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It's a funny, well-executed idea, but issuing official-looking city documents with "City of Mountain View" as the header and all of your identifying information is a great way to get written up by the police department.
Because the buzzfeed article was instantly dead after it was submitted (multiple people tried).
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Oh man, this is either going end very well or very badly - there is no middle ground.
"They had a preconceived notion of what StackOverflow Is and they are going to stick to it, users be damned."

Which is why the site is hugely successful. If you want discussion then do it here or on Reddit. I don't want the questions I ask about why something doesn't work in jQuery or C# or C++ or whatever drowned out by Ruby Vs Python posts or stuff like the question cletus mentioned above, or "what have I got in my pocket" mysteries.

The brilliance of Stack Overflow is how quickly one can get answers to "specific programming problems" because everyone on the site is focused on answering these types of questions, not participating in discussion and navel gazing.
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Interesting idea, and I hope it works out for you!

Sadly, it's almost certainly against municipal code.

All it takes is one jerk to make a smart street team effort go bad by complaining to the police or mayor.
Full list here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29465655158/yc-s12-c...
This is always relevant! I can't count the number of times I have shown this url to people discussing QR codes. And I am still waiting for the shiny day I find some creature "in the wild" conducting a QR code scan.
Downside of all practicing together for the past 5 days straight at YC HQ? Yup. But I love the pitches, I feel like they got so much better from rehearsal to now
Oh no... noooo... don't let that be true. Now I have nightmares.
Vim allows us to use arrows so using the arrows is "right".
I work at Kaggle.

In many cases where simple models win, there's some insight into the data that the winner found - engineered a new feature, or noticed a pattern and appropriately tuned a particular method. Where those insights exist, they often overshadow any gains by super-sophisticated ML techniques.
Call me old-fashioned, but if you're not making new technology, you're not a start-up, you're a small business. Making a small business is cool, and if your small business happens to be a website, that's cool too.

But if all you want is to make a successful small business, and you don't care about technology, you're not really part of my community, and I don't really want you there. I want my community to be people who care about technology first, and business second. People who care only about business and don't care about technology tend to be the kind of people who ruin the companies and the communities I like, where people care about technology first, even if those companies became valuable because they were full of people who cared about technology first.
I would seriously caution people against making it a close copy (particularly of money) of an official document. Depending on the situation, there are state and federal statues backing up the local ones.

// sorry to be a killjoy
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I just want to say something:

NOBODY CARES ABOUT QR CODES

Yeah, I can go to tripl.com or whatever, also add your twitter/fb/G+ page otherwise you'll just look like some bozo stuck in Web 1.0 (contact by phone?!)
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The "process flow" of someone scanning a QR code is longer than taking a photo, and the expectation is to reach a website.
> Both say (to me) exactly the same thing at approximately the same level of abstraction

They don't, though: depending on the exact C-style language, you may have leaked a filehandle.
Short URL > QR
Back around 1982, I went to a conference where Fred Gibbons of Software Publishing Corporation stood up and said, "It's too late to start a new software company."

I was shocked, but had to admit he was right. Who could possibly compete with such titans of the industry as Software Publishing, Lotus, and VisiCorp?
hacker news just jumped the shark. peace dudes.
The relentless evolution of the PC was driven largely by PC gaming. In the 90's and early 2000's you could rely on the fact that a PC bought one year would struggle with games made the following year and be incapable of playing at least some games made 2-3 years later. As such, gamers eagerly adopted new hardware, overclocked, overspent by factors of 2 or 3 in the vain hope that it would buy them a few extra months (when in fact it was more sensible to buy a cheaper PC and upgrade more often).

Then a funny thing happened. The video game market outgrew the movie market. It started making financial sense to invest tens of millions in the development of a single game. The cost of the content (i.e. character designs, level designs, script, voice acting, motion capture, etc.) far outstripped the cost of coding the engine. It became a complete no-brainer to port games to as many platforms as possible to maximize your audience. The corollary to this is that it became necessary to design games such that it was possible to port them to as many platforms as possible. That meant that most developers stopped exclusively developing for one platform and instead started designing for them all. While you can always tack on some superficial eye-candy on when the hardware supports it, games could not be designed to have basic gameplay requiring more resources than the slowest platform was capable of. Thus, consoles became an anchor that brought the relentless march of PC game requirements to a screeching halt.

The Xbox360 and PS3, not to mention the Wii, are handily out-performed by today's desktops by a large degree. Mobile phones are poised to pass them within a couple of years! However, the games you can play on a PC are largely identical to the console versions. Sure, there are some improved graphics, additional content, etc., but these differences are superficial. In fact, if your hardware isn't the latest and greatest, most games can simply scale back the eye-candy to maintain performance. Even PC-only developers, such as Blizzard, have recognized that they must build games with conservative minimum requirements in today's market.

