cwilson

We're talking about life and death now? That's quite the extreme you've just jumped to. After reading through the ingredients being used in Soylent none of them seem particularly life threatening (Cached version, site seems to be slammed: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f487PaT...).

I admit they need a warning of some sort on the campaign, and they should probably link to his blog posts about everything that goes into this, but the "life and death" argument is a bit extreme.

All this needs is a button on the generated grocery list to have them delivered to your door. Partner with TaskRabbit, InstaCart, Safeway (I believe they do free deliveries for anything over $40), etc.

This is absolutely amazing (like many others are saying, I've been wanting something like this for years), but if delivery were added, I'd never have to worry about the hassle that is shopping and meal planning again! First world problems I know, but this is actually a pain point for me because of work hours.

Also, I'm SO happy you decided to charge for this from day 1. I'm most definitely subscribing and I now won't worry this amazing service will go away!

This is completely subjective, but I'd prefer to design interactions around what I know my users are already comfortable with. My goal is to enable my users to get to their end goal with the least amount of friction as possible.

Why would I train a user to learn something new when the method in the OP achieves the exact same result, without a learning curve?

All I can see improving with the click, hold, and release method is enhanced "cool factor".

Drag and drop implies you're dragging one thing to another and then releasing. This is not the same as clicking, holding, and having something else you then have to move your cursor to appearing.

I should have been more specific. I cannot think of a single instance of a popular web application or site that uses a click and hold mechanic to navigate or edit.

I think you'd find a majority of users would be confused by this, as cool as it sounds, the first time around. I cannot think of a single instance of a popular web application that uses a click and hold mechanic of any kind (not to be confused with dragging and dropping). People are used to clicking, not holding, meaning they might never see the required secondary action of moving the mouse over a new button.

You could of course add some kind of time delay, but then they would simply be clicking a second time to interact, and this defeats the entire purpose of the click and hold mechanic.

This is not to say I don't think you could train users to get used to this mechanic, but from a first-time user perspective, this still falls under "bad UX" in my book.

This look awesome and I can't wait to try it out. Hell, I think we'd even use it in our office (a large open room with 8+ people working, meaning we are all often wearing headphones to stay focused).

Feature suggestion: Have an "away" feature. I hit a button to say I'm going away, type a message (brb, out for lunch, etc), and that's what is displayed in my window while I'm gone. Adding a time stamp + optional field for when you'll be back would be nifty as well. This feature could just be an extension of "privacy mode" as well.

This idea is simply brilliant. You've reduced the friction it takes for me to buy an asset that I might not have otherwise purchased to essentially one click, at exactly the right moment (the moment I need it, without breaking my work-flow or concentration).

My first suggestion would be to figure out how to market the hell out of this. There are some really great Photoshop plugins out there that I've seen pop up on HN maybe once or twice at most and I've spoken to designer friends in person who have never heard of them. The first step would be to look into advertising on the design blogs and sites like http://beautifulpixels.com/. You might then look into a sponsored post on DaringFireball or similar site (from what I've heard, the ROI on his posts is pretty good).

Why not just let people use whatever works for them? After reading through all the replies here that's the only conclusion anyone can come to. Why do we need one editor to rule them all?

Works great for me, just tested it out. Such a cool idea/feature.

As others have said, you need to get out of that town.

I live in San Francisco and love it, but the cost of living here isn't exactly low and unless you have a job lined up or are already freelancing, it's going to be tough.

Instead consider other towns. Others have already mentioned Seattle, but I'd also consider Austin, specially because you mentioned both tech AND audio engineering. Austin is the live music capital of the world for a reason, and it has a great tech scene to boot (not to mention a really low cost of living... I say all of this being born and raised in Austin).

If you'd like some contacts in Austin (or more advice) I know of a few tech startups hiring, freelancers who could help you find good first gigs, and have a ton of friends and even family in the music industry in the city. Shoot me an email and I'll see what I can do: cullen@sponsorfied.com

The product looks and feels great, but I watched my co-founder (and CTO) get extremely frustrated at the new user walkthrough. He was trying to get it to stop walking him through the steps and did not succeed (he wanted to play with it on his own, not have his hand held), resulting in him closing the site.

While I understand the value of these walk-through for people who do not spend a lot of time in web applications (though you might argue that this is so similar to excel that pretty much everyone is familiar with the interface), you should strike a balance by allowing someone to easily kill the walk-through.

My girlfriend works for one of the bigger tech blogs. I can't count the number of times I've heard her rant about startups sending her 500+ word pitches where she still has no idea what they do or what they are trying to announce by the end of the email.

