skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who wouldn't live in their car to get away from their wife for four months :)

The biggest flaw in his plan is that he has an amazing enough wife to let him chase his dreams...If he really appreciated the sacrifice she was making, he would never leave her for four months, or even four days.

I think the posters main goal here is to appear determined to investors. To get the message across to them that not only is he committed to making it work, he has a supportive family, and he is prepared to make every sacrifice to succeed.

Maybe this is a clever enough stunt to get into YC, or get some seed capital...After all, if I was an investor, I would be reassured by someone committed to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to succeed.

That being said, I think he has a serious problem appreciating the ancillary effects of his decisions, and doubt he anticipates how poor of a decision this really is, and how foolish it makes him appear to be.
The nice thing about selling a desktop application is that the software will work even if the company goes out of business or shut down since it's just a locally running application.

Perhaps users should start demanding that startups provide an "Export my data" feature as a core function so they at least always know they can get their data back out at any time.
I agree with you there - all HD video DRM is "deadbolted door, window left open" at this point since HDCP is fully opened (both by the ability to clone or purchase the HDCP hardware from a real TV and by the leaking of the HDCP master keys).

There's still some incentive to crack video DRM, since ripping through HDMI requires a re-encode and degrades quality, but the approach is good enough that the payoff is reduced substantially.
Which I can almost- almost!- see them doing. The iPad utterly dominates the tablet landspace, and Android tablets hasn't had anywhere near the success Android phones have.
Dude, seriously, you don't want to be "that homeless guy". It's gonna be hard to shake off that reputation.
Don't Re-Nig the racist anti-Obama bumper sticker, appears real
Most soundcards will have a virtual input that records the output. Audacity can record from any input your soundcard provides.
'Dramatic License'
That is certainly a situation that happens, but I don't think the number of people who actually went on to install and use the interpreter for something is any significant amount lower.
Clickable: http://zyu.me/
planning to add a few more features shortly. if anyone has any requests/suggestions, i'm glad to hear them!
What do you do at work, when you don't have a lot to do?
What if you don't have any deadlines at work, you don't have anything important to do?

What comes to my mind is:

1)
a) you seek for things to upgrade/make better,
b) watch some videos, look at news, funny sites
c) learn about new things, read details about the technology that your company use, to better understand how everything works beneath
d) fart in your chair
e) talk to people, go to meetings
f) ... ?

These points can be OR-ed together of course.. to some extent.

And the next question is does your boss knows that you don't have anything important to do?

How does he react?

More to come :-)
Interesting, same as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3709260 but more up votes.

He even links to a Hacker news discussion in his blog posting.

Wondering why this didn't get flagged as a dupe.
That's small compared to the problem of arbitrage in such a scheme. Start by spamming people to buy something which gives them the largest dollar value discount on an item they don't actually want, then sell part of the discount to someone who wants it and pocket the profit.
Ask HN: Good ways to pitch application to Linkedin/Indeed?
I cannot find any contact information linked to anyone with Linkedin or Indeed.com. What do I do next? The application determines job hiring trends
My user story: I got excited that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was still playing, but didn't want to see it tonight because I have other plans. I clicked on the link to buy tickets, hoping it would show me other showtimes, but it was just a normal checkout page.

I would like to know when Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is playing tomorrow as well.
I liked this idea, but it's also very obvious that this must be quite a young company, with an employee base that's also mostly quite young.

After all, the window of time between when you enter the workplace and when you start having the kinds of ties that prevent you from dropping everything and going somewhere with your company for a month isn't -- for most people -- a very large slice of their working career.

I personally would love to go to Brazil for a month, but going with my co-workers instead of my wife and young daughter would be unthinkable.

This isn't a criticism, though. As the company grows & matures, and the employees do as well -- since they're interested in keeping employees "for the long haul", the collective ages of the bulk of the employees would advance largely in synch -- then the creative ideas should simply take different forms.

I do think they should consider carefully who is forced to sit out, though -- and avoid doing things where it's always the same people who can't come. This is company money being used to reward employees. If it only rewards some of them, due to factors quite probably out of the employees' control, that's simply unfair. Maybe offer the option for employees who can't participate to simply get an equivalent bonus?
They are probably trying to figure out if you are who you say you are by asking all kinds of questions that you know the answer for and an impersonator would struggle with. Not condoning they behavior, just pointing out.
Just to correct you: the probability is _much_ bigger than (N-1)/2^32.

See the birthday problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
I believe it's a consumer to business relationship overall. What would make a difference is if there was a contract that protected consumers against loss of service. If this was approached as a default behaviour, it would single out the odd, shrewd business that flips the switch and turns off the lights.

