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Even though Ray's futurist predictions can be looney at times, in his book "Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever" he provides a lot of useful/applicable insights into the state of modern medicine. Like how flawed our "pay per medical service" system is, or how heart disease is preventable in almost all instances (but still kills Americans more than anything else), or how most modern humans in the US have diet's and exercise habits (or lack there of) that are extremely detrimental to our bodies and their pre civilization biological programming. Our bodies firmware is indisputably out of date and no one seems to care or acknowledge this fact. I'd rather have Ray and the likes pointing these facts out and imagining a future in which someone uses technology to change them vs criticizing them for not being able to predict the future on a %100 clip. They may introduce the problems to the minds that come along and solve them one day.
"The price is still up 30 percent on the year but far from its 74 percent increase a few months back."
It's cool what you're offering, but IMO being rejected by YC isn't "adversity." Folks need to stop pinning their hopes on a handout from others. How about everyone uses their spare time to build something cool, deploy it to a cheap Web server costing $30/m, see if people use it, actually /sell/ product and then go straight to the big dog investors?
Sorry, not sure if I'm understanding you correctly. Are you arguing that there is more to consciousness than just the atoms in our brains? If so what is your reason for thinking this?
I was going to comment something very similar. I think perhaps the scrolling should default to "Paged" instead of "Autoscroll".

It's hard to focus on a moving target and "Paged" feels more natural to me since that is how sheet music works. It allows you to look ahead without worrying about the upcoming notes moving.
Do all of the team members get an email, or just the one who submitted?
I disagree, bitcoin does have a hardcoded monetary policy of nominal money supply targeting. The policy is primitive and will not provide any of the benefits of contemporary monetary policy, but it should provide an interesting case study.

Wikipedia has a good list of the common policy options: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy#Types_of_monet...

Notice how many are focused on inflation (CPI and price level as measures of inflation/deflation). All of them are used by central banks to influence the markets. None make much sense for an virtual medium of exchange.

Now supposing there was a central bitcoin bank I'd suggest a policy of targeting low volatility. Bitcoins utility as a medium of exchange is a function of transaction cost and volatility risk. Still even without a central bank both attributes will improve with time. Thus the lack of central bank may become a feature by removing human fallibility.
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One of the big benefits of YC is the ability to get mentorship and learn from other startups. They help you stay productive and give outside perspective as you build. Some of you may not have gotten into YC which is fine, but we still want to help foster building by sharing experiences from other founders. If you're interested in joining what we're doing, just sign up here: http://landing.vocaltap.com/startups
Sent! I only forwarded it, didn't include any extra text. Do I need to do anything else or should I just wait patiently for a response?

Thanks for offering this! Doesn't feel as much like rejection any more ;)
Curious how many other people got questions from the partners, website logins, video views, and then got rejected.

I didn't put much effort into my app, thinking it unlikely that they'd accept me, but darn it, they did get my hopes up a bit :-)
Thanks - very thoughtful response! I have been burnt before, so validation is definitely #1 priority for me. I'm still in the wire-framing phase, because I at-least want to take these screenshots with me when I talk to the golf courses.

But my problem is that of segmentation - I don't have the bandwidth to support both iOS and Android at the same time, which cuts off a big chunk of audience.

Since the core of the app is networking - supporting the major platforms is quite important. But hey it is what it is. I've gotta start from somewhere!
Ok not a problem. But I want to continue and carry on my idea. Is there anyone based in New York that can set up a website like Airbnb or something?
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Which is willing to work for glory and/or equity
Can you at least get someone to video it so we can watch the fail?
Chinese people probably visit Chinese websites, which probably don't have Google Ads?
This is dangerously close to the point where a shiny new EA-18G Growler from NAS Patuxent River will track down whoever is using such a device. Even though EA-18 crew probably wont shoot at the rouge transmitter, they can still pinpoint the exact location. Unlike more typical FCC investigator using a radio direction finder, the EA-18 is quite fast, both getting there and searching.

The EA-18 is capable of working around cell towers for locating phones in the area.
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I was expressing a similar sentiment just yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786923

Nobody cares what I think, but I'm going to go ahead and predict that Apple's descent will be dramatic and historical. Apple is shellshocked with Steve's passing and is completely directionless.

Apple was Steve, Steve was Apple. One cannot exist without the other.
they weren't boasting, they were sharing their solution to a common problem, in the hope that it will help other people who have the same problem. i'm somewhat surprised that anyone doesn't "get" the motivation behind doing this.
NB: buying green power and / or RECs is _very_ different from investing directly into a renewable energy development.

