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I don't think I understand your math.

Why would someone apply for a funding source that only offers to give a few thousand bucks for 6% but not apply for a funding source that offers to give a few thousand bucks, the best advisors for early stage software startups in the world, the best odds of being funded in the angel and series A stages and with remarkably good terms, the best odds of being covered in TechCrunch (100%, I believe, if you demo on demo day) and several other major tech media, and participation in the next "mafia" in Silicon Valley?

Obviously of the hundreds or thousands of companies that don't get accepted to YC, all of them can't be accepted to YC Reject either. No matter how much money they've lined up (the word "angel" was used, I believe to describe the funding source, so it is in the thousands or single digit millions), there's simply not enough money for it to be a money spigot that anyone can turn on, at will.

Basically, what I'm saying is, if the odds are slim in either case, the cost of applying to each is simply filling out an application, and the payout for YC is so much higher than for YC Reject, why would someone lie about applying to YC rather than actually applying (even if they don't have high expectations of getting in)? I just can't figure out a situation where that would ever make sense.
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The problem is in your petulant interpretation of the word 'make'. As I mentioned, it's just a definition matter from here on. For some words the distinction between 'make' and 'process' is much less clear; I don't have an opinion on what the consensus is on whether flour is 'made' by humans or not, if the discussion had started out with this example, I wouldn't even have bothered replying.

Language is fluid and loosely-defined. It's not because the dominant interpretation is that honey comes from bees, that there needs to be a 1:1 relationship between other source materials and their end product so that the same word 'make' can be applied to those processes. Your demand for an explanation into the difference is therefore meaningless; there is an inherent vagueness in the word. Not everything is so defined that it can be explained in the way you apparently want is.

For example, I mentioned that honey is only mechanically processed from the hive into the pot. Does that mean that all processes where only filtering occurs do not constitute 'making'? No. Does it mean the inverse? No. In the flour example, one could make the case (I'm not doing so, I'm just explaining the mechanism) that the conversion from wheat into flour is purely mechanical and therefore does not constitute 'making'. But I don't find it a convincing argument. It just shows that each circumstance needs to be examined from several angles, and that (as I mentioned several times) there is no single definition.

(I had a paragraph here on the 'opinions' part of your argument but it was too vitriolic - objectively, I can't tell from your post if you meant it as I interpreted it; so I'm going to suffice with saying that this is not about 'opinions'. It's a about definitions, which are not opinions).
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Talent and potential are very subjective metrics -- I'm not sure YC gets the best candidates. They only get the best as judged by the pool accessible to them, and by their selection criteria.

That said, yc reject groups probably will suffer from a smaller talent pool (since they are indeed option B), and from a lack of experienced people to make a reasonably good selection.
Would be great, except I can't use Chrome anymore as Flash crashes every time, and no one seems to know why.
> A few decades ago, most of what you needed to learn to be productive in society was best learned at a university.

But only some of the time! Lots of things at undergraduate level are irrelevant to your ability to contribute to society
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Unless you want to use a stylus...
That's not actually true. I was in the valley a couple months back and was able to book office hours with Paul as much as was useful (and more frequently than I had when we were doing YC in S09). Office hours with Paul and the other YC folks are in 15 minute blocks and have been since YC was much smaller. Most YC teams don't meet with Paul privately every week and even as such the upper bound on the number of those meetings that'd be possible per week is around 200. Also, now, in contrast to when we did YC you can also book hours with Paul Buchheit, Harj and Gary.
I agree; yet I do think that there likely are a subset of coding tasks that are suitable for a visual approach (esp if a multi-touch screen gives other benefits, specific to that task). The only thing missing is knowing what those tasks are...

1) a way to address the choice explosion is (highly) domain specific languages, with limited choices. I guess this would be closer to scripting/macros than true programming, but still useful.

2) could the number of options be constrained in some other way? Or, perhaps chosen in a way that's more intuitive to touch - such as pointing to a graphical representation (of something that naturally has a graphical representation). OTOH, while good for nouns, less good for verbs. What about gestures for verbs (like sign language)? Maybe not for the specific choice, but to narrow it down to a family of choices?

3) and the bizarre idea of using the strength of multi-touch to make choices - like a chording keyboard (eg).

Is a keyboard really intrinsically better for coding than pen and paper? (maybe - there's linguistic power in symbols lacking in pictures).

