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We often fund startups that couldn't succeed without a much bigger investment than we make. More often than not, in fact.

The only case where having the first 150k guaranteed would make a difference would be if we were considering a group that we liked, but we thought other investors would be too timid to fund. E.g. a group doing something insanely risky. But in those cases we always fund them anyway, and count on our own ability to talk the later stage investors around.
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I was thinking this as well, but for a different reason. I, for one, would never enter the YC program. $15,000 (especially for that much equity) just doesn't work for most people. The only demographic that can really make that work are 20ish year olds coming right out of school. They haven't started real life yet, and have minimal obligations. Anyone else competent/qualified is probably quitting a job and has various bills and debts, and if they made the decision to do a startup, they already have some bootstrap money or a bit of revenue from a side gig, so that $15k isn't going to make or break them. For 150k however, this changes things entirely. YC can now attract a far more diverse pool of aspiring startups.
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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-altmaier/6/38b/996
It might also be interesting to some that in Australia, where we have always had metered plans and where people have come to accept it, natural competition has seen our first unlimited plans emerge. For $60 a month TPG offers uncapped internet and phone line bundle.

Even thought this may now be legal to do, Canadians may find that some ISPs still offer unlimited plans just to get ahead.
"(Indeed, search Google for “stop Farmville notifications,” and you’ll get over 50,000 results.)"

Why do people always insist on citing the number of Google search results as a measure for popularity?
Auto-generation of client APIs seems really cool.. I would like to see it implemented in other languages, like Java!
Possibly because he works there?

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-altmaier/6/38b/996
Temporarily plug the security hole (courtesy of Microsoft Support):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2501696
Plus addressing is not very effective at preventing spam. Any spammer knows to throw away everything after the plus sign so that you can't track it.

I use multiple email addresses on my domain to track this kind of stuff. Also makes it so that you don't have to worry about sites not supporting plus addressing.
Here is the raw data that my designer used: http://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=180379
No need to do that, they've pointed out in the past that it's a stock image they've bought the rights to use and can not authorize others to use it.

I forget where I read this, but it was someone asking the same thing. I might have been on HN, actually.
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The same study found that collaboration inter-city is more productive than collaboration intra-city. That would not be expected by your "two Harvard professors" theory.

In any case it shouldn't be hard to reproduce with a larger sample of universities.
"infamously buggy black box"?!

It was famous for being underpowered, for being Unix boxes that didn't run X, by being monochrome, but not for being particularly buggy.
Ask HN: Just got $200k from an angel, where do I stick it? Savings?  CDs?  
Hi, HN,

An angel investor just cut me a check for $200k (convertible note, solid terms). My questions is, what do I do with the money? I have a business banking account that has about $3k in it right now. Do I just deposit the 200k in the savings account there? Do I stick 150k of it in a savings account so it can generate some interest?

I realize this is a super elementary question, but I've never seen it addressed here or anywhere else. What does a startup do with its cash when it gets a bunch of it like this?

FWIW: Our burn rate is about $5k on 9k monthly in revenues at the moment.
I've heard this sort of thing has already existed in Japan for some time?
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So who is visiting HN from the center of Siberia? It's funny how people from remote areas will be able to identify 'their' dot.

What a wonderful thing to make.

Thanks jmarbach!

ps: if anybody else wants to do cool visualizations like this here is a set of HN visitor ips: http://jacquesmattheij.com/hnips.txt
I really do like your litmus test, and in most situations it will work
very well. None the less, please allow me to politely put on my "faker"
hat for a moment to pick apart a straw-man corner case.

I deal with feasibility assessment, or at least I used to, so when
giving an idea some love, I'm not only expected to find various ways an
idea can work (if possible), but I'm also expected to find the pit-falls
to avoid and the weaknesses to address. It is simply a matter of
learning and stating both the potential risks and the potential rewards
so a more informed decision can be made.

The finding of fault, or better said risks and caveats, is equally
important to finding positive ways to interpret, implement and express
an idea. The most important thing is how you express your findings,
both the positive and the not-so-positive. There really is a difference
between being critical and critical thinking.

For example, in terms of rhetoric, your post is stunningly beautiful.
You crafted a rhetorical statement where no one can disagree with you
without being a "faker" but in doing so, in terms of logic, your
argument is fallacious (similar to Suppressed Correlative [1]). The
fallacy might weaken your statement but it doesn't make your statement
entirely wrong, and the clever rhetoric actually makes you look rather
sharp.

