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The reporter is clearly confused about what Y Combinator is.

On the other hand, that YC is described as a bi-annual award program speaks to a growing problem that I'm sure PG and Co have to face: admission into YC becomes something to covet for its own sake. I can imagine that people who are in it for the resume padding wouldn't be motivated enough to see their startup through.
Actually, most coworking spaces have a kitchen area with a coffee maker and coffeebeans grinder and a microwave where people most definitely warm stuff up. You are dead on with the "quiet" part though.
Although it should be pointed out that since P=NP has never been proven false, there is theoretically a chance of success. And if such a thing were possible, it's most likely that it would happen by looking at a new form of an NP-complete problem that might give some new mental handholds on the problem, rather than SAT itself.

Just saying.
> Compare Didot to Garamond.

What am I supposed to see? I'm afraid I'm having trouble seeing the conclusion you're getting at.

From the samples on Wikipedia, the most apparent difference is that parts of the capital "A", like the feet and the left leg, are thinner and look more "deliberate". Other than that, the two fonts look very similar.
Worth reading just for:

Sales calls that start like this “Hi, my name is August and I am a small business owner…” typically end with the receptionist (or whoever answers the phone) getting rid of me as quickly as possible.

Whereas calls that start like this “Hi, my name is August and I am an entrepreneur working on a new start up…” have a high probability of getting me transferred to a manager or decision maker of some sorts.

Good tip. Thanks.
> This display is going to be huge news once it hits the iPad and MacBook Pros.

Which is probably never. Those don't even reach the pixel density of the 2G/3G/3GS. 326ppi? That's already going to be pretty tall order on a 10" screen (the iPad currently stands at 132 ppi, assuming the form factor doesn't change we're talking about increasing the resolution by a factor of 2.5, pumping the resolution to an insane 2560x1920. We're talking about a resolution usually found on 30" computer screens here, and those things are still pretty much all between $1000 and $2000...).

The 13.3" macbook pro would have a 3712x2320 screen, the 15.4" would move up to 4200x2625 and the 17" would be sporting a 4000x3000 screen.
So Blackberrys are now aimed at teenagers?
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Not everywhere - Europe is not homogeneous.

There's no state-mandated ID in the UK, for example, so the police can't demand it here. In most circumstances you're not required to even disclose your name and address to a random plod.
Not everyone has a boss that will casually look over their shoulder and laugh at the sex scene they're watching at work. Bully for you though.
You are conflating the words value and revenue. Change is a type of value. Time is a type of value. Happiness is a type of value.
You seem to really dislike Wikileaks. What is it about them that bothers you so much?
I smell gov't opportunity for SAS to acquire Palantir, as they kinda-sorta are in the same industry (data mining and analytics). And, the way they treat their employees is very similar (i.e., good work-life balance, in-house healthcare and childcare, killer culture that is the envy of even Google):

http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/21/technology/sas_best_companie...
Google's excuse for doing that
- http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/exercising-ou...

"Believe me, it's for your own protection."
I use NoScript, which disables scripting (JavaScript and Flash plugins) by default in Firefox, but allows me to easily enable it for scripts which come from the domain of the site, or for all scripts on the page.

My general policy is: if I'm linked to an article, I should be able to read it without enabling JS. If I'm linked to a video, I should be able to watch it only enabling the Flash plugin. If these assumptions are violated I become offended and I usually press Back, unless I have a very good reason to need to see that content.

I am not offended by web applications which require Javascript, as long as they're linked to by a source I trust.

I won't enable Javascript for domains which I know only serve ads. I also won't enable Javascript if I think I'm on a "sketchy" page -- a page which I believe might have malicious code.
Good point. We'll have to wait and see.
Most solid players have an ROI between 0-5%. WSOP is a luckfest even for a good player.
Saying the x86 evolved is like saying that, it would be evolution if I grew half a dozen tentacles, wings, two more unconnected brains, an exoskeleton and poison bags.

