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12,200 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-12T08:32:50 | null | Would be very nice if a users's profile page said when their account was created.
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12,201 | story | menloparkbum | 2007-04-12T08:36:02 | If my startup makes it to a series A stage, am I rich personally? | null | 4 | null | 12,201 | 15 | [
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12,202 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-12T08:38:42 | null | <i>"would you rather I kept chapters off the web..."</i><p>Don't even joke -- not even for pretend. Ahhh.<p>I've read virtually everything on your site and also bought <i>Hackers and Painters</i>. A physical book is super convenient and it's an easy way for me to get new people to start reading your stuff, since many people don't like reading on the web.<p>The more new essays the better of course, but I would truly appreciate getting them when they're fresh baked and not waiting for the book (which I will order the second it's available). I say screw the people who don't appreciate and see the value in both versions.<p>My ultimate format preference would be a spoken "book on tape" version of all your essays. That'd be amazingly great fuel for my iPod and I'd happily pay iTunes-type prices. | null | null | 11,899 | 11,814 | null | null | null | null |
12,203 | comment | menloparkbum | 2007-04-12T08:39:29 | null | Let's take Loopt as an example. Y combinator gives the founders $10,000. They code and live like animals for three months. Their hard work pays off... another VC gives them $5M.<p>At this point, do the founders still have to share a crappy 2 bedroom rental and eat ramen? Or, can they pay themselves $300K a year and use their salaries to put a down payment on a decent condo? | null | null | 12,201 | 12,201 | null | [
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12,204 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-12T08:45:29 | null | In theory this seems great, but how does it really work? I mean what is preventing people from just making up businesses, taking the money and vanishing into the jungle forever?
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12,205 | comment | mukund | 2007-04-12T08:47:26 | null | null | null | 12,193 | 12,158 | null | null | null | true |
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12,206 | comment | menloparkbum | 2007-04-12T09:02:21 | null | "the office" TV series and "office space" are good ones if you want to know what the rest of your life will be like if you don't start a successful startup. | null | null | 12,144 | 12,144 | null | null | null | null |
12,207 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-12T09:16:13 | null | I believe there have been a couple of others. This is probably the reason the application no longer requires an idea: YC figures if you're talented/persistent enough, you'll eventually hit on something good. | null | null | 12,180 | 12,158 | null | null | null | null |
12,208 | comment | chris | 2007-04-12T09:36:39 | null | Interesting, this is also one of the many reasons why Vonage will be unable to survive on its own, being as they are at the mercy of the last-mile carriers like Rogers, Comcast, ATT, etc.
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12,209 | comment | markovich | 2007-04-12T09:37:08 | null | And how much are you taking from them for this contribution? | null | null | 12,176 | 12,158 | null | null | null | null |
12,210 | comment | samueladam | 2007-04-12T09:37:17 | null | Laurent, you shouldn't be scared talking about your project, many people have the same ideas and they like to go with their ideas, not yours.<p>What can make your site different is how relevant it is to users.<p>I think you should go with a national version first and only concentrate on that because fewer people have good knowledge of the belgian market and it is something you can handle better.<p>If your model is right, export it abroad afterwhile.<p>If you two guys get married, let me be your witness... ;)<p>I'll setup a forum where we can chat together, that would be fun to have a belgian community...<p>Email me at samuel.adam at the big G's mail.<p>You can also go and read nice articles in french at <a href="http://cultureinternet.com/">http://cultureinternet.com/</a><p> | null | null | 12,044 | 11,665 | null | [
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12,211 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-12T09:50:09 | null | Will it be cheaper running my app on a virtual private server? The app I'm currently working on now is a project management app written in Rails....So since it contains project data from customers how could I pitch to them that their data would be safe? | null | null | 11,997 | 11,915 | null | null | null | null |
