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The point was that you can't follow a BMW product strategy and expect Toyota market share. You can go for either, just not both.
This will be in requests very soon. :)
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GPG. It's easy to use and can even easily plug right into Thunderbird and Thunderbird Portable (USB).
Apple seems to have proved your point, but they seem exceptional in that respect. Typical reasons are that the broader you make the audience, the more you have to dial down exceptional features for cost, scale and broad appeal.
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It’s from memory. Details might be incorrect.
Toyota is an awesome company. Simply amazing, by any standards. If you visit Nagoya, you will meet a few million Toyota fanatics – and they have something epic to pride themselves on. Honda, likewise, is a powerhouse of innovation, and the only Japanese manufacturer with essentially a singular brand, excluding the Acura name used in certain countries. Both are phenomenal lessons in how to dominate a key market. Both were brilliant at motivating employees – galvanizing a willing workforce by turning convention on its head.

The OP's point about Steve Jobs is that he brought his team in for a huddle, and gave them the play, and some of them are still running it, even after leaving Apple, and after Steve left us.
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It might only be a landing page- but I still find it important to generate as leads as possible. We're the type of app that requires a decent number of registrants in order to be fully utilized.

Launchingwise, we're already working hard on that. This landing page will also convert to become the product page after the app launches so feedback would still be appreciated.
No - an oral exam in this context is more like a programming interview. You get a board and chalk, and you solve the problem on the board in front of the teacher, explaining what you're doing along the way. This is opposed to a "normal" exam where you have your pen and paper and a pre-set amount of time to struggle with the problem on your own.
Anyone who writes ambiguous code, such as not initializing variables and then incrementing them, deserves to have nobody else understand it. Such a person should work alone.
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You might want to do yourself a favor and move your browser width out a bit more.

940 is a commonly used width content for many grid based frameworks. That 940 doesn't include an internal margin, instead it is handle by an external 10px margin taking the whole width upto 960px.

Check out 960.gs for their framework, but they aren't alone in those figures, because of the way it subdivides.
Can someone please explain to me what the hell is the problem people have with Jews? The only thing I can tell is maybe they're disproportionately financially successful? I guess that's a problem...
I'm curious what you thought a JavaScript replacement would look like. Apparently you thought it /wouldn't/ look like GWT.
The situation is a little more complex than that, and I wasn't making any claims about Tibet itself. But since you brought it up:

Tibet is a fairly complex issue, with the crux of it being that the british (!?) agreed to 'release' tibet from being a 'satellite' of china (without involvement from china).

The Chinese viewed this as an interference of their sovereignty (I don't think many nations would view it differently had it happen to them).

The Dalai Lhama is someone who represents that same cause (independence of tibet), which is in direct contradiction to China's (unification).

The moral (in)equivalence comes with: Someone is viewed as an 'enemy of the state' and friends/allies are indulging visits from them. China is not threatening military action, it is simply saying it doesn't like this occurring.
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They could also give huge boolean formulas, and ask the applicant to decide if it is satisfiable[1] or not. Simple yes or no answer, which is quite a hard (NP-hard) to come by.

But then again, it would probably fool nobody.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem
Here’s a “Russian” problem: find the largest projection on the plane of a box with sides a, b, c.
sounds like a similar (although at least a little bit more achievable) to the "White Australia Policy" that was once one in place, where a language exam was given to 'undesirables' in a language that it was clear the person wishing to emigrate to Australia could not speak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
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Ah, that makes a lot more sense now.
Submitted mine last minute because I went to the ycombinator website tonight 2 hours prior to the deadline to see when the deadline actually was. I've been busy talking to my customers and creating the product. Glad I had an urge to go on today.
Square does an amazing job at solving both a hardware and a software problem in just 2 and half years. Pretty impressive.
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This is especially true when thinking about those reading from a smartphone... Adds a hint of irony to the piece.
... also available as the link titled 'PDF' under 'Download' on the right hand side of the page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism
It doesn't matter, because in the professional world people don't use tricks in their code; rather, they keep it simple and understandable for the next person to come along. For example where I work it's common in code reviews to see comments like "that's confusing, put more parenthesis there", etc.
Nor to drive or walk the roads, use money, use a computer, etc.

The constitution doesn't grant rights, it defines the limits of the government we approve to govern us.
He usually cites his sources. Look for the professor in the tweed jacket, with horn-rimmed glasses, and the gaze which pierces through both his students' excuses for late homework and statistical irregularities. Or the 6-3 guy who looks like a line-backer, but now teaches psychology, and still plays ball on the weekends.

