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Thank you.

Sadly HN has become like a drug to me... I have tried several times to ignore and stop coming back here but it has never worked and when I procrastinate I always end up coming back.
I am thinking one of the most common sources: Mercury toxicity from amalgam fillings. They can test your hair for it. I'd look at getting some tests done although I've never gone down that route myself so can't advise. Do you have a passion for anything, or only feeling bad about yourself and your situation? Have you read the Power of Now, it says to separate your life from your life situation?
Actually, we should definitely chat. What you're doing is similar to my plan, though I'm looking at a slightly different vertical.
I feel like this guy has a point that I might agree with (something about the valley echo chamber, or the idea that a lot of startups tackle a seemingly-small set of problems), but it's poorly-focused and under-developed, so it falls kind of flat.
Is it just me or have we had enough of this topic for a year now? Long story short, please stop talking about what people should do. Our 'job' as human beings is to just provide an equal opportunity environment for everyone. Not provide affirmative action.
Well.. Let me show you it this way - If someone offered me a free 32" LCD good TV - I would definitely take it. Just because it is free and it feels like it have value.

If someone offered me it for $25 - I would pass it, since I have no place to put it nor I have time to watch it.

Similar could be observed in .99 games at any app stores. While 99 cents is really close to 0 cents for most US persons, still .99 games will have much less downloads. But ones who downloaded had much bigger motivation to actually play it and not just check it out.

Most of things should have associated costs. At least nominal. In case of such events it is good for both pitchers and for public listening to them. It is different topic if costs should be in dollars or some sort of efforts tho..

IMHO, as usual :)
That's a nice piece of wisdom. Thank you! :)
Meanwhile, those of us continuing to succeed in the "tech backwaters" of the US will be forever amused by the smug self-satisfaction coming out of the "cool" cities. This little spat being just one example.
Seems like this news falls squarely in the "someone's got to" area. Verizon might not be the ideal buyer, but Netflix has run into the dual problems of bandwidth and IP restrictions. They could really use a corporate parent to fight their way through.

Verizon could really help on the bandwidth side, but companies like Comcast, Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon could all help on the IP side.
The recent discussions seemed to have been kicked off by a TechCrunch guest article by Penelope Trunk: "Stop Telling Women to Do Startups" [1].

Two of the more prominent responses are blog posts by Laura Klein ("STFU About What Women Want" [2]) and Zach Holman ("Women Should Do Startups" [3]).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3340143

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3342194

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3344982
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Indeed it is, especially with the inauthor tag, as in:

inauthor:"Isaac Newton"

Google Books is an amazing resource. Would there were a way to get the full text of everything.
The conversation at the next table in NY is usually about real estate, hedge funds or some wild combination of the two. In SF, it's about the next Dropbox... for cats... on Facebook. Either way you are screwed. Every city is an echo chamber in its own right.
Something to keep in mind: the gamut of your LCD is a pretty crude mapping of the actual paint colors.

In the best case, on a wide gamut panel, these are very rude approximations of what you might see under the unnatural lighting experienced by the author. It should not be taken as any kind of diagnostic.

If you have e.g. a 6 bit TN panel, all of these are going to look very similar, before anomalous vision is even involved.
I love how good content about what's actually going on in America has a tendency to come from the foreign press.
I am reminded of Ramanujan's proof that the sum of all positive integers is -1 / 12. The Wikipedia article has a fascinating excerpt from his letter to Dr. Hardy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%80%...
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If this is a fight, I'm pretty sure only one side is fighting it. I don't remember the last time I had a conversation about NY startups or NY vs SF with anyone who wasn't from NY.

I find all the coverage of NY vs. SF rather strange. For the most part, we don't really compete for the same money or for the same talent. Quite often we don't even compete for the same users.
Apparently in the 1920s, a lot more women were in the workforce

Yes, but there was a qualitative difference there: The women who were employed in the first half of the 20th century were mostly young, uneducated, and single. There was no work/family conflict in general: Women (or at least, "good" women) didn't have children until they were married, and husbands (or at least "good" husbands) provided enough income that a wife no longer needed to work.

