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These people actually do that!

My mother is a "admin assistant" at work, and she does "admin assistant" work at home for two clubs she's part of. And a month ago a bus driver I know drove me and some relatives around for 6 hours just for the heck of it. And journalists do write for fun, ever heard of blogs? And my brother as a mechanical engineer recently fixed some headphones (they were cheap for 20 bucks or so, so he could have bought new ones easily).

While it seems that only hackers do that, everyone does it more or less as long as they are passionate about their jobs. They just aren't as visible as the hacker crowd that develops Linux as a hobby.
"If the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call them and ask if they meant you or them."

Ha..
I sorta figured interactive television would be online ...
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It depends on the monarch.
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In the Y Combinator / Anybots office we just switched to Meraki's commercial-grade APs and they kick butt. Only a little more expensive than consumer boxes and they provide seamless roaming between APs, multiple virtual networks, and seem to handle large loads well. Somehow they isolate 802.11b users on a separate channel (there are still plenty of laptops that only do .b), so .g and .n users get full bandwidth. I think they push .a-capable users onto 5 GHz too. Also easy to set up. It's the first of many APs I've owned that hasn't made me pull my hair out. Recommended.
If TV industry ever wants to make that vision true, they would not only have to make TV viewing interactive but also have to provide a button that gives viewers a choice to skip ads.
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I can understand that, but it's easy enough to specify the apt repository as a parameter to the gems command. If you really want it as the default, it's trivial to alias that. There's something to be said for just letting your packages have the default behaviour.
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That is pretty similar to how a few starts i've worked at have treated skype. Unread message counts are analogous to the bg chat thing you mention, you can also get the scroll-back.

Please make a non-web client -- maybe an air app, even.
If only the German generals had cracked down on the street thugs as Deng had put down the Tienanmen protesters

Wow.

So Mao was okay in killing millions, but a few thousand held up in a park constitutes "power-seeking revolutionaries"

In a democracy, you change up who is in power every so often. How could a supporter of frequently-changing power structures be "power-seeking"?

Created the Fox News effect ... It was these hatreds that created World War I

WWI was caused by a lot of pre-planned military manuevers that ran automatically.

The August Madness was real, but don't go blaming the entire war on that.

Hitler came to power as a result of mob violence

Once again, you overstate. Hitler was part of a highly-motivated and organized political party. He was as much part of a mob as he was a ballerina.

FDR provoked Japan into war

What?

It's great to have unusual views. But you are really way on the outside of left field with a lot of these views. It's almost like you already have the answer and are taking a historical hammer and banging away to make the facts fit into your preconceived worldview.

I mean, hey, we all do the same thing, but at some point if you're making a dozen points that are all extremely debatable perhaps your logic isn't on such solid ground, you know?
Every time I type "inventory", I end up at the home screen in Leisure Suit Larry.
I just heard about a new research study which indicates that some cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are probably caused by a retrovirus infection. If you haven't already done this you might want to get tested for XMRV. It seems possible that could be somewhere in your mix of multiple infections.

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> the government never becomes a single ruling class or entity that may significantly alter the status quo for better, but more horrifyingly, for worse.

This has already happened to a greater degree than most people realize. "Separation of powers" has been a complete failure. Just take the present time as an example. All three branches are currently controlled by the same faction.

> So ultimately in the US you definitely have more freedoms in terms of doing what you want.

I agree, but it is not very difficult to beat China in this respect.

> The democratic process naturally weeds out those who suck so that those deserving, by merit, will come out on top.

This is not what actually happens. In practice, the US is an oligarchy.

> Obviously the education system needs reform and more freedom, but I think democracy is heading in the right direction.

Unfortunately it isn't heading in the right direction at all. Parents in many states are having to fight government officials just for the ability to opt out of the govt. school system. Govts. are trying to make it harder and harder to do this. If you look at who is actually causing all of this, democracy has to take the blame.
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Just got one! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870796
Thanks guys! Really looking forward to the event!
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We just sent out the responses to startup school applications. If you didn't get one, check your spam folder. Or check here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/susrsvp

Unfortunately even though we have a bigger auditorium this time, we got even more applications, so once again we had to reject lots of people we would have liked to accept.
8 hours inevitably leads to exhaustion.

