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The 17k for 7% is what always stopped me from considering the Y Combinator route. It's a huge chunk of your company for not very much money. If the new deal had been in place when we started, I think we would have been very tempted to join.

The real benefits of YC though are the focus it brings you, and being able to get access to the YC ecosystem. Oh, and being able to attend Demo Day, but with so many companies in the YC program, I think Demo Day isn't what it used to be (I think you get 90 seconds now?).

We would have loved to have had access to those resources, but since we had already invested far more into our company in terms of cash, it's hard to justify giving up that much equity for so little. Kudos to Sam for the new program.
> it is kind of obvious that a compiled language is going to be faster than an interpreted one

While it may be obvious, the interesting question is why exactly. There's been a good presentation from Alex Gaynor [0] on this topic. TL;DR: Dynamic languages ar slow not because they can't be optimized, but because developers make a worse use of memory and have sucky algorithms, inducing way more mem allocation and copy than needed. If you can be smart about those, then your dynamic language can match static languages.

[0] https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-...
Bookmarked! On first read I came as far as the unsafe ring buffer. It seems very relevant to a problem I'm having. http://stackoverflow.com/q/23128715/183662
More likely a Rocky reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_distance_(boxing)

;-)
Couldn't get it to work on:
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Also for:
http://www.wsoddata.com/clients/8bec9b10/ads/300x250_static/...
It can't get the top-right text correctly

Awesome tech though
Thank you very much for those links. In particular, the Stroustrup book looks phenomenal at less than $20 used for a dead tree version.
Alternately, if your company is worth less than $1.7M then YC won't invest?
Now the NSA will be reading the contents of your animated GIFs.
Most are (easily > 90%), so why aren't a majority of the seats determined this way? With a quick glance of last year's sessions, I don't see anything that's design focused. Maybe technical designers who also do a bit of prototyping and developing would benefit, but that's a developer-centric role, it's a lot more than design anyway, and I'd expect such a person to be able to complete a simple programming challenge.

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions
As for the core C++ language, rvalue references, lambdas and variadic templates are probably the biggest additions.

Lambdas and variadic templates are optional, but you need to be aware of rvalue references and move semantics, which enable optimizations previously unavailable. If you write functions for which it might be advantageous to move values rather than copy them, such as transferring ownership of dynamically allocated memory from one instance of a class to another, then you should consider using rvalue references.
That's exactly what the DoD created Ada for. Unfortunately, programmers that know Ada seem to be in short supply.
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Please include me in the mailing list as well.
I think some of it may simply be that hanging out is with strangers is not a way most people want to meet people. Meeting at events or places where simply by being there you have a mutual interest is more attractive for many.
Sam: Time to update the 'New Deal' on the home page. It still mentions the 'Old Deal'.
I was once at a company where the VP asked me for an introduction to someone and I said "how do I know that he'll be treated better than the prior 2 people I referred to the company" and I got a thundering silence in return.

I guess it bothered me more than I thought since I still think of it today.
YC is meant for very early stages (with an idea and not much else). Stripe wasn't worth much when it was just an idea--a better payment gateway--but is now worth a lot because they executed. YC wants to help teams better execute and starts things off with enough money to let the team live in the Bay area for a short time.
Been using gitlab for solo dev at work and at home for everything that needs tracking, not only coding. Like you, attempted an install and gave up and used bitnami in the end. The only disadvantage is that the bitnami installers are a few point releases behind.
I'm at a school. We've got hardware for VMs but zero budget. I was/am tasked with getting a basic Git server up-and-running, and GitLab hit the necessary points of (a) running on a Linux VM (b) having a GUI for Git and (c) being free.

I could see us using GitHub further down the road after we get some best practices in place and start using Git more, but for the time being GitLab is an excellent way to test the waters, especially since the GitHub Windows and Mac apps will work with an arbitrary 'origin' URL.
The opening comments about the Federal Reserve trying to inflate US debt out of existence caused me to stop reading, as it was immediately obvious that the author didn't understand economics.
Sorry, I should have said "pseudo-anonymous". At least in Secret, I can see how many degrees of separation I am to someone via our phone address book. I've since edited the original post.

It's anonymous enough that you don't feel the consequences of making a FB status update that no one comments on, but with enough identity to not be creepy.
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I should've mentioned earlier that I've run across that and found it not really suitable for my purposes; I have close to a hundred gigabytes of music, much of which is not properly tagged so that "Shuffle (albums)" does what I want. It's also not broken down into directories by piece (a lot of it's in FLAC/CUE-per-album format, and one album usually contains several pieces), so "Shuffle (directories)" wouldn't work either.

I appreciate you taking the time to mention it, though, all the same.

