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I started Archivd with friends in Sep 2008, just about when the economy fell through the trapdoor. Aside from constant panic we hardly noticed. :) The first 6 months were the most productive I can remember.

We didn't last long, about a year, (long story) but next time I will make sure to have more savings in the bank and a clearer path to revenue, funding, or both. It's good to be hungry but too much of it is a distraction.

Doing it marked me, I think. I'm less patient with slow release cycles, timidity, and red tape.

Without my wife and my cofounder Romain, who are both much crazier than I am, I'd never have done it.
And the third party is SearchYC, run by "a couple of guys". They don't even have a privacy policy.

That being said, I don't fault the SearchYC guys for this at all- the extension leverages their site far beyond its original intended purpose.
I have to say that most of the demos are opera only, and not as impressive even compared with Silverlight.

This one

http://svg-wow.org/video2/video.html

is laggy as hell in Chrome Dev 5.0.307.1 (r37331) on Windows
Cool! Voo2do probably qualifies as a HN startup, although I started it (as a hobby project) in 2005 before HN existed. :)
The hard part here is for computer A to be sure it's handing the information it thinks it's handing it to. No matter how you do it, computer A needs to be sure it's giving permission to computer B, and not somebody claiming to be computer B, and that involves either personally meeting beforehand to trade some kind of keys or trusting a third party.
You wrote somewhere that getting to ramen profitability is like hitting a binary switch. For me that was the most accurate thing you've written about the psychology of starting a company. It was the pyschological point where my business stopped being speculative and became something I could see supporting myself.

I don't have experience with big startups like Paypal or Youtube, but I'd imagine that if multi-founder teams were really a statistically significant determinant of success, there would be more active investment in (revenue-earning) single-founder businesses. The fact that investors seem to shy away from them suggests otherwise though.

So I'm not intending to be critical of your own or YC's activities. I just don't think it makes sense to convince people they need a co-founder just for the sake of having one. And especially not if they've already got some traction and revenue.
I'm disappointed they haven't corrected "works on all phones" on the front page. Still not true.
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I agree this should not be about Mahalo.com or Jason Calacanis..

It should be about how do we persuade Matt Cutts through facts and oratory to enforce the rules.
Why would a user click this rather than leave the site?
Her site is based in misinformation. The Colorado law is not based on a "nexus", Amazon firing all of the Colorado affiliates doesn't relieve their tax liability:

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/03/colorado_law_adds_n...
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I realized late that attending college and university is also about meeting your peers. It's a head start in building your network of people before entering the work force.
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1) More or less, yep. Even those "natural rights" had to be demanded and paid for in blood. I'm talking about how the world has worked so far, not how I think it should be. It's useful to pretend otherwise most of the time, but when shit goes down you can't afford that luxury.

2) Yep. In this case I mean rights as in "water rights" as opposed to higher-order natural rights. Pragmatic reasons to encourage gay marriage are largely the same as for regular ones: married people live longer and are generally more happy. Stable households mean stable communities. Sensible distribution of estates. More homes willing and able to adopt the millions of kids who need them. Etc. Procreation is not the entire or even the most important reason to encourage households.

Unfortunately those arguments don't hold water with people who think being gay is immoral in and of itself.
I'd say the application domains of agile processes and formal verification are a bit different. Verification will make sure you are "solving the problem right". And most startups are trying to figure out if they are "solving the right problem".
People like that are either born with it or not. And you know if you are. I bet this guy was one of the most popular people in his high school or college. It is really a talent to be able to appear likeable to everyone and easily become "friends" with people (of course that does not really mean friends, just pretend friends).

My point is that if you do not have the talent it is absolutely pointless to try to do this and there aren't enough blogs in the world that will be able to teach you how to do it.

Of course, it is usually a good idea to try to improve one's social skills, but don't bother trying to learn to be manipulative, because if you weren't born a manipulative bastard, you will never learn.

And I have to say that even though people like him will always prosper in certain organisations, lately their fates are really declining in comparison with the truly talented. It used to be that the business word was dominated by a few fat and complacent companies where people could get ahead merely by being popular. But nowadays, business is getting ever more competitive and it is becoming ever more difficult for people to rise up merely because they are popular. It often becomes very clear who is not pulling their weight, even if they are popular.

So it is much better to spend your energy into learning to be good at what you do rather than being ruthless.
Why doesn't he actually step through the macro to format?

