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This is pretty bad I think. The amount of substance by mass is nearly completely unimportant. Consider a package which has 99.999% Organic Apples and 0.001% Plutonium. But hey, it's 99.999% organic! Look at all that red!

Much better is a simple ordered list of ingredients, so we're not bamboozled into ignoring certain ingredients just because they're not the majority of the content. But wait, thats ... what we already have on our packaging? What good visualization!
I think the dataset you mentioned only contains the yelp social graph ie it doesn't have the reviews and stuff.
Actually, we read most of the pitches that come into AngelList (there's an up-front algorithmic filter for junk). There are other investors who browse the incoming firehose as well. If we think something is interesting / likely to be a good match, we email it to investors who follow those markets and locations. If the company gets interest, we broaden the send. Investors follow / take intros as they're interested. Keep in mind that 95%+ of businesses are not fundable by early-stage tech-focused Angels. AngelList is not a circular-reasoning walled garden. Most of the value that we bring investors is surfacing them deals outside of their social networks, and most of the value that we bring startups is finding them investors outside of their social networks. If we didn't do that, we would fail.

It's very much like a dating site. We can't let all of the guys contact all of the girls whenever and however they want. But matches are made all the same.
Much as I sympathise with this view, communication isn't about what you say, it's about what the other person hears.
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This is great advice for a certain subset of companies, mostly consumer-based (either directly or indirectly) web startups.

If you were starting a more technology intensive company, you could very well need to raise a ton of money to start building a basic prototype.

I wish authors would qualify their bold statements.
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Yes, this is a dupe from earlier today. I posted the damned thing by accident while learning the system in a half awake stupor. And, because I was in an half awake stupor, decided it was a good idea to share it with the world after accidentally posting it. I've been trying to get them to take it down to no avail. Failing that I've suggested better language and asked other people to suggest better language. On Monday I plan to call the White House switch board and see if I can beg/bully my way to someone with the power to update the text. The previous thread had my suggestion for better language, but I'll just go ahead and repost it here:

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The US Patent system is badly broken with respect to software patents. Patents are being issued to companies for “inventions” that are, in fact, common knowledge included in any introductory software textbook. The result is that the large software corporations are buying up reams of patents and using them to bully small, innovative companies out of business or into paying ridiculous licensing fees.

Quite apart from encouraging innovation, patents are now stifling it.
The software industry is one of the few industries still strong in America. Even in a time of recession, there are not enough computer programmers to fill all the available positions. Startup companies are forming and growing readily. But if every line of code written brings with it a potential violation of someone else's intellectual property, this will cease to be the case.

To solve this problem, we petition the Obama Administration to direct the Patent office to cease issuing software patents and to instruct the judicial system to take a long hard look at existing patents for validity. With these two steps, those of us in the software industry can stop worrying about mutually assured patent destruction and get back to doing what we do best.

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If anyone else comes up with language the community prefers, I'm game to use it when I call the switchboard on Monday.
All this will do is to hurt the smaller web retailers who will inevitably have to track and pay sales tax. Some of whom are already on the brink and will have to trim their payrolls, or fall to amazon.

So much for a "level playing field"
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I am curious how many people know about the Category Theory?

I asked one of the Math professors and he had no idea, though we was teaching Group Theory at the time.
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We're still testing this out with real data, but it looks like it's actually quite useful to have duplicates in the database. The key is how to return results to someone coming along later. We're working on that now.

We committed upfront to not letting the site become overrun with "Yahoo Answers" style duplicated/low quality stuff. We'd much rather delete useless stuff than get an extra page view or two.
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It's a wrong way of looking.

Rating is based on associated risks not the income and expenditure. Certainly they help calculate risk but you can't rely on it purely.

The U.S. credit rating was changed after a political crisis arose, which put some uncertainly to pay creditors ontime.
That is what Patzer did for Mint.com. I think it was around 2% of their series A, which I think was a great deal for everyone.
The submission of the same URL but with a useful title is doing far better.

