skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes there is . . . and that's GREAT!

The ad boom is fueling extremely high levels of investment in the technology sector. That means more companies started, more people working and ultimately, more wealth created.

It also gives companies time to work out all of the missteps they take along the way. Consider everyones golden boys, Google. When a rational and dispassionate analysis is applied to the company, there is cause for some concern. They seem challenged to find a revenue generator other than key word advertising via adSense and adWords. Many things have been out of place with their China strategy. It seems their mobile plans are running into issues with the carriers. Add to all of this a palpable arrogance, and I think it starts to sound like a movie we have all seen before. However, since they are flush with IRRATIONAL internet ad cash, they have time to adjust some things.

Starting with their God awful name. Google, sounds great in the West. In Chinese . . . well . . . you want to find a new name for it, lets just put it that way. They used Google though, since "it's an internationally recognized brand." What was I saying about palpable arrogance? They handle Chinese name separation in a fashion that only makes sense to Western Web 2.0 technologists. I could go on and on. The long and the short of it is that Baidu is winning. Enter the internet advertising cash, and Google is able to correct. Whether they will depends entirely on them. My point is . . .

Thank The Maker for internet ad booms!

They have time to come up with a new revenue generator. Maybe they can get into selling some kind of personal internet agent access. Maybe they can charge developers a fee for using their APIs. Who knows . . . the point is because of the bubble, there is time.

They have time to do something about their mobile strategy other than whine "waaahhh . . . but the carriers control everything and they want us to pay to access their wireless networks." Umm . . . yeah . . . the carriers gave the American people billions of dollars for the licenses to those airwaves. That is how it SHOULD work. Big corporations give us money for OUR resources, and we let them use OUR resources. If you want a license we would have given one to you too. But guess what . . . WE WOULD HAVE CHARGED YOU BILLIONS OF DOLLARS! The only thing troubling is that we charged the carriers so little. My taxes could have gone down even more if we had played our cards right.

Now again, the internet ad boom gives Google the chance to work this out.

And not only Google, but lots of companies now have some breathing room. That is a good thing. Will all of these companies survive and thrive. It's anyone's guess, but because of that money many have a fighting chance.
"There is no google killer - there will be one google - at this point, we can only hope to contain them - the barrier to entry is far to high. How hard is it for them to snag and change the best ideas, or worst case, buy them out? Pick a narrow niche, and hope for a buyout, or an area where they're weak, and get entrenched before they smell ya comin'."

Hm. I believe people said that about a certain company up in Redmond (I don't really think mahalo is that useful, but this is classic loser talk).
OK . . . I got one.

Maybe Facebook is even more clever than I gave them credit for. What if they use the platform to stage different features, all implemented by different companies, and some of these companies are WILDLY successful in charging a price for their product. Facebook could buy these companies or replicate the services and boom, they have another revenue line.

Shady, but it works.
You asked for a scalable business model, they have one. They're profitable and they are more than likely breaking a million or two in earnings already.

If you aren't interested in an intelligent conversation, go read digg.
Marc Andreessen blogs about his blog
I thought he was referring to girls.

apparently I temporarily forgot the definition of subtle.
Of course, you know what will get you hired every time? If someone interviewing you liked you personally.

I know I'm going out on a limb here, but I bet that in most companies 85% of the hiring decision comes down to this, and the urgency of filling the position. Affinity hiring also comes into play much of the time, i.e. people hire others of the same sex / educational background / interests as them.

If an interviewer personally likes you and believes that you are similar to them, the whole equation is flipped around: they have to find reasons NOT to hire you.
Marc Andreessen: The Truth About Venture Capitalists, Part 1
far33d, why would this be different. The same sensory pathways are initiated regardless of the stimulus. Repeated positive stimuli generate the feeling of addiction.

The same pleasures can be had while coding.
Selecting an ad platform (i.e. Ad Brite vs. AdSense?)
Kawasaki gets to be stupid for more than 15 minutes.

