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2,601 | null | comment | raganwald | 1,173,209,672 | Updated link:<p>Are you thinking of working for a start up?<p>http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/03/are-you-thinking-of-working-for-start.html | null | 2,537 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,602 | null | story | perler | 1,173,210,874 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,603 | null | story | jrbedard | 1,173,212,218 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.futureofwebapps.com/ | 7 | London FOWA 2007, MP3s and Presentations (Kevin Rose, Mike Arrington and others) | null | 0 |
2,604 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,212,378 | On second thought you might be able to do it here if you scraped the fnid before you rendered your page. I have not tried it so I don't know if the fnids are user specific, if not it should work. | null | 2,599 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,606 | null | comment | mytreo | 1,173,214,377 | Is anyone else here looking to be a webmaster for a website or looking for a website to work on, post what you are looking for and your email. | null | 2,605 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,605 | null | story | mytreo | 1,173,214,304 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,607 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,214,600 | I love this idea. My co-founder and I were working on something similar a while ago before deciding to pursue our next idea.<p>Scribd's implementation is absolutely top-notch. I'm very excited for them, especially knowing that our ideas are shared by some other clever folks. | null | 2,602 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,609 | null | comment | domp | 1,173,215,260 | It's also with apostrophes. It might be fixed by now though.
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2,608 | null | story | abstractbill | 1,173,215,204 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,610 | null | comment | abstractbill | 1,173,215,323 | Some of this is a little dated - for example there's not much point in managing a crawler yourself when you can just pay alexa to do it for you.<p>I still found a few useful tips though. | null | 2,608 | null | [
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2,612 | null | story | danielha | 1,173,215,494 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,617 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,216,980 | I am looking for a co-founder and this is exactly the struggle I have had. I wonder if most entrepreneurs who werent blessed with the right networks, aura and people skills also face this hurdle.
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Anil AT juwo DOT com | null | 2,615 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,614 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,216,518 | I didnt really have a question - I am merely observing the ongoing experiment!
Any other principles you can observe? | null | 2,597 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,615 | null | story | juwo | 1,173,216,682 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,613 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,215,677 | Great, thanks! | null | 2,562 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,618 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,217,225 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,611 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,215,346 | Similar bug with submission headlines existed. I believe that was also fixed. | null | 2,593 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,616 | null | story | chendy | 1,173,216,902 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,620 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,173,218,028 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.avinio.blogspot.com/2007/02/make-money-from-comments.html | 1 | Make Money From Simple Comments You Leave | null | 0 |
2,619 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,173,217,592 | There's a good sales methodology (the Sandler system) which espouses pushing the "closing" stage nearer to the beginning of the process. Essentially, you're looking to end the sales cycle of deals which for whatever reason aren't going to work out. I like this blog post because it's roughly analogous. If you actually hear a "no" from a VC, consider yourself lucky that you aren't chasing a deal which won't ever close.
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2,622 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,218,576 | Big part of the puzzle is to build value in your potential cofounder's eyes from your past ________ experiences. It is a two way street: your cofounder should need you as much as you need him. -Zaid
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2,623 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,219,912 | That's why I am headed to India this summer if all goes well:)<p>--Zaid
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2,621 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,218,329 | One of our startup strategies involved that we target Chinese, Spanish and French startup bloggers before reaching out to Americans. Most western startups overlook the significance of this huge market, and leave the door open for another company to take the spoils.<p>Far less companies submit review requests to foreign bloggers than they do to Americans. Consequently, our own experience turned out to be great; almost all the foreign blogs we contacted were more than happy to review us. This strategy works great for early stage startups that need that additional media coverage. So if you haven't yet tried this, I suggest you do :) Take care,
- Jawad Shuaib | null | 2,618 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,626 | null | story | ereldon | 1,173,222,081 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/03/google_10k_clif.html | 4 | Wired: YouTube purchase drives up Google's stock, saves Google money on purchase | null | 0 |
2,624 | null | comment | run4yourlives | 1,173,221,034 | Perhaps even more important:<p>Four of those countries speak English, so there is no reason for most people to exclude them based on language barriers.<p>The US, UK, Canada and India are all equally viable. | null | 2,618 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,627 | null | story | farmer | 1,173,222,179 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,628 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,222,649 | Ok, we have profiles: click on your name and put whatever you want in the "about" field. | null | 481 | null | [
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2,629 | null | comment | bootload | 1,173,223,713 | '... Netvibes is a reprise of My.Netscape ...'<p>dave winer has not missed the significance of this ~ http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/06/pointOfView.html | null | 2,544 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,632 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,226,652 | dicey dance, I suppose. But I disagree.