I would agree with your larger point that there are other (non-financial) sources of return to these investments.
Thanks Svetha for your input and encouragement! My dilemma is to build it on iOS or Android? But eitherways - I've gotta start. For me next step is to finalize the wireframes and approach the golf courses!
You can't sell a generation on the never-say-die entrepreneur ethos and then tsk-tsk when they show up at your office uninvited.
I think he's just being nice and using "we didn't get into YC" as a chance to show some love.
Perhaps it is because your comment did not add anything useful to the discussion, but instead came across as an unproductive and unsubstantiated rant.
I have a BSc in Comp Sci. I enjoyed getting it very very much. I have held three programming jobs, and I currently work for Google.

My first (programming) job didn't care about the degree, and I used virtually nothing from my degree.

My second job, I think they probably wouldn't have hired me without the degree, but I used very little of my CS knowledge.

I might have gotten the interview at Google without it (unclear, but I had strong internal references), but the interview process heavily depended on the sort of knowledge I got from my degree program. And I would have had a lot more trouble getting a visa without my degree; possibly prohibitive. And at this job, my CS theory skills are the least important part of my ability, but they are a necessary part. I'm also nearly the least-credentialed person on my team, FWIW.

On the other hand, one of my high-school friends also now works at Google, is senior to me, got a visa, etc.... and has no degree.

Overall, I think that 4 years of employment-while-pushing-yourself-to-learn is probably at least as valuable as a degree.... but some employers (many sweatshop ones, but also some awesome ones) won't believe that. Also, if you want to work in a country were you aren't a citizen, a degree is so helpful it's almost essential (never thought it'd happen to me, then it did).
I actually think what he's offering is incredibly awesome. Startups at this level NEED a product like Mixpanel and he's offering it for free.

Not all rejection is "adversity" per se, but a lot of people had a non-negligible amount of hope resting on their YC applications. At this stage in the game everything that isn't a giant step forward can feel like a kick in the face. Kudos to Mixpanel for understanding that.
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bitfloor was hardly the top US exchange. it was extremely promising but their volume was dwarfed by others.
Here is a good article discussing some of the tradeoffs with various password schemes, the fix is necessary but far from trivial.

http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2012/readings/passwords.pdf
Lol no! Not "rejection" parties! Everyone is invited whether they're past, present, or future YC applicants, with or without having been accepted by YC. This is just a way for people to hang out and unwind and have fun, especially those who have gone through the application process.
I got 3 questions from pg, 10 video views, rejected
> Normal people do not do these things - the risks he took were abominations on a risk adjusted scale (if the recession continued to decimate the economy and kill demand for veblen goods and SpaceX didn't get that 4th launch - Musk would be done - as in out of money and out of luck).

I suspect that he just values things differently from you -- that he's less averse to losing large sums of money, and more averse to regretting opportunities passed by, than you are. You can call him crazy if his actions are a spectacularly bad way of getting what he wants, but if he just wants differen things than you do, that's a matter of taste rather than sanity.

> Which reminds me - the best investors are mentally damaged in some way, especially in terms of emotion (a distinct lack of empathy and emotion).

I wonder, if you raised the subject with some of these guys, what they would say to this.
Agreed. I call most of the singularity/live forever/AGI crowd "all talkers - no walkers".

But I keep a wary eye on them and their ideas from the periphery - lest I be on the the wrong side if they ever become right and start walking.

You never want to be on the wrong side of a wave - it really sucks.
I've seen this and hated it. What I really want is the entire old user interface back circa July - search, news, Books, scholar, everything. Gah.
And the Euro. But yes, I think so. My only concern is that if it becomes a 1 trillion $ worth of economy, you'll be talking in very small decimals of Bitcoin. Everything will cost like 0.000000x Bitcoins. I think this will be a very poor UX for most people. Unless they give the smallest decimal another name (Bits, coins, nanocoins, whatever), and then everyone deals in nanocoins, rather than Bitcoins.

I wish the designer of Bitcoin would've thought about this before creating it. Maybe he just didn't think Bitcoin will become that popular, and become orders of magnitude more valuable than a dollar in a more distant future.
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I'm a CS major in my third year. I'm familiar with Python, C++, C, and JavaScript, though I don't have much of a GitHub to show for it. I'm open to and capable of picking up new languages. Since I normally live in NYC and since NYC is a tech hub, I figure I should look for a software development internship in NYC.

