skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing: 726 breathless words about a contest without a single link to the website; the URL appears only as plain paragraph text. I wonder how many clicks that cost them?

N.B. As far as I can tell, this is a prize, not an investment, so calling the winners 'entrepreneurs' is a stretch. They appear to be starting a charity, not a company. And charities, while often noble in their intent, are not particularly sustainable; for sustainability, it's hard to beat a profitable company.

To paraphrase H.L. Hunt: if this world is worth saving, it's worth saving at a profit.
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Who actually watched Palin, McCain and their speeches and interviews
Great post which proves that SNL trumps all.
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Ahh, I read too quickly:

"Following comments by a particular author a la Twitter was a core feature when we launched"

I thought you guys used search.twitter.com and included tweets with my alert term. Please do add twitter as a source of comments for the alerts :)
choose something that sounds vaguely familiar to an existing term. And make sure there are very few Google search results for the name. A name with too many Google results means you have to really work on SEO to get decent ranking.
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It's probably under huge load from the NY Times article.
I'm worried about the way they plan to separate the tabs into "separate instances"... it seems to me as cross-domain user scripting could do wonders to advance the browsing experience. Imagine installing a user script which adds hooks to Hacker News and other user scripts which use those hooks on other sites.

As a simple example, you could add a "submit to HN" links all over the place (ones that work without having to leave whatever site you're on). Our collective imagination of what could be done with that far exceeds what I'm thinking of.
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Yeah it's true generally. However, check the EULA of Google Desktop: http://desktop.google.com/eula.html

The word "shall" in it can be replaced with "must" to make it more plain.

Edit:
This is some of the advice from the article: The use of "shall" creates confusion. To impose a legal obligation, use "must." To predict future action, use "will."
why not try writing a 2D video game?
what is really unfortunate here is that by being obstinate and combative with briansmith and plagiarismtoday, konsi is missing a solid business opportunity here.

As far as I can tell the mechanism to identify users is based on name and URL which is probably the best you can do. What this does create is a centralized ID for blog commentators.

By registring as a blog commentator with backtype, commentators could have a mechanism to control the distribution of their comments: control over copyright issues like the size of their excerpt or the ability to opt out.

At the same time, backtype ends up as the repository of record for comments and has an alias database of commentators, which I can anticipate being monetizable.

Every opportunity starts out looking like a snake.
I am thinking of something more web orientated
How will you decide about possible combo of characters?
Do you pick one or just buy everything ... just in case?

for example:
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"funbox" can be funboxes, funboks, funboss, fun-box, funnybox, funnyboxes, etc
its hard to tell your tone, but i believe you yo-yo first, charging the internal batteries, and when you're done, you plug in your iPhone (or other USB device).
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Sounds interesting. I'm going to it this year but I'm not sure what to expect. Tom Ashbrook is hosting it, so how bad could it be?

Has anyone been?
kind of long, but a good read. Thanks
if you were the boston police and wanted to minimiZe nuisance calls from the airport, making an example of this seems like an efficient way to do so.
That's pretty obvious. The barrier of entry for making a websites is pretty low, and getting lower. It's quite easy, for example, for someone to go to CNN to get news instead of Yahoo News. All that's required is a different url.
Yes, I think you're right.

From the article:
Most solar cells in use today are either photovoltaic, meaning they harness only visible light, or thermal.

Also:
they're engineered to stand freely in three dimensions

So you have panels that catch both visible and UV light, and can do it in three dimensions.
This is actually a really, really big problem if you talk to most internet users. Account recovery ranks as one of the bigger pain points, because most people aren't used to quickly switching between tabs, copying and pasting, etc.

I have a feeling that we've yet to see the best practices for account recovery emerge.
" By registring as a blog commentator with backtype, commentators could have a mechanism to control the distribution of their comments: control over copyright issues like the size of their excerpt or the ability to opt out.

At the same time, backtype ends up as the repository of record for comments and has an alias database of commentators, which I can anticipate being monetizable."

So the burden of opt-out falls on the those writing comments, while backtype gets the monetizable data so provided?

No thanks.

