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Seriously? Good luck starting a business if this is how you think of your users.
Applets were superior in every way except those that mattered: they never worked.
Windows Live Calendar Coming Soon, Yeah Sure
I doubt that it actually runs JS four orders of magnitude faster. It may run JS 2-5 times faster, but 10,000 faster is very unlikely. I'd love to run some tests though -- is there a silverlight demo with a eval loop somewhere? (something I can type js into and see how fast it runs)
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If it actually works, then it's totally different.
It would be nice if we could search for previously posted stories on news.yc

I came across the metrolive article when pg submitted it here, but to find it again had to search Google and then fetch the link from Google's cache. Too much work.
If it appears in my browser window and works pretty much anywhere, then it's part of the web. Technical details are irrelevant.
The Post Money Value: Remote Work vs. Remote Leadership
Ubuntu is highly popular, and is growing very quickly.

Moreover, it cares more about enabling nontechnical users (doctors, lawyers, etc) to get work done than any other distribution I've seen. Most of the advances in Ubuntu I've seen have been in the direction of making it easier and easier for people who don't know what an operating system is to be helped by Linux. (cf. Windows migration tools that automatically create a dual boot system, and crawl the Windows partition to find bookmarks, email contacts, etc).

As such, I think it's the most suitable distribution for a mainstream vendor to adopt for sale to mainstream users.
This article makes a point about not needing a great idea to start your startup upon. This is a point that PG also makes a lot, but it still seems really important to me.
I tend to think that the lower the barrier to entry, the more interesting of an idea you need to be successful. Maybe the key is in specialization.
"a community for early startups"

Even if it's not ideal, I guarantee that having several lines of text explaining the site is better than having nothing.

Also, the name is unreadable and the logo is country-western. Even something totally random would probably be better.
where is the calendar data stored?
Not different industries maybe, but certainly different niches. Social networks try and connect you with people you already know while dating sites try and match you with people you don't know. There was an article about how dating sites should focus on the flirting and social interaction and hopefully this gives them the motivation to change their direction.
but underlying it is a turing machine, right?
The board, however, can direct attention toward fixing the broken product. From the article, it sounds like Friendster's board didn't do this. Instead of focusing their attention on fixing performance problems and making the site usable, they had pie-in-the-sky notions of beating Google and Yahoo and getting into the VOIP space.

One of the best pieces of engineering-management advice I ever got goes like this: "Engineers do what you tell them to do - repeatedly." If the board is spending all its time thinking about cool new features, the engineers will implement cool new features. If the board starts talking about performance and communicates that downwards, the performance issues will get fixed.

Remember how Microsoft won the browser wars: Bill Gates took all the company's best developers, put them on the IE team, and refused to speak to anyone unless it was about the Internet. That's the kind of single-minded focus you need to turn a company around.
Bah, lack of innovation is causing the rapid decline. And have you seen how crap dating sites look in comparison to Facebook?
More fancifully, what happens when someone decides to copy themselves, and copy themselves, and copy themselves, until they account for more than half the population of the earth, and then vote in a change of the property laws such that copying is not theft...
Experiences with OpenLaszlo
Specifically has anyone used OpenLaszlo in an environment with Django, Ruby on Rails, etc?
i don't think a single employee will ever get 10-20% of the company
Would anyone be so kind as to share an invite? dss at orst dot edu. Thanks.
But any sequence of text can be represented as a number, given a suitable encoding. And that number will show up in the decimal expansion of pi somewhere. So clearly, text should not be copywritable either.

I think I need to link to "What Colour are you bits?" ( http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php ) again, just because the issue is so confused. Basically, it boils down to humans' conception of reality being incorrect, so things like authorship are assumed, even though there's no unforgeable way to represent them in reality.
Please tell me what is wrong with my statement.

I don't think it of respectful users, I think it of Digg users, which have never been shown to be intelligent or respectful of either the web site they use or anyone else for that matter.
Anyone else keep seeing a jockstrap when they look at the logo?
Yeah, lingerie or something. Kinda subconsciously enticing.
So please send me an email on ads@centernetworks.com and include a reason why you like CenterNetworks or something we can improve on and I will send you an invite. Your email will then be deleted and will never be used again.

http://www.centernetworks.com/joost-invites-are-available-come-n-get-em
Ask Marc Hedlund:  Founder of Wesabe answers questions Slashdot style
Not sure of writing a long ebook? You can still sell writing small ones
No, Turing and Lambda are different ways of representing the same underlying assembly code.

