skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Student's Guide to Startups
Woz Interview: the early days of Apple
NYC Developer Dilemma
Google, YouTube acquisition announcement could come tonight
Business Intelligence the Inkling Way: cool prediction markets software
Sevin Rosen Unfunds - why?
LikeBetter featured by BBC
weekendr: social network for the weekend
PhotoShow: Broadcast Photos to Cable TV
Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute
Wired: The Desktop is Dead
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
Small is Beautiful: Building a Successful Company with Less Capital
"the rising star of venture capital" -unknown VC eating lunch on SHR
Feld: Question Regarding NDAs
Is there anywhere to eat on Sandhill Road?
Voddler Raises $2.2M For Virtual Cable TV
Will Silicon Light Illuminate the Future?
Salaries at VC-backed companies
Best IRR ever?  YouTube 1.65B...
It's kind of funny that Sevin Rosen is giving up at the same time Sequoia is scoring on this scale.
This is interesting, but the limitations become apparent with one of their example searches: http://tinyurl.com/qqnum

This comparison shows "early stage" companies offering a higher salary than fortune XXX companies. However, these numbers don't seem to indicate total compensation, such as benefits and stock or options.

Still, a cool use of search technology.
MySpace: Not a purely viral start
A Story About Not Going IPO During The Bubble
Google Acquires YouTube For $1.6B
I'm tuned...
Scratchtop - notepad for the web
winnar winnar chicken dinnar!
what do you mean? this story's still not #1
perhaps if i hadn't told you it was coming

http://lipstick.com/static/onlyforamoment.png
Can you do it again?
Woah, Scrybe! - A new kind of online organiser.
Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube - New York Times
Competitio.us: track your competitors online
Scoble: Google web apps &#34;will sneak in the back door&#34;
it's interesting how a simple set of features can make the product seem wholly different, new, and interesting. that, and the use of 'revolutionary' and 'incredible' everywhere. =)
An alternative to VC: &#34;Selling In&#34;
Yahoo's Growth Being Eroded by New Rivals - New York Times
Welcome back, Randall
Coghead Goes Live: Build Applications Visually
Rentometer: Check How Your Rent Compares to Others in Your Area
Another audience-driven news site that thinks it will win by paying users
Preezo Enters Online Office Race
Boston VCs invest in fewer consumer Internet startups than Silicon Valley firms
How Much Money Do You Make?
Winners and Losers in the Google YouTube deal
Top ten geek business myths
The PayPerPost Virus Spreads
RealTravel Trip Planner: Cut, Paste & Share Travel Tips
Cyberface: New technology that &#34;captures the soul&#34;
Black triangle: a useful shorthand and metaphor
NYT: How Friendster Blew It
NYT on the network of ex-PayPal employees in Silicon Valley
VCs Prefer to Fund Nearby Firms - New York Times
Productivity Surges During Reddit Downtime
From Oxford to Silicon Valley
Y Europe can seed growth of its new stars
Adobe gives new flash tools only to Photobucket
New Revenue Stream For Bloggers: TextMark SMS Alerts
Startup School 2007: 3/24 at Stanford
Learning from Founders
>> âI came to the conclusion that $500,000 was the new $5 million,â said Michael Maples Jr., an entrepreneur who created a $15 million venture fund aimed at investing in companies that required little capital.

