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Surprised at the number of people who said "No". Why does everyone need to have this cut-throat mentality? You realize, we'd all live longer and age slower if you guys would just relax.

NYC is a mess right now.

Just the perspective of a guy who comes here for the articles.
Also, not all teams are located in one area.
I have slightly worse than 20/20 vision and I see a huge difference. The retina iPad that I had was amazingly clear compared to my 1600x900 17" laptop screen and my 1200x800 tablet. I recently looked at both the retina macbook and an asus 13" ultrabook in best buy last week. The macbook retina's screen was noticably sharper than the asus' 1080p screen, but 1080p on a screen that size still looks absolutely amazing. I would honestly be happy with either one.
A mechanical button absolutely does not need to protrude from the surface to be pressed - not only can it start at surface level and be pressed into the device, it can return to starting position and remain flush. Look at most microwaves - totally flat, presses in very slightly, returns to flush. The power button on the mac pro (that neglected tower!) does the same. Also, capacitive buttons exist which, although not strictly mechanical, have a similar behavior.

Protruding buttons are merely a user interface choice. They were never a functional requirement.
The Euler characteristic of a compact orientable genus g surface X is nonzero if g is not 1 (the general formula is 2-2g), so the Euler class e(TX) of the tangent bundle TX of X is nonzero. This implies that TX cannot have a continuous nowhere-vanishing section. If it did, e(TX) would be 0. The single-holed torus is the only orientable compact surface that possesses a continuous nonvanishing vector field.
If what I've read about Forstall is true (from the links posted below) it seems Tim Cook just took a golden opportunity to take out a competitor for his position.
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I voted No - not because I think an extension is a bad idea full stop, but I think one day won't help much.

If an extension is a good idea (I'm not sure), then one until such time that people's priorities are back on YC related things would make more sense. This could be a few days, or a couple of weeks depending on how things pan out.
Simplified, we own the art and music, the developer owns all the code. We get a license to the code and can publish it across multiple platforms, we owe the developer their share no matter what platform their game ends up on. The developer gets a license for our art only valid if published through us. So if the game is ported by us to Android, we still take royalties.

The developer can strip out all of our assets and republish on any platform without giving us a rev share if they want.
iOS is behind Apple's present riches and Forstall is the hard ass visionary genius that made that happen. Before that, he was a primary architect on OS X before it was even called OS X. He's the single most important engineer at Apple (since Bertrand Serlet was tossed out last year). To pooh pooh this guy's contributions as many are doing, while celebrating Cook as some great visionary genius is totally absurd.

Cook is a bean counter with no vision. He is very good at bean counting and has a lot of success at it. He is not appropriate as anything more than transitionary CEO for a visionary company.

Replace visionaries with bean counters that have allegiance to the established hierarchical order of bean counters? This works well for commodity companies that sell fizzy sugar water. Will it work for Apple this time around? Last time they went this route with Sculley there were some problems.
A reactive document is one in which “The reader can play with the premise and assumptions of various claims, and see the consequences update immediately.” As an example, there is a paragraph describing the number of state parks that must be shut down in California assuming that a certain tax is levied; as the reader changes the size and structure of the tax according to his whim, the stated number of parks to be shuttered changes in concert

-- Anyone else think this sounds completely reasonable?
I'm a paying user of yours so I don't have any specific problem with you or historious, but I don't like that you're offering a free month here. I'm sure it won't really have any impact, but in theory by rewarding people who say "have you tried <product>" in a HN comment you're incentivising people to make those comments, essentially offering people the chance to use a referrals scheme without it going through referral links.
Off topic, but I really want one of my "hobbies" to be a half-a-billion dollar business.
Tags are in the bookmark backup JSON.(Storing tags was one of the primary reasons for moving from bookmarks.html.) Search for "root": "tagsFolder" anything that is a parent of that is a tag.
I definitely wanted to take a look the whole time I was using Erlang, but kept feeling like it was more important to really get a handle on Erlang/OTP before branching out. I imagine it's hard to play in the same waters as OTP's "real, tested engineering" with a new language, though I definitely support any language that targets the ERTS.
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I'm curious what you think of New Zealand stores. I too live here and I have yet to find a store comparable to Apple's. Then again I don't get out much.
Only rackspace have fanatical support. They would lay down their lives for 1 more minute of uptime.
Creating a game brand - 5 questions to ask
Yep, while I don't advocate real name policies, I do want the problems to be fixed if possible.
> Mr. Forstall also recently sent some members of Apple's iOS software team an email saying he felt the group wasn't working on enough big ideas in mobile software

He had that right.
The point was that iBooks looks and behaves like a book, so it works even if you consider it distasteful; Address Book looks like one but behaves completely differently, leaving the user confused why this "object" doesn't work.
At 19 I was making more than my high school business teacher on an entry level salary. Seems to me that is a pretty sad state of affairs.
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A special checkbox for late applications is a great idea. I would also suggest asking the teams affected by the storm to send an email to YC or post to a new thread (assuming they have some Internet access, I still see lots of tweets from NY!) This will give you an estimate of how many late applications to expect.
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I don't quite support your position and am more in line with the parent one. It may be possible to find the "truly great" by a nice discussion but for those that are good and above it isn't so easy to separate them from the good talkers without some deeper technical discussion that gets started by an innocent technical question. The question is used to weed out the complete bozos and the deeper discussion to understand the depth of the person interviewing.

