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YC doesn't get paid if the startup doesn't do well. The Portland 10 model talks about creating million dollar businesses but all of their compensation is up front. It appears to me that calling this a YC like program is not accurate. It looks like the $1500 is per person, not per team since they are talk about one on one interviews to get accepted.

Portland10 looks more like the UC Santa Cruz Extension two day Startup Foundry (See http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/startup ) that costs $855-950
Yeah, a chain reaction up there is a significant threat.
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The fact is (and nobody is disputing this) homes are
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is a matter of direct interest to most people in the
nation, particularly other homeowners. Measures we can
create to prevent overshooting on the downside are
probably worthwhile.

You're doing that trick of naming some facts everyone agrees with (houses are overpriced) and then zooming into a strange conclusion as though it's a logical flow (intervention into a market correction).
I can't see banks handing over authentication to _anyone_.
Already posted?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=477255

I'm running out of enthusiasm for chasing down and checking duplications. No one else seems to care much.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478137
Already posted many times:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474204

http://searchyc.com/password+1234
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The code to detect reposts clearly needs updating. If a story submitted contains a link to a previous post, shouldn't that raise a red flag?
This sort of information leak happens all the time. One previously quite common variation was putting sensitive information in a Microsoft Word document, deleting the most sensitive information, then sending it out while neglecting to purge the change history.

Another favorite is putting black bars over data to obscure it, without realizing that the data in the below layers is merely obscured, not obliterated. (Seems like that happened here.)

My personal favorite is putting sensitive information (such as bank account numbers on a check) under a mosaic. Why is this my favorite? Because breaking it typically requires training a neural network (my Google-fu lacks at the moment but you'll find the article fast if you look). But once its broken, oh boy, is it ever broken.
I don't like the personal attack on Stephen J. Gould, in general I think you should be skeptical about what people are telling you and the onus is on you, the consumer of the information to verify its truth. Gould was wrong about some things, and right about others. This is a crime of which many scientists are guilty, Gould is no exception.

I have no dog in this fight because I'm not active in that particular field but I personally hope they'll remember the man for the work that he did and that he will be forgiven for his mistaken views.

Science politics changes on death at the time...
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I'm a rugby player and unfortunately concussions in our sport are a far too often occurrence.

In the spirit of HN, this season our training staff required us to get baseline concussion tests done before the season began to keep an eye on everyone and gauge severity and recovery time more accurately. It's a software based tool that they boot up on the sidelines when needed that uses a few different cognitive tests to determine the next steps to take as far as treatment is concerned, and each player does a initial "baseline" test before the season so on-field results are relative to the player.

If anyone is interested in reading more, the company also has some good resources for treatment and diagnosis on their site.
http://www.impacttest.com/concussionresource.php

"Back in the day" they used to just give us the ol' "what day is it?" question, which, as everyone knows is easy - if I'm wearing rugby gear, it must be a Saturday! (Just don't ask me the date).

Take care of yourself, you only get one brain!
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Thats 99 dollars more than a kid has or is able to spend.
An extra point. Apps can choose to be read only our read/write when they are set up. Will be interesting to see how many opt to be read only.
Here in the US, we spend at least $600 billion a year to start, plus another $30B+ on pensions, plus shitloads of black budget on intelligence. This amounts to about the entire UK budget, just on yearly budgeted defence.

None of this includes the cost of actually fighting our ridiculous wars: the cost of the Iraq shenanigans alone will be well over a Trillion dollars even if Obama pulls out this year and no more money is spent after that.
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I have a speculative (read: probably garbage) theory, orthogonal to the one in this article, that you can get some idea of a person's personality from their looks. My hypothesis is that as long as you are not too young, then the most common expressions that your face assumes - frowning, smiling, scowling etc - have some effect on your wrinkles and facial muscle development. So maybe by looking at someone, you can see some aspect of the history of their facial expressions and hence guess if they are generally a cheerful, miserable or sneering kind of person.

A corollary (also probably garbage!) is that one of the clues that helps you guess a person's nationality by looking at them is these similar aspects of 'face-shaping': either through the most common sounds they make while speaking their language, or the typical mannerisms of that culture. Obviously this would only work within a group of people that have broadly similar racial characteristics. My 'sample group' is mainly from western European countries.
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I don't think focusing the discussion would help. The problems I see are the following:

(1) The question -- when properly understood -- is empirical by nature. One would need to select a random sample in both fields, measure the innovation within the samples for a given period of time, and publish the results. While this is not rocket science, the problem is in the details: What is innovation? How would one operationalize the term?

(2) In most cases when I've read such opinion articles, the discussion does not seem to be about innovation -- in the sense of "new way of doing something" (wikipedia). There are a million new ways to do something, but only a small fraction thereof is useful. That often seems to be the unsaid meaning to those who say Open Source is not innovating. Sure, nothing stops Open Source suppliers to innovate. However, they often don't care, simply because they don't profit by doing so. There's just one exception to the rule: Software by developers for developers. This is where Open Source shines because developers understand the needs of fellow developers (or technical people, in general). In general, however, Open Source developers don't care enought about common consumers to develop a new and useful product that helps them solve their problems. Thus, they just copy existing stuff.

