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Perhaps it wasn't clear what we're doing. Instead of making companies wait to apply (or missing the window to apply), we'll be taking applications year-round. When companies are accepted, they'll have a custom 3-month accelerator program for them setup so that we're not doing a one size fits all approach - that's good for the companies that are beyond just the idea stage as some have been that have applied to the program.

Finally, given the various niches that startups we fund go after, the value of the idea sharing/camaraderie while useful hasn't been something we could point to and say "this will ensure startup success". Same goes for the speaker program. So why subject entrepreneurs to these programs/ideas if it won't help them succeed? For us, it's a clear choice of killing off the things that don't add value so we can do more things that do add value.

Re: office space, we're still likely to have office space for the companies. It's something we're currently working on with one of our partners.
> Just because something is "developed" in the US doesn't mean that all of the developers are US citizens or even based in the US.

Absolutely.

> Outsourcing makes it incredibly difficult to ensure that no backdoors, malware, etc. are inserted into source.

If a program is (1) open source, and (2) widely used, there are likely to have been lots of eyeballs looking at it. It would probably be harder to put a backdoor in Linux of GCC, without people finding out, than in MS Windows or Microsoft's CLR. I'm leaning towards the point of view that security6 critical software should run on popular open source platforms (by platforms I mean OSes, Languages and APIs).
What is meant by collapse here? I think it means "general systemic failure" and, if it were to occur, hurt would not be limited to the financial sector. Everyone and everything would be involved. KPCB's investment choices would not have much significance one way or another looking forward.
I remember a while back they polled google engineers and asked them what they thought was the most beautiful equation in math. I believe this one came in the winner.
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Also, gzip is much more efficient on plain text.
Its not just about IE6. I've users who would have used DOS 6.22 and an old POS software happily. However they were forced to upgrade since they needed to use Thumb drives, DVD Writers (for Backup) and USB printers. If it were not for these hardware requirements, they would have happily used DOS. [updating the app through net? A lot of users have very simple requirements that once done are done for a long time.]

The average Joe upgrades their software only when they miss out very essential things. If they are still able to Facebook, check mails and watch movies, they're probably okay with whatever old OS they've. They really don't care about 64 bit computing or the latest Service Packs unless it has something very directly related with daily use.
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Unless they're active colonizers, moving from solar system to solar system consuming all available resources, I don't see why we would want to fear them. Assuming they are, if anything they would avoid solar systems that might have active defense.

It's also possible such a civilization might follow much the model many hope to create for humanity, colonizing worlds then sending out new seed missions to every available world. If that's the case, there are three possibilities:

A. They respect other life, and avoid inhabited systems.
B. They fear other life, and seek out inhabited systems.
C. They don't care about other life, and attempt to colonize all systems they can.

Because of the assumed exponential growth life is capable of, and the distances between stars, the limiting factor is travel time, not growth, so it follows that the difference between B&C is negligible.

Now, if they have some form of FTL travel, then B could be a problem. However, it seems likely that if FTL aliens were interested in destroying us, they would have found us by now and begun monitoring anyway.
Undirectional bursts of noise dampen out in the usual n^2 manner, and at the distance of light years becomes difficult to sort out from the undirectional burst of noise that we are pleased to call our Sun. Also, as noise, they don't yell out "intelligence!" as much as an analog radio signal, which is clearly from an intelligent source. Nuclear explosions may have some special characteristics, but frankly there's always something exploding somewhere out there in the cosmos. It's difficult to characterize the exact detection radius, but it's probably much smaller than you think.

Interestingly, as we become more efficient with our radio transmissions, which is to say, use less power, and ever more of it is locked behind at least one of excellent compression or encryption, it seems that the natural evolution of a civilization may return it to something that looks pretty natural again at a distance of light years. Dim, high-entropy signals once again become difficult to distinguish against background noise.

To be honest, the thing that yells "LIFE!" that is probably detectable out to a far greater distance than anything we humans have done is our oxygen atmosphere. We stand on the verge of doing elementary spectroscopy on distant planets ourselves.

Come to think of it, this is probably the most powerful argument against the paranoid alien. The paranoid, relativistic-projectile-firing alien isn't even looking for a sign of intelligence; the logic says they should extinguish all other life, just in case. But our planet has been broadcasting "I'm alive!" across the cosmos for between 1.6 to 2.5 billion years. If somebody out there was looking to preemptively kill everybody around them, they would already have gotten to Earth.

