skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the researchers were registering domains contain trademarks or derivatives of the trademarks for the specific purpose of intercepting email, this would qualify as IP infringement. I think it would be pretty easy for any of these companies to win a civil court case. Of course, its not these researchers that they should be worried about.
I'm a fan of both, but it's quite premature to say that they're operating on the same order of magnitude at this point.

• Seedcamp has only had one large exit (> $1M), whereas YC has had more than a dozen.

• YC funds more companies per batch now than Seedcamp has funded total.

• I'd guess that there's a two order of magnitude gap in the portfolio worth of YC vs. Seedcamp right now (given that AirBnb and Dropbox together have a valuation around the $6 billion mark).

Seedcamp on the other hand is more inclusive and network oriented -- it's borders are a lot fuzzier, so it's influenced a lot of companies (mine included) that weren't funded by it.
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> Adobe were very quick to publicly criticize Apple for not supporting Flash in iOS, and Apple were very quick to respond with equally stern comments.

It should be right vs. wrong, not "I have an iPad, so therefore..." The vs. narrative is ridiculous because both companies muddy up the facts. How can you be on either company's side?

Both sides mask intentions and facts. Adobe isn't for any particular user's innovation. And Apple is not for open, web-based apps. Try and upload an image or file from your iPhone from Safari. See how the standardized file input doesn't work? Not exactly enticing me to create a web-based app for the iOS.

When you come to defend Adobe and Apple based on their false intentions, you just further falsify the industry as a whole. Dissension is the highest form of patriotism. It's okay to be critical when it's appropriate.
Thanks - I'll have to check those out.
The only thing that could be argued to have its life shortened to an extent that was relevant is the HDD. And this is powered off with any of sleep/ hibernate/ power off.
it seems to me this isn't any better than what a person reading the news could do; if you're using mass-media as your input, I kinda doubt you're going to get surprising predictions.
If you added a little random noise to order timestamps, traders would have less incentive optimize for speed and would direct their efforts elsewhere.
It's a bit of a dubious explanation of The Void, to be honest (although the "Think of it as an 8-dimensional onion" kind of makes up for it), and the ending is a little weak, but overall I enjoyed the series a lot. The alternating of space opera/fantasy chapters is also done pretty well, and keeps things interesting.
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> whether detecting changes and initating a more complete boot or dealing with it in the GUI.

Sure, they can detect hw changes and make full cold boot, therefore losing all RAM data which was saved to the disk at the point of hibernation. (It would be like a quick dirty reset.) Or they can restore that data back to RAM and crash the kernel instantly. In either case, RAM contents are lost.

So each time I turn off the PC, I have to plan ahead, "do I want to use poweroff-type-I or poweroff-type-II option?" If I won't guess right, then I lose my data.
Oh my god, is this dude for real? His blog makes him look like a clown.
What about Stephen King's Dark Tower Series? Or is this just best single book?
Hmmm... I like the idea 'take some' but then why not accure vacations anyway and 'force' people to take vacations before accuras expires?

Actually, in one of big companies developing world class mission critical software, my manager would send me an email saying something like "please take vacations since we are making Mercedeses and not Pintos".

Yes, there were pople working really a lot and not taking vacations, but it ended up that their designs are not well thought and implementation sloppy (yea, it is done faster than planed but locking was just not performing on SMPs), so they were passed during promotion / bonus time.
Thanks for confirming. Do you think the initial ad spend was worthwhile? (Do you think you would have gotten into the Top 25 without it?)
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Anirudh/Rishi,

Great story, I'm a long time lurker but created an account to comment/question. From what I could gather in the 3 posts, it looks like neither of you guys were technical at the very beginning. Did one of you eventually learn to code/design, or is that portion still hired out? What qualities did you look for when hiring coders?

Thanks!
Flash support is the new "IBM Compatible".
Please don't take this the wrong way, this is a serious question, and I hope you give it some serious thought before you answer.

Do you feel fulfilled? Do you feel like this is the most you can contribute to human civilization? If you could, how would you most like to make the world a better place?
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It's not unfair to java at all, C# has had all these features for years despite being pretty much the same language.

With C# you have two options, keep compiling your code with the old compiler, or fix your code and compile it with the new compiler. I bet there will be a standardized and working version of lambdas in C++ before Java, so I'm not sure what the big deal with backwards compat is.
It's not "giving tools that people are willing to buy", it's "selling tools that are profitable". iPhone or not, if there wasn't a business reason to support HTML5, I'm positive Adobe would've been perfectly content being the proprietary standard for digital media.
This was posted 6 hours earlier, with the wrapping XKCD page as opposed to the bare PNG graphic linked here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2976780
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Innovation is overrated- users don't care about it, they care about delivered value. Half the time the innovators have crappy executions, but are so wedded to their idea that they refuse to simplify, change, and evolve.

