skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Sells DoubleClick’s SEM Business To Ad Conglom Publicis
I think this page, as a counterexample, will prove you irrefutably wrong:

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
I'm not following.

In a capitalistic society a trendy area of "high value" will push the prices up unless some sort of socialistic program like rent control steps in, no? My question was what's your take on how cheap residences can coexist in a trendy neighborhood.
I played around with my Uncle's Prodigy account a little, and I had a buddy at college who had what he called a "PINE account" (shell access, but he only ran PINE) that I poked at a little...but I still remember my first time really getting on the net.

A friend at church had a pamphlet from CRL.com (an ISP at the time...not sure if the current site is in any way related)

I signed up, got my account (shroom@crl.com) and then thought, "Well now what?" Had to learn about telnet access and head down to the computer lab at Ga State, because I didn't have a modem that worked.

Looking back, it's amazing how quickly I went from acronym overload to understanding the technology underneath the services. It was such an awesome time. I'm glad I didn't miss it.
Simplified use cases. Present it as an animation or the like. When done properly this communicates a purpose quite well.
So what are you passionate about? What are you working on?

I for one would find ticket sales really interesting. Concerts are probably my favorite thing to do, and sporting events are fun too(prefer to actually play sports, but watching is ok too)...This would be much more interesting than probably every Facebook App and most web apps in existence(which mainly consist of programs to help people waste time, hopefully clicking an ad on occasion)....I think working with large datasets of events, prices, and consumers would be really interesting....

Some of the best days of my life have been at concerts. I'm sure millions feel the same way. How could you not be passionate about helping people have more of these types of experiences?
If you are still looking for freelancers, I am available for projects.

http://www.somersi.com/
Ask YC:  What is the Web's Best BUZZZZ MARKETING? 
DreamIT Ventures has Mark Hughes speak, the guy who literally wrote the book on Buzz Marketing. Mark put Half.com on the map (literally) by purchasing a town and changing it's name to Half.com. His team also was responsible for the Urinal Screen Advertising Campaign that got them incredible exposure (http://tapinko.com/uploaded_images/Photo-45-797908.jpg). This experience has influenced me to ask the question:

What have been the best Buzz Marketing campaigns?
A large part of good management is figuring out who is contributing and who is taking up space and taking the required action ;-).
I launched socialpredictor.com a couple days ago. I got pretty good feedback, mostly good but some bad, from the people who took the time to actually use the site. I was more than pleased!

I've found that unless you have a largely technical startup, HN is probably not the best place to launch. To get feedback, it's great, but to stir up PR, not so much.

Now it's time to start the PR push and get that critical mass which I think is going to be by far the hardest part. We'll see...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/guide_to_seed_fund_incu...
That's assuming that "renewable energy certificates" can actually compensate for releasing CO2. Last time I checked, the jury was still out on that one.
Finance can be intellectually interesting, but you're right about the entry-level. Quant jobs are okay, but the rest of it's mind-numbing, and IBD analysts are glorified garbage disposals for grunt work.
Yahoo Vote Recount Shows How Close Yang And Bostock Were To Being Ousted From The Board
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I am encountering exactly the same issues. Already had it replaced once, two months later the same happens. My optical drive went nuts as well. So, during the nine months I have had a MacBook, so far it spent almost two months at repairs -- unless I pay $200 upfront, a simple repair takes two weeks.

Rip. Off.
Ask YC: How successful has your startup been with press releases?
Just wondering how successful other startups have you been with press releases? Also, what service did you use?

We've been looking at PRWeb, where one of the options include distribution via the Associated Press as well. Thoughts?
Ask HN: What Other Community Sites Do You Read?
Besides HackerNews, what other sites do you regularly read and/or participate in?

I find Business of Software and WebmasterWorld to be full of helpful business info. Also Reddit and IRC for more tech stuff.
Yep. My family is in the Greenfield neighborhood, and most of what you say is true there, too.

The neighborhoods of Pittsburgh make a nice compromise of being city life yet affordable to families.
They are simply too expensive for my non-budget.
I hope you guys can implement something a little more interactive, like what SeatQuest has, rather than just static jpg/gif of the stadium. SeatQuest has it decently there, but I bet you guys can do it better.
Q/A with Bill Moggridge:  What Makes For Good Design?
Getting Real 2 update: First draft done, publisher search continues
HOW THE F DOES THE ALGORITHM FOR THIS SITE WORK
HOW DOES THE YC ALGORITHM WORK?!
No. People will just build more residences until supply and demand meet a happy medium.

Rent control actively pushes prices up for everyone by discouraging new development (unless you win the rent control lottery).

Of course, there will be certain ultra trendy neighborhoods that will still be out of reach for all but the wealthy. But allowing developers to build new residences in urban areas make it more likely that poor, just out of college graduates will have some place they can afford to live.

