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7,800 | comment | andybourassa | 2007-03-31T09:35:25 | null | This guy is incredible. I worked on some UAV/UGV systems at my uni and heard of quite a few teams using X-Plane as a simulation environment for their UAVs. As stated in the article the simulator actually tries to model what's happening with the aircraft instead of using look-up tables based on full size aircraft, making it much more useful for modeling model... (small scale) aircraft. | null | null | 7,736 | 7,736 | null | null | null | null |
7,801 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T09:53:14 | null | I don't think any of them is the next Google or YouTube, to be honest. Take for example the first one: I thought the locksmiths can crack any door within seconds anyway (typically just by looking at it), so that service is completely useless. The others are also weird, but you never now - I guess the dog food vending machines could be really big (dog owners are weird, too).
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7,802 | comment | rms | 2007-03-31T10:06:49 | null | Pitt's policy is pretty much completely ignorable if you're a student, unless you go out of the way to lose your IP rights. There's been a campaign to get more faculty to submit "invention disclosures" to the tech transfer office but I'm not sure how aggressively the university would litigate if a faculty member just didn't submit their research and proceeded to commercialization themselves.<p>However, the policy is less draconian when you realize that the revenue split only applies to patent licensing revenue. A professor's start up company would not have to pay licensing fees to the university. It really only makes sense for biotech because there is almost no money in licensing new software patents.<p>Perhaps more interesting is that Pitt's tech transfer is run at a net loss -- the vice provost said recently that they are just now breaking even which means they are probably still losing money. | null | null | 7,788 | 7,748 | null | null | null | null |
7,803 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T10:22:18 | null | Absolutely ridiculous test. There weren't even any books in it, for example, yet they claim to be able to tell if I am into reading books or not? Sorry, but I don't believe their tests are scientifically sound. The sheer number of traits they claim to identify - almost as many traits as there were "questions", I don't think it can work. <p>Why don't you just use a classic IQ test if you are into that kind of stuff, or the Myer-Briggs test?
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7,804 | comment | gms | 2007-03-31T10:25:35 | null | Mine too. | null | null | 7,772 | 7,687 | null | null | null | null |
7,805 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T11:00:30 | null | Why would it be important to risk anything??? | null | null | 369 | 227 | null | null | null | null |
7,806 | comment | carefreeliving | 2007-03-31T11:13:22 | null | All great blogs, but these are blogs <i>about</i> startups not blogs <i>for</i> startups.<p> | null | null | 7,792 | 7,792 | null | null | null | null |
7,807 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-31T11:48:25 | null | Taking orders? of course not. It means companies applying just like we do, and just for implementing new product ideas. | null | null | 7,760 | 7,754 | null | [
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7,808 | comment | Oldude59 | 2007-03-31T12:23:02 | null | Excellent!! Like so many current narratives - You assume that only the young are concerned with start-ups! My partner is in his middle 50's and I'm 61 going on "28". You made quite a point to inform us what and why 18 was such an important age - how about telling me something about the other end of the scale. As a boomer - there are more of us coming back from the corporate wars battered, bruised and ready for a life we can love. I say send the "kids" to work and let those of us that still have the fire do the creating.
