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7,900 | story | pg | 2007-03-31T21:35:15 | Justin.TV pwns king content | null | http://lucidmedia.cirne.com/index.php/2007/04/01/justintv-p0wns-eisner/ | 3 | null | 7,900 | 4 | [
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7,901 | comment | domp | 2007-03-31T21:35:39 | null | This article gives a great view of how the record labels were reacting to this innovative approach to music. It also has some helpful tips on starting a startup. | null | null | 7,899 | 7,899 | null | null | null | null |
7,902 | story | jcwentz | 2007-03-31T21:52:27 | Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB | null | http://www.trnicely.net/misc/vista.html | 5 | null | 7,902 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,903 | story | domp | 2007-03-31T21:58:11 | TapeFailure - Watch your users use your site | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/video-review-of-tapefailure-watch-your-users-use-your-site | 15 | null | 7,903 | 7 | [
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7,904 | comment | vlad | 2007-03-31T22:06:34 | null | Mark Zuckerberg is not arrogant. People who are convinced that Mark is anybody but a busy person who has way more responsibility to society on his free breakfast, lunch, and dinner plate[1] than any other 22-year-old on the planet, are misleading themselves and their friends.<p>It is very easy to point a finger at Mark and say "the arrogant one," similar to how a woman may say "the bald guy" to point her husband out on a long street to a cab driver. But, this is a relative comparison only. Applying a label on a person deducted from a relative comparison is inconsiderate. Mark is actually very deserving of his happiness, sucess, and pride he has earned. One mustn't compare Mark's mannerisms to those of millions of other 22-year-olds or Saturday's Startup School speakers', unless they compare and constrast what these people actually accomplish during the day versus Mark, as well.<p>[1] Facebook has free food. | null | null | 7,789 | 7,763 | null | [
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7,905 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T22:12:20 | null | However, I noticed that YC did not ask for my email address, so it was not a painful way of registering. Also, you can read the news without an account. | null | null | 7,235 | 6,668 | null | null | null | null |
7,906 | comment | budu3 | 2007-03-31T22:16:30 | null | Wow, amazing design philosophy. It's so unlike a google philossphy giving that he works with google. If this was done by google they'd keep every email ever sent to mailinator and analyse it for stats and patterns the help improve the system.
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7,907 | story | chendy | 2007-03-31T22:23:01 | 10 Lessons Frank Miller's 300 can teach you about Successful Online Business | null | http://www.fuzzyfuture.com/general/10-lessons-frank-millers-300-can-teach-you-about-successful-online-business/ | 3 | null | 7,907 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,908 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T22:24:20 | null | In the end though, is it not all about money? As far as I am concerned, grad school is something you do for fun, and which costs a lot of money. Even if you receive a minimum paycheck, you have to take the opportunity costs into consideratiosn, so five years of grad school cost several 100000$, or am I mistaken? Why then do you worry so much more about starting a startup? The differences in maximum loss seem marginal, except that for grad school the losses are guaranteed, and for startups they are not. <p>It does not depend on being in grad school or not whether you can do what you want, it depends on having the money - either to pay for grad school, or for toying around with your startup. <p>I realize I made some oversimplifications, but still... | null | null | 6,997 | 6,668 | null | [
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7,909 | comment | Tichy | 2007-03-31T22:25:58 | null | I expect that once you start dedicating yourself to one thing, you will quickly meet the right people. | null | null | 7,118 | 6,668 | null | null | null | null |
7,910 | story | python_kiss | 2007-03-31T22:58:49 | Reddit To Start Showing Ads | null | http://blog.reddit.com/2007/03/brace-yourself-ads-are-coming.html | 4 | null | 7,910 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,911 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-31T23:00:55 | null | A big part of YComb is subtly teaching people to live an entrepreneurial life way beyond the three months you spend at YComb. That is why YComb doesn't seem to care THAT much about one particular idea. Instead they bank on the people they fund to continue making new stuff and really, if you make enough new things, you WILL get a hit. That seems to be the idea behind YComb - to keep supporting their group of entrepreneurs idea after another with the assumption that eventually they will get a hit somewhere.<p>The company model you describe is therefore incompatible with YComb because the company will be sending folks to make ONE idea which isn't much of an attraction to the flexible nature of YComb. YComb funds people more than ideass, remember?<p> | null | null | 7,807 | 7,754 | null | [
