skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, yes. I have a Incase laptop sleeve, and it fits in my backpack perfectly. It's usually the lightest thing in there, too -- at least, my shoulders are happy when I get to leave the books at home.
lats is wrong ;)
GET a DELL. Just kidding. just kidding. Common we can use some laughter.
Yeah it's actually easier the faster you try to read it.
I totally see this... however I realized as I looked at my RSS feeds, google reader sucks in the whole article, if I really was curious about comments I might go, this is rare. I mean granted you get the second look, now that you subscribed those chances increase. But again, maybe I am totally clueless, but if the reader sucks in the whole article why go to the site. As you said in is world with information overload, why waste my time when I can aggregate all my interests and not go to the site. Here lies my problem, once google puts adsense on their reader , is the blogger getting the cut. Google news shows a snippet of the article, I totally see a synergistic relationship with traffic there, having trouble seeing this for RSS. In this case if google decides to monetize they are really getting away with robbery.
'... We are doing the website development ...'

are you guys serious? I can't read your menu. So what are you posting of interest to startups here? Here's one I find interesting, "we use the waterfall model" ~ http://citadel-soft.com/howwework.htm

So you write full specifications for a changing process that leaves wiggle space for min-interpretation? Can you explain how changes through development take place?
Well I have no doubt that down the line the iPhone will become cheaper and more popular. Especially if they release on more networks. I'm just saying this one won't hit ten million.
I am kinda disappointed in this from initial descriptions.
Guy's writing seems to want to inspire people to change the world. I guess I always associated this with in positive way not in a crappy myspace way.
I got a 12 inch powerbook G4 ...old school, awesome machine hasn't failed on me yet
Yeah, I get what you're saying, and you're not incorrect. I have one of the more popular poker blogs and I've seen the effects first hand. I'm definitely more interested in just making something I like. Obviously for my startup's blog I won't have such liberty.
I wonder what they thought of this conference: http://www.waterfall2006.com/
'... going for the Holy Grail of Software
Engineering and developing an algorithm engine (deemed
impossible) that will generate 1M + algorithms per second
on a supercomputer or cluster of PS3s in (any) programming
language. The other half of the problem is creating a visual 3D
and manageable structure for software. Solving this problem has
involved all of my brainpower ...'

Hey blake what's the problem your solving? Ah found it. Better still I read this article ~ http://myblog.rsynnott.com/2007/05/perils-of-outsourcing.html

'... My name is Blake Southwood and I'm the founder of Brontosaurus
Software. I have recruited smart MBAs and 2 lawyers to work on the business plan and right now I'm in the midst of trying in vein to recruit lisp
programmers for a software project to create high level machine
thinking. ... The Catch-22 is that we can't pay programmers till we get funding ...'

Can you code? Ahh then I found this article ~ http://www.alu.org/pipermail/uk-lispers/2006q4/000169.html

'... now has hit a seemingly insurmountable roadblock which is the lack of
demonstrateable software ...'

A demo? ...

'... In the end all startups morph their business plan ( I know
that I did) and they go through lots of engineers and deal
with management. But with a common goal and a collective
brainpower it would be advantageous for foes (potential
fledgling competitors) to become comrads and cooperate
together for a common good. ... They would also immediately have more engineers on board (which is always good) ...'

But this ones my favourite ~ http://startupsmeetandmerge.blogspot.com .. Blake your a bloomin comedian. Your talent is wasted ... couldn't dream this stuff up even if I tried.

Hmm, reads like a troll, smells like a troll ...
i was looking for the event details till I read 'Waterfall 2006 features no concurrent sessions' :)
My first company (Big Bear) found a way of programming
VCRs and DVDRs from a computer through USB, Ethernet
or Wireless. It's possible to manage and program
any number of video receivers in a house. It's sort
of like Tivo with no subscription and it works with any brand.

My second company (Brontosaurus Software) is solving is
streamlining software engineering with the algorithm engine so that programmers can write code by describing what
the algorithm does and not how it works. So let's say on a good day you can write say 50 algorithms, what if you could write 1,000 instead and then the code that's generated is readable.

