skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear: I am simply looking for my co-founder via my iPhone. I have no allusions that I can actually do a startup in any capacity using only my iPhone. Not a gimmick or ploy - but rather an earnest attempt to kick the process of in the same spirit that actual web-app will operate in once realized: on-the-go.

Today I posted the original post from the gym, responded from one office, read and responded from the highway, more from another office, and now standing in line for a Mexican salad. So, I'm happy that everybody has given me food for thought and I didn't even need to open my laptop.

I currently view network cameras, access performance and employee data via various sites and applications on my iPhone. Web App simply consolidates many of those things into one easy format.
The name is a clue. Y Combinator started with funding from itself.
Don't forget the original "steroid era". Baseball can't hold a candle to East Germany.
This man sounds like he's been reading "Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
I'm so tempted to go but that would be one hell of an expensive beer (airfare + stay). But... I could get a lot out of this since I want to start a startup.

I definitely need to move to a startup hub. This type of meet up would never happen around here (South Florida).
sorry for the ignorance, but i notice it says "Be sure to RSVP and secure your spot at the meetup!". does this mean there will be reserved seating? or "sorry we're full" guys guarding the door? is it not a casual, "drop by for a beer" type of thing? i'd like to attend, but i'm not 100% i can make it yet.
Shutdown of the LHC, by Kevin Black
nice, it would be interesting if i could see it with after-normalization data according to population.
Hi John, Doh! I'm not sure what happened here. I resent the email to your info address.
Sounds like it's time to send another ship up there.

Hmm - is it possible to detect it from orbit? Shine some sort of laser and excite the perchlorate and detect that?
For now it's definitely a drop by for a beer, but if the number reaches a certain tolerance, then we need to cap it. So basically we just want to get an accurate number with the RSVPs to make sure the venue is prepared with us and we don't violate any fire laws by having too many people on the 3rd floor.

You can respond Maybe if you don't know for sure if you can make it.
I agree with this for apps, to be sure - I think I just implemented it that way because of second-nature.

I will remove the login until app creations become problematic.
I'll be coming from Newburyport. If anyone from up here is going and would like to carpool, please let me know (daniel at flyingmachinestudios dot com).
Where are they now: CMGI
Should you have your keyword in the domain name?
When the US government engaged in redistributing money for the common good(investment in commons), with minimal political influence, as for example, ARPA pre-Mansfield and the interstate highway system, the returns were high enough that any VC doing as well would be very happy.
Tell Mozilla what you think the browser of the future should be like
Absolutely! Feel free to shoot me an email and we chat about it.
Yes. (Mine and Robert's and Trevor's, but it was
all from Viaweb.)
Tiny BBQ Made Out Of An Altoids Tin
Merit compensation is OK. Comparative ranking cooworkers causes all kinds of problems, such as everything in the article. Comparing workers to each other doesn't mean much if all of the workers are excellent or if all of the workers suck.
Pyglet 1.1 has been released, containing quite a few new features.
Obscura demonstrates Minority Report-like display dubbed 'multi-touch hologram'
I'm not at all for it. It's bloody annoying.

So many firewalls and routers and lights out cards and remote access controllers and other misc. network kit - firefox 3 is tripping over itself to get in my way as much as possible.

On another note, Windows mobile does this about Exchange Activesync connections, and some carriers force you to edit the registry to allow self signed certificates, then make you install the certificate.

It was such a breath of fresh air when the iPhone just said "Trust this site? Yes / No", I clicked "Yes" and that was it.

The real problem is that it's no more secure. It's IN MY FACE, but the result is not me comparing hashes and generating trusted certificates and bringing the devices back to this office and connecting by console to install the certificates over a known a trusted connection (because trusting the site, then installing a certificate is not secure if the site is already subject to a man in the middle attack)... I still skip over it, but now I hate firefox because of it as well.

