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I'm _almost_ tempted to mail them for a sample batch - and make an art project...

(But I don't think I need the cavity search every time I enter the US that might come along with that...)
Did you mean billionth?
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Took me 2 months to find a place in sf, rent < 1600/mo Per bed.
Yep. Got rejected here. Trying to make jQuery Mobile web app development easier with drag and drop tools and app management: http://codiqa.com

I've interviewed with a previous startup. Sucks to not make it this time but I'm confident we can help mobile devs solve the same problems we have with mobile web app development.
Whoo! 3rd time rejected! Getting rejected by YC definitely gets easier with time, and I have found it only motivates me further to keep going and prove them wrong.
I can't read your mind so I don't know if this applies to you, omlette, but I read a lot of similar comments and they come off as trying to be politically correct. Yes, very different views and extremism are different but there's a fine line. Should we say terrorists (even excluding the suicide bombing types and leaving only the hostage taking ones) aren't extremist but just expressing very different views? No.

RMS can be called an extremist because he refuses to accept that the opposing views have any merit when they clearly do (see some of my other comments on this post for examples, my apologies for hanging around this thread so long haha).

Just because the guy isn't holding college auditoriums full of undergrads hostage in exchange for GNU/Linux being installed on all campus computers doesn't mean he isn't an extremist. The FOSS movement, while stirring up a fair amount of debate and heated views, doesn't lend itself very well to suicide bombing, hostage taking, or any other type of violence. Maybe a little protesting but that's all. Even so, it doesn't mean he's not an extremist.

It's all about that fine line between strongly held belief and extremism. Peaceful protest doesn't equal not being an extremist.

Please don't pull out dictionary definitions of extremism to counter my point. I'm not saying black is white and white is red, I think I'm being pretty reasonable here.
There's also a lot of people on the "well, x idea used to be considered extreme" bandwagon. I'd say to you that different isn't always better. Communism, socialism, feudalism, and others used to be considered extreme... And different too. Turns out all the naysayers were right! Those things unfortunately were tried and they all bombed out with everyone involved surely wishing they'd never been tried to start with. I'm not saying, at least not in this sentence and the next, that Stallman is wrong. What I'm saying is consider the possibility - really think about it. If you can do that then at least people like me can't call you am extremist.
Did they send acceptance emails?
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if you want to filter out prototypes you can use object.hasOwnProperty( property )
tldr: He wants a couple science python library and 'doesn't feel like porting them in ruby' (to take his wording).
While it needs some tweaking, the concept is brilliant.

If you -- break 40 minutes on your 10K this weekend for your 40th Birthday.

Then I -- will buy the next pack of beer.

If you do not -- break 40 minutes on your 10k etc.

Then you -- will buy the next pack of beer.

Herein publicly posted and promised.

Email: Yours

Email: Mine

Posted with Date and Time.

++then++

Update:

You ran a 39.40 <<link>> and so I owe you a pack of beer.

<or>

If you -- are right about the fact that vinegar is an acid.

Then I will -- pay you 20$

If you are wrong. -- then you pay me 20$

etc.

It needs to be rolling, so that people can see the bets and the pledges rolling by, and others can chime in on some of the bests.

Bets can be open (like the 10K example above) and others can bet in on it too.

or

Bets can be closed (like the vinegar example) and others can either vote for the right answer, or they can just watch one person win.

I like your MVP, and I think you are onto something. Just because people don't understand what you are trying to do, don't let it discourage you. You've just got to get drill down into this functionality. Also, I haven't checked to see if anyone is already doing this, so you may want to do some market research.

http://www.quora.com/Why-did-social-betting-sites-like-blueb...
If GPL ceases to be used (which seems extremely unlikely since it's the most popular software licence) then perhaps you could state that his ideas are obsolete and irrelevant. I do not share Stallman's view regarding proprietary software (although I can see where he comes from given the printer-driver which inspired him to craft GPL) but I certainly see the value of a licence which enforces source code availability of distributed derivates, both practically and ideologically, just as I see the value of licences such as BSD/MIT.

As for his predictions regarding the 'tech-world' they have unfortunately been very accurate with software patents posing as the biggest threath to both open/closed source development just as he predicted back in 1996 (if not earlier). Add to this the increased widespread use of computer 'gadgets' and their locked-down functionality. As such I think his views of the tech world is more relevant than ever, despite not fully agreeing with it.
It seems that for many people, getting a VC term sheet is considered a measure of success. Sometimes it seems like that's the goal they are working for.

