skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it -- Flash is already ubiquitous. Why does Paul want to boil the ocean?

Even multi-file Flash uploaders with progress bar indicators are free and plentiful. My favorite:
http://www.element-it.com/MultiPowUpload.aspx

The only trick is getting Flash to pass session variables or some other way for the server to authenticate the user.
Do you have a friend inside Google?
I had a potential startup idea... so I ran it by one of my friends who works at the big G.

While he didn't give anything confidential away about their plans -- I could tell from his response that it would probably be a good idea to postpone any work on the idea for a few months ... when Google just might launch some whizbang new technology.

Are you worried your startup idea will be Googleized?
Is this how the Macintosh developer community wants to be represented?
I would be willing to trade the few users it scares away for the thousands (or tens/hundreds of thousands) that end up signing up as a result of these tools.
This picture was taken during the C4[1] conference in Chicago, IL on Saturday, August 11th 2007.
Worried my startup idea might be Googleized? Not at all. Google has some pretty smart people, and I'm sure they would realize that they would be better off buying my work rather than trying to duplicate it.

The same probably goes for anyone here who has made significant progress -- Google would rather buy a startup than try to compete with them.
The article ties one's dreams to his job. To some extent it's a valid link because work is so much of our lives. But as far as I'm concerned a job is just a tool, a (rather painful) way to obtain freedom; the wealth I create while working allows me to do whatever I want in my free time (I'd rather have just the wealth than the job). I prefer clearly separating my work life and my fun life instead of living for my job. The non-work part is much easier: if I want to become a robotics engineer for a month, I can buy parts and play with them until I get bored (and want to become a musician for a month). If I want to become a professional robotics engineer, it's a very different story! (I chose this example while thinking of Anybots: now that Trevor has the wealth, I'm pretty sure he's building robots for pure fun only; if he decided early, right after graduation, to start a career in robotics he would probably be designing boring industrial robots for some corporation).
Part of the 'disruptive innovation' model in The Innovator's Dilemma is that the innovation rapidly gains in quality. As others points out below, I don't see that happening with bloggers in much of what they 'cover'.
Belgrade, Serbia
... On the internet ...

Me: located in Innsbruck, Austria

Servers: located somewhere in Texas

DedaSys LLC: registered in Eugene, Oregon
Turku, Finland (Northern Europe). Partly in Espoo.
Reston, Virginia
I'm in a third-world country - Manila, Philippines (there are some talent here!) but poorer infrastructure.
I don't get it either. For people you already know, there are plenty of existing channels to communicate. As for meeting new people, come on, is there anyone who really made any meaningful relationship through facebook or something similar?
But why marketer must you feel the need to know all these things. Life is built of selective information that we acqiure, and often we are better off from the things we don't know as much as the things we do know.

Do you really want to be informed about friends who get married, but don't invite you to there wedding because your not in there inner circle, but exist in there pesudo friendship circle acqiured in college and maintained only through the convience of facebook. Or do you want to constantly read about friends who achieve certain success while you have not, or maybe the other way around, your successful and happy, and there not.

Such information I believe is better left to passing chance encounters as we all move on in our own lives after college or a particular job when we used facebook to stay connected.

your point on staying connected in given stages of peoples life is well taken, but other then close family and friends do you really want to know all that goes on in peoples lives when you should be busy living your own.
How to Take Advantage of the Coming Web 2.0 Crash
Please don't confuse "friend" with "acquaintance". Ask anyone who has ever had a serious illness. That's one way to find out who's who.

My real problem with any form of digital communication (social networking, email, voicemail, text, etc.) is that NONE OF THEM ARE SUITABLE REPLACEMENTS FOR GENUINE HUMAN INTERACTION. Is it any coincidence that the Facebook generation is also the Xanax generation?
I sincerely doubt it. Everyone has his or her own purpose for using facebook, and on that acccount I won't question anyones reason for using facebook.

