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YC NYC: Paul Graham Shares The Antidote To Startup Poison
Sometimes I think every child that's born should receive not only a Social Security Number, but a trust, a holding corporation, and a political action committee in his/her name.

The political and legal playing field has always been tilted in one way or another, but it keeps getting more and more extreme.
I don't take it personally at all. The meme is common among people familiar with the internal workings of consumer web business models. My concern is that its not well understood outside that group. I also think it's an interesting way to view the rollout of Facebook's new features and public reaction to them.
It depends on the rule and the severity of the rule-breaking. Every day some kid is risking a fine for selling lemonade by breaking any number of permit and health code laws. They do it anyway.

I suppose a lesson could be learned, start a movie studio that shows how to build a lemonade company. Most kids would not get off the ground.

Most would simply complain to their parents who would in turn email The Consumerist causing the media to get the kids their lemonade stand.

I probably would have broken the rules and got the truck without the permit. Maybe it would have blown it for me, and I would have been forcibly removed and never sold a single shoe. Though I think there is another important side to this.

That side is the nepotistic behavior of the city issuing permits to only movie studios and construction companies to build ball parks.

I would rather prove the point that there is nefarious permit issuing going on within the city than be a part of their corrupt system of permit issuance.

I suppose the best thing to do would be to work as did the shoe guy, make your 40K units sold, and then make some noise about the permit issue with your profits.

Sometimes breaking rules is a good thing, and helps to enact change for the better, or make awareness of the absurdity of the rule itself.
As I understand it, expert system can be quite accurate and effective in diagnosis (if fed accurate input of symptoms, which would still require a physician or at least a trained technician). The problem is always public perception and liability. Medicine is as much about instilling people with confidence as it is with actually healing them. Some (most?) people would shy away from the idea of an automated diagnosis. Also, a bad diagnosis (even if it was caused by improper input into the expert system) introduces a quagmire of liability.
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That article was posted to TC 5 minutes ago. Do you have Paul Graham on keyword alert or something? LOL

I'm just saying, this article was posted less than 5 minutes after it was published on TechCrunch. It certainly wasn't even read before being submitted. You can tell it was posted in a haste to be first because the initial title for the submission was "Fsdfs." Once it was confirmed it was first the title was changed to the correct title.
> You threaten to reduce it if they're impolitic enough to pursue certain courses. You make this fairly clear to them.

And the next day there's a headlining report on government corruption.

I'm not quite seeing how the government can threaten the BBC, when they have so much to lose if those threats become public.
Could this just be a gap in between new games? Zynga games do seem to be sticky and addictive but there is going to be a lot of attrition the longer a game is around.
example: http://www.stamped.com/parislemon/stamps/9/Iced-Chai

also sniffed some sort of google connection, then realized it's a gVentures thing
Some fiction exploring this idea (and more):

* Manna, by Marshall Brain, http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

* Accelerando, by Charles Stross (goes way farther than Slate.com will ever go), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29 --- note that you can download the full text for free (licensed CC-BY-NC-ND).
For those of you who have your doubts, this is the bottom line for me: Corporate America is raking in the cash even though the economy is lousy. They don't NEED to hire new workers. They're doing fine without them, that's the thing no one in DC will talk about.

Small businesses will rescue the country you say? I'm not so sure. I own a reusable water bottle company. All of my warehousing and shipping needs are done by a fulfillment house (which does the same thing for other small businesses). Our shipping and warehousing needs are shared. And most of my marketing can be done through MailChimp,Twitter etc.

I don't need to hire any workers either.

Worse still, let's say my competition has 5-10 employees. All things being equal, I can undercut them ruthlessly if I wanted to because I have lower overhead.

