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2,899 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,370,571 | Yeah, I read both these books before writing this article. "The Google Story" is history of Google while "The Search" is really a history of search itself. Between the two, I would recommend "The Search" since it covers a larger spectrum, and is written more recently. | null | 2,844 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,902 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,173,371,094 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=14373655 | 1 | Ajax Tutorials | null | 0 |
2,903 | null | comment | mynameishere | 1,173,371,119 | Quick impression:<p>Has the rough look of a squatting site. The bold, underlined titles remind me of the style used in v|agra spam. The google ads are too numerous. I strongly recommend getting rid of them until you get serious traffic. They'll turn away potential users. Okay--those are just style issues, subject to opinion. | null | 2,886 | null | [
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2,904 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,173,371,893 | Haha you should have seen it before the latest 'redesign'! Unfortunately I'm not a graphic artist, but it may be time to find one. People don't like ugly sites, with the exception of craigslist. | null | 2,903 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,905 | null | story | sharpshoot | 1,173,372,375 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=11c471d6-ea65-4ed2-b387-c9ec966d8418 | 1 | What comes after AJAX? | null | 0 |
2,907 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,372,523 | Change every occurence of 'cofounder' in your para to 'spouse'. What do you see? :) | null | 2,704 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,910 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,373,761 | Your description should be more prominent. It's sitting obscurely next to the ads. <p>And about the ads: You don't need them, especially at this point. You don't have the traffic, I assume, to realize any type of real results from those ads -- and in the meantime you might be scaring away potential users.
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2,909 | null | comment | nostrademons | 1,173,373,311 | There's one other problem with single founders that I don't think gets enough press:<p>When you're a single founder, it's very easy to think in terms of "You against the world", with other people being mere tools in your quest for global domination. Because, well, a single-founder startup really is you against the world. ;-) Unfortunately, that attitude can carry over into dealings with employees, investors, etc. No employee is going to give his best effort when he thinks he's just a tool for some entrepeneur's quest for world domination.<p>When you have cofounders, there's much more of a shared sense of working towards a goal. If your smart, that'll carry over to employees too: they'll feel like they're working for the company and customers and not just for you. That kind of culture is very difficult to generate after the fact. You can start with it and lose it, but you can't start without it and hope to gain it.<p>It's interesting that one of the more successful single founders - Bob Metcalfe of 3Com - said that the secret of his success was "giving away his company". It's that kind of attitude that you need.
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2,908 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,372,837 | It is hard to believe that any small startup can compete with Google anymore. Search is Google's domain and it will defend that turf to death. With more than 15 billion webpages indexed, it is no longer about superior technology alone but also the sheer mass of content available. | null | 2,906 | null | [
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2,906 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,372,519 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,911 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,373,904 | I've read this argument in several posts: you're on dope if you are banking on an acquisition.<p>What most of these folks writing the articles are missing is that entrepreneurs, however optimistic they may seem, already know of all the risk and unlikelihood of them actually being acquired. We dream about it - but don't necessarily depend on it. <p>That is not to say that in any market there are tops 10-15 great sites. And if you can be one of them(which isn't too hard a feat) - by most innocent calculation you have a solid 7-10% chance of being acquired if there is an acquisition. 7-10% shot at relative fame is not too bad for something you doled out in few months and kept growing for couple years.
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2,912 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,374,260 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21553 | 1 | Yahoo Search Ads Will Displace Yellow Pages | null | 0 |
2,914 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,374,506 | One of the most compelling reasons to have a co-founder is the support and shared perseverance. You could be an absolute whiz programmer but that means nothing if you collapse under the pressure. <p>When your company is in some trouble or you're facing an uphill battle, at least you know someone else is in the craziness with you. <p>"Our product won't scale, our user base growth is stagnant, and we're running out of money. We're in some mess." You'll eventually come to a situation such as this.<p>A good co-founder would respond, "Yes we are. Let's get working." | null | 2,841 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,913 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,374,375 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2007/id20070308_779877.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily | 1 | Ten Years of Mobile Gaming-and Its Future | null | 0 |
2,915 | null | story | theudude2002 | 1,173,374,731 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.go2tap.com/archives/the-100-hottest-web-20-apps-part-1/ | 1 | The 100 Hottest Web 2.0 Apps (Part 1) | null | 0 |
2,920 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,374,932 | I cannot see when someone has added a new comment to my question or link. Please color unread posts differently. | null | 363 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,919 | null | story | zaidf | 1,173,374,878 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/mathkids/rumors.html | 1 | How Rumors Spread - sounds very similar to delivering a viral hit | null | 0 |
2,918 | null | comment | joshwa | 1,173,374,871 | I'd be much more interested in an article about EC2 + Rails... | null | 2,813 | null | [
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2,917 | null | story | theudude2002 | 1,173,374,822 | null | null | null | null | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/08/adventures_in_b_1.html | 1 | Adventures in Bad Interface Design | null | 0 |
2,923 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,376,080 | I don't think the idea of winning by having super-duper rocket scientists is antiquated. In fact, I think the world is just learning how fearsome a company can be if they get all the smart people. | null | 2,906 | null | [
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2,921 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,375,064 | 4) Is the technology more important than the application?
