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Hey Ed,

Getting it, is in the eye of the beholder. The fact you're on Hacker news / have the 2nd highest karma means that you are definitely in tune :-).

I think our biggest flaw is: we're not explaining this in common terms that the everyday person can understand. It's too focused on the technical vision with the organizing and sharing. I think we can solve it in two ways:

a) Get rid of the organize + share mission statement jargon. Put together something people really understand.

b) Show a demo of the software in action. Once you see the software and/or start playing around with it, it's a no brainer that this is going to change the way you work.

Thank you for the feedback and kind words. Feel free to drop me an email jason [at] publictivity dot com if you want to check out the product more in depth (we're beta releasing it soon, but I can send out an invite a bit sooner).

-jlb
I think you should change the name; "reddit" is ok, but there are still a lot of good names available.
I tend to agree, and I didn't make any claims about the number of requests. But data transfer really isn't all that slow, and 1415 bytes only takes about 10 milliseconds on a dsl connection (and 100ms on dial up), which is insignificant compared to the other factors involved.
There are quite a few huge bands these days who owe all their success to the internet and more specifically Myspace. The Artic Monkeys are the first that come to mind, but I know there are a few others I could list if I thought about it.

"Third, if the recorded music industry goes down, concert sales will not grow – they will shrink"

Also wrong and with no reasons why he believes this. The record industry and the concert promotion industry are separate yet complementary industries. The loss of the record industry will almost certainly have no huge effect on the concert industry.

I'll be honest I stopped reading at the end of that paragraph.
Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50K by Collecting Lots of Free 'Micro-Deposits' (Office Space scam)
Um, I was actually picking cities I've lived in or spent a lot of time in. Yes I was being flippant, I don't think I was being completely ignorant.
"I don't know about unparalleled." That means, "compared with CUNY."
I'm not sure how I feel about paying for screencasts. I trust the pragprogs and all, but I think I'll wait until I hear some reviews.
Hackers and I-Bankers?
Not sure if it works like this in CouchDB, Monet, and Vertica.
Time has arrived where original content creator/artist (musician, writer etc.) has to decide how they want to publish their content and make money. Self-publishing is gaining momentum in the book arena, the same can happen in music, movie and tv - the only thing is someone has to make self-publishing and internet distribution eco-system simple and affordable (wow! here is the business idea).

The other platform that can be explored is creative commons. Licensing under creative commons and sharing content freely with the support of some kind of revenue generation is one of the best option (i think).
From the article: Don't hire quickly to deal with growth that may not happen, and make sure that your existing staff are used effectively.

I heard the one startup spent one round of funding buying Aeron chairs. The number of chairs was taken as indicator of the founders' certainty in the venture and this led to a larger round of investment. Antics like this led to the Aeron chair ratio for failed startups. Apparently, some failed startups had more 10 Aeron chairs for every employee.
I used to live one block away from Caltech, when I had the good fortune to work there. The eavesdropping there was the best I ever heard.
Less work in this case = horrible results. You're ruining the semantics of the DOM to use a crappy method for creating rounded corners. Want to create a fluid box with rounded corners and even less work? Use Javascript. You're not writing crappy HTML and it's even less work; just tag the <div /> with a class.

If the quality of the implementation weren't bad enough, this method isn't even new.
So! Once again we meet, Otto Jespersen. And this time, linking caturday with onomatopoeia.

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=catu...
Jenin - you should build more bombs.
Hey,

I'm one of the speakers at startup camp and I think I'm going to help on judging the submissions.

I think your pitch needs a lot of work and I wouldn't vote for it in its current form. I read your blog post and your PDF slides (I didn't watch the video) and didn't get a clear sense for what your product does, why it's different than other similar products, or why you think it will turn into a larger business. Many of your slides talk about the right topics -- for instance, customer pain -- without saying what you specifically know about that topic in your business -- for instance, exactly what customer pain you're trying to address.

The outline on Sequoia's site is great for what your pitch should address:

http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas/

I once had the humiliating experience of sending a Sequoia partner a 30-slide pitch, having him say "12 slides exactly," sending him a 20-slide pitch, having him say "12 slides exactly," sending him a 15-slide pitch, having him say "12 slides exactly," and then finally getting it right. Learn from my mistakes! 12 slides, no more than six bullets per slide, no more than one line per bullet. Writing to form makes it easier for people to evaluate you. Make it very easy on your evaluators.

On each of those slides, say why you're different from everyone else. Exactly what makes you better. "We take the sales lead process from 30 minutes to five minutes." Say it succinctly and don't be at all ambiguous. "We allow co-workers to share contact information for their sales leads without data entry by scanning business cards with 99.9% accuracy" or whatever.

Hope this helps and good luck.
The thing about support is that you don't need it -- until you need it.
Ask YC: Looking for a new UI designer/programmer (NYC)
Stop me if you've heard this one before.

