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Oh nice, that's a great idea! I'm exploring OCR of handwritten notes for future features, will give the Gemini pipeline a try.

Adding that I've worked on a CLI install flow which walks you through setting up Zotero, reMarkable, and key optional features as switfly as possible.

It leaves aside power user features (e.g. emails, GitHub Actions to sync when laptop is asleep, etc.), which are listed here: https://distillate.dev/power-users.html

First sentence is blatantly false. Regulation of trade and commerce between member states is the foundation and raison d’être of the European Union, exactly like the interstate commerce clause for the US federal government.

This is exactly what I've been hoping for after a week of pairing with chatGPT. The LLM is a powerful source of recommendations, but too much gets lost in translation between browsing/context and the chat UX. Excited to try this!

If you enjoy this read, you should also read the author’s earlier masterpiece of a post on the energy and materials transition (~1h40 read) : https://www.tsungxu.com/clean-energy-transition-guide/

Completely agree with the "let's see what they'll do with our data" philosophy!

The three stated objectives of France's open data policy are: 1. to make government more transparent and accountable, 2. to improve public policies and public service delivery, and 3. to enable entrepreneurs and civic innovators to develop create new services based on this data.

That's why we've brought together more than 30 key players in the French innovation ecosystem (VCs, angels, research institutions but also media, larger French corporations, Google, Microsoft etc.) and organized a series data-driven startup contests called DataConnexions.

You can check the best projects from the first 3 editions (from early 2012 onwards): http://www.etalab.gouv.fr/recherche/?query=dataconnexions

My personal favorite is an app developed jointly with the Greater Paris transport authority that uses context-based modeling to predict train occupancy levels at each time of the day, in real-time, taking into account any perturbation on the network and live feedback from users: http://tranquilien.com

Of course! My name is Romain Lacombe and I'm the head of innovation for the French Prime Minister's taskforce Etalab (data.gouv.fr) for Open Government Data, which was created in 2011 by the former government and was reinstated by the current one.

Whether or not there is room for disruptive innovation for France, only the future will tell -- and those who build it. :)

All I can say is that we're hard at work to make the most of the transformative power of open data and direct collaboration with hackers and startups, and this plan is a significant commitment from our government which I wanted to share with the HN community for constructive feedback.

(PS for what it's worth: I'm an entrepreneur myself, launched a venture-backed startup in the Valley in 2008-2010 myself which was later acquired.)

Hi Weddpros -- thanks for the feedback. As it turns out, we agree with you. That's why we've been working on a complete overhaul of http://data.gouv.fr to be soft-launched soon, and we think you'll like it!

If you've followed http://etalab.gouv.fr (mostly in French, sorry), you may have heard we launched an open and collaborative re-design process in the spring and summer, which lead to more than 60 substantial contributions and 9 events organized by our community of users throughout France.

We then brought in a team of hackers to work inside of government -- believe it or not, this is most likely the first instance of this in the French government; unsurprisingly it worked very well -- and redevelop the whole stack based off of CKAN.

Our code is live on http://www.github.com/etalab if you'd like to check it out. Stay tuned!

Thank you!

We developed the "Open Licence" in consultation with citizens, the Open Government Data community in France (Wikimedia Foundation, Regards Citoyens, etc.), and governments worldwide (the Transparency Team at the Cabinet office in London) during a series of more than 50 workshops and meetings in 2011.

Glad you like it. Feel free to send feedback and/or <3 to my team mate Alexandre Quintard (@AlexandreQK) of Etalab (data.gouv.fr).

Our objective to support "hackers" and the startup ecosystem is mentioned under Commitment #4 (supporting open innovation in France and throughout the world).

At the last G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland this past June, the Chiefs of State had agreed on an Open Data Charter committing their respective governments to make efforts to bring more open data online in machine-readable formats.

Today France releases its action plan for the implementation of the Charter, and specifically commits to releasing more governement datasets and APIs for hackers and startups to experiment with.

Specifically, we're committing to:

- progressing towards publishing data openly by default,

- building an open platform to encourage innovation and transparency,

- developing Open Data policy in consultation with citizensand civil society,

- supporting open innovation in France and throughout the world.

I'd be very interested in HN's feedback on how useful this can be for you, and what else you'd like to know about our Open Data policy and how we're trying to improve it!

Very comprehensive actually, this is quite an impressive piece of work.

Have you thought of writing up a short-form piece on your conclusions on the main differences between iOS6 & 7 UX-wise?

This is a great product idea, and a very simple yet powerful take on its execution. Others have pointed many ways it could be improved (scrolling, the "x" on the comment panel, etc.), but I cannot emphasize either how interesting this could be.

This makes me think of "Project Syndicate", at http://www.project-syndicate.org/, the public debate venue for economics/public policy thought leaders from across the board. They have an interesting discussion system based on comments users post about paragraphs. Maybe there's an avenue for future cooperation there?

One way the product could improve is if the social component of the annotation concept was made more obvious. An explanation of what happens when someone comments would be welcome.

Also, will the be available as a private/semi-private product? I could use this for my Kindle books, but would want to share only select highlights among the many I make.

Overall, great job! Good luck with the YC application!

I've been using it, and though this is a very simple MVP, the value is very clear and there are some very nice product touches.

