skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... which suggests YC is still open to funding consumer startups that have the potential to be massmarket without a clear revenue stream"

Nice way of looking at the data but it's difficult to draw conclusions like the above. There are always posts that describe how people changed course partway through or even changed at the last minute. YC can't know how things are likely to go at the time they make the offers.
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If you bought after July 25, then the upgrade is free.

https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2012/07/buy-vmware-fusio...
Just like steel tools revolutionized hunting and gathering, i'm glad I don't have to go hunt for my steak and salad! Nor do i reminisce about the days working with IE!
Inside Adam Savage’s Toolbox
I can't take this website seriously. The excessive share buttons, cluttered ui, etc... it's the last place I'd look for advice on jquery ui training haha.
Was about to post the same thing but you said it all.

Steel vs aluminum is like vi vs emacs. People argue about it all the time, but if you just go test ride some bikes you'll find out pretty quite which you prefer.

I like steel. Aluminum is just too bone-jarring.
Apple in Mac OS X has brought the same error correcting features that exist in iOS for typing to every single text box that is rendered and has a cursor placed in it. This has allowed me to type faster and even if I make mistakes the OS will correct them for me most of the time. It still needs a little bit more time and tuning, but so far it has proven to be absolutely fantastic when typing.

See Preferences -> Language and Text -> Correct Spelling Automatically.
The Google+ button (right towards top) in this article about Microsoft's new logo is totally spoiling it for them.

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/08/23/microsoft-now-bra...
Or worse, Opera users will change their user agent string to Mozilla so as not to have to deal with ua-sniffing websites that work fine on Opera but warn you anyway about using a unsupported browser.
Upvoted for reminiscing about carrying around your dad's zip drive (the worst days were when he needed it for actual work, and I couldn't use my stuff at school), however I found even lugging the drive around was a lot more convenient than splitting up files and carrying around 7 different floppys.
> I don't plan on ever giving up the pace and energy of the metropolis

Until you have kids, and you see how most urban school districts are run. This is the same reason our parents left the city and moved to the burbs. Things are not really as different now as we think.

Though now there is a huge opportunity to reduce the cost and drastically improve K12 education. If our generation can break the entrenched bureaucracy of public education, then I would say urbanization in the US could be more than a consequence of Gen Y being poor and delaying starting a family.
Not really. Go to a couple of the meetups like Startup Happy Hour occasionally. I am a developer ("Chief Architect") for a local experiential marketing company and do mostly system design and iOS, Python development.
"Wonder how many other companies are doing something similar."

Easy bet that Apple's website 'hero' images have been 3D renders for years.
I agree that a stylus changes everything; I should have been more specific.

I never got up to 60wpm with Fitaly but I do remember not really feeling hampered by my typing speed.

In general you don't get a stylus with your phone anymore these days though...
This looks very similar to the popular conference/workshop poster presentation format. Many disciplines have these sessions at meetings where authors display an A0/A1 poster summary of the paper and discuss it with attendees who wander around the room with a list of posters like art-gallery visitors. It can be very effective, with crowds around interesting posters and some debate. Often the visitors have a glass of wine in hand. In any case the posters look just like the posted page, though this is a very elegant example.

The authors don't mention the existence poster format, but it is clearly very closely related. Notice how politely I put that.

To see how common this is, Google for "conference poster" images. Many of the results returned are ugly and overdone - the idea is often executed poorly.
How to Break the Fear of Technology
> A cold shower and a drive in a Volkswagen before you can post again.

What an excellent retort.
Quadriplegic is partial loss of function of all limbs. Usually total loss in the legs, partial loss in the core and arms. A break between C1-C4 will probably have total loss of arm function where C5-C7 may just be fingers.
Brief para-literary digression:

I'm always amused when I read this. All of it is straightforward advice and good when applied sanely, of course. But... the whole thing just drips with an insecurity complex over perl. Where Larry & Co. were shocking the world with the cacophany of TMTOWTDI and their Laziness, Impatience and Hubris, the python people just look... scared of all that stuff.

So they have this meek list instead. There's sanity here, but no poetry. I think this explains my reaction to python every time I'm forced to use or maintain it -- there's no fun in the language, just proscription. Programming should be fun, right?
This is pure speculation, but I wonder if only providing an upvote button discourages positive comments, leaving only negative ones left to actually be posted. The purpose of the upvote is intended to mean "I support this contribution to the discussion", but is too often simply used as an "agreed" vote. There have been plenty of other related comment thread discussions along these lines as well.
Thanks. We wanted to show off some of the lesser known extensions out there that are really useful
Nintendo is a bit different from the other brands on hardware sales though. If you bought a PS3 or 360 at launch and didn't buy any games, you were actually hurting Microsoft and Sony because they lost money on each console sold. Nintendo sells the Wii at a profit. Just buying a console and never using it gives them money. The same can't be said for the others.
No but in some countries, architects can get sued if buildings they designed endanger lives or something like that. I think it's the case in Canada, isn't it? In some countries, engineering is a regulated profession in the same way as medicine or lawyers. Now should we consider software development as engineering, that's another story.
Before anyone else jumps in on this one thing... XCode is free. However, the point is still valid.