We've got a product and we think it's good. It's been live for five months or and has received very positive responses from its two core customer bases and from industry press. We've got a growing user base and a team member who is an exceedingly savvy marketer.

But we're seeking a keen, creative, Wusthof-sharp mind to re-build our user interface and be our lead programmer/designer. (And before you go off thinking I'm smarter than you because I know who Wusthof is, don't bother. He's a knifemaker).

If you're up late, like me, you might have that restless edge that pushes people. Young, ambitious people. PSD's (http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/04/10/bear-stearns-and-psd-spirit). People who want to work with other bright people, driven people, working late hours on something they want to see become wonderful.

People who live in NYC and want to meet up for a drink some night. Those kind of people. Shoot me an email and we'll chat about the project: twelvedigits [at] gmail [dot] com

If you're not in NYC and still interested, send me a note please and we'll have a chat.
Indeed, I moved to San Francisco last year, planning to leave in a few months after completing a contract job, to go on to a Ph.D. That is, I intended to be a tourist. But I loved the city so much, I deferred my admission one year.

"You should live better." Hmm, I have to think about that. Indeed, my time in SF has been the best living I have ever done. The city has "spoken" to me, and it has resonated.

Now I'm deciding if I really want to leave for a Ph.D., or just spend the rest of my life drinking up this wonderful San Francisco vibe.
It will be interesting to see if the increase in the price of gas will become a factor in whether startups choose San Francisco over the Penninsula and South Bay.
Amen! Although to make the point better, you can just use the shorthand: -moz-border-radius: 0.4em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.4em;

Seven lines of CSS and fifteen of HTML per box is bullshit when you can do the same thing in a standard and semantically better way in the space of a Twitter message. I can hardly believe people still put so much effort into IE-specific workarounds for purely decorative effects.
"... So - which is it? Nerd or Geek? What's the difference? ..."

Neek: union of nerd & geek ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157594218253963/
The new design feels cumbersome on mobile devices, to the point of being unreadable. This is entirely due to the right-hand sidebar (with the Customize your reddit, Submit a link and Create your own reddit call-out boxes), which appears above the actual page content in mobile layouts. These three boxes are a lot longer than they used to be (especially Customize your reddit), so it takes a lot of scrolling to actually get to the links.

It's great that you can compress the link display, however, without the ability to dispose of the Customize your reddit and other sidebar call-out boxes, reddit is now a pain to read on a mobile device.

For what its worth, that used to be my main means of browsing reddit.

Edit: This is not a threat or anything, but I stopped reading Digg back when their site redesign made it impossible to read on a mobile device. Please don't ignore the mobile device users, though we are a minority to consider when deciding on a layout.
The big announcement will be around Google App Engine - expect the 160,000 or so developers on the waiting list to be let in tomorrow (75,000 have been given access already).

That's a lot of entrants to the web 2.0 market.
whitespace is part of design, I'd quit using an app if design is seriously broken.
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The Guessing Game Has Begun on the Next iPhone
Right, that's what I meant. Only a small percentage of people seem to pledge.
This is probably the first time I've ever seen anyone reference my birth-city in a blog post or comment (Urumqi). And I can confirm it's not a startup or intellectual hub, but the Uyghur lamb-kabobs are killer.
I like the idea that instead of taking a fee, you allow the tipped to optionally tip Tipit.to. It feels right.

I wouldn't be too surprised if the tipped amount ended up being more than 3%. Any stats?
I like the whitespace, font sizes and colours. The header is much clearer. The positioning/typography of the rank number, arrows and vote count sucks. The rank, vote 'spinner' and title/comments seem to occupy three different vertical alignments and the result is very confusing. At the very least aligning the rank number with the title would be an improvement. Potentially you could align the uparrow with the title, vote count with the submitted text and the downarrow with the comments link.
They used to have the most selective school ever, leading to the best Noble Prize winning streak ever (http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/iq.htm).
I've never hit a CSS rounded corners solution that met all my requirements:

* No image files (Extra HTTP requests/inflexible to colour changes)

* No extra markup (All the benefits of a clean DOM)

* Cross-browser without relying on parsing bugs (Supporting user choice is good)

* No pixel-based measurements (Visual designs should scale to different browser text sizes and screen resolutions)

Given that, any solution will involve some trade-offs. To me, some non-semantic HTML is a reasonable sacrifice since it is transparent to most users.
It's not so much that you do whatever a city expects of you, but that you get discouraged when no one around you cares about the same things you do.

I hear that. Trying to find an ambitious hacker in the middle of Connecticut to exchange ideas with is an awful experience. People here are so... content with the way things are. Content, numb and detached.
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I can't help but think that there are better ways to backup your code. Once you give it to an online service, you give up total control over how that data is handled.

Your code is everything. You should take care of it properly.