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7,912 | comment | joshwa | 2007-03-31T23:06:08 | null | if you're going to create sockpuppet accounts, at least have the creativity to name them differently! | null | null | 7,881 | 7,855 | null | null | null | null |
7,913 | story | msgbeepa | 2007-03-31T23:12:58 | Special - The Best 100 April Fool's Day Jokes Of All Time | null | http://www.avinio.blogspot.com/2007/03/special-best-100-april-fools-day-jokes.html | 1 | null | 7,913 | -1 | null | null | true |
7,914 | comment | vlad | 2007-03-31T23:16:57 | null | You have a higher chance of becoming rich with YCombinator than writing a factually accurate research paper.<p>Paul Graham: "So about 50% of the founders from that first summer, less than two years ago, are now rich, at least by their standards. "<p>New Scientist Magazine: Most scientific research papers are wrong ( <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915&feedId=online-news_rss20">http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915&feedId=online-news_rss20</a> ) | null | null | 7,867 | 7,867 | null | null | null | null |
7,915 | comment | joshwa | 2007-03-31T23:25:50 | null | the links to Ralph Koster's presentations towards the bottom are especially worthwhile...
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7,916 | story | danw | 2007-03-31T23:35:56 | Theory of Fun | null | http://www.scribd.com/slurp?url=http://www.theoryoffun.com/theoryoffun.pdf | 7 | null | 7,916 | 9 | [
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7,917 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-01T00:00:13 | Introducing Lean Software Development | null | http://www.leansoftwareinstitute.com/art_ilsd.php | 1 | null | 7,917 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,918 | comment | domp | 2007-04-01T00:12:25 | null | Read/WriteWeb wrote an article about this April Fools joke. Check it out:<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_end_of_an_era_1april07.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_end_of_an_era_1april07.php</a> | null | null | 7,894 | 7,861 | null | null | null | null |
7,919 | comment | zach | 2007-04-01T00:25:19 | null | Raph Koster's stuff is boring as hell for me and I get nothing insightful or novel out of it. Having read his endless article series in Game Developer, it came as no surprise he would publish a title like "A Theory of Fun." Probably a decent guy, but I wouldn't hire him. | null | null | 7,916 | 7,916 | null | null | null | null |
7,920 | comment | herdrick | 2007-04-01T00:47:58 | null | "While plenty of startups are launching, we arent seeing any actual innovation any more... there just isnt anything left to invent."<p>Definitely April Fools. | null | null | 7,861 | 7,861 | null | null | null | null |
7,921 | comment | rfrey | 2007-04-01T01:20:51 | null | Nowhere did this article say that 50% of research papers were not "factually accurate". It says faulty research methods mean 50% of conclusions are not true.<p>Which is itself a ridiculous thing for New Scientist to repeat. The basis of the scientific method is that we don't ever try to prove things are true. We just show that there's a good chance (1 in 20 is standard) that a model fits. Statistical methods are used and statistics is another area that has no truck with "truth" -- it is the mathematics of making your way in a probabilistic universe. <p>Having papers come out with promising claims and having "only" 50% of them stand up to professional scrutiny is a wondrous miracle. The entire scientific establishment is set up to disprove hypotheses as they emerge. If half of them stand, the scientific establishment is not doing its job. <p>A sensationalist article that plays into the "nobody really knows how things work, so I'll believe what I want" meme.<p> | null | null | 7,867 | 7,867 | null | null | null | null |
7,922 | story | domp | 2007-04-01T01:24:46 | Xcerion: A YouOS Competitor startup | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/31/xcerion/ | 5 | null | 7,922 | 4 | [
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7,923 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-01T01:25:13 | null | One of my favorite books -- can be a bit long at times, but the point is excellent nonetheless.<p>Zach, I don't believe Raph's looking for a job.
