skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure you have been deploying websites for people for a long time? For starters, you're comparing a CMS system with Wordpress themes, which by the way can easily climb into the 3k ~ 6k ($300 dollar themes are generally mass produced and not favorable for brands and companies, regardless of how beautiful they might be) price range if done by an experienced renowned designer. Second, there is surely a market for the 1k, 10k, and 100k websites, I never said otherwise.

You seem to be equating a CMS to a website and that is just not the case. Original and unique Wordpress themes can cost thousands of dollars because they are generally custom made, original works of great designers. Websites/Web applications/Web services can cost ten, even hundreds (and beyond!), of thousands of dollars because not only the design is custom made, the development of the application and system to management it is also made to order. Let's not even get to the part of how expensive A/B testing and user experience architecture can get.

What you are advertising right now is that you will give a free trial for a year... hosted by you guys for free... for a $999 setup fee? If that is the setup fee alone what will the cost of the CMS be? I'll be honest, I'd have no problem paying you 1k, hell I'd have no problem paying you double or triple that a year for a hosted solution, provided it really is the next big thing since sliced bread and has really great support. From what I saw in your website and video, you'll be directly competing with Squarespace, which offers a lot of the same overall functionality and costs $480 at the top tier without a yearly plan (and seems like it has more features), though I do want to point out that I like yours better from what I saw in the video since it looks a lot more polished IMO.

I've been developing websites for ages and acting as sysadmin for longer even, so I kind of don't appreciate the patronizing, specially since I'm saying I like your product. In any case my advice is this: develop a scalable and sensible pricing structure that will fit your target audience, listen to what your potential customers (read everybody here) have to say, and for gods sakes if you're going to offer a free trial make it really free (and for a month or two, a year is just overkill for a cms)... People will gladly part of hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars a year if they like your service, but paying a thousand dollars to try a CMS out just doesn't make much sense.

Edit: Also you really need to spruce up the design of your CMS's website. It really takes away merit won by the video.
Questions

#Determination
" maybe you should ask for a time when you saw something through, something that was tough, and at your core hard to do. basically what was your last marathon?"

# flexibility
" when were your basic assumptions challenged, and how did you adapt or over come them? "
Patents are stricter than you may think and the descriptions of them in the media often gloss over what is actually being patented.
I just can't seem to make up my mind. Android Vs iPhone Vs Palm
I once learned that there are two types of entrepreneurs.

Gold diggers and people who sell equipment to gold diggers.

I want to congratulate you on being the ladder with garmz.com

I think this is crowd-sourcing done right.

Not only is the execution beautiful, it has the potential of being a really great service and I think it has potential far beyond selling clothes.

1. Trend watching
2. Annual reports on fashion
3. Alternative fashion tv channel
4. Talent hunting
5. Educational videos
6. Textile and other equipment shopping

just to name a few.

I wish you the best of luck.
This seems to confirm an interesting and decisive change of strategy from Apple, and totally parallels the Java decision very closely. If you put these three things together:

1) Deprecate Java on Macs

2) Deprecate Flash on Macs

3) Deprecate all non-Apple-controlled apps on Macs by introducing the store

If you put the three together it shows a strong and coordinated move to start reigning in free development on Macs and move it to a model where Apple totally controls the experience.
My concern about Paul's vision has always been (2), flexibility. It is my humble belief that you should care what you succeed at, not just that you succeed at something. On this point Paul seems to be leading in the opposite direction from Tim O'Reilly ("work on stuff that matters"), and I wish he would do a 180.
I'm curious - how does such violence actually help anything? There are much more effective ways of telling the government that their actions are not favorable.

Specifically, I point out the high school students overturning a car. What does that actually accomplish? There's a difference between protesting for change and burning cars.
There was a defined number of Startup School attendees, which means the amount of pizza needed is easily calculable (X participants * Y slices each.. maybe + Z "extra, just in case"). From hosting numerous events, I would definitely expect YC to have "how many pizzas do we need for X people" reasonably well figured out. I would think the greater danger is from people eating Y++++ slices each rather than a group of 3-4 sharing a box and having 1-2 slices each. As limedaring mentions below, we also handed out a few slices to others.

To your point of the "better hack", we advocated the "use both sides of the table" for breakfast, but with pizza it is unwieldly because the lids of pizza boxes only open one way. Yes, reconfiguring the tables would have also probably improved things.. but is much more difficult with 25-50 people trying to access the pizza boxes, and no readily available unused tables on hand.
I don't know about Woz/Jobs, but Page/Brin were definitely friends when they started a company.

They may not have been friends when they started collaborating on their first research project, but at the moment they were "co-founders", they had already become friends.
I suppose these are good questions for a potential co-founder.