BTW: A prefix tree is useful, but not specialized to multi-touch...
I'm generally paranoid about such things, so I intend to have the Terms and Privacy Policy all set prior to a public launch. Whether or not this is a good approach... no idea. The peace of mind is worth it for me though, since I'm a worrier.

I wanted to ensure that I was as thorough as possible, so I brought up the process during my first (free) consultation with a lawyer. To minimize the billable hours, the lawyer recommended I piece them together myself and then just send it to him for any modifications as necessary. I'm just about done with mine and hope to send them off in the next day or so. It will probably cost more than I'd prefer at this stage, but the cost of getting nailed in a legal issue when such an agreement could possibly protect me would likely be higher. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself. :)

It probably wouldn't hurt to look through the Terms of your competitors to get a feel for what others in your space are covering in their legal docs. You might also be able to buy some standard templates, although who knows how well they'd actually hold up.
> * Instead, it introduces them to lucrative career options (e.g., investment banking) available mainly to Ivy League grads.*

What happens when two bubbles collide?

A bigger "POP"?
And Abraham Lincoln went 'sans professors'.

I didn't mean to bash. I merely meant to accentuate how unique the situation/industry is.
They already fail to understand Privacy - but maybe that's more of a bet that it is an old fashioned concept. Maybe they'll fail to understand Social Compartmentalization - I don't want everyone in my life to know everyone else. Maybe that's just my old fashioned ways too.

But my bet - they'll fail to understand Location.

The next big thing is Location, Location, Location!
I'm having the same issue, every time I need to use flash I open safari or FF. It's one of those things that I consider so strange about giant companies like Microsoft or Google, something so important it's not getting addressed
Where is the hardware angle in this? One of the reasons that Macs lost the battle was because they couldn't compete with the latest and greatest hardware that that Intel churned out. Through most of the 90s Apple stuck with unpowered hardware while being clobbered by Dell and HP's prices (due to higher volumes and probably better supply chain management). This is no longer the case - in fact, because of Apple's massive iOS device volumes they can probably beat the bigger manufacturers on price this time around.

All they need to do is keep up with the hardware trends and keep refreshing their product line. So far they've done this (retina, dual core on iPad 2, cameras etc).

So, it's not like the old Win vs Mac battle since the hardware playing field is almost neutral (or perhaps there is a slight Apple advantage here).
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In Germany you dont even need to go to college to get a good education in your field. They have a system where Companies train new people from school (they have to take tests and stuff to get in) for the job. For 3 years you work in the company, go to school and get paid around 600 EUR a month. After successfully completing that you have a degree that enables you to work as a Software Developer or Media Designer for example.
North America was out of sync with Europe before this change. North America used to put the clocks forward on the first Sunday of April; now that happens on the second Sunday of March. Europe standardised on the last Sunday of March during the 90s.
> The main problem visual programming encounters is the sheer number of options you have when you are entering code in text form.

Agreed. So maybe the solution is to adopt a completely different approach to "visual" programming. One that doesn't involve entering code, and has a bigger dependence on gestures. I have no idea how it would look like though, but something that would allow you to develop on a touch-screen device is quite intriguing.
One thing said in the article that I also agree with, is that it seems almost inevitable that Google will buy Twitter eventually. Seems like such a good fit.
Could this be a scheme to look at everybody's applications? Why would the angel not directly go to YC demo day or ask them for the reject list? When desperate it is easy to lose sight of what is plausible.

Please don't get me wrong, I am not calling you a liar, but this is just healthy skepticism. If I were to ever go along with this I would need to see some written proof.

If you have actually done this you're doing a great service to a lot of people.
YC Reject could turn out to be an interesting development just based on the way YC does self-selects for a 50/50 success ratio.

See more here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431712
I love Kickstarter. Such a pity it won't work for Europe :-(

How difficult/expensive is it for a European to get a US bank account such that I could create a Kickstarter project?
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So I can't speak for PG but according to the "What Happens at YC" page he mentions that video streams and recordings used to be available but are not anymore because it has increased the value of what the speaker has to say. According to the page, speakers feel less filtered when off camera and off record and can thus be more helpful. Here is quoted text:

I didn't consciously realize how much speakers at more public events censored themselves till I was able to compare the same people speaking off the record at YC dinners and on the record at Startup School. YC dinner talks are much more useful, because the details people omit in more public talks tend to be the most interesting parts of their stories.

And link to page: http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html
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I fired up my old iPhone 3G to use as a gaming-device and MP3-player not too long back. I updated to latest iOS it would support, which iirc is iOS 4.2.1.

