skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the rare cases where reddit does worse than digg. Digg's frontpage ranking algorithm (newest-first rather than bubble-up) means they have to have a way to bury stories. Reddit doesn't. But that means it's vulnerable to a group of a few hundred ultra-dedicated zealots.

I have some ideas about how to fix this (without digg censorship). The news sites we have now are still only version 1s.
I'm not sure which is worse.. How mean you are or that people are upvoting you. At least he's trying, and he just wanted a little support. From the sound of it, he's a single founder, so it can get pretty harsh.
Use www.prleap.com, just make sure to submit more than two days in advance if you submit for free, only the first 30 get into Google News each day. There are paid options which will get you into Google News as well.

I have seen Jajah, PageFlakes, Printingforless.com, and Squidoo releases on PR Leap.
Fred Wilson: Facebook App Numbers
My prediction: this search engine will be a failure in terms of popularity but the company will likely be acquired by a major search player anyway.
Writing this now from my iPhone. The Edge really isn't bad, and the WiFi is great. It really is a nice Internet platform.
I admit it - I'm impressed :)
The Amateur Future of Space Travel
Here is the part that I think many of us building their web applications might agree with ....

Much of mechanical innovation boils down to finding just the right compromises to such puzzles. Many of us think of invention or innovation as a wholly conceived, brand-new, big-leap-forward creation unlike anything that has preceded it. But much of mechanical success involves fiddling with the inherent conflicts within a device until you find a tiny interstice among the countervailing forces, that sweet spot, where the device suddenly does what you want it to do. In the case of the glove, the sweet spot is the precise tradeoff of restraint and flexibility that will allow for maximum dexterity.
It's funny--I was in bad shape for a bit with my wife yesterday. But then I let her play with it and browse the net and she ended up really liking it.

So far both Reddit and news.yc work perfectly. My Netvibes is a bit off due to some Javascript issue, but other than that it's been great for browsing.
Even more exciting than the possibility of switching from ATT to Verizon will be in 15 years when wireless is everywhere and the iPhone runs by VOIP.

That's how they'll really take over the wireless industry.
A "tipping point" in other words. That seems plausible. I think the problem with simply blocking people and sites is that the site still "tips", and you end up ignoring too many people. The happiest people are those who dont' have to ignore anyone.

Which brings up another point - do you really want to foster debate? Maybe it's better to just feed people what they want. If I can't have thoughtful, considerate, and informed debate, I think I'd rather just have the echo chamber than impolite, rude, paranoid extremist rants.
Can Yahoo be Fixed?
The real tragedy about Casnochas is that there are probably many people near his age who are great entrepreneurs -- but smart teenagers are bad at playing by stupid rules, so they end up not bragging because bragging could get them in serious trouble. I bet there's a 16-year-old with twice Casnochas' net worth and a much more insightful view of business -- who can't brag about it because his business is selling drugs.
Sorry to sound negative, but this company is so dead. Their PR people (you know it's the work of PR people when you see a lot of stories about something that hasn't launched yet) are just making things worse, by raising everyone's expectations.
Sounds pretty likely. It'll be hard for them to make much of an impact. But who else is working on innovating in basic search? Seems like everyone is working on social or vertical or presentation aspects. So they're well set up for an acquisition, I think by someone who wants to become a major search player but isn't there yet.
link is fixed now
Well heck, if Charlie Munger recommends her, she's got to be pretty smart. Seriously. If she's doing operations, meeting numbers, all that stuff, that should make Wall Street happier.

But Jerry's in the hot seat here. He's got to find the right things to focus on for the future, in a company that does a lot of stuff already.

By the way, here in LA there's already some wringing of hands in the business press about how the Santa Monica office may be losing some of its movie-producer types and their projects now that Semel's out. Not sure it will happen, but it doesn't sound tragic to me.
Chime.TV (My tv/joost-like video startup just launched)
I can "choose the output charset encoding"?! Sign me up!
I've been hiding on News.YC for a few weeks now, and have been loving the content and feedback this community has. I'd like to submit my latest startup that a friend and I created over 6 months in our spare time.

