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13,000 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-15T01:01:58 | null | Learn to program. ;-)<p>Seriously, there are a bunch of reasons why coders turn down a startup:<p>1.) Not enough compensation. If you're paying them cash, you have to pay them market rates. For a bright but junior programmer, that's minimum $55-60K/year. salary in most of the tech hotspots. For someone experienced, figure at least $100k/year. If you're looking for hourly contractors, expect to pay at least $75/hour for anyone decent. If you give them equity - well, I personally would not join a startup for less than 20% equity, and I suspect many other technical founders have similar minimums. Actually, the only reason my current startup got away with so little (I'm getting 25%) is because it has 5 founders, and nobody else has more than 25%.<p>2.) Boring idea. Good programmers like to work on interesting problems. I joined my startup because it was in a problem domain that I waste a lot of time in anyways, I knew the area, and it'd let me try some cool stuff that I didn't know if I could do, but it'd be fun as hell to try.<p>3.) They don't trust you. Techies have a natural aversion to business-type people. Be straight with them, always. The second they think you're trying to bullshit them, they'll walk away.<p>4.) They don't think you add much value. Ultimately, it'll be the techie building the product. They need a reason why working with you beats building the product on your own. Usually, your best bet is to have a large personal network, or good people skills, or the ability to sell something. I don't think it's necessarily true that techies can't be good with people, but in my experience, I can't code <i>and</i> be good with people at the same time, so have a cofounder with people skills has been a big win for me.<p>Remember, if you're founding a technical startup, you want the best coder you can find. He'll usually be young, because good experienced coders typically have families and will not work for stock, and you generally can't afford the $150K/year that they'll cost you. <i>Don't</i> try to skimp and get cheaper labor - lots of companies tried that in the dot-com bomb (notably Value America), and they almost universally went out of business. Average coders cannot hit the high notes; you need to hit the high notes as a startup, because all of the middle ground is taken.<p>In my case, I met my cofounder at Homecoming. We'd lived across the hall from me sophomore year, so I went over to talk to him and see what he was doing. Turned out he was working on a startup in a field I was interested in. He introduced me to the other cofounders afterwards (2 of which I already knew from college). I didn't actually join until several months later, when their initial choice for a technical founder quit, but he kept my name in mind. | null | null | 12,989 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,001 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-15T01:02:03 | null | If you're running a web based business (eg: not a retailer, but where everything is an online service) then the domicile of the business is the web, not any nationality. In other words, you can incorporate anywhere you wish and its legitimate- the act of incorporation creates the domicile for the business. <p>If you're going to do business in Japan to the point that you have above ground employees (taxes, social security, etc.) then you'll have to find out the Japanese laws. Even then it probably makes sense to incorporate outside of Japan for tax reasons. A foriegn corporation operating in a country is generaly treated differently (and better) than a domestic corporation.<p>But, if not, then you can incorporate in any jurisdiction which is friendly to corporations.<p>I would strongly recommend you do not incorporate in the US. The USA is not a friendly jurisdiction for corporations and all the trends are that it is getting worse. Ths US has enacted currency controls, limiting ones ability to move money in and out of the country-- this is the first step in the creation of an "iron curtain". (Requiring passports of people who travel, as the US started doing in January is the second step.) <p>It is only appropriate to incorporate in america if your business is completely located in america. (If you want to find out what your government does all day, just file business papers in many states- over the next 6 weeks you'll get contacted by many dozens of different agencies, all of whom want you to do paperwork and give them money. Texas is an exeption to this, Nevada may be as well.) <p>Ok, on to the real advice-- look at countries that are pro-business, or who are, or used to be tax havens. The caymen islands and bahamas are obvious choices, but also st kitts and nevis are worth checking out. You can legally incorporate there. Some of these islands have restrictions about the business you can operate there, but are happy to incorporate foriegn businesses (that is to say, its easier if you'll not be opening an office on their soil).<p>Along those lines- ex UK protectorates, consider the Isle of Man (or is it the Isle of Wight?) and closer to home, New Zealand and Australia. These latter two are high tax states, but are closer and may prove to be good choices for you. <p>Also consider the united arab emerites, monaco and Mauritius. These are a different style, but they may prove to be good places.<p>Finally, probably the best place to incorporate is Panama. Their government is oriented around providing services to foriegn industry... starting with the canal, but also ships registry, bank registration, incorporation and trust services, etc. This is probably one of the easiest places to do it.<p>If you're planning to bank outside of Japan, you might consider incorporating in Switzerland, so that your corporation and your bank can have closer ties. But I haven't looked into that much. <p>Its hard to find good information on this subject, probably because US courts have thrown people in jail for giving "Advice on how to avoid US taxes"... so, while this isn't a tax dodge (you're not a US citizen) people are wary of talking about it.<p> | null | null | 12,808 | 12,805 | null | [
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13,002 | comment | tocomment | 2007-04-15T01:02:42 | null | Use rent a coder. I've had good luck with them.
