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I should add that what we gained from YC more than anything else was confidence.

With what we know now, we realise we possibly could have come to Silicon Valley and successfully launched our startup without YC-backing, although it still would have taken much longer.

But we didn't know anyone who could introduce us into the culture, and we had no way of knowing how much potential we had and how reasonable it was to believe we could succeed. We weren't even convinced that our idea was a good one until YC backed it.

So I guess, if you're already confident, you don't need YC.
That was the fate of Friendster, MySpace, etc. So it's not unprecedented.

I've always been pretty lukewarm on social networking sites because they felt like they were essentially AOL 2.0 (as others have stated). Hopefully in the future something more analogous to the open web will come along.
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Thanks. Doesn't look like Dexia operate here and ING don't offer the foreign-currency merchant services I need.
They might well be going for "Let's only write performance intense parts in C++, and make those bits easier to debug"
oh I agree completely. (And that explains why google is valuable - intention definitely counts.)

My contrast was to TV - when I'm watching TV I'm there to watch a show - (superbowl maybe an exception) - and the ads are an interruption. I can't see how that is much better than advertising on FB - aside from the fact it's been around longer. FB also knows more about me (at least it should - I'm always amused getting ads for dating sites when my profile is kinda clear that I'm married).

To go to your bar example - that depends on how it's done. I've bought beer mugs from a bar/brewery before - I saw the sign that they were for sale. I then had to take an action (click the link) and go to the counter and buy them. Or in terms of taxis - the rank could be there as you go in/out of the bar - perhaps even signs / posters / bar mats / coasters / etc. At the end of the night when I need a cab - then I can act on the info I've been looking at.
Now if the cab driver came up to me while talking to my friends and tried to get me into his cab - that's a different story. But branding and well targeted service offerings - that's definitely valuable. And facebook should know that I want to go to the next Living End show in Melbourne, and I want to buy the next Wheel of Time book, and I'm likely to want to go see the next Harry Potter movie. The TV station doesn't know that - and so might show me useless ads for VB or the new Zac Efron movie...
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how do you deal with the lack of a serious solution for replication / hot standby? Why is this not a more pressing issue for the postgresql developers?

I went to the SF Postgres meetup a month or two ago where they talked about new features in 8.4. Josh Berkus, one of the core devs hosts the meetup.

Anyhoo, hot standby _is_ a huge issue for them. We talked about it for 20 minutes. They had a dev who worked his tail off on the issue for several months. There was a lot of hope that hot standby was going to make it into the 8.4 release, but there were a few too many bugs on corner cases for them to ship the feature in 8.4 without a big refactor.

Postgres core is very concerned about replication, but shipping a stable product is their biggest concern. So, good news is that hot standby is a big priority for 8.5. Bad news, is the release isn't slated until next year.
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Several (flawed)things, limit voting to ip, mail confirmation, but I think a captcha would be the best trade-off between inconvenience for the user and blocking bots.
From http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/

[..] it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning.

In short: it about bending language to such extent that all meaning is distorted to the point of being broken.
You are right in theory. In practice there are already tons of Twitter usernames squatted, and Twitter is not doing anything to manage those. The monetization of user names would only make the practice more popular.
Best answer is probably just to use Facebook Connect- they're already pouring money into CS reps whose job it is to take down fake accounts. Blocks out people who aren't on Facebook, but it's a simple solution to something that can otherwise be a huge timesink.
My hat is off to you, sir. After spending a greater part of my past week's evenings playing Diablo II, I can't help but appreciate level grinding of a decidedly more cerebral nature.
Interesting to see how the Internet has changed our mind set on the privacy issue. I mean Twitter you are begging for attention and could care less about your privacy. Think woman at OBGYN office and earthquake hit.

Goes to show what people initially think are crazy ideas eventually are adopted. Though sometimes such takes years to overcome current mindsets that evolve!
My point is, that the Twitter use case is a subset of the chatroom use case.

