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6) is mandatory.
Add at least one from 1) 2) or 3)

If your app is heavily dependent upon fb, make it known upfront about what the app uses facebook for, and only then use it as the only option.

4) & 5) would not be much appreciated and used options IMO for such an app.
I think many people are forgetting a key part, if not THE key part, in the selection process for YC companies, and that's the TEAM. The idea is second to the people behind it when PG and company make their selections (and in many cases, YC teams end up going with a totally different idea than what they applied with), at least most of the time.

There is far too much focus on selection bias around ideas in both this article and the comments, when in fact PG is simply putting faith in teams that happen to be passionate about certain ideas (that may or may not fall into his ambitious ideas categories).
Was it? They're not exactly rolling in profits seven years after launch.
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Good point. Another interesting datapoint would be (and this is something that only PG or other YC founders can answer) to see what is the scope of the original vision (eg - change/revolutionarize industry XYZ) of the founders and where they end up (provided they stay in the same space). The original vision is of course going to change, but if a large number of founders are scaling down their original idea, that is an interesting data point. It may be possible that 3 months of iteration may not be sufficient time for certain types of startups. (Again, without any actual YC experience, I am simply speculating).
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Also, I have the impression that a few microsoft products (MSN, live etc) will automatically change other browser's search engine to Bing. My girlfriend told me her "google changed" after installing MSN.

But maybe it was something else, as she's doesn't exactly knows what she's doing. Can anyone confirm that?
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Can we have a rule, like the one about headlines starting with numbers ("12 ways to.."), for headlines starting "Paul Graham"?
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Yeah stdbrouw, I think you missed the mark on this one. These things aren't even in the same ballpark.

I imagine that being marked as 'hipster' has very different consequences for you than being marked as a 'slut' would have.
I understand what the author's saying and I think (not being as experienced as some on HN) that he's got a bit of a point. But boy, if you're gonna call out a man with metals on his jacket, you better have something to back it up.

Or a least a byline.
I agree, which is why I wouldn't work there. But that is the reality many face in our industry. Not everybody works at a hip startup. Many work at those "enterprise" places.
I believe the word for these people is "haters". The proverbial explanation is "haters gotta hate"--I'm yet to find a better explanation.
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Yes, the trend you're referring to (Chrome becoming dominant) is clear, but it's the other pattern (the weekly cycles of troughs for IE, and the coinciding peaks for all other browsers) that I was referring to.
Well given we're doing this here now for anyone that takes advantage of AWS... ;)

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> One method used to awaken from a dream within a dream is called a "kick", which is the sensation of falling, hitting water, or a sharp jolt that can startle the sleeper awake.

Although I still think it's terribly inconsistent, if the details matter. There's too many different kicks with too many subtle differences and similarity for me to go into in a reasonable-length post.
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I am really really grateful for discussions like this. Messy? Yes. Useless? Hell on.
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I agree. It seems to me the essay came more from a place of wanting to see lots of big ideas come his way. And more of the people who are attracted to the big idea and can at the very least convince you they'd have a shot at actually pulling it off. Those are the people he'd love to see walk in the door.
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> This is IP theft.

In light of pg's recent article amounting to "information wants to be free" and there's nothing we can do about it...

How, exactly, is what Zynga is doing different from pirating films, music, or software? In both cases, it seems to me that the original creator hasn't lost anything. They still have their game. They still get to say "they" made it. Etc.

Are we really only against pirating when it helps big companies and not when it hurts them?
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Why not shift your company ?
I know we're not great at generalized scent sensors yet, and even sensors designed for a particular scent are fickle. That said, I have to believe that we can do this in a better way than developing a system to confine, train, and deploy bees as sensor arrays.
this would be the best tl;dr for this article.

Just typed 'import this' on my python console to read the zen again.
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This statistic blew my mind, and says a great deal about how our criminal justice system works.
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And for those who have a slow connection, a video is just a big back button. (speaking from experience)
You're thinking in the wrong order. You don't pick a language first, then solve a problem with it. Instead, you should look at the problem you're trying to solve, and which tools are best adapted to solving it given your requirements (that you come up with).

Are you focused on creating something quick? something that scales? something optimized that needs to run as fast as possible? something portable?

For some Python, Scala, or Clojure will do. For others, C++ is, despite what you may call flaws, the language of choice.

That being said, if you're very attached to a specific technology, find a place (or create one) where it makes most sense using it.
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Yes, but this one was pure luck.

They didn't plan on building games for android and iOS.
I remember them for being a 100% flash-site that offered a mediocre tetris-clone until they were sued by the tetris-copyright-holders.

"Draw Something" was an extremely fortunate product: a) they finally had a hugely popular game which took everyone by surprise and b) they made so much money that Zynga decided to just buy them instead of spending weeks/months on copying them and losing money every day they didn't have an alternative to "Draw Something"
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The way I see it, it does not matter if 100 businesses are improving the lives of 1 million people at a time, or 1 business is improving the lives of 100 million people at one go. Every problem that people pay are willing to pay for to help someone fix is in some way decreasing inefficiency and improving productivity in some way. Overall, they will add up.

