skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suspect a larger portion of the cost-of-living difference is due to desirability of the areas, i.e. relative amounts of demand for each, more than it is due to state regulation impacting supply. People are willing to pay lots more to live in SF than they are willing to pay to live in Austin.

It's a pretty easy trend to notice on the most/least affordable lists that seem to come out periodically. If you look at this list of top 5 and bottom 5 affordable cities to buy a house, the trend is that the most affordable cities are ones nobody wants to live in (Indianapolis, Dayton, etc.), while the least affordable cities are ones lots of people want to live in (NYC, SF, Honolulu, etc.): http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/most-and-least-affordable-.... Even true within CA: it's not particularly expensive to live somewhere like Bakersfield, despite all the same minimum-wage/environmental/etc. laws applying there too.
My exercise bike to xbox hardware project is ready for factory production.
Site with promo video: http://www.pedalsense.com

I'm looking for candid feedback or advice. This is really just a side project of mine to get into hardware hacking and production. A lemonade stand, of sorts. Now that I have it ready to be produced from factories, and I have to decide if it's profitable to do so.

It isn't even a big time sink anymore, it's mostly just a capital risk. It costs me about 65 for one unit to be produced, 30 dollars for an xbox controller, and about 20 dollars in labor to pay someone to mod the controller and package everything together. So for small runs I have this product costing me about $115. This is for runs of 100, about.

The question is: do I put down $11,500 for 100 units and hope I can sell them? I don't see a lot of movement on the kickstarter pre-order page, but maybe people just don't like using kickstarter this way. But, everyone who tried it at the Maker Faire really fell in love with it. Finally, I'd love to get into the details of production of someone has questions or advice.
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So… 2.0 could go alpha but would go through same mocking and ridicule that 1.0 went through...

There's nothing bad about ridicule. A product built under gaze of a select few is destined to be far removed from the needs of its users. TextMate was not born good, it improved because it was ridiculed.
After installing the extension if you aren't seeing the integration in VS.NET. Right click on a GIT controlled file and choose "Refresh GIT File Status".
Well, I'm not sure if these classify as lesser known, but Cocoa (that is most) text fields in Mac OS X support basic emacs bindings which I use all the time (native vim support would be even better of course, but hey..): http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html (look at the ctrl (^) bindings).
the ideas i intended to go somewhere have. but i see business in general as ideas and give myself a lot of time/flexibility to experiment with things. sometimes i have public facing things i am tinkering with that i'll shelve, reinvent, etc. i don't feel bad about it.

if you didn't lose anybody else's money, it's not a loss. experimenting is always a win.
Well it was basically random but the supposed concern was they tended to need to schedule things tightly or wanted to interview from afar
Good questions.

If a developer is interested in doing everything himself, then there really is no reason for this partnership. In my experience, though, it is hard to put in the time required to keep a growing list of clients as well as continue to work on their projects without a partner to share some of the burden.

The great thing about Greek organizations is that they all need maintenance contracts (though rarely use them) and their budgets are typically large enough that $50-70/mo hosting isn't a dent at all.

Shared between the founders, the maintenance/hosting would generate a good amount of passive income. Like you said, though, maintenance contracts aren't something I created ;)
I get the impression they're spending £15m just to fly for the Olympics. If true, what a waste of money!
Stick A Fork In It: My Final Thought On LessConf 3010
Thanks, that's pretty cool.

Yeah, in retrospect, I should have reworded the question "What are your favorite keyboard shortcuts?".
Something Sucks About Prepped Obituaries - Thoughts?
Yeah. A whole day.

Or you can go to sleep, and leave it to take A WHOLE NIGHT.
What's the point of that?

A critical stereotype of a complete sociopath is unlikely to change their minds, and those traits on their own aren't exceptionally wrong. Sounds like a little rant against something/someon everyone can agree is wrong/bad, but doesn't really exist.
I'm curious to see how Wave fares under a python-dev-size debate, and what creative curating can accomplish.