12,212 | comment | acheung | 2007-04-12T09:55:48 | null | Also, by no means should anyone listen to me, but if your PhD environment (e.g. Stanford or in a top tech program), personally I would at least attend a semester -- at the very least make some connections. <p>And if you're like me and being paid to go to graduate school it's more tempting to stick around (especially if other people's research depends on you or you have a general feeling that you're letting down people, e.g. profs that you got you where you are now). There were times I wavered because of this but at some point I told/convinced myself that 10 years from now these people will understand. <p>People not in the situation tend to be very gung-ho and tell you things like ... do what your heart feels! seize the day! blah blah blah. I've heard it all. <p>Yea, if only they were in your shoes. | null | null | 12,126 | 12,001 | null | null | null | null |
12,213 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T10:22:16 | null | I was a bit shocked to hear about Justin (yet another media outlet) on NPR - this is truly becoming a global phenomenon. The value of the PR they've received to date is unbelievable - I'm interested to see how they convert all this fame into a business model, which I'm sure they'll be able to do. Nice job believing in their radical idea PG. | null | null | 12,176 | 12,158 | null | [
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12,214 | comment | markovich | 2007-04-12T10:24:41 | null | I can offer this: I want an internship in the U.S for 6 months from August. I would prefer to work on my software instead of doing this internship. Dilemma.<p>You give me an internship and I'll work half the day on your startup, the other half on my project. For free, of course.<p>Of course, I can't do internships in 1 or 2 men companies, it has to be a bigger company than that, which leads me back to the original problem. | null | null | 11,665 | 11,665 | null | null | null | null |
12,215 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-12T10:34:37 | null | When an individual gets a loan, the village itself is sort of "co-signing" it. If the person defaults or runs away, the entire village's "credit score" is affected.<p>This is not theory: Millions of loans were granted worldwide, and in fact the default rate is actually lower than traditional banks in developed countries.<p>Note: My comments above are about microcredit in general, and not specifically about Kiva (which I don't know much about it) | null | null | 12,204 | 12,168 | null | null | null | null |
12,216 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-12T10:38:36 | null | Turns out microcredit banks need hackers! There is a huge cost involved in keeping track of all those tiny loans manually, and thus they need inexpensive and effective technology to manage their operations.<p>Mifos is an open-source microcredit banking system, and they need volunteers:
<a href="http://www.grameenfoundation.org/what_we_do/technology_programs/mifos_initiative/">http://www.grameenfoundation.org/what_we_do/technology_programs/mifos_initiative/</a> | null | null | 12,168 | 12,168 | null | null | null | null |
12,217 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T10:43:30 | null | Given their history of angering 100's of thousands with a change last year and then fixing it to make even more happy with them, I'm sure they'll simply tweak their new features to gain that many more converts. In a way, you could argue that this is great for them in that they get so much PR for angering users (for free) even though they were so careful checking with users before the change, and that bad PR gets them more users who are curious to see what all the fuss is about, etc. | null | null | 11,908 | 11,906 | null | null | null | null |
12,218 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T10:47:05 | null | One moral of the story: be <i>very</i> careful about creating technology that relies on a technology out of your control. Or from the architecture world: Even the most amazing building can collapse if built on an unreliable foundation, | null | null | 12,189 | 12,189 | null | null | null | null |
12,219 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-12T10:48:21 | null | <i>'... It's not as if it's a new idea. Remember the 1999 movie EDtv ...'</i><p>Lets go way back to wearcomp [0] with steve mann [1] and cyberman [2] before we get all misty eyed. I'd really like to see something more than just a camera. Mann has gone a step beyond mere transmission with augmentation. Better still go look what students & mann are looking at now. [3] The tech details are here. [4]<p>Q. Does jtv have the ability for users to communicate? Or is it unicast?<p>
Reference<p>[0] Wearcomp<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann#Mann_as_Cyborg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann#Mann_as_Cyborg</a><p>[1] Steve Mann 'quick bio'<p><a href="http://wearcam.org/bio.htm">http://wearcam.org/bio.htm</a><p>[2] Steve Mann, Cyberman, film, 'Steve Mann is the world's first real cyborg, 2001, 87min'<p><a href="http://wearcam.org/cyberman.htm">http://wearcam.org/cyberman.htm</a><p>[3] eyetap.org, Seeing Eye People, 'Research on remote guidance for visually impaired'<p><a href="http://eyetap.org/tpw/index.php">http://eyetap.org/tpw/index.php</a><p>[4] eyetap.org, 'hardware list for eyetap users ~ /proc/wearcomp_hardware'<p><a href="http://eyetap.org/tpw/wearcomp6.htm">http://eyetap.org/tpw/wearcomp6.htm</a> | null | null | 12,158 | 12,158 | null | [
