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my rule is simple - they can use the words when they understand (properly) what they mean.

Meanwhile we explain they are "grown up" words and they shouldn't use them. Like another poster above this seems to provoke outbursts of "ooh you shouldn't say that" from the children when we swear.
These deals tend to fall apart over time though, as the content quality differential fades. If you are the only channel (or network) offering a certain content (or device) then you win by keeping it as a bundle. But both content and mobile client devices change fairly rapidly. If others start producing content that is equally good or even slightly worse, but much easier to access (due to indexing, being free, being linked to), you lose from your bundling, and you start losing content as well. If other devices are equally good or better, you want to break bundling as much as possible so that your competitors get a smaller share of bundle revenues.
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Apologies, I did not realize the link would switch to registration after posting, I will refrain from posting ft articles again.
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> One moron started abusing gays and jews (last link). Is that "winning" by your definition?

That wasn't the one that brought up the breasts though was it? The person that did made reasonable (if direct) points and obviously people agreed with them.... that sounds like "winning".
Flagged for very misleading headline. He did use twitter, he refused to cooperate with the police and send a tweet.
There is too much information in the world to include it all in Wikipedia. That leads to information dilution, which has the consequence that you cannot find what you are looking for anymore.

Die hard inclusionism is as stupid as die hard deletionism. If you cannot understand the opposing viewpoint, you do not understand your own position.
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Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful.

Yes, and Wikipedia is not that place. You know what would be a good place? Somewhere on the YC website.
There are no gods, but humans can achieve god-like feats with rational thought. Not sure how to convince them of that though ;-)
Using twitter is not synonymous with cooperating with the police. Effectively he was arrested for not using this particular communications medium, which I didn't think was an effective crowd control measure to begin with.

The police, in this case, have acted pretty dumb. Arresting people is supposedly reserved for serious offenses, 'refusing to tweet' isn't one of them.

What's next ? You have to put a message on your facebook page or you'll be arrested for not cooperating ? Myspace ? The google wave ?
It's extremely useful. The page is about YC, notability comes in to account when you give the startups a page of their own, that should be limited to notable ones.
So, you're making the case here that on the page about Y combinator there should be lots of relevant information about Y combinator left out ?

Giving every start-up including the failed ones their own page would be a waste of space, but to give them a single line in a list is pretty good use of the space available I would say.
The LHC is a complicated one-off piece of machinery. If you build something this complicated and this powerful then it is prudent to ramp up the power bit by bit and check it out after the runs to see if there are unexpected issues before going full power. At successively higher power levels you can expect small but hopefully not fatal problems to come up.

By your reasoning they should have just flipped the switch to 'full on' at the first run, and that would have probably caused a lot more damage than it did at the time.

Think of it as a brand new engine design, before putting your pedal to the metal you'd run it at low revs for a while and check out the vibration modes, the wear patterns and so on before taking it all the way to the redline.

Failing to do so will most likely result in catastrophic failure. Don't forget that there is only one LHC and if you mess it up too much you may not get another one for several decades, if ever.

They're prudent, they did this before (in the smaller ring and in a bunch of other accelerators all over the globe) and I hope they will maintain that attitude all the way to the finish line.
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There's no benefit to using a port under 1024 if you actually verify the host key signature is there?
Because the market is much, much smaller. I don't know what percentage of iPhone users actually jailbreak their phones, but looking at the iPhone users I know, I can only think of one person that jailbreaks. It might not be worth the effort of actually making a different version just for people who jailbreak. If app developers really did embrace this, that might drive more people to jailbreak, but I highly doubt your average Joe going through the process of jailbreaking, even if it isn't particularly hard.

