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Thanks ph0rque! I'll send you an email about your request :)
As a service company, would it be feasible for you to move to the US for three months, away from your team?
It was only a matter of time before this happened. News orgs are (rightly) wading into giving their readers a bit more access to their platform. There's a sweet spot somewhere out there that stops stuff like this from happening while still giving people a way to get the word out about breaking stuff.
Yes you can apply. But.

If you want to develop software for clients at their request, then it will be hard for YC to invest in your company.

If you develop proprietary software and license it to other companies that will need support, and customization, then it should be fine.

If your service allows clients to outsource customer service operations or IT support and you show you can easily scale it, then it should be fine.
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I have never looked at commercial real estate in the Bay area, but given what I've heard about residential RE, I can't imagine that this could be anything worse than a correction. It sounds like a great time for well funded companies that are at or near the end of their corporate leases to shop around for a nice upgrade. :)
Probably because like political party affiliation and sports fandom, OS choice has become a personal identity marker.
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$ python2.6 /opt/local/lib/python2.5/test/pystone.py
Pystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 0.867314
This machine benchmarks at 57649.2 pystones/second

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This machine benchmarks at 51513.4 pystones/second

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+1 on this point: "the two attract entirely different sorts of developers, and because I think Google and Apple both REALIZE that they aren't directly competing here."

on a semi-related note I really don't like people comparing Android to the iPhone. One of them is a good looking smart phone...the other one isn't even a phone. Apple has birthed a whole and completed creature, beautiful to behold. Google meanwhile has conjured up a spirit, or a virus that can latch onto any form. Google is hoping that android sticks around and reincarnates into various physical form factors which will one day out number or out-slick whatever any one single manufacturer can come up with. (Like the Nokia Morph!?) If successful it can be eventually be embedded to whatever device replaces the cell phone one day.

Not that many people on the planet knows what Symbian is either, but that's okay with Nokia Ericsson et al.
I had an idea yesterday about the minimum distance needed. Now, I have yet to work the math on this one but, rather than a 32,000 mile long elevator why not try sticking something from the equator to just above LEO, and using a series of orbiting satellites (or a cable around the earth) to keep it up (you would need to deflect them). Granted you still need to add orbital velocity but if you can get a useful amount of mass stable at that altitude you could build a pair of them to safely get something into orbit using a long rail gun between two of them.

I don't think it's stable but if you wanted to move a huge amount of mass out of the gravity well it might work.
Meh. I don't have hard data, but I would think that the one and only source of money in physics, the USG, might choose to spend it in more "useful" fields. That means, less opportunities for grad school.

That is, unless you're willing to go abroad. I'd recommend it.
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Yes, this would be possible. But , see its extremely important to move to USA and learn about ecosystem.
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We have a mixed model : We have developed few reuseable components for quick IPhone development. However, people using those would be developers. I dont have the numbers though. You might consider reviwing our startup at (www.geniteam.com).
You know, what I really want is a Sony Kindle
This is right analysis. However, ROI might be lesser but risk of failture would be lesser as well ? But, there is chance that we *"might" become a brand for IPhone apps development. If you can build reuseable libraries, then i beleive you can scale faster ?
Sounds fascinating, using rail guns. Neat!
"At least some Mormons are alright." What a backhanded compliment.

What do Mormons have to do with the monolithic domes?
I agree with the other comments that customers will need some sort of immediate gratification, especially if you expect them to pay.

I think the mingling concept of the site is a great idea. Are the members put into MingleWeeks manually or is it by some sort of automated algorithm? I'm assuming the latter.

I couldn't find anywhere on the site that says how long it takes to put those groups together. I think you need to set some expectations as far as that goes.

So I created an profile and answered some questions about myself. Now I'm waiting for MingleWeek to begin. I didn't pay and I only spent a few minutes so it really doesn't matter if it takes a few hours or days or weeks for MingleWeek to start. If it never starts I'm only out my small time investment.

If I paid on the other hand, I feel like I'm in limbo with no idea of when I'll see results or if anything is even happening. Sure I can continually update my first impression but I'm not likely to spend any more time until I know whether it will "pay off" or not. Does that make sense?
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Let's try to find out what I don't understand about what you just said.

You have a too-short elevator.

You have satellites.

The satellites are going too fast for their orbit, and by "deflection" they push up the anchor of the elevator as they pass underneath?

What relationship do the "pair" of space-elevators have to each other? What would the rail gun be for?

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Maybe you are thinking of an upside-down maglev train riding eastward at greater than 17,000 miles per hour, on a track that circles the earth, several hundred miles above the equator. The track is held down by guywires angling out to the sides.

By the way, have you read this?

http://www.spaceelevator.com/docs/acclarke.092079.se.1.html

The Space Elevator: 'Thought Experiment', or Key to the Universe?
Feckless bastards
Are they counting the iPhone, iPod touch or iPod etc operating systems as part of OS X?
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I thought this was interesting as Derek Sivers of CD Baby had gone back and forth between Rails and PHP in the past.

