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3,001 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,394,883 | I would abstain from complicating the user experience, though. In my experience, posting a topic has much more potential in gaining points than writing *thoughtful* comments. A good strategy to rise above that ranks is to post a bunch of interesting links; upon achieving high points, the user can then take a defensive ... | null | 2,995 | null | [
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3,002 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,395,014 | I'll be honest, I've not been nearly so good about doing my time on the 'new' page. In your experience, are there any strong patterns in good submissions? What I'm getting at is basically: are there any views on the new submissions list that would make finding the under-rated ones substantively simpler? | null | 3,000 | null | [
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3,003 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,395,230 | That is certainly the status quo; I would ask, however, whether it is desirable. I think the system should provide more incentive for thoughtful comments, or at least some sort of disincentive for shotgun-style submissions. It is difficult to build karma by posting lots of comments; you have to put the effort into ge... | null | 3,001 | null | [
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3,004 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,395,271 | Good point. On an unrelated note, however, your comment reminded me of another note I want to make: If your post is in response to a comment- please make sure and thread it. Because the site shows comments in the same nested level in different positions (either random or rotating or something, I haven't figured it o... | null | 2,991 | null | [
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3,005 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,395,346 | Copy-paste from my reply to jwecker: "From a user's perspective, there is more to gain from posting topics than comments." Top users are more active in the discussion because they are already high above the ranks. The top user doesn't have to spam the site to gain karma, we already have enough. | null | 2,999 | null | [
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3,006 | null | story | woid | 1,173,395,543 | null | true | null | null | [
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] | http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&sik=1172963031630&keywords=phil+crosby&sortCriteria=4&rd=out&split_page=1 | 1 | Sorry for mistake, I was just playing with new bookmarklet :-( | null | 0 |
3,008 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,395,764 | Cain, if you're looking for up to date startup news, it is better to simply subscribe to rss blogs. Here are a few good ones: TC, Mashable, GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb, OnStartups, PaulGraham, Startup Reviews, The Startup Journey, etc.<p>On YC, it sometimes helps to simply sift through a user's past posts and comments. | null | 3,002 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,007 | null | story | immad | 1,173,395,555 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://asack.typepad.com/a_sack_of_seattle/2007/03/advice_for_entr.html | 2 | Advice for entrepreneurs negotiating venture capital term sheets | null | 3 |
3,011 | null | comment | immad | 1,173,395,991 | I doubt any of the companies were too worried about getting some pre-launch buzz going through techcrunch. | null | 2,980 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,009 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,395,764 | This is an interesting notion; there is an implicit assumption that the low-karma user has something to lose by posting comments. Am I missing something here?<p>I do see your point, though, wrt top users not spamming the site. That's largely why I liked your idea of throttling submission rates based on karma. New us... | null | 3,005 | null | [
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3,010 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,395,821 | That's a tough q. for me- I generally have to just open 3 or 4 of them and make a decision of whether or not to up-mod it then do it again sometime later. Two kind of related thoughts, though, for those who don't spend a lot of time working on the "new" page:<p>If you concentrate on the top of the new page and like a ... | null | 3,002 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,012 | null | story | herdrick | 1,173,396,207 | null | null | null | null | null | http://jeremyfain.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/my-call-software-companies-cant-take-off-well-in-financial-centers/ | 2 | Financial centers are bad for software start ups. | null | 0 |
3,013 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,396,210 | Exactly, the user with low-karma is better off posting topics than comments. Comments don't receive nearly as much points as topics do. Even worse, comments require far more thought than blindly submitting links. What is the economic gain the user with low-karma receive from posting comments? Not much.<p>I know I sugge... | null | 3,009 | null | [
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3,014 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,396,478 | Well, I certainly hope that news.yc users are a bit more than Ricardo-programmed economic optimization automata. :) <p>One solution to older users having a perpetual advantage would be to implement some sort of aging of karma, or at least of the karma value used to determine throttling. Such a thing would actually be ... | null | 3,013 | null | [