All in all, very promising app!

Very smart post, thanks for sharing the AMI as well. What do you foresee the main applications of this to be in the future ?

And I imagine you could add direct integration of Teleportd features right into Nitrogram, helping marketers make sense of "real world" use of their products in the wild.

Very interesting perspective!

Efficient analytics over large bodies of pictures gathered from Twitter and Instagram hashtags requires heavy-wrangling of real-time feeds, which is exactly what the back-end of Teleportd does.

So my uninformed guess would be that the (very cool) deep data technology deployed for Teleportd powers Nitrogram's backend as well.

This will be coming very handy at a time when marketing executives are channeling mainstream advertisement dollars out of TV and into social media, but with questions still looming on Facebook display and social ads efficiency and future competitiveness.

The app itself is very streamlined, as is usual with the great team behind the product. Expect some faster-than-shutter-speed deployments on new features and bug fixes!

This MVP doesn't hint at the business model and the potential for monetization, but there are obvious SaaS/subscription models that are becoming quite widespread with analytics products of this kind.

All in all, a useful product in a great packaging, attacking a booming market with high "disposable income". I'm betting this will skyrocket.

NoSQL injection ? If such a thing exists ?

As a meta-comment, the obvious should be pointed out: by creating shock value, the name creates discussions, which create upvotes, which drives more traffic to the post hence leads to more feedback.

Call it "growth hacking" if you want, but the name is quite smart in that respect.

Looks interesting. You can fork it here : https://github.com/julien-c/Tampon/

The fact that people react so strongly to this means he's onto something. Also, there is no parallax scrolling here.

Besides, this is a very nice direction for web design to move toward. The product itself is simple, nice, well executed, with a clearly framed value proposition. Kudos. Keep working on this.

This is very cool, it would be hard to make it simpler. Gathering feedback in a simple and efficient way is not an easy task.

Kudos for the reference to Facemash. Would you open source it ?

Probably because the founders (Yalies just out of college as well) knew him and trusted him, so they tapped him to be part of the team, which is just around 10 people now (based on this: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/10/1009_entrepreneurs_2...).

When I visited the Twitter HQ back in the summer of '08, the joke was that an 8 years old girl was the Director of Operations (she was actually the DoO's young daughter) :)

You may give too much importance to the job title, all in all YouRenew is still a small business -- and yet I salute the fact that he chose to join a startup (with a commendable goal at that) rather than rushing to Wall Street post graduation.

I just spent a useless day not managing to get in serious productivity mode, and I tried 15 minutes of meditation -- I am SO relaxed now, it is like a short nap that also stretches your body and makes you high on oxygen... It's still very hard to control the flow of thoughts, but I guess that comes with practice.

I couldn't get in Lotus position, but this page at Wikihow helped quite a bit: http://www.wikihow.com/Meditate

So, not to be too PC, but the OP's example seems really uncalled for. These people are basically facing colorectal cancer, possible metastasis, and probable death.

I'd much rather pick up on people whose questionable (idiotic?) behavior combined with a mishandling of FB's privacy settings make them deserve the opprobrium:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=fuck%20my%20boss&typ....

How many of these people do you think actually realize that their boss can (and more and more do) read what they post?

edit: the first hit is spot on (hiding the name):

"from": { "name": (hidden), "id": (hidden) }, "message": "Oh fuck! Now my boss wants to come over on friday as well. Let's rob his ass!(jk) What do you think the chances are that he has a facebook account and he's readin this?", "link": "http://www.facebook.com/, etc...

So, not to be too PC, but the OP's example seems really uncalled for. These people are basically facing colorectal cancer, possible metastasis, and probable death.

I'd much rather pick up on people whose questionable (idiotic?) behavior combined with a mishandling of FB's privacy settings make them deserve the opprobrium:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=fuck%20my%20boss&typ....

How many of these people do you think actually realize that their boss can (and more and more do) read what they post?

This is more than a 'sweet' technology. It is a big step forward for the web, because it means that all the documents uploaded to Scribd are now fully indexable!

They're now all accessible by crawlers, and will start showing up in search engine results. I believe the vision they craft (all the world's documents living online as part of the fabric of the web) is a very powerful one.

I wanted to share this blog post from a friend and entrepreneur, who was new to the idea of Lean Startups (you should read Eric Ries's blog Startup Lessons Learned here: http://startuplessonslearned.com). He attended the Paris simulcast of the Startup Lessons Learned conference ten days ago, and this very detailed and personal blog post is his first take on these ideas.

I think some of use are very familiar with this new frame of mind now, and may have forgotten how powerful such ideas felt when we encountered them for the first time. It's very, very exciting to see the potential of the lean approach through his own eyes, and I wanted to share it with YC.

Do you think the impact of such ideas will be felt at the scale of the whole startup industry, or even beyond? I wonder what the impact of this movement will be on management science as a whole?

I'm very surprised that no one is standing up while working. I tried a couple times in the past, but never stuck with it. Prompted by an article I read this morning, I tried again this afternoon: http://bit.ly/dyBXft (my live reactions on Twitter).

It is a bit tiring, but it has an amazing way of focusing your mind.

Anyone here has done this on an extended period of time? How was your workspace structured?