So the first problem is being able to write code based on human thinking as opposed to machine thinking. The second problem is generating readable code. The third problem is that the code that's generated is composed of reusable code.
The fourth problem is creating structure for software so that managing the complexity is easier.

I eventually decided that only Lisp could so what I want to make it work.

The point is that the algorithm engine will make it possible for programmers to write code once and not spend time optimizing their code and fixing bugs. Fixing bugs and looking for them consumes too much time.

I was reading about the software bugs that cost billions
and years of snags in the F-22 jet so I decided that I'd "discover" a way to solve the problem of writing code faster, making code more manageable, and making (most of all) source code readable and reusable.
Is it me or does Guy remind you of the guy who wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad?
I just wanted to say that if you ever plan on running Linux on your machine, don't get a Mac.

Ubuntu in particular works, but there's a lot of hacking to get it to do so and little issues abound (at least that's my experience).
Can anyone suggest a nice laptop to run Linux?
Hey guys...

I own an Apple and have been trying to get Ubuntu running on it. I got it to work but there's just a lot of small issues and it just doesn't feel solid.

What I'm looking for is a laptop which is somewhat attractive like Apple's stuff but will run Linux. I think Dell hardware is atrocious (and by this I mean it looks very ugly) so I'm looking for whatever else is out there. The Lenovos seem kind of nice. Does anyone have experience with them?

Thanks for any suggestions.
Nice question. Since I'm going to be bootstrapping my own firm, I need to always keep an eye on saving money, and shelling out $$$ for an apple machine just isn't justifiable for me. And in any case, I've been using Linux for more than 10 years, so I don't want Mac OS X, and certainly don't want to pay extra for it.
Igglo expands to Norway - Real Estate on Google Maps
Just make sure you buy it at a place where you can return it without problems if you are not satisfied.

I have returned two Macs to the Apple Online store, a MBP and a Mac Pro. Both were too noisy.

A friend of mine returned his iMac 24'' three times until Apple delivered one that was acceptable (even there I think it had flaws from manufacturing, but they settled for a price reduction).
While I don't have any personal experience with linux and laptops, I've read many reviews on the web regarding the ibm/lenovo line of Thinkpads as being about as rock solid as it gets.
Irony: Quoting, "Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking," in article about being more like Steve Jobs.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.teenwag.com&site1=lipstick.com&site2=riya.com&site3=like.com&site4=zooomr.com&y=p&z=1&h=400&w=700&range=3m&size=Large&url=www.teenwag.com
Zero % LISP is it ok?
http://www.teenwag.com/poll?n=159
About 10 years ago, when someone sent me an e-mail telling all about it ;-).
As I said in the guy's comments, if he saw the stuff you guys chose this summer, he'd realize how wrong he is. I can't wait until people start launching. I'm almost as excited about some of the other startups I saw out there in Mountain View as I am about ours.
Also YC does not have a history of ripping off both its "musicians" and its customers. And as far as I know, they've never sued anyone who used any product they've launched.
We had two undergrads and one guy who never even graduated. And a demo but we didn't get to show it at all.Must have been lucky.
Myspace for teens Teenwag overtakes justin.tv overnight
Small is The New Big
Review: Thunderbird 2 Is Good, but Still No Gmail
YouTube Launches Revenue Sharing Partners Program, but no Pre-Rolls
CircleUp Enables Question Polling Through E-mail/IM
Vista draining laptop batteries, patience
Andrew Keen, the Web's Darth Vader? (justin.tv slammed)
Microsoft eyeing Yahoo (buyout) deal!
Zimbra to offer Ubuntu Linux support
There is a Firefox extension to do this:

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3997
I hope not :-(
Ok, sorry that I misinterpreted your site. I was really not angry. Just curious. Best of luck with your new endeavor, and thanks for the offer.
Unfortunately any large company that wants to grow will have to do things that some people, somewhere might consider evil. I suspect in this forum, no one would think anything of Google driving a hard bargain with the local government in Lenoir, North Carolina regarding a new datacenter. That's just business and Google's playing fair. Not everyone agrees with that, though.

