skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The psychology of a car spam victim (flyer for a local garage band's performance, real parking ticket) is pretty funny to observe. When they pull it off their windshield, some will put it in their vehicle (to throw away later), some will toss it onto the ground (even if seem like they'd never litter any other time), and some will double-put it onto the adjacent vehicle (yes, even with real parking tickets).

I think you just left 118 pieces of litter (blowing off the parking lot into adjacent properties) at YC Demo Day. Hopefully you'll perform some sort of "green litter offset" trash pickup to mitigate the environmental impact. Perhaps that may be assigned to you if you're unlucky.

Still, some people actually do pay money for the fake v!@gra to keep spammers in business. The difference here is the other 99.99% of spam victims can't physically locate the spammer to clobber or harangue them.

A 6-months-later update to recount the results of this experiment would be a real service to entrepreneurs as either an inspirational or cautionary tale.
I map left/right to next/previous tab, and up/down to next/previous buffer, since if I switch files my hand is often coming from the mouse and the arrows are along the way.
From my funny looking vimrc: navigating between splits with Alt+HJKL

nnoremap ¬ <C-w>l
nnoremap ˙ <C-w>h
nnoremap ˚ <C-w>k
nnoremap ∆ <C-w>j

(Mac :P)
You'll love this site: http://qrafti.com/
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dhcp exploits, too, both against clients and any existing server.
Full roster of YC S12 batch here as well: http://refer.ly/aYtt

(quick fix: Authy was YC W12)
not at all. Last time I checked, hacks weren't patented :)
Impurities in the crystal. That is to say, some of the molecules aren't carbon, they're the relatively similarly sized boron molecule.
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Attention to detail matters, especially when it comes to being trusted to run a business with someone else's money.

Regardless - I'd be quietly reprinting and replacing.
+1. Coincidentally, like the name of my book, launched today: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29902847924/ice-crea...
Foxconn makes 284 changes after Fair Labor Association audit
It's littering.
I've always wondered if there is a law you could invoke against someone messing with your vehicle like this.

Is it legal for a random person (not law/parking enforcement) to pick up the wiper and but whatever garbage they want under there?

Can I put my used McDonald's bag under someones wiper?
There are plenty of effective scanner apps are out there. The one I use snaps the image almost instantly and away you go. It's not something that I use much, but it works when I need it.
And yes - why not have a visible url as well.
Good luck with that. Even your current human moderators can be extremely frustrating to deal with. Can't wait until they have the force of an algorithm behind them.
It's a novel idea that can sometimes have a great effect. This sort of marketing trick has been used too many times to count. I remember a few years ago there being an ideas festival in my city and someone came up with the idea of using fake looking city issued traffic infringements like yourself that resembled authentic tickets pretty closely that said something like, "A $250 fine for not doing what do you want in life" or something along those lines.

What happened next however is the organisers behind the campaign were slapped with a littering charge, warned that it's actually highly illegal to impersonate a traffic fine even if you put a disclaimer on the fake infringement ticket. I don't recall what else they were fined for besides the littering charge, but I am pretty sure it cost them a small fortune combined with the other charges.

Be careful, this kind of gimmick could cost you dearly. City councils love a good opportunity to extort money out of people.
Imagine you're an investor, and you drive to "YC demo day", and listen to 30 pitches of small startup companies, go out to your car, and see a flyer in your windshield pitching another startup company...

Are you really going to be pissed at that, or is that just one more pitch (that some on here think shows hustle)? Doubtful investors are going to be pissed at this, and ... so what if they are. A couple of hundred people just visited their web site, most of them with money to invest...

Like handing your CV outside a job fair instead of paying to go in. Those people are there for this very reason and won't be too upset by it. pg and team might be pissed however...
My reason is that I send mail from lots of different places like my iPhone, Apple Mail on the desktop, Thunderbird on a Windows box, and the GMail web client.

So synchronizing all of those with the right keys and signing software would be either a pain or impossible (i.e. iPhone and GMail on the web).

And on top of it, I doubt more than 1% of the people I email would even know what the signatures were, or would know something was up if an unsigned message came through. Or would even bother to verify the signatures even if they did know what it was.

Everyone you're mailing also has to have software installed to do the verification. I've gotten signed emails before, and do I check to see if it's legit? No. What would it even matter? Most of what I send over email isn't anything security-worthy anyways.
I authored the post and you're absolutely right. It was a lazy approximation. My healthcare in the startup isn't quite as good now, but I'm also very fortunate in that I don't have any healthcare-related expenses.

