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"I wished people again found their natural ability to create trust relationships, from scratch."

I completely agree with this. I don't honestly feel people of good faith need to deal with complicated rules or institutions. But not everyone is willing to go that route, so this is an idea which might serve the other 99%.

First off, it might be the case that anyone could be worth investing in (in time, money, energy, expertise, caring). I think if done right, it's true for everyone. I don't really have it as a goal that just the "talented" people are invested in. Just that that is the obvious place to start.

And I think that if someone who is talented is already well-connected or has a rich family, this would probably have little use for them. But, for someone who is ambitious and hard-working but starting out from a low place, this would be a boon- they need some kind of support, more than anyone else. If they could find others willing to create "trust relationships", presumably they would do it, since that is obviously a better deal. But few seem to manage it :/.
I disagree with you and I want to say most elite universities have done a bad job except Standford. Elite universities just can't give what market wants because of politics. But unfortunately the only thing matter for a startup to survive is demand and supply of market.

While a startup for startup has to meet what market wants, instead of protecting alumni, professors and students.
My understanding is that the incumbents (i.e. Monster, Dice, Workopolis [in Canada]) have huge reach, but are expensive to post ads to. The signal to noise ratio can be really bad too.

Niche job sites like Startuply and the 37signals job board offer a nice revenue stream that can tie in with a brand or product mix (i.e. "We're a startup, so we post our jobs on Startuply").

The more you take away the hiring process from the company with the open position, the greater a payment you want. Recruiters, in theory, do a large amount of screening and so on for their clients, so they want a big payoff. Most niche sites appear to simply be billboards, so they charge a lot less.
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"The famous scientists I remember were Einstein, Marie Curie, and George Washington Carver."

You've forgotten that you mentioned Newton some time ago as one of your heroes!

http://www.paulgraham.com/heroes.html
At any given time there are thousands of startups.
"""Well actually one of the reasons for the slowness in the video is because its processor is very slow."""

My Apple ][ could scroll faster than that.

Do you have any idea how many instructions are executed per second on a processor that ticks 400.000.000 times per second?

Really, it's not a CPU speed issue. It's a bad software design issue.
To me you've forgotten the most important thing to achieve: true SSO and true web of data where you own your own (I mean data portability). Just imagine a true synchronizable address book on all the devices you own, with all your friends and family. Maybe the semantic web will help, but the industry must play the game, too...
Also see this quote from this [http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.htm...] article: "the purpose of Yale College is to manufacture Yale alumni"
This article is complete nonsense. NT was designed from the ground up as a "real" operating system by Dave Cutler, the man responsible for VMS, a which has a well-deserved reputation as a rock-solid OS. Unix having networking built in from the start (even tho', umm, it actually didn't) didn't stop many exploits against Sendmail for example. Windows has a registry doesn't mean anything either; so does AIX to all intents and purposes...

The vulnerability of Windows is more cultural than technological. The reason it's easy to attack Outlook is that MS intended it to be easily scriptable so you could build workflow applications on top of Exchange/Outlook (to compete with Lotus Notes). It didn't occur to them that anyone would abuse this.

Was that naive of them? Perhaps. But then again, no more naive than the Unix approach of root being the absolute superuser; in NT you can create files that the superuser can backup to tape but not read themselves, which is very necessary in many scenarios. It's interesting to note that many Unixen have adopted ACLs and privilege separation; NT certain didn't invent these, but it did bring them into the mainstream.
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The karma system is a popularity contest as discussed in the various Hacker-News-is-going-down-the-drain discussions that have been popping up here a lot as of late. To any one who grew up with /. that's not a surprise.

In that respect I found kuro5hin quite interesting in, as it seperates out how many people voted the post/comment up or down. I wrote posts that had a lot of people agree (5 points) and a lot disagree (1 point) with very few in the middle ground, i.e. the audience was divided. I loved that. It means you are not sucking up to the majority yet not writing utter crap. Had you just computed the point average then that information would've gotten lost.
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Minor notes:

1) On the About page, under the For Job Seekers heading, the "perfect startup" link is 404ing.

2) There still seems to be references to Jowba hanging about.

