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Interesting article that I think most of the people who apply to YC already understand (Hopefully)

As someone who does not have a co-founder and has now applied for the second time I have decided I am moving to the bay area in June whether I get into YC or not and I am either going to find a co-founder to continue with or go to work at another startup while retaining my rights to the work on this project until I meet some more interesting people interested in working long hours for low pay and having lots of fun while doing it.

I cant imagine my life any other way but in a culture where I am creating every day, life is just not the same for me otherwise and working a 9 to 5 like my parents did when i was growing up has never been an option as far as I am concerned.
A good teacher is a master of two subjects. The subject of study and pedagogics. A PhD in the subject of study and maybe one course of pedagogics will necessarily skew things a bit.
It would be illegal, yes. You are allowed to keep the photo but not to publish it.

Kunsturheberrechtsgesetzes (KunstUhrG) §22, first sentence: „Bildnisse dürfen nur mit Einwilligung des Abgebildeten verbreitet oder öffentlich zur Schau gestellt werden.“ (Rough translation: “Images can only be published with consent of the depicted.”)

Here’s the whole text (German): http://dejure.org/gesetze/KunstUrhG/22.html

§23 lists all the exceptions:

1. Photos with some sort of historic meaning.

2. Whenever the depicted persons are merely incidental to the actual subject.

3. Photos of gatherings, demonstrations and similar such events.

4. Basically, if it’s art.
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It's city, not agricultural terrain. There's a good chance sometime in the next 20 years the city authorities will force you to invest in it. Maybe even immediately.
As a stupid, but determined person this gives me hope :D
Yeah they do. Its mentioned in the FAQ I believe.
I did software development for NonStop Kernel on Itanium for a few years. 5 years ago, Itanium was FAST. Our software was twice as fast as competitors who used twice as many processing cores. Problem was that, unlike x86, Intel's Itanium roadmap moves slow and continually plagued by problems. About 2-3 years ago, with cost reduction in mind, we began porting software over to Linux on x86. Initially we needed 2.5x as many x86 cores to reach the performance of the 1.6Ghz Itanium 2. By the time Intel began shipping Westmere-EP processors early in 2010, each core was nearly 1:1 with Itanium, and at half the cost and 3x the density.
Semi-agreed. Reddit is minimal in that it is pretty simple and straightforward to use. Not minimal in the designed-to-be minimalist sense.

The best example of this is Google and Apple. Both are minimalist. But Apple (arguably, of course) has a much better sense of design. Reddit is like Google.
The fact that this post, along with many others, exists is proof.
Simpler for who? For Apple, sure.

But what about the customers who prefer a store that carries a somewhat curated selection of goods to one that carries everything? It's certainly not simpler for them.

Maybe you want to shop in a store where White Power 4 Kids is a click away, but I don't. And I don't want my kids shopping in that store either.
Hm, that seems to hold together, but I still think some frame of reference must be being missed here because there are just so many more native born americans than immigrants. We must be comparing apples and oranges at some point in the equation, probably the underlying data behind both studies.
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I have also seen a lot of people address that majority of these points in their pitch deck. E.g. they will often have the hiring plan, product roadmap, market structure, proposed business model etc. in the deck. Some of the details will often be in the appendix etc.

I agree with your meta-point - writing this down in whatever form goes a long way to forcing you to think it through, and can lead to some useful insights to you are the driver of the company.
Since I'll probably be using this for a couple smaller things of mine, I forked it and went ahead and changed it to:

subscribe/unsubscribe/publish

and also added return this.

https://github.com/amadeus/microevent.js
I believe gparent was pointing out that the phrase "ineffectual and perpetual grad student", nuance aside, literally means the same thing as "ineffectual perpetual grad student".
I'm in the same boat, and I think you nailed it. If anything, HN provides some valuable insight that is transferrable to any type of business. Plus, the tech talk is very good.
The laptop was swiped when I was still logged in and the screen saver hadn't kicked in yet. They created a new account: http://i.imgur.com/o6TK8.png
They are, but the naming convention is a rails-specific quirk.

Usually functional testing is defined as checking functionality vs. requirements, and it is done with something like selenium, or Quick Test Pro when it is automated. And usually, since requirements don't deal with controller functionality but are most often written about the system as a whole, functional testing would be what Rails calls "integration" tests, or Rails/RSpec calls "request" tests.