But I agree a lot of the extra scrutiny comes from the chance to point a finger and scream "hypocrisy!"
I was actually just thinking yesterday about how woefully inadequete local area webforums tend to be. All the right people still seem to have their nose in a newspaper (or are working for one).

I didn't come up with a good way to solve the problem. Maybe this is an attempt to do that.
I'm not sure if you're joking, but I'll tell you anyway. The orange trim around the cloud edge is OK. But the orange for the bottom two-thirds of the page is way too over-powering and I'd leave the site just to give my eyes a rest.

Hey, I think I'm third -- ralph@inputplus.co.uk -- thanks.
If a software giant buys an Internet company, then an Internet giant should buy a software house. This translates to "Google is eyeing Adobe". Just my 2 eurocents :)
Same here. It is such a great device that, rather than go with a current model, I purchased a replacement on eBay when my original was stolen back in January. (Be very careful with hotel selection in Punteranas, Costa Rica--my machine was stolen out of my backpack in my hotel room while I was out for the day. Thankfully, the idiots left the external HD, iSight, power supply, etc.)

That said, I still am waiting for Apple to get their act together and release a 12" MacBook Pro. I'd like to be able to run a variety of operating systems via Parallels. Interfacing with the corporate/industrial world unfortunately necessitates the use of Windows-only software. Virtual PC just doesn't cut it. Rumours suggest that one may be in the works but, for now, they seem to be just wishful thinking from other like-minded individuals.
Sounds like the Google Blog, only more awkward.

MS had "no venture capital owners or cash crunches to
limit us" in 1984?
17 inch PowerBook G4...No problems the past two years.
His dad's an interesting guy. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/crypt.html
Well, a possibility of cheating is a signal of a breach in the system. How exactly that applies to Reddit or to the publishing business must be, I suppose, some complicated social theory.
Well, the blog has been deleted by the author now so maybe it wasn't true.
Who are your potential customers? The higher the percentage of women who make up your customers, the more important a woman's perspective is during the design phase.
There's an interesting comment from an MBA in the initial link, explaining how 3 years ago he was offered a position from Google and he turned it down.

The first 3 reasons he lists:

1. Chaotic operating environment -- too many experiments without expectations to justify or measurements to validate them...

2. ...which was technically impossible because everyone rolled up into one massive P&L

3. Too many battlefield-promoted 'directors' who hadn't actually managed before... none of whom i'd think of as viable mentors

...Actually seem to be Google's strong points. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html
But it doesn't appear. There's this odd jigsaw piece and stuff about "plugins".
Uploading files which method you prefer?
When is an attorney necessary?
Will News.YCombinator become so popular they sell out themselves?
Hi guys I've been wondering where would be the best place to upload files such as photos, music, videos and etc? into the file system? or database?

This pretty much answers my question but what do the wizards here in YC think?
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/10/15/binaries-belong-in-the-database-too
How long can you go without one and when must you have one?
Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them
Practical Common Lisp ("that book is dead sexy") Online
I'm thinking that Amazon's S3 is getting hard to beat for storage, especially with their recent price reduction. We plan to go that route with our app,
I agree that the rise of the "MBA-google" submission was significant. I've been impressed by the complexity and sophisitcation of the content that suceeds YC news. Such high quality content is diluted on most other social news sites among a lot of "funny ha ha" articles.

Maybe (probably!) I'm taking this way too seriously, but facile content seems like the biggest enemy of quality on a site like this.

Also, nothing against far33d for posting this, it's clear that he saw a level of depth and value in this that I didn't. And it's clear from his other posts and comments that he takes content/value seriously. I just thought this was an interesting case study.
So give it to us - What is the line?
SPAM - Delete this link.
PowerBook 15" 1.25 512. I too am anticipating a 12/13" MacBook Pro. I've had it since 2003 and it still runs like a champ, but I am on the road so often that I need something more portable. Maybe the iPhone will offer a decent, albeit basic, workspace.
blog.companyurl.com or companyurl.com/blog
Somewhere I remember reading that its bad for SEO for your blog url to be blog.mycompanyurl.com. I can't remember where or why. My host only allows above option. Do you think its a big deal?
"There are a lot of very talented MBA graduates who are very good at specific things."

