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That's pretty horrific. Is Chrome on iOS the same?

I've been trying out Foursquare in place of Yelp when I'm looking for a place nearby (a good place to get an iced tea for example). It has performed well though I have yet to use it extensively enough to determine how it truly stacks up.

One thing I care about that Foursquare doesn't make obvious which Yelp does: if a business has free Wifi.

Funnily enough, about half of the time that a place has password-protected WiFi someone seems to have left the password (sometimes an out -of-date one) as a tip.

I check in to things not because I care about my friends seeing it (surprisingly few of my FB friends are on Foursquare), but because I like to easily see how long it has been since I've gone to a certain place.

> Over a million songs and hundreds of playlists.

This line reads like it's by Rhapsody in 2002.

It's not just the Magic School Bus either!

>The companies declined to discuss terms of the deal, which follows Netflix’s acquisition in the last year of rights to a number of Scholastic series, including the original “Magic School Bus,” “Clifford the Big Red Dog” and “Goosebumps.”

Joost van Dijk (https://twitter.com/jwvd/), the guy who created this, is only 17. Looks slick! Any feedback on it yet?

Sorry for not being clear. I mean the pricing for multiple tiers of an item I'd be selling. The link you shared (the page looks great) has a button that says "Buy" then takes me to a page with the various pricing options. Does that clear up what I meant?

I really like Snappy (from what I've looked at briefly) but I feel like the pricing options need to be on the main page...

I clicked on a few links for Paystr and couldn't find pricing information (even on the FAQ). Even a Google search yields nothing. It's a gorgeous layout but I don't think I can bring myself to sign up for a website where they won't be even remotely transparent about their pricing.

Do you have tiered pricing? Say I wanted to offer a couple versions of a product with a few different levels of features?

Didn't someone experiment with a chat system similar to this within the HN site (as a Chrome extension)?

I found this section on the Fiddlewax about page very interesting:

>A Small Caveat: For now, the word “we” is used lightly since Fiddlewax is currently just a team of one. This is meant to disambiguate personal opinions/experiences from the company’s perspective. We appologize if that causes any confusion.

Is it really though? I think it depends on accessibility.

Every week I dry 40 minutes round-trip to a grocery store that specializes in raw foods (vegetables, fruits, cheeses, etc) and get enough food for about $60 to feed myself and my friend for the full week.

Those prices just aren't available to someone without a vehicle and those in the city are probably paying more for less (for instance, the Shaw's across the street from me in Boston sells lettuce for 2.50 and I pay 98 cents for organic outside the city).

Is this restricted to London residents?

I'm currently on a cross country DIY tour (I'm about to write a second blog post about it but here's the link anyways: http://housecallstour.com/)

I've lived in New England (CT and MA) my entire life (I'm 23). I've lived in the city (Boston) and in the suburbs (Guilford - a shoreline town near New Haven). I'm a musician, writer and a startup guy so I have friends and relationships in a variety of circles.

I'd say that the best way to experience the friendliest cities is by being a respectful and inquisitive outsider.

On this tour I've done very little prior research before arriving in any town outside of planning each day of travel to be 5 hours or less. I wanted to intentionally go in with no expectations outside of what people on the road have told me.

Everywhere I've gone I have managed to connect with complete strangers that have become friends. I think the best thing you can do as a foreigner in a city (I consider myself a foreigner even though I'm a United States citizen) is to be open to whatever comes at you. Opting to sit with two strangers that asked if I wanted to join them at a seafood spot in Shreveport, LA resulted in me hanging out with them all day learning about the city, local politics, craft beer, wildlife conservation/fracking and more. I could have just said, "no thanks" and I would have wandered around town by myself all day.

So this is a bit of a ramble but I guess the point is that I set out on this tour thinking I'd move to Austin afterwards. I still think I will but every place I've passed through so far other than Baltimore (far too violent) has been a place I would consider living - at least for a few months to try it out. The best way to find a "friendly city" which by your definition just seems to be one that you like the people in, is to travel all around and see what resonates.

Happy to tell you more about my travels. julian at bundio.com

The job of investors is to do what they want with their money and make sure they have an alignment of goals with those they give their money to.

> The service was back up and running about three hours later, with core service fully restored by 4:40 PM PT on Sunday.

I understand these things happen but I didn't have anything working at all until Sunday EST. I'm just happy it's back.

Having said that, what do you use to backup your Dropbox? I recently signed up for Bitcasa but my Dropbox folder had not been fully uploaded by the time Dropbox stopped worked.

I wanted to like Path but then I heard about HeyDay and I didn't care anymore.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heyday-journaling.-reimagine...

Send me an email (address in my HN profile)...also working working on something in the vinyl space (http://waxlimited.com)

Looking forward to checking out your app!

Bandcamp did/does this very well!

Example for those who have never been on the site before: http://charliethemost.bandcamp.com/

>The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous.

I'm pretty sure those were young kids. Sure, I've seen people complaining about those types of posts in the past but I think being negative about someone's desire to learn and (perhaps) eventually build something that solves real problems is a caustic attitude.

I think the best alarms are ones that require you to get out of bed to turn off (meaning an iPhone placed across the room) - essentially it's not a kind of alarm but the positioning of it in your room. Once you are out of bed I don't think the UI of how you silence the alarm really matters.

Some of you have probably heard of Tocky and Clocky (http://www.nandahome.com/products/index.php). I've never used either but my guess is the concept is better than the execution. I've never felt a need to do anything but put my phone on the opposite side of my bedroom. Also, by doing this I have no way of checking my phone while in bed - either in the morning after waking up or at night before falling asleep.

Perhaps most interesting is the fact that every Hipmunk advertisement I've seen on Reddit has some of the harshest comments.

When I studied abroad in Freiburg, Germany 3 years ago I lived in something that was fairly similar to a boardinghouse. It was all college students but we were attending a variety of universities in the town. We each had a private bedroom/bathroom (with heated floors no less!) but there were 3 shared kitchens - one on each floor.

Info about where I lived: http://www.goethe.de/ins/de/ort/fre/unt/enindex.htm

I wasn't doing startups at that point but I was was obsessed with technology and the internet. Upon arrival I was a bit disappointed to learn that wifi was only available in the common dining hall areas.

This actually ended up being the most beneficial "feature" of our living situation because instead of closing our doors and surfing the web in our private rooms we were constantly out in the common rooms where all sorts of serendipitous moments occurred. Some of my best memories from my study abroad started because I had been sitting in the common room/dining hall on my computer before getting hooked into going on some adventure downtown.

I would LOVE to live in a situation like that again. I feel it would be amazing to set up something in the style of a boardinghouse in Austin, TX (where I'm moving in March).

I read this post title as "Brooklyn" and wondered what it was all about.

I'd say the best sports teams share a close bond of friendship. Look at the Red Sox this year. They came back after two dismal seasons to win the World Series and the team culture was largely responsible for that. Little was expected from most of these players but the right group of people can make the seemingly impossible happen.

No worries and thank you!

Sounds interesting - will look into ways of changing the color.

Sounds musically delicious! Thanks!

I'd love to come to Houston if you think you could help me set something up (I'm sure I could find some cool acts to perform) - julian at bundio.com

I don't have to if you think there's something I could do there :) and I do have quite a few musician friends in Brooklyn.

The goal is to get farther south as soon as I can.