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As someone who posted one of those RMSs that got closed, I understand your reasoning but am not pleased with the execution.

My RMS was not spam. I'd been participating on the site and had posted feedback to multiple RMSs posted by other people. I only had 50 karma, because many of those RMS posts never made it to the front page or ever got more than a few comments.

I was already getting great and very useful feedback on my own RMS and it had spent some time on the front page with about 23 upvotes. Then it was closed with out warning. I never received an e-mail - or a comment telling me why it was closed. Only that commenting to it was suddenly shut off.

Five seconds would have shown that my RMS was not spam. Reading the comments alone would have shown that. At the very least, I think users posting with in what appears to be the current rule of things deserve the courtesy of a comment or e-mail explaining why their post was killed.

What is the karma threshold or an RMS post?
neat. Hope we edit crate titles soon :)
Virtualize XP and run Office in that. Performance is great in VMWare Fusion. It's the best way to use Excel on the Mac.
the consensus is that sitemap.xml works best for rapid discovery of new content -- it's not very good for discovery of deep content the crawler can't get to because of the aforementioned paradox (that is, if Google can't see you linking to your own page, it is disinclined to let the sitemap link matter)
no pay wall for me, and I don't subscribe to the WSJ
Mine was pretty interesting to the 10 people who's commented and the 23 who'd voted it up. It was still closed.
really? all my "good" experiences with recruiters were when I was younger, less experienced, and a little desperate.

They are just tops if you want to get into a company that doesn't know how to hire good people. My experience has been that if a company is going through a 3rd party recruiter, their standards are ridiculously low (and thus, I look like some kind of minor god) which is great if you are desperate for the cash, and eh, being the big fish can be fun some other times, too... but it's not how I want to spend my life, you know?

Working for companies like that gets old pretty fast, especially when they make you do interviews... you end up interviewing a bunch of people who aren't worth $15/hr for $100K/year sysadmin positions... It can be pretty frustrating.

I think the thing is that when given a choice, most people avoid recruiters. If nothing else, that's a nice big chunk of change that could have either been a bonus or salary for the employee, or some extra profit for the company. I hear 1/3rd of a year's salary is not unusual... which is pretty huge, really.

so when you go through recruiters, you are competing with people who don't really feel they have better options.
The problem is not that the current system is broken in any way. The system is improperly optimized. It's designed around getting as many potential applicants as possible to maximize the chances of X amount meeting the particular skill and level you're looking for. There's areas for improvement, definitely, but every company invests significantly in finding a single candidate to maximize the return from the candidate turned employee.

I'd even go so far as to say it's decidedly optimized for recouping the investment in employees by offering a small percentage of the total expected value up front for those that can provide the proper candidates. However, I'd really like to see the whole process upended and brought more in line with modern capabilities.
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It's easy to crack the code

NASCAR and MMA = Male

Left Behind = Christian

Branson, MO, RV's and Cruise Ships = White
You can set the moz-opaque boolean attribute on canvii in Firefox to disable it.
this is consistent with our experience as well
correct, we are doing this
Perhaps you could add a moderation queue for RMS posts from users below a certain karma? It would kinda suck to completely block ALL of the RMS posts from new users.
Ya - that's an amazingly simple 'Dropbox' like concept. Nicely done. Love the simplistic style of the site.
Definitely, that's coming in the next few days. Two midterms tomorrow, fun stuff.

It's been designed already, just needs to be implemented. :)
My comment wasn't about videos of co-founders spliced together.

My comment was about people that just basically said, in so many words, "I have a co-founder but he refused to show up even for a one-minute video."
"review my iphone app" would probably be much more appropriate title.
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As is believing that politicians would interpret a low voter turnout as anything but a net gain - it just means they can expend less effort required to shift the balance in their favour.
Thanks! Yes, it's super rough. No Photoshop magic, just pure HTML/CSS designing (the 37Signals way!).

Really it's designed to just hold the basics. I have some concepts (done nice and pretty in PS this time round) that will be implemented in the coming weeks. Opens it up to a lot more features and looks way more... awesome.
No competition usually mean no market.
Clean, simple. Works on the first try.

Can't have more successful "launch" than that...
This looks good. It would be great if it could perhaps default to always adding a checkbox to each entry but I suppose typing a '_' is not exactly difficult. Also, the ability to add notes that contain URLs that are auto-linkifed would be very nice. Just my $0.02. Good work.
Next thing you know there's going to be a facebook app; "Which Techcrunch writer are you?"
One Reason Google Will Never Fail
I have - rejected.
It's funny to watch Seinfeld with this in mind. Virtually every episode's plot is unbelievable given cell-phones.
Great post, but a few notes:

- The 5 slides are actually 6 with the blank one included, and like others said, he has a demo and 40 backing slides.

