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Without a portfolio it would be tough to get a project. If you don't have a portfolio I would recommend making some stuff up. Take a popular site that you feel you can do a better job designing and do it. Everybody on Odesk or Elance has a large portfolio.

luck!
From his site FAQ:

Q: Why doesn't the EFF fund this?

A: Ask them. They have offered to provide some legal help though, which is much appreciated.
Absolutely. Additionally, wider use of large coins would enable vending machines to sell more goods without accepting bills. We could do without the $2 and $5 if we really wanted.
Few can or should start their own companies but, for one who is bright, alert, and enterprising, no barrier is too great that it can't be blasted through by sheer drive, determination, and tenacity. We can listen to the world around us, with all its adhering to conventions, or to our inner voice, which dares to dream beyond such limits and to push us to try for extraordinary outcomes even at great personal risk. That is the message of this fine piece, and it is inspirational. It is also credible because it comes from one who has lived it out in his own extraordinary way.
coins work well for us here in England, might not be so great for strippers though.
After the 700 billion TARP bailout that our government minted on a whim, I've never looked at Federal money the same way. If it's not 12 digits, it's definitely inconsequential.
This is a very good summary of best-practices. I found the following part especially interesting:

> Make the development team responsible. Amazon is perhaps the most aggressive down this path with their slogan "you built it, you manage it." That position is perhaps slightly stronger than the one we would take, but it's clearly the right general direction. If development is frequently called in the middle of the night, automation is the likely outcome. If operations is frequently called, the usual reaction is to grow the operations team.

Also, it was quite a fun to read about the many things you can't rely on.
> we just don't live in the areas where the vector thrives.

Actually, an awful lot of us do. I see those fucking Anopheles mosquitoes on a regular basis, especially if I venture a bit north from here.

> If you and I were bit by an infected mosquito, there's a very good chance either of us would die in a relatively short period of time.

Actually, out of the 225 million cases of malaria per year, there are only about 1 million deaths.

I'm not discounting the underlying concept of your comment; I haven't gotten malaria yet because of public-health measures like draining swamps, because of cypermethrin on the walls, because of DEET on my legs and head, because of sleeping under a mosquito net or in a room without entrances for mosquitoes, because of sleeping during the day, and because I have enough leisure time to swat the mosquitoes that do land on me.
If you spell out the errors you saw, perhaps...
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I am not saying that photomatt is talentless hack, not at all, but he is quite normal.

Needless to say, i look up to him.
It's funny how people bicker on here. And of course, everyone asks me for my opinion at work/in public on these matters.

Here's my OS usage on a daily basis:
-Windows 7
-Windows XP
-Windows Vista
-Windows Server 2008
-Windows Server 2008R2
-Windows Server 2003
-Windows 2000 Server
-Ubuntu Linux

And my browser usage:
-IE8
-IE9 RC1
-Chrome (latest dev build)
-FF4 (latest beta)

I use IE8 for testing flaws in the web-apps at work since our developers code against IE8. I have been giving IE9 a shot and like it so far. Chrome is my default and primary browser for the fact that quite a few sites don't like IE9 yet. And I use FF4 for certain sites that refuse to work properly in Chrome, don't work properly in IE9, and I don't feel like firing my VMs up for IE8.
The first two activities are pretty safe, and the third activity is safe as long as most of your assets are protected in bankruptcy (and/or you are a shell corporation with a tiny amount of capital relative to the capital base it is drawn from).
I'd encourage you to apply whether or not you have a working prototype by the 20th. In fact, apply today. You can update your application later if you have a demo or something to add to it.
Kinda like these, but with a hell of a lot more power: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/bfa3/
This is assuming design work, but it sounds like the OP is stronger in backend dev. You don't need a portfolio for that, but a list of projects on Github or something like that would help.
> JAWS, in particular, is quite powerful, but pretty daunting to learn. Compounding the clunkiness of JAWS is that many apps and sites aren't built with screen reader usability in mind – even if the developers made a good effort to ensure that it was possible to use their site in a screen reader, that all text was readable, etc, there's a huge difference between "possible" and "easy".

