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ph0rque
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How Not to Die
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>> We've done this five times now, and we've seen a bunch of startups die. About 10 of them so far.So, not counting this batch (19), 10 out of 39 [1] startups died so far. So, the survival rate is 72%. Not bad! I know that some more YC companies might die at some point in the future, but the numbers so far seem impressive.[1] The following article quotes 58 companies funded in all: http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/08/paul-...
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2007-08-30 17:36:57 UTC
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byosko
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Does My Startup Idea Suck?
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entrepreneur
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I apologize if the submission title is misleading but the message is still valuable. It's not dissimilar to Paul Graham's speech / essay, "How Not to Die."His message, "You will doubt yourself. But don't give up."I wasn't as eloquent or elaborate, but still a similar message. The intention wasn't to linkbait anyone with a misleading headline.
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2007-08-30 17:38:36 UTC
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hornbeck
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How Not to Die
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Very good, made me wish I had not given up.
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2007-08-30 17:51:14 UTC
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zach
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Interesting to hear about this since many of us wonder what ends up happening. Kind of an unappealing subject -- nobody wants to read Founders at Rest, right?I guess startups are like old soldiers, they just fade away. Anyone want memamp.com? It went to unregistered status a week or two ago.But this was a good handling of the subject, and good for founders to hear. What I think is great about YC's structure is that it gives startups feedback and deadlines, and I agree that just getting those is enough to keep startups going. Someone should start a startup that just calls people once a week and talks with them about what they got done! It would work even better if the caller was of higher status, but it would work well enough with friends.But seriously, for startups this would work great. Get together with a group and make a weekly appointment for each person to call another each week and chat about what they're doing, preferably with a little demo. I'm sure one of you is already thinking of how to make this a Facebook app, but I think a personal phone call would work best.P.S.: "Francisco."
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2007-08-30 17:55:30 UTC
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donna
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Resources for the entrepreneur
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vandit09
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Useful reminders.
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from an MIT lecturer
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2007-08-30 17:56:06 UTC
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steve
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How Not to Die
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So we're all experiencing the same thing?That's relieving to hear.
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2007-08-30 17:57:12 UTC
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bharath
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How Not to Die
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A great read as always. Unlike the usual PG, more inspiring than analytical.
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2007-08-30 17:59:43 UTC
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donna
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Easy way to boost karma
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mangodrunk
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good debugging... and good hack.. however it's a moot point if one's intention is to only gain points from the Hacker News experience
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You can simply boost your karma by registering a new ID and up vote all of your own comments. I did this same thing and went from 10 to 25 (I don't mind if I am sent back to 10). Shouldn't there be some sort of limiting factor like: x = 1/y where x is the increase in karma and y is the number of times a certain user has up voted your comments.
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2007-08-30 18:03:24 UTC
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jsjenkins168
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How Not to Die
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I will say it plainly: This is the most influential, well written essay I have ever read. It hit a chord very deep with me..
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2007-08-30 18:13:06 UTC
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rms
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How Not to Die
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It's kind of depressing to not have any real startup peer group in Pittsburgh. News.yc is serving as a kind of substitute, for me. I'm really looking forward to when we get to turn our startup's shopping cart on and ask news.yc for feedback.
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2007-08-30 18:16:54 UTC
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geebee
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How Not to Die
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50% sounds like really good odds to me, given the payout. It depends to some extent on what it means to fail, and how long it takes to succeed. But if your odds of a substantial payout are 50%, and the length of time to get to success or failure is less than 4 years, then these are phenomenal odds. Of course, it's not just money - you "pay" in other ways. If it takes, say, 4 years to get to the success or failure point, then some people will have worked for over 12 years with grim determination and still never quite nail it. I wonder if this is a memory-less process (ie., how does a previous failure affect your future attempts?). Wisdom and exhaustion in equal parts, I'd suspect, and only one side is going to win.
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2007-08-30 18:21:55 UTC
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brlewis
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How Not to Die
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Thank you Paul.If we can be recipients of messages like this, I don't think any of us not funded by YC should feel like we're outside the club.
| null | 4 | 169 |
2007-08-30 18:27:39 UTC
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far33d
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How Not to Die
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A good friend of mine once described pg as a "modern-day Horatio Alger for hackers".
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2007-08-30 18:31:25 UTC
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benhoyt
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Very helpful and inspiring. Thanks! But:> We're taking on some consulting projects, but we're going to keep working on the startup.All good if you're single, but what if you've got a wife and family and just need the cash? (Okay, feel free to say you shouldn't start a startup with a family, but it's too late... :-)
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2007-08-30 18:42:57 UTC
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Goladus
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How Not to Die
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Fear of humilation and fear of failure is also the most significant thing to overcome in terms of applying to Y Combinator at all. I'd far rather be rejected from the start, having failed at the application process, than to get into the program and disappoint everyone.
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2007-08-30 18:49:15 UTC
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jsjenkins168
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Facebook adding Friend Lists; implications for Top Friends, LinkedIn?
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joshwa
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This just shows how vulnerable a successful application is when someone else holds your keys. I would feel very uncomfortable if my business were entirely at the mercy of someone else. I'm sure Slide will be fine though even if top friends is killed, they've got excellent trajectory.
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2007-08-30 18:57:00 UTC
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binnymathews
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How Not to Die
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This is probably among the most operational focussed essay I have read from PG on startups. Its so true - nothing focuses the human mind more than deadlines and public statements to live upto. I go around telling everyone I know, including people at work that I want to start a company and it has a very subconcious effect on me, when people are constantly asking me so whats happening on your startup front. Also very good point about how peers motivate each other. When I am sitting in my weekly target meetings and see that my peer did 110% of his target and i did only 95%, it immediately triggers me to go and re-examine my methods.
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2007-08-30 19:08:07 UTC
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run4yourlives
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Google would have acquired facebook by now if it was really worth it
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mpc
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Because Facebook isn't worth 4.5 Billion.
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-30 19:08:23 UTC
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ivankirigin
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Thoughts on Image Processing in JavaScript?