In this case, Jerome Karabel writes in “The Chosen” how the Ivy League started to look for "manliness" to avoid too many geeks and Jews. Alan Krueger and Stacy Dale did the economic study on the selection effect vs. value added. James L. Shulman and William Bowen wrote "The Game of Life", on athletes getting an easy ride.
This was the last straw for me as a Twitter user - I noticed that I'd stopped clicking on links since I had no idea where they went, knew that they'd often get mangled & require manual adjustment, and didn't want to give Twitter more advertising data. I've stopped posting anything with a link there because it's subliminally annoying seeing my posts get mangled when the original url was informative and there are all the same privacy issues. Twitter has managed to raise the annoyance and friction of using it for anything to do with urls enough to kill that off for me and I can't help but wonder how many other people. I know the link text is displayed on the site, but New Twitter is just as annoying as it ever has. Congratulations Twitter - you've started killing off the open clients, you've tried to snoop on every link clicked by a Twitter user, and you've quite thoroughly demonstrated that you've got the determination to keep making things worse. Bye!
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I know that John Taylor Gatto linked it to from his website at one point, it's possible that you might be able to dig it up through archive.org or somesuch.
Yep, that is why my family moved to the US from Russia. My mom wanted to be a doctor, but wasn't accepted to medical school even though she got straight As and was completely qualified. They just said they can't accept her because she's Jewish, and there is nothing she could do about it. I'm really glad I got to grow up here in America.
Why not? Of course you can't have the CTO drop everything when there's an unexpected bug, but I do think there is value in coding, even for "upper" management. Even looking in on the code from time to time can give you a snapshot of where the product is at and in which direction it is evolving. If that direction is different from what you expected, you can ask the programmers why they chose to use the approach they did.

I think the most important thing is that the CTO does not place his or her code above the code of the individual maintenance programmer. The worst thing he or she can do is somehow mark his or her code as "untouchable". Untouchable code is bad code, regardless of how well it works or how well it's written. It doesn't adapt to changing requirements like the rest of the application, and the rest of the application has to go out of its way to accommodate it.

However, as long as he or she makes it perfectly clear that his or her code is just as subject to change and modification as everyone else's, I don't see why the CEO/CTO can't get their hands dirty now and again.
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How do you know if your ycombinator application was submitted successfully? Would I hear from ycombinator even if I get rejected?
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On a whim, I tossed this at Google's Doc Viewer, to see whether that is the title -- and whether the Doc Viewer can now handle Postscript. Lo, it did, presenting me with a document titled problem.dvi . (Maybe Doc Viewer's done this for a while, but I remained ignorant.)
I agree that the problems have gotten much simpler - several of these remind me a lot of the difficulty I saw on the AIME back in 10th-12th grade. I mean, that's still pretty advanced relatively speaking, but certainly doable by tens of thousands of high school aged students each year.

And then there's two levels of competition past that I never made it to... just 1... damn... question... short...
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It's actualy the latter, followed by the former -- on paper.
It tells you on /apply after you click on the submit button.

Yes, we reply to everyone who applies by the deadline.
This problem can be done without any derivatives, actually. First observe that since (x-y)^2=(y-x)^2, we have |F(x)-F(y)|<=(x-y)^2. Given x and y with y>x, divide up the interval between them into x_0=x, x_1, x_2, ..., x_n=y evenly spaced. Then applying the observation above and the triangle inequality, since F(y)-F(x) is the sum of the F(x_(i+1))-F(x_i), we have |F(y)-F(x)|<=n*((x-y)/n)^2=(x-y)^2/n. Since n can be arbitrarily large, |F(y)-F(x)| is smaller than any positive number and hence 0, so F(y)=F(x).

Note that 2 here can be replaced with any number greater than 1; this is actually a well-known fact, that any Hölder-continuous function on the reals with exponent greater than 1 is constant. But I suppose it would not be well-known to high-school students! To be honest, I mostly only know it because of the old legend about the student who... well, here's a link: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/53122/mathematical-urban-l...
> TARP was a part of the bank bailout

Lots of things were bundled together. I'm pointing out what cost money and what didn't.

> That said, to claim that they were "too big to fail", bail them out, and then not address that "too big" issue is bullshit. Either they're too big and need to be broken up, or they weren't, and should've been allowed to fail.

I agree, but point out that there's no good reason to limit that argument to financial institutions.

