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No way this article is correct. I dispise users discussing traffic as a goal on most sites, but at hacker news is radically different it's about intelligent discourse and enlightenment. I can assure you PG wouldn't lose any sleep at night if he knew other sites were visited more than HN. Look at the URL. One is a subdomain and the other is a straight .com. Plus who believes that stat reporting nonsense anyway. The only true way to tell is opening up Google Analytics for both domains and then comparing.
Depending on how your company is formed could make a big difference. Keep in mind that YC is investing $10-20K in your company, so it may not be appealing if there are $40K in legal costs to create an entity that they could invest in.
I'd consider shortening that description a bit.
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If you're on UNIX/Linux, offlineimap[1] seems to work fine. I use it as my main email access, syncing IMAP to a Maildir which is then read by the client, and I've never lost an email.

[1]: http://offlineimap.org/
We haven't made any direct comparisons, but AppHarbor web workers are very fast and can handle upwards of 200 reqeusts/second for cached responses of moderate size. For non-ASP.NET workloads, we offer background workers: http://blog.appharbor.com/2012/03/08/background-workers-in-b...
What you get for the amount of code that makes up d3 is a bargain in my book.
Social augmented reality to let anyone add video, images, or models to any item they want then share it with others.
Windows RT is an ARM version of Windows. On that version, a touch optimized version of Microsoft Office will be included with the windows license.
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I agree :-)

Previous title was "Ask HN: Rejected from YC? What did you build?"
Check out "What Hive is NOT" from this page: http://hive.apache.org/docs/r0.8.1/

"Hive is based on Hadoop, which is a batch processing system. As a result, Hive does not and cannot promise low latencies on queries. [...] Hive queries response times for even the smallest jobs can be of the order of several minutes. However for larger jobs (e.g., jobs processing terabytes of data) in general they may run into hours."

BigQuery OTOH can query over billions of rows in seconds. It is based on a system called Dremel (http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...) that is specifically designed for interactive use, as opposed to being a query language built on top of a batch system.
Didn't apply but here's my thoughts. I know a number of YC founders and YC rejections. Don't quit, I see too many people not continuing without YC which essentially tells YC that you wouldn't have been a fit as YC is the first hurdle, not the destination. There are many alternatives and funding isn't in short supply.

Saying that, it's very positive to listen to any feedback. If you continue then you have to decide do you apply for an alternative accelerator (Many great ones), bootstrap or try to raise some seed money to get you off the grond. YC is incredible but in some circles overhyped.

It's supposedly as good as people say but many of the alternatives (not referring to accelerators) are as good or proven further.
I can't believe that the launch is scheduled for April 30th; in my mind, commercial spaceflight was at least another year away. Either way, if all goes well, I think this marks the beginning of yet another era, and the milestone is, quite frankly, amazing.
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Screenshots would be nice.
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Some of the comparisons to Haskell were in error. I submitted a pull request that fixed them.
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Basically the count minus my views was 30 - a few days after posting the page showed the video directly, so deducting this I thought this may be the number. However, we look freaky and have weird accents, so maybe our views were just for amusement :)
a, b, and c, and there is no other / better service, so it's a difficult one to solve.

also things can't wait until 9am or the selected waking hours, we have too many people/systems relying on working infrastructure, so an issue popping up at an ungodly hour is fixed there and then, even if it means calling other people.

Those are the worst support calls, 3am on some weeknight, and you can't actually fix the problem because you're not 100% certain, and you need to call a colleague and wake them up too. You feel like an asshole.
We received our rejection and very disappointed. We have a disruptive idea and our demo got raving feedback from domain experts. Will post demo here soon.

Congrats to those who got invites.
Nothing new here. The basic versions of Win7 didn't have it.
No, part time in a company who needed English speakers on short notice. Not great pay but interesting (in its own way).
Just finished reading through that first link. Very interesting stuff! If I knew anything at all about how poker was played I might try to make one myself ;)

I completely agree about the current times, man. The amount of free (and quality!) educational material right now is pretty staggering. The Khan Academy alone was amazing, but now with things like Coursera, and the MIT open courses, it's pretty freaking unbelievable what's now at our fingertips.

Definitely make those videos and blog posts! And send me a PM when you do :)
What: Built a social network for shoppers; Who: A solo founder outside US; Rant: I think I've done a job at least on par with another YC11 company http://jerryji.posterous.com/on-yc-demo-day-40956
By the way, currently it’s only possible to return up to 50kg of cargo from the ISS. After the Space Shuttle was retired, Soyuz became the only spacecraft that can actually return anything to Earth from the ISS and there is pretty much only space for three people and nothing else in that thing.

