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I am not quite sure how to handle the selection process. For the first round, I would do the filtering - according to what makes sense (based on feedback from potential members and any ideas here). That's part of the reason I am posting here, to get some ideas on how it would make sense (if it COULD make sense).

YC does represent some of great startups, but I am not sure I would say "BEST". That's kinda difficult to quantify.

They can access vendors, bloggers, etc. because of the quality of their portfolio.

Imagine, for a second, there is an association/group with the likes of Patio11's BCC & Appointment Reminder, 37 Signals, Derek Sivers latest project, and any of the other solid startups lurking on these HN threads. I don't know, if any of the above would want to be a part of an association/group like this - until they see what it's made of and can do - but a group that represents 20 - 50 (eventually, not overnight) of companies like that could be enough to attract blogger interests and get better terms from vendors.

It's not just about the discount from vendors. Think of it as a way to leverage the collective for the benefit of all the members. Kinda like AARP or AAA - or some other union (except it's not a union, per se).

I don't know if this has ever been done, or if it can even be done. But I am simply exploring the possibility and gauging the interest.

Besides, remember that YC was not always the large, powerful brand it is today. It started with just a handful of startups just a few years ago. So I don't imagine we will be able to achieve the same thing, but if there is some way we can foster camaraderie, and do good for the entire group and add value, there might be something here.
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I've had resumes in a variety of formats, but even in 2010 companies and recruitment agencies will often only accept them in Microsoft Word format.

Using version control seems quite logical though, so if you want to produce a resume which emphasises a particular skill that could be a separate branch, and so on.

In my opinion the ultimate format for a resume is xml with css styling, such that the presentation can be altered as desired or conform to some standardised layout, but it seems that the job market is just not ready for that degree of sophistication yet. Is there a standard xml document type for resumes? If there isn't someone should invent one.
Space program development requires: a) Technology b) Infrastructure

Boosting those boosts economics, creates workplaces and moves towards a better future. Even if they don't invent a hyperdrive or any other way to outsmart spacetime.

Another good thing about it for the countries is that it boosts morale, gathers everyone under national colours etc..
Right. Except for those times when you need people like Captain Sully to deal with the crisis at hand.

Being a programmer, I wouldn't want to trust my life to a computer program with no human supervision.
I like that the relationship is informal and that you don't like to label yourselves as co-founders. But have you guys talked about equity/profit-sharing?

There's always the mythical story of the two dudes coming together to build something awesome, but more often than not, I've heard horror stories of such relationships coming to an abrupt halt over issues (typically involving money/ownership).

Love the design though and I especially like the crate graphic :)
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They've demonstrated that a brilliant chess player doesn't have to be intelligent. They haven't demonstrated that a brilliant human chess player doesn't have to be intelligent.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lif_can_use-lifestyle-cann...

Suggests it's 12.3% in the US which I find more believable.

The study you cited seems to ask "...EVER used". Which could just mean took one puff once when very drunk.
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I assumes he use mac os x on his macs :)
I can't help but feel that a good portion of the blame for the failure of Prop. 19 is attributable to the increasing polarization and isolation of political debate.

The vast majority of political debate now seems to come down to: preaching to the choir / echo chamber; circus acts from the mainstream media; and people ignoring or talking past each other. We have to get to a state where people are actually talking to each other like reasonable adults rather than just shouting at each other or skulking back to their private clubs.
Sorry, but this is a very common misconception. Just like many people not familiar with programming think that anyone can make a great software product just by pointing and clicking in some GUI tool. The tools certainly help a lot and makes the job easier, but pilot-less passenger airplanes are still many years away.

And, knowing just how much can go wrong both with software and with flying, I know I'm not going to fly with such an airplane. Auto-pilot and auto-land systems today work well because they do a very narrowly defined thing with great precision, with the amount of software needed kept to a minimum. A software system that would be able to account for all that can go wrong when flying would have to be very complex and difficult to get defect free (and don't get me started on the idea of remote controlling passenger planes).
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I'm guessing it's because both Calacanis and Arrington are important players in the Valley startup scene, and it's good to know what they are like to do business with. Personally, as someone living in Europe, I agree with you, this doesn't seem at all interesting/useful to me, but I can understand how this would be of interest to many HN participants.
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Could you explain your analogy in a bit more detail? Google Maps is like pornography, and ... what ... is like sex? Physical paper maps? (I'm not seeing the big difference compared with electronic ones.) The actual full-size terrain itself? (OK, sure, but that's a bit tricky to carry around with you and use for route planning.)
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TC turns everyday tech entrepreneurs into glamorous celebs. Hollywood 2.0, if you will
It's the option Arrington usually goes for (i.e. Angelgate, Crunchpad collapse etc.)
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A few thoughts. Don't do "package Foo; { ... }". Nobody else in the world has ever done this. It's completely pointless and confuses people.

