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Very unlikely, the team probably got a chunk.

The Series A was $8.14M and they were acquired for $3.5M. If the team tried to get a chunk of that then I doubt they'll be getting funding again.

Remember that the acquiring company is shelling out several million and they really don't give a rat's behind about the liquidity preference.

It's not as simple as that. Both SimpleGeo and UrbanAirship are Foundry Group companies[1][2].

This was clearly a firesale, and Joe Stump appears to care for his team somewhat: Cofounder Joe Stump used to be Digg’s chief architect. According to TechCrunch, three of the new hires were laid off by Digg in March and the fourth one decided to leave. Now, SimpleGeo is bringing in the new guns but also familiar people, which seems to really solidify the team that stands now at 17 employees.[1]

It might be as simple as making sure everyone got a new job, and maybe the non-Foundry Group investors got some money back.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/18/simplegeo-second-funding/

[2] http://www.prweb.com/releases/UrbanAirshipFunding/SeriesB201...
> how the old system was superior in any way

Not sure how G+ handle this, but when multiple people share the same article, it will often show only once in Shared Items.
except that you have to invest a lot in a tool and switching has significant costs.
Not pulling the plug here, in fact we will continue to work on the same project. If we apply again, we will submit the same project. This time with at least a demo or a beta.
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Yes I believe so, that is key.
"...never learned to by hyper-vigilant..."

My eyebrow just raised so far my forehead cramped.
If you mean tech as opposed to their data offerings, you should take a look at CartoDB http://www.cartodb.com. All the power of PostGIS with a lot of the pain points rounded off.
I agree that it's about time, but I think Apple beat them to it on push notifications. Gmail does work with iOS 5 notifications through the default mail app.
There are plenty of people debating free software and championing various positions. It is fashionable to insult Stallman, that's unacceptable, and it's worth standing up against it.
Agreed. Most NYC Startups don't have anything resembling a dress code. I even wore jeans and t-shirts to most of my job interviews.

I'll second La Colombe and Gimme Coffee in Soho!
The product we're launching is pretty easily monetized, money isn't really the issue for us. Professional resources and experience was the main reason we chose to apply. We can reach ramen profitability with the first 5-7 clients. The main reason for applying to YC was the awesome amount of exposure the startups get, both to press and to VC's. I contemplated long before submitting the application, and giving up a small share of the company for a kickstart seemed reasonable, not to mention having access to office hours. Best of luck to everyone.
A random thought in response to myself:

My uncle recently retired as a plumber. He is in his mid-60's, and the physical part of the job got to be too much for him. Imagine a service like oDesk where my uncle could sit in front of his computer and be paid by the hour to consult with DIY-ers on their plumbing problems. A guy with a leaky faucet could wear a camera on his head, and my uncle could give him instructions as he took the thing apart. Let's say 1/2 hour of consulting was required @ $50/hour. My uncle would be delighted to earn even 2/3 of that in retirement, and the guy doing the work would have less applied time than if he had to wait at home to let the plumber in. Furthermore, 1/2 hour is less than the plumber's expected commute to the customer's house.

How many in-home shadow work tasks could be done more efficiently if the physical labor was separated from the knowledge aspect of the work?
>It also doesn't help that such capability have to be implemented as C extensions due to performance requirements.

If you think the NumPy and SciPy stacks are pure python, you'll probably be surprised to find a lot of C and fortran sitting under the hood.
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Hi,

This is this month of the year again.
(last year's thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398)

The objective is to launch an app this month.

I have set up this page to keep each other accountable: http://goalstribe.com/join/november

What will you launch?

(I will work on a business process documentation app)
Apparently, grey and slightly darker grey are now visually effective colors for distinguishing things

That's just classic Edward Tufte design aesthetics.
It depends how they implement it. Google Voice app for iPhone is not that great. Can't copy paste a phone number & if you put app in background, it erases the number.

I wonder how they implement multiple Google accounts (multiple Google logins is a mess in the browser). That being said, I like the mobile version of gmail.com
Yeah, I always thought the string idea was wacko too, but introducing a new keyword in a language that has to be backwards compatible or suffer doom isn't a good idea either.
Io has a similar distinction. In the Io language, := is syntax sugar for newSlot and = only means updateSlot. So if you accidently = a slot that doesn't exist, it doesn't new-up a magic global, it raises an error.
But the issue is the deep integration. If I choose to send an email in iOS, will it send me to this gmail app or will it to send me to Mail?

It's the same issue with Google Voice.
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Comments are commonly stripped by various source code processors out there, including minifiers and some browser JS engine front-ends.