Ofc, there are also large problems that require funding etc. but when you say something like lifestyle business means to me a life with a very low impact - you are looking at the micro picture, and not the macro one.
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because they are very concerned about annoying/destroying the community.

in the hands of a purely profit-oriented company they would make enormous amounts of money and milk the site until its demise a couple of years in
I just work on things that are interesting and tolerate things that are not interesting to work on things that are interesting. Makes sense? :)
Ahh, I saw that. I'm sorry - our artists' personalities are as diverse as their styles. We've done our best to screen for people that will work well with clients, but we will be watching closely to make sure they're all a good fit. I'm following up with an email to you now.
I feel this resonating quite strongly with me as I'm that young programmer that needs mentoring. Occasionally I get stuck with questions which I can't google answers for (for they result in the drywood type of solutions) and I don't have anyone to ask.
Sure, there are many, many people around me (professors, older students) who do know the answers to those questions, but but one question always paves way for another and asking them to make a commitment for longer than half an hour seems like asking too much.
I don't agree with everything, but he does have a point: where are all the programs encouraging straight men to join the fashion industry?
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> This makes no sense.

From the post:

> ... Start wearing sweaters, even though my breasts feel like they're boiling in there (yup, that's one reason women like low tops, guys)? ...

Comfort is her reason for wearing low cut tops. No need to speculate further than that.

To flip this around to me, I know that at times, I've done the bare minimum in the clothing department. Sometimes this means getting into my clubbing attire when I'm low on laundry. Do I own this shirt for a certain kind of attention? Yes. Am I looking for that attention at work? No, it's just getting close to laundry day
.and they are disposable. Most startups I see I know won't be around in 2 years.

they won't be around not because of the external services they've used but because they wont find the right business model. It's like saying that every ecommerce around will fail because they're using and external payment processor like Paypal. Maybe some of them can fail because of a Paypal "horror story" (account blocked etc..) but most of them will fail because they are not profitable.

I partially agree with you that relying on external services could be a risk, but in this case they've chosen services for some part that are not so easy to implement internally, and for that they've picked two new but highly growing services.
Ooh nevermind examples of low-impact VC businesses, I like that example even more.

You can improve the healthcare of over 500,000 Americans by successfully outcompeting the nation's primary healthcare communications and recordkeeping technology: Mk1 Reprocessed Wood Pulp. If you think that glorified data entry doesn't improve healthcare, you're optimizing for sexy but not really optimizing for impact.

A similarly unsexy problem is making sure people actually come to the doctor's office by telephoning them to remind them to come to the doctor's office. (The folks who most urgently need to be at the doctor's office are least capable of successfully making that happen without outside assistance.) This is approximately 2% a technical problem, 3% a compliance problem, and 95% a sales problem.

You're welcome to your own guesstimate of whether one can hit 500,000 patients served without taking VC funding. I have my own guesstimate.

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We use a similar method at Facebook.

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If I had to guess, I'd say that since route 53 is a dns host for many domains, they might be able to work out the user ip / resolvers map passively. Pretty awesome stuff, Amazon! This is a big deal for your customers.
Just one point of feedback on the EveryArt site: the slideshow I saw when I loaded EveryArt.com advances slides just a bit too quickly. I wanted to look at several of the examples, but I was only about 40% done "taking in" the picture.

That said, this is a great concept and I'll be passing the site along to the artists I know.
Ask HN: A better alternative to flippa?
Just read a comment on HN about flippa - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3714938

I have few questions for HN Community :

1. Are you happy/satisfied with flippa? If not, why?

2. Is there a better alternative? If not, do you want one?

3. Why isn't anyone from HN coming up with a better solution?

If there is a demand, I would like to come up with a better solution.
maybe international? ;)
Not sure what's wrong with writing, but candyjapan.com without a video on the page converted at 0.5% and with video at 1.3%. Of course no reason not to have both video AND text.

Granted the contents in the video are not the same as the explanation text is, so might be attributable just to the difference in content. Or possibly just random chance (36 conversions 3784 visits).
As a man, I've handled this by being the one to turn it into an obvious sexist thing by making a joke aloud "yeah, Sarah, boss says it's your turn to take notes again because, you know, you're the only girl at the table :P. Ha ha ha ha."

Everyone laughs, boss realizes what he's doing, Sarah is off the hook.
I have a question for you in a separate Ask HN post :

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Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like others feel the same. We'll slow it down a bit.
Don't know anything about the Pet Rock, and you can poke fun all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that this title has significant revenue that is more likely to go up than down under Zynga in at least the medium term due to reasons such as:

- Cross promotion

- platform leverage

- historical performance of similar games

- and all of this operating in a market segment (mobile gaming) that is exploding not contracting.
That's cool, what you've built in such a short time is great and I wouldn't take away from the achievement... I'd just change the post title :-).
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Google didnt have a long history of already outright stealing others' work.

What you reference are not clones. They are services in the same space with utterly different UI/UX/features and an /attempt/ at differing value props.

ZYNGA MAKES EXACT CLONES - there is a difference. If you are not familiar with the topic, don't comment as though you're having some new profound insight.

I don't understand what people are missing about Zynga. I feel like I am talking to people who have about zero historical context of shit that has been happening in Silicon Valley.
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As far as I know Varnish will let a single request through to generate a cache and hold subsequent requests in a queue then serve everyone from the same cached data.

If your page takes long than a second or two to load when uncached you should really be moving towards a batch processing model.
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Good programming jobs exist that focus on many languages, including C++ and Java. How will getting an MBA increase your ability to get these jobs, or some other job you like?

Oh and people do deliberately choose to write in Java. Mibbit is one example of this.
36 conversions/3784 visits sounds like random fluctuations to me. Also, was it video+text, or video instead of text?
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Many successes are based around 'luck' - or more accurately capitalising on it when it comes your way. I know my business has continuously evolved over the years and people have often used the term 'lucky' for me. I find it irritating when people say that someones success is purely down to luck - I'm sure that there were a lot of decisions that were made that contributed to their success here, as that's what it is
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