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Thank god you said that! I thought I was going to be the only blasphemer that saw that article for what it was.
Wow.. just browsed my hometown, Berlin, and it's really not a good picture. Most of the photos are horribly underexposed and show some boring places..
I read that as 24.7% of people not income, could be wrong.
Senate bill legalizes indefinite military detention of US civilians on US soil
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ha - seriously..I really don't understand this at all. Why is it ok to go door to door peddling a start-up that will fail 90% of the time, but not ok to sell a candy that will satisfy 100% of the time :)
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As for tablets, Apple identified a similar list of alternative designs available to Samsung:

Overall shape that isn't rectangular, or doesn't have rounded corners.
Thick frames rather than a thin rim around the front surface.
Front surface that isn't entirely flat.
Profiles that aren't thin.
Cluttered appearance.

If Apple were a car maker, they would be "suggesting" that their competitors should design cars with non-circular wheels, thick body metal and a non-aerodynamic appearance.
The audience for books skews older than the audience for music.
Are restaurant owners not entrepreneurs? If not, that is an overly restrictive definition.

"He didn't come up with a new and interesting way to sell shit."

He identified an untapped location/population, and acted on it. How is that not finding a new way to "sell shit"?
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"This is, of course, the path of insanity, and not the good kind of insanity." - from Paul Buchheit's 'I am Nothing'. Mr Altucher's persona of his past self is a caricature of seeing the world through a lens of self-identity and ego.. walking boldly down the path of insanity.

Not surprisingly, I think that PB's way of modeling the 'gmail labeler' is more efficient than JA's. Specifically, 'use these emotions as a cue to remember, "I am nothing"'. This frees you up to put an appropriate labeler for accomplishing your goal without bias.

Cool article though, I really enjoy JA's candor, experiences and insights.
ShopRunner (http://www.shoprunner.com/). It's basically Prime for Newegg and a bunch of other stores.

Unfortunately the tax problem still stands.
TLDR: Focus.

Ugh – I feel like showering after that horrible article. What gets me most is that he implies you have to be enlightened to be a success, while the truly interesting part of successful people is in the management of their humanity.
Somewhat interesting, but useless without taking into account the cost of living in each state.
Try approaching git the way you would learn a programming language. It's more like that than an application. Git is just a good implementation of a simple, consistent, appropriate model (or you could say DSL) for version tracking. It offers this model to the user in a straightforward way. But you have to learn the model or git will seem complicated instead of simple.
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It's really more a matter of persistance if you ask me. you can have bad "luck" and fail 50 times. But you only need to get "lucky" once, to be successful.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight - Chinese Proverb.
There are probably a lot of unique facts about many many animals, but almost nobody has the equipment (money) and the time (money) to do it. Lots of scientific biology missions are now out of funds. It's more profitable doing soap operas with animals for TV shows.
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Whiny, rude, disrespectful, also not smart enough to proffer alternative ID. Her problem isn't disability, its stupidity.
Having a copyright law that allows consumers to make copies but prohibits the sale of those copies doesn't seem very workable to me. You'd be saying that making money from other peoples work is wrong/illegal, but at the same time saving money by copying without permission is right/legal. In both cases one party is extracting value from the work of another, against their wishes. Seems that the copyright system we have now where the creator is the 'owner' of the intellectual property and sets the conditions for its disposal has a much stronger foundation.

At any rate, surely you'd have to agree that if we changed copyright laws, it would only apply to work created from that point onwards. You couldn't reasonably shift the goalposts for works already published under the guarantee of copyright protection - that would be like raising income tax then applying it retrospectively.

So what it seems to me is that people want to have their cake and eat it. They want free access to the works of a copyright funded/enabled culture, but they'd rather not be left with the lacklustre non-protected output.

At any rate, let me rephrase my question. Would taking a picture of the print an artist was trying to sell you and then making a copy strike you as a decent thing to do? Would you happily say to their face, 'I'm not going to buy your print, but I'm going to take a photo of it so I can make my own copy?'

(we could go a bit further and mention distributing other copies to all your friends so none of them will buy it either, but I don't think that's even necessary)
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Stallman's RSS feed is a great way to keep up on world politics
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I'm willing to bet that Pizza Pizza isn't missing out on much money over their website. It is far more common for someone to place an order for pizza by dropping by the establishment or making a two minute phone call.

What is more likely is that the majority of their customers really don't care about the website and so Pizza Pizza has little incentive to improve it. Why spend time and money on something that virtually no-one uses?