If you start with a can opener and attach it seats, engine, wheels, transmission and a steering wheel, all in ways it can still be in your kitchen and open cans, is it a car or a can opener? That's an x86.

I am not saying the JVM is the VM to end all VMs. It's just that it's nicely done. Much unlike the x86.
I'm familiar with the term, but I'm used to it being used to describe really extreme improvements in mileage (like, getting 60mpg in a car rated at 27.)

In this case, they saved 1400 gallons on a round-trip transatlantic flight -- out of about 40,000 that would normally be burned on such a flight. 3% fuel savings is a big deal, but I wouldn't call it "hypermiling".
OMG, I wish I worked at MailChimp. Why doesn't my office have spam readings once in awhile? Does anyone have a sense of humor at my office? No :-D
wow, we both got modded down for a joke. harsh.
So, you provide a private chat transcript to someone who is in the business of making things public... and then complain that by making that transcript public, they have identified who sent it to them.

Please tell me that's not accurate, because it's completely retarded.
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Can someone explain why this is embarrassing? Is it just the reduced focus on business use? Is it the music choice (I don't have sound here, but I assume it was a Black Eyed Peas track)? Something else?
I like this logic. "Anything you tell Julian Assange is fair game". Why, Manning could rightly have expected to be outed directly!
I'd try to estimate four factors:

1) the percentage of users that have JS disabled

2) the cost associated with developing a non-JS version of your site

3) the revenue you stand to lose if you require JS

4) the aesthetic/functional impact on the user experience for non-JS users

Put all of that together and you'll have your answer. For me, it's not worth maintaining two version of what I build.
for mobile browsers, it's still iffy.

But for desktop browsers, I don't even really think about it anymore.
It's worth noting that this won't help you with timing the first page loaded, just the ones after that. Impressive nonetheless.
Mrs Nailer just pointed out the lady is in a clothes shop (even though she's wearing a suit), the man in a boardroom.
The notion of making an awesome experience to 99% of users vs a mediocre one to 100% users seems a bit disconnected from reality, which is: apps are getting increasingly more complex. We could talk about graceful degradation and how that works on some particularly simple apps, but some APIs are simply not available without javascript (e.g. canvas).

If you want to use the power of these APIs to give your users something great by today's standards (think Google Maps, etc), yes I'd say requiring Javascript is acceptable.
The advertising agency plus the people in marketing who hired them need to be fired. Seriously, this screams of clueless 35 year old white dude thinking that this is what constitutes "cool".
You mean the volume buttons? Just be left handed and all is well.
"Hypermiling" comes from a hobby, not an occupation. See yumraj's post.
We're not even trying to build a non-js site for my startup.
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And proudly displaying their on-screen keyboard :-(
I think, in order of importance to their mission, they are:

* A publicity vehicle for their founders.

* A left-wing political cause (note: I say this as a left-liberal).

* A "fuck-you" to the mainstream media.

* An honest broker of leaked information.

I think when you hang up your sign offering to handle the most sensitive information people have to offer, it's incumbent on you to be above reproach. Clearly, Assange doesn't believe that: he's editorialized their most publicized disclosure to date, throwing their bias and handling of everything they do from this point forward into question.
Do they have to rub their chest and fix the tie so many times to manipulate the interface?

Reminds me of the lines from "Blades of Glory"

Chazz: No one knows what it means, but it's provocative...
Jimmy: No, it's not, it's gross...
Chazz: ...It gets the people going!
Yep, we've got a kitchen (and micro, and coffee pot, etc) at my co-working space in brooklyn.

And, yeah, the fact that it's a work environment (to respond to further up this thread), is a huge benefit. Way easier to focus here than at a coffee shop or at home.
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Those services either use really crappy (many false hits both ways) and heavy heuristics to try and determine that a pornographic image was downloaded and block it before display AND/OR a known "blacklist". So while you can outlist the compilation of said blacklist, someone still has to add sites that were confirmed to contain the material. Both ways are inefficient and spotty.