Edit in re: to your edit: True, but even so, I can't see a way of making that work that doesn't involve many hours of manual tagging effort, which is something I'm sort of trying to avoid.
Some things grow (relatively) slow, some things grow faster. The important thing is to keep growing and not die.
Hey way to go Andrew! -Zach
Thanks for the hope! Less time to code is probably the piece of it I'm looking forward to the least.
It's rather easy to work around from the start if the company is really concerned about it.
Very Serious People need to find another way to threaten us with hyperinflation after their warnings for the last 5-ish years failed miserably.

So they take a real issue - a (very) plausible .com 2.0 in the works and spin it to their favorite topic.

Potential tech crash won't be good for the economy at all, but it will inflict damage by other mechanisms.
How, though? As discussed elsewhere in the thread, it doesn't seem as though "smart playlists" are quite that smart, and I'm not familiar enough with iTunes to make a guess as to how else it might be accomplished.
I'd also try Flippa. Don't be scared off by the high number of low-value listings; there are plenty of people there willing and able to buy real working businesses with a history of revenue.
What a moronic sensationalistic headline.
There's no audio until 11:15.
...or more specifically, if you CANNOT increase their valuation by more than 7% then they probably should be looking elsewhere, to someone who CAN increase their value substantially.
The thread from 2 years ago is still relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565140. I find that the podcast landscape has not changed since then.

I also like the a16z podcast. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z/id842818711?mt=2
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> Newsweek describes all the things Facebook could have bought with that money other than a messaging platform. Things like a passel of double-decker Airbus A380s, an aircraft carrier, or vaccinations for every child in the world.

You don't know how much 12bln$ worth of Facebook stock is worth until you try to sell it.
@Sama, is YC still encouraging founders to use SAFEs for their seed round or is that dead?
Actually discovery and serendipity are great features of services like Netflix and Spotify, but it's also perfectly easy to put up free content (e.g. pilots are often free) on iTunes or Amazon.
If all you need to do is inject Javascript into a webpage, you should be able to make a Firefox addon to do that in easily under an hour -- check out the SDK getting started guide at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/Ge...
If you're still using 10.5.x, this security update is actually not your biggest problem.
OK, Here it is: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/community-c-plus-plu...
Sorry, I just don't agree. 120k barely makes expenses for 1 FTE. Not only that, but it's also an amount of money that a strong freelancer can generate on top of living expenses in a particularly well-utilized year.
Oculus really is the wrong company to use to prove we're in a bubble. By most accounts, it's the first good implementation of a technology that we know is going to be huge in the future (see every scifi world ever). Of course it's a risky investment, but the potential payoff is undeniably huge
Ask HN: How much of the HBO Show "Silicon Valley" represents "reality"
Like the title says, how many of my LOLs are rooted in reality vs. complete bullshit. I really want to believe a "Hooli" exists, as well as a "Pied Piper". It seems they're pulling out all of the stereotypes/cliches from SV, but I'm curious how much they're getting right.
The point is that there's no place to flee to!

All oligarchs, all politicians, all countries are the same. This is prison planet, and nobody of memory has escaped yet ever.

(The fight against free energy is not so much as to keep the oil oligarchs powerful, as to prevent people to flee out of the planet).
Don't be pedantic, my point was clear and you obviously understood it.

As for the lessons of active record, says who?
The article justifies the correctness of "experimental fusion-power plant" by pointing to ITER. My objection is that ITER is not an experimental fusion-power plant.

While there are other contenders, I'll point out that link you gave says "full-size prototype reactor" and "Pumped through a heat exchanger, that hot lead will help generate steam just like a conventional thermal power plant". It does not say this is a power reactor, nor does it say if there will be net positive energy, nor if most of the energy for the steam will come from conventional power used to generate the plasma in the first place.

Asimov wrote "And [sic] experimental fusion-power plant or two will already exist in 2014". That's not going to exist by the end of this year. I call it a failed prediction.
I don't necessarily disagree, but of all the high valuations these days, Oculus strikes me as one of the least offensive. Nearly everyone who has used it has described it as potentially revolutionary. They have a huge lead on competitors, and I'm guessing they may have some patents on key innovations.

Whereas, companies like Snapchat...
As they made clear, YC is not necessarily out just to make a profit. (The investment in non-profits, for instance, is clearly not profit driven.) Sure, they'll make a profit, but that won't be the only driver.

Besides, at this stage, no company actually has a value. Companies have a probability distribution of possible values... and it's a very diffuse distribution.
Seems like the type of thing that you would have needed to consider pretty early in the architecture of the application. At least to be done elegantly. You'd probably need the ability to have track entries that are "faux" (not mapped from a media file) metadata track entries that the app understands and will spider out to the real files/tracks behind the scenes whenever encountered in a playlist or whatever play context.

