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This.

The mistake wasn't calling the latest iPad 'the new iPad' the mistake was calling the previous one 'iPad 2'. Case in point, look at the iPod. There are the 'Touch', 'Shuffle', 'Nano', and 'Classic' models. Except that the device for each model name has undergone a series of changes and upgrades throughout its life.

I would hazard a guess that the model numbers on the phone are an anomaly that is brought to you in part because of FCC licensing restrictions. The FCC is a lot less forgiving about licenses and model names/numbers.

Going forward there may be an iPad 'mini' (and then the iPod touch could get rechristened the iPad nano, and no, there won't be an iPad Maxi :-) But I doubt we'll see the numbers come back.
I wonder if YC keeps statistics about coffee consumption. I can't imagine how much coffee I would need to make it through so many interviews.
Is there a kickstarter for a coffee machine that keeps track already? Would be a fun graph for any company...
My first question would be; Who's gonna be the zombie? Are they gonna hire these people? From what they are trying to do it seems they needs "lots" of zombies...

I don't think this project will be financially viable and a big liability on top of that..
You forgot my camp: Persons so abused by Microsoft over the years that I'm fresh out of goodwill.

Metro looks bitchin. I can't wait for others to copy it.

But I can't imagine Microsoft sustaining their commitment. Nor can I imagine them not trashing whatever investment I've made in their platform(s), either as a user or as a dev.
I noticed something odd on the JPEGmini homepage. They have a before/after scan over, as illustration of what the product does, but in the source it looks like they are linking to images of the similar size.

Here are the files and sizes referred to in the source:

272K preview-rolands.lakis.jpg
247K preview-rolands.lakis2.jpg
248K preview-rolands.lakis2_mini.jpg
276K preview-rolands.lakis_mini.jpg

I suppose they could have just screengrabbed both images, but that seems to defeat the point...
They'll do what they do with their Macs. Today's iPad will become "iPad (early 2012)."
If there's only one action in the overflow button in the action bar, you make that the button. In this app, the only action in the overflow button is "Refresh", so the app should simply just have a refresh button there instead.
Which is why "defer" and the "go" should operate on blocks or statements, not expressions. For instance:

defer { result++; }

Instead of:

defer func() {
result++;
}();

Also that you need such an ugly syntax just to not silently ignore return values from "defer" and "go" speaks volumes. For instance the "defer f.Close()" in the original post ignores errors from close, and with no exceptions these are just lost. It should be something more like:

defer func() {
err := f.Close();
// handle error
}();

You are basically always going to use this form anyway if you care about error handling. But lack of error handling in Google Go is another issue entirely.
Looks like this is begging for a macro. Write it once, highlight, ctrl+something, the other specific versions are automatically created in place.
If you get bored, could you explain what a carrier is in this context? AT&T? I presume you're the founder Venky?
So, Github taking on some capitalization in order to spur growth in enterprise markets is apparently seen by many on this thread as Github "not keeping it real." (to borrow a "street" analogy.)

What exactly would the individuals complaining about this action do differently?
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Do they want me to pay for a random number generator? I don't understand it?
Any time I've bought a memory upgrade for a MacBook I've been annoyed by that strategy. At least back in the day "Lombard" or "Pismo" or "Wallstreet" was more memorable than "Early 2011."

Additionally, the iPhone and iPad seem poorly suited for this strategy due to the way they sell old models side by side with new ones. Will they just sell the "iPad" next to the "new iPad" with "new" moving along to the newest one? What if they go back another generation like with the 3GS currently?
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Just curious, when have "they" needed the world to do something for them?
in clojure-scheme I actually compile Clojure to Gambit to make use of Gambit's awesome runtime. It's a very good match for Clojure.

https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme
Sure. I'm not trying to give advice to Craigslist. It may well be that legal threats are their best strategy. They certainly have the right to sue anyone they want.

I'm just saying that ericd needn't feel guilty for ignoring Craig's wishes. Do you think Craig feels guilty about destroying the newspaper industry?
I don't see any inconsistency whatsoever between the post you link to and what just happened. Tom was clearly talking about early funding, essentially when you just started, and how that can affect your product and its future. The fact that they raised that much actually proves Tom's point: That you should approach VC money from a strong position, which you can't reach if you start off with VCs watching over you.

Update: This post[1] (Above for the moment) says it better.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220725
What would convince you that this is not true?

I remember going to McDonalds when I was traveling in Spain and feeling homesick and annoyed that everyone was on siesta. I guess I'm just a bad tourist?
>However such a huge investment may force them to "overscale" in order to be able to reach the expected return (by the VC).

