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I see a similar problem on my palm pre. I type my creds, hit login, and I'm back at the home screen, but not logged in. I've found out though that if I close the browser, and start a new one, it will be logged in. Weird.
Interesting. Most of the apps I'm excited to build for tablets are graphics & sound-intensive, which is why I've stuck to iOS so far. If I get some good ideas for something less hardware-intensive maybe I'll try something on Android.

Getting into the top 200 seems tough.
Good point, but @user@domain doesn't look like the solution to me.
If the article gets a significant detail like Gross's relationship to YC wrong, I wonder what else it's missing about the use cases or drawbacks of Greplin. As I Google Greplin, the submitted article here looks a lot like plagiarism of a Aug 31, 2010 article by Michael Arrington on TechCrunch.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/greplin-ycombinator-persona...

(After edit:) Considering who submitted the link here, is the problem with both articles that they are built on reading press releases rather than on doing actual journalism? I'm confused now.
Anyone know what kind of credit score ding one would take for opening and canceling cards (as suggested in the video)?
Certainly not. It’s interesting to see what, well, intellectuals think about all kinds of topics (still not sure whether that makes it HN material) and I very much believe that Donald Knuth can say more intelligent things about religion and politics than the average person but it is well outside his (and my) area of expertise.
Its not because if you are a FreeBSD developer it is already assumed that you own every copy of Steven's books next to the shrine of him in your basement. So linking to a digital scan is not infringement its just convenience.
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Amen. I think an information shortage is at the root of all of this outrage.

For example, check out resources like LiveScience or MobileActive.org every once in a while.

Wonderful people are solving big problems as we speak, I promise.
Theory only works if the majority of these apps were built by Stanford CS Alumni who took the 2007-2008 or 2009-2010 iPhone class.

That's not the case for Path, Color or Instagram.
It's especially difficult because investors aren't interested in funding long-term projects. I've put in that man-decade of labor (I've been working on my current project in various forms since 2001), but no one in the Valley's elite circles could care less. This is okay in that I own 100%, but it sure does make it difficult to get things done sometimes.
What unaddressed problems do you think they should be solving? All in all, the consumer web is a pretty over-served market. I don't see a problem with there being ~5 serious competitors in a big, fresh problem area.
Is 2011 a social-app bubble?
I ordered the iPhone pack and will most likely get the browser pack....these are going to be awesome....they will make my crappy squares drawn on printer paper obsolete
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And, once hacked, the airlines will plug the hole you're exploiting and there goes (part of) your business model.

Is building a business on a loophole that can easily be plugged wise?
Saludos!

Great idea. The book covers on the front page look nice too.

1) $0.99? Why so cheap? For reference the Kindle edition of "A Hunger Artist" costs $2.99.

2) Any plans of selling dead-tree books using a print-on-demand service like Lulu? Some of us still like the feeling of good old paper books. I realize it might be much more expensive but with print-on-demand you have little risk.
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Imagine its use on a Saturday night when you're debating whether to go to the bar next door. An image speaks a thousand words. A series of related images tells an entire story.
I haven't used the iPhone extensively, so I'm curious as to which of these, if any, seem to be missing from the iOS experience.
If you're not interested in making more money, then asking people here what to do with may not yield many responses. ;) Congrats, btw.
I wouldn't really call it a mouse, but it's a good idea to decouple the cursor on a touch-screen from the point of finger contact, for visibility reasons. Somehow, I don't seem to have this problem with the iPhone, it clicks the right links almost all the time, but it used to drive me nuts on Android. Maybe the screen is physically more precise on the iPhone, but this is definitely solving a pain point for Android devices. The gesture system is just the icing on the cake, it makes interaction so much smoother.
An uninformed person causing a ruckus at the AGM is just a crank.
FaceCash looks pretty cool.

What were the barriers to entry? I imagine competing with the credit card oligopoly at point of sale is pretty tough.
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Okay, look. Worth 41 million? Sheesh, I dunno. But I think comparing Color to Instagram is probably a mistake.

Instagram is a photo application. Just like Flickr is a photo application. They're about Photography. They're shrines to images, where the image is paramount. These are apps where energy and attention is poured in, and photos come out.

I think Color might be a valid attempt to invert that idea. I think it's possible that Color is no more about photos than Twitter is about words.

Maybe photos are a real medium. This isn't a masturbatory attempt to tag and glorify false-attempts at art with a camera phone. The photos are visual information, and frankly I don't really think we've figured out how to deal with that elegantly. Youtube, Google Image Search, Flickr.. these are all really brute 'Search for something to look at' kinds of ideas.

I've been waiting to see someone think differently about visual information, and I'm hoping that Color is doing that.