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ivankirigin
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I'm told they've filed a patent on the method they used. Often a component can be changed in the actual implementation to avoid infringement, but that means more work.Also you can find a paper for the work here:
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/
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I intend to work on javascript tools to do image processing at DevHouseBoston.
http://devboston.pbwiki.com/Dev3ProjectsThe goals are to build an open framework, to learn more JavaScript, and eventually to implement that crazy dynamic image resize method that's been floating around the internet.
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mo...I thought I'd ask this group if they knew of any existing tools to use. A cursory google search found little.This might be easier to do in Flash, but I want to learn more JavaScript and get the sense that it will be more portable this way. Any thoughts on this issue?
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2007-08-30 19:13:06 UTC
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kobs
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Which keyboard do you use?
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vikram
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823109...
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A few days back my Kinesis keyboard broke down so I am looking for a cheaper option?
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2007-08-30 19:19:32 UTC
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s_baar
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The word "Hacker" - Negative to Positive
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iamyoohoo
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I never call someone a "hacker" because people have such strong opinions about it. If you use it in a community where people aren't as progressive about it then you just look silly.
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3-4 years ago when I started programming right out of school, the word Hacker used to have a negative connotation. I always wanted to call myself that but people would say "Hackers are people that just hack things together and cannot build scalable solutions" and programmers are ones that build real solutions. Glad to see that is changing now. I didn't agree then - I don't now. Do you ?
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2007-08-30 19:20:17 UTC
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mpfefferle
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Google would have acquired facebook by now if it was really worth it
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mpc
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I thought Facebook was getting horrible ad performance. Also, Google adds normally complement information content. Facebook is more about communication and personal connections.
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2007-08-30 19:23:04 UTC
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Xichekolas
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Why not incorporate off-shore? Ireland's corporate tax is 12.5%; British Virgin Islands' is 0%
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falsestprophet
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From what I read, the legal environment in your place of incorporation matters as much as, if not more than, the tax rate. So many companies incorporate in Delaware because it has extremely detailed corporate case law history (and separate courts for corporate law), even though it is more expensive to incorporate there than most other states.I would imagine for the average startup it's more an issue of overhead costs. Incorporating in Ireland, for instance, would require you to have a legal expert in Irish law on the payroll (most likely an Irish Lawyer) and deal with all the fancy tax forms I'm sure the IRS has for offshore companies doing business in the US.I highly doubt either of those places is a hostile legal climate by any means (but IANAL!), but it seems like all that paperwork would be distracting from your business when you are that small.
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2007-08-30 19:46:19 UTC
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garbowza
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How Not to Die
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This is fantastic. The essay feels more "shoot from the hip" and emotional than normal. It will certainly stay with me!
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2007-08-30 19:49:06 UTC
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Xichekolas
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Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?
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nameless
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Can't claim to have actually used them, but I have kept an eye on slicehost ... might be worth a look anyway.
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As a one man band, I've been looking at some Virtual Private Servers to try and make low level scalability issues more of a money issue rather than a time issue. I've looked at thegridlayer.com and mediatemple's dv packages. So far I like mediatemple because it comes with a control panel, Virtuozzo, etc. thegridlayer's solutions seem to require more setup and come with none of these features out of the gate. Is there a better VPS provider with more timesaving features and reliability or an easier way to get a good, quick scaling server?
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2007-08-30 19:51:58 UTC
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alex_c
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The word "Hacker" - Negative to Positive
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iamyoohoo
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Is it changing?I think it still holds the same connotation (that's in the rare cases where hacker isn't already taken to mean someone who breaks into computers). Which is why I cringed when startup news changed to hacker news.
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3-4 years ago when I started programming right out of school, the word Hacker used to have a negative connotation. I always wanted to call myself that but people would say "Hackers are people that just hack things together and cannot build scalable solutions" and programmers are ones that build real solutions. Glad to see that is changing now. I didn't agree then - I don't now. Do you ?
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2007-08-30 19:52:01 UTC
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falsestprophet
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Facebook adding Friend Lists; implications for Top Friends, LinkedIn?
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joshwa
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Ruin.
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2007-08-30 19:56:21 UTC
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brlewis
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The word "Hacker" - Negative to Positive
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iamyoohoo
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I essentially agree with them.Programmers are people who know what they're doing, like janitors.Hackers are people who don't know what they're doing and are trying to figure things out, like scientists.Code that shows you didn't know what you were doing is a hack.Code that shows an innovative way to do something is a cool hack.
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3-4 years ago when I started programming right out of school, the word Hacker used to have a negative connotation. I always wanted to call myself that but people would say "Hackers are people that just hack things together and cannot build scalable solutions" and programmers are ones that build real solutions. Glad to see that is changing now. I didn't agree then - I don't now. Do you ?
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2007-08-30 19:58:00 UTC
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Goladus
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The word "Hacker" - Negative to Positive
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iamyoohoo
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I have a few definitions of hacker, and consider it a fairly nebulous word.1. Someone who has attained a level of mastery of the art of making a computer do what you want.2. Someone who loves doing (1), even if they aren't a "master"3. A programmer who tends to use creative solutions with little regard for convention. This can sometimes be negative.My definition of programmer is:1. Someone who writes computer programs
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3-4 years ago when I started programming right out of school, the word Hacker used to have a negative connotation. I always wanted to call myself that but people would say "Hackers are people that just hack things together and cannot build scalable solutions" and programmers are ones that build real solutions. Glad to see that is changing now. I didn't agree then - I don't now. Do you ?
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2007-08-30 20:01:01 UTC
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joshwa
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Tales of an Instant Company - the founding of epinions.com
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sharpshoot
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Dot bomb or not, this article does inspire me to go out and make stuff happen fast!"This is not a strategy play, this is an execution play" sure describes a whole lot of web2.0 startups...
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2007-08-30 20:08:14 UTC
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nickb
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Facebook adding Friend Lists; implications for Top Friends, LinkedIn?
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joshwa
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Facebook giveth, facebook taketh away. When you develop for someone's platform, you always have this fear.
| null | 1 | 8 |
2007-08-30 20:11:12 UTC
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Xichekolas
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Which keyboard do you use?
