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I agree with the poster that shelling out $1500 for a 10 minute interview, and then basing a significant investment decision on that interview, does seem curious - but, as the poster said, they see hundreds of teams, and have done for a number of years now, so you'd think they would know almost instantly what they're looking for.

I've done a lot of technical interviews myself over the years, and, assuming I'm not pairing with a fellow interviewer who wants to spend 20 minutes outlining the history of the company and describing the role before actually asking any questions, I can usually tell within five minutes, and after really only a couple of carefully chosen questions pertinent to the problem domain, whether the person is likely to be someone I'd want to hire. (And, just like YC, I get it wrong sometimes. That's life.)

The tone of this piece sort of read to me as "I want to make it clear that I'm not complaining about the process, but I'm going to complain now anyway" - it seems like their observations were quite fair, adding a space to your product's name hardly seems important, and they were courteous and did actually give you feedback, which is probably more than you can hope for from many companies.
A good few steps for people looking for alternatives. You still have a proprietary radio chip in your phone though. That is where the bad stuff likely hides.

I guess you have to ask yourself - who are you competing with? Do you just not want to be used as an advertising product? Or are you hiding from the NSA?
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I think you're underestimating the Yoga explosion that has been happening recent few years. It's insane and certainly becoming very mainstream.
I think it's so big a niche that it doesn't qualify for the term niche.

It's one of the biggest industries around. Large mainstream magazines are centered around it. TV shows are centered around it.

Not that there aren't ways for individuals to make a lot of money of differentiating themselves.
[..]being said/posted on HN. Sorry, should have elaborated that sentence.
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Could this be a company culture thing at McAfee ?
Think beyond the work-safe examples and imagine forensic uses. Children being traffiked and abused in hotel rooms would be one example.
Hi everybody. This is the first IOS app we've built (a friend and i). A simple photo app to let users write text on the photo they selected. I know there are lots of these type of apps, many of them are way too better.
Our only intention was trying to build a minimum viable product. Titles are not in English but the photos do not need any explanation. (but we will add language support, it's on the road.) All the constructive comments-suggestions, even non constructive ones are welcome.
Any idea where we can keep a pulse/view on that other galaxy?
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A dermascope uses different wavelengths of light to get a picture of what's going on slightly below the skin as well as on its surface. This requires special lenses and lights, which I imagine are not used outside of this specific case, hence the cost.
I think the network neutrality debate is a lot wider than just "Don't shape traffic". It's about keeping the internet a dumb transport, and "smart" (what a misnomer) middleboxes very much go against that goal.

Of course, as part of my job, I manage several of these boxes. I flagged these concerns when they were bought, but was overruled. So I guess we're relying on the good graces of the vendor to update their software to support MPTCP and any future modifications, otherwise these boxes become expensive doorstops.
No SigmaVPN, because it's lacking support for a major platform out there.

Maybe tinc-vpn would be an option though.

No bonding on Android, since there's No App For That (at least I know of none?). Doing that in a terminal, on a phone, is really the last thing I'd like to play with.

Or did I misunderstand your second suggestion?
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bah... too much hasle. What do I have to hide anyways. I believe that we should be free and not monitored but at a second thought if you are really not doing anything to harm anyone I dont think NSA or any NSA will come after you.
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The idea seems legit ; however trying to reduce the number of lines of code by a "no skipped lines & no comments" policy is not helping the ease of modification, which seems to be one of the target.
Five Simple Steps has relaunched (great launch video)
I don't care about NSA or privacy. Is there still a reason for me to choose Replicate instead of CyanogenMod? I want my device to be fast.
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If you have to hide don't take a picture of where you are at.

Also don't check in on fb from that place ;)
My approach is different. I still use a completely Google tied Moto G with everything turned on. Hiding in plain sight (the grey man principle) is a better tactic.

If privacy is required, I leave the handset at home and get on my bike. There is no hiding unless you turn it all off.
The bulk of our user growth is due to viral loops we've built into things - we're pretty much getting each new user to successfully invite another at this point. Unlike Yelp, we're very "yoga-centric", and while Yelp is all the rage in San Francisco, that's not the case in the rest of the world... so we don't think that Yelp will be the place people will use to find their yoga, especially their yoga teachers. One persons 5 star is another's 1 star.

That's not to say we're neglecting SEO; we're working on strategies to get more search traffic (and in many places we're doing very well with that) and convert it into registered members. It's just not our main and only strategy.

