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Forming isolated cliques is definitely a risk. However, not all sub-communities are isolated. When you're "Doing It Right," sub-communities exist to support their members in joining the parent community. If you're a Ruby programmer, you're much more likely to go to a conference if there's a Ruby panel!

In that example, the Ruby "sub-community" (panel) serves 3 functions: It gives skeptical Rubyists a "safe place" to base their experience; it gives curious non-Rubyists an entry point to start learning; and it creates an organizational "bucket" for Ruby-related discussion, so it doesn't clog other panels (as much, maybe).

Of course, "Ruby" is a separation by technical necessity, whereas "Queer" is a cultural one. I'd be remiss in claiming that the exact same forces were at work. My main point is simply:

In a perfect world, sub-communities would not be necessary. In the real world, sub-communities--when managed properly--can be a huge asset to prospective novices who don't belong to the majority.
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Ask HN: It's past the application deadline, now what?
Yea, so we thought of our idea pretty late and just finished submitting our application 45 min ago ☺. Yay, last minute hacking!

It looks like we can still edit our application online and re-submit it, though. Does anybody have any insight whether this will reset our submission date/push us back in the review queue/disqualify us?

I’d prefer spending some more alone time with our application and the delete key here and there.
I'm not gay but the father of computer science, Alan Turing, was.
Why should it even matter? What unites all of us is a love for entrepreneurship or hacking or both. What difference does being gay make in this field? No one really cares about your sexual orientation in tech. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against gay people, but I find it patronizing that you need to find a "Gay Entrepreneurs" group, because I don't see people looking for the "Womanizing Entrepreneurs" or "Alcoholic Entrepreneurs"... Hell if I go about asking HN where the "Insomniac Entrepreneurs" (that would be me) are I'll get massive down voting, which won't haven to the same question but on the gay angle for political correctness.
I'd be interested in the same thing ... for anyone else interested feel free to shoot me an email (my email address is listed in my profile)

I would love to discuss with other applicants whats going on with their projects, or if they are looking for co-founders etc. I was actually looking for one for my project, however after talking to a YC'er I decided it would be better to submit as a single founder and look for a like minded co-founder along the way if/when I was accepted
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Totally agree I think it is brilliant that Google can spend resources on projects like this, for me it is similar to lofty goals like scanning all printed books on earth so they are digitally searchable, I mean how else would most people discover the long tail of books? Also streetview with covering the entire globe, computer driven cars and investment in wind farms are projects that could really advance humanity.

I don't even mind as a shareholder!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noted that! That's one of the things that struck me: in "regular" settings, the usual question is "what do you do?"; at Startup School, it was always "what are you working on?".

Subtle but telling difference.
I'm helping us build a common open cloud computing foundation so everyone can focus on building applications that solve business problems.

Sure, this sounds like "marketing speak" but it isn't about that. People write apps that solve problems and they want wide distribution of those apps.

The best way for that to happen is by having a common foundation layer for all of them to run on. Is the project I'm working on the answer, I sure hope so. If not I hope you help start a better project to do it.

Re-inventing the wheel is a waste of all of our time. Having to re-architect or re-code an app to deploy it in different places is reinventing the wheel.
Just use your browser. File --> Save Page.
The difference is that Sony isn't running around marketing the PS3 as being superior to the XBox because of its "openness". Nor is Kaz Hirai tweeting about cloning Sony's Linux kernel repo as if it were some notional benefit over the XBox for consumers.
It was probably downvoted because people like numbers and formulas upfront versus having to email you.
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Awesome, could share your experiences regarding selling Android apps (Hours put in to sales made)?
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The Dukes Of Havoc are the U.K's top professional function and party band. Comprising of four highly successful musicians. We play all the hits from the 60's right up to today, and specialise in weddings, parties, functions, and corporate events.
i just typed /join #yc2011 on freenode. I'm lonely :)
I work for Atlassian and I'm hacking away on Bamboo 2.7, a CI server. Previously we only offered a way to execute a single build but through our own dogfooding we thought a more powerful way of doing it would be to allow a developer to have a single build that runs many distributed parellel builds.

The cool part: functional test runs for some of our products have gone from about an hour to about 20 minutes because of this rewrite - so we are hoping to shorten build times for our customers too :)

http://blogs.atlassian.com/devtools/2010/10/bamboo-27-beta-p...
you're confusing hardware with software, i can download, modify, sell, distribute, edit, sell the edits, and legally execute the code for any release of android, and couldn't even begin to do any of that for any apple OS. Chromium and android are free, safari was built off of a GPL code base, but OSX and iOS are locked down
As far as bookmarklets go people generally care what they do, not how they're made.
Android is open source. Android is not developed by an 'open community', if you will. It's a legitimate complaint, I think, but I wouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If someone wants to invest a lot of work and time, they can very much fork Android if they want, and develop it however they see fit.