I wonder if one could check a box on their application to add it to the co-founder pool?
I thought you just liked languages that start arrays at 1...

If you have to glue stuff together in C or with pipes, it's going to be just as easy to do it in Tcl, Python, Ruby or whatever though, which also have more libraries to start with, and are fairly "promiscuous" in their own right.

I'm not sure I buy the 'glue language' thing: that's what both Tcl and PHP (and Perl to some degree) started out as, but it seems that people end up wanting to do everything in the higher level language that they can, because it's a lot less effort.

Something that might be really cool is if one of the efforts like Reia took off and made something a little bit nicer looking that sits on top of the Erlang run time.
Socket.io + node.js makes it super easy. It abstracts away all of the transport protocols so you can just focus on writing your application.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1768358
Apple can't fix bugs in Flash.
I think it might only be a waste if you can come up with a way to predict who is going to be the person with a BA in English that doesn't use it. If you can't predict it, then it means that those who do use it are more expensive than sticker price (their cost would be "total costs to get people BA's in English"/"total number of people that actually use it").
Nope, Dallas, TX. :(
>Most people have no idea of the value of things that they are trying to get rid of.

Until they check ebay before getting rid of it.

"You don't even need to check how much it's worth just $NAME.com and you're done!"

(suggestion in the mail).
The Open Source Recruitment Thread
Practically everybody should be contributing to open source; it's good for your career, and your skills. So what are some of the projects, libraries, etc. you're working on that could use some help. Post some information about them so fellow HNers can start contributing.

Just tell us:
What language it's in, what it's called, and where we can find it.
What it does.
What you'd like to do and what you need help with.
> The running back metaphor appeals to me. I wonder how far you can take it.

That's an easy one: you can take it as far as the American border outside thereoff nobody knows what a running back actually does.
Where does he say he wants to make a new category of behavior to punish? I don't see that anywhere in the article.

However, I do see this:
"We fine them, and what is the big lesson?" said Stiglitz. "Behave badly, and the government might take 5% or 10% of what you got in your ill-gotten gains, but you're still sitting home pretty with your several hundred million dollars that you have left over after paying fines that look very large by ordinary standards, but look small compared to the amount that you've been able to cash in."

Taken together, Stigliz said, this system of widespread fraud, lax regulation and non-deterrent enforcement, created a system of skewed incentives that rewarded criminality, gambling and other bad behavior, and left American workers, investors and homeowners holding the bill.

So please, why do you think jail time should be off the table for a white collar criminal who destroys the wealth of millions and of shareholders, but that jail time for say someone who steals a car is fine? That makes no rational sense. One is obviously more harmful, although a little less tangible than say stealing a car or a diamond, but it's still real value/wealth that they are effectively destroying/stealing.

You're acting like there is more innovation when there is less regulation, but that obviously isn't the case otherwise companies would be fleeing America for Africa.

>Killing off innovation in the USA could be easy, just introduce jail time into a conversation about what incentives might motivate the business community to be socially responsible.

This makes no sense, if they commit a crime, they should go to jail, end of story. We don't need to legalize crime to incentivize innovation.
If you aren't getting downvoted once in a while then you aren't contributing much ;) Feel good about it, someone thought your opinion was worth a downvote! Upvoted!
Garden Street has a fair amount of traffic, but we solved the noise problem pretty thoroughly: there are 1600 pounds of glass in the windows, and the doors drop down into slots as they swing closed.

We also had larger skylights installed. Plus there was already a greenhouse set into the roof. The result is a place that surprises everyone who walks into it. In the middle of Cambridge you walk into what seems a fairly nondescript building, and inside is a huge, quiet, light space.

Liquidity is such a beautiful thing.
If it was anything like the menial jobs I've taken, he was also part of a fantastic culture of camaraderie.
Japanese Teenagers Teach Us Something About Being In Two Places At Once
The difference as I see it is that Snow Leopard will get the security updates via Apple's Software Update program. You're on your own for updating flash player, or at best you get notified by Adobe that a new version of flash player is installed.

Apple can control or at least heavily influence the updates for Snow Leopard. It can't for flash.
Microsoft prepping new online storefront for Windows PC games
Did you find the can of pesticide I left down there for you?
Sorry about that, it's one of the pitfalls of building a new brand. Google "install multiple apps" or something similar and we'll be the first result.
I don't know, there's too much room for self-delusion.

It's easier for an unimaginative person to convince themselves that they're imaginative than for an imaginative person to actually become imaginative. The illusion that you're King of England can't be maintained for long. The illusion that you're good-looking can be maintained for a little longer. The illusion that you're determined, imaginative and... naughty... can be maintained pretty easily.
Me too. I know a lot of people with degrees in Law, Linguistics, Literature (in their respective languages) and so on who moved to the US and now have regular jobs because their degrees lose any meaning when changing the country.