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13,003 | comment | danw | 2007-04-15T01:03:09 | null | Whenever you run into a frustration in the world write it down. Then later when your trawling for ideas come back to that list and find a solution that will make the frustration go away. | null | null | 12,995 | 12,995 | null | null | null | null |
13,004 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-15T01:06:50 | null | "I mean, I am just the idea guy with creativity, they're the coder, they can live without me, but I can't live without them."<p>If that's the case, you really have a problem. Ideas are worth next to nothing. If you did manage to get one to join you, he'd likely leave at the first excuse. Why? Because you're contributing <i>nothing</i>.<p>Find some way to be of value as the startup grows. Learn some domain knowledge about the market. Talk to potential prospects. There are many things a technical cofounder can't or doesn't want to do on his own, and if you do them, he'll have a reason to work with you. But if you're just contributing the initial idea, there's no reason for him to work with you. | null | null | 12,998 | 12,988 | null | [
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13,005 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-15T01:11:08 | null | Absolutely true. From my own expirience, smart people just don't click on advertising and most of them have some kind of an ad blocking software installed. Myspace crowd is a lot more diverse than Facebook's so Myspace performs a lot better in CPM. Monetizing smart crowd that's averse to advertising is one of the toughest problems any social site will face. Another one is monetizing very young crowd (13-17 year olds)... they just don't have much disposable income.... that's Digg's problem. | null | null | 12,974 | 12,876 | null | [
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13,006 | comment | kyro | 2007-04-15T01:13:02 | null | Well, don't get me wrong, I think I would contribute a lot to the team.<p>The reason for saying that was to outline my fear of luring in a coder by exposing my idea, and having such a person run off with it. | null | null | 13,004 | 12,988 | null | [
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13,007 | comment | webology | 2007-04-15T01:14:00 | null | I stopped using them because I've had two domain names registered away from me within 24 hours of searching for them on the site. Ironically, one I looked up before I got on the plane to the 2006 startup school and by the next morning when I had network access it was taken. It may just be bad luck but I've never had that problem with a generic whois or providers like GoDaddy.
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13,008 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-15T01:14:08 | null | Interesting to note Om and Niles have given up doing podcasts. [0] Words are more timely, easier to produce, cheaper and in the end much more interesting than voice (expensive, time consuming & technically difficult).<p>Reference <p>[0] onpodsessions, 'Phased Redeployment'<p><a href="http://onpodsessions.com/2007/03/phased-redeployment.html">http://onpodsessions.com/2007/03/phased-redeployment.html</a> | null | null | 12,980 | 12,980 | null | null | null | null |
13,009 | comment | danw | 2007-04-15T01:15:00 | null | If you can't trust the coder with your idea, how are you going to build a good team?<p>1) Be open with your idea
2) If you're not coding, show what you are contributing | null | null | 13,006 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,010 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-15T01:17:19 | null | Thing is - if your business will fail because somebody ran off with your idea, you have a problem. Because the moment it looks like you're onto something, somebody <i>will</i> run off with your idea. The only way to keep it secret is to never launch, and that means you don't have a business.<p>It's more important to be able to move quickly once people copy your idea and stay ahead of them. That means finding a good coder, knowing a lot about the problem domain, and talking to lots of prospects.<p>Basically, success is all about having <i>many</i> good ideas, one after another. The first one just gets you in the door - it's usually wrong anyways. It can't get you in the door if you never tell anyone though. | null | null | 13,006 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,011 | comment | danw | 2007-04-15T01:18:35 | null | I quite like <a href="http://www.spock.com/jobs">http://www.spock.com/jobs</a> as an example of an ad for coders. It says what they're making, why you should join them and the "Work with Jay" section shows you what they're like to work with. | null | null | 12,988 | 12,988 | null | [
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13,012 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-15T01:19:09 | null | I feel the same way-- when you see job postings for "Stealth mode startup", or otherwise people use it to try and add an air of intrigue to what they are doing-- it's extremely cheesy. <p>It was cool for transmeta, but immediately after it became cheesy.<p>On the other hand, when you have an idea, or a solution, and you're evaluating it, and trying to determine what the market is, what technological solutions are needed, or even if it is viable, you don't want to start talking about what you're doing too soon. <p>Not because your idea is super secret-- but because your idea is evolving every week. If you're doing a social network (And by the way, if your social network doesn't already have 1M members right now, please stop and find something interesting to work on-- you already missed the party)... but your niche is changing each week- one week it is cat owners, next week it is ferret owners-- you don't want to talk about it and sound like a goofball who is a member of the "get-rich-quick-scheme-of-the-week" club. <p>If you're really in stealth mode, you won't ever use the phrase "stealth mode". You would simply not talk about it. <p>However, when talking to friends who know I'm working on something, it would be nice if there was a phrase to use that says "it is too early to talk about right now, but I'm not trying to be pretentious." <p>Maybe just "early stage" is the phrase to use. <p>As for titles, I always hated the CxO titles-- they say to me "these are titles we give to MBA idiots cause they insist that their air of pomposity be respected, but secretly we know anyone with this title is an clueless and not worth spending time with at parties." <p>Personally, I'm going with founder. It is way too early to come up with a job title to specify exactly what my responsibilities are-- if it isn't done yet, it is my responsibility!<p> | null | null | 12,835 | 12,835 | null | null | null | null |