It's one thing to rave about Emacs, it's another thing to actually show its power. A line of elisp would have been much more of an argument.
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What do you use for feedback then.
Dude, I must say that I am very impressed with its minimal design.
I am always amazed by the amount of new discoveries that are still possible in science. We might think that we have an adequate picture of our universe and how it operates, but then we discover yet another subatomic particle or another strange fact about the movement and organization of the galaxies.

For all we know the smallest subatomic particles yet discovered may be made up of yet smaller subatomic particles, and the laws of physics that we use today will be completely invalidated by a future better understanding of dark matter and its effect on our universe.

It is humbling and incredible to think about how much there is yet to discover.
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What a misleading title. I was all hopped up and ready to read about the nutritional benefits of various insects and why we should eat more beetles and grasshoppers :(
I'd prefer a "blacklist" field in prefs where you could add strings for stories that you don't want to see. Probably wouldn't help HN's caching strategy though...
No. The price is exorbitant for what I would ever get out of it. People would not rather have this service than say, a new 42" HDTV and TiVo service.
FYI, folks: 'Shoon-yuh-thaah', not 'piñata'.

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I assume you read Less Wrong? The median founder and VC probably never think about the concept of the personal utility function.
Somewhat of a non-sequiter, but I just had a moment of, "huh, small world". I've been living in Venice for the past week, or so, in my RV. It's a great little town. Weird, friendly, and kinda rough around the edges, making it a very American sort of town. I did not stay with Angie and Danny, though I probably drove through their neighborhood on the way to the beach (it's a small town).

This is a really cool idea for AirBnB. It makes couchsurfing into a lifestyle...a hip and stylish lifestyle. And, we all know how much Americans will spend to obtain a lifestyle (everything, plus whatever someone will lend them).
Exactly when he mentioned the pixels of a screen and only rendering for them, he made it sound new with his voice but it is just culling and z-buffering. Point clouds still have to do that.

The reason why we use polys is for eliminating the math of all those points to make physics, shadows, texturing possible. I can see voxels/point clouds will be something in the future and voxels will probably be it, but this is silly to present static low quality work to show off a new technology for graphics.

I wonder if it is not a joking jab at tessellation and voxel directions as DX11 and OpenGL 4 now have tessellation and voxel discussion by Carmack. It will happen but these things are slow moving.
To quote PG "What people wished they'd paid more attention to when choosing cofounders was character and commitment, not ability." I have also found this to be true.

So, if you have the technical things covered, I would just concentrate on someone who is completely dedicated to do whatever it takes to be successful. And someone that you trust!
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while there are outliers who would never drive or who would never take public transit, I think most of us will take the most convenient route from point A to point B. I do think that if public transit was the most efficient way to get from point a to point b, more people would use it. While I don't think adding 'luxury' features would draw many riders out of cars, I do think that if public transit was more convenient than driving, it would draw many people out of cars.
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Cory Doctorow has a saying for his writing students: "Surgeons don't get surgeon's block."

I think the point is that the idea of professional block is just a fancy name for procrastination. However, I don't think he did any actual research with surgeons, so I can't say whether they procrastinate or not.
Games and graphics look great nowadays, the need to do something just for the tech is not a real driver. Why would someone invest the time in this and static when they can also add interactivity? Until it can do interactivity, real-time, lighting, animation, collision detection/physics, etc better, faster and stronger, it will not take the market for graphics.
There is a Greasemonkey script named HN Toolkit that allows you to accomplish this:

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1. It works with Safari and Chrome now.

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My personal belief is we fixate on things like plane bombings and child abductions because we are out of touch with the world in the given respect.

We understand there is a risk to driving a car, and accept it. To some extent we are deadened to it, forget about it (which is why I occasionally force myself to remember the risks) but we also intuitively understand the risk is low. You don't see an accident but every 6 months or a year, and most people are involved in them far less, yet we drive nearly every day.

Planes and abductions are different. We don't fly every day; we don't have an understanding of just how many flights happen, so we don't realize how low the odds actually are- we fixate on the downed plane, and in our minds we see 1 out of 1- 100% failure. Now, there are some exceptions like 9/11, where the risk is low but the cost is massive, possibly offsetting the low risk. That, on the bright side, can be approached differently (perhaps give the pilots weaponized doorways, or completely seal the door during flight. Institute a policy of 'go ahead and kill your hostage, we aren't going to crash this plane into the Empire State' [it is crucial to make the hostage NOT the pilot]. It's cruel, but if you crash the plane everyone and more are dead anyway, and without trained guards on-board there's not even a ghost of a chance you can fight the hostage free.)

