Haus is a side project that I worked on: an app that can help renters deal with the frustrations of apartment bills, service providers, roommate payments etc.

I would love if anyone signed up for the beta: https://hausiq.com

I continually get redirected to http://www.www.startupnyc.org/

Use this for the time being, http://madeinny.herokuapp.com/

I had DNS setup through Zerigo with Heroku and had issues with the DNS server earlier, and thought it'd been fixed, but they either haven't propagated yet or I've somehow rebroken it. Working on fixing it now

> basically, moral responsibility is commutative

oh dear. this is scary

It would be neat if there were a way to save songs for later consumption. As a spotify user, I would love to be able to "star" it so it saves to my account, but I'm not sure if that is possible on the web

thought about that - wanted to keep it dead simple, but i might add it.

> Auditing is not permitted and the class size will not be augmented to accommodate those wait-listed.

This is too bad, it would have been nice to drop in on a lecture

I don't think I've ever heard of pipes to be able to have forgotten about it. However, after browsing the website for about 3 seconds I closed the window out of disgust with no idea what the product did. Compare this to IFTTT (which is fairly well known in this sphere) or zapier (which I had never heard of, but could figure it out after a few seconds on the website). It really might be all about presentation. Unfortunately I'm not willing to evaluate evaluate this statement in regard  to pipes because I'm not willing to look at their website any longer to see if they actually do what the article claims.

There really is some really cool tech "locked up" in these big tech companies. Yahoo Pipes, Google Fusion Tables...

I think startups are, in a way, almost required to unlock the full potential of novel tech ideas. A startup can apply an awesome idea to a niche, gain traction, and expand whereas the defacto launch of a tech product at BigCo X or Y applies the tech across a broad segment of their user base. Broad launches are a good way to make your product generally available, but a bad way to ensure it truly solves some core need your customers have.

The author of this post writes smbc [1], an extremely popular webcomic, among a variety of other things.

[1] http://www.smbc-comics.com/

Just browsed some of the comics, and between Gladwell's popularity and smbc's, I take the former.

Actually .hn already exists as the TLD for honduras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn

I think we can give the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume that this language was created as a parody of these debates.

most of these debates consists of parody. trolls trolling trolls.

It's trolls all the way down.

How about a tool that gets authorization from your github account and let's you automatically upload LICENSE files to your project. The particular license is based on user input, similar to [1]. Does something like this exist?

[1]. http://creativecommons.org/choose/

*edit - this way it could just be an open source project instead of waiting for github to implement it.