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7,700 | comment | plusbryan | 2007-03-30T22:19:46 | null | simple oversight. fixing now | null | null | 7,687 | 7,687 | null | null | null | null |
7,701 | comment | digg | 2007-03-30T22:21:09 | null | paul graham is great | null | null | 7,667 | 7,667 | null | null | null | true |
7,702 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-30T22:22:40 | null | Even if we take it as a given that a test like this can work well, I suspect that test takers will become more sophisticated at choosing images to get desired outcomes. <p>And so the test will need to get more sophisticated in turn by finding even more non-obvious yet discriminating pairs of images.<p>This is sort of like the constant battle between those creating spam filters and spammers.
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7,703 | story | digg | 2007-03-30T22:26:27 | spam | null | http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=13+year+old+cries+for+sanjaya | 1 | null | 7,703 | -1 | null | null | true |
7,704 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T22:26:56 | null | The difference between this and spam is that the cycle time is too long for people to learn efficiently how to beat the system. A spammer can write an email and send it to his gmail acct and know in 30 sec if it beats the filter. We only accept applicants every 6 months. | null | null | 7,702 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,705 | story | mauricecheeks | 2007-03-30T22:34:28 | Future of Web Apps (speeches & presentations) | null | http://www.futureofwebapps.com | 4 | null | 7,705 | 3 | [
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7,706 | comment | mauricecheeks | 2007-03-30T22:36:38 | null | I found Tara Hunt's thoughts on fostering online communities quite interesting. | null | null | 7,705 | 7,705 | null | null | null | null |
7,707 | comment | epall | 2007-03-30T22:37:25 | null | Very cool! I didn't realize Pairwise had an actual business model back there. Great job, guys! | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,708 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T22:42:32 | null | Interesting how much a startup was like a big company that far back. Two whole days of meetings? Ugh. | null | null | 7,641 | 7,641 | null | null | null | null |
7,709 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-30T22:43:30 | null | Won't such a test limit the diversity of Y Combinator founders? And so you might get stuck in a local maximum as a result.
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7,710 | story | domp | 2007-03-30T22:44:54 | New WebOS launches - Desktop On Demand | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/desktop_on_demand.php | 2 | null | 7,710 | 1 | [
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7,711 | story | immad | 2007-03-30T22:46:37 | The accidental 'friend' finder | null | http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/04/01/8403370/index.htm?postversion=2007033011 | 2 | null | 7,711 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,712 | comment | Mistone | 2007-03-30T22:48:06 | null | That was fun, some where spot on, other were a bit fuzzy, a link to my results below: <p><a href="http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=918442805&user_list_id=6">http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=918442805&user_list_id=6</a>
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7,713 | story | hirematheeth | 2007-03-30T22:58:50 | Does it matter what college you go for undergrad? | null | 1 | null | 7,713 | 13 | [
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7,714 | comment | danw | 2007-03-30T22:59:23 | null | dupe
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7,715 | comment | mauricecheeks | 2007-03-30T23:03:48 | null | What is the context of the question? Does it matter for what? | null | null | 7,713 | 7,713 | null | [
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7,716 | comment | hirematheeth | 2007-03-30T23:04:22 | null | Hey guys,<p>I am 17 and I posted this because I received my admissions letters this week. I got full rides to every state college I applied but I got wait listed at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and Caltech. I really don't know how to think of this. Can I still start a successful startup? Can I still be more successful than an MIT undergrad? Is there something about these colleges that makes students there better or is it completely dependent on the student's personality, work ethics, etc.. to be successful?<p>Sorry if the question seems out of whack. I am probably overwhelmed right now by the admissions letters. | null | null | 7,713 | 7,713 | null | [
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7,717 | comment | hirematheeth | 2007-03-30T23:06:22 | null | I guess I should have added "for a successful startup." Also, if you can tell me how it matters for the comp. science field in general, I would appreciate it. | null | null | 7,715 | 7,713 | null | null | null | null |
7,718 | comment | volida | 2007-03-30T23:07:45 | null | ok, my observation is that, the GREEN of most attributes is somewhere in the middle (with some nearer to some side), which means that there is a diversity between to those who you are compared, with 3/4 of the samples to define that side. This means that someone can be in right opposite but it doesn't mean that personality is excluded.but be in the 1/4 of the samples. So, with all this diversity, how valid and helpful is this test?<p>I think the attributes of the test, should be more questions of type, what you do in specific situations, and be compared to what YC would prefer as answer.<p><i> update<p>or am I wrong, and GREEN is the range of answers of the samples?
