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The funny thing is that the final paragraph could just as easily be interpreted as solid arguments for selling:

Facebook and Twitter hitting the geo space... real momentum and that intangible buzz...

So two juggernauts are entering the space, and they have a rare opportunity to actually monetize "intangible buzz" while people still don't know what FB and Twitter will do.

We're definitely in the realm of wild speculation, since it's impossible to judge accurately from out here. But I do agree that the whole notion of "destiny" isn't a good metric, regardless of the actual situation.
You'd be surprised. The $20M has a very bitter aftertaste when you watch your baby getting neglected, or destroyed.

"Maximized profit" and "well being" don't always go hand-in-hand. Sometimes, it's better not to sell (or to sell to the right buyer.)
Yahoo's not that bad. Flickr was good before and good after, for example.
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I'm a little bit of computer nerd, but i'm trying to promote a new literary journal which I'm doing as something of a hobby. The problem is I have no idea where to promote it.

When I was doing tech startups I knew where to go to promote the websites but I cant find a writing forum that doesn't suck. Or an HN or Digg for writers.

Do any of you have any ideas? I could buy reddit advertising or something (which is great for traffic) but I'm almost certain I wouldn't be getting the audience I need from it.
Simple human nature. For a single human being to do something evil, there's relatively little means of escape--that person has to feel justified in what they're doing, or at least have very strong personal motivations. But mobs will readily do things individual humans will not, and the delegation of responsibility inherent in following authority figures will short-circuit people's moral reasoning (Milgram experiment).

It's not just corporations--street gangs, government agencies, churches, political organizations, and other groups have a much harder time than individuals maintaining a moral compass. As much as you want to pin institutional evil on individuals--be it mafia dons, dictators, CEO's, or crooked cops--at the very least, the institutions these people are part of are a necessary element in what happens.
The site's own headline has the decency to call these "services" rather than "startups". Oh, that the submission-headline would be as honest!
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I find it interesting how quickly the body appears to decondition when you stop exercising. I suspect the consensus is that this is intended to lower basal metabolism, which would make one better adapted to a food scarce environment. However, if you consume high quantities of food, the body still deconditions. It ignores this data.

So what is the true reason why the body prefers a state of lower conditioning? Even if I lazed around for months in my cave, I'd still want to be at maximum ready for when a neighboring tribe appeared or if I suddenly needed to increase exertion for food.

I find it plausible that exercise has costs that are being overlooked. I'm always impressed by the longevity of academic-types I find in wikipedia, who I presume don't run marathons often. NFL players have extremely low lifespans. Marathon runners tend to have higher rates of heart damage.
This is why VCs should put some money into the pockets of the founders when they fund a company.

There may be good reasons, as far as the future of the company goes, why they shouldn't sell out to Yahoo or someone else. But, we are talking about a lot of money here. And if the founders aren't already independent, money-wise, can you really fault them for looking out for themselves, for their families?

I know money isn't supposed to be everything, but come on.
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You know, somewhat I expect that startups heavily financed by VC sell out, while bootstrapped companies go for it. So I do not agree with techcruch. But this is probably my european bias that kicks in...
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Is that right? I have been wondering to what extent the Google crawler renders js. Given that it's Google, I was imagining that they probably do pretty much full DOM rendering of pages, as so many pages are now rendered dynamically. Of course, it's difficult to simulate human-interaction with the page, so I guess this is their solution to that - the web designer leaving a signpost.
Thanks for the suggestion, changed the title of the submission. Absolutely agree, that for now most of these are just quick projects, that might grow into real companies. Ideas are cheap, execution is what matters. These were ad hoc projects, people who met first time on Friday, many of them students. The focus was also not on businesses, but products and services, some of them non-commercial - why not. Events like these have also the goal of getting contacts and new friends and give people motivation. In that Garage48 succeeded, so many people said they are now considering doing a startup, something they never before had thought of.
i am seeing it on twitter right now
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If 2-3 of the 16 projects would turn into real businesses, we would be extremely happy. If at least half of them continue as websites or free software, that would be great as well.

