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Why your startup shouldn’t focus on growth OR profitability.
Just to avoid any confusion for Twilio customers on this thread, we lowered SMS pricing to $0.01/message on the evening of May 20th (yes, Tropo went first), so that is what you'll see reflected in your Twilio account. The reason there is so much buzz today is because we just announced the change today in our newsletter/blog, along with the release of the new "Apps" feature in the developer dashboard.

We're proud to keep reducing prices for SMS, first from the original $0.03 down to $0.02 back in September, and now this price cut. It's our customers and their business that make this possible, through better economies of scale that allow us to reduce SMS cost for developers while still making it financially viable for us as a business. Affordable SMS is opening up incredible use cases.
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in other news: any really small number, when multipled by a really huge number, yields a really large number!
It's not just the machines but also the machine driven outsourcing. But guess what, people have to eat and it will hit the fan soon enough.
Sweet built-in DRM!
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At least some types of safety critical software require binary analysis, which is expensive, but addresses both this, and the more banal compiler bugs.
I want to hear what Adrian Djangoholovaty did with it.
I don't know about your parents, but my parents have low expectations on what a computer can and should do, and they are cheap.

My mom was doing real estate and the only software their stuff ran on was Windows (no, not even on a mac) despite the software being in Java (yeah, I know, WTF?). I can't for the life of me keep malware out of my parents computers and I live 1200 miles away. For further reference, my mom still refers to the internet, and her email (hotmail) as "the e" aka "the only button that works with my things" and asks "what is a browser" when I tell her to open one up.

-I've had no problems with wifi on my chromebook, I'm not sure what you are talking about

-My dad browses ebay and reads motorcycle forums, and that's about it

-My little sister mostly uses her iPod for the internet, which is on OS 2 I think still.

For the most part, Ubuntu works okay for them to fall back on, but even that gets annoying with all the updates, and I once had to talk them in to setting up a reverse tunnel so I could fix a broken video driver, which wasn't exactly a fun 3 hours. None of them deal with spreadsheets, and my mom's HP printer breaks half the time anyways, so that's where I'm coming from.

Will this replace their other computers? I wish, but no. At the end of the day, I'm confident it's still the most reliable way for them to get on the internet and stay on the internet without me intervening at all, and the utter lack of functionality is a benefit, IMO. I'm completely fine pulling an Apple and saying "Sorry, you can't do that with this computer, but here's what you can do."
@yuri i made mistakes in the way i approached the questions.I think i lacked experience.
I'm going to say a startup is something that can satisfy some formula that takes into account a set of attributes like, size of the company in terms of employees, revenue, age, users, etc... If the result is below some threshold then we call it a 'startup' else maybe it's a corporation..

Now I have no idea what that formula is, but I'm guessing its some calculation that we all do in our head based on our own ideas and in the end we say 'yup.. it's a startup..' or not.

At some point Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon etc.. all surpassed that level of 'Startup' and moved into the 'Big Company' field.

Can any math geeks out there put together something that reflects that ?
Early Macbook Airs are to blame for that weird power connector. Look: http://www.slashgear.com/gallery/data_files/3/macbook-air-ha... The industrial design division probably wanted a thin bevel on all sides, and there is no way a classic connector would fit between the macbook and the table and retain the magsafe feature.

Latest macbook airs no longer need this hack and I think Apple will shift back to normal power connectors sometime soon because these metal ones are no good for anything except possibly for those monitor-to-laptop power cords.
Don't build crap for money
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1. Find/think of a project

2. Hack it together

3. Go to #1

The only way to improve your skills at something is to practice doing it. When you hit something you don't know how to do, look it up on Google or ask a question on StackOverflow (make sure to search first though). Eventually, after many, many failures, you will succeed.

Make sure that the projects are relatively simple. Think calculators, drawing smiley faces, etc. Increase the challenge of each project, but DO NOT try to build the next Google (at least for a year or two).
This is the same issue as the old straight vs 90 deg headphone plugs.
This is purely speculation, but maybe they're more careful with the higher power ones that can catch on fire... I've had older PowerBook power adapters short out to the point of sparks and smoke...
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I've been waiting for this - my MBP15 is long in the tooth and desperately needs a refresh. I don't need nearly the same amount of raw power I used to, so a MBA is going to be a blessing on my back!
Try Marijn Haverbeke's excellent, free, interactive book about programming, http://eloquentjavascript.net/.
This "generic Anglo-Saxon" epithet sounds like an emotional appeal.

