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Where did you get the gong rate from if you don't mind me asking? Seems pretty high, even for the Valley.
If you want to be in YC, why not let them come up with reasons why you're not ready. Applying only takes an hour and won't ask you any questions you aren't thinking about already.

With regards to the legit-business-ness of other YC companies: shrug. You know what they call the guy with the lowest grades from medical school? Doctor. You may think you'd be the worst prepared in a batch, but that isn't a bad place to be, and even with YC's expertise at picking winners there is a wide variance of results in every class, not necessarily replicating the variance as of interview day.
There ought to be asterisks before the dots in those two find commands, which have instead turned into italics. My apologies.
I don't think people give this guy enough credit for his predictions. To take the side in defense of Edison...

He was right that buildings would be fabricated from steel and other cheap materials;

He was right that consumer goods would be fabricated from some cheaper material (but it's plastic);

He was right that we'd have a library contained in a single book-like object (e.g. the Kindle);

He was right that metals are all made of the same stuff (as is all matter); we haven't figured out how to convert them yet, though (and maybe it'll end up taking way too much energy; I'm no physicist).

Basically, he predicted what kinds of things people would want that would also be technologically feasible; he just didn't correctly predict how they would become technologically feasible.

(With the exception of gold-lined ships. That makes me wonder if the source of these predictions is all that trustworthy, because Edison clearly was no idiot.)
Neither did I. Thanks :)
Well if it's on their forehead, that's a pretty good sign that there's something wrong with them. If it's elsewhere, it really depends... for the most part, no generalization to be made.
Now, LEDs aren't expensive, so they don't work as ostentatious displays of wealth. About the only thing they work as is an ostentatious display of your willingness to adopt trends in the full knowledge that they're completely stupid-looking. And that kind of thing may play well in Japan but it won't fly in the west where we're not quite so ironically detached.

Honestly, "willingness to adopt trends in the full knowledge that they're completely stupid-looking" and "ironically detached" sound like pretty good descriptions of Western hipsters. I don't know if that's what motivates these Japanese people or not, but if so, it's a concept that isn't unique to them.
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1) There is no downside to applying beyond a bit of time, as you can always apply again.

2) AFAIK PG & co don't judge people on how far they've come but how solid the team is and what they've been able to do with the time given. They also don't seem to compare teams to other teams. If they happen to get 100% really solid teams in the last day of interviews, I highly doubt they'd say "we can only accept half of them because we don't have much space".

3) Who would you rather have: someone who took 3 years to create a product that 10,000 people use, or someone who built a solid prototype in a few months? Time is not always a plus.
Sean Parker was one of Nick Denton's favorite subjects back in the Valleywag days. e.g.:

This friend showed up with her boss for the meeting, and Parker was nowhere to be found. The receptionist said Parker hadn't been there all day, she didn't know where he was, and didn't know how to reach him, and suggested they wait. So wait they did — for nearly an hour, at which point a bedraggled looking Parker showed up wearing sunglasses and looking unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed.

Undaunted, they began the meeting, hoping to close the deal that day. Barely a few minutes into the meeting, Parker interrupted the AllPosters exec's presentation and said he couldn't concentrate, volunteering that the reason he couldn't concentrate was that he'd just woken up — he said he'd been up all night partying with some "friends" he had met out at a club. He then proudly took out his camera phone, called up some pictures of he and a friend in various states of undress with tawdry-looking topless girls, and asked "what do you think — pretty hot, huh?" as he slid the phone across the table to them.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/221242/sean-parker-would-rather-...
Doubtful that it will take root, not whether it will take root. (Seems pretty clear whether or not it will take root!)
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Remind me to make more friends in underrepresented genders, social backgrounds and levels of disability, and people I just don't get on with although I know they're great employees. That way if I'm asked to recommend friends, it'll end up being, relatively, equal opportunity.
it looks very similar to mine (http://domain-generator.us/), but for .COM only: synonyms, different combinations of names, etc. Someone posted a list of domain name generators on this forum a while ago (cannot find the link), there are a lot of sites that offer similar functions. You might want to focus on that other do not have to stand out.
Get a bunch of credit cards, preferrably ones with no/low balance transfer fees. Unless they bite and buy your product, you have no idea how long you're going to be without income and getting more credit while building your startup is hard.
>Try uninstalling Adobe Flash.

That's like knocking out your teeth because you don't like biting your tongue. Many, many great websites use flash. In fact it's the most interactive ones, ones like kongregate.com that require it. Not only that, but if your browser is detectable as not having flash installed, some sites will just serve ads through another vector such as javascript.

