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1,900 | comment | run4yourlives | 2007-03-02T23:36:56 | null | Hi There, <p>jwercker has some great advice - you need to get this out there. The other products are pulling ahead because they're actively building a community. You aren't!<p>Adding to that, you may want to take some time to invest in a communications "strategy". After reading your post and checking out the website, I don't think I have much of a clue as to what your product does, other than maybe allowing me to organize media in some way... how will that benefit me? How is it better than the products your competitors have released? <p>You need to build the community, but in order to do that, you need to communicate how your product is going to improve that community's lives in some way - and you need to do this on the front page of your site. | null | null | 1,890 | 1,890 | null | null | null | null |
1,901 | story | byrneseyeview | 2007-03-02T23:39:00 | Why you need a degree to work at Bigco | null | http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/07/why-you-need-degree-to-work-for-bigco.html | 13 | null | 1,901 | 4 | [
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1,902 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-02T23:51:45 | null | Right now, your competitors have a product. You have a list of features, as jwecker put it. I do remember reading your posts on juwo here a couple times, and still I am unsure on what exactly it does. <p>You sunk a lot into this and giving it away would yield you 0 return. I understand that. But don't let regret and hindsight turn into future mistakes. Get it out there and get yourself a user base. | null | null | 1,890 | 1,890 | null | [
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1,903 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-02T23:55:07 | null | just when I thought user generated content as a business model was beaten to death. looks kind of fun. | null | null | 1,893 | 1,893 | null | [
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1,904 | comment | pg | 2007-03-03T00:08:47 | null | My hunch is that user-generated content still has a long way to run. There were so many people held down by the old narrow-channel world. <p>YC itself is a lot like a user-generated content startup. We encourage young hackers to start their own companies instead of just going to work for existing ones, and we profit (hopefully) by the potential energy thus liberated. | null | null | 1,898 | 1,893 | null | null | null | true |
1,905 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-03-03T00:14:59 | null | Maybe he gave them a Non-Programmer's Apology http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nonapology and then proceeded to write tons of blog entries, cry in the bathroom, and feel melancholy about being rich. | null | null | 1,763 | 1,751 | null | null | null | null |
1,906 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T00:27:10 | null | I remember this from Jon Katz (the regular slashdot guest that everyone hated, but that was insightful a lot of the time until he disappeared). It stuck with me. I think it's fundamental to understanding our generation.<p>http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/20/1457228 | null | null | 1,837 | 1,837 | null | null | null | null |
1,907 | story | aether | 2007-03-03T00:29:06 | "Attention Economy" explained | null | http://r0ml.net/blog/2006/04/26/farmer-farmer-let-me-down | 1 | null | 1,907 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,908 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-03T00:29:39 | null | There's no scanner involved here. | null | null | 1,895 | 1,841 | null | [
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1,909 | comment | precipice | 2007-03-03T00:30:02 | null | I'm Marc Hedlund, one of the founders of the company.<p>We have eight employees total, and yes, we have a real support line ([email protected]). I usually answer, but you can talk to any of us through it. You can also write me directly at [email protected] if you want to.<p>The 800 number has been great, and I'd recommend it to any startup. We put it up there since we're handling privacy-sensitive information, and we wanted people to be able to talk to an actual person about what we do. I figured the absolute worst case was that Jason would spend a lot of time talking to customers and potential customers. Seems like a great worst case to me. (The second-worst case, that no one calls, has a pretty low cost associated with it.)<p>Anyway, it's worth doing for any startup, I think. People love talking to people, and an anonymous web site isn't as friendly as a phone number you can call. Doug is right that it won't scale, but for now, all the possible outcomes are good. | null | null | 1,826 | 1,826 | null | null | null | null |
1,910 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-03-03T00:32:33 | null | There's two types of jobs. Those where what you do creates value for people within the company, and those where what you do creates value for people outside the company. You only need a degree for the former.<p>Rule of thumb: Ask someone what their greatest accomplishment is. If what they say is relative, i.e. "I am better than someone else at ___," then chances are they aren't very good at anything. <p>Avoid those whose self-worth comes from comparing themselves to others, be it through degrees or GPA or money, etc. They're losers and hanging out with them will keep you from accomplishing anything in life.<p>The funniest thing is that investment banks hire based on GPA even though there is zero correlation between GPA and alpha, and alpha is 100% of your job performance. | null | null | 1,901 | 1,901 | null | [
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1,911 | comment | pg | 2007-03-03T00:35:39 | null | My hunch is that user-generated content still has a long way to run. There were so many people held down by the old narrow-channel world.<p>YC itself is a lot like a user-generated content startup. We encourage young hackers to start their own companies instead of just going to work for existing ones, and we profit (hopefully) by the potential energy thus liberated.<p> | null | null | 1,903 | 1,893 | null | [
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1,912 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-03-03T00:37:13 | null | a) What's alpha?