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7,809 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-03-31T12:34:41 | null | Well you've got the www.rentacoder.com type sites. www.odesk.com is another. And then you've got whatever you can dig up on your own through independent consulting. Just be sure not to break any agreements with the startup with respect to IP, competition, etc.<p>And then there's always waiting tables. A bit of a shot to the ego perhaps, but that'd be a good break from coding perhaps. If it's good enough for every budding actor/screenwriter/director in LA... :)
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7,810 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-03-31T12:47:03 | null | He doesn't seem all that bad, not like his reputation. Not sure why they needed that many people in a room for two days, but maybe it made sense.<p>That was a cool machine though. We had a lab of them in college. | null | null | 7,641 | 7,641 | null | null | null | null |
7,811 | story | Oldude59 | 2007-03-31T12:47:37 | Business Creativity and Happiness | null | http://buscreate.blogspot.com | 1 | null | 7,811 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,812 | story | robertgaal | 2007-03-31T13:00:54 | LinkedIn says: stay in school kids | null | http://www.53miles.com/archives/linkedin-says-stay-in-school-kids | 1 | null | 7,812 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,813 | comment | joshwa | 2007-03-31T14:11:26 | null | <a href="http://geekz.co.uk/shop/store/show/knuth-tshirt">http://geekz.co.uk/shop/store/show/knuth-tshirt</a> | null | null | 7,783 | 7,763 | null | null | null | null |
7,814 | comment | Elfan | 2007-03-31T14:22:59 | null | You probably signed some sort of Student Handbook at the beginning of the year that says what, if anything, the university thinks it can claim.<p>As others have said it also probably depends on if you are doing research when you start your company or just a student. | null | null | 7,748 | 7,748 | null | null | null | null |
7,815 | story | Alex3917 | 2007-03-31T14:42:33 | Many Eyes -- Visualize datasets from social networks | null | http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home | 5 | null | 7,815 | 1 | [
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7,816 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-03-31T14:44:27 | null | For example, here are some already existing visualizations for second life:<p><a href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/browse/visualizations?q=second%20life">http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/browse/visualizations?q=second%20life</a><p>You can also take the same datasets these visualizations were made from and make a new visualization. Or you can upload data from your own social network to analyze, or beg the owners of some other network for their data :-) | null | null | 7,815 | 7,815 | null | null | null | null |
7,817 | story | chwolfe | 2007-03-31T15:11:10 | How much money to set aside for legal work/fees? | null | 2 | null | 7,817 | 3 | [
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7,818 | story | farmer | 2007-03-31T15:31:54 | HiTask - free online task management | null | http://hitask.com/ | 3 | null | 7,818 | 2 | [
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7,819 | story | farmer | 2007-03-31T15:33:05 | Top Irish Web Apps | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_irish_web_apps.php | 1 | null | 7,819 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,820 | story | tomcat111 | 2007-03-31T15:38:33 | If you can get these two things right, you're positioned for sales success | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/133/106/ | 5 | null | 7,820 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,821 | story | volida | 2007-03-31T15:41:12 | BetsGoWild Launches - Betting Done (Almost) Right | null | http://mashable.com/2007/03/30/betsgowild/ | 1 | null | 7,821 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,822 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-03-31T15:53:26 | null | Interesting. If Mark sold to Yahoo, maybe none of this would have happened. By releasing the API, facebook also de-monopolizes its information. This perhaps lowers FB's pricetag per user. And perhaps Mark knows this. | null | null | 7,795 | 7,671 | null | null | null | null |
7,823 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-03-31T15:55:09 | null | A while ago, I remember reading on Emanuel Derman's blog (<a href="http://www.wilmott.com/blogs/eman/)">http://www.wilmott.com/blogs/eman/)</a> a comment along the lines of "Time and the right to choose have value".<p>So while I'm sure you can find some job to pay the bills, consider how much time (and in what state mentally/physically) it will leave you to focus on your startup.
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7,824 | comment | 000 | 2007-03-31T15:57:22 | null | test 123 | null | null | 189 | 189 | null | [
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7,825 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-03-31T16:10:24 | null | Quoting no. 6: "So a lot of clients have been recently asking their ad agencies, 'So what can you do for us in Web 2.0?' And the agencies have been replying, 'Lots! Lots and lots and lots and lots!' Bullshit. Ad agencies have so far been hopeless in this space."<p>An opportunity awaits. | null | null | 7,775 | 7,775 | null | [
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7,826 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-03-31T16:14:03 | Spam Experts at MIT study Search/Spam | null | http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-6172199.html | 2 | null | 7,826 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,827 | story | jcwentz | 2007-03-31T16:33:30 | MySQLHotCopy backup script | null | http://www.daitengu.com/2007/03/30/mysqlhotcopy-backup-script/ | 1 | null | 7,827 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,828 | comment | sethjohn | 2007-03-31T16:33:46 | null | Making "something people want" is always good advice. I thought the interesting issue raised by this article was the particular situation where "making something people want" involved playing to the lowest common denominator. Facile content at the expense of intellectual depth. Mars Bars instead of balanced meals. <p>During seed-stage development, driving users by any means possible seems like great advice. (Or, at least, great advice 99.9% of the time.) Seems like it could be an increasingly dangerous strategy over time, though, at least to the extent that it encourages you to focus on lots of users/pageviews instead of finding committed users who really need your product. | null | null | 7,575 | 7,543 | null | null | null | null |