I truly don't understand someone who claims to be a great talent and not willing to put up with an hour or two if interview on technical topics. He might or might not be a bozo but by such a stance he failed my personal fit test.
Just FYI, the "Welcome Hacker News User" window doesn't work well on my phone (Android 2.7.3, Cyanogenmod, default browser). It only lets me see the right half of the text, and I have to scroll over to see the close button. It helped that I already knew where it was, but if I hadn't been to your non-mobile site first I might not have found it.
It may not be an epiphany, but watching just a few seconds of the news coverage I thought of the number of times many of those things had happened to NYC in summer disaster movies.

If I had cameras, boats/kayaks, a few actors & friends to help out, shoot overnight on the deserted river roads, a few lines of dialogue and a rough idea for a story, I'd be out there trying to shoot with big-budget backgrounds that would normally cost tens of millions in sound stages or post-production. Though since I'm currently in Toronto, can't really do it.

If I'd been able to plan (or had the idea a few days ago to be able to plan and know in advance how it would likely look), for perhaps $10-20k (mostly for rented boats, cameras and bail money) could have had a semi-decent looking disaster movie or a good short film. Getting the moment the lights went out from some high vantage points & down on the water would have been amazing too.
> Linking is the foundation of the Web. The fact that you can no longer build a website without subverting even the most basic of browser functions ...

i don't believe that's a fair assessment. A bit of javascript that "subverts" the href of an anchor tag to perform some _other_ task other than loading the page at that href, is functionally indistinguishable from having that same task performed _after_ the said href page is loaded.

Sure, the technical side of this is indeed very different. One is an ajax call plus some DOM manipulation. The other is loading a different page, in an entirely different execution context. But to an end user, a link is something that you click on, and somethign happens. What happens is also quite predictable (provided the site/web app is designed with usability in mind). I dont think somethign is fundamentally broken at all.
Thanks, that answers my questions. I didn't realize you do cross-platform publishing yourself.
Indeed. 1920 x 1200 on a 17" screen is about 133 dpi, not even close to the 300 dpi on the Nexus 10.
The barrier to entry for GORILLAS.BAS was "hey, what's this number do and what happens if I change it?"

I didn't even have to know I wanted to learn to program.

I agree with you that there are tons of awesome things at our fingertips for shipping applications to people, or for learning to code once you know that's what you want to do. jsfiddle looks great, if you know you want to learn JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Linode is awesome, once you know you want to host a site. The App Store is incredible, once you can write an acceptable app.

Those are all great things, and they are all a few steps beyond the stage I'm talking about. You're talking about learning to walk; I'm talking about learning to crawl.
Virtual machines can migrate at lightspeed?
The apology in question is not the one court ordered by a UK judge. The apology in question is the one Apple issued and Tim Cook signed regarding the iOS Maps cock-up.
As an applicant who lives in NYC and has already submitted an application for this round, I think a day (or more) extension would be helpful. One day should be enough for those who lost time preparing for the storm but were not affected enough to drop their whole application(for this round) due to significant loss.

I disagree with the suggestions to add a "I'm late because" or special consideration for late applications. This will postpone a decision and create unneeded complications with the selection process. What I can suggest, is that YC creates an "I will be late on my application because..." area and provide a 3 day extension for those groups. At the very least, this gives YC an opportunity to see if anything is coming in and allow for YC to make a decisions with some
"wiggle room" for the late applications. I'm not sure how the selection process works at YC, but the bottom 2-3 fundable on-time applications could be on "stand by" until all applications are submitted and a final decision could be made for the last 2-3 groups.
Sometimes the reason for the overriding is stupid.

Sometimes the reason is that you can't see the forest for the trees because of your domain expertise.

If the higher ranking person has a decent level of clue, they'll always be aware that they're basically -betting- that they're right about it being the latter rather than the former.

If the higher ranking person has any level of personal honour, they'll precommit to taking full responsibility for anything that goes wrong as a result ... and to quietly letting you keep any glory that accrues for it going right, on the assumption that that was likely mostly a result of your decisions, not of their single override.

