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I've got a g and l asat classic, my favorite guitar ever. It's one from the mid to early 90's, pre Leo's retirement from the company. Such an amazing gat!

What type is yours?
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Exactly, it's an issue of prejudice more than racism- I would bet that a white american with a thick southern accent would probably face more of an uphill battle than any of the above.
Yea I did that. No avail.

A suggestion for them to improve their product - make a separate column for the main attraction (YC alum).
"In other words, when is the last time a white person has crossed the street to avoid a Chinese/Indian person walking towards them. Ask a black guy when the last time that happened." What does this have to do with the model minority point? Also I'd say that asians and indians are the majority in tech, at least in my experience. My husband is a Mechanical Engineer from Cal and the vast majority of his classmates were Asian and Indian, very few whites and people of other ethnicity.
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Calling everyone "you guys" is offensive; it suggests that being a dude is normal and everything else is deviations we can just ignore. I will believe that "dude" is gender-neutral when I can call the guys I work with "ladies" and have it be considered gender-neutral.

1) Yes, even if implicitly. It says "I expect people to conform to masculine norms; everyone else need not apply." Whether or not they specifically set out to exclude women, they did set out to exclude everyone who wasn't willing to tolerate their sexist and exclusionary behavior, who will statistically be more female than male (though plenty of men are excluded too.)

2) Yes it is. Plus, as men stated up stream, it is directly offensive to some men too, and it should be offensive to anyone who doesn't want to work in a field populated by sexist assholes.
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I think it is pretty clear from the context of his comment that Indian refers to people from India.
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Whoa. $160 initial investment for seventy cents a day profit? Your kid is investing at 160%!

If I spent $50K on these, I could retire! (Except I wouldn't be retired, I'd be driving around all the damn time taking care of my three hundred and twelve gumball machines. But still!)
Great story. I did a similar thing with Pokemon cards - I lived in one school region but actually attended school in another, so had access to two markets. I kept track of inconsistencies in demand and used it to my advantage, taking a plentiful card type from one area to the other and vice versa. Being a kid is serious biznuz!

Reminds me of Barry Silbert (of Second Market)'s introduction to trading - http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2699
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I wonder if any of that holds for those of us who are outside Silicon Valley. The technology world has treated me like an absolute meritocracy until now.
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I highly recommend that you consider having a designer (or a different designer) take a stab at your icon. It's the first thing people notice when looking at your app, and right now it's pretty unappealing. The app itself and your website look a lot better -- bring the icon up to that level and I think you'll do much better.
Thanks for a WACK-IN-THE-HEAD response. Reading the original post got me into this "World Sucks" funk. But you are right, what is wrong should always be remedied first from within. A bit of self evaluation before blaming others is a good motto to live by.
I don't think this is a game of who was oppressed more/worse. The plane and simple fact is that no ethic group endured 400 years of hardcore slavery in the US other than African-Americans. Slavery which was also followed by hardcore and legal discrimination.
I had the same experience - I rode in one with a friend who's a pretty aggressive driver, and I've never felt anything quite like it, except at theme parks. The acceleration seems almost instantaneous, the handling was incredible. I felt like Jeremy Clarkson sounded in the Atom, but in a real car.

When I found out that the Model S sport would be about as quick as the BMW M5, and the reports of ride quality were quite good, I dumped a good amount of money into the stock. If they can ramp up the production like they say, and there aren't any unforeseen delays, nothing else will be able to touch a Model S in that price range.
my Arnold-Schwartenzegger-in-Terminator like determination has made my successes possible

I would like to read more about these experiences of his.
Yes and they often try to distance themselves from African Americans. But what are the actual numbers of African Immigrants in the US compared to Asian/Indian? Even second and third generation. There are larger numbers in Europe I'm sure.

Edit: I'll answer my own question, in 2008 alone African immigrants only accounted for 3% Asian immigrants (which includes India) accounted for 53%. I'm sure that's not a recent trend.
The app solution would have some value for the content providers, the Google solution of scraping the web would give most of the value back to Google.
It sure looks like decoders have to pay: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Documents/AVC_TermsS...
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If you own the music, you can add it, and it is then available to you inside Spotify.
I was hoping the Wii would go in this direction. The Wii has one of the best 20-foot interfaces, imho - channels are distinct, recognizable, and dynamically updatable; you can quickly scan several at once; selection is intuitive; you're not limited by a directional pad for input.

