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It's an interesting study, no doubt. However I keep wondering if you can really judge a start-up's chance to succeed without taking the actual business idea/concept as well as the entrepreneur's personality into account. Since it's very hard to operationalize those, I do understand that you refrained from including it. I've just got the feeling that the quality of the business idea and the entrepreneur's traits might be a pretty powerful confounding variable for what you examine. Therefore it seems necessary to me that these variables are being controlled somehow.
I'd like to illustrate that issue. You name premature scaling as the most important factor for start-ups to fail. While this conclusion might not be wrong on the one hand, it may be an illusion that the premature scaling is the actual reason for failure. As an example, premature scaling should be very likely to happen to a "megalomaniac" entrepreneur who just overestimates his business idea's chance to succeed or its growth rate by far. If megalomania is in place at that stage, one have to assume that it also was when the entrepreneur founded his business - by highly overestimating a crap idea who wouldn't have deserved to be turned into a business. In this case, the business' failure wouldn't have been caused by the premature scaling (although it seems to be since that's what you were looking at) but by the entrepreneur's tendency to overestimate the quality of his idea. That said the premature scaling is just another outcome of the true, underlying reason for failure - but not a reason itself.
It's just an example, but it might show that it's risky to name your variables as crucial factors for failure as long as you don't control what the business is based on in the first instance: the business idea and the entrepreneur's personality.
What are your thoughts on that?
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Still, according to the article's own numbers, if we reset the administrative fraction of the budget to 1947 levels, we would only shave 6% off of costs; this hardly explains much of the huge increase in inflation-adjusted tuition since then.
First class web apps mean users are less tied to a certain platform, which is not something Apple wants. They also love getting 30% of transactional goods.
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To be fair, it was 15% in 1995, and is higher now.
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I have the same concern -- I would have bought an Air as soon as it came out if it offered 8GB of RAM. That said, I think the industrial specifications are pretty far from being paralleled in any other machine, so I'll still probably buy one.
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The difference of course is that id has a track record.
Are you talking about spatial mode? That still exists in Finder. Just hit Cmd+Opt+T or select "Hide Toolbars" from the View menu.

You're absolutely right. I don't have the citation on me right now, but spatial mode has been found to be easier to grasp for new users in every single test ever. The only reason it was dropped was because (1) Windows Explorer, (2) power users whined about too many open windows and (3) a lot of people got used to URLs opening in the same window thanks to web browsers, so people sought to apply the same principles to file browsers.

Spatial mode used to be default on GNOME for a long time. There, too, it was dropped because of the same reasons.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager and http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html
You don't need spyware; routers already keep logs. I'm not sure what discovery is like in civil cases in the US, but requisitioning the MAC addresses of all computers in the defendant's possession, as well as the router logs, would be sufficient to establish identity (or at least which computer was used). The fact that this doesn't seem to be widely used suggests to me that it exceeds the plaintif's rights to request said logs.
I'm guessing riffic meant using the copy and paste buttons instead of the keyboard shortcuts, but I don't agree that that is a "bad usage habit".
I'm pretty sure yours is a tautology.
Definitely let us know, would love to hear about it. Anything that helps developers and users makes us very happy :)
you're talking $100/mo for support

You're also talking $20,000 a month in direct costs if you're paying that engineer and designer market wages, or about $10,000 if you're paying them its-not-exploitation-if-you-have-equity-wages. If next to these numbers you think $100 for software is a lot of money, you are not a desirable client.
Thank you for the positive feedback. If it were any other situation, we would fix the bugs, but we don't get to. :(

I am glad you enjoyed it, we are for sure going to improve on it and make it something great.
This is really good stuff! I love the first lesson: "Bad Photos". Having taken a photography class and dabbling with it that is one of the best ways to start getting to know the capabilities of your camera.

After working through the assignments you should have a pretty solid portfolio.
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As YC matures, more and more startups come with a fully built out product, traction, revenue/earnings. It's no mistake that these are the companies do find themselves accelerating their progress.

Feel free to email me if you have additional questions!
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Submit when you feel you're close to finished. Given that constraint, the earlier you submit the better.
Except, let's be honest, Emacs' way makes a lot more sense. Someone who has used Emacs for ten minutes can easily figure this out because Emacs tries to help the user. The naive way of copying to the end of a search term is C-SPC C-s term ENT C-w. But, after you've hit ENT to end the search, Emacs does something amazing. It prints "Mark saved where search started." So now the next time you run this command, you know you won't need to set the mark. Because it told you!

