skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> University Avenue is a good place and the only trouble is that places like it are too few and too far apart.

What's your basis for "too few and too far apart"?

All of "suburb" SF Bay Peninsula has grocery stores and neighborhood restaurants within 20 minutes walking from residences. (The rural areas, Woodside, Portola Valley, the Santa Cruz mountains, Ladera, etc. don't.)

The same is true of the Sacramento valley towns that I know, Davis, Sacramento, Woodland, Roseville.

That's why I asked where these "grocery stores are miles away" suburbs are.

Downtown PA is arguably the worst (on the Peninsula) when it comes to grocery access by foot because its store is Whole Foods. (Atherton may be as bad. I don't know about Monte Sereno.)
Representative sample of this size would be something. But that's just some visibly skewed sample.
The main point of my rely was to go down with certain cliche phrase like 1% and 99%.

And with the notion one person builds a company.
LSU Prof stopped from teaching a class after failing too many students
What best practices would he recommend if you need to do customer development & discovery over the phone?
10 years and still not profitable? yikes! Is this typical for non-software based companies?
> and some bias against transit (smelly, unseemly people, personal safety concerns, etc)

Are you arguing that their concerns are not based in fact or that they shouldn't care about such things?
So you're saying real-world folders switch around the positions of their contents when you open them? :-)
It's not really necessary since even the big contract manufacturers will take pretty small orders, especially if there's an opportunity for a JDM/ODM project or a sustaining engineering contract in the future. The big guys also have the advantage of an economy of scale in dealing with component suppliers.
I couldn't disagree with you more. Discussions of this sort should be done at the very least on the phone. The airing of dirty laundry, if that may be the case, is best not done on a message board. Comments are taken out of context, misquoted etc ... It is at best ill advised. While transparency is paramount that is not what this is --- banter about such matters on an open forum is to say the least petty and completely unprofessional.
I can think of a more efficient order to get a romantic partner.
If I were bootup, I would've never accepted startuply if I didn't have the cash, but I don't see what else they could've done once they realized they didn't have a backup.

That they didn't have a contingency plan in place or a backup investor is quite ridiculous, however, these things do happen.
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But it isn't supply and demand.

and the powerlessness of the market to control higher-education costs due to limited supply

One of the biggest problems for a young academic is that there is an oversupply of young academics and grad students.

That fact, and the way that they set their tuition prices (based not only on what the families will pay, but in conjunction with a price-fixing arms race), leads me to think that this article is indicating a higher education bubble, not a case of basic supply and demand.
Thanks for that interesting perspective. I guess it succeeded because western world effectively stopped development of space programs and nuclear technology. Similar strategy for semiconductor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Electronics_Limited) has not worked out very well.
Haha. Sounds like you are the prototype. I'm working with former Army officers who had an awful time finding the right gear before Ranger School, deployments, etc around the big bases that are in remote geographic areas (Benning, Bragg). I knew the military community was large, but it was incredible to find out how clustered it is.
Any thought on whether Lean Startup could take part in recover from US economic crisis?
For the full article, set your referrer to google or do a google search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=china+sets+ambitious+space+go...
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Doesn't seem to work for me too, and I'm on Firefox/Snow Leopard.
The Twitter vs Facebook battle is already won
Watch Sid Meier build a game in 48 hours
Is anyone actually surprised by this?

If you're not and you push "govt protection", why do you think that your case will be different?

If you pushed this sort of govt protection ....

In other news, the "nutrition labeling for restaurants" regulations are going to be a train wreck. (Consider a pizza place that has lots of topping choices.)
What constitutes R&D expenses if I may ask?

I used to work at a startup that makes no money at all. They asked me to sign some sort of "fake" stock options as part of the SR&ED requirements. Of course the numbers were meaningless (pennies or whatnot). So I'm very interested on how this works.
I've never ridden a Segway (although I certainly would like to) but having owned motorcycles for over 15 years (mostly sport bikes), I'm having a hard time understanding this analogy.

To be fair - I've used a similar analogy for a modern sportbike. "It's like running really fast" - most modern sportbikes are so compact that they aren't anywhere in your field of vision.
To be fair, the Air Sharing app has printing capability:

https://gmr.privatepaste.com/download/446c8451b4
https://gmr.privatepaste.com/download/05f6ad4f26
https://gmr.privatepaste.com/download/53f9fedeae
> Horse racing bookmakers use what's called a parimutuel system of betting.