What could be interesting is if bloggers arranged their software so that every posted comment included a copyright notice declaring that the comment was copyrighted by the commenter and that it may not be reproduced in full, only excerpted (for example).

I would hate, though, for people to start thinking that, absent such explicit claim on content , it's fair game for poaching.
While reading the part - "and certainly aren't helping the environment by distributing tons of press kits and swag--not to mention flying in hundreds of attendees in a massive spurt of carbon emissions." - I got the feeling that the author wanted to continue on to say O'Reilly makes his money selling dead trees, but stopped short.
customer risk. assuming people know what they want.

specifically, do the potential customers who i interview really know how they want their information management problems solved

payoff: tbd
That's just it. They'd prefer to send a strong "don't be different" message. They think if they can coerce everyone into absolute conformity, it will lower the cost of searching out tur-ists.

What really happens is they create a set of protocols that are simple to learn that will allow real terrorists to hide in plain sight.
I'm impressed. A kid has the guts to go out, follow his idea, meet some well-connected folks, sell those folks, get some funding, execute on his idea, and then sell the NYTimes on it.

Reminds me of a quote I read from John Mackey, founder/CEO of Whole Foods:
"I would say that entrepreneurs are only a step up from panhandlers because you've got to go out and hustle money, and you're mostly selling dreams and enthusiasm."

(From a really great/long interview here: http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/2008/06/former_house...)
You know things are bad when the NYtimes is publishing digg bait.
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Yeah, just threw it on my laptop and it soars. Amazing. And still syncs with mobileme (you may laugh, but I have my bookmarks on my PC at work, and when I find a good article on news.yc and bookmark it, it shows up on my laptop at home)
Depends on what you want to do as well. Hadoop is not the appropriate solution for doing molecular dynamics simulations. You also have to look at the support system. Something like LAPACK makes Fortran very attractive for numerical programming.

What kinds of algorithms are you trying to implement?
I think they send a strong "don't waste our time" message.
These are my notes from the first 5 minutes (the rest is worth watching too):

Single most important thing that a VC is looking for when you're pitching to them: you, the people. The entire purpose of a VC pitch is to convince them that you will make them money. Angel pitch takes 15 mins, VC pitch, less than 30. You have to convey around 10 characteristics.

#1 Integrity.

#2 Passion

#3 Experience. "I've done this before.", where this means creating value. That can be starting a company, other teams or organizations, etc...

#4 Knowledge.

#5 Skill. Technical skills, marketing skills.

#6 Leadership. You either have the team that has these skills or the ability to inspire people to be part of your team.

#7 Commitment. Someone that will be there to the very end.

#8 Vision. Don't want a me-too company. You need to see where it's going.

#9 Realism. Before you get to change the world bad things are going to take place and you need to be able to plan for that and have rational projections.

#10 You can Listen. You need to be coachable. The VC has experience and they want to know you're willing to listen to it.
microformats to the rescue!

Or perhaps a commentator.txt file on ID urls.

My larger point is that this is an opportunity.
I was thinking the same thing. I used collegeconfidential.com to pick students' brains when I thought I wanted to transfer back in 2005, and I know it was around for at least a few years before that.

You're right though in that this is a new approach, if not a wholly original idea. The presentation needs work (that's been mentioned elsewhere here) but I think they've got the right idea about the next "big thing" in the admissions guide market.
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Its a Freakonomics blog entry.
The Team. The more time that I spend building companies (Securemote, Linuxcare, Sputnik, Technorati, and now Offbeat Guides), the more I realize that the single biggest risk is in picking a great team. Get a great team that works together, and you can resolve almost every other problem - competition, product, market, financing, etc.

Pick a poor team, and you can have all the advantages in the world - lots of money, little competition, a killer product, a huge market, and the company will find a way to screw it up.

This was probably the biggest eye-opener for me when I moved from CTO jobs to CEO. It's all about the people, and how everyone works together. Learning leadership skills was incredibly important for me to be able to build and inspire teams.

I've seen both sides of this at all the companies that I started. In my experience, it's far and away the most important factor in a company's success or failure.
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I noticed that some VCs insist on knowing your background (like this one) while some say (like Kawasaki) says that they couldn't care less about you and only care about the problem and solution.

