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The reason START/Ron Conway didn't do a cap is the risk of adverse selection.

Assume a YC class has 65 companies. If they offer a $5mm cap, there will probably be 5-10 companies which have either already raised on better terms, or could easily raise on better terms. Maybe they'll get lucky and half of those will take it anyway.

If one of the ~4 startups which pass on the note is the next Dropbox, LinkedIn, or Google, they've just hurt themselves a lot more than they've made by negotiating a lower cap on all the other deals.
This is one of the few ideas which I would actually invest money in it. If I had money ;)
"I think the difference here is that you imagine people standing still for 8 hours straight. Obviously that would be a bad idea. No one seems to promote that."

Why is that obviously bad? I stand for 9-10 hours straight. It took probably two weeks to get up to that point, but I rarely even sit down when taking a lunch break. I don't use a gel pad and I stand barefoot at home, or in some form of barefoot (vivo's to look nice) when I worked in a office. I almost constantly shift my weight. And every 10-20 minutes I do calf raises, stand on one foot, do free squats, something to move some blood. I'm still standing in all of those exercises though and most are just second nature. I stand still while typing, but move quite a bit when I'm reading.
More context other than the single clouded screen shot and "A simple way for teams to share what they're working on" would be helpful..... a link to your blog, if it exists ?
Didn't Apple just release Auto Layouts for Cocoa? Will Auto Layouts come to iPhone?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2788608
See: WeedMaps.com, mmjmenu.com, StickyGuide.com, Leafly.com. Monetization != Ads. If you have clients in states that MMJ is legal, then I guess you have a business.
I thought "It's just a link, no blurb on HN saying what it does, so they must be confident of their landing page", which would be good except your landing page doesn't actually mean anything to me. Are those screenshots, snapshots of running site, or what? Is it like tumblr for companies or is it a visual bug tracker? Why should I be interested in signing up with you?

Don't mean to be harsh, but we have no clue what your product actually does or why we'd want to use it. Submit it again when you can tell us that and I promise we'll be interested.
Guess we will know more once the sdk is released.
It really is, if you have the skills to analyze it you should do it, you'll be surprised.

Edit: Forgot to add the link to the source code https://github.com/comex/star_
If your interpretation is correct--which it may well be--then the OP fundamentally doesn't understand the business of any of these companies. Relatively few engineers work directly on serving ads. The vast majority work on other things. At Google this includes, but is not limited to, Android, Chrome, search, Google+, Maps and self-driving cars.
The most important ergonomic feature of my keyboards is capslock being remapped to ctrl. If I have to stretch to reach a conventional ctrl key, I am in severe pain within a single working day. A good keyboard for ordinary users perhaps, but not developers.

Also, why put keys where I would naturally rest my palms?
I've no official standing here - I'm just a regular user - but I'd appreciate it if the title included some clue as to the question. Could you edit it?
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Sebastian,

I couldn't see any pricing information. Without that I wouldn't normally sign up to try it out.
Foursquare sets revenue plan
I'm hoping they will do away with the "you need to restart Firefox after installing an add-on". Chrome has been able to install/uninstall/disable/tinker with add-ons without the need to restart for years.
That and a new logo (tired of that fox) and I may give it another try.
Actually, not really. From what I know, the keychain security hasn't been broken, except through brute forcing the passcode. While that's usually possible for the standard 4-digit passcode, it's not always possible. Jailbreaking is a necessary step to get the access necessary to brute force, but it doesn't magically break open the device for full access. (However, I am not an expert at this. I've talked with NerveGas (http://www.iosresearch.org/), but he's the person who really knows the most about that kind of stuff.)
Why is this specific to HN? It's just news.
Interview with the inventor: http://thisismyjoystick.com/interviews/interview-bruce-rober...
Such as? I don't mean to carry on an endless comment thread but I don't quite understand what you're talking about.
> I wish Microsoft would define a robust, standardised set of UI conventions again, based on usability rather than flashy stuff, and then at least stick to it themselves instead of inventing a whole new bunch of tricks for every new version of Office, IE, Visual Studio and so on.

This, to me, is one the biggest pluses for Macs at this point. Microsoft keeps trying to reinvent the GUI, but they don't get rid of the old stuff, even in their own systems.

I also wish Microsoft would adopt actual application bundles. 99% of applications should not actually need installers and uninstallers. Despite what Raymond Chen says, a simple folder is not the same thing.
In my experience, most employers don't know about it, and startups are not much different in this case.

Once you explain that it is similar to the TN visa for hiring Canadians, most people are fairly relaxed about it.

