skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too, and saying "it doesn't look right" is more of an opinion than a serious problem with the UI meaning the application was poorly implemented.
Funny, same thing happened at digg:
http://digg.com/users/albertpacino
A company that sells software to small businesses suggests you start a small business rather than a startup? Call me cynical, but this seems like SEO marketing.
It was an over generalization because I'm an exception: further along in life and YC was a great option.

It is probably true that people with more fiduciary responsibilities have more to think about when taking the plunge, but that is a tautology. People with more responsibility have more responsibility.

My point is that even if you have a house, cars, kid(s), student loans, etc. you can do it. It just takes a bit of planning a maybe a little help from your friends & family.
As a designer at <a href="http://www.flugpo.com">Flugpo</a> I deal with this problem all the time.

With CSS I really think the best answer is one monolithic CSS file. Add a index at the top and keep it organized by global, section and page: http://www.flugpo.com/FlugPo/styles/style.css

With JS I find breaking it down by section files alone with one global file to be the best way to approach it.
Anything other than html, flash or javascript on any web page = fail.
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1. Yes but not much. I lived at home at first. Telling people I lived with my parents so I could develop a "fantasy game" elicited some fantastic reactions.

2. I tried to work part-time the first year. It's a bad idea. You can't do two things at once.

3. It's difficult to measure this because the site is seasonal. The first year was OK but I had to wait 8 months to see the improvement. I started making a non-negligible amount of money the second season, August 2006.

4. Yes to all 3. Obviously the most important thing is to start developing. My only focus this whole time was to make the best product. The ad money will come later. (This isn't true for all startups. Fantasy football players comprise an unusually lucrative advertising demographic.)

5. It's tough. I was pretty much on my own. I read this somewhere: "In a startup, nothing happens unless you make it happen."

6. I'm pretty stable but you can definitely go insane working alone all day every day. I don't have any advice on how to cope with this. No startup is easy.

7. I have unwavering confidence in what I am doing. I received very positive feedback almost from the first day. The site was profitable so I could have kept going indefinitely. Also, this is definitely a dream job. Fantasy applications are interesting from a comp sci perspective.

8. I was approached by AOL (and others).

As for YC, I applied and was accepted right when the AOL negotiations took off. So I decided I couldn't do YC at that moment.
5 little-known Rails methods
i can see both sides of the coin, but its nice to see someone concerned for someone else.
That's true. Nobody took me up on it. I got one applicant and it went nowhere.
True Film: Mystic Ball. Reminds me of PG's "Be Good"
What Would Twitter Do With $15 Million?  Buy a Business Model (I Hope)
Microsoft’s elephant in the OS room: Apple
Or maybe its because of things like this: http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html

Firms (total: 5,697,759) with:

Less than $100 thousand	1,291,552

...

$2.5 billion or more	891

So you should shoot to be in the 891/5,697,759 (0.016 %) instead of the 1,291,552/5,697,759 (22.7%)?

Maybe they are just promoting a more realistic and likely path to success...?
It seems down. Probably because you're a solo startup... ;~)
Now that's a HN worthy submission!
"It's a joke" is a stupid excuse to say false things all the time.
Interested in git?
Like this?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173581
30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
This instills confidence. ...in LAMP that is.
touche! :-)
Competitive Positioning: Making The VC Comfortable
Just for nostalgia, here is the reddit comment thread:

http://reddit.com/info/p8nv/comments/
9. I like the domain. Was it available or did you have to buy it?
Kind of, although more like reddit's "hide" feature. There's also a GM script to do like the extension you link, but it has menus so there's no need to edit an array. No time to find link but it will be on userscripts.org somewhere.
The Fight For Wide Area Broadband
Thank you, fleaflicker! I've heard #2 several times before. Nice to hear it from you, too. I am working part time and it is very hard to do.
I'm not saying the cover letter is not important. I'd like to have a cover letter whenever possible. I'm saying it's the first place to cut costs. If you only have a few sheets left in the printer, the cover letter is the first thing to go. That's all I'm saying. Design is good to have, but should be one of the first things to cut during hard times. It's going to hurt sales. It will feel like shooting oneself in the foot. Sure it's absence will make hard times harder. If it didn't serve a function in the money-making process, it wouldn't be there in the first place. But there are other parts that are even more important.

