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The problem isn't that it's impossible for humans to understand, nor that one can't hire the best in the field to implement this solution. The problem is that the people who need to understand the outcome won't be able to understand it.

I disagree that people won't be able to understand it - I propose they can't be bothered to understand it. Regular people do not give a shit about algorithms - either the computer/software works or it doesn't. Tech geeks regularly forget this simple fact.

Most people have other things they care about and all they want is to press a button and have an answer come out.

If its instantly clear how the answer is generated, they think about it for a very short while, agree and move on with their lives.

If it's not instantly clear how the answer is generated, they assume the computer is right and move on with their lives.
The 'above natural' results are an amazing fountain of profit for Google driven by searchers who don't realize those are paid ads, or think that those are especially Google-endorsed. A company that is already the top natural result for its own name may still find it profitable or necessary to be the top paid result as well, to catch that traffic.

In some e-commerce contexts, even if the top natural result is the direct source of a certain product, selling at the best price, a significant amount of traffic will go to a reseller who has higher-prices, but appears in the first paid position.

For those categories, Google and the reseller are a tag-team distribution-power middleman siphoning value from both the searcher and the target site, compared to the 'platonic ideal' of just giving the searcher what they want. It's not quite 'evil', given that it subsidizes other Google benefits on less economically-valuable categories, but it's not Google being a White Knight for the searcher's best interest, either.
The rain thing is cool! (although the website sucks :-|)
And beautifully, both interpretations are applicable to Steve. His early success with Apple could be attributed to a beginner's mind. Later, his ability to come back and rescue the company could only be the work of an expert.
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That would be interesting. As imperfect as my grammar and spelling are, I know that when I have a stack of resumes on my desk to review, the first pass weeds out the ones with grammar/spelling mistakes. Applying for a job is too important of a task to make avoidable mistakes like that. If you have not taken the time to make your resume perfect then you are likely to do sloppy work in your day to day activities. I would apply the same filter to a YC application. If I ever find myself working up an application for YC, I would spend the time and money needed to make sure every bit of that was correct. Now whether it should be formal or informal or what have you would be a big mystery. I would tend to lean toward formal in something like that. But perhaps not so formal that I come off has a robot. You can't trust robots.
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Ha. It turns out the majority of engineers who are not security-conscious don't do this, because it's easy to forget. And there's always another way to get around it, unfortunately.
Where is "do less" on that priority list?

Oftentimes, the problem isn't really that development is inefficient, it's that the wrong product is being developed. A little customer feedback could shave off a lot of effort.

Also, more features don't always make for a better product (witness: Apple vs. Google or Microsoft). Judicious feature-cutting both saves development effort and tends to make the UI simpler and easier to use.
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Not a very constructive discussion, but I do quite enjoy how the project site looks.
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" Hit your deadlines every time, not by estimating better, but by not caring how pretty your deliverable is."

I'd kill for some Phase IV PMs. :)

(Actually, it's rare that I meet Phase I PMs. Very few PMs think in terms of developing software across those 5 stages. To them it's Photoshop -> Make Photoshop Mockup Do stuff -> Fin)
Also, work out how to market it to those of us buying _way_ too much bailing wire and duct-tape.

Show me a good way to plug this into my clients existing infrastructure (MailChimp/CampaignMonitor/Magento/Wordpress/Concrete5/PaypalStore/etc), and I'll just sell it to them for you, instead of heading to the stationary cupboard (again) for another roll of tape.

I want a useful, well documented (with examples) API.
I want well written and comprehensive end-user documentation I can point my clients at and let them run with you.
(I'd also _like_ some believable assurances about reliability, uptime, the businesses sustainability, all that kind of stuff - but if you win me on the first two, I've got a _lot_ of clients I need to call…)
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There is some precedent for all of this. Trade Wars 2002 developed into a game of automation, some scripts became highly complex and were nearly able to play a game fully autonomously, including cooperation between players running the same set of scripts.