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12,220 | comment | pistoriusp | 2007-04-12T10:52:56 | null | Really?<p><a href="http://nodaddy.com/">http://nodaddy.com/</a> | null | null | 11,894 | 11,687 | null | [
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12,221 | comment | jward | 2007-04-12T11:06:24 | null | Rich is a subjective thing, but in a short answer: no.<p>You are not rich. The money comes with strings and it will almost certainly say what you can and cannot do with it. It is not your money, it is the companies money. The company which you no longer have full control over. As well, when and if a liquidity event occurs, conditions on the series A financing may have the VC's taking several times their listed percentage. On the chance that this doesn't happen and you go out of business, which you probably will if you give everyone a quarter million dollar salary and a cushy office downtown, the VC's will take several times their initial investment and this time... this time you get nothing.<p>VC funding is not an end. It is only a step. And it is a step that can, and in my mind should if possible, be skipped. Five million VC bucks in the bank isn't cash in your pocket, it's debt. Holding debt doesn't make you rich. | null | null | 12,203 | 12,201 | null | [
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12,222 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-12T11:12:42 | null | That's evil. Why don't the founders use their profiles with a bot. At least that way new users know there is a busy, real person behind the canned message. | null | null | 12,149 | 12,149 | null | null | null | null |
12,223 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T11:48:04 | Podcast: Behind MySpace's cybershutdown | null | http://news.com.com/2324-11424_3-6175310.html?tag=nefd.aof | 1 | null | 12,223 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,224 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T11:54:47 | Ubuntu's new Linux sports debugging tool | null | http://news.com.com/Ubuntus+new+Linux+sports+debugging+tool/2100-7344_3-6175365.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | null | 12,224 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,225 | comment | cyu | 2007-04-12T11:59:59 | null | I'm in as well. -- Calvin
(cyu at mynextdive.com) | null | null | 11,823 | 11,823 | null | null | null | null |
12,226 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-12T12:00:48 | null | Have to add in this page which shows hundreds of users <a href="http://glogger.eyetap.org/viewall.php">http://glogger.eyetap.org/viewall.php</a><p>Justin clearly proves you don't need an original idea to get buzz, sponsors, and funding. Execution and timing can take you far. | null | null | 12,219 | 12,158 | null | [
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12,227 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-12T12:15:07 | null | Totally hilarious and very insightful (in a round about way) ;) | null | null | 11,923 | 11,923 | null | null | null | null |
12,228 | story | wr1472 | 2007-04-12T12:18:55 | A "Web Dashboard" I am working on.... | null | http://www.xqoob.com/dragresize/dragresize_g.html | 2 | null | 12,228 | 8 | [
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12,229 | comment | wr1472 | 2007-04-12T12:26:57 | null | hi<p>an idea I've had for a while now - a web dashboard/web portal. This is very much work in progress, but the idea is that you add windows to the dashboard from the toolbox. You set the URL and size/position of the window. Each window points to a different site, and then you save the layout. <p>This then acts as your homepage or portal to the web where you can view your favourite/common sites at a glance. For example if you are an amateur investor with a small portfolio you can have windows to yahoo finance and get share prices/graphs of you stock. If you're a YouTube-aholic your fave videos are all laid out on one dashboard. Once saved anyone could then access it with a fixed url.<p>I'm moonlighting on this, lots of techy issues to resolve still but what do you reckon?<p>PS. to mess around with it click to top icon in the tool box to create a window enter url, drag and resize windows to create your dashboard (text boxes buttons at the top are not in use!).<p>Thanks<p>wr1472 | null | null | 12,228 | 12,228 | null | null | null | null |
12,230 | comment | belhassen | 2007-04-12T12:40:38 | null | yes this is true.
the desktop has gone.
but you make your analysis trough a little hole in the wall (window?)
from this little hole it seems that web2.0 euphoria is indeed due to microsoft monopol lost. High bandwith - everything on the net - microsoft application cloned online.unleashed creativity applied to no rule game, again..
ok.
now walk back and see how much microsoft is more than desktop software and has already took submarine advanced positions in the future concurrential world.(PWC, NFC).
Desktop - all net - ?
dont underestimate people with glasses.<p>Inside the bubble - insider joy.
outside the bubble - outsider again.