On top of that, there might be fears of piracy. I don't know how valid it would be, but targeting users who jailbreak is also targeting the only people that pirate since you have to have a jailbroken phone to pirate.
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If you join a place like this and start making statements throwing suspicion on the claims people make it would be nice if you did your homework.
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I'm curious as to how were you able to calculate the value of 'e' to such a large extent, can you share the code ?
The interview is much more interesting than the exhibit itself :-/
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Yeah, obvious trolling. Had this come from someone unknown it wouldn't had gotten any attention.
What doesn't make sense to me here:
1. Why has nobody done this before? It seems trivial technically. The only good reason I can think of is that the Twitter crowd and the PowerPoint crowd and the Visual Studio crowd do not intersect enough for it to happen.
2. Why is SAP doing it? That's a pretty certain way to ensure the general public will not use it.
your welcome to use http://www.startupwiki.co.uk :)

Ycombinator has some listed: http://www.startupwiki.co.uk/investor/ycombinator

But not all of them yet (I haven't had time to add the rest recently)
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No, it is a question. There is a substantial difference between asking a question and accusing someone of having done something illegal.
The official release announcement should be coming later today or tomorrow. In the mean time, I recommend that people do NOT download ISO imagess and start installing, since you have no way of verifying the authenticity of said ISO images.

Upgrading via freebsd-update is perfectly fine, though -- those bits went up only after I received a GPG-signed email from the release engineer with the SHA256 hashes of the ISO images. :-)
This is not necessarily right. Take for instance a pen.
Funny, I read "old school" as a kinder euphemism for shoddy (with all due respect to Sid's brilliance as a designer and hacker). Sometimes great people write crap, unmaintainable code. I've known several types like this in the industries I've worked in. You need a small army of programmers who can respect coding standards to clean up after them.

As for C++, I've looked at some of the Civ 4 source and it seems fairly industry standard "game style" C++. It uses templates, but not heavily, and some boost to provide Python scripting.
Is this not all of them? http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
Is there too much information in the world to include it all on Google?

My position is that we should work to improve the tools by which we organize information without ever having to destroy any. I firmly believe that "non-notable" pages should remain marked as such. By default, penalize them in search results and hide them behind a confirmation gate. But don't delete them. Decorate the hell out of them with boxes indicating they don't meet quality standards, but if just one person thought it was notable enough to write about, it deserves to be included. Inclusion need not lead to information dilution. The binary nature of "notability" is overly simplistic, so redirect the destructive energy spent on the deletion debate towards constructive classification of data.
I loathe the javascript syntax but am sold on this lingua franca thing, although probably for reasons different to the person who coined the phrase.

Could you explain the excitement and appeal to me?

Yup. Javascript combines several elements that give it a reach for high power.

* Javascript is a prototype-based language. I find this to be a better way to write software than other approaches.

* There's a good ometa implementation for javascript. Ometa is a powerful ways of writing domain specific languages.

* Modern JVMs support javascript, meaning that anything you do in javascript can be adapter to leverage existing Java codebases.

* Combination of javascript on both the client and server will likely expose new possibilities. For example, I've been thinking about the possibility of a 'builder' app in javascript whereby you use a firebug console to dynamically build a form and attach business logic to it and then freeze it back to the server. Yes, you could do it at the moment, but it's less effort if you only have one codebase to think about. The thread of bloat in the client becomes less of a problem with new approaches to development like Google Gears, also.

Node.js is an important foundation to javascript establishing itself as a viable server-side language. At a glance, it looks to be a good balance of what's needed, also.
Why is giving each their own page a waste of space?

Even if it is only a one sentence stub, it might be interesting to someone and their mother. No one else will ever know it is there, but a tiny piece of history, no matter how insignificant it may seem now, will be preserved. It's not hurting anybody.

Imagine if some YC startup did some interesting things, but ultimately failed and was promptly forgotten. Two years later, the same team builds something fantastic rooted firmly in the work they had done previously. This new startup becomes an astonishing success. Suddenly, that prior effort (especially why it failed) is noteable. Oh noez! We deleted it!

It is arrogant for any individual or even any group to believe they have any knowledge of what was, is, or will be noteable.
What I said: Funny that another breast mentioning thread devolved into a a homophobic and antisemitic troll

I didn't say it was the same person. So there were two morons working in tamden (kryo and Zarathu).

You conveniently ignore the poor person[1] who replied to the first breasts comment. She didn't get any upvotes, but the aggressive first post did and the homophobic anti-semite managed to get an upvote.

tianaco was so offended she wrote kryo, that was a really nasty, disparaging, and insensitive thing to write. You cast this nasty/insensitive as reasonable (if direct).

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[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=912851 (tianaco)
I'm not so sure. It seems that the shoehorning that is done to get data into the tables cause some problems.

