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Creatine supplements for meat-eaters increase physical stamina. It's one of the most sold products in "power sports" along with protein supplements. Ask the jocks to get the word from the horse's mouth, then tell me they too suffer a Creatine deficiency. :)
"In other words you think people just out fo school can't handle 10k$ without boarmeetings but you want them to build great companies for you"

Its one meeting to decide a budget and we're not going to demand a specific budget, the startup gets to decide how much money they're going to spend and on what. Whether they stick to the budget or not is up entirely to them, we aren't going to police their money at all.

We trust them to build awesome companies which is why we're funding them in the first place.

"YC-like, my ass"

While we're inspired incredibly by YC, there are certain things we do differently simply because of different constraints. There's a lot that we do that maybe YC doesn't do, we will subsidize your living costs & working costs as much as we can should you choose to work out of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore or Hyderabad for example.
Rocky was the best movie ever!
I hear you. I'm also glad to hear they're tweaking the formula. I think we can agree it's not only fair but important to set the incorporation requirement a little earlier in the session.

From the Institute's perspective, there are some (although not many) who saw the program as an easy means to gain access to mentors and investors for little or no commitment on their part. As such, they have no intention of graduating. Forcing them to decide sooner weeds them out.

From the founder's perspective, those not planning on graduating detract from the overall experience because they're not contributing positively. In some cases they're actually they're making it difficult for others. In NY I found the program started to become more relevant to me as the less-committed and less-advanced founders started dropping out.
Yep. I have enough time now :)
Ask HN: Do you find this useful?
I recently wrote this very simple web timer (it lets you put a countdown on any website you want to limit your use of). It's gotten some good reviews on sites like lifehacker.

I've seen a lot of really helpful critique / suggestions on HN, and I would appreciate any thoughts you might have. Does the site seem useful to you? How can I make it better? All observations welcome.

Thanks.

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yes, mumbai.
Link: http://x.minutes.at/
Toxicity of N-Hexane on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexane#Toxicity

Basically, the problem is more the volatility than anything else, so it may be bad for the poor Chinese people working "just there" but for the end user in Europe, this is safe as it will have evaporated long before reaching us.

Call me a cynical, but for one case like that, how many unknown cases? Especially because in China/India, you contract one company which will sub contract to an array of smaller companies with often very bad working conditions.
With clickable links:

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1145343)

(http://bowker.com)

DIDWW: http://www.didww.com

PrgMr: http://www.prgmr.com

Callcentric: http://www.callcentric.com

TarSnap: http://www.tarsnap.com/

Lyrics (this one is from me ;): http://lyrics.azankatech.com
Right, and PEGs only have one level of backtracking, so you don't have potentially massive slowdown due to backtracking several levels and re-trying everything along the way.

While the backtracking behavior is different, choice order affects PEG rules similarly to Prolog.
It's quite a risk to open up a book like this. More so if the main sales are expected to be E-versions.

I've talked to a few people who did things along this line, and they are of two minds. One camp says it kills sales. The other says it boosts sales, but in the latter case I don't think there was a PDF version even offered, and they made the book available as a Web site.

I encourage people who think this book is valuable to pay for it in some form, to encourage publishers to do more of the same, and to reward the author.
Thanks. There were several friends who helped in designing though, I am still learning.
Each time you buy ahead of someone they lose the money you make. It's a zero-sum transaction. Instead of being between a buyer and seller, it's now the buyer, you and the seller. You make enough money over the year to justify the seven-figure technology budget, and all of your profit has to come from the other two parties. (Well, and the money you might get as rebates from the exchange.)
If pdoughtie were saying "this must be wrong, because ..." then you would have a good point, but that's not quite what's going on.

The article contains a number of assertions, central to its claim but with little evidential support in the article. (For instance: "No serious market observer disputes the claim that volatility would not be higher without the liquidity provided by high frequency traders" -- has the author really looked hard for serious market observers with a different opinion? -- and "High frequency traders can only trade profitably when their trades push a stock price towards fair value"; what exactly is "fair value" supposed to mean, why shouldn't there be short-term bubbles among HF traders just as there are long-term bubbles among slower traders, and who says HF traders can't all happen to trade unprofitably in some particular case?.) It may very well be that those claims are true, but we basically have to trust the author. And that is what we may quite rightly and rationally be less inclined to do, if we know that the author has a vested interest in persuading us.
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can se some actual good uses for a standardized way to put watermarks on printed works
...
I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named "Sue."

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean,
My fist got hard and my wits got keen,
...

(I first saw mention of that Johnny Cash song in Mad Magazine, many moons ago, but never heard it. Now that there's internet search, I finally got to read the whole thing ...)
Thank you for the details! Much appreciated.