I've used Disk Makers too and they're a great company.
We all are feckless actually, as they (the gov) represent us.
I was originally put off by having to use my real name at first too (especially since it doesn't say how it's used). Turns out they use your first name and last initial although I'm not sure if this is shown to other members. I believe this is what Yahoo uses also.

I can see how this could be a turn off to some people but realistically if you're serious about online dating, your profile probably needs at least one good photo to yield any worthwhile results. And they're required for this service as well.

match.com uses usernames instead of real names but I don't need to see a person's first name to recognize her from the cube down the hall.
But no Judson Laipply? Really?
Venture investors are not looking for things with a low risk of failure. In fact, all other things being equal, we're looking for the things with the highest risk of failure-- like starting a new search engine in 1998.
You could always code a shareware video game.

Thanks to the recent resurgence of indie games, it can actually be quite profitable if you manage to make a really good one.
The question is: To rent or buy?
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what exactly do you hope to achieve with a mere $15K? Even in pakistan that can't be a lot of money
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Maxine Waters:

When we buy up this toxic paper, we're in charge. We can do the kind of loan modifications we've been urging [the industry coalition]...

Here's a clip of Maxine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN6s1KVFBNg

...she is making a threat to nationalize the oil industry, but flubs the word. The reporters basically laugh at her, and compare her to Hugo Chavez. Guess what? The imbecile wasn't that far off...

We have no real conception of how screwed we are, but we know one thing: The credit market is now fully subject to political constraints. To what degree is hard to say. But congress has already been forcing banks to give loans to unqualified people (a big part of the original problem) and so the same practice will likely continue. Except, banks know full well that every bad loan can be sold to the taxpayer at full price.

An unbelievable coup.
They must have read the Spiegel article about how the US had lost its dominant economic role.
We will know in about what, 4 weeks, whether this actually did what Paulson claimed it would do. If not, then all we did was line Goldman Sach's and others pockets...
we avoid fire and brimstone! but will pay for it forever! i want to see this "investment" as a dividend in my tax return.
I like where this is could go. Not that youtube is doing something that no one else has done (technically speaking) but only because of the clout youtube holds. I’d be more interested in seeing a live Steve Jobs keynote, or even the presidential debates live on youtube.
Yeah, I know. Sorry if it seemed like it was you I was ranting at.
Yes, you can make good money making desktop apps. I'm on a Mac, where there's a vibrant shareware community. Here are some of the apps I've bought: TextMate, SmartBackup, VMWare, Times, Delicious Library.

Times has a GREAT interface that no other RSS reader has, on the web or desktop. Delicious Library turns my iSight into a barcode scanner.

Do whatever you're passionate about - that's how you'll make a great product that stands out.
I'd say its probably pretty easy to make a living off shareware, but it's unlikely you'll get rich. Of course there are exceptions, but I would imagine your software needs to be very popular.
well with the five or so apple laptops and desktops i have in my house alone i wonder what took them so long. but really, i would like to thank microsoft for vista ;)

disclaimer, not including two iphones and various generations of ipods :)
So, the solution is to try and change your environment.
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RescueTime is awesome, one of my favorite tools. Not only because it tracks my time working, but just knowing it's own makes me less likely to waste time online - because I know at the end of the week I'm going to get an email saying "Hey Sid, we know you spent 8 hours in front of Google Readers." My first week I think I spent 1 or 2 hours in RescueTime (tagged "navel gazing") but part of it was useful, I was tagging stuff!

The news filter feature is killer. I'm going to set that up this weekend.
No. This includes desktop OS only.
It's probably a dumb idea, but I am more interested in what's wrong than what's correct. The basic idea is static force to keep something from falling but that does not mean it's takes any energy.

So, can you get a stable orbit that includes a single strong deflection in the direction of the earth? It's probably close to impossible due to targeting issues but in theory I think you can.

Now as long as what's doing the reflection is not moving there should not be a significant exchange of energy between the two objects. Just lift on what's doing the deflecting and if there is some drag you could probably add energy from the tower to the satellites even as they provide static lifting force.

Ok, well to lift something you need some extra force extracted from the orbiting satellites, but the energy to do the lifting is not taken from the orbiting satellites it's taken from the elevator / what's moving the car and you can just try an lift the ground when not lifting the car's weight. So, you could build an elevator that picks up car from the ground to above the atmosphere but the car is not going to have much orbital velocity as it's not at a Geosynchronous altitude.

PS: I really like the idea of a space elevator but 32,000 miles is a long way and would take a lot of vary strong stuff.

Edit: As to the orbital train idea think about removing the track and extending the train the full orbit.

Edit2: Now to get some orbital velocity you could magnetic car that get's lift and energy from the moving rail to get into orbit. You would want to get into orbit before reaching the station again but you could do that with less than 3G.
Trying to keep things slightly on topic for hacker news: out of curiosity, what is the believer/non-believer ratio in the software community compared to the population at large? My totally unscientific guess is that it's much lower than the US average, but I was curious what others thought.
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I think basic reason would be learning from Technoprenuers and mentors, because we dont have much success stories within Pakistan. With 15 K US $, we can support a team for 3 months.
However, more important perspective is : Can we become a brand for building IPhone Applications faster, better and cheaper ? Can we build applications and charge subscription for maintiance ( we already are charing small amount ) ? Is the segment lucerative enough to make good profits for next 2-3 years ?
> If they want to compete with photoshop they should focus
> on usability rather than features. The scripting features
> might be awefully cool for developers but for designers
> who have to sometimes make hundreds of clicks to get one
> pixel straight, usability matters the most.

