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> A YC-backed exit that nets a "nice signing bonus" doesn't move the dials for YC

That's true, but it does increase the 'batting average', the number of 'successful' exits.

Personally I think VCs should only rate themselves by the number of companies they found that are big successes, not just the number that didn't tank.

But batting averages are used with some regularity to compare score.
Truth. The whole point of the minimum wage is to convert a labor structure into a voting structure. Abolish the minimum wage and the new workers would start thinking about business, school boards, zoning laws, the tax structure, and so forth. And that simply would not do.
It is not a net benefit. It is a net loss for society, as less wealth is produced, so society in general gets poorer. It is also a net loss for those that become unintentionally unemployed. The overall salary mass is not raised, but reduced.

I would also add it is completely illegitimate to prohibit a voluntary agreement based on some supposed "greater good".

Your assertion that no minimum wage means "shitty wages for everybody" is unfounded. Wages are determined by productivity, and it's no possible to raise real wages (taking into account other goods prices) with a law. Only an increase in produced wealth can raise wages.

Edit to add: If you imply that the "unintentionally unemployed" ones are a unlucky few, that's not the case. As you would probably know, official unemployment levels are around 20% in some EU countries, while real levels are probably way above that. That means a whole lot of people is not allowed to produce nothing because of minimum wage laws. The wealth prevented from being created is huge.
yup. I think this is one of the most anticipated releases. These guys really did some good work.

Congratz to the Rails team.
I'd wholly disagree, women on the whole are more risk averse than men, it's everywhere in society. Women take less dangerous jobs regularly. More men die in work place accidents, because men take the risky jobs, more men die in the military because more men join it and take the risky jobs.

I work in construction, it's not high-risk but it's not office-job safe and we get higher pay than average and the company advertises to men and women. Our office has 4 female workers and 1 male (the owner), but we've only ever had 1 female employee outside the office and I believe she was the only one to ever apply and we have a fairly high turnover.

Why is our job not getting an equal number of applicants if women are just as risk taking as men because jobs are advertised to both.
I feel the same way when I dress really nicely for work. I type the code, the compiler disagrees with it, and I feel self-confident enough to tell the compiler it's wrong.

No actual product is produced, but at least I look nice while not producing anything.
I think that this is a better and more constructive article than the various other age-related articles drifting around. It may very well be that the level of fluid intelligence is the real issue, and that this level is partially inversely correlated with age because, as time goes on, more and more people stop playing, and few ever start playing again once they've stopped.

Many people probably stop play-like activities because they consider it to be wasted time, much like sleep, and so it gets the axe when time is scarce. Perhaps if they realized its importance, they'd make time for it.
Google didn't buy Youtube out of goodness of their hearts. If it wasn't them, I'm sure there was plenty of other companies that were looking to purchase, and I'm sure at least some of them have the necessary resources to deal with bandwidth/legal issues
Or Google could have waited until youtube was bought by Microsoft. Or Viacom. Or Disney. Or Apple. Then they would have had a formidable competitor with a significant advantage.

Things just aren't that simple.
Don't you get to sue them for fraud if the area figures have been inflated by 5% to purposefully deceive?
Not very pretty. Gradients and serif fonts make it feel like a stock Powerpoint presentation - very 90s. Presentation breaks down on widescreen monitors (other slides are visible, and the text on them "jumps" when the slide becomes active). Scroll bars all over the place look really bad. UX is unintuitive - I clicked all over before figuring out to use my arrow keys. You could probably fix a lot of that with a little cleaner CSS.

Full marks for trying to find a new way to present a resume, but honestly, a recruiter is going to be annoyed at it more than impressed, I'll wager; resumes that slow you down and don't let you scan for pertinent information are likely to ding you for negative points. To offset that, the resume presentation needs to be really impressive if you want to use it as a dual resume/portfolio entry.
"Clean people commit less crimes." Not unthinkable.

Correlation, causation, etc., etc.

Clean people commit fewer street crimes, probably, but when was the last time a poorly-dressed bum stole the pension fund for a major corporation?
I have often wondered if you couldn't put the needed database indexes and other associated data onto a GPU , and have the GPU handle the optimization for the query, run the query, and then just return to the database server which blocks to go to to get the data; the indexes could be synced to disk of course but they would be run from the GPU.
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Recently I crossed the country with my parents to visit my grandma. She was born in the 1920s and spent a large part of her childhood in the Lower East Side, so it's quite a culture shock to visit her. In her case, it's not that you have to finish everything on the plate - it's that as soon as you finish one item, you're compelled to try three more. Or in other words, large quantities of food is the only form of hospitality she's really familiar with.

