skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely correct --

The little known secret - products on amazon are often more expensive than found elsewhere. They charge a 15% - 30% commission fee per item sold, so majority of retailers raise their prices when listing on amazon. The category my company sells in has a 20% commission fee, so we raised pricing by 25%, and our volume of sales on amazon was not effected.

If you find a product you want, and a decent price on amazon -- try googling the seller's name/brand and see if their website comes up... the same item will likely be there cheaper.

We've found that people trust the amazon platform so much, they get blind to pricing. Most also don't realize they are not buying from amazon directly - but often a 3rd party seller. Most large sellers don't use the FBA either (where amazon warehouses your products for you, for a fee).

Also, recently amazon changed their minimum commission structure -- to be a $1 minimum for any product sold under $6. This effectively destroyed the penny book sellers, as well as many other industries that sold cheap but high-volume products (like my company does). So... now we've changed to sell more quantity per unit sold on amazon (case/pack sizes). So now, effectively there are no "cheap" $6 or less products on Amazon.
Even before a kickstarter, you could set up a landing page detailing the features of a future product using the library and offer a beta signup. Nice way to gauge interest before even involving other people's money.
Commonly referred as:

Step 3: ???

Then step 4 is: Profit!
But why not just use the script directly on that device? Since the interfaces to the "API" are things like Python, Ruby, QJuery etc, you still need your internet connected device to be running an actual scripting language. At which point, you might as well just script it locally rather than proxying through a (potentially insecure) connection to a remote server on the internet to run it for you. I just don't understand the benefit?
They aren't simple bicycle helmets though...
How to Personalize Your Landing Page Campaigns Using Dynamic Content
If you can find the time, I highly recommend reading this:

http://theleanstartup.com/book

This book changed my perspective on these things significantly for the better.
Non-paywalled version: http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2...
Thanks. I'll check out.
The one and only secret for creating network effects is: Be good. People need to enjoy it, to use it, to find real benefits in your app.
One reason you incorporate or patent or trademark is to protect your capital (money) from taxes and lawsuits. If I understand you correctly, you currently have very little capital to protect. Once you've accumulated enough capital that it'd be painful to loose it, it's time to start thinking of protecting it with patents, trademarks, incorporation, etc. For now, just have fun.
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There must be US/European companies that will manage this relationship for you.
Alright, I really can't take it anymore. Is there any good literature explaining why users of Snapchat are worth this much? From my limited perspective it seems a lot of the services valued so highly for their user base have an incredibly hard time generating revenue from those users, particularly from short lived services like Snapchat. I keep seeing "promise" and "expectation" but what are those things when you're talking money? I read on NBC News estimates put the number of users at 50-70 million. What kind of ad revenue can you expect from that many users in an app where interactions are short lived on a single screen? What would be the conversion rate on IAP?

I'm extremely skeptical this company could be worth this much. 10 billion / 70 million is $142 dollars per user. (Supposedly this metric means something as FB paid $42 per user for Whatsapp?)

Not to mention, how does a company with the leadership this company has get valued this highly? I would think when the Controversy heading takes up 70% of your Wikipedia page that would negatively impact your business, obviously this is having the exact opposite effect though.
I believe fiction plays an important role in shaping the philosophy of science. Forward-looking science fiction, especially, considers issues that have yet to be encountered by society, providing the opportunity to decide how to handle or avoid those issues in advance.