First rule of thumb: Say what you do and why you are pitching between the subject line and first (short) paragraph, in the most simple way possible. If you are worried you won't get a reply after that first paragraph you should likely rethink pitching at all.

Nail the first paragraph by keeping it simple (journalists REALLY appreciate this, meaning your entire email is more likely to be read), then provide any supplemental content in the following paragraphs.

Also, don't worry about getting every detail in the initial pitch. If the journalist is interested there will be plenty of time in the follow-up.

Happy to see even though the removal temporary, they are looking into a way to easily remove styles for those who enjoy the flatness.

Had no idea competition existed for this, good to know.

I can already think of a few great uses for this. A few weeks ago I had a friend come into town for San Francisco Beer Week and ALL he cared about was finding which bars carried Pliny the Younger (it's won "Best beer in the world" at least once). There was no easy way to do this.

It looks like there is quite a bit of data already for Austin users (which makes sense for SXSW), but I just tried this in San Francisco and it looks pretty empty.

Is there an existing data set out there for beer? I know there are a TON of beer review sites, but I'm guessing none have an API or a way to integrate.

If you want this to take off I'd suggest trying to get a few early power users in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle to light a fire in the Pacific Northwest as this is definitely micro-brew country.

If this is serious (it doesn't look serious) it's going to get shut down very fast. For any actual "professional DDoS" services you'd need to find them via .onion sites (think Silkroad, etc).

Full article (it's 2 pages and the pagination isn't the most obvious): http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/05/bay-lights-project-turns-s...

"The world’s largest LED light sculpture will light up San Francisco tonight: 1.8 miles long, 500 feet high, and consisting of 25,000 individually programmed lights tied onto the entire length of the Bay Bridge’s western span..."

This is going to be pretty incredible.

No, because of the thousands of people I've encountered in the industry (you could say my sample size), a very small portion of them were regular pot smokers. Of those, an even smaller portion were actually productive (especially engineers) while high.

My conclusion is based on a large amount of data analyzed over a lengthy period of time.

Like many others will likely comment, I'm a huge advocate of the legalization of marijuana. I smoked quite a bit of it in my younger years. I could go as far as saying I was a connoisseur. These days I find it cripples productivity and turns me into a zombie. I stay away from it.

This leads me to conclude that this article is total shit. I honestly can't name a single engineer, designer, or writer I know who regularly smokes pot. Yet this article ends with the following line: "There is a raging culture of marijuana use among tech workers in Silicon Valley."

How this was allowed to be published is beyond me.

Edit: A better story would have been "How Silicon Valley is high on innovation. And Adderall."

I love how all of their machines are clearly covered in various non-traditional colors, especially the blue.

I think what you meant to say is two of these and an Oculus Rift headset.

I love the idea of "shared views" when you're having meetings or collaborating with people. Whatever document or supplementary set of data you're talking about is on the entire groups HUD.

I wish Google would focus on using Google Glass within the workplace before trying to take it to the streets for casual use.

I can imagine using them within the office, because anything that makes me more productive is totally acceptable "socially". Outside of the office however I have serious doubts to if I'd wear these around daily. My colleague will know why I'm essentially talking to myself to use Google Glass, where as people in public will think I'm batshit (much like people talking on bluetooth headsets).

Once I become very comfortable with them inside the office it's much more likely I'll start forgetting I should even remove them when I leave to go get lunch, coffee, etc.

Plus I'm much more interested in enhanced productivity than I am checking the weather.

What I will give them is the "record" feature could be incredibly useful within the office from day one. I can't count the number of meetings or brainstorming sessions I wish I had on video.

He was sitting in business class where this type of request is normal. Also, keeping the aisle clear is a top priority of any flight crew (especially pre-takeoff), so they actually prefer you ask them to do things like this as they will be more efficient.

It's very interesting to take this spot-on assessment of the game console industry and compare it to the mobile phone industry.

Microsoft and Apple are dominating in very similar ways when it comes to gaming consoles (Microsoft) and mobile (Apple).

Yet Microsoft hasn't been able to replicate this winning strategy with its own phones. It seems to me that if one department at Micrsoft is "killing it", it would be Xbox. Yet that's the last thing anyone talks about.

While not partners, Renee Robinson and Audrey Kim are also a big part of what keeps YC running. The two of them still help us out quite often and kick-ass at what they do.

I came here to post this. I just found the email I received back when I was single, specifically on 10/12/11, and this is what it looked like: http://cl.ly/image/2A2N41383T38

This was clearly an ego boost, though not something you tweet about or post on Facebook (the taboo of online dating + sounding like a major douche).

OkCupid has been doing stuff like this with data for a really long time and they deserve some credit as well.