- "I try not to have more than one point or key message per slide." He may have one key implied message like "we are a real established company on the right track with several employees, investors, advisors, etc.", but there are several points/messages being conveyed on each of the slides. That's not a criticism, but I think the quote is inaccurate.
Yes, you're right. I've mentioned it hoping that the two authors will merge their projects into a Python library and a smaller Django specific application/library.
I still think Google Maps is pretty cool.
oh man, you kick ass! thanks for being a good sport about it.

For those just joining us, here's the video:
http://livejake.posterous.com/application-video

My recommendation would have been to seem more enthusiastic and professional. The idea seemed kind of, umm, unique. But if you had presented it more professionally and with serious facts and data, I think it would have made a better impression Also, maybe some ideas about who you will market the idea and how it could make money. You could've offered specifics about maybe marketing it to parents somehow. Or connecting your idea to some sort of succesful product that involves internet safety.
I think it's pretty obvious that I was exaggerating. I really don't see anything of value here. If you do, fine, go have fun with it.
And spammers could create lots of accounts, wait until each is mature, and then unleash it. How can you tell the difference between a spammer that creates a stealth account and a lurker that still doesn't have anything to say, but is creating an account so he can eventually participate fully?
I don't like the name. Hard to pronounce, also stealing thunder from a language name for no solid reason; a programming language is in a different mental category than an application service.
I thought it was more of a parody of how formulaic some of the authors are in constructing their headlines.

(see also: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22did+*+just%22+site:techcru... )
As industries grow too large sweeping changes become more difficult. There are too many dependencies in the current tech stack for computers. Processor architectures, people used to certain UIs, lots of jobs dependent on the status quo. Society may have caught up with the possibilities of yesterday's computers, jumping on social networks, ubiquity of devices, but the tech stack itself is stuck.

The most recent opportunity to move it forward are mobile devices. Companies are finally rethinking the OS (iOS, ChromeOS), compilers (LLVM), processor architectures (ARM, integrated graphics).

Kasparov probably thinks such steps should not be driven by market forces alone, but by technologists interested in experimentation. The right market conditions came about after decades of the same old more MHz, more HD space rat race. The market is not fast enough, it has other priorities, like getting the products to everybody.

Our biggest technological leaps came about when people with vision got others to invest big. The Industrial Revolution in 1800s, World Wars, Manhattan Project, Space race, PCs, GUIs, .COM bubble, GPS, CERN, LHC etc.. were all obnoxiously big gambles. These have become less popular, people prefer mindless market driven evolutionary change instead of vision.
Indeed, quick memory recall failure on my part. It's ed syntax which bled into everything else via POSIX basic. However, given the limited number of symbols present, identification can be considered ambiguous :).
Sounds to me like you've identified a potential opportunity! I recently went through a job search myself and while I didn't experience your exact pain points I definitely came away from the process thinking that there was room for improvement. I had an idea for a service that I wish I had during the process, I started hacking on it a bit but have yet to figure out a way to make it scale. I'm interested in chatting with you more about how the job search sucking might be remedied. Send me an email if you're interested (see profile).
I would think that giving my some basic finance knowledge would be beneficial to them in the future.

- like saving up for a rainy day.

- saving a small amount like $1 a day = $365 saved a year.

- how compound interests work.

Having started young, they will be money wise when they grow up and not having to work for every pay check.
I'm not sure that being the best chess player in the world is evidence that Kasparov is very intelligent--any more than being the best poker player, the best piano player, or even the best marketer. Chess is a learned skill just like any of those.

Put another way, looking at all of the world's very most intelligent people, the fraction that care enough about chess to become the world champion if they had the aptitude is very slim.
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I would argue that most modern slot machine software is far more complex and far more production tested than any existing voting software.

There's no possible technical reason why voting software isn't basically bulletproof and transparent.
Just got mine :)

Still excited to continue working on it, though
Excellent advice. I've been cranking out side projects left and right (http://ryan.vanmiddlesworth.org/), but the dedicated subdomain idea is gold.
Let me grab two key excerpts from the article (one from the beginning and one from the end) and reverse the order in which they appear.

> Taken individually, members of the New Elite are isolated from mainstream America as a result of lifestyle choices that are nobody's business but their own. But add them all up, and they mean that the New Elite lives in a world that doesn't intersect with mainstream America in many important ways. When the tea party says the New Elite doesn't get America, there is some truth in the accusation.

