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For Japan, it's all about 'tradition'. So society/entranched interests resist changes heavily. For example, the entrepreneur who started 1000-yen haircut chain in Japan (severely undercutting the barbershops) used to get death threats on his life, and had to fight tooth and nail to get spaces in shopping centers.

You should see the blank stare I get, when they ask me about how to be successful in life (I'm a bit older and have my own company) and I tell them to start a business.
It would be harder than you think. Patrick is patio11 on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11). He's smarter than the average bear.
Videotaping your own arrest by police might be a crime?
very nice! me likey!
For example, when the iPhone came out, ... in New York, it was almost a non-event;

Really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iSE0bBgUsQ
Hopefully you can post the results of your sale here and anything you learn along the way...good luck!

For a point of reference, I just remembered a similar, but much smaller site called Snipplr recently sold at auction; you can see the results here:

http://flippa.com/auctions/94283/Snipplr-com-PR5--500000-vis...
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> if you want the entire market to serve a niche for social reasons you will need government intervention to do it.

That doesn't tell us who should pay the costs.

If "the people" think that something is a good idea, "the people" should pay for it.
That's like saying Mozilla has emails you sent through Gmail, because you know they made Firefox. It doesn't work that way.
I was slightly disappointed that the article made no mention of the fact that where you give your money is probably more important than how much you give, that the current charity market has multiple orders of magnitude differences in return on investment -- ie in how much human suffering can be alleviated per marginal dollar.

I'm sure Gates and Buffet already understand this well, and have said so, but I wish it were making it into the coverage.
Having lived in the north east my entire life, I completely agree. Although, I built up a resistance to it after a while. It has definitely hurt some relationships in the past.

But, can this attitude be said for lots of cities?
Actually girls in NYC are attracted to success and most women here are very impressed by "I started my own company in NYC". Although this is where your ability to "massage" the truth comes into play.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+sinatra/new+york+new+york...

Take a look at the 5th stanza. Then look at the comment you're replying to.
New York is the greatest... and I don’t care what Antonio Garcia-Martinez says
I am wondering why there's nothing in place to deal with news overload?!
Anybody know anything about startups dealing with information overload?
> on the old one the text looks squashed

If you're just looking the screenshot in the blog (as opposed to clicking thru to a larger view), I think it really is squashed. Try going straight to http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/logo-wager/o..., it looks a bit better.

I'm also not a teacher looking to buy bingo cards, but the new logo is just terrible. Is that really the best you could find on 99 Designs? (99D is down right now, but I was going to see if I could fetch a better one quickly.) I'm not at all surprised it performs worse that the current one. I'll bet it performs worse that just the text "Bingo Card Creator" displayed in basic font with sufficient contrast to the background.

While I can imagine the old logo being better executed, just as an anecdotal impression, the concept behind the old logo seems pretty much spot on to me.
I set up my svn commands to play the Super Mario Bros theme from 1-1 while committing.

If successful, it plays the level complete jingle, and if it fails, Mario dies.
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Wow, I visited the Capital One page for myself and was pretty amazed with the results: interests where right aligned.

I got different pages when switching browser (although you have to clear cookies/flash cookies), and also different credit card proposals (some student cards for you in Chrome? Or rather some "serious" cards in Internet Explorer)

You can find the tracking from the domain .edge.ru4.com. It does contain a wealth of information, although I have yet to find the identifier for "my" Nielsen Market Segment. The segments are here:

http://www.claritas.com/MyBestSegments/Default.jsp?ID=30&...
Just a tip from a customer service pro: Don't use "I'm sorry." Instead, use "I apologise," this accomplishes the same end while taking the personal subtext out. And, as the commenter above mentions, it should be followed up with "what can we do to fix it"!
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It's the Sex and the City effect, for better or for worse.
something that helps dealing with news overload!
yeah, would like to be an early user!
I second this, KC is a great city for startups and very affordable. Lots of motivated people at Startup Weekend and other events... many Ruby and PHP devs, not enough design talent. UMKC is pushing entrepreneurship through their E&I institute and student venture incubators.
Mind telling us what problem you are trying to solve?

Neither your description nor your homepage (nor anywhere else I can see) describes what your app does. And given the updates, I can't assume it has the same focus as when you previously launched.
I believe so although I did not find confirmation one way or the other.
The first test I give for any Ask HN feedback is, 'if I open the site without reading the description first, do I know what it does'.

Sorry to say, you fail miserably on this test (possibly the worst yet, though I do like the look of the site).

Even clicking your '5 great reasons' link, I get 'simple, private, customizable, fun, community'. Ok, it's a community site? Maybe I need to read more. - Simple - connect with friends, so it's a social networking site.
Private - fanbase??? oh, so it's a site for musicians???