It would be great if Wii channels included broadcast/cable channels (either streaming or on demand or both).
I totally get what you're trying to do but boring is sometimes best. I just want to know (in order): Your skillset, level of skills, how long you've been doing what you're doing, and examples. The next would be where you've worked, how long, what you accomplished at each place. Showing a an upward progression is key. I just didn't get that from the timeline. I've been in tech startups since the 90s and have hired in marketing, biz dev, prod dev. Make the juicy components stand out. For instance, I'm hiring developers right now and I need skillsets in ruby, python, ui, and I want people who have tangible apps to show me. I want to see what they've done in practice. Hope this helps.
What complexity are you talking about? Surely having 2 or 3 app stores instead of one isn't too daunting for the user? Surely allowing direct download of apps from the computer won't complicate things for those who don't want to bother?

Don't say "if you don't like it, don't buy it". Choice is not enough. Most people are just incapable of doing informed decision about privacy. Heck, even I used GMail until two years ago. Plus, even if they are so capable, there is a tragedy of the commons here: if you surrender your data, it could be crossed-reference with the other's, and it may end up affecting even those who didn't surrender their data (GMail is an obvious example: they collect data about whoever writes to their users, even when they host their own mail server). This is way, way more serious than your comment suggests.
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We already have all of the TVs we want in the house (two), and there's certainly no other room that would benefit from having a 42" TV in it.
I made a mod for Oblivion back in the day that basically let you just add some filters to the game. It was way more popular than any of the gameplay mods I spent far more time on. People love filters.
Are you seriously saying that Native Americans were the go-to slaves? Have you heard of a little country called Brazil? Do you know about the trans-Atlantic slave trade? It doesn't seem you do.
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I'm now making that facebook group - 'Hogramming'
Are you sure?

What's wrong with showing an extra line saying, for example, "by the way did you know that we also offer site monitoring which you can get for an additional $ per month"?

It's similar to the viral marketing that started with the "get your own free email at hotmail.com" as a result of Tim Draper's suggestion...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_C._Draper
Oh course he didn't. That's the point.

Maybe having burned a bridge with someone he needs to impress will make him pay more attention next time.
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Didn't I read a story once about how GWU got in trouble for something like this?
it's not about amount of time, it's circumstance. When doing independent projects I regularly put in 80 hours a week. That's fine, it's my own schedule and decision. 40 hours having a supervisor breathing down your neck sucks, but 5 hours of having a supervisor breathing down your neck does too. The amount of time is irrelevant.
Android version better be coming soon.

I outsource small web dev projects with freelancers in India using this app and dropbox. It's fun to use. The push notifications are great.
Dude, I totally get your rant. Hey, we've all been there. Please don't take anything personally or you're in for a huge depression. Just take it as constructive criticism and keep plugging away. I've had some harshness come to me and at first it sucked and I dwelled on it. Then I realized that hey, maybe I'm applying to the wrong programs or maybe I'm not focused on core competencies. Just keep the feedback as such - its feedback. The world doesn't suck if you don't let it.
> very expensive to properly and legally dispose of

How expensive? From the article: $700,000 expensive. For a "pencil-like cylinder 9 inches long and a third of an inch in diameter." Wow.

EDIT: ah, I was mistaken. See child comment. My error.
I don't really feel bad for you. Try again.
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I bring a camera to work, and if the weather is nice, I'll walk around outside and take photos. And even if the weather is terrible I'll take photos just to capture the scene.
Except all those have side reactions, and are not truly aneutronic. Plus the fuel in every cold fusion cell I've ever heard of has been deuterium or tritium and those are not aneutronic.
Slowbans are not exotic - (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...)

>A slowbanned user has delays forcibly introduced into every page they visit. From their perspective, your site has just gotten terribly, horribly slow. And stays that way. They can hardly disrupt the community when they're struggling to get web pages to load. There's also science behind this one, because per research from Google and Amazon, every page load delay directly reduces participation. Get slow enough, for long enough, and a slowbanned user is likely to seek out greener and speedier pastures elsewhere on the internet.

But yeah; this kind of thing could easily be placebo effect.
He said or fit into a pattern, not and.

I once heard an older, well-known investor and entrepreneur in the Boston area tell a room full of students that a startup he's most likely to invest in is one whose founding team includes an IIT graduate. Earlier this month, Foundry Group VC Seth Levine said he felt "surprised" being pitched by a group of guys in their late 40s and 50s (http://www.sethlevine.com/wp/2011/10/is-there-age-bias-in-vc...). Hank described the Sequoia VC saying that they're biased toward younger people.

