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8,500 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-03T11:47:27 | Examining Motivations: Hollywood and Startups | null | http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/02/07/examining-motivations-hollywood-and-startups/ | 1 | null | 8,500 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,501 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T11:50:49 | null | I'd take a look at:<p>TurboGears <a href="http://www.turbogears.org">http://www.turbogears.org</a>
SQLAlchemy <a href="http://www.sqlalchemy.org/">http://www.sqlalchemy.org/</a>
Elixir <a href="http://elixir.ematia.de/">http://elixir.ematia.de/</a>
Genshi <a href="http://genshi.edgewall.org/">http://genshi.edgewall.org/</a>
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8,502 | story | bootload | 2007-04-03T11:53:23 | VCs Aim to Out-Angel the Angels | null | http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070402_747117.htm | 11 | null | 8,502 | 4 | [
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8,503 | story | volida | 2007-04-03T12:17:29 | The start-up project | null | http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=332245011 | 5 | null | 8,503 | 2 | [
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8,504 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-03T12:31:10 | null | I doubt there is any problem difficulty too hard for a startup. A lot of risks might have to be taken, though. | null | null | 7,532 | 6,668 | null | null | null | null |
8,505 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-03T12:38:00 | null | Intriguing article. If VCs and angels start competing with each other, there must be a decent-sized market of startups with considerable potential. As if the funders are sellers and the founders are buyers. More power to the little guys with big aspirations! | null | null | 8,502 | 8,502 | null | [
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8,506 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-03T13:12:56 | null | <i>'... If VCs and angels start competing with each other, there must be a decent-sized market of startups with considerable potential ...'</i><p>My take is the market is re-adjusting. YC has now shown that the cost to get startups to market is low and therefore the average & not so average VC's who want to give more money out than startups need, have begun to adapt giving less. [0] I'm seeing adaption in the developers tool market as well. [1] Big business is catching up.<p><i>'... More power to the little guys with big aspirations! ...'</i><p>It demonstrates that the money bit is not the real stumbling block.<p>Reference<p>[0] pg, 'The Venture Capital Squeeze'<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html">http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html</a><p>[1] bootload, 'Delphi on Rails?'<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=8494">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=8494</a><p> | null | null | 8,505 | 8,502 | null | null | null | null |
8,507 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T13:13:38 | What will VCs fund next? (interview with Bain VC) | null | http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/erp/article.php/3669106 | 1 | null | 8,507 | 1 | [
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8,508 | story | jcct11 | 2007-04-03T13:24:08 | How To Create a Successful Web 2.0 Company | null | http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2005/10/10_steps_to_a_h.html | 5 | null | 8,508 | 3 | [
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8,509 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-03T13:46:43 | null | No, it is still not fixed.
Double quotes is fixed, not single quotes. | null | null | 2,609 | 2,593 | null | null | null | null |
8,510 | story | veritas | 2007-04-03T13:49:49 | Seth's Blog: NOBS, the end of the MBA | null | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/nobs_the_end_of.html | 18 | null | 8,510 | 16 | [
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8,511 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-03T13:55:17 | null | Extremely ballsy. Refreshing to see someone willing to throw it all out and start over right when they've seemingly reached the top. | null | null | 8,407 | 8,407 | null | [
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8,512 | comment | johnm | 2007-04-03T14:00:11 | null | I'm confused. That doesn't sound very "high-level". No offense but that sounds like the usual-level of frameworkism. I.e., by high-level it sounded like you're looking for something much more domain specific.<p>ObUseful: The separation between view, model, and controller is a driver of simplicity. Check out: <a href="http://stringtemplate.org/">http://stringtemplate.org/</a> | null | null | 8,454 | 8,411 | null | null | null | null |
8,513 | comment | brlewis | 2007-04-03T14:01:10 | null | I simply wrote, "I do not consider software patentable."<p><a href="http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html">http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html</a>
