skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He can't get upvotes on 4chan.
This is exactly the type of MVP I would go after: me reading HN and Tech Crunch daily.
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Thanks. I am going to investigate the content from the competition and determine if I have a shot at finding a toe hold.
Sorry about that. The only domains that might be reserved for corporate services are those with the .ly TLD. Sadly the .ly whois server puts reserved and available domains in the same category.

There are no referral links though, just regular links to Gandi because I like them and they support a wide range of TLD's.
2048 is most definitely a clone.
Then sit down and wait for a download.

They don't have official builds yet. If you care enough you can build it. They'll get official builds probably soon enough. I don't know what you're complaining about..
In case anyone else is wondering: http://cr.yp.to/
So email? App.Net is just email?
Database migrations and application deploys
Considering how many of their publications revolve around web development, that website sure is ugly.
These are pretty awesome but they've also been around for a while... I think Cirrus has had them on every plane they've made since the early 2000's.
I think Gabriel's aversion to profiting from this creation is laudable, but I wonder how much of it is driven by a sense of guilt over the reaction from the creators of Threes. That said, I'd hope that those guys would get in tough with Gabriel and have a candid conversation which amounted to "okay, seriously dude - make some money already!"
US securities law is about what level of transparency is required of publicly-traded companies. It doesn't try to dictate how a corporation is run, only what information it is required to disclose.

Share classes with different voting rights are nothing new. Recent high-profile examples are Google and Facebook, but there are myriad other examples, like Dow Jones prior to the Murdoch takeover, Comcast, and Berkshire Hathaway.

As long as it's disclosed, publicly-traded companies in the US can be structured pretty much however they want.
> Which does not make it impossible to come up with theories, strangely enough.

Yeah, but you still don't get to call what really has been shown to happen wrong because it doesn't match the theory you came up with. (Well, I mean, you can if its a theory of morality rather than a predictive theory, but its important not to confuse the two.)
It's aimed at the sort of person that thinks hipste.rs is a super clever domain name (and who is uninterested in the difficulties of communicating that in word of mouth or old media channels like radio/tv).
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Thanks, worked! :)
Since you brought up Amazon, I thought I would share Andy Dunn's (Founder of Bonobos) article on competing with Amazon. https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/d233f02d52a5 The article concludes that at some point you are inevitably going to go head-to-head with Amazon and their business already has scale to take advantage of many opportunities. Where they are weak or have chinks in their armor, they have made great acquisitions in terms of functions (e.g. customer service via Zappos) and verticals (e.g. baby products via Diapers.com/6pm via female accessories, etc.).
I love board games (own a little over 150) and enjoy them a lot more than video games.
You can extract pretty good optimization problems form many of them (especially Eurogames).

In fact I own quite a few games that I haven't really played a lot but spent quite some time thinking about AIs for those games...dunno it's a strange but fun hobby :D

Cooperative games are probably the most popular ones in my collection. Incidentally they make for excellent solo puzzles as well.
+1 for web seeds. You can also avoid having a tracker at all if you use PEX and DHT-only magnet links.

Tangent: I ran into a strange bug with web seeds using Transmission on Debian Wheezy the other day: it does not respect the configured speed limit for web seed sources, owing to a discrepancy in the way libcurl vs libtransmission downloads are handled. It's fixed now but not in Wheezy.
Maybe I'm wrong but it wasn't so much designing as it was complaining about the design of various devices around him. I remember something about a face mask and the pulse reader on his finger. I'm not sure though. It came off as he was being a bit difficult rather than offering up design suggestions.
Normally, if I understand right, the point of hashed passwords, is what is sent from client to server to auth is the ACTUAL password.

Then the actual password is hashed, and the hash of the input password is compared to the previously stored hash, to see if it matches.

This way, you need the actual password to auth, but the actual password is stored nowhere by the app, only the hash is -- so the actual password can't be stolen by getting access to the db or the file system or anything else, because it's simply not there. But it's what you need to auth.

This is really the whole point of storing hashes rather than original passwords. Right?

Now, I guess that would mean you'd store the _actual_ password in the cookie. But that does sound risky, even if the cookies are https only. Which is why usually you store a _session id_ in the cookie, and auth the session with a single auth action, not store the password in a cookie.
How much shekels did you get webm implementation?

HOW does it make you feel that web is becoming less W3C and more Google Blink™ ?
A charge and limited time is meant to keep people who work there from parking all day, so that there is more parking for customers.