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3,015 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,396,672 | We had a similar problem on our social network where users abstained from giving karma to thoughtful comments. Consequently, we coded an algo to add "+0.1 karma" to every user that gave another person "+1 karma". That was enough to take care of the problem. | null | 3,003 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,019 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,398,090 | Another idea I mentioned elsewhere- if a story gets to the bottom of the new page without any up-marks at all it adversely affects the submitter's karma. | null | 3,013 | null | [
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3,018 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,397,812 | What we need is more incentive for active discussion among topics instead of a flurry of ho-hum links. The community built around the "news" is the most compelling part of YC News.<p>Incidently, the project I'm working on relates to this in many ways. | null | 2,987 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,017 | null | story | r0b | 1,173,397,279 | null | null | null | null | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/the_economics_o_3.html | 7 | Why becoming a publisher isn't worth it (instead, make the publishing tools) | null | 0 |
3,016 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,396,994 | null | null | null | null | null | http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070308/tc_nf/50607 | 2 | MySpace Age Verification Bill Proposed! | null | 0 |
3,025 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,399,607 | I think this should remain neutral. Ignoring a submissions DOES indicate its worthiness to a point, but sometimes things get missed. Only a true down-mod should degrade the submitter's reputation. | null | 3,019 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,027 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,400,053 | lol! Here is a nice dissection of ads I did for another site cluttered with them: <p>http://shuzak.com/img/Temporary/SpammingUsers.jpg (The ads are highlighted in green)<p>An excerpt from an article I wrote on user experience that seems relevant here:<p>"One thing I particularly dislike about Web 2.0 startups is their ... | null | 2,955 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,021 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,398,723 | All business is a niche business. Startups must put a conscious focus on segmenting their market to a small but sustainable size. I have emphasized the significance of this in my earlier articles:<p>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/6_startup_lessons_2007.php
http://m4th.com/Articles/Article.php?Article-Title=Anatom... | null | 2,974 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,023 | null | comment | joshwa | 1,173,399,456 | not so far as I know... don't know why it got marked dead. | null | 2,466 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,020 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,398,322 | "[...] constant flow of karma [...]"<p>I like how you put it because I've always thought of "karma"-type points in social networks as money -- social currency. We want to stimulate the "economy" by having an active exchange of karma through the community, encouraging more and more discussions and contributions. <p>pyth... | null | 2,994 | null | [
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3,022 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,398,896 | I can see where we're heading with this idea. You're right -- to gain noteriety (karma), a user could easily engage in submission abuse. Submit enough links and enough will get upmodded.<p>Points, or karma, could be rewarded based off a ratio of useful contribution to total contributions instead. Such a system would en... | null | 3,009 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,024 | null | story | staunch | 1,173,399,534 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.shufflebrain.com/etech06.htm | 2 | Putting the Fun in Functional | null | 0 |
3,033 | null | comment | danw | 1,173,403,499 | Nice, looks like I can relegate my own YC news bookmarklet to the bin since yours works better :)<p>Coming next: A 'YC this!' button to add to your own blog posts! (kidding, unless there's actual demand?) | null | 2,929 | null | [
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3,026 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,399,981 | True | null | 2,802 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,031 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,400,988 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2007/03/is_web_advertis.html | 1 | Is Web Advertising Doomed? (Video) | null | 0 |
3,028 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,400,142 | :) | null | 3,006 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,030 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,400,939 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,029 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,400,225 | I'm not a fan of threaded nature of comments. It's done to faciliate exactly that -- commenting, and does not provide for a proper discussion environment. It's difficult to follow a discussion from start to finish when popular comments are placed at the top. | null | 3,004 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,034 | null | story | zzee | 1,173,404,344 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.tteach.com | 1 | tteach! School 2.0. Interactive Online Knowledge Sharing (coming soon). | null | 0 |