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vikram
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I recently got this:http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=...I like it so far. The split nature makes you type correctly (hitting the T with your right hand is quite a stretch otherwise) and the angle is very relaxing on the wrists. I am at the computer about 15 hours a day and never have wrist strain.It's amazing how hard it is to find a keyboard with a simple wire nowdays. I went to Best Buy originally and all they had were wireless models. Am I the only one that doesn't see the point in having a six foot cable run to a wireless transmitter that only has a six foot range?
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A few days back my Kinesis keyboard broke down so I am looking for a cheaper option?
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2007-08-30 20:25:50 UTC
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wmf
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Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?
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nameless
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Are you talking about scaling from 1/10 of a server to 1 server, or from 1 to 10 servers, or from 10 to 1000 servers?I was turned off by 3Tera/TheGridLayer because their sites are all marketing, no tech. But I just discovered the docs (http://doc.3tera.net/AppLogic2/WebHome.html), so now it's possible to size up their system without some salesperson sizing up my wallet first.TGL's prices for individual VPSes do not look competitive and the starting price of $4000/month for a virtual datacenter is pretty spicy.Previous VPS discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43949
Most providers do not mention scalability or upgrades on their sites, so maybe it is worth paying more to MT for scalability.
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As a one man band, I've been looking at some Virtual Private Servers to try and make low level scalability issues more of a money issue rather than a time issue. I've looked at thegridlayer.com and mediatemple's dv packages. So far I like mediatemple because it comes with a control panel, Virtuozzo, etc. thegridlayer's solutions seem to require more setup and come with none of these features out of the gate. Is there a better VPS provider with more timesaving features and reliability or an easier way to get a good, quick scaling server?
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2007-08-30 20:26:22 UTC
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Xichekolas
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Ask Hackers: How to solve the Wifi dilemma?
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donna
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We could get everyone to sign up to http://www.fon.com/en/ or some similar service.
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With all the urban WiFi projects getting shelved:
Chicago Drops Expensive WiFi Project http://www.tmcnet.com/wifirevolution/articles/10205-chicago-...S.F. citywide Wi-Fi plan fizzles as provider backs off
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/30/...Anybody have any ideas how to create a breakthrough solution? Seems there are numerous supply of wifi connections, but they all need passcodes.I want to be able log on to any WiFi in San Francisco even if I don't have the passcode... I don't want to use a hacker tool, and I want it to be fair to everyone. What's the problem with doing that?
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2007-08-30 20:30:10 UTC
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timr
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Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
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jamiequint
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I'm surprised that nobody has posted a link to the R language archive site:http://cran.r-project.org/R is a GPL project; there are free builds for the major operating systems, including a nice graphical environment for OS X.R is an incredibly useful language -- with only a little bit of effort, you can do sophisticated statistical analyses that would take weeks to implement in other languages. It's also a great tool for developing/prototyping statistical machine-learning algorithms. Highly recommended.
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Rant from Zed Shaw of Mongrel Fame
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2007-08-30 20:47:00 UTC
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juwo
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How Not to Die
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Before you get too excited about this article, realize that if you are not in the YC club, this article was not intended for you.In other words, the warm encouraging phrases have qualifiers - you have to figure out what they are and if they apply to you.
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2007-08-30 20:50:59 UTC
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run4yourlives
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Is Microsoft looking to buy RIM?
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run4yourlives
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Makes sense to me, but a hard deal to do for sure. RIM is not exactly a startup.With iPhone and the mysterious gPhone, Microsoft might find itself played out of this market... buying RIM would make them the leader here. It's also interesting to ponder what this would do to the other, non aligned players like Palm.
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2007-08-30 20:52:09 UTC
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davidw
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Is it time for profile pictures in Hacker News?
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blored
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If people want that, they can put a link in their profile.Hackers are experts at following links.
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I've been working out recently and I want to show off my biceps to all the cute girls reading Hacker News.Additionally, it would be nice to put a face to people's idiotic comments.
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2007-08-30 20:52:10 UTC
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DougBTX
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You're ideas aren't worthless, but they're pretty close.
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run4yourlives
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I'll get to work gathering some "imperial evidence".
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2007-08-30 21:01:36 UTC
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oditogre
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How Not to Die
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I wish I had known about Octopart before reading this essay. I needed a part a couple weeks ago that I had no idea what the technical term for it was, my best guesses lead to things that were totally wrong, and the company that made it was now under a different name, and I could find no trace of the device or anything similar on their online catalog. Oh, and my predecessor, who bought the thing in the first place, 'picked it up at a garage sale'. The correct part from the correct (newly named) company was the first result from Octopart when I tried it just now.
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2007-08-30 21:02:07 UTC
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steve
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Facebook adding Friend Lists; implications for Top Friends, LinkedIn?
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joshwa
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> Facebook has moved to directly compete with a top Platform application.Shocking.
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2007-08-30 21:05:12 UTC
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henryw
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Thoughts on Image Processing in JavaScript?
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ivankirigin
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I don't know if you can actually modify the image, but you could do things like change image width and height properties, or use css in ways to show manipulated image. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <style> body { margin: 0 } </style> <body> <script src="http://particletree.com/scripts/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <div id="image_container" > <img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif" id="image" style=" position:absolute; " /> </div> <input type="button" onclick="resize1()" value="double size" style="position:absolute; top: 260px;" /> <input type="button" onclick="resize2()" value="morph right side" style="position:absolute; top: 300px;" /> </body><script> var i = $('image'); var oldWidth = i.width ; var oldHeight = i.height ;function resize1() { i.width = oldWidth + oldWidth ; i.height = oldHeight + oldHeight ; i.style.clip = 'auto'; if ($('image2')) {$('image2').remove();} }function resize2() { i.width = oldWidth; i.height = oldHeight; i.setStyle( { clip: 'rect(0px 138px 110px 0px)'} ); new Insertion.Bottom( 'image_container', '<img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif" id="image2" style=" position:absolute; " /> '); i2 = $('image2'); i2.setStyle( { clip: 'rect(0px 552px 110px 276px)' , left: '-138px' } ); i2.width = oldWidth + oldWidth ; i2.height = oldHeight; } </script> </html>You could use overflow:hidden instead of clipping. Then find the math formulas for the resizing, attach drag handler to image edges, overlay semi-transparent layers to emulate effects. To save it in the end though the user has to take a screenshot or your backend script has to process it for the user.
