skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High quality download:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~3/76547149/ted_robinson_k_2006.mp4
Realistically, of course I would!

Theoretically, it would depend on the terms, the price, and competing offers. If in the unlikely event that Google and Microsoft made competing offers, both requiring substantial vesting terms (2+ years), then Microsoft would have to offer maybe 15-30% more for it to make sense.
I'm pretty surprised, I mean writing a script to slurp the emails can't take more than a couple of minutes.
'... Actually, a better question would be: ...'

My take would be, "do you want to work for MS?". The buyout would probably be conditional on the team working with/for Microsoft until they "get up to speed". So put your hand up if you want to work for SoftCo?
Chicago, 26
Financial information data for web2.0 businesses - any (businessplan) examples available?
Thanks ;) Good luck w/ your app!
Same to you sir!
I love this post. I loved it so much it was forwarded to all my friends that hate their jobs. It was very inspiring for all of them, esspecially since most of us are looking to escape the corporate world and its life energy sucking affect.
They say it's free for business or personal use. That exerpt from the FAQ seems to be about making a derivative program for making SWFs.
He he, I dunna ken fer whutchur oon aboot!

Btw, great work on http://jobitems.com ;)
Jeff Bezos made an investment. They didn't need it, but just wanted to have access to Bezos from what I understand.

Here's their announcement:

http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests_in_37signals.php
But that's what this program is.
If Microsoft would ... there will be many more who would maybe google or yahoo :) So I would not and not because of PG article.
Yes you Are right
In the comment section, Shefaly makes a good point about trying to observe the guy in social situations (i.e., not a formal interview or business meeting).

I recommend visiting a restaurant and observing how he treats the waitstaff. If he's rude or abusive to the waiter, how do you think he's going to treat you when you're his employee or partner?
Another way to frame the idea would be to rely more on your subconscious - all those automatic responses to situations based on a lifetime of experience. This is standard practice for designers who spend a great deal of time absorbing the aspects of a problem at hand, then put it aside. A minute/hour/day/week later comes the Aha!, a subconsciously formed integration solving the problem. (No magic involved).

One experiment I tried was for a very large multiple choice test. (For the Architect exam, 3 days of 10 hour tests). I found that when taking the practice test, 95% of the time that I went back and changed an answer, thinking I had answered it wrong the first time, I actually changed it from right to wrong. So for the actual test, I went through the test once only with one answer, left hours before every one else, and aced it. The moral: The Subconscious is a good thing - you can rely on it.
Back when I was in school I noticed a pattern emerge while taking tests over freshman year: If I changed a test answer a statistically HUGE amount of the time I changed it from the correct answer to an incorrect one. After noticing this pattern I stopped second guessing myself!
Nice anecdote.
Don't worry, I'm planning to podcast it and post it here sometime that night ;)
One of the reasons I asked this question is because recently I participated in a webinar by marketingexperiments.com . The folks at MEC said they tested three different price points for a product - $10, $12, $15 (something like that) and asked the audience, many of whom were marketing professionals, which price they thought performed the best. The majority of them were wrong.

The moral, in that case, was that a marketer's instinct is a fine thing, but doing online testing gives you real knowledge of the situation. By doing testing not only can you learn if your instinct is right, but you can glean information about your users/visitors as well.
How to create a Twitter bot
Click on "Startup News", that's the front page not the "new" tab. It's currently on top.
http://www.businessplanarchive.org - but those are old bp s
Salesforce.com buys Web content management firm
There are multiple CL communities. comp.lang.lisp famously sucks, but (for instance) #lisp isn't so bad.
Canonical wants open-source cooperation
Microsoft's money is as green as any other money I'm likely to be offered for the software; my decision would depend on other things like the amount they were offering and the terms of the deal.

For instance, "must move to Redmond," "must sign a non-compete contract," and "must be developed in Microsoft proprietary languages and for Microsoft proprietary platforms" would all be deal-killers.