But the real answer is: we're planning a feature (not there yet) that will solve a big pain point for millions of people (getting the schedule of their yoga teachers at a glance), and which will provide an even better viral loop (yogis inviting their teachers, and teachers using our site for their online presence).
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The exceptions to the rule are where the writer/star/director is aware of their own ridiculousness - see also Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I haven't seen The Room, but the ne plus ultra of that kind of self-indulgence for me is Garden State. 90 minutes of Zach Braff's daddy issues and romantic wish fulfilment - I've had better afternoons. (It amazes me that it picked up an audience more or less on the basis of having The Shins on the soundtrack.)

The Star Wars prequels fall into that category, even if Lucas isn't in them. Proves very well that he should be shot on sight if ever he approaches a typewriter again. Not a fanboy of the first films by any measure, but at least Lawrence Kasdan or whoever can string a couple of lines together. Left to his own devices, Lucas is capable only of bloated, soulless tech demos.
Sure, on a schedule. If a security patch comes out mid-day, it would be nice to be able to apply it without downtime.
The yoga community has been growing by 30% every 4 years for more than a decade.
It's woefully missing the mathematics curriculum that all the reference institutions [and any accredited US program] require. Four semesters includ8ng threeof calculus appears typical. CS programs in the US also require the two semester physics sequence where calculus must be applied.

Like any technical degree, understanding the maths is one area where the educated differentiate themselves from mere graduates. All those hours spent thinking mathematically and procedurally are useful. Comfort with ciphering is essential.
Speaking as devil's advocate, it might just be more convenient to steal the data.

Maybe I want to use your data casually once, and I don't want to sign up and give you all my contact details and subscribe to your annual plan with all the other optional extras.

Tough shit, you say? I'll just steal it then, and not because I can't afford it, but because you're making it hard to pay.
It's a neat name, but I wonder if rights holders to Monkey Island will ask for a change?
Strava to sell data to urban planners
The goal of the post seems to be a curriculum for Computer Science, the chapters 13 and 14 in the list seem to cover most of this. Though I would approach the matter quite differently depending on if I wanted to learn all the CS in a certain degree or all the CS needed/useful for practical Software Engineering.
I wonder if the iPhone 5s fingerprint scanner could be hacked to produce a rudimentary system it is meant to to involve 'subdermal scanning' according to the Apple marketing department.
As a small "experiment", I've been trying to use only free software for a while (firmware/driver blobs excluded) on my Nexus 7 (2012).

I can say that it's definitively doable, but it really depends on what one need. If what you need is a browser (Firefox), an email client (K9 & the standard KitKat client) and a Terminal (ConnectBot, Hacker's keyboard), then you won't miss the Play store at all. There are also some good clients for social/media consummation (Tinfoil for Facebook, Twidere, TT-RSS...).

If you need something more, then it's an hit or miss. For maps, OsmAnd+ is nice, but not nearly as good/user friendy as Google Maps. Forget about the latest/cool apps. Forget games, unless you want to emulate some console (and also, running closed games on top of an open emulator is "ethically right"?).

It gets better if you're a little more lenient. For example, I have some Humble Bundle games installed. Those come drm-free, and (usually) don't depend on the Google services. One can also get applications from the Play Store, and install just the .apk for it (I can't remember if one can buy applications with the web interface, or has to do it from the mobile store). In the end, the choice is "I want to avoid Google" or "I don't want proprietary applications on my phone". In the first case, there are many alternative stores (SlideMe, AndroidPit, Amazon...).

Another problem is that F-Droid is small, and doesn't even have all the (F)OSS applications available for Android. For many, the only way to get them is either the Play Store or compile the source. I'm not blaming the F-Droid project, they're doing a terrific work for their size, but it seems that there's little interest in a completely open store, even from the developers.

That said, I'm still running this setup, but I'm considering just giving up and installing the Play Store/Google services because after a while seeing new cool applications but not being able to try them is kinda painful.

On a side note, I haven't noticed any increase in battery life/speed of my device. So it seems that Google's applications aren't an huge battery/resource hog.
The good thing is that these parts are firmware, thus non-executable code.

What? Firmware is definitively executable, it just doesn't run on the CPU.

And besides, if you look at the list of proprietary files being copied, there are plenty of normal libraries: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_semc_iyokan/bl...
True - I hope I didn't come across as bitter, overall this was an awesome experience and the people at YC are amazing. I actually do think that they can probably tell if a startup is a good one or not in a matter of minutes.
I agree with what you're saying about having better recovery, but I think you need some balance between the two.