b) There are some things where relative accomplishments are OK, like sports. Saying you're an Olympic gold medalist means you're just better than everybody else, but it's still quite an accomplishment. | null | null | 1,910 | 1,901 | null | [
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1,913 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-03-03T00:47:57 | Content log: An American Entrepreneur in Europe | null | http://newton.typepad.com/content/2007/02/an_american_ent.html | 1 | null | 1,913 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,914 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-03T00:57:30 | null | Why not pull a Kiko? | null | null | 1,890 | 1,890 | null | null | null | null |
1,915 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-03T01:00:10 | null | Ability to view my own comment history. When I click on someone else's user id, I see their comments. When I click on my own, all I see are my preferences.<p>Edit: correction, I guess the user pages show just submissions and not comments, for any user. So I guess I'm requesting comment history. | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | [
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1,916 | comment | horar | 2007-03-03T01:14:57 | null | I can't comment on what those sites do, as I've never heard of any of them. However it must be hard to get ahead of the herd when you are following it with technology like LAMP. I developed mod_libpq specifically to explore new technological pastures and it seems to be working very well. e.g. tracktype.org | null | null | 1,274 | 1,274 | null | null | null | null |
1,917 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T01:19:43 | null | I guess you're right. From that perspective programming tools fall under that category as well, and we won't be running out of those any time soon. | null | null | 1,911 | 1,893 | null | null | null | null |
1,918 | story | danielha | 2007-03-03T01:20:54 | Acquisition as a Business Model? | null | http://www.bigheadlabs.com/?p=8 | 1 | null | 1,918 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,919 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T01:27:54 | Tech billionaires pass the hat | null | http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/02/tech-billionaires-pass-the-hat/ | 2 | null | 1,919 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,920 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T01:30:13 | X Prize Foundation to announce new competitions | null | http://www.lcsun-news.com/breakingnews/ci_5343154 | 1 | null | 1,920 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,921 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T01:36:10 | What entrepreneurs read most often | null | http://blogs.work.com/community/2007/03/what_entreprene.html | 2 | null | 1,921 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,922 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T01:40:03 | A Startup Idea Postmortem: Proof That Good Ideas Aren't Always Good Business | null | http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/a_startup_idea_postmortem_proof_that_good_ideas_arent_always_good_business.php | 2 | null | 1,922 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,923 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T01:43:13 | Online Marketplace for Intellectual Property | null | http://www.nowpublic.com/online_marketplace_for_intellectual_property | 1 | null | 1,923 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,924 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T01:46:14 | 10 Reasons Why Great Advisors Matter | null | http://advisorgarage.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/10-reasons-why-great-advisors-matter/ | 2 | null | 1,924 | 1 | [
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1,925 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-03-03T02:08:42 | null | Each portfolio has an expected return based on risk. The higher the risk, the higher the return has to be to justify the risk. Alpha is the difference between the expected return based on the risk of the portfolio and the actual return. So positive alpha is good, negative alpha is bad. Traders are compensated based on their alpha. <p>My point about the relative accomplishment thing is just that you can go through your entire life trying to beat other people at stuff, but just because you can beat someone at something doesn't mean you're making the world a better place. <p>Being an Olympic athlete is certainly an accomplishment, although hopefully one goes on to do stuff that benefits others. And I say that as someone who pulled a 500 meter piece on the rowing machine that was faster than ltwt Olympic standard this afternoon. | null | null | 1,912 | 1,901 | null | null | null | null |
