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If coding is not for everyone, then maybe technology-based startups aren't for everyone. If all you are bringing to the table is an idea and a business degree, then I will absolutely tell you that you need to learn coding. The video is 4 college students (I assume they're business students since they are outsourcing) who want to do a loyalty card program for smart phones.

They brought an idea to the table. Now they told you their idea. At this point, they're redundant.
Yes, I'm running apache on a cheap ubuntu VPS from Enotch. Anyone want to help me with this?
(Sidebar: your place sounds cool! Will definitely consider it the next time I'm down there from Portland.)

I am completely ignorant about the legal hoops involved w/food prep/selling, though I feel it's implicit in the open-ness and formality of sites like Housefed/Munchery/Mealtik that they consider themselves legal, at least by some interpretation (like room & board? like school bake sales? Like farmer's markets with prepared food? I am legally clueless... yet can think of many places in life where I'm paying for food in non-traditional environments.)

Just as AirBnB has come under fire from "real" hotels in NYC, I'm sure this will food-at-home will come under bureacratic heat... if it gets traction.

(Even in Portland, which I think just passed 600(!!) food carts in 2011, "real" restaurants decided (years too late) to start complaining that food carts weren't legit (though they do have health inspections, business licenses.
http://www.portlandfoodanddrink.com/2010/09/are-food-carts-g... ))

If it's not too troublesome, can you go into where you think the hard line is for in-home food selling?
Give tax breaks and other incentive to entrepreneurs and investors, forget this discount coupon crap.
I think the concept has real potential but right now I think the first impression (what people see, the design, the explanation, etc) is really sub-par. As someone else posted, I went there to work out what the deal was, saw some photos of food (some uncooked/unprepared) and couldn't work out what was going on, so I bailed. And I think I could be a potential customer or host - I love travel, food, I've used AirBnB a few times, etc.

I think starting with photo-sharing is a bad idea, or at least it should not be a focus. Rather, hand-pick people (even with key dishes in mind) to feature on your front page. Have a pilot dinner or two, even if you have to find random tourists and offer to cook them dinner, and get a case study/testimonial or two up there with photos of the guests with their hosts. Just don't call them case studies/testimonials but something more natural and homely.

Ditch "food porn" - people don't want to eat at someone's house because it's fancy or the photos are pro, they'll eat there because they want the local experience. They want authentic homely French in a village cottage. They want Chinese with a multi-generational family in the hutongs. Ditch "airbnb" until you can better explain what you're doing.

There is a risk that people will not see your site as a meal-booking thing. They will see it as it is now and then never bother with it again. You're right to try and get feedback early and keep things moving, but I reckon your MVP needs to be closer to your eventual concept even if your withhold actual bookings for a while.

I'm a web designer in Australia who works remotely with a few people in addition to my local clients. If you want some cheap help with your design and/or to bounce off for feedback /ideas for free, email me (email in profile).

First impression: WTH is this? Waste of time.
After realising what the deal is: Could see this going international and being awesome.
How is IQ score a joke? Yes, I know there are reliability problems with IQ tests such as cultural bias. However, isn't the main problem that things like cultural bias cause some groups of people to score lower, so the tests report them as less intelligent than they are? Similarly, it is easy to have a bad day when taking a test, and get a lower score than you "should" have gotten, or you could suck at time management, and so on. There are plenty of ways someone can blow a test.

Thus, when someone takes an IQ test and scores low (especially a test given as part of mass testing of a group) it would be seriously wrong to use the test results to conclude that the person is really at that level of intelligence.

On the other, it is much harder to score way above your level.
WWDC sold out in ten hours.
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Robots are the next revolution, but not because of the examples listed in the articles. I don't get that excited to hear about robots getting my packages, cooking my dinner, talking to my (future)wife, etc...I think the real revolution is with robots that can provide oxygen to people in burning buildings, locate/extract people under debris after a natural disaster, and find my lost car keys.

As for the robot in every home, I think a cheap, easy-to-program home automation processor that connects wirelessly to custom hardware is more appealing. That way I could set my bird-feeder, alarm system, and central-heating to "vacation-mode" and leave with peace-of-mind.
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That's why I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple, with its superior hardware/software integration, on the forefront of the consumer robotics revolution.
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it's a shame that a lot of people don't stop for a minute and take in the entire experience without any intermediate lens

My girlfriend used to complain like that about my habitual photography. Eventually, she noticed that my recall of all facets of events was far better than hers, which I directly attribute to the sharpening effect of thinking about framing, timing, etc.
You don't need to have a PS3 to have a stake in this mess. Sony is fighting for the right to remove features from a product as part of "security updates", to prevent jailbreaking from becoming legal for devices other than smartphones, and for several other precedents that would be very bad for the internet privacy and open source software.