Possibly. But I shudder to think of what it would be like if there was no powerful standard tool like SQL for essential add-hoc queries and fixes. That is what you'd get with custom file storage.

Also the "shoehorning", if done right (normal forms and all that) prevents duplicating information, and all attendant problems.
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This is awesome. I've been sitting on the fence for a while. It's 2010 and international shipping is still a problem for almost every country except Amazon for some reason.
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Coordination is trainable absolutely, but people also tend to self select sports which they excel at naturally. What does that tell you?

Who would your money be on to learn baseball, weightlifting and cross country skiing: a swimmer or a gymnast?

You also may be interested in:
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Key quote:
"I don't remember what it was, but I have scars all over my body just literally from falling all over the place"

The assertion about size in fights only holds when all else is equal, which is rarely the case. Gymnasts are extremely strong due to spending most of their training holding up their entire body in strange positions. Swimmers on the other hand are extremely weak (look in the literature if you don't believe me) due to the amount of time spent training supported by the water. Plus there are huge speed and explosiveness differences as well. I know where my money would be.
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Another reason to loosen 'notability' -- it makes survivorship bias an official policy.
By default blocking the unwanted popups is set in browsers.

Visitrs enables chatting in the same window regardless of whichever different domain the user is coming from, which serves the purpose "not interrupting the surfing process while chatting or vice versa" well (i guess :). In other implementations like using floating page elements or iframes
for chatting, when user moves away from the domain,or opens another link in the same window, chat is interrupted.

I've updated the popup window contents where if popup is blocked, visitor can continue by simple clicking the inner link of the popup. I hope this will help usability.

Thanks for feedback.
Unfortunately, no. (If you view source, you get a few more, but that's still not the full list.)
I've added anonymous login option. Visitors can just login by entering user name, if chosen username is not registered.

Thanks for feedback.
I think you should try not to talk to cartoon versions of past humans.
I will also happily take edits, suggestions, etc. While I scan enough news to pick up quite a bit of YC-company related news, I'm sure I don't get it all.

My e-mail is in my profile.
That's true, and it implies an interesting algebra of causation. Thanks for both!
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You should take a look here at Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers

http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/index.html
Quote from the question: "With everything we know now ..."
> If I don't show up when I am scheduled to, there will often be several thousand people - not to mention three national news networks - waiting for me and my traveling party. Those people won't wait around, and will embarrass me and my people on a national stage.

In partial defense of developer123 (partial because developer123 was created just yesterday to comment), I had to read back 156 days (and approximately that many comments) to find any substantiating evidence in JimmyL's historical comment stream that confirmed his seemingly ostentatious claims.

Up until that solitary (1/150+) comment, I thought I was right that the claims were suspicious.

All his historical comments pointed to a smart, opinionated, passionate, ambitious engineer (who did not seem to have the jet-setting job he talked about).

For example (130 days ago): "As a developer, I consider myself a "professional", and my life is fine with 6bit color. My roommate is a screenwriting "professional" and they're fine with 6bit color."

So I commented as such and resumed digging at T minus 130 only when I saw JimmyL's reply.

Can't really use searchyc.com for this (what keywords?).

He has posted many comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=JimmyL
The spouse and children of a notable person are not generally notable in their own right (although of course sometimes they are). None the less, an encyclopaedia article about a person might quite reasonably say "She married Joe Blow in 1973. The couple had one child, Oliver; they were divorced in 1984" or whatever.

A list of companies funded by Y Combinator, unless it's outrageously long (which it wouldn't be at present, right?), might be an entirely sensible thing to have on the WP page about YC even if most of the companies don't deserve their own WP pages.

(Of course there are limits. The WP page about the Oxford English dictionary should not have a section "Words defined in the dictionary".)
Of cause: that way, nobody buys your software and he can ignore a competitor.
At its most basic, you need a couple of alphabets worth of letters and a rack to set them on. These can be carved out of wood -- they'll need replacing fairly often, but if you get a couple of apprentices to carve out more, you can get a decent start with printing. Don't worry about books at first; start with smaller texts.

Of course, to truly make it scalable you'll need metal type. If you're not lucky enough to remember how to make a hand mould or invent lost-wax casting, you'll want to make friends with the nearest goldsmith and see if you can adapt some of his methods.