you are essentially talking of "everyone loves a winner..." | null | 2,622 | null | [
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2,643 | null | comment | prashantdesale | 1,173,234,669 | First important question is ---Do you really need a cofounder?---<p>I am founding this company http://www.onista.com (A Social Marketplace) and so far I am doing it all by myself. Didn't have any issues yet and I am very well on the course to launch it in Summer. It is true that it is taking me little longer time than what I could have done with one cofounder.<p>But again, why should I expect a stranger to take risks with his/her career, make sacrifices and be passionate about my idea.
After launching http://www.onista.com if people like it, then I am sure I will get cofounders.<p> | null | 2,615 | null | [
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2,631 | null | story | philc | 1,173,225,572 | null | null | null | null | null | http://eightpence.com/reading-material-for-entrepreneurs-designers-and-rails-webapp-devs/ | 8 | some reading list material for entrepreneurs, designers and rails web app devs | null | 0 |
2,630 | null | comment | dqualls | 1,173,224,859 | "Corporate R&D never worked very well in the first place." Huh?!? The first public fax transmission, the transistor, the first synchronous-sound motion picture, UNIX, C and C++, low-cost fiber optic phone systems, the first Wireless LAN, and numerous laser techonologies were all products of Bell Laboratories corporate R&D. | null | 2,585 | null | [
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2,633 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,226,946 | I have been doing what you have in mind, with juwo.
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2,635 | null | story | lupin_sansei | 1,173,227,776 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.mises.org/story/2498 | 1 | The Ethic of the Peddler Class (Startups 19th Century Style) | null | 0 |
2,638 | null | comment | reitzensteinm | 1,173,232,100 | Mark Cuban's take on it: http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/03/05/say-goodbye-to-webcasting/ | null | 2,637 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,636 | null | comment | andyjenn | 1,173,228,457 | I'm 31; tinkered with technology from a young age, did the University thing, backpacked around the world, now married with a kid. I think the age depends on what you want your startup to give you...fulfillment, enlightenment - its not just about acquisitions or IPOs. I think a rounded view on life would help some of the very guys not to end up like software's answer to Britney Spears!? | null | 2,260 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,639 | null | story | phil | 1,173,232,587 | null | true | null | null | null | http://dev:2000/docs/14 | 1 | here's a document at Unimedia | null | -1 |
2,641 | null | story | Elfan | 1,173,233,325 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/11/15/you-inc-how-to-be-the-cfo-of-your-own-life/ | 1 | You, Inc.: How to Be the CFO of Your Own Life | null | 0 |
2,634 | null | comment | ereldon | 1,173,227,130 | Go In-n-Out!<p>"In-N-Out Burger, which is privately held, has maintained a cult following, in large part because it has insisted on not turning burgers into an industrial process, all while expanding gingerly in California, Arizona and Nevada. As a result, it remains a destination, a privilege, a brand that is owned by the minority of Americans who have regular access to it." | null | 2,627 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,640 | null | story | amichail | 1,173,233,177 | null | null | null | null | null | http://artificial-artificial-intelligence.com/index.php/2007/03/06/how_useful_are_games_for_generating_usef | 2 | Using Games to Generate Useful Data (two new games mentioned for natural language processing) | null | 0 |
2,642 | null | comment | bootload | 1,173,233,660 | Just the data: Cragslist survived because it was not *greedy*. The founders recognised that community matters and only charge small fees for placement. CL as a team are also pretty smart because they cannibalised newspaper listings. CL saw the market before the newspapers & seized it. <p>From memory CL currently runs on about USD20 Million / year gained form paid adverts. No fancy designs, just the data. | null | 2,584 | null | [
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2,658 | null | story | jeremyliew | 1,173,242,255 | null | null | null | null | null | http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/new-forms-of-advertising-are-hard/ | 2 | New forms of advertising are hard | null | 0 |
2,637 | null | story | reitzensteinm | 1,173,232,084 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,644 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,234,854 | I haven't read that the webserver is in Arc. But Paul said on Reddit that the current implementation of Arc translates it to PLT Scheme. PLT has its own Tomcat/Webrick-ish HTTP server, so they probably use that. | null | 2,588 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,646 | null | story | phil | 1,173,235,480 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/06/google-answers-to-rise-from-dead/ | 2 | Google Answers to Rise From Dead? | null | 0 |
