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"Become sensitive to every miscue or ambiguity in your writing"

I agree with you. This is very important. I have often times written stuff, which when I re-read was full of ambiguities.
Did you just complain that a company that launched 2 months ago hasn't grown its offering fast enough? Chill out and give them some time.
Taking the contents of the article on faith, I think the point was that their customers were abusing the startup's service for phishing.

This would be analogous to, for example, AWS taking reddit offline because a user posted a phising link.

Nearly every web business which lets people put information on the web that others can see will face abuse issues at some point or the other - and cutting off a business and its legitimate customers because of one client misusing the service does not inspire confidence.
Viper is too mainstream for me:

http://jjfoerch.com/modal-mode/
PG was asked a question at the YC event that essentially boiled down to: "What are the best startups that will make use of Instant Personalization?"

His answer was that it was impossible to predict but whatever it was, it would be something that at first seemed wrong, ie something that wasn't how Facebook intended the API to be used, and something that they wouldn't be sure they should even allow.

This isn't that sort of case: a previous version of Matt's app that used the API in the exact same way was thoroughly reviewed and approved.

Nevertheless, one can easily imagine that the truly disruptive Facebook Instant Personalization Apps may only even have a chance of surviving the FB approval axe with the support of an organization like YC. This, in my opinion, is among the biggest reasons why the YC/Facebook deal will be so beneficial for YC companies, and why Jason Calacanis' criticism was mis-placed: the real risk is not that Facebook will steal your disruptive idea that is obviously good, the risk is that Facebook will just shut off your weird idea which isn't obviously good at all and only later turns out to be quite disruptive.
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Our very tiny funding from a foreigner investor is taking almost 6 months now in the Philippines. we suck.
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Yes, there were lots of western toilets in the more populated areas (Shanghai, Xian, Beijing, etc), but less once we got away from the cities. Squat toilets definitely seem more hygenic :)
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You mean start their own VM implementation? The cost of that would be huge (see, e.g. Parrot). The Scala developers are better off concentrating on making Scala better, IMO.
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It's funny, the very first piece of advice I got after starting my company was that we should find a way to move to the valley. At the time, I remember thinking "I'm sure it would help, but it's not worth the hassle." How wrong I was.

Granted we're doing pretty well, but my god has it been brutal. And not the good kind of brutal - as in building the product and finding customers - the bad kind of brutal, where you lose good developers because no one wants to live in friggin' Waterloo, and there's maybe 10 active investors in the whole damn city (and we already have 3 of them!)
The Art of Computer Programming comes to mind.
Just a FYI I did not down vote you. I thought your response to mine was valid.
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Have you considered that some of us might like to cure diseases, build intelligent systems, or transform our energy mix? Not everybody is interested in trying to build websites.
I was hoping for something less theoretical. I failed at math. :( But thanks! I had forgotten about that tome.
The link looks interesting, but does it talk specifically about models and their relation to theories which is what we were discussing that you found to be a waste of time
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good-Bye_to_All_That
Yes. Thank you.

I was at an AR devcamp a bit ago and heard endless effusion over Android and the Maker movement and Open Source and all the ways the hacker community was seizing its own destiny - the problem is, the entire practice is built on top of nationwide wireless data networks delivering internet content to smart phones. If ever there were a more capital-reliant industry, I don't know it.

I agree that an information-based industry obeys different economic rules than physical goods trading - the concept of scarcity applies only in terms of creation, not replication or distribution - but it'll no sooner wipe out the industrial economy than the industrial economy wiped out the agricultural economy.
The "new" economy is actually one we already had, which has simply become more powerful with the advent of the internet, and should have been present in the slides at each step along economic progression. It's a gift economy where capital is based on reputation and ability to share.

This is the same economy you use in local situations - with neighbors, friends, co-workers - to exchange favors. It has the power to get you a job, or to make a deal, or to elect a president, or any number of other things that determine how the work is done and how the goods are dealt out. The agricultural through industrial economies downplayed this form of economic activity because property, ownership and employment proved more suitable for creating an efficient market, but sharing has always been present and has always been taught as a moral ideal. If we didn't participate in that economy, we'd be quite a stand-offish, non-collaborative bunch. Nobody would trust each other.