13,013 | comment | natrius | 2007-04-15T01:19:27 | null | "If somebody can go get a browser plugin (AdBlock) and kill all banners with very little effort, what's to stop most users from doing that?"<p>Inertia. First of all, most people aren't that annoyed by banner ads. Of those who are, most of them are using Internet Explorer, so they're extremely unlikely to try to install Firefox/AdBlock or find a similar solution for IE. Of the people who already use Firefox, there is a large segment that doesn't use any extensions at all.<p>I know of very few people who go around installing AdBlock on people's computers. These people would be a chunk of the same people who install Firefox, but even Firefox's market share isn't very large. Five percent or so of Firefox's ~20% market share isn't very much.<p>People who use AdBlock or are likely to in the future are a tiny segment of users. | null | null | 12,952 | 12,928 | null | null | null | null |
13,014 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-15T01:21:53 | null | Idea praxis: <p>There are many ways ...<p>- make things for yourself & solve your own problems<p>- take notes in notebook<p>- observe from nature <p>- don't be obstinate (in-flexible)<p>- revise your ideas & filter<p>- listen to your users<p>
The thing is some ideas are crap. Others maybe ok. But it's what you do with the idea that matters. Turn the idea to a demo. Release the demo and see how many users pick it up. Re-visit your old ideas<p>It's how quickly you can turn idea to demo. Unleash your ideas in the form of a demo on your users. You'll find out quickly if they are crap or not. <p>
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13,015 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-15T01:31:37 | There's a huge difference between selling and being sold | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/151/ | 2 | null | 13,015 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,016 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-15T01:34:40 | null | <i>'... I am trying to find coders so that I can make my idea tangible ...'</i><p>Help! I'm trying to find great musicians to create a fantastic hit album bigger than Beatles. Now where's some great guitar players? I'm a great producer.<p><i>'... However, I am hesitant to just explain my idea and post it throughout the internet in hopes of attracting people for fear that someone can just run with the idea on their own ...'</i><p>Classic founder mistake. If you own the idea (hint, the most passionate) nobody is going to try. If you can't code, well then you are behind the eight ball. I've outlined the reasons why your not getting anywhere. Try reading from others who are more articulate & experienced than myself [0]. <p>The rest is up to you.<p>Reference<p>[0] pg, 5. Obstinacy, '18 Mistakes that kill a Startup'<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html">http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html</a> | null | null | 12,998 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,017 | comment | pg | 2007-04-15T01:40:54 | null | Notice things that seem broken-- things that should be possible, but aren't (yet). | null | null | 12,995 | 12,995 | null | [
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13,018 | story | pg | 2007-04-15T01:43:51 | Found+READ | null | http://www.foundread.com/ | 2 | null | 13,018 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,019 | comment | danw | 2007-04-15T01:46:38 | null | I bet it's a social network ;)<p>Luring coders is hard, the best way to do it is to be a coder yourself and put cool stuff out there for other to see. If you cant code, now would be a good time to learn. Not only can you start getting stuff done but when you do recruit coders you'll be able to communicate and understand each other better. | null | null | 12,989 | 12,988 | null | [
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13,020 | comment | mukund | 2007-04-15T02:07:22 | null | kyro, try telling u r idea in your most trusted circle..say friends and if none can help you, ask them to suggest a possible reference who could do it for you. That way you can get a tech guy straight away. If you still cannot find one, narrate your idea and what u want to build to some tech guy and get his advice of which tools are needed, then u can start learning that language. | null | null | 12,998 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,021 | comment | mukund | 2007-04-15T02:09:33 | null | i had applied there long back, they shooed me away :D
May be it was my fault as i got interviewed on yahoo messenger with some puzzles | null | null | 13,011 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,022 | comment | extantproject | 2007-04-15T02:13:03 | null | You'd think a guy with so much creativity would to be able to lure at least one "coder"... | null | null | 12,998 | 12,988 | null | [
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13,023 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-15T02:24:35 | null | Dropped you an email, not too far away. It all depends on what kind of impression you make on people, and what kind of idea it is. | null | null | 12,989 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,024 | comment | kyro | 2007-04-15T02:31:53 | null | Your insightful criticism is deeply appreciated. | null | null | 13,022 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,025 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-15T02:37:42 | null | I still think the best source of inspiration is the government's list of 101 things to do besides having sex:<p><a href="http://www.iamworththewait.org/101.html">http://www.iamworththewait.org/101.html</a><p>It does a pretty good job at spanning the range of human activity. | null | null | 12,995 | 12,995 | null | null | null | null |
13,026 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-15T02:51:07 | null | Or questions that shouldn't be answerable but aren't.<p>Also, mashing up two abstractions is a good way to narrow down the solution space you are interested in. <p>For example, IT combines information with technology. PT combines people with technology. CP combines communication with people. TT combines two technologies.<p>Each mashup has a different set of value propositions that work well with it. IT generally uses tech to manipulate information to answer a question or help people make sense of something. PT generally revolves around augmenting human ability. etc.
