skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, it is extremely inconvenient (available exactly as you described)

There is a shortcut key for that - F12, so it's actually quite convenient :-)
> If you're an end user, the net gain of that openness is zero, and at times it's even a loss

I have about 15 home screen widgets, an alternative dialer, alternative browser and a bunch of other programs that would never be allowed on iOS that beg to differ.
disclaimer: no YC experience either. yet i applied for this round.

to me is seems that the ~7% the founders give, yields them more then ~30k + events + coaching + incorporation.

in my view: YC'inng makes the startup (and even any of your future startups) so much more attractive and exposed to potential investors, that this alone justifies the ~7%.

but i have no metrics for this :-) someone?

(i leave out the 3 months that founders "have to" invest as that is something the "have to" invest in order to starup anyway)
The US actually has a lot of rare earth minerals, however, mining halted in around 2002 because of environmental concerns and cheaper prices from China. Domestic mining will probably pick up again.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/09/chinese-th...

http://www.molycorp.com/

Also:

Throughout the halt on exports of rare earth minerals, China has allowed exports of manufactured products that use them, like powerful magnets, and highly purified rare earth metals.

Note that they allow the sale of purified rare earth metals; just not the raw minerals. Also, since a lot of parts and sub-assemblies are made in China, this will probably lessen the impact.
Edit: add kaperskyusa.com (thanks privacyguru)

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=kasperskyusa.com++

OS	Server	Last changed IP address	Netblock Owner
FreeBSD	Apache	19-Oct-2010	198.106.101.87	NTT America, Inc.
FreeBSD	Apache	24-Aug-2010	198.106.101.87	NTT America, Inc.
FreeBSD	Apache	24-Jul-2010	198.106.101.87	NTT America, Inc.
FreeBSD	Apache	24-Jun-2010	198.106.101.87	NTT America, Inc.
FreeBSD	Apache	22-May-2010	198.106.101.87	NTT America, Inc.
Linux	Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.11 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a	16-Oct-2005	66.225.255.107	Hosting Services, Inc.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=kaspersky.com++

OS	Server	Last changed	IP address	Netblock Owner
unknown	nginx/0.8.27	15-Oct-2010	38.117.98.231	Performance Systems International Inc.
unknown	nginx/0.8.27	5-Oct-2010	38.117.98.231	Performance Systems International Inc.
FreeBSD	nginx/0.8.27	4-Oct-2010	195.27.181.10	Kaspersky Labs
unknown	nginx/0.8.27	1-Oct-2010	38.117.98.208	Performance Systems International Inc.
FreeBSD	nginx/0.8.27	30-Sep-2010	195.27.181.10	Kaspersky Labs
unknown	nginx/0.8.27	14-Sep-2010	62.213.110.141	Kaspersky Lab
unknown	nginx/0.8.15	13-Sep-2010	62.213.110.141	Kaspersky Lab
FreeBSD	nginx/0.8.15	26-Jul-2010	195.27.181.10	Kaspersky Labs
FreeBSD	nginx/0.8.15	14-Jun-2010	195.27.181.10	Kaspersky Labs
FreeBSD	nginx/0.8.15	14-May-2010	195.27.181.10	Kaspersky Labs
Research finds public mood (tweets) can predict Dow days in advance
It's not just the title that was wrong: when I load the article, there is nothing compelling in the first 3 pages of text! It takes scrolling a lot before some useful data shows up here and there. No wonder it didn't get any upvotes the first time.
Should Apple Buy Facebook? Will It?
His whole resume reads like that:

Cernium Corporation Reston, VA

September 2009 (a short job contract)

I learned how to work with a team to set goals, outline those goals in a design document, and accomplish those goals in code within a very small timeframe.

Is HR gobbledygook, and doesn't tell me anything about what he was doing, why or how hard it was. Unless I find something cool while searching for "Andrew Horner" <programming language that I'm hiring for> on Google, his resume doesn't stand out.
Maybe that's it.... maybe Jobs wants to buy Facebook to groom Zuck to be his successor of the new Apple+Facebook company.

