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The people at WWDC used to be cool. The last couple of years they've been drowned out by masses of people trying to cash in on iOS fads.

A lot of companies didn't even send their programmers last year—they sent their managers instead. The idiot managers don't even know WTF is going on. These people aren't worth talking to.
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I bought all the tickets to sell on StubHub.com!
Perhaps they helped push Apple that way but as someone who went to WWDC10 with the expectation that I would unable to see the content otherwise as the videos were restricted to attendees (and or those who had an ADC Select/Premier account) it was kind of a shock they went that way finally. Especially because it was announced barely after the conference had exponentially faded from our memories.

Google I/O is pushing the boundaries of free again - live streaming to locally-organized developer parties in select Worldwide locations of major sessions and the keynotes.

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-io-extends-vir...
I quit my job and learned to code over the last 8 months or so. The main thing- write code everyday. A little, a lot. Just start spinning that wheel. You'll learn a bit here and there. But the big advances come after a few weeks when you piece together the little concepts.

I started with Python & Google App Engine. I would recommend this to anyone. You don't have to worry about the server and can just pay attention to actually learning a server-side language (assuming that is what you want to focus on).

Check out http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

O'Reilly books are excellent too. If you have any questions, my email is on my profile.

Don't stop - code every day!
I participated in the program last year. We collected over 35K from them had access to their complete network and were able to build out our technology for free! Amazing opportunity...don't miss the chance to apply!
Concerts routinely sell out in minutes so Apple has nothing on this!
I don't know how long PDC has been doing this, but if it's quite a while now and Apple ignored them the whole time, then that makes it more likely that Google is the one putting pressure on Apple.
There's a (probably apocryphal?) story of a professor asking his students to design a robot to wash dishes. Most came up with something along the lines of Rosie from the Jetsons; only one offered the 'right' answer which was something along the lines of "why waste time designing when I can buy one from the appliance section at Sears?"
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Trying to learn how to code. I've heard a lot of people recommend ruby and python. Is there any specific books or programs people might of use that may be helpful? or suggestion of other languages? Planning to spend about 6-10 hours a week.
Lightspeed's been doing this for 5 years, and started before YC and many of the others...not a promotional firm but those guys are pretty great.
the only way to know about and get tickets in time is twitter. booo apple.
I'm curious too about how the 600 odd people were willing to use micropayments. Turns out it was a stunt/demo for https://www.minno.co/
StartUp Britain is a nice idea and anything that spreads the word about entrepreneurship and the benefits it can provide isn't entirely bad.

However, advising people to check out patents, design logos, get stationery, rent an office, and so forth before actually proving the business model works by selling something is crazy. It's just "busy work" that wannabe entrepreneurs can do that costs they money and makes them feel like they're making progress. They shouldn't be doing this stuff - they should be making the first sale and figuring out how to repeat it if it happens.

Branson - one of the names on this project - never did any of this busy work. His first business - a student magazine - started with him calling people from a callbox selling advertising to a magazine that didn't even exist yet. His airline began when he got stuck in the Caribbean, chartered a plane to get him out of there, and he decided to sell tickets to the other stranded holidaymakers to cover his costs. You're not seeing anything like that in this campaign..
In my opinion the following 3 key traits will get you at least 90% of the way..

a. the "right attitude",

b. someone that can "challenge you" and

c. "know the industry" which your competing in really well.

The rest can be learnt on the job.
So what's the second biggest Mac OS/iOS developer conference?
The interesting quote is that Baidu removes privacy violating documents. Yet, they have no problem with IP violations (mainly by linking to stolen ebook PDFs.)
This is almost universally against convention rules. If it became popular, the conference organizers would just start making good on their threats and you'd see your name cursed across the Internet for getting your users' badges taken away.
I thought the same thing. The requirement for students may be a way to target those who have yet to enter the work force and even attempt to start a company. On the other hand, they're not taking an equity position? I don't get it.
You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger
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This is a great program, I did it concurrently with YC s09. They're not really an incubator - John, who runs the program, wants to give smart grads the freedom to get a taste of what its like to be an entrepreneur. Several partners act as mentors but its really about giving you the space and money for a summer to see if you can make something happen.

What do they get? They get to know really smart entrepreneurs at the beginning of their career. I highly recommend you apply.
This is a very cool idea. I have a few questions:

1. How will you do maintenance? If anybody qualified is allowed to fly it, there's going to be a lot of expensive wear and tear on it--do you know how much an engine overhaul costs on one of these? I'd be concerned about a "tragedy of the commons" situation, where everybody (everybody qualified for it) wants to fly as much as possible before it wears out or somebody crashes it.