Try an ad-blocking plug-in.
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It used to be the case that if you weren't Googlebot, you'd see some blurry scrambled text where the answer ought to be. The blurriness was created by superimposing a partially transparent image over the text, and the scrambled text was really the rot13'd answer, so it was possible to get the answer by grabbing the relevant chunk of html source and running it through a rot13 tool.
4 years w/ one year cliff. Options, not stock.
I'm not sure he was thinking of chemical transmutation. In 1911 the nucleus was discovered, a few months before Edison's predictions were written. He may have been assuming that with that knowledge we would soon figure out how to manipulate atoms at the nuclear level.
>"having that cash will give you ideas"

Like "I need an Aeron chair."
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If anyone wants to waste an afternoon developing a raging headache, I highly recommend reading some of the Wikipedia articles in the Moral Panic category.
I have been upvoted for some unknown reason. My point was that such a crass, anti-intellectual comment is what is killing HN.

I have no further interest in discussing what aches the hearts of hormonal youth.
> That xulrunner/FF/thunderbird/etc are built form the same tree
> ... running wc -l on the codebase

These are your "bloat" indicators? That's about as primitive as using SLOC as an indicator for programmer productivity.
Bill Gates (44.2%) , Pierre Omidyar (32.5%), and Larry Ellison (30.6%) are the top three in terms of Pre-IPO ownership. I wonder how they managed that.

Also, Microsoft only had 5.4% VC ownership pre-IPO.
I think either Python or Java are good first languages. I'd probably stay away from VB (too GUI based) and C++ (too confusing for a beginner). I was an Applied Math and Physics major my first year of college. I ended up switching to CS my second year after I had a really good professor for the Java intro class. Actually, for the mathematically inclined, Lisp can be a really fun language to learn because it's so simple yet powerful.

You also might want to try this:

1. Teach basics of programming in general (for example: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for...)

2. If she wants to learn the theoretical stuff, go over Big-O notation, sorting algorithms, data structures, etc.

3. Then maybe teach her the basics of Lisp and go over recursion.

4. Next, try a fun small project. Maybe try to make Tic Tac Toe or a Word Search solver.

5. At this point she would be familiar enough with CS and can tell you what she wants to work on next (i.e. learn C or Assembly to do low-level stuff, learn theoretical CS, or try making more complex programs).

Finally, check out these Stack Overflow answers to see what others have suggested: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3088/best-ways-to-teach-a...,
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1858064/so-my-girlfriend-...
I like Haskell's function composition syntax: .

(f . g)(x) = f(g(x))

cat.open.find ...
Jeez, is everyone a god damn expert on Facebook now?
It's also worth checking out the other posts under the "Related" sidebar on the bottom-right of both Stack Overflow pages.
>"the paranoid days of the commie scare — a period much shorter in its reign than the current post 9/11 world"

In the US "red scares" started just after the Bolshevik Revolution and the cable networks are still ranting about socialists nearly 100 years later. Long after Mcarthyism passed, public high schools still had mandatory "comparative economics" courses as a requirement for graduation.
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I dunno. Personally I found that I could never enjoy things like literature and history until they stopped being educational requirements.
You'll get a lot out of _Lisp in Small Pieces_ (http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiS...), as well.

Python wouldn't be my first choice, and I'm unconvinced that Lisp-Py makes sense, but I'm sure you'll find ways to adapt it regardless.
I came to the opposite conclusion. When you add perspective to game visualizations, it becomes harder to judge distances, estimate angles, make out details, and identify borders. Small items tend to get reduced to squint-inducing shapes. Large items occlude each other and cause an infuriating visibility problem. The only advantage is that it looks a little bit more like a "real" world, but if you're using a simplified art style, it doesn't matter anyway.

From a UX standpoint, the best balance is "iconic" perspective - most things rendered flat with low occlusion, like an Egyptian painting, much of medieval art, or Japanese woodblock prints. All the boundaries can remain clearly delineated with this style, but aesthetics can be retained through careful composition of each icon.

I did exactly this style for the game I'm working on. My reference points(within video games) are Ultima 1-5, Heroes of Might and Magic, and Battle for Wesnoth. In these games you are never wondering what something is, because you can always make out what it looks like.
Misread you. Sorry. :)
Kinda curious if those companies pay for the rights to use the code that they check against too…
Aren't most people trying to go from wireframe to webpage? lol
> When's the last time you heard about S&H Green Stamps on the news?

