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Sounds pretty neat, can you share some audio samples?

Hey that's neat, I didn't know HN had a flamewar detector. How does it work? Content matching and post frequency?

I'm not familiar with the term 'submarine' in this context, does that refer to some sort of stealth advertising?

No audio in the linked article, but some of the recordings referenced can be found here:

https://folkways.si.edu/magazine-fall-winter-2012-listening-...

I believe OP is asking for advice on whether to contact YC about a problem they've had with a YC company, rather than trying to get a response on HN from the company.

I'm generally curious about this as well, does anybody know if there's a precedent for YC acting as an intermediary between customers and YC companies?

Excellent writeup. Are you serving client web traffic (if applicable) via Lambdas? Or deploying your web infrastructure to traditional instances managed through CF?

The Sun?

This is unduly harsh. And with the organization tools and turntable visualization calling this 'just coverflow' is also incorrect.

I'm assuming you don't find the interface particularly appealing, but do you think that others might? From the comments in this post, it sure seems like it.

The OP was able to articulate an interesting insight into why other music apps were lacking for him (genres aren't a useful grouping mechanism), and build a (beta!) solution. That's beautiful.

From the demo one thing was clear to me: that thought and care went into making this, and that should be respected.

Good work, OP. Keep going.

So the gambler brought the case to the tribal court of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians where it was dismissed, then took it to the Alabama state court system.

It looks like the Alambama Supreme Court ruled it had no jurisdiction over the case [1].

Some interesting allegations:

Rape alleged that at that point he was approached and congratulated by casino employees and patrons and that one casino employee said to him: “[D]on't let them cheat you out of it.”1 Rape alleged that the machine printed out a ticket containing the winning amount of $1,377,015.30 but that representatives of Wind Creek Casino took possession of the ticket and refused to return it to him. Rape was then taken by tribal officials or casino employees into “a back room,” where they discussed how Rape's winnings would be paid, mentioning the possibility of a structured payout over a period of 20 to 30 years. Those officials then instructed Rape that he had to wait outside the room while they “called PCI” to confirm his winnings.

I checked several sources in addition to the Ars article, and it's interesting that nobody is reporting what the max payout on the machine was. Although without jurisdiction I suppose that doesn't really matter wrt the court case.

[1] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-supreme-court/1875570.html

Are you using any Clojure in your mobile apps, or mainly on your web properties?

"My dad loved routine. He rolled his sleeves up exactly the same way every morning. He went to work at exactly the same time every day. It was what gave him the freedom to think."

Wow, I've never thought about routine this way.