No, it pretty much sounds like racist-tinged, self-hating negative nationalism.

http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat

"Anglophobia. Within the intelligentsia, a derisive and mildly hostile attitude towards Britain is more or less compulsory, but it is an unfaked emotion in many cases. During the war it was manifested in the defeatism of the intelligentsia, which persisted long after it had become clear that the Axis powers could not win. Many people were undisguisedly pleased when Singapore fell ore when the British were driven out of Greece, and there was a remarkable unwillingness to believe in good news, e.g. el Alamein, or the number of German planes shot down in the Battle of Britain. English left-wing intellectuals did not, of course, actually want the Germans or Japanese to win the war, but many of them could not help getting a certain kick out of seeing their own country humiliated, and wanted to feel that the final victory would be due to Russia, or perhaps America, and not to Britain. In foreign politics many intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain must be in the wrong. As a result, ‘enlightened’ opinion is quite largely a mirror-image of Conservative policy. Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next."

Substitute "Britain" for "Britain and America" in the above passage and the mentality of critiquing "generic Anglo-Saxon" economic neoliberalism is plain to see.
Consider incubating a startup providing PR services: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fir...
There's nothing wrong with MobileMe or .Mac (they both have bad names -- thats the biggest issue)

They weren't huge sweeping successes because they didn't have enough features and cost a LOT. But the features they did have worked well.

MobileMe was just .Mac rebranded with more features.

iCloud is just MobileMe rebranded with more features.

Apple is smart for recognizing when they need to rebrand for communication facilitation. But don't be fooled. iCloud is just MobileMe with a facelift a few new features.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Other_details
Sounds like quite a big turn off, I wonder how bad this will be in practice
Having been amply full of it myself, I don't think that such a student is the worse for a pint or two of red ink all over the paper or exam. If you will be remembered as a good writer, it is because other people have managed to read through your work. A hard grader can be as good a friend to the budding writer as a smart tester can be to the programmer.
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I hope you wrap it in a figure-8 pattern rather than a circular pattern (to prevent twisting the cable).
Hacker News RSS Broken?
Problems with this from My Yahoo's RSS Reader.
FWIW, we pay much less than that.
Was invalid for awhile, removed the feed tried to add this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Did not work. Also tried to search for "Hacker News" and choose add - also did not work.

Has anything changed on Hacker News or is this just a Yahoo issue?
The binary file reader could have been compromised.
FYI, we're checking into this for you; look for a later reply here once we hear back from our editor.
And it's not just about balancing aesthetics and functionality for every component of the system, but about the experience of and interaction with the entire system. So trade-offs aren't always obvious within the specific component that might seem to lean too far in one direction.
But there must be a good technical reason for it - if I -a software person- can
think of something like that, I'm sure they already thought of it too.

The rings have to be exposed, that's how they work.

Consider a hypothetical cable that's flexible, but fragile. Fold it in half, and it explodes violently, killing your customers and inspiring such a mighty class-action lawsuit that it leaves your company a smoking grease stain on the surface of the Earth; and leaves a five year stretch on your resume really hard to explain at future job interviews.

So you add reinforcing ribs to the cable. Now when your suicidal users try to bend the cable in half, the ribs mash into each other, preventing the minimum bend radius from being violated, and thus preserving shareholder value.

But your designers spit out their macchiatos in shock on seeing your brilliant solution, and start waving their smooth, untouched by actual work, hands around; demanding that you cover up the cable strain relief with a thin plastic tube.

Well, that's kinda tricky. You can use thick plastic, and prevent the cable from bending entirely, or you can use thin plastic, which will buckle over the unsupported areas when bent, since of course a concentric circle has a smaller circumference, and look really obvious and terrible. There's no way to cover it and still have it work.
I think a prolonged thaw and a refreeze will burst your freezer with all that water in it.

Probably just as well, you won't want it with the putrified carcass in it.

