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7,600 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-03-30T17:11:51 | null | As consumers, we are in charge of our own consumption decisions. Its aggravating to see people try to pass that responsibility to others.<p>The most successful product, service, or even startup is going to be the one that people use. Sure, instead of building a site that serves electronic "junk food," Steve could've designed a website that cuts War and Peace into "bite size chunks." But if nobody uses it, and I have a feeling nobody will, then there will be no incentive to build it.<p>The best way to change the web is to change your own consumption decisions. Bothered by reddit? Don't visit it. Can't resist? Block it. If enough do that, I'm sure Steve and Alexis will respond with a "healthier menu." | null | null | 7,575 | 7,543 | null | null | null | null |
7,601 | comment | far33d | 2007-03-30T17:12:45 | null | What I mean is: could these same market forces apply to software? Are we at the end of the era of domination on the order of Microsoft Office? | null | null | 7,598 | 7,598 | null | null | null | null |
7,602 | story | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:12:51 | Venture Capital: Overview | null | http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/venture-capital-overview/ | 1 | null | 7,602 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,603 | story | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:13:04 | 10 Tips for Students Seeking VC Funding | null | http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2007/03/10/5-tips-for-students-seeking-vc-funding/ | 1 | null | 7,603 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,604 | story | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:13:24 | 10 Tips & Advice for Student Startups | null | http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/college-students-tips-advice-for-starting-up/ | 1 | null | 7,604 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,605 | story | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:16:28 | YouTube Co-Founder Jawed Karim: "The Next Big Thing..." | null | http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/enabling-technologies-jawed-karim/ | 1 | null | 7,605 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,606 | comment | abrs | 2007-03-30T17:16:39 | null | Can you please add a link to the comments page to the RSS feed with each Article. Then the article's link would go the the site and the content would include a link to the comments. Also, the number of comments should be displayed. This would integrate the RSS more tightly into the site. | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
7,607 | story | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:17:46 | YouTube and PayPal Growth: Why So Successful? | null | http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/what-made-paypal-and-youtube-successful/ | 2 | null | 7,607 | 1 | [
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7,608 | story | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:18:38 | Most Classroom Learning Sucks | null | http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/01/most_classroom_.html | 9 | null | 7,608 | 20 | [
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7,609 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T17:19:16 | null | This is not a classified ad service. | null | null | 7,586 | 7,585 | null | null | null | null |
7,610 | story | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:19:33 | You Remember Me! (A Humorous Message to My Client) | null | http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/you-remember-me/ | 1 | null | 7,610 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,611 | story | bctaner | 2007-03-30T17:19:43 | Unconventional But Yet Successful Online Homebusiness Ideas | null | http://nichegeek.com/10_unconventional_but_successful_online_homebusiness_ideas | 1 | null | 7,611 | 1 | [
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7,612 | story | far33d | 2007-03-30T17:21:19 | Yet another YC-based application | null | http://www.illinoisventures.com/iventures10/apply.html | 7 | null | 7,612 | 10 | [
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7,613 | comment | zkinion | 2007-03-30T17:22:52 | null | haha, cute.
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7,614 | comment | far33d | 2007-03-30T17:23:10 | null | The usefulness of scribd is now fully apparent to me. thanks!
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7,615 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T17:25:48 | null | Yipes, these guys are even worse plagiarists than Techstars. There are whole chunks of near verbatim text.<p><a href="http://www.iventures10.com/funding.html">http://www.iventures10.com/funding.html</a><p>The deadline was in Feb though. How can I have never heard of this? Did they even go ahead with this thing, or did they build the site and then change their minds? | null | null | 7,612 | 7,612 | null | [
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7,616 | comment | far33d | 2007-03-30T17:27:58 | null | Maybe because it's in Illinois? I just happened across it following links from the 5 posts jtame just put up.