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7,719 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-03-30T23:10:41 | null | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | true |
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7,720 | comment | far33d | 2007-03-30T23:17:57 | null | It won't change your ability to start a startup. It might change how strong a background in CS you get... but again, that depends on what kind of learner you are. <p>What states?<p> | null | null | 7,716 | 7,713 | null | [
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7,721 | comment | hirematheeth | 2007-03-30T23:21:47 | null | I got into University of Maryland, Purdue, Georgia Tech, and University of Texas, Austin. | null | null | 7,720 | 7,713 | null | [
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7,722 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T23:33:19 | null | Larry and Sergey went to Michigan and Maryland. Woz went to Berkeley. Jobs, I think, did one semester at Reed. I don't think it matters super much in starting a startup.<p>Stanford is a good place to go if you want to start a startup simply because it's in the middle of Silicon Valley and thus infused with startup culture (in a way that MIT definitely isn't). But you already seem to have that down.<p>However, where you go to college can have a great effect on how much fun you have and how much you learn, and that is the most important thing. I'd just go wherever seems to you to have the best intellectual vibe.<p> | null | null | 7,716 | 7,713 | null | null | null | null |
7,723 | comment | mauricecheeks | 2007-03-30T23:35:44 | null | I thought it had probably made it up here before... but i had no good way to search, so i thought i'd offer it just in case. <p>If there was a good discussion last time though, could you link to the original? | null | null | 7,714 | 7,705 | null | null | null | null |
7,724 | comment | pg | 2007-03-30T23:38:08 | null | We would never use <i>only</i> the test. At most we'd use it to prompt us to take a second look at someone we were about to reject. | null | null | 7,709 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,725 | comment | richcollins | 2007-03-30T23:39:23 | null | Looks like I'll be accepted if I just cross dress while smoking and pulling sarcastic pranks on people:<p><a href="http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1627867125&user_list_id=6">http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1627867125&user_list_id=6</a> | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,726 | comment | bootload | 2007-03-30T23:42:53 | null | <i>'You may have someone with a very high IQ but has low interpersonal skill .. cannot relate to other people very well. Cannot understand other people. This can be a real liability for organisations who are looking for leadership .. looking to promote people with high intelligence'</i> [0]<p>Interesting. I posted a similar post this week on the characteristics found in entrepreneurs ~ <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7459">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7459</a><p> <i>'... 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 ...'</i><p>But testing for characteristics of <i>'high achievers'</i> then correlating test scores against potential applicants is fraught with problems. Is the correlation against the best enough? [1]<p>I'm sure you might get some correlation but it's pretty unimaginative [2]. So what could be a better tool? What about direct testing of skill? Wouldn't a better technique be simulation? Why not build a <i>'startup simulator'</i> where applicants are given tools to <i>simulate</i> tasks they actually will have to do? Then you have a controllable scenario where you really can measure results against successful founders.<p>You could test <p>
- <i>the conception of an idea</i><p>- <i>the building of a (simple) prototype</i><p>- <i>quickly find an audience</i><p>- <i>find a way to make money off it</i><p>
Wrapped up in a framework [3] where you test the <i>execution</i> of these tasks you could get a better grasp of the <p>
