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Given the timelines this is happening along, it would not be surprising if we end up with a middle of the road solution that involves some kind of road marker/beacon standard to pr…

I think there is a broader food education issue in the US beyond nutrition- folks simply dont know what to buy, cook and eat, over the course of a life time. The quick fix is a fad…

The author is trying to get on the outrage train when there is no compelling reason for it. The college kids he cites? A project with 2 likes. Splitting a Papa Johns pizza? Killer …

Hm - a lot of comments here seem to suggest that your prank ethics are sound- but I think a lot has changed in recent years. With the proliferation of Nathan for You, #goating, Col…

Other than chalking it up to Elon being an absurdly talented superhuman, I'd venture a guess that these industries move at a slower pace. The ground shifts every day on the web, wh…

Isn't this more of the very same smarmy navel gazing bullshit OP has taken up arms against? There are plenty of designers doing meaningful work in various fields. The big red flag …

Lets not take ourselves so seriously. Lets not let YO be representative of what investors, entrepreneurs, developers and technologists are doing as a whole, despite its outsize med…

Fun pattern, but is it more useful ? I think its hyperbolic to call losing 160px of reading space on top of a desktop browser a "nightmare". Something a user can see all the time h…

To some of the older folks on HN - is this a new problem? The last few years have brought on a whole different type of newsmedia hybrid (the buzzfeeds, huffpos and gawkers) organiz…

One of the points they touch on is a "world where many things wont work and nobody will know how to fix them". As I understand it, we already live in this world. Some new cars dont…

Hm, I've always assumed that Kickstarter funds should be exactly what they're called - kickstart funds that allow you to bring a project/product to market. In more recent times, it…

“We believe in the long term, but the long term also has to come,” says Bezos, explaining that periodically Amazon wants to “check in” with its ability to make money. Thus, in 2007…

1. Users notoriously have no idea what they want. Surveys may not be the best method to determine the effectiveness of an icon because youre asking the user to predict their future…

Full disclosure - I helped with the project but I'm also one of those people who on some days CANT get out of bed. You can put the panel pretty far. If your bathroom is a hallway a…

If anything, I think the special brand of "tumblr porn" has differentiated it from other blogging platforms.

Ive done the same myself. To me, the real issue was how time consuming it was to "cover my tracks", so to speak. After taking a look at it, I decided there wasnt much to hide. Sure…

Its going to be interesting to see if the Starz deal is going to affect this at all. Anecdotal, but I cancelled my subscription a few months ago after being disappointed with the a…

Unfortunately with the acquisition of Autonomy, their pockets arent so deep anymore. They spent about 80% of their cash on the deal, leaving them with not much money to push device…

To make a significant dent in the market, enough to attract developers in droves (good ones at that) would require a significant user base. Im not sure they can afford to lose $200…

Ive been using it for about a week now. The home page will start to get cluttered as more people begin to use it. Itll be interesting to see if/how they address the issue, I would …

"Fulfilling an existing need" seems somewhat misguided. In many cases the need is not always so obvious, especially at the conception stage. Its hard to imagine whether or not peop…

The USPTO has not always been so eager to issue software patents. Up until the early 90s they were reluctant as they saw code as a language which could be copyrighted, but not inve…

I agree. The author seems to be caught up in the semantics here. The way I read it, the criticism stems from its use as a buzzword instead of its implementation as a concept. The w…