The end result is that PC gamers can run new games with only superficial inferiority to what the latest generation of desktop hardware is capable of. They no longer need to upgrade their desktops. At least, they won't until the next generation of consoles arrive. When that happens there will be many new games designed with greatly increased resources in mind and a big wave of desktop upgrades will ensue.

In the end, PC obsolescence isn't really dead. It's just quantized differently.
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It would be very interesting to see how people use the site.
I realize this was in jest, but your algorithm says that the shorter a post, the less likely it is to be closed. A post of zero length has a 0% chance of being closed.

Also, the result is not bound to 0..1
"windowsupgradeoffer.com" frankly sounds like a scamming site. I imagine it isn't, but it's such a MS-ism to not host it on a Microsoft subdomain.
I like it. I really love the minimalist styling. I think it'd be cool to add keyboard navigation so that you can select items and complete them. (Arrow up/down to select item, shift+alt+d{space, enter...} to mark as done?)
I get that there's an idea around doing this all in text. Many developers do that by default. I think that one of the reasons they do it is because they have a text editor that they already love, that works offline, and has a lot of features already.

But here, you've created a new todo editor. Granted, it's pretty fast, but I'm not sure that it competes with sublime text, vim or whatever else people are currently using.

I'd be curious to understand what motivated this app, and what you think it adds over either text files in a text editor, or the existing ecosystem of todo managers.
This is the next Obama-Os. It might be unappreciated by some, but you definitely just got looked at by some investors.
Do you not have a smartphone? They're a very common way to install apps. Heck, I sometimes scan QR codes right off my monitor.
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The definition of startup that I like is Steve Blank's, a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. By that definition, his website was not a startup. It was a lifestyle business.

Note that this definition does not describe startups as inherently good thing. Just inherently different than other types of businesses in many key ways.
Are windshield flyers now called "fake parking tickets" in order to sound less like spam?
said no one... ever.
[Update] Ha! Apparently it's tripl.com and not tript.com.

If you checkout his site at tript.com it's either poorly designed or people are already spamming his site under the 'Latest Travel Advice' section.
Went to the website. It looks pretty enough but maybe you should show screenshots of what it actually does, since it's completely ambiguous unless you click on the tiny "Learn More" button at the top.
Totally strange. I did most of the negotiation with Dan, our CTO, though Kyle (my fiance) is the person who gave everyone the first verbal offers. I just updated the blog post to make that more clear.

I think in the end being friends made the negotiation much easier. I am confident we all wanted what was fair for the business and each individual, and were able to talk at length about that until everyone felt comfortable.
Would it be too obvious to point out that what you quoted doesn't even mention anything about weight?

Also, here's another direct quote for you:

"Incorporating a removable LCD into the MacBook Pro with Retina display would increase the thickness by less than a millimeter, while still preserving the awesome Retina resolution."

Source: http://ifixit.org/2787/mid-2012-macbook-pro-teardown/

Unless you're going to argue that less than a millimetre is enough to swing a purchase regardless of display resolution, in which case a lot of MBP Retina owners are presumably on their way back to the Apple Store to swap for a MacBook Air, it looks like iFixit does support my claim after all.
> Food onsite is a special case. It's tax-advantaged for the employer (if offering meals onsite is "for the convenience of the employer, and for a business purpose"),

Interesting, I read somewhere that Google pays taxes on their free food. How do they argue the free food is for their convenience when their employees can just go out and purchase food and eat at their desk? Especially non-essential foods like snacks, smoothies, etc? Either way, I still think people overvalue free food.

>Similarly, I'd value a 30" monitor at about $1k/yr salary.

Why? Buy a 30 inch monitor for 1200 dollars with your own money, write it off on your taxes, and you've spent less than 1000 dollars of income on a one-time payment. And now you own a 30 inch monitor!
As long as you promise to have the glacier update be a free one, I am buying an Arq license this evening the moment you tell me it will be so! :)
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"You have illegally been subjected to make..."

"Try the new app right now, its beautiful:"

As clever as it is, it would have been far more effective if you had checked your grammar before printing two hundred flyers.
My issue has always been one of muscle memory.

The hjkl keys are fine to use when in Vim, but the majority of other products (browsers, word processors, spreadsheets, etc) don't support them for movement. So I have a constant context-switch in my muscle memory when moving between these different applications.

On a Mac keyboard, I find arrow-key navigation with my pinky finger very efficient… only requiring the rest of my fingers to move from the home row when pressing right.

