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13,400 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-16T21:16:40 | null | What happens when ad recession comes? Ads are cyclical too... | null | null | 13,295 | 12,876 | null | null | null | null |
13,401 | comment | erdos2 | 2007-04-16T21:19:30 | null | null | null | 13,190 | 12,282 | null | null | null | true |
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13,403 | comment | Leonidas | 2007-04-16T21:21:48 | null | Hrm<p>I don't know how they're going to compete with theknot.com. I've thought of this idea before and searched out the competitors. Every women and girl out there knows theknot is where you go to plan weddings. theknot is featured in every women magazine available. Heck, I don't plan on getting married anytime soon and I even know you go to theknot.<p>But hey, it's cool they're trying new things out but they seriously need talk to women before diving into a woman industry related area. | null | null | 13,384 | 13,384 | null | [
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13,404 | comment | jamiequint | 2007-04-16T21:22:53 | null | Rockstar Juiced or Coffee but not the two mixed | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,405 | story | dawie | 2007-04-16T21:27:30 | If success is quantified, the market makes less sense | null | http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/04/16/if-success-is-quantified-the-market-makes-less-sense/ | 1 | null | 13,405 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,406 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T21:28:49 | Social networking and search (is it really that crash-hot?) | null | http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/04/16/socialNetworkingAndSearch.html | 1 | null | 13,406 | 1 | [
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13,407 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-16T21:31:17 | null | Good stuff. I'm infamous at my local coffee shops for ordering it as straight concentrate. Not often, though. Usually just to keep me awake through classes following an all-nighter. | null | null | 13,393 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,408 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-16T21:32:10 | null | Tea, Earl Grey, unadulterated. | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | [
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13,409 | story | danw | 2007-04-16T21:38:50 | TechCrunch20 - New TechCrunch Event - Demo your startup | null | http://www.techcrunch20.com/ | 3 | null | 13,409 | 2 | [
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13,410 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T21:47:21 | Web 2 Expo - Rise of the hybrid designer | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_expo_hybrid_design.php | 1 | null | 13,410 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,411 | comment | danw | 2007-04-16T21:47:31 | null | Yikes! Ticket prices are steep $2,495.00 ($1,995.00 early bird). | null | null | 13,409 | 13,409 | null | [
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13,412 | comment | jwp | 2007-04-16T21:50:58 | null | A very important question... Celestial Seasonings Fast Lane tea. | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,413 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T21:51:33 | Introducing Microsoft Silverlight | null | http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/introducing-microsoft-silverlight.aspx | 1 | null | 13,413 | 1 | [
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13,414 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T21:52:27 | null | <i>'... Tim Sneath: Musings of a Windows Vista Technical Evangelist ...'</i><p>worth adding just for the blog byline | null | null | 13,413 | 13,413 | null | null | null | null |
13,415 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T21:56:41 | Why People Hate Building Desktop Applications? | null | http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=335 | 1 | null | 13,415 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,416 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T21:57:25 | Ray Ozzie: Adobe & software as a service | null | http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=332 | 1 | null | 13,416 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,417 | story | artixan | 2007-04-16T21:57:38 | The Myth of Big Orgs and Innovation | null | http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/the-myth-of-big-orgs-and-innovation/ | 3 | null | 13,417 | 1 | [
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13,418 | story | danw | 2007-04-16T21:57:46 | Nokia, Widgetized - "S60 will be the first mobile software platform, they say, that allows for the creation of widgets using standards-based Web technologies" | null | http://mashable.com/2007/04/16/nokia-widgetized/ | 2 | null | 13,418 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,419 | comment | pg | 2007-04-16T22:04:11 | null | Though this article is defending us, I disagree with it. What makes YC a good deal is not that we take common stock rather than preferred, but simply that we improve the average startup's outcome way more than the 6% we "cost." | null | null | 13,394 | 13,394 | null | [
