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You are sorely mistaken, my friend.

You and I will never be in a position to sell a successful mobile handset[1], so let's just focus on the app development and sales.

In terms of ease of use, we can use whatever tool we're most comfortable with to develop for Android: C, C++, Java, Flash, C#, Python, Scheme, Ruby, etc. and we have guaranteed approval. Neither Google nor other alleged gatekeepers can dick with our right to publish software. Even if we choose to give it away for free, users can download our apps and install on their Android phones without anybody knowing about it, getting a cut or messing with them. "adb install MyApp.apk" is a birth right on Android, bless the beautiful platform!

For a developer, Android is multitasking, garbage collected, and modern, almost to a fault. You can tweak it to your liking, as much as you want. And should you choose to, you can build it from sources and deploy it on your new exotic board that nobody has ever heard of.

At this point, Android is bigger than the efforts of all the carriers and handset creators, combined. What Android can do is only limited by your imagination, skill, and budget. Nothing is stopping you from developing a new mobile handset that puts the iPhone to shame (and many have done this) and loading Android with it.

Instead of finding fault in specific Android deployments or handsets, ask yourself: what do I want to do with Android?

This thing is bigger than a movement, it's a tsunami wave standing a mile tall: I want to ride it, I want you to ride it. Let's put our creativity together and make use of this thundering power. Or stand in its way to be crushed.

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[1] Unless we use Android or Maemo, which are Free Software :-)
This is the sort of thing that trace-based optimisation can help with. It's able to observe that the value bound to chr doesn't change between invocations and inline the lookup accordingly. I believe Mark Shannon's HotPy runtime (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~marks/) attempts to do this.
> Lead researcher Dr David Nieman and his team, from Appalachian State University in North Carolina, say bouts of exercise spark a temporary rise in immune system cells circulating around the body that can attack foreign invaders.

This makes an interesting contrast with other recent reporting on colds and the immune system, such as http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/opinion/05ackerman.html?_r... which says (correctly, AIUI) that the immediate cause of cold symptoms isn't the infection itself but the body's immune response to it.

Resolution: http://blogs.plos.org/bodypolitic/2010/10/06/how-not-to-figh... -- a more active immune system at the moment of possible infection may help you not get infected, but a more active immune system while you've got the infection may make things worse. (And: "the immune system" is a complicated thing, and the bits of it that make a cold worse may not be the same as the bits that make you less likely to get one.)
What if partially executed ideas have value?

Idea = zero value

Idea + Execution = much more than zero value

If there is value in partial execution:

Idea + Partial Execution = more than zero value

Then Scott Adam's suggestion that idea creators who use his hypothetical service to start to assemble the resources required to execute (i.e. partially execute) should receive a minimal return makes some sense (he suggests 1% which may be too high). This can be true even if the eventual idea is many pivots from the original because the pivots are points on the same continuum of execution.
Imagine this with a heavy blow of sidewind...
The power consumption argument was also applied to SSDs partly replacing HDDs in the server - anyone know how adoption of that is progressing?

Article mentions ARMs in netbooks - but where are they? It seems that MS discounting Windows for netbooks successfully staved off linux - and therefore ARM.

ARM's openness makes the world their research lab. The only way to compete with Intel's massive R&D budget.
Being a programmer one might like to think in base-2 orders :)
Among highly-skilled engineers in the valley (i.e. the ones who'd be working at FaceBook/Palantir/Google), Palantir is at least as highly regarded as FaceBook, and quite possibly moreso. They aren't all that well-known outside of the valley, because they do enterprise software, but the caliber of their engineering team is pretty legendary.
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I'm fairly sure they do - as do pretty much all large corporations. That doesn't make it right, of course.
You can't "opt out" when you are subjected to a legally-enforced monopoly.

Using the air to fly is the same as using the roads. By your argument, there is no "right to walk" or "right to drive" or "right to take a bus", therefore it would be OK to be made a prisoner by virtue of not being allowed onto public land.

It should be the government and not the individual whose freedom of movement is limited.
What about diet?
And who in their right mind would pay £1 for a 'one day pass'? This isn't porn, it's just news.
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Every time I run an install from a bit of software I've bought whether it be on CD or download, it could do pretty much anything it wants given (many of them demand root access). Apple or Microsoft could already use software updates to disable anything they don't like if they wished (and could probably do it far more subtly by introducing a minor incompatibility in the OS). How is this any different?

