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You can do it on the WP7 marketplace using the clumsy messaging built into Zune. Not ideal at all.

Only thing I can suggest is making your contact information highly visible in the app (just above the "review app" button) helps solicit feedback and head off negative reviews.

Making the contact information "tap-able" also increases the effectiveness of this.
My hiring process at Google was reasonably long and rigorous, but it certainly wasn't a horror story.

I left about six months ago, and while there were things I didn't like about the hiring and interview process, it was still significantly better than any other place I've worked.
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This format definitely detracts from the total benefit these companies can get from these office hours, but the possible press from getting their idea vetted by you on stage somewhat compensates for not being able to ask the pressing questions that usually come up at OH.

My one question would be: can you be as brutally honest as you need to be on stage with a team you've never seen before and might never see again? If so, then I think this is still an invaluable experience for the companies - most startups that just get feedback from their friends and a few early adopters don't get to hear the things that they need to.
So politicians in China aren't bozos, but the politicians in the US are? Oh please. The top 9 government officials are no more intellectual than many of those in Obama's cabinet.

Economic growth is not the only measure of success. In fact, it is one of many.
If no one else does what you want, create exactly what you want, and release it. You wont be the only person that has wanted it, I guarantee it. Even to me, something that syncs my todo list and makes it easy to add to / remove things from sounds like a great idea.
A bit late to respond, but.... I have a custom standing desk that whoever outfitted our corporate office made for me (and others in our office who stand). There's no brand markings anywhere, it's just a generic white desk with buttons on the side that raise and lower it several feet.

Before this desk I used some cardboard boxes on top of a regular sitting desk.
At this moment, there is no experience or feature parity.
Many of the Live apps require IE + Silverlight to be collaborative (though I bet they do away with this, it seems MS is moving away from Silverlight for some things.)

Often when I mention this, an MS person says, "you don't need Silverlight + IE." It's technically true. It will revert to a "dumb" mode if you don't use that.

Also, some of the web versions, even w/IE + Silverlight, don't have realtime group editing. (Like the Word-esque app.)

This year they launched Office365, which they market as their cloud offering. It does have some hosted features, but the client they want you to use is not a web browser, but local copies of Office.

Web-based collab tools from MS are a moving target. They've switched their branding and strategy 4 times in the past two years. I don't think they're on the right track yet. They need to just bite the bullet and do a pure web offering. They know how to do it. It's not lack of ability. They just don't want to hurt the goose that lays the golden egg. Can't blame 'em. But then they can't blame us for diving deeper into Google Docs, which gets more interesting and flexible every week.
I defer to the site founder on all issues of site governance. I have found HN largely to be a worthwhile website for my 911 days as a registered user, and my interest is mostly to make sure that the site founder and the members of his volunteer editor ("curator") team

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

continue to enjoy the site and find it useful for themselves. They are doing a good job, and I want them to have incentive to keep up the good work.

When pg wrote his recent post "Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

He wrote, "The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted."

That's still the key issue. Anything that results in lower scores for mean, dumb, or other bad comments is something helpful to all readers of HN.

It looks like you have received an explanation from a couple of other participants about why the comments you asked about, as posted, can look either mean or dumb (or both) even if they are factually correct. That is the art of posting here, to post with correct information, a civil tone, and thoughtful use of language. It's kind of other participants to suggest some ways to improve those posts. Usually people just downvote (or upvote) to indicate their judgment of post quality. It happens that I didn't read that thread originally at all, so I am still digesting the context of the comments you asked about.
It's already hard enough to run a reliable mobile data network built with industrial-grade systems on exclusive spectrum. Unfortunately, moving to a network like you describe, built on commodity gear doesn't translate to quality, redundancy, and scalability like it does with distributed systems.

Major cell companies are already doing what you describe. Example: both Verizon and AT&T have a fleet of mobile cell towers mounted on the back of trucks they park at large events if they think capacity is going to be an issue. If you look around at building tops in cities, you'll see arrays of panel antennas on many of them. These are for cell networks. Every site is intentionally designed and every single antenna is specifically angled and tuned, and their network engineers collect quality statistics from every call at every site, which are fed into massive data warehouses for quality analysis. They literally have fleets of people like "the Verizon guy" continuously drive testing their networks.

If anyone knows how to run mobile data networks, it's them. Seriously, network engineers at companies like Verizon are treated like software engineers at Google and Facebook. They keep the core business running and they are the rockstars. Everyone else, including the jerk in customer service, is basically a nobody.

From what I can tell, there is a sort of strange, pervasive myth on the Internet that the large cellcos have their heads up their asses and that somewhere, somehow, there is a kind of wild band of rebels with hacked 2.4GHz/5GHz mesh network gear and cantennas doing it for dirt cheap.

