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If instead, my DAW software was running based completely on sandboxed code executed locally but being served up remotely, then I can move from machine to machine effortlessly and collaborate incredibly easily with other producers and musicians. Of course, this is not the only use case.

But isn't that really licensing requirements, rather than technical requirements? Or the 20+GB sample libraries that things like Superior Drummer haul around? I don't see how you could remote-serve that kind of content, any more than you could, say, Skyrim. Now, remote rendering MIDI data and streaming back the audio might work, but I use many VST plugins as real-time processors (amp sims etc.) Knowing how much effort I've sunk into optimising everything on this computer for real-time playable latencies without glitching, I'm having a hard time believing that the Web Audio API is going to cut it for my use case, unless it's basically just ASIO. There simply isn't much opportunity for any buffering at 5ms latency, so that "sandbox" might end up sharing memory rather a lot...
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I very much agree with the last point. Objective evaluation of a developer is much more than burned down points.

I worked at Amazon and could see evidently that Scrum was turning good developers into mediocre ones. But not many raised a finger against it as Scrum was seen as the norm. And there was no scientific way to establish this fact.
He must have very tiny thumbs
You mean nano.
There are more downsides than "you need to switch the context between two languages"

There are plenty of apps (i'd say the vast majority) where simply does not make sense to cut the codebase in half.
As someone who applied as a single founder (and got in), just apply anyway. However, ensure that you get across that you are indeed open to finding a co-founder.
Agree with the others. No FB or Twitter, so can't try it out :(
Meta-posts are my way of saying, "I have run out of fresh ideas but not my enthusiasm for listening to the sound of my own voice."
I find trolling used as a "term of perspective" an extremely vague blanket accusation that hinders discussion.

If it's an obvious trolling, e.g something that can not be considered anything else than an attempt at troll, it's ok.

But characterizing anything else trolling is just an easy cop-out of the discussion.
So basically, its an inferior Galaxy S3 with the same old design for twice the money. Well done Apple.
TaskRabbit offers wait-in-line service so you can sleep in and get the iPhone 5
Money for Something ($10 ebook on investing)
No, because /tmp is supposed to be assumed to be cleared on start up. If you want something to survive between reboots, /tmp is the last place you should put it, even if you're not using tmpfs.

I've never had a problem with this using mutt, but if I cared, I'd switch it to use /var/tmp.

Either way, if there's a problem, it's with the program, not the filesystem - no need to use a cannon to kill a fly.
This is a great concept.
The problem isn't that they didn't implement the concept in the most effective way but they didn't actually implement it in any way.
Traffic is just traffic that wastes your bandwidth.
Targeted traffic is whats not just important but fundamental.
Don't forget the actual Nokia N9, after which the Lumias were made. Same unibody, solid Linux/MeeGo experience. The amazing is that I can impress anyone with it, while an iPhone is such a common view that is becoming the next "xerox" or "velcro".
Cool idea, but remember the botnets. I also am not sure what we gain by verifying their class of attempt if we're already defending against it.
I think this is pretty neat, although it does come with many unintended consequences for spam.

Does anyone have more information on the technology they use to generate these articles? I assume some sort of NLP in reverse (natural language generation, I guess?)
Learning new languages and SDKs (Go & Android). Planning the amazing hack of my Nexus Q.
I've got it on a SGS II and never use it. The reception is pretty variable. I'd rather suffer buffering than hiss and crackle.
I agree, my phrasing is too vitriolic. I feel that links like this are part of the decline in quality around here but, I'm not helping any.

Apparently I can't delete the comment myself at this point.
iPod touch loop button - seems like a design decision Steve Jobs would have never allowed. It seems like they are just trying to get into the camera market by attaching a wrist strap, yet they've sacrificed the purity of their design. I'm not gonna speculate on whether this is gonna increase the appeal of the ipod family, but to me it seems like bad design decision - from an aesthetic point of view.
I think http://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm is better.
A very valid question.How about those on H4?

As some might know the H1 for this year has been used up (unlike in the past 4-5 years), will YC still be ok accepting ideas/startups that cannot be on h1?

Some clarity on this front will be very helpful for immigrants :)
We'll never know because we put in just enough forces to achieve a tactical victory, but I suspect it would have been a different story if say 150,000 troops for 10 years were traded for 500,000 troops for three years.

In a mostly illiterate society I suspect the entire way of thinking behind things like honor killings has a shakier foundation than we would suspect.

If over the period of turning from a 10 year old into a 13 year old, or from 13 to 16 the Taliban were a joke, you would notice, and when the American troops were gone you would still remember that they were not cool.

The cause is lost because a decade of little boys growing up think that fighting against occupiers is cooler, and whatever the leaders of those groups say must hold some weight.