There also be used to be companies who specialised in running small grocery shops in large US cities. They're gone, because the car made it possible to go to a larger, cheaper store instead.

But the concept of a grocery store hasn't gone away.
A retrovirus is an RNA that uses the host to make it's corresponding DNA.

White blood cells--which HIV takes over--don't contain DNA building blocks (dNTP) because white blood cells don't replicate. So HIV can't make it's corresponding DNA.

Instead, it just replicates using rNTP to produce more RNA. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) rNTP is available because it's used in ATP synthesis.

(retrovirus (dNTP) DNA)
(hiv (rNTP) RNA)
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While generic word .com domains attract lots of traffic which is good for banner farms, it hasn't seemed to have much of an effect on which businesses are on top of certain markets. I mean, who the heck is 'search.com'? And would anyone have thought 'google' would be a far more important term meaning search than 'search'?
if i recall correctly, you used to be able to start with the full web and refine by just blacklisting... now i see that if you try to make it past the step you linked to without entering any websites in the "sites to search" field, it gives the following message: "You must enter 1 or more websites."

i haven't read the docs recently, but it does appear that they have restricted this product since it first launched.

sorry if i have led you astray.
Are they still only on AT&T? If I had to be on AT&T I'd rather get an iPhone.
Damning with faint, faint, faint praise.

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Probably goes without saying:

This is pretty cool and fun to inspect & maybe draw inspiration from, but please don’t ever use code like this in production. Cool code ≠ reliably cross-browser, accessible, or maintainable code.

Dear downvoters, I’m not criticizing the experiment or the visual appearance of this trick. I love following simurai.
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It's interesting to see in the excerpt that he seems to have an "engineer's" concept of the future with respect to the all steel household. It's an ideal material from an engineer's perspective as he describes it: light, strong, long-lasting, rust-proof... the only problem is that it's also uncomfortable and doesn't any warmth.

Edison was a bit off on the books, but he gets credit for predicting the direction of the technology -- miniaturization of data. Six inches of DVDs would more than suffice for all the contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica and several Libraries of Congress.
The only real advantage of gold, once it's cheap, is that it doesn't corrode. In a world before (?) galvanised iron and stainless steel and aluminium and titanium and even before the sort of high-quality steel paint we have nowadays, this was a bigger deal.
I use FlashBlock, and block all Flash by default. Then I just override it for Flash elements I actually want to see. That, and, I do a lot of browsing on iPad now...
> "He is the protagonist to Eduardo"

You mean "foil"?
My point, which you missed, was this: you said the movie "wasn't all that inaccurate," which I know to be untrue from first-hand experience. There are several significant inaccuracies, which are compounded by your response above.
Numair Salmalín is a fictional character created by Tamora Pierce. He exists in the Tortallan universe and is a major character in the series The Immortals but is mentioned also in later series.

Well, now I'm just confused.
It's still a bit too early to tell considering how long iPhone and Android have been out.

I remember the pre-iPhone launch hype, and the general level of excitement. Remember those "this is how you turn it on..." commercials and how everyone just had to have one? There was a similar amount of anticipation before the first Android phone was released. There is nothing near that for any Windows Phone. I bet this is largely because people generally dislike Microsoft, and that previous versions of Windows Phones were not very user-friendly. The HTC TouchFlo 3D and Sense overlays were nice, but vanilla Windows Mobile was terrible. Windows Phone 7 is completely different, but people won't give it a chance.
Love the idea -- I recently started capturing more and more data on my own life. But I have an Android phone .. haven't seen any other mentions of Android options on this thread so I thought I'd throw this one out there...
EvenTrend ( http://code.google.com/p/eventrend/ ) is a pretty neat freeform personal data tracker.
It lets you enter data, will generate pretty graphs, and even calculates some correlations (strong <-> weak, positive/negative). The data can be anything you can put a number on. It also allows aggregation -- you can tell it to only store a sum or average for a particular field for some period: e.g., I want to know how much time I spend exercising per day.
It depends on the type of application you're building, and what your market is. This is a perfectly valid technique for iOS and likely Android web apps, and for modern browsers capable of supporting it.
Ask HN: Do startup founders print biz card? 
do they still do it? is it too old fashion? do VCs take biz cards?
Telecom ;)
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It sounds like Sean Parker the character and Sean Parker the real person aren't entirely dissimilar, then.
Biz cards are useful when you need to give someone your phone number and/or email address.

Thing about it. What's quicker? Pulling a piece of cardstock out of your jacket, or each of you firing up phones, and trying to either dictate an address or line up for a QR code.

