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There was an article a month or two ago about the problems with tech accelerators gaining popularity.

I can't find the link but it basically said the accelerator bubble is going to happen when the secondary groups get the 'B' talent startups, and then the next groups get the 'C' talent...

While I have no idea about the quality of YC Reject groups, this does kinda have that same feel to it.
Bar Camps began as an alternative to O'Reilly's Foo Camp, for those who weren't invited. Now there are barcamps almost every weekend, in a dozen or more countries.

If nothing else, the rejects (always) have force of numbers on their side.
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Yeah, that's a bit of a disconnect all right, but a necessary one: without an active FB session, I can't wire up the necessary features like Search (of all FB's 600MM users) or showing you your friends list.

Rest assured that while you you do need to connect via FB, all your activity on the app is anonymous - as either "a friend" or "a stranger" of the user you're rating/commenting on.
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As far as I know cellphones have exactly the same problem (not the setting on fire part). Radiation was never a problem. The problem is warming of tissue.
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You can use keepass which is open source and cross platform.

http://keepass.info/download.html

It's much more convenient than a text file you cipher and decipher and it's more secure as well. A text file is prone to error (wrong copy/paste, forgot to cipher the file, etc.)
Ratpack; blueeyes; albert (his middle name); chairman; eleven (as in, "Ocean's 11"); vegas; sammy; dean; myway... you get the idea.
Problem with cheap devices like this one is battery life. You are lucky if you can keep it up to 2 hours.

And the touchscreens are not the best in the world. Even the capacitive ones.

But if you just keep it connected and don't worry about stiff fingers it can be a great device!
I think Thiel is right - sort of. At least, if you consider the large amount of money spend on a college degree in the US. Let me compare this to Germany. In Germany, universities and therefore higher education is free. You just enroll, take classes, pay your rent and after a couple of years, you are done and usually have a degree that is very competitive around the world.

But every student knows that there are areas that lead to high-paying jobs such as engineering, while in other areas such as history, communications, philosophy, languages, you will have trouble finding a job, not even speaking of a high-paying job. Still, people are usually more or less aware of the fact that they might end up having an average-income job.

In the US, higher education is a financial investment where people expect a financial return. In Germany, higher education is mostly an investment of time and people are much more aware of the possible outcomes. We don't have a bubble here.
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The money was a very small part of YC's appeal for me. Access to the mentors and other human capital was the real draw. I can't see giving up 6% of my company if the program doesn't offer human capital similar to YC's.
One of those incompatible features that they added ended up becoming Ajax.
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Hahahah he uses a Unicode snowman as his example delimeter!

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I'm ready to face the day with a smile on my face.
With 40-50 groups now your time spent with him as a YC'er is significantly less. He's added staff, but scaling out his time is a big problem. Plus with the 40-50 groups - I can only imagine that the demo days are a complete circus. Will angels continue to invest their money in what essentially has become a meat market? If I were to invest my money on a high-risk venture I'd like to get a little T.L.C.
How would analog phones cause cancer?
No.

Embrace & Extend is a well known, very destructive mechanism for subverting standards.

Enhancing existing standards with experimental extensions is a well known very useful mechanism for improving widely used standards.

As with anything to do with technology you need to look at the details to determine exactly what is happening on a case-by-case basis.

Just saying "that sounds like MS" isn't useful without examining the details. For example, many of Microsoft's extensions to HTML were very useful (eg, XMLHTTPRequest), whereas others weren't. It's a case-by-case thing, and asserting this is always bad is a very shallow interpretation.

TL;DR: Details matter. Experimenting by extending standards isn't always bad.
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Reminds me of At Ease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease)
how long iOS was almost strictly superior to Android.

Having had both a iPhone (3G) and an Android-phone (since 2.1) I have to ask in what ways you would argue this position, since IMO its seems strictly a matter of preference.

Right now I would actually say at least my opinion is the exact opposite. To me iOS seems utterly stagnant and my Android phone surpassed my iPhone in every way from the second I got it.

