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Great story, thanks for sharing. I spent last summer at a hedge fund and found myself dangerously close to becoming one of the prototypical insecure college graduates you so aptly describe.
It really is remarkable the delusions of graduation that emanate from a desk with even the most paltry of P&L's for the week. I'm excited to see what might come of the furious yet agile rage directed towards the financial sector. Square and the like seem to have the credit card companies on their heels but revolution in IB still seems distant. Then again, agility and innovation are often underestimated.
This article makes no mention of how Yahoo proved anything. The article claims they (yahoo) have patents as do Amazon and Microsoft among many others, and....?
It's a brilliantly cool idea... but I'm just trying to imagine the gender dynamic on that ship, and I can't come up with a way it could be very healthy.
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Despite being born in the UK and being a British citizen, I'm entitled to a Swiss passport as my father is Swiss.

I think it's about time I got one and bailed. This country is turning into a political and legal tyranny.

As for Theresa May's lack of intervention, that damn woman has done more damage to this country than Thatcher.
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Minor quibble? The 1Gbps (notice the small 'b') is a f*cking disaster. My ADSL connection has about 10Gbps (1.2MB/s), and that is so-so. Imagine you are working and need to download a 600MB Linux ISO, or something like that. Disaster. Makes one question their logic and the whole project.
I've been contracting in the finance industry in London for seven years (at four firms) and although financial companies are some of the biggest users of open-source software, it's almost unheard of for firms to contribute back to open-source projects. There are a few progressive companies but unfortunately I've not worked at any of them.

Many firms have a strict policy of disallowing any source (open or not) from leaving company premises. Email servers and proxy filters have detectors that will raise an alert if source code is emailed or sent out over HTTP. It's easily a sackable offence and this discourages developers from contributing changes back to open-source: there are simply too many hurdles to jump through in order to do it.
Sure, here's one example http://www.aplusdev.org/

But the real influence of banking is driving the development of stuff like RDMA over Infiniband, which eventually makes its way into other industries. Everything that "web companies" know (and take for granted) about scalability, performance, resilience, security etc etc comes from either investment banking or pr0n.
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Don't worry, if US doesn't like it, they will outlaw it, and the ship will be named Titanic and towed to Somalian waters.
Hi legierski,

Great website which I'll use but could you add a favicon? Anything like that I like to bookmark, remove the title and have just the icon in my bookmarks.

Thanks :-)
He was talking about budget, not profits. I don't know about average but I wouldn't be surprised if quite a bit of XBLA/PSN (not XBLIG) are made at around that budget point (AAA games on the other hand commonly have budgets in the 10s of millions, some ever more).

The common XBLA game probably loses money.
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Yes, but you shouldn't. Also, adapters are a couple bucks on Monoprice.

Also, a "tempermental" PSU may need to be replaced before it does destructive testing of the components connected to it.
"Why I left reddit"

'It changed man. The culture wasn't the same as when I joined five years ago.'

These 'I said GOODBYE SIR!'s are interesting, but I'm not sure how much reliable information can be gleaned from them. What ever happened to not 'burning your bridges'?

This is a resumé.
>My ADSL connection has about 10Gbps (1.2MB/s)

10 Gbps = 1280 MB/s.
Didn't mod you, but I think you're looking for this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Ask HN: Could this kill email?
I really enjoyed Paul Graham's latest essay on Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas, and I've been thinking about some of the problems posed in the article for days.

The one I like the most is Replacing Email. The solution that came to me seems feasible as a starting point, so I thought I'd post it here to see similar ideas and get some feedback.

Important emails are most often written by important people. So I submit that the starting point for killing email is to create an exclusive email service for important people.

People with over 100,000 Twitter Followers.
People with over 250,000 Likes on their Facebook Page.
People with over a 95 Klout score.
People that can authorize a $1,000,000 purchase.

Those who get into the service can send emails to anyone on the service without it being caught in a filter.

Everyone on the outside has to earn access to each person on the inside, one person at a time. To earn access, they have to write quality emails to that person for a period of time. Quality should be measured algorithmically and never brought to the attention of the recipient until that quality threshold has been met.

