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34,062 | 34,054 | aston | Facebook Monetization: Lessons From Google | dpapathanasiou | I believe Google's biggest innovation in ad serving was factoring click through rates into choosing which ads to display. The straight up auction does a decent job of making money, but by forcing companies with low performing ads to either pay up or improve their ads, pretty much the entire ecosystem wins. | null | 0 | 5 | 2007-07-13 16:45:27 UTC |
34,068 | 34,065 | far33d | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | Computer Science, as a field is very mature, and as a result, very specialized in its research (though I disagree with the idea that core algorithm research is more relevant for the average developer than what you call fads). The best thing to do is to first get more specific: what kind of algorithm? Is it database implementations? Virtualization techniques? Filesystem optimization? Graphics hardware? Programming languages? Then, find the appropriate journals. Get an ACM membership so you can search and get full text of the library.
| Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 9 | 13 | 2007-07-13 17:22:08 UTC |
34,070 | 34,065 | Mouse2k | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | I'm currently a CS double-major in an American university. We learnt algorithms with Sedgewick's books (available for C and Java) and patterns with the Gang of Four book. I find that I rarely use the algorithms for web programming, but do use some patterns (MVC, Observer). As for latest advances, there are many languages on the cutting edge, such as Haskell, OCaml and Erlang that would be worthy to study just to expand your horizons. These languages ARE many of the latest advances in CS. I'm currently diving into Lisp, and have found that some concepts are timeless (code as data, macros). | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 2 | 13 | 2007-07-13 17:29:49 UTC |
34,072 | 34,065 | amichail | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | For routine programming, the GoF Design Patterns book will be more helpful to you than algorithms books.But if you really want to learn more about algorithms, check out this book:http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg/dp/0321...As for programming languages, the java + eclipse combination is excellent. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 10 | 13 | 2007-07-13 17:36:52 UTC |
34,074 | 34,065 | donna | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | How can you tell the differnce between a fad and an advancement? | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 13 | 13 | 2007-07-13 17:57:31 UTC |
34,075 | 34,051 | donna | It's the API, Stupid | far33d | Since nobody has figured out how to make money off their databases then an API won't heard them. | null | 0 | 2 | 2007-07-13 18:01:40 UTC |
34,080 | 34,057 | epi0Bauqu | Facebook: $6 Billion? Nah. [John Battelle] | aston | Does anybody else think this logic is crazy? I believe Facebook's two major financing rounds were for $13M and $25M (see http://www.startup-review.com/blog/facebook-case-study-offli...). Given those numbers, they couldn't have taken that much money out compared to what they would be able to take out in a $6B acquisition. We're talking like a 1:500 ratio. And they may not "need" anyone right now, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't sell at that price or that they don't have real risks to their business. There is always risk in moving forward, and in their case, I think there is a whole lot of risk. Their perceived valuation is tied up in (a) continual increases to their traffic; (b) continual dominance in the college age group; and (c) longer-term, in their creation of real earnings. Any perception that they will not deliver on any of that and the offering prices will immediately drop off that ridiculous multiple. Firms like Google may not care about their earnings, but I think other firms like Microsoft, Viacom, and Yahoo do, and if those firms fall by the wayside, the ultimate sell price is going to go way down. Of course, they could IPO too. But they should do it quickly while they are still hot. | null | 0 | 9 | 2007-07-13 18:15:27 UTC |
34,081 | 34,065 | nostrademons | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | I'm going to say something heretical here: I don't think entrepreneurs should base their companies off the latest advances in computer science. Problem is, many of them are really "bleeding edge", and even the researchers themselves don't know all the implications for them. Nobody has a clue where they might lead, or if anyone will ever find them useful.Instead, you should look for the stuff that came out of academia 20 years ago but was rejected as unfeasible, useless, or just plain idiotic. Then keep an eye on economic trends that change the assumptions that made those discoveries useless. If you keep in mind a large enough set of rejected technologies and a large enough set of economic changes, eventually you'll find a match between them.Some examples:The architecture, performance, and programming techniques for early microcomputers mimicked 1950s mainframe technology. Many of the features of PC OSes were considered incredibly backwards at the time - no multitasking, segmented memory, assembly language coding. Yet this primitive hardware cost perhaps 1/10,000th of a 1950s mainframe and fit on a desk. This opened up a whole new market, one that was willing to put up with buggy software, single-tasking, and limited functionality.Java consists mostly of poor implementations of ideas from the 1960s and 1970s. Garbarge collection was invented in 1960; object orientation in 1968; monitors in 1978; virtual machines in the early 1970s. Yet Java targetted the PC, Internet, and embedded device market that had previously been limping along with C/C++ and assembly. To them, these innovations were new, and performance of devices was just barely improving to the point