I'm an Australian on my 3rd E3 visa, it is much much easier than an E3 for everyone involved from what I have heard from collegues. The first E3 visa I got was for a startup, and they got ripped off big time with a $5k 'expeditied processing' fee from their lawyer.

In reality all it costs is a few hundred in applications fees (at the consulate) and a trip to Australia. The paper work for the employer is free (LCA) and usually takes 10 days.
I promise you the fox isn't going anywhere, but add-ons made with the new APIs don't require restart.
My sarcasm may have been too subtle there; I definitely think it's a bummer that you have to own a Mac to develop for iOS.
I know. I was just showing how you can run it inside of Ubuntu via command line.
Some projects I've done failed precisely because of a desire to tackle wicked problems. When I heard that I wanted to "boil oceans", it was an apt criticism. However, I learned a lot.

The article need not be taken as a criticism of engineering or scientific reductionism. These approaches to problem solving are correct for certain phases of tackling a problem (like implementation).

The problem we collectively have with wicked problems is that they are vastly interconnected, and so many small moving parts rapidly changing that we collectively can not keep up. Even if climate is slow moving, all the parts that affect it are not, and we are not fast enough or smart enough to keep up.

It is our self-righteous stance against nature that helps us survive, but admitting that a problem is bigger than us isn't ... natural.

My belief/hope is that computers will increasingly tackle wicked problems.
I feel like the only reasonable response, then, is to start madking all email sent from people who believe this as spam, so they can get a sense of what this feels like.

Seriously, though: people who abuse the system like that,--whether they are giving products bad ratings for reasons unrelated to the product, using the PayPal dispute system as a threat (or seriously on everything they purchase from everyone online as it let's them get stuff for free), or downvoting comments on HN out of retaliation for a lost argument--need some kind of meta-moderation to keep their data from affecting the system.
We could use a fail-fast system for debates and arguments to have every response to every issue in one place interconnected.
Leaving this here. http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/5uf9/
I work at Google. I can't say I ever worry about advertising. I worry about creating a kick-ass product that people want to use.

The number one 'core value' at Google is "Focus on the user and all else will follow". From what I've seen that holds pretty true across the company.

If it isn't a product that people love to use there won't be anybody to show ads to.
If it's a product people do love to use, the people who work directly on the ads system will figure out how to serve up effective ads.

From my perspective, it's not functionally different from when I worked at companies with a more traditional sales model. In either case my job is to create a product that is compelling to users. Whether the users pay with cash or 'pay' by clicking on ads my job and my focus are the same.

My job is to make users happy. Period.
These are details. (Yeah the weapons in Diablo 2 are procedurally generated,but only within certain limits so you can look up on D2 sites exactly within which ranges each unique item can be. So nearly all character guides start with build recommendations). It doesn't matter much if you just play for winning the game, but once people start playing for highscores or pvp they usually don't just play with the random stuff they get. I can't say anything about Eve Online as I've never played that game - if people buy those "Titan Vessel" with real money then yes, I would say the game mechanics are broken. Trading does also not really make a difference anymore - calculate the average amount you'll get for your stuff each hour (there's probably calculators out there just for that...) and you still have an unholy amount of hours just collecting and trading stuff which obviously people hated enough to create an industry living from doing that for them.

And it's also about fairness. Once you introduce money it means players no longer have equal chances. With that happening outside the system you could at least complain - making the system itself unfair - I just call this broken.
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Sunless solar cells? Can we think of some other term for this? Thermal cells? Heat Cells? Something that makes sense?
Make that Facebook chat sidebar ordered and online only
HTML5? The bug can sometimes be in the browser.
I can't tell if the video is perpetually out of focus or if the quality is just incredibly down-scaled. Perhaps the uploader intentionally chose latter as a result of the former.
I will believe it when I see it downloadable, I have downloaded it, and used it to watch something, and no sooner. You can't put effectively DRM on Linux; you can binary blob whatever you like, but I own the kernel, graphics drivers, audio drivers, X Server, and everything else on the system except your lil' binary blob, and it doesn't stand a chance.
I personally found that I didn't need Perl at all. I am a bioinformatics programmer/scientist and Perl was the first language I learned. I find that whatever I can do in Perl I can do with bash/awk/sed--and whatever I can't do with bash/awk/sed I can do in Python. I've never been happier.
State of the Future 2011 report - Executive Summary
What about "turn the other cheek", "love your enemy" and stuff like that?
Patents are about to become a bigger problem
I was pretty interested in Instructables until they went premium. Trying to figure out what the images show and a bunch of other issues is pretty annoying. It's just not a resource I check when I'm starting projects.
HackerNews is written in Lisp, not PHP. :).
Why ditch anything?