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8,514 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-03T14:02:29 | null | I have to admit that this is one of my favorite subjects. I am by no means smarter than the average person out there but I've done fairly well without traditional schooling. It's been part luck and tenacity on my part. I make a decent salary and am confident that I will have my own company in the near future. I'm hopeful that YC will help me with that. I can't tell you how impatient I am to hear back!<p>I have a lot of respect for people who get college degrees. I think it says a lot about their intelligence and their ability to focus. What I can't stand however are companies that won't even look at a candidate if they don't have a degree. They miss out on truly great people. Having a degree means something, yes, but it doesn't preclude the candidate being great. <p>I have to rely on persistence and connections to get work. In a way, it sucks but it's also a satisfying challenge. <p>When the day comes that I have to interview and hire people I will not take their degree into consideration. I'll use YC's approach and hire them for who they are, what kind of ideas they have and my instincts about what kind of work they can do.<p><p>
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8,515 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T14:13:20 | null | His quote about what they're looking for first dealth with a strong team that could change plans as necessary, and then this, about going after larger markets:<p>"You also need a large market potential, so the area that you are going after has to be worth going after. There are a lot of businesses out there that are niche businesses that make wonderful companies, but relatively small companies and not the types that require venture capital investment."<p> | null | null | 8,507 | 8,507 | null | null | null | null |
8,516 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-03T14:27:58 | null | If you're an average American watching 4 hours of TV a day just swap that time for your startup and you'll be halfway there. After a month of part time work you'll be able to tell if you should go full time or not.<p>I'd rather be fully immersed in whatever I'm working and make great rice and beans. | null | null | 1,758 | 1,758 | null | null | null | null |
8,517 | comment | MMax | 2007-04-03T14:30:45 | null | Will, you've just told me my thoughts :) I absolutelly agree with that. A family is a powerful incentive to becoming the best one. | null | null | 7,239 | 6,668 | null | null | null | null |
8,518 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-03T14:34:21 | null | Can anyone make me a list of 6 microsoft powered sites and one ruby on rails site? This is too silly to have so many points. | null | null | 1,274 | 1,274 | null | null | null | null |
8,519 | comment | jsjenkins168 | 2007-04-03T14:35:47 | null | This is huge publicity. I am shocked so much has happened so fast for Justin.tv.<p>Does anyone know much about the hardware they are using? I know Justin carries a backpack everywhere, which I assume contains a laptop with a wireless broadband card. Does anyone know what type of wireless network they use? They stream a fairly high quality video image even when completely mobile.
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8,520 | comment | rms | 2007-04-03T14:37:47 | null | How about holding "free computer lessons" at a community center? The lessons are in using the product in question to easily perform useful tasks. | null | null | 8,485 | 8,145 | null | null | null | null |
8,521 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-03T14:42:10 | null | Two years of Stanford business school - $150K + lost income (<a href="http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/financialaid/budget.html).">http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/financialaid/budget.html).</a><p>Filing fee to incorporate in Delaware - $89. | null | null | 8,510 | 8,510 | null | [
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8,522 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-03T14:42:54 | An example of how shifting your prospect's buying criteria can boost your sales | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/46/78/ | 1 | null | 8,522 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,523 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-03T14:43:52 | null | This seems dangerous. If the entrepreneur takes VC money before having a working product and user base, then they have no leverage to negotiate a good terms sheet. Better I think to take a seed round and angel round first even if one can go straight to VC. The 15-20% equity you give up in the first two rounds will at least buy some powerful allies if done strategically, in addition the leverage of a concept you have had time to validate. [test2] | null | null | 8,502 | 8,502 | null | null | null | null |
8,524 | story | entrepreneur | 2007-04-03T14:51:24 | Your Niche Website is a Gold Mine for Info Marketing Data | null | http://mindfulentrepreneur.com/blog/2007/04/03/your-niche-website-is-a-gold-mine-for-info-marketing-data/ | 2 | null | 8,524 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,525 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T14:53:25 | The State of Technorati (still the most used blog search engine) | null | http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000492.html | 3 | null | 8,525 | 6 | [
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8,526 | comment | johnm | 2007-04-03T15:01:00 | null | Josh is brilliant. If you ever get a chance to talk or work with him be prepared to drink from a firehose. | null | null | 8,468 | 8,468 | null | null | null | null |
8,527 | comment | sri | 2007-04-03T15:19:11 | null | I saw it on NBC. The attitude of the anchor was "Oh, you are on camera 24/7 -- that's crazy -- and people are actually watching it -- you go to the bathroom, shower on camera -- that's crazy."<p>And the always cheap "You're probably getting more dates now..." and at the end, "Keep your shirt on, buddy" (in a mocking way).<p>It was pretty silly.
