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What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like | bgnm2000: I feel like this question is irrelevant. If YC looks at 1000 ideas, and thinks 100 are good - they still can't take all 100 (because they don't have the space/funding).Therefore a company being rejected from YC may have nothing to do with whether or not YC wanted them. Sometimes its just about logistics.Alas,... |
What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like | jacquesm: Being accepted or not by YC has very little bearing on whether a startup can be successful or not, I do not expect there to be any significant correlation between YC rejected companies and accepted ones (in terms of success).They simply have a limited amount of time.What I do think you will find is that those... |
What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like | edw519: I'd be willing to bet the most important metric is the startup's response to yc rejection. Is it, "Oh well, back to the drawing board." or "They're wrong and we'll show them."? |
Does Google hire non-programmers? | ScottWhigham: I have a friend who was a Windows 2000/2003 sysadmin who, after a career of consulting and training in that enviro, went to get his MBA. They hired him straight out of the MBA program and he is now the manager of a training team there. |
What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like | Alex3917: My business became profitable this month, but it's not the same as the idea I applied to YC with. Not sure whether that counts or not, since apparently half of YC folks change their idea anyway. To be fair though I don't think I could have done it without going through Seth's MBA program, which was a lot more... |
Seeding a new site with data from sites you don't own? | jacquesm: Look at the bottom of stackoverflows pages:site design and logo is © 2009 stackoverflow.com llc; user contributed content licensed under cc-wiki with attribution requiredhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/So it looks like as long as you pla... |
Seeding a new site with data from sites you don't own? | gtani: if you go to searchyc.com, bing, google with terms like "mashup copyright", unfortunately most of them are about music mashups.http://searchyc.com/copyright
going thru this is a legal educationhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411555http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/01/23/lawsuit_o...And, oh, yeah, ... |
What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like | billbarhydt: I would say that the operative questions is more about founders who become successful after they were not accepted into a YC "class." YC themselves are good at pointing out that most start-ups have to change direction/pivot multiple times before being successful. That's why it's about the people/founders... |
Where do you go for web app design inspiration? | suber: Agree on smashing mag, also look at Speckyboy: http://speckyboy.com/2009/09/02/50-inspiring-web-application...Yahoo has a UI repository as well:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ |
Where do you go for web app design inspiration? | suber: Also, check out ui pattern libraries:http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
http://www.welie.com/patterns/
http://ui-patterns.com/
http://uipatternfactory.com/ |
Seeding a new site with data from sites you don't own? | DanielStraight: This makes me seriously reconsider even posting to StackOverflow anymore. I HATE websites that just repost stuff from other sites (think Nabble). You give the appearance of having a community of users (the only thing about sites like StackOverflow which is actually useful), but you really don't. If you ... |
Does Google hire non-programmers? | hack_edu: From my experience, they hire non-programmers en-masse yet have their Infamous Interviews for engineers.Think how big they are. They need a lot of middle management types and general errand boys to keep even just their physical spaces up and running. Lots of folks start as support or writing contractors and w... |
What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like | wheels: I won't list names, but there's one team that was rejected from this batch that had raised a series A (from a good VC) before any of the teams from the batch did.The fundamental thing is that you've got to want to start a startup, rather than to be in YC -- if you want to start a startup YC can be something alo... |
Where do you get data? | yalurker: I asked a similar question here recently and got a number of valuable links, see thread here:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764982 |
Seeding a new site with data from sites you don't own? | soychicka: I agree with Daniel, and I've had this discussion with others starting up new sites focusing on UCC recently.My personal opinion: the only time it's okay to scrape data is when it's actually "data" - e.g., addresses, events, etc. Scraping conversations or articles - content that people took the time and ene... |
