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But it is Google itself that is creating the impression that Google+ is critical to its future, just look how much you're pushing it everywhere.

By the way, I use G+ and like it more than facebook, but I also think that there is only one serious way for Google to differentiate it enough from Facebook to make it a compelling alternative in the long run: Make G+ the open alternative to Facebook; ie, make it THE platform on which other websites, services etc. want to build their social features, without being afraid that by doing so they'll contribute to the construction of a walled garden that, in the end, could destroy the (free) internet as we know it.

Google is already the biggest winner with the free internet, so, defending that model would be in its best interest. Trying to beat Facebook at its own game, on the other hand, doesn't make so much sense to me. By winning over third parties, on the contrary, they could make it so diffuse and useful that even "common users" will see a real reason to use it.
The negativity comes from the fact that more and more "startups" are just being 'bought' and shutdown.

In the past, I think people applying to YC would have thought they could become the next Google. Now, it's more likely their startup will be 'aquihired' and they'll end up working at Facebook or Google. It's a glorified jobs board.

With this announcement, it's basically an admission that the idea never mattered. Posterous didn't matter, Auctomatic didn't matter, Loopt didn't matter, etherpad didn't matter. The list goes on and on. If you know the right people and jump through the right hoops you get acquihired regardless. The "product" is just a glorified resume for your team. The users who used your product are just kicked by the wayside. They served their purpose.

I don't think that sits well with most people.

Personally, I'd like to see a complete refocus on companies that actually innovate or god forbid make money.
... I'd much, much rather be policed by pretty much any western police force as opposed to a PMC. Heck, I'd sonner submit myself to the Chinese gongan than a PMC.

IMO private military contractors are pretty much a non-answer to the problem of policing. I'd go as far as to say that PMCs are an inappropriate solution to any problem that doesn't involve lots of people getting shot.
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Personally, I'm working on a new product at Google that will make computers do something that they've never done before, something that many people have wanted for a long time.

There are 2 things I've wanted for a long time:

A search engine for stuff in my house, so that I never have to sift through drawers for hours ever again.

A cheap robot for cleaning dishes, washing clothes, cleaning the house. The current solutions are expensive and don't work very well.

I hope you're working on one of them.
That sounds like quite an amazing change, wow and congratulations! I always wanted to try certain substances but I am worried about side effects and no idea where to find a safe setting, let alone legal implications. I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Currently work at Google, obviously speaking for myself and not my employer.

In my experience - yes, this moral decay is a necessary part of the current corporate world. Or any corporate world. Or really, any world without the possibility of failure baked into it.

I've seen a lot of idiotic decisions made at Google, many of which have been complained about on Hacker News, many more of which are hidden causes of things that are complained about on Hacker News. In every case, when I looked at the chain of decisions that led to things being the way they are, every single decision was rational, given the information that all participants had at the time. There's no vast conspiracy dedicated to turning Google evil, no influx of incompetent new PMs & designers. Some of the most questionable decisions have come straight from old timers like Marissa, or even from Larry Page.

Instead, it's an information problem. Running any enterprise the size of Google or Goldman Sachs requires trading off many competing factors. To make the tradeoff, someone has to keep all that information in their head at once. There's no other way to balance competing demands; if you keep only part of the information in your head, your decision will be biased towards the part that you've loaded into your brain. If you try to spread decision making across multiple people, the decisions will be biased towards the part that the person who screams the loudest can hold in his head (which is usually a smaller subset than optimal; it takes mental effort to scream loudly).

I often see mystified posters on HN wondering why Google did something or other, and a good amount of the time, I know (but can't say) exactly why we did it. The userbase does not have all the information. Unfortunately, they don't care that they don't have all the information; they want Google to work as expected, and the fact that there may be internal systems that don't quite behave according to their mental model is irrelevant. And so the fact that decision makers make decisions based on information that users can't have becomes a liability in this case, biasing them away from what's "good" for the user.

I remember Paul Buchheit writing here, several years ago, "A system's participants don't have to be rational for the system itself to be rational", referring to market economies. I'd posit that the inverse also holds: a system with completely rational participants can still be irrational, if information flow between participants is not organized in a rational way.
well put :) too bad yahoo is going to drag us all down with them though.
Yeah, if I installed Windows 8, I'd probably take the time the time to learn how the new things work. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it's bad.

What I don't like is how consumption-oriented Metro is. It doesn't matter how slick it is, I don't want to be bombarded with notifications when I sit down at my pc. But of course, I can avoid it entirely, which I probably will. Windows 7 should do me for the next five years, easy.
I have ranted for a long time about the corruption at Goldman Sachs, mostly to deaf ears. :) This is the tip of the iceberg, as far as I am concerned. My bigger concern is how involved GS is with our government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/business/19gold.html?pagew...

As it turns out, the human race is extremely intelligent and wherever there is an opportunity to make money (corrupt or not), people are probably doing it. I would call it a conspiracy theory, if it were not occurring in plain site. Exactly which Americans approved of the multibillion dollar bailout, show of hands?
I have shit loads of ideas, but I'm not really passionate about any of them: http://ideashower.posterous.com

I also have a few currently that I'm slightly more passionate which are not on the list. But still haven't found The One True Idea. I do know my general area of interest, though, which is e-learning, personal development, and skill acquisition.