3,032 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,402,486 | lol! Like you, we rss hoggers don't sleep either :p I think most posts on here are a result of users aggregating through rss feeds to post whatever's hot on the web.<p>Bury should work fine (perhaps it should only be accessible by top users to avoid abuse). Another possible solution is to survey the user's past behavio... | null | 2,984 | null | [
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3,037 | null | comment | richcollins | 1,173,404,592 | I disagree.<p>I thought it was one of the best events for networking with other hackers that I have ever been to. Everyone there was knowledgeable as well as driven and energetic. I was up until the wee hours of the morning on both nights talking shop with other entrepreneurs and programmers. I actually met my compa... | null | 2,982 | null | [
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3,036 | null | story | zzee | 1,173,404,502 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.collanos.com/m1/en/ | 1 | News Workspace Tool | null | 0 |
3,035 | null | comment | zach | 1,173,404,436 | Here's one I ran across earlier today. It's the full monty -- he runs his startup completely on EC2.<p>http://niblets.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/how-i-set-up-my-ec2-instance-for-rails-litespeed/ | null | 2,918 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,038 | null | story | amichail | 1,173,404,710 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,041 | null | comment | zzee | 1,173,404,922 | I genuinely believe if you could patent ideas...the world would be a dangerous place. With regard to more novelty - not a chance. If the idea is good enough, do what you have to do to make it happen. | null | 3,038 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,048 | null | comment | lupin_sansei | 1,173,408,673 | You obviously haven't watched the IT Crowd: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=it+crowd&search=Search | null | 2,860 | null | [
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3,050 | null | comment | jamiequint | 1,173,410,193 | I think what makes the US a good market is that is has a large general market, which is strong because its size produces more opportunities due to bigger niches not due to sheer size and certainly not due to homogeneity. | null | 3,040 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,047 | null | comment | lupin_sansei | 1,173,406,478 | Also is there any evidence that Google picked up lots of out of work engineers after the Bubble? On the contrary Google seems to have attracted people away from other companies. | null | 2,831 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,051 | null | story | marcell | 1,173,410,397 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,046 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,406,356 | An addendum, stimulated by dinner with dfranke: under certain assumptions about the growth rate of the community, karma ages without any algorithmic intervention: as the community grown, the number of moderators grows, and so the mean and maximum moderation per post increases. As a result, new post are effectively wei... | null | 3,014 | null | [
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3,040 | null | comment | drop19 | 1,173,404,919 | isn't one of the things that makes the US good for startups the fact that we have one large unified market? If you only read this post you might think it would be better to start in a European country. I guess the takeaway would be, you can turn your limitation (relatively small home market) into a strength (use your... | null | 2,974 | null | [
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3,043 | null | comment | drop19 | 1,173,405,115 | I would reduce the size of the headlines that are links; I think that's what gives it a lot of the squatting-site feel others have commented on. | null | 2,886 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,039 | null | comment | amichail | 1,173,404,765 | One could make the argument that more people would be willing to pursue more novel startups with the protection of an idea patent. | null | 3,038 | null | [
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3,045 | null | comment | lupin_sansei | 1,173,405,737 | The fact that the Banner market advertising collapsed is beside the point. Little guys could never afford banner advertising in 1999, as Yahoo's minimum cost was something like $10,000.<p>Google offered something which little guys could afford, was more relevant to readers, and attracted higher clickthroughs, so Google... | null | 2,831 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,042 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,173,405,078 | I think Startup School is a great opportunity to meet other hackers and, hopefully, form meaningful relationships with like-minded peers.<p>I'm from Los Angeles where the startup community is generally lacking -- the idea of "entrepreneurship" is somewhere along the lines of things like starting an event planning compa... | null | 3,037 | null | [
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3,044 | null | comment | domp | 1,173,405,524 | I don't like this concept of patenting ideas. Coming up with a great idea is just a small factor of making it successful. It seems that this would result in a crazy amount of patents that would mostly never amount to anything but act as a safety to the idea man.