I admitted in my first post that you will never rid the internet of porn or make it completely unavailable to anyone. There is always a way around. But if the filter is good enough, unless the person is really determined, they will give up before they find its cracks.

Also, filtration is great for preventing an accidental stumbling-upon and so on.

A .xxx domain just makes sense, there's no reason not to do it. If you want to look at porn, you can find new sites by trying whatever, like, wallace_naked.xxx. You can filter for hyperlinks only to other .xxx sites. If you don't want to look at porn, you just blacklist the whole TLD and a great deal more work is done for you.

Again, you're right that there will still be porn on .com. I don't think anyone believes that's going to go away. But it's just a matter of simplicity; a .xxx tld helps everyone either way, so what's the problem?

I would be opposed to mandatory enforcement of this provision, but I think most legit porn producers will switch over for the citizenship points.
I see this as the opposite of Apple's elegance. Instead of a crisp, clean, simple presentation of the phone's features, they went with a busy, dancing, cluttered, fast theme.
Is that running code or will that be like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDT21oEhW0 ?
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Here's a summary article of a large epidemiological study:

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20150.aspx

Doing the math (450,000 cases out of 36,000,000 million Medicare recipients in the US), the adult incidence rate of Parkinson's is 0.0125, or 1.25%.

Sadly, I can't find a full copy of the study which isn't behind a pay wall. But, from the summary, it appears Parkinson's has some "clustering" based on both genetic and environmental factors. The text under the map on the article indicates areas in red have an adult incidence rate of 13.8% or more, so experiences such as yours are normal (albeit frightening).

So, yes, you're right to question that 1% statistic. It isn't sufficient to describe the situation at all when standing by itself.
Why is it relevant that this person is a member of the Toronto HackLab? Even members of HackLabs can do stupid or even illegal things. I just don't see the relevance here.
I never thought I'd say that a 51% stake is a good opportunity, but this is a good opportunity.
Permanent storage areas and desks are common at the pricier places (I'm pretty sure Cowerking is offering you your own desk space).

In other spaces, like the one I work at, we have a setup that's really dynamic and flexible so we can re-purpose the room, so we provide everybody with large lockable cubby-style storage. Thus, we're a lot cheaper, too, than places that offer your own desk space.
Developers. Good and Evil.

Security researcher creates botnet for Android, tricks 300 users to download the app.

" a pair of Android apps written by security researcher Jon Oberheide to demonstrate a method of creating a "botnet" of hijacked phones. By cloaking an application capable of "fetching" new exploit code at will in a fake application offering preview pictures of the upcoming "Twilight Eclipse" film, he tricked more than 300 users into downloading the software. The lesson: a less friendly developer could have used that bait and switch to plant malware on users' devices."

"if Oberheide hadn't presented his research at the SummerCon hacker conference there's no reason to believe that Google would have been aware of the darker side of these applications in the first place."

http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/06/25/google-flips-kil...
One major reason it wasn't acceptable to require Javascript many years ago is that many people had it disabled for good reason. Malicious code, popups, and browser crashes were quite common. Furthermore, browser security settings didn't always allow users to enable javascript site-by-site, so enabling it to have a good user experience on your site meant they'd also have a very bad user experience elsewhere on the web.

Most of those issues have gone away. It's still better to have a slightly degraded user experience for your non-javascript users, rather than a complete site failure, but it's not nearly as important as it was in 1997.
1 minute of time to use it and i can't even copy and paste my email..dogh!
I’ve tried to wrap my head around these poorly implemented Web applications to find out the real inspiration behind them.

Trying to implement something like GMail without javascript would just be a waste of time. It makes sense to talk about building sites focused on static content and simple forms without a dependence on javascript but the new breed of web applications require javascript. To dismiss them as "poorly implemented" is put dogma before practice.
their logo is looking great though, lately
If it's peace and quite you're after, go to a library...