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13,420 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-16T22:17:10 | Microsoft to Google: You Are The Monopoly Now, and We Are The Losers | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/16/microsoft-to-google-you-are-the-monopoly-now-and-we-are-the-loosers/ | 3 | null | 13,420 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,421 | story | pg | 2007-04-16T22:17:11 | The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie's Vision for Connected Software | null | http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1698 | 1 | null | 13,421 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,422 | comment | brett | 2007-04-16T22:20:18 | null | Wow. Way to basically take credit for Nic Williams' contribution (<i>extending Rails to do what you want is often much simpler than you think</i>) while at the same time including in a completely unnecessary dig on the Twitter guys (<i>I would of course rather have seen this work come out of Twitter</i>). <p>DHH is so hilariously out of control. I'm torn between clapping and vigorously shaking my head. He and Zuckerberg are really trying hard to make a case for the efficacy of over the top arrogance. They do seem to be getting things done... | null | null | 13,379 | 13,379 | null | [
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13,423 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-16T22:26:22 | null | I disagree you should appeal everything you feel is unjust. Sometimes it's appropriate, but it is difficult not to react with emotion when there is a sense of injustice and not all of those feelings lead you in the best direction.<p>If your partner breaks up with you, for example, appealing to 1000 different committees is only going to make things 1000 times worse for you.<p>You've got to decide whether the reward is worth the effort. Sometimes the reward doesn't make sense if you had to fight to get it. (eg, if you're not picked for a team then bitch your way in, there might be resentment that brings the whole team down such that you'd have been better off not bothering) | null | null | 13,396 | 13,343 | null | [
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13,424 | comment | cleenwe | 2007-04-16T22:28:18 | null | Now that the storm of comments died down a bit, I'd like to say that I agree with you. I've been attending the yearly Fosdem in Brussels, Belgium (an open source convention) for several years now, and this year a lot of the people working on open source had Macs. As a matter of fact the Macs were everywhere. Like you said, the geeks already switched to Mac. Many people have a PC, because someone they know advised them to get one, and because they knew that they could get help from the geek they knew if they got in trouble, but the geeks switched to Mac now. Combine this with the fact that those same geeks are telling people to stay away from Vista, and it doesn't look good for Microsoft. Just my two cents from Belgium.
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13,425 | comment | curio | 2007-04-16T22:32:23 | null | The knowledge that if I go to sleep, it will take me hours to get back in the zone again. | null | null | 13,398 | 13,383 | null | [
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13,426 | comment | cwilbur | 2007-04-16T22:34:26 | null | If I <i>need</i> a stimulant to keep me awake, I go to sleep. <p>Pulling an all-nighter when I'm already in sleep debt only produces code that sucks. The next day, I'm too tired to be functional and I've got a bunch of code that needs to be thrown out and rewritten. Sleep is a better use of time. | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | [
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13,427 | story | danw | 2007-04-16T22:37:55 | Emerging Countries and Mobile Phones: Kenya case study | null | http://tmenguy.free.fr/TechBlog/?p=161 | 1 | null | 13,427 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,428 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-16T22:40:02 | null | I did NOT say you should try to appeal everything you feel is unjust. I said let the person decide. I'm saying there should not be a blanket statement about NEVER appealing certain decisions. People should appeal for anything they WANT to (obviously after using common sense, not everything) especially if it's NOT personal, like college admissions.<p>I also did NOT say you should appeal to 1,000 different places. It was an example to point out that Paul was comparing apples to oranges.<p>And, by appeal, I don't think either I or Paul meant just words, but whatever it would be (retaking the physical, sending videos to a coach of your performance, sending a college a picture of a national award you just received in March after you were just rejected, etc.) | null | null | 13,423 | 13,343 | null | [
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13,429 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-16T22:40:41 | null | I agree. There is some truth in it though, especially if you also read DHH's post on Twitter trouble: <a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html">http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html</a> | null | null | 13,422 | 13,379 | null | [
