skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On HN I know there are a lot of people looking for funding as well as a lot of VCs and Angels. I thought the co-founder spreadsheet (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950) was a great idea. Hence, this one.
If you feel like we (#startups) are part of the problem and not part solution, then feel free to reveal yourself in the channel and confront us with what bothers you.

As I see it, #startups is a channel which has very smart people involved in the startups community including many people working for YC companies. As the channel is realtime we have the great opportunity to point others to interesting stories before they will go to hackernews and see what's new themselves. Certainly not all people will just up vote articles blindly without seeing if it's actually a good article. Just like I think swombat's response was good, I gave him an up vote. If you sticked around in our channel longer you would know that we often joke about taking money and "giving free upvotes". Hiding in the channel anonymously and posting the logs on this channel is exactly why people get annoyed with the content you submit which in turn results in calling names (which I should also apologize for) in an informal semi-private setting..

The people in the channel submit interesting and relevant articles on regular base and I think those submissions are one of the main reasons I visit this site on a daily base. The channel is certainly part of the solution and not the problem. We submit good content, why worry about the way it happens?
Like what others have said, improve the UI... even with so few songs it was hard to navigate and see the artist/song title...

Also, the ability to que songs
What an amazingly excellent video.
Perhaps it's just me, but the problem with these things is that it has that "cattle call" kind of feeling.

I hate to sound snarky, but I'm really not seeing a lot of return by cramming my business ideas, opportunities, and management team into a bunch of little boxes somewhere. Yes, I am looking for funding. Now tell me why would I want to fill out yet another impersonal form on the internet?
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It's personal because it is inside this community. Would it help at all to change the headings? I tried to keep it really short so that real conversations could be had off-spreadsheet.
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Imagine the state the world would be in if someone had put into practice his proposed "solution" back in, say, 1500.

People who succeed do not just benefit themselves, they often benefit many others, including future generations. And people are motivated to succeed by desiring the rewards that come with success such as wealth, fame, etc. Without such incentives, success and progress suffer. Art, architecture, literature, music, and poetry suffers. The study and practice of medicine, physics, and chemistry suffers. Innovation in industry suffers. Free enterprise suffers. Everyone's quality of life is reduced because the automobile was never invented, penicillin was never discovered, radio was never discovered, the electric light bulb was never invented, the refrigerator was never invented, etc, etc, etc.

Should we discourage the Newtons, the Shakespeares, the John Carmacks, the Sergey Brins, the JK Rowlings, and the Steve Jacksons of the world because there are so many other folks who are perfectly content to spend their lives working at the Try N Save and watching 5 hours of TV a night and some of those folks find their lives dissatisfying in comparison? Quiet down! You're being unruly! You're making everyone else look bad with your success! Here, come slum with us, it'll make everyone happier in the end, honest.

Time and time again history has shown that unfettered individual liberty maximizes progress, both for individuals and for society as a whole. There will always be inequality and tragedy, that's the nature of life. Trying to pretend that we can make everyone identically equal and erase everything that makes people different from one another is a distopian vision, very Borg-like and anti-humane.
For some clickable examples:

http://www.hecl.org - I think this one has a bit too much text; that much I can figure out on my own.

http://www.squeezedbooks.com
Generous unemployment insurance allows him to wait around for a long time, hoping to get back a job similar to his old job. However, absent unemployment insurance, he would be forced to take whatever he could get, thereby shortening the recession.

This isn't a cut and dry argument either. That said, it's the reason that some unemployment compensation packages include or are dependent on job placement services and/or retraining efforts.

If you simply provide people with moderate passive income, the likelihood that they'll use it to update their skill set and change the direction of their career depends on a whole host of variables (satisfaction at previous jobs, age, industry, amount and type of education, union membership, other cultural factors.)

As such, I'd agree that for some people, income without retraining or mandatory placement services has a deleterious effect, but this is in no way a universal phenomena.

The detroit auto worker is pretty much the poster child for the problem you cite. This is because they tend to be on the wrong side of every variable I mentioned (low satisfaction, high age, salaried employment, a contract industry, relatively low formal education, higher vocational education, union members, and likely to be part of a generation that feels they are "owed" jobs.)

That said, their existence doesn't demonstrate that the programs are an overall drain, because they aren't representative of the average unemployed worker. They're skewed negatively in every dimension that matters.