Often, however, when I see one of these articles of advice from a VC, I become glad that our business is so capital efficient that we shouldn't need outside investment until we're very profitable.

And even then, I'd seek out a good angel, rather than conventional venture capital. (In my career, I've seen enough bad decisions forced onto founders by venture capitalists first hand.)

The one phrase that will never hold sway on me is "that's the way it's always been done." And, frankly, I think it tells you a lot about someone's motivations when they want to put expenses that they control on your balance sheet.
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"not authorized for use as critical components in life support devices"

Now try to imagine something using this part in such a way.

/* NED low. Turn off life support. Insurance companies now vapor."
I wasn't complaining, simply asking. Maybe Ad-block will be updated to work on HN as well.
If all Rejection Letters could be so nice...
You guys are a class act..

We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.
Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get
better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number
of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot
of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know
we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group
to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that
we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall
just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number
of interviews means 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; we want to learn
from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Team
We didn't make it :(

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I control+f'd "accept" on this thread. No results except those asking if the emails were received. I'm thinking maybe acceptances haven't been sent yet.

I got rejected, unsurprisingly. Beside the fact that nobody should expect to be rejected, my project is extremely local and would benefit little from actually BEING in Silicon Valley. Still, I'm sad to miss out on hanging out with other startups and learning from the best.

Bummer dude!
I think they are sending out rejects first.. got mine :) This is what we are building

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vtcreator.android3...

Funny one week we get featured by Robert Scoble and next week we get rejected by Ycombinator.
How true. Very recently I tried to setup SMTP for intranet and gave up 2 days after. There is just no simple enough guides. Most of them make assumptions of my knowledge, when I had 0 of DNS/SMTP servers.
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just got one (or rather, we got a "come in for an interview" email)
Rejection received!

Does anyone know what the protocol is on reapplying with the same idea/company? Is it not worth it? or is it possibly even recommended?
Rejection hurts like hell. Anybody know anything about possible feedback on the application?
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Richard Stallman, Ultimatist
Richard Stallman is an Ultimatist. He pushes the boundaries, creating more room for more diversity. Think of The Overton Window, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window . Without Stallman and others staking out the far position, the entire dialog is constrained.

Stallman's job isn't to "win". It's to defend a certain form of expression's right to exist. There are no half-measures, no room for compromise.

Agree or disagree with Ultimatists like Stallman, I really don't care, because this isn't about you. Just know this: if the push for free software (as in speech, not beer) was gone, your range of options would be diminished, and then you'd care.

Ultimatists tend to be outside of the mainstream, mocked. Makes them easier to dismiss. Kudos to David Winer for standing up for Stallman, because haters suck.

Other contemporary Ultimatists you may have heard of, and mocked, are:

Glenn Greenwald, defense of human rights, civil liberties, the US Constitution.

Bev Harrison, opposition to touchscreens, internet voting.

Greg Palast, investigative reporter.

NARAL, defense of abortion rights.

Earth First, others, defense of the environment.

NRA, defense of gun rights.

EFF, defense of privacy rights.

ACLU, defense of civil liberties.

In conclusion, I hope that anyone who reads this thinks twice about the role Ultimatists play.
Python implicitly binds to the innermost scope on assignment, so you had the opposite problem when you wanted to reach a nested, non-global scope. Hence the nonlocal keyword added in py3k.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/
Those accepted for interviews are unlikely to announce it.
Aren't the mechanisms of Moore's Law (ie. smaller transistors that run at lower voltages) exactly the same things that make chips more susceptible to radiation? Once you compensate for that by including more redundancy, you may not have a cheaper chip.
If you're hungry enough, being rejected may be the best thing that will ever happen to you. Don't let a YC Reject letter stop you from continuing your dream.
True. Just got mine and just want to work harder.
Anyone found the new keyboard shortcut for "share"? It used to be Shift-S, apparently no longer works.
I actually tried that experiment at one point, and there were surprisingly few popular sets of hell criteria. The main disagreement seems to be over the following questions:

1. What is hell, and does anybody go there? (Popular answers: nonexistent, some kind of vague "separation from God", or a literal eternal torture place.)

2. Do people get saved from hell by faith, or by good deeds?

3. What about people who have never heard of Christianity, or who were indoctrinated into another religion so thoroughly that they will never accept it?

4. What about children who die before they can learn about religion?

These four questions cover the great majority of the variations in Christian hell-beliefs.
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-- Yoda
substractive vs additive. As far as I know, there's no 3D printing technology nearly as strong as aluminum. Yet.
Just signed up, been looking for something like this that isn't AppMaker or the like.