Early on, the best scripts were closely-guarded secrets, but as time went by, the quality of publicly-available scripts, as well as the scripting engines to run them, increased significantly. At this point the ecosystem resembles the rest of the programming world -- a combination of custom "in house" code, "proprietary" code, and open source code.
There is an article on HN frontpage about "Be Specific (especially during PG's office hours)."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3795517

This blog article has virtually no specifics or concreteness, with the exception of "we're from Iowa."

As Patrick mentioned elsewhere, your location is relatively immaterial. Evan Williams (of Blogger / Twitter fame) made it out of Nebraska (my home state, fwiw), so I'm sure you can too.
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Maybe distill that into: Seedlauncher is crowdfunding for small, local businesses.

That actually sounds like a really good idea. Why not just do this without waiting for yc?
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Average life Expectancy in Medieval Europe was about 30.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy...
I always liked Spolsky's approach to this, described in his "painless functional specs" piece, of using little stories or scenarios to illustrate typical use cases.
This is actually pretty cool. If it had dollars instead of pounds I would use it.
It's cool to have nearly real-time confirmation from someone who is actually there! ... I found the UCC Coffee shop to be expensive however, but I am a cheap guy :-)
> that which you know, that which you don't know, and that which you don't know that you don't know.

First time I heard this was in a press conference by Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, he was well read and got things done.
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I find it ironic that an article titled 'Be Specific' is made up of 1802 words.
Here's a tip: when on stage, don't have all four people lean forward onto their knees and huddle into themselves like frightened armadillos.
Also, libphonenumber from google works.
What about simply 'Make something that will make lots of money.'
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Ah yes, Vendetta Online was an absolutely brilliant game. I wasted way too much time back in the day blowing up traders in Sedina B8. I might have to check it out again sometime soon, I'm under the impression it's still being actively developed isn't it?
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'''We don't know any Y Combinator Alums, and even if we were to reach out the best we could hope for is a lukewarm they seemed "nice".'''

'''We have a lot of drive'''

Somehow these statements seem contradictory... and I'd be taking a hard look at your "business guy" right now if he can't even start by at least attempting a little networking...
I found most of them through Twitter.
Most managers would know Phase IV if at all they had done some real work.

As it happens people generally go over to Project Management if they can't do technical work.

This creates a problem, you are asking somebody to manage things which he himself didn't want to do.
Because it's not all that great. It's the C Programming Language of linguistic style guides—well-respected and historically relevant, but not necessarily the best resource.

For example, The Elements of Style tells you to avoid the passive voice, on the grounds that sentences like "The sandwich was eaten by me," are much more awkward than "I ate the sandwich." It gives three sentences in support of this: "There were a great number of dead leaves lying on the ground," "It was not long before she was very sorry that she had said what she had," and "The reason that he left college was that his health became impaired." None of these sentences actually contain a passive: the first is an existential sentence, the second is a simple copula, and the third uses the copula with an adjective, not a participle.[1]

All of which is to say—Strunk and White did not know what a passive was. The actual advice they meant to give is something along the lines of, "Don't be vague about agency," but that is a different proscription. There are places where you should avoid the passive, and there are also places where you should employ the passive, because it is clearer than the alternative. For example, if your documentation says, "Our software product is used to [blah]", you should not change it to, "People use our software product to [blah]," because those people do not matter. By avoiding the passive, you have made your writing less clear by introducing unnecessary information.

Strunk and White have a lot of advice which is merely harmless, but it is not a spectacular writing guide, except for the simplest, least elaborate kinds of writing. Truly great writing is not writing which follows those rules, but writing that knows when to follow such rules. For example, Orwell and Churchill, both quite excellent writers, use the passive significantly more than journalists of the time[2].

[1]: The passive transforms sentences of the form "{noun1} {verb} {noun2}" into "{noun2} {be} {verb}ed [by {noun1}]"; it is (or should be) clear that these sentences cannot be transformed from the latter pattern into the former.