(Waiting until you can see a trace of intelligence is too late, after all, without FTL. In cosmological terms that's the striker hitting the alarm bell. You want to get there long before that. And even if you have FTL you're still safer preemptively neutralizing planets. Remember, it is trivial to neutralize a planet and reset its biological clock to zero; if you can wait a hundred years or two then very gently nudging a very large asteroid will do the trick, and if you're impatient there's any number of faster ways to do the same thing with very, very, very modest energy investments. Sterilizing a planet is easy.)

(On that note, no, neither the dinosaur extinction event nor any other impact would match this profile. An intelligence would successfully sterilize the planet, not merely "substantially stress the ecosystem".)
they can also create mental illness.

I'm sorry but this is a a claim frequently made without context. Some evidence would be refreshing, along with some known causation, neurochemical or otherwise.

An anecdotal example, a friend of mine developed severe depression brought on by something inhibiting serotonin production/reception. Since LSD can vastly increase serotonin temporarily he suspected frequent LSD use could have something to do with it. This is one case out of hundreds of cases I know with no negative consequences. Going by my personal experience psychedelics are less dangerous than alcohol.

But personal experience is inadequate to explain the effects of these substances.
I don't like it, but it doesn't matter for me because I change to clearlooks with new icons for gnome anyways and they didn't mess with buttons on that theme.
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"What Intel did was set up a separate business unit in Israel down at the low end. They have a product called the Celeron chip which is much cheaper and came in at the low end of the market. "
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~cs671/interview.doc
On a related note, here's a mathematician comparing his experiences with DMT and LSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYDgmpiE-U0
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This really gave it away.
Ubuntu Linux is in danger of becoming the new windows. Time to move to Plan 9! I don't see that becoming mainstream for at least a year.
What is 'call' doing in that function? Check out dojo.hitch:

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#1oUPVh-C1Wg/trunk/e...
Yep, I s'pose that was a bad pic to use. I had it mocked in at one point while looking for the right one, then forgot about it while fumbling with twitpic's expiring S3 content and editing the rest of the photos.
What the hell are you talking about?!? I don't think it is inconvenient at all!

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Hi, thanks for responding. Obviously, I'm not involved in reddit development, since I didn't know you used to publish live. But still, I think it's ok to have half-baked code out there -- you just need to mark releases occasionally. Those can be as slow or frequent as you like, but it's still important for people to see what's going on in the interim. And in turn, those people can help you get it fully baked.

As for controlled feature revelation, I think that's counter to the spirit of open source community -- the community is not really on equal footing with the company. It like you're saying "aren't we nice to share our code with you" rather than "let's all work on this together".

Well that's my two cents. I understand that not every company feels they can work that way, but I think the really successful projects have figured this out.
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> Flash works on my blackberry just fine, btw.

Tell Adobe they could move their release date up then, since Adobe only promises to have Flash on your Blackberry later this year:

http://www.blackberrycool.com/2010/02/03/adobe-on-the-verge-...

http://crackberry.com/adobe-flash-now-arriving-blackberry-se...

PS. Presume you meant Flash Lite, which is not the Flash discussed in the "Flash on iPhone" debate.
Linux isn't just used for servers though. Do they pay the same in support for workstations?
This is nice to read and all, but I'd be curious to know exactly what patents they were litigating over.
How do you figure? On Friday, it was listed as being 3,850 square miles[1]. West Virginia has an area of 24,230 square miles[2].

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/01/gulf-oil-slick-triples-...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia
Anyone who belongs on HN can find this information with Google, probably as the first result on their first try.
I agree, those pictures come across as unnecesarily flippant and rude. I don't need to be insulted by someone just because my web browser is out of date.
It also makes for a nice summary if you read the article.
> IANAL etc., but this is elementary contract law.

It's perfectly legal to have a contract where no money changes hands at all.

The important part is that there is some kind of agreement between two parties (or more) that is defined in a formal way.

Money definitely need not change hands.

A 'one way contract' gives consideration to only one party, and in the case of posterous that is definitely not the case, after all, the user gets one thing, posterous gets another, both parties benefit, there is an agreement in place that governs the transaction which both parties have consented to. (You use webservices without reading the terms of service, which should be prominently displayed at your own peril).

edit: for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract
Interesting news. This is essentially what I predicted in the paper I wrote on Y Combinator and its clones.

http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combina...

Short version: Don't blindly copy YC. Do something distinct and different, or you're always going to be a second-tier programme.