Seconded. I've done a bit of accessibility testing work with JAWS and was often frustrated by how unnecessarily difficult it was to use the software with a screen reader. You have to remember that it is probably uneconomical to make most software accessible and companies only do it because it is a requirement that software be accessible if you want to sell to certain governments (eg the USA). What this means is that development and testing is focussed on doing the bare minimum needed to pass a checklist, after which there isn't any need to do anything, regardless of whether the software is "easy" or merely "possible" to use.
Their target market can't pay attention to that much detail. So the iPad's resolution is good enough for them.
Anyone else see this?

"redhat.com is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later."

I was starting to wonder if the controversy surrounding this had taken their site down but the article is still there, a few screens down.
Full-screen application switching has a far far greater mental-cost than having two windows open at the same time.

As an XMonad user with a 15.4" screen, I disagree. For example, when programming, I find it quite easy/fast to alt+1 to my browser for documentation, and alt+8 to go to my 8th workspace, where I usually have a couple terminals open with vim. Or sometimes I'm switching between those two and Gimp on workspace 6.

This doesn't really require XMonad, just having workspaces and quick shortcuts for moving through them is good enough. Most applications are easier to use when you give them the whole screen (at least smaller screens). But yeah, if you're using some sort of taskbar/dock to switch between applications with your mouse, it's probably easier to just have both open together.
On a 64-bit architecture, this is completely pointless as there is no problem with the address space. Memory is also not a problem since all modern operating system allocates stack memory as needed.

So, my question is why spend time on implementing this?
Been looking for something like this. Any way to browse by niche/tag/business model?
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> The usual mix of how people learn anything - independent study, school, and building both experimental and production systems.

Exactly, that along with being in the company of people who know more than you. Studying and experience. One learns things like this incrementally, like anything else, and nothing is better than a good teacher.
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For some reason, I don't have an edit link for this post anymore, but I can answer this right now. All of these responses are exactly what I was looking for, and then some. As far as the phrasing, I'm equally interested in direct advice like "read this paper", and personal stories. I've always been able to intuit how to go about learning any given topic in computing, whether languages, game programming, HTTP, Win32, or what have you. I don't know exactly why this subject in particular seems more esoteric to me - probably a product of my background - but it does. I wanted to know how others learned. Before this thread, my best answer would have been "Get a job at Amazon or Google as a front-end dev, and try to work my way into the back end." Now I have papers to read, algorithms to learn, topics to explore, and ideas about setting up a toy environment for learning. So yes, all of the answers are definitely helping, and I hope a few more people will add their stories. A big thank you to everyone.
I would be interested in sorting by company's location. A list of YC companies outside of San Francisco would also be acceptable.
Requiring that people access your site over TCP/IP is a reasonably good way to weed out clients that don't involve computers at all.

Bots are user agents that don't have a human operator; browsers are user agents with a human operator. Both bots and browsers involve computers. However, as browsers can automate some tasks, and bots need human interaction at least to program them in the first place, there is a blurry line between bot and browser. CAPTCHAs try to force a certain amount of human interaction. The only reliable way to prevent human interaction between sending a request to and receiving a response from an unknown user agent is to require a response so fast as to preclude human intervention.
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(Following up to myself, since the edit link has expired.)

After some more digging, I found a few relevant links, the most direct of which is [1]. A number of other articles re-hashed the same points described there, but I did find a few like [2], which also describe Iceland's connectivity -- it's far better than I'd thought. As of a year ago, they had on the order of 8 tbps in undersea cables, stable ping times of around 100ms to the US (and, presumably to the EU, if not better), 100% geothermal power, and a climate that would enable passively cooled data centers.

I couldn't find anything directly relevant to whether access logs would be subpoena-able, but the reading I get from what I did find is that their focus is more on being a transparency haven than a privacy such. Whistleblowers, journalists, and their sources are clearly very well protected by the IMMI (which appears to have passed unanimously). It's also, however, explicitly stated that the new law won't change anything in the current law WRT child pornography and copyright infringement, usually the big bugaboos of the "we need to control the interwebs" crowd. (Not to say those aren't problems; they just aren't the problems they're usually made out to be.)

So, net, I'm not sure Iceland's the answer to these kinds of shenanigans, but it's clearly a step in the right direction.

[1] http://immi.is/?l=en&p=intro
[2] http://www.technewsdaily.com/iceland-promoted-as-future-data...

