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hackernews | 2,007 | From following the usual blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch, I expected some other startups to be included. A few of those 25 happen to be dealing with advertising, targeted or otherwise. It's interesting when a lot of these startups are built on the notion of promoting and selling others' products. Perhaps there wi... | 80 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I believe I mentioned this in the other thread, but I'd like to see my comment after submitting it instead of it just jumping to the top of the page.An ajax implementation for the comment voting would be nice too. This was mentioned along with some other great ideas, but it's something I'd personally love to see. | 65 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Silicon Valley of Europe is located in...Silicon Valley. No advantage fighting network effects. | 19 |
hackernews | 2,007 | i couldn't agree with this more if i wanted to. ideas are commodities, execution is the only thing that matters. | 24 |
hackernews | 2,007 | What is your site worth? | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | (from Digg. Currently suffering from the Digg-effect, but much more relevant to this group than the digg crowd) | 26 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Duplicate, see http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=530 | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Defiance of the "Venture Capital" Model [video] - Panel with Guy Kawasaki, Fark, Hi5, Suicide Girls, HotOrNot | 35 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 6-keys keyboard really smart for mobile touch typing | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | New database company | 3 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Marked up the article because it's hilarious, but honestly I don't know what I'm getting out of it. It's a panel of 6 people who won the lottery [meaning, in Paul's nomenclature, only 1 or 2 were actually trying to actually build wealth or solve a difficult problem]. Well, there is a lesson- be responsive to your aud... | 98 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Question: top speed on one of those? Faster than a normal kbd? Most macro keyboards (all?) are quite a bit slower. If someone can make one that you can get faster with, I'd be excited.Question 2: Spam submission? | 56 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I should add that this post is a bit hard to follow, but I think it makes some excellent points. Ajit's earlier post on Mobile AJAX adds some context: http://opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2006/03/mobile_web_20_a_2.html | 59 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The difference is that it's completely serverside, which allows developers to create "real" webapplications with deep database connections and complete server rights, and not just fun clientside widgets.
The Ajax interface is automatically generated so the clientside experience is a webtop in appearence, but no... | 67 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Yeh I posted it mostly for the laughs. Its great to see that they've all become succesful by doing what they enjoy. Theres so many great quotes in this video, too many to post them all here."So it all got started when a friend emailed me a picture of a squirrel with giant nuts..""I knew it had taken off whe... | 107 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I love how the first 18 months of fark's existence consisted of that picture of the squirrel with giant nuts. | 24 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I like this idea but I think success may be limited to games that are highly visual in nature. In fact, the same may be said of startups in general: video is better than images and images are better than text. BTW, the Google talk by Luis on these sorts of games is a must-see: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8... | 83 |
hackernews | 2,007 | VisualIDs: Automatic Distinctive Icons for Desktop Interfaces | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A Great Place For Companies To Present Their Projects | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | He claims that algorithms are not so important, but they are what propelled Google above Yahoo and co. Reddit today is very much in the vulnerable position that Yahoo was in. Someone with a recommendation engine that works well could pull the rug from under their feet. | 51 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Is there any way for someone from Europe to get a green card in US if he get funding from YC? | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Have you discovered an upper bound? The commonly held belief is that people over X (where 30 < X 35?) can't start startups because they have kids and a mortgage, or they just aren't in-tune with what's hip. Curiously, that excludes people who have "been there and seen that", the best current example being A... | 150 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Michael Arrington thinks the bbc should be dissolved | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Pretty decent tutorial. One of the few that actually explains why certain features in the current web2.0-trend are good. | 26 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Subversion Cheat Sheet | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | No picture? | 3 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Human-based genetic algorithm | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Will Google take on Xbox Live? | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | O'Reilly Radar on Y C Startup News | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | You might want to try http://www.cambrianhouse.com/ as a place to throw ideas around. | 22 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Red Herring: Why Web 2.0 Isn't Dead Yet | 14 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Command line wiki & distributed cheat sheet | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I saw this on reddit earlier. It's an omen. | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | this seems like one of those ideas that's obvious when someone points it out to you: someday interfaces will have better scenery so we can recognize where we are in our data.but this particular one seems pretty counterintuitive. it will be deeply weird if in the future we're all sifting through little piles of fractal ... | 72 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Flickr snafu slings porn | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | IANL but I'm pretty sure YC funding is not enough. But I've heard there are ways to get into (or rather stay in) the US if you go on to raise larger amounts of funding. | 44 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Wow, this looks very cool. I wish I had the skills - maybe just a few of them could help? | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | You can get a 90 visa waiver if you're from most EU countries. You'll need to prove that you intend to return to the EU afterwards, for example you'll need to be employed by an EU company. I'm unsure about a more long term solution. I've heard of some people getting employed by friends in the US in order to get a visa.... | 80 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Darpa Chief on AI and Monkey Brains | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Scott Berkun on Innovation | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Idealy we should have profiles with location, url, short description and email address fields. If that doesnt happen then this cofounders meetup board would be good. Count me in. You can find me via danshub.com or contact me at dan@danshub.com. | 55 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A similar users list. Show me all the users who like the same stories as me and comment in all the same places. I've already noticed some users who are similar to me and a nice system for making sure I don't overlook any would be great. | 52 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A similar users list. Show me all the users who like the same stories as me and comment in all the same places. I've already noticed some users who are similar to me and a nice system for making sure I don't overlook any would be great. | 52 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Entrepreneur Special Report | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I personally found the video really interesting and it was hilarious too. Following things i liked particularly:1.Although they seemed to stumble on success by accident it was there adaptability that made that possible, and its not like they just sat still and got lucky (well maybe fark was pure luck :) ). Also other p... | 139 |
hackernews | 2,007 | haha sounds like O(y) instead of O(n) | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'm with you. Paul - what do you think about this? Hosting that sort of thing here would foster the entire YC community, but doing it over there means a more select user base of people who are specifically looking for partners to work with. | 51 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Friday Code Monkey Song | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is really funny - think of all you are missing by not being a coder for a faceless corporation. | 22 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think these guys are more serious than they seem. I know James Hong is. You may hit something good by accident, but you don't keep it by accident. | 34 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It's true that doing a startup right off wouldn't work, but why not meet up with other people who are just as interested and try and form friendships from there? | 34 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Feature-itis! How to avoid. | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | That was an interesting interview. You sat down with the guy and only asked THREE questions? I can overhear a better conversation than that on the train. | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Jonathan Coulton rocks. Check out his other stuff and buy his music at http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ | 26 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Duplicate I'm afraid. See http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=667 | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | yeah. whoops. looks like i can't delete. | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Quick poll: Should I be posting links like this? Does anyone think its offtopic? I dont want to risk damaging the quality of the articles on YC news. | 35 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A guide to starting your business | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to make big things happen with small teams | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Forget VC Money, Fund Yourself | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Some creative small business ideas | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | News at Seven automatically generates a virtual newscast pulled from stories, images, videos and blogs all linked by a common news topic. | 27 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It's an Amazon Day (Robert Scoble on S3) | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | $5000 VCR dissected for the sake of art! | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'm a huge fan of anything that Kawasaki says -- not necessarily for its literal content (though he usually says some good stuff) -- but because he always conveys his message beautifully. Great video and very funny. I planned on being at CommunityNext, which was just this past Saturday I think, but I couldn't make it. ... | 112 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It would be nice to see articles you have commented on as well as ones you have posted in your profile | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Coulton's stuff is great. And although this is one of my favorites, it's important to remember that you don't HAVE to be a code monkey if you're a software engineer. I think a lot of students are getting discouraged from the computer science field because they don't want to be pre-Matrix Neo or stuck in the daily grind... | 167 |
hackernews | 2,007 | If you can't get someone else excited about your product, then you might be approaching it the wrong way. But there are many reasons why VCs might not want to get their hands in. They might deem it as a me-too or as a novelty not worth exploring. But there's no way they can completely estimate the web community. If you... | 116 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Google revamps Summer of Code for 2007 | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Services you'd keep using if they weren't free | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Digital Channel | 2 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Yeah, S3 has been great for Jamglue -- we use it for both media storage and streaming. You can't beat the price, it's been reliable enough, and we've saved a lot of time by not having to worry about redundancy and scaling. | 54 |