where they were becoming feasible.HyperText was invented in 1960- actually, you could argue that Vannevar Bush came out with the concept in 1945. But there was no easy physical way to put together large amounts of information, so Ted Nelson's Xanadu project went nowhere. Fast forward to 1991: the Internet had linked together most research institutions, and PCs were becoming powerful enough to support graphical browsing. When Tim Berners-Lee put the WWW up, there was a ready infrastructure just waiting to be expanded. And the rest is history.PC video has been around since the mid-1990s: I remember recording onto a Mac Centris 660AV in 1993. Flash has also been around since then, as has the Internet. Previous attempts to combine them failed miserably. Yet YouTube succeeded in 2005, because a bunch of factors in the environments had changed. People were now comfortable sharing things online, and many people now have broadband access. Cell-phone video makes it really easy to record, without expensive equipment. And the rise of MySpace and blogs made it really easy for people to share videos they'd created with their friends. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 0 | 13 | 2007-07-13 18:18:20 UTC |
34,084 | 34,050 | maxklein | Your bank has a REST API now | dawie | Cool. I suggested this a while back as a feature for a startup. | null | 1 | 20 | 2007-07-13 18:21:21 UTC |
34,085 | 34,065 | brlewis | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | Crash a social event at a school with a strong CS department and talk about your work. I bet people will be more than happy to give you pointers. The academic world is overflowing with ideas that ought to be more widely used but aren't. Academic people like it when you take their ideas and run with them. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 8 | 13 | 2007-07-13 18:26:51 UTC |
34,086 | 34,065 | maxklein | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | There are no significant advances in algorithms worth looking at, in my opinion. Current hardware only supports bruteforcing things by optimizing cycles or throwing more cycles at things. You can do that by improving hardware, and that will come in any case.Real advances only come when new _ways_ of doing things appear. And for that, just reading tech news is enough. For example, the Table Top PC.The only really two significant areas where algorithms can still make a difference are in video manipulation / object recognition, audio manipulation and artificial intelligence.But you'll find that in those areas, advances are usually very complex and difficult to monetize.It's much more effective to just look at advances in hardware, and figure out what you can do on a software level to take advantage of this hardware.But even better, look at the internet, and watch as data opens up. Use that data to create new things. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 5 | 13 | 2007-07-13 18:28:31 UTC |
34,088 | 34,033 | sethjohn | 3 days and InviteShare already up for sale? | mdolon | Hmm, did the auction start before the TC article, or after?. Seems like an incredible steal right now at $7500 with such a positive TechCrunch writeup and all the associated buzz that is sure to follow. I wonder where the bidding will end...$100K? | null | 1 | 4 | 2007-07-13 18:32:15 UTC |
34,089 | 34,065 | jsjenkins168 | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | If you are interested in learning more about core technologies in an area valuable (in terms of future technology trends), I would advise learning more about networking.Having strong networking knowledge is very useful and can be applied to cool areas of growth such as the Internet and mobile devices. I took a graduate level course in networking as an undergrad and it was one of the best decisions I've made.If you want to teach yourself, I recommend the following books:Computer Networks by Andrew Tanenbaum - This book is from 2002, but is still considered the Bible of Networking. It covers all of the advanced topics and is great as a reference. You can pick it up used for cheap.TCP/IP Socket in ____ by Michael J Donahoo - This is a series of books that cover network programming in different languages. There is a C/C++, Java, and C# version of the book that I know of, but there might be more now too. These books are very concise and to the point and teach you everything you need to know to write advanced network programs. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 1 | 13 | 2007-07-13 18:33:54 UTC |
34,095 | 34,057 | sethjohn | Facebook: $6 Billion? Nah. [John Battelle] | aston | My sense is that the people in charge of Facebook are happy to take big risks with their company, and I don't see why they shouldn't.Whether the company sells now for $6 billion or tanks and sells for $600 million in a few years, they'll have a lifetime of riches. With money a less important consideration, the question becomes which would be a more interesting activity for the next decade: Building a globally powerful company that fundamentally changes how the internet game is played...or becoming idly rich?Financial risk/benefit calculations are much different for an individual than they are for a large corporation. | null | 2 | 9 | 2007-07-13 18:56:15 UTC |
34,098 | 34,065 | felipe | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | IEEE Magazines:http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/journmag/index.html"Software" and "Computer" are more in-depth and oriented towards latest advancements and practices. "Internet Computing" and "IT Professional" are more practical. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 7 | 13 | 2007-07-13 19:11:03 UTC |
34,101 | 34,065 | pg | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | Go to CS talks at nearby universities. Most have talks that are open to the public. These usually include "job talks" in which people applying for teaching jobs present their recent work. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 3 | 13 | 2007-07-13 19:51:33 UTC |