Ok, so now I've finally gone and read your long description here on HN.

You're building another social network, and as far as I can tell, you haven't defined a clear target market. I kinda get where you're doing things a bit different than facebook, but is that really enough? No annoying applications, but lots of people seem to like those applications, so you are limiting what your users can do. Badges, because people like them, but what are the badges for?

I'm not saying there isn't a market for a different social network, but I think you need to do a better job of defining your market or target. It's great that you've managed to get yourself some publicity from thrillist (doesn't everybody get on killerstartups), but to take it to the next level, I think you need to differentiate yourself.
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OMG I love you and I didn't even know it. Congrats on Nebula's and UserScripts' success. You have made my internets much more enjoyable.

FWIW I'm with user24: life is long and you'll have many years to regret the sale/dispensing of UserScripts if you ask me. It's very hard to acquire a user base like you have.
Plus, here are some minute-by-minute highlights: http://railsonpostgresql.com/2010/08/03/pgcon-2010-talk-on-r...
one question though.. I just started using it any didnt add any friends yet. Readness is recommending me some news stories, which to be honest, are not 100% relevant.. was wondering based on what it does the recommendation?
The old logo may be cheesy looking, but in this situation, it's a hundred times better than the crappy generic one, and it is strong enough to balance the awful text set to its right.

With the generic logo, the ugly text dominates.

If the text was fixed up, perhaps the generic logo might stand a chance, but with the shown pages, it's way too weak.

When I did my app site at femcalapp.com, I cribbed the basic design from something else, but I've worked steadily to refine it, albeit without any metrics, just my own metric of does it look better or not.
The part I don't understand is why Japanese citizens would accept such low returns on their investment for so many years, when so many investments outside of Japanese government debt would give them higher yields.

Is it a cultural thing? Is it just pure altruism? Do they want to support their government that much that they're willing to ignore better investments for their savings?
Zed, you might reconsider your social strategy. Your article lays out a brilliant theoretical approach, but it's hard figure out how to apply it without more real-world data. Pragmatically, it seems like your goal should be to encourage others who are in a position to gather this data to do so, and to share it with you.

It looks like Jacques looks has a pretty good start at making these measurements: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1573145. If the numbers he provides aren't helpful, or aren't complete, you might try encouraging him to fix them. Calling him a "FUD slinging troll" seems more likely to cause him to tune out and ignore you, to the detriment of us all.

Realize that you've been thinking about this problem for a while now, while others have just started their thought process. Your goal is to get them up to speed so they can move your argument further, but this won't be instantaneous. Treating them as potential allies during this formative stage might pay off. If you can hold off with the insults for a couple hours or even days, you might get better results than if you shout them down immediately. :)
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Interestingly, Eurozone members like Greece can't hyperinflate their currency, since members share common currency, but can't simply print it on their own. The worst they can do is default, which would still have a nasty financial domino effect, but it does leave open the possibility of kicking Greece out of the Euro and taking the hit.
Do you really find that the types of responses you get can be stereotyped by the person's location?

I just have a hard time believing that qualities like this can be chalked up to location and certain parts of the country, but perhaps I'm naive (and I have no experience living on the west coast).
I commit so often, I'm afraid the first cheer won't finish before the second starts.
I believe I invented that :)
There are other options. For example you can get a huge number of humanities lectures from good universities online. Try out "iTunes U" sometime if you haven't seen it already; it's got top-quality lectures, but not the discussion. (This discussion component should be cheaper to provide than the whole package. There's probably a startup opportunity here. I don't know where you can get such discussion now, though.)

Anyway, it's a large part of what you'd get in college, free. All you have to do is make a commitment to watch some lectures and study supplementary material if you don't understand something. It's a hell of a bargain.
I'm not sure it's that hard.

You can use any number of very low-barrier strategies to solve this. One that was mentioned a few times in this thread is to use environment variables. Personally I just put a {whatever}.yml or similar in my project tree somewhere and throw it in .gitignore.

I can't imagine a process that starts with "go to westorecredentials.com and sign up..." being any easier. Willing to be surprised :)
The debt is not indexed to inflation or GDP. So, 13.3 Trillion * 3% = ~400Billion per year so an 400B "increase" would represent zero increase in inflation adjusted debt.

In other words if the debt increased 0$ in a given year we would have effectively paid off ~3% of it.

PS: The actual increase in debt over the last few years has still been ridiculously fast. Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010.[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...) Basicly we are putting the entire DoD budget on Credit Cards.
This is my Riak-influenced Dynamo-clone (implemented in Python):

http://bitbucket.org/rogueops/vinzclortho/wiki/Home
Pilots love using them for mapping. There are a couple of very nice apps for it too. I'd bet you could make really good money if you can ferret out more niche markets that it's perfect for.
Interesting point.

