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I live in Chicago. I am moving from the suburbs to downtown next weekend.

The higher cost of rent offsets the savings in travel costs.

It's not inconceivable that many people have their offices in a crowded area like downtown Chicago - so they'd be facing the same issue.

But I'm doing it to save time and energy.

Although, again, suburban areas tend to have cleaner air and bigger houses - much better for health than a studio apartment near a high traffic road.

I'd say if you can telecommute, to live in the suburbs is a no-brainer.

If you have to travel, car-pooling and public transport are better options than driving yourself to work everyday.

At thisismynext.com from the former Engadget crew:

http://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Apple_iPhone_5_event_live...

The median revenue per developer per month is an indicator of profitability and probably a better metric to decide the right team size.

So if you look at figure 7b, the sweet spot seems to be a team size of 6 to 9 people (where the median revenue per developer per month is $550 to $820. In contrast, the median revenue per developer per month for 10 to 19 person teams is $320 - $620).

If you can hire 19 people, you should probably split them to run two projects of 6-9 people each. :-]

This means that while one can claim privacy of their listening habits on Spotify from their social circle, absolutely no one can claim privacy of what they do on Spotify from Facebook.

Spotify just gave Facebook a terrific amount of analytics data that will help Fb market music and drive sales better than Spotify itself does.

Spotify support staff quote from that discussion thread

-- Hey Guys thanks for your question, Unfortunately you will need a Facebook account to access Spotify from now on, unless you already have an account set up.

This does not stop you creating the Facebook account adding nothing to it and making it totally private as the Facebook account does not have to be actively used. --

Couple of things to note:

1. If you already have a Spotify account, you don't have to connect to Facebook.

2. They seem to be encouraging a bogus Facebook account as a way to use Spotify "privately"?

The part of the essay that stood out for me is this:

-- The panopticon was a building design dreamed up by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and in its most basic form, it’s a prison scheme which allows observers (i.e., prison guards) to have a constant view of the inmates if they so desire, without the inmates knowing for sure if they are being watched. The effect, of course, is feeling that one is always being watched, resulting in altered (more “normal,” acceptable) behavior. Bentham’s idea was, he said, applicable to poor houses, hospitals, schools, and mad houses — though he ultimately devoted his time to designing for prisons. The express purpose of the panopticon is behavior modification, what Bentham described as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.” No such prison was ever built to Bentham’s specifications. --

The author hit the nail on the head in drawing that comparison to Facebook.

I have long been unsure how the usage of such a version of Facebook would affect us. The answer might lie in the psychological effects of living in a Panopticon.

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

http://www.cartome.org/panopticon1.htm

Yep. And I wish there was a way to capture everything in my life in this Timeline-like fashion, without any extra effort from me.

The one condition I have, though, is that I don't share it with anyone except someone I explicitly want to share it with. With everything being absolutely private and in my control to carry with me, by default, it would be killer. But this could well be opposite to Facebook's own direction.

All-in-all, this is a rehash of the news feed with a few more controls. But the presentation is really nice.

The other story was killed on HN. This one should soon be too.

The number of patents licensed = 1023 = 2^10 - 1.

Ofcourse, there can be doubt about their seriousness this time.

Microsoft could very well have made this screen some other color (like yellow or red). Would it have been caught out as the new "screen of death" from MS then or would it have been ignored as the software was still a developer preview?

The tendency to tie things in Microsoft's new OSes (Windows Phone 7, Windows 8) to aspects of earlier versions (Windows Mobile, Win XP, Vista) could be one of the things to dog MS as long as it is unwilling to abandon the "Windows" brand (despite being significantly different).

Thanks. Virtualization was disabled in the BIOS.

I tried the 32 bit one (without developer tools) on VirtualBox on Windows 7. It panics with this message:

Unknown error creating VM - VERR_VMX_MSR_LOCKED_OR_DISABLED

Has anyone installed this as a virtual OS?

I think you ought to make it clear that you intend to proceed only after obtaining the copyright owners permission. Might stop people from flagging it.

From the article - "For example, to find the names of people who are CEOs within millions of documents, you'd first need to train the software with other examples, such as "Steve Jobs is CEO of Apple, Sheryl Sandberg is CEO of Facebook." "

Sheryl Sandberg? Deliberate or honest mistake? :-]

I read earlier that Lion was Apples "Vista" moment.