Sometimes I think the optimal solution to online discussion is a reconfigurable 3d visualization of the graph of comment-nodes. In one configuration, node size, location, connectedness and proximity to the core of the graph would signify a comment's relative importance and "page-rank". The ability to respond to and "link" to multiple other comments would be useful here. Another would be a more standard tree-based visualization of the comments in time, but without the misleading vertical ranking of root nodes. Another visualization might be a straight serialization in time, similar to mailing lists.

I imagine the nodes to be sort of bouncy, physicsy bubbles that can be nudged around, and that the view can rotate in three dimensions and zoom in and out to focus on specific subthreads.

Other times I think that's way too heavy-weight a solution, that it would be confusing, that it might not actually solve anything, and that we do pretty well with the threaded comment trees we have now. I actually kind like that everyone sees the same thing on the page, shared experience and whatnot.

I dunno. Online discussion is hard.
Historically, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) is probably the most prestigious law firm in the world for taking startups public in the U.S. markets. Guess what they are promoting on June 2nd? That's right - a presentation on how to take your company public in Taiwan (http://www.garysguide.org/events/3077312/wsgr-going-public-i...).

This symbolizes how important this trend is becoming for venture-backed startups in the Valley and elsewhere. The VCs need to get returns back up and they will not sit around forever as conditions remain relatively unfavorable in the U.S.
I'm not sure what context this one is in: 10. Bad is stronger than good. It is more important to eliminate the negative than to accentuate the positive.

Does it mean that people don't care whether there is an exercise room if they are not being paid well? Or am I looking at it the wrong way?
Is this ever ridiculous. She made the choice to follow the directions. Once she noticed it was a highway with no sidewalk, why would she keep walking?!
I was hoping that it would give some examples of how to make sure that your employer knew your value.
I can ignore x86 assembly just like I can ignore French: the graphical structure (i.e., indentation) of an x86 program gives away nothing, just like a paragraph of French gives me no immediate sense of its meaning. In either case, I could probably puzzle out the meaning with intense reading, but the mere presence of the text does not give it away.

My C solution, on the other hand, has a distinct graphical structure which would indicate, even to people for whom C isn't their "native language," a lot of the meaning of the text with merely a glance.
Surely number 6 would be better as Real elite programmers talk about programming, but never actually do any or something to that effect.
I am struggling with the decision to accept a job offer at the moment, and I keep hearing this: "why don't you just try it (for a couple of years)". And I don't understand it.

Granted, I could quit after 3 months, but it would probably invoke bad feelings. So I assume for employment I would be looking into at least one year. That is HUGE investment of time. It is 3% of my officially remaining time in the work force (provided I stay healthy, until the official retiring age). Is that really an investment you are supposed to make "just to try things"???
I don't think there is any need to distinguish between technical and non-technical users. Both generally just go by what is on the page rather than checking the references.
When I originally read it, the symmetry was blatantly obvious and I kept waiting for at least one of the humans to remark on it. That they desire to impose their ethics on the Babyeaters yet reject those of the others...

But SF can also be social commentary. Not necessarily intentional, but it's likely this could be an allegory to multiple current situations/viewpoints.
These guys have the funniest code I've ever seen. And yes I meant to type seen, not read. It's on the home page of their company site - http://www.girlfriendnyc.com/

If you feel like a good laugh go check it out.
Best, Miko
BLiNQ Media And Hashrocket: Facebook Advertising's Secret Weapon
Last could be a position of honor. And he mentions that it produces higher compression ratios.
The Stephan King Lesson - It's easy when nothing's at stake
http://www.sublimetext.com/ is a good editor for windows, though I think it differs from textmate in a few areas which I think is developed by one person as well
Steve Jobs's thoughts on the Internet in 1996
I don't have a Mac, but my colleagues use some keybinding to display a fullscreen list of available shortcuts.. Don't know which one, though
That's obviously a best practice. Minified code is essentially object code.
101 ways to Embed Content: The State of Embedly
Considered switching from YouTube to another embedded video player?