Interested in seeing how the iOS-development had been, I decided to enable all the features Apple had decided to disable. Basically a quick rooting with redsn0w where I only re-enabled the official features and I didn't add any 3rd-party hackware to compensate or otherwise distort the experience.

I still feel it is stagnant, but like I said, I realize this may be a personal preference. Just thought I'd clear up any confusion regarding my ability (and inability) to use iOS-features as they are available as per today.
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IMHO, what Google need are

1. HTML5-based cloud address book app with ease of adding new friends and separating friends into few categories on any mobile phones.

2. decentralized social graph database with no personal information attached, only IDs and relationships in the graph DB.

3. lots social plug-ins which can utilize the graph DB so that any web developers can build their own little facebook for different context.
That's easily fixable by using an HMAC, as the author should have done in the first place.

Does this attack actually work, by the way? Don't you need to also be lucky with the padding and have the plaintext be an exact multiple of the bytes in the round?
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>"Let me start by saying that the standard of living has increased for everyone, but yet being poor still sucks."<

I'd argue people are going to school to get higher wages. Wages have stagnated for the last 20+ years. High cost university educations are offering little or no bargaining power to individuals. Just like buying an overpriced house you can't sell. It's a bubble.
Ratings suck for differentiating items on a website. "5 stars" and "1 star" have some meaning, but everything else is worthless. For this and a few other good reasons, Flickr just collapses ratings into "favorites".

Flickr has an algorithm called "interestingness" which tries to guess which photos are worthwhile by looking at social activity and other such metrics. However, I agree that it isn't nearly good enough, if you are a real lover of photography. Flickr Explore tends to be filled with cliche photographic beauty. That said, if you expect a machine to tell you what good art is, you're going to wait a long time.
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Extending ODF was not possible because Sun would not allow it. Sun's IP licenses for ODF effectively gave them veto power over attempts to add things to ODF that they did not approve, so that was the end of that. Sun's position was that ODF would support exactly the feature set needed by StarOffice.

If you ignore IBM's and Sun's massive FUD campaigns against OOXML, and actually compare the specs, you'll find that OOXML is not anywhere near as bad as they claimed, and in many ways is better than ODF. ODF does have nicer markup--I'd much rather read or write by hand an ODF file. On the other hand, ODF is incomplete in major areas, and other areas are imprecise. (Sun and IBM actually tried to use this as a point in their FUD campaign, slamming OOXML for having too much detail).
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That's pretty cool, although it took me a minute or two to see where the download button was (I was confused I couldn't right click and save as) but I guess thats canvas for you
YC came out of an unmet need as well, VCs not finding at the seed stage.
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Just two ideas off the cuff:

- have your methods and variables put into "categories". Then you could quickly choose category and you would be presented with limited choice in the category

- code snippets - templated pieces of code (control structures, database access...) where you would just choose variables/methods to fill in the template
If you took 2 person-days to complete the YC application form, you may have agonized over it too much, or hadn't yet done other definitional/pitch work that you'd have had to do eventually anyway. So you can't really charge the whole two days against YC.

If you're really eager for a few bullet points of feedback, send a copy of your application materials to a few approachable people whose opinions you would respect. Or even post it publicly.
To get a scale of things I just had to find out what the weight of a typical grain of salt is. http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/How_much_does_a_grain_of_salt_...

If one goes by the minimum value which is 0.05mg, an equivalent amount of this stuff can kill 2,500 human sized mice with 50% probability. That's potent stuff.

Well, had written 'people' in place of 'human sized mice' but the LD-50 values used were those for mice, so it is only fair that I measure in "human sized mice" units.
How about selective releases or even edited versions?
You have to define "worth" before you can answer this. For me, I chose to get the MBP with the standard hard drive because it offered so much more storage. My computer has 2X the storage yours does and while I admit that there is a noticeable performance difference, the advantage of faster loading isn't worth the storage capacity I'd be sacrificing. IMHO the storage capacity you'd give up isn't worth the additional investment. But again, that's just me.
Someone should get started on the 'YC Reject Reject' fund.
the biggest feature i think ios needs based on my 4 year old nephew using my ipad? the ability to log out of the app store. there is no way to do it. you have to wait a certain amount of time.
Neither of my comments were profane or misleading, the first was an honest question and the second one supplied a reasoned point that was likely informative for at least some who read it.