Pfft. $18k is the new $500k.
Tech's younger generation leans on Web 2.0 for love
Alexa's Inaccurate Traffic Stats Become More Detailed
Launch party circuit, eh?
yet another advantage of being in the Bay Area
allfreecalls.com shut down by AT&T
dude, shoutfit!
Why Startups Don't Condense in Europe
Sell more of your product by throwing out some of its features?
Hack your desk to remove the clutter
Project management alternative to basecamp - ticketing and version control too :)
Win A Copy Of Yojimbo - a pretty good organizer for the Mac.
Where all the cool kids get their icons
SunRocket cofounders up and leave
Track users' mouse movements on your webpages
Google's Searchmash adds inline video
Premium GMail Coming Soon - $25/yr for 6 Gigs
YouTube: &#34;identifying copyrighted material can't be an automated process.&#34; Startup disagrees.
Google's Build Your Campus in 3D Competition
An Overview of the Five Gazillion Video Startups
25 Most Interesting VoIP Startups
The Google-Powered Business
SpikeSource, CA-based startup, becomes Ubuntu commercial support provider for US
Dutch Sharewire Taking Mobile Content Off Deck
Screencast of DabbleDB -- web-based DBMS coded in Smalltalk
Google acquires advertising startup
Founders: The involved vs. the committed
new fantasy movie league startup
teqlo: yahoo pipes competitor allows you to make your own apps online
How much control should our users have?
Social-Networking Sites Open Up
Do YOU have the balls to try? Part I
On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry
Add a little more random to your product
unusual business: multiethnic wedding cake figurines
Isolating Causality: Bad Market or Bad Company
startup lessons for 2007
maps mashups just got easier: GeoKit
What's good for users is what is good for the business... who knew?
Presenting to VCs
The Web 2.0 Video
Finally mobile flash video
Hard disc test surprises Google
Seven steps to remarkable customer service
Design Quotations: &#34;And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.&#34;
Startup news link submission site.
very funny, ethan
Make a claim with OpenID on Jyte
I absolutely agree with his thoughts on the power of admitting fault. It's a matter of taking responsibility for ones self and it shows character. If only everyone took this advice.

PS: nice reddit-esque dealio you have going on here :)
User Interface Design For Programmers
Snipshot &#34;the best&#34; online photo editor
Looks good. Probably BaseCamp 2.0.

I've really gotten to like Trac though, and I've used most of the tools out there. Trac just gets it done. I think the biggest plus is the Wiki.
Start up doing what? That's right, we really don't know.
Fascinating. I'm at a startup that's an S-corp too and wonder about stuff like this for the future.
Well its not a totally useless link submission, gives people a chance to comment on the site. I really like the idea of this site, it was the entrepreneurial stuff that brought me to reddit in the first place. It seems like a missed opportunity for reddit though...
Adding Idempotent Event Handling to your Javascript Toolkit
The Startup Blog : The Next Wave of Education - Grooming Entrepreneur...
I wonder what this means for practical system design.
Do people currently build assumptions about hard drive
failure patterns into their systems, in a way that
they should change? I suppose independent failure
(i.e. copying data to two drives is better than storing
it on just one) is the main assumption behind e.g. RAID;
I wonder whether Google has any new insight there.
NYT on Meraki Mesh Network Startup
Web2.0 Deals and Finance
It's cool and all that clicking on the up arrow instantly resorts submissions, but it's also annoying when one is trying to read items in a certain order. I suggest simply removing the triangle.

My top feature request: being able to see my own voting history over time.
Shopping sites BrowseGoods and BlackDogAir: Visualizations of product relationships.
news.ycombinator should let us redesign arc.
Some problems:
1.	There is no direct link back to the main page from the discussion area.
2.	Voting seems to be irremediable, if you vote by accident you can’t unvote.
3. You can't delete your comment if you posted by accident twice.
A look at eight multi-person SMS services
Best gossip social site on the web
Cutest pups, cats, babies - hotornot for babies, pups,
I think teqlo is all buzz and no useful stuff ;)
http://morecute.com they are giving Hotornot run for their money
Searchmash is awesome
Fedora is far better than ubuntu
Real celebs join Social networks driving huge teen audience to Teen social networking startup
Alyson Rosalina DiMeco Naked Brothers Band on Teenwag!
Wow, this thing is seriously cool...
great work, I've been waiting for this!

features that would be cool:
* real user-profiles
* rss-feed
* startup-wiki for general discussions
Gossip search engine Teenwag launches competing with Clusty, Technorati and google!
Powerset power hype
Did Paul graham really use Arc to make News or is it CLISP?
I like the idea of a wiki. After interesting discussions it would be possible to clean it up and store it in an accessible format.
What happens when you let kevin Federline do you inside out Britney is mad and bald
How to market to smart people (2007)
Nice site. I've always believed that focussed social networks are the ones that work out in the end. However functionality-wise, the site is still very primitive. Lots of improvements are needed. Basic functionality like saving an article is absent. Anyway, I know those are on their way.
You should be able to improve over naive RAID by pairing a relatively-high-probability-of-failure drive with a low prob one.