Thank you for bringing it up here, it could be a significant differentiator for some folks.
Why? Both Google and Apple let you push apps to your phone from their respective application stores.
People Who Feel Guilty Are Leaders
This would be pretty brilliant, if it didn't amount to characterizing the people you're trying to reach as stupid and/or bamboozled into wasting their time.
Venture-Backed Instructure CEO Apologizes for Major Outtage
Next, tune-in for the "PopCap massive dick move" TechCrunch coverage of the event at 10.
Yes I do have a smartphone

No I will not install an app to install another app

Also, a QR code is opaque. What it will do? Open a page? Install what app? Compromise my cell phone with premium dialing sw?
That's pretty harsh. I understand that it's silly to not proofread very carefully when doing a stunt like this, but language mistakes aren't a sign of incompetence.
I'd like to clarify a bit here. Inside Keen (I'm the CEO), our name for this (what Michelle's spreadsheet terms "rent subsidy") is the "proximate living bonus". To qualify, you have to be within a short commute of the office.

Our reasoning:

All else being equal, people often choose a longer daily commute, usually to save money. But, as research* has shown time and time again, once basic needs are met by compensation, the factor which correlates most strongly and consistently with unhappiness is commute time.

What we're attempting to do with the proximate living bonus, then, is to incentivize happiness: We're intentionally designing our bonus structure to incentivize the better decision, which employees might otherwise neglect for a number of (irrational) reasons.

*Here's a good intro into the research on this topic: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirsten-dirksen/happiness-rese...
So many grammar errors...
I find QR codes useful for getting private keys for my server onto my phone, Google two-factor uses them for the same reason. I might be an edge case, but yeah.. :)
One employee at my work (I will not name it) was initially passed over for a job because he called the company by the wrong name in his cover letter. He emailed and asked what he could do better for his next job interview. That email got him the job.

He was fired some time later for messing up too much on the job. [I couldn't imagine that there would be any kind of predictor for that] ... I suppose it just depends on who you ask and when you ask them.
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.

No, you wouldn't.

But even leaving aside the obvious hyperbole of your comment, we're drifting away from the topic at hand. My argument is simply that proprietary-everything, all-in-one designs are a significant loss for the consumer and a huge win for the manufacturer, because they very effectively kill both the upgrade and repair industries, making the default response to buy more new equipment instead.

Given the disproportionately high rate of damage to mobile devices, and the relatively low starting specs, and the fact that most laptops (including Apple ones) have not had such severely restricted maintainability until very recently, this all seems like a huge step in the wrong direction, from the customer's point of view.

If it were only the screen on the Retina MBP, I could just about believe the theory that it was done to keep the size down, but it's obviously not only that screen. If you look at the direction of basically all Apple equipment in recent years, not just phones or even laptops, everything has been moving towards using unusual/proprietary connections and fixed-at-birth specifications for a while, and there are far too many cases where there was no apparent benefit of any kind for me to accept that it's all being done because it's what the customer wants. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me dozens of times over a period of years, find me a good shrink.
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They haven't changed for the most productive people. They have certainly been reduced for unskilled labor.
To me, this would work beautifully if the startup were actually involved in solving traffic or transportation problems. Ridejoy, for instance. If Ridejoy had pulled this stunt, it would have been very cute.

That said, I'll give the man his props. This is ingenuity. Perhaps it's misdirected, to an extent. Perhaps it'll backfire. But it's something different. It is clever, regardless of whether we find it enjoyable or annoying.

EDIT: Minor nitpick, but I wouldn't have made so many grammatical errors in the fake ticket. They're pretty glaring. Especially for a first impression.
Because as humans we don't make mistakes, right? You probably mean well, but this is the kind of attitude that people are complaining about in the HN community right now. People being cynical and instead of giving positive criticism people (like yourself) are picking on a lot of peoples grammar. I understand grammar is important, but working in an industry that heavily relies on print I see far worse mistakes than this on a daily basis by big large corporate printing companies all of the time. It happens, relax man.

Edit and wow, down-voted for telling someone to ease up on the submitter because there is a grammar mistake in the fake ticket? What the heck is wrong with this place? The community appears to be in a lot worse shape than I thought.
Tell that to Steve Wozniak:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1TIYxm1vM
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Domain Names: What is it? What is custom domain and sub domain?
> to mitigate the environmental impact

Paper's biodegradable. This is just littering.
The idea that it can only make a difference if people measure it is absurd. People buy Apple products because they look nice and work well. Shaving space and weight is part of their design. I know people buy iPads instead of Galaxy Tabs because of the industrial design. I seriously do not believe that the iPad could have such a nice design if it was fully modular. I'm sure you can come up with a bunch of individual components to modularize without substantially impacting the design, but that doesn't do us any good. Unless I misunderstand your complaint, they'd have to modularize many components, and that will definitely impact the design.

