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Yeah, I second this. Handling people's email is not fun at all, and 90% is way too low IMO. 90% would mean that 1 in 10 of someone's emails wouldn't make it to where it was supposed to.

Users start to get annoyed if you do any worse than 99.9%, and they don't like receiving any spam at all, and to make matters worse, "the other end" can be anything from a creaky old sendmail server to an Exchange monstrosity, either of which can communicate in odd ways or drop a message altogether.

I keep expecting to see email go the way of Usenet, but it keeps refusing to die.
Minimalistic approach: 60 lines of code.
Interesting.
I disagree with their assessment that replacing the "known-bad" model with a "known-good" model means Intel expects to become the sole gatekeeper of what software is allowed to run. This is quite obviously infeasible and I'm sure Intel knows this.

However, it IS feasible to change from virus scanners allowing any program to run except when a slow expensive scanning determines it should not. To virus scanners stopping EVERYTHING from running, except those applications manually allowed. This latter model is the only sane and secure one. One does not configure a firewall by letting everything through except things you want to block.

Now for convenience sake such a scanner should probably ship with most of the safe windows programs already listed for most users, this does not mean such a program should (or could) be usable without users being able to add new "safe" programs to the list.

In the long run I think virus scanners are a security dead end anyway. I think we will move to even more virtualization. Things like FreeBSD's jails make having 1 "VM" per user process reasonably possible drastically limiting the impact viruses can have.
Thanks, I'm only saying that individual variations dominate any cultural tendency, the evidence for which is tenuous and as this thread demonstrates, anecdotal.
I would say try to go with sales if you can. I'm one of those developers that believes that non-technical people don't belong anywhere near management in tech companies. This means that I'm biased, but definitely not alone in this belief. Also, by technical people, I mean people that are regularly actively involved in the development of the code.

Hoverer, if you feel that you have a decent "network" in the local tech community, I would also advise just asking people you trust there for advice. They would know you better than anyone here and could give you more personalized, in-depth feedback.
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Thanks for your comments, we're working on doing a better job of explaining the proposition early on. Seeking feedback is an important part of that, so cheers.
Agree, we're working on explaining ourselves better. Thanks for the feedback
Sci Fi changed its name not because of copyright issues, but to distance themselves from science fiction. According to Wikipedia, the trademarkability of Syfy was of less import than the unambiguous spelling and the ability to justify 70% non-scifi content.
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I think the point is, stop arguing about these things and get coding.
To me that would be Science, Nature, Cell, not necessarily in this order.

These journals have the highest impact factor, which is "sort of like PageRank". You could compare this to the IF of the mentioned journal.
What is the value in integrating social media with a CRM system?
Why do you think VCs wouldn't like it?
I definitely suggest you attend Startup Weekend, because you can use it to try on different roles without fully committing to a startup. The fact that you can understand code and technical issues, without being a developer yourself, positions you really well in my opinion. If you want to be really early, consider being founder. If not, a role like community manager (1st marketing person often) could be a great fit for you... that usually includes customer service, sales, marketing, and a lot of the non-technical jobs rolled into one. You can decide where to focus later.

I've done it 2x now (Pelago, Twilio) and it's possible. Like everyone in the startup, you mostly have to be crazy dedicated to working hard/smart as needed, and build amazing trust with your team.
People in Google's search quality team really do like to read posts like this as long as someone mentions the searches they were doing.

Okay, here goes. Lately I have been doing a lot of C# searches. Google suggest strips out the hash (#) from the suggest items, so I keep getting faked out by likely C programming matches. Can you please stop stripping off the "#"? Otherwise, I'll need to attach a hot wire to my down arrow to break the habit. Thanks.
Maybe it'd work better for folks like me who shop at big&tall stores... We have the perfect body for this t-shirt. Finally, all my McDonald's days are about to pay off!
<sarcasm>You don't understand. HDCP is great for consumers. It's what lets them view fantastic content from the creative industry. Without HDCP, that content wouldn't be available to consumers.</sarcasm>

It was this angle of attack, or one very similar to it, that I remember reading from an nVidia (or it might have been ATI) powerpoint deck a few years back.
It is late night, and i'm trying to practice the SRHNDD ("Stop Reading HN and write something") so STFU and post something interesting.
Thank you for making this more specific. I checked on Wikipedia after my comment, and found what you cite. So common wisdom needs to adapt.
It very sadly is. Many homeless people are among the affected.
I get how kids can mess up most schedules, but honestly that is your problem, not mine.

