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I know, but nothing a huge marketing campaign can not fix.
great idea behind your network. it would be much more lovelier if there is a more user friendly navigation on all the pages. Also possibly if you can get a better performing hosting service.

Also when you get on the events page or places, the Login on top of the site goes straight to twitter oauth, this will make it difficult for people who want to use your facebook connect if they get a link that takes them straight to the other pages and not the home.

Good luck with your endeavors.
I've been writing about health and medical topics for a long time and this piece does a good job of discussing how the science can get 'icky.'

First, let me say that in general, modern medicine has done wonders, increasing duration and quality of life in astonishing ways.

That said, the system is set up to promote positive studies/findings, and there are a lot of ways you can play with the data. Very competent statisticians/researchers are capable of helping studies, sometimes, be more positive than they might otherwise be.

That, plus the many millions of dollars you can make from a drug, has often resulted in questionable - but predictable - results.
Hi David,

So far this sounds more like advertising, or simply spam, than it does something that's suitable for Hacker News.

Perhaps you could tell us more about your marketing strategy and why it works? Or the problems you've faced and how you've overcome them? Or how long it took to get to sach-flow positive?

Something, anything that makes this sound less like simple spam.

(Added 30 minutes later) In the absence of a reply, I'm tempted to flag this.

(Added another 35 minutes later) Flagged.
Big money to whomever can spot the point the bubble pops this time around!
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What does this give me that Facebook or Twitter don't? How are you trying to market it? or sell it? Or get people to use it?

What does it do for me?
I think the upvotes are by people in similar situations that are mentally cheering her on.

Good for her by the way, upvoted. Let's see who is next to strike out on their own.

HN is all about start-ups, this lady is going to do one that makes it worth following her adventures, there will be lessons to be learned for lots of people in what she goes through and that starts at the moment she made the decision to quit, which can be surprisingly hard when you're in a cushy job.

Golden handcuffs, no key. You have to break them first.
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I downloaded this and tried it out, and it's definitely pretty. I just can't come up with any situation where I'd actually use it to write code.

Try pulling up a source file. Any file, any language. Type in the name of one of your objects, then a period, then hit CTRL+SPACE. What comes up? A list of strings that contain your object name, picked by matching text from the source.

Really? In 2011??? Why are people still using text editors that autocomplete based on text? Why are people still getting excited about them?

Editors have been background compiling and autocompleting based on context for over 10 years now. If you write code for a living, you should be using one. It will make your life easier by an order of magnitude.

I think we've moved past the point where we need to treat code as if it were simply text. Unfortunately for this cool editor, it doesn't really have a place in my world today.
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mint.com

They spent $2m buying it, and it was a superb piece of branding.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10457870-36.html

"Mint’s product had an instant edge because of how its name branded it–a simple, easy-to-spell dictionary word, alluding to both the manufacturing of money and that fresh, clean taste."

http://www.dotweekly.com/mint-com-founder-speaks-of-branding
"The police are also usually not treated like an invading army"

(emphasis mine)

This shows you don't understand the point (I'm not so much talking about this specific case or even raids on computer criminals anymore, rather in general). The exact point is that sometimes it does happen, but you don't know why. That's why you need to treat every opportunity, no matter how minute, as more dangerous than it actually is, or than you actually think it will be, because the consequences are so out of balance.

Let me put it this way: do you feel that 500 unnecessarily forceful raids, each destroying a door and 2 pieces of furniture, and taking a night of sleep away from 500 individuals, are better or worse than 1 policy officer shot in the leg (not even deadly)?

I think the shot wound is worse, and therefore wouldn't mind authorizing a raid even when I'm not 100% sure there is acute danger. Actually I'd authorize when there's even just a 1% chance of forceful resistance with a knife.

(the trade off may get different when suspects are harmed in the raid, I'm assuming sufficiently trained police people)

"and weighing the probability of encryption against the probability of forceful self-defense,"

This I don't understand. I'm quite sure no suspect will try to fire at policeman with their Truecrypt USB drive.

"If for some reason there's reason to believe that the person is working next to both a loaded gun and an encrypted disk"

The 'and' between 'loaded gun' and 'an encrypted disk' should be an 'or'. Just one of the two is enough to warrant force.