In my experience, people are mostly surprised as Apple's good service when they need a repair. It's not like other manufacturers provide cheap repairs, either.
It seems gimmicky, which could work, but then throw in the QR code and incorrect usage of "its" and it just seems unprofessional. If you're investing in the person and not the idea, this seems like a very bad first impression to make.

However, what's there to lose?
Who pays people to "Like" on Facebook?
It gets removed permanently if you use it too often, where 'too often' hasn't scaled to the amount of spam and tasteless pandering HN has today.
The only regular use I ever have for QR codes is loading a long page url I'm looking at on my desktop to my phone. I keep a chrome plugin installed so I can click a button for a QR code. Beyond that, I'm not going to some random link encoded in a QR code.
I think the question is, what does he mean by "silicon valley as we know it"?
If it was really that bad for customers, why do people keep buying the stuff? There's plenty of modular, easily-repaired hardware out there. It doesn't sell nearly as well, though. I think people value the benefits of the non-modular design more than you think.
I would find this pretty annoying personally. Not only that but this is how the pizza joint around the corner advertises(literally). Is that really the feel you want?
Latitude's biggest problem is its battery drain. It's hard to get through a whole day without your phone dying, which is a real dealbreaker for location sharing services. We really bought into the concept of Latitude but found it just didn't work well enough, which is why we ended up building Glassmap in the first place.

Glassmap also takes a bit of a different approach and focuses more on encouraging social interactions. We let you import friends from any/all your social networks - really helpful for those of us who don't want to bother rebuilding yet another social graph - and also have a lot more social features (pictures/filters/commenting/messaging) as opposed to the straight utility approach that Latitude takes.
I checked out the new page with the extra information, and a new question formed: why so many brands for the shirts? Typically I'm used to seeing a shirt shop just say "we print on American Apparel".
Attention please! There was a bug:D. Magenta was inverted with cyan. It's corrected now. Sorry for any problems.
This: Your goal is to build a classifier that predicts whether or not a question will be closed given the question as submitted.
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I'm not completely familiar with Hacker New's rules, but I'm a little concerned about being considered spam if I post again. Do you think it'd be ok to just go ahead and make another post?
Language mistakes are not, but not having your document proofread before you illegally litter it all over a parking lot is.
Just to make sure: you are being sarcastic, right?
All I can imagine is the sinking feeling I get when I see a ticket on my car. I start fuming about the nice meal I might have eaten for that $50. Maybe if I were a VC, I'd be rolling in so much money that I'd never think twice about $50. On the other hand, I really don't have to worry about $50 either, and yet my stomach still sinks.

If I were a VC, my stomach might sink over the time I'd have to waste writing the check for the ticket and remembering where I put the stamps. Then when I noticed that it was just a "cute prank", I would resent whoever it was who was responsible for causing that sinking feeling.

Why would anyone want to associate their company with that?
Woz is just giving people real money in an inventive format at below-face value, because he can.

The money he gives out is legal tender - $2 bills bought in sheets from the mint (they're his "local printer," you see). He just cuts them up and makes various unique forms of moneybook out of them, and he's OK with giving them out at below face value because the ensuing hilarity is worth it to him.

That's very different from making a fake document on official government letterhead or representing itself as a government document.
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I used to feel the same way, then I started using QR codes to pay for things with LevelUp. I still haven't scanned one myself, nor do I have any intention to ever do so, but I have had people scan my QR code. :)
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I prefer to map left and right arrow to navigate :bprev and :bnext. Paired with buftabs, I find it rather handy http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1664
Customer Complaints Plague Square
Grammar mistakes are a sign of laziness, not incompetence. Both should be warning signs.
There already is something like this:

http://www.phptherightway.com
I agree here. I get my meals for free and I still spend almost that much on edibles.
the thing i hate about windshield fliers is that there rarely is a trashcan nearby. Thus, being respectful of the wonderful bay area we live in, i end up folding it up and putting in my backseat or cup holder. It stays there for weeks until i go through the annoying stage of picking up all the miscellaneous stuff laying around in my car.
Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 3
I'll guess this is one of the reasons? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
Who didn't immediately go to tripl.com?
(Full Disclosure: I'm Kyle, the CEO mentioned in the OP)

I actually had this issue bite me in the ass at my first startup, where I was offered a flat # of shares.

I was pretty much fresh out of college, but for the record, I did realize it was important to find out what percentage I was actually getting. When I asked what the total # of shares outstanding was, the company snaked its way out of answering the question directly. The job had a lot of perks (a big title, very respectable pay, work-from-home, greenfield development), so I took the offer rather than press the issue.

