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I guess you're right. I didn't think of it that way. But you know there was this subtext of the post that was a criticism of how SV works as far as sane investments go and I think if you apply Groupon to that it makes sense. Groupon is the kind of company that is unsustainable yet has been allowed to grow so large through investment even though any sane person knows they're hemmoraging money. He definitely should have picked a company based in SV but I still get his point.
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Amazon's service will eventually be similar, if not superior, but right now their limited content keeps them from truly competing with Netflix.

I believe Amazon is simply using this as an opportunity to learn the ins and outs while also ramping up their capacity to stream.
Except that the reason we find him repulsive is not because of him telling us "where dangerous things will lead them" but because of him as a human being, his behaviours and personal hygiene.

I have great respect for his thoughts and ideas, and his steadfastness in following his own rules/guidelines, but I don't like him. If he were to look more the part I would have an easier time telling people about his ideas and thoughts without having to worry about people asking "Is that the guy that eats stuff he pulls from his feet?". His outward appearance influences the way people see him, the way people treat him and how much they value his ideas and how seriously they take them.

That is unfortunately true for anyone in almost any situation.
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My point was that raw PHP is a little too unstructured and powerful for the tasks that many plugins are made to accomplish.

By integration, I mean adopting plugins from various authors and making them work as part of your theme. There are all sorts of issues involved... random visual design, clashing HTML doctypes, possible poor coding, adding functionality, fixing security issues... creating a coherent, secure and functional site by piecing together various WordPress plugins is not as easy as installing some plugins and whistling off into the glorious sunset. Simply finding a plugin for a certain purposes which actually works can be a challenge.

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Ok, skipping issues of fairness for a moment because I think they are unhelpful because one cannot actually discuss them objectively.....

The argument for excluding a dominant group would be that people in a non-dominant group may have a different perspective that might otherwise be drowned out. Trying to ensure that one has a strong majority locally in an industry-wide minority can provide a space for a different kind of social interaction. Heck if other coding workshops occur without many (if any) women, then very often times you can get the guy-interactions going anyway.

I think the same does apply to ethnic groups. And it's not a matter of systematic exclusion so much as its an issue. The issue is social and cultural space.
except this doesn't get the message out. the point isn't to blank wikipedia out, it is to blank out wikipedia while informing visitors why and what they can do to help
Until we have inexpensive access to the Internet at broadband speed on mobile networks w/ no cap on data usage, I want the option to work offline.
The best kind of license would be something like that, but in an attorney-referenceable print copy.
> what if our numbers are wrong

In mathematics, a definition cannot be 'wrong'; it can lead to an inconsistency, but that isn't the same thing.

The definition of the real numbers (the set of numbers where 0.999... == 1) does not lead to any inconsistency. However, there are other consistent definitions of sets of numbers where (the equivalent of) 0.999... does not equal (the equivalent of) 1. Those sets of numbers have values mathematicians call 'infinitesimals', which do not exist in the set of the real numbers. The hyperreals are one such set of numbers.

http://www.swaytts.org/blog/?p=1567

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
Actually, I think you're on to something, but I would go farther. Politicians are not just out of touch with the Internet, they are governing a country that is rapidly ceasing to exist outside the walls of their debating chambers. They do not have control so much as complacency of much of the public, and they seem more than willing to do away with the reality that does exist before letting it supplant the fantasy in which they continue to govern.
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Could you say what the results are roughly? I cannot see the graph either.
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I assume in order for it to 'legalize and regulate' there would probably have to be some form of registration specific to the crowdfunding sites. But I agree, they should clarify.
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Families outsourcing child care though is very recent. I, for one, am not a fan of factory farming our kids (and it's one reason why I, as a man, work from home).
Considering that the only companies allowed to post job ads here are YC alumni, you can trust that they are a real company. If I saw an ad like that posted anywhere else, however, I'd have the same reaction.

Doubts of their existence aside, I still agree with the OP; ads like this make me think that I'd hate working for the founder posting them. If he wants me to try to prove my worth as a candidate, I want to know that its even worth my time to send him a portfolio/resume/cover letter.
Well I think it has to do with how difficult it is to find affordable office real estate for businesses that outgrow their space. I can't imagine a company as big as Google or Facebook having their HQ in SF without having to build a giant skyscraper in the Financial District.
Clickable link to job post in question http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3346308
Walk away for a little while.

I've been programming and playing with a computer since I was around 10. There were a couple times in my life where I completely walked away because I wasn't sure that it was actually what I wanted to do. The first time was in high school. For three years I barely even used a computer. I took a course in Pascal but once I got my assignment done I was doing other things. Before high school I was pretty much glued to my computer 24/7 hacking this game or that.