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7,924 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-01T01:25:42 | null | Btw, danw, did you get this from reading my iminlikewithyou profile? :-) | null | null | 7,916 | 7,916 | null | null | null | null |
7,925 | comment | pg | 2007-04-01T01:52:08 | null | That name will not help them. | null | null | 7,922 | 7,922 | null | [
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7,926 | comment | domp | 2007-04-01T02:02:59 | null | I agree. The name doesn't really give you a sense of what the service will be. I hold a strong belief that a company name is crucial. It should be simple and memorable. | null | null | 7,925 | 7,922 | null | null | null | null |
7,927 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-01T02:07:50 | null | <i>'... How about doing this for real? ... Reality is the superior test of whether you are an entrepreneur ...'</i><p>True . Ideally yes. But it there may be times when you want to test skills or sub sections of skills, <i>NOW</i>. I've run 8 miles in 2 hours in the past but does that mean I can do it now? <p>I think the bit I was addressing was suggesting a technique to scale selection through automated means by testing against the best. I agree reality is a better test. But you miss the point about simulation. With simulation you can <p>- test/be tested/train in compressed time <p>- test/be tested/train with different scenarios<p>- test/be tested/train individual components of the process<p>- test/be tested/train with lower costs <p>- test/be tested/train in controlled circumstances to allow better measurement<p><i>'... having done something is better than simulating it ...'</i><p>Pilots fly planes but they also train and test their skills in simulation due to cost, risk and a lot of other factors. People who do things, need ways to test their skills, improve and be tested. Why not startups? In the case of YC, 'done', 'doing' may not be controlled enough to measure against the best (conjecture).<p><p>
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7,928 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-01T02:14:08 | null | XML-based? Hmm. | null | null | 7,922 | 7,922 | null | null | null | null |
7,929 | story | domp | 2007-04-01T02:15:03 | Workspace: Web-based access to FTP | null | http://mashable.com/2007/03/31/workspace/ | 2 | null | 7,929 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,930 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-01T02:51:45 | null | Reminds me of Nicola Tesla's holy grail. He conducted lots of weird experiments in the later part of his life to transmit power across the aether.
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7,931 | comment | Tron | 2007-04-01T02:52:57 | null | I wouldn't have the balls to put "failure" in the name of my startup. | null | null | 7,903 | 7,903 | null | [
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7,932 | comment | RyanGWU82 | 2007-04-01T03:03:09 | null | Wow, a huge above-the-fold piece on the Chronicle front page, in their second week of operations, that's <i>amazing</i> placement.<p>Does anyone know if Justin has professional PR assistance, or if they're generating all the media buzz themselves? | null | null | 7,900 | 7,900 | null | [
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7,933 | comment | mynameishere | 2007-04-01T03:11:58 | null | LISP is faster than Java? With all that pounding on the stack? I'd have to see it to believe it.<p>Anyway, FORTRAN is still faster than C at a lot of things. | null | null | 7,875 | 7,859 | null | [
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7,934 | story | domp | 2007-04-01T03:12:25 | Jajah buys Vonage | null | http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2007/03/jajah_buys_vona.html | 2 | null | 7,934 | 3 | [
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7,935 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-01T03:14:17 | Anybody using Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2) in their startup? | null | http://www.amazon.com/Why-Use-AWS%3F-home-page/b/ref=sc_fe_l_1/103-1678423-5846208?ie=UTF8&node=15763371&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA | 14 | null | 7,935 | 20 | [
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7,936 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-01T03:15:41 | null | This seems like the coolest thing since sliced bread. We're experimenting with S3 but I'm really interested in EC2 also. Anybody else using AWS? | null | null | 7,935 | 7,935 | null | [
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7,937 | comment | yc1 | 2007-04-01T03:32:02 | null | ok here is a problem:<p>Say you have a great idea (don't we all :))<p>But we don't know if either TechStars or Y-Combinator will actually accept our idea so to hedge our bets we apply to both. (of course YC is first option).<p>Now TechStars will send their results on Apr 5 and the deadline to accept, I think is Apr14 . This is before the Apr22 date when YC decides which companies it will fund.<p>So on Apr14: if you are one of the really good ideas that both TechStars and YC like - because of the timeline - you get into a dilema: if u say no to TechStars there is no guarantee that YC will accept u but if u say yes to TechStars - then u give up on your first choice without even getting a chance to hear the YC results.<p>Seems like a cunning way for TechStars to get all the best ideas this summer before YC can get them.
