skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read that as "YC-Backed Torturspree is an Airbnb for Torturing"
Patch Is A Huge Waste Of Money
The IPv4 internet is even a smaller place than the real world. :-)
There's more information here: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/01/27/facebook-datamine-sell...
95% of the US? Maybe land area, but not population-wise. That's not very much in any metro over 1m population.
I met aaron and josh through HN, actually
...or it's users are not savvy/don't care enough to stop them.
It's a question we keep playing around with. Our customer dev work said that the subject matter market was, far and away, the most underserved/archaic - so that's where we decided to focus.

But, we don't want to restrict our tutors. They decide what they want to offer, and we'll list them for the subjects they want. I'm pretty sure that the community will grow and change over time, but we want to make sure we're hitting a defined problem first to get a full understanding of what works and what doesn't.

Sign up, and we'll definitely be in touch. We love a good tutor.
You didn't actually expect him to read the article, did you?
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If it were an add-on that popped-up in your browser when you were on a restaurant's Yelp/other page, or visiting the restaurant's site...? Lots of issues there though.
Aaron how much of technical background did you and Josh have when you first started building the website and also when did you guys realize that you had something?

Also do you guys plan on staying in NYC or moving out to California?
Just out of curiosity, can someone explain what it was about what I said that it deserves to be modded into negative numbers?

Did I break a rule, is this site overrun with fanboyism, or something else entirely?
Android is open source so they can de-Google-ize it. Bing, Bing Maps, Facebook Mail, Facebook Calendar, Facebook Photos, Facebook Market, etc.
Are We Living in a Hologram?
Growl would have been infinitely better in that I can then set up what the notifications look like, how long they linger on my screen and the font size and whatnot.

Not sure why didn't go with Growl instead of rolling their own...
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Does it run under Wine on Linux?
We use php b/c of previous experience, availability to scripts, compatibility with existing technology, and we like its licensing.
I know I just tried duckduckgo.com for the first time tonight. It didn't suck.

I also tried baidu.com, it has no problem suggesting the word completion "uTorrent"...after just "ut"!
How does YC compare to DreamIt? ;)
Wonderful idea. This could go way beyond grade school stuff. There are many topics I'd love to learn more about, if there were a good way to find an expert looking to give lessons. Piano, Surfing, Horseback Riding, etc etc.
That sounds like a useful distinction. What is the defining attribute of the introvert to you? and what is an example of flexible when introverted in that context?
I did that. They have you add an A record, three separate TXT records, and a CNAME.
Yeah, I've checked that, unfortunately. We're not listed, and the new domain certainly wouldn't be.
The IP is SendGrid's, so that's not the issue. The variable that causes it go to spam is unfortunately the domain.
Looks similar to the project I announced last week (http://rewordio.us) here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118240

I like the interface to show additional (whois, etc) information. Have you had folks purchase any domain names through your affiliate links - or has it mostly been used to come with with crazy combinations of words?
We homeschool our children. I want to find top quality tutors for languages like, French, Greek or Hebrew. Also grammar, math, and comp-sci. I'll keep an eye on Tutorspace. We're in Durham, NC.
Hmm,

I am not in the least the crusading defender of restaurant owners, but this thing seems kind of unfair.

Should not a health violation that's bad enough mean the place has to be closed and anything else mean that the place is OK? If the health departments are "corrupt" and not shutting down places, why would we put credence in their inspections at all?

The whole approach seems like an exercise in interpreting data in a fashion in which it wasn't meant to be interpreted.

You could extract similar sorts of poor of quality markers from lawsuits filed against businesses or whatever.

Am I missing something?
Face.com seems to be essentially going down that path. Now whether they store all of the faceprints or not, I don't know. They also have a developer API that is in alpha right now.
Idea: A Social Enterprise YC in New York City
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Anybody know how this works? Will my web-app be able to send notifications to the desktop? I assume so if it's going to be cross browser.
FWIW, that processor is easily overclockable to 1GHz.
Not much. My last real coding experience was C++ back in AP CS. I started teaching myself python at the same time we were doing full time customer development. I had a couple of friends pitch in some time to help us do some early stage stuff.

We hit a tipping point in early August where we realized we were onto something - no one thing did it, more an aggregation on a lot of signals and a lot of legwork and conversations. We decided the time was ripe to do it for real, and put all of efforts into "finding Ryan."

He handles all the real coding. I pitch in on some of the front end work (taught myself HTML and CSS) - but he's the guy who makes it all come together. Although, I do seem to get stuck with setting up printers and routers.