That's when cloners come in and beat the living daylights out of them by copying and improving upon their innovation.

There's a fantastic book on this, 'Copycats':

http://www.amazon.com/Copycats-Smart-Companies-Imitation-Str...

Incredibly well-written for a HBS book, lots of solid case studies, and some interesting research into the nitty gritty numbers behind innovation vs imitation.
As a 28 year old...this scares the crap out of me. Wish I could opt out of SS now.
That's a hell of a way to burn your ships behind you. No going back to the Borg in case the new job doesn't work out I guess.
I really hope that this decreases the amount of patent trolling there is, I think that there is nothing worse than if you were to put your hard work into something and someone else comes along and sues you for your good idea.
very true indeed !!! sometimes it is better to unlearn rather than learn....
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Um, hard sci-fi? Some handwavy "upload person to computer" stuff and then "we'll just rearrange the universe over here, don't mind us". I did read it a long time ago, but I don't remember anything that specific in it.
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I guess Google picks up another religious evangelist. Way to burn bridges.
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That is probably because tablets only account for a fraction of usage. Besides Microsoft does not have a good tablet story yet. With upcoming Windows 8, hopefully they will get act together and improve touch based accessibility for these products.
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What's the relevance of this? Who is Joe Stagner other than a guy who hasn't filled out all the tabs on his wordpress blog and just quit Microsoft?

I'm asking seriously. I googled him and didn't see anything of import.
The more the merrier, apply to all of them and see who accepts you if an incubator is your thing.

For now YC is way ahead of any competition.
Android has a native YouTube app. The Android browser could have run that in an embedded form, or simply redirected to the native app.
Steve Blank - What's wrong with business development?
I went for a second time to see Steve Blank give a speech. Again he made the same joke about how he doesn't know what Business Development people do.

Although I'm originally a programmer; in the past I've also had a title of VP, Business Development. During those years I did everything and anything I could imagine for the company I worked for, from cleaning up the office for important visitors, to writing product specs, whitepapers, web pages, user guides, proposals and new product suggestions and features, to selling to and managing partners, customers, journalists and investors, to speaking in conferences, etc. I.e. I developed the business.

Then later when I applied for a job, I was shortlisted but finally turned down because I had had a title of business development and the hiring manager didn't like that (that's directly what he told me).

So Steve, what's wrong with business development? Why does it give such bad vibes to people? And is this a universal thing?
Impressive technology...but there are a number of products that do what you've built (or come close). Someone already mentioned Nasuni.

TwinStrata might be closer (block oriented I think, iSCSI interface). http://www.twinstrata.com

I think Gartner refers to these products as "cloud storage gateways." Also known as "hybrid cloud storage." Google either of those to get a list.

Good question about the pain points TuaAmin. Those usually include:
a) never having to run out of storage again
b) never having to deal w/ tape backups again
c) knowing you can recover data to anywhere in the event of a disaster
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See, I'd do this sort of thing for any image by opening up my wifi and waiting for people to connect. Then just ensure I serve rickroll pics/videos/flash videos/sound whenever appropriate content is requested.
That's a silly question for someone starting their first business.

Most great philanthropists only dive in in their 50's and 60's.

Elon Musk started a mapping site in his 20's, which put him in position for PayPal, which gave him the capital to launch rockets into space.

If more people focused on making money in their 20's, real money, scalable money, there'd be more shoot for the stars entrepreneurs in their 30's and 40's, and more world class philanthropists in their 50's and 60's.
Small/low-res images? Possibly.

Mobile-only? No. There are media selectors for device widths.
98 and ME could easily be prepended onto that list. (The fact they were 9x vs NT is irrelevant, they were still MS's consumer OSes)
>When the average time for HFTs to hold onto a new position is less than 30 seconds, I'd say they're merely claiming credit for liquidity that was already there

This is factually incorrect. A lot of ultra-high frequency trading refers to a practice where traders post a bid or an offer--their orders sit in the 'book,' waiting for other to come and trade with them. The traders who have bids and offers sitting out in the market are even referred to as liquidity providers (as opposed to liquidity takers). There are whole exchanges out there which offer rebates to such traders for providing this liquidity (which means you actually get paid by an exchange to post liquidity).