If a business is in starvation mode, design as it relates to ads and packaging should be one of the first parts to go.
I thought this might show up here despite the overall very poor reporting. This is not an IIS vulnerability, it's a SQL Injection Attack and not limited to sites on IIS. It's not hundreds of thousands of servers, its hundreds of thousands of PAGES.
If you think LAMP will save you from sql injection, you're sorely mistaken.
Cuzillion: A tool to test Web Site Front-End Performance
I'm not trying to say that this isn't serious, but its another reminder to validate all your input, no matter which platform you're using.
Wow, the "debug" function alone is so brain dead useful. I can't believe how I lived without it.
First, if you're having the problem of way to many styles, it's probably because of 2 reasons. You're not using the Cascading part of Cascading Style Sheets, and you don't have a good style guide (which is useful no matter how small the site).

As for organization of files, I use something called "alltemplates" that I have no idea where I found. It's basically just an organized file similar to what STHayden describes. Email me at bjclark =at= inigral dotter com and I'll send a zip with the blank templates I start with.

Third, I use BlueprintCSS.

Forth, I use a form framework, for RoR I'm using http://github.com/jlindley/accessible_form_builder/tree/mast... which has blueprint support and for static pages/sites I use Khoi Vihn's "GoodForm" which is old, stagnant, and all I've ever needed (with my own modifications).
Why does YC ask for founders ages?
How to Use Your Advisors Effectively
Ditto for me. I've never enjoyed implementing a design (I much prefer programming), but it's usually cheaper/easier to have someone mock something up in photoshop for me to implement than have have the designer implement a template as well.

Haml & Sass make the process so much less painful.
here here!
Rudin's books are the next step after having had some exposure to the books listed in the above link
Nassim Taleb does Evolutionary Fitness or Regularity is for Morons
Largest Linux KDE Deployment - 52 Million students Will Be Hooked by 2009
Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw nickb pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
wow, good job. looks really good and fulfills a need. wish i had thought of that ;)
Python and Haskell have CleverCSS to do the same.
Damn I regret not jumping on that joke. Missed a ten pointer opportunity.
You can guess someone's age within a few years at an interview if you wanted to discriminate, so blocking a mention of age is naive. You could also work it out in most cases from the dates given on the resume (unless it becomes illegal to learn about a candidate's education or work history - which wouldn't surprise me to be honest).

You could see what neighborhood someone lives in because that will also be typically included on a resume too. Why would you hire someone who can't even put their street address on their resume? Sure, a street address doesn't have much significance to /most/ hiring decisions, although if you knew a candidate would have a 100 mile commute each day, choosing someone who lived around the corner would make a lot of sense if the job required call-out or easy access to the office.

And so it goes. You'll see someone's race at interview. You can probably even figure out if someone's married (presence of a ring). It seems crazy to make it illegal to ask these questions. Instead, it should be law that it's optional for the candidate to ANSWER them.
I think he's at home resting. Probably recovering from carpal tunnel syndrome.
I agree. My only input is that I believe entrepreneurship is about wealth creation.

One can make the argument that if we make money for VC's, then we make money for ourselves. I think there are plenty of examples (especially in the Silicon Valley) where this is true. That's the "a small slice of a large pie" school of thoughts. The other side of the same argument is that if you bootstrap your company, then you are on your own and the world conspires against you. So at best you have "a large slice of a small pie".

I think these are false choices. My own experience (I had two startups, one of each) is that bootstrapping is not a lifestyle but a tactic in wealth creation.