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13,430 | comment | wammin | 2007-04-16T22:42:59 | null | If I told you I might get arrested | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,431 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-16T22:44:12 | null | I think 6% is a small price to pay. I am not sure why the blogosphere is making such a big deal about it. I would give away double of that to be part of YC. | null | null | 13,419 | 13,394 | null | null | null | null |
13,432 | comment | brett | 2007-04-16T22:44:55 | null | Yeah. Did you see the translation:
<a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-translation">http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-translation</a> | null | null | 13,429 | 13,379 | null | null | null | null |
13,433 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-16T22:50:43 | Dodgeball founders quit Google | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/16/dodgeball-founders-quit-google/ | 3 | null | 13,433 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,434 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-16T22:51:06 | null | There seems to be some confusion here with "the usual distribution of ability". <p>>"There will be a few stars who clearly should make the team, and many players who clearly shouldn't. "<p>Rather, there are a few who clearly should, a <i>few</i> who clearly shouldn't, and many in-between. <p>Moreover, this assumes there is a quantity called "ability" and that the evaluator is accurately measuring it. I note the later downplaying of accuracy, but before that, it says:<p>>"Probably the difference between them will be less than the measurement error."<p>How do you arrive at an estimate of "measurement error" in order to claim that? Did you first measure the evaluator's "measurement ability"? With what?<p>Even if we naively assume that we can order a group by "ability" with regard to start-ups, and that the difference between adjacent slots is small, it <i>does not follow</i> that your evaluation comes anywhere close to the presumed omniscient set-ordering.<p>The data you have is your self-selected subset, and even there you find that choice #30 is actually in the top few, which is a rather large measurement error; you might argue this doesn't matter in aggregate, but it still argues against any notion of small measurement error. If you can be off by almost your entire selection size then who knows what you missed in the numbers up to twice the chosen cut-off? <p>The statement "it matters least to judge accurately in precisely the cases where judgement has the most effect" seems self-contradictory. What I would <i>guess</i> you mean is that if someone is clearly good, they make the cut, and you don't need to scrutinize to find out <i>how</i> good; but it still matters that you put them on the right side of the cut!<p>It matters <i>the most</i> to judge accurately where judgement has the most effect -- given the nature of start-ups, your <i>missed</i> borderline case could be the one that would have been larger than all the rest put together. Remember <i>your</i> perceived borderline is not the same as <i>the</i> actual borderline. See Bessemer's anti-portfolio: <a href="http://www.bvp.com/port/anti.asp">http://www.bvp.com/port/anti.asp</a>
<p>The article seems to focus on accuracy initially, then semi-mea-culpa its way out of it later.<p>Reading hundreds of applications, your eyes glaze over, and you may only notice someone when they happen to push one of your buttons by chance.<p>It's fine to say you think you selected an "optimal subset" of people according to your checklist, biases, or opinions; but don't confuse that with "ability". You have an idea of what you want and pick according to resemblance to it: small teams that remind you of Viaweb's structure.<p>Using the game theory definitions, I don't find it discouraging that you chose an "optimal" set, which is clearly different in this case from "maximal" ;)<p>Just don't confuse maximal individual ability with optimal set selection, which is what you appear to do with your example of selecting players for a national team.<p>Tanenbaum would've failed Torvalds due to his own <i>bias</i>, which is clearly separate from Linus's ability.
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13,435 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-16T22:53:12 | null | Now that we know that Y Combinator is not a scam (I wonder how many established businesses applied to YC for the first round? PG?), I think it's clear you want to go with them. | null | null | 13,394 | 13,394 | null | null | null | null |
13,436 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-16T22:57:07 | null | YC is almost like a talent agent or broker -- finding the best hackers and setting them up with the logistical necessities, social connections, and advice. Taking a small cut of the transaction, entirely from the excess they create, is the only logical way to operate long-term.
