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Perhaps helping to create a society that is more personally fulfilling and with a greater degree of social equality and fairness might be a good place to focus.

So everything from free local arts/education/tech facilities through to high quality affordable group legal insurance.
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I played Borderlands and enjoyed it, but I had to stop playing after first act (when you leave first town to go to desert, I don't know whether it's really first act) - because of my severe case of arachnophobia (and worm-and-bug-looking-thins-phobia) - I literally panicked and mashed escape key to pause game, had talk myself to calming down, shoot six bullets and then panic again when this bug suddenly changed direction or second one appeared.
After half hour of that I was so mentally exhausted, I quit and never looked back.

I wonder if I'm the only one with such problems.
It could've been slowed down a lot if Google made Youtube in WebM by default by now. But they didn't, and that's probably because they don't think it's ready yet. Too bad. They might've missed their chance, or they will miss it if they don't do it very soon.
People keep doing dating type websites. That market is frighteningly full. But I'm surprised people haven't seen the state of the "penpals for prisoners" market - there are lots of websites and they are all, without exception, appalling. Not just a bit clunky, but really really bad.

To turn that from a dull idea (it's been done, it just needs to be done better) you'd add in some human rights stuff, and some prisoner reform stuff. If you wanted to push some boundaries you'd use it to include schemes that befriend, and monitor, paedophiles.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11755527)

Add in some work / education programmes (using some disruptive technology to deliver the education; because you have a captive market.) and you've got a nice socially aware start up.
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Unfortunately, it's often easier to get away with it when you're "smart" because when someone looks at your screen they don't see a Facebook game - they see "research".
The article says that the app store ranking algorithm is more or less known and is linking to the following presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/kolinko/app-store-seo-tutorial

Which does not actually say anything about the actual algorithm, just tips and tricks for indie apps and SEO.

It would be the same as saying the Google algorithm is known and then link to some SEO tricks.
Oh come on - how can you possibly expect to be mentoring startups when it seems as if you don't particularly have a clue?

Sorry if that's harsh, but what are you providing for your 6% beyond "your network"?
6% for £12.5k isn't going to be enticing enough for what they're offering.

6% if you're YCombinator is one thing, there's track record, location, address book, mentors, who you get to pitch to, etc... and you can easily come to the conclusion that you've had value-for-equity.

But I read BGV's site carefully as I would consider my startup to be exactly what they are looking for, and I meet all of their requirements (we're even London based), but... I couldn't find on their site the value to my startup, and how the 6% translated into anything of substance to me.

If it's not the people (experienced, with contacts, track record, etc), then I'm looking at the money, and the money isn't enough to justify the equity given the weakness of the rest of the offering.

It feels like someone has tried to emulate YC without understand what the value of YC is.
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Also just being generally slow lately.
> You don't remember what the original argumentation was. Firefox is free, Mozilla can't afford the patent licensing, that's all.

IIRC, there were other reasons not to support using the OS codecs. H264 license fees are not an issue when you just use the codecs the OS provides, as they are already covered by the OS or codec vendor. With all the Google millions that Firefox gets each year, the license fee should not really be a problem anyway.

What I understand from it, is that it would take a lot of effort to use system codecs for different video formats, while still providing the complete set of HTML5 video functions for every format.

I never really bought this argument since IE, Safari and Chrome appear to handle this just fine, if you have Perian installed for example, you can even play HTML5 WebM directly from Safari. So I think we can safely conclude there were no other arguments for Mozilla's decision not to support H264 through system codecs, besides ideological ones.

Personally, I think this is great news. Everyone should just stop complaining about the supposed H264 patent issues, standardize on it, and move on. The patents have never been a problem and they never will, you only need to pay license fees if you make money off of H264, in which case you should just pay up, technology like this doesn't fall from trees. The moment WebM/VP8 would gain any traction at all on the internet, it would prove to be a patent minefield just like H264, as you simply cannot make a modern video codec without violating any patents these days.
I remember a talk of Crockford, where he explained that. He also explained that it worried IBM lawyers, to the point that he signed them a document "authorizing IBM to do evil with his software".
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It's a lot more responsibility, but if your future wife is supportive it will actually be a lot easier (if she brings dem coffee!) :)
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Agreed, though I'd say posts like this one are something of an exception; if you weren't already aware of the story, you wouldn't even think to search for it. So it serves as a sort of "hey, HN users, you might be interested in this" post, rather than a discussion area for an article which people might well find via other sources, and want to see discussions about.
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Nice, now all it needs is a usable GUI.
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Perhaps the link to the presentation wasn't too fortunate.