In my town, the businesses ask for it for this reason.
If you already have a job, then most companies have some clause that will not allow you to create new software that can generate revenue. Atleast this is my experience.
I need to show this video to some teachers I know, just so I can count how many turn white seeing a room full of kids using laptops with the screens turned away from the teacher's view.

I'm guessing this will be a non-zero value.
Not sure what the point of downvoting this was. I personally prefer nicer and more expensive stuff a lot of the time, but the economic argument in favor of it rings hollow to me. Your dog can eat $600 shoes as easily as $40 beaters from Target. Sometimes you will come out on top buying cheap, sometimes you will come out on top buying expensive.
Poll: Would you take $10M now or start your own company?
In the series 'Silicon Valley' Richard get an option to choose between $10 million dollar right now for his algorithm, or get some seed money ($200,000) and all the help for 5% to start his own company.
Which type are you? Please elaborate!
Take $10 million right now.
Sort of stating the obvious. Communities need a lot of momentum (heck, acceleration) to thrive. And even those communities are very fragile. Introducing even the slightest change (like saying no one is going to continue babying it) can completely disrupt it.

I think open sourcing the code is a good step; even if no one uses it.
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There is MaybeOwned for that. It's either a &'static str or a ~str IIRC.
The cookie should not contain something computable at all.
It should be some kind of session identifier, generated by your code when user:pass combo checks out.

And if possible, store the session information somewhere else than your database. Redis and Memcached is a nice fit for stuff like that.
This is pretty interesting but may not be so relevant in the context of digital products or doing a startup. Yes, we want our products to be mass market from day 1 but if your low-capital 2-person company can get traction in a 1% niche market then you'll have money to focus, retarget, and grow to 2%, 4%, 8%. Pepsi, on the other hand, needs to pay for inventory, shelf space, marketing, and distribution so their profit margins probably depend on mass market adoption. They're also in a position where it's more profitable for them to just axe less popular products and try again rather than steal shelf-space and mindshare from their big sellers.
Google has publicly admitted they did not recognize the emergence of social. Despite their size and resources, their size, culture, and business process prevented them from capitalizing on it sufficiently well enough to prevent Facebook from practically owning social for the past 5 years.
You seem to have only one use case which appears to be serialization, that isn't nearly the world of what xml covers. Yeah I guess if you don't want to use a database for your blog application json serialization is fine.

A lot of us need much more from our data than that. We need validation, we need a machine readable description format, and we need apis to leverage all this that doesn't change every day.

The json community is constantly reinventing the latter. Who cares if it saves a few bytes in transmission, I don't know anyone who grumbles "oh great, the xml is making my internet slow today."
Thanks. I'm well aware of what a hipster is and how the term is used in the context of modern slang, this doesn't really help answer my original question, however.
This is exactly why I never moved from Evernote, and I continue to give them $45/year.

No Google! I will not fall for you again!
Techcrunch said that, not Google. Google said http://www.google.com/edu/privacy.html, which addresses your scenario.
No worries. Interesting tidbits about the .ly domain.

Also, thank you for putting the source up on github. Edit: Very nice and clean. + great art.
I'm sorry, you have written a very similar message to the comments section of the given link. It smells spam.
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did you use gtk bindings?
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No, I used my work-in-progress game engine that uses an SDL and OpenGL.
Wakaba isn't abandoned, it's finished. What more could you want from it?
Thread.is tried to do this a couple years ago. Gone now. Not sure there's a good use case for it.

Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20121118205935/https://beta.threa...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/threadhq
I think PG's comment in that same thread is spot on, now that I understand what app.net is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4346470
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Here's the way that I've seen great companies do it that works great for SEO but predated search engines: make up your own business term / buzzword. You advertise it through targeted display (cheap if managed well) plus PR. You then build marketing material around your buzzword. Search volume starts building around your buzzword. You satisfy those search queries and convert the people that you have pre-qualified with your own 'open sesame' magic combination of words into customers.

This is also why a bunch of different companies will often collaborate on pumping one buzzword ('cloud computing' / 'the internet of things'): it makes it more affordable for all the companies involved to market a new major development that will take years to build out.

There you go.

Also, somehow Amazon clobbered a big river in South America for differentiation and recognition, so this isn't really that huge of a problem if the service is itself compelling and differentiated enough from the competitors. Barnes & Noble is a completely unique term, for example. 'Borders,' not entirely unique, but still more unique than Amazon.

