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The apps section says: "enjoy your favorite games, entertainment apps and more" and then highlights Adobe Acrobat, Dropbox, and LastPass.

Think it's clear who Meta wants to buy this! It will be great if companies buy their employees a $1500 headset that they use to play Beat Saber.

Congrats to Spenser, Curtis, and the whole team. From a YC pivot to a Nasdaq-listed company, bravo! Couldn't have happened to a more genuinely awesome group.

I've been a subscriber to Snigdha's Inkmango newsletter (https://www.inkmango.com) for many months — I look forward to it every Sunday. Even though I generally try to stay up on South Asian news, her newsletter always contains fascinating links/stories that I really enjoy — and wouldn't have seen otherwise. She's a fantastic curator and I'm excited to see she's launching original content.

I worked briefly in Indian media, at a magazine based in Delhi, and one takeaway was that there's unfortunately a paucity of well-reported, hard-hitting, speaking-truth-to-power journalism in India and South Asia more broadly. The mainstream papers and TV channels just don't do it. It's easy for Americans and Europeans to take the presence of publications like the New York Times for granted, because that level of journalistic quality and resource doesn't exist in much of South Asia. It's especially unfortunate because many of the countries are on a march towards nationalism (India being the most obvious example). Great journalism is so crucial in such a vibrant, important, rapidly-changing region of the world. Hopefully The Juggernaut and projects like it can help raise global awareness about the injustices happening in South Asia — I wish them good luck and I'll be reading!

I think this article sets up a straw man argument that is a little disingenuous. It seems that most of the politicians (save for a couple extremists) and everyday people who support more emphasis on STEM teaching aren't arguing it should be at the expense of the liberal arts education Americans are getting now. Sure, the focus on STEM is partially about "making America more competitive" as a whole, but I think it's even more about enabling everyday people to get reliable+productive jobs and career skills that will be important in the modern workforce for decades to come. That can only be a good thing.

Having met some of the students that went through Make School's summer session, I was very impressed. They seemed to be more widely-experienced and driven than your average student at a top-tier school. Excited to see that Make School is turning this into a full two-year program.

I'm hopeful that someday we'll be able to get measured once professionally, and then input a code/set of measurements to order perfectly-fitting clothes, glasses, shoes, etc online through different providers. That would be so cool. Seems like this is a step towards that.

Less with hardware-specific expertise, more with crowdfunding, pre-sales, and bringing a product to market. Many highly-successful new hardware project launches have been powered by Tilt over the past year, to name a few: Navdy, Lytro Illum, Whistle GPS, and Eero (yesterday).

(These were all on the Tilt/Open platform: https://open.tilt.com/)

Congrats, team FarmLogs!

Congrats MakeSchool! The summer program students I met were very bright and loved the program, look forward to following the gap year program.

Loved reading this and will make a donation. So cool to see YC reaching out to startup non-profits that are on their way to making a big difference.

I'm glad to see Nextdoor getting this kind of recognition. I've moved around the Bay Area several times in the last few years, and every new Nextdoor community I've joined has been very active and helpful (I bought furniture, found out about a block party, and much more). Highly recommend joining.

+1 for Nextdoor. I've moved around the Bay Area several times in the last few years, and every new Nextdoor community I've joined has been very active and helpful.

Kudos, Seth. Really refreshing to see this kind of bare honesty, and takes a lot of courage to know that this post will probably be seen by all friends/family/coworkers. Thank you for writing this.

Way to go, Bannerman! Have used them for an event and had a great experience.

I like the Y-shaped old Android logo, but for some reason I feel that it looks upside-down. Could be one dot on top, with 2-3 arrows pointing downwards.

Fascinating article!

Fascinating that Lyft seems to be owning and administering the actual vehicles with Plus (custom Ford Explorers). To my knowledge, none of these services do that yet.

Schools like Harvard should have a major (or at least a concentration) in Web Development. Without that, they're missing out on setting up thousands of students for success.

Definitely. Many of the largest crowdfunding campaigns of the past year have been self-powered (see Soylent, Tile, Lockitron, Coin, Star Citizen).

Might be helpful to check out Lockitron co-founder Paul Gerhardt's views on self-hosted campaigns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6261442

This campaign for Lammily is powered by our open source tool CrowdtiltOpen (formerly Crowdhoster). We've taken Selfstarter's awesome groundwork and turned it into an end-to-end solution.

That's a great piece of feedback. With CrowdtiltOpen (http://open.crowdtilt.com) we're trying to provide powerful, fully white-label crowdfunding - but it could be in creators' best interest to move up our logo by default to inspire more confidence.

Thanks so much, passing this along to the rest of the team.

For more background on this campaign, check out this TIME piece from the morning: http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/03/05/the-new-barbie-meet-the-...

Wow, thank you Jarred. We're obviously huge fans, and hoping to carry on the Selfstarter mission as far as possible :)

Wow, this is a great in-depth tutorial. Crazy to think that iPhone app production has become this accessible.

Check out this (non-Kickstarter) campaign: https://pledge.immunityproject.org/the-free-hiv-aids-vaccine

This is so sweet, Artur!

Big congrats to the Balanced team!

This is a great point. I work on tools that would be perfect for this: Crowdtilt[0] and our open-source tool Crowdhoster[1]. This situation specifically reminds me of a Crowdtilt campaign that launched here on HN after the Internet Archive burned down[2], so I would be very happy to help.

[0]: https://www.crowdtilt.com/

[1]: http://www.crowdhoster.com/

[2]: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/please-help-the-internet...

Big congrats, guys! :)

Crowdhoster (http://crowdhoster.com) is different from those third-party platforms because it's an open source, extensible toolset to launch your own crowdfunding website. So whether you use our hosted solution, or fork the code yourself on Github: you maintain full control over the site, can plug in any tools you want (Google Analytics, AdRoll), and it's free to use. You can think of it as a WordPress-like tool, for crowdfunding.

Do you live in an urban area? Foursquare has been commonly talked about by the non-tech-savvy people I know for years now. I'd actually say moreso than any social service other than Twitter and Facebook, over the past 3-4 years.

To clarify: the $50 is a direct donation to Fight for the Future, the non-profit organization behind Bitcoin Black Friday (http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/), and the t-shirt is just a donation reward!