jcr

The "thehackernews.com" domain is a spam site. If you have "show dead" enabled in your HN user profile, you can see that just about everything submitted to HN from that domain is '[dead]'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thehackernews.com

The types and quality of stories on HN are like the tides; it regularly varies. One of the goals for HN is to have a good, balanced mix of interesting stories. Due to voting, populist stuff will surface, but HN still has an appreciation for heavy-weight, time-intensive articles.

Some truly great stories get few, if any, comments. If a post requires effort or specialized knowledge to even ask good questions, then there isn't much discussion. This happens a lot when academic papers are posted since reading a paper might require a multi-hour investment, but even when there is little discussion, it's good to have heavy articles submitted. They balance out the other stuff.

If you find something great-but-overlooked in the /newest queue, then send an email to hn@ycombinator.com asking for a repost request to be sent to the original submitter. That's what I did with this article, but Dan (dang) asked me to repost it myself. Neither 'ingve' nor I care who gets the credit/karma, but a lot of people want great articles to get attention on HN.

HN is what we make it.

This was posted once before by HN user 'ingve' but didn't get much attention [1]. Though the most recent and largest (39 pages) JFP paper, "Systematic Abstraction of Abstract Machines", is probably the best version to read, the earlier "Abstracting Abstract Machines" may also be helpful. There's also a CACM highlight version of "Abstracting Abstract Machines" that's only 8 pages. All of these papers are available.

- "Systematic Abstraction of Abstract Machines" from JFP 2012 (39 pages)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3539

- "Abstracting Abstract Machines" from ACM ICFP, 2010, (12 pages)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4446

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2014/cmsc631/papers/vanhorn-...

- "Abstracting Abstract Machines" from CACM highlight 2011 (8 pages)

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dvanhorn/pubs/vanhorn-might-cacm...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10963677

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402321

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( 426 points Stratoscope a day ago 97 comments )

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11395656

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( 263 points taspeotis a day ago 93 comments )

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11393641

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(557 points by yk 9 hours ago | flag | 165 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400112

The two year old challenge announcement from the IEEE is also interesting reading.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/google...

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( 156 points revorad 14 hours ago 57 comments )

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11384577

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

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(216 points robbiemitchell 15 hours ago 48 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382242

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(48 points, 7 hours ago, 37 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11386656

This article from Nov 2015 mentions the pivot:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/nopen-source/

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(216 points robbiemitchell 15 hours ago 48 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382242

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(216 points robbiemitchell 15 hours ago 48 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382242

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(216 points robbiemitchell 15 hours ago 48 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382242

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11385854

If you want feedback on your project or startup, then you are much better off doing a "Show HN" post so it is listed under "show" in the main top menu. The rules for doing a "Show HN" post are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

If we're lucky, a moderator will notice and change the title of this submission for you (i.e. turning it into a "Show HN" post).

The first thing I noticed when reading your site is this:

"There are also multiple premium features users can access after upgrading their account (a one-time fee of $10 Canadian dollars)"

A one-time fee does not seem reasonable or viable for a business. For the long term sustainability of your startup, use an annual fee.

Also, I did not see links to either your privacy policy or your terms of use. At least some people will be concerned about copyright issues on their photos, and how/where/when your site is able to use or promote them.

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(288 points, pizza, 5 days ago, 42 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11358646

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

Mat, text submissions are at a disadvantage in sorting compared to url submissions, so you're much better off submitting the businessinsider url. Also, titles should be descriptive, and a title of just "YO" is an attempt to make it stand out, which is against the site guidelines. If you still can, you're better off deleting this submission and creating a new one by submitting the BI url.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

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(76 points radiusvector 3 hours ago 41 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381146

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(76 points radiusvector 3 hours ago 41 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381146

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(305 points, panarky, 15 hours ago,55 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378750

(712 points, potshot, 18 hours ago, 285 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377716

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(305 points, panarky, 15 hours ago,55 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378750

(712 points, potshot, 18 hours ago, 285 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377716

It's an interesting question, but I don't know of any books that specialize on the mistakes of founders/projects, save for the Mythical Man Month [1] by Fred Brooks. HN does get a lot of "X is closing down" submissions, and some of them give interesting reasons for why the company didn't make it.

On a general level, there are usually more ways to make fatal mistakes than there are ways to make things successful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381146

Surveillance by a nation-state is troubling problem, but surveillance by the populace is an equally troubling problem.

Related reading:

"The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone's Feelings"

http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2015/11/the-real-reas...

"The Coddling of the American Mind"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-codd...

"Rage Profiteers: How Bloggers Harness Our Anger for Their Own Gain"

http://observer.com/2014/10/rage-profiteers-how-blogs-harnes...