(EDIT: fugly run-on sentence.)
You're right. Coins are cheaper than bills, but $183M per year isn't going to balance the budget. Basically, keeping the $1 in bill form is costing 60 cents per American per year.
While agreeing with the sister-child I'll also say that yes, other math and thinking skills are also important, but there's no reason we can't have those and calculus too. Throw out some of the more useless things like PE, get rid of certain requirements like art, maybe take away a year or two of the "read books most of the class doesn't care about and write essays hurriedly read over by the prof to later be never read again" English classes.

Even just removing one required semester (half a year) of PE and one required semester of English (which shouldn't be very controversial) frees up two semesters, which for a high school level accommodates Calculus just fine. I'd love to see mathematical analysis courses taught at the high school level too (especially since many grown adults are under the impression math in general is like the algebra they did in high school) but that might be getting ahead of ourselves.

I also don't see why you can't teach number theory et al. throughout all the math courses. I never had a formal trigonometry course because it was taught along the way.
The "Spirit" of the GPL argument has never rung true with me. It's not about creating shared projects and having big hippie hacker sit-ins. It's about keeping CODE free.

This is a perfectly legitimate move by Redhat. It's unfortunate that they felt they needed to do this, but they are under no obligation to provide source code to anyone other than those to whom they distribute, and the GPL certainly doesn't force them to support anyone at all - they want to support paying customers.

It's not a move away from the spirit of the GPL in any way.
On github.com, many types of requests can result in one or more calls to git commands. Every ms we can shave there can have a pretty big impact on response time.
Great resource! Is there a way that YC founders / employees can contact you with updates or corrections?
There are maybe 20 people the world who 'know' how to scale a website up to millions of users. There are lots of teams of hundreds of people who actually do it.

Don't get worried that you won't be able to go in and run the show on the first day. There isn't any secret sauce, and sites that scale to this level are so rare that they probably each have their own arcane and complex way of doing it that has evolved over years of people trying different approaches and failing.

Anywhere that is worth working isn't looking for someone who knows how to scale a website to millions of users, they are looking for smart people who can contribute. Their development budget is probably in the millions of dollars per year, they will be more than happy if you can help.

TLDR; Nobody is going to write a book on this, since only 500 people in the world would benefit from reading it. There is no single answer.

To address the specifics of what you are asking, there is basically a balancing act of consistency vs performance. You need to find the exact balance that is 'good enough' for every problem. The oft quoted 'there are two hard problems in CS, cache invalidation and naming things' pretty much sums it up.
I haven't really questioned facebook valuations in general, but the last month or so is definitely feeling like pump and dump.

Hype around Second Market, the Goldman-Sachs deal - I get the feeling that there's lots of people working very hard to find a larger set of fools to dump the stock on. The SEC investigation of Second Market seems timely.

Combine that with the fact that facebook is less exciting as a product, the APIs are a huge, buggy, expanding mess, and their market is looking saturated.

Techcrunch on the bandwagon kind of seals it.
Strange that 5 founders are so much more common than 4 founders. Guess they want that tie-breaking vote?
(which I have a bit more of a problem with, actually; if a bug tracker isn't open to everyone, it's value decreases remarkably, including to the paying customers who are using it).

It helps RedHat focus on the bugs their customers care about -vs- bugs non-customers care about.
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Okay I got up to 175 lbs for squats and then I started getting a severe, stabbing pain in my knee when I did them. Seems to me that squats are not so good for my knees. Leg press does not give me this problem.

Additionally, I've been doing deadlifts, and just this weekend I pulled a muscle in my back doing 245 lbs (and no, I was not rounding my back).

As you can tell, I am becoming hugely dissatisfied with these so-called "core" exercises. I haven't seen much improvement from them at all, and I've only ever gotten injuries from them.
They say they're profitable, but if the profits were impressive, they'd probably publicize them more (obviously not in explicit terms, but they'd describe the scope - i.e "8 digits"). Random guess, $40 million.
Finish the app first. Once you get to a point where you are at least closer, maybe almost to beta then you will see how deployment issues are a problem. I would then start working on your deployment process. At that point, it's all reading and Googling. ;)
Maybe they'll put a list of repeated identities in their next rootkit they ship with their laptops and when it detects someone associated with an identity it will signal the battery to explode...
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This is a good point, to which I would add:

Architect your system so that you have visibility into where it is breaking, and that no piece has more than one simple job. Otherwise you will end up spending all your time trying to figure out where the bottlenecks are, and every bug will take a day or more to track down. Any part of your system that is complex will basically not be fixable, since nobody will know what the consequences of any change actually is until it breaks something else, which will then take another day to fix, and yes this logic does lead to an infinite chain of days fixing bugs caused the previous day.
Errors I noticed from the batch we did (W2007):

SocialMoth is no longer active. Paul is involved with Square (which is doing very well).

