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Indeed, though I can't believe they had the resources to bug every single car, let alone listen to the transmissions, assuming keyword recognition or similar wasn't about.
Sorry, I live there.
I saw the number 600 a few times, not sure which round it was for.

Only 50-60 groups will get invited to the interview. :(

Also I read that 75% of the apps are submitted in the week before the deadline.
Or Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby? http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

Personally I don't find these artsy trendy programming guides that appealing, but if it gets the job done...
I just noticed that the application deadline is listed as 10PM EST (not PST) on the "Y Combinator Funding Page", though it's listed as 10PM PST on another page. I wonder if this will have any repercussions on anybody...
It does. Proof - if it didn't make majority happy it would be scrapped.

You are not a typical user of the system. You also hang out with like-minded people which gives you illusion of being normal which ain't true - normal people aren't reading HN, aren't starting startups and aren't working deeply immeresed into unforgivingly precize digital machines.
No such thing as too far along. Speaking as a YC founder who had angel money and a product going in, you'd have to be post-series A for YC not to make sense. The YC logo on your slide deck alone is probably enough to boost your valuation by more than 6.4%.
I quit my job 6 months ago to do my own thing and its been a hard transition. The basics get me all the time - waking up early; going to bed before midnight; surfing the net; putting together daily task lists, etc. A few things that are working for me are:

1. I hired a really good business coach.

2. I have big goals that are very short term - like 2-3 months. So my "big" goal now is to close the year at a certain revenue level.

3. Although I work from home, I try to have 1-2 very, very packed days that involve outside the home stuff related to my work.

The struggle continues though and I went to private schools from kindergarten to college.
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To be honest. It took a lot of hard work.

I have learned HTML, CSS, PHP, Unix and other technologies from scratch for the past four years and still have a lot to learn. As long as you have the passion for learning you will be a successful "self starter".
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I don't understand their complaint about native quad core versus dual dual dies. In practice, the performance penalty isn't that great, and the yields are twice as good. For a given sized chip, assuming evenly distributed faults, a die twice as big is four times as likely to have an error. Higher yields mean cheaper and faster (frequency is limited to the portion of a chip which can handle the lowest frequency). In fact, AMD agrees, because they're planning to use dual dies for their 8 and 12 core chips coming in 2009/10.

Sure, native quad is elegant, but the end users don't have to touch the design!
Seemingly small? Any intro to numerical algorithms will quickly convince you otherwise.
It is so sad that this is still what people worry about for code style. Anything here could be done in an automatic code formatter written in a weekend.

Why not an article on, say, Ruby API design? Use blocks, overload these (but not these) operators, DSLs, etc?

You know, elements of style that matter?
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I searched this comments page for "food" and interestingly, I didn't see any comments pointing out that starting a tech startup is a (temporary) vow of poverty. This is exacerbated in a recession, when it's often more difficult to find investment capital for rapid growth.

A point that seems lost in pg's recent start-the-startup cheerleading is that you need to be able to eat, pay rent, etc. Even if you're in your 20's and have a good chunk of money saved up, how long will it last? A year? Two? What if you don't see a paycheck for that long? Will there really be that many tech jobs available to "fall back on"? Part of the definition of a recession is a contraction of employment. That means tech jobs are less available, too.

These reality checks shouldn't stop anyone, but it'd be nice to see a reminder from Graham once in awhile to do the maths (personal budget etc.) and be realistic. A lot fewer tech workers are in the financial position to start a startup than they realize.

Ramen money indeed!
Not everything is yet cheap enough to run on 10-50k of savings. Take semiconductors for example.
Some software technologies are also quite expensive to develop, not everybody is doing web apps, thanks God :-)
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This is new to me; apparently it`s been going since 2002! Why didn`t it see it before? I`ll have a good read through the site. Yeah, I`ll join tomorrow.
You don't "learn", "teach", or "transition" into "self-starter" mode; its something you're born with.
The wrapped line (2nd line, if you will) is not indented. I find a word-wrapped line of code more difficult to read than a manually broken and indented line of code.
any info on if this is true? also, did Knuth mean Job's was full of it that "he read all his books" or just full of it in general? ;)
great read. My cell phone went belly up in June. I ended up spending a week without and loved the experience so much I delayed buying a new one for a another month. Once I got the new one, I was receiving less calls as others had gotten used to not reaching me. Its been great.

I hope to make it a lifetime habit soon enough...hopefully I won't have to acquire as many karma points as Stallman or Knuth to reach this level. ;)
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Yeah I applied, they have a rough prototype that they can hopefully look at.
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People can make a fetish of this but a wiki page that gets updated as you change plans at least lets the team memorialize what you had planned and what happened (memories are slippery things and writing down a plan and some expected outcomes triggers a lot more learning).

There is a nice simple format in http://venturehacks.com/articles/sequoia-advice

1. What’s our runway?
2. What experiments are we running to extend our runway? (e.g. chasing revenue, raising capital, taking debt, writing
grant proposals, cutting burn, grabbing market share in the hopes that it will help us raise capital later, et cetera)
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They didn't need to listen to all transmissions. They knew which cars they wanted to listen to. Their problem was how to bug them, because presumably cars were bought through a 3rd party and with immediate, on a spot delivery.
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Ted Dziuba is just bitter that his startup is a complete failure.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/19/pressflip-is-a-belly-fl...