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13,437 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-16T22:58:42 | null | To me, it seems muddled; I don't see the usual thanks to the usual suspects so I assume PG single-foundered it instead of running it past RTFM et al. | null | null | 13,370 | 13,343 | null | [
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13,438 | comment | ryantmulligan | 2007-04-16T23:00:25 | null | Agreed. I don't even drink or ingest any stimulants. Keeps my sleep much more regular. | null | null | 13,426 | 13,383 | null | [
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13,439 | comment | omarish | 2007-04-16T23:03:44 | null | my combination exactly. | null | null | 13,387 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
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13,441 | comment | dfens | 2007-04-16T23:06:14 | null | Jasmine tea and Led Zeppelin. | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,442 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-16T23:13:36 | null | 6% is a bargain, IMHO. Obviously, if it weren't, YC wouldn't be so popular.<p>Those who argue that YC is expensive, are saying it's not worth the upfront capital of ~$6,000. They're right - it's not. $6,000 is easy to come by.<p>However it's the rest of the package that's so valuable - the press / support / mentorship / etc. Heck, I'd give YC 6% AND $6,000 for a chance to be part of that... | null | null | 13,419 | 13,394 | null | null | null | null |
13,443 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T23:15:02 | null | I experimented with this choosing my tag, 'bootload'. When I first started the tag on bootload was dominated by information about bootloaders. [0] Now the namespace is <i>'polluted'</i> somewhat [1] with my crappy blogposts.<p>So what's happening here? Search is stumbling when it has to differente the meaning between an object and a person [2] using a tag or handle. Winer gives other examples where 'Manila' a city of almost ten and a half million [3] people bumped by the popularity or RSS.<p>Maybe Spock is on to something?<p>Reference
[0] Process that starts operating systems, starting up by pulling up the bootlaces.<p>[1] This idea can be used for any keyword. Find a keyword that does not have much of a hit on google and use that keyword in all content you generate.<p>[2] Or better put, stumbling on the difference between, person and not-person.<p>[3] A quick search on google ~ <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+manila">http://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+manila</a>
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13,444 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-16T23:27:26 | Zillow Becomes Illegal in Arizona | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/16/zillow-becomes-illegal-in-arizona/ | 7 | null | 13,444 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,445 | comment | ido | 2007-04-16T23:30:30 | null | Did anyone use Groovy on Grails? | null | null | 13,305 | 13,289 | null | null | null | null |
13,446 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T23:35:48 | null | <i>'... they dont pay a cent to do this. They will be selected to participate based on merit alone. ...'</i><p>But the companies/people demonstrating don't have to pay. Dave Winer is behind this and had a swipe at the companies asking for cash to slot in talks. [0]<p>But he also had another idea. It's called an 'Un-Conference' [1] and goes something like this ... <i>'The sum of the expertise of the people in the audience is greater than the sum of expertise of the people on stage'</i>. [2] So swap the panel for audience members and maybe even pay people to listen. [3]<p>As for me most of the time I wait until ITConversations or the numerous other outlets release the talk to audio.<p>Reference<p>[0] Dave Winer, 'Tuesday, February 14, 2006, OReilly Sponsor's prospectus'<p><a href="http://www.scripting.com/2006/02/14.html#When:6:30:11PM">http://www.scripting.com/2006/02/14.html#When:6:30:11PM</a><p>[1] Dave Winer, '5th, March 2006, What is an unconference?'<p><a href="http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/03/05/what-is-an-unconference/">http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/03/05/what-is-an-unconference/</a><p>[2] Observing that if you swapped parts of the audience in the stage for the panel it would be smarter (but not necessarily better to listen to).<p>[3] Dave Winer, 'Disintermediate, Commenting on Jeff Jarvis suggestions for audience to be paid to listen.'<p><a href="http://www.scripting.com/2006/02/15.html#disintermediate">http://www.scripting.com/2006/02/15.html#disintermediate</a> | null | null | 13,411 | 13,409 | null | null | null | null |
13,447 | comment | rms | 2007-04-16T23:37:28 | null | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratom">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratom</a><p>Kratom is a great stimulant. If you take too much, you don't get jittery, you just get really happy. | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | [
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13,448 | story | omouse | 2007-04-16T23:40:05 | Has anyone heard of these guys (Hakano) before? | null | http://www.hakano.com/about.html | 1 | null | 13,448 | 7 | [
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13,449 | comment | jsjenkins168 | 2007-04-16T23:40:15 | null | Try limiting your naps to 20 minutes. This prevents you from entering the deep phases of the sleep cycle which is what causes you to be drowsy. <p>If you are really hardcore you can go all out and convert to the Uberman polyphasic sleep cycle. 6 20 min naps, every 4 hours apart. Once adapted you can code for 22 hours a day its awesome... | null | null | 13,425 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,450 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-16T23:40:42 | null | I disagree with PG. Not everyone is connected to the internet all the time. My application (juwo) is meant to work offline. I can now see that PG may have been biased against my YC application.