The employed woman of the 2010s -- usually well educated, often married, often having or intending to have children regardless of marital status -- is very different from the employed woman of the 1920s.
Have you been a lurker all this time? Maybe you should start writing.
Oh I see...what makes you think I may have that? It might be possible...I have had fillings.

I don't really have a passion I am obsessed with being successful, I feel I've wasted 6 years of my life that I will never get back, I feel that I have not accomplished anything worthwhile and for some reason I constantly feel jealous of everyone else's success, this has made me bitter too.
Ho-ly shit! I a, doing the exact same thing as the author. The similarities are eerie! I run "another web design shop" while at the same time building a web product on the side. A startup within a startup, the mother of all mom n' pop startup shops just like he says.

I feel for the author. There are plenty of us out here in the sticks (well, I'm just a stone's throw away from Chicago but others are in the sticks) slaving away, reading HN and TechCrunch and wondering, "does yet another me-too social network really need a trillion dollar funding round?" and "it's pretty obvious that Groupon is a bubble so how could anyone have let them get this far?".

In some ways we think the 1% are a bunch of undeserving assholes who are screwing things up for the rest of us. We see Valleywood as a huge bubble and, just like Hollywood, it often looks shallow, vain, and like nothing more than novelty from the outside.

In other ways we envy the 1% and sometimes even idolize them while dreaming of the day we get featured on TechCrunch or when PG personally invites us to become part of YC's next round.

We simultaneously love the big guys and hate them. Startups are more than hard. They're downright impossible! There are those of us who try despite this and I'd say those who go down that road are either delusional, crazy, or really god damn smart (like Einstein multiplied by Edison to the power of Newton smart). The market is already overcrowded by hordes of idiots who think "HTML for Dummies" books contain all the technical knowledge they need to build and run a web startup and more naive idiots who have a decent tech background (like me!), know they'll need far more to execute, but figure they're smart enough to learn what they need as they go.

In the end, really making it is like winning the lottery. You know you won't but you have to try to know for sure. The best we can do is just try to eek out a nice middle class living for ourselves and hope to god our business doesn't sink against the odds. I never came across an article that really hit the nail on the head like this one. Thank you for writing it Matt!
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Yeah but it can be considered one of Valleywood's darlings. It really helps make his case despite not being in SV.
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Now functional programming and lambda calculus makes sense.

This is un-cking-real.

Thank you.
It's not entirely clear to me that what she was doing was SEO. I mean, if repetition and overuse of style tags is all that's necessary to be accused of keyword stuffing, we'd have to acknowledge the Time Cube guy as the father of modern SEO.

And anyway, it doesn't require a lot of Google love to rank for the query "Kevin Padrick of Obsidian Finance Group." That's about as long-tail as it gets.
Gee, thanks for explaining what you wanted the cite for, the part of my comment that presupposed the most in-depth knowledge of the issues and so is the least likely for any random commenter to drop a snarky {{fact}} on.

That made it very easy for me to understand which claim you were questioning, and so either correct myself or provide further information.
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Replying to myself to point out that Jimbo addressed this concern directly here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#An_updat...
Think of it as "block of ads"
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Yes, yes, could well be Mercury toxicity, especially if you've had many large ones, for a long period of time.

I was reading that: "Amalgam Fillings Since 1970s Unstable: The type of mercury fillings that began to be used during the last couple of decades, non-gamma-2 (high copper), releases many times more mercury than the older style of amalgam fillings."

http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/amalgam/

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Ok, my attempt to make my point is heavy handed vis a vis intellectual
property as a whole. My main frustration on this subject is that many tech and
entreprenrial people, like those who hang out here, have an
inconsistent perspective on intellectual property when it comes to
music.

In this perspective the record labels are considered rapacious
and entity like Spotify as being unfairly squeezed. Actually the
labels put in tremendous resources to create the product, what value
added does Spotify bring? As it stands, copyright is the law of the
land. The whole concept of property, including intellectual property,
is what enables business as we know it to exist. Think about just
trademarks and how critical they are to so many types of business.