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12,231 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-12T12:41:23 | null | The idea is one step better than tabs if you can manage to get enough of the pages into each window so users can see the content. Then they should be able to click and blow up each into a full size window. What about performance? I may want to have a dozen sites on my homepage.<p>I know little about mobile websites, but isn't their content stripped down? Just looked at m.yahoo.com for the first time.<p>Good luck taking on the tabs. | null | null | 12,228 | 12,228 | null | null | null | null |
12,232 | story | danw | 2007-04-12T12:45:31 | Interview with Matt Ogle and Anil Bawa Cavia of Last.fm at FOWA | null | http://www.thinkvitamin.com/interviews/webapps/matt-ogle-and-anil-bawa-cavia/ | 2 | null | 12,232 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,233 | comment | fmu | 2007-04-12T12:48:27 | null | Looking for one and only one co-founder here!<p>I want to take information trading (e.g. CFD and betting exchanges, think tradesports/ cityindex/ betfair/ etc.) to the next level beyond its current primitive incarnations. Not sure yet whether the product should be targeted at professionals, consumers, institutions, or a combination of them.<p>Have done the startup thing before in the founder and CTO role (several rounds of funding then sold to a competitor). Therefore I have already made many of the usual first-time mistakes (e.g. taking co-founders' top education as a guarantee for startup skills, not firing people quickly enough, etc.) and can avoid them this time around =) My academic background is in economics (PhD thesis "almost" completed) and law, with strong CS and math skills.<p>What I can do: technology, legal, negotiation, strategy, foreign markets, know how to get funding<p>Quirks to be aware of: do not believe in decision by consensus, follow libertarian ideals, unable to work effectively with mediocre people (with the realization this would often be useful)<p>Your qualities: <p>- integrity, perseverance, gets stuff done, can sleep well while taking risks<p>- some of the following skills: finance, PR, hiring, business development, design, technology; industry experience in gambling/betting or financial trading would also be beneficial<p>I believe I can handle technology and organization management pretty well, therefore I am mostly looking for someone who likes handling external relations and is also a people person (i.e. can focus on keeping everyone happy inside the company). This is not written in stone however.<p>Technologies: <p>- backend: FP (ML variants, Erlang) with some C++, message-passing concurrency, PostgreSQL, cluster protocols, looking into stream processing; all on Unix like systems<p>- frontend: <p>(1) web: html+comet/ajax, flash<p>(2) client: C#+WinForms prototype, maybe ML+SDL/OpenGL later if that makes correctness easier to achieve<p>(3?) mobile: J2ME?<p>Location: UK or Gibraltar ideal for a number of reasons but open to locating the business somewhere else if for good reasons<p>Funding: self-funded for now, the plan is to do a single round in the GBP 500k-1m range with private investors at (hopefully) a ~5m valuation; revenue should sustain growth from there; ideally I would like to make a trade sale within a 3-5 yrs time span.<p>Contact me at ffmmuu(at)gmail.com to discuss! | null | null | 11,665 | 11,665 | null | null | null | null |
12,234 | comment | wr1472 | 2007-04-12T12:49:53 | null | My ultimate vision is to be able to take information from one window and combine it with info from another to create unique information sets (see how I avoid the term mashup?!). <p>What you may have missed is the small tab in the top right - clicking on this gives you a set of scrollers with which you scroll the page to a desired area and save that position, so like I said before you could navigate to the yahoo finance page scroll to where they show a graph of a share price and save that coordinate.<p>Save the layout and everytime you log on and view your regular pages for your info fix it becomes a lot easier/faster. | null | null | 12,228 | 12,228 | null | null | null | null |
12,235 | comment | fmu | 2007-04-12T12:50:52 | null | People would just link to their LinkedIn profile here if they wanted to disclose their bio. | null | null | 12,109 | 11,665 | null | null | null | null |
12,236 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-12T12:59:52 | null | Looks really good so far. We're doing something similar with our product, but for a different audience.<p>Do you see yourself competing with Netvibes et al? | null | null | 12,228 | 12,228 | null | null | null | null |
12,237 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-12T13:03:09 | null | Frontline (PBS) did a feature on Kiva which was rebroadcast here a few days ago; you can read about it here: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/blog/2006/12/a_little_goes_a.html">http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/blog/2006/12/a_little_goes_a.html</a> and see the video here: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/uganda601/video_index.html">http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/uganda601/video_index.html</a> | null | null | 12,168 | 12,168 | null | null | null | null |
12,238 | comment | wr1472 | 2007-04-12T13:16:07 | null | thanks.<p>Yes kind of, I first had the idea over a year ago, when I realised everytime I log on I visit the same few sites to do web-housekeeping stuff first (news, email, share-prices, etc) before I would do what I initially logged on to do. I thought it would be great to have all this at my fingertips in one place.<p>But it had to be easily accessible, from any machine, therefore browser-based not a desktop app, applet or anything else. I've tried to keep it really simple and focus on the technical issues to see if the idea is feasible. Therefore I'm resisting the urge to over-engineer it as much as possible (technology lust I think you call it!).<p>Yes netvibes, yahoo pipes, and others would be competitors I guess. But the problem with netvibes I find is that it is time intensive to set up, and you can only access "adapted content", <p>I want something that is easy to use and therefore accessible. more importantly be able to incorporate any kind of information published on the web (text,audio,video,graphics) regardless of whether it is an rss/atom feed or available in xml format.<p>I've only shown/talked about my idea to a handful of people thought I would get some wider feedback even at the risk of divulging my 'big idea'! <p>What are you working on if you don't mind me asking? | null | null | 12,228 | 12,228 | null | [
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12,239 | story | dawie | 2007-04-12T13:29:22 | Sitemap Submission: A Thing of the Past | null | http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/sitemap-submission-a-thing-of-the-past55678.html | 1 | null | 12,239 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,240 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-12T13:36:07 | null | 50K is a small investment to make for a company that you believe will hit the big time. I guess YC will get more equity. | null | null | 12,176 | 12,158 | null | null | null | null |
12,241 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-12T14:01:41 | How to use the perceived weakness in your product or service to close more sales | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/147/106/ | 4 | null | 12,241 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,242 | story | divia | 2007-04-12T14:06:12 | 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne | null | http://www.radicalbehavior.com/5-question-interview-with-twitter-developer-alex-payne/ | 14 | null | 12,242 | 9 | [
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12,243 | comment | ctingom | 2007-04-12T14:06:51 | null | No picture? It didn't happen.