You're correct in that there is a direct line from the Turing imperative to the underlying assembly code, but given the choice between writing Lambda expressions or Turing expressions, why would you pick the latter?
It reminds me of how LGATs work. (large-group awareness training)

Stuff a bunch of people in a room for ten hours. Only let them leave twice to go to the bathroom.

By the time they get out, they'll believe aliens are the new messiah and Microsoft is just a friendly non-monopolistic software development company.
Thanks for the reply. I actually have a very good reason why I think it's a good idea, but I decided to edit my post down in case I want to pursue my idea.
10 Awesome Things Built on the Facebook API
These items are vary interesting and creative. No wonder Facebook does so well.
Notice how many mistakes Digg is now repeating? Amazing... they haven't learned from Friendster.
New Limits on Patents
Out of all the "spam" you could get, this is probably the least annoying (and actually beneficial for some) kind you can get.

When contacting people like this, it's usually wise to customize each email (which it doesn't look like they did).

Hey X,

That thing you said on your blog... hilarious! I once did the same thing. Do you know so and so?

The reason I'm contacting you is....

Something like that, only less spammy sounding.
Looks like someone didn't know that doubling the radius quadruples the area.
I didn't mean to imply that this is in the same league as, or should be "put it up against," the French revolution. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't remind you of it.

Because of the "online mob," both youtube and digg are facing copyright issues that could potentially put them out of business. Destroying over $1bn in assets is kind of a big deal.
The thank-you page isn't really code, so even though it might be hundreds of lines of HTML and CSS, it's the web designer's responsibility, not the coder's. :)

The code for the thank-you page could be as simple as:

import smtplib

smtplib.SMTP('127.0.0.1').sendmail('website@example.com', ['you@example.com'], "From: website@example.com\r\nTo: you@example.com\r\n\r\nMessage follows: %s" % (web.input.get('feedback', 'NOTHING'),))

Not sure it that will work without a .quit(), but then you'd have at least 4 lines. Well, that's what local libraries are for. :)
And Adam is a gifted writer, or lets say he has a neck of picking the top N things built on top of an API. Also check http://mashable.com/2007/04/29/7-awesome-things-built-on-the-digg-api/
The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector:  The Linear Algebra behind Google [pdf]
Hey, look! I'm not too old (at 34)! :)
Pretty mathematical paper but very interesting. You can follow it with elementary linear algebra notions (if you learned them of course ;))
It's not stealing, nor is there implicit intention of stealing. This is a piece of information that is a part of every single HD-DVD player and every single HD-DVD disc. It is the nature of people to be curious, and to share their findings with their peers and to the world. This is how science and technology have advanced for centuries. Censorship strikes at core American values, which are based on more fundamental observations of human nature that apply to everyone in the world.

Furthermore "Stealing" is one of the worst possible words to use. Duplicating and distributing media is not stealing. The term Copyright Infringement and it's important not to conflate the two. In some cases, Copyright Infringement is a far more expensive than stealing, but they are not the same thing. Whenever something is stolen, there is -always- an identifiable victim, no matter how minor the victimization might be. There is always someone who has lost something. In the case of copying an HD-DVD, there is no such automatic loss.

Stealing someone's copyright is stealing. Plagiarism is stealing. Breaking an exclusive license agreement is not.
It's hard to believe that two PhD students came up with all of this. I think they got some help from their professors :)
Flex should be your choice only when your inhouse team is not good enough at churning out sweet OOP Actionscript.
This is because, using Flex makes your app depend too much on Adobe's components. This is not required in most cases. Writing custom components from scratch is the best option[making Flash IDE your primary choice].Flex should be a secondary option.

[Flex was created to make Flash Platform more accessible to Java developers who are not familiar with the timeline concept]
Note: I used Google Docs for this article since the original site was down and when I tried to use scribd it was taking over an hour to convert a two-page document (they must be having some growing pains - good pains to have!).
A service like flickr but for vector graphics -- does it exist?
Business 2.0 Doesn't Do Backups, Lost Entire June Edition
Step Outside Your Own Head (includes insights into DHH, Gmail, and Quicksilver)
Also on techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/02/june-issue-of-business-20-deleted-before-going-to-print/
Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last! Woohooooo!
Everyone keeps talking about infringing copyright, but isn't this code just used to be able to play DVDs? Isn't this the code that is built into every HD-DVD player so that it can decrypt and playback DVDs? By posting the code, Linux users are now allowed to view HD-DVDs that they have legitimately purchased. This has nothing to do with copying.