Assuming that, well that's already the trade off being made. I just think you underestimate the amount of criminals using encryption. Even if only 5% of them do use it, that already makes it likely enough that any random one (because remember, before you enter you don't know what you will find) will use it to warrant force. QED.
Is YC become a bubble itself?
You seem to be ignoring the fact that these sites are selling fake merchandise or downright stealing people's money. White-gray-black-hat SEO is not the point, I think you're conflating the nuts and bolts aspect of this article with the general geek indignation about Google's plummeting search results; but the latter is a tempest in a teapot—despite there being a very vocal minority within hacker circles brandishing a fuming vitriolic hatred of spammers of all types, not too many people really believe there's anything criminal about SEO per se.
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I have worked many years as an employee developing software projects, and as an employee I never cared about licenses. Now that I have an startup, I would like to know if it is ok for me to use a Community Edition of a database (or other software/libraries), for a project which is not open source (a project for a client, for instance). The most common case would be MySQL, but I'm also looking at databases like VoltDB, MariaDB, Drizzle. I don't know what do licenses such as GPL3 allow and forbid me to do. Perhaps I don't have to worry as long as I don't modify the database source code, and if I do so I must provide source code of my modifications?
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The way uncapped convertible debt works, there is no valuation when the investment is made. That means that, when the agreement is inked, the investor can only guess at how much equity they are purchasing.

Typically when the next round of financing occurs, the investor gets equity at the valuation of that round.
Not once in his comment did he say anything even close to 'being more powerful'. Why did you interpret it that way?

You appear to be confusing a well made point with something that was never said.
Excerpts and full TOC from the Pragmatic Programmers (the actual publisher) here: http://pragprog.com/titles/jruby/using-jruby

(Also, a direct order form for print or DRM-free ebooks.)
This is great for YC and the new companies coming out, congrats guys.
It's a convertible note, so it is a loan. I'm 100% positive that there are no personal guarantees and it is essentially entirely unsecured. Convertible notes are very common early investment tools when it is very hard to place an accurate valuation on the company. It significantly reduces the amount of paperwork involved and it allows the person providing the note a guaranteed seat at the A round table. Like most loans, it typically carries interest which accrues as part of the principal and adds to the conversion.
In the last two months, we have received over 2million visits from students in 110 countries which is huge considering we went public in December.

1. We offer unique study groups to students to meet online and study together

2. We offer over 10,000 course resources for free to students. These courses are gathered from over 200 partner universities globally.

3. We offer students live academic help from professors from these universities to enable them better their academics.

I dont believe twitter or facebook can offer this now.

About marketing, there is little done about that because we are currently operating with personal funds. Once we get a seed investment, we can further our marketing and sales.

thanks
China's Sina Weibo service bannd the term Egypt
Steve Irwin :-(

That's just how he rolled:

http://haringliwanag.pansitan.net/uploaded_images/steve%20ir...
Native XML literals are a feature in VB, not in C#.
No, your interpretation isn't off and Jason didn't answer your question.
Heh, that's one very cool way of showing the way YC is changing the way things are done. You couldn't have picked a more original way of doing this.
Yet another library that is 90% of an online 3D CAD app that I've envisioned and blogged about: http://hacking-shindyapin.tumblr.com/tagged/3dCAD; and open-source, to boot! I think we'll see a usable 3D CAD sometime within the first half of 2011.
It's hard to find a great company name.

There are some WTF names like Apple Computers, or obscure acronyms like IBM. Specifically English words like MySpace are great for English-speaking customers, not so much for others. Invented proper names like Google should better be short and the Google example has the downsides of an English word since it sounds way more English than Japanese. 'Great' depends on context of course.

I would say Twitter is great because they use the metaphor consistently (tweets, the bird icon, the egg avatar).

For my own project, I will take the least bad name whose domain I can buy. People will get used to it eventually.
Of course it won't. It simply means that YC start-ups now have a guaranteed bit of extra runway if they should need it and if they think the terms are favorable enough for them (they probably do if they think it through).

Nobody is standing there with a shotgun forcing YC companies to take this, it's an offer.
I am willing to take full blame for this confusion - I didn't know how else to coin these systems.

MyWebGrocer, ShopLocal and one other that escapes me at the moment, are companies that provide Circular (weekly specials that are sent to homes either as inserts with-in newspapers or in special ad bundles) information on the web. From what I can tell there are some exclusivity in between grocery chains and the company that provides online Circular information.

I hope I explained it a little better this time.
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> The only thing I'm upset about is that I put in my application yesterday and now the competition is going to skyrocket!

As long as the quality of the competition doesn't skyrocket you'll be doing fine. And if competition worries you overmuch don't go the entrepreneurial path, it will be with you for the rest of your life if you succeed even a little bit.