I'm not sure this would work for everyone… but for me, one set of muscle memory is superior to convincing my nervous system to context-switch.
One data point: a nutritionist at a gym I was using asked me to start using myfitnesspal as a food diary he could monitor. Maybe it's more about their trade press than our own?
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The whole post/situation was fucking bizarre.
How is someone being a 'jerk' for reporting someone for littering and impersonating the police?
One of Tripl founder posted the news and it is discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4414764 for more info
Yup, I came here to note the "its" problem. I won't try the app or look any further, because anybody who can't be bothered to use proper grammar on a publicity stunt sure as hell isn't going to release a quality product.
That's a rather complex thing to do. It's not just the "expired link" thing. Items move up and down and in 15 minutes their order will be different from what it is now.
First of all, congrats on building and releasing something!

Now a few pointers.

The workflow isn't flowing. I know the whole idea revolves around managing tasks as text, but unless you fit vim into a text area the app won't fly.

Another idea would be to ditch the concept entirely and add edit in place. Your app would work similarly to omny outline. Two direct results of this approach would be a better workflow and more users due to easy of use.

This last pointer is more of personal taste. Rarely brown goes well with technology (remember the brow Zune?). I'd use one of the Solarized color schemes, dark would be my choice.

Other than that, keep it up coding and shipping! :)
No, this is the next Obama-O's http://hungerboard.com/
How close does that actually look to a real parking ticket? It doesn't even say the word "parking" on it or mention a fine $ amount.

This is just innovative guerrilla marketing.
There are a thousand ways to improve a MacBook Pro (or any other computer) that would increase the thickness by only a millimeter. Any individual one would be of essentially no consequence, but if you did them all, you'd end up with a machine a meter thick.
It's tripl.com, not tript.com

Huge difference in UI!
People (both on HN and potentially IRL) or going to get a little frustrated with you for doing something like this. It's a little self-confident (maybe even pushy), will be very controversial, and walks the thin line between awesome and illegal.

Which is exactly why I love it.

Heck, let people call the police, go to jail for a couple of days or pay a fine, make a big ruckus about it, and make sure your company gets mentioned in all sorts of PR. Well done all the way around.
I think the word you're looking for is "statutes".
Really? I found it quite interesting. Note that I have not verified any of the claims made. However, if a 15 year old really did develop an improved pancreatic & breast cancer test with little more than interest, google and a basic knowledge of high school bio it's certainly newsworthy.
Personally, I would be rather peeved to be advertised to in this way. I wouldn't find it clever or cute--I would just find it annoying. I would not end up with a good impression of the company, and I wouldn't want to do business with it.

One reason why I don't find it particularly clever, is that it's really not all that different from all the physical junk mail I receive that tries to visually mimic some sort of important government notice.
Oh, and I see that checking something as done prepends that line with "X ". So if I start a line that way it begins as done. Admittedly I was intentionally trying to cause this to happen, but maybe it'd be possible to flag the lines in some other way than with the "X "?
You are probably correct, I should have phrased that better. I do believe that in some cases you do get the full license but from the big names like Dell or Gateway you're probably getting the OEM version.
Would love to know where you're getting that $0.60 number (I assume you meant 60 cents and not 0.60 cents). Even with the first-year free tier, it costs $7.00/mo ($6.00/mo on RRS) to store 60 GB of data on S3.
I don't know that 'impersonating' would really be a good description here. The rest of the 'ticket' makes things pretty clear that it is not an official communique of the city's.
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Why? Reddit was yc-funded. http://alexisohanian.com/our-y-combinator-summer-05-applicat...

Given reddit's success, YC certainly has historical data to know that this type of business can be successful.
What if the website's hosted on Geocities?
All new businesses are startups, whether they use technology or not. They may not be technology startups, but they are still startups.

Indeed, legally, the first year of any business is considered its "startup" year (and possibly longer, in specific situations), and during this time the "startup" is eligible for tax breaks or exemptions under state and federal tax codes. This use of "startup" precedes Silicon Valley.
> My only problem with Clojure is the terrible JVM start up time.

Can't find it anymore, sadly, but I remember a guy had done some profiling (on leiningen maybe?) and it turns out more than 90% of the startup time was loading core.clj, not the JVM startup when only took a small fraction of the total.

(now part of clojure.core being so slow goes back to the JVM: a lot of resources are expended JITing stuff which — for leiningen — will just be thrown out. Hence the quite frequent recommendation to run the JVM in -client mode if possible. The -server VM also allocates way more memory on startup)
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I've been in continuous ownership of at least one smartphone since the iPhone 1. I have yet to scan a QR code "in the wild" (i.e., while not testing software that's QR-code related).