(I bet they try to pull this off every six months to try and steal all the best ideas...)<p>So, YC needs think about how to solve this potential issue - (maybe bringin the dates of their decisions??) | null | null | 6,505 | 6,505 | null | [
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7,938 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-01T03:51:39 | null | People seem to keep ignoring that April Fools is actually in April, not the last day of March. (Then again, it could be 4/1 over there.)
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7,939 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-01T03:56:58 | null | Yeah rather awkward word choice. | null | null | 7,931 | 7,903 | null | null | null | null |
7,940 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-01T04:22:45 | null | This is two for two for me after TechCrunch.<p>April Fools and 20hr day don't go together. Next one to post a similar thing gets a smacking from me;) | null | null | 7,938 | 7,934 | null | null | null | null |
7,941 | comment | awt | 2007-04-01T04:28:34 | null | I guess you've never had a failed startup. | null | null | 7,931 | 7,903 | null | null | null | null |
7,942 | comment | raganwald | 2007-04-01T04:35:22 | null | What can I say, except "carry on, it's your money!"<p>But whether you would pay more or not, the subject was contemplating employment with a company and valuing stock options.<p>Never mind generalities. If Sequoia have a wonderful track record for picking winners, I offered another means of calculating the value of the stock based on the likelihood there would be a liquidity event.<p>Here's something to ponder: if the industry gets 20% and Seqouia gets 22% of their investments to a liquidity event, Seqouia is doing fantastically well. 10% better!<p>But: how much does a 2% difference in likelihood affect the value of the stock for employees?<p>Feel free to plug in Sequoia's actual numbers. I think you will find that they do not underpay as much as you may suppose.<p> It would basically be a cheap way of getting in on their fund, assuming the premium wasn't huge.<p>I would love to get in on their fund as well. But my post wasn't about investing, it was about valuing stock options so you could understand what they are worth on a risk-adjusted basis.<p>What's the difference?<p>Remember, when you invest alongside them you get all sorts of extra rights like double dips, convertible shares, preferred, and a zillion other ways to get money in situations at the expense of founders.<p>This is why it is very important not to assume that just because a name brand VC invests in a company that employee options or founder shares are somehow worth as much as you might pay for those same shares if you are the same VC.<p>If anything, employee options are worth much, much less, because VCs can get some of their money back if there is a modest wind-up or merger, whereas employees only cash out if there is a major event. | null | null | 5,602 | 5,533 | null | null | null | null |
7,943 | story | omarish | 2007-04-01T04:57:20 | Being the Ben Folds of your Niche | null | http://yeahsystems.com/blog/?p=6 | 8 | null | 7,943 | 2 | [
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7,944 | comment | pg | 2007-04-01T05:05:33 | null | All themselves. These guys are literally what they
seem on their show: four recent college grads in an
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7,945 | comment | pg | 2007-04-01T05:14:43 | null | Practically all the current batch of YC startups are using S3. | null | null | 7,935 | 7,935 | null | null | null | null |
7,946 | story | pg | 2007-04-01T05:16:18 | Apple collaborating with Amazon, Google, and Cingular on new iReader? | null | http://scobleizer.com/2007/03/31/apple-collaborating-with-amazon-google-and-cingular-on-new-ireader/ | 2 | null | 7,946 | 1 | [
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7,947 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-01T05:16:40 | null | That's a very great perspective. I want to be the Ben Folds of my niche. | null | null | 7,943 | 7,943 | null | null | null | null |
7,948 | comment | pg | 2007-04-01T05:31:44 | null | We don't accept a fixed number of applicants. We'll fund anyone who seems good enough. If we suddenly got 30 great applications, we''d accept them all, and worry later about how to cram them all into our space. | null | null | 7,348 | 6,505 | null | null | null | null |
7,949 | comment | binarybana | 2007-04-01T05:38:35 | null | I know that YouOS uses it. | null | null | 7,935 | 7,935 | null | null | null | null |
