The summation of all of this is that if you are looking for an apartment on a budget, you need to be ready to sign a lease/make a deposit the day of posting. Any apartment that is considered a "deal" will probably not last a few hours, and definitely won't last a day.
Easier is subjective. The alternative OP is suggesting is sitting on the toilet and reaching between your legs. Personally, I find it easier to stand up, bend over and reach from behind.
Not a hacker by any means, but I think any entrepreneur should have the same qualities.
If you are even asking this question, especially for others to decide for you, you should just take the Apple job.
The start-up will only be a success if you KNOW it will. You cant be predisposed to having any doubts. You seem to lack the confidence and determination required to be an entrepreneur. I'm sorry if it seems I am being harsh, but it takes more than an idea to become successful with something like this.
I have been eating ramen noodles for two years, so the determination certainly was there. Would you spend 5 years of your life on ramen? When is enough, enough?
The one plausible idea that has not been introduced, at least how they propose, would be pneumatic tubes for delivering packages. I have to think that such a system would be more efficient and cheap at some point than delivery by freight.
I came to Hacker News to get away from Reddit. I'm not even a programmer, I just got sick of the deviation to the norm. Also, what would really be the point. It would be akin to having a slashdot or digg subreddit.
There's no harm in creating a Hacker News subbreddit. I just don't think it would be too popular.
Is it really better to use? HN is incredibly simple, and everything works as expected. There's a few UI quirks with reddit that I don't particularly like. For example: I don't think it's obvious to a new user how to submit a story. Second (and this might be a personal preference) clicking the reddit logo in the header should take you to the main page for that subreddit, not reddit.com. Particularly when said subreddit has a customized logo.
If not a subreddit, is there any reason why Hacker News couldn't use a forked version of the open source Reddit code?
For one, pg had created a new Lisp dialect (Arc) and wanted something to use it on; and - IIRC - HN came along before the Reddit code went OSS anyway. Although my memory could be betraying me on that latter point...
This is the streisand effect at it's best. Most who are fans of the show likely forgot about this episode, while those who aren't are now aware of some potential downside. What was tesla is thinking in this one, besides annoying a popular car show and it's fans?
