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This title is clickbait. They were politely and apologetically asked to leave, since they snuck in and didn't have a press pass.

As to why they didn't get a press pass, who knows. But they've been extremely negative toward YC companies in the past. YC isn't running a White House press conference; they're running an event with the unabashed goal of helping their companies succeed. You wouldn't invite your bitter ex to your wedding.

As for why TC writes so much about YC companies: I know a bunch of YC companies that didn't get a TC write-up, and I know some that had negative writeups. Like it or not for Pando (or anyone else), it's mutually exclusive: the launch of a YC company is news, and launching on TC is a Silicon Valley rite of passage. TechCrunch wants YC startups, YC startups want TechCrunch.

(On a more personal note, being a founder is really fucking hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done. YC is the only organization in the valley I've ever felt had my back 100%, and truly had my best interests in heart. VCs and press may complain about Demo Day, but who cares: YC makes decisions based on what's best for its companies, not the press or VCs. I can't thank YC enough for everything they did to protect, help and nurture us as an early-stage company.)
Do you want to give it up? If not, then decline, nicely. Sure maybe there is a price that changes your mind, but right now there's no offer on the table, so leave it off the table. In my opinion, there are a couple of things to keep in mind:

1. The "person" who wants the name is a fictitious person, not an actual human individual who deserves consideration as a human being. There's no point of "being cool" toward a company, it's just out to get what it can: asking for your username is just an example of the ruthless logic under which company's operate.

2. The value to the company is high enough that they have invested time in approaching you and should you decide to give up your name, will invest all the time in actually transferring it.

3. If you do transfer it, don't be surprised if the company sells it or does something equally unexpected. Acquiring the name is a business transaction. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Finally, if you don't care about the name and don't want to be bothered, then let it go so you can do something you care about and are willing to be bothered by.

Good luck.
I can't find a reference to it anywhere, but there is a guy in the SF Bay area who is working on that. He has a proof of concept that he put together and claims it dries better than the ones available with closed-loop drying systems.
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"They argue that the market for software development is $407 billion compared to $93 billion for gaming."

Seems crazy. Anything to back it up?!
There are a lot of things I love about HN, but seeing the hate on ambition, hard work, and potential success is always disappointing.
Two things jump out:

1. The installed file layout is different vs. the old msysgit. SSH is now in $install\usr\bin.

2. The default username in an AD environment is different. It used to be 'username', now it's 'DOMAIN+username'.
I agree it's a problem, but there must be a better solution than simply excluding white males.

Better education for all has been previously mentioned as the ideal solution, and it's the one I stand behind and support.
Fair enough. If I could say one thing; make it a company policy to have every team member spend an hour on your answers forum every morning answering all the unanswered questions. Make it a point of pride that you do this. An unhappy user of your product should be a lot more painful to you than the 15 minutes of your 12 hour day that you lose keeping that customer happy. Bad customer relations is poison that will hurt your company in the long run, and probably already has for many people.

Also, be frank and honest about issues that you are aware of but don't have time to fix right now. If you don't have an answer because there's no time for it right now, tell people. They will appreciate the honesty, even if it doesn't solve their problem right now.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10072188
I've wondered the same and finally remembered to search thanks to this story. I'd be interested in hearing the parent's response but it's also a surprisingly easy thing to search. Here are some links:

How to Start Your Own College Scholarship - http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023037596045790934...

Grant Space: What resources are available for setting up a scholarship fund? - http://grantspace.org/tools/knowledge-base/Funding-Resources...
How many commits AOO had, versus how many LO had, is irrelevant vis-a-vis the statement "OpenOffice is dead". Nobody is contending that LO isn't the more active project.
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As a tourist from the US, I thought that some of the selections were quite good, and I went back several times. There were always other people there. This was circa 2005.

Whee anecdotes!
It's not that I don't want to design for mobiles, it's that I don't want to design for both mobiles and desktops. I just want to design for something that would work for both. So I just use xs- for everything, but it's just confusing to me that they don't have a "default" grid system that works on both instead of having all these sizes.
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> Lack of choice to[o].

You can run Apache and Tomcat on windows if you so choose. You can even run nginx (albeit on top of Cygwin) [0].