3) The Startup Companies list is excellent, but there may be an issue with gaming due to alphabetical listing. The culprit I refer to is BusyEvent, or !BusyEvent! as their listing would have you believe.

Hope that helps.
may be i'm asking a stupid question but can someone clarify what is the chicken and egg problem with dating sites?
The Kevin Poulsen story is incredible in Jonathan Littman's The Watchman.
It's difficult to attract people to a dating site that has very few members. You have to implement a non-tech solution, such as a huge mass-media advertising campaign (e.g. Dating Direct have ads in the breaks in Gray's Anatomy), which is hugely expensive. Or you have to have a viral idea, like OkCupid offering quizzes to LJers and getting them to create profiles as an aside.
No one needs the reasons spelt out for them. That the current system has deficiencies is more or less painfully obvious to everyone. I may read some of your stuff later.
Necessity is the mother invention. In the world of web software, tech innovation is also cultural innovation. Remember the New Deal? What if a tech innovation could enable us to do that again, without the government?

If some Ron Paul supporters could use youtube, social news, and email lists to effortlessly fund and fly a blimp for 6 weeks, maybe there is a tech innovation which could enable the nation to effortlessly fund giant wind and solar projects.
That's a property of all projects, really. Even most commercial products are awful in early releases. Apple's genius is with managing to hide most of these early disasters from their customers.
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Not sure about innovation, but it does seem like there's far better signal/noise ration during recession.

When the market's booming, weak ideas and uncommitted teams naturally find it much easier to get some funding - so perhaps the good ideas/teams are just as many (or more) as in a recession, but their overall share is far smaller.
> I completely agree with this. I don't honestly feel people of good faith need to deal with complicated rules or institutions. But not everyone is willing to go that route, so this is an idea which might serve the other 99%.

I sometimes wonder whether it isn't that 1% that carries the weight of society. And the Internet lowers the barrier to creating new trust relationships from scratch. If you were interested in that sort of thing, be my friend.
Anonymized, sure. But of course, they need a back door to track child pornography and terrorists. Both McCain and Obama seem to agree that spying is awesome.

And I understand you promote doing this in a content neutral way. Perhaps it will be content neutral at first. Then Bill O'Reilly (a popular Fox pundit) or Oprah play "objectionable" songs, and point out (correctly) to their viewers that their taxes are paying for it.

(Some examples, selected from one of my favorite artists.)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8hPvtuu9CbM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R37H38bMVec

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lk06_ll_vgo

Remember, it's for the children. If we don't do it, little johnny will grow up to be a gay cannibalistic terrorist! Censorship is another thing McCain and Hillary can agree on.
Well go read above-linked article and tell me whether Yale does a good job in the "Human Resources Investment" idea posited by the parent comment.
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Has there been an analysis of what will happen to the 'common man' should these banks fail? In plain speak?

By which I mean:

Will the price of my food and gas go up?
Will I pay more for the rent on my apartment?
Will I have to pay more if I want to buy a house?

etcetera.
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strangely, this seems to be a new awaking, when originally written and project started in about 2002, it was painful how ignorant people were in general of the impending doom. That said I take on board your point that there is no longer need for an introduction.
Some things I would revisit or work on...

1) Searching by location. Its nice to be able to do it in the search box, but I think job seekers are trained to look for an explicit location search area.

2) Put the post date on the listing page. Its nice to know when the listings start to get stale.

2a) Sort by listing date or range.

3) The company profile page should have the listings in the main column. More prominent there, as compared to the side bar which has "not as important" information. (This is a job site, get them right to it!)

4) Love the apply functionaity! No silly sign up and nonsense. I would make the cover letter input box into a text area, or make it expandable. Its hard to proof read a lot of content in an input box.

Overall everything looks great! My least favorite thing about job sites are all the postings by recruiting agencies. On that note you BAN them!
I really like your site. I'm not sure about that name though..
I was sold at about 5:30. Basically just type M-x org-mode to begin.

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It is complete nonsense indeed. There is not technical reason for virussen not to exist.

1. Most if not all Mac users are in the admin group. Meaning they (or a virus or trojan running under their account) can modify for example /Applications/Mail.app without any warnings.

