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Not really anything to contribute, but congrats!

I think 6 is the hardest for me. Keeping up a social media presence is such a slog.

Facebook has an incredibly deep knowledge of millions of users.

I wouldn't consider Facebook in the same group as Twitter/Snapchat.

I always wondered why Amazon never launched a search engine. The only thing I could think of was a fear of invoking regulation.

There's a whole industry that tries to convince parents that they can change their child's future by supplying them with the right toys - but there's little to suggest these toys actually matter [1].

I'm glad these two are trying to get more kids into engineering (female or not), but their thesis is pretty hollow on a few fronts. Most importantly that engineering toys lead to engineering kids. But also that engineering toys that currently exist (lego/knex) have some kind of implicit feature that keeps them out of the hands of girls.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,0...

I'm usually the first to defend developers who want to charge for their apps, but in this case it seems quite ridiculous

Why would these markets take any power from the cartels? Don't they give the cartels a larger consumer base to sell to?

If you're just getting started with frameworks, I'd recommend Backbone. You can learn it in half the time it takes to understand Angular and it'll be a good introduction to MV*. This is probably why its more popular than Angular - its easier and its good enough. Angular has a lot of "magic" which can be intimidating and frustrating. Also writing JS logic in html just feels icky when separation was the manifesto for so many years.

That being said, there's many times where I work with Backbone and I feel like its missing pieces it should have. I don't have too much experience with Angular but it seems to be a much more complete choice.

Not sure if this problem is fixed, but Reddit requires each day of the campaign to have the same numbner of impressions.

So if monday has 100 impressions available, tuesday has 100 impressions available, but wednesday has only 1 impression available... then a Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday campaign can only be for 3 impressions. A shorter campaign (Monday-Tuesday) will give you access to 200 impressions.

The "0 impression" number in your post might be because one day out of that huge timeframe is completely bought out.

Whats the difference between a leisure state and a welfare state?

I would love some kind of job board for "lifestyle jobs". Thats jobs with 2 or 3 day work weeks and a 9-5 schedule. I might go as low as $60k (+ benefits) if it was offered.

The closest thing to achieve that now is freelancing.

This is probably more obvious to HN readers than the average buyer

You sign up and... you get added to a waitlist.

ps, you should have an email subscription box. None of the jobs there seem right for me, but I like the concept

Pretty cool. You should post this in /r/iwantoutjobs

"Again" seems to be a quite loaded headline. I don't use facebook, is this a common occurence?

Fixed, thanks for the heads up

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Interesting. Whats a use case for this?

I was actually of just thinking of building something like this, ha. I like the idea.

Under the "enter your appstore link" you should have a default that the user can try. I don't have an app link but I'd still lie to see some output.

There's a saying my mom used to say: "money never makes it past the third generation". The idea is that if you grow up wealthy, you don't have the skills/drive necessary to keep that wealth going.

I take issue with the comparison. The barriers to the internet were many times lower than the current round of innovations (3d printing, virtual reality). The only thing that comes close is bitcoin and the relative cheapness lasted only a few years.

Whats this do?

Hey, would you mind sharing the site? I've thought about doing something like this but always assumed getting traction would be painfull

Cool! Curious why this is safari only... does it use a special api?

Yes, through inflation. But your article never mentions that.

If you mentioned inflation, someone would point that inflation has been very low for the past few years.

Pretty cool. Thanks! Could you make the URL clickable? And moving it to the search results instead of the inner page would be useful.

This sounds like the perfect place to start building my giant mechanical kill bots

Ugh I really hate articles like this.

For one it asserts that we should have an issue with others getting rich. Even if the net gain for society is 0, what is the problem with other people getting rich? Does it impoverish you in any way? Maybe you could make a case for price rises hurting the poor - but the author doesn't mention it and I don't think that's his/her angle.

There's also an incredible elitism about what a company "should" be.

> Are our kids going to say we boldly explored the range of human possibility by putting a million dollars into a mobile app that sends a pointless text message saying “Yo”?

Guess what? People like emojis and filters and flappy bird. The author doesn't have a problem with the "startup scene", he/she has a problem with humanity.

$2k for clothes is "essential"? That seems ridiciulous. I probably spend less than 200 a year on clothes.

Also, I disagree with the sentiment that children (2?) are essential.

Interesting. Why would anyone do that?