You decided to have kids, not me.
why not 4 or six?
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I don't feel comfortable posting their messages without their permission, but it was a no-frills, direct answer to my request.

They are a company. IMO posting their email is fair play. It's not an individual.

And how could this be a scam? They can easily see the traffic on the instances in question. The scam is that I only pay them $300 this month?

I never said you are a scammer. You're not. But this potentially sets a precedent for future users to be reckless and want the same favor granted to you.
That's true, and it's also a bit of a nitpick. How many of us actually work on multiple architectures or with different C compilers? For most systems-level stuff, you are simply using gcc on x86 linux, with plain-vanilla glibc, so honestly, I know what that div op is going to map to. If you've been at this for a while, you know what to expect when you write a simple for loop vs some pointer arithmetic. And if you happen to be an ARM guy, you probably are familiar with all the quirks of your platform as well.
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Abssolutely the largest challenge is this: accumulating a critical mass of content to bootstrap a change of mentality amongst leading musicians, who tend to be an extremely conservative community.

I tried to do something involving this as a startup four years ago, and content was far and away the hardest challenge. (The model involved giving away content, but selling torrent-seeds when no-one was offering content. Essentially the profit model was based around marking-up bandwidth, and using out-of-copyright music as the vehicle for it).

I spoke to lots of musicians during the course of that project, and live with musicians now. My pitch is that they should get themselves well known on the internet, and then charge large prices for their concerts and for teaching fees.

However, I've found all the musos I've spoken to over the last five years to be strongly addicted to (1) the model of producing and selling some sort of physical recording, and (2) the idea that they could one day make huge money from selling recordings, despite all the evidence pointing to what a limited future that model has. Even many amateur choristers puff themselves up with an idea that the content they produce is precious and valuable in a market (somewhere), and must therefore be protected from distribution on the internet where anyone could download it for free. (Oh the horror!!)

One contact (a well regarded instrumentalist) has only recently begun to upload content to youtube for promotional reasons. It has taken years for him to adjust to the idea that this might be a good idea. He was surprised to learn that he his name is becoming synonymous with a particular composer he performs, and adjusting to the idea that this might be a good thing, particularly when he's trying to get people along to his concerts.

Once the content is available and batched it won't be difficult to place a social media layer on top of it to give ordering, tag, recommendations, etc. The content is the key. I agree that quality is important, but once there's a critical mass, musicians will change their mindset and start to compete to get the best ratings on the internet.

We'll find that the top musicians on the websites will achieve a kind of celebrity and be in high demand for tours. This will be extremely good for "classical" music which has been decadent and moribund for decades.
It's only an acronym if you pronounce it squeal or sequel. If you say SQL, it's an abbreviation.

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Dilution, for one thing. Assuming standard YC terms were offered, the stock allocation and valuation would be incompatible with a VC A round.
Thats okay - so long as you do so before you agree to the meeting.
It's only counterfeiting if it's being passed off as the original, and not a copy or imitation.

Pet peeve, provoked by the usual suspects hyping random large numbers of allegedly counterfeit goods in news stories.
>>That low initial barrier is easier to climb

You're mostly rewriting my points. Let's leave this for half a year and discuss it again. It seems we both need to let it fes.. think about it. :-) Or at least I know I do.

What I'm trying to say, I think, is that there is a tension between flexible/pluggable frameworks and integrated ones, like with e.g. Emacs and simple IDEs. (Yeah, there are IDEs on top of Emacs; those doesn't remove complexity.)

(The main complexity problem with Emacs isn't the code which is neat with the lisp layer (imho, I'm very far from being a real Emacs hacker). The complexity is use complexity -- lots of modes, etc. More broad than deep.)

But unless some totally new idea comes along, people will use Emacs when we both have forgotten the present frameworks...

>>I get frustrated with my VIM configuration sometimes because I forget the less used keybindings

I haven't used vi for quite a few years. There is still no good search/browsing/M-x? Never mind, some really good people use vim, so I assume there is something there.
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Makes me wonder whether the author was blissfully ignorant of DeCSS, or hoped the readers would be. It's not as if they felt the need to pull DVDs off the market for the last decade.
They should mic each instrument individually, so that in the future you can recreate the experience of sitting anywhere in the concert hall.
Agreed that its generally backwards looking and at times just strange (urban entrepreneur?? really?), but there were a few points that resonated with me:
1) Conway's point that UI/UX is becoming far more important. Hipmunk seems almost entirely based on taking a crappy UX and turning it into an awesome one; there's lots more room for disruption in other industries as well
2) Point that there's a data issue-- there's tons of social information and monetization strategies are still work-in-process
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For me at least, here is why I don't think I'll ever be applying to YC

a) I don't need the $20k (and certainly not for the %age YC want to take - 6% for $20k = valuation of $333,000). In fact I don't even want to price a deal so early in the company lifetime.

