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Writing a CMS is fun and educational, but don't conflate Wordpress and Flask. Wordpress is a CMS; Flask is a framework which you could use to write a CMS. :)

More generally, figure out what you want to implement, and what you don't want to implement. From the sound of it, you don't want to write your own web server. What about URL routing? Do you want to parse your own HTTP requests, or do you want that handled for you? Want to write your own template system, or use an existing one? Write your own markup language and parser, or go with an off-the-shelf solution?

If you're looking for a local tool that lets you "compile" some content into a static deployable website, then you're looking for a static site generator tool like Jekyll, Hyde, or Octopress.

If you want to build your own, you'll need to make some decisions. Pick a language (for example, Python), a markup language (for example, Markdown), and a template engine (for example Jinja 2). Now you just need to install some libraries, and write a little glue script that will enumerate files in a directory, run then through Markdown, pass them through a template, save the results, and upload them (probably via some mix of fabric and git). That'll get you started.
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I'm really not a fan of captchas in general and Recaptcha in particular. Captchas are user hostile enough, benefiting the service provider at the user's expense. Recaptcha is worse because it is even more of a drag on the user and now also benefits Google.

I run across a lot of captchas where I would be very surprised if the site owner actually had a problem being addressed by the captcha.
As well as a lot of drawbacks and side-effects.
They sold very poorly, only about 5000 or so for each model after many months after launch.

The Motorola Xoom was a Google experience device but the initial high cost seems to have scared buyers away. Google does not have experience making hardware so it's better they let Motorola make it, but with Google branding.
If you’ve not been a minority in a group before (especially in a career-type setting), then it is hard to even imagine what that’s like.

First of all, lets call this argument out for what it is - it's basically an appeal to authority. It's an implicit claim that if you aren't a member of a specific authoritative group, you are unable to reason about a topic. And it's a logical fallacy.

Second of all, it isn't even true. I've been a minority in a career-type setting ever since leaving academia and I've never had the reactions that the author's whiny male friend did. People mock me due to my unusual physical characteristics (e.g., I get sunburned), I mock them for being < 5' tall, then we get lunch.

It's no big deal because I choose to focus on the code, relax and roll with it.

But hey, I'm sure my experience will be dismissed because I'm not the right type of minority in a career setting.
lol. Facebook for cats.

Reminds me of Pets.com
I've picked my Honda door. It was trivial. By the looks of my Toyota key, it would be similarly easy. They have 2-sided teeth on the keys, but the lock is only pinned on one side.

I'm not familiar with prison locks at all, so I can't answer that.

However, the class I took taught us how to pick handcuffs with paperclips and that was trivial. BTW, the class was titled something like Urban Survival from OnPoint, run by a guy named Kelly. The class was briefly mentioned in Neil Strauss's book Emergency!.
RIMM made some major mistakes but was too arrogant as the market leader to take the competition seriously.

1) They Osborne'd their product line by prematurely showing off new products that weren't ready.

2) They tried to meet the iPad head-on in the consumer market by calling their device a Playbook but their strength is in enterprise. Thus the marketing message came out confused and having a pompous "Amateur hour is over" campaign sealed their own fate.

3) Repeated, worldwide BBM network failures that went on for extended periods of time, alienating its most loyal customers when RIMM needed them the most. This was their core competency and they neglected it. Having alternatives on competing phones like iMessage, WhatsApp etc didn't help.
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The approach you suggest works fine in the short term: most of your customers will fail, but only after paying you, and there's a line of suckers behind them.

However, in the long term, if you help a customer thrive by helping them understand what they really need, you might make a bit less off that customer right away, but you'll have a customer for life, and many more where that came from via word of mouth.
Either I didnt articulate my point well enough, or you misunderstood it.

The idea that YC can fund a web-app, mobile-app or completely web-based feature-as-a-service for 150K is well founded.

My point is that within the realm of "ridiculously ambitious ideas" are those that would require a shitload more seed capital to build out.

Do you think that SpaceX, which is obviously ridiculously ambitious, was seeded with simply 150K? Tesla? (obviously these are from the same ridiculously ambitious founder - but a well heeled founder with deep pockets.

I AM saying that there are certain dynamics which YC can't accommodate best.

YC is an absolutley stellar platform, but I would suggest that there should be a separate entry/avenue for projects which are not exactly suited for the traditional YC channel.

Maybe they could start out with "$150K to prove out the idea, consult with other experts in this space and connect with those who can help the idea along"

The point being that the initial 150K is not necessarily expected to going to the actual development of product as much as it is going to the furthering of the project.