Minor nitpick, that's not true of the UK (and other places). Bettors there don't like parimutuel betting.
The default example when I loaded the page was "Niagara Falls", but the market was on a golf course. Weird.
In a few words, how would you define Lean Startup? And main differences with others?
I use it constantly, for the record. It's my default way of switching apps or restarting recent ones.
It's one of those essays that sounds deep, but I am questioning exactly how deep it really is. Oh well, I am still questioning then.
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If they're using the API, then "as long as your site is generally accessible to consumers without charge, you may use the Google Maps API" (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_commercial)
It should have been written "'Too lazy to walk, ya fuckin' homo?'"

Although I'm not entirely sure of his conclusion that bike-like styling would be a solution to this problem. Plenty of us get the occasional homophobic insults from jagoff motorists.

On that topic, I think another reason the Segway wasn't very successful is that it has few compelling advantages over a $300 bike-- it has the same speed, has a lower range and is harder to refuel, doesn't fit in that well with existing infrastructure, and doesn't get you exercise. The only upside I can think of is that, because you aren't exercising, you don't sweat (slow down riding your bike or take a shower!) and that it's high-tech.
What's the upside to upgrading? Does Windows 7 scratch itches I didn't know I had?
Did he measure, at IMVU, the real gain between first methodology they were using and Lean Startup model they implemented?
It's called regulatory capture. Who ever is being regulated will move the regulations to their advantage - to either keep competitors out of the field completely, drive up their costs, or reduce their expenses (for instance banning mad cow testing on all cows).
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Projects Versus Startups
Artist, designer, or hack?
Tempered with a big fat dose of price discrimination (oh, wait, I meant "financial aid").
The iPhone 3G won't be getting this multitasking.
Aren't many of these goals vague, aspirational and banal? I would like to take this as evidence that setting goals simply doesn't work.

Better is to try to identify one's mistakes. That's how progress is truly made.
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If you read the previous articles on a small little screen like my laptop, this will turn the scroll bars into a reasonable size by hiding all of the comments:

javascript:void(jQuery('dd, dt').hide())
He also can't double his ram with a software update.
The theory of this article is that we will:

(a) Shift from a complicated progressive tax to an even more complicated regressive tax, and simultaneously

(b) Adopt a series of reforms that will end Medicare and Social Security.

Whether you agree with the principles or not, we're more likely to get a flat income tax than a VAT.
"Given the nonprofit, tax-exempt status of colleges and universities, and the powerlessness of the market to control higher-education costs due to limited supply"..

Sounds like sub-optimal supply/demand to me. If we dropped the charade that universities are anything other than for-profit corporations then we might get more supply and/or less demand. If there were more market _competition_ then I suspect we'd see prices drop significantly.
> No, because people of different genders/ethnicities bring different perspectives to the table.

Do they?

Note that if they actually do, the logical implication is actually less diversity within a given task area because different task areas benefit from different perspectives....
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I've gotten more used to the inspector, but I absolutely hate the style inspector. Firebug got it right with making it look like your own CSS. Also I often times can't edit a style rule, and I'm not sure why that is.

I hope those things change and improve. It doesn't seem like they want to go the Firebug route with the CSS style inspector.
Newest hardware don't always have fully-functional and well-integrated Linux drivers on the day the new hardware is released.

This is mostly the hardware vendor's fault and it sucks.

What sucks even more is to write an article about that and blame Linux/Ubuntu user unfriendliness.

Moreover, I don't know ANY laptop system that ships with 8GB of hard drive (First-generation eeePC maybe?) and have a Wi-Fi chipset that does not work with the latest version of ubuntu or the one before. Maybe this article is talking about events that took place 2-3 years ago when eeePCs where new and had bad drivers?

That's why I call bullshit on this article and discard it as Microsoft Public Relations' Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt campaign.
That would be confusing! Not at all. I'm simply saying your take is a lot like a popover and think that Apple's implementation though not perfect, is closer to a folder. Actually, to be exact they should have really called it "Drawers" because that's how their animated and in a drawer, contents do indeed get shuffled around!

Although, I've had instances when handling bulky folders and moving them around, the top most documents would get accidentally rearranged! ;-)
"The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you?"

I don't believe this anymore.

After 4 years of trying to follow this advice, and building 4 different web applications that were things "I wish someone would make." I've given up on following PGs advice. Perhaps I'm an anomaly, but I'm fairly sure I'm not as there are so many startups out there that all try to solve the same handful of problems, and fail.

Most of us are developers, and we have a set number of 'tasks' that seem like they should be something you could build a business out of and so we all try to do them. Task Management, Project Management, Time Tracking, Social communication, etc. There are obviously winners in this space but they are established, and it is extremely difficult for a small group of developers to come along and decide to 'solve' one of those problems.

Maybe I'm just not interesting enough, I'll admit that is possible, but I've found much greater success by building applications that people tell me they want, and pay me to build.