If the best person for a job is an MBA, the job hasn't been defined very well. A typical MBA is smart enough to get an MBA, but boring enough to think that "Business" counts as an area of study -- it's about as specific as getting a masters in "Stuff".
The myth of the silver bullet
Business 2.0. Studio System for Startups
I agree, forums as a whole are inadequate. I think sites like Chowhound.com have done an incredible job at brining an interesting perspective on forum interaction.
Business 2.0
Page 25
May 2007 Edition

Has an article mentioning Y Combinator, TechStars, HitForge, Curious Office Partners, and Obvious. Focus is upon bringing together engineers, sharing resources, and cranking out a bunch of web companies for quick acquisitions.

The article should have really focused more on Y combinator than HitForge as the Y did come out with this concept first.
3 Reasons the Microsoft/Yahoo Deal Needs to Happen Today
I wonder if they need that much financing, i.e. they have something in mind to spend it on.
Let's hope this never materializes :( We're (startups) all screwed if it does.
Me too. the 12" PowerBook is awesome. I'm ready to move up to a MacBook Pro as soon as they upgrade them. I also have a 21" iMac. The extra screen real estate is great for coding.
Not true at all. SEO business, if you haven't figured out that so far, is chock-full of half truths and nonsense. SEO "experts" don't understand the correlation at all and imply causation on pretty much everything they come across. Most of your PR comes from backlinks so whether you use a CNAME or a directory is quite simply irrelevant.
YouTube starts paying some users
Yahoo photos shuts down due to Flickr
12" iBook
losers buying losers. so what. pk has good analysis on this:

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/05/04/microsoft_yahoo.html
To my knowledge, what matters Google pagerank-wise is a page, not a web site.

However, if you are going to provide individual homepages for the users of your web site and you want their URLs be mycompanyurl.com/username, like with del.icio.us, then maybe the domain option would be a better choice, and probably not only for your blog but for the rest of your corporate info as well.
After all, MS will learn some Lisp by looking at Viaweb sources.
Free Software and Discounted Hardware for Startups
Another exclusive from the New York Post? Why should they know anything?
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You can also get a discount with Sun partners like Joyent.com (25% off)
Most analysts will probably say, "think of the combined power!"

I'd say: Think of the combined inertia.

To further abuse the analogy, it's like two huge masses colliding so now you need twice the escape velocity. We may never see another product launch from either company.
Darth Vader wasn't trying to generate publicity for an upcoming book.
Getting To Done: Don't be an employee
It's on Yahoo news too ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_yahoo;_ylt=AntWG4EvKLA7xQ..KNF5e4HMWM0F ). The Y!News story cites the Post article as a source, but it would be pretty funny if Yahoo News reported on a story about Yahoo that wasn't true...
FWIW, The WSJ is reporting on it too:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117827827757492168.html?mod=home_whats_news_us

Reuters mentions both stories:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070504/yahoo_microsoft.html?.v=9
Look how well the google/dodgeball, the overture/yahoo, and now flickr/yahoo did. now think how ms/yahoo will do. big, fat, fat, fat, giant. fat, fat, fat...
Tihs is olny ture if the wrods are sohrt!
The basic answer, unfortunately, is that when it's apparent that you need an attorney, you almost always needed to have one yesterday.

Anything you expect to be legally binding, or that might wind up being dealt with in court someday -- such as incorporation, contracts, partnership agreements -- should be looked over by a lawyer. You'll most likely save yourself time and money in the long run if you meet a lawyer and develop a relationship long before you think you need to -- because that way, when you do need a lawyer, you'll know who to turn to and your lawyer will have some idea of who you are.
Lenovo Thinkpad
Domain Names and Service Trades?
How old are you? 14?
Yahoo releases browser-based instant messaging client
Microsoft may acquire yahoo for $50bn
Comment on news.yc without redirecting -- Greasemonkey Script
Done. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9027
There are a bunch of like minded people on here that can probably do a lot to help eachother out. Until I find a good site that helps in this process or until a YCombinator Startup builds this, maybe we try something here?
Basically I think alot of us can offer some help to other groups by offering something as a trade off for something they specialize in.