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13,027 | comment | ricardo | 2007-04-15T03:01:59 | null | You can purchase a WiFi modem to boost the signal and have it work inside:<p>https://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=44022
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13,028 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-15T03:02:00 | null | Ok, you're working on this in your spare time. Good, that's a good plan. You're working day jobs, and then in the evenings you're working on your startup. <p>That's all well and good, but where's your cocaine habit? How are you blowing all your money if you're spending all your time at work or on the startup? <p>IF you're not blowing all your moeny, and you've spent a year looking for funding (like it sounds like) then why dont' you have a year's worth of living expenses saved up? <p>The problem here is hte pervasive idea that the first step to starting a company is getting someone else to fund it. Screw that-- nobody can ever know your business as well as you can. You can use advice, sure, but wasting months working on proposals-- getting seeking emotional validation from investment, this is all the wrong way to go about it. <p>Build your product, save your cash. When you have enough money saved up, and if you really believe in your predictions (That you'll be cash flow positive in 6 months) then you quit your jobs when you have $12,000 saved up, or less.<p>If you can't save $12,000 between now and the next YC funding round, and you're working full time, then you are spending your money on something-- cocaine, maybe? <p>IF your idea and team really are good, you shouldn't be desperate for money... and hinging your emotional well being, or self confidence, on validation from investors is a recipe for failure (and unhappiness.) | null | null | 12,625 | 12,625 | null | null | null | null |
13,029 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-15T03:06:04 | null |
Seattle is the third best startup hub, behind SF Bay and Boston and ahead of New York. <p>Zero reason to move to the bay area if you're in seattle... and a lot of reasons not to. | null | null | 12,881 | 12,625 | null | [
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13,030 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-15T03:09:00 | null |
$30k is below the median income for the country which is $36k. <p>If you're a software engineer, even in alabama, you can easily make $60k a year. <p>And anyway, it doesn't matter-- if your income is that low, cost of living should be low as well. <p>Alabama is probably a great place to start a startup-- just you should start living on half your income.<p>Do that for a year and save the balance and you have a years living expenses to live off while you try and get your business going.
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13,031 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-15T03:12:58 | null |
Uh, if you're spending 15 hours a week and making a decent living, what are you doing with the other 25 hours a week? <p>If you want a startup, it sounds like you have 25 hours a week to invest in it. It doesn't sound like you need to save up a lot of money. | null | null | 12,895 | 12,625 | null | [
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13,032 | comment | natrius | 2007-04-15T03:14:56 | null | I pretend to be a VC, listen to people's pitches, and implement the best ones.<p>(It's a joke. Laugh.) | null | null | 12,995 | 12,995 | null | null | null | null |
13,033 | comment | timg | 2007-04-15T03:28:11 | null | To be fair, if it wasn't social then it would hardly need to be on the net in the first place.<p>Eg:<p>Complex circuit analysis app - no, not on the net.<p>Tool that helps people communicate and share knowledge - yes, on the net. | null | null | 13,019 | 12,988 | null | [
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13,034 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-15T03:37:30 | null | Yah think? <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11676">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11676</a> | null | null | 13,019 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,035 | story | amichail | 2007-04-15T03:40:28 | What is your idea filter? How can you tell if one of your ideas is worth pursuing? | null | 3 | null | 13,035 | 8 | [
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13,036 | comment | jackdied | 2007-04-15T03:59:40 | null | Avail 1 br close to Davis (10 min walk). $700/mo. Must be willing to endure heckling if project is not python based. Must be williing to endure stories of how I couldn't do Y-combinator because of pending python book regardless. Dogs allowed but only if they are bigger than a cat. No cats,<p>Less flippant: Davis is a nice place to be. Take a look at a map though. There is good space available in Arlington which is one T-stop down from Davis (Alewife station) and it isn't hard to find something closer to the T for the same money (worst case scenario walking home from Davis at 2am - 20 minutes). Plus if you are in walking distance of Alewife you are in walking distance of one of the few bowling alleys in MA (I don't count candlepin). | null | null | 12,924 | 12,924 | null | null | null | null |
13,037 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-15T04:26:35 | null | Never write an idea down. The ones that are worth pursuing are the ones that <i>keep</i> nagging at you long after you've moved on to other things. | null | null | 13,035 | 13,035 | null | [
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13,038 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-15T04:38:58 | null | Anyone know what the leveling-off in Apr 06 was? | null | null | 12,876 | 12,876 | null | null | null | null |
13,039 | comment | eli | 2007-04-15T04:49:47 | null | I had something similar happen and I emailed the instant domains guy and to his enormous credit he took the time to look into it and dig through his logs. Odds are that you and me and tons of other people are just victims of domain kiting (google it). Bad guys register tens of thousands of domains on spec for nothing. It sucks, but wait a week or two and your domain may reappear<p>Incidentally he said the site is actually using an internal list of domains that I think he got through some sort of DNS trick. It doesn't make any outside queries. | null | null | 13,007 | 12,730 | null | [
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13,040 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-15T04:50:43 | null | I actually write ALL my ideas down! I probably have a hundred by now. But you are right, there's always one or two ideas that keep nagging at me, and right now I'm pursuing an idea that although it wasn't mine, right now I simply cannot not put it aside.<p>My filter for writing it down is simply if an idea represents an actual problem that a real person is facing. In other words, I don't write down an idea that I simply think it's cool, but when I hear about someone facing a real problem. | null | null | 13,035 | 13,035 | null | null | null | null |
13,041 | comment | schoudha | 2007-04-15T04:53:28 | null | This might be true but it definitely won't come through CPM or CPC advertising. Facebook needs new methods of monetization (i.e. gifts, sponsored groups, user data). <p> | null | null | 12,991 | 12,971 | null | [
