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Elfan
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Companies would be interested in saving on cooling costs if its not providing any significant benefit.
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Union Square Ventures funds Adaptive Blue
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jmzachary
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Yes, really. That's not to say I'm uninterested in the role that news.ycombinator will play in their application process, too. Once word gets out, it will be very interesting to see what kind of traffic is posted and how the signal/noise ratio changes.
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Startup Hopes to Create Online Marketplace for Open Parking Spaces
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ninwa
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This comment added through the comment page of a new news story. Note: If you came from the news story, click comment up above. : )
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ninwa
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Blast, meant to do a self-referential post and instead accidentally linked my post to one of my comments instead! Oh well.
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Rumor: Confabb To Be Acquired By End Of Month
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dankelley
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In case you're interested in reading the report, it's at http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf at least as of 20070220. The report has quite a few graphs, but it has a surprisingly unstatistical flavour about it.
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ninwa
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Really? I was most interested in the role that news.ycombinator.com is going to play in their application process. I think that it's an absolutely great idea and not only helps Paul but start-up-would-be's as well.
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chris
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Great site! RSS feed would also be useful for those of us who use an aggregator.
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Polls and hotornot interesting mashup
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How Jobs played hardball in iPhone birth (WSJ)
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ninwa
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This is great. It's always a pain in the neck to open up an editor to do something as small as resize to make an avatar. Another thing I like about this is that the image is already in your browser and to-size, so you can kind of get a feel for how it's going to look on an actual page.
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Is lesser number of results better for Search - First search engine powered by PowerSET
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SwellJoe
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Wow. These "crackpot" ideas are so 2004 (some were stupid in 2004 and are still stupid today). But I guess the enterprise hasn't gotten them yet.
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Getting right with Usability Jesus
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Click on the lady who looks better.. so hot and HOtorNOT no login required
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HotorNOT redefined - No login required vote to your hearts content
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The Limits of Genius: Long-Term Capital Management
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Does Sergey Brin read YCombinator and Paul Graham?
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Easy way to test EVERYTHING in your Rails app
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I Dropped Out of Grad School Today
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timg
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To take over the world? Well this will help out y-combinator and the whole startup community for sure.
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ecuzzillo
1,172,021,742
I commented on a topic yesterday, but today I can't find my comment, or any discussion that might have resulted from it. Obvious ways to fix this include search, a list of comments with permalinks in my profile, or a way to get beyond the front page to get to older links.
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Funny YC didnt gzip their Content ;) so much for Arc
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ninwa
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It's brave to drop everything you've been working so hard for in sights of opportunity, but is it really in the electronic part search market? Sorry, I don't mean to sound negative, but a PhD in physics would have opened such a large expanse of possibilities. You're going to throw it away for a chance at more women and on the whim of one man (PG's) advice. Best of luck.
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henning
1,172,028,952
I take it this place is basically startup/tech entrepreneurship-related stuff rather than being like programming.reddit. Great, another social news site I'll check compulsively.
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timg
1,172,021,786
We admire your ambition. You'll do well.
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mridlen
1,172,027,116
I really like they way this website is set up.
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Zak
1,172,031,912
Ruby on Rails? Check. Rounded corners? Check. prototype.js? Check. Buzzwords? Check. Home page includes a blog? Check. Yep, it's Web 2.0.
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Elfan
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The Google paper in the headlines was presented at the "5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07). This paper won "best of".
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Hard Drive Myths: The Best Paper of FAST 2007 (won over the Google one)
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joe
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Scriggle-it: the ultimate fan management solution for any musician
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thinman
1,172,027,185
Holy smokes! I've been looking for something like this for ages! rawk
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akkartik
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Depends on how far along the PhD he is.<p>The social argument was bizarre, I agree. Campuses are great places to meet new people; most of my friends agree that starting work is socially a step down. And they're at least working for large corporations with lots of people in them. Working insane hours at a startup it's unrealistic to expect your social life to be an improvement relative to *anything*.