The whole problem with DRM is the basic assumption that every user is a potential thief. The real problem is that it's often more convenient (not only for monetary reasons) to get a copy than to buy the actual material. As soon as someone has to go out and buy new computer hardware to be able to play a legally-purchased DVD on their Windows Vista install, just because of DRM, then that convenience is gone.

DRM, especially in its current implementation, doesn't work. Digg users were trying to do something to finally end the craziness surrounding it.
Didn't anyone notice the significance of country shape and social network? Take a look.

Facebook is clearly Italy.
Myspace vaguely China.
WoW and Second Life definetely Australia, New Zealand.
The Icy North is a very widened North America, (AOL Texas), (Yahoo Games, Florida)
Digg is DEFINITELY a dog with Fark as its head.
I don't know much about publishing, but I would think each department has a copy of their respective contributions. If I liken their editorial system to version control, why wouldn't, say, the art department have layouts on their local machines?
China plans to launch the world's largest investment fund
You mean, you were a nonsense patent? :)
I tried to run the silverlight demo and it didn't seem to work either, so...more of the same.
But, seriously, he needs to drop the word "awesome" from his vocabulary.
A good sales person.
I'd agree, if the article was about how the board tried to stimulate a cult of quality within the company, and despite their best efforts they simply weren't able to salvage anything from the software.

In spite of the software issues, they had a head start in terms of popularity and users.
Wow, China's got $1.3T in the bank, just waiting to be invested. With that much mass, you've got to reckon there's a startup out there that could make serious money from China's investment wake. Anyone who can figure out the Chinese investment strategy is going to make serious bank.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100024842/index.htm?section=money_topstories
I am told deviantart.com does a reasonably good job in combining a community with digital art. I have never investigated it in depth, might do vector graphics too.

Seems like a completely different proposition to flickr since everyone can take photos but far fewer people do vector graphics. Perhaps there is an opportunity there, I dont know that much about the space.
Well, it's very simple: digg has two options, either fight, or shut down.

They've empowered their users, and their users have informed them in no uncertain terms that they will not accept censorship.

That doesn't mean that they have to fight, merely that if they want their community to remain largely as it is, they cannot censor. As the saying goes, they can't "have their cake and eat it too"
Yes, I 'm not sure if any of these 10 mashes satisfies my criteria for awesome.
That rtm is a menace.
Dapper: The Quest To Unlock Web Data
Google's personalization push
Five AJAX Frameworks Reviewed
Silverlight Community Launches
Great essay, Paul.
There are indeed a lot similarities between Vcs and women behaviour patterns. (angels are more like asking a good male friend for some borrowed money...simple, direct, no hiding terms...)
Take the "investors" from the subtitles and replace it with "women" and the information is going to work just as right.

I will think more on your points..

thanks again

MJ
Xerox software helps adjust colors
His point about cross-polination of fields leading to innovation is also made extensively by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his two books "Flow" and "Creativity". I'd highly recommend them to anyone who is interested in the process of creativity (he looks at it in a number of different fields), or who is interested in human behavior (especially one's own).
Software blamed for BlackBerry service crash
Communications in the User-Centric Economy
Randall, we're not too old, although hanging around here may give you that impression. YC focuses on younger founders because they're undervalued, not necessarily more plentiful or successful in absolute terms.
Open Source Platform Tools
How much is your Web 2.0 company worth?
Supreme Court ruling could save vonage
sweetness! i am rich.
Here's a better article from news.com: http://shortify.com/CH3
This is brilliant on China's part. I was wondering how they were going to start getting out of the US dollar.
Is Facebook killing dating sites?
BuddyTV Gets First $250K From Charles River Venture Loan
The Strategy Paradox (Why big companies need strategy and startups don't)
Start-ups: Would you take money from China?  $1.2 trillion in cash
As reported by CNN, China is planning to launch the world's largest investment fund. Sergey
Brin said kowtowing to China's censorship demands was a mistake. Yahoo was sued in the
U.S. when they turned over the identity of a political dissident to the Chinese government,
for posts he had made on a Yahoo group. China has an abominable human rights record and
virtually no worker rights or environmental controls. No freedom of speech.

Would you accept an investment you knew was from this investment fund?

