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I don't think the average user knows that they are supposed to pass-up installing an app if it requests excessive permissions. I had to teach my friend to specifically look at the permissions requested when installing apps.

"This application requests permission to read phone state and identity." <-- That sounds so harmless to most people.

If it said "This application requests permission to retrieve your phone number and your full name and send it over the internet to a 3rd party company", then they might be inclined to pass up installing the app.
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How so? Sure, there's a significant upfront cost to sending a rocket out to the asteroid belt, but you only have to do that once. Once there's a base with a radio antenna, machine intelligences can travel back and forth at the speed of light.

And once you're in the asteroid belt, you have a huge amount of unclaimed raw material, unlimited space, and no gravity well to get in the way.
It's definitely a cultural thing, but everyone always misses one angle of the story. Asian parents tell you to work hard and become a doctor or an engineer not necessarily to make yourself happy, but so you can provide well for your family.

It's a mentality that was wholly familiar to our grandparents, but seems to have skipped the baby boomer generation and I'm not sure the country is better for it.
i drool to what you thought they would be releasing.

EDIT: by drool i mean salivate. that certainly sounds like an amazing service.
Can't really. Cost of BOM bears no relationship to selling price. His post below says it costs about $30 in 1k quantities. So estimating about $50 in 10pc prices, if I were building a few for a government agency/large corporation, ignoring NRE charges I'd probably price them upwards of $1000 each. This is not exactly something you can purchase at Best Buy...
The typical lean web startup doesn't need £100,000 as seed funding. I mentioned our 0% equity loan because it demonstrates what a terrible deal this accelerator is offering.
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Pictures aid understanding. But in the vast majority of sophisticated mathematics (that I've seen), pictures would be unable to accurately represent the real assertions.

For instance, if I want to talk about 26-dimensional discontinuous space (the space of the basic alphabet), there is no visualization that can help you grasp the totality of the matter.

I believe there are a few interpretations of what math actually is (formal reasoning, interpretation, etc), philosophy of math 'junk'. I'll leave that to a more-beered time. :-)
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Audiogalaxy was the greatest thing!

I used to visit my local record shop every couple of weeks and walk out with a stack of CDs, almost all of which I would have first found on Audiogalaxy (running 24/7 on my Linux jukebox)

When the record industry shut down Audiogalaxy, that's when I stopped buy CDs from major labels. The boycott is still going strong.
that depends on the maths, doesn't it? for example, although they no doubt want them all to succeed, they probably make a lot of money on very few, and those few pay for the rest. since no-one can predict exactly which those few are, it's not clear the investors lose by increasing the pool (as long as they don't lower their standards).

that's not the same arguments as a participant might use. it could be that you're going to start several companies in your lifetime; the probability of any one succeeding is not that great, but hopefully one will. from that point of view, what you want from YC is high quality contacts that carry across into future companies, even if those are not YC supported.

there's nothing to say, on the face of it, that those to mechanisms must pull in the same direction; the timescales are different, for example.
Agreed, this is why I am more encouraged by others such as RockHealth where they have a very specific vertical they focus on.

The market, needs, barriers etc are wildly different in the consumer internet and mobile space than in health care -- and something like RockHealth is greatly needed so that vertical can mature.
I'm a technical founder looking for a non-technical co-founder.
Is there a better way to find each other?

I have a working product and need someone to help with customer acquisition and raising funding.

To discuss further, please email srfi287@gmail.com
They lost me at 'upload your music'. I'd rather not put everything on their servers...

I'll stick to subsonic.org
By this I mean in-person - biggest egos, funniest, most charismatic.

Off the top of my head - Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Adeo Ressi, Mike Arrington...who else?
To this I would add - "and why"
How can you judge a class so quickly? I think it's impossible to evaluate a class until 3+ years after YC.
Are you going to classify that list you put out?

What characteristics are you associating with each of them?
At Carnegie Mellon, there's no limit on actual number of computers. You are limited to a single ethernet port, but you're free to hook up a hub or switch or use the building's wireless. The only thing they frown on is if you're using excessive bandwidth.
Congrats!

It does irritate me that the UK government bleat on about making business finance readily available then you end up face to face with the likes of Natwest!.