Or whatever. Maybe they're a bullshit bubble-canary that's gonna spend the money making grunge-photo-filters and hooking iPads up to beer kegs. I dunno. Just hoping.
Thank you! We did the website itself in 3 days. The company, business model, publishing platform, payment system etc we have been working on it for 6 months part-time and since december full-time.

The coming soon section is a good idea, maybe we can do a "work in progress" where artists show sketches of their illustrations and future readers can comment on them.

The bio and portfolios are coming soon!

Thanks for the compliments on the design... I did it myself and I'm an engineer so I need a little of reassurance there :)
I really wish they would also fix the "Crashing every 5 minutes" problem.

The problem I'm having with the app (besides the crashing) isn't the loneliness. It's that it's supposed to be this totally new model for sharing our lives, but I get no hints or instructions on how to use it well/as intended.

Unfortunately I forgot who I'm paraphrasing when I say this, but there is not intuitive, there is only familiar. The mechanics of this application are completely unfamiliar to most people. It would be nice to get some guidance on what kind of use tends to be fun.
> The iPad is a computer that, as far as my mom is concerned...

Preaching to the choir, man. iPad is amazing, especially for mom.

But the point stands: nerds, especially as a group, have no idea what people want.
It's similar, but the customer pays more for this one instead.
Really? I think having a hunger for knowledge is great. Knowing I'll never be satisfied ensures I'm not going to drift aimlessly.
There was a really interesting panel at SXSW this year regarding the 'Future of Touch User Interface' by two guys from Microsoft (http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5984). I think trying to create a mouse interface on a touch device is almost a regression, not a step forward. I'd much rather see improved touch w/ voice integration, better multitouch, etc.
One thing this will shed light on though is how absurd the current laws are w/r to damages.
Hola!

1. We will probably be selling longer books a little bit more expensive. We can't forget we are competing against free ebooks!

2. Yes, we will sell illustrated paper books in the near future. And also t-shirts and all sort of things with your favorite illustrations.

Thanks for the feedback!
That's very very interesting. I'm also curious if something like this already exists or is being actively worked on. I'm pretty sure most big recipe sites like allrecipes.com must allow you to make your own recipes, but the spin is centered more on the site itself. What you suggest would be more of a platform than a destination site, say the way wordpress.com compares to techcrunch.com (for lack of a better analogy).
In six months we won't think this particular number is all that outlandish
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Indeed. I voted up on yes, wondering what the hell this was about till I actually got to the comments. Now I feel pretty stupid.
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Agreed. Coincidentally this high historical standard of living is why it's possible for so many people to start companies on their own without needing access to large amounts of capital.

Although it might not seem like it compared to our super-rich peers, we are rolling in wealth.
I am betting money there will be a "Double Rainbow" parody video made with Sequoia execs seeing "color" for the 1st time.
And his opinion is important why?
As someone who has education in science, but never 'got religion' as a child, I see atheism as the null hypothesis.

One way of formulating it would be: "There is(are) no all-powerful supernatural entity(ies) which has(ve) influence over my daily life."

No one has given me sufficient evidence that would go against this and contradict the null hypothesis, so I continue to not believe in God(s).

That said,

I don't think that believing things that are not scientifically proven/provable disqualifies one from performing scientific research. I'm know I have plenty of opinions/beliefs/biases that I couldn't back up for the life of me. It is part of being human and having been raised in a given environment. But it is important to be aware of your own biases in any endeavor.
Credit scoring is relative and the magnitude for which most actions affect different people can vary significantly. However, directionally speaking, you may see a negative effect on your score from "churning" cards due to the following:

1) Lowering your average age of accounts. All else equal, if you have 2 credit cards open, one that you've had for 8 years and one that you've had for 6 years, the average age would obviously be 7. If you proceed to open a dozen airline cards in one year (regardless of whether you close them or not), your average age would plummet and could negatively impact your score.

2) Each time you apply for credit or a loan, a "hard inquiry" shows up on your credit report and can negatively impact your score. The scoring system is designed to account for multiple inquiries in a short period of time to allow people to shop around for a mortgage or auto loan by grouping them as one inquiry (as long as they are done in a 30-45 day period). This is not the case for credit or store card applications.

3) In addition to simply applying for credit, having numerous recently open accounts and newly available credit is also perceived as a risk and can lower your score.

The above being said, you may or may not experience a significant hit on your score through "churning." Don't assume that because someone else did it without any negative impacts that the same will be true for you. If you will be applying for a mortgage in the near future, I would advise against it. For everyone else, YMMV.
Sounds like a good idea but will people use it long term? I doubt it. The only draw to use the app all the time is for entertainment. If people don't get entertainment at least 80%* then they will probably stop using it.

*I just made that figure up obviously but I hope you get my point.
http://play.typeracer.com/

That's a fun game to play when you're really bored.
It also feels nice when, after a couple of rounds, it asks you to fill a captcha because it thinks your speed is so high you must be cheating :)

For me my speed varies by what I'm actually doing:
typing code, writing emails/comments have different speeds.

