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This is phony. The real question is what the traffic looks like next month. I'd say it's likely it'll drop right back down to what it was.
You're dead wrong here. People DO use a variety of services, just to name a few, twitter, flickr, facebook, last.fm, del.icio.us, blogs, and youtube.

Not everyone uses Facebook.

Facebook, being a walled garden, can't and shouldn't replace the open-to-everyone network that Friendfeed provides. Friendfeed is necessary, because Facebook takes in content, but doesn't share it back out, and that's bad for the web as a whole.
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I suggest checking out the first video here: http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-training-basic. It's a little more than 20 minutes long, and the lecturer talks about the problems that MapReduce and HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) are designed to solve.

If you're super curious about MapReduce and are down to spend a few hours learning about and playing around with Hadoop, most certainly check out the rest of the videos (you can leave out the ones about Hive) and work through the first two exercises -- the virtual machine they provide makes it very easy to implement and run your first MapReduce job. Doing this will answer your question better than anyone explaining it to you can. If you'd like to go even further and learn about how Hadoop works under the hood, buy the rough cuts version of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide here: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521998/.
I have Jewish parents that value stability over risk. The pressure gets tough, sometimes. Ultimately, this isn't even a question of starting a business, but a question of a much deeper choice. Painters, musicians, writers, monks, soldiers, priests, boxers, swimmers, and many other people from all walks of life are forced to make this choice. Do you want to settle into a comfortable rhythm of people that surround you (working 9-5, watching Lost DVDs, and doing whatever comfy thing your neighbors are doing), or do you want to get out of your comfort zone and try to make your dreams come true? There is nothing wrong with settling for the traditional lifestyle, lots of people choose to do that and live perfectly happy lives. But there are lots of other people that choose not to live that way. The question is, what will make you truly happy?

If living in ticky-tacky houses really won't make you happy, you'll know it. It will eat at you from the inside, and thinking about it will consume a huge chunk of your conscious and subconscious life. At times, it'll drive you crazy. It's a natural process, so let it be.

At some point you will see that if you choose to live a different life, to a large extent it'll always be an uphill battle. Until you succeed, there will always be people who will laugh, or give you dirty looks, or lecture you. If you ever succeed and become rich (or famous, or whatever it is you're looking to do), there will always be people who treat you like you have some sort of skin disease - they'll feel uncomfortable around you. And if you never succeed, there will always be people that will point and laugh.

Let the fire burn inside you. At some point, you'll know which side of you will win. Either you'll say "the hell with all of them, let's go!", or you'll settle for a more standard walk of life, and go back to watching Lost. Either way is fine, but I doubt you can help this process with some sort of conscious effort. The fact that you're trying, though, is a good sign. Just let the fire keep burning and see what happens.

For me, Buddhism (and specifically Alan Watts) helped. "How To Get Rich" by Felix Dennis helped (a great book with a terrible name - he's an artist, an entrepreneur, and a philosopher, now a snake oil salesman). Thinking about this day and night until I finally made a decision for myself helped.

Whatever you do, just don't be under the illusion that your parents will change their mind any time soon (and even if they do, there will always be other people that matter to you who won't). This is the burden every creative person who was ever born on this planet has to carry. It's a perfectly natural part of the creative process and of psychological development. Carl Jung talked about it. Alan Watts talked about it. Konstantin Stanislavski talked about it. Let this process be and see where it takes you.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEYGU_7EqU
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The Life Scientists room is one of the biggest rooms, but I recognize that scientists are a niche audience. It's too bad we can't take the success and community of that room and move it somewhere else where our needs won't be sidelined in favor of making things more novice friendly.
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I started off as a pre-med with guaranteed admission to medical school through Northwestern University's HPME.

I'm currently a Junior, majoring in Computer Science, Economics and a minor in Business. Oh, and I'm also battling uphill to rebuild my resume/GPA.

I sat down with my parents and explained to them what I needed to do in order to be personally satisfied, and explained what my best options would be. I was surprised at how readily they accepted my words and allowed me to move.

Just gotta try and talk. Eventually they'll realize they can't control your destiny in the long-run (beyond the habits they've given you and the influence they've had on you).

