skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a small scale startup (where customers never visit -- not retail or legal/medical services), the only practical concern is neighbors, as far as I've seen. Maybe once you have 10-20 employees working onsite that changes (I've never done the villa-office thing in the US beyond 5-10 people).

Also, a lot of the larger homes actually are built to commercial standards, at least from what I've seen in listings, especially in seismic zones. Sprinklers and egress are what I primarily care about; non-ADA-compliance is only incidentally a concern (being able to move racks, furniture, etc. around is great, but I don't need every bathroom to be ADA compliant).

Zoning is an issue once neighbors complain (and usually, it's due to parking issues; having 20 cars street parked in a neighborhood is a big inconvenience to them) -- that's why you want a driveway with a gate. In general in Northern CA, the actual zoning people don't care about violations of home office -> office as long as it's not causing trouble for others -- there are numerous examples (Facebook, HP, ...) where homes have been used as offices. Not putting up signage, not having customers visit, etc. is generally enough from what I've seen.

My long term plan involves a ranch/farm/estate/country home in a no-code location, though.
Digital Painting in Adobe CS5 - Brush Settings
"Visual" vs textual games is a bit of a false dichotomy though; in particular the Marathon series does a great job of blending action and intelligent, literary story: http://marathon.bungie.org/story/shakespeare.html The first Deus Ex also had plenty of literature in it, sampling heavily from The Man who was Thursday and other classics.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register...

It does not seem like the Facemash data was reused for thefacebook.
This is definitely true. I made my game free and it jumped to the top 100 lists in a few countries overnight due to bunch of those automated sites that list app "sales" picking it up.
I agree with everything in this blog post but I won't be sharing it with anyone. I want to educate people, not berate them - can anyone recommend a similar post, but friendlier?
Thanks for the link and the recommendation. Since the previous
post is almost 3 years old I will to learn about more recently started open source python projects, specifically anything with social sharing.
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This is silly -- mobile furniture or computing hardware sales? Are there really people that can't be arsed to sit down on craigslist and browse their city for a new chair, but instead randomly buy one while walking about the financial district? Is there some use for this I can't see?
I plugged TacFit here before, and I'll gladly do it again. "A martial arts training masquerading as a fitness programme". A bit on the pricey side (1-off cost for an impressive box-set of digital training materials), but no gym fees or expensive equipment.
Right, but that still leaves me not having any idea who can see my comments. Which is fine in Google Reader because I don't expect any level of privacy there, but in Google+, esp. after having explicitly set up Circles, I might expect some level of privacy which doesn't include people outside of the Circle I'm commenting in being able to see my comments.

With a "Place" metaphor, if you have a private place, nothing would leave that place, and only everyone visible in the place would be able to see any of your content. I think this is just a much more intuitive way to handle groups. It can be more flexible, too, because you could very easily create new places with varying levels of privacy, but the exact level of privacy would always be known to the occupants of the place.
Oddly enough, I hope this maps to the gmail groups concept, since I already have people mapping along those lines in there, and winds into my android device as well.

Google seems to run into the large corporation octopus issue where knowing what the left and right hands are doing is a difficult task.
That might be the point that lets Google+ succeed: you can sign up and interact with your friends immediately, and then when they join Google+, you get to do more.

It will definitely help with the "I have an account but nobody else does" phenomenon.
Like with female founders, the apparent predominance of <30 single males is probably better explained by number who apply than the proportion selected.
Has anyone been using this client, is it worth using as far as GUI's go?
Zork was an adaptation of DUNGEON, not Adventure. (Or DUNGEO, as it was called on our PDP-11/34a in high school. Still have my maps!)
I think the shouting in the wilderness is directed primarily at the amount of gee-whiz attention paid to lionizing LulzSec. That big brands are leaving their figurative safes unlocked would make an interesting and responsible story. Laughing along with them, the argument goes, drives them to greater risks. Don't doubt that we'll see some of the same reporters chortling at their arrests.

The story should be that what should be online bank vaults are actually protected like convenience stores, and who cares who's kicking over the apple cart?
Facebook Fever: Investment Doubles in Just 6.5 Hours
> One of the reasons why I think Facebook is safe is because it cannot be beaten with this unified strategy. Theoretically speaking, the only way to beat Facebook is through a thousand cuts.

That's not a reason, that's just an assertion backed up with an assertion.