That might not be trivial at this stage. But yeah, I agree, the trickiest part would be crafting an intuitive UI around the feature.
This statement contains no information.

Yes, at some point between now and the heat death of the universe, the stock prices of technology companies is very likely to go down. This is not only information-free, it's also not a contrarian opinion.
Why has this aritcle (124 points, in 1 hour) only 15th on HN?

Who is flagging this?

Vkontakte is larger than Facebook in Russia, and the CEO has to flee due to ugly pressure. This isn't germane technology news?
Of course I read it. I just consider hacking into something to be a different sort of activity vs. crawling and doing what Google likely intended.

"Hacked into it" to me implies someone circumvented the server that was able to determine which codes were still and open and just took them, not writing a crawler.

You didn't even need to write a crawler - you could wget -r the android dev docs and grep through for goo.gl and try them all.
One of the rules for the heuristic for what images to ignore is that it needs to have over 19,000 square px, and that first image was a bit under that.
The Quest for Randomness
Apparently not affecting 10.7 and earlier either.
Me again. I committed a serious spelling error. The Actual phrase is the "right to be LET alone."
This is actually quite explicit in the Fourth Amendment. Privacy was not "invented" by the Supremes. As far as citation, here is a list: http://law.justia.com/lawsearch?query=%22right%20to%20be%20l.... As I said, this is commonly quoted phrase. I stand by my original comment, with the change of one word.
Are you familiar with Apollo 13's pogo oscillation? Money quote:

"The engine shutdown was determined to be caused by severe pogo oscillations measured at a strength of 68 g and a frequency of 16 hertz, flexing the thrust frame by 3 inches (76 mm)."

It was this close to ripping the whole rocket apart, but it managed to withstand some incredible shaking until the engine shut down.
Except for the fact there are no 'interpreted' or 'compiled' languages. What we have are implementations.

This is not merely nitpicking. Any turing-complete language can be interpreted or compiled. Language specs tend to make one side easier, but that doesn't mean that Python cannot be compiled (and it is actually compiled to bytecode). You can have something similar to a GIL in a compiled language too.

One of the things that makes it easier to increase performance is having type declarations. This makes it much easier for the compiler to reason about the code, which can lead to increased efficiency. But optional type annotations can accomplish just as much.
Indeed. Coupled with "Dash" I have a lot of documentation at my finger tips...
My company has a pretty aggressive in pool referral program. $2,500 dollars for any low to mid level employee who stays three months and $5,000 grand for any high level employee who stays three months. Recently they threw some fuel on the fire and started e-mailing to remind us which roles were open, and started having an employee to hire of the month program. Finally they've added in things like any referrel which even comes in for an interview gets you entered into a monthly drawing for an iPad.

My only problem is I have no network! I don't have a facebook. I constantly prune numbers from my phone if I don't talk to people. I'm not a loner, it's just I have four or five really good friends I keep in contact with, and I a bunch of friends in the area where I live.

But shit, if I couldn't use a couple grand! A free semester at grad school. Security for my new apartment. A 4k display and keyboard for my new laptop to make doing school work even more enjoyable.

So I guess, if anyone in the NYC area needs a job ;-)
Mark Andreesson, Chris Dixon, and Benedict Evans discuss tech valuations on the most recent A16Z podcast: http://a16z.com/2014/04/21/a16z-podcast-evaluating-valuation...

(Spoiler alert - none of them think there is a tech bubble, at least not broadly)
These are small business sites, not content oriented sites (blogs, news sites, etc). If even 8 new people see your site per month and half turn into customers - that's not bad. Talking about a daycare, a tutor, a hardware shop, etc.
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Echoed from other places - but doing YC shouldn't be about the money or percentage ownership.

Yes, one day you'll look at the cap table and say, "man it would be great to have that x% to give to employees" - but very likely you're company will be in a dramatically different place progress-wise and valuation-wise, so it's a major net-gain.

Companies come into YC with nothing but wireframes and companies come in with six digit revenues. Both will exit dramatically further along, hyper-focused, and with higher valuations (in my experience). Companies that are unicorns or growing like crazy or have crazy utility get even higher valuations, and it all works out pretty well.

IMO standard deal makes things incredible simple and easy on the front end, without the massive majority of potential pitfalls (signaling, jealousy, negotiating time, etc)
The mind readers
Sure, its mostly opinion. But the paragraph starting with "Facebook’s two-year chart shows that..." has substance.
I can only conclude they do that or something like it, based on the following observations:

1. When I stream MP3 content unencrypted from home to any other location, everything works well for up to the first half hour or so, and then packets start coming through so slowly as to result in about five seconds of buffering per second of music played. Once this starts to happen, I'm similarly unable to access, due to timeouts, any of the other services I host from home for my own use. If I stop MP3 playback and wait a couple of hours, the problem clears up, but only until I start streaming music again.