Is money better spent feeding/clothing a bunch of Africans and preventing aids _or_ on research, bio-engineering, space/ocean exploration, education etc. here at home?

Which one is short term and which one is long term?
I use it on the muni/bart ride every day. Games, occasional video, reading a book or something saved on Instapaper. I think it suffices to say that it does what I wanted it to do when I bought one.
That's really said news. I was very active in the beginning, but I too have moved on. It's that I haven't learned any rails (yet), otherwise I'm interested. Maybe you can make it more an community afford, opening the site up for multiple active people.
My favorite is from Larry Ellison, who basically says "Warren Buffet told me to write this, so I did." That's what I inferred from his message, which is pure Ellison.
So are they reading the cookies you have from other sites?
Location based services
Try. But before you do: are you sure you know what Patrick's business actually is? It looks like "Hello world" hooked up to a random number generator... but it isn't.

Here's a tip: when you've figured out what it is Patrick is actually doing, you'll see why it's kind of silly to consider competing directly with him.
> no seasons makes some of the LA natives a bit wacky

By the count entire countries in the tropics should be wacky :P
Yeah. I need to put something on the frontpage to describe it.

Here's how I describe it to friends:

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It's like Twitter but instead of following people, you follow projects.

I'm focusing just on fellow hackers who have side projects. There are a number of apps (most are small) that are developed but would never get coverage from big tech blogs. Launchset is aims to help people discover these projects.

For the developer, it's a way of measuring interest on your app by the number of people following you. You can also keep them engaged by providing progress updates to your followers.
I signed up with an email like username+label@gmail.com. This helps me better organize and it works with GMail. Problem is that even after confirming the email address, when attempting to login it errors out:

Please enter a correct username and password. Note that both fields are case-sensitive.

I've reset the password and still the same error. I wonder how much of it has to do with the email address format and if you are cleaning invalid characters, etc.
You can keep both NYC and Los Angeles. There's a much bigger world out there than just two geographic area.

If I were single, I would be a digital bedouin so I could work in both New York, LA and anywhere else on the planet.
Oh, come now. Six months ago it was obvious to knowledgeable people that Android would surpass iPhone, and I'm pretty sure that was true a year ago, too, notwithstanding the occasional contrary opinion.

It's clear that some people think that Android vs Iphone is a team sport, and they've chosen up their side. The problem is no one agrees on how we score. Some people want it to be market share even though the real name of the game is profit.

It is incredibly well known that Apple can thrive with a limited market share. Would they love to have the dominant market share in phones? Of course. Will they try to maximize their market share? Of course. But, at the end of the day, they're not going to sacrifice their vision or profits in the name of winning that fool's game.

Comparing iPhone to Android isn't comparing apples to oranges. We're talking about one phone versus a host of phones on a host of carriers.
I had the same problem when I signed up; it really needs a tagline and a non-blank homepage.

But when you register and add a project it becomes clearer - it's a facebook/twitter hybrid populated only by developers doing interesting things. As far as I can tell, anyway.
A product is more than the sum of it's feature-grid checkboxes.
As Sir Ken says, education is one of the most personal experiences people have. If you ask someone about their education you suddenly get their full attention as they travel back in time to recount the good old days.

The anti-education slant largely comes about from people trying to prove themselves or justify their personal circumstances. Their words: "Well, I didn't go to college and I'm doing fine." Their meaning: "You must be not as good as me if you didn't do what I did." Their feelings: "All these other people had opportunities, support, and they just went along with it. Their lives were handed to them. I know I'm better, or at least just as good, as them even though I didn't go to a fancy school. I'm going to prove it by telling everybody how school is worthless."

In short, you are what you did. The anti-schoolers forget school also includes social grooming, transition periods, and growing up. The schoolers forget not going to school has different ways of social grooming, helping with transitions, and growing up.
Of course, most Web access problems are already being solved by the market, but that won't stop the Justice Department's zealous civil rights enforcer.

I just came in to hear the guffaws of the UI designers over this one. The UI guys where I work have read a lot about accessibility and think it's fascinating. Boy, will they be excited if they ever get a chance to add accessibility to a real product.
My God, I can't believe I left it there. While I was developing a while ago I had put it there and completely forgot to remove it. What a costly mistake this could've been or even is.

Thank you, kabuks, so much for noticing this. I have changed my S3 key pair and am getting to cleaning up my git commits.