I thought Justin could've answered a little better -- he should have compared Justin.tv to the reality TV shows. When Survivor (the 1st big reality TV show) came out, it was crazy popular and of course the pundits were like, "Its all a fad...", blah, blah, blah. But of course, they were all wrong.<p>Like that, Justin should have marketed Justin.tv as the next generation in Reality TV, which couldn't happen on TV because of technology constraints -- it could only happen on the Net. And compare himself to the creator of Survivor, to give the public an image of the pioneer that he is and what he could accomplish....<p>just my (cents 2)
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8,528 | comment | pg | 2007-04-03T15:21:10 | null | But our goal is to hook people up with investors, and investors are eager to invest in anything promising. Most great hackers can make something promising enough to interest investors in 3 months, esp. with our advice about how to do it. | null | null | 8,467 | 8,403 | null | null | null | null |
8,529 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-03T15:22:24 | null | I think the Where's The Fire is very poorly named. Whenever I see the WTF acronym I get so confused. | null | null | 8,525 | 8,525 | null | [
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8,530 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T15:25:48 | null | Yeah I agree. We all know it means "Worse than Failure". <a href="http://worsethanfailure.com/Default.aspx">http://worsethanfailure.com/Default.aspx</a> (cop out alert)
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8,531 | story | sri | 2007-04-03T15:26:03 | Startup Idea: Startup Law | null | 1 | null | 8,531 | 3 | [
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8,532 | comment | sri | 2007-04-03T15:26:10 | null | Startup Law
Generates Terms of Service, Privacy Policy.
I know nothing about this area,
so this might be a really dumb idea.<p>If that doesn't work, at least a O'Reilly
book that talks about these issues...<p>What do you guys think?
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8,533 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-03T15:30:08 | Podcast Feed of YCombinator Startup Schools 2005-Present | null | http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ycombinator-StartupSchool | 4 | null | 8,533 | 4 | [
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8,534 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-03T15:30:10 | null | If I haven't mentioned it here already I'll say it now. That site is a waste of time. Did you see the article Jeff Atwood posted there a few weeks ago? There's something about the community that has sprung up there that is so negative and cliquish (is that a word?). Really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.<p><a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000824.html">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000824.html</a><p> | null | null | 8,530 | 8,525 | null | [
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8,535 | story | BillHill | 2007-04-03T15:32:20 | What a slogan should be | null | http://www.collaborati.org/kevins/weblog/11.html | 1 | null | 8,535 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,536 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-03T15:34:41 | null | This podcast contains all the published podcasts from the last 3 years of Startup School. Talks from 2005 and 2006 are linked to the official recordings and those from 2007 are linked to my lower quality recordings until the official ones are released.<p>If you were not there this year and are short on time - I'd recommend listening to Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, and Greg McAdoo first. | null | null | 8,533 | 8,533 | null | [
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8,537 | story | kevinxray | 2007-04-03T15:35:48 | The worlds best system to get more referrals | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/strategic-marketing/3875259-1.html | 1 | null | 8,537 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,538 | story | mstefff | 2007-04-03T15:36:35 | Tweako Announces Revenue Sharing, Submission Buttons, and More | null | http://www.tweako.com/blog/tweako_announces_revenue_sharing_and_more | 1 | null | 8,538 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,539 | comment | acgourley | 2007-04-03T15:38:59 | null | Do these kinds of articles irk anyone else? <p>"So how are you going to run www.bullshitr.com?"<p>"I dunno, but I was thinking of making a template Web 2.0 Company."<p>"Really? I heard about those in Bussiness Week!"<p>"Yeah, I think I'll start by following these over generalized and weakly supported tips I read on a blog."<p>
