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The Request for Startups is now over two years old. The times were a bit different in the startup world then, and since then there was a large number of startups going through YC, probably some of them addressed the topics presented there. Do you think it might be necessary to update it?
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My issue is that no matter the source, there are always conflicts of interest. And frankly, whether or not a blogger is an investor in a company is at least a lot more obvious than the typical Valley BS politicking where you're afraid to piss off the wrong person.
Getting rejected twice (going for three) gave me the motivation to thoroughy prove them completely wrong.
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Where are you living to be expecting to die at 68? The median global life expectancy is 73.5 years. I think you need to rethink how long you may live for so you can have a happy retirement.
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The simple fact is that most startup founders not only create the products that define their success, but drive that success almost entirely on their own, with modest help from their investors. As much as everyone likes to hate on record labels, the good ones do almost everything involved in the business of making your music successful. The artist is the product, but very rarely does the artist drive the business. Most are terrible business people. The amount of money a record label puts into a deal might look like a small VC deal. But the amount of work they put in is something else entirely. That is why they take a larger share, and as long as they're fair and do a good job, they deserve a significant amount of the returns.

Their behavior for the past 20 years can be cited as a reason not to want to contribute to them as businesses, but the reality is that, while most artists who have a label make very little, most who don't never make it at all.
Many languages offer threads, which either the operating system or the runtime will preëmpt to ensure they all make progress in some vaguely fair way no matter how they behave. I haven't been required to write "I have more work to do, but this would be a good place to interrupt me" for fifteen years (when Win95 displaced Win3).
Meh, it's just standard JavaScript (not even CoffeeScript!) to build Yet Another Blogging Platform. A well-loved (467 watches, 49 forks) node.js blogging platform already exists, authored by @creationix who is actually _employed_ to build nodey things for WebOS: https://github.com/creationix/wheat So I would recommend reading the code of that project first, rather than me-too code from someone who thinks that deploying via DropBox is cool.
Digg was always good at getting press.
Here's a counter point (sort of). At some point I began to suffer from eye strain - they were really hurting. I went to an optometrist and got a checkup, explained the symptoms. Since I was staring at a computer all day (and all evening - this was during my special time with WOW) she prescribed computer glasses.

Turns out, I didn't need them (and still don't). What happened was that the refresh rate on my CRT monitor was reset to 60Hz (probably due to a driver update). Once I returned it to the highest setting, my eye strain/pain went away. Of course, with LCDs it's not really a problem anymore, but keep this in mind if you're still on a CRT.
At some point the fair time given to all the various workers stuck in an infinite loop will starve legitimate low-work tasks

CPU is finite. RAM is finite. The kernel has limits on things like sockets.

(Erlang is super-neat, and Go goes a long way in the same direction. But I rather imagine the original poster meant that people should use CGI)
I hate following links to blog posts about some software that don't quickly summarise what it does. I do some iOS dev, but I haven't heard of parse - if it's awesome you could have interested me, but instead I just read an insiders-only blog post and shrugged. Shame!
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Android has been very revolutionary as a platform for operating systems for mobile phone apps. Android, a product of Google, has marked itself as one of the most remarkable inventions in the century.
I'm not describing the world that I want. I'm describing what I think is what is happening.

At the same time, I don't think you can say that we'll only get Rebecca Black in the future, you can't know that. Mozart had a lot of factors playing into his level of success (timing, the right parents, innate skill, etc). At the same time, Mozart lived before albums or musical copyright, and worked under the patronage system. It's possible we'll see a return of that as well, if the current model completely breaks down.
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Hadn't occurred to me that split accounts are weird, but I suppose it does go against how most people arrange things. Works for us.
And people will keep finding ways of financing their love (playing music). In fact, I don't know many of my favorite musicians today who make a living from their music. They all work day jobs.

I think this new cultural line of thought of "in this day and age with the tools we have why would you need a full day job support for ..." (replace ... with making music, running a blog, developing games, etc) is pure arrogant bullshit. Yes, you can have hobbies, and side projects, and some might excel at doing them for a while. But doing your craft as an actual full time job is the only way to reach, and maintain, your full potential.
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Better headline: "Google obeys court order"

This is nonsense. I'm all for civil disobedience, but the author is demanding that others defy courts on his behalf. The sense of entitlement is at least impressive.

Certainly, if anyone is to defend Mr. Sfarzo's speech in an Italian court it should be Mr. Sfarzo himself. If anyone wants to host his writing and take on potential liability, let them do so willingly (as, indeed, they have since the linked article was posted).
Occasionally it is. I remember there have been instances where the sedative in the cocktail didn't work, but the paralyzing and killing agent did. Wasn't obvious from the outside, but it must have been a pretty awful death...
"git's content addressing" existed earlier than git: hg and monotone do it.

And long before those, plan9's venti.
Yep, we were actually denied an apartment once because I am not Japanese.
Ted-gate was advocating a return to CGI instead...
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I've read that the possibility to patent genes led to the explosion of the field some years back. Are there such positive examples discussed in the book?
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It's important to note Notch not only offered dropping the trademarking of "Scrolls", he also offered adding a subtitle or new words to the game title to not make it just "Scrolls" (on top of the non-trademarking stuff).

