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Our margins are really good and we don't make a lot - the only reason I listed numbers was to highlight that we are a capable team that has track record of being able to make at least some money. We work well together and I think what we are working on now is small beans compared to what we could be doing. Applying to YC without an idea would be a really cool opportunity for us and other groups like us.
Actually, I was making a play on words (typos really) where SteveJabs said one thing and I called him out for being the founder of Appel, asking him to be my benefactor.

It was poorly received as I dont think people saw that SteveJabs and Appel were both in parody...
> I can't imagine a single hacker I know wearing a suit (and meaning it).

With the exception of the very small companies, every company where I've worked has had at least one hacker who wore a suit.

The suit-wearing hackers may outlast the lumber-hacker look.
Well, download a dump of Wikipedia and be done with it. When you say "still around", you should know that digital bits have the potential to be around forever while paper books require a lot of efforts to keep around just a couple of decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_%28library_and_arc...

I have an encyclopedia that's now 120 (or so) at home and I don't read it anymore because I'm too affraid to damage it. It's sad because it's gold mine of stereotypes and good words on blacks and gays.

I think your point regarding "checkpoints" is more interesting but still falls moot because Wikipedia uses versionning. If you really cared that much about digital data you would do what you are doing with your book: keeping it.
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Delete your Google cookies and only log in to Google+ in an Incognito window. Then you won't have the "wants me to login to my google+ account just to view the article" problem ever again.
really don't think "push" is that hard to do...
Well, first of all, most solar cells are not made from monocrystalline boules; they're made from polycrystalline boules, which are cheaper and faster. Second, I don't think the Czochralski process costs US$400 per kilogram either.
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You will have to root your car to do that.
This is very exciting. If experience points to the hypothesis that this could work, it has to be worth at least trying. At the very least, YC will learn a lot. At best, YC will be thought leaders in creating a new way to approach and angel/seed investing. I don't see how anyone could think this is a bad idea to try for at least one YC season.
Well, I'm glad that Microsoft tells us that.
I've been trying duckduckgo for a month now and I'm definitely not getting as good results for my "esoteric programming errors" as I hoped I would. I'm also shocked at how much I used google image search, losing that has been a shock.

Now I switched away from Google due to privacy issues so Bing does nothing to improve that. I have a little more faith in Duckduckgo, but it is definitely lagging on features and relevance for me so I don't know how long it's going to be my default search.
Django's lack of Python 3 support is big reason Python 3 adoption is slow, at least in the web dev faction of Python's community.

Why get comfy with Python 3 when you must remain attuned to the conventions and quirks of 2.x in order to use Python's most popular web framework? Folks keep talking about Python 3 because they really want to use it, but have reservations about adopting 3 when 3 isn't supported by useful frameworks.

Once Django supports Python 3, that reservation vanishes. Python 3 will be adopted by more people and get support from more frameworks.

tl:dr; Django's popularity holds dev community captive to Python 2.x, slows adoption of Python 3. Django team announces Python 3 support not in distant future but near future. Folks get excited. "About damn time."
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> Instead, Microsoft cobbled together assets themselves and built Encarta (1993).

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_%26_Wagnalls , Microsoft licensed Funk and Wagnalls.
I stopped telling people alltogether. This way only "I" know of my many failures.
Agreed.

And Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" conference is $1600 for two days, and Microsoft's PDCs were $2200 for 3 days.

This is about 1/2 of the market rate for major multi-day tech conferences.
It's a good point and a step on the way; though these projects are not copyright free (the doublefine one is DRM-free, but not free).

Will people pledge money, knowing that the game will be equally available to everyone (i.e. they aren't getting exclusive access in return)? Maybe special bonuses (like doublefine's) will compensate? But what if they also are copyright free...?

Perhaps people paying more than the purchase price indicates that they don't mind others getting it for less?
Here are the distributions (the last three aren't representative, because the number of units was limited):

$ 15 47,946
$ 30 24,636
$ 60 1,090
$ 100 11,530
$ 250 900
$ 500 148
$ 1,000 100 SOLD OUT
$ 5,000 10 SOLD OUT
$10,000 4 SOLD OUT

A game on kickstarter that's free for everyone else would test this. EDIT this free comic + paid hardcopy seems close http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3701721 (raised $1,254,120)
In the US, at this time, you can't buy tetracycline for people at all - it hasn't been available for months and won't be available anytime soon. Better be a pig if you need it.
> ... and where the heck is the "Edit" button?