You're an exception to the rule. Businesses aren't as stupid as you think: they're simply putting their resources elsewhere. Online accessibility is not a priority for many businesses and the poor execution that follows should not be mistaken for anything else.
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The third place guy posted an explanation of his algorithms here: http://www.marcnewlin.com/2011/12/you-should-probably-start-...
I was on the winning team and we have been writing up our algorithms too. Hopefully we'll be able to post them soon.
There's some decent points about how negativity and pessimism can be debilitating. And that applies to everyone, not just entrepreneurs. But it's hard to see that through the rambling.

If you're more interested in how negativity and pessimism have measurable effects on success, I suggest reading Martin Seligman's Learned Optimism. I found it pretty eye opening.

http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1...
I can't seem to find any information on the GrubWithUs flyers. Could you post a link? Lemonade stands don't stand to gain immense competition because of relaxing regulation.
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I don't understand how meaningless waffle life this gets published. As billpatrianakos said where does this 500% figure come from? But apart from the article itself, the thing I really don't get are all the obsequious platitudes within the comments (within TC).

IMHO the best way to increase productivity is to stop pissing about reading pointless nonsense on how to increase productivity, and actually start doing the work.
Untapped? Selling candy to nice people in an uncomfortable situation is an untapped market?
I thought Facebook was pretty cool actually (the inside, not the outside). Although, I haven't been to their new campus, so I can't comment on that.
In any major city, one is bombarded with intrusive marketing (commercials, neon signs, think of Times Square). On the NYC subways there are plenty of obnoxious people, many asking for outright handouts. Tracks is a small time entrepreneur - he embodies the successful aspects of a start-up: great elevator pitch, asks for your money, and shows up to do it again the next day. I wish him much success.
Why is it when the discussion is about somebody selling candy on the subway certain peoples minds seem to be turning to violent crime, but when you hear about people with unlicensed lemon-aid stands we don't seem to see this?

To put it bluntly, I suspect it has something to do with the demographic people associate both of these (rather identical) businesses.
It's biased just like any other news source, but I really appreciate how he keeps the TL;DR summaries very short and concise. It's one of the things on my short "daily reading list" that helps me stay on top of everything.
People are buying aren't they? And I reject the suggestion that he is somehow pressuring people into buying, if you've ever been on a subway that is rather implausible.
The point of the original post was that we devalue literary criticism because it's so often taught poorly. But the same is true for a lot of disciplines!
And good point with the comment on me trying to redefine entrepreneur. What I should have said is i don't think he's an interesting entrepreneur.
> I don't know exactly what they mean by 'dynamic', but the idea that all the most innovative people only exist in the United States (or even that people in the US are on average more innovative than others) is ridiculous, and stating it is just blind nationalism...

As someone from the heart of the U.S., I believe that creativity, intelligence and industriousness are likely to be evenly distributed throughout the world. What isn't evenly distributed are political, economic and cultural systems which encourage highly talented people to build new technologies and companies. The United States has been particularly good at producing this outcome - many would argue that's been the relative apogee among nations/cultures. Personally, I believe that on a per capita basis, it becomes hard to demonstrate that the U.S. is any more innovative than nations like Japan, Germany and Korea.

This is not intended to be nationalistic. We simply seem to have become optimized for this outcome. Other outcomes - economic equality, social welfare, work/life balance, overall happiness, (arguably - it's a slippery concept after all) are not emphasized as much. Consequently, few unbiased observers would place the U.S. at the top of the pack in those categories.
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Forget technology, go see some art.

And like @jack said, buy some local artisan goods.
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"Entrepreneur - a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk"

He is the very definition of an entrepreneur. Most of the stuff you see selling in the streets of NYC is not "legal" because of not having the proper permits or any number of bureaucratic issues but you damn sure are not going to tell me these people are not entrepreneurs.
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Go to the Exploratorium. It's a one-of-a-kind, hands-on science museum in San Francisco.
This is a terrible article don't waste your time; rambling mumbling article about the brain being a gmail inbox.
I second the computer history museum. It's really great, and free. I went with my family at my mom's behest and told them all "listen, I'm a computer dork so I'll like this, but don't blame me if you all hate it, I'm not forcing you to do this", and everyone loved it. Even the history major!
Is there any kind of web/desktop interface?
If you spend every day walking around, you want the most comfortable shoes your money can buy.
Is it just me or does it seem a little strange that this story is on the top of hacker news?
Well, fair enough. I do agree there.
Yes, but you have to get in line behind 11K other people for the beta. :(
Step 1: stop reading techcrunch.
Step 2. Get to work.

OK, I admit I didn't read the linked piece. Did I miss anything?
Why the need for a "sub-ms" timer implementation? Just do a while loop and constantly check for the SOP exception (or for Xms to have elapsed). Set a timeout between checking URLs. The ~10ms blocking of each URL check will not be noticeable to the UI.