34,103 | 34,065 | juwo | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | Clarification: I was roughly talking of techniques or improvements to apply to our software design and code. Not about adopting new technology as a business strategy. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 11 | 13 | 2007-07-13 20:01:23 UTC |
34,104 | 34,057 | Goladus | Facebook: $6 Billion? Nah. [John Battelle] | aston | It got me thinking. After all, in 2002, tons of folks were asking the same question. Why Google, why now, when there were dozens of other search engines out there?Why google, why now(2002)?People need to search the internet. Google is far and away the cleanest, fastest, most effective, and easiest to use. It took 15 minutes of using www.google.com to reach that conclusion. Some people didn't realize how incredibly valuable the service was, but it was basically impossible to deny the superiority of the service. Recommend Google to anyone: Grandma, your little sister, your mac-using artist friend, an exchange student and watch them use it. Facebook isn't so obviously superior. It has lots of great features and is well-designed, but compared to google it's very complicated to use. Restrictions on joining networks, friend confirmation steps, javascript glitches, and tagging are all evidence of a learning curve that is simple nonexistant with google. Furthermore, many of the things that make facebook effective exclude other features. Facebook is not simply a way better version of myspace, there are pros and cons.If I had to put money on Myspace or Facebook, I'd pick Facebook, but not with the same confidence that I'd have picked google over every other search engine back in 2002. | null | 3 | 9 | 2007-07-13 20:14:20 UTC |
34,107 | 33,285 | dpatru | Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part II | brett | Seems like they're trading in a simple business model (give customers what they want and charge them for it) with a complicated one (try to give customers what they want while trying to charge advertisers.) | null | 0 | 11 | 2007-07-13 20:33:16 UTC |
34,122 | 34,114 | exogen | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | How do you know I haven't found a way to monetize reading news.yc all day? | null | 1 | 45 | 2007-07-13 22:38:15 UTC |
34,125 | 34,114 | thingsilearned | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | lol, you're right! back to work! | null | 14 | 45 | 2007-07-13 22:40:44 UTC |
34,126 | 34,114 | henryw | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | How many times do you visit yc news in a day? I'm averaging 2 to 4. | null | 6 | 45 | 2007-07-13 22:45:53 UTC |
34,130 | 33,947 | Halil | New all-in-one blog widget combines brag badge, analytics tool and social bookmarking buttons | deramisan | IXm canXt wait for the release! | null | 2 | 4 | 2007-07-13 23:05:08 UTC |
34,131 | 34,114 | antirez | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | For a founder reading programming.reddit.com or ycnews IS to work. It's just a matter to manage to read a bit to relax and earn interesting information and then back to work instead to burn the whole day in news sites. | null | 0 | 45 | 2007-07-13 23:05:31 UTC |
34,134 | 34,133 | romlet | People interview people | Halil | This is a great site for getting exposure online. It lets people interview others about their projects online, be they bloggers or otherwise! It has been a huge hit since its recent release. | New website where people interview each other to promote their websites and blogs. | 0 | 5 | 2007-07-13 23:13:43 UTC |
34,135 | 34,114 | daniel-cussen | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | Could not agree more; this has become a way to slack off. | null | 13 | 45 | 2007-07-13 23:16:33 UTC |
34,139 | 34,114 | juwo | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | news.YC = talking about intending to work on one's startup. ;) | null | 10 | 45 | 2007-07-13 23:38:27 UTC |
34,140 | 34,114 | sharpshoot | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | or taking a break | null | 9 | 45 | 2007-07-13 23:40:40 UTC |
34,157 | 34,114 | nostrademons | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | Who says? I'm just waiting for my VM to boot. ;-) | null | 8 | 45 | 2007-07-14 02:18:48 UTC |
34,165 | 34,057 | AF | Facebook: $6 Billion? Nah. [John Battelle] | aston | It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke. FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates. The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so.If FB gets sold for $6 billion, that means the new owning company would need to make $500 million a year for 12 years(!) to break even. Frankly, the Internet will probably be drastically different a decade from now. FB doesn't even make $50 million a year, who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Facebook by spending that much money?I swear some of these big companies just like throwing money at things. Yes, the dot-com bubble is here once again. | null | 1 | 9 | 2007-07-14 03:18:36 UTC |
34,167 | 34,114 | umjames | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | Hmmm...Read news.yc or work on boring enterprise apps at work?That's a tough one :) | null | 4 | 45 | 2007-07-14 03:55:01 UTC |
34,170 | 34,114 | romlet | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | Hah best post title ever :) | null | 12 | 45 | 2007-07-14 04:15:08 UTC |
34,173 | 34,142 | ed | Sign in to AIM, MSN and ICQ using heysan! on your iPhone. | marie | Heysan is now dedicated exclusively to mobile messaging? What happened to flash slide shows? | Show some digg love please: http://digg.com/apple/Heysan_A_lightweight_approach_to_iPhon... | 0 | 6 | 2007-07-14 05:16:33 UTC |
34,174 | 34,168 | deramisan | Write a review trashing this site and get a free PR4 (or PR5) link | deramisan | Good stuff since Google is updating PageRank to the public soon | Sound strange? Well it is, but it's also legit (you can check their PR). | 1 | 2 | 2007-07-14 05:16:34 UTC |