In hindsight, several of "my" ideas have been turned into workable startups (example off the top of my head: Verbling).

I think I have two main challenges:

1) I'm too critical of my ideas.

2) I have a hard time getting started and evaluating my ideas. I would like to be able to create quick mock-ups of lots of ideas and test them quickly against the market.

My strengths:

1) Lots of ideas, very creative

2) Technical skills (programmer)

3) Already have a team in place around the world and locally + lots of potential team mates who I trust

4) Already have execution/management experience on a project (Interesting Times Magazine) - sure, it's not software but I'm still VERY familiar with the entrepreneurial emotion roller-coaster

All in all, this new stance from Y Combinator is giving me some hope for the future. Now I just need to sit down and write a good pitch. How would you guys rate my chances? Any tips?
Why do you do this? Isn't it enough to just upvote?
1. You don't have to be a citizen to incorporate in the US. Y Combinator requires everyone to incorporate in the US regardless of their home country. It doesn't seem like Blueseed will have a similar requirement, but they should probably advise their startups to do so for the sake of it much easier to get investments.

2. Once you have a US corporation, you can have a US bank account.

So while the issues you raise could be problems for some companies, it's actually fairly straightforward and cheap (there are costs to your agents in Delware and a few similar items).

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If the boat had the right kind of people on it, you could see a lot of those benefits without leaving the promenade deck.
I agree with you but if you are at his level, you don't really need a resume anymore. Financial industry is all about who you know and from what I can see, he is very well connected.
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I'm sorry to hear that any Touchpad + ICS users have been so frustrating for you. In general I've been very happy with the Cyanogenmod on Touchpad community, but with the huge number of TPs that got dumped into the market there are some people who really don't get that when software is labelled "Alpha" and has warning about most apps not working, it's not the fault of a 3rd party developer when something doesn't work. Weirdly enough the webOS side of the community seems to be a lot more understanding despite really high overlap between the sides. Maybe it's the unity through adversity thing? Either way, hopefully as CM stabilizes on the Touchpad the users will get less annoying for you.
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Yes, you can.

Ideally they'll share the same chassis ground (connect the metal cases together), but it's not strictly necessary (based on personal experience).
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This is part of a general pattern where producers actively choose the level of piracy that maximises their profits, then complain about it in the hope of further increasing profits via politics and social engineering.
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You're right - they aren't treating their condition, they are trying to discover how not to aggravate whatever it is that's wrong with their system. And this really is something which doctors should know about and be able to prescribe: "Here, try this diet and tell me if you have any symptoms." before giving them experimental drugs with nasty side-effects. It won't help us understand how the condition works, why it happens and indeed, won't cure a person, but it will let them live like most everybody else at a minimal cost.
A friend of mine used to where a suit for exams. He said it helped him get in the right mindset.
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I think Google and Apple already see the facebook threat, and are trying to limit helping it grow any further. Even without G+, you may not have had this sort of FB integration to Google. The only reason Microsoft is sidling up to FB is in an effort to get some traction in mobile and the web space.
I'm wondering if any of that work has been made available, eg. as an open source project? There's a standard practice among tech/web companies to share innovation on the infrastructural level, but I cannot name one example of a bank innovating openly in that way. Perhaps they do publish academic papers about their innovations?
>mostly young male type-A personalities...wave million dollar bonuses in their face

This also characterises hackers and Silicon Valley. There are some really good people on Wall Street just as there are some real turds in Silicon Valley.

If you go back into Goldman Sachs's history it was a venerable firm with a storied past of forsaking short-term profit for the client, i.e. being long-term greedy instead of short-term greedy (quoting a GS executive from the 1970s). It started changing in the 1980s and completed its transformation after its IPO.

Values aren't a function of sex or ambition.
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Because the side effects of my decisions matter? If the 'identity' of a company is providing good products and doing something negative, then by buying their products I'm helping them do the negative thing.

By buying Apple products I'm, for example, supporting needless patent aggression. I may still choose to buy from them anyway because I find their products so good it's worth the hit, but I don't see any sense in ignoring a company's wider effect upon society - by doing so you're removing any incentive for them to behave positively.
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I have a solution to a worldwide problem qualifying for the "Frighteningly Ambitious [new] Startup Idea" (FANSI) criteria with an initial sound business model.

Unfortunately I'm close to 50, with my roots deep in Europe (Marseille in France). I have no experiences and no trustful mentor to help me start a business.

For now I'm learning mobile web app development to get a quick running service and I'm trying to patent the solution to secure my bootstrapping. But I feel it all as frustratingly inefficient.

What could I do to get into higher gears ?
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Rocket Internet has been hiring several Goldman bankers lately to be local or functional managing directors for their startups.
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The slides said "you choose where to incorporate" (slide 26).