(Eventually, you'll learn to expect this behavior because pretty much every interactive motion command does this and prints "Mark set.")
I can see it now: "And make sure to VoteFollow us at #GlennBeck. Our research team carefully picks the right votes on all the issues."
Clearly you're not a Mac OS X "power user" as you claim to be, because you seem to be ignorant of very basic Mac OS features, like enabling text labels for the toolbar.
Hey, thanks for the pics, I appreciate your effort behind your explanations. Good point about it being porous and prone to infection - I guess that's the unique thing about prosthetic eyes: they are worn both inside and outside the body, so must be robust enough to withstand environmental elements, and also be safe to be inside the eye socket.
I once worked in the customer service division of a company which had, well, let me call it a hundred CSRs. We had an internal application to do everything.

They didn't exactly show me the company budget, but I'm as capable of counting engineers as the next guy. Suffice it to say we paid way more than $75k a month for the productivity gains of that custom app. (It was my first encounter with Enterprise Software (TM) and I think I went into programming in part so that no one should ever again have to suffer like us CSRs suffered...)
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That's not the problem here - it's that they are cramming literally hundreds of different actions into the ribbon. They're taking a bad design, and making it many times harder to navigate and far more confusing.
The initial idea isn't that important. Entrepreneurs change their idea all the time. In the report we show that consistent companies or ones that scale properly, are more focused on discovering whether their idea makes sense where as companies that scale prematurely are more focused on validating that they are right. And as far as personality, while it's an interesting variable to look at in the future, in the end of the day we just look at whether the company produces results regardless of their predisposition. It's also common wisdom that there are many different kinds of entrepreneurs that have been successful.
Off the top of my head, maybe half.
Those '!'s are really confusing. From the example in the submission:

isEven = (x) -> x % 2 is 0
isOdd = (x) -> x % 2 isnt 0

addEvens :: (!isEven) -> !isOdd
addEvens = (x) -> x + 1

I am guessing that both '!'s define a new contract - and also guessing that coffeescript does not actually have a '!' operator for logical negation. So that addEvens simply takes an even number and returns an odd number.

I find it confusing that the different syntax highlighting of the two '!' suggests (wrongly) that they have different meanings. Also, logical negation is something often used with isOdd/isEven functions.
I can't imagine why anyone would not want to make the visa process for people like these as streamlined as possible.
> Why do you have gmail.com listed for the canonical.org SPF record?

As you guessed, some people at canonical.org send email from Gmail. We actually added the SPF record hoping it would help with the reputation problem.

> If you use gmail to send mail the SPF should be: include:aspmx.googlemail.com or include:_spf.google.com

Thank you!
Let them expire?
Interesting contrast at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/zyngas-quest-for-bigspe...
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Websense doesn't break TLS or SSL or PKI. Websense abuses an organizations control over their own workstations to conduct a 'mitm' or 'proxy' of the TLS connection. It does that in a fairly straight forward manner.

Websense is used in organizations that distribute their own root ca key to the workstations behind it. The Websense machine is then given that root ca key and allowed to generate dynamic certs with it, so that a workstation with your organizational CA trusts them, but nobody on the regular inter webs will.

It's a really, really shitty way to do things, and effectively violates the trust of every user on your corporate network, but hey, they signed an agreement.
Mac addresses are trivial to change on most operating systems.
It emphasizes owning a repo rather than contributing to one that already exists.

Something that's been under discussion for a while at Bushido.

Does bushido help you roll your customers into one big app?

No. Each instance of an app runs in it's own sandboxed environment. That helps you keep your app simple and not worry about scaling for those 10k users. If you want a simpler perspective to look at the service - it sort of provides web apps like mobile apps. Separate instances like how they run on your phone. So tomorrow if there's an online editor app (like Google Docs. Just saying...) on Bushido and you have a Chromebook-like device, you can launch your own instance and that'll all be yours like a separate app. Once there's support for more platforms it'll be easier to see it as "app store for the web". All apps on the web and all you do is launch an instance of apps for yourself.