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12,244 | comment | Benja | 2007-04-12T14:17:49 | null | As the Ars Technica article is, uh, rather light on details, here is what appears to be the homepage of the IBM project:<p><a href="http://www.zurich.ibm.com/security/idemix/">http://www.zurich.ibm.com/security/idemix/</a><p>Looks like it's an IBM Research project, which is nice because it means they give you actual technical information rather than burying you in incomprehensible marketing speak.
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12,245 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-12T14:20:01 | null | Why do you ask such a question? Getting VC money is validation that what your working on has the potential to solve a really big problem. Depending upon th liquidation preferences the angel investors can cash out or retain a new class of share. Its still ramen and hard work until you a) build a super sustainable company (recurring revenue, cash, employees, scalability) or exit (being bought by another company, trade sale, IPO etc) Then you've made it as an entrepreneur...
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12,246 | comment | neurokinetikz | 2007-04-12T14:27:54 | null | tags and categories are two sides of the same ontology coin<p>with tags, the ontology is built from the bottom-up without a hierarchy or direction<p>with categories, the ontology is built from the top-down and usually a hierarchy<p>at the end of the day, they are both simply a subset of the english language associated with content | null | null | 12,071 | 12,071 | null | null | null | null |
12,247 | comment | Mistone | 2007-04-12T14:43:18 | null | good question, most vc's will be ok with the CEO and a co-founders paying themselves $150k salary. They do not want you to starve and salaries are a component of every companies operating costs. $300k is a bit excessive. VC's love frugality.<p>So while you won't be rich, you will be able to upgrade from a 7-11 diet to Whole Foods.
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12,248 | story | jkush | 2007-04-12T14:44:53 | Google employees leaving now they can cash their options | null | http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/898498/google_faces_brain_drain_as_anniversaries_hit/index.html | 10 | null | 12,248 | 1 | [
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12,249 | comment | budu3 | 2007-04-12T14:58:28 | null | The least they could have done was to code a better Bot. | null | null | 12,149 | 12,149 | null | null | null | null |
12,250 | story | veritas | 2007-04-12T14:58:44 | Seth's Blog: The mechanics of word of mouth | null | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/the_mechanics_o.html | 3 | null | 12,250 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,251 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-12T15:01:35 | null | HELLO MY NAME IS SUE FROM NIGERIA. My FATHER left ME a LOAN with KIVA. HE ALSO GAVE ME THIS GODAWFUL NAME. PLEASE HELP. | null | null | 12,168 | 12,168 | null | null | null | null |
12,252 | story | danielha | 2007-04-12T15:13:15 | Viacom and Yahoo! Prod Google | null | http://www.profy.com/2007/04/12/prod-google/ | 3 | null | 12,252 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,253 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-12T15:16:07 | null | No, you're not rich personally. The money belongs to the company and any sane founder will put more money back into the company rather than taking substantial salaries. <p>You can upgrade from ramen to TV dinners though. | null | null | 12,201 | 12,201 | null | null | null | null |
12,254 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-12T15:23:22 | null | Saying $300k is a bit excessive is like saying gas prices are only a bit excessive -- huge understatement. I don't know how plausible a $150k salary is after a Series A, but I can't imagine any good founder paying himself close to that amount. | null | null | 12,247 | 12,201 | null | null | null | null |
12,255 | comment | matter77 | 2007-04-12T15:27:59 | null | Anyone less than an excellent co-founder, is worse than no co-founder at all. I have been there and done that many many times. Pressure is intense, 100 hr work weeks, then the "other guy" is a little cynical or has to dumb everything down. It's worse than no partner at all. I'm not sure about the advice to go and get a co-founder no matter what. I'm sitting on the next big thing and I have $ to pay people, and do everytbing else myself. Now, I'm supposed to get a co-founder? Why? And if there isn't anyone I guess I'll just shut it down. No wait! Why not spend 6 mos of precious time searching.