Dragon is supposed to bring back 600kg in its first test flight to the ISS, but it can bring back up to 3.000kg. That’s still not much compared to what the Space Shuttle could do (14.000kg), but it’s a lot more than what is currently possible.

So even if it takes another three years until the first manned flight, Dragon can be very useful as a cargo ship for the ISS (despite the fact that the ISS already has three cargo ships: the Russian Progress, the Japanese HTV and the European ATV – those three ships can deliver tons of cargo but they all can return nothing).
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Cool, nice project. I am also a solo founder who founded drawmics.com (a social one page comics platform). However, I didn't apply for this project, but the similarity of our projects prompted me to comment.
I know so many people with allergies that need this app. Will certainly pass it along. Throw a like button on that page ;-)
Something he misses is that good documentation isn't just an English translation of what the source code does, it's also a contract that describes what the source code may or may not do now and in the future.

If "the source code is the ultimate truth", then your source code is indelible---you can never change your implementation because you've given users freedom to depend upon the behaviour produced by any line of it. If you don't want people depending on implementation details, then you need documentation to hide those away.
"I spend one week every ten or so, on call. Then I spend the next nine weeks writing code to make my next on call shift better." - Tom Limoncelli

Sure, people may write off the fact that Tom found his niche in systems administration. He's currently at Google, as a "Site Reliability Engineer" which (in case you aren't familiar) is about 40% development work and 60% systems administration work. (Though his recent project, Ganeti, seems far more development work.)

I find it "amusing" how so many people are all "DevOps! DevOps! DevOps!" _until_ it causes some kind of inconvenience for the developer. (Pesky paying clients! Why must you want what you paid for, to work!) Then it's "Make the sysadmin's do it. That's Ops job. It's not my job, as a developer, to help fix the service when it breaks. I write the code... it's your job to make it work, sysadmins..." Operability is _everyone's_ responsibility. If your code fails, for whatever reason, it should fail gracefully. It should tell us why it failed. This is the basis of operable code. Of course, even with testing or the best, possible, operable code, shit will still happen.

I think the division of labor is simple. If the failure is clearly software related (you know this because you monitor your systems/software), the on call developer is paged. If the failure is hardware or core OS/system related, the sysadmin is paged. If shit's on fire, both are paged.

Yes, we all know "Well Designed Systems and Software" shouldn't experience catastrophic failure. Guess what, it happens, no matter how well you prepare. So, you prepare for the worst case and have processes in place on how to deal with such issues. Drill your developers and sysadmins. Preparation is key.

Ultimately, _everyone_ on your team should carry the title of "Chief Make It Fucking Work Officer". If you don't get this, don't sit here and gripe about "Not being DevOps-y enough" as is so prevalent in what I read and hear these days. When the Sysadmin says, "No, you aren't pushing code today.", don't bitch. Perhaps if developers accepted responsibility for helping support the systems and software they write, the Sysadmins would be more open to working with the developers.

DevOps Motherfucker. Do You (do more than just) Speak It?
While it's true that most of them are FPS, I don't think it is 95%. Look at Aion for example (MMORPG)
That's really a BIG issue with all the Google services. In case something wrong happens with your Google account, it's like you lose your email, your mobile device (if Android-based) whatever data you are storing, whatever data you are sharing (youtube account and pictures, photos), etc... the implications are far-reaching. For me, this centralization of services also become a deal-breaker. All accounts should be clearly separated by services, if not the risk of loss in case of failure is just too great.
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Unambitious is relative. Posterous was less ambitious than Airbnb, for instance. The Fridge was less ambitious than Heroku.
> a, b, and c, and there is no other / better service, so it's a difficult one to solve.

You don't say what the service is, but if your company is relying on it to the extent that you need to be awake at 3am, then I suspect it's well worth calling the people providing it and offering to throw money at them.

Otherwise you're essentially relying on their goodwill for business continuity...
we're on it .. and not stopping there .. you'll even be able to pin-it :P, if you so desire .. in a few hours, that is.
Just some friendly advice, the excessive self promotion is doing you more harm than good
If you were a public servant in charge of investing the local government's funds, and your instructions were "invest the funds in moderately risky investments"... What does "moderately risky" mean? It's certainly not Treasury bonds. You think, say, investing in basket of stocks in the NASDAQ is moderately risky, but are you really sure that's what your superiors want, are you really that sure of your opinion to bet your job on it? Or would you invest in asset X because Moody said it was moderately risky?

Did everyone know Nokia is junk before Moody downgraded it? The after-the-fact rating at least ensures everyone who matters knows it.
The best reference I can show for the general programming model was a blog post which is not in G, but was called "Why Concatenative Programming Matters":

http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenativ...

which shows you how graphical diagrams can make sense out of concatenative programs.

If you really want an example, then I will give you this with some caution:

http://team358.org/files/programming/ControlSystem2009-/LabV...

