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that amount of money is that ridicusly small in order to attract only students out of school. I can't think of anybody with solid experience using YC.

15k is enough for 3 students for 3 months. Somebody that has been working for a while, has probably a lot more money than that.

I have friends that saved money, quit, and now are doing their startup and living off their savings.

The only thing that YC might be usefull is some free publicity, and contacts, which are very useful especially if your product is of dubios value.
I don't know if I should be sad or happy that I laughed at your comment.
Top is an amazing tool, don't get me wrong but its very limited. The major flaw of top (and its not really a flaw) is that Top is limited to one machine. When you have a cluster of say 20-300 you need more powerful tools.

Also top doesn't measure things like the current latency and other things they need to know at the moment.
Haven't ever really tried working at a coffee shop. Because of this post I'm going to go try it right now, but I'm damned skeptical!

Update: this place has free wifi, I'm procrastination enabled again. I can only hope it's painfully slow!
We need more of this, not just on the internet but in voting machines, ID cards, transportation payment cards ... everywhere.

I'm afraid insecurity in voting machines is a feature, not a bug.
Perforce: like Subversion, but slower and more expensive.

The article contains some sprinklings of truisms but is mostly a naked grab at a dwindling market through FUD.
A fun online physics puzzle game
Sorry, but if you have to defend a rant (and this within a relatively short period of time) then you've officially jumped the shark on being a "rantor".

Hopefully we can see some more substantial articles from such a brilliant individual sans obnoxious attempts for attention.

That said, I hope Zed doesn't knock me out if I ever run into him in real life (unlikely, but still a consideration).
Then hit the starbucks.

There is a 24hrs one open close to my place (laurel heights, sf), and now there is even free wifi, and they remodeled it.

Get a double shot machiatto, (1.99), and just hack. There is food, water, bathrooms right there.

After the remodeling, for some reason, I find myself being incredibly productive there.
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This puzzle game is like hacker crack. After reviewing the guidelines for submissions, it seems to be ontopic. I figured Friday afternoon is a great time to post such a link.

Other Players Designs

This feature is a great way to see a range of different designs. Elegant, over engineered, simple, scary... they are all there.
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There are things that I asume/take for granted other people know, and sometimes I am suprised when they say "oh, wow, I didn't know that". Really?
The older I get, the more I get this kind of response from other people, which might mean I am acumulating some kind of knowledge, but still it has failed to register on me exactly how much more I do know from other people, so this also has kept my ego in check.
I don't think this is correct.

My impression is that most people who bought houses with problematic mortgages either didn't understand the terms, or got mortgages with low introductory rates and thought they could exit before the rates started resetting because the housing market was so hot they'd always be able to resell at a huge gain, or use their lower LTV to refi into a better mortgage.

And it's interesting that you bring up mortgages -- the clearest example of how your Libertarian ideology breaks down: what my new neighbor and a bank privately contract to do _will_ affect the value of my property over the next few years.
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I grabbed it just in case it disappears again. Extremely useful!
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I don't think the author knows what critical thinking means. Hint: it doesn't mean pointing out the flaws in everything.
When I pitched my previous startup, a few years back, VCs made us jump through those standard hoops:

us: here's our Powerpoint presentation

VC: nice concept, come back when you have a product

[1 year later]

us: here's our product, let me give you a demo

VC: nice product. Come back when you have one customer.

[6 months later]

us: great news, we just signed XYZ, Inc. (big name) as our first customer.

VC: congratulations. Come back when you have traction (that is, multiple customers)

....

True story. We eventually got funding, 3 rounds. In another post, I'll discuss the other lesson I learned in VC funding: don't raise money when you need money.

Alain - fairsoftware.net
Me too. I think it will be awesome. I haven't had a chance to test it yet. Have you?
Out with the old, in with AdCamo
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Things I Love and Hate About Being a Release Engineer
Congrats to Ben and Matt and team over there at socialthing.
I find it hard to believe you were making over $480,000 a year and your wife insisted you get a second job making $10 an hour. Perhaps your calculations are off.
The photos in this article are simply stunning.
i don't acting like being fucked over means not doing anything. To me it means fight back (or, well, fuck over back).
And the troll communities are aware of this. The only problem is that, as the article points out, no objective standard of "cyberbullying" can be established. Most of it does not even fall into the ethically debatable category of hate speech, despite the meaningless spam of ethnic slurs these groups use.

