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Who's buying the things at this point?

I'd be putting money on people buying them for their mums. Could be a huge Mothers Day hit. Not beta friendly though.
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Yeah honest, and he could also be wrong. What's wrong with a wave picture like disturbances in the air or water? It's not perfect, not by a long shot, but all you need is something useful.

To an extent I agree with the blog author when he says these analogies tend to 'supplant reality.' Of course their entire aim is "to pretend that science is not mysterious". Math is the only language for understanding these concepts but relating them to the human experience helps (many people, probably most) in understanding. It's not our fault that he's never studied physics & prefers to read the cliffsnotes versions.
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These traits are all the same thing: Perceiving (from the Jungian personality types). It's pretty common, he/she's just an extreme case.

To manage it, force the opposite. If this person is micro-managed, he/she can be a star. I've seen it happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
It was so humble and visceral and honest.

here was a Nobel laureate telling me that he didn’t really understand it either

Analogies that were meant to “help understand” reality had in fact supplanted it ... ts entire aim was to pretend that science is not mysterious.

I've noticed that people at the top of their field in computing tend to have that humility, too. It's a contrast to those who insist that their way is the only way, that what they see is all there is to see. Computing is also mysterious.
I think he's mixing in a bit of 'Socionics', [0] which appears to be a Russian equiv to MBTI.

[0] http://wikisocion.org/en/index.php?title=Socionics
Because your comment is totally irrelevant to the discussion.

Oh yeah, and forewarning you - you'll probably get downmodded for asking why you got downmodded, too.
If you had come and said something like:

"No need to link to your site from our site, I'll help you out and put a link for you for a few weeks", my respect for you would have been massive. And out of gratitude, the guy would probably have linked to you for the rest of the lifetime of his site.

Instead you land like a splash of cold water in the face. You have already forgotten the feeling of being little.
Ask HN: European founders in YC?
I know I've read about some founders from outside US and what they had to do to get working permissions, but I can't find the link. Anybody got that link or some other advice?
Thanks. That makes sense, like learning a language.

Can you recommend a source of theorems/proofs that are interesting/inspiring to work through?
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Yosef programs real-time apps on the bare metal, GC's not so relevant to him.
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The two that come to mind of the top of my head are Songkick and Clickpass, both from the UK.

Here was a previous discussion on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158969

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Yes it is.
Thanks for the quick reply and the hint.
Just to clarify you are asking about founders from outside the US moving to the US and getting work permits. Not the otherway round, right?

If it's the other way (in Holland at least) it will be easiest if one of the founders/employees can be recognized as an knowledge migrant.
YC has a lot of founders from outside of the US. There were four teams from outside of the US in our YC class, two from Canada, one from the UK and one team from Austria. I can think of at least four other teams from abroad from previous classes.

In fact there is a kind of UK YC inside YC. The UK guys really stick together and help each other out. If you can get a hold of any of them I'm sure they'll point you in the right direction.

Papers and immigration are always a difficult issue. In most cases you can get a work visa or whatever visa lets you attend conferences in the US and it will be enough for the 3 month YC session.
It's Germany in my case. Can you point out the Austrian guys?
Sometimes you might have no other choice? I think there are more important things to worry about than this.
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I think Yahoo had something like this for months now.
More likely, they'll snap and stab your micro-manager in the face.
I should probably add that in my case all founders would be from outside US! So the problem is not only in getting visas for some of the founders but also incorporating in the US as I figure PG has no interest in 6% of a germany based company. The link I remember contained descriptions of both (visas and incorporating at the same time).
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Plan files?

Back when linux was new and lots of servers started popping up, .plan (dot plan) files ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol where the blogs of that era. Easy to read, quick to load you get a heads up of what was going on via text - a lot like HackerNews. And the best .plan files to read had to be iD & John Carmack.

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Not only did you get the best technical insight in to programming they where more personal than blogs, funny even. No ads. No cutting edge design to get in the way of the information. Plan files don't really exist now. Carmack closed his down in 2005 ~ http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates and now blogs like the rest us. An archive exists at http://www.scribd.com/doc/14193/John-Carmack-Archive-plan-19... Port 79 and plan files went the way of telnet and the Dodo. Btw it was reported the esteemed Rtm and his pesky worm exploit ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm that had a part in plan files demise. After exploiting a buffer overflow in fingerd (among others) [0] "too risky", ISP admins claimed.