Let's also not forget, that if the people are great and team works well, many of the startups find themselves doing something completely different in 1-2 years time. You just have to get started and experiment.
Acquisitions are often the triumph of hope over experience. But maybe Yahoo has learned from its prior misfires, and the Foursquare folks have learned from the Dodgeball experience, and the threat of Facebook/Twitter will be ominous enough, such that Foursquare could thrive inside Yahoo.

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Furthermore, both are predicated on the idea of a steady state, some kind of economic nirvana which would come into being if only everyone would adopt these (supposedly) fabulous economic ideals - which is why neither Marxists nor Austrians can point to any economies where their theories are applied with great success. They excuse by explaining that the existing system is corrupt and their theory will only work if everyone joins in with it. In the meantime, all problems are the result of filthy bankers.

This reminded me of the "Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once" entry in the Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (FUSSP) Response. Someone must have written a FUSSP equivalent for economics.
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Michael Arrington is so anti-yahoo that I find it difficult to read his articles about yahoo without wondering how much of that is just personal animosity.

Foursquare SHOULD sell. 4sq is going to become the friendster of the space. All these early starter companies get out-innovated, and it will happen very soon.
Because Arrington has successfully built and sold many companies, therefore enterpeneurs should really take his advice.. I mean he was really successful with .. Uhm .. oh and there was also .. uhm ....

This the "journalists" who tried extorting monies out of Twitter in exchange for not publishing illegally obtained material .. This is the guy who comments on others selling out? Really?
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You would/did regret sacrificing a year or two of good work, in return for working on anything you care to for the rest of your life? Was that one project really more important than anything else you could ever do?
New link shortener monetizes links and gives away cash
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Doubtful. The video says that all content is licensed under Creative Commons... So I imagine they won't even accept regular, works already copywrited by a publisher.

The specific license they're using can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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C++ has operator overloading, but surely that can't put in an "entirely different league"… Were you talking about template abominations like the ones in boost?
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Very old, dead beat movie by now. But remains a favorite to me still.
While I agree the microsim switch is annoying, the chips in sims and microsims are the same; just less plastic in the micro version. If apple starts using microsims for new iPhones, I'm fairly sure cutting toolkits will become common. Only makes switching back more difficult.
I don't entirely agree with you, but I like your "regulatory capture" argument.

I'd say a really tough fractional reserve requirement of, say, 10% should be enough to stop banks going haywire in a credit bubble, but still let them make a profit.

Instead, we have over-engineered regulations that lets banks maximize profits while locking out smaller competitors.
Ask HN: What percentage of YC startups make it?
What percentage of YC startups make it and what percentage fail?
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I used to use Etherpad and Dabbleboard for rough collaborative specs and mocks because they're realtime. Now Google Docs will do nicely.
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Nice. Just the other day I was contemplating the use of a specialized webapp that allows me to easily create mockups of new user-interface designs. However, Google Drawings now seems extensive enough to be able to fulfill most of my needs with regard to UI prototyping.

I believe I read about Balsamiq on HN a while ago; it must be tough for a small company to operate in an area that intersects with areas google might be(come) active in.
My current favourite balanced tree is the treap:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treap

In a treap the shape of the tree is uniquely determined by it being heap-ordered according to a random number associated with each node, in addition to the standard search tree ordering.

The various operations are fast and simple to implement. For example, deletion is as simple as rotating the node in question down until it is a leaf, then removing it. The rotations only need to preserve heap ordering, a much simpler invariant than the red/black one.

The standard description of the treap calls for a field in each node containing a random number, but you can eliminate that by just hashing the address of the node. That's what I did in GSequence in glib (http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/gsequence.c).
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This has actually been done, in Inria's HOP project with Scheme->JS
I would say that Techcrunch and the like have more to lose from Foursquare selling to Yahoo!. They were probably counting on three more years of extensive "Twitter" like coverage to fill their pages.