What we have now is the ability to make gift economies based on information global in scale. The capital and labor necessary to start your (scarcity economy oriented) startup are potentially sitting right here on HN, if you know what to say and who to say it to. And PG and co. aren't making money off of the site, but I'm sure they've benefited from it. It's this kind of value that is really what's at stake in a successful info-business venture - the ability of companies to monetize on top of the info or info infrastructures ultimately isn't as important to the economy as the benefits accruing to all of society from just having it around and operating smoothly; finding a reasonable doorway from abundance currency to scarcity currency is what has led to the variety of monetization concepts tried over the last decade(ads, freemium, subscription, paywall, patronage...). This problem of monetization is pervasive throughout information products and is at the root of the whole IP debate: If there weren't money in trading information, would the incentives to create still be there?

But the question that isn't answered by these slides is the big one: how to balance ownership-based markets with gift-based ones. While the gift economy is endlessly abundant, how will we distribute the work for the older markets as they grow more efficient? Are there enough jobs to go around now, or do we need to rearrange ourselves to sustain heightened unemployment? How do we make everyone materially wealthy enough to be happy, and not destroy the planet in doing so?
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At the last place I worked there was some use of Sharepoint, but we were forbidden from using it for documentation after it ate a ton of our sysadmin's documentation (the only guy who was using it, that is.)

And of course this being a Windows shop the idea of using something else was too weird. "We do Windows."
The idea of counting favourites or retweets is actually the idea I was working against. I've always figured that makes it easy to find already easy to find tweets. To say nothing of "retweeted alot" != "funny", even if its from a comedian feed.

I would assume tweetmeme flag comedian feeds and counts retweet links.

I believe there are list sites, but the focus is on the feed rather than the tweet.
Music player + CD Ripper can be the simple thing it's supposed to do. Move the music and app store into a separate app. Move the device manager into a separate app. Move the social networking into the cloud.
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It's not thousands and thousands of dollars, it's just a bit too much to make it easy to undo on a graduate student salary.

It's small things that rack up. It's small things that don't get easily factored into budgets: flowers for the groomsmen, that case of soda you forgot, lighting for the venue.

All of the predictable stuff like catering, venue hire etc. was absorbed by our (wonderful) parents. Day to day stuff was me. Now I need to figure out what to do.

It's easy to talk about not going into debt when you have a decent job. I never had a problem when I was working. Now I'm a student on what amounts to subsistence wages in CA. That's when it gets tricky.
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We had a sharepoint-based wiki at one point. We salvaged as much content as we could and moved it to mediawiki, which actually worked* . Half our office was convinced sharepoint was deliberately designed for incompatibility with firefox. (Is there such thing as a "cygwin shop", by the way?)

* Usemod is also quite good, but less stylish.
Will someone explain the first sentence? "Are you addicted to Twitter?"

What does that mean? How does that happen? What exactly are people getting "addicted" to?

I've used Twitter here and there, posted, or used it for a real-time search, but it just seems like retweets of the same articles over and over again, and then just constant regurgitation of the same information ... or tweets about nothing at all.

If you're still using Twitter, why? What value can I possibly extract from this thing? What are you getting out of it?
I've found c2 wiki very interesting, mainly for XP related stuff (eg criticism of the Visitor pattern; do the simplest thing that could possibly work) - but it's not a public wiki, because you can't contribute without a password, which only the select have (no idea how they got it.)

Reading it reminds me of a mailing list archive of intelligent discussion. Haphazard, sequential, with links only at times. There are very insightful thoughts tucked away in there, but it takes a lot of reading and tracing to find them - and then you can't find them again without going through the same process. It's abysmal, labyrinthal, like some of my prototype projects.
Everyone is raving about the app and I think it introduces some interesting UI/X elements but after playing with it for a few minutes, it just feels cluttered to me. Compare that to both tweetdeck and twitterific which feel great on the iPad...
No it isn't. Based on personal experience. Bonuses and stock easily add 30% more.