Nice PoC though, and thanks for the lack of press release ;)

Edit: I just tried this out and it appears that the looping JS blocks the iframe from loading. I would have figured the iframe would be a separate JS thread. I'm wondering -- do all iframes share the same JS thread? Can one iframe block another? Anyway, it's clear that some sort of asynchronous solution is necessary.
Man 'mines' $300 a day from NYC jewely district sidewalks
As a parent, I can't imagine giving my 1 year-old a kindle to play with - I think board books will be very hard to replace with digital alternatives, unless it's something that looks and feels like a board book, but has several different stories you can choose from.
This looks more like a gravestone.
That's impressive. Violinist Joshua Bell could only garner up $32 during DC's rush hour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myq8upzJDJc&t=18s
Either that or the HN crowd is so proficient at noticing and removing defects in identifier strings that they barely notice the couple of keyboard shortcuts required to remove the v when they see the 404 :)
Go to Buck's in Woodside for breakfast (http://www.buckswoodside.com/) and try to identify who's a VC and who's a CEO. Great rich people watching. Plus the food is good.
I was in SV for the first time recently. The google campus was cool, computer history musuem was also cool and almost beside google. It was good to see the Stanford campus too. SF was just like any other city for me, so I didn't do much sightseeing there.
he plays in NYC, mostly improv, often incorporating Bach and other classical works, but always without sheet music. Lately his focus has shifted to more atonal music, which contrary to what I would've thought has dramatically increased the rate at which people give him money.

With the rest of his free time he plays in a million different bands (most of whom who he met when they approached him on the subway platform) and smokes himself into a happy stupor.
No link. They talked about it at the NYC YC event. They also talked about bootstrapping by working out of a Starbucks and getting free refills for the entire day. Pretty cool stuff.

Let me ask you a quick question - what do you think about food trucks? In NYC, most of them park illegally and pay the fine as a cost of doing business. I'm sure this guy has gotten fined before, but maybe it's just a cost of doing business as well.
nyc, where you can play legally without a permit on the platform for money as long as you do not amplify your sound.
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As soon as I saw that the author was Altucher, I clicked the "Back" button. Drivel.
Not sure what to make of this app/company -- the pitch is very generic and doesn't really differentiate the app from any of the zillions of to-do apps and systems, some of which are also very slick and minimalist. The company is a year old, has raised $1M, and has 11 people. The app is Android-only right now, so I can't try it out.
He needs to be Square'd!
people do complain about lemonade stands, and they get shut down (by police) regularly.

(http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/the-inexplic...)

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171665)
That's exactly what I'm saying. The point of essay writing, or doing quadratics or reading about the Civil War isn't about getting a good grade, it's about learning something new, retaining that new information and applying it to future learning. The method of grading and class structures (in that a D-level student starts another year/semester with a clean slate along with all the A-level students from the previous year/semester, despite their obvious deficiencies) is insane when you think about how people actually learn. Grades are a way to motivate through fear of failing, not through interest in a subject. Failure is a natural part of learning and I think people know intuitively when what they're doing isn't working correctly.

But then, I'm a fan of the Montessori method, which focuses far more on process and progress than it does specific outcomes at predefined times. It's hard to translate that method to University, which uses the traditional method of grading. The want of grades has actually caused some Montessori schools to include them superficially to appease parents.
See my further comment in this discussion made about this topic. TLDR: shouldn't have redefined entrepreneur.
Seems like a good way to calibrate is to have the client cache a file from your targets list (you can cachebust by adding "?some_random_junk" at the end). Then, see how long it takes to get a hit.

Better yet, do this for each target URL. Knowing the time that a miss takes vs. a hit will greatly increase your accuracy.
Go hang out at Noisebridge in the mission in SF. Tons of interesting people hang out there and there are plenty of start-ups that frequent the place.
Outer crust, or outer atmosphere?
That was a terrible waste of time. After reading this guy's articles, I just get the feeling how the author (James Altucher) has had a miserable life. Either that is true or he is making up sad stories to get the attention of readers. The series of articles he has written are mostly long and could have instead been written down in a few sentences if not a few words. One thing I would like to thank the author is that he once referred to a book called 'never eat alone', which I am reading right now and is definitely enjoyable than his articles.
How does this article get published? It has a single source who happens to run a technology firm... Plant fear. Profit.

Is there no money left in news that the reporter could not make some calls to verify or dispute these claims?
I don't get it - How is it different from the gazillion other apps/webapps ? And the stuff ain't even ready to download.

Very weak sell to make me even sign up.
I never tried myself but reusing the css might be a solution.
Wow.