34,177 | 34,168 | rms | Write a review trashing this site and get a free PR4 (or PR5) link | deramisan | I've got a PR4 if anyone wants to trade.www.hotdailymotion.com (nsfw) | Sound strange? Well it is, but it's also legit (you can check their PR). | 0 | 2 | 2007-07-14 05:37:36 UTC |
34,185 | 34,065 | herdrick | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | Go to an academic conference. I went to this one: http://www.icfpconference.org/ last year and it was well worth it. Hunt around for a great class at the local CS department and either figure out a way to enroll or just 'drop in' on the class. I did this too and loved it. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 6 | 13 | 2007-07-14 07:02:30 UTC |
34,187 | 34,114 | euccastro | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | Any reason why you can't downvote news entries? | null | 3 | 45 | 2007-07-14 07:50:40 UTC |
34,188 | 34,114 | mdolon | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | Hmm.. let's try some reasoning.Building a startup correctly takes research and knowledge (out of many things), which, if tallied as part of the building process, amounts to work. The various resources and the affluent discourse presented by news.YC presents knowledge in a host of fields, but is primarily focused on the subject of startups, as hinted by the title of the aforementioned site. Thus, we can deduce that by being on this site and reading this topic, in an attempt to further our startup knowledge through means of discourse, is in fact 'work.'In theory, I am working on my startup by being on this site, possibly by even reading this thread.Of course, when all is said and done you could have probably been working on your startup instead of reading all of the above BS. :) | null | 2 | 45 | 2007-07-14 08:12:39 UTC |
34,194 | 34,192 | staunch | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | Forced to choose one, I'd say What Business Can Learn From Open Source (http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html). I've felt that stuff for a long time but I was never able to articulate it like PG did. Now I just give people that essay and tell them "This will help explain where I'm coming from." | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 4 | 14 | 2007-07-14 11:43:47 UTC |
34,196 | 34,114 | adnam | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | If I'm writing this, I'm not working on my startup. | null | 7 | 45 | 2007-07-14 11:53:25 UTC |
34,197 | 34,114 | staunch | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | I wonder how many people think this then spend countless hours playing games/watching TV and other mindless forms of entertainment.
| null | 11 | 45 | 2007-07-14 11:55:44 UTC |
34,202 | 34,168 | deramisan | Write a review trashing this site and get a free PR4 (or PR5) link | deramisan | According to my PR calculator you have PR 1 :/ | Sound strange? Well it is, but it's also legit (you can check their PR). | 2 | 2 | 2007-07-14 12:58:57 UTC |
34,203 | 34,192 | chwolfe | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | Beating The Averages
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
| http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 0 | 14 | 2007-07-14 13:08:07 UTC |
34,207 | 34,192 | awt | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | 1. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html2. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 5 | 14 | 2007-07-14 14:07:35 UTC |
34,208 | 34,114 | redrory | If you are reading this you are not working on your startup. | awt | /sigh | null | 15 | 45 | 2007-07-14 14:14:20 UTC |
34,210 | 34,192 | daniel-cussen | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 12 | 14 | 2007-07-14 14:34:00 UTC |
34,211 | 34,176 | mynameishere | The greatest economic boom ever? | pg | The first greatest economic boom came with the mass replacement of animal power with steam power.The second greatest economic boom started around 1910 with the coming widespread deployment of automobiles, airplanes, indoor plumbing, refrigeration, radio and telephones. | null | 2 | 17 | 2007-07-14 14:46:43 UTC |
34,212 | 34,192 | mattculbreth | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | Beating the Averages and The Python Paradox | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 11 | 14 | 2007-07-14 14:52:51 UTC |
34,217 | 34,192 | Goladus | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html - What You'll Wish You'd Known | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 1 | 14 | 2007-07-14 15:24:38 UTC |
34,218 | 34,200 | pg | Facebook outshines Google as Silicon Valley elite gather to ponder the next big thing | gibsonf1 | Here too apparently. Currently 6/30 stories on the front page have the word "Facebook" in them. | null | 2 | 4 | 2007-07-14 15:39:22 UTC |
34,221 | 34,176 | patrickg-zill | The greatest economic boom ever? | pg | I think a large part of it is related to Internet-enabled service delivery, so that for instance, HP can hire people in Manila to provide services to companies in USA and Europe. Another part of it is the economic modernizing going on - 2 years ago when I was in Manila, Philippines, you needed to have cash when shopping or eating out, and houses/condos were sold for cash (you had 48 monthly payments at 0% interest at the end of which you owned the place). When I was there a few months ago, you could get mortgages up to 20 years long and the bug bundle of cash I brought was irrelevant - every store except street vendors took credit cards.Danger is that the increases in real estate worldwide could give us the mother of all asset bubbles, everywhere, simultaneously. | null | 0 | 17 | 2007-07-14 16:04:12 UTC |
34,222 | 34,192 | sabhishek | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html my all time fav. | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 2 | 14 | 2007-07-14 16:17:36 UTC |