Any feedback/critiques/ideas very, very welcome!

Here's the quick summary:
Chime.TV aggregates millions of videos from across the web (from blip.tv, Break.com, DailyMotion, Google Videos, Kewego, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh.com, YouTube) to create a tv-like experience within your browser. With over 20 editorially-programmed channels, you can get started right away watching everything from documentaries to music videos.
Or, you can do a search to find what you are looking for. You can save favorites, create your own channels to share and even send video-mail to friends. With a fullscreen, non-stop playing experience that is always on-demand, Chime.TV is truly lean back internet TV.
Ah, that's cool, I like it!

However, I've gotta say that I'm accustomed to using my scroll wheel to roll through lists like the one on the bottom. If there's some way to make that work, that would be cool.

It's a fun experience, congratulations.
Is Yahoo's model worth fixing? The massive portal/service centers (Yahoo, Microsoft, Google) are trying to do everything. To be everything to everyone.

Isn't this a bad idea? Isn't this an awful idea? Small agile companies can focus on one corner of the larger garden and nibble on it, siphoning off customers and making a superior product by focusing on having one product that does one thing well.

My insane plan for Yahoo? Spin off tens of seperate units that each develop their one specific product. Have the main Yahoo page be a mashup of these different services, but if a competing product comes along and its better, use it instead. Keep the ad program and share revenue with new partners to keep them around.

Having one company try to do everything will eventually fall apart. Yahoo and MS are further in the cycle, but Google and Facebook are both making the same mistakes, and I think the result will be the same.
I can afford 26$, but for a student it might be a lot of money. Just a thought.
Why does the number of calls make it non-scalable? Google search does thousands of RPCs and it seems to scale ok.
Just a suggestion: I reinstalled my machine and didn't install Flash yet. The site just brings up the alert box telling me I should go to www.flash.com to download it. I expected the site to provide a direct link to the flash download, but instead all I got after the alert box was a blank page.

Granted, many users will have flash installed, but if my mom didn't and and she tried using your site with the current configuration, she wouldn't bother after getting just a blank page. (Granted, I don't think mom will be browsing YouTube and MySpace videos...at least I hope not).
ZZT-OOP! Oh, the nostalgia. That was awesome. Well, not the language. Not the IDE. But the whole idea of a game having a built-in programming language. Was it the first of its kind? (Then again, in 1991, I don't suppose it was.)

JFYI, FORTH is now usually written Forth. (Like LISP is now normally written Lisp.)
I think it's worth fixing. There are economies of scale in a portal, and opportunities to feed users from one part to another (Google Calendar gets lots of users via Gmail).

Plus the existence of startups implies (since only a few can go public) an opportunity for a very successful company driven by acquisitions.
Working on Financial Statements for SAAS StartUp - Any recommended examples or resources?
message ordering in comment threads
It seems to me that the first comment by the original poster should always be shown at the top, and top-level comments by other users are responses to that. This seems to be how all comment threads are treated by the community, and the current sorting algorithm makes them hard to follow if there are 10+ comments by the time you see the thread.

Oh, and you should be able to write your first comment before the thread is created.
"Traf-O-Data used the device to process the paper tapes generated by traffic counting boxes and produced some revenue. Eventually, the State of Washington offered free traffic processing services, ending this revenue."

And he's been against free and open standards ever since.
Web 2.0: Wikipedia But Video
I agree. This sounds like a tough schedule. I once tried to write a book at the same time as having a 9-5 job, and I was dismayed at how little time was left over from the job. When you add in travel to and from work, the day's practically shot.
killed; should go on the feature requests page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
A/B testing at Microsoft and Amazon
Discussion about the future of Startups Industry to be held on Second Life
would be particularly interested in hardware/infrastructure costs as the business scales. What are some ball park figures for hosting and hardware for a business with 100k users and 1 million page views per month?