And if the end result isn't more security, and is more annoying, then it's not a good solution.
A simple fix for the default Apache config
Actually you're only 60% done because as every engineer knows the blueprints are always changing.
I agree. I took the ads and pushed them to the bottom. To your point, creating a review has to be incredibly easy. I think there are a couple other things UI-wise that can be done to make sure of this, like letting users click on the stars under the app's name, to create their own review
I posted a 'rate my start-up' for HearWhere.com a few weeks ago.
The feedback I got was brutal, but awesome!
I've made some minor changes as a result, and have been working on a major release.
Of course I saw a small increase in traffic as a result of the post, which dropped off quickly, within a few days.
I got it now. But at first, I didn't recognize it was from you. Put "Wapp'ied" somewhere in the subject and change the from address to be support@wappied.com. Wapp'ied isn't mentioned anywhere in the email until after "Regards,". It looks like a phishing email up until that point.
Just curious, how long did it take you to code this site? I take it you can't just make it in Sprout.
exactly - i would gladly have searched for this topic..
I like this better than most web 2.0 directories I've seen (http://www.listio.com etc.), but it has to feel pretty exhaustive before I'll depend on it. If I don't expect it to give me better results than just plain Googling, I won't bookmark it to give it a chance.

Link directly to each site from the browse/search results page. I want the option to skip your site summary page and quickly open ten blogging sites in new tabs for comparison.

On the summary pages, I almost didn't realize there were reviews. If there are only one or two, it's not enough content for me to realize it just by looking at my scrollbar. That adwords block is going to be a wall for most people. I'd remove the screenshot altogether and put truncated reviews right next to the vital details.

Edit: There's another reason for removing the screenshot - for me, it just registers as a flash ad, and I almost don't even look at it. At http://www.wappied.com/apps/mint my brain wants to think that's a Vista ad on the right. Once you do look at it, it's still only about a quarter of its original size, so you're absorbing purely visual data(does it look cool?), which you already kind of get from the nice-sized logo.
thanks - Still I wonder why it's not part of Hacker News and the faq doesn't say anything about it.
It's a lot easier to get third-party investment once you've successfully sold a startup, and it's much less risky than pouring your own cash into your next venture. I'd say it's far from a foregone conclusion that you'd put a large amount of your own money in.

I'd have to add that YC isn't exactly your average startup though, and the founders putting their own money in sends a much stronger message of dedication to potential participants.
What's the advantage in git stash? I'd be more impressed by it if it stored temporary but useful files that you'd probably never commit.
Conditional lexical scoping sounds like a recipe for disaster anyway.
This is crap. It's a 3:15 video of what should be a few still photographs... and they never even light the thing.

So really, it's an altoids tin with a grille cut from the top, placed on top of a table made out of wood. Not hacker news. Not worth your time.
What about a Netflix style pop-up when you click on the stars, suggesting users leave comments, or write a full review? Clicking on full review takes you to a page where you answer in-depth questions (like have you bought this) and leave comments (or questions are suggested for you to answer).

Some people will want to do a quick review, others will want to leave a comment, and still others will want to fully explain how it helped them or what they liked/disliked. This way you take into account various user participation levels with the app the user is reviewing. The final rating could be a weighted average of the three types of reviews, with in-depth and commented reviews being rated higher. Knowing your review will count more and be more important if you put more effort into it is another psychological tool to get people to write about the apps they care about.
Good idea but I don't like the layout. It looks like a template that domain-parking services use.
Censorship: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google Agree on Code of Conduct
Couple other things I noticed:
- Standardize on either "Log in" or "Sign in"
- Logo doesn't have weird apostrophe in Wapp'ied like other text does (why is it there anyway)
- When adding an app, it isn't immediately clear how to upload a logo. The empty picture boxes don't tell you anything
- Category counts would be useful
- Getting a 500 error on 'Newest'
I love how a simple post on HN can catch all these little things that make a big difference. Its really a great way to iron out the kinks. I'm very impressed with your response on all this stuff, moorage, its pretty amazing.
National Legal and Policy Center Stalks a Top Google Employee to Prove Google Right
"Service Temporarily Unavailable"