I can offer: Design work,
Office Space (A few Desks in Davis Square,Boston),
and Plenty Of Bad Domain Names:
JARGN.COM, AMBOOSH.COM,	EDUDISCOUNT.COM,	EDUDISCOUNTS.COM, HOUSINGINTOWN.COM	, MYNDLAB.COM	,MYOLDJOB.COM ,SHITSHO.COM, SHOFFEUR.COM,	SHOFILE.COM,	SHOSPOT.COM,	SHOSTOP.COM,	SHOWBEA.COM,	SHOWBIE.COM,	SHOWFER.COM,	SHOWFFER.COM,	SHOWPHER.COM,	SHOWSTORM.COM	,SHOZONE.COM,	STRICTLYTIX.COM,	TIXGO.COM,	TOURPIDO.COM,

You never know who may need what So if anyone is interested in anything maybe we can work something out. It would really be awesome to find a group of guys to work in our space with us. Its nice and some extra creativity in the atmosphere would be awesome.
Oops, looks like gibsonf1 broke the news before I did - see http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19336
I like 1920x1200 resolution so Apple won't work for me. Most Dell laptops work well with Linux. I always get an NVIDIA graphics card and use their driver.
My personal computers are a 12" Powerbook and a Mac mini G4, and I have a 15" MacBook Pro for work.

If I didn't have the MBP I'd probably have replaced the PB by now; it's a great computer, but even a great computer can take only so much physical abuse, and it's over four years old now. I looked hard at the MacBooks, but the glossy screen is a dealbreaker, and the keyboard isn't so hot either, so I'm holding out for a 12" MBP.
The sysadmins where I work (an almost-exclusively-Linux shop) swear by ThinkPads.
That would actually be good for us. The slower they become, the more nimble us startups look in comparison.
I run Fedora Core under Parallels, which is solid enough for a "does this work under Linux?" kind of test.

That said, if I had to buy a Linux laptop, I'd go for a Lenovo ThinkPad, but I'd make sure the one I bought had good driver support. Since the ThinkPads were introduced, I've only ever heard two things about running Linux on them -- "I can't find the @#$% driver for the @#$% @#$%," and "it runs beautifully."
The Book Inscriptions Project
Check driver support for the particular model you're considering first -- I don't know if it's still true, but in the past some ThinkPad models had hardware in them that wasn't supported in Linux.
I have a 12" Powerbook and a Mac Mini with the core duo. I'll be getting a Macbook sometime in the future.
Bill Gates says he knows Lisp: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm#tc2
Web coding is not rocket science, but good web design is like good engineering. Good tools will help, but knowing what to do will help a lot more, and that's what you pay the web designer for. Saying "with all the tools and stuff available to designers today, there is no reason a site should cost more than a few thousand" is like saying "with all the IDEs and stuff available to coders today, there is no reason a program should cost more than a few thousand." Programmers know that that's BS; web designers feel the same way.

Unfortunately, it's a lot like hiring a programmer in other ways -- the best designers will easily be ten times as good as the worst ones, and there's no necessary correlation between skill and rate.

So returning to the original question: look at the web designer's portfolio. Ask questions about web standards and (X)HTML compliance, usability, A/B testing, cross-platform CSS issues, readability, copywriting, audience. A good designer will understand these things and be able to explain them to you in terms you'll understand. Make sure you turn on your BS detector too, though, as a bad designer will try to baffle you with buzzwords.

And one of my favorite interview questions, when looking at a designer's portfolio, is "Why doesn't Site X validate?" The point is not to get the right answer, because there isn't one, but to figure out how the designer approaches these tradeoffs. I've also never interviewed a web designer who provided a portfolio of only valid HTML and CSS.