Isn't that what a lot of these hackerspaces/workspaces basically ammount to? Privately-funded libraries without the books? Or maybe with soldering irons instead of books?
It turns out this blog post is about skeuomorphs in the Apple UI:
http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/what-apple-needs-t...

Right now, number 40 under New. Should be voted up, I think.
Well, as a competing anecdote, I don't know anyone who has Parkinson's. And I haven't heard anyone I talk to in person say they know someone with Parkinson's.
No, it's the difference between "someone sent me this file" (should always be expected) and "so-and-so sent me this file" (should not be expected). If the file you sent is something that by its intended contents (as opposed to hidden metadata etc) could only have come from you, then WTF are you doing sending it in for publication if you don't want people to put two and two together?
You can try making a product to sell, like the Bingo Card guy. It may not be a "cool" startup, but it's a step above CMS stuff.
Pull up:

* http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/didot/

* http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/garamond/

Look at the dramatically contrasting weights between vertical and horizontal strokes in Didot. They bear deliberately little resemblance to how a human calligrapher would produce letters.

Notice that the stroke axis in Garamond isn't 90 degrees; the "pen" that produced it isn't a a machine working an orthogonal path. There are far more calligraphic serifs than Garamond, you can see it. Look at the lowercase 'e'.

Look at how Garamond's strokes flow into the serifs, and how abrupt Didot's are. Check out the lowercase 'p' on Didot. 90 degrees.

Look at the terminals; Didot's are either sharp enough to cut glass, or mechanically precise teardrops. Again, Garamond strokes end the way a calligraphy stroke would.
It's been acceptable for a while. It's also acceptable to require images.
Oh, I totally get lining up for an event. It's a one-time thing, and you literally HAVE to line up to get a ticket/get in.

But a phone? It'll last a year or so, depending. And it's not necessary to queue.

If I could sum up my thoughts in one word, that word would be "GAH."
or, rather, they paid a ton of money for the rights awhile ago, and are locked into using a rapidly aging song.
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I hate to sound as callous as the call-center rep, but 'tearfully'? Is this hyperbole?
I agree with you, but I'm still sad that I don't get a 300dpi screen.
Hey! I liked it the ad. Then again, I'm a clueless 32 year old white dude...

Not that it made me want to buy a Blackberry, overall it was too cluttered for me to figure out how to use it. Well, that and my iPhone.
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Lordy, that's very funny. It only works if you dance for it. Which/Who is entertaining Who/Which?
The calculated and blatant appeal to three market segments (women, corporates, teens) is part of the unhip smell of the ad.
Asbury Park has changed dramatically over the last few years. I don't have any stats on hand, but I'm originally from the area, and spent some time working for the city (a job that took me into places where my safety was very much in question), so I can assure you it's changed dramatically for the better.

Parts of it are still really tough, but it's not the kind of place you should be scared to visit, especially the downtown area around Mattison and Cookman (this is actually a great place to hang out with a lot of new business and restaurants, too. You've even got a great pub, Brick Wall, and the beach down the street). The west side of the city, closer to Neptune, is still a pretty dangerous place, but you wouldn't be going there if you went to this place.
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This isn't really the place to discuss politics, but feel free to email me if you'd like to talk about this further. :)

All I'll say is that seeing my city under siege by a military force (because that's how the cops were dressed and acting) had a profound effect on my worldview. I certainly felt more empathy with the Iraqis after that day.
That's a pretty broad title...
What the law actually changes is that if you're within 5 meters of the 'fence' surrounding the G20 zone, police have the right to ask you for ID and what you're doing there. If you don't show ID or answer their questions you are subject to arrest (but, as with this guy, probably no prosecution).
1.

Better to take your time than to take your money.
I'm not sure where you're living, but I would suggest jobnob.com. There are quite a few interesting startups looking for people both long and short term for traditional or alternative compensation. That way, she can try a few different things without having to sign onto a long term committment if it isn't something she's interested in doing.

