skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd take me first to be convinced that my idea is actually viable. Which means the project would have to be in an operation state before I make the jump. But I definitely have the ambition to.
Don't seek problems -- seek solutions. Avoid all problems :)

One of the hardest things for a big company to do is move fast. Startups typically have very limited resources, so the only way to move fast is to not spend very long on any one problem, and that's generally going to mean avoiding problems that are hard. What I'm really advocating here is that you look for the easy 90% solution that seems almost the same to the user but only take you 1% as long to implement.
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19816
That sounds like a really bad case of depression.
Sounds like an amazing guy and the interview is really interesting.

I dont know the full story but I dont think anyone else here does either, apart from the people involved.
I guess about 2 minutes ago, give or take.
Waiting for my partner to discuss something with me, so I've got a few minutes to check my feedreader. ;)
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True Story:

Context: It's now 2:14AM San Francisco Time. I am a commuting biker in San Francisco, and also suffer from extreme Founderlackofsleepitis. I'm in good shape riding every day on some of the steepest SF hills back and forth between Cole Valley and SOMA.

The difference today: Heat. I think we were approaching 90 degrees which is unheard of here. I was late for an appointment and rode full bore up the hills to the Sunset from Work around 3PM - bad idea.(Several "Beyond Category" climbs")

No big deal, I sweat a bit and smile. I start coughing though afterwards. After dinner I start feeling increasingly cold. The coldness continues. At the lowest temperature point I'm covered with 2 feather blankets, wool icebrakear robes anything I can grab with large hot water bottles - I think I'm in the arctic. My body is out of control trembling - damn!

Then it stops, I start feeling warmer - very nice. But then I get warmer and warmer and hotter. At one point, my brain is solving all the problems in the world - I knew I was in trouble. After a couple gallons of water and cold showers I stabilize. The doctor says I had Heat Exhaustion but almost crossed the point of no return which is a very real thing. http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic236.htm

So for you bikers who are way too low on sleep, please don't ride up extreme hills in the heat - even if you're in shape!

Tuesday will be hot too - beware.
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I came across a dude in a mountain bike race once who was getting the chills in the middle of July after climbing up a big hill... I told him to get himself back to the aid station soonest and drink water and electrolytes. The electrolytes are important, because you can actually die from drinking too much water if you don't take in any electrolytes.

To bring things a little bit more on topic, I guess the important message is:

Take care of yourself (and the people around you). A failed company might suck, but it's better than serious damage to your health or relationships with people who really count.
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Originally at http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19920

Paul, might you modify the submissions page to have some guidelines?

Point people to the Feature Requests thread as they clearly don't notice the link at the bottom of the page. Remind them that this is Startup News so it would be good if the posting was applicable. Tell them where to find Slashdot if that's what they want. And explain that they are not the only ones with RSS feeds so they don't need to just copy links from there to here.

Personally, I think news quality has degraded since karma came along. Some people are clearly keen to move up the leader board and starting a new thread is one way to do that. How about not rewarding karma for a thread's score? It can still be voted up by others to show it's interesting but karma must be earned by quality comments on the thread. Either that, or let us down vote threads to penalise non-applicable threads.

Better statistics may help show some light. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=18085
I can definitely relate to the slash lifestyle: Architect/Software Developer/Sailor/(Overheated Biker) etc.
I would advocate removing all legal advantages unions have to level the market. If they want to exist, let it be a fair voluntary agreement between employees and management without the legal jeopardy that still exists for management during labor disputes.
So reddit faked their early users... even though they had pg's readers. A new social site must get really creative if they consider faking users not ethical (as I do).
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I don't know of any reader that actually uses the comment tags

rss2email does. Or at least it does after I made a slight change.

http://rss2email.infogami.com/
'... It must have seemed like a reasonable decision at the time; nobody had been nearly as badly burned by Aaron at that point as they have been since. If this reputed eccentric whiz kid hacker who wrote your web framework wants to join your startup ...'

I don't think I meant to say there would be a problem in taking on a new founder. The fact is someone joining at later time is more vulnerable and therefore you have a greater leverage. Joining later in terms of negotiating is a weakness that could have been exploited.

'... I'd say that you shouldn't blame the people who made that reasonable of a decision for what happened since. ...'

