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The lack of "Intents" on iOS is deliberate IMHO. Apple's products are in the default roles for all the common intents and implementing support for switching intents across the OS would result in less people using Apple's first-party apps. Being the browser is a very valuable position, and not one I expect Apple would invest dev resources to give up.

Comcast is a content owner by virtue of owning NBC. I wonder if Comcast is treating NBC differently or not in this process.

Do any of the readers on this thread work at Apple? I'd love to have you chime in. The silence is deafening...

Forget about Yahoo's dumb patent trolling decision for a second...

If you're still working at Yahoo today that sends a clear message to me about how you value innovation, product quality, thought leadership, and other important assets. As an employee you're making an explicit choice that the company you work for merits spending your most valuable asset: your time.

I have been wary of anyone with Yahoo on their resume for the past two years, and will be more wary going forward. This patent troll mess is just another data point in that calculus.

It's a big deal that a for-profit company is willing to let all their customers and competitors see their source code and reuse it (in accordance with their license).

If we need a new word for this type of behavior to distinguish it from FOSS, then I hope it's a word with strong positive connotations, because it's a great thing for for-profit companies to be doing, especially when most for-profit technologies companies today are standing on the shoulders of open source giants of the past.

Anyone have a video link? Google came up empty for me

Companies that have been funded by Spark Capital (and thus are venture-backed and can afford market salaries) have all their aggregated open jobs listed in one place: http://sparkcapital.com/jobs/

Includes job openings from Twitter, Tumblr, OMGPOP and other popular web services. Please feel free to ping me directly with questions: andrew@sparkcapital.com, but know that Im not the hiring manager for any of these positions.

I don't know if this is already common knowledge to everyone here, but this is a YC co, from the second class, which was in Cambridge.

For those interesting in peeling back another layer of the onion on the odd world of the MPAA, definitely watch This Film Is Not Yet Rated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated

For those who tldr;

The author should have taken CS 229, but instead took CS 229a and was disappointed. He then overgeneralizing from his 229a experience about the future of Stanford CS education.

If you're crediting MIT in your comment, then I feel your credit is misplaced. MIT is reacting to Stanford successfully completing a semester of a very similar initiative. MIT's initiative is incredibly generous, and looks awesome, but I think it's reactionary to Stanford's ___-class.org work.

I contributed a lesson to Codecademy that just went live today on the DOM and jQuery: http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom

Many of the online learning solutions quoted throughout this comment thread are excellent for people who are autodidactic (and I suspect a vastly disproportionate % of the HN audience are autodidactic).

But, for everyone else who lack the will power, discipline, attention span for self-education, college is a great way to structure higher education. College is more than just a piece of paper, it's an opportunity to explore new subject matters and grow both intellectually and socially.

College isn't for everyone. Most private colleges are too expensive to be affordable to 90% of the attendees. But, nearly every state offers a high quality public university at 1/10th the price, so if cost is the main reason why college is taking such criticism in this forum, then I'd agree in merit, but I'd encourage more students to consider public college options instead of skipping college all together.

For anyone who is interested in the article, I strongly recommend reading "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said

It's about how the counter-culture attitude of the 60s helped inspire the PC wave of innovation. Drug use is one of the core topics, but it is not romanticized. The book is very "matter of fact" in its analysis of how drugs were involved in the evolution of the PC.

West coast VCs are aggressively investing three thousand miles away from the valley in NYC. I'm sure being geographically closer to VCs makes it easier to raise money, but I really hope startups don't pick their location based on where VCs are. There are better parameters to optimize for.

I encourage startups to base their businesses where they'll have the best chance at recruiting the best talent. The next search engine would be well-served starting in the valley, especially if it's an ex-Google team. Similarly, storage companies continue to thrive in and around Boston, as they can draw talent from EMC. New media startups with a heavy emphasis on design-as-differentiator do really well recruiting in NYC.