I'd rather look through a week's worth of changes to work out what borked the restart than two years worth!
What I would really like, is just to be able to install a bare-bones linux on my phone. Android (even Cyanogenmod) is just so limiting and 'user friendly' (i.e. as few configuration options as possible so as not to confuse the masses). I feel like I'm being hand-held by my hand-held.
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I always require privacy, and leaving my phone at home all the time is not a solution.
And what exactly has Matt proven? He is getting "confirmation" from their Ad side that everything is fine??! How stupid to believe that??!! Do i smell "sycophancy" here like some do as if Matt was some kind of God!! Ridiculous!
Ask HN: Where exactly does the .XYZ domain fit?
Ask HN: anyone have experience with Namerific or Brand Bucket?
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So it seems that Google's applications aren't an huge battery/resource hog.

Tried Google+? Just opening it by mistake (and immediately closing it) is enough to start glgps and kill my battery in a couple of hours, until I reboot.
Neither. Just better privacy that NSA special friends offer me.
The two are entirely incompatible.
| so you'd think they would know almost instantly what they're looking for.

What they are looking for is probably a subset of good startups, ie. your startup can be good but it's not what they are looking for.

To some extent it must be a statistics game for them. The investment they make flying founders out must have a good return for them in terms of potential investments. Since they have been doing it for a while now the numbers must be close to optimal.
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Nope. Privacy is not a black/white thing.
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I think Android will never be a 100% real free system but Firefox OS is the true open source and free system :)
Itunes_store
http://developer.ubuntu.com/start/ubuntu-for-devices/install...
Discussions of racism/discrimination are different in Europe than USA. Europe doesn't quite classify people by a small amount of 'races' (like white/black/etc.), instead using local ethnicities, which can get much more complex.
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Agreed.

I talked about this a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572937

Someone decided to ban all bots from accessing their site except for Google and Bing. So much for "if you're so worried about Google just use another search engine".
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In this case it is. Privacy is about control and unless you have absolute control you cannot guarantee any privacy at all. And you don't control your phone's operating system, the GSM module OS/firmware, the carrier, the client applications and even the radio signals.

What you want is an illusion of privacy. The two are vastly different.
Samsung but I didn't choose it and I barely use it relative to a Nexus tablet. it is a hand-me-down. when I chose, it was HTC (twice).
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Thanks for writing that. The first part was interesting, but the last part probably comes across as more bitter than you intended.

About YC's interview policies - it would be very interesting to do some kind of cutoff analysis (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2157932) and to see the difference between the companies that do make it in and those that do not. The problem is that making it into YC gives companies that are barely over the cutoff a huge boost (which is why you give them 7% of your company, afterall) so it would be very tricky to take that into account rigorously.
>including an expansive watch list capability,

I would avoid the word expansive. Too similar to expensive. Especially when emailing people who are not native English speakers.
The other thing Comcast don't seen to have realised is that they're making a long term bet they'll be bigger than Netflix with this strategy. If they're not, what's to stop Netflix saying a major reason the subscribers are buying Comcast's service is to access them, so why should Comcast keep all the subscription? It's no less logical.

Not a bet I'd want to make. Would you like being the ISP who only had limited access to all Google's websites because you wouldn't pay?
This is like saying there is no privacy for email so here I post my password on pastebin.

I control the software I run on my phone, so I have a better privacy. It's not perfect I know. But doing nothing because it's not perfect is the biggest illusion of all.
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Noderly: Is there such a thing as too basic monitoring?
We just launched noderly a hosted monitoring system.

Love to get some feedback we have getting to the point where we wanted a monitoring tool. We thing its stable enough and would really appreciate feedback from YC.

http://noderly.com
Since you work at Blekko, there are more points to discuss that were not addressed in the article.

For example:

i) Are search engines web scrapers?

ii) Should search engines pay the scraped sites if they are charging to access their indexed data? probably some of the scraped sites has a specific license forbidding the search engine to sell their information in any way.

iii) Regarding Internet policies, is it fair/unfair that a site has a robots.txt configuration to avoid being indexed by a search engine other than Google? I would call this "search neutrality".
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And what's more - modem often has full access to the main RAM without CPU control. It has the ability to read or even manipulate every bit of any executable or data you run on CPU without you knowing anything about it. And even if someone doesn't care about NSA and stuff, modem firmwares are often ridiculously buggy and easy to exploit, so go figure...