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7,617 | comment | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:28:25 | null | As a sophomore at the University of Illinois, my classes make me get up at 7 or 8am every morning. I usually get an average of 4-5 hours of sleep per night.<p>I find myself getting sick after doing this for periods of time. But it's definitely a hard-to-break behavior. I still average 4-5 hours per night.<p>Can't say I'd take it back for anything. There's probably not a full-time job opportunity in the world that will replace the excitement of being an entrepreneur. | null | null | 1,545 | 1,545 | null | null | null | null |
7,618 | story | chandrab | 2007-03-30T17:29:12 | Woz's business card - very very cool..I want one! | null | http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/03/28/wozs-business-card/ | 14 | null | 7,618 | 5 | [
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7,619 | comment | dougw | 2007-03-30T17:29:24 | null | I don't know how competent their application makes them seem...<p>"Week 9: Business model stuff"
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7,620 | comment | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:30:27 | null | I'll take Stanford over University of Illinois any day ;) | null | null | 1,328 | 1,328 | null | null | null | null |
7,621 | comment | zkinion | 2007-03-30T17:32:05 | null | The chicken and egg problem faced by companies who's users gain utility from other users must normally be solved in novel ways. Viral, exponential growth doesn't happen when nobody is "sick". | null | null | 7,607 | 7,607 | null | null | null | null |
7,622 | comment | palish | 2007-03-30T17:35:52 | null | One way to improve the learning environment for public schools is to centralize the process using technology, then nudge the process in a different direction.<p>But we must test to make sure that the new direction is a better one. | null | null | 7,608 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,623 | comment | daliso | 2007-03-30T17:37:33 | null | I agree entirely with this article. From my own experience, I did a lot of abstract maths in undergrad and really hated it because I couldn't figure out what all these Groups, Topologies, Normed Vector Spaces, etc were all about. What was the use of learning all these things without some practical application? It was only later on when I started to learn more about the people behind these theories, and the challenges that motivated them, that it became more interesting. The founders of all this knowledge were trying to get one thing or the other done, and this is what motivated them to construct these mind bending abstractions. <p>I think it is a lot more effective to give students challenges rather than knowledge. When they get stuck (and they will get stuck eventually), then give them the knowledge they need to overcome their obstacles. Of course, you never know, without having some pre-determined way of solving something, the students might end up discovering a smarter ways of solving the same problems!
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7,624 | story | domp | 2007-03-30T17:38:25 | "The Code." Tapping into the unconcious of why people buy what they buy | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/346-people-have-no-idea-why-theyre-doing-what-theyre-doing | 5 | null | 7,624 | 5 | [
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7,625 | comment | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:40:11 | null | I was involved in this competition, although I got accepted to interview with them, I wasn't accepted for the summer.<p>I got sidetracked with a fairly crazy idea and went out on a whim. I should have done something closer to my own expertise, and didn't build a prototype. Very difficult to pitch without a prototype.<p>My actual interview was a disaster. I had 3 backups of the PowerPoint, but they were all old copies (LOL). I had to give the presentation from Contingency Plan #4, hand-outs ;) | null | null | 7,616 | 7,612 | null | null | null | null |
7,626 | comment | jmtame | 2007-03-30T17:41:29 | null | The CS community, at least in my opinion, hates business jargon. They're trying to make it as CS-friendly as possible, I believe. | null | null | 7,619 | 7,612 | null | [
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7,627 | comment | far33d | 2007-03-30T17:43:02 | null | Guess they failed at that.
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7,628 | comment | ericwan | 2007-03-30T17:48:29 | null | I actually like your first answer more though. =) | null | null | 7,256 | 7,094 | null | null | null | null |
7,629 | comment | daliso | 2007-03-30T17:57:12 | null | Interesting. For anyone interested, you can watch a video featuring this guy at: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/view/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/view/</a> | null | null | 7,624 | 7,624 | null | null | null | null |
7,630 | comment | dougw | 2007-03-30T17:59:07 | null | "IllinoisVENTURES is a seed and early-stage technology venture capital firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences and life sciences, with a particular emphasis on those deriving from research conducted at the University of Illinois and other regional research institutions."<p>Also, look at their portfolio companies. I wouldn't say they are as software oriented as programs such as YC. <p>Regardless, they come off rather unprofessional. | null | null | 7,626 | 7,612 | null | null | null | null |