Reading articles about the startup program in Chile and the building of a tech hub in Portugal I do wonder what happened to the innovation in the UK business sector, if the Startup UK website was anything to go by it's gone.
Uhh yeah, 0.01/10k datastore operations? lol. This is highway robbery.
Does the policy prevent you from attaching a router to the network?
Most everyone trying to get accepted by YC is familiar with PG, his writings, and the YC partners experience regarding startups. It's a primary reason many apply.

Respect that PG and the other founders know how to scale the program and handle the workload. They have all the experience of running YC, while each of us has none.

They would be the first to limit their startup count if that needed to happen.
Short wave radio allows global scale communications with very little infrastructure, and Morse code has many advantages over other forms of communications in the short wave bands. A Morse code signal can be understood in a noisy radio environment better than a voice signal at the same amount of power. It requires less radio bandwidth, enabling very efficient use of the limited short wave spectrum.

Short wave radio is not near as important now with the global Internet in place, but it still has reach to some places that don't have Internet connectivity. It is also a good backup technology in the event that something like a natural disaster or terrorist attack severely damages our Internet infrastructure.

Finally, communicating using Morse code over Amateur Radio is a fun and intellectually stimulating hobby. I don't currently have a rig setup where I can do this, but when I did in the past, I really enjoyed it.
This would also be explained by a higher quality applicant pool
I would love to do a Linux version, but we just don't have the resources right now. At some point we will get it done, I just can't say when. However, it does run under wine -- email us at help@audiogalaxy.com if you have any problems setting it up.
Loans and lines of credit often don't require equity. They frequently do require you to put up your house. You cannot pull an interest-free loan, backed only by your corporation, off a tree. It is a real offering. It is not reasonable to call it a "mugging".

We agree on how valuable $32k of seed money (debt or equity) is worth. To wit: not much.

We agree on how expensive 6% of your company is worth. To wit: a deceptively large amount.

We agree that this seed program is probably not a good deal.

I just think there's a difference between "probably not worth it" and "bad virtually to the point of criminality", which is what the wording you used meant.
"We can make it impossible for the machine to override these drives."

This has been debated to death, and nobody has come up with a good way to constrain a program that's smarter than we are from rewriting itself "badly" (i.e. in a way that's bad for humans), either by accident or on purpose. All the "put it in a box", "don't give it a body", "don't let it on the Internet", "don't let it change itself" scenarios depend on all humans everywhere abiding by a set of rules, even though the AI-in-a-box might be actively trying to get people to let it out. There are many points of failure, and all it takes is one rogue research group somewhere to let one of them happen to end up with a self-modifying AI that starts to get smarter faster than we know how to stop it.

Hell, if we're at the point where we can build an AI, one of the first things any smart asshole with a lot of compute power in his garage (or enough money to put together a massive EC2 cluster) will do is set the thing off on improving its own code, just to see what happens.

And again, the problem is not that the computer will necessarily want to kill us or anything like that; it's that if it gets to the point where it's intelligence dwarfs ours, it will have such unbelievable power that even the slightest mistake could wipe us out. If we can build an AI that can improve itself, an AI that has self-improved for a while may be able to unleash any number of grey-goo style scenarios on the world. Might not be meant to kill us, but could happen by mistake. The "drives" that guide such an AI must specifically be aimed at avoiding those scenarios, including avoiding any self-modifications that would cause those scenarios. It's a much more difficult problem than it seems at first glance.
The more popular and powerful YC becomes, the more it becomes evident that there's an emerging niche in the market for facilitator-type enterprises doing what YC does. Something akin to mentorprising; PG et al are mentorprisers of

I guess this is to be expected as geek culture becomes more mainstream.
You seem to imply that a blue collar worker in your country is somehow more important than a blue collar in another country. I'd take a liberal philosophy over scary nationalist tendencies any day.
Sometimes I feel like we are living in a game of Mad Libs.

Why ______ chose _____ over ______ for _____.

And then some 5 year old is making up words to fill in the gaps.
Absolutely. While I'm more on the 'information wants to be free' side of things, I'm not sure what the ethics are of borrowing from some other sites JS. If it's really just to learn then fine, but how much copy/paste before you're in need of a license?
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Farmville and Lady Gaga
whats you get when you put lady Gaga and farmville?... gagaville http://j.mp/lnmSYY
That's not an ideal way to go. Morse is an aural language and needs to be learned by sound. Knowing what combinations of
'dots and dashes' compose various symbols is next to useless: A is didah, not "dot dash".