"This video contains content from sony music entertainment. it is no longer available in your country."

Awesome idea, but I don't have a bike =)
there tend to be some stumbling block, something I estimated to just a day’s work (or didn’t consider at all) end up taking the two full months

Yup. Probably my least favorite part about writing software. And "project management" types still expect time estimates. :)
Wow, tynt recently raised $8m. What do they need all that money for? http://www.tynt.com/tynt-raises-8m-in-venture-capital-to-fue...
Argh! That sounds particularly useful... Am trying to Google it, but haven't found it yet. Thanks for letting me know about its existence though!
Clickable link: http://www.pedalsense.com

(Cool video -- looks like the kids are having a lot of fun!)
Good suggestion for Windows. One key feature for Sublime Text is the minimap and for those wanting that in TM, Julian Eberius developed a TM plugin - http://julianeberius.github.com/Textmate-Minimap/
Does the outcome of these debates ever matter? I always think of them as a way to keep the naysayers busy while the contributers actually implement something.
the products arent supposed to be compared in the slightest, they just want people to realise that when it comes to browsers old = bad, new = good.

that is most certainly true for milk, its not so clear with cars (vintage cars are popular, if cars are looked after they can last a long long time)
Just watched the movie for the first time and understood pretty much nothing.
Went through the Wikipedia summary and still I don't understand a lot of things.
Will take another crack at it tommorow morning.
To be honest, all I want updated in TextMate is the interface, I could care less about how well "abstracted" the code is on the back end. I would also be happy to pay for 2.0 even after the free promise and I think that's true for 90% of TextMate users.
A better mobile version of HN. Please review my weekend project
Translation: "One time, someone explained something to me in a way I didn't understand. Instead of researching it, I just got really mad and wrote a blog post instead. I hate people that eat pizza and code for fun. Those fuckers."
How To Outsource Your Customer Service Without Pissing Off Your Customers
Yes, HN could really need a mobile version.
Also, is there some official API? Could people write mobile apps based on HN?
Being jerks.
I will definitely consider that - I thought the worst that happened was the popup selling the song, which just seemed fair to me. Too bad sony can't figure out how to leverage their assets in some non-US countries as well.
I don't use Digg. Do you guys use it, regularly? If you don't use it regularly, how can you judge?

I think Alexis is probably right because it's part of his business he looks at this everyday.

I like dmix's point. "It's about what clicks with the companies own customers." VC will always meddle, but if their meddling doesn't click with the customers, they just lose more money.
Unless you have some kind of insider knowledge, I don't think we should jump to the conclusion that Allan is burnt out and has given up. Not just because the accusation is unfounded, but because Allan is likely to read it and these messages can be really depressing. Depressing because you know you've not met your own deadlines and frustrating because you can't do anything about it.

I completely believe Allan when he makes the "house without windows" analogy because this matches my own experience. As he said: don't ask for feedback when you already know what has to be done. For a version 0.1 you want feedback because you don't know which features are considered most important and you want to get hype going, etc. For a version 2.0 this doesn't work, because the ONLY FEEDBACK you're going to get is the whiny "but why doesn't it do X yet?" and "I wish you'd add feature Y", or "This icon is misaligned" or "There's a typo in this menu bar". The users mean well, but you know about all these flaws already because they're staring you in the face EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Releasing a complete rewrite is very difficult and takes a lot of stamina. As long as Allan is making progress every day (and I have no reason to question this) he'll get there eventually.

Getting "some kind of version" out there in 6 months would be a terrible mistake.
On the last point, it seems to descriptively still be true, based on the outcomes of recent elections? SF itself is obviously quite to the left, but even within SV, Democrats almost always win, and pro-spending ballot initiatives usually pass with healthy margins, even when they involve tax hikes-- e.g. the 1% surcharge on >$1m incomes from 2004, or the recent high-speed rail bonds. HSR in particular strikes me as in line with a Bay-Area techie/leftish/optimist spirit, in favor of large, tech-flavored public works projects.