2. How is this a startup? Specifically, what is the plan to make money or in fact do anything after the MiG is purchased? Sell maintenance as one of the requirements for actually being allowed to fly it? Or is it more "Help me buy a MiG so I can take it to airshows/sell rides, because nobody will come to Denver to fly it"? ;)

Anyway, this should be interesting.

Edit: I'd like to add that, based on some general figures I found online (max speed 2200 km/h, max range 1100 km, max fuel capacity 4380 L, all from http://www.flymig.com/aircraft/MiG-21/), you're looking at a minimum of several thousand dollars per hour to fly. I estimated that you could, all out, burn through a full tank of fuel in an hour at top speed, giving a cost of around $7000/hour at today's Jet A fuel prices.
Perhaps C++ will finally become a scripting language. So you don't get to complain about the compilation cost.

Seriously, I think it's too much trick to do meta-programming in the language. If meta-programming should be allowed, it should be easier, simpler, and for the ordinary people. Just like Ruby.
It's still C++0x though. The x is now officially B.
Teamviewer is another nice remote desktop tool that has a bunch of neat features. It is also... free.
If you don't mind, could you elaborate?
They only require 1 person on the team to have a CS-degree. However, if you are a coder (and don't have a CS degree) - you should be fine.

It would be difficult to build a product over the summer if you didn't have someone on the engineering side on the team.
you got stripey=t and stripey=f swapped?
what about the robots in people's pockets. iPhones and Androids can do so many things and have so many sensors. These are robots, just not in the shape we imagined they will take. And they are not yet in the autonomous decision level we imagined they will be.

Disclaimer: I'm a masters student in robotics and don't use iPhone or Android (yet)
that's kind of sad. you'd think people will stick around to learn stuff, not just to say they attended the keynote
After the root kits I had it with Sony to the point of being fanatical (something that I generally am not) I research everything I buy, if it is encumbered by a single Sony (or one of it's subsidiary's) patents in which Sony receives royalties, I will not buy it, I boycott any Sony labeled music and I avoid everything Sony. I have never boycotted anything in my life but Sony is just over the top in abusing the system. They prove that the system is no longer set up for the people. The root kits would of landed any one of us as citizens in jail for a long time for such a wide spread infection of machines. Sony received no criminal charges and got a wrist slap of a settlement. Until they pay for their criminal behavior I will not purchase another product that has any Sony tech in it. Some time principals are more important than a gadget that one can truly live without. I contributed a fair amount to GeoHotz defense and hope that it helps to screw Sony over. If anyone that reads this is ever sued by Sony please email me, I will contribute to your defense fund.
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Upon being shown a circle and asked to pick a random number, I thought for a bit and realized that no matter what I picked I wouldn't believe I had chosen it randomly. Then I wrote a one-line script to generate a random number from 1 to 10 and I put its output as my answer. Perhaps this defeated the purpose of the site, but I find it so hard to choose when I know my response is being measured.
edit: nevermind, ignore the comment below. I missed the fact that it's any 10 weeks within the 6/1 to 9/30 date range, so students on semester system are eligible too.

In addition to requiring full-time students, it disqualifies any students on the semester system since all winners are apparently required to work in their office from June 1st to September 30. Only students on quarter systems can meet that requirement, narrowing their applicant pool even farther.
A great email indeed, but 500 perfect emails would be overwhelming.

If its the perfect email for him, great, but for most busy people the perfect email is something like 3 sentences long.
Some kind of mutation testing[1] might be helpful here.

1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mutation_test...
> Da Vinci with a mop and a bucket of mud would be a better painter than me.

Maybe. But Da Vinci would never paint the Mona Lisa with a mop and a bucket of mud. If he did, it wouldn't have survived to modern times. Am I stretching the analogy too much?

Paint Mona Lisas, people. With amazing skill and great tools.
I had an idea for a startup along this line (I call it the ethical investor) and my idea was to create a trader platform that profiled your ethical makeup and made stock recommendations based on your ethical profile.
remotely related: php-activerecord (https://github.com/kla/php-activerecord) is a good php implementation of activerecord that works pretty much like the ruby version.

no migration support yet, but the rest of the code is there. i've been using it in a number of projects for over a year.
I saw them go on sale this morning in my rss reader, and bought one right away. Tweetlessly.

I've always wanted to attend, but never have been able to.
Maybe there's more money in being #2 while you dick over your customers.
I've only heard good things about their Austin edition.

WHEN: September 11-14, 2011
WHERE: Denver, CO

http://www.360idev.com/

For Mac:

http://nsconference.com/

Props for NSConf:

http://mattgemmell.com/2009/05/01/nsconference-2009
Once again, I feel it necessary to point out:

AT&T is the WORST rated US carrier by Consumer Reports
http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/12/consumer...
Good points. My biggest question was if funding was a good idea. Seems like the general consensus is to get it while it's easy.
s/iOS fads/apple's business plan for the foreseeable future/ and you nailed it.
Link to ABC News investigative report on the Better Business Bureau:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-m...