Their existence does, however, reinforce the value of retraining services and mandatory placement efforts as part of a maximally effective unemployment compensation program.
What coup? The folks on #startups are the HN community.
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Maybe so.

I'd get rid of column E. And D should be the reason you are raising money, not the amount. Leave the amounts to the conversation and presentation.
This approach ignores the reality of venture funding. It is akin to putting a "who would like to date a supermodel" list online and waiting for the dates to roll in.
I don't remember any time when Microsoft was "cool" or had "mojo", and I've been doing work since '88 at least. People who joined the scene in the mid '90s or later often think Microsoft is great -- because they don't know any better.

Microsoft is the McDonalds of software. Does McDonalds have a mojo? Did they ever?
Here's the reason I included them. It should be quick to add from the company perspective, and from the investor's perspective, those are what you need to know initially to know whether the investment is even right for you. For example, if you are angel and the company is raising $2M, it's not a fit.
So you claim that wasn't motivated by slowing the development of browsers, which in turn slowed the moving of applications to the Web?

(Which was the reason that Microsoft used its monopoly to kill Netscape and got into hot water from the beginning.)

Edit: Consider how "well" Microsoft followed directives from the EU. It is a bit hilarious to claim that MS stopped developing something without even court orders and threats of being fined billions...
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As I understand it, one thing LLVM can do that GCC can't is run-time compilation and optimization: generating code on the fly and compiling it to run at native speeds, maybe also profiling several different versions and picking the best. This is only possible if you have significant chunks of a compiler built into your application. If you were to attempt the same with GCC, your application would need to be GPLed.
I think you'll find that pretty much all of us are decended from people who were fed up staying local. Otherwise we'd all still be in Kenya.
Yes, yes, and yes! Another important point, in my opinion, is that while charging higher rates, you may get fewer clients, but they will be better quality clients. Would you rather do 10 hours for one company or one hour for ten companies?
So this means that the open-source announcement is useless for me (and presumably other users having older devices -- if you could call my less than 1 year E71 old).

Who benefits from this announcement ?

I would love to see open-source "cell-phone" distros but I think they won't happen very soon.
Thanks for the review.

Great idea, something like queuing songs shouldn't be too difficult.
Well I'd say to things to that. First, that is neglecting angel financing, which is whole different reality where something like this could really connect people.

Second, venture funding is changing. There are VCs looking for good deals that other people don't know about. HN is a unique place where those deals just might happen to be.
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Agreed. This article expressed especially strange sentiments for an entrepreneurship board.
Are the clients happy? More importantly, are the clients reaching their goals with your designs? Design is a lot more than a pretty face. It's also about usability, driving sales, , telling a story, engaging visitors, etc. If your design results in increasing my sales then I don't care if people think it's ugly.

If current clients are happy but potential clients are complaining about the looks of sites in you portfolio, then maybe you should be tweaking your own sales pitch. Include not just images of your work, but also stats which show how your design helped conversions among others.

As a designer, it's your job to educate the client as to what's really important. Maybe all the client knows is to look for a pretty face.
See here's the deal: it is highly unlikely that anybody is going to start a funding conversation based on a spreadsheet. These things are herd-mentality, word-of-mouth, and friend-of-a-friend. People are so paranoid about losing their money that they prefer to do it in groups and with people that make them feel warm and fuzzy. Now that's probably not the most rational way to be but that's the way it is.

So if you want a list of HN startups that are in some sort of funding stage? It might make a nice resource. A bit of trivia. But if you're seriously looking to make a resource to hook up startups and investors? Technology probably isn't going to do it. It's not a technological problem.

By the way, if there are any Angels out there reading this who are interested in real-time social media aggregation, I'm both warm and fuzzy and loved by investors everywhere. I'm also willing to relocate to where you are in order to make a true partnership work. And I'm very close to beta.
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Highly recommended: Non-Designer's Design Book - http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...
I am a hacker (although I'm uneasy about calling myself one), not a designer, and if I'm doing a web site professionally, I generally work with someone who does the graphics/design. This is for my own sites, where there is no client who says yes/no.
Cool, I'll see if I can work with a designer friend to get some tips.

Yeah, I'm hoping if I can orient this towards people uploading their lectures, or something where bands can have a place to upload their music (I know, places like that exist), then I won't have to worry about DMCA stuff as much.