Even though you may not have been paid a "fair wage" for the work that you put into this book, it sounds like you are very happy with the outcome and the experience and the future benefits that you will undoubtedly reap from this project.

Congratulations and thanks again!
"Its one meeting to decide a budget and we're not going to demand a specific budget, the startup gets to decide how much money they're going to spend and on what."

It is still unnecessary bureaucracy. 10k $ is not that much money even in India. The key point is that you still need founders to tell you upfront (in the form of a "budget") how they are going to spend the money. YC just writes you a check.

As for "policing", if a "Company Secretary" is needed to disburse funds (as per last years FAQ) you don't need to "police" anything and you have line item veto by default.

"We trust them to build awesome companies which is why we're funding them in the first place."

Which brings me to another question. How many of your fundees have gone public/been acquired etc in the last 3 years of your operation? I can't find that info anywhere on your pages.

If you don't trust them to spend the money as they like, you are risking next to nothing. (There seems to be some ambiguity on this. Do founders need a company secretary to disburse funds? Can they write their own cheques/draw on the money as they feel fit, once funded? a simple yes /no on this would help). Why would good developers trade away their freedom for this kind of bureaucracy?

"While we're inspired incredibly by YC, there are certain things we do differently"

Yet you still feel the need to add the "YC like" adjective while missing/perverting the essence of the YC approach.
And that's the reason why I don't buy apple products. Apple has used many toxic/nature killing compounds in the past as well.
interesting.. its like a frugal man's crowdspring, i like it.
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I was accepted in Paris FI program for this summer, however I didn't pay the fee yet because I was also invited for an interview at YC in 10 days. I must decide today if I enter the FI program or not, knowing that YC is clearly my best choice but I can't wait for their answer.

I could follow the FI program until May, however if (cross fingers) I'm accepted at YC I won't be able to follow the FI program until the end. I do have the 800$, do you think it's worth using it for at least 2 months at FI?
I think it is a poor choice for me but a great choice for my neighborhood pizza shop, who would love to have a professionally-done logo and do not care a whit if it is shared with a pizza shop in Normal Bloomington, Moscow, and London.

This is the democratization of design, where the Fortune 5 Million can have routine access to mass-customized graphic art somewhere above the quality of MS Word ClipArt and (I'll be charitable) below the quality of the designers who want to charge four figures for a logo which embodies the unique values and messaging of The Neighborhood Pizza Shop.
A parser generator? Why oh why? It sounds so 80s. JavaScript is strong enough to express parser combinators, e.g. see Chris Double's implementation (also based on the PEG formalism):

http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/10/javascript-parser-combi...

I did the same thing in ActionScript. It's easy and fun.
I agree with points in general, but for one detail:

> Europe does have excellent designers; however, it lacks a start-up worshipping culture...

So? The iPod wasn't made by a start-up. The technology wasn't built from an acquisition of a start-up. I dare say it had absolutely nothing to do with start-up. Yes, Apple came from a start-up. But to my mind, the distance between Apple the start-up from a garage and Apple that envisioned the iPod and DRMed iTunes is sufficient to stop assuming only a start-up could've made the iPod.

Big companies make things too.
I've hated their core business model in the past. For it to work someone had to be exploited.

I think it is a pyramid scheme when someone has to complete a professional task for the slight chance of non noteworthy payment as a norm. It isn't sustainable.

That being said, this is a much better step. I see it being much more sustainable to everyone involved (and far less exploitative) for non custom logos being sold at a flat rate.
I have a love/hate thing with these companies - 99designs is not the only one out there.

In favour of them:

* they offer affordable logos

* you know exactly what you're getting for a fixed price

On the flipside, there is plenty wrong with these logos:

* Me too: if the logo's any good, there's a good chance someone else will buy it too. It would be like turning up to a party, and finding that you've got the same dress on (... a nightmare situation for some!)

* They look like $99 logos, or any other logo churned out by these companies

* It devalues the work of designers - a good designer understands what your company is about, and produces a fitting logo for you.

I'm sure there are many other fors/againsts than these, and it would be interesting to hear what others think of these services.
I guess the profit sharing is the same.

I can live pretty comfortably @ 300$ per month. That would mean no savings, ofcourse. As of now, my apps aren't making that much. However, I have hardly put any effort yet. Most apps are naive, unpolished and non-internationalized.

Now having quit my job, my first goal is to reach there.
And dig is doing good being digg.com. And I see Flickr doing well too.
I bought a domain name for a project from BuyDomains. I offered 25% of what they had it listed at, and ultimately got it for that price.

I had inquired a few times to purchase the domain, but never got very far with the negotiation.