Abductions are the same way; we are not aware how many children travel around on a daily basis and as such do not realize the relative size of the odds. This one also has an extra spice mixed in though- we are worried about somebody else, and we are not there. I find, at least for me, it's much easier to accept risk for myself esp. when I am involved in the situation, than it is to accept risk to someone else, ESP. when I am not involved in the situation.
Sounds like San Francisco has a serious homeless problem, and possibly other problems as well (enforcement on the public transit lines?). Perhaps it should deal with that. Building a redundant public transit line to pretend the problem doesn't exist doesn't really sound like a solution, and creates inefficiencies that exacerbates the disparity in wealth.
"Don’t try to be clever and get an auction going"

This differs from the advice I heard from a lot of savvy founders who used investor interest to ratchet up to better investors and valuations.

You gotta be a playa to pull that off, though.

EDIT FOR CLARITY: I'm not talking about shopping term sheets; this is universally agreed to be a Bad Idea.
You claim Objectivism claims all rich people are productive and all poor people are parasites.

I do no such thing; I merely draw an analogy to the broad grouping of social classes in orthodox Marxism, which equally does not argue that 100% of Class A are good and 100% of Class B are bad.

Meanwhile, let us consider Rand's philosophy as expounded by Rand herself; for simplicity's sake, and because she considered it such a vitally important work, we'll look at Atlas Shrugged. We are meant to glean from it a view of Rand's purely-rational, logically-defensible Objectivist ethics, but what we find is merely contradiction piled upon contradiction.

Selfishness, Objectivism tells us, is a virtue. So how is it presented in Atlas Shrugged? Well, while the selfishness of, say, Galt is held up as great and good, the selfishness of people other than Rand's heroes is painted as a vast evil, such that their very lives are to be forfeit as punishment.

And though Objectivism preaches an ethics based on the sanctity of the individual's rights over him- or herself and that subverting the individual's goals for the "greater good" is an absolute evil, Atlas Shrugged preaches that individuals can and should be killed as needed in the service of greater advances. Say, to expose corruption in railway management.

I could go on if you'd like, since Objectivism as expressed by Rand in her books has more holes in it than a slice of Swiss cheese, but hopefully you'll trust that I've actually given this some thought. The final impression I came away with was that Rand was trying to write tales of Nietzsche's ubermensch (which would resolve contradictions by putting her heroes beyond mere everyday notions of good and evil), but merely produced a caricature of his philosophy embedded into a series of one-dimensional and frankly unreadable novels.
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If I was Sequoia, I would basically require that all Sequoia investments be kept in utmost secrecy until the investment round closes. Thus, nobody would be able to piggy back of the Sequoia investments.

Think about it, what does Sequoia really do? They do not really provide capital, because they use other people's capital. Their contribution or value is in selecting the investments. Presumably, they are so popular and rich and successful because they are very good at selecting profitable investments.

If you think about it in this way, it is no surprise at all that there is a herd mentality with VCs. It is actually kind of logical. If an investor merely follows the Sequoia investments, they will get the benefit of Sequoia's presumably excellent investment picking skills without having to pay Sequoia anything. For example, imagine if you are an investor that is well connected in SV and you simply sniff out deals where Sequoia is investing and put in 10c of your money for every dollar that Sequoia puts in. That is like being an investor of a Sequoia fund. But it is even better because the actual Sequoia investors would have to pay costs to finance the salaries of the very well paid Sequoia partners. You on the other hand get in for free.

So Sequoia is crazy to let other people in on what investments they are making.
Surgery is not a creative process, at least, most surgeries shouldn't be. Instead, surgeries should be performed by somebody who learned about the procedure in medical school, and then performed it multiple times.

At least, any surgeon I'm paying...
I quit my job to do a startup, but it was only because we had gotten into an incubator. I don't really have any savings, since this was right after college, and so the money was completely necessary.

I'm a big believer in it, for similar reasons to the article. If the idea's so great, you should quit and do it all the time. It's not as if there's ever a lack of work.
This writer seems to be implying that the otherwise founders are living on savings (dwindling bank account). Wouldn't founders of companies at the stage were they can sell these shares be earning a good salary already?
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You know how a diabetic needs to keep a quick source of accessible sugar? I keep a quick source of accessible wins: my "to be implemented on a rainy day" A/B testing notebook. If I feel like programming and have programming scheduled but just can't get started for whatever reason, I pop one of those little candies of coding goodness to grease the wheels. At the very least they'll force me to get my IDE open, fire up a test suite, bang up some code, etc etc. After one is done I often feel that, since I'm already programming, I might as well go on to do whatever I really planned to do today.

