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Our YC application was turned down, and that's a good thing
So, I get an email about an hour ago that our application for YC this year has been unsuccessful. It sure hurt but then again it was just the right motivation that I was looking for.

This is my reply to that email from YC:

"Thank you for writing in :) Although, it is a bummer that we didn’t get in, I look forward to emailing you about all the amazing growth we’ll soon have!

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for everything that you, Paul, Jessica and the entire YCombinator ecosystem is doing for entrepreneurs everywhere. It’s given me so much hope to look beyond the prognostications laid down by trade pundits and do something amazing that my users truly want.

As Marianne Williamson said, “most of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars.” We’re looking up and look forward to meeting you all someday.

Warmest regards,

Bala"

I've decided to pack my bags and move to the Bay Area (California) and focus on two things on the product that one of the YC Alums has been telling me all along:

1) Listen to my users more through active feedback.
2) Focus on one metric that I wish to grow for the product and do EVERYTHING to grow that on the product.

Honestly, we've been too distracted by people telling us that we could give our product away for enterprise (and we did) when we haven't perfected out product yet.

This has opened my eyes to what I've been doing wrong and I sincerely thank the world for it.

I hope to be able to share the product with all very soon.
A fax machine can be HIPAA compliant, with your personal info just sitting in the output tray for anyone to take.

(and that is how many doctors transfer your info around)

HIPAA doesn't mean anything in reality, it is just a false sense of security.
Please dont go down this route it leaves bad taste.

Any site which segregates its users, oppreses those non-paying, poor people, isnt attractive at least in my book.

An alternative is to do like reddit, offer pay-for-services in exchange for something more, not take away functionality from those poor users to force some kind of payments.
maybe east coast should hold a party.
Show HN: No YC interview, but here's my application
GazeHub platform has two side:
1) Users who want analytics, they just add the code to their website and see results.
2) Users that already has real eye tracker, The data will be collected from this group.
Yes, we got 7 views spread over 5 days that were probably all from YC reviewers (embedded player). They watched an average of just over 1 minute of the video which was just under 2 minutes long. We were not invited to the interview.

There was some very cool discussion at the end of the video and I'm guessing none of them saw it. Elsewhere in this thread is the speculation that high views = application that was on the fence and I guess I take comfort in that.

Anyway, if we were to apply in the future I'd ensure we had a shorter video. On the other hand, we were highly unusual candidates so it's possible we were just a bad match.
This is the core concept of organizing the world's information. If you think otherwise, you don't realize that the majority of the world's information is held by individuals for brief periods of time and specific to its application. The generalized consensus has already been archived, but insights into emergent things that come up in life have not. Connecting people with each other to give advice about situations that can't be predicted but can be categorized is the next step.
I think 13 is being a little generous, I counted one.
This is hand waving month or something. Oh this just so cute but honestly when you are ready to be serious and deal with complex things and not GUI for "Grandma" then you will see this is little more than a vague performance of day dreaming. The only way for the to come to fruition some sort of strong AI, even then ... Show some non trivial examples, not this HTML GUI stuff.
I think the HIPAA comment is likely referring to users being able to talk to healthcare professionals. I very much doubt that line was talking about surgeons, etc. asking for advice.
People do it, although there are more elegant (and honest) means of squeezing space. I summarized some of them after having to do a drastic cut of a proposal at the last minute: http://bellm.org/blog/2013/02/24/making-space-in-latex-docum...
(once upon a time I worked at a company that did health claim processing, so I had the standard course of HIPAA training, though this was about ten years ago)

I think you may be overestimating what the HIPAA privacy rule does. First of all, there are some automatic exceptions to the privacy rule, which allow information to be disclosed without requiring the patient's authorization.

One is an exception for law enforcement; we would occasionally get LEOs contacting us, and we had people to forward that to, who would make sure that they came with valid warrants/court orders/etc. to get the information.

The other is the broad "TPO" exception: that's Treatment, Payment and Operations. Which means your doctor can share information with other medical personnel, for example, and disclose details to your insurance company, and so on.

Finally, anyone else can get access so long as the patient has provided a written authorization to allow it. And generally anyone who's smart is going to get that authorization up-front.

HIPAA also defines the scope of "Protected Health Information", which is essentially individually-identifiable information relating to a person's past/present/future health, health care they have received/are receiving/will receive, and related payment information.

Now, I don't know offhand what exactly Google intends this service to do, or what steps they've taken to achieve compliance, but I don't see it as being particularly difficult to achieve.

I would be pretty upset if my physician discusses my diseases using Google.