Isn't technology (here, Arc) merely a vehicle for the application? | null | 2,573 | null | [
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2,922 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,376,056 | juwo.blogspot.com | null | 2,878 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,916 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,374,818 | Not everyone is from the area. Last year I flew in from Florida, and there was one guy there who came from Spain. | null | 2,845 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,929 | null | story | phil | 1,173,377,336 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,925 | null | comment | abstractbill | 1,173,376,265 | While I agree that it's very difficult to compete on generic search, it's certainly not hard to compete in niche domains. And you don't need anything like 15 billion pages for those. | null | 2,908 | null | [
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2,928 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,377,153 | If by "you're on dope if you are banking on an acquisition" you mean "you're on dope if you are banking on being acquired eventually" then it's sort of a funny point to be made by a VC. If you're taking VC money then presumably you're working toward a liquidity event and I am not hearing about many ipos these days. <p>I'm guessing his intended point is closer to the interpretation, "you're a dope if your banking on some specific acquisition" though sometimes he's not totally clear. | null | 2,911 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,926 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,376,698 | I entirely agree. The best way to build something is to get alot of smart people working on it--or rather, just enough smart people. The thing that Wikipedia leverages so powerfully is the ability of a wiki to let people work in parallel. Unfortunately, that advantage does not translate to building a search engine--you can't have people working separately, each contributing intelligence in their own domain, and expect to build a working algorithm.<p>I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but as far as I've seen, Jimbo is pretty much just flying around in his roflcopter talking up vapor on this one. | null | 2,923 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,927 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,376,974 | However, you need the correct subset of the 15 billion pages, which is only fractionally easier, and in some ways harder: google can just grab everything, and then pull semantics out. If you want to leverage your limited domain, you need to be able to be able to have semantics in your indexer/crawler, otherwise you're going to end up having to index everything anyway.<p>One exception, of course, is in genuinely finite-domain search engines, like Octopart. There, you know exactly where to send your indexer, so you can be very efficient. | null | 2,925 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,931 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,377,808 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,930 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,377,644 | The ideas embodied in Shaker design are (in my opinion) almost always correct design rules (the almost being that, as always, you should break your design rules when they interfere with your goal), but aesthetics aside, there is a very relevant message here: in the startup phase, the focus should always be on creating what is necessary, useful, and beautiful. Useful explains itself (though it's often forgotten); necessary is the real Occam's razor of the group, and perhaps the important one for start-ups (i.e. during the initial angel phase, get your critical functionality implemented--a VC won't be impressed by great features if the core functionality doesn't work); beautiful is tricky. It's aesthetic. When it comes to code, though, beauty is usually directly related to maintainability and extensibility. Sure, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and what I think is atrocious C++ might be beautiful to you, and my beautiful Lisp might make you cry; what matters is that the code is beautiful to the person who has to interact with it. | null | 2,880 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,924 | null | comment | prashantdesale | 1,173,376,174 | I agree with the fact that "having confounder really helps in a great deal". But lets say if one can not find a good confounder, then does it make sense to just get someone for the sake of having confounder. Honestly I struggled a lot to find confounder because most of my friends are busy with their comfortable life now. Hence I decided to do it by myself. <p>I am founding company called Onista, which is a Social Marketplace. http://www.onista.com
I am developing everything by myself and I am on pretty good path to release Onista for public use in Summer time-frame.<p>Sorry if I was not clear, but what I meant by "Early Stage" was "Stage at which company releases 1.0 product for public use".<p>And yes I am in Silicon Valley.<p>Do I have all the required skills? Off course Not, but yes there is one strongest point I have is that I have a lot of determination and persistence. I am willing to learn whatever it takes to get things done.