7 hours is the limit, for me and many others.
So what ? We're not in 1985.
It's almost universally available, and perl too is not part of posix.
I have access to the paper. The device is interesting, but as usual journalists want to inflate the balloon some more...

They report a maximum of 16.2nW, open-circuit voltage of 899mV, short-circuit of 107.4nA. To give hackers a reference, in its current state, you'd need something like 50,000 of them to power a single 0.85mW Arduino chip.

In the U of Missouri article they say "The radioisotope battery can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries", but as far as I can see from the article they're not talking about their own battery; it's a general statement quoted from an old paper (F.K.Manasse,J.J.Pinajian,and A.N.Tse, IEEETrans.Nucl.Sci. 23,8601976).

The article in question is "Radioisotope microbattery based on liquid semiconductor" (Applied Physics Letters 95).
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I'm all for pragmatism, but a manifesto is a concrete way to tell the guy who just ate a pound of flour and salt that that's no reason to hate chocolate cake.
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I hate to be jingoistic or defensive here, but you guys are way out there.

In practice, the US is an oligarchy

Let's review the last 30 years or so of U.S. political history, shall we?

We had a president that was tossed out of office by his own party when he covered up a political crime. We had a peanut farmer with little political clout become president. We had an actor who was on a TV show with a monkey become president. We had another president impeached for lying in court. During this same time, we've had expansionist foreign policies, realistic policies, conservative policies. We've had all sorts of financial policies. Our court system has swung both left and right.

I'm not arguing that there isn't a ruling class of bureaucrats and rich politicians in key roles, but the government has effectively changed up policies, executives, and legal theory in surprisingly quick order.

With all due respect, China just doesn't compare here at all. They're great people and all, but if they have that kind of flexibility in governance I haven't seen it.
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On a sidenote, creating a -i file in important directories can help against accidental "rm -rf"s. The -i will be given to rm as switch and rm will now prompt for each file. Of course backups are better but this might just safe your ass that certain time.
Would love to come. But can't afford the Europe <=> California plane ticket.
You guys are doing a good job, but you really need to get YC to scale more - you are leaving money on the table for each startup you don't found.

At put together a book with the most common stuff startups need to know (your essays are good, but they don't have a list of recommended lawyers, how to incorporate, etc).
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Speaking out of ignorance here, but I would imagine that the fact that only 3/4 are heading YC, and ultimately capping the amount of startups they can accept, makes for more personal encounters between pg, guest speakers and those accepted, and among the actual class. Plus at a certain point it becomes more like a startup factory than an art gallery. And some art is often sold more than any factory produced item.
If you don't mind me asking, how many did you guys end up accepting?

Edit: total number of applications received would be useful, too, if you don't mind revealing it.
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The chances of a startup succeeding are dismal at best, and YC is already selecting the best of the best. Increasing the startup pool isn't necessarily a smart decision, from a business perspective.

The value of YC and a book that lists lawyers and how to incorporate are light years apart. Google, networking, and a quick Amazon purchase will find you this information tomorrow.
As a Windows developer, I can tell you with certainty that practically no one does it even close to the same.
I'm sure its just the way it was written but it sounded a lot like the CEO was totally inappropriate, chucked a maddie and then backtracked - there's certainly a bit of ambiguity that the author might not have noticed, knowing the man personally as he does.
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I didn't get an email but got an 'Ok see you there' when using the above link. Is this a standard response for everyone or does this mean I'm in?
Wasn't he the guy who said to use the simplest possible thing that could work (the hole duck tape thing?) - if so, just ditch wireless and go with good old fashion Ethernet cable, you can string it along the underside of the chairs along with the other wires.
Great! Just got an acceptance letter :) See you there. I am @yurylifshits http://yury.name
Granted, it won't win beauty pageant, but why do any of us use tools like gimp ? To get stuff done. Multiple windows were annoying (especially in combination with multiple desktops :-)), but other than that gimp qualifies as a good tool.
True. But historically things entered the public domain within people's lives, which amounted to the same thing.