It's simple enough to add bots to a channel to email/sms people of updates. Chatrooms just do everything twitter does, and a ton more.
$400M of revenues isn't enough?!
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I for one would like to see some proof on that matter, not that I neccesarily disbelieve that statement, but it is an interesting dynamic. Obviously more educated people may stray away from clicking on ads for free iPods or hot local singles dying to meet them, but you could say the same about less affluent people clicking on ads regarding BMW's, high fashion, SaaS's, or a wild excursion on the Serengeti (obviously some these examples are slightly strawman-ish, but the point is there are many products out there that need more exposure, of which advertising is an option, that require money, of which affluent people have more of and are presumably more willing to spend because of that). Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, everyone has needs, everyone.

But of course, that's not even the point, because at the end of the day, you really care about maximizing user value, which for ads is frequency * (CPC or CPM). Now, obviously the CPC rates are higher for a BMW relative to a free iPod and the CPM rates are also higher if you know the audience is affluent, higher still if they are a fan of BMW on FB, higher still if you know their status is 'looking for a new car', etc. LinkedIn has fairly high CPM's from what I hear.

So is my conclusion that more affluent users are more valuable than less affluent ones? No, I don't know that, but that is my hypothesis, and I'd like to see some evidence pointing one way or the other (actual non-anecdotal evidence, and not just Myspace makes more than Facebook, since they run two very different ad systems and since we all know that correlation only goes so far).
I have to say, though: I don't remember any of it off-hand. At some point in a "mind grind," your brain stops absorbing information from short-term into long-term memory, although you still retain the ability to make new short-term memories, so you still feel like you're "learning," even though it will all disappear sooner rather than later.
Obviously this wouldn't apply at low altitudes - i.e. it would be possible to open the door because the difference between internal and external pressures would be less. But then people wouldn't have to worry about being sucked out the door either.
And thank goodness for that :-)

But to be serious for a minute, I felt like this was a great example of a company understanding its brand so well that it could justify risk and creativity to serve real needs.

Everything from voice to design to (probably) speed of execution is perfect.

Another example of aggressive advertising:

Sega wanted to be the underground, edgier, older brother of Nintendo (mid-late 1980s); so they launched the Sega scream and "Sega does what Ninten-don't."

(Nintendo did retaliate with "Nintendo is what Sega Genes-isn't.")
Why do you feel you need Silicon Valley / culture / mentorship etc?

If you have a good idea, just do it. Doesn't really matter where you are if you have the determination to succeed.
Please do not put links to Hulu in HN. None of their Videos can be played outside the US which makes it near impossible for a large part of the HN readership to follow the ensuing discussion.
nice one. It's a nice site.
Link goes to a 404 Not Found :/
We had an old demo but we have since revamped the entire architecture. Would a video suffice?
In a way it sounds a bit like modems of yore connecting :)

Edit: For a cool audio representation of the file size, try comparing Wikipedia with the Google homepage :)
I believe that "luck" alludes to one of them finding out that voters using an IPv6 address wouldn't be blocked (IPv4 sites got blocked if they voted for the same candidate more often than once every 13 seconds).
Reminds me old days I tried to listen to the linux kernel :D. A small typo I did filled up the terminal with lots of garbage. Later I learned I can rcover such a situation with..

$reset
As a side note, the whole "Mention your competitors" is far less done in the UK. Either it's against rules, or it's a matter of etiquette, not sure which.

I was quite surprised when I first saw some US TV adverts picking apart the competition.
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I thought it was also because of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper and the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_vane.
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This was better http://halbot.haluze.sk/?id=3708 (circa 2006)
But agreed with axod, this shouldn't be on HN
How much of CNN's viewer base is Facebook-connected? The point of this sort of polling is to drive traffic - this ain't gonna happen if most of the people can't vote without going through a big signup for a service they don't want.
I've never really done link baiting... I've always just been brutally honest. I call it like I see it and that creates some attention for me, sure.

however, that attention will do nothing for you if you don't have a great product.

I got a lot of attention for Engadget, Autoblog and Joystiq at Weblogs, Inc.--and it was a great product so people stuc around.

I got a lot of attention for TechCrunch50 the first year--and now we've got a packed house in year two and a VERY strong start to year three.

I got a lot of attention for Silicon Alley Reporter by speaking my mind--but people stuck around by the articles by other folks like Xeni Jardin and Clay Shirky.