7,631 | comment | zach | 2007-03-30T18:07:38 | null | You've really arrived when you can get a screenshot of a "coming soon" page on TechCrunch. | null | null | 7,576 | 7,576 | null | null | null | null |
7,632 | comment | brlewis | 2007-03-30T18:09:48 | null | Is one of the main benefits of YC advice on how to make something more attractive and/or how to find customers for whom it would be attractive? | null | null | 7,575 | 7,543 | null | [
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7,633 | comment | zkinion | 2007-03-30T18:14:41 | null | Yes, I remember seeing the pbs show on him (pbs is awesome), and thought of him to be more of a salesperson than actual master guru. Alot of what he says is hindsight. Look instead of how he sells his "service" to these large companies for good sums of cash. He invites them into his nice home, gives them good french wine and almost courts them. His accent is a whole bonus in itself. In the end, the companies feel justitifed spending the sum of money, because it is viewed as an upscale expense. | null | null | 7,624 | 7,624 | null | [
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7,634 | comment | Elfan | 2007-03-30T18:21:29 | null | That is some impressively bad 1990s style frame usage.<p>They get bonus points for asking for the application in plain text though. | null | null | 7,612 | 7,612 | null | [
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7,635 | comment | Elfan | 2007-03-30T18:22:33 | null | He also carries large numbers of special $2 bills with him.<p><a href="http://www.woz.org/letters/general/78.html">http://www.woz.org/letters/general/78.html</a> | null | null | 7,618 | 7,618 | null | null | null | null |
7,636 | comment | brlewis | 2007-03-30T18:23:16 | null | The "Manhattan Academy" mentioned in this article is a Montessori school. Expensive Montessori private school for my own children is my startup motivator. My day job would be enough otherwise.<p>You can see some example Montessori materials here:<p><a href="http://ourdoings.com/brlewis/2006-01">http://ourdoings.com/brlewis/2006-01</a>
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7,637 | comment | jamiequint | 2007-03-30T18:23:27 | null | I LOVE this quote...<p>"If I wasn't starting this company, I would be starting another company. It's my job. It's my life." | null | null | 7,550 | 7,550 | null | null | null | null |
7,638 | comment | ashu | 2007-03-30T18:23:27 | null | I'm sure if they hadn't plagiarized the YC form, they would have asked you to submit a crappy Word document. | null | null | 7,634 | 7,612 | null | null | null | null |
7,639 | comment | jmtame | 2007-03-30T18:26:40 | null | I think it shows that Andres doesn't have the interest or time in his school work. I'm in a similar situation, considering dropping out as an undergraduate, and I just don't have the time to work on my startup and school at the same time and expect any progress in the next 12 months.<p>Plus you have to consider what a degree is going to get you. In most cases, at least for undergraduates, a degree is going to put you in a full-time, entry-level job. Not everyone wants that, and not everyone is meant to be in college.<p>You can argue this two ways. Your view is "you need to finish what you started, otherwise people know you're a quitter." I'm the type who says "I tried it, didn't like it, and now I'm chasing my dreams." There's no right or wrong here, it's all perception. | null | null | 2,579 | 227 | null | null | null | null |
7,640 | comment | ced | 2007-03-30T18:29:38 | null | I don't think that the failures will report here...<p>We should start a "Paul Graham convinced me to drop Java / C++" poll to cheer him up. | null | null | 7,429 | 6,918 | null | [
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7,641 | story | Readmore | 2007-03-30T18:32:14 | Steve Jobs at Next documentary - Old but very interesting | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdPxKDJzt7Q&eurl= | 7 | null | 7,641 | 5 | [
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7,642 | comment | Elfan | 2007-03-30T18:33:18 | null | "There is no evidence that broadband operators are unfairly blocking access to websites or online services today, and there is no reason to expect them to do so in the future. "<p>That is a rather controversial statement. Dear AOL and the attempts to blackmail Google come to mind. | null | null | 7,514 | 7,463 | null | [
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7,643 | comment | daliso | 2007-03-30T18:40:39 | null | yeah, I guess he has figured out their code :) | null | null | 7,633 | 7,624 | null | [
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7,644 | story | diggypop | 2007-03-30T18:53:39 | Paul Graham says Alexa is "behaving evilly" | null | http://ronhornbaker.com/paul-graham-says-alexa-is-behaving-evilly/ | 7 | null | 7,644 | 1 | [
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7,645 | story | Mistone | 2007-03-30T19:00:33 | Study Examines Silicons Valley's "IT" Factor (SBA Office of Advocacy) (pdf) | null | http://www.sba.gov/advo/april07.pdf | 1 | null | 7,645 | 1 | [
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7,646 | comment | Mistone | 2007-03-30T19:05:37 | null | link to full report: <a href="http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs296tot.pdf">http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs296tot.pdf</a><p> | null | null | 7,645 | 7,645 | null | null | null | null |