Basically, if you're on HN, it's a safe assumption that you would be at least indirectly harmed if Sony got everything they're asking for from this case.
Incredibly, it's already sold out!

https://twitter.com/jury/status/52503970022817792
How is this better than Colloquy, which has Growl integration, embedded media, etc and its free?
They made $8 million from ticket sales alone. :O
Social networks: "We'll take data as payment."
Color strikes me as the pets.com of 2011.
Is there a HN-like community for Robotics/Satellite stuff?
PetaPoco - A tiny ORM-ish thing for your POCOs
Yep, they rapidly dropped in price after the initial launch.

Here's an article about it, entitled "The Great RAZR Swindle":

http://gizmodo.com/#!210353/low-end-theory-the-great-razr-sw...
The BBB operates on the same model that Yelp is (allegedly) operating on: i.e., a consumer-driven account of a business, until the business pays up. There have been credible accounts of businesses being offered a higher BBB grade, and even entire complaints dismissed from the pool for being a paying member. Conversely, there have been reports of the BBB threatening to lower grades for businesses that won't play ball.

Even ignoring these allegations, the BBB's system is broke in a number of ways, the most egregious of which is that they admittedly give paying businesses a higher default grade than non-paying businesses. So, disregarding any consumer complaints, a paying member is automatically rated higher.

And like the controversy surrounding Yelp, usually when these things come to light and indisputable proof is presented, the whole thing is easily swept under the rug as a rogue sales agent not sanctioned by the organization - the issue of creating an environment where this sort of activity is de facto encouraged and abuses are deliberately ignored is, of course, never addressed.
Can you set it up to automatically start with XBMC? How hard/easy is it to upgrade XBMC as new versions come out? Does the AppleTV support a keyboard or some other device (iPhone?) to control ATV?
What surprised me was how IBM decided to get close to Oracle instead of fight for improved position in the F500 using Java as lever.
A nuclear fission reaction with pingpong balls
Plan 9 is an accepted organization for GSOC 2011... do something brilliant
The fun starts at 1:55
I suspect there is a different mindset between those who made most of their wealth and those who live off other peoples wealth.

When you inherit money you make on average ~4% over inflation before taxes each year. Give away 1/2 and simply have less money every year for the rest of your life. When you build wealth you are used to making far more than that every year. So giving away 1/2 and you think "I could get that back in a few years." (Not that they can, just their past performance leads them to think this way).
Crowdsourcing is transforming the Web and giving rise to a new field
I have a different way of thinking about goals. My goal is always a specific action, and not a result. The outcome I consider it a byproduct in which I have not 100% control.

For example your goal would not be to get a raise, instead it would be to have a meeting with your boss and explain to him/her why you are confident the company should increase you salary.
The quickest way to handle lots of load on an article is to make a static html page of your article and serve that instead of your wordpress/whatever resource intensive website.
you must be facing some serious trust issues when you try ssh'ing from one box to another.
I'm an American expat living in London. If I were to start a business, the first thing I would do is leave the UK. My perception is that access to the London market simply isn't worth dealing with the business climate here.

Sure, National Insurance is a great bargain in comparison to Social Security, but the tax rates are staggering. Even as a consumer, I find myself saving rather than spending -- I'd rather accept a forex risk than eat VAT.

People and capital have legs.
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Very astute. I think you hit it dead on. The robot revolution will be about outsourcing menial tasks to cheaper humans, not super-duper AI. It's really more of the network revolution continued into servos, not a "robot revolution".
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Ask HN: Is there a remote desktop program as good (and cheap) as Dropbox?
I know there are dozens of remote desktop apps. I've used many of them including GoToMeeting, VNC, etc. It's been a while but I can't find any that seems super great. They all seem to be complicated or sucky.

Is there any cross-platform, cheap, secure, trusthworthy Dropbox-like program that does remote desktop?

I want to just install a tiny little program on all my computers and very quickly be able to see the desktop of any of them from any of them.

I imagine a little taskbar icon that I click and there's a list of all available computers. I select one and it opens a window with the desktop visible.

My primary machine is Linux (Ubuntu), but I have Windows and Mac computers as well.

If this doesn't exist I would definitely use and promote the hell out of it. I'd even be willing to pay some smallish yearly fee for it. If it doesn't exist I highly suggest someone on HN get to work making it.

The remote desktop industry seems to be very similar to remote storage was pre-Dropbox.

Then again, I'm hoping I'm wrong and this already exists, so I don't have to wait :-)
Copyright holders should be obliged to register their works after 10 years and every 10 years thereafter or so. The list of the registrations should be publicly accessible on the internet. If they can't be bothered to do it, the works should slip into the public domain.

And I speak as someone who makes his living from copyrighted works.
What did the budget do for UK innovation investors?
Which falls over when db01 ain't a database machine anymore.