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13,451 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-16T23:41:43 | null | I just stumbled upon a link to their site when checking out Joyent. Side question: has anyone used Joyent before? | null | null | 13,448 | 13,448 | null | [
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13,452 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T23:45:00 | Writing numbers (23 or Twenty Three)? | null | http://www.useit.com/alertbox/writing-numbers.html | 3 | null | 13,452 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,453 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T23:46:49 | How to make a difference | null | http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/49-how-to-make-a-difference/ | 1 | null | 13,453 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,454 | comment | rms | 2007-04-16T23:49:24 | null | Are you doing a true uberman schedule? How's that working for you? | null | null | 13,398 | 13,383 | null | [
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13,455 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-16T23:51:36 | null | I think the bottom line is that the competition is envious - I don't know who could provide the kind of network that YC provides. There is also probably the fear that YC represents the new way to fund startups "sucking" all the talent from the old way. Fear and Envy are a powerful combination and a great motivator for lashing out with the hope that the lashing will create some dent in YC. But the effort on the part of the competition will come to no avail - in fact you could argue it is a sign of how successful YC is becoming. | null | null | 13,419 | 13,394 | null | [
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13,456 | comment | danw | 2007-04-16T23:52:00 | null | They're not judging the candidate, they're judging the application. The candidate might be outstanding but if the application does not convey this then the committee won't know.<p>With any application the you write take a step back, leave it for a few days and then look at it as if it was writen by someone else. You'll quickly see where your assumptions lie and what you've missed. | null | null | 13,377 | 13,343 | null | [
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13,457 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-16T23:54:59 | Reddit: Language vs. Platform | null | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000839.html | 18 | null | 13,457 | 6 | [
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13,458 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-17T00:00:07 | Why Geeks Should Study Acting | null | http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-geeks-should-study-acting.html | 4 | null | 13,458 | 2 | [
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13,459 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-17T00:00:52 | Paul Buchheit: And there it is. Microsoft complains about Google being anti-competitive. | null | http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/and-there-it-is-microsoft-complains.html | 6 | null | 13,459 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,460 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-17T00:01:50 | null | Django is goofy to install sometimes. Strange. Then again TurboGears with its n+ components can be tricky.<p>I might actually give Rails a try on my next short consulting gig. All these YCers can't all be wrong.
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13,461 | comment | shiro | 2007-04-17T00:03:46 | null | PG is just pointing out a general fact, which is well known to those who are constantly being judged. It doesn't change whether PG wrote this as a response to the post, or as a general advice. If you doubt that, ask anybody in the profession where being judged is in its nature (I sometimes audition as an actor so I think I know that business a bit.)<p>Your mentioning about hidden bias is somewhat true, except that it's not really hidden, but just implicit---in most of the judgement there are always some implicit criteria the choosers have, and good players know that. Assuming otherwise is too naive.<p>About appealing: As far as you're not in the few of the obvious top group or in the obvious fall-behind groups in terms of the primary factors, any arbitrary secondary factors can put you in either side. Those factors are so random and it's waste of time to appeal---sure, you may have some chance of the judgements reversed, but it is much wiser to spend that time to make yourself excel in the primary factors, so that next time such randomness will affect less to the outcome, because if you like to live a life taking challenges, you will be constantly judged, and you won't have time to deal with those randomness.