Once Yahoo! or another big company buys them they will be forced to move on and find something new :(
Maybe. My concern is, who knows how long it would take Yahoo to absorb Foursquare, how much Foursquare code would need to be refactored in order to play nice with Yahoo's, how long it'd take to sort out personnel issues, and so forth. It's easy to envision not hearing from the Foursquare team for a good 6-9 months post-acquisition, by which time they really would have lost ground to their bigger rivals purely from an innovation standpoint.
I use Mockingbird for wireframing. http://gomockingbird.com

It doesn't allow collaboration but it is entirely focused on wire framing (unlike GDrawings, OmniGraffle and Visio). It provides a great experience.

For everything else, I use OmniGraffle.
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People are definitely thinking about it (including inside the scientific community).
This is politics very thinly veiled as economics, and there's also a lot of misinformation in it.

I can't tell if you're referring to the article, or to the rest of your comment.
Thank you! (Many of the initial comments were reacting to the word 'startup' rather than the interesting services created, so I think this wording will get more of the right kind of attention/reaction.)
Did Yahoo ever integrate anything with Flickr in a way that justified the acquisition? I realize they have a little Flickr widget on their homepage, but man they have the world's catalogue of amazing images and they really haven't done anything with it other than just keep it the same as it was, for the most part.

I think I understand how M&A teams at places like Yahoo! work. It's all about what's "hot" with maybe some fanciful vision of integration into Yahoo! in a way that will never happen. The M&A team is drinking the same koolaid they're selling to top level execs, founders and VC's of companies they're looking at, bringing a gigantic checkbook with them.

Zimbra was actually a good kind of acquisition, because they did a good job integrating it with Yahoo! Mail right away, and what you see today is derivative of that purchase. It made a lot of sense for Yahoo! to buy a fancy webmail interface since most people using Yahoo! use it for their email. Some other good examples of acquisitions are Google buying Android and Apple buying the chip manufacturer that led to the A4 for the iPad. Bad acquisitions are when it seems like it's about the buzz and it's hard to visualize how the purchase can help the bigger company. Those acquisitions go the way of Dodgeball and Jaiku.

Foursquare is a mobile company and Yahoo!'s (lousy) presence on mobile phones is restricted to un-installable bundled software deals like with AT&T on the Backflip. Yahoo! is not a mobile company, it's not the first, second, or even in the top ten or possibly not even in the top fifty companies you'll think of when someone asks you to name companies that are movers in the mobile space.

Foursquare isn't going to do well at Yahoo! because it doesn't make sense.

I usually don't like Arrington's rants, but this one was inspired.
Obviously advice on the Internet about finding free WiFi is not terribly useful... but...

For London free WiFi can be found at:

- Starbucks (when you buy a £5 Starbucks card, but you get the £5 back as caffeine - and unlike the US there is no daily limit, just a 2hr session limit).

- Refurbished (green) McDonalds.

- Coffee Republics.

- Wetherspoons (if you feel like e-mailing while drunk).

- Some small coffee shops, although not very many.

- St Pancras station.
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Wouldn't it be a lot easier for Google to build a JS parser, and just examine the requests and follow it through as a normal browser would?
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I've been looking for something like this. Lately it seems that we're doing more and more wireframing at my work, and having to pull out illustrator, and then deal with large files and passing them all around into SVN and whatnot has gotten to be a huge pain.

I'm going to check this out.

I'm also curious how their flowchart handing is. I've still never found a decent flowcharting program made for coders. It was getting to the point where I was actually considering making one to fill my need...
I think it's because they started out that way! Of course, almost any skill or desire can be learned, but everyone is born into this world with their own unique set of aptitudes and weaknesses. The unique amalgamation found in each person lends its owner to certain roles and stations in life where excellence is easier to achieve.