I have lots of other ideas concerning this, but I'd like to hear some feedback on the basic premise first.
What will replace Wikipedia? Something which generates that data automatically from the "citations". I imagine Wolfram Alpha, Freebase, DBpedia, Cyc, TrueKnowledge and more all channeled into a single interface.
Thanks, that is more relevant :)
I really hope this is going to work but am fearful that the system is just going to crush them in short order. I suppose that is a battle worth fighting.
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This pretty much sums up my feeling about Google, too. It's the same feeling that made me stop using Facebook.
GS should never have IPO'd. It never belonged to the partners, they were only custodians of it. Then it became just another bank.
This is scary. Not only for British citizens, but for all citizens of the EU, since we got the European Arrest Warrant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Arrest_Warrant
With respect to emails, most emails that I read are actually written by people important to me. You may or may not think my boss is important but I'm going to read his email. It's going to be really hard to find a common metric that measures the non-spam-ness of a person. It's all relative.

Maybe, if you took it to the next level, and said each person has their own custom importance function...

Even then, it's still email (less spam, maybe) and not a replacement per se.
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We have been working on this new product http://interacteasy.com

It is a small plugin that integrates with your website. It enables your visitors to click a button and have a voice conversation with you. While having a voice conversation, you can share files as well.

We believe voice works better. Helps in communicating faster and convincing quicker.

We are in early private beta. Would be glad to have your views on this.
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> My opinions are irrelevant against the backdrop of the collective mainstream agreement about 'the way things are', but I will say this: I think anyone getting offended about the opinion that ADHD, and the mental-health industry in general, are a load of crap .. needs to take a vacation somewhere less supportive of decadent navel-gazing.

I never claimed to be offended by your statements, but as an individual with ADHD, I'm interested in exploring this further.

In particular, I'm interested in the treatment(s) you reckon'll help the most with my symptoms. If you'd like, we can arrange a one-on-one IM session to discuss them, as these matters require individual attention, rather than broad generalizations over a particular (diagnosed) group.

I, once again, appreciate your time and look forward to your responses on this matter.
Completely agree on the effect you are describing. I've encountered it, too. I think it can be easily countered through regularly context switching, though. That is, switching your thinking over to that of an end user.
I hate titles "Framework A is doing this, why framework B isn't doing this?"

Use what seems best to You. Rails always tend to have faster movement with Ruby support, but to be honest having at least 1 year is enough to redeploy app with new Rails & Ruby. If not then you're doing it wrong.
The discussion should not be about "efficacy and no risks", but the comparison of risks versus the benefits the drug can provide. That should be the only rationale when you go on treatment: understanding the risks on each side. Just like cancer drugs are usually not harmless (side effects can be pretty nasty), they can make you live longer than if you go untreated.

The communication to the patient should be fully transparent, and it should be up to the patient to choose what they want to do, not just regulators.
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I know, it's impressive.

I am sure I, like many people, have found dozens of errors in Wikipedia. I used to try to correct them, but gave up when my changes would get reverted, even with references.
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I really hope that this isn't just a talent acquisition or the conversion into a pure professional services agency without products... I hope that the long-term life of Pivotal Tracker can be guaranteed.

I rely on Pivotal Tracker. I actually love using it, it's made programming a joy as it's made the chore of project management a useful and almost satisfying thing to do.

In recent years I've relied on other products from companies that, having been acquired, are either "improved" so that they no longer work for my purposes or shut down.

It gives me a nagging feeling that people aren't in this to produce great products for the long term. I really want to be proved wrong, especially with Pivotal Tracker, because after having used so many other tools for project management I cannot imagine having to go back to them.
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Paul, it's an image thing. You even put a teaser out there about the next step ("We'll consider single founders too")...

You already said that experience is not necessary. So we are ALREADY at: "Apply with no experience, no idea, no team."

There is only one next logical step. You're still 'buying the man/woman'. The last step is:

"New, apply to YC anonymously, without ever going or revealing who you are. No need to come even if you're accepted, we'll webinar the whole kebab and you can stay behind a skype handle and email."