Would you feel bad for a retail store set up in a market with razor
thin margins because their suppliers are asking for prices that are
too high? I might feel bad but you can hardly say the suppliers are
being greedy.

My other frustration is a lack of acknowledgement of how many
resources go into creating modern music entertainment products. It's
true that there is compelling music made by amateurs, and that has
always been and will continue (essentially folk musics of different flavors).

But most of the recorded music that we love is made by pros. There are other ways to
support it: government funding, patronage. Advertising based business
models as we know them are completely dependent on our current
intellectual property structure.

As a point of common sense I don't think we as a society should be
enforcing copyright against individuals. But to abandon intellectual
property as a whole concept is a very radical proposition.

BTW, the reason most music business projects lose money is inherent to
the endeavour: most people don't like most music. To get a product that
is successful, you have to do a lot of projects knowing that most will
fail hoping for the hit that makes up for all the losses.

Courtney Love's famous article http://sodacity.net/system/files/Courtney-Love_Courtney-Love...
is disingenuous because she knows what's up with this business model and
conveniently leaves that out of her argument.

I appreciate everyone's thoughts on this subject!
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I've been thinking a lot about this problem lately.

Perhaps in the era of the web, the right answer is to have a kind of error range for sourcing.

If you see the same fact quoted in three places on the web, you track that there are three instances, and the number of independent sources is anywhere from 1-3.

On the web, reshares and linkings far outnumber independent synoptic views of the same data. So in a way it's more accurate to take the opposite approach, assuming it's a single source.

You start upping the number of independent sources when you can prove it. Like, there are multiple camera views. Or, you somehow verify that the independent observers are real people, and you make some best guess about whether their accounts are independent (that's trickier though).
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If ads were proxies through he content site, the site would still send your ID to Google to personalize the ad, but you would be unable to block it.
In some ways we think the 1% are a bunch of undeserving assholes who are screwing things up for the rest of us. We see Valleywood as a huge bubble and, just like Hollywood, it often looks shallow, vain, and like nothing more than novelty from the outside.

They are, and it is. The bubble will pop, and those of us who managed to build sustainable businesses without the benefit of setting huge piles of other people's money on fire will be very well positioned to take advantage of the carnage.

Patience is rarely a virtue in the startup world. But in this case, it is. Keep building.
But do you appreciate being asked to make a choice between children and career? I think that's a big problem that few people are willing to address.
Very inspiring story. Best part is when they discovered that all their four demo units had been damaged during transport to the debug trade show:

"They got three of them working, but the forth one proved damaged beyond repair. Thinking quickly, they made the best of the situation by turning the damaged machine around, opening up the back, and showing off the internal workings as if they had always intended it to be that way."
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This article nicely summarizes the pains of finding a co-founder. I will definitely share this with others in the same boat. I believe the saying goes, "you will find someone when you stop looking".

I have just started looking for a co-founder and I think the hard part is finding someone that has the same level of passion and enthusiasm to solve the problem I am trying (in educational space). I strongly believe that only someone with that strong passion could possibly endure all the effort required to get a startup going somewhere.

BTW, what is your startup about?
* MSN Adcenter - Lower CPA
* Facebook Ads - Longer term engagement (not necessarily lower CPA, though)
* Affiliates - You give them a CPA and they figure out how to get you users :)
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Any information on late applications? Will we all be notified somehow? (I saw the first dinner is Jan 3rd so...)
I mean I got the point of what the author is referencing and agree with some of his points about the Valley being an echo chamber. However it can not be considered a Silicon Valley darling unless one wants to admit that success (I think that Groupon is, but I will accept that many don't think so) is somehow only associated with the area. I guess that is why I felt the need to point out that Groupon is not based in SF.

Edit: clarifying success reference to be clear that I mean I think that Groupon is a success and not that I think that success must be associated with SF
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What about the current state of the browser market (assuming that's what you mean by client) leads you to believe we're moving toward a single terrible client that we can't fix? We have several good browsers and engines on the market, half of them open source.