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13,462 | comment | jason13 | 2007-04-17T00:04:39 | null | Yes, committees can do no wrong!! | null | null | 13,456 | 13,343 | null | null | null | null |
13,463 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-17T00:04:57 | Coghead: Visually create web apps online | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/16/coghead-announces-17000-developers-building-applications-visually/ | 3 | null | 13,463 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,464 | comment | rms | 2007-04-17T00:07:28 | null | To cure HIV: Start with some adult stem cells from the HIV patient to be treated, specifically the stem cells that produce T cells. We introduce the 32 base pair deletion in the CCR5 gene and grow the cells in culture. These can then be "transplanted" back into the patient. These transplanted stem cells will create HIV immune T cells. Once there are enough immune T cells, the patient will probably still have HIV, but it will not develop into AIDS. There will be no chance of rejection since they are the patient's own cells. Furthermore, since the body does produce antibodies to HIV, these modified T cells may even be able to fight off the HIV.<p>To test this, we would get a mouse line, which are genetically very similar to each other from inbreeding so we won't have to worry about rejection of the transplants, and introduce the human CCR5 receptor into them. This, in theory, will allow the mice to be infected with HIV since HIV attaches to the CCR 5 receptor to enter and infect the cell. If this works, we can then try the technique of taking some of their stem cells, introducing the mutation, transplanting them back in, and see if their T cell count increases or if the levels of HIV decrease. It could also be used as a preventative therapy, which we can also easily test on the mice. | null | null | 13,193 | 13,177 | null | null | null | null |
13,465 | story | kf | 2007-04-17T00:08:59 | One specific idea, pre-approved for Y Combinator funding | null | http://paulgraham.com/fixrazr.html | 12 | null | 13,465 | 26 | [
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13,466 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-17T00:12:13 | null | Caffeine actually makes me sleepy. So I just listen to happy electronica music or take a nap ;) | null | null | 13,426 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,467 | comment | will_lin | 2007-04-17T00:12:41 | null | I agree that Microsoft is dead. The biggest reason is simply that Bill Gates is leaving.
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13,468 | comment | jsjenkins168 | 2007-04-17T00:13:52 | null | Right now I have a core sleep of about 4hrs each night. I had to come off uberman when I started working as I cant really take naps at the office except for lunch. All the more reason to quit and found a startup right?<p>If you're really interested you should try to find a copy of Why We Nap by R. Broughton. There's a lot of confusion and general BS on the net about Polyphaic sleep. This book takes a scientific approach. The problem is its no longer in print so you might try a university library...<p>As far as how it works, I love it. Being awake for so much of the day is a huge plus, but the biggest improvement is actually in how you feel. Much sharper, better concentration, mood, etc. That is if you can make it past the adjustment period and you can stay on schedule. The big downside is that its still socially a "weird" thing. People will look at you crazy when you try to explain it... | null | null | 13,454 | 13,383 | null | [
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13,469 | comment | far33d | 2007-04-17T00:15:21 | null | Wouldn't this (supposedly) be the iPhone?
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13,470 | comment | pg | 2007-04-17T00:15:49 | null | Where did I say that? All I said was that you <i>can</i> make mistakes in borderline cases at little cost. | null | null | 13,377 | 13,343 | null | [
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13,471 | comment | aston | 2007-04-17T00:17:54 | null | Cool feature of NYT online I just discovered: If you double click a word, it'll define it for you in a pop up window.