i.e. what you *shouldn't* do is the common practice of putting two new drives in a mirror, since they are both in the infant mortality part of the failure curve. What this data suggests is that you'll get a smaller chance of losing data (via simultaneous failure) if you pair a new drive with an older "proven" one (but not one so old that it is nearing end of life).
It's not so clear to me that a PhD is much use at a start-up
in general; you'd probably learn more relevant technical
skills at a regular programming job, and the mental habits
you're likely to learn in graduate school will actively hurt
you at a start-up. Unless you are lucky or careful about who
you work with and on what.
The original news.ycombinator.com -- VC News Central :P
Web 2.0 is a bubble for 3 reasons
And why is he banning articles that are not favorable to him???
Hot celebrities and gossip
Disclaimer: I don't have the book.

Grr! Linebreaks do not appear in the comment text!

The premise of the book seems to be that you're going to learn about how to run a startup by reading about successful ones-- that is, you're going to look at a bunch of successful startups, and say Hmm, what makes for a successful startup?

Another way to put it is that you're trying to train a classifier-- how do you tell whether a startup is going to succeed? Well, if it has a, b, and c qualities in x, y, and z amounts. However, a key part in training classifiers is having negative as well as positive examples. It seems that from reading *just* about successful startups, you could incorrectly infer a bunch of necessary qualities for successful startups, when in fact those are qualities of all startups, or those are just qualities of the sample taken, and focusing on them is bogus. Having no direct experience in the matter, I can't give good examples, but it seems like you could fall victim to a breakdancing chicken problem: (made up example) all the interviewed startups wrote software, so writing software is an important step towards having a successful startups. Well, no, but it just happened that the interviewer focused on software startups. If you had examples of failed startups, you'd see that there was just sampling bias to
DeepsList - finding trusted tradesmen
A bit of a different perspective to some of what Joel wrote.

http://positivesharing.com/2006/07/why-the-customer-is-always-right-results-in-bad-customer-service)
Apparently not even if you post it three times!
I've read it. I'm pretty clued up on the history of IT and the various backgrounds of those involved, but I still found that it had a lot of original, inspiring content. I would definitely recommend it.
There is some sampling bias in terms of what's discussed, but you can still get good information about the good moves and missteps each company has taken. I suspect that mistakes like "Didn't listen to users" are valid mistakes whether you're talking about Infogami disappearing or about Intel's Pentium II bug.

That said, there's definitely sampling bias -- but these are more fun to read because it's hard for failed founders to be honest about what was their fault.
Odeo up for sale
DUPLICATE, vote up beau's instead
The Idiot Startup (like the The Daily WTF, but for entrepreneurs rather than programmers)
A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom
Thanks! There's another neat screencast here with more recent features: http://dabbledb.com/explore/screencasts/maps-and-charts/
Why software sucks
Fixing Venture Capital
Entrepreneurship In Europe
All valid, but notice that Joel makes no comment about feature feedback from customers, only bugfix requests.
Thanks for the suggestion. If anyone else has suggestions, let us know in the comments on this thread.
Why we made this site
Interview with Michael Wesch (Web 2.0 video maker)
BBC News: The mash-up future of the web
MindMeister: new web-based collaboration startup
GWT app that is a url tracker, feed reader, and social network -- thus giving you personalized news with url tracking
Thanks for the rationale. I'm most interested in the ARC aspect of the site.
You've filled a hole reddit was starting to dig(g) in my life. Thanks!
I don't know if it's the best, but it's the only one I use. It's simple interface is what I find most useful about it. If I need more (which is rare), I use the GIMP.
Is there going to be some way to downvote/mark as read or otherwise clear links we don't want to view right now?
Companies would be interested in saving on cooling costs if its not providing any significant benefit.
I don't think the fact that the site is written in Arc makes the site itself any more interesting. Arc is interesting, as is the fact that it's to the point where it could be used to make this site.
If anyone hasn't picked up a copy of this book, you should go grab at it amazon right now. It's fairly inexpensive and very enlightening.
A startup's view on being imitated/copied/plagiarized
A real Silicon Valley garage startup
Startup Hopes to Create Online Marketplace for Open Parking Spaces
Union Square Ventures funds Adaptive Blue
Really? I was most interested in the role that news.ycombinator.com is going to play in their application process. I think that it's an absolutely great idea and not only helps Paul but start-up-would-be's as well.
In case you're interested in reading the report, it's at http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf at least as of 20070220.

