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I'm really excited about this move. When I was working on my startup, broke, fresh out of grad school, $12k could have been the lifeline we needed. Instead, we had to stop building while we tried to raise funds prematurely, and bled out before we could pick up momentum.

As long as you guys are as selective as you are with the startups you fund, I think we may well see a whole bunch of startups in 5 years that we can trace back to this fellowship. I think this is a great first step to leveling the playing field for those who don't come from / don't have a whole lot of capital, and might just need a shot. Very timely, in light of the recent Quartz article [1].

[1] http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-...
I was hoping your comment would address GIGO
Quantium communication would be a far better alternative then to sending radio-waves through space.
The strut that we believe failed was designed and material certified to handle 10,000 lbs of force, but failed at 2,000 lbs, a five-fold difference. [...] these struts have been used on all previous Falcon 9 flights and are certified to withstand well beyond the expected loads during flight [...]

Huh. So the strut was way over-engineered for the load and still failed, likely due to a hidden mechanical flaw. Would that make more sense to use a large number of smaller struts then, such that a failure of one or two would be less problematic? You can even test the design for it - make sure the rocket is still working when certain number of struts fail. The assembly cost would certainly rise, but the current design seems to be not sufficiently redundant.
>spending very little

you are spending a lot of valuable time
Christ was that a galling experience on update: expecting me to get online to see the photos on my device that I had just taken.

BTW: I am unrelated to them but I do recommend QuickPic, it does pretty much exactly what you'd want and very little else.
I pay abroad with my credit card and [I believe] I'm paying only 1% commission. Very reasonable.
The 5,058 projects figure are people who've signed up and started projects. There've actually only been 836 launched projects, with 336 funded and 395 failed. Not sure why that number got reported, perhaps an attempt at "there are 5000+ researchers who've signed up".

https://experiment.com/stats
> ...speculating on cause of death is nonetheless considered in extremely poor taste.

This feeling is far from universal. Never forget that most of us live in our own social bubble.

It would very be nice if -as braythwayt mentioned a little bit earlier- we could section off speculation from condolences and remembrances. Unfortunately, HN -with its relatively short lived posts, flat posting namespace, and votes-make-topics-stick-on-the-frontpage mechanism- is not able to meet this need.
I wish that HN was more like Metafilter in its ability to section off condolences and well-wishes threads from speculation threads.

Unfortunately, the method by which posts get to and stay on the front page ensure that HN will never be able to perform this sort of segmentation.
This problem applies to a non-central planned economy too. Someone somewhere has to make a decision of what people want to buy and make it in advance of the item being purchased (hence inventory). This is why most business use central planning. If they get the planning wrong they lose money and potentially go out of business. The question is can this be scaled up now economy wide now that we have much more advanced computational tools to predict and react swiftly to demand changes. I don’t know :)
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Hmm, the takeaway I see here is to find out the period each vendor's quota is measured in, and slot your orders in early.
I only hope that YCF get's back to those accepted and denied quickly.

I see this as a great program for students and if they wait too long, students may end up in an awkward position where they are unsure whether they should drop out for the semester, without hearing anything back from YCF.

I think it's a great program. $12,0000 is a lot of money to sit in your apartment and hack for 2 months on whatever it is you want. Great idea.
The CVE for the new one is much more descriptive about what the problem actually is: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3...

I couldn't immediately find a CVE for the old one, and Microsoft's security disclosures seem more suited towards IT pros and consumers, so they don't seem to have full details about what happened in that one.
I'm sorry that happened :( I hope you'll still be willing to write it again -- the system should work smoothly now.
Are there any plans to do a normal YC program (7%/$120k) but also be inclusive of remote teams?

0% for $12k is obviously a great deal, but my main stumbling block has always been the loss of income from dropping paid work, and $12k over two months is barely half an engineer's salary - let alone to cover multiple team members.

That said, it may well be enough to make someone like me think "well, at least I won't be earning zero dollars..."
I suspect that the "temporary" cap will be like a "temporary" tax. Good luck getting rid of it once it's in place.
FilmOn can use cable systems’ copyright license to stream broadcast TV
Every one has themselves philosophy, they only denotes the project they think worthwhile.
Some projects don't funded only due to the lack of ones with same belief.
But it is really exhilarating that 336 projects are funded
Probably pretty soon, no? Ars had an article entitled: "Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything". The claim was that Google builds multiple versions of its products targeted to slightly different market segments and use cases to hedge their investment. I think this is the perfect example (i.e. the fact that Google didn't just upgrade Picasa Web and built Google Photos instead). Given that Google Photos is most likely to succeed, it's just a matter of time before they shut down Picasa Web.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-stra...
Is Tarsnap a good fit for the VC industry? It is a great product, but it looks to be a much better fit for a bootstrapped lifestyle business? Why would you want to take VC money given all the problems that come with outside investors?
$54k :) http://priceonomics.com/how-microryza-acquired-the-domain-ex...
I agree for the most part, but it may well be enough to break through some inertia. 12k for a two man team is 3k/month, whereas in full time work most engineers would be making at least 10k/month. I know personally I'd be uninclined to ditch my entire income, but keeping at least a little trickle coming in would mean my savings wouldn't diminish quite so rapidly, and I'd probably be willing to take two months off to see how far it could accelerate my startup.