The app store ranking algorithm is quite well known, and the presentation also includes information about it. In brief - first go the apps with search query in title/publisher name/in-app purchase names, then apps with search query in keywords. The sales are used as a tiebreaker.

The problem is in the details & special cases. And that's what we more or less figured out :)
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Aside from not being able to see the video due to a missing-plugin. The demo is really neat.
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The main problem with the distros available today is their lack of non-free software. No matter how much you or I like free software, Minecraft can't run as good on OpenJDK as on Sun JDK, and I automatically install the proprietary Flash version because the other one's just way too laggy to use. I also always run smxi to get the best graphics drivers and compability with the least amount of work.

And even then I struggle with drivers: I went from a Radeon HD 6870 to a GTX 550 TI just to be able to run Linux on my machine. There is probably some way to install the HD 6870 on a linux machine, but after using 26 hours on that card trying to get it to work (I timed it), I gave up. Imagine if I used those 26 hours on work instead.

People don't care whether stuff is free or not: They just want stuff that works. If you can't get that without setting up non-free repositories and download proprietary graphic drivers for your graphics card, then you won't get normal people to use your operating system.
The JSON spec is no longer exclusively under this license as it's part of both the ECMA 5 specification and formalised under RFC 4627 so the "do good not evil" tidbit (which, by the way, SQLite - http://www.sqlite.org/different.html also mentions) to me, doesn't appear to apply.

Can we get over this and move on? Anyone would think a lot of people were swindled of something that was clearly not ill-intended.
Only fitting that in that thread there is not a single reply from Apple.
Yes, on the next update we will add a rating widget to encourage feedback. What is the usual approach to this? Shall we wait for the user to have used our app 5 times, 10 times, 20 times...? Any ideas are welcome.
OTOH, I recently managed to fire up an old PCI "winmodem" (which used to be the bane of linux existence) and it worked instantly in Ubuntu. Windows 7 wouldn't even finish bootup with it in.

If you want to use hardware that's more than year or two old, Ubuntu is the way to go.
After marriage isn't the hard part. It's once you have kids that it gets harder.

That being said, I'll address what it's like after marriage.

If you're like me, you probably view hacking as a form of 1) entertainment and 2) continuous self education.

Make sure his/her needs are being met. Eat dinner together, every night. Set aside (at least) one evening for him/her each week. Do something fun as least one weekend a month.

Don't sacrifice his/her time for hacking. Do look at setting aside other activities that aren't really important if hacking is more important to you (i.e. golf, playing video games, watching tv, Skyrim, Minecraft, etc.).

Keep communication open. Let him/her know what you're working on as well as why it's important. Use him/her as a sounding board for your ideas. It keeps him/her involved and informed. Also, focus on point #2 above.

More than likely, he/she will have times that he/she likes to read, watch tv, or go out with friends. You'll find that those times are also valuable for hacking. When you do hack, try to be in the same room and sitting on the couch next to him/her, rather than being down the hall, away at a coffee shop or somewhere else.

To recap: 1) make sure his/her needs are being met, 2) don't be selfish with your hacking time, 3) always keep communication open, 4) be visible.

Good luck!
>Turns out Ubuntu has a hidden log file that logs errors, with no sanity checks on size, and it hit 300+ GB.

Uh, what is this hidden log?
I heard the phrase "yak shearing" as the term for what this author calls "rabbit holing".

The essay cites Hamming, "I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on."

This reminds me of a quote by Rab Butler (British Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1951—1955) "It is more important to be generous than to be efficient — that is what I learned at the Treasury." It's about more or less the same thing: generosity of either your time or support gets you involved with other people and their concerns, and that is very important to making contributions of real importance.
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Well there goes my evil scheme to take over the world with a lightweight, text-based open standard. CURSE YOU LICENSING AGREEMENT!!!!
Naive question here, is there a real need for a native app for iPad in the first place?
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That's all subjective, of course. There are problems with bringing linux to mainstream users. But other OS don't go always smoothly either.