I believe the speakers at Startup School are all in agreement that the world has changed and that it is possible to build a meaningful company with sustainable revenues by bootstrapping. But bootstrapping does not mean that you don't take VC money, just not for R&D.

When you have a working product and a workable business model, then you can go out for VC money, but now as "working" capital. And if you can take it further and actually become profitable, trust me, VC's will be kicking down your doors wanting to buy a piece of the action.

I enjoyed the Startup School presentations very much, especially that of PG, PB & DHH and the following is my takeaway ...

“Make something people want … don’t ignore but try to understand [people’s] advise … listen [mainly] to yourself … don’t worry too much about money … the secret to making money online … is to ask for it.”

I believe they are arguing that the optimal solution might be "a medium slice of a medium pie". As one of the commenter has stated, "getting the bus back in the middle of the road where it belongs".
I currently have a professor whom other students warned me about. I can see why, she weeds out the bullshit. I think she's great.
I think that both sides in this thread are behaving in a way that is inappropriate for desired tone of this forum. All snarky responses are uncalled for, though the merit of the posing of the question is debatable
I don't really mind that I can't interconnect all of my webservices/online personas, i.e. in the sense of all n services being connected with the remaining (n-1). This does not seem to make a lot of sense for most of those.

What I would like to be able to do is interact with the services via a central location such as ff - not just consume/aggregate.

Along those lines, the ff team has included a "feedback channel" (i.e. easy replying) for twitter which serves the purpose very well. If they'd do the same for comments on flickr, disqus, youtube (you get the idea) accounts, I'd be even happier. Their service would allow for some sort of two-way centralized communication that would save me from touring all of the respective sites for even the most mundane tasks.

In general, I agree with you on openness and standards but can't say that I'd be currently missing them WRT this domain/application.
funny links are allowed in moderation, but typically if they are somewhat related. Oh, users cannot downmod stories, just comments. The community has been pretty good so far though with complaining when the amount of noise got too high (I remember someone autosubmitting all XKCD stories for a while but later stopped when people pointed out it wasn't a good thing to do).
It's a little over a year since Kathy Sierra stopped blogging. Shame.
Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch
Last week sometime a few people thought it might be a good idea to do a weekly roundup of elevator pitches. I wanted to start it off this week.

So, what's your best elevator pitch?

As a bonus question, what makes a good elevator pitch?
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I'd upmod twice if I could.
DMT, the guys who won the nobel for discovering the DNA molecule admitted to using it and said it's not that uncommon in the scientific community.
you should always start with leading caps, and its the two thousands we no longer need the 'www' ...

StopRespondingSeriouslyToJokes.com

Looks better

</joke>
Twitter Raising Money: How Much Is It Worth?
Thank you Simone.
Unless I'm mistaken, that page doesn't go back more than a day, which would mean it has less than a 1% of the data.

Could be there's a "more" button I'm not seeing, though.
Al Gore and John Doerr Starting 'Green' VC Fund
I see your Schwartz is as big as mine.

(Since this is getting downmodded into oblivion, that was a Spaceballs reference. That's a line from the same scene with "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.")
kirubakaran, why did you delete your comment? Sibling of the parent of this comment.
Now that you mentioned it I bet a twitter feed with all of pg's comments would have a lot of subscribers, all you need is to throw in some random advertising and it might be a good way to monetize the crowd's obsession with pg.
If anyone wants to turn that user data into a CSV of username,age,karma, run this Ruby script in the folder with all the HTML files in it:

Dir['*.html'].each do |user_file|
user_data = File.read(user_file)
user_name = user_file.chomp('.html')
age = user_data[/created:<\/td><td>(\d+)/, 1]
karma = user_data[/karma:<\/td><td>([\d\-]+)/, 1]
puts "#{user_name},#{age},#{karma}"
end
Why we are the biggest obstacles to our own growth
Seeing "Best blank ever" on Hacker News scares the hell out of me.