hackernews | 2,007 | U.S. Says Hedge Fund Regulation Is `Working Well' | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | There are a lot of services I use because, in addition to being useful and convenient, they are free.Despite how much I may gain in productivity or enjoyment from a service, it may stop being so as convenient or approachable when I have to grab my credit card to check it out. But that said, if Google Calendar, Flickr, ... | 162 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How could the new Harry Potter book be published as an ebook | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I hope you're joking. The sums don't add up from first glance. So much for metaphor shear... | 22 |
hackernews | 2,007 | As far as implementing basic features go, my rule of thumb is this:If someone is using your site and he feels he should be able to intuitively accomplish something, it should be there. These features should feel as little as "features" as possible. They should be so ingrained as for the user to feel that it jus... | 74 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The speed is depending on the keys you are using (Ferrari or Ford T) and of your finger velocity (virtuoso or average person). If you have some nice keys : above hand writing. With nowadays mobile phone : equal or above T9.You will be excited if I can show you the thing face to face. I have no pictures right now (their... | 112 |
hackernews | 2,007 | See answer to the point above | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I found this to be a nice read. A lot of it extends beyond what many of us are focused on at the moment (just building a truly meaningful product), though it's probably good to keep this in sights.Read it and saved it for (near) future reference... ;) | 56 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A certain Richard Stallman (of GNU notoriety) spoke at my University yesterday on copyright history, current copyright law, and its implications when it comes to technology.While I can't say I stand alongside him on all of his viewpoints, he makes some interesting remarks about ebooks. He says, and I agree, that ebooks... | 150 |
hackernews | 2,007 | What makes this VCR in particular worth more than $50?I must say the pictures are beautiful, however. | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I don't understand why so many people think of a "me-too" a bad thing. This way we would have only one automobile brand, only one clothing brand and the list goes on... | 43 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It may seem that their ideas were initially as innocuous as they come, but that's probably not the whole of it. YouTube's Chad and Steve say that they just wanted to create a cool site where you can share videos like Flickr users share their photos. I think it was in the Time article that the low-key third founder note... | 129 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Web2.0 designation will probably die soon, but the next-generation of the web is here to stay. This is not a bubble of web products cropping up to ride the acquisition-hype-train (though many are). With the "Web1.0", companies were being formed without solid goals and ways of monetization. The web has expan... | 140 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Community is vastly overrated, since the easiest way to appeal to a larger group of people is to be comfortably generic. The best tools for a community because they're versatile and extensible, so the community provides value. If that isn't the case for the startup, there isn't a case for community. | 62 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The problems lie in DRM, not the ebook itself.
Recently on TeleRead there was an article about starting a website with Creative Commons licensed ebooks.
I also plan on writing another article where I'll explore what a publisher/ebookstore can do -- instead of DRM.ps I haven't read HP either, just saw the movie...wish ... | 78 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 1. Because nobody can start a car company without hard knowledge and expertise, whereas any idiot who can talk can con VCs into funding a me-too and blind them with hype.
2. Because the Net moves so fast that the me-toos are ready just as the idea is outpaced
3. Because the people who propose the 'me toos" emanate ... | 120 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Ah, there's nothing like rampant speculation following an acquisition. Always fun stuff.I must say that this is a far reach even as far as reckless speculation goes. The acquisition of AdScape more likely ties in with Google's business as an advertising facilitator. Google is on top of the Internet advertising market a... | 93 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Why "Me Too" Startups are NOT Always a Mistake | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Anyone can be a foolish bozo and try to sell a me-too with hype. But good VCs will be able to see this. The me-toos that CAN succeed is the one that actually do it better -- they can implement an existing concept in a way that executes better or, in the case of a web service, engages users more effectively.I just submi... | 112 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I posted this article to extend on another one that was posted ("Forget VC Money, Fund Yourself").It's important to remember that a seemingly "me-too" site must drastically improve on the execution and implementation on an existing idea if it's to take on an established giant.Or have better marketing. ;... | 70 |
hackernews | 2,007 | TechCrunch20 battles DEMO | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | You're right. The problem usually isn't in the product, it's usually the problematic current implementation of it. There's a lot of things to consider and I look forward to that article. | 39 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Startupping: a moderated startup community | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | cool stories, but lots of typos. | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A meta-business model that doesn't get discussed enough- and practically never by VCs- is simple revenue based growth. I know business leaders who absolutely swear by it and won't touch anything else. From their perspective, if it's not making money and in the black when it's small, making it 10x that size won't nece... | 96 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Top ten marketing podcasts | 4 |
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