The reason they don't completely screw people's machine isn't technical, it's commercial, it would be utter suicide. That applies to Apple as much as anyone else and the app store doesn't change that (the kill switch for iOS has never been used in the three years it's been there).
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I was very recently in your position.

Remember, an idea is worthless. They have people asking them to build things for equity all the time. You have to compete with these people. If you want to attract a tech-cofounder you have to show value. No one is interested in a one-side partnership where they have to do all the work and then give up a large portion of any profits. How are they going to know you can bring anything to table if you have nothing to show?

After I had identified a potential pain point and thought up a solution, this (in order) is how I proceeded.

I enrolled in a relevant classes (business fashion/intro to entrepreneurship), wrote a business plan/financial statement, figured out the features and how I wanted the app to work, contracted wireframe mockups, raised money from family, hired a lawyer to form a corporation, had the graphic design done, had the front end done.

It took a year and $4500 before I finally found my co-founder.

All the stuff had to be done anyways and it was stuff I, as a non tech-cofounder could do. After I met my technical co-founder we spent a week transferring knowledge (after working on it for a year, i had a lot to say) and now he is coding away.

Also everything took way longer then I expected.
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These machines mean nothing for security for two reasons:

1. Not being able to scan body cavities. At least metal detectors cover that aspect.

2. There is an unlimited number of targets. Terrorists could even hit the queues of people waiting to be scanned. Also, everywhere there are crowds there is a danger. So no matter how secure is made a certain patch of airport, there is no overall security improvement.
I paid up to $150/day for 1-day passes for some sort of "news".

You have no idea how much it costs to get certain types of "news". Try getting streaming broadcasts for 99% of the conferences that are not computing related. It's nigh near impossible and it costs much.
> I just hope that the result of this lawsuit is what's good for the US Government, not just what's good for Google.

Indeed. But is it good for the US government (or any other IT user) to lock themselves in to one supplier? Probably not.
I don't understand the numbers here. They report 105,000 electronic-only subscribers plus another 100,000 electronic-plus-print subscribers, for a total (follow me closely here) of 205,000 people with subscriptions that allow them to see the Times Online site. That seems to be the total since the Times paywalled itself four months ago, for a monthly average of 51,250 subscribers. But the article then goes on to say "The Times Online site was registering about 21 million unique users a month earlier this year but the figure fell by 87% to about 2.7 million last month" 2.7 million is more than fifty times the figure above. So which is it?
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I included that in my random thoughts on the YC application. There's no question about how are you going to market your software and I thought there should be.
I don't think this so called test/benchmark has everything that is under the HTML5 umbrella. It lacks WebSQLDatabase, Geolocation, offline storage, CSS3(debatable) and many more.

So since this test is not complete, I call this article: false advertising.
Wasn't there talk about Facebook switching to ARM servers at one point? What happened to that?
I think Adams has a thread of an interesting idea. But, I think his starting point for it (monetizing business ideas) might be the wrong one. As he says, the ideas would be stolen. As edanm notes in another comment, the basic idea is worthless until it is refined.

However, the concept he arrives at: a web based way for people to contribute and retract resources to a project until you get a combination everyone is happy contributing to is an interesting one. It probably won't work, I have objections coming to mind immediately, but it would be interesting to find out. If it did work it might be very useful.

I wonder what a MVP or "qanta of usefulness" from this idea would look like.
For those interested, the author of this was actually Guido himself.

I would have used "".join(map(chr, list)) myself. But I am not sure that was support in the version of python available at the time. It is equivalent to f6.

To some of those talking about the dynamic nature of python means you have to look up chr every time, there is a way to stop that, see this project http://github.com/rfk/promise/
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Go facebook it has so many people using it
I'm curious, what was your motivation for subscribing to the Times instead of getting your news from elsewhere?

And, connection problems aside, are you satisfied enough with the service to continue paying for it?
Visitors who don't make it past the paywall perhaps?
Yeah I had thought about that fact - I wouldn't want to get into a lesser position by applying for a job remotely than what I could achieve applying in person. I think I will follow some of the other advice mentioned here and do a sort of email/Skype blitz in the 3-4 week period before I arrive, and just make sure that I use any responses to schedule in-person contact for as soon as I get there. Thanks for your advice.
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I had the same thoughts, especially point 4 - the rest you can tweak to get it right, but you just can't ride a bike with a "crossbar" that wide, it's impossible - your knees already knock against the bar on a standard bike.