And if you think it is not possible to build new residences in already urban areas: note the article says that residences in lower Manhattan have doubled to house 50,000 people since 2001.
Yes. My employer requires us to take a course in how to interview candidates and there are practices that make a considerable difference in the interviewing process vs. how most people do it. It seemed like a total waste of time until I actually took the course and realized how much room for improvement there was.
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Short of shutting down operations, any business would have a hard time reaching carbon neutrality without certificates.

They increased energy efficiency across their operations, which is the most important thing.
my friend mentioned that Greycroft is missing in this database.
Umm, congrats, but I am still going to buy a computer based on which computer I want to own.
Unless, of course, you realize that you are one of the needless managers and do everything you can to hold on to your nice salary and benefits...
The Easy Way to Extract Useful Text from Arbitrary HTML
That is so very simple and genious. PG, better implement this pronto, shouldn't take more than five lispy, lispy seconds.
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http://www.foundersfund.com/
http://www.founderslink.com/
How much path dependence can getting into the right kindergarten have? It used to be that obsessed parents used to sign kids up for Olympic-level athletics that require starting young (gymnastics)[1], piano and violin. These were all pretty marginal ways of helping their kids into college, but the redeeming quality of this kind of gamble was the path-dependence: it was the only way of improving the kid's odds that far out of the high school.

But elite kindergartens? Unless early education improves your IQ permanently (of which I'm not entirely sure) [2], this is stupid. Is the path dependence there?

It's probably a better idea to make sure your kid eats right, gets DHA and creatine, works at a few skills for the ten-odd years it takes to achieve mastery, and leave him/her alone for the most part, because there's nothing else you can do. [3]

[1] Gymnastics, piano and violin are all myelin related, and myelin takes years to configure. Swimming, on the other hand, is much less path-dependent; you can get your muscles, blood and lungs up to spec in a few years.

[2] School improves IQ, but those improvements vanish in the late teens.

[3] Unless you went ahead and got him a Nobel prize sperm donor for a dad. That will give him around 12 IQ points.
Hyperion’s Nuclear-In-A-Box Ready By 2013
Have you ever heard the proverb: "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"?

I think you'd be much more likely to get a response by slightly rephrasing your question. Drop the ALLCAPS, drop the F, and then perhaps make it:

Ask YC: How does the algorithm for this site work?
> The average three year predicted valuation for student startups from top ten universities is about $360,000.

Looks like they got it covered.
Good point; also, investors want some kind of chance or indication that the company will exit. I can't imagine that's planned for YC.

In any case, I'll take your word for it as you definitely know Paul better than I do. ;)
I remember moving to Manhattan in 2000, and not realizing at first almost all of the people pushing strollers around were not mothers, but nannies. The lack of physical resemblance to the children (nannies generally darker in skin tone) should have clued me in sooner.
'the area adjacent to downtown, uptown/"The Bluff"'

Isn't that The Hill (or am I not following your geography)?
Ah. I think I see what you mean.

But I disagree that we can "just build more". It isn't just simple supply and demand because land, and hence living spaces, is finite. You can't just increase production until everyone is happy. And in a good neighborhood all new residential developments will be priced completely out of range for college grads and the likes. Availability isn't affordability.
[edit: And I certainly believe in build-and-rebuild in urban areas. I've been to Hong Kong where the speed of urban renewal makes ones head spins. But all subsequent new projects are progressively more expensive than the existing projects. Building more units never made anything cheaper unless they were specifically slated as "social projects" funding by the government.]

With regards to lower manhattan: are residences cheap there?

Anyway. Sorry this turned into somewhat of an argument. The point is: it is impossible to have a trendy desirable neighbourhood with cheap residences.
Proof via rigorous computer simulation:

>>> from __future__ import LHC

File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: future feature LHC is not defined
Ubuntu's installer is actually a Live DVD, so it's zero risk to take one into BestBuy, drop it into a laptop and reboot. If it comes up you're in good shape, if not, pop it out and try the next one.
Asustek- they are the primary contract manufacturer for the MacBook, and they make their own systems (Asus).

Their website is a pain to get information from, as they rely on their reseller partners (like me) to sell their products.

Full Disclosure: I sell Ausus products, and therefore might be biased. But then, I wouldn't be selling their products if I didn't like them!
Use of Blogging Has Increased, But What About Those Abandoned Blogs
If the other providers do not catch up with Stubhub, won't TicketStumbler end up being a nice front end to Stubhub?
By the way, Asus pre installs Linux on their Eee PC's, and you can install it on pretty much any of their systems.

The Eee PC's are small, low cost systems.
db.search.SearchableModel

class SearchableModel(db.Model):

"""A subclass of db.Model that supports full text search and
indexing. Automatically indexes all string-based properties. To search, use the all() method to get a SearchableModel.Query, then use its search() method.