The people who can interpret an idea in a positive light are wonderful
to work with, so we agree on your main point. None the less, the people
who can interpret an idea in a positive way while still spinning an
iteration to politely address short comings are even better.

The point I'm trying to make, hopefully by example, is both the
interpretation and iteration are important, but the most important
part is fair and polite expression of both the good parts and the
not-so-good parts. You may not agree with my result, but at least you
know why I proposed a change to your idea, and hopefully you were not
offended by my proposal.

Personally, I hope someone here will take my post, find my faults, and
politely respin an iteration with their proposed improvements. I'll
gain something from their efforts. Even if I disagree with their
results, I'll still learn a valuable new perspective that I've probably
overlooked or unfairly discounted.

Additionally, stcredzero do you think I'm a "faker" for iterating your
idea with a minor addition to address a small oversight? --Or was
iterating actually what you were talking about when you said
"interpreting" and running with it?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_correlative

EDIT: And no, I won't be offended by your opinion. I actually just like to know.
I believe the most impactful event that is likely to happen in our lifetime isn't listed here. It's the peak of human population and even possible decline. (Even if it doesn't happen world wide in your lifetime, it will very likely happen in the country you live in, and already has in Japan, much of Europe and Russia.)

Urbanization and rising out of poverty drastically reduces population growth, often times below the replacement rate. It will be interesting to see what happens if/when for the first time in human history, the number of people on the planet goes down.
No I'm not. What in my tone makes you think I'm kidding? Could you please provide a counter argument instead of a flame bait comment?
You're right about the "when you have a hammer" issue. The biggest problem with genetic algorithms is that there's rarely a good reason for using them for cookie-cutter combinatorial optimization like the problem, when there are hundreds of papers on very good approximation algorithms.
2. Why do you think that only the wealthy will have access to these treatments? Its quite likely that some number of people won't have access, but most new medical technologies are available to most people because the largest cost of any new medical technology is its development. For some disease that everyone suffers from I wouldn't expect the treatment to end up costing more than, say, your typical run of chemotherapy. Something expensive, but that should be covered by most health insurance.

3. He gave an objective definition of "poor" he was using in his prediction, and while I agree that completely eliminating poverty might be impossible getting it down to 1 in 50 seems doable.

EDIT: Edited for clarity.
> Everyone is in it for the money. Money means freedom. Freedom from governments and your boss.

No, everybody is not "in it for the money". You said it yourself, actually: most people are in it for the things that money allows them to do. That is a very important difference, and it's one that a lot of people forget about.

Here in the US, a lot of the things from which we'd like to be "free" from (living in fear of health care-related bankruptcy, having to beg a boss for an extra week of vacation, being limited to absurdly short and unpaid (ma|pa)ternity leave periods, etc.) come with a hefty price tag, and as such are associated with (and often thought of as proxies for) having a lot of money.

In a place like Norway, many of the things that that we Americans see as perks afforded to only the wealthiest of individuals are instead thought of as baseline facts of life.

Is it so surprising, then, that people whose world-views are shaped by such a system don't have the same difficulties at disentangling financial cause and effect that we Americans have? They say that "past a certain point, money's just a way of keeping score," and it sounds to me as though that point is a lot lower in a place like Norway than it is here in the US.

As an experiment, let's try formulating it (semi)-logically (it's been a while since I had logic, so if I'm getting this wrong, please let me know):

if (has lots of money) -> (freedom from financial catastrophe, and lots of social perks)

In the US, the inverse is true:

not (has lots of money) -> not (freedom from financial catastrophe, lots of social perks, etc.)

Because of how our system is set up, the converse is also typically true:

if (freedom from financial catastrophe, lots of social perks) -> (has lots of money)

This leads us to conclude that there's an inevitable relationship between having lots of money and having the freedom that you talk about.

In Norway, however, the system is different, and it doesn't sound like the aforementioned inverse relationship between money and freedom is true: since you can have the freedom from healthcare-related financial catastrophe, a decent vacation policy, educational benefits, etc. all without having tons of money. Since there are different "givens", it's not surprising that Norwegians have arrived at different conclusions and attitudes towards money. QED?
That's interesting. But how does the restore work? Is this something that you can run from an install DVD?
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I don't know the specifics of your product (or anything about it at all really), but it may be possible if you primed your database with data you've gathered yourself. Depending on the content, you may be able to spend 20 hours, 40 hours, or hundreds to thousands of hours to develop a base layer of data that will be enough to attract a userbase to "do the rest."

