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I'm possibly rationalizing here, but some of the NOs I've received in my life have led to decisions and outcomes that I know ended up being the better path. So, definitely not something to feel down about, it's a tough YC class to get into.

Anyone who think they got jibbed because of supposedly amazing creds should congratulate YC that the applicant pool is so strong that so many other applicants are at least equal in ability.

Anyway, like Zuck said at Startup School - just go F'ing build it and prove them wrong if you can - it's so damn cheap to put out an MVP these days. I know we will continue our experiments and move methodically through our own process of trying to build a viable business, regardless of YC's opinion. I am pretty sure this is what pg would encourage as well.
Don't YC claim to choose teams instead of ideas?
who was in the interview room with you ?
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The idea that Caroline County, VA (my home town) is the 9% is fairly ridiculous. It's a very poor county, with most people working in the food industry or at King's Dominion nearby. I suppose DC commuters may be skewing the stats, but that certainly wasn't reflected in my high school.
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If scoring of YC applications is anything like upvoting/downvoting of HN comments I do not think anyone should link their self-worth to getting rejected.

My impression from talking with various YC partners at the Open House / Startup School was that the ones most qualified to evaluate my application have not seen it. But at the scale YC is operating now this sort of thing seems inevitable.

Moral of the story: never put all eggs in one basket, have Plan B, C, D, E ... ZZZ, preferably around being able to fund yourself with revenue, while still scaling your product business.

Just like us :)
We got rejected the first time. Same idea, 2nd time, accepted.
The NP posts don't say there are no jobs -- just that junior quant has 1000+ applicants per position.

Jane Street still jingles its bells up at MIT, but for those who are less than six stdev's IQ or don't live in NYC / London, I would say focus on petroengineering instead of quant finance. (Petroengineering is the highest paying college major.)
...a filter which has been mathematically demonstrated to fail at doing better than random chance at picking good candidates

Where could I read more about this?
We have to use SendGrid at work and more often than not email gets delayed way beyond acceptable (about 1 hour, for example). It does have great features but if I could choose, I'd chose not to use it... at least not for everything.
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"it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it;"

A little like writing to the girl/guy that rejected you with great news that you've landed in Hollywood. By the time you get there they will know it.

Anyway, by "successful" what do they mean anyway?

Someone else funded you? (go to crunchbase).

Or you've gone public?

Or you've sold the business?

Or you're on the front of the WSJ?

Isn't the info they are looking for in all the obvious places? Patronizing to suggest "tell us about your success" as if they can't go to the trouble to uncover it themselves somehow.
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I know they are not written in Python, that comment wasn't meant to be a knock on Ruby's performance in any way. Its simply the case that writing a highly performant vectorized computation library in a language that doesn't allow direct memory manipulation is a non-starter.
I don't get your argument. What's the difference between

module Numeric
def even?
# ...
end
end

and

even? :: (Numeric t) -> a

Both declare functions that consume something implementing the Numeric type/protocol, and return something else. I don't see the practical difference between them, other than the calling syntax of the result.
Can you post a link or something about the not being able to beat random chance thing?
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Do yourself a favor and use CoffeeScript! You will never have to worry about this or any number of other trivial JS mistakes, plus your code will be more readable and more fun to write. Win/win.
So basically you stand up for Stallman because he reminds you of a kid in high school who used to get bullied? Not such a great reason. If I like Stallman I'd stand up for him because I believe in his ideals, respect his work, and want him to continue doing good. But then I'd remember he isn't doing much good.

Stallman needs no defending. He's a big boy that leaves himself open to attack. Public figures always have to deal with that sort of thing but I'm sure they don't lose any sleep about it.

But whatever, that doesn't bother me. What bothers me is people equating weird, eccentric, odd behavior and different views as automatically good. Novelty isn't always good. Different for the sake of different isn't always good. I'm going to wear my pants on my head and you shouldn't make fun of me because I'm different and eccentric which should translate into you thinking I'm a genius, right? No! Not at all. Stallman is certainly different and very possibly completely wrong. It's fun to make fun of his quirks even though we shouldn't (I'd like to add I never have made fun of him for quirks, only for actions and ideas) but why are we jumping in to defend this guy because he's different? There are a ton of people who think differently but we can't be applauding people for being different as it isn't that hard to do.
I don't see any thing untrue in the quote you propose to our reading. It is a bit untactful in our PC times but, guess what, I agree that RMS is not the most tactful guy in the world. I'd boldly say he might agree himself.