The troll groups will push the law a lot more softly than they'll push private citizens -- they crack down on child pornography in their own ranks to avoid being "v&" ("vanned", or "sent for a ride in the party van" -- the FBI). So if we extend the van-hammer to mere insults, we might get them to back down... but do you want to live in a country where calling someone names on the internet, even horrible hateful names with full intent to hurt feelings and disrupt mental equanimity, gets you arrested?
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agree that pawer balance != somebody get fucked over
for instance America is a benign hegemony. Though they still fuck over people at times, they did it much less than, say, UK, or Rome, etc.

but a counter-point
- having a market means people with more money fuck over people with no money.
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That's what a good design looks like. It's not just secure against known attacks; it's also secure against unknown attacks.

This is why I tell people to not use SSL unless they have a reason for needing it: there have been enough bugs in SSL stacks in the past that you don't need a crystal ball to tell you that there will probably be others in the future.
What do you suggest we use instead?
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None of you guys are making money because you keep over-analyzing things. This thread is a brilliant example. Stop thinking you need to move to CA, have some brilliant, big idea, and a truckload of cash from YCombinator or investors.

There are thousands of people making thousands every month, and they range from teenagers to mom and pops who know nothing about design or programming. Everyone here already has a one-up on them. Instead of trying to create a new 'web 2.0' service, pick a content site and do it good! It doesn't matter if it's been done before. I created a site that offered MySpace layouts and graphics, despite there already being like 300 of them, and it was making close to $1k three months later. I sold it six months later for $12k on SitePoint. No investors, no big expenses.

I now leave you with a quote from Nas:

No idea's original, there's nothin' new under the sun
It's never what you do, but how it's done
Sweet :) It's cool to see people use it in ways we didn't think of.
Hell of a week for startups. Omnisio, Socialthing, etc.
There is limited amount of things which people look at for 1 second and say "oh, I get it". Most of these things are likely already represented. Things that require 5 seconds until the "I get it" moment will require some incentive to spend those 5 seconds - either sky-high ratings, friends advising, known brand etc.
Congrats! Is that Techstars' first acquisition?
Geez. I wonder how people used to work on 17inch screen (even few years ago, that used to be a luxury), and with normal/non aeron chairs.

Sarcasm aside, I thought I would have the same problem, but I quickly got used to working with my laptop, and I actually I am pretty fast in it, even if it is a 15.4'' screen.
The only thing that I can't stand is not having a real mouse, so I bought one small laptop mouse, and that increased my speed and productivity alot. (I am a mouse person).
i just spent half the day in a coffee shop. the table was too low, so i over-stressed my back leaning in to see the screen properly. (i'm a bit near-sighted.)
Everytime I see pics of the LHC it always has me in awe - simply stunning.
None. I have put all my efforts to ship the app and was very exhausted by it. Now that it's out there I can start marketing, probably this weekend.
Oh absolutely, the machine I am on now (soon to be old machine) runs an AMD CPU, with an SIS chipset (not the greatest for GNU/Linux) yet I was diligent, and . . . it works! Have been running Feisty Fawn for almost a year, no major problems. I suppose there was a "luck" factor there, as I bought this hardware without researching into whether or not it was suitable for GNU/Linux.

The new machine however I carefully researched the hardware for and, no problems there either.

Now, I am not like evangelizing for Intel products, as you can indeed run GNU/Linux on hardware from other manufacturers yet I do find that Linus' statement regarding their chipsets is accurate, based on my own rather smooth experience with the 945GC Express.
Thanks! We didn't really think of an FF-like collapse area like you suggest, I think it might be the way to go.
Given the divisive replies I received when bringing up the virtues of psychedelic/entheogen use on this site, I think the author may be on to something (despite his overgeneralizations and obvious ulterior motive).
That's about the same as saying that since plenty of people know how to pick locks don't bother locking your door.

Actually it's worse: there aren't any known ssl issues, so you're leaving your door unlocked just in case someone learns how to pick it in the future.
You can ask, they may not answer. One good question that can often ferret out issues is "do you have any advice on how to manage him to bring out his best performance?"
It's good old "worse is better" all over again. Of course we should design our protocols and our software as The Right Thing. Of course, it will take much longer to design and implement; or, worse, it might just fail because it's hard to find all the necessary smart people (like qualified security experts and whatnot).

Meanwhile, someone not so scrupulous just ships some ugly ad-hoc bug-ridden 80% solution now, and gets 80% market penetration. That's how we get MTA landscape dominated by sendmail, DNS landscape dominated by bind, etc, etc. Heck, that's how we get unix boxes instead of lisp machines, and windows pcs instead of unix boxes.
I was struck by this quote:

"... just generally being dickheads with their own self-importance."
P#: a concurrent Prolog for .net
Python gives me access to a complete regular expressions engine just as Perl does.
In most of the iphone apps the set of needed features is small. Once users are satisfied with functionality they look for convenience and then price.

