attack

No significant percentage of people actually value this form of openness.

holding out for tardiffhub.

I've heard that such stories are largely fabricated.

But unlocking is easy if you're a hacker. It's the non-hackers that apple is screwing the most.

The point of knowing how to hack stuff in this way is to get the most out of your soft/hardware, not to support the most hacker-friendly company with your completely insignificant amount of funds.

The same could be asked of the phone here. Cellphone companies always use the lowest, most underhanded tactics possible. Never trust them.

Out of RAM?

Same as I was thinking.

If your line of work is such a commodity that the wage goes down to zero as the number of workers increases then you're not in very good shape already.

Take lawyers. Even when there are far too many people who meet the minimal qualifications, the better ones still get payed a huge amount because those who are paying them recognize the value of quality.

There will still be lots to exclude outsiders from higher pay even if it becomes easer for them to get in.

You don't want foreigners coming to the country to work?

On my desktop at least, there is no system error that I fear more. Numerous times this error has caused programs trash the open files.

Only programs I know that handle it: emacs, postgresql, centericq

Notable offenders: firefox, bash, almost everything else.

Only other one I know of is,

http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio

and you may have seen this,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_music_databases

[numbers needed]

To say that an activity is "taking a risk" with total disregard as to the magnitude of the risk is misleading to put it nicely.

How does this compare to the exposure from other electromagnetic signals? Should I immediately rip out the power lines going through the wall that I'm sitting next to? Destroy my tv?

Or, equally useful would be if YC and clones could help smooth candidates' entry into the US. Has YC ever considered signing off on the founders' visas as their employer? Or providing the services of a good immigration lawyer for free?

Perhaps this should be the task of some of the overseas YC "clones" to come to SV, setup shop and perform the above, given the location's well known advantages?

Does any prosper lender really just do it for the money? Hope not.

An unusually low default rate would show to me that the money is going only to people constrained by their fear of risk.

That's a problem with most EE books, it's either extreme depth or broad and shallow. You have a good question. I'd like to see others' recommendations.

I wish I could help more, but I still curse the books I learned from:)

It would be quite a huge book. The topic area is more broad than you'd think, although not at all impenetrable. I don't know if any such comprehensive text exists. All of the books I used, I found to be quite poor and limited in scope compared to books in other fields. I think it's easy to see why. Frequently I'd just read everything I could scattered around the internet. Maybe you have a more narrow goal for what you want to learn than "electronics"?

Even the narrowly scoped books I found to usually be quite a bit less effective than they should be. Then again, the books I'm referring to where school books.

..Or half realized that a fake one wouldn't cut it and signed back up with their real email.

A while ago I put more rigorous user tracking on a site of mine and found that a very large percentage of the dead accounts where just duplicates from active users.

As the banking industry has shown us, what's good for the industry in the long term is often not what's good for the individuals in charge in the short term....

So I can't entirely say I'm surprised.

This post makes the good point that companies would have far better return if they look for ways to collect better input data rather than poring all the effort into getting minuscule improvements from the generic recommendation algorithms.

Oh you mean the old

x[::~0][~-1]

trick to get the last item. Thought that's what everyone uses.

The examples, facebook and digg, had a much smaller scope when they started than many YC startups have...

So the conclusion is to either not do it for years or make a sham marriage. I have no idea how someone could be unsatisfied by this previous advice:)

It really does seem to be a rather mysterious process if you're this far out of the norm though. I'm sure every additional datapoint will help.

Buying up vast amounts of prime real estate in an extremely overcrowded town and then wasting the property just to earn pennies a day while others desperately need it is not squatting either, huh?

Benefiting from the technologies of their acquiror at last?

It always has confused me as to why ISPs and Universities have been so persistent about throttling protocols instead of just regulating bandwidth.

Quality is generally completely unaffected for other services as long as you don't saturate your upload bandwidth on DSL.

I know almost no one in their mid twenties or younger who doesn't. The, unsolved, problem is that music worth listening to is few and far between.

The biggest regret in life will be passing on the very few opportunities we are lucky enough to have. The advice of waiting 6 more months or just giving up because of what's outside of your control rubs me as something bordering on: You cannot do [dream] because you are just a [class|race].

And has anyone considered the cost of maintaining your ability once you've settled into the corporate world? Go for it while at the top of your game, if possible.

Skype to phone girlfriend. My own servers. If a friend launches a paid service, I'll usually try it out. Used to do usenet.

For non-tangibles, I usually only pay when I'm getting a personal service through the internet.

Being persistently broke though, I'm probably a bad datapoint.