7,647 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-30T19:07:18 | null | Here is my response as I wrote on my blog(<a href="http://www.zaid360.com/?p=107):">http://www.zaid360.com/?p=107):</a><p>-----<p>It is getting tiring to hear folks complain about the corrupting impact of web2.0 ventures on daily life. I think such arguments make for great philosophical papers. But really they have little practical meaning.<p>Two things:<p>1. the argument that stuff like Twitter and YouTube are time wasters and thus amoral can be debated to death and debates are the last thing entrepreneurs like to get into; we would rather build more YouTubes and more Twitters<p>2. if you think that Twitter and YouTube are nothing but time wasters, you are simply being short sighted.<p>Ya'll need to realize that many new tools in their initial stages are used for fun, and that is the stage most of the new generation of web2.0 ideas are in. It has been what less than three or four years since facebook took off, and YouTube sucked us in? And already we are hearing of YouTube 's use in catching stupid crooks, facebook as a tool to find lost wallets and Twitter's potential to help during a SF earthquake. Such waste of time, eh.<p>--- | null | null | 7,543 | 7,543 | null | null | null | null |
7,648 | story | divia | 2007-03-30T19:09:04 | Admin - Configuration - Images - Zen Cart(tm) Wiki | null | http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Admin_-_Configuration_-_Images | 2 | null | 7,648 | 1 | [
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7,649 | comment | divia | 2007-03-30T19:10:07 | null | Posting this was a complete mistake. I accidentally clicked my bookmarklet. Anyone know how to delete a submission? | null | null | 7,648 | 7,648 | null | null | null | null |
7,650 | comment | palish | 2007-03-30T19:26:54 | null | I'm only one data point, so you should probably take this with a grain of salt. I went to a Montessori school from kindergarten through third grade, and I can't stress enough how badly that specific Montessori school failed. Teachers were distant, more like babysitters than having any kind of structure. Any project we wanted to work on was fine, but most of us didn't do anything (the equivalent of pretending to work at work). We'd have to keep track of what we did in journals and get them signed by a teacher, so most of us made up stuff and forged the teacher's signature. I don't remember learning any mathematics at all back then. In fact, I'm positive that it wasn't until fourth grade that I got into basic math. I don't know if that's normal, but my father had been teaching me math outside of school from a very early age, so I was still strong in it. It's a very strange school system.<p>My final observation is that my Montessori school was so <i>small</i>! I was a shy kid, and going to a small school from K-3rd grade, then another small school from 4th-8th grade, did not help me to become a social person one bit. If you do something against the group, everyone will hate you, resulting in more shyness. Even at third grade.<p>You probably should evaluate your child. Is s/he shy? If so, it may be a benefit to send them to a larger school. I'm not saying that it will cure them of shyness, but it may help.<p>I'll totally respect any decision you make though :) | null | null | 7,636 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,651 | story | vikram | 2007-03-30T19:29:39 | Picky domain names | null | http://www.pickydomains.com/ | 1 | null | 7,651 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,652 | comment | brlewis | 2007-03-30T19:34:54 | null | My kids are not shy, and math-wise they're ahead of where I was at the same age. I went on to get a math degree from MIT. Your story is the first time I've heard of a Montessori school being so unstructured. Do you know if it was accredited? | null | null | 7,650 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,653 | comment | fruscica | 2007-03-30T19:36:46 | null | Enter my "open source" biz plan for leveraging media -- and situation comedy in particular -- to establish the most popular online market for customized education.<p>See OpportuniTV.com for details. Two (de facto) reviews of earlier versions of the site's content:<p>"I just spent about an hour surfing around with a bit of amazement."<p>Josh Peterson
Co-Founder/CEO
43Things.com (an Amazon.com company)
December 12, 2004<p>"Frank, you are a good man. Have you thought about joining this team? Your only alternative, of course, is venture capital. But their usual models require getting rid of the 'originator' within the first eighteen months. With Netscape it took a little longer, but you get the idea."<p>Randy Hinrichs
Manager, Learning Sciences and Technology Group
Microsoft Research
December 1998<p>Enjoy!<p>Frank Ruscica
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7,654 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T19:37:38 | null | Yes, but if you stop to think about it, what you've described is 95% of what doing a startup consists of. So saying yes to that = yes, we help people with their startups. | null | null | 7,632 | 7,543 | null | [