7,950 | story | zaidf | 2007-04-01T05:39:17 | How many teams does YComb invite to Mountain View? | null | 14 | null | 7,950 | 7 | [
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7,951 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-01T05:45:21 | null | I love S3! It's so easy to get started. I have less use for EC2 since I have less computations to do. I wish I could run a database on EC2... | null | null | 7,935 | 7,935 | null | [
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7,952 | comment | pyc | 2007-04-01T06:00:05 | null | Don Knuth finally sells out.<p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg">http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg</a> | null | null | 7,783 | 7,763 | null | null | null | null |
7,953 | comment | pg | 2007-04-01T06:02:03 | null | Last cycle we invited about 30, but there is no fixed number. Nor is there any fixed number of startups we fund per cycle. We accept every group that seems good enough. | null | null | 7,950 | 7,950 | null | [
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7,954 | story | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T06:19:11 | Introducing Gmail Paper | null | http://www.gmail.com | 8 | null | 7,954 | 7 | [
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7,955 | story | binarybana | 2007-04-01T06:39:13 | Google ?= Exxon | null | 2 | null | 7,955 | 5 | [
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7,956 | comment | binarybana | 2007-04-01T06:39:27 | null | This past week I was able to talk a partner of an oil and gas VC that specializes in small scale (less than 10M) projects. One of the things I asked her was if the 'small-fry' oil and gas industry was being smothered by the giants of Exxon, BP, and Shell much as some people claim is being done by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. She replied that the big three are only able to pursue and develop the projects which show a high margin due to their high operating costs thereby allowing small ventures to flourish in projects that aren't 'profitable enough'.<p>Certainly this argument has also been made for the internet market too, but the oil and gas market is heavily capital dependent with large 'retooling' costs whereas the internet industry is driven largely by a smart labor force (ie: a more agile industry). So is it a possibility that small time internet ventures are more vulnerable to attack than the equivalent oil and gas company (and other industries for that matter)? | null | null | 7,955 | 7,955 | null | [
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7,957 | comment | jsjenkins168 | 2007-04-01T06:53:41 | null | Does anyone have experiences going to VCs for funding that dont specialize in internet technology startups? I am particularily interested if say an oil/gas VC would be willing to negotiate sweeter terms than many of the "cut-throat" tech VCs would... | null | null | 7,956 | 7,955 | null | [
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7,958 | comment | zach | 2007-04-01T07:05:02 | null | Sure, if you're using Rails it's really easy to use attachment_fu (the new generation of the image/file storing acts_as_attachment plugin) to keep uploaded photos on S3. Also for Rails, Jamglue's technique of putting your entire static file hierarchy on S3 is great for maximimizing your app servers' bandwidth. BTW, Justin.tv runs off EC2 servers. | null | null | 7,936 | 7,935 | null | null | null | null |
7,959 | comment | zach | 2007-04-01T07:06:24 | null | I assume they're working on a database solution to go along with S3 and EC2. Of course I have no proof they are, though. | null | null | 7,951 | 7,935 | null | null | null | null |
7,960 | comment | zach | 2007-04-01T07:11:31 | null | Good for him. I haven't heard what he's been up to since he was working on Star Wars Galaxies. | null | null | 7,923 | 7,916 | null | [
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7,961 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-01T07:20:13 | null | Great find! I've been participating in Google's pre-beta program (where features are pre-beta tested for one week before escalating to official Google Beta status for three more years.)<p>It doesn't say on that page, but they have great integration with RemoteControlMail.com . GMail prints and sends my e-mail to them via snail mail, and RCM scans the mail back into electronic form and e-mails me once a day about it. It's a really great way to get all of your entire e-mail once a day (two business days later) without being bothered to check for it every 5 minutes.<p>Also, I have a filter set up on gmail that will parse the notification e-mails from RCM about new deliveries and forward them to my [email protected] e-mail account. These are then also automatically printed, sent back to RCM, scanned, then e-mailed back to the original gmail address. This way, I am notified about the spam via gmail one day later than normal for each day of mail, thereby keeping the important mail in front.<p>I already know that yes, this just delays spam mail one day and you receive the previous spam mail the current day. I know. That is why I have applied for YCombinator funding to solve this problem alone. At least TechStars seemed interested in it. | null | null | 7,954 | 7,954 | null | [