Good luck.
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Now I'm not exactly a suave Casanova, but I have learned that introducing myself as "Hiya, I'm Patrick and I just got shot down by that girl over yonder. What's your name?" is not a way to endear myself to people. I think this insight is probably transferable to business.

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My parents fit this category. I am an American born Chinese, my parents came here to do their PhDs & postdoc, but attended college in China.

They are also very "conservative". My mom pushed my sister to attend MIT over Princeton so that she would take the engineering route instead of something like liberal arts (even though she's fond of writing). I was pushed in that same direction as well... you could say we are a family of engineers (except for my mom who is a professor). After my sister graduated with a degree in material science, she now wants to become a writer or do something as far away from science as possible... much to the chagrin of my mom. (her marks in material science were all stellar so the decision was not academic) She's still doing her PhD at MIT but has been actively applying for non-science jobs for the past 12 months or so. She's totally an extrovert, I just couldn't see her becoming a professor anyway.

The first time I had to deal with "breaking out" of the mold was when I told my parents I was leaving Atlanta to live in the Bay Area without first landing a job. They were pretty mad and the argument left with my mom in tears. Even though I was pretty frugal and saved enough from my first job to live 8-12 months without a job, they still wanted assurance of stability.

I succumbed to their plea and did a little job hunting. I picked the employer that would pay for my entire move just to please my parents. I quit the job 4 months later. (they even let me keep my big signing bonus) When my parents found out I quit, they flew out to San Francisco just to yell at me, the argument ended in tears yet again (I think my mom is a little too emotional). But I was steadfast, I knew I was capable and I could always pick up random contracting jobs if necessary.

This is almost my 3rd year out in the Bay Area and I've contracted directly with so many startup founders that if my startup ever fails, they would hire me on the spot. The opportunities in the Valley are really amazing -- especially if you know your stuff and can demonstrate it to other startup founders. I did some pro-bono work for one of the Linkedin cofounders and later on he practically begged me to help him out on one of his projects.

My mom has learned to deal with my unstable cash flow and there are no more arguments (thank god!). So for a typical Asian raised from a very conservative family culture, it's very possible to break out of the mold as long as you stay focused on the light at the end of the tunnel :-).
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I’m not the type of person that you’ll hear commenting all the time here on Hacker News. Fact is, I couldn’t stop and see all these people feeling bad about them because YC rejected them.

I’m not interesting in applying to YC. Come on, you don’t need YC to succeed. You don’t need them. Many of you guys are just here because you think YC would be the salvation to your startup. Don’t kid yourself.

If you feel bad because you got rejected, because you lost the “golden mentorship” and the 10,000 grand, then you shouldn’t be doing your startup in first place.

You should believe in your idea and go on, even if the other people don’t see what you can see. Thomas Edison didn’t stop because everyone believed he was nuts. Henry Ford didn’t stop back then, the Google guys didn’t stop, and you shouldn’t stop.

Keep going, keep moving, don’t let fear or rejection stop you. Never.
I think they restricted it by domain name
The main thing you need to do is to show them what startup is about. Tell them why, how and what for startup. You must tell them the reason, how much you love your ideas and the potential in your ideas.

It is also cool to compare startup to other choices. Remember to let them understand the difference between working with passion and without it. Most people from last generation would be happy with any job. You need to understand them and let them know the world is different for you now.

I think most reasonable parents want their kids to be mature enough to make decisions. So be responsible and let your action and lifestyle speak. :-)
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I am not sure that's necessary. We've let people know that the loss of room functionality hurts that community. Let's see what happens. Unlike other sites, Friendfeed's betas are real betas, and there have been multiple design changes just today.

In the end it depends on the target audience. My hope is that the success of the Life Scientists makes us one that at least gets a seat at the table
This title may not be the most supportive for those who get accepted.