If instead they learned to read, so that they had access to enough thinking to realize how small their elders' minds were, or if they learned math which is uncontroversial, but champions thinking over authority, they would have the foundation to overturn a tradition of validating cruelty and intolerance.

Little kids are perceptive, and a few years of seeing intolerant elders and militants as losers, even if only for a small portion of their youth, may have made an immeasurable difference.
For what it's worth, about 15% of last batch had only one founder: http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combi...
It's likely because your hand has to traverse the entire back of it. Put a phone in your hand and see how far your thumb swipes. Now turn the phone 90 degrees (or use a 2nd larger phone) and see that you really do make a smaller circle.
What I found interesting wasn't so much what was said as the unstated assumptions behind it. The comment was in any case almost deliberately useless in how to handle an existing relationship that already entailed sex.
These seem to use some kind of "sliding thumb" control (see kickstarter)
Exploitation of a resource is a fact. Treating human beings as an exploitable resource is also a fact - it's the very basis of modern management.

If it has negative connotations, perhaps you should examine why you feel so negatively about it.
A standard API with sane defaults is an excellent idea for a language with so many developers of varying competencies.
Thanks Oliver, that's reassuring. May I ask what happened after you were accepted - did you find a co-founder then?
What's odd is that they added it to the iPod Nano, but not the iPhone or touch.
Get a cofounder. If your startup succeeds, you could spend 5 years or more working on it. It's rounding error to spend 6 months making a concerted effort to find a cofounder first. And while it can be hard to find a cofounder, it's not as hard as starting a successful startup.
Zendesk raises $60million and revamp its offerring
I want to find out more about your service.
As an app developer I thank the Screen Resolution Overlords for making all my competitors look obsolete.
We had 6 hardware startups in the most recent batch in fact.
Is it? Perhaps you could explicitly state what you believe I meant to convey.
That I did not know. I always thought that single founder companies were quite rare. Many thanks.
I'm just sitting down to start reading the book now, but based on the reviews and quotes listed it should be great!
"Apple just did what Microsoft couldn't - get people to buy a Windows phone." - Credit to commentor engadget.
Hmm, chrome wants to install an app from the store, but firefox renders the feed just fine (it's not empty). What browser/OS are you using, or do you have stand-alone reader?
Copy and pasted wrong - just noticed. The 'no' is supposed to be in response to the debit card fees question.
"Aim high, you may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off." Mercedes Lackey, I forget which book, but I think it was Tarma that said it.
Oh please, the incidents in Norway and America are very rare occurrences compared to the daily violence in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.
For reference, if nothing else, look at the open-source derivatives of WebObjects. Per Wikipedia: "Apache Tapestry has a design and philosophy similar to that of WebObjects. Tapestry is frequently combined with Apache Cayenne, a persistence framework inspired by EOF." The WebObject 5.x series was built around Java.
If, as you say, they're impoverished, how free is their will?

Are they 90% free? 50%?
Isn't that pretty much what other layout engines do? i.e. QT etc.

What was the situation before? Absolute positioning via x/y? Really?
Now that's an interesting Error Page, Capcom's Unity Community Site Goes Down
IPhone 5 Compared With Competitors
We'll keep that in mind, they're currently organized by most popular tag/what we like most.
Apple kills the iconic wheel from its iPod lineup
"how backward we are in terms of social equality; because we know we do and we don't want your intervention on it"

Good. Then don't ever ask us for our help in terms of money or aid.

"And I don't get it, how will a war solve anything."

Because at some point, this is the only thing that will stop extremists. You need to force their hand until they stop. It's your type of thinking that has allowed these barbaric actions to continue for 100s if not 1000s of years.

Look at what happened in WW2: The counties that tried appeasement got crushed.

"Is there going to a genocide where you kill all those who don't agree to you western culture"

An extremist that kills people for talking about their religion is much different than anyone that doesn't believe in "western culture and ideologies".

It is my belief that if a society truly wants to be free, they will fight for it. If not, they aren't ready. The US should really stop giving aid to any of these countries.

I'm just curious how many people need to die before people get sick of living this way.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Apple's Ax processors are manufactured by other companies (mostly Samsung) but they're designed by Apple, in-house. They started doing so after the acquisition of PWRficient.

They are indeed different from the CPUs used by other smartphone manufacturers.
Where does the internet fit into this hierarchy?

How about the web?