You know what's 1990-vintage? The set of HTML controls you have at your disposal, right now, even with HTML5, to send to the client to progressively enhance. At some point you have to draw the line. Require JavaScript and offer an API for the content. It'll be better specified than a bunch of markup anyway, which has a tendency to change at the whim of designers and marketing.

This library is supposed to be small and tightly focused. Providing progressive enhancement should be up to the developers using the library, not the library authors. Including it in the library would dictate too much about how things must work on the server, thus limiting the audience.
thread on HN from when common crawl was announced, interesting info there:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3209690
I often think that way too but I worry that if the bubble pops it could actually make things harder for those of us who have sustainable businesses. Not everyone can afford to bootstrap and sometimes you have to take a loan. Now, I haven't and I have no plans to but what if one day in the future people like us get to a point where it actually makes sense to have some investors on board (responsibly, of course) but by that time the bubble bursts and we're left with nothing even if we are a good investment? Maybe I'm wrong and it's that envy in me that wants to get to that point.
From the privacy standpoint am still uncomfortable at the idea of having my data on the cloud even if it's encrypted and would prefer to keep it local. Ofcourse, my rational side points out that i don't have any data that is worth my cloud provider to run brute-force attacks and decrypt....

But then there's also the fact that i have access to a decent set of hdd's and can store it locally rather with ease.with the cost being the attention and time of running smartctl once in a while to check the health of the hdd's and getting a backup...
Think of a creative side project that you would really enjoy doing. Then do it. And take your time on it. Slow down. Tune out from what everyone else is doing. You have to give yourself time and space to breathe. Don't put pressure on yourself, make it fun!

Don't worry about reading SICP or becoming an expert at some technology. That will come automatically over time. Just choose one stack for your side project and go with it.

It doesn't matter if you code your project in C, clojure, or ruby. What matters is that you produce something that you feel good about. If you make a goal to produce something good, you will learn the technologies and you will become a good hacker over time.

I write all this because I was in the same position as you a couple years ago, so I scrapped my ambition of reading theoretical CS books and learning all the latest hot new technologies (I will do all that stuff later). I decided I'd make a game, and learn what I need to add the features that I imagined. And I progressed. It was so much more fun that way.
Am I the only one who thinks this video is silly?

... you need to roll your sleeves, work hard, and don't give up. It's not the city that makes startups, it's you.
My previous company tried to encourage more support teams (sysadmins, dbas, storage etc) to work from home and a lot of people embraced it. However the company discovered an unfortunate side effect - teaming broke down.

When our customers had critical incidents, our ability to respond and resolve the issues became worse and worse. The effect of working from home caused the teams (and even people within the teams themselves) to often fail to see the problem holistically. They would check their specific area and then pass the buck to another team.

Telecommuting definitely has benefits in the right situations, but if your work requires groups of people to collaborate closely and quickly, telecommuting can have a very adverse effect on your performance.
Being based in Australia, I've often felt as though I'm at a massive disadvantage by not being in the centre of a startup hotspot. It feels as though being so far away from "all the action" means I'm less likely to succeed with the things I build, but despite this I've never been deterred from continuing down the track I'm heading on.

I don't know if banding together as a coalition would be much help (happy to be proven wrong), but I do think the author makes a valid point that we—as the other 99% of startups—need do a better job of focusing on being a successful business (especially on a local scale) first before we worry about moving to SF/NYC, TechCrunch headlines, and massive exits.
But think of all the poor students forced to find original sources instead of just visiting Wikipedia!

Would be interesting to see the changes in grades for assignments due during a period when Wikipedia was unavailable.
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I'm in the U.S. Getting the menu here. It only shows up on rollover, resulting in a page that is even more minimalist-looking than before, so I wouldn't say the page looks "horrible". OTOH, the usability of the menu is not great; it takes some time to find & click on what I want, and sometimes I'll move the mouse out of range, and the menu will vanish.
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