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I wasn't selected either. Our idea was Market Research compilers for scripting surveys and data processing. It's not directly a web related application and maybe the market is too niche and too small, but I'm sure I can create a subscription based business out of it. Prototypes of the compilers are hosted here http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtcc . Over the last month I've been working on Ramen profitability. I'm developing a tool that allows you to develop a web application using create table statements in about 20 minutes. It's hosted here http://github.com/neilxdsouza/codehelper.git and is coming along nicely. I will use it to take on some typical ERP-like projects for small companies where the big players feel the money is too small to pitch for ( like USD 1000 dollar projects)
> Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably—as much as 20 percent in our testing.

Enough said. I've zillion of Safari windows running on multiple Spaces, and when on the road/rail with MacBook, I always disable the Flash plugin altogether. Despite my use of click2flash, HTML5-enabled video on YouTube & Vimeo, I still see "idling" Flash-plugin process continuously taking few percents of CPU, no matter what.
What am I looking at here? The Star Trek communicators are voice-only.
If it is the same sulfur-smell as one gets after eating asparagus, at least 25% of people will not be able to smell it. Furthermore, about 25% will not produce the smell after eating asparagus, regardless of wheter their nose can detect it or not.

Personally, I'm at least in one of the groups, since I can eat asparagus without any apparent misfortunes in smell.
I draw two things from this:

1) Don't do business with Jason Calcanis. This is not the first time I've heard Calcanis-related drama, won't be the last. Not that I ever was going to do business with him, nor him with me mind.

2) Don't do business with Michael Arrington. He washes his dirty laundry on a very public blog without regard for his business associates (in this case, AOL).

Drama never leads to good business practice.
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Waiting for device initialization is actually usually a large part of boot-up. It could be the Air just has better-optimized devices or drivers (I know it shares it's driver pool with the MacBook, but it may have different devices from the MacBook that have better drivers)
Not really. If you have reasonable savings, but lots of doubts about any idea you can come up with, you fit in this category.

I do. I would probably donate up to $500 for this prize, but mr Graham would have to fly to Europe :-)
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Kinda ironic that the report site's SSL connection is only "partially encrypted".
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The Times of India reported food inflation last week to be at 15%. That's clearly not sustainable as worker's wages rise significantly slower.
IMO, title should have been "Researcher calls the human brain, described as a computer, freakishly efficient". The original title makes it look like the author meant the brain is as much efficient as a computer.
From what I've read, while Prop 25 removes the 2/3 majority requirement to pass the budget, it also removes the 2/3 majority requirement to raise taxes due to a "poison pill" provision in the language. This is bad news, as it gives democrats pretty much free reign. If you thought taxes were already high...
So, it's a bit of a long-running thing with me... that I continue to comment that YC = $20k + all the extra benefits.

The issue I have with YC is that I think the 'extra benefits' can be gained in other ways that doesn't require you to put a valuation on your company. I've been living here in SF for many years and I feel I have access to many of the 'extra benefits' YC gives through my own network (without having to take a specific route of funding)
I like the last sentence of the rejection email, about the successful startups that were not selected by YC.

Does anybody have any specific information on this? I wonder what the most successful company is that has been rejected from YC?
At least for Perl folks, 'regex' acts as disambiguation, informing people that they're talking about expressions that aren't truly "regular" in the sense you're talking about.

But I guess that not everyone uses the term that way.
This writer takes an interesting perspective on the state of society in America today. The point that I think he's making is that there are severely and distinctly different Americans today than ever before, the outcome of which is a cultural and, to a point, class level struggle which no one is acknowledging.

This cultural and class struggle is juvenile at the base: Starbucks drinkers vs non-Starbucks drinkers; stock-car racing fans vs non-stock-car racing fans; meat eaters vs vegans; and on and on. Today, if you're fan of something in America, you're proud of that something and you want everyone else to know and this ultimately serves to make you feel superior about others because you're a something fan. Hollywood celebrities and other famous people are spotlighted for this all the time.

Now to a guy living in a trailer park, who sees Cameron Diaz drink Fiji water on TV, goes to the market and sees the price of Fiji water and comes out thinking these people are nuts, a spark of disconnect is created. Now Cameron Diaz goes on TV to promote some politician. Trailer Park Guy sees both of them drinking Fiji water and now is sure that this guy drinking that expensive bottle of water cannot possibly understand the concerns of a trailer park. Trailer Park Guy now associates himself to a Sarah Palin politician just because he mentally can't associate himself with Fiji Water Politician.