Hope I will find a confounder or partner once I release Onista for public use. At least I will have something to show.<p>Am I doing the right thing?
Or is there any way I can change strategy?<p> | null | 2,841 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,935 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,378,422 | This was just to test out phil's bookmarklet. <p>(it works -- thanks phil!) | null | 2,934 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,934 | null | story | danielha | 1,173,378,367 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,936 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,378,554 | I had another bookmarklet whipped up to do the same but this one works a little better. Thanks. :) | null | 2,929 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,937 | null | comment | akkartik | 1,173,379,023 | Ah, I just realized that it had already been in for a week before parent :}<p>This was one of those features I was reluctant to experiment on to check on the status of. Perhaps news.yc needs a status page for new features or responses to feature requests here?<p>I suppose an RSS feed for pg's comments would be one fix. | null | 1,633 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,933 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,378,193 | Yeah, Guy Kawasaki is a great example of the maxim that what really matters is "getting it", not so much "being it". Even though he's no hacker (and makes no claim to be) he understand hackers, which has made him incredibly effective at interfacing with hackers--which is really the hard problem of what he does. | null | 2,826 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,946 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,173,381,001 | Cool site. Are you affiliated with them? | null | 2,934 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,941 | null | comment | davidw | 1,173,379,386 | Only time (and a market that turns sour) will tell.
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2,942 | null | story | Elfan | 1,173,379,768 | null | null | null | null | null | http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/18699;_ylt=AihTfDpxCoWGYXqtYy1R441At9IF | 14 | Success Is All in a Day's Work | null | 0 |
2,943 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,380,292 | I think the appeal is like that of a live show vs listening to a recording. | null | 2,845 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,938 | null | story | veritas | 1,173,379,024 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,945 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,380,665 | "mid twenties" -- pg in an email | null | 2,744 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,940 | null | comment | akkartik | 1,173,379,296 | I just noticed that the edit link on comments expires after a while. An alternative that helps with notification: disallow editing when a comment gets a response. That way I can scan recent comments on my user page to check for responses. | null | 2,513 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,939 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,379,129 | Yahoo discovered something similar in 1995. At the end of Yahoo search results they'd have links to do the same search at other search engines. People were surprised at their confidence at the time. But it wasn't just confidence: it made Yahoo the natural starting point. | null | 2,931 | null | [
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2,932 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,377,944 | The code for the bookmarklet is refreshingly simple; glad to see that PG can design an interface that is minimal and functional, even in this age of wrapping everything in 12 layers of XML, JSON, SOAP, $ACRONYM.<p>Thanks for doing this, phil. | null | 2,929 | null | [
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2,944 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,380,318 | This is interesting, I'd never heard about it. Time for some research, I suppose. Yahoo's gambit is reminiscent of a real-world retailer telling a customer to go to a competitor to find the product they really want (my local bike shop did that once, and won my lasting trust).<p>In the case of bloggers, though, there is another effect in play: blogs succeed basically on connectedness, so for a new or up-coming blog, the most important thing is tying into the network of existing blogs in the relevant domain. It makes sense that praising, referencing, critiquing, generally interacting with "competing" blogs is the best way to jack into the community. | null | 2,939 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,947 | null | story | r0b | 1,173,381,164 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/ | 2 | new blog by founder and CEO of FeedBurner | null | 1 |
2,951 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,173,382,494 | I think that's a good point, the ads aren't gaining anything for me and they take up screen space. Thanks. | null | 2,910 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,948 | null | comment | r0b | 1,173,381,197 | hat tip Venture Blog:
http://p6.hostingprod.com/@www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2007/001274.html | null | 2,947 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,955 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,383,485 | My god, is that site cluttered with ads. Looks like a site from 1997. There was no "print friendly" (i.e. human friendly) link either. I just gave up. | null | 2,938 | null | [
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2,952 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,173,382,541 | We exist in similiar markets.:) Actually I hadn't realized they had the same kind of features before today. | null | 2,897 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,953 | null | story | joshwa | 1,173,382,807 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000423.html | 2 | Yahoo Answers adds Social Networking features | null | 0 |
2,949 | null | comment | domp | 1,173,381,751 | I have found that having a cofounder makes the process a little more easier. I tend to become more motivated when I feel that someone else is also dedicated to the cause. I think it is essential for killing bad ideas and thinking more creatively too. We come up with better ideas together than we do on our own. I know I have bad ideas sometimes but without that input from someone also involved in the company I find that the feedback I get isn't as beneficial.
