skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...the swing should get Founder status..."

I narrowly avoided having Coke come out my nose when I read that!
Thanks you guys! This is helpful. loreznoncom is a pain! :)
I've found ySlow to be pretty handy and requires Firebug...
Be honest: Do you ever read EULAs?
Impressive in Twitterworld. Not impressive at all anywhere else.
Would it be a measure of... consistency? if one's markov chain matched the body's summary?
"Give the bar a chance. I was leery at first but now I love it."

I thought (after I posted) that it might turn out to be like tabbed browsing, which I first thought would be OK-ish but (like everyone else) I can't live without it now. I just wish the awesome bar took up less real estate. The visual clutter is appalling.
It Doesn't Have To Be All Or Nothing With A Startup
He's not blaming it on his age, he's blaming it on his family. :)
I like that :) I was trying to work out how to switch off the warning I get when I log in to Gnome: "You're logging in as a privileged user. That's bad!" To which I always mutter, "yes, I've been doing it for 15 years and nobody died yet." But there's no way to switch it off. So another window manager might be the best way to go...
Venture Capitalists Hot About iPhone Startups
No.
Once you read one, there is no need to read another, they are basically the same thing, only with slight alterations.
Ask HN: What would you do differently?
If you started all over again, what would you do differently? If we started all over again with software, that is. Imagine a scenario in which all software implementations and specifications are lost while the hardware remains intact, sort of like after a software neutron bomb. Every last Linux CD, ANSI C manual and copy of the R5RS spec is forever gone. Now starting all over from scratch we would surely avoid the worst mistakes, incompatibilities and artificial limits (think 640k). The most obvious thing to redo is a clean design, learning from our collective memory of the past attempts, making use of the best ideas in the history of computing so far.

But once we are going down the path of cutting away dead branches in the tree of possibilities and straightening out the data paths, where do we stop? Do we still want to have file systems? And should they be exposed to the average user? And what about files themselves, are they a useful paradigm? What about all the other internals that are routinely exposed to end users. I think they might be caused by the cultural geek roots of the PC business.

How about the following goal: computing that is completely transparent of location and device, with no application boundaries. No more copying files, configuring the IP, downloading the browser, etc. Would such a reset of the software world end up getting us ahead faster in the long run. I have the suspicion that might be the case. What do you think?
I think it's handy for apps you use all day, such as Gmail. It shows up in the Dock with a Gmail logo, if you quit Safari your Gmail doesn't go away, etc etc.
An interesting take on the age old "person can do this" and "company wants to pay someone to do that" how do we unite the two parties problem. It'll be fun to see how the "fuzzy" criteria can help improve matches with some real, more random (ie: not just Biz school folks) user profiles.

Finally, I'm sure they worked hard to get the LinkedIn stuff to work, but there it is again - another site asking for my user and pw ... though I do like that they have a nice note about their privacy policy and how they'll use your credentials. Still, what happens when I update my LinkedIn account? Are they storing user/pw and syncing? Somehow I doubt it. Will they prompt me regularly to update/sync?
I'm stuck with IE7 at work, Firefox 3 and Safari at home. So it all depends.
Safari has the equivalent of Firebug built-in

Does it? Specifically, does it have a REPL and debugger? I looked a while back and didn't find any.
Amen. Nothing wrong with taking a piece of Google's pie. If folks really want to use Yahoo, set your home page to Yahoo and ignore the search box. Problem solved.
Technology and Food Yield Choice at Charity
Because of the NDA, or the short time span? Just curious what are the red flags in your opinion? I'd say NDA = bad.
I think it comes into play "Stop comparing yourselves" .. You are you, not me or the other guy. If you want more go ask for it. Everyone is capable of making whatever someone is willing to pay them.

*Also if you enjoy your job, what does money matter as long as the basics are met
Firefox 3 for Mac OS X: Under the Hood
This is a candidate for a downvote.
This reminds that one of the majors launched by getting the search button on Netscape (Was it yahoo?)
I tried googling for the page and it wasn't trivial to find.

