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41 days ago, PG's estimation for the sum of the value of all YC companies was 4.7 billion. http://ycombinator.com/nums.html

Congrats to Drew, Arash, and the whole Dropbox team.

(Ordinarily I would say that giving congratulations before a deal is confirmed as closed is a jinx, but at this point there is no such thing as jinxing Dropbox. Their ultimate success, whether this report is true or not, is inevitable.)
I honestly think there's room for more than one company to make money in solving clothing pain points :) I'm glad others picked up on this idea too.
The tablet is using dhcpcd, which is plenty venerable.
MA is an awesome guy, smart and funny :) and his book on copy writing has just the right amount of both insight and humor.
Completely agree with this. So many mid sized (read::fairly cool) startups are being swallowed by large companies these days, just to be salvo-ed in a basement and eventually lost.

I figured Heroku would have had the same fate, glad they are (without a doubt) blazing on.
That's as bad as your exit lane analogy. If you want a checkout line analogy that actually somewhat fits the situation, here is one.

You pay for a cup of coffee at Starbucks, standing in line until it was your turn to pay. Then you pay and go sat down and drank some of it, while working on your laptop. You get caught up reading HN, and don't take a sip from your coffee for five minutes. You then want to take a sip.

What Apple is doing is like resuming finishing the coffee without going back to the checkout and trying to pay for it again.
Agreed. And thats where I can see the value. However I'd want something a lil more. For example, perhaps 'things' would keep coming back for say 30, 60, 90 days. You complete the thought and turn it into a habit and now you're good, so you can archive it. The more you turn into habits the better visual feedback you get.
Another idea: Add video to this. Help ingrain the lesson learned by doing a full-blown reflection on what it means to you and why its important. Also, to see yourself to yourself to-do/NOT-to-do something every so often could be interesting.
BTW: I have a folder in Evernote for things like this, I just dont check it that often, but a system that could automate this and push things to me could be interesting. One step further: sharing. Famous people could share short videos of their 'lessons learned' and you could subscribe to their lessons until you complete them as habits (remember not everything will turn into a habit though).

Just a few thoughts, hope it helps!
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Matz created...and to what I understand still develops MRI (Matz Ruby Interpreter). Rubinius and jRuby are coming on strong from the Engine Yard team.
I agree with Kant here: when deciding whether an action is right, one should consider what would happen if everyone started doing it.

Also, you're a dick. Congratulations.
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Can you give us some examples of what sort of web-application-solvable problems this industry might have?
Not a new idea:
http://www.myshape.com/
Website is having serious issues right now but they've raised a boatload of cash over the past 4 years.
I've been playing around with it for a week and I really like it so far, enough to transition everything over from Basecamp.

I really like that I'll be able to incorporate the development progress easily into an internal status page for our startup. (Actually thinking of doing a road-based metaphor visualization of the 'interstates'.)

I'm very hesitant to have a publicly visible progress page though, out of concern that would encourage people to wait to pay until a certain announced feature was in place. Would at least have to be handled carefully.
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Money kills innovation. Risks brings it to life.
Also, if only updated periodically, the front page would "skip" so to speak every X minutes (exaggerated changes in rank), whereas re-scoring on each vote would allow smoother changes in rank.
Copyright (under US law) is for creative acts. The creativity in a photograph is things like setting up the shot, framing it, choice of subjects, lighting, angle, aperture, focus, etc.

If there is no creativity, there is no copyright. See Feist.

So the delay, and even who presses the button doesn't matter; the only thing that matters is who is responsible for the creative aspects of the photograph.

And, in this case, whether a non-human can, as a legal matter, create an "original work of authorship".
The lesson is clear: the next time you have a disagreement with your neighbor, get drunk and run him over with your car. You'll be out of prison sooner than if you hack his WiFi and send some sleeze-ball emails.
Seems to expose some different assumptions about the purpose of jail time. To me, it's purely protective: you put violent people in jail to physically incapacitate them until the threat of them causing more violence diminishes as they age. That's the reason most Scandinavian countries give sentences of under 10 years for most crimes, and under 20 years even for murder, because the risk of older people committing violent crimes is very low. So if your goal is to protect society from reoffense, the biggest win is to keep people locked up for their 20s; the 2nd-biggest is people in their 30s; and it gets increasingly pointless beyond that. In fact, giving supervised release instead of jailtime is often warranted, because keeping people tied to their communities / sources of employment is one of the best ways to prevent recidivism, while a few years in jail tends to turn people into hardened criminals (with fewer ties to the non-criminal world, and more ties to criminal gangs).