> What sets the tea party apart from other observers of the New Elite is its hostility, rooted in the charge that elites are isolated from mainstream America and ignorant about the lives of ordinary Americans.

Taken in that sense (and I believe that is the basic point of the article) there is reason to believe that a large segment of the population feels unrepresented. Probably unrespected, too. Looking at some of the early comments I can see HN-ers writing "Why should we care about X?" or "What makes X more American?" when X is characteristic of small town, rural, or blue collar America? Despite the slant the article implies, X isn't more American, but it is still American.

This is my theory: the Tea Party folks see the things that the "New Elites" care about and see "New Elite culture" on TV/etc. and in that sense have some exposure to it, but the reverse doesn't seem to be true. Those on the bottom spend more time looking up than those at the top spend looking down. And there are very few non-"New Elites" in positions of power to represent them. That's my best guess.

When people in power make decisions that can affect thousands or millions, you don't want to have a blind spot that misses how your actions will impact or be viewed by a large swath of the population. It does seem like the "New Elite" occupies many positions of power in government and society as a whole. And it looks at least plausible that the "New Elites" have a cultural blind spot for the people that now rally under a Tea Party banner. Despite some of the political slanting of the article, I think that's an important point to recognize.
I always find myself frustrated when a site doesn't actually describe what it does. So far I can only figure out that Crate is for sharing and may be similar to Dropbox. I couldn't find an FAQ on the site and don't want to register until I know what it is.

So... what is it?
I have rejected.. There's always next year. KEEP ON HACKING! :P
Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.
Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get
better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number
of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot
of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know
we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group
to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that
we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall
just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain
that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups.
If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us
about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

Y Combinator team

-----------------------------------

My pitch was WikiTorrents.org, which is user-created lists of downloadable videos.

If you want to help me with some seed money, regardless of amount, maybe I can turn this whole thing into a positive. Email me at citizenkeys AT gmail DOT com .

Here is the WikiTorrents.org collection of YCombinator applicant videos: http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants
The idea of a government based on delegation of authority to the most informed has its roots in antiquity. And although HN may be the first community to actually governed by a philosopher-king, its ability to scale has not been successfully demonstrated.

The problem as I see it, is that believing oneself to be "relatively uninformed" does not make a person relatively uninformed (it may in fact lead them to actively acquire more information - i.e why Severs believes he is below average). Conversely, believing oneself to be well informed does not make one well informed, and may alas lead a person to stop seeking relevant information.

Indeed it would not surprise me if the people most affected by "simpleminded sloganeering" tend to believe they are well informed.

The problem with "people should" in a political context is that it can quickly become "people must" backed with the force of government, and any implementation of: "Informed voting > not voting > uninformed voting" requires disenfranchisement.
My pitch was WikiTorrents.org, which is user-created lists of downloadable videos.

If you want to help me with some seed money, regardless of amount, maybe I can turn this whole thing into a positive. Email me at citizenkeys AT gmail DOT com .

Here is the WikiTorrents.org collection of YCombinator applicant videos:
http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants
Hah, thanks!

Launch deserves to be in quotes, too. For what it's worth I think we launched when I first opened my text editor.
Yeah, we're wary about people being like "wtf is this?" so we're slowly opening it up. We're too busy working on features to worry about time-consuming things like welcome messages and how-to pages for right now. Soon though. :)

It's drag-and-drop file-sharing, at a glance. It does much more, but that's the basics. It's faster than Dropbox for certain things (though Dropbox will be far more feature-ful).
Huh? I thought that was a snippet from one of his source files.
I don't wholly disagree with you, but Python developers are more prone than most to name their packages with at least a py prefix, if not something punny like this.
For those looking for something adventurous in the payments world, we're just starting to look for feedback on the FaceCash API, which is brand new.

http://www.facecash.com/developers

It doesn't process plastic, but it does allow you to integrate mobile payments for any kind of retail transaction.
As much as I disdain their movement, the Tea Partiers are proving you wrong. It's no coincidence that 75% of this group are 45 years or older. As we all know, the elder demographic votes in large and reliable numbers. This is how they're realizing such success tonight. By voting -- not by rallying or organizing.

What I'm hearing is that you do not vote because you resent some perceived obligation do so. Seriously?

The opportunity to cast one's vote is a distinct privilege.
Well that explains it. Thanks for the update.
You could definitely add value, even from the perspective that in a generally technical community, you have a non-technical perspective.