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8,540 | comment | johnm | 2007-04-03T15:39:34 | null | Here's a fun one for a personal trainer: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaline/332138063/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaline/332138063/</a> | null | null | 7,618 | 7,618 | null | null | null | null |
8,541 | comment | pg | 2007-04-03T15:41:05 | null | Halfway through this I noticed the phrase "new economy" and thought <i>what?</i> Then I checked the top and noticed it was written 7 years ago. | null | null | 8,510 | 8,510 | null | null | null | null |
8,542 | comment | pg | 2007-04-03T15:43:15 | null | The article's a list of (mostly) necessary rather than sufficient conditions. But even that is rare enough. | null | null | 8,539 | 8,508 | null | [
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8,543 | story | kevinxray | 2007-04-03T15:44:40 | The Biggest Reason Small Businesses Fail | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/strategic-marketing/3875185-1.html | 1 | null | 8,543 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,544 | story | kevinxray | 2007-04-03T15:45:41 | Customer Service IS a Profit Center | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/strategic-marketing/3875177-1.html | 1 | null | 8,544 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,545 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-03T15:45:55 | null | "but I did get one particularly desperate/angry note from a validation-seeking student last week."<p>Don't you wish you could pay ten bucks a month to have read only access to Seth's inbox? That would be so much more fun than Reddit / Digg. Plus it could actually be feasible if you limited it to only messages coming from the mailto link on his blog. :-) | null | null | 8,510 | 8,510 | null | null | null | null |
8,546 | story | kevinxray | 2007-04-03T15:47:15 | Be Careful What You Brag About | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/strategic-marketing/3875212-1.html | 1 | null | 8,546 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,547 | comment | imp | 2007-04-03T15:47:53 | null | I made my first AJAX app with PHP/Javascript and a little help from Prototype/Scriptaculous for effects. Didn't have any major problems putting it together. I'm learning Rails now, and it seems incredible. It really does take most of the tedious work out of programming. I haven't had any experience with other frameworks though, so others might be just as good.<p>My advice is to spend a week on each of them and decide for yourself. Even if you you don't like them, it'll be a good learning experience. I'm tackling Django next... | null | null | 8,413 | 8,411 | null | null | null | null |
8,548 | story | kevinxray | 2007-04-03T15:49:08 | Quick Customers or Quality Customers. You Choose | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/strategic-marketing/3875203-1.html | 1 | null | 8,548 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,549 | comment | jadams | 2007-04-03T15:54:11 | null | I have a lot of respect for people who get college degrees.<p>An MBA is barely a college degree. Compare how much you learn in engineering, or the sciences, to what you learn in an MBA. It's all hype except the networking and resume-filtering.<p>I keep trying to convince my MBA friends to drop out and start something, but it seems to attract non-entrepreneurial people. | null | null | 8,514 | 8,510 | null | null | null | null |
8,550 | comment | acgourley | 2007-04-03T15:58:45 | null | Most of the tips are actually good advice that has been supported or demonstrated hundreds of times already. My annoyance stems from something else I can't quite put my finger on.<p>Maybe it's this tendency to say all new web companies need to follow a strict template, maybe it's that anyone who needed this list isn't going to be successful running that kind of company. <p>Then again, it might be good some of this advice is getting parroted around, so that less hip investors don't give you odd looks when you say you're not charging for your service. | null | null | 8,542 | 8,508 | null | null | null | null |
8,551 | comment | jadams | 2007-04-03T16:02:09 | null | Wow, TV is stupid. | null | null | 8,396 | 8,396 | null | null | null | null |