What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like | tkiley: My startup was rejected for YC summer '07. I launched it while working full-time for another company, built it to profitability over the course of a year and a half, and quit my day job in February of this year. |
What tool do you use to send newsletters? | ScottWhigham: 25k list is a large list, IMO. Why aren't you asking, "How can I somehow monetize that list so that I can be more professional? [as in using Constant Contact, etc]"Sending 25,000 emails 1-2x a month and not getting at least $150 in return is just wasteful. |
What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like | jack7890: My previous startup, Scribnia, was rejected a year ago. We ended up with a nice exit, selling to a content network. It's also top 100k on Compete. |
Debugging JavaScript | simplegeek: I've found Venkman quite reasonable: www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman. |
Debugging JavaScript | gtani: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/advanced-debugging-with-j...compares IE8, firebug, dragonfly. I think i'll need to familiarize with IE 8 Dev Tools. Opera, not sure abouthttp://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1004&me... |
Is it feasible to increase your productivity by 30% a year for 60 years? | salvadors: Why iteration?http://www.google.com/search?q=1.3**60 |
Anyone in New York City? | ashishk: Just moved to Boston, but check out the NY Tech Meetup:http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ |
Is it feasible to increase your productivity by 30% a year for 60 years? | davidu: You do not follow Moore's law, so no. |
Debugging JavaScript | defied: I am using:
- Firebug for FireFox
- Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 for IE (6+7+8)
- Dragonfly for Opera |
Seeking thoughts on a crazy/futuristic idea | russell: They have been used to a limited extent at least as far back as the apple Newton. In a sense drag and drop is gesture based. Sign language is gesture based. I dont think gestures will find much use in programming because of the lack of precision and limited vocabulary. I thought for a long time that voice w... |
Anyone in New York City? | manielse: In Hartford, can easily head to both New York City or Boston. |
Anyone in New York City? | clistctrl: In Boston here, been looking for a meetup for a while! we should organize one |
Anyone in New York City? | apgwoz: I'm in New York! Search google for hacker news meetup nyc. We usually meet once a month!Edit: not easy to find like that. http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc |
Anyone in New York City? | jvictor118: Hey Josh, I'm in NYC working on a startup and would be interested in talking to you. Feel free to hit me up at jason at awwthor.com |
Anyone in New York City? | petite: I'm in Hoboken, NJ...not too far from NYC. |
Is it feasible to increase your productivity by 30% a year for 60 years? | Tichy: It might depend on what you produce? |
Seeking thoughts on a crazy/futuristic idea | Tichy: It might be strenuous to lift one's hands all the time. |
Debugging JavaScript | Zev: I'm partial to Safari 4's Web Inspector. It's what Chrome's Web Inspector is based on, only much more powerful. |
Anyone in New York City? | jganetsk: I live in Brooklyn. |
Anyone in New York City? | haliax: I'm in Queens. |
Anyone in New York City? | Rabidmonkey1: Central NJ, but the trains make it very easy to get to NYC. PM me... wait, do we have PM on HN? |
Anyone in New York City? | warfangle: Out in post-industrial Bushwick. |
Anyone in New York City? | ryanfitz: I live in the city. HN nyc drinks night anyone? |
Is it feasible to increase your productivity by 30% a year for 60 years? | lsc: well, you need to measure productivity. One way to measure it is income. I've had close to 30% or so on average if you say I started working at 15 for $4/hr, and I'm 29 now; I can get $150/hr for some short-term work that is within my core skillset. Of course, I'm about half that for longer-term work. still,... |
Anyone in New York City? | omarchowdhury: Office in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. |
Who is currently working on Google Wave sandbox? | Jd: sandbox name: jdietz |
Anyone in New York City? | bhousel: I'm in North Jersey, but in the city a few days a week with clients. I'd definitely be interested in meeting up for drinks with people. |
Seeking thoughts on a crazy/futuristic idea | IsaacL: My personal opinion: no.Ideas like this (voice control as well) have been floating around for years, but I think they mainly appeal to the 'sci-fi movie' version of the future, and are not things that will achieve mass traction.Flailing around with gestures would get tiring very fast - you could keep it up for ... |