Huh, I just pulled up five articles at random and they all had edit buttons. Granted, it doesn't let you edit the main article, but you can create your own version of one or send a suggestion/correction to the editor.
Absolutely. I should make it clear: I am not defending Yahoo's behavior here. Just trying to keep the facts factual.
Considering they've stopped running those ads since gaining a ton of traction in the PC industry over the past few years, I think those ads are probably supporting evidence of GP's claim (if anything), not a counter-example.

Edit: I went back and actually reread what GP said and realized I was wrong if interpreted literally, but I took it to mean something more like "you know you're currently losing when you compare yourself to the competition". But yeah, my bad, you're definitely right under the literal interpretation - Apple didn't lose and may actually win at the end.
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I agree with many of the authors points, prefer downtown/midtown style development and, broadly, think that architecture since the world wars has been an abomination foisted on us by academics and lunatics, implemented by incompetents.

However, I'd like to make one point: it's Apple's money, they can do what they want.
Now which would you bet your business on?

It'd be nice if things could move a little faster. But the alternative is wild-wild-west.
This looks like PatientsLikeMe (http://www.patientslikeme.com/), but specialized in Crohn's disease. I wonder how this site differentiates itself, and what aspects of it are unique to Crohn's vs. what could be generalized for other health conditions.
Everyone who says Bing is better or Google is better should try a blind test.

http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
Suits are generally overbearing and a seeming affectation if you wear one in what others assume to be a casual environment.
Also, you can do a lot (relative to where you started) in 1 year or 5 (depending on your market), as compared to where you started. 10 years after you start though, you had better have something globally significant to show for it, or you should be doing something different.
I'm fine with wearing suits on sales calls in the right contexts, but it's more about wearing what is appropriate. At YC (or really any tech event on the west coast), a suit isn't appropriate -- at most, a button-down shirt w/o tie and MAYBE a jacket in the evenings.

It's kind of obvious when the guy on the other side of the table is wearing shorts and sandals that perhaps a suit and tie is inappropriate...
I own a car and love driving. I grew up in Northern Virginia, then I lived in Atlanta for 8 years. In both places, having a car is pretty much a necessity. After living in Chicago for a few years, however, I'm convinced I'll never again live somewhere that I need a car to go about my day. Pretty much everything that's wrong with the country, from crime to environmental destruction to oil dependence is partially the result of the car.
In either case, costs recovered as a defendant are not guaranteed but they're more likely to get dropped into your lap via court order with copyright than with patents speaking anecdotally. It's safe to assume you'll have to sue for costs.
I find the Bing photo of the day much more interesting than the Google Doodle. Its something so simple, but the results are so comparable at this point (commoditized?) that the photo vs doodle stands out for me. I do however still use Google for 2 kinds of searches: the exact odd page search (ie I know I have seen on blog x a story about SignalR etc) and "define:" queries to get definitions. Other than that though Bing or a direct wikipedia search suffices pretty damn well in almost all other cases.
Journalists are almost always special cased to events in general -- it's assumed they're not participating in the same way as everyone else, are generally poor/without budget, but are key to the event. Taking care of journalists (with a press room, a senior enough contact to help them with things, etc.) is key to making your event a success. The hard part is credentialing journalists -- it's a great hack to say "I'm a blogger" or "I have a YouTube channel" and get into a conference for free and be treated as a VIP. I've had great fun at an arms fair doing that :)
The next time you hear something bad about capitalism, keep this in mind: we haven't had capitalism in this country for over a century.

It's no one else's business where someone decides to invest, as long as there's no actual fraud by any party. When that line is crossed, that's where the government has a proper role.

To put it concretely: the government should be protecting us from wealth destroyers like Bernie Madoff. It has no business prosecuting wealth creators like Martha Stewart (remember also that it came close to doing the same thing Steve Jobs, with the backdating "scandal"). Going after heroes like Stewart and Jobs is downright immoral.

Furthermore, the fact that Madoff ran his scheme for as long as he did (decades) should tell you something about how practical an idea the SEC really is.

Edit: I just noticed the title for a second time now. "Get to have"? That is incredibly wrong and offensive way to phrase it. It should be "allowed to make." A stock market isn't a naturally occurring thing - it takes living, breathing, thinking human beings with the freedom to act to create a stock market. That is what they're ultimately stopping.
Bing? What's that? As good as? Seriously? That's the goal now? I'm not a Google fan but guess who I'm not a fan of.
Independent films can work this way: cast/crew will not get paid, in return for a percentage should it be successful. However it's not possible to do this indefinitely as said crew gets tired of working for free after a while (much like any Kickstarter project wouldn't get a second go if they didn't deliver).
Another aspect could be that founders from the Ivy League schools have a better chance of meeting co-founders at school who are similar in terms of being technically capable, high-achieving, interested in creating startups, etc.