7,829 | story | ginn | 2007-03-31T16:38:20 | What would you do? Acceptance decision by April 16th to Techstars or wait for YComb decision and risk losing the given opportunity? | null | 7 | null | 7,829 | 16 | [
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7,830 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T16:40:06 | null | Ycom-dotted? Anyone have a mirror? | null | null | 6,456 | 6,456 | null | null | null | null |
7,831 | comment | ginn | 2007-03-31T16:40:40 | null | Reading the forum, I noticed a lot of you are applying to Techstars and Y. If you were accepted to Techstars, you will have to give an acceptance decision by April 16th. However, lets say you were given an interview to Y but acceptance is not offered until April 29th. So what would you do?<p>Take a leap of faith and wait for Y, knowing that you just given up a sure opportunity to be mentored or go for Techstars?<p>Of course both are great programs | null | null | 7,829 | 7,829 | null | [
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7,832 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T16:42:50 | null | Isn't Google building the Gmail of PowerPoint? I've heard rumblings of "Google Present" for some time now. Let's hope these guys don't go the way of Kiko; they sound like they have some pretty good ideas. | null | null | 7,034 | 7,034 | null | [
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7,833 | comment | pg | 2007-03-31T16:49:09 | null | I'm sure techstars would take anyone who made it to the interview stage at YC, regardless of deadlines. | null | null | 7,829 | 7,829 | null | [
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7,834 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-03-31T16:55:16 | null | How so? care to elaborate? | null | null | 7,825 | 7,775 | null | [
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7,835 | comment | domp | 2007-03-31T17:08:38 | null | If tons of more things are running off of radio waves how bad would that impact our health? Any ideas? | null | null | 7,738 | 7,738 | null | null | null | null |
7,836 | story | joshuaHatfield | 2007-03-31T17:14:06 | Start-up cliches - By Sanjay Anandaram | null | http://startupjourney.blogspot.com/2007/03/start-up-cliches-by-sanjay-anandaram.html | 3 | null | 7,836 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,837 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-03-31T17:19:51 | null | I have high school friends who graduated from three of these schools. They are all smart people, did well in college, and are doing well after graduating. But none of them are starting a company. The idea doesn't seem to intrigue them either.<p>If you have the entrepreneurial spirit in you, constantly remind yourself that you have it, regardless of where you are and what people tell you. If you have it as a highschooler, great. The eye for opportunity is a great gift, and colleges do not know how to measure this, nor can they teach you how to acquire it.<p>I don't think you should worry if a school will turn you into a successful entrepreneur. The greater concern should be people to bounce ideas off of, and potentially work with. Talent is everywhere; train yourself to spot it. That is an asset second to none.<p>I must agree with pg though. Vibe is very important. It's a lot more enjoyable to build stuff when everybody around you is talking about building stuff too. Where I went to school, people spend more time talking about philosophy :) | null | null | 7,721 | 7,713 | null | null | null | null |
7,838 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-31T17:21:32 | null | There's something about X-plane that is super addictive. You will never get bored of it!
Here are some cool X-plane videos:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFpp1zRrDfg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFpp1zRrDfg</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXcCAsu9Odk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXcCAsu9Odk</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Tt5y6-ueY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Tt5y6-ueY</a><p> | null | null | 7,736 | 7,736 | null | null | null | null |
7,839 | story | domp | 2007-03-31T17:55:58 | Magnify is bringing a new approach to video sites | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/31/magnifynet-different-than-the-video-crowd/ | 2 | null | 7,839 | 1 | [
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7,840 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-31T17:58:29 | null | Because the big telcoms already monopolize the infrastructure so no new startup is going to be able to compete with them head-on. | null | null | 7,799 | 7,463 | null | [
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7,841 | comment | domp | 2007-03-31T17:59:30 | null | This Magnify video site looks great. I see a lot of promise with websites being able to create their own video page for their niche market. | null | null | 7,839 | 7,839 | null | null | null | null |
7,842 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-03-31T18:05:36 | Lean Management: How to be 50% faster with 80% higher quality | null | http://www.lean.org/WhatsLean/ | 1 | null | 7,842 | 1 | [
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7,843 | comment | ewheeler | 2007-03-31T18:05:53 | null | haven't heard of Techstars before. Any alums I'd know of? | null | null | 7,829 | 7,829 | null | [