There are days when I just can't program. We've all had that day, right? If I'm in mental shape to do other work, I do other work. If not, I shut down the machine and go out. (I can't wait until this doesn't require apologizing to my coworkers for taking the day off.)
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I've never seen this in the US.
Sure, I can see that, but not every modes ponens is a modus tollens.
"Often"?

Like what, once every million passenger-miles?

No offense, but it sounds like you are too afraid of the city to leave your house. Perhaps you should see a therapist instead of lobbying for some special public transit lines for people that are exactly like you?
I've also been using Sleep Cycle since the first WakeMate delay and I've been thinking about this in some detail. Here are the conclusions I've come to:

* WakeMate seems to be primarily competing on price (!) against FitBit and Zeo. The problem is, Sleep Cycle way undercuts them.

* I would be willing to pay for dedicated hardware that would free up my iPhone for music listening before bed(like Zeo or FitBit). Unfortunately, WakeMate doesn't help in this regard.

* There are times that I think Sleep Cycle is inaccurate, but I think it's "good enough" in a lot of sleep circumstances. Dedicated hardware should improve over a bed accelerometer a bit, but I don't think the additional accuracy alone is worth $48

* I'm hoping WakeMate's statistics and analysis meet or exceed the Zeo, but to be honest Sleep Cycle's stats are "good enough" for a variety of circumstances.

I really do think they're in trouble, quite independent of the shipping delays. Unless they can come up with some novel feature that nobody else can emulate, I can't really see how they can improve enough on Sleep Cycle to capture enough of the market. I think their best bet is almost to avoid the iPhone now.
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http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/false-po... false positives is one big deal.

On the radio the other day, a paediatric surgeon in the UK was lamenting the hassle involved in background checks. Ok, he operates on children, he gets a background check, so far so good. As one of only a few hundred dedicated paediatric surgeons, his skills are in demand, he is called as a consultant to another hospital. They don't accept any checks except their own so they do another. Which takes another month during which he is unable to help. Repeat for every hospital or every NHS zone, every year, for every applicable surgeon.

But who cares that treatment for children is being hindered by repetetive bureacracy, at least it's protecting children, right? Oh, wait...

In other words, having checks in place is a good thing, but only as far as it is proportionally useful to the costs of doing it. Not just doing anything and everything to anyone and everyone because it might help maybe.

I don't get the whole "pshaw, it's rare, no worries" attitude. I thought many of us here spend a lot of time eliminating rare events.

How much do you spend on rare event insurance? You read HN so it's a fair bet you earn living from computing, so you'll have particular insurance against losing or damaging your hands, yes?
of course, but the guy who posted the essay it did so to show off a critique of captialism. An appropriate response is then to say why Einstein is wrong, not attack his credibility by making it akin to JM Keynes commenting on QED (as Keynes is clearly not qualified to comment on QED).
I'd think so. Certain types of recursion or undefinable branches leads to unprovable expressions.
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"Cost of living is higher in most western european countries and japan than in the US, but their doctors are paid less than US doctors."

That's because most western European countries have socialized health care. The fact that doctors aren't paid well is a product of the system.
Conversion rate for BCC on Macs is nearly double that of Windows. I have always attributed it to my stunning design, rigid adherence to the HIG, and use of cutting-edge Mac-centric programming languages like Java Swing. ;)
This one is always fascinating for me to think about:

> There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently almost entirely matter, whether there exist other places that are almost entirely antimatter instead, and what might be possible if antimatter could be harnessed, but at this time the apparent asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter
I picked on a kid when I was really young. Now he plays baseball for Stanford and I'm a desk jockey.
for me, the biggest hurdle to sleep cycle is that it needs to be physically on my bed whilst i sleep, whereas WakeMate is a wrist band.

i used sleep cycle for a while, however the phone would fall off my bed or i had to place it under my pillow (which is not recommended because of heat). plus, i don't really like having the phone that close to me whilst sleeping.

i look forward to WakeMate, i think it will be a more complete solution.
I think the ratio of alive vs deadpooled companies is something that may attract applicants.

For example, if 144 companies died and success was Google, it might have been a great return for YC, but I am not sure if applicants would see it in the same way.

Every founder believes his starup will make it big if it stays alive. So he will project his vision of success in the alive column and not care how big of a return outliers get.