The caution is that LabVIEW views a data source as a sort of continuous input stream, so that it is manipulating individual values at any given time. I would rather view vectors as more fundamental in a spreadsheet language.
haha, i'm still freakin crazy dude!
I would argue against this -- you can make very effective AI without machine learning. I think that perhaps what your are trying to say is that current AI feels too "hand-scripted" -- if X, then Y. Agree about emergent behavior totally, but emergent behavior can be produced without machine learning. Simple example:

Enemies set of motivations: kill the player

Knowledge base:
1) An organism can be killed with an excessive amount of directed energy (heat, force, etc).
2) The player is an organism
3) Some general rules about the physical world (how gravity works, how fire works, what switches and levers activate which objects, blah blah blah).

Now, the enemy might take some pre-programmed path to kill the player (like fire a gun at the player). Or, if circumstances dictate that it is best, they might produce a more "creative," emergent approach. Say, for example, the enemy pulls a lever. This was never added in by the programmer. The lever activates a trap door, above the players head, and a bunch of boulders crush the player. Switch action -> directed energy -> kill organism -> player death.

In shorter words, it really comes down to the programmer determining an effective knowledge base (abstraction), and letting the AI run wild with reasoning. :) This is not to say machine learning wouldn't be the icing on the cake, but you could just as well let enemies (or NPCs) have the knowledge before the game is launched without having to learn it.
I recently took a car service (arranged by hotel) from southern midtown to JFK. After the extra fees for credit card, toll, and 15% tip, it cost $85, which is the same price as Uber for this trip.

Maybe this was an anomaly, but I told myself I'd use Uber next time.
Same here but we had an idea, it's unfortunate but good luck to those who are interviewed.
> That's why, when it comes to code, all the documentation probably sucks. And because writing for people is way harder than writing for machines, the documentation will continue to suck for the forseeable future.

I don't think it sucks because it's harder to write. I think it sucks because it's not strictly necessary to document your code in order to compile/ship it, and it's easy to justify putting it off. Poorly documented code is a form of technical debt, a compromise between getting it done right and getting it done right now.
Yea, gnu.org has an entire page on the problems with this term: http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
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On the other hand, I love it when companies let me choose roughly what functionality I need, and pay accordingly.
Nonapplicant: are the accepted not allowed to say that they've been accepted, or all they all too busy celebrating to post here?
Classic example of someone developing without considering support.

If I developed an app that required that much 'fire fighting', I'd replace it with something professional ASAP.

Or is it the selected technology that is the problem here?
I suspect you also pay for your 3rd party services, which the GP's company doesn't seem to do.
It means that it's the only one that comes bundled with Office - of course you'll be able to install Office on Windows 8, but you will have to purchase it separately.
That isn't a direct comparison though because OS X Server and OS X are different beasts really (thought they share an awful lot). Joe Public would just buy "OS X" or in the Windows 7 world Joe Public would have to choose between "Windows 7 Starter/Home Basic/Home Premium/Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate" and in the Windows 8 world "Windows 8/8 Pro/RT" and would have to ask to know the differences between each.
It takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour for my weekly e-mails and our monthly meetings last about two and a half hours on average.
This whole thread is getting really dangerous
Ah, this got posted before I had a chance to stress-test it!

I think it _should_ be okay now, though. It was a little crazy for a while there..
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ditto. but it was as expected. Being asemi technical and single founder, it wasn't unexpected.
> This is typical libertarian claptrap, from the Skilled White Male litany.

Perhaps I was understanding or explaining it poorly, but my understanding is that it's close to the opposite of the "typical libertarian claptrap", which I take to mean something close to "we need the concept of money (and a free market) to get people to work" (and consequently, if you don't work, you get no money, and therefore none of the stuff you need). The position I was talking about is very explicitly that, whether or not you work at all, you deserve food/shelter/healthcare/education/etc.

The point was not whether you can change the world with your work (I think that'd more accurately be the "G. H. Hardy claptrap"!), but why you do what you do, or not, e.g., I know someone who works in a bookstore who would be there even if salaries did not exist.

> shitty jobs need to be done

This statement has been the case for all of human history, and yet the mechanism by which these jobs manage to get done has changed rather drastically many times. Even assuming the current set of "shitty jobs" isn't changing, I see no reason the mechanism couldn't change again.

> In terms of your hand-wringing about full-time programming work, there are all sorts of ways you can work part-time in programming and part-time in something else. That you can't see this shows you haven't really thought about the problem seriously.