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13,042 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-15T04:56:17 | null | - Start with more than one business idea<p>- Identify an unmet business, social or consumer need<p>- Why the need was not already being met? <p>- Can you assemble the competencies to solve the need? <p>- Can you get the resources to bring the product/service to the market?<p>Disclaimer: Those are my notes from a great presentation by Antony Awaida: <a href="http://www.startleap.com/">http://www.startleap.com/</a>
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13,043 | comment | schoudha | 2007-04-15T05:01:24 | null | Google the new Microsoft? I don't think you can make the apples-apples analogy. <p>Google can't lock out or force it's products onto its users, they're in a very different business and environment. In order to continue grow they'll have to innovate - users can easily switch to other services by a click of the button. <p>As for Facebook being the new Google, Google reinvented a business, internet advertising. Facebook has a great product, but they haven't shown that they can monetize the way Google did to search. | null | null | 12,962 | 12,962 | null | null | null | null |
13,044 | comment | rms | 2007-04-15T05:04:14 | null | Also, take a look at www.odesk.com. | null | null | 13,002 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,045 | comment | rms | 2007-04-15T05:06:48 | null | What kinds of business models do you think will develop around OLPC?<p>Business models other than the obvious, becoming a third world dictator, ordering a million laptops and selling them back to the first world for $250.<p>Equatorial Guinea is probably the best country in the world to take over, you couldn't do any worse than the guy in charge right now. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea</a> | null | null | 12,967 | 12,967 | null | null | null | null |
13,046 | story | interfun | 2007-04-15T05:11:35 | Masuga Design -- Unobtrusive AJAX Star Rating Bar | null | http://www.masugadesign.com/the-lab/scripts/unobtrusive-ajax-star-rating-bar/ | 1 | null | 13,046 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,047 | story | felipe | 2007-04-15T05:13:10 | Great geek documentaries for a Saturday evening | null | 7 | null | 13,047 | 12 | [
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13,048 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-15T05:13:17 | null | The Triumph of the Nerds
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398/</a><p>Revolution OS
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308808/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308808/</a><p>Startup.com
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/</a> | null | null | 13,047 | 13,047 | null | null | null | null |
13,049 | comment | MobileDigit | 2007-04-15T05:30:29 | null | Writing my ideas down helps them stop nagging me, allowing me to focus on what I rationally think is the most viable.<p>You don't think this is the right approach? | null | null | 13,037 | 13,035 | null | [
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13,050 | comment | gommm | 2007-04-15T05:35:23 | null | Thanks for the information....
It would be so great if I could find a book that details the differences between the different countries....
The only reason I was considering incorporating in the us is because the cheap credit card handlers like paysimple or google checkout only work with us companies... But I guess taxes would probably offset the savings... <p>Now I really need to find a book on this... | null | null | 13,001 | 12,805 | null | null | null | null |
13,051 | story | jamongkad | 2007-04-15T05:37:12 | Feature Bloat vs Business Bloat | null | http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/147/37signals-Feature-Bloat-vs-Business-Bloat.aspx | 2 | null | 13,051 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,052 | comment | run4yourlives | 2007-04-15T05:41:15 | null | ...until of course you notice that a baseball game being played in April has more votes than a hockey playoff game. <p>Being that personal bias (as I just demonstrated) plays a huge role in my sports viewing, why would I care what other people think are good games? | null | null | 12,981 | 12,981 | null | null | null | null |
13,053 | comment | run4yourlives | 2007-04-15T05:42:26 | null | Now all we need is one for Facebook's paying users.<p> | null | null | 12,876 | 12,876 | null | null | null | null |
13,054 | comment | run4yourlives | 2007-04-15T05:43:29 | null | That's what he's saying... he'll take the bet. | null | null | 13,041 | 12,971 | null | [
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13,055 | story | vlad | 2007-04-15T05:51:50 | PDF: Living Wages and the San Francisco Economy: The Benefits and the Costs | null | http://www.iir.berkeley.edu/livingwage/pdf/sf_jun99.pdf | 1 | null | 13,055 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,056 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-15T06:23:20 | null | I've used rentacoder and almost every other online outsourcing company as a coder as well as an employer for over five years. My personal experience has been that it if you don't know your way around technically, there is good chances you will be taken rounds by most coders--or have a torturous time explaining your needs to the coder. <p>I continue to use rentacoder etc. extensively. Yet best way I can put it is that most coders on such sites cannot be replaced with technical knowledge on your end. The good coders are great for getting x, y, z coded according to detailed specs but very hard in planning those x, y, z. | null | null | 13,002 | 12,988 | null | [
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13,057 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-15T06:23:58 | Researchers: Scrap the Internet and Start Over | null | http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266124,00.html | 1 | null | 13,057 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,058 | comment | corail | 2007-04-15T06:36:54 | null | From my understanding, as long as the what is sold is immaterial (e.g., membership, software) and doesn't need to be sent to a specific address, you don't need to register as doing business in the country where the good is sold. <p>So in this case, I think that he might not need to register for doing business in japan if he's not selling any tangible thing...<p>I'm not so sure though since I don't know how it is in japan. | null | null | 12,923 | 12,805 | null | null | null | null |
13,059 | story | maufait | 2007-04-15T06:53:54 | Get 411/local search, stock quotes, weather, news, book review on your mobile | null | 1 | null | 13,059 | 4 | [
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13,060 | comment | maufait | 2007-04-15T06:56:48 | null | hi everyone,
We just launched our new startup service for mobile - maufait (meaning well informed through mobile). We are currently offering 411 searches,weather, stock quotes and moview showtimes. Its compatible with most Java enabled midp 2 phones. Its free. Would like some feedback on the service | null | null | 13,059 | 13,059 | null | null | null | null |
13,061 | comment | phil | 2007-04-15T07:01:51 | null | Now <i>this</i> is exactly the kind of criticism we like to see.