34,227 | 34,226 | exogen | Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names | exogen | Instant Domain Search taken to the next level. Sorting by length and readability is a great idea. | It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas. | 3 | 24 | 2007-07-14 17:14:09 UTC |
34,229 | 34,228 | amichail | Which Y Combinator startup(s) have been the best source(s) of ideas for you (not necessarily ideas that you will pursue)? | amichail | For me, they are justin.tv, likebetter.com, and reddit.com. | null | 2 | 1 | 2007-07-14 17:22:35 UTC |
34,230 | 34,226 | joshwa | Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names | exogen | well, there goes another one of my startup ideas... I suppose there's room for more than one in the market, though, as it's an implementation game. | It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas. | 8 | 24 | 2007-07-14 17:27:42 UTC |
34,231 | 34,228 | twism | Which Y Combinator startup(s) have been the best source(s) of ideas for you (not necessarily ideas that you will pursue)? | amichail | news.yc | null | 3 | 1 | 2007-07-14 17:33:54 UTC |
34,232 | 34,192 | dfranke | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | I don't think I would have survived high school if I hadn't read "Why Nerds Are Unpopular". | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 9 | 14 | 2007-07-14 17:52:58 UTC |
34,235 | 34,200 | 9898123912837 | Facebook outshines Google as Silicon Valley elite gather to ponder the next big thing | gibsonf1 | this article has no substance...the only interesting part is that jim breyer wears funky socks. | null | 1 | 4 | 2007-07-14 18:50:19 UTC |
34,238 | 34,226 | dshah | Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names | exogen | Once you have a few domain names picked, you can use http://www.DomainGrader.com (still in alpha) to see what score it gets. | It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas. | 0 | 24 | 2007-07-14 19:39:38 UTC |
34,240 | 34,228 | SwellJoe | Which Y Combinator startup(s) have been the best source(s) of ideas for you (not necessarily ideas that you will pursue)? | amichail | Most of the Winter Founders Program groups had some notable impact on our product and business...Talking to Tsumobi and Heysan convinced us to add mobile capabilities to our products. That was a big thing. Tsumobi also gave me some new ideas about APIs and how to make them more valuable.The fact that about half of the groups in WFP were using Ruby On Rails gave us the impetus to add RoR and Ruby Gems support. That one has just been released, so I'm not sure how important it's going to be for the majority of our customers. But it's probably good for buzz.I got lots of good feedback on our new website during development from overhear.us, and then here on News.YC once it launched publicly.Alexis' (of reddit) stuff about getting publicity on the cheap was inspiring, and we're starting to put some of it into practice now...I expect it'll be a good thing. Reddit also has awesome design.I liberally stole design ideas from Wufoo and SocialMoth and Overhear.us.Zenter and Octopart were awesome to watch presenting. I hope I picked up a few things.We added a template-based WYSIWYG website builder to our product after Weebly dragged their feet on launching some sort of call-back API. (We'd still like to call out to Weebly, if they ever add an API, but that may not make business sense for them.)Talking to Beau from Snipshot was also useful. Not sure what exactly we got out of it, but I seem to recall he brought up a lot of fantastic ideas in a very short period of time.Hmmm...That's the bits that spring to mind. I'm sure I'm leaving off something... | null | 0 | 1 | 2007-07-14 20:01:05 UTC |
34,244 | 34,192 | amichail | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | Hackers and Painters
http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.htmlSee also my view on this here:
http://weblog.fortnow.com/2006/07/science-and-art-of-computa... | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 7 | 14 | 2007-07-14 20:21:17 UTC |
34,246 | 34,226 | waleedka | Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names | exogen | Excellent. Goes to show that even when there are great products in the market (like pcnames.com and instantdomainsearch.com), someone will come up with something better.
| It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas. | 2 | 24 | 2007-07-14 20:22:54 UTC |
34,251 | 34,247 | mattculbreth | Dawn of the Dead--on Sun's potential comeback | mattculbreth | Anybody here using Sun in their startup? They are marketing to startups now. I am looking at the Try and Buy deals now. | null | 0 | 1 | 2007-07-14 21:10:42 UTC |
34,254 | 34,226 | plusbryan | Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names | exogen | excellent work! i love this | It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas. | 6 | 24 | 2007-07-14 21:38:07 UTC |
34,261 | 34,226 | deramisan | Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names | exogen | That's a good one - but upon testing it does produce a lot of domains quickly that are similar, using only a few of the list of keywords in some cases. Still worth my upvote tho. | It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas. | 1 | 24 | 2007-07-14 22:49:28 UTC |
34,262 | 34,241 | deramisan | Nobody Cares About Your Design! | nickb | Certainly doesn't matter as much as we like to think | null | 0 | 2 | 2007-07-14 22:58:42 UTC |
34,263 | 34,193 | deramisan | "At Harvard they have this policy where if you pass too many classes they ask you to leave." | staunch | True true | null | 2 | 10 | 2007-07-14 22:59:30 UTC |
34,271 | 34,260 | willarson | Digg Founder Kevin Rose's Pownce Raises Privacy Concerns | deramisan | Its great to see people who haven't used a service making misguided claims. Pownce's advertisements are akin to those on Facebook's recent update page: they are simple text ads.
Nothing about them, and certainly nothing about the quote used in the article, suggest that they are using note context to target audiences.