My goal here is not to be rich, necessarily, but to create the kind of company I want to work for and make it profitable enough that I don't need to work for any other company. If any buyer, even Microsoft, offered the sort of environment I wanted to work in, plus enough money that I could walk away and not need to work another corporate IT job again if the environment changed, I'd sell.

And some of this is predicated on the experience of a good friend of mine, whose team mostly bootstrapped a very profitable company, then sold it to their largest corporate customer; suddenly they were getting guaranteed salaries, and they got to watch their project earn tens of millions in revenue, but the working environment was politically toxic and the company (now a wholly-owned subsidiary) was the football in constant turf wars, and (in retrospect, especially after seeing the first two years' income from the project) the price they asked was about 1/10 of what it should have been.

I can't alter the turf wars and political toxicity in certain corporations, but I can make sure I ask a price for my company that means I can stand up and walk away with no financial worries if they develop.
From Eastern Europe ::: for us, the real life hackers with only 1% of your GDP, it is obvious to _USE_ a software or any IP product, service rather than paying for it. We have money only for cheap hardware (forget macbook), broadband, and maybe some for hosting. These trends represent the future: 4/5 of world population the chinese, indian, arabs, or latinos won't have more money to spend going online.

From this entire business scene only Google is able to get money from us. We are willing to pay only for Google Ads because they are cheap, straight, and delivers ROI next minute.

We go connected for nothing, we create for nothing and we get revenue by partnering Google.

Any other company who does not follow this business model is, or will be dead.
Nobody ever will pay for any tools to create an online business but we will share our revenue with who generates us profit.
Just don't call it a Web OS
Just because Microsoft is dead, doesn't mean you can't take their money..
5 Steps for Online Business Financial Planning
error again - please kill this
The Path to Enlightenment - Palm Design Philosophies, Practices and user testing tips
Adobe CS3 Configurator: Should your product lineup really require something like this?
No offense to John Nack (Photoshop PM), but seriously, what were they thinking?
My most recent startup somehow became much more popular in London and the Netherlands than in the US.. so where you're located isn't so important. What's important is that you understand the people in this location's needs better than others.
I don't watch television, and I know many of you don't... but isn't this exactly what reality TV has been doing? Not that this idea doesn't have a lot of potential yet.
How does it work? I don't think it is possible to draw with JavaScript, so I suppose it is an AJAX application that loads the lines drawn immediately from the server? I am amazed how fast the reaction time is.
Forget the eBay Exit, Sell on Web2.0forSale
Where's the Beef?
What's Facebook worth? Fast Company doesn't really know...
Positively? the job listing tells me what I want to know in order to determine whether I want to find out more about the position (what am I doing, what tools do they provide, who am I working for, where are they located?)

Negatively? Evasiveness ("one of the leading X"), attempting to impress me with things I don't care about or am likely to consider negative ("a Fortune 500 company," "one of the largest Visual Basic code bases in the industry"), signs of buzzword bingo or technical incompetence ("must have significant experience in PERL, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, ASP, C#, ColdFusion", "must have 10+ years of experience with Windows XP"), signs that the accounting department and glossy magazines are choosing technologies (any mention of ColdFusion or Dreamweaver).

Yeah, the latter list is much longer. It's a lot easier to do things wrong than to do them right.
Last semester I had a professor who banned changing answers once you fill it in on the scantron. That means no erasers. He gave a similar line of reasoning as your experience.
Social Networking User Behavior Study
The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net
Do you need to switch your pitch?
Business is Business. I would sell to anyone that made a decent offer and walk away from anyone that does't!
Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today
This is just for fun. Relax.
Of course its constantly refreshing as always :)

The time zone difference is killing me, its only 8am over there!
This is fantastic. I've always really loved Palm software and now I know that it is for a good reason.
Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser
Facebook cover story from Fast Company - Hacker, Dropout, CEO
hakuna matata = my philosophy in life.
Two comments:

1) I think you underestimate the importance of Firefox in Microsoft's decline in importance. It is Firefox that makes sure that all those Web-based apps aren't held hostage to Microsoft's implementation of web standards.

