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No, they both came up through the Boulder branch.

http://www.techstars.com/program/locations/boulder/#3
You're right that it's not necessarily steep if you're used to using keyboard commands. But if you're used to doing everything with a mouse it might take some adjusting
I think that the general idea is, 'if they can get away with it, so can I,' will no cause positive outcomes.
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I coughed up the fee and I read this statement prior to doing so. I have used Synergy many times over the years and regularly over the last year. That said, I cannot say I see much improvement, it works with some weird bugs, like unable to cut from Firefox on Windows and paste on Linux desktop. I am not holding my breath on this type of bug getting fixed or the product being any more than what it currently is.

Someone else said it in this thread, over the years I have received strange emails that made it seem like Synergy was some sort of hip Google-like startup company, even a reference to a possible office in California. Yet Synergy seems to have been mostly the same as when I first ever used it and I do not see any other products from the company.
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Wow, what an incredibly lame response. Everyone knows small studies may not be replicable, what else does this comment add?

Reversing effects of Alzheimer's is incredibly rare, so doing so in a scientific and carefully observed manner is newsworthy. I've previously known of only two individuals who've had the disease being reversed of the millions who suffer from it, anyone can correct me if they know of others.

This is a terrible disease, so all progress is welcome. If society was interested in discovering a means to reverse it, the answer is actually simple. Take a few thousand patents (there are millions, not a problem to come up with this many), and randomly divide them into groups of 200 and assign them to teams of researchers who can use any combination of nutrients, diet, approved drug, etc. Offer a prize of $100M to the team with the treatment that works best and smaller amounts to runners up. Then repeat every two years.
> The national rate of failure for startups is 75-90%... This means for every [Techstars] company that is acquired, there is a company that fails. For a program that is picking the best startups, this is not that impressive.

A 1:1 ration is actually very good. The failure rate for pre-VC startups is actually much higher than 90%. 75% of VC-funded startups fail [1] but only a tiny minority of startups ever get to that stage. If Techstars really keeps up a 50% success rate that would be amazing (though I assume it will go down over time).

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044372020...
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/excelerate-labs/inves...
Wordpress was a great choice in 2008. It's not anymore
Chip and Pin would have prevented zero of the accounts escaping Target.

There was a complete lack of encryption at key points.
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I've been a long time Mac user and I think that software setup and updates has always been a bit clunky. Apple tries to make it easy with Software Update. You can always Homebrew to get missing pieces.

For me, I use CentOS for servers and I really wish that OS X had 'yum' (https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/)

It feels very easy for me to install, update, remove, etc
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I recommend reading Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem". Arendt discusses this very issue WRT Nazis in WW2 -- in most cases, the systems are structured in such a way that there isn't an evil overlord making those decisions.

Even amongst the Nazis, most high level people had compartmentalized knowledge that was only evil when combined. Indeed, the subtitle and thesis of the book reflects that: "on the banality of evil."

Her theory is that unethical organizations can structure themselves in such a way that almost nobody is actively breaking the law.
YC has distinct advantage of being tapped into a very powerful network, in what is arguably the strongest startup market in the world.

TechStars are in #2 and below markets, each of which is easily dwarfed by Silicon Valley. So while TS (and other accelerators for that matter) don't have as much success as YC, I'd love to compare the stats of local companies that were in TS relative to the expected performance in their respective markets.
Lets just hope both of them can finally find some Martians
That's how I used to feel, and then (documentation and automation or not) it totally lost its interest for me! Creating software is just so much more interesting than configuring somebody else's. YMMV.
Really Really good post. Look forward to the next post.
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I was under the impression it was just one guy. But if he can make a business model out of writing and supporting gpl code and hire employees, then more power too him.
Would it make people think twice about following illegal orders, if they knew they could be prosecuted for it?

I don't think the threat of prosecution would, actually, for several reasons. But it any part of the government was willing to uphold the law, it might make people think twice, that maybe following illegal orders isn't patriotic after all.
The following questions aren't meant to be antagonistic, but your PR has just taken a hit, and the specific claim made in this post about the LOI isn't a small one. Let's clear it up.

There was good discussion of this on a prior HN thread when @sama posted that blog piece. If I can dig it up I'll add it here.