They sent me an email last summer advertising their "No Serious Offer Refused" sale. I responded with my offer, and was patient. Close to the end of the month, a sales rep called me back, and I found he was much more willing to a negotiate (probably to meet sales targets at the end of the month).

The big take aways for me were to 1) be patient when dealing with them, 2) don't sound over eager to get the domain, and 3) commit to an amount you're willing to spend before going into the negotiation.
A tip to anyone who hasn't treaded these waters before:

Do not, under any circumstances, bring up 99 designs when speaking with a professional designer.

I warned you! But seriously, most entries for logo contests on 99 designs were already templates. If you look through a contest you'll see tons of leaves, swooshes, stylized people, etc... This just drives the cost down in most cases (the average contest is at least $99).
There are lots of markets with high barriers to entry.

Does the fact that Kinkos invests millions in fancy printers make the photocopying business unfair?
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The approach I'm working on uses the same "growing the seed" idea, but in a different way.

It involves the memo entries being able to remember which left-recursive results they are dependent on. This way, when a left-recursive rule produces a result that is dependent on itself, it knows that this match can possibly be "grown" through repeated iterations. That's a basic sketch of the idea. Performance properties remain the same in the case of left-recursive rules that are not interdependent. I don't really know what they are like for large numbers of interdependent left-recursive rules--but if you have a language like that, better to use an Earley or GLR parser.

I'm still working on it. It passes a battery of test cases, two of which I posted above, but I'm not 100% confident in it just yet. Also, as posted above, I'm trying to get permission from the higher-ups to release the code into the wild.
I think it's a pretty much perfect implementation of a service of this nature. Esp. like that I can use bookmarklets. How robust is your frame buster buster? I do get a slightly weird interaction when loading nytimes, at least in chrome. A killer feature would be pausing if you tab away, but I'm pretty sure there's no way to do this. Having said that, I don't really see myself using something to limit my time on a page.
I find it odd to try and spend time with someone I like while other people are around. The 1 on 1, "Let's do something like ping pong or a movie together" model seems more natural to me.

(I'm 21, for a generation reference)
How about a two-tier system where 99 bucks gets you a version with your wording, while $999 (or whatever) gets you a version of the logo with the wording and gets it removed from the site. Or is that already how it works and I skimmed too lightly?
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I do not think you should apologize. I didn't think much before filling that section.

It would indeed hurt me if I come across as that type of women. So, thanks for the advice.
A plague on their house!
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Well, I don't think it is based on PR (The vast majority of Apple's customers don't know or don't care about lawsuits). Microsoft has been doing a pretty good job of getting companies using Linux to license its IP without needing to go to a lawsuit. I have very little doubt that any company that doesn't enter into an agreement will end up in court. I wouldn't bet against Microsoft charging phone vendors a fee for using Android. Microsoft has already hosed vendors in other spaces (e.g. Plays for Sure).
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This is fantastic. Most businesses --- the overwhelming majority of them, in fact --- need a distinct and competant bespoke logo, but absolutely don't need a custom couture treatment.

I'm betting that had this been available a year ago, one of these would be Patrick McKenzie's logo.

The only concern I have with 99designs is the policing. I'd like to know more about what they're doing to make sure the work up there is original --- a friend had a bad experience with this issue. If they can put a lid on that, I think this offering solves a huge problem.
It's a nice start. To really take advantage of the iPad, though, will require a lot more thought as to how the UI scales up. What about that list page? It's not necessary (or necessarily advisable) to mimic the Delicious Library / iBooks "shelf," but could the covers be scaled up relative to the type? Maybe the list becomes two across instead of one with all that white space on the right?

The field here is incredibly ripe for experimentation. The winners in this market will be the ones who don't settle for a quick solution.
A CT from today is very different from the first CT scans in the 1970's.

http://www.imaginis.com/ct-scan/history.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ct-workstation-neck.jpg
And if I may offer the inverse of the lamentable "Not Hacker News" type of comment, posts like this are exactly why Hacker News is a particularly awesome corner of the internet. If anyone wants to know what it means to "Gratify one's intellectual curiosity," this type of post is it.
You skimmed too lightly. Drop another $200 and you get an exclusive.
My first question would be why you consider YC to be your best choice. No offense intended to the host of this forum, but there's a lot of reasons that might not be true. Clearly YC gets better press, but as with FI it's not for everyone. A lot depends on the stage of your idea/company.

My gut reaction to the underlying question is that you should focus on figuring out which program is better for your situation and devote yourself to it. Having been through the FI experience I personally find the idea of using it as a fallback or filler a bit insulting, but Institute doesn't make that distinction.
Ask HN: Specific feedback on GoDaddy / Rackspace
Hi all,

A friend of mine and I are embarking on a start up. Our web-app is essentially done and we're just waiting to hear back on some funding. I'm a programmer, but I don't feel THAT comfortable with site administration, so I just wanted to get some feedback from those of you who have been in a similar position before (googling for reviews - it's hard to find unbiased-ness!)