Amazon S3 cost estimates would also be very helpful.
Founders at Work - We like Weebly.
This was a fantastic read. Thanks.
Google Docs Dictionary and Thesaurus
This is is obviously true. However, the problem has always been in figuring out which implicit vars lead to explicit insights about your ecosystem and how strong that association is. Implicit tracking also opens some privacy questions. Generally a good line of thinking though.
Who wants a pownce invite?
Once again I've got invites to give for a lovely beta. Post a reply with an email address if you want to give pownce a try. First 3 replies get invites!
What apps have been named after characters / places in scifi films?
Carbonite [does pc backup]

Named after the carbon-freezing chamber where Hans was "freeze-tested" [no pun intended] in Episode V.
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i've been doing this for a little over 3 years now. during grad school i wrote the beta version of my software when i wasn't working on my thesis. now i work during the bulk of my non-day-job time, but i make sure to have leisure time, too.

i think the danger of this lifestyle is the risk of not getting things accomplished in a timely manner. if we spread ourselves too thin we end up with our hands in a bunch of half-full pots.

nonetheless, kudos for the stamina. we have 24 hours every day to use how we see fit. 8 hours for sleep is a given, 8 hours for work is another (almost) given, and what we do with the other 8 hours is the difference between mediocrity and success.

~dean~
anymore left?
Tunde.ashafa @ gmail
That's actually their YC interview photo. We take photos of everyone so we can remember them. Jessica just happened to get into this one, because she was watching David give a demo.
yes pls: michaelkimadvisorycapital.com
Google: You ain't seen nothin' yet
faninator@yahoo.com
Startup Tips Month - full comprehensive review
mike.douglas at gmail
Sorry, I'm all out of invites now. Hopefully those I've invited will be kind enough to share the love.
Today's most respected hackers [in your opinion]
How can we improve our startup? TallStreet.com
The first thing I wonder when I see sites similar to yours is "How can you stop gaming?" I don't want to invest my time in yet another site like yours when I am fairly confident a competent programmer could write a script in ten minutes that would ruin its reliability.

Other thoughts:

it is a bit overwhelming with all its options

why is network in cents?

Shouldn't results be ordered by score? Why is something with -20% above something with 20%? but below something with 2%? Confusing.

The navigation links (blog/books/etc) should be available everywhere, as it is the navigation options available once you leave the front page are barren.

Think you should have a bit of an explanation about what the trusting you to impact a user's google results means, rather than just doing it if they happen to click there.
My website has just started growing and this site clones my site feature by feature!
You're not alone. I think serious moonlighting is one of the most painful ways to work, bar none. Far more painful than working full-time on any startup.

You're doing a great thing by taking the plunge and going full-time. You just increased your chances by an order of magnitude. Good luck.
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Congratulations on a very well done site. I don't personally have the desire to have content "pushed" to me, but you certainly have done a very nice job of making it work well.

Maybe you could add Top 10 Digg videos as a channel, that's a very heavily filtered list of almost all interesting stuff.
A friend whose opinion I respect says that the iPhone is the real deal-- that it's so good that it will shift the balance of power in favor of device manufacturers, and reduce the carriers to a commodity.
The FAQ says Slovakia.
Michael Bayer (SQLAlchemy, Mako)
contacto [at] rubenlozano.com

Thanks!
I'm moonlighting, but I'm going after customers who move slowly. That is, if full-time founders decided to compete head-to-head, they might pump out features faster, but would still be stuck in the same long feedback cycle I'm in as far as knowing what features are and aren't worthwhile. For that kind of customer base you can afford to moonlight; in fact you should moonlight because you would burn through funding before getting traction.

If you're going after faster-moving customers, e.g. Techcrunch readers, you really need to go full-time. Otherwise once you get traction full-timers might imitate you, and then woo those fast customers with fast development.
I would love markdown, when I rewrote my blog software I switched everything to use markdown. The worst part is that YC news does accept much of the markdown syntax... but then does different things with it. Humbug.
Richard Feynman is my hero.