Slavery: It is a metaphor. A proprietary software handling my data, my content, my texts, my thoughts, my music or my relationships, and save these important personal assets into a format I cannot control, disallowing me to take it back in a useful way, is a kind of "ball and chains" that can be allegorically referred as "slavery": the user is losing important personal freedoms, most of the time unknowingly, or unknowing of the alternatives.
It's good and I recommend it, but "new" isn't quite right: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2716515
Wow. This is very much needed. That being said, to what end are they going for ?
"It’s a damn tragedy. I’m not an expert in JavaScript"

Hell yea, the valley's full of smart kids who don't know what the hell they're doing with JavaScript and thinks they're one hell of a hacker when they discovered that they can do shit with a few lines of JS and trumpeting on the how great NodeJS or whatever the greatest and newest shiny framework out there.

If you don't really understand scoping in JS, please don't use node and hit yourself on your foot and then blog the cool shit out of it.

I'm just saying, no hard feelings. :)
Do you know how many of the startups change dramatically or, at minimum, change names (or don't even have one yet)?

After reviewing 2000+ applications, do you really expect them, upon seeing a TechCrunch post 2 years later to remember that was one of their applicants?

You can trust that they really do mean they'd like to know about it, and if I know them, they'd actually go look up the application to see if there is any way they can avoid missing that opportunity in the future.
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I think this is the biggest factor at play. The field of companies that would consume geo-location didn't grow as fast as people thought.

For a period when simplegeo was funded it seemed like everyone was butting their head against this data layer problem... but the big guys eventually figured it out internally and the small guys moved on to groupon clones and suddenly there wasn't a huge market.
Because it is a very good aggregation of almost everything on the internet I care about. I can have feeds for tumblr accounts, youtube accounts, twitter accounts and whole subreddits and without actually having an account in any one of them or actually having to go to them everyday.

This ties in with my complaint with Reader removing social features. I don't want to go to G+ everyday to see my friends' shares when previously I could stay in the only ``social'' network I care about.
Read Joel's epic post here describing the phenomenon: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html

The 'dead sea effect' is caused by this phenomenon:
http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...

Hiring managers get the technical competency part right but they completely miss the most important things: work-ethic, tenacity, responsibility, team skills, organizational and planning ability, cultural fit, and decision-making. When you hire based on qualities that have no relevance (as all companies everywhere do), you might as well get some monkeys to throw darts on the wall. it'll speed up the process!
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In previous YC rejections I've thought to myself "wow if they rejected me they must have recieved some pretty spectacular applications". And then months later when I see the list of companies that did get in I was like "wtf did they really fund a location-based social network for cat fanatics?".
I remember all of the partners being there.
Maybe the change in idea, or the progress, showed the true colors of the team better.
Well, I had applied to StartupChile and got accepted, but wanted to see how my luck would turn if I applied the same startup to YC. I would of prefered to be in SF with the great mentors and angels, but hey StartupChile give you $40k with no take of equity.
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Have you seen what Phillip Rosedale (Second Life) is doing at Love Machine / The Worklist?

https://www.worklist.net/worklist/

He talks about it the first time he was interviewed on Foundation by Kevin Rose -- http://foundation.kr/3/
What he says about higher order functions rings very true for me. I learned Python before Ruby, and while I love using both languages, in Ruby I really learned for the first time the power of higher order functions because they are thrown in your face when using it. They are everywhere in the standard library and the syntax makes them very convenient to read and write. They are idiomatic Ruby.

Once I learned Ruby, I started using higher order functions in other languages. Learning Ruby changed the way I wrote Python. Learning Ruby even changed the way I wrote Java!
While I code mostly in Python, C#, and a little Racket these days, I'll always remember Ruby fondly for changing the way I thought about coding.

As a side note, The other thing Ruby opened my eyes to was metaprogramming. Ruby's metaprogramming facilities are dead simple compared to Python's, which I feel changed practically every release from 2.2 onward. Of course the Lisps take the cake when it comes to code generation, but Ruby's ability to easily manipulate symbol tables is a nice easy way to start wrapping your head around the idea of code that generates code if your brain has already gotten used to C-style syntax and finds homoiconic s-expression-based languages a little strange.
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The higher order monadic join concept cannot be implemented in java but a simpler function in terms of flattening a list of list is easy enough. In a functional language a simple way would be to fold over (++) append.

so in java a simple way would be to initialize an l = arrayList and then do a foreach on each list in the list of the lists and foreach element in each list add it to the arrayList l. Not as elegant, much more how instead of what but 4 noisy lines max.

C# has list.selectMany( _ => _ ) for that.
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You said it perfectly, kenjackson. Everyone needs to chill and stop crapping their pants every time someone disagrees with Stallman. Public figures get insulted by morons like us all the time. They don't sweat it and if they do should get out of the public eye.