As for NYC/California: we're out in CA now for YC. We'll do whatever is best for the company when the program ends.
We have results in our face verification paper showing exactly how well people do on the LFW verification task. The answer is: very good, at 99.2%. However, we also show that much of this is coming from the background and context in the images in LFW. The fact that those images were originally gathered from Yahoo News means that many images are taken at the same event -- with the same background and same clothes, etc., and people can use this to make good guesses, even without seeing the person's face!

I think the vision community is thus looking for how to exploit context effectively. There have been a number of interesting approaches recently, from looking at "things" vs "stuff", to using additional information such as transcripts and captions, etc.

And of course, there are still lots of people looking at how to better solve the basic recognition problem itself.
The notifications are allowed to be full webpages - which can then communicate back to the parent window. (or extension)

This will be a reasonable alternative to modal dialogs for chrome extensions initially, and eventually for web apps in general. (if it gets adopted by other browsers)

http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/notifications/quick/
To answer your first question: deep integration. [Hypothetically,] now you can go to someone's facebook page, see your wall-to-wall, message history, and text history. It makes your entire social history easily accessible by unifying the data.

To answer your second question, most people don't care about privacy as much as geeks do. In fact, most people don't care about privacy at all. Though it's tempting to say, "they're all just morons and they'll see soon enough," it's probably also partially the case that we (as geeks) are a little paranoid ourselves. At least that's what comes to mine when I hit someone's home page and see a PGP public key.

Disclaimer: I will eventually be employed there, but it's not like I have any sort of a clue as to whether this is real or not.
My (vague) guess would be that with the existence of Mono, which essentially gives something like this a universality, whomever down voted you thought you might have been MS bashing.

But yeah, I don't think your comment was out of line.
Same here, good to know I'm not the only one who feels attracted to the house! Is it the lack of a kitchen that keeps you from working out there (assuming that you don't have one) or the lack of company? To me it is a bit of both.
Done! As a bonus, you can now dynamically change the parameters while it is drawing.
That's what parents and tutors kept telling us, and they sounded unhappy. We decided to try to make them happier by building something for them.
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Peter Thiel and Garry Kasparov Discuss Technology, Progress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TQwAr7lysw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atp85cNLI5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFaCMnVSrrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuNVSVeMPSk
We'd love to help out as soon as we get to Durham! Sign up for our mailing list, and when we show up, you'll know.
Blibu.com Launch Party in NYC
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Launch Party at Bar4 in Brooklyn. Bands who register before Friday can win a brand new Squire electric guitar. So come, it's free for all....
Links to all 4 segments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TQwAr7lysw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atp85cNLI5A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFaCMnVSrrI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuNVSVeMPSk
That's cool - you may be onto something. I'd wager there's some overlap between subjects and SAT IIs, AP exams, and name-your-state equivalents of New York State's Regents exams, as well. I'd do some thinking and planning on your expansion vectors around those things.

As for me, I'm in Ann Arbor right now, so I don't think I'd be useful to you yet. :)
I wrote a post about it here: http://www.aaronkharris.com/post/1000816766/wehaveactoandsoc...

I kept meaning to post that to HN, but never actually got around to it. Always happy to answer more questions.
The products are:

* Knol

* Orkut

* Buzz

* Google Health

* Boutiques ( like U.S. patents and academic research papers )

* Self driving cars

* Chrome OS

* Google TV
It's obviously worsening user experience with Google search. Why would Google need it?
I think that this idea that Google's autocomplete functionality is "actively pushing users" is dangerous because it could equally be applied to search results, or anything else. It seems to imply that anything Google returns has equivalent potential agenda and bias. The idea of Google being "fair" seems based on the premise of a strict firewall between advertising/promoted links and the famous algorithm for recommending results that users most likely actually want to find. If they're any smarter than Yahoo, they'll understand the second is what enables the first.

It would sure turn my world upside-down if it ends up that Bing wins takes the "fairest search" title in the minds of the users. But we may be seeing early hints of Google faltering here.

Could there be any connection with the recent executive rearrangement here?
I think the idea is that it's insurance more than a planning tool. Most restaurants in NYC are not on the cusp of being shut down for health violations, but if you do happen to go to one of them (won't happen often, but will happen), then you'll probably want to know.
I would love to say that I made a very sophisticated automated tool for this.. but it was mostly just me hacking a simple script that lets me manually select coordinates and preview the lines; while console.log()ing the coordinates and copy-and-pasting into the arrays.

The "borders" for each layer are easier -- all the coordinates come from the SVG, after translating and scaling.
I do most of my consulting work at a client's office.