8,552 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-03T16:03:34 | Google jumps into TV bed with Dish Network | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/04/03/google-extends-into-tv-signs-deal-with-dish-network/ | 2 | null | 8,552 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,553 | story | ACSparks | 2007-04-03T16:16:47 | The Right Reasons to Be an Entrepreneur | null | http://lowbudgetstartup.com/2007/03/08/rule-1-know-thy-self/ | 1 | null | 8,553 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,554 | comment | entelarust | 2007-04-03T16:29:26 | null | I plan on going to this | null | null | 8,503 | 8,503 | null | null | null | null |
8,555 | story | danw | 2007-04-03T16:33:29 | TwitHot: The hottest links on twitter (my latest web app, feedback appreciated) | null | http://twithot.com/ | 4 | null | 8,555 | 10 | [
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8,556 | comment | run4yourlives | 2007-04-03T16:36:15 | null | I think your point is valid, but I'm not seeing the instance where a duplicate rows couldn't easily be identified as being exactly that. <p>I suppose in a fully normalized world of enterprise db architecture this could be an issue, but most real world applications aren't built that way.<p>In reality, speed is key, models are simple and normalized data is usually the bottleneck, and as such, de-normalized PDQ.<p>I know the theory is whack and risks problems, but reality pays the bills in most cases, so it wins. | null | null | 8,259 | 8,236 | null | null | null | null |
8,557 | comment | run4yourlives | 2007-04-03T16:39:50 | null | Feedback (MO, please take with a grain of salt): Anything that enables twitter in any fashion should be avoided like the plague.<p>That being said your app might have potential. Right now it's just a source of information... maybe add some voting or comments to keep people on your site a little longer. | null | null | 8,555 | 8,555 | null | [
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8,558 | story | herdrick | 2007-04-03T16:43:49 | Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft in bidding war for DoubleClick: "...[they] need [to] obtain more user information" | null | http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070403_443471.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily | 3 | null | 8,558 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,559 | story | kevinxray | 2007-04-03T16:44:03 | Training, Learning, or Performance | null | http://mikebeitler.blogspot.com/2006/07/training-learning-or-performance.html | 1 | null | 8,559 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,560 | story | kevinxray | 2007-04-03T16:45:32 | It's a short lesson, but a great reminder... | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/134/ | 2 | null | 8,560 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,561 | story | ooglega | 2007-04-03T16:47:36 | spam | null | http://subvertandprofit.com | 7 | null | 8,561 | -1 | null | null | true |
8,562 | comment | richcollins | 2007-04-03T16:51:16 | null | This assumes that the newly established avenues for marketing will keep their toe hold. They compete for attention as much as the startups do and there will be turnover there as well. <p>The key will be finding where attention is being focused at any given time (YNews seems to be picking up) and target your efforts there. | null | null | 8,465 | 8,465 | null | null | null | null |
8,563 | story | Terhorst | 2007-04-03T16:53:35 | Lisp is for Entrepreneurs | null | http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060118.html | 18 | null | 8,563 | 15 | [
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8,564 | story | jcct11 | 2007-04-03T16:54:04 | How To NOT Write A Business Plan | null | http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-not-write-business-plan.html | 12 | null | 8,564 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,565 | comment | orlick | 2007-04-03T16:55:27 | null | Interesting idea. Rather then taking on all of the risk (and reward) by doing a startup that risk would be spread across all of the employees in the organization. Sounds like the organization would exist to provide "startup insurance". <p> | null | null | 8,403 | 8,403 | null | null | null | null |