Let me know if I can alpha/beta test for you...
"I would posit here that nothing I could do in best practice (manual front-end testing, unit testing, error handling, etc.) would have caught the offending line."

Running your code through JSLint (or something similar) would have been helpful here. Performing this check before committing code is considered a best practice and it's really easy to setup a pre-commit hook in most version control systems. JSLint has a Node.js mode. It would have said something like "variable used before being defined". http://www.jslint.com/
Yup, 3rd time here too. This was our first time applying with TwoSides (http://www.twosides.co). No worries though, we should all keep plowin' along.
Thank God 
God rejected from Y Combinator, what a relief! My mom made me apply, she just kept NAGGING me and NAGGING me,

"Tommy, have you applied to Y Combinator yet? That Paul Graham is a righteous dude ya know!"

"But MOM! I just wanna run my startup and hang out with my bros! You just don't get me."

Now I'm off the hook. Thanks Paul!
Off topic here, but I didn't see an e-mail in your profile. I would love to try it out when it's ready.
Probably true. But the actual link that he put on his page refers not to the popular meaning, but to the original one.
It's max@codiqa.com

Thanks!
> XCode is just recently free, it always cost something before now.

This is plainly false and easily checked by simply looking at archive.org's record for developer.apple.com.
We just got our rejection. We're building what essentially amounts to a dating site for entrepreneurs and investors.
I don't think Stallman's a very effective activist in some ways. Stallman and the FSF could benefit from looking at the history of social justice movements to see what made them effective.

Of course that's no reason to treat him with disrespect.
CorkboardMe -- also didn't make the cut. But YCombinator isn't the only way build a business, remember that. Good luck everyone!

Find a new way to manage your life: http://corkboard.me
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I'm increasingly not a fan of OOP. If I wrote this article again, one of the things that would change is this sentence.
A friend of mine who completed YC told me that there was a guy who got rejected 4 or 5 times before getting accepted. Just remember always be positive and keep working hard :)

Cheers!
Are there cases of people who've been rejected w/ an idea and later accepted w/ the same?
I think Occupy refers to the claim that "the top 1 percent owns more financial wealth than bottom 95 percent combined" popularized by Michael Moore in his latest film.
It's for this precise reason that I use 1i rather than i when doing complex arithmetic in matlab.
My laptops go EVERYWHERE with me. I really beat the shit of out them. Despite the case and padded backpack.

The right side sagged from where my wrist rests, a problem eliminated by the unibody.

I put my thumb through the LCD, replaced it, and not being very handy, the case lost its factory fresh fit and finish.
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This should say either "God," or "Got" at the beginning. You get to choose!
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Did he submit a new project each time?
No way! Their looking for certain things, this shouldn't stop anybody. Just keep building you guys, getting rejected from Y Combinator means nothing except that you won't be in Y Combinator. That's it.
This will be great as I don't expect the R.Pi to be able to meet demand at first. 8-( Of course, the BeagleBone is announced the day after I break down and order a $129 EFIKA MX "smarttop"... I just want a self-contained Ubuntu or Debian ARM system to fiddle with.
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I think the 2 major things you can take away from being rejected multiple times are A) they really hate your idea, or B) what you're doing isn't "hot" among Silicon Valley investors right now. I have a feeling their choices depend greatly on what they think can get to a Series A funding round. So in either case it really doesn't invalidate what you're doing, and if you can at least get to ramen profitability, then it really doesn't matter what YC or anybody else thinks and you can keep chugging along.
Plenty of folks have applied multiple times before getting accepted.

Sometimes you're "ahead of the market" and they may not yet see the benefit. 6 months from now you are be perfectly positioned.

Other times, they may have simply just missed you in the volume of applications. Or, even in the event that they didn't miss you, sometimes it's still a tough decision. If I'm given the choice between two things I love equally but I can only choose one, that means I have to reject the other even though it is also wonderful.
Nailed it!

Here's a few opinions on startups in China from more than 10 years here:

* Its too difficult to raise capital on something that has no IPO potential, so don't try it in Beijing or Shanghai unless your swinging for the fences. If your not, go to a second tier city. I've recently moved to Chengdu to try my hand at a "smaller" city. I'm living next door to TianFu Software Park. If anyone wants to collaborate in Chengdu, get in touch (see my profile).

* Live in China long enough to develop strong bonds with local Chinese you want to be in business with. I would not attempt a startup in China without either a) very deep pockets or b) a local Chinese partner I trust. I'm married to my partner. As most founders will tell you, your co-founder relationship is like a marriage so choose wisely.