View 3 was shuttered soon after the batch and everybody went back to school, I believe.

White Noise is defunct. I'm not sure what Sean is up to these days.

Snipshot was a non-batch YC company, I believe (like Justin.TV). Funded by YC based on an existing relationship from a previous batch, but they weren't part of a batch. Not sure that makes it inaccurate...I guess that's the best place to list them, since they were funded around the same time and demoed on the same demo day.

WriteWith is defunct. Eric wrote for VentureBeat for a while. Phillip joined Auctomatic before their acquisition. Martin did something else, but I don't remember what.

I believe everything else in W2007 is correct.
Alright, well I'm in security and I want people off Windows XP. What now? Do we fight over who has the more self-serving agenda?

Please. Since when did Hacker News become about pandering to software development subfields?
It's obviously a little bit past 2+2, but calculus is still pretty basic. It's deeply unfortunate that the US schooling system, among others, treats it as an advanced topic only accessible to Smart People. It's a huge disservice to the rest of the population.
James (author of the paper) now works at Amazon!
Interesting approach to finding a technical co-founder
There will be some justification for the high valuations when Facebook enters the display advertising space. Facebook will use like button log data and user profile information for superior ad targeting. Their ad targeting might not be very good now, but they are going to figure it out because that's where the money is.
While I agree with your overall idea of removing extra classes from high school, you do realize that most graduates need at least 2 more semesters of English? Plus the failure rate of College Algebra is pretty staggering.
Or, alternatively, we could cut defense spending by 1% and save that much money every year.

Better yet, lets cut defense spending by 50% and save $300B per year. Honestly, other than the big defense contractors, nobody would ever notice or care (well, people would notice that our economy suddenly had 300B of extra cash in it every year).
Would your sub-reddit be a commercial enterprise who's sole source of revenue was monetizing someone else's intellectual property illegally? Or would your sub-reddit be a user-curated (not reddit curated) site that engaged in substantial non-infringing uses subject to DMCA takedown rules... Here is reddit's DMCA agent filing if you are interested http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/a/advmp.pdf
I agree! This is great - should we email you with any updates?
I tried to get my open source-hostile roomate to care about firefox for a year and a half and he never gave a shit, and then one day he downloaded Chrome and never looked back. Something about how it had the most room for the page.
great site. all of the companies have $0.00 listed for their funding, which is incorrect of course. could probably pull some data from crunchbase api. would also be interesting to see which angels/vc's funded them and if there were certain investors that heavied up on YC companies
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Have you ever run ads on Facebook in their current format? They're terrible. We work in a very niche industry that is easy to target via FB profiles but results are much worse than Google.

Why will display advertising be any different?
I would love to know who had the brilliant idea of making the $1 coin so very similar to the quarter.
Jessica and pg have both spoken/written at length on the subject. They want to fund female-founded companies, but nearly none apply.

I've personally experienced this. I've tried to talk lots of people into applying for YC, or just starting their own company, over the years since we took part in 2007. About 50% of the people I've tried to convince were women. Only men applied or went on to start businesses. Not a single woman among my friends (among them one who works at Google, and another who started a non-profit foundation when she was 19 that still exists ten years later; these are not random people who don't get shit done; they're YC kinda people) takes my advice to start a company seriously.

The problem is, I'm pretty sure, both genetic and systemic. There's only so much we can do to fix it. At some point, women have to decide they are willing to take economic risks, and bet on themselves.
I can't say anything about the book itself, but from a cursory glance, the website has very little actual content, and is almost entirely marketing fluff for the book itself.
I second this.

I wrote a distributed crawler from scratch with 10 EC2 machines. It was one of the best learning experiences ever!
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IE6 is not Netscape Navigator 4.

We'll still have to code for it at least through 2012.

Come January 2013 though, all bets are off.

Then we'll have the IE7/IE8 bugs until 2020 (thanks Microsoft!)