skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can remember, Flex1 was a "server". This (I suppose)was an excuse for the outrageous price. Users would upload their MXML and AS files, then the server would spit out '.swf' files to client requests. A compiled swf was cached until new MXML or AS files were uploaded. It was a "one licence" per company approach, rather than one licence per developer one.
My theory, being google and all, there's actually a distributed cluster of her.
Ask YC: When should you incorporate?
I've been working with a few friends from college on a web startup and we actually have a few things almost ready for launch, but we've put off incorporating and registering ourselves as a real company. Should we get that done now or can we afford to wait?

We're a bit low on money and we might not be able to afford all of the fees and any potential legal services we might have to get to get it all right.

What are the implications of not incorporating immediately?
This is just so clever - instant JavaScript comment/un-comment
If I could propose a new Microsoft motto: "It's gonna be awesome, trust us."

I normally hate to make reductionist analogies, but my product sense is tingling and I'm thinking this might be to Google Sky what the Zune was to iPod. Microsoft sees something they wish that they'd thought of, and they're coming to market late.

Maybe this time, though, they won't bring a Zune to an iPod fight. Here's hoping, since it sounds like it's got the POTENTIAL to be a cool product.
Go to a place with easy exams, cool course projects, and smart people.
Might wanna keep an eye on Reble.fm
Inspiration Overload: 100 CSS Galleries You Need to Check Out
Whether you’re suffering from designer’s block, or just want to see what your competition is up to, design galleries are an excellent tool. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of them available, and this article has found 100 of the best.
Build one to throw away as it were
China's stockmarkets have been sliding for months
Needed: German translation services
Hi, I need to get a website translated from English to German. Can anyone here do this or has anyone used a translation firm they recommend?
The downmods are misplaced. You're absolutely right mathwise here, you're just missing a heretofore unspoken detail.

The assumption is that in an angel or VC round you'll create new shares for the investor to own. If there were no new shares, pre-money valuation would always equal post-money valuation (you're just selling shares) and all of your explanation would be fine.
You're right, in that I cannot find anyone claiming the significantly lower figure for CS admissions in particular. Even at 10%, it is among the most competitive programs in the country. Both Williams and Amherst, the top two liberal arts colleges in the US, have over 15% admissions, while Yale and Harvard come in usually between 8% and 10%.

On a side note, I have some doubt that the admissions process is truly blind to your stated major of interest. These schools do have a desire to maintain balance between their programs.
http://babelfish.altavista.com will get you started.
RSS to JSON Convertor
Nah, I need to pay someone money to get a fluent sounding translation.
FilePhile is one.

http://www.filephile.net/
Gordon Moore (Intel) and Ed Oates (Oracle) both attended SJSU at some point in their careers. I think they turned out ok...
How to ensure your startup will fail
Using Mind Mapping Data To Drive Your Software Application
FreeBSD has domU support. You can have all the FreeBSD guests you want. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vi...
Kluster Launches at TED: A New Product in 72 Hours
Can we share him? Please. Pretty please.
Look at it this way: the first million was probably almost enough to cover her student loans.
Nerd fight? EC2 isn’t 50% slower
EE is also a good choice.
Ballmer is not an entrepreneur. He was an employee and never founded a startup.
http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/2008/02/20/adobe-air-on-l...
Don't even know what or who Princess Bride is...

Ignorance is bliss.
location, location, location: where are all the startup hubs?

anywhere close to the valley, boston/cambridge, austin, seattle, nyc.
All Peers (http://www.allpeers.com/) is probably the FF extension you're thinking about.
Ask YC: How would you support the iPhone?
If you decide iPhone support for your new web app is important, would you:

a) Rely on the built-in Safari browser with its double taps and pinch

b) Code an iPhone optimised layout to render in Safari

c) Write a standalone iPhone app using the SDK (likely to be released on 6th of March)
This article is fluff. Insider fluff as Matt Maroon got funded by YC, but fluff nonetheless.
Didn't we just spend the last N+1 years desperately trying to avoid client-side downloads and installs? Seriously though, maybe in a few years, if and when the runtime comes pre-installed in most OSs/browsers (or something similar).
This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize
MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts
I am, or at least I would be if I could find some programmers. Being out of the UK probably isn't much help to you either. As for examples, most tend to be in the drug discovery/modelling area because industry will pay for that. I think there is huge potential for targeting other areas as well as industry. Some of the really good stuff is academically based, which means it just whimpers along as the funding comes in from grants; eventually, most of these projects just die because they aren't promoted and/or developed with a business mindset.
Kills me how fast WIRED postings make it in. We start discussing articles before I even get to read them in the real magazine :(
Apple event on March 6th to reveal iPhone SDK
SpiderOak http://spideroak.com isn't specifically a filesharing system, but you can share your backed up files.
Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac number is a big change from what it would have been five years ago.

