patrickod

Thank you for this. The lack of working flash in Lion has been a really PITA.

As much as I like the idea of only having to post something in one place to have it shared with people I think part of the reason I really like Google+ is because all of the content that is being shared there is original. Buzz was all about integrating your other feeds. G+ is doing very well by making people post original items.

So what's the worst possible outcome here in terms of the UK government's reactions? Fast-tracked arcane legislation to make security tools illegal like they are in .de ? Broadening the terms of hacking and increasing the legal penalties? If LulzSec aren't trolling the world and they do indeed have these records I would imagine there is going to be one hell of a shitstorm in the coming weeks.

Great looking product and very much like your way of thinking in assigning space and not a set number of repos. I'm a github user and have been for a while but such competition would make me reconsider in the future. best of luck with it.

I can understand why Mozilla feel threatened by Chrome's growth but why the use of major version numbers for what could have very easily been 4.1 ?

That may be so. I see the real value of YC as being mentorship from the team and the connections that follow rather than just funding and a stamp of approval for connections. Then again I haven't been in the business as long as most older entrepreneurs so I'll withhold judgement.

Part of me feels that the publicity side of their argument is a little overblown. Many people do publicly disclose exploits, it's just that LulzSec has made a huge deal in the media about each one. Another part of me is happy to see them call people out on their abysmal security practices. Sony would not have upgraded/redone their security practices had there not been attacks. The only thing worse than poor security is having a false assurance that it's good.

I think the mean age for YC founders is ~26 from what I gather.

maybe that's another reason that the mean age for founders is quite low. I mean if you're older and have dependents it's not the best time to throw your salary out the window and go it alone.

This rings true with the TEDx video posted last week about what skateboarding can teach us about learning methods. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHfo17ikSpY&feature=playe... We learn from mistakes, so failure is to be as embraced as success. The startup community should be just the same. Take the lessons you learn and try again and again.

You're right; Swipe is in closed beta at the moment. An email never hurts though

funny when I google for that your comment is now the top result. I presume this article is the event that you're referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812

It's listed on TPB as being 15MB in size so it couldn't possibly be the source code itself. Maybe there's a separate unlisted torrent for this?

Site was loading quite slowly for me and missing some of the pictures. The Google cache of the first part is here for those who want it http://tinyurl.com/6k2mxue

One of the cooler things about WebOS when I was using a 1st generation Pre was the large community of jailbreakers and the mods and apps that they produced. Given some of the cool things they made possible on the Pre I'm really interested to see what they'll do with the TouchPad. Here's hoping it's a success, I really liked WebOS.

Honestly it's a huge pain in the ass, so much so that I've actively tried to stop using it. I can reach more people on Facebook or through IM and email in equivalent time and not be charged through the nose for it. The carriers should look to smaller bundles for non-smartphone people. Other than that iMessage will kill them off.

It's things like this that would make me want to switch back to an iPhone. In Ireland we are still charged ~€0.11 per SMS though it's possible to buy bundles. My usage doesn't warrant a bundle but charged separately it would still be a considerable chunk of my monthly usage. iMessage would effectively halve my monthly bill and make little dent in my data usage so it's a win win.

One of the major gripes I had when I played around with the Google charts API is that it didn't seem to support log scales. Implement that and I'm sure you'll have won the hearts of a lot of frustrated developers. Looks great otherwise.

am I right in saying that this is really kickstarter with equity in place of product ?

I thought one of the stipulations of the H1-B was that you couldn't self-sponsor ?

Funnily enough I had switched my Facebook account to SSL automatically a while and completely forgot about it. I ran the app on my phone and was surprised it worked.

It seems that some "application" that I had used on Facebook required SSL to be temporarily disabled. I don't remember an application saying that SSL had to be disabled, and I'd be the sort of person to read these things. I'd worry that this would be a problem for less techy users.

SSL should be an opt-out feature for anything that harbors personal information. I can only assume that this isn't the case due to the extra server overhead that FB would have to deal with ?

I guess (but I could easily be in the wrong here) that it just hasn't been high on pg's priority list. As akent said there are alternatives out there, but I guess it would be nice to have duplicate submission detection built-in.

I don't see how you can realistically have either of these extremes. In Ireland handguns, with the exception of a particular class of law enforcement and competition .22 calibre guns, are illegal - period. You can buy firearms but it's a very drawn out process and the ultimate decision lies at the discretion of your local police Superintendent. There are still murders committed in Ireland with handguns between rival city gangs but the common mugger will not have one. Do I feel safer? Yes

It seems that Switzerland has a low gun-crime rate but I wouldn't be so quick to give credit to their gunlaws for this. Switzerland and the United States are very different places.

Again this is just my $0.02

Guns are an impersonal method of killing someone. With the others you have to be up close and really want to do some damage.

An itchy trigger finger could mean a life threatening injury. I'd rather take the hit and have a bruise that would heal and not end up with a bullet in me.

As someone who's been mugged before the proliferation of firearms in the states really unnerves me. I got jumped in a shady area of Dublin one dark winters night, was punched repeatedly in the face, and had my bike stolen. The Gardai (Irish name for the police force) handled it very well and recovered the bike that very night. The individual was known to them and it went on the long list of offenses that this person was generating for one hell of a court date.

Gun crime doesn't exist in Ireland like it seems to in the US. The idea that someone out to mug me and take my wallet would have a firearm pointed at me and not just their fists is, to me, quite scary. I don't know what the statistics are like for such crimes at gunpoint and while I write this I realise that this fear might well be the result of my limited exposure to American news outlets.

I guess my question is: is it justified or is this just my lack of experience of living in the states running amok ?

Having gotten to the final round of the Fellowship application process and met all of these people individually I can say with confidence that we will see some very very cool things from them in the next 2 years. Every single one of them is highly intelligent and motivated and well deserving of the Fellowship

That all depends on what criteria you use for adding people on Facebook. Personally I try to keep it to people that I actually know in contrast to people whom I've met once or twice. No matter what happens you're still trusting your friends' judgement in character.

Just the other day I joined Airbnb in the hopes of trying to find temporary accommodation in the bay area and the first thing that hit me was the fact that I knew no-one off the top of my head with past experience to whom I could direct questions and the like. Then I noticed that there was a simple "X, Y and 23 of your Facebook contacts like Airbnb" at the top of the page which immediately helped the situation. Seeing this sort of integration go even further is a very cool use of social networks. Kudos to the Airbnb team.

Most camera's maybe. I'd be interested to see what phones write EXIF, as I would guess phone theft/loss is a more common occurrence. I tried it with my Nexus One but unfortunately it seems that it doesn't log serial numbers in the EXIF data.