Is Sam Altman involved with TechStars? If not, why is his name being evoked? It's great that you agree with him, but OP is saying that at least in his case, this point of view was not honored.

One issue that is relevant to us given our fixed class sizes is getting a definitive answer from a offer though as quickly as we can so that we know if should move down the list and give an offer to the next team instead. Having 10 offers out and finding out that only 8 want to accept would mean we have are giving out 2 offers potentially much later than the others. Purely as a practical timing matter we hope to give out a set of offers and have everyone accept or dismiss them pretty quickly so we know who the class will be.

I understand, but this is simply the universal rationale behind pressure tactics. Your desire for quick resolution is understandable, but the specific claim made in the post needs to be addressed.
This makes me so angry.

The miscarriage of justice, the way that police and prosecutors can and will get away with this behavior with impunity. How no one is accountable.

I hope he wins his civil suit for some relief, but that doesn't really solve the problem...
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I think the point being made is that you can't 1:1 compare TechStars locations.

A true measure of comparison would be to see the performance of companies that participated in TechStars Chicago, and not just TechStars as a whole.
Here is more technical description of how exactly it works if you are interested in the details:

http://clover-developers.blogspot.com/2014/09/apple-pay.html
This will change and quickly. All it takes is retailers being responsible for fraud and bam, new systems appear within 18-24 months, at most. I give it 3 years tops until you're cursing some place that requires you to insert a chip or wondering at the security of handing your card over to someone else to swipe...

E.g. http://mainstreetinc.net/retail-pos-prepares-emv-nfc-apple-p...

At least here in Canada, we went from "it's announced" to "it's everywhere" in about 2 years. Now.... whether the terminals will accept my contactless card, that's another question. I can't travel with just an iPhone until I know I won't need that card in my back pocket...
How can something that is offline somehow get new code? Besides that it sounds exactly like a website.
Back then it wasn't likely. Today? If the NSA has secure rooms for viewing confidential documents that can not leave the room? It seems pretty darn likely it is a faraday cage. You think they don't know what they're doing? Or don't have the money in their budget?
This sounds interesting, but before anyone starts changing their lifestyle based on this, you should be aware that not only isn't this a double-blind trial, there's no control group, and the results lump together subjective and objective improvement (in other words, 9 of the 10 either actually got better, or just thought they got better, possibly through the placebo effect).

Also, the article mentions neuropsychological testing done on one of the subjects, demonstrating his decline, but then there's no mention of whether he was retested after the treatment to see if there was any measurable improvement! And no mention of any objective testing of the other 9 subjects, either before or after the treatment. This strikes me as odd, given that neuropsychological testing is the most sensitive way of measuring cognitive decline.
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It's not so hard:

(1) Pick a topic at about the right level.

(2) Get one main, maybe plus a few extra, good books
on the topic.

(3) In a good chair in a quiet room, in the good book,
read the material on the topic and try to understand
it well enough to make sense. Then work the exercises.

If something doesn't make sense, look in
one or more of the other books.

(4) At times, review the last several topics and
try to get more understanding, e.g., what else is
true, what is not true, what makes the true
statements true and the false statements false.

Maybe take a class that covers the main book
and check work and understanding with the
professor.

Rinse, repeat with other topics.

Done.

Worked for me.
Sadly, you can read magstripe data via NFC with today's contactless cards. I've seen apps do it on the Google Play store today. See section 5.1 on page 7 here: http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f...

Note though, replay attacks require downgrading the card and suggesting it's not actually EMV-secured. And um, it appears all you need is a cell phone to clone one card onto another, if I'm really reading this right? No wonder we need EMV or stronger, Apple Pay protections.