You go to college to have options later, not to pursue a career, you know little about at the age of 18, due to some misguided sense of loyalty to the taxpayer.
Hahah this is hilarious
I have no idea how hard it is to get into. My mother got here by marrying my father, eons ago. I was born here.

I am only talking about America because it is what I know the most about. I have lived in Germany, a long time ago. I have lived a number of places in the US: Georgia, Texas, Kansas, Washington (state, not DC), and both Southern and Northern California. I also have driven through quite a lot of the US and was hoping to pursue a career in urban planning before life sidetracked that goal. So I have taken classes related somewhat to city planning stuff and spent time on an urban planning discussion board. I also am not happy with where I am currently living and hope to move at some point.

Some of the resources I use for assessing potential places to move:

bestplaces.net
http://scorecard.org/
http://www.city-data.com/
websites for some of the restaurants and grocery stores I like
google maps
weather.com

Some of my criteria:

cleaner air than where I currently live
more walkable, transit-oriented community than where I currently live
~50,000 -- 100,000 population city within about 2.5 hours of a major metropolis
cost of living similar to here or cheaper
some must-have amenities (in terms of food mostly)
No or low state taxes

At the moment, I am considering moving to Cheyenne Wyoming -- assuming some miracle or twelve makes it possible for me to leave here and go someplace of my choosing. I was considering Port Aransas Texas at one time but the opportunity never came up and that notion has since died.

Good luck with this.
Xerox Alto Vintage Computer Ultra Rare system complete sold on E-bay for $30.100
Marketing is crucial indeed. It irks me to no end that so many have faith in the "If we build it they will come" business model. Word of mouth only goes so far. You can have the best site in the entire world but if nobody knows about it you will fail.

While there are numerous companies doing variants of most ideas out there, more often than not it is the one with the most market visibility who ultimately gains traction, even if that product is less impressive than the competition.
I simply quoted Gosling from the article. I guess he's uniformed.
Looks like an amazing place. Since PG said he was open to suggestions. Why not rent it to y-combinator startups? I don't know much about SF, so I am assuming it doesn't make sense from a cost perspective.
What are those three flash movies at the bottom of the page for? Just to highlight the values on mouse over?
You probably don't want to do that. A new relationship is a green sprig which must be carefully tended, not an oak tree capable of bearing heavy load.
I disagree actually. The thing is, open WiFi is the same thing as taking a radio transmitter and transmitting your passwords to the world outside.

It's not that people didn't go to the trouble of hiding it. It's that people are (essentially, figuratively) loudly shouting their secrets for the world to hear.
The article mentions a few fairly vague examples of what this type of algorithm is used for. To all of you non-neophytes, what are some specific implementations of this algorithm and where are they used?
Why not rent it out as a coworking space to startups in Cambridge?

You could even extend the YC model a bit and rent it out cheap in exchange for some equity
Mr. Anderson of the virus writing group "m00p" pleads guilty
At least White Sands is outside the tropics, so we don't need to worry about the sun. Not so sure about the moon.
The financial crisis was largely perpetrated by people who were simply doing their jobs within an absurd system. The main flaw of our system of financial oversight is its opacity. We should focus more on how to fix this and less on creating a new class of criminal.

Have all the justice you want. But don't fool yourself that it represents a solution. We need to take away the secrecy the "crooks" need to operate. This secrecy is actually provided by our regulatory and financial accounting system.
Higher education is not meant to be job training. No one gets an English BA because they think that's the path that will get them the best jobs; they get it because they think it will make them happy.

It makes me unhappy to be paying into a fund to enable this sort of behavior.

If your concern is with public funds subsidizing education, I would actually have greater objection to funding educations for people that go on to earn high salaries in jobs that require high levels of education -- those are students who could afford to take loans and pay them back.

That's a fair point, and I can't decide if I agree or not. But... I'd much prefer to subsidize education for someone who is going to use the skills they've learned to be productive instead of subsidizing someone going to college to have fun and feel good about themselves.

At least at a government level. I'd love to see private funding -- let people decide (in the philanthropic sense) to give money for that sort of thing. I don't think the government should be paying for 4-years of college "vacation."
Let's Crate.
The example given was that Apple shipped an out-of-date Flash player because a new version was released after RTM. They then presumably updated that immediately with System Update. My point is that the same thing can happen with the actual OS. You can install Snow Leopard with a vulnerability that has already been fixed in a point security release of Leopard. So is it really a good reason to stop shipping Flash?
Congrats Austin. Love the site, though I think it suffers from blue-overload.
+1 for loggly -- check out logstash http://code.google.com/p/logstash/
We tried to use Twisted and it did not perform that well (too much CPU usage, too much memory usage). I think a similar limitation will be hit with Tornado, but I haven't tried it out. Most of Plurk is implemented in Python tho' and I would love a great Python solution.
I don't get it. There's a spinning logo, a generic platitude, and a button that makes the inane comment change. I don't see how in any way it's making a useful suggestion for something to do near me.