However this strategy arose, all her children have rejected it, which leads me to believe that these sorts of things can change quickly between generations. On the other hand, my parents are still erring on the side of "low-fat" style nutrition, even though I've told them repeatedly that it's been essentially debunked.

I wonder, what bad nutritional advice will I cling to desperately when I'm older?
I don't understand what you are asking for here.

Emscriptem doesn't generate C/C++ code, it generates Javascript, which then runs on top of a Javascript execution environment (V8 etc).

The real comparison would be some C/C++ code run though this and running in Javascript vs handwritten Javascript.

(It's possible what you mean is a comparison of the generated machine code from LLVM vs that from the Javascript engine. I agree that would be interesting, but I think you'd be better off comparing the machine code generated by a Javascript-on-LLVM implementation such as http://github.com/omo/jsllc vs that generated by a conventional Javascript runtime.)
My phone has 560mhz procesor, hadly processing power of your pc. If you are having issues of this kind, maybe thermal sensor on your cpu is broken and cpu is slowing down because it things it has temperature problems, or bad drivers? That 1.8ghz celeron should be fine for majority of tasks. Maybe you could try downloading ubuntu live image and test there if the problem persists(its free)? Then you would at least know if it's not a problem with your operating system.
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One of the points of the article was that, no, even in situations where a party objectively knows that the number given should not have any effect, it does anyway.

Human psychology often doesn't make rational sense.
>just filming something is not prohibited

In the UK if any action is causing distress to someone I think the police are allowed to stop you doing it (based on a naive reading). There are some pretty general laws on our statute books.
If craigslist wasn't filled with so many fake adverts from brokers trying to reel in suckers that would be a realistic option. Generally, if the price looks good it will always be "just taken", but don't worry, there's "another property like it that just came on the market". When it comes to apartment hunting in NYC craigslist is a joke.
Many engineers are not designers, and should not be judged as such. Constructive criticism is more helpful here than lambasting them for not adhering to your personal standards of UX.
Fix the balancing issues.
I'm pretty sure there's a better-established rating system for VC's that doesn't take any of this silliness into account.
My first impulse is that this means your game is just boring. See this chart:

^ \good/
| \ /
int| too\/too
ere| easy/\hard
st| / \
| / \
| /boring\
|
+--difficulty-->

The games above the NE-SW line are rewarding. The games above the NW-SE line are challenging. Perhaps your game doesn't offer enough reward for the challenge or enough challenge for the reward.
Disgruntled? No?

Well, you know what I say about people who complain about "codewords"; provide a better word or shut the fuck up.
The biggest problem with this portfolio is not that it's not looking good. It lacks basic information how to navigate the site. I had to go to orginal fw page to notice i use arrow keys for navigation. Compared with this problem, everything else seems minor ;-)

If he is and engineer - not a webdeveloper then i don't see why it should be the nicest looking thing in the world.

http://i.imgur.com/ZKSAJ.png - this is all I have to say.
Oh, I understand the problem; it was "management error #2", I think. And I understand that discussing it here will have little real impact on the managers concerned. I got off that train personally and no longer work as anyone's employee.

I hope that my contributions to discussions like this will encourage others to do the same, and that maybe, if those people one day have employees of their own, they will be a little smarter than the managers of today and the industry will be better for it.

In the meantime, I don't see why we should place any faith in the established practices of managers who, as an industry, run more projects that fail than projects that succeed. Can you name any other industry where it would be considered acceptable by the market if over 50% of the products bought failed, even if the costs ran to millions? I sure can't, it's just that the management idiocy is so widespread in IT that the market seems resigned to the inevitability that whatever they pay for will be crap that doesn't work properly.
i think he did this to get some traffic for show.
I think how easy it would be to follow up with "what's PXE?" would be completely dependent on Person A's perception of Person B's attitude. If Person B seemed like a jerk, they'd be a lot less likely to ask.
Please, let's keep the discussion on HN civil, rational and lacking in ad hominem attacks.
It's a good start, but it's based on total income. So, someone with two minimum-wage jobs adding up to (say) 60 hours per week will appear above someone with a job paying twice minimum wage who only works 20 hours a week. That's not what we're looking for if we want evidence that minimum wage is increasing the wages of many on the low end of the scale.

Unfortunately, this happens to be what the census bureau tabulates, which makes it hard to find the data we're actually looking for.
im being rate limited by twitter. rushing to implement memcached.
They just lacked the community because they were a late arrival.

And I could have bought McAfee, I just lacked $7.7 billion.
A big problem with food in America is that High Fructose Corn Syrup is spiked in almost everything frozen and canned foods these days (sure, you may avoid it at home - but not all restaurants are treated equal). The biggest problem with HFCS is eating satiety (or feeling of fullness) is offset considerably.
You'll be fine so long as you keep pushing yourself a little bit every day.

