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This is a really cool concept! Awesome job.

I like the feedback someone else gave on showing photos of the people. Since this is more 'socialize here' than 'sleep here,' (unless it pivots into house-based on-availability takeout) I'd prefer to see photos of people + their interests than photos of the food.

It's saturday night, am I looking for someone making turkey sandwiches in Eugene, Oregon, or am I looking for some cool people to meet and have a few hour conversation with? Am I buying a conversation or the food? I think I'd be buying a conversation and an opportunity to meet new people. The meal is secondary.

My ex-girlfriend and I had a recurring conversation about meeting people and making new friends in our mid-20s. It's a good question, one I'd like to see tackled: "What does a non-dating 'dating' site look like?" Howaboutwe.com is sort of what I'd like to see done in this space, but a site like this that arranges social events / group 'friend' dates to meet people in your community based on food / interests / conversation? That's right up my ally.

Great job launching an MVP. I'd love to see what comes next.
So, I'm pretty sure I've heard people involved in carrier-grade NAT, NAT444, etc discussing what they have to in order to comply with requirements that IP:port tuples be usable to track back to their customers..

Nice try at a silver lining tho. :)
For some context (odd that it's not included in the essay itself), this is an essay by Douglas Comer from January 2009 -- according to the HTTP header, at least, which I'm inclined to trust given the system. If that name's familiar but you're not sure why, he wrote Internetworking with TCP/IP.
It even has dollar cost aware adjustment knobs:

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up to 1600 (40 GB SSD with 25k random I/Os per second). Setting
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Cue one highly ranked HN news item with no news, nothing about startups, nothing specific to hacking, no real information, and nothing that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Yup - I'm "that guy" and today I'm a grumpy old man. This item is just noise.

ADDED IN EDIT: And yes, I expected to be downvoted, because anything that smacks of criticism of the community gets downvoted. People don't like to be told that they're doing something wrong, especially people who are so damned sure they're right, or clever, or talented, or hardworking.

Yes, the very nature of an entrepreneur is to follow things through in the face of adversity, but when you're criticised you need to stop and see if there's some truth - to see if there's something you should learn.

Before you downvote this comment, ask yourself why? Does this submission as a whole really add value to the site? If it does, then my criticism doesn't, and rightly should be downvoted.

But if this item adds no real value to the site then my criticism is valid and should at least make you pause before looking for an arrow to click.

And if you do downvote, then a reasoned response would add value. But maybe you really are just looking for cheap entertainment. Replying - adding value to the site - would be, you know, like, work.
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On the drive to work, it's Opie and Anthony. I need a good laugh to get the day going. On the way home, I listen to Microsoft MCM Traning Videos. Not ideal for writing & reading on screen code, but listening to the concepts is great.
There's a plethora of IRC clients available, many of them very easy to use. No, you do not need to be a genius to be on IRC. Administrating channels (/mode and such) is a bit harder, but not everybody needs to do that.
I think this is enough for me to switch from protoss to zerg. Just the idea that I'm playing a Mac race is going to affect my psyche enough for me to stay in bronze forever ;p
5 dinners for $100 each couple, each time, right? If I am going to play dinner club then I am going to do it the right way. $50 a plate for food and wine so good that you could not get it if you spent $200. I don't think you understand the target market at all. You can already eat any kind of take out food for $15 a plate any where. How are you going to compete with that if you don't compete on quality?
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> On the morning of March 2nd we sent out an email to 40,000 people and subsequently lost 1% of those people over the next 24 hours.
> Imagine... If we sent 100 emails then we’d be out of business.

Without knowing the context of the e-mail, or why that 1% quit, this is basically the equivalent of news hosts saying, COULD YOUR CHILDREN DROP DEAD TOMORROW? Tune in at 11 to find out.
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What kind of timeline would you like to lay down a bet? 12 months?
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Thanks! Agreed-The follow-ups are just as if not more important than the initial call.
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And the price for the videos went from $500 for 2009 to $0 for 2010.
I'll be blunt, and I hope you take this all with the understanding that I'm only trying to help. I've tried to point out specific things you can do/add wherever possible. With that said...

Your home page is incredibly confusing, primarily because there is no call to action. Even though I know and use Airbnb, "Airbnb for food" could still mean several things, and I'm not even sure what the # of countries has to do with anything. Suggestion: ditch the Airbnb comparison and put up a 1-sentence elevator pitch followed by a 1-sentence call-to-action. Example: "Housefed.com lets you find and eat with talented chefs in your area. Get started by _______."