The string literal doesn't make anyone _happy_, but it was most compatible with the existing widely deployed toolchains, as I understand.
No. I call weak sauce on that one. It's like you're trying not read the hate and pretending there is no subtext there. A computer didn't write Stallman's post on Jobs. Stallman did. He's a human and everything we say, do, and write has a subtext. Sometimes that subtext isn't very obvious but you can tell by someone's written words how they feel not by the words themselves but how they're strung together and how they fit into the larger thought behind the writing.

All 4 of your points are factually accurate (number 4 can be debated but I'll give it to you now for the sake of argument) but they miss the glaring, obvious, in-your-face subtext of that post which was:

"I Richard Stallman, am going to use the death of a high profile enemy of mine to purposely stir up controversy and get attention, despicably, by calling him evil, but not directly, then adding in this Herals Washing quote so I can have plausible deniability that my supporters will use to defend me".

The worst thing about what he said is that he purposely infused that post with words and a quote that he could use as plausible deniability.

You know, Id be mad but would definitely not think of Stallman as a coward (which that post makes him) if he were to just come right out and say what he meant which was so obviously:

"I'm glad Jobs is dead because that means the company might flounder under new leadership and fail, making my movement seem attractive. Oh, and I do hate Jobs, always have, think he guy is evil along with his product line".

Anyone denying that his post on Jobs was not full of vitriol or schadenfreude is one of the following:

* an RMS fanboy
* someone who didn't read the post
* a contrarian
* blind (physically or otherwise)
* lacks human emotion, intuition, and the like

That post was seriously just completely damning for RMS. we'd expect that out of some random Internet jerk but somehow because it's Stallman and because he laced it in his cloak of plausible deniability its become a debate. There should be no debate. The guy said he was glad Jobs was dead without having the balls to come out and say he was glad Jobs was dead.
I got a blank page when I visited the site and had to drill into RSS to find any content.
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I'm not native or even living in SF so others will give better detail but was in SF for a few weeks. At least in the day SoMa and The Mission were both great. SoMa for working and The Mission for living from what I'm told.

The Mission has lots of great cafes and places to work from. I liked this as there was a vibe, you could see everyone hacking, etc and was just a nice environment to get things done.

Of course I'm told living in SF has lots of distractions and you get more work done in Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Could just as well be titled "Why I won't date assholes"

A person who doesn't respect another person's time: asshole. There are plenty of great guys building great companies who respect someone's time, and realize that they probably shouldn't be dating if they're cranking out 18 hour days.
Your rant isn't an argument, it's an opinion. I can just as well say integers are objects like any other and even? makes perfect sense as a method on them because that's the entire point of objects in the first place, binding state and behavior together into a single smarter package because it's a convent method of organizing code.
That's such a nice way to put that, thanks :)
In other words, "you won't know what 'good enough' is until you see it." I think "iteration" is a seriously under-used idea.
Way back in the early nineties, when I was in college, I went to go visit my friend at his school. He had class, so I went to the library to kill a few hours. I dug through the (rather ancient) CS section, and pulled some books to read. Two have stuck with me:

One was __The Mythical Man-Month__ (the old one, not any of the reissues). That put into words so many things that I felt about computer programming, if nothing else the humanness of programming as a pursuit.

The second was __Software Tools__. Even then, whichever version I encountered was ancient (I was learning C in school). It didn't impact me quite as much as TMMM (which I think i read most of in the library), but it was enough for me to remember and pick up a used copy a few years back.

I still haven't read it, so I'm glad you reminded me about it.

As far as a modern book, the one that seems closest to me is __The Practice of Programming__.
I like Newsblur more than the last time I tried -- I just signed up for a premium account. However, I'm still slightly frustrated because of this:

In Google Reader, I liked to look at all the feeds in a category and just see all the posts from each of those feeds in the reading pane, most recent first. I can almost do the same thing in NewsBlur with the "river of news," but it only shows me unread posts, which is usually OK but it's nice sometimes to be able to easily scroll back and re-read an older post without having to go dig up that feed.

Is there a way you could add an option to replicate the Reader-like behavior of showing the posts in a folder chronologically?
From the article:

"I’ve already used Ruby at work to dramatically speed up some of our vaccine screens—for processing and summarizing data—but I’ve always had to pipe my numbers into R for statistics and graphing. Because unfortunately, despite all the hubbub around Ruby, no one is crunching numbers with it! I’m sick of R, though, and I want a complete solution for my numbers needs."
Actually it is very easy to debug any javascript error. In IE there is a setting where you can uncheck the Disable Script debugging (Internet Explorer) and in the status bar you will see any javascript error. If you check the checkbox IE will not report any errors. In general during your development you should always uncheck the box.If you double click the javascript status this will exactly report the line number where the javscript error is. I exactly don't know if you see these kind of errors in Chrome and firefox.
I know people blame IE but there are quite few nice handy features which are very helpful during development
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Go on then, going to launch an app that sorts the problem of finding places to work when you travel or aren't always in one place.
Starting your project with a super-micro-mini IT budget. Can it work?
> also goes through the prototype methods after the
> elements.