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nostrademons
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Why Good Strategies Fail
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timg
1,172,034,548
A more visible footer on this page? Just so I can tell if it actually finished loading. Also, at least being able to have paragraphs would be great.
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motoko
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bullshit/business_plan == INF
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whatsreal
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web 2.0 and web s.3xy ...well sort of ;)
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projectileboy
1,172,034,230
It's a little unfair to chalk it up *just* to balls. I've got one of those cushy, fat, boring Java jobs, because I have a wife and three kids, and it turns out they like eating. And wearing clothes. So, for the time-being, I'm working at night on the tools and technologies that I think I want to use, so that I'll be ready once I've saved enough dough (and karma with the family, given the probable time commitment) to self-finance for 6 months. What about the rest of you? Any other working moms or dads out there scheming to launch start-ups? If so, how do you plan to make that happen?
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amichail
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I suspect that startups are for more creative people. So you need to decide whether to pursue an analytical phd or a more creative startup. BTW, you might find this discussion interesting: http://weblog.fortnow.com/2006/07/science-and-art-of-computation.html
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Zak
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underscore_consulting on building a successful Web 2.0 startup [video]
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greendestiny
1,172,029,756
A PhD is really a lot of grind especially at the end. I don't think you can really do both a startup and a PhD well at the same time. You can't really do either without a reasonable level of commitment so if your heart is with the start-up I say go with it. As for the chicks... I've gotta say they dig the title Dr...
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akkartik
1,172,034,594
I've gotten used to using submit to find the reddit discussion for a page. Turns out there's no duplication-detection here on news.yc yet. Apologies. Nice that they allow editing the title.
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staunch
1,172,035,621
I'm extremely excited about this site. Startup stuff has always been by far my biggest interest in Reddit since it launched. As Reddit has grown my interest has faded considerably. Long live YC News!
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rtm
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Apache Performance Tuning Tips
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andres
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I saw him and JL tonight and they were pretty freaked out. It's cool though- I got a nice t-shirt out of it.
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Nick_Smith
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Startup.com - the movie
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JMiao
1,172,045,206
At no disrespect to Evan Williams, I think the nail went into the coffin for Odeo when its own creators weren't its best users, i.e. they didn't podcast themselves, so their podcasting tools failed to deliver for the rest of the podcasting community. Coming out of college, I had a few friends ask if I wanted to join their startup. I ended up politely declining on the grounds that I simply wouldn't have been a &#34;good user&#34; of what their team was trying to build. I essentially told them, &#34;How can I understand and champion our users if I'm not a user myself?&#34; This same philosophy applied when I had to turn down Microsoft one summer because I felt I wouldn't be happy and, therefore, couldn't give my best working on a product that I didn't use.
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andres
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Whoah! Give me a little more credit than that! Octopart is a startup which we've only been working on for three months- we're no where close to being done. So far as my comments about women and society go, I think they will resonate with physics grad students and probably a few others. Otherwise, I agree, they don't make sense.
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whatsreal
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Archive of Google Papers. Interesting, but technical.
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brett
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SF Beta
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staunch
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This has got to make PG nervous. How many people's life is he affecting? :-) He's definitely had an impact on my priorities in a very big and positive way. I hope everyone who makes changes based on his inspiration and motivation does it with a clear head and can take responsiblity for the decision and outcome.
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wicked
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The Game is Afoot - Classic from Eric Sink
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Nick_Smith
1,172,042,522
Nothing with such a dumb name will ever catch on but it might be good buyout-bait.
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Terror9
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awesome! thanks so much
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ratlaw
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Husband and Wife bootstrapped startup
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whatsreal
1,172,038,730
HaHa! Yes thank you Paul, I was just about to swear off of Reddit for good, and this is the tipping point. I will probably still visit there to get my inane fun for the day, but I wont spend time looking through 4-5 pages of backlogs for the good articles.