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3,049 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,409,636 | This is Y Combinator. We *like* fixed points. | null | 3,046 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,054 | null | comment | zach | 1,173,414,589 | Hey JMiao, I'm in LA too. Email me at lalife.com if you want to talk shop some time! | null | 3,042 | null | [
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3,060 | null | story | lupin_sansei | 1,173,415,308 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm | 2 | Index of Economic Freedom 2007 - Rankings | null | 0 |
3,052 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,412,240 | I've never used Digg, but from what I read of them, their burying system is working out rather poorly. Burying a story on Digg requires an O(1) number of votes, so anything controversial gets buried even if 90% of users agree that it's an excellent article. A simple up/down model like Reddit's seems like a better ide... | null | 2,997 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,053 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,412,766 | I think there are a couple reasonable assumptions about high-karma users that we can work to our advantage:<p>1. They tend to spend more time reading the "new" queue than average, because they spend enough time on the site to exhaust "top" and want to read more.<p>2. They're more likely than average to be open-minded a... | null | 2,987 | null | [
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3,063 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,416,074 | We have some software for dealing with spammers and voting rings. It's not that visible, but it's there. | null | 3,053 | null | [
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3,056 | null | comment | aseemb | 1,173,414,726 | I understand most of these points completely. The problem I am having is finding the RIGHT cofounder. I have run with my idea for about 18 months now, and I am now just starting to get serious about it from a business stand point. Now I am frantically looking for cofounders to join me but everybody seems like they are ... | null | 2,841 | null | [
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3,057 | null | comment | zach | 1,173,414,854 | That's great! I wish I got in on some of that, but for whatever reason I didn't. I agree the caliber of people was great, which is why it was frustrating not to be able to meet more of them. | null | 3,037 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,061 | null | comment | lupin_sansei | 1,173,415,607 | Reminds me of peak oil | null | 3,059 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,058 | null | comment | Elfan | 1,173,414,887 | This sounds a lot like a business method patent, which is generally considered a very bad idea.<p>A startup that faces no competition for 14 years isn't going to be a worthwhile one anyway. | null | 3,038 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,055 | null | comment | Elfan | 1,173,414,627 | As I recall reddit has over 50% of their traffic from outside the United States. | null | 3,051 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,059 | null | comment | Elfan | 1,173,415,039 | Moore's law seems to die and rise from the ashes every 18 months or so. | null | 3,030 | null | [
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3,062 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,415,654 | There is no absolute Right supply of either fiat money or karma. If every dollar bill in everyone's wallet magically turned into two, the price of everything would double and nobody would be materially affected. Similarly, doubling everyone's karma and causing the up arrow to give two points rather than one would hav... | null | 3,020 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,065 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,416,604 | We're actively trying to avoid the nastiness that seems to take over so many online discussions. That's why there are fewer down-arrows here, for example. I suspect that down arrows are more often clicked on stupidly than up arrows, that if you don't have down arrows you give people fewer ways to inject stupidity int... | null | 2,999 | null | [
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3,066 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,416,801 | Dang, already? Sounds like Arc is working out well.<p>Still, though, any statstical approach (which is what I assume you're using) is going to have some lag because you have to wait for a statistically-significant sample. You can catch any given offender after he's caused an O(1) amount of trouble, but if the offende... | null | 3,063 | null | [
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3,064 | null | story | dawie | 1,173,416,422 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,067 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,416,949 | About 40%. I don't know what we're going to do next year if this keeps up. We'll have to recruit people to help us read the applications. | null | 2,849 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,068 | null | comment | dawie | 1,173,417,247 | Do you use any of these tools? I used basecamp before and I would like to add oDesk to the list | null | 3,064 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,071 | null | comment | bgold | 1,173,418,504 | ClickTale should be in any new startup's arsenal. Saves the need for expensive, old-school usability testing. | null | 3,064 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,070 | null | comment | bgold | 1,173,418,323 | the article's no longer available | null | 3,051 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,069 | null | story | dawie | 1,173,418,075 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/03/08/best-of-february-2007/ | 4 | List of Interesting Websites | null | 0 |
3,072 | null | comment | volida | 1,173,418,638 | the point of the patent is to protect your work for discovering/implementating a method that is not state-of-art for solving a problem, not patent the problem(idea) it self.
Thats why you can have many methods (i.e many patents) solving the same problem...<p>Of course you can patent also business processes and designs.... | null | 3,038 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,073 | null | comment | bgold | 1,173,419,547 | Careful with the wording. WordPress isn't fully supporting OpenID, and this can be dangerous. They're acting as an identity provider without also acting as a service provider.<p>It's true that WordPress users can use their blogs as OpenIDs to login elsewhere, but users who already have OpenIDs can't use them at WordP... | null | 2,693 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,074 | null | comment | bgold | 1,173,419,786 | Is anyone else from Los Angeles interested in something similar? uWink would be a pretty sweet meetup spot. | null | 2,757 | null | [