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7,655 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-30T19:39:34 | null | I have to disagree with you, and vehemently. Centralization is exactly the problem.<p>I was lucky enough to be educated in an International Baccalaureate program that stressed interaction between students and teachers, convivial debate rather than lecture, and analytic essays instead of rote recall. The strength of the program came from its decentralization, relying on good teachers rather than central planning. The teachers and students worked together, as collaborators.<p>Technology is a wonderful thing, but in education, it generally gets in the way of the greatest teacher: intellectual discourse. A teacher and 10-20 students talking with each other[1] is an optimal model for learning. Educational technology generally takes the personal interaction out of things, and certainly makes the process less engaging.[2]<p>[1] Very different from a teacher talking to, or at, students.<p>[2] I'm talking about secondary education. For primary ed, technology can be very useful. But that is a very different environment. | null | null | 7,622 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,656 | story | fruscica | 2007-03-30T19:41:27 | "Open source" biz plan for leveraging media -- esp. situation comedy -- to establish the most popular online market for customized education | null | http://www.OpportuniTV.com | 1 | null | 7,656 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,657 | comment | richcollins | 2007-03-30T19:43:52 | null | Tipping point achieved | null | null | 7,550 | 7,550 | null | null | null | null |
7,658 | comment | palish | 2007-03-30T19:46:46 | null | I don't know, sorry.. I am sure that it was the Montessori system though. They even had pictures of Dr. Montessori hanging on the walls. I haven't really looked back into that time in my life, 'til now. I'm not upset, I turned out fine, I just personally feel that in a bigger school I could have become social more quickly by interacting with a wider variety of other kids. <p> | null | null | 7,652 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,659 | comment | richcollins | 2007-03-30T19:47:51 | null | Heh see <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7584">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7584</a> | null | null | 7,624 | 7,624 | null | null | null | null |
7,660 | story | pg | 2007-03-30T19:51:17 | Free Online Photo Editors | null | http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=204199,00.asp | 3 | null | 7,660 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,661 | comment | palish | 2007-03-30T19:55:30 | null | Well, I see now that there are two kinds of centralization.<p>1) The system is top-heavy, and administrators pick out what teachers teach. This is centralized planning.<p>2) The content that teachers generate (assignments, quizzes) is put into a centralized pool, which other teachers can browse through to come up with new ideas for their teaching. This is centralized content.<p>I'm sorry I wasn't clear, but I didn't mean centralized planning, I meant centralized content. If there is some way to know what a teacher taught and how well it worked which other teachers could use as a reference, then it becomes a memory. Teachers can improve upon other teachers' previous works. <p>Right now, each public school teacher is almost universally independent. My idea is that as each assignment is completed online, the assignment goes into the memory pool. Teachers can browse all content. Students and teachers can rate and comment on the assignments. This seems like it would encourage good collaboration and interaction. | null | null | 7,655 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,662 | comment | brlewis | 2007-03-30T20:07:28 | null | Are you confident that YC has the knowledge and/or connections to help a startup whose customer base is fundamentally different from those you've worked with in the past? What if the customer base has shown years of resistance to following the lead of technology early adopters? Would you be able to either penetrate such a market directly or find another market whose lead they would follow? Or, how much more likely would you be to succeed at this than a hacker who applies his/her problem-solving skills to the question and tries a few things? | null | null | 7,654 | 7,543 | null | [
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7,663 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-03-30T20:12:32 | null | Yah woz has a lot of neat tricks.<p>For anyone interested in this kind of stuff..<p>You can buy uncut currency sheets here: <a href="http://www.moneyfactory.gov/store/section.cfm/69">http://www.moneyfactory.gov/store/section.cfm/69</a><p>And the metal biz cards:
<a href="http://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/metalbusinesscards.htm">http://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/metalbusinesscards.htm</a> | null | null | 7,618 | 7,618 | null | null | null | null |