This kind of article with haphazard speculation is no signal and all noise. | null | 1 | 1 | 2007-07-15 01:19:03 UTC |
34,273 | 34,269 | gibsonf1 | List of TechStars companies (6 out of the 10 are listed) | vegashacker | Noticeably lacking are any business applications, which I think are the next big (profitable) thing in web 2.0 (I am a bit biased on this, but I think the time has arrived) | null | 0 | 8 | 2007-07-15 01:38:11 UTC |
34,274 | 34,189 | willarson | I coded a blog and a digg / reddit style application | 7media | Jean, your site is pleasant, but it doesn't have anything to distinguish itself from established entities in the same field (Digg and Reddit among others). Your application needs to have something distinct and interesting about it. At this point is essentially a Digg clone down to even the small details like "bury it" and the box that shows the number of Diggs... eh... votes.
Chalk this up as a loss. You probably learned a lot doing it, and thats what you should take away from it. Without a sizable user base you won't get funding for this website. You need to satisfy a need that isn't being satisfied, or satisfy an existing need better than it is currently being satisfied.
If you blog is doing well by all means move your focus to that while you look for a more original idea to implement. I hope things go well for you, I can sympathize with your situation, as I too have learned that "If you build it they will come" isn't always quite true. | I coded a digg and reddit style application and also my blog (www.irintech.com/x1/) . this is not exactly my question, I did quite a bit of this with zero VC money, and it was not popular, well my blog is getting hits. I would like to know what application be in a look a like or something out of the blue, will kick in users and not specific about vc funding, but yes will help with a point.Thanks
Jean | 0 | 1 | 2007-07-15 01:43:57 UTC |
34,278 | 34,277 | nurall | How to use auto-generated tags? | nurall | 1. For a suggest feature in search?2. For tags display of content?3. Improving the auto-generated tag system through validation, in an attempt to not completely rely on user generated tags? | 1. For a suggest feature in search?
2. For tags display of content?
3. Improving the auto-generated tag system through validation, in an attempt to not completely rely on user generated tags? | 0 | 3 | 2007-07-15 01:52:36 UTC |
34,283 | 34,281 | rms | Ask YC: Reasonably Priced Office Chairs? | tx | If you cruise the hot deals forums, sub-$100 and sub-$50 office chairs come up all the time. They don't compare to Aerons, but they're really cheap.Try browsing/searching www.fatwallet.com and http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=40&for... | Gentleman, during my years as a full time software engineer I always suspected that chairs I used to sit on were not cheap.However, after having shopped around I still refuse to believe that decent ergonomic chairs go for about $500. Used ones seem to be only 20% cheaper (on average).Can anybody suggest a decent place to buy? (online or in central Texas area). | 0 | 1 | 2007-07-15 02:27:13 UTC |
34,288 | 34,277 | bootload | How to use auto-generated tags? | nurall | There is a good thread to read on flickr about machine-tags that you can read here ~ http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875/Using rdf you can represent tags as "foo:bar=foobar". So your use is really only limited by the limitations of the format itself. | 1. For a suggest feature in search?
2. For tags display of content?
3. Improving the auto-generated tag system through validation, in an attempt to not completely rely on user generated tags? | 1 | 3 | 2007-07-15 02:54:32 UTC |
34,289 | 34,260 | deramisan | Digg Founder Kevin Rose's Pownce Raises Privacy Concerns | deramisan | There is nothing in the article 'claiming' that Pownce advertisements use note context - the article fully discloses (check the headline for crying out loud) that there are concerns about privacy, not that user privacy has been compromised.There is no claim in the article that Pownce scrapes content, but nor does Pownce's privacy policy state that they don't. So you tell me: if it makes them more money, and they haven't said they won't do it, what will they do?This kind of comment is at least as misleading as a self-professed speculative article it is reponding to.P.S. Which do you work for - Google or Pownce? | null | 0 | 1 | 2007-07-15 02:56:42 UTC |
34,296 | 34,281 | kul | Ask YC: Reasonably Priced Office Chairs? | tx | office depot, we got designated 'heavy use' (8 hours a day) chairs for about $120-$140.Well worth it. | Gentleman, during my years as a full time software engineer I always suspected that chairs I used to sit on were not cheap.However, after having shopped around I still refuse to believe that decent ergonomic chairs go for about $500. Used ones seem to be only 20% cheaper (on average).Can anybody suggest a decent place to buy? (online or in central Texas area). | 2 | 1 | 2007-07-15 03:45:56 UTC |
34,302 | 34,193 | blaaargh | "At Harvard they have this policy where if you pass too many classes they ask you to leave." | staunch | Is that what they call "graduation"?
| null | 1 | 10 | 2007-07-15 04:35:20 UTC |
34,304 | 34,065 | mhidalgo | How does one learn about the latest advances in Computer Science (not fads) to apply and improve your work? | juwo | ocw.mit.edu is where MIT keeps alot of their material for their CS classes, also Berkeley's webcast has video of their classes for each semester. | Note: core stuff like algorithms, new patterns etc. not fads like RoR, Ajax...Stuff that usually sits in abtruse papers, out of mind for the average developer.