It's starting to feel like College Confidential around here...
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I wish your title were "Obsessive Parents" or "Obsessive Immigrant Parents". I am Asian. I am an immigrant. I am a parent. I am also a son with Asian parent. But I was also a Professor at UCLA for nine years so I had met quite a few students with Asian parents, Jewish parents, Iranian parents, any kind of immigrant parents or just plain parents. My observation is that your predicament is not unique. Irrespective of race and culture, every parent tries to learn from their mistakes or try to compensate for their own limitation. The world is changing too fast for all of us. Parents might act like we know the answers, putting pressure and expectation on our kids. In realty, we are scare of the future just like everyone else. This is true for any parent, especially immigrant parents.
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I recently moved to NYC to work at a hedge fund after giving up an alternate offer at Google last year. You could say my timing wasn't the best.

I would say the experience as a developer/analyst in any hedge fund or bank depends on 1. How well is it doing (PnL) ? Affects your job prospects and compensation/bonus. 2. How much alpha do you contribute to ? (back office vs mid office vs front office). You make more closer you are to the market, projects are much more exciting and you learn real world finance from the frontlines 3. People and Culture. 4. Compensation: Wall street pays base + bonus where latter takes more and more importance with time. Normally they can grow way faster than any silicon valley firm. But in these times, hard to say unless you work at a place that is still doing quite well.

I love where I am right now because I love learning and I am practically overwhelmed with how much I can learn and grow in my current position + people around me are fantastic (insanely smart brains + nice people). My projects have ranged from script automaton to price modeling, and there is much more to come as I learn. That keeps me excited.
You might also be shocked at how unsupportive they might be as well. At least my parents didn't support my decision to leave a stable job... YMMV.

Sometimes I feel it's almost like the Indian girl trying to escape an arranged marriage.
Not to be an internet hardass, but if a YC rejection crushes you beyond all belief, you probably shouldn't be founding a startup. Every single successful startup has experienced at least one defeat as large as a YC rejection. A healthy dose of confidence and ignorance about your abilities is necessary. Preferably a combination of both.
The other major difference is that Facebook only takes information in, it doesn't readily share it back out. So Facebook's really not about sharing information, it's about collecting information about you.

There's been no winner. Facebook doesn't work well for the older crowd who mostly don't use it, and they weren't even started around the same idea.

Facebook was successful because it was the first of it's kind. It's a networking application, specifically for keeping up with what your college friends are up to. It was the first to try the "social network for X" and got the first mover advantage.

Friendfeed is totally different. It collects activity from the whole universe of networks and it does a better job, especially for the older crowd who has no use for the extraneous Facebook crap.

There will be no obsolescence, because Friendfeed is open and Facebook isn't.
not to mention, yc prolly has a ton of applicants, they didn't even see yours. I'll apply earlier next time myself, but hopefully I'll also have a co-founder by then.
Look, if you can't sell your startup to your parents how can you expect to sell it to others?
I have an idea. How about we organize our own startup group, for sharing information, support, dinners, basically all that YC does but without money and giving away percentage? Also without PG (unless he might want to :).

PS. I am not YC reject, I never applied since I don't have a co-founder.
for this, no -- tim wanted some help with his charity effort, so we put something together quickly.

otherwise, we use analytics, split testing and surveying all the time to drive business decisions, like what policies to set, what features to prioritize, content for landing pages/signup/referral flows etc. of course, we also listen to feedback and our own product intuition -- hard data is just one input.

sean ellis also helped us a lot -- see http://startup-marketing.com -- and i like dave mcclure's "aarrr" model (google it)
I have an asian mom and a jewish dad, and they don't mind if I go the "alternative" route and start a company. They don't mind if I never work for a company. In fact, they encourage that I follow my entrepreneurial instincts.

But only as long as I get my college degree. Having a degree would be the one thing that validates my (minimal) intelligence.
This is pretty interesting, not as buggy as the other mashups I've seen that use Google Maps.
I see a lot of talent getting wasted in the name of FriendFeed. I believe Paul is much more capable of building a billion dollar business :) I hope friendfeed succeeds !!
YC does look at all the applications. PG has said that the majority of the apps come in in the last day/half-day and that they have accepted people who have applied then.
I would really hope that the success of the Life Scientists does afford us some consideration, but doesn't that mean that the Persian Friendfeed community gets a couple seats? ;-)

I get the feeling(with the faces instead of service icons, and the tweetbox) that they've decided they want to be more new user friendly, which is a direction exactly opposed to the needs of existing technically-minded users.
LOL reminds me of senior year in high school.