When the controller tests were named "functional tests" I think integration tests in Rails were not implemented yet, and controller tests were the highest up the stack you could test, so the name made more sense then.
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It's not a metaphor, it's a simile.
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There are a few startup and hacker communities in Detroit, namely DNewTech, i3Detroit, OmniCorpDetroit. DNewTech meets monthly, with a keynote speaker and showcases 5 startups.
"We" refers to those perpetuating & supporting this vigilantism.
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rexreed is right, it shouldn't take long to set up the system. Most of the time is wasted waiting to get approved. I integrated Braintree api in half a day, while the application process was taking a few days. We had to drop them and go for paypal because it had a masspay option, otherwise we are looking for ways to avoid using paypal.
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First, I don't think there was any violation of this person's rights by US law. Second, judges and juries are people, not automatons that blindly apply law. Considering the circumstances, I have a hard time believing a judge or a jury would think that the thief deserves a monetary reward.
German laws are much different than US laws, and even if they weren't, I don't think anyone cares about a thief's personality rights. It's not a violation because Mark owns that data and the thief willingly recorded it on the disk.
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Hi,

I'm about to finish an iPhone app, and wanted to know what anyone's experience of the best way to get a group of people into a closed beta test ? I guess asking here for volunteers would be good, but my target audience is more "standard consumer" than early adopter.

Do people post up a few google ad words, post to forums, what have you found to be the best way to do this ?
Nice tool, and nice exec on the mobile version.
Although I would recommend a super simple addon to improve the look and feel :
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />

Try it, hit the "install on my home screen" button, and it simply removes the address bar and the bottom safari actions (back, bookmark, # of tabs, ...).

You owe me 1 cent :)
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Very good point about the passive income.
The middle 50% or so of the income scale, whatever that happens to be? Pulling that out of my hat.

The study you linked upthread said a bunch about income mobility or lack thereof. I see that as a much bigger problem than equality for it's own sake, although I'd be very concerned about a completely hollowed out system.
One of the things I've learned through years of bootstrapping is that there's no such thing as truly passive income(other than investments). There's always something demanding your attention.
I'm sorry, I misunderstood the situation you described.
They are not printing a vacuum cleaner; they are printing some of the parts, but you still need to buy A DC motor, Tape Filter (some cloth; see later), Power Supply.

Anyway, I wish they focused more on the real advantage of these things which is to produce replacement parts when a 5 cent piece breaks on a 100+$ object. Think being able to replace the little plastic tab on your remote control so you don't have to resort to duck tape to keep the batteries from falling out. Or one of those clips on your backpack that let's you readjust things without just tying a knot in them.
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I'm wondering it it's connected to some kind of conclusion apple has about what constitutes the typical "width" of an adult's hand, since that groove is designed to fit your four fingers for opening and the iphone is probably also sized relative to some data how what is easy to hold.
As a chinese who is surprisingly good with technical courses and math, and also a computer science major who is somewhat not that bad with programming:

Learn to see patterns. Math is all about patterns. Get obsessive. I just got out of an obssessive period (3 days, to the point I didn't wanna talk to anyone) where I couldn't solve problems. Visualise problems in your head, put the entire problem domain into your head, lie on the bed. Solve it YOURSELF.

Always, always, solve it yourself, and only ask when you have TRIED AND TRIED. Then when you finally ask and get the solution, you'll remember it for life.

Pattern, and self-attempting. Practise makes perfect too.
I would dare to say +95% of the teachers I had up until college were downright mediocre because they lacked one single paramount side of outstanding teachers: p-a-s-s-i-o-n. Sometimes this alone has the potential to drive one's pedagogical skills.
What does "authentic" mean in this context? How do you ensure the groups only have interesting authentic people in them?
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I think what you're referring to is synthesis, which I consider an important aspect of understanding. One might be an expert only through knowing, another precursor to understanding (see, expert Visual Basic programmer).

My girlfriend might take this opportunity to point out I much I like to ramble on sometimes. shrugs
Well you need to be a bit stupid to want to start a business. You would be considered stupid if someone told you you have a 5% chance at every kissing this girl, yet you decide to spend the next 3 years of your life pursuing her and her only. This is exactly what we do.
Discontinuing a support for a product developers don't use isn't really telling at all. Most Itanium development is done using compilers from the operating system vendor, not with ICC. Intel still provides the code generators for those compilers.
cheapest one I use is a rackspace cloud 256MB instance. its like $11/month.
It's a privacy issue, which isn't expressly protected (by the Constitution, anyway). I doubt he (in the eyes of the law) has any reasonable expectation of privacy if he is placing his information (images, videos) on someone else's computer.
Guy Steele and Dick Gabriel gave a talk at HOPL a few years back. Another great talk. It lacked the insight of this one, but purely a joy... CS poetry. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the talk online anywhere.
Only really if you want to argue that Facebooks business model is unsustainable. They're in profit now (I think?) so I'm pretty happy to say they're no longer a startup.
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Well, the poor also make a disproportionate amount of bad choices. For instance, the vast majority of the poor choose not to have a job.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2008.pdf