- <i>skills</i><p>- <i>determination</i><p>- <i>entrepreneurial audacity</i><p>- <i>passion</i><p>- <i>humour</i><p>- <i>leadership skills</i> needed to succeed. <p>- <i>risk taking, emotional intelligence</i><p>There is a long history of simulators in testing & refining of skills, competency and execution are required. Even Captain Kirk at Starfleet Academy trained, passed (and cheated) on simulators.<p>Who knows it might even be fun.<p>Reference<p>[0] Professor Con Stough, Brain Sciences Institute, 'Director, Centre for Neuropsychology, Swinburne Institute of Technology'<p><a href="http://www.swin.edu.au/bioscieleceng/neuropsych/stough.htm">http://www.swin.edu.au/bioscieleceng/neuropsych/stough.htm</a><p>[1] But I do like the simplicity of just looking at a simple set of parameters to make a <i>Gladwellian</i> decision.<p>[2] In a competitive environment the difference between getting the attention of the right candidates could be the tools used to measure how they stack up against the best .. but actually doing something, learning and getting some feedback. <p>[3] The framework could be a game, or simply a panel of dials. The key thing is you can have a back room with founders, past entrepreneurs twiddling the dials checking to see in RT how candidates handle things like a person leaving, stressing system etc (like the LEM tester in the Apollo missions). It also allows for candidates to learn from failure with less risk & pass on the best decision making skills to candidates that have passed.
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7,727 | comment | far33d | 2007-03-30T23:45:18 | null | Knowing little about any of those schools, I'd say visit each one, choose the one that "feels" right. Look for inquisitive students. College is all about the community. Lame advice, I know, but you know, I only went to one college.
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7,728 | comment | euccastro | 2007-03-30T23:54:03 | null | TBH, my feeling about this stuff is that it belongs in nazi research labs and Cosmopolitan magazines, rather than as a screening tool in business where you want the best people. If I was considering applying to anything (Y, a job at a company), being presented with this would disappoint me and set off Dilberty alarms.<p>Now, this is fun stuff to burn some minutes while procrastinating! Here are my results:<p><a href="http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1125255845&user_list_id=6">http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1125255845&user_list_id=6</a><p>Some things that the test got backwards:<p> - I'm more a listener than a talker,<p> - I never smoked (I clicked on the hemp pic because I like intense green :),<p> - I think I'm more into books than my score there suggests,<p> - I like mild food rather than spicy,<p> - I do like and have pets,<p> - I'm not really that urban. I'm more comfortable in villages or small towns. | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,729 | comment | jamiequint | 2007-03-30T23:57:13 | null | This is interesting, I was on the same side in every category, and it seems fairly accurate, although I found some things remarkable far off, most notably "like to read" where I scored a decisive: "aren't much into books."<p>I found it weird that Y Combinator founders generally fell in the "aren't much into books" category.<p>Here's Mine: <a href="http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=509484655&user_list_id=6">http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=509484655&user_list_id=6</a> | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,730 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-31T00:03:06 | null | I guess you might try applications like these as well:<p>online dating<p>airport security<p>immigration<p>finding cofounders
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7,731 | comment | far33d | 2007-03-31T00:03:55 | null | Weird. I'm not a smoker, but I was, for a LONG time. <p>And it knew that. That's really strange and freaks me out. What I once thought was my complicated little unique snowflake of a brain turns out to just be the combination of 21 values.