There are some "business conservatives" in the region, but somehow I don't associate them with tech or SV, Meg Whitman notwithstanding. When I think Bay-Area conservatives, I think east-bay hills and suburbs, or north bay, commuting in to the financial district, not Mountain View. But maybe that's not accurate?
1. Send this video to manufacturers of the games that are likely to do well with it. Try linkedin to get a better shot at it.

2. Talk to children's fitness instructors in local gym or school. Ask them who you should be really talking to instead of them.

Both of these are likely to create a large-ish order, so that you can finance the work further.
CVCA-Entrepreneurs say key to success is timing
I wrote a couple of articles a while ago about minifying css/javascript on the fly. They utilise a mod_perl handler which intercepts outgoing css/js and compresses them on the way out.

https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_CSS_on_the_Fly

https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_JavaScript_on_the_Fl...
If you're going to question results published by a respected academic in a peer-reviewed journal, you really should mention that the results were published by a respected academic in a peer-reviewed journal.

A recent study by Sanjay Varshney, dean of the College of Business Administration at California State University in Sacramento, estimates that the cost of state regulations in 2007 reached an average of $134,122 per small business—the equivalent of one job lost per company

You could talk about their data or their survey methodology, but you sound like you're just scoffing because you don't like their conclusions.
When I started using a MacBook at work, I missed the Alt-Tab behavior of Windows and Linux. Alt-Tab switches to the last window that was active (and the one that was active before that, etc). There's a cheap utility for the MacOS that adds this feature. I have it bound to C-tab:

http://manytricks.com/witch/

You'll wonder how you lived without it!
They're not so much "alienating" candidates as they are targeting a niche, which is a fine strategy if you're a small company.
Google APIs session from I/O
Congratulations - I did that two weeks ago and feel nothing but great for making the decision! If you're capable and have some bridge money, just make the jump and don't look back.
Leading from behind
Ask HN: Making sense of your metrics data - what are your tools of choice?
There are many methods for looking at data in an event based fashion. Flurry, Mix Panel, Google Analytics, Omniture, and in-house server logging come to mind.

There tools for stream based metrics/querying, which doesn't seem applicable to most startups, but if you one of these that would be cool to hear about.

Finally there are tools for enterprise grade business intelligence. I've never had to work with these, so I can't comment.

What do you use, what are you forced to use in-house solutions for?
We use flurry for mobile, google analytics for web and in house server logging for both. I use a custom stack of scripts, SQL and R to make sense of it.

What does everyone do for higher level analysis of their event logs? Lets say you have a concept of users, and a concept of most actions that they take, how do you build a picture of who you users are, what they are doing, what the main user segments are, etc?

Am I missing out on any specialized tools? Note, tools must be able to handle fairly large datasets, the tools I have seen that slice up SQL databases usually end up being too slow.
Yes. He should drop the "free 2.0" promise. Free 2.0 versions are often used when 2.0 drops soon after 1.0, so that people feel like they get their money's worth. TextMate users have by and large gotten plenty of time for their 1.0 investment to pay off.
I think his best option is to sell TM2, but "Pay me what you think TM2 is worth."

This way, he sticks to the letter of the free upgrade promise - one can get it for free - yet benefits from what seems to be a very profitable way to price a product, especially a highly anticipated one towards which there is much goodwill.
I'd be quite happy with "1.6" as well. I don't need completely new product (I might not even like 2.0).

