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The value in the Silicon Valley startup model this article seems to miss (and bash) is that it's there. With programs like YC, VC firms and plenty of prior startup examples (data), potential entrepreneurs (and also investors) can get a good sense what they need to do to succeed. Success of course is still statistical, but it's there.

For example I started a company in E.Europe, and here it's not clear at all what process you have to follow to succeed.

You may think that an entrepreneur has to figure that out, but that's not a good way to look at it. A good entrepreneur, since he's already involved in a venture with high overall risks, will minimize individual risks whenever possible. By following a model such as the YC/SV model, where he is advised, maximizes the inflow of information about his idea/BP etc, he can achieve that.
The page is pretty sparse on information, so I have to ask, can I only "upload a design" (as in a screenshot) or can I submit an actual website that testers then run through?
Better explanation at the top would be nice. Something like:

"Tired of designing for 10 browsers and needing to copy and paste the site's URL to each one? Here are two simple bookmarklets will make it a snap."

I had to come back to Hacker News to actually figured out what it did!
Entrenched giant will most likely attempt to buy agile upstarts (assuming they get some adopters) by enticing them with the vision of bringing their technology to hundreds of thousands of designers. And a few million. Of course, the vision will be muddied by corporate swamps (Yahoo buying Flickr)
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Thanks for the links. I wasn't aware that server sent events existed. It looks cool, but is just another thing that can't be used because of compatibility yet :(.
Ok, how about considering a different demographic: China.

IE6 remains by far the most popular desktop web browser in China (Statcounter [1] says 50% of the market). If my site is targetting a Chinese audience, IE6 support is a must and no amount of persuasion will move the entire Chinese market to Chrome in a hurry.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-201007...
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100% true. And this should be obvious: none of get paid to write code. We get paid to solve other people's problems. Experience that matters is experience of doing that, Working in your own projects - unless you have actual users, who can confront you with scenarios you didn't expect - isn't really that transferrable.
I think this is more complex:

a.) It reduces the risk that something happens (e.g. burglary)
b.) It increases the impact if something happens (e.g. armed robbery, murder, rape)
really interesting article, but a few questions:

1) when did it suddenly become ok for the military to shoot unarmed combatants?

2) if "no one wanted detainees" why weren't the women with usama killed?

3) Is freezing no longer considered a form of surrender (seems especially relevant when no commands/orders were given to him?

4) why did "no one want detainees"?
I'm not as experienced with Tornado, but just feel like throwing in that callbacks in a language without non shitty anonymous functions seems like it would be miserable.
> just was assuming the average user of the site wasn't Polish, leaving them even less legal security

People should get rid of that "poland is europe's mexico" notion. It's the EU - you have the same legal security as in the UK, France or Germany.
Hotmail and Paypal were two of the earliest and most famous viral products.

To redeem money in Paypal, you needed an account.

If you got an email from a HoTMaiL user, there was a viral auto inserted footer.

And, most important, for these two products, they didn't attempt to track your every click, plain web urls...
EJ said she has suspicion they were identity thefts. So they booked with a stolen identity probably.
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You can I believe go to business meetings on a tourist visa if you are not being paid. Eg as a UK citizen I have often been to the US for meetings. Not paid work though. So meeting your VC or customers is fine. Service businesses would be out.
I'm always torn when I read things like this. I tend to be pro-innovation and take the approach that if you don't take advantage of technology, someone else will. But when I read stories like this I can't help but wonder where all those people will go. What will their next job be? As technologists, what is our responsibility to them (if any)?
Previous submissions of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830614

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827882 <- This has over 100 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827861
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>Then why do we need airbnb at all?

Website more pretty. They also have an intro video with a lady talking. Craiglist does not have a pretty site or video with a lady talking.
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Ben's posts are consistently insightful. This one is no exception.
Because it's harder and not as cool as working on new stuff
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It's not all of IT, but it's not unusual for quant dev type roles to report to the front-office (either singly or as part of a dual-reporting structure). The reporting doesn't have to be direct for dev bonuses to be tied to PnL either, what I've seen happen at some places is that a certain percentage of the desk bonus pool is assigned to the development team and the development team management than decide how to split that pool among the developers.

Go to efinancialcareers and search for "PnL bonus" if you want to see some examples of job specs mentioning it.
Another strawman. People using pirated OS's and being technically unsophisticated to the degree of being satisfied with what IE6 has to offer are extremely unlikely to buy your service or to provide any significant value to your advertisers. Basically they are leeches that will use whatever is cheapest/most convenient to them. Thus not having them as your user will only spare you some resources.

But if they really want to use your service - they will upgrade in a heartbeat (upgrading or changing a browser is no significant undertaking nowadays). If they are using your service via Cybercafes - they will get the proprietors to install another browser.