Frankly, the way I see it, we can't move fast enough to one-time use card numbers, however we achieve it... then I suppose more fraud will attack the next weakest point, perhaps passwords or IT systems.
I think what should happen is there should be laws that place sanctions on these companies for negligence in failure to secure their systems. That money should then go into a fund to provide security monitoring and consulting/auditing services for these businesses, retribution for those who have suffered losses due to the breaches. They clearly can't get it together and there needs to start being punishments (fine/jail) for the IT executives responsible. I hate to approach a problem with more regulation, but market forces haven't been working. I think there should be at the minimum threat of personal consequences for the executives if it is found they were negligent in their duties in any way to provide reasonable security for their systems, and to have processes in place to review code to ensure it does not have blatant security issues.
October 2015 they'll be liable for CC fraud if the transaction in question was not cleared on an NFC+EMV capable terminals.
I don't know where your info is from, but it's either old, or they'll change their tune fast.
Also, some businesses can avoid PCI audits if 75% of their transactions are cleared on NFC+EMV terminals.
The liability shift you keep hearing about bundles NFC+EMV together into a single concept. They're inseparable as far as CC liability is concerned.
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No worries at all, I don't take it to be antagonistic in any way. I'm hoping to accurately represent how we operate and I'm inviting your questions, so ask away!

>> Is Sam Altman involved with TechStars? If not, why is his name being evoked? It's great that you agree with him, but OP is saying that at least in his case, this point of view was not honored.

Sam is the president of YC. I'm invoking his name because it was a great post on a common accelerator tactic that we do not employ. The comments in that thread are very relevant. I wasn't invoking Sam so much as I was pulling in the context of that prior discussion on HN.

>> I understand, but this is simply the universal rationale behind pressure tactics. Your desire for quick resolution is understandable, but the specific claim made in the post needs to be addressed.

Actually not the case. As covered in the thread I referenced the reason that this pressure tactic is typically employed is that an accelerator is trying to force a company to make a decision before the deadline of a program that they view as a competitor, in essence front-running the selection process of another organization.

The point I'm making is that while we don't want to use that tactic, we can't afford to give an open ended offer up until the first day of the program because we'd risk having an 8 company cohort. It's less of an issue for YC to take an additional (or lose an additional) half dozen companies between their selection process and day one of the program because a) they don't offer workspace to their companies and don't have to do with those logistics and b) the uncertainty of +/- a few companies doesn't matter as much in a 60+ company batch as it does in a 10-12 company batch.
I upvoted your comment because I disagree and want more people to understand this position of fear and caution is exactly what leads to horrible decisions.

What's more, taking the opposite stand is good for the little guy. In the first part of his book "Soul" Aristotle devotes the first book to refuting previous famous writers on the subject. Rousseau did the same in the first book (I believe) of Social Contract. Socrates did the same in ... well ... everywhere.

For something more recent, Apple was anti PC, I am sure Linux was anti-Closed-OS, Snapchat is anti Facebook and all these made it public, which in turn did nothing short of helping them.
By that logic, all sorts of institutions in the US and China are damn-near perfect, as they're able to sustain the world's most power economies.
>Purely as a practical timing matter we hope to have a set of offers out around the same time and have everyone accept or dismiss them pretty quickly so we know who the class will be.

How can you say this in the same post you say this?

>Sam Altman had a great post recently about YC's indictment of timing pressure tactics on accelerator offers. We completely agree with that position and try very hard to not give that impression.
The SEC filing states[1]:

User contact information – name, address, phone number and email
address – and internal JPMorgan Chase information relating to
such users have been compromised.

I have multiple personal and business accounts at Chase, and they collect a shitload of other "internal information", way beyond name, address, phone and email.

Ostensibly for KYC [2] they try to collect personal information about the other members of my company, non-public information about my company's revenues and customers, my work and professional history, business plans and projections, my kids' college plans, real estate holdings, interests in other businesses, etc., etc., etc.

They're very pushy about gathering this information, claiming it's for regulatory compliance. I'm sure it's mostly for their own attempts to hawk their lame financial products.

So that category of "information relating to such users" could be ginormous.

[1] http://investor.shareholder.com/jpmorganchase/secfiling.cfm?...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
It really depends on the goal. From a mathematician's perspective Engineering is still part of the kiddie pool of math. The kind of things some people did in high school mostly though route memorization.

However, for ~98% of the population it's by far the most useful parts of math. Then again you can also say the same thing about just Arithmetic, basic Algebra, Logic and Statistics. So, it's really a question of what your goals are.

There is actually a lot of Math that's been dropped from K-12 education. EX: Understanding logarithms is really fundamental for using a slide rule or understanding floating point arithmetic, but it's not really that useful for most people.
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Nothing? Cultures are complicated things that may or may not be influenced by our genetic makeups. The life and death of culture involves thousands if not tens of thousands of factors, you don't directly inherit your parents' culture, you have to learn it first.

