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I'm doing a project looking at startup hubs, and some of the related factors. Here's a map of LA startups with some neighborhood outlines: http://imgur.com/hiG3Y . The data is a cr…

Nice. Thanks!

You can enter a zipcode anonymously into the Google doc. I'm not trying to locate or map specific HN users, just trying to create an anonymous index via the HN userbase. If that of…

I'm a grad student in City and Regional Planning, and taking a Geographic Information Systems class. I need to submit a proposal for a final project, and was thinking of doing some…

Call me insensitive, but I think the drama here is overblown. Renting out your room to strangers comes with risks. Theft is an obvious one. Could have been a one or two paragraph p…

I went to go see the dude from Catch Me if You Can speak a few years ago and one of the takeaways was that a cross cut shredder isn't very secure (pages are easy to reconstruct). G…

Disruptive criticism? :)

Kickstarter campaign, anyone? (to produce an iPad + Square dongle enclosure)

My uncle owns a few elder care franchises and had me look into monitoring services as a funemployment project. So I've spent a bit more time with this than I'd like to admit... The…

Thanks. The relationship to the housing bubble is interesting, no doubt. In my mind, no two things have been more connected to class aspirations/freedoms over the last 50 years tha…

What gets me about many of these articles is how broad a brush they often use when describing "the education bubble." And so I appreciate that this article at least gestures at dif…

Just as Cornell U uses the water from Cayuga Lake. Pretty cool :)

I think there are different facets to the bubble that need to be separated out to talk coherently about its implications... You can look at the bubble from the vantage point of the…

Right. Tho the pop up restaurants that I've heard of have been set up by chefs with some sort of following via a previous venture... this thing here ain't that.

I like this retort, fourply. Fred is basically complaining into the void here if he's not willing to put real pressure on the shiny law firms by considering going elsewhere if they…

I wonder if missed investments like this have the senior guys listening to the junior members a bit more, or whether the young guys are wrong enough to keep it biz as usual.

He had what could be considered a rough week with one of his other pet ideas... why Silicon Valley reigns supreme: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/03/wh...

The article is a basically a video re-cap, without much added insight. If you're gonna get to the bottom of the article and watch the videos anyway, just skip right to it and watch…

I hope you realize that the Cardpool marketplace requires sellers who aren't happy (or aren't wanting to redeem) the gift cards they have in hand. And they take a loss, of sorts, f…

Agreed. Ever go to a farmers market and run out of cash? That sucks. And Square is helping to fix that problem. Sure, some farmers might still prefer cash only (since the market en…