For a lot of pages. What's up?
Screw the rules
The amount of space between the categories does give that impression a little. Nothing a change to the grid won't easily fix.
Why the Music Industry Should Loosen its Grip
I think he's working on implementing some of the suggested changes as we speak.
NASA: We're not quite sure what we've found on Mars
What's a reasonable approach for managing broadband networks? by Vint Cerf
Sorry, I was pushing a fix for a few errors, and it took 60 seconds or so for apache to figure out Mongrel was up and running again. I'll stop pushing fixes for awhile!
You're correct, although it's worth noting that you can get around this problem in Rhino (Javascript on the Java VM). Steve Yegge talks about this in his semi-recent talk "Rhinos and Tigers": http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.ht...
Probably 2-3 weeks of on and off development work. I've got a lot of other things going on, so I didn't keep track too well. I did hire another ruby on rails contractor to augment some of my development work, which I highly recommend (if you're good at finding them).
There used to be a time in my life when I'd read stuff like this and think "Only in America!".

This time, before I even learned where this happened, I instinctively thought, "Well, it certainly wasn't in America".

I don't know much about the NHS or whats going to happen to this brave soul but over here, I don't think he'd be practicing medicine for much longer.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Yahoo Proxy Tally Underreported Votes Against Some Directors
I'm trying to square your concern for the gas mileage of your fellow drivers with your choice of vehicle. Those cylinders and their parasite losses (more air to compress, more manifold vacuum to suck, more surface area to rub against) don't come for free...

You'd have to be a true leadfoot to pull a typical automatic sedan down to the mileage range of a 300hp monster (c.f. the Mustang GT, which gets 15/23mpg on the EPA test). My '99 Saturn, a pure commute vehicle which drives 5 miles at a time in stop and go traffic on a cold engine (basically pessimal fuel efficiency conditions) never gets below 22.
The Woman in Control of America's Bottom
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft agree on a code of conduct for operating in repressive countries
Interesting. I guess that puts YC much closer to being like an angel group than a VC firm since they didn't raise money from investors and decide to get rich from the management fees in the process, but risked their own money.
These are all good suggestions, which I've added. Sorry about the 500 errors - I pulled the trigger too quickly on deployment. I've started to keep track of the todo list publicly at: http://www.wappied.com/about
Almost all this is available online at the universities' websites. Google knows them all. Not much new here ... not to mention what you learn reading a book and taking the class are fundamentally different.
Apparently management-targeted material has to read like it is written for grade schoolers: "Here's Sandy and Sue. They are great friends! Don't forget the StickyNotes at the end of the lesson!"
Hah, interesting. It's definitely a balance between showing the categories, or some of the categories so that users know they're there to navigate. Each category will be getting grayscale icons - we'll see if that helps at all.
I think icons would fix the problem nicely, kind of like the App Store layout uses them.
I think it's okay to look at a single side if the other side has already been explored to death. Provided you bring up a legitimate point of course, which he did.
If you need more text, grab the highest rated app in that category and display it below the name.
Lock-Free Code: A False Sense of Security
Giant kites to tap power of the high wind
I agree - I it's such a great forum for launching a web app in general.

I just want everyone to know I'm reading everything that's said!
A simple test is to check $val outside of the sub - it isn't defined. (Compile error with strict vars, runtime error otherwise.)
This fix is going to be deployed tonight - thanks!
Some Notes on Anonymous Functions in Perl
This is a great visualization, I learned a lot about the history of the Olympics just from playing with it for a few minutes.

The first Olympics were held in Greece in 1896. During the first few games the hosting country seemed to have a huge home court advantage, but it stabilized over time.

The 1980 games in Moscow were boycotted by the US and others. The 1984 games in Los Angeles were boycotted by the Soviet Union and others.