They also sublet to a number of small startups, so it's effectively a coworking space as well.

I also tend to work from home once or twice a week, especially when the weather's bad - and I tend to work on my own projects at home.

I haven't worked in a coffee shop in about a year, but I still have meetings at coffee shops fairly regularly.

So... most of the above, I guess.
Awesome! I've been thinking about how much I miss tutoring, and was grumbling just the other day about how annoying it is to advertise your skills in any reasonable way.

Just signed up, so if anyone has kids who need math/science/cs help in Boston, look for Alan O'Donnell :)
clueless here: (I mean, I didn't downmod you; If it's worth responding it's worth not downmoding, but I am 'clueless')

what would be the consequences of disclosing your salary data? I've always been pretty open about what I've made personally, and while being open with the wrong people or the wrong situation can make you look pretty crass, what are the real consequences? Are people often fired for disclosing what they make? are they sued?

I mean, I have a hard time imagining a large company taking the time to sue some $100K/year lackey over bragging about his salary, or even firing the guy.

I guess I can imagine a small company firing over something like that, but again, anything more? seems unlikely.

I mean, the quotes I get for co-location or bandwidth all claim they are 'proprietary data' and not to be disclosed, but people still pass numbers around, and nothing comes of it besides an annoyed salesperson.
Erm. Dark Grey. Sorry. aixelsyd again.
On the East Coast, I've only heard it used as a noun, and that was maybe 20 years ago. It's been a bootloader for the past 10-ish.
Not YC-backed and no TechCrunch article, but WyzAnt (http://www.wyzant.com) is a similar service that's been around for 6 years already. Another recent one is Teachoo (http://www.teachoo.com). Tutorspree isn't the first and probably won't be the last start up in this space.
Aww hell, and I already booked my flight.
Thanks Robby, got the benchmark working, was trying to do a homedir install of fast-python-pb earlier.

I added a couple more tests to the benchmark, here are the results:

JSON
3.57209396362

Protocol Buffer (fast-python-pb)
0.325706005096

Protocol Buffer (native)
4.83730196953

Protocol Buffer (lwpb)
0.32919216156

cPickle
0.837985038757

As you can see, lwpb and fast-python-pb are neck and neck. And I should point out that lwpb isn't using C++ codegen at all, just the compiled schema in the .proto file. Of course, if completeness of implementation was the critical thing, you'd probably want to stay closer to google's official implementation. There's a lot of the google implementation that I never use though, like the RPC stuff.

Also notable that both lwpb and fast-python-pb outperform cPickle by almost 3x. It would be interesting to know why a portable, cross-language serialization format beats out the language-specific one.

Here's a fork with the patched benchmark code: https://github.com/acg/fast-python-pb
haha I just saw you posted this on HN. You know I'm there
and ELC will be an amazing performance I'm sure
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except for that multi-touch screen stuff
Looks interesting.

Couple of suggestions:

1) Please mention somewhere that it requires Adobe Air. Not everyone wants to install it (I didn't mind though)

2) Allow exporting of the layout to some generic vanilla xml/json format (so it can be used by people who are not using Corona). Alternatively, support export plugins

3) When importing images, allow the user to specify if the image should 'stretch' or 'tile' when resizing.

Haven't explored any more of it. It's a good looking app though!
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I have spent 250K+/month for months in a row and received basically the same service as someone spending 5K/month. They assigned me a a personal rep but it's still not possible to get real answers when problems come up.

I think the real number to get treated noticeably different is probably closer to 1M/month.
Facebook thinks iTunes store links are spam
Facebook is currently blocking users from posting links to the iTunes app store, saying "This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy"

Overzealous security measure?

http://d.pr/bCMC
Surprised no one mentioned Sass or LessCSS.
Gotta say - doesn't matter if you're in or not at SXSW. Maybe for the interactive, you can't go to the panels...but there's parties..and then during music? There's so much free stuff all over the city it's insane.
Russell and Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" is excellent. I used it in my undergrad, and more recently bought the 3rd edition. For a broader treatment of AI, this book is a must!
Wyzant is growing steadily and gaining traction.
I think this is very hypocritical of Google.

Just a few months ago they pulled out of China because of censorship, and now they're censoring stuff themselves. Sure it's not Exactly the same, but everything starts with a small precedent. Now that Google is powerful, it first starts off with censoring torrents, then what next? If Google starts to censor and control the outflow of data, it just kills the current perception I have for Google.

This is nothing innovative.
Would you recommend working for enterprises to find out what sort of software they need, or can you just ask them?
Ways to protect an alpha site
Hi,
I am currently working on a website but now, it is currently in pre-alpha stage and so I do not want people to sign up. Is there any way to avoid people accidentally signing other than obscuring the sign up button/link?