I don't know why Google salaries get knocked in the mainstream. And why Google doesn't try to set the record straight. It's a huge opportunity cost for people going into startups.
If you only acquire five new users a month, then something is seriously wrong.
Wow, the ultimate in of jumping hoops to live life how you want it: tenure. You can do exploratory learning after you've done all of this preliminary stuff when your 32!
Yeah, that's the current culture here in America. I have a sister getting married Sept. 18th as a matter of fact. I had a nice talk with my soon-to-be brother-in-law, even though my parents are paying for most of the wedding. I tried to explain how financially backwards the system is, yet everyone goes along with it. The wedding industry is huge and sees its clients coming. I explained that they are currently "dinks" a marketing term which stands for dual-income-no-kids, meaning they have decent discretionary income now. But this guy wants kids soon, and my sister wants him to buy her a new SUV, and I'm trying to show them it's a great time to look at buying a house, and the financial picture over 20 years as opposed to just looking at nice-to-have things today.
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Excellent explanation Patrick. Perhaps PG should run his finance related posts past you in future! IMHO he's assuming more of a financial background than his usual hacker audience has.

I once read that the road to mastery of a subject is:

1. No knowledge and a lack of awareness of the knowledge you need (eg. I don't know how to drive and I don't even know what I need to learn)

2. No knowledge, but conscious of what needs to be learnt (I don't know how to drive but the instructor has told me what I'm going to learn)

3. Knowledge and still conscious of what needed to be learnt to get there (I've learnt how to drive but I have to consciously think about changing gears)

4. Knowledge without awareness of application (Driving is now part of my kinesthetic memory and I can concentrate on my phone calls instead)

The point is - an expert can't teach from level 4. They have to go back to 3. If they can't do that they're still an expert, but a bad teacher.

My brother's like that with chemistry - dare to ask a question and you'll get a PhD level answer. I think pg's like that with finance. So thanks again!
For an ultra-hot startup, yes.

Generally it takes at least two months.
Prezi notoriously does not work on Linux.

They didn't fix this since over a year now.
You can't contribute without a password? Every time I've been there, they've had the world's most half-assed captcha ("the password is [three-digit number], type it in the box"). I had no idea I was so elite.

There's a lot of great content, buried in a lot of random rambling. (And some of it is mine, sorry.) It's like HN, but without hueristic fading for old threads, and with a culture focused on software-engineering rather than startups.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652701

Surprising it let you submit this, actually.
Because they use the lowest quality carrots to make them (since they are usually sold cheaply), and because by cutting and peeling they can hide defects.

Also peeling them causes them to deteriorate somewhat.
Thanks for the list

Just added these to the "Adblock Plus" Preferences in Firefox (under Tools).

Worked like a charm.
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It is certainly possible to have more efficient computing devices, but then it will only increase the difficulty of the problems. The network adjust.

More efficient computers will mine more bitcoins in the short run, but not any more in the long run.

Even if it is extremely efficient, it is probably a lot easier to just trade for bitcoins.
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Yes, I am aware of the fact but my prediction is reliant on the breakdown of nation-states' monopolistic power.
So could we not update the A records IP address every couple of hours and still get roughly speaking the benefit of load-balanced load-balancers?
Are you serious, gilbertl? Who says FB became cash flow positive in 2009? Facebook, that's who. Demand Media also said they have always been cash flow positive and in the documents filed with the SEC for their IPO they denied ever being cash flow positive. Private company's can say whatever they want and some idiots will believe it. Some people believed what George Bush said and will argue it to the death and some people believe Obama in whatever he says. Does it make it true? Please. There is a fundamental reason FB hasn't gone public and it isn't because of all that cash flow they're producing.
I had a similar experience a few years ago in London where the night clubs were well known for their strict enforcement of "no collar no entry" policy. I did remember to wear a shirt that night but forgot to carry my passport, and I was blocked by a sumo-looking security guard at the club door. Upon suggestion by a friend who lived in London for many years I slipped a £10 note under a random business card I found in my wallet (pretend to be a valid ID) and approached the security guard.

"Here's my ID" I said, and showed a tip of the note under the card.
"Show me," said the security guard and casually took both the card and the money from my hand. After pretending to check the birthday details for 10 seconds he returned the card (but not the money) to me and said "have a good night!"
Thanks for the info. I was curious to know more after your convertible notes Tweet.
> a company founded to help special needs children.

Are they not after profits like we assume Mattel to be?
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Hey Everyone!

Currently working on a job board concept that aim to simply recruitment with extremely well organized niche websites. I know Revolutionizing Recruitment is quite a challenge that many tried to achieve but failed. I am willing to take on that challenge.

