skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of you who applied to other programs besides the Y probably got invites during the summer to meet up with those people and other entrepreneurs. Anyone going?

If so, we should hold a mini get together or something. It'll be fun. Three trips planned in one summer, its a lot of money but it's not everyday you get the opportunity to meet exciting people
oh those are coming... i wanted to make it simple and to the point... so i have to find out a way to incorporate that and not get in the way of users
Feld Thoughts - Failure Comes From Not Following Your Additive Rules
Startup Hiring: 6 Subtle Signs You Might Have A Winner
Would be nice if there was a way to filter by just one city... NYC, for example. Maybe make it like craigslist?
DHH's Rails Keynote
Backpack & Reddit - examples of "frictionless" user interfaces
I took out the "with" command... For some reason but should work within a couple hours if you type "with beer"
Remarkable: Moved Application from Lispworks on Windows to SBCL on Ubuntu - Not a single code change needed!
Forget 'The Long Tail' - Go For The Sweet Spike
The Little Engine That Could
A little railroad engine was employed about a station yard for such work as it was built for, pulling a few cars on and off the switches. One morning it was waiting for the next call when a long train of freight-cars asked a large engine in the roundhouse to take it over the hill "I can't; that is too much a pull for me," said the great engine built for hard work. Then the train asked another engine, and another, only to hear excuses and be refused. At last in desperation the train asked the little switch engine to draw it up the grade and down on the other side. "I think I can," puffed the little locomotive, and put itself in front of the great heavy train. As it went on the little engine kept bravely puffing faster and faster, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can."

Then as it near the top of the grade, that had so discouraged the larger engines, it went more slowly, but still kept saying, "I--think--I--can, I--think--I--can." It reached the top by dint of brave effort and then went on down the grade, congratulating itself, "I thought I could, I thought I could."

To think of hard things and say, "I can't" is sure to mean "Nothing done." To refuse to be daunted and insist on saying, "I think I can," is to make sure of being able to say triumphantly by and by, "I thought I could, I thought I could."
Hey, in Safari the "Add this..." doesn't work. Well, I assume it's just Safari. So, if I can't add any restaurants, I'm much less likely to use the site. :)
"with beer" now works
thanks...im not a web designer at all ...in fact i hate web design... my css is all bloated and i dont even think over half of the directives actually do anything (from me trying something and scrapping it)
i was thinking about that... in the form of nyc.theother9to5.com... i could implement that in no time
bumped up the font... i made the search show up across all of the list views and added a "with" directive. As for "what am i going to do tonight?" You could ask for a search of events - "tonight in " then expand from there with "with ".
venues are from a web service(yahoo pipes) that was pulling from just boston and 20miles north of boston (where i live).. I just updated it to pull your location from your ip and search 20miles around your location fro venues..
From a screenshot:

"This IM is in reply to your email [subject]. A copy of this conversation will be emailed to you"
I agree - it sucks because it is difficult to get running on some computers.

Any of you guys on this page want to join me in working on juwo?
I am trying to get students in the dental school to use it - several carry laptops to class. They can juwo lectures.

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The problem is - to get it to work offline using flash, I must use apollo. It may come with the same problems that Java Web Start did - only, we dont know them yet.

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Any of you guys on this page want to join me in working on juwo?
Will throw mine out there:

Dharmesh Shah's blog: http://OnStartups.com
juwo solves 3 problems - by allowing you to create, play, distribute, add to, share lists of snippets. Rather than state what the problems are, I simply created the demos to show what it can do.
Just give the One Finger Salute and Keep Going
"1) screen shots 2) Demo 3) How to buy"

what about the user understanding the concept and learning how to use - isnt that important and where will I fit it?
Looks like the man actually gave two middle fingers.
Every VC wants to know if you have invented something unique - that you can patent.