People below the poverty line also choose to risk unwanted pregnancies at a much higher rates than richer people. (The unwanted pregnancy rate for poor people is 88/1000, vs 29/1000 for people above double the poverty line.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3002498.html#15

So it's not just the case that bad choices have a disproportionate effect on the poor. The poor also make bad choices at a rate much higher than the non-poor.
Ahh sorry about that - strong coffee this morning has my mind on overdrive and completely read that quote incorrectly.
I don't think the point is whether the schools require a high school diploma as a stated prerequisite; it's more whether they actually admit people with no diploma on the basis of other work.
Nah, not a monetary reward, just getting the video taken down. I don’t think the thief would get some sort of monetary reward in Germany, either.
This is not the case in the US. See: Paparazzi pictures of just about any celebrity ever.
Not necessary - by using this rule you might miss a lot of truly brilliant people (I know a couple of them: they just mumble about things and you understand what they were saying only after you see their design and code).
This again tries to equate somebody being able to express something using English (in other words, being a good communicator) and ability to really understand the nature and working of a very complex system or idea.

But each startup must have at least one founder which has this capability.
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Shaming someone caught in the act is hardly vigilante justice. About a year ago, a local tavern was robbed of their cash register by a thief who neglected to hide from the security cameras and who dropped his mixtape on the way out the smashed door. The owner recorded the tape (a collection of Lionel Ritchie soft hits) and merged it with the security camera shots of the thief in action, then posted it to youtube. The crime was of course reported to the police first, but their response was one of filing the report so that insurance could take care of things - not one of finding and punishing the thief.
Me thinks you haven't been programming long if you don't know what the green triangle does. It's been a "play button" for over a decade.
And than, not then, to be pedantic.
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Doesn't Oracle build Java now? Building a competitive JVM requires a fair amount of knowledge of the underlying architecture.

On top of that, it's hardly trivial or cost-free as "just be running a cross compiler and testing on another set of boxes" sounds. My guess is they've done the calculations, and Itanium doesn't earn them more money.
I have no problem with that either. In that case, micropayment needs to be dead simple though, I don't want to fill in my personal and credit card details for each site. Both from a privacy and convenience perspective that's a big no-no.
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This generalizes to formal computer science as a programmer, and is probably one of the best ways to put it I've ever seen. If you understand computer science as the formula, you'll think it's pretty useless. If you get the concepts, you start seeing how it is useful everywhere.

I do not sit down and prove my designs and code or use lots of tricky algorithms, but I use a lot of the insights and ways of thinking I picked up from the computer science concepts, thinking about invariants and the maintenance of them, etc. There's few things sadder than sitting through four years of school and coming out seriously thinking that it's all useless wankery against the importance of "REAL PROGRAMMING".

(I've also noticed/learned that when you do a good solid job of designing your system with strong foundational concepts, the system will talk to you as you try to design it. I just got back from talking to a coworker about a case where I need to bypass my permissions system and temporarily become a superuser in order to do this particular thing, and I realized that rather than that being "the solution", that was actually my permission system telling me that I was doing something wrong. Only after I realized that did I reflect on it for a moment and realize the permission system was right and I was trying to do something potentially dangerous. I had thought about the thing I wanted to do but didn't fully consider how it might be exploited. We may still do it, we may not, but either way, listening to the code taught me something important about my system. You don't get these insights when you're too busy with your REAL PROGRAMMING and turning out mushy, concept-less code. You just write the flaw in and let your customers or hackers find it.)
Thanks for letting us know. I'm going to delete the parent comment if I can. It's more snarky in tone than I like to be and based on your comments in the this thread I believe the story now :)
I love the comparison, but I would imagine that due to mobile phones and contact lists, it's quite possible to be in love without knowing any phone numbers.

Personally I know the numbers of the (at a guess) 20 people I call most often, but I always assumed that, in 2011, I'm the exception not the rule.