P.S: I work for Bushido
I became my own. You can do it yourself too, and I'm happy to share my resources with you if you're serious about learning
one we call premature scaling, the other we call dysfunctional scaling ;) ... btw. @pg did you read any of our reports?
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> "What are the situations where going through YC is a net minus?" and there are very few.

Last I checked, doing YC requires one to live in the USA, a place that has been rapidly increasing in insanity for the last ten years or so. That's a net loss for anyone who values their basic freedoms.

Then again, some value customers, cash flow, and shareholder value more than their own personal liberties, so the "net loss" calculation will vary from individual to individual -- but note well that it will probably only become more likely as the US becomes worse.

Plot the points from the PATRIOT act to the TSA harassment and groping and throw _that_ graph in your deck.
Although I'm (very very) far from being a MS fan-boy, I find an inherent flaw in such reviews written by programmers/hackers/power users. What they all miss is the real target audience for Windows - i.e. my Grandpa.
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Personally, I would be hesitant to join a startup as a cofounder with another cofounder who hadn't shown the initiative to begin necessary work as early as possible, regardless of circumstance.
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Loved the "monkeypatch from hell" comment.
The vast majority of people don't know that. As civil cases have a much lower standard of proof than criminal, a mac address that matched the router logs for the downloads in question, and belonged to the owner of the connection, would likely be enough to establish identity. Given that a simple IP address is accepted by most courts as sufficient, MAC addresses would probably be icing on the cake.
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As somebody interested in photography, this is really useful.

I'm wondering if anybody else is interested in working through the 'course'. We could do a lecture and an exercise each week, then setup some kind of discussion forum? I know it would probably improve my photography a lot.
The problem here is really the ribbon itself. It is ugly awkward and hard to scan quickly due to it's inconsistent layout. I almost never find what I'm looking for without looking two or three times and I'm a regular user. Yes tablets need buttons to touch, what they don't need is a cluttered ugly ribbon.
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I had thought about something like this, sort of a combination of karma scores and netflix/pandora-style recommendations for ranking user content on sites like HN. I could say 'I like what tptacek has to say' and give your content a higher precedence for ME, rather than for the whole of the site user base. Others could say 'I dislike what tptacek has to say', and you get a corresponding drop for THAT USER, not everyone. Now add a chain - if I 'like' you, all that you 'like' gets a smaller, but significant bump for me, and so on. Add in 'OSCP' style repudiation if the source of your trust for someone changes their mind for any reason.

Moving this into authentication/trust - how do you 'start' something like this at an Internet scale, assuming actively hostile, nation-state level players, such as in this article? It seems very chicken-and-egg for something as critical as encryption and protection of important content.

Just thoughts - it seems there's some big issues I'm missing though, such as initial seeding for 'new' users en masse. I can also see the code to keep track of all the trust vectors, etc. becoming VERY complicated...
That's not true. You get all the keybindings of Emacs in insert mode, and you get all the keybindings of vi in command mode. vi and vim are different enough that experienced vim users cannot use vi at all. I know, because I've invited them to try.

(Incidentally, mg is pretty easy to use as an Emacs users. The only odd thing is that ENT does not end an isearch, because mg thinks C-m and C-j are the same thing. What?)
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Red Hat plans to transition to KVM. I suppose AWS will, eventually, do the same. And nobody will notice.
No, just the one. You step the portal and the only the world reverses. You keep holding right, and you go right-original, through the portal, then right-mirrored, but it's always right, so there's always agreement between the user's direction and the motion of Mario. It's the world that gets flipped instead of your control scheme.

The idea that Stabyourself puts forth is arguably the default answer, in the sense that it is the usual one, but while basically functional, it never ever feels right. I just got done with Catherine recently which does the same basic thing (albeit with going behind something instead of going through a portal, but it's the same reversal problem) and 18 hours into the game it still felt unnatural... and that's hardly the first time I've encountered the "keep going a certain direction while held, then completely rekajigger the interface at an arbitrary point in the future when the user recenters the controls", either, so it's felt unnatural for even longer than that. (For bonus points, play on an Atari 2600 controller that just likes to cut out for a frame or two every so often, so the effect is that the game's controls appear to simply spontaneously revert.) Flipping the world would at least be changing things up.
That's completely okay because those older touchpads don't support gestures beyond two-finger-scroll anyway.
Unfortunately that still wouldn't have helped in this case.
I recommend Dick Lyon’s lectures to Google engineers a few years ago about “photographic technology”. http://www.dicklyon.com/phototech/
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That's all well and good, but that's kind of easy to say when there are several established business models for your type of product. And you're a profitable company.
Is something like this better?