Jobs won't be there forever.
it's like saying working at Google is best because you get the wonderful free lunches.

Getting the network, connections, feedback, and exposure is more difficult for most founders than getting lunch is for most Googlers.

It may be that you have the connections problem sorted out and not the money problem. I have money sorted out but I need more connections and feedback, which I think is more the type of founder seed programs are built for.
Isn't HN about discussion? Is discussion about agreement? You seem to have an attitude issue to discussion :S
It certainly isn't the amount of money they're investing

It actually partly is, super angels (as discussed in the essay) are investing more money than angels, but there is another distinction (mentioned in the essay) they are investing other people's money.

Somewhat paraphrased summary from the essay on the definition of super angels: super angels are VC's who invest less but act more like angels.
> People complain often about traditional offset/limit pagination

I haven't heard any. What kinds of complaints have you heard?

I appreciate the generality and elegance of the closure approach, but the links expire far too quickly for my taste. About once a week I read a page slowly enough that the "next" link is dead by the time I click it.
Just had this happen yesterday. Spent the last month and a half working on http://chow.com/tv. The email that was sent out announcing the launch and the 2nd spot placement in the Google TV Spotlight gallery was "A big thanks to everyone who made this happen on such a tight schedule!" Some caveats, I didn't do the graphics design (two of our awesome designers worked on that) though I provided some early feedback and recommended a couple of changes based on actual implementation. However, I did the layout, operational code, and basically all of the testing. Not angry or anything, but getting a little name-drop would have been nice.
I like this train of thought. Who better to know who can replace Steve Jobs than Steve himself? (Maybe he just sees a lot of himself in Zuckerberg.)
I believe Microsoft has right of first refusal, so if Facebook sells, Microsoft would have to pass before Apple could buy.
Note that the 450k download number is of the free version of the game, Trainyard Express.

There is also an impressive sales graph for the paid version at the end of the post, suggesting that the game has been rather lucrative since the beginning of October:
http://struct.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/TheWholeShebang....
Why I Came to College. You don't need a degree to be an entrepreneur.
I've often wondered how much of the world's lithium reserves it would take to convert every cars in the world over to EVs with lithium batteries. 0.1%, 5%, 10%?

Is it even feasible? And if not, why are people running around promoting their Prius and the like...
Or, you can accept the obvious answer: the 7" screen doesn't have enough real estate. It's a tweener cum bastard child, too large to be a phone form factor, and too small to do many things that work well on the 10" screen, but not smaller.
that was pretty dumb.

basically draw some completely arbitrary analogy to 'halo' because 'algorithms fight each other'... and include a halo trailer.... traffic bait much?
The money is probably the least valuable thing we've gotten out of YC. When we came here, we had no network and no connections to the valley. As part of YC, we've gotten:

1) Contacts - we can sit down with just about anyone we can think of.

2) Alumni - the YC alumni network is pretty huge and the alums have been super helpful. We've gotten advice, design feedback, encouragement when we were having darker days, and we've used them as product guinea pigs.

3) Brand name - being able to say "We're a YC company" makes people instantly pay attention to you.

4) Advice - yc has seen a whole bunch of startups. They were able to to save us from going down a bunch of bad paths, even when we didn't want their advice. It's hard to quantify, but I feel like I have a better understanding of how to build something that people will actually use because of yc.

4) A support structure - Office hours with pg, jl, harj, et al are indispensable. These are now available to us forever.

Before getting accepted into yc, my cofounder and I had a bunch of discussions about how much of the company we were willing to give up. We were nervous and thought the upper bound (around 10%) seemed really high. In retrospect 10% would have been a totally reasonable price to pay for what we've gotten in return.
Facebook has in a lot of ways run its course. They're still iterating, but I don't really see it benefiting users much.

I don't see a sale to Apple benefiting users much either, but the fallout could be interesting. If I were him I might sell just out of curiosity to see what would happen. It sounds, if not better, at least profoundly interesting.
Thanks for the compliment. Made it myself.