Your physician likely already uses the internet, the telephone system and regular old snail mail to transmit/discuss information about patients, including you. Do you trust any of those more than you trust Google?
This wasn't about Reader specifically. Google has shutdown a lot of products. The latest being Google Checkout, which makes people nervous of building their business on Google's software. Since this service is paid, I could be netting a lot of money through it, only for it to fizzle out.
Speaking as someone who lived through that period of time, I think anyone using Win9x would scream.
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/pricing/ (scroll down a bit) has the pricing, they start at $0.68/hr for 15GB of ram, 40gb ssd system disk, 150gb ssd data disk and 4 vcpus. Significantly cheaper (however with lower specs) than the cheapest Amazon offering with an SSD ($3.10/hr I believe).
The first thing I thought when I read that was "they launch this after they shut down stuff like Google Reader".

I guess it's all about making money now for google. If something is profitable it has to go :(
First post I've read on HN today and here are the summarized talking points of commenters:

1. Oh noes, they are celebrating their acquisition with users. That jerks!

2. Small startups are like Google products -- prone to be discontinued or acquired and closed. Beware!

3. They failed their users and their business model is a failure. Failue!

4. "What is sold?", "meh", "puns".

I love HN technical discussions but startup or business threads? So much negativity... Thats enogh HN for me for today.

Congratulations to Sold team!
I seriously love this and am already making some commands for personal use :)

However is there currently a way to pass parameters to a command? Right now I'm using window.prompt() to get user input. It'd be nice if I could enter something like 'mycommand:parameter1,parameter2'. Maybe an excuse to fork the repo...

Great work though!

EDIT I had only been using the extension on backtick.io before, but when I use it on other pages the console does not appear. This appears to be a problem with the CSS - when I inspect element on the page I can see that the HTML has rendered. By default opacity is set to 0 on the #console div - setting it to 1 fixes the problem.
Well here's our project that didn't get accepted: http://pplrep.com
Its not like NASA scientists don't have their rituals too. The Russians, as well, have a history of sticking to their superstitious habits also.

Science doesn't mean you have to be an emotion-less robot.
Because Firebase has a well written and documented API The best advantage of Firebase is it's realtime and it's blazing fast. You can create collaborative apps without worrying the backend.
I don't want to change the topic, however it's a great tip. Firebase should be used for more complex things.
I think regardless of the actual security HIPAA brings, it's a very good thing so that interesting services like remote psychotherapy can be performed without doctors risking themselves from a regulatory perspective.
Hi,
Yes, we know them but they use web came for eye tracking and that has been always problem with those ideas. There are many like gazehawk but recording eye movement with normal web came is always a problem
Bram usually takes segfauls very seriously and usually fixes them very fast:
> Scrolling in a c file segfaults: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/teRV3RyDtzc
Obviously not a Vim problem, as has been mentionend in the linked thread.

>Referencing an old buffer seg faults: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/Mssm8pKtnGM
Fixed with 7.4.59. It is pretty clear, this is a problem, but I wonder how to reproduce it, because I have never seen it crash there when closing buffers. So there must be some additional step to trigger it, otherwise we would have seen a lot more segfaults.

> Segfault opening a readme: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/SE31YUccJN4

probably caused by the new regexp-engine, that was introduced with 7.4 I am not entirely happy about including it and there seem to be still several bugs in it, but it is not even clear, if that crash has not already been fixed.

> Segfault selecting a lot of text: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/yzVqZ3qogho
A recurring issue, that seems to happen to me too once in a while. Nobody knows what the cause is so, it can't be fixed currently. Seem to be not a problem of Vim, but of some of the X libraries.

> Segfault on autocompletion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/lqcn57eRGGs
might have already been fixed. The reporter does not mentioned, how to reproduce it or even what version he uses.

> Segfault on tab switching: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/Vc9Z8rfe22w
Not exactly sure, what causes this.

> Just keep scrolling, the segfaults never stop.
It's not as bad as you make it sound. Usually segfaults are taken seriously by Bram and will be fixed soon, if the problem is clear. Second, even in your list, you needed to scroll back a couple of months. I wouldn't call that exactly an evidence, that Vim is full of segfaults.

Even though the code is a mess, full of nested ifdefs and uses a lot of global state variables, I have not often seen segfaults and I have been providing many patches in the last years and there are still many patches of mine in the todo list.
Overall I am quite happy, with a Vi clone that is actively maintained and even further developed, although sometimes I wish for some more activities in fixing bugs and adding features. But Bram seems to be too busy to take a more active role.
How do you solve it?
Congratulations Google, you just re-invented IRC.
I'm not seeing any spinninng @'s, laughing babies or "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" gifs either.

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&mu...

Ahh, that's better.
I disagree with the premise that these are signs of doomed teams. All teams show these "sins" to some degree. Successful teams make them a virtue.

It seems to me that the post is not well thought out in its premise or conclusion.
This is a bit of a shame, Sold seemed like a good idea - I have some stuff I'd like to get rid of, but don't want to spend much time setting up the listing etc.