It's not blame, simply 20/20 hindsight. I say the founders in this case have done an exceptional job executing especially with this their first business. I'm just making an observation.
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Until there is a common standard of language-independent conceptual definitions, the semantic web will remain a dream. The sign of the realization of that dream will be a web based open tool with integrity checking that allows users around the world to contribute to definitions within their domain of knowledge. I think it will definitely happen some day.
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Sorry... didn't notice the lack of a yc news link on the article. But to be fair, this article is closer to dealing with startups (labor relations, corporate structure) than a lot of things I've seen grace the front page.
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There is clearly something personal going here. Let's all remember there are too many IP addresses. People will speak freely, anyone who is trying to go against is still living in the 60s
Now this comment is interesting...http://valleywag.com/tech/archetypes/the-nontrepreneur-258466.php#c1420280
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Congrats and best of luck.
How weird. I didn't recognize this, but it sounded like me. Did I write something for Dr. Dobbs and then forget about it? Then I noticed the date. This is from 1988.

Uh oh, just noticed they didn't preserve indentation in the code. That makes it effectively unreadable.
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I'm halfway through Tim's book.I recommend it but there is a little 'get rich quick' vibe which I'm sure Tim wasn't trying to include.
Is watching a 56 minute video included in that 4 hours of work per week?
I wondered too... (That's how they present themselves (or are presented) in other blogs.
The article is about myspace even though it has Facebook in the title.
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Great Article with an unbelievable line- "Thank god they invented the word muffin, or I'd be eating a cupcake for breakfast"

I'm buying this guys book.
when you don't have any other choice.
a-freakin'-men. twitter doesn't cure any of the pain i've got. or maybe i'm just old.
That is actually pretty interesting. I'd like to see someone who has implemented this, as long as one of the 'quests' isn't to click on banner ads ;)
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Still looking for another startup to share our Boston office with
We have some space in davis square, somerville. This is about as close to cambridge as you can get for those of you not from boston. The office is steps from the T in the nicest buulding in davis square. There is no lease and nothing formal to sign. It's myself and a co-founder and we would like to try and find two other founders to share it with and share some ideas if willing.
I see no reason not to post such updates here. After all, this is a "Startup News" site.
ed, great work. When I clicked on a story, though, the comments weren't appearing until I commented out line 194.
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Is the Web half full or half empty?
I can't help being curious; aren't there algorithms that itentify the likelihood of a sample of text being from a given writer based differences in writing style. If so we have plenty of writing guaranteed to be from Alexis and maybe we could identify which accounts were his.
Ubuntu going mobile
Initial version releasing in October... that rather perfectly coincides with the WFP and for any teams interested in taking pg's "interface that doesn't suck" YC pre-approved challenge.
One problem with this: people expect to do that in video games. They are spending lots of time to be entertained. For web apps they just want the full functionality right there. They don't want to have to 'work' to get it. I'm not so sure such a model would work well for the web, but it is an interesting idea nonetheless.
did anyone else notice that this is a YouTube video that is way way more than 10 minutes (56:45 to be precise).

they must be making exceptions to the 10 minute upload limit.
Thanks, Paul! Between your reply and pg's, I understand your point a lot better now, I think.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I made the change in the source.

If anyone installed this script without firebug they're probably affected by this mistake. Try reinstalling the script if this is the case.
but the most important part

http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/ideas-are-worthless-wrong-ideas-can.html
"If 5 people in room always agree, then clearly that room is clearly not filled with intelligent people."

This turns out to be not the case, if by "intelligent" you'll allow me to substitute "rational." People who are rational and honest should always agree:

http://hanson.gmu.edu/deceive.pdf

And, also:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/12/agreeing_to_agr.html
Actually, this question is 100% relevant.

http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/02/has-juwo-failed-or-how-can-it-turn.html
I have noticed a lot of exceptions, some not even obviously related to youtube/google. Perhaps they have some hidden premium user function
So basically, someone who knows very little about Lisp just slapped your code on their website?