1,926 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T02:09:28 | null | I know that when I've hired programmers I definitely weigh potential and willingness to learn more than experience. Sometimes when someone has experience they are really just stuck in the same old ways of doing things, and it becomes difficult with them to change the company culture or have the kind of momentum that you need. Surely the better VC's recognize that fresh blood often produces the very best results. Y-C does. | null | null | 1,847 | 1,847 | null | null | null | null |
1,927 | story | Alex3917 | 2007-03-03T03:02:47 | Grokking the anthropology of social networks | null | http://www.danah.org/papers/FriendsterMySpaceEssay.html | 4 | null | 1,927 | 1 | [
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1,928 | story | pg | 2007-03-03T03:03:29 | History of Famous Logos (and a beautiful site in itself) | null | http://www.logoorange.com/logodesign-A.php | 5 | null | 1,928 | 1 | [
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1,929 | story | farmer | 2007-03-03T03:21:11 | 5 Tips for Startup Hiring | null | http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/2007/03/life_is_a_hire_way_5_tips_for_startup_hi.html | 1 | null | 1,929 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,930 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T03:25:36 | null | looks like her insecurity speaking
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1,931 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T03:30:54 | null | null | null | 1,890 | 1,890 | null | null | null | null |
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1,932 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T03:42:04 | null | I disagree. From my blog post, "I recently dissolved the advisor group. Advisors are a fixture of startups. Advice is nice, but I much prefer effort - because Talk is Easy but Effort shows Commitment."
For advisors, look to books by Kawasaki, Paul Graham etc.
I would rather get a good team. | null | null | 1,924 | 1,924 | null | null | null | null |
1,933 | comment | bluemoo | 2007-03-03T04:29:55 | null | It is a compelling story, but I think the lesson is that you need the right *kind* of positive thinking. | null | null | 1,888 | 1,873 | null | null | null | null |
1,934 | story | dfranke | 2007-03-03T04:43:46 | Have a great startup idea? Hmm, maybe not. | null | http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2006/11/have-great-startup-idea-hmm-maybe-not.html | 5 | null | 1,934 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,935 | story | dfranke | 2007-03-03T04:46:57 | 3 Archetypes of Startup Founders | null | http://jkanstyle.com/2006/07/19/3-archetypes-of-startup-founders/ | 2 | null | 1,935 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,936 | story | dfranke | 2007-03-03T04:51:19 | The start-up inflection point | null | http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/?p=377 | 1 | null | 1,936 | 1 | [
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1,937 | comment | dfranke | 2007-03-03T04:52:52 | null | Not many companies get past the inflection point; so few that I think it's disingenuous to call it that. Most just languish there and clog themselves up with more and more management overhead. The only exception that comes to mind is Google. | null | null | 1,936 | 1,936 | null | null | null | null |
1,938 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T04:58:19 | null | jwecker: I had a demo page up that I took down upon other people's advice.
I just returned from an enterpreneur meeting here in Kansas City and a wise man with 6 startups under his belt told me when I said I am considering giving it away, "Dont give it away because then it's gone".<p>But then contrast it with, "Cast your bread upon the waters and after many days, they shall return to you".<p> | null | null | 1,899 | 1,890 | null | [
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1,939 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T05:00:59 | null | Thank you pg.
No, it's not divided into layers.
Since it is a GUI, anyone can play with it and copy a feature they lack - that is the problem.
In the finished product, there was to be a Viewer and an Editor that viewers would upgrade to upon paying $5. But I would feel comfortable charging only on a finished product.
Giving away a Viewer makes sense only when I have a multimedia customer. For example, if Paul Graham wants to 'broadcast' his audio talks.