I hope he's enjoying making a fool out of himself while mocking everyone who's working on web companies.

It's an act that's going to wear thin, fast.
I'm sure they do whenever they have time. Plus the people affiliated with Pragmatic people are the ones who do the consulting. Either way it looks Rail Inc. enough to me. Just a matter of the number of people available to do the consulting projects.
Cerf is always a fun speaker to watch.
Building a startup in a weekend
Maybe 50 people in the world associated with Pragmatic Studio, yet there 1600 people at RailsConf, most of who work with Rails full time. Sorry, that argument just doesn't cut it.
Most Facebook users are students, so how can you expect them to shell out cash for products or services?

If Facebook ads don't result in more sales, advertisers will give up on Facebook eventually.
Briefly, for now: developers can quote, and who's chosen will be based on both the time they'll take and the amount quoted, as well as on the current pledging rate.
We're going to start with a fairly simple negotiation scheme between pledgers and developer, and we'll see how it works. A pledge is a commitment, so pledgers can only defect if the developer's not doing his job over time (pledgers vote on this).

As for bigger pledges having more voting power, we're considering this for commercial projects. But not for open source -- part of the attraction of open source is that it's not (too) controlled by money.
Angry and mostly incoherent.
Well, students are a great market for the credit card industry, so they must be spending that money SOMEWHERE.
You're worrying too much about respect a company gets. It's not about that.

If a company makes a billion dollars selling retarded pink web2.0 bunnies while you built high power laser communication systems and made one tenth that -- as a company, they have won.
Use Google Analytics to generate your own 75x18 interpolated graphs
I thought you'd have to be logged in, but it looks like you don't -- so maybe this is another free Google service. :-)

Just change the p= to your own base 36 number (0-9 a-z):

https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/sparkline?p=0055009900ff00mm00zz00

Or http, but IE might warn you about "showing non-secure items":

http://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/sparkline?p=0055009900ff00mm00zz00
Not a particularly good headline.

Why has no tech ever quit Craigslist in 12 years? Lack of meetings? Lack of CEO vision?
No Stranger to Controversy, Jason Calacanis Starts a New Venture
Fun With Google Trends: Mainstreaming Silicon Valley
It Came from the Uncanny Valley (CB2, a japanese robotic toddler)
TV on the computer (AppleTV & Joost)
Twitter Clones everywhere (international copycats capture blogging's youth culture)
Marc Andreessen: The Truth About Venture Capitalists, Part 2
A bloody brilliant recruitment video
for inspirational purposes only of course
Mambler cheat sheet (twitter clone, tumblelog small command language)
Notably, there are many fine businesses in the world -- many of them highly profitable, and very satisfying to run -- that do not have leverage in their model that makes them suitable for venture capital investment.

This post is probably a good place to refer the periodic you're-foolish-if-you-think-you-need-outside-investment-because-you-can-do-it-on-your-own posts that crop up around here every week or so.
Found this (In German) from the 'Twitter Clones everywhere' ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=26976

It looks like Mambler ( http://mambler.de ) are trying to create a small functional language to interact with the service. Looks similiar to twitters lingo (command set) ~ http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=10
FYI - This is Connected Ventures, which is now part of InterActive Corp. Specifically, these are the teams from Vimeo, CollegeHumor, and Busted Tees
Google buys photo website (spanish, enables geo-location & fits with maps & earth)
Kids tech savvy younger (average age kids using tech at 6.7yo, 2007)
For the last time: Joost not YouTube competitor (explanation & diffs bw joost/youtube)
Fooled by utopian visions of the future? (UK researcher: Cold War spin to blame)
Could it be something that the Google analytics team forgot to close off to the public?
Hehe, nice sound --- fun!
What is working memory? (7 is the magic number!)
Rails Testing: Not Just for the Paranoid
"For sale by owner" web sites can generate higher prices than Realtors
Book exec steals Google laptops to "teach lesson" about theft
Zurfer: About Us (support page notice "Bugs are possible and there is no customer support")
Don't Be a Dude Yamaha: A Gripping Story of Life and Death in Silicon Valley
Absolutely! If I took one thing from this post it's that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to funding. Can't wait for Part 2!
I have no idea as to how truthful this post is, I'm just curious what others think of this behaviour. To me it just sounds like the chap they were pitching to was having a bad day (since VCs are human after all).
He's such a thoughtful guy it occurs to me that Microsoft wouldn't be where it is if he had known about this stuff earlier.