By focusing and fueling this type of thinking, the Republicans are winning the American majority.
http://www.obopay.in/mobile_obopay.html and http://www.yesbank.in/mobilebankingpayments.htm have a pretty straight forward solution.
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Yes, the problem was known before-hand by security researchers and a number of other people involved in web development. That doesn't mean it was known to users or to the developers of GitHub. In fact, given the fast response by GitHub and the tweet by pjhyett (http://twitter.com/#!/pjhyett/status/28924943340), it definitely appears that the GitHub team were not aware of this issue prior to the release of Firesheep. In any case, the release of Firesheep dramatically increased the likelyhood of this particular hole being exploited in the wild. The responsible action would have been for the author of Firesheep to notify the targeted sites about this hole with a reasonable delay before releasing the tool. His point would have still been made, but the sites that were willing to fix this would have been able to put a fix in place before users were unnecessarily left exposed.
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Having recently quit my job (Software Eng. for Initech) and being rejected by YC, I will continue operate under the assumption of: A "real" startup requires your full time and devotion; nothing residual left, even if I wanted to go back to my old job and keep the startup going. This also rules out seeking jobs of this ilk. Therefore, I can't have a "real" job in addition to a startup?

Also, as a corollary, If you have anything to give to a another job on top of your startup, you are not working hard enough on your startup.

Does this assumption/corollary seem mostly correct?

If this is all correct, then the only responsible thing that follows would be to immerse myself into the startup and ignore all the people telling me "Im irresponsible to quit and everyone I know who started a company did it on the side," said Mom. I challenge this last part!

Here is my routine until I fail (fail defined in the sense that no person on this LARGE planet finds what I want to do as exciting, and inherently useful)

Mon-Fri
Wake,Breakfast(15min),Startup,Gym(1hr),Startup,TV(30-60min),zzz Dream about Startup zzz (7.5hr)
Fri Night have 2-3 beers
Sat Startup for 50% of the day or no Beer w/ friends
Sun is reserved for my sabbath: football

This will be my schedule until I have succeeded or failed (see above definition).

One kink in this great plan is that damn money thing. When the reserves dry up it's back to work, right?. Yes and no. I think I have the best compromise when the well is dry: Take a part-time job that is physical labor only. This is a good fit because it pays my bills (college loans),gets my gym time in, and doesn't tap into my mental energy allocation.

I hope others who were rejected don't quit either :)
Yet, my Chromium is complaining that there is un-secure content.

A quick resource inspection shows that the triangle image that links the content body div to the twitter logo (right under the W in twitter), is being transmitted over http, not https.

I've always been a little paranoid on the internet. Firesheep has increased the paranoia, and a 21x11 pixel image coming from twimg.com just broke all the trust in Twitter I had.
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I think an entrepreneur who can't scrap up $500 for lunch if they believed it would help them succeed is unlikely to be much of a success. You must have some marketable skill and ability to make money with that skill....
Nit: You don't even need anachronistic punch card machines, color-in-the-bubble voting forms work just fine. Those are used in even more places than hole punch forms these days, from voting to SAT grading machines. They're even more commodity, more familiar to the public.

Otherwise, agreed.
From the San Jose "Mercury News": Proposition 19 fails on that front. Instead of statewide rules, regulation is left to individual cities and counties. That's right. Every one of California's 478 cities and 58 counties would be allowed, but not required, to establish its own laws on how marijuana can be grown, sold, taxed and used. On some issues, local control makes sense, but this isn't one of them.

This article from the sacramento bee goes into more detail: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/19/3038161/endorsements-2010-p...

A single statewide set of rules (like we have for alcohol,) and a clear tax proposal would go a long way.

This explains why the California Cannabis Association ( a group that defends the medical dispensaries ) is against it -- but you may want to consider their possibly perverse profit motive, as well.

One complicating factor is that there isn't a simple equivalent to the Blood Alcohol Content standard for inebriation -- this would help for things like driving and intoxication at work.
The only reason TechCrunch50 made so much money is because of the TechCrunch brand. TechCrunch had a dozen events before that, and they were all very popular.