Around this time, if you're lucky, you might remember enough of mechanics to invent the escapement and the sun and planet gear, to kickstart the clockmaking industry. Sailors will thank you, as will the merchants they supply. And if you live long enough, you might be able to combine these two inventions to form the world's first Linotype machine.
It is true, that you shouldn't try to go into cost based pricing.

But you should try to force whomever you deal with to accept a cost based payment - after all, you want as low a price as possible.
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I've actually been compiling my own list which has details of things like further investment amounts, etc. Once I'm done I'll run a comparision against yours and let you know any differences.
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I agree with your point but the TDD comment tacked on at the end is wrong and adds nothing.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone speak in support of TDD say that the code is fine if the tests pass. The canonical process of TDD explicitly calls for refactoring after the tests pass. That step is crucial and lasts as long as it takes for the programmer to be satisfied with the code (e.g. 8 hours).

I also found no evidence in the article that there was TDD involved. Perhaps I've misunderstood either the article or your comment. If that is the case I'd gladly retract my criticism.
If someone had 100 children, I don't think it would be worth listing them all in an encyclopaedia article.

YC has funded somewhere around 100 startups, hasn't it?
There are a lot of language designers in Coders at Work, but it's not "mostly".

Language designers: Brendan Eich, Joe Armstrong, Simon Peyton Jones, Guy Steele, Dan Ingalls, Ken Thompson

Not language designers: Jamie Zawinski, Brad Fitzpatrick, Douglas Crockford, Peter Norvig, Bernie Cosell

Marginal cases: Joshua Bloch, L Peter Deutsch, Fran Allen, Donald Knuth

which comes to 6/5/4. (Justifications for the marginal cases: Bloch does lots of Java library work, but not AFAIK a lot of language design, and the language itself certainly isn't his; Deutsch did some very important language implementation but that's not all the same thing as language design; Allen, likewise; Knuth's TeX and METAFONT are both, in their way, languages, but that's not primarily what they are.)

I wouldn't call that "mostly language designers".

(For the avoidance of doubt: I think a "Game Programmers at Work" volume could be extremely interesting.)
These are all valid points. We are not seeking to replace text comments, only to augment and add to the conversation.
Over time, I think we'll see people get more and more comfortable in front of a video camera.
Wow, good find jedc.

Of all the times I've checked faq.html, I never thought to view the source! A commented-out company seems to mean that the startup officially launched at one point but is now acquired or gone (sometimes reincarnated).
Yep, something like cappuchino but that could scale down gracefully to really crappy phones would be very useful.
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York
Published: November 22 2009 23:01 | Last updated: November 22 2009 23:01

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.

The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar with the situation, who warned that talks were at an early stage.

However, the Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google’s search engine.

News Corp and Microsoft, which owns the rival Bing search engine, declined to comment.

One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan “puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them”.

Microsoft’s interest is being interpreted as a direct assault on Google because it puts pressure on the search engine to start paying for content.

“This is all about Microsoft hurting Google’s margins,” said the web publisher who is familiar with the plan.

But the biggest beneficiary of the tussle could be the newspaper industry, which has yet to construct a reliable online business model that adequately replaces declining print and advertising revenues.

In a possible sign of negotiations to come, Google last week played down the importance of newspaper content.

Matt Brittin, Google’s UK director, told a Society of Editors conference that Google did not need news content to survive. “Economically it’s not a big part of how we generate revenue,” he said.

News Corp has been exploring online payment models for its newspapers and has taken an increasingly hard line against Google.

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp chairman, has said that he would use legal methods to prevent Google “stealing stories” published in his papers.

Microsoft is desperate to catch Google in search and, after five years and hundreds of millions of dollars of losses, Bing, launched in June, marks its most ambitious attempt yet.

Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, has said that the company is prepared to spend heavily for many years to make Bing a serious rival to Google.

Microsoft has sought to differentiate Bing by drawing in material not found elsewhere, though it has not demanded exclusivity from content partners. Bing accounted for 9.9 per cent of searches in the US in October, up from 8.4 per cent at its launch, according to ComScore.

James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp Europe and Asia, hinted last week that the company was making progress with its online plans. “We think that there’s a very exciting marketplace, potentially a wholesale market place for digital journalism that we’ll be developing,” he said
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