Books you must read: http://tinyurl.com/3dwx8z http://tinyurl.com/348yj7 http://tinyurl.com/3cl7vx
Twitter gets Pwnced! while Jaiku Readies the Torpedoes
very nice site. congrats on the launch.

played with it a bit and it was very addictive, enjoyed the intro video as well haha
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I tried it today with my webapp too, and it worked great - with one exception. Whenever you have to type unusual characters it takes several extra keystrokes. But the zooming and viewing is simply amazing - I can fully use my webapp on a phone - wow. But being a bootstrapping startup founder, I can't justify buying it yet - I'll have to wait for the cheaper and more powerful version later on.
Web2.0 described in two sentences
There are two things being said here:

1. Implicit is better because it avoids people's corrupted "conscious" minds.

2. Implicit is better because it is harder to game.

The corollary to #2 is: An implicit system can, in fact, be gamed, but it requires cleverness/sleuthing/persistence/money/massive organization/etc/etc...whatever the situation calls for. Google uses 40+ variables to determine what gets on the front page. Digg uses 1 variable.

...if something smells funny on Digg's front page, it's usually pretty clear, and it's pretty obvious _what_ is going on. There's one method to game Digg, and because of the simplicity, the community and the admins should be able to put in counter-measures that are equally simple. With google...eh. Who knows? It's security through obscurity. One thing is certain: The well-pageranked of google are an enduring elite, whose only real enemies are the heuristic wizards deep within google itself.
1. Make it clear that feature requests are not welcome as threads on the submit page. Provide a link to this thread.

2. If no URL is given, prompt the user to submit a comment before creating the thread. If given, always display that comment at the top of the page.
The fact that people expect to be paid every time they do something nice for others says more about our culture than the whole Web 2.0 meme ever will.
Who's Google going to one-up if Yahoo goes away?
sgoraya AT gmail
Jobitems.cn is only an alias to my domain created by someone I don't know why.
Gotcha. I get it now.
They'll be relegated to ten-upping Microsoft.
This reeks of "Ph.D. project with funding".
I like Weebly too! Great product, great guys.
The phone system could be described the same way.
Request For corporate privacy villians (wired ranking poll, reddit powered)
Cortex Still Beats CPU? (Matchin' experiment in AI, aesthetic sensibility & ranking of attractiveness)
Touché.

Once again, age and guile beats (relative) youth, innocence, and a bad haircut.
Touché. Hehehe...Looks like my challenge should have involved multi-byte encodings, if I wanted to pick on pg. ;-)
How much should startups charge?
This is also an interesting article (book summary) about prices Ben, created by yc.user davidw I think: http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/7/information-rules-a-strategic-guide-to-...
Is it worth also submitting to programming.reddit.com, or does everyone here read both anyway?
Thanks:-)

The economists' answer is doubtless, "what the market will bear", which is of course of no practical use. Thanks to the web, you could do some trial and error - some users get different prices, or you can run promotions, stuff like that, so you can see how people respond.
Your "some users get different prices" is a quirky but interesting idea. Neat. I'll keep it in mind.
Too bad that it is such an incredibly annoying article. Why do they waste 8 pages of my time, if they could sum up everything nicely in one page? Could someone relate what the incredible invention turned out to be, because somehow I can't bear to read that article to the end.

I am still able to read books, so it can't be an ADD problem...
Really weird. Perhaps it is because of luring search engines to the page? Eventually they will put up their own application, and then they will have a head start for search engine optimization?
It might not be ideal for what you guys are doing, but think about a site with many users buying many different things. It's easy to sneak some changes in there to see how people respond to differential pricing.
This is IMHO nice example:

http://www . profesia . sk/en/employment/services-and-pricelist/client_index.php?action=services

Sorry, I don't want link to them
I can't wait to see what they do to the hardware industry. I have had my iPhone for a day and already my macbook pro feels like an arcane instrument. I am so used to touching the screen that a trackpad feels distant and uncontrolled. I really think that what apple did is as big a ui leap as the the mouse. I don't think that multi-touch will stop at handhelds.