While producing free radio chip is practically impossible due to both economical and legal reasons (the closest you can get to it is OsmocomBB running on old 2G TI Calypso modem, and the only reason it exists is that TI Calypso has mysteriously disabled checking of firmware signature even thought the functionality for it is present...), there are devices that mitigate the risks by connecting the modem as a "slave" (for instance via USB - this might impact the performance and battery life, as CPU is busy copying data from/to the modem, but it's way more safe than DMA access) or even implement "modem firewalls" that monitor any modem activity and alarm if it does something when it wasn't supposed to do it. Neo900 (http://neo900.org/) is such project and soon there should be a longer article about this modem firewall solution published.
Do they all own the same amounts of equity in the company, as well? Or, in the case of a sale someday, do two of those guys get rich and the others find themselves having worked for lower-than-average salary for all those years in the name of "fairness to all".
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Something needs to pay the bills. If a PHP project takes longer to complete (I'm not saying it does), is harder to maintain, etc than an equivalent project written in another language, then you will simply be less productive in PHP.

This is the case for any language. No matter how much you enjoy something, if a design choice you made (like choosing PHP, or Perl, or C++) means that you spend more of your time on the project, you've made a mistake. The purpose of a language is to remove as much of the incidental complexity of the project as possible, leaving only the (more enjoyable) intrinsic complexity.
It would be interesting to see if some folks are going to switch from KDE to LXQt.
Here's a link to the actual parody: http://google-nest.org/
But you still don't know what modifications a vendor made to original source code.
I'm confused. Are you saying that Git is more or less mainstream than Yoga? If more, then woa you're filter bubbled.
Writing to U.S. telecom regulators and notifying the press about them _is_ lobbying. These letters do not write themselves so resources _are_ being spent. Not all "lobbying" takes the form of bribing congressmen.
Interesting, never thought about that. Cost of doing business I guess, keeping users on your platform by making it another purchase option available.
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That's why there are devices like Neo900, where technically you're a software vendor - just like on your PC.
Why do round avatars look better than square avatars?
There is nothing inadvertent here.
Thanks for writing this. A small feedback: "The power of transformation over APIs... without the hassle." does not really convey what you do to a potential customer. People have very short attention spans and you have only a few seconds at most to convey what your service does. Most people will not scroll down to read more otherwise.
I've done that, but it doesn't cover all the things that are buttons.
In case anyone is turned off by the expectation of wishy-washy flim-flam, it's worth noting that Graham Priest may be a professor of philosophy, but is most well known for his work in logic, particularly in non-standard logics (i.e. not propositional or predicate logic) that allow non-boolean truth values, or weaken or remove some of the axioms of classical logic.

I assume that what's relevant here will be his work on paraconsistent logics (which allow contradictions) but I think an equally interesting line of work is linear logics. It's of interest to computer scientists because of its relationship to linear type theory (in the same way that the Curry-Howard correspondence links type theory and classical logic) and because it has close relationships with quantum computing.

In particular, you are not allowed to delete or duplicate elements/propositions/types (corresponding to physical processes that cannot arbitrarily create or destroy particles, the "no deletion theorem" and "no cloning theorem" of quantum information theory), so functions of the type

duplicate :: a -> (a, a)

and

delete :: a -> ()

are not allowed in a linear type system. Practically, this means that many operations can be optimized by the compiler to in-place mutations, because it is guaranteed that there is only ever one reference to a particular object.
German lawmakers want to interview Snowden
Possibly more interesting:

Research shows eye-reflections in photos could be used to identify criminals:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/29/eye-reflections-catch-cri...
That!! I now completely disable Google+ and advice all my friends to do the same. I actually enjoyed some of its features like automatic Photos Backup.

But then I would find out my phone's battery died overnight, while it was almost full before I went to sleep, like what the hell? After few weeks of keeping an eye, I found out it was Google+. Hunderds of complaints on Android emailing list, 0 comments from developers.

Google+ is a single Google's project driving me away from being their slave for life.
Can anyone figure out where in this code it determines the addresses of other peers?
I'm sure you didn't intend this, but the post ends up sounding very whiny and bitter. Instead of taking the opportunity to reflect on ways you could improve your pitch, you criticize the YC process.

Also, during this critical time and considering the importance of YC partners, 10 minutes of partner time is likely worth more than the $1500 to YC.
They really did nail that site - it feels very Google.

Also, I'd love a Google Bee ^_^
A lot of derivatives of Jekyll have name conflicts since many are grabbing from the same source, the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

There is a character called Dr. Hastie Lanyon which is were I grabbed the name for both my projects.