Apparently it pays to be narrowminded; once you have a huge fortune, you can do something useful with it. Most activists become aware of "inequities" at a younger age but never have the $$$ to do anything about it.
you are so awesome and viral.
The Amiga was ahead of its time. Amiga people tended to migrate toward Linux, trading superiority of hardware for superiority of philosophy. I personally don't miss the proprietary days.

Consider the Mac is popular now when it's using the same hardware as PCs (Intel, NVidia/ATI) and runs on UNIX. Essentially Apple is based around a highly polished FreeBSD distro!

With some more resources, Ubuntu could do the same thing, selling tightly integrated machines where everything "just works".
I tend to come up with ideas while pacing around away from the computer, and thinking of a better way to do something is a kind of "high". Sitting at the computer tends to be less high-level thinking and more implementation detail. But when something works, that's a high, too.
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -- Anatole France
Benchmarking Python vs Jython vs IronPython
That's a shitty recruitment video. Why? They don't even say who they work for!

Explanation is a lot simpler... it's not a recruitment video at all. It's just a bunch of people goofing around on a boring day at the office.
Multicore Hardware and the Future of Ruby
Who matters now? - Justin Kan - Business 2.0
Hi Ian could I also get you email? thanks
The shoot looks fun, but damn, that's a lot of white people.
'... Too bad Joel stopped blogging about software... ...'

I've noticed this as well. A while ago he lamented the fact there was nothing more to write about (i forget the exact post, article it was in) having got everything off his chest about software & software development (old skool desktop mainly). But don't despair. I think a lot of the stuff he's pump(ed & ing) out is ahead of the curve. The articles are what you need to know a bit further up the line. Not as useful in the immediate as when you expand beyond survival mode.

What do you do when you need to know about

- design an office ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html

- learn about management skills ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/07.html

- why writing is essential ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/SortingResumes.html

- larger picture ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html

- how to ship physical things ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HowToShipAnything.html

"... Useful software written above the level of the single device ...." Jeff Stutz wrote this on leaving Microsoft ( http://www.synthesist.net/writing/onleavingms.html ). I view JOS, "useful advice written above the level of a startup".
Questions every Candidate should ask a potential new employer
Advice to MS on commodity SW (useful SW written above the level of the single device commands high margins for future)
That was pretty good, but Steve Pavlina IS a nutjob with a bunch of affiliate programs. Just sayin'
similar in vein to 'Joels 12 step to better code' ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
Where to meet the next Steve Jobs? (dirty little secret of unconferences, spend thousands to get good networks)
Who is talking about respect here? I'm talking about biz models!

Most web 2.0 co. are based on advertising revenue.
Agreed. WHY?
There are ad based companies that make far more income than non-ad based.

I've come to the conclusion that advertisers and many websites can get far more money out of people than either can individually. I don't like it either, but that's how it seems to be working.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It would be nice to see some actual numbers.
This is a surprising post, I've always heard that Apple TV makes its money of the devices, not the iTunes downloads.

"The iPod makes money. The iTunes Music Store doesn't,"
http://news.com.com/Will+iTunes+make+Apple+shine/2100-1041_3-5092559.html

Of course that was a few years ago... maybe things have changed...
Show me how I can use the shiny maps they have and you'll get a high five.
They're only worth a high five? :-) I presume you mean the Analytics maps ... they're Flash, so I'm stuck there. But there are always these ones: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
When I started programming I would go with the simplest solution I could because I was ignorant of any other way . Now I go with the simplest solution I can because I know the other ways

If I hadn't gone the other ways I would never have learnt to appreciate the simple solutions. I just wish it was a faster proces ;-)
Author's just jaded. Seriously, would you invest into their company? http://www.avanoo.com/ I looked at it for about 20 sec and couldn't figure out what it is.