Stick with the tried and true. They're only $12.
There's a lot more (damaging) information on the "Comics Code Authority" in its wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority

They're responsible for not just censorship but also fear mongering, racism, sexism, and the list of abuses goes on and on.
I disagree for reasons of maintainability and code weight. A web toggle button is about 5 lines of CSS, 10 of JavaScript, and 2 of HTML (in my experience). A toggle button that requires minutes of investigation to grok is not really appropriate for anything useful that someone else may maintain or fork.

Edit: You’re right as far as browser support if you only want to target Webkit and bleeding-edge browsers, but that’s not really my point. (And I’m not sure why you would want to actively exclude other browsers by choosing a complicated technique instead of a more traditional, lightweight, and understandable one — which is my point.)
if you take the money, i think it's uber-important to specify what kind of role he will hold. once you take the money, he will expect some sort of say when it comes to the direction of the company.

if he doesn't know your industry, you may receive a lot of "advice" that's not worth implementing.

building on some of the other comments, figure out exactly what you would spend the money on. don't work backwards from 100k...work from zero --> up. no need to force yourself to reach 100k in spending if you don't need to.
Ebay had ~20% of equity owned by outside investors at IPO. Oralce had 8.3% at IPO. There is an inverse relationship between outside investment and founder equity. VC funding should be seen as just another tool, not the goal of a startup. HN - for all it's benefits - sometimes obscures this basic fact.
Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
General sub-questions: What was your title? What short lessons did you learn at your company? What did you wish that you knew then, that you know now?
I agree that one of the cool things about HN is the level of discourse, but the idea that geeks must be social luddites should die. There is nothing crass about wanting to meet women in college, nor is it anti-intellectual.
No one else could have done what Jobs did with Apple in the past 10 years. No one else will be able to do it in the next 10 years.

That's really not clear. If only we knew this for sure we could make a lot of money on Apple stock options.
you made a genuine point, I stay corrected, thanks.
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I wish it didn't try to wireframe every object on the page.

In my opinion, wireframes are usually more helpful for organizing information on the page, than creating a perfect mockup of what the finished page should look like.

Lots of grey bars, as shown on the wireframe for this page, aren't very useful for organizing information. Instead, they make it seem much more cluttered and complex than it needs to be.
I'd agree with you on this; this kind of markup+CSS does not exactly say "toggle button" to the next coder to read it. The most problematic thing, actually, would be that the toggle action hack used here changes window.location.hash and the back button goes through every state change. Probably not desirable behavior and it would take yet more hackery to fix it.
Can't wait to see these on the playa this year.
It is too clever for its own good, but the "reliable cross-browser reliable" critic is way too MSIE friendly: The code is all standards based. There are no vendor-specific prefixes such as -webkit or -moz.

The best method of obtaining maintainable code is to avoid buggy browsers that need tons of workarounds and hacks.
It works in Firefox 3.6 (without animations) and Firefox 4.0b8 (with animations).
Looks impressive, particularly if those are real trading results.

One concern I immediately have is overfitting, particularly for claims about how various difficult values have been optimized to be the "best possible". It looks like the parameter space in use is truly enormous and so it would be very easy to come up with hypotheses that perform fantastically on your dataset but terribly in real life. This seems like it would be a first-order concern, while the ability to run tests in a single day seems second-order if those tests are producing garbage outputs.
Actually if you read the source code he explicitly says:

/* AFAIK, not supported in moz/o[pera] yet */

and :target has incomplete browser support still. Nested <a> tags are a bit unusual, too, even if they are legal (is this valid? I don’t even know, because come on!)

But I’d like to make a slightly broader point that, on the web, if you want something to work on as many clients (and that means on hundreds of different mobile browsers as well, these days) then sticking to the mainstream is your best bet, if perhaps boring :)
This doesn't work in Opera.

A better approach in my opinion is to use a checkbox (hidden) with a label pointing to it, then the styling can be applied with the CSS '+' selector, though this won't work with IE6, at least it's using sensible markup.
Hire smart people and let them do their job. If you can, after a few weeks break in period turn them loose and step back unless a serious problem arises.

Micromanagement = Macrofuckups
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This looks interesting. Even though it's closed-source, the architecture is interesting.

As an amateur, I'm always stymied by the lack of data. For intra-day trading, where do you get the data?
At first I was confused about why you were addressing the parent poster like that; this may provide some background for others:

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I've been using a more efficient and portable approach for a while. It looks something like this:
http://www.autoplay.org/content/object-icon-checkbox.gif