That shouldn't be happening. If you see it happening, your JS implementation is just buggy.

In fact, this testcase:

<script>
window.onload = function() {
var arr = window[0].arr;
for (var i in arr) { alert(i); }
}
</script>
<iframe src="data:text/html,<script>arr=[1];</script>">
</iframe>

alerts only "0" in WebKit+JSC, Gecko, Presto. Chrome has some sort of bizarre security policy here that keeps the script from working, so no idea what WebKit+V8 does.
> If the team tried to get a chunk of that then I doubt they'll be getting funding again.

Again, it is in the interest of the acquiring company to have the liquidity prefs waived. They want the money to go to the team and have no interest in enriching the VCs.

One exception: Sometimes there is a conflict of interest, where the acquirer has someone in a key position who is also a limited in the VC fund. This is often the reason for some really dumb prices being paid in various deals.
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> Like i said 1000 times, it wasn't subtle.

Yes, the distortions and noise added by even the most pristine vinyl reproduction aren't subtle.
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We're compiling a list of vendors to add. Is it possible to provide a list of companies that use MiraPost? I didn't see a "customers" page on your site. You can email jay at our domain
"When I'm done, I want it to be as smooth and easy to read and as obvious as an article in the New Yorker."

Your metaphor is apt; if your code is going to be that smooth, you need to learn Haskell to the same extent you know English for the New Yorker. The Internet suggests that the New Yorker is written for a "10th grade reading level", but of course the average American has between an 8th or 9th grade level.

It does get easier with practice to read the language, and what's left after that is whatever core difficult the code being expressed has regardless of the target language, the essential difficulty. Haskell can hardly be blamed for bringing that to the foreground where other languages stuff it in the background.
Yeah, I have to agree with gill on this one. I do see Stallman's views as largely obsolete and irrelevant but the GPL does have its merit. There are times you want to give some code away but don't want it used in a proprietary way. But Stallman's insistence on the GPL for everything is just wrong. There are times when I want to give code away and don't care if it's used for profit or not or whether someone will use it to derive some proprietary software from it. I use the Apache license 99% of the time. Open source but free to take it and exploit it for money if you want too. I don't mind.
In JS, "global variable" means "property of the global object". No reference to "process".

It's trivial to have a single-process JS application with multiple JS global objects in it. Case in point: any web browser (and renderer processes don't change this: every iframe on a page has a separate global object).

It's just that Node _chose_ to reuse the same global object for multiple requests instead of using a clean execution environment.

I have to agree with jessedhillon: that sounds insane.
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> Global variables are basically instance variables on the
> process itself.

Not in JS. See my response to ww520 below.
Why does threading matter? You can have multiple JS global objects all running on the same thread. See any web browser.
If you can make this as amazing as microsoft's photosynth, you'll have a cracking product... All the best.
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Whoa, so any small business owner who is more or less successful is considered the 1%? The situation is worse than I thought...

Seriously, I think the 1% should include only those earning over 500K a year (there's about... oh 1% of them in the world :-))...
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But there is a visual difference. Unread items have a bold title and a white background.
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I'm going to work on an app that simplifies project management when outsourcing (think Jira plus Amazon Mechanical Turk)
As our demo wasn't even accessed, we aren't going to pivot. I imagine we were declined because we didn't do a good enjoy job differentiating ourselves from an early YC graduate startup who claims to be doing something similar to us. To me, since the apps are judged mainly by people and not product, being declined is not a good enough reason to pivot.
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The game is decently fun, but it was the art that sold me. The voxel style looks like one of those themes that developers rocking a low budget can pull off beautifully.
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Chart.io rocks!! I have used it a while back and the ability to plot a graph by drag and drop interface is just amazing. Highly recommend this.
Thanks for your reply. I'll look up the paper.
I was away in class, so couldn't reply :p

Actually, I'm in the Midwestern USA.

I did talk to my professor about this today and asked him to show some his students' best MS works. That gave some idea about the depth and rigour of work required to be considered "good".

I think your idea of working with a great Ph.D student is very interesting and I will run this idea by my professor.
Interesting, any url where I can subscribe to?
I applied twice with a previous idea. Rejected once, interviewed and rejected another time.
I would say where you would like to live depends on where you are moving from :-D

I like Twin Peaks myself (although it's pricey). If you are moving out from a suburb and would like to "ease" yourself into the city, Twin Peaks would suit you just fine. One of the additional perks is that Twin Peaks is right in the middle of SF.