Please show me even the smallest evidence that anyone, anywhere is running a true mobile data network using a mesh network on commodity gear. This means continuous coverage for a metro area with low power, cheap, antenna-integrated MOBILE consumer gear, seamless site-to-site and channel-to-channel handoff from users moving at 80mph, high quality indoor coverage in large buildings that is basically taken for granted, ramp-ups/downs of 10k+ customers within hours (sports events, etc)... and on and on.

You'll find a few WISPs doing fixed site-to-site links and (poorly) blanketing areas with WiFi coverage, but nothing on the order of what cellcos do. The fact that one can hold a uninterrupted voice conversation using a $5 phone with no visible antenna while driving down the interstate at 75mph for hundreds of miles is a pretty awesome modern marvel.
Yeah there are a lot of great moments in this video. Cooper is hilarious. ;-)
Please explain in more detail how this works. I signed up, but did not connect facebook/twitter because I'd rather not spam my friends with something I'm not 100% sure on.

Do my friends have to sign up for Wolfpack to be able to use this service? Does the messaging only happen on your platform, or does it duplicate messages across other platforms as well (fb messages, emails, etc)?
I use emacs. I love that I don't have to move much to do anything. Sorry vim, but pressing esc before I execute a command is a pain in the neck. I also use the no X version so that I can be browsing in the terminal and pop something up really fast. Its wonderful.
Gotcha. So what happens if I don't have the webpage open on my desktop, or if I send multiple links?
It's clearly a dumb thing to do, I agree. I'm just arguing it's better than austerity.
It's pretty good for small-medium projects. We currently have a project at ~300kloc and it's painful.
I agree with what you are saying for the most part. The relationship seems trashed. However, I don't think that the investor is at a disadvantage legally, at least he wouldn't be in the US. Here the legal system is the perfect tool for a rich individual/organization to bully and harass anyone without a sizeable legal warchest. See: Scientology. So my advice is still to try every diplomatic strategem you can. Don't just assume this investor is just a total dick. There is some evidence to the contrary: he funded this young guy in the first place. If it is all about emotion, then try to find a psychological solution.
Check out the website for Halcyon Molecular. They are experimenting with new ways to sequence the human genome using electron microscopy. Naturally, aside from bioengineers and materials engineers they are interested in bioinformatics. There might be a nice way to start in the more bioengineering focused areas of the company and transition into bioinformatics. (halcyonmolecular.com)

good luck
Yes, I would like to know as well. Who offers data service only? Or you just hoping from Wifi to Wifi?
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HP just seems incredibly stupid. I mean, they're already $1.2B in on this, and they desperately need apps. Why not spend $50MM, go to a bunch of devs, and commission apps? Offer aggressive rev sharing and a guaranteed minimum $50K. $50K ea is enough to get some people to build out apps and that gets you a thousand apps. If they have to scrap WebOS an extra 4% and change doesn't really make it that much worse of an investment, while if this works, the upside is huge.
Unfortunately this can too easily devolve into proof by lack of imagination.

Properly weighing the risks requires a certain amount of paranoia. When the person who's doing the security review cares about what the outcome is, they won't be imaginative enough when thinking about how the data might be misused. You almost need an adversarial system.
Judging from the article, it sounds like the NSA has a complete searchable copy of every email sent by every American in the last decade, along with a (completely illegal) surveillance file on every single one of us. If true, it makes Drake's assessment (“This is too serious not to talk about”) the mother of all understatements.

So hats off to the New Yorker in general, and Jane Mayer in particular. Given the monstrous scale of the lawlessness she's alleging, and the catastrophic failure of governance needed to sustain it, firing a shot this public and well-timed was exceptionally brave. Unlike Drake - who seems to have seriously underestimated the response he'd trigger - the authors of this piece must recognize that they're making themselves the targets of a seriously scary bunch of people.

And yes, this (alleged) embrace of domestic spying does make the Nixon Administration "look like pikers.” It also adds plenty of weight to Evgeny Morozov's contemptuous dismissal of "utopians" who consider the internet an unalloyed force for democracy and freedom.
Thank you for the suggestions.
You are omitting critical information. Are you paying these people a salary, or just equity? If you're paying them a salary, then 1-3% is reasonable. If you're not paying them a salary, then they are pretty much cofounders. Getting into a non-YC incubator does not really reduce your risk by much, nor does getting 3k users as a side project.
Thanks for the compliments, but the credit should really go to Ankur Dave, who posted that answer on Quora :)
I believe that Apple has already at least partly done that with the coming of the iPhone in 2007. I would not call it a 100% victory, but compared to how much control the mobile carriers had before then, its a huge change.
I want to say something about this, but I'm lost for words. This man has incredible strength of character. My hat goes off to him.
No salary. So 7.5% is reasonable post-acceptance to incubator?
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And what if social search isn't "the next big thing"?
It's much harder to do and there's much less history. So there's a lot of effort and relatively little confidence.