Good luck to Shotput Ventures in your re-start.
I was convinced by the comments that my approach to IE6 was not the kindest or most enlightened, and since my mama taught me to be polite, I changed the sites:

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It is funny how Apple manages to simply punish everyone for the bad behavior of a few. This would really frustrated me because the poor guy was not evening buying the entire thing using a gift card. He was only using it to cover a portion.
> Like every good liberal, I'm not crazy about the idea of nuclear power

Pardon me, but I'm a liberal and I support nuclear power.
No, it's function composition as seen in e.g. pure functional programming languages like Haskell:

(.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c

Except that of course in an impure language like JavaScript if you compose some function f with another function g, either or both functions could have side effects (via I/O, mutation etc.) that break referential transparency.

After a quick glance at the Prototype code, the bind function isn't merely changing which object the name 'this' is bound to, it also allows a kind of currying. However, this still isn't function composition.
Thanks. I'm using that at the moment, but I'm going to keep looking. The site doesn't get to the point fast enough and it doesn't suggest Google Chrome.
If you're worried about what side of the window your close button is on, you're doing it wrong. Learn the keyboard shortcuts and move on to more important issues.
Interestingly, I hear these stories all the time of "I heard of someone..." "know of someone..." "who took acid and is committed to a ward in a mental health facility." but have yet to ever have anyone verify this.

It makes the permanent "bad trip" seem almost myth (not saying you are part of this group, just brought this to mind)
Was it sent from his Macbook?
There have been hundreds of documented cases tryptamines causing psychosis and HPPD. If you want evidence just go to Erowid. Or read the book Darkness Shining Wild. Even at the MAPS conference last week there was a talk by a guy who developed severe psychosis after doing LSD. He thought he was the reincarnated Jesus and stayed awake for four days straight writing a new holy book, and then camped outside a bookstore for a couple months passing out copies to everyone who walked by. And then when he finally realized what he was doing a couple months later he tried to kill himself. The talk should be online in 6 weeks or so.

edit: Check out this YouTube video about a guy developing psychosis--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HBCSF9nfs&playnext_from...

Also, listen to Ben Fold's song Not The Same, about his friend who did LSD at a party and was never the same again: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://popup.lala.com/popup/5046...
Only problem is it's not completely perfect, and no matter how awful the current situation, due to lobbyists and special interest groups, we'll never be able to replace oil with something short of COMPLETELY PERFECT, until it simply runs out.

You'd think people would realize that while nuclear, or wind, or solar, are imperfect, each one is better than fossil fuels.
On the front of the device you've got... four touch-sensitive hard buttons

Hard buttons are fine, but please, please don't make them touch-sensitive.
If anyone intends to change his blogging service I recommend http://my.opera.com/. Although they don't have automatic blog import, so if you have lots of stuff you might want to back it up first and you will have to transfer all your post manually.
I thought HN was a hangout for people wanting to start their own business.

Edit: Yikes. I guess the truth hurts. :)
I have some secret plans in this direction. Please email me if you'd like to be part of it (my address is in my profile). Hint: It's launching on June 28. :-)
Viral customer service. By answering one (or maybe a few to make sure it gets out) customers who have a general issue, he lets them take care of getting the word out, which is so leveraged nowadays it's very easy for them.

Jobs spends a few minutes crafting an email and the crowd takes it from there. A new form of disintermediation.

People should also be more tolerant of his changing his mind in a later email vs. an Official Company Policy.
What does Palin have anything to do with it? She's not in charge of policy.
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Great share. Curious how you extracted so quickly from the cacti though? Did you already have it prepared, because it looks like you have to boil it out for several hours or use an acid-base extraction?
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So a commenter is ignorant, therefore the owner of the page the comment is on is also ignorant. Nice logic there bud.
And he did it very poorly, that's the point they are making, and I agree with them. When I read one-liners like that, it makes Jon Stewart's "Appholes" piece look a lot like genuine tech journalism. Don't you think it's about time mainstream news outlets upped their tech game instead of giving the public stupid, non-factual, linkbait reporting?
Personally, I like this better. I tells the user what they should do, without judging them. You'll probably get better turnover rates with this, I believe.
> Their strategy was not to be the first. Their strategy was to be the best developed.

This could apply to Apple too. Mp3 players and smartphone were not new inventions when the iPod and iPhone were introduced, but the iPod and the iPhone set a new standard for those devices. The iPod took a few iterations to really stand out, but there was nothing that could compete with the iPhone at the time it was introduced.