I didn't actually use them because they hadn't branched out into the product category (PC Hardware) that I would have used them for.
wouldn't touch rackspace with a stick. We tried them for 6 months - particularly because we weren't price sensitive and wanted the "fanatic service" they promised. The service however is terrible bordering on non-existant. Digital Ocean or Linode on the other hand - price + service I'm happy with!
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/vim_dev/kans/vim_....

[...]

This has been acknowledged and even patched as you surely know. So what are you complaining about exactly?
Interesting product. As others have pointed out, there are a number of similar services, many of them vertically-focused.

Google says it's starting small, but Helpouts is already quite broad. Covering lots of subjects won't be such a problem if Google leverages search and YouTube to promote relevant providers, but I'm not sure it will.
Oh please. What is with the echo chamber's fixation on user reviews? You have mostly self-selected bimodal distributions that are made worse by the review system being gamed in unintended ways. The other day there was an article on an AirBnB seller not giving bad reviews out of fear of retaliation.
What was your startup?
HIPAA means a little more than that. I spent years as a pharmacy technician and can attest to all the shredding, blacking out of names, etc. Disclosing PHI (Personal Health Information) without a reasonable need for it was a very serious offense. HIPAA also forces providers to give you access to all of the PHI related to you that they maintain. Obviously HIPAA doesn't solve patient privacy entirely, as in your fax tray example, but I like to think it does help.
What about the chicken and egg problem?
"So much wrong, I don't know where to start."

There is nothing what so ever with that post.

It says "Now compare..." It is an instruction. You just followed it. So you proved that the post has nothing wrong with it.
It is not as bad as you make it sound. We are currently seeing many segfaults because of the release of 7.4 and its inclusion of a new regexp engine. Other then that, there are not more segfaults then usually, which is not that bad.
Oh, that's a new level of VVS.
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On the flipside: I once worked for a major games vendor (won't say who) and had this terrible experience - worked 60hour-weeks 5 in a row, to get the online multiplayer backend running and able to support more than a few hundred users. Got it up, deployed, rolled out, in use.

Come in the next day, the CEO and all the head devs are crowed around the server console, watching the stats after release, this conversation happens, verbatim (I still remember every detail):

CEO: "Time for my favourite question - How long has the longest
player online been playing?"
HeadDev: "Lets see .. 12 hours since we launched, longest active
session is .. 11 hours, 45 minutes. No pause."
CEO: "HOORAY!! CELEBRATION! WE GOT OUR FIRST ADDICT!!!!"
HeadDev: "Yay!"
CEO: "Wait .. how old is he.. ?"
HeadDev: "Profile says: 12"
CEO: "YAY, he'll be with us for years!"
Me: "Isn't that a bit .. unhealthy .. for a 12 year old? Its summer,
schools out, the kid should be .. enjoying some weather?"
CEO: "We don't like that thinking here .. are you sure you
know who you work for?"

Oh well, that killed the games industry for me, well and good. Haven't logged on to a multiplayer game in 12 years.

TL;DR: The people behind the curtain do not have your best interests in minds, kidz ..
This is, to me, like an advertisement for the Amish lifestyle.
Bah, it's a soul sucking reason. I quite my microsoft job to go bum around in SE asia while my SO finishes her TOEFL master degree. My startups annual revenue is only like 60k and I have two developers, an assistant, content guy and a designer on the payroll part time but I'll take my 100k less a year salary out here versus doing boring crap back at Microsoft any day.
Why should PG be worrying about the cheap shots? At the end of the day, well done for raising this amount of money for a good charity. He could of sat on the couch watching a mind numbing tv show, but instead, he raised money for a charity offering children a very important stage early on in their lives. It would however indeed be TOTALLY AWESOME (!!) if PG also would organise a dinner for other kids, free of charge, that they can somehow win, but at the end of the day, this remains to be his choice.
interesting, we'll see if consumers pick this up. I personally just think it is somehow another way to funnel people into G+.

Sidenote: 71 indexed pages site:helpouts.google.com thusfar.
Still, it would make a difference in those people lives, even fighting corruption.

Corruption often comes hand-in-hand with poverty.

Speaking from experience as someone that has already traveled quite a bit around the world.
Aardvark was great at the time. I especially loved the integration with gmail, it made it very seamless to think about something and just drop a question in a couple of seconds. It's a shame they stopped it.
I'm actually pretty amazed with what my iPad and Android can render (considering the resolution/colors).