That is a great quote.
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Strange, must be something conflicting with it on my end.
Paul, Jason: I think Silicon Valley has a huge problem, and this whole Facebook / YCombinator thing is a symptom. Silicon Valley's problem is that it values only dollars and code. Silicon Valley has become a world where the hacker culture, lifestyle, behavior and attitudes are the norm - a world where gladiatorial combat in code has replaced the discipline of software engineering.
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Please. He's saying that, if he can't do it, others of similar age must be hopeless. That simply means he believes he's at the top of his field, not just above average.
Whose message is he delivering, aside from his own?
It is, really? I know I've heard all of those words used for people not in the groups you say they're code for, and hadn't been aware of any such associations.
"People need to stop ignoring that there ARE (on average) differences between men and women."

Considering that we live in an era where you can basically take a pill that gives you the experience of being a woman for whatever amount of time you want, it seems like these differences are going to get much harder to ignore, especially since this technology is only going to get better and more scientifically validated with time.
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To be honest, I'd use GWT (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/overview.html) for this kind of thing. Does the same thing, only it's Java -> Javascript. Been around for four years now, and hell, it's Google. Their documentation is excellent, for a start.

If I weren't so comfortable in Java, though, I'd definitely think about using this.
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4) You build a win-big type company that is outside Facebook's area-of-expertise but leverages the advantage the Facebook's platform give you.

Takes games for example. Facebook itself doesn't seem interested in writing games for it's platform. Yes, it's true they want you to use their in-game currency, but that's just a platform tax, not competition against your business.

I suspect location-based-services are similar. I doubt Facebook wants to compete with the game-based mechanics Four Square is building. There is still a question as to if Facebook will go after the coupon market, though.

There are also businesses where you may be able to build traction on the Facebook platform, and then pivot off it if required.
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/what-is-a-good-venture-retur...

> I'm pretty sure there's a better-established rating system for VC's that doesn't take any of this silliness into account.

Total return on total investments?

For founders batting average is possibly more important than for the VCs themselves.

After all, a single spectacular ROI would make a VC that lost all but one investment look pretty good on paper.
Gruber characterized this as TechCrunch getting "smacked around" by the judge, but if you actually read it, it's kind of the opposite. TC doesn't get an injunction that puts them in control of all of FG's revenue, which is what they were asking for: the court decided it wasn't likely they'd have a claim to all revenues even if they won the case. However:

* FG seems to have claimed that any relationship they had with TC was in the nature of a "joint venture" and not a partnership. Doesn't matter, says the court: call it what you will, but there are fiduciary duties at play.

* FG claims they couldn't have had a real relationship because TC's Arrington made statements about both parties sharing profits, and both sides bearing its own losses. So what? asks the court: that's part of the definition of a partnership. Not to mention: TC already has shouldered some of FG's expenses.

* FG claims there's no partnership because a TC employee proposed actions that would have put TC in breach. But a "potential breach" (which TC management prevented) doesn't absolve FG of any duties.

* FG claims there couldn't have been a real partnership because TC had threatened to unilaterally dissolve the venture. So what? asks the court: as long as TC lives up to its obligations, it has that right.

* FG claims there's no evidence of co-ownership of the business. And? asks the court. It's the joint venture that created the fiduciary duties, not ownership.

* FG claims that no joint venture could have existed because TC was negotiating to buy FG. Be that as it may, whatever duties FG had to TC in collaborating on the CrunchPad remain.

* Finally, and probably most importantly, and this is worth quoting directly:

Fusion Garage argues that the terms of the parties joint venture were simply too uncertain and unsettled to be enforceable. While it may be true that the parties never reached a meeting of the minds on how the business would operate on an ongoing basis, their cooperative efforts in developing the product were sufficient to give rise to an obligation on both parties' part not to usurp the fruits of those efforts.

In other words, see you in court.

I'm actually not that interested in the TC/FG saga, since I think that product was D.O.A. But I'm very interested in the legal dynamics of joint ventures, because it's not crazy to think I might be involved in another one someday. Food for thought.
Many of these features are not hard to implement. Did google backstab twitter when they invented buzz? Did twitter and foursquare enter any sort of partnership or contract other than automatic api access with facebook?
About 1% of the population earns min wage, 20% of whom are teenagers. I was surprised it is so low, given all the political discourse about it.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2009.htm
That does sound like a much better approach.
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Your insight is correct, but I don't think you're following it through to its conclusion.