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12,256 | comment | danw | 2007-04-12T15:28:24 | null | Just use the about field. | null | null | 11,647 | 11,647 | null | null | null | null |
12,257 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-12T15:29:19 | Technorati Acquires Personal Bee | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/12/technorati-acquires-personal-bee/ | 2 | null | 12,257 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,258 | comment | timg | 2007-04-12T15:34:11 | null | Violating what TOS? Who would ban ssh? BTW, all of the static files are still hosted on my original web host and I was using sshfs to transfer them. So the bandwidth was really minimal. | null | null | 12,137 | 11,915 | null | null | null | null |
12,259 | comment | walesmd | 2007-04-12T15:37:59 | null | Great article - I am one of those guys who dropped from college because I simply couldn't see myself sitting in class learning about Nostradamus and interpretive theater while I was thinking of the application I was building at home.<p>I have since started college again (online courses) but dropping out for that time was the best decision I ever made. Unfortunately, to many employers require that piece of paper that says, "I know my stuff."
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12,260 | story | walesmd | 2007-04-12T15:39:28 | Suggestion: Add Y Combinator Comments Link to Feeds | null | 10 | null | 12,260 | 9 | [
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12,261 | comment | walesmd | 2007-04-12T15:41:01 | null | I do most of my YCombinator News 'browsing' via Google Reader. After reading an article I often want to come back and read the comments (or add my own), but it's such a pain to have to physically type in the URL, find the article in question, and visit the comments section.<p>Why not include a "YCombinator Comments" link within the body of the article in the feeds? | null | null | 12,260 | 12,260 | null | [
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12,262 | comment | npk | 2007-04-12T15:43:22 | null | All -<p>This is an important question, and one that may have not been answered. To the people who say you can take a $150K salary: how sure are you? ($300K seems wildly excessive to me, as CEOs of 400M corporations don't make that much in salary, they usually get stocks + benefits to augment salary to the $500K range)<p>This would have been great to ask at startupschool. | null | null | 12,201 | 12,201 | null | null | null | null |
12,263 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-12T15:55:31 | Breaking Up the Colors - The Rubik's Cube and writing software | null | http://www.scrapages.com/scraps/show/179 | 5 | null | 12,263 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,264 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T16:04:33 | null | Good idea | null | null | 12,260 | 12,260 | null | null | null | null |
12,265 | comment | walesmd | 2007-04-12T16:10:52 | null | It's a classic meme - been around since the late 90s. You get people interested in the story, reading it, wondering what's going to happen and your life got flipped, turned upside down - and I'd like to take a minute just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air. In West Philadelphia, born and raised, on the playground where I spent most of my days. Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool, and all shooting some b-ball outside of the school; when a couple of guys said "we're up in no good," started making trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said "you're moving with your aunt and uncle in Bel-Air." | null | null | 12,088 | 12,088 | null | null | null | null |
12,266 | comment | joshwa | 2007-04-12T16:19:25 | null | or make the bookmarklet not upvote, so we can use it to find comment threads.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=3902">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=3902</a> | null | null | 12,260 | 12,260 | null | null | null | null |
12,267 | comment | me_jobs_r_u_woz | 2007-04-12T16:19:36 | null | I beg to differ.<p>In the Bay Area, VCs expect and want the founder/CEO to make approximately $150K to $175K per year after the VC round (i.e. Seies A). I have confirmed this by asking VC panels here in Orange County during open-mike sessions.<p>What should be clearly understood is that you are actually financing a part of that compensation via your significant equity dilution that would result from the new vesting schedule put in place by the VC! You typically can't escape this new vesting if you want VC money...which is why PG's question about how much cash will you take to just walk away from it has real substance behind it. | null | null | 12,221 | 12,201 | null | [
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12,268 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-12T16:20:18 | Text Link Ads Launches Post Level Text Link Ads | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/12/text-link-ads-launches-posr-level-text-link-ads/ | 1 | null | 12,268 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,269 | story | amitm | 2007-04-12T16:24:37 | James Hong: I think better when I'm not really thinking about it | null | http://james.hotornot.com/2007/04/i-think-better-when-im-not-really.html#links | 7 | null | 12,269 | 6 | [
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12,270 | comment | aston | 2007-04-12T16:55:32 | null | Key takeaway here: Ruby on Rails is the new, hot fad, but apparently doesn't scale in the way web languages should. Dropping ActiveRecord, for example, cuts out the main piece of RoR coolness I still liked. | null | null | 12,242 | 12,242 | null | [
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12,271 | comment | npk | 2007-04-12T16:58:44 | null | Ok:<p>This seems useful, but I don't fully understand it. Are you saying that the VCs will force you to take a high salary, so that they can take a bigger chunk of your company? | null | null | 12,267 | 12,201 | null | [
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12,272 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-12T17:04:43 | null | Sadly, microcredit is nowhere near profitable. Yunus et. al. are heavily government-subsidized. And the reason most of the loans go to women is that Yunus has a really bizarre feminist agenda. Microcredit is maybe a good way to run a charity, but it's not a business.<p><a href="http://www.mises.org/journals/fm/Dec06.pdf">http://www.mises.org/journals/fm/Dec06.pdf</a> | null | null | 12,183 | 12,168 | null | [
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12,273 | comment | newbiedude | 2007-04-12T17:06:18 | null | I second the suggestion... I have to come back here often to see whether there are replies or not
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12,274 | comment | kogir | 2007-04-12T17:07:09 | null | Not at all, let me tell you ;)<p>And if you care about the business, you won't take a $300k salary either.
