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Dave is spot on when he says that "value-added" investing comes more and more from domain experts. We have lately had discussion with a few investors. The quality of feedback AND connections from those that have been hands-on entrepreneurs, especially in our field (gaming) is in a totally different level compared to others.
Thanks for the kind words - and for the suggestion for more info on the team. The co-founders are computer science guys, and we also studied probability modeling over at Wharton. Excited to bring these tools to market!
according to the letter, X == Z
Ah, or as hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy put it, our digital watches don't make us special.

Or, if you prefer, we're still feces flinging monkees.
Microsoft is virtualising Windows XP on top of Windows 7 on the x86 platform. That is for their XP mode that is available in Windows 7.

Microsoft in Windows 7 for legacy applications allow the users to select a target OS, at that point it is not virtualising that OS but having certain system calls act like they would in those older versions of Windows. As far as I am aware as a developer nothing gets "virtualised", it is a compatibility shim. See this wikipedia article:

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

This is how Windows provided support for 16 bit on Windows 32 bit, and how Windows provides support for 32 bit on Windows 64. Clever piece of code.

What you are suggesting is almost impossible on Mac OS X without also emulating an entire different instruction set ALA qemu. Running OS9 on x86 just isn't in the cards, Rosetta provided support for PowerPC on x86, and Apple apparently has looked at the download stats for Rosetta and figured it was time to let it go. Most apps have been PowerPC + Intel for a long time now.
Thanks for the clarification, not too sure why you were downvoted.
At current population growth, we will run out of addresses—if we give every human one IPv6 address—in only ~6000 years, or—if everybody should get 1000 addresses, for all those internet-enabled toasters and such—in ~5500 years. Obviously we already need to plan ahead and carrier-NAT IPv6.
Yes, but people are reluctant to give credit for feature ideas in implementations that they feel to be inadequate. The Linux GUI has traditionally been one of the biggest objections people have to the whole operating system (though it seems to be less so lately), so they don't get credit for most of the features of their GUI. Similarly, Apple rarely gets credit for introducing digital photography to the consumer space because few people knew or cared about their camera product.

To offer an alternate perspective: This will likely be a new thing to lots of people who aren't very technologically literate.
This is the issue with C++. This level of knowledge of any other language you'd be fine to let the guy do some code. You have to have considerably better developers.

With C++ you have this huge dearth of people who know enough about the language to convince someone else of it, then you get them on your project and they blow stuff up by doing it subtly wrong.

C++ has uses, but it's the sulfuric acid of programming languages: you have to have good personnel control and fire those who screw around outside the boundaries of the right style. A programming group with one guy programming like C with classes and another guy programming like it's Ocaml without garbage collection, and you're in for a mighty piece of hell.
I wonder when this Silicon valley school yard soap opera is finally over.
If this were even close to true (and it seems like one of those tabloid source type things), Apple would probably build a design bureau in the UK and setup a lot of telepresence equipment. Ive is a tad bit too valuable to lose at this junction over something as minor as geography.
Can anyone find online documentation? I want to know how it compares to WebGL. Is it OpenGL-like, DirectX-like, or a wacky new API? What shader language is supported? Is GPGPU possible? What's their story on extensions? Do they support compressed textures, floating-point textures, non-power-of-two textures, vertex texture fetch?

Edit: the best thing I've found so far is here: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=2555
Apparently Adobe invented their own wacky new API and shader language, which seems like a questionable decision. Still looking for something more detailed.
> I love how the chemical can be written as FOOF, which is strangely reminiscent of the bogus F00F C7C8 instruction that could crash old Pentiums.

Or the sound a small explosion might make, which is the first thing most people would think of. ;-)
Are you buying traffic / promoting the same way he was? (was it ever effective?)

Have you changed anything with the site?
Awesome photos. This needs some equally awesome music in the background, though.

Try this:

"Nevergreen" - Emancipator http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChF0wlcWfQ

(timelapse video link) http://www.vimeo.com/14718221
Snark is frowned upon on Hacker News. It's generally low in signal and often drags the tone of the conversation down, so it's part of HN culture to downvote snarky comments.
Warning: This is either more or less subtle than you think.
Actually, I won't have the same attitude... I'll be indifferent, and not comment at all, as I don't really care what Windows does. Even though I use it almost daily for various client work.

When it comes right down to it, I don't buy into this whole OS religion thing. I've had more than a passing exposure to quite a few of them, and they all have/had their place.

Case in point, I started my career on IBM 3081's and PDP-11's. I even have a full rack of gear in my home office that includes a bunch of boxes with various flavours of Linux installed, a Tadpole laptop running Solaris, an operational NeXT Cube, SGI and HP boxes running their Unix variants, a cluster of Sun Netras, and on and on. I've also got a few different laptops with Windows and Linux installed. And a couple of MacBook Pro's.