You also don't need IIS to run HTTP endpoints. That said, IIS7+ is a pretty nice web server (I speak from experience as a shared web hoster ops and dev person). It's got a plethora of knobs and dials for tuning and is extensible (via native or managed code modules and handlers). But as always, horses for courses and all that.

[0]: http://kevinworthington.com/nginx-for-windows/
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10085698
TL;DR Can someone give me an advice on how to prevent myself from degrading my own ideas in order to create a startup?

I do not see how these startups and/or others companies created during the last years are solving real problems. People in the country where I live have a saying for the people of my city: "They are so recursive, they could sell you a hole and make you buy it". If I am literal to this statement and try to think the same way the founders of these startups think I could create a company to dig holes in the grown as a service, maybe a telecommunication company could see this useful considering that (at least in my city) they put their cables underground (mostly). But you do not see people here selling holes, that is stupid.

Now, to my question again, can anyone give me an advise of how to change my mind about these things in order to prevent myself from degrading my own ideas? Because they may be silly but may also work and produce a revenue, but I am too negative to see them flourish.
want to post it on http://sideprojectors.com ? :)
Paywalled. Flagged.
Yes, in general an asset purchaser is not liable for judgments against the seller. But there is the potential for a buyer to have "successor liability" under certain circumstances. Usually, it's when the sale is really a de facto merger, with continuity in the identities of shareholders. If this was a cash sale of assets, that would not apply here. In some states there are ways to get successor liability when the buyer continues the business of the seller, not in Delaware.

Of course the assets were sold for cash, so that's in the husk of the company. If that money exists, it'll be hard for shareholders and insiders to get it out of the remnant company without running into trouble in the inevitable bankruptcy. But even if the employees win, they're judgment creditors and behind a few people in the line for that money.
The audience for the message is investors, not customers.
Are you using Crosswalk for both iOS and Android, or just for Android? We've been using Ionic + Cordova with pretty good results on iOS so far, but we're starting to shift focus onto the Android offering.
GCE appears to have a similar region/zone structure as Amazon, but neither provider replicates block storage across zones.
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> hiring is a factor to consider when choosing the stack

Personally I would not let hiring determine what stack you use. In the end if it gets the job done, is tested, commented, and can be proudly passed on to other engineers, then it is suitable.

One more thing I found with 'stacks' is they are not as solid as they seem, and can be swapped out with other ones, but only as needed. It is common to switch between multiple stacks throught the day. "Doing everything one step at a time, in parallel" as they say.
You may not be in their market (yet), but that company is going to make a lot of money if they execute well.
Yeah it seems that YC made the right choice by not letting them in. I can imagine YC being a little picky about what press they would allow into Demo Day because they only want positive news about their start-ups...and who can blame them? I don't have anything against Pando, but I've never heard of them until now, yet I've been familiar with TechCrunch for a long time. YC is comfortable with them and this is there event, therefore, they have the final say in who can attend...even if it only is TechCrunch.
The facilities seem rather cold. Aside from one guy in a T-shirt, everyone is wearing jackets or wollen tops, tanktops, or both. It is currently tropical summertime in Shenzhen.
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Serious question: How are the opinions of a couple of internet commenter an attack on ambition, hard work, and potential success? I mean, big successes are treated the same way! Trolls will he trolls. Never mind the website.
I'm going to challenge you to apply the Principle Of Charity here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

Instead of "hating", what's the best possible motivation for these kinds of comments?

Alternatively, what emotions are behind them? What reaction can you have to those emotions that help the people who have them?

Disclaimer- I find middlebrow dismissal as disappointing as anyone. But I've found value in considering what underlies it.
If you don't mind me asking, what minority group do you belong too?
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Whoa, AppCanary looks really sweet now! I'm also really happy they added a lot more information about themselves to their website :) I think there's a huge market for really simple security products like this, as most people don't realize how much work keeping even an LTS Ubuntu image up to date is (hint: unattended updates aren't automatically installed, and you'll often have to restart the box to get essential kernel security fixes!)
Curious where the line is, i.e. if Demo Days were at YC's offices (which it used to be, right?) would it be trespassing to show up uninvited? It's private property after all.
That's not quite it.

Blackmail is possible when one has a secret that one really does not revealed to some set of parties. If you reveal that secret to your employer, but still fear its disclosure to other parties, then you are still blackmailable.