Continuing on the call-to-action thread, there isn't even anything for me to do! Am I supposed to search? Am I supposed to click on the food? Clicking on the food takes me to an equally confusing page with nothing for me to do there either. Suggestion: add an obvious thing for me to interact with (search box? I don't even know what...) and lose the sorting features, which add nothing to the first impression.

After signing up -- even though nothing on the site makes me want to -- nothing changes! I still have no idea what to do on your site, or where to do it. Suggestion: let a not-logged-in user browse the available food and understand WHY it's posted (so that they could eat it, I assume), and then invite them to sign up with a statement like: "Want to eat this and other delicious meals in your town? Sign up and get housefed!"

I suggest you spend a lot more time studying http://airbnb.com and the subtleties of their homepage and UX. Notice that their home page tells you EXACTLY what to do ("Find a place to stay.") and shows you HOW to do it (by filling out one field that tells them "Where are you going?"). I can use and browse everything on their site without logging in or signing up, and they detour me to the sign-up page only when absolutely necessary.

I remember your original "noob" post. Congrats on making it this far. Seriously. Most people would've given up long ago. Keep at it. I think your site fills a real need (at least, I would use it, fwiw).
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A. In theory, there is no difference.
he's offering any subdomain if you pay (e.g. lists.vrikhter.com), tweet @fiestacc
I think this is Foodspotting, not Airbnb
Are you trying to insult him following the insult rules for theorists?
there are a couple startups in this space (GrubWith.Us, gogrubly.com, maybe others?). what differentiates housefed? is it the international angle? the kind of foodspotting-esque type focus on user-generated photos?

any plans for adding descriptive content so that the comments aren't just "is that [fill in the blank]?
Btw, I'd love to see a lot more positive user feedback before I sign up. I'd say get some good traction from friends/beta testers before spreading it too widely. Oh and I agree with others: lose the food porn reference.
Good luck!
For those for whom this is not enough (or maybe even negative :-) ), there's NeWS.

Regardless of this you should also read his "Window System Design:If I had it to do over again in 2002" ( http://www.hack.org/mc/texts/gosling-wsd.pdf ), which is sort of predicting the X -> Wayland move and a good paper on software design.
Yes x1000. I had no idea what Airbnb for food meant. Although I know what Airbnb is, when I saw the phrase for some reason I thought air delivery of food.
It wasn't always bad but it is getting worse, back in 1994 I had at least four, if not more, ISP companies to choose from in my small little corner of Canada.

Now that been whittled down to two, there are others but it involves cellular sticks and some long-range wifi involving grain silos.

My local ISP offers 5, 10, 15, 30 and 100Mbps service but the 30 and 100Mbps are capped at 250GB, I have 15Mbps/1Mbps without a cap since I have had it before caps were implemented.

So choice of an ISP is less, speeds are up but caps have appeared.
I agree that this kind of research is needed, but surely you aren't suggesting that the DOE is the only entity capable of investing in research of this kind?
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Am I the only one who thinks the local and federal food regulatory bodies are going to have a field day with this?

I hope you have a solid legal team in place to deal with the inevitable FDA, USDA, state heath boards, and local restaurant licensing regulators that are very likely to take notice if you grow.
I was worried for a bit because I thought there's new competition for our Munchery (http://gomunchery.com), which is much more like Airbnb for food. :)
Maybe try D? An­drei Alexan­dres­cu likes it, and he knows C++ really well.
Merill Lynch also took an equity stake in Bloomberg, which isn't the scenario under discussion here.
Yeah, everything in the essay was so obvious, I could've written it.
Hi, fiesta.cc is me - working on the white-labeling stuff as we speak. Shoot me an email if you think you might want to try it. mike [at] corp.fiesta.cc
I really do find this stuff quite bizarre. I'm sure it goes on in Silicon valley, but seriously why is there some sort of hoo-hah about one investor going to Hoxton?

To put it into perspective, Thames Silicon Valley (roughly following the M4 Corridor) has been around for decades. Innovation from places like Cambridge and Oxford for longer still. Comparisons between the UK startup scene and US startup scene like this just don't make any sense to me and cheapen both sides. Both operate under completely different environments with different legal and business frameworks and cultures.
I love when non-coders tell me how long a coding task should take. This is one reason why I decided to work for myself.
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As a user of Housefed before today's front-page-on-HN, I want to give folks a heads up that it looks like the traffic may be causing a few bugs.

If anything feels strange, definitely return after a bit.
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Well, I was just hoping to make people stop, think, and not contribute to this content-free crap. I used to come to HN and read pretty much everything. Now there's less and less that's got actual content, and more and more "entertaining" articles, or items of purely general interest with no focus. Some hard-of-thinking wannabee hitman, how to insult computer scientists, completely obvious comments about outsourcing, letters from Fukushima workers, any items of real value have to compete for space.