Features are not a sustainable advantage, only temporary.
I changed the title. (It was "Future Looks Bleak for Jobs.")
How does this "buying" concept of source control software work?
Trivial to do tethering (especially for hackers) if your iPhone is jailbroken.
Abebooks is also a more usable site than Amazon, in my experience. Because being a marketplace for second-hand books is their only business, they're able to focus on it far better than Amazon. Not having any adverts for lawnmowers makes it far easier and more pleasant to use.
Well, besides a bathroom, a laptop and some clothes i really don't need anything, i suppose that i could live like that. But in my area it's kid of dangerous after dark(gangs, dog packs, rapid climate changes). I guess we just over estimate the things that our civilization gives us, we don't actually need a lot of stuff, too much TV telling us what we need.
Smart people generally get very educated, and higher education (in the US at least) teaches only critical thinking...They leave school thinking that the way to be useful and show your smarts is to point out why things won’t work, rather than using some of those smart to find a way forward.

Grad school in engineering, computer science, (and I assume in math and science too) usually requires that you make something, so I don't think there is a sole emphasis on critical thinking. From the point of view of "making something users want", perhaps the missing part is reliable judgment of whether people want it, rather than depending on citation counts.
True. Until somebody comes up with something and you go "Doh, how come I did not think of that?!" or "Man, that was just genius..."
It looks like the workaround is to disable loading Java applets and/or uninstall the JRE. Yes?
The real lesson is that the patch treadmill doesn't work, and it hasn't for years.

I haven't yet heard of any major fallout from this DNS vulnerability, so it may be going too far to say that patching doesn't work. Maybe other methods work better, but I don't know if the current method is as broken as Schneier says.
No. I have to say, I agree with the BDFL here. Tuple unpacking in function headers is prone to bugs and can lead to ambiguous behaviour.

It also doesn't fit very well with other features like keyword arguments.

You are right that the extra variable leads to extra mental overhead but so does potential ambiguous behavior.
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turn off the damned music!!!
umm. Not charging state sales tax for online websites is usually legal as they are across state lines and states have no power to tax beyond their borders. This has already been well documented in several supreme court decisions. So no, I ado not advocate tax evasion. I do advocate not having a sales tax which online sales accomplish legally because they are across state borders.
Sporadic 40k in a month != 480k/year :)
Clearly there is an unspoken psychological cost, which is much, much harder to analyze.
I'd say it's one of two keys to clean UIs - the other is once you've grouped logically-related bits together, do a quick bit of research to see how others handle similar functionality. For me, that's what really closes the loop and creates valuable design patterns.
When I started reading this I thought it was going to be about voting rings...
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And the source code is available for download...
You could say the same thing about HTTP. And Telnet; you don't even have to work your way to SSH.
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Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web
No, my calculations are not off. But thanks for the math check :-P

I understand the ridiculousness of what I'm saying. That is my f0Rking point. My wife is emotional and irrational about money, and especially so about having a CONSISTENT paycheck. [This is the same woman that actually thought briefly about declaring bankruptcy when she was younger, despite the fact that she had a large number of shares in a major bank at the time. It never entered her mind to sell the shares, because her grandfather had been president of the bank some time during the '70s, so the shares were "sentimental" and part of her "family heritage." Never mind the fact that she really needed the money, and the bank stock was starting to tank anyway.]

My wife is a wonderful, compassionate woman...so I try to overlook her big weird money issues.

She didn't specifically ask me to get a job making just $10/hr...that's just the way it worked out. She asked me to get a "low-stress" job that I could work after having worked 60-70 hours a week on my own business. It had to be a job that I was qualified to do, and that offered (backup) health insurance. Since we lived in a somewhat rural area at the time, the only option was a nightshift job at a local hotel...and I started at $7.48/hr. I ended up making ALMOST $10/hr. And it was NOT "low-stress" (I was slapped, spit on, robbed, etc. during my employment there.) The big perk while I worked there was that I could stay at almost any Hilton property in the world for just $29 a night, which helped me immensely when I was traveling for my own company. I worked that second job for exactly 4 years and 11 months. Even after I was making millions a year. And I never actually made it to a FULL $10 an hour there. I think I topped out at $9.95/hr.

The only reason I STILL don't have a second job is that I had a serious illness and could barely even work at my own company. My wife also had cancer, and she started to re-evaluate her irrational fears.
This is an excellent post, thank you.
hippies smoke weed, yuppies snort coke off strippers, get your over-generalizations right :)
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Kids losing touch with natural world -- can't identify common animals...
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They're processing 10 Petabytes per second.
I have noticed in my web stats FireFox is now even with Internet Explorer 6

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IE7 32.23%, FireFox 29.09%, IE 6 25.94%
Did PCMark 2005 Cheat for Intel?
Is the analog response-time meter in units of deciseconds?
That's about the same as saying that since plenty of people know how to pick locks don't bother locking your door.