Use Sub::Exporter instead of Exporter::Simple. Bigger community, more testing, more features. (Attributes? No thanks.)

Don't let your users use global variables and singletons. Don't make an OO interface that needs a functional interface on top. Pick the right one for the job. If there is state, it should be an object. If there is no state, it should be a set of functions.

File::Spec is OO because someone was way too clever when implementing it, not because it is actually OO. (The cleverness is that @ISA is changed to File::Spec::YourOS at runtime, and then File::Spec->whatever delegates to File::Spec::YourOS->whatever magically. This is clever, but not the best way to implement that.) File::Spec::Functions is a band-aid on top of a flawed design. Design your module's interface correctly from the beginning, and you won't need to write 300 lines of hacks on top of it.

(This is why people hate Perl, because many people start using Perl, get excited by super-amazing-awesome-cool features like changing your class's inheritance hierarchy at runtime, and write confusing and unmaintainable code when they could have not used the cool feature instead. A lot of dynamic language features are there for the very special 0.01 percent case. Your program is probably not that, so just do it normally, see how you like it, and go from there. With Perl, you can write very clever code. Try not to. </rant>.)
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Awesome. I'm looking forward to applying!
Not uncommon with objects of desire. The truly remarkable part is why in 2010 still nobody else is making computers that actually look desirable?
According to the arstechnica article, the new Air SSD is way faster than the SSD included in the previous generation. I'd like to see meaningful numbers (like throughput and IOPS) but my bet is that it's not on a real SATA bus. Edit: well it's still SATA after all :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1...
Well, it isn't actually spatial.

Keyboards are nice because after a while the location of each key is encoded in your brain. Swype and its ilk (ShapeWriter, SlideIT) take advantage of that by piggybacking on your already learned spatial knowledge.

This, however, is gestural rather than spatial: each letter is encoded via an action, rather than a point in space. What this means is that there is the same cap on efficiency as with handwriting.

Perhaps the best marriage of what 8pen is trying to do is basically something like Swype, but on a keyboard layout that's optimized for the cramped space. The pre-encoded spatial information will be sacrificed for greater eventual efficiency. You would start out tapping, then graduate to the spatial gestures.

(Re: the center, yes it's mandatory. They use non-center gestures as macro storage)
I don't see why this is USB when the system could work much better with WiFi - multiple users can connect to the same hub without any of them having to physically tether themselves to the spot.

And as for the potential for malware outbreaks, this is basically like a public water tap and just like we filter that water before drinking, scanning the data before using it will solve the malware problem.
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So does the author also hate people who rather buy records on vinyl instead of mp3?

Some people like old technologies, or simulated old technologies. It makes them feel nostalgic, escaping to allegedly simpler times for a quick moment. It's about emotions, not technology. I get it, the author doesn't like doing that, but why judge people who do?
I suspect the downvotes are more for linking to your blog to get the meat of whatever you're saying.
There are a number of xml formats for resume. You can find few of them at http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-formats .

Having xml, markdown, textile or xhtml with microformat extesions format as a base is not stopping you from sending hr companies doc or pdf generated document. There are some tools and libraries for this task.
As much harm as could obviously come from this, surely we can agree that the potential for epic mischief and shenanigans is unmatched?

If I'd discovered one of these near my house in my early teens it would've obsessed me for weeks. I'd probably have ended up learning USB debugging or something to cause further trouble ;) I see this as an absolutely massive jolt to people's natural sense of curiosity which is so often neglected in urban environments.
I have an acer aspire 1410 11.6' runs ubuntu well, 1.2ghz SU2300 (dual core celeron) good alternative as well. and it was only $400
Okay I hate to do this, but we have had too many political pieces, so I have to flag it.
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It's been said that the credit card companies have such good data on spending patterns that they can predict major life events, such as weddings and divorces.

Anyway, I called Amex and they wouldn't tell me mine...
The original post made no sense to me but after reading your one liner I get it.