The real question which most people fail to ask themselves is are those purposes for connecting enduring. Initially it will always seem so to most people, but what about next month or next year when you've graduated or left your job. Those purpose that existed before will no longer be there. Will people be constantly finding new purposes to stay connected when you no longer desire to go to party's or have a project to complete. From that point of view its no different in the college era as much as in the...well how should i put this...real life era.

But thats the long term view of the utility of facebook which most people cannot see.
at 50, john is way too old to have a startup mentality. he has kids, mortgage, etc to worry about. didn't you read the other posts at this site?
Also in Atlanta. Planning to move to Portland in the near future, though.
Why A VC Might Not Invite You To A Meeting
Not being invited to have a meeting with a venture fund does not mean that VCs think your idea is bad...
To get my coffee fix, Starbucks is always the second choice. The only time I drink that sewage is if I'm stuck in an airport. In Baton Rouge, there is a local chain of coffee houses called CC's that serve much better brew. The mom-and-pop shops do pretty well, too.
Charleston, SC
Right - But Web2.0 is really generating loads of internet traffic. we might revamp web contents using RIA concepts, but i personally dont think that people will crash away social networking utilities. Its like saying people wont be chatting any longer.
Hira
www.geniteam.com
Best drop-in forum software?
I want to add some kind of segmented forum functionality within my site, such that smaller groups of users can have their own forums. Does anyone have any recommendations for some good forum software? I don't really have any specific requirements yet as this is just exploratory, so any recommendations would be appreciated, even software that is not open-source.
http://punbb.org/ is a free lightweight forum. I just checked out their forums and it does seem to be very, very fast.
This is great. What a neat insight into a popular and functional Web 2.0 site..
Does create some security & privacy issues though ... maybe for a site with this amount of private (and valuable) data there should be mandatory security process in place.
I like fast. Thanks.
Is this flame bait, or are you really that stupid? One key principle in business is to assume nothing. Another is to never underestimate your potential competition. You just violated both in one sentence. Oh wait, you're too young to know any better.
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/09/iraqi_bloggers....

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2003/11/004953.php

Wherever there's something interesting happening, there's at least one person with a Blogger account and a little free time.
"Y Combinator founders typically fall towards the Woz end of the continuum rather than the Jobs' end"

What a great way to put it!
I don't think this is always true... it seems to me that they have tried to reproduce it first and if they fail then they consider a buy. Google video, orkut, free411, office... etc. They also don't always buy...

You probably have to worry more about them producing a technology that obsoletes your app...
In Milwaukee, WI on Brady st. there are 3 cafes within walking distance, a Starbucks and two local establishments; Rochambo, and Anodyne. I find it odd, and awesome that either of the local establishments have more business than Starbucks does. In fact there is so much more business in these other two cafes that a 3rd could probably still spring up and beat the Starbucks.
The VMware house of cards
Bloomberg believe VMware 's IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company's supposedly proprietary ESX product, which may be derived from Linux.
chicago. and birmingham, al.
I think google worries about startups obsoleting their apps.
Does anyone have experience with Joyent Accelerators & the Sun Startup Essentials Program?
The hosting issue still seems to be the big risk with using Rails for a startup -- hosting a Rails app seems to require a lot more sysadmin-like knowhow than some of the most established environments that have essentially become standard and one-size-fits-all features on most hosts.

Joyent seems to be one of the leaders in the game.. do any of you use them and have comments to share?
Hey - I live in Maine too. Grew up in Chicago - but have been here for about 8 years. Shoot me an email sometime.
Ok, but integrating all of that into something quickly and easily digestible, checking it for facts, and checking to see if it's even covering the whole story is still not something part of that ecosystem. There's a startup for someone, but I'm not sure it's something that's going to be tech driven...
The newer versions have been modified by committee, probably to remove politically incorrect elements and 'contemporize' the book. It's understandable, I guess - the original was published during the Jim Crow era, and not very long after women's suffrage, so it has some eye-opening passages by our standards. The ideas expressed in the book also contradict much modern psychology and moral fashion.