http://homepage.mac.com/jdarnold/ars-m/finder_ec.jpg

If so, that view has been available in Finder since at least the first version of OS X I've used which would be 10.3 Panther. These days there are 4 different view you could browse files with in Finder: regular icons, cover flow (does anybody use this ever, by the way? it's the most long-winded, annoying and imprecise to browse anything including photos), column view and hierarchical view.
This looks cool. Now I want to build a mobile app.
Like sean said, "it won't be for everyone", but there's already a ton of OpenSource apps in Ruby alone (mentioning it coz thats what we support right now) that are old but still work fabulously and are useful.

Example: Mockr (https://github.com/causes/mockr-old). A sweet app that lets you share and review designs among teams (and as per last check, it was unmaintained). We ported it to Bushido with a few extra lines of code and it's here https://github.com/HashNuke/mockr

If you have apps like these, that you think others would find useful, mail me (akash@gobushido.com) and I'll help you with porting it to Bushido. And if you are using Devise for auth, we have a plugin and it's 5 lines of code promise! Most apps that we've ported, we've ensured that they work fine outside of Bushido too (opensource is giving back. right? :)
It's particularly ironic that you say that replying to a YC founder that lives in the same city as you.

YC has never required you to live in the US beyond the 3 months that the program runs. They strongly recommend it, but there are a handful of YC companies headquartered elsewhere (with the largest contingent in and around London).
I like this article. You've confirmed an idea I've had for quite some time now and that is you don't need to go to college to become a great programmer. I was introduced to programming in university and this sparked my interest so I'm grateful for that. I'm glad that I read your article because it has inspired me to work even harder at programming on my own.
I thought this would be useful for backing up my documents. I zipped them up until a 9gb file and tried to upload them and the website reported a 200mb limit. Is there a way to get around this? I know dropbox has a 300mb limit but you can upload files of unlimited size using the desktop client.
An exciting concept for musicians, as working together asynchronously isn't possible sitting together.
I would say having logically named directories and a strict HIG could solve this.

When I hit "Save" on a Mac, the file picker shows me a field where I can type a file name, and a drop down where I can choose between "Documents", "Pictures", "Movies", etc. or the last directory this particular program saved a file to. Most of the time the application will even pick a sensible default location. Only if I click the small arrow at the right of the drop down to I see the advanced file chooser.

On Windows, when I hit "Save", I get the advanced file picker by default. Unless the application is smart enough to set a sensible default location -- which most Windows applications are not -- the Windows file picker defaults to Desktop. This is the reason most people have all kinds of shit on their Windows desktops.

I can search for files on Windows now, so at least Windows has one thing right.
Link to the '.csv' or I don't believe it happened.

Given the unusually high amount of attention being paid to Wikileaks and the interests that powers have in spreading rumors that the leaking platform is unsafe, not believing it until the actual database has been located is a reasonable position.

Despite many efforts by Wikileaks supporters on the Wikileaks IRC, nobody has managed to locate this file. So if somebody could link to it, you will be doing a massive favor.

"WikiLeaks responded to the leak on Twitter on Monday by writing: “There has been no ‘leak at WikiLeaks’. The issue relates to a mainstream media partner and a malicious individual.”" - From the ArsTechnica article
CoffeeScript does allow ! for negation, but contracts have their own syntax and semantics separate from the rest of the language. It's a little confusing initially, but I suppose there aren't a lot of good operators left. There are a lot of similar convenient inconsistencies that people hardly notice once they sink in:

• Indentation shifts mean different things depending on context (could mean we're doing an object literal, could mean we're defining a function, could mean we're entering a loop, etc.)

• Looping through arrays uses "in" while looping through everything else uses "of"

• Array and object literal syntax might create arrays and objects or define variables depending on which side of the equals sign you're reading
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But in the last year, my system broke 4 times with updates mainly due to major changes in configs, wich weren't in the news.

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It's time to go back to Sid.
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