That brings me to a topic of balancing consumer and business rights for the sake of continuity and data protection. What if this was a movement on a wider scale ? How would that affect risk taking on the business side, and liability to provide or hand over the service at the end of their turn ?
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Is there any way to produce a tablet of comparable spec to iPad for less money? My understanding was that Apple owns enough of the require infrastructure and produces at large enough scale that they Apple are effectively impossible to undercut. Unless the Android tablet is sold for a loss of course.
Old news, been doing this for years. (I hadn't heard of bitbucket back then.)

Also, my use case is extremely simple. I'm just sharing my own personal projects between my desktop and my laptop. I only ever use one of the two at a time, and am not using any tool that automatically checks or updates git repos.
Its a shame that he doesn't think Los Angeles is good for the startups..really stupid move.
For music, I love what BandCamp is doing along these lines. High quality, low price, easy access.
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I have a hard time believing that after putting in all the effort of creating the video and getting it out there that this guy would do something like this but truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Tumblr posts don't care about the last URL portion, it's there only for presentation.

blog.com/post/[id]/[title]

where [title] is completely ignored and can be anything. For example: http://kurtvarner.com/post/19347794553/random-title-no-relev... will link to the post. The original title his post had was "A Man, a Car and His Startup" which became "a-man-a-car-and-his-startup" but the URL was changed to "man-car-startup" so now when submitted it's a "different" URL but Tumblr treats them as the same.
I love audacity, it started me and my bro off on our music recording road. My bro recently produced his album with it!
"Shaky Horse"
http://declandoherty.bandcamp.com/
Yeah, it's funny to hear people trashing Android tablets when I'm sitting with a Transformer Prime right now. It works great, and does everything I could ask for from a tablet.
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At what point does it become illegal though. Surely if Goldman can trade then there must be some aggregation that they are allowed to trade at. "Debt consolidation" search trends for example. If it spikes in a certain country then they would be able to make decisions on that.

Seems like so much untapped potential.
Nice work. Think it would be fun to have just one image..and the player gets quick feedback on whether their guess is correct or not. Then, quickly goes to the next pic. Just a thought.
Source on this? Sorry, but recent events have encouraged me to be more stringent about fact-checking.
It is not _supposed_ to be leftist, but that's sure the way they lean.

I hear this asked, once in a while, on WPR, when the station manager is on a call-in show in the morning: why do you guys program to the left. And the answer is (I'm paraphrasing) That's who our audience is, so that's what we program for.

Heck, last week he as much admitted as such when he noted that they focused more on politics since the election of Scott Walker (R) as governor, and they will focus less when he's out of office: that's what our audience expects.

Which is understandable: if they had a Rush Limbaugh kind of guy on they'd loose audience and see donations drop. Be nice if they just admitted it.
The costs of short-term housing catches up quickly to the costs of an apartment. I did this for a couple months and I ended up paying the same monthly amount as my 1br apartment in the peninsula but I only had a room half of the month.
The pros to not incorporating are to save money and hassle. Especially if you're bootstrapping an idea you're not sure of and you don't have a lot of cash.

If you have no income or don't expect to have income for a while and your liability chances are low then its worth considering not incorporating. You can always use your first bit of income to incorporate 6 months down the road.

I think people underestimate the amount of money needed to incorporate properly. Yeah, you can do it for $500, even less in some states, you just need to file a form. But what your LCC or corp agreement says actually does matter and it pays to do it right if you're going to do it at all.
Something I've pondered about doing is eventually buying and living out of a motor home. No property taxes, easy (in some areas) to park, and you can pickup and drive away from impending natural disasters (e.g. hurricane). Park near a library or Starbucks to borrow WiFi, or get a cell-phone plan.

Downsides include cost of fuel with low fuel economy, difficulty manuvering and finding parking in dense locations, and potential cost of RV hookups. Plus an RV is a vehicle which comes with its own maintenance issues, and I'd imagine insurance is likely high relative to a car. They are expensive, $200,000+ for something that's large enough to comfortably live in.

Does anyone have experience doing this, or know someone who has? Upsides? Downsides?
May be perfect for the Irish. It's no easier to get a work visa there vs the USA.
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Imagine getting in on the ground floor when they started the first universities in western history -- Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, Heidelburg, La Sapienza, Jagiellonian, Salamanca... we could be those guys!
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I thought I alluded to what they can think of quite clearly by stating some studies suggest 40-50% of women in the porn industry do or have worked as prostitutes or escorts.

I wouldn't even be surprised if the porn industry helped line him up just so they could knock the entire republican party out of the election in one messy sex scandal.