Seeking thoughts on a crazy/futuristic idea | roundsquare: I would think that this would be more useful for someone searching a large database. But first we need better ways to visualize the data, only then does it make sense to use gestures (or so I would think).No ideas on how to do that either though... |
Anyone in New York City? | rit: I'll be getting final details out this week, but there is going to be a mini-NoSQL event in NY October 5, in Chelsea. |
How many "layers" do we go though using a browser? | russell: From one point of view it's all binary, but here are the layers of one project that I worked on (and this is the simplified version):Browser > javascript > client library > jQuery > apache > Jboss > Spring > Tomcat> controller logic > business logic > Hibernate > cache> database > jsp > libraries |
How many "layers" do we go though using a browser? | gaius: Ermm, 1. Your browser is almost certainly compiled C/C++/ObjC. |
Web Language + Framework Most "Comfortable" for Desktop Coders? | jawngee: You're thinking about the problem wrong.You want the best language/framework for the job. If you think this idea is going to be "big", then you need to think about what tools are going to support this "big" idea best, not what is going to make you more comfortable. Satisfying your laziness(comfort) is not ne... |
Web Language + Framework Most "Comfortable" for Desktop Coders? | jccovey: If you like the syntax of C# and you're familiar with the .NET framework, you should try out ASP.NET MVC. The MVC variant is a separate project from traditional ASP.NET "webforms" and doesn't come with the latter's baggage.http://www.asp.net/mvc/ |
Web Language + Framework Most "Comfortable" for Desktop Coders? | russell: I make my living in the Java based web world and I would not recommend it because it is not nearly so programmer productive as other frameworks like Django. I would expect the same would also be true of C#. You really want something that you can use to get a site out quickly and revise just as quickly.If you... |
Web Language + Framework Most "Comfortable" for Desktop Coders? | ismarc: Considering you're looking at potentially big, and have systems development experience, I'd suggest taking a look at Catalyst (it's perl, http://www.catalystframework.org/). The way it's designed, you can use any templating system you want (template toolkit, mason, etc.) and any DB backend you want. I've used... |
Good looking news/social media sites? | sharpn: the browser: http://thebrowser.com/ |
Good looking news/social media sites? | tortilla: http://www.kontain.com/ |
Good looking news/social media sites? | hachiya: I've always been impressed by Newsvine.http://newsvine.comThey fit a lot of content on the page in a well laid out manner that I haven't seen on many sites. |
Graduate early? | maxwin: It is time to learn how to make your own decisions. |
Graduate early? | _pius: Unless you're having a rough time of it in high school, I'd advise you to enjoy your teenage years and the leverage afforded to you by virtue of being considered young and precocious.Precisely what advantages are you hoping to gain from skipping your senior year in high school? "More learning" and "less crap to... |
Graduate early? | tsally: I wouldn't. Take more AP classes now, and then in three years decide whether you want to graduate college early. Either way you save a year, but in college you'll be older and able to make better decisions. You need to give yourself time to grow. :-)If your school doesn't have any more AP classes, study for th... |
Good looking news/social media sites? | fallentimes: For more of a niche:http://windycitizen.com |
Good looking news/social media sites? | byoung2: http://www.ted.com/ |
Graduate early? | apsurd: As someone who hated high school in high school, and never went to college, my advice is: stay for senior year.Yes I thought hs was a waste of time. I think talking to "normal" people is a waste of time. I didn't go to college because I thought it was for normal tool-idiots that accept this spoon-fed idea of un... |
Graduate early? | dsil: I don't think you should leave early. Think of it this way, you'll be in the "real world" from approximately age 25 through the rest of your life, getting there one year sooner doesn't really do anything for you, and in the big picture senior year of high school is a really unique time in your life. Enjoy it. |
Good looking news/social media sites? | endtwist: http://www.newspond.com/Some may argue that it isn't efficient enough, though. |
Good looking news/social media sites? | jimmybot: Since a couple aggregators were listed--the thing that troubles design for aggregators in my mind is that they are all just lists. You can put some color, some thumbnails on a list, but in the end, it's still a list.What I find much more attractive and intuitive, when it comes to news, is a real front page, ... |
Graduate early? | David: As a high school senior, I'm jealous of your opportunity (though no doubt you earned it.)