They all have good features, and bad, but none of them have everything.

Do I care what someone else uses? Nope. Do I care if they gush over it and think it's the coolest thing ever? Nope. Do I feel some overwhelming urge to "educate" them on why their choices are "wrong"? Nope.

I just know what works for me, and am happy to discuss things with like-minded individuals. I'm not a fanboy, and I haven't drunk the Cool-Aid. I also don't think everyone who owns a Mac is like that either.

Call me crazy, I guess.
now imagine this at the gui level. imagine being on your mac, pick up your ipad, move to the next room, and swipe and have access to the same apps currently running. jut look at what apples been putting out the last few years. look at lions big features. full screen mode doesnt sound impressive. but that would make those apps much easier to use on the ipad.

im nut saying this is all new stuff, rather, its going to be packaged by apple, and that is going to mean something.
You've inspired me to learn more chemistry.
> People go around with Apple bumper stickers and define themselves by their association with the Apple brand.

Sometimes, it seems like just as many people define themselves by their lack of association with the Apple brand..
Sorry Entrepreneurs: You’re Probably the Rule, Not the Exception
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This is a good example of why you, yourself, should have made a minimally viable product prior to pitching it to other developers.

I don't think he's gone home and began writing his own - that's not what I'm getting at. I'm just saying, feedback is much more constructive when you can show people functionality right then and there. If all you can show people is a Photoshop rendering of the design, or can only give them a verbal description of it, the feedback you get is going to be about that Photoshop image. For example, they're going to be knit-picky about button placement or font choice rather than whether or not they'd find the service useful.

Also, if you had gone in there with a demo to show, perhaps it'd seem more concrete to others and they'd be more willing to jump on board rather than ignore your messages.

edit: I guess to be more direct about your question - I tell people my ideas usually as soon as I begin to think that I may be on to something. I tell my close circle of friends first, to kind of bounce around the idea. Then, I built a super basic demo in a night or two and go toss it around on IRC and here on HN.
I wouldn't blame the jury on this one. They were treated to heart breaking testimony from a small child who was violently raped at gunpoint which culminated in her pointing at the defendant and saying "That is the man who raped me, he is sitting right there." What jury wouldn't convict on such evidence.

What the jury isn't told is that the defendant was rousted up when the word went out to bring in whatever black men they could find in the neighborhood. What the jury isn't told is that the initial report was of a man with face stubble and not the full beard he had when arrested.

Now the jury was told that there were multiple alibis, all of whom were black family members. They can be blamed for that. But really, seeing the little girl point to the man and say she is certain he is the one who raped her she remembers his face quite clearly, are you really going to say you would vote to acquit? Or would you assume the family members are lying to protect their own.
They don't have to yet. Really, IPv6 is not going to be an issue this year at all. That ends up just being a patch Apple can come up with later. I don't see the big deal here.
That story was incredibly chilling, thank you for reminding me of it. I knew the feeling I got reading this one on Ray Towler was familiar.
Anonymous message boards can be fun sites but I'm not exactly sure this in itself could really be considered a startup. Is there something I'm missing?
> Why would you value a 'blind test' over what an expert recording engineer, such as Barry Diament, thinks?

Because one is the scientific method, and the other is just an opinion?
> When you are dying, All rationality goes out the window.

Are you "not dying"? I ask because I've never met anyone who wasn't dying. Yes, most of us don't have a good idea as to what the attending MD will blame or when, but nevertheless, the vast majority of us are dying and know it.
I am not white myself and have never committed anything anyone sane would consider a crime. Yet I have been picked up and thrown in jail several times. Last time was because I was walking my dog at the park without a leash. I have never heard of a white person arrested for this. If someone was raped in the park the week I was walking my dog there, I know I would have been the primary suspect because that's how this works.
I thought I listed some of the possible flaws in blind tests - there is nothing unscientific about that.

If you value the results of any sort of blind test, no matter how badly conducted, over the opinions of recording engineers, then it doesn't seem to be a purely scientific matter to me.
Assuming it starts at human-level or slightly above, internet access would probably be enough.

Plenty of people make a lot of money over the Internet, and identity theft isn't exactly rare. Anything that's considerably smarter than humans would probably be running on AWS after the first week, without any overt co-operation from it's creators.

I do not hold this to be particularly likely, because I think that the software side of making a mind capable of recursive self-improvement is likely orders of magnitude harder than people seem to think it is. However, if we do succeed in making one, the argument "it needs help from it's creators" is a very weak one -- even a human level one with access to any networking would likely be able to take the ability to improve itself.
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Dragonfly (Opera)
The Times isn't as great as it used to be, but it's nowhere near being a tabloid.
Is Big Pharma Killing Startup Companies?
Jobs and now Ive? I seriously hope Cook is not alone in maintaining Apple at the forefront. Jobs understands the customer the best, Ive knows how to design the best, and Cook can deliver that solution most efficiently in such a complex ecosystem. Without the triumvirate, Apple will have a tough time outmatching the competition, product to product.