Under the laws before Disney began rewriting them, the copyright on many of my childhood nostalgia items would be expired, or close to it. Until 1909 the law was a 14 year period with an optional 14 year extension. Until 1976 the law was a 28 year copyright, with an optional 28 year extension.

Since 1976 the requirement in the US Constitution that copyright be "for limited terms" has been circumvented. Literally nothing new has entered the public domain, and much has been removed from it. I'm 40. Until last year there was literally nothing that had entered the public domain in my lifetime that had not been removed from it. Somewhere between now and 1923 I fully expect everything that has reentered the public domain in my lifetime to be removed from the public domain again.

People no longer have the experience of things entering the public domain. People have lost track of the understanding that there is supposed to be such a thing, let alone why it is important. I'm firmly in the minority that is both aware and thinks that it is a travesty.
If you saw that it means you're in.
I actually loved the floating windows: that's what window managers are for, right?

However, since transitioning to StumpWM the multi-window approach just doesn't cut it. Now it's a trade-off between logging in with Metacity and doing gimpwork, or keeping StumpWM running and avoiding gimpwork. If Gimp 2.8 has this, then I can start spending more time with that peculiar but beloved graphics suite again.
i laughed.
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Wish I lived in California :(
Thanks everybody for the suggestions!
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We are trying to scale. We funded 8 startups in summer 2005, and 26 this summer. We just have to scale gradually, so that we have time to fix the bottlenecks as we find them.

Also: http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html#f2n
The reason you see us as "way out there" is because if you limit your vision to a fairly small area, the relatively minor policy changes you mention appear to be far more important than they actually are.

The office of President and the scope of presidential power have changed little even as the person holding the office has changed. Foreign policy has not changed as much as it seems, either. The US has been consistently running an empire for decades now. Take a look at what the State Dept. does. The financial system is a particularly bad example, as core financial policies have not changed at all.

For whatever reason, you're focusing on flexibility in governance, but are you really suggesting the Chinese government has been less flexible than the US on policy changes in the last 30 years? If there is any giant government that has been making rather sudden and extreme changes in short order, for better or worse, it's China's.
Wow that looks brilliantly usable. Why did they resist this for so long?
> Multi-database support

Its about time that it will officially, out of the box, support this important feature. :)

[edit]
direct link to feature list

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Version1.2Features
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I'm limited by money as well. Perhaps startup school scholarships?
PG, will there be wifi? I believe you need credentials to access 'AirBears.' Maybe it is possible to talk to the school to get temporary credentials that could be shared?
The CSUA guys are working on it. They seem very organized, so I'm hopeful.
Is there a possibility to check by email address? For me it says that "We have no record of an application from you." and didn't get an email...
The fact that copyright used to last for N years in 1909 is irrelevant. Whether or not a law used to exist should not determine whether or not a law should exist, for obvious reasons (slavery, universal suffrage, mandatory military service, etc.).

It would be cool to explain explicitly why things should go in the public domain after X years instead of N years.
If you are getting a thinkpad then you are getting into pricey computer territory. Most of the complaints I hear about Mac is the price first. I made the mistake of going from a company owned thinkpad to an equally spec'd Acer. It was half the price and a year of usage showed where they cut corners. Initially, the speakers blew, the battery wore down faster than expected (6 monthss). And random screws and chunks of plastic fell out the vents. Since acer is now the #1 laptop maker they got their by building them cheap, replace often.
I'm interested in helping fund scholarships.
This is one of those cases where the title of the article really says it all.
Why would anyone want to discard the end result there? It matters.
CEO did not make his point by yelling. The point was made by explanation that followed the yelling. So yes, you are right, yelling did shut down the brains of the author for a while, but wasn't that the idea? To get him out of "know-all" attitude? To reboot the brain and feed a new program into it?
Not that I like this way of getting the point across, but in this case it did work.
Just what we need, more "crapware" to clean off a new PC.

This is way worse than the truly dreadful MS Works - at least that was a complete product (well more or less) now every aunt and grandma is going to be on the phone wondering why some feature of office their friend has is missing from their copy - plus the awful prospect of the ads themselves - presumably refreshed via an Internet connection (no worries about security leaks there I am sure, ho ho) and thus joining a host of other programs that think it is fine to steal bandwidth.at times of their own choosing.
On the bright side, you won't have to go through US immigration.