Not a huge fan of Guy's but I'm with him on this one.
'... Besides, having the ability to attach a comment to the URL does't mandate putting anything in it. It's suggestive to the submitter that they should make the effort ...'

I've tried now to add title + (summary) on the submissions resulting in a more descriptive subject line. It actually works at the expense of size & a bit of time. So I have to agree with this bit and have changed my approach.

'... If I wanted volumes of information I know where to find it. This is news.yc. I'm hoping for quality, not quantity, and if that means a 70% fall in submissions, who cares? ...'

This is already automated by users in the news link ( http://news.ycombinator.com/news ) and for the best articles in the best link ( http://news.ycombinator.com/best ) As for me I'd rather more articles submitted & gain the benefit of the long tail of submissions (lots), let the brains filter submissions (users) and see the resultant niches of information pop up instead of just the hits ~ http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/07/how_finely_can_.html

'... Rant over ...'

It was a good one, because it made me think about this & in the process solved a few problems I was working on :)
How eBay Stores Screw the Little Guy
Facebook will go the route of myspace will go the route of friendster will go the route of Yahoo! Geocities. That's the problem. Throw them away, and a million clones will fight for their place. Meanwhile, Proctor and Gamble still sells rendered hogfat for billions a year.
Microsoft's CLR is supposed to be way faster than Mono's implementation...
If you know nothing then by definition you haven't learned anything.

Perhaps you mean you're wise if you can admit you know nothing? :-) (a la Socrates)
Perhaps they don't have any techs... ;-)
I like this idea a lot. It also highlights another open problem (I think): how can I get there? Google Maps recommends swimming across the Atlantic. Is there a service that includes air travel in computing the best way to travel to a specific destination?
The earlier version of the story was previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=23907

http://valleywag.com/tech/silicon-valley-tool/guy-kawasaki-231106.php

A concern here, as I see it, is whether we can expect consistent professional behavior in these meetings. After all, they are very much between individuals, and at least the investor side has to face a wide variety of ventures.
Can "art" web sites rake in the dough?
Lately I've been making small web sites just because I like the ideas behind them. One, http://www.nobodynotes.com , allows people to browse and leave anonymous notes. The other, http://www.phobiatopia.com, collects and maps people's fears.

They have less practical value than even truemors.com, but it'd be really great if they could generate revenue somehow. Right now, though, I apparently don't have enough imagination to come up with a working business model. I actually consider these sites to be minor works of art, made for the pure enjoyment of it and serving no practical purpose. So is it possible for such a web site to make money? And in particular, would it be possible for one of my sites to make money?

Thanks :)
What people say they'll pay in the future when asked in a survey, and whether they'll actually pay that, or anything, when the time comes are two different things.
Right now the Reddit post at http://programming.reddit.com/info/1wv6m/details and this post have the same score. Think there's anything interesting there, from a social news perspective?
Frightening graphs of how Xanga got eaten by Myspace and Facebook
GK was right not to invest in someone so unscrupulous as to write a blog post afterward, spinning the encounter to make him look bad.
Viral campaign spreading / Online marketing effort may germinate into business leads
Joost v. Babelgum
BPM, BPO, BI, CPM, SOA, EDA, CEP, BAM and .... EDM?
Vyew: Collaboration and Live Conferencing
i'll bet they get a couple applications out of it. smart people will see that video, think it looks like fun, and take the time to figure out who they are. there, they've just set up a filter.
A startup doesn't have to be IPO-able to be viable. It doesn't have to need VC to be viable. Working to show a large employer that you're worth a large "sign-up bonus" is a perfectly valid reason to start a startup.

Starting startups is more about mindset and lifestyle choice than about the current project being monetizeable.
Using Zipf's Law to forecast website usability
Inspirational video for when you are down (add others in the comments)
Two criticisms:

- It takes way too long to get going

- They put the worst lipsynchers in the beginning (?)