I highly doubt Ive is just going to walk away with Apple thinking they don't need him.
I was not saying that eHow's public relations saved them, but rather it is what caused the backlash against content farms.
Fast history browsing is useful only when clicking the back button. Caching the sites after tabs are closed is just a bad design, no excuses.
Here's a link to the question on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-considered-a-significant-number...
You should keep a dev blog. I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in the architecture/algorithms running behind the scenes; plus it would bring some links back to your site.
I noticed that too, but I suspect that competition from cinema has bifurcated books into two distinct products, novels and stories. The novel responds to the challenge from cinema with interior monologue and writing with literary merit. The plot unfolds five to ten times slower in the reader's library than would a similar plot projected in a cinema. The story tries to compete with cinema on pace by adopting a simple writing style that a young reader can devour at great speed. It fails, but only by a factor of two, and it is cheaper to buy than a cinema ticket, by a similar factor.

A story is cheaper to write than a movie is to make, perhaps 100 or 1000 times cheaper. That matters to the reader because, each year, there are many more stories to chose from than there are films. The reader can find the particular kind of story that they especially like, which makes up for the fact it is only writing and not a film.
There's a lot of duplication (Colors, Tools>Color Tools; Brush in Toolbox & as Dockable window), things that are out of place (View>Show Grid, Image>Configure Grid), common workflows that require more clicks than in other editors (Select-Copy-DeSelect-Paste), odd choice of defaults (When resizing canvas, choose "resize all layers" instead of "None"), and other odd design choices (Toolbox can't be a dockable window, Toolbox needs scrollbar if vertical Resolution<1024) that make GIMP occasionally frustrating to use, despite being an otherwise awesome tool.
Ask HN: Why are some sites - like TechCrunch - so slow to respond upon loading?
At first I thought it was just my computer (a 2008 MacBook), but I just tried on a brand new i7 iMac and it takes forever to respond to scrolling. I'll try to scroll down the page and it will crawl, sputter, and jump all over the place.

9to5Mac is another culprit.

Do you have this problem? What other sites does your computer struggle with? What causes it?
Would that I have had two votes to give...
I don't know about point 1. My parents paid me for good grades, and my attitude towards learning is a little warped now, to say the least. (They were also Tiger Parents, though. Motivation is a tricky thing to get right.)

For point 2, definitely. I asked my math teacher once what a rigorous definition for a tangent was, and she couldn't give me one. Blah. All these unhappy postdocs and grad students should teach high school.
I can't see why this is so groundbreakingly different to what iOS already does?

The only benefit is that it isn't modally covering the entire screen. It's still obscuring part of it though.

Notifications in iOS do feel like an afterthought but this isn't much better and it definitely isn't a leap forward in mobile notification technology.
Thanks. I try hard :)
Your methodological criticisms are sound, it‘s just that they don’t seem to apply to the quoted paper (I found the PDF): http://www.mesoscale.nl/aes_article.pdf
but then their products wouldn't say "Designed in California" anymore.
Good idea, but I'd like to have some more info about what you actually do and how you do it (and what information we need to provide for you). Also, how secure are you? How do you secure my information, where do you store it? Will you use my data for aggregated reports?

Some of the data I want is also very specific to my industry, it would be nice to see some of that industry jargon on your site to know that you get what I want.

There's also lots of competing business intelligence software for various niches, are you trying to be one tool for everyone? Personally, I'd rather use a tool specific to my industry/niche.
SwipeGood is hoping that many people will make the same mistake you made. It is a savvy business move that lines up very well with their business model of supporting charities.
Who could replace him?
Look, I like your investment strategy and want to see how it plays out.

That said, your post does imply that the weak returns of the VCs last decade lend your approach merit when you point out their weak returns and then say:

"to be more specific: if we look at the #'s, on average it's more likely that high-volume, spray & pray investing -- which i will going forward refer to as "a quantitative investment strategy" -- is likely to be successful than a "focused, low-volume" investing strategy."

(Of course I assume you measure success by expected value, not the chance of being in the black after a small number of investments)
It also ignores the effect of drop outs like me that have founded companies that have created hundreds of good paying jobs. But that's all counted as 1 drop out = 1 job. If I hadn't dropped out and was forced to stay in the useless hell hole that is public high school education, I would have killed myself or others and none of these jobs would exist.