I also don't have a billion dollar startup, so don't listen to me, but I couldn't let another article get by with espousing the virtues of just 'building what you like' without saying something.

</Rant>
I agree, drawers would have been an apt metaphor. Also, drawers get stuck sometimes, so that would be something interesting Apple could emulate, as well :-)
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You're joking right? I'm so damn tired of these comments.

How is it relevant? Most of us in the US, and increasingly in the rest of the world, are severely overweight and obese. Why? Our shitty diets mainly consisting of processed and chemical-filled foods. Articles on local, sustainable agriculture should be of utmost relevance to anyone on HN. Costs from obesity drag on individuals, countries, and societies.

That being said, I have a hard time supporting this particular article, coming from a republican congressman who has been traditionally pro-business. I would like to see an analysis of this bill by a non-partisan news organization, or at least someone without an agenda.
Why do you think that's a charade?
I'm not suggesting a tablet can replace all uses of paper today. Of course technology still has a bunch of ground to cover. ("yet devised" was the intended scope-limiter)

The frustration is that people aren't even thinking about integrating what they have into their processes.
They treat these new devices as just another new thing to do the stuff they already do, the way they already do it.

(I personally think multiple mobile screens is more a hack than a good solution. Wall-displays and table-displays are the way to go for mass data screening/sorting/comparison.)

(And convenient proximity sharing is an app away. One I also eagerly await. In the meantime, I'm probably not going to start serious work on a piece of paper someone hands me right that second, so email isn't much of a roadblock. But I do recognize the huge value of lower-friction, on-the-spot sharing.)
The above commenter's question is paramount if you're serious about taking this somewhere.

Check out this German start-up:
http://www.tolingo.com
They have a bit of a head start but never mind. Crucial about their service is that 2 people work independently on each piece of customer copy.

How customers end up with one correct copy in the end, I have no idea, but this is part of their pitch and this is what customers are concerned about.

Also, your About page is an FAQ, but you need an 'About Us' page.

Great start -- not sure what about this took you 5 months -- now it's about execution and continuous improvements ;)
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gasp Gimme my Amiga pointer!
This could change the music-game for good. With youtube already being an important player for any kind of music consumation, they would tap gigantic potential if they find a way to establish this program with a large number of bands. The more content they get, the more the major labels are forced to consider the same actions for their big performers. Youtube gets paid...
Similar project:
http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/03/30/google-envelopes-beta-...

And a partial howto from one of Google's Appengine devs, Nick Johnson:

http://mapvelopes.appspot.com/

http://blog.notdot.net/2010/04/Generating-PDFs-on-App-Engine...
> If we dropped the charade that universities are anything other than for-profit corporations

Is Harvard really a big hedge fund? However, even if they were a Corporation, they might still dodge corporate taxes.

http://www.theamericanscene.com/2008/05/12/is-harvard-just-a...
This is my primary way of switching between recent applications. Take it with a grain of salt, though, as the Android way of dealing with App icons is a world of a difference from iPhone.

Android uses a separate and almost useless alphabetically-sorted application's drawer. You are able to put applications on the home screens, but chances are that you are messing with an application that you don't use very frequently and thus have not placed it onto a home screen. In addition, on stock Android (not rooted/jailbroken), you only have 3 home screens.
Yours is a beautiful site, I'm impressed!

There's a few reasons why I think I took so long. Listed, in order of time taken:

1. Going off on many, many tangents before buckling down and focusing on the core product.

2. Design. I'm a poor designer, and it took me about 7 iterations to get to the version you see now.

3. Fixing bugs. There's just so many of them.

4. Learning about, and implementing custom localization on appengine (needed because there are no filesystem writes for .mo/.po files)

5. Working on it part time
I'm sorry, all I see in this is that it will make food a lot safer for everyone as well as doing benefit to the environment. If small farmers can't cope with this, that's not my fault.

I WANT my food to be safer. If that means only large companies can compete, so be it.
I'm trying to figure out where Dana Oshiro is coming from.

Her bio reads "Dana Oshiro is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb. She is a Canadian blogger, PR pro and start up strategist. She writes about her life in San Francisco at Villagers With Pitchforks."

Does she have a connection with Bootup Labs? Is she disappointed that Jamie in a way is putting Vancouver ina bad light?

This article is really shameful. She cherry-picked a comment on the original Hacker News thread and focused on it. She ignored the rest of the comments that are sympathetic to Jamie and are castigating Bootup Labs.
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What about the part where seeds have to be sterile and can't be saved? That has Monsanto all over it.

Unless this is a valid way to improve food safety...
Tackling design challenges
For me, pinching and multitouch are easy and natural, but often I just use a double tap to zoom instead.