Even the really good stuff feels familiar. I wonder if I've just seen all there is to see and everything's looking familiar, in the same way that as you get older, everyone reminds you of someone else.

Maybe it's time to move on. Maybe this is a time to get the sense of the community and use that to help guide my decision. They do say - listen to your users. My contributions here on HN mean that you are, in a sense, my users.
No you don't. You get warnings about not responding to the method if you put the method implementation after it is used. If it is before, it works fine. Example implementation:

@implementation SomeClass
- (void) foo { [self baz]; } // a warning will occur; the compiler doesn't know about - baz yet.
- (void) bar { [self foo]; } // a warning will not occur; the compiler knows about - foo already.
- (void) baz { NSLog(@"bzz"); } // doesn't do anything special
@end
I've participated in several such initiatives over the years, so I'd like to offer a tidbit of advice:

The development part is easy.

What happens before (identifying what the group really needs) and after (maintenance, hosting, back-ups, training, support) is the hard part. Too many well-meaning groups put together stellar software that non-profits don't get enough use out of due to lack of attention to the before-and-after pictures.
I've previously gone with various fun things (the main server at my previous job was named mainframe for ages), currently it's star wars characters as a friend of mine insists. Mine are all just named for their purpose. Laptop being playworkschool, my older server is called beast (hosting a civilization 5 replay generator). I don't like the idea of StarCraft though, but perhaps i'm just not such a big fan? I remember playing the first game a lot but i'm not a huge fan.
Thanks Pavel- working on the new homepage now
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Thanks for the great story!

> the way you coded for the browser was Java. Tcl didn't play in that space, and to their credit I don't think the Tcl folks were willing to go there just to ride the buzz.

Interestingly, these guys were 'Tcl guys': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1995q3/0566.ht...

Looks like Java was already on their radar though, like you say.
still fleshing that out, but will probably be free for smaller use cases. also, it's @fiesta :)
Britton, thanks for the offer. I tried using the code, but because I signed up for the beta a couple weeks ago it won't let me use your access code. Can you help you?
This was my initial thought too. When you start selling food for money things get complicated quick. If you look at some of the actions against shared kitchens and such it's disturbing. You'll want to look into this ASAP as it's complicated by locality and directly impacts your business model. It might be that you could have "food points" that you get when you cook and spend when you eat and essentially trade meals but I'm not sure if that's actually ok legally or if it works with what you're thinking about.
I'm actually working on this, after being inspired by Brett Simmons' article: http://inessential.com/2011/03/16/a_plea_for_baked_weblogs.

My app is pretty similar to what you're describing - you can compose posts online (or in plain text files), and when you're done, it generates a baked (static) version. It's written in PHP, just so you can easily use it on most servers. It's actually pretty close to being done - I can let you know when it's ready.
Can you be a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and make movies also?
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True. as someone who's been working on something for 6 months, and who finally feels almost ready to post something here, I'd say: take the startups which were obviously thrown up in the last few weeks with a grain of salt.. but don't lump the ones which have clearly had some thought (and serious manhours) put into them into the same bundle.
I was SVP Product + Technology for Knight Ridder when we built our e-publishing platform for 32 daily newspapers. The total, including internal hours + resources + vendors was $16 million. That included 3-Tier architecture, custom CMS and content migration of all 32 newspapers and 32 city sites.

Where did this $40 million price tag come from? It sounds apocryphal...
Here to emphasize how thoroughly enjoyable and useful this is. Eye-opening, if you will.

It's a must-watch for front-end designers and developers.
IANAL, but...

Can you? Yes.

Should you? No.

Even if you win, you probably won't collect. You just destroy the company. Now you have a career hole (a company failed because it got sued-- by you) that just isn't worth the upside. The collection rate on judgments is really low: like 20%.

Use your trump card to negotiate, sure, but if he thinks the company has no future then you won't get severance. He'll just dissolve the company.
I am an extrovert.

I just don't find the pleasure of talking with someone compatible with parts of my job. The other parts it works wonderfully with.

You think long hours are unique to the startup world? You can have a social life and work long hours. You just have to intentionally do it. IMO its a sign of maturity and adulthood.
Honestly, the title says enough for me. Experienced first hand. LEARN HOW TO CODE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY

...without spending more $$$£££ than you should...

...unless your color.com and have cash to burn!
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I find it depends a lot on the person.