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12,275 | comment | matter77 | 2007-04-12T17:09:40 | null | I see the big divide between those who do and those who don't differently. Most people choose a life pursuing happiness, a few choose lives of meaning. The person who chooses a life of meaning wants to get rich, but they secretly don't do it for the money. they simply can't not do their dreams. To most, it's foolishness. It's not that the person choosing a life of meaning doesn't want to be happy, or can't be, it's just that their happiness is largely irrelevant.
I also disagree with the crap about age. PG filters everything through this fine mesh, then claims the result is representative of the whole. I realized sometime around age 40 that to those who see startups as foolishness, there IS NO GOOD AGE. I kept wondering how I could go instantly from being too young to being too old. According to most, there is no good age. It's always a bad idea.
What PG is experiencing is this. Much of the corporate World, and the homes of families in which people grow up, it is heavily permission-based. In the Midwest for example, anyone behind a tech startup is considered out of line because they didn't ask permission, they didn't spend twenty years climbing a permission ladder. If they succeed, they are thought to have broken the rules. Younger people are more rebellious - we don't need no stinking permission - and can succeed if they don't first spend years working for a bunch of mindless droids.
Yet, it is still far superior to have broken through all this and risen above it all, to have endured the worst and still plow ahead in relentless pursuit of meaningful dreams to build something great. Meanwhile, there's PG with his clipboard going up and down a check list. I plain know better. | null | null | 6,668 | 6,668 | null | null | null | null |
12,276 | comment | entelarust | 2007-04-12T17:13:47 | null | good idea | null | null | 12,260 | 12,260 | null | null | null | null |
12,277 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-12T17:17:29 | null | Geoff Brozny at <a href="http://www.glorb.com">http://www.glorb.com</a>
He is fantastic at customer support. Send him an email anytime and he will respond within an hour - usually, within a few minutes.
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12,278 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-12T17:19:04 | Yoono Launches Buzz It to Clip and Share Web Content | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/12/yoono-launches-buzz-it-to-clip-and-share-web-content/ | 1 | null | 12,278 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,279 | comment | mukund | 2007-04-12T17:20:34 | null | hmmm are people after money only? I think there may be just very few who will encash the money and take an early retirement. Some may just become angel investors and put some cash into startups. But on the whole if google cannot hold back their employees then there may be something to do with erosion of google culture or mistake in finding the right hire. | null | null | 12,248 | 12,248 | null | null | null | null |
12,280 | story | entrepreneur | 2007-04-12T17:27:34 | 6 Tips for eBook Copy Layout | null | http://mindfulentrepreneur.com/blog/2007/04/12/6-tips-for-ebook-copy-layout/ | 3 | null | 12,280 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,281 | comment | hello_moto | 2007-04-12T17:30:53 | null | Joel Spolsky told you so
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12,282 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-12T17:31:05 | Paul Graham: Handling Investors (talk at Stanford 11 April 07) | null | http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/04/12/paul-graham-handling-investors/ | 34 | null | 12,282 | 29 | [
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12,283 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-12T17:38:58 | null | Nice write up and great answer to that question. I can't tell you how bummed out I am that my application was rejected. I'm debating whether it means there was something fundamentally wrong with my app or if it's something fixable. I know it's impossible, but I would have really liked to know what was (or wasn't) in my application that caused it to be rejected. | null | null | 12,282 | 12,282 | null | [
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12,284 | comment | Wintermute | 2007-04-12T17:40:52 | null | No. They will not do that. No good VC would not force you to take a high salary if you would rather the money went into the business. They'd probably even like that. A founder should be setting the vision and culture of the company. Compensation is one piece of that culture. You set a precedent by taking a big salary and you set a message by taking a small one (i.e. Jet Blue - CEO, COO, CFO each have a base salary of $200,000 / turned down bonuses during bad years).
