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hackernews | 2,007 | you're bananas if you think a startup is going to help you meet girls or improve your social life. especially an electronics website startup... yikes. | 30 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Mozes SMS Service Raises $5m | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I've been using the site for a few days now. My feature requests involve getting rid of potential roadblocks:
Some kind of persistent cookie-based login would be nice. Having to login each time I return to the site is annoying.
Larger default fonts. Yes, I can change my browser's preferences and override your ... | 176 |
hackernews | 2,007 | NHL disables Youtube clip embeds | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Second Life headed for currency collapse? | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It seems to me that it is useful at least to have some kind of prototype idea that can push your exploration of what you might want to do. Having *no* idea of what to do seems a little extreme, a bit like a show about *absolutely nothing*. | 55 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Paul,
can we play with arc, go on, please, you know you want us to really, go on mate, have a heart.
<smile/> | 39 |
hackernews | 2,007 | HOWTO: Build a bulletproof startup | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | What we learned building Slideshare (Scalable Web Architectures (w/ Ruby and Amazon S3)) | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | HOWTO: Form a company (detailed outline of process) | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Exactly. If you are devoted to one specific field then grad school makes a lot of sense. I also dropped out of grad school in October partially because I didn't see myself devoting my career to the particular sub-field I was in. | 48 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is from that terrible book by Nesheim. I wouldn't trust anything he says. | 19 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Making the site invite-only would be the opposite of what we want. One of the goals of this site is to discover smart people we might not otherwise notice when they apply for funding. Doing things through connections works well in the VC world. Because of the large investments they make, they're more conservative. B... | 77 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Yeah, I know. The site is at least simple and functional, but we should (and will) make it look better soon. | 28 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator | 14 |
hackernews | 2,007 | So what about Flex and, especially, Apollo (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo) then? Is Apollo likely to achieve mass adoption? Would startups be well advised to consider building applications on it? | 45 |
hackernews | 2,007 | If I bought yspace.com would you use it? | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | as long as the startup makes money the girls wont care what it's selling. | 16 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I noticed a several people suggesting features in other threads, so I'm starting one explicitly for that. I know there's a lot that needs improving; the site is pretty bare-bones at this stage. So propose whatever new features you think we need, and vote for the ones that you want most. | 63 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I wouldn't say "requires". There is a common saying in physics grad schools:
Put monkey in lab.
Wait 10 years.
Monkey gets PhD. | 35 |
hackernews | 2,007 | if you take a sabbatical then you haven't really risked anything. you have to go all the way. what do you guys think about James from Hot or Not giving up his millions. He probably went out to a nice dinner to celebrate. | 51 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Choices = Headaches | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | You wrote on reddit that an RSS feed is coming. If you're prioritizing that would be my first choice. | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Counterpoint to all the calls for an RSS feed: Do others find reddit's front-page feed useful? Nobody at a social news site has yet figured out how to do the RSS feed right, IMO. I find myself using my browser to read reddit a lot more than my aggregator. For example, it's hard to capture the action on a comment thread... | 121 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'd like to see an "announcements/feedback" section where people can tell this community about their projects and get comments back, i.e. similar to what happens (less formally) at Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" forum. | 59 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Keep the Faith | 3 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think comments are where the action is. Three simple things that get most of the bang of markdown IMO: Working permalinks for comments, paragraph dividers and clickable links. | 36 |
hackernews | 2,007 | maybe allow people to add a short, one-line description for each submission, so one has more more info to decide whether to check it out or not. | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Why not submit a blog post the normal way? Is this a separate kind of post? | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Its interesting to me that everyone here seems to have advice to offer, some of it very personally critical, to a man who is merely outlining his own train of thought, not telling anyone to follow his path. I am nearing the end of my fourth year in physics grad school and have never been closer to quitting. My own ex... | 202 |
hackernews | 2,007 | if only that were really true. y'all never been to a silicon valley singles thing, huh? all the ladies are lining up to bang the bartender. | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | marking a comment up or down should use ajax- especially so browser history is preserved (pressing the back-button to get to the front page). I assume comments can be marked into the negative range for those hopefully rare occasions where it's needed? [please don't test it on me!]. Other than that I love the minimali... | 71 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How about an area where we can submit startup advice and vote on it, for example: "don't use bank of america for your business banking", "do incorporate as a C corp in delaware", etc. I think the advice submitted and comment threads generated could be quite valuable. | 67 |
hackernews | 2,007 | haha "that's cheating".
interesting idea re the video though i think the best benefit from the speakers is being able to talk to them afterwards and ask questions/generally chat about what you're doing. | 47 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Good content. Thank you BioGeek. | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 1. Change the color of the "comment" link please (or use a button). At first, I wondered why all those messages had the word "comment" in them :) And then I tried to respond to this message and searched for the "comment" button and I was enlightened!