In '88 it was called the Soviet Union, in '92 it was the Former Soviet Union, and in '96 it was Russia, Ukraine, etc... I wonder what happened ;)
Throwing a random example of a case where a strategy correlates with success isn't sufficient to dismiss the possible shortcomings of that strategy.
Is this question serious? I could build YC in half an hour , and it does not take a lot of money to promote it either.

I love YC :)
Yea, its amazing to watch he buildup of Germany and Japan just before WWII.. and the the subsequent re-build.
I tend to agree - there's something wrong with the screenshots/slides right now.

Of course, for some reason I can't explain, I also like having them around in some fashion, so users can experience parts of the app without trying them. Perhaps this is what "tour" pages are for.

Maybe I should just make pictures part of people's reviews, if they want to show off a cool feature....

Hmm...
California can't give state employees a pay cut, thanks to its ancient COBOL payroll system
Collaborative Applicant Management with Startuply
I suppose you could form a hypothesis and conduct and experiment that, if the hypothesis is correct, would cause something "miraculous" (i.e. statistically impossible) to happen in the present...
Wow that's a linkbait title if I've ever seen one. All this articles says is you should make sure you enable cache headers and mod_deflate where appropriate.
Why, the perchlorate is clearly rocket residue left over from just after the Mars singularity, when all remaining transmartians and postmartians left for deep space. Duh!
is there some physics in-joke I'm missing?
Yeah, I've read that post several times over the last few years- Well worth a read.

It's a pretty impenetrable line of thinking. He hasn't fully formed his ideas but there's definitely "something" there.
Because it's in our nature to help someone in trouble.
Let us know what you think! Your feedback is critical for us.
Am I to assume that you are volunteering to be the test pilot for our new "if the deadline is missed or there are too many bugs the dev team is executed" zero-defect policy?
Anonymous vote system might help.

Everbody puts his vote for who he thought was the best one in the team (he can even name himself).

Or something like this.
Interview w/ Zembly - a wiki platform for Social App code
There is also the case with the good surgeons and the bad surgeons....

Well a good surgeon would always take a safe & sure case, where he would almost succeed.

A "bad" surgeon would take the impossible (to save life, limb, etc.) cases, and he would fail way more...

Now really - who's good and who's bad?

If your child or you has something really terrible that's almost impossible (but still there is chance) to cure, whom of the "good" surgeons is going to help you?
It's time to play "I don't know crap about physics".

If events in the future can influence the present, wouldn't people in the future try to harness that to influence the past?

It's impossible to read the OP without thinking of the "future Dwight" prank from The Office.
If you removed thumbnails for apps that only have one screenshot, and moved the "suggest changes" button directly to the right of the vital details, I think the top of the reviews section would be visible above the fold.
I couldn't see any mention of the time it took to build the device, but I'd hazard a guess that the lifespan of a 6lb baby with failed kidneys could be measured in hours, which would seem to imply that the design was reasonably straightforward.

Not to devalue the doctor's work though. He did save someone's life.
I'm assuming this doesn't mean that my resume is now publicly accessible on Scribd, right?
The LinkedIn of Venture Capital?
Matt Winn, an associate with Chrysalis Ventures, has just created a free online database that can help locate venture capitalists based on their educational or professional alma matters. It’s kind of like a bare-bones version of LinkedIn for VCs, entrepreneurs and limited partners — minus all the social networking functionality (I said bare-bones).
The (Highly Controversial) YouNoodle Startup Predictor Is Coming
Some people find it entertaining:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/king_of_the_...
Technically, good nda-abiding sdk-using $99-paying developers can't, evil ones that write their apps for jailbroken phones can ;)
Facebook changes application traffic listing from daily to monthly active users
my sys admin skills suck (I guess it's the same for the ppl that voted this up) - this is new info to me
1. Why not use OpenID?
2. You're using the HTML 4.01 doctype but you're coding in XHTML. Not a huge problem but your pages are VERY invalid.
I think this is supposed to be the "fixed point seeking" theory of time travel, where the resulting timeline is one where any future impact on past events is such that it results in exactly the same future as the one which caused those changes to the past. Basically, applying a Y combinator to the universe :-).