The optimal way to learn it is by having a partner or computer app transmit individual letters at relatively fast rates, so you don't have time to parse them into their elements. Then, adjust the transmission speed by varying the time between letters, gradually ramping things up as your recognition skills improve.
I don't know if this data is available, but I'd be interested to see what percentage of this class was incorporated before applying, and what percentage got incorporated as part of the process.

Also interesting would be what percentage of this class include repeat YC founders.
Depends what you're judging. It's true you can't judge returns till much later, because those usually depend on a single outlier, and whether they turn down the $50m offer.

The sort of test I'm talking about is a preliminary one: how promising the companies look on Demo Day. Investors who've been to a lot of past Demo Days (and there have now been 12) have a pretty good sense of what percentage of the companies they want to talk to further.
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mentorpreneurs?
Even if it is you still have to cons up all those arguments whereas reduce doesn't.
That sounds reasonable, but I'm curious if you have data on satisfaction as reported by the founders? As your reputation grows, you may be getting better results partially through having higher quality startups, which would cloud the issue.
60 should be ok, because we have 3 partners advising startups about product stuff now (me, Harj, and Paul Buchheit) and I know 1 partner can easily handle 20 startups. We probably could not get up to 80 without more partners though.
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True that those working in the rating agencies should be ked in the eyesocket with rusty screwdrivers...

I see. Yes. An independent valuation would be nice, if you could trust someone to have the competence and integrity to do it.
I can't speak for Google, but Amazon doesn't do it. It took 41 hours to upload my collection (not counting podcasts, which for whatever absurd reason are not supported) to Cloud Player and I have a 15mbps fios connection. If I had a regular cable modem or whatever I probably wouldn't have bothered.
And the ultimate form of flattery is imitation.
Some of this may have to do with the quality of startups going in to the batch. As the reputation of YC rises, more and more good-quality startups want to join (rather than go on their own?). This of course doesn't take away the fact that YC has done a great job mentoring and helping early stage startups.

This makes me think (not totally seriously, though) that a YC prep-school for startups might get a lot of attention. There seems to be some room for startups at an even earlier stage than YC would accept now.
Hmm, his definition seems to have changed:

https://twitter.com/#!/Arubin/status/27808662429

(it isn't true.)
Gene Michael Stover wrote about Common Lisp as someone who hardly ever looked at anyone else's idiomatic use of the language. I was pretty bummed that he got published in Dr. Dobbs with some pretty awful CL code.
is this going to suffer from the same problems as increased class sizes?

(Note: I first came to Hacker News by following links after reading Paul Graham's essays on education, e.g.,

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

from 2003,

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html

from 2005,

http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html

from 2007, and

http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html

from 2008, so my starting assumption is that some other people here on HN like to discuss education policy.)

What evidence is there that there are problems from increased class sizes? Several of the countries that best the United States in educational achievement

http://pirls.bc.edu/timss2007/PDF/T07_M_IR_Chapter1.pdf

have long had larger class sizes than the United States. For example, my wife grew up in Taiwan when the typical class size was 60 pupils in each classroom, and an unusually small class might have 50 pupils. But she had better primary and secondary education in mathematics and science and world history than I had (I supplemented my schooling with much independent reading of library books, which is the main reason I can keep up with her knowledge base) and she was going to school in a second language (her native language and home language was Taiwanese, but all her school instruction was in Mandarin) and attained strong proficiency in English by the end of high school besides. Small class sizes aren't so good if they match up many learners with less proficient teachers and curricula that are not well thought out. Better to have a larger class size, if that means being with a better teacher, and that's what the research shows about education policy. On the specific point of mentoring for start-up businesses, if the YC people know their craft, and it appears that they do, shared face time with them is better than much more undivided face time with at least some other investors. Choose your trade-offs if you are launching a start-up.
The last couple batches I've started asking each batch at the last dinner what we need to improve. As of last batch there were no major gripes about not getting enough attention from us.
I kind of disagree. I think PSN actually was attacked by "hackers" (this term still works, even in context of how it's used in this community). They had to be good at what they do to figure out how to get into PSN and steal that data. However, what I agree is wrong is that the media makes all "hackers" out to be folks with similar intentions. Just because you are a "hacker" doesn't mean you want to steal everyone's data -- even if you are able.
Agree on using both point in time values and FKs.

Agree also that there are plenty of second and third order apps where RDBMS is great.