In the case of robots, I was imagining a line from the less-than-serious The Simpsons, when a robot flees a flaming building, asking, "Why was I programmed to feel pain?" ( http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-ggzfdsMs ). Indeed, why would a robot be designed to suffer when enough suffering exists already? We should design our non-sentient robots now with that thought in mind, in anticipation of the possibility of creating self-aware AI.
I've succumbed to this way of thinking too (permit the manager to underperform) but I feel it's a lowering of standards and the manager is not doing her job. I wish there was push back against this, like there is push back against developers not writing unit tests or fixing bugs, rather than acceptance with a sigh.
Are we going to argue semantics on HN? If I show my app to anyone, which he did. Whether it is a news station or my mom it is marketing. He didn't just magically see it, the developer specifically showed him. You also have no idea if the Youtube video was influenced by the developer do you? I have worked with game streamers and had them promote some of our products; it's not hard. Feel free to post a dictionary definition of "marketing" if you want to continue this pointless debate on semantics.
Saying Nope to Spec Work
I was thinking this too, only about jet skis and other RVs (I was hoping that is what I would find when I clicked on the link) - I would think there is a lot of opportunity for something like Airbnb for four wheelers, jet skis, camping trailers.
Snapchat Now Worth $10B
This looks great - I was just in Italy for several and wishing for something like this, completely in shock that it doesn't exist yet.

I can't see any way to sign up for notifications when it's ready - or even a company website. I guess I'll just hope I come across it when it's fully baked.
I looked at your site briefly. Great idea, similar to patio11's Bingo Card Creator site. Are you doing any A/B testing at all? I think you should be able to ramp up your sales by being more active managers of the site, instead of it being something passive. But even patio11 didn't want to manage bingo cards forever.

Also, the number of template available seems very low. From your home page, if you add up the numbers under "Categories", you only have 10 templates to choose from? You need to get that to 100. Seriously. This is like a business card creator site - you need lots and lots of choices, and people will buy.

Not many want to custom design a complete cupcake wrapper themselves. Just pick a nice baby design and add text to it for the baby name.

Email some of your customers and ask them how you can improve.

My 2 cents. Congrats on the success, and good luck!
Filling The Space Between Pinterest and Amazon
The original npm package "immutable" was https://github.com/hughfdjackson/immutable (npm install immutable@1.4)

Did Facebook buy the npm name from hughfdjackson, did he give it to them, or did NPM switch ownership?
Well, not really. You can't just look at interest rates in a vacuum without any context and make a judgement about them. You have to compare it to inflation rates, currency stability, faith in currency, general economic situation, etc. The US had 16% savings interest rate in 1981[1].

Let's, for example, look at the history of credit cards. I am sure you can agree that the 30% interest rate charged today is unreasonably high. It wasn't at a time, and lets look at how it got that way.

Back in the late 70s/early 80s we had a recession with double digit inflation while at the same time all states had usury laws that capped credit card interest rates. Inflation was so high that inflation surpassed the highest interest rates companies were allowed to charge. Citibank was "going broke" with this model - they were actually losing money lending at that interest rate at that time. Citibank then convinced South Dakota to drop is usury laws on credit cards and Citi would move there in order to charge an interest rate that beat inflation. Citibank moved there and overnight the stage was set for the US credit card industry to now flourish. "All of their senior people used to say it,'' [then governor of South Dakota] said. "That South Dakota saved Citibank. I believe it did. That South Dakota saved Citibank.'' It was a result of an economic recession with high inflation. There was a Frontline special years ago about this - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/more/ri... - though it is outdated, since credit card legislation has passed that addresses a lot of the topics brought up on the show. you can watch it online for free - I highly recommend you do.

Delaware and Nevada followed with similar legislation, so that's why most (all?) credit card companies have a return address in SD, NV, or DE.

However, we are no longer in double digit inflation but the old interest rates and legislation stand, for the most part. New laws are slowly reeling in on some credit card practices to keep up with the economic times and current circumstances.

[1]http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post.aspx?post=656360...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquette_Nat._Bank_of_Minneapo....

*Disclaimer: I have no idea about the economic situation of Ukraine. I am just making a point about judgements of different times/economies.
Ask HN: How to sell a PI class C network?
There had been no 192.168/16, 10/8 or 172.16/20 private networks, when I joined the internet ages ago. Instead the RFCs told, that one must register a provider independent class C network before. So I did.