Just go with both. MongoDB can't make your data live & evolve the way an RDBMS can. You can't inject intelligence in your noSQL database, but you can sure extract data, a lot of it, a ton of it, with as many concurrent clients you wish.
If you can't find a use for a relational model in any project, then I'm not sure what to say. But if you can, maybe try a postgres & Mongo combo for the best of both worlds?
I never understand this sentiment. Jailbreak tools thrive on the knowledge that there's always another flaw out there waiting to be discovered. How would comex rid Apple's entire development process of error?

Plus, if he jailbreaks devices because he believes people should be free to do with their hardware as they please why on earth would he effectively join the dark side?
CAD today is like video editing 10 years ago: lots of legacy high-end pro level tools, faced with increasing consumer-friendly competition.

I used to cut on Avid, for instance. They made a push into consumer tools too-little, too-late.

I'm sure Autocad wants to put together an end-to-end toolchain for making things. Design, instruct, print, assemble. The HP of things.
They have a "memorialization" process:

https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=103897939701143&ref_q...
Exact same story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2833816

No telling which (if either) will get traction - best check there to avoid splitting any discussion.

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ADDED IN EDIT: At this point someone has down-modded my comment. Fair enough - your prerogative. My aim was to ensure that any discussion didn't get split across two submissions, to try to add value by helping avoid repetition. If you think trying to avoid such things is of negative value, by all means feel free to discourage me.
The back button is intentionally bigger as it is one of the most used buttons in a browser. In accordance with Fitt's law, the size allows a user to get to it quicker than a smaller button.
Exact same story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2833821

No telling which (if either) will get traction - best check there to avoid splitting any discussion.

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ADDED IN EDIT: At this point someone has down-modded my comment. Fair enough - your prerogative. My aim was to ensure that any discussion didn't get split across two submissions, to try to add value by helping avoid repetition. If you think trying to avoid such things is of negative value, by all means feel free to discourage me.
My guess is live PPV is less then 6-12 months away.With UFC and HBO boxing as likely launch candidates.

Third party Apps being rolled out in the next major iOS SDK release..
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Monetate is hiring - local only, happy to relocate. We've hired some great people that we met through HN. We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (e.g. content targeting, segmentation, A/B testing). We've got some grad, high-volume customers and we are growing fast.

http://jobs.monetate.com

Technically, we write lots of client-side JS for our customer-facing product as well as code that runs on our customers' sites. We're also looking for backend engineers that want to work on large data and web performance. We work in Python, but experience with that is not a prereq.

We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.

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I sympathize to some extend, but I think it is unfair to characterize "Google, Twitter and Facebook" as only advertising companies. A lot of the engineering effort at these companies goes into improving their core services, too.

If you are working on Google's search engine, you are actually making the world's body of knowledge more easily accessible. This is a huge boon to the millions (or billions?) of people who use Google's free search engine every day. Arguably, many engineers can have a bigger positive impact on the world working at Google than they could have on their own.

Similarly, Facebook allows millions of people to connect and communicate. Remember the revolution in Egypt? It started on Facebook.

So yes, I agree that it is sad that so many smart people are working on how to serve ads more effectively. But the reason these internet companies serve ads is because they need to pay for the engineers and server farms that provide a service, which "nobody" is willing to pay for in cash. If you think you can do better (provide the service without covering the costs with advertising) please do, but until you demonstrate that this is possible, I think we'll have to take the bad with the good.
Higgs boson as God particle - it is a nice metaphor considering that the Higgs field plays the same role as the idea of God - a phenomenological theory to fill the gap in our understanding of Nature.

I don't see how Higgs explains (or in any way addresses ) the gravitational and inertial mass equivalence - the elephant in the room. Any mass theory that doesn't notice it is just a non-starter.

What we do know - gravitational waves exists (and thus gravitron - the quantum wave packet). The inertial mass in such approach arises naturally just as manifestation of gravitational mass. What we don't know here is the exact machinery how gravitational force interacts with matter.

Higgs boson doesn't helps here. It doesn't shed any light on the details of gravitational interactions, and its explanation of mass must be compatible with what we know while it doesn't seem to even start to address it.
Too late for modern Perl or too late for something else?
Safety concerns hit online rental agency Airbnb.com
They become memorial pages. The media found out about that some time ago, there were a bunch of posts, newspieces and whatnot.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/27/facebook-us...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6445152/Faceb...