NP Holdings vs. RIM = 600 M
I was afraid of this. That is why I did not release for so long.
ugh tell me about it....I think it was 37Signals who invented the yellow highlight or whatever they call it. For me I believe AJAX is a precision tool much like a scalpel, if used as such it will create rich user experiences. On the other hand if swung like an axe, it will only introduce a world of hurt to the users.
Cool man...I think your approach is right, traffic is irrelevant right now, just get it up, get feedback, and keep on improving it. Looking forward to see what you come up with.
A lesson in why you should check colors on different monitor screens. The green looked cool on our screens but not so much on others we tested on.

Fixed now. Hopefully less headaching inducing.
Google Builds Team in Quest to Conquer China
I have trouble typing in new venues...I mean, sure, I'm probably the only user in Santiago, but I feel like I should be able to create my own venues and then, if possible, pick from a list of close matches others have typed in before. Overall, though, good alpha; the color scheme is good, it's simple, and it's pretty glitch-free. Congratulations.
and teenie http://teenwag.com
please, please, PLEASE write you as you, not u. That's a definite turn-off for me.
How to Become a Business Owner in 24 Hours
That's great! I really like it now; it's easy to read and it all looks very good.

I like the additional upcoming links on the main page for now. I do like the idea you mentioned of putting up events that are similar to ones you have voted on, but until there are enough events in any one person's area, upcoming local events may be your best bet.

After reading the search description and trying out a sample query, I like it. It's rather intuitive and it performed correctly as far as my brief testing was concerned. One slight gripe -- I don't think you should use "u". That is, "as you would say it when u fill in the blank" should be, "as you would say it when you fill in the blank."

Anyways, I'm glad to see you taking the feedback seriously and making such quick changes. I really do like this idea. The more I think about it, I like how it connects an online community in the real world. I think this has some great potential, and again, I wish you the best of luck with it.
Kinda interesting I supposed due to it being MIT, but Google Video/You tube has had developer focused videos on there for a while so not really sure what the USP is.
Same here. Today was my last day at work. I liked the first comment in the post. True, once you leave your job you only have a short time to build your business before you exhaust your savings and be forced to look for a job again.
Google Licenses Stanford Student Technology for 3D Maps
Instead of wasting your money on visiting people that rejected you, why not spend that time and money on your startup?!
At SXSW Kathy Sierra asked a good question: why are we all here? We're in the industry that's supposed to create software to help eliminate F2F meetings and liberate the global workforce. What is the true benefit of F2F nowadays?
Three weeks since I've left my day job (it was my first one and I've been working for three years at this place).

I have no real plan yet, nor any savings remaining but, still, I'm really happy I left. I promised myself to never accept being employed again.
Solid list. I'll add a few based on the few bright people I've met in my life:

- ability and willingness to discuss the metaphysical
- strong listening skills
- usually politically knowledgeable
- very strong presentation/speaking abilities
- usually strong type "c" (logic based behavioral type) rather than type "d" (dominant behavioral type), and the exceptional also have some type "i" (feelings oriented behavioral type)
- you can see this person doing practically anything in the next 10 years, but whatever they're doing, you can be sure it's out of passion (you'd be surprised to see this person working a job for money)
Revisit the Milgram Experiment by shooting a live Iraqi over the internet
This man was in range of a paintball gun that could be aimed and fired at him over the Internet. Unfortunately, the site is unusably slow and the man living in range of the paintball gun is nowhere to be found.

The disturbing thing here is that I really wish I could actually shoot this moron with a paintball gun over the internet. Now, I don't know what art is but I really doubt this guy is getting enough donations to make this thing worthwhile. He exposed himself willingly to the sum ignorance of humanity. That's brave in a very masochistic way but dumb in the sense that the sum total of humanity would kill someone with just an internet-enabled paintball gun.
What if they got a large enough user base and opened their own auction site?
And yours is...
One revenue stream is probably the affiliate links for the "Buy this wine" links.