Calacanis should have counted himself lucky to make a few million dollars and then moved on. Arrington offering him 10% (of TC stock?) for walking away was more than generous.

Calacanis just got greedy. If he was truly convinced he was such a big part of the conference he wouldn't have anything to cry about. He could start his own conference and it would be just as popular and lucrative as TC50. Of course his won't be nearly as popular or lucrative though, and he knows it.
Related item?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=444696
Ouch, thanks for that. Fixed.
It's not about better solutions. It's about getting customers by reaching out to them even if the solutions are not perfect.

There are many companies in this niche but they won't succeed until they reach out to these people who are not literate to begin with.
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They did, and passed laws that turned Wall Street into the house.
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Is the git protocol unencrypted as well for read-only public repos? I should probably know the answer to that already, but I'm coming up blank.

I guess a solution (for a non-issue) of pulling public repositories would be to fork the repo over the secure GitHub interface and then pull your fork over ssh...
"Teach yourself programming in 10 years" by Peter Norvig (http://norvig.com/21-days.html)? There's Alice and Squeak. Funnily enough, I actually think I was more fascinated by the map editor in Starcraft than the game itself. (Of course, I've only started picking up a little bit of programming recently.) I think for slightly older kids who would have fun building robots and physical things that can do tasks, there's Lego Mindstorm.

Other than that, there are 2 books which cover kid prodigies which might be applicable. "In Code - A Mathematical Journey". [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Mathematical-Sarah-Flannery-Dav...] It's the story of Sarah Flannery, who got interested in cryptography at a young age due to her family environment.

Another interesting book is "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin. [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Learning-Journey-Optimal-Perform...] Josh Waitzkin was an American chess champion, before burning out at around 20. He then picked up Taijiquan, becoming the Taijiquan world champion.
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In the first few years, I'd say the following three things: LEGO, LEGO and LEGO.
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I think Arrington is very justified. As he said earlier he has been silent until now. Patience does have a limit ?
> I definitely think Apple is "cheating" somehow

Not necessarily, as the X-25 is on a SATA-2 bus (maxes out at 300MB/s) and the special built-in SSD may be connected to a faster bus (maybe PCIe?).
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Haha, that's how I got one of my first introductions to programming too, through the Starcraft map editor. It's kind of fun learning through a game.

Many years later, for a group assignment on entrepreneurship, we submitted a custom map in Warcraft III that simulated competitive strategies among startups. We basically played Warcraft III in class while our lecturer was smiling approvingly. One of the most fun lessons in university..
This is ridiculous. So two lawyers are getting paid 2.125 million dollars (25% of the $8.5M settlement) for suing Google on my behalf over something I don't mind? I never signed up to make a couple of guys millionaires from a complaint about a free service.

Is there a way to protest this kind of absurd class action suit and reduce the payout?
System Profiler says the SSD is on a SATAII bus. The model is APPLE SSD TS128C, which doesn't help me pin down the real manufacturer. If I had to put money on it, I'd say it's a rebranded Samsung SSD, since Apple seems to do that pretty often.

Edit: Apparently I would lose money if I bet on that. :)
If someone has been publically slandering you and is now threatening legal action I think you're well within your rights to fight back however you see fit.
I paid $510 for the Asus UL20A-A1 last December, on an Amazon promo priced at $585 with $75 Amazon gift card included. It looks like Newegg has it NIB for $575 or open box at $452 right now. I upgraded the memory to 4GB for ~$40, but haven't bothered with a SSD. I chose the UL20A-A1 over other makes/models specifically for the SU7300 processor. The SU7300 supports virtualization and has an extra 1MB of L2 cache compared to the SU4100.
Only because we keep trying to reinvent it using an increasingly esoteric, inefficient (from hardware's POV, if not a human's), high-level, abstract method, using newborn tools rather than proven ones.
Arrington has had his own share of business drama as well:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/15/status-of-crunchpad-litigat...
The IMF predictions are pretty amusing[1] too, if you like that kind of thing.

[1]: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/india/inflation-average-imf-...
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Did you submit a video with your application? If so, where is it? :-)
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(Easiest way to read both of these is to click the "PDF" button in the top-right to download the whole document.)
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My first thought was "Whymacs?" but this is actually pretty cool. Shame I've never gotten around to learning emacs.
This lunch isn't an investor meeting. It's a chance to have some food and chat about start-ups in general or general advice on your own. I'm fairly certain there is no implied chance of funding. After all, this is for charity.