Thanks
I said other but university research should have been a.category and gov too
.htaccess?
I love CSS. It's so easy to get the results you want. Redundancy, messiness, and other complaints are a small price to pay for that.
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You're gotten a number of up-votes, yet this statement makes as much sense to me as saying bananas are the complete opposite of apples. You can make a case of similarity or dissimilarity depending on which language aspect you focus on. But, "opposite"? I have no idea what that means.
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Is there an OSQA.net alternative written in Ruby or PHP?
Poll: What is your social security number?
Since we're having polls on every other piece of personal information...
000-000-000 to 250-00-0000
250-00-0001 to 500-00-0000
500-00-0001 to 750-00-0000
750-00-0001 to 999-99-9999
Ads may get auto approved but they are still reviewed sooner or later. On top of that, absolutely all pages get reviewed, if not initially by human reviewers then by Google's crawlers.
We spend $xxx,xxx on Google each month, it pays for us to know intimately how their systems work.
They're watching us and we're watching them.
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I'd love to sponsor tutoring for someone who can't afford it. Maybe that's a feature you could add later? Great job!
xCSS was mentioned in the first answer.

http://xcss.antpaw.org/
You need an entry for "Not a US citizen".
Apple. How do you count that? (B/f that I would have selected "Startup (employee)" for Real Estate Data X-change, inc.)
Agreed. We're going to focus heavily on the problems we understand and solve them before moving on.

We like Ann Arbor. You could be our first tutor out there - that's a nice market share.
Netflix: ISPs who charge by the gigabyte are ridiculous
While it's certainly named for bears, that appears to be be a folk etymology: as the Wikipedia article you link suggests, the Arctic is named for the northern bear constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, so called since the time of Homer. The word Antarctic has been in English since the C14th ( http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Antarctic ); a continent opposite to the Arctic was hypothesised long before Antarctica was discovered in the 17th century.
Antarctic, then, means "opposite of north" rather than "no bears" - though I suppose the Ursa constellations were also not in the north :) and it's a nice mnemonic.
Get started.

Your objective at this stage shouldn't necessarily be to close investors (though if they express interest, be prepared to move on it) but to raise awareness and show

A) you exist

B) you have a good idea

C) you are building traction

D) three months from now, as things initially prove themselves out, that you are an interesting investment.
There are better ways to manage CSS bloat.

See Nicole Sullivan's Object-Oriented CSS approach: https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki
Don't have one/not a US citizen
Now I wonder why Netflix might have a problem with that...

In any case, they're absolutely right. These plans are clear cash grabs, and they wouldn't exist if we had proper competition.
As someone who felt the exact same thing as you going through school, I say just enjoy school if you can. I loathed school -- but looking back, I wish I had embraced it more. Not necessarily the academia -- but the atmosphere. Plus, your GPA doesn't matter at all -- especially if you're going into the startup world (at least it didn't for me). I got a job at a startup right out of school and have since started a company with a few others. What is meant to happen, happens, in my opinion.

I now look back and wished I had spent a bit more time forming relationships with people and doing stupid things while I still could. It gets much harder to meet people after college as well in my experience. Just hack in your spare time and keep building projects. If one really takes off -- go for it.
No repl is a bummer.
Shapado is written with Ruby on Rails.

Code: https://github.com/patcito/shapado
Main site: http://shapado.com/
Charge them $100 for a sign-up or make it look like that.
Surprised there aren't more people reporting in at the lower ends. Either all you guys have funding and are paying yourselves handsomely or there are less founders here than expected. My own income is and has been negligible for a while as the company (and more importantly staff) need to come first.
But I think the distinction of relevance is web vs non-web, so what did one do at the university?

My university experience would be non-web, but I used all kinds of languages (PHP, Ruby, Python, Racket, Java, C) many of which are commonly used on the web. Plus everyone uses the web these days, so HN content is often quite interesting.
Just sent in my resume.
This is a good idea. However, I think applying the same concept to babysitters would have much better potential. It's a much bigger market and problem in my opinion.
I like run-time meta programing. Which i assume lisps are capable of. speed excites me not at all, and i consider having a compile-time to be a disadvantage.

i wish authors didnt craft their arguments around C/Java.
Kind of cool. I was about to throw my monitor out the window at the repeated use of "Social Enterprise" and "Social Entrepreneur" until the author actually defined it. I thought they were just hurling buzzwords around. I like the idea of trying to find viable business models that improve society.