(Thanks for asking the follow-up question. The two replies already posted prompted me to Google Better Business Bureau pay to play, which is how I turned up the link.)
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Not true. It's any 10 weeks between June 1st and Sept 30. We did the program, and each took a couple weeks off for family vacation. The Lightspeed guys were totally cool with it.
Gotcha. I agree with that. So I was curious if taking funding now has any implications that are not present if there wasn't bubbly activity.

Your point about building a business regardless is the key though.
Didn't Microsoft do something similar when they were working on CORBA?

To which you'd get a puzzled look while they condescendingly informed you that Microsoft never worked on CORBA - that was the OMG, and Microsoft had COM/DCOM.

Xerox PARC is good, because they probably did work on whatever is being discussed.

Other options include "Didn't Englebert include that in the Mother of All Demos?" and "Didn't Taligent have that running?"
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I was hoping this would be about Blizzard or battle.net, oh well. My own network machines are all named after space probes: pioneer, skylab, mercury, surveyor, gemini, apollo, voyager, etc. The university I went to (www.hsu.edu) named all their machines after trees (cyprus, pine, etc) - the school alma mater was about the pine trees that grew throughout the area, so a tree based naming scheme made sense.
I wonder if there's some tax benefit for them to have a student involved.
Don't take most of the money out of your company as a salary, rather pay yourself a minimum level wage and take the rest out as dividends, that way you don't have to pay NI on it.
"Here are some examples: you might use the planets in the solar system (I would never do this; who wants to have to wait for the discovery of new planets to buy your 9th computer?)"

For this reason, I use moons of our solar system in naming external hard drives at home. Figure it will last me a little longer, and saves me having to say to my wife in front of friends "Can you put the wedding photos on x?" and "Is x now full?" for certain instances of x towards the outer reaches of the system.
www.TryRuby.org is a good one to get started. it will walk you through a few basic commands.

there are plenty tutorials out on the web and most any basic intro book will be good if you're learning to code.

you can also check out www.hackerbooks.com
The Oatmeal's take on working from Home: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
My theory is, upon reading his book, is that he knows it as well as all but two or three people anywhere.
Not exactly the type of project I expected to see on HN.

But actually ... I like it, I might even buy one as a gift for a stoner friend.

The design (of weedtee.com) is a bit heavy.
I'm using a crappy comp connected to RDP and it took it about 5-10 seconds just to render the page.
Maybe (a slight) redesign will help you turn visitors into customers?
+1 for Anders Hejlsberg. He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C# - that's 3 very successful languages/development platforms.
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I guess I should grab one of my student friends and bring him up to speed on our project so I can apply for this! :)

When you bring in someone older to make your business seem more experienced it's called a "gray hair". So what's the opposite? "Purple hair"?
That is actually something I have been thinking about recently. People spend hours upon hours playing games that resemble, to some degree, real jobs. (Think FarmVille, CafeWorld, etc.)

If you could craft the game in such a way to provide the control to the robots for things that are not easily automated, people's entertainment would provide the labour required to control the operation for free. A capitalistic dream.
Robots are the next revolution, so why isn't anybody acting like it?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380270

Seems like some people are.
You are malinformed.

Only some of HFT left the table. The ones that stayed at the table helped it come back from the crash. And came out ahead.
"I love to cook, and love to try new foods. After watching Anthony Bourdain eat with families all over the world, I thought - I want to do that!"

You should take that quote and put it on your main page.

Abstract advice: I would consider that, unlike in accommodation, the main decision making factor for choosing a meal is going to be the skill and personality of the host. To repeat, people will care more about who is making the food than what the food is. Building your site to encourage a personal connection to the hosts will help you immensely.

Concrete advice: De-emphasise food pics on the homepage. Get portrait photos of your hosts holding their favourite dish. Use those photos to make a 'hosts' gallery that shows off each host, where they are, how many positive reviews etc.

Look at this page (and its sub-articles) until you see an after-image of it when you close your eyes: http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/featured-seller/
I don't know when the person you replied to last went, but I went to every WWDC since 2007 and the sessions have only gotten more and more packed and lab time for some popular topics even harder to come across. Granted there's always unpopular/niche sessions with half empty rooms, but I also went to sessions that were so packed all the available floor space that wasn't a fire hazard was occupied.

I understand the grumbling at the idiots that buy a $1600 ticket to watch the keynote, but I don't think there's that many people that truly impulse buy such a thing just to see the damn keynote. I've skipped out on half the keynotes so far to sleep in and eat breakfast and show up in time for the SOTUs in the afternoon instead, which are much more informational.
i like the unimaginative names. www28.fe2.us.example.com

one huge portal used writers, philosophers and poets. try to spell Nietzsche to the operator during an outage.