3-6

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the announcement was last week at a motorola press event, so ...
Good luck everybody
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Hasn't showed any sign of slowing down yet, still increasing rapidly. If it starts to slow down, at least it's stil positive. Probably will be up to 2 million per day before the growth turns negative, and then it will be a long time before we even get back to the current 1 million per day mark.
i doubt any startups were planning to launch the iPhone 5.

in your eyes, what exactly have they announced that would cause someone to pivot?
The Samsung circle reflects the fact that more of your hand is taken up in holding the increased witdth of the phone. If you actually try it you can see how it works easily.
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The smiley is there for a reason. The Lumia appears to be inspired by the old iPod nano, so really Apple is "copying" their own design.
Finally, robots!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_deficiency
Considering that this will make password-related code much shorter and more readable, I think it's a good idea regardless of what level of competence you expect from the developers.
I've done a bunch of reading about Scrum. If you read between the lines, you realize that Scrum was created and popularized by consultants who go into dysfunctional teams/organizations, and tries to fix the worse problems. For example, the idea of a sprint is for a team to be able to work for at least a couple weeks on a single thing, without people being asked to work on other "small" projects, or without the entire direction of development changing every week.

Once the team is functioning well, you can usefully relax a lot of the aspects of Scrum.
Jawbone's Up is a bracelet that does this too - http://jawbone.com/up/product

My roommate was using one for a little bit, not sure how he feels about it now but I know he was frustrated that there wasn't wireless data syncing.
Defaults to bcrypt with a cost factor of 10. A totally sane default. The interface is clear, simple, and easy to audit for. This is a definite step forward.
Yep, pretty much immediately after starting YC I met my co-founder (through an intro from PG).
The previous time we applied, we pasted the text version on a google doc and created two versions (main and redacted versions), which we were then shared with the team and our app-reviewers (for the app-reviewers, disable editing and allow only for comments). We found this strategy to be really helpful in gathering feedback and more importantly it helped speed up filling up the app.
You both seem to be in agreement.
Automated _unit_ tests cost two or three times as much time, sure. That doesn't mean don't use automated tests, it means don't use unit tests. Use integration tests instead. Not only do they provide much better coverage (you're testing all the code from top to bottom, each module in the context in which it is actually used), but they are also far cheaper.
Seems bizarre to me that hash_pbkdf2() has also been accepted, was authored by the same author, and provides for "better"* hashing than bcrypt(), and yet isn't the PASSWORD_DEFAULT or, indeed, even an option for the secure password hashing algorithm. wtf?

* In the crypto community, "better" usually refers to how long an algorithm has been around, how well reviewed & used it is, and how bug-free it's been. Looking at all of these, PBKDF2 is clearly superior to bcrypt, which has had significant bugs, isn't as widely deployed, etc.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/hash_pbkdf2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2
While it's true that depression has been exhaustively studied by experts in white coats, they were studying "average" people. HN exists because the community has certain mental characteristics in common, and perhaps there is something useful to be said about how human problems affect hackers in particular.
PG, if my co-founder and I are currently bootstrapping a company and starting to work with a law firm to go through all the formalities of incorporation, would you recommend holding off on that for a few months in case we are accepted into YC? It's not cheap (by far) to pay for that stuff out of pocket, and I imagine YC has a lot more experience guiding young companies through the formation process, so curious about your opinion. Thanks.
Nicely done, I have no idea what it has to do with user tests though. Could one not simply get the exact same functionality by having user send emails, and then viewing them in your inbox? Don't get it.
Pretty excellent design choices this time around.

Substantially improved body, performance, performance, performance, as world-mode as world-mode gets, significant camera upgrades, total carrier coverage, total content market coverage, a best-of-breed cloud story, deep integration with currently happening social networks, a total revamp of all I/O (save for the undoubtedly still-shitty speakerphone), an expansion of valuable flagship features into new markets, and (sigh) body with half the chance of shattering.

This will be targeted at mopping up any straggling iPhone 3x users in the wealthiest markets, re-upping the tens of millions of 4-adoptees, and offering a $200 ("free") phone in unsubsidized markets that finally has the same design language as the $800 flagship while running most of the same software features.

It still looks, walks, and talks like the best for the most. Enjoy your new shipment of money hats, Apple.
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We were doing it wrong, for sure. It was a largish team with lots of drill-down done into each person's status. I had no power to change it.
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Then become rich and fund the researchers yourself.
These guys did invest in instagram. But...

When we invested in Instagram, it wasn’t actually Instagram. It was a company called Burbn, and the idea was roughly to build a mobile micro blogging service. Technologically, it was also different: an HTML 5 application rather than a native app...

Of course you never know what then happens. Instagram pivots to photos, and exits at ~$1B. But...

As Kevin iterated on Burbn, we made another investment in an excellent entrepreneur, Dalton Caldwell. Dalton’s company, Mixed Media Labs, initially built a product called PicPlz. PicPlz aime d to be a mobile photo sharing service...

Of course, now Dalton (as app.net) is doing what instagram (then as Burbn) set out to do - a micro-blogging service.