These guys are not in the business of holding positions, they are in the business of providing trade-able liquidity. A car dealer may buy your car, then turn around and sell it the same day--that doesn't not mean they are harming the car market.
I was disappointed not to see any of the real classics (20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, etc.) on the list.
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If you are lucky. I often get the Twitter header and a blank page.
Cool, glad we got you to sign up to HN :)

Great question, I'm pretty technical since I've was developing websites for several years before starting FIPLAB. At times, I even figure out how to code things when our programmer can't figure it out. I always look for the simplest way to build something, especially when we are under a tight deadline and need to ship before the competition does.

Also, I still do a lot of the design work myself (obviously not the 3d modelling/animation though) - but more UI/Icon design.

As for hiring coders, the number one thing we look for is a proactive and 'never give up' attitude. Can't stand it where in the past a programmer has given up after spending just 1 hour trying to code a particular feature. If they can't be bothered find/figure out the solution, then they'll never mix well with our team.
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The first 100 pages or so of Anathem seemed like such a chore to get through, mainly because of the tons of exposition required to build the world. It was one of those books, however (Frank Norris' The Octopus being the other for me personally,) that really rewards the reader for taking the time to understand the world that is built. In both cases I read the last few hundred pages straight through to find out how it ended.
When Apple took a public stance against Flash, a lot of the pushback was from Flash developers and others with a vested interest.
I always thought Henry Ford "won" because he innovated on the manufacturing process with his introduction of the assembly line, which allowed him to produce better and cheaper automobiles more quickly than his competitors.

I had never heard that he embraced a "continuous deployment" model, and this short interview obviously doesn't get into details.
I always am left wondering what people think gives them the right to ask that question of other people.

Isn't it hard enough figuring that out for your own life?
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Yes the law does mandate vacation payout in some areas, but the actual vacation days also expire, meaning that your employer won't have to pay you for 20 years of accrued vacation. This is why I don't like vacation days as an accrued benefit.
I have to disagree with your statement about T2 .. To me at least it is one of the best (true) science fiction movies because it made me think more deeply about what does it mean to be human, what is love, courage, self-sacrifice? I didn't realize I didn't know the answers until this movie.
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"Current workers and employers would see an immediate benefit, in the form of a 6.2 percent increase in income, because the tax that funds Social Security would disappear."

More than that. The Social Security "trust fund" is in fact a filing cabinet full of federal bonds (special ones, yes, but still federal bonds). Money from the general fund is used to pay those bonds when cashed in - and a lot will be cashed in starting in not to long. End SS, and those special bonds need not be paid.

Note that, being a Ponzi scheme, the amount workers pay for SS now isn't just their FICA but, one way or another, their cut of the total $695 billion (and growing) spent every year. That's (clickety clickety) about $10,000 per taxpayer per year.
The hardware is awesome: brief report from San Diego power outage
I had a editing job sitting in my gmail, due at 9 am Friday, Tokyo time. Which is 5 pm Thursday in San Diego. It was going to take about an hour. I had put it off. Until 4. Which was a really bad time to realize you needed email in San Diego.

Luckily, I had my trusty Cr-48, with 3g, and Verizon can-you-hear-me-now 3g at that. I had slightly modified my Cr-48 with a bigger SSD and running Ubuntu, but this is a hardware story. With everything in the house shut down, having used my computer already throughout the day, it fired right, connected to Verizon, I downloaded that file, edited it, and had it shipped to Tokyo, receipt confirmed. In the middle of the biggest power outage in years.

Compared to the iPad and our iPhones, all on AT&T, Verizon definitely seemed snappier. Both systems were clearly degraded, but AT&T pages would just stop loading. Verizon, it just felt a little slow.

This is a reasonably common use case for me: no power for extended periods, no wi-fi. First at a huge conference, then in Japan for Fukushima, now here in sunny San Dog. The speed of an SSD is trivial to me compared to the energy efficiency. The 3g access is of course critical, though I'll certainly take wi-fi if I can get it.

Frankly, compared to the MacBook air, I'm also glad I have a matte black, plastic case. I'm in the military. Shocks and light reflections are non-trivial issues. Compared to the stock ChromeOS, I like not having to rely on the cloud for the computing itself. I'd much rather minimize my reliance on bandwidth. I have CAC authentication, so I can check work email, though I still haven't gotten citrix access to our clinical systems. Though I think that may be a problem with Juniper. Even a custom built LPS Linux hasn't been able to fix that problem. As it stands, this is the most capable piece of hardware I have ever owned, arguably custom made for my use case.
No, I miss my lists.
This blog hits a number of my "urgh" criteria:

- random capital EMPHASIS on words that don't appear to be important

- over exclamation!!!!