Another job, they used star trek ship names. with the occasional klingon vessel here and there.
Fear not, unless you have a Vicon system installed in your house. Most of these quadcopter demos involved very expensive motion capture systems to determine the location of the vehicles. Pretty much all of the control software is on a separate system.
The Mturker's value for his time is set by him, not "us". If he doesn't derive enough value from doing the HITs to give a pile of servos on the other side of the world its smarts, then he doesn't have to.

The reality is that a human can still do in a few seconds what it takes a rack full of S3 instances an hour to do. Yes, the human's contribution costs less in absolute terms and is readily available so is valued less.

Where the value to the turker and the value to the employer meet in the middle, you get the wondrous fruits of capitalism (small 'c', not a religion).
Am I the only one who thinks that Windows, with malware, worms, and trojans, are more akin to the zerg? Whereas Linux, with its post-humanism, is akin to Terrans?
FWIW, none other than Guy Steele has cited Java as dragging C++ programmers halfway to Lisp: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
Color.com should have been called Around.me
Around.me is a mobile app for viewing videos and pictures at a specific location.

Pictures and videos are only viewable where they were captured.

No social network, no followers, no friends, and no check-ins. Just capture the moment and leave it for another person to find.

Fire up the app at a new location and see if any moments have been captured there before. I believe it would work great for touring/guide locations, events, and vacation spots.

Any takers?
I am not sure why anyone cares what the BBB thinks of AT&T. Who still uses the BBB to check on companies anyways?
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I don't know why my instinct is to anthropomorphize them, but somehow they're goddamned _cute_. Look! Robots playing ping pong!

A robot dog might be in my future :/
There are very real technical limitations that make the kinds of robots available limited. Tele-operation is ok for the military, but interfaces aren't good enough yet to, say, enable a human size robot to open a door quickly. Automated driving is up and coming, but still a few years away from being a real product.

This is a combination of perception and manipulation problems. There is only so much that can be done by a robot moving from point a to point b, and we're seeing products that leverage that. Roomba, toys, packbot, grand challenge bots - none of them really see, touch, and grab things. This isn't a matter of some discoveries in a university that are waiting to be productized. No one has found the right answer.

I left a job in robotics to work on more interesting products, but I hope to return when the tech is real.
Which podcasts?
> you could waste your time in so many better ways .

for example, pointing out how stupid this is.

:)
You need to define "has value" right away though, because defining "value" as "whatever the market measures" is tautological and just plain useless. "PHP has value because people find that PHP has value" is not contributing anything new.

It's also the go to "moving the goalpost" logical fallacy used by free market ideological cranks who you don't want to be compared to.
Call me paranoid, but it probably wont take too many iterations for them to get the price down, and integrate the control system into the quadrocopter. Once that happens, we'll have manhacks on the market.
Some linkers do what you describe. Not all.
Good share... It is easy to get distracted. I started a shirt company with similar experience.
Ah. Thanks. I was curious about the level of autonomy deployed to each of the actual devices. It'd be interesting to get more details on this particular demo.
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If only they included a dormitory to live in, we could call it the first ever Startup College
What's the right way to account for opportunity costs? How do we know that $2 billion spent here is better than investing $100,000 in seed money for 20,000 startups?
I have been learning ruby. I like the railsforzombies.com website
My knee-jerk reaction would be to agree, but I think it's also a matter of who can be helped the most. Smaller teams might not be able to afford extensive training from The Big Nerd Ranch or other outfits as much as larger corps might. So WWDC is certainly most useful to indie developers, but that doesn't mean Apple needs to market it expressly so.
100% agree in most cases.
A while back (9 months?), there was a business guy who started a site about learning how to code. I just checked and he's kept on going(!)

http://proudn00b.com
Fyi I just dropped my iPad 2 on the blacktop from waist high. It survived with minimal scratches!
I really wish apple disallowed transfers and went with a refunds-only policy to discourage scalping.

Same goes for google i/o
Pedantry: 99 Designs is an Australian business, not US based. http://sitepoint.com.au/about/our-businesses/99designs-com

Devaluing the design industry is one thing, but for many startups design just isn't core business and outsourcing (crowdsourcing, whatever) is a viable tactic to reduce costs. Sure, it's not bolstering the UK economy and is accordingly embarrassing to a government backed website, but the rest of the article seems to be saying it's a useless site for startups.

I'd content that outsourcing in startups is absolutely appropriate, and by extension offshoring is also okay. (Apologies to UK based design firms producing excellent, cost-effective work)
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