On the other hand, if you are working on OSS, then of course your need for privacy is trumped.
You might, but seemingly you'd be in the vast minority. There is currently any number of bands and film producers making stuff available for free legally. But even with the threat of prosecution, and the hatred for copyright, these bands can barely make an impression.
Joke of the day: What do you call an european with no sense of humor.....

drums...

German!!

In other news, an immigrant will always feel as second class citizen in most of europe, and Germany has a bad reputation about it. In some parts of East germany there is some Neo-Nazi resurrection, and there is lots of xenophobia.

The states it is a total different thing. It depends where you are. In SF i just don't feel foreign at all, as most people I meet actually speak at home another language, or have traveled a lot. There is no visible discrimination, and I feel I could be an american one day.

Living in the south, it is a total different thing. You feel foreign, no matter how good your english skills are, BUT, you can actually score points with girls thou (if you are white, of course), as there are not that many europeans around.

In germany, they give you this thing called the blue card, so you could slave working on some company, then they kick you out when the time is up, with no path to citizenship. Hmmmm.... No thanks, I just don't feel being used as a disposable thing.
I still prefer books, papers and articles. Much faster for information transfer.

Pragprog seems to position screencasts as being like sitting next to an experienced programmer. I don't think it's true. I don't think there's a good substitute for actually working with someone smarter than you.
SF was created during the madness of Gold Rush, and it changed over nite. Then it got raised twice to the ground, and got rebuild again.

The Japanese got kicked out, and the Chinese and African Americans moved in.... etc. etc.
Than the 60s and the hippes came, then the 90s and the dot commers came.

SF has always been a city in a huge flux, as a place of great opportunities, and attracted many people with the "gold rush' mentality

Your grandparents propably were some of these people that came to SF for these opporunities.
my favorite is that black guy that hangs before Au Bon Pain that uses flatery to get money: "Young lady", "Big guy", "Pretty lady", could you spare some change?

SF bums are not that pleasant.
I really dislike it. It does not feel the same, and I wish I could quit it easily. If there were an alternative with the old design I'd go back.

I see no reason why you changed the design. The old one was fine.
Unless you're sure what you want to do and where the leading center for it is, your best best is probably to try living in several places when you're young.

"your best best"?
Have you checked out m.reddit.com
yawn.... ok. I can't think of serious startups using their services. Maybe if I am doing something quick, a small app, while having a full time job. etc...

At least with amazon, you have controll of the servers, and can install whatever you want. With Goggle App Engine your are tied to it to the hip.

And Google has been getting eviler lately. For some reason I wouldn't trust my source code with them, while I would trust amazon a little bit more.
Brilliant piece. Thank you for posting the link.

Likewise: Aliens cause global warming. http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-alienscauseglobalwar...
"... Melbourne: You should spend more money on clothes ..."

No it's more like...

Melbourne: You live in the sports capital of a sports crazed country. You should go to the footy, the cricket, tennis and don't forget some new duds on cup day.
You have to login (or register) to see that.
So I just used "customize your reddit", unchecked most of the categories, then clicked on a story, and then when I went back to the story list none of my category changes were saved. It changed back to the defaults bombarding be with these stories I just took the time to filter. Granted I wasn't logged in, but this is annoying, and bad design.
True. This was posted a while back.
Yep. Yelle, in france too, started with myspace.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4FamibkUH4
My favorite essay in a while.
I have some of the same alignment issues especially when a entry has a long title.

I mocked up what it would look like if everything for an entry was vertically centered: http://skitch.com/rrwhite/cm3m/reddit-centered-mod

I'm not sure yet whether I think that's an improvement :)
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I don't read reddit. But I checked out the design, and I think your website has a couple design mistakes.

The arrows should not be above and below each number. That is horrible. Really.

Also, the domain of the link should be right of "submitted by" because there is space and that way, it would be in a consistent space instead of tacked on wherever the headline ends, and would be yield lines of consistent fonts what seem easier to read to me.

That's what stands out. Your website seems well thought out (besides those things that seem too clashing to me).
Ask PG: Reversing a vote
Three times now I've clicked "up" instead of "down" on some comment. The vote seems irreversible, so the mistake makes me feel rather impotent and remains on record as the opposite of the emotion I felt when I read the comment. So, your database contains false data. Maybe I've even upmodded a troll. This seriously irks me. Could I file a feature request?
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Ask YC: Anyone familiar with the Business of Software Conference in Boston in September?
I thought that Startup School was one of the best things I ever attended. Now I found the Business of Software Conference in Boston September 3-4.

http://www.businessofsoftware.org/

The speaker list is incredible. Some of them are Joel Spolsky, Eric Sink, Seth Godin, Richard Stallman, Jason Fried, Dharmesh Shah, and Jessica Livingston, among others. I think I've read just about everything these speakers have written, so naturally, I'm interested.