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I intend to work on javascript tools to do image processing at DevHouseBoston.
http://devboston.pbwiki.com/Dev3ProjectsThe goals are to build an open framework, to learn more JavaScript, and eventually to implement that crazy dynamic image resize method that's been floating around the internet.
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mo...I thought I'd ask this group if they knew of any existing tools to use. A cursory google search found little.This might be easier to do in Flash, but I want to learn more JavaScript and get the sense that it will be more portable this way. Any thoughts on this issue?
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2007-08-30 21:05:15 UTC
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waleedka
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Is it time for profile pictures in Hacker News?
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blored
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Not necessarily pictures, but a link or an email is nice to have on one's profile. Most readers don't even have that.
Sometimes I'm surprised at people who declare that they're looking for co-founders and they don't even put a link or anyway through which you can contact them.
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I've been working out recently and I want to show off my biceps to all the cute girls reading Hacker News.Additionally, it would be nice to put a face to people's idiotic comments.
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2007-08-30 21:10:59 UTC
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waleedka
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Why not incorporate off-shore? Ireland's corporate tax is 12.5%; British Virgin Islands' is 0%
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falsestprophet
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You won't save on taxes because you pay where you're doing business. So, if your office is in California, or you hire people in California, then you'll have to pay CA taxes. At lease that's how it is in CA, AFAIK.
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2007-08-30 21:15:19 UTC
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steve
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Why not incorporate off-shore? Ireland's corporate tax is 12.5%; British Virgin Islands' is 0%
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falsestprophet
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Ireland and London are good for gambling or related ventures. Not sure why you'd want to do it there otherwise.
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2007-08-30 21:19:07 UTC
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waleedka
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Thoughts on Image Processing in JavaScript?
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ivankirigin
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JavaScript in a browser doesn't give you enough low-level access to manipulate images. A good compromise is to build the UI in javascript, and have the image processing on the server. Then, use AJAX to give the user a nice and quick experience that feels as if the processing is happening on the client. Of course, you won't have as dynamic a behavior as if it's all on the client, but that's probably the closest you can get with JavaScript. Other options include using a JavaApplet that runs on the client, or a .NET component (IE on Win only).
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I intend to work on javascript tools to do image processing at DevHouseBoston.
http://devboston.pbwiki.com/Dev3ProjectsThe goals are to build an open framework, to learn more JavaScript, and eventually to implement that crazy dynamic image resize method that's been floating around the internet.
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mo...I thought I'd ask this group if they knew of any existing tools to use. A cursory google search found little.This might be easier to do in Flash, but I want to learn more JavaScript and get the sense that it will be more portable this way. Any thoughts on this issue?
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2007-08-30 21:22:45 UTC
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48,462 | 48,397 |
jakehow
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Ask Hackers: How to solve the Wifi dilemma?
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donna
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The problem is that it doesnt work. I installed wifi in large NYC apt buildings for a long time. WiFi just doesnt work as reliably as wireline solutions. Here in NYC, I cannot even use my own wifi network from more than 15 feet away because, the entire spectrum is getting stomped on from everyone else around me.If your main goal is blowing away tax dollars to consultants, municipal wifi is awesome. If you just want to connect to the internet get an EVDO card.
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With all the urban WiFi projects getting shelved:
Chicago Drops Expensive WiFi Project http://www.tmcnet.com/wifirevolution/articles/10205-chicago-...S.F. citywide Wi-Fi plan fizzles as provider backs off
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/30/...Anybody have any ideas how to create a breakthrough solution? Seems there are numerous supply of wifi connections, but they all need passcodes.I want to be able log on to any WiFi in San Francisco even if I don't have the passcode... I don't want to use a hacker tool, and I want it to be fair to everyone. What's the problem with doing that?
| 0 | 5 |
2007-08-30 21:44:43 UTC
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48,464 | 48,294 |
miannini
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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Great essay! It applies to life in general not just start-ups!
| null | 32 | 169 |
2007-08-30 21:48:00 UTC
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48,465 | 48,378 |
SwellJoe
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Why not incorporate off-shore? Ireland's corporate tax is 12.5%; British Virgin Islands' is 0%
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falsestprophet
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Don't bother, if you plan to ever raise money, get acquired, or go public.I took the advice of an attorney in Texas and incorporated in Texas, with plans to switch to an LLC/Corporation holding company combo when it began making money--there's a well-known loophole in Texas tax law that allows the first 15 million to go untaxed (SBC LLC are the most famous beneficiaries of this loophole, and the most generous to politicians who keep it on the books). But when I began talking to folks in the rest of the business world it became apparent that those benefits were out-weighed by the negatives for a tech company that plans to be acquired or go IPO.Just incorporate in Delaware, and don't worry about it.
| null | 1 | 3 |
2007-08-30 21:51:28 UTC
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48,475 | 48,397 |
danw
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Ask Hackers: How to solve the Wifi dilemma?
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donna
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WiFi isnt the right technology. Wifi is for homes and offices. Wait for WiMax which is perfect for Towns and Cities. If you cant wait for wimax get a 3G phone and use it as a modem.
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With all the urban WiFi projects getting shelved:
Chicago Drops Expensive WiFi Project http://www.tmcnet.com/wifirevolution/articles/10205-chicago-...S.F. citywide Wi-Fi plan fizzles as provider backs off
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/30/...Anybody have any ideas how to create a breakthrough solution? Seems there are numerous supply of wifi connections, but they all need passcodes.I want to be able log on to any WiFi in San Francisco even if I don't have the passcode... I don't want to use a hacker tool, and I want it to be fair to everyone. What's the problem with doing that?
| 1 | 5 |
2007-08-30 22:26:14 UTC
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48,476 | 48,294 |
spacerguy
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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I totally agree with your niche market strategy and writing about stuff people care about, stickability is vital too! Thanks for these great ideas, Its a shame my deep passion is gobbled with my (NONPROFIT) star trek sci fi blog! A source of income would help run it!!
| null | 27 | 169 |
2007-08-30 22:26:20 UTC
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48,481 | 48,294 |
thingsilearned
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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Argh! I just moved back to Minnesota....
| null | 12 | 169 |
2007-08-30 22:37:56 UTC
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48,484 | 48,463 |
ivankirigin
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Seam Carving Demo in Flash
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swies
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Nice! I was thinking about making something like this for DevHouseBoston.