2. When I stream Ogg or FLAC content unencrypted &c., &c., I always get smooth playback for as long as I care to use it, and all my other home services work fine.

3. When I stream MP3 content via HTTPS &c., &c., I always get smooth playback for as long as I care to use it, and all my other home services work fine.

Of further note: All the locations from which I've observed this problem offer sufficient downstream bandwidth to support streaming of 320Kbps CBR MP3 files, as indicated both by the fact that doing so over HTTPS works fine, and that streaming FLAC at much higher bitrates also works fine. I used to stream MP3 (but not FLAC) over Verizon DSL, which had barely enough upstream bandwidth to support it (and not enough for FLAC), and never had this sort of problem. The only variables in the admittedly informal tests I've run have been transport encryption and content encoding; in particular, all the content, regardless of format, comes from the same hardware, through the same HTTP server, across the same path through my local network.

I suppose these observations might plausibly lead to some conclusion other than the one I've drawn, but I don't see how; if you do, I'd like to hear about it.
IRC! Usenet! BBSes!

The last era of the net (since 2004) a lot of stuff went full real names, after facebook made it ok to put your name on the internet.

We've started (re) discovering ways to connect which are less about real names.
What does it mean for a startup to be non-profit? When YC and Teespring each invest 50k into a non-profit, do they expect a return on investment? or is it purely a donation?
So far my idea is that this would be exposed in the album view in the library - you could show line segments connecting songs which have been "grouped". This would make the state obvious and also provide a convenient way to multiselect and toggle grouping. Also when a song comes up solo (perhaps because the user chose to do so) since there is no where to draw a line segment to it would simply have a dot in a predictable location to indicate that it is missing its sister track.
> use visual studio on mac

If only :(
It definitely depends. If we're talking about standardized interviews, in Q&A format, it's not too much work. If we're talking 10,000+-word, deep, New Yorker- or Atlantic-length articles, it's a lot of work. One of those every month is an aggressive cadence for anyone not doing this full time. Writing in-depth stories like those is very research-intensive, travel-dependent, and analytically taxing.

I would guess (?) that they're aiming for a medium in between those two extremes. But even still, bandwidth can be an issue. If you're doing primary discovery, primary research, and primary analysis, you're going to have to commit significant effort to produce something really good every month.

In general, we as readers tend to underestimate (and undervalue) the effort involved in primary research and investigation. Some of what we read in feature-length magazine articles involved hundreds of hours of primary research or experience.
Why the ABC v Aereo case matters – and why it doesn’t
How do YC nonprofits work?
What is the business model for sustainability for the typical YC nonprofit?
Evolution of handling Null references
A nice combination of lo-tec and hi-tec. I find it is a key element that the "bots" are primitive, and thus cheap to create when needed in masses.

The little "bots" are apparently capable of 3 degrees of freedom movement (move on a surface and rotation). Microstructures that are too complex or otherwise unsuitable for conventional 3D printing could be built economically with a pipelined and parallel bot army.

And going smaller, it is imaginable that this principle can be made to work on nano-scales.
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YASA?
Sure - I actually gave a talk last year on this exact topic. There's an audio recording somewhere, but here's the repository for the slides (which contains a link to the PDF): https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/go-for-pythonists
Sure, the party will end, but how the heck is that going to turn into consumer goods inflation? What "trust" is he ranting about? How is AirBnB going to make chicken unaffordable?
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Oculus does have a real, physical, available product - I've used one personally that my friend bought (albeit through the kickstarter page). There are definitely people who are interested and it actually worked relatively well. Maybe it won't catch on, but I don't think it's absurd like many other tech start ups.

Plus, they weren't bought for $2 billion. They were bought for $400 million in cash and the $1.6 billion in FB stock which is quite a different thing. If you believe that FB is overpriced, then they were really bought for a lot less than $2 billion.
Typo fixed :) (which now makes this comment make nos sense. I agree Visual Studio is better than Xcode).
Got a Mac? Open terminal and type: say "Around the world around the world."
Ask HN: How old is too old to pivot?
I've always felt like a programmer trapped in a businessman's body. How old do you find/feel is too old to jump into coding (which I've dabbled in since roughly 2000), maybe take a code bootcamp (that particular Ask HN inspired this) and try to transition to full-on developer?
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hey sam - is it 7% of common stock or preferred?
I was just looking for something like this, and this looked great, until ...

What system changes does Safe make at installation?

Enable pagefile/swap encryption
Disabling hibernate mode

I don't need or want this. I want my desktop to hibernate and I don't need the swap file encryption. My use case is JUST encrypting files as they sit on a cloud storage provider. If I wanted that type of protection I'd already be using full disk encryption on my desktop.

Are the system changes optional or do they have to be enabled to use Safe?