As for feedback, you sound like you're in a good place mentally and emotionally so I'm not sure there's any feedback you need other than: go for it. You'll make plenty of mistakes and learn from your fair share of painful experiences. But as long as you keep in mind the problem you're solving -- and the people you're solving it for -- during all steps of the process, you're on your way. Just keep taking another step forward, and be honest about how you feel along the way (and how the situation looks around you).

So: go for it. And keep us informed.
Do you have any reasons in mind why would Jobs want to groom Zuck to be his successor? They don't seem particularly similar to me.
sugarcrm, phpbb, and others do it. It's very ugly. I have not seen either codebase in several years though so it may have changed.
I don't think this would work too well. For me at least, praise in the form of small gifts is not that worthwhile. I would much rather get honest direct feedback in the form of a conversation than an email with a link to 20 dollars of at applebees. (I mean the giftcard would be nice but it would feel belittling without the personal interaction)

I think there's a joel spolsky article on inc.com about this, intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivation.
If your product is futuristic and really needs stuff IE doesn't support (say, advanced HTML5 stuff) - OK. But if you're just doing it out of laziness then it's a bit silly. All the major CSS and JS frameworks pretty much eliminate the cost of supporting IE. These days the cost of supporting IE7/IE8 for me in a standard web site is fairly negligible. IE6 is another matter.
Yes I agree. I've found that the reddit system has a lot better chance of bubbling up interesting articles irrespective of who submitted it.

Unfortunately, from my experience, HN has become a bit of an echo chamber in the sense that certain posters have a lot better chance of having their articles noticed than the majority; irrespective of the relative value of the individual articles.

I don't have data to support; but with the current system it feels like HN is increasingly pushing users into two extremes - new users (who have an extremely difficult time of getting anything noticed) and longterm posters (those who whatever they post gets noticed and promoted). Long-term this is not conducive to a healthy, growing community.
I wouldn't recommend that, it can be seen as spamming. Not to mention that everybody thinks his story is FP-worthy.
Haha nice pointing that out - our old designer put that together, and I don't think he was fully aware of compatibility issues :) Thanks for pointing it out. However, you can still use the magellen, you just can't directly sync with the site using Garmin Communicator. Uploading a GPX or KML you pull off the unit manually will still work.
God I hope so. At least Facebook would be in the hands of a literate design team.
Call me when a distro that implements package signing has shipped Python 3.

I know it's a little OT, but I can't take anyone seriously who ships unsigned packages and calls them a distribution.
Perhaps his hatred of Google runs so deep he feels Zuck is the only person who can destroy them?

I'm not saying it makes perfect sense... Steve is an awesome madman genius... he doesn't have to make sense.
SQL layer on top of Redis
Stuff Costs More Than You Think
When we came here, we had no network and no connections to the valley

Do you think that translates to "YC is more optimal if you are not currently located in the Valley"?

BTW: what is your startup, it's not in your profile!
Not true. Google could have done the same thing with the remaining carriers when it first introduced Android. The iPhone was dominating to the extent that it was actually shifting subscriber numbers, if Google had really wanted to pull off the same trick as Apple it could have done so. It simply lacked the balls necessary to complete the task and now it is probably too late.
Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls online
Building Scrabb.ly
Oh, a lot of them did. Many of those can only be described as religious cult followers - practitioners of Elliott Wave "Theory".

Some even went as far as accusing Mandelbrot of plagiarizing Elliott's work: http://www.math.utah.edu/vigre/reu/reports/harris_fall2005.p...
I mean, to each his own – but having three steering wheels in my car wouldn't be sufficient incentive to drive something that blasted "SPRINT!" at me every time I opened the door.

Pick the platform you like, by all means, but what you mentioned is more about design decisions than true "openness."
Good thing the US invaded Afghanistan, I suppose...
Afghanistan has lot's of mineral resources. Let the exploitation begin.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/14/say_what_afgh...