The funny thing is that both are very patronizing about it, as if theirs is the only true way.
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I've asked a ycnews user who was one of six Stanford students who were working together at the start of 2007 to create a startup where students from different colleges would record video tours of their schools, to comment. I think they had applied for Summer Session 2007 funding, but I'm not sure.
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Yeah - that site has quite infrequent posts, but most of what I've read there is good stuff.
They also send a "we're incompetent, dangerous (carrying around loaded automatic weapons in an airport terminal is dumb) fools" message.
Working at a corporation for a year. I guess it was worth it to know what it is like, but a terrible long term financial, educational, and health risk--not because of the company, but the domestication of relying on someone else over many years. Also, the opportunities I missed out on while working.
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I would eliminate this one because when spoken, it is unclear whether it's funwrapped or funrapped.
Eclipse IDE does the same thing, putting little colored ticks in scrollbars to indicate things like:

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Yes, we have. We're not intending to use 200 bar air, and we have to aim at a substantially more efficient vehicle, and even then we need a much larger tank than normal.

But compared to batteries they're very, very cheap. We think we can hit the range required, and that's what really matters.
Leaving a decent job where I worked with good people and was paid well. I left to go to grad school full time.

I have yet to complete my studies, but my feeling is that it has been worth the cost.
The amount of energy coming through in the UV portion of the spectrum is quite small:

http://www.sunwindsolar.com/a_images/solar_insolation-b.jpg

Everything to the left of the "visible light" portion.
The "possessing a hoax device" charge was dropped and she was only convicted of disorderly conduct which she explains doesn't require intent.

The real disgusting thing here is the abhorrent conduct of the police and judicial system.
I'm not dismissing him. But he makes his living by writing a blog that Apple fans read. No offense, but if you believe he is unbiased despite that, you're naive.

I don't have any particular love for Microsoft or loathing for Apple. I really don't care. I don't like the fanboy mindset that's pervaded the tech media, where Apple can do no wrong and Microsoft no right. I see Apple fans routinely criticize Microsoft for the DRM in Vista (which affects the 8 people who have a Vista PC with BluRay hooked up to an HDTV but not through an HDMI connection that supports HDCP) but not Apple (who has done more to promote and benefit from DRM than anyone by a factor of 1,000) and I call bullshit on it. If that's offensive or immature, then I'm OK with that.

My blog is neither famous nor big. I don't make any money at all from promoting Microsoft. Gruber, on the other hand, makes money from being an Apple fanatic. And of course, that doesn't mean that he can't form a coherent argument, but it does mean that you need to take whatever he says about Microsoft with a grain of salt.

I do think Microsoft dropped at most 1 Seinfeld ad. My citation would be Microsoft's and Crispin Porter + Bogusky's statements to the press. Not to mention the fact that he took Microsoft's response to the press coming through their PR agency (whose main job it is to respond to press on their behalf) to be any sort of proof of anything.

Where's your citations, other than baseless illogical heresay on fanboy blogs?
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This actually messes up the steering geometry. you need the steering system to be only barely in the region of stability, otherwise it takes too much effort and energy to turn. And during turns, four wheeled vehicles bank slightly, which is very important to maximize the normal force on the outside wheels to increase frictional contact with the road.

In general, the dual-mass oppositely rotating flywheels work best: there's a miniature system like this in every car to even out engine vibrations.
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It's not quite ideal, since flywheels will still spin down, and the duty factor on wind and solar ranges near 11%. Compressed air is actual a decent contender in this area.
I want to satisfy 2 points, firstly no, I don't particularly care for 4chan either - but I think to discount all of it's members based on what seems to be a few bad eggs is stereotyping at its worst.

Secondly, the Penicillin example, it was a run on example from this.

don't forget that some of the biggest innovative breakthroughs that we use to this day came from hackers being bored and doing things they shouldn't.

Such as?

I dunno about you, but I would call penicillin a pretty significant hack.

As you might know, Fleming noted a contaminant in one of his cultures. Instead of throwing it out as a failed experiment, he played with it or essentially 'hacked' it. It resulted in one of the most significant medical discoveries of last century.

If he instead was doing what he was meant to be doing (studying Staphylococci) instead of 'playing' around (or 'hacking'); millions of lives may not have been saved.