The report has quite a few graphs, but it has a surprisingly unstatistical flavour about it.
Blast, meant to do a self-referential post and instead accidentally linked my post to one of my comments instead! Oh well.
This comment added through the comment page of a new news story.

Note: If you came from the news story, click comment up above. : )
Yes, really. That's not to say I'm uninterested in the role that news.ycombinator will play in their application process, too. Once word gets out, it will be very interesting to see what kind of traffic is posted and how the signal/noise ratio changes.
Great site! RSS feed would also be useful for those of us who use an aggregator.
12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise
How Jobs played hardball in iPhone birth (WSJ)
Getting right with Usability Jesus
Rumor: Confabb To Be Acquired By End Of Month
This is great. It's always a pain in the neck to open up an editor to do something as small as resize to make an avatar. Another thing I like about this is that the image is already in your browser and to-size, so you can kind of get a feel for how it's going to look on an actual page.
Is this really web10 again useless sites and more useless information really who reads these sites?
Is lesser number of results better for Search - First search engine powered by PowerSET
Polls and hotornot interesting mashup
HotorNOT redefined - No login required vote to your hearts content
Wow. These "crackpot" ideas are so 2004 (some were stupid in 2004 and are still stupid today). But I guess the enterprise hasn't gotten them yet.
Click on the lady who looks better.. so hot and HOtorNOT no login required
Funny YC didnt gzip their Content ;) so much for Arc
I Dropped Out of Grad School Today
Does Sergey Brin read YCombinator and Paul Graham?
Easy way to test EVERYTHING in your Rails app
I commented on a topic yesterday, but today I can't find my comment, or any discussion that might have resulted from it. Obvious ways to fix this include search, a list of comments with permalinks in my profile, or a way to get beyond the front page to get to older links.
We admire your ambition. You'll do well.
To take over the world?

Well this will help out y-combinator and the whole startup community for sure.
Going mobile with web-based apps
The Limits of Genius: Long-Term Capital Management
Hard Drive Myths: The Best Paper of FAST 2007 (won over the Google one)
The Google paper in the headlines was presented at the "5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07). This paper won "best of".
Scriggle-it: the ultimate fan management solution for any musician
I really like they way this website is set up.
Holy smokes! I've been looking for something like this for ages! rawk
It's brave to drop everything you've been working so hard for in sights of opportunity, but is it really in the electronic part search market? Sorry, I don't mean to sound negative, but a PhD in physics would have opened such a large expanse of possibilities. You're going to throw it away for a chance at more women and on the whim of one man (PG's) advice.

Best of luck.
I take it this place is basically startup/tech entrepreneurship-related stuff rather than being like programming.reddit.

Great, another social news site I'll check compulsively.
Depends on how far along the PhD he is.

The social argument was bizarre, I agree. Campuses are great places to meet new people; most of my friends agree that starting work is socially a step down. And they're at least working for large corporations with lots of people in them. Working insane hours at a startup it's unrealistic to expect your social life to be an improvement relative to *anything*.
Why Good Strategies Fail
A PhD is really a lot of grind especially at the end. I don't think you can really do both a startup and a PhD well at the same time. You can't really do either without a reasonable level of commitment so if your heart is with the start-up I say go with it.

As for the chicks... I've gotta say they dig the title Dr...
Ruby on Rails? Check.
Rounded corners? Check.
prototype.js? Check.
Buzzwords? Check.
Home page includes a blog? Check.

Yep, it's Web 2.0.
underscore_consulting on building a successful Web 2.0 startup [video]
It's a little unfair to chalk it up *just* to balls. I've got one of those cushy, fat, boring Java jobs, because I have a wife and three kids, and it turns out they like eating. And wearing clothes.

So, for the time-being, I'm working at night on the tools and technologies that I think I want to use, so that I'll be ready once I've saved enough dough (and karma with the family, given the probable time commitment) to self-finance for 6 months.