2,625 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,221,986 | We're almost as important as Perez Hilton... | null | 2,326 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,648 | null | story | amichail | 1,173,236,613 | null | null | null | null | null | http://smg.media.mit.edu/papers.html | 2 | Papers from the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab (relevant to web 2.0) | null | 0 |
2,647 | null | comment | goodgoblin | 1,173,236,034 | I wonder how much 'internationalization' you really need to apply to your site to get traction in places like Germany, Italy, France... That would actually be a fairly interesting service - I'm guessing its already out there, someone who will essentially translate your site. | null | 2,618 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,650 | null | story | Jones | 1,173,237,730 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.carsonified.com/small-biz-101/business-mentor | 1 | Why getting a mentor is important | null | 0 |
2,645 | null | story | brett | 1,173,235,091 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/06/geosign-gets-160-million/ | 3 | GeoSign Raises $160 Million For Content Acquisitions | null | 0 |
2,653 | null | story | emmett | 1,173,238,728 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/internet_killed_the_television_star_joost_babelgum_zattoo.php | 2 | A review of 5 internet television startups | null | 0 |
2,649 | null | comment | nickb | 1,173,237,711 | This has nothing to do with YouTUBE. This is just a pirate's heaven that will be taken down by some angry publisher. | null | 2,602 | null | [
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2,655 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,239,711 | I'm talking from personal experiences of my own so there is no point of disagreement;)<p>That said, you're right: people love "winners." The trick is you don't have to have sold a big startup to make a reputation. Even before my startup went live, I started getting emails from people across the campus about their ideas and working with them. That's when I realized a lot of attracting folks to work with you is about PR - backed by a real plan and intelligence. | null | 2,632 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,657 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,239,952 | Failures without partners: over 5<p>Hits without partners: 0<p>Hits with partner: 1<p>Potential hits with partner(currently): 1<p>There is nothing like having someone else think and work 20hr days WITH you when you are starting up. | null | 2,643 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,656 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,239,744 | Your second sentence made it even more analogous to YouTube.<p>When YouTube was younger, its popular use was to facilitate the spread of copyrighted content. Now there's a whole slew of user-generated videos out there.<p>There will inevitably be pirated material on Scribd, sure. But surely you can see further than that. Sharing group documents? Helping some self-"publish"? Spread works in the public domain? Share academic and/or research papers? | null | 2,649 | null | [
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2,654 | null | comment | amichail | 1,173,238,836 | The problem is that it would be difficult to get funding initially if you have no cofounder. So this means you will need to get lots of users all by yourself and maybe then some funding will come your way. But even that doesn't always happen. | null | 2,643 | null | [
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2,659 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,242,263 | The article is meant to be taken as a general guide. The author does suggest that we use a pre-programmed crawler rather than code one ourselves. Refer to this passage:<p>"Crawler. If you don't use an open source crawler, my advice is a super-simple multistep crawler. This is very important advice that will cut months off your development time, so if you ignore everything else, don't ignore this." | null | 2,610 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,661 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,242,912 | I'm not sure you can separate it into those distinct categories. It's a balancing act; the point will go to the startup with some aesthetics along with intuitive simplicity. <p>There are certain weights you place on each factor depending on the target of your site and what it is offering. | null | 2,651 | null | [
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2,660 | null | comment | nickb | 1,173,242,387 | Ever heard of HTML/XML? How about CSS? How about Prince? http://www.princexml.com/ Why would anyone wanna publish through Flashpaper?! Oh, that;'s right... only if you have a scanned book. But even then, Google Books' AJAX reader is so much nicer than Flashpaper. <p>YouTube solved the problem of not having a codec or a media player installed. Scribd is solving a non-existing problem. No one wants to read a book in some tiny window.<p>There's a huge difference from writing books and making videos in front of a camera. I'll let you figure out the difference in magnitude of work required to do each.<p>Also, most of the people don't read that much.<p>Sorry to rain on the parade but Scribd is NOTHING like YouTube! It's just a "clever" marketing gimmick. | null | 2,656 | null | [