[2]: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003414.h...
Perhaps we should start calling this Casual Creativity. I think it's a good analogue to Casual Gaming which to me has the same advantages and drawbacks compared to real gaming.
A submission by Eliezer Yudkowsky name-dropping PG and referencing YC right in the thick of YC application season--has any submission ever been so perfectly crafted for HN before?
I wonder what Google charges.
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The problem with "building something for others" rather than solving your own problems is you may not be passionate/persistent enough to survive the low's to get to the next milestone
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It's also easy to throw down tropes that are so general that they have a good chance of applying to the point you're supposed to be making, no critical thought required.

Like this example given by pg in http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html

"Information is the lifeblood of the modern organization. The ability to channel information quickly and efficiently to those who need it is critical to a company's success. A company that achieves an edge in the efficient use of information will, all other things being equal, have a significant edge over competitors."
When a conference doesn't have a similar competition, one can still make a big splash by using social media like Twitter leading up to the event. Most of these conferences leverage #hashmarks with the conference name used by attendees before, during, and after the event. Start sending our your message a few weeks prior to the conference using these hashmarks.

Also, it's a great idea to pre-seed traditional media, analysts, news outlets, potential customers, and social media that you have an exciting launch during the conference, and pointing everyone to your booth... it is a great way to ensure people come and check your company out!
"Help test our new signup process"

I see what you're doing there... =)
There is also a fourth kind of knowledge: unknown knowns (that which we intentionally refuse to acknowledge that we know) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_knowns
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What's odd to me is that Ubuntu and Gnome are both working separately on things that look remarkably similar. This is the same stuff that Gnome 3 does - pulls up applications, folders, commands, etc via a translucent overlay at the press of a button. The only difference is Ubuntu makes it a HUD so that it doesn't take up the whole screen.

I kind of like Gnome's implementation better, but I can't really use either of them; the Gnome version breaks Alt-Tab (forcing it to cycle window groups instead of windows, and not allowing an option to change this) and Ubuntu breaks a lot of my personal customization (Gnome-Do + AutoKey).
One wouldn't want to be accused of practicing law without a license, in a state where one is not licensed.
It may be interesting to adapt the TeX hyphenation methods to this problem.
I can/have built in some amazing stuff over weekends. But generally the requirements for that are, and in no specific order.

1. I must be in a flow.
2. I am using a technology very familar, so I know
the tools and many things.
3. I am doing something new. Not maintaining some ones
code or interacting with an external team.
4. No disturbances and other office distractions like
office emails.

Building new things are different than maintaining. Many a times I'm waiting for some other team's inputs to proceed. Or I'm required to fix a list of X number of bugs which can't be fixed until I understand the underlying code base well.

Create this webpage in 15 mins kind of arguments don't work because you are adding something into a working system and you can't generally do so until you understand everything about the system.

Doing something new is different. You definitely can get to the first prototype if you know what you are doing, what you are using to do it and no distractions.
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Well in such a case those people should not opt to manage technical people.
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Though http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Walking_in_stations was roundly criticized for soaking up so much effort yet going out in such an incomplete state (you literally can't leave your quarters and see another player yet). Me, I just hope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_514 (the ground battle spinoff) doesn't remain limited to console gamers.
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So good strategy would be provide customers with almost free standard solution and then customize it step by step for ever increasing fees, right?
This is pretty neat. I've been puttering on one on and off, but it's horribly broken so I haven't released it, so this one gets extra points for actually existing. :)

In case my half-done thoughts are useful to anyone looking to build something in this space:

My aim is/was to allow configurable matching, so you can match, e.g. "XxxXxx / XxxXxx1 / XxxXxx / XxxXxx1", meaning four consecutive lines of six syllables, where X is a stressed, and x an unstressed syllable, and where the last syllable of the 2nd and 4th lines have the same phoneme, denoted "1", whereas there are no phonemic constraints on any other syllables (this allows a crude approach to rhyme).