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2,956 | null | comment | bluishgreen | 1,173,384,216 | Someone make a post about how it went, I may be able to join in on a later date (like April) | null | 2,757 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,950 | null | story | e1ven | 1,173,382,000 | null | null | null | null | null | http://ddj.com/197800646 | 2 | Sun releases Game Platform as OSS | null | 0 |
2,962 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,385,901 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/business/yourmoney/04novel.html?ex=1330664400&en=e19c751a924aa568&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink | 1 | NYT covers social book catalog startups. | null | 0 |
2,957 | null | story | joshwa | 1,173,384,628 | null | null | null | null | null | http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1072 | 1 | [videos] Larry Page and Eric Schmidt talk about entrepreneurship | null | 0 |
2,958 | null | story | joshwa | 1,173,384,762 | null | null | null | null | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/jedi_build_thei.html | 3 | O'Reilly Radar: Jedi build their own lightsabers | null | 0 |
2,959 | null | comment | veritas | 1,173,384,775 | Agreed. I tend to subconsciously ignore all ads on the page, but it was still somewhat irritating. IMHO, the content was readworthy enough to bear the ads and horrid design however. Wonder why Cisco thinks buying a collection of semi-related (at best) social networks will make them consumer centric. | null | 2,955 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,963 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,386,021 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.vcjnews.com/ | 1 | Venture Capital Journal (offers 14-day free trial) | null | 0 |
2,961 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,385,514 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.itworld.com/Tech/4535/070308mssearch/ | 2 | Microsoft search chief leaving to form startup | null | 0 |
2,954 | null | story | joshwa | 1,173,383,465 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/02/friendsfamily_angels_vcs_intro.html | 6 | Do you have a $100m opportunity? If not, then you might not want VC money | null | 0 |
2,960 | null | comment | henning | 1,173,385,387 | What a bunch of bullshit. Some people have to work in order to pay for college and can't risk not having the money to pay for tuition. | null | 2,893 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,965 | null | story | nr | 1,173,386,765 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://bc.tech.coop/blog/070301.html | 2 | "God Wrote in Lisp Code" mp3 file. | null | 1 |
2,964 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,386,753 | null | null | null | null | null | http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/02/meeting_people_.html | 1 | Comparing Seattle to Silicon Valley. | null | 0 |
2,967 | null | comment | nr | 1,173,386,853 | I just thought I'd post a link to this song which you might think of as the Y Combinator theme song.<p>
Here's a direct link to the .mp3:<p>
http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/eternalflame.mp3<p>
It's also available on Amazon for free after logging in:<p>
http://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Flame-Wrote-Julia-Ecklar/dp/B000099SW3 | null | 2,965 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,966 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,386,834 | null | null | null | null | null | http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/306254_flipstart06.html | 1 | Paul Allen's new startup: 6" x 5" computer, runs XP | null | 0 |
2,968 | null | story | thomas | 1,173,387,008 | null | null | null | null | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/why_i_joined_th_1.html | 1 | O'Reilly Radar Why I Joined the MySQL Board | null | 0 |
2,971 | null | story | Pinny | 1,173,387,395 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.pinnycohen.com/2007/03/08/marketing-wisdom/the-challenges-facing-internet-video/ | 1 | The Challenges Facing Internet Video | null | 0 |
2,970 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,387,270 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/ | 1 | Seattle startup scene blog - several posts a day. | null | 0 |
2,969 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,387,037 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/112455.asp | 1 | Seattle's Clearwire does IPO, gets market cap of $3.2 billion. | null | 0 |
2,972 | null | story | jaed | 1,173,387,657 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.pluginaweek.org/2006/12/14/do-your-first-startup-while-youre-still-a-student/ | 2 | Do Your First Startup While You're Still a Student | null | 0 |
2,974 | null | story | jamiequint | 1,173,387,928 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,973 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,387,691 | null | null | null | null | null | http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/ | 1 | 'Dashboard' of Seattle venture scene: Upcoming and recent IPOs, VC, layoffs... | null | 0 |
2,975 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,387,949 | null | null | null | null | null | http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/306436_iconclude07.html | 1 | Opsware acquires data center software startup for $60 million. | null | 0 |
2,978 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,173,389,207 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=14394229 | 1 | The Truth That No One Telling You About The 1 Million Digg's Users | null | 0 |
2,979 | null | story | volida | 1,173,390,761 | null | null | null | null | [