Do you think this would also help manage the 'drunken email' syndrome many of us get?
LaTeX makes beautiful printed documents, but my experience is that it's more difficult to generate nice HTML. The ideal system would probably do a good job of that as well: how many more people will look at an HTML version rather than a PDF?
package Foo { } is more or less a typo... and "Sub::Exporter - the way cool kids export custom methods" is under related reading at the end.

That's some fascinating history there... I did wonder why the heck someone would implement that as class-static functions...

/me notes that his project is not a beautiful and unique snowflake, but the decaying program code as the rest of us....

Also, thanks for the feedback!
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Perhaps all artists of any sort should abandon all forms of media except the most recent technologies. Who needs oil paints, or working with woods, metals, etc. Let's go purely digital so everything can be absolutely perfect.

The reality is everyone thinks they are a photographer these days because everyone has a camera in their pocket. Most people take awful, horrid photos, and tools such as hipstamatic and instagram can make even bad photos visually pleasing. If it makes the user happy, it's fine by me. It's their phone/camera and their life.
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Honest question: is it legal (at least in the US) to hire kids that young? Are they able to legally enter into contracts at that age? How about as interns? What could some of the possible repercussions be?
That is good news!

I thought the 8 hours charge was a fault at first, and so did AppleCare, but eventually it was confirmed as "working as designed."
easiest application form ever :) fingers crossed!
I hate to say this, but of that 77%, the percent of devices that will probably never get vendor supplied updates from 2.1 and 2.2 to a newer version of android is probably 90%.

It's not in the OEM's interest - they'd rather have you buy a new phone and put more money in their pockets rather than support what's already out there.

Witness the gnashing of teeth every time a new version of Android comes out, and devices X/Y/Z don't get a manufacturer update.

Thankfully there are 3rd parties doing custom ROM's for these, but that's not a solution for the layperson...
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You'd think devices with different resolutions would never make it in the marketplace (typed on my desktop with a different resolution than yours).
Ever notice how nearly all articles about economic theory immediately gather the "ivory tower intellectual who has no concept of the real world - everything they study is in their own thought bubble" criticism?

That same criticism applies to libertarianism - they're interesting ideas, but not implementable as stated. The number of countries that have implemented even half of what they propose is a null set.

Not to say it wouldn't work, but you'd think at least someone would try it out somewhere and we'd have one datapoint...
ah, I get it, this is being upvoted because it's funny few I thought there for a minute we where going to go all eternal September
Arrington is bad at picking his business partners. Enough said
Also of interest is Jonathan Haidt's TED Talk on the different moral foundations of liberals and conservatives:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.ht...
Right now most people take the test drive prior to using our service. We know it opens the door for dealers to do what they do, but our target customers tend to avoid the games dealers play anyway so it's sort of a self selection process that works... for now. :)
Apple doesn't make netbooks. Textmate only runs on Macs.
It doesn't work too well on non-US keyboards. For instance I can't type @ (Alt-gr/Right-alt 2), $ (Alt-gr 4) or any of the following: {[]} (alt-gr 7-0). Welcome to Norwegian keyboard layout btw.

I'm guessing it might the browser blocking what it assumes is control keys, but it might also be the app not looking for those specific modifier-key combinations.

Looking at the wikipedia-page for keyboard layouts, it seems Norway is not alone when it comes to requiring modifier-keys to be able to type standard "programming" characters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Norwegian

If these things can't be done in browser, I'm guessing all those awesome, envisioned browser & cloud IDEs wont be that big a hit outside english-speaking countries.
Imagine doing that for hundreds of applications.
You can still be a geek and destroy the data in your photos. These funky photo apps give people who might ordinarily terrible at taking photos and gives them an edge. It's like a golf handicap. It adds a bit of flair and artisticness to what would otherwise potentially be some nasty looking photos of your friend's friends.
Good luck with the midterms :)
I was hoping someone would eventually do this.

I wrote PyMoneris a while ago simply because there wasn't one and have been hoping someone would start a project like this that I could hand that code over to.

Tedious, but necessary!
I think being able to google your way out of a problem is worth more than being able to grag a grid to a form, drag a query to a grid and call it a day...
Technology isn't static, there will be a time when the quality from a phone camera is "good enough" that the whole first part of the diatribe becomes moot, arguably for most people it's already at that stage.

My Olympus digital camera from 2001 was a 4 megapixel item, flawed though megapixels are as a measure of quality, at those levels it did still matter, now my phone camera one-ups it in that department.