I think an easy way to keep tabs on all of this is to simply look at unemployment. If it stays around 10% for another few years, it seems like we have a STRUCTURAL unemployment problem on our hands. And one of the causes is surely automation.
I hope this will be a model for all archaeological literature. It’s a real shame how controlling scholars sit on caches of the world’s cultural heritage not for years, not for decades, but for generations (in the case of the Oxyrhynchus papyri), dolling it out to the public only as they reconstruct and interpret the fragments. If humanities scholars aim to rise to the level of the hard sciences, let them emulate XArchive.
There is another reason that is stated and restated, including elsewhere in this thread: it's not trivial to (actually) erase anything.
Ha ha you guys are killing me with this. I don't even know what to say, but, yeah, it's way OT at this point.
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If I wanted to read stupid-ass chain letters repeating the same old boring irrelevant political talking points repeated by the mainstream media I'd be reading my Facebook feed.
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judging a gaming company by quarter?? ok, zynga is not exactly a traditional gaming company, but can you even imagine if we judged blizzard or bioware (when they were independant) by quaterly figures?
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After the program, when a founder says they’re moving back to a city that isn’t exactly known for startups — Minneapolis, for example — Graham does his best to talk them out of it.

I grew up in Minneapolis and moved to Seattle about eight years ago after I graduated from college. I moved not because I was concerned about founding a startup in Minneapolis, but because I couldn't find a job I found interesting[1]. My software-focused friends still left in the Twin Cities have job titles like 'Business Analyst,' 'IT Manager,' 'Geek Squad Something Something,' and 'SAP Solutions Architect.'

Frankly, I've never looked back, and cannot imagine ever seeking out work in the area. I wish the region was more attractive to the kinds of technology companies you can find here on the West Coast.

[1] I was working for Honeywell at the time, which was the single most soul-crushing job I've ever had.
Pointless and biased exercise. Nobody would stop working just to avoid paying for other people's welfare, and only fools argue for absolute equality.
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Yes; however, at each step I'm already storing the state of VA.locals. If you can show me how I would get this data, I'd be happy to display it.
I would word it differently then. Using the term quality in a sliding scale manner leaves doubt in my mind. I want to know all your work is excellent.
Yes, I imagine that could definitely have something to do with it. I also think part of it is that others (Sims Social) have shown they can build sticky and addictive games as well and Zynga is no longer the sole owner of the space.
You know what's more damaging to American politics than the LURKING RED MENACE of socialism?

Uncited, anonymous propaganda designed to get people frothing at the mouth and to see people with opposing viewpoints as nothing more than gullible idiots.

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/socialism.asp
Poll: What would you pay for a SF  SV Startup Shuttle? 
Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)

If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.
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You can't guarantee anything. It's all about trade-offs and managing risks. Putting your source code onto a private server doesn't guarantee that your source code is safe, and there are far more examples of source code being stolen from private servers than there are of companies appropriating source code from hosting companies like GitHub.
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Decades ago 80%+ of everything we bought was made in our own country, now that number has dwindled down to, 20% was it?

In the consumer space, perhaps. The actual manufacturing done on US soil (I am assuming you are American), has continued to grow year after year. Much of that manufacturing has seen automation to the point that the labour force has declined, but that is not related to outsourcing to China.

What technology has allowed is more and more of us to pursue new opportunities. If we were all still toiling in the field, we wouldn't be building hot internet startups. There simply wouldn't be the time. As robots drive labour costs to near zero, brand new opportunities will appear for people to make an income and perhaps even get rich themselves.

There will always be short periods of hardship for some people, but in the grand scheme of things, finding an income should not be a problem. Finding a job you love, however, may become more and more difficult. Take agriculture as an example. I know countless people who would love to farm, but it simply is not an option for them. Thanks to technology, very few farmers are needed anymore. Likewise, I imagine there are also people who love working on the factory floor and building a business that employs robots doing who knows what is not at all appealing to them.

The question is, should we prop up jobs that can easily be replaced by robots in order to allow people who love that job to continue to profit by doing it or should we force them into doing work that is not of interest? Programming, for example, is a job anyone could do, but very few, relatively speaking, have interest in actually doing it.
> I don't seem to need this information to do what I do

Are you sure about that? Have you never tried to do something, found it was taking forever, and gave up? Maybe you concluded it was impossible, or you found some way to approximate what you needed.

I am another self-taught programmer, and believe me you are going to be kicking yourself once you do learn a few good algorithms and data structures. Your favorite accomplishments -- intricate beasts that you felt you had tamed with much sweat and effort -- are going to turn into five or six lines. Or maybe two or three small, easy to understand programs. Impossibly large amounts of data are going to look easily tameable.

> How does one achieve this?