I'm not entirely happy with cmudict because, since it works one syllable at a time, it can't really do much about stress, which can vary depending on the surrounding words. I've been using the output of espeak -x instead, which gives a phonetic rendering of an entire sentence, including assigning both phonemes and stress. I'm not sure if it's genuinely an improvement though. Its poorly documented output surely isn't an improvement! And in particular it gives a normal prosaic reading of a sentence, which might be too constraining for poetry-finding, since poems often allow a bit of freedom on moving around the stresses.

The idea to scan large amounts of text is to compile the configurable pattern into a regex that matches espeak -x output, so for example X gets mapped to a "match any stressed syllable" regex snippet. Alas, that's error-prone, especially since the espeak -x phoneme format is a bit quirky (e.g. no fixed length per syllable or syllable markers, so you need to have some per-language rules to figure out what sequences of ASCII constitute what, which I haven't debugged).
We are doing it. We've been working hard for months. We're just waiting for the SEC to write the regulations for crowdfunding following the passage of the JOBS act.
It may not be a victory across the board, but it certainly isn't a loss across the board. That's all I'm saying.

Let me answer some of your points more specifically:
NUMA is a concern, but with some work on the schedular to give goroutines slight affinity for threads, this can be largely mitigated. This could be as simple as a scheduler policy like `take the first queued goroutine that previously executed on this thread, looking upto 5 into the queue, otherwise take the first one` instead of `always take the first one`. The difficulty with this strategy is you could experience starvation of goroutines, and there are a ton of other complexities, which is why the current scheduler is so simple. I believe this will get better...

Context switching isn't the issue with threaded implementations of servers. Writing a server with a thread per connection is a bad idea because of the memory requirements. 1000 connections will lead to gigabytes of memory in use.

I don't think Go's performance envelope has shrunk or become less predictable, IMO. I think what we've given up is control over what threads execute what goroutines, essentially, the NUMA argument above. This will hopefully get better with time.
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I wouldn't say that it is just higher math. As a high school student, here is my path of e^ix.

Physics 1 Advanced, Simple Harmonic Motion is being taught. When told to find a case where the second derivative of a function is a negative constant times the function, I think e^ix. The answer is sin(x), but Euler's equation now makes sense. The most beautiful equation now makes sense.

A month later, glancing in a book of useful mathematical equations, I see sin(x) = (e^ix - e^-ix)/2i. Hyperbolic trig suddenly makes sense, which is useful over a year after finishing it. The weird equation for the normal curve from statistics starts to make more sense, because e^(-xx)=(e^(ix))^ix, which helps explain the 1/sqrt(2pi) weirdness. I start to understand why the most beautiful equation has its name.

I think that most math is cumulative, but only some parts are hard enough to make you notice it.
I don't think the processor needs to be.

If it's designed carefully, the code should be trivially translatable to native x86, at which point you may even be able to run a few thousand on a single reasonably beefy server, depending on how fast the virtual CPU runs and the average load.
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I think the general thumb is to be very specific with seed and angel investors, and much more broad and conceptual with VCs.
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This is really the key here. It doesn't matter where you are from. What matters is what you can do (or, in the case of proving to people that you are competent, what you have done).

Do some small thing well to show that you have a chance at doing something bigger just as well.

This is how life works, not just startups.
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Our team has been talking, and we've decided that even if we don't hear back from anyone at Y Combinator we're doing a 72 hour hackathon sometime in the next week using something on one of those list. :)
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That's actually why Nantucket ignores meter for now - cmudict's stress patterns are really inaccurate and unsatisfying. espeak is an interesting idea!

One thought I want to explore in a later version is using cmudict's stress patterns for polysyllabic words, but ignoring any stress/meter rules for monosyllabic words. I suspect that'll do pretty well, and it'll be interesting to test it out.
That sounds like the business model of most of the agencies selling WordPress solutions who have been hiring me for the last two years.
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But staying warm means you would require less food to supply the energy you need, being cold really drains you at least here in the winter I know I get really hungry when I am cold.

If you are warm and require less food that's less trips out to hunt and fewer chances of being injured or killed.

Maybe add onto that the cooking of food being digested better too.