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It reminded me of: http://xkcd.com/327/
I intentionally didn't name any names, sorry. A lot of startups haven't launched yet and I don't want to out anyone who is in stealth mode.
It is probably the most addictive game on facebook, imo.
agree about failing loudly when bad stuff happens - but exceptions are best reserved for truly exceptional circumstances. in webdev everything arrives from the browser as a string so implicit casting is more of the norm. if your user enters something dumb into the quantity field of your shopping cart it doesn't really warrant abandoning the rest of their input and leaping back up the call stack to a "misson failed"-level error handler.

functions like is_numeric('string') exist for the rarer situations where things like this actually matter, but php's default way is simply reflective of it's nature as a loosely-typed language.
Its even turned on in MySQL if you are using innodb tables too!
A great "firewall" (in the figurative sense, not the technical sense) to blanket block SQL injections and more:

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Where in Germany are you based? We're going to probably start a small, regular hacker meetup here in Berlin in the next month. Send me a mail (in my profile) and we'll let you know when we start...
It's important to note that this is limited to 100,000 participants. It's going to take a while to reach that number but it's not the entire population either. On the other hand the whole population isn't going to pay to use 23andMe either.

The author seems to think this initiative is the death of 23andMe et al. To use the Coriell service you have to actually walk in the door. If you're not in the neighbourhood then it may be easier and cheaper to use 23andMe.
If you incorporate in the US you'll also need an EU based organization for legal purposes (since you'll have a "Betriebsstätte" in Germany) that can be a subsidiary of a Deleware C-Corp. That's why we decided to incorporate in UK since a Ltd. is a valid legal form EU-wide and leaves all of the incorporation documents in English, which is easier for investors to deal with.
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If the boss is competing with the staff, it's a recipe for disaster. The boss is SUPPOSED to use the staff to accomplish more than s/he can do on their own, protecting those doing the work from the "corporate BS". It's a sign of maturity (bad word) or self-confidence (better word?) when the boss lets go the competitiveness and starts doing their job.
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Not sure about their methodology. Multiple anecdotes != data.
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I suspect you are deliberately missing the point for the purposes of mischief. I was talking about the population ones which would go like this

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Huge Gap ....

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Anything stand out to you about these? :)
Ask HN: Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it?
I have been interested in protein folding for a while and now have the time to dive into it.

I have waded through some articles on wikipedia and watched some youtube and done some googling but I haven't found any good resource for algorithms for protein folding or bioinformatics in general.

What can computer scientists do to help?

*Invent better algoritms so biologists and chemists can run more experiments?

* Is there some constraint, some condition, some fold we can do to find a new medicine or something?

A basic introduction to computational biology and relevant algorithms would be very appreciated.

I found this(genetic programming for protein folding):
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/ProtEn/121.html

Ah and ofc MIT:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-91JSpring2004/CourseHome/
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I have to admit, I miss finger (and would take it over Twitter any day)
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Steven Covey put it nicely in one of his books. Our mission in life can be measured in four ways: To Live, To Love, To Learn, and To Leave a Legacy.

It's good to grow outside the programming box. I've found such growth, even when not directly aligned with corporate goals, always helps the larger organization anyway. This is something that is deeply counter-intuitive, so many organizations drop the ball in this respect.

I remember consulting with a dynamic, fast-growing software consulting company out of Austin, Texas, many years ago. They had went from 8 to 800 employees in something like six years. As part of that, they were having all sorts of conversations and problems between having small-company roots and big company problems.

As part of that, I was talking to one of the full-time managers about how they measure employee performance. I'll never forget what she said. She said that they used to just have the employee each quarter figure out some personal goal and go achieve it. "We can't continue doing that," she told me, "because so many people pick goals that are not aligned with our corporate goals."

I left the office thinking that I just heard how that company was planning to stop growing.
Thought so. But had to try ;) Thanks though. Founders from austria sounds really intersting. Maybe they will read this and can contact me..
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Living in Austria (Innsbruck) myself, I'd be curious to hear about it as well. I miss being able to talk tech with real live people every now and then.
Sorry, but I stopped reading when I reached this paragraph:

The good news from the Shelfari deal is that when startups get acquired, they tend to stagnate. This is how Del.icio.us went from a truly innovative startup to a company that spent two years readying their second release.

Bad, bad example, and one that makes me doubt the analytical powers of the LT honcho. The reader is supposed to believe that Delicious has either been standing still for 2 years, or that v.2 was a waste of Joshua Schachter's immense efforts to improve it. And there is no doubt that Delicious has climbed a slow curve, but the worst thing about this piece is that if this guy had ever used it he might have picked up the subtleties and functionality of Delicious that aren't so obvious to the casual user.

He would have been better off using, say, Jaiku as an illustration of what happens when a company lets a project die of attrition.
Either way, the many naysayers suggesting that it’s impossible to make money on Facebook might want to think again.