That is an interesting thought - can I get this in front of Paul Graham right now? :) | null | null | 1,892 | 1,890 | null | null | null | null |
1,940 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-03-03T05:03:11 | null | Websites tend to grow exponentially, meaning that for the first few months mainly the earlier adopter types will be the ones playing with it. Does your website currently do anything that creates value for them? If so, release even if it's buggy and unfinished. People will expect it to improve. On the other hand, if people go there and see that it doesn't solve their problems or make their life easier, they probably won't go back a second time. So if it doesn't yet solve a problem, wait until it does this. | null | null | 1,890 | 1,890 | null | [
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1,941 | comment | JMiao | 2007-03-03T05:03:40 | null | I've been a big fan of Danah's work for the past 3 years. This is an interesting analysis she published a while back (though it's ever evolving), especially since most people are quick to generalize Friendster's demise as a product of internal politics and featuritis. | null | null | 1,927 | 1,927 | null | null | null | null |
1,942 | story | iamelgringo | 2007-03-03T05:25:42 | Greenspun's First Guide to Web Publishing (Online book link) | null | http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ | 2 | null | 1,942 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,943 | story | iamelgringo | 2007-03-03T05:26:53 | Greenspun's Second Book on Internet Applications (Online book link) | null | http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/ | 8 | null | 1,943 | 1 | [
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1,944 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T05:27:18 | null | I don't understand his logic. It's catchy, but it means nothing. The only time that would make sense if there is a very small finite market for your product- for example- if there are only 50 people on the planet who will pay for your product and there's a reasonable chance they'll know where to find it, then yah, don't give it away. When is that ever true, though? When you sell nuclear submarine technology to 1st world governments? It sounds like you've put a lot of sweat and guts into this. I would suggest you read http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php (it applies even if yours isn't a web app) and Crossing the Chasm http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060517123 which goes into the mechanics of your market. If you took down the demo because it made your product look bad because it was incomplete, complete a smaller subset. If you took it down because someone said someone would steal your idea, welcome to startups- know that they'll steal it and move on and do it better. | null | null | 1,938 | 1,890 | null | [
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1,945 | comment | bootload | 2007-03-03T05:40:28 | null | Releasing new software products to a market and being successful may seem to be timing, luck or good marketing? But the pro's know better and know there is more to it than that. The answer to your question is not as cut and dry as you think.<p>ASSUMPTION?: I'm assuming your product is a shrink wrapped binary to be released to one operating system for single users (from what I've read on your product).<p>COMMUNICATION: I cannot really view your software, but it looks like its a binary application. Unlike its web counterparts, your audience cannot simply use your software. This is by far the biggest hurdle. If your audience cannot use or see your software they will judge (rightly or wrongly) by what information you offer. Do you show on your website, blog or other forms of communication the following?<p>* product summary?: simple sentence explaining problem solved<p>* why better/product comparison: how is your product than competitor(s)?<p>* features: list of things the software does<p>* scenario: small stories of how certain problems are solved<p>* images: screenshots of major forms<p>* blog: meta behind the scene view of product (my favourite as you can really
guage the product process) & how real users solve their problems (hopefully with your software)?<p>* forums: what problems people are having<p>* price: what is the price of your software? No price, even if its alpha still give a hint <p>DELIVERY: Are you going to have your software on your website? Or are you going to look for the best couple of sites that offer downloads for new & categorised binary software like Tucows or Cnet.com? The ranking and categorising of products make it easier for users to find new & interesting software and also makes it easier for developers to find their markets. From here you can work out important things like pricing, feature matching etc.<p> '... Your first set of problems revolve more around business & distribution than software and engineering. ...'<p>CONCLUSION: Notice I've not added any development problems here (release planning, defect processes, etc ...) Your first set of problems revolve more around business & distribution than software and engineering. Since you have invested time & money and you want to protect your investment consider the following. Go back to marketing 101. <p>Invest the time (not money) to see how you can improve the communication of your product on your site. Then concentrate on placing your product with Cnet. At the same time maintain your job (and income) & improve the existing code but not new features.<p>There are other alternatives, explore those. I do not suggest you open source the product. If you have created a site that communicates the benefits of the product. Found a way to deliver the product to consumers. Then you can work on selling. This is going to take longer than you probably think. | null | null | 1,890 | 1,890 | null | [