Accessible to the average developer, and in a form more easily digestible
(studying research papers is not practical for all). When I picked up the Cormen book recently, I saw lots of new stuff I didnt learn in College. | 12 | 13 | 2007-07-15 05:04:39 UTC |
34,305 | 34,299 | rms | Provisional patent filing tips? | jaed | It should cost less than $500, I believe the filing fee is $125. Getting a lawyer involved will increase the price by several thousand.I'd recommend the Nolo Press books on the topic. http://www.nolo.com/product.cfm/ObjectID/1F0E4794-D236-43C3-... You can buy the pdf online or if you don't mind violating international copyright law they're mostly available on emule. | What experience have you guys had with filing patents, particularly provisionals? At Startup School one of the speakers mentioned that you could do it yourself for around $500 or so. Anyone have any insight into this or tried doing it themselves? Any links to good how-to's would be great. Thanks for the help! | 1 | 2 | 2007-07-15 05:08:47 UTC |
34,306 | 34,228 | sabhishek | Which Y Combinator startup(s) have been the best source(s) of ideas for you (not necessarily ideas that you will pursue)? | amichail | For me it is the news..get the right buzz at the right time. | null | 1 | 1 | 2007-07-15 05:09:41 UTC |
34,310 | 34,299 | ph0rque | Provisional patent filing tips? | jaed | This is what we did in my previous start-up: we wrote up the process of all that we were doing, then researched as much as possible about what kinds of patents already existed in our field, and rewrote what we had to avoid infringing on those. The research was the hardest part, but now http://www.google.com/patents should be a big help. Then, we took what we had to a lawyer and asked him for advice. He ended up helping us file the prov. for less than $400. | What experience have you guys had with filing patents, particularly provisionals? At Startup School one of the speakers mentioned that you could do it yourself for around $500 or so. Anyone have any insight into this or tried doing it themselves? Any links to good how-to's would be great. Thanks for the help! | 0 | 2 | 2007-07-15 05:35:30 UTC |
34,311 | 34,299 | henning | Provisional patent filing tips? | jaed | Don't? | What experience have you guys had with filing patents, particularly provisionals? At Startup School one of the speakers mentioned that you could do it yourself for around $500 or so. Anyone have any insight into this or tried doing it themselves? Any links to good how-to's would be great. Thanks for the help! | 4 | 2 | 2007-07-15 06:02:22 UTC |
34,312 | 34,299 | yagibear | Provisional patent filing tips? | jaed | Phil Emma of IBM has written in recent issues of IEEE Micro a useful (IMHO) series of 2 page articles about patenting. No-nonsense tips from someone with over 100 IT patents. | What experience have you guys had with filing patents, particularly provisionals? At Startup School one of the speakers mentioned that you could do it yourself for around $500 or so. Anyone have any insight into this or tried doing it themselves? Any links to good how-to's would be great. Thanks for the help! | 3 | 2 | 2007-07-15 06:04:29 UTC |
34,314 | 34,193 | zach | "At Harvard they have this policy where if you pass too many classes they ask you to leave." | staunch | Man, Stallman is like the prime example of what happens when your nerdiness gets stuck in a feedback loop. Not that I haven't known others, believe me. | null | 0 | 10 | 2007-07-15 06:18:02 UTC |
34,318 | 34,281 | thingsilearned | Ask YC: Reasonably Priced Office Chairs? | tx | Craigslist, though it may take a little while. I spent our first to weeks in CA in a wood chair at a very tall kitchen table. But we soon found a guy getting rid of 40 chairs and we got 4 for $6 a piece. | Gentleman, during my years as a full time software engineer I always suspected that chairs I used to sit on were not cheap.However, after having shopped around I still refuse to believe that decent ergonomic chairs go for about $500. Used ones seem to be only 20% cheaper (on average).Can anybody suggest a decent place to buy? (online or in central Texas area). | 1 | 1 | 2007-07-15 07:10:43 UTC |
34,319 | 34,180 | chaostheory | Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free | ivan | This is a great way to learn how to program production rails... | I know it's OT, but ... | 0 | 5 | 2007-07-15 07:36:09 UTC |
34,320 | 34,299 | nurall | Provisional patent filing tips? | jaed | chk this out http://www.patentwizard.com/ along with the nolo.com book, you should be good to go | What experience have you guys had with filing patents, particularly provisionals? At Startup School one of the speakers mentioned that you could do it yourself for around $500 or so. Anyone have any insight into this or tried doing it themselves? Any links to good how-to's would be great. Thanks for the help! | 2 | 2 | 2007-07-15 08:12:22 UTC |
34,323 | 34,226 | seer | Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names | exogen | wow! that thing is simply amazing - I remember just a month ago we did a domain hunt for our app, and it was so slow and frustrating. But with this I found a couple of great names in a matter of minutes! Definitely goes to my favs!
| It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas. | 5 | 24 | 2007-07-15 09:14:44 UTC |
34,330 | 34,329 | rchambers | Angels with Angles | rchambers | Excellent article on the behavior of angel investors. | Angel investors are changing. Here's what they're looking for, how they operate, and (because the devil is in the exit strategy) what they expect for their money... | 0 | 3 | 2007-07-15 10:35:47 UTC |
34,341 | 34,339 | sharpshoot | Google's Brin on Facebook: "If they come to us, we'd certainly be open to talking" | mattculbreth | I think Facebook should buy Google. | null | 0 | 1 | 2007-07-15 17:52:30 UTC |
34,345 | 34,328 | mattculbreth | The 80-hour Myth (Your best work is in bursts, surrounded by periods of dullness and inactivity) | tomh | I'm glad somebody has said this. I work in bursts myself and it's refreshing to hear that it's common. Coincidentally this also makes me feel better for time spent on news.yc and programming.reddit.