7,664 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-30T20:12:52 | null | I think we're considering fundamentally different paradigms. In my education, there were effectively no assignments, and certainly none that could be completed online. Consider my senior English or Latin classes: the only "assignments" were to read, and occasionally to write, generally on a self-generated topic. <p>In class, similarly, there was very little pre-planned content. In Latin, we simply went through the previous night's translation, line by line, with discussion breaking out whenever someone was perplexed or intrigued by something.<p>In English, there was perhaps a bit more planned content, but not much: the teacher would have something to talk about, and start out talking about it, but within 5-10 minutes we would have moved out of the prepared material into our own discussion.<p>Now, in the sciences, yes, there is definite content, and there, surely, there would be value in a central content store, but it would need to be developed outside the institutional structure, or your 2) would rapidly become 1). (Yes, I'm a bit jaded: I went to an amazing program, but it was housed at a horribly administered school.) | null | null | 7,661 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,665 | comment | nateritter | 2007-03-30T20:14:02 | null | I hear ya. For me, I don't have a problem with the social skills. I have a networking problem of "the right people." Some people meet the right people earlier than others. Unfortunately, I've never been privy to that, so I hack really hard. :) | null | null | 7,125 | 6,668 | null | null | null | null |
7,666 | comment | palish | 2007-03-30T20:21:09 | null | "I think we're considering fundamentally different paradigms."<p>Yes, I agree. I'm passionate about somehow improving the lives and education of the average public high school student. My hypothesis is that the answer is increasing the availability of student-student, student-teacher, and teacher-teacher communication, with the memory pool to store previous content. The internet is a wonderful thing, however programs like Blackboard fail to take into account group interaction. (They claim they do, but their groups are isolated to individual classrooms; I'm talking about networking across the entire world.)<p>"...but it would need to be developed outside the institutional structure, or your 2) would rapidly become 1)."<p>Exactly. This is why I feel it can only be created by a commercial entity, possibly a corporation.<p>
Also, I agree that your method of learning is superior, however the entity that creates this must accept that public schools teach in a certain way and change very slowly.<p>Another problem is dealing with online predators. Any kind of social software created for schools is going to create huge waves of uproar unless people are sure that predators, real or imagined, can't communicate with students. I'm thinking that in order to communicate with other students, you must be a part of a classroom that has at least a certain amount of students and has a certain amount of content. Stifling communication is unsettling, but I don't see another way. | null | null | 7,664 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,667 | story | digg | 2007-03-30T20:21:47 | spam | null | http://tinyurl.com/39gv8y | 1 | null | 7,667 | -1 | [
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7,668 | comment | RyanGWU82 | 2007-03-30T20:21:49 | null | Nice. The voiceover sounds like it's from a 1950s science video, and the dude at 0:56 looks like Napoleon Dynamite. When you get past the superficial stuff, there's a lot of insight here too. It's really interesting to see how Jobs managed his people back then.<p>"I don't want to hear 'just because we blew it last time, we're going to blow it this time.'" Smart stuff. | null | null | 7,641 | 7,641 | null | null | null | null |
7,669 | comment | zkinion | 2007-03-30T20:23:43 | null | My first startup was homebased. It took almost 2 years before it started doing good. <p>Most canned solutions for homebased businesses are total scams. You really have to conjure up something yourself if you want any chance at success. | null | null | 7,611 | 7,611 | null | null | null | null |
7,670 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-30T20:25:53 | null | "public schools teach in a certain way and change very slowly."<p>I can certainly agree with you about that. IB has been around for 30 years, and just got any foothold in American 10 years ago. I was lucky enough to go to one of the early public IB schools. | null | null | 7,666 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,671 | story | ereldon | 2007-03-30T20:28:44 | VentureBeat: Look at Facebook | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/30/look-at-facebook/ | 7 | null | 7,671 | 3 | [
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7,672 | comment | Readmore | 2007-03-30T20:29:58 | null | Yeah it's an interesting glimpse into how he rules his companies. With some funny 80s style thrown in to spice it up ;) | null | null | 7,641 | 7,641 | null | null | null | null |
7,673 | comment | jmtame | 2007-03-30T20:40:23 | null | Public education is way behind, especially in technology. I just made "my first website" in a CS class 3 weeks ago. And I built it with the same HTML code I taught myself at age 9.<p>I also am not a huge fan of the amount of "busy work." This is just the work that professors are required to give you to fulfill some degree requirement. Almost nothing I've learned in college has been applicable to any of my business-related work, although I don't think we can hold an undergraduate degree up to much glory. | null | null | 7,670 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,674 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-30T20:46:23 | null | [This is just about your first paragraph.]<p>The question is whether that is a problem. I for one don't really think that traditional secondary ed is the right place for teaching tech. Tech moves too fast.<p>We need to fix the school systems to more effectively cover their domain: sciences and humanities. Technology, however, is best learned as we learn it: free-form, self-directed, online. There is no need to merge that into curricula.<p>(Note, there's a difference between technology and CS: CS is algorithmics, theory; it's a branch of math, really. Technology is applied: websites, programming languages, things of this sort. Any curricular approach to technology is doomed to constantly lag the tech education available extracurricularly.) | null | null | 7,673 | 7,608 | null | null | null | null |