8,566 | story | Terhorst | 2007-04-03T16:56:55 | Beating the Averages | null | http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html | 3 | null | 8,566 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,567 | comment | danw | 2007-04-03T16:58:38 | null | Thanks for the feedback. <p>The idea was to see if I could avoid the problems of digg et all by not having votes/comments. Instead it listens passively to twitters public timeline. <p>A 'vote' is cast every time a url is mentioned in a twitter and a 'comment' is what is said around the url in the twitter message. I'll add 'comments' soon. | null | null | 8,557 | 8,555 | null | [
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8,568 | story | far33d | 2007-04-03T17:02:59 | Ask Pud about startups. | null | http://www.pud.com/2007/04/startup.html | 2 | null | 8,568 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,569 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-03T17:17:08 | null | You might make your list easier to read by not displaying the full url. Try dropping the <a href="http://">http://</a> prefix and query string data. Just display the domain and the page title. Here's what I mean:<p>#1 www.youtube.com (YouTube - Alanis Morrisette "M Humps" video)<p>#2 triqqr.de/ (triQQr)<p>#3 www.digg.com (Digg - Using Apple's 24 yr old Lisa for Real Work)<p>#4 news.bbc.co.uk (BBC NEWS | UK | England | Merseyside | Relative Charged over Ellie death)<p>I think you'll increase readibility by using that kind of format. That said, I think it's a good idea. What kind of interest are you getting?<p> | null | null | 8,555 | 8,555 | null | [
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8,570 | comment | abossy | 2007-04-03T17:20:23 | null | Actually going out and changing the world - priceless.<p>There are some things money can't buy... for everything else, there's YCombinator. :) | null | null | 8,521 | 8,510 | null | [
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8,571 | story | imp | 2007-04-03T17:21:06 | Amazon Context Links: Text-embedded PPA advertising | null | http://affiliate-blog.amazon.com/2007/03/context_links_b.html | 1 | null | 8,571 | 1 | [
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8,572 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-04-03T17:24:38 | null | Yeah, I frakking LOVE Mako (and to a lesser extent, Myghty).<p>You may be interested to know that bittorrent.com runs on Myghty. It's definitely scalable. | null | null | 8,489 | 8,411 | null | [
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8,573 | comment | abossy | 2007-04-03T17:35:23 | null | "The paradox, of course, is that the best people aren't prepared to leave their life behind for two years. They're in a hurry."<p>This paragraph really spoke to me. Does anybody else feel this way? I am a 3rd-yr. undergrad, and I'm itching to finish school and start a company. <p>I study Computer Science, and I love it, and I would love to continue studying it in graduate school. I could apply for a PhD, but then I would be putting my life off for another 4-7 yrs. I could apply for a Master's in C.S., but then I would be putting my life of for another 2 years.<p>I feel that school sometimes creates a disillusioned sense of learning among students. I have to constantly remind myself that I could learn anything I've learned in school on my own time, and that I can continue to do so even after I graduate, and even after I retire.<p>This isn't true of a lot of people. School certainly offers a strong sense of competition, along with access to bright students and accomplished faculty. I feel like each semester is an orgy of learning, if you will, in which I am focused and determined to intensely work and succeed. But during winter and summer breaks, there is not much difference...<p>I love to learn and would love to continue school, but in a sense, it restricts you to its curriculum. Perhaps my interests are simply more business-oriented. Perhaps I am afraid to face up to the possible rejection of graduate school. Regardless, I don't want to feel like I am putting of my life any longer.<p>Anybody else with me? | null | null | 8,510 | 8,510 | null | null | null | null |
8,574 | comment | far33d | 2007-04-03T17:45:17 | null | 5%? Really? There's a huge class of young entrepreneurs, who have limited financial requirements (notice, I'm not using the word desires), and slightly older hackers who have greater requirements (car/house/etc) but probably have worked long enough to supplement the YC income with their own stock options, savings, etc. <p>If you really want to build something new and interesting, you should be willing to make financial sacrifices to make it happen. If you're comfortable, you probably won't be as hungry.