For example, it applies to govt institutions (fannie and freddie come to mind) and even govts (the US govt being a prime example).
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I’m sorry but I can’t see how what he did was bad mouthing. He was honest.
For the interested, this is almost certainly based on this research: http://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/research/deblur.html
Any chance of supporting Word? If done right, that would be a killer app in academia.
I've also always wondered why a specific group has been so apparently consistently persecuted against for so long. It seems like it's been too long of a time period for the hate to simply have been passed on from generation to generation.
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You know, I thought the same thing. Steve doesn't drive a BMW. But I'm almost 100% sure his example in the talk was BMW. I can only guess that it was because BMW market share (which was sub-2%) fit the example, since that was Apple's market share at the time.
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When you say "physically destroy" do not use any form or anything that could be spun as a incinderary, explosive, or projectile device. The laws on those type of things will put you in prison for a long time.
- It's too low level for quick stuff
- It handles HTTP basic auth wrong
- It throws an exception, AN EXCEPTION, for any response that isn't 2xx
- Async is an ugly mess
- In love with streams
- Horribly inconsistent across framework profiles
- ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue
- Inconsistent header handling and restrictions
- Terrible cookie API
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Google has publicly said that if they just reduce the load speed of the Google.com home page by TENTHS of a second, usage noticeably improves.

Anyone have a link for this claim? I'd be really interested in reading more about what GOOG found... I probably missed a flurry of remarkable discussion around this that I'd love to catch up on.
He was actually into Porsches. He wanted the original mac to look like one:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
What does it do/the use-case? Does boom have a specific relevance right now that i'm not aware of.
Perhaps you can enlighen me. Let me oil the conversation. From wikipedia.
Monetary policy is the process by which the monetary authority of a country controls the supply of money, often targeting a rate of interest for the purpose of promoting economic growth and stability.
In economics, fiscal policy is the use of government expenditure and revenue collection (taxation) to influence the economy.

So we lower interest rates and print money. Then we tell banks to loan and we use revenue (or printed money) to invest in "infrastructure" or to just drop money from helicopters. So what happens when debt gets so high from spending that you'll never repay it in several generations? What happens when all this doesn't work? What happens when the savers get wiped out? Did they write that part in the economics textbooks?

I guess we just reset? And start all over at 1913? I'm seriously asking. What? I wonder if the #OWS gang understands that by reseting they wipe out their parents and their grandparents... are they ready for that?

I'm far from right wing, I believe tax is essential to prosperity, I also believe in infrastructure spending, and social security to a point. I do however believe that government (both right and left) is eternally corupt. I also believe the taxes will never be high enough to give everyone everything they want. It's like talking to my 16 year old niece. She wants to live at home, play on her IPad, party till 2 in the morning, drink herself stupid, and has no idea where her dad is coming from when he says it will end one day if she doesn't wise up. It will end well, or very very poorly. She just riots in the street and talks about all the things that are owed to her for existing.

I guess this is just frustrating because this really was simple. We should have forced people (banks) to bare the burden of their decisions (loans!). We force investment banks and investors to do the same. The market really does regulate itself...but when politicians tinker...bad things happen. Nationalizing the banks? Why the hell would any right minded fed chairman do that? Like I say, great in theory, horrible in practice. Krugman is pure theory.

The bottom line is that Kenyesanism has been a disaster due to it's constant corruption from political parties and the revoloving doors. Krugman always provides the answer, straight from the textbook. In the end, we all end up like Greece. And I'm sure Krugman will be along saying, well the text book says....
I've been wandering around the internet for a few months now, unexpectedly surprised that there's no hate for YC. Inevitably, the very same internet proves me wrong.

Edit: A few months of being pleasantly surprised - not a few months of being on the internet. Gosh.
More so than almost any other culture, Jews have been consistently able to maintain their own cultural identity even when they are in the demographic minority or displaced abroad. A lot of this is due to their willingness to close themselves off from the surrounding population and maintain their own, separate, religious and social structures.

So, from the outside, the local population sees a group of foreigners brought into the country. This group refuses to assimilate, actively shuts strangers out of their group, and maintains a certain aura of secrecy.

This means that the perception of the Jews as "outsiders" never goes away, even several generations after their arrival. Throw the semi-legendary Jewish financial success into the mix, and you fuel suspicion that "those people are up to something."
USB is also an intel technology. Of course they would say it's not in competition as if either takes off they can consider it a success.
How would one go about safely destroying multiple hard-disks anyway.
Closest thing I can think of is a small compactor with the disks inside of it.
Similar story: My dad was his high school's valedictorian in Kiev, but couldn't get a spot at a regular university. He ended up getting a degree in 'applied physics' from a night school after his military service. I think he's always regretted not becoming a researcher. My grandfather also did really well in high school, tried to become an archaeologist but it wasn't a common profession in the USSR and university positions were mainly reserved for well connected non-Jews.
Totally agree, they're failing fast and are adapting.
Quit changing the topic. You asked "How is this a success for Google+?"