Hopefully, Afghanistan has a functional (and non-oppressive) government that can stand on it's own soon. That will be tough, if possible, to accomplish.
Recommended Mandlebrot read: 'Fractals and Scaling In Finance' from 1997. http://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Scaling-Finance-Benoit-Mandel...
I think this is a great idea - exchanging money, I'm not so sure. If everyone's trying to get funding, not a lot of cash to go around.

If, however, you worked out a shared-talent pool, that has a lot of potential. For example, often times startups don't need operations or HR staff right away, it's done by the founders. However, when it comes time to use more talented staff, what if one startup employed the person, but the pool can share their talent for an equity exchange?
Seems like there are details to work out, but might be a good opportunity both for startups and for staff who would like to be in at the ground level, but there's not enough demand at any one company.
Trusted Computing (this shit Apple is doing right now with the iTunes store and iOS) was dismissed by consumers and by hardware manufacturers (besides Intel).

You're seriously wrong here. I mean, this statement alone makes me think you have no idea what you're talking about. Care to clarify what you meant by that? Or even what you meant by Trusted Computing (because your current definition is definitely incorrect).
I’m sitting here chuckling, imagining people upvoting mannicken because their subconscious wants to believe running is addictive and makes you fat.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python3F13 (Fedora 13 was released on the 25th of May).
You're making a crucial mistake of assuming that the Web apps are the forward. Not to mention that you're forgetting that Web apps are not possible without at least one desktop app.
It's not really a standard at this point, it's just an experiment run by Mozilla to get traction and catch up with Chrome. In other words they're doing exactly what you said they should, embracing evolution and innovation in web applications on both desktop and mobile fronts.
Ask HN: Best country for startups
Which is the most favorable country in terms of tax & infrastructure for a web startup focusing on Asia to operate from?

If anyone has a startup servicing Asia (China, India, Korea, Japan etc) with online payments please share where you incorporated and why.
If you don't know them well and you don't have other competing offers on the table (which may or may not be true in your case), it's going to be challenging to determine a value that both sides feel good about.
Though it's not F/free, if you care about that:

http://highcharts.com/license
I kind of disagree. On the whole, isn't now essentially the most peaceful time history has ever known?
I've read some of Mandelbrot's works on finance and I would never put him in the same category as the "technicians". It's hocus pocus mumbo jumbo that I don't think he would subscribe to (e.g. Elliot Wave's "5 up, 3 down" principle).
The stunt also created publicity and attracted press to an issue that otherwise wouldn't have existed. Would you prefer the Bhopal victims suffer in silence?
What kind of project do you have in mind?

One of my client projects needs an object serialization and indexing mechanism, a (stronger) HTTP library, a file-based cache, and a wrappers for a couple of POSIX functions for me to port it from Perl 5 to Perl 6. As it's a project for a client, the opportunity cost for writing those libraries themselves has been too high to justify porting to Perl 6.
Version control - the most text-oriented part of the whole deal. Files of ASCII, tracked by LINE???

Instead track definitions, APIs, formal argument structure, constraints! Make all that and more part of the 'code' and track its changes and meta-changes. And check it against the product and test plan too!

I imagine a schema capturing the semantics of a program with an audit trail, checkpoints of consistent state, reports that flag contradictions and incomplete subtrees etc.

Instead I get "automatic merge tools" that shuffle my changes into somebody else's like a dealer at Vegas.
Well, but it wasn't just Steve's presence on the call.

The actual official guidance (for future revenue) was significantly less than investors were looking for.

Expected December revenue was significantly less than you might hope for the season and an expected margin decline as they plan 'aggressive pricing' may not have sounded encouraging to some investors.

http://www.creditsights.com/csnext/_hpc/_121/104932.htm
Ask HN: How much $ required to become investor in respected super-angel fund?
Assume the following:

I would obviously want to stay informed, but I would require little to no control over what investments the fund makes.

I would want to ensure that as an inexperienced investor, I would not be taken as a rube and relieved of my money. Assuming that my money would be invested at the same priority with other money in the fund, that doesn't seem like it would be a problem. Please correct me if that is an incorrect assumption.