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Don't worry, it's not another link to the (very cool) video.
| 0 | 19 |
2007-08-30 22:41:23 UTC
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48,488 | 48,380 |
gscott
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Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?
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nameless
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I decided to host one of my applications, a live chat service for 'replicated' websites on GoDaddy.com of all places, before you laugh it has really worked out better then I would have imagined. I already had the code working well under load with stored procedures and everything else optimized. It is not under active development so the terrible mssql interface didn't bother me too much. I have 2000 paying customers and no problems. I pay $5 a month for the best shared hosting ever.
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As a one man band, I've been looking at some Virtual Private Servers to try and make low level scalability issues more of a money issue rather than a time issue. I've looked at thegridlayer.com and mediatemple's dv packages. So far I like mediatemple because it comes with a control panel, Virtuozzo, etc. thegridlayer's solutions seem to require more setup and come with none of these features out of the gate. Is there a better VPS provider with more timesaving features and reliability or an easier way to get a good, quick scaling server?
| 1 | 6 |
2007-08-30 22:48:12 UTC
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48,490 | 48,294 |
staunch
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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A big part of why The Woz was so eager to hack up a PC was to show it off to his peers at The Homebrew Computer Club. Once he got a reputation for being smart it must have been a lot of motivation to maintain and improve that reputation.
| null | 3 | 169 |
2007-08-30 22:51:26 UTC
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48,491 | 48,417 |
ivankirigin
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Is it time for profile pictures in Hacker News?
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blored
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You can blame this guy for any of my comments: http://twitter.com/account/profile_image/ikirigin
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I've been working out recently and I want to show off my biceps to all the cute girls reading Hacker News.Additionally, it would be nice to put a face to people's idiotic comments.
| 3 | 10 |
2007-08-30 22:52:02 UTC
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48,492 | 48,414 |
rokhayakebe
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The Startup Game: How Anywhere.fm is building a hit niche
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dhouston
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Now did i not say this. This is one startup product I can honestly say I am jealous of. Boy why did I not think of it? I am gonna start being a hater (lol). Just kidding. Love it. Keep up the good work.
| null | 1 | 34 |
2007-08-30 22:52:16 UTC
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48,499 | 48,333 |
ivankirigin
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NASA Tests New Rocket Engine in Mojave Desert
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iotal
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A space elevator is the only reasonable way to power human exploration and colonization. Everything else is learning how to fly by strapping big springs to your boots: it just doesn't scale.Luckily a lunar elevator is much easier and more managable. It is achievable with today's materials. The main benefits of building a lunar elevator are two-fold: 1) the system engineering learning in the process would be invaluable.2) Lunar material could be used to make an earth elevator.This is why I'm so excited about the recent developments in lunar vehicles. It's actually much more important than anything else NASA does.
| null | 0 | 4 |
2007-08-30 23:15:06 UTC
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48,505 | 48,380 |
nameless
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Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?
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nameless
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I've been analyzing slicehost and they look great, but it looks like I'll have to do too much of the server admin myself, including security. Plus, they are currently back ordered unless you prepay. Says alot for them though that they refuse customers due to server loads. MediaTemple's dv offering seems to be 'dedicated light' in that apache, php, mysql etc are preinstalled. Also MT has a security update option where they updated tested versions of apps as they come out. Looks like that could take alot of server admin work off my hands, which is what I'm looking for. Anyone else have an easier option?
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As a one man band, I've been looking at some Virtual Private Servers to try and make low level scalability issues more of a money issue rather than a time issue. I've looked at thegridlayer.com and mediatemple's dv packages. So far I like mediatemple because it comes with a control panel, Virtuozzo, etc. thegridlayer's solutions seem to require more setup and come with none of these features out of the gate. Is there a better VPS provider with more timesaving features and reliability or an easier way to get a good, quick scaling server?
| 3 | 6 |
2007-08-30 23:30:44 UTC
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rms
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The Graphical Keyboard User Interface
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nickb
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The MS Office/Open Office control panel is also a terrible example of GUI. To the uninitiated, it looks like an airplane control panel.
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-30 23:47:51 UTC
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48,514 | 48,294 |
arey_abhishek
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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Its a great post. Very reassuring to hear someone confirm and re-confirm that startups bring a lot of bad shit :) .
| null | 38 | 169 |
2007-08-31 00:02:20 UTC
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48,515 | 48,184 |
webwright
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Tales of an Instant Company - the founding of epinions.com
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sharpshoot
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Web 2.0 in 1999.I love how they talk about how fast and easy it is to create a web company "nowadays".
| null | 5 | 20 |
2007-08-31 00:05:01 UTC
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48,518 | 48,417 |
webwright
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Is it time for profile pictures in Hacker News?
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blored
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Pipes are terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be smoking them in the future. (I'll upvote if you can name the reference)http://www.tonywright.com(I refuse to link to Twitter)
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I've been working out recently and I want to show off my biceps to all the cute girls reading Hacker News.Additionally, it would be nice to put a face to people's idiotic comments.
| 2 | 10 |
2007-08-31 00:09:28 UTC
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48,523 | 48,284 |
alex_c
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Thoughts on Image Processing in JavaScript?
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ivankirigin
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My first instinct was "no", but then I remembered this:http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/I don't know what kind of image processing you want to do, but the demo above definitely pushes the boundaries of what I thought JavaScript can do. I haven't had the time to dig in and learn how it works.Really simple stuff - moving, resizing, cropping - is trivial to do with JavaScript and server-side with something like ImageMagick.No matter what, beware of IE6. I've only recently come to truly appreciate how slow and buggy it really is. No idea if IE7 is better. So I'll change my answer to "Maybe, but not in IE".
