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The thing is, this is a kind of change which makes it difficult to know the real impact since the users who would have a problem with it are the ones losing their voice (until a karma elite user intervenes, of course). That's one of the reasons most people are opposed to this.

Although I understand the reasons behind the change, to me it largely seems overkill. No matter how much we try to convince ourselves that good comments will still be discovered, that would just be wishful thinking. On top of that it also places a certain responsibility on the shoulders of users with karma above the threshold. They may simply not have the time or motivation to screen the large number of incoming comments.

Instead of a default blacklist, a default whitelist might make more sense, while at the same time not sacrificing some of the useful comments. To be clear, it would not be much different from how it is presently. The flag option could get an overhaul so that when a user flags a post they should be given a choice to select the appropriate reason in a dropdown such as, 'negative comment', 'off-topic', etc. and based on the reason the comment could either be deleted, hidden or collapsed.

However, this could also be acheived without making any changes to the commenting system. If the objective is to bring down the number of negative comments, the flag option would probably help achieve that, and if it is to decrease the frequency of off-topic comments, a private messaging system might serve well as HN is not just a place for reading tech news, for many people it's also a place to network and connect with like-minded people.

If you do go ahead with this change (which seems likely), at the very least add an option for users to see pending comments if they choose to, as that only seems fair.

I'm not sure how well that would work, with the number of comments coming in per second it would be easy for some useful comments to get lost into oblivion.

That is exactly the kind of confusion I was having.

Do you mind sharing what your startup is about? How much time do you spend on it in a week?

Assuming I'm ready to commit to it (nearly) full time, what factors would I look for before deciding it's safe to jump ship (from my current job or whatever)?

Good point. I believe growth is one of the most important factors. Though in many cases one wouldn't have a clear idea about it as the idea might change over time (think WhatsApp).

It's like /r/gonewild for kids

It's like Instagram for pedophiles

:|

I posted a link to a LowEndTalk thread discussing it in another comment, please check that out :)

Apparently it's owned by Choopa. More details here: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/22347/they-call-it-digital-...

The design seems heavily 'inspired' by DigitalOcean. Doesn't look very promising to me as of now.

Not as of now

They do have SSDs.

> That assumes you have a web server configured to serve PHP out of /var/www.

The example was for Apache webserver.

> At the very least you would want to put some access control in front of this.

You're right, access control would be in order. Though I was merely suggesting the fastest way to try it out.

There's no installation, just git clone and move to your www directory.

$ git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git

$ mv linux-dash/ /var/www/

Sure it can. There's also a php API which I linked in one of the older comments. You can use either of these to create your own web client.

Someone ported the php implementation to Nodejs and made a working web client but it's broken now and is no longer maintained IIRC.

http://whatsapp.filshmedia.net/

You can take a look at its github repo and fix it yourself if you're familiar with Nodejs.

Exactly. I don't see how that shows a shortcoming on WhatsApp's part.

Looks like there already exists one: https://github.com/stv0g/transwhat

Although it's not that easy extracting the password from a WhatsApp installation, it's very much possible. [1] However, since WhatsApp supports only one active session at a time, whenever the second user logs in, the other will be logged out.

[1] https://github.com/shirioko/MissVenom

That may well be the case but the python implementation that I've linked here is the best supported one right now. And AFAIK it is the only one which supports registration of new accounts.

If php is your thing, then there's another alternative: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI

If anyone's interested in hacking, there are a couple of unofficial APIs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913300

https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI

Some more:

- 3px of padding makes all the female developers?

- Postgres on the moon

- Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’

- IBM to Acquire Tumblr

- Firefox Beta 15 supports the possible suspension of U.S.

- Kim Dotcom: The US recording industry is stealing my ebook

Ask PG: What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

DIY Weapons of the USA Patriot Act

Researchers 'speak' to dolphins in their own IE6-countdown site.

Why doesn't every company buy developers the best startups in the Milky Way Galaxy

My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing You

Love this one. Haven't laughed so much in a while. xD

Islam forbids interest of all kinds. So if you are taking a gift in lieu of interest, that would be forbidden as well. Of course not everyone follows the rule to the letter but that doesn't change the fact that the rule exists and there are people who take it seriously.

Thanks for the detailed answer. ;) That's a good number of users. You shouldn't have any trouble at all getting your first paying customers. All the best. :)

Where's the hypocrisy in that? Perhaps I'm just being dense, but I fail to see the connection.

The product looks pretty good imo. You should start charging soon. Btw, which one of DigitalOcean's cloud servers are you using? Did you find it reliable for a startup? Also, do you mind telling how many users you have?

If you want JSON output, then there is httpbin.

  curl https://httpbin.org/ip

returns

  {
      "origin" : "192.168.0.1"
  }

It also supports getting the user agent [0] and headers [1], among other things.

[0] https://httpbin.org/user-agent [1] https://httpbin.org/headers

Reading The Book Thief at the moment.

"To a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail"