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Yes, I pretty much agree with this. I am sure many IT companies could technically be in trouble with the Data Protection Act in the UK alone for very similar breaches as Facebook and I am sure many companies would not even be able to provide a CD containing a nice break down of all data about a user (even though they are legally obliged to do so).

However, I find it interesting why people get paranoid about the mindless jibber-jabber on facebook compared to the immense and more presice data google stores about individuals... and I imagine getting a CD out of google would be far harder than from facebook (by the looks of things).

Google are clever by being 'open' and allowing people to download 'some' of the data they hold about peoeple, but I am sure they would be as reluctant as facebook to make everything accesible.
Yes, I have no idea why they're shooting themselves in the foot like that. You can sign up and use the product at lots of other places though (see http://podupti.me/ for options).
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I was wondering if anyone have an idea of the ratio between YC application submissions for startups which already have traction (users, paying customers or somewhat already funded) and those who haven't publicly launched yet.

How much do you think a startup who's already getting users, capital or market validation would increase its chances of getting into a YC batch?

Suppose you run YC, let U be the number of users, R the net revenue, F the total amount of funding from previous rounds, could you make it a rough equation to express the chance increment percentage you think its appropriate? If you feel its necessary, add other variables quantum sufficit.
Doesn't look like there's a way to simulate two NFC devices with android beam, which is a bit of a bummer, Android Beam support fits the intended use case of my iPhone app I'm about to port to Android (http://convoyapp.net) but as an independent developer I've already spent enough money on gadgets, can't afford to buy TWO NFC enabled ICS devices for testing purposes.

On that note, is there any service that lets you hire devices for dev/testing purposes? Would be great to get access to a lab with 20 different Android devices (for debugging obscure device specific bugs/screen size differences) along with all ipads, iphones, iPod touches and some WP7 devices.
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That's one of the things we want our governments to do: to protect us when we overlook something in the complex reality of our daily lives, without caring for why we overlooked it.

Maybe you want, I don't.

Facebook's complexity pales in comparison to the complexities of the government.
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There's a cultural connotation to the octopus: its tentacles reach everywhere. So, a likely translation for "Datenkrake" would be something like "data umbrella". We could also try "Big Data", in reference to "Big Pharma".
It doesn't implement real call/cc and continuations, which is what I want to learn. Still great stuff.
What extra cost?

Android is free to license, and the OEMs are benefactors of an incredibly wealthy company that seems to have no qualms about throwing gajillions of dollars into R&D to make a best-in-class mobile OS.

Android not being "good software" cannot be in any way spun as a win for the proletariat - because there is no opportunity cost. The cost to engineer the OS is in no way passed on to the consumer, and so far only the hardware is (with some marginal amount of software integration).

In other words, Google is pouring hundreds of millions to develop Android. The average phone consumer (in any part of the world) is not paying for its development (customers of other Google products are), so the argument that somehow these "cut corners" has resulted in a more affordable product is a complete non-sequitor.
Urh, sorry - yes. s/month/year/ Total typo, sorry.
Worth noting thats 25 minus your signup fee. So more likely $16 for your first year.
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Googling "paypal donations" doesn't immediately yield that information. My expectation would be that since Paypal advertises a donations service, they probably provide one, and that it probably ought to result in you being able to collect your donations.
The Coca-Cola marketing department has paid a visit then: the last time this story was run, it was just plain old "plastic bottles".
No, such anonymous data is not restricted by the laws Max Schrem is invoking. The scope of the European Data Protection Directive is limited to personal data, and it explicitly says "the principles of protection shall not apply to data rendered anonymous in such a way that the data subject is no longer identifiable."

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I find it odd that on the one hand, this site is about following standards and best practices, but at the same time violates some other fundamental web standards.

For instance, instead of using a well-established example domain name like example.com [1], they misuse the existing domain yourdomain.com which currently belongs to Neon Network LLC.

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Thanks for taking the time to do these tests (@panda here).
I checked your benchmarks and I can confirm that they are legit on our side.

To be fair our customers are not the same type. We mainly have people who trans-code a lot of videos (like DVD libraries) and in that case we are a lot cheaper than zencoder.

Our presets also use a much more recent version of ffmpeg since we are not stuck with command-line compatibility issues
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However awesome the result, they're not in it out of charity. They will want a return on those 24 years of investment.
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Seeing your other comment/submission, another book you might find interesting is "Start Small, Stay Small". Here's a talk I gave about it, in Italian:

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Haha well said (& well done).
Regarding deleted data: there are clearly two concepts of 'deleted' a). deleted in terms of the application/user interface (ie, it is no longer visible) and b). deleted in terms of physical removal from all permenant storage. Clicking on a button labelled "delete" does not necesarily imply one or the other.

For example, if I "delete" an email in google it is not deleted, it goes to my 'trash/bin' folder - is this also a breach of the law? and are we sure which definition the "Delete Forever" button is using?

...I suppose its up to the terms and conditions to define this.
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I'd like to know that too. Google's recent lack of openness with Android source code has been disappointing.
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Having versioning information in the headers should be as obvious as having it in the url when you are writing code that interfaces with the rest api.

