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I admit that I'm not intimately familiar with YC's and pg's preaching but my impression of what I've read and seen from pg is that he is very insistent on startups having a solid business model and on them focusing on customer acquisition. And I don't remember having ever heard pg advocate quick exits. This is at odds with the assumptions you've based your post on. I might be wrong though - happy to get corrected by YC alumni.

As for "changing the world", this is an expression that's as meaningless as it gets. Of course everybody wants to change the world, why wouldn't you? And since everybody lives in their own world anyway, in a way, everybody changes the world. For example, I personally find Facebook to be one of the most useless product I've ever used. I genuinely wouldn't notice if Facebook disappeared tomorrow. On the other side, for my deaf teenage cousin, Facebook literally changed his world. He went from being the weirdo disabled boy in the corner of the room that nobody would talk to to being a perfectly normal teenager communicating on Facebook like any other teenager.

So the YC startups you're talking about might not have changed your world but you can be sure that they've changed quite a few other people's world. Arguably, Steve Jobs, who you cite in example, has hardly changed the world for most people. Had he not be there, computers and smartphone would have been there anyway and would have more or less done what they do today (and I'm saying this as a big admirer of Apple who has discovered computing on a Mac SE and is typing this post on a MacBook Pro).

When it comes to bigger goals like ending wars or poverty, fixing the global warming problem or space exploration, it would be incredibly naive to believe that you can tackle the problem as a nobody (i.e. as a young, first time entrepreneur with no cash and no network).

Elon Musk didn't start with a crazy-big-truly-change-the-world project. He, you know, did Paypal first. Just like what the Stripe guys (a YC startup) are doing. Bill Gates didn't start by tackling the issue of poverty, illnesses and illiteracy in Africa. He started by writing an interpreter. You have to start somewhere and this somewhere is generally relatively small but gives you what yo need (knowledge, experience, network, cash) to follow up with something bigger afterwards. That's my understanding of what YC is all about.
Windows Azure is a collection of services managed by Microsoft that, together with software development tools and SDKs (for popular languages such as C#, Java, Ruby, Python, Node.js, or over plain REST), comprise a computing platform.

It includes services for on-demand computing, storage (in No-SQL form and Blob form), message queueing, service bus, secure connection, identity management, horizontably-scalable relational database, big data computing (Hadoop), media encoding and streaming, content distribution network, reporting, business intelligence, a data marketplace.

The list goes on and on and is increasing rapidly. The gist is, you consume those services, Microsoft hosts and manages them (with high availability, geographic redundancy, etc.) and you pay for what you use.
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The claims made in this article, Food Inc., and other pieces of agitprop are not based in reality.

I'm part of a fifth generation farm family. We've been working the same ground for over 100 years (that's sustainability in practice) and I'm here to tell you that nobody is killing themselves. Especially with $6 corn. Monsanto is not the enemy of the family farm.

I'll elaborate when I have more time and a device other than my iPad as I know I need to provide more than this here on HN. :)
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Well that's cause the Pyramid Auth API is admitted by the authors to be overly complex. They did a post mortem here and you can read about some of the mistakes they made when designing the API: http://plope.com/pyramid_auth_design_api_postmortem

The most relevant line to take away from their post mortem is this: "Unfortunately, when designing a framework, you get exactly one shot at creating "the right" API. In this case, we didn't."

So even with a decoupled API, if the design doesn't fit your needs or is too cumbersome to use, you will still need to find a third party solution or hack the core code. Both of which, as mentioned by others, are possible in Django.
Something sticks out like a sore thumb in that API. Where's the param signing with a secret key?
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I thought salting passwords had been crypto 101 since at least the 90s. Does anyone here know how often are big companies are still using unsalted passwords?
Well, I was thinking that cross site authentication would be impossible in case of per domain session, but yes, a completely new anonymous user profile directory should be created.
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"On May 10, the Summer Olympics were inaugurated at the Greek birthplace of the ancient games. A few days before, virtually unnoticed, the government of Vietnam addressed a letter to the International Olympic Committee expressing the "profound concerns of the Government and people of Viet Nam about the decision of IOC to accept the Dow Chemical Company as a global partner sponsoring the Olympic Movement."

Dow provided the chemicals that Washington used from 1961 onward to destroy crops and forests in South Vietnam, drenching the country with Agent Orange.