Since linux isn't widespread, all we've got is our anecdotes. And my anecdote is that I installed ubuntu on my non-techie relatives' computers. And that has been great both for me and for them. They still do the same thing they've been doing before. (mostly facebooking, casual gaming, skyping etc) And I don't need to run for rescue because of crapware bloat, viruses and all kinds of weird crashes as before.

So if you have parents who often calls for help because of computer problems. I'd recommend you try installing ubuntu for them and see it for yourself. Judging from my experience, I'd say it's ready for prime time. (and btw, that was much before 11.10)
Considering that there is a special mod for Skyrim patching out spiders, i guess: no.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/14/arachnophobes-rej...

I also have two friends that have more or less severe problems with spiders, digital or not.
I think you make a great point. People like Justin Kan going back through the YC process with a new startup (when the funding isn't a concern) just shows how much the people of YC and the YC brand matter, the money is only a part of it. Although YC didn't start in this position, the brand has built up over many years and I don't think the lack of people at the start will cause problems for BGV, but it will give them a hard time when being compared to the likes of YC.
I'm not a first timer, but I recently signed up for a developer account and went to set it up last night. I spent a few hours getting angry and trying everything I knew to make it work, until I went to the Apple Dev forums and saw a post about it.

It's so complicated that I couldn't tell if it was broken or if I was doing something wrong.
What we mean by this is that recipients do not need to have an iPhone (or even the app) to be able to participate.
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About 3 times seems reasonable to me. All the best!
I saw this license buried within the iOS "Settings -> General -> About -> Legal Notices".

So I guess neither Apple nor any iPhone-owning user may use the phone for evil.
Google won't have any problems then.
Interesting, will look into this, thanks!
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I videotaped this for a few friends of mine. Hopefully someone will find some of the talks interesting.
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I have a similar experience where my roommate's computer (windows)just became a bloated mess and he asked me how he could try something new. Aside from getting iTunes to run on his new Ubuntu install it was a smooth and easy transition. He ended up using it for about a year and managed to solve a majority of his own problems from the Ubuntu forums.
Technically SQLite is in the public domain, so you can do evil with it (public domain works are inherently more evil than Open Source-licensed works), and they only offer a blessing and not a requirement to do no evil. So SQLite is way more evil than JSON.
Mashable has a wider audience, less niche (startups are not mainstream yet). Mashable also has a higher traffic rate. Pete Cashmore knows what he's doing.
I have been using similar license with my freeware apps for some time http://www.rw-designer.com/entry/315

I think when giving something away for free, it does not hurt to try to make the world a little better...
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Hmm can someone please edit this to remove the #comments hash from the URL? :D
The problem is that country codes isn't standardized. The + (plus) denotes that you need to enter your country code, ex to call your number I would dial 27441234567890 (27 being South Africa). Albeit in generally country codes are 4 characters long with leading zeroes, leading zeroes of local numbers are also chopped off. The following format pretty much represents the majority of the numbers out there (+:calling country code)(country code)(region code)(area code)(local number), afaik there are some countries without country codes too.
"surely, you must be kidding?"

must be a typo.
20 million, right.
That is precisely why udacity courses are gaining popularity. They give you a false sense of accomplishment when actually the learning is very superficial.
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jslint (and it's derivatives) are still under this license.

(which is a shame, because this clause makes it incompatible with the GPL family of licenses).
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Up to £15,000.

To be absolutely fair, it often seems that in the UK you'd be better off disguising your startup idea as a work of performance art and making an application to the Arts Council for a grant.

For an added bonus, you wouldn't have to give any of it back at the end, and if you can show that you did anything that was in the slightest bit similar to your original proposal and didn't just drink the money, then they are mightily impressed and offer you more free cash.

[edit] Just thought of the "Dada Tech Startup Incubator";

We dress startup founders in octopus costumes and teach them about semiotic forms and stuff, in order to get given money from the kind of well-heeled philanthropists who spend more on things like opera than they are willing to lend to small businesses.

We charge a compelling rate of 4% equity and a broken window full of the lost dreams of a hungry sparrow.
Mozilla certainly have the ability, but I agree that for principle's sake they shouldn't license it.

I would modify what you've said, software can be open source and be totally laden with patents, but free software (especially GPLv3) probably can't.