Perhaps the same designers who love to complain about the increasing licensing costs of the Adobe stack should step up and start putting their money where their mouth is? If a few hundred design nerds donated even a fraction of the upgrade costs for CS4 to developers working on GIMP, they could probably get all kinds of nifty usability and functional fixes into the next release.
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This is an absolute classic, and in my opinion it is up there with the the special theory of relativity and newtons theory of gravity. The reason is that feynman introduces one of those rare paradigm shifts that turns everything on its head: build from the bottom and up instead of the crudeness of building from the top down. The key insight being that atoms are like legos, and that it should be possible to make identical assemblers, based on the lego principle, that are able to replicate. Once this step is accomplished almost anything is possible.

Even now, almost 50 years later, the implications of what he started are only beginning to be felt - very few people even understand the implications of what he was proposing. He was so much ahead of his time it's unbelievable.
What's the main difference between this bill and the one that was rejected last week? Is it just the pork offerings including a tax credit for racetrack owners and makers of wooden toy arrows?
I was using FogCreek/37 as an example in not taking money, start small, consult, grow organically type of example. Hard to raise money in this environment, and hence I used YC.

Those are the real success stories, not people who make their money by giving talks on how to make money.

I think there is a little more to both those companies :-), in any case if there is value in what they are saying that is akin to building something users want.
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Yeah, the iPhone/ipod touch stats are at the bottom of the article.
I was more thinking along the lines of Physics Superpowers to make money in completely unrelated fields.
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can you get a stable orbit that includes a single strong deflection in the direction of the earth?

You are referring to an eliptical orbit, right? The satellite in this elliptical orbit bounces against a space-elevator anchor at apogee, right?

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you could probably add energy from the tower

What tower? You never mentioned a tower.

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the car is not going to have much orbital velocity as it's not at a Geosynchronous altitude.

Indeed. So, what is the point of this too-short space-elevator?
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Here is the roll call:
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Indeed. So, what is the point of this too-short space-elevator?

It's just the seed of an idea. But, I was wondering what the shortest useful length you could make a space elevator and getting out of the atmosphere seems to give you a lot of options.
I'd be interested in hearing your assumptions and napkin math that went into that number!
The arrow thing is popular with pork pokers, but what it is doing is correcting an accidentally applied tax.

In 2004 there was a small $0.39 excise tax levied on weapons. Unfortunately, $0.30 target arrows are considered weapons under the law so they got a 130% tax accidentally levied on them.

Any politician or journalist that grouses about arrow makers getting special handouts is either uninformed or attempting to deceive you. I recommend you ignore them as a source of future information.
You don't really know much about Warren Buffet. He is famous for paying unusually high taxes compared to his peers because he thinks it is the right thing for people in his position to do.
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Technically speaking? Have you seen justin.tv?
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i wish there were wikipedia style discuss pages for legislation. especially for things like this.
What a backhanded compliment.

I'm sorry. I wasn't intending any compliments.

.

What do Mormons have to do with the monolithic domes?

The Souths are Idaho Mormons. They talk about it all the time. There is a culture of self-reliance and disaster-preparedness in Mormonism. The South family builds low-maintenance, disaster-resistant buildings (Monolithic Domes). Do you see the connection?

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http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amonolithic.com+latter+...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amonolithic.com+mormon

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amonolithic.com+mormons
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That's my 'when I get distracted from real work' side project :)
I don't know the details of the bill, but wouldn't it have been better to reclassify the target arrows as non-weapons then? This way, the accidental tax would no longer apply.
Thanks. That's the kind of content that keeps me coming back to news.yc.
So you hate us because your politicians are idiots and you're a bunch of malcontents?

I mean, I'm not trying to name-call, just repeat what I heard.

I've always liked Bulgaria. Isn't that over next to Cuba or something in Africa? (wink)

Or for the slow of reasoning, if you're going to hate us, hate us for not remembering who you are or what your history is. Most Americans probably couldn't locate the continents on a globe, much less identify Eurasian countries.
Well actually, the bailout is what was tacked-on to a tax bill. That makes it $700 billion in pork!
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Last week it was presumed that the bill would pass. So there wasn't a big incentive for every credit-starved business and bank to spend time calling congresspeople and lobbying for it, or for something like it.

That changed over the last week, as articles like this one came out:

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2008/09/29/dai...

So there's been another week to form the consensus: The bill sucks, but the problem is real, and there's no clearly differentiated, politically viable, non-sucky alternative that will arrive in time.

The moral of this story, as with so many stories, is that the right way to deal with dire emergencies is to avoid causing them in the first place.
I agree wholeheartedly.

I would also love for something like this to be completed:

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