But I'm kinda lost as to how I should go about looking for an internship. So I have two big questions:

1. What are the general developer job "buckets" in NYC? (Startup, big company, Rails shop, Google, contracting?)

2. I don't know what kind of development I want to do. Which should I focus on applying to?

If I had a well-defined goal (say, I want to work with Python at so-and-so), I could put all my time and energy toward building something with a particular language, to demonstrate that I'm qualified for a job. However, I don't know what's out there and I don't know what I want to work on. What do you think? I'd be very grateful for some advice.
Mixpanel $150/month startup plan free forever if YC Rejected
Just got mine. Maybe next time! Gives a few more months to grow, gain users, build more features and change the world before YC interviews me. I got the email while arriving at a cafe to write more code to analyze Sandy, so the timing is apt I suppose. Teaser: http://i.imgur.com/c87tV.png
AFAIK it was Apple that held back features from Google Maps. The previous Maps app was written by them (using Google's data).
Heartily agree with this. I don't need my library of vintage drum machine samples at work, but would love to have my personal txt file wiki along for the ride.
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Newton's Laws fit into three lines because most of us are already familiar with the integral concepts: force, mass, inertial reference frames, etc. The concepts involved in quantum mechanics are fairly alien to most people, so explaining the theory takes longer. The fundamentals of orthodox QM can be fit into three principles: 1) The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation; 2) The Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation; and 3) The Born Rule. Even writing these out in full doesn't take long. Explaining what they mean, however, can take a while.

Frames of reference are fairly obvious in SR. In General Relativity they're more non-trivial.
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a video view or 2
Rejected

I also had to deal with losing a co-founder during the application process, so I wonder if my perceived instability was a factor.
Trying to figure out why if it was a serious reason (instead of just having too many other qualified candidates), although I understand their personal reasons stance.
rejected and they even watched the video...
yeah but you can write the truth without being an ass. Actually bother to make the case that YC isn't the be all and end all. Just stating it (not that you even went that far) doesn't add anything so you're being downvoted for being noise, not because you're speaking the "truth" and being oh so brave to do it on news.yc
What do you mean when you say you don't have the bandwidth to support both iOS and Android?

If you're targeting businessmen, I think cross-platform is pretty important. Most executives are likely using Blackberry and Android. iOS is still trailing in the business sector last I checked.

If you use a cross-platform SDK you can cover your bases and not have to worry about it. Something like Phonegap or Corona could dramatically increase your likelihood of adoption.
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Sent. Much thanks for this. $150 isn't exactly chump change at the moment.
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I think most sell off is driven by fear of next potentially disappointing quarterly announcement compared to same holiday quarter of last year. Apple's center of success is gigantic subsidy from mobile operators. Investors might have reason to believe that this model is in great danger because of astonishing slew of similarly capable alternatives available to operators. On iPad front they already essentially cut their absolute margins big time by releasing iPad mini. Add introduction of slew of upcoming models running Surface/Win8 in to the mix and you can see that Apple's gigantic revenue streams are in great danger.

The fix for this would have been new products by Apple and that's what Mr Market has been expecting for long time. But instead we have only seen new minor versions of same old. The reason Apple's stock has been able to climb at accelerated pace so far was continuous stream of new products every 3 years and that seems to be gone now. Perhaps that might be the reason for Apple's new employee initiative of 20% time?
It seems that it does not support Android target yet. I can't find Android support in its homepage & editor.
> I suspect that he just values things differently from you -- that he's less averse to losing large sums of money

Truth. Same argument can be applied to terrorists and soldiers - they value the respect of their group and their families (in some cases this is monetary) over their own lives.

But then again - I presume most people think most terrorists would be damaged in some way (brain washed/delusional/lost parents) and soldiers in another way (PTSD/lose a friend/people die in front of you).

I'm not stating Elon Musk is, or is not, this - however I do find the parallels highly curious.

> I wonder, if you raised the subject with some of these guys, what they would say to this.

Kind of irrelevant if it's empirically correct.
This is an important correction; I upvoted.

However, it does confirm that the normal outlet by the toilet, protected as it is by the single GFCI outlet in the restroom (assuming the electrician wasn't as foolish as I was above) doesn't need to be replaced by a new GFCI outlet in order to plug in a fancy toilet seat.
Thank you. Very cool of you to extend that offer. Way to turn a downer into a positive for a lot of startup hopefuls. Mixpanel gets my love.
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What were the questions if you don't mind my asking?
Amen, amen, 100 times amen. It's a real tragedy that this particular line of FUD has caught on, but hey -- so it goes.