As a thought-experiment, step through the economic process that would occur in the face of increasing the minimum wage to $100. Think about how the prices would flow through the economy.

Nominal wages across the spectrum would increase at various rates, leading to a general price inflation. Actual wage increases, if any, would last only until the market adjusted to the new price levels.

In the meantime, the structure of the market would shift to become more capital-intensive and less labor-intensive, and would increase imports from labor-rich but capital-poor nations. Prices are information, and the market obeys. When you tell the market that labor is more expensive, it will adapt to need less labor or look for it elsewhere. It's not clear to me how such a scheme helps low-skilled workers.

Now, of course no one is arguing for a $100 minimum wage, but the economic effects of a smaller minimum wage are different only in magnitude.

The core flaw is not understanding that prices emerge from the market. When you try to treat them as inputs rather than outputs, you create systemic misinformation. That distortion tends to lead to misallocated resources which in turn leads to a poorer world.
Well, yes. If it isn't genetics or oppression, it must be something else ...
Because it reads like an advertisement. There's no technical information, and nothing to engage my intellectual curiosity.
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Seconded. Not sure about New York, but the real estate market over here easily reaches Darth Vader levels in terms of evilness.
I think zuckerberg realized it when he looked at what the app store was charging, realized he was in a similar position and realized that it could work.
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I doubt every other company on that list could have made it successful. Even Google with all its "dark fiber" bandwidth has not been able to make it profitable after 4 years.

Viacom is simply not interested in running a money losing venture, otherwise they would have bought Joost instead of partnering with them. Disney didn't need the Youtube brand when they already invested heavily in go.com back in 1998. Look what happened to Hotmail dominance after Microsoft bought it. And what is Apple's experience with web apps?

So yes, things just aren't that simple.
Which you should never do. An application package's installer might need those priveleges, but the bookkeeping application itself should not.

Speaking for myself, I make a point of not running applications with administrator priveleges, except those which have a clear reason. My preferred virus scanner is one example. Installers are another, but Intuit's behavior leaves me much more reluctant to trust a vendor-supplied installer. Fortunately, I don't think those are so necessary, these days...?
Well, I think the fact that YC has such a great reputation--including with me--is why it is concerning that they would give (or encourage startups to give), Facebook the keys to their kingdom.

It's really strange from what people are saying in the thread here (without speaking for anyone).

Another reason to not "see how it develops" is Zuckerberg's track record.
Here's a good essay on Canadian vs American unemployment numbers. Structurally, the Canadian unemployment rate has largely tracked the American one, but been higher. The professor who wrote this essay delved into the reasons why and found that the unemployed in Canada were more likely to search out work and therefore be counted as unemployed (i.e. the definition of unemployed in both countries being folks who seek work but currently have no job).

http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/criddell/canusune.pdf

Also, Canadians have traditionally been supportive of quality public education and other social institutions. The person serving coffee at a Tim Hortons working minimum wage probably was in the same school system as the person he or she is serving who might be a banker. Private schooling is typically relegated to the upper middle class/rich, and those parents who want to send their children to religious schools (e.g., Jews or Muslims, as Catholic schools are fully publicly funded in many provinces).

Speaking as a university dropout and child of a middle class family in the poorest, most stigmatized part of Toronto, it was expected of all my friends that we get a post-secondary education. There was no question about it. Census numbers seem to back this up (http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/pro...). There were roughly 14 000 people aged 25-34 in that area of the city. Only 4 000 of these people had no post secondary education. Anecdotally, there's a Catholic high school in the area that installed a day care so that it could accept mothers (usually unwed teenagers of course). It was a little bit controversial when it was first started, but this was in the early 1990s long before these kind of things were normal. Incidentally, that same Catholic high school also supplied free condoms in their bathrooms, much to the dismay of the Church. There's much more of a push to be educated here in Canada than what I see in the U.S.. So that might be what you saw during your visits.

Also keep in mind that because we have universal health care, it's much easier for the mentally ill to seek and get the help they need before it's too late and they end up on the street. That said, I live in downtown Toronto now and most of the older homeless that I encounter seem to be mentally ill or have addiction problems. The younger ones usually come from abusive households, so that's what drives them into the streets.
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here is the full clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWJAkjF9qnY#t=1h14m44s
Some martial arts ideas:
Learn jiu jitsu (gi or nogi) and compete as a beginner. You'll get addicted to learning it and you'll want to fit in 1-2 hrs of training per day
How do you prevent the evil Realtors messing up your statistics? If I am a Realtor I am submitting 5 million dollar rents in my sales area today, maybe even unleashing a bot...
Minor correction.

s/you get found by Facebook/you get involved with Facebook/