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So I'm curious, how should design be protected? Unique designs come from other places besides technology -- fashion industry files design patents on almost every "unique" accessory they produce. If we were to remove design patents, something would need to fill the void as trademark/copyright wouldn't protect physically formed objects. We could argue that it shouldn't be there to begin with, but then nobody would make any money in the high-end fashion industry.
Why do you care about TechCrunch coverage? It's a great blog, but it's just a blog. TC coverage won't make or break you. You'll probably get more traffic from this submission to HN than a TC post.
The document you linked describes several suspected cases of a portable electronic device interfering with an airplane's navigation system, but in every case Boeing was unable to duplicate the phenomenon in follow-up testing.
I've stayed at office for days.

Some people I know never went back home for a week.

At the year end appraisal. We were told we deserved nothing extra as we were told that we were just doing our jobs.

That's how badly management can rip you off.
A slow road towards faster chips worries manufacturers
Notch's Reddit AMA (2011)
Point number 4, "I regularly succumb to the pressure of my todo list, and let myself push quick fixes out the door when I feel overwhelmed." isn't necessarily bad though.

While I'm not the biggest fan of todo lists, well planned and well organized lists do actually help me get things done in a clear and focused manner. If a deadline for a project is looming over my head and I have a handy, well planned todo list for said project handy, I am going to be pushing lots of quick fixes that let me cross things off of my list.

That being said, perhaps this only works well for me because I do take some time prior to writing/adding to the list and attempt to think before I make a list and as such, things turn out better.
"CSS3 is just a standard."

That's a very strange criticism. Would you prefer a proprietary black box to do your layout for you?

"Do you have a full CSS3 implementation embeddable in programs"

Another strange one. You can embed webkit and gecko in a desktop app.

On iOS the recommended way of getting formatted multi-line text is to use a UIWebView (webkit)

"I'd rather invent something new layout engine than using the lame CSS way"

I'm guessing you've never actually written a layout engine before. They're notoriously hard to get right.

"For example I want place an box A next the box B
on its right at the distance of
50% of the height of the box C on the left"

You could either use a pre-processor (such as LESS) for the placement of Box A, or if its position is a dynamic property then you can set it using JS.
sounds like you want google+. you can add anybody to your circles, and you get a stream of updates from that circle.
Diaspora is now on GitHub
I think it's only disgusting because it's a very visible case, and affects consumers directly. There are probably hundreds of patent wars that happen in the enterprise space that nobody reads about because nobody would understand even if they read it. Those wars would be equally disgusting wouldn't it? I feel like we're only allowed to hate the game if the game provides everyone with the same tools.
Two questions: Why does TechCrunch still exist, and why isn't there a good media outlet focusing on technology / startups / etc?

OK, bonus third question... why does anybody care what TechCrunch has to say anymore? Their reporting is rubbish, their attitude is crap, and their logo looks like it came out of a 4th grade fingerpainting class.
I don't know why you are being down voted, because there is some truth in what you say.

The point is so called senior managers and executives you see today in the vast majority of the companies are totally undeserving of what they get. They didn't make it to the top on merit. Most of them had it easy, they made it big during gold rush in the IT boom. They were just there in the right place at the right time.

Most of them if were to compete with even a average developer of our time, will not last much longer.
these are the same air carriers that flew planes into the ground until the FAA mandated they have GPWS[1], so I don't think the "if they honestly posed a risk we would do something about it". people have taken bigger risks with life-safety technology that has demonstrated to cause crashes or take hundreds of lives before...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrain_awareness_warning_syste...
Stripe CTF made me feel like I was in college again! It was a good feeling.
NASA - First Recorded Voice from Mars
I have found turning my brightness all of the way down (more accessible by double clicking the home button), and turning on white on black text in Settings > Acessibility helps. It inverts the color palatte but produces less light so it's easier to read in the dark.
There was a show on the radio about BASIC programming, with programming samples. You'd have to record the show on a cassette tape, because the code was transmitted as audio output. You could do the excersise, and then check your code by playing the tape on your Commodore 64. I still think that was a pretty ingenious thing, sending code over the radio!

Ah, and the BBS'es of the early'90's... So much time wasted there!
We've been focused on increasing engagement, conversions and API traffic and have made quite a bit of progress there but those metrics aren't included in the Quantcast stats.
Nope - it's not. And for me also the Paypal behavior is broken, as I'm resident of multiple countries. Just wanted to point out that the above statement about Paypal was wrong.

For a positive example look at the Google Play Store: The apps that I bought in one country are available in any other country. The only exception are apps that aren't available in a given country. They don't disappear from my phone, but I can't update/reinstall them until I'm in a country where they are available
I realize that epidemiology can be sloppy science, but it's the only way we can even hope to tackle immensely important questions like this. It shouldn't be cast aside because it fails to hold up to impossible standards. According to your reasoning the vast majority of convincing evidence that cigarettes are bad for you is junk science (sorry to reuse that example but it's a very effective one).