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2,651 | null | story | amichail | 1,173,238,193 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,662 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,243,688 | There is more to reading than physical books.<p>There are MSWord documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, etc. These are documents that someone might want to simply embed in a blog post. A user might want to embed a PowerPoint presentation on their MySpace profile. Getting videos online was not an impossible task before YouTube. YouTube made it easier, as you mentioned, by enabling users to view without worry of player or codec. With Scribd's flash viewer, people are able to view through their browser regardless of document type.<p>I'm no fierce advocate of Scribd; in fact I'm not too familiar with them. I just know it's something that would make things easier for me personally. This is reason enough for me to be a believer. | null | 2,660 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,663 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,244,070 | "If I were the CEO of a Web company planning to expand worldwide, I'd hit these countries in this order."<p>Seems like a poor data analyzing. China's population is vastly greater than the UK -- it should be no surprise that there is a higher number of users online. Does this mean that the UK's demographic is less valuable for a web company? I highly doubt it... unless your product is targeted in such a way. | null | 2,618 | null | [
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2,652 | null | comment | amichail | 1,173,238,286 | It seems to me that startups with visual content (e.g., videos, images) have an advantage, but those with visual interfaces (e.g., visualizing search results) are actually worse off than ones with plain text interfaces. Is that so?
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2,667 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,173,245,494 | This article has given me the idea for the ultimate startup. Creating an online personal ads search engine to find dates for similarly tagged pez dispensers from within their social network. <p>Seriously though, is there a word for noticing something everywhere you look right after learning about it? | null | 2,666 | null | [
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2,665 | null | comment | amichail | 1,173,244,246 | One could argue that visual interfaces require a greater mental burden than a simple text interface and so they are less likely to be as successful. | null | 2,661 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,666 | null | story | dfranke | 1,173,244,492 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,664 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,244,071 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/06/google-desktop-5-released-search-improved/ | 2 | Google Desktop 5 Released With Even Better Search | null | 0 |
2,670 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,173,247,033 | There isn't a lot of good theory behind visualizations, so I have been working on creating my own. My thinking, as pertains to this, is that visualizations fall into two categories:<p>1) Visualizations where the goal is to help the user understand things that are too complicated to grok from raw data. Examples include histograms, line graphs, pie charts, etc.<p>2) Visualizations where the goal is to help the user actually create more complex thoughts than would otherwise be possible. Examples include mind maps, concept maps, flow charts, etc.<p>The goal of a visual interface, as opposed to a visualization, is to reduce the cognitive load required to use the software.<p>I think a lot of reason why we see such garbage is because many people are choosing a visualization from the wrong category to solve their given problem. | null | 2,652 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,669 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,246,970 | Unfortunately, the author largely glosses over what I consider the most difficult part of search--extracting semantic information from unstructured source materials (also refered to as "magicks"). However, the discussion of bandwidth and server allocation - of starting with what you can afford, and spending your effort/money on what matters (i.e. your algorithms) resonates with a lot of the ideas behind YC. When it comes right down to it, anyone who can sweet-talk a VC can get fat pipes and big boxes--the (human) brains behind the (algorithmic) brains are what differentiate Google from Lycos. | null | 2,608 | null | [
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2,668 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,246,665 | Yes, actually, there is a word for that--sort of. It is essentially a special case of confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is a concept from cognitive psychology; basically, the human mind heuristically prefers data which support (confirm) its nascent inferences. In this case, the inference being developed is roughly the importance/prevalence of the word. <p>So, there isn't a word for this precise phenomenon (to my knowledge), but you're welcome to coin one. If there's one thing cognitive psychology loves, it's terminology. (Don't get me wrong, cognitive psych is delightful, but it loves its lingo.)<p>N.B. Related phenomena are the cocktail party effect, and, in the large, figure-ground phenomena, and selection bias. EDIT: And priming. Thanks to python_kiss. (Wikipedia has decent articles on these things, but if you're really interested, go to the library and get a good psych book.) | null | 2,667 | null | [