- They should have the names of these people at the bottom, at the minimum, so you can associate face to name
Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbdfUpGjyI
I wish phobiatopia would come up - it sounds interesting - I keep getting "Service Temporarily Unavailable".
Bandsintown on Mashable
to sign up before the public launch use "revolution" as your invite code.
And a lot of young people.
I agree, the only interesting thing about that article is that it serves as a good example for inappropriate behavior (referring to the blogging, not the meeting).
I am guessing that it is a kind of Yahoo! Answers, except that it also allows polls. I think I prefer Yahoo Answers.
A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity
Are you sure these aren't actors?
Hey! Let's take a poll! I know this site ...

:)
Quite true. The best part of pretty much any conference is the hallway track; running a gathering that is all hallway track makes the most sense.

I helped run a BarCamp in Phoenix, and it was a blast.
I've been trying out Joost off and on for about a moth or three, but the performance is sluggish. on my WinXP box. That makes it extra annoying to hunt around for something worth watching.

Democracy TV (soon, I think, to be called Miro) is somewhat better, not least because it runs on my Ubuntu-laden laptop. But it also has a more interesting range of content.
A military propaganda video?
Well, like Dude says, there's no bad publicity..
Ok, here's something a bit different (from a similar post a while ago):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jULUGHJCCj4
Bill Clementson's Blog: Modal (Continuation-based) Web Server Framework example
A type-based solution to the "strings problem": a fitting end to XSS and SQL-injection holes?
Looking for co-founder.
Please post more details as to who you are looking for with what kind of qualifications.
Might be: Feel free to drop me a line suchy~dot~ivan~at~gmail~dot~com or visit my newest site at http://www.jobitems.com or homepage at http://www.ivansuchy.com
Making Web software for easy site building - Weebly's YC story
That'd be a helluva secret!
I can never find the code I need as a testbed.
Designing for Informavores, or, Why Users Behave Like Animals Online
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000882.html

Apologies for submitting a top-level domain...
A Patent Lie - New York Times
Networks go on blitz for Web hits (CBS, Fox, NBC adopt interesting online startegies!)
Apple co-opting people like Einstein and Gandhi in a faux-endorsement attempt is so much BS. This is the company that sues their own fans.
But money, materialism and MTV might be the cure...
LOL. I didn't get the "Dude Yamaha" name right away, and so when I clicked on "avanoo", I said, "Holy crap, it's truemors! Guy Kawasaki's going to be pissed!"

Sure enough he was.
Has anyone used Schevo?
Has anyone used Schevo? How is it different from an RDBMS? Is there a way to tackle schema evolution issues in an RDBMS like PostgreSQL?
Limelight IPO takes off
I disagree. People who write about patents in software industry often fall into habit of calling everything a software. While in reality software is just a language to describe a computational formula (algorithm).

I can easily see someone taking years of their time and personal money invested into (for instance) image recognition research and comimng up with a truly remarkable alrotithms capable (dreaming here) of automaticaly driving cars or instantly recogizing a criminal's face looking over thousands of people enter an airport terminal.

And I can see some other company either reverse-engineering the code or just looking into it (if it's open source) or hiring a couple of your engineers and doing exact same thing without spending a dime on research.

In fact, this happens all the time with universities. They get grants and other kinds of money to conduct research only to see their professors and grad students leaving and doing the same thing on their own.

But frankly, I can't suggest anything. Patents shall not be granted for obvious things, but defining "obvious" will not be easy.

I am guilty myself, the company I used to work for filed for two patents with my name on them. While in reality they were trivial (obvious) applications of XML to UI builders. Patent lawyers felt otherwise though.
Via's incredible shrinking mobo line spawns "pico-ITX"
Web 2.0: Community For Restaurant And Bar Fans
Exactly my thinking... Well, windows is not cool anymore anyways.. :-)
Please explain: why Mono?