Do not be concerned about the risk of losing the entire amount. Assume that I have access to X dollars, and I am willing to lose up to Y% of that. If the required amount exceeds that percentage, I would not invest.

The definition of "well-respected" is vague, but to me, it means that the people running the fund are considered trustworthy/honorable (to prevent getting fleeced), and have a record of profitability.
How do I view these with the Justin.tv iPhone app?
Create multi-line signup buttons in pure CSS with Sass and Compass
It seems Singapore and Hong Kong are quite attractive because of the low corporate taxes and great infrastructure. But best to take advice from a lawyer and accountant.
I do not see how one would combine 'two iPads with a hinge' with 'for a reasonable price', even if it were 7" iPads. That hinge complicates the engineering a lot; the easy choice would be to have batteries in one half and CPU in the other, but I fear that might lead to asymmetry in weight and/or volume of the device.
Local storage is currently limited. On the desktop there will be means for unlimited storage. Manifest files can present more than merely what file to download (such as operating in the background). By setting the apps to a different domain, it gives them room to allow for a different permission set.
US has one of the highest total tax rate of both corporate and individuals when taking into account federal tax and state taxes.

i don't know anyone with a startup in Asia, but I can't see starting a company in China being easy.

I'd say Korea most likely has a good infrastructure of a growing tech startup ecosystem. they also have a relatively low corporate tax rate as well as individual rates.

two startups from S. Korea were part of the fbFund I believe.
consulting with a lawyer is probably the most important thing you can do with making your decision.
I would rather have the Jon Ive / Tim Cook combination.
And see my other comment for my remarks in that regard. My University tells me that my internet connection is not to be used for accessing "obscene materials".

Guess how much that's stopped me.
Yes, in general, a used fuel efficient gas car is better for the environment since it takes quite a bit of energy to manufacture a Prius.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/05/the-ultimate-pr/
Ubuntu uses signed packages, and has been shipping Python 3 for some time. Debian probably includes it in their unstable repository.
YC's equity take isn't set in stone. That's why they specify a range. If you're experienced, connected, resourceful, and/or awesome enough to attract similar value for less equity elsewhere, you can negotiate the terms. Hipmunk did.

As for your job/lunch comparison, I'd argue that YC's network, connections, feedback, advising, alumni network, speakers, etc. are the "job" and the money they give you is the "lunch" rather than the other way around.

Lastly, YC is an accelerator, not an incubator, which I think is an important distinction for anyone reading this thread and considering applying. You don't work on-site at YC. You work in your proverbial garage.

I mention these things because they might help friends, acquaintances, and others who are still considering applying.
I don't have a degree, I only went to one college class on psychology before dropping out. Currently I'm the IT Security Officer for a half billion dollar health network.

I'm not the normal person without a degree, but the time I didn't spend in college/university was spent learning about computer security. I didn't blame anyone for things not turning out how I wanted, I did something about it.

Someone once told me that there are only two ways to change a situation: you can change the conversation you are having with people or you can change the people you are having the conversation with. You have to be in the conversation though.
Updates are usually deployed overnight. That's why I don't shut off my work computer.
How Facebook decides what to put into your News Feed
I'd suggest that you generate your own experience if a lack of experience is a problem. Create iPhone apps that find movie listings, create websites that do something, put it on github, create a LinkedIn profiles, (it's a tech recruiter's best friend) and get connections with everyone you know, employed or not. Gain a reputation on IRC channels, stack overflow, forums and other programmer communities. Be willing to take one off contractor jobs that pay relatively low (but higher than some retail cashier job) and see them through to completion. Put all of that in your portfolio website advertising yourself with pictures, resumes, links and other things. Make them without any sort of revenue goal in mind so you don't limit yourself in your creations. You'll be creating experience and if you hit it off on something, might of created your revenue stream.

Also non technical people use resume buzzwords as easy way to filter through a undefined mass of people. If you want to make an iphone app, your going to look for someone with iOS, iPhone, Objective-C and mobile in their resumes or portfolios. Even though you might pick it up and get up to speed to an experienced developer in a month or two, it's a month or two in money that they can avoid.