In this case, 18 years seems pretty clearly excessive from a protective point of view; it's not even clear any jail time at all is warranted, since some sort of probation with supervision of internet use would likely suffice to prevent him from reoffending.

My impression is that many people, especially in the U.S., have a notion of justice that's either more retributive or deterrent based, though. If retributive, that's a pure ethical disagreement. If deterrent, then we might have an empirical disagreement, about which lengths of sentences in fact deter crimes.
http://fivesecondtest.com/

http://navflow.com/

http://theclicktest.com/

I'd stick with the navflow or clicktest product - from doing a few of the five second tests, I can tell you it's not nearly long enough to remember much about a page. Most of the tests ask for way too much detail. I suppose it'd be fine if you're only asking one or two VERY simple questions.
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And... it wasn't a one-off prank. He did it repeatedly, with a long planned campaign. And wasn't afraid to do this to other neighbors as well. Though, with the reach of wifi, I'm not sure how many neighbors he could do - 2-3?
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> The earning cap statement has more to do with the relationship between professors and the companies that hire students from their schools. This becomes even more problematic since many firms do not hire candidates without specific academic pedigree.

Again, it's scary that you think that that's a "cap".

> Also, there were many cases where students preferred to do what the professor thought was most insightful compared to pursuing their own interest, since they wanted to secure their professor's recommendation.

Welcome to the real world.
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I love this idea - which is why I co-founded Clothes Horse ;) thanks rw and gsiener for the comments! Hopefully you'll see us everywhere soon. Hit me up if you wanna get involved - @dwhittemore on twitter
The entity that controls content should not be allowed to own the transport. Transport is a Utility. We the ratepayers paid for it and we the Citizens of the towns and cities that the cable or fiber pass thru own the rights-of-way. The local physical plant of the Internet should be owned by the Citizens. The physical plant of the Internet must be open access with no restrictions on content.

A vibrant marketplace will emerge on top of the Internet Physical Plant if these basics are enforced, just like public roads, water and sewer plants enabled life as we know it.
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I entered a 48 hour startup competition with source control for recipes. I won 3rd out of 8 or so teams, mainly because I didn't have a good strategy to penetrate the market (massive competitors like All Recipes, or branded ones like Betty Crocker hold the stage now). Everyone loved the concept though, and combining it with an Ingredients->Mobile Grocery List would be useful for just about every one.

I suppose if anyone's interested, I'd be willing to carry the idea further. I'm a technical guy, with experience in RoR and NodeJS and Android, although I'd love to explore the business side of things more.
"Before I was famous I'd have to scrounge around for shitty jobs. Now they just come to me."

Do you mean shitty jobs just come to you? Or better stuff? Couldn't tell if you were trying to be funny there or not.
Really, your nit against a poor sentence is in the form of a false dilemma? What about:

* An annotated and later printed PDF.

* A home witten manual where notes and step-by-steps were put in a .doc (or similar) and printed out for later reference.

* A single piece of paper printed and used as a bookmark, or taped into the cover of the book.

And so on. Please at least try to think of alternatives which are more plausible than your random choice -- it comes off as less disingenuous.
For reasons that are entirely based in my own personal tastes the Pandora UI has always been a turn-off. The service has been great (aside from hearing the same Home-Depot ad 5+ times an hour). Tip of the hat for the great work on this new design.

Now, why can't I use it right now? The current site scales just fine. They know how to scale the service. What's holding it back? Is it not ready?
> A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. In order to be patentable, the invention must fulfill certain conditions "

You're reading "product" and "process" too literally. A patent on a new way of making a wheel is not just a patent on the wheels that you're making. It's on the way you make wheels, the idea, whether or not you're involved in said wheel making.

> Scientific theory or discovery and mathematical methods are NOT patentable.

Scheduling isn't any of the above, even if it happens to use some of them.

Consider the patent on making vulcanized rubber. It came out of scientific discovery and depends on chemical "laws", but isn't any of those things. It doesn't cover the use of those things to do other things. It just covers the use of those things to vulcanize rubber.

> At Business School you learn that all sources of competitive advantage are temporary.

Patronize much? Anything that applies to "all" isn't specifically relevant to this discussion, which is about specific sources of competitive advantage.