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12,285 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T17:46:12 | null | The subconscious is a terrible thing to waste;
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11252">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11252</a> | null | null | 12,269 | 12,269 | null | [
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12,286 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-12T17:46:14 | null | Seems like RoR is great for getting something out very quickly but if the site takes off then you need to be prepared to take out the very features that helped get you there. <p>So, it comes down to, if you're shooting for something very high traffic (and who isn't) use a faster language. If not, use RoR. | null | null | 12,242 | 12,242 | null | [
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12,287 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-12T17:46:50 | null | Man that looked like an awesome talk. I love Atlanta but missing out on this kind of stuff really sucks. That couple of days for Startup School was refreshing. | null | null | 12,282 | 12,282 | null | null | null | null |
12,288 | comment | byrneseyeview | 2007-04-12T17:49:38 | null | It worries me that this is important. It's like saying "When you go to a restaurant, don't concentrate on how many menu items you order, or on how big the kitchen is. Make sure you get the food you want in a portion size that's big enough."<p>I mean, ownership is wealth and control -- how can you consider it wealth if you aren't translating it into dollars? | null | null | 12,161 | 12,161 | null | null | null | null |
12,289 | comment | fruscica | 2007-04-12T17:56:45 | null | develop an online sitcom set at my company that will 1) popularize my company's online markets, 2) showcase market participants, and 3) <i>earn profits</i> from sales of ad space (in the tradition of diggnation, NBC's The Apprentice, etc.)<p>will distribute via revver, p2p, etc.<p>
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12,290 | story | waleedka | 2007-04-12T18:00:33 | San Francisco or Palo Alto for a new startup? | null | 10 | null | 12,290 | 17 | [
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12,291 | comment | waleedka | 2007-04-12T18:00:53 | null | I'm moving to Silicon Valley to work on my startup and be closer to the entrepreneurial community. Should I rent in San Francisco or somewhere around Stanford? How about the YScraper? | null | null | 12,290 | 12,290 | null | [
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12,292 | comment | me_jobs_r_u_woz | 2007-04-12T18:01:01 | null | It's not a question of forcing. It's the norm. All other things being equal, why should someone take a lower salary? <p>And there are other factors. If your compensation becomes a benchmark for the rest of the team, now your company is in real trouble. You can't expect to hire key team members at less than the norm. It just won't happen. VCs know that.<p>Also, a VC's main job is to put out as much of their committed capital as possible into good deals. Allocating a large part of a preferred equity tranche to fund the maintenance and creation of a solid team is the right thing to do.<p>And comparing with large companies is not apples to apples. That's a different world; here's an extreme example of that world:
<a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/greed/the-grotesque-1-salary-251104.php">http://valleywag.com/tech/greed/the-grotesque-1-salary-251104.php</a> <p> | null | null | 12,284 | 12,201 | null | null | null | null |
12,293 | comment | hello_moto | 2007-04-12T18:08:42 | null | Good point jkush. But then I suppose RoR is only good for one-off kind web-app? | null | null | 12,286 | 12,242 | null | null | null | null |
12,294 | comment | rms | 2007-04-12T18:09:17 | null | Consensus seems to be "Live in San Francisco, commute to the Valley."<p>San Franciso is a much cooler place to be than Palo Alto/Menlo Park/Mountain View. YScraper's probably a good bet, I imagine it's getting pretty popular though. | null | null | 12,291 | 12,290 | null | [
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12,295 | comment | veritas | 2007-04-12T18:14:39 | null | Where is the "YScraper"? I'm looking to move out to the area and wouldn't mind joining the entrepreneurial crowd in YScraper. | null | null | 12,290 | 12,290 | null | [
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12,296 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-12T18:15:53 | null | How soon do you want to go broke? The Bay Area is a big place and all you need to get started is a laptop. | null | null | 12,290 | 12,290 | null | null | null | null |
12,297 | comment | waleedka | 2007-04-12T18:24:22 | null | Anyone owns a car in San Francisco? Or should I sell my car? | null | null | 12,294 | 12,290 | null | [
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12,298 | comment | menloparkbum | 2007-04-12T18:24:30 | null | The Yscraper is in a lame part of San Francisco, if you are a young person. The building is lame, too... unless you like living in an apartment that is like a college dorm or old folks home. <p>Regarding SF vs Palo Alto. SF is way more fun. But keep in mind historical patterns. How many successful startups have been started in SF? How many have been started up in the valley? <p>Valley based startups are more successful, simply because there is nothing else to do down there. | null | null | 12,290 | 12,290 | null | [
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12,299 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-12T18:27:43 | Work/Sleep/Shop Triangle (summary: work at home, be close to beer, be happy) | null | http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/04/12/happiness-and-the-work-sleep-shop-triangle/ | 5 | null | 12,299 | 1 | [
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