Url based versioning is only more visible if you are accessing the api through a browser, in which case it's probably fine for the api to return the latest version since humans are pretty good at making sense out of new representations.

I'm not sure I understand the benefit of url partials based routing. A REST api should be easily loadbalanced using a simple round robin setup since no state lives longer than a single request.

Edit: Ok yeah, url partial based routing will allow you to implement v2 as an entirely new system.
Thanks for the kind words :)

Problem with building cool stuff for me is, I'm the idea guy, I usually get lot of ideas in different fields, I figured that is a problem, more than a asset. I found a way around this, I archive all ideas, and wait. Some ideas seem stupid after sometime or after some discussion, example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3116788. I only choose to work on ideas that appeals to me even after 6 months. Actually, I'm building both products for me, 1. Project management tool ( sure! not basecamp copycat ) and 2. News Website with an interesting twist. I desperately need both and I hope the world will come to love it.

Edit: that is not to say, I don't build cool stuff. I built an astrology site that updates itself ;) http://rasi-palan.com (Its ugly, but it works ;) built in a day)

My first YC application was a mistake, I was in a mindset like, "What will I build if I get money?". My current mindset is "What will I build, regardless of money".

Since my first product will be SaaS Application, it will survive by itself. I'm still worried about the second product, since its a consumer application like youtube, twitter, I thought I might go broke running it. Now, I think if a consumer product gets that amount of traction, then It may very well attract investors.

Anyway, We'll get our MVP online first. We'll see from there. :)
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As a business owner who once had their Paypal account frozen (mistakenly, but frozen nonetheless) 10 years ago and now does $10,000+ every month through Paypal I can say they're doing something wrong. Paypal doesn't need to steal money, they make billions a year, they don't need your $45,000.

Something smells rotten and it's Diaspora. $200,000 and over one year later and they have nothing to show for it and they're still begging for money. They promised a finished product for $10,000, they received $200,000 and they're still not done. Why are people still giving them money? If a contractor said $10,000 to replace my roof and I gave him $200,000 and he came back saying he needed more I'd call the police and sue, not give him another $45,000

So what happens when they get another 20k or 60k or 200k and they say "oops that's not enough", everyone gets a refund? Or does Diaspora walk away? Or do they hold another donation round in a year?

Sooo disappointed in Diaspora, so many startups could have been created with $200k but they burned the money and now they're back asking for more, like watching a homeless guy buy alcohol with the 20 you just gave him and he comes back asking for more money.

Zuckerberg was just an average programmer and he made Facebook with almost no funding while attending college, these four get $200,000 and make nothing.

I'd love to know what these donators are thinking, can anyone give me a good reason why it's a good idea to keep giving Diaspora money when they already show no progress from the first $200,000 they were given? If you're a donator how will you feel when they receive another 20 or 200k and Diaspora is still a flop?
I may start a single-product(fruit) online store next year. I'm not a webdev though do have programming bkground. Does your copy books have examples or help to write copy for such websites or is it targetted more towards SaaS products?

Maybe my Qn itself is unreasonable and maybe same principles apply everywhere, in which case do let me know.

Secondly, since my potential usage of this will be sometime in future; when I come down to it, will you be available offline for some clarifications help needed with the material? If my help reqd becomes too much we can even discuss some kind of compensation/consulting for you.

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Ireland isn't the tax haven, although it has a very low corporate tax rate of 12.5 %. They are in Ireland to channel cash to tax havens, such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, using the 'double Irish' and 'Dutch sandwich' tax avoidance techniques

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/21/130727655/google-s...
Its definitely tough. Finding a cofounder is like finding a spouse. If you aren't already good friends with someone you'd like to work with that you've known for awhile, it's difficult to find one you while seeking them out to just start jamming together. Those that do and things work out great for them are rare.

I would focus on just hanging out more and more and seeing if there are people you click with. If you're interested, and new to the area, come hang out with my buddies and I. If nothing else, maybe you'll make new friends who can connect you to others.
jsonip and whatismyip tells me the the IPv4 address though. Google is giving me my IPv6 address!

Would be cool to get both somehow.
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DDG in general seems to do a much better job of second-guessing what I'm looking for. Amazing how good it's become and that Google is (in my experience at least) playing catch-up.
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Lock the phone and carefully look at the screen from a few different angles. Chances are that you can clearly make out the greasy trail of the unlock pattern. I switched back to a PIN code when I noticed this.
I wonder when discovering peers with wifi direct, can I be connected to another wifi network in the meantime?
Could that just be a referential integrity constraint - since most messages require 2 or more parties.

Can't they just update the content of the message (on both sides) as "deleted", but keep the record itself? It would annoy the other party though.

This would be really annoying, when it comes to chat logs.
Unless it fails, of course.
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Lately I have discovered my self that I fail to keep in balance with whats going around, THE NEWS, when ever I delve in to either one of these two categories I tend to lose focus on the other. My question is how do you keep both of them in balance ?
And they have somewhat mitigated that as of Gingerbread with the new concurrent GC.
How do flattr get around this problem? They use paypal and it looks like they could be used for money laundering
I am wondering how this works in low light situations..