On the other hand, the iPad seems to be the first of a new class of touchscreen devices. I'm referring to its size and its role as an entertainment/web device, discounting tablet PCs and touchscreen media players. Everyone is now scrambling to create a me-too device.
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is this legal? per the department of consumer affairs, "Any gift certificate sold after January 1, 1997, is redeemable in cash for its cash value, or subject to replacement with a new gift certificate at no cost to the purchaser or holder.3 Effective January 1, 2008, any gift certificate with a cash value of less than $10 is redeemable in cash, which includes currency or check, for its cash value."

http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/legal_guides/s-11.shtml
If they had to sell because they built a business they couldn't afford to run… it's their fault, not Apple's.

Again, blame the founders who sold the business, not the buyer.
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and I could say that every asshole who voted for Obama care should be the ones to pay for it. Both claims are stupid IMO.
I think your aesthetic sense in this case may have been affected by years of pro-pi propaganda. The 'beautiful' equation requires a rearrangement (i.e., moving the -1 to the other side), which is a bit kludgy, to say the least. Moreover, the superior (IMHO) version in the parent comment can be put into words in a rather compelling way: the exponential of the imaginary unit times the circle constant is unity. (If you're still hung up on the appearance of 0, just add it to the RHS. ;-) The same can't be said for the standard version.

P.S. Please email me if you're interested in pursuing this further; I have a project (launching June 28) that I think might convince you of the error of your ways. :-)
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And why is it that the word nuclear never comes up?
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Ah, but how do you know that e^x is the only thing that differentiates to itself? :)
The legal angle most certainly has something to do with it. Many of the comments on this thread seem to imply that there should be something legal barring Posterous from doing such a thing. Silhouette has been trying to point out, and quite deftly I should say, that what they’re doing is probably pretty much entirely legal for various reasons.

Reasonable people can obviously disagree about whether there’s anything sneaky about what they did. I don’t think there is. What do you want them to do, send a mass email out to all their users—95% of whom could care less about this change? That’s just going to confuse a ton of their audience, and it would be completely counter-productive. I’m of the opinion that businesses aren’t obligated to be endlessly transparent to their users. Should Posterous send out a mass email to all users when they change the soup of the day in their employee cafeteria as well?

Caveat emptor. This is why I don’t store my data on free services which may decide to make changes like this. But even if I were, this change is completely harmless.
It probably only picks up links where it can insert an affiliate code like Amazon. Linking to just google.com probably does not trigger the systen.
More like: the web does suck, and it innovates. (Also there's plenty of good and great on it at the same time.)
So they'll soon also stop accepting cash? I don't see how this can actually have the effect they want. The people overseas doing this are super motivated and aren't married to gift cards.
It's almost ridiculous how much.

If such a minute change like this generates such a negative reaction from someone, how is that person going to handle real, serious change? Especially when this minute change was such an arbitrary thing to begin with.

Change is good. Temporary uncomfort is good. Adaptability is a trait to nurture, not protect yourself from.
When did Posterous promise that they would never add affiliate links to your blog posts? Or that they would tell you about it if they did?
I must be missing something ...How does banning gift cards have anything to do with people buying craploads if iPads and shipping them overseas?
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> The fact that he spends time answering a customer complaint 8:43AM on a SATURDAY MORNING speaks volumes about his commitment to customer experience and service. Thank you Steve.
I believe that flash has been hacked on the iphone, but it is non-jailbroken phones which the majority of the discussion surrounds (jailbroken iPhones aren't the norm).

Google has lots of listings for iphone/flash hacks
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Ridiculous, if you have gift cards then you should honour them. You can't just retro-actively undo the possibility of using gift cards already bought for the purpose of gifting someone any apple device, including the iPad.

I'm betting they'll be redeeming a lot of gift cards for their cash value because of this stupidity.

I never really realized just how much of a control freak Jobs really is, imagine the CEO of a big company second guessing his entire marketing department by sending out email directly to customers.

Talk about delegation skills...

This also explains to me why Jobs' health is monitored like it is of prime importance by major Apple stock holders, it probably is of prime importance, if Jobs believes that stuff like this should be decided by him then Apple is pretty fragile.
This is the attitude many have had for decades. We had a recent debate about drilling in Alaska and many said "things are different now, and the ecological impact would be small." We don't need to drill in these places. We aren't going to run out of our current sources for decades. In time prices are going to rise and people will be forced to drive smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles, but it is about time.
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