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7,732 | comment | jmtame | 2007-03-31T00:07:37 | null | I would try and find a college that has at least some entrepreneurial initiative. For example, at the Univ of Illinois, they have the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Technology Entrepreneur Center, plus one of the best ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) chapters around. We had Max Levchin and Jawed Karim speak at our last conference, plus companies like Google, Amazon, EA, Microsoft, etc. are showing up.<p>The only reason I'm really here is to find some CS students to help me startup. But it wouldn't happen without my connection to the school's CS groups.<p>In the end, I doubt it matters one way or another where you go. As someone mentioned, many successful founders didn't go to ivy league schools. Jobs dropped out after 6 months at Reed. You'll decide how far you go. | null | null | 7,713 | 7,713 | null | null | null | null |
7,733 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-31T00:23:24 | null | I found it relatively inaccurate, but oddly, it was always very precise; i.e. when it got things wrong, it got them profoundly, diametrically wrong.<p>One thing I wonder is whether there is any logic to deal with confounding variables--for instance, if someone picks every photo that has a bike in it, maybe they just like bikes, and those data points should be excluded. <p>On the whole, though, the pairwise people have probably as good a shot at anyone at making a not-suck personality analyzer. | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,734 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T00:28:45 | null | That's how I answered most questions. I like chocolate; I like nature; I like neater pictures over complex ones. I have no idea what all that means - may be someone does. | null | null | 7,733 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,735 | story | jamiequint | 2007-03-31T00:29:12 | Money for Nothing: Virtual Worlds and Virtual Economies [PDF] | null | http://shaviro.com/Othertexts/MMOs.pdf | 2 | null | 7,735 | 1 | [
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7,736 | story | amichail | 2007-03-31T00:29:42 | Austin & Goliath: One unorthodox programmer takes on Microsoft's Flight Simulator. | null | http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/78ec5b4a1db84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html | 8 | null | 7,736 | 3 | [
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7,737 | story | domp | 2007-03-31T00:30:36 | Tweako - social news site for programming tutorials just launched(Digg Style) | null | http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/tweako_a_social.html | 2 | null | 7,737 | 2 | [
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7,738 | story | domp | 2007-03-31T00:34:32 | Charge your cell phone by air?! Entrepreneur figures out how to do it | null | http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/04/01/8403349/index.htm?postversion=2007033007 | 4 | null | 7,738 | 6 | [
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7,739 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-31T00:46:47 | null | "Over the years Meyer has tinkered relentlessly with the program, producing some 140 new versions. His obsessiveness has kept him competitive. While several rival sims have withered in Microsoft's shade -- including Pro Pilot, Flight Unlimited and Fly -- Meyer has kept plugging along. But there are disadvantages to being a one-man show. It's hard to imagine Microsoft coming home drunk one night from a party and accidentally uploading its entire source code, as Meyer did a few years back. "I woke up the next morning and found an e-mail from a friend alerting me to what I'd done. My heart stopped. I had basically given away 12 years of work. I thought my life was over." He was able to remove the files before anyone could spread them around, but to this day he feels like he dodged a bullet. "I don't drink anymore," he says."
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7,740 | comment | johnm | 2007-03-31T00:47:45 | null | Hah! Metal cards are so last century -- I created mine for the millenium. :-)<p>The interesting thing that I found is that VCs will actually stop talking so they can look at them. Of course, that doesn't last that long. Hahaha. <p>Also, be sure to warn people carrying them through the new airport security.... | null | null | 7,618 | 7,618 | null | null | null | null |
7,741 | comment | johnm | 2007-03-31T00:52:55 | null | As with everything, different implementors may be better/worse at the same thing. I've certainly seen that with my girl (who was in Montessori as a youngster).<p>Also, no one approach is perfect for everybody. As frightening as it may sounds, some people need more "structure" than others. | null | null | 7,658 | 7,608 | null | null | null | null |