The real danger is whether follow-up funding could be found fast enough to have people quit their jobs and maintain the momentum achieved during the two month program.
Crockford’s Paradox:

Once you understand and fully appreciate Monads, you lose the ability to explain them to other people.
What's wrong with eugenism? Technology allows eugenism to be implemented without being unfair to anyone. But I fail to see how eugenism is needed to allow monogamous humans to exist on their own terms. I guess mentionning eugenism here is just a 'reductio ad hitlerum'.

Monogamous humans should be able to function in their own societies, with their own laws and a culture adapted to the non-trivial differences in social behavior monogamy entails without having to put up with the predatory behavior of polygamous humans and the cultural propaganda to glorify it. It's been shown that for monogamy as a trait to continue to exist it needs to be the dominant behavior in a group of animals. Others are free to revel in the "joys" of dog-eat-dog polygamous primate societies as long as they engage in this with others who consent.

Also noone exists in a vacuum. One's actions affect others (directly or indirectly) particularly when they live in the same society. Having people with deeply conflicting standards of behavior coexist in a futile attempt at a one-size-fits-all society that inherently favors one group over the other is not going to work.
there's a story behind it, but the tl:dr is far less than you would think -- a generous scientist basically donated it.
Not as much as you think. There's an interesting story behind it: http://priceonomics.com/how-microryza-acquired-the-domain-ex...
I think this would be a really cool thing to take part in for a couple of months after leaving my current job. Not that I plan on doing that any time soon, but I think it would be the perfect time to do so. Hopefully this succeeds and YC decides to do it on an ongoing basis.
Here in Canada we mostly use chip-and-pin cards, glad to be ahead of US on this one.
It depends on the lab's backlog. When I worked as an evidence technician, it would sometimes be six months or more between dropping off the samples and getting the results. I had one murder case that took nearly two years to get back, longer than my time in that position.
My guess is that anything much bigger than a 4-40 hex nut that comes loose inside a LOX tank is enough to ruin everybody's day.
What a great idea. Maybe this is what will keep corporate interests out of scientific research, as there's more transparency and diversity in funding sources. I'm willing to bet the reproducibility rate for these studies will be much higher than the ~30% average.
>What worries me about the future of Silicon Valley, is that one-dimensionality, that it's not a Renaissance culture, it's an engineering culture.

I find this actually offensively wrong. He redeems himself a little with the next sentence.

>It's an engineering culture that believes that it's revolutionary, but it's actually not that revolutionary. The Valley has, for a long time, mined a couple of big ideas.

Silicon Valley is Startup Culture, which is very different from the culture of engineers.

I hope that fewer and fewer engineers are being fooled by and buying into startup culture. On the other hand, there's always young blood.
Volt http://voltframework.com/, and Clearwater https://github.com/clearwater-rb/clearwater are exactly what you're looking for
Hyper, a Hypervisor-Agnostic Docker Engine
ASN.1 codec and C/Python compiler for embedded/small systems
No what? He says "many" other things, not "any other things".
Not a problem! :)
A few questions about tax (guess who is doing their taxes right now)

1. What are the tax implications of these fellowships for non-US citizens? The reason I ask is anyone with any experience of the IRS will want to avoid dealing with it if at all possible.

2. Will accepting such a grant mean the recipient will have to file a tax return with the IRS?

3. What about withholding taxes? Will the non-us recipient need to file a W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E form?
If you're a successful engineer in your 40s and have a full-time job, a family, and a mortgage in the developed world, you probably don't need $12k. That's at most two months' worth of regular salary for an experienced engineer in the U.S, and more likely just one month. You can easily save up or take out a loan with favorable interest rates if you're really passionate about doing something.

The problem is that since you already have so many long-term obligations, you cannot afford to fail and then not go back to your previous position. It doesn't matter whether the grant is $12k or $240k. That grant is gonna run out in a few weeks or months, and remember, most startups fail. And then what? There's no guarantee that your previous employer will want you back.