A provider independent (PI) network means, that I own it forever, that I do not need to pay any (annual) fee for it. But also that I can not force any provider to route this network. Unfortunate my network is no longer routed, since I moved housing, even if I stayed at same provider, as the routing of the network was informal done by a friend working for that provider. So I'm using it like a better private network at home and for OpenVPN.

The network is now part of AS20676 university autonomous system, when classless IP became common, so it requires just a mail to UniDo to switch routing to any place in Germany and perhaps even Europe. And a provider willing to accept that route.

My questions:

- What is a provider independent class C network worth?
- Is there any market for class C networks?
A lot of innovation is individual as opposed to institutional.

Motivated, technically qualified individuals have always been "out there", but now they are lost in the wash with so many highly degreed average people dominating both institutional and venture efforts.

The traditional "great man" innovators are more out-of-place
than ever in this landscape, where quantity of technical people is the limiting factor for shareholders requiring rapid growth.

If structures allow a return to having the quality of the
innovators prevail over the quantity, more of the outstanding unrecognized individuals may be able to contribute again like what was seen 50 to 100years ago.

Some shareholders would not be able to accept the longer incubation periods and slower exponential growth necessary, but not all shareholders are the same. It could happen.

Ask yourself, if DaVinci, Newton, Edison, Einstein or somebody like that were unknowns but wanted to innovate for you, or wanted you to support their efforts (which might already be in progress), which of your exclusionary tactics would eliminate them in the first or second round?

I've said it before, technology has progressed but it's clear that PEOPLE used to be more advanced than they are now.
Hi - if you go to www.detour.com you should be able to add your name to the notification (early access) email list.
3D Printing Market Expects to Reach $8.6B Worth in 2020
It demos well, but then I tried a simple test - a photograph of some text (http://imgur.com/TCnGlZG), Ocrad.js utterly failed at it, almost all letters were incorrect.
"Shipping a package should and needs to be as easy as checking out at Wal-Mart."

.gov politicians disagree emphatically. Those regulations weren't made for fun. They may result in a dysfunctional system. Monopolies do not serve their customers other than incidentally.
The book itself would probably be the best source for detailed descriptions of the different regions. It has to be available as an e-book too. Worth buying if you'd like to learn more about general cultural regions and boundaries in the US, or pirating if you don't have the funds. Just remember that even 3 decades ago it had some inaccuracies, many of which are pointed out in this thread. But it is a good primer, not very long, and a light, entertaining read, in my opinion.
Perhaps their evaluation isn't based on their profits, but how much value they can remove from other well established businesses? If they steal users from other platforms, like Facebook, then SnapChat is worth the amount of money Facebook is losing.
The person I'm talking about was actually quite aggressive about staying with the times and was researching (when I first got to know him) how to embed live video in his application so surgeons could look over his shoulder at the patient prior to transfer to save everybody a (potentially useless) trip. I was very much impressed with this and the current release of that software has very little in common with the software of the mid-90's.

Quite possibly other dentists/programmers figured that they could sleep their way through all this but in that case they more than likely found themselves upstaged by a newcomer that did get with the times.
1) Praise God

2) Randomly open Bible
I wish Leanplum or any other A/B testing service would offer something like this.

Or maybe integrate Facebook Tweaks with their SDK with a wrapper on DEBUG for iOS.

That way you could still tweak your stuff even after deployment.
Thanks a lot for the advice everyone, I feel a little less overwhelmed now.
Unused pro rata rights are the hottest commodity in Silicon Valley
Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?
Looking for something new to read, curious to hear what others are reading
There's an acknowledgement in the README.

https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js/blob/fdc4005fe30286...
Perhaps a future user has to tap the promoted snap before it deletes in order to "find out what happens next" or "get a coupon code." This would make the CTR (if that is what you could call it) of the sponsored snaps high, but you're still trying to convert teenagers.
It is not at all hard to set up a payment system with something like Amazon Payments, Stripe, Square, PayPal, Balanced Payments and such and charge people for access to an API.