I don't think online communication and in-person communication are identical, but depending on the person, they aren't necessarily better/worse. The people I know the best personally are people with whom I talk at least semi-regularly via all three of: IRL, real-time text chat, and email; and who are themselves also at least somewhat "fluent" in all three media. Some of my closest friends are people I see occasionally irl but often online, so I'm not sure it even correlates that well (at least for me). You get different sides of a person via each of them I find. Some people are of course much stronger at one or another one. There are some people where if I were required to only interact with them face-to-face it'd be weird; and other people where if I were required to interact with them only online it'd be weird.
Just curious for future reference, but does the age of the non-technical co-founder matter to you?
For the amount of work many organizations expect you to put into RFPs, and then print 5 copies (in colour and bound if you want to win) and ship them at your own expense, only to find out that they had really pre-selected a vendor but their policies require them to at least pretend to open it up to outside vendors... I think the comparison might be a little unfair to 99designs.
Im working on the exact same concept (it isnt ready for public launch yet). The major hurdle Ive run into is the legal side of things - it is illegal to "sell" any type of potentially hazardous food i.e. hot food from a home kitchen no matter what state. You can sell baked goods like cookies, jams, jellies and so on from a home kitchen from a handful of states though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentially_Hazardous_Food
Ppl, this is a low-fi piece journalistic trolling - the "subject matter" was growing a beard when I was a Moscow high school senior 20 years ago :).

Leaving aside the Russian tendency to take ill-informed pot shots at Americans (a national past time), cultural anthropology is an actual discipline with actual data to peruse - _lots_ of it - if you're interested. Curiosities of cultural interaction go far wider than the "happy fool/gloomy fool" non-dilemma here. ;)
WOW thanks for the feedback! There are a few bugs I missed in my testing - so I've taken down a few of the features. Everything will be back tomorrow (with a new homepage). Thanks again!
The real reason most people are mocking Color is because they're jealous of the amount of funding Color received. In my opinion, Color has not done anything wrong yet. If you have all that money, why not go and buy an expensive, memorable domain name?
Fair enough. I apologize. I acknowledge that there were a lot of gaps in my argument, etc.

I will see if I can think of a concise way to articulate the argument and do so. Thanks for being willing to engage in some dialog.
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Oh I socialize plenty with people I do work with....with my clients on the other end of the country, with co-workers in Canada and parts of the US, etc.

Then I turn off the skype chat and knock out a iPhone app when it's time to stop chit chatting.

I also help setup NSLunches in Atlanta with other iOS people and setup lunches around town with various other folks.
The existence of a resale market likely increases the initial purchases of the item.

How? Hypothetically, say the utility you'd get out a specific album is $8. The price is $10, so, naturally you won't buy it. However, you normally tire of music in, say, a year. You realize you can sell it them for $4. So instead you go ahead and buy it ("it really only costs me $6, 'cause I can sell it when I'm done with it").
I find the very concept of "more generous" has nothing but ugly implications.

And I'm a person who agrees with Gates' larger position on the wealthy benefiting more from society and thus owing more. I just think that the extent to which society can ever expect people to contribute back, is the extent to which we set via tax rates [1].

Anything over and above that amount is generosity and should be celebrated. Not calibrated and criticized.

Trying to encourage more generosity is fine.
But trying to use a guilt trip like this, just sounds petty, ungrateful and a bit like a dick-waving-statement when coming from those who self-identify as more generous.

If society wants to discuss what the rich ought to pay, that is a discussion about taxation. Targeting generosity is not a civil way to have that discussion.

[1] I don't consider charity-as-tax-break as generosity. I consider that alternate taxation. But the moment someone goes over that amount though, I think you should leave any discussion of their level of donation at "thank you for the donation".
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Who/what exactly is blickmaniac? Trying to Google for any info on that has been futile and only leading me to news articles about Hotz vs Sony wanting to find the identity of them.
In practice, there is.
If you are instantiating equivalent functions (sorting foo* vs sorting bar* ) then the linker will merge their binaries -no dupes there. If you are generating different functions (sorting foo vs foo* ) then you are asking for different functions -no dupes there either. If you want to keep everything down to one function, qsort() didn't disappear when they added std::sort() and it is pretty close to what a dynamic language sort would do under the hood.
There is so much wrong with the statement at the top of your site.

#1 LOTS of people have no idea what Airbnb is. This service by itself is very niche.

#2 Can you even use the name of another company like this? Do they want you to associate yourself with their service?

#3 Everyone has food porn? Really? The LAST thing foodies want to think about when looking for food related websites is pornography. In fact, for many, just the words on the page make for a disgusting feeling.
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Agreed, it's just very hard to see quality in some of the items that get posted. That's not to take away from the effort gone into building and marketing them, I know it's hard work. I've failed in the startup world before myself. Just one of those thoughts that runs through your mind sometimes.
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