(I keep a ziploc baggie of icecubes in my freezer. It lets me know if my food is going to kill me, and I can use it as ice if I run low!)
Unless the small number is less than 1!
It doesn't have to be "planned obsolescence" which suggests an intent to get users to buy replacements. It could be that the trade-off just came out that way. I mean, I don't think they designed failure into the component so much as they deemed a higher than you'd want failure rate OK given the user experience they were chasing.
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OT, but is anyone else tired of that Onswipe theme that so many sites seem to force on you if you visit them on an iPad? It wouldn't be so bad ifbthe link at the bottom to go to the normal site worked.
The world needs an opt-in trusted execution environment. If it is mandated from above, then people will rebel against it. At the same time, it must not put compliant programs at a disadvantage to noncompliant malware, as most sandboxing schemes do so today.
depends on perspective

cheapo paper notebook: $1
Moleskine: $10
iOS device: $200 - $700 plus opt $30-100/mo (forget cur rates)

Yes, I know you can do more with an iPad/iPhone, obvious, but there is some overlap and paper is arguably better in certain common use cases. Always use the best tool for the job. And I have way greater confidence that the content of my Moleskines will be around in 10 years, than the content of my iPhone/iPad/PC/Mac. And no company can shut me out of it.
Write it yourself?
I know you hn turkeys hate reddit but the resulting comment thread is f'ing hilarious.
The story is that Alcatraz had very warm showers for the inmates to prevent them preparing for the long cold swim to freedom.
"f I -a software person- can think of something like that, I'm sure they already thought of it too"

And I'm sure they did think of it and given the product they shipped, the idea was obviously rejected or delayed beyond the shipping of the current generation.

I'm not a huge Apple fanboy, (I'm in the minority at my organization using PC notebooks) but given how much Apple puts into designing the precise way in which users will experience and interact with their products, I can't imagine that they didn't evaluate many designs for this component.
Is it time to rethink the way university lectures are delivered?
Not really. Unloading 20% of a company without telling anyone is both hard and, I think, illegal (as an exec). This is one of the reasons Bill Gates' stock sales are so consistent is to keep the market from freaking out when he sells stock. (Ohmigod, Bill sold stock! Oh wait, he's done that every month for 10 years... nevermind.)

Lefkofsky might be able to hedge against the decline of the stock, but hedging 20% of a big company (especially because it'd be difficult to build a portfolio which replicated Groupon's situation and risks) is a pretty tall order.

All that said, I tend to agree with your sentiment...
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I am likely going to fall for a larger MB Air... if they sell a 15" model, I'll be the first in line.

However, I'm still not sure if I like the non-discrete video. Anyone with an MBP'11 that only has Intel HD video care to tell me if it's any good for gaming?

At least the current MB Air has discrete video.
Apple hasn't charged me for either of the replacements I've gotten. If they're willing to absorb that cost, who am I to complain about how high the cost is?
Great. Now I know why cable fails. From other sources I know why GPU failed (twice, and more to come, as fix by heating GPU to 200C is temporary).

Once I'll figure why battery swollen to thrice the original size (thank gods it didn't exploded or spilled toxic substance on somebodies lap) then I'll know why my girlfriends mac book is such a pain in the ass.
"I'm pretty sure my grandmother is never going to understand that when the Internet in her house goes out she'll need to reboot her router before she can save a document"

Good thing that's not how it will work.

"I can think of no one in my life who I'd buy this for and I'm sure most of us are in the same boat."

I'd buy it for my grandmother. Well, I might choose an IPad over this, but one of these is the best choice for her.
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Whatever happened to 'No politics' here?

The rule has never been absolute, but a strong preference. The HN Guidelines that appear as a bottom-of-the-page link on most HN pages

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

say, "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

The welcome message that briefly appears as a top-of-the-page link to newly registered users

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

(but appears not to be mandatory to read for anyone) says, "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."

By the way, the rest of the welcome message is a good reminder to everyone here about how to make Hacker News a better community.

I thought it was (barely) interesting to discuss why Italy, which is evidently full of smart industrialists, is not thriving better as a national economy. If a politics story doesn't have an angle like that related to the environment for forming new companies for hackers, I usually just ignore it, and I try to silently downvote purely partisan political comments in threads wherever I find them.
How, where, and when did the change in U.S. texting habits happen?
That seems like an easily surmounted problem to me. A MacSafe-like connector could probably easily accomplish the same if there was a need for it.
Verifying that something on the other end is an authorised part is not digital rights management and has nothing to do with it. It is simply lock-in.
As a longtime user of Dell Latitudes and HP Pavilions, I promise you that the MBAir will blow you away. I always pooh poohed "Light and Thin" - until I had a light and thin laptop, with SSDs, and a 1440x900 13.3" display, with Terminal.App (which is 50%+ of the reason I love OS X) and insanely addictive (and useful) touch pad).

The only major downside of the MBAir is that it is so competitive a form factor for an iPad, it becomes hard(er) to justify getting the iPad - the MBair does 90% of the stuff that I use my iPad for, resulting in much less usage of the iPad, therefore, to some degree, you can say that purchasing a MBair will result in those people who own an iPad from getting less value from that iPad.