Not particularly relevant, his point stands either way, just interested to know if other people on HN still find themselves memorising phone numbers.
The difference is that you use the "and" only in the case where the last adjective plus the noun are not already a common phrase and thus act as a de facto noun. E.g. "unhealthy and fast food" seems awkward compared to "unhealthy fast food" because "fast food" is a common phrase.

(I never thought about this question till you asked. I just knew I never would have said something so awkward.)
If you read comments above, he did contact the cops, and they did tell him they couldn't do anything about it.
Real people tend not to speak in grammatically correct sentences during conversations. Journalists tend to add words like "and" in quotations where the verbatim quote is not grammatically correct, but the meaning is clear.
This might be interesting. Remember to check all of the products listed, as we only release our latest EA WebKit version when a game ships with it.

"EA WebKit supports Win32, Win64, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 platforms" according to the documentation, but perhaps the modularization and the EA Raster primitives gets you further along than some of the other forks.

If anyone has any questions about EA WebKit, let me know and I can pass them along.

EDIT: ...Or you can ask the parent poster, who actually works on them. :)
Project vs Startup

>>they were currently working on a half dozen startups (what I'd term "projects"; a startup needs focused development)
There's really not much to it -

Varnish runs on port 80 - the only real rules here is to make sure you always return(pass) on anything other than GET and HEAD requests.

Nginx runs on port 8080, which Varnish passes all requests through. I set up an upstream cluster pointing to 5 local instances running on the local server (ports in use in this case are 8081 through 8085). By proxy_pass'ing it to the upstream cluster it will round robin through my instances (no need for ip_hash or weighting currently).

My node.js app allows me to send it it's port as a command line option. By using monit I can ensure that each of the 5 instances are running.

One last thing - I was having too many performance issues with having node.js send large files (the application in question is a document management system) back to the client. It does it, but the RPS was too low for our requirements. By implementing XSendfile in Nginx, we can have node.js pass along the appropriate header to Nginx, which then sends the file along. At this point it would also become cached in Varnish. RPS increased to more than acceptable levels, and the system runs a lot smoother now.

If a better writeup is needed, I would be more than happy to try and get something together today or tomorrow..
But at what point is that annoyance more of a cost than what the customer would pay?

I wouldn't pay for Twitter because I barely use it, but I would gladly pay for Mint.com to get rid of the ads, suck up valuable screen space on an app I use daily. And I do pay for Remember the Milk so I know it stays around. I'd pay for Gmail and Google Calendar.

But everyone is afraid of charging. Some users would surely switch away if you had to pay, but many wouldn't. How much productivity did Gmail originally bring to the table? Did they capture anywhere near that value via ads?
The thing is, I tend to think about the sorts of things which are complex enough that you can't trivially describe them in a linear format. Imagine that somebody asked you to tell them about programming. Programming is such a huge and complex topic that there really isn't an effective way to begin explaining it without putting significant forethought into how to explain it, even if you're an expert programmer. So, unless you've put thought into how to explain and teach it, if someone randomly asks you, you're probably going to fumble and be verbose. (This is one of the reasons many professors are bad at teaching.)

Of course, in the context of the article, somebody interviewing with investors probably should have thought out in advance about the sorts of things the investors would want to know and ask about, so they shouldn't be fumbling too much.
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I don't think there is a semantic difference, since I would probably transcribe what pg said he said as "ineffectual, perpetual grad student." Note the comma, which implies an "and" relationship between adjectives.
In my mind inserting the 'and' separates the 'ineffectual' and 'perpetual' so it appears the person being described could be a perpetual grad student as an independent idea -- but maybe they just love school life, so it's not really anything negative. Leaving the 'and' out, however, implies to me the person is probably a perpetual grad student because of being ineffectual.
I don't know. Companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google are obviously creating lots of new products/initiatives where revenue and scalability of the business model are still a big question mark. Is Facebook's core business scalable? Dunno.

Related question: Can you have a startup within a non-startup?
What you're missing is that PG says "can." When you're in a ten-minute interview that could change your life forever, you're going to be concise when possible.

That being said, I don't believe that one's 'natural' verbosity has any correlation with intelligence. Minds aren't that simple.
I imagine that is true but I am striving for something less "active". I work 45 hours a week for an upper middle class income. But including the commute, the inflexibility of 9-5 and being just plain drained from working in an uninspiring environment, it feels like 60 hours a week. I'd be ecstatic with a 30 hour a week business of my own at the same income level. (Of course maybe I'd start a second business with that extra 30 hours...)