The non-DB comic is funny.
"My team will be able to program circles around everyone else" (2002)
I think this may be specific to Google's situation--at least for now. PyPI may not be as comprehensive as CPAN, but it's rare these days that I can't "pip install" my way into having half the solution done before I start writing code. The same simply isn't (yet) true for Go.

Google has many custom components, though. I personally don't write Go nearly as quickly as I write Python, but I have 4+ years of writing Python in everything from tiny scripts up to large applications, both for the desktop and for the web. I have maybe twenty to forty hours of experience writing Go code, absolute tops. It's not a fair comparison. If we assume that the Googlers who are claiming to be more productive in Go than Python have a couple orders of magnitude on me, and that they don't need many prefabricated libraries, and I find the claim plausible.

I don't believe it'd currently be true in the general case, though.
Yes, complex queries require a programmer who understands map/reduce. The degree of confidence corresponds pretty directly with the programmer's competence.

Is writing a function in javascript more or less difficult than writing a complex SQL query? I'd call it a tie at best.

So you have the upfront technical expense of setting up a relational schema which enables you to (maybe) save time later writing analytic queries.
Aren't we at the point where we could have an x86 simulator in javascript that needs to slow down to emulate the performance of the DOS era?
Yes, the applicants do get slightly better each batch. But not as fast as the batches grow. So if we were going to get hosed by growth, odds are a single batch's increase in quality would not be enough to conceal it.
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Wow, there's some serious lack of critical thinking going on in this thread

That you think people are talking about hooking up the nuke switch to a neural network merely shows your lack of knowledge about how much this topic has been studied.

The real concern with the singularity has nothing to do with people controlling it, it has to do with building a self-modifying system that will explore regions of design space that we are too stupid to know anything about. It has to do with that self-modifying system reaching out further into design space that it is too stupid to know anything about. It has to do with the fact that an intelligence that had gotten smarter than us could extremely easily get around any restrictive measures we put in its way, no matter how severe they were (social engineering is how the most effective hackers (in the Bad Guys With Computers sense of the word) always work, there's no reason to think that an AI couldn't social engineer its way out of any box we put around it).

An AI getting its hands on a nuke is just about the least terrifying thing that could happen; at least a nuke only blows up if you shoot it at someone. We have no idea the kinds of things that something so much smarter than us might develop or stumble into, and worse, we have no idea if when it is smart enough to develop these things it might still be too stupid to know how to control them. A nuclear bomb is a runaway chain reaction with a hard limit on destructive power; we don't know if there might be other chain reactions that are harder to predict and limit, reactions that a super-intelligent AI might fuck up its damage estimates on. Hell, a simple re-design of an AI's code could quite easily cause a runaway problem if it flips a wrong bit somewhere and changes its goal systems in a bad way (there are lots of ways to come up with seemingly innocuous goal systems that, if optimally achieved by a super-intelligent being, would pretty much wipe out everything that we care about and consider interesting).
Sounds like a bunch of newspeak to avoid mentioning the copyright-assignment policy for submitted patches.
Depends on how many supernodes are Linux machines, which I would guess is quite a lot.
The frustrating thing is that's how lala worked. The upside is that maybe possibly Apple will keep that feature for their version of it.
Whoa, that quiet ridiculous. Why wouldn't they hash/check the files before ? Is there any good reason ?
I can't imagine Google is thrilled about using Flash. How long before Chrome gets DRM?
The denial of service applies to any kind of javascript or Flash script.

As for the XSS attack, that is a little scary. Not enough of a problem, in my opinion, to warrant disabling WebGL.
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This is what I do.

Now I just need my phone to auto-realize it's in the car and start playing music over Bluetooth or something to the car stereo. Too bad I have an iPhone - if I had an Android I'd be tempted to implement this myself.
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This would be infinitely cooler if it played back your sentences.
This is easily disproven by each desire that I have which is socially forbidden. Scratching where it itches (in public), etc.
It has an interactive map showing the steady westward march of the center of population along with a map of the states in the union. Another way to waste a few minutes.
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It's probably some sort of tactical play to keep the record labels from shutting them down.
About the relation of the "computer science" approach to symbolic expression, and the "mathematics" approach: remember that lambda-calculus was originally introduced to make functional substitution, composition, etc., completely rigorous. Part of the early/mid 20th century project to turn mathematics into a completely formal system.

Of course, I agree that any idea of a "symbol standardization committee" for mathematics is both crazy and stupid.