Here are queries I tried:
1. "parkside dental"
2. "parkside dental goldsworth"

I found it with the second query, it's the third result.
if you don't know the reason for a vote, then you shouldn't feel bad about the vote, since you don't know, was my point. the parent said he cared about karma.
We are still building the product, and so I don't want to put the link here - not yet, anyways :) Once we have an alpha or private beta I'll ask for people to help out.
Maybe an SIP phone and Asterix is the right answer? That gives you real VOIP over an internet connection.
lol, why would someone even write something like this?

everyone knows men is superior :)

(kidding!)

Actually, I find it surprising that there aren't more women as they are usually way more hard working then men but I guess they don't have the guts to take the risk.
Hard to say. A lot depends on where you live and the cost of living there. If you're not in the Valley, NYC, or other high cost market you might be closer to your peers wherever it is that you live.

On the other hand, if you are in the Valley, etc., maybe it's time to update your resume. :)
I've never wanted $25 million as bad as while watching the new "When We Left Earth: The NASA missions" mini-series on Discovery HD.
Rentoid is like eBay but for renting.
What do you think of the concept?
The lesson learned (and I'm sorry if you had to read between the lines a bit) is that Techcrunch and the other major outlets aren't the only course for marketing your product. I could have busted my ass making putting together everything I'd need to make Arrington raise an eyebrow, or I could focus on trying to get the word out in locations where I was more likely to get conversions. I chose the latter.

To be honest "There’s no glamorous future for Mailmanagr, as well." pretty much sums up this article. It may be a good product, but its aim is not to be a high growth start-up and technically its just a component to an existing app.

Yes, it is just a component to an existing app, but it's a component that customers seem to want, and that the original app's developer didn't seem interested in building (but who can ever tell with 37signals).
Apple kicks iPhone activation company to the curb for 3G iPhone, its stock drops like a rock
like the comments in the post say, its one hell of a compelling title, author gets some props for that, even if the content lacks real substance, it was the first thing I clicked in my reader.
Once I learned that running my Google searches through FF's built-in search bar produced income for the folks at Mozilla, I have tried to use it exclusively to bolster their income a tad.

I mean, honestly. It's the least I can do.
No. I figure I can't be responsible for something I didn't read or sign and that probably isn't legally valid anyway, so why waste my time reading?

I hear my cat likes reading them, though. I never accepted the EULA on my Mac... but my cat did. Direct any legal inquiries to her.
It also assumes that entrepreneurs have time to go to the mall.
Joke would imply humour, which would not be appropriate either :)
especially signing an NDA just to "place a bid" - is HN turning in to rentacoder.com?
One of the tricks I've learned with Firefox is that under View > Toolbars > Customize... you can move the location of your "Bookmarks Toolbar Items" to the right of the menu bar. Then hide your "Bookmarks Bar" and the customized location remains. That way it doesn't take up an extra row of chrome.
Ask HN: shared hosting
we are a small dev company looking for a reliable shared hosting company in or around vancouver or along the west coast. we used to use netnation, but those dudes are idiots now so we switched to media temple, but the latency from here to there is too much. any ideas?
Desks
It's prudent to gather pricing information before any large financial transaction, whether buying or selling stocks, an automobile, or a home.

Why should searching for a job or asking for a raise be any different?
Trader hacks the system - and gets squashed by the giants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_nAV0XZt0
Wtf? How did this masturbatory piece get modded up?
I have had nothing but bad luck with shared hosting. I have embraced VPS's, and have had zero problems so far with my slice at slicehost. I am just a happy customer - but maybe I should see if they have an affiliate program :)

edit: apparently there is https://manage.slicehost.com/customers/new?referrer=14676099...
How is this news? This has been a pretty established fact for about half a decade by now, no?
Ever considered a VPS? Shared hosting tend to be unreliable – which is natural, you have thousand of users on the same box running all kind of weird PHP scripts andwhatnot.