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1,946 | story | danielha | 2007-03-03T07:09:29 | Alternative to the mouse -- User interface that tracks eye movement | null | http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18254&ch=infotech | 3 | null | 1,946 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,947 | comment | herdrick | 2007-03-03T07:47:02 | null | Sure seemed like 1999 faux-authoritative BS.<p>On the other hand, I'm pretty busy so I just skimmed it. | null | null | 1,837 | 1,837 | null | null | null | null |
1,948 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-03-03T08:18:29 | Business Models for the Web | null | http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html | 10 | null | 1,948 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,949 | story | python_kiss | 2007-03-03T08:26:13 | Should VCs buy out angels? | null | http://startupjourney.blogspot.com/2007/03/should-vcs-buy-out-angels.html | 1 | null | 1,949 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,950 | story | python_kiss | 2007-03-03T08:27:37 | 3 Qualities Of A Good Social Network | null | http://www.socialdegree.com/2007/03/02/3-qualities-of-a-good-social-network/ | 2 | null | 1,950 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,951 | story | python_kiss | 2007-03-03T08:28:17 | YouTube, Google vs Old Media: Who Wins? | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/youtube-google-vs-old-media-who-wins/ | 2 | null | 1,951 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,952 | story | python_kiss | 2007-03-03T08:44:42 | Bebo IPO - Possible? | null | http://mashable.com/2007/03/02/bebo-ipo/ | 4 | null | 1,952 | 1 | [
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1,953 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-03-03T09:01:27 | null | Zooppa, YouTube, Reddit and social networks in general are a testament to the wonders that collaborative intelligence makes possible. As John Nash put it, "Best results come when everyone in the group does what's best for themselves, and the group." More to the point: Web 2.0 demands that the currency of social networks be user generated content, rather than money.<p>I am a developer of a social network myself, and I can vouch for the wisdom of crowds. In our case, the users are actually coding large parts of the network themselves (i.e, http://shuzak.com/Replies.php?ID=6344&Topic_ID=1). | null | null | 1,893 | 1,893 | null | null | null | null |
1,954 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-03-03T09:12:22 | null | Awesome! I believe Nike paid a sum of just $35 for their priceless logo! My cash strapped startup, btw, paid only $4 for the logo; so maybe I can boast about it too when we hit 6+ figure revenues :p http://shuzak.com/img/ShuzakLogo.jpg | null | null | 1,928 | 1,928 | null | null | null | null |
1,955 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-03-03T09:19:03 | null | I actually suggested this to YouTube when they were young. Basically, instead of displaying "director videos" on the right hand corner, they could show video ads similar to Google video ads. Now that YouTube is owned by Google, such a system is even more plausible. An advertising system on YouTube based on Google's adwords architecture would work to the benefit of both, advertisers and the content hungry users. | null | null | 1,292 | 1,269 | null | null | null | null |
1,956 | story | phil | 2007-03-03T10:08:46 | Buxfer on Techcrunch | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/02/billmonk-has-a-half-brother/ | 1 | null | 1,956 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,957 | story | danw | 2007-03-03T10:27:55 | Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites | null | http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/ | 1 | null | 1,957 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,958 | story | python_kiss | 2007-03-03T11:27:45 | WTF is Cisco Doing? | null | http://mashable.com/2007/03/03/wtf-is-cisco-doing/ | 2 | null | 1,958 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,959 | story | Harj | 2007-03-03T11:42:36 | California, the Wi-Fi state | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/ | 2 | null | 1,959 | 1 | [
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1,960 | story | Harj | 2007-03-03T11:43:36 | Social Networking's Next Phase | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/technology/03social.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | 4 | null | 1,960 | 4 | [
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1,961 | story | Harj | 2007-03-03T11:49:04 | Business 2.0: 50 People who matter | null | http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/peoplewhomatter/ | 1 | null | 1,961 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,962 | story | Harj | 2007-03-03T11:50:44 | Blogging for Dollars | null | http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384325/ | 2 | null | 1,962 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,963 | story | Harj | 2007-03-03T12:28:44 | Facebook Extends Lead As Fave Young Adult Site | null | http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004636 | 3 | null | 1,963 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,964 | story | nostrademons | 2007-03-03T12:46:02 | Scaling HotOrNot.com | null | http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/05/hong/ | 8 | null | 1,964 | 1 | [