"UNCRUNCHED: Arrington's new blog." - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032013
I never knew there was a difference. Thanks for pointing it out!
This article is mostly fluff, if someone has a link to a better explanation somewhere else that would be greatly appreciated.

As far as I can tell this is California overstepping its bounds and attempting to tax out of state entities.
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Regulation is a killer, I've seen it in action. Just today I was running the numbers on a major SW development project for the health tech firm I work for and basically concluded our whole $40M R&D investment is going to have a massive negative NPV.

Why? Because of delays due to regulation. Regulation required more developer time and resources, which definitely put a dent in our projects financials. But the real killer is that it delayed us getting to market by almost a half a year and the results of the slowdown and inefficiencies in development are causing us to roll out a lot more slowly.

So I am too painfully aware of the effects of regulation on health technology.
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> Secondly, these are simple examples. What do you do with, say, a can of chicken and vegetable and noodle soup, which could easily have thirty ingredients before you even start counting the potentially-nasty additives down in a tiny box in the corner.

How about inverting the tree-map such that the smaller the amount, the greater the portion of the tree-map taken up? You're going to need all of that space anyway for the names of those potentially-nasty additives to be printed in a legible font size...
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Neat, but I really wish it also included other languages than English.
This is exactly why i come to HN for. Stay classy HN
Princeton's President Shirley Tilghman once said the following and I think it's a fitting quote that speaks directly to people like you.

A link to the research instead of a quote from someone asserting research exists would have been a stronger reply.

A relevant paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/8/3157.full
If you believe this idea is false, why do you need to label it as a taboo thought-crime ("sexist")?

Expressing false ideas is not without cost. We have generation after generation of young women who are socially and culturally conditioned into believing that they're are unsuited for careers in science and engineering. The grandfather is another example of one the many insidious ways in which this happens. As a result, I believe it's completely unacceptable to speculate on these matters, especially when all you have to offer are some sexist opinions unsupported by data.

Furthermore, the labeling of the post as sexist is not a "taboo thought-crime", it's a statement of fact. The OP is clearly claiming that young men are better suited to succeed at programming today than women. What is this if not "a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women?" [1]

[1] (sexist) male chauvinist: a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women
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I don't like having a thousand apps on my phone though. It's nice to just go to Apple's Music app and play any song on my library.
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* Looks like an early draft PDF (sections missing)
* The attack is more serious than some of us thought
* The PoC uses HTML5 WebSocket API, Java URLConnection API,
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> note I don't have their paper) they say they don't need any heightened
> Java privileges. What's a little confusing here is exactly how
> they are getting past same-origin issues.

They don't need same-origin. Juliano confirmed this to me a couple of days ago. And the leaked paper shows how they do it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032278

Edit: Either I got copy-paste fat fingers or he changed the blog post; but I did copy that part from somewhere...
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For what it's worth, I couldn't see anything to click other than "Sign up" or "Sign in", so I closed the tab. I don't sign up to sites before I play with them. So, if I can't tinker with something before giving up anonymity, I can't imagine I'll ever use Get.com.
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I'm more interested in how many shares the founders wanted to sell.
If it can be proved, above reasonable doubt, that you're using that IP on purpose, with the only aim to bypass such geographical restrictions on content distribution against the will of content owners... well, it'll be a tough day in court.

Note that I'm not saying that IP == actual physical person or GeoIP == actual physical location. A lawyer would have to prove that you were using that computer, with that specific IP, on that date-time, and you were accessing that content in full knowledge of the fact that only US-based consumers were allowed to do that... Which is very difficult, but not impossible. Laws are always interpreted, at the end of the day.
I can't seem to find a non-fluff writeup of this story, though I've found a bunch of similar versions.