I'd recommend Slicehost. Cheap, reliable and slick.
Flash on iPhone would be a huge revenue leak
More like a reprise of the biplane (BMW started as an aircraft engine maker way back in the day).

Did anybody else think of Porco Rosso when seeing this car?
Basecamp was created with 10 hours/week of programming time and as a 3rd or 4th project alongside paying customers for the designers over the course of about 6 months. In other words, we didn’t drop everything we had to create Basecamp, and you don’t have to either.

I'm not sure how accessible this advice is to those whose name isn't David and who don't have a tendency to say "woops!" when explaining stuff.

(ie to the non-DHH's amongst us, which I imagine is the majority)

Here's a qualificative for the article: If you're capable of writing the best web framework in the world in your spare time, chances are you can also create a business at the same time.
The most recent starting from scratch that I can remember was Palm. No real file system, no legacy anything, databases for everything. Rather quick for its hardware but wasn't groundbreaking.
I have never once read a EULA - I don't really see how you could make it all the way through one and stay away.

How important is the EULA/Terms and conditions that you always have to click OK to when you register to use a new web app? If I was to release an app without legally prepared terms and conditions would that be a stupid thing to do?
As long as there are people with different opinions, there will be different answers to your questions. We will split up to different "religions" again, since we cannot agree even on whether command lines are a good thing, or on what amount of freedom is a good tradeoff versus security. There simply are too many variables: Power users want freedom, corporations want security, productivity, and low cost (and not even all the coprporations want that)...

Too many players, too many egos.

Right now the Mac zealot's ego prevents him from seeing anything good in a PC, and vice versa. If we started all over, people will, within a short amount of time, identify with a particular solution, and then we will have religions all over again.

I'm not saying it's hopeless, but what I am saying is that the problem's root is people, human behavior; not necessarily technology. The technological mistakes (which itself is subjective), were kept alive mainly by egos, easily justified with the cost of undoing the mistake. And don't forget every mistake is a steppingstone for a later success. IBM's OS2 was a financial mistake, but which O/S has not borrowed from it?

So I gues we might have the same kinds of problems if we start over again, with the names of the companies and people involved shuffled around.

Maybe it's just better to keep going and try to do our best.
Never. It's one of only two consistent policies: read every one carefully, or read none.

Reading every one carefully would be a tremendous waste of time. Many, perhaps all, contain clauses that I am legally unqualified to evaluate, and are probably unenforceable. (And no, I'm not hiring a lawyer to interpret each one for me, at a greater cost that that of the software itself.)

At least with a read-none policy, I will always be able to report, if it becomes a question in the future, that I'm sure I didn't read and agree to any one in particular.
I think that, difficult as it may be, looking at statistics is the only way to really answer this one. One DHH anecdote only says that it's possible to do what he did, but says nothing about the likelihood that other people may be able to repeat his success.
It also assumes that entrepreneurs have time to go to the bathroom.
i think the best way to think about this is to start with bootstrapping and do everything in your power to avoid the need for funding... it should be with deep regret (and because you have no other options) that you move up the chain toward angels and vcs.
* But there is a lot of serendipity in this world and you never know when an unproductive meeting turns into a productive one.*

"Money!"
We’ve repeated this story so many times that it’s starting to wear a little thin

+1
Let's expand the discussion, should Firefox build in affiliate codes for searches at Amazon and Ebay? Surely this would help revenue and according to most here on HN it's still ethical and should be encouraged because Firefox is a 'good cause'.
Why bother: if you don't agree, you can't use the software. Kinda pointless if you just bought it. Now if you could read them before hand to see if you actually agree, I'm sure you wouldn't buy it/use it.
"There definitely can be some negative SEO effects..."

There definitely CAN BE negative effects, if you do not know what you are doing. You should be properly building the out the page's hierarchy as well as relevant inbound and onsite links (with id anchors at the end) to accompany that hierarchy.(Please note I am not suggesting links like "http://www.site.com/#about-us" can rank in google)

A one pager, in my opinion, can be great for a small business.