They sold the company? The About page still lists Tundro/Dan Benjamin/Dan Cederholm.

The sponsors are still A List Apart and Hivelogic which are sites affiliated with Dan Benjamin.
Sorry, changed copy in a rush.
Why Europe! (yeurope blog)
Pirate Bay moves into video streaming (a startup that wouldn't care about DMCA?)
Ugh... I don't see anything original. I don't like "blogs" that just link to random stuff the author likes.
note all these articles came from news.yc
What are the invite-only YC-wannabe programs? I haven't heard of such a thing.
Microsoft Uncover Popfly- Build Mashups, Gadgets, Web Pages, And Applications
Inside Facebook by Karel Baloun
It's not a 'blog' but a tumblr. Tumblr makes it easy to repost links, quotes, videos, etc
2007-05-19 13:12:52 +0100: The text is too dark. The copyright at the bottom is barely visible, same with upcoming, popular, new. submit event is a bit more visible. The "Enter a date..." is readable but hard work. This is on a CRT that's fine for the WWW at large. Edit: Oh, and previous and next weren't visible at all. I've only just seen then by doing "select all text". :-)
Contrast still not enough. See my recent comment on your other thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=23231
SharedReviews Paid Opinions
Your Ad Goes Here
FixYa.com - Consumer Electronics support, repair, manuals, faq, problems and solutions (by user "experts")
Is entrepreneurship more common today because rejection of authority is more common now?
As soon as juwo can control Flash player, I plan to create a Best Of Youtube website, where people can juwo videos on youtube, and share them. Please look at the Heather's blog American Idol demo.
One could argue that children are less likely to obey their parents and when they grow older less likely to want a boss of any sort.

This might even explain the sorts of places where you find startup hubs in the US.
I agree. Is the solution to rewrite it in Apollo Flash?
(There may be the same problems that Java Web Start has had).
What do acquisitions mean for everyday users?
You beat me to it! I don't know what goes on in Europe with investing in startups, but if you're not an accredited investor doesn't that cause problems with future rounds of financing? Somewhere I remember reading that this guy is getting his seed investing money from a conference he's throwing.
aQuantive sale leaves ValueClick ripe for purchase
Good book, unfortunately the mashable URL only gives you free access for the next ~30 hours.

Positive karma for the first person who creates a script to scrape this, and then put it up on scribd... ;)
Highlight of TiECON - 13 yr. old CEO
Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content?  How did that work out?
Someone recommended that I seed http://studystickies.com with wikipedia content.

So I've been working on that and plan to make an update next week with some wikipedia content.

At least in this way, search queries would yield something interesting.

But at the same time, it would be clear that this data was imported from wikipedia. So it's not obvious what sort of impression this would have on visitors to the site.

Also, it's not clear whether wikipedians would be attracted to the site since this is not really a tool for wikipedia .
So you think that Microsoft is dead, because they have lost the leader role in invention. It's true, they have no popular initiation. But Microsoft used to steal the new technologies: they did it in Windows, in which they used the user interface inveted by Apple. Microsoft is following the technical engineering nowadays too, look at the view of XP and Vista. Microsoft realised, that an OS must be not only useful, but beautiful, too, and they followed this trend. And they have mixed it with the common Windows experience, which means Windows will be a real alternative for years. Maybe they don't have the leadership, but after some years Microsoft will plead the traditions in the computer world. Don't forget that there are millions of grandmas, and their claims are real claims from a new technology. Microsoft seems dead from a technology-invertory view, but Microsoft's spirit is still alive, and Microsoft has written informatical history. Even if they are dead, even if they aren't the future, Microsoft's influence is not unimportant for the future.
Just because it's well written doesn't mean it's made up. All of the posts on waiterrant read the same way.
Cool... Thanks for the feedback.. Im thinking just make the entire web page black and see how it looks
:-))))
get the book:

require 'open-uri';(1..48).to_a.each{|x| open('http://www.fbbook.com/promo/mashable/read.php?p='+x.to_s){|u| File.open("page_#{x}.html","w"){|f|f.puts u.readlines}}}
What is that? Perl? ;P
As long as the content you're seeding your site with is valuable to your users go ahead and get whatever you can. We got a ton of great content for a gardening application from usda.gov and are able to manipulate it in ways that makes it useful to our users.
I'm not sure how useful this is.