Unless you're willing to enter the grey world of hackintoshing, you need a Mac to develop for iOS (required for code signing step) regardless of how you build your app, even if you use a third-party compiler like the MonoTouch one.
I love this, it puts them in a great position to be able to offer DIY SketchUp-like interior design right from their website simply by inputting your room's dimensions. The boyfriend was just speaking to how useful this would have been for some of his recent projects if Home Depot offered something similar. Allow the ability for people to build with individual parts from other pieces ala IKEA Hacking and I bet it would be really successful.
>We'll have the last laugh, though. Eventually the boomers will need to divest. At that point they'll find out we don't have the money to buy their assets.

Hadn't thought of that. Might be quite funny...

I suppose they'll just give it to their offspring. So for now... kill rich kids? Just brainstorming here.
[The logo] is intended to "signal the heritage but also signal the future — a newness and freshness".

Does every marketing exec have to say that about their new logo? Must be the same effect as sports players saying "We just gave it 110%" when they win.
The latest version has a much improved dictionary management, and I've found this issue has basically disappeared now, whereas it was very common before. Whether this is solely due to the new dictionary management, or if there have been other less visible changes under the hood, I don't know.
I'm going to go out on a limb with an assumption: the fact that you hang out here probably says a lot about you and your socio-economic status and general intelligence, which relates to your financial sense.

But there were/are a generation of blue-collar, "middle class" people out there living the life I describe. I know some of them. They aren't lawyers and execs, they're public servants, unionized factory workers and such, most of whom make less money than me. Their boomer parents were middle-class wealthy, and their expectations are higher. Only the economy no longer supports it. So they fulfilled these expectations via copious amounts of debt. Then everything broke.
Unfortunately, if you make one component of the supply chain cheaper it doesn't affect the other components.

Digital audio workstations are, indeed, a lot cheaper. But they're just one piece of equipment, and it's capital equipment at that. (That is, you buy it once and then use it for years, to produce hundreds of recordings. You don't pay by the hour and it doesn't wear out rapidly with use, though it does become gradually obsolete.)

The rest of your kit includes mics, preamps, amps, cables, consoles with jacks and lights and knobs and sliders, power supplies, stands, properly designed studios with isolation and acoustical treatments and talkback mics and quiet air conditioning, and so forth. Although almost none of the technology behind these things has changed since 1965, they are a bit cheaper today, because we've gotten more productive at manufacturing. But they aren't "Moore's Law cheaper". Meanwhile, revenues from music sales are "Moore's Law smaller".

The other thing that hasn't gotten cheaper is the time. Audio engineers are trained experts. Setting up all those mics and positioning them right and listening critically to the results through take after take is necessarily time-consuming, and your audio pros need to be around most of that time, fiddling with things. And they're paid by the hour.

There are definitely specific genres of recording that are in their golden age. If you like the sound of stuff that doesn't bother with all the recording techniques that have been patiently developed since the 1950s, but just parks a few mics around the garage and plugs them into the 4-track, you're all set, because every part of the production chain after the 4-track has tiny capital cost now, and distribution is cheap. If you stick to digital instruments, you're all set. If your talent consists of taking samples and mixing them into music, or spending months recording one track at a time in your bathroom with strategically placed towels on the walls and a single decent mic, and then mixing and transforming the results in post using that cheap DAW, things are pretty good for you. And lord knows that there's never been a better time to be an amateur audio engineer.

But if you want the modern equivalent of, say, Revolver? Decreasingly economical, unless it's part of a larger project, like a show or a soundtrack.
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-T-CL13-TrackMan-Marble-Wheel/...

Trackballs. Back around 1996, optical trackballs came onto the market, a few years ahead of optical mice. Using an optical trackball was a smooth dream compared to the clunky hair-clogged mechanical rollers of mice. And the unfamiliar device was a great deterrent for college mates trying to grab and use my machine, heh.

Trackballs still exist, but are about as unsexy as any piece of computer technology these days. Logitech and Microsoft haven't made any significant updates in years. Trackballs are seen mostly as lame mouse alternatives for RSI sufferers or some such. And a laser mouse is faster than a trackball for desktop usage, but for lying down on the couch with a laptop, there's no pointing device that can match a good thumb trackball.