Also, that thing would be impossible to mount if you're wearing a skirt...
You can call it all you want, but it sure works better for them than giving out freebies.
You're confusing the reporting of science with science.

The news article contains what (the media think) the public would want to know of the results.

The actual study (I'm not sure I can find it, but it appears to be a follow on from: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/497802 ) will use scientific methods to work out why this is true, not just that it is true.
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Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it. Like I mentioned in my original post - it's so hard to keep a clear head looking in from the outside and seeing all the media reports etc.
I honestly would like see a citation/source too.

[Warning: anecdote masquerading as data ahead] I've been in London for a couple of months now, and travel by the Tube daily (primarily the Piccadilly and District lines, fwiw). In the commute, at the workplace, or simply just walking around, I see more iPhones than Androids. Way, WAY more, about an order of magnitude more! I often joke to my friends back in India that if H2G2 was set in modern day London, then Ford Prefect would've been named Apple iPhone instead.
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How often do you visit /usr/share/doc/python? This FAQ has been there for a decade, at least.
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You should put it as a condition in the acceptance to W11. On a rolling basis "You shall wash the dishes of your colleagues". Another way to learn life & teamwork, not consider yourself too seriously, and mingle with other startup guys of the batch, "Esprit de Corps". Always lots of fun in the kitchens. Imagine one could later say "I used to wash the dishes with X&Y(next Larry & Sergei)!"... Friends for life.
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Do you want to do a consumer startup or an enterprise startup? That's the obvious dividing line between them. FaceBook will prepare you to do a consumer web startup, because that's what they are, 6 years down the line. Palantir will prepare you to do an enterprise startup, because that's what they are, 6 years down the line.

Ignore everyone who says that FaceBook will look better on a resume: that's only true if you work outside of the valley, and you don't want to start a tech startup outside of the valley. Among people who matter (investors and key early engineers), Palantir's reputation is at least as good as FaceBook's.

Smaller company doesn't necessarily mean you'd learn more. Interns learn a shit ton at Google, with its 25,000 employees, and I think you'd learn a lot at both FaceBook and Palantir. The important variable here is how flat and open the internal culture of the company is. There are startups where you have 10 people but the CEO never tells you a damn thing, and then there's Google where you have 25k people but full-timers can access just about everything (and even interns have pretty broad access and get exposed to a wide variety of technologies).

Really, I think the biggest decision is consumer vs. enterprise, and I don't think you're equipped to make that until you've worked for both (that's what internships are for :-)). Personally, my first job out of college was a startup that sold enterprise software very similar to Palantir's to hedge funds. I hated it - I wanted nothing to do with the financial industry, I found the enterprise sales cycle to be capricious and demoralizing, and I didn't like the feeling that we were beholden to a few very powerful and questionably moral customers. I wanted to do consumer stuff, and I'm much, much happier now that I'm at a consumer company. But I have friends that have gone the other way: they felt that consumer stuff was frivolous and mundane, and liked the algorithmic challenges of building industrial-strength software for very wealthy enterprises.
Generally, you cannot scan the loop body to find redefinitions of `chr`. This is known as the halting problem.

Consider, for example, a redefinition of `chr` in an `if`-clause: you would have to actually run the program to know if the `if`-clause is taken or not.

Further, in Python, the redefinition of `chr` does not even have to be in the form of `chr = ...`, but could be an assignment into a global hash, maybe even using a variable as an index.
Yeah, seriously. "".join((chr(x) for x in chars)) would be the first thing I did (I'm not sure if comprehensions are faster than generators, they probably are, so I'd test for that as well.
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If you are getting money for some website or some service and your customers are general users, I guess it is best to stick to paypal (please get a PAN card ASAP). General users might be uncomfortable to use other lesser known methods to make payments.
"So my question is, is there a safe way (tax department safe, if you know what I mean) to get such small payments in India?"
Please do not evade taxes. Do follow legal means to save them but do not do anything illegal (i.e if you mean this way).
Is it harder for Hipmunk to build an infrastructure comparable to Orbtiz, or for Orbitz to put together a UI comparable to Hipmunk?

(That said, I could definitely imagine an Orbitz/etc TechCrunch-reading management buying Hipmunk instead of assigning some devs to build it inhouse.)
We website has a worldwide scope. Unlike kickstarter which has a lot of us-centric projects. That said: you can always try. A local project can be succesfull but has a smaller audience.

Project will be curated before publishing. Fundstrap is financialy responcible for the creditcard transactions. So submitters need to be verified.