Paul, I would like to do this! Please allow me to apply anonymously, without ever going or revealing who I am. (Of course, you'll know everything about the resulting company.) You might just be surprised...
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Home furnishing is easily a very important entity in the entire home décor set up and encompasses within its ambit, a whole lot of products all of which are equally important.
Well, you can use C++ as the core although there's still need for Objective-C for the UI and event handling part.
He's 23. He's not a 'kid'.
It's not necessarily always about 'choosing sides'. We are at the point where buying a product from one of these large companies no longer simply means "buying a product" (like you would produce at a Whole Foods). Popular tech products are so intertwined with their parent companies, that it basically implies more of a wager. As a user, when you make a purchase, you place a bet that in your commitment to use this product, the company behind it won't do something that will decrease the enjoyment/utility you get out of the product during its lifecycle. Now this doesn't have to be some new policy/action that literally occurred after your purchase, but rather something that was not obvious upon purchase, and might not even have to do directly with the product itself. Either way, this type of assessment still fits into what you're saying about evaluating a product on it's own merits, but at a certain point, the politics behind a product actually DO affect the product's merit, because they are so intertwined.

In my case for example, I just recently got bit by the fact that iPads are restricted to syncing with only one computer while I was developing an app for it. The iPad on its own is a fine piece of hardware, and is a generally nice product, but this one detail devalued it for me significantly. Can you honestly say this detail is completely detached from the fact that it is an apple product? I wouldn't think so, that move is completely expected from apple; it's part of the locked-down ecosystem you buy into with apple products. I actually like apple's products 'on their own', because they are well made and have attention to detail; however, I will [most likely] never again buy one due to apple's aforementioned politics, which directly affect my experience with their products as a user. Similar thing happened with Samsung/T-mobile and my Vibrant which they never even updated Gingerbread; awesome product on its own, but the service I got with it (part of my 'experience') was poor, and totally determined by the politics behind it.

So while it might be easy to detangle product from company for something as simple as produce, it gets a bit trickier when looking to purchase a longer-term tech product. If you're ok with lock-down, and/or lack of updates, that's great, Apple and Samsung products are totally awesome, they're just not for me.
I don't think so. The Wikipedia article you link to doesn't support that claim anyway.

I'd say he was a hacker, in the broad sense of the word, but not a programmer. That would be Anders. A comparison with Jobs and Wozniak comes to mind.
I am not denying that corporate culture takes on a life of its own, and that the system's rationality and the participants are not closely linked.

What I am asking is whether great places to work inevitable decay as the company gets large, and if that is the case, what is the point of a startup? Why not seek to make an idea that scales down rather than scales up? Is it all about personal wealth? But for those of us who want to build great businesses, in every sense of the word 'great,' how do we get around this problem?

I have my own ideas but they are largely untested.....
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Thanks. I'd like to approximate this mark using Metapost.
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I agree with your sentiment, but not with the "burning your bridges" part. Seems like the fear of burning your bridges keeps many people from speaking frankly about what's happening in the corporate world. And that's important nowadays because as they say, politicians don't run the world, Goldman Sachs does.

Looking forward to wikileaks bank-leaks.
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If you're going to write a piece about leaving a firm, you need to establish why your opinion is more important to your readers than the opinions issued as inevitable rebuttals to this piece. That is purpose of including his resume.
The gentleman era of investment banking is largely mythical. There was a long period where they were notably less scummy and cutthroat than other investment banks (compare: Salomon Brothers in the 1980s) but they were always an investment bank.

The most visible (to a young person) sign of a bank's character is how it treats its employees. The 90+ hour weeks and terrible conditions in the "analyst" program (the term has nothing to do with analysis; it means "whale-shit") are not a new invention; that goes back to the 1980s. Before that, banking was dominated by the Mad Men culture: the hours weren't long but the politics was just as malicious.
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That would be very cool. If you do, please add it to the repository and submit a pull request.
So they are going to buy/build a 1,000 passenger ship (and a ferry, and a helicopter), fit it out top to toe with custom designs (including gym, pool, sports facilities, and apparently enough to keep you from going crazy), staff the thing (including security), maintain it, ship food (and people) back and forth from the mainland, etc.

And where exactly do they make their money? A bed on this thing is going to be mighty expensive....
"Greg Smith is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa."

I could be wrong, but I don't think the number of positions heading business units across continents is that large.
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I was looking at the API, and it seems that import would be quite easy. But since they lack tagging and some other Flickr-like features, the import would have to be slightly lossy.
This is a really interesting perspective, and a very convincing argument. The decline of past media industries does show a trend that looks similar to the changes occurring in the current games media industry. These changes are never destructive (despite what the affected platform holders will say), merely transformative. It also presents an interesting argument for entrepreneurs; could old media formats like Arcade or Movie Theatres be bought back with some disruptive change element, just as PCs have recovered some ground with digital content (steam) and free2play models.