Not trying to provoke a flamewar or anything, just wondering if there is something I'm missing here and on what basis this argument is made.
It would be interesting to diff the original applications and those after the money announcement to gauge the interest and quality. I think quality startups will want to reach a certain level (prototype, proof of concept) and then money will find them. The blanket offer for investment without knowing the startups or prior relationships is a bit too good to be true?
Even YC has always said that there were promising groups from those that did not make the cut. They've admitted that they aren't the best at picking winners. So you can't say that the A groups were better than the B groups. Many of the B groups (and even single co-founders) were just a victim of YC's rules and capacity.
Probably had their CMS hacked or something. That sort of thing happens to a lot of sites, sadly. Google for "comment3" (make sure there's no space in there) and look through a couple pages of results and you'll find a lot of spam-filled sites. And that's after Google cleaned up a lot of it.
What Thiel doesn't get is that the reason why it's a bubble is also what keeps it afloat. It's exclusionary, and something inherent in humans is a desire to categorize and compartmentalize -- credentials.

A rule of thumbs for bubbles is each one must have a "why this time it's different" elevator pitch ("Dow 40,000', "there's only local housing markets").

Exclusivity likely is a large part of what gives an elite education its value, normally - a Harvard education has indeed generally been highly prized. But what keeps a bubble afloat is bubble dynamics. Even a valuable item can be over-valued. The self-validating quality of increasing prices and valuations really does works well for a while - like it did for all the other bubbles - and can then can be expected to stop working - like it did for all the other bubbles.
My initial thought is to leave investment/equity out of the program and stick to the original vision. There are dozens of established incubator programs that have a reputation and history of performance.
Khan's current lectures are best thought of as placeholder material. A rough draft. Having a free, competent, standardized tutoring job available on every little subject is SO MUCH better than nothing at all that clearly the low-hanging fruit at this point is to just cover more parts of more subjects. Once you've got lots and lots of subjects covered, it would make sense to assess the field to figure out which lectures are working the least well and invest effort on improving those.

Khan Academy is a system that lets us set a baseline and then incrementally improve from there. If this "deeper understanding" can be conveyed in lecture form, it seems inevitable that as the lectures improve, some of them will impart "deeper understanding". Or maybe they'll just add an extra "deeper understanding" course in addition to the current ones.
Crazy stuff. Can you imagine the analog in other professions?

"I got rejected from Harvard Law School. So I got a couple of my fellow applicants together and decided to study law together for 3 years, sans professors. We all just got 6 figure offers from the big firms on Wall Street."
I'd still settle for meeting up with a group of intelligent and determined entrepreneurs who I can bounce ideas off of and perhaps get a little advice.
What happened to civility on HN? Why are people upvoting the above comment?
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Yea, I have to come to think that embrace and extend is not the worst thing MS did. For example, extending ODF would be far less bad than creating OOXML.
Same situation here. I’d love to push our company to Git+GitHub and the new issue tracker is another small advantage in comparison to our current setup, but it’s a no-go until we can attach screenshots and logs to the issues. Let’s hope that file attachments simply did not make it into 2.0 and are scheduled for one of the first point releases.
What? How does this.. what? You seem to contradict yourself: you admit he is spreading knowledge of the governments' misbehavior (and that this is a laudable thing) and then.. question mark?

Upon 5th reread: are you actually accusing him of falsely accusing others of cowardice for self-aggrandizement because these 'others' (aka: us) are not spreading the word of governmental misbehavior fast enough?