If you're rentech then you can probably do this but if you're a hedge fund that's JUST doing news/twitter/etc you are probably doomed.

BTW, $25m fund is a TINY hedge fund. I've run stuff that big myself (within the context of a much larger platform.)

Also if someone brings up the Hathaway thing I shall cry.
Why is proxying Unicorn to Nginx preferable to using Nginx directly with Passenger?
You can import public JSON/XML/CSV/HTML(and other) data.

You can connect/import private stuff with the Secure Data Connector, though I don't know all the types supported.

http://code.google.com/securedataconnector/docs/1.3/overview...

You can get everything out w/the API, too.
"Applets run in their own area on the page and can't interact with the rest of the page like javascript does."

You can actually call methods in a Java applet from Javascript and vice-versa. It just doesn't seem to be used very much:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet...
So, umm, how do I get in if the battery is dead to open the hood and jump the car?
Working without a salary, pre angel funding = co-founder

You should be giving them 20%+ equity. If you treat them like employees, they will act like employees. At this early stage in the startup you need dedicated fanatics who will obsess about the project 24/7 and work 70 hours a week. With 5-10% equity, it's not rational for them to do so.
Tell HN: Stormpulse presented at IBM SmartCamp today
I highly recommend applying for any of you that are doing B2B startups. Awesome experience so far (tomorrow is the continuation).
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The author first points out that science and engineering Ph.D.'s are disproportionately Asian, and that many return to their mother nations after education. That's true. He then points out that national success is built on the back of technology and science. Also true. But by ending with a back-patting, reassuring comparison with Japan and the claim that Americans have that truly essential quality, "entrepreneurial spirit" and innovation, and Asian nations don't, he makes a claim that reeks of hubris and will likely be quickly proved untrue. Science is the gas pedal, innovation is the fuel-- but without the pedal your full tank of gas isn't going to take your car anywhere. Confidence without substance is empty. My 2 cents
That's fine, but you can't exactly blame MPAA, RIAA for not readily embracing a business model of making less money.
I suspect after all these years habit will take over. I've noticed that happening at other events where I had to talk to startups.
Have you already claimed a facebook.com/username? I thought the same, but it seems like my username@facebook.com was already setup for me. Try sending yourself an email to @facebook.com (ideally from the email coupled to your FB account).
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Seems like a near-impossible task. I can't imagine a computer would make solving this multi-dimensional problem any simpler.
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It just queues up on the website, and thus no magic :(
Good question. Can't put a lever on the outside without making it likelier that criminals can open your hood. You can't do it with your remote.

Maybe there'll be a place to use your key that lets gravity take the door out of the way.
Famous Creators on Fear of Failure (Glaser/I♥NY & Sagmeister/7-year break)
Could someone write a program that would cause a stack overflow, compile it with tcc, and run it?
Wonder how many of them are dropouts?
But this an overly-academic approach to the problem. Your interviewers will still write in whatever they write, as colored by their perceptions and rapport with you. If they write that you had a bad interview, then that's going to poison the HC. There's no way around this.

The HC appears to serve only as a layer of noise/a random selection filter to determine who is actually offered a job.
And also, are you profitable? Because 7.5% or 50% of 0 is zero.

And what work still need to be done? Is it a next 5 years of 20h/day full-time commitment or it's just a "small contract"?
I started reading this article thinking it was like any other 'how to travel the world and live cheap'. When I got halfway to see that he quit his job, moved to Mexico and has a successful business all while living with MLA I was astounded.

Really shows you what anyone can do if you simply have enough tenacity and dedication.
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I've done similar to this, although I'm now back in California. The best part is you don't have to wait for a tragic accident to happen.
Have you ever had a power window not close properly or at all? Or fail to open? And you were still able to drive away, right?

Well, we can complicate that for you.
From what I can find so far, the best option is T-Mobile.

Get a T-Mobile SIM Card[1], then select a Mobile Broadband data plan[2], e.g. 2 GB for $40/mo.

[1]: <http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/cell-phone-detail.aspx?c...;
[2]: <http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/cell-phone-plans.aspx?cat...;

T-Mobile can be used with data-only products such as Galaxy Tab, so this method should be allowed by T-Mobile.

There seem to be a few ways using AT&T, e.g. an iPad SIM, or a GoPhone SIM, or signing up for Laptop Connect, and using that SIM, but none seem to be officially supported.