Being from an oil and gas town, I didn't meet anyone in my university classes who dreamed of anything besides a corporate job. I'm very lucky that I had friends with similar goals, or I'd never be able to create a startup.

Besides that, while you're still an unproven entrepreneur, people can only judge you on your resume, portfolio, background, etc. Fair or not, graduating from an Ivy League school does provide you with some credibility.

However, once you have an actual product and traction, where you go to school doesn't matter at all. Just focus on your product and you'll be fine.
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>what is Google+ (or Facebook for that matter) about if it isn't about advertising?

It's about your identity.

Google has said outright that their plan is to become an identity company. Google already knows everyone's identity (or have at least put extraordinary amounts of effort into probabilistic matching it). They're not going to stand by and let Facebook and Twitter own the login authentication process the same way Google currently owns the website analytics process.

Any user can create a context-specific throwaway identity on the net, and Gmail used to be an easy way to do that. But the identity that's very difficult to throw away is the one you've built connections with in a social network.

This is why they're hell-bent on pushing G+, banning pseudonyms, requiring mobile phone numbers, and merging user tracking data across all of their properties.
Splashtop Remote Desktop for iPad http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/splashtop-remote-desktop-for/... is specifically targeted at the same type of experience. I've used it to play games online, though not very successfully! They don't implement any security last I checked. http://support-remote.splashtop.com/entries/20132542-does-sp...

My iTunes affiliate account lists it as $2.99 instead of the $4.99 in the app store, so I'll drop this here even though it probably won't make a difference due to price change lag:
http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=yRSEY6MKcYc&...

Edit: sorry, meant to reply to ComputerGuru http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3701052 -- Splashtop does support sound/streaming video though.
I could also just test it by looking at it in a browser. I would see a h1 with the text 'Big heading!' and have successfully verified the same thing as the line above.

Except you wouldn't repeat every single manual test every time you make a material change to the code. And that means you'll miss cascade failures, one of the biggest benefits of automated testing.

Michael is trying to instil good habits in newcomers to the Ruby and Rails worlds, rather than show off perfectly chosen situations to evangelize TDD. But, rest assured, if you go much deeper with Ruby or Rails, this habit will start to reap huge dividends.

There's certainly an argument for not testing every minor piece of rendering to occur in an app (like constantly checking for content on requested pages) but that's really a different debate than to-TDD-or-not-to-TDD.
...or were pre-orders for the books (through the reward system) so dominant that
you’re in the same model, just on a larger scale?
RB: Definitely the latter.

Although he's giving away his comics online, dollar-wise it's advertising for a hardcopy. I guess selling physical goods like that would work without copyright.
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It's interesting how big companies have gone from attempting to cobble together teams to simply slurping up existing ones. Inter-product acquirhires (buzzwords, ahoy!) like Twitter + Posterous and cases like this, Github + Ordered List, and so on are becoming more and more common. I think it's interesting (and, of course, helpful to me as a consultant that works in the same spaces as these guys and gals), but I wonder if there will be any larger negative impact from it?

I can't see any, but I don't know if I can see the whole picture or not.
In other news, Pepsi says "Pepsi is now as good as Coke".
</sarcasm>

First, why should you believe them? Second, even if they're right, why does it matter? "As good as" isn't a good enough reason to switch for most people.
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One of the very best people I ever hired wore a suit to the phone interview.
1.2 million plus pages indexed

Oh, please. This site is a content farm. You've even have placeholder images saying "ADVERTISE HERE". Why should Bing - or Google - index this? What value does a search result to your site give to a user who most likely is searching for actual videos?
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He may have truly believed in what he was doing.

After all, this is the guy who believed every computer with a switching power supply was ripping off the Apple II. http://www.arcfn.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power...
matplotlib is the defacto standard for plotting data in Python and could definitely be considered a hurdle. I haven't followed to closely but it looks like support for 3.x is coming along nicely[1].

GUI toolkits like wxPython and PyQT/PySide supporting Python3 will also be important.

I'm not sure how outdated this is, but there's a list of most wanted Py3k packages available here: http://www.python.org/3kpoll

1. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib-py3
Well, its probably a bit early to say this was a talent acquisition. Pivotal is a real company with customers and revenue that could be attractive to any number of larger companies on the basis of any of their assets.
The recent Honda hybrid battery debacle, and the woman who decided to opt out of the class action, chose small claims instead and kept more small claims winnings than she would have received from the class action, shows that small claims can be the more effective route. Notwithstanding appeals.
Facebook didn't invent anything.

They did invent some interesting infrastructure and dev-level stuff, which they've open-sourced.
Here's what I find interesting:

Take a look at the computer you are reading this on. Mac, PC, Linux, other? Every single program on your machine has a uniform UI. Sure, there might be tweaks here and there and differences in icons, but the UI is consistent. You get on any Mac and things look and work the same way. You get on any PC (save Windows 8!) and everything looks and works the same way.