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2,671 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,247,197 | "But, as Paul notes, the easiest way to make something that people want is to make something that you want. Yahoo! started out as a directory of Jerry and Dave's favorite links. Movable Type was born out of Mena's need for a better way to talk about herself. Jonathan started Friendster to find a girlfriend. Zuckerberg started FaceBook to find a girlfriend. Joe and Alon started JDate to find Jewish girlfriends. Ted started Dogster to find his dog a date. If you build something you want, chances are pretty good that someone else will want it as well."<p>Well said! :) | null | 2,666 | null | [
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2,672 | null | story | abstractbill | 1,173,247,347 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N9/presbrey.html | 7 | Junior made $6M by selling high school networking site | null | 0 |
2,673 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,247,400 | I have trouble with reverse confirmation bias. I miss actual trends because I pass them off as confirmation bias. For example, "I'm probably just noticing Alex's posts everywhere because I met him at startup school". And then I counted them. "Oh." | null | 2,668 | null | [
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2,674 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,247,408 | +1 for the explanation. "Priming" is another term that describes this phenomenon. From wikipedia: Priming in psychology refers to activating parts of particular representations or associations in memory just before carrying out an action or task. In a neurological view priming can be seen as the activation of clusters of neurons. An interconnected cluster is surrounded by other clusters that are more or less connected with each other...So when the cluster that represents the concept of "flower" is activated, particular clusters will be more activated then others (i.e. kinds of flowers). | null | 2,668 | null | [
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2,676 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,248,058 | Thank you! I had the nagging feeling that there was a more precise bit of terminology that I was missing. You've gotten it off the tip of my tongue. As you pointed out, though, priming properly refers immediate-time phenomena. Whereas priming arises from manipulation of operational memory, confirmation bias arises from deeper heuristic phenomena. | null | 2,674 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,677 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,249,242 | Because it's a good idea?<p>Not that you should start a company with a stranger, though; I would not recommend that. | null | 2,615 | null | [
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2,675 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,247,729 | \begin{ego}Welcome to the wonderful world of the learned.\end{ego} Seriously, though, I've had problems like this ever since I started studying psychology--self examination can be risky!<p>Ultimately, while the human mind is excellent at fuzzy inference, it's not perfect, and augmenting inductive inference with declarative rules often just swings the error to the other side, as you observed: confirmation bias + knowledge of confirmation bias - reverse confirmation bias. If you want /real/ self-examination, do what you did: quantify it! | null | 2,673 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,679 | null | comment | SwellJoe | 1,173,253,987 | I'm 32 and my co-founder is the 33 year old mentioned by Paul. We're a YC this year. I didn't particularly feel like age would have played any role in acceptance (though I believe we have the most traditional business model and most traditional product in the bunch, and had Trevor and Robert not been interested it may have triggered a "no" from Paul). There are three PhD candidate founders who are probably much closer to 30 than 20, as well.<p>Anyway, I didn't notice any particular agenda for picking younger founders...younger folks are the ones that showed up (I met all, or nearly all, of the folks who got to the demo stage in Boston..including the majority that didn't get picked). | null | 2,358 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,682 | null | story | Harj | 1,173,258,199 | null | null | null | null | null | http://paulgraham.com/wisdom.html | 1 | Is it worth being wise? | null | 0 |
2,678 | null | comment | staunch | 1,173,253,739 | Anyone know if there is a video/mp3/text version of that talk? <p>We seriously need a law requiring that all PG talks be televised and made publicly accessible.<p>This information wants to be free even more than other information.