(3) Slightly related to (2), another problem is attention and presentation: Innovation usually doesn't sell despite the glory of the term. See the "Myths of innovations" by Scott Berkun. The first chapter points to many examples and is free to download. To sell an innovative idea, one first needs the attention of the audience. Second, one needs to present the innvovation so that it's understood. Open Source developers often lack these skills, according to their own statements. A proprietary vendor can simple hire people with these skills but Open Source developers often cannot due to lack of income. Consequently, open source is often percieved to be less innovative, even when it is.

This is why I think, pointing to examples is pointless.
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The BBC article is much more interesting: Each bike travels 10,000 km a year, so they have to be sturdy (and expensive).
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Who is that guy called Open Source, anyway? It seems like he is some maniac that craves nothing else but world domination!

OK, sorry, no more sarcasm. When I see that "open source monster" character I can be sure that the article will be superficial, boring and useless. Why put all software with a chain less license in a pile like its all the same - with a single author, company, business plan?

OK, so now a bit about the office suites:

Some people need an alternative to MS Office, so they come together with some other people who also need a alternative to MSOffice and pay a third group of people to make in (obviously sharing and thus lowering cost of developing the software). MS Office is a collection of clones of previous software, but that hasn't stopped it, right? Has it slowed down the adoption? Yet it seems to stop OO.o - it isn't "innovating" whatever that means. Maybe innovation means making a new shiny interface with colorful buttons to push? Yeah, the millions of people who just want to make a simple document with some bullet points and a page number on bottom will greatly appreciate the innovation. Although in my anecdotal experience "consumers" are more impressed by the ability to easily make a PDF..

Just because you opened up some code doesn’t mean anyone CARES. The consumer is all about flash, dazzle and speed. The newer the better… no matter what the price is. The iPhone/iPod are great examples of this.

Because everyone wants to play the Apple game, right? Maybe some people want to do their dirty job quickly and cheaply, especially during a recession and all, but given how confident the author and the shiny magazines are I'm really afraid to say it - please don't laugh at me.

Songbird is the exact same as iTunes th main difference is leveraging a plug-in platform.

Another gem - the author cannot "leverage" a modern innovation called spell-checking, but knows that Songbird is a iTunes clone with plug-in platform which means it will not "succeed"[1], unlike Firefox which "innovates" (of course Firefox is far more than a clone of a clone, but with a great extensions eco-system). I don't even use iTunes and I don't know what are the chances but I can see an obvious self-contradiction.

[1] What is "succeeding" anyway? Getting the most lip-service? Obviously that is the kind of world-domination we are talking about, since Firefox doesn't have the biggest market share and Google Chrome have even less, but they are succeeding.

I don't like Facebook and MySpace with all the conformism, small talk and general herd behavior displayed there and I'm starting to dislike blogs and even some aspects of forums (points, post-count, ranks).

I spend too much time in the Internet.. gotta do something useful, bye.
There's no such thing as "public" money; it always comes from private pockets and ends up in (different) private pockets.

I can't see what's pejorative about taxpayer money. That's whom it comes from.
I have some more datapoints from jobs aggregated on Joblighted (24 sites):

http://joblighted.com/statistics

There were indeed more jobs posted in January 2009. Though probably much of this increase is cyclical. In two previous years there was the same pattern - a decline in December followed by an increase in January.

http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Feb2009_monthly.png

http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Feb2009_weekly.png

(Please note that I kept adding job sites, which could hide some of the decline in job postings).
OK, so I'm a noob about protocols. Can someone help me read between the lines? Does TF's defense/advocacy for HTTP reflect a "threat" to its universality? In any case, what protocols are developing as alternatives (besides the obvious: FTP, XMPP) - and for what purposes that HTTP cannot serve well?
Usually it's the size of a business card.
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But isn't that exactly the way people behave0?
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Ask HN : How to check multiple keyword positions on Search Engines?
Hi Guys,

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a tool we could utilize to monitor our keyword position across the search engines on a fortnightly basis.

If we simply had 30 or so Keywords / Keyword phrases utliized across the entire site I would of course manually perform the queries or use some sort of Keyword Checking tool on an SEO site. Unfortunately we have over 1000 Keywords / Keyword phrases throughout the site!

Any ideas would be great.

Cheers
Hey Bill - interesting point, I've wondered along those lines myself. Also if I may - why not kill the "probably garbage" part when commenting? Just say what you think mate, it's a really well-reasoned theory and the discussion's better for it.
If you aren't asking "what if" now you'll be asking "why me" later
There's been a few posts in the last few days about business models. If someone can develop a way to clear debris from orbit, you have a business.
Ok, now I'm 100% certain that the price of lithium is going to skyrocket. There isn't that much of the stuff pulled out of the ground every year, and most of it goes to small battery applications - not cars like the Tesla. Toyota's electric cars have purposefully stayed away from lithium because they knew that there was not enough lithium for Toyota sized production.