"""
It would be easy to raise money if we wanted to, but we don't need it. The investment required is not so great that it's dangerously large for any of us.
Just to give our background, we haven't put out any press releases yet just because we have this idea that they aren't very effective. However, we're thinking about doing it for our public launch thats coming up soon.
I've done a decent amount of consulting work based on people tweeting the need of having some work done. I'll have to check out how this service works - it kind of sounds like it might be overkill.
Old Masters and Young Geniuses
Very clever. I may do that. But it would take more than 5 seconds, because I have to think about the best way to distinguish between visited and unvisited links.
Short of shutting down operations, any business would have a hard time reaching carbon neutrality without certificates.

Oh, that makes it OK then! I will tell the environment that we just can't conserve anymore, so it should harden up and deal with it.
So Much for One Person, One Vote (How Oprah influenced the democratic primaries)
When I click any of the ticket categories, such as NHL, I get 'led zeppelin' in the search bar. Not sure if that's supposed to be a humorous example, but I don't get any search results for it. Perhaps populate the search bar with relevant events to the ones being searched for already so that there are results, and hopefully, ticket purchases. :P

Are you hoping to add NBA?

Besides that, congrats.
I nearly did buy tickets to game 5. Glad I didn't though. Would have spent $600 per and still missed the presentation.

I'm actually a 49ers fan somehow.
I have the same GPU and it works fine.
Dell's vostro (business) line is very nice if you don't want to shell out for XPS. I got a 14", which they don't make any more but I think is the sweet spot for screen size, personally. Build quality is extremely solid and design is nondescript, which fits my style.
Anyone else getting an error page about this site being reported to be an "attack website"?
One irony I find in this is that I studied Japanese (along with my Logic and Computation major) because I thought it was hard.

Although, I wish I had some of the lenient teachers you describe :). I didn't have much trouble with memorizing words, grammar rules, etc. But speaking and listening real time I found to be quite a challenge.

And I can empathize with people who had trouble reading Japanese at a 4th grade level :). Wasn't there an article on here a while back about the difficulties of studying Chinese compared to other European languages? I related to much of that.
Analogy: you can get a MacBook (i.e., trendy, desirable computer) for a reasonable price. If I were to tell you that the MacBook's production was inhibited by the finite supply of metals and silicon, you'd look at me like I'd just crapped a swan.

The difference between city housing and a MacBook is that there is no restriction on how much you can sell a MacBook for after buying one.
The Day the Routers Died...
Eminent domain.

Kelo v. New London

"Here is where [Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day] O'Connor asks about the specific plans for the homes before the court, and Horton pulls out his Pareto-optimal town-planning schematic, and everyone on the bench briefly contemplates buying a new condo in Fort Trumbull, Conn."

http://www.slate.com/id/2113868
Right. As someone who tried to do this recently, I can attest to how hard it currently is to compare ticket prices from various brokerages. Getting into a sold out game is an experience much like buying a used car, no matter what you pay for it, you still feel like you got ripped off. (And the prevalence of scammers on Craigslist/eBay doesn't make them any better).

There's a definite pain point that they're addressing here. They want to save you from devoting a good chunk of your life to getting them cheaper. (And when they're priced like playoff tickets, it's worth it.)
You could try doing industrial research. Even without a PhD, talent is sought for industrial research labs. You may have to start as an assistant researcher or even lab technician, but you'll get promoted to researcher in no time if you're good.
Build Your Own Nasa Apollo Landing Computer (no kidding)
How to Format a US Business Letter
It would be more useful for job seekers if they were able to follow an account on twitter for their region. Employers could also see how many people they are reaching with their job posting. There might be a way to turn that into money.
Scammers are far too prevalent on Craigslist for me to buy tickets from. It might be worth working in eBay.
"There are differences in how kids are raised."

Agreed. The differences come from the parenting styles of high-SES parents, not the money itself.

"I think whatever difference this engenders fades in the mid-teens"

The personality characteristics may or may not fade over time, but by the time kids reach their mid-teens the academic differences between high-SES and low-SES students are so great that most low-SES kids could never get into an elite college. We're talking a reading-ability gap of three or four grade levels, slightly less for math since most high-SES parents don't have their kids doing math over the summers.
I became worried when the credits for the first one went as long as they did... and then I wasn't disappointed at how awful the demo was. I couldn't watch more than a couple of minutes of it.
Great to see another Hokie in the startup world! Legal question: If a professor requests his/her test to be removed, I am assuming you will have to comply?
>I find it unlikely that any advantages conferred by these schools have lasting value.

There is actually an advantage that lasts: the culture of intelligence.

In most public schools stupid athletes are worshiped, but smart students are teased as geeks, and smart blacks are branded as "acting white".