Even if it's about user manuals.
Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?
The labels are what really make it shine. "Wiggles of false hope" is so very true.
One of the commenters points this out, but bringing the under-the-mouse application into focus isn't strictly speaking a problem, assuming it doesn't fuck up the window stacking (although it might be a little slow).

An approach that might work would be to bring the application under the mouse to the logical "front" (i.e. it's menu bar shows up), but suppress the re-ordering of windows that normally occurs.

This would probably be an OS-level thing that Apple would have to do, however, rather than something SteveY could hack together in two days.

FFM does work within any one application, since Terminal supports it:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES

(you have to re-launch Terminal). Then all Terminal windows do FFM, and the focused window has the standard focused appearance, except without popping to the top of the window stack like it normally would.
Elevator pitch for my poetry app (not a startup/business): The Internet is encouraging more poets to write and share, but it is not helping them collaborate and improve and most apps wall up an author's content.

Clarity and conciseness. Hope I didn't violate my answer to the first one ;-)

Of course, almost no one gives a toss about poetry anyway.
Top users by "karma earned per day of membership":

Username Age Karma K/A
------------------------------------
dhh 1 48 48
pg 563 17544 31
oldgregg 3 87 29
nickb 429 11672 27
donw 3 52 17
pius 210 2803 13
edw519 428 5316 12
rms 427 5017 11
drm237 271 2851 10
hhm 246 2475 10
keating 10 103 10
sah 42 411 9
freax 5 45 9
further08 2 19 9
iamelgringo 419 3702 8
ivankirigin 281 2486 8
luccastera 258 2201 8
moog 49 436 8
sant0sk1 35 310 8
9oliYQjP 4 35 8
ertra 3 24 8
davidw 429 3400 7
terpua 302 2212 7
kirubakaran 248 1982 7
nreece 257 1961 7
pchristensen 161 1210 7
thorax 92 667 7
gongfudoi 52 388 7
Once you've done that, you can load it into Excel (or Numbers, or whatever) and play with sorting it, adding formulas, and what not. Only semi-interesting one I found was this:

Top users by "karma earned per day of membership":

Username Age Karma K/A
------------------------------------
dhh 1 48 48
pg 563 17544 31
oldgregg 3 87 29
nickb 429 11672 27
donw 3 52 17
pius 210 2803 13
edw519 428 5316 12
rms 427 5017 11
drm237 271 2851 10
hhm 246 2475 10
keating 10 103 10
sah 42 411 9
freax 5 45 9
further08 2 19 9

The ones who got their karma very quickly are the interesting ones to check out.
Apple to the Core: Why Steve Jobs is buying PA Semiconductor
"Suggesting startups — specifically tech startups — don’t need to look for revenue opportunities now is akin to spoiling a child and shielding them from the outside world: They’re far less prepared when they eventually have to leave the house for the first time."

That's why I make my daughter pay her own way. Sure she's only three years old, but she's already able to work 10 hour days at the factory, which makes her way more profitable than most other three year olds. Best of all, we're not spoiling her, and you can be sure that we won't waste money on frivolous "startup" expenses, such as school.
I wonder if this would have been better accepted if the title was:

"Why it doesn't make sense to discriminate against family people"
We tatoo your ass, you get paid for showcasing corporate logos at volleyball tournaments.

http://www.tatoomyass.com
That can only mean that whatever Wintermute-esque construct nickb was, has moved on to somewhere more interesting than here.
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Random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition
Either your sarcasm detector is broken for writing this response, or mine is for thinking you were serious.