Boo hoo hoo.

Also, in addition .. his startup's traffic (according to Alexa) matches the web site of .. oh right. Nobody.

Ha.

Ted is just bitter his startup failed, so he's trying to spread his joy. How generous.
PG is actually out there, and doing something meaningful. No portfolio has a success rate of 100%, but we can agree that PG's success rate is > 0%. Ted should shut the fuck up and succeed even a little, before talking smack.
Very good article. I was wondering if this is actually a good time to start some sort of business or not and I stumbled on this article by accident. It is good to be optimistic and on the positive side of what is in the news than being discouraged. I command you for your good advise.
Remember to consider the incentives of the 535 individuals who vote on funding the TSA year after year.

It doesn't matter if it provides any security. It keeps us sheeple under the illusion of safety, we keep buying plane tickets and a whole economy springs up surrounding the airport (not to mention the firms supplying the TSA with equipment). That's good for a ton of voter approval. Even better, if you don't vote for the TSA your opponent can call you out: 'Senator so-and-so wants our innocent children to die in a fire at the hands of scary men with beards!'

Yes. I'm jaded. I know.
Or, at the very least it's CYA. It's working very well for someone.
I applied last week with a proof of concept ready and a prototype on the horizon (it would be done before the meeting if we got selected to come). Problem is A, it's not all online and the parts that are online aren't quite ready to be seen just yet (plus they don't really make sense unless you see the whole picture.)
> Proof - if it didn't make majority happy it would be scrapped.

That's not a proof at all. Representative democracy doesn't mean the majority gets its way on every issue - otherwise, it's a fairly good bet that CEO pay would be capped, the Wall Street bailout would never have happened, and we wouldn't still be in Iraq. Rather, it means that when the government screws up on enough issues and pisses enough people off, we get to throw them out of office.

Granted, my experience isn't a proof either, for the reasons you point out. (Although - talking to random strangers in line for the checkpoint is about as close to a relevant random sample as you can get.) But then, I didn't claim it was.
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well, http://www.literateprogramming.com/byte1996.html has an interview with Knuth saying that Jobs had talked to him so it's potentially possible:

Knuth: Steve Jobs once told me in 1980 that he had a vision where every day we'd get a CD-ROM with a thousand brand new programs on it, and that although each program would cost just $5, the number of potential users for each program would be high enough that software developers would get a good return on their work.
this one also wants you to do market research etc
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50-60..that is alot, so how many from that group actually get picked?
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I don't necessarily think PG is all about making money. In fact in a recent London talk (http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/142733/Audio/Lectures/future_of_w...), he talks more about hackers' freedom. Hackers are animals shackled in corporate zoos, and they need to be freed to express/invent! He also goes on to say, you can even pay them less, as long you provide them the freedom to release their energy!
PG's mantra is a super powerful one: Make something people want, which also translates to 'Create something, make money while making something you love and your customers love'! That's empowering...
I've been saying this for years. I routinely just stick my toiletries in my pockets to avoid having to do that stupid little baggie. I used to fly a pretty decent amount (50k miles per year) and never once had a problem that way.

Also, I messed around with cheap homemade plastic explosives in high school enough to know that the amount you could legitimately stick in plastic tubes and then cram into a ziploc bag is more than enough to cause some serious damage.

Luckily we're all safe because very few people actually want to kill a plane full of strangers, and even fewer want to kill themselves too.
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What you call "the high road" is actually the low road, because it involves telling other people how to live. It's an enormous privilege to live in a time and a place where you can get ahead without imposing on other people. If I found myself shunning this privilege, I'd question my own motives.

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Dupe of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336153

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> you can't even manage to provide reasonable capacity in Afghanistan.

Am I misunderstanding you or are you really arguing that one should expect the EU to clean up after the US?

Apart from that the EU is actually doing things in Afghanistan as far as I know -- but more like the friendly-negotiative style, not the world's cop style.
A single USN carrier group probably has more capability than the current Royal and French navies combined. The EU nations spend in total about half of what the US does on defence, but have about a tenth of the capability to show for it. That's what I mean about bickering and incompetence.

The British govt is finally realizing that, hence the RN will in a few years have 2 near-US-equivalent carrier groups (the US has 14 IIRC). The rest is a joke. The EU "rapid reaction corps" would take 2-3 months to deploy anywhere...
I imagine Woz would have gotten a very different response!
Heh! Doesn't FAQ say to be nice? Oops, that's stackoverflow.

OP, try the FAQ:

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230778
Probably should start with the introduction:

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/talks/mathml/math...

(Just to hopefully be helpful. It took me a minute myself to notice the "previous" link at the bottom. Thanks for the article.)
Technical writing is boring. But having an artsy trendy programming guide as part of a set of introductory materials is a way to "take a break" mentally without having to go off-topic.