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3,075 | null | comment | bgold | 1,173,419,878 | Where in LA are you guys? I'm in Pasadena. | null | 3,054 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,078 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,420,143 | ^ ah, sounds like communism :p<p>I've joined well over 50 social networks and what I've noitced is that freedom to choose appeals more to people than the right choices already made for them. More features, more niches, more startups, more choice. Users might complain about features, but fundamentally they like choice.<... | null | 3,065 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,077 | null | comment | jamiequint | 1,173,420,116 | have you heard of marketocracy? I know they have been around for a while. | null | 2,934 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,081 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,173,421,956 | I actually just moved up to Palo Alto in January, but thanks for the post. | null | 3,054 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,079 | null | comment | jonmc12 | 1,173,421,177 | I've started a few ventures, 2 solo, 1 w/ partner, 2 w/ partners. For me, its just a matter of knowing my strengths, knowing the goal, and then being resourceful.<p>Having a partner is one solution to a missing set of needs - but it also comes with a lot of baggage in many cases. Getting meaninful perspectives can co... | null | 2,841 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,080 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,421,663 | I think you're doing the right thing by retaining the down arrow on comments, however. When someone writes a comment you dislike, there are four things you can do with it:<p>1. Ignore it<p>2. Downmod it<p>3. Write a quick reply<p>4. Write a thoughtful reply<p>Option 4 is ideal, of course, if you have the time, but you... | null | 3,065 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,082 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,422,939 | This anecdote doesn't prove much, and the writer doesn't even seem to understand the difference between angels and VCs. There are plenty of absurd valuations out there. | null | 2,891 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,076 | null | comment | gaz | 1,173,420,026 | people will pursue novel start up ideas if they feel it would be profitable to do so. you get more innovation by having many companies competing on the same ideas and trying to outdo each other. | null | 3,039 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,083 | null | story | lupin_sansei | 1,173,423,246 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.avinio.blogspot.com/2007/03/truth-that-no-one-telling-you-about-1.html | 1 | Web 2.0 Media: The Truth That No One Telling You About The 1 Million Digg's Users | null | 0 |
3,084 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,423,488 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,088 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,426,223 | I'll be there as well. I'm looking forward to meeting the lot of you. :)<p>We have a meetup discussion going in here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=2757<p>It'd be great to meet the startup community "after school," so let's decide on a place. | null | 3,086 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,089 | null | comment | jasonyan | 1,173,426,339 | Count me in. :) | null | 3,086 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,085 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,423,832 | Matthew comments: "It seems that Microsoft is just trying to compete with other companies rather than find out what the consumer wants. They move into so many areas because they can't stand someone else being the market leader in a given sector. Apple dominates the mp3 player so Microsoft brings out the Zune and of cou... | null | 3,084 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,087 | null | comment | RyanGWU82 | 1,173,425,341 | I'll be there. :)<p>-- Ryan Park, Stanford grad student | null | 3,086 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,090 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,426,789 | I noticed that the other day- no down arrows on replies to your comments. Very nice. | null | 3,065 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,091 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,426,852 | Startup school replies just came in. Let's go ahead and decide that meeting place in Palo Alto.<p>The school ends at 5:30, so we should all meet at 6 and discuss what we've learned. | null | 2,757 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,097 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,173,428,148 | As I mentioned in a previous thread, I'd like to organize a Palo Alto meetup amongst Startup School/YC News participants.<p>If you're interested in getting together for dinner and a evening of interesting company, please e-mail:<p>StartupSchool2007 [at] gmail [dot] com<p>I'll gladly put together some form of mailing li... | null | 3,096 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,093 | null | comment | comatose_kid | 1,173,427,154 | python_kiss: I don't really know that inspiration is the main yardstick by which I would judge the value of this video. I like your title better, but I can't retroactively change the title.
This video has been referenced by Marc Hedlund (Wesabe founder, previously Oreilly's entrepreneur in residence) as containing... | null | 2,425 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,092 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,427,148 | Aha! I'd not had the realization that the the downmod arrow only appears probabilistically. It meshes interestingly with a notion that dfranke and I were discussing earlier tonight, namely the appropriate ratio of up to down mods. By controlling the prevalence of options to downmod, you can exert some control over th... | null | 3,065 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,098 | null | story | zaidf | 1,173,428,679 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,094 | null | comment | jamiequint | 1,173,427,357 | I'll be there, just got my invite, I made a facebook group so we can all chat & talk about meeting up...<p>http://up.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2251607090<p>anyone else coming from out of town? (I'm coming down from Portland, OR) | null | 3,086 | null | [
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3,096 | null | story | JMiao | 1,173,427,816 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,095 | null | comment | notabel | 1,173,427,552 | I'm prone to think that pg's algorithm is, to some extent, content based. I have no real evidence to support this, just the evangelism in "A Plan for Spam." | null | 3,066 | null | [
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3,100 | null | story | pashle | 1,173,428,734 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,099 | null | comment | pashle | 1,173,428,700 | bgold, here's the updated link to the article - http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16866987.htm
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