Or perhaps I'm getting a false positive and both of the above posts were serious.
Didn't make it to Open Coffee (kept working until about 6:00 a.m. and couldn't pull off the 2-hour turn-around), but a friend of mine is DJ-ing at the party at 22:30, so there's a good chance that I'll drop in for a bit.
That 'valuations are not null' loop is pretty trippy. Fed through Apple's Text-To-Speech engine, we have some grade A techno mixing fodder...
Unfortunately, the Jets.
Techcrunch? Valleywag? My rationale is that they're divisive. Those that fall on the side of favouring their style of journalism will probably go to their sites daily anyways. Those of us that can't get far enough away from their content would very much appreciate not having to see their headlines clutter this site.
I suspect you don't know who Jared Diamond is. He is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.

It is certainly not weird at all to include the author's name if the author is a famous writer.
Where did you get that generator? I want one!
This thread suggests that they collect them for statistical purposes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116976
> Instead, it should be law that it's optional for the candidate to ANSWER them.

Isn't every question optional? It's not like you go to jail if you don't answer a question. It's not a good strategy, but AFAIK it is legal
Just to further reassure you, the average age of YC founders has been creeping upward from the beginning, and there have been many over-30 founders at this point. And, in many polls of age here on News.YC the range of ages run higher than you seem to think. Young single folks are just able to take dramatic risks that occasionally lead to dramatic success, and thus get a disproportionate amount of press. Older folks tend to have responsibilities and more experience which leads to taking fewer and more carefully calculated risks. Successes are less surprising and look more like traditional businesses...so you don't see them talked about as much. But businesses are being started by folks of all ages and a lot of those folks are here at News.YC.
Untrue! I give several tosses! I'm working on an integrated touring tool for spoken word poets. It will allow them to rate venues, add tour dates & locations, map their trip, easily find bus or plane tickets between destinations (here's a place where I could work in Wondrbar...), and publish their schedules to various social networking apps. I also want to add a booking mechanism for the people who run poetry venues, so they can connect with poets on tour.

This is a labor of love. Google will not buy me, and I probably won't make any money.
I'm so sorry. Maybe with your newfound wealth you could buy them? :)
The author gives 2 reasons for the acquisition:

1. The short term reason is to force Intel to give Apple price cuts for fear that Apple will make their own chips.

- I do not think that Intel needs to worry about Apple manufacturing their own PC chips as Apple already went through that phase and AMD already provides the necessary pressure on Intel to lower their prices.

2. In the future, software and OSes will not be tied down to a specific chip so Apple will start manufacturing their own processors to increase their margins.

- I think the author is on to something regarding the future of processors but I do not think the PC market will change that drastically. Apple will probably start making their own chips for the iPhone and their new gadgets but I doubt they will do the same for the PC market. Maybe at one point we will see an Apple server.
We help you get your work done in half the time with better quality. Our application helps you identify the critical path to getting your work done, and focuses you on the top priority tasks that need to be done now with all the information you need to do them.
Instead, it should be law that it's optional for the candidate to ANSWER them.

That opens another can of worms. Any refusal to answer implies something to hide, which would be an immediate red flag.
For some reason the word "collaborate" stopped me cold... it made the whole thing sound like some dilbert.com - generated mission statement.

If I re-read your statement and use "work together" instead of collaborate then it sounded much better to me. For some reason... strange.
OK, but what does it actually do? So many things could fit that description that it's hardly a description at all.
all I know is that this thread has too acerbic a tone for its own good
The Web 2.0 economy hangs in limbo
OK, lemme guess...

A highlighting pen?
A flashlight, so you can read under the covers?
Eyeglasses?
A dictionary?

Maybe you should explain what it is, and how it makes books more useful.
Turing's Cathedral - The Digital Dawning (Google TechTalk)
I just fed it into the first Google result for "travesty generator":

http://www.eskimo.com/~rstarr/poormfa/travesty.html

(I only fed in part of the PG text, though, as the generator takes longer the more text you feed in... probably melting this poor guy's web server.)

You can find code for other generators online, like jwz's:

http://www.jwz.org/dadadodo/
what bad stuff have you heard about videoegg?
Surely any devout pg stalker reloads once an hour. Probably with a ruby or arc script.