2. Document before writing new features ... | 167 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 1. Change the color of the "comment" link please (or use a button). At first, I wondered why all those messages had the word "comment" in them :) And then I tried to respond to this message and searched for the "comment" button and I was enlightened!
2. Document before writing new features :)... | 166 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 1. Change the color of the "comment" link please (or use a button). At first, I wondered why all those messages had the word "comment" in them :) And then I tried to respond to this message and searched for the "comment" button and I was enlightened!
2. Document before writing new features :)... | 166 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Please don't. I vote for the simple, straightforward design you currently have. | 16 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I know this is an early version and things are still a bit rough, but just for the record:
1) The number beside my user name (top of the page) is a bit confusing. At first I thought maybe it meant I had some sort of message waiting to be read, or perhaps that I'd made one comment, which didn't make sense because I'... | 344 |
hackernews | 2,007 | There's risk and then there's prudent risk. Taking a 12 month sabbatical to focus on the startup would be a prudent risk. And, it's going all the way, just for 12 months. If you don't know in 12 months if the business will succeed, it probably won't (especially in this space). Anyway, I wish the guy lots of luck and su... | 94 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 4) Tell me there's a character limit, and what that limit is :)
New feature: Why not combine the scoring with Flickr like tags. Instead of just being limited to increasing/decreasing an items karma, give me the option of increasing/decreasing tags, and the ability to add a new tags of my own which others could the... | 107 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Well, people tend to dislike it if you submit your own blog posts (you're biased, too wordy, trumpeting your own horn, etc.).
So this would be a place to hold virtual design reviews: ask people to look and provide objective feedback; the comments thread would function as the Q&A part between the hacker and the commu... | 72 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Marketplace Wanted; Web Site for Sale | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Add in URL based duplicate recognition. | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | There should be a page which lists the submissions that have recently been commented on. Otherwise, it's essentially meaningless to make thoughtful comments on old threads.
Having a *hide* option would be welcome too. | 41 |
hackernews | 2,007 | For the time being, I'd settle for just converting newlines to br's. Adding hyperlinks before there's solid infrastructure for dealing with spam would be a mistake. I'll be surprised if more than few days go by before spam shows up, even without hyperlinks. | 57 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I got the impression from James's post that he wasn't actually "giving up" his millions, he was locking up all future profits in the business and reinvesting them. He converted HotOrNot from an S-corporation to a C-corporation. You can certainly reinvest profits from an S-corporation into the business or pay ... | 211 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Please let users add a few words about themselves on their userpages. It's a useful way to learn a little more about an interesting commentator. And isn't that the main purpose of the site? Links to homepages can of course be useful too. | 51 |
hackernews | 2,007 | For anyone who hasn't seen Barry Schwartz' presentation at Google, in my humble opinion it is absolutely essential education for startups. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200
It actually starts to get into the math of how decisions are made. Invaluable. | 65 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I did the first 7 semesters of my undergrad in physics, and still have a lot of friends doing Ph.Ds in physics. A bachelors in physics opens up a large expanse of possibilities - finance, management consulting, economics consulting, computer programming, high school math teacher, and of course physics grad school. A ... | 113 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Possibility to delete comments and submissions. | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I've tried this service on my Nokia and it's impressive! | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | first impression i got was that they spammed me like 6 months after I signed up. not god | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think this is a great idea. It would let things like slashdot's "funny" and "insightful" happen organically. I've been toying with doing something similar for a political blog for a while. | 57 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 1. AJAX for the voting arrow(s); 2. RSS; 3. Search | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | - Some way to mark as read/downvote/hide. I prefer to be able to go through the "new" section and do this.
- Comment history in profile.
- "Best of" history.
- This is a silly little thing, but make the X comments/discuss link larger. I usually go down the page and open that page for any inte... | 113 |
hackernews | 2,007 | So, the community that talks a lot about startups is a good idea, but taking community advice directly seems a little iffy. It may be that this group happens to be mostly composed of people who could successfully run a startup, but I doubt it, and if it were true, it certainly wouldn't last very long. If you take any r... | 119 |
hackernews | 2,007 | bookmarklet!