You are welcome to accuse me of being stupid, or to point out that these opportunities are incompatible with my other (unstated) requirements, but it's not fair to claim that I've not thought about the problem seriously.
Yup, we were rejected. We tell you which model of anything to buy by crunching owner ratings. Would much appreciate any comments on the beta:

http://daring.is

Congrats to YC S12.
Yeah, I agree. I understand it's probably not feasible when you have so many applications you have to sift through but highlighting key weak points would be nice.
Well, rejection letter is just a part of the game. Now we will have to learn things on our own instead of having guidance from YC, which is kind of more work on our part. But hey, we love to work and learn, don't we?
After creating drawmics.com & findero.us, I started working on a new idea, however, I applied to YC with no idea in particular as I was not sure whether to pursue it or not. In the last few weeks, my gut feeling on the success of this idea has become stronger by the day and I am actively pursuing it with my co-founder (yeah, now I have a co-founder). I hope, by the next demo day at YC, we would have already gone live.
Of course Office is available on all Windows versions. It's included with Windows RT, which is an interesting choice. It's likely going to be crippled in some way, otherwise an ARM laptop suddenly looks like a far better value than an Intel laptop. Intel can't be happy about this.
This seems really good. I might give it a try in the future. Their "add-on" services look really cool to use also.
There are ways to do ops which don't suck as much for the ops people -- for exempt/salaried, offering liberal comp time for taking on-call shifts, and even more if there are alerts, is pretty nice. And making sure all the tools for on-call people are as convenient as possible.

There surely is some price where being woken up is worth it to you. If it happens once a month and you get a day off the next week, I'm pretty happy.
Joe Public would have Home Premium which comes pre-installed with their laptop/is whatever their laptop's factory reset DVD resets their laptop to. Joe Public would barely be aware that there are other versions out there much less the differences between them.
I don't know what exactly you are doing but it seems like you don't understand what pricenomics are doing. They tell you how much your stuff is worth if you are trying to sell it. It is not a social shopping site.
> I hate that it's always indoors and sedentary. It's unfortunate that society places so much value on an activity that is arguably bad for my physical and mental health.

You should invent a computer specifically designed to allow you to work outdoors, including while walking. I'm on that same mission for the same reasons. http://bit.ly/vergence-singularity
No, I take it simply to mean that Office is included with WinRT (but not Winx86) which makes sense- they are making a custom Office interface, and probably see WinRT more as an opportunity to make Office indispensable on ARM, rather than Windows. This is how they have always won- it's not about the OS, it's about the 'apps. (Apple has re-demonstrated that with iOS) Office is their "killer app"- Windows is an enabler.
<<The $210M sale of OMGPOP and the $1B Instagram purchase feel like a bubble, but you have to step back for a moment and realize that OMGPOP was purchased for 2% of the value of Zynga and Instagram for 1% of the value of Facebook.>>

how can relative valuations prove/disprove bubble valuations? poor point in my mind.
"We spend little time investigating crash bugs."

Isn't "not crashing" kind of an implicit responsibility of any programmer? There are some bugs that aren't worth fixing, but even the most rare set of circumstances shouldn't be causing a crash for very long.
I'm surprised at the rate of progress too. NASA used to be able to make rapid progress like that, but I feel like - from my layman's perspective - they couldn't do that now. It would cost billions more than it cost SpaceX to start from nothing (well, not exactly, they had help from NASA, but still) and take years longer.
That giant table looks pretty awful, but I guess this is a huge improvement for Windows releases. For desktop users, it's really a choice between Pro and regular. For Vista, it was this mess: http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsVista/vista-which-vers...
Rejected. 4 video views. Brush your shoulders off :)

We're building a site that tells you what to buy: the best model of anything, accurately, by crunching owner ratings. We'd love any feedback:

http://daring.is

Congrats to YC S12.
I've seen several online code tools that allow you to compile, run, and even debug CLR code online. What's special about this one? The back-end Roslyn interface looks interesting though: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/roslyn
Windows 8: Normal person edition

Windows 8: I work in a big company edition

Windows 8: At least I get Office for free edition

Also what's with this:

All editions of Windows 8 offer a no-compromise experience.

If they're no compromise, why do I have to choose between them?
Steve Jobs had taste, I doubt he was subject to groupthink, though.
Also, better rendering is generally better (unless you want a cartoony cell renderer).

Better AI might not always be better. You don't want stupid AI bugs, but you don't necessarily want the AI to be smarter than the player. You may want an AI with a realistic character, but maybe not. Good AI makes some sense in a sandbox world, but it's not necessarily fun.
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My experience with several of my clients who are paying Google "Customers" proves to me, at least, that Google doesn't consider those who pay for their services "Customers" either. The Customers are Google's advertisers. Granted, my experience only goes up to around 300 seats of "paid for" service, but locating a support resource that didn't shunt me to a FAQ or send me back an automated email telling me that my ticket was closed was difficult.