Competition is good, also for you. If you could have done a better job on the application then the time to deal with that is before you hand it in, not when you know the competition heats up, you always do your very best. Then you have nothing to worry about.
I live in Japan, waited half a minute for the site to load, lost patience.
Finding follow-on money for YC companies with a product and a plan was not difficult in the past, it just got a bit easier but not even that much. The YC brand is pretty strong and more or less guarantees investor interest. The only big difference here is that this guy basically won't say 'no'.
thank you very much for your comments! I will now focus on user experience before implement new features.
You're right, and I have done my best.

I suspect that the majority of strong candidates would have applied anyway, and my application is just as strong today as it was yesterday. We'll see!
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Based on data from Wikipedia? What reason do we have to trust any of these figures at all?

Mitchell and Webb: "Sounds more like a bank robbery": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E (audio only).

People don't have their identities stolen. Companies exercise negligence in not verifying identities and thus cause damages to individuals. Tort law should cover recovering these damages from the negligent companies, but unfortunately a better business model seems to be in getting individuals to pay for companies' negligence through "identity theft insurance" which is why we hear about it more.
More info here:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Former-Kaspersky-Employee-Res...

It seems it's probably a beta version of AV 2009... Still embarrassing/potentially harmful to the company though - especially following the hacking of their website a few months ago (http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3244882/kaspers...)
Also, Jaynes had a very interesting take on how to address these issues.

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf (draft)

http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Logic-Science-Vol/d...
EDIT2: http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/29/0025210/Egypt-Cuts-the-Ne...
Some one in the antivirus industry please clarify something for me. Which is more important/critical for an AV company: the software or regular virus definition updates. My guess is that the virus signature database is where they create maximum value?
I hear that artists only receive like 15-20% of the itunes price. That a market inefficiency that I want to fix.
You also have to consider the possibility of an offline attack (ie: if Amazon's database were compromised and password hashes were leaked).
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apologies really. am seriously working on the site load speed. looking for a better host to move on to. all go round the pricing for what i may consider efficient. this slowness will soon be over. thanks for checking in by the way.
We've received plenty of advice from advisors, but I wanted to get a perspective from someone who'd been exactly in our shoes before - not from the guys that helped them through it.
No, but to say that their isn't something to be learned by being poor would be incorrect.

I'm sure people will strongly disagree, but nothing replaces the perspective that being down to your last dollar gives you.
And I thought I was the only person left who still uses nvi...
And none the less widely misused.
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Well the reason we got this far is because we spent the last decade of our lives working extremely hard to make products that people in our industry want. That is all we did. No networking, no events, etc. If we needed money we either figured out a way to make do or we took pay cuts. An exit never occurred to us because we were too busy doing what we do.

We're definitely green as far as this stuff goes but that's because we've existed in our niche bubble for the last 5-10 years and never really had much reason to go speak to anyone besides our general counsel and CPA. None of us have any business training beyond what we've picked up along the way.
No problem. I have a lot of interest in independent learning, so I might try to check in in the future and see how things are.
Also, imho, having a Linux client early helped quite a bit with gaining street credibility amongst hackers/nerds. I know this is the reason I started using it instead of competing services.
I considered not using that word (usually), but decided I don't know enough to remove all weaseling. I didn't intend it to be taken as representative of my understanding. However, from your exposition, it seems fitting.

I'm firmly against all examples of zero tolerance. From your example, I think 500 disturbances of peace and destructions of property is far worse than one realization of a work hazard. I would draw the line at perhaps 10. There used to be a principle that it is better to let 10 guilty men walk than convict a single innocent - do you not subscribe to this either?

I'll clarify what I meant with the juxtaposition of encryption and forceful resistance:
encryption is a justification for occupied searches, since you need to confiscate the electronics while they are unlocked. I don't know if that's actually done, though, since it's my understanding that the electronics are routinely removed from the premises and disconnected in the process. This scenario does not warrant the use of any force.

Armed defense is a justification for surprise arrests, since you need to arrest the suspect when they're not in defensive positions. A good time to do this is during ingress or egress. This situation does not warrant the use of devastating force.

The only reason to assault a dwelling with shock tactics would be to capture armed resistance in the act of handling evidence. Perhaps that's an actual worry for the FBI, who seem to assume all of their suspects are paramilitary, but I don't think it's a reasonable worry in the majority of cases, even the ones handled by the FBI.

I hope you now understand better where we disagree.
I was planning to bootstrap my new startup I have in the works, but now I think I will apply to be among the next batch of startups to be funded by Y Combinator. I just woke up to this news, and what a lovely start to my day.
They LOIC them for a few days, then get arrested?