> I don’t feel quite compelled to switch from Facebook or Twitter to Google

Well, neither do I, but I'm sure as shit going to try it, and make my friends try it too - and then I'll make an informed decision. And anyway, there's not necessarily any reason I'll need to stop using FB or Twitter - maybe I'll use all three, which would still be a win for Google.
I suppose we're both going on anecdotal evidence, and the actual usage of social networks is probably diverse enough to accommodate both our views.
Very bad marketing here. Whoever chose the name "Google+" should be fired. First, the name confuses people with google's +1 button. Second, what does "+" have anything to do with a social network? It gives you no information at all about the service. They should have called it "google circles" and emphasized that Google Circles let you compartmentalize your social network, as opposed to facebook.
Bam, instant differentiation. Instead we have a product that tries to do too much and needs a demo to make people understand.
It is possible to do what you are trying to do (Say things to a private group) on facebook even today but I don't know why they have made it so hard to use. I literally had to spend 15 minutes figuring it out and spend time to configure it.

But even with all that I am fairly confident that Google+ will fail to take off just like many of Google products lately. All they have introduced is a small set of features that facebook lacks. FB can add those in a matter of few months and then take out the whole reason for users to switch. Social networks are very very sticky.
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What’s Fun About Teaching
Facebook Hires Notorious Hacker 'GeoHot'
Mercurial is well-written Python project:

http://selenic.com/hg
I am curious what price would an invite hit on ebay.
There is no such restriction.
I was excited when I heard about it, but after 5 minutes I was disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it's very well designed. But it didn't add value for me. I use GitX and I find it more useful, and has a better UI.
I'm one of those poor, unemployed young people for whom the $1 price point was perfect. It's the "What the Hell" price point. The benefit of having it on my Kindle and not having to switch windows all the time is real, but rather small. Perhaps worth $2.99... but certainly not $5.

It's worth more now that I've started getting to know the book of course. I've been reading a lot of programming books for a few months and these examples are substantially superior to anything else I've seen, except for Why's Poignant Guide.

Non-DX Kindle side-tip: Convert .epub to .mobi in calibre with "Text Justification > Linearize Table" checked.

If you don't do this, trying to navigate around the tables on a small screen will drive you batty.

(Still trying to figure out the regex to get rid all the "orphaned" line numbers created by this method.)
Coupons.com $1B Valuation and Immeasurable Domain Name Benefit
What a f'ing fantastic article. Thank you so much for writing this.

I spent a decent chunk of time last year building up a somewhat large Cocoa application (a telling synecdoche of how ambitious the app is: it integrates libevent with the Cocoa loop and involved writing a whole new evented Redis-backed HTTPS cache in ObjC).

But unfortunately, I got to the UI part of this project ("UI part", heh) thinking "this is going to be so much easier than webdev, look at all these tools!, and that was a crushing disappointment; getting anything reasonable on the screen has been intensely painful, and is if anything much harder than CSS3+JQ is on modern web apps.

I'm thrilled to hear that at least to some extent, it isn't just me, and making a good-looking Cocoa app (especially your first) is just very hard.
Not to be rude, but I think the best way to sell your iOS app is to make a really good one.
If it works like advertised only people in your circle can see the comment. Which leads to a weird experience for the commenter. To them they're essentially talking to just you while you're talking to your own circle. I'd be interesting in seeing a breakdown on how the circles intertwine. For example perhaps you have Jill in your coworkers circle and I have her in my friends circle. So presumable our communications are separate. But what if I move her to my coworkers circle and you're also in my coworkers circle? Are the names of our individual circles significant?
Devil's advocate:
Reddit is getting better at the trolling with confirmations from moderators.
Reddit AMA gets a surprising amount of important people to pass their way.
And technically reddit is in the YC network (though the founders have left). But agreed that there are some people who would never do a AMA on reddit that might come from YC.

Also, let's say that anyasq isn't a YC company (not sure if they are or not). Then all they have going for them is better moderation. To me that just sounds like retweeting on twitter without the character limit and a cleaner interface. I am not so sure that is a winning combination. One would think that YC would pick a company that didn't need to be in YC to succeed.
I don't know what an infinite family, isolate, or sporadic is. A quick Google search didn't make it obvious.

I think 8 pieces also works, but I think that may be it.
I read it as: much of the top talent today is going to Google and Facebook. If the same people who are applying to Google and Facebook are applying to your small company, you are doing much better than most people in recruitment.
Nodejitsu Has Competition from Y Combinator Darling Heroku
I mean from a straightforward point of view you can understand the rise on a worldly basis just because of the progression of women's rights around the globe--but when you look at Canada what's changed since the late 70's to the point where women are taking in increased sugars?
Self-Published Writer Sells a Million E-Books on Amazon
This sounds interesting. Can anyone recommend some highlights from his blog which would help evaluate whether it's worth purchasing?
Shaero Private Social Bookmarking
Just wanted to share an application I've helped build for businesses. The application, Shaero, is a social bookmarking platform inspired by placed like news.ycombinator, slashdot, reddit, digg, etc. It's essentially a social bookmarking platform where only users from your own group or company can join, allowing you to store news, hyperlinks, documents, or whatever else you want in a private and secure environment.
LinkedIn Hackday Easter Eggs (See Comments)
Type any of the following:
easter-egg
rm -rf *