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2,981 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,391,895 | Absolutely agree. Not to say that something bigger can't grow out of the niche. You see that all the time. | null | 2,974 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,976 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,388,255 | null | null | null | null | null | http://bschool.washington.edu/gsec/ | 1 | Annual Social Entrepreneurship contest - cash prize! | null | 0 |
2,977 | null | comment | mynameishere | 1,173,388,591 | Facebook is referred to as an imitation of MySpace. Of course, Friendster was earlier, but really--they're all just online Frontpages, aren't they? (I've never used any of them, actually.)<p>About Flickr: "so we built a lot of features that were deliberately viral."<p>Ugh. A raw FTP server has half the features of Flickr, and 95 percent of the features that actually matter. It's reading panegyrics about upload-your-photo services that trouble me: Are we all just hacks? I mean, it wasn't so long ago the entrepenuership meant building railroads and auto factories. Now--you can be a millionaire if you use the " | null | 2,821 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,980 | null | comment | volida | 1,173,390,915 | In the FAQ and in the application form (I hoped there was some openSSL at least), Y Combinator makes it clear that they keep confidential within the company your submition. <p>But should someone worry about Techcrunch? I am asking this because as I recall sometime in November/December announced Y Combinator funded companies (e.g Talkito) and what each was doing, before their launch.<p>http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:qKT9Ef8omkQJ:www.techcrunch.com/tag/thinkature+talkito+%2B+techcrunch&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3<p>How and why they have access to this information?
Shouldn't this information remain confidential at least until the first 10 weeks that they present? | null | 2,979 | null | [
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2,982 | null | comment | zach | 1,173,392,138 | I respectfully disagree. I went to the Boston event and had to put in a lot of work to network with people, since there were no official events or time within the program set aside to meet and talk. Admittedly, my schedule didn't allow me to do a post-school dinner. I'm not shy about chatting people up, so I did made use of the time I had and met some cool people. But I wouldn't recommend it as a networking opportunity. For one thing, nobody knew each other!<p>But it was great being there in person for the in-person experience, which was gratifying and good positive reinforcement. That said, I didn't apply this time because I'm really really busy on a feature launch for my startup and it didn't seem like I'd get that much out of it as far as the networking aspect. | null | 2,851 | null | [
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2,983 | null | story | abstractbill | 1,173,392,358 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/02/business/wbspot03.php?page=1 | 6 | Michael Oxley admits Sarbanes-Oxley was a mistake | null | 0 |
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2,989 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,393,564 | Moderate submission volume + high volume of intelligent comments = very nice site to come and visit for a while.<p>High submission volume + no comments or hundreds of one-liners = might as well set up a news aggregator. | null | 2,987 | null | [
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2,986 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,393,334 | AskJeeves used to provide users an option to search using AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, and a host of other search engines. Consequently, AskJeeves always felt like the "natural starting point".<p>Similarly, Michael Arrington builds trust by often mentioning Om Malik (GigaOm) and Richard MacManus (Read/WriteWeb) on his blog. I suppose it leaves the feeling that "He can't possibly promote a rivals blog without having a better one himself!"<p>Ironically, a few weeks ago, Scoble mentioned that bloggers are geedy when it comes to linking (he mentioned Engadget/Gizmodo as an example, and that sure did piss them off). I think I will go ahead and forward this study to him :)<p>That said, I would be interested to know how they conducted this study. From the looks of it, it seems they simply compared a site's worth versus # of outgoing links. The fact that we agree with the study might just be a placebo affect. | null | 2,939 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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2,984 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,392,559 | There are danielha's and python_kiss's popping up all over- the "new" section is drowning! ;) [totally kidding btw- these two have killer submissions]<p>Seriously, though, there should be some kind of reward for wading through all the noise in the new section. (yah I know I'm as much to blame as the next person. I do try.) And you know, maybe it really is time to be able to "bury" posts- three votes you're out or something.<p>upd: just did a quick calculation- 4.5 submissions per hour and speeding up rapidly. Could just be that time of day though. | null | 2,929 | null | [
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2,988 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,393,520 | I plan to follow everyone's advice posted in the YC comments and to release it at Cnet.com
(see http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1945)<p>Any experiences and opinions good/bad?<p>1) On my software, distributed via Java Web Start, I plan to add a "Donate" button that clicks to a paypal page. Anyone have any experience with that? <p>(is paypal the best option? this seems to be a horror story site http://www.aboutpaypal.org/)<p>2) Is it necessary to have a "dont sue me"/I Agree button?