I did some recruitment in the past: the posting part on behalf of my HR and interviewing, etc, mostly construction related as well as in IT. Also dealt with headhunters. Recruiting very specialized candidate can take weeks if not more.

From what I've seen, believe or not, hiring can get quite messy (specially for startups or small businesses).

Beside a simple and straight-forward design and UI, I was thinking of pre-populating the job description for particular position (based on the box you check) and more features that aim to help you gain time when recruiting.

As a recruiter, what are the major challenges that you would like (us) to resolve? I would love to have the prospective job-seeker answer this question as well: What is you main pain when trying to look for a job?

Note: I do not intend to store candidates data on our databases.

Also partnerships are always welcome. The sites will be released by the end of September.

Thanks for your feedback!
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lets all move to Chile then. :)
That quote is about angel rounds, not series A. It doesn't take 2 months to raise an angel round.
I think I know what you mean, but could you elaborate? It's a non sequitur otherwise.
You can do this better in Maemo (N900) with ssh and gst-launch, or even gst-launch and VLC on a remote machine.
Fascinating read, but would benefit from the attention of an editor.
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Rule #11, don't write an article about it. After this dropped bribing your way into the New York restaurant scene got really tough. Managers were very unhappy.
So I need to reply to their letter by mailing a letter too?

I was thinking of just emailing them...but you think that's not a good idea?
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Thanks for the compliments jacquesm. They aren't hounding me because I had a baby.

It just so happens that my cash flow no longer covers all my previous expenses - and one major reason for that is because I have had to deal with higher than expected health bills from my baby's birth.

I wish I could just offer them their half, and be done with this, but unfortunately I just don't have that right now.

When I do, if I am still able to do that, I definitely will.
But wouldn't the more efficient computers always have an advantage over less capable computers? In other words, for this system to be fair, even assuming the electricity cost argument held up which I don't think it could, wouldn't everyone participating need access to the same kind of computer? The required calculation would be the same for every computer in the network, right?
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This was years ago. I must have had bad luck to have wanted to edit 'special' pages, that don't supply the code. I assumed that was the general rule, which the help page seemed to confirm:

> When no code word is given, you may use an alternative code word that floats along among trusted users. There is no way to apply for this code. Try your friends-of-friends network. Remember that this code and the mechanism itself will change if abused. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MoreAboutCodes

I just checked what you said, and the above seems to be (now?) the exception, and most pages do supply the code. A surprise to me, good to know, thanks!
I just installed it on my iPad and I'm only seeing the old iPhone interface. Anybody else have this problem?

EDIT: never mind, I just got the app update. I guess app store updates are not atomic.
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I'm sure many people would disagree on this point. There are some subreddits that are still very good, but the quality of the submissions and ensuing discussions has dropped significantly over the last couple of years, IMO.

Which is why now I procrastinate mostly here, instead of on reddit ;)
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It was probably only enforced for pages that got a lot of vandalism, during heavy slashdotting, etc. It's definitely the exception rather than the rule.
At the least, Chile is much better weather than crappy waterloo weather!
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Some tips on running a dedicated Emacs instance for Gnus: http://edward.oconnor.cx/2010/08/standalone-gnus
Do this, and also read what you write aloud. Pay attention to repetition, to unclear thinking, to confused writing, and to anything else which distracts from your point.
She's a beautiful writer with a very distinct voice. Observant, noticing the telling details.

Her essay compilations "Slouching towards Bethlehem" and "The White Album" are essential reading if you're interested in California in the late 1960s and into the 1970s -- she lived in LA at the time, and is definitely an outsider to the hippie/boomer explosion, some of the side-effects of which are in the essays. (The essay above was about her move from Manhattan to LA; she grew up in Sacramento.)

Another influential essay of hers is "The Deferential Spirit" from 1996 (teaser at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1996/sep/19/the-def...) which demolishes the technique and works of Bob Woodward.
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An excellent point. Besides the inherent scale, what makes this author's experience different from a senator or representative who takes money in exchange for preferential treatment? Both screw over a number of people who are playing by the rules.
You're following the wrong people. Seriously. Follow your interests, unfollow liberally, tweet consistently. Put noisy but important people on lists (don't need to follow them for this). That's what I do. I talk to our customers. I talk to other devs that use the same tools I do. I talk to people who like the same sports teams I do. Find your community and talk to them. It's been immensely valuable for me.