But it would give users some idea as to what the site would look like with more contributions from users.
http://socialwisdomnews.blogspot.com
Looks like ruby.

wget -r can probably do the same thing and is easier.
As frictionless as reddit is, yc news takes this further.

The farthest I've seen this taken is in web apps which let you fully use them, but only complete some of the actions you've performed when you finally sign up. This is the model that I will likely use on my next app.
Theres another url that gives permanent free access but I can't find the link currently :s
Entrepreneurship Lessons from Calvin & Hobbes
"no real plans yet"
thanks for your comment, I have a strong startup concept and some dev work completed and am looking for one or two great people to work with. maybe we can chat, click through to my YC News profile to get my email.
"with" is a broken idea. It should be implied. Scrap "with" and make keywords work by themselves.
http://www.teenwag.com/
teenwag is run by 14 year olds http://teenwag.com
Startup Idea:  Collaborative flying of real model planes with video cameras onboard
Has anyone tried a startup like that?

A computer would take over whenever the flight inputs become unreasonable/unsafe.

You could reward people with reasonable flight inputs by giving them more control over flight inputs.
web20 so easy even a 14 year old can do it
Frictionless UI Myspace
here is mine as well...for what its worth
http://www.promoterforce.com/blog
Thinking about it some more, you could have a revenue sharing system where people who build model planes can let others fly them (perhaps collaboratively) through this service. They would get a share of the profits.

Moreover, the owners of such planes can take over flight inputs whenever they are not safe. It's their planes after all.
That site needs an explanation of "what the heck is this?!" either on the front page or linked from it.
It's more common because less capital is needed to start a business.
See the flash demo. Maybe I should change the text on the flash demo button to "what's this? (flash demo)"
BTW, how easy is it to provide live video from a model plane?
This should be no surprise - children are excellent at modelling others. They can learn to talk the talk just like the real thing. Don't forget they can develop virtuoso skills like this 11-year-old violinist:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/45

Young children can be very mature. I was, and only devolved during adolescence. It's just a function of physiology.
Why would you do something as silly as force people to watch a flash video to know what your site does?
Demo not working for me. Even if it did though, I agree that you should make more apparent the immediate use that the site has for the new user.
I'm curious what technology you used to grab content from wikipedia?
Your site appears to be down right now but I stumbled upon it once before and not only did I grok it straight away, I also thought it was a great idea. That said, if some people are saying they don't get it, you should do something about that.
that's a really interesting idea. the biggest questions i have are....
1. how much will it cost? for equipment, sensors, etc?
2. is anyone willing to pay for it?

If you don't want to ask anyone in particular, you can ask yourself other feasibility questions like:
-how heavy will it be? will it affect the flight of the plane?
-how much do current planes cost? how does that compare to the cost of adding a camera device?
-how many people fly planes? how many planes do they have?
-how often do people crash planes, and why do they crash? how expensive is it to fix? how does this cost compare to a camera that could prevent a crash?

my initial guess is that there is no feasible business model there, but what if you twist your idea around a bit? such as sharing videos of airplane flights? and modifying video equipment so that it could be installed on model airplanes? that could potentially be useful.
Is my friend unreasonable?
If the onboard camera is a problem, then I could just have a camera on the ground.

The idea here is to allow people to profit from their hobby by letting thousands of people fly their planes.

And those people can do so from the comfort of their homes at their computers.