Thanks for the review.
What do you mean? That's what the tiebreaker is for. Problem writing is hard, especially if you're trying to distinguish between very close competitors.
It occurs to me that one of the effects of meritocratic mobility is that school systems in less-desirable places get caught in a downward spiral. Public schools in Kansas, for example, get the bulk of their revenue from Kansas taxpayers. But if someone rises through the Kansas school system, does extremely well, and ends up with a high-paying job in New York, that person’s taxes will be going to support public schools in New York, not Kansas.
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Can anyone fill me in a little political leanings/background of semana.com (the source of the story)?

It's a Columbian magazine, but that's about all I know.
I've seen first hand how effective it is what you are doing but I simply disagree with it, even if it is content that I like.

Translation: "What you're doing works, but I disagree with it based on abstract principles, even though I like the results."

You are trying to create a solution by staging a 'behind the scenes coup' I would like a solution that creates a level playing field for everybody.

We already have a level playing field: it's called "Google". The point of a site like HN is not to create some kind of abstractly idealist "level playing field", but to provide content that people (me included) want to read.

Ultimately, you could disagree with what we do on the basis of "fairness" - but actually our system is more fair. There are many cases where someone brought up an excellent link that was from a site never before posted on HN, and/or posted by an unknown user. We're actually achieving the aim of fairness even more. Remember, this is an open channel, everyone (you included) is welcome to show up and be a part of it. There's no "karma check" at the front door. Hell, some people on #startups don't even have HN users.

Unlike the digg cabal that you compare us to, joining this channel requires only that you fire up your IRC client and join freenode#startups. And no one is under any obligation to vote up anything. Hardly a voting ring, I'd say.

I see us as an optimisation mechanism to help great content get to the front page - there's nothing dodgy about it at all. Which is why, unlike your earlier suggestion, I am not "mad because you pointed out our little group". I think it's bad form in general to post stuff from an IRC channel onto a public forum, but I'm not made of sugar either.

In fact, I'd say, please do join us there (and this applies to anyone reading this). We're a friendly bunch and very welcoming, and a lot of the most active HN users hang out there. Find us here:

chat.freenode.net:6667

Channel: #startups
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It sounds like his problem was Word (and how he used it), not that formatting for Kindle is a PITA. He needed it in very basic HTML, hardly a PITA.
Looking at the two examples you provided, I think your problem falls into two categories. Typography and colors.

Typography: The information hierarchy is not clear enough. In your second link the top section has near identical sizes and weights which makes it hard to see what is more important. I suggest you read The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst. It will teach you how to use type effectively and is a very good and interesting book.

You have way too much copy on the page. You need to make it interesting or people won't want to read it. Things like bulleted lists and pull-quotes will break it up a bit and add visual flavor.

Color: The colors you pick doesn't really work. In the first link the gray is way too dark and looks really dreary. In the second example the link, text, and header colors are so close together you can barely see the difference. They also don't really work well together. This is a matter of taste. Nobody can give you taste, its something you will need to develop.

Practice makes perfect really. Take a look at other websites and just observe which colors work well together. There are lots of little tricks you can use to make a minimalist site looks great. For one, don't use pure black for type. It shimmers on the page. Instead use a really dark gray. I personally use HSB(0, 0, 15).

Another thing you can do is to use HSB to pick your colors. Pick a single color you like, and then adjust the H slider to find a matching color. Its not perfect, but it works well enough.
Okay the spreadsheet has been trashed and I've just been goatse'ed...
Anarchy on the spreadsheet. I left when I got goatse'd.
> The security model might be theoretically better but since most applications force you to run as administrator anyway I don't think it's currently buying you that much.

1. The security model isn't just theoretically better -- OS X still doesn't randomize heap and stack addresses properly, for example. As Dion Blazakis points out in http://www.semantiscope.com/research/BHDC2010/BHDC-2010-Slid... slide 30, NX + ASLR makes "[h]ackers everywhere shed a tear."

2. Most Windows applications do not force you to run as administrator. Vista provided the push necessary for most applications to not require admin privs (source: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/10/08/user-account-con... -- the "Impact on Software Ecosystem" section).