I lived in Hunters Point for a while (super cheap), and taxi drivers would refuse to take me home (due to the high crime rate in that area).
, Ballmer, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, and even Torvalds aren't on the font lines of advancing an agenda. And they also didn't write posts about being glad a competitor was dead the day after that death (don't even try to say Stallman didn't say he was glad, see my comment above a little ways on why that argument is total bunk). Those guys aren't looking for controversy like Stallman. They do their job, get things done, and don't whine constantly like RMS. The others you mention certainly do get their fair share of ad nominee attacks and they don't even set themselves up for it like Stallman. RMS has an appropriate last name as he really is stalling the progress of the FSF.
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With the Frozen Synapse bundle, I had come to the conclusion that there is be sufficient market for the HIB to never stop running (eg, a new bundle every two weeks) if they only did one game at a time.

One game a month is a little more sustainable. Hopefully there will still be a big packs once in a while.

Is it better or worse? Not sure. Though it is telling the HIB guys did not even record a trailer for this one.
I'm working on a web dev toolkit resource site to keep up with all the new changes in front end development (especially if, like me, you're not a full-time front end web developer)
So no-one has built a QuickCheck for Ruby or Python?

I'd like to use this "property-based testing" he stressed.
The way I see it, they're linked. The memory hierarchy has a direct impact on a number of architectural concerns: data organisation, choice of components, communication patterns between components, etc. It can make the difference between a system that meets its functional requirements and one that doesn't. These are all things an architect is supposed to care about, so to me it seems reasonable to expect an expert architect to be aware of the factors influencing them. I get the feeling we're not going to agree about this though.
I'm not sure why people beat themselves up so much for not passing a candidate filter where teams of people select a candidate from a list based on various criteria and instinct. It has been mathematically demonstrated that these processes fail at doing a better job than throwing a dart at a wall containing a list of all the candidates.

When I get a rejection letter for anything, I shrug and treat it like losing a raffle. I don't sweat it, the ticket candidate selection process is not based on merit, it's based on randomness.
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Personally I'm not a huge fan of so-called "cost of living" adjustments. I've lived in a range of "cost of living" areas, and areas with a higher CoL are generally nicer, by which I mean, everything in the area is just generally nicer. Stores don't have missing tiles, produce is fresher, crime is lower, the lights on the stores outside don't have missing bulbs for long, the roads are smoother, the houses are nicer, and the local culture is richer, in most senses of the term.

If we're talking about things like global levels of true wealth, you probably shouldn't adjust for CoL. Areas with high CoL are areas with a higher ambient wealth, and for questions of who is better off, trying to normalize on CoL lines someone in semi-rural China vs. a Manhattenite is normalizing away a critical truth.
Only if you set it up as Exchange account.
Yes, but most authentication mechanisms I know of don't deal with phishing. There's probably some challenge-response authentication system you could use, like... a browser plug-in that talks to the keyfob smart card and does a couple challenges to verify the server is for real... but i'm talking out my ass because i'm not a crypto guy. Anyway, dual auth is still much better than just a password, assuming your user understands what phishing is or how to spot it.
This is great - except some of the titles are wrong.
I saw a bunch of doggie positions at Fidelity for "lower" MFE holders. You can also check up on at least one: Joy Pathak wrote for QuantNet about his experiences doing the Baruch MFE. Jim Liew is running the Alpha Quant Club along with that pack ... those are just a couple people you can stalk.

But I suspect it's just like those who finish a law degree and then can't get a (good enough) job in law: not the university's problem, and they're ashamed they ended up in the bottom 50% of their class.
Sure, that's a big issue. But it might not be as bad as it seems. The reason a native Gmail app is such great news is because of the special way in which we read and organize our Gmail accounts: Priority Inbox, tags rather than folders, stars, etc.

There will probably be nothing special about the native app's compose interface, though, so I don't see that it will be a problem to keep the account registered in both clients, but only to sync regularly with the native Gmail app, and to use whatever app iOS picks (undoubtedly MobileMail.app) when composing.
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Well, this is certainly cooler than anything I work on, nuclear destruction or not.
We need to find our own patterns of success and think outside the YC box.
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Not to mention that it reeks of VB6's "Option Explicit" and "Option Strict" statements. I hated those.
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If poverty, famine, and disease is already bad in sub-Saharan Africa, and is going to get much, much, worse in the future, at what point can the rest of the world safely wash their hands of the situation and say "you're on your own". If one contry cannot feed and sustain themselves should the rest of the world really carry this burden?