7,675 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-30T20:51:49 | null | There are two distinct classes of work that are called "busy work". The first is heinous, the second is often loathed, but great.<p>There's real busywork: work assigned just to take your time, create something to grade. That's crap, it should go away. (And in my collegiate experience, largely has.)<p>Then there's "impractical stuff": people often malign work they do that doesn't directly apply to the real world, but I think that it is often worthwhile. Consider MIT's famed 6.001: few of its students ever use Scheme, or any functional language, professionally, but the work in Scheme is never the less worthwhile. (Disclosure, I love functional languages.) | null | null | 7,673 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,676 | comment | jmtame | 2007-03-30T20:53:05 | null | A Digg feature that checks if you've already submitted a link twice, or one similar to it (base it off the title of the article, or base it off the description entered by the user). | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
7,677 | comment | palish | 2007-03-30T20:55:42 | null | One thing I'm hoping is that if teachers use the service I described above, they'd be less inclined to create busy work - it would be obvious to the rest of their community that that's what they're creating, and so they'd have an incentive to not do that.<p>Unless they make all their content private and don't participate in the community, which is an option too. | null | null | 7,675 | 7,608 | null | null | null | null |
7,678 | comment | andybourassa | 2007-03-30T20:56:27 | null | Mathematically/statistically Alexa never made sense to me... here's hoping someone finds a better way. | null | null | 7,644 | 7,644 | null | null | null | null |
7,679 | comment | rfrey | 2007-03-30T20:56:31 | null | I used to be a journalist. I didn't learn much in that career, but I did learn one thing: 80% of reporters have a novel tucked into their desk drawer that they're writing. (Metaphorically, of course - most reporters can use word processors.)<p>I never personally knew a reporter who finished that novel.
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7,680 | story | nurall | 2007-03-30T21:01:05 | Probabilistic model for measuring success | null | 4 | null | 7,680 | 3 | [
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7,681 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T21:02:18 | null | Sure. Most of what we do isn't based on specific domain knowledge anyway. | null | null | 7,662 | 7,543 | null | null | null | null |
7,682 | comment | rfrey | 2007-03-30T21:12:16 | null | P(S) = i/A + j(N/3) + k(1/Q)^2 + x((1/GT)^3)<p>A = Average age of founders<p>N = Number of founders<p>Q = Quality of idea, 0-1<p>G = Graham Quotient: How hard you'll work, 0-1<p>T = Taleb Quotient: How lucky you'll get<p>
i, j, k, x: Adjust to fit the sample of 5 famous startups in the news this week<p>Repeat as required | null | null | 7,680 | 7,680 | null | [
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7,683 | comment | nurall | 2007-03-30T21:18:00 | null | I am sure there are a lot of management books out there that define SUCCESS, and I am sure they have their respective models to describe the probability of SUCCESS.<p>I was just thinking about modeling the probability from a startup perspective. Following are the assumptions this model makes -<p>1. It takes 'n' number of iterations before an idea is a HIT, where n is greater or equal to 1<p>2. There is a probablity of success associated with each iteration, which implies that there is also a probablity of failure associated with each iteration.. duh!!<p>Model 1: Using geometric distribution<p>This is the most conservative and simplistic approach to model success<p>p(HIT) = Probability of success per iteration<p>P(SUCCESS) = p(HIT) x (1 - p(HIT))^n<p>This is simple in the sense that each new iteration does not carry the benefits from the previous iteration<p>Model 2: Bernoulli's trials based model<p>This probably is more realistic of the two models<p>p(HITn) = Probability of success in the nth iteration = P(HITn-1) +/- deltaP<p>Similarly,<p>p(~HITn) = Probability of NO success in the nth iteration = P(~HITn-1) +/- (1-deltaP)<p>where deltaP = Probability of iteration (n-1) increasing/decreasing the probability of success in the nth iteration<p>P(SUCCESS) = p(HIT0) x p(HIT1) x ... x p(HITn-1) x p(HITn) = 1 - p(~HIT0) x p(~HIT1) x ... x p(~HITn-1) x p(~HITn)<p>where p(HITn) tends to 1 AND p(~HITn) tends to 0, We need to be deterministic if we have to be optimistic... ;-)<p>Any thoughts on this??? Do you think this model is right/wrong?? Do you have your own models??? Please do share!!! | null | null | 7,680 | 7,680 | null | null | null | null |
7,684 | story | domp | 2007-03-30T21:20:38 | Pairwise and Y Combinator: Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/30/are-you-a-y-combinator-founder/ | 10 | null | 7,684 | 37 | [