I've gotten a lot of attention for Mahalo by doing This Week in Tech and my email newsletter--but people are sticking around because of the power of Mahalo Answers.

so, the lesson I've learned is that you need to not only be able to get attention for your product, but also have a killer product.

frankly, i'm not that far out there as you would think.... Valleywag has made my reputation into 10x what it actually is. I'm not saying I'm not out there.... I am, but not that out there. :-)

I'm just a normal guy and if you grab a beer with me sometime you'll realize that the media/blogosphere has turned me into this larger than life guy that i'm not.

.... ok, I am.... but don't hate. :-p
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You could try loading the swf in a browser, letting everything load up, and then checking /tmp.
Registration instantly kills participation. This is a poll, not a transaction, or a subscription, or anything complicated like that - there's no reason to make it so.

A captcha would have worked nicely - hassle free, commitment free (remember, most of your visitors will flee for the hills as soon as you present a registration), and tough enough to crack that most people wouldn't even try. Even if you had a script that farmed captchas all day to manual labour the effect is still relatively small.
If you have a remote machine that has a microphone plugged into it, you can use this to listen to what's going on in the room remotely.
Here's a link to what, I guess, is the same video that works from the UK:

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2009/04/vintag...
I live in Europe and there's not much in the way of concept level funding here. I completely understand the OP -- having any help, let alone a few months of funding, the mentorship and Demo Day is definitely worth getting excited about, especially if you're not already in a hub area.

On a funny note: We just had TechCrunch party here in Prague over the weekend, and it was like an AA meeting. No investors, just startups pitching to themselves and consoling themselves. When you're starting you take all the help you can get. So don't tell me about it doesn't matter where you are -- it matters.
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It matters if you let it matter. If you feel you need to go the whole Angel->VC schmoozing route, then definitely location matters. But there's a lot of other ways to get started.
Here is the only explanation of the technology from the article:

"The new .50 caliber gun includes "fin-stabilized projectiles, spin-stabilized projectiles, internal and/or external aero-actuation control methods, projectile guidance technologies, tamper proofing, small stable power supplies, and advanced sighting, optical resolution and clarity technologies." In other words, bullets that, once fired at a specific target, fly themselves into it by changing shape."

I understand that the bullet has fins that adjust itself to air pressure and thus guides itself toward the target.
In my opinion eureka doesn't sound anything like euler. Personally I would stop worrying about that but if you can't I would suggest you stop apologising for it anyway.
Hmm, yes and no. Facebook ads are generally well targeted, I think. I get ads mainly for diving and snowboarding (which I have followed), dating (I am single and looking, not quite ready to take the plunge into online dating yet tho') and fitness (and I know those "get a six pack" ads are all scams, but showing them to me is a reasonable decision by the algorithm). I also get "become a fan of X" as sponsored ads which is just plain stupid.

Google's ads seem to be simple keyword matches and are context-free, I think Facebook could have the edge here, but they really do need to get rid of the scammers and actually pay attention to feedback (e.g. if I flag an ad as uninteresting, FB is wasting my time and its advertiser's money by showing it to me ever again).
It matters if your business is the type that can't prosper on determination alone. That kept us going for 6 years. Eventually we needed money and a supportive environment.
Could you tell us more? This sounds like a near-epic hack. I have an idea of how it would work. Whenever I tried dumping to /dev/audio it always came out too fast.
I always understand YC as an iconoclastic force (being disruptive etc), but its own success means inevitably it will become something of an idol.
It is a nice little app but it has some limitations: I can only read the reviews for restaurants that are near my current GPS location. So suppose I am at work and want to look for a restaurant near my house — the Yelp app can’t help me with that. Or suppose I want to check out restaurants in another city. Again this is a scenario that the Yelp app doesn't currently support.
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Well, they already do have an "adult" toggle that makes the book intangible and invisible. Given that, it's a lot easier to believe their prudishness extends to what they classify as adult. If they were going to make a moral stand, they ought to have made it at "we won't vanish books".
You just need a bit better ads.

I'd be quite happy with better ads, but my understanding is that one's control over what AdSense ads display on one's site is limited. Using the "competitive ad filter" you can explicitly block specific ads, but there's no opposite analogue: you can't say what kind of ads you want to run on certain pages.

The ads that run are up to Google's discretion. It does its best to determine what the page is about and shows ads accordingly. Perhaps I need to tweak the template text, meta description, and meta keywords - but again, Google has final control over what ads are run.
sqlite has a page cache but its default settings are a bit weak.