This behaviour in spiders, on the other hand, is highly heritable, so it's definitely linked to a handful of genes, or maybe just one.
My good friend's gf is a psychiatrist at a bay area prison. She had taken a young man under her wing, who had been incarcerated via the three strikes rule. Without going into too much detail, his strikes against him was possession of firearms without a license, and protecting himself inside a prison vs gang related targeting thus giving him a disorderly conduct strike.

He was sentenced to life in prison and was being sent back from protection to where he "had a mark" on him and was going back into hell on earth.

The day before he was to return to the prison, he hung himself. He was 18.

The system is terribly broken.
OK Great, Meteor uses regular HTML5 to store things in the app cache (that you could just as easily do in Safari by the way) and Apple's webview complies with the HTML5 standard. I guess I'm just not that surprised that Apple allows the use of standard HTML5 and UIWebview behaves like a browser.
As an investor, yes, necessarily. As someone trying to do good and make money at the same time, of course your priorities will be muddled.
By bending it? :D
Not really sure that's feasible because Algolia records are more akin to Word docs than Excel rows. 10K docs could be approx 10GB of data--definitely not feasible to push over the wire, and pushing the upper bounds of what even sqlite can handle.
I don't know the methodology of the research but here is the coverage -

http://tech.co/top-startup-accelerators-ranked-2012-08
That's one of the functions of flagging. I learned from some veteran participants on Hacker News to flag more stories about politics--even if they relate to startup industry--than I used to. That doesn't always work, but it seems to help.
Wouldn't that cripple any new business storing user details? If these big businesses with large, dedicated security teams can't secure their systems against persistent hackers, what hope do us smallfry have?

Often it seems to me that two ways of avoiding trouble are to avoid commodity solutions that can be automatically exploited (e.g., Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, common plug-ins, etc) and staying under the radar.

If you're big or holding especially valuable data, you'll be targeted.
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This is a horrible idea. It will immediately stifle all innovation in software. The only laws I would be in favor of are required transparency laws where you have to report all breaches with serious fines/jail for failure to comply.

The market will quickly sort things out if it has the appropriate information. People can then decide what privacy is valuable for themselves.
> You think they don't know what they're doing? Or don't have the money in their budget?

Budget? Yes. I don't dispute that. Know what they're doing? Clearly they don't.
There's a site I use when I'm in Malaysia visiting my in-laws that's worth checking out: Frambie.com -- they go a step further in that direction, and focus on printing & framing digital photos that you upload.

So I can upload photos of my kids and their cousins, choose frames (from a handful of frame options and about a dozen possible sizes -- not custom-sized!) and they ship me framed prints ready to hang on the wall.

Pricing starts at < $4 for a framed, matted 4x6 photo -- though obviously this is a different sort of product from the OP's custom framing (and also production costs will be significantly lower in Malaysia).
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Why assume the samples and audio engine are crap? They're not.

There isn't that much overlap between drummers/drums learners and music tech people. No reason to abandon ones for the others when both can be served.
Good grief. Reading this made me want to throw up.
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Snowden was considered an insider. Here a person considered an outsider would be in a controlled environment with the specific purpose of restricting the flow of information.
There's a schedule for making it mandatory by 2020 in the US. Since last year in Australia every aircraft flying over 29,000ft must have one fitted.
Either way it's satire.
The OP gets what you are saying:

In the meantime, Troy sent over a Letter of Intent and explained that it needed to be signed and returned by Monday. I was very frustrated by this. You don’t send a legal document to someone over the weekend when their is no time for a lawyer to review it and demand it back by that same Monday. Whether it was the intention or not, this was a high pressure sales technique and just one more red flag.

Which is well put- "whether it was the intention or not." So, why wasn't Talkroute simply rejected for taking too long? If Techstars was concerned about an undersized cohort, they could simply sign another startup with no ill will - Talkroute just missed the deadline. No harm no foul.

A Saturday -> Monday LOI signing isn't typically considered a reasonable expectation.
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The system isn't broken, but rather that Californians are awful. The three strikes law, the most oppressive in the country, works exactly as designed. And California's voted for it by referendum by a 72:28 margin.