So, there ya go...the ol' switcheroo ;D
Thought this would be a way to SMSify your web-based service to reach developing markets. I was disappointed when I found out what it actually was.
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It's the absolute distance that your thumb has to travel that is important, not the aspect ratio. The question is whether your thumb can reach the opposing corner of the screen. Of course you could always say that the parts that aren't reachable will only be used for display, not controls. But I doubt that iOS 6 moves the navigation buttons to the bottom.
My experience is precisely the reverse. System tests are stable because they only need to change when the observable behavior of the entire system changes. Unit tests are intimately coupled to the internal structure, so if you use them, you have to change them every time you refactor so much as a single function.
This is a sad day for Afghan internet users. I'm sure they're both furious.
Would sketches/rough drafts/db designs/etc. count as a demo? Not sure if it would even be worth posting if you guys don't care about that stuff.
My point (probably didn't make that clear) is that might be a reason it's not more popular - because it's not really obvious how it's supposed to work.
Yeah, I see this a lot in the atheism v. religion debates on Quora (big surprise I'm sure).
Improving world health status might not improve IQ as some inherent human intelligence capacity, but would certainly have an immeasurable population-level effect on "effective IQ" i.e. ability to practice whatever intelligence capacity exists already.

Consider just the challenge of defeating the obesity epidemic. Better diet improves energy and massively increases, again at the population level, the amount of raw thoughtful hours are available to a country.

This is even more widely applicable in global health where health initiatives can also be important components of social change. Women's/sexual health is tied deeply to women's rights which is a leading indicator for social revolution.

While medical breakthrough that change the space of healthcare at large might be rare, there's a lot of room instead for the kind of breakthrough which changes how people receive and are impacted by the healthcare knowledge we already have today.
This assumes processes use $TMP.
So you DO understand location/area and how they are correlated to value. Thus, you must recognize some names ARE better than others and are worth more. Therefore, the market price ISN'T $10, you are simply lying through your teeth to get what you want. The market price of UNCLAIMED land may be $10, and there are definitely unclaimed lots out there worth more. It's a whole business to go out and look for them. The market value of a CLAIMED piece is what someone is willing to pay for it and whether it meets the owners selling price. That is how markets work, there are at least two participants a buyer and a seller and the price is agreed upon by both parties.

Your wording is still silly, 'needs' as if you suddenly can't live without a domain name someone else registered before you because you 'had a great idea for it.' You and anyone else are welcome to buy as many domains as you like that nobody has registered. You can use them for whatever purpose you damn well please as long as you keep paying. If someone else wants them from you, they need to pay enough to convince you to sell it to them.

It's capitalism, if you can't handle it maybe you shouldn't be here.
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in my experience, regardless of your application to YC it is a good idea to get things documented. not because you mistrust your cofounder, or anything of that sort. simply it puts everyones mind at ease for what they get out of it. not having documentation lingers in the back of your mind.

just my 2 cents.
Which is really the only major benefit over both the standard USB and the current Apple 30-pin.

To be honest, I'm not sure if that alone is really worth the extra annoyance of a new connector.
Also prevents it filling up your disk.
In the past I would agree, but with all the stories of cost cutting lately, I am skeptical that it is meaningless.
Driving a display would be one of those times, though. I would love having a phone as the basic computing device, with a desktop and tablet shell.
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Drew Houston originally applied as a single founder (and then lined up a talented and committed co-founder) and turned into one of YC's two biggest successes so far, so take heart.
Huh. I just re-capped the event and you're right. It's in the nano but not the touch.
Absolute positioning, along with an "auto-resizing" mask for each view defining how it should react to change in the parent view's size.

The old way was versatile actually. What it lacked was being able to relate views to anything aside from it's parent container.
You will probably need to look outside work for meaningful challenges and deeper inspiration. My serious suggestion to you is to take on a big goal that has nothing to do with your job, like say, run a marathon or something.
I'm a very good programmer. Self taught. Built some popular tools, top percentile on StackOverflow. My blogs get a few thousand hits a day and some nice fellow translates them into French. I love self-learning, and dislike most organized learning.

However, I don't get a lot of replies if I apply for a job. HR ladies don't care if you're good, only if you check an item on a checklist.

I get by on my own products and on my rep, which is fine, but sometimes I need a gig to pay the bills.

So, my point is, it's great to have all these online courses, seriously, but how is this going to help people get jobs? I can see it helping them make their own job, but some people just want a regular old day job.

If I'm missing something, and there's a good program with some sort of certification, then please point me that way.
Where are moderate muslims at times like these? Probably busy not killing people and making a living. If moderate muslims had anything to say about this topic, how would you know about it? Honestly, is there a TV channel for moderates that I could look up?
more info (and build plans) here: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/
they're mostly on netflix, thats where i watch them these days. Having said that, if you dont have netflix this would be cool.