Unfortunately the editors of new versions removed or changed valuable stuff along with the 'anachronistic' elements. A smart reader should be able to deal with the original version without getting offended.

I think the biggest reason to read the original, though, is that most of us are too young to have ever known someone from Dale Carnegie's generation in person. For instance, the oldest people I've ever been able to talk to were born circa 1900 or so - Carnegie is a full generation older. Mark Twain was still writing when Carnegie was a young man, think about that. Edison and Westinghouse were still duking it out over AC/DC.

Carnegie is old, but not nearly as old as Plato or Galileo or Augustine or someone you might read in college. Reading stuff written by people from his era is eye-opening because if you 'look around the edges' you get a glimpse of what things were like 100 years ago. The world has changed so much since their time, yet so little. Just the austerity of ordinary peoples' lives before the US became a superpower is amazing by our blinged-out standards.

It's useful for entrepreneurs, especially in tech, to have an expansive view of recent history. Also, it's just plain interesting. Is Carnegie's original book an anachronism? I don't think it is. I hope this makes some sense.
Competition is a good thing. If anything, it validates that your idea is a good one, or at least one shared by others.

Google is a giant, but its success with search hasn't proven to translate into de facto dominance of other areas of the web. In most cases they've had to end up buying their competition -- YouTube won the video battle, Google Docs & Spreadsheets was acquired from Writely, Google Earth was acquired from Keyhole...

So don't let Google's interest in a problem scare you away from an idea -- use it to motivate you. The web is the one niche in the economy where a 3-person team can topple a multi-billion dollar corporation.
washington, dc here, the cap city!
Here's a cookie for not getting it ---> (*)
Cool, another Nova Scotian. Where in NS?
VideoEgg: Suddenly They're A Facebook Ad Network
Thoreau on the Neccessity of Selling Your Work
>I can't think of a very polite way to say "no fucking way", so I won't even try. There wasn't a button for that.

How could he miss the "Skip this step" button so clearly pictured??
The Economist has seen subscriptions rise recently, I think. People who want quality journalism are willing to pay for it.
im black and i use macs as well as PCs, I know other black people who use macs exclusively... although i prefer to develop on windows. OS X just seems lerthagic to me ;)
I think they worry about a better app being built by a startup and it being bought by a large competitor...
Neither. It's called "sarcasm" and was meant to hint at the set of links that typically appear on the front page related to the topic of age and entrepreneurs. I apologize that you are so severely offended.
3 Reasons "It's Not About the Cash"
Noonhat. It's the creator's 1st Django Project, done in 50 hours, spending $35.
I'm using TextDrive/Joyent, and I'd like to believe Accelerators will solve some scaling issues. I haven't launched to really know yet though. The support has been excellent, and the resources available online are good.
http://www.forummatrix.org/ is a good source for comparing different forum software.
No need to apologize. I'm not offended. Just too old to know any better.
Notes on adding SMS to your Web Service
I wrote three blog posts that outline our experience in getting SMS plugged into Padpaw. I hope it can save you some time when you're integration effort --Keith
Having some time to think about it.

A) Google will trend towards a short-sighted bureaucracy over time, as most public companies do.

B) As a result, the opportunities for the small nimble players to succeed will still be great.

C) Having Google, a big public company with a big bank account, is actually a great thing for startups; it is a company that understands the market that it is helping to create, and can used its deep pockets to acquire companies that create a lot of value.

D) Strong adversaries (Google) lead to better products! Which is great for users!
For once, myname, I'm actually going to agree with you. Blogging is, on the side of techcrunch, basically the equivalent of rewriting a press release (ok ok, sometimes he does some editorializing and "reporting" but not usually). On the side of talkingpointsmemo, it's an ongoing "I watch CSPAN and editorialize".