Links, for the curious:

http://backbonejs.org/#examples

http://builtwith.angularjs.org

http://knockoutjs.com/examples/
Nothing wrong with backbone, but I do find it hilarious how it took a lib creating faux classes to get people to stop writing hideous code, you can write clean code with or without Backbone, and it'll look nearly identical. Cleanliness is not in a framework, it's in your head.
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We've got 7 video views, no questions
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Investments are not a handout, homey.
They created an account and poked around but we're both over 30 which I think is an auto-reject.
Bummer :( PressureNET is really cool. I can't wait to see where it goes!
I agree that the primary focus should be on critical infrastructure. But an important part of asymmetrical warfare is also to cause destabilization through uncertainty. If 4g is the norm 2 years from now and older technologies are being phased out, then disrupting the cellphone network in DC during the morning rush hour, for example, is likely to set off sufficient alarms and panic reactions that the response outweighs the disrupting incident itself. When I was younger I lived in London and the IRA was still conducting a terrorist campaign of bombing civilians as well as government targets in that city. They didn't set off bombs that frequently, but they issued bomb threats against the subway network on a near-weekly basis, and of course the authorities couldn't just blow off a bomb threat, so people's day-to-day travel routines would be disrupted at least once a month as one or other subway line were threatened.Nobody dies, but over time it adds up to a significant economic drain, to say nothing of the psychological burden it inflicts on the populace.

Important to note - it's highly unlikely that any group of people will be able to establish a coordinated attack on 20 major metros. That level of conspiracy would be stopped by the time planning got to the 3-5 city attack.

The beauty of such an attack (from an asymmetrical PoV - obviously I don't endorse such things) is that the you don't have to deal with proscribed or highly controlled things like explosives. This means that the stakes are low and you can afford redundancy. If you disrupt the LTE system for an hour at a time on a random weekday using a mobile transmission source, you could probably get away with doing so for a while. Again, the public perception that even consumer information (rather than critical) infrastructure can be disrupted at some malicious actor's pleasure is an implicit win for a hostile organization or state actor.
Responses should be winging their way through the ether.
Is there any reason to believe that this story in itself is part of the IDF social media strategy?
Whatever helps you sleep at night, but just know, that's entirely not the case :-)
Ooops hard luck for us!!
I'm bootstrapping my company and this is my first game on iOS. Thoughts?
"entirely." Just mostly.
On one hand I'm a bit afraid that this might add more complexity to an already complex tool. But on the other hand the current tools in Make are very ugly to use. So Guile could certainly be an improvement.

And an easier-to-use autotools? Bring it on!
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Hi Everyone:

I am always impressed and amazed at the effort, focus, and passion teams put into their YC application. The stories of joy, heartbreak, and relief exhibit a sheer love of technology & entrepreneurship.

In many situations, worthy teams are short changed. We'd like to change that :)

We (Exo IDE) are a startup focused on building solutions for software developers. We are looking to hire talent, and would like to chat with any YC applicants (accepted or not) about what we are doing. Our ideal situation would be to recruit a small, pre-existing team that contain designer + engineers that have worked together on projects. The work would be in SF.

Even if it's not a fit with us, we wish everyone success in the pursuit of their ambitions. At a minimum, we love hearing about your ideas and making any connections that may help you on your own path.

If you'd like a chat - you can reach me at my personal email @ tylerjewell@gmail.com.
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Thanks! :) Really, all a YC rejection email does is get the motivators going. Plus, life in Montreal is really, really awesome and it would be tough to leave, even for a few months in the Bay Area.

As others are saying, it's almost a relief. I can keep chugging away, enjoying my current life and continuing to build my startup in the evenings. Life ain't bad.
>Start by deciding what you want to do

I was recently pointed towards Principles[1] by Ray Dalio by someone here on HN, and I highly recommend it. He talks about getting what you want out of life, and how that starts by figuring out what you want. He then lays out a process to get you there. If you're thinking about your career path, give it a read. It's long, and somewhat tedious prose, but it provided me a lot of insight as I'm figuring out what I want to do post-graduation.

[1]http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgew...
Your defense of Kurzweil amounts to "He came up with an AI version of Schrodinger's Cat." That's a lot less impressive than I think you intended.
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The speculation by many is that Google didn't allow Apple to have certain features. Why else would Apple rush their maps app out if it wasn't because they needed to? Why would they willingly let one of the biggest apps on the phone stagnate?
Hackernode app rejected :(
For contrast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare There nobody was trying to be an asshole (or failed to appreciate how their little art project would be interpreted), but by putting it near a prominent transit artery it wound up being significantly disruptive due to the resulting anxiety.

A key difference from your examples is that they're all localized, and the effects don't ripple very far. Another is that they're easily explicable - some violent person vandalizing a store or mowing people down in a car is frightening but also easily comprehensible. The litebrite bomb scare described above didn't involve any actual attack, but the confusion led many people to imagine the worst.