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I intend to work on javascript tools to do image processing at DevHouseBoston.
http://devboston.pbwiki.com/Dev3ProjectsThe goals are to build an open framework, to learn more JavaScript, and eventually to implement that crazy dynamic image resize method that's been floating around the internet.
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mo...I thought I'd ask this group if they knew of any existing tools to use. A cursory google search found little.This might be easier to do in Flash, but I want to learn more JavaScript and get the sense that it will be more portable this way. Any thoughts on this issue?
| 3 | 7 |
2007-08-31 00:35:32 UTC
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48,533 | 48,414 |
amichail
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The Startup Game: How Anywhere.fm is building a hit niche
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dhouston
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I would like to see support for windows sound formats.
| null | 2 | 34 |
2007-08-31 00:50:40 UTC
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48,536 | 48,294 |
wesleyb
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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Inspiring (as always).
| null | 46 | 169 |
2007-08-31 01:08:02 UTC
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48,538 | 48,532 |
pg
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Any plans on selling Ycombo hats/t-shirts?
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aswanson
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We have them; we just don't sell them.http://www.flickr.com/photos/80819445@N00/1166586940/in/set-...(That's Xobni founder Adam Smith I think.)
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I like the logo.
| 0 | 1 |
2007-08-31 01:12:58 UTC
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48,539 | 48,408 |
kansando
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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 9: How to hire a professional CEO
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abstractbill
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You know the Boston area VCs insist on replacing the founding CEOs. Are they nuts?
| null | 0 | 21 |
2007-08-31 01:13:49 UTC
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48,541 | 48,509 |
bolt
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Octopart has a social news site
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rms
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It looks like there is some more info about their news site here:
http://news.octopart.com/faq
| null | 2 | 18 |
2007-08-31 01:14:19 UTC
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48,543 | 48,537 |
kkim
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Interesting stats on tech startups – only 16% fail?
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bouncingsoul
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... of the 769 companies in his study.
| null | 1 | 13 |
2007-08-31 01:18:07 UTC
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48,546 | 48,509 |
andres
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Octopart has a social news site
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rms
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The idea behind the site was to be more oriented towards forums than news stories. Basically, we wanted to provide a way for somebody to ask design questions to a community of smart hardware hackers. Of course, cool hardware stories are hard to come by so they make great submissions as well.
| null | 0 | 18 |
2007-08-31 01:25:04 UTC
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48,547 | 48,509 |
rokhayakebe
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Octopart has a social news site
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rms
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Cool. So the hardware nuts go there and talk about building stuff, then they look for the parts on the site before buying it from the site.
| null | 4 | 18 |
2007-08-31 01:29:04 UTC
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48,550 | 48,509 |
joshwa
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Octopart has a social news site
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rms
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Looks like it's built on the same codebase as news.yc...
| null | 1 | 18 |
2007-08-31 01:44:32 UTC
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48,554 | 48,553 |
rms
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Silicon Valley aside, why are Americans more willing to risk a startup?
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weebro
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http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html"I think what holds back European hackers is simply that they don't meet so many people who've done it. You see that variation even within the US. Stanford students are more entrepreneurial than Yale students, but not because of some difference in their characters; the Yale students just have fewer examples.I admit there seem to be different attitudes toward ambition in Europe and the US. In the US it's ok to be overtly ambitious, and in most of Europe it's not. But this can't be an intrinsically European quality; previous generations of Europeans were as ambitious as Americans. What happened? My hypothesis is that ambition was discredited by the terrible things ambitious people did in the first half of the twentieth century. Now swagger is out. (Even now the image of a very ambitious German presses a button or two, doesn't it?)It would be surprising if European attitudes weren't affected by the disasters of the twentieth century. It takes a while to be optimistic after events like that. But ambition is human nature. Gradually it will re-emerge."
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I'm based in the UK and am hoping to apply to YC in Oct. We are currently looking for strong hackers to co-found with us, if they like the idea. We cannot, however, find anyone in the UK even remotely interested. The concept of 'it's not what you do but when you do it' simply does not exist here. What does the US have that we don't?
| 1 | 10 |
2007-08-31 01:54:33 UTC
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48,556 | 48,184 |
wastedbrains
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Tales of an Instant Company - the founding of epinions.com
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sharpshoot
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Still around since 1999, but it still sucks seriously does anyone even use epinions. I have never found it useful while searching and comparing products online.I guess that is a good thing since we are working on a competitor of sorts.
| null | 4 | 20 |
2007-08-31 01:55:29 UTC
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48,558 | 48,532 |
aswanson
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Any plans on selling Ycombo hats/t-shirts?
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aswanson
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Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Y_Combinator_Logo_400.gif
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I like the logo.
| 1 | 1 |
2007-08-31 02:00:43 UTC
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48,559 | 48,294 |
aswanson
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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Or, in the words of the immortal bard 50 Cent, 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
| null | 30 | 169 |
2007-08-31 02:05:42 UTC
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48,560 | 48,553 |
daweedo
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Silicon Valley aside, why are Americans more willing to risk a startup?
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weebro
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On a quick note...I would have to say that the laws of the US provide a unique and time-tested opportunity for startups. This has driven the US to become a destination for many of the world's immigrants, leaving their own countries less populated with potential risk takers. The notion of a free market is what distinguished the US from its European counterparts at its inception and has since demonstrated the ability to learn and grow. The benefit of the US at that time was a clean slate economy without all of the potential 'baggage' that the European countries possessed in the monarchical systems. What's more, for the most part it didn't matter where you came from or who your family was in the US. All that mattered was market potential.Though European countries have moved their economies in much the same direction they still have to contend with the history of their governments. Culture and history are slow to let go of a people group. New ideas take time to be successfully introduced on an indigenous level if they are to become part of the cultural paradigm and identified history.