(http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html)

The percentage of Mac-using Y Combinator founders appears to be even higher. Actually the majority, I think.
How could I say that attending SJSU precludes one from success? I'm saying if one could attend either SJSU or UCSC that SJSU may not be the best choice generally even though SJSU is closer to silicon valley.
You mean "P2P client".
Do not pick San Diego. I have lived in the valley and in San Diego, and it is a cultural wasteland that will drive all your best potential hires away to other parts of the world. It sure drove me away, to Tokyo.
Great library of JavaScript and Ajax-related extensions
Has anyone out there run FreeBSD on EC2?
Taking Massive Distributed Computing to the Common Man
Use of Google for Automated Hacker Data Mining Triggers Fears
Babelfish is good to translate usual words. But it is poor to translate sentences.
All the speaches of his I've seen are pretty much the same thing. Wish he would come up with something new.
Microsoft 2008 launch happens, heroically (and pop babel)
How to serve the Y generation?
How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008
by "supporting" other languages they mean they can compile the interpreter's c/c++ source code using their LLVM->actionscript bridge (http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1095) they came up with and then run the script on top of that actionscriptified interpreter.

which, even for people like me who drink the interpreted-languages-are-fast-enough koolaid, seems like a lot of levels of indirection :) i think the CLR approach seems a little more straightforward: "native" interpreters that compile e.g. python->the CLR IL (instead of python->interpreter c source->llvm->actionscript).

and i doubt you could just take e.g. the python interpreter and throw it into a SWF -- certainly pieces of the interpreter along with C modules that interact with the filesystem, etc. would need to be tweaked to deal with the AIR runtime.

cool idea though, and they even got quake 1 (!) running in a SWF (see the video below in this thread... wild stuff)
http://www.pando.com/
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I just tried Heap, it's pretty good, also I installed sugar on my testing machine, not as good as heap, IMO.
depends of what you are doing? do you expect to get sued from day one? check out legalzoom.com if you need to save money on registering the company
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Defining High, Mid and Low-Level Languages
Google Sites - spoiled by usability issues
I would say that Google is trying to ensure the deal happens.

Microsoft + Yahoo = slow frankenstein of a monster

Google will be more nimble against such a threat. It's already nimble against Microsoft and Yahoo as separate entities.
As a Berkeley grad, it pains me to say this, but Stanford is almost certainly your best bet. It's great academically, and it seems to understand how to encourage students to get involved in startups. In the startup world, it's Stanford and everyone else.

That said, "everyone else" still has some excellent options. MIT, Harvard,... yeah, all good options. But don't rule out the big public research universities. Berkeley and Illinois grads (among many others) have produced a lot of great startups - great by almost any measure (except that damn university to the south ;) )
Part of it is that she has an opportunity to explore this way of thinking. What happened around age 20 when she decided to give up with the neurotypical way of vocalizing? An older brother or sister that never veers far from neurotypical would begin the influence on you with, for example: "what? you don't have a cell phone? thats not normal!"
Spolsky on innovation
I really like this line

"The combination of "seems impossible" and "strong network effects" is about as close as you can get to the magic formula for incredible, sustainable success, as with eBay, Wikipedia, and Google."
Stanford by far. Then MIT/Harvard. Everywhere else is roughly in the same magnitude.

For undergrad, getting a business degree is pretty irrelevant to start ups. Get a technical degree, such as CS. Learn about start ups by evaluating different opportunities, reading case studies and books like "founders at work."

You can test out ideas in your free time during the semester and winter break. It is important to get relevant internships during the summer.
In Pakistan vs. YouTube, it's not all about technology
It depends on your app
Oh, man, what a bummer. They had this really cool platform (albeit one that needed a lot of work) for building lightweight collaborative apps that was totally unlike anything else out there... now they've just got another wiki/widget platform.

I see Joe and Graham have moved to greener pastures within the company (Joe is head of Product Management and they both worked on OpenSocial), but I wish they hadn't abandoned their vision of a wiki app plaform.
We evaluated SugarCRM and i have heard at least 20+ reccomendtations to use it.

In the end we went with salesforce.com and our guys love it... The outlook integration has made it easy to bake into everyday processes (along with xobni for search etc).

That said ideally we would like to see something more holistic from CRM.

It seems most "CRM" products are really just great at sales pipeline management, and dont really cover the end to end business efficiency features we really need...

Eg Cross Channel Marketing Conversion linked into the sales pipeline management as well Project management, Timesheets, Invoicing, Profitability Reporting, Customer satisfaction surveys etc

Solving the problem of how to best acquire customers is a great problem fix, but it creates a whole new bunch of problems around making sure you actually have really happy customers that are profitable to you (which is just as important to success and may be even harder to get right)

Anyone have any reccomendations for this?
Yeah, the fact that he chose Gmail as his first example of how free is somehow hurting consumers is rather telling.
Location is important, as well as talented faculty and networking opportunities, which gives these three schools an edge.