Epidemiology is not an answer, it's part of an exploration of a question. This study is one of possibly many future studies that will attempt to etch away at the null hypothesis "there is no relationship between intelligence and smoking marijuana before adulthood". One day ten other studies like it may provide a more convincing story, or may disprove the idea altogether. Until then, this is probably the best research on the question yet. It is what will help get scientists further funding on the topic. And that's why it's important.
Most nights (and when I nap in the afternoon) for the past couple years, I use an iPad to read websites and Instapaper saves for 15-30 minutes in bed before I go to sleep. After that ~15 minutes, I'm out like a light. I've never previously been able to get to sleep as quickly, reliably, and easily.

Sample size of one and all, but I definitely haven't noticed any negative impact on my sleep. If anything, I'm fairly confident that my newly-backlit reading habits have actually helped me get more sleep.
On iOS, you need to pay Apple $99 to install custom software on your own device. That would be a significant hurdle.
Great website but poor timing. I was going to forward this to some contacts at TC... except they all just left for Burning Man this morning :(.
This is what we’re taught: make five compliments for every criticism, sandwich negative feedback with positive feedback on each side, the most important thing is to keep up someone’s self-esteem.

But, as Semmelweis showed, this is a dangerous habit. Sure, it’s awful to hear you’re killing people—but it’s way worse to keep on killing people!

Semmelweis did exactly what you're advocating and he was marginalized for it. Maybe he would have fared better if he was more conscientious of their feelings?
Marissa Mayer's Email Promising To Make Yahoo 'The Absolute Best Place To Work'
As a 29 year old hacker of the old-school Jargon File kind, I think the guy is talking about suits. People used to faking a smile, schmoozing at parties and stroking people's egos. Pointy-haired bosses. Salesmen.

A lot of you young startup types actually kind of look a bit sleazy to me. ;-) Many of you actually...

...worry about your looks.

...worry about your image.

...have creepy perfect teeth.

...have girlfriends.

...drink Cafe Lattes.

...wear those black-rimmed glasses.

...wouldn't be caught dead on a Segway.

Then again, this would describe every twenty-something in the Western world at the moment, except a couple of decent people it took me decades to locate.
I'd love to hear more about the engine that powers pipes and YQL. Can you tell us more or let me know where we can read more about it?
seems likes 'mohawk guy' has a clone in the room... 15s he is in the front part of the room. 34s he is next to the last row, in the back.
They have tons of readership, and a lot of VCs browse the site.

PR is a just a method to drive traffic and hype for your startup.
Are you able to pay yourself market salaries yet?
6 years passed since Octopus started...
Will Facebook will no longer exist…at least in it current form?
Now they will have both, so I would say they are pretty smart.
C & C++ Beginner's Guide to Linkers
First, I agree with everyone on the TechCrunch coverage and it not being what it used to be.

But just as a pitch/landing page, I don't get it. If I was <insert news site> I would leave the page immediately. It doesn't show off your product. It just requests them to donate more time to find out through their own research, which seems highly unlikely.

Why not use your home page? And if that doesn't cut it, maybe that should be fixed before asking others for coverage.

Best of luck!
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which have, under old names, become odious to the public.

-- Tallyrand
Confused. Growth hacking is BS, but growth hacking is marketing, and marketing is legit?

You summed it up nicely.. growth hacking is marketing using technical skills. I think that summary is very attractive to technically minded people, and makes it unique compared to traditional one way marketing.

If growth hacking is introducing marketing to a technical crowd and enable them to grow customers in a tech centric industry (startup), why the frustration? Is there some underlying issue with non-tech marketers not being able to connect with results in tech startups as well?

Having a foot in the technical and business world for the last decade has shown me that techs tend to learn more about business than vice versa. Capable people are everywhere though, maybe we need Growth Hacking 101 for marketers?
If you're coming from a mathematical perspective (I should note that I didn't but kind of wish I did), then the Haskell type system has an additional advantage: it's very obvious how Haskell types form a category and I've found it's very easy to visualize how functors, monads and so on "look" (for lack of a better term) on the category of Haskell types.

Of course, I'm really trying to do the opposite--get a basic understanding of the math from using functors, monads and so on in Haskell. I also read about type theory for fun, so maybe I'm not the least biased person to ask about static typing :P.
Does Tampa Mark the End of the Exceptional America of Alexis de Tocqueville?
The error was: instead of making a thesis to prove there's was a correlation, he instead made a thesis trying to explain (poorly) why it happened.

His peers, instead of investigating further, chose to just disregard it completely, and keep killing women.

This history is a perfect example about how being correct doesn't mean you're right. It's the difference between being logic or wise. Sadly, I see this reaction all too often.