These types of biases come from people who have established patterns of personality traits and other characteristics of what makes for a successful startup and who they like to deal with. I would further posit that they have established norms for dealing with such people (including building networks which support such connections) which makes it easier for both parties to move the relationship forward.

If, however, a startup founder doesn't fit the molds of age, ethnicity, education, background, or whatever, his or her chances of being taken seriously and/or accomplishing something together are much less.
It may not be true anymore, but that doesn't mean that Hollywood made everything up about that! Ever heard of Jesse James? The point is...thieves go where the money is.

Okay, so fine you don't like my analogy. Let's fix it for you then: If you found a large oasis in the middle of a desert, would you pass it by in order to find a smaller one?
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I'm not sure that's true. There are two types of video content right now:
1) Ad supported
2) Pay per episode or subscription

Unless Google tries to block the ads or take an outsized cut of the episode or subscription fee, the content providers are no worse off than with Apple's current or proposed solution.

Edit: Outside of YouTube, the ads shown before videos online are one of the few places Google does not seem to have a near monopoly online. In my experience, most of the ads seem to be for cars and insurance companies and controlled by the website owner themselves (Hulu, Comedy Central, NBC, ESPN3).
Unless you get accepted by YC or any funds, there's no reason to mention them in the first place.

It's like trying to hit on a girl and saying, "I also met this other chic I liked ..."
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The $700k was for the city and port to dispose of the contaminated container since no one was going to do it for them. The cost of a medical facility properly disposing of the original cobalt has to be a fraction of that (but, to the point, not free).
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You need to read up on the history of other ethnic groups in the USA. Look up the word genocide in American History. Native Americans have suffered through hundreds of years of genocide (by action or neglect) and laws meant to remove all culture and rights. Heck, lookup Pres. Lincoln's record with the tribes (or maybe for more fun the dude on the $20 bill). Some of these laws and programs lasted into the 1960's.

Like I said, I was rather unhappy with the "unique" comment. I would bet there are far fewer tribal members in Silicon Valley startups compared to other ethnic groups.
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That's true. Also i don't understand how a week with family or a week outdoors never gets boring.
Sorry If I may have came off as an ass with the post. The point I was trying to make is that I truly didnt get any feedback on my product, besides the point of lack of market validation. IN my executive statement I sent a link to my beta, which he didnt visit until I was on the phone with him. Market validation is important, but I feel that id you have a functional beta as well as a concept or plan the least you can so is go through it b4 saying lack of market validation is the end all be all.
On the surface it does seem unlike Apple to release a two part unit, but I could see it being sort of like the Macbooks and Cinema displays. The display is plugged into the wall and then there is just one cable that has data/video and power for the external processing unit. When it's time to upgrade the processing unit you just unplug a single cable and swap it out. The display part would be expected to last through at least a couple upgrades of the processing unit.
Can't explain this, other than what do you expect from a country that's still using checks? FWIW, Germany is similar to your country in this regard - entirely impossible to pay with your credit card anywhere without at least a signature.
Don't forget it's all cash income -- no waiting on invoices to post or people to write checks. You crack open the machine, and it's like Christmas.

I think if you did this with a higher-margin item, say DVDs or electronics, you could retire. But the trick is, as you note, scaling all the footwork and overhead. It's not like you can farm out the collection and restocking, not unless you really, really trust somebody. And chasing around 100-300 machines, the people that manage the site, and the product that works? It's not a trivial thing to do at all.

Not only maintenance, there's also always moving the machines around, and pitching store owners to put a machine onsite. Some of them look at it like competition. A couple guys refused to place them unless they got a piece of the action! After she finished pitching, they decided they would go out and buy their own machines. All for 20 bucks a month. Dang cheapskates. And don't forget there are big, serious players out there who wouldn't think twice of using dirty tricks (and the know them all) to quash you like a bug. She's lucky she's under the radar. Somebody dropping a couple hundred thousand for a few dozen high-end machines would not go unnoticed.

I actually like the business model a lot. It encourages direct selling, there's lots of business math, and there aren't a lot of tricky issues involved.

So yes! Kinda. If you could retire on 400-1200 bucks a month, I think it would work. Past that point, though, it gets ugly. Small scale? It rocks. Large scale? It looks much better on TV than it actually is.
Some groups hacking through the like buttons using a script maybe?
Nick - I don't think the goal is to make a masterpiece.

Anyone with a smartphone is no more than 5 feet away from a video capture device 24/7. For the first time in history hundreds of millions of people have the ability to capture and share video instantly. Unfortunately most people don't take advantage of this fact because they find video intimidating.