What's the bar now? Suddenly being #1?

Anyways, whatever. I'm not on G+ because I'm not a fan of their real-name policy and I certainly don't care if they win or lose. I was just pointing out that you were playing the same game the newspaper was - asking a crazy question given the nearly five-times increase in traffic over a single month.
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FYI it's "Appelbaum".
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FWIW I think some people are just trying to troll. It seems like some of the comments have been downvoted into the negatives. (Maybe by HN'ers?)
The "locals" still get grumpy even when Jews can't own land or amass much wealth. The pogroms and massacres in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, etc... were generally against very poor communities. On the other hand, Jewish communities were much more financially successful and culturally prominent across the Arab world and seem to have drawn a lot less antipathy.
Steve actually drove a Mercedes SL55 AMG: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/10/steve-jobs-...
While it is obvious that a satisfiable instance will have a simple yes-certificate, it is not known if for any unsatisfiable instance there is a short no-certificate (i.e. SAT is in NP, but believed not to be in coNP). The Jewish problems had to have simple solutions, while it could be hard to find a small proof of unsatisfiability of some large formula.
Steve owned at least 1 BMW in the last 10 years that I know of specifically.
I can't be the only one disappointed that this didn't literally solve all possible puzzles, but rather is a universal solver.
i love how pg responds to you 3 minutes after you submit this. propz.
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As much as the Soviet Union tried to keep down Jews, they were also trying to promote people who fit a nationalist narrative. So it wasn't just antisemitism, it was also affirmative action for Russians (especially those of peasant descent).
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For the politician who wants another term, whether she votes on it or the public does makes little difference when the opposition can claim, "She caused your house prices to go down 20%".
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WinAPI makes this especially easy too, since you can bypass the allocator and just grab pages; I believe that's how Detours does it, and I know it's how our code (which is public, somewhere) does it.
LINQ solves a real business need -- how to access sets of data, regardless of the source, in a uniform teachable way. If you can teach people how to query data structures using a one syntax that is integrated into the language, then you don't have to teach them a different API for every different data source. By encouraging the few API designers to target a standard, the many API consumers can build more reliable code faster.

If you approach it as what it is, yes, a language-integrated query syntax, and avoid the fluent-chaining style most of the time, then you'll see an information-dense productivity booster instead of a "total mess".

The LINQ syntax fits on 1 sheet of paper:

http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/linqsyntax.aspx

Personally, I look at the two-tier language and library support as a case of "the easy things should be simple, and the hard things possible." That's just my own take, but I find that it guides thought process a little better. I look for a syntax solution first, then rewrite it using a chaining style if I need to (e.g. SelectMany), or possibly split into multiple queries. I don't think I've ever written one longer than 10 lines, properly formatted.

Now, as far as python and other languages are concerned, LINQ is less "python in C#" and more "PEP 202 in C#".
Very interesting.

Muslim and Hindu communities in the West are also trying to be insular and maintain their own cultural identities, but I guess they're not so effective because they don't have the financial success backing them up that the Jews have. It's a lot harder to deride someone when you know they're making way more money than you, I suppose.

those people are up to something

I don't mean this in any negative way, but they ARE up to something. This something is maintaining their levels of privilege. Is this wrong? I don't know. Probably not, I guess.

I come from an upper caste family in India and it's easy for me to see that this is game that we in India have been playing since independence. There's a lot of cultural and economic know-how that helps people succeed in life, and upper caste families have an abundance of this.

On the one hand, these folks succeed only because they ace the admission tests, have extraordinary academic records and are excellent communicators. On the other hand, the reason they have these qualities is because they were born with privilege. Is this wrong? Unfair? I really don't know. I can't help thinking it's the same situation as the Jews, though.
You are trying to promote your own content in the comment section of a website that PG created - I'd say that's worse than "kissing PG's butt for money and introductions."
Probably has a lot to do with things like AIPAC (the largest lobby in the US) and Zionism. I'm guessing this is just the tip of the iceberg though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_lobby_in_the_United_Stat...
They have previously allowed late submissions.

See http://ycombinator.posterous.com/y-combinator-will-now-accep...
tor developer didnt use tor ? odd.
Yup. I often do something like this:

- write a test for a method that isn't there yet
- run it, get a red bar, as expected
- run it in debug mode, and get a debugger
- write the method implementation in the debugger
- possibly write other methods that the new method calls, also in the debugger
- resume the program, get a green bar

Writing code in the debugger is great, because you've got all the runtime state right in front of you, and you can step through the code you're working on. I'd love, love, love to see this in Dart.