skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a fun idea and I'll sign-up and give it a shot as a customer. One business suggestion: don't describe yourself as "Airbnb for food" on your main website. That's fine for HN but many potential customers will not know/care what Airbnb is.

One other suggestion is to spend some time looking at the GrubWithUs site; it has a great design for this type of service.
This is big in Tuscany, where you can book meals with families, i always thought this can work elsewhere especially in cities like new york with such diverse cultures
Suffering-oriented programming: A great mantra for startups. If you don't face the problem yourself, then there is no point in building software for it -- chances are no one else has it too.
I think people need to get better about communicating about their jobs in general. Sounds like you weren't telling them how long it took you to do this stuff.
You're not paying Sony directly, but you're still helping them with the network effect (for example, promoting their music/movies, or their gaming platform).
Facebook used to plot singles on a map
Try stripping debug symbols. As to compile time, the pimpl pattern is your friend here.
Chinese City names and shames the Badly Behaved in Local Paper
Campaign via social media networks blocks Dutch bankers' bonuses
fat fingers downvoted, luckily inspection and edit html let me correct the error. odd that I had to do so.

cleaned out the left and right braces

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I'd actually love to use IRC... but we're just not confident that it'd work well for the non-technical people, and we need them to be able to get into the project chats and demo chats.

Possibly we're selling them short here.
I "vote" with my money too. I wonder if there is an opportunity for an app that would easily enable a consumer to check whether the company (s)he is willing to buy from is in line with its ethics.
Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for all of your comments on the legal articles on HN. Your summaries are always clear and easy to understand for a layman like me, and I really appreciate that :)
Can you explain more - what is unprofessional about the type?
As a non-technical guy, I'd like very much to be evaluated on those criteria. I think ya'll should be looking for something else though: Will this guy need to hire a ton of employees?

If you're looking at someone with a history, that history needs to be evaluated both in the context of the corporate resources available and the size of his team. Be aware that managing a large team might mean helplessness in a small one.
Please, Please people follow the guidelines:

In Submissions

If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us
by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.

I've just had to hunt through some 100 or so open tabs to find the one with the audio that I didn't want and didn't expect.

...

And after all that it said (paraphrased): Do the coding yourself so you can iterate faster - assume your competitors are doing the coding themselves, and realise you have to compete against them, so you have to iterate faster. Outsourcing slows you down.

<shrug> Wasn't worth the 2 minutes taken to find it.
Tell-All Telephone
I would love MSFT to win and then have the same court rule that on the same basis only IBM can build PCs
I am betting you need a health department certificate in most states to do this.
Still skeptical. What happens when you have pokerbots play against each other? Do they have similar variance across 100,000 hands?
Is "Stealth" the Best Way to Build Your Business?
Thats really cool how all you you have found each other and are able to get together regularly. I'm in Columbia, SC (not exactly the hot-bed of tech) and we have a similar situation.

But from a long-term sustainability stand-point, we want to grow local tech companies that contribute to our own economy and give us control over our city's well-being. It would be interesting if a bunch of you who telecommute could band together to start a company. Seems like you already get along well outside of work
Really? Do you know the names and business locations of all the subsidiaries of whatever popular brand is out there? Do you know all of the subsidiaries under the "Universal" umbrella? What are the addresses of all of them? What are their responsibilities?
My favorite part of the slides: "First, make it possible. Then, make it beautiful. Then, make it fast."

Having personally been bitten by doing each of these out of order, they make a lot of sense.
The Myth of the Permanent Rich
Congrats on following through on your goal, and for shipping! Really cool idea. The service may not be for everyone, but ones who use it may become fanatics. There are definitely regulatory issues with this in my mind, probably for all of the US and many other countries as well, but one thing I love about the Internet is how it challenges and sometimes breaks conventional models and rules.
Do you mind posting the .mobi if you get it converted?
What do you develop at your corporation? Is there something about it you can't stand? If you could make it more minimilist, would you?

Start with your job, and move on to your hobbies. Work out from there.

Keep asking yourself, "What is the problem here?"

When you locate the problem, attempt to solve it.

Hope this helps.
I will definitely be doing this. + 1
haha, definitely looks like spam
That's so obvious.
I have long been interested in the possibility of a legal AI, although only as a mental exercise (with lawyer parents and siblings, hard not to :) ).

I didn't know there were advancements in the AI field pertaining to that, I'll try to look them up, but would be very grateful if someone could point them out :)
Well, I'm torn on this. My initial, non-thinking reaction was one of rabid agreement. This is very correct if you're a 9to5er. If you are at the office to put in your 40 hours and then leave, I would agree that there is no room to inject a social life into this. There's also the issue of breaking flow, which you alluded to.