What about the rest of you? Any other working moms or dads out there scheming to launch start-ups? If so, how do you plan to make that happen?
A more visible footer on this page? Just so I can tell if it actually finished loading.

Also, at least being able to have paragraphs would be great.
I've gotten used to using submit to find the reddit discussion for a page. Turns out there's no duplication-detection here on news.yc yet. Apologies.

Nice that they allow editing the title.
I suspect that startups are for more creative people. So you need to decide whether to pursue an analytical phd or a more creative startup. BTW, you might find this discussion interesting: http://weblog.fortnow.com/2006/07/science-and-art-of-computation.html
bullshit/business_plan == INF
I'm extremely excited about this site. Startup stuff has always been by far my biggest interest in Reddit since it launched. As Reddit has grown my interest has faded considerably. Long live YC News!
Web2.0 HOW-TO design style guide
Hang in there.

I've been there. It gets better.
web 2.0 and web s.3xy
...well sort of ;)
How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs
I agree entirely. I am just out of undergrad, and working is a major step down socially. If it weren't for my Customer Service job I would probably interact with no more than 5 people a day (in order: my wife, boss, coworkers, wife.) (Unless you count here and Reddit.) It seems to me that he was just using his girl count as an objective measure of his social life.
HaHa! Yes thank you Paul, I was just about to swear off of Reddit for good, and this is the tipping point. I will probably still visit there to get my inane fun for the day, but I wont spend time looking through 4-5 pages of backlogs for the good articles.
Archive of Google Papers. Interesting, but technical.
Husband and Wife bootstrapped startup
Apache Performance Tuning Tips
SF Beta
The Game is Afoot - Classic from Eric Sink
Nothing with such a dumb name will ever catch on but it might be good buyout-bait.
Startup.com - the movie
This has got to make PG nervous. How many people's life is he affecting? :-)

He's definitely had an impact on my priorities in a very big and positive way. I hope everyone who makes changes based on his inspiration and motivation does it with a clear head and can take responsiblity for the decision and outcome.
Whoah! Give me a little more credit than that! Octopart is a startup which we've only been working on for three months- we're no where close to being done. So far as my comments about women and society go, I think they will resonate with physics grad students and probably a few others. Otherwise, I agree, they don't make sense.
I saw him and JL tonight and they were pretty freaked out. It's cool though- I got a nice t-shirt out of it.
At no disrespect to Evan Williams, I think the nail went into the coffin for Odeo when its own creators weren't its best users, i.e. they didn't podcast themselves, so their podcasting tools failed to deliver for the rest of the podcasting community.

Coming out of college, I had a few friends ask if I wanted to join their startup. I ended up politely declining on the grounds that I simply wouldn't have been a "good user" of what their team was trying to build. I essentially told them, "How can I understand and champion our users if I'm not a user myself?"

This same philosophy applied when I had to turn down Microsoft one summer because I felt I wouldn't be happy and, therefore, couldn't give my best working on a product that I didn't use.
Digg to support OpenID
20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
Attack of the mini-Googles!
And There Goes The First Month
Ten rules for web startups
Log on, drop out, cash in
Marketplace wanted for websites
Feature Bloat: The Product Manager's Dilemma
A PhD in physics today opens up some opportunities in the one very specific field that you studied. Getting post-doctoral positions is hard; there isn't that much money floating around. I know that I'm dropping out soon.
Hints for proposing deals . . . (or, &#34;My word, this inbox is a mess&#34;)
I often wonder if there are good opportunities for (non-web) startups in physics/science. The state of programming in there is abysmal, in my experience. There must be thousands of Fortran implementations of finite element codes out there, each with dozens of non-trivial bugs. It's absurd that physicists do so much low-level programming and optimization on their own.
How to Interview a Programmer
Since community-building is part of the goal of this site, could you include an optional "location" field in the profile? I'm interested in getting in touch personally with other people in my area.
Rocky climb for mobile IM
Creativity rules everywhere. A good Ph.D. from a good school requires tons of creativity.
VoIM interop startup: lets you make free calls between Yahoo, MSN, GTalk and SIP