I had to phrase that really carefully to avoid having to invent new verb tenses.
VERY linkbaiting title. And it's worthless. Just a link to YSlow would be better.
happy? or is there a better title?
"...with the notable exception of TechCrunch, which I never submitted to since all they care about is VC-money-madness..."

Gah, parroting of anti-VC and anti-TC dogma gets so tired. I think treating both with healthy skepticism is a good idea-- dismissing both outright is just silly.

TechCrunch has covered two startups of mine that didn't have a nickel of funding (neither was in fundraising mode, and both were started with the aim to be a bootstrapped/niche business). They love finding hidden gems, and probably have a pretty fabulous audience for Balsamiq (both bloggers and buyers).

Seriously, people. Set aside the prejudices that startup blogosphere hits you over the head with every day and think for yourself.
The demographic inversion of the American city.
Javascript: Stop Using It

There are many compelling reasons to stop using such a badly-implemented and rather-demented language; but unfortunately there are no compelling alternatives.
Good summary of the voting problem and how the masses are dumber than small groups. Ironically, I upvoted it.
Sure, I totally agree, hence revising what I was originally going to post. :)

I don't think it's a random example. If you utilize the early adopters in the Bay Area to gain a foothold, so long as you can leverage that, it's still a good strategy to take.
as max levchin said (and probably someone before him), money's how you keep score.

there are many examples of entrepreneurs hitting it rich, buying some stupidly large house and not even ending up moving in -- it's more about making the big leagues than having more toys.

(whether this is a worthwhile or virtuous endeavor is another discussion, but the point is competitiveness is probably a bigger driver than wealth for its own sake.)
I'm afraid I'm with this guy. Assuming someone holds a view is a bad idea. The TC attitude is often a result of people not getting written up more than the viewpoint of the people at TechCrunch.

It sounds like you didn't want to be written up by TechCrunch more than you didn't think they'd do a write-up on you. If you didn't want to be written up, thats fine, but assuming they only care about VC backed companies and not trying to get thousands of pageviews sounds kind of silly. What would sending them an email have cost you? Your post is amazing, but that's one mistake I think you made.
Query : Strange hiring behaviour ?
I recently interviewed with two companies (big name tech and retail+tech). These were for junior programmer/software engg (1-3 years). I was through the technical phone screeners and both companies asked me to schedule on-site interviews. This was a few weeks ago. Since then I haven't heard back from them even though I've sent them weekly reminders.
I find this behavior very strange, rude and unprofessional. Note these are well known and well established companies in the tech and retail+tech sector.

Why would they behave like this ? Is this because of a job slowdown/hiring freeze ? Shouldn't they at least let me know whats going on ?

I'd like to know if other people have had similar experiences.
No startup predictor can take in consideration how well team members execute their ideas.

Sure, it could take in account information about past startup founders, but what if you asked it about Larry and Sergey in 1998? No past information. How are you going to predict how well they executed Google?
The point of my comment is that I'm driving a sports car yet have to accelerate pretty aggressively to keep up with the automatic drivers. I have a Mazdaspeed6 with K&N intake and turboback exhaust (~300hp and 250 to the wheels). The few mods aside, Mazda's 2.3L I4-DISI engine is highly efficient and there's a reason it has been on Wards 10-Best Engines for the past 3 years.

I get 22-24mpg around town and 26-29 highway depending on how aggressively I drive. I've gotten it as low as 17 when I initially owned the car and was racing everywhere, but that's the absolute worst I've seen. My best efficiency run on a drive from TX->PA saw ~455 miles before I had to fill up again.

Here's some more information for you on why my 300hp "monster" gets equivalent gas mileage to your Saturn:
http://wardsautoworld.com/ar/auto_story_behind_wards_2/
School bus^H^H^H tricycle in India
Are you talking about this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Immutable_timelines
TNG anyone?