Chances are, for most people, this will not work for you, but it is an option, and has worked for others in the past. It's risky though, because if you spend hundreds of hours priming the data and then no one comes, you've wasted a lot of man hours. For some products, there is no other way.
I don't think much to the idea in the article, however I think it's worth pointing out that iOS can be locked with a password instead of a PIN.
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/
http://www.9to5mac.com/14318/Alpha-numeric-Passcode-on-your-...
http://wn.com/Alpha-numeric_passcode_for_iPhone [video]
GitHub now owns the octocat art.
Finally. I always wondered "why don't all linux distros have a universal app installer?" It just didn't make sense
I think the article contains a little hyperbole, too.

Leica were not the only manufacturer of cameras while there is only one Twitter.

Blogging, Facebook, YouTube (and no doubt good-old email) have played their part in this but Twitter has a special place in getting information out and to journalists.

There is no other technology that can spread grass roots information as widely or as quickly - especially to important recipients outside of the country. Important twitter messages travel amazing quickly and people seem to inherently pass them in the direction of high-follower and well-connected accounts.

The fact the Egyptian Government turned the internet off and banned Al-Jazeera shows the weight that they placed on these media.

And, while there is a mix of internet technologies being used in these revolutions, the term "internet Revolution" was already all used up.
The restore works just like any other Time Machine restore. In critical data loss when the machine has to be formatted. You will be able to restore the system completely from the Time Machine. Just remount the NFS on the new OS and run to command so Time Machine will see NFS mounts and click Restore.

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@defunkt

We'll get on that ASAP. Nothin' but love.
You need to figure out your future expenses. You should definitely put the money into higher yielding (but SAFE) investment vehicles and such but which ones depend entirely on the timing of your cash requirements. You probably want 25% in cash, 50% in longer term vehicles and remaining in medium term vehicle. Key objective is to minimize penalties of withdrawal should you explore and require cash immediately. Terms vary so read the fine print.
I wonder what it says that out of that entire list of predictions I find the ones about industry in space the least credible - the very ones which people in 1950 might have predicted for 2010.
Credit card companies already do it (see Visa and Mastercard on Wikileaks a few weeks back).
Certianly not if you view the regime as those said to be in power. If you consider the special, entrenched interests the ones in power, then you get a different image. Of course, either image is too black and white, and misses the core idea of democracy: No one has power.

Some have more than others, but its a free for all. One that you and I can hardly even participate in.
Wow. That is dedication man. Congrats Jason, you deserve it!
There are a few banks whose business is specifically startups; the two most well-known are Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB") and Square One. I'd start a relationship with them and deposit there if I were you. I've personally worked with Square One before and they're awesome. You should look into the Square Roots program there, since it's designed for exactly this scenario. They can give you more specific advice. But generally the rule is not to get creative.
I've never seen an overage charge in five years, yet have consistently gone over every month therein.

Someone at Telus once mentioned (anecdotally) that Telus plain doesn't enforce caps, and that the cap is written down only in case they need it.
This article is behind a paywall, any other url?
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I can see me (possibly twice) in Central America. The only entrepreneurs you find online in this part of the world are on Kiva heh.
Ask HN: Do you need another single-sign-on/social login service?
My friend asked me for help to build an affordable Janrain alternative.
He creates a non-profit website and Janrain's $100/month is a way too much to pay from his own pocket.

My question: do you use any of such services and/or see any value in them?

I personally think that they create more problems than they solve.

1st – they just don’t work. Usually, after login with Janrain or Gigya, site owners redirect you to the form where they ask you for an additional information that wasn’t in the service response (email, age, address, etc.). What makes the widget just a form filling tool that doesn't work (Try to sing in to the Reuters.com with your Twitter account)

2nd - user must remember what social service he used to login to the site. Using others will lead to creation of a new account.

These two problems bother me the most but there’s more.
So, what do you think? Please, share your wisdom.
I agree with this. It largely depends on where you want to take your career. I don't have a CS degree from $BIG_NAME, never had to take out a loan, and am very happy with my career thus far.

If you want a top research position, yes, $BIG_NAME CS degree is almost required. If you want to work for Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc... It helps, but certainly isn't required. If you want to work for a startup or any other company, it doesn't matter at all.