I would submit more links if there was a bookmarklet that submitted the page I was on. | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Is there anyone doing case studies of *unsuccessful* internet startups? The successful ones are helpful, but it's easy to fall prey to survivorship bias, i.e. there's no guarantee that any commonalities have to do with them being *successful* rather than *internet* or *startups*. A group of unsuccessful startups woul... | 93 |
hackernews | 2,007 | He used the assignment operator instead of the equality operator -- is the fact that choices are headaches *all Joel Spolsky's fault*? | 28 |
hackernews | 2,007 | wouldn't it be simpler to just decide that it's ok to submit your own posts? some people have done that already and it seems fine to me: they're among the best links here. | 40 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Mike Volpe: Are startup valuations really rising? | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Possible Major Google Announcement Tomorrow | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Spam actually showed up the first day. Fortunately we already had good tools for dealing with it. | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | [PDF] LiveJournal's Backend: A history of scaling | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Most of my life I would have agreed wholeheartedly. I still agree, but it's nuanced now. For the past while I've been growing a property management business on Maui, and I've discovered a demographic that the moment you say anything close to "sorry," you see them transform- they see dollar signs and suddenly ... | 266 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Dude, you're not right at all. There are a lot more opportunities for a PhD although there are many for a BA too. You don't have to be a physics professor if you get a PhD. | 43 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Here's one: get newlines working. Either allow <br /> elements or translate the newline before applying the comment. It'll make the comments a lot more readable. I know it can be abused, but I don't think that's really a worry in this forum. You can always turn it back off later, right? | 75 |
hackernews | 2,007 | i think this is sort of a goofy post, but i like comment #2 quite a bit. | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | OK, here's the question, pg, is this site actually running on a lightweight webserver written in ARC, or did you tie ARC into apache or something for the application logic and storage? Or did you use ARC as a markup language? Just curious. | 54 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Adobe's take on new video editing tools at Photobucket | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I second that question. | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | '... Nobody at a social news site has yet figured out how to do the RSS feed right, IMO ...'
How about RSS feeds for individual users comments? Who likes checking into 'roach motels'? I don't. The number of sites I've added content /., use.perl, perlmonks, reddit only a few allow you to extract *your* insight.
'... | 118 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Start this trend, please:
TWO sets of arrows.
The first set indicates: Yes, I agree, or No, I don't agree.
The second set is only ONE arrow, pointing down. This means, "This comment is spam/offensive/offtopic." | 59 |
hackernews | 2,007 | rumors != useful | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | You could be a post-doc for 12 years until some professorship opens up in the Golan Heights. If you don't want to stay in Physics the only thing a Ph.D. is useful for is a "change career free card". You're allowed to change your career to anything but only once. | 66 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I thought this article was about how Flex was the favored technology for RIAs (as opposed to AJAX). | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A newspaper chain tries to innovate... looks painful. | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | OK, this is my first post. I had already read this elsewhere earlier today, but funny that it's the first thing I've read after joining! I have been doing Avid tech support for over 10 years (Avid is the industry standard software for editing video/film - although that is being threatened strongly) I have been waiting ... | 149 |
hackernews | 2,007 | PBWiki Raises $2m | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I guess it must be just me, but I think onstartups.com articles have close to zero content. | 22 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I would love a save feature... I someone already said this and I missed it, my bad. I check sites like this often while I have a quick minute at work, but if I notice a really good article I want to read I don't always have time. I would like to save it so at the end of each evening I could log in just to read over thi... | 101 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The first item is a verbose way of saying "Six Sigma." | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Google PowerPoint Clone Coming | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'd like to see the source code, or at least a part of it, to see what Arc looks like in action. | 26 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Not logging users out when we restart the server. (If you
find yourself suddenly logged out, that's why. Sorry, will fix.) | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | a list of all of a user's comments on their user page would be nice | 16 |
hackernews | 2,007 | You can master your choice of ideas, technology, location. But stuff up the soft side of tech-startups (founder commitment) and you are doomed. The article has an interesting take on working out the dividing line between founders that are *involved* VS those who are *committed*. But is this a good enough test?
I... | 221 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I second that, I love the minimalist approach. Reddit was much like that in the beginning. | 19 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Had a look, read. One thing that struck me was the harsh unnecessary division between VC, Angel & Startup articles. If I'm a startup I might want to read about Angels? Looks like an aggregator for startup blogs, so there is some form of authenticity. The site is very hard to read but nothing that could not be solved w... | 89 |
hackernews | 2,007 | OK everyone, so what is Web 3.0 (or Enterprise 2.0 or whatever)? My bet is on xulrunner type highly responsive local apps with persistent connections to the server (which is possible with something like yaws, not really with apache). Kind of a client-server model where the server is Internet based (though, of course,... | 84 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It's possible to make a site simpler and more straightforward for users by making it prettier. Really good web design is very subtle; things like giving small but definite visual cues for where posts begin and end, or making the "reply" link a slightly different color from the post so it doesn't look like part ... | 137 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | See http://ycombinator.com/s2007.html for details. The application form lives at http://news.ycombinator.com/apply.
Probably time to make urls in comments turn into links. | 42 |
hackernews | 2,007 | MoMB | The Museum of Modern Betas | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Want to beta Apollo, Adobe's next-gen framework? | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | there are no right or wrong choices. I find this an interesting post as I just commented on the 'involved' vs 'committed' post ~ http://tinyurl.com/2q9ut8 where a co-founder left to pursue a PhD from a startup. The key test is are they *both committed*? I also noted the potential motivators, '... no money, no job, no ... | 164 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Awesome. Been checking the site five times a day for months. :)
BTW the ASCII application has a few dates off. Looks like a copy/paste issue from the last application. | 41 |
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