The price is $1400 if you pay by June 7, which is $1400 more than Startup School, but somehow I get the feeling it's well worth it. Between this fee, air fare, hotel, and meals, one needs to think very carefully about going.

I suspect it's aimed at a different audience than Startup School, so I was wondering...

- Has anyone here gone to this before?

- Is anyone planning to go this year?

- What kind of people would one expect to meet?

- What kind of access to the speakers could one reasonably expect?

- What are the biggest differences between this and Startup School?

- jl, do you know what you'll be speaking about? Perhaps a sneak peak?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated to help decide. Who knows, maybe a small Hacker News get-together in Boston in September?
You're a moron if you think you are capable of deciding what medicine you need without having medical school. Sorry, man, but we got this great thing called division of labor where the MD learns about the medicine and you can focus on something else. Then when you need to apply medical knowledge to your life, you ask the MD. Your nonsensical post makes me think you should think really hard about taking everything your doctor says.

If you think your doctor is not treating you properly seek a second opinion. But you are not qualified to make the judgements about your medication.
"... The real engineer's guide to weight loss ..."

I'd follow a diet by an engineer as much as I would listen to algorithms from Nonagenarians from Okinawa.

Okinawans (Japan) have the longest life expectancy on Earth due not only to a good dose of genetics but through a) regular hard physical work, b) good diet and c) community of friends ~ http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/026/e/long.html

Following the link shows me a great application. But listening to Engineers about food, exercise is a waste of time. While engineers may be educated. They are also stupid. Take for an example ~ http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/exercise.html some of the reasoning in the HD diet:

1. Exercising consumed time.
2. Exercising was not programming.
3. Therefore, by exercising, less
time was available for programming

This is the same sort of stupid logic Ted uses. Combine that with the distorted Modern view on food and this leads to all sorts of distorted behaviour. Instead of looking to new cultures. Cultures that have evolved post the emergence of the "Agro-Industry". Try looking at how older cultures solved this problem and re-import the best ideas.

Here's a couple.

1) Exercise a lot

2) Eat lots of vegetables, fruits, some meats and stay away from processed foods.

3) Eat with other people (reduce chance of eat too much)

4) Practice, "'hara hachi bu', eat until your four-fifths full" ~ http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2257391.htm A peculiar Japanese concept to counter over-eating.

Part two is becoming a problem as Industries have sprung up claiming to solve this and substituting unprocessed foods with highly processed foods. Good for making money, bad for health.

I like Ted, foul and potty mouthed as he is. He's made of the stuff "Goo-Micro-Hoo" software corps wants in employee. Well educated, hard working. The mould of hacker that will do everything to avoid exercise. I went to my hacker cousins birthday a month or so back. I had to give up my usual game of "spot the fit bastard". Playing a game of cricket in the park was a fun experience. These engineers exhibit the same boolean logic as Ted. It's ironic listening to hackers like Ted whine about how exercise is hard. Just like Jocks complaining Calculus should be removed from math because it's too hard.

Now if he'd just get off his arse, exercise and eat well.
I'm the opposite, I quite like the uncompressed link display. I thought I disliked it at first, and ticked on the compressed view, but quickly went back to uncompressed.
Cleveland, OH: You gotta be tough.
Can you expound on what's you find horrible about the points and the arrows. My understanding, and I've been helping the Reddit guys with the redesign, is that people we're getting the idea that the arrows were for moderation and so it made sense to add more of a connection between them and the points.

I felt pretty strongly about keeping the domain on the same line as the link (it was originally to be put just where you recommend). From a logical perspective, since it's information about the link and not meta information about the submission (who submitted it and to what 'category') it made sense to keep it on the link line. More importantly I felt that there was a natural tendency to read the link title and then immediately scan the domain as a final check before one clicks on the link. It felt much more natural to have that as one statement [link] [domain] than to involve scanning to another line [link] -scan-> [domain] even if it was consistently placed on that next line.
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It's hardly the same thing, since country music is not polluting the environment, making other people sick, taking lots of space and so on. If you don't like country music, you can easily avoid it.
Hey,

Definitely a big help. Like I said, we want the hardcore feedback. That's even a major part of why we want to come to startup camp. We know we've built a great product, and we know it has the tools entrepreneurs need.

Our biggest problem is putting it into words that are simple to understand and to put down onto 12 slides. I've always believed that people spend money (whether as investors or customers) on products/things that they can understand easily and relate to. That's where we need to work on things, a lot.

Thank you once again.

-jlb
There is a feature request page here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363.
I've met nice people everywhere I've lived. Somehow, and I'm not sure why, it seems just a little bit easier to meet nice people in Pittsburgh. Whether it's the checkout line in a supermarket, in a restaurant or bar, or just hanging out, people generally seem friendly and engaging.

(The day after a Steeler's loss, of course, all bets are off.)