These poisons contain dioxin, one of the most lethal carcinogens known, affecting millions of Vietnamese and many U.S. soldiers. To this day in Vietnam, aborted fetuses and deformed infants are very likely the effects of these crimes - though, in light of Washington's refusal to investigate, we have only the studies of Vietnamese scientists and independent analysts.

Joining the Vietnamese appeal against Dow are the government of India, the Indian Olympic Association, and the survivors of the horrendous 1984 Bhopal gas leak, one of history's worst industrial disasters, which killed thousands and injured more than half a million.

Union Carbide, the corporation responsible for the disaster, was taken over by Dow, for whom the matter is of no slight concern. In February, Wikileaks revealed that Dow hired the U.S. private investigative agency Stratfor to monitor activists seeking compensation for the victims and prosecution of those responsible."

America's Rank Hypocrisy, By Noam Chomsky, AlterNet 05 June 12
That brings up an interesting thought. I wonder how ashleymadison.com stores its user data. If any piece of identifying user data were leaked, it could kill their business (which many would welcome I'm sure).
Not sure about the US but it's possible he's referring to Monsanto vs Schmeiser, a Canadian case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...

In that case, Schmeiser's field was contaminated by his neighbour's field which was planted with Roundup resistant Canola seed.

"... on the balance of probabilities, the defendants infringed a number of the claims under the plaintiffs’ Canadian patent number 1,313,830 by planting, in 1998, without leave or licence by the plaintiffs, canola fields with seed saved from the 1997 crop which seed was known, or ought to have been known by the defendants to be Roundup tolerant and when tested was found to contain the gene and cells claimed under the plaintiffs’ patent. By selling the seed harvested in 1998 the defendants further infringed the plaintiffs’ patent."
It's a complicated issue.

Since the government started de-regulating many agricultural practices and allowing for the patenting of organisms, argribusiness intensely lobbies Congress to the point that they control agricultural policy.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-4048288.html

Basically, the genetics of modified crops are patented. So if the wind carries corn pollen from your neighbor's farm to your organic cornfield, your crop will pick up some patented genetic characteristics. Then Monsanto's people come and sue you for using their intellectual property.

Monsanto also acts to squelch competition. They purchased companies that make specialized equipment designed to clean and prepare non-hybrid seeds for storage, and shut down manufacturing. They also send people out to buy up old equipment used for seed cleaning, and if you are found have infringed on Monsanto's intellectual property, they'll have the court seize your seed-cleaning equipment.
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I am really interested in the Startup Chile program and I've heard frequently teams need technical cofounders. This is my attempt to reach out to them.

Please email/tweet/upvote.

Throwaway account because I'm trying to control who knows who I am.
When you share content from gimmebar, they're no longer sure the original source is still displaying the item in question, or even that the URI chosen was canonical (think the root url on a blog). What choice do they have?

To go a step further, I think you're freeing the person sharing the content prematurely. If I see something funny on cracked.com, and decide to grab that content, upload it to imagur, then share the imagur link… Imagur getting the traffic instead of cracked is on me, not imagur.
If I were a criminal hacker with access to ashleymadison.com user data I wouldn't be talking about it. I'd be blackmailing wealthy people who are cheating on the site or the site itself.

So, I doubt you'd hear about such a hack.
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The lawsuit is in Brazil. The claims about people killing themselves are from India. So U.S. corn prices probably don't quite factor in.

Also, if you are importing diesel and fertilizer, you aren't quite self sustaining (I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, I like cheap and available food, but the popular idea of sustainability is about accounting for and balancing flows of energy, not keeping land productive).
This seems cool but I have a question. Is this:

> 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 { 10 5 9 6 20 17 1

Stored in an array? Because if it is, when I do this:

> 2 3 4 5 6 { 10 5 9 6 20 17 1

Won't I have to rearrange the whole array? (deleting two of the index parts)
I think that the overall list of 'fastest companies to IPO' might be skewed by the dot-com bubble companies that were fast to IPO but failed soon afterwards thanks to having no real business model or income.
Not that I know of. Although it would only be non-YC companies (no YC company has IPOd yet - Dropbox and Airbnb are the likely candidates but Weebly has also hinted that they might be in a position to consider it soon)
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Why would it be impossible? If you need to completely pass the user off to a different website temporarily, you should add the challenge/response data to the query string or post parameters. Cookies not required.
pretty nice summary.
i noticed most similar postings are all about js/python/ruby here, i'm an embedded linux hacker and i wish there is a place we can talk about both hardware and software for products, not just the web, maybe it's time to create one?
No not really. I think you are referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...