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1,965 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-03-03T13:07:05 | Eric Sink (SourceGear) on magazine advertising | null | http://software.ericsink.com/entries/Mag_Ads_March2007.html | 1 | null | 1,965 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,966 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-03-03T13:13:45 | null | Thanks for the link. I loved his first book, and I hadn't seen this. | null | null | 1,943 | 1,943 | null | null | null | null |
1,967 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-03-03T13:18:07 | null | Release it. I once worked at one startup that decided that their product sucked too much to even put into the hands of beta customers and went about rewriting it. The VCs canceled the rewrite 2 months later and shut the company down 6 months later.<p>A little later, I was at another startup whose product IMHO sucks *more*. They, however, are profitable. They manage to get customers to fork over several hundred thousands dollars to use the product.<p>There's almost *always* a buyer if you look hard enough. Entrepreneurs are usually the most critical of their own product; they ought to be, that's what makes them improve. But chances are, somebody somewhere really wants what you're making, and your job is to find them. | null | null | 1,890 | 1,890 | null | [
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1,968 | story | Alex3917 | 2007-03-03T13:28:38 | A sociohistorical look at the evolution of Japanese mobile wireless | null | http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68537,00.html | 2 | null | 1,968 | 1 | [
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1,969 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-03-03T13:32:09 | null | This book definitely isn't beach reading, but if you've already read Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs then this is really good for understanding mobile wireless. <p>Specifically, just because an idea was successful in Japan doesn't mean it will be successful in the US, because the niche it was created in was different and the people had different problems that needed solving. This book goes through each phase in the evolution of mobile wireless, from before pagers all the way through ketai. It explains exactly what problems these technologies were solving for each segment of society and details how each demographic was using them.<p>There is a pretty good section on dating too. :-) | null | null | 1,968 | 1,968 | null | null | null | null |
1,970 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T13:39:17 | The Art of Complex Problem Solving | null | http://www.idiagram.com/CP/cpprocess.html | 4 | null | 1,970 | 2 | [
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1,971 | story | immad | 2007-03-03T13:41:22 | A good summary of possible problems with fixed exchange rates (in China). | null | http://www.fabricegrinda.com/?p=176 | 1 | null | 1,971 | 1 | [
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1,972 | comment | immad | 2007-03-03T13:42:24 | null | Not so startup or entreprenerial, but everyone should understand the implications of interest/exchange rates especially if you want to do anything globally. | null | null | 1,971 | 1,971 | null | null | null | null |
1,973 | story | digiman | 2007-03-03T13:47:07 | 34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog | null | http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/01/34-reasons-why-readers-unsubscribe-from-your-blog/ | 1 | null | 1,973 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,974 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T13:47:13 | null | Looks like it would've been an ideal situation for using the filesystem rather than an RDBMS at all, or at most berkeleyDB. Certain programming habits die hard. | null | null | 1,964 | 1,964 | null | null | null | null |
1,975 | story | immad | 2007-03-03T13:48:56 | Marketing TV shows using social media | null | http://www.trendcatching.com/2007/01/marketing_tv_sh.html | 1 | null | 1,975 | 1 | [
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1,976 | comment | immad | 2007-03-03T13:50:19 | null | Applies to anything really, I should make a myspace profile for my startup. Anyone know startups who did that successfully? Maybe its in contravention of myspaces TOC. | null | null | 1,975 | 1,975 | null | null | null | null |
1,977 | story | immad | 2007-03-03T14:07:14 | Google's Gadget Numbers Revealed - Exposure that a good widgets can get. | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/googles_gadget.html | 2 | null | 1,977 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,978 | story | immad | 2007-03-03T14:10:41 | Peer to Peer Information During Disasters | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/peer_to_peer_in.html | 1 | null | 1,978 | 3 | [
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1,979 | comment | immad | 2007-03-03T14:10:57 | null | There is a startup idea here somewhere :-) | null | null | 1,978 | 1,978 | null | null | null | null |