That is pretty much the only thing determining if it's a good school or not, and why it's worth it to go to a private schools that lauds intelligence.
We were only moderately successful. The press releases were written and distributed in-house because of budget restrictions. Our successes were numerous in smaller media (decent traffic blogs, etc), but lacked in mainstream areas.
Beerware License: Best Open Source License Ever.
Bored? Don't shrug it off
"probably makes a tenth as much money."

Really? CEOs have been doing pretty darn well recently.

Put it this way: in most cases it is probably a CEO deciding how much to pay that celebrity. I'm skeptical that the CEO is going to pay the celebrity more than he's paying himself.

ARod is rich. But he's not in the same league as George Steinbrenner.
While I don't deny he has a point, average selling prices are not a very fair metric. Mac buyers more often care about computers, want a higher end one, and allocate a larger budget to their computer.
DOJ files complaint against online ad firm
I think it's blacklisted by google but it appears to be perfectly safe
Not sure I understand the vitriol. I'm just saying that it takes a non-zero amount of energy to manufacture things. Since the majority of our energy comes from fossil fuel sources, it is very difficult to manufacture anything without carbon emissions.

In case you missed it in the article:

They even did things in the right order. First, they started with efficiency measures in their operations around the world,

So Dell started with conservation first and bought the certificates last.
"Why would you suspect that SES is more predictive of "student quality" than academic accomplishment?"

It obviously depends on how you define student quality. If you define student quality as the college GPA of the student then I don't think SES is a great predictor. However, what I was responding to was the sentence:

"virtually every professor at an elite college will tell you that admitted students are noticeably worse each year."

When I hear this, I suspect that the professors are defining student quality as whether or not students have the personality traits typically imparted by high-SES parents (such as intellectual curiosity), not whether students are able to ace their final exams.

I went to CTY too, and I agree that the quality of kids is higher than at the elite colleges, and I agree that it is because the programs are more selective. However, part of that is the fact that the higher you raise the bar, the more SES matters-- because at some level you need every advantage you can get (both SES and IQ, not one or the other.)
Is this really a surprise? If we wanted completely fair elections, there would be no unequal campaign funding, no TV, a 6 month pre-election gag, etc... etc... Anyone speaking to a group of people about the election gets more than one vote, not just Oprah.

Is there a story here? Blah, maybe I'm just bored.
Correct.

How much is it worth to you to have a machine that is beautiful to look at and which has as few extraneous cables as possible? For many people, the answer is "very little" and those are the people cheap Dell grey boxes are for.

On the other hand, if you want, say, a sub-$1000 laptop (just something for email and net browsing on the go), Apple can't help you at all, and in that regard price comparisons are kind of irrelevant: you can pick up a Dell laptop for $600 that probably wouldn't be enjoyable for heavy everyday work but is fine for the casual use most people intend on when they purchase a machine.
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I wonder how the screens compare.

I know when I bought my MacBook Pro, it had a higher pixel density than most PC laptops with similar screens, and that got lost in a lot of comparisons. Slimness and weight are sometimes also overlooked. PC notebooks equally slim or light as the Mac equivalent are often more expensive than the Mac model.

Does that $699 PC have equal or better pixel density to the equivalent Mac model? Is it as skinny?

(I honestly don't know. It's been about 3 years since I last looked.)
Ask YC: attend convention for my apps target audience?
My apps target audience is geek gamers, especially Role Players (table top not video game).
http://www.gencon.com/2008/indy/ Gen Con is the largest convention for this audience, and will have representatives of Both the Publishers and Gamers, who I'd be building the product for.

My product isn't that far along (still learning coding so it's going slow), I'm living on a fixed income as a 'full time' college student. I'd have to drive 8 hours and get a hotel for a few days if I wanted to attend the whole thing. (I live in lansing michigan).

Being on the fixed budget I'm not sure I can really afford to go. However, trying to start this business I'm not sure if I can afford not to go. If I were to go, having nothing to show, what should I do? should I approach the publishers? should I poll the gamers attending?

My ideal full launch date would actually be Gen Con next year.

Any advice is welcome.
Yeah, I'm agreeing with you. What they show is really weak, and they is a well known way to make it more acceptable.
People use it because it works.
The life of a company from start to big exit or large acquisition is pretty long. I'm not sure the economy matters so much -- just delays things sometimes.
I'm working on two projects that are not revolutionary, but evolutionary. I'll be letting YC have their dig at me when the time comes around, I'm sure most people will be happy to finally let me have it, after all the jam I've dished out here...

But back to the issue - if I am passionate about concerts, it's because I like being at concerts. Not because I like selling tickets for concerts. So I would work on something related to actually being in the concert.

I thought I was passionate about some of my past projects, but it was only when I started the latest two that I rediscovered what real passion is. It is when you are already using your own app before it is ready, and when it is crashing and being odd all the time. If you're not doing so, then you have not done the most important bit yet, and that's the wrong way of going about a project.
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