Read the case. He knowingly planted Roundup Ready plants across his whole field. Alternatively, find a case for what you say happened happening before you assume it to be true.
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"Is the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates filling in Y Combinator's application form right now, or are they taking the independent route?"

YC can reproduce the career arc of Steve Jobs, but not Bill Gates. Until the IPO Microsoft didn't sell stock to outside investors in significant quantities. By essentially bootstrapping, Gates and Allen were able to bring Ballmer on board with 8% equity at a point when outside investors would be eyeing exit in a VC backed company.

This is in contrast with Jobs, who lost control of Apple by accepting outside money. On the other hand, having grown up in Silicon Valley, Jobs would not have needed the sort of guidance through the startup landscape that YC provides relative to a hacker from Topeka - i.e. Jobs was sophisticated enough to raise money for Apple based upon his social connections within Silicon Valley.
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I think consoles will become niche because networks will eventually get fast enough so that you see the same dynamic with games that you see with blue-ray/movies. Instead of players needing to buy expensive, specialized graphics rendering equipment they can just connect to a service using whatever user-input/video-playing device they have. Sites like onlive are already trying to do this (though obviously, they aren't really there yet)
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Are you talking about frameworks or software products? There is a very good argument around building custom software versus buying a product that matches your argument. In that case, I strongly agree. You should find products that either match your business process or change your process to match the products.

With regards to frameworks. I find it hard to believe that none of them would work out in the long run. I wonder if you are under-estimating the cost involved from the developers to replace or create these frameworks from scratch. This also seems like a selection problem more than an inability of frameworks to meet any development need. I mean they do exist for a reason.

That said, most software products are pretty horrible. Many frameworks are equally bad. Does this mean you should custom build everything? Of course not, you company is not going to be able to afford the time it takes you to write your own ORM, your own web framework, your own logging library, etc... It is your job to make compromises that will allow your company to achieve its goals.
That's sustainable energy sources. Sustainable farming is different.
One thing, that Huffington Post article doesn't quite contradict the claim. It says:

"The court ruling said there was no likelihood that Monsanto would pursue patent-infringement cases against the organic farmers, who have no interest in using the company's patented seed products."

So long as the organic farmers didn't replant the contaminated seed or sell it, they are safe from lawsuits. If a farmer does replant the seed and benefit from the use of weedkiller resistance, they can expect to be sued.
What are the drawbacks of forcing companies to reveal their password schemes?
I'm talking about something where public companies like Google, Microsoft, Sony etc are bound by law to reveal information about how they secure your passwords (and possibly data?).

I also don't mean reveal their entire infrastructure or algorithms. Just something that says eg.

"We don't store your password. We stored a salted hash in a secure location that only two people have access to. We use a hashing algorithm that's known to be secure in combination with another scheme developed by our own cryptographers."
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto...
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It's clear that the console market is at a turning point.

The Xbox360, PS3 and Wii have all (AFAIK) gone well beyond the lifespans of their predecessors. It's just taking longer and longer to recoup that investment.

When they came out they were much better (in price-performance terms) than their PC equivalents. As expected, this lasts no longer than 6-12 months.

Rumor has it that the next Playstation will be subpar compared tot he PCs of that time [1] (read the whole thing).

One issue with the PS3/Xbox style gaming is that we're hitting a wall when it comes to improved graphics. Graphics are getting better but not at a rate that people tend to care about. The bigger problem is that those improved graphics come at the cost of content creation (meaning it's more expensive to develop a "level" with more complex models, higher res textures and so forth). Games are getting shorter [2].

At the same time mobile gaming is taking off. Tablets (and possibly phones) are becoming the new consoles. The current iPad has 1GB of RAM and some pretty impressive graphics (given the form factor). And it's only getting better for the foreseeable future.

Mobile gaming I think will hurt Nintendo the most and I see a not insignificant possibility that Nintendo will end up like Sega and just be a software house. I seem to remember reading something about their investors questioning them not bringing their valuable franchises to iOS.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/04/the-x86-playstation-4-...