Eight months later, we were acquired. I was the only engineer. You could say I was a bit peeved to learn how little of the company I really owned.
I received an email from a company that I did business with that said "urgent: [...]" as the title.

The email was a sale information message.

I complained to them immediately and haven't done any business with them since. Indeed this sort of dishonesty gets me to avoid as much as possible any support for a company. The message was not urgent in the least.

An antisocial attempt to con people in to paying more attention to your company: Hate is a word I seldom use but it seems valid here.

Presumably next up you'll be doing something like standing up in movie theatres shouting "fire!" so that people will exit past your friend holding an advertising board ...
not a big enough problem for most people. signatures should be built-in to email, not a user-facing feature.
Praise from me for the naughty tactic regardless of execution. If you're note sure if you did the right thing then find some consolation in the fourth point on this page:
http://paulgraham.com/founders.html

Let us know how it goes.
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What this article is identifying as a problem is actually not a problem but a chaos. Chaos in the community is not a problem in itself but rather a next stage of dialog. You have to cultivate and live through the chaos in order to get to the next level, which is understanding. By censoring, you are pulling your community into a wrong and aimless direction.

The bells and whistles like flags, up/down votes, are just distraction between the authentic dialog/substantive community and aimless/useless chatter.
Everyone seems to have skipped right over this:

"In a perfect world, we'd be able to offer specific, targetted guidance for authors whose posts were likely to be shot down, before they ever showed up on the site, and without requiring as much up-front effort from our community."

Which is waaaaay before the classification line.
It completely distorts the negotiating position because (assuming no divorce), she's going to benefit from the success either way.
"It happens, relax man."

Fabricode doesn't seem very upset about it? He's just pointing out an error, which could show negatively on the company. I know I would take them less seriously if I saw the mistake. It's healthy advice, double check your grammar before printing flyers, writing a blog post, etc.
I think the key difference is that it's unexpected, given the context. Investors have just finished hearing a bunch of pitches, so they're primed to be receptive to clever "roadblocks" like this one -- whereas people who park next to a pizza joint are going to be annoyed when they find flyers stuck to their windshield wipers.
ItsJackiee
IIRC, the reasons were:

- Depending on how you read it, Last Invention can sound really ominous.

- LI is a bit of a mouthful to say, whereas Vicarious is a single word

- People generally responded better to Vicarious as a name when we asked around

Never heard of The Last One...
I like this idea because it's polarizing. All risky ideas are, and I think you can get at least one person behind you (appreciating that ballsiness), even at the risk of alienating everyone else. If that's all you need, go for it!
Nutritionism doesn't exist. Dietician is the real profession.

Dietician : Nutritionist :: Dentist : Tooth-i-ologist.
It's an imbecile.
I whole-heartedly agree with you, and seriously, it doesn't sound like a rant at all to me. You just spoke out the truth dude =)
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Most startups don't have coverage from TC/VB/etc. Crunchbase listed around 90,000 companies at the moment, probably less than 5,000 of them have had coverage in a startup news source.
Maybe you didn't understand it. With the FC model there's an extra node inserted into the graph. FC has lots of investors, but the companies they invest in only get one more: FC.
Actually, we did that split for the last 5 years (I'm the CEO from the post).

If you're curious about Michelle's reasoning, check out one of her other posts, "Why I Left Consulting and Joined a Startup": http://blog.keen.io/post/26096112831/why-i-left-consulting-a...
Concerns About Mobile Phones: A Cross-National Study
Interesting, I always did jj, but kj or jk feels speedier. Thanks for the tip!
Amicus is pretty cool, I've seen it in action!
Loving the Ubuntu Mono text on the website. (It's my shell and editor font of choice - did a double-take when seeing it on a website!)

I also love the idea of the edit interface just being text, but the "most powerful input method" rings a little hollow when the actual text editor offered is a <textarea>, the least powerful text editor ever. (That said, I was able to use It's All Text[1] to open the contents in vim.)

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
Time to start up Reeferly and do some kind of medical marijuana delivery service.
Neal Stephenson on the State of Science Fiction
Depends on what system you're on really. You should be able to do it in network preferences or you could export it in your local shell.
>By that definition, his website was not a startup. It was a lifestyle business.

Aren't we just quibbling on semantics here? His website was generating revenue from ads by offering specialized content targeted to a very specific demographic. It's repeatable, it's scalable, and it's very similar to what a bunch of other "startups" do (see: Mahalo, Quora, etc.)
If you use Chrome or Firefox, they have browser sync to their mobile apps now. You could also employ Instapaper or ReadItLater/Pocket and just click the bookmarklet.

Scanning a QR code sounds like it may take some time if you're in a rush.