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This tech, and that business plan, is nothing new. Plastic Logic aimed squarely at the professional market with a flexible e-ink reader that debuted at CES 2009. [0]

It hasn't worked out so well for them. I visited their booth in 2009, and they showed a large flexible screen housed in a rigid case. It was to be the advent of flexible e-ink, and the beginning of a new era. Eventually, their announced content partners fell through, and despite an initial splash it never really materialized.

Plastic Logic did launch in the US, but shut down their US ops in 2012. [1] They are still a going concern, however, and still focusing on the business market.

[0] http://www.slashgear.com/plastic-logic-que-wireless-ebook-re...
[1] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1a08be60-9eba-11e1-9cc8-00144...
You can be reasonable in many aspects and behaviors of your life, and be unreasonable in some that happen to matter more to the situation at hand.

I think it's pretty safe to say that thinking some of your employees are lesser human beings because they happen to not conform to your outdated view of sexuality, romance, and gender identity, is a pretty demonstrably unreasonable position.
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It's ok, HN doesn't provide notifications, a quick google turned out this link, not the most respectable source I will admit, but I remember it being fairly well reported at the time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396564/German-embas...
The Kinect already attempts to reconstruct your expression with the IR/image overlay. It's not the most accurate, but that could just be the software.
When we applied to YC in 2011, we originally focused on professional women as that is where we saw the biggest need for our content, although 90% of our content was not gender-specific. Very quickly we watched our demographic grow to be 30+% men, and we made the decision to broaden our focus, while continuing to focus on our core: careers. One reason we made that decision is because one of the things we originally wanted to combat was women not feeling welcome in the workplace, so the idea of men not feeling welcome on The Muse (since they were actively using it "in secret" as they said) didn't feel in line with our principles.

More info on that change here: http://www.themuse.com/advice/join-our-new-journey-updates-f...
I see that Eich put up a small amount of money to support a bill against gay marriage. This says nothing about the way he treats people, or how he might serve as CEO. Is there something more, or is it really all about his political ideals?
Fixed, thanks.

Andromeda really only had five seasons. I think it went episodic in Season 3 or 4 after blowing its load on the major story arc (putting together the federation^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h commonwealth again). It was never a great show, but fine to put on in the background while I was doing other stuff. But then it got really really bad and I don't even think I ended up finishing it.
The vitriol is lame and so is the ratio of reaction to sustained belief, such as in the case of Oculus.

Who bought them again? oh yeah, facebook. Three days ago, it was a web-wide disaster. Now, they hired some famous tech guy (unknown to me, casual gamer here) and people can't be riled anymore.
And this is why I just don't get this aqui-hire craze. You can buy the founders, sure, but unless an employee has equity or you throw some real cash at them why would a rank and file employee stay? If I wanted to work at XYZ corp (especially if XYZ corp is big enough to acquire the startup), then I would have sent a resume to XYZ corp in the first place.
That doesn't sound convincing. The Xerox PARC GUI is everywhere. The results of their work are about as mainstream as they could possibly be.

Likewise, Smalltalk and Mesa were both hugely influential in everything from C, C++, Java and beyond.

Given that, it seems more likely that graphical development hasn't taken off because it isn't good enough yet. All developers have prejudices, but they typically have to yield to superior methodologies.
How about a constant, always-running gaze map. To see which ads grab attention most effectively, perhaps.
See a therapist, maybe. If you're suicidal, call your insurance company and tell them you feel like you may be at risk to yourself.
Using simple text correction algorithm should work just fine. However, this goes beyond this simple experiment. I just wanted to demonstrate capabilities of ocrad.js . Feel free to implement it yourself! It seems that there are multiple JS auto-correction libs, e.g. https://code.google.com/p/careti/ .
> For research papers... maybe 50 pages including technical graphics? With a monochrome laser printer, we'll give a very high estimate of $0.10 per page, or $5 per paper. That's still 220 papers to break even

Okay, so, yes, its cheaper to print paper than to carry a letter-sized, write-on-it, ereader.

OTOH, its a lot more convenient to carry one ereader if you have a lot of stuff to view than it is to carry a stack of books/research papers/etc.
I agree, no other TV show on this site has this kind of pattern. And the oddest thing is the ratings of season 1. Because, really it was awful.
I don't know if the ratio of engineering led companies is growing, but with Twitter and Facebook going public instead of getting acquired, AirBnB, Dropbox and Github all getting huge, and Zuck's approach to big acquisitions so far (founders of Instragram, WhatsApp, and Oculus still running those companies), technical founders seem like they have more expectation of staying in control than before. I can't see any big tech co now bringing in a "grown up" a la early Apple or even Eric Schmidt at Google. And as an employee, it's super easy to find authentically tech-driven companies.