I'll repeat my question - do you really want to leave innovation to BigCos?
hrmmm! good point, i assume too much, and i guess i assumed in the cadence of 802.11 whatever, dhcp comes next because it always does, but it never has to! and apparently not here for a moment. thanks for coming back to post this.
I'm always confused by the people who depend on their services for work: "Even worse, today Comcast disconnected me from the ever-evolving cloud services I use each and every day for life and work.", yet don't actually pay the extra money for "business-class" services. If your internet connection is that important to you, isn't it worth the extra $20-40 a month to ensure you don't have this issue, and you (presumably) receive faster/better support when you need it?
Unfortunately the faded small letters probably did not make your captcha more difficult to crack. It's relatively simple to remove all grey pixels from the image before OCRing it.

However having your own custom captcha probably helped quite a bit. I'm guessing spammers aren't going to bother writing custom software to decode your captcha unless you have a major site.
Seems like disproportionate punishment for 18 years for constant harassment and first time offence (?). As a taxpayer, it seems economically cheaper to rehabilitate him for the non-violent offences and get him contributing back to the economy rather than spending money incarnating him.

IANAP (I am not a participant) beyond the article. I don't know the full case details to warrant the punishment.
Every now and then, I start to feel lazy or like I'm wanting to avoid some necessary but tedious task. Then I think to myself "programming, motherfucker" and get that shit done.
If you are 30+ and not had that big win yet, it might be worth changing your expectation and working on something that has a higher chance of being moderately successful so that you are more likely to walk away from your career with something.
This may or may not be what is going on with the founders of MeetingBurner, but it's precisely where my head is at as I turn 30.

Completely agree. The other part is that someone who is in their 30s is likely to have seen the inside of a few large companies and have a ton of ideas about nagging niche problems that can be solved.
I wish more routers came with a setting to share a small slice of your bandwidth on port 80 and 443 openly, with the real wifi access secured.

Where I live, open wifi will be saturated by your neighbours' bittorrents quickly (we pay by the GB).
Too lazy to find the link but the article which popped up a day or 2 back(the one which mentioned Larry Page - If we can't win on quality, we shouldn't win) said he was laid off.
This sounds great, too bad they've limited their user base by not supporting the most widely-used mobile OS. Maybe someone will come along and eat their lunch.
Has nothing to do with "emotional torture". His victim could have been utterly destroyed for life by his actions, and not in an emotional way, but in a very real way.
really? you can't think of a more traumatic experience?
I can't rule that explanation out, but I think it's unlikely in this case: my DHCP server knows the MAC address of all of my machines, uses a static MAC->IP mapping, and doesn't update DNS (which is also static). The IP and hostname (as reported by `hostname`) are always correct; it's just the name as reported in the Sharing preference pane and in Finder from other machines on that network that gets the " (N)" suffix.
Look at the rest of the post.
Could someone clarify a technical issue for me? I thought hacking WEP grants you access to the internet via that Wi-Fi network, which explains how he created a MySpace page that traced back to their IP address, but how would he be able to send emails from the lawyer's email account? Even within the poorly encrypted Wi-Fi network, the lawyer was using Yahoo Mail which surely uses HTTPS, so how did the neighbor get into the lawyer's email account?

Unless he used a custom mail client to spoof the From field of the email, in which case the email should be easily provably not sent via Yahoo Mail's servers.
FTA:

>derStandard.at: How does a company like Google balance the need between wanting secrecy on new developments and doing it open source?

Chris DiBona: That varies between project. If you look at Chrome, every commit is instantly online. Android has a punctuated release model based on its marketing needs.

derStandard.at: Why is the chosen model for Android and Chrome so fundamentally different?

Chris DiBona: It's a different kind of market. If you look at Android we have lots of partners. We have chipset partners, we have handset partners, we have carrier partners. They all want to use Android and they all want to have something special about themselves. So they want to use Android for that specialness. What that means is that one handset vendor probably doesn't want to interact too much with the other handset vendors because they are competitors. And Android gets caught in the middle of all of this. And the bigger question then becomes how you architect software that it's still useful around that kind of model.

He doesn't really say why Android development needs to be secret. So much for openess.
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Nope, there are often sentence enhancements when there are multiple crimes involved or if the defendant has prior convictions. Very common.
Now I'm happy I took that Linear Algebra class even though it wasn't part of my Comp Sci program. Thanks for a great article!
He doesn't really say why Android development needs to be secret. So much for openess.