For those that will go from Europe or some other place outside the US, please have a look at the recent changes to US immigration, check out:

https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta

For more information. A lot has changed in this respect recently, so if you haven't been to the US in a while make sure you look at this.

Serious apologies to those who were lead down the other link.
GDB integrate very well with recent Emacs.(tooltip, visual breakpoint, stactrace etc)
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Sorry, but do you have any references/citations to back up either one of your sentences?
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So your argument consists of -- my points don't matter?

That's all you got?

The neat thing about such arguments about systems is: time will tell. When China is at 250 years with the same system, we can compare notes! (grin). But throwing away each others' points is not exactly a good way to continue a conversation. I'm of the opinion that real changes occurred, in all areas of policy. You are not. No amount of my explaining the changes is going to convince you, I'm afraid. You already know what you believe and no amount of discussion is going to persuade you otherwise.

Perhaps we can agree to disagree. I'm not going to play advocate of everything the U.S. does, and if you want to play that role for China you would be a fool as well (which I hope not).

Meanwhile I'll work on "expanding my vision." I commented because I thought you might help in this area. It appears not, though.
yes so stoked to get the email this morning. thanks guys. now how to hack my way into the presenter parties?
Thanks, had just started wetting my feet in R a couple of weeks back, and while there are some pretty decent introductions out there, this has been the first one I've come across that approaches both the subject matter and R from a relative beginner's standpoint.
I'm not sure why Comcast wants the imprimatur of the IETF, when they're going to do whatever they want regardless of technical feedback, right up until the FCC smacks them for it.

Besides, since they're already a paid subscriber, why not just contact them out of band!?
When I used KDE, my ssh-to-production script used dcop to change the terminal background colour. (KDE + dcop is great technology. External access to APIs running in other processes. API discovery. Great stuff.)

Whilst gnome-terminal claims to speak dbus, I don't see any functionality exposed which would allow this. Does anyone have any pointers to achieving the same thing?

(Solutions which have occurred to me but which I find unsatisfying: run kterm under gnome, have a launcher script open a new terminal with the desired colour. I'm being picky, but my habits are such that I live in a small number of terminals. I'd like those terminals to change state as I ssh around.)
I got the email and used the link to RSVP -- but then when I visited the link later, I got the "Sorry to say we didn't accept this application" message. Is this a bug stemming from the application somehow being marked as completed and being taken out of the 'active' list, or some such?

Edit: I did get the "See you there!" message when I RSVP'd as "Yes" initially. It only gave me the rejection message when I went back to /susrsvp after that.
there is an hint for statups in this thing: to blindly copy from the "best on the market" is not a good idea.
I just booked a (two bed) hotel room at a nearby Hilton (http://www.hiltongardeninn.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyh...) that is about 1/2 way between SF and Berkeley.

It cost me ~$90/night. If anyone wants to split the room they can have one of the beds for $45/night (comparable to the cheapest couches on airbnb, except you get a bed, maid, towels, and all the amenities of a hotel).

I'm arriving Friday and leaving Monday so, all else being equal, a room mate for all three nights would be preferred.

Email me (address in profile) if you're interested.
um....there is a reason the key has a head on it...it's so you have something to grip when trying to turn it...I aint saying it's not possible with this new key - just more difficult...If this is a great idea then let me be the first to propose removing the handles off of tea cups....just as clever....no doubt he'll still make a mint regardless of what I think :)
The deliberate diction is very similar to Brin's blog posts, so there's no reason to think he wasn't the primary author.
Could you give any background on your sorting algorithm?

What about stats on news.yc participation in the population?
Great demonstration of why not to use Adsense or other context-based ads on a site with a search bar and no context whatsoever.
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Whenever, I see "text-based game", I think of old school MUDs, not "Mob Wars". Being a more-than-casual-but-not-so-hardcore gamer, I find it quite silly, that something in which all you have to do is click a button is even considered a game.

Also, apart from a few recent games, not many text-based games have been well received, and they likely never will be, so I suggest you try doing some casual games in flash.
You could look at lostgarden.com for some inspiration (and also monetizing tips).
Link to a review and some discussion at
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846451