By this reasoning, it might even make sense to base your web startup in Florida, if your network high-quality development talent is in Florida. I've seen this approach work well in unusual startup geographies, especially when it's a leader of an ex-team that is getting his or her band back together for second (or third) time.

Pick a geography that will play to your recruiting strengths.

For your next side project, read CLRS and force yourself to complete a reasonable number of the problems (say every other problem, or every nth problem).

Then I think it will stick.

If you really don't need this info, then don't waste your time. To work at a place like Palantir, you do need this info.

yes because I couldn't finish it so I don't have a comment.

favorite stephenson books in order: 1. snow crash 2. diamond age 3. cryptonomicon 4. zodiac 5. baroque cycle

Cell network providers have only recently been dealing with this problem. Landline and Cable providers have been reselling the same pipe through "voice", "data" and "tv" channels for a lot longer, and they continue to get away with it.

Carriers will not voluntarily give up this incremental revenue. I live in Boston, when my choice of cable carrier are Comcast and errr... ummm.. Comcast.

Until there are more competing vendors, I think this transition away from arbitrary labels to one single dumb pipe will be much slower that we all hope.

I really want to try this out, but I'm concerned about conflicts or syncing collisions with Dropbox. Has anyone tried a setup with both AeroFS and Dropbox running simultaneously?

The Monzy quote made by Cliff Stein caused me spit up my diet coke with laughter :) http://www.monzy.com/intro/killdashnine_lyrics.html

Monzy was my TA for CS147 (intro to HCI). Small world.

The TinEye search didn't succeed in capturing FunnyJunk. Assuming The Oatmeal's artwork is still up on FunnyJunk, this implementation wouldn't work, but it's a clever idea.

YC companies address customers in diverse sectors, but if you were to classify YC companies with a GICS code, 99% of them would fall under Internet Software & Services (code 4510) [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Industry_Classification_... ].

So, it's not really a diverse portfolio, but it's definitely a portfolio play, which is substantially less risky than having all your assets tied up in the stock of a single startup.

Think about it this way, if 2001 hit again and all tech stocks plummeted, all the companies in the YC portfolio would be substantially negatively impacted, so there isn't a portfolio effect to protect against this correlation in YC's assets.

No, I work in VC and OP is right. If you have a $100M fund, you invest it all, and you don't lose any money, but you also don't make any money, then you will return $100M to your LPs. Your fund will be a 1x fund and you will return 100% of capital invested. So, I'd stick with the 1340% number.

I understand we are really just disagreeing about the semantics of the word "return", but I'm just including how I see it most commonly used in my line of work.

AirBnB was recently valued at $1BN, so even if you assume AirBnB is worth zero, you only take a 25% haircut on this back of the napkin math (because AirBnB only represents $1BN of the $4.2BN in pg's portfolio). So, then you're talking about a lifetime 10X investor instead of a 13.4X investor. Still completely amazing performance, and he has a diverse portfolio of startups to protect him from individual blow-ups (such as assuming one of his most valuable companies is worth zero).

I don't work for Zoho, and I'll echo the support here. Zoho's product suite is great. As a user, I really like the way their product tie into each other. Have built a number of internal corporate projects on Zoho and have been quite happy. Customer support is surprisingly good too, and willing to do custom stuff like create special billing for our purposes that don't fit their normal pricing.

Yes, it is a pro-investor clause. You would agree to it in the situation where you feel you are satisfied with the term sheet (and who its from) and are ready to commit.

I ran into a glitch on lesson 19 that would not register my input properly. It was fine... i just advanced to lesson 20 manually, but might want to take a look there.

Also, I found myself typing "db.unicorns.find()" a few times in order to remember the schema. It would be easier if this data persisted in the scrolling history or something so I didn't have to reexecute this command a few times.

Great job though, I did the 15 min tutorial and felt like I had good control of the basic CRUD syntax by the end of it.

Yea, thanks for the feedback. I changed it and also dialed down the translucency on the white background area for the text significantly. Hopefully readability will now be improved. Thanks for reading.

One or two long ones too :)