b) I find myself introducing so many fellow entrepreneurs to contacts in my network that after 4 years in SF I probably have a large overlap of contacts (which seems to be a big draw).

c) YC seems designed to let a bunch of smart young guys(/girls) hack around in cheap accommodation eating ramen until they come up with something cool. I guess cos I'm almost 30, live with my partner and business minded I'd rather be clear with the problem I'm trying to solve and the business model to achieve success before I write much code. Pivoting is to be expected but it should be a 'get out of jail' card, not a standard MO.

d) I think it's hard to break out of the mould of being "a YC company" and stand on your own feet. A few have managed it but not many.

tl;dr:
Perhaps ultimately I don't fit the mould of recent college grad with little money, low personal burn, probably not living in SF yet and little-to-no startup experience -- which seems to be the type of founder YC likes.
Regardless of the subject, this article is superbly written and a great example of how to cover psychology articles as a reporter.

Instead of simply stating the most headling grabbing implication of the research and leaving it at that, it went in depth to show the "what if" questions researchers controlled for rather than leaving us to guess or hunt down a copy of the real research paper (the reader is lazy, were not going to do it). Hopefully we get more submissions likes this when it comes to psychology articles and less 'scientist found X, the end'
"I don't fit their model." The best way to determine if you fit their model is to apply.

I don't belong in the army. I don't need to apply to determine if that is true.

I don't think taking drugs would be good for me. I don't need to try it to see if that is true.

etc

Give people the room to be able to make an informed decision based on prior knowledge without having to actually go test it out in reality to confirm it is correct.
For the UK/US-equivalent Secondary, in Spain I did BUP (Secondary) and COU (College orientation course), and not ESO (new Secondary Education arrangement). Younger people at work seem to be OK in reasoning (computer/software engineering field).

However, I do not endorse current "ESO+Bachillerato", as in my opinion it is easier than previous "BUP+COU". From my point of view, Goverment of Spain should copy the Finnish or German secondary education system, as it's been proved to be better.
Not quite IMO - Yes it means stop. But then I think it means - find the simplest thing that could possible work - and then get on with it. Works for me.
Great - I completely agree! For everyone who wants to do a little more than building a social shopping site :) cofoundernetwork.com is a network of engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs.
I've had nothing but trouble with HDCP. I've used HDMI matrix switches to transport a video signal around the house. 40% of the time I get the HD snowstorm so have to reboot the TV to attempt a second handshake. This gives a low Wife Approval Factor. I believe they should stop torturing the paying punters, like me, and just be happy with the majority who pay and not the minority that don't. Also, before someone mentions the x billion lost per year, I doubt maybe the 100,000 that downloaded 'The Bounter Hunter' would of seriously bought it.
My point was that it represents a headache for the content industry, not consumers. I'm a consumer; I'm thrilled that maybe now I won't have to go through such a clusterfuck to watch a Blu-ray that I've paid for on my monitor.

If I were a content provider, I wouldn't be so thrilled.
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No, you don't have to pay for the buffer time, or at least, yes, ok, you do have to pay for the buffer time, but the hourly rate of 'buffer time' will only be a percentage of what you pay for actual 'visit time'. The percentage that you pay for buffer time should be a reflection of the probability that the doctor will be busy for that buffer time. I would expect that buffer time would be billable at about 30% of visit time, because on avergae a doctor will be busy for the buffer time about two thirds of the time. Obviously that number is just a guess, but it should certainly be under 50%, if I believe my experiences in doctors' waiting rooms..
Yeah. This is a problem that I've never had with pirated movies. 1020p Blu-Ray? Plays great under Linux on my pre-HDCP LCD and TV.

And it was free.

What problem was HDCP trying to solve, again?
To be fair, the release of DeCSS may very well have moved up the timetable for releasing BD+ and AACS (which isn't an argument against it, but these things don't exist in a vaccum).
Geez, everything is a liberal conspiracy to some people.