You might have a free service where people fly a plane together in a collaborative way. If you want more control over the plane, then you will need to pay. You might be able to fly for free if you can demonstrate that your flying skills will draw a large audience.
I created a 7 months old startup that is growing well. Not fantastic but ok. Now i'm looking for someone to be the CEO.

He wants 50% equity, if he could get VC funding based on a high company valuation, say USD 20 million (which i think is really high for my startup). If he can't reach the target, then he'll settle for less.

Is this fair? I put in the hard work for this past 7 month. All the idea is mine. now he wants to be on the same level as me, just because he can get funding based on high valuation.

If not, how much do you think he should get. Considering that he's being hired in an important position - CEO.

How much did Pierre Omidyar give Jeff Skoll?
The site is up now and includes wikipedia content.

For example, try this query:

http://studystickies.com/#number%20theory
Make Your Site Mobile Friendly in 2 Minutes
I was thinking of 60-40 or 70-30
Buy cellphone, download java application games
I have not seen this... Cool. Historically though eBay has never put any effort into creating a user friendly experience. "San Dimas" may be a sign that they are wising up and starting to realize that maybe they do have things to fear. It begs to ask, what took so long? Fear? A feeling that any change would detour users or add a new learning curve their users could not handle? Was making it a desktop version a compromise, fear that it would scare their online users? (I have no idea of course)

PayPal kicked ass, why not Auctomatic? May not be the best comparison, but one thing paypal taught us is that the idea of "ownership of users" is very blurred.

You make a very good point, Auctomatic may really have their work cut out for them. But that's what makes it fun, right?
I'm not sure it'd be a great business, but a fun site that would get dugg for sure. I tend to doubt there's much staying power in audiences viewing great fliers. The big draw would be actually controlling the plane (hard to scale) and viewing pilot POV to a lesser extent.

The live stream is mostly easy since you can just use wireless cameras and relay the stream from a computer on the ground. Do you know anything about making the remote computer-based control actually work and also not crash? I haven't flown RC airplanes in some years, have things advanced this far? The military remote computer controlled stuff required some pretty fancy engineering.
Ok. This is what i have in mind. Do comment.
The min. he will get is 10% and the max is 40%.
Starting from 10%, he get an additional 1% for every $1m increase in company valuation during the funding.

So if the valuation is 30m or more, he get 10% + 30% = 40%
If valuation is 20m, he get 10% + 20% = 30%

Fair?
No, it was the number one or two result on Google.
please STOP SPAMMING
it's pretty easy to write a scraper in most languages and customize it as needed. I've done in PHP.
You can download it here:

http://download.wikimedia.org
One possibility is to not have a computer-based control at all.

Instead, the plane's owner would be responsible for taking over whenever necessary to keep the plane from crashing.

As for scalability, I think collaborative control might be fun, particularly if your influence varies based on your skill level.
What programming languages should I learn and why?
I have been teaching myself how to hack. I see that the first real software engineering classes in most schools is taught in JAVA, usually a data structures class. Should I even bother.... I see the merit of learning ground level stuff , like memory management seen in C/C++ but with JAVA is it useful to learn even if majority of web development is done in LAMP ( I should say majority of web development interesting to me, I know there is alot of JAVA out there) Does anyone know of a good book/tutorial to learn data structures with languages such php/ruby/python.
Easy, but really if a site is nice enough to provide a legitimate way for you to get data you should respect that and download it.
I only know Lisp and absolutely love working with it and the results we're getting with our web application (I was not a CS major), but my partner who is a Software Architect by profession tells me that programming in Lisp takes about half the code and effort of Java with more impressive results. (See Paul Graham's essays on Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html)

If you are going to learn a language, learn the most powerful and efficient language you can find so that you can reach your goals faster. As far as I can tell, until ARC comes out, that language is Lisp. A lot of people complain about the lack of Lisp open source out there, but in fact, our application is loaded with great open source Lisp libraries. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=20010
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12619
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+lisp
http://www.cliki.net/index
http://common-lisp.net/