7,742 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-31T00:53:16 | null | This doesn't seem to work at all for me. Its assessment of me seems to have pretty much zero correlation with my self-assessment.<p><a href="http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1449411178&user_list_id=6">http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1449411178&user_list_id=6</a> | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,743 | comment | ereldon | 2007-03-31T01:05:31 | null | jobs also looks like isaac brock from modest mouse, for better or worse | null | null | 7,641 | 7,641 | null | null | null | null |
7,744 | story | startupdaze | 2007-03-31T01:15:42 | StartupDAZE is a REAL Tech Blog for the 4.20 Web | null | http://startupdaze.com | 2 | null | 7,744 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,745 | comment | plusbryan | 2007-03-31T01:20:02 | null | Thanks for all the comments, good and bad. They help us refine our test. Keep in mind that we're attempting to figure you out in 40 pairs of pictures. We did this so that lots of people could take it, just to introduce the idea.<p>A <i>real</i> test would have more like 200 pairs, which is what the YC founders took when we assessed their attributes in the first place. | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,746 | comment | jamiequint | 2007-03-31T01:24:23 | null | There is some interesting stuff here about the Economics of Abundance | null | null | 7,735 | 7,735 | null | null | null | null |
7,747 | comment | rms | 2007-03-31T01:31:55 | null | Seems a little too good to be true, but here's hoping. | null | null | 7,738 | 7,738 | null | null | null | null |
7,748 | story | soulcrusher | 2007-03-31T01:44:04 | If I start a company in grad school, does the school have claim to my work? | null | 4 | null | 7,748 | 6 | [
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7,749 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T01:45:11 | null | I got rejected from Carnegie-Mellon and Rhode Island School of Design - both top design schools. I was pissed but honestly I never associated those rejections to my startup success. Like PG has said in past, startup is more about determination and ability to learn from failure than any specific school or skill. <p>If anything just laugh off any rejection you get and keep working towards your startup path. | null | null | 7,716 | 7,713 | null | null | null | null |
7,750 | comment | fruscica | 2007-03-31T01:46:35 | null | What is objectionable about this comment? | null | null | 7,653 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,751 | comment | ramen | 2007-03-31T01:47:07 | null | He should come with a towel. | null | null | 7,554 | 7,554 | null | null | null | null |
7,752 | comment | soulcrusher | 2007-03-31T01:47:58 | null | It doesn't matter for a startup. But it does matter if you want a cushy job or want to get into a top professional school. | null | null | 7,713 | 7,713 | null | null | null | null |
7,753 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-31T01:59:10 | null | updated | null | null | 6,808 | 6,808 | null | null | null | null |
7,754 | story | juwo | 2007-03-31T02:04:16 | YC runs orphanage vs. YC as foster parent | null | 1 | null | 7,754 | 6 | [
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7,755 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-31T02:05:43 | null | see <a href="http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/03/better-business-model-for-incubators.html">http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/03/better-business-model-for-incubators.html</a><p>
"incubators like YCombinator are running an orphanage; get a batch of orphans, grow them and then release them into the world. The other (new) way calls for them to become foster parents. Look after them for short periods, and then release them back to their parents"<p>
what do you think?
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7,756 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-03-31T02:08:31 | null | That's nothing, it told me I should take up smoking. | null | null | 7,742 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,757 | story | bootload | 2007-03-31T02:12:17 | Mobile browsing with deepfish | null | http://labs.live.com/deepfish/ | 1 | null | 7,757 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,758 | comment | pg | 2007-03-31T02:17:13 | null | I don't know about biotech, but in sw, not unless (a) it's based on your research and (b) there are patents involved. Even then universities tend to be accomodating. They make more money by not pissing off founders. | null | null | 7,748 | 7,748 | null | null | null | null |
7,759 | comment | joshwa | 2007-03-31T02:34:32 | null | <a href="http://mypunchbowl.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/web-innovators-group-11-last-night/">http://mypunchbowl.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/web-innovators-group-11-last-night/</a><p>note: not my blog | null | null | 7,287 | 7,285 | null | null | null | null |