Not so hard - read a good book. There are lots.
The Republican party's faithful cheering of Perry's executions is relatively speaking just as "disgusting" as the Democrats' cheering for raising taxes on the "rich." Both cheering sections espouse similar horrific philosophies of human life, which at their extremes are philosophies of death.

So, now that we have that out of the way, are you sure that our definitions are different? ;)
I really like the idea. There may be some interesting challenges in terms of acquiring businesses to buy-in to the concept. There is definitely an opportunity there. Best of luck.
A brief anecdote. McKinnon's meat market in Cambridge sells boneless chicken breasts for $2/lb and split chicken breasts for $1/lb. I'm not an expert and can't speak to the quality, but it's really popular among residents here. I have no idea whether this is an "unrepresentative price sample", but it's a meat market in Boston a few blocks away from the red line. It's not exactly an obscure shop. I've never been there, but I'm thinking about checking it out this week as people keep telling me to go.
PG brought the most important defense against this argument the last time an article like this got posted. Why this time? Technology, including automation, has been around for the past 60 years, but we have only gotten richer.

When the declaration of independence was signed, it took 19 out of every 20 people to feed America and provide and surplus for export. Today it takes 1 out of every 20 people to do the same thing. Did jobs disappear? Did we have unemployment at 10%? No. People adapted, and got jobs doing things that were useful and beneficial to the economy.

Robots will take revolutionize many industries, just like software is right now, but it won't mean the demise of the economy. In fact it will be a huge boon, and we will continue to advance as we have been for the past 500 years. By nearly any measure possible, we are better off today then 50 years ago. Technology is no small part of that.
I would hire him just for the publicity. It will be worth every advertisement dollar ever spent..
This is true. But would the story get out if it happened? And it's not limited to appropriation. There are stories about, say, Assembla, and the terms of code storage changing dramatically. You could also have a company where the security on transferring the code was inadequate. That's a concern you don't have as much if your servers are local (though you need VPN for remote coders).

It's also hard to talk percentages -- there are a lot more companies storing source code on private servers than using external hosting. So yes, more stories of that, but it's hard to talk percentage chance rather than absolute numbers.
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Sure, but what happens when Google's Android market place remains dominant, they release new versions of Android for Tablet and SmartPhone that become incompatible with Amazon's version of Amadroid? It doesn't have to be forever - if new games, new high-demand software is released for Android phones and Tabelts, even if it takes 6 months for Amazon to make their OS compatible and 6 more for app developers to put out their apps on Amazon App Store - they lose. Amazon doesn't make phones - Google and its partners do and that's where most of the Android app ecosystem is focused.

I honestly don't think Amazon will take that risk - their changes are going to be cleanly designed such that they can pull Google's AOSP code, merge their changes and crank out their own updates. I can't see Amazon developing 2.1 code base without merging Google's bits from newer releases - there is just no way they are going to be able to catch up with all the stuff Google and co. are putting in Android - they will never have that kind of expertise unless they hire people from Google/Android team which I find somewhat far fetched.

Keeping up with the releases from 2.1 and going to 4.0 is going to be a huge pain. And that will be required for compatibility sooner or later.
I'm not a fan of their games, but I do want them to do well....not sure why. Maybe it's because I feel that out of all the latest IPO's and IPO rumors, they have the closest to an actual business, or because I want a gaming company to do well since I make games.

Either way, 95% is a lot, and this doesn't bode well at all for anyone lower in the food chain.
Tracking by IP is pretty useless with so many people on phones, aol, etc. Plus, multiple accounts per workplace, just doesn't work...
Even more outrageous considering Israel stole the scrolls from Jordan after the 1967 war.
Let's be clear, active users were down only 4%.
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OK, I see. I saw "open for business" and missed the panel in the lower right. Yeah, kind of a goofy attribute. It would take work to be closed!
I had noticeably less UI stutter and freezes going from 2.1 to 2.2 on my Nexus One. 2.3 made it a new phone - the low pause GC really makes a difference for UI responsiveness.
Bailing banks out and nationalizing them are virtually equivalent.