Also, something else that isn't brought up a lot: Android has a fairly open architecture. Intents let you plug in various things in various places so that you can choose which app handles what.
"Open source" != "open project." This issue comes up every so often on the Lua list, and I think Roberto Ierusalimschy's explanation describes the situation with Android pretty well.

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-06/msg00407.html
> Most manufacturers

So put your money where your mouth is and buy from those who don't do that. You have that possibility with Android: Nexus One.

> The fact is that there are no Android forks worthy of the name and never will be so long as hacking is required to install it

I installed Linux for the first time in 1996, downloading a bunch of Slackware floppies over a 28.8 modem (IIRC), and it certainly took some hacking to install. Granted, the vast majority of people out there aren't like that, but it's kind of odd on a site called 'hacker news' to see people who seem oblivious to the hacker spirit, and what a group of motivated people can accomplish, given time.

The reason there are no (visible - I'm sure there are a few minor ones out there) forks of Android is because Google is doing a decent job, and mostly racing ahead of where forkers would be going on their own.
Ask HN: Where are all the Scientologist founders?
I was having my audit today and thought to myself, where are all my fellow Church of Scientology founders? Let's have a thread that is sure to "out" people who may not want their religion discussed! Maybe we can have a gay thread too!

PS, this is snark.
I think his best plan would be to put the price back at 1.99 after he gets the publicity he needs and leave it there while he works on the next iteration or game. Then make a sale or 0.99 a few weeks before the new launch to create some media exposure and leave the game at 1.99 again close to the release of the new product and leave it there until it dies or new signups become so low that 0.99 becomes the new price for the old game (while focusing on the new iterations off course).
I cant see any issue with the same.

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Sort of like http://simple.wikipedia.org/ ?
I'm glad that the Apple II is still working for you and even more surprised that the Apple employee even knew what it was. You do know that they've since offered a newer platform known as Lis...err...Mac.

I like Apple(my 2 1984 Macs and original Laserwriter still function albeit with a gangly yellow tint to their pallor) but they have not been without numerous technology lawsuits/settlements over the years.

Do you remember the Creative settlement for $100 million?

I tremble to think if Burrell Smith hadn't "snuck" on a peripheral slot on the Mac how even more closed the Apple ecosystem would be today.
Just FYI, someone wrote the equivalent of Vimperator for Opera. I don't have it to hand here, so you will have to google for it. I use it all the time and it works great.
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There's another difference: most of the PS3 software is very much closed, whereas most of Android's is open source. You don't just get the kernel, you get pretty much everything else you need to make a phone work. That's pretty impressive.
Well in my case, is kind of already happened, and I kept it at 99c. Tough decision, but I think it worked out pretty well.
How does HN make money?
I love HN and spend alot of time on it as I am sure so do you. But the question I have is. There is no subscription fee, no advertising. Just pure entertainment for free, which is amazing. But How does HN keep going? Who/ What funds them?
But won't these concerns arise in almost all of the projects? The lack of libraries? It rules out doing web based projects - no framework(I don't think catalyst for perl6 is there yet), no supporting libraries(esoteric orm, multiple db backends, playing well with other components viz. 0mq, gearman, memcache etc).

I think Perl 6 in the current incarnation is only suited for some algorithmic, stand-alone mini-projects which are basically raw code and don't depend on external components.

What's the plan for cpan for Perl 6? cpan6.org is dead. Google is at loss of words when asked about it. I found only 2 relevant results - 1 was about should perl 6 use cpan and other was a stack overflow thread. I found this modules page - http://modules.perl6.org/, but the coverage is severely limiting.

I wanted to put perl 6 in practice but looks like it isn't happening in the coming 2 years. I can work on mathematical/algorithmic problems, but then most of the algorithmic problems I need to solve need to be integrated in production code and hence, I would rather solve it in python(or whatever the codebase is) rather than playing with perl 6.

As of now, the cons outnumber the pros, but for sure, perl6 is going to have an interesting future.
You sir win at the internets. I also found it retarded that political correctness makes people think twice about responding how stupid it to generalize by sexual orientation in the tech industry by the people of homosexual orientation.
Actually, the iPhone dev toolkits and prerelease announcements are pretty good at providing feature information for iOS developers. No they're not available years in advance, but it's still more than Google. I think iOS is probably more transparent in this sense.