From my understanding of the issue, California passed a law redefining "presence" in a state so as to include companies which have affiliates in that state. Businesses which have no affiliates (or advertising?) in California still would not have to collect sales tax. Amazon was not too happy with this situation, so they cut all of their affiliates in Cali, and proceeded to get into politics. They agreed to reinstate/not proceed with cutting their affiliates (I'm not sure if they actually cut or just threatened) in exchange for a year long delay in collecting sales tax.
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someone should do the same with programming
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Wish they'd get it over with quick to be honest.
A lot of honest people are still getting screwed over by Groupon.
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I hear you, and I'm soo conflicted about it. On the one hand it's made it so a lot more people try out the site and have a good experience. On the other hand it drives a lot of people away instantly.

We did make it so you can sign up with email (not just Twitter/Facebook) and we made the form as simple as possible.

We're still not sure what's best overall. I'm positive we'll take down the sign up wall at some point though.
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Ah, the homeopathic approach to food labelling. I'm gonna sprinkle a grain of gold dust on every twinkie I sell, just to screw with the label.
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The title says it all, actually.

But.

Say, the case is that either you finish this project or you're fired. (Or you do the project or lose a client.) You're perfectly aware about your glucose addiction [1]. The choices are 1) to quickly eliminate sugar crash by eating sugar snacks or 2) to survive it, but suffer decreased productivity for some time. The consequences of choosing 2 might be the complete inability to afford good food (nuts are pricey) and general long-term stress caused by financial problems.

I'd be glad if someone would prove me I'm misguided by my sugar-dependent brain with the above example.

[1] Which may come from refined sugars according to http://www.ehow.com/how_2079526_avoid-refined-sugars.html, please correct in case I'm wrong.
This reminds me of when I pointed out an exploit on Zappos' website to them. They gave me a $100 GC to use on their site.

Companies like 37Signals and Zappos are full of great people and know how to show their appreciation.
If 9 out of 10 people use it a particular way, it has already been redefined. What we're talking about here is the difference between prescriptive and descriptive linguistics: definition-oriented vs. usage-oriented.
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Definitely the beginning of the end...if there was ever one.
Reminds me of this really old website http://postagram.com/ that does the same for $1.00 -- note the site is ugly and mails really ugly letters in an untimely fashion, however it is somewhat usable.
Thank you. Now I actually learned something from this conversation.
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>It's important to know what percentage of his total shares he dumped to form an opinion on this.

not in such a case. 382M out of close to 1B round - it is obvious that he dumped _all_ what he could dump. The rest of his holding doesn't matter - it is just paper.
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This is a heretofore unknown definition of "dummies".
This underscores the weakness of TFA. "often locate their computers" really should read "always locate their computers" in data centers run by the exchanges. Any high frequency trader that does not is, well, decidedly second tier or worse.
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I wish I could participate and drive that number higher but I'm not American.

I have linked to this petition from my blog urging Americans to sign it though.
The OP is clearly claiming that young men are better suited to succeed at programming today than women. What is this if not "a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women?" [1]*

Actually I was claiming that young men are more likely to be interested in programming today than women. The culture of what it means to be a programmer has changed, and the idea of spending ten hours a day slinging Javascript around in order to query some database appeals to a fairly limited subset of the population, who tend overwhelmingly to be male. Whether this subset are the lucky few or the unlucky few is rather a matter of interpretation.

Like I said: Sudoku is fun when you do it for ten minutes a day. But doing it for a living would alienate the vast majority of people, and I'm fairly sure that the few who would be left to fill in those square for $120K a year would be mostly men.
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Link is to the GitHub repo for the source code for a slide deck: Bryan O'Sullivan's Intro to Haskell workshop at Strange Loop 2011.

And here is a link to the slides (HTML) themselves: http://bos.github.com/strange-loop-2011/slides/slides.html.
Another thought would be simply that if SPDY makes it more attractive/easier/secure/efficient for developers to implement push, then users will benefit simply from it being included in more apps.
Man, Groupon really messed things up. They have a large group of devoted fans and they just got too greedy and stupid with the way they handled this IPO. They should have done the IPO a yeah ago without any shananagins and they would have been better off.
You can sort of get past that. I didn't want to sign up either until I could see what it was I was signing up for. If you click the "Learn more" link you get brought to the about page but it has the proper header that lets you navigate the site.
Yes, the English language really lacks the vast suite of words we need in order to express our degrees of certainty about things. Words such as "know", "believe", "think" and "suspect" don't express these things properly, but we have to make do with what we have.