I'm guessing there's no way to do this with a CDMA carrier.

Are there other GSM resellers/virtual networks?
I've thought about it, but bookmarklets on the iPhone (not sure about android) is exceedingly annoying. Marco Arment (Instapaper founder) wrote about his experience here: http://www.marco.org/2010/10/10/an-open-enhancement-request-...
I've read through all the comments but for some strange reason no one has mentioned the forced requirement of using KERBANGO TUNING SERVICE. How can you gloss over a requirement to use a 3rd party software when that isn't even the product you are trying to download? Do you boot up in the morning and wonder where that new toolbar came from? Do you ever wonder why your system is so slow? Forget the legal-ease, start wondering why your system runs so bad & you have stuff on it you don't want.
Will you be selecting the startups or TechCrunch?
The risk is still quite high. Incubator funding != VC funding.

7.5% is not "way too much" at this point. Are you paying $85-100k for a fresh out-of-college developer? If no, then he's putting capital at risk (opportunity cost) and 7.5% is a quite reasonable slice.

Really, though, it comes down to this: does hiring him (and getting N years of his work, where N is the vesting period) make the company 7.5 percent more valuable? If yes, then you're not really giving anything up by cutting him a 7.5% slice.
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Is it time to write your senator to support this bill? I wish EFF was more clear on the timing.
I tried to do this with my Mifi-only plan (grandfatherd 3G unlimited for $60) with VZW and an external battery (1800mAh w/ correct adapter), and it worked well on occasion, But, for the 80% of the time the ping-times (~150ms) made it untenable, esp. while moving in a car (often ~230ms). When I had <50ms it was fine. This was using Gizmo5/Gvoice/Sip client, in the Denver metro area, and spring/ summer '09, so perhaps this has changed.
But it looks like the window has to roll down first to avoid damage. It looks to me like out of power, out of luck.
This is what is wonderful about the internet, and the written word overall. The ability to communicate with people without their disability being "present" unless they choose so must be so powerful. A lot of respect for this guy, making the break is pretty scary without thousands of dollars of medical expenses hanging over you!
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http://nightly.webkit.org/

I downloaded a webkit nightly from here, and it works now. Also, of note, the nightly picks up all my Safari settings, so it's not too much of a pain.
The OP is doing a lot of generalization and extrapolation to make the judgement contained in the title, considering he doesn't even seem to have made it through stage one of the process he's attempting to judge. I'm pretty sure there's some folks who get rejected at the preliminary screening stage of my company's hiring process (some, I'm sure, for the wrong reasons) but I hardly think that would justify condemning our entire recruiting strategy and process.

This seems mostly like a standard recipe for baiting traffic from HN to a blog: make up a sweeping generalization about a company people are deeply interested in (e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter) based on a very limited data set, put that in your headline, then have your article talk about how much better your company is at XYZ by comparison. It's the HN version of the humblebrag tweet.
Lock-in is a bit of a myth, or more precisely, everything "locks you in". If you start with a LAMP stack, or Rails, or .Net it's going to be very expensive to change that once your business is off the ground. This is because the main costs are developer time and time-to-market/opportunity costs.

Regardless of platform, a wholesale rewrite is rarely viable. Facebook is still on PHP, and have had to take heroic measures to avoid moving to another language.
Perfect advice. Thanks so much!
I'd like to work at Google, but I have no interest in going through the embarrassment of their [seeminly] stuck up interview process. No doubt this is my loss, and not Google's.
One aspect of this, buying a company and then killing off all its products has been going on a long time.

It's a destructive practice that causes a lot of damage. It's also one of the reasons I am against copy protection - I have purchased products over the years that were killed when their company was acquired. This has resulted in years of my data that could no longer be used.

As a developer, I have gone through this in the past as one of the employees. You work for months or years on a product, then it is bought and killed off, the IP boxed up and put away forever untouchable like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Very frustrating from this angle as well.
Communist governments have usually attracted intellectuals to higher levels of power -- the results so far haven't been uplifting.

No they don't. The Chinese cultural revolution has almost extinguished the intellectual class before ending. I don't recall a single scientist in The Soviet Union Politburo. Do you have any examples for your "usually", beyond this particular incarnation of the Chinese government?
7.5% sounds reasonable, may be even too little if he is truly valuable candidate.

Don't forget that everything you give should vest over time (for obvious reasons), giving 10% vested like you did is not a good idea.

Also, timely 83(b) election is your friend.
No salary? You sound like a freaking tightwad.
Might I ask what's stopping you from launching a competing product?

If the product was good in the first place, had enough traction to get noticed by Gootwitbook, and was something you really wanted, why not build it up yourself?