The "increasing" I mentioned had much more to do with a16z's surging influence and success as a VC.

"Knewton"

Never heard of Knewton, there are always going to bad examples. But you only work for one company at a time, and since there are so many great companies here, the bad apples don't matter as much. Bad/weak/deceptive companies are much more dangerous in smaller, thinner tech job markets (basically everywhere outside of SV/SF/NYC/Seattle/Boston).

And yes, the salaries in tech don't matter because tech workers without successful founder equity are still collateral damage between rich powerful companies and rich powerful property owners. I love my career intangibles here but I don't feel richer despite a big pay raise when I moved.
It's pretty clear that that commenter doesn't have any serious experience with user testing. A design needs to work with the user - you don't abuse the user because they don't efficiently use your design. Well, not if you're professional.
Does a (relatively small) monetary donation really deserve to be called a "toxic political action"...?
I want to clarify my comment further, I am not aware that he did anything else but provide donation and I am absulutely for freedom of opinion and speech. To me this is not relevant enough nor as important as Mozilla and it's role in open source.
never heard of "mozillians" ..
> You can get an e-reader for around $40 these days.

Yeah, but you can't get a letter-sized eink reader for around $40.
Love it. One suggestion: I'd love to see options for setting custom story density.
Totally agree. You don't need 100's just 5-10 like you said. It will be really obvious of the issues because many people will suffer them same ones.
i guess "mozillans" sounds too much like "villain"
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Suppose he didn't oppose same-sex marriage per se, but opposed the way it was being implemented in California. Would he still be anti "human rights"? These issues are complex and people's beliefs and opinions can't always be distilled down to some simple, binary good/bad bit.

I'm opposed to mandatory integration of public schools and mandatory racial-based quota systems. Does that make me a racist? Some would say so, others would say not. I would vigorously argue not; I totally oppose racial discrimination and I believe that a blind meritocracy in the long run brings about real, permanent integration. So should I be locked out of a non-profit tech organization because of my views?

From what I've observed over the last couple of decades, the tech community hosts plenty of diverse political opinions, but generally with a serious streak of anti-authoritarianism. Do we want to now define the tech community as being on one side of any particular political or social issue? Is that a fair or healthy approach?
Yeah, almost everyone in the real world is using it via FastCGI. People have a huge investment in the configuration and operation of their existing http server (nginx or apache).
tl;dr: because we think that the questions asked on the application are good ones to have considered simply for the future of a startup anyway.
Do animals have a sense of humour?
No crowd's expression of political views (for any side) is to be trusted. Group-think leads to weird decision-making.
"People are still typing the same Unix commands into 25x80 terminal windows."

Well, I for one am typing the same Unix commands and some new Unix commands into 58x170 terminal windows (on my laptop - bigger at work), and at work my builds run in 10s of seconds if I run tests. In many ways a much better experience, and one that it's easier to build still more great stuff into/atop without breaking the basic model.
Primary information should not be put in a low-contrast footer, the place where you usually put things like the privacy declaration, or which company made the theme, or which CMS is 'powering' the site. The footer is a blind spot which plenty of people mentally block out because it's usually full of meaningless information.
Next Up Moldova?
Headline makes it seem like this is a resignation over a disapproval. The witch hunt is coming and they are getting out of the way. With this resignation they hope to avoid being targets. Similar things happened in Soviet bloc countries with the NKVD. Hell, similar things happened during all that McCarthyism crap... 'So we've heard you've donated to the Communist party several years back... you'd like to keep your job wouldn't you?'
I don't like doing this because I'm a founder too and, well, "you don't shit where you eat" - you don't go and pass judgement about the ventures of others because you don't want to be in their spot yourself.

Nevertheless, I couldn't help but notice their landing page reeks of buzzword laden hustle and nothing more. This, to me, is not a legitimate venture, or at least not presented as such.

1. The service doesn't seem to exist;

2. The landing page textual content is badly made and badly spelled, which makes you question the capabilities and efforts of the team behind it;

3. They have this slider that name drops companies they have nothing to do with (AirBnB, CoffeeTable etc) with some headline stats and icons, and slides out of your way just before you begin to read the smaller print, which is about how these companies improved business metrics using push notifications. It has nothing to do with their product whatsoever. But you wouldn't think that on first glance, as they deliberately made it look like customer testimonials.
This to me is a huge red flag;

4. They have a $599 recommended plan which is way above what SaaS MVPs usually aim for;

5. Microsoft employs ~100k people worldwide. Being a Microsoft employee is completely meaningless in this context, and I feel is only used to lend them credibility in light of points #1-#4.