I'm a Steve Jobs fanboy but I certainly don't care if someone mocks him, even posthumously. I did get very offended by Stallman's comments the day after his death but that's a whole other animal there. Otherwise people need to stop taking our opinions so personally. If I disagree on just one point or everything he stands for it doesn't mean I don't like him unless I say so. It also doesn't mean I respect or don't respect his previous work. Enough with this cult of personality stuff already.
It's a very aggressive schedule, and live video (I would argue) doesn't help -- it simply puts pressure on students to focus nonstop, which is very challenging.

The CodeLesson iOS course takes four weeks, and it's all time-shifted, so students can take in the material on a schedule that makes sense to them and ask the instructor questions any time while the course is in session.
We are just getting started, and not in it for the fame, but doesn't make it hurt any less. Hard busting your ass 9-5 and coming home to do more while your kids wonder why you can't play outside. Damn this biz is rough
you applied this session? are the results out? i applied too but didn't receive any email..
Winer could write a blog post criticizing the treatment of RMS without, say, whinging about Winer's hard lot in life. Since Winer made himself unnecessarily central to the blog post, it opens him up to criticism on those grounds distinct from any discussion of rms or people's behavior towards rms.

And though I pay virtually no attention to Winer, a cursory googling finds a trail of bad feelings and nasty behavior (lawsuits over $5k and handshake deals, nasty personal disputes, etc). So it's not unreasonable to suggest people in glass houses should keep their mouths shut.
Honestly people who live by these Startup School speeches or Entrepreneurship articles written by techcrunch will never get any far. You might as well call it quits.

Reading these kinds of things is like watching porn, you keep watching it and feel good for a while, but before you know it you'll forget everything you just watched. If it makes you feel any better Mark Zuckerberg didnt waste his valuable startup time reading about other startups or Entrepreneurs, he learned it through practice just like how one would understand a math concept.

People probably won't agree with what I've said above and thats ok people have their own opinions, but the fact is, the people who do agree with the above statement are in a position to sculpt tomorrow.

I mean look at the whole YC program, theres only one successful company that deserves any credit and that has legitly taken off. All the YC People listen to these "saints" and think they're changing the world by telling all their friends they're coding all day and working 100 hrs a week. I mean all these people do is use macs, play with ruby, listen to music and stay up late all night pretending they're changing the world.
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I am currently living in DC, so I am used to the city and don't really like suburbs that much. So whats a good place that has the big city feel with lots of hacker activities?
More of us, but not as many as you'd think.

The top 1% of the wold is ~70 million people. This is 22% of the US population. The top 22% in the US earn about $85k per year. So, if you're making over $85k, you're in the global 1%.

Except, this is rather America centric. If we expand out to the entire G8 (pop. ~880 million), we find that you need to be in the top 8% of G8 salaries to be in the global 1%. This corresponds to about $150k, taking the zeroth order approximation that the G8 distributions are the same as the US one.

Note: Population data pulled from Mathematica and US Household income data pulled from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...). Note that the income data is dated, so corrections are welcome.
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I think you might have cause and effect backwards.
Or use the scroll-wheel.
I used to hear the ideas and react the same way. But then I meet the founders and I'm like, ok it makes sense now.
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I just applied for an API key, but there's a deadline of the 4th or the 7th? I'm not optimistic this particular project will percolate to the top of the stack that quickly.
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Screw the variable payout notion. It's a hook (as said).

- $6m in 3yrs is a substantial risk and unlikely due to what everyone else said.

- $4m in 2yrs is still a decent time horizon, but as mentioned, they are trying to lure you in for on the promise that it will be hard to pay in 1 year and probably more than they are prepared to spend.

- Try $3m in 18 months with $1.5M upon close and $500k divided over the next 18 months.

You get 75% upfront and can hedge on their success/failure.

Waiting and anticipating checks to arrive is a nightmare and if you are like most, you will be highly bothered by this - whether or not you get your code back. (At which point, it will likely be duplicated elsewhere or deemed irrelevant.)
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I had applied for the previous round. I am heading there in early Jan/2012.
It still conjures up variables out of thin air.

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That he sees it as unethical at all makes our views incompatible. You're speaking of less evil, but I don't think proprietary software is evil at all. The idea that proprietary software being unethical is fairly fundamental to Stallman's thinking, and I can't reconcile that with my own thoughts on the subject.

Speaking to pragmatism, Stallman has unequivocally said in interviews that if you write proprietary software you should quit your job because you are doing something unethical.

Now, I'm glad Stallman is around. The FOSS movement is, I feel, very important, and its important that FOSS exists. I don't wish that Stallman would go away simply because we do not share the same fundamental beliefs regarding software. I think that would be a loss. But I'm also glad that there are like minded people like myself who do not view a proprietary app as some sort of violation of basic human freedoms.
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