On another topic, the article mentions the NES and its odd cartridge slot. Do folks here know why that came to be? The design was to make the NES look less like the older Atari and Intellivision systems (which had just endured a famous industrywide crash) and more like the form factor of the nascent and successful VCR.

Finally, in the software category: DesQView. I spent many hours running DesQView for DOS multitasking, with a BBS download going in one window, an offline mail program in another, and a MOD music player in a third.
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Whenever I've played [low level amateur] sport it's not, for me, primarily been about beating the other guy it's been about performing in a way I can be proud of. Sometimes you win but the other guys beats you. Sometimes you lose but beat the other guys.

Better competition generally raises your game and so I've found that my best games have more often than not been against better teams who usually get the higher score.

Perhaps [some] paralympians share a similar view of sporting achievement?
I bought a MD device for sermon recording under the misguided notion that it was a digital device that connected via USB and that live recordings would thus be simply drag-dropped from the device. It cost me many hours in real-time playback of recordings in to my computer. But for that one missing link I'd still use the device now. At the time I should have purchased a slightly more expensive MP3 device.
Or d) they are willing to move out of the top 5-10 mostly coastal real estate markets. For instance, tech hub Austin, TX has a median home price of $122k. The payment on that will be around $1k-$1100/mo including taxes etc. You'll find very similar numbers in places like Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Raleigh, etc.
it's a really bad idea unless they properly grandfather it. people have sold software under the assumption of limited liability and if they are now are suddenly held liable then it could financially ruin some companies or at least end up being a massive transfer of wealth from software companies to consumers.
TL;DR short version: The new crowdfunding investment funder's club is cheating by extending the funding deadline for Coinbase.
This article actually does a pretty good job of focusing on what really drives lawsuits: negligence. It's easy to establish negligence in food safety, because there is consensus on what represents "reasonable food safety" procedures. This will be incredibly difficult for software because of the wide variety in types of software.

If legislation passes, you can bet it will be bad. I hate to be cynical, but I've yet to see a technology law that was well written. Large software vendors will see this as an opportunity to hamper smaller software developers by lobbying for ridiculous requirements that have little to do with actual security and everything to do with codifying expensive processes that big businesses already do.
Wow, I somehow missed that the original article was about interviews despite it being all over the article. I think I read it earlier in the day but only came back later to comment on it and forgot that important part. :( Thanks for being polite about my error.
>If you can afford little, you might as well have as much fun as you can, especially if your prospects for making more money in the near future aren't that good.

Not enough people understand this concept, and it's been documented from at least the Great Depression from what I'm aware of.
While its probably correct to say that Microsoft does not have a homogenous audience and that that is why their online presence lacks the clarity of, say, Apple. I think the lack of clarity is a bad thing and Microsoft only really have themselves to blame for their audience.

If you're going to go after a very varied audience you should probably think carefully about whether you need to have lots of sub brands (e.g. Proctor & Gamble) so that your customers simply google for the sub brand, or whether you actually can attach some core values onto the parent brand that will be meaningful in all these different markets (e.g. Virgin or Disney). It's no good having a scatter gun product strategy then neglecting your branding and online presence because you sell to everyone everywhere.
> The best case scenario is a better internet, but only for google products for them.

Google operates a search engine, meaning most of the time it points people to other websites. Many of these sites are not under Google's control, but many of them run AdSense. The more pages you visit, the more ads you see. If the internet gets generally faster, Google sites or not, that works in their favor.
Running your code through static analysis can be eye-opening. And just like when you opened your eyes for the first time... you'll probably cry.
US appeals court rules in favor of patenting genes
I've said this before, but my experience with VMWare is that they do a very good job estimating the TCO of N physical servers and then they charge you such that it's ~90% of that cost to virtualize them. I.e., VMWare is usually a better deal, but just barely. Drives me insane.
Indeed. I graduated in 2006 and had to buy a TI84.

I still consider it a ripof, considering that it bash about 7mhz and just a few kilobytes of ram.
I was going to say this...yeah, bad choice. For sure. Or The Roots for that matter.
The OS now updates via the App store. Interesting...
>live in New York City

MYSTERY SOLVED.

Of course you don't want to own a car in NYC.
Ha, I saw that one and immediately thought Iron Maiden: http://images.wikia.com/logopedia/images/6/69/Iron_maiden_lo...
> I can assure you that steel frames are not your friend

Speaking as one who spent $3500 on a steel-framed commuting/winter training bike, I obviously disagree. Aluminum rides rough and carbon is just silly on a commuter.

