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Been using gspread for a couple of months. Love it.

I'm just saying that SF and NY were where I had GREAT experiences. In suburbs of big cities or smaller towns (Seattle, Redmond, Toronto, Waterloo, suburbs of Toronto), I wouldn't categorize the experience as a "delight" in the same way that SF/NY were.

I mean, do I really have to give a full report in order for me to be satisfied with the product?

The problem with Foursquare is that it was clearly designed by New Yorkers. In other cities where the distance and density of businesses/restaurants/etc. are much lower, the results aren’t as good. The only times where I’ve had a good Foursquare recommendation experience is when I was in Manhattan or in North Beach of San Francisco. Other places, the results just plain suck. In suburbs or midtowns, it isn’t good because the “local recommendations” are a little too small and give me results of places I have no intention of ever going to. Other times, it increases the range to a radius that is far too big.

/s/corporate\ speak/lawyer\ speak

Possibly. But I suspect many casual investors (on HN anyway) might be familiar with Excel. In which case

  =GoogleFinance("GOOG", "price")

may not be all that complicated. Plus it helps that it's free.

Examples:

Function list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ault2FD3uBwydEV...

Watch list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ault2FD3uBwydG5...

Watchlist + holdings - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ault2FD3uBwydDl...

How do you guys plan to compete with Google Spreadsheets?

I can already do this stuff in it (free) and just use the built in GoogleFinance calls (and their limit is 1000 per sheet).

Plus I have all the other advantages of a spreadsheet program.

Agreed. The title makes it seem that the 18 slides are easily digestible when in fact, it's pretty dense and it's a slog just to even glance through them.

Could someone explain the Chrome permissions when it says "It can access your data on all websites"?

I have trouble trusting an extension with only one review if it has so much power.

And keep in mind that oil-rich Alberta has it cheaper for a lot of stuff (taxes) compared to Ontario/BC/Quebec.

It's not so much a joke as it is a reflection on the history and development of Canada.

And yet another one involving the culture of Canada wherein Canada had the opportunity to have American engineering, British culture, and French cuisine. Instead, they opted for American culture, British cuisine, and French engineering.

Consider the fact that of the quotes from female chemists in the article, none of them were minorities. They were white women.

Would have been to nice to see some quotes from a woman who was also a minority. But clearly ethnic/racial diversity isn't a problem for this conference. </sarcasm>

Does anyone find it weird that a "Show HN" kind of lacks on the "Show" aspect.

All the site really has is a beta signup button and one screenshot. I personally don't want to give you any information (including my email) for something I barely understand or see.

This also applies to iOS. So update to 7.1.1.

The correct word for "mainstream" is "surface". "Mainstream" is far too surface of a word.

What's fascinating about the comments is that, had Condoleezza Rice been appointed Commissioner of the NFL, would people have said "I'm giving up the NFL forever"?

Obviously this question should only apply to NFL fans who also make this claim about dropping DropBox as a service.

Apparently the total value lost in-game was 11 trillion ISK which, according to http://isk.thealphacompany.net/?isk=26000000000000

is roughly $700,000 USD.

Edit: updated the ISK value thanks to comments.

From the looks of the responses here, looks like you guys should get up a "Notify me when you come to my area" up on your site.

I really think HN needs a way to auto-detect sites that have paywalls and ignore those submissions. It's no good if the vast majority of readers can't read it.

I suppose you could substitute "risk-takers" for "scrappy" since risk-taking is inherent in starting a company. I would say that scrappy is more indicative of someone who is entrepreneurial without necessarily relying on a strong background or network already available to them (since the use of risk-takers has received some backlash from some commenters).

Thanks for sharing!

Don't want to sound like a downer, but I'd also love to see applications where the founders weren't your typical white MIT, Harvard, Yale graduates/PhDs who worked at McKinsey GoogleBookSoft.

The TechCrunch article seems to miss a few points. The main point of which is the fact that the executive in question clearly leveraged his position to get a job at Apple to lead Core OS. It's a case of leveraging his position after he was promoted to VP of Platform at BBRY.

(This information isn't cited in the TechCrunch article, but I read it elsewhere).

I don't know where to ask this question. So I'll post this here. It's likely an unpopular theory.

Where did Der Spiegel get their information about the NSA (specifically TAO's and ANT) project names and projects? Is it likely that it came from the Snowden leaks? If so, isn't that treason? Let's not cherry-pick whistleblowing on PRISM or X-Keyscore but also look at all the other NSA projects that have been leaked. If he is the source, I have a major problem with that information being leaked by him.

Specifically, I'm talking about these articles: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-ns...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-secret-toolbox...

And the most damning piece of treason is this:

http://leaksource.info/2013/12/30/nsas-ant-division-catalog-...

I suppose the pitch for such a service could be:

"crowd-sourced bus routes".

Perhaps alternatively, this is a test by some hot new, stealth-mode YC startup to test the viability of video interview screening? And simply using interns as a small test subject pool.

Furthermore, because interns are the testing pool. The turnover of selecting quality interns and seeing how they turn out over a summer internship would provide good data for whoever the startup is doing this.

Fascinating game. Would love to see how an AI would tackle this.

If you're ever in Seattle, you can also see one at the Museum of Flight.

http://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits/blackbird

I also highly recommend people book a tour for the Boeing factory in Everett (about an hour just north of Seattle) where you can see 747s, 787s, 777s, etc. being manufactured in the world's largest building (by volume).

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/tours/index.page

Some of it is from Reddit/Twitter/Bitcoiners who want Nakamoto to be left alone.