In this case, the real alternative to the task switcher is flicking through multiple pages of apps, which surely is more difficult than a simple row of recently used apps. It's hard to imagine a pinching gesture that would be usable here, without interfering with the current app.
I'm a big fan of his work, but I feel minimalism can easily be taken too far. Does an indicator not need to be visible when it's off? How do you confirm that it is off. Yes, you'll eventually learn where it is by repeated exposure to it when it's on but there will still be some uncertainty even then, especially if you deal with multiple machines.

Personally I like that minimalism and want it in the products I buy, but I'd not go so far as to say it's more usable than a more prosaic alternative where you have a row of cheap indicator leds with little pictograms next to them.

Reminds me of this comic strip too:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/3/6/
I am pretty sure I heard her sing mister sandman on a Toyota commercial last night via food network. If so that's real success.
Maybe it is an American thing (I'm American). I've had to very consciously switch my drinking habits from diet soda over to water. I used to literally not drink any water at all.
Sterilized, not sterile. Some bacteria and fungi thrive in seed collections if they get moist. Sterilization ensures you aren't then planting these seeds and allowing the bacteria/fungi to grow over and throughout the crop.
I think this envelope is intended to be placed into another one which is actually mailed, so that the one with the marker does not have to be sealed. I guess that's pretty common for doing various kinds of formal invitations, etc.
Is the "privacy policy" a legally binding document?
If so, how so? If not, why do you think it's important what a tiny start-up's privacy policy is?

The privacy policy is a promise. Broken promises have repercussions in proportion to how well known it is that you break your promises. For Facebook, that might be important. For weekendproject.com, I can't imagine why you're fixated on it.
we're more likely to get a flat income tax than a VAT.

One can only hope.
Your reduction of brightness idea is brilliant! Minimum backlight gives this: http://jim.studt.net/ipad-print2.jpg which if you only have a black and white laser printer…

Taking the case off might also help get the image closer to the glass of the scanner.
Happiness from jumping off the corporate ladder
U.S. Falls Short in Measure of Future Math Teachers
Here's a cover of Earth Wind & Fire's "September", I think it's some of their best work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycnv87N_BU
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This is why we see so many articles on HN about writing well. It is a skill I want to have!
There will be CS influence in informatics and data science, but I'm guessing the influence will come from individuals with CS backgrounds rather than CS departments. These individuals will leave CS departments to join other departments involved in domain-specific data science or more formal data analysis and learning methods (e.g., statistics).

The modern field of CS is too broad for a single department. Perhaps more universities will follow CMU, creating a school of computer science with specialized departments. Until then, expect to see CS undergrads and Master's students involved in informatics/ML joining non-CS Ph.D. programs.
I don't know how you reach the conclusion I'm "fixated" on anything. I just note for the record that it's an industry-standard recommendation for websites that solicit personal information to declare a privacy policy. I agree that there has to be a certain degree of user trust in any such stated policy, because the stated policy might be a lie. On the other hand, if the stated policy is a lie, then users who are misled by the stated policy would have a legal remedy if they chose to pursue that.
If you look at the "also visited" tab - all of the sites listed are arbitrage crap.
It also has some presentation issues on longhand overrides of shorthand rules. Eg: If I override margin:0 with margin-top:1em, the margin:0 rule is not struckthrough.

Granted, the most accurate way to present that override would be to display margin: 0 0 0 0, with only the first 0 struckthrough. But that deviates from the written code and becomes more difficult to track.
They both also commented here as well.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266872
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1267256
The less the median developer on a software project team is paid...
Just did a quick check and found that just 9 of them are available as domain names, while 91 are already booked !!

Those available are :
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havebetterposture.com
wakeupwhenmyalarmclockgoesoff.com
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stopcaringwhatotherpeoplethinkofme.com
figureoutwhatiwanttodowithmylife.com
goonaroadtrip.com
identify100thingsthatmakemehappybesidesmoney.com

When you prefix HowTo you still have around 48 left.
No one has anything to say about this?
Nice list, but most of these are low hanging fruit and are already saturated with established players. The riches are still in the niches.

Example: instead of losing weight, I'd focus on helping people gain weight. It's a much smaller market, but there are lots of skinny guys wanting to gain weight in a healthy way (me included).
How about if the Neo4J REST component was (say) one of a few options (the others being something like FlockDB or a mysql implementation)... In effect you would need to bring your own Neo4J platform to use the larger sytem, and Neo4J would not be a core component of it.
How long will it be until recommendations from trusted others and work examples are accepted as better predictors of competency and success over degrees from elite schools?

I love that some fields have already overcome this bias. I'm also glad that our globalized world is quickly making this more and more of a reality.
Where: Like Foursquare, except with profits and lots more users