In the middle is what is being lost without news organizations. I'm not saying that it can't exist, it just doesn't exist yet. To fund this kind of reporting (which takes time and people) you need a revenue model that can support it and you need that journalistic ethic - the one that tells you that losing money on something is ok because it serves the public good. This ethical stance is the one basically only left amongst major newspaper organizations (the national TV news used to have it but they forgot it years ago).
So he had to work for 6 years to realize he didn't like his work?
His phone number is up there. Maybe someone should kindly tell him that plagiarism isn't very innovative.
Startup: Lucid Design Group, Network Effect on Energy Use
Can the social network effect change energy consumption habits? That's what Oakland, Calif.-based startup Lucid Design Group is looking to find out. The 5-person company, which was founded in 2004 out of research at Oberlin College, sells a software and sensor service that monitors the real-time use of electricity, natural gas and water.
Why Eugene? Is is easy to register a company long-distance in Oregon? (I have relatives there and I'm out of the country, so I'm thinking about that angle for a contact address myself :))
South Bend Indiana
Yes. You should definitely ignore facebook. Continue along as if it does not exist. Please.
As much as I enjoy scoffing at Facebook I have to admit I've personally seen not-so-net-savvy people get pulled into Facebook for its ability to reunite and keep up with far flung friends. That it's good for.

Facebook is not however a lucrative environment for 3rd party applications. All this hype about Facebook applications must stop. Please everyone, stop it. It's wasting precious development time. Have you not seen the most popular Facebook applications? Sopranos quotes, horoscopes, lucky numbers. It's like shareware hell rising up from bowels of long dead usenet groups and has manifested its unholy presence as a Facebook page. It pains me to know that some clueless VCs see a future in that.

Major spoiler alert!!! Do not read further if you are heavily vested into Facebook development!!!

Here's the final truth: Facebook users are not willing to pay for Facebook applications.
Wow...I didn't expect to see 64 comments and then be the first one chiming in from New York City. But here I am.
Poll - How many here are involved in a startup? Vote up the appropriate comment.
Update: The options didn't come out in the order I wanted. "None of the above" came out in the wrong place, but I'm sure you all get the picture.

Update #2: Added another option that you should vote down in order to make this poll "Karma-neutral".
I am in a startup full-time.
I am in a startup part-time (I have a full-time job).
I have an idea for a startup.
It would be nice to do a startup one day.
I do not want to be involved in a startup (but I enjoy reading about it).
None of the above (reply to this comment if you want to elaborate).
Would we be more willing to participate in a discussion if it involved people we know? - tribeIn
Guys, I need your help. In my free time I wrote up this application which enables users to create topics and discuss it with their friends. <p>I would spend a lot of time on reddit but rarely participated in the discussions. This had me wondering, "Would we be more willing to participate in a discussion if it involved people we know?" The quest for an answer led me to create tribeIn. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Submit several ideas to YC?
Is it possible to submit several ideas to YC? Would it be contraproductive (not focussed enough)? Or would it be better to just mention the other ideas in the respective form field?

Has anybody ever been accepted for a secondary idea they mentioned on the form field, rather than the main idea?
dc as well!
ambition put together a pretty coherent reply as to why lots of people who went to college during or post-facebook found it pretty damn useful. now that i've graduated, yes, i do want to keep up with friends i made in college (and not just those 10 that i'll visit and keep in close touch with), so that purpose is enduring. yes, i do enjoy keeping in touch with people i've connected with, all through my life. and yes, i'll still want to have a quick, but easy way to stay in touch with more people that i could have before.

quite surprisingly, my mom joined facebook last week. she friended me and put up family pictures. i've had several friends from college and that i've met since message me about those pictures -- in a very real sense, it's joining my personal networks on many levels and allowing people to stay in touch with me and for me to stay in touch with them more easily.
I do not know about Portland, things are slowly heating up in Atlanta.
Snipshot was i believe.