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I'm based in the UK and am hoping to apply to YC in Oct. We are currently looking for strong hackers to co-found with us, if they like the idea. We cannot, however, find anyone in the UK even remotely interested. The concept of 'it's not what you do but when you do it' simply does not exist here. What does the US have that we don't?
| 3 | 10 |
2007-08-31 02:11:58 UTC
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48,570 | 48,129 |
mynameishere
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Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth (or why not everyone should be a social worker)
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jamiequint
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Malaria is an interesting case. It was our sympathies for the poor little birdies dying of DDT that doomed millions of people to death. Next time you hear about the wicked conservatives, just remember that most of the mass murders of the world have come from the left...with moral righteousness and absurdity combined in full force.Still, there's something sensible (in a primal way) about our sympathies for one suffering servant, but not a hundred. When that many people are dying it strongly suggests that the malady is an epidemic...and that our best strategy is evasion.
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I've gotten into more than a few arguments with people who disparage entrepreneurs (read capitalists) as greedy, and too insensitive. What do you think the world would be without some of them? Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, greedy, I think not.
| 0 | 22 |
2007-08-31 02:40:17 UTC
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48,575 | 48,408 |
staunch
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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 9: How to hire a professional CEO
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abstractbill
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I was going to print up #9 and read it over a nice casual lunch sitting outside at a table in the sun. Now I get to re-read "Don't" 2000 times. Thanks Marc, ya bastard!
| null | 1 | 21 |
2007-08-31 02:50:34 UTC
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48,577 | 48,545 |
aswanson
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Google's Orkut Revamped.
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kashif
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That was a little too big brotherish. It talked to me with my gmail name. I have never logged into Orkut. Spooky.
| null | 0 | 1 |
2007-08-31 02:51:56 UTC
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48,579 | 48,294 |
sbraford
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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Dangit Mr. Graham you're making me want to do a startup again!(just when I'm finally making > $100k if you include all the bad-ass benefits & shit!)
| null | 34 | 169 |
2007-08-31 02:58:35 UTC
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48,580 | 48,294 |
mudge
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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Thanks Paul for deciding to write that. Reading it helped me.
| null | 41 | 169 |
2007-08-31 03:04:05 UTC
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48,592 | 48,537 |
daniel-cussen
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Interesting stats on tech startups – only 16% fail?
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bouncingsoul
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That 90% failure percentage is still true. You just have to not die for a grand total of 18 months, and the odds go from 85% to much less.
| null | 2 | 13 |
2007-08-31 03:57:57 UTC
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dood
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Octopart has a social news site
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rms
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Interesting that they don't require registration to submit links, presumably relying on javascript + obscurity to avoid spam.
| null | 3 | 18 |
2007-08-31 04:34:55 UTC
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48,599 | 48,553 |
menloparkbum
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Silicon Valley aside, why are Americans more willing to risk a startup?
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weebro
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Some of them might be telecommuting for a US based startup. For instance, it is very hard to find people who are good with audio/video signal processing in the USA. The good ones are all in Europe. We have guys in France, Spain, London, and Estonia.
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I'm based in the UK and am hoping to apply to YC in Oct. We are currently looking for strong hackers to co-found with us, if they like the idea. We cannot, however, find anyone in the UK even remotely interested. The concept of 'it's not what you do but when you do it' simply does not exist here. What does the US have that we don't?
| 8 | 10 |
2007-08-31 04:50:37 UTC
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48,602 | 48,347 |
anonymous1
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TellThem: MySpace Kills Another Startup
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terpua
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Umm, they were asking for people's MySpace password and proxying their connx. This is the sureest way to train MySpace users to accept Phishing.Of course they cut them off. Any rational site would have.
| null | 0 | 7 |
2007-08-31 05:10:06 UTC
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48,604 | 48,294 |
skeptic
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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"It would be unthinkably humiliating to fail now. At this point he is committed to fight to the death."I'm going to have to disagree with the majority of fanboys here and say that I (still) disagree with Paul's premise that a good way to spend your life is to be miserable in anticipation of a tiny chance to be wealthy. I'd rather enjoy my job every day instead of live in the kind of environment where failure would be synonymous with my actual death. Many great things have come of "failure."
| null | 11 | 169 |
2007-08-31 05:49:30 UTC
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48,618 | 48,284 |
ed
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Thoughts on Image Processing in JavaScript?
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ivankirigin
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Hey Ivan, JS is a seriously crippled language when it comes to doing low-level processing. Like others have mentioned, cropping and resizing are trivial; however, to do anything even slightly sophisticated I'd suggest looking into flash.Flash 8's image API -- specifically the BitmapData class -- can provide some low-level access to an image buffer (however the image must be round-tripped from localhost to the server if you want to edit local images).Alternatively, IE provides some proprietary image filters which can be used to process images (but obviously not in a cross-browser way).
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I intend to work on javascript tools to do image processing at DevHouseBoston.
http://devboston.pbwiki.com/Dev3ProjectsThe goals are to build an open framework, to learn more JavaScript, and eventually to implement that crazy dynamic image resize method that's been floating around the internet.
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mo...I thought I'd ask this group if they knew of any existing tools to use. A cursory google search found little.This might be easier to do in Flash, but I want to learn more JavaScript and get the sense that it will be more portable this way. Any thoughts on this issue?
| 5 | 7 |
2007-08-31 06:56:32 UTC
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chaostheory
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Silicon Valley aside, why are Americans more willing to risk a startup?
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weebro
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I think it also has a lot to do with the way Americans view failure (versus Europeans and a few Asian countries).In America while failure is not a good thing, it is also not a permanent thing that can scar you forever as a pariah in both society and the business community. You can try again and again... I could be wrong, but I don't think this is the case for Europe or countries like Japan; it's much harder to try something entrepreneurial more than once if you failed the 1st time...Case in point, I think it took Sam Walton over ten tries before he got it right with Walmart. (Hell look at Edison too)(I think as Americans we're just crazier than the Europeans.)