2) Whilst its all about the web it isn't all about the browser. Ajax-y web apps show the potential for ignoring platform specific APIs (such as Win32)--especially when you don't try to mimic platform specific behaviour (the big problem with Swing-based apps: stop pretending to be a native desktop app! Rejoice in being a x-platform web app!). But ajax inside Firefox/Safari isn't going to be enough for me to abandon all of my 'rich' Mac OS X apps: if you want me to put all of my brain in your web-based wiki or PIM, give the same 'richness' and sophistication of design that I can get with VoodooPad, DevonThink, and Curio.
Considerably more often than that. Dreamhost is gonna be pissed with me.
Has anyone heard back yet?
lets dream for a minute -
All things even, I would prefer Microsoft over Yahoo, but likely go with Google over both. Even better would be a slightly smaller, more focused player like SalesForce.com. It seems that Yahoo has a tendency to sap a startup of all it's mojo, while Google is fairly effective at buying a feature/product and quickly integrating it into their suite.

Microsoft has done well with some, and dropped the ball on others, but the embedded reach and business focus would be a huge value add to our business.
Anyone who cares can have fast Internet access now.

Um, no.

I care to have fast access (I am a network administrator at a hospital so it'd be useful). But I cannot have it. Therefore your comment does not reflect reality.

I'm sure that's true in the city where you live, but come to Dalton, NH and tell me again how I'm supposed to get high speed access. DSL? Nope. Cable? Ha! Satellite? Not on my wooded hillside. Magic internet fairies? Oh, that must be what you're talking about!
The only thing that's worse than an armchair-quarterback WAG about something they were introduced to last week is being promised an armchair-quarterback WAG and getting "it's hard to say".
Oops, thanks for the clarification.
What a Startup Office Really Looks Like
They are building a global brain. Skynet here we come.
I take it that means they just aren't worth much ;)
11th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners
Yes, but he wants me to buy penis enlargement pills for some reason.
Bah, evil linkbait titles :D I was expecting there to be an actual valuation and a method rather than a shrug.
Heh. I didn't know YC was into that kind of thing. How interesting.
SXSW had at least two decent talks on web apps, including their financial performance.

- http://www.carsonified.com/sxsw.pdf
- http://particletree.com/sxsw/autopsy.zip
I've got a Sieve script running on my IMAP server, set to redirect to my phone any message from an address containing any of the strings "pg@", "tlb@", "rtm@", "x@", or
"ycombinator".

I also have my email here set to a subaddress, which is also included in the above forward. Points to anyone who understands Sieve semantics well enough to predict whether the message will get matched and redirected twice.

Sieve happens in realtime :-)
I've got you beat. I built a robot last night (runs on Lisp and parts from Radio Shack) that constantly monitors the internet, my phone lines and packets going out of YC's office. As soon as my robot picks up a signal of interest it beams the messages directly to my HUD that I've been wearing ever since I sent my app in.
Emails fall through.

This isn't survivor. Get back to work. :-)
Hurray for over-engineered solutions! While you're at it, though, you might as well just have your robot slip inside YC and grab a copy of Arc--then it wouldn't just be Lisp, it would be Hundred Year Lisp!
what are you saying?
I think you did not understand my suggestion.
You may want to take a look at http://www.enomalism.com, it provides migration to and from Amazon EC2 as well as the ability to create your own geo-targeted cloud.
I'm in love with my Junk Email box today too. Nothing gets deleted without proper consideration.
What a tease!
I used MyIE2, the precursor to Maxthon by the same company, on my old computer. Is it very handy and I never even considered upgrading to Maxthon.

On this computer, IE7 has built-in tabbed browsing, and my mouse has back-forward mouse buttons on it. I am sticking with IE7 for Internet Explorer Firefox 2 for Mozilla.
Haha sorry guys, I was just using their title for the article. I fixed it now ;)
I'm 300 meters away from YC in Mountain View, so the email doesn't have to travel as far through the intertubes to get to my inbox. Beat that!
11. To avoid an asshole boss (co-founder) try not being an asshole yourself!