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8,575 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-03T17:49:38 | null | Evil Gambling Monster looks like an opportunity to show off that you were paying attention in your Algorithms class. Do an A-star search, and for your h heuristic, use dynamic programming to determine the maximum possible yield of remaining at your current location for the rest of the 30 days. | null | null | 8,365 | 8,365 | null | null | null | null |
8,576 | comment | far33d | 2007-04-03T17:49:43 | null | This package is really interesting. I originally was drawn to django for a few reasons: it was really well documented, it had a good use history, is all python, and was basically full-stack and took care of the annoyances on the front end (templates) and back end (database). <p>But this suite of tools (pylons + mako + others) seem more flexible.. thanks for the advice. <p>I think I'll still investigate rails, but I have reservations. | null | null | 8,489 | 8,411 | null | null | null | null |
8,577 | story | domp | 2007-04-03T17:52:47 | ClickTale: Another user tracking service launches "Heatmaps" | null | http://mashable.com/2007/04/03/clicktale/ | 3 | null | 8,577 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,578 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-03T18:05:51 | null | Damnit! He stole my idea!<p>When I was in undergrad, I had a bunch of conversations with my friends about just why we were in college. It all came down to three things:<p>1. We wanted to show potential employers that we were smart enough to get into an elite private college.<p>2. We wanted to show potential employers that we were docile and persistent enough to continue attending said elite private college, even though we had accomplished #1.<p>3. We wanted to get to know lots of other people who were willing to pay $40K/year for the privilege of #1 and #2.<p>Of course, once you get out in the working world and actually get involved in hiring decisions, you quickly learn that there's not <i>that much</i> difference in the quality of education at various universities. Harvard's classroom instruction is not much better than any other top-tier college, and may actually be worse. MIT's is probably better, but it's nothing that a couple of guys from UVA (ahem, Reddit) can't pick up in their spare time.<p>Instead, you look at the Education section on a resume because people have already done the hard work for you. Someone at Harvard painstakingly went through 18 years of that candidate's life and decided that they were good enough for Harvard. I've got code to write: I don't have time to spend digging through a candidate's background. If it's good enough for Harvard, it's good enough for me.<p>So, the business idea I came up with was a simple certification program. We'd look at all your test scores, administer a few additional tests, have you complete a project or two, talk to previous people you've worked with, and generally decide if you're worthy or not. We'd set the bar high enough that the average Harvard or MIT grad would fail. And if you pass, we give you a college degree - all without having to put up with the bullshit aspects, like going to classes or forking over a couple hundred dollars. You're responsible for your own education, we just say whether you've educated yourself.<p>I wonder if I should've put this down under "other ideas" on my yCombinator app. | null | null | 8,510 | 8,510 | null | [
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8,579 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-03T18:08:11 | Is Google too powerful? | null | http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_15/b4029001.htm | 4 | null | 8,579 | 1 | [
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8,580 | comment | ntoshev | 2007-04-03T18:14:04 | null | I have no idea what their reasons are, but probably the biggest value for them will be the attention they get. | null | null | 8,410 | 8,409 | null | null | null | null |
8,581 | story | domp | 2007-04-03T18:15:41 | Iminlikewithyou overview on Business 2.0 | null | http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/03/six_steps_to_da.html#more | 5 | null | 8,581 | 1 | [
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8,582 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T18:27:39 | null | Very cool post. I don't think this is limited to Lisp though. I bet that if a big company acquired a company whose product was written in Python/Ruby/etc then they'd consider rewriting into C# or Java. And they'd have the same issues that Yahoo and Sony had, as expressed in this article.<p> | null | null | 8,563 | 8,563 | null | null | null | null |
8,583 | comment | shsung | 2007-04-03T18:40:12 | null | What an angry letter. They upped the quality of the music and charged a little more for it, there's nothing wrong with that. They charge what they think the market is willing to bear, not what it might be "truly worth." A Louis Vuitton bag costs a whole lot less to make than to sell, but prices will never go down, because that's what people are willing to pay. <p>If others join in to compete in the DRMless music wave, then at best we can hope it will drive the price down. That's competition at its best, an effort to capture the market by constantly producing something better OR cheaper (and not necessarily both). At the very least, you're getting something better. | null | null | 8,278 | 8,278 | null | null | null | null |
8,584 | comment | keven | 2007-04-03T18:42:29 | null | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetargon/127984254/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetargon/127984254/</a> | null | null | 8,482 | 8,375 | null | [
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8,585 | comment | randallsquared | 2007-04-03T18:45:17 | null | While I don't consider <i>anything</i> patentable, I just put "No" on the application. | null | null | 8,513 | 8,293 | null | null | null | null |
8,586 | comment | floozyspeak | 2007-04-03T18:49:13 | null | I'd like to see sortable views. Full links vs domains. I found myself filtering the links trying to spot new domains which would lead me to new things i haven't seen - kinda like how i got to emilys hub to just see what new 2.0s have popped up. <p>It'd be interesting a tag cloud view or word frequency count, kinda like that other site i saw where you can read whats on peoples minds in twitter the past min, hour, day etc. <p>I like the idea of at a glance views of twitter data since it so fleeting.