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7,685 | comment | nurall | 2007-03-30T21:30:28 | null | Good one!!! Did you model this? :-).. interesting... you are saying that if P(S) is greater than 1, P(S) doesn't apply to that particular startup.. its meaningless.. and they should stop wasting their time.. is dat a valid argument to why your metric could be greater than 1? | null | null | 7,682 | 7,680 | null | null | null | null |
7,686 | comment | domp | 2007-03-30T21:30:29 | null | I didn't find this to be accurate at all in telling me what kind of a person I am. Anyone else take the quiz? | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,687 | story | pg | 2007-03-30T21:33:40 | My Pairwise Test Results (not bad, but got the book part wrong) | null | http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1376578238&user_list_id=6 | 4 | null | 7,687 | 6 | [
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7,688 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T21:37:26 | null | I think they can do better if they make you look at more images, but for this online version they wanted to strike a balance between that and having people actually finish. | null | null | 7,686 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,689 | comment | domp | 2007-03-30T21:43:06 | null | Yeah I can see that. I found that I had no preference in many of the image comparisons so I just clicked one.
Did they simply take the average result from the past YComb people or was there more to it? (btw sorry for posting this topic before you!) | null | null | 7,688 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,690 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-30T21:49:46 | null | Is this comparison with respect to all Y combinator founders or only with respect to those who have succeeded? Have you identified any personality differences between those who succeeded and those who did not? | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,691 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-30T21:51:47 | null | Broken link. | null | null | 7,687 | 7,687 | null | [
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7,692 | comment | chandrab | 2007-03-30T21:53:00 | null | Great, another test I have to study for! :-)<p>Seriously, what impact does this have on getting funded by YC? (I'm sure everyone wants to know the answer to that) | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,693 | story | msgbeepa | 2007-03-30T21:53:13 | Attract More Readers To Your Blog By Creating Beautiful Web 2.0 Buttons For Free | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=11611494 | 1 | null | 7,693 | -1 | null | null | true |
7,694 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-30T22:00:17 | null | Gender: Girl<p>I am too depressed to read any further:) But I did - it only gets worse: <p>"read books voraciously"...I'm as far from that as you can get. <p>"a religious person"...tell that to my mom<p>"have or want pets"...can't stand most pets!<p> | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,695 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T22:02:35 | null | They must be checking a cookie match or something. I can get it. Stupid move not to assume people would link directly to their results page. Let's leave it up for a bit and see if they can fix that. | null | null | 7,691 | 7,687 | null | null | null | null |
7,696 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-30T22:04:33 | null | I've always been fascinated by likebetter.com and would like to see related work. As a start, see this:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprinting">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprinting</a>
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7,697 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-30T22:05:16 | null | Yeah it's pulling my results seems like. Crazy. | null | null | 7,687 | 7,687 | null | null | null | null |
7,698 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T22:09:26 | null | To be honest, not much. We may use Pairwise seriously in the next round, but this is just a prototype.<p>In particular, we don't care much about the specific metrics this test tries to measure. The Pairwise guys chose those; we had nothing do to with it. When we use this for real, all we'll care about is one measure: how close one comes to the best founders. We don't care what atoms are in that molecule. | null | null | 7,692 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,699 | comment | timeuser | 2007-03-30T22:13:00 | null | Great points! I could have written your same post. I've started a company before and am willing to move my wife and two kids to Cambridge for this. In addition however, my wife is co-founder of my start-up so she's completely on board ;-)<p>Either way, we're going to build our company. It would be nice to get a three month kick start though instead of having to work around my day job. <p>Building the company around my day job will actually be tougher on the family but we'll still be better off in the long run. A job for someone with a family isn't all it's cracked up to be. It isn't flexible. I have a long commute. I have fixed pay that doesn't really reflect my time and effort. Stability isn't everything and it isn't what makes a person or a family happy.<p>There are other ways to take risks with a family. There are extended families etc. Taking risk with a family isn't wrong, it's just something you should think through. | null | null | 7,580 | 7,253 | null | null | null | null |
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