7,760 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T02:45:05 | null | I doubt anyone in PG's position would be interested in taking orders from some big corp. I don't see it working out within Y-Combinator. <p>I am sure if someone really wanted to do it they could. Just don't think what you are suggesting is opposite of or can be compared to what Y-Combinator currently is. <p>-Zaid | null | null | 7,755 | 7,754 | null | [
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7,761 | comment | rms | 2007-03-31T02:49:01 | null | No response? This is pretty much the holy grail of electrical engineering. | null | null | 7,738 | 7,738 | null | null | null | null |
7,762 | story | amichail | 2007-03-31T03:01:28 | Do any Y Combinator startups share code and/or hardware? | null | 2 | null | 7,762 | 0 | null | null | null |
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7,763 | story | escrow | 2007-03-31T03:08:09 | A Summary of Mark Zuckerberg's Speech at Startup School (comic) | null | http://www.killnine.com/comics/25.php | 23 | null | 7,763 | 12 | [
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7,764 | comment | andre | 2007-03-31T03:35:03 | null | Rich, I like your point. I find that I do a lot of my best work when I can allow at least several days to a project, then my mind is saturated with the problem and requires smaller amounts of energy to get something done. I don't this this happening if you have a family or other huge responsibilities. <p>I also think math is overrated in many cases. | null | null | 7,369 | 7,347 | null | null | null | null |
7,765 | comment | andre | 2007-03-31T03:41:49 | null | Maybe if this particular image/flash hack doesn't work, at least they are innovating and trying out new products, keeping that startup mentality of throwing something against the wall and seeing if it sticks. | null | null | 7,286 | 7,286 | null | null | null | null |
7,766 | comment | andre | 2007-03-31T03:43:23 | null | check out Gary Halbert (<a href="http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/)">http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/)</a> for good copywriting skills/ideas | null | null | 7,379 | 7,379 | null | null | null | null |
7,767 | comment | andre | 2007-03-31T03:45:55 | null | I read somewhere that it started out being minimalistic because none of the two founders knew much of HTML. | null | null | 7,216 | 7,215 | null | null | null | null |
7,768 | comment | Hexayurt | 2007-03-31T03:48:20 | null | No, it's an information exchange for nerds looking to start businesses.<p>Thanks for your comment, PG. | null | null | 7,585 | 7,585 | null | null | null | null |
7,769 | comment | andre | 2007-03-31T03:50:59 | null | I'm calling my grandpa to see if he wants to partner up for a startup :) | null | null | 6,635 | 6,612 | null | null | null | null |
7,770 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-31T04:08:53 | null | It's only tangentially relevant and reads like spam. | null | null | 7,750 | 7,608 | null | [
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7,771 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-03-31T04:09:52 | null | Awesome I was always fascinated with this type of application. Not for monetary means but rather how can one leverage his/her personal effects on a web based OS. What are the ramifications for someone using this kind of system? Who would it appeal to? and is this something people will pay for? How useful would this be? I think this is a interesting study in itself. | null | null | 7,710 | 7,710 | null | null | null | null |
7,772 | comment | jamiequint | 2007-03-31T04:12:50 | null | It got the book part wrong on mine too. | null | null | 7,687 | 7,687 | null | [
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7,773 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-03-31T04:16:01 | null | Wow just wow...think of the thing you can do with this technology. This could mean wireless power for pretty much anything that uses electricity. | null | null | 7,738 | 7,738 | null | null | null | null |
7,774 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-03-31T04:19:23 | null | I like that haha. I guess what he's trying to say is in tandem with the empowering people with you product. Not just merely selling them a cheaper alternative. | null | null | 7,643 | 7,624 | null | null | null | null |
7,775 | story | jamongkad | 2007-03-31T04:19:46 | Advertising 2.0 does not exist | null | http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003823.html | 3 | null | 7,775 | 6 | [
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7,776 | comment | Elfan | 2007-03-31T04:25:03 | null | This is getting blown out of proportion. He did say it with something of a half kidding smirk on his face.<p>But that comic is funny. | null | null | 7,763 | 7,763 | null | null | null | null |
