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This one seems to be trying to computerise, in order to be more efficient. It's just that every time they've tried, they've failed.
The title of the article is: Free STARTUP (Business) Ideas. NOT: Free Product Ideas.

This concept still doesn't seem to phase people. You don't need novel ideas to start a business. That's why I am trying to make it clear that it is incorrect to conflate a startup (business) with some sort of invention (like the car or lightbulb). The two are non-equivalent. Although, one can lead to the other.

This reduction of business to: idea + execution is not doing anyone any good.

>seeing if you have a market, working hard, making smart decisions) are collectively what people call execution

This thinking can also be misleading as business ideas can actually be a sub-component of smart decisions.

>ideas are easy and execution is hard

This is also an over-simplification that will do no one any good. And it seems to be pervasive throughout the 'startup community'. Google started on a research paper. Research papers are NOT easy. So, no, ideas are not always easy.

Of course, you might argue that the research paper was part of the 'execution' in which case you would be arguing my previous point: innovation is what has the idea + execution phase. The end result of innovation is usually an invention (whether it be fractional reserve banking or microprocessors).

The research paper was not a business and not part of a business. The invention was eventually used to power a business. The same with the invention of the lightbulb.

Anyways, I just wish people would stop oversimplifying things. It really does no good.
What stands out about this promotion is same-hour delivery. Implementing and scaling even same-day delivery is a serious logistical challenge. It's also quite possibly the future of retail.

I guess my standards for 'hacker'-ish are lower. I see a company potentially making an attempt to push the envelope, and that's enough for me.

edit : I was thinking in terms of general retail and not really food. Fair point : 1-hour food delivery is nothing new.

I do sincerely believe some of the counter points could have been made with less vitriol, but the fact remains that I was wrong.
Thanks for sharing. I saved this link so we will see what happens when they launch.
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No that is actually one of the major claims from opponents of BI and thus controversial. That it removes the incentive for someone to work.

But there is nothing that indicates this at all. In fact the Canadian experiment mincome although not conclusive did not show people in general stopping to work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
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Yeah. If they really wanted to impress me they'd use drones to deliver the bread through the skies.
I've been waiting about 10-15 minutes for a response myself; guess it's not automated?
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The absolute worst thing is "course packs" that some of my classes have. These are PDFs from something like Harvard Business Review that we have to pay for. It's about ~$60 for the digital set, and half the time once I get it I realized I could have found half of the PDFs online for free. Every student has to buy them. In some classes they won't distribute the digital copies so you have to pay even more to go to the insanely corrupt "Campus Copy Center" (private business) and get a printed copy of the same shit everyone else got loosely bound together for $100.

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Russell, why do you say consulting income is a trap? Is it because it doesn't scale?
THe article didn't say much why they failed. There might be some subtle sabotaging going on.
Flash has not been able to decide if it's animation software or a software platform for pretty much the entire time I've used it. When I was doing web animation back in 2000, Macromedia's response to complaints about the editor crashing like crazy when dealing with the ~20M source files involved in making 3-4 minute cartoons was basically "don't use it for that, it's for making little interactive widgets".

Oh yeah, and animating in Flash is often pretty horrible too.
the work start well before college starts. i worked my way through college, and it's just as possible today as it was 15 years ago.

you're an idiot. it's impossible for you not to be an idiot.
If the price keeps going up, there will be a silk road for pirated college textbooks.
Its not mentioned but ucarp is handy for those times when you want to float a vip between two boxes for a bit of redundancy but don't need something super intelligent (like where a bit of flapping is ok).

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This seems to cross the line between "startup" and "lemonade stand".
Here's another graph showing that the recent rise in tuition in Michigan is due to declining state education appropriations.

http://i.imgur.com/5gYHQK5.png
When I was a little closer to Philadelphia, there were ~150 restaurants taking online orders from my address, and I never had a delivery take over an hour. If same-hour delivery of a small menu is the future of retail, then Wal-Mart must be deathly afraid of Dominos. They were guaranteeing fresh pizza in 30 minutes or less decades ago, nationwide.

Same-day? Mumbai's been doing it for over a century, without any modern technology. Over 5,000 dabbawalas deliver over 200,000 hot lunches per day, from the recipients' own home kitchens to their places of work, then return the food containers back home the same afternoon.
I'm not sure if this is intended as snark at CEOs, criticism of the notion that a shift would occur, criticism of the notion that a shift should occur, or just general extrapolation.