If you don't believe there are differences in punctuality between cultures then you just haven't experienced those cultures.
Don't they have a contingency for this? I thought they could update the DRM code in devices with a new key or some such thing.
Going out on your own for many is about breaking out of systems and processes.. but joining YC can be perceived as becoming a cog in "the startup factory". I know in reality it's far from that! Just noting a slightly negative opinion I have observed from some entrepreneurial type people.
Yeah, I didn't mean for my comment to make it sound like I'm supporting the content industry. Rereading it makes it sound like I think this is a bad thing. It was meant more as rubbing salt in the wound.
I'm reminded of the Chinese Box discussion (related to Turing Tests?): put a man in a box, and give him an English -> Chinese phrase book. Feed him phrases on strips of paper in English - his job is to look up the phrase, write the Chinese equivalent on the back, and hand the paper back. Voila - you have a translating machine. But can we say the machine is able to translate from English to Chinese?

Knowing Conway's investment guide in no way qualifies you to pick the right people or ideas to invest in. It's a Chinese Box, and you don't speak Chinese.

(You know, for metaphorical instances of 'You' and 'Chinese'.)

Edit: It's the Chinese Room Argument by John Searle - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room . Searle saw it fit to give the man a whole room to complete his tasks!
Shame it doesn't support HTTPS yet.

Would be nice if there was an option where you simply go to:

http://burnbit.com/directburn?url=http://example.com/somefil...

And then a .torrent file was returned in that single http request. Rather than a webpage being loaded which contains a link to the torrent file.
"every command in C will give you a deterministic amount of commands in assembly"

This is most definitely not true on any modern compiler. The generated assembly depends on the program as a whole and may not correspond fragment to fragment in any readily comprehensible way.

One example is a variable in C may correspond to a number of different storage locations at different points in the program graph, owing to SSA form (or individual optimizations that transform the program in a similar manner).

Another example is how pointer aliasing affects generated code: copying arguments into temporaries before arithmetic can actually result in fewer assembly instructions as the compiler can determine no aliasing is possible.

Add to this the more mundane and well understood optimizations like inlining, constant propagation, later passes of optimizations over the results of the prior and the result is that it's very hard to know exactly what assembly will correspond to any arbitrary part of a c program. Mapping memory locations to variables or assembly instructions to c program lines is not trivial.

I know this seems like nitpicking, but programmers using the mistaken mental model of c being textual macros for assembly leads to poorly performing code at best, and a variety of security vulnerabilities at worst. I think if you actually need to know what's going on at the machine level it's very important to know that the c abstract machine is most definitely NOT what the real machine on your desk is doing.
My guess is it's all about trained muscles that make eyes do microscopic movements.

Eyes can see only things that move, and to see a static picture there are special muscles that make retina move all the time the eyes are open (that's why blinking or closing eyes for short time gives them rest and helps to relax).

People that have these muscles more developed and move faster are able to notice and comprehend more visual information in shorter times.

Playing games and being all the time on the watch out for every pixel on the screen makes these muscles to work out and become stronger and faster.

Yep, it's just a workout.
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>I think about this way too much, actually.

Workers will control the means of production.

Robots will become the new proletariat.

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The line I called out was about "valuing relationships", which is both viscerally offensive to me and has no defensibly true meaning. It is like saying whites love their kids more than blacks do. It is too poorly constructed to even be wrong.
I believe the update of keys relies on the secrecy of the master key, which is never released in a device.

Hence the master key pretty much kills it all.
> That will be the last Blue-Ray disk I buy..

I wouldn't be so sure. This is exactly the experience I got in the first year of DVDs being available. (although the player was a bit lighter ;) ) After some time we got proper software for Windows and after that, there was DeCSS.

Just give it time. If there is useful content on Blue-Ray, people will use it and the experience will improve.
Instant is good, but suddenly everyone's making everything instant instant now this ain't as interesting.

or do we really need everything to be instant?
Refunding a portion of their profits on the 1K could be seen as money spent on advertising. It sounds like the guy realizes he made a mistake, so he'd probably be happy if he got something back, and think it perfectly fair not to seek to get everything back, so in the end it wouldn't be a great deal of cash, that, long term, they'll probably recoup in the course of a year anyway.

Since he's a good customer, they could even give it to him in the form of credit for their service, which gives him an incentive not to leave.
I guess Microsoft is still reeling about losing the HD format war to Sony! tbh, I think everyone knows that video streaming is the future and not physical disks. I give the format two years.
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I have no idea - I'm not from US.

I'm an extreme athlete - and I'm in a circle of "jocks" (most extreme athletes are like that), so I understand how this kind of "young male" groups work and what dynamics are involved.
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I was genuinely thrilled that the article brought up the points about causality vs. correlation.

Then I was sad, because it reminded me how rare it is. Almost every news article about research I've read the past 20 years has been of the form "Scientists have found that X causes Y, and here is the correlation along with some uneducated speculation."