Actually, now that I think of it, it's difficult to measure the speed of typing code since a lot of programming involves editing existing code as opposed to just banging out line after line of new code.
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> the word "green" was never used.

- The title of the video is "The World's Greenest Homes"

- [...] is what shaped architect Gary Chang's green philosophy [...]

People in Hong Kong don't live in tight spaces because they are green but because space is very expensive.
An underrated game I've never been able to find again was Hyperspeed by Microprose. Super awesome. Anyone know where to find a copy?
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Lots of people have thought of writing "twitter but open". Congrats on actually doing it. When I was kicking around the idea but never acting on it, one thing that occurred to me was that, in order to make it really take off, you have to create some way that everybody already has it. Some way to follow and be followed by twitter users, for example, or a way to make it so that your e-mail address is your microblog address. Just my two cents.
This is a very good example of "eco-friendly", and the word "green" was never used.

Not only is it used on the title card, "World's Greenest Homes", but the narrator uses the term "green" twice as a synonym for "ecology friendly".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak#t=35s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak#t=3m53s
Monopoly over what, exactly? A lot of my favorite music is not under the purview of the RIAA.
The good news is that there is tons of legally free music available these days. The internet has let lots of hobbyists, some pretty darn good, publish music that would have otherwise languished in their home studios.
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So their solution to #1 is just to not let you use it? What.

Also, that last picture in the article had me loling. "Take photos together". I'm sure in the near future we'll all be standing 10 ft from each other taking pictures of the same things. I hope that wasn't the intended meaning...

Anyway, as much bashing as it's being given, I think the elastic social network idea is very interesting. Anybody see some kind of guerilla advertising going on in dense places? Like you have a buncha people invade an area taking pics of advertisements hahaha.
Upvote to you. I'd downvote myself if I could. My bad. I was going off of the video only....

Yes, this isn't by choice, but lack of choice doesn't mean that it is not eco friendly.
I hate to say it...but like Diaspora, I expect this to come out with a bang and slowly peter out and die.

It's not because Twitter's technology is any more superior. It's the simple thing called 'network effects'.

Unfortunately, as others have pointed out, I think Twitter is too far along for their momentum to be stopped.

Valiant attempt, and kudos to the developer(s) for actually getting it launched - but this is definitely like spitting in the wind....imho of course.
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Apparently the RIAA has figured out how to get blood from a stone?
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This reminds me of Waiting For Godot:
"ESTRAGON:
And so on.
VLADIMIR:
The point is—
ESTRAGON:
Until he comes.
VLADIMIR:
You're merciless.
ESTRAGON:
We came here yesterday.
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Ah no, there you're mistaken.
ESTRAGON:
What did we do yesterday?
VLADIMIR:
What did we do yesterday?
ESTRAGON:
Yes.
VLADIMIR:
Why . . . (Angrily.) Nothing is certain when you're about.
ESTRAGON:
In my opinion we were here.
VLADIMIR:
(looking round). You recognize the place?
ESTRAGON:
I didn't say that."
I would imagine it does the analysis locally and sends some sort of "room signature" to the server, rather than a complete audio stream, which would be an awful waste of bandwidth.
I agree. The QNX buy is finally bearing some interesting fruit.
I found this aspect of it the most interesting...and I hope that this is one of the use cases.

Instead of needing to see pictures of things immediately around me, I'd want to see pictures of everything happening around Friend A, City B, Event C, etc.
Cool idea, but unless there is some system to lock the walls into place, this would be very dangerous in an earthquake. I've seen a number of high density file systems (same idea but just files) that caused significant safety issues in the recent Christchurch Earthquake.
I think you can actually have more than one of the same type of account! I think I remember reading that one of Greplin's inventors decided to fund him bc every time they made a suggestion, he'd implement it right away and that was one of their suggestions! Guess I should stop saying "kid" here. Definitely no offense intended - I'm learning a ton on HN and never know how old anyone is. I just think it's awesome that his perspective led to this idea that I wouldn't have seen without help from mine!
Agreed. Albert Einstein's political views were laughably naive, for example.
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Windows on OSX isn't bad for office or development apps. (I work on C# occassional using .NET)

It does suck for video games though.
here is my research on detecting communities in Twitter's Social Graph (36 Million users) using Label Propagation algorithm. http://www.akshaybhat.com/LPMR/
You can find both code as well as results.
This is a great idea, and the books look beautiful. I'd suggest making the site title a horizontal header and lining up the books under that, instead of having two columns. But then again I'm not a designer either. Good luck!
What about Twitter's actions that are yet to come?