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7,844 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T18:06:58 | null | My cofounder works this way and I have all the respect for him for being able to carry this out without it having an impact on our development. <p>Still you have to be very careful it does not take your focus away at any point. My partner had freelanced before so he knew what kind of projects to take and not take. Best projects are those that pay for some straightforward coding without much mental work. | null | null | 7,778 | 7,778 | null | null | null | null |
7,845 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T18:09:34 | null | Y acceptance isn't announced till 29th? I thought it was till 22nd?<p>"# We'll review applications by April 10 and invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View on the weekend of April 21-22. We'll reimburse up to $500 per group for travel expenses.<p># We'll decide who to fund that weekend, and tell you by phone on Sunday evening."<p> | null | null | 7,829 | 7,829 | null | null | null | null |
7,846 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T18:13:03 | null | It cost us about $500 to incorporate/get a PO box. I figure another few hundred - on the cheap side - if we paid to get our TOS and/or Privacy Policy written by a lawyer. | null | null | 7,817 | 7,817 | null | [
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7,847 | comment | ntoshev | 2007-03-31T18:21:41 | null | Don't worry, I <i>HATE</i> smoking and got closer to smoke than not smoke ;) | null | null | 7,731 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
7,848 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T18:23:49 | null | Someone's already mentioned Y Combinator. But YC isn't the only place you could go for funding. There are angel investors and VC groups all over the map. What you have to do is put together something that convinces these people that not investing in you now is leaving money on the table. Don't worry about failure to get financing at this stage; there's always more people out there looking for the next hot startup to invest in. All you have to do is convince first yourself and then these other people that you can do this.<p>I would caution you against using college loans to fund your startup. For one thing, it's probably foolish to borrow money for this when there are people who will invest if you spend the time to get them interested. But for another thing, it may be a violation of federal law, with serious consequences if you get caught. A CPA or lawyer may be able to advise you about your options here. | null | null | 7,049 | 6,668 | null | null | null | null |
7,849 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T18:26:07 | null | Looks awesome! | null | null | 7,818 | 7,818 | null | null | null | null |
7,850 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-03-31T18:30:14 | null | Many of the strategies being used by successful web 2.0 companies were pioneered decades ago by Toyota, now called Lean Management (and Lean Consumption).<p>Key Principles for Success (50% less effort, 80% higher quality): (From www.lean.org)<p>+Focus on Customer Value<p>+Eliminate Waste: Identify all the steps in the value stream
eliminating every step and every action and every practice that does not create value.<p>+Process Flow: Make the remaining value-creating steps occur in a tight and integrated sequence so the product will flow smoothly toward the customer.<p>+Customer Pull: As flow is introduced, let customers pull value from the next upstream activity<p>+Pursue Perfection: As these steps lead to greater transparency, enabling managers and teams to eliminate further waste, pursue perfection through continuous improvement.
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7,851 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T18:32:26 | null | AJAX-based upvoting: I click on the up arrow for a comment, and the page totally refreshes, and I'm at the top of the page. Then I have to scroll back down and find where I left off. Annoying.<p>Link to the news.ycom page in the RSS feed, rather than the external link, or in addition to the external link: If I want to comment on the external site, or read what other people have made, I have to go to the main news.ycom page and find the comment thread. This wastes maybe 30 seconds of my time, which can be important when I'm still formulating what I want to say and don't need the distraction. | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | [
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7,852 | story | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T18:39:18 | Software Development as a Collaborative Game | null | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000826.html | 5 | null | 7,852 | 1 | [
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7,853 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-31T18:40:06 | null | A Google Presently is in the works. I'm don't know the differences in approach compared with Zenter, but we should find out more as Google formally announces Presently and Zenter opens up a bit more to the public. | null | null | 7,832 | 7,034 | null | null | null | null |
7,854 | story | chandrab | 2007-03-31T18:43:07 | The research paper that launched the Google empire | null | http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html | 21 | null | 7,854 | 4 | [
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7,855 | story | stevendavis0830 | 2007-03-31T18:51:05 | Top 10 Reasons You Are Not Making Money Online | null | http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/making+money+online.html | 2 | null | 7,855 | 1 | [
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7,856 | comment | Wintermute | 2007-03-31T18:51:06 | null | Well, it isn't really all that satisfying, but I've taken to tutoring, specifically SAT tutoring. This has good points ($40-$50 / hour, not very difficult) and it has bad points (relatively mindless, highly repetitive, can be a lot of driving). Still, it is a flexible solution to a very stressful problem. <p><p> | null | null | 7,778 | 7,778 | null | null | null | null |