1,980 | comment | lucks | 2007-03-03T14:36:20 | null | It is interesting to point out that Reddit already tried this platform for comments on scientific papers. arxiv.org has long been acknowledged as a forerunner to scientific e-publishing and is in fact a one-stop-shop for many subfields of physics, computer science, and almost all of mathematics. We thought it would be the perfect place to try to do something like what you suggested: to use a Reddit-like interface to collect comments and discussions on scientific literature. So Reddit set it up at arxiv.reddit.org.<p>As you can see, there is not much happening. In fact, the main lesson learned here was not that a reddit-like platform is not ideal to this type of knowledge pooling, but that the scientific community is in general skeptical about this type of information sharing. We did not require email address validation for logins (hence the spam you can see up there), but we did talk about it with a lot of people and there were good arguments on both sides. I talked with physicists, biologists and mathematicians about using this type of site, and the replies were mostly those of insecurity about sharing incomplete ideas: both because they might be wrong (and not many scientists like that), and because if they were right, they would rather keep it to themselves and publish it.<p>Actually Paul Ginsparg, the creator of arxiv.org, kind of warned us before we launched that it would take mostly a huge grass-roots effort to get scientists going on something like this. He was right, and from listening to some of his stories about how he started arxiv.org, it apparently took him over 5 years of grass-roots convincing before it took off, despite being clearly a very good idea.<p>If you are interested in scientific knowledge sharing, with an eye towards collaboration, check out openwetware.org, which uses the mediawiki wiki platform. Note that they actually do require account authentication, so have a lot less spam issues at this point. It seems like a wiki platform is more easily adopted for scientists (although still hesitantly), as the subreddit oww.reddit.com, which we tried to push to the openwetware community, has not taken off (this time because of concerns that Reddit is a company.) | null | null | 484 | 189 | null | null | null | null |
1,981 | story | lucks | 2007-03-03T14:39:42 | Making a Wiki with TurboGears (Python) | null | http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=20MinuteWiki2nd_V0.9_KDangoor&fromSeriesID=14 | 7 | null | 1,981 | 6 | [
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1,982 | comment | lucks | 2007-03-03T14:50:04 | null | The reason why I posted this link is to promote a discussion of python-based web application stacks. We have been using Rails for about a year now, and really enjoyed it from the very start because it did so much for us. Well we have prototyped the idea and would like to start building it for real, and we kept getting caught by Rails when we tried to go against the grain.<p>So we started to look into other web application frameworks, and turned up a lot of comparison between two python-based frameworks, Django and Turbogears, with Rails. Although they were all very outdated, they all boiled down to using a python-based framework if you want more of the internals exposed (because you have include a lot more code to explicitly specify what you want to do), and use Rails if you don't want these details exposed. To be fair, you can always dive into the rails code itself to look at the internals, so it is more of a question of how you want your application code to look.<p>As I don't have too much Turbogears experience at this point, I would gladly welcome a re-analysis of the comparison from someone who does. And I hope that just by posting the link to the Turbogears tutorial video that someone realizes there are more webb application frameworks out there besides Rails. | null | null | 1,981 | 1,981 | null | [
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1,983 | story | lucks | 2007-03-03T14:51:05 | news.ycombinator.com Feature Requests | null | 2 | null | 1,983 | 5 | [
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1,984 | comment | lucks | 2007-03-03T14:58:40 | null | I have a couple of feature requests:<p>1.) I just posted a comment with a typo, but I could not correct it, so an edit feature, or at least a preview feature before you submit the comment would be helpful.<p>2.) A bigger box to write these comments! I find these one line comment discussions very confusing, and I wonder if they would be limited if there was a bigger comment box (I am already getting a scrollbar with a comment this long).<p>3.) Some way to see posts that have drifted off the top and new pages. Someone told me about a post that apparently just got knocked off one of these pages and I can't get it. This is a complicated feature request because I really do like only having to look through a couple of pages to see what is new (a real plus on the simplicity side). But not being able to find a good post that someone sent you is not good.<p>4.) A 'track-this-discussion' feature. I am sure you have something like this in the admin console for the site. If there is a really long discussion that is a few days old, and someone posts a reply to my comment, odds are I am not going to see this reply unless I am very vigilant on that page. I think some sort of tracking or alert system (of course optional) would be nice so that you will be alerted (emailed or possibly some sort of user message in the top right corner when you log in). Se mediawiki's 'Watch This Page' feature. | null | null | 1,983 | 1,983 | null | [