2. Mac users, like Windows users, download and run both legal and illegal software. They also love to share software.

3. Infecting UNIX binaries is extremely simple. Proof of concept virus can probably be written in two pages of C.

This cocktail of user behaviour and a easily exploitable system makes it extremely easy to spread virusses or trojans.

Why it is not happening? No idea. It could very well be market share.
it doesn't include installer.app because installer.app has been outdated and buggy for a long time.

it comes with a new utility called cydia to do package management, from which you can install openssh.
For #12, I personally think that blogupp.com is that new form of advertising, which in fact doesn't look like advertising
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The documentary divided into twelve parts tells the story of how debt combined with political corruption impoverished a nation that was once so rich that the expression "Wealthy as an Argentine" was once in common use throughout the world.

When the USA took on trillions in debt starting in the early 1980s, did we enter a Dante's hell as Argentina did when it took on its debt under a military dictatorship in the 1970s? Is it only a matter of time before US debts lead inexorably to currency crisis, inflation, and political chaos? The story will strike North Americans as uncomfortably familiar.
This begs the question of why in the heck did they let it get to big to fail. and what are they going to do to shrink it down so next time they can let it scum to market forces.
windows NT may have been "designed from the ground up as a 'real' operating system," but then Microsoft went and added a bunch of stuff to it that's necessary to run old Windows 3.0 apps. So all that hardening doesn't count for much.
kuro5hin is an interesting site thank you for that tip. That said the concept of feedback from ones peers and past business transactions is of significant magnitude better than to that of no data whatsoever!

And from what little you have said I get the distinct impression that you would be all up for the creatocracy when you realized that you would not be lumped in with everyone else and your voice was counted according to the merits of your history as well as your arguments.
Was the British Empire too big to fall

Was the world too big to get polluted :)
"John McCain, the angrier of the two presumptive presidential contenders"

Statements like these detract from the credibility of the article.
It only becomes sensitive to its orientation during the process of changing the angle of the mouse and only then if you rotate the mouse about the dead center. For yourself I'd imagine that you only really re-orientate the mouse once per use. Also I'd imagine that you'd quickly start rotating the mouse about the position of the sensor if it was a problem.
I really appreciate your concern, and I'm with you on the anti-censorship bandwagon. But, widespread censorship is not popular with a majority of the public- if it were, it would have already been done. They can't even make pornography illegal. The O'Reilly's of the world could just as easily argue, "Our copyright laws make it possible for them to make money. Kill their copyrights!!!". But lately, the most they've ever managed to accomplish is getting meaningless "Parental advisory" labels on CD and game covers.

Anyway, it wouldn't really be "their" tax dollars paying for the music you like, any more than it would be your tax dollars paying for their Christian music (remember, there's no discrimination in what's purchased). Faced with also having their free Christian music taken away, I'm pretty sure they'll ease up in their opposition. It's better to think of it as your tax dollars paying for the music you like, their tax dollars paying for the stuff they like.

I hope that if ever a law like this were to be passed, you would continue to be concerned. But, I gotta say I always find it annoying when people criticize what might otherwise be a wonderful idea, by arguing that some people might be stupid about it, so we shouldn't do it. It's time to stop being so afraid of stupid people.

Government pays for and administers roads, the military, the justice system, and a host of other things that are much more abusable than our entertainment. They don't completely mess up all those other things, and I don't think it's likely to go badly when it comes to music. Given that the worst thing the government could do would be to not pay for certain things, meaning the artists would have to sell the music just like before, that's not exactly devastating.
Already implemented a few times, we have an implementation that is below critical mass after months of running. Some key aspect of it is still missing :(
It's just a function of OSX market share. I'm sure they same crap will appear for OSX at the point where it becomes criminally profitable to do so.
I haven't deleted my account, but I uninstalled the widget, for similar reasons to arthurk, and something a little more critical.

No matter how accurate RescueTime might be, it can only tell me what I've done after the fact (usually a week later when I check the report). As I wrote in my blog post here: http://inter-sections.net/2008/01/02/feedback when providing feedback, timeliness is very important. For an application trying to stop me from procrastinating, I think the time to do so is while I'm procrastinating - not a week later. A week later, the only effect is to make me feel bad about it. It's a bit like getting a Vodafone phone bill for £200 for the month that ended 60 days ago. At that point you can't do anything other than feel bad, it's far too late to correct the course.