Bethesda/Zenimax essentially sues to prevent Mojang from using the word "Scrolls" at all, in a game which is all about, well, scrolls.
I think you may still be giving them too much credit.
Interestingly, the first time I saw Riak I was interested in its potential for becoming a stream processing engine. Now, they are following this path. This is a very timely move as there's an increasing interest in this area and many emergent technologies like Yahoo's S4 and Twitter's Storm.
Right. If Ted-gate was advocating using go or erlang I'd be so cool with everything except his choice of language.

But he wanted us to go back to CGI folks...
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In a future with draconian copyright enforcement, what I see is a whole lot less music and software. We won't even notice. It's not like we'll wake up and suddenly apps will be gone. We probably won't even be able to measure a decrease year-over-year in app production. What we'll never notice is that twice as many apps or ten times as many apps would have been created, or would have had much better quality, if we had a more reasonable legal framework and creators weren't terrified of being sued because their creation was "too similar" to something else or transformed or remixed previous work or used/re-implemented an API without permission or ...
> The transition into geometry is particularly difficult for some. In the United States, the typical high school curriculum suspends algebra after one year to teach geometry, then resume algebra again, calling it algebra 2. Thus geometry starts and ends abruptly. In my opinion, this is not the best arrangement, but that’s what the higher educational power of the United States decided, and I only work here.

I took algebra 1 in 7th grade and geometry in 8th grade, I don't really remember anything from either class, not even the teachers really. Though admittedly I don't remember much from my other classes at the time either, the two most influential I think were a typing class that forced me (by punishing non-two-handers) to go from 30-40wpm with 'finger pecking' to 80-100wpm using both hands, and a nicely rigorous 8th grade English class.

Regarding the problem of arithmetic inability, I don't think it's that much a problem. The real problem is teachers thinking students should be just as proficient in the same areas as they were, learning the same things as they did, and that's where public math education fails the most. "I agree that the problem lies with the other people more than with the students. The most profound engine of civilization is the inability of a larger and larger fraction of the population to do the basic things needed to survive. Many people fail to realize this." http://www.theodoregray.com/BrainRot/

I'm also disgusted with the way probability is presented, both here and in most classes.

I thought his last point about abstraction was made weakly, especially when he writes things like this: "Calculators become useless at this stage." Clearly someone's never used a TI-89. (But you don't even need that amount of power most of the time.)

Then stuff like: "This is the point at which studying by memorization fails." When in fact most calculus classes go about memorizing a bunch of derivative and antiderivative identities, formulas for Taylor polynomials, etc. There is very little abstraction in high school/freshman Calculus, and from my own experience and the experience of several teachers I've had people are usually only weak in Calculus if they're already weak in Algebra. (Which feeds nicely into his point about Foundations.)

The point that he hints at with the issue of infinities is better expressed with the issue of implication, both logical and probabilistic. Even if you can't actually add up all those fractions, following the math rules deductively leads to the implication that they do without having to go out and check. I think this problem can more easily be solved in the sciences, but that's another can of worms.
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If I have unused capacity, I can afford simpler threaded code. If I'm overloaded, I need some other platform for the real work. It sounds interesting but unless I need to write my own software load balancer, I'm not sure what node (as implemented today) is appropriate for doing.
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They should have done some research before creating the app and changed their business model accordingly (yes I know it is supposed to be a parody).

I think the way to approach the issue is to think what does the population want, because the population elects the government which then makes the law.

Since people are copying music, obviously they want free music. But they also want music. The question is, if copying was legal, would music go away (or decline)? I think for a lot of art forms it is obviously not so. People will create art no matter what, as has been shown over the centuries. Even today, getting rich probably should not be your first motivation when forming a band.

It becomes a problem with art that is very expensive to produce, like movies and computer games. I think part of the solution will be to move those things into Kickstarter mode, that is, make people pay in advance for their creation. In the same vein of course it should be easy to pay people after the creation. Already a lot of people seem to be willing to do so.

This I think also has some precedence in history, when artists typically had some sponsor.

Also of course technology will make those things cheaper to produce too - in the future it will be possible to simply add actors to your movie with a mouse click. Computers could simulate Tom Hanks, Marylin Monroe or whomever you desire them to simulate. Already today it is probably quite cheap to create the scenery in movies.
>The problem is that something barely usable is better than something nonexistent

No necessarily. I think sometimes the existence of something, even if only barely usable, blocks the creation of something else that might be better.
I was thinking about this last night, the evolution problem - whether the only effective strategy would be to synthetically reintroduce tribal-era scarcity so we could all find our balance again, or would moving to a genuine post-scarcity world be something humankind could handle, or do we need to find some way to hack our minds to accept this new availability model in the same way that alcohol or cocaine short-circuit our reward pathways?