(http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=94999&page=1)

> *Seventh-grader Ansche Hedgepeth was handcuffed, booked and fingerprinted for eating French fries in a northwest Washington subway station.

12 years old?
My comment is no reflection on you, but something I really dislike about modern politics is that someone's honest and learned opinion has been reduced to "bias". The cult of objectivity, in politics and journalism, has been one of the engines that has brought us all down the sorry road we find ourselves on now. We need more opinion, not more objectivity.

I also like RMS's summaries. He's tipped me to some stories I never would have seen otherwise.
Tons of startups are breaking the law? I find that highly unlikely, mostly due to the fact I spend at least an hour a week talking to my attorneys about EVERYTHING we do and making sure it's all above board and legally covered.

While I can't speak for all the other startups out there, I can say without a doubt that mine hasn't broken any laws.
Yes, the two most common ways of ordering pizza now are via the phone or in person, but there's no reason to expect that this will stay constant. Communication between people has trended away from voice contact for a while now, and if a company has a working web interface to order a product, people will use it.

Some advantages of ordering pizza online through a proper interface:
- No chance of orders being misinterpreted on the order side
- Ability to see all of the options that you can order
- No need to reenter delivery information

Each purchase vector should either be done right or not at all. Having poor implementations will just lower the opinion of your consumers and can discourage them from using your company at all in the future.
You are a sample size of 1.
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Stop by techshop (a shared maker-space) for a free tour. There's a location in Menlo Park, and one in SF about a 15 minute walk from Caltrain. (http://techshop.ws)
Agreed. The poster most likely has one and didn't state the fact. It is a requirement to have a government issued ID card (with number) to apply and receive disability benefits.
Same here. I'm routinely in the habit of not reading TechCrunch articles on HN anymore. Straight to comments and unfortunately have no ability to downvote articles.

I expect downvotes for this comment, but seriously why do people upvote these TC stories...?
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Ah! Perfect example then. Shouldn't have generalized.

I hate to pull this card, but you also have to really wonder if people would be "annoyed" as much if it were cute little suburban girl scouts selling the candy instead of a dude named "Tracks" (why is there not a comment about how ridiculously awesome/apt this name is?)...
With no link we can't really enter it into the discussion.

Food trucks are licensed and subject to food quality regulations.
Some stuff about not feeling sad, as if that's something that can only ever be caused internally. The usual neo-victorian, crypto-calvinist story that these people feel the need to tell in order to justify themselves, even though nobody asked them.
Still don't get it. Why should I wait in a 11k people line to get my things done........
I call BS. I just went through the process of ordering an iPhone from the Apple store. No drivers license required, only an SSN, and that is SOP for any credit check. If you order an unlocked phone and pay full freight you don't even need an SSN.
If you like outdoors and the beach, maybe drive over the mountains from Palo Alto to the beach and drive up to San Francisco, its an awesome drive in my opinion, then you can go check out SF. Actual Silicon Valley is a bit boring, in my opinion, I prefer SF to actually go and have fun for a day.
a person who organizes and manages any enterprise (He is not managing or organizing anything.)

especially a business (It is a business)

usually with considerable initiative and risk" (He went to the store, bought some candy, sold it. No risk, limited initiative, certainly not considerable imitative.)

The world would be a better place without a guy selling candy on a subway.
Whole animal biology tends not to get the resources that the DNA hackers get. This narrowing of the facts base may be problematic if we want to preserve the fauna for the offspring.
The problem is widespread. Lots of businesses have horrible sites. It's what I call the "cousin web-developer syndrome".

What's worst is that if you bring it up, more often than not, you get a response like: "We don't get much business from the web anyway".

Duh!
> Whiny, rude, disrespectful, also did not choose to proffer alternative ID.

Her problem may be rudeness. But rudeness is not stupidity. Confusing the two is either stupid or rude (depending on the reason for the confusion).
Jobs was not a tech person, he was a fashion maven. Apple has not always been a good solution, but it has always been a statement.
Ever since Apple revolutionized the black rectangle, everyone wants to capitalize on it. It's pathetic really, can't these companies come up with their own shapes?
Hoping the monitor is tangentially aligned with the earth.
"A community around the source" is not the biggest benefit of commercial open source. Before "whole features implemented by outsiders" factors in, you already have:

* Drastically increased enterprise adoption because influencers w/o purchasing authority can download and do their own pilot deployments.

* Free testing, with drastically decreased expectations of release quality (it's open source, what do you expect? &c).

* The ability to market on the warm-fuzzy of "open source", which warm-fuzzy also includes the pragmatic issue of "what if you go out of business" (you still have the source).

I think the reality of a lot of open source projects, particularly in the enterprise, is that the vast majority of the real code is written by a small affiliated core team.