Did you read the second half of the sentence I wrote? You know, where I said "unless they have a reason for needing it"?

I have a reason for locking the front door whenever I leave home, and I do so. Putting a lock onto the back gate would be utterly pointless -- that gate is in the middle of a fence which would be easy for anyone to climb over -- so I don't do that.

Actually it's worse: there aren't any known ssl issues, so you're leaving your door unlocked just in case someone learns how to pick it in the future.

Replace "door" with "back gate in the middle of a pointless fence", and you'd almost be correct. But security vulnerabilities in SSL stacks are not limited to breaking SSL; a buffer overflow could give an attacker far greater access. A closer analogy to blindly using SSL everywhere would involve a special type of lock which, if picked, magically unlocks everything else on the property, including things like wall safes which are much harder to pick.
Because people have a choice between Windows and a Mac. MS, for the first time in as long as anyone my age can remember, has a viable competitor.
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I should try that, but finding good coffee shop in my area is hard.
Related to the detached lever fallacy posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263386
good on this guy. he isn't taking a handout from anyone, isn't making a mess, isn't detracting from anyone's use of the park. bravo.
Or to re-encode images on upload. Sure, it'll take a bit of compute time, but it would protect you from this and similar attacks.
I applied day 1, was accepted the day the 3G was released.
I'm working on a game in the evenings; here's my blog for anyone interested in its progress http://daves-game.blogspot.com/

We're (I have 4 kids) moving to the other side of the continent in a few weeks, so things are likely to be on hold until we're done.
And a shocking 75 percent misidentified a debtor's prison with an almshouse!
Well, proof is in the pudding - apparently Atwood is doing a good chunk of the coding on stackoverflow.com.

Joel seems useful for funding, business advice, his community, and to tell Atwood that he really should learn C.
So bsaically what we need is an internet pants-cannon?
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We need some context here - which kids where?
Yes, I read the second half and I still didn't see how adding SSL could make things worse.

Your magic lock example makes sense, except for the fact that your analogy is broken: ssl doesn't actually work that way.

I suppose I could see that adding even a single line of code that you don't need increases your risk of a hack. But that's quite extreme, in reality it's not anywhere near that bad.

I just don't agree with your risk/reward ratio of not using ssl.

It's: possibility of a bug in ssl that allows remote access to a machine, and is not expolitable without ssl (you have to agree that that a pretty remote possibility), vs the known problems of not having ssl especially in a wifi environment + the possibility someone will not understand you and not enable it even when he should.
How is a 9 year old supposed to know the difference between a newt and a lizard? A lot of adults probably don't know it too. After googleing it, i found that daddy long-legs is actually 3 different species. if you show me pictures of them i couldn't name them, two looked like spiders, and one was like a mosquito or something. Maybe i was just not in touch with nature when i was a kid.
I couldn't identify many of those, and I'm very knowledgeable about the natural world. There's more to it than long-range identification. I'd tell that it was an Oak by the leaves. Who sees a Daddy-Long-Legs from beneath a glass panel? A normal view from above would make it obvious. And the newt they show is not even mature, it's practically a hatchling!
Okay. It definitely seems to work. I think because it's less comfortable here than at home I feel the need to work instead of relax. Definitely going to do this some more.
The game I'm making has a target market of me. I'm building a game I'd like to play of the bus on the way to work.

I'm a big fan of the really slick side-scrolling shooters (think R-Type), but my biggest influence for this is my favourite Vic=20 game, Astroblitz. It's also a good excuse for me to get my pencils out and get some artwork happening - something else I used to love doing but haven't for years.

So, my motivation is pretty personal, and if it turns out anyone else likes my game too, that's a (quite nice) bonus.
Their weekly podcast on it is good fun to listen to. Nothing earth shatteringly technical, but an interesting view of things.
The rest of what you wrote might be right, but lisp machines failed because they were impossible to create efficiently in hardware.
why would you memorize what you can google on your iphone from anywhere? memorizing rarely-used facts is out of date.

besides, kids can now identify more species of lolcat than ever before.
What will you concentrate your efforts on? Any particular strategy?
The founders out of school (or still in school) get the most publicity, but I'd guess that the median YC founder has been out of college for at least a couple, if not several years.

YC would probably like to think its value-add is far beyond the money it provides.
I don't want to sound to obvious but one of you guys is a woz looking for a jobs and the other is a jobs looking for a woz. Why don't you two get together and do something. For the one that isn't a coder, learn how to market your product online and become an expert at that. One coder, one marketer, one good idea. go for it.