All knowledge in the world is worth nothing if people can't reason, use intuition, be empathic and remove the ego out of the equation. Western-culture prides itself about scientifical feats and economical progress, but still has much to evolve about developing human beings. That was in 1800, but can easily happen today - just look at global warming theory.
The last TapBots blog post, written a week and a half ago, had the title "Don't Panic" and characterizing the response as "fear, uncertainty, and doubt".

I think this vindicates most of the people who raised a big stink about the API policy changes back then.
I have at different times thought of Google as many things. Until now, a nucht-schlep was not one of them.
Maybe instead of arguing of meaningless titles for these roles, we should get back to building things, finding users, making money, and all that jazz.
I don't get it or is it just me? I never have this problem and I think our society keeps inventing all these gadgets and pills to solve problems that are not really problems.
You can patent icons and fonts, why would a user interface be different here? We could revoke the ability to patent icons & fonts, but then there would be no financial motivation for companies to design fonts to sell.
I don't think his post is about generalizations of people. I thought it was at first, and perhaps they're included in the general idea, but every single example he gave was not of that kind.
I (and probably sriramk too) am disappointed the article didn't mention Microsoft Popfly: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly

Popfly was a more consumer centric mash up tool built by a little skunk works team inside of Microsoft's Developer Division.
Pipes is maybe the only yahoo product I actually use. It's only for one frivolous thing though. Failblog (part of Cheezeburger I think? Doesn't really matter) Used to have a sub-blog called Hacked IRL. They shut it down a while back, but they still occasionally post clearly labelled Hacked IRL stories to the main Failblog. Since I liked Hacked IRL but really didn't want to have the whole fail blog feed subscribed, and I remembered having heard of Yahoo Pipes years before that, I looked it up and it was sure enough still around.

The result was this: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5ead4957874f5a670...

Which is simply the fail blog feed filtered down to only posts containing "Hacked IRL" in the subject. I have the RSS of that subscribed.

Like I said, frivolous. But it only took a few minutes to put together even having never used pipes before.
Hmmm, While a agree with the general gist, I've seen many MANY projects fail because of "just starting".

Coming from games I can whip out C/C++/OpenGL and get something bouncing on the screen. I can prototype. But at some point I need to add in artists and designers at which point it will be months till I have anything close to Unreal or Unity.

But I don't know Unity or Unreal so I stick with C/C++/DirectX and then hit that wall.

I assume the same is true for other areas. I could write webapp in cgi/perl/html/js or cgi/python/html/js or php/html/js those are what I know. But if I chose Rails or insert-framework-of-the-month-here I'd gain so much functionality.

Back to games. I could hack an iOS game together in ObjectiveC/C++ or I could choose a framework and get free server side highscores, free in app purchase framework, free social network integration, etc... etc... etc...

So yes, you can fail because you never take the first step. But you can also fail because you don't realize that the few hours it takes to make a working prototype is actually only 1% of the work you have to do to ship and that if you'd have chosen a framework/engine you'd start at the 50% or 75% mark instead of the 0% mark.
Anybody experienced sleep problems caused by using internet right before falling asleep and the first thing in the morning?

I've stopped doing that recently, and it does feel liberating, but I still have sleep problems... (Such as waking up every night, sometimes twice.)
Which is the reason design should not enjoy patent protection. No one says transistor when done right is obvious.
TASERdrone - Taser + Parrot AR drone
This is not an HTML table. It's an error establishing a database connection.
The Internet is Killing Storytelling, but Photos are Bringing it Back
AT&T To Monitor Consumer Mobile Data, U-Verse TV Usage for Targeted Ads
Cool idea, but I would most definitely lose something with that system. Either a card or money would slip out or I would break the rubber-band. Though this makes me want to get a money clip.
userscripts.org/scripts/show/76214
True and totally agree with you, end of the day we just when ahead and picked a name.
Certainly some slippery slope arguments are good, though!

For instance, suppose a terrorist starts demanding a large sum of money not to blow up a plane. Suppose also that the direct risk-corrected value of the plane, even excluding passenger lives, also exceeds the price the terrorist is asking for. We still make it policy not to negotiate with the terrorist, because doing so would create a positive feedback loop that pushes us down a slippery slope.

When you think about it, it's a fairly insidious argument to say that slippery slope arguments should be rejected because they fall into a category of arguments that are subtle and hard to refute because they are so insidious. An amusing implied prior of the slippery slope fallacy is that once we start accepting valid slippery slope arguments, what's to stop us from accepting the really terrible ones that take the same structure?
f.lux[1] is pretty much THE main reason I jailbroke my iPad.

[1]http://stereopsis.com/flux/ios.html
I might be wrong, but at first glance, it looks like everyone involved needs to install Hipvite to organize and event.

