skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Whenever a group has a specific reason they need more time to decide, we've always given it to them. We once interviewed a startup that got an acquisition offer right in the middle of YC interview weekend. Not only did we give them a couple weeks to see how things played out, we advised them on negotiating with the acquirer.
Kansas City area, USA.
By how much they earn. A firm pays their employees in proportion to their contribution (at least on average -- as that is efficient behavior). A firm is paid by customers in proportion to their value contribution. And on and on. Econ 101 of supply, demand, and price signals (one of the few parts that actually works).
Prostitutes deliver huge amounts of value with no education required at all. I'm not sure if that's for or against your point--I've never studied economics--but it seems damning of something. ;)
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Building strong relationship is not as easy as it sounds. It requires some basic trust between the two people who discuss and share their feelings. This has become increasingly popular and possible through free chat rooms as many people find it easy to share their feelings and opinions with someone who are far away and unknown rather than with those who are nearby. Moreover, certain things cannot be shared with parents or siblings around. Live chat actually relaxes and gives people a chance to express their real self.
Naperville, Illinois :)
That may be the answer eventually. The situation now is getting out of control. It's not just us people are trying to pre-empt. They're all trying to pre-empt one another. The result is that they end up setting their deadlines in roughly inverse order of quality, creating a cascade of stressful decision points for the best applicants. And the more new YC-like things people start, the worse it will get.

I don't think there would need to be a common application, but there may have to be a common deadline.
I often think a startup should act like it's waging a guerrilla war - move faster than your opponent, do things your opponent is unwilling or unable to do, be hard to kill, win the grass-roots support of the people.
This is a very short trip I'm afraid, and short notice too. I will be in San Francisco on Monday afternoon Sunnyvale all day Wednesday. If I get enough response I can arrange a meetup in either location.
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Affiliate Marketing: Commission Junction, PepperJam Network...

Twitter: using Twitter Search to monitor certain keywords and follow up with users.
Good idea and I think it would work for Spaces too. Probably possible to build yourself with Automator. Related feature I want to see: focus-follows-mouse.
(Temporarily) Cape Girardeau, MO.

At least there are a few of us here in flyover country =)
Oceania seems high - I presume that means Australia, NZ, Hawaii??, other pacific islands?
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Spell check your entire website in one go
Speaking of Melbourne, how's the weather? Nevermind I'll ask again in 5 minutes when it has changed!

Perth, Australia here.
Perak, Malaysia. Now, doing startup in US.
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Been a while since I've been to news.yc, but I've been reading the RSS feeds more recently, so thought I should pimp my new job at some stage :)

Feedback welcome!
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The more practice you have done, the faster you can finish your questions. So, I dont really think that they are just smarter. They may be just more hardworking.
This really reminds me of the presidential primaries. Everyone trying to be earlier than the others.

Unfortunately, there's no central governing body to even try to limit it, so it's even more able to get ridiculous.
Ask HN: when will property prices go back up?
Having never actually worked in the real world, and always wondering "how to make money" in theory ...

why hasn't property prices gone back up?

it seems that in these days, rich people (like those with dynasty wealth) can easily buy up entire blocks ... wait until prices go back up, and rent them out in the future?

like in the biblical story, when Egypt had the huge food famine, the rich (Pharaoh) bought up all the poor people's land

except that in this case, why aren't the rich and wealthy buying it up? seems like a beautiful 'hack' in the classical sense
Alphalab in Pittsburgh decides after Y Combinator. They generally seem very reputable. The main negative is they have a "stay in Pennsylvania" provision -- if you leave PA, you have to pay back the $25,000 and they keep their 3% equity. They have this because they are funded by the state of PA and the ultimate goal of the funding is to create jobs in Pennsylvania.
Maybe it is just because it is late, but I can't think of anything dumber than this.
Intelligence is speed, but not in the linear way we think of it. When people think faster, they can put slightly more time into examining each possible solution branch, which allows them to discard the ones that resolve as "bad." This, then, culls those branches from their memory, allowing them to process the rest of the solution tree even faster. Someone who knows a little more CS than I do could actually give a definite answer to just how much faster it makes someone, assuming, just for the sake of argument, that solution trees are binary.