Your argument merely tells me that you either haven't developed or seriously thought about developing a service for Chinese market.
Explain?

And if your only answer is 'ads and crappy splash screens' then think a bit more deeply before you respond. People round here'd like a little bit more insight than a simple kneejerk reaction.
True, but they have nice updates which will freeze your Apple when put under heavy load...
ok, you convinced me to try. Here is my coffee table + desk hack (pic) https://plus.google.com/109940267018696224506/posts/B144cQj7...

hope I don't find myself buying a new mac due to the whole thing collapsing! Still, at least I'll have my health :)
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I've actually asked this question on Quora, but got no answers ina few months, so let me see if this community has better ideas. :)

Fingerprint readers are a great security device regularly used on laptops; but as smartphones are becoming as powerful as laptops it would be very useful to have them there to provide a better security. Still, I know of literally no phones sporting a fingerprint reader. Or perhaps there are some but I simply missed them?
Calling a locksmith would have been the one of first thing I had done in her case. But doors are pretty useless when it comes to burglary.
My question is: if the performance of founding CEOs is clearly better, what are we to make of the VC horror stories where they kick out the founders to make way for professional management. One notable example is Sean Parker and Plaxo. Is this overblown, or is Horowitz different than the majority of VCs?
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It's not like people haven't tried to build the later, but none of them have succeeded, which suggests that you're mistaken...

I'm guessing because people actually meet their real life friends-of-friends at parties, etc. anyway and haven't met anyone from that pool of people who they want to date.
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Competitive. Yes. But, their may be a model for a small annual subscription instead of the quite high current monthly subscription model.

How about $20 per year? £10 I'm thinking - I live in the UK.

okcupid/pof are great, but well... not that great. Paid means you just have the people taking it seriously, and you can validate who people are. But no need to take all there money that could be spent on going out on dates ...

My 2p.

Any other rails coders fancy helping out?
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So when is this integrated into Chrome then ? Is it already? I cant really find information on that.
Isn't that what rental/home insurance is for? You can certainly make the case the AirBNB misrepresented their safety procedures and checks but it's going to be hard to prove that they participated in the damage of her property.

There is a reason why subletting is forbidden in leases and a reason why insurance companies won't pay damage claims if they think you are operating a hotel out of your house.
I guess the dynamics for something that is offered for free may differ from products that are actually sold.
Y Combinator is supplying relatively small amounts of capital, that is only likely to be useful if you haven't been working long enough to accumulate some savings. This is going to push their average down from the industry average.
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I just forgot to add this too...
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What else would it use? (Genuinely curious, what else is viable?)

Although I think it uses libvpx for WebM, but who knows, they may have migrated to FFmpeg 0.6.
You'd need access to a) tremendous leverage and b) proximity to the exchange that you'd want to trade on (the profit opportunities disappear when faced with greater latency).
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Given how much information is available online, why cant airbnb use, eg facebook, data for identity verification. There are face recognition softwares available now which work well in controlled environment. Of course a persons online identity may be compromised as well. But that does not mean we can not device ways to protect against such incidents using multiple checks. Eg facebook account used to create person profile of guest & host and using face recognition of facebook training dataset and real photo via webcam along with perhaps social security number we should be able to devise ways to protect against such incidents at not very high engineering costs.
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It already is. You need to enable it manually though. If you use NaCl 0.5 you need Chrome 14.
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Then they need to be frozen out of ALL vendors. Eventually, it will hurt more to find the one guy left in the world who still does IE6 and pay him the ridiculous hourly rate he asks.
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I'll bite.

I think the "fear" is that once a non-web weary designer get's going with this there will be absolutely no regard for performance impact since it will render fine on what ever pimped up work station is in use.

Meanwhile on platforms with lesser hardware where the browser does not have a full hardware render pipeline the performance will likely be even worse then flash.

In fact, with the ferris wheel demo Safari eats 10% CPU time, Chrome 30%, Firefox 50% on a single core. System: OS X 10.6.8, GF 9400M.

Next thing to happen: "Disable javascript / css to save battery life on your device". :)
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I was under the impression (though I may be wrong) most standard video types are converted by some in-house closed source software developed by Google, but then if it's an odd/obscure format their software can't process they fall back on FFMPEG.
Even if they do use FFMPEG I'd guess it's heavily modified to suit their needs/infastructure
He thought that's what the "CS" in "CSS" meant.
Yes I agree. What else could they possibly be using? And you're supposed to use it to convert videos ... what's the story?
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This post incorrectly points to the blog top entry, which will change. The actual post has been submitted in its own right, and any discussion is probably better directed there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831294

(Edited to update with actual reason)
Why would google want to reengineer and build closed sourced video converters? Especially when you need to pay multimillion dollar licensing fees to mpegla et al to even try to do such a thing.
I had to double-check to make sure you were actually responding to me. I'm the opposite of a greybeard, but thank you.