Here's to hoping they change the cell industry too!

(posted from an iPhone)
How do you register a .cn domain name? (I would like to protect that market)
Maybe it depends on the subject? Too far away from practical things/startups and maybe it's not right here, although of course PG is the final arbiter. The community is better here, if only because Slava hasn't discovered it yet and so there are no "you are a fucking moron" posts - quite the contrary, most discussions are quite civil and pleasant.
:)) it's possible at godaddy Nick if my memory serves me good. $40/yr
I like the concept, but perhaps it could be even clearer somehow.

As willarson says, it seems vulnerable to spam (I'm happy to see that 'squeezed books' is what comes up when you put 'business book summaries' in, though:-)

I'm having trouble signing up, it keeps saying this:

"You have specified an incorrect or inactive email, or an invalid password."
I have the most respect for people doing the most difficult things, which are still "deep voodoo" subjects like gcc hacking, libc hacking, kernel hacking, even if those don't get the buzz these days.

Being a language geek myself, programming language hackers also get points, although out of a sense of modesty and awe with regards to big, fancy languages, I wouldn't include Hecl in that.
Unless you're making something specifically related to China I would say it's not worth it.
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From your squeezedbooks summary: "Many web sites, especially airlines, and even amazon.com, change prices for each individual on the site based on their behavoir." Huh, I didn't know that. The plot thickens ... I'm going to be really careful with my mouse movements next time I book a flight. :-)
What if your users ask you for money, cos you and your cofounder were bought by google for 1.5billion dollars? Say (big) group of you tube users create an alliance asking founders for money fraction cos "We have created your content you sold!" :) Seems it crazy in social world where people, not you creating your content, generating your visits and advertising income? Seems it crazy in the USA?
True about the better community here! I posted my recent blog entry to prog.reddit as well ... feel the love: http://programming.reddit.com/info/22sok/comments :-)
If you are keeping money until the project is done, couldn't you just make money by investing the money for the time you are keeping it? Also, the people giving you money are already paying that price, because they can't invest the money elsewhere.
Negative comment is also comment :)
Redirect anyone coming into "jobitems.cn" to a nice page full of your own advertisements. Maybe put a robots.txt for that domain that bans all spiders, or something even more fun. There's no MX record so you should be getting their mail too by default.
If you're submitting a site where you'd like to drive traffic, you should submit to reddit too because reddit really helps out your Pagerank.
I think it is in the best interest of many Web 2.0 sites to adopt a business model like Revver and share the revenue with users.
Sure, but it's possible to be negative about something without being rude or mean about it. I think one of the great things about YC.news is that everyone here is a 'builder/creator' in some way, and that makes us understand the work that goes into even unsuccessful things, and perhaps less likely to simply trash them.
Would that be of the street variety or pharmaceuticals? (con prescription)

This guy has done very well by himself and gets little press (he's 22-24 now or so):
http://www.ryanallis.com/blog/

His companies do several mil a year and have profits to show for it. (my buddy's a cto there)
I am not sure if I prefer a culture where people are expected to give away things for free all the time.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Even if people give away things for free, they usually expect something in return. Even if it is not money, it could be higher social status, a better place in heaven, or whatever. I don't think it is a problem.

Gift economy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
great job with the site guys, very impressed.
first impression is good. nice looking, easy to use, great ui.

only thing i don't like is playlist.. it's height is too small and it is too wide.. and i would like to see title of next video somewhere when playlist is hidden
Universal in Dispute With Apple Over iTunes (more than $200 million worldwide revenue 1st quarter from itunes)
Ingolingo.com - learning foreign language fast and easy
John Carmack and Erik Naggum
I think for .jp domains you have to prove residency, maybe same for .cn? They're both expensive compared to $6 .com domains. I never bother. I'm also kind of paranoid I'd attract some kind of Chinese government attention just by having the domain. Probably unfounded paranoia though.