I know its pretty easy to incorporate in the US, but AFAIK as soon as you do business with the US (rent servers from US company, have US-bank account) you are subject to the IRS (I don't know what rules apply). Why pay taxes and/or waste resources (tax consultants / lawyers) to a country that didn't want your business in the first place?
I too see accounting as a hurdle but think customer validation might suffer as well. "Get off the boat" actually has a nicer ring than "get out of the building" but will obviously be harder. As much as I love hackathons, there are fringe benefits to mixing with normal-folk on occasion. I can't explain how much I've learned from overhearing women explain Pintrest to one-another.
Really? I would be very interested in reading more about this. Got any sources? (Preferably in English or Norwegian ;) )
It's because your desktop system lacks an appropriate font.

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Is there some hack for those people who like wearing a suit but don't want to come off as try-hard status-whores?

For instance, wearing a scruffy t-shirt and jeans with the suit to signal non-pretentiousness?

Personally, I enjoy wearing suits but if I ever go to Silicon Valley, I would like to avoid committing a faux pas :)
Someone should patent the patent creation process.
The demographic of startup founders is severely lacking in gender and racial diversity. I don't know if I would want to go for months only seeing 1000 similar people (mostly men) with very similar occupations. In the end, entrepreneurs are people too and this would be a very bizarre society.
I've managed to publish an interesting (IMHO) magazine in print and online without spending any money. Does that count?

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This isn't a real venture.

If you look at the costs associated with leasing and operating a vessel of that size and think this will be profitable, I strongly suggest you invest in it.
8000 sold in 2010 at $1395 is more than $11 million in revenue. Even if the cost is high, presumably they still made a profit on it until quite recently too since they kept printing them.
FYI Executive Director at GS means the same thing as VP, which sounds much more impressive than it actually is. There are literally thousands of them. To put it another way, ED is a level up from Analyst. The real cheese begins at Managing Director -- which is the first level you don't reach through seniority, but through "skill" (or politicking!).
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Honestly, I got as far as hovering the link, saw it was a .pdf by the status bar, and was instantly alienated.

What decade was this fictional start-up created in? 1870?
You are right - that is very true.

In most large finance companies though, it's also true that a lot of the less-exciting back office development work is being done by software developers who are overqualified for the roles but attracted by high wages.
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Is there an essay subject lurking in there on your opinions based on these three examples?
If you wear a suit, cut off the arms and work out until you have rad biceps. Under no other circumstance will you be accepted.
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As a British citizen I'm not sure if this makes me sad or angry. I think it's both.
Please don't do this. If you can figure out the solution by explaining the problem to someone else, then you've just wasted the time of your co-workers.

At least take the time to sit down and write up a detailed explanation of the problem first. Do your due diligence before consuming the time of another developer.
Spot on, but until the 'Facebook' classes engage with the established world (establishment), things will be built in a clumsy manner. Wikipedia is not a source of knowledge; it is collective wisdom, and we all know that you cannot make decisions by committee (hello Congress).
fly by metrics, die by metrics. it seems that mgmt programs don't include game-theory or heisenberg for that matter. and finally denial/delusion kicks in to help 'leaders' cope with and distance themselves from smoldering crater of final cost...
Cool stuff. I was a bit confused by why the "if (worth < 1000000)" condition line wasn't highlighted for each iteration (though it clearly was executed). Is that a little bug or am I misunderstanding the presentation?

Did you watch Bret Victor's talk "Inventing on Principle"? The step-through feedback and stack/heap display of your app reminds me of the javascript tools he shows in that video.

I'm going to be going through your examples now. Thanks!
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> Think of it as a big festival with less alcohol and run for a longer time period.

Festivals have to deal with minor security, not criminal problems. Police are still around - whether patrolling the area, or in an on-site office, or on the end of a phone call - to deal with any major problems (all the way up to rape and murder).
Remember we're talking about CLI software. While I don't doubt you can find some examples of CLI programs that are hard to install on Debian, I doubt they're nearly enough to justify something like this.

Even if it's not packaged, 'tar xf file.tar && ./configure && make && checkinstall' doesn't require any particular effort to someone used to the shell, and you only have to do it once for each program.
Sigh. Learn reddiquette people - downvoting is for irrelevant comments - not necessarily comments that you just disagree with.

http://www.reddit.com/help/reddiquette

If you disagree with me, that is cool - just leave a comment telling me why. If you think my comment is irrelevant for some reason, also let me know why.

Edit:
More appropriately --
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That would be part of the definition of "feasible". Nobody is guaranteeing it even is (but my bets are on eating a lab-grown steak in my lifetime).
Yes.

It's lazy thinking. The whole ethos of casual dress at work was that it didn't matter what you wore, it was about what you did and thought and that we shouldn't make assumptions based on something so superficial.

That's now flipped and become some form of inverted snobbery where the people who objected to being judged on what they were wearing (or not wearing) are now doing exactly the same.

The point isn't that wearing a suit or jeans or whatever is good, bad or indifferent. It's that it doesn't matter.
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Im not sure about publishing of papers on innovations but there is constant work going on to improve the database systems and few people I know have come up with software programs to check the bankruptcy!
I found this a bit strange as well and initially thought the article to be some kind of a spoof. I don't know a thing about investment banking but I have never, ever in my life read anything positive about the prevalent cultures at these firms.