Some people are perfectly OK working for someone else. They enjoy the labor of it, they enjoy the pay, they enjoy the company, they enjoy the security and relative comfort and anonymity. It doesn't really bother them that someone else is making 3x more off of the work performed than they are. That's OK. There's all kinds of people who are OK with this idea, too, but believe me that it's much better for some types to remain content with this than to branch out.

Some people are not content with that setup. They want to change things, they want to control how they spend their time (i.e. no hard 9-5 commitment), they want to keep the money their labors produce, they want to direct and lead and organize and control the intelligences and powers for their ends. This is OK and good too.

There's just different types of people in the world. We need employees, both employees on the way to independence and employees who don't mind becoming company men. It's good to have both.

The real thing that should be universal is a plan to develop financial independence such that one is never forced to work a job after it turns south, and such that people do not have to live in fear of their bosses. Of course, many bosses get mad at this idea because it weakens their ability to control their employees.
I like you to explain the lump of capital fallacy theory. Also, the Austrians believe in a free market monetary system, not a "gold standard". It also look like you disagree Austrian's epistemological approach to economics?

Calling or implying Austrian economics a religion is not a very convincing argument to me. If it is such a religion, CatB may need to be thrown out entirely and everyone should start discounting everything ESR say about open source. (I am sorry to say this, but anytime a hacker thinks CatB is an awesome document is automatically a little Hayekian)
she suggested it was because programming was 'a male way of thinking' (!).

I suspect people thought that about math at some point as well...
This article didn't say very much beyond "Emerging economies are increasingly innovative".
I have a laptop + iphone, but since I'm a stranger in a strange land, I have absolutely no idea where to find the free wifi you speak of.
I get that he went from skeptical to impressed with the book, but he never explained why. What's so impressive about this book? That example image did not really make any sense to me. Given that I don't really understand why the book is so great, I can't follow his premise to the conclusion. I don't doubt there's something to being a goofy genius, but I don't think this was an argument that made any sense to me. Maybe someone else can explain something I missed. :/
Considering YC only started in 2005, it is too early to say how many "made it", the definition of which is ambiguous in the first place.

This spreadsheet has a list of YC companies along with whether or not they are dead or have exited:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...
Although that's cheating, you can achieve the same effect by creating the glyph and replacing any letter that's only used once (O, H or E in this case) with it. The other characters in the font can be blank. Therefore it works both for those that interpret it visually, and those that interpret the text.

I've seen this suggested for replacing a brand name with a logotype.
How is your opinion any different? Do you have access to the founders' cockpit view?
OmniGraffle has been circling the drain in my work-flow for a while now; pen and paper easily beating it out most of the time. Wire-framing should be fast, quick, and recyclable. I've been impressed with Google drawings: it's not bloated (unlike onmingraffle) and it's visually clean (unlike balsamiq).
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Great list. Surprisingly, I hadn't even heard of YC's most successful exit (Divvyshot, acquired by Facebook at 20M$).
Interesting that you would call it the most successful, given that the general consensus on tech blogs (whatever that's worth) is that it was a talent acquisition/distress sale. I think the founder's statement came across as an unhappy ending (not what he envisioned, but that could have just been the way I read into it). It was a pretty cool interface for a photo site but unfortunately the most memorable thing I knew about the company was the drama with that teen from techcrunch trying to have the Divvyshot founder buy him a Mac to get favorable coverage on Techcrunch.com

I'm about to start work as a new employee at a YC alumni, hopefully we'll do better!
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Yes, damn those parasites. All those people working elsewhere and living in the Northwest are stealing jobs and not putting any money into the local economy. Err, wait...
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Some believe in a 'free market monetary system'. Others, a majority, denounce this as more fiat currency and insist on 'sound money'...as you are surely aware.

I'm sorry, but such niceties are little different from arguments that communism is totally different from socialism. If you want a free market monetary system then get a forex account.