When I ran a large network, machines didn't physically move very much (at least, far less often than their logical functions changed); we had a naming scheme based on datacenter code, rack ID and rack position:

sjc02-X0501-19

would be the machine in sjc02, rack X05.01, unit 19.

Far more important than the actual scheme you use is consistency. Pick one scheme and stick with it. Easier when you pick the right scheme the first time. :)
A mechanical turk powered "machine" sounds like an absolutely fascinating experiment.

The tricky bit would be designing an interface for turkers to manipulate the robot.

The other complicated bit is making sure the turkers can't cause serious harm. (We don't want turkers controlling UAVs...)
We participated last summer. Being an east coast startup, it gave us the chance to get a great feel for startup life in the Valley, prove out our model, and build a beta version of our iPhone app which we launch in November (www.bit.ly/IHeartPushpins). Most importantly though, I learned more from doing the program than any summer internship I ever had.

If you want an honest review of the experience, shoot me an email jason@pushpinsapp.com.
This is exactly true, and the worst mistake, imo. I have no idea how to find it in the Android Market, and I suspect many others don't as well.
The user should hide in the cabinet underneath the chessboard.
There are very few people that make me as angry as Ulrich Drepper does.
At first I registered because of curiosity. Then all my friends began to have an account. And when I tried to leave, I found myself "locked" in FB because of the API Keys of my Apps. But as soon as I get rid of the Apps, I would really consider leaving.
I have 10 years of email too, but I've stripped out most useless/old attachments to keep it pared down.
Because there's much lower hanging fruit.

Extracting information and optimizing actions based on it via purchasing/timing decisions. Requires much less capital commitment and potentially much higher ROI.
Why this blog post reads like the NME:

Too many adjectives and insinuations, not enough material. When you want to oppose something, the only thing you need to provide is a list of faults and possibly some explanation of why the faults matter.
I suspect that phrases like that are contributing to some folks feeling dubious about the whole situation. The lad is probably very bright, yet uninformed journalism makes it look like something funky is going on.
As far as I've been reading on the internet, everybody will be able to access NYTimes.com for free.
In the fifties, it was predicted that in 5 years robots would everywhere.

In the sixties, it was predicted that in 10 years robots would be everywhere.

In the seventies, it was predicted that in 20 years robots would be everwhere.

In the eighties, it was predicted that in 40 years robots would be everywhere...

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In what way? The people both pay for and keep account of their Government.
The market decides if a language has any value.

It is not implying in any way that there is a 1:1 between popularity and quality (or any defined relationship for that matter). I think that would be ridiculous.

It is not meant as any means to grade or rank one language against the other. Only to say that a language has some value.

Rereading your comments I do not necessarily agree that the assumption is that market chooses based on quality. The market chooses based on perceived value which definitely takes into account quality but is not based entirely on it.

The implication being is that if there is truly no value or the value is so low that consumers are no longer willing to consume the product. Then the product will disappear or get replaced by a better and cheaper alternative.

In a way, it is simply saying, if someone uses a language then it has value -- at the very least -- to that person.

I guess the underlying message is: do not assume that because something doesn't have value to you that it is not valuable. If it didn't have any value it would (IFF the theory is correct -- I'm not saying it definitely is!) cease to be used.

I am anxiously awaiting your reply. If you have a good one, I might have to concede that the theory is disprove and/or incomplete.
And these guys are trying to buy T-Mobile! If they want to be #1, then they should try and do it with better service and planning of their infrastructure instead of dicking around with their customers.
But if you ever want to be more than just an app, lets say a BRAND, then IT IS important.
There's a Robotics subreddit. It's not super-busy but it seems to get a couple of submissions per day.

http://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/
You'll note that the divided-focus argument was already being made. My observation is only that the passage echoes that.
Perhaps http://producingoss.com/en/difficult-people.html could give you some insight. I much recommend this book as a guide to the basics and best practices of running an open-source project - it certainly helped me when I started.

I don't necessarily agree with everything there, and in reality every case is different - but it's always good to read the experiences of others.
I think the local health-code issues you'll need to deal with are a deal-killer.

Renting a room in a house is accepted and legal just about everywhere. Selling food often requires a permit and health inspections.

I remember hearing about some people in Oakland who were GIVING away food to homeless people, and they got shut down because it was not being prepared in a commercial kitchen.

And my sister was considering making cakes professionally in a Denver suburb; similarly, she was told she needed to be using a commercial kitchen.
True, but if you want to take that look, buying used doesn't effectively keep your money out of Sony's hands either. You're just laundering it to keep your own conscience clean. Of course, not paying for it at all doesn't help anyone involved.
Hi Rev, thanks for the feedback.