It's not impossible, it's just damn hard - not any easier than making money off facebook. It is also fraught with additional risks, as Facebook can pull the plug on your business and destroy you in the blink of an eye (see Scrabulous), whereas that would be much harder off the FB platform.
How's YEurope doing btw? If you're from Innsbruck you might have thought about goin there too..? From what I see on their site it seems rather dead.. :(
'Where to' might not be as important as 'how loud'
I am sure there are a few UK YC startups. Below is what I can recall off the top of my head.

The blogs in particular may hold useful info for you regarding getting visas and working in the U.S. plus the journey in startup as a whole - I particularly like http://www.kulveer.co.uk and http://blog.harjtaggar.com who are the http://www.auctomatic.com guys as they give a good level of detail throughout their journey.

However, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/02/coming-to-america-getti... (or http://is.gd/1Vrf in short) by Peter from ClickPass could be what you were referring to and probably holds most of the answers you want in the most succinct form.

Anyway, I'm sure if you contact them they may be answer specific visa questions from their experience. Hope this helps.

---

http://www.auctomatic.com
http://auctomatic.com/about
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kul
http://www.kulveer.co.uk
http://twitter.com/kul
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=harj
http://blog.harjtaggar.com
http://twitter.com/harjeet
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pc
http://www.collison.ie/
http://twitter.com/patrickc
[John Collison]
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http://snaptalent.com
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sharpshoot
http://sharpshoot.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/sharpshoot

http://www.songkick.com/
http://www.songkick.com/team
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ian
http://twitter.com/soundboy
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petesmithy
http://twitter.com/petesmithy

http://www.clickpass.com/
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=immad
http://www.immadsnewworld.com/
http://twitter.com/immad
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petenixey
http://www.webkitchen.co.uk/
http://twitter.com/petenixey

http://webmynd.com/
http://webmynd.wordpress.com
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amirnathoo
http://twitter.com/amirnathoo

http://www.scoopler.com
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ajmalasver
http://blog.projectbluespark.com/
http://twitter.com/_aj
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dilanj
http://meonearth.blogspot.com/
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Exactly what?
Interesting. That was an exploit in fingerd and .plan residing on users home directories is definitely vulnerable.

"... - a lot like HackerNews"

exactly :). May be just simple text files or basic html with bold, italic, href tags served out of the secure web server context. No ads would be a big relief.

Does wordpress has any such plain theme ?
Both sides are guilty of frivilous misconceptions about the other's language of choice. I avidly use PHP, but I have had to work on projects in .NET before as well.

Personally I prefer PHP. I could probably state reasons why and a .NET fanboy would come through and say .NET does all of those too.

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Awesome! Yes it seems that was the link I was referring to. Thanks a lot for all that stuff.
It's being rolled out to users in blocks, not everyone has it yet.
nice work Babul. Peter (Nixey) and Harj are the masters of US Visa stuff. Let us (Songkick) know if you've got any questions about applying to YC from the UK. Happy to chat on Skype. You can also grab me at one of our Hacker Meetups if in London at any point.
It's still down at the moment, but are you aware of diction(1) and style(1)?
I sent in an application for the hell of it, got turned down, and now that you mention it, their site doesn't look all that active.
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It just doesn't seem like something that will catch on. It offers a single particular service that is probably only useful to some people a minimal number of times before it gets old and/or their question(s) is answered.

Maybe it's just me personally, but I don't see a use for it really.
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I have no idea... Just wanted to check if there were some guys doing the same stuff we're doing. Maybe in the spirit of http://freehackersunion.org/joining.html

Actually I'm surprised the post got two comments.
Jason should really just open a PR firm, at least he's good at that
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Although not exactly my field... This seems to be a good review of some of the algorithms currently used.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3382

By following the references therein you can probably track down the canonical papers for the area. The OCW course should also give you a broad overview of the subject, but before you can make any significant contributions in terms of algorithms and results, you need to thoroughly understand the biology behind it.
After doing some more research I have found:
Perl and Python are very popular languages in bioinformatics. I love Python so good for me and I don't know Perl so easy choice then, Python it is.

The big wellknown library is BioPython:
http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page

Course, Bioinformatics and Python:
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The last line of the last comment pretty much says it all:

Pick a few random pages out of http://msdn.microsoft.com and see for your self that Microsoft is just a marketing/sales company.
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To be honest - I was trying to prove that point with the GDP figures.. (but the pesky actual data got in the way)...

Good to see that Population proves it out though!
The comic is basically saying "haha... PHP developers don't understand a bunch of .NET buzzwords."

Anyway it reminds me of what Borges said about Argentina and the UK going to war over the Falkands/Malvinas: "Like two bald men fighting over a comb."
I didn't like that thing neither. Was a bit too copycat without any innovation. Still it would be good to have s.th. similar in Europe (London,Berlin,Zürich?)
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