- tempting the reader with a secret they are unlikely to care about.
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I always look to amazon to provide insight to usability. They, along with google and others, split test everything before rolling it out to the masses. It's awesome to see how far they've come.
Completely unprofessional. I would never hire someone after seeing a blog port like this.
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Or, more importantly, expecting any of your former colleagues to vouch for your skills or help get you hired when you realize your new dream job isn't as rosy as it seemed in the interview process.
The two programs are quite different in how they run. YC is very much a case of moving to CA to build something from an idea, then take it on to investors. That's why the program is intensely structured over the several months with specific events and the end demo/investor days.

In contrast, Seedcamp runs day events around Europe throughout the year which lead up to the annual Seedcamp Week from which a number of companies "win" and get the investment. Having been part of the 2009 batch and getting an investment with http://www.serverdensity.com I didn't even move to London (although I am there now) and there was much less structure than YC has (not a bad thing).

I believe the months following the Seedcamp Week are now more involved for the winning teams but the differences are still there. Perhaps that's why many Seedcamp winners tend to already have a product built, revenue and customers (of course there are many YC teams now in the same position).

I don't see them as competitors, just different approaches to a similar idea. You have a choice who you apply to knowing this.
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A couple years back, I preordered the Yoggie Pico Pro (tiny little USB security device with an ARM CPU that acts as a firewall, spam filter, anti-virus, etc for your PC) with the intention of breaking it. A couple hours after it arrived on release day, I had code running on it. How? Well, they had a web interface on the device, which allowed you to ping hosts on your network for testing purposes. I noticed they were showing standard busybox ping output, so I tried out the basics: semicolons, ampersands, etc. They seemed to be throwing a null in at the first instance of a semicolon or other special characters, cutting off your command and preventing exploitation. What they didn't replace were backticks. So if the string was "ping %s" and you threw in "`pwd`", you would see "ping: unknown host /path". From here, exploitation is obvious; I got SSH up and running in no time and had a beautiful little ARM Linux box at my disposal. You can see the advisory at http://secunia.com/advisories/25902 if you're curious. This was a short project, but it was a whole lot of fun.
Seems to work well! Thanks, I've been waiting for something like this for long time. I symlinked my Documents folder to the Insync directory.

Edit: Since it uploads files in the original format (does not convert to gDocs format), what would be the best way to make a gDocs copy without clogging things up?
I agree. Just finished reading it. An amazing book, and an unusual setting.
probably could have broken into the Top 25 without it, but didn't want to risk not advertising, just in case we didn't.
Can you please be more specific about which "liberal jewish values" you are talking about? Similarly can you give specific examples of Japanese cultural values that have taken hold in the US?
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Eric - it's great to see you eating your own dogfood. Initial idea = write book on lean startup.
Launch plan = make sure every human being on the planet hears about it.
Adapt = hunt down the few poor bastards who haven't head about it yet.
Adapt again = hunt them down some more.
right now you are a tidal wave engulfing the media space. Gotta hand it to ya.
I really love the foundation series. Even Foundation's Edge is really good, I think I read that the fastest of the four, although I haven't read the rest of the series.

I think the original three are so good because they are much less tainted by actual technology in the real world it seems, and it's sort of funny how Asimov, in some sense, describes Wikipedia and the utter importance of trade and consumption in ruling those around you, weaving in technology and concepts that even today sound like real science fiction; far fetched but attainable in the future. More importantly, Asimov does a good job in connecting you with the characters.
This concept of comparing one company to another is interesting. It shows that geography, in this much 'smaller' and better connected world, still creates practical divides.

Y combinator is not present in Europe, so Seedcamp can enjoy vastly more mind share than maybe its model merits.

We wanted to make a service similar to what Zaarly has created. When evaluating whether we wanted to compete, we did not take into account that it may take Zaarly years to get to Europe and we could still enjoy first mover advantage in a massive geography (there are competitors, but we consider them to not 'get it').

Same with Seedcamp - FIVE years and few have really come along to do something better. Seedcamp is the accelerator we aspire to have notice us. Would that change if YC came to Europe/London? Do Seedcamp have a local knowledge/network advantage that would be unshareable?

To those comments about zero sum - it is like wanting the FT to report on your news, but having to settle for a financial blog read by only a few thousand.

Bigger really is better and that applies broadly to accelerators, start ups and general economies of scale. Brand awareness often requires scale, which comes as a result of time and effort.