My God ! But thanks so much.
I will ping you a couple of days before we go live.
OK, quick stats 101:

The hypothesis isn't that A > B, it is that A = B (the null hypothesis). 99% certainty is to reject the null hypothesis, leading to the conclusion that A is better.

The second experiment you've outlined is gibberish, which involves a series of words spelled similar to ones you can find in a stats book, connected in a manner which leads to nowhere.
Think the Justice Department is going to be checking market cap before sending out ADA letters?
do it.

bcc was one of the steps on the way to me realizing that building the site is almost none of the business.

as a friendly and encouraging wager, i submit that you can't or won't get a bcc clone business with >$500 revenues/mo.
My parents loved theirs so much they bought two. I used it for a few days when I was at their house - I thought it was unparalleled for browsing the web. Swipe, swipe, touch, swipe. And I could hold it in positions that were far more natural. More like holding a book than holding a laptop.

My parents bought one because they are both recently retired, and wanted a computer they could bring on the many trips they take.
It really should only cheer if the commit passes all of the automated tests...just sayin' :-)
Seriously, who cares ? :)
Having lived on the east coast, midwest, and west coast, I would say the resources are certainly different at a business level (capital, talent, etc) although you can certainly make do wherever you go.

However, anyone who thinks there are hot girls in SF has never left SF.
University of Waterloo, in Canada.
That was indeed the point. I took the "learn what you like" route and was not rewarded for that as much as I could have been rewarded for gaming the system.
"Given the lifestyle in the City, products are much closer to the pavement and are a solution to a real-world problem from Day 1."

This makes no sense. How does NYC's "lifestyle" create products that are any closer to "the pavement" than SF's does? Maybe Kelly should illustrate his point by choosing some NYC companies and comparing their products with SF products, or the products of startups from anywhere else for that matter?
meh... it happens to me too, more often than I care to admit actually! :-)
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Er, if you can't read before you get to kindergarten your parents are fucking up.

Either that or they're recognizing and embracing the uniqueness of your passion to not read.
Remove and change at Amazon, as the values could still be floating around in fetches, caches, archives, indexes, etc. for a while.
Starting to wish for some articles about the iPhone/App Store or Erlang or something...
Well said. The absurdity of saying "most New Yorkers couldn’t fry an egg if their lives depended on it" is what set me off. Also, the fact that I'm a living contradiction to nearly all of Antonio's points.
Seems like a good time to resurrect /etc/hosts as killfile. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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If you can do a better job in three days than he has over the entire history of his business, then you definitely should.
If you are interested in a contrary viewpoint I suggest reading some of E.D. Hirsch's work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Hirsch,_Jr.#Concern_for_c...
nice rebuttal, i'll grant you that!
If you are trying to do a life style start up, New York is probably a good place. (i don't have anything against life style business). But you're trying to do anything more ambitious, silicon vally is still the place to go.
I just tried this and it worked for me.

Is it ok if I delete your account and send you an invite thru your email?
This rebuttal is hilarious.

Kelly's TL:DR summary at the end should have been:

• NYC is more fun! And interesting! I'm 23.
• I work at a big company, but startups have happened here at least once.
• What do I know? I'm only 23.

The original article was articulate if a bit bombastic. The most salient points, which Kelly failed to address, were in my mind:

• The Bay Area has a culture and history of tech innovation
• The Bay Area has thousands of VCs and venture money
• The Bay Area has top engineering schools
• The Bay Area has tons (metric!) more startups, entrepreneurs, hackers, coders, etc.

The most telling sentence in Kelly's post is: "The social component of a real city with museums, clubs, venues, pubs, bars and barcades is important."

A "real city"! Wow. By Kelly's estimation there must be at most only 2 or 3 real cities on the entire planet.
To quote Robin Williams:

"Then the Puritans broke away from the Calvinists, our ancestors, people so uptight, the English kicked them out."
Nebula looks awesome. I say this as someone who has a slice of what it is like inside a government IT department. Is Nebula going to expand outside of NASA as well?
Somewhat depressed to see that the newest marketing strategy for YC companies is to imitate techniques rappers pioneered 15 years ago.

What are these guys thinking?
I think I actually "chose" this logo (in that it was one of 5 logos I suggested to Patrick when we started this bet). My hypothesis was that any professionally-designed logo, generic or otherwise, would outdo Patrick's bespoke logo, which positively screams "April 19th, 2002!".

... and I was wrong. Teach For America an acceptable charity, Patrick?

Someone in this thread suggested that this shows-t'-go-ya that geeks shouldn't pick logos. It says the exact opposite to me: that no matter what your eye for design is, engineering will always beat aesthetics. No pro designer would come up with what Patrick has now, and yet it works.