Any project will be accepted by default when you can provide a product or service in exchange. So investments where interest or profit shares are returned are not accepted. If you have a startup which does not provide a product, you can give a (lifetime?) account as a service.
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> ...no matter what your party or preferences.

I think this should be something all people hold true, no matter how corrupt our politicians have or will become.
The problem with ideas is not that they are non-excludable or that transaction costs are too high (contractual costs, monitoring, you can cite the whole institutional economic literature from Coase to Williamson). It is not so hard to construct excludability, think of non-excludable goods such as fish, "ideas" for fiction, "ideas" for scientific research. They need to be linked to something, fish: best fishermen, fiction: best novelists like Stephen King get contracts without writing down a single word, research: a professor gets tenure. They just need to be linked to something excludable, e.g. to the person itself, or the service of a venture. (And I am still not talking about regulation, patents, etc!)

There is no market for venture ideas without the founders who are credible in executing them. Not because they are non-excludable, but because in fact they don't exist for a long time: it is very rare that somebody has an initial idea that won't change during building a company. Markets, customers, technology change.

If the world of startups would work like you say they do, it would be enough for the most creative persons to get a long term contract from VCs just to tell the ideas that pop out of their minds every morning.. Have you ever seen that happen? VCs invest in people who execute and are able to adapt ideas as circumstances change.

Btw, I am an economist so I happen to understand economics (to a certain degree :)
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Non USA citizens cannot start a project.

The 15% is for the beta-period. We hope we can lower the fee when we go live. Many examples on HN suggest you can better lower the fee in stead of raising. The latter causes a lot of angry customers. :-)
On second thoughts, I have to agree with you re the differences between "stupid" comments and "stupid" questions. Good point.
Each new line of code you write, will cost you 10 times more in maintenance over time.

Try to remove some lines of code instead ;)
Do we know this? You would need to see the change in advertising revenue between before this was implemented and now. You also have to factor in the rate of growth in readership to before and after.
I actually know a great veterinary surgeon with exam anxiety. That seems to indicate that exam anxiety is different from stress intolerance, and if exam anxiety" doesn't stop people from being great even in stressful jobs then it is good enough reason for me.

Of course, the student in question remembered about his illness after the exam in PhD program. It does strike me as a little weird that someone wouldn't find out earlier.

Furthermore, exam anxiety does not mean that he should have no exams, just a modified form of exams. It seems that the university officials got in conflict over what the form should be, and dean at some point decided to get rid of the exam altogether, which definitely does strike me as wrong.
Usually a retainer at $10K+ a month, and usually more for a launch like this depending on the number of resources you need.

Some smaller firms may take a lower retainer, take stock or defer payments. It all depends - but ~$10k is average.

People have different opinions, but I believe that with a startup, especially in the early years, the CEO has to be actively involved in PR. You should build relationships with bloggers who cover your space and/or have an interest in your company. If you do this well, it is worth more than any amount of money you will spend on a PR agency (it will also give your company a more authentic voice, rather than a dozen re-bloggers regurgitating your releases).

In the case of Blekko, their PR agency would have contacted all the media outlets, setup the briefing times, but together the release and then followed up with each reporter. There is a lot that can go wrong, and it usually does. The blekko PR team should have known that with so many outlets covering this launch, the chances of somebody breaking the embargo and pissing off the other outlets was near 100%.

I sat through tons of briefings at TC, and when a blogger asks who else is covering the launch, you can gauge pretty quickly if the embargo is going to be broken or not. It is so frustrating when an embargo is broken, because you put the work in only for it to be wasted - and there are no repercussions for anybody breaking an embargo, which is why TC simply threw them out. It is a complicated world with a lot of internal industry politics between outlets, firms and companies and a good PR firm should be able to guide you through that (but most don't).

If you have a product launch coming up and you are trying to decide if you need PR or not, try emailing one or two bloggers now and let them know you have a launch coming up in 2-3 weeks (or whenever) and see the reaction. If you get nothing, you might need help with your messaging (the attention span of a blogger with an inbound cold email is around 7 seconds - so you need to be snappy). If you get interest, then handle it yourself and get to know the industry, which will be very important for you in the long-term (and something you should do even if you do have PR).

You should also be building your own profile with the company blog and perhaps your own personal blog. If you become a source of stories or links for a blogger you will find it easier to get your own stories out (quid pro quo).

If you need some tips feel free to email me (email in profile) - I both spent a long time at TC and in startups before that, and startup again now.