I actually have the BJCP style info for meads and ciders loaded, but I've never done either so I still need to do some research to make sure the site calculates everything correctly. But it's definitely on the list of things to do... which reminds me, I need to post that list up on the blog.

I also plan to enable entering custom info for all of the ingredient types, I just wanted to start as simple as possible- but it will be something that gets added eventually!

Thanks again,
rick
I agree. Only when you know how the pain feels, you are capable to create products that alleviate that pain.
Aaaaaagh! :(

Guess I'm not going after all.
Damnit ... I really wanted to go but 1599 on my own dime was a bit too steep. I thought I'd sleep on it but it is like they say: you snooze you lose. Oh well .. I managed to go to PyCon and will hopefully be at Google IO.
Looking for general purpose robots misses the evolution in home robotics already in progress. I've used a iRobot Roomba for vacuuming our home for about two years now, it works great. I expect future versions will be able to do more tasks.

Consider the progression of the iPod as a music player to a general purpose touch computer (running iOS apps of all kinds) that is is today -- this is perhaps a good picture of how home robotics may progress from single purpose to multi-purpose household machines.
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Fair enough, in that case it's certainly not a "theory", the correct term would be "hypothesis" or "conjecture".

I understood what you meant by "free" but you seem to be discounting the high cost of making that choice.

You can examine the language ecosystem as a market but if you do you see immediately that it is inherently a lock in market.

Once you choose a language it's very high cost to change languages.

It's also high cost to choose a language that's not already popular, recruiting is more difficult and you will not have as much 3rd party library support.

So you have both "lock in" and large advantages for existing large players. Sure, it's technically still a "free market" because it's not regulated by the state but this kind of market doesn't have the behavior you are assuming.

What evidence do you have that these kinds of markets optimize for "better" languages?
There's is a very successful consume robotics product that everyone knows about. I have one, and it's fantastic. It's called Roomba.
Startup idea: allow people to share their conference badges during unused days (or during any non-use times). I often can't stay an entire conference, and usually ditch my badge. For a sold out show, would be nice to hand it to someone else. "The AirBnB of Conference Badges"

I'm sure this goes against the badge policies, however.
Thanks pbj! I highly recommend it as a hobby for anyone that appreciates a decent beer ;) Papazian's book "The Joy of Home Brewing" can usually be found for under 15 bucks and it really has everything you need to know to brew in a quick and easy read.
So your headline should have been "Think your language is more popular than mine: The market says otherwise".

No one would have argued with that.
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Once the software gets better the hardware can be made far less robust - and therefore cheaper. PR2 is a good start.
I find the title kind of exaggerated considering Google I/O sold out in less than an hour.
Nice idea. Good luck.
Added the documentation of Place to my bookmarks, will review this this week-end.

Is it possible to just retrieve the POI you add using the API?
Is it possible to restrict access to your own POI?
Here's a group aiming to be the Arduino of robotics with a $1000 iRobot, ROS and Kinect based robot platform:

http://www.bilibot.com/about

I guess this still goes into the 'Homebrew Computer Club' category, but now all we need is a Wozniak-Jobs-like pair to take it to the next level.
Wow. I guess I'll be at home this year crying myself to sleep.

The quickness at which this sold out prompts a few questions:

1. I guess only small development houses are going this year because most big companies can't get purchasing approved that fast. I know mine wasn't able to.

2. Is it time for Apple to consider a format to allow more people to attend? Their platform has grown 10x in 5 years, but the conference is still in the same facility.

3. Did Apple release fewer tickets this year to hold more tickets for their partners? I know last year, the conference sold out quick, and that didn't allow big companies time to react. I question if even Apple's purchasing department could have made a purchase this quick if they were invited to attend such a popular conference.

4. Does this mean that people are now going to be scalping WWDC tickets? Their value is clearly much more than $1600.
According to http://gigaom.com/apple/wwdc-2011-sells-out-in-less-than-one... "WWDC 2010 took eight days to sell out entirely". That's pretty impressive assuming the same number of tickets (5000) were sold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Worldwide_Developers_Conf... mentions the number of tickets being capped at 5000 for the past 2 years.
This would be a cool feature for lanyrd.com
This is one of those concepts that many people don't get in high school, I think, because the model is too idealistic to easily extrapolate to the real world. This really brings it to life.
Hi Prof,

Thanks for the ideas! There are so many forums/discussion boards out there, I thought a forum or a review area would be a bit redundant but it is certainly worth another look.

I definitely plan to get all the calculators out there so that people can do one-off calculations or maybe even include them as widgets/etc on other sites.

The current next step is to create an html5 friendly version of the site (probably in jquery mobile) so that it's more easily accessible via phone, this was the major spark that got me working on the site in the first place, so it's definitely my next move. Perhaps native apps after that, or not if the mobile version feels native enough.

Rick
And JSConf in ~40 minutes.