7,777 | comment | fruscica | 2007-03-31T04:39:07 | null | Kathy Sierra's only point is: customized education, good; standardized, bad.<p>My plan describes how to make customized education available on a grand scale ASAP.<p>Q.E.D. :-) | null | null | 7,770 | 7,608 | null | null | null | null |
7,778 | story | anotheroption | 2007-03-31T05:02:04 | I work at a startup and I am BROKE. How do I make some extra money? | null | 3 | null | 7,778 | 5 | [
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7,779 | story | rfrey | 2007-03-31T05:22:28 | Hockey is the king of entrepreneurial sports. | null | http://rodfrey.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/the-sport-of-entrepreneurs/ | 1 | null | 7,779 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,780 | comment | eli | 2007-03-31T05:24:50 | null | It's pretty hard to gauge web traffic across the internet without facing selection bias problems like alexa. I'm just waiting for google to start releasing more traffic data, instead of just hoarding it. (ever wonder why/how analytics is free? Google's probably got the best web trend data in the world) | null | null | 7,542 | 7,542 | null | [
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7,781 | story | nopanacea | 2007-03-31T05:27:23 | Village Earth and Appropedia Join Forces for Sustainability | null | http://villageearth.org/VE_BLOG/2007/03/village-earth-joins-appropedia-wiki.html | 1 | null | 7,781 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,782 | comment | rms | 2007-03-31T05:37:45 | null | At Pitt, if you have patentable research where a startup spinoff is possible, you submit it to the tech transfer office.<p>Option 1: they don't think it's worth patenting, you can do whatever you want, so long as you give them 15% of revenue resulting from said idea.<p>Option 2: They patent it for you and you get 30% of revenue.<p>
Either way, you really don't want the university to get hold of your IP, except you can get a free patent in your name out of it.<p>You should get some documentation showing whatever you developed, you developed on your own time. | null | null | 7,748 | 7,748 | null | [
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7,783 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T05:58:08 | null | Oh man. Knuth.<p>This is only the second webcomic I've ever seen that even mentioned Knuth. (The first was <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/c163.html).">http://www.xkcd.com/c163.html).</a> Clearly more geeks need to write comics. | null | null | 7,763 | 7,763 | null | [
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7,784 | comment | nickb | 2007-03-31T06:08:20 | null | Some people misattribute their success to their skill instead of luck. | null | null | 7,763 | 7,763 | null | [
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7,785 | comment | timg | 2007-03-31T06:22:12 | null | And mine:<p><a href="http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=596593159&user_list_id=6">http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=596593159&user_list_id=6</a><p>So is it good to be on all of the edges? | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,786 | comment | timg | 2007-03-31T06:48:35 | null | I don't have a wife.. but I do beat my roommate nightly with a wooden chair to escape the stress of startup life. | null | null | 7,253 | 7,253 | null | null | null | null |
7,787 | comment | bootload | 2007-03-31T07:20:16 | null | Check with the legal fine print. Universities, colleges see their research as fair game for IP differently. At a local Uni I know of going through the IP application on using technology developed withing the area of study I found things like:<p>- response time for application? (4 months)<p>- response time for decision approval of application (within 4 months)<p>- commercialisation was something like 10% back to the University + 30% return for future funds (what ever that is) on profits made. (meaning there has to be submissions made back to the University on accounts).<p>But it will vary widely. So check. For instance did you realise, Google has a long term licensing arrangement with Stanford [0]<p>For me though the rub is even if you are not developing in your area of research do you want to be shackled having to submit information and asking permission? <p>Reference<p>[0] Google, PageRank, 'In the Crosshairs'<p><a href="http://www.jimworld.com/gazette/issue-208/1053114758.html">http://www.jimworld.com/gazette/issue-208/1053114758.html</a><p> | null | null | 7,748 | 7,748 | null | null | null | null |
