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Lenovo is very disappointing
I ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon in August that was supposed to ship Septmeber 2 and has been delayed multiple times because of supposed supply constraints of a USB ethernet dongle. They claim they cannot ship them separately. I bought the Thinkpad over a Macbook Air (the macbook air is cheaper) because I am hopeful the hardware is better supported by Linux drivers. Customer support is terrible. Their order status feature on their website works intermittently. My respect for Apple grows daily. If only Apple's hardware were less proprietary; if only other laptop manufacturers packaged products and delivered them as well as Apple.
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Show me an entity, any entity, that could be sued for lots and lots of cash, that is using these "unencumbered" algorithms.
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Remember when Apple was making 75% with only 8% market share?

http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/03/first-apples-rank-in-mobile...

Linking to asymco is getting cliche ...
I'm thinking of buying an HP Probook as some of the models are linux friendly (come with SUSE).
Good for him. Looks like he's going to enjoy the fruits of his labor. There's no reason to assume he's being forced out.
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I think they've taken shots across the bow. Charging 30% for IAP right as they released iBooks was pretty squarely aimed at Amazon.
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I hope a government or corporation would be smart enough not to use such a simplistic system to hide covert or confidential data. Then again most military drones were not encrypting their video feeds until rather recently, so who knows.
Check out FXecute:
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From the US to any other country, FXecute is a far more efficient and economical way of transferring funds than traditional international wires. Many traditional international wires must go through an intermediary bank, which frequently charge a processing fee of about $20 for each wire they receive. Local banks also usually charge between $10 and $75 to receive the wire. In addition, local banks usually charge 3-11% to convert U.S. dollars into the local currency. FXecute does not charge these bank wire fees and charges a much lower currency conversion rate.

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It would be awesome and easy to set something like this up on twilio. I would have chosen a 702 area code though and when posting about it speculated that it had something to do with area 51. ;)
Does parse talk about how they run their backend? I feel like it's a lot of mongodb...
That's not how I deal with people in my life, that's how I deal with service providers.
two points:

- I believe there's some sort of issue with the approach where they log people who download from them, because if you download a copyrighted file being willfully shared by the copyright holder you haven't infringed.

- I once downloaded one song from a "500 greatest hits" type torrent. Some time later, my university sent me a notice that they'd received a complaint that I'd illegally downloaded Hotel California (I hadn't). Hotel California wasn't even adjacent in the torrent to the song I did download; there were never any attempts to get all or part of it. So the detection system (at that time, at least) would seem to leave something to be desired.
Schmidt claimed 70K tablets activated everyday. That's 2.1M per month. Given they dont count the Kindles and no one else is buying other Android tablets the Nexus 7 has got to be selling 8M very shortly.
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I am actually really interested in knowing if his departure is in any way fueled by the recent changes in privacy policies that had some backlash from users.

I, for example, deleted my account when I decided I was not trusting of their handling of my data. I refused to continue to participate and quit.

I would be really interested if these canges fed this leaving in any way.
(Not implying you specifically, nor is it necessarily a bad thing...)

Interesting framing and perception - I've never read anyone say that "Mozilla charges Google for being the default Firefox search engine", it's always been "Google pays Firefox to be the default Firefox search engine".

Same result, really, but it's interesting how much of a change it implies, passive vs active, etc.
Maybe amateurs got assigned to it because it's hard right now to find HTML5 pros. And the problem is then HTML5.
Here’s to Dan
TempoDB is a great service. Andrew and his team are some smart guys.
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I've been running Linux flawlessly on my Dell d630 for six years, without hardware issues.
Or Cydia
You can easily find VP8 used on Youtube. Not big enough? Those predators wouldn't hesitate to sue, if they'd have something to bite with. But they have no teeth.
Wow, that's actually really clever! I'd pay for that Ina heartbeat.
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You dont need a degree if you have a portfolio of awesome software you authored to back you up. Programming is an art that requires talent. You cant guarantee that every person who graduates with a degree in CS has the ability to solve and innovate at the pace of the competition.

There is a high demand for talent in Silicon Valley and any company who will not hire programmers without a degree is probably skipping by alot of talented people who could give that company the competitive edge over the competition.
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I think the main reason 500 could work even without home runs is that they do follow on investments in the most promising companies. YC doesn't do that because it would screw every company they didn't follow on in at Demo Day.

It would also probably result in less home runs if they did this because (as PG stated) the very most promising ideas already often have the hardest time at Demo Day (Fred Wilson + Airbnb).

500 startups may actually be strangling their home runs in the crib with the follow on strategy. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
I like your formulation. There are many parts of culture that the analytical mindset cannot approach, alas. I spent a few years hanging around fine arts grad students and let's say that is a whole different ball game.
It's really not that hard to switch from Recurly, since they will send your stores credit cards (if they have recovered them) to another provider.