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2,683 | null | comment | bootload | 1,173,258,639 | '... the author largely glosses over what I consider the most difficult part of search--extracting semantic information from unstructured source materials ...'<p>This is a hard set of problems. Now the question is how do you think they go about it? My guess is they work from whole to part on a document they find determined by extension/mime type. Then analyse the document in detail for commonly found information (based on statistical info).<p>I remember reading about how google analysed web authoring statistics ~ http://code.google.com/webstats For instance 'a' links within html pages which reveal links to other documents can be parsed to extract lots of useful information as found here ~ http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/element-a.html<p>But unstructured data is a different beast. How for instance does google work out that 'cm' (what I mean by centimeter) is both 'Columbus McKinnon' and a unit conversion as highlighted in a returned search? [0]<p> One way could be using techniques similiar to the 'Normalised Google Distance' algorythm or NGD. Developed by 'Rudi Cilibrasi' and 'Paul Vitany' (National Institute for Maths & Computer Science, Amsterdam). They build a database model of how close words relate to each other & use this to compute word combinations. The closer the word combinations, the closer the association. So my example of 'cm' would have close association with 'Columbus McKinnon' and 'Centimeter' etc as returned by the google search ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=cm<p>You can read more about this 'Google's search for meaning' [1] and the abstract , 'Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google' [2].<p>
Reference<p>
[0] Slashdot, ' Deriving Semantic Meaning From Google Results' [Accessed Wednesday, 7 March, 2007]<p>http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/1815242<p>[1] New Scientist, 'Google's search for meaning' [Accessed Wednesday, 7 March, 2007]<p>http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6924<p>[2] arxiv.org,Computer Science, abstract 'Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google' [Accessed Wednesday, 7 March, 2007]<p>http://www.arxiv.org/abs/%20cs.CL/0412098 | null | 2,669 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,681 | null | comment | ttonca | 1,173,257,695 | What are they possibly going to do with $22 mil, after all how much technology, people do you need for a social networking co.?