I think it's hard to say "Most game development is changing to mobile"; I think there's also a resurgence in PC gaming at the same time, but in a free2play/subscription model sense, without the restrictive policies of the console and mobile platform holders. With the launch of the PS Vita and the new technological advances on the horizon (A15, anyone?) I can definitely see mobile gaming and entertainment becoming a mainstay for most people. If gaming gatherings were as simple as bringing your phone/tablet/other misc. mobile device and meeting some people at a cafe or something to play together it would be a revolution. Imagine LAN parties with tablets + controllers or something. Self-contained portable gaming systems. This was sort of what I hoped the Vita would attempt; to make traditional gaming more social. To break down the physical barriers between gamers. But with the lacklustre games lineup and no real innovation in the platform, it appears mobile gaming is headed in a much more fruitful direction.
The article still overflows with ego. From table tennis champion to Rhodes Scholar!
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It's interesting as there have been some recent articles[1] about Dell's Enterprise platforms gaining more ground.

[1] http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2012/02/dell%E2%80%99s-enterprise-revenue-grows-overall-q4-results-weak

[2]http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/dell-closes-force10-purchase-preps-networking-push/56313
Fair enough, these broad patents indicate that they aren't showing restraint.

However my point was that 'swipe-to-unlock' seeming to be about something 'trivial' doesn't in itself make Apple look bad, and that still stands. It's not an example of Apple abusing the patent system whereas the others are.

If they've lost on the broad patents, then that's a sign that the system isn't as broken as we think. Arguably the fact that they've been tested and found wanting actually improves things.

Also, I'd point out that your concern seems to be primarily about the criteria for obviousness, which I agree is severely problematic, and is only going to get worse if we switch to first-to-file.
Jgc isn't in favour of what has happened. His point is that 23 years old is not by any definition "a kid" (nor even when he started it at 18, which is irrelevant anyway) - other than headline bait, is it relevant at all? Would it be less bad if it was a 40 year old in this case?
other ideas expressed on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Startup-Ideas/What-are-other-Frightenin...
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How about this title, "Man complaining because Time Warner won't let him steal neighbors cable"?

Seems just as inaccurate but at least captures the spirit.
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This I have thought of for a long time. By doing everything electronically we (or the future generations) are at risk of losing everything. Discounting the useful knowledge, we would be losing sentimental things.

I think it is sad the EB is stopping presses. I think they should continue, if only they could find a way to print it in a way the would reduce its cost considerably. Acquisitive cost, more than anything, is what is killing them.
If the business decisions guy was also bringing money to the table, then that changes the story. But now the important contribution is the money, not the decisions.

I imagine a conversation with Mozart went something like this:

"Mozart, I want a libretto."

"What should be in it?"

"It should be about birds."

"Okay, I'll get on it."

The corresponding conversation in our world would be:

"Jack, I want a piece of software."

"What should it do?"

"It should be like a blog but every post limited to 140 characters."

"Okay, I'll get on it."

It is Mozart and Jack who end up making 99% of the design decisions. What I'm saying that once the guy hiring the creator gets so involved that a good portion of the decisions are his/hers then that's a very inefficient way to compose a piece of music or a piece of software, and you're better off doing the composing yourself. Of course in many cases marketing is more important than the technical side, but this is no different. In a startup with just a couple of people the contribution comes from the guy doing the marketing, not a guy deciding the rough marketing strategy. In a big company the influence reverses because the business decisions have a lot of leverage simply because they affect what a large number of employees are going to do. Simply put, the question you're asking is "Could twitter be done by me getting YC (and later VC) money and then hiring a programmer and a marketer?". The right question is "Why would the YC give the money to me instead of the programmer and the marketer?". Note that a perfectly valid answer for a lot of startups could be "I have connections and experience in the field" (especially for e.g. medical or payments startups), but the answer needs to be something.
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It's not easy to explain the "what" without disclosing the "how". It's easily copyable but also subject to a strong network effect.
Sure, but if accepting that cache slowdown makes the rest of the system more responsive and more useful for background tasks, it may be worthwhile. It's a trade-off, and the browser makers have every incentive to be as selfish as possible.
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