There's a very fine line between MVP, hustling and outright scamming. I feel they went too far. I'm sorry if I hurt someone's feelings but I doubt this is YC material.
Just the state that he doesn't believe in equality is enough for me.
> where they had enormous amounts of custom machining and microcontroller work, you can deride that as "tinkering" if you like.

I will deride it all day, because it's not manufacturing. In manufacturing consumer products you must worry about things like margins, supply chains, and regional regulations. Oculus Rift is going to be a consumer device. So why the hell are you trying to compare apples and doorknobs here? I wasn't knocking Carmack or Abrash. I was telling you factual information. They are not the same people that will turn Oculus Rift into a consumer product. At all. Facebook will have to hire more people and bring in more outsider knowledge. That is what I'm saying.

> demonstrates how much hardware knowledge Google has. So you are wrong there too.

Nexus is just rebranded Asus/LG/Samsung devices. In fact, my Asus tablet has more features and is cheaper than its Nexus sibling. Chromebook came out and was priced higher than a MacBook. Which is proof enough that Google doesn't understand the hardware market. Who wants to buy a locked-down dumb terminal laptop, when you can get the real deal for cheaper? Google Glass? Did anyone really take that seriously? Self-driving cars? Didn't know I could go to my local auto dealer and get one.

My point is, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Wrong market predictions, wrong retail pricing, bad supply chain, terrible marketing. And you really expect that Carmack+Abrash = VR products for sale soon? Realistically, we're not going to see anything for at least 5 years. Conservatively, 10. And Carmack and Abrash are a few pieces in a giant puzzle.

> they sold me an iPhone

That's nice.
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Has he defended his support of a blatantly anti-gay measure? You cannot support hate groups and expect the world to just brush it off.

Edit - Found his response: https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
PeerPortal raises 250k in the last 24 hours leading to their YC submission.
Furthermore Visual Studio let's you define custom debug visualisation quite easily:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13127/Create-a-Debugger-...

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/eedc48e7-5169-...

(but of course one has to think outside of the "evil MS" box)
The gp is implying that they are jealous of a 14 year old.
It depends entirely on how much state they need to capture. Ocaml has long had a time travelling debugger (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-400/manual030.htm...) which is very useful in the small. Data-centric languages like Bloom (http://www.bloom-lang.net/) can cheaply reconstruct past states using the transaction log. Frameworks like Opis (https://web.archive.org/web/20120304212940/http://perso.elev...) allow not only moving forward and backwards but can exhaustively explore all possible branches using finite state model-checking. The key in each case is to distinguish between essential state and derived state. http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf‎ has more to say on that front.
Crassus,

I accept your challenge to an open debate about how the government should endorse relations between consenting adults.

My view as of a couple years ago, which has changed somewhat, is freely available online under my legal name, Jordan Birnholtz. I hope this provides you an adequate starting point. I will even include it here so you do not have to search: http://www.michigandaily.com/content/viewpoint-divorce-marri...

How would you like to structure it and over what media?
Sensationalist titles will change the way you read!
Google keeps throwing googlies over its market dominance
> Our culture is in middle of making unprecedented
> changes to a core social institution that goes back
> into prehistory.

Homosexuality was not a big deal during Ancient History. Then came Christianity and its obscurantism, shaming everything that was not in the good book for the sake of control. Our culture is going back to its roots paganism and greek heritage it's a long way since the Renaissance.
Speak plainly: are we losing the war against jargon?
Doesn't work very well for me in terms of recognition. I took a picture of a few logos and big text and it only recognized 80%
I don't know anything about Mozilla's structure, but in some corporations it's possible for a single board seat to have more than one vote (e.g., for board seats appointed by a holder of "Class F" (founder) or "original shares" versus other classes of stock).

Edit: clarity.
You could use trigger.io or another phone frame work that gives you JS api access to the camera and pipe it to this library
If we're only talking desktop numbers, I could believe those trends. One could make an argument that at this point in their market maturity, those users who navigate away from IE are a more-or-less static population in terms of proportion of desktop users, so Firefox and Chrome fight for similar users. The growing market share of Windows 8, sluggish or not, could explain an upward trend for IE.

Total suppositions with no data. Not an argument, just thinking aloud.
Thanks! Another item for my to do list then :)
> You people are vicious.

We're not the ones treating other people as lesser human beings who should be treated as second-class citizens in our society.

> Lastly, equality isn't an unmitigated good.

