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This article about Airbnb is above-the-fold on the cover of today's printed San Francisco Chronicle. Noticed it on the newsstands this morning. San Francisco, where Airbnb is headquartered, has begun sending eviction notices to Airbnb hosts all throughout the city for running illegal hotels.

citizenkeyson Ask HN: Is their a website that documents the tech stacks at YC startups

yclist is at least a year out-dated. Should use my list instead: http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies

If you get your project off the ground, send an email to tips@ycuniverse.com and I might write about it.

citizenkeyson Hacker News Turned 7 years old on February 20

Hacker News also got a server upgrade a year ago: http://ycuniverse.com/hacker-news-upgrade

citizenkeyson Burning Man Airport FAQ

Just occurred to me there isn't any fuel there, either. Nearest airport with fuel is KLOL, which is 50 miles away and has 24-hour self-serve 100LL.

Black Rock City Airport Info: http://www.airnav.com/airport/88NV

citizenkeyson Burning Man Airport FAQ

No paved runway, unfortunately. Also no sort of control tower nor air traffic controller. And skydivers still don't get into Burning Man for free.

citizenkeyson Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1

all the companies are listed here: http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies

most of them have already been on techcrunch by the time demo day rolls around.

citizenkeyson Glio (YC S13) Aims To Be The “Yelp of Brazil” And Beyond in Latin America

Summer Olympics 2016 are held in Rio De Janeiro. Glio might consider planning some sort of strategy around that. http://www.olympic.org/rio-2016-summer-olympics

citizenkeyson Bitcasa Offers Infinite Storage for $100

The secret is MD5 hashes on all the files. If you upload a file and the MD5 hash matches another file, then instead of storing the file you're effectively just storing a symlink to the original version of the file.

citizenkeyson YouTube adds Play icon to page titles so you can see which tabs are making noise

In practice, the youtube api has other cases in that switch expression (ENDED, PAUSED, etc). For those, you would use the following in their case statement: document.title = document.title.replace("\u25B6","");

And to revise my original code, this is what you could use in the PLAYING statement to prevent multiple play symbols: document.title = "\u25B6" + document.title.replace("\u25B6","");

Notice, too, that I replaced the "▶" with the appropriate javascript encoding.

citizenkeyson YouTube adds Play icon to page titles so you can see which tabs are making noise

This is a simple javascript that adds a unicode "▶" to the beginning of html page title. This can be easily coded using the youtube javascript api. Just add the following code when the youtube playstate changes to "YT.PlayerState.PLAYING".

The js basically looks like this: function onPlayerStateChange(event) { var player = event.target; switch (event.data) { case YT.PlayerState.PLAYING: document.title = '▶' + document.title; break; } }

citizenkeyson Dropbox (YC S07) Expands Into The Enterprise

How do you mean?

citizenkeyson Tell HN: Bitcoin's 8 decimal places are preventing its adoption.

In the U.S., at least where I've lived, the meter measures gas in cubic feet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas#United_States

citizenkeyson Tell HN: Bitcoin's 8 decimal places are preventing its adoption.

Yeah, I almost acknowledged that myself in the original post. But most people don't know what British Thermal Units are, either. And you can't call them "Bitcoin Cents" because that would also be "BTC".

citizenkeyson Tell HN: Bitcoin's 8 decimal places are preventing its adoption.

A quick Google search shows "satoshis" (the currency) neither mentioned nor used almost anywhere. Also, asking people to understand an entirely new word "satoshis" is almost as confusing as the decimal places.

citizenkeyson Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

Allow a url AND descriptive text on new submissions. Otherwise, the submitter must also write a comment immediately after posting a url simply to elaborate on the url and/or why the url was posted.

citizenkeyson Mark Zuckerberg's First Website

View it directly at AngelFire: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/

The first website I ever made was on Geocities and dedicated to Pimpbot 5000 from Conan O'Brien. The site even had downloadable .wav sound files. I created it using a beta of Microsoft's first version of FrontPage, which Microsoft sent me on a CD-R as part of their beta program back in 1996 right after MS acquired Vermeer.

And how did I get on that FrontPage beta program? I sent an email to Brad Silverberg (bradsi) at Microsoft asking to get on some beta programs. He actually responded to my email and said he'd see what he could do.

citizenkeyson Ask HN: Learning PHP Suggest Book

One of the nice things about php is how convenient it is to find function details and examples: http://php.net/<function_name>;

The left-hand sidebar also lists all related functions.

citizenkeyson Ask HN: Learning PHP Suggest Book

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0672329166

This is "the" php book that everybody uses to learn php and mysql. It's also the book I used years ago. It covers both php and mysql, which is good because both are consistently used together.

citizenkeyson Ask HN: How important is a master's degree?

Work with an academic advisor so the classes for your masters degree plan align with a PhD degree plan. Do that and then work on the PhD. Then if you decide to quit early, you can at least earn a masters degree along the way while working towards a PhD.

citizenkeyson Please name all the people in this photo.

Would like to know the names of all the people in the top photo and their startup companies. The reason is so I can link to their startups in a caption underneath the photo.

If anybody can identify everyone, please let me know. Thanks!

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This picture shows up sometimes on yc-related websites so I decided to use it on http://ycuniverse.com/see-also . I will give credit to the photographer if anybody knows who took the picture.

Can anybody name everybody in the picture? The only ones I know for sure are PG in blue, David Rusenko of Weebly near-middle, and Garry Tan on the far-right. I'd like to list all the people under the picture, like Beatles' "People We Like And Admire" ( http://www.beatlesagain.com/images/whoswho.jpg ).

citizenkeyson Twitter Announces "Twttr" — Starts Charging $5/Month To Tweet Using Vowels

Luckily, Twitter really cares about its users and will offer up the "sometimes Y" free of charge... forever. Also free are vowels in link URLs.

So none of us are affected as long as they continue the free "sometimes Y".

citizenkeyson Show HN: Simple HTML pitch decks for your startup

The best pitch deck is simply telling the investor you didn't make a pitch deck because you were busy making a real product.

citizenkeyson The Road to Y Combinator - Part 1

Just read your blog post. Thanks for the link and good luck. I may write a blog post about a few changes to the YC application. If your startup has a working prototype and you want some press, post or email me the link. I will mention it in a blog post.

My one comment for every applicant: Realize the "3% chance" is often misunderstood. It's in one of PG's essays, but I can't find which one specifically. The 3% chance doesn't mean that all applicants have a 3% chance. It means that 3% of applicants have a really great chance and 97% have no chance. So your odds of getting an interview are either really good or non-existent.

citizenkeyson Watsi (YC W13) and the Future of Patronage

I'm working on a blog post right now about YC-funded charity and philanthropy companies. Watsi is the only official non-profit, but YC has funded at least 5 companies that focus on social good. Charity is giving. Philanthropy is doing.

http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies?market=charity+a...

citizenkeyson Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes YC W13)

Fixed. Added a new mod_rewrite only for page requests that lack a query string:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$

RewriteRule ^ycombinator-companies$ /cache/ycombinator-companies [PT]

citizenkeyson Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes YC W13)

Yes. But do you know what YC round they are? I've known about Svbtle, but didn't