I was not trying to be grizzled when I responded, just realistic. Doing IE6 support is still a pretty fresh memory for me. It's just realistic.
I am expressing my opinion. In the last few years I noticed this "fashion" spread through blogosphere. Does it exist a single long period during human evolution when people stand in place for 40 hours a week? As far as I know most of the time people spent lying, then sitting/squatting, walking and running. You really get to stand in one place when there is no other option available. But to each his own I guess.
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People pay for allsorts of rubbish. Why wouldn't they pay _something_ for your product?

It's what level would they pay ... start higher than you think, and offer discounts til people bite :)
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No code with stuff like

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This is a terrific post, but it is also one of a couple of examples where Marc and/or Ben later acted in seeming contradiction to what they espoused in one of their blog posts (relying on Ben here describing this post as representing both his and Marc's views). It wasn't long after this post that HP's CEO search committee, of which Marc was one of I believe four members, picked lateral CEO Leo Apotheker.

That made me wonder what the circumstances in this case were that led Marc to a different conclusion in that case, or whether he was overruled by the rest of the committee, or if his judgment was that HP is such a mature and diverse company and far enough along by now along that all of its potential internal candidates by now are more professional bureaucratic managers than founder-type market-discovering innovators and so they might as well look outside the company, or if he found Apotheker to be among that exceptional breed with the special sauce to be a super-awesome lateral CEO like the two exceptions mentioned in the post, Eric Schmidt and John Morgridge, who will surpass the professional CEO's curse of maximizing the current product cycles but failing to anticipate the next ones.
I don't know if I misread your post or you edited it afterwards. When I originally read it I have seen punctuation that made your post imply that legacy browser support SHOULD be taught and that rookies SHOULD be indoctrinated in legacy support.

I apologize for misreading your post.

p.s.: If you had to support IE6 - then you are a graybeard :D. Even if you are a 25 year old graybeard.
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No, that's not what he's saying... and I don't know if you realize this, but the author, P.J. Eby, is the same guy who wrote the original WSGI spec.
Even if you don't want to believe EJ's account of the story, Chesky himself made the claim on camera in May (a month after Troy's incident occurred) that there have been "no major problems" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etaUBLkRteA&feature=chann...

I don't see how either of these cases can be viewed as "minor", personally.
Oh goodness how I despise Internet Explorer.
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Please consider how much the javascript code can be minified.
IE what is that? I only know Chrome and Firefox.
Remember also that it depends on your market. If you're making web apps for small businesses or banks...
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I had the same question too as it seems at first that we're only allowed to upload a screenshot. Once you go to the pay page it allows you to upload an image OR submit URL.

Anyway, I went with a URL and will receive results in ~ 1 hour.
To me this illustrates that if you want to ensure that improvements to your code are shared back, you'd better use the AGPL license (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html) instead of GPL.

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edit: according to a comment below, Google is already sharing their improvements without being obliged to do so. Nice! You can't always count on goodwill though, so my point stands.
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I think all websites should just ban together and direct IE users to a landing page with download links of the other 3 "superior" browsers or if they must use IE they can download Chrome Plus that lets you open IE tabs. Then on the bottom of the landing page they have a choice of proceeding anyway, with caution of course. If people just saw side-by-side comparisons of how CSS renders in IE and the rest of the conforming browsers people would switch in a heartbeat.
In the past few years I've only used Kubuntu, which is a fine OS. KDE is the only GUI I use.

I think Microsoft's Windows 8 is going to make KDE look very old. Innovation would be welcome.
I want to agree with you because I find Vivek's writings repetitive, highly subjective, and often misleading. But to be fair, without seeing the study I can't be sure whether he's talking about startups or entrepreneurs in general. The title of the article is Five myths about entrepreneurs, but the content seems geared toward the tech sector. Unfortunately, the excerpt doesn't say which 12 "high-growth" sectors the study focused on.

> 4. Women can’t cut it in the tech world.

Vivek throws out this straw man (straw woman?), but other than a rare sexist I don't hear anyone saying that. There may be observations that the number of women in tech is low - and a lot of speculation as to why - but no one's saying women can't cut it.
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Nope, never edited it.

edit: Also, I really like the layout of your blog. The font & placement of your headlines is really nice.
Seriously: it's enough!

This isn't news; this article contributes nothing new to the story. The plethora of other articles related to this story have already noted that Faith Clifton had been arrested.