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Tell HN: two Hacker and Startup ideas.
1) http://hackerbooks.com just launched, (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249390) and it scours the HN database for books and lists them with links to Amazon. I am interested in building a site that scours HN for website launch items, and lists them alongside their launch thread, a short description of what it does, its point score, and the founder's username.

There are spreadsheets that do this, but aren't effective.

Not even YC has a portfolio page.

-- Problem: good sites get launched on HN and then they get lost, or not easily found. There should be a way for them to be tracked, ranked, categorized and tagged. Seeing what people have done and are doing is a good way to find co-founders, mentors, relevant people and prevent duplication of effort. Most importantly, it is a way for users to find online tools and services that they'll use, and to see their founders who they could contact.

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2) Seemingly good founders and startups are getting rejected from YC, some being accepted after a 3rd or 4th attempt or raising large rounds immediately afterward. People from outside the US are flying into California and being rejected. I have details of a site that crowd-sources due diligence on startups - a task that investors now do.

It's basically about putting YC and Seedcamp-type application questions and their answers online, and then requesting and publicizing feedback. Responses and responders are just as important as the pitch, as seen with Quora and its priority on people answering. Tracking interested parties surrounding a startup team is as important as is tracking people interested and attending conferences on Lanyrd. Also, seeing what startups a person is involved with (investor, staff, mentor, user, supporter, partner) is important.

-- There was a time when putting a resume online was surprising and revealing to me, by way of LinkedIn. Now LinkedIn is close to an IPO. To me, startup questionnaires are as private and success-engendering as resumes, but now I think they should go public.

Person + resume = LinkedIn

Team + questionnaire = ???

So an online incubator.
this quote didn't even show up on your database, "That rug really tied the room together, did it not?" whereas it's fine on google
Ability-wise, MLS is on par with the Championship or the 2. Bundesliga (ie, the better second divisions). It's nowhere near the level of the top European divisions.

That said, I'm really looking forward to the revival of the New York Cosmos, and I'd definitely pay to watch live matches online.

I've always thought that this would be a huge boost to non-league clubs as well - I presume that FC United of Manchester, for example, haven't signed any TV deals and would be free to broadcast live video that they're already recording in Gigg Lane, complete with hilarious Manc commentators (unluckeh!).
You know what? Since the time I looked at your site (~ 2 hours ago) it has been kind of growing on me.

Although I'm kind of reluctant to admit this, I messaged the URL to a whole lot of my contacts. :-)

The more I think about it, the more I feel it one of those typical things that have the potential to go really viral; something like the hampsterdance.com of 1999/2000.

My suggestion is to start promoting it every which way you can and building some kind of community around this asap. (In all probability, you won't have to actively do any of these for long.)

All the best.
Good idea. I would just bee careful about the copyright implications.

This springs to mind:
http://torrentfreak.com/struggling-screenwriter-sued-by-twen...

I have no knowledge, don't know what you other guys think?
Both mechanisms seem somewhat plausible. Either of you got any evidence about how often each actually happens?
This is a great theory, but the problem is that the startup world (especially consumer-focused, silicon valley startups) is so closely tied to the bigger companies (Google, Facebook etc) that ignoring what they do means you are ignoring things that directly affects the other companies you write about.

It would be like the Wall St Journal ignoring US politics because it isn't financial news.
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233391

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233517

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233580

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233842

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234079

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236388

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236601

I guess it's never got comments or points before - why not try again.
SomethingAwful was (is?) good because of the membership fee, and because of the viciously strict moderation.

You could have your account deleted, with no warning, for:

* Persistent lack of punctuation or grammar
* Posting tired memes
* Persistent inability to cite sources for claims (in some subfora)
* Dozens of other things I can't remember
* Basically anything the mods decided to ban your for

The reason this worked is because the mods were drawn from the community. The admins would look at a subforum, see who was trusted on there, had good judgement and was there a lot. They would then make that person a mod, without asking them or even telling them! That person would just log in next time to be confronted with lots of extra widgets on the UI.