Continuing my argument: Claiming Mozilla are poor as the GP did is a bad argument. Claiming that the software can't be re-distributed is a slightly less bad argument, but only for larger distributions.

The pool sets certain payment stages. If your distribution of the codec has fewer than 100,000 users there is no license fee payable at all.

Also ,the license fee for h.264 is capped at $6.5 million, so Firefox can distribute it to anyone and any smaller project (less than 100,000 users) can distribute it as well.

It's the mid-sized redistributions that can have trouble, because they will lack Mozilla's money but have larger user bases that might trigger the fees.
You seem to be evading his point: "Even if every person in the U.S. incarcerated for drug possession was released tomorrow, the U.S. would still have the highest incareration rate in the world. If every drug trafficker was released, the U.S. would still have an incarceration rate triple that of every Western European country. If every non-violent offender was released, the incarceration rate would stll be double that of every western European country."

This seems like a refutation of your comment.
Interesting, I have a friend who also have arachnophobia, but he loves Borderlands. I'll ask him about that.

Have you thought of maybe using the game as a therapeutic means for trying to alleviate the problem? I've heard of treatment where they try to get the patients used to their phobia, until it goes away. So I'd suppose the game would be a good opportunity to do that virtually. Would that even make sense?
Iceland is moving in that direction.

It's not enough to decide that's what you want, you need the institutions to support it. Even if Moldova decided to do it tomorrow, they're easily a decade or two away from being able to implement it.
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Reminds me of this recent submission: http://www.marco.org/2012/02/25/right-vs-pragmatic

HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633985
I mostly agree with you. I do recommend Linux to the more technical audience but stay away from recommending to non-tech friends and family.

I think part of the problem can be solved if there was some nice hardware that came with Linux preinstalled, with all the driver configuration work already done for you. That will still not solve the printer issue you described, but the "install graphics/sound/wifi driver" issue can be dealt with that way. Sure Linux is not properly compatible with every wifi device out there, but neither is, say, OSX. OSX gets around the problem by the fact that it only ships on Apple hardware. It would be great if we had Canonical computers for example.

edit: FWIW, I do commend companies like System76 and ZaReason that ship linux based systems but we need bigger players in the space to make a difference.
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Just a nitpick on you comparison table, iMessage can do group chat and shows when someone is typing.
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principalcomponentswanted.com / principal.components.wanted@gmail.com is obviously a phishing scam.

Either that, or a really stupid bunch. Privacy guarded WHOIS + childish secrecy + no names? What self respecting potential hire would bother. This kind of pathetic recruitment tactic is a huge red flag - hope their investors pull out.
Company URL disappears in YC application?
We have put the company URL in our YC application, but it’s not there anymore if you want to edit your application.

Does anyone have the same problem?
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Here's the link to the tool:
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I would be glad to take another look at Mailgun. Can you easily do segmenting (i.e. Only send this message to people where Job Title == 'CEO')? I think that may have been the dealbreaker when I last looked. Exposing the user's mail agent in analytics would also be nice.

And although I wish I could say all I need is a kickass API, I actually will need a GUI suitable for marketing folks too. Happy to followup privately since my requirements may be slightly unique.
Here is a clip from that talk where he mentions IBM contacting him. Pretty funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA
Can you explain how this is tricky to get working?

If we are talking about UITableView then it only asks you for a row when it is about to be displayed. So in that case you are only loading the image when it is about to become visible.

I have no idea how this is done in HTML and CSS but in iOS it is still extremely easy.
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JSMin was removed from Google Code because of this licence. Douglas Crockford explains the reasoning behind the license: http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code
The problem as we see it isn't so much email's fault. The problem is that the number of contacts we have is growing exponentially due to the introduction of "white pages" (linkedin, facebook and the internet fall under this) - you no longer have to meet someone to find out their email address and email them.

Chat / IM is text and yet that isn't a problematic communication medium because there is a small set of people you chat to. The problem isn't the number of emails, sentences or words, its the number of people we are connected with, its relationship management.

Sure some magical AI to read emails and books for you, summarize them and even reply for you may be great. Or organize your mail into folders for you based on clustering or some ontology. The problem is these solutions never work.

Our focus is on organizing mail around people, and in turn organizing people into groups, which is not some magical silver bullet, but still a radical improvement over an unorganized mailbox.