Unfortunately lithium is not traded on any futures market that I know of, and I know of no publicly traded stock on any exchange that solely represents lithium mining interests.

Does anyone know how I can buy bulk ($25k+) lithium? I'd prefer not to buy it from a science supply store. I'm getting a quote from http://www.baotou-rareearth.com/ right now, but ideally there would be an ETF that tracks the price for me.
No, at least I do not believe the recession is over in the tech industry, but some companies are better positioned than others to do well right now.

Companies like Fog Creek could actually do very well, because people buy their products to streamline processes and improve productivity. --Exactly what companies need when they lay people off or slow hiring.

While we're doing better than most other industries, we've still seen more jobs lost due to the economy than new jobs being posted. I do agree, though, that the really good people will generally still be able to find work, although not necessarily as quickly as they once would have.
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This is really just so true. I've seen so many would be "CEOs" getting distanced from the code far too early, they just want to run a business and make a bunch of cash. All the great companies have coders at their heart for the longest time, listen to their users, build a dedicated community and most importantly create a _great_ product.
The major problem with electric cars is building an infrastructure for them. First, they can run around 100-150km (60 - 100miles) and after this they must recharge for a day or so. I.e. they are pretty useless on longer trips.

In Denmark, Dong Energy (which is Denmark's biggest energy company) has signed an agreement with Better Place to build electric "gas stations" where one can drive in and get a fresh battery. I think Israel also has an agreement. And with such gas stations, electric cars could be a very fine choice since they are cheaper (pr. km) and a lot more environment friendly.

And Teslas are pretty hot, so it would probably be a very good investment by the US gov.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONG_Energy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Better_Place
rsync uses it's own protocol (when run as a daemon), so does ssh and a whole slew of others the common element is that http can not provide these applications with the functionality that they seek.

I think that the golden rule should be something like:

If you can't do it on http you're free to roll your own but if you can do it over http then you really should.
Hi author here.

I have used Songbird and while I do agree that it does offer some interesting features it borrows "A LOT" from iTunes.

Simply if I was a consumer I would look at that and say "why"? I have iTunes... it plays my music and works with my iPod... this looks exactly the same. Heck, even I thought that.
The solution is to jailbreak your phone, or get and develop for an open alternative, like OpenMoko (or perhaps Android).
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He probably would have made as much money even if he didn't blog about himself.
We weathered a nearly four quarter long downturn that ended in Q3 of 2008. Sales have been brisk since, and the pipeline looks good. We haven't attempted to fill positions that were removed during that downturn, however.

Other tech companies in the area are hiring, though certainly not at the brisk rate they once were. The only active layoffs I've heard about are in the financial sector.
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This doesn't just apply to the corporate world. As a blogger, each time I blog in an authoritative manner I find more people bending over backwards to hear what I've got to say (even when I'm talking total rubbish.)
But why is it desirable to have a society in which the majority don't work?

I don't suppose by 2100 (or even 21000) we'll have done everything that can be done. There will always be something for someone to do. Encouraging people to do something useful with their time is vital to the health of a society, and it's a fact of human nature that that needs both a carrot and a stick.
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Is this YC funded? http://stripd.com/about/
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on that bit about policy costs being definite, I have a simple objection.

hmm. policy costs are usually estimates and thus are are usually colored by ideology.

imo
Clearing debris from orbit has less of a market than removing CO₂ from the atmosphere. If there was a space-debris equivalent to the Kyoto Accord, maybe they would be comparable.
"Mensa approved", or how to advertise more on the "2% of intelligent people" sectarism.
"Buy this game, it's dedicated to smart people only!" ... I predict nice success, you know "Mensa level", how to prove yourself smart, playing same games as "the elite"...

Not much more comment needed.
Accordingly, the fact that the same URL rewriting trick that lets me change the price to give users discounts could be used to reprice my software to a penny... really doesn't worry me that much.

Is this an invitation to get a 1 penny trial version of your software?
Hi, Auther here

Thanks for reading and thank you for taking the time to voice your opinions on the matter.

I will reply throughout the day to all of your comments.
Interestingly, rsync can be used via an HTTP proxy, so presumably the protocol gets divided into HTTP requests. Doesn't seem too crazy really: HTTP supports partial downloads and uploads, and the rolling hashes can be easily be encoded in HTTP requests, too.
Surely that's the job of the CTO rather than the CEO? If the CTO is supporting those 30-man-year estimates, the problem is not with the "development group" - and by that stage it's very reasonable for the CTO and the CEO to be two different people.
Absolutely - That's exactly what we've done on my second business, and exactly what we failed to do on my first business. I won't be making that mistake again.

However, the level of customer development that you need to do while you're building the product is less than what you need to do while you're in the second start-up phase of selling it.
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