I suspect that what you want to do is open the sqlite database in exclusive mode (so that it grabs and holds a lock over the db, and should be able to assume that cached data has not changed) and increase the size of the page cache from its default of 2000k. See http://sqlite.org/pragma.html (the cache_size and locking_mode pragmas).
I spent an entire weekend on TVTropes in exactly the manner you described.

By now, I've probably now read over half the site. Doesn't help that my favorite TV and game series are some of the most trope overdosed ever created.
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Do you think the ads are improperly placed?
They created a theory called ABCT(Austrian Business Cycle Theory) which explain why those cycle happens like clockwork.

They also predicted the Great Depression.
You can unlock the door by turning the handle. You won't be able to get it open, but it's unlocked. So when the pressure stabilizes, the door can easily be opened.
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I had a facebook account for about 2 days, 3 years ago. All these fucking people started bothering me and trying to 'connect'. Look at the picture of me drunk holding my ugly kid.

I've never fundamentally grasped this idea and find the whole thing intrusive and desperate.

Maybe google can make a better job of it.
I think I see the unique factor here: clicking images and then the search engine logo allows you to use alternate sources.

While this is a nice idea (although Web should have at least Google) I kind of feel combining many search engines, stripping out the duplicates, and creating some sort of combined ranking could be a much better idea - rather than performing several searches.

Eliminating categories and using heuristics to provide a single subject-detectable input, while tricky, could be even better.
could have been as easy as 'tcpdump port XXYY' and nothing was being output until the event he was looking for... would have made a fast screech, i bet.
From the original document:

> In order for noise to happen there must be at least some variation.

It's pretty neat. The data pretty much represents the position of the speaker.

Audio stuff is pretty fascinating; I read a great book on explaining DSPs for audio processing. I'll have to dig it out of my closet.
I think this is just screaming for a business opportunity based on aggregating the postings on all these sites and building a single interface to it.
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It's hard to believe that you don't see a road to profitability for Facebook. It seems to be more a question of when at this point, and trading that off against growth.

What do you mean "how the internet works"?
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I kind of dislike people who, while presenting their projects, scream "This is important! Look at how impressive this is!"

I kinda felt she was doing that through the whole presentation. Let your work speak for itself.
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>a good place to start, would be yes > /dev/audio, which outputs a high whining as the value 'y' is sent as audio over and over.

The key point of this combination is that yes outputs "y\ny\ny\n...". If you just send one character over and over you don't hear anything - I think the difference between adjacent character values determines the frequency of the output.

>Plus if there are any sound files on your drive saved in a lossless format they just play at random and then disappear back into the soup.

They need to be uncompressed (ie. contain raw audio data), not just lossless.
actually it was worse (in a good way) for me.. My mother used to work in my school (as a maths teacher). And she was in charge of timetable duty every year... And lo behold she was my maths teachers every year.

Certainly made sure she had an eye on me at all times. Damn!
Lynch mobs do not have electronic equivalents.

The worst I can think of would affect a person's psyche, but Amazon is not a person. The analogy is not apt.
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My that sounds like an idea. Then you can use Canvas or something to build a visual representation of the data.
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I'm occasionally irritated by this cliquishness, but it's all about access, access, access. Anyone can apply.

The fact that YC exists now, and the fact that it gets the attention it does make the YC brand a great one to be associated with if you are looking for investment.

The founders you mentioned didn't need YC, but if they were doing it again today, are you saying they wouldn't derive any benefit from applying to YC?

Also, blogging about a YC interview may be a way to get alternate funding back home. For instance, I got a job interview (in Toronto, Canada) in the mid nineties in part because I had interviewed at Microsoft, in Seattle. I didn't get the Microsoft job.
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"Required", "suffice". It seems you're looking for guarantees where none are possible. Think in terms of increasing your odds.

IMHO, a good demo can help you sell. You're selling your team. What can you do to help yourself convince investors that you are smart and can execute?
Their lawsuits are only able to destroy startups because government regulations (i.e. laws) let them. So this is government regulation at one remove.
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This is probably the 4th place I see this. This seems like a comic of IE being bullied for some farfetched reason by S/FF just to start a fight. I'm guessing I've got it wrong, so...

Could somebody explain what exactly is this about?
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