Personally, I expect we would see unpleasant jobs become more expensive than they currently are, and pleasant jobs become less expensive than they currently are. I think it's tremendously unlikely that this effect would be so dramatic that "the CEO would be the lowest paid employee at every company", even accepting the implicit assumption that CEO is the least unpleasant job (which seems false).
The post is satire of sorts, although in the course of writing it I found such a common cause with Yehuda it was crazy. His pain learning Vim was my pain learning Ember. And the payoff is just as fun (to me at least).

Read this post here:
http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convi...

And hopefully you'll see the genesis of the post.
I remember the practice of using photocopied textbooks during my undergrad. The place I am from, its quite common to use photocopies of textbooks because most books are very expensive. Besides, there were specific shops that used kerosene in the photocopiers (I don't know how it works though)and that reduced the cost of photocopying per page by almost a third or the original price. I remember distinctly that the photocopies you get by this method would carry a kerosene stink and sometimes the ink would fade over time.
He's on about the problem of data mining being used by NSA and corporate America to do Bad Things.

And what are you on about?

I'm guessing you're on about the "tool is only as good or evil as the wielder."

Trying to take this back out of the meta, our society needs to figure out how to stop hurting each other. I think a good dose of critical thinking skills for our youngsters would go a good distance toward helping that.
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Only 10 games to win 2048? That's pretty amazing. Did you have a particular strategy that you think is non-obvious?
As long as professors are allowed to write textbooks, others in their department will be pressured to require them. Every given textbook will have several coauthors at different schools, each contributing a chapter, making the book required for students spread across the country.

Ordinarily I'd put my bet on market forces, and I really hope you're right... This is so much closer to monopolistic extortion though, I don't see it changing without lawsuits, regulation, or large donations to University presidents contingent on new textbook policies.
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If you live in a city or near a town center, you can probably walk to a decent bakery in five minutes.

You can also buy frozen or vacuum-packed half-baked bread from a supermarket, keep it around, and make some very nice fresh bread by sticking it in the oven for 20 minutes.
It's not clear to me what the variables are in his equations:

> The ElGamal signature system: BH(M) = AR RS.

H = hash, M = message, S = secret... What about all the others? I'll spend some time today reading more about this, if anybody has suggestions where to start I'd be grateful.

Meta: this has front page for more than an hour but has no comments, are you 54 up-voters reading it?
But I had heard, the only catch is that, they are using 'desktop grade' hardware.
This is exactly why many areas of government should be privatized. With zero competition and virtually no accountability, these bureaucracies have no incentive to become more efficient.
We need more journalism that uses data to support a story. In the UK, there are countless reports in the national press where journalists simply dress opinion as fact or push their own beliefs often in a deliberately misleading way. Even opinion pieces ("op-ed") state facts which may not be true but which supports the opinion writers' point of view.

There's an interesting experiment from the UK Daily Mirror (a broadly left-leaning tabloid newspaper) called ampp3d: a website which tries to use facts and infographics to tell a story. The editorial tone varies quite a bit from story to story, but tends towards the informal and light. I like aspects of their approach and can see the potential but I actually wish they were more rigorous in picking their sources.

Here's an example where they try and unravel claims about welfare benefits:

http://ampp3d.mirror.co.uk/2014/02/04/wed-rather-have-big-be...
It's not outrageous for a decent loaf of sourdough in SF. It seems like a really niche market though...doesn't really feel like a business to me. I don't think SF is short of places to get bread - there's a local bakery and a whole foods ten minutes walk away from me. Seems like a solution in search of a problem, really...
I think this part is slowly changing, but it was in legal limbo for years, so many universities have been insisting on the course-packs-with-copyright-clearance option out of risk-aversion. Most of the cost of the course packs ends up being the royalty payments for the included materials.