Given the preconditions of your boss having clue and honour, quitting should not be the automatic response to their overriding you even if you don't immediately understand why they're doing so.

In fact, I'd suggest that if you don't trust them sufficiently to accept that they'll only do it in cases where they genuinely believe they have a better reason than your reasons for disagreeing, you should be trying to move elsewhere right now, because you have no faith in your superior's ability to use their power appropriately, which is going to be no fun for anybody.
I expect it to work by capturing the page unload event? or perhaps capturing just the ctrl-r keystroke? I'd like to hear about how this _could_ work sensibily too.
Apparently, I was wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716258
Who doesn't love bubbles?
'Resourcefulness' in a storm doesn't mean wasting your phone's battery. If one has ample shelter/water/heat/food/electricity, they are sitting pretty and can go about their business without having to be very resourceful. If not, their only thoughts should be on preserving what they do have and using their intellect to improve their immediate situation. I hope that the YC hopefuls in emergency situations are wise enough to focus on taking care of themselves and figure that the application process will work out later.
Hey, thanks. Looking at a pretty-printed JSON file with that little piece of info cleared it up for me.
Who knows what the previous history is, but given the way maps rolled out, maybe Forstall could have simply given credence to the notion that maps was just a beginning instead of giving in to the blowhard sales pitches of apple keynotes. Apple says that Apple TV is just a hobby, maybe he should have said that Maps is just the beginning of a new road.
"I am sorry I have had to write you such a long letter, but I did not have time to write you a short one" -- Blaise Pascal

My writing was also ruined by highschool English rewarding large word counts and overblown language. Twitter has completely broken me of the habit, and my writing is far clearer and punchier as a result.

Eschew excess verbiage and all that.
France again threatens Google with link tax
The important distinction is scarcity. All of our intuitive concepts of ownership depend on it, and bits don't have it.
Most landlords here will let you lease a place for 6 months as a minimum. Most have no problem with renting to foreigners. I had to pay a deposit of two months rent and one month rent in advance.

If possible try to avoid English-speaking property agents as they charge a premium. The best approach, at least in this country, is to drive around with a native speaker and spot 'For rent' signs.
unreal, sorry to hear that situation...if you solved it amicably then i'm sure it wasn't a horror story. I guess i'll hit up legalzoom or quora for the best and easiest way to trademark. If you know good site's please recommend.
Agreed for the most part, except for these:

I think google is to be commended for building an eco-system that involves so many different hardware devices, manufacturers, etc and Google HAS to do something about the upgrade story on existing devices.

Disagree on the first part, for one really big reason: the overwhelming majority of those manufacturers are anti-consumer assholes. Like, I would personally much rather that literally-literally every manufacturer who ship with a locked bootloader or who refuse to commit to three years of updates be blocked from using the Google apps on any of their devices (which is why I included the second bit). I realize Google will never do that, and the "screw you, this is how you do it right" attitude of the Nexus line is an okay "toe this line" approach, but I don't think it's sufficient.

The intents system and the way you can link together different apps is very innovative. I wish iOS would copy it!

The idea behind the intents system is groovy. The implementation is terrible. Intents external to my application are great, barring API problems. But within my application--I get the reason, intents are bad for this sort of thing because the information you can pass around is limited and not typesafe. You end up with global state or a lack of type safety and neither option makes me not want to throw things. I think I'd rather see the Activity model be more object-oriented--like, have startActivity() actually take an Activity and allow you to define a constructor.
So, a super nit-picky thing on the login page is the "Made Simple" text on the top right. It's styled too similarly to a link. I definitely had the urge to click it and I'm sure others will
Sure, but euphemism just doesn't fall under the umbrella of 'plainness,' in any way, shape or form. So you can't be euphemistic and tell the plain truth. It's just a bollocks statement.
I was thinking a great deal about SeaMicro the moment I read this announcement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/03/09/willow-tu...
Apple doesn't own iPad.com?
Much higher latency? I just tested 22 ms with my iPhone 5 on my home WiFi network, and 44 ms with LTE. Granted, that's a factor of 2, but 44 ms is pretty darn acceptable for any Internet usage, let alone mobile phone usage.
Ask HN: Adding A Partner To A Bootstrapped Startup
A couple years ago in the beginning I had a partner... he got married, had a baby & stepped away so I took full ownership. I kept going, bootstrapped and eventually got it off the ground and am currently generating a bit of income. Problem is I'm wearing too many hats and can't grow. Not only is it very stressful doing it alone, it's at the point where it makes no business sense because it can't grow.

I could afford to hire a developer part time, but I really want somebody on the team who's passionate about building something that is theirs. Also, I want another brain to help in all areas of the business, come up with ideas, provide camaraderie and support.