But how can we know that's even an issue? There are a hundred hypotheticals here (both positive and negative), and focusing on the ones that would only be the case were Andreessen Horowitz & GitHub unwise companies seems unnecessarily negative.

Now, if there were reason to think any of them, that'd be one thing. But we only know there was a huge investment in an awesome company from a great VC firm.
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How about this attempt to be nicely critical and help the guy out: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/how-i-almost-killed...
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It's amazing how fast things change these days. Good 7" tablets for $200-$250 really undermine the whole Windows 8 strategy. Carrying around a laptop and a cheap 7" tablet that is actually light enough to hold for long periods of time is going to be a better choice for most people than the 2 pound Surface Pro which may very well end up costing more than two separate devices.
Interesting point. I think that's also due to some influence on Apple's part, because Macs were never released with sequential numbers like the iPhone.

I'd suspect Apple is purposefully trying to disassociate the iPad with the iPhone and realigning it with the Mac line by changing naming conventions. If that's the case, this post is pretty good evidence that it hasn't really worked out so far.
@beagle3, I'm not as powerful as Mozilla. They are letting Google occupy whole the internet by not creating an alternative for Gmail.
Why is it a mistake? I would be pretty happy if I owned the 'iPad' brand. Seems more valuable than 'the new iPad', IMO.

To me, it seems like Apple is simply resetting expectations.
All of this for a Nikon camera.... The cheap one.
While I appreciate the reasons Apple wants to step away from version-marking their devices, it causes massive confusion in a few important areas, at least assuming they aren't ready to lock down form-factors and connector cable formats forevermore.

eg:

"Does this case fit my new iPhone, or does it fit the old new iPhone or the old old new iPhone?"

I guess one way to deal with this would be for the aftermarket industry to start working with model years as is done with cars. If you're going to buy aftermarket add-ons for your Apple devices, know the year model, and then have the case/cable/etc people publish year model compatibility.
They sold ~13% of the company. Compared to going public, I'm pretty sure they're keeping way more control. Also, going public is extremely expensive and time consuming.
Thunderbird being open source, it can continue to thrive. Anybody can contribute. That's more than just maintenance mode.
misspelled my name again. damnit.
I think you are doing the Indian readership of HN a mild dis-service here. Most here acknowledge the issues raised by the Author. We do feel hurt by his conclusion, summed up as: "The whole country sucks", but well..things are what they are.

As several readers have already stated, institutionalized corruption is the bane of India today and no visible improvement is possible unless we tackle and eliminate this first. But the political class and bureaucracy would never allow this to happen.

Our "Lokpal" bill - the anti-corruption bill that that was fought for by a popular activist with a hunger strike has now been in-definitely postponed by the current coalition government. Due to a series of elementary media-mismanagement blunders, the activist team lost the massive support they initially had and the political class were quick and clever to capitalize on these mistakes, perform character assassination, and sucessfully shoot down the Lokpal bill along with it.

Most people I know are highly upset at this - many have even lost hope and given up change as a lost cause in India. We had the whole of India massively mobilized and firmly behind an anti-corruption drive for some months before the activist team got a 'god' complex and attempted to re-direct this support into their personal, pet agendas - one guy on his Kashmir stance, another on his anti-alcoholic drive, another attempting to re-direct funds into his pet charity, etc. They broke one fundamental rule of politics: never give your political opponents juicy targets to shoot ammunition at. In politics, if you are going against the norm, you are going to be heavily scrutinized. You need to be lily-white if you want a chance to change things with people power.

The Indian middle class were dismayed at several of these relevations and though people could swallow some of them, it become too much to eventually swallow and the movement lost enough steam that the politicians and bureaucracy have now put this bill indefinitely on the backburner - possibly never to see the light again.

The LokPal bill was something originally raised in the 1960's btw.

I no longer believe that it is possible to affect any meaningful and lasting change in Indian society without revolution - which would lead to its own separate set of problems. Sure, you can donate a few years to charity and helping NGO's will will do some trickle of good - a few scattered moments of goodness in the vast, apathetic darkness and that's about the limit.
Or implement pull down to refresh, which would remove the need for the button altogether.
Uh, aren't you guys on FreeSWITCH too?
I'm trying to get people together for a Google Group of Mixergy members:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mixergy-inner-circle

I think that it would be great to be able to discuss these types of problems with other entrepreneurs who are consuming the same material and going through the same types of challenges.

I've made the group restricted only so that it doesn't get indexed by Google - ie. so that we can have some modicum of frankness in the discussion about our businesses, trials and tribulations without it being plastered all over the internet forever.