Georgia State University was willing to try their luck at arguing that distributing articles and book excerpts to a classroom as reading material is covered under fair use. They were sued in 2008, and eventually mostly won their case in 2012: http://chronicle.com/article/Long-Awaited-Ruling-in/131859/

This doesn't settle every possible version of the case that could come up, but it at least gives a stronger basis for arguing that course packs with copyright clearance are in many cases unnecessary. I've personally been also using just regular hyperlinks to material available as PDFs online (hosted by the article author, usually). But some universities (not mine) require that any reading material necessary to successfully complete the course must be officially available at the university bookstore and listed in the syllabus before the course starts. This started out as a student protection measure, to ensure that completing the course can't depend on weird material students will have difficulty acquiring, but can also have counterproductive effects. However with the outcome of the Georgia State case, it may be possible to satisfy the requirement by putting the articles on electronic reserve at the library instead of printing a course packet, since that's now (probably) legal.
Maybe when employers start to figure out that smart, hard working people exist who don't have college degrees and can do the job just as good as ivy leaguers, then we may finally start to see tuition costs come down to earth.

Disclaimer: I have a degree from a top school
OK, I bought your stinking book. I learned calculus using Apostol in 1962, so it had better be good. Apostol was stinking hard, so yours had better be easy to understand. :-) I'm not sure what I need it for. My children are all adults, although I did teach them calculus in high school.
I didn't realize this was ever possible outside community colleges.
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Around a week ago, a Turkish "politician" who used to be the chief negotiator for EU affairs made what might have been the most tasteless comment in Turkish political history:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/egemen-bagis-necrop...
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Pizza places have been delivering like this (made to order in fact) for decades
I hardly think apple or any company are dumb enough to name their backdoor publicly nsagate as a subdomain to their company's domain, it's probably some kind of service, since apple prefixes lots of things with NS (NextStep), it could also be initials for a billion other words, see
http://www.acronymfinder.com/NSA.html
"I understand that there is a huge amount of money involved, but surely the only stakeholders who benefit are:"

Missed the school since many benefit by getting a % on each sale. Higher price equals more money.
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Still the same IP.
That chart assumes the only option available is to work minimum wage jobs. Which seems nuts, especially when one takes into consideration the possibility of working full-time during the summer at a real job in one's area of specialization. What you need to chart this is some measure of how much college students actually are earning over time, not a measure of the lowest wage it's legally permissible to pay them.
Mall bookstores and music/movie stores have already died...
It's not strictly modal, "when doing X use height Y" – I just find my posture preference changing slightly over time.

I suppose long writing/coding is a bit more active/upright (higher), while long reading/browsing tends to involve a forward or alternating side-lean (lower). Shoes, time of day, and other recent exertion seem to be factors as well. And I alternate to seated, for hours or sometimes days at a time, for variety.

I suspect I'm more likely to start a new project or do many small independent tasks while standing, and more likely to work-through a lengthier, involved task while seated... but I haven't kept careful notes.
This seems the most salient point. At some point someone said "What if XP isn't supported?" and someone else said "Well we'll deal with that when it comes, but for now we've got a product to ship."
Amusingly, they don't even do things other startups don't already cover. At the LAUNCH hackathon everyone had a free $25 from Postmates:
http://postmates.com/

Where you can just order delivery from any store, bakeries included. The Postmates implementation is much better too, with an app where you can watch exactly on a map when someone takes you order (happened in seconds when I tried) and their progress as they go to the store and get you your stuff. Then there's even more general purpose apps like Exec.

Anyway, this is what you are told to do at Startup Weekend and the like. Perform customer validation and try your idea out any way possible even before you have an app, but the idea is just something we already have in spades in SF, like you said.
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Hi everyone!

Thank you all so much for your interest in this!

The spike in interest from HN has been totally overwhelming, so while we are thrilled with the validation of this concept, we are running out of stock and falling behind on delivery schedule.

I'll be sure to reach out individually to everyone who submitted an order.

We can't wait to launch this service in a way that can handle demand spikes like this -- thank you all for yor support.

Edit: for reference, we've had orders for 150 loaves of bread in 2 hours.
Well, to be fair, Facebook was the company that created the always open "floating bubble" concept, to my knowledge.

Link Bubble behaves very similarly to Facebook Messenger in this way (the way the bubbles move, how you interact with them, close them, etc), and I can't help but think that Facebook was inspiration for the project.

This is actually a good thing because I always thought that the Chat Heads were a novel idea, though Link Bubble's implementation of the concept is rougher around the edges than Facebook (e.g. "laggier", not quite as clean in design).
However, if it were for Next Step A:

> Ping request could not find host nsbgate.apple.com.
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While you may be right that there exists a price point at which posh people will pay for this type of delivery service, the example of Tartine is a poor one.