I think the typical startup lifestyle changes this a bit, though. We who run startups( generally )don't work 40 hour weeks, and if you're even a bit extroverted, chances are you're going to need to "get energy" from social interaction with your coworkers, since time to do this outside the office is fairly limited.

With the standard introvert archetype, this is likely a non-issue. My money is on samtp being an extrovert, and you( and I )not capable of empathizing with the odd need they have for such interaction.
Another insult against a theorist:

"Interesting, I'm from industry and this appears very applicable to some of the work we're doing right now."
I love it. I can't cook, at all, but I wouldn't mind having an occasional dinner-with-strangers.

I'm forwarding this on to a chef friend I know.
I like the idea. Hope it works out. May i ask though where you found the 200 people to start with?
Kindle Subscribers Will Be Able to Access NYTimes.com for Free
The layoffs thing was sort-of addressed in the article as being a benefit of being 100% remote. Because there's no "core team" in an office, there's no group of second class citizens working from home to be quietly fired.

The issue with how much time things take is one of the more difficult aspects of it. It's ultimately a communications issue, though. If you're in an office then you don't have to explicitly communicate about it; people can see if you're putting in ridiculous hours on a project. If you're at home and putting in the same hours then they can't be expected to know unless you tell them somehow.
I'll be there. My first developer conference since NeXTWorld Expo 1994.
That's pretty much what I have. My web site is a static wiki. You pull up the plain text in a web form, make your changes, and hit send. That gets sent in an email to the engine that then regenerates the site, figures out what's changed, and uploads the new bits.

I had to do that because 10 years ago I wanted a wiki, but my host couldn't run cgi scripts. I'm still using it because being a totally static site, it's fast. It doesn't have comments or cross-referencing, and I'm starting to look at alternatives, but it only took a couple of days to write.

Having said that, it works for me, but I doubt it would work for anyone else. It's not flashy enough.
"Likewise coding is more about RAM, CPUs, HDs, GPUs, busses, networks and ultimately users than it is about what tools you use to manipulate them."

My coding is primarily about managing complexity through good abstractions, and sometimes doing optimizations. Different languages are better suited to good abstractions. Kelly Slater might use a coffee table for fun one time, but he won't use one for his next competition.
I don't think that's true. There a fork of delayed_job which does autoscaling of workers on Heroku and... it's written by a Heroku employee. It's regularly mentioned on the mailing list too.

https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
Here is the accompanying article: http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protecti...
Great concept! I try look for local (as close to home-cooked) food when visiting other countries and this is fantastic.

I recommend reaching out to http://www.try2cook.com/ and having her sign up on your site. She has a great cooking class near Buenos Aires that I took that would be perfect for this app (and helping it grow).
You're right that people should be worried about their skills. But tools are a critical part of actually programming.

It's like saying "famous author X used pen and paper, hence complaining that Word 2010 doesn't handle Y properly is silly - focus on your writing!" (Worse even, as for pure writing, the speedup between pen/typewriter/Word is probably less pronounced than between programming languages.)
Aka GrubWithUs Residential. You have a big challenge because eating dinner with someone at their home is really intimate. I wouldn't start with photo sharing-- you need to start working on the dinner mechanics right away. Go low tech. Pick a single city, find a couple people willing to host, then send out invitations through existing social connections. Maybe get people to commit to 5 dinners up front for $100. I would also look at having a fundraising component (25% to charity?) because now the dinner can be ABOUT something. You can't just get a bunch of random people together and hope the conversation works out, you need some common cause or interest to act as social lubricant.
Education in a Googley World
to save everyone the trouble of watching a very slow video, the basic insight is:

if you are working the mobile space, you need to code. there are teams of
2-4 dedicated hackers working on your idea, so if you're outsourcing development,
they can iterate 20x a day and you can only iterate once.
as such, you will lose.

That said, "Don't outsource coding" is too big a statement. Naval is saying "IF you're working in a crowded space, your iteration cycle will be too slow if you outsource".

There are times when outsourcing coding makes plenty of sense.
Typo at homepage:

By keeping a blog is easy to get carried away, when you describe your day. Again - no everyone can do this every day.

It should be not everyone I guess.

Are you planning to add a 'How was your day?' email service to this project? At the end of the day it can send me an email or maybe use notifo to remind me to write an entry.
Went to front page. Saw a bunch of photos of food. Didn't see where I could buy food. Left.

Saying "airbnb for food" is not a substitute for explaining what you do or having a user interface which visibly allows the actions you want a user to perform.
My apologies. I'm hoping its more clear now
I see what you're saying now.

I considered a start-up roughly equivalent to the sort of cash-strapped small business you think 99designs is fine for.