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7,962 | comment | brett | 2007-04-01T07:22:33 | null | I've used S3 on a few projects and would definitely endorse it. I just got accepted to the EC2 beta last week and haven't started messing around with it. | null | null | 7,935 | 7,935 | null | null | null | null |
7,963 | comment | domp | 2007-04-01T07:25:35 | null | HA! this is funny cause my co-founder made up a phrase like this but used Nirvana as the band. Create something that makes the industry readjust to you while I guess trying to avoid early death. I dunno he has some whole manifesto.<p>Nice thoughts though and Ben Folds is great. | null | null | 7,943 | 7,943 | null | null | null | null |
7,964 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-01T08:02:44 | null | Aside from Scoble's sketchy imagery, I almost know that an Apple/Amazon deal is highly unlikely.<p>And to think I was almost fooled. :-) | null | null | 7,946 | 7,946 | null | null | null | null |
7,965 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-01T08:03:33 | null | I'm not sure if I'm missing something or if this is just a really bad (sorry!) April Fool's joke. | null | null | 7,954 | 7,954 | null | [
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7,966 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-01T08:03:48 | null | I'm just speculating(as I have no VC experience at all) but would'nt the oil/gas VC be less tech savvy than your tech VCs? Another thing to consider is they(oil/gas VC) will have little or no knowledge about the Internet industry which makes it significantly more difficult to convince them the possible implications and benefits of your start up. | null | null | 7,957 | 7,955 | null | null | null | null |
7,967 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-01T08:05:20 | null | The REAL kicker would be if a LBO/junk bond firm actually BOUGHT the FuckedCompany name. | null | null | 7,861 | 7,861 | null | null | null | null |
7,968 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-01T08:07:36 | null | The question now begs: Zach, did you vote me down because you don't agree with me? Because I certainly didn't do anything of the sort to you. | null | null | 7,916 | 7,916 | null | [
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7,969 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-01T08:09:37 | null | I believe he openly admitted his failures with Galaxies. A few of my former colleagues were quite close to the matter, and Galaxies was definitely an organization-wide failure. Raph was far removed from actual design duties when Galaxies started to croak.<p>Btw, Raph's got a Charles River-backed startup called Areae. It's doing some pretty cool things if you're interested in virtual worlding and web interaction. | null | null | 7,960 | 7,916 | null | [
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7,970 | comment | lee | 2007-04-01T08:42:03 | null | My parents had a startup when I was a child. My mom was adventurous and worked with my dad in the business. As a little kid, I had no awareness that we were rich or poor, though we must have struggled because I remember different living situations were not as nice as others. Our family life was happiest during the building phase of the company - before success was surely won. <p>One thing I'm sure of is that my dad would have been miserable if he had a straight job and that would have affected our family a lot more than material instability. <p>There are many lessons that you can teach a child about resilience - about fortune's ups and downs and how to handle risk that are unavailable to those who put their lives on hold to rear a child. I wouldn't have had any other childhood. We had extreme fortune upheavals. At one point, the family lost everything. But dad started again and made a success. I still wound up attending an Ivy League school and hope to apply the lessons I've learned growing up to the startups I'll start.