7,857 | story | brett | 2007-03-31T18:52:33 | A VC: Thinking About Online Photo Services | null | http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/03/thinking_about_.html | 8 | null | 7,857 | 1 | [
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7,858 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-31T18:58:54 | null | The challenge is in creating something with near-instant gratification while maintaining substance.<p>Usually it's hard enough to get a high demand hit, so we concentrate on just that. If we can achieve that part, we can then worry about not becoming a short-lived flavor du jour. It's there that we evaluate the differences between offering something people desire and providing something people value. | null | null | 7,543 | 7,543 | null | null | null | null |
7,859 | story | danielha | 2007-03-31T19:10:25 | The Architecture of Mailinator - averaging 4.5million emails a day on a single 2Ghz machine | null | http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2007/01/architecture-of-mailinator.html | 37 | null | 7,859 | 11 | [
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7,860 | comment | Elfan | 2007-03-31T19:10:40 | null | This is their first batch. | null | null | 7,843 | 7,829 | null | null | null | null |
7,861 | story | zaidf | 2007-03-31T19:14:32 | April Fools? TechCrunch acquires FuckedCompany - what's next? | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/31/techcrunch-has-acquired-fuckedcompanycom/ | 7 | null | 7,861 | 7 | [
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7,862 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-03-31T19:16:01 | null | Aren't these the dudes that plagiarized YC's application (and maybe entire business model)? Sure you want to do business with them? | null | null | 7,829 | 7,829 | null | null | null | null |
7,863 | comment | ced | 2007-03-31T19:26:16 | null | Does it worry you when working on Arc? Do you think you could have done better when you were 25? | null | null | 7,368 | 7,347 | null | null | null | null |
7,864 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T19:28:07 | null | I am a little surprised they get this much performance out of Java. But I guess if you know it like the back of your hand, you can make it fly. | null | null | 7,859 | 7,859 | null | [
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7,865 | comment | chwolfe | 2007-03-31T19:29:51 | null | Thanks... Did you go the LLC route? | null | null | 7,846 | 7,817 | null | [
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7,866 | comment | domp | 2007-03-31T19:30:41 | null | "Entrepreneurs with new ideas will always have a way to reach potential users and customers. They just won't be able to do it here any more."<p>Are they trying to just become a regular news outlet then? It seems like a bad move on their part to abandon the entrepreneurs and startups that made them what they are today.<p>Is this an April fools joke? | null | null | 7,861 | 7,861 | null | [
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7,867 | story | vlad | 2007-03-31T19:33:33 | Most Scientific research papers are probably wrong | null | http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915&feedId=online-news_rss20 | 3 | null | 7,867 | 4 | [
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7,868 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T19:38:49 | null | I think it's April Fools. You can read the details here: <a href="http://www.zaid360.com/?p=110">http://www.zaid360.com/?p=110</a> | null | null | 7,861 | 7,861 | null | null | null | null |
7,869 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T19:40:53 | null | We went with an Inc. since we had three of us with stakes and knew the number of people would only increase.<p>Make sure you go with Delaware in most cases. | null | null | 7,865 | 7,817 | null | null | null | null |
7,870 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T19:44:59 | null | Yeah, Python is great.<p>But it doesn't give you the live preview in browser, does it? :D | null | null | 1,748 | 1,739 | null | null | null | null |
7,871 | comment | febeling | 2007-03-31T19:50:02 | null | What does the "Delete that text from your homepage" line refer to? I cant interpret that from any of the essays. Does Paul encourage to remove bad prose from blogs to startuppers? Or does he advise not to say "What you cant say?" | null | null | 7,554 | 7,554 | null | [
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7,872 | story | amichail | 2007-03-31T19:50:56 | Port this to the web and you will have the most advanced online word processor by far | null | 1 | null | 7,872 | 2 | [
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7,873 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-31T19:51:13 | null | Any takers? What sort of technologies would you use?<p><a href="http://texmacs.org">http://texmacs.org</a> | null | null | 7,872 | 7,872 | null | [
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7,874 | story | louisadekoya | 2007-03-31T19:52:45 | Good Entrepreneurs Always Accept NO For An Answer | null | http://www.ideatagging.com/good-entrepreneurs-always-accept-no-for-an-answer/ | 1 | null | 7,874 | 1 | [
7876
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7,875 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T19:53:35 | null | Just curious, what else than Java would you use for performance, save for C or Lisp? I know the YC folks don't appreciate it, but actually Java has it's merits. Last comparison I looked at, Java was 6 times slower than C, with only LISP being faster and not being C. Scripting languages like Python or Perl are a factor slower than Java. | null | null | 7,864 | 7,859 | null | [
7883,
9014,
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] | null | null |
7,876 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T19:58:06 | null | So many companies out there seem to have really crappy products, therefore I am convinced that you can be successful with anything. It just takes the right kind of sticking to it. | null | null | 7,874 | 7,874 | null | null | null | null |
7,877 | comment | brett | 2007-03-31T20:00:22 | null | I remember reading this a while back.