I would probably leap at the opportunity to skip this year.
I share your opinion on wasted time, but more with classes I don't feel that I need than with other students who hold me back.Part of my distress is my graduating ... |
Good looking news/social media sites? | pizza: I really like http://www.oursignal.com/
In fact, it's how I came across this. |
Graduate early? | petite: If I could offer my own experience, I had a similar situation my junior year of highschool. I chose to stay for my senior year. At that point, there was no academic reason for me to stay in school, so I had actually loaded myself up with courses from a particular teacher simply so I could spend more time with h... |
Graduate early? | JimmyL: As many have said, he socialization of high school is worth it. I'd even go as far to say that what you would gain by moving everything forwards a year would be less that what you'd gain by having a more "normal" college experience by coming in at the right age, but I have no numbers for that.If you're bored, s... |
Graduate early? | pizza: Stay a 'child' while you can. |
Graduate early? | alex_c: My personal experience / opinion:High school was boring as hell. I didn't graduate early, but the last year really started to feel a bit like torture - I was ecstatic to finally be done. University was infinitely more enjoyable, and felt like it ended too quickly.However, some of the strongest bonds I have we... |
Graduate early? | beambot: Spend the extra year doing detailed searches for (and interviewing with) potential faculty advisors at top undergraduate institutions.Odds are, you'll land a great undergrad research opportunity that will pull you away from the monotony of academic undergrad life. Further, take those AP classes and more impor... |
Graduate early? | andrewhyde: I had this same option, graduated a term early, did a 50 day Outward Bound course (highly recommended) and then came back for Prom, etc.Went to college the next year, relaxed and with some great lessons on my hands. |
Graduate early? | frossie: I would advise going against going to college a year early. However graduating from high school a year early is a different issue. Is it possible for you to do something really creative with a year off? For example be an exchange student in a foreign country and do year 12 there. This would be good for you bec... |
Graduate early? | jtnak: Fucking drop out of school now, it's a waste of time in general and if you manage your money right, you could end up ahead of everyone who pays huge school fees working at Wal-Mart for minimum wage, or some other kind of shitty job like that.E: Frankly I don't care about your predicament, but the fact that you w... |
Graduate early? | bmcleod: As someone who graduated HS at 15 and Uni at 17 mostly due to skipping years whenever it was offered I'll say go for it.However, be aware that first year uni is even more pitifully easy than final year high school where the teachers know you and are willing to give you extra work.You can pick up socializing wh... |
Graduate early? | zaidf: If you think you'll waste it, yeah finish early.But I think what a lot of folks here are saying is it doesn't have to be a waste.As someone who was in your position in high school, I completely slacked off in señor yr and it was def the most memorable year. |
Graduate early? | coryrc: If graduating early means a worse plan afterward (say, community college instead of a good school), I would stay. Otherwise, graduate early and go to college or take a year off. Life is too short to waste in high school.I graduated college a year early from college and wish I had graduated high school early ins... |
Good looking news/social media sites? | tzury: http://popurls.com/ and http://alltop.com |
Graduate early? | mattmcknight: The key is figuring out what gets you the best chance of getting into the universities you want to go to. If you get rejected, you could always try again next year!I don't know how many additional APs are available to you, but I was able to score 30 credits (1 year) max, based on university regulations. ... |
Graduate early? | UpFromTheGut: Sometimes it's helpful to think in contrapositive: would it be more regrettable to miss that year of high school, or to miss other opportunities that time could afford you?I, in fact, skipped all four years of high school, and opted to go to community college instead. I collected college credit until I wa... |
Graduate early? | DaniFong: It worked very well for me ultimately (honestly I don't know where I'd be if I struggled through highschool), but comes with a word of caution. http://daniellefong.com/2008/05/15/advice-to-the-bright-and-... |
Graduate early? | pmorici: If you enjoy high school for reasons besides just learning, ie: socializing, clubs, or sports you should probably stay the extra year. |
Graduate early? | felideon: I'm not going to give you any one advice on what to do, as I think any advice someone can give you will always be biased. Those that feel they did not enjoy their life too much will say "stay in school, enjoy life". Those that probably enjoyed life too much will say "be smart, skip senior year."That being s... |