But it's a mistake to think that these places have a monopoly on ideas or are stepping stones to great things in this business. A lot of Ivy Plus types get admitted to Harvard or Stanford on the basis of strong standardized test scores, which are not a good indicator of creativity. I know of a late '90s Harvard College CS grad who hasn't done anything remarkable with software development or Web technologies. An MIT grad I briefly worked with had some interesting insights, but many of her ideas came from other people.

It's also important to recognize that someone with skills and a great idea can develop very special technologies no matter where they are studying CS -- or even if they are not formally studying anything. Shaun Fanning didn't come up with Napster at Harvard, he developed it at his dorm room at Northeastern. Jaron Lanier (the guy who coined the term "virtual reality" and developed many early applications) was a student researcher at New Mexico State University before heading off to the Valley.

Bottom line: Seek out those schools with great faculty and programs that interest you, but remembver that success depends on the ideas bouncing around your head, not the name of the university on your resume.
I am surprised this did not receive more points or interest. Who isn't interested in the upper and lower bounds/limits of our universe?
The 2 Technology Magazines You Should Read
One problem I foresee is if Kluster does not have access to the demographic you want for users/customers.
Ask YC: my just launched startup needs your comments
There are so many times when I wake up in the morning after a fantastic dream during the night I feel so deep a need to write the dream down, it's just a pity to let it pass away, it can get forgotten in less than an hour. So I code this tool just for that, keep your dream journal.

http://keepdream.com

I am a one-man team wearing so many hats, currently a graduate student in Shanghai.

Give my startup some comments or suggestions. Thank you.
Smartphone Addiction Poll (And Funny Responses from "CrackBerry" Addicts)
You got me thinking so i wrote a blog post about our CRM experience.

Thanks for the inspiration YC :)

http://www.shiftedpixels.com.au/blog/2008/02/choosing-crm-fo...
Please, link these things up people.
Banning Social Networks a Losing Battle
Stanford.
This article needed a lot more info about the psychologist's approach to make it interesting, it was 90% background and the barest hint at the end about what he is actually doing. For all we know he may have just made minor tweaks to some existing algorithm.
Are business plans necessary?
Kind of cool... you probably want to add some things like tags so that people can look through them, and maybe also filter on languages.
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It's a good idea, but I plan to add some natural language processing to auto tag the meaningful nouns/verbs in the text, I wonder if this is a better approach than adding tags manually in a dream describing text.
What you're asking for doesn't seem like a something a CRM should do. It seems more like a managerial accounting question.

First off, for every new customer, you should have built in metrics to figure out where they came from. For instance, use a different number on your direct mail pieces, use trackable order links in your e-mails and PPC campaigns.

Secondly, place a system to automatically follow up with existing customers. E-mail power user tips after 15 days, Phone call after 45 days of use to gauge satisfaction, etc. For gauging customer satisfaction, you get more useful feedback from someone on the phone than filling out a survey.
Benford's Law applied to New Age thinking
Devices for the deviceless
Top 10 Worst Captchas
I'm going for Python. :)
Goog doesn't only search the web, but want to help creating it?
The web app I'm working on has pretty stringent performance requirements, so we do a lot of profiling in browsers (specifically FF and IE). DOM manipulation and rendering are order(s) of magnitude slower than virtually anything in plain Javascript. This has been so consistent that we've taken it as a design axiom to do as close to everything in pure JS as possible.

From this perspective, Resig is understating his point. Optimizing JS alone isn't going to deliver much; it's not close to being the bottleneck.
For Canada: Waterloo University
Isn't there a difference between startup and random web-based tool?
Visualizing all the air and water on Earth
Ah, I wasn't sure what you meant. I agree that there aren't too many use cases. Personally, I think some of the existing computational geometry libraries could be useful, but I am thinking of a niche set of applications. More useful, perhaps, might be existing libraries to read/write file formats. But I'd be surprised if there was anyone looking to port their huge C++ application wholesale to Flash.
My first Maroon program:

"Make me a compiler for Maroon."

My second Maroon program:

"Make me a time machine to send the first Maroon program back to February 2008."

See? Nothing to it.
Nice. I notice that unlike most algorithms I've read, this one requires a credit card number as an input. :)
I think it depends on whether some "bubble" has popped or not.
They're not blind, but you can also put down anything you want, including "undecided". I was certain I wanted to be a physics major when I applied to college. Things change.
For some reason I'm inspired to take this opportunity to say, to anyone who has any reservations about applying to YC: do it. Right now. Then do your best to nail the interview and get picked. This has been (already!) one of the best experiences of my life. The people that you get to meet and learn from - not just the amazing speakers they bring in, but the rest of the group you're in and the network of founders are the best part. It's all about being exposed to success and constantly hearing about and seeing the factors of success and being inspired to keep working, persist, iterate, make what people want. One of the best realizations for me has been that the people who succeed aren't that different from any of us. If they can do it, so can we. If we can do it, so can you.
Now there just needs to be an economist to drop in and sneak an entry with a 9% improvement.