The problem is more, how and where do you store your photos so that you still have them, 40 years from now, which he does touch on to some extent. Somehow, I doubt Instagram will be the "system of record" for this, and for now, it's providing a service that some people find useful.
Perhaps. YC has a history with TC, so I think it bothers fans of these guys as well. After all, it was posted here, and then up voted. And Calacanis is a contributing member here.

None the less, I agree that my comment added nothing of value to the conversation, and that along merits the down votes. But ultimately so did the original article.
Not in the IT sector. For the last several years we've seen 20-30% salary increases annually. I would argue it's more due to market conditions and the hiring practices of the big consultancies than inflation, but probably a third to half of that is an inflationary response.
Why not use a REPL and a good debugger? It's a nice combination.
Very, very few people would actually use this.

What's the actual incentive from the users perspective? Pay for something that very likely will not get delivered? On the off chance that if it actually gets recieved, the recipient would know that you didn't expect it to arrive?

Doesn't make much sense, and in all cases, 100% non monetizable.
Odd. I set Instagram to always send my original (unedited) photo to the Camera Roll. What's wrong with that?
This guy makes it like it's the end of the world, the end of photography... Oh no...

Instagram have made a great app, and can give anyone the chance to do something neat with their phone...

and become a hipster :)
In this story the "client" didn't even expect to hear anything back from the kids. Apparently there was no contract. This is a client setting a very low bar with very low expectations. Also, some clients are happy with even the ugliest results because they don't know any better themselves.
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All of his complaints aside, is he aware that Instagram allows you to save the original photo (in addition to the filtered photo) to your Camera Roll?
To be honest, I think glory hole is a pretty accurate description.

I wouldn't put anything I value into either.
That would get in the way of writing up a good rant.
good luck with that.
my advice: you need to choose if you want to build another YC or just do your startup. building another YC cant be part-time thing (and i doubt that someone without proven success in past can do it at all)
The Orange ads are more about clueless producers ruining film ideas with rampant commercialism. I don't think there have been any Orange ads where a plot has been ruined due to the presence of a phone within the movie itself.
This security-hole is for people surfing unencrypted networks. There are warnings you get from windows when you connect to such a network. I can assume OSX does the same.

The ferret and hamster tools did the same thing, just not packaged as an extension for firefox, and that was over three years ago. Just needed to find the cmd windows, run two programs, change your proxy and you're set.

See: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/08/sidejacking-with-hamst...

Also how would you warn the right users? You don't know which of them are affected or at risk for this issue. Maybe promote http://hotspotshield.com/ or a similar product.

Lastly, if your on a unencrypted wifi network you're vulnerable to a lot more attacks than the firesheep one. So please don't assume that just using ssl is enough to protect you. One example: http://forums.remote-exploit.org/tutorials-guides/3157-ssl-s...
Fragmentation; on the other side of the coin, is choice.
I stopped reading it when I realised he hates Instagram because the iPhone has a poor camera...
It's probably not the ideal thread, but this pushed me over the edge on education.

The current education system is a dire sad long term problem that is writing off a large portion of society. I believe something more sensitive and human can grow out of it.

Ken Robinson talks super lucidly about the destruction of creativity in children and the wider problems in schooling. That's great and the problem is now quite well defined. But we now need enlightened individuals to step up with solutions. We need to recognise it's the core problem humanity faces. We can't solve hard problems like energy and environmental degradation without first tackling the social problems perpetuated by Victorian schooling.

Someone with a bunch of cash needs to step up and help get the ball rolling.

- Define the desired outcome (ie. providing space and nurturing for the expression of individual talent)

- Pick the best parts of the existing schooling methods/models (Victorian / Steiner / Montessori / Summerhill / Home Schooling)

- Roll it out. Iterate. Recognise that educational needs are unique and change constantly.

- People will come. I'm a parent of three kids. Almost all our friends (especially teachers!) would run at something - if relatively large scale and supported.

Contact me if interested - maybe it's a startup! I'm really surprised there isn't more concerted action in this space.
You can just tap the center for a space as well.

The 'don't end on the center to lift and then continue the word' behaviour is invaluable to me as I learn, and I have no idea why it's not mentioned in the tutorial.

Also, if you make a mistake, you can go back segments as well as forwards as long as you don't touch the center. Useful if you go to far or (my favourite trick at the moment) realise that you've started in the wrong direction...