So in truth, it was a fair comment.
Actually, the gyroscopic action contributes but it isn't dominant. The dominant effect is the steering geometry, notably the caster angle -- the amount the wheel is ahead of the forks.

This article is worth reading; it's an investigation into bicycle stability.

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/MoreBikeFi...
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Hmm, these remind me a lot of political commercials. Rather than discuss the features and merits (issues and policies) over competitors, they concentrate on identifying with the customer ("Here's a candidate you could have a beer with!"). Apple commercials are annoying, but at least they have substance.
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I think that there's a difference between a bias and outright fanboyism. I've met Apple fanboys: they're not fun. They take the thing that I love about Apple users (the generally rational mindset) and make it look dumb. Gruber's not one of those people. Does he like Mac? Of course. But I think he likes it because they genuinely please him, not because he's getting paid to like them.

You're allowed to call bullshit on Apple fans who act like hypocrites. Apple fans who attack DRM without calling attention to iTunes are being stupid. At the same time, ignoring the fact that Apple's got more DRM-free music than any other store, last I checked, is ignoring the fact that Apple is TRYING to allow for open systems insofar as it doesn't ruin a business deal. But DRM isn't the issue here, and I don't see why that's being brought up.

Your initial stance against Gruber's reaction was a sneering one, though. I mean, those Seinfeld ads really didn't push much for Vista. They were well-made shots, but you've been saying repeatedly that they're possibly going to revolutionize advertising and make history. I think that's illogical just as you seem to think disliking those ads were illogical.

When I read blogs, I take their arguments at face value. If I'm reading an argument from Apple itself, if that argument makes sense then I'll agree with it until other proof comes up. Similarly, if somebody who's usually big on Apple turns around and starts praising Linux or Windows, I don't think they're more credible because it's such a big change. Unless their reasoning is good, I'll still call BS.

I didn't see the part in their statement where they said they had only dropped a single ad. I don't recall seeing that anywhere. If you've got a link to that, or even the site you found it on, then tell me and I'll give it a look. But I still hold that their having only two ads seems pretty lackluster and looks like they're panicking, even though I acknowledge the fact that there might be more reasoning behind them. I think that the terrible phase two that we're seeing continues that trend.

What would you like me to cite? Anything you think I said that isn't rationally thought-out I'll try to clarify. I will point out, though, that your responding to my accusations by using yet more weasel words really doesn't make you seem particularly more believable.
Long post. Suggest you cut it down and use a different title. The current title doesn't inspire people to click.

From what you've said so far, you are the first hire in a startup with a technical founder. There are factors that we're missing here like are you a full-time or part-time hire? What's the role of the mathematical models? How "replaceable" are you? Could the technical founder have done this without you, or with a different hire? How much of an impact will it be to the company if you walk away?

It's impossible for anyone to tell you how much is "fair" in your situation since every situation is different. But for what it's worth, 1%-3% with competitive salary is pretty good for a non-founding first hire in my experience. YMMV depending on how you answer the questions I mentioned above.

I think a good way to calculate equity compensation is via "opportunity cost". Will you be working for reduced salary after graduation for this startup? If you're going to be getting reduced salary, then the equity compensation should match the salary that you'll be missing out on.

Here are some old threads about this topic.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.416439.2...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185882
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79952
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28465
Yech. I think bookmarklets would do a far better job of that, and they'd offer less chance of browser compromise at that.

I would like them to do what Safari does: map the first 9 bookmarks to CMD-#, so they essentially become shortcuts rather than clickable links.
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This is what terrorism does - it terrorizes people. The unfortunate deaths on 9/11 were a means to that end.
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TheU.com pretty much did the same thing -- not sure what happened to them. The site was pretty decent (more so for entertainment purposes) when I was going through the admissions process.
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There are 700-bar tanks. What are you aiming for?

and we have to aim at a substantially more efficient vehicle

Against which car models (once you are done marketing the scooter) are you intending for your car to compete? Camry/Accord?

But compared to batteries they're very, very cheap.

What tank-prices are you figuring? $4,000?

http://www.google.com/search?q=hydrogen+car+tank+costs
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