EDIT: don't get excited, there are only 3 members currently (including me :)
Just shelling out to shut up any random guy with a dropbox account or even be bullied into responding publicly to said random guy.

That's pride talking. Pick and choose your battles. If you're going to pick this one, make it overwhelmingly compelling. I've never heard of this company, but my first impression is negative. Turn that around.

I wouldn't advocate ignoring it. I'd rather you make me love your company or hate it. Ignoring stuff like this is cop out.

Hell, doesn't Nikon have a camera in the $300 range? Even a response like: "We already picked the winner, and we don't have a budget for two cameras, but we were able to spring for Nikon Dxxxx" would be miles better.

Right now, the fallout, as in negative publicity, is pretty limited.

You're right. They were thrown a curve ball, and they can turn it into an opportunity to leave a positive impression on potential customers who have never heard of their product before.
I was just marveling this morning at how much mental energy is expended on this very thing. Let's just call it the iPad 3 and not worry too much about how closely we match Apple's marketing copy.
Thunderbird. If you like how it is now, it is not gonna stop.

Folks, remember, the source code will be here, community contributor will still exist and contribute, etc.
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Status.net should fund the development of OSS mobile/desktop clients that work with multiple Twitter-like services, including Twitter itself.
Here's the key: "an image quality detector ... to determine the maximum amount of compression which can be applied to each individual photo without causing visible artifacts." ( http://www.jpegmini.com/main/technology ) So they can detect that, say, the image looks the same at quality 30 as it does at quality 85, then they compress it at 30 which saves space. Sure, you could have done the same thing by eye, but they're doing it automatically.

See also http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1117/12.872231
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Windows 8 HTML5 apps are designed completely differently from on-the-Web HTML5 apps and Native Client apps.

the carryover is significant but you don't get a Windows 8 port for free.
Ok, given that we've got Plivo, Trello, and Twilio now, (and 2600hz?), can we start standardizing the CallAPI?

I think it's a net win for everyone if users don't have to worry about api lock-in....
Back-pedal on what? Both the original leaked email and the official blog post said that Mozilla would "adapt the Thunderbird release and governance model in a way that allows both ongoing security and stability maintenance..."

It was TechCrunch who somehow translated that into "So, that's it for Thunderbird." :/
The same concept, applied to photos. http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/10537443380/namespa...

In reality if you own the domain you can host it yourself or have someone else host it for you. Your domain makes it portable.
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The branding mistake was calling the second iPad the iPad 2
So much negativity here regarding the capital announcement. Github got to where it is now from now investment and you want to know the reason why they accepted such a large amount of capital (it's rather simple), Github are wanting to infiltrate the corporate sector because that's where the money is. Lets be honest the $10 per month I pay for my Github account isn't making any difference, a corporation paying $1000 per month to exclusively use Github to manage their code? Now that's making a difference.

To expand you need cash, take this as a sign that Github is going to expand heavily in every direction. As an avid Githubber I am ecstatic about this, it's a testament to the product and a good sign Github is never going anywhere.
Very good. That's a bigger reason why it's not an apt analogy.
"Little known..." ? Granted, Github isn't eBay, but its hardly obscure, especially within its domain space.

The article is otherwise fairly flat about why it might be valued so high. I'm not saying it's fully justified, but the writer clearly did not seem to understand what he was actually writing about.
Nokia can't. They contributed to Meego (which is inherited in Mer) under the terms of GPL. All they can do is to bite their elbows now for ditching Meego.
The problem is, they're still selling the previous-generation models. Assuming they do the same thing with the iPhone 5, calling it only the "new iPhone", the confusion will be even more widespread.

Nobody cares with regard to the various Mac refreshes, but it was a customer-unfriendly move in this case.
They should just give them year numbers. This is the 2012 iPad. Older models are the 2011 iPad and the 2010 iPad. The system is perfectly simple to understand and has planned obsolescence.
That's pretty much what the original announcement did say, if you go beyond the headlines and read the announcement itself: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird...
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I think Apple would love to solve that "confusion" by just having you step into an Apple store with your device and ask the helpful employees for whatever accessory you want, and let them deal with figuring it out for you. Apple doesn't want the consumer to have to care about that at all.
This 70--80% you're talking about are the email/facebook segment who do not choose for themselves what OS to run?
Perhaps you misread my comment? I specifically say, "I don't see any inconsistency."
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I just glanced at an iPad 2 and the box it came in, and interestingly I don't see "2" anywhere except for in the small print on the label on the back, by the model number. The back of the iPad just says "iPad" as does the side of the box. So once you actually bought the thing, the branding on the iPod 2 wasn't very 2-centric at all either.
No, that title goes to Leo Apotheker.
"I just find myself wondering to what extent the YC interview gives the startup team a chance to get their initial burst of "stuff" out before starting to take them off on tangents."