If you don't fear the disclosure of the personal secrets you've revealed to your government employer, then you also don't particularly care about your government employer's systems getting breached and revealing those secrets to the world. Might you be mad as hell at the incompetence? Sure! But your risk of blackmail is not increased because of the disclosure because you weren't blackmailable to begin with.

Make sense?
> It’s a little amazing that Amazon is still printing this stuff out on paper.

It's harder for upset people to forward significant amounts of the report if they would have to type it in from paper.
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You can play a fun game by looking at these lists and speculating which of these companies would still be included if YC was a $200m fund with 10-20 bets to make.
I've read sql server internals cover to cover and in many respects this is a much better read. Thank you.
This is exactly why I bought a surface 3: the stylus really helps me sketch, doodle, and think. I just wish we could think of a way better than a notepad to harness that experience.
They make no promises about support even with their Pro edition [0]:

We currently do not offer premium, priority support plans for our commercial licensees. We will announce such plans if they become available in the future.

So Caveat emptor.

[0]: http://wiki.awesomium.com/licensing/licensing-overview.html
Yeah; it seems to be fixed now.
The Pioneer anomaly was solved IIRC. The likely culprit was identified as heat being emitted in a particular direction, accelerating the probe due to radiation pressure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly
You are either being dishonest or just patently out of your mind if you think that you can query 100MB and 100PB in the same way. That's not even reasonable by HN standards of hyperbole. Do you have any idea how many orders of magnitude that is?
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I'm in. I can do cognitive-neuro, psych, and experimental-econ.
Reading your comment, I couldn't help but chuckle at the irony.

Here we have...a site with a paywall COMPLAINING about access to information.

This "journalist" hoped to skate in and get something worth "$10 a month" to write about. After failing, he scrambled, spinning a conspiracy and making himself the story.
I know a lot of these companies are at the MVP-ish stage, but I'm extremely excited about Luna and Nebia. I'll probably be willing to buy those two, along with Pepper [1], and some smart coffee/tea maker by the end of this year.

I would be more interested in Luna if they partnered with some mattress company or something similar, and if I can buy cover + mattress combo. From experience, it is an extreme nightmare to get a size match on covers. I'd be more confident purchasing it knowing that they specifically built it for a mattress that I can also buy. Maybe they can list supported mattresses or the ones they tested on?

The interesting thing is all these products (Luna, Nebia, Pepper) are actually in decently affordable range, especially for cutting edge.

[1] Pepper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a4sZnLRvqk
Those optimizers you are fighting with have thousands of man hours of research behind them. For every silly choice they make, they make hundreds or thousands of correct ones.
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compared to what you'd likely spend for a build in the US vs in China you'll still likely come out ahead, I'd argue that if you can't afford to go you likely can't afford your project
Exactly zero of your arguments have a logical basis. Literally all of the things you just said are completely ignorant of reality. It is so far beyond mind boggling that anyone could genuinely believe any of that, and I can only assume you're just trolling.
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Where have you worked where it was easier to get hired as a white man? Everyone in tech is already tripping over themselves trying to hire women and minorities.

This 'company' is blatantly discriminatory and unnecessary and taints the success of their hires by making it appear they took a shortcut into their positions via their race/sex .
Where you checked the outstanding jobs matters as well - something like Monster.com likely has a different group of companies using it that other sources.

Also, don't FB and Google (and other firms) mostly have their own recruiters?
> Few people can risk spending 10 years on something and have nothing to show for it.

This is a common sentiment, and fortunately for scientists I don't think it's a very accurate description of the real problems we face. I really don't think that there are many good reasons to spend 10 years on one thing when there is a substantial risk of failure. Scientists spend 10 years on problems all the time! But it's either part time, or has measurable metrics for progress along the way that can be published. I mean, you try to go to the moon before Pluto, right? Science (as an institution) is really a lot more like Tetris than people think, except some of the blocks (publications) get moved or destroyed later. But if the blocks are smaller, they're much easier to fit together and build upon, and fault tolerant and so forth, so if they blow up it's less of a big deal. Smaller, more well-defined and robust studies are generally better.