The need for stability, not the amount of the grant, is what's keeping older people from getting involved in startups. A startup is a risky investment, not just of money but of your life in general.
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US Standard now provides read-after-write consistency when accessed through the Northern Virginia endpoint [1].

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#What_data_consistency_model_d...
Hash your existing hash with a more powerful algorithm.
I've been blogging about it as hard as I can over at http://datamelon.io/blog . Hope that more people spread the word- it's going to be an amazing technology.
That comparison URL goes to a 'page not found' error for me, which is frankly astounding.
They currently add value to their current enterprise. That doesn't mean that they will also add value to some other enterprise, i.e. a startup.

The percentage of experienced professionals why waste the grant might be smaller than the percentage of just-out-of-college teams who waste the grant, but the difference might not be as large as to justify $200k.
This also keeps YC relevant even though the world in which they were created largely no longer exists:

- In 2005, there were essentially no sources for early stage capital. Now you can't tell someone about your startup at a meetup without five people trying to throw money in your face.

- In 2005, information about starting a startup was an oral tradition, and web technology was so primitive that making a scalable website basically required a CS degree. This meant that you really had to either be a business person or a CS person, whereas now being both is table stakes.

- In 2005, not only was it essentially impossible to meet VCs without some sort of special connections, it was difficult even to figure out who they were. These days they're all on LinkedIn, blogs, angellist, mattermark, etc., and as soon as you have any sort of traction they already know about you.

- In 2005, people still spent time dreaming about what the world would be like when everyone was connected to the Internet. Now the sociology is well understood, the infrastructure has matured, strategies and tactics have become commoditized, etc.

By giving away equity-free grants that come with access and advice, this basically positions YC as the next YC, regardless of what else is going on the world.
Yes I have - had some number of months to give them a check. It sounds like you didn't cross a tax year - this is good, as it will be on one w2, and generally simplifies the tax situation. They might only ask for the post tax amount. I used it in negotiating - in order to accept the new job i needed cash to cover the repayment.

However, I'd try to think a lot about shoo's response.
I like that they were playing Patsy Cline on the tape deck.
This looks awesome. I wish there was way to watch the videos of the course.
How about a conditional yes?

e.g. "We've been working on this project() for over a year on evenings and weekends, collectively contributing >1500 effort hours, and we have spent $75k on rent and expenses. To keep that going, and have each member meet their familial costs, at least some of us need to earn money from consulting. However, if sufficient follow-on funding can be found, we'd be very glad to answer yes, and focus on this exclusively."

It's a hardware project requiring a fair amount of warehouse/build space, hence the expenses.
Quick on the funding constraint. I've raised money on Kickstarter recently and am still in prototyping phase. Would I be able to apply? Thanks so much. :)
>Instead of expanding the amount of credit, why shouldn't we just expand the amount of actual money?

So just print more money? I just tried to explain to you that printing money without producing more goods/services just dilutes your purchasing power. The pain caused by _moderate_ inflation is easier to hoist on unsuspecting public, so inflation is typically chosen over bankruptcy (if you control the money printer - Greece is out of luck).

>there would be an accompanying increase in production.

Easier said than done. The US GDP has been bumping barely above 0 over the past several years, which means we are not producing more. A lot of reasons for it, but one of them is lack of consumption caused by excessive debt of consumers, who are flat out broke (and heavily in debt).
Looks like there's a proof of concept, at least for something really light for a very short distance. The longest distance is 127 meters, according to this article:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/420700/microwave-powere...
Non-destructive testing does not, by definition.
#Occasion2B+-+#YoNews+|+First+place+on+Earth+to+see+Tomorrow
lower barrier to entry. easier to get to acceptable quality.
BTW, there are places, like Nepal, where $12k could buy a lot more for a team.

Kathmandu could be a hub for backpacker coders and small teams. It is an ideal place for coding camps and sprints - rentals are cheap.

Also it is an education hub of a small country, so there is no shortage of English speaking CS students.

Nepal needs new visitors after earthquake.
Anyone else find this "hobby" somewhere between low-grade morally questionable and a completely banal use of above-average problem-solving skills? Upper middle class man-children with disposable income can, I'm sure you're surprised to find out, game overenthusiastic corporate behemoths?
Would it be ok to apply solo but also as a co-founder on another team?
"they used the name "Go" for the language" just because Google named that programming language 'Go'. Personally I don't like the name 'Go'. It's a verb. It should not be used as a name of a programming language or a board game.
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Yup, there's certainly a balance to be achieved.
I completely agree on the responsibility for acceptance testing, but _someone_ is responsible for the grain structure of the material, after all that's one of the most important properties of metals aside from their constituent metal content, which is itself chosen for its influence over the microstructure of the alloy.
> That's really ignorant.