GoDaddy: I like the fact that they have everything we need, or plan to need in the future all bundled in one. Domain, SSL, languages/servers, etc... Very easy to use, and pretty well priced. My only concern is that update and confirmation emails will be very integral to our service, and it seems that GoDaddy's php mail() setup is sketchy. Some people say it works, others no, others say there are limits. GoDaddy's site seems silent on the issue. I also don't like the 'tone' GoDaddy's had recently. They seem very big and impersonal.

Rackspace (Cloud): I've heard a lot about them around here, and it seems they tailor more to startups. I like their flexible pricing, and the fact that you have root access. It also seems like they're pretty polished and easy to use. My main concern here is SSL - I don't know a lot about it, but some hosts I've seen require that you be on a dedicated server for SSL to work. If I buy my own SSL certificate, can I install it onto a Rackspace cloud host? I'm also a little fuzzy on what 'cloud' means, since it seems to mean different things every where - but I can read into that on my own (though if you have comments - they are more than welcome!)

Thanks, and thanks for all the advice I've gleaned from your comments over the past year!
Is it just in the UK that people are increasingly unwilling or unable to take responsibility for their actions, or for their failure to educate their own children?!

Yes, protect the children and all that, but where's the common sense? Unless this is shoddy reporting by Sky, the idea of a panic button mechanism shows amazing ignorance of the internet and its ways by the Home Sec (now, there's a surprise!).
I don't see the point of authorizing that many shares. I've always authorized 1,000 and initially issued 100 to the founders. 1,000 is enough to get the % breakdowns you need and you aren't charged for having that many shares: http://www.corp.delaware.gov/frtaxcalc.shtml
"if the logo has not been purchased before, you can buy it exclusively and own the full rights to the logo for an extra $199." http://99designs.com/readymade/help/howitworks
I think I'd put it in negative terms; not that sleeping makes you smarter (because that makes it sound like sleeping is a sufficient condition), but that not sleeping prevents you from being smarter (which says sleeping is necessary but not sufficient - as it is).

Ditto for vegetarian diet - not that eating meat makes you smart, but that not eating meat and not replacing the meat appropriately will prevent you from being (a little) smarter.

(There are other examples, like the B vitamins that vegetarians need to watch out for, I've heard.)
No different than using a website template / theme, or royalty free music. It all depends on what you're doing, and what parts of your business you want to be unique about.

For some businesses, and perhaps some stage of nearly any business, a logo from the 99designs store seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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You know that unless something fundamental changes with how congress is extending copyrights, this never happens these days, right?
You make the assumption that they would trade. That assumption is only valid because of people like me.

I don't need to justify my activity, nor do I want to go that route--my point is that the fact that participants can realistically expect a fill is not something that happens because of magic.
you can actually get an exclusive license for an additional $199
The definitions you're using for "deficiency", "enough" and "too little" are useless. If your body performs better with more of a substance that can be obtained through food or produced by your body, I'd call that a deficiency. If your body isn't performing as well as you'd like, and that can be improved by consuming more of a substance without harming your health, then you don't have enough of it.

This really shouldn't be controversial. I think vegetarianism is a good thing and it's something I'm attempting, but ignoring science because you don't like the negative connotation of "deficiency" doesn't make any sense.
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They do sell full rights for an extra $199:

"All logos cost just $99, or if the logo has not been purchased before, you can buy it exclusively and own the full rights to the logo for an extra $199. "

I can see how this would be really attractive to many businesses; after all, most people who don't interact with designers on a regular basis view a logo as a very secondary matter, and if they can get a unique one for $300, that's probably good enough for them.

These people are probably crummy clients for any designer anyhow, so I don't feel like designers are really losing out. Heck, it might even be a worthwhile place to sell extra materials (e.g. logos that were not accepted).
I wonder how "dating" worked back then?

Even before dating-via-Facebook, etc., I think things were different.

From watching Happy Days, etc., I conclude that back in the day, people used to "date" multiple people in parallel, and were only monogamous if they were "going steady".

But by the late 70s to early 80s (when I was of the age), this wouldn't have been tolerated. You can only be "dating" one person at a time.

So maybe the doing-things-as-a-group thing is a work-around that's allowing a person to interact with more potential partners than the one-at-a-time rules would allow.
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http://99designs.com/readymade/help/manual#pricing

"The first customer to purchase your logo has the option to buy all rights to your design. This will cost them an additional $199, bringing the total cost to $298. For some customers exclusivity is a must, so for them this option will be very compelling. "