About a year ago we had a problem with Recurly and were dissatisfied with their attitude toward the problem (they seemed to have a "crap happens and we fix things fast" attitude instead of a "that should never have happened with good engineering" attitude). We switched to Braintree over the course of about 5 weeks, and Recurly was very helpful in getting the credit card numbers over (which took about 10 days total, as there was some kind of communications issue at the beginning, but we got everything straight).

I would not recommend Recurly, but it isn't true that they "have you by the shorts"--they'll help you leave their service.
This is breathless nonsense. What is Dave trying to say?

The only thing I gathered from this is that in his mind 500 startups can't attract or afford the most sought after yc companies and founders and.. That's ok, We're global!

The math on this just doesn't make sense. By definition, the moment a fund has an investment which is a "black swan" that investment will make all the singles and "on base hits" (or whatever) insignificant to the total returns.

I get that he is successful and has a lot of hutzpah but if I was an LP I wouldnt be thrilled by this.
And yet a Kindle plus "Ad Removal" is still hundreds of dollars less than the iPad ($15 for the ad removal).

Interesting how you were willing to consider the device beforehand, but that was a deal breaker.

Or maybe it's a matter of principle...
but our MISSION is to groom ugly ducklings.

Then why do you make it so hard to touch base?[1]

[1] http://500.co
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dude! thank you for sharing your story and being an awesome customer! we used the photo you took in our TC disrupt presentation :)
Almost all software I've custom built over the last 13 years of using Linux has, by default, set the prefix to /use/local. I don't know if ruby is for some reason different, but installing software outside of /usr/local is not something to snark at Linux about...
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Yes but Android cost Google billions more, and occupied the limited attention of key people for years. The evidence is that most android buyers do very little web surfing.
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This is such nonsense. We like hustlers too. Every investor does. It's good if they're also good hackers. But (as I've said over and over) we learned early that determination matters more than intelligence in this business, and that's what we look for.

He seems to be trying to give the impression that 500 Startups is for plucky underdogs, and YC isn't. It would certainly be in his interest to have founders believe that. But the fact is that when the black swans show up on our doorstep, they don't seem like they're going to be black swans. That was the whole point of my essay; that's why I refer to them as black swans, and why I say that "we're in a business where we need to pick unpromising-looking outliers."
Everyone seems to be completely missing something PG made abundantly clear. Black swan farming is not what YC tries to do. They don't only swing for the fences. PG simply illustrated why and how it makes the most business sense. He says, explicitly, multiple times, that it is not YC's primary objective, they don't reject teams based on this criteria, and they aim to help all of their teams. His essay just documented the interesting truth that venture firms are better off with the unintuitive process of focusing on big winners.
> It would seem from PG’s post this is most definitely YC’s mission – to find the biggest & baddest startup founders, and get them to swing for the fences. Not to mention get them the highest possible valuations at demo day.

I'd like to hear PG's perspective on this.

What is YC's mission?
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A bad mechanic will always blame his tools. A saying the Facebook development team should print out, frame and hang in their building for all to see. Maybe Facebook should have asked the LinkedIn development team to build their app for them because they obviously know nothing about web development.
Python is surprisingly heavy-duty. But my kingdom for a seamlessly distributed or parallelized version of NumPy/SciPy! How nice would it be to just enter "C = A * B", with A living as a sparse CSC across many nodes?
Of course a FB phone makes no sense. This is the most invasive company to yuour personal privacy where the data can be used in any way which is uterly out of your control.

He even said it: "we want to build the most deeply integrated system into the devices our users use everyday"

That statement right there solidified (not that I needed it) every single reason as to why I will never have an account on FB.

Don't get me wrong, it is an amazing platform and company, I just personally refuse to have any of my life/data in their system.
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I should have worded my comment better. I mean that adoption by hardware manufacturers will be slow. What's the incentive? Even for a firmware patch? MP3 is `good enough', and everyone already uses it.
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you can however drive a motorized scooter in the same places you can ride a bike, which is a skateboard with handlebars: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/motorcycles/motorcycles.htm
Lots of fetch-stuff-from-the-network-and-show-it apps spend 99% of their time waiting on the network anyway; optimizing the last 1% isn't really worthwhile.

(Of course, this depends heavily on the app.)
If you are in the Boston area or interested in relocating to Cambridge, my company, HubSpot, is hiring. We're a late stage startup building an all-in-one marketing platform. You can watch our recruiting video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXOtTvb5OFE (yeah it's a bit corny, but it really is a cool place to work). Shoot me an email with your resume if you are interested (address in my profile). I'm one of engineering team leads, not a recruiter, so I will look at it directly, no hoops to jump through.
Cool. I assume you guys are using an Isolate with multiple contexts/threads to deal with infinite loops and sandboxing restrictions without the overhead of additional processes? We (clay.io) are working on a very similar problem in the game space.