Because the community was so cohesive across the site, that person would then know immediately it was their duty to post a thread saying "Hi, I'm XYZ, your new Moderator" and christen their new powers by stickying the thread.

Again, they were not told to do this, but they would immediately and without fail, because the criteria for being chosen as a mod means that anyone who is chosen would be aware of this tradition, and in fact every other aspect of their role, having learned by example.

The SA forums were operating lots of quite deep game mechanics stuff nigh on ten years ago. It's very interesting. Most of the measures wouldn't be appropriate for here though, a lot of them involved strategically fostering antagonism for the benefit of wider community cohesion. It really worked over there for a long time though.

EDIT: I seem to remember that for a long time they only took payment by actual credit cards, visa and so on, and not debit cards, paypal etc. This was deliberate to prevent kids from signing up.
Honestly though, it feels to me like the financial industry has a lot to lose in this aspect as well.

If this system gets a lot of traction, financial institutions (such as Visa and Mastercard) suddenly open themselves up to quite a bit of new competitors, or don't they?

Disclaimer: I'm not from the US, not too familiar with the US system
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So from this you then concluded that your target market was largely female? That seems like a mistake. It just means that the respondents of the service you used tend to be female.
Ask HN: How does a stealth startup get someone to redesign it confidentially?
Our startup needs a redesign. It has been put together entirely by programmers and looks like shit. The problem is, we don't intend to hire anyone else and we are concerned that if we get a designer from outside to redesign the site, it could result in destroying our cover.

I know there is a huge potential debate here about whether startups should be in stealth mode at all. All I can say here is that it's not a decision that's under my control, is not going to change, and has no bearing on the fact that I need to redesign the site while maintaining the confidentiality of the idea behind it. So feel free to start another debate on stealth startups if you like but I would still appreciate if someone could try to answer this question I'm dealing with regarding carrying out a stealthy redesign. Thanks.
This is not bad press, just a discussion about uuid's - no worries.

You are right it's not a big thing to change and that it can be done quickly, the reason for not spending too much time on it yet is that we have handled the relatively small amount of requests to change email via the support - expect it to go into one the not too distant releases.
Thanks for posting this. I use and love VMware products (Fusion now, other products since Workstation 1.0) and I'd forgotten how hair-pullingly painful it was buying Fusion for the first time. This re-jogged those memories.
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As much as this was informative... "However these people often don’t mention that the GIL makes single threaded programs faster" <- how did they ever get that idea?
Timesheets are there so managers don't have to do their job and actually go and find out what their personnel are working on. Without timesheet culture, there wouldn't be golf courses teeming with after-lunch slackoffs^Wmanagers ..
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Shady and unethical are strong words that, in my opinion, don't apply here. My girlfriend just booked a 10 week trip to Paris through AirBnb and there was no confusion about the processing fee. It is clearly listed under "More info" in the price segment of the product page. I suppose we could have a conversation about whether the fees should be listed more prominently (e.g. not folded in by default; even though its perfectly obvious as it is now), but not in this tone which such a distasteful choice of words.

I'm not affiliated with AirBnb, but as one of their users I'm very happy with their value proposition and I like their website in general. Even if I wouldn't like the company, however, I'd still consider it bad form to bring their ethics in question without any basis whatsoever.
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>For example, there's no big rivalry between grad students and undergrads; one graduated to become the other.

All undergraduates know that they will soon be at least graduates, if not later postgrads. The transition is inevitable.

Any kind of stratified internet community would have to have the eventual prospect of transfer from one strata to the other, as an inevitable consequence of good/bad participation.

As soon as it becomes set in stone, or the transfer becomes a deliberate choice rather than an inevitable consequence of behaviour, I think people will forget about the criteria that originally divided them and slowly regress to hatred of the other.
I wanted to do something like this and even bought the domain and started it. Finding new startups daily was a huge chore though. Name was alpharadar.com
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Misallocation of Scientific Credit
www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/stoc11-credit.pdf

This is an interesting paper in the upcoming STOC which analyzes a stylized model of allocating credit for solving scientific problems. The main conclusion is that allocating more (or less) credit to some achievements and some people, while unfair, might improve utility for society as a whole by making people go towards less interesting/ harder problems.