Both are downmodded to zero. Is this some sort of knee-jerk nationalist response or was there something wrong in either my question or my analysis?
My "hatred of epsilon-delta proofs"? Boy, your little put-down is not only insulting, it's even absurd that I have feelings one way or another about simple mathematical techniques. Unless 'boredom' = 'hate' in your world.

Sorry to even mention this and get your blood pressure up. (Didn't mean to scratch a sore spot by simply criticizing an educational system that I certainly paid my dues in.)

And BTW, in addition to your other unsupported inferences (ironic given the subject matter), I wouldn't confuse not taking further math classes with stopping one's mathematical education. If you insist on reading things that don't exist in someone's words, how do your proofs turn out well? You must be constantly assuming things which aren't given, and even changing "equals" to "not equals" in a problem to turn it to one you have a textbook solution for.

[Edit: Ahh... Not to sound at all stalker-y, but I looked at your public account info to understand your perspective better. I see that not only you studied at UChicago — which probably means Spivak's Calculus and learning epsilon-delta proofs might be a matter of pride with you — you work at a financial market. My comment does contain a criticism of the status quo, which you may have strong ideological feelings about and therefore respond with a bit less rationality than otherwise. And... maybe I did come across as calling a subset of people here 'tools'.]
What's that got to do with anything? My point was that by defining themselves in terms of "not ycombinator" it doesn't look good.

I'd much rather read about an "independent, peer-based company building support group" or something like that.
I think the housing bubble analogy is a good one.

Prices for the highest quality houses rose and that tide also lifted housing prices in poor areas. But when the market crashed everything went down.

For profit colleges are selling garbage degrees to poor people in urban areas. Degree inflation has already begun and soon it will also effect people at some of the highest levels. Look at PhDs and JDs. Soon this paper inflation will suck real value away from the areas we haven't even thought of.
I use passwordcard (http://www.passwordcard.org/en) as my password manager,

1) All my passwords are stored on a piece of paper, in plain text. There is no need to encrypt, because only I know how I use it.

2) I don't need to back it up regularly. Just one backup, in case I lose the card, is enough.

3) Because I have to type in the passwords from it, I actually remember the ones I use regularly, so even if I lose the cards, I can log in to most things.

4) There is no "master password" to be exposed.

5) If I'm stupid enough to read it out loud, or run my finger along it whilst someone is watching, I might expose the parameters of one password, but everything else is still secure.

6) It is a piece of paper, the browser integration goes via my eyes and my fingers.
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A well-capitalised moon mining operation could maintain a base in space and send energy to Earth via laser beam (or whatever similar scientific approach you favour). I'm sure that governments could confiscate earth-bound assets of such enterprises, but they will presumably retaliate by keeping all their assets in space.

So you're saying that I have a super-energetic space-based laser, and that I would retaliate by stockpiling energy? I'm pretty sure I would just aim the laser at some target of strategic value and watch it melt instead.

Highly illegal, maybe... but what's the point of having a space-based laser if you don't get to unleash it from time to time upon your enemies?
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Clearly, you didn't read what I wrote.

If you're going to reply "Clearly, you didn't read what I wrote," at least do the courtesy of considering the comment you're replying to.
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Firstly, YC Reject is, by its very nature, aiming lower than YC. Secondly, no offense to people behind YC Reject, but I would expect YC to be significantly better at spotting the best applicants.

Now, I don't have a startup looking for funding, and if I did I wouldn't expect to get into either. But I'd expect to have a much better chance at getting into YCR than YC. As such, were I looking for a small amount of funding, I might look at YC and think "why bother, not a chance" and then see YCR and think "let's pretend I applied to YC, then I actually have a chance at this one!"

And sure, the cost of applying to each is just filling out an application, and so in future I (the hypothetical me that is in a startup) might apply to YC, knowing that the worst case scenario is I become eligible for YCR. But right now, even the time spent filling out an application is a waste of time if you don't think you can get accepted - but perhaps less likely to be a waste of time applying for YCR.

As to why people would want to lie to apply to YCR - a part of the reason for YCR, and for possible funding, is the PG quotes saying "we are always going to miss some of the best..." etc, and the idea that teams applying to YC, given they thought they might be good enough, they are more likely to be good than teams who thought they definitely wouldn't be good enough for YC. Without the link to YC, there would never be a funding offering based on a blog post saying "let's get a group of startups together to form a network of contacts etc.", after all.