Sounds like a good data point for Paul Buchheit's Startup School point about memory vs disks. | null | null | 7,859 | 7,859 | null | null | null | null |
7,878 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-31T20:04:12 | null | "Also, the current trend in blogging, led by Valleywag and others, is to 'go negative first, and ask questions later.' That tabloid-style journalism tends to generate a lot of eyeballs and, subsequently, advertiser dollars. This is something we just can't compete with. By acquiring FC, we can go more negative faster than anyone else out there, when and if we need to."<p>That pretty much gives it away. April Fools. | null | null | 7,861 | 7,861 | null | null | null | null |
7,879 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-31T20:11:02 | null | The entire gag is inspired by this comment: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6709">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6709</a> | null | null | 7,871 | 7,554 | null | null | null | null |
7,880 | comment | jward | 2007-03-31T20:16:17 | null | You're making the assumption the majority of people want insightful and informative. The fact that there is a huge market for content like Survivor and Fear Factor makes me doubt this assumption.<p>I'd say that Reddit has more to worry about from niche copycats than another large site. Why go to Reddit for your celeb gossip and pictures of cats with dumb text when there's a site dedicated to it? It's like oh-mah-gawd-with-justin-timberlake on top awesome, without all the nerdy stuff that makes my brain hurt. | null | null | 7,567 | 7,543 | null | null | null | null |
7,881 | comment | sdavis0830 | 2007-03-31T20:18:17 | null | My sites achieve about .20% CTR as well. How is everyone else doing? | null | null | 7,855 | 7,855 | null | [
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] | null | null |
7,882 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-31T20:23:55 | null | But how many of them would take Techstars? Giving away 5% of my equity for $10000 is a pretty marginal decision without the advice and connections that come with it, and I've yet to see that TechStars has any advice that isn't plaigarized from your essays. Being forced to be based in Boulder pretty much puts me under the bottom. | null | null | 7,833 | 7,829 | null | null | null | null |
7,883 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T20:30:28 | null | My perception is that the extra coding done to implement things like patterns to get around the fact that Java is so limited a language will cut down on the performance gains. But I don't have any statistics to back that up.<p>BTW, Python is not just a scripting language. It is a real language that just happens to be usable as a scripting language. Lua is a scripting language. | null | null | 7,875 | 7,859 | null | [
7889,
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] | null | null |
7,884 | comment | byronsalty | 2007-03-31T20:31:37 | null | I'm having trouble using drakma to hit the site. I'm pretty new to Lisp so I'm still learning what I'm looking at, however it looks like something in the stream from the server (possibly while reading headers?) is messing up CHUNGA:READLINE<i> which Drakma uses. | null | null | 540 | 189 | null | null | null | null |
7,885 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-31T20:35:15 | null | It's interesting that most web 2.0 services do not appear deep in any theoretical sense. In particular, 99% probably do not have anything that comes even close to the sophistication behind the PageRank algorithm.<p>But still, some web 2.0 services have become very popular.<p>It seems that if you do not have any sophisticated algorithms behind your approach, you can still succeed if you are the first to address a need (even if you do it in the most naive way imaginable) and you get sufficient publicity. <p>The vast majority of people could care less about sophisticated algorithms. The vast majority of people do not obsess over whether an approach is prone to spam.
