation of functionality appears that means something is "broken".

HTML/CSS/Javascript is good in many ways, but I agree it is not perfect and it never will be.
I bought Alienware X51 with Ubuntu (it's preinstalled in US-Region) and love this indiegames. They (most) work very good. I don't need Windows to gaming. Steam, Humble Bundle and WINE for older games. C&C Red Alert works better with WINE than >Windows XP.
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Which type exactly?
Slouching towards the Panopticon: where the NSA is going
>Third place: Make iOS game and get rich quick, without no idea of how, and hating games in general actually.

I like this one. I've gotten that before. "Hey man, you write iPhone apps right? Let's make a game!" "Haha, alright, what kind of game do you want to make?" "I don't know, I don't play games on my android. What kinds of games are making a ton of money on iPhone right now?" "..."
The flash memory chips used in phones are essentially the same as those used in SD cards, and phones often use SDIO for internal communication. The SD card is just a point of reference for the cost and availablity of flash memory unbundled from a phone.
I've got a couple of stupid ideas.
mine:
http://www.stamplin.com - extract text from PDF,
mine again:
http://signup.mealthy.com - eat better

and lot's of other ones.

An idea is always stupid. Few iteration later, it starts to be not that bad.
See here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374682 where I calculate a "single 1 oz load [for dove] would be 337 pellets of #8 shot"

Now, way back when they were probably more using larger sized shot for larger birds (dove are about as small as is practical, and probably more useful for learning real wing shooting), but that gives you an idea of the scale. If you go up to #6 for pheasant and grouse sized birds, 1 oz is 219 pellets.

And, yeah, this is a very cool hack for cheaply making this stuff, which we do indeed use in mass quantities.
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Definitely would need cooperation with food banks / other charities in order to handle distribution. It's important that i) the homeless folks aren't chasing away business, and ii) that you aren't supplying a population of potential customers turned dumpster-divers (i.e. physical separation from the location).

I could see this being a valuable tool for food banks to build relationships with willing-entities that otherwise wouldn't want to bother with setting up the relationship and keeping track of items donated.

If it were very simple:

- Bakery downloads App "Free Food"

- Plug in estimated donation

- Get matched with a willing food bank

- Pictures to confirm donation from both parties

- Some agreed-upon "value" (points) for said donation

- Food bank takes and re-distributes

Win-Win-Win

Bakery does good and maybe gets some benefit; Food bank gets more food (as long as the collection ROI makes sense); and hungry people eat food that would otherwise end up in the trash.

FYI, I wrote about this idea very briefly way back when: http://peterkimfrank.com/2013/01/21/doing-well-by-doing-good...
Or you could, you know, do what the headline says: don't try to force a style of work that you like onto everyone.

Just as other people may not share your taste in food or music, they may also not share your taste in work environments or patterns. And they are not wrong to have different tastes than you do.
I completely agree. The trend at apple (for example) is to not allow customer to service their phones or laptops (i.e. gluing instead of screwing components together).

Ideally, I wouldn't mind paying ~$100 for a new screen (or any other assembly), but the problem is that the price of replacing exceeds the cost of the part.

One trend is towards purchasing "accidential" warranties and allowing the customer to trade in for a new device if / when something happens. But the issue is that this coverage is at most 2 - 3 years.

Another issue is that in America, for example, most carriers want to subsidize the phones their customers purchase. By doing this, most people don't see the need for keeping an older phone more than 1.5 - 2 years. If the cost of the phone is taken out of the monthly payments and forced upon the customers, this may allow more people to keep phones for a lot longer.
While that's true, I do wonder if there's a certain level of hunger that you get if you don't have your parents' wealth to fall back on, or a trust fund or whatever. Gonna make a "Dark Knight Rises" reference here, buckle up. During the escape scene from the prison-pit, Bruce Wayne only makes the jump once he takes off the rope and uses the fear of death to drive him. I wonder if that can be a motivator for some people.
> "By definition, something that's better than an existing product that's wildly popular isn't stupid", "This is an obviously useful concept, we just needed to wait for the technology to arrive."

In retrospect, yes, absolutely. But when you first hear it, having seen many other attempts, it seems bound to fail or at least don't seem like a billion dollar idea. Hence the "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
Since Chromium doesn't support flash (that is one of the closed source bits added to Chrome), I suspect that while QTWebKit had fun with flash integration, Qt WebEngine will probably make Flash integration impossible.

The worst part (at least for where I work) of using Flash in QtWebView was the non-availability of a license to just include the flash .dll in our application distribution.
This is especially huge for mobile web where the scroll event isn't fired until after scroll finishes and utilizing touch events leads to a pretty hacky and choppy solution. Bravo.
Sort of. If you use an overflow:scroll element it does fire during scrolling. While the user's finger is down. You get no events for the momentum after that (which, irritatingly, I'm pretty sure is to stop people reverse engineering it) until it finally stops.