I also noticed that the date now reads "May 10, 2007," which looks to me like sometime in the future :/.
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Natalie Portman a la justin.tv?
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If you are taking him on as a cofounder, you obviously think he is very high-powered and will do lots of amazing things. Therefore, being a non-bankrupt non-scumbag, you don't particularly try to screw him on the terms of the deal.
The best is if you take your seed money from a guy whose rich enough to fund you, but poor enough that he spends all day submitting stories from fake accounts to make sure he doesn't lose his investment. :-)
very timely, I exited my job of three years last Wednesday. It seemed like I would never get to that day, but then it all happened so fast and I wish I had done it months ago.

While we are about 1-2 months off before launching the beta, I felt that being the founder meant I should take that plunge first, so I'm all in.

Getting off the dole was on of the most exciting things I've done and I honestly hope I'm able to maintain this independence from here on out.
No - DDJ reprinted an article they originally published in 1988. The article was written by Paul Graham. The digital version lost the code indentation which makes it a lot less readable.
If this is true, it would be insane if JustinTV didn't chase this lead. She's the kind of person that could take lifecasting from the nerd audience to the everyone audience really quickly.
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With all the greasemonkey scripts making it to the front page lately, I thought I'd test out my own that dealt with comments. I tried to delete most them, Sorry.
The Trouble with Fungible Startups
I'll trade my two $50K cats for your $100K dog (YouTube vs Photobucket acquisition)
I've set up this blog for you to announce *updates* to your web 2.0 app.  Send me your updates by email or post them directly to the blog.
Great interview. I actually learned a lot. Heartwarming to hear that reddit actually DIDN't get chosen first time around.
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If you would like to post updates directly to the blog, please send me your email to amichail@gmail.com so that I can give you permission to do so.
Actually, they did. Heh.
If you pick your investors like you pick your restaurants, you deserve what you get.
The instability issues with Second Life cripple what could otherwise be a rich user experience. Even when it works, it feels creaky and burdened. Not surprising, given the nature of 3D graphics, let alone the streaming of user created content in real-time. The other major issue is that while the 3d environment works very well for social interaction, It isn't so great for interacting with more traditional infomation like the written word. If they could integrate some tools to more seamlessly interact with 2d data like webpages, then heck, I'd spend all day in there.
How sad, Michigan seems pretty underepresented on that map. :-( I guess Maybe we are too busy making cars and furniture. Here's hoping that changes in the next few years!
The obvious thing about thefunded.com is they ought to be and will remain a boot-strapped company, unless they are acquired by a 'VC'
I would normally be afraid that she would just hire some average geeks on the cheap and broadcast her camera stuff, but people seem to have implied that the justin.tv's have some amazing technology that gives them a big advantage over everybody. I'd be interested in what that technology advantage is, though.
To reply to it: I'm pretty sure that a) they don't resent Slowe, and b) that it seemed like a good idea at the time. I would trust PG not to do any forcing of any of his startups.
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Everyone seems to be missing an important point of unions, which is to increase the standard of the work environment. If you have never worked in manufacturing you will not understand, but I spent three summers working in steel mills, and even today the conditions are not very good. There is constantly steel dust floating around in the air, sulfuric acid fumes, and excessive heat. If conditions are like that now, with unions, I cannot imagine what things must have been like earlier in the century.

It may be easy to simply view laborers as commodities (in fact, pg compares them to servers), but it's important to remember these are human beings with lives to live. Before the era of unions, these people were treated as tools, and unions forced companies to recognize that they need to actually give their workers livable working conditions.

So I would like to submit that one reason for the decline of unions today is that government regulates companies much more tightly. Organizations like OSHA and the Workers' Compensation Fund ensure that workers have reasonable demands placed upon them, and if they get hurt, they will still have enough money to live on.

No web consultant ever had to worry about getting electrocuted by the machine he or she uses, or about passing out from excessive heat and falling into dangerous machinery. To compare the union movement of the early 1900s to the boon of web developers in the 90s is absurd, in my opinion. The people who were part of the union movement were heroic, in a way, by forcing faceless companies to recognize the health and humanity of their workers.
How much to share the office space? Also, how much space will we have? We're two guys working on a really useful finance app. Buxfer - watchout here we come........
Im guessing they only have software advantages...seems unlikely they have actual technology without having an electrical engineer on their team.
Ahh, that's more forgivable then. I'm still not sure what's up with that date, though.
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http://www.justin.tv/cast#kyle

Guessed wrong.
I would not call JustinTV a technology startup. They are Web 2.0 company, i.e. they are following myriads of other "SQL to HTML converters" they are experiencing lack of data to stick to DB tables.