If you are generally clever and motivated, there's few situations where you won't have input. Even asking well structure questions to learn on a topic is a good contribution, and can help people out.
(not grandparent, but similar situation) I've been here for a while, and I think it is difficult to participate at a level that gets lots of karma. I limit by intake of HN with the "Hacker News 100" feed, so that you all can filter my content for me (I'm going to miss good articles anyways, so I might as well not miss the popular ones). This also means that most things have already been said, or the conversation is dead, and even if I asked a great question, I wouldn't get a response.

This hasn't really bothered me, until the average karma/post started getting shown, which showed me that I get upvotes on less than half the things I say. Now that pg is also pointing out the correlation between new accounts and undesirables, I'm worried about...something (not sure what).
Maybe new accounts can submit RMS posts if established users "second" and "third" the submission, validating it.

I do think new users with real startups can really benefit from the community, and there should still be a way to submit them before their startup isn't a startup anymore while they're taking their time generating karma.
It's non-trivial to compare cell phones with the combustion engine or flight, but I think we can agree with Kasparov that more inventions of that magnitude are something we should strive for.
Your potential solution might work, but I think it allows for the kind of spammy comments the Android App store gets a lot

> Awesome App! 5 stars! Get paid apps 100% free from xyz.com!
Great job! Having tried to create my own file sharing service a few years ago, I applaud you for getting out an MVP. It's really easy to keep adding features and never get a product up and running.

I'm not sure if you want bug reports yet but I had one file appear in the list 4 times just after upload. I only uploaded once. When going out to "Your Crates" and back to the particular crate the filename was only appearing once so just something in the rendering after upload, it seems.
It's not jut about whether vote fraud is happening though - its also about the _perception_ of whether vote fraud _can_ happen.

I think it would be worth expending a considerable amount of resources not in the expectation of catching any fraud, but to be able to demonstrate that if there _were_ any vote fraud, there are appropriate means in place to find it.
that was indeed what I was going for.
Imagine what 1/2 billion dollars could do to build infrastructure, help kids educations and create jobs.

This is just flat out robbery

I am not even a yank and this makes me mad. If I was an American I would be calling for revolution
Good to know. Didn't want to get down voted purely for saying ass.
So have you also written apps with Django? How does development time compare?
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With any luck, http://soontyphoon.com is coming soon.
I was thinking the same when Jobs presented but thought I was being a bit rash and naive. I guess not.
Just so you know, the reasons why a decent payments solution has not emerged are not technical in nature.

For significant change to occur in the payments space, a business model to rival Visa must be developed and led by someone with the political savvy to drive it home.
I concur. I'm old and out of the loop, but I asked my 16 year old the name of the site she went to in order to tell some girl she goes to school with that her legs were hairy and she should shave. Sure enough - formspring! Searched the page and found your post. Kids love it BTW - not sure if it ever gets to mature adults or not.

As the old dude that I am, I ask myself: Would I pay any amount to get an anonymous message to anyone and the answer is no. Maybe I'm missing the real value of your proposition - and if so, then you need to bring more clarity to the value.
Yes, must be an AJAX error. Thanks!
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We're working on it! And we'd love to talk to you about integrating your menu data.
Though I agree with some of the above comments that the technological innovations since 1977 haven't been altogether uninspiring, I do wonder: Who right now is funding innovation that doesn't directly have a business model tied to it? i.e., innovation for the sake of innovation, without the startup pitch, killer ceo, etc - the scientist pushing the limits for the sake of science?

Is NASA a place where this happens?
And is it frivolous to suggest that this kind of innovation without an obvious money-making scheme is important?
Ask HN: Interviews during startup acquisition process
I am an early employee (not founder) and the technical lead for a startup with more than a dozen people. We have been invited to the Bay Area by a major internet company.

The company signaled a clear intention to make an acquisition offer following meetings and interviews.

As a member of the technical team, what should I expect from these interviews? Will I be implementing binary search on a whiteboard? Asked about architecture decisions we made last year? Carefully questioned about my willingness to work within a much larger organization?

Any experience would help, thanks!
> He's 6 months old currently

You're already 15 months too late. If you haven't started on Baby Einstein, do it right now.

In addition, instead of teaching ABCs, teach him to sing Q..W..E..R..T..Y.. . Trust me, it'll make his life a whole lot easier.

You can also buy DVDs where kids sing their multiplication tables. Unfortunately, the ones I have come across is in Mandarin. But why not have him learn a second language at the same time?

If he doesn't have a sister, buy him dolls so that he can pull them apart to see how things work.

You might think I'm jesting, but I'm aware of parents who are doing some of these things.