Here's a constructive idea for the RescueTime team (which they may choose to implement or not): add a feature that turns the RescueTime widget into a little minder (trained on the data that you've fed it for so many months) that can tell when I've wasted a lot of time on sites like YCNews or other random sites today, and pop up a little message pointing that out to make me feel a little ashamed of it, so that it steers me back towards productivity before it is too late.

Now that would be something. And since RescueTime is integrated with a web service, chances are you could get people to pay a nominal sum for that service. If I tried it and it really was quite good at salvaging those odd days, here or there, that I waste procrastinating, I would grudgingly but willingly pay up to about $5/m for it.
Sure, but thousands of startups looking for employees? It just strikes me as a small niche, and one that may be hard to make money at.

Having said that though, I can see it being useful for people like me. There's nothing worse than looking on a standard job site and seeing pages of "corporate type jobs asking for a list of meaningless buzzwords". But I'm a very very small minority :)
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Great project but it needs LaTeX support. Where is the fun in drawing graphs if you cannot write in $e^y$ in for one of the axis?
A site like this will live or die by the community. If Startuply can gather a group of clever hackers around their site, startups would gladly pay to advertise jobs to them. (You can see the site trying to sow the community seeds with their startup news section.)

Hijacking the HN community would be a tremendous step in this direction, which means the YC funding should be a big boost to Startuply.
Considering that a) recruiting fees can be up to tens of thousands of dollars and b) recruiting the right employees is crucial to a startup's success (much more than a big business), it's a high value niche.
> it's an illusion. All the great subjects, all the great ideas, have been had already.

Arriving at this feeling is an unmistakable symptom of being physiologically incapable of creativity. My condolences. On the plus side, most of humanity is in the same boat as you.
Widespread censorship is already here. One example: the following (completely truthful) ad is illegal 29 days before an election:

AT&T has assisted the government in illegally spying on you. Barack Obama did what George Bush asked him to do: he voted to give them immunity for their crimes. Is that "Change we can believe in"?

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because we know that they were wrong

About everything? Or just something?

What about thinkers who are still being taught? Was Descartes "wrong" or "right"? How about Nietzsche?
> are from MIT, CalTech, Stanford. I can't compete with that

It isn't hard to compete with pompous twits riding on pure cached prestige, when competing on merit. Though I understand that the YC application process may not be entirely merit-based.
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Hi, this idea definitely fills an important need. There are a few things that could improve the execution:

1) I should tell the site where I am searching for jobs only once. After that, it should use this as a default.

2) There is room for innovation on the contents for each job listing. For instance, it would be cool if a listing included a profile of a really smart engineer who currently works for the company. Smart people attract other smart people, etc. How about space for a video 'tour' of the company?

3) The location based search should be smart enough to give job postings outside an area if none come up (eg, searching for ruby in Los Gatos gives nothing, but the search could be widened to a 20 mile radius automatically for instance).

4) A site like this would be awesome if it could figure out my tastes in jobs (based on feedback I provide for each listing I read), and use this to bring new listings to my attention.

5) One general problem is I feel that I still have to go to 3 different job boards to be up to date on the more interesting opportunities. How can Startuply help?

One final note: It seems that you don't have listings from recruiters. This is a good thing.
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This has nothing to do with entertainment, or the kind of censorship the moral conservatives would be interested in. It's way off topic. It's not even full "censorship"- there's nobody stopping the creators of such an ad from putting it on Youtube, for example. It just can't be broadcast on TV.

To address your comment somehow- the law you cite is probably unconstitutional. It was struck down by the Supreme Court once before, before being modified and passed again. I doubt the present form is constitutional, since it obviously does restrict speech.

Ironically, you, me, and the far right are the ones who most agree the law is bad :). Conservatives hate that law much more than do liberals. The conservatives' argument is "money is speech".
i think they should do something like Eluta ( http://www.eluta.ca/ ) -- very simple and straightforward job search with location..