Thanks so much for your comments, bootload. Thanks for the compliments on the parts you liked. We're with you on the blogging - it's a big part of writewith, but we're making a tool that's useful any time you're working on something with other people.<p>The stuff you found underwhelming is mostly near the top of our to-do list, but hearing what people want definitely helps us prioritize.<p>I'm not sure I understand what you mean about privacy details. We actually do let you delete your documents, if you go to the home page, and nobody can see what's happening in a document unless you invite them in. If there are other privacy features you want, we'd love to hear about it (get us at [email protected])<p>Oh, and we do try to extract titles, but we might be missing some. If you're comfortable sending us a document where that didn't work, we'll take a look. | null | null | 12,986 | 12,932 | null | [
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13,062 | comment | yoa | 2007-04-15T07:18:54 | null | I'd like to say something that u don't have to answer. In fact, I wouldn't like u to answer for it's pointless to argue with you, as far as I can see. But I'm just wondering: Are you as afraid of communism as to act as someone like Hitler would do? Your way of refusing to friendly discuss arguments is as intolerant and shortsighted as Hitler or Stalin would do. So, as you call yourself an anti-communist you just let me one person to compare you with...<p>I'm not a philosopher nor a politician but the way you talk answers one of the unsolved questions I asked myself while reading some historical books: are there still people like that?????<p>And there you are..... | null | null | 11,121 | 9,770 | null | [
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13,063 | comment | celoyd | 2007-04-15T07:24:47 | null | Documentaries for geeks or about geeks? The ones about geeks will probably be really boring. They'll leave out both the technical stuff and the potentially actionable war stories. "Revolution OS", for instance, was a well-crafted film, but pretty dull if you read Slashdot.<p>Branch out a bit. Off the top of my head:<p>"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out": Richard Feynman talks. (Danny Hillis pops up for a bit.)<p>"The Fog of War": a smart, reflective person discusses how he presided over a huge disaster.<p>"Lost in La Mancha": Terry Gilliam takes a bunch of risks to get a movie started and doesn't make it.<p>"Around Cape Horn": Captain Irving Johnson describes sailing around the Horn on one of the last windjammers.<p>"Walking with Dinosaurs": Woo! Dinosaurs!<p>"Apollo 13" is not an actual documentary, of course, but it's fun and reasonably faithful for a big-budget movie. | null | null | 13,047 | 13,047 | null | [
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13,064 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-15T07:32:21 | null | Upgrayedd, two Ds for a Double Dose of intrusive marketing? | null | null | 12,962 | 12,962 | null | null | null | null |
13,065 | comment | brett | 2007-04-15T08:06:14 | null | A good place to start this is things you're personally dissatisfied with. Develop a healthy sense of annoyance with the things you use. Start to look for things thought you ought to find really annoying but don't because you've gotten used to them. <p>I've found it surprising how much this can be honed like any other skill. At first thinking up ideas seems difficult, then suddenly you've got a queue of things you want to build because you're annoyed. Then you go through the queue for things that other people are likely to be dissatisfied with as well. <p>Hopefully once you're at that point you're better equipped to spot broken stuff that you don't necessarily use (or even want to use). My guess is that not being put up their own online store was not a pain point for Paul and Robert but years of building whatever tools like lacked helped them spot it as a problem others were having. | null | null | 13,017 | 12,995 | null | null | null | null |
13,066 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-15T08:06:56 | null | 1) Collect your ideas. <p>2) Ask: "which one addresses the most user pain?"<p>3) Do that one.<p>4) Put the leftover ideas in a "maybe later" pile.<p>5) To maintain focus, any new ideas that come along should also go into the "maybe later" pile.<p>6) Profit! ;) | null | null | 13,035 | 13,035 | null | null | null | null |
13,067 | comment | colmworth | 2007-04-15T08:15:47 | null | Edreams - it tracks the rise and fall of KOZMO.COM, honestly a great great movie, you can even watch it online for free at cinemanow. <p>Definitely check this one out.
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13,068 | story | zaidf | 2007-04-15T08:17:47 | Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? | null | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html | 9 | null | 13,068 | 3 | [
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13,069 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-15T08:18:08 | null | Seth Godin's take:
<a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/id_ignore_him_t.html">http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/id_ignore_him_t.html</a> | null | null | 13,068 | 13,068 | null | null | null | null |
13,070 | comment | PaulH | 2007-04-15T08:46:37 | null | 1) Scratch your own itch
2) Think of a way to replace existing products or services with web technology.<p>Good luck!
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13,071 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-15T08:56:21 | null | I write them down and only a few keep nagging me. The others are frequently good ideas I'm just not excited enough about.<p> | null | null | 13,049 | 13,035 | null | null | null | null |
13,072 | comment | robertgaal | 2007-04-15T09:06:46 | null | Pirates of Silicon Valley ofcourse :)
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13,073 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-15T09:44:15 | null | Funny, on the other hand I have to say it seems very unprofessional by 3signals to publish their business communications online for the world to laugh at. I know they are considered the creme de la creme, but does this make me want to ever communicate with them, like apply for a job? Who knows, I might make a spelling mistake and they would go on and humiliate me in public. No thanks.