Socialcam is trying to break down the wall and make video fun. It turns out that filters do a great job of this.
Thanks for the clarification, and sorry for the error. Still an astounding amount.
> What I’m saying is that I do not care about that.

That's certainly your prerogative. I think that more people should care, but it's ultimately your choice to make, not mine. At least you're making an informed decision and I can respect that even if I disagree.

My worry is that many people don't care right now because they're not informed and because Apple isn't doing anything most people would care about. And that sets things up for someday when, in the pursuit of profit, they will start abusing it in ways that most people care about. By then, it will be too late.

Maybe I'm wrong about that. It turned out that I was right about Sony, though. I would have liked to buy some of their products, even knowing their faults, but I refused. And I by refusing to buy from them from the start, I avoided all sorts of trouble later on.

True, Apple could be a different case. I just don't care enough about them to find that out the hard way.
"Layoffs would be necessary, so the wave of hiring that had brought in new personnel only weeks before was reversed."

I hope after this that nobody was seriously considering continuing with the company. It's this kind of gross stupidity that is fatal.

Sure, some people might keep their job while they look for another, but anyone that didn't start looking immediately was crazy.
I think we are arguing the "unique" part and are aware of what group he was referring too.
I live in Canada, and practices are all over the place here as well. Sometimes its chip & PIN, other times its swipe & run. Some places require a signature, some don't. These are just some of the basic pitfalls in the security model I referred to in another comment on this article and its crazy how VISA forces the costs back onto customers and merchants...
also, forgot another regulation that contributes to this.

if you get a new phone because of a 1 or 2yr contract, and you stay with that contract for the whole duration, at the end the operator must UNLOCK your phone for free.
I really hate getting into these discussions because can quickly devolve into either:

a) a stale conversation because people get afraid of coming off racist

b) ad hominem and actually racist ignorantly spouting stereotypes of different races without any factual basis

but I feel like at times its good for me to add my perspective for people who really wouldn't have any idea without it

I am a black ( african-american whatever you like) person who works for a, albeit later stage, startup. With aspirations of one day starting my own.

I grew up in a predominately black neighborhood of the city in the US with the highest percentage black population...

Those things said this issue is both an educational and more importantly a multi generational wealth problem.

I previously discussed at this article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438411

Most black kids don't learn much about computers or computing at an early age and secondly don't have family who can afford for them to have one at home to learn on. They don't have friends who are curious about these things to take from and share with either.

In many of my favorite stories about the most successful tech companies in their infancy you hear about this basically band of brothers with (Steve and Woz, Bill and Paul, Zuckerburg and his roomates) alot of under represented in tech minorites don't have this.

I was fortunate that my family could afford for me to have a computer to learn on. But I didn't start learning to program until midway through high school and many times without any help of anyone knowledgeable in my own area town.

Not to mention the things they chose to do were what many people would consider very risky (all of them dropped out of school at one point or another)

I'll close with this part of my comment from that earlier thread

" Even if its not that risk taking is discouraged, risk averse or more conservative routes are certainly encouraged more.
There is also the pressure of not having multi generational wealth to fall back on.
Not having previously successful family to lean on in times of need or if things don't go right is a strong precursor to risk aversion "

To do that instead of something with much more strongly defined career path (ie doctor, lawyer, dentist, etc.) is tough for many minorities when they have to worry about whether or not their family will be financially sound

Edit:
- Another important reason I generally avoid these conversations is because I too strongly believe that Silicon Valley and the Tech Industry as a whole are meritocracies.

But that is why I chose to comment. To help explain that the issues aren't that blacks and other under represented minorities aren't excluded for racism reasons but for circumstances that leave them uninformed, underprepared, or completely without the ability to compete.
For small transactions you often don't have to sign anything or enter a PIN. I think the rational is that it would be fairly hard for someone to drain all your funds with < $20 transactions. Hopefully I'd realize fairly soon that my card was stolen/missing, and would call to cancel it.

Also, Visa tracks your purchasing habits to an insane degree. More than once I've gotten a phone call asking if I actually bought some item. Finally, I likely wouldn't be liable for much if any of the goods purchased with a stolen card. So, all in all, I'm not terribly worried about that end of the security.
This is a novel online take on the general concept of test marketing.

I would love to see a statistical analysis of the results.
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Please revise the title to something like "having applied to YC was one of the reasons another fund turned me down".

It'd be fair to say it wasn't the only reason.