Perceived valuation is currently $1M - $1.2M

I've known a particular candidate for about 6 months and we get along well, I have trust in his abilities, and have an overall good feeling about him. I presented the idea and he expressed interest but couldn't come on full time without pay. I don't really need full-time right now anyway so that's ok. I'm thinking paying a reduced hourly rate (or no pay) and he can build some sweat equity. Does a "working interview" make sense in this situation? Where he "earns" his equity over the course of a 3-6 months through actual work and proof? The tricky part is coming up with the numbers. Any advice greatly appreciated here.

I'm curious about the different scenarios and approaches that can be taken. Also, some do's and dont's and what precautionary measures to take would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Yes you have a point and according to the Opera link above, the indexes seem to smalish
ConEd Plant Explosion in NYC
i guess you're not the one being evacuated from a flooding or burning building. nor are you someone who has loved ones anywhere in lower manhattan.

you make it seem like natural disasters are easy to predict down to the precise movements and effects for eacn individual.

i'd love to see that app or service you're making, sounds really powerful. dare i say clairvoyant?
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I like Anki as well but I had several issues running it on android. I got through the issues on my phone but I still can't use it on my Nexus 7.
Also, I was looking at German vocab and some of the translations were in Spanish, while all the rest were English.
We started our application a few weeks ago and running it through several feedback and rewrites I'm surprised to find myself till the last day and still making adjustment.

If I lived in NY and I was hit by the storm I would have been really bummed out about missing the deadline.

One reason I'm applying to YC is to be among an awesome ecosystem of founders who are there for each other and seeing a large ratio of yes to no votes is a delight.
Great article! While I have some technical background, I'm not a coder and I'm also a single founder applicant.
From his comments, it seems that YC wants what everyone who is passionate about their career wants in a teammate. Drive.

I work in a neuroscience lab and I've trained a lot of undergrads, lab techs and grad students. From a state school to IVY league schools I continue to see the same thing. Drive, ambition, and motivation are way more important than technical knowledge. This is a winning combination of traits that always works as the people who have those traits can typically pick up anything you throw at them.
My best students have been those with OK GPAs but and a serious competitive nature to them.
Er, the article isn't the best, but it also certainly isn't "content-free."

Certainly a comprehensive comparison/review would be better, but spec-comparisons are at least a useful starting point when shopping... [e.g. to reject out-of-hand any product that obviously doesn't meet some criteria, so you don't have to bother researching it further]
News.YC is giving me a nice week here. I'm starting to feel that I tend to undervalue my achievements and I feel much better about my answer now. (Self trained myself through HS to get a D1 Volleyball Scholarship)
Clay Christensen: How quickly (news) things fall off cliff
Google Nexus4 vs Samsung Galaxy S3
I want to add that vocab would have helped me much more than the hours and hours of French verb drills I did in high school and university. I wish they would thrown so much vocab at you in school that retaining even 70-80% would be considered top notch.
Spot on. I can't help but add that on the day Apple is getting a lot unwanted press, the company you paint as Forstall's rival, Google, is also on HN front page with a remarkably quiet announcement of a $399 10" 300 dpi tablet.

I hope this marks a low for Apple. All things considered, they could do a lot worse. Hopefully they will only keep improving.
Markdown: The Spec - it's coming and it's full of personalities
Google announces three New Nexus with images from Maldives
I also would like to know the answer to this question. After all, the dreaded broadcast flag of ~2005 was expected to be covered by the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions. If a single bit can be a technological protection measure, who's to say what couldn't be argued is an "effective" measure by a skilled lawyer?
"Mint attested to doing quarterly external audits?" Really? It seems they didn't, or at least I can't find evidence or mention of it, and Mint support doesn't know about it.

A Hackersafe pen test is not a security audit. A public company SEC-required annual audit is not a security audit either.

There is no audit if there is no public audit statement from the auditor. Without one, whatever security measures were taken cannot be called an audit.

Perhaps some reporters (like the ones that reported on the WMD-based justification for going to war against Iraq) didn't do their jobs properly.
too many colors?
Last I heard, 111 8th had 4 days of fuel and the generators were safely high up. It's possible I misunderstood.
False, just lower manahattan near the financial district.
(unless i'm just a lucky manhattanite who's not read the right news sites and has lovely power)

that said, subways being closed is going to be a huge hassle for the next few days.
Yes, Nothing but opportunity in this decision.
you're historically right about this, but wrong on a bunch of other levels. there is a few million square feet of real server colo in 111 8th ave, and at least an order of magnitude more than that combined across the other spaces mentioned.
"iOS" or "iPhone" are trademarks of Cisco, but Apple is still doing pretty well.