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I'm based in the UK and am hoping to apply to YC in Oct. We are currently looking for strong hackers to co-found with us, if they like the idea. We cannot, however, find anyone in the UK even remotely interested. The concept of 'it's not what you do but when you do it' simply does not exist here. What does the US have that we don't?
| 2 | 10 |
2007-08-31 06:57:06 UTC
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48,622 | 48,606 |
eusman
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Paul Buchheit announces new iPhone with 8 megapixel camera
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herdrick
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that gave me a good laugh at least!
| null | 5 | 14 |
2007-08-31 07:04:56 UTC
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portLAN
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Interesting stats on tech startups – only 16% fail?
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bouncingsoul
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Data is clear, individuals don't succeed. The larger the founding team, the higher the chance of success
- Solo entrepreneurs seldom succeed, 2 are more likely to succeed, 3 are even more likely, 4 are even more likely, and 5 are even more likely (don't have enough data after 5)I think the main factor behind this is not work division, but social stimulation. Just being around other people is stimulating. Plus, we are wired to assign importance to what other people are doing; if nobody else is doing it, it doesn't seem important. By contrast, look how hard two friends will compete to outdo each other in meaningless contests of trivia, gross-outs, and even hazardous stunts.
| null | 0 | 13 |
2007-08-31 07:38:47 UTC
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48,635 | 48,553 |
lupin_sansei
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Silicon Valley aside, why are Americans more willing to risk a startup?
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weebro
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As an (expat) British person myself I notice than many British people are very pessimistic about the chances of success compared to what I can gather from Americans.
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I'm based in the UK and am hoping to apply to YC in Oct. We are currently looking for strong hackers to co-found with us, if they like the idea. We cannot, however, find anyone in the UK even remotely interested. The concept of 'it's not what you do but when you do it' simply does not exist here. What does the US have that we don't?
| 5 | 10 |
2007-08-31 07:42:06 UTC
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ed
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Paul Buchheit announces new iPhone with 8 megapixel camera
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herdrick
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Looks like Jermaine's camera phone in Flight of the Conchords.
| null | 0 | 14 |
2007-08-31 07:45:24 UTC
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48,639 | 48,129 |
Tichy
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Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth (or why not everyone should be a social worker)
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jamiequint
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I am not entirely convinced by the arguments yet. Maybe it really makes more sense to donate to individuals? I think what we like to see is our donations have an effect. It is easier to imagine that one child could be helped, than that 8 children could be helped. Looking at a whole country full of squalor, one simply doesn't feel as if one could make a difference. I mean it is not that we feel less sorry about the mass of suffering people, only less confident in out ability to help. OK, so that would still be a problem of perception. On the other hand, I am also not sure that I accept the other premise of the article, that throwing lots of money at a problem is going to make it go away. It is great what Bill Gates is doing, but it has not yet proven that it will work, or has it?
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I've gotten into more than a few arguments with people who disparage entrepreneurs (read capitalists) as greedy, and too insensitive. What do you think the world would be without some of them? Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, greedy, I think not.
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2007-08-31 07:51:13 UTC
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smackaysmith
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Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
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vlad
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Perhaps the only good news to come out of Michigan this year.
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2007-08-31 08:16:32 UTC
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staunch
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Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth (or why not everyone should be a social worker)
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jamiequint
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This geek numbers theory is pretty weak. I think the main reason he'll be so effective is that he's not a stupid bureaucrat. Not only is he not a stupid bureaucrat, he's a really smart guy with tons of experience learning how to win.Most politicians who are responsible for running government aid programs could never dream of taking over as CEO of Microsoft and being successful. That requires actual ability and intelligence, neither of which are required to be a politician.Bill Gates is doing the same thing he did to a lot of huge companies (like IBM). He's showing them what happens when you have someone who's not a mediocre hack running things.
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I've gotten into more than a few arguments with people who disparage entrepreneurs (read capitalists) as greedy, and too insensitive. What do you think the world would be without some of them? Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, greedy, I think not.
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2007-08-31 08:27:51 UTC
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staunch
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Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?
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nameless
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I would totally avoid any special "grid" crap. That stuff is snake oil. I'd also avoid VPS too, since the price of fully dedicated servers is so low these days. Less than $100/mo for a machine you can call your own.I think ServerBeach has a better deal than all the other sites mentioned here. I've been super happy with them (and a couple friends who signed up have as well). They do offer cPanel and Plesk and I think give you Webmin by default. I don't use that stuff myself though.(If you sign up for Serverbeach you can use my referral # 7XYHDMBU8A for $100 credit and I so get credit too http://www.serverbeach.com/catalog/cust_ref_landing_new.php?... )
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As a one man band, I've been looking at some Virtual Private Servers to try and make low level scalability issues more of a money issue rather than a time issue. I've looked at thegridlayer.com and mediatemple's dv packages. So far I like mediatemple because it comes with a control panel, Virtuozzo, etc. thegridlayer's solutions seem to require more setup and come with none of these features out of the gate. Is there a better VPS provider with more timesaving features and reliability or an easier way to get a good, quick scaling server?
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2007-08-31 08:40:36 UTC
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hsiung
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Rails vs. Django
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kyro
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jesusphreak has a pretty good writeup that's worth reading on the pros of using django: http://jesusphreak.infogami.com/blog/why_djangoHaving come from a rails background and later switching to django I think it comes down to a matter of preference. Django's ORM gets the job done but leaves something to be desired (ugly syntax, no multiple database support, also watch out for implicit cascading deletes!). Conversion to using SQLAlchemy was supposed to address the gaps, but the branch for the upgrade seems pretty dead... But overall I'm pretty happy due to the transparency of django's framework code. I've implemented some customizations that would have been a lot harder to pull off in rails.If you had to choose a python web framework, I'd suggest taking a look at pylons which is more flexible (also, by default it uses mako templating which > django's templating and supports SQLAlchemy).
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Just curious, and I want to see which framework I should pursue more aggressively.So, how about pros/cons of each.
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2007-08-31 08:44:09 UTC
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48,654 | 48,642 |
JMiao
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Rails vs. Django
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kyro
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What type of app are you looking to build? The scope of the project would carry weight here.
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Just curious, and I want to see which framework I should pursue more aggressively.So, how about pros/cons of each.
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2007-08-31 09:04:16 UTC
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