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Help me out here: What is the target audience?

1) I don't know your app, but ran SA in the past. You can configure the hell out of it. How is this test setup representable for the (that's the thing you want to archive, I guess) spam filter configuration of the final recipient?

2) Aren't you basically offering a way to ~somewhat easily~ avoid being flagged as spam, even for people with dark glasses and the tendency to sell potent drugs over the internet? I somehow think that you're offering a nice test setup to people that want to 'tune' their unsolicited emails first?

No offense intended, I guess I'm just too negative here? Would love to get feedback on those things nevertheless.
Weren't they worried about being one letter away from "bicurious"? And to quote Seinfeld, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Lots of innovation has come from post-PC devices, including all of the development for these app stores and jail breaking. Playing with my iPhone 4S, especially Siri. I know this is the future.

Laptops will still be around for a long time, Microsoft's vision is confusing admittedly but I think not everyone needs a full computer. Those that do can have both or continue to use their computers.

I think having a lower barrier to entry is always good and think we have to let the way we build things evolve otherwise it goes against this whole ideology.
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CHECK_MALLOC is an anti-pattern (do you have CHECK_FOO for any given FOO which might behind the scenes allocate?).

I have a litany of reasons why you shouldn't bother checking malloc returns, and instead invest a little effort in making sure your platform malloc is configured to abort instead of returning NULL. The simplest and most compelling of those reasons is that it's easier and cleaner.

I'm also not a fan of a macro that introduces an implicit dependency on a goto label.

do { } while(0)

is a pretty convenient way of expressing single-return; you just use "break" instead of "return".
The writer makes the wrong assumption that the current mobile devices (e.g. iPad) will never have the creation tools that the previous generations of computer have had. IMHO, it's only a matter of time. And in the same vein it's never been more accessible to build something better than what's out there and get it out to the public.
Really?

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information"

How is so when code search is going away? Google did excellent job at indexing the code, so why to throw away what's already working?
I'm not. Just port a basic interpreter to iPad, or write Logo for iPad. No one begets the fact that computers come preassembled now and no one needs to learn how to solder to have a computer. Imagine a basic interpreter that DOESN'T lose everything you typed in when you turn off your computer.

The opportunities iPad enables far outweighs the cost of having to learn to program to use your computer. iPad will get more people using computers in more ways which while reducing the percentage of computer users who can program will vastly increase the overall number of programmers.
You don't need worry to start reducing risk. Any smart investor will lower risk as much as they can. If they're worried about their total investments, they would simply offer more (the same) investment as before.

If they're lowering amount/group in favor of number of groups, it probably means it makes more financial feasibility to do so.

Edit: Also realize that the initial investment also acts as a doorway for them to enter future larger deals, if they so wish. Shifting from a 75k investment to a 50k investment means they increase their opportunity without really sacrificing good will on the founders' part.
The "post-PC era" is a myth. The only thing that's stayed constant about computing is it's growing ubiquity.
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I think I will be like those old men who still rave about their vinyl records and would part with them. As long as Pc devices as we know them such as desktops and laptops are produced and supported by websites and apps I will use them. I believe there will always be a use for a more physical computing experience..
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I commented on the site, but I could not agree more with this. We (http://www.hark.com) have millions of sound bites, and some of the most popular, without fail, are from video games - either from last week's latest release or twenty years ago.
Your heart is at the right place, I have the same skepticism.

But the bad guys have always been one step ahead of the rest. Let's use the same knowledge and tools, and fight on equal grounds.
1. Then why did they need to negotiate to be a part of Start Fund, surely they could offer a separate, secondary deal of $50k to each YC company

2. This is highly plausible and sounding to me like the most likely reason

3. Absolutely, I'm just trying to understand why its as 1/3rd of Start Fund instead of offering their own deal
The scale is actually just the SpamAssassin score. Usually anything over 5 can cause delivery problems as the SpamAssassin daemon will mark it as spam. keep in mind though that this is configurable and other people's servers can set a different value. but from my experience, five seems to be the average.
Indeed! Especially now since there aren't any practical limits on youtube video size, duration, or quality.

There is already a lot of pretty high quality original content on youtube. Some of that content is more popular than some cable content. There are youtube channels which have weekly updates and see millions of viewers on every episode. They are under the traditional media radar though since they don't have a promotional budget and they don't appear in a program lineup anywhere.