[2]: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/04/the-incredible-shrinki...
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Absolutely brilliant! I'm so glad you made this. Thank you, thank you.
I'm somewhat surprised he isn't predicting something closer to a mix of the OnLive strategy partnered with the last-mile provider (Comcast, AT&T, etc.). It seems like some way of letting game makers or these services rent space in data centers on the last mile (ala the datacenters at the CME, NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.) might make it possible to deal with the fps latency issue and stream to a fairly dumb client that runs on most console/set-top box platforms.

Certainly, if I were making a 5/10-year bet, that'd be it.
RT is most certainly not the most-watched news channel worldwide. That doesn't even make any sense.

RT is, however, a propaganda tool of Putin and friends. I most certainly wouldn't trust their numbers or anything else they publish for that matter.
Nobody is killing themselves because you're being subsidized by the American taxpayer to grow lots of corn.

Monsanto is a nasty corporation, but their nastiness is fueled by government policy that allows them to leverage patents and practices to make a commodity product like corn as profitable to them as pharmaceuticals are to Genentech or AstraZenica.

It's great for you now, and results in cheap food prices for the consumer. But there are dangerous long-term social (ie. lots of obese people fattened up by artificially cheap and ubiquitous corn-derived sugar), biological and economic consequences
Can you point to a case where some random pollen got into a neighbor's farm and they got sued. Please read the Schmeiser case before linking to it. It's pretty simple. Monsanto in the past would be tipped off when farmers would buy a lot of roundup without buying roundup ready seeds. It's usually a big tip off that you are using saved seeds, which is explicitly against both the agreements farmers sign, and patent law.
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Monsanto has genetically-modified (and patented) crops that produce 2x or more per acre of land. Sometimes they're the only way to make land profitable.
What facorreia said, and I'll add for simplicity that Azure is to Microsoft what AWS is to Amazon (as opposed to your question of Azure being like EC2).
Google is your friend. Here's one of many:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-4048288.html
Or your "should" statements are too simplistic?
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You mean would Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs have applied to Y Combinator? (Oh yeah, that other Steve...)

No! They were too busy hacking phones and building things people wanted to waste time to go through the application process of YC. Money was chasing them.

This is true for most runaway successes, they were all true hackers that broke things: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Not the "hackers" who are asking for $125k salary...

They didn't care about the money, they didn't care about the allure, they didn't care about the status. They just wanted to break things and make them work better, legality aside.

But the landscape has changed, and Steve & Steve are not just starting Apple and YC would not be around if Apple wasn't started when it was, so it's a silly question be it a fun thought experiment.

I think YC supports the companies that shoot for the moon, but people aren't willing to take the risk and say no to acquisitions of $20-$100m because that is the short term business model of today and people just want to take their $5m and show off.

"The approach of remaining independent, and investing profits back into to the company followed by technology zealots such as Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs is unattractive to an investor."

They only way to counter this is to build a great product with little to no money and have it grow like a weed, then negotiate like a mob boss to keep the majority of the voting rights of the company.

That's enough for now, time for focus...
Great, will let you know :) although I need to do research on when/if/how the Web Audio API is hitting mobile Webkit browsers..
My reading was that the comment meant "We're still here", not "We are among the best in the world at minimizing inputs".
Then that seems to be a flaw in the law system. Still, even if they don't start it, why would the company win frivolous claims?
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Got a source for that claim?

Who needs a source (or nuanced facts, for that matter) when you've got such an impossibly sticky narrative? True or not, Monsanto will always be known as the people who sued over their seeds.

Which is a shame, because there are plenty of perfectly good reasons to hate Monsanto without delving into half-truths.
It's not great, though - it means that someone who hacks your server can get users' passwords a lot easier. I read a couple of weeks ago that Blizzard's games don't send the passwords to the server, they send a hash. Things are necessarily crappier on the web, of course.

Edit: there's more detail at the link below. It looks clear that in at least some of their schemes they deliberately do not send the client password to the server, which sounds like a decent idea.

http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/2012/battle-net-authentica...
Reminds me of the Magratheans sleeping until the galactic economy was ready for custom planets again :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magrathea#Magrathea
Why would your users post the addresses of your honeypots and tarpits to a 3rd party website?
Clojure can do this as well without requiring any special syntax or function because all sequence are funcallable:

(map [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] [0 3 4])
=> (1 4 5)