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1,985 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T15:05:14 | null | At the bottom of the main page is a link where you can add feature requests. Also you should be able to edit your posts- look carefully for the edit link for your post. And welcome to the site :) | null | null | 1,984 | 1,983 | null | [
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1,986 | comment | lucks | 2007-03-03T15:08:27 | null | Well here is another feature request then - make the Feature Request, and edit links more noticeable. But thanks for the tip. | null | null | 1,985 | 1,983 | null | null | null | null |
1,987 | story | sly | 2007-03-03T15:14:31 | The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code | null | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html | 4 | null | 1,987 | 7 | [
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1,988 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T15:19:33 | null | "...software allowing instantaneous creation of a self-forming, self-healing community wireless network. That "community" could even be a 50-mile long, four-lane wide one formed involuntarily by thousands of people..."<p>Sounds like a kind of virus to me :)<p>Anyway, it's very, very difficult to start a startup where the government (any part of it) is your main customer. It takes established business or political connections to pull it off, and even if you have that you have at best a market of a few hundred or thousand entities (if you're talking local gov'ts) with all their own unique red-tape. | null | null | 1,978 | 1,978 | null | [
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1,989 | story | abstractbill | 2007-03-03T15:29:20 | The European startup scene | null | http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/02/european-start-up-scene/ | 2 | null | 1,989 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,990 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-03-03T15:35:06 | Collaborative filtering resources | null | http://www.paulperry.net/notes/cf.asp | 6 | null | 1,990 | 4 | [
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1,991 | story | abstractbill | 2007-03-03T15:39:03 | Mind Petals archives: hundreds of good startup articles | null | http://mindpetals.com/preneur-petals/archive | 3 | null | 1,991 | 1 | [
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1,992 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T15:46:12 | null | "Mind Petals is more than the Young Entrepreneur's Network; it's a community that produces informative, inspiring, and motivating content to spark the minds of all entrepreneurs - especially the ones really making things happen, not just talking."<p>== Lots of exclamation points on article titles. | null | null | 1,991 | 1,991 | null | null | null | null |
1,993 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T15:48:28 | How to Start & Run a Successful Web Development Business | null | http://www.xraysierra.com/2007/03/03/how-to-start-run-a-successful-web-development-business/ | 2 | null | 1,993 | 0 | null | null | null |
1,994 | story | jwecker | 2007-03-03T15:52:21 | We Don't Dream Big Enough | null | http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/we-dont-dream-big-enough/ | 2 | null | 1,994 | 1 | [
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1,995 | comment | jwecker | 2007-03-03T16:01:44 | null | The Geek. Figures. | null | null | 907 | 907 | null | null | null | null |
1,996 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T16:02:56 | null | most startups are single programmer. this article is for *read it*
Microsoft type orgs. | null | null | 1,987 | 1,987 | null | [
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1,997 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T16:16:36 | null | I really appreciate the advice from you all. To those who posted on this page, I can send you the demos, an executive summary and competitive matrix - if you are interested. IMHO juwo is a useful everyday tool.
However, you would have to give me your word that (sorry, I dont know how to put it diplomatically) you will not rip off any new ideas.
In return, perhaps, I can share a percentage of any profit from juwo - for a certain time eg. 1 year with those who will help out with concrete help.
There is a lot of money in it if it catches on. Think of youtube using it for their audio/video.
Feel free to email me anil AT juwo DOT com.
thanks,
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1,998 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T16:18:08 | null | http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1997 | null | null | 1,902 | 1,890 | null | null | null | null |
1,999 | comment | juwo | 2007-03-03T16:27:33 | null | It is not shrink wrapped, it is via viral distribution via web.
if you would like to run a demo, please read my reply to jwecker an do contact me. (sorry for the repeat posts, but there doesnt seem to be email notifications or even highlighting of new posts). | null | null | 1,945 | 1,890 | null | [
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