There may be more
Facebook already has a conceprt of groups. I frequently share my updates/pictures with only to select set of groups. It's just that it is a bit hard to use it. Nothing that facebook can't fix. Don't know what is so great about this.
Apparently another feature was to automatically set your gchat status to "available". That explains why I got a bunch of messages yesterday morning.
I can't debate this with you if the semantics keep changing. The definition of "communism" is defined as "Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labour and private property in the means of production and real estate"

If you define communism to be like capitalism, then the argument is semantics; if that's the case, I'll concede.

investing IS an economic reason for something to go up in value. - I'm aware... I suppose what I implied 'external'... such as land increasing in value several times without action on his part.
Although the feature is not as advanced as circles, you can make wall posts on Facebook visible to only certain groups of friends. Google+ forces you to pick a circle (or everyone), rather than just defaulting to everyone.
Do it better. ;D
Oh and really great discussion tangent, mitcheme, it's funny (the skittle bits) but also really interesting stuff. Thanks a bunch.
How can I zoom in/out my heatmap?
Social Media Get:Mario Marathon 1Ups Charity Using Social Media #MarioMarathon
For the iPad, this thing is awesome:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Trent-iCruiser-IMP1000-Blackberry/...

I got one for a flight to Hong Kong. iPad ran constantly for >16 hours, and it was also handy for topping off an iPhone when batteries ran low. Well worth the cash if you travel for extended periods.
Article analyser tells you what newspapers really think
This is the thing Facebook got never right when they opened from college to everyone. It was obvious for so long and they never did anything about it, i mean the word "friend" alone is limiting the whole concept.
Maybe somebody else will do that, but if you go to the pragprog.com page for the book, you can read the preface and two sample chapters: http://pragprog.com/titles/lmuse/designed-for-use
Having just moved to SF, I knew I had to get back to a gym, so I started looking around and was shocked at how expensive the prices were. Upwards of $100/month for anything decent, which is way out of my budget.

I just started P90X, I'm on day 5 and everything cost me $90 and I own the equipment, rather than paying a high monthly gym cost. I probably get better results and spend less time traveling to/from the gym because I can do them from my apartment and they're demonstrated on video. I managed to find the following off Amazon, all for under $90: pull up bar, push up holders, 5lbs whey protein, 300g creatine, iPhone arm band, yoga mat, resistance bands.
Or that Google often limits the geographic scope of services to the US.
This looks to me like Don't Be Evil showing up as a competitive advantage. Facebook seems want my data and my network for its own exploitation; Google seems to actually be thinking about what's best for me.
Cocoa Code Style Guide
I completely agree. But I think if you want things to change it helps to understand why people make the decisions they do (and that they're "locally" rational most of the time).
They dont have different bodies, they have different minds. Adding 'for Entrepreneurs' to the title makes it instantly relevant and linkable.
Last time I checked, you could only see the names of your friends in Facebook's profile export archive -- there were no metadata whatsoever (e.g. IDs or profile links). I don't think names themselves are enough to port your social graph.
Hollowing out the ivory tower
This is one of those most compact mandlebrot tests I have seen.
The good news is that it's free — try it out and figure out if you like it or not.
Check out Pantyshot/Upskirt for Markdown, it's worked out pretty well for me.
As the above comment points out, this mainly works for Flash 5 content, so we are looking at mainly simple animations. The way I see it is that this is all about Flash-like banner ads onto iOS, which is an area that Google makes a huge amount of money from.
Can you tell us more about TacFit? What kind of results did you get going through it? Are you still doing it now? How much of it is well packaged information that's free online and how much is "proprietary" stuff you won't find else where?
The Future of Infographics
Suppose you live in New York City, you don't have a car and you want a new chair. It is difficult to go get a chair that is very far away, and if it less than, say, a mile a way and not a huge chair, you could carry it home. But when I open up Craig's List, I see chairs from around the city, and have to try hard to find one close to me. This makes it a lot easier.
$1 Billion in dollar coins
I love sports but I don't see why article this relates to entrepreneurs? Just a cheap catching title to get visitors? ;(

If I want some casual health tips I wouldn't go to HN.
Have you heard the one about Apple’s data center?
Even if you want to use them, how do you get your hands on them? At the bank?
The functionality feels really similar to Prezi.
comments make sense, but then i think it'll be a bit complex to admin those circles. complex for general public, not us of course
Super excited to see this concept. I had a prototype of this style of idea last year, but decided it was tertiary to my actual passion (video).