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7,971 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-01T08:56:00 | null | While I am unqualified to speak about Mark, and in fact, I didn't, I stand by what I said. nickb made an arguably general comment, and I made an arguably general response. I apologize for the ambiguity, but--<p>It's very easy to point a finger at a general response and say "that comment is aimed at this guy," because this guy is the tallest tree in the forest. But the comment applies to the whole forest.<p>I have no doubt that Mark is deserving of his success. Mark worked hard, Bill Gates worked hard, Warren Buffet worked hard. The kiko guys worked hard too. And if kiko took over the world, they would be invited to speak everywhere, and they will have things to say, and reporters will scribble down what they hear as if deities are speaking, when every person's interpretation of the path to success does not work for all others.<p>I believe the truth in what nickb said is right here. All instances of success are a mixture of factors, but somehow they are read as a result of one. And as such, as a general principle, I certainly believe that arrogance is always unneccessary, regardless of who you are and what you have achieved. | null | null | 7,904 | 7,763 | null | [
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7,972 | comment | marcell | 2007-04-01T09:10:06 | null | Ages when they started what they're famous for:<p>Mark Zuckerberg: 20<p>Max Levchin: 22<p>Paul Graham: 31<p>Steve Wozniak: 26<p>Mitcha Kapor: 32<p>Donald Knuth: 24 | null | null | 7,763 | 7,763 | null | null | null | null |
7,973 | story | danw | 2007-04-01T10:40:35 | reddit now doubleplusgood | null | http://blog.reddit.com/2007/04/reddit-now-doubleplusgood.html | 2 | null | 7,973 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,974 | story | juwo | 2007-04-01T10:52:19 | Google's April Fools' Day joke | null | http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html | 3 | null | 7,974 | 2 | [
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7,975 | story | bootload | 2007-04-01T10:54:33 | Why was Rails only possible with Ruby? | null | http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/why_was_rails_only_possible_wi.html | 2 | null | 7,975 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,976 | story | bootload | 2007-04-01T10:59:31 | ITConversation using Amazon S3 for Infrastructure-on-Demand | null | http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2007/02/03/amazon-for-infrastructure-on-demand/ | 1 | null | 7,976 | 1 | [
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7,977 | story | danw | 2007-04-01T11:01:36 | The Other Road Ahead | null | http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html | 2 | null | 7,977 | 1 | [
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7,978 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-01T11:03:16 | null | follows on from a point I made earlier ~ <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=2866">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=2866</a> | null | null | 7,976 | 7,976 | null | null | null | null |
7,979 | comment | ced | 2007-04-01T11:09:48 | null | Look at the screenshots. They are trying to build an OS and a whole office suite at the same time. Why don't they leverage existing web 2.0 apps?<p>Has anyone tried to implement X11 on the web? | null | null | 7,922 | 7,922 | null | null | null | null |
7,980 | comment | admp | 2007-04-01T11:23:39 | null | Direct infolink: <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html">http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html</a>
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7,981 | comment | ced | 2007-04-01T11:33:20 | null | Good for them, but I agree with Eisner. Justin.TV is content, and content is still king, whether or not it includes audience participation. The web is a revolution in distribution, and in lowering the barrier to entry for content creation. | null | null | 7,900 | 7,900 | null | null | null | null |
7,982 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-01T11:53:09 | null | Personally, if I was ever in this situation I think I'd go for a mindless job like becoming a Starbucks barista or something. I find it's harder to have good ideas at home after doing something that involves thinking all day. | null | null | 7,778 | 7,778 | null | null | null | null |
7,983 | comment | ced | 2007-04-01T11:55:14 | null | An anonymous study at the institute where I am revealed that 10% (IIRC) of scientists confessed to perpetrating a "serious misdemeanor".<p>My feeling is that the situation is not much different now from, say, in the 18th century. Some day, we'll be able to do formal reasoning on the data and findings of researchers, and we'll spot [some] mistakes and contradictions automatically. Until then, peer-review is the best we can do, and its emphasis is much more on form than content. | null | null | 7,867 | 7,867 | null | null | null | null |
7,984 | comment | ced | 2007-04-01T12:20:41 | null | I don't get it. If you (YC) choose not to fund a startup after the interview, it's because you think that you will not make money out of it. Why would TechStar fund them? They already tacitly acknowledge that they cannot do any better than you. | null | null | 7,833 | 7,829 | null | [
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7,985 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-01T12:26:07 | null | If you look at the PyPy project you'll see that it's possible with Python to spot that foo is always an integer within a certain scope, thereby allowing short-cuts when dealing with it. They're also using the excellent LLVM framework to JIT the Python byte-code. It's not replacing the CPython interpreter anytime soon, but it is doing interesting stuff.<p>URL: <a href="http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/index.html">http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/index.html</a><p>LLVM is well worth a look, BTW. Now that Apple have seen its benefits and are providing a workforce it's coming along in leaps and bounds.<p>URL: <a href="http://llvm.org/">http://llvm.org/</a> | null | null | 7,889 | 7,859 | null | null | null | null |
7,986 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-01T12:38:11 | null | Arg, I didn't notice that you can't run a database. I'm not in that program yet.<p>Maybe I'll just keep everything on S3 as key/value pairs and then use the Queue service to make it all happen. It'd be fun anyway.