All round, very very irritating.
I just did three startups, all back to back, in NYC. I needed a break and less risk in my life. I got a sudden mid-life urge to settle down so I moved to the suburbs and I now have an easy, well paying, enterprise job. No teams to manage, no insane schedules, no Sunday morning phone calls, no 80 hour weeks, no more high blood pressure or anxiety attacks. No equity either, but I'll sacrifice that now for my non-startup job. Just a 40 hour work week and great salary/benefits. I won't get rich. But I'm okay with that at this moment. I do want to start a business in the future, but it will be a lifestyle business where I can set my own hours and pick my projects.
For any fixed odd number of friends k you could keep the network consistent by only allowing people to join in groups (call them "cells") of m, where m is even and greater than k.

(Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_graph)
Usually I go with feature detection, but in this case I was unable to deduce how to do that. I would require broken feature detection, if I knew what feature was broken, or something along those lines.
there are easier ways to hack NES these days
And most indentured servitude arrangements around the world aren't bound to their employers either - but there are other highly coercive forces at play that prevent people from leaving.

Imagine holding someone's family hostage in exchange for them doing something - while they are technically free to do whatever the hell they want, the reality of it is that they are, for all practical intents and purposes, bound to your will.

This is, at the end of the day, somewhat of a gray area. How much influence do you need over someone's life before you become a coercive force? IMO the ability to completely unravel your life - to force you to suddenly move (within days!), to eject you from your resident country, etc, clearly falls under this umbrella.

H-1Bs change jobs all the time. I've done it myself. But once the green card is in the works, the indentured servitude begins. So perhaps more accurately, H-1Bs aren't indentured servants, but a very large subset of them (i.e., anyone after a GC) are.
You could SiriProxy (https://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy) as input to this to handle to speech-to-text part

I'm running this at home and it works great for adding custom actions to Siri
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We don't know that they didn't; it takes about 5 seconds of 'git log lib/Target/AArch64' to see that it hasn't exactly been wild with activity this summer.

Again, the point of the message is that it isn't going to be 'one huge code review', it's going to be incremental small reviews, same as anyone else's contributions.

I have plenty of gripes with Apple (half of which can be inferred from the fact I'm personally running 10.6.8 for the foreseeable future) but this isn't one of them.
The freedom is indeed one of the biggest draws but I've found that with any degree of success there is also an automatic reduction in freedom because your responsibilities go up. Hard to balance that.

That is SO true. Just to illustrate in a bit more depth... as a developer / founder, here are some things I have to do as a founder that I never had to do as a developer:

1. do market research. Browse US census data, find SIC/NAIC codes, look up demographic information on businesses that we want to target.

2. Scour LinkedIn, Hoovers, etc. for contacts at companies we want to sell to.

3. Compile lists of contacts, cold email / cold call those contacts and try to get meetings.

4. Read sales books, try to develop a sales process for our company.

5. Go out and meet customers, try to identify their problems, then either sell them something and/or plug that feedback back into our product roadmap.

6. Go take sales training.

7. Read marketing books and blogs and articles, put together a marketing plan.

8. Write content specific to out "content marketing" strategy, post on our website, blog, etc.

9. recruit co-founder(s), intern(s), etc.

10. Go to startup related events to get to know the local VCs and angels, just in case we decide to raise a round of funding at some point.

11. Recruit members to our advisory board. Meet advisors, take their advice and figure out how to try and incorporate it

12. Write marketing collateral, white-papers, brochures, etc.

13. Write press releases

14. Distribute press releases.

15. Monitor press to see if we get any mentions. Follow up on those as appropriate.

16. Join industry associations relevant to our target market, attend those meetings to try and meet potential customers, partners, etc.

17. Scour for potential partners, investors, customers, etc.

18. Develop pricing model(s), deal with financial projections.

19. Manage corporate paperwork: File to incorporate, file periodic updates with the secretary of state, tax returns, etc.

20. Manage the product roadmap. Research potential new features and technologies, and prioritize that stuff.

21. Go to "leads group" meetings to exchange leads

22. Go to general networking events (Chamber of Commerce events, etc.) to network and seek customer leads, etc.

23. Respond to inbound leads that come in as a result of our marketing efforts.

And all of that is on top of actually writing code and building the product. So yeah, while being a founder can lead to more freedom in some regards, there is definitely a tradeoff in terms of added responsibility. And once you have co-founder(s) or other people on your team, you feel more pressure because their futures are at stake as well.
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