* Company structure - Its very complicated and expensive if you start your corp structure outside of China and eat your way inside. If you have a solid local partner, most of these problems go away. You can form a Chinese company, usually with favorable tax incentives, that you directly own no shares in but has a contract for shares and revenue with your desired non-Chinese entity. This may set off alarms for some as a good way to get ripped off down the line, but there are so many ways to get ripped off, this one isn't worth dwelling on...so choose your co-founders carefully.

* Employees - The cultural barrier is high on this one. I'm hoping that by casting a wider net and treating more of my "employees" as "partners", I may have a fighting chance. A key reason employees don't trust stock options is they have zero friends that have been favorable rewarded with them. Most get ripped off. The best way to show your going to share the wealth is to actually do it! My current plan is to have several small projects, some of them immediate revenue generating, and include a core group as partners in all of them so there's a safety net when one project doesn't pan out. We'll see. Its a new adventure.
Yes (once the idea has progressed more)
I seriously doubt that, it seems ad hominem attacks are used because his detractors in general don't feel they have enough to argument with and/or that their arguments hold little weight. He, being an 'odd bird' from a social aspect makes him an easy target for these kinds of attacks. Has Steve Jobs displayed more 'humanity' than Stallman? Has Steve Ballmer? Linus Torvalds, Mark Zuckerberg?
Heck, sales and income taxes contribute to this. Why is Home Depot so busy on weekends with DIY-ers? Shouldn't an amateur's effective "wage" for finishing his basement be incredibly low compared to a professional with knowledge/tools/etc.? So low that he/she would gladly work a few more hours at the office rather than spending his weekend figuring out how to lay tile? The problem is that I am not taxed on my "earnings" from the weekend work I might perform around the house, but a professional is (unless paid under the table, of course). So, providing labor to myself is effectively subsidized. Furthering this is my employer's subsidy of my weekend labor in the form of health insurance, disability insurance, etc. The professional (or his boss) would have to pay for Workman's Comp insurance (at a pretty high rate for construction labor), but my weekday employer would foot the bill -- just as if I had hurt myself while out walking around the block.

Now, take into account the US's common labor arrangements -- salaried and hourly employment (as opposed to piece work, commissions, etc.). Let's say you are paid a fixed salary. The benefit of spending a Saturday in the office doing extra work to impress the boss has an uncertain payout far in the future -- one which might rationally be discounted. However, the benefit of finishing one's own basement instead of shelling out an extra few thousand in labor is tangible and much more immediate. It is no wonder mid-level salaried employees show-up at Home Depot on weekends. The lot for hourly employees is worse. For some strange reason, the US requires that they be paid 1.5x/hour for work beyond a 40 hour week. 2x on Sundays. This is a huge dis-incentive for an employer to offer his existing employees the opportunity to work weekends when business is heavy. It might be possible for someone to pick-up extra, part-time work in areas where he has expertise, but this work often is hard to come by. So, Home Depot flourishes and basements are finished with off-kilter walls.

Personally, I have had multi-month periods as a software contractor where a client said, "work as many hours as you can, please!" So, every hour not working had a real, easily-quantified opportunity cost. I would have been crazy to have mowed my own lawn. It would have been nice to have been able to purchase other "services" like a doctor's visit without a wait. I even tried to offer the doctor's office a premium to be seen in a high-priority queue, but most insurance plans don't allow such upcharges on top of pre-negotiated rates. You can probably look at my HN posting history and figure out the periods when I had effectively unlimited earning potential -- there are huge gaps where I barely had anything to say.
What's the pricing on those chips?
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I applied and got rejected. But, I have also gotten accepted to StartupChile but would prefer to be in the valley. Getting into YC is like winning the best of the best. Many come, but few are chosen.
Acceptances were sent already :)
> Another person didn’t want preferred shareholders to have any preferred rights.

I'm just fine with the idea of VCs getting common stock like everybody else, but I'm not so much in favor of random redefinitions of words. I'd be afraid of the liability to the company when that person started making up his own definitions of things like employment law...
I don't understand either. I fully expected them to add a new circle for me called "Google Reader Friends" or something but they didn't. Even better would've been in that popup saying hey look, something new! to give the option of creating that very circle. Very big and obvious oversight.
Yes. The other thing Scheme got right is explicit variable scope

(define x 42) ;; global
(let ((x 42)) ;; local, only defined inside the enclosing parenthesis.
(+ x x))