What matters is that you know your shit. $BIG_COMPANY isn't going to turn you down because you don't have a CS degree from Stanford even though you wowed them with your knowledge. All they care about is that you are you smart and gets shit done. That doesn't come from a degree, that comes from you.
This reminds me of what Facebook just recently started doing. I remember reading an article about how Facebook's plan failed though (regarding the hackathon)
It continues to amaze and amuse me how the absurdity of two screen-reading, monotone, talking cartoon bear-like things can so effectively and hilariously illustrate real life absurdities. Did the Xtranormal creators do that intentionally, or did they just stumble on this by accident?
Take with a grain of salt. The "40,000" figure the EFF mentions is entirely their own. The number of potential violations actually described in the documents they have is 768.

Is it reasonable to assume that the actual number is 50 times higher? Please decide for yourself instead of just taking the EFF's word for it.

Also, when considering the scope and scale of these violations, recognize that little distinction is being made between simple violations of procedure and scandalous invasions of individual privacy. If you feel that violations of Constitutional rights are more significant than missed administrative deadlines, this is an important distinction, one that the EFF's "Big Number" only serves to obscure. In fact their own report states that the number of violations involving "violation of the Constitution, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or other laws governing criminal investigations or intelligence gathering activities" is "almost one-fifth" of the already much-deflated total.
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The draft is one of the most evil things that the united states government has ever done. Slavery is evil in all its forms, and conscripted armies are an especially heinous form.
Of course, if these better batteries are good enough, they might finally make electric cars practical!
Did you miss the bit of the article where it wsas pointed out that those countries have the highest number of startups in the world?
Not "less on average" but "the most".
My question is why did you accept money that you have no use for at the moment?
Well, congratulations for living somewhere where they have them. I guess I could catch a freight.
Don't put it in "investment vehicles" of any sort. Keep it all at the same bank that your angel knows about. He is not paying you to be a fancy treasury management guy. Risk aversion is the name of the game. You also should keep it at that bank to avoid the appearance of funny-biz.

DO put it in a MMA to get some yield, but understand that you'd be doing amazing to get 2% on it, and that should be lost in the noise if you're doing well in the real work.

You might also be able to extract some concessions from your banker for having more assets at the bank.
I know a great hacker in Orlando; his name is Mickey. You don't have a problem with rodents, do you?
Doug Crockford has a degree in Radio & TV from San Francisco State University.

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Lardson?
I think you are killing the point with this answers.
These simplified competitions seem to filter for applicants who can recognize the canonical problems like knapsack/zero-sum/etc. and then successfully implement them.
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I was thinking "Harry". Or "Hairy Larry". See how Ellison feels about that!
We're going to hire a crapload of people to hack for us and sell for us.
I would recommend the Business banking for the full amount. Give that you can 'maximize' your interest/return in other forms of accounts BUT it is much more important to you as a start-up to be able to have cash at hand quickly if an opportunity presents itself AND if you are to negotiate larger deals you might have to prove that you have funds at hand.

In my opinion it's not worth the hassle and small extra income to complicate your capital structure.
You're free to leave Norway whenever you like.
You can own private property in Norway, and grow your business and keep at least half the profits.
Socialist countries have state ownership, no private property, restrictions on freedoms.

Norway is a social democracy. At any point the government could be voted out and replaced with one that changes all the laws. It's not a socialist country.
I'm still trying to get my mind around your attitude that "these things often take longer to unwind". If it takes longer than fifty years to unwind, I'm thinking perception bias on your part.
What was the age range of the kids?
This isn't true if you look to the Scandinavian countries.

Because you have less to loose you don't aspire as much thus you don't take risk.

Furthermore it's much more expensive to fail in Scandinavia for those who venture into actually risking.
'the moment' might be 12 months of payroll, so this is a reasonable question.
This is more or less what I was hoping/expected to hear.
Larry Ellison makes money from his software. No exceptions. They are pissing on the open source community on purpose, make no mistake.
Like baloons...

stupid has the one hell of a hangover.

Either he's trying to make the style mirror the content intentionally, or he just doesn't care much for standard English. I disagree either way.
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> We will integrate with online social services to provide features like ratings and comments using OCS. OCS needs a couple of things added to the API, which will happen in the next few weeks

woo hoo, will be great for building communities and finding software.

and without the profit motive of commercial software the quality of the user generated content should (in theory) be a little higher and a bit less spammy (although the emacs/vim wars will find continue! and there will plenty of support requests when what we need is reviews)

yesterday i was installing a dyndns service on a linux desktop, had to install them all just to workout which one would be the best fit for my needs, this would prob have saved me the trouble.
Excellent work, thanks for doing this.

Out of curiosity, why would you have a checkout process to simply download an image in the first place?
Square One is definitely the better of the two, at least from everything I've seen. The other option would be a business banking account at a bank where you already have a relationship (from personal banking).