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13,074 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-15T09:56:12 | null | Somewhere I have read that entrepreneurs move to cheap areas to start their startup (maybe it was in the bootstrapping bible, see my submissions, but I am not sure) - apparently that is what Amazon did. Anyway, if you are living in such a cheap area, then you don't need the 15000$, or at least, the equivalent for you would be much less money. I suspect the 15K YC give you are probably spent on the 3 months living in Boston they require you to do. <p>How much do houses cost where you live, btw? I don't think people would be "gambling away their houses" by giving you 15K - wouldn't that just be two or three years more of paying off the mortgage? | null | null | 12,895 | 12,625 | null | [
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13,075 | comment | paulwe | 2007-04-15T10:06:49 | null | yeah... php's lack of a mb charset friendly wordwrap function is a bit lame... the only quote i haven't been able to validate is the GitS 2 Innocence quote, anyone else run into that problem? | null | null | 8,428 | 8,365 | null | null | null | null |
13,076 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-15T10:43:07 | null | Isn't this sort of hyocritical when comcasts internet properties are all flash and involve streaming video. I think they have a part to play too!
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13,077 | story | bootload | 2007-04-15T10:44:06 | $50,000 Spock Entity Resolution Challenge | null | http://challenge.spock.com | 4 | null | 13,077 | 11 | [
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13,078 | comment | danw | 2007-04-15T10:59:56 | null | The problem is the take down request system is flawed. Theres no easy way of verifying if the takedown is coming from the copyright owner and if you do delay acting on the notice and request the sender prove that they own the material then you become liable for the infringement. [IANAL of course] | null | null | 12,990 | 12,990 | null | null | null | null |
13,079 | comment | paul | 2007-04-15T11:01:29 | null | But at what odds? :)<p><a href="http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-be-right-90-of-time-and-why-id.html">http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-be-right-90-of-time-and-why-id.html</a> | null | null | 13,054 | 12,971 | null | null | null | null |
13,080 | comment | danw | 2007-04-15T11:01:43 | null | Project Aardvark? (I haven't seen this since I'm outside the US but it looks good) | null | null | 13,047 | 13,047 | null | [
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13,081 | comment | paul | 2007-04-15T11:03:39 | null | "Definitely" is a strong word. Monetizing this isn't the hard part -- being an important part of people's lives is. | null | null | 13,041 | 12,971 | null | [
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13,082 | comment | danw | 2007-04-15T11:10:49 | null | Social Network always makes people think your trying to build a new MySpace. Can anyone suggest an alternative term to use when your site is social but a bit more niche or just has some social features? | null | null | 13,033 | 12,988 | null | [
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13,083 | comment | danw | 2007-04-15T11:11:39 | null | Any BBC Horizon documentary, esp The Great Robot Race one. | null | null | 13,047 | 13,047 | null | null | null | null |
13,084 | story | danw | 2007-04-15T11:16:04 | The 7 Qs of Great Viral Content | null | http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/the-seven-qs-of-great-viral-content | 4 | null | 13,084 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,085 | comment | waleedka | 2007-04-15T11:21:16 | null | Check this excellent book by Kevin O'Connor, the founder of DoubleClick. He explains his own process for finding ideas and the mistakes that a lot of people do when choosing their own ideas. It's an eye opener.<p>The Map of Innovation: Creating Something Out of Nothing.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Map-Innovation-Creating-Something-Nothing/dp/1400048311">http://www.amazon.com/Map-Innovation-Creating-Something-Nothing/dp/1400048311</a><p> | null | null | 12,995 | 12,995 | null | null | null | null |
13,086 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-15T11:26:34 | null | '<i>... I'm not sure I understand what you mean about privacy details. We actually do let you delete your documents ...'</i><p>Hi Phil. <p>I just tried a simple set of tasks of an old file that I had (open office) and worked on it as I would each week. I remember reading your article a while ago on how you started, so I'm not surprised its so polished. Re-reading the original parent article I missed the collaborative blogging bit.<p>So I took some time and tried some more stuff and it works fine. I wouldn't go overboard on the 'underwhelming bits' I mentioned (spelling - because real-time could hit you on the server & you could optomise. eg: Firefox 2 with spelling included on the textboxes). So what I found, was pretty factual for a single user working on a document. <p><i>'... I'm not sure I understand what you mean about privacy details ...'</i><p>The privacy deletion bit, I mentioned happened when I did a bit of a poke around in your licensing files [0]. It states you keep a copy but remove the viewing capability, but not remove the file. This could be a problem for users (it would for me) but I don't know.<p><i>'... but we're making a tool that's useful any time you're working on something with other people ...'</i><p>I didn't get to do this bit. I assume you differentiate the users additions to documents? Can 2 users work at the same time?<p><i>'... If there are other privacy features you want, we'd love to hear about it (get us at [email protected]) ...'</i><p>I'll add it to the todo list I have, can't promise ... gotta work on my product as well :) One thing I will add is, check flickr for the way they license their text/images (creative content).<p>Regs PR<p>Reference<p>[0] writewith, legal privacy, 'Your Preferences: ... If you close your Unimedia account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. Content posted by you may remain on Writewith.com ...' ~ I interpret this as you can keep a copy of content!<p><a href="http://writewith.com/legal/privacy">http://writewith.com/legal/privacy</a> | null | null | 13,061 | 12,932 | null | null | null | null |