But seriously -- your source of funding doesn't identify you, the college you attend doesn't identify you, and they shouldn't.
now I want to know why I've been marked down? I think it's a good way to look at it. my application is too far down in the pile, nothing personal, I don't think mine was worse, it just never got reviewed because there are too many applicants farther up on the stack who were just as good that there was no need to get to mine.
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Haha, please be as harsh as you originally meant to be, I know what you mean.

I find any money hard to accept, stranger or not. To me, applying to YC (and all the possible consequences) was a harder decision than the decision to not accept friends/family money because it is from "strangers", and that's money I typically find hardest to accept.

However, while in a way preexisting relationships can be helpful, sometimes they can be a negative. I have lots of friends but not many that can honestly afford to chip in anywhere near that much (we're all entering that phase of student loans and new families). I have family but they usually want extortionate shares or interest in exchange (think like half of revenue for chipping in $20k at the beginning), plus the whole time provide the massive emotional burden of "you're a failure to this family if you don't succeed wildly". So given the alternatives, I'd prefer a more impartial stranger or group of strangers that don't do something like that, that can provide me with more than just money and a lot of international nagging.

That being said, I'd be stupid to think that $10k is a big issue. It's not, I hope it never comes to that, and I never have thought it to be at any point...in fact, this topic is the first time I even considered the idea of $10k or even $20k being a big issue, and I had to laugh at it. I have more than that in my savings alone, and although I like to have a little financial cushion at all times, I would consider using most of it for the startup if need be. It's just not money I can easily part with for the sake of working fulltime on the startup during the summer when the original pre-ycombinator plan was to do that anyway, just with some low maintenance/effort contract work on the side at the same time to take care of the small bills and inevitable money we'll need anyway.
> how did you break out of this (and deal with the opinions of parents / culture you were raised in) to pursue your startups?

I broke out of this by not giving a flying fuck what my parents thought and dealing with the consequences of my own actions.

It's really not any more complicated than that. You either man up from an early age or you remain a pussy your entire life.
Good question. As a tangent to this question I'm a white parent with a Chinese (as in from China, not American) wife who has her PhD. and is as hard working and focused as you might imagine so we sort of split the middle with our kids (her being the stricter one and me being the more relaxed one). We are still pretty much in agreement on raising them, it's just that my yang balances out her yin (heh), so to speak. Seems to work pretty well in that they do extremely well in school but are also socially happy and well adjusted.

More to your question, we know quite a few Chinese couples (pretty much all of the ones we know, in fact) who seem more like the parents you are describing. I think it would be a tough situation to deal with, as a kid.
True, and I wouldn't recommend leading with "YC reject" if you're courting an investor or customer.

But teams asking for help/feedback from peers, here, benefit by demonstrating earnestness and tenacity. They don't have to impress by selective disclosure. Acknowledging, without obsessing over, the prior YC rejection at the same time as releasing other positive news heightens the emotional impact of that news.

Founding myths often highlight the many rejections that had to be overcome. For a team that's really on a mission, it's never too early to start sending the message: nothing stops us.
That's the issue at the core - there's a group who love the info-rich stream and have come to depend on it, but their needs are directly opposed to that of new or casual users.
You are right. I am an international student in US. So, to work in a startup, it is actually harder(visa, etc). I still remembered that (few days back) when I told my dad that I am putting my school on hold for my startup, he supported what I am going to do without any hesitation at all. So, now, I have nothing to worry at all anymore. Try to speak out and convince them.
Not necessarily. The core of twitter allows anyone to "follow" anyone else. Whereas for facebook, you need to first become a friend of that person before you start getting updates. People on twitter easily have thousands of followers even though most of those aren't "real" friends. You could probably do that with facebook, but it would defeat the purpose of having friends & family on there if 95% of your friends were random people on the internet that just wanted to follow your status updates.