"Equality" in the sense of civil rights and social liberties doesn't mean "give every person exactly the same set of everything under any and all circumstances imaginable" — that's a very programmer (dare I say, robot-like) way of looking at the term. Equality, in this context, is about ensuring that certain groups are not discriminated against in systems, in cultures, and in society at large. Ensuring equal rights often does, in fact, demand unequal laws to counteract an unequal status quo, etc. I'll spare you the crash course of legislation 101.

> For example, you probably don't believe that children should be able to marry, or more than two people.

Yes I do, but I also believe that marriage should not be a government institution in the first place, because too many people think of it as having a religious aspect (for understandable and legitimate reasons), but as such it does not belong in government. Separation of Church and State and all that. So I'm in favor of civil unions for all legal adults, and that includes poly unions. Children can then marry all they want, but they are not legal adults yet, so doing so has no impact whatsoever on their legal status in any way.

> Personally, I raise an eyebrow when a six year old boy raised by adoptive lesbians decides he is transexual, and I feel like society may be failing that boy.

I feel you're failing society by having that viewpoint. Who the fuck are you to judge like that, seriously?! Society is doing great if a young girl who was assigned male sex organs feels comfortable and safe enough to state this wish to her parents — and here you go thinking it would be better if she would feel trapped and unhappy in her body the entire rest of her life?! That's not just judgmental, but severely lacking in empathy.
> Personally, I raise an eyebrow when a six year old boy raised by adoptive lesbians decides he is transexual, and I feel like society may be failing that boy.

This is a near perfect instance of xkcd's girls suck at math[1]. Shitty parents are tragically common, and we are failing children who are victims. But when a heterosexual couple destroys a child's life, we don't start talking about taking kids away from heterosexuals.

Also, I don't think polyamorous marriage is a good argument point against gay marriage. In time, as a society we'll see those opposed to the former as bigoted as well.

Anything that violates live and let live between consenting adults is on thin ice.

[1] https://xkcd.com/385/
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Actually we have quite successful founders who move with their families to Mountain View — notably the two founders of Mongo HQ and their families shared a rented house there for the duration of the batch. They happened to stay in the Bay Area, but they could have just as easily went back home after raising their seed round too.
It takes barely any toxicity to get someone, somewhere to issue a mostly meaningless "I hate this guy" press release.
I'm guessing you're not one of the people being discriminated against by Proposition 8. Am I right?
Someone very close and dear to me has a mental illness. She was super nervous to disclose this to me for fear that I may think differently of her. The thing she most appreciated about my reaction was that I said "Let me know if there is anything that I should know about your illness that may affect you in a way that may make you behave differently than you normally do, otherwise I will behave and act as if it simply doesn't exist." Suffice to say, I don't actually remember what illness she has.
There are many paths. Best of luck to you sir.
Medication carries a risk.

One of the most important questions you can ask your doctor is "what happens if we just do watchful waiting?"

Taking meds, with their potential risk, if they provide no benefit is a bad thing.

While ADHD is real and needs treatment some of the people being medicated either have other diagnoses or they have bad parents. This isn't something that should be passed onto the child ("there is something wrong with you, take these meds") when it is the family that is broken ("I need to learn some better parenting techniques; we need to set firmer boundaries").
baschcoder, or scholia, do you guys know of a blog that follows the professional market?
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The incredible moment when a deaf women hears for the first time
Wasn't PlayBook a QNX release?
Our culture is in middle of making unprecedented changes to a core social institution that goes back into prehistory.

Did you trade some goats for your wife? If not, then gee, I guess we've already made unprecedented changes to a core social institution.
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If it really were that simple, it would have stopped in 2011. That seems to be when you stopped following the story.

There is really not much more I can say in response to such a substance-less comment, other than telling you that you should research the more recent developments in this situation before misrepresenting it again in the future.
It's incredible that this happens. A popular blog post is the best way to get traffic back into your website, especially if your blog post is a technical one instead of a product update. I think:

"Oh wow, these guys really care about their product. I should check it out and keep it in the back of my mind for the future"
Somehow, I doubt a CEO who is against same-sex marriage will be terribly friendly to LGBT employees.
White, male, southeastern state school, to quote a VC "literally no fucking pedigree", no engineering backgrounds... we just participated in demo day. YC has been incredible for us and the partners have been amazing to work with.

Hustlers. Recruited PhDs & MSs with great experience/ backgrounds and empowered our team (hire smarter than yourself). Build a product that makes sense and people are demanding you take their money for... we are not perfectly outside the norm, but I would assume we're pretty unusual (at least in education/ experience/ skillset). You can email me any questions re YC.