I believe Paul answered this in a comment on the thread.

I don't see the need for the start up to present anything in what is an interview, not a presentation. As Paul is conducting a ten minute interview based on the application, why would he have to give any time for the start-up team's prepared presentation? Its only ten minutes, and its him asking questions of the start-up to see how well they can answer the questions that arose from their application.
They already follow this naming format with the iPod Touch, and no one has any problem buying them, or selling them on eBay. This whole thing is a made up problem.
Given that SeaMonkey was initially (and still is, as far as I know) a community-driven effort to keep alive Mozilla-the-browser after the foundation had decided to stop supporting it, I suspect there is very little to be gained on that front.
This is really unfortunate. Of course, I can see council members looking to protect an established industry. In their eyes, they could either let the open market work where riders choose between Uber & taxis and potentially put taxi drivers out of work or work to keep this startup out of the business and protect an entrenched economy. It's a no-brainer in their eyes, but it's surely unfortunate in terms of progress.
I found that it worked both ways. When I started, the deadlines kept me motivated. But when real life intruded, and I had to take a break for several weeks, that fact that I was behind was a demotivator. A good middle ground might be "unlocking" the classes - there is a two week deadline per lesson, but it only starts when I begin the lesson.
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...the entire point of that statement was that he's not in the running.
"Why? Because we want to be better."

This is the least transparent reasoning I've seen in a long time.
Craigslist dominates apartment rental advertising. Landlords post to CL because that's where the renters are looking, and renters look on CL because that's where landlords post apartments. But CL does have competitors. Lots of sites want a piece of that business, they just can't overcome the network effect that protects Craigslist.

Right now, the overwhelming majority of pads on Padmapper are Craigslist posts. But that's just because the overwhelming majority of all advertised apartments are Craigslist posts. If people start using Padmapper in large numbers, it breaks the symmetry of CL's dominance. Landlords are still posting to CL, but renters are finding those posts through Padmapper. It won't be long before landlords realize that those renters will also find posts on Kijiji or Apartments.com or whatever. When that happen's CL is in trouble, because it's revenue comes from landlords in certain cities paying to post.

CL doesn't care about the TOS per se; the TOS are designed to prevent just such a scenario.
Where Microsoft is going makes much more sense to me (I actually think Apple may be headed that direction too as each release of the desktop OS seems to add more and more iOS features).

It seems like Microsofts end game is that you will have one device and the interface for interacting with that device will depend on where you are. If docked at home with external monitor, keyboard, and mouse you get more of the desktop feel. Unplug the device and take it with you and you have more of the touch based interface.
The way I understand it, they handle money and regulations, i.e. collecting money from the player, giving the player actual money back when the player wins, in a way that is 100% legal considering gambling laws in all countries involved in each transaction. That's a lot of stuff for a regular developer to take care of.

The part where they also run the gambling logic & randomness is probably necessary because regulations on gambling often require certain guarantees and auditability that, again, a regular developer may not (want to) be aware of. It's much simpler to be compliant if the dev only has to establish f.ex. win rates for different actions, and the gambling provider runs the actual processes with methods and random generators that comply with applicable laws.
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Any sources?

FWIW, I found practically no information regarding aspartame on the University of Sydney site, but I did come across an article that basically said stevia and aspartame both work, but stevia was was significantly better at lowering blood glucose levels.

Sidenote: As someone who loves beer dearly, but also tries to limit his intake of foods with a high glycemic index, I was pleased to read an article [2] linked by the University of Sydney [3] about how beer has too low of a glycemic index to measure (still has plenty of calories, though).

[1] http://www.glycemicindex.com/

[2] http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&S...

[3] http://www.glycemicindex.com/faqsList.php#10
I work for a company whose slogan is 'No bullshit.' happy sigh
Such a long reply repeating the same thing is very obnoxious. Don't do it. If I could downvote you I would.

Do you really know what you're talking about, huh? Your pigeon-hole example is pretty wrong because you can't use intuition (with completely wrong numbers!) to judge, you use math. Let's say there's a trillion pigeons and the hash we're using is 256 bits. That 2^256 ~ 10^77. Divide that by a trillion and you still have 10^65. Vastly more than enough to be secure all the while solving two problems. First that with a specific user's password one can often access other services. Two, and most importantly, that the password database blows up and isn't feasible to steal any more, either over internet or in real life.
Is your MVP ready to launch?