EDIT:

I also wanted to point out that I failed in mentioning that the value that YC provides, with respect to exposure, network, connections, etc is immeasurable.

I am really just trying to say that for some groups/founders/cases/ideas -- You cannot look at the 150K funding and think that there will not be other struggles/issues.

I'd like a way to openly address/discuss this and find out what is best for each case.

PG: YC is the best thing to hit the valley since the transistor.
Not sure why some guys have so many reservations about this, it sounds like a simple and reversible procedure with a quick recovery. I'd get it if it were available in Canada.
Some of our employees play this game a few days a week after work. Remote mines in the Complex, 2v2 or free for all.

If you think you're good, we're hiring for a few positions. See profile.
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Please let this be real.

Male birth control is one of the top things that I wish for everyday.

The really great thing is that this isn't just a first-world problem. Birth control is obviously a huge issue in developing nations. So, while I can chase the dream of male birth control for purely selfish reasons, to address my privilege problems, I'm at the same time involved in a solution for a very real problem in the world.
What is "FLOSS"? Free/Open Source software? The fact that you can't even refer to it without an acronym that conflates two opposed philosophies suggests that maybe the "spirit of FLOSS" is less well-defined than you think it is.

In any event, it is better than Katz should work directly for people who are going to use his software than that he work for some giant company that incidentally finds it valuable to task him with something useful.
Your friends must not get laid a lot, or are very monogamous.
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The dichotomy is still false. Adding RISUG to what you are currently using (OCP) will be more effective than merely switching from one to the other.
Depending on the area, sure. Not everyone gets Valley rates.
Now you're zigzagging. Your original point was that YC might have trouble finding ambitious startups because the 150k YC companies end up getting isn't enough to get you out of your salaried job. That argument has an easy response: getting you out of your salaried job has a low expected ROI.

The rest of this point is just the same tired argument: yes, for any given startup, there is a more ambitious startup you can either point to or theorize. Which of them were ambitious startups of the kind postulated by Graham's post about ambitious startups?

Late edit: it's also a bit amusing that the two examples that spring to mind, SpaceX and Tesla, are two crazy shoot-the-moon ideas that could only have been the product of the force of will of someone like Elon Musk. Could you even imagine a seed funding model that would attract Elon Musk? What would it have to include? You might as well argue against the whole concept of seed funding.
Is there anything other than abstinence that's verifiable by both partners? Non-visible methods could be lied about whereas visible ones such as condoms can be tampered with.
Remember that their whole consumer push wasn't because of a greedy desire to take Apple's cake, but instead because they saw Apple's success in the consumer market turn into success in the enterprise market. That CEO or CTO loves their iPhone or iPad, and soon and unsurprisingly their corporate policy adapts to embrace it.
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How many gun safes have you "picked"?

Not gun safes, gun locks. The kind that come with handguns and slip through the slide. Read above, again.

I've played with a Sentry gun safe, as well as a couple standup models whose models I can't recall.

And when you say home safes surely you mean home fire safes right?

Actually, I said home fire safes :)

Paper clips? I have never seen anyone recommend beginners start with paper clips. What do you suggest they use for the torque wrench? I think beginners should just buy one of the many introductory/beginners kits available on the net.

Not to argue, but most of the beginning tutorials I've read encourage people to start with paperclips, as it helps learn tensioning.

Here's a search that points to several tutorials recommending paperclips:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=beginning%20lockpicking%20paper%20...

I hope that helps. I don't proclaim to be an expert, though I can handle myself well. It seems like you misread most of what I said, FWIW.
>There is also the complicating factor of single-parent or broken homes and the rol[e] that plays in a child's lack of overall intellectual development. This also correlates to income and geographic area (i.e. innercity versus urban environment).

I may not be understanding your argument properly, but doesn't IQ _try_ to measure intellectual development? I understand cultural bias being problem and that makes sense --but this doesn't make sense to me. "The problem with measuring intelligence is it measures intelligence?" What difference does the lack of intellectual development have to do with whether it was genetic, educational, physiological, mental, etc?
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You would think after the aids scare of the 80s and 90s this wouldn't be the case.
I'm arguing that men who were admitted might be lower quality than women who weren't admitted because their gender exclude them...

This is exactly what I'm saying - whichever group gets bonus points/preferences/etc will have lower quality. In the past, that group was women. Now it's usually men, though not always (some nursing schools give preference to men [1], some liberal arts colleges do also).