Mine is not an isolated story either, here is a list of drop outs all should take a look at before advocating that talented kids should be forced to suffer the abuse that is state school institutionalization: http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/lists/dropouts.html

Klebold and Harris would be designing video games today and have people working for their firm if they had dropped out of high school instead of staying and suffering abuse from violent bullies and petty ignorant teachers at Columbine High School.
Techcrunch has a ridiculous number of widgets. Try browsing with a blocker (I use the Disconnect extension on Chrome) and you'll see the difference.
This is going to sound unpopular given the audience here, but I'd bet most examples of "X" in this context will be corners of math. Math tends to be more cumulative than most other subjects taught in high school, and as such it's the subject that jumps to mind when the answer "next year" makes sense when someone asks "when am I going to use X?" Trigonometry, for example, or matrix math are highly esoteric in the context of a usual high-school student, yet they show up all over the damned place when you get out of high school and into more advanced studies. This is a real shame because math is essentially a vocabulary for solving problems and there should be dozens of answers a teacher could give to that ? besides "next year."
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That's the case on Windows... not sure about Mac OS. It's definitely not the case with X11 on Linux; I run multiple VNC displays all the time in addition to my normal desktop display. You can do several separate displays/desktops per user, even. The only limit is the host's resources.
wait, this is a startup?
I've browsed Flippa a good amount, though I've never been inclined to make a purchase.

Honestly, the reason I wouldn't have purchased this is because there's only one month of proof (if the proof is even real, although that would be a PITA to fake). He probably told you just by that fact that it isn't a sustainable business. (You can't say it makes $600/m if it maybe made $600 in one month)
techcrunch slowcop report: http://www.slowcop.com/reports/4d6aca3234b95f759300000e
I'm fairly sure that current HN culture is to downvote snark that you disagree with.
The League of Innovators -- Columbia, MO Co-Working/Entrepreneur Space
An example of success from a failed project
I like VLC "ugliness". I think it's more functional than some more elaborated interfaces that end up looking like scene keygens.
RIM needs to study Conversion 101. Do you remember the bad old days of e-commerce, where you had to register for an account before you can add something to the shopping cart?

RIM's challenge here is to convert developers into RIM developers, i.e. people who are going to make them money. Why throw in any more hurdles than necessary?

Information should be requested at the last moment it is required. For instance, initially ask for an email just to ensure it the SDK results in a computer being vulnerable to security issues. Deployment to a virtual machine running beta versions should not require any code signing.
ASP.NET MVC: Using Helper Classes And Services
Are Bosses Always Right?
A disciplined shared-memory model for parallel state-driven algorithms
Oh, I should specify. The developer outreach folks at MS, like Ben Riga and Bruno Terkaly, have been very helpful at answering my questions. My disappointment is more with the overall rollout to developers, or a lack of one that I've seen around the Bay Area.

As a point of reference, I can barely stand the Android developer tools, but I've appreciated how regularly over the past ~2 years Google has invited me and my colleagues to training events, kept us stocked with the latest developer handsets, and so on.

O.K., I guess I forgot about the free version of Visual Studio Express.
"The problem with design is that it is something that is not easy, but it SEEMS easy, because everyone has an opinion, and they think it's just as valid as anyone else's, even a professional designer. "

No, the problem with design is that every designer has a different opinion, and believes that their opinion is 100% correct, and there is no sway room at all. It has to be done that way, or no one will come to the site, even though it is exactly opposite as every other designer, who also has such strong opinions.

Design is subjective, but designers really believe it is not, that is the most important thing ever, and do not listen to anyone else.
Right. Which is why it's a shame that CDs aren't 16/48 rather than 16/44 -- it allows a filter with half as steep a slope.
Well, I called it a weekend project until I got to debugging. Just kidding, I am pushing the anonymous part as it is a bit of a buzz word these days. I am in the process of reworking the UI, and may re-brand as more of a simple web publishing solution.

I think there is a ton of potential use cases. Eventually I want to give the users full control over the page style, or possible offer different page templates. This will allow anyone to publish a totally customizable webpage in minutes.

While there are no ads now, monetization will come from advertising in the future. Or, possibly a small charge per page to have advertisement removed. This could be purchasable by either the author, or a reader.

We'll see where it goes.
Exactly right, sad to say.
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When gmail rolls out an update, do you want to pre-approve it also? The only thing google does with chrome is bring the web model of automatic updates to a desktop app.

If you think about it, the only reason we want the control is because we don't trust software companies not to mess up our system. The crazy thing is wanting manual updates, because it implies gross incompetence from the software industry.
Dave nails the often unspoken truth: traditional VC's have been terrible on average. Suspect the savvy LPs will pour more and more into 500hat-esque vehicles...
Don't anthropomorphise nitrogen. It does not like that.
This is very close to how they taught me English long ago in a Soviet school! I have to say I can't complain.