The second time was a year into university. My freshman year I was on my computer hacking all the time. Learning new web tech etc. After my freshman year I pretty much got sick of everything computer related and even ended up not going to class and the next year dropping out completely.

The time away allowed me to explore new ideas and other worlds that I never did when I was glued to my computer all the time. Learning computer tech is not an easy thing, and it takes A LOT of time and dedication. Some people may make it look easy, but I think those people are in the minority.

After taking a year off I realized that I really missed working and creating stuff computer related. It gave me a lot of motivation to go back to university and start learning stuff again. Suddenly university was actually easy, who would have though listening in class and taking notes gets one 75% of the way there.

Leaving computers behind for a while was the best thing I ever did. I look back fondly at all the experiences I gained during those times.

If you find that there is a hole that programming will fill, you will know it. Picking it up again is easy. Its like learning to ride a bike, you may get a little sloppy but it comes back relatively fast.

Oh and stop visiting HN. It is good at depressing people. Realize that HN is like the rest of the news out there, it focuses mainly on the success stories. Not many people write articles about projects they never ended up finishing. Trust me everyone does it. I have around 20 half done projects. HN gets me depressed as well, and I think i'm a pretty competent programmer and had a chance to work on some awesome projects.

Your not alone... don't let the successes on HN get you down. Learn to program because you yourself get off on it, not because you care what anyone else is doing...
only actual YC participants can post these job postings.
> Citation please.

Govt mandates that "health insurance" cover things for which I have no interest. Those things increase the cost. Govt mandates that I can't buy health insurance across state lines, which reduces competition.

There are so many ways in which govt increases the cost of healthcare that I could post large numbers of citations and not even scratch the surface.

> (In other words, you're wrong. And you know it.)

Are you claiming that govt involvement hasn't increased the cost of healthcare at all, or just quibbling about the size of the net increase?
That seems to be the point. I'm guessing they're trying to be "stealth."
Hey, OP.

I see a lot of good responses, and then sometimes people thanking the responders. (and I agree)

But really, I'd like to thank you. Thank you so much for writing this.

I feel the same way you do a lot, and I'd bet that there are others too who have these struggles.

I too had irrelevant experience and could not get even an entry level job because of the fucked up way our industry works. I've seen my classmates strike it rich at Google, and I see all the programming.reddit.com and HN posts of people's blogs and their wonky projects, and sometimes I feel like I could never do what they do, and I'll never get a job.

Right now, I'm about halfway up the curve of something happening for me. I wish I could tell you that it was quick, and I wish that I could tell you what the outcome is going to be for me... Maybe I'll let you know when I get there.

But I just wanted to thank you, and I wanted to tell you that there are a lot of people who feel this way too.

There are some who never feel this way, and I envy them.

The best response I've seen here is to pick a project that you can do in 3 weeks. But I'll go even further: pick one you can do in a day. Then a couple of those. When you've done a few, I'll bet that you are able to easily pick something that's 3 weeks, and get it done in 3 weeks, and feel damn satisfied that you can do something.

Good luck, and solidarity.
This is old news, dated on 13th March 2011. There are over 20K comments on that article, and most seem to believe it. Amazing that people are so easily fooled.
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I agree there is this trend (the hip Social Media whatever startups are loss prominent in SF), but you do see some lower-level silicon valley startups in SF. Salesforce, Riverbed Technology, BitTorrent, Heroku, Dropbox, Square - just to name a few known ones. Admittedly there is few electronics stuff here (outside of biotech).

That said the Bay Area definitely has an OSI model going, with the lowest levels in the SE extreme (santa clara, san jose), higher levels NW (Mt View, Palo Alto), and software applications all the way to SF.
Did you find an exploration of the gravitationally-bound black hole idea? I've been wondering the same thing since reading about this a few years ago.
I think its important to keep in mind this is very tech specific and generalization and doesn't refer to the life style or atmosphere of either being the same.

Many of the engineers/designers tend move around all over the bay area. Also, the investors are the same for a great portion of these companies as well.

It's just easier to refer to it as "The Valley", although it's technically not correct.
@thomas: Salesforce is actually bigger than Facebook by heads and HQ'd in a few skyscrapers in SF.
(soon to move to a dedicated office complex in Mission Bay.)
In what way is crowd funding illegal now? I am assuming that is what the gentleman was implying with "legalize and regulate."

Doesn't regulation of a 'crowdsourced' anything, kind of defeat the purpose? The entire idea is that many small failures lead too faster successful iterations.
Yes, I believe people still do. RSS is about content and providing information. Everybody needs information, everybody needs something new - so it is here to stay..
I'm assuming by RSS you mean the content, not the technology.
In fact, got a site that uses youtube RSS feeds to show videos and create playlists.
He says, is "Clojure the language that will take us into the massively-multicore regime? I don’t know. In fact, I rather doubt it". He does point to it as a step in the right direction.
No, it doesn't entice me to apply. Intentional or otherwise, I think that's a good thing for both parties.