That's not to say if if your idea is freaking amazing or you two click, he isn't ABLE to fund you. The chance is slim, but maybe just slightly more then meeting him on the street since he'll listen to what you have to say since your money is going to a good cause.

Either way, bid. The chance to meet him alone is worth $500 in my book.
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Do people think that this auction will only fetch $500? I would have thought it will be bid up to several thousand..
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I find the view that kids are incapable of making decisions a little strange. Yes, at a young age people are more inclined to get talked into something they don't really want to do, but this is often an important lesson in itself. Youth is also a time when the majority of experiences are new, and the age when children are first exposed to drugs (nicotine and alcohol included) is also around the age when they begin to make their own decisions.
Personally, I know that lots of the things I did at 16-18 turned out to be a bad idea. That is kinda the point. If at 16 you skip work/school to socialize you might get fired and lose your beer money, do that at 30 you might get fired and lose your house. I'd say the same applies to kids and their exposure to drugs, learning while there are fewer consequences is the point of youth.
Always interesting to watch the American labor movement eat itself. Depressing but interesting.
Not necessarily an emacs editor. I love the GUI of TextMate, but a lot of what makes TextMate usable is its bundles, which definitely won't be allowed by Apple.

All I would like is a reasonably good text editor with a project drawer and syntax highlighting. Preferably something that can integrate with git.

Maybe I am dreaming. I love just being able to read code, not necessarily type it on the iPad, since I do review existing open source projects (such as picking open gems and learning about them) or review source code changes from git.

MBA is nice, but you still need to pull the seat tray down. The iPad lets me read code like a magazine. And it fits on the elliptical for working out.

So yes, call me foolish for wanting to do this on the iPad, but I just love its form factor!
I switched to Git actually for my newer projects. Expect Ymacs at http://github.com/mishoo sometime next weekend.
Funny how in last week's episode of This Week in Startups. The founder of Unsubscribe.com and Phonetag.com said to Jason that suing anybody is a big waste of time for everybody involved.
The macbook air that ifixit took apart had "Toshiba" written both on the assembly and on the individual memory chips. But it's not impossible that they have more than one source of SSDs.
Somewhat flawed logic as the article says:

"Google’s data could be skewed. It is entirely possible that users with older devices simply don’t access the Market as often because the apps they want aren’t compatible with older versions of Android."

This may be true but as a developer you're really only interested in your actual, addressable market and that includes only the people who in fact visit the app store.

So while it may be wrong to say that "77% of all Android devices run 2.1 or 2.2" it's true to say that 77% of your market as a developer runs 2.1 or 2.2.

And from a fragmentation point of view, that's what counts.
This happens similarly in American professional sports. Young, incoming players can't choose their own team - instead, they're subject to a draft, and controlled by the team that drafted them for anywhere from 4 to 10 years. During that time, the players make very below market money and have no leverage. Then, after they become a free agent, they get overpaid relative to equilibrium. The veterans that have more say in the union consistently bargain more benefits and agree to hose the young incoming players in return.
"Completely false" might be an overstatement. Do you have any test results you could point to? Or at least an exact specification of what the test would consist of? Particularly, are you measuring the first run from a luke warm start, guaranteed to be in memory but not in cache? Or might you be reading a page or two from disk, or making multiple passes while it still might be in some level of cache? Because I think the details are going to make a difference as to whether the break even point is n=4 or n=400, or maybe even n=4000.

Like the decade-old Erik, my intuition is still that a brute force would be hard to beat for less than 100 integer keys to pointers if one is doing multiple passes through the list. But I'd love to bring my intuition up to date. Do you have one of these new-fangled 'competently implemented hash maps' that you could yield up so I can do some cycle counting? And is it fair if we throw in a few insertions and deletions just to make it realistic?

For record, I completely agree on irrelevance of the cycles to compute the hash once one might be hitting main memory. But I also think it's worth noting that the size of your L3 cache may be comparable to the all the RAM that Erik had in his machine. I also think you might be underestimating the power of a modern prefetch unit, whether hinted or automatic. But I'll bow to data. As you said very well: "do the experiments, state the results, and walk away."
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