Statistics and math are excellent tools, but they're quite blind.
I think that language is mostly used by people for forming bonds with other people. That's the purpose of most conversations. It is emotionally fulfilling. But autistic people typically respond emotionally more to things than to people. (This is something that many here should be able to understand to some degree.) Watch the video. She talks about a "conversation" with her surroundings. I think that's what she means by "language". She specifically says that her language doesn't have any semantic content, if that is what is bothering you.
Ballmer went to Stanford Business School as well (for a little bit).

To the original question: Stanford, by a very wide margin.
LOLpresentation - the dream becomes a reality (and it actually works?)
Agree on 1-4. 5 is probably a non-issue since inverting the gradient is really increasingly common as a hover state "common design is good design".

My take: the BBC redesign takes 99% of its ideas from Web Two Point Oh and has never heard of people like, say, Tufte. Thanks, BBC, for updating your site and making it customizable. No thanks for changing the visual style.

And why is there a clock? I already have a clock right there on my screen and it's digital.
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Tags would be much too unwieldy for this. Keep it very simple. How about a short-list of categories selected from a drop-down? This would need more thought but a very short-list like: 'falling', 'lucid', 'nightmare', 'premonition', 'embarassing', 'funny' etc.

Nothing more is needed and it makes browsing by category fun for the random surfer.
On the contrary, if you have only ever used Unix and some unixy language like PHP, you are still a blub programmer. Blub isn't the exclusive domain of Windows, even if it makes sticking with blub really easy.
I've always known that science journalists don't know anything about science. I'm only now realizing that they don't know anything about journalism either.

They only know how to tell one story. That's the story of the underdog scientist who is (or more commonly, "might be about to") upsetting the stuffy old establishment. Everything that goes on in the scientific community has to be shoehorned into the storyline of "Dodgeball" or "The Mighty Ducks", or else they have no idea how to talk about it.

I was originally going to post this comment on the thread about the "surfer dude with theory of everything" article, but it fits here just as well.
This reminds me of an in-house parser of graphing software files that we use to populate physical route information for warehouse control systems. We also used certain naming and icon conventions to express particular semantics that the parser would then convert to the base physical routing maps for a routing engine.
It was a great article, but he hasn't really been anonymous in the Netflix Prize world:

http://www.netflixprize.com/community/viewtopic.php?pid=6090...

Anyway, congrats Gavin...
If you're going to be displaying Chinese content for an English audience, you should look at integrating some sort of translation support. I'd recommend the Adso plugin:

http://adsotrans.com/blog/adsotrans%e7%9a%84%e7%bd%91%e4%b8%...

Once users click on text the content gets semantically analysed and annotated with pinyin/english popups.
ASK YC: What is the coolest startup company video you have seen?
Does anyone know of any startup or company profile videos that are really edgy cool and all slick and alluring?

We're not talking about the same old coporate product demo videos or message from the CEO... but fun company profile videos that help make users fall in love with the company?
It's funny, because I remember that before Apple switched to Intel, the only reason I could see to buy one was that the machine/OS looked cool. Now their hardware is considered superior (at least for laptops), so all the nerds love them, but I still have the stigma in my head that anyone using a mac is just a trendy hippy (or hipster dufus, as you put it) trying to show off how stylish he is.

I'm slowly giving up on that idea now that their hardware actually wins... but it's still hard not to chuckle at some kid in the coffee shop with political stickers on his macbook pro who is most likely using his $2500 laptop to watch youtube videos.
From the article:

Communications Technology - http://www.cable360.net/ct/

Screenplays - http://www.screenplaysmag.com/
I agree with your opinion of OS X being related to Disney. I highly disagree with any suggestion that that should be an insult.

Disney might not produce the absolutely biggest roller coasters — nor did they really hit on the "Future World" with EPCOT — but they do a lot of things extremely well.

Disney accommodates its market extremely well, builds massive installations internationally, has an unearthly attention to detail (just look at the lettering on the signs in the Magic Kingdom or the Tree of Life), has strategic ties all over the place, does fantastic feats of engineering, and, oh yeah, consistently pulls in massive profit.

It's had its flops, but it's been in the game forever. You might not like its product, but that probably means you're just not in the target audience and no one is forcing you to buy a ticket.

And even if you're not in the target audience you can still appreciate the value other people get out of it.

(Disclaimer: I'm an OS X user. Before that I used both Windows and Linux for years at a time. I'm still routinely exposed to and do work with all three)
I could read three of them (barely)
Meaning-Based Web and Web 3.0