13,087 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-15T11:28:22 | null | null | null | 13,061 | 12,932 | null | null | null | true |
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13,088 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-15T11:31:20 | null | Ok I'm registered. Downloading the 1.5G document set now. This is pretty interesting. | null | null | 13,077 | 13,077 | null | [
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13,089 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-15T11:35:11 | null | way to go matt. Did you say 1.5G? For those reading & who want a summary the problem is on 'entity resolution'.<p><i>'... A common problem that we face is that there are many people with the same name. Given that, how do we distinguish a document about Michael Jackson the singer from Michael Jackson the football player ...'</i><p> | null | null | 13,088 | 13,077 | null | [
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13,090 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-15T11:37:56 | null | Yes, 1.5G. And that's just the small dataset to get you going! They really should used a Torrent for this thing. Right now I'm hoping my wireless keeps up with the download. | null | null | 13,089 | 13,077 | null | [
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13,091 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-15T11:44:34 | null | or offer a DVD burning service. | null | null | 13,090 | 13,077 | null | null | null | null |
13,092 | story | danw | 2007-04-15T12:10:51 | Do as I say, not as I did - How Ev fixed his mistakes from Odeo with Twitter | null | http://startitup.indieword.com/view/fable-do-as-i-say | 10 | null | 13,092 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,093 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-15T12:29:47 | null | Dont forget:<p>- Forbin project ~ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project</a><p>- E-Money with Cringely ~ <a href="http://www.pbs.org/opb/electricmoney">http://www.pbs.org/opb/electricmoney</a><p>- Nerds 2.0.1: with Cringely ~ <a href="http://www.pbs.org/opb/">http://www.pbs.org/opb/</a><p>- NerdTV: Cringely interviews ... ~ <a href="http://www.pbs.org/nerdtv/">http://www.pbs.org/nerdtv/</a><p>- Doug Englebart Mother of all Demos ~ <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/doug_englebart_.html">http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/doug_englebart_.html</a><p>- More Doug Englebart ~ <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097</a><p>
SEEN<p>- Startup.com: 9/10: How things get all messed up b/w friends in startups, 'lets get to work'.<p>- Revolution OS: 8/10: Nerdy interviews with the GNU, Linux & Free software movement. Worth it to see Bruce Perens hair & Eric Raymonds <i>'we are your worst nightmare'</i> speech to an MS exec in a lift.<p>- Pirates of Silicon Valley ~ 8/10: Very funny take on Gates, Woz & Jobs
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122</a><p>- The Triumph of the Nerds ~ 7.5/10: Cringley doing his stuff with web1.0 startups. Great to see Joe Kraus with Excite ~ <a href="http://www.pbs.org/nerds">http://www.pbs.org/nerds</a><p>- Apollo 13; 7/10: Brings back memories of my childhood & Apollo missions. Not long after I got this on DVD I got to see Jack Schmitt talk (last man on the moon). Best bit was on how they handled the complexity.<p>- The Fog of War ~ 7/10: Robert McNamara, how smart people can get fooled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War</a><p>- Walking with Dinosaurs: 7/10: Ok<p>- E-Dreams: 6.5/10: Dark, gritty and how did they get all that money?<p>- Project Aardvark ~ 6/10: Uneventful, nerdy guys building co-pilot ~ <a href="http://www.copilot.com/">http://www.copilot.com/</a><p><p>
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13,094 | story | jkopelman | 2007-04-15T12:35:39 | Understand the unwritten term in the term sheet | null | http://redeye.firstround.com/2006/03/as_a_little_kid.html | 6 | null | 13,094 | 1 | [
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13,095 | story | bootload | 2007-04-15T12:43:42 | Doug Englebart, Rebooted | null | http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/doug_englebart_.html | 1 | null | 13,095 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,096 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-15T13:02:42 | null | You're right, network sockets should be part of the filesystem. Arnold Robbins, author of GNU awk, is a fan of Plan 9 which did this the right way. It was probably the motivation for him adding special files to awk, e.g. "/inet/tcp/0/localhost/17921".<p>$ nc -l -p 17921 &<p>[1] 31333<p>$ date | awk '{print NR, NF [greater than sign]"/inet/tcp/0/localhost/17921"}'<p>1 4<p>[1]+ Done nc -l -p 17921<p>$<p><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/gawkinet.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/gawkinet.html</a> has more examples. Perhaps there's a FUSE module which gives us a network sockets filesystem?<p>Cheers, Ralph.<p>P.S. It's annoying that posters should waste their time probing the mark-up's flaws. Is there a description of it anywhere, e.g. what characters vanish, or how to break lines? | null | null | 12,978 | 12,858 | null | null | null | null |
13,097 | comment | gms | 2007-04-15T13:20:16 | null | Would be nice if PG could let us know when, if ever, it's going to be republished :) | null | null | 12,765 | 12,765 | null | null | null | null |
13,098 | comment | yuvipanda | 2007-04-15T13:55:21 | null | LMAO. You haven't seen WPF, have you? Or, do you really know how things are inside Microsoft now?<p>And, btw, I'm pretty much in the younger half of the population(16), and I'd much rather work at Microsoft which allows you to blog and conducts events in countries outside the US than at Google where you aren't even allowed to say what the dominant color in the data center is...<p>P.S. You rock, but this one made me LMAO. Tell me it was a late April Fool's joke.
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13,099 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-15T14:05:49 | null | While you're at it, read all the other articles by Joel, too, if you haven't done so yet ;-)
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