Good luck!
True - but imagine if there was one in all your consumer electronics, with a usb port and all the code is open source. I think we'd see the pace of innovation speed up a lot, and electronics would start to be a little bit more personalized and friendly than they are today.
Everybody fits into a role somehow.
Teenagers in business suits. Seems like they're having some sort of identity crisis.
Honestly, I would hand it back and ask them to reduce it to less than 10 pages. There's nothing to be intimidated about legal documents in general (reading through them you can make any changes before signing) but 100 pages just isn't fair in a business relationship.
I thought that meant RIM would quietly become #1 in sales.
Pish. Who cares what it's for, you can't beat the beauty of a good queue. :-p
It sounds like you made 100k from contracting in six months. If that is the case, the fastest way to a million is to continue contracting.
Engage a law firm will take your time and your money.
The fact that the interface looks like a less-polished copy of the original iPhone UI.
It really depends on your projected userbase these days.

For instance, in a couple of my projects, we aimed at a small subset of users (autistic and/or adults with disabilities in this case) who would have a good reason to have JS disabled (fewer issues without JS when using some screen readers, for instance). For this reason our app uses no JS unless absolutely neccessary - and in those cases we do checks for users to transparently skip the sections of the site that need it.
Pithy answer: Yes for apps (and only apps).
Yes, I too feel that that is about the right level at this moment.
I do not speak Korean but friends that are have confirmed that this is fake and the English subtitles do not follow along with what is being said.
Very much so, as a teenager I know a ton of people with Blackberrys, apparently the BBM (BlackBerry messaging) is very popular.

I don't get it :sigh:
My rule of thumb is that any government proposing to introduce ID cards in the UK is about to lose the next election. It's happened twice (Conservatives in 1997, Labour in 2010).
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I should probably mention that I work at Palantir, but [insert boilerplate disclaimer here].

Yes, you definitely need a person to define the mappings across data sources. However, this is basically a one-time setup task; once the mappings have been established, new data from the existing databases can be continuously imported. I don't have any stats on how long this initial setup phase takes at real customer sites, and if I did I'm sure I couldn't share them publicly, but the goal is definitely for it to be something that doesn't require an entire team of consultants to deploy and babysit.

If you want to see the actual government product, and how it works, you can sign up at https://analyzethe.us/ for an account. This is a real live Palantir instance with real data from data.gov and it's open to the public.
It can be used as alternative to cookies (HTTP cache can be as well), but it's not as easy:

• local storage is limited to page origin.

• It's part of the browser, so browser's standard privacy functions can affect it as well.
I think their actions show them as primarily an anti-establishment group (or possibly a "give us money" group) that has chosen to operate by means of leaking information, rather than a information leaking / transparency group that just happens to often piss off the government and needs a bit of funding to keep going.
So what does it say? Very curious how they are handling this...
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I'm not sure that's "going both ways". It's more the US and Canada going in the same problematic way.
Does anyone else think that "WhiteyBoard" is a problematic name? I initially thought it was a Chris-Rock-style joke.
Many, many value investors have easily beat 10% p.a. over extremely long investment periods.

Very very few people who market themselves as investment advisors successfully deliver these returns to their clients, net of fees and taxes.
Luckily for me, some of my core features require javascript. So I decided to ditch the no-scripters entirely, and consequently my site rocks and my code is cleaner!
Totally agree.

You have this guy (probably with his green bandanna over his face) while "exploring the G20 perimeter with his friend". Being passive aggressive landed him in jail but will probably have his court date dropped before July 28.

Then again this appears to only be his side of the story. You want to bet that he was being a little more than passive aggressive ;)

I don't really mind people who protest but I hate the fact that these yahoo fly into toronto just to stir shit up. Are they even hear for a cause for just to cause trouble?

EDIT: added disclaimer: I tend to assume the worst in people ;)
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