7,788 | comment | pg | 2007-03-31T07:26:27 | null | Hmm, you're right.<p><a href="http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/PP/policies/11/11-02-01.html">http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/PP/policies/11/11-02-01.html</a><p>I suspect these rules are really meant for biotech research, though. They'd never get away with applying them to web stuff. If I were a student and started working on a web project, I'd ignore these rules.<p>Harvard's policy<p><a href="http://www.techtransfer.harvard.edu/PatentPolicy.html">http://www.techtransfer.harvard.edu/PatentPolicy.html</a><p>says, except for some medical stuff, your inventions are your own. <p>So Pitt's policy is in fact unusually harsh. I suspect they wouldn't dare enforce it in practice. | null | null | 7,782 | 7,748 | null | [
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7,789 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-03-31T07:39:33 | null | or timing or the zeitgeist. Arrogance is always unnecessary. | null | null | 7,784 | 7,763 | null | [
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7,790 | comment | Harj | 2007-03-31T07:39:36 | null | this is amusing
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7,791 | story | usablecontent | 2007-03-31T07:51:32 | Top 5 Startup Focused Blogs that Every Founder should Know | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/03/30/top-5-startup-focused-blogs/ | 1 | null | 7,791 | -1 | null | null | true |
7,792 | story | usablecontent | 2007-03-31T07:59:45 | Top 5 Startup Focused Blogs that Every Founder should Know | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/03/30/top-5-startup-focused-blogs/ | 3 | null | 7,792 | 1 | [
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7,793 | comment | pg | 2007-03-31T08:25:26 | null | A lot of these people are famous for stuff they did earlier, sometimes decades earlier. | null | null | 7,763 | 7,763 | null | null | null | null |
7,794 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-31T08:40:33 | null | This is great. I've been hearing a lot of buzz about this recently. I'm still wary about the effective power captured from the radio signals, but the article graphic throws out a figure of "up to 70 percent." That's damn impressive if reachable.<p>It's funny though -- a few years ago, I was having one of those late-night "what if" discussions with some friends. We were throwing out our best invention ideas for guaranteed fame and fortune when we began talking about cordless electricity (power through the air). We laughed it off, but I read up on it shortly after and found some interesting things. Fast forward to now and the advances in effective conversion is just awesome. For now the applications seem to be on the small-small-scale, but even then this is going to turn multiple industries on its head.
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7,795 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-31T08:50:49 | null | A lot of people rolled their eyes when Mark proclaimed that Facebook's mission was to make the world a more open place. But take a look through Facebook's API. I've found it more valuable than nearly anything else out there when it comes to leveraging real identities for your application. If you realize the potential in that existing community, there's so much that can be done. As more and more applications extend upon Facebook's platform, Facebook is accomplishing just what Mark claimed. | null | null | 7,671 | 7,671 | null | [
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7,796 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-31T09:14:02 | null | Google Analytics uses a small JavaScript (placed by the webmaster) on the page to be tracked. It's not as if Google has unfettered access to everyone's traffic data and secretly sits on it. | null | null | 7,780 | 7,542 | null | [
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7,797 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-03-31T09:22:13 | null | How about doing this for real? <p>I mean before Y combinator, build a product - launch it. Grow the userbase - iterate.<p>Reality is the superior test of whther you are an entrepreneur - don't need to get Y com funding to get going...<p>See all the recent fundees: Scribd, Boso, Weebly, Buxfer: they had a product.<p>Doesn;t need to be so far down this track but having done something is better than simulating it. | null | null | 7,726 | 7,684 | null | [
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7,798 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-31T09:22:26 | null | Way too eerie. It's like that Bizarro world episode of Seinfeld -- things are the same yet <i>completely opposite</i>. <p>Did they even attempt to copy YC's team structure?: <a href="http://www.illinoisventures.com/ourteam.html">http://www.illinoisventures.com/ourteam.html</a> | null | null | 7,612 | 7,612 | null | null | null | null |
7,799 | comment | MobileDigit | 2007-03-31T09:22:58 | null | Why would repealing laws not help now? | null | null | 7,596 | 7,463 | null | [
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