Do that and worry about the rest once you have enough money.
How to send self destructing messages with JavaScript
Python Patterns: Mini Patterns
Actually, you seem to be doing it right. You have the anonymous engineer listings on the one side, and the peer-to-peer recruiting tools on the other. You have as much chance as anyone of entering a positive feedback loop.
Agreed. Be sure in the meantime to set asside 30% of any money you take in and keep it for when taxes are due. Once you register as a business, you'll get various tax advantages, but for starting out while you test an idea, keep it simple.
It seems rare to me that there are systems in normal app deployment where there is NO remote shared state between app (and therefore physical) nodes. Given that, your production deploy will almost always have at least a few datacenter-local remote resources.

Besides compute and indexing farms, what sort of deploys demonstrate that pattern?
You should wait on the company/patents/trademark stuff. Heck, you can even wait on making a web frontend for it. Something I've learned is to get a good idea from the community about who is actually interested in the idea/service. Create a landing page to collect signups and register in the countless sites to get interest. Then, you'll know whether or not to build it.
Agree. Cost of living is important. But things like recreation, food and community are really what make a location special. A walkability factor would be nice as well.
Hey Andrew...another direction you, Yishai, etc. should / can go would be subject areas. I would imagine culinary/food tours would be great in the areas you guys are targeting. They could also be kept pretty fresh as restaurants/bakeries/breweries, etc. wax and wane.
I take it you have run KDE on X on Android on a small memory foot print ARM system? I tried something similar on the Pandaboard (OMAP4, 1GB, VRX) and it was unusable but if you've got a system or perhaps a configuration that makes this work it would be useful for development.
What Marketers can Learn from Salespeople (Featuring Steli Efti from Close.io)
Structuring time-oriented data in FoundationDB
Apparently the book is done.

https://twitter.com/marijnjh/status/494433950505644032
First rule of security: There is no perfect security. You need a multilayered strategy. Tor is a start. Anonymized OSs like Tails are another aspect. Not releasing personal info on the web -- to the extent you can do that -- is another.
admob earning of ~$100 from 2 very small android apps catering to a very small set of users.
This is not true anymore. As of August 12, 2014, visa runners will not be allowed back into the country.
I am guessing they are under a load or something currently?

I can't get this to work (Chrome and Firefox)... I get a lot of 404s, 'Image corrupt or truncated', and TypeError: document.GetElementById(...) is null errors in console in both browsers (wording differs, of course)...

I will check back later on as I LOVE the NOAA and use them as my goto for most things weather and environmentally related! I'd really love to play with this going forward!
I like Cebu City but the internet is not always as stable as what you might find in the US.
This is pretty cool... I just would love if there were a filter for country.
You mean technical read or leisure read?

Except you consider them to be tech read to be leisure. ;)
House of Lords criticises right-to-be-forgotten laws as 'unworkable'
Get Point
I agree, in a perfect world you don't have to check for null values on the business logic layer
Amazon didn't post a $800m loss last quarter. They estimated next quarter a loss between $400-$800m (mainly for employee stock compensation)
Just a couple of days ago I was DDGoing a phrase like "Debian cheap tablet" or such and found this page[1]. I still can't understand why there is no market for a Linux tablet.

[1] http://www.gregwar.com/posts/debian-on-a-low-cost-tablet-50
...I struggle to see how we can place meaningful pressure on publishers.

I've never "bought" an e-book with DRM. (With DRM it isn't really a purchase, but rather a lease of indeterminate term.) I don't find it a struggle.
Is this problem even solvable on a fundamental level?

Of course, they can work on preventing nodes forwarding hidden header information, but an entity with global network insight will always be able to correlate users by the timing of their transmissions alone.