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8,587 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T18:49:59 | null | Oh it's definitely got the "we're the only smart guys here" feeling. It can be funny for a story or two, but I do get tired of the negativity.<p>What might be cooler is always suggesting another way of doing things. Maybe using the case study approach. Here's what went wrong, and here's what we're going to do to fix it. That'd be a cool site.
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8,588 | story | keven | 2007-04-03T18:55:18 | Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 | null | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3014637678488153340 | 1 | null | 8,588 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,589 | story | domp | 2007-04-03T19:06:24 | StumbleUpon has a new look. Reminds me of iLike | null | http://mashable.com/2007/04/03/stumbleupon-design/ | 1 | null | 8,589 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,590 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-03T19:21:53 | Startup Meme ComScore Files for IPO | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/03/comscore-files-for-ipo/ | 1 | null | 8,590 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,591 | story | jcwentz | 2007-04-03T19:35:09 | Comscore Files For IPO: Ajax Is A 'Risk Factor' | null | http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/31383 | 2 | null | 8,591 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,592 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T19:39:55 | Angel groups optimistic about 2007 | null | http://www.sys-con.com/read/356817.htm | 1 | null | 8,592 | 5 | [
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8,593 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-03T19:42:27 | null | Interesting stats:<p>1) 7.4--the average # of investments per angel group<p>2) $242k--the average amount for a single round of financing
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8,594 | story | danw | 2007-04-03T19:46:50 | 8 Sneaky, Clever, and Downright Dirty Ways To Quit Your Job | null | http://mindpetals.com/blog/2007/04/8-sneaky-clever-and-downright-dirty-ways-to-quit-your-job/ | 2 | null | 8,594 | 3 | [
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8,595 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-03T19:47:00 | Pingdom Says Google Sucks When It Comes to Staying Live | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/03/pingdom-says-google-sucks-when-it-comes-to-staying-live/ | 1 | null | 8,595 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,596 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-03T20:00:36 | null | That's pretty interesting. Thanks for posting a link! Now if I can find a way to actually FIND some angel investors - I'd feel so much better!<p> | null | null | 8,593 | 8,592 | null | null | null | null |
8,597 | comment | vo0do0 | 2007-04-03T20:11:11 | null | Dude, I know they have beach volley arenas on MV. Maybe they're looking for people that know how to play it.<p>I think having a cool dog helps to get there too :)<p>Java, C, perl, php, enginnering skills? What are they for on google?<p>BTW to work with GWT is more about solving puzzles than knowning about programming languages and stuff.<p>At the very end, doesn't matter what they are looking for. I've a buddy working on Google that learned everything he does there. He has a degree on marketing and works on adwords support team.
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8,598 | comment | pg | 2007-04-03T20:13:22 | null | In our experience, these official angel groups are a waste of time. They don't get technology, and they're very slow and bureaucratic.<p>Real angels often form a syndicate to invest in a startup. That kind of one-time group is ok, of course. | null | null | 8,592 | 8,592 | null | [
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8,599 | comment | vo0do0 | 2007-04-03T20:14:49 | null | I'd say, XP (extreme programming) is for Entrepreneurs.
Not only for coders, for everyone that needs speed and quality that are variables on opposite sides of the equation. | null | null | 8,563 | 8,563 | null | null | null | null |
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