Has anyone ever said: I am not going to use <insert very useful software tool here> because the UI looks exactly the same as the UI on <insert another common software tool here>? Probably not.

Well, why is it that every site on the 'net has to look and work differently? If form follows function then most sites don't really need to reinvent the wheel. Yes, they need to deal with app-specific paradigms, but that's no different than the difference between, say, Excel, Word, Photoshop, iTunes and Dreamweaver.

Somehow on the desktop we have come to understand that a stable, uniform and well-understood UI is actually useful. While I am not sure that this translates directly into the web, I don't really agree with the idea that lots of sites using Bootstrap is equivalent to the end of the universe as we know it.

Considering how many downright awful sites there are this is probably an absolute gift from the Flying Spaghetti Monster (who's name shall never be uttered in vane).
Just a useless datapoint, but gevent is far more important to my team. I think that is the only thing holding us back right now.
if you show up wearing a suit, I'll assume you're a lawyer or an MBA.
releasing without generics is a huge mistake
Before anyone starts to discount this, you must hear them.

When I first heard about these, I thought they were very much going to be like a gimmick. Personally they blew my mind, but make your mind up after you hear them.
I'd like to see some data on what an agricultural antibiotic ban would do to the price of meat, eggs, dairy and any other animal-derived food product.

It's easy to call for an antibiotic ban when thinking only about the scary evolutionary effects, but if we're talking about total human misery caused/avoided* by antibiotic use in farming, it's far from clear (to me at least) that a ban makes any sense at all.

If anyone has data on this I'd be interested to read it.

--

*There's a fair argument over the extent to which we should also consider animal utility, but I'm leaving that aside.
Yup, working with limited resources initially to test the concept and get where we want to as a team, but you've got the right idea!
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Oh look. Artists. Making money. Without selling 98% of the profits and all creative rights to some middle man only to sue their best customers for "piracy" and make asses of them.

Kickstarter. Its like "piracy" running backwards.
I understand the concern premise, but I disagree.

In the US we already live in an increasingly padded walls nanny state. Personally I've had enough of it. Forbid we be daring and reach for the stars again, and take on the risk that goes with it.
I'd argue differently. At least according to CloudFlare, Google Bot crawls my site (http://tshock.co/) literally ten times more frequently than the second place leader, and that's Baidu.

To each their own.
What's great w/ DDG is if you want a google image search, you append !gi bing images !bi and !g for redirecting to Google !b for bing. !m for google maps. So basically you give a small guy a chance and it's decent enough. When it isn't the shortcut is great for the big boys.

And for programming, Duck Duck Go is the best because you append !so and it takes you to stackoverflow. Google values SO scrapers higher than SO.

That said, if you don't learn the shortcuts, you are missing out.

Also, after listening to a talk by Stoyan Stefanov (it's on IT Conversations) I realized that what makes Google so useful subconsciously is their subsecond response time. This is my biggest problem w/ ddg.

That said, I went to a meetup tonight by an Xoogler. He was mentioning that they have an internal query tool that will query a trillion records in a second. I wonder if Bing has the same...
Python != Web frameworks

You're severely underestimating the impact that the scientific computing community has over Python 3's slow adoption.
Don't hate me for asking, I hate when people say this, but can you clearly explain to me this vs. Pusher? I use Pusher, so I'd like to know.
I doubt the claims about being 'as good as', in this article, but It is a very well written and informative article about the internals of search engines.
Eh, people said the same thing about Microsoft and the Internet, and IE managed.

I predict that Google will win this fight and lose every fight thereafter. That seemed to be the pattern with Microsoft.
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The Chinese version is apparently in beta. Try with the version set to USA: http://www.bing.com/?setmkt=en-us
Some anticipate a benevolently-orchestrated afterlife will compensate for selflessness in this life. 72 virgins, stuff like that.

As for me, I believe most suffering is the inexorable result of overpopulation to "life is cheap" levels, which there's no ethical way to fix within the lifetime of today's generations. I'm willing to pay my fair share (not more) out of our society's resources to treat the symptoms, but I'm not going to divert my own efforts and sacrifice limited opportunities for the rare experiences I value most.
Microsoft says a lot of things that aren't true.
In both worlds high-stakes businesses are going to stick to the "stable" release while personal projects explore the new waters. Django's failure to make the shift has resulted in all those personal projects not making the shift.

Django, from my point of view, seems to be approaching this from the wrong direction. They are waiting for the community to shift to Python 3, but at the same time the community is waiting for Django to shift.
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