This trend can only accelerate from here. Producing a "show" or a "movie" requires a teeny, tiny amount of effort and resources these days, and can be done without spending more than 4 figures on equipment and whatnot.

We are nearing an inflection point in this process, soon there will be a critical mass of shows and viewers such that word-of-mouth recommendations start exploding viewership and more importantly that it begins to become cemented in the zeitgeist that making an "internet tv show" is a perfectly acceptable thing to do, regardless of how talented you are, and more so is a quite feasible thing to do. That will lead to a spiraling increase in both content and viewership which will likely catch a lot of the traditional media folks off guard. I don't think they realize that there is a bubbling cauldron out there which is poised to spew forth the equivalent of hundreds of channels of content. Content that people will watch. And talk about. And value at the same level as traditional TV content.
You could use Plone

http://plone.org/documentation/kb/how-to-create-a-plone-blog...

http://plone.org/documentation/kb/mailtoplone-integrate-emai...
He is talking about creating your own Siri and not "playing with Siri"
I don't know if it's just a fad - what more is a blog backend with a cache plugin doing than generating static HTML?

It's more like the universally accepted "right way of doing things" being taken a step further. Why should the system that generates the HTML be the same one that serves it?
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Meh. Unfounded fears. There will always be computers/desktops/laptops. Just because tablets and smartphones are ubiquitous doesn't mean that they won't exist.

People will always want huge monitors, and there will always be programmers. Granted, in 20 years it might not be someone sitting in front of 3 LCD screens, but it will be something.
I think it will be the extreme exception for them to embrace it. I'm not even sure if they are capable of doing so. So much of the way the cogs mesh together in the traditional tv business world is very much dependent on the technological limitations and specifics of broadcast television. They would have to change so very much to adapt. A lot of that change would have to be shrinking, which they will fight.
You know when you used to watch those thriller movies and the FBI was at a computer looking at satellite views and they kept zooming and panning and you kept yelling "that's so fake!" Now it's really real.
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In the past they've paid about as much attention to the startups as they would have if they'd done a seed investment of the same size a la carte.
How about living in a chrome house? The Developer would just sneak in while I sleep and update everything without asking. The downside is it would consist of just one living area. If I were need any specialized rooms like a bathroom or kitchen they just attach one temporarily and charge me by the hour!
To your Point 1.with the exception of only Nevada if I am correct.
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Hmm, cool -- compared my setup to this and figured out I was missing razor -- apt-get install razor and I should be rejecting more spam as we speak ;)
> I don't know why a fake version of the real world is a better preparation for the real world that the real real world.

Right! I don't know why doctors have to practice on cadavers. Stick a scalpel in their hand and let them operate!

You first.
>being wedded to any particular means (ever more students going to ever larger institutions to spend ever more money

these current particular means of Brick & Mortar large institutions are the legacy of the pre-Internet age just like any other B&M institution, and they will still have their niche going forward. Online education is going to be the dominant form in the elevating of the basic level of education to the next level beyond current K12. DB course from Stanford, Control Systems from Berkley, Quantum Physics from CalTech, Differential Topology from Princeton (or any of these course from my University :) while living in some dorms in Tibet with a bunch of students from other countries ...

> learning ever, ever less)

this is where global competitive pressure comes into play.
Free global flow of trade, capital and labor immediately emphasizes the role of the level and quality of education.
Oh, sorry I didn't see that you were not the original commenter. None of this was directed at you. My original response was in proportion to the original comment.

I think that responding in the way that I did does change behavior. Kind of like when you fight back with a bully, you make it not worth their time even if you get beat up. It doesn't always work, but a lot of the time it does.
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Hey Benjamin,

1) This test is representative of our system. I realize that other systems can be set up different with different settings. given that users of the Postmark app send email through us, they might be interested to see what we might consider as spam.