Graduate early? | maggie: Look into studying abroad, taking community college classes, and the possible repercussions of graduating early. |
Graduate early? | taitems: I graduated high school at the age of 16, turned 17 in January and started university in February (Australian). I missed all my friends who stayed for the extra year. I took a placement between my second and third year and have continued to work for the company. I'm now 20, studying part time for my final year... |
Graduate early? | dylanz: Stay in school for Senior Year... AND SLEEP WITH AS MANY WOMAN AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. Sorry, had to say that.My real answer however, is to skip Senior Year. You have the option that a lot of students don't. High School has it's perks, but I think you'll find the college atmosphere a lot more... how do I say...... |
Graduate early? | bkovitz: Before the 20th century, with all its mass-scale standardizations, going to college when you were 14 or so was not so unusual, at least for people who liked academic subjects. The college curriculum is best absorbed when you have nothing else competing for your attention, like paying the rent and worrying abo... |
Good looking news/social media sites? | sleepingbot: http://faircompanies.com (sustainability stuff.) |
Graduate early? | jackowayed: I'm about to start senior year and really wishing I could either go work programming or, failing that, go to college.It sounds like academically, there's no reason you couldn't graduate early. My friend just did that. He was in my grade junior year, was taking 5 APs + calc 3 and ODE (after having taken 3 AP... |
Graduate early? | hedgehog: Select several of the people who know you best who are in their 40s or older (parents included). Ask them what they recommend you do with your life and why. Your analysis of that advice is probably about the best guidance you can get. My only direct advice is to at some point soon get a job for a while in a f... |
Graduate early? | johnswamps: Another possibility is to not graduate at all, and go to a school that accepts students who have not graduated from high school. I did this, and went to Simon's Rock College. It's not a super prestigious school, but there are a lot of students who are in the same situation as you. A majority of students tra... |
How many RFSs have been released? | ianbishop: The list is located here:
http://ycombinator.com/rfs.htmlThere was also a list of startup ideas that YC likes posted earlier which comes with less description of the final product:
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html |
How many RFSs have been released? | lkozma: I find these lists of "RFSs" and the earlier list of ideas rather disappointing... I don't think that formulating a problem in such general terms is really useful and I don't think it works at all to create such a "framework" for an idea which someone just comes and fills in with the concrete details. It really... |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | stefano: Different languages hosted on the same VM. Ten years ago if you said JVM the only language to come to mind was Java. Now it's common to think of Clojure, Scala, JRuby, Rhino, etc. too. |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | patio11: Mobile phones will be your primary communication device.Most software will eventually be accessed from a browser.People will pay $15 a month in perpetuity for a single video game.Talking to someone about your finances will be the exception, not the rule. All of your routine transactions are automated. So are... |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | halo: I'm not convinced this is a particularly useful exercise because most changes are the evolution of what came before. You're trying to create a neat package of discrete changes when the real world is continuous and evolutionary.Take "Internet search will be an extremely important and profitable business", for exam... |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | btn: What is the pace of development?Obviously not fast enough for the moon colonies and jet-packs I was promised. |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | arethuza: To nitpick, isn't it really that "Selling advertising on the top of search is an extremely important and profitable business"? |
Good looking news/social media sites? | naganaga: http://beta.thehindu.comdisclaimer: I work for that company. |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | csbartus: Code won't be written but generated |
what collaboration tools are there for the early phase? | sidmitra: You might wanna try redmine (as an alternative to trac). It has a wiki, news updates, file uploads, with plugins you can do twitter like status updates, besides all the project management things. Look at the plugins list on their site. You can create unlimited projects.Although it might not be a true collabor... |
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