w.r.t. OP, should lines of code be restricted to manageable amounts by some kind of international regulatory fiat, or can they just abstract the problem away into utterly comprehensive libraries of functions, or do coders just need to man up and take it?
> It takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become good at something,

No, it takes that long to master something, it takes much less time to simply become good.
This may be a useful side-effect, but the original reason is the one given by your parent.
I am slowly waiting for Stripe to become a ubiquitous global CC processor. :) Don't let me down! (Australia here)
I'm now a BitBucket user. I'll keep using GitHub for my open source stuff, but you betcha that my private repos are going on BitBucket. I'd love to see GitHub step up and compete here, but I'm really perfectly happy to use two products for two different use cases.
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The main problem here is that in the situation described you would indeed pretty much be an idiot not to make your app free and get revenue from ads or other avenues.

Not as a capitulation to piracy, but because you'd make more money.
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i think it is time to create a different court system for silly law sues like this
We built our own, but we're a database company. You really shouldn't!
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Possibly, but it strikes me as unfortunate that someone would have to force ads on their users just to be compensated for their work developing an application.
I see. In Japan the rent is usually paid in advance anyway.
I don't see where I said that I endorsed this state of affairs. I would love it if people who make music could make a living off it with less of a struggle. I'm just pointing out the fact that they don't, today. Somehow, there's still music being made.

I just don't see a realistic turn of events where suddenly everyone is paying for CDs again. I also don't think creativity will stop because the money does.

Also, I think you are the one spouting pure arrogant bullshit when you completely dismiss amateur production. Just because you can't squeeze in hours of practice time outside your work schedule doesn't mean other people aren't doing it, right now. In fact there are tons of hugely talented musicians out there who aren't making a living off their music.

edit: Oh, I think I misread your intent with the "pure arrogant bullshit" thing, sorry for turning harsh. We don't really disagree, I completely agree that having to work a day job to support a music "career" is crap. On the other hand, I don't really see how it's ever been much different, except for a few lucky people who made it huge the golden eras of vinyl and CDs.
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Looks really nice! Hope it does well and I hope Top Gear gives it an honest review.

Did their price point stay on target?
lol getting your "college friends" to write your "startup". classy. learn to code retard
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Do you have a system that would allow you to detect and prevent patterns analogous to "justice is what the judge ate for breakfast" (more formally known as "legal realism")?

See for example:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/1...

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889
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This is quite ironic, considering that Mozart made most of his (relatively little) money by touring and composing for wealthy patrons. Somebody else made much more money out of him: sheet printers, who also ended up being the real force behind original legislation on copyright.
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An hour is a lot longer than it takes to fill a tank of gas though. It's gotta be either cheaper or more convenient for most people to consider switching.
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>In fact, I don't know many of my favorite musicians today who make a living from their music. They all work day jobs.

What a nightmare. You mean I have to do this job I hate for the rest of my life because I should want to do the thing I actually like for free? Is there really no value in it at all?
What about all the other europeans? From my experience as a researcher (on another field), europeans in general tend to use british english way more than american english...
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Changing horizontal window size breaks the page (no horizontal scroll bar appears and middle mouse scrolling to the right is open ended) in chrome. With IE no scroll bar appears and I can't scroll to the right at all.

This has nothing to do with his publishing technique of course, I just found it strange since he mentions adapting to screen size. Maybe the page should adapt to window size.
I don't think it's quite that simple. The overarching problem that big companies face is not single, hard knots, that can be solved in isolation by an outside team of experts. The real problem are with infrastructure and even culture. Big co. traditionally treat IT as a suppirtive function. Unless they start thinking IT as an integral part of the company's processes, nothing will change.
I laughed at this comment but it also such a serious comment at the same time. Money is exactly the drive behind this movement.

I would back 100% the action to remove the "digital" patents from society. I think some patents are essential when people have a genuine reason to file one but such generic patents should not be granted. It's like Amazon's 1 click buy patent, it's pathetic. You should not be able to patent an action or a method but only inventions of a physical nature.

It's like eBay being granted the patent to be an online auction and no one else can do it, it's unreasonable.

The problem is, these people will only work on a patent law suit until the water runs dry, there are plenty of rivers out there so they just move on. By the time someone has said how stupid it is and stops it, they have already made a small fortune.
I had a standing desk in my previous office and I used it sometimes, not very often, but it helped that I could vary the height even when I'm sitting.

A standing desk is ordered to my new office, I don't know when I'll get it though.
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They one thing they could to make it a lot better, is to allow a few (5-8 maybe?) private zero-collaborator repos in the free plan.

And they can always increase the number of repos in each plan. I understand this won't make them as competitive on pricing, but the better user experience they offer has to be reflected in the cost.
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There are some true things in this rant, but I'm pretty sure about one thing: "provably correct algorithms" are never going to deliver us a computer to which "you should literally be able to tell it what you want it to do and it would do its darnedest to do a good job for you."

Natural Intelligence is the product of billion years of crappy evolution, and thinking that the application of some clear, clean mathematical concepts will be able to recreate it is very naive.