Though to give you the benefit of the doubt, you did mention "<$200". I think that's more the issue than what the frame is made of.
Can't say I miss zip disks that much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
> I don't plan on ever

The thing with age that young(er) people will never believe is that you change. It really doesn't matter what you think or believe now. It is unlikely to remain constant for 20 years.
The full-saturation primary colors, plus green? Because they're obvious.
Google may be motivated to attempt things like Dart and NaCl which help drive forward their own products first and foremost, but they have a consistent reputation of making their web-advancing client-side technologies open source too (Dart, NaCl, WebM, SPDY, Chromium, Webkit, etc are all open source). They also have Mozilla, Opera and Apple pushing forwards as well (though I'd argue that IE9/10 isn't putting much competitive pressure on anyone).

If Chrome is abandoned by Google you're free to fork Chromium, acquire licenses for it's restricted plugins and it'll only slow the web's march forward, not actively hinder it. It's entirely possible for another group to carry the Chromium torch, and Google/Chrome has never yet intentionally damaged the quality of standards-compliant competing web products (though they don't offer quirks-mode fixes for crap tailored only to IE).
Congratulations for the launch.
Prismatic has proved to be a great service for me. I am waiting for an Android app.
Parent/Children interactions are a bit sci-fi to me. Completely modern foreign for both.
I've been watching this one Because my wife does a lot of illustration so the pen stuff might outweigh the other issues with it. I just don't see anything else on the horizon. Win8 seems DOA to me. Considering the reviews though I think we'll wait a few months and pickup one when they are dumping stock for cheap
> If millenials still choose to settle down to raise children in the suburbs...

I think that's an open question. Anecdotally, there are an awful lot of young families in my particular urban environment, mine included. Most intend to stay if they can, some give up and decide they "need" a bigger house than they can afford here.

As far as schools, this area is past the point of critical mass where there are enough high-earning, highly-educated families staying that they've driven the school quality up. Plus there is a huge and vibrant community of home schoolers to work with if you want a DIY education.
You're not crazy, not in the slightest, but what occupies my thoughts to some extent is what this...

"I honestly think everything is going to go information."

...means for both me and the aggregate (ie: people who aren't me).

There's going to be a heck of a lot of broken promises on the way, and no guarantee that the broken promises are in my favour. But then, that's the nature of promises.
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If they specify that no locks be used, and that their functionality be replaced with a large sign on each door saying "Ceci n'est pas une porte", then yes, they ought to be.

But this brings us to the "software engineer" title question. Engineering brings these sorts of professional liabilities with it. If you can't, so to speak, affix a stamp to your work, then what you're doing is probably not engineering.
If he wrote a book about programming, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Too bad that even he probably is still figuring everything out.
Hey, so, I'm one of the co-authors of OStatus.

First, welcome to the community of people working on this important problem. I highly recommend you join this group to stay informed about what's going on elsewhere:

http://www.w3.org/community/fedsocweb/

It's an "issue" group, not dedicated to any one protocol, service, or software package. Please, make sure you're a part of it!

A couple of notes:

1. We're working on including private messages in PubSubHubbub 0.4 and thus into the next version of OStatus. Understood that it's a big deal.

2. You're right, there's no standard API. ActivityPub is an attempt at that; see here: http://www.w3.org/community/activitypub/

Thanks for considering. Let's make sure we interoperate!
Congrats Bradford and team!
Anybody notice this is basically the AVG logo with the colors flipped around?

See: http://www.avg.com/us-en/homepage
If one could show that:

A) There was a reasonable expectation that the architect was responsible for the security of the home under a design agreement.

and

B) That the architect was negligent in their duty to provide said security.

Then yes, they could be sued.

You're focusing on the wrong aspect of the argument. You can already be sued for any number of things related to failing to meet an agreement.

The core question here is not whether software developers should be liable for security issues arising from their software, but whether or not software companies should be able to disclaim liability in such broad ways in their EULA language.
Apple sold 18.65M iPhones in Q2 2011, that's iPhone alone, I think calling Apple's audience homogeneous is ridiculous, and falls under the same as "mac is for designers" old-fashion statement.
Those things got clogged with dust too. The ball would literally lock up.

But they were fantastic. I loved them.
In London at least, you pay half price for public transport if you're 16-18 (and free buses if you're in education) and a reduced price if you're 18+ and in education.

Being neither of those, I get to pay a hell of a lot more! I'm glad I've got a decent job since I still wince each month when I renew my Oyster.
Agreed.

Also it seems like it's finally coming full circle around back to styli again. It seems like they're now being advertised as a new feature, which I think is kind of funny. Granted, they aren't using resistive screens anymore, so it is sort of new.

I'm waiting for a good stylus-enabled device before I purchase anything new. The fact that you can't draw on most of these tablets is silly.
If fall a a lot means China dumps panels, drives US competitors out of business and then monopolizes the market.
Yes, the old Software Update menu just opens the App Store now.