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7,987 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-01T12:40:35 | null | This is just another cool thing happening to reduce the cost of new software apps. Salesforce.com has the same thing with Apex. The only bad thing there is that they tie you a bit too much to their technologies (Java/Oracle). They have adapters for other platforms but it still runs on Java/Oracle. | null | null | 7,935 | 7,935 | null | null | null | null |
7,988 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-01T13:12:46 | CenterNetwork Asks For Video Reviews from Startups, YouTube Responds | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/01/centernetwork-asks-for-video-reviews-youtube-responds/ | 1 | null | 7,988 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,989 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-01T13:49:44 | null | A topical music video about "progress":<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=zwAk6yusvFY">http://youtube.com/watch?v=zwAk6yusvFY</a> | null | null | 7,543 | 7,543 | null | null | null | null |
7,990 | story | daliso | 2007-04-01T13:54:44 | Web page readability: Green text on yellow works the best | null | http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html | 3 | null | 7,990 | 3 | [
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7,991 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-01T14:07:26 | Workspace Launches Web based FTP Access | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/01/workspace-launches-web-based-ftp-access/ | 1 | null | 7,991 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,992 | comment | jewelsbranch | 2007-04-01T14:17:38 | null | Great life story, lee. My husband and I are bringing our children along for the journey as we work on our start-up. <p>We went through the start-up stage with another business before we had children, but we won't think of postponing this start-up because of our kids. It is hard work to combine starting up and parenting, but being parents while working a traditional 9-to-5 is hard work, too. <p>We have found that we are happier when we are being creative on our own, regardless of income level. When we're happy, the kids are happy, too.<p>They have adapted well to everything we've thrown at them so far. And we are encouraged by their go-with-the-flow attitude.<p>In the end we want them to understand that you make your own life. The best way we can teach them this is to actually do so ourselves....and that's what we are doing.<p>Sounds like that's what you are doing, too.
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7,993 | story | nate | 2007-04-01T14:32:12 | Inkling guys re-writing their app in Lisp, job posting for an Arc developer | null | http://code.inklingmarkets.com/journal/2007/4/1/inklings-hiring.html | 14 | null | 7,993 | 12 | [
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7,994 | story | amichail | 2007-04-01T14:34:43 | How do you give users privacy in your web 2.0 service? Do you use client-side encryption? | null | http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/cc66751832ec419f/5150153509beb9b5 | 1 | null | 7,994 | 0 | null | null | null |
7,995 | comment | dstowell | 2007-04-01T14:36:12 | null | April Fools'? | null | null | 7,993 | 7,993 | null | null | null | null |
7,996 | comment | comforteagle | 2007-04-01T14:45:59 | null | Sure are. We're melding ec2 instances to s3 as an actual filesystem.<p>-Steve
fooworks.com
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7,997 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-01T14:54:15 | null | TiSP is obviously a joke, but I thought Gmail Paper (<a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html),">http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html),</a> also "announced" today, is better, and more like the style of their prior April Fool jokes: it's subtle enough to get some people thinking it <i>might</i> be true.
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7,998 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-01T15:02:51 | null | I hope they will be happy with older applicants given the "8-12+ years lisp/arc experience" requirement. Do you know anyone who has learned lisp (or any functional language) at a young age? | null | null | 7,993 | 7,993 | null | [
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7,999 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-01T15:03:35 | null | The real lesson here is that there's no such thing as an "off the record" remark any more.<p>Even in the most informal of gatherings, there is someone blogging or video recording (Justin) everything said.<p>It's probably going to lead to more canned/cliched talk in the future. | null | null | 7,763 | 7,763 | null | null | null | null |
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