To change analogies to paths instead of blocks, which is a better description of the decision making a scientist goes through (rather than building the edifice of human knowledge), it's a lot more like finding your way through a new city than choosing two paths in a snowstorm that will not encounter anything for 10 years' walk. At every fork, you have to decide where to go and there will be some reason you have made that choice. After some smaller period, you can if you choose report where you've gotten and why. Other people care! They will be happy to read about it, as long as your logic is pretty good, especially if you make nice observations along the way. You can publish this, and probably no one will steal it from you. Maybe someone will... but if you do it right, do it incrementally and let people know what you're up to, you'll at least have your batshit ideas published as unreviewed abstracts and folks will know who made the first progress.
Thermal expansion?
Park it just a little way's down from a Starbucks and watch the money roll in.
This is another reason for Jon to release ST as an open source project. The editor is extremely polished at this point, and now only new features and niche issues like Python modules should be added to the core codebase. I imagine that since ST is no longer growing as it was years ago, the future money flow is relatively insignificant.

Atom may have more momentum and plugins than Sublime right now, but since the core is built upon Chromium rather than Jon's custom beautiful and latency-free cross platform UI framework, it will never suit everyone's needs of performance and responsiveness. The world needs a good native, fast editor with a focus on mouse pointer editing, but only gvim is a viable (and bloated) contender.

Donations for software like this works fantastically, as I know from experience, and the increased momentum of an open source release would increase the number of commercial users willing to ethically support the project.
However, if it remains proprietary, ST is still a respectable editor I will be using for the next decade.
IANAL but if there's no locked doors or signs saying you aren't welcome to an apparently public place, then I don't think it's trespassing until someone asks you to leave. A shopping mall is private property too, for example.
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Unfortunately DevOps doesn't mean letting go / replace admins with Developers - they still have to work with each other.

Particular case is with Docker security.
By the way, that contest will be held again this weekend: http://ludumdare.com/compo/
I am using this site Hamburger Menu as a sort of browser 'acid test' and trying to get it displaying correctly on as many devices as I can. It turned out to be hard getting this to display in different browsers. I tried using a polyfill for the emoji like Twemoji and Emojify, but they break under different conditions. The site is more or less a browser acid test right now and a learning experience if anything. I will be importing what I learned about this site into future projects for sure. It originally started out as a bit of fun, but mushroomed a bit as more time was allocated to it. https://www.hamburgermenu.xyz/
I understand the tautology. It's inherent in every field that requires specialization. And the point I'm trying to make is that the best teaching relies on ideas or analogies already familiar to the student. It's not enough to say math is a language. So is French. But to learn French, we first learn to map our native language to the new one. The analogy isn't perfect, but math often describes things in the world, and we can use those things to provide windows to the math itself.

While the language of math is a useful tool for the initiated, like all linguistic barriers it keeps out newcomers. So yes, we must teach people math, but we must do it at first, as much as possible, in a language that allows them to enter into a new way of thinking. It's about unfurling a series of ideas one at a time instead of all at once. (I don't pretend to do that perfectly, but that was the intent. My understanding is as defective as some matrices. ;)
I'm also working under the assumption that the cash pile in question is pretty small. Small enough that the shareholders are very unlikely to care about getting it out.
Sounds interesting.

Maybe get rid of "toy" as a qualifier? What does that actually, specifically mean, as far as the terms of service are concerned?

Also, posting Github repo data using their API would be a really nice feature to see.
I completely agree. Hence next paragraphs.

"Scaling Out means adding more Resources, and those Resources cost $$$. If the whole system can Scale Out, one would only be talking about Cost Effectiveness.

Cost Effectiveness would be a function of how fast Processing Time grows with the growth of Throughput or Data Volume.

There’s another way to Scale Out — changing the implementation. It’s not considered as Scaling Out really as it takes a lot of time. (Actually, I would call it an optimization). So, by definition, Scaling Out needs to be something done quickly, in connection with managing Resources."

It's just not the part of the definition I'm proposing. Bottom line is that systems should be scalable if they are not, one will encounter issues during rapid growth.

Scalability might lead thought to lack of cost effectiveness with given SLAs, or degradation of SLAs. That brings us to optimizations.
Uh, wat?

If an EE and/or comp. sci. major can't grasp logic, they should not be in the class/major, and these classes are commonly referred to as "weed-out classes." "Programming" is derived from math (I'll provide source if you want), which is logical at its core. The keywords while, if, else, they're not hard to understand.

I don't know what teaching "programming" means.
Can someone who knows something about farms explain how Picktrace is different from FarmLogs? Are they direct competitors?
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