If I am correct in thinking this, I would advise you to make an SMS fallback. It's difficult to organize an event with friends if they all need iPhones to install the same app.
I always thought "growth hacking" meant a hacker that has strong knowledge of "hacking" tactics (a/b testing, optimizing on boarding funnel, etc) as well as a keen business sense (markets, distribution, etc) to grow the startup's user base.

Anyone?
This is not an error establishing a database connection. It's an header1 tag.
workin' on it...
The day Pipes launched was quite eventful. There was some very "creative" code in there that wasn't really designed to take the traffic it received on launch. Completely different today and I still use its cousin YQL for many things.
Try hitting "CTRL +" to zoom and it will bring your system to a halt.

Interesting effect though. It's what some crafty devs are doing to get around image blocking in modern email clients, like here: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3642/email-with-pix...
Gorgeous app. Graphics are very clean and the interface is intuitive. Nice work!
I think most marketers are supposed to have some technical experience if you are looking for a job in SV. I notice people saying being a growth hacker is like being a marketer but more technical. Most marketing job positions require at least a little "front end" developer knowledge. In short calling someone a growth hacker is annoying because it is trying to obfuscate an easy to understand job title and is unnecessarily buzzwordy.
That's interesting. Kind of off topic but there is literature to suggest that biphasic sleeping was more normal before: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/ah00034...
For anyone too lazy to use web inspector: It's 100x40, so effectively a 100-row 4000-cell table.
I realize that. It was more a positioning statement to separate it from YC. There are lots of other YC like programs too. The idea being to identify talented people who may not feel comfortable managing their constraints within existing accelerators. More importantly, to your point, I don't think that's an attractive target group for investors.
Some things they mention should be done at every tech company:

1. Give employees free lunch
2. Give every employee an iphone
3. Github for code review
1-Click? Amazon’s latest innovation is 0-click.
Google Has Had Enough: Files Lawsuit To Ban Multiple Apple Products
This is a logic shortcut (heuristic), with its origins in decisionmaking under incomplete information and time constraint. Yes, in the context of manipulative pre-meditation (and perfect information) it takes on a new character.

Edit: Clarification/simplify
I think pointing out a logical fallacy is not a refutation. Rather than saying "your argument is wrong", it says "your argument is not well-formed". This is much like the difference between a program that has a bug and a program that has a parse error.

To take the most glaring example: "my point is true because my point is true". Obviously, nobody actually says this seriously. But some arguments are isomorphic to this. And any argument like that is not wrong per se--it is literally meaningless.

Other fallacies are more subtle and complicated, but the idea remains the same: using a fallacy does not invalidate your point but merely renders your argument meaningless. I can say that "the sky is blue because everybody says so" and I would not be wrong--given the sky is actually blue, of course--but the argument would still be a fallacy. I think to point this out is valuable even (perhaps especially) if you do not disagree with the point in question.
I'd reckon that most people experience this argument all the time with regards to their religious and political preferences or lack thereof.

Christian. Muslim. Jewish. Buddhist. Hindu. Republican. Democrat. Moderate. Independent.

Odds are most people who read the above section had some sort of archetypal or stereotypical vision of most or all of those and all of us can identify some of the associated types. And most of us can also realise that not all Christians are fundies (or even vocal), that Jews are greedy with roughly equal proportion of more general populations, that not all moderates have weak political views, etc. But we all get to live with these, though admittedly some are worse than others.
As the other comment mentions, staffing is a significant cost in many systems, especially those with lower ridership numbers (though presumably if this city needs such a large bus, it's not really in that category).

Of course, as large as this bus is, it's still nowhere near the capacity of many trains. Commuter trains in places like Japan can carry upwards of 3,000 people on a single train (and of course then there's India...). When you really need capacity, the costs of the dedicated infrastructure for trains start to become worth it.
I've heard it was to avoid ambiguity with numbers used in an earlier system.
I just replaced it with 50x20... should help speed things along.
I find the most enjoyable form of argument is to listen to what your opponent is saying. Instead of poking holes in bad word choices or minor factual inaccuracies, reconstruct in your head the person's argument to be as strong and clear-headed as possible. Then refute that argument, which is probably closer anyways to what the person was thinking than what they actually wrote.

Going all out against someone's point of view does have its uses, of course. But it's never good for genuine intellectual exploration (which is, honestly, often not our real goal in confronting someone).
Totally agree with you. I think this is about hiring the right type of people. Honestly, marketing has a bad reputation with many technical people. So if you tried to hire a CS grad into an online marketing role, it might be tough. Hence the new title. Whatever works!
I guess you need to google "design patents". I feel like 95% of the people on HN don't know the difference between the two. FWIW, philip morris patented rounded corners on their cigarette boxes. If you think that's crazy, you should see the ones filed by Gucci. Maybe design patents should be renamed since everyone confuses them with utility patents.