Anyway, there are certain problems that require a "minimum mental speed" to accomplish; Mensa test questions are basically designed so that your working memory capacity will be exhausted by extraneous branches unless your mind can cull them as quickly as it can think of them.
Not a Down Market for Secondary Venture Capital Funds
St. Petersburg, FL here.
The Nasty Exploding Term Sheet
Holmdel, NJ (~1 hour outside NYC)
I love how HN is full of reflexive down-voters. What, you're pundit fans?
Hopefully never. Why should housing for humans grow more expensive? We aren't running out and materials continue to grow cheaper.

It seems inhumane to me to hope that one can profit off of homelessness and a reduction in the overall quality of life of your fellow citizenry.
very good point. having been through the process, specifically having received an exploding offer from one of the firms, i can attest to how stressful it is.

in the end we declined the offer and it ended up working out well for us.

to be honest, extending an exploding offer is a statement of character.
Me too =), In Sherbrooke for the moment
Auditory Illusions
The virtual haircut is particularly nasty. I loves the whisper at the end.
I think internet advertising for web apps is pretty much useless. Sure it might drive you some traffic, but you most likely won't get a lot of sales. So unless you have a $100 profit margin on each user, you won't recover the money that you'll spend on ads.
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great, i was working to raise money (for a little while at least) to send olpc's to some of the more rural areas in lima. i'm pervian as well(%).

what's the technology scene there like? it'd be interesting to bridge my work between here (sf) and lima. pico alto is an astounding beach.
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"the recruiting opportunities, and the information learned (mostly outside the classroom) about how the economy and society actually work"

The recruiting opportunities are part of the connections too. The information that you learned outside of class is mostly from your connection outside the class too.

This may not be a strong case for a local resident in US. For my case, I did have a stronger connections(friendship) than in my country(Malaysia). I am sure that I cannat achieve what I have done so far here if I decided not to further my college in US.
It's a lot easier to get a mortgage if the bank believes that the value of your house will increase?
That's ironic. A subtly disguised poll to ask if polls are ok.
I think the common deadline would be a good idea ... and along with it perhaps some sort of "seed fund consortium" comprised of YC and the other reputable YC-like firms. Going with the college analogy, it would be along the lines of applying to an "accredited" institution.

Not only would the common application make the process easier for startups, it would help them identify worthy funds and keep them from wasting their time with other/shady ones.

It could definitely be a loosely-formed org. Perhaps quarterly deadlines that each firm could choose to accepts apps or not ... plus a simple list of guidelines they follow.
Not only did we give them a couple weeks to see how things played out, we advised them on negotiating with the acquirer.

For the uninitiated, this is the very definition of integrity.
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Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Delhi!
There is no such thing as "back up." Prices go up and down. "Back up" presumes a certain price is the appropriate one, but in reality no price is more appropriate than another.
Phoenix, AZ
time = distance/speed
Updates are not rate limited.
How about accepting applications year round but still having the twice a year 3 month program? If someone knows they are going to be a in say the next summer or winter round it is less likely they would apply elsewhere.
Programmers predominantly think in terms of RIGHT or WRONG and MBAs in terms of PRIORITIES.
You don't need "dynasty wealth" to manage property. It is one of the most common small businesses in the United States. (Fairly low capital requirements by the standards of physically-extant businesses, low expertise requirements, well within the capability of many middle class families.) It also has significant risk and requires lots of manual labor. (That is why I don't do it. You can outsource the manual labor but that ends up outsourcing the positive part of the cash flow, too.)

Risks:

+ Property prices fall.

+ Competitive options for housing in vicinity of your property decline in price, causing rent you can charge to fall. For example: if you can buy a modest house in Detroit for $10,000 why would any worthwhile prospective renter pay you the $500 a month you need to cover the mortgage and maintenance on the modest home you bought back when Detroit had viable industries in it?

+ Can't find a tenant, get to eat mortgage.

+ Renters trash house, enjoy $20,000 repair bill.

+ Renters stop paying rent. Enjoy eviction process.

