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On one hand, you have people earning six figures fighting for the dwindling, ever inflated supply of conventional housing options, and on the other, you have people like Nadia Eghbal who display the utmost resourcefulness and manage to live in SF for $20k a year (http://helloimnadia.com/post/52242701025/how-to-live-in-san-...). Really goes back to what pg says about being relentlessly resourceful.

In the end, if you really want to get settled in SF, all it takes is some persistence and a healthy network. (I moved here when I knew next to no one and managed to find home at a coliving space called Startuphouse for most of last year; not only was my stay free but it gave me a fantastic network on which to jumpstart life here.)

Well what to you know, mere minutes before I saw this submission on HN I received an email from Kickstarter saying that funding for the project has been suspended. I feel like an idiot for backing the project, but I guess it comes to show that even careful curation on Kickstarter's part isn't always foolproof.

Does anyone know if other crowdsourcing sites with less stringent requirements (e.g., Indiegogo) have problems with scam like this?

"We are not an entertainment company – we are a productivity tool company. We provide a new additional service you use to get stuff done better."

Yes! This is exactly the kind of music service I've been looking for when I'm working.

A private BitTorrent tracker for music.

Do we really need another music app? How many of us are (or planning to) use Twitter for music discovery? For the average consumer, Spotify has just about everything for anyone. For the avid listener, there are hundreds of quality music blogs dedicated every niche out there. It seems like Twitter decided they wanted a slice of the pie- I fail to see how this could possibly fit into my use case for Twitter (if it's even part of the core product at all). That being said, I hope they prove me wrong.

Can't agree more. All the breakpoints are placed so thoughtfully without sacrificing content for flair, certainly one of the most well-executed responsive sites I've come across. I'll most likely be poring through the reviews for hours to come.

Its initial concept of beaming money with Palm Pilots certainly was. What it eventually pivoted and grew into was less so, but I do agree that PayPal played an important role in the evolution of web technologies.

My point remains that we shouldn't be so quick to judge the altruistic intentions of entrepreneurs based on their first ventures; it may be a means to a more noble end. I'm sure many, if not most, aspire to contribute more to society beyond photo sharing apps. In fact, PayPal was voted one of the worst companies when it debuted, so I'm willing to give everyone the benefit of doubt.

I think it's important to keep in mind that Elon Musk got to where he is today (especially financially) because of a consumer web service he helped found. I'm sure (perhaps on the more optimistic end) that more entrepreneurs would jump on his bandwagon if they had ready/easier access to the amount of capital Musk had at his disposal to invest in his "cool sci-fi shit" ventures.

Reading the article made me smile. Reading your comment made my day.

Looking forward to trying your service someday. :)

Zapier has become one of my favorites web services. I've always lamented that IFTTT doesn't cater to the productivity/project management crowd by offering a very limited set of channels to work with. Then Zapier came along and blew me away.

Well, on second look it seems like the mast is using <video> for me as well- I originally looked too far and thought the id "fbhome-cinemagraph-canary" led to an animated gif. Apologies on making the wrong call!

Also, as a previous reply pointed out, what they're doing really doesn't count as a cinemagraph- FB needs to stop butchering words.

The source reveals that the video mast is actually an animated gif (or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as). The stutter in the beginning kind of gives it away, but still quite impressive they included such a long edit and got it to load relatively fast (coming from reddit where uncompressed gifs run amok).

I have my doubts about the launcher and would much rather have Twitter take on the endeavor given I derive much more utility from its network (highlighting stories on my Twitter feed seem a lot more relevant in practice when it comes to things I care about having on my phone's lock screen), but Facebook did one hell of a job with this product landing page. Props to their design team. (Ah! The video header! It's so pretty! And not a single man in sight!)

This marks the first time I've felt genuinely saddened by the shutdown of a game studio. LucasArts made some of the best games I played as a kid, it's a shame they couldn't follow up their legacy in recent years. :(

I've always hacked my way around DevTools - it's nice being able to formally acquaint myself with it through an interactive tutorial. CodeSchool also does some of the best tutorials online (totally worth the subscription fee IMO) - great partnership and great job.

I really appreciate "process" posts like this- always love the feeling of picking up new technologies and putting them to good side project use. Best of luck on learning!

I've been preaching this for years- it's not a "developers" conference anymore when you have your average tech enthusiast queueing for swag.

Interesting. I've never gone to a WWDC, but I've been to the first three I/Os, and while it could be the fact that the conference has become better known since then (and increasingly at larger scales), you can definitely see the effects that the free swag have on registration demand (and the effect on the quality of the people going to the conference) over the years. It's been really disappointing to witness the change, as personally I/O was my favorite tech event back when it was true to its original purpose: a conference for developers.

The disgusting amount of free swag they throw at you.

Can't say I didn't see this coming. It's been the same absurd registration experience for several years now. What Google really needs to do is stop throwing all this free swag around so the conference can really find its intended purpose and audience again: developers. I've to most I/Os since its inception, and damn has the quality of the actual conference gone down since the first.

I wouldn't discount IBM so quickly- to my understanding IBM's been partnering with a lot of institutions to beef up Watson. I know Carnegie Mellon was quite involved through the whole Jeopardy showcase (I even got to watch him school contestants from local universities in Pittsburgh).

What's to say better software and algorithms won't be developed as a result of IBM's push to find new use cases for Watson? The article goes into great detail about how Watson has already contributed to the current AI landscape. I for one love that IBM's relocating Watson to a university where students will get to interface with the machine.

Haters gonna hate.

This was posted in 2010. A little long-winded for sure, but it's good to hear someone would have such positive things to say coming out of a 12-year tenure at Microsoft (I have a few friends headed there after graduation).

I remember reading this post of his titled "Ten Things I Hate About Working at Facebook" (http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/2012/08/ten-things-i-hate-abou...). It does sound like he's having a blast there- it'd be interesting to read a follow-up comparing the two companies.

Tried the multiplication quiz: recognition is a bit slow and inaccurate, which results in repeated attempts per problem (and gets in the way of the main objective: answering as many as quickly in a minute). It's an otherwise cool showcase of the speech recognition feature though. :)

It's no different at Carnegie Mellon. I spoke to a former SCS dean who revealed that cheating rates in CS courses are as high as 70%, yet most professors turn a blind eye (which as the Crimson article points out, may be attributed to apathy or inability to enforce class policy at a large scale).

The fact that academic dishonesty is so prevalent these days makes me inclined to believe that cheating is symptomatic of the state of higher education (and maybe the way pedagogy is approached in the modern classroom), especially in light of rising tuition and unemployment rates. When a majority of students across institutions resort to compromising their integrity and learning for a letter grade, at which point do we start reassessing education at large?

Curious as to why there's no mention of the secret formula, since the author is wrong about kola nut being an ingredient of the syrup: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr2001447 (from the Coca-Cola wiki page), which interestingly is a component in many purported recipes.

It's also interesting to see a picture of a glass bottle coke when the American product rarely exists in such form. I've sworn off the HFCS version after discovering the Mexican recipe with cane sugar - it tastes so much better and comes in a glass bottle. When I was in Tijuana for a Startup Weekend, that's all they served.

I thought it's quite a fresh breath of air from all the other apps. Conventions be damned!

Can definitely see myself using this with jQuery Mobile. Thanks.

This has the potential to be big...

Mad respect for Pandora, been an avid One user for years, this is great.

This is really nifty, though it's a little slow redirecting on my end (in SF). :) Great job!