Whereas you're primarily drawing a line between start-ups and those other businesses.
Don't forget that your local library probably has lots of audiobooks. Of course, then the problem is finding time to get to the library when it's open...
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Depends on how you structure things. Depending on the wording, AirBnB would need a hotel/B&B license for each host, too.
I love the "garbage collection for your codebase" thing. Nice simple approach for moving things from the "should" pile to the "done" one.
> if someone was selling diapers, and it was 1997, and they bought diapers.com it might actually make sense. And that's just the problem. It's not 1997.

Amazon bought (the parent company of) diapers.com less than six months ago for $500M+.
Cfront or Csmith? :)
Risk of a catastrophic nuclear accident in Europe next 10 years: 1/9?
Why would you choose to use airBnb when there are small hotels and motels?

The answer is two-fold:
1) Cost. People cooking food and hosting guests don't have the same running costs as a restaurant. It may just be a bit of side-income or maybe they're breaking even and doing it out of passion.
2) The experience and locality is different than hotels and motels. I could see this being big in young, hip areas like SF (Mission, Haight Asbury) and Brooklyn.
For documents I use Google Docs. It has the added benefits of easy publishing.
Deflating some of the iPhone’s perfect design hype
I'm guessing he knows this. This is just a first iteration to get something out into the ether.
Startup Madness: It’s Not As Crazy As You Might Think
It's a lovely concept (I hesitated to use that adjective there, but it is!) - so I would drop the line "Everyone loves a little food porn". It just conotes, you know, porn. With strangers. And you might lose some people who aren't familiar with the phrase.
Let's be honest, coding is really only half the story. There's lots of deployment, debugging, and maintenance work that is much fuzzier and harder to measure. In fact, if you are actually actively coding for more than half your time, you're either really lucky or you don't have any users yet.
That people working in the area of compilers are experimentalists explains a lot about compiler theory.
I don't subscribe to dividing your life into clean boxes of 'work life' 'social life' 'family life'...

I think you need all the different elements in your life, but it is often most effective to combine different needs together (such as socializing with work friends or helping social friends with a work project). It offers opportunities to make more meaningful friendships and a better work environment.
I think most people are going to be puzzled/turned-off by your reference to "food porn".
Are daily deals destroying your brand?
tmux's permissions model is a lot better, but the other huge win is that it resizes to the smallest screen. With screen we would always have to shuffle around so the person with the smallest screen was the first to join each window; it was a huge drag. The better key bindings and config files are just gravy.
Please remember to always compile with -O3
I've bought three of Viewsonic's VMP75s (http://www.amazon.com/Viewsonic-NexTV-VMP75-Network-Player/d...) and couldn't be happier. There are a few complaints in the reviews, especially regarding the UI, but most of these have been fixed by the latest firmware. The support for various container formats and codecs is excellent; the one feature it lacks that the WDTV supports is Pandora.
2009? news?
a video where Kelly Slater surfed a door and a coffee table as impressively as most weekend warriors surf on $700 custom shaped boards.

I saw a table tennis player all excited about his new carbon fiber paddle. Then one of the club champs picked up the box the new paddle had come in and, using the box as a paddle, proceeded to defeat the player with the carbon paddle.
the boilerplate is always delete/add friendly, as Paul mentioned, we will hear more voices. thanks for bringing this up :)
Looks awesome.. one suggestion is to avoid using the word 'porn' on the front page. Love the idea though!
Walk through the steps of creating a web app from 37signals
Google Checkout Support Is Going To Kill My First Product. What Do I do??
Hello fellow HN members. I'm sorry to make this so short and trite but I don't know what else to do. I recently released a simple app on the Google marketplace (4G Switch - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ds410.FourGSwitch&feature=search_result) that allows you to turn the 4G off on the Verizon Thunderbolt (its nothing that stellar but def works). The app has been doing well and I've gotten all 5 star reviews but all of a sudden, payments aren't being process for the app and I've been contacted by multiple buyers who complain about issues in the checkout process. I have seen the issues myself and they seem to be somewhat specific to my app as I've tried buying others and had no issues. The worst part about it is that there is NO technical support for Google checkout, which I paid $25 to use and which is where the problem lies and yet they take 30% of every order. Now I know that I'm complaining over 99 cent orders here, but to me it isn't about the money (I've offered full refunds to the affected customers who persevere through the problems, letting them keep the app for free). I've spent my whole life wanting to do something like this and I finally was able to build a product that people seem to want and need, after toiling in services and full time employment for years. I'm proud of this product and my work and I don't want it crushed because of something that is out of my control (yes, I know that's probably typically what happens but I'm really trying to avoid it here). If you guys have any suggestions, please let me know. I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

UPDATE: Using a generic form that doesn't let you enter any custom details, I was able to get a response from Google. They informed me I had canceled the order... something that is completely untrue. Below is a message from one of my potential customers detailing the issue:

John A has sent you the following message:
Damaged/incorrect item for order #37455471505XXXX:
This app says "authorizing purchase" forever and doesn't actually download. I am in an area with perfect 4G coverage and have no trouble downloading any other apps. Please either fix problem or refund!