And why not just try? What if the open platform succeeds? Even if the chance of success is 0.01%, it is worth trying. Also, a million such attempts by million such teams can fail. Only one team needs to succeed. Once.
I'd argue that in some ways it's more competitive...perhaps more price competitive. Free apps do very very well on Android. You can nicely outfit an Android phone with tons and tons of pretty high quality apps for $0. Breaking past that has got to be very hard.
Dr. Evil: "Here's the plan. We get the warhead, and we hold the world ransom for.....One MILLION DOLLARS!!"

No.2: "Ahem...Don't you think we should maybe ask for more than a million dollars?"
Congrats, it looks great!
Another revenue stream could be offering a customized book based on customer submitted story.
Wonder what the equivalent breakdown is for the much more diverse (fragmented?) Android OS/devices...
Barriers to entry include, but are not limited to:

1. Building a scalable accounting system that works for merchants and consumers

2. Keeping good enough records to get audited financial statements for as many years as it takes you to build (1)

3. Building mobile applications on 3 or more popular platforms with completely different SDKs

4. Applying for 43 state money transmitter licenses

5. Getting enough money to be able to afford (3) and (4)

6. Complying with the changing USA PATRIOT Act, Bank Secrecy Act, Federal Reserve Bank and U.S. Treasury / FinCEN directives on an ongoing basis while maintaining profitability

7. Convincing people and POS vendors to sign up and develop for a new system en masse...

8. ...without allowing malicious hackers to sign up en masse

9. Not moving so slowly that Apple, Google, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, Intuit, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint or any other startup trying to break into mobile payments can copy you

10. Not moving so quickly that everything breaks, because it can't

It's a hard problem.
Thanks! I will try that tomorrow. Thanks for the good wishes.
We never made top, but http://www.kymalabs.com saw a sizable jump when we first announced here, more than any other place we've shown up.
Congrats Kyle + Team.

This headline made me cringe, because in Jamaica 'seeded' means 'impregnated'.
I'd have to "citation needed" many of those claims. There's a lot of material in these layouts. You may not be really losing much in the general case if you simply spread it out a bit more and directly enclose more space. He's got a lot of visible metal and to get the motion that smooth and reliable there's some serious metal in the mechanics as well. I wouldn't be surprised the sum environmental impact of all that metal exceeds quite significantly some wood and drywall. Also, this 344 square feet is much harder to share. There are many people with houses, even in the US, that have less than 344 square feet per person. The natural lighting is nice, but that's nickles and dimes next to the metal usage. Heating and cooling can be a wash, too, there are techniques to heat and cool much larger spaces with minimal energy usage if you're willing to put in the work, but his hands are tied there living in a building he doesn't own. (How's energy-per-person look for a high rise like that? It ought to be pretty good with its superior volume-to-area ratio, as long as it isn't actually leaking air in or out.)

(And compare all this vs. what his neighbor lives in, if we're going to play the environmental card. You know what's better for the environment than all those rooms? Not having all those rooms....)

Just because it's ascetic doesn't automatically translate to it be particularly environmentally low-impact.

Or it may be fantastic. But if we're going to praise this I'd want a more careful accounting. I've noticed people get very careless with their accounting when presented with this sort of thing.
I think it's the concluding "Fail". It's a bit over the top in terms of tone.
He should get rid of those CDs so he can have another six rooms.
It's not a done deal yet, per CEO of ARIN (http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/23/...).

"The parties have requested approval of a sale order from the Bankruptcy judge. There is a timeline for making filings and a hearing date. There is not an approved sale order at this time, contrary to your blog entry title."
Twitter also started out as a niche product "for the nerds": early adopters drive mass adoption. The fact that Twitter is a firmly entrenched player doesn't stop us from competing with a better, simpler product.

I completely agree that "open" is not the great differentiator that will attract endless droves of users. While it makes the platform more attractive to developers and those who share this mindset, the average user's priority is neither owning their data nor using "open" technologies. What we do have, however, is the opportunity and enthusiasm to build something new and exciting with a community of greatly talented individuals.
Is there a technical reason why Google couldn't use some sort of "I know what I'm doing" setting to disable some or all of the help they're doing now? Quoting every word feels like a hack that could go away at any minute.
False. Einstein was an agnostic. The quote is roughly accurate, but the god is an abstraction, the maker of physical constants & such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_religious_v...
That's a great idea, thanks Ruchi!
Maybe I'm naive, doesn't $41M for two years of runway seem like a lot of cash to be burning through? How many people are they planning on hiring/what other costs do they have while they explore this space?
This isn't exactly the riskiest page he could have put up

Yeah, I think Prof. McCarthy has him beat in that category: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html
I agree that sanctions exacerbated production problems.

However, it doesn't detract from the point that money is hackable. I don't know if it is solvable though, because governments have coercive power over what constitutes legal tender.