Is similar kind of behavior observed in the startup or coder community ?
> This is the first SP1 for an MS OS release that I have no interest in installing.

For me they got there with Vista. And, truth be told, I was a beta tester.
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And did they/you take this to upper management, to the people who acquired you?
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As someone with not such a Karma rating yet, I find it difficult to get feedback from HN. You only show up for 30 minutes up to two hours (depends on when you post) on the new posts list and then you vanish forever. You should not repost, obviously, so you can't do much to get your project back on HN for a while. Of course, if you know the right people, they write a blog post about you, which brings you back on HN and you'll be overwhelmed with feedback, but this is rather the exception than the rule.

Generally, it is really hard to get people to send you feedback, especially if your project/startup/tool is intended for not tech-savvy users. There will be some users giving you feedback all the time (powerusers/early adopters) and you should stay in contact even if you don't have something new at the moment

What I found to be useful is displaying a "1 minute of your time to improve the product"-form on the (in this case) applications home page, where every user will go. It is important to add a "no, I don't want to do this"-option, because you don't want to nag your users with a always displaying form-link. Don't do popups, too, they are irritating. Just a small but visible link with a do or don't option and if the user don't want to do it, don't force them again. On my last project, I got almost 20% of the user base to fill out the form this way, which I think is a really strong base for analysing and improving your application/startup/tool.
Not this kinect, because it reduces the human hand to a stumpy block. No recognition or awareness of fingers. Pretty understandable.

However, this means that I can't yet point at my projector and snap my fingers to send a mouse click or other signal. I have to wave my other arm or shout.

When they crack this, then we will see some really amazing UIs.
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I had a brief play once for this sort of thing with doing stem-based pronounceable word generation based off a starting dictionary; the idea being that it broke them into fragments marked as beginning, middle or end and used intersections of these to build words that followed letter use rules of known words but yet weren't known words themselves. You start getting distance problems though - a lot of words it generates are too close to or are trivial encapsulations of existing words, so that'd need taking account of. One day I'll have a proper play and do something more comprehensive for this.

Tip for anyone cacheing unsavoury words - from memory the bulk of what we ended up checking for were racial slurs, of which there's an astonishing (and unsurprisingly heavily localised) variety.
Some other examples:

Post-WWII wars of independence from European empires.

Spanish American wars of independence in the early 19th century.

The 16th century protestant reformation?
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Hire a professional designer. If the design is so important to your startup that it's holding back your launch, and you don't trust freelancers or outsourcers, then you need to hire for it. My portfolio is in my profile ;)
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Yeah, I was going to suggest that too :-)

The ratio I observed in Israel was much better than most Western countries too.
I get the low space message with what seems like a fairly limited number of apps installed, caches cleared and as much as possible pushed to SD ... what is the actual capacity there? HTC Incredible in my case ...
You cannot do without food either, but food markets are pretty elastic because you can do without food from any particular seller. If there's a variety of healthcare providers of reasonable quality then the usual market mechanisms can work.

Which isn't to say either (1) that they actually do work well in, say, the USA, or (2) that some less free-market-based system mightn't work better. (I'm in the UK; the situation in the US looks absolutely horrifying to me. I don't know what an ideal healthcare system looks like, but it surely can't be that.)
Crowdspring (and maybe 99designs) requires the designers sign NDAs if the project is above a certain dollar value I believe.
They have a terrible name to go international. Other than that, I booked a place couple of weeks ago and so far it's seamless experience. The key is having the inventory. I didn't know anything about their story when I booked, and it really didn't matter. That's what it is for the ordinary user.
Similar situation here, I recently freed up several mb's as well; but nonetheless started to receive the low space notification again a few days later (not having installed anything in the meantime).