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13,472 | comment | rms | 2007-04-17T00:18:45 | null | The iPhone interface is certainly revolutionary but there's room for another player in the mobile GUI marketplace. I'm not sure how you could make money with this, but it's something useful that users want, so YC would say you can figure out how to make money with it later. Probably by licensing the interface to the major cell phone companies, they're going to want to catch up to the iPhone. | null | null | 13,469 | 13,465 | null | [
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13,473 | comment | pg | 2007-04-17T00:19:44 | null | Yesterday afternoon. I was in the middle of turning that last Stanford talk into an essay. This was one of the points. During the talk I said this was important enough to be a separate essay, so I wrote one. | null | null | 13,370 | 13,343 | null | null | null | null |
13,474 | comment | aston | 2007-04-17T00:20:27 | null | It could be bigger than that. I think it'd be huge if someone came up with some phone interface that didn't suck that could be found on the more common, more affordable handsets. | null | null | 13,469 | 13,465 | null | null | null | null |
13,475 | comment | pg | 2007-04-17T00:21:29 | null | If you can point out a specific muddle I can fix, let me know. | null | null | 13,437 | 13,343 | null | [
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13,476 | comment | rms | 2007-04-17T00:21:53 | null | I'd consider doing it but the unknown long term health effects really scare me. I did a biphasic sleep schedule when I was working an 8-4 last year. I would sleep for 3-4 hours before work, then take a "nap" for 4-5 hours after work. About once a week I would go to bed at 5PM and accidentally sleep through the night. | null | null | 13,468 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,477 | comment | rms | 2007-04-17T00:23:40 | null | Modafinal is a drug that really intrigues me. Many militaries have switched to it from amphetamine. It's not really stimulating, but it eliminates any tiredness you might have. The perfect drug for a mandatory all-nighter.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil</a> | null | null | 13,426 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,478 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-17T00:24:40 | Conde Nast Launches Portfolio.com, GigaOM Launches Found+Read | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/16/conde-nast-launches-portfoliocom-gigaom-launches-foundread/ | 1 | null | 13,478 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,479 | comment | aston | 2007-04-17T00:25:41 | null | I think the challenge here is not to match the iPhone's interface, since that would require matching the iPhone's hardware.<p>What would be better is a plug-in-able OS that would make the RAZR's menus tolerable (and maybe could be used on phones with even worse hardware). | null | null | 13,472 | 13,465 | null | [
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13,480 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-17T00:28:00 | Do you need more than 15 minutes to tell your company's story? If so, you're grossly wasting time. | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/152/ | 1 | null | 13,480 | 1 | [
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13,481 | comment | pg | 2007-04-17T00:30:04 | null | Actually I think the reason people attack us is cleverer than that. We've gotten a lot of press lately. Anyone who can establish himself as the canonical YC critic can thereby use the both-sides-of-the-story reflex of reporters to get mentioned in any story that mentions us. <p>Ustream is doing this to Justin.TV right now. They have nothing; just off-the-shelf hardware hooked up to a streaming service. If they'd launched by themselves, no one would have cared. They've achieved what prominence they have entirely by getting themselves mentioned in articles about Justin.TV. They matter more as the antiJustin than in their own right. | null | null | 13,455 | 13,394 | null | [
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13,482 | comment | danw | 2007-04-17T00:34:20 | null | I love the look and feel of the iPhone UI but there are some niggles. The phones main 'dashboard'/start screen wont scale. Every app is an icon on a grid. As soon as you have more applications than screen space there are going to be problems. It's interesting to see that apple also has a poor application launcher UI (fidner) on mac os x too. I wonder if someone will be foolish enough to create a quicksilver equivalent for the iphone? | null | null | 13,472 | 13,465 | null | null | null | null |
13,483 | comment | danw | 2007-04-17T00:36:00 | null | I was talking with one of the co-creators of Django the other day and even he cant get it to install! | null | null | 13,460 | 13,289 | null | null | null | null |
13,484 | story | waleedka | 2007-04-17T00:39:00 | How long do Y-Comb startups live before getting acquired or dissolving? | null | 5 | null | 13,484 | 6 | [
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13,485 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-17T00:39:07 | null | off topic, but the first thing that struck me was that "hakano" means "of cemeteries" in japanese. | null | null | 13,448 | 13,448 | null | [
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13,486 | comment | danw | 2007-04-17T00:40:20 | null | The RAZR is quite locked down. I tried to create a better UI for it [this was several years ago when I had a RAZR. worst mobile UI ever] but the problem is that the only way in is to create a java app that has to be launched by the user. This java app is hidden deep inside the menu system your trying to fix.<p>Nokia S60's on the other hand are a dream to customise. I'm working on a new application launcher for my E61 right now and the difference is stagering. Being able to run python on your phone rather than java or C++ makes development tolerable. Hopefully nokias widgets coming this year will allow access to phone APIs from JS/CSS/HTML, then mobile will be as easy as web apps. | null | null | 13,479 | 13,465 | null | null | null | null |
13,487 | comment | aantix | 2007-04-17T00:40:27 | null | I have received many of of emails complaining about the insensitivity of the name "RunFatBoy.net". <p>Good or bad, RunFatBoy has enough shock value to make people take notice. And if I can make them take notice, hopefully with a sincere product, I can win them over.