Wish you huge luck! Would love to sit down and debrief a part of this you might attack later, namely live events and conferences. I've got some good ideas of how to integrate this to those in a visually appealing manner, and would love to chat.
This is going to kick off a new era in social networking, which we all will be a part of :)
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Um... ever heard of ScummVM? They have a wonderful iPad edition.
Swiffy works well if you want to convert someone else's Flash content, while Wallaby is good for developers to convert their own content and then add any additional functionality that is missing from the conversion. As Swiffy's output isn't easy to read or edit.
what moderation?

Unverified IAMAs tend to be the I am a doctor etc...which can't be verified.

The ones where it's a person, /iama/ already verifies those.

Seems like this is a money grab...and at least reddit doesn't require that you allow it to spam your twitter account.
even if over time cedar breaks it's contract with it's developers, it's extremely refreshing to see a provider thinking about the problem in that context
How can I install it on an iPad 2?
Yes, 100% agree with you and that's a much better way of stating it.
Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products
Thanks, Lukas.
What's really the interesting story is that it isn't 2005 and yet this stuff still works.
I think Facebook's biggest failure is that they've never educated people on how to use Facebook well, and honestly, they have likely inadvertently encouraged bad practices with their emphasis on growth.

For example, why do you have friends on FB you barely know in reality? You should only have your genuine friends on Facebook. This simple rule solves the "annoying status update from someone I don't care about" problem, which is the most frequent complaint I hear about Facebook. I actively delete people a few times a year who I don't expect to see again.
yeahhh... basically we can turn the last 15 years of annoying flash ads back into the modern equivalent of animated gifs. whoopee =)
Can't believe it's been 116 days already. Damn how time's flying. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287850
Why not give me a nice big mbox file with all my emails in it as well? That's honestly the main thing that Google has that I care about preserving.
Its refreshing with competition, perhaps even on the privacy parts different actors could make each other respect their users more.

I dont like the UI of flickr (cant even use it, and Im a comp-sci major) and it doesnt integrate well with Facebook (tagging), where most of my friends are, sadly. I guess flickr might have improved since I last gave it a chance, but still something doesnt feel good about it. The same for picasa.
Banks, and you can buy them directly from the government for free shipping in boxes of 200. At least you used to be able to...
I like Crossfit-style WODs (Workout Of the Day) because each workout has measurement built in, and you work to perform as well as possible against that measurement, which means motivation is built in, too. They're suitable for "startup" fitness because you can do the workouts by yourself or in a small group, and because you can adapt them to whatever equipment and facilities you have available.

For example, a circuit training-like WOD might be to do the following in the shortest time you can:

21 pullups
21 burpees
800m run
15 pullups
15 burpees
400m run
9 pullups
9 burpees
200m run

If you don't have space to run, you can jump rope, and if you don't have someplace to rig up a pullup bar (unlikely!) you can do rows with something heavy.

Or you might do the following as many times as possible in 15 minutes (in Crossfit lingo, AMRAC -- As Many Rounds As you Can):

10 deadlifts
20 wall balls (throwing a medicine ball against a 10' target on a wall)
400m run

After the workout, you record your time or number of rounds and the weights you used for each exercise. The numbers motivate you and allow you to measure your progress if you repeat the same workout every couple of months. For me, it helps a lot to have the measurement in mind while I'm working out. The harder I work, the better the numbers I get to write down afterward.

You can do this on your own, like I said, but for some people the pressure of performing in front of other people helps a lot. It's certainly true for me, even though I'm completely the opposite when it comes to mental work. Having instructors is good, too. They'll push you to pile on the weight or ease back on the weight as appropriate. If joining CrossFit is impractical or unaffordable, and you can't talk your friends into working out with you, competitive sports can serve the same purpose of providing motivation and measuring improvement.
I'm sure you can put people in more than one circle. Mostly because huddle seems to be based off of circles. While not being able to put people into multiple circles would be inconvenient, not being able to put people into multiple "huddles" would just break the whole feature for most people.

EDIT: Made it a little bit more clear
Facebook will integrate Group Video Chat from Skype in a few weeks - bet on it.
I have been an anti-wave, anti-buzz but I just tried Google+ and it's great. I think this time Google really can kick FB. Great, simple interface and integrated to my gmail, picasa, contacts, gtalk it is definitely great!

I love the circles philosophy and UX.

One problem is the restriction on invites. Google+ is valuable to me if I can share things with others, just like I do it in FB right now. They have to enable invites soon or the early adopters will get bored and leave forever.
I did the same thing. Posting a question doesn't make it at ALL clear if it's done so. Do you NEED to tweet it? Otherwise, posting a question just leads to a form where you can submit (another?) question.

The UI could be a bit clearer there.
It has a narrow powerband so it can't be used to propel a car directly; only to generate electricity for a hybrid car.
Can't put 1 friend into 2 circles? Great job on simplifying my social life..
what a terrible name. "plus" what does this mean for ordinary people.