I don't know what's the status of those pages these days. Maybe an HNer who works at Facebook can enlighten us?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_at_sea

The photos are highly classified, and they've stated why they don't want to release them. If Osama was shot with a high caliber bullet in the face, you probably can't even recognize him anyway.

Did any of the news outlets ever confirm the photo released was actually from the government? I haven't seen any of them say "we obtained this photo from the government," I have only seen one station run the single photo, and they explicitly said it was unconfirmed.
Ask HN: What will happen to Google when somebody disrupts AdWords?
I invested some portion of my saving into GOOG. But I'm concern that 90% of revenue are ads.

Is it possible at all to disrupt advertising system Google is dependent on?

Just want to ask smart people of HN what they think...
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As someone who is familiar with consumer electronics startups, I think their Winter 2011 expected shipdate is too aggressive. It's a great concept, their component timing is pretty good (just look at the teardowns for the EyeFi to see how crazy surface mount tech is these days). But be wary of companies that accept payment before demonstrating a working prototype.
Does "any email" include transactional messages? Emails you requested? Emails from friends and coworkers?

Not all email must include unsubscribe capabilities.
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Did you read the article? How about "thermal photovoltaics".
I have the same problem with some regular keyboards as well although I don't have thick fingers. Why are manufacturers making smaller buttons beats me.
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If someone wants to work off my private stuff I would tell them "sure, but be careful cause I'm push -f'ing" (after all, it's usually pretty easy to fix) and give them a heads-up when I do. If that weren't acceptable, I'd add a tag like "stable" to my branch, tell them to use it only up to that tag, and move the tag forward as the work progresses. If that weren't acceptable I'd make a branch instead of a tag and tell them to use that.
I think the issue is not their security team, who seem to do quite a good job securing iOS (which I'd consider one of, if not the most, secure consumer operating systems out there). The issue is that securing an OS is hard. It's hard to make it that someone with physical access to the device cannot just run code on it, which is what jailbreaking (in its purest form, on iOS devices) is.
Thanks! It actually looks pretty great for something put together in the span of 48 hours.

(But I think you guys forgot to filter the proposal queryset by account in the SnippetForm.)
Firefox 8 nightlies are as fast if not faster than the Dev Channel build of Chrome 14.
I was mainly offering that to address jbk's personal concerns, and agree that as a default setting, it constitutes an unexpected information/privacy leak for most users.
You might have better luck in online debates if you argue against the actual points made, instead of whatever that was.
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... but we'll go easy on you to start. Here's a hint to solve this trivial problem: it's not salted.

We're looking for hackers and scientists that want to solve online pricing. If you're interested include the title of this job post in the subject line of the email.

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Robots of Brixton (1981 Brixton Riot in London)
Show HN: YC.fundedjobs.com, aggregating job postings by YC-funded companies
> In particular, vertical pixels are at a premium for me, and Firefox 5 has done a lot to improve this... this is a step backwards, as the main bar at the top is larger.

Really? Looks like an improvement to me, because tabs have now consumed the titlebar area. The tab area itself is larger, but the total change is a reduction in the amount of vertical space used.

> And seriously, those curves take up a ridiculous amount of real-estate - compare those tabs to Chrome or FF5, how many can you get on your screen?

The curve is only on the active tab, so I don't see how it's reducing the amount of tabs you can have.
To the extent that multithreading is popular to pee on, it's precisely because of the shared memory, or more accurately, the shared mutable variables. There's a lot of interesting concurrency solutions being developed, but it looks to me that shared mutable variables aren't going to be in any of them, so don't hold your breath waiting for them to come back. (The video at [1] is interesting overview of all the various Haskell solutions, which is interesting beyond just Haskell as an overview of a variety of concurrency approaches.)

[1]: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/talk-by-haskell-expert...
It's interesting that they didn't disclose the cap, which is arguably the most important term in a convertible note. The difference between, say, a $1mm cap and a $5mm cap is huge.

The Start Fund terms make a lot of sense to me. They're uncapped, but inherit terms (cap, discount) from later convertible notes. Caps are not entirely dissimilar from setting a valuation, which is a monstrously hard thing to do -- trending towards impossible the younger a company is.
Apple Announces A Full Assault On The Cable Box
There's a big difference between saying you plan to only use your patents for defensive purposes and forfeiting all rights to otherwise some time in the future.
can you leverage google voice instead of twilio, using asterisk or some other pbx if necessary?