Also if advertising the website via audio/video is a big deal, you can always just make an easy to remember alternate site with your call to action and just redirect them to your real site. Domain exact match is not nearly as important now as it used to be for ranking on Google, and it's possible that domains will become more obscured to users than they are today in the future.
Dammit which one of you took jimmi.es!!!!

Im now rustled.
It seems like the best way to design a codebase is to redesign (rewrite) it several times and then go with the most succinct design. For any given problem, it's unlikely you'll design the codebase properly on the first try. Also:

when one writes code, there are only real, present requirements. The future is pretty irrelevant

I'd disagree with this. The future of your codebase matters unless you're writing a throwaway prototype. And when you rewrite a codebase N times, you'll discover that there are ways of structuring it so that future tasks will become far easier. E.g. for Lisp you'd refactor common patterns into utility functions, and for C you'd carefully craft the interfaces between modules so that they're unlikely to be used improperly / unlikely to be surprising.
He (Jack Ma) stepped down and Jonathan Lu is now CEO http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-17/alibaba-ceo-lu-rise...
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135206 ( 197 points )
Great, still not interested.
Not sure that brand of levity would be appreciated by MS sufferers and supporters.
I mean, would you be okay with support that cost money?

That seems to be the model that Red Hat went with, for instance.
I remember seeing the documentary on what billionaires buy for houses and on there, the real estate agent who worked with Larry Ellison, said he literally went house after house knocking on their doors and offered a money the owners can't refuse, got multiple houses in a single row on the same beach and it became his beach.
Or for people who find it convenient to type/write an 8 character email address in non-word-of-mouth communication, which is the majority of email address communication anyway. I own the domain hip.st for this purpose.
Not sure why anyone would surprised about this. It's in the same mentality that allows things like Sean Parker's wedding fiasco in Big Sur happen.
I don't understand what you mean. An item's ranking is a combination of it's points, time, and any penalties that get applied. If people flag it then it gets penalised, or if the mods decide for some reason to apply a penalty then it gets pushed down in the rankings. Getting votes makes it more likely that an item will make it to the front page.

Does that make sense?

There are plenty of write-ups about how the ranking system works if you want to know more. Or email - details in my profile.
Jack Ma would say Alibaba was a household name since the beginning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group#History

:p
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I guess my point was that hipster is such an ill defined word that trying to understand why a particular thing is or is not hipster is futile.
While I agree with your sentiment, I would like the article to drill down on the reported behaviour. What happens to those people who gave good early traction (the 4 quick repeat purchases). ie do they continue to buy (niche) or do they move on to the next bright new-fangled thing. If it's the latter, as a two-person company, the fad may wear off quicker than allowing you to get the refocus, target etc.

Identifying who these buyers are is the key ... and ultimately very difficult to ascertain. Any tips on that would be incredibly valuable.
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Yes, kerosene (or some roughly similar hydrocarbon) is hard to replace in air traffic.
But
1. Air traffic is something like 1-2% of CO2 emissions.
2. This is an extremely inefficient way of replacing that fuel. It is using resources (a solar energy park, albeit solar thermal) that could be used for much more effective for much more direct CO2 replacements.

This is like spending effort for cufflinks when it's -20 C and you aren't wearing any pants. Pants first. Cufflinks later.
I could see making something without a profit motive and providing it for free. However, after someone else stole it and commercialized it heavily, many of the benefits of providing something for free are gone (maybe a cool community could have grown around the game? Someone coming to the creator and propose building another game?)

Now that money is being made, he'd probably rather see the money coming to him.
Hipster is as tired as yuppie.
What do you mean? Yes, he posted another message endorsing mailp.in in the comments and here he's reaching out for a collaboration. I don't see why it would be spam just because he's mentioning his product.
From http://recode.net/2014/05/06/chinese-internet-giant-alibaba-...

"In its initial document, Alibaba said it was raising $1 billion, but that is only a placeholder and will surely change. Demand from investors is likely to be high and analysts have estimated that Alibaba would raise $15 billion or more at a valuation of close to $200 billion."
This article speaks about one of the many, many reasons I don't like Robert Martin's approach to programming. If some principle results in a handful of single-method classes that don't really do anything on their own, the principle is not a good basis for design.

I find the author's alternative much more useful in practice.
They say they don't collect information for advertising purposes, that doesn't mean they don't collect the information for tracking purposes, it just a game of words they have there in the privacy statement.
Read it, still not convinced. Have you read what I wrote though? I think I was pretty clear that I knew about changes and knew about other things (iterator views) etc.