The introduction of malicious nodes is a workable option for lesser players. But hidden in the realtime nature of the Tor network is always the possibility of deanonymizing users if you're a powerful agency that can afford to inspect a sufficiently large part of all network traffic - they don't even have to run any nodes themselves.
The thing I remember is finsishing the juicebox
Gorgeous designs (web and meme) made with totally free Unsplash photos
Just use Bitcoin. If you don't know how to, then just use BitPay, which today has announced a free forever plan, so it's a no-brainer.
I built an niche e-commerce marketplace called http://doleaf.com.

Independent Nurseries and Garden Centers (the sellers) sign up and can instantly upload their items for sale directly to customers expanding their sales region of their niche products from just their neighbored to the entire USA. Since its niche customers who are looking for specific items customers find the site fairly easy through search.

The site is now doing about $2,000 total revenue per month. I'm taking a proportion of each sale. For now, I'm mostly covering cost, but hoping to work on some automated marketing tools to increase revenue.

As others have mentioned, my best performing referrers in terms of sales completed are often Forums (as opposed to AdWords, organic search etc).

The site does marketing via emails and some top products Google Ad Words, Facebook, and hopefully Titter soon. I'm using Google Analytics with the e-commerce plugin to build Adwords remarketing campaigns and plan to do Facebook rmarketing campaigns soon.

It's not totally passive as there's some support request, but I'm hoping to bring on an on-demand virtual assistant for support requests as discussed by the Internet Business Mastery guys: http://www.internetbusinessmastery.com/ibm-218-work-less-mak...
It is a guarantee to you that the data structure has not been tampered with by the time it reaches you.

// pseudo code

var fruitBasket = new FruitBasket('banana, 'apple)

muckWithFruits(fruitBasket)
suspiciousLogger(fruitBasket)
weirdCallback(fruitBasket)

// here
assert(fruitBasket.length == 2)

By the time we reach "here", we know that none of the functions since the inception of fruit basket have tampered with it.

This may not be a big deal if you are disciplined about never modifying your source data, but this moves the guarantee from a soft one to a mechanical one.

And then there's all this typical stuff about functional programming blah blah... But that's the most practical example I can think of.
16mph/25kmh for a short burst, anyone can do. To average that speed for an hour is something that most people could work up to, but a casual cyclist probably couldn't do.
For investors, controversy is seen as meaningless (and sometimes as a good thing) unless it's hurting the business. In the case of Snapchat, it hasn't. As for making money, one shouldn't judge their ability to do so based on how the product looks today. More than half of Facebook's revenue now comes from mobile, a product that they only perfected a year ago.
I like the site, however can you add some way to convert temperature into centigrade without having to switch the currency? Also, you have Australian dollars, why not also throw in Canadian and New Zealand dollars?
Ruby: Shoes considering atom-shell + Opal as backend
Thanks for answering. I'm looking for any additional income I can squeeze out in addition to consulting while building my startup. Getting Real talks about "Selling Your By-products" which didn't sink in when I read it. Now it makes a lot of sense. I suppose I could change a few things, list the theme and add features based on requests/feedback if necessary.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1620-sell-your-by-products
Show HN: Cyanide Sublime Text Theme
>Most Americans would probably call it "soda"

It is HIGHLY regional. The Northeast and parts of the West mostly say "soda."

The South is "coke."

http://www.popvssoda.com/
Mori with it's underscore like API indeed seems much simpler and less C++ and Java like. I guess it depends on your taste.
That's not GOOD, that's profitable EVIL.
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This isn't used internally by Facebook at this point. The author mentioned this after your post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8108741
It's refreshing to see the rebrand (RedPhone -> Signal) links security with functionality, rather than with something dramatic/hide-worthy.

When your tools are secure, they work for you and not the other way around.
Matching a Designer to the Right Project
Nope, just wondering why Wayland would be any less painful.
Really? You have no idea how to perform simple multiplication or division? How do you manage to function in the world?
Sorry, it is now. :)