Not at all, sounds like you to need a little review yourself [1]. At no point in my comment did I support mag stripe, just simply explain why it's still in widespread use. If you ever have worked in the finance industry you would understand that. Nobody is arguing that it should stay, but it's important to understand WHY they are still around. Just because it's the major standard doesn't make a good one.

Ignorant? Really? I expect more constructive comments here on HN instead of running around and calling people's comments "ignorant". Perhaps you need to review the HN Guidelines [2]. Specifically: 'When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."'

Alas, it will not be happening based on the latest abuse of downvotes on HN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9920207
> setting up a QA process to test each individual strut part

Can they actually do that? Aren't most of those tests destructive?
But to me this seems like a great opportunity for a solo founder to build a prototype and network with great potential cofounders.
Visualthesaurus.com is a good option for finding related terms. That combined with the techniques mentioned in other comments should get you on your way.
"The White Nerd's Burden" - must use that one. Kipling's words almost fit:

Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit
And work another’s gain
Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly) to the light:
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
“Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden-
Have done with childish days-
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
A decentralized prediction market called Augur is seeking Alpha testers
I'm with Nick Denton on this one. Just because you can publish a story doesn't mean you should publish a story. Not every website should aspire to be TMZ.
What do you mean? The write-up is hardly dispassionate or neutral - "Everything about our technology is great and kept working despite the fact our rocket blew up. We collect so much telemetry! Our engineers work so very hard! An nigh-unbreakable strut somehow broke and our rocket blew up. We will no longer use this nigh-unbreakable strut."

It's great they're publicly releasing their preliminary findings, but they're also practically patting themselves on the back while doing it. It reads more smarmy than refreshing.
Add http://decentralize.fm and Floss Weekly up there for me.
Monkey 'brain net' raises prospect of human brain-to-brain connection
Why should we only have huge libraries like jquery full of stuff we never use?

Think about Linux: it's all about lots of small applications all doing one small thing each.

How is JS different?
X86 assembler instruction
What does the following x86 assembler instruction do?

call dword ptr ds:[00923030h]

It's an indirect call I suspect, but exactly how does it compute the address to the call?
> why helium? it's light and unreactive

It's also one of the few gases that will stay at pressure even at the temperatures of liquid oxygen.

Other choices are neon (but it's heavier) and hydrogen, which would react with the oxygen.
Experiment.com falls into an awkward area for my fundraising efforts for longevity science projects. The community I raise from has been funding a few n*$10k scientific projects every year or so for a decade now, and the yearly fundraiser I cheerlead brought in $150k last year, and will hopefully do as well this year (halfway there). We're growing slowly in reach, but would greatly benefit from a Kickstarter-like thing that helps us pull in a larger audience and new faces.

That doesn't seem to be experiment.com yet, or indeed any of the organizations trying to crack the same nut of how you make crowdfunding work for research projects. We wouldn't do any better with them than we do with our own hacked-together infrastructure and communication channels. We need the existence of a large successful science crowdfunding community before it is worth our trying to surf on that science crowdfunding community, and I'm sure we're not the only people with that chicken and egg situation.

Some folk in the community have had luck with indiegogo.com for scientific research projects, such as mouse gene therapy or immune transfer treatments in European labs at a few tens of thousands of dollars, but even there I think it is a case that you are buying infrastructure for the audience you bring to the table, not buying fresh faces and new listeners to persuade to your point of view.

I'm vaguely hopeful that among the competitors in this space someone will come up with something that works and scales and pulls in the crowds, the halo of attention. There are some quite different styles of approach floating around, such as labcures.com that implements a "back a team" strategy, or lifespan.io that'll be launching sometime soon. Perhaps one of them will gain more traction. Experimentation is key.
This isn't showing in Windows update for me (Win 7 64-bit), nor under installed updates. Does Microsoft do staggered releases?
There's a lot of focus on $12K that I think is a red herring. This isn't a substitute for seed funding, it's not masquerading as a full-fledged accelerator, it's a chance to borrow some of the momentum of an organization that seems to have a pretty remarkable record at moonshots.

I've been working out of Denver and Vegas for several years now and the timing of this couldn't be better. After all, why iterate on the same dimension over and over and not try something new? I turn 50 on July 27. I've been working on fun projects for pretty much all of my adult life and I have better things to do than worry about things I can't control.