They are unique, however, in their attempt at building the actual data for their SELECT statements, as opposed of asking their users to provide their own data for conversion to HTML.
Who are you, and why do you think people should fill out your blog with news for you?

How about you manually contact every Web 2.0 startup asking them for data to populate your blog with? That will make more sense: if you in need, you go out and ask.
I've noticed the same thing, but fortunately for the twitter folks, someone (teenagers?) seems to think their app is useful.

It seems impossible to judge the success of an app like that before it's launched. Fortunately, I guess when you are a VC throwing around 10s of thousands of dollars at something as unproven as that doesn't seem too risky (a huge upside potential, with little downside).
This is for people who need to promote their startup and don't have a significant traffic source.

If enough people contribute to this blog, it might become popular thus providing these people with a source of traffic.

So in essence, people would contribute to this blog for the same reason that they would contribute to freshmeat.
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Ehm... all hints by people in the know have pointed to significant technology that's invisible to the user. They aren't just content providers.
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Owners of Web 2.0 startups have far more to gain from this than Amichail does. Generally, economic returns accrue to those who do the difficult parts; it's far more difficult to start a Web 2.0 company than setup a blog, so far more gain accrues to the users of this than the blog itself.

I, for one, plan to use it as soon as we launch our startup. Unfortunately it's not much good if you're not ready for traffic, but I think it'll be a nifty added source of exposure.
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Not to be insensitive to Justin, but his life isn't exciting in a way that attracts the masses to his video feed. Most of the time he's walking around his apartment, or sitting on his couch playing with his laptop. he just doesn't have the charisma that somebody like Natalie Portman likely has.
ch...what? I think you mispelled "breasts"
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Certainly, part of the charm of jtv is that he's just a normal guy doing normal things. It's fascinating to see how the simple act of wearing the camera changes his life - people talk to him differently, he gets invited to things, he's suddenly something of a celebrity just because of the presence of the camera.

But imagine that camera on Natalie Portman or Paris Hilton, or someone whose life is already incredibly out of the ordinary - while some of the charm is lost, it certainly would add a lot of intrigue.

There's also a lot of opportunity for using this kind of platform to do loosely narrative driven content: someone wears it for a single date, a job interview, to document a startup, to document making a film, etc.
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There are also two of us there at the moment. You can see our space at dreamvex.com. We are in another companies larger office and we pay $1000 for the month. So we can all split that evenly meaning $250 a person / per month. It is 24 hour access. And a realy really nice space. Best building and office in the area by far. It's a good temporary solution for developing your product because there is plenty of quite space and a conference room for use.
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Oh man, Sun. Anyone have high (or even mediocre) hopes for this?
i wonder why she is wasting time going to investors, doesn't make much sense, if she needs money for tech then I am sure justin.tv would oblige to cover the tech. maybe justin.tv has declined because they arent ready or maybe she doesn't want a 24hr experience... Although it is being reported by valleywag so who knows.
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I went on hiatus from a job over a month ago.

Now I'm back looking to join a cool RoR startup =)

I have some cash reserves; not enough to live off of in SF for many months.
Who wants to guess how this will turn out?

Personally, my money is on LOL or Not -- Hot or Not for lolcats.
I think it would also be tricky to explain to your employers why you're working on a startup on the side.

Was your name featured on TechCrunch, or just a URL?

I've tried doing "anonymous" startups under pseudonyms, it's hard to be taken seriously by the likes of TechCrunch, etc.
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It can also equally be difficult even if you work from home, but have output monitored.

I've worked in an office environment where people could easily get away with surfing the web 80% of the time, no big deal.

I've worked from home where Subversion checkins are monitored daily.

No checkin? Well what the heck are you doing from home then? =)
But from what I have read, they just hacked together off-the-shelves technologies. Making new technology in the semi-conductor industry is often very expensive. Besides the skill set required to hack-together off the shelve technology is not nearly as specialized and difficult as making new circuits/chips.
The solution, of course, is to pay attention to what your investments are doing. If he'd spotted the change in course earlier, he probably wouldn't have nearly as big a problem on his hands.