Doesn't sound too bad to me (especially not as these are lawyers homepages, which is very unlikely to be their main source of income).
From Pragprog's contact page[1]:

> Our paperback titles are distributed to retail bookstores by O’Reilly Media, and are stocked and shipped by Ingram Publisher Services. Please contact Ingram or O’Reilly to order. If you have any difficulty obtaining a paperback title, please email us at support@pragmaticprogrammer.com.

There must be some similar deal with NoStarch since their books also appear on O'Reilly's site.

That said, I still somehow wish the main link here were to Pragprog's page.

[1]: http://pragprog.com/contact
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You've gotta really enunciate whenever you say it, or people will go to studentcircle.net
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Thanks for the perspective, shykes. As someone who just writes about what happens in tech, clearly I don't know what the feeling is like of actually being inside of YC. These are just questions that come to mind.
Negative results sit in a file drawer, or the trial keeps going in hopes the results turn positive.

Therein lies the problem. We know the solution: tweak the publishing process.

Currently: 1) Do study 2) Submit paper, including conclusions. 3) Journal accepts, based on correctness of methodology and interestingness of conclusion.

To prevent this result, just change the order of things.

1) Submit paper explaining methodology, and "alternate endings" (positive and negative). 2) Journal accepts paper based on methodology only. Methodology section of paper is published. 3) Authors do study and submit results. Journal publishes appropriate conclusion section. 4) If necessary, authors submit additional observational results.
I can't imagine anyone being chased away from Java by Oracle's IP claims would run to Java. They are such different languages, so much so that this assertion is as audacious as claiming people who recently quit smoking are becoming addicted to cabbage and other leafy vegetables.
You've got my vote.
72 hours to take down the infringing content upon receiving a valid DMCA notice. The content owner gets notified and they can then file a valid counter-notice. Then the counter-notice gets filed with the copyright claimer and a 10-day waiting period starts. If the claimer does not file a counter-counter-notice within the 10-day waiting period the content gets reposted. If they do file a counter-counter-notice, the ball gets passed back to the content owner to file a counter-counter-counter-notice and the 10-day period and claim process starts over.

As someone who runs a site that hosts content, this is great for us. We aren't allowed any sort of leeway in interpreting the claims and in return we are exposed to no liability. We are simply the middle man and have to do what's asked of us.
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As a founder during the "old YCombinator", back when we had to move to Boston (YC s08), I can tell Scoble with absolute certainty that while the fear of running out of money was always on our minds, it wasn't the motivating force for us working our asses off. It was something greater than that: An innate entrepreneurial desire to build a company doing something meaningful. Indeed, even after the economy crashed right after we graduated and money ran out, we doubled down with our own personal savings to continue fighting.

Yuri's funding isn't gong to change a thing for YC founders, except arm them with more ammo to build something great
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The signature database is where they'll get more money from. However, this is still bad for them. It gives people the chance to look through the code for vulnerabilities and it allows competitors to look at any techniques they're using. But the worst part is that they're a computer security company that couldn't keep their source code secure. Clearly, accidents happen even when one has the best policies and such in place. Sometimes it's merely chance as opposed to an indicator of something in a statistically valid way. However, it's still embarrassing. I don't find that there's a lot of testing of the efficacy of anti-virus software out there and so purchases are partially made on faith (would love to know if I'm wrong here since I'd be interested in the results). Anyway, as a purchase made partially on instinct, this makes purchasers feel less happy in their gut (so to speak).
"As shown by history - this does not work in the long run and makes things worse than better."

Any evidence for this statement? Because I think the system works just fine.
I have been in the AV industry for a while and I would say both.

AV companies have a lot of behaviour analysis/decoding/parsing done inside their code that is as important as their "static" signature set.

In fact, I would say that having access to the code and how they analyze the files/memory/etc is more valuable to a competitor (and the "bad guys") than the static signature set.
I realise that this is a pretty dubious request, but a part of me would much prefer to see a link to either GitHub or BitBucket than a torrent of a zip file.
oh cool. hope to see you there soonest.
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What are the terms of the deal, specifically? How much to startups have to pay back if they take the $150K, and when do they pay it? What about valuation of the startups (ie. $150k for 10% implies $1.5m valuation)? Or is this more like a loan ($150k, pay back over X years, or upon Y liquidity event)?
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How many thousands of people apply for YC every year? Someone should offer a service: $500 to prepare you for a successful YC application.