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100024842/index.htm?section=money_topstories
Video: The Art of the Start
Arg, my roommate shows up yet again on news.YC yet again :P
What is the right age for entrepreneurs?
It isn't so bad, they did manage to recover the content:

"But all is well, he said, and the magazine will go to press on schedule next week. The recovery was made much easier, paradoxically, by a bane of modern business: litigation, or at least the fear of it. "The text had all been copy-edited and sent off to the lawyers, so it had been saved as e-mail," Quittner said."
Microsoft has no startup DNA
Sites You Can Use: This Year's Red Herring Winners
4 Qualities of a Good Cafe to Work In
Mark Pilgrim reboots the discussion on Silverlight
I don't think so. It's the most software-patent-friendly SC decision ever. Of course, the question before them wasn't the validity of the patent. Still, it helps cement the current mess we have in flagrant violation of previous SC precedents (Diehr, etc.)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/05-1056.ZS.html
From the post...

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The key to a good working cafe are:

1. Character and charm - You don't want to be sitting at a cookie-cutter cold Starbucks or a place that doesn't have a local feel to it. The best places are those that have cool furniture, colorful walls and decor, and fun staff.

2. Good music - If you're going to be sitting at a place for hours and hours, the last thing you want to have to endure is crappy music or music that's too loud and distracting.

3. Mixed crowd - It's nice to have a diversity of people wherever you work because when you start daydreaming (not that I ever do), you can people watch. San Francisco is such a diverse city that it's always fun to see all the eclectic types that make this city so wonderful to live in.

4. Tasty food and drinks - A cafe isn't a cafe unless they have quality munchies and can make a mean latte.
They had a backup server. Misplaced automation is the villain. Makes sense to automate a task that you do 100+ times a day, but backups are generally run once a day, and are recovered maybe once a year.

My backup system involves a script with a bunch of copy commands that I can see flying by in the console as they work.
Tomizone: Nifty startup that helps you on-sell your wireless bandwidth
There's lots of money running around waiting to be invested; I wouldn't need to go to China to get some.
It doesn't matter; a fund like this is not likely to be investing in startups. Only a small fraction of investment funds are VC funds.
When is the standard "maturity date" for when convertible debt becomes due without conversion?
Daring Fireball: The iPhone's Funny Price
"we've raised just over $180,000 of investment from Paul Graham"

I wonder if pg will be getting into more traditional angel type funding rounds. They've gotta be doing something pretty good to get a funding round like that from the man himself.
Apple is due to make so much money from the iPhone the expensive price doesn't matter. They're making a profit on the subsidized price of the phone, plus they get a residual over the lifetime of the contract.

These monthly residuals (usually payed during year 2) are $300 total for a high end voice plan and even more for profitable add-ons options like data. I'm sure Cingular is paying even higher than the normal residuals to secure the iPhone contract. Even if the iPhone isn't flying off the shelfs, it's going to be a solidly profitable item for Apple for a very long time.

About half of your monthly self phone bill is paying commissions to various people -- the regional sales rep, the local sales rep, the individual sales agents, and the owner of the store.

Apple makes even more from the iPhone because they're going to sell a lot in the Apple stores.
I have never hated any feature so much as tagging...

Alternatives?
There was a "leak" a while back on macrumors that showed a Cingular flyer supposedly advertising $299/$399 price points with 2yr contract. Probably photoshopped though...
""" trailing even myYearbook.com"""

To be fair, that site literally bought 90% of its users.
Jobs is a PR genius. When it's so common to see companies manufacture reasons for pr releases as if those releases are ends wholly to themselves it's striking to see how powerful it is to simply have something substantive to say to the public.
I love China's capitalism/communism hybrid. One of the ways they manage to pull it off by having free companies that are part owned by the Chinese government. Did you know that Lenovo is 35% owned by the Chinese government? It was originally a spin-off of a government think tank, so they still own it...
A VC: The Community Conundrum
It might be nice it the world worked that way, but I don't think that's it. I think Daniel's use of "careful" is right on. Digg was transparent about what they were doing; the community still did not like it.

You have to do what your users want, simple as that. If what your users really want is openness and honesty that's what you give them. Digg's users want to be able decrypt dvds (even if in the abstract for most of them). They've had many accusations of lack of transparency in the past that went nowhere.
I really like the way he sums it up: When you get in the way of geeks sharing hacks with each other in a geek community, you've done something big.
The Icy North is undisputably Russia. It even has the Kamchatka peninsula.
Even the lambda expression when running on the computer, is acting out a Turing machine; head travels over symbols on a tape, reads a symbol, changes state, stops or moves...

that is what I meant by old wine in new bottles.
Non-linkjacked:

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/the_art_of_the_.html

Has already appeared on News.YC in non-jacked form:

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1645

Now would be a great time for a down arrow on submissions.