[1] Defining quality here is slightly trickier since nurses of both genders are needed for specific tasks (mostly related to bathing).
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If, perchance, the team behind this happens to read my comment: I wish I didn't have to give so much permissions to your app on my [Facebook|LinkedIn|Twitter] account just to request an invite.
That being said.. I'm interested, but would love to see more about your service.
For couples who are done having children, this is a fantastic alternative to a vasectomy.
That's a horrifying thought. I'm planning on doing "the talk" with my children starting with a latex condom and working outwards.

"Sex is a beautiful thing shared between two people and a latex condom from a reliable brand"...
>BEWARE: It only works well on Chrome

It boots and I can login using Firefox Nightly.
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You only believe what women say when you've had sex with them? What?
I wasn't at the Demo Day, but it's hard to consider making car repair more efficient to be a problem that really matters. Not saying it can't be a decent business, but your essay about ambitious ideas was pushing people to do better.
Before the change to decimalization the market makers were pocketing $1/8 and for a brief time $1/16.
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This is correct if we replace consumers with retail traders.

Pricing in eighths guarantees a minimum bid-ask spread, what the market-makers make before adjustments, of an eighth. With pricing in cents the minimum spread is a penny spread.

Canada isn't changing pricing to twentieths - it's still priced to the cent, except cash transactions will be rounded to the twentieth unless the customer has pennies in which case they can pay in exact change. Thus I do not believe the comparison is apt.
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This was addressed in the article: almost all viruses kill their host cell anyway, so killing the infected host cell faster doesn't add any risk or harm. Taking the infected cell out of circulation means that a lot fewer cells get infected so it's a net win.
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Uhm, it involves cutting open your scrotum.

The idea that people will casually do this is ... hilarious.
With no reasoning given it's not a particularly valuable post in terms of contribution to the conversation, and it forces people to speculate about why you're declaring it to be "the best". There are any number of unflattering possibilities, which probably accounts for no small measure of the downvotes.
Here's my pet project and potential startup, 'Shuffle My Life'. Thoughts?
Story in a nutshell: I wrote CMS to make pages about bingo cards, got a teacher to use CMS to create pages and attendant bingo cards, used this as bait for long tail searches. They look for very specific things, I generally have exactly what they are looking for. This is my Rumpelstiltskin machine: in goes straw, out comes gold, or at least a modestly successful business selling niche software to a few hundred thousand visitors a year.

Close variations of this technique have worked for businesses with diverse interests not limited to elementary education. (Their stories are not generally mine to tell, but Thomas has shared on HN that this was a win for Matasano.)

The reason this is motivational for non-toy businesses is that a one-time software investment plus minimal management overhead plus money equals scalable customer acquisition, and money to scalable customer acquisition is a very motivational formula.
Another example of catastrophic UX is certainly the unix command 'find', as in:
find . -name "*.opa" -exec cat \{\} \; | wc -l

I wonder if any Unix beginner has ever managed to find the syntax for -exec without copy-pasting the examples :)
Instead of a table at the end, what if you were to boil it down to a single list of letters that I can easily memorize? You could do this by weighting the final table with the number of 1-, 2-, 3-, etc -letter words in the dictionary.

Put another way, what are the letters I should guess when I don't know the length of the word?

While it wouldn't be perfect strategy, it would be easier to execute.
Wow. That's even easier to write a bot to circumvent...
Ridiculously simple solution: Drop the hundredths place entirely. Kill pennies, nickels, quarters, bring back $.5 pieces.

A tenth of a dollar is enough precision for any realistic transaction in the United States.
All flora, fauna, and hydrocarbons are merely aggregates of either solar or geothermal energy, which appears to be virtually infinite for the next few billion years. The rise and fall of individual business models for energy conversion does not imply deterministic limits or that military hegemony produces any benefits.

While certain metals are rare to Earth, they are overly abundant on asteroids which robots have already visited. Severe shortages would create a corresponding incentive to invest capital in extraterrestrial resource extraction, which would lead to much greater long term abundance.
Immediate feedback: it's really hard to time jumps due to the ball bouncing along on the ground automatically. If I tap the screen in the middle of an auto-jump, the ball then has to fall down to the floor before my jump action is triggered.

Makes it feel as if there's always a lag between when I tap the screen and when the jump occurs. Sometimes it doesn't jump at all. Lag is a major problem in a reflex game like this.

You should consider always jumping immediately, even if the ball is already in the air due to an auto-jump (physics be damned). Or having the ball roll on the floor rather than jump along.
"It's no big deal because I choose to focus on the code, relax and roll with it."