You would definitely need to provide the user with conventions they are used to such as (contrary to DECH's blog post) providing pseudo-navigation at the top of each section.

Of course none of this matters if you aren't putting in any effort to convert that user into a possible customer. So a few things to include:

- scrolling contact info

- contact form

In the end the user get's "faster page loads", and therefore more gratification from using the website.

Disclaimer: This was just a stream of thought, I do not encourage or discourage one pagers for any given case.
The more I read these 37signals articles, the more I like them.

I realize that a lot of their philosophy runs counter to the already unconventional wisdom here, but so what.

I also realize that we may soon hit 37signals saturation (much like techcrunch saturation) here, but again, so what.

Many of us are in less than optimal situations (money, time, resources, collaborators, etc.), so this is some of the best advice you can get...

"How about you turn your perceived weakenesses into strengths. Embrace your constraints..."

Excellent!

My own example:

I am frustrated that I don't have enough time to spend writing my own code because I still have several consulting gigs. So, instead of asking, "How can I get more time in my week?" I ask, "How can I use what I learn from my clients to cut through the fog on my own software so that I don't need as much time?" That change in framing has really saved me a lot of time.

Sometimes you just gotta change your view by asking a different question. A 37signals post has once again helped me to think outside the quadralateral. Thanks, DHH.
they have a referral program.. go to account > referrals in slicemanager for your "affiliate link"
Most software projects use the sweatshop method. (We're late, throw more people and more hours at it.)

And most software projects fail.

Although that isn't any more definitive than anything else, it does give DHH's view some weight, and so far my experience in the industry backs it up.
Lucky! If only I had the chance to go :? Maybe one day...
I read the GPL (v.2) once or twice and that covers enough software that I can skip (re)reading the license on most free stuff. That's the beauty of standard terms for the end user at least.
Tech Jaws Feeding Frenzy Week #2 | Tech Jaws
It'll be interesting to see how the restrictions on installing iPhone apps (such as Apple being able to restrict the types of apps available) play out in this market.

Mac OS X, obviously, has been a system where you can install anything, including competitors' applications (like Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Premiere, etc.) Windows Mobile has been a mostly free-install platform as well. Is the mobile market with the iPhone any different?
Yeah, that's pretty true (and sad). My main idea is that things we could do better, even if still in several different ways across cultures/companies, would have already emerged, but for the momentum of the legacy interfaces (in the widest sense).
I'd also give a recommendation for a vps. You get to learn some system stuff, but control over your database great. I used to be on mediatemple running a WP Blog and sometimes thing would bork the database, and it be days before they could restart it. With a VPS, I can make it happen instantly.

the setup is usually easy, plenty of resources online to get you going and if you don't want to play the command-line game to get certain things on there you can usually pay the hosting company themselves to 'consult' for your vps.

I'd also put my hat in for slicehost. the support is great, imo.

also: buy a vps with the most memory you can afford, you can run a bunch of sites on a 256 slice, but a few rails apps can really chew that up. (don't know if you do rails or not)
Sorry if my tone or style disgusts you, I'm no pg. I'll try and say it more succinctly: I think it's possible to innovate quite a bit, simply by ignoring the status quo to a yet unknown extent. In a worse-is-better way to serve simplicity and clean interface before compatibility.
I don't accept your argument, but even if I did, the article still has merit.

The opposing philosophy is, "drop everything else and go full speed ahead on your product". Ok, do that. Your likely outcome is still bad. We talk ad nauseum about the successes in our field, but fool ourselves about the failures. The failure model isn't Kiko. It's the 1,000 PHP apps that we've never heard of, because they didn't get off the ground after they used up the runway they got from their founders 3 month sprint.

No matter what you do, the odds are very much against:

* You making enough money with a web app after a 3-month sprint to eat.

* You closing a round of funding of any sort.