3. Frankly, an ordinary consumer should be a lot more concerned about his data than about the computer itself -- whether a program runs with admin privileges or not is mostly irrelevant in this case.
Looks like a great social experiment as to what happens in anonymous environments. Seems to have degraded to pure anarchy and posting pictures of famous assholes.
I find that the largest problem about this competition is that the people who can actually do this probably have no motivation to compete.
We all have jobs, lives, and cool stuff to hack on in languages we actually like using.
The median US house is now 4.9x median income, vs 3.5x in 1975
> Nonsense.

Which part is nonsense?

> But why would a friend of mine still run windovs 98?

How would I know? How is one anecdote relevant in the face of facts and hard data?

> You have to think end user.

I am thinking of the end user. The end user today buys a computer with Windows 7, and enjoys a stable, secure, and hassle-free operating system. This was really not true of previous Windows versions, especially XP, and especially Windows 98.
Even so there are many companies that own their own data centers outright. It's intriguing to me that in an industry where a successful company can't exist for longer than a week without being cloned 8-ways from Sunday Google has managed to maintain its uniqueness over the course of a decade. In some ways that's a testament to Google's excellence, but in other ways it's a testament to the very dysfunctional nature of the state of the industry.

It's interesting how potent, and how rare, cross-domain expertise is in this industry. Google deftly coordinates data center operations (including server hardware) and software mastery, giving it a unique and enormous edge over its competitors. Apple weaves together expertise in device hardware, software development, usability, and aesthetics beyond anything its competitors can achieve, giving them significant market dominance and enormous brand prestige. Amazon combines competent large scale web-application hosting and development with highly efficient warehouse and fulfillment operations. It seems as though in this industry melding together expertise in related but seemingly far separated areas is a good recipe for attaining a near unassailable advantage over your competition.
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Pardon my ignorance in this matter, but hasn't commoditized, scalable hosting (such as Amazon EC2) largely mitigated the issue of service degradation?
I got similar complaints about my designs, (which can be super frustrating..."i gave you a website...now you want it to be gorgeous too...sheesh").

So I started taking note of what I liked and didn't like about site designs. I made a delicious list and tagged the sites i liked with "webdesign-inspiration" if they have something that specifically stood out to me. Design is an art, and every artist learns by imitating. Find a feature you enjoy and try to duplicate it. Firebug is your friend.

But never get too attached. Just because a child spends hours on a macaroni picture doesn't mean everyone will love it. Listen to your users/friends and take their advice with a grain of salt. Re-design, is just part of design.

Find a few design blogs that you can relate to, i like css-tricks, and check them every once in a while. If you like sparten designs, read http://www.alistapart.com/ . A typography based webpage design takes more skill and patience to make look good than just throwing some blue web 2.0 buttons on your nav bar.

Keep a folder of screen shots of web designs you like and constantly ask yourself what makes you like them, and how can you incorporate those features in your site.

Finally, if you have any limitations (mine is colors) there are plenty of resources to help you out, just search for them. Such as http://www.colourlovers.com/ Good luck!
That Vonnegut short story is the first thing that comes to mind for the author's solution:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
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I've been on the leader board for a couple of years, and I do get plenty of random requests about starting HN meetups (I host Hackers and Founders -- Silicon Valley ). I also get a number of random pings to give feedback on people's sites, which I'm generally happy to do.

That being said, I've never been approached to submit a post.
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gists are public

The user has the option to create the publicly or privately.
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I use the google argument frequently, though it is difficult to remember that they put hundreds of hours into A/B testing to pick the right shade of blue. What appears simple isn't always.
Those without a IRC client or behind restrictive firewalls can use the webchat: http://webchat.freenode.net/
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Yes, one could make the point that his boss (i.e. Arrington) should have prevented this from happening, and I'd have to agree.

I must admit to having no better argument (although I wouldn't have done such things!), but note that "not having internalized wrong" is not meaningfully different from the "too young" argument I first disagreed with.

Unless you want to suggest that it's a failure of education?
I followed all the news and was very much looking forward to playing Spore. But I didn't buy it at the last minute because of the DRM. EA was using Spore to push DRM even tighter for PC Gaming and I just couldn't agree with that. I also didn't pirate the game so I still have never played it. I put my money on the line and said no. Maybe I am only one guy, but by not playing it I also didn't tell my friends about it.
He's creating an anonymous, private gist. The only way people are going to know about your lesbians_and_horses folder is if you pass around that url.
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