Honestly if I had at stake what the porn industry does. I'd be thinking "regardless of if Obama wins this one or not, next election there's a huge chance it's going to be republican so lets end Santorum once and for all".

No one, no matter how ardent a republican is going to vote for a 'happily married father of 8' if he's caught sleeping with an 18 year old porn star.
"I'm not going to say that I didn't take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard [...] My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism, and it's not journalism. It's theater."

What kind of explanation is that? Public accusations should be supported by things like evidence and facts, “journalism” or not.
note: it's a fabrication.

in the words of Mike Daisey:
"I used a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell a story"
Presumably one of the mods changed it
So he's taking on two huge challenges at once. I mean, I hope it works out, but I seriously doubt it.
I agree. Probably in the future we'll start more and more to have specific search engines for different things.

I think that will be somewhat wiki, somewhat social, and somewhat search engine will eventually take off.

But not necessarily in a unique aggregator. I don't go to any scientist to ask a question about science. I go to the ones who are proficient at what I'm asking.

Same with search, I'm sure in the future it'll become more and more common to have completely different search engines based on what I'm trying to find. They are already out there, maybe just a few steps away since their inception, or maybe already around for a while, it's just that not too many people are using them. When it'll become unbearable to use google for everything people will switch.

Look at Youtube, lately there is so much advertisement that I can't believe they aren't afraid of losing users massively. I almost don't want to go on it anymore for how much time I usually have to waste.

And yes, I understand google is a free service paid by the ads. But I don't care. I'm ok with the ads on a side, on top, at the bottom. But I'm not ok with wasting time waiting for an ad to play.
Funny you say that because my friend has done just that. He's been travelling for ~3 years around Europe in a motorhome while working on his startup. You can check out his travel blog here http://technomadics.net/. He makes iPhone/iPad apps which you can see here http://atastypixel.com/.
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Wow. Thanks for letting me know they are based in Sebastopol. I live 15 minutes from the office. Might try and check it out.
It doesn't matter the distance. The fact is that LA is cannot compare to the Silicon Valley. See PG's posts on the topic http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html and http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html
Drugged perhaps?
The chance to make a meaningful impact in people's lives.

Sal Khan and Sebastian Thrun both commented on the letters I support they received. Many people were deeply appreciative - and they were often outside of the typical university demographic. Single mothers, the unemployed, people switching careers, third world students, those who never got the material using traditional methods all
told them how their efforts changed their lives.

These teachers are already materially successful. Their work was intellectually stimulating. But this type of feedback was something new for them. They could help thousands of people. It's very hard to ignore that possibility, and go back to your day job.

I have no doubt that Agarwal has already had similar feedback from MITx. He likely had no choice but to fully commit to it.

PG recently commented that moving YC to silicon valley was both the ambitious choice and the self indulgent choice. That's an irresistible combination, and these professors are in the same situation. They can be push their field forward with the knowledge that their are deeply impacting the lives of thousands of fellow human beings.
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Brilliant. I like what they do with the digital versions of the their DRM free books as well. I currently have atleast 9 books from them and you can download .epub/.mobi/.pdf all drm free! Love them.

And of course , big thanks for docbook!
If only there was some sort of professional social networking site where you could search for people by company who were connected to you by only one or two degrees of separation. Then you could use it to find someone suitable to talk to.
From http://amlbook.com, which is hidden within the page http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600490069, the book will become available on Mar26 on amazon for $28, not $828.
The "tablet of the highest quality" has been around for a while, when the quoted price was still $250. So it's possible that this status has recently been superseded by the new target price (and thus downgraded processor).
While I won't argue with the fact that you should donate, I never felt any pressure to donate while I was taking classes there. I didn't even know there was a donation bin on-site until you mentioned it. To me, that was the cool thing about the place and made me want to donate more.

I admittedly haven't been there in about 9 months though and I never noticed a homeless problem while I was there. Everyone seemed to be a contributor. Have things changed?
Am I missing something? What's the news here? Ehcache has been around for a while.
Personally I'd like to see a more developer oriented tablet approach from google, something like what happened with G+ on the social network scene. Take a little more risk for the hardcore users, because if you're targeting the casual user you already lost to the Ipad.
I would like to know why Google had to open a datacenter in that specific region. It gets incredibly hot and humid.
It sounds like the OP is more of a "white label" provider than someone selling his own app. He wants other companies to use his app software to create their own apps and sell them.
Except...

You may not be able to undercut apple on cost, but Apple products carry ridiculously high profit margins. You don't have to sell at a loss to beat Apple's retail prices, you just need to sell at a lower profit margin.
>The iPad utterly dominates the tablet landspace

The reason for this is, I think, kind of obvious: everyone needs a phone. Most people buying new phones opt for smartphones, and the cheapest smartphones are droids. They serve the market.