I seriously can't see any other statement in your comment, and it seems like even the anti-Jacob sentiment I quote above died after the third sentence - I'm just trying to string a single thought through the whole comment. Please clarify.
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Flickr is also pretty horrible if you're into photography. There's no systematic way to find good photos (e.g. top average rating). Both Flickr and Facebook are huge garbage dumps of photos. Facebook has absolutely no way to find great photos. Flick has some very limited functionality for it, but it could've been so much better. Neither were build to suit artists. They were designed to be garbage dumps.
BTW, if you think what the IE monopoly did to web standards was bad enough, look at what the Netscape monopoly did to web standards. Saying that Netscape had a bad track record of following them would be underestimating the impact.
A draft of the SPDY specification is here:

http://dev.chromium.org/spdy

Mike Belshe presented about SPDY in the IETF HTTP working group meeting at the most recent IETF meeting:

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/80/slides/httpbis-7.pdf

We'd love for more folks to implement SPDY, both clients and servers.
Definitely buy an aftermarket SSD.
Stay away from Crucial C300 for now as they seem to have problems with 2011 i5/i7 macbooks(may have been fixed in latest firmware, but was a problem up untill recently).
2011 macbook pro has a sata3 controller, so you might as well aim for a sata 3 SSD.
Sandforce controllers are still tough to beat and if you can afforce Vertex 3, go for it.
Another thing is that a fellow from Macrumor has hacked the TRIM support for osx, so its now enabled on non-apple drives as well:

http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322
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For Golf there's large costs involved to get going and then continue, hence not that many people could be playing it, but still it has a high cost. Off the top of my head the costs would be something like: course/club membership fees, round fees, golf equipment (clubs, bag, clothes). So you can easily end up spending $1000's per year on the activity.
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Google's bottom line is a result of the volume of internet content consumed. Their presence means that no matter where you go, you encounter Adsense ads.

Google wants the whole web experience to be faster. They don't benefit in locking you in. I imagine Apache/Nginx/etc will all have SPDY support in due time (while still defaulting to HTTP or a hybrid setup) and it will be yet another nice enhancement to the web experience.
I remember back in 06-08 this was the common response. Now YC is popular and well known enough to make this work. Good luck.
Ubuntu uses dash as its default shell to speed things up.

Actually it is (sadly) the major reason, but not the only one:

The Debian policy manual has long mandated that "shell scripts specifying '/bin/sh' as interpreter must only use POSIX features"; in fact, this requirement has been in place since well before the inception of the Ubuntu project. Furthermore, any shell scripts that expected to be portable to other Unix systems, such as the BSDs or Solaris, already honoured this requirement. Thus, we felt that the compatibility impact of this change would be minimal. [1]

Personally I think that assuming nothing but POSIX is a more compelling reason than efficiency.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
>Click on View live SPDY session to see all SPDY connections at a given time – all Google properties work with this technology.

This reminds me of Microsoft skipping part of the three-way handshake for IIS-to-IE connections to reduce the latency to their servers as compared to Apache.
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I think that getting qualified mentors to commit time to the project will provide more value than funding.
if the issue is knowing whether you knew about a disease, i don't think there's any way to anonymize oneself.

the insurance company could simply acquire a dna sample from you and check whether there is a match in the database?
I find this very interesting. If I understand this correctly, the suggestions are: (1) the "slate" is relatively "blank" to start with (abstract objects, for instance, do not "exist", in the sense that they are inheritable); (2) a generic ability to abstract could very well be inheritable; (3) the "slate" remains in a "writeable" state longer than previously expected - the right "nurture" can enable the unfolding of potential abilities even relatively late in life (abstract objects can become "real", even though they don't "exist", in the sense that they can become "meaningful").
It's nice that it has built-in touch and cloud support, and it's nice that you can code on-the-unit, using the touch interface. But it seems even less visual than existing visual languages (they are mostly academic/teaching experimnts; I don't mean "V"B - though its form creator comes close).

Could there be an entirely different approach to programming, built around the touch-screen from the ground up? Using its strengths (e.g. analog 2D input) and skipping its weaknesses (e.g. no digital symbols from keystrokes) - instead of trying to cram the old ideas into the new? Let it grow in its own way, I say.