Also i heard that iminlikewithyou and scribd had to substantially change their idea in the interview.
My parents live in Eugene, and I visit from time to time. This summer I set up the bank account, which had to be done in person, but otherwise, I was able to create the LLC itself remotely.
Why your startup shouldn't fear Google
The idea often changes during the interview, sometimes to other stuff the founders proposed in their application, and sometimes to stuff we collectively cook up on the fly.
using Serverbeach in California.
That, or there's Instapundit and Daily Kos.

Most popular bloggers lean towards collect stories -- they don't write them.

Blogs are a distributed newsroom: reporters and editors don't even have to know each other to outwrite and outthink the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Edgeio vs. Freegeio
$10 CPM? That's not going to hold up very long.
Needs some more appealing content on the front page.
TrialIPO to Offer A Community for Start-Ups and Traders
Online Presentations: 30+ Presentation & Slideshow Services
Thanks, that answers the question, I'll keep it to the form field for additional ideas.
It's rarer for old people, because they have more obligations and they're better-informed.
App-Camp 2007, in San Francisco
Users Spend Half Their Time Visiting Content
People should reply to the comments and not just upvote them so we see who is where. Otherwise, this looks a lot like a ploy for karma.
I'm at it part-time.
Karma whoring! Unlike in Reddit, comments count for karma here. So having us vote up comments instead of the article still isn't karma-neutral. You'd need an additional "Vote this down when you vote up one of the other options" to have that.

But it's an interesting poll, so I'll vote up anyway.
Why Did Google Pack Add StarOffice and Not OpenOffice?
Don't care about it either now. I liked it when it was simple. And before I got to know how full of himself Zuckerberg is. I could barely stand listening to him giving a talk. He talks about social graph as if it was his invention and equal in impact at least to the invention of a wheel. An old good connections representation in the context of a social network. Doesn't look like a revolution to me.
Cringely: The $200 Billion Broadband Ripoff
And You Thought the US Ask.com Ads Were Strange!
Mobile social networking and content delivery set to explode
Right now, SCO has lost ~70% of their value
http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=SCOX
Fair enough. I'll add that option.
Quality Karma whoring!
Make your vote Karma-neutral, vote this down when you vote up one of the other options.
Just like last year, and the year before that, and the year before that.
This is bullshit, plain and simple.

The only area this is even remotely demonstrable is in the tech sector. In other areas, most entrepreneurs are in their mid to late 30's, even their 40's, and have families and obligations.

In fact, with boomers now able to leverage the equity in their homes, many of them that have always had the desire are finally able to manifest it.
Heh, in Vancouver BC, there are two Starbucks' kitty corner from each other.

Quite a sight actually.
http://www.mocospace.com
Honestly, I think it's in their right to do whatever they want with it. It's nice that they kept it open source entirely until now. Even SQLite, which is the open source project par excellence has additional modules that are not publicly available (encryption, compression)
I'm working on displaying the most recent topic on the landing page. But by design each user has a unique front page. Your feedback is much appreciated.
startup ?= website
The report is forward looking 5 years, so something to consider. A growth prediction like this is still worth garnering attention though.
Sorry about this mess. I need to add support for polls.
Fred Wilson: Demo Day "a blast and there are some gems to mine"
It's too bad pollground isn't around to provide a poll widget for you.
Anyone else familiar with the book he mentions at the end, Blue Ocean Strategy? The website (http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/) is setting off all sorts of get-rich-quick-infomercial flags.
It's reasonably well known, but I haven't bought it yet. I'd like to, to fill out this some:

http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/6/blue-ocean-strategy...

But I have some doubts about it. The basic idea is simply to be the first mover in a new market, rather than fighting for smaller and smaller niches in an existing market, as far as I can tell.
Uh, it's not a button, it's a link. Notice that it's pushed to the bottom and hardly given equal treatment as the actual button.

If you've ever seen many eye tracking studies, you know that items in the location on the page aren't likely to be seen, leading the user to believe (right or wrong) that they either must disclose a password or go away.