I just want few small things fixed in current version, e.g, asynchronous refresh of project directories (or at least better version of remate hack http://ciaranwal.sh/remate/ ).
mh.. i've found it.. apparently it's some tool.. i thought it's built in.. But it seems to be quite useful, as most coworkers use it.

http://www.ergonis.com/products/keycue/
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Software Patents
Air transport is one area where technology has seemingly stagnated, or even reversed. Airliners seem pretty much the same as when I was a kid. You certainly don't get to your destination any faster. There have been improvements -- aircraft such as the 787 are built with light and strong composites; the A380 is the biggest airliner ever; low cost carriers have driven down prices; you can get WiFi on certain flights. But you're not going any faster, or traveling any more comfortably.

Compare that to the period from 1955 - 1975. Jets entered commercial service, displacing slow and noisy gas-powered propeller planes. The Concorde made its first flight in 1969, entering service shortly after. The US had its own supersonic airliners on the drawing board. There were even proposals for hypersonic transports. We ended up getting stuck with cosmetically identical jetliners and a series of unmanned hypersonic test vehicles. Remarkable feats like SpaceShipOne are few and far between.

Aerospace technology relies on inspiration. "Because we can" used to be a large motivator. It's tough to get around economic or military reality, but at the same time it's sad to see fewer mind-blowing engineering achievements. Most of us couldn't afford a Concorde ticket, but I bet there were plenty of people who still thought it was damn cool.
Only one character in Portal? Don't forget about the Weighted Companion Cube. That character is pure genius.
C'mon. I know you're being mildly facetious, but "naysayers" and contributors aren't nearly so cleanly segregated. And debate often leads to important decisions that can't just be coded away.
He should port Textmate to Windows...he would make a damn killing from people like me who code on Windows and don't like full IDE's
http://www.icombinator.net/ I really wish there was a way to comment and vote from the interface, though.
I'd be curious to see how accessing an open wifi can be made illegal. I mean, it's legal to scan for wifi networks, this how we all connect to wifi networks. Now, what happen when my laptop finds an open wifi network? I if I click to connect to that network, my laptop wifi is going to ask permission (through handshake and protocol etc) to the open wifi which is going to accept and grant me permission. How can asking first and receiving a positive response to enter an open wifi be illegal? I mean it's not like I actually broke into it or cracked the password, I actually asked first and got an inviting response.
Cool, but doesn't look much different than a simple feed in google reader really.
Young Urban Farmers
Actually, keep it on youtube, but replace your music with something that you can license for cheap. There are many available online. Keeping it on youtube will help with promoting your product.

I'm showing this video to a few friends in the game industry.
Freescale finally gets their cool on
Disclaimer: I currently work for Freescale (for the next few weeks at least). I don't work on anything in this area however.
Do we really even need TextMate 2? 1.5 is certainly good enough for most users. I think that's what is bothering this guy, and why he's spending time on things like "abstracted" code.
Few other states HAVE matched this, but it's one of the easiest legislative changes any state could make to advance new business creation.

For non-US startup creation, I'd focus on "better" IP law, too. Most countries already don't have software patents.
There's already E Text Editor, which has Allan Odgaard's approval:

http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/textmate_on_windows
From scratch? Like, rewrite all your libraries and nifty little UI tricks? Of course not.

But sometimes ripping out the plumbing and throwing the bigger pieces back together works wonderfully.

I guess that's called refactoring, though. :)

The point I'm getting at is, who does The Big Rewrite? I can't ever see myself wanting to rewrite sections of code that are working perfectly fine Just Because.

How much of The Big Rewrite was Mozilla? Did they literally rewrite everything? I can't imagine so. I bet they kept a LOT of code. It was probably more along the lines of a rather daunting refactor.

I'm just wondering what "starting fresh" means. For me, it normally means fixing architectural decisions that have become a huge pain in the but I'm keeping a LOT of the code base.
The only reason I bought TextMate 1 now was the promise of getting TM 2 at no cost in seemingly near future (although now I can see that's not happening anytime soon.) Making TextMate 2 a free upgrade is the least he could do for his users that have stuck with him through numerous broken promises.