None of those things make me want to get up roll up my sleeves and say "I can't wait to dig in and make my code compatible with 3.4". If I woke up tomorrow and someone would have magically done that for me and tested it, yeah great. I would buy them a beer. But that is about it. I have 0 incentive today to upgrade.

Code works very well now just using unicode support from Python 2 and print as a statement + other warts.
When and why did TLDs like .best, .rest and .sexy they get registered?
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In Hawaii all beaches are public property and maintaining public access routes (and parking!) to all beaches is required by law. If rich Californians keep up this crap, they might just inspire a voter initiative that would make things even worse for them.
Already had extra/gnome-keyring 3.12.0-1 installed.
Life is but a series of re-introductions :)
Typically I write something 3 times. The first is a proof of concept, I don't care much about how it works as long as it works. The second time I put a lot more care into the 'how' but I usually still get a few things wrong enough that they are out of place and feel awkward to maintain or extend. The third time I have a really good handle on the problem, where the tricky parts are and how to tackle them. That third version will then live for many years, sometimes decades. Some of stuff I wrote like that in the 80's is still alive and well today (or some descendant thereof).

I try very hard not to get attached to code too much, refactor agressively and will throw it out when I feel it needs redoing. For larger codebases I tend to rip out a chunk between a pair of interfaces and tackle that section indpendently. I'll change either the code or the interfaces but never both in the same sitting.
Picked up crow.bar. Now I need to think of something for which to use it!
That would be valid if it had really been shown to happen the way you describe, it hasn't.

Warlords fighting over political authority is not a proof for what happens when the entire society rejects the concept of political authority and refuses to accept it as valid. Political aspirants wage war for political authority only because it has value. The point you raise is so common that it actually has a parody term; Argumentum ad somalia.

Now I grant that this still does not mean we are right, but this is no "provably effective" rebuttal, either.
Just a heads up to anyone thinking of buy one of these:

Google ranks your site according to the TLD. Buying an .es vanity domain will tank your results in the English speaking world.
Previous discussion at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135206

Property rights recap at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6917815

tl;dr: The property was granted to the original owner
by the government of Mexico before California was part
of the US. The property rights were preserved by the
treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848. California's right
of access to the shoreline does not override the
pre-existing property right.

Welcome to the Southwest, and if you think this is strange,
try exploring seniority of water rights.

Don't like the situation? Write your congress-critters
and legislators, or take it to court. Other members of
the tech community might respond, but are unlikely to have
enough leverage to secure access to that beach. No, I
don't like it either.
On mobile, Facebook is looking to own the majority of the apps on your home screen regardless of whether it has the explicit Facebook brand or is under Instagram/WhatsApp/etc. On Android, you still have your first party apps and on iOS your browser homepage is most likely Google.

On desktop, native applications fell by the way side as websites and web apps have become more powerful. Google is your initial connection from the browser (Chrome), to search, to a website (Google Analytics), and to their ads. They own your workflow and thus habits.

On mobile, native apps are more popular. The device (Android), app store (Android Market), app, and ads still have Google influence but definitely not as much as on the desktop. Companies like Flurry have great offerings for app analytics and ads are fragmented among a ton of companies.

Google needs to think less in terms of multi-platform and more in terms of mobile only. If you're mobile only and are capturing market share quickly, Google will be jealous.
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He just means trendy.
I thought his explanation was pretty good. Why was it unsatisfactory? http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/27/weddings-used-to-be-sacred-...
Totally agree, I read the letter from three and I've found it really annoying, maybe they wrote that for marketing.. I understand how they can feel but I don't understand how can someone have the courage to say that their game is better.. Million of people choose something else that's a pretty clear sign
Ledger is awesome, but hardly new...What's the news here?
>What exactly about this makes it a 'hipster' domain finder?

a saying of 30+ years ago - "Whose will get it who are punks too" ("kto pankuet tot poymet" :)
I wonder if this works for TV shows.

I know plenty of people who like all/most of Firefly, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse, Defying Gravity, Almost Human, etc.

All shows that got cancelled after a season or two because they failed to attract a wide enough audience.
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It is also the law in California; However, this property is an exception because it was given to the previous owners by the Mexican government before California became part of the United States.
So playing and talking about a game means you never focus on important problems?
There's a very interesting analogy here to cloud services: if you don't own something, don't assume you'll be able to use it indefinitely under the same terms. The owner can change their mind at any time, or sell to someone else with a different policy.
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Really? Well that just sucks. I was thinking of buying a good one I saw.
Very meta (this isn't getting a lot of upvotes/discussion).