| null | 2 | 37 | 2007-07-15 18:15:30 UTC |
34,348 | 34,192 | dawie | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | My favorite one is:
http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.htmlAnd this one really inspired me.
http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
| http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 8 | 14 | 2007-07-15 18:59:05 UTC |
34,352 | 34,308 | mattculbreth | Feeling Low on Motivation? | jmtame | Did you really overload Paul's server? | null | 0 | 7 | 2007-07-15 19:50:26 UTC |
34,353 | 34,328 | edu | The 80-hour Myth (Your best work is in bursts, surrounded by periods of dullness and inactivity) | tomh | I feel identified, and that is why I hate too much to work on traditional 9-18h (or whatever) working days and tight schedules. It's not unusual when I spend 6 h. on a 2 h. programming task only because I can't get into the flow, and then I finish a 4 h task in one.Ah, I really need to startup ;) | null | 3 | 37 | 2007-07-15 19:50:51 UTC |
34,354 | 34,328 | spiralhead | The 80-hour Myth (Your best work is in bursts, surrounded by periods of dullness and inactivity) | tomh | I agree with the "productivity comes in spurts" sentiment. I typically have about 2-4 hours of real productive brain chemistry per day--where my mind is conducive to creating something, or solving something. This usually comes in the morning for me. The rest of the day, I spend reading/exchanging info with other people--which all ends up getting assimilated into my work somehow, after a good sleep.
| null | 4 | 37 | 2007-07-15 19:57:29 UTC |
34,356 | 34,200 | Tichy | Facebook outshines Google as Silicon Valley elite gather to ponder the next big thing | gibsonf1 | I don't understand facebook :-( From Germany, it seems completely unusable. OK, after some searching I found a group called "Germany" to join. Cool - that should be really useful...The design of Facebook sucks, too (in my opinion).
| null | 0 | 4 | 2007-07-15 20:05:35 UTC |
34,362 | 34,358 | willarson | Xinu: More Stats For Any Site | rchambers | Unfortunately it seems that Xinu's site is down at this point. I tried Popuri just now and they both seem like mashups of screenscraping/public api content. Not too hard to do, but still interesting.
Both of these sites seem somewhat parasitic: they exclusively use other people's content. Are these other sites really benefitting from their data being used like this?
Not really sure what those kanji mean together. Taking the characters' individual meanings I'd make up something like "inside the letter", but its probably idiomatic Chinese and means something completely different. | Xinu is a service that provides a comprehensive overview of page statistics and data that leaves cookie-cutter sites such as Popuri for dead. | 0 | 2 | 2007-07-15 20:45:17 UTC |
34,364 | 34,226 | brianmckenzie | Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names | exogen | Wow, this is one of the coolest things I've seen in awhile. Nice work! | It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas. | 7 | 24 | 2007-07-15 20:58:28 UTC |
34,365 | 34,363 | epi0Bauqu | Does anyone know of a web app for personal relationship management? | myoung8 | Ever heard of ACT! (exclamation point is part of it): http://www.act.com/?Not sure they have a web app, but they are one of many popular software apps that accomplish what you are talking about. I remember having ACT! 2.0 in the mid-90s.I'm looking at their site and I don't see a web app, though I'm not sure and I think it would absolutely crazy if they didn't. | I'm reading Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferazzi (not a great book, but highlights the importance of sustaining relationships) and I'm trying to find something online to help me with what will be an incredibly tedious task if I don't.I know about Plaxo and LinkedIn, but neither does quite what I want. I need something that lets me keep track of when I last spoke to someone and lets me tag people as being in different categories (i.e. business contact, old friend, acquaintance, etc.). Anyone know of something out there that can do this? | 1 | 4 | 2007-07-15 21:33:25 UTC |
34,366 | 34,363 | epi0Bauqu | Does anyone know of a web app for personal relationship management? | myoung8 | Here it is: http://www.act.com/products/web/, but it still doesn't look like simply the personal version just on the Web. | I'm reading Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferazzi (not a great book, but highlights the importance of sustaining relationships) and I'm trying to find something online to help me with what will be an incredibly tedious task if I don't.I know about Plaxo and LinkedIn, but neither does quite what I want. I need something that lets me keep track of when I last spoke to someone and lets me tag people as being in different categories (i.e. business contact, old friend, acquaintance, etc.). Anyone know of something out there that can do this? | 6 | 4 | 2007-07-15 21:37:03 UTC |
34,368 | 34,192 | pramodbiligiri | Favorite PG essay? | terpua | What You'll Wish You'd Known: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html | http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.htmlMy fellow friends and I identify :) | 10 | 14 | 2007-07-15 22:02:13 UTC |