A starting point might be visual form creation; lines for bindings, for transitions, for calls; multiple fingers for looping. Or, perhaps even better, to be like the diagrams we sketch to represent coding ideas! Instead of adapting our most natural and intuitive expression (diagrams) to coding in text, why not work directly with diagrams, now that we finally have the appropriate tools?

Diagrams aren't suitable for all coding tasks, but I recommend fitting a technology to the tasks where it naturally excels.

disclaimer I haven't played with the tech (no WP7), just going by the webpage. Lest I offend with my ridiculously idealistic demands (who of us has created a fundamentally new approach to coding? Not I), this really shows that MS is pro-developer (while apple is pro-consumer) - and just starting to use multi-touch as a programming fundamental is the most important step in this quest.
I like Apple's products and using Android devices makes me angry but I wouldn't find it all that bad if Android/iOS were like PC/Mac.

Not with an half dead Apple as the end result but if Apple's position in the smartphone market were equal to its position in the PC market I wouldn't have a problem with that. I care about Apple making great products, they don't need to be a dominant player in the smartphone market in order to do that.
Sometimes I wonder why we don't use certificates more often. Nowadays a lot of people have a laptop or other mobile device so you need only one installation.

Maybe give users a choice: password or certificate.
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I think people who stand on the side lines and do not take part in movements that have an open and objectively good cause could be called part of the problem by not doing anything.

Let me give an example: In my country, when a motorist witnesses an accident with injured people, he is required by law to provide first aid to the injured and call additional help to the scene. Needless to say, first aid education is required when applying for a drivers license here.

Some people will help if they see injured people on the side of the road and some people will not. I call the latter cowards and they are doing harm by not providing timely help or even call for professional help. People die because other people look away and ignore them.

Now, I think what ioerror is doing is brave, and everybody not doing the same or more is a coward (including me, I'd like to do more, yet all I can do is trying to make information available to as many people as possible). He does not look away.

Bradley Manning did not look away. He is the one who is the bravest man in this equation. He knew what he did would have consequences, yet looking away while innocent people get mown down video-game stile needs a special kind of ignorance and evil to be able to ignore or even call it OK.

The US government is able to do that at the moment including large parts of the population. Cowards, all of them.
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> second deadlist in the natural world, not overall.

Right. Overall it's the fourth deadliest, with an L.D.50 of 300ng/kg, behind Maitotoxin (130ng/kg), Polonium 210 (10ng/kg) and Botulinum (1ng/kg).

Is that supposed to make it better?

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A person who was poisoned with a low dose of aerosolized palytoxin survived. Injected, you would not stand a chance.
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I think khomenko is correct, with the exception you pointed out (ongoing studies).
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The last YC batch was the smallest in a while (I believe it was well under 20). I don't believe they've continued to grow the size of the batches. I'd be shocked if they ever grow to 40-50 groups. That many wouldn't fit in the YC office for the dinners. Where are you getting this "40-50 groups" number from?

"Will angels continue to invest their money in what essentially has become a meat market?"

The evidence seems to indicate that the answer is "yes".

"If I were to invest my money on a high-risk venture I'd like to get a little T.L.C."

Personally, if I were an investor, I'd rather get a little R.O.I.
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The original idea had something special and different. Now this is really just another accelerator.
The biggest problem with articles such as these is that the author willfully ignores all of the other mobile platforms currently on the market (Windows Phone, Blackberry, WebOS (note: ignoring Nokia due the the expected retirement of their platforms in favor of WP7)). These platforms are much more compelling than any other OS was during the PC/Mac wars, and dramatically affect the overall market. Especially when you factor in the fact that all three of the platforms I mentioned are backed by companies which are willing to throw /billions/ of dollars into this space. To ignore them when discussing the difference between the desktop wars and mobile wars is ridiculous.

I was even more surprised when I searched for Part 1 of this article. Not only did I not find it, but I found this article instead: http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/02/windows-phone-7-is-best-wi... in which the author claims "I believe the Windows Phone 7 experience to be a serious challenger to both platforms in terms of quality, intuitive use and simplicity."