Still, I think neither are completely open and a misappropriation of terms has just lead to 'open' being more marketing bullshit.
Stretching after exercise can be harmful to recovery, actually. A massage is OK, but stretching should not be done until at least several hours later and preferably the next day.
Yep. But I don't believe the 68k/PPC ones were called "Universal Binary".
PHP Dark Arts: doing something beyond <p>hi there <?php echo $username ?></p>
How to Avail Competitive Container Shipping Rate?
Availing competitive shipping rate is easy job, provided you have a good idea from where you can really shop for these rates. It is very interesting to know that Transportation rate can have variation from one country to the other.
State of the Internet: Mobile Web’s Explosive Growth
About the open versus closed debate: My advice to Jobs and Rubin
here are some ideas:
1) integrate the "Play the game now" box with the "How to play The Wiki Game" box.

So be one box that has: " click as few links as possible to get from "Banana" to "Britney Spears", as fast as you can!"

where Banana and Britney Spears are replaced with your actual words.

2) have a very clear "start" button. It's not clear without spending a few moments to understand to click the first term to start the game.

good luck. it's a cool game... another thing might be to show an example or some strategy tips. that might not should be on the first page though...
Trying to see what I can do to get the iPad app my wife and I made to sustainable profitability (http://www.bentomaster.com). We did hit the front page New and Noteworthy section for iPad apps in Japan a couple days ago but I'm not retiring yet ;^).
Do you have an app in the Marketplace?

I'm a developer for a very large Android app that touches more system components than most and we have no place in code where we check for OS version and exactly 3 places where we check for a very specific (bad) phone.

"pop your app up on the App Store" -- after going through Apple's gate. In the Marketplace, we deploy on our schedule, not Apple's.
But there's also a Top Grossing chart - do you think the Top Paid is that much more important? My initial impression is that getting to the Top 10 of either one will give you a lot more visibility (cause you're visible on the App Store homepage).
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Even better, I just spun up a VPS instance, and got the simple, yet functional node.js chat room going on it.

I'm in there now. :) Come one, come all.

http://173.203.103.72:8001/

I'll keep it up.
If you're going to be "doing it for free" you want to make sure what "it" is. Software NEVER ENDS. Say you do the prototype, they talk to a few people, they come back with another list of features - how do you tell them no at that point? Even a fixed quote on this sort of project is risky unless you really nail down what you're building.

Quote them on the prototype and do the bare minimum they'll need to sell it into the market. Don't sign over your IP for the code (remember - if you write it, you own it).

Once they've got some runs on the board, then negotiate equity in the product because at that point you have equal power - they have the clients, you have the product.

I would strongly advise against working for free in exchange for equity - it's a common story and not one that I've ever heard positive stories about from those involved.
Paul, I noticed some of the people posting edits/fixes (spelling, line break) got down-voted, and others wanted to argue/disagree about it. Silly. Personally, I like having others point out my mistakes; it's the best way for me to know about and fix them. With this in mind...

s/accomodating/accommodating/

I hope no offense is taken. ;)

And now, the more important stuff...

As you know, the terms often control the discussion, so kudos for your notes listing the various terms, i.e. "Super Angels" "Mini-VCs" and "Micro-VCs." Some have balked at the use of the adjective/term "super" as misleading, but the terms typically used, and their corresponding definitions don't have distinct lines. A potential resolution might be using the term "archangel" for the investments/investors beyond the typical "angel" round? Anyone fluent enough in English to know the term "archangel" will understand the implication of it being greater than "angel." --It's just a thought.

Another thought would be to break down the classifications by their most defining aspect, namely amount of capital. The lines will still be imperfect, and you have a better grasp of the numbers than I do, but the language would be generally more clear. I was thinking something like this:

seed: < 30,000

angel: 30,000 - 150,000

archangel: 150,000 - 1,000,000

vc: > 1,000,000

That would classify YC pretty much as you describe it, namely, as a "seed fund," or better said, specializing in "seed round funding." At present, I still not convinced my little idea above is any better than the currently confusing status quo, but at least it's an attempt.

EDIT: Uggh! Fix line breaks ;)
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George Lakoff's class, "The Mind, Language, and Politics" (Cognitive Science C104) was my absolute favorite class at UC Berkeley. We read plenty of his work and Frank Luntz. I'm glad to see these ideas again!
Yes, but driving your current car a few more years is better yet.

(Unless it's REALLY old and therefore likely a heavy polluter.)
Extremely easy. You can quite literally start from not knowing anything about Android development and, in an evening, have a simple app up in the Marketplace.

...and before anyone responds with "well, that's just going to lead to a bunch of bad apps in the store," I ask you to count the number of fart apps in Apple's App Store. Though I'm sure they're all quality fart apps...
In the App Store, it's ranked by units sold ...
I will be higher up in the charts, which will get me
more exposure ... volume of sales doesn't change
linearly with rank either, it's quite exponential.