Tablets, however, are a luxury item. They're not a necessity like a phone, nor are they a productivity item in the same way a laptop is. The people who buy them are buying them as luxury/status items, and that means Apple. Just as those who buy phones for status buy iphones, so too do those who buy tablets buy ipads.

The only people who buy luxury phones and tablets, but opt for android, tend to be the technorati which is a much smaller market than Apple appeals to.
Why? This should be ideal for them. Gym memberships are all about over-selling access to assets. If you're not going to use the machines but they collect the same monthly fees, they should be excited.
I don’t think it’s naive. Many people are getting fed up with the substandard crap that mostly comes from the studios anymore and are demanding something better. Hollywood does not have a monopoly on talent. Spend a little time on Vimeo and you can see that there are some terrific filmmakers and storytellers out there.
Thanks for the Advice. However, I'm going to disagree about your point on productivity. I'll be spending all my waking hours in coworking locations, and the only time spent in my car will be for sleep. Finding showers are the only thing that may become a distraction. If that proves to be the case, I will get a gym membership.
So you have to go to Sillicon Valley to build an alarm app? I really don't get it. Are there no computers where you live? Or no internet? I really feel like missing something big here.
You don't have to "make" it for less than Apple to be competitive, as long as you're willing to live with a smaller margin.
So, if iPad costs Apple $350 to make to sell for $499 at a margin of $149, someone else can make it for $400 and sell it for $499 at a lower margin.
Of course you have to take retailer's margin and other things into account but my argument stands.
Nice songs, I would love to see them a bit more produced though. The guitars are beatifully recorded but the voice is somewhat more irregular. Keep the good job!
Clojure/core has been accepted for the first time. If you're a student and you're excited about compilers, debuggers, logic programming, web development, app-engine, android, audio, javascript, and more - consider submitting a proposal idea or getting behind an existing one!

http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Google+Summer+of+Co...
This sounds like a dream for a hacker, but a single hacker. I am recently married, and it has been discussed to move up to San Fransisco, but we ended up realizing it wasn't the right time to move yet.

To leave your wife for a few months and live out of your car is not an admirable move. My thought is, once you get married then your spouse is your priority, everything else excluding family is second.

San Francisco might be start-up paradise, but by scanning through Craigslist, you will see tons of startups in the Los Angeles. I don't know if Kurt will see these comments, but I highly suggest he rethink this. By moving to San Francisco, he is leaving his biggest supporter: his wife.
I respect the grind and the willingness to sacrifice comfort to try your hand at this startup game. Good luck to this guy.
It sure has been a long time, hasn't it? Audacity 2.0 has been in development since 2005 (in form of the "unstable" 1.3.x series)!

haberman and I first met when I started contributing to Audacity more than a decade ago. Later he helped me apply for a job at Amazon.com and we became teammates. Since then we've drifted away from Audacity development, both left Amazon to work in startups, and haberman is now at Google while I ended up at Mozilla, but we are still good friends and keep in touch -- and also debate technical minutia on HN. :)

Audacity has always been short on developers for a project with such a large userbase, so development has often been slow. But the contributor community was one of the friendliest I've been involved in, thanks in large part to the great stewardship of Audacity's creator Dominic Mazzoni. If you use Audacity, please consider checking out the code and fixing a bug or two!
CATB isn't about Freedom, it's about the business model of Open Source
If you have the money, you might as well buy a company that already has product and data. Time is money. As far as only date-based info, this is data that they can't automatically get from within their system (aka matching purchases with specific credit cards).
I would go straight to the newspaper companies. Especially the small ones. In fact anyone in the publishing business will want your app. Consider magazines and blogs that are really magazines (an example would be Smashing Magazine)

Put together an email pitch and start sending out three emails per day. I would perfect your price pitch and nail down exactly what your pricing is, it will be important to the small publishers. Pitch them on how easy it will be to have their own app.

I would also immediately get an English translation of your page up. The market opportunities there are huge and people want to see what they're buying described in their native language.
Wrong. Mike Daisey presented his lies AS FACTS to reputable news organizations.

Here’s a transcript of his appearance on the Ed Schultz show on MSNBC:

SCHULTZ: OK. What did you see?

DAISEY: I saw all the things that everyone has been reporting on. I saw under-age workers. I talked to workers who were 13, 14, 15 years old. I met people whose hands have been destroyed from doing the same motion again and again on the line, carpal tunnel on a scale we can hardly imagine.

SCHULTZ: Making Apple products?

DAISEY: Yes. And making products across the electronics industry. All our electronics are made in this fashion.