I'm willing to bet I can tap the install button for a given app faster than you can scan the equivalent QR code and hit install. The challenge is for iOS.

The workflow for scanning and actioning on a QR code is tediously slow. Unlock your phone. Page over a few times (because let's be honest, QR code scanner is not getting front-page placement on my home screen), open the app. Wait for it to initialize. Hold over QR code. Nope, closer/further. Ah there we go. Bam. Now tap on something to visit site. Wait for site to load. Oh wait, it's a redirect to the App Store. Wait for App Store to load...

Sweet God.

A sufficiently short and easy to spell URL can be entered much, much, much faster than all of the above. If it's app-related, a sufficiently short and easy to spell app name will convert me faster than a QR code any day of the week.
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Did the team contemplate in making this offer that if something went sour in that relationship, you'd end up with a CEO who has both personal drama and potentially a very difficult situation in the office, given that she'd be reporting to him? How did your corporate counsel feel about this? Your board?

If she's not reporting to the CEO, how does her new manager feel about having a team member who's his bosses' fiancee? Would he be comfortable firing her if she fails to perform?

I know this seems hypothetical, but I think anyone who's been around startup has seen some variant of this play out multiple times. It's bad enough when it's friends; it's even more treacherous when it's a fiancee/wife.
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I feel like people put more weight on advice with personal experience behind it. That weight is understandably lowered when the circumstances turn out to be unique and odd and not really generally applicable.

I mean, would you take advice about how to move up in a company the same from the son of the founder?
wow this promotional idea combines all the fun of physical spam with the temporary terror of possibly going to jail. I understand their next promotion will involve donning ski masks and breaking in to your apartment while you shower. good work.
The post explicitly says that this has nothing to do with EA, and if they weren't backed by EA the cuts would likely have been worse.
Ask HN: What happened to my flag option?
Notice this a week or two ago, but my flag link on posts is gone. Has this been removed globally, or have I hit some karma/avg ratio that removed it?

Here's my current numbers:

karma:	6396
avg:	5.44
I think it works because the joke is clear by the second line. Any further and I bet people would be pretty pissed.

I had a friend do something similar to another friend just as a prank. Everything about the "ticket" looked official except for small print at the very bottom, which gave it away. They actually bought a disposable camera, took photos of the parked car (it wasn't illegally parked), and went to develop the photos before the joke was revealed.
We've found a user!

cheald - please prove it by documenting yourself using a QR code and submit to http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/

Next up Sasquatch!
I suspect we would disagree on whether any savings are substantial, and as such whether they could justify the obvious and severe reduction in ability to upgrade or repair these devices.

Personally, I don't buy the idea that a customer goes into a store and measures whether an iPad or a Galaxy Tab is a few tenths of a millimetre thicker before making their purchasing decision. On the other hand, I do buy the idea that a lot of people are shocked and then angry after their Apple gear gets damaged and they learn how much it's going to cost to repair and how long it's going to take, not least because I personally know several people who have been stung in that way. Of course, by the time they discovered that downside to the all-in-one designs, Apple already had their money.
http://boxngo.tumblr.com/post/29561118300/5-things-startups-... Covering the same thing
I think Apple is a classic example of tech marketing done extremely well. The engineers and designers build some truly outstanding products, but the marketers figure out how to sell those products to customers in equally impressive ways. There is real (and undervalued) skill in taking the set of all features a product has, and winnowing that set down to the perfectly curated and articulated list of benefits. And vice versa: there's real skill involved in figuring out the unarticulated needs of the marketplace ("the problems people don't even know they have").
Startups existed before the Valley. They will exist after the Valley. Technology has played a role in some startups, and no role in others.

A 100k company aiming to be a 200m company is not a startup, it is an established business hoping to expand...just like every other business.
What happened to Latitude?
...brilliant. I love the hack.

Do you mind if we use this advice in future blog posts/tweets?
Just so that there is no misinterpretation, I have nothing to do with the team that builded this webapp, I don't know them. I just thought it worked well and could be helpful for a lot of hackers here.
That is not a just correlation. Someone who is creative enough to come up with something like this, probably has a creative app as well. It is nearly impossible to put out a product without any minor mistakes.
I still have mine. shrug
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There is a 0% chance of replacing moderators with bots.

I don't even know how you could read that blog post and come to that conclusion...
Ask HN: What git based wikis are out there?
I'm searching for a git based wiki that is a little bit more stylable than gollum (which looks pretty descend already). Any pointers?
I modeled the cap table and various financial outcomes to figure out what 1.25% might be worth. In fact, we reviewed those numbers as a team (this was in my post).

The founders also set expectations that we'd adjust salaries to market value in the event of a Series A, though that isn't something I relied on as a part of my decision.