The fact that this subsequently results in missed SMS messages is inexcusable IMO.
The issue with these kind of statements is that leagues are judged on the ability of their top teams. La Liga, for example, sports the likes of Barcelona, Valencia, Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid and co, but also contains a large number of small teams with no hope of continental competition. The Premier League is different in that it has a large number of strong teams who can fight for Europa League places. If anything, being compared to the Championship is a huge compliment, as the Championship is a fiercely competitive league that produces teams that have done extremely well in the past few years (Blackpool being the latest example).

MLS will never be rated as good as European leagues because they're never in direct competition with European teams. However, I truly believe that all MLS needs is to bleed some youth into the league. If they set up a summer loan deal with the Premier League academies then great youth players will get their chances in MLS alongside their heroes, the future stars of the Premier League will be "seen first" in MLS and maybe some will stick around.

On the subject of non-league teams, they could use all the money they can get. FCUM have decent backing, but the likes of Redditch United can no longer pay their team. I'm sure a basic YouTube deal where live matches would give the fans a great way to give them what little money they may need.
This is one of the examples where I'm concerned about my own professionality because i can't grasp why Google would overlook such an error for such a long time.

Maybe there is a reason but my feeble mind can't bend around it?
Zed Shaw's Utu had that idea. Doesn't seem like he's still working on it.
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The social network is of it's time and will date really badly, to the point where no one will watch or mention it ever again.

I totally agree that The social network is of it's time but totally disagree that will date really badly.

The social network is about its time, and has excellent structure and dialog too. Time will tell if it becomes a classic, but as a snapshot of .dot com boom era it's excellent, and will remain so. How can one write a social history of the years 2000-2010 without mentioning social networks and facebook in particular?
SA has internal problems too. There's a constant slow cycle where the individual topic forums become boring and straightlaced because the users get proud of how mature they are, so they start new subforums where people are allowed to make "bad" but interesting posts as long as they pretend to be doing it ironically. Then everyone moves into those and it collapses, because they really did become bad posts.

Sometimes they move offsite instead, usually because the site admins didn't actually like the topic enough to make more forums for them, or because the admins banned all the users because they had formed secret IRC cabals conspiring against them.

The last stage is that the admins change the forum CSS so it's unreadable. I haven't figured out that part yet.
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Otherwise, I find AppBrain great to be able to easily see space usage and move stuff to SD.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Spica (not S, a european phone), and the limit is at about 15 MB when I get warnings. That's hundreds of SMSes... Then again, the Gmail cache eats MBs like a dog eats dogfood: easily 3MB.
His point is that while you used to love some content (teen angst poems, political ramblings by 17 year olds, etc) as you've grown older, you're probably smarter and more mature. The quality of teen angst poem hasn't necessarily declined, but your view of teen angst poems has changed and you view them as worse because you're smarter and more mature.

I think this is a very plausible explanation, we are all at different points in the learning process and can only enjoy certain material. All but the most trivial programming articles are above my head right now, and so while I might enjoy them a lot; the HN community would say they are fluff pieces.
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I don't think the chicken/egg problem applies here. It applies to e.g. dating sites because there are other options (e.g. other dating sites, bars, etc.). In this case, a ton of people want to work remotely and there is no central place to find that. Now I know of one place, so I'll definitely be checking it often.
I agree with Alex, I think the success of HN has led to an overflow of people dissatisfied with HN who have made HN a success in the first place (and some with YC itself.) I posted two ideas that could be of interest to such people here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253752
Every product commercially released requires confidential design to take place. It is normal for designers to work like this.

Even super-secret companies like Apple require videos, adverts, web-pages, photo-shoots etc. The iPad2 probably already has all of these.

Find yourself a good designer. Ask them to keep it quiet. If need be, get them to sign an NDA.

One request. Please release them from the NDA as soon as it is no longer necessary so that the designer can add the work to their portfolio. More than half of the things I have designed have never seen the light of day and yet are still NDA'd. It's very frustrating as it includes some of my best work.