I don't think that "believe" is a particularly bad word for the relationship of a rational person to a fairly well established fact, though. I believe, for instance, that the Earth has an iron-nickel core. I fully acknowledge the possibility that it might not, and am fully ready to change that belief based on new evidence, but I think it's fairly well established and I am willing to act as if it were true.
Now how to identify what is a "software" patent and what isn't? Legally software already can't be patented -- it has to be a physical something. Read any "software" patent and it doesn't refer to the software, it refers to some sort of programmable machine that does something special with its software.

Is it a machine patent or is it a software patent?
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our story is very similar, actually.

i agree - short, good domains smell better to consumers.
I'd be really interested to hear from current or past Startup Chile participants as to the quality and style of the companies applying. Is it a really high bar like YC, or is it more along the lines of "if you're working on a credible startup, you're in" kind of thing?

Also, love to see any videos people made for their applications, or any feedback about the application process that they learned after being accepted.

Looking at the stats for the previous round, it was really interesting. IIRC, around 300 applied, ~150 or so of which were ruled out because they didn't qualify or didn't complete the application correctly, and 100 were chosen, or about %66 of the ones who weren't ruled out. This time around, twice as many applied but only %50 more were chosen.

One concern: I avoided the single founder issue by having two co-founders, but both of my co-founders are great partners, though not nearly as experienced with startups as I am.
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get is a neat product. similar target space that we're working on.

they made a variety of design decisions that are good ones and we are still working through. (categories, leaderboards)

i didn't really love the autotweet when i signed up, though :(

good luck!
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well "giant" wasn't specified, but most new laptops have multi touch now. The difference is newer laptops by different vendors usually get heavily discounted or goes on sale much faster than mbp's. Just watch any deals site and you'll see. A nicely configured mbp will go for around 2k, you can easily get the same configuration for 1k, possibly much less with deals, coupons and discounts.
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From the top-level comment: "this is very basic and very global stuff, similar to water or power, and you shouldn't have to question its integrity."

So yes, unless my English fails me, he is indeed saying that social networking is (or should be) like a utility.
Given our experience for the first two months with Start-Up Chile, I couldn't be more agreed with that. It's not directly competing with TS or YC and maybe startups like Heroku, Sendgrid, Airbnb and Dropbox are never going to come directly from there but at the end of the experiment, it's most likely that there will be hundreds of competitive / innovative startups took the sign of this.
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Really sorry about the unexpected tweet! It actually shows you that page before it tweets, but I checked logs and you were on an iPhone (which we have barely tested, to our shame), so it might have been easy to miss.

Thanks for checking out the site Josh. Like I said on Twitter, I'm a fan for a long time, so "neat" is high praise!

Good luck on Jig as well.
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Not quite following this statement, what makes it faster?
I've never seen or heard Sean Parker speak, so this really just reinforces to me that Justin Timberlake is a douchebag.
The reason I picked twitter is because I didn't want to provide that information.
Think how much less typing we'll have to do over a few years!
Reminds me of what Paul Graham once said:

Offer surprisingly good customer service.

Customers are used to being maltreated. Most of the companies they deal with are quasi-monopolies that get away with atrocious customer service. Your own ideas about what's possible have been unconsciously lowered by such experiences. Try making your customer service not merely good, but surprisingly good. Go out of your way to make people happy. They'll be overwhelmed; you'll see.

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Totally understandable. We're doing the recently-controversial thing and encouraging real names (or at least first name last initial) to encourage trust.

Since people's biggest concern with getting product recommendations is that they're biased it's a big plus on our site.

I know it's super unpopoular position for some, but Yelp has been doing it for a very long time with great success.