On the flip side, if you do your product "part time", the odds are very good you'll still be nurturing your product 3 months from now, or 6 months, or two years. The "lack of focus" hurts your chances, but the sustainability helps your chances.

Also, let's just be clear about something: DHH didn't write the best web framework in the world. Rails is nice, but it isn't a prohibitively awesome technical achievement. If you set the technical bar at "Rails 1.0", most of the programmer posters here can clear it. Find another excuse not to take a swing. =)
Agreed. Sundays at 9pm on Discovery
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/nasa.html
The Feedburner guys were a consultancy --- BurningDoor --- since 1995. Nineteen Ninety Five. Our ISP used to host them. They had awesome offices. You know what? I'll take Dick Costello's experience over the idealized YC moonshot business plan any day of the week.

Come to think of it: BurningDoor, 37Signals; maybe this is just a Chicago thing.
http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html

All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.

I would take the new chips and redesign some computer I'd done before because I'd come up with a clever idea about how I could save 2 more chips. "I'll do it in 42 chips instead of 44 chips." The reason I did that was because I had no money. ... I know how to combine chips together very efficiently to get that goal done.

Thanks, Jessica Livingston.
whats the budget?
Add Tipjoy to FriendFeed
no rails, mostly php and python. slicehost is looking really nice. anyone know where the data centers are?
If I could go back in time, I would make a much more serious effort to encourage people I did business with that software patents are a bad idea and that they should always insist on software for which they have sufficient source code to always allow them to legally maintain their systems without involving the original vendor.

To me that means it has to either be open source from the start or have a license that would guarantee an eventual open source release (i.e. along the lines of aladdin ghostscript).
"If you're capable of writing the best web framework in the world in your spare time, chances are you can also create a business at the same time."

Don't make the mistake of underestimating yourself.

I'm not suggesting that you'll go out and write Rails in 3 weekends. What I am suggesting is that the more I meet "famous" hackers and the more I meet people from this community (online and offline), the more I realize that there's not really all that much that separates us.

Lot's of people here are (obviously) brilliant. And even for those who are a little less brilliant, brilliance is only one part of the equation. Work habits, determination, perseverence, passion, and maybe most of all, belief, are just as important. Don't sell yourself short.

I have no idea if I am as brilliant as DHH. Odds are against me. But he inspires me to achieve things just as cool as his. And I just know that I can. I suspect most people here can too.
646px. Woohoo for facebook's tiny window! :(
Internet Display Advertising Slowed In First Quarter
St. Louis
there is no downvote button for me on this site
Apple Introduces iPhone 3G Videoconferencing Kit, ZOMG!
Showing off what you gave sweetens the giving. Also, once a person has given, would be interesting to see others who gave to same cause, or else details publicly available upon giver and cause's configuration.
Here's the thing: In the real world, you WILL be attacked when you disagree with the status quo, sometimes perhaps literally.

If you can't even handle losing a point in an imaginary karma system that doesn't even matter, how are you going to handle the risk of losing a job, a contract, a girlfriend, for believing in something and standing up for your belief?

As hackers and entrepreneurs we should embrace conflict and challenge. Losing a karma point for dissing the iPhone is I am sure a lot easier to handle than getting punched in the face for supporting gay marriage. If you perhaps do not have the courage to even consider the possibility that there is something you believe strongly enough to get punched in the face for, maybe facing the constant possibility of downmodding will toughen you up at least a bit. I see the potential of getting downmodded for your beliefs as a growth opportunity, one that should be embraced and not stifled.
Apple's App Store could emerge as $1.2B business by 2009
If I could go back in time, there's one major thing I would do differently. I would:

START WITH THE ANSWER, THEN WORK BACK.

I wasted way too much time "coding forward" from where I was at to where I wanted to be. I should have just mocked up the final product first, worked my way back to the building blocks, filled in the rest, and fixed what wasn't right. Would have saved years.
IPhone 3G is Cheaper*