How does this equate to me canceling the order???
Lots of people say iStore.
> ton of useful stuff (from template metaprogramming to fast matrix algebra), it's loosely coupled, and it's insanely fast

It's actually not all that fast in a lot of cases. Boost's matrix manipulation support is particularly slow:

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Benchmark-August2...

Also a lot of the template aerobatics generate a ginormous number of symbols which massively increase the binary size and cache pressure. In a former life I ripped out a pile of heavily templated code using Boost and replaced it with a well placed virtual function or three and dramatically reduced the cache misses in the application.

I've always seen Boost (and to a large extent the STL) as a demo library to show off what's possible with templates rather than something to be used in everyday code and have worked on a number of projects which forbade both.

There's a large rift in the C++ world between what I generally label Qt and Boost camps. The Boost people see the Qt folks as Java-esque dimwits that can't be bothered to learn the full extent of C++'s power and the Qt folks see the Boost following as unpragmatic architecture astronauts.
Love the idea. Rails Rumble a few years ago produced this: http://tablesurfing.com/ which never actually launched, but I was really hoping it would have.

Comments:

Without the "airbnb for food" tagline on the site, nobody would have any idea that this site is anything more than a bad Foodgawker clone. Nothing about it lets users actually do anything other than share pictures.

If that's the goal, make it clear how to do that or let us know when it will be possible.
Do you plan on allowing people to charge for hosting? If so, aren't there some serious health code issues that arise (at least in the U.S.)?

Friends of mine work at a non-profit that wanted to sell espresso at their center and they ran into all kinds of health code issues due to just having milk. Apparently as soon as you introduce perishable items, all kinds of red flags get raised and you need inspections, etc.
Sign up for Google's local business centre and they'll send your £75 vouchers every few months. This is a complete piece of shit.
I would lose the "food porn" bit... I understand it's a Bourdain reference and I love his show but I think it would jar with a lot of folks who don't know that.
Well did you check the stylesheet of Twitter for instance? Only 40K but even then.. why even that big for a simple Twitter homepage!? So I'm sorry you did not convince me. And maybe, I know it's a bold statement, they are doing it wrong.

I think it also has to do with frameworks. Sometimes frameworks spit out a lot of HTML you won't ever need. So the HTML is bloated in the first place. Then it's a hell of a job to style the mess.

When you are fortunate to control the HTML you should first start to optimize your HTML before you even start with CSS.
Trying not to get hit by a car (I ride a bike.)
> It's simply an inferior product with fewer advantages.

As someone who splits their time fairly evenly between OS X, Windows, and Linux (and a little BSD for funsies), I cannot disagree with this statement more. They all suck. Every OS has crippling flaws that would drive me away if it weren't for the fact that they all have flaws, and they all have advantages, and none is inferior or superior overall.

Also: quit worrying about what people think of you for your choice of hardware/software. Worrying that people will think your purchases are trend-driven and so considering options that are less than optimal for you personally is every bit as bad as being a fanboy, it's the exact same fallacies at play.
OK, call me a hopeless capitalist but the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) idea he proposes will not work, only companies at the scale of Google will be able to tackle the overhead involved and be willing to walk the associated minefield.

The opinions on this issue that I have read generally range from the gung-ho "Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, this should be done" to the somebody else's problem philosophy "This is a job for government/congress/etc.". The judge's written opinion is the latter.

Darnton says "This provision made Google and its partners effective proprietors of works they had not created." This, I believe, is the major roadblock for many (old-fashioned) creators: you are making money off from poor writers. Advocates of this approach fail to acknowledge the immense costs of creating and maintaining such a system. And how much money do the authors of orphan works make now? Zero dollars.

The European efforts cited are AFAIK were reactionary to Google's scanning program. One should remember that not all such grandiose European programs work (e.g. what happened to Galileo GPS system?) because of the major fracturing, e.g. France's Gallica has ~1.7M books but they seem to be mostly old, out of copyright works.
IBM was a competitor to Sun. An IBM acquisition of Sun definitely would have triggered the government to get involved and explore the anti-trust/monopoly angle.
I remember your original post. It was the day before I actually registered here (your blog title may have influenced my own self-deprecating choice of username :-) ).

Although what you have at the moment is more a teaser than an MVP, I love the concept.

To make it useful to travellers you're going to need to add in cities and maps. I'd love to try a real pad see ew with a Thai family, but preferable one in the part of Thailand I'm actually staying in.

A veggie filter might be a good idea too as I'm not sure your food porn is so appealing to them
"Opentable for your kitchen" is a much better X for Y than "Airbnb for food".