It detects the light conditions via the sensor and auto-flashs you when necessary. Nice while driving at night.
> It's an incurable disease that comes back year after year for the rest of your life.

This is not true.

My wife is Nigerian. She had malaria a number of times as a child. So did all her sisters. So did the rest of her family. Luckily for them they are from a privileged family that could easily afford proper treatment. None of them have had recurrences in the 10+ years since they moved to the UK.

Some forms of malaria can recur. It is not a given that it will. Recurrence happens when the malaria continues to infect the liver after the symptoms subside. However it can be eradicated from the liver too with primaquine to take care of the liver combined with chloroquine and ACT for the primary infection.

The problem with Malaria is not that it isn't treatable, but that it 1) infects so many that it's pretty much inevitable that some people don't get treatment in time, and 2) that it mostly affect people in areas that are poor enough for people to have problems getting treatment, 3) because of the scale of the problem there is a very real ongoing concern about drug resistance.

For a lot of poor people, though, in practice you are right in that many won't be able to get a proper combination therapy and will keep getting their blood reinfected from their liver.
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Otherwise curing Malaria can result later in all the problems that accompany a lack of resources: bigger famines, increased civil strife and warfare.

I cannot fathom why someone would be against curing malaria. Bring on the faminines or civil wars. We shouldn't keep the Africans down. Africa already has civil wars & famines, we shouldn't sacrifice the little black kids aswell.
You might be in a strong position with that part-time job, if it covers basic living costs. It leaves extra time that full-timers don't have. With this time, you can try ideas that may or may not pay off, like freelancing, start your own company, or contribute to open source in the hope of gaining a reputation that brings in work / job offers.
Often on HN there's talk of quitting a full-time job to start a start-up. That's high-risk unless you're married or in long-term relationship with someone who has a secure job. But working part-time while doing your own thing part-time too sounds potentially good to me, however boring or unsatisfying the part-time job is. And BTW it'd be a lot worse if you had a full-time boring job, right? ;)
Well, since Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored it (and sponsors similar goals), part of the funding is from the Internet.
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Hence the adjective "fictional". :) He just needed something that sounded and looked cool enough for his work of fiction. and yes, you're right - new language would have its own set of grammar rules, vocabulary, etc.
Still, quite cool for a quick hack like that.
By not having a huge spike in volume on a new account, providing information about the business to PayPal at some point, and by having a track record of low risk. It's not a problem to open a PayPal account and start accepting payments, it's only a problem to do that, not have any verified information in your account yet, then also do something to raise red flags. And for most people, even when that happens, once you give PayPal enough info to convince them you're not doing something shady, they'll unfreeze the account and you take payments without a problem for years after.
There's a lot of economics at play aswell. Africans are poor.
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The answer I guess probably was with the speed of development of the cell phone hardware and cell phone software i.e. the mobile phone applications.
I'd think hard about who your customer is. At most companies, there's a designer either on staff or on retainer that worries about these sorts of things and I'm not sure they are likely to spring for your services. Similarly, the vast majority of small businesses won't see a need for a blog, or they will already have a templates version built into the platform they are already using (i.e. shopify, etc.) I agree that theming blogs can be a hassle, but I'm not sure the market you've chosen is big enough to make a go of it. Some of the other commenters have some interesting ideas about how to address the needs of a larger market, but even then, the intersection might be too small. I'd think really hard about whether or not this is worth investing in - not saying it is or isn't, but just that its worth spending some time getting very comfortable with the answer to that question.
I think it would be the lesser of 2 evils.

To continue your HIV/AIDS analogy, we know that people are taking more risks due to availability of HIV/AIDS meds. I don't think that means we should stop HIV/AIDS meds. We should still produce them and sell them.
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Aside from over-promising and massively under-delivering, I think that one of the key issues is that free open source, decentralised social networking software already existed long before the Diaspora team popped up out of nowhere, caught the hype and raised their $200k.

Also, the creators of benchmark-setting open source projects like Linux, Apache, etc. didn't ask to be paid to write open source software - they just went and did it.

None of this is doing the Diaspora team's reputations any good whatsoever, by the way.
Title was very confusing...'wait, he has applied and was rejected? what?' - felt like a headline trap. Should have been, 'why I didn't apply to this round of YC'
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My own hypothesis about failure of Japanese companies in software is the "pursuit to perfection". This is pervasive in the Japanese work ethic and culture in general.

I still vividly remember the first comment of a small prototype aimed at automating a tedious task: "this is not perfect". If you aim at perfection at every step for software production, especially internally, non customer-facing ones, you can't go very far IMO. OTOH, that's probably one of the reason why Japanese companies can be so good for video games (where a screw up costs a lot of money given the market constraints), and hardware in general. The business oportunity cost is just different.

If you have any other comments or links about why Japanese websites are so cluttered, I would be really interested. While I am not in Japan anymore, this has always facinated me, and I have never been satisfied with the explanations I have seen so far.
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