The FCP situation is more reminiscent of what happened with Vista - where MS had to extend the life of WXP until they offered something better.

Although, it'll be interesting to see how well Lion is doing in terms of market share at Apples next event.

SEEKING FREELANCER, Chicago, IL. Remote working OK.

We're looking for programmers for about 5K SLoC of work in each of the following :

- iOS - Android - .NET (C#) for a Windows Client

On the .NET stream, we'd love to talk to someone who has done production releases of Windows applications

Email: dev.cram@gmail.com

I started looking for a cofounder about a month ago. I am not sure if I will find one by October 31st but the search is on.

How is this evaluated on the application?

Also, there was a recent clarification by the USCIS that a H1-B visa holder can work for his/her own company.

Is YC cognizant of this and can it help the visa holder jump through any hoops (legal or otherwise) to be a H1-B start-up founder?

The bicycle analogy to computers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c

Paraphrase: The computer is to the human mind, what the bicycle is to our ability to travel.

It's interesting that a smart company like Google almost paid $6B for them.

Did they not understand the business model well enough or did they just want it to bolster other services (like payments) despite it not being profitable?

How Google Offers goes should tell us. Maybe they've found a way to make the model work.

I have a suggestion. We have a lot of citations of Techcrunch articles (and for good reason). For events like these, however, could we look for better quality articles and submit those? (I know someone else could. But this is just so that we reduce the barrage of submissions.)

Some of the other articles are:

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/world-wide-web-20-years...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/20-years-of-the-web/133...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14430076

Is it such a bad idea to disclose what was offered?

Unfortunately the statements so far have not been "human" enough. When they said their lawyers couldn't let them say any more than X, it's bound to incite one's suspicion that they're trying to shy away from some moral inclinations which their lawyers may have warned them not to indulge in.

Even though the specifics of the offer cannot be disclosed, why not put out a reassuring statement like "We're committed to putting a smile back on her face again"? Not being specific / tangible in their PR will definitely be a lot more tolerable then.

And if they can be a little more specific and relevant, how about some PR saying they're offering counselling or therapy of some sort - I'm sure its one of the things that was offered - and I'm sure it would be make for great brand building if it was part of their current communication.

Also, if AirBnB had been more open in this way, they could have avoided the embarrassment of being contradicted by the victim herself. You know who the people would trust more at this stage.

In short, a little less heartless corporate, a little more Zappos, please.

AirBnB could have actually had an upside in the whole thing if they handled in a better, probably more upfront, manner.

Sure, there's a danger of people abusing or taking advantage of the system at a later date but that cannot stand in the way of dousing what is clearly a PR fire in the house of a promising company.

Disclosure: I am biased towards neither AirBnb nor the victim. I have sympathy for the woman but I am open to the possibility that she is not being cooperative.

I have never played this game so please help me out on the model works - once I buy the virtual currency, can I "cash out" (back to physical dollars)? Are there different exchange rates for buying & selling the virtual currency for real money?

Google's '20 percent time' will still allow employees to keep experimenting.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/20/20-percent/

In my experience, at Fortune 500 companies, front-end web developers are billed at $60-90 (before tax) depending on the company, for your range of experience.

Aaron's Twitter page which has been active today.

http://twitter.com/#!/aaronsw

More than 4 years ago, a post on HN by Houston asking for a review of DropBox:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

[Edit: Corrected link. Thank you.]

Apart from presenting an interesting problem, I'd say presenting an opportunity to learn something new and valuable is as important.

I developed and maintained an ASP.NET application for a long time and eventually became bored. My boss tried to make things interesting by giving me small new application / feature to solve a problem but having to continue using ASP.NET made my gnash my teeth.

I would have preferring having to figure out some new language/platform where the discovery process would have been rewarding and satisfying.

So give them not only new ends to pursue, but also new means.

While the intention is noble, the illusion of scarcity and exclusivity around G+ that this creates among teens should actually benefit G+ when its finally open to them.

Kids to want to be acknowledged as grown-ups. It frustrates them a lot when someone says they can't have or do something because they're too young. This should increase the desirability factor of G+.

So G+, by using a roll-out strategy that is demographically reversed to Facebook's path (".edu" limitation et al), may still see the same crazed adoption in the teen segment.