Am I missing something?
>A nice middle ground is a whiteboard + a digital camera.

Or perhaps a digital whiteboard using the Wii adaptation, a cheap projector, computer and an IR pen?

http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
http://www.google.com/search?q=wii+whiteboard
Oh yeah, it's supposed to load up a list of places near you. What browser/OS are you using?

Perhaps this won't work because you aren't in the US.
The office is in Cambridge, MA. There are few (no?) YC startups left in the Boston area at this point. I'm sure the idea crossed their mind.
It is MUCH easier to show someone how something like a single 5 minute unit test holds them back from being bigger better badder. Unit testing should take less than a minute for ALL of them in a project to run.

Ask for forgiveness after you do something...

The other way to go about it is to 'gingerly' find the single ally, and build on that.
Kind of reminds me of D&D abilities...

Dtr 16 Flx 15 Img 18 Nty 16 Frd 14

...though the value placed on 'naughtiness' is more like a preference for a 'chaotic good' alignment.
Not saying that, just that it's more of an issue when a company like Google does it. People go "war driving" all the time and that isn't a big deal - but when a company like Google does, it's a bigger deal. And Google probably isn't a threat with the data, but people need to just secure their networks! Maybe it's a good lesson and better in the long run actually!
TUM Rosie and PR2 James (two research robots) make pancakes together
So you ship a crappy GUI toolkit and you expect OS makers to do what exactly? Suck it up and deal with crap? Do your work for you and implement a higher quality cross-platform GUI toolkit? Or build OS specific tooling to solve the problem where they can? It's no wonder that both Microsoft and Apple ended up making modifications to Java for their own platforms, the platform as it existed was not suitable.
> I thought you just liked languages that start arrays at 1...

Ha. If anything, I'm big on languages based around pattern matching. :)

Oh, and Erlang's ports are better than Unix pipes - it's more like a process run in isolation with asynchronous IO, and which the local Erlang runtime can restart as necessary. I changed the wording a bit to make that clearer.

I prefer working 100% in higher level languages and then moving hotspots down to C, etc., but it seems like languages designed to be glue languages make the transition easiest (because they have a kind of inherent modesty).

I never got into Tcl, but feel a common mindset in Ousterhout's essays (such as http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html).
You can code for 30 hours straight without much fatigue?
I had never heard that before. I always heard that only the SF Bay Area has it. However, this map seems to agree with you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Medclim.png

Having been to both of those places, I don't think of them that way. LA is hot as hell and very dry -- unless you are wealthy enough to be right on the beach (of course, you did say "coastal"). San Diego seemed to me a bit more temperate than LA but still quite dry. However, I spent like one day there, so my first-hand knowledge of that area is very limited.
I think Erlang would be a great fit for comet, especially since it's already proven itself for Facebook chat. Erlang as a language is quite alien to me tho' and I generally prefer Java over it, but I am pretty sure that a Erlang solution would scale very well.
Biology Rides to Computers' Aid
And that fact would constitute a major drag on ever developing a startup culture.

See http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html for some of the other ones.
You're right, I'm not arguing very well. And please, I encourage any one not to take what I say very seriously either. If you want to invest, think for yourself, that is what I was really trying to say.
I couldn't agree more. Nginx and HAProxy will seem like miracle workers after seeing Apache's performance.
Smalltalk is like Libertarianism. It allows for those who find reality too difficult or hard to understand an escape to an ideology that is simple, elegant, and wrong.
The "hacking the system" question on the application was probably the hardest one for me. While nothing just sticks out in my mind of hacking something I would say that I do and accomplish what most people can't do on a daily basis. In dealing with people; a smile always helps, the right attitude and disposition can start a movement, and looking at things from a "how could I fail?" point of view ALWAYS changes the rules of what a so called deal breaker is.

example: When I applied to college in 1999 I was accepted right away however my parents made entirely too much money for me to get adequate loans and grant money. So I used my graduation money from HS and had my parents to pack up all must stuff and drive me down to the financial aid office(425 miles away). After a bit of sincere "asking" and explaining the situation I was in. VIOLA!!! Money started raining on my college dream. Saying all that to say I was a good looking kid, with a personality you had to see (because writing does not convey everything), and had I not been determined to have them tell me no to my face I would have never attended that school. Did I hack anything? By no means...did I use what I had to have the circumstances in my favor? Absolutely!