12. To avoid an asshole boss (co-founder) try not to look for reasons he could be an asshole.

Slightly tongue-in-cheek, but seriously, most disagreements are the result of poor communication, not because one person is the villain, and one, the victim-that one person is right and one is wrong.
Furthermore, 90% of our communication is done with our body. If we are suspicious and judgemental of new people, they will read this in how we move and posture, and respond in kind, resulting in the precise situation we are trying to avoid.

This doesn't mean to ignore warning signs, but to focus primarily on whether this person is willing to collaborate and compromise with you as you work towards your goals.
I find a recommendation from someone I don't know (Linkedin) to not be particularly helpful as I don't know this person's point of reference. Perhaps this person is always looking for assholes.
Not new, but useful. Thanks for reminding me of this!
Save Your Startup Money: Open Source Alternatives
I'm about a 100ms away from there so presumably you'll know before I do
Doesn't have to. But it sure might not get routed that way.
Is Quality of The Team The Most Important Thing?
I'm reminded of GMail's infinity+1 schtick when I think about Facebook's valuation. It's growing too fast for any valuation to be valid for more than a couple of weeks. Yahoo found this out the hard way.
Sorry, didnt mean you. I was referring to the original article.
I actually noticed the opposite pattern: about 95% of the time, the double-check caught careless mistakes and I ended up with a higher score for it. Perhaps it was because of my typical test-taking strategy: I'd race through the questions and answer every one immediately, then I'd go back and double-check all the steps to make sure I hadn't done anything silly.

I did notice that my score tended to decrease if I triple- or quadruple-checked my answers, though.
GMail. It refreshes for me.

Other than that - I'm trying to get some work done so I can get home at a reasonable hour and work some more on my startup.
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11221
bad link, ignore this post
Hottest Startups
It's quoted from Ivanhoe isn't it? :)

Thanks Matt.
simply a google search. what a waste of 12 minutes of my time!
"We're about to send the first batch of emails,".. This was April 09. Has anyone recvd any updates?
Why YouOS et al Are Screwed
Excuse the tone, I was cranky when writing.
Breadcrumb navigation is increasingly useful
The wait is over! Download Joost!
How does news.yc order comments? They seem to randomly reorder themselves between reloads.
YouOS et al miss that a complete Web Desktop Environment can make computing fundamentally easier for people uncomfortable using Windows computers by eliminating all the useless futures of modern OS's that interfere with performing useful tasks.
I noticed that too. Especially if you update 2-3 times your comment...Sometimes it goes on top, then lower...
I've always taken this to be a feature, to promote development of comment threads beyond just the first few.
My Other (super candid) Interview with Eric Schmidt
Goooooood Moooorning! Still no mail....?
19 Year Old Takes a Stab at Web 2.0 With a Social Site For Computing and Technology.
I got a mail from GMAIL team asking me not to abuse Gmail by constantly refreshing it :D
Gmail doesn't refresh that often! I think there is still a lag....keeeep refreshing!
It's still invite only beta, isnt it?

I have a few invites in case anyone wants one.
Congratulations! You've got a great start - build on it.
Agree with the Gmail people -- although I love it, the notifier can't be trusted with important matters!
Hold up Hold up! The data will travel straight to Seattle first before getting re-routed! So even if you guys are 100ms away ... the data pipes are facing in my direction :-D
i agree, that was my thought too
So is it any good? Seems like an interesting thing at least. Then again, it sounds like TV (which I like) over the computer (which I like) so I guess I'm predisposed to liking it.
Spot on. Most of the people taking computer science at my university dont care about hacking away at interesting problems. They're all here because they know that they can get a high paying job in The City when they graduate.
maybe after he's finished sending out the emails, we'll get ajax upvoting and commenting so it'll be easier to find your place again...
Let's all refresh at the same time and crash Google!
Thank you. Very nice comment.
I'm not a big fan of it but you should take a look at it and make your own mind up. I didnt like skype either but that became popular.
it's does not seem to be invite only anymore
From the page you're linking to:

Hello! Before you can sign in and download Joost, you need an invitation from another user.
Really excellent article, helpful for narrowing which perceived VC questions to answer about the competitive landscape and your competitive advantage. Thanks!
it seems like, within "top level" comments with the same number of points, the comments switch between sorting ascending and descending by... a staggering of the time posted.

having more points puts you at the top of the comment list.