+ Your local government decides evil landlords are exploiting poor people to make money, institutes rent control. Enjoy low rents, impossibility to unload property on another sucker, etc.
This is wonderful. I scanned my website and found two spelling errors. I did not know "seeked" was not a word. It is supposed to be "sought".
flagged. spam. who is voting this up???
the question is not one of morality; but one of economics, of why individuals acting in their own best interest have not done this yet?

in particular, if people are greedy enough to cause this mess, why are they not greedy enough to benefit from it?
okay, so perhaps people like myself can not buy houses by taking loans from the bank ...

but what about people that already have giant piles of cash on hand? ... who can buy houses w/o taking any loans at all
Manish,

LOL, me to from Bangalore. Where do u live? Any luck we can meet at Barcamps or any hacker event?

And any hacker events in bangalore other than devcamp and barcamp? Yahoo hackday is once in 2yrs so thats out of my "regular events" list.
nice, thanks. one more small feature request: I'd love to be able to reorder my list on the fly, for example by dragging all the completed tasks towards the top of the list and the still-to-be-completed ones towards the bottom - something I can't do on paper :)
inhumane to me to hope that one can profit off of homelessness

Umm... landlords profit off of homelessness by eliminating it. That would normally strike me as socially beneficial.

It's about as inhumane as a grocery profiting off of people's urgent need to eat on a daily basis.
Perth as well!
next to stony brook too, contact me - xtac@ymail.com
AirBnB should add "haunted (Y/N)" and "likelihood to be murdered (%)" fields to the details of each listing.
p.s.
but now I got a "shift" and my clean record is gone :-/
Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things
Originally from Cincinnati, now in Silicon Valley
Exactly, and at the moment, people are incredibly risk-averse. Everyone's worried about losing their jobs; consumer confidence is low; etc.

Demand will rise again once the general mood changes and people are willing to take on a bit more risk. Renters will be more likely to buy homes when they feel their jobs are safer. And landlords will buy more rental properties when they feel more confident about the risks patio11 outlined above.
Free software is great. But it's okay to charge for things, too.
From Eugene, Oregon, live in Padova, Italy.
Doesn't it seem like some of these tactics select for the type of person who shouldn't be starting a business? Maybe there are some positions where you want people you can push around, but certainly you want a founder who's capable of pushing back. It would seem more rational to verbally bring up the exploding term and then opt not to provide the termsheet unless the founder argued it.
Govt must regulate market capitalization of all listed companies to TWICE their quarterly revenue.
This will

1. Prevent Ponzi scams in Corporate Management and Stock Markets
2. Will create more opportunities for start-ups resulting in millions of jobs creation.
More global? I might be misunderstanding you but email is everywhere. It's one of the things that is recognisable by your parents, maybe even grandparents. Wouldn't it be simpler, instead of trying to build out @handle usage, to add more control to emails? Everyone has one, they're much more open since only twitter (I think) has @handle things, and much much much more accessible (and global). Gmail has fantastic filters already, a bit of a pain to set up but they work. Wouldn't an improvement on those be better?
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For HN: Polls chart bookmarklet (and GreaseMonkey script)
I made a bookmarklet that embeds pie charts into Hacker News poll pages. It scrapes data from a poll page and creates a chart using Google Charts API.

Just copy & paste following code into url field of newly created bookmark:

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Or, if you want to change something more easily, you can also use a version that loads a script from an external source:

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Note: Scraping is pretty fragile, it can break with any change of HN's html formatting.
Honestly, it was more powerlessness. How could we compete with an acquisition offer? Integrity depends more on how you behave when you have power.
When you are on some HN poll page, clicking on this bookmark should create a pie chart just above the poll options.

For example, here is how it should look like:

http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnpoll.png

For this poll:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
Mechanical Turk is good for getting initial users to use your site and "test it". Offer them $.10 to test your site and give you some feedback on the site. It's a good way to get initial beta testers.
awesome, found a couple on my site

i have always looked for a service like this
From the Bay Area too. Specifically Fremont.
Silicon Valley is amazing for tech advances huh?
Jungledisk has been down since Saturday - Mosso Cloud Files Fail
We couldn't do that. The only way we can operate on such a scale is to batch the various types of work. E.g. do all the interviews over one weekend.
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This is seriously old, and still good. But maybe there should be some new ones, for a more modern time.

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At least... we used to.
I was really encouraged by the HighriseHQ design of several weeks ago, along with the blog posts about the redesign but... now the real deal is here, it's clutterville :(

Very difficult to scan. Perhaps it'll look better when I get back on my desktop but on this 1024 pixel width netbook it's just a smush of poorly separated text.