I thought this was a pretty direct response:

What that means is that one handset vendor probably doesn't want to interact too much with the other handset vendors because they are competitors. And Android gets caught in the middle of all of this.

ie - the handset vendors want to keep things secret from each other (and they could gain a lot of information if they saw the commits as they happened on Android). No surprise there, right?
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But MemSQL is targeting MySQL users (at least initially)! Its proposition is more compelling to current MySQL users than it is Postgres (or whichever higher preforming DBs you are referring to) users. And frameworks will have little effort to support the new db and can optimize over time.

The whole thing makes a lot of sense to me.
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Ask HN: Why move to Silicon Valley versus going to London?
I, along with my co-founder, are currently debating whether to move to Silicon Valley (neither one of us has roots there) or go to Britain (one of is British).

I think that startups based in Silicon Valley are statistically going to have a higher chance of a) success and b) funding. But I just don't have raw data or stats to back that up.

Any one care to share something tangible?
>Legal details aside, my question was more about whether it's morally right to sentence someone to eighteen years for the crimes described in the article?

Posting child porn and death threats? Yeah, that's worth 18 years.
(cross-posted from the blog's comments - didn't realise they're hidden by default)

Just a few comments (from a developer/entrepreneur's perspective):

> I hate asking around for help.

We all do. Asking is hard. But if you're aiming to be a successful entrepreneur, you will have to do things that take you outside your comfort zone. That's the whole point. Bite the bullet, swallow your pride.

> There are so many job boards and most of them are useless.

Yep, that's exactly right. Don't use them. If you want to find great developers (and you're not Google), nine times out of ten you're going to have to do the legwork yourself.

> “I’m looking too. If I found a good software developer, I’d take him. Sorry!” Not cool.

That sounds fair enough to me. Good developers are, as you've discovered, rare. If they're putting the work in, they deserve the payoff - why should they give up a potentially valuable employee just because you asked?

The common theme here seems to be that yes, building a company from the ground up is really hard, and it's a ton of (sometimes frustrating and thankless) work. If you have faith in your company's ability to succeed, you need to do whatever's necessary to get them there.
I agree with you. 18 years is ridiculous for what the guy actually did.

I think part of the reason is they wanted to send a message. Not the one you'd think: "Don't terrorize your neighbors" or "Don't threaten politicians". The message is "You'd better take the plea bargain. Or else." Prosecutors don't have time to take every case to trial, so they threaten everybody with 100 little charges that add up to 150 years in jail. Then they offer you a deal, where you plead guilt to some subset and spend enough years in jail to satisfy the government.

It's grossly unfair. Nobody knows how many innocent people are wasting away in prison because they didn't want to risk spending the rest of their lives there.
I would like to put in a plug for EFNet #java - idle there long enough and you may learn some things.

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Look at parts 3.1, 3.2, 4.4 and Fig. 5 of the DHCP protocol. They describe what a client must do on initialization. For example, section 3.2 describes what a client should do if they have a previously assigned addressed they would like to keep using. It seems to me the behavior here is very precisely defined.

Maybe a networking expert can correct me but it seems to me that those initial ARP requests before the DHCP request are not exactly in accordance with the protocol.
that is a bit of a hobson's choice, sure (some of) the code is available (pre 3.0), but without a device that is open and able to run it, it may as well be closed.

I'm not sure what you define as "a device that is open", but surely the many unlocked handsets apply?

If not, then http://beagleboard.org/project/android/ perhaps?

If not, then maybe the Nokia 810: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Article...

Am I missing your point somehow?
One thing I think should be added is that to participate in the community. It can be working on projects—your own or other open source projects, being active on IRC and mailing lists, or going to local user groups. I like to believe I got my current job by starting a Python user group. It helped me network and find where the jobs in the area where.
I, personally, find it very difficult to sustain eye contact while I talk to people. The "I know your lying because you won't look me in the eye" myth was 90% of the reason I was always in trouble at school. It's a myth.
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Well, it's a lot cheaper!

I don't see why a pure software company needs that much funding in the beginning. Their expenses are close to zero.
Hacking WEP grants you access to that Wi-Fi network. This means you can directly attack the target system. Exploits that allow arbitrary code execution are revealed from time to time. If the guy gets behind on security updates, use a known exploit to install a keylogger, and you now have access to the guy's email and other accounts (from his IP address and everything!)
It seems to me they should be able to support an intelligent sub-set of functionality. And if there are any glaring holes, they will hear from users. This doesn't strike me as a big issue.