So, for example, this comment will have one point when i first post it. Since it's the latest comment, it will at first display topmost. When the next person posts a comment, my comment will display last and his will display first. Then when I refresh mine will display first and his last.
oh, I made a mistake. It seems its cookie-persistant. sorry everyone..

to correct this, i can give invites to anyone who wants,
Did PG read this posting?

"Just try to take a released feature away from customers and see how pissed off they get." (37signals.com)

Here we are all waiting for that email and its more or less like this ;-)
My unscientific impression is that it depends on recency, score, and author's karma, for each comment in the thread.
I read someone recently refer to startups as the NBA of high-tech (luring kids away from college). If that's the case, does that make this draft day? It would appear to have some of the feel.
I kind of agree with what I think rms is saying:

YouOS (in particular) seems to be barking up the wrong tree by simply emulating a desktop-style environment in a web browser. The web has shown us that there are much more sophisticated and intuitive ways of organizing the display of (and interaction with) several applications at the same time. All of the crufty GUI just makes the experience worse...
I liked the Brad Bird interview, but I was totally blown away by the Spline Doctors' podcast with Andrew Stanton. I was like, yeah, the Nemo guy, I guess he's a writer... okay, so I didn't know his backstory with Pixar or anything about him and it just was an amazing interview to me.

Anyway, I wanted to explain the emphasis I put on just how much you want to really desire to create what you're making, to be dying to get it in front of people. So here's the part I wanted to excerpt from the interview that really gives you folks in News.YC-land the sense of how driven you want to be:

---

Interviewer Andrew Gordon: What would you say is the hardest thing about directing an animated movie?

Andrew Stanton: The hardest thing about directing an animated movie is keeping yourself excited about it. It's hard enough to make the crew excited about it, but keeping yourself excited about it -- trying to remind yourself why you wanted to do it. Because it's all about the details once you really start making the movie.

It's no different than building a house, or, building a really extravagant mansion. There's a million details that you have to spend more time with after the bigger ideas of where the rooms are going to go and how it's going to be structured, and it can get you kind of bogged down.

Joe Ranft used to have this great expression that there's always a point during the making of a movie where there's sort of the Columbus where-is-the-land moment, where everybody on the boat is going "You promised us the land. Where's the land? We're not seeing it!"

And people get bogged down in all the minor problems or the major problems that won't go away, and it's all justified -- it's all legitimate to have that response.

So, for me, to prevent that is to get really, really picky about what story you're going to tell up front. And this is my opinion, and it's not a rule. But if I have an idea that I kinda like, then I don't want to do it. If I have an idea that affects every fiber of my being, like "I want to see that movie made whether I make it or not" -- it's like that idea has to get on the screen -- that's a real good quality to start with. Because it's going to get attacked for the next four years. And there's going to be, sometimes, weeks or months where nothing seems to be going right.

[...]

It's like looking for oil or something -- it's like "where can I find something that has enough fuel that's going to keep me going for years?" Because there's going to large stretches of time where nothing is working, nobody's happy, everybody thinks that the sky is going to fall, and what's going to get me out of bed is just because that idea still has to be on the screen.

So I want that when I'm going to go into battle. Because it's going to be battle. So if I don't have that going in, then I won't go into it -- I won't make that movie. And I'm starting to try and insist on that with other filmmakers here at Pixar, because I just know the benefits of it.
Hype-Off: Twitter versus Justin.tv
Nah, just right click the upvote link and click "Open Link in New Tab". (in firefox anyway)