This is a great piece of insight, much appreciated.
Well, in 2007, Jobs was just barely able to get one carrier to surrender some control to the handset manufacturer. The iPhone would have been a non-starter if Jobs had been asking for all control over the software to be surrendered to the consumer.
I'm working iPhone and Android sports apps: http://reflect7.com I also blog about entrepreneurship and my experiences http://techneur.com
I think you are confusing OEM and Mobile Operator missions with open source..they are not that same..Joe makes the same logical mistake in this debate..
once you're past the captive portal (i.e. the "gateway"), your connection is completely through the ISP. the guys who do the user login/auth dont really have that sort of url/content mangling control.

and users wouldn't have it any other way. we both know that :)
Looking at Gamasutra (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31045/Top_iPhone_Game_App...) it would appear that top-10 == $0.99. I'd guess this is because, as has been speculated here, there is an enormous number of people who are simply going to spend a maximum of $.99 on an iPhone game and that's that. Either you sell yours for $.99 or they'll find something else for that price. The evidence suggests to me that if you don't realize this, you'll simply be replaced in the top 10 by someone who does.

Of course, next week when a $9.99 game is in the top 10 I'll have to revise this opinion. :-)
There used to be a bar street I frequented here in Beijing. It was kind of a sketchy place, but popular among college students and young adults. Then the Olympics came around and the gov't decided they needed to gentrify the area. The police raided the bars, killed a bunch of drug dealers and made other undesirables disappear. Then the bar street was totally bulldozed and within a year or so a luxury outdoor mall was built on top of the bulldozed area. A thriving Apple store and Starbucks now sit smack in the middle of the place.

Within a couple of years the old sleazy alleyways were transformed into something that could easily compete with the Stanford shopping mall.
That's only like 35 copies of Photoshop. Not to downplay the money you spent, but the market for Visual Studio is smaller than Photoshop. Also, the customer of Visual Studio is team leads and management, not actual users. This might explain why more expensive VS packages emphasize collaboration and team features.
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Your post is the reason GPLv3 was created if I understand some of its intentions properly.
Indeed. Python is moving forward, and 3.1.2 should be the default. For backwards compatibility, install 2.4.ancient1.

I'm not using Arch, but choices like this really improve its standing in my eyes.
I've been following the antics of the Yes Men for a long time now, and I've always been stunned at the kind of moxie it takes to get away with the things they've pulled. I've really appreciated not only their message, but just the sheer bravado it takes to go to a conference posing as a WTO spokesman and, with a straight face worthy of an oscar, proposing to the audience things like an economic marketplace where shares in human rights abuses are traded.

Appearing in newly purchased suits, the Yes Men gave speeches encouraging corporations to buy votes directly from citizens. They argued that the US Civil War was a waste of money because Third World countries now willingly supply equivalent slaves. They also urged people to listen to the WTO instead of the facts. They then unveiled a gold spandex body suit that they claimed would allow productivity to increase, as managers would not have to oversee workers in person but could keep track of them via images on an attached screen as well as implanted sensors. - Wikipedia
> I'm guessing that they had good intentions

Everyone has good intentions.

> honestly believed what they were saying.

So what?

> Do you really think that those people were giving that advice for selfish reasons?

In many cases, yes. Sure, they also honestly thought that things would work for you, but that's the nature of "win-win".
Good plan.

I'd add that a mix of (vesting) equity and cash may be a good outcome of the discussion if you can spend a significant amount of time on the project for a while (1+ years). If you don't want to spend that kind of time on this, then the equity doesn't seem like a great idea.
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Analogy between Virtual Machines and our existance
but... doesn't EC2 use Xen? :)
Libraries? Do you mean Sass and Compass? You don't need them to make the exact same effect, but it's just smart to do so because it will take you a lot less time and headaches. Besides, you just serve a compiled version so you're basically retaining the ability to create and define multiline buttons in CSS3 while retaining the ability to edit your source quickly and easily in Sass/Compass. And yeah I'd also make an image version for the browsers that don't support it CSS3. The benefits in loading time, bandwidth, and fewer http requests are worth it.
A craigslist reputations service http://craigrep.com. Although, I'm stuck trying to figure out how to make it secure and user-friendly after realizing that a referral URL was not enough to verify that a request from craigslist came from where it said it came from due to referer spoofing proxies. A browser plugin seems to be the only way to do this, and that won't reach critical mass.
Not really, Arch's default python right now is python3.
What if Techcrunch makes a tablet?
> Failing public schools are routinely closed.

Actually, it's not routine. It's a long drawn out struggle. Charters get closed much faster.

> You've restated the article author's point regarding Finland.

The person whom I was responding to seemed to be suggesting that Finland's experience tells us something important about the US. My point is that it doesn't.

> You also may have restated the author's point about the 50% of new teachers who don't stick it out 5 years.

Again, the person to whom I was responding suggested that certificate loss rates and the percentage of teachers leaving the profession because of work conditions have something to do with one another. They don't.
How hard is it to run spellcheck before publishing an article for half a million readers?

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