Another question (just curious): why did you cut node out entirely? libev is awesome and it seems like you would basically have to rewrite if you used straight C++.
Great to see Go getting more attention. I think it has some real potential to take off. There's a big hole between Java and Python that it could fill with the right kind of community support.
isn't there? From what I understand Quora has been pretty stagnant. It failed to go mainstream. Sure the valley people know of it's existence...but most people? not so much
Think of VCs as institutional investors who have a mandate to invest in a particular asset class. The sports metaphors do almost nothing to clarify.
Just remember that there is a NSA location in Denver, Colorado.
There is no startup investing strategy that can ever be considered the "right one". The best VCs and angels intimately understand their personal strengths and develop a strategy they can execute leveraging those strengths. And even more importantly and almost always overlooked is they market the hell out of that strategy, even if they don't always stick to it. PG and DM are terrific at this.
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His smugness about the older woman is infuriating.
My Thinkpad T530 had multiple shipping reschedulings, but finally got here. Linux is well supported, but supply issues make shipping a bear. That's one of the genuinely genius things about Apple, they LOCK DOWN the supply chain.
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People in the United States, especially younger people, are amazingly obtuse about this stuff.

When you peruse the mailing lists or other discussion forums re: GPG or PGP, you'll start to notice that you are interacting with, or at least reading stuff from more Germans than you had previously.

Think about why Germans seem to be more interested in privacy and personal email security. Many Germans were or know victims of the pervasive police state, or know folks who participated in that apparatus.

I suspect that people here won't smarten up until some massive and egregious privacy violation emerges.
Talking about amusements - another one is that Android activations are still "activations" for Gruber, long after Jobs and co doubted if Google is truthful with their number. Gruber definitely gets his % numbers wrong though - half percent instead of 5% :)
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Just about any major city will have an intelligence office of some kind.

I'm pretty sure the NSA has better ciphers for phones than poorly coded ASCII. Isn't there an art installation at the NSA that still hasn't been cracked after 20 years?
All of his code reviews are excellent. Highly recommend the Quake ones.
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Ichiro and Steve Nash are wonderful role models, but I don't think they're very good models, which this essay seems to overlook. "Black Swan Farming" is about the enormous, counterintuitive variance of returns to startup investments. Sports just isn't in the same domain: a batter with 1000x more hits than the league average is inconceivable, but 1000x variations in startup outcomes are quite common.
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Usually a founder steps back when there's either disagreements about the roadmap/path or if they realize that the product/company will not become as successful as they though it would be.
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The point was to see the web of virality, but if everyone uses the same url instead of generating one via the "Share" link on the page itself that falls apart. If you copy-paste the url from HN to facebook, for example, then the HN sharer seems to have originated all of the Facebook inbounds.
It was Adam, not Charlie, that invested in the company.
Wasn't that D'Angelo, or did Cheever invest too? According to this it was just D'Angelo.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/14/quora-raises-50-at-400m-fro...
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You're thinking of the Kryptos sculpture, which is at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos); "of the four messages, three have been solved"; it was installed in November 1990, so it's been almost 22 years.
Linux isn't divergent, except for the common practice (though not quite a standard) of using /opt for non-distro package-installed software. All autotools-based packages drop themselves into a prefix of /usr/local by default, which makes the admonition to pass --prefix=/usr/local to configure a little strange.
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I remember an argument 10 years ago where a (very knowledgable) coworker swore to me that /usr/local was supposed to be world writable location for any user to install software.

He also claimed that he didn't save non-compilng code while he was editing.
I loved this article. This paragraph in particular really struck home for me:

"Entrepreneurs get stuck trying to find something they are passionate about. Picking a business you are passionate about is not as important as being passionate about the process of building a business. I’m not passionate about any particular business industry, but I am passionate about finding problems and solving them. Make your passion solving problems and adding value – then you can go almost anywhere and do anything. And most importantly, you can get started. Once you get started, you start to see dozens of new opportunities open up that never existed when you stood still."

Waited far too long for 'just the right idea' to present itself...
institutional investors who have a mandate to invest in a particular asset class

Is a set: <large>, of which VC is: <small>. To the point of likewise meaninglesness.
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Real quick go at it:

http://jsbin.com/edoyoc/4/
So I agree with you that's it's an ARG, but transmitting intelligence (or, more typically, instructions for agents) over unencrypted channels has been going on for years - the security of the channel itself is irrelevant if the data you're sending is only usable by the intended recipient.

This is how numbers stations work: you send alpha-numeric codes over shortwave, which assets in the field then decode using one time pads.

So generally speaking, transmitting intelligence over an unencrypted land-line wouldn't shock me in and of itself.
Being slightly better player than the rest is enough to turn a losing team into a champion, generating 1000x return.
I think we should all sit back and be happy that we are in this position. It's a great place to be, much better than desperate to find anyone who's hiring. We have our pick and we complain about recruiters? If only everyone was so lucky.