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2,684 | null | comment | pashle | 1,173,259,431 | Paul cares about his users. He makes stuff we want. He always replies to emails. His influence reaches far beyond the Americas, across the pacific, to the island continent that I call home. Thanks mate, you changed our worlds! | null | 189 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,685 | null | comment | pashle | 1,173,260,112 | Something just felt right when I read, "The best possible way to finance your business is from free cash flow. If you can meet your capital needs without selling equity or without taking on personal debt, do it. It's that simple." Clif Bar, Patagonia and Ben & Jerry's come to mind. Not tech, I know, but it's really cool when a young company can maintain it's mojo, it's buzz, far longer than most people could even dream of. If equity is sold, you're answerable to someone, and you lose control over keeping it's mojo. Whatever it takes to do work you love, with people you love, I'm for always. | null | 721 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,680 | null | story | Harj | 1,173,257,583 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/06/the-much-needed-beer-calculator/ | 2 | The Much Needed Beer Calculator | null | 0 |
2,687 | null | comment | pashle | 1,173,260,737 | This dilemma has plagued me for a whole summer! I've devoured books about Apple, Google, HP & Co. to learn stories of how founders met. Honestly, I learnt more from doing that (reading about previous founders for inspiration), than this article, but to be fair this article breaks down the four categories very simply. The great founders, and their meetup stories, all fall into one of the four categories. So it is wise to read both the article, and the stories of how our forefathers did it. | null | 538 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,686 | null | comment | pashle | 1,173,260,382 | A great many of us aren't American and would love to make the move, just like the author, Kulveer. I'd love to know exactly what he had to go through to relocate from Oxford to Silicon Valley, and also the name of the investment bank he worked at. | null | 63 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,688 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,261,478 | Real-world RSS feed of PG? It's a little known fact that about a quarter of this funding session's applicants are developing various software to do just that. ;) | null | 2,678 | null | [
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2,690 | null | comment | rms | 1,173,262,458 | I'd rather have a Tesla Roadster. | null | 2,666 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,689 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,262,328 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,692 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,262,750 | Not a huge surprise, I suppose. Google's ad network is still the market leader. Though, I am very interested to see how much more relevant Yahoo's Search Marketing has gotten with its implementation of Pandora. <p>So far, AdSense is the most flexible when compared to Yahoo's Publisher Network but there are many more players in this game now. | null | 2,689 | null | [
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2,695 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,263,162 | yes. if you have $1M to invest in the USA, you can get an automatic - and almost immediately - green card.
(my green card took 4 years and $5K to get). | null | 695 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,696 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,263,170 | Thank you for posting this. ReadWrite web is reporting that 37Signals has also joined the bandwagon:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wordpress_37signals_openid.php | null | 2,693 | null | [
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2,693 | null | story | danielha | 1,173,262,898 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,697 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,263,536 | I just read that article too. WordPress.com will be acting as an identity provider, similar to AOL. <p>Any thoughts on OpenID implementation for existing popular networks? Considering that relying sites can filter which providers they allow authentication from, I am overall positive about an increased usage of OpenID.<p> | null | 2,696 | null | [
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2,694 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,263,097 | null | null | null | null | null | http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070306/tc_pcworld/129595 | 2 | Dot-Com CIOs Are Back in Demand :) | null | 0 |
2,691 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,262,505 | And a lot of other potential big name developments never saw the light of day due to the "corporate" part of corporate R&D. Yes, it is true that corporate R&D produced a long lists of greats; however, some of these faced serious barriers to realization because of the hedging of risks that big companies do. <p>It's not to say they don't develop great things. What they do, they do well because they pour their resources into it. It's the daring, wild, revolutionary ideas that have become uncommon. The smaller company or group of hackers have become the suppliers of those. | null | 2,630 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,699 | null | story | pashle | 1,173,265,224 | null | null | null | null | null | http://driveactivated.com/blog/archive/2007/03/03/action-people.aspx | 1 | Why is there a lack of successful global Aussie web startups? | null | 0 |
2,698 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,265,037 | Many people to whom I have demo'ed, have said that I have a good idea. I also have an almost beta, prototype.
I have approached 16 potential cofounders since May 2006, but they didnt want to take risks with their career, had families to support, had their own career track to pursue and frankly, wondered how it would make money. | null | 2,677 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,700 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,265,791 | While I don't use OpenID myself, there are a number of users on my social network asking for its integration. It seems that many users are now beginning to *expect* Web 2.0 startups to provide support for it (just as they did for Firefox). I anticipate that, in the future, when big name startups like Digg and LiveJournal begin supporting OpenID, there will be a huge following by other sites as well. Put simply, crowds follow crowds. | null | 2,697 | null | [
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