Any recommendation?<p>LOL, I have never done this before.
thanks,
Anil
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2,991 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,173,393,797 | Well I think we're at the former right now. Probably need a few more comments per post, but that will happen I think.<p>What we want to avoid at all costs is what happened at Reddit yesterday with the impeachment business. That's no good. I know they're working on it (spoke to them last night) but it was annoying there for a while.
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2,995 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,394,387 | Well, there's also signal-to-noise ratios. There are some people who have high karma by submitting dozens and dozens of sites knowing that one or two has got to stick. To me that degrades the quality of the site as much as spam does. I guess your solution might solve that in a round-about way as well. | null | 2,993 | null | [
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2,993 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,394,257 | There is a similar "karma" system on my social network, and one of my users suggested that we limit the amount of karma a user can receive within a give day. On YC, it makes sense to limit the submission volume according to the person's karma level. Someone with high karma is unlikely to be spamming the site. | null | 2,989 | null | [
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2,998 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,394,656 | I was pondering this phenomenon earlier today; it would be interesting to do a quantitative analysis of post and moderation rates (this would require access to the backing database). I have noticed that there tend to be definite hot times, and that posts made outside of those hot times tend to never get modded. | null | 2,996 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,994 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,394,259 | The word karma in the context of this site has two meanings to me- one is that if you give a little of yourself and write a thoughtful comment or needed submission then you'll be rewarded. The other meaning to me is this- give a lot of it out and it'll come back to you. So if you care about karma, be liberal with it. (and I'm not talking about moderating this comment up).<p>If there is a constant flow of karma, it's much easier to see a differentiation in comments. There's nothing more irritating to me than seeing a comments board full of great thoughts and lots of responses where everything is either 1 or 2 points.<p>[upd] - and, of course, the old slashdot rule- focus on modding up- have a very good reason to mod down. Sure wish the digg community had followed that rule (back when I still used it). | null | 2,987 | null | [
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2,990 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,393,735 | I automatically click on a submitter's name if I don't recognize it. If that submitter has only 1 karma point and is obviously new to the site, that submission gets extra special scrutiny- meaning if it is even remotely promotional I assume it's spam.<p>If you want to jump into the community here, esp. if you've already been lurking for a while- don't do it by doing a submission (unless it's a killer submission)- add some nice comments please! | null | 2,987 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,997 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,394,501 | This, combined with a burying system to get rid of junk stories, could clean up the 'new' section substantially. It would also be useful to factor snr into the computation; the nature of the karma system, which makes it more advantageous (at a marginal level) to submit a story than a comment, encourages a shot-gun approach to submission; SNR would combat that.<p>EDIT: Ha, points to jwecker for posting about SNR while I was writing about it. | null | 2,993 | null | [
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2,992 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,394,013 | http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1945 | null | 2,988 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,996 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,394,440 | Has anyone noticed that submissions tend to receive more points around 4 to 10 am GMT, Eastern Time? Posts that I make after 9 pm usually remain at "1 point" throughout the day. This probably has something to do with the Silicon Valley's working hours. | null | 2,987 | null | [
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2,999 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,394,825 | One thing I find interesting about news.yc is the relatively small set of active contributors to the comments, and their rather high availability: case in point, this thread, which is feeling to me rather more like an ongoing conversation than a /. style shout-fest.<p>Anything that can be done to encourage this feeling of intellectual discourse is a win, in my opinion. | null | 2,987 | null | [
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3,000 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,394,861 | I can tell you that at least for me that's when I try to read a chunk of new submissions regardless of existing score. Once something has a couple of points it is much more likely to continue to grow if it is worthwhile, but it takes slogging through a lot of crap sometimes, it seems, to find that underrated 1-point submission- even though there are plenty of them in there. | null | 2,996 | null | [
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