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13,488 | comment | danw | 2007-04-17T00:42:31 | null | Check out TAT[0], they make incredible looking mobile UIs. Also check out the concepts from the Nokia design team[1].<p>[0] <a href="http://www.tat.se/conceptlab/">http://www.tat.se/conceptlab/</a><p>[1] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NokiaDesign">http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NokiaDesign</a><p>(Just realised I'm posting far too much in this story. Mobile UI is a great passion of mine. I think it's been downhill ever since the Nokia 3310. If any one else is passionate about improving the mobile user experience then please contact me at [email protected], I wish to pursue a startup in this area soon) | null | null | 13,465 | 13,465 | null | null | null | null |
13,489 | story | pg | 2007-04-17T00:49:13 | The New Music Industry (A Band's View) | null | http://cobrapunchers.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-music-industry.html | 5 | null | 13,489 | 3 | [
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13,490 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-17T00:52:09 | null | Thanks for pointing that out. I guess the competing VC did use his moment to advertise his counter offer while bashing YC at the same time. Media savvy is probably not a bad thing to master, especially if you actually have a product with really good value. Your MS article is definitely an example of amazing media savvy. | null | null | 13,481 | 13,394 | null | null | null | null |
13,491 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-17T00:56:26 | null | "There will be a few stars who clearly should make the team, and many players who clearly shouldn't. The only place your judgement makes a difference is in the borderline cases."<p>Jason13 is saying that there are plenty of cases where the "stars" often appear mediocre until they hit stardom, at which point it's too late to bid for their talent. It certainly makes a difference whether your team includes the stars or not, and since they often won't be obvious at the initial selection... | null | null | 13,470 | 13,343 | null | [
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13,492 | comment | pg | 2007-04-17T00:57:13 | null | Most that die, die in less than a year. We don't have enough data yet to say what happens to the ones that don't. | null | null | 13,484 | 13,484 | null | [
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13,493 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-17T01:01:12 | null | Uh-oh, maybe they should be avoided then? :P | null | null | 13,485 | 13,448 | null | null | null | null |
13,494 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-17T01:01:46 | null | In WFP2007 the languages/platforms used, roughly in order of popularity) were:<p>Ruby on Rails<p>PHP<p>Java<p>Perl<p>That's not all of the technologies used, but I think that's a pretty good representation of the mix in order of popularity (there might be a Python group in there, too, but I can't think of who). One group is writing their own language and framework (Tsumobi, implemented in J2ME), while others are working predominantly in JavaScript (Zenter) or ActionScript (Heysan) for large parts of their product and the backend language is entirely unimportant (I'm betting Zenter probably only has a couple thousand lines of server-side code, versus tens of thousands of lines of JavaScript). Actually, nearly everyone is doing some of their work in JavaScript, and it's the one language that I know I can ask any of the developers in the program questions about.<p> | null | null | 13,289 | 13,289 | null | null | null | null |
13,495 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-17T01:13:57 | null | Are you affected by food comas? | null | null | 13,468 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,496 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-17T01:15:01 | null | Logo is misleading. Wedding rings are traditionally plain gold bands. Engagement rings are the ones with the rock. | null | null | 13,384 | 13,384 | null | [
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13,497 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-17T01:29:06 | null | Chai is good. If you have free time it's fun to experiment with making your own. SpecialTeas.com has a variety of cheap black teas that work well, and the other decent site is uptontea.com, which is actually based just outside Boston. Then the rest of the ingredients you can get from the supermarket. There are a bunch of decent recipes online; I usually use the one from the rec.food.drink.tea FAQ | null | null | 13,393 | 13,383 | null | [
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13,498 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-17T01:31:00 | Adobe Launches Media Player to Feed Apollo Ecosystem | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/16/adobe-launches-media-player-to-feed-apollo-ecosystem/ | 1 | null | 13,498 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,499 | story | joshwa | 2007-04-17T01:31:22 | Translation From PR-Speak to English of DHH's Response to Alex Payne's Interview [dive into mark] | null | http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-translation | 8 | null | 13,499 | 0 | null | null | null |
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