| null | null | 7,854 | 7,854 | null | null | null | null |
7,886 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-31T20:36:47 | null | Of course, we're being told this by a research paper. | null | null | 7,867 | 7,867 | null | null | null | null |
7,887 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-03-31T20:37:10 | Tim O'Reilly with a call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/call_for_a_blog_1.html | 3 | null | 7,887 | 1 | [
7895
] | null | null |
7,888 | comment | pg | 2007-03-31T20:38:32 | null | We tell people finally on the 22nd, not the 29th. Which is still after the 16th, but only 6 days after. | null | null | 7,831 | 7,829 | null | null | null | null |
7,889 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T20:46:17 | null | OK, not the right place for that discussion. The reason languages like python are inherently slower is that they are not strongly typed. It seems only LISP is getting it right, I think there you can voluntarily use strong typing, allowing for dramatic speed improvements - why don't any other languages copy that? (I think it must be the typing that is responsible for the speed difference - this time I don't have an official article backing that up). | null | null | 7,883 | 7,859 | null | [
7985
] | null | null |
7,890 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T20:46:33 | null | OK, not the right place for that discussion. The reason languages like python are inherently slower is that they are not strongly typed. It seems only LISP is getting it right, I think there you can voluntarily use strong typing, allowing for dramatic speed improvements - why don't any other languages copy that? (I think it must be the typing that is responsible for the speed difference - this time I don't have an official article backing that up). | null | null | 7,883 | 7,859 | null | null | null | true |
7,891 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-03-31T20:47:08 | null | I guess this depends on what you mean by "most advanced". TeXmacs combines the easy learning curve of Emacs with the familiar word processing paradigm of TeX to form a program usable by 1/10000 of the market. Sure, it's advanced. So's the flight deck of the Airbus A380.<p>A more successful interpretation of "most advanced" would be "gives the user the easiest interface to use to accomplish his tasks". By that standard, I think Google Docs or Writeboard is much more advanced than TeXmacs. | null | null | 7,873 | 7,872 | null | null | null | null |
7,892 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-03-31T20:50:53 | null | Interestingly, Larry Page was reluctant to publish this infamous research paper when it was first conceived. Much of Larry's thinking was inspired by Nikola Tesla's life; a genius whose inventions were often mocked upon and stolen by Thomas Edison. It was Larry's research advisor who convinced him to publish the paper.<p>Other interesting sites:-<p>Google Search Engine in 1997: <a href="http://backrub.tjtech.org/1997/index.htm">http://backrub.tjtech.org/1997/index.htm</a><p>Explanation of PageRank: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank</a><p>
BackRub research (which ultimiately led to PageRank): <a href="http://backrub.tjtech.org/1997/backrub.htm">http://backrub.tjtech.org/1997/backrub.htm</a><p>
lol@"Sorry, many services are unavailable due to a local network faliure beyond our control. We are working to fix the problem and hope to be back up soon. 12/4/97" | null | null | 7,854 | 7,854 | null | null | null | null |
7,893 | comment | phil | 2007-03-31T20:54:48 | null | seems to be down, though the server is pinging.
| null | null | 7,818 | 7,818 | null | null | null | null |
7,894 | comment | pg | 2007-03-31T20:55:09 | null | yes | null | null | 7,866 | 7,861 | null | [
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7,895 | comment | nickb | 2007-03-31T20:59:27 | null | What about addressing the "pay per blog entry" unethical businesses that are springing up? | null | null | 7,887 | 7,887 | null | null | null | null |
7,896 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-31T21:05:04 | null | For a clever variation on PageRank using vision-based page segmentation, see:<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=754">http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=754</a><p>For a more sophisticated web page similarity measure inspired by PageRank, see:<p><a href="http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~glenj/simrank.pdf">http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~glenj/simrank.pdf</a><p>For a ton of very cool papers on these sorts of topics, check out:<p><a href="http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/aux/index-en.html">http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/aux/index-en.html</a>
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7,897 | story | Bronen | 2007-03-31T21:09:06 | In order for any product be successful, the founder must really passionate about the idea and responsive to constructive criticism. | null | http://pulse2.com/2007/03/05/the-new-ui-of-quintura-and-upcoming-services/ | 1 | null | 7,897 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,898 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-31T21:11:58 | null | "Link spam is used to increase the ranking
of certain target web pages by misleading
the connectivity-based ranking algorithms in
search engines. In this paper we study how
web pages can be interconnected in a spam
farm in order to optimize rankings. We also
study alliances, that is, interconnections of
spam farms. Our results identify the optimal
structures and quantify the potential gains. In
particular, we show that alliances can be synergistic
and improve the rankings of all participants.
We believe that the insights we gain
will be useful in identifying and combating
link spam."<p><a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/~zoltan/publications/gyongyi2005link.pdf">http://infolab.stanford.edu/~zoltan/publications/gyongyi2005link.pdf</a> | null | null | 7,854 | 7,854 | null | null | null | null |
7,899 | story | domp | 2007-03-31T21:20:14 | How Napster changed the world - A look back 7 years later from the VP of Product Development | null | http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/03/how_napster_cha.html | 3 | null | 7,899 | 1 | [
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