Anyway, it's not that important, I guess. They have good products and a supportive userbase. They don't need a slick site to sell what they have.. and if you look at the sites of most Fortune 500 companies, they're usually poorly designed so perhaps they're aiming for that club.
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I agree to some extent, but I still like to think integrity is a function of how you behave at all times, not just when it is advantageous.

For example in the situation above - I perceive you as the kind of person who really believes what he writes and wants to help people get up and running. I mean, your essays date back before YC.

So in my mind, advising this group during the acquisition offer, even if there was a chance you would miss out, is showing a true adherence to some kind of ethical/moral code.

That's true integrity, in my opinion.
This happened to me in early summer of 2007. I was actually at the airport to join another program when I followed my gut and took a chance with my Y Combinator application instead. I was subsequently interviewed and accepted, so it worked quite well for me. I would, however, encourage everyone to weigh their options before following their guts as in the end you may get no offers by taking a risk like I did.

Probably part of what prompted my decision was how much integrity this other program didn't have relative to Y Combinator (offering perks and having integrity are sometimes inversely proportional).
Again, going with the ACLU analogy, it's not the ACLU's job to convince you that the Bill of Rights is a good thing. It's their job to rigorously defend it without giving an inch. The same goes for RMS, it's not his job to convince developers to join up with FOSS. Leave the convincing to people who are better at it. Google's summer of code is a great example.

Based on the growing size and productivity of the FOSS community, I really don't think RMS needs to change what he is doing. Programmers have already produced billions of dollars of free software and will continue to do so. It's an amazing display of our (the hacker) culture.
> Anyway, there are certain problems that require a "minimum mental speed" to accomplish; Mensa test questions are basically designed so that your working memory capacity will be exhausted by extraneous branches unless your mind can cull them as quickly as it can think of them.

What about people who have a larger or longer-lasting working memory capacity? Or those who have better culling algorithms? They may be able to solve classes of problems that 'faster' thinkers could never solve. They might do well at the Mensa test but on a simpler speed-based test they could do poorly.

Intelligence is not speed.
The same "exploding offers" are prevalent in the job-seeking world as well. I fell victim to one accidentally: I was trying to happily accept a job but the acceptance deadline detailed on my offer actually expired the day after I received it in the mail. At the time I thought it odd that the company was in such a rush to get a response from me that they couldn't give me a week or so to think about it. Then I got there and found out very quickly why they were pushing me into taking their offer. Three weeks later I had quit. I'll never take an exploding offer seriously again and commend YC for being gracious and flexible in their process.
Then go after paypal. I would absolutely love if you did.
Wow, this is most definitely quite an embarrassment for JungleDisk, transparency is nice, but doesn't offer much solace to those needing their files. Incidents like these are all one needs to convince themselves that switching to the cloud isn't reliable. Hopefully they'll be able to resolve the issue soon and save face.
I'm from Nassau, but up near Rochester for college. If that counts as being on Long Island.
You should look at the chart:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/08/26/weekinreview/27...

We recently passed 150 on the way down. Still got a ways to fall.

When will prices go back up? 10 years? 20 years? Never? Why should they go up? I've only heard one reasonable explanation for increasing prices. Apparently certain areas, like New Jersey, are now effectively "full". Therefore people who want to live there will be spending a higher percentage of their income on housing going forward.

I don't know if it's true, but it sounds plausible at least.

EDIT: the reason for New Jersey being completely built out is NIMBY laws, not that all the land has been used.
Manila, Philippines
Neither could be true, in many ways we learn the most during childhood, and in a very short time (e.g language, motor skills, sight).
Nice to see a few from India. We're in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
i'm jaded but adroll is good for niche targeting.
It would be nice to have the ranking of error by likelihood on my desktop, but only being able to spell check my site (where everything has already been through a desktop spell checker).

It might be useful for user generated content (I assume that is what they mean by "multiple content contributors cannot be easily identified by the website content manager"), but then, should you be editing everything your users get wrong?

On my site the free scan found 0 likely errors, I possible error that is an accepted shortened form in the context, four unlikely errors. These were my surname, the name of the site, a correct (if not often used) plural form and a common abbreviation.
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