Tartine has been regarded as one of the best bakeries in SF for a number of years, having cultivated its reputation and following for over 10 years. It commands high prices not just because of quality, but also by its brand.

This is relevant not merely to pick apart your example, but more as a sort of chicken-and-egg challenge that faces many food service businesses. By default, bakeries are a low margin businesses, making it difficult to survive the long years you need to build the reputation that enables higher margins. The businesses that have circumvented this struggle have done so by such means as owner/chef fame.

With that said, I'm confident there are other ways of quickly achieving high-margin status. OP's company will have to be clever in doing so. It's unclear to me that delivery is a sufficient vehicle in this respect, except in bulk where ACME dominates.
Also important to note that this is talking about the time to pay tuition alone. When you add living expenses, it's even more absurd.
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I think what's relevant is the trend. You do have a good point, but it seems plausible to me that the same proportion of college students today are working minimum-wage jobs compared to 40 years ago, with the higher paying jobs breaking along the same rough percentages. It would be interesting to see the data on that though.
CS student at a state school here. Top internships can expect to make $20K gross, $14-15K after taxes and expenses. Most internships are closer to $12K gross, maybe $8-9K after taxes and expenses (the higher paying internships tend to be in more expensive areas). There are a few oddities that pay more, and for longer periods, but these are what you can expect in general.

Housing+tuition is around $18K for in-state students. If you wanted to pay off your entire annual dues without taking out a single loan or getting support from family, you would probably have to work part-time for at least one semester, possibly two.

Of course, there are a fair number of students who pay for school by being self-employed; a number of my classmates make sufficient advertising or sales revenue to cover the entire annual cost of college.
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Yeah, but sometimes I'd pay $2 to someone to walk 5 minutes to get me a $3 loaf of bread.
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Forget minimum wage. I work a full time way above minimum wage and two things make it hard for me at school. a) tuition is a beast but at least my job as some reimbursement – though it pays for a semester 6 hours. b) the school barely has any classes geared towards someone who works. I know I could have gone to school at a technical school I did that years ago and I don’t recommend it. I went back over 5 years ago and did community college first. I received my Associates and that allowed me to transfer right into a four year institution as a junior. But every class that I need now about half are never taught until after 10:00 am and before 3:00 pm. Guess what I have to be at work for my job. Now my company supports me going to school but its almost like the school doesn’t support me going to work. They state they have an Adult Ed center where I can get help but guess what it closes at 5:00 pm?!? I don’t understand how you are supposed to have an AE center to help people who work but then you are not open to help them when they need it.

I almost feel penalized for not working at night but how can I give up (and really why should I give up) working at a great job. The school states that they have more evening classes for the Grad students but what about us Undergrads don’t we need evening classes? At least back in the 90′s (when I should have been in school), and in CA, I could have taken every Undergrad course at night. It would have taken me 6 – 7 years to earn a BS in Computer Science now I’m on year 8 and I still have a couple years to go at this rate.

Why am I being penalized? is the real question…oh and I’m earning straight A’s and I’m on the Chancellor’s/Dean’s list. But it doesn’t make sense to me.
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I worked my way through school for both my undergraduate degree and a masters in computer science. It wasn't bad. Just have to work hard. The nice thing was, I finished up school with zero debt.
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Really surprising that you can't click the search term to perform that search, seems so obvious.
The larger point I was trying to make is really why run this as a non-profit. If I choose to Donate, what am I really donating towards? Am I making a donation towards helping medicare reduce it's costs, because the hospitals aren't incentivized enough to take their job seriously? Or donating for a service that hospitals really should be providing to their clients, whom they are charging?

It's not as clear to me, as a non-profit solution, as something like Watsi would be. I'm familiar with HRS, I saw their Blueprint presentation and get their email updates, but should a reason to run a company as a non-profit be because there are already too many for profits in the same business? There may be a number of companies in this space, but this is all still pretty early stage, with no clear winner yet.
"They're applying for YC though, so they're validating an idea."

I suspect it's more than that (and I say that positively). A slow news day. They stand a good chance of getting attention which is of benefit in terms of YC most likely. So at the very least anyone investing knows they have a clue about how to play the game.

To take this one step further they might want to try matzoh on Passover which is coming up shortly. NYC would be a good city to test if the delivery scaled.