2) The thing is that there are a lot of tests that spamd does that they can't defeat, even if they're aware of them. security by obscurity isn't really how spamd works anyway :)

and no, you're not at all negative. by all means, please feedback at us :)
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Fair point, but attention-grabbing blog posts are not the only way to get your voice heard as a developer. There's a difference between 'feedback' and 'creating public pressure'.
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Having read the book in the past (though I don't have it in front of me right now), I think what it means is that he has to give Menaleus a way to identify himself in encrypted radio communications, such that if Menaleus is captured by the Germans and ordered to send certain messages (to misinform the British), he can omit his identity check without detection by the Germans so the British will know that he's transmitting under coercion. Doing this in a way that works if the Germans have decrypted his back traffic is hard -- I think the assumption was that they hadn't done so due to lack of resources; they'd instead torture the agent to get him/her to reveal the identity check.
Paraphrasing Kevin Kelly, there are more stone hammers being made today than at any time in human history.
I emailed a16z to ask for a meeting or phone interview about an "amazing" opportunity to invest "early" in a new startup. They did not respond or ask any questions, I was completely ignored.

All their deals seem like big money and late stage. Do they know a good startup when they see it? Seems like instead of finding startup investment opportunities by themselves they're going to let YC filter out the good deals for them.

They even said in the article it's just about deal flow.
I'm pretty sure the original was done by digitising video frames & tidying them up.
There probably weren't many people doing motion capture as we know it today in 1992.
Also the response article at http://masanjin.net/blog/how-to-rank-products-based-on-user-... is interesting.
See also:

http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/

"Toward these ends, I've drafted the CRAPL--the Community Research and Academic Programming License. The CRAPL is an open source "license" for academics that encourages code-sharing, regardless of how much how much Red Bull and coffee went into its production. (The text of the CRAPL is in the article body.)"
True, our kids won't grow up hacking the same systems we did, just like we didn't grow up hacking the same systems as our parents. But there is something basic to the human spirit that guarantees as long as this branch of the gene pool is still around, we'll still tinker and build and create. It's just that the blocks are constantly changing. Which keeps things interesting, and is a good thing.
Actually gravitational time dilation on Earth's surface is on the order of 1e-9. But still negligible.
what kind of stats would you be interested in seeing? how often people's tests result in spam vs ham scores?

because while I can't see what people are testing, given that it's friday afternoon, I'm betting there's a lot of "asdfasdf" going on :)
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> I guess this depends on how advanced your toolkit is.

I'm assuming you mean this to counter the "simplest of biological neural networks" part, rather than the "completely opaque black boxes" part. Nonetheless, I think it is fair to say that ANNs still fall far short of the complexity of even the simplest biological brains. For example, even the nervous system of a Hydra features neurotransmitters [1] (as opposed to just heterogeneous signals of ANNs) and brains are affected by their own electric fields [2].

> You want to be able to discern some rule base from the system that you can understand? Even biological brains do not have that property.

More generally, transparency is important to be able to understand the inductive bias you've built up, and to try to alter or refine it in useful ways.

Also, the fact that our brains lack transparency doesn't justify leaving it out of an AI system, nor does it demonstrate the difficulty of building a transparent AI -- nature just had no drive towards transparency. Plus we (humans) can introspect and explain our reasoning.

> See, but the problem is that we don't even have the knowledge of how real brains work to start forming such principals
> based on a technique which reflects the structure of the problem of learning, generalization, and hypothesis search and illuminates it.

This is only the case if we're speaking about biological brains, and not as a generic word to mean "intelligent system". In the latter case, we do in fact, have quite a bit of knowledge about such principles from reasoning about hypothesis spaces. From where we get things like active learning, or Solomonoff's work on Universal Induction [3].

> It's not going to be a fully general, "human-level" AI, obviously, as that requires huge amounts of semantic knowledge about the world that was encoded through billions of years of evolution

By "semantic knowledge" do you mean inductive bias? Because otherwise I'm at a loss. I don't believe that the picture for Artificial General Intelligence is as bleak as you make it sound though.

As an aside, you mention "Lots of more biologically-inspired approaches have been explored". Do you know of any projects looking to mine the structure of various parts of brains to figure out the sorts of inductive bias those structures correspond to? (As opposed to just copying structure) What I mean, is that presumably if a part of the brain heavily involved in recognizing faces has a unique structure/wiring, that structure is optimized such that it performs well on face recognition -- and correspondingly poorly on something else, per no free lunch -- and that optimization should tell us something about the nature of recognizing faces. Sort of in the same way that the use of a Naive Bayesian classifier rather than a Bayesian Net might tell you that the classifier is optimized for cases where the variables are independent.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=WWN_t498S5IC&pg=PA12...