(At least, that's why they appeal to me...)
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"You're full of shit."

Which great innovator isn't?

Seriously, think about what goes into it. You have to believe that you are capable of changing the reigning viewpoint, that almost everybody else in the field is wrong. Without an epic ego, great innovators would never get started.
Guess Knuth bluntly meant that Jobs was lying. Hardly any one could have managed to digest "all" his books.
To a hacker's mind, solving the money problem is less about money in and of itself and more about making efficient use of our time. Wasting time is the worst of sins.
They might say the same about us after our warrantless wiretapping episode. That outcry was one big waste.

Public transportation in my city now has cameras installed. Maybe the british are just a decade ahead.
I'm thinking blinking text and a few marquis tags thrown in for good measure. Now I have a headache.
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Maybe Knuth was more of a rebel back in the day, but somehow I can't imagine him having that sort of response.

In Randall Munroe's Authors@Google talk [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24], Don Knuth asks him a question at ~21:30 and at ~25:30 Randall asks Knuth about this very anecdote. Knuth's response is "I've been told this story a number of times...but I was impressed by him more than he was impressed by me."
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Of course this is very interesting, but I guess it is too early to talk about web 3 (actually this enumeration is strange thing as well). Somehow this lacks wow moment to be considered as web 3 (or whatever number you want).
Hi PG

With quite a number of months past, are you still following this routine - have you made adjustments/improvements? I'm very interested to know since I have this problem as well -in my case it's with Wikipedia.

I can spend whole days reading on the site about computers, science & politics, and although I learn alot and it does benefit in whatever work I do, it's definitely not financially viable in the long run.
> the worst economy in 50 years

Surely it was worse in the mid 70s to the early 80s, and again in the early 90s?

- Unemployment
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True, but working in teams is hard. The larger the team must be, the harder it is to recruit, train, organize, supply, maintain confidentiality, keep out spies, and avoid detection (hence the cell structure). Forcing terrorists to work in teams significantly increases the cost of conducting an attack, so it's an excellent security strategy.
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In general, Microsoft has too many PMs. While many PMs do incredibly valuable work, many are simply an added layer of indirection and approval to hinder progress. My understanding is that there was a time at Microsoft where the "dual ladders" broke down and people had to switch from Dev to PM or individual contributor to people manager in order to make more money. It appears that Stephen Sinofski has reversed that trend in the Windows organization and is shifting power and decision making back to the developers while rewarding them without regard for their number of reports. Windows is a big product built by a big team. These things take time, so this triad concept seems like a pretty good stepping stone.
BTW, I'm going to try your suggestion of having another PC - or maybe it's an excuse to buy a new PC :-)... just wanting to know whether you changed anything since writing the article.
PG's killer point is that Apple and MS were founded in the awful economy of the mid 70s.
All the more pathetic in light of this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66842
Well, considering we have a data set that consists of zero events/yr for decades except for 1 in 2001 and 1 in 2003? (shoe bomber, don't remember the year), I'd say we are firmly in the region of small number statistics and I'm very doubtful any meaningful inference can be made about what the rate itself if, let alone whether it's changed after 2001...
Although I have never met Heijlsberg myself, I have a good friend on the C# team and have met many people who work on programming languages at Microsoft. My understanding is that Heijlsberg and team are very much in line with the MS culture. Well, the DevDiv culture at least.

The fundamental thing to understand here is that Microsoft is a very large company which has has evolved into many subcultures over time. DevDiv, or the Developer Division, is by far the most progressive of these. It's the old "Raymond Chen vs MSDN Magazine" thing (Google it). C#, however, is just so great because of people like Heijlsberg, Erik Meijer, Mads Torgersen, Eric Lippert, and many many others who are brilliant, bring outside ideas, but still operate within the very successful mindset of DevDiv which birthed Visual Basic and Visual Studio.

Side note: I've noticed that I've become a little bit of a Microsoft apologist on HN lately. Receiving a paycheck from them has a little bit to do with it, but the truth of the matter is that I am trying to understand why they are so successful and where they fail. If you keep your eyes open and ears tuned, you can learn a lot about software and business at Microsoft. I'm also trying to share this knowledge a bit, because HN is a place where the knowledge is appreciated. Slashdot? Not so much.
The entire write up is just ridiculous. His main point is that VC is going to be too hard to come by and PG is too optimistic.

He is probably just confused because his startup failed before the downturn, and thus things must be impossible after the fact. It is such a shame that well-founded optimism backed by helpful actions on the part of PG is attacked, however poorly.
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I really think it picks up near the middle though, so that's the part I want to point to. Thanks for taking the time to point this out, though.
Or is it because it would be stupid of them to target airoplains again. As the article mentioned, they are watching against what happened last weeks.
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I was really surprised that out of 40-45 attendees, only about 3-4 were thinking about applying for YC funding. Everybody else was bootstrapping. Some of the guys have really cool web apps that they've built in their spare time like http://www.dabbleboard.com .

I wonder if people's attitudes towards getting funded is changing, or if it's just the demographic of the group that we're attracting. Most of the group is fairly ambivalent towards getting funding.
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