Except for the results for shareholders, bondholders, and executives, all of whom end up much better off after the bailouts.
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$1.40/lb for frozen chicken breasts is a sale price, but it's not out of the ordinary for what I used to see in Seattle (less than a year ago) or what I see in rural Utah now. $2-3/lb is more common, and I've seen similar prices when I visit family in Denver, the Oregon coast, and northern Cali. I don't know why Chicago is $4-7/lb for "the grocery store crap"; all I know is that those numbers are way outside of the prices I've experienced. The prices I gave are not "ludicrously unrepresentative"; they're prices I see on a regular basis.

I'm a stay at home dad who's done the shopping for many years. I shop at the closest store, tilt my shopping somewhat but not entirely toward sale items and generics, and don't do anything more extreme than grab coupons from the ads at the customer service desk. I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, or anything that I'd expect "the poor" to have trouble doing. Everything I say here is a result of my experience feeding my family in a way that I think is pretty normal and sensible. In my experience, home cooking comes out way ahead on price -- it's not even close.

Thus, I'm very firmly in the camp that says "price" is not the major contributing factor to people eating crap. The two other factors you note, "convenience" and the "picky kid factor" (palatability), are the dominant considerations.
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Of course, this is not a question of GDP, but of employment, or idleness. Machines are beautiful creatures, (as long as they don't involve deflagrants or explosives) and they make everyone richer. But people are people, and the differences between a stupid employed person, and a stupid unemployed person are tremendous. Even when their bellies are equally full. The unemployment rate of post-graduate-degree holders is about 2 percent, and the rate among high school dropouts is almost 20 percent. This will not change.

It will get worse.

There is an aristocracy emerging of the intelligent/educated and the rest. It will get worse and worse, until you have 80 percent, then 85 percent, then 90 percent of the population economically useless. These predictions have been going on for decades (see "Player Piano" by Vonnegut). They are just now coming true.
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Clinton was a centrist, far from socialist politician. Obama seeks the same top marginal tax rate as Clinton, while supporting lower taxes in many other areas, placing Obama to the right of Clinton. If this absurd analogy had any merit, we would have all failed many times over in the 8 year Clinton presidency.

I'm also curious what the OP means when he calls Obama a "corporatist socialist". Considering the vast bulk of Obama's policies have been the socialization of losses and the privatization of profits, that phrase may be an apt description, though I get the impression thats not what the OP meant to say.
I explained, there are more drivers than 'success' in the real world, that are not simulated by grades.

The example in the OP illustrates a 'crash' of a socialist system, by saying everyone gets Fs, if you convert that into money, you are talking about a complete crash of equity (i.e there is no money to share around). Meaning there is no welfare, meaning they all starve, with their families. You don't die, if you get a bad grade, you do die, if you don't eat.

I'm saying before a complete collapse you would trigger peoples survival instincts and they would work - just to survive (similar to china from the 50s-70s).

At less extreme cases people will always want to improve their living situation, and thus will strive to generate more capital (or more directly, contributing value to their community).
To me, the interesting thing about this is that his resume is so... so ordinary. Ordinary in the sense that there are a great many smart graduate students who have done some interesting summer internships, have some neat projects, and are working on publications.

So here we have a guy who, on paper, is basically like any of the rest of us, and he decides to start his own business.

The links on his page aren't there so that he can prove that he is involved in the community so that he could get a phone screen for another job so that he could impress an interviewer with his great whiteboard-tree-manipulation skills. (I mean yes, obviously it is a resume, which serves that purpose, but sans all of the fancy stuff you read about on HN to enhance your professional identity.)

Which, for me, is an affirmation (inspiration?) that maybe rather than spending my time memorizing CLRS or forking another github project in order to build a credential, I should write my own algorithm, create my own github repo, and build not another paper credential but something great.

Thanks for posting!
Ditto. I wasn't expecting much from Gingerbread on my G2 and I was pleasantly surprised.
How long until we read about a company that's storing significant amounts of data gleaned from the API's of Facebook/LinkedIn/etc. being hacked?
Their business model is people sitting on the computer nurturing virtual farms and buying cows. Are you serious? Their business targets the least productive segment of humanity and leeches off of their stupidity.

The fast that they have negative q/q userbase growth and q/q profits is pretty serious. Their market is ripe for competition and their userbase will continue to be cannibalized.
The collections data structures are more or less designed to achieve certain performance characteristics. So knowing those performance characteristics means knowing what those data structures were designed to do. This seems like a pretty critical part of familiarity to me.
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