It's cool that you can take the prejudice you are dealt, but some people surely get worse than you. I'm not dismissing your experience, I'm just pointing out that it is merely YOUR experience. You (like everyone) can't speak for all minority groups.
I would rather pump my body full of hormones than have invasive surgery. You wouldn't?
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Cyanogen mod & back again, why I gave up on stock Android"
Ycombinator-x: self organizing 3 months bootcamps/feeder
of the 97% percent that don't get accepted into ycombinator, most if not all can benefit from similar types of events such as weekly dinners/mini demos, prototype day and demo day outlined here http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html

Granted, without the framework and experience of the people, network & alumni at ycombinator, ycombinator-x does not equate ycombinator, but perhaps former can be a feeder into the latter.

To make ycombinator-x happen wherever there are startups, I envision this.

Each ycombinator-x will have 10 companies. 10 because it's small enough to find space for everyone to attend weekly dinner.

advertise: here/meetup/incubator/cowork space/wherever online
find: space/speakers for weekly dinners.
find: mentors/investors

feedback welcomed, especially on how to self-organize. If 100 startups submitted to ycombinator-x, what is a good heuristic to organize them into 10 groups?
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I can't explain the downvotes, but you brought up a very good point, any guy can just say he's good to go, and be lying just to get a piece. A girls best to bet is to look out for herself.
Every car owner wastes time and money at repair shops that tend to be so opaque and corrupt that there are sitcoms about it. Most mechanics employed by these shops get paid much lower than they can charge as an independent mechanic.

Yet, the middlemen who run the shops make many times more than the sum of the cost of labor and parts.

Are you saying that trying to fix this for the 250M+ car owners in America is a problem that doesn't really matter?
Yeah sorry about that. Should've given some warning.
The pill is certainly not the realization of the ideal form of birth control. However in an non-perfect universe the form of birth control that is verifiable by females (the sex that is impacted the most by pregnancy) is the closes to ideal.
I think you're kind of proving the author's point. You don't get hurt in those scenarios, therefore you think nobody does or nobody should.

Not everyone can be, or even should be, exactly the same.
Has anyone tried writing a life emulator that could read this gene code and then virtually generate a baby? This would be really cool for injecting one's self into an MMRPG, at least one where you could be a baby.
Simple in concept, difficult in execution. How would you recommend the transition between the two systems be handled?
There's a huge difference between a world in which nobody is allowed to say anything that could hurt anybody's feelings and a professional workplace where people are not systematically alienated for not being part of the dominant group.

Be as edgy and offensive as you want, on your own time, thanks.
How so? If I'm "done" I'd rather have a vasectomy than risk forgetting about this and getting my wife pregnant at 42.
> ... and a latex condom from a reliable brand"...

Aren't they all required by law to be reliable?
I'll publicly go on record as saying I'd do this (if it's as safe and well-tested as the article suggests). I think, like many other things, it simply takes some public examples, preferably high profile, to help instill trust in people.
He also says this in that same essay -

If you want to take on a problem as big as the ones I've discussed, don't make a direct frontal attack on it. Don't say, for example, that you're going to replace email. If you do that you raise too many expectations. Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. Want to dominate microcomputer software? Start by writing a Basic interpreter for a machine with a few thousand users.

So for all we know, there are a bunch of YC companies aiming to take over the world, but we just don't know about them since they start off by tackling a very specific, narrow niche. Take greplin for example. I could envision the founders aiming to eat Google's lunch one day, but they certainly didn't launch by announcing that to the public.
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hah, great username. I didn't know HN had a chaperon. btw, thanks for posting that link, and thanks to Peter Norvig!
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Tell that to the guys who are provably not the biological father, but are still forced by the courts to pay child support.
You may not want to hear this advice, but attack lower hanging fruit. As an indie dev, you don't have the time or resources to try and build a hit. Your biggest concern is money to eat tomorrow, so build apps that take less than a month to launch. Don't build mass market games, build niche stuff (educational, for kids, business utilities, etc.).

App distribution is a bitch; if you're not ranked at launch, you won't be successful. Look at re-launching your app in the next month if its unsuccessful. Try in-app purchases to allow unlocks rather than selling it for 99c outright (people download free, but rarely download 99c apps when its unknown and there's so much competition out there). The timing of your release is key too. Best of luck.
The OP mentioned a change in sensation for men. He's suggesting that he is not qualified to comment on that.
After this can we please not post anymore racist/sexist/ist stuff?*

Looking at the number and frequency of high-voted posts, it seems like there is a pent-up demand for this kind of conversation. I'm finding myself learning more about something I care deeply about. That's the whole reason I come here.
That is great. I hope you are a fortune 100 company. Otherwise the candidates you desire typically don't even consider SomeRandom Corp.