The ad is a window into the soul of their company, unfortunate perhaps, but hardly arrogant.
I think that Dennis was implying that congress will break laws that go beyond just the bill of rights.
For those that can't wait for google, there are already some pretty mature browser-based terminals out there. For example shellinabox (https://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/) which is a full javascript implementation of a vt100 compatible terminal plus a server written in C providing pty streams over http. Web shell (http://code.google.com/p/web-shell/) is another one, doing all the terminal emulation on the server written in python and transferring full lines to the browser.

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I don't think he was doubting their existence, but was just doubting whether or not the traffic graph was real -- it might have been a joke.
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1) No they aren't.
2) Management was likely briefed, and someone indeed authorized it. However, if you believe this went all the way up to the likes of Ballmer, then you have no idea of the organizational structure of MS.

But whatever, haters gonna hate.
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SOPA is just plain ridiculous. It just makes sense to those who still didn't understand, that the Internet is probably the most important human invention, since written communication.

I'm not from the United States, but it will be ridiculous, if that law passes.

Apparently common sense, these days, is actually pretty rare...
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I didn't know that only YC Alumni can post jobs and I'm guessing I'm not the only one, thanks for pointing that out.

I think we both agree this job posting is not very appealing especially considering the amount of positions currently available for developers. Most good developers I know do just as much if not more screening than the companies hiring them. I know a number of companies in need of good developers that have great working environments. I think its important for people hiring to be respectful and kind if they are serious about attracting good talent.
no reason at all to think this is a real company

That said, I definitely have no faith that the graphs are real or even loosely based on reality.
Depends on the company sometimes. I happen to come from a strong engineering background (good school, worked as an engineer at companies from Qualcomm, to small startups to Disney) and got into product after working with a good one.

I am the minority at my current place of work but given the companies most of us reading this are interested in, I think having an engineering background is an advantage. It can be substituted for other analytical backgrounds, but you really need a strong product lead that can spend the time to be the voice of the customer (and their unmet needs) while also getting into the gritty details (ex. hey, have you thought about how Hadoop could be helpful here?).

Most on here that are badmouthing product managers have worked with bad ones. I was there once.
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Apologies, seems one of your fellow bloggers was less clueful, the first post I'd read said "profit", not "revenue".

Even so, you're still looking at this from a very narrow worldview. Not everyone thinks massive profits are necessary for success, and Google has made clear they don't seek profit above all else.
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I find this very profound.
From the numerous hints in the ad, I'm betting this was posted by Rap Genius.

http://rapgenius.com/
Indeed. I myself only put faith in the personality of a company if I know and trust somebody who works there (or in the case of larger ones, in the department of interest.)
I never really understood the reasoning behind accredited investors.
This is the kind of things that make me not want to work in a company like Facebook.
Other job postings for the same company:

~160 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2736780

~130 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2863043

My gut keeps telling me it's turntable.fm
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the post didn't bother me at all so I guess it's just a personal taste kinda thing.

To me I like that they got straight to the point. They are basically saying "we are worth betting your time on because ..." they are growing really fast and what not. I think it's refreshing actually.

Now on the the other hand I am extremely annoyed by posts that use marketing speak and overly-memetic prose. It's like they are trying really really really really hard to be hip, cool, and funny all at the same time.

This post comes off as straight to the point. The yadada thing is not big deal to me because I take it like: "we will cover all that stuff later... if you are interested"
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I wouldn't be so quick to assume that. It's yc funded, and they say music-related. It could be earbits, which I read is doing something like 12,000,000 users a month.

It could easily be somebody else as well. 4,000,000 uniques isn't a ton of users if you're somebody like Grooveshark, Spotify, Rdio, etc.
Another attempt to polarize the world into two opposing forces. Simpleminded.
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The traffic graph is several orders of magnitude off for turntable. I think it's Rap Genius. Goes with the "Rails Genius" title, traffic graph matches better, describes their app (from what I can tell), and I think that's their dropbox ID.
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So... Would this make any difference if it was presented to Congress? Isn't it their duty to protect the Constitution?
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That's fine, but it's a business—and no matter what your actual goals are, being profitable is a necessary prerequisite for doing it long-term.

Google certainly does want Android to contribute significantly to their profitability long-term, even if it's through ad revenue generated through those devices. Mobile is going to be the most important market, so it needs to if Google is going to continue to be such a profitable company, which I'm sure they have every intention of continuing (since profitability allows them to do all the other interesting and cool things they do).

My point is, that if Android is contributing so little money relative to their size now, that's not good long-term—because it's not going to support their current size or growth rate.
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