Back handed compliment I guess.
I'll try one sometime, thanks. Moleskine has a model in same size, except both softbound and hardbound, and black. I used to use really cheap, softbound or loose ring bound, pocket notebooks, and found the pages got mangled too often, plus, they were harder to write on when you didn't happen to have a table nearby.
Can you point me to cases of houses burning down? I've no doubt it's possible, but lots of things are possible. I got a small flame from mine when it burned out but it was short-lived and would probably have had to have been sitting in a basket of tinder to cause any serious damage to anything beyond the cord.
...on an operating system you wrote yourself (or fully understand), on a chip you fabricated from a design you thoroughly understand
I agree, if you hadn't said it I would've. Other search engines existed before google. There were other ways to walk the net be it not that fast or somewhat accurate.
So at first I thought this was for people who don't want to use something like nginx. But then I read "it's designed to be paired with an intelligent backend like haproxy or nginx." If I'm already using nginx, why wouldn't I just have it do SSL?

Oops, that was stupid, I somehow made it the github page without reading the actual blog post. nm.
They bought it well before gmail even came around. Hotmail when they bought it was running on top of FreeBSD not Solaris.

Microsoft even has an entire document on how they did the migration: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496985.aspx
This looks like a decent solution: www.macmagsaver.com

I am not affiliated with them in any way. Though, I will be ordering one very soon.
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From enrolling in classes to communicating with our loved ones, the Internet can be a critical medium in the daily lives of Americans. The Internet was created to be a venue for sharing information, and we must continue to make certain that consumers can access that content without discrimination.

However, the expansion of the Internet has also created more opportunities for copyright infringement. Illegal downloads have been cited as one of the main causes for the decline in the music industry. As new mediums of communication develop, it is imperative to discuss how to best protect privacy rights and intellectual property. Rest assured that I will work with my colleagues in the Senate to best address this explosion of Internet content and issues that come with it, and ensure that intellectual property rights are protected while being mindful of those who access that content.
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Rapportive is useful. I've found that I've written more personalized emails since I can see a pic of person I'm writing too.

It's also handy for small talk. "I saw your Tweet about Conference X, how was it?"
That was pretty novel, but I still think Dawn is one of the most interesting still because of the ion thruster and re-orbit of ceres. The neat thing about DI (now called Epoxi and run by UMD, btw) is that it's now become a sort of flying testbed for all sorts of experimental flight and communication software. See "DINET"
Paul Thurrott did a review of running Windows on a Macbook Air and seems to indicate that the battery life is in the same general time as Apple estimates for OS X.

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/macbook-air-wi...
I find that these 2 solutions tend to nail 99% of my needs, either:

1. vi (+ opt Dropbox or GitHub for share/synch/ver)
or
2. Moleskine or bulk blank white printer paper (depending on needing quality or cheapness)

With sometimes taking photos of notes or hand-drawn diagrams, as a transitional state before preserving/translating in computer form. But this is rare.

I haven't had a use case where LiveScribe would be a net-win and worth it. Teaching? Live virtual classroom?
I don't think the award is for perfect attendance. I think the award is for showing up for work for one hundred and ten freakin years.
I paid half that money for an ASUS eee-pc a couple of years ago that had all of those problems. The only difference is I don't have 3G service or 100mb free with it. But it runs Chrome slowly, loses WIFI a lot, has a terrible trackpad, and hangs any time I look at any page with Flash on it.

There is honestly something to be said for an iPad without Flash. I keep trying to convince myself that I want a lightweight laptop instead, but everything I've tried is a letdown. I'm glad I saved my $500.
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History of the World - J. M. Roberts

http://www.amazon.com/History-World-J-M-Roberts/dp/019521043...

This was my lunch time reading for many months whilst doing contract web development. I was working with the most offensive tech lead I've ever met, but he was also incredibly effective.

It kept me sane (I think).
The unfortunate part I find is that many companies are following Apple in this 'design trumps all' to their detriment.

How often are you actually wrapping up a power adapter, and bending the cord to obscure angles? Compared to your headphones, or phone charging plug.

It seems most headphone manufacturers have moved away from relief rings, and that results in much shorter lifetime for the headphones due to failure at this point. I've got my zune charge cord here, and it doesn't have these rings either. Kindle power cord has one small relief on either edge (but doesn't get used as much anyway.

Am I giving Apple too much credit? Did they start this trend? or has this poor design always existed?