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Log on, drop out, cash in
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iamelgringo
1,172,037,785
Hang in there. I've been there. It gets better.
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andres
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Attack of the mini-Googles!
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And There Goes The First Month
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Marketplace wanted for websites
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whatsreal
1,172,038,627
I agree entirely. I am just out of undergrad, and working is a major step down socially. If it weren't for my Customer Service job I would probably interact with no more than 5 people a day (in order: my wife, boss, coworkers, wife.) (Unless you count here and Reddit.) It seems to me that he was just using his girl count as an objective measure of his social life.
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How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs
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andres
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20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
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ashu
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Web2.0 HOW-TO design style guide
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And There Goes The First Month
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kul
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Feature Bloat: The Product Manager's Dilemma
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Hints for proposing deals . . . (or, &#34;My word, this inbox is a mess&#34;)
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ced
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A PhD in physics today opens up some opportunities in the one very specific field that you studied. Getting post-doctoral positions is hard; there isn't that much money floating around. I know that I'm dropping out soon.
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And There Goes The First Month
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Ten rules for web startups
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How to Interview a Programmer
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ruslan
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VoIM interop startup: lets you make free calls between Yahoo, MSN, GTalk and SIP
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Digg to support OpenID
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http://www.whatisleft.org/lookie_here/2005/09/want_to_do_busi.html
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Hints for proposing deals . . . (or, &#34;My word, this inbox is a mess&#34;)
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I often wonder if there are good opportunities for (non-web) startups in physics/science. The state of programming in there is abysmal, in my experience. There must be thousands of Fortran implementations of finite element codes out there, each with dozens of non-trivial bugs. It's absurd that physicists do so much low-level programming and optimization on their own.
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Since community-building is part of the goal of this site, could you include an optional &#34;location&#34; field in the profile? I'm interested in getting in touch personally with other people in my area.
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staunch
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That movie is really great -- the title is perfect. I think it's basically a lesson in what not to do. Two non-hackers start a company and skip the make-a-great-product stage completely. Watching them it feels like borderline fraud. -- I bought Spolsky's &#34;Aardvark&#34; documentary and enjoyed it a lot, but I wish it had more YC in it. I wish YC funded two guys to make a documentary about YC. If the guys were good at it maybe they could create a product around that. Maybe something that makes it easy for &#34;normal&#34; people to make documentaries.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/communications/0,39044835,61975097,00.htm
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Rocky climb for mobile IM
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volida
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I up-voted a comment by mistake and there doesn't seem to be a way to remove my vote. One of the main reasons I was visiting Reddit in the beggining, was the high probability to find start-up articles and a place for discussion. So, this site is defenetely going to be my new point of reference, and for lots of others too.
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Creativity rules everywhere. A good Ph.D. from a good school requires tons of creativity.
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As someone who did a PhD in a creative kind of computer science field and felt frustrated by the success of those who choose more trodden PhD paths - I was going to agree with this. But in start-ups as well as PhDs success is defined by the number of people you give value to not how creative you were.
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http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html
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O'Reilly 2003 classic: &#34;Piracy is Progressive Taxation&#34;
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InfectiousGreed/~3/93089844/where_is_the_fr.html
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Where is the Freshbooks of Accounting?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6341987.stm
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Freeze 'condemned Neanderthals'
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http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_02_12/feature.html
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The Fall of Modernity
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http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/02/13/facebooks_littl.html
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Facebook's little digital gift
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Georgia Business Launch 2007--$100k cash prize for winning startup business
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staunch
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&#34;At the last YC dinner Joe Krauss talked about...&#34; Okay, that's just not fair. Paul Graham _AND_ Joe Kraus? That's like cheating. How much do I have to pay to have these dinners recorded and published on Google Video? I can't be alone in being willing to pay. (Yeah..I know this is one of the big features of YC so probably not willing to allow recording...*sigh*)
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