[2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brain-elect...

[3] http://world.std.com/~rjs/pubs.html
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> If you indeed believe that we are headed for disaster, please work on averting it.

The way I see it, Thiel may have other priorities. Among other things, he is a big (the biggest, if I recall correctly) donor for the SIAI (Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence), which works on reducing existential risks. That does pretty well for "averting disaster", though we're not talking about education here.
Not dubious. Just replace "chabolas" with "cities". The move to cities worldwide is well documented and not showing any signs of slowing down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization and lots more in Google.
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Oh, awesome. I use the stash constantly and always run into the wall of having to add untracked files before doing it.
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Don't you do the same thing when you get emails offering you amazing business opportunities?

As a general rule, no VC firm will respond to a cold email. You need an intro from someone they know. Your best bet is to try to get an intro from someone at a company they've invested in.
The documentation page says:

> Postmark's spam API is a mostly RESTfull interface to the Spam filter
> tool SpamAssassin.
...
> This is free to use and may be updated, removed or changed at any time.

If there's nothing particularly proprietary about the setup, it'd be great to open source it and release it as a public Amazon EC2 AMI. That way, others can play around and tweak it and it would remove the dependency on a third-party service of uncertain longevity.
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Innovation will always happen. However as time progresses, the context of new ideas and innovations will change.

New things will be invented in terms of existing ideas or viewpoints, as Alan Kay likes to refer [1].

[1] - http://tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/

Legos, I should remind, are existing technology, which didn't exist in 2 centuries ago. And I am sure stones and sticks were precursors to the invention of Legos, and now Legos will be replaced with computers as a tinker device.
Your iPad has a browser. That browser runs HTML5 and JavaScript. That's the quick way to get to something programmable. If you want to get down and dirty, drop thirty bucks on an Arduino.

Personally, I think the post-PC era is going to be even more awesome.
"improved culture to motivate them to work" - cough. Lack of motivation to work isn't an issue for the world's billion poor.
Yet by any other conceivable metric it is a huge success.

I love good code & elegant design, but it doesen't beat having a successful product out there.

Remember, shipping is a feature ;)
I understand, i'm talking about the way we interact with the device. Like when we saw the iPhone and really started to think about touch being a viable method of interaction between the user and device.

You can't code with Siri, what i'm saying is letting Siri and touch innovate for consumers won't stop innovation in products for power users.
>You start with just 20 Under 20, and then scale it out after initial success. Just like YC.

The problem with scaling is that is assumes most people start at the same base line, need the same resources, and progress at the same speed. We've had an industrial model of education in this country for decades and it's not really working for us. I've seen countless people try to "solve" the education problem by modeling business practices and generally speaking it never works out.
on the question of credentials:

ootachi's comment is spot on. big companies like google, microsoft, and goldman sachs get way too many applications to not care about degrees.

yeah, if you filter by college degrees, you're going to miss out on some great candidates, but there are a lot of great candidates out there. you don't need all of them to find a great hire. its simply not practical to do in depth examinations of every candidate. a good github account? big companies get so many resumes that they don't even finish reading many of the resumes, so forget about looking at code on github.

maybe in the future, certain online universities may get enough general recognition that merely the presence of that university on a resume will pick up the interest of HR people, but currently, that's nowhere close to true. and until that happens, most kids will prefer harvard to taking classes online.

plus, its not like its mutually exclusive. a kid from harvard can have a good github account.

on the question of networks:

linkedin is a joke. i'm way more likely to get a job or start a business with someone i knew in college than someone off of linkedin.

github is a lot better, but its a pretty restricted space. you can get interviews for lots of kinds of jobs by going to harvard. programming is probably all you can get with a good github account (and probably not at really big companies). maybe if you're 18 and you know that all you want to is programming, maybe you should take a bunch of classes online, but the majority of 18 year olds probably want more flexibility.
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Reforestation implies prior deforestation. That the death of any number of people in the 1400's made the climate change is essentially the meaning of anthropogenic climate change. So yeah, kid, I read the article.
Interesting that both SVA and AH responded to the success of YC not by setting up separate programs to emulate it, but by coalescing around it. This clearly made sense for Milner as a relative newcomer but the other two groups had no shortage of connections and capabilities in place and could easily have taken either route. YC keeps increasing the margin by which it is the top program of its kind.