I raced cars and played footaball on the iPad. The experience is great.
Multi Screen Hell in Android
What's up with the n/a on your application?
Here in Sydney I use https://ninefold.com if I want something in a local legal jurisdiction...
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it is helping to make information universally accessible, which is part of the company's mission. lots of information cannot get organized yet because it's still contained inside people's minds. if you see each individual as an information source -- much like a website -- then helpouts is organizing the information by lumping the sources into well-defined categories and showing when that "information" is available as well as its quality.
About eye tracking in future: Things are changing it was hard to believe Kinect will find his way to every one house too.
Eye tracking getting so cheap and people are willing to buy them. It is not 10 years it time now:
- Eye trackers are already on the laptops (http://www.tobii.com/en/gaze-interaction/global/demo-room/co...)
- They are as cheap as 60 box (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/4tiitoo/nuia-eyecharm-ki...)
- They are as good as a high cost eye trackers (https://theeyetribe.com).
certain questions were not applicable - no cofounder, not incorporated yet, no other incubators, etc.
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إلا أنه قضى معظم حياته المهنية في الولايات المتحدة.
وكان من بين أعماله شعارات شيل وشعارات بي بي (BP) -
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The picture on this page answers my question: http://eclim.org/

VT100 embed is their third mode.
They should store a history of WHOIS data for the site's domain and make separate archives for when the owner changes, I think. Also, why did anyone think that applying robots.txt retroactively is a good idea? :/
Rejected as well; http://pivotal.ws
"If PS (or other system) makes your machine need a reboot, the problem isn't Photoshop" The system is provided, hardware, and all, by the manufacturer. The problem is both hardware and software. Flagship model too. GE.
Why You Should Probably Start Blogging
So what technologies is this using for streaming etc..
Wow that is truly retarded. I'm sorry but if anyone gave you money for that it should be money they never expect to get back.

I hate to be so hostile towards your idea but there is actually such a thing as a dumb idea and it's useful to point them out as such.
Didn't make it into YC? Tell us about your startup
Being NOT accepted into YC is not the end of the world. Please tell us about your startup.
This morphing table can create a virtual version of you in realtime
Our users with eye trackers are not genuine users that like to generating data. They will get benefit from using the eye tracker.
Ignoring everything else, now I have a young family I want to work somewhere that I can do awesome work, and still get home in time to read bedtime stories.

I can live without free sodas.

The obvious next step however is remote working for all - making free sodas a little redundant.
Don't Mistake Notoriety for Reputation
How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data
I think one founder is an automatic no at the amount of applications they have now, even if they say it maybe ok. I'd just check off all applications with one person and not have to worry about them.
How to fail a Startup Weekend
I think the problem with that is that everyone under the sun offers that same exact service.

Facebook does it, Dropbox does it, Google does it, Apple does it. There's nothing you can really do to usurp such entrenched and cohesive services who offer it as a part of their broader platform.

It's essentially a solved annoyance.
"...we haven't perfected out product yet."

You're aware that that won't ever happen, right? Focus on making it useful, then focus on selling it to people.
Discover how it feels like to quit your job and build a successful startup
How Julian Assange spent a summer coding in PostgreSQL
Empowering employees, trusting them, treating them well and fairly, observing their wishes and resolving conflicts proactively. Et cetera.
Judging by this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671131, I guess this is it: https://www.dailysitesnap.com/
Reader derangement syndrome strikes again. Summarizing the thread, if you're are an early adopter of anything, you run the risk it won't be here in a year. That's what we tolerate in the tech arena, start ups throwing lots of good and dumb ideas at the wall to see what sticks, evolution in action. How many people who built their business on Facebook's F8 platform went belly up due to changes?

Google is a company that is constantly experimenting with new products and services. Yes, some of them will fail. That's the cost of innovation. It's really sad we've forgotten that. Failure is an acceptable risk to move forward. If you're risk averse, leave the opportunity to others to jump in and place their bets if Helpouts is a winning platform for them.
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You can follow the live telecast of the launch:

http://isro.org/scripts/livewebcast-mars-orbiter.aspx

http://isro.org/scripts/livewebcast-marsorbiter.aspx

http://webcast.gov.in/live/

Text-only updates:
http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/c25-status.aspx
Monster Truck Madness 1 was a masterpiece, I remember it clearly! Never tried the 2 though
Why aren't Google, Microsoft or Apple interested in Buying BlackBerry? Blackberry should have quite some patents in the mobile space, no? It is sad if companies are bought just for that, but I'm wondering why the big players are not interested in it.
Wonderful.
"Excel as a database" more or less.
> The F-35A with aerial tanker support can meet Australia's requirements just fine.

I don't feel sufficiently expert to say if that's so, but I note that Air Power Australia vehemently disagrees with you.
I always stick a caching proxy in front of it rather than using it directly. ( Mine is actually public but doesn't come with an SLA)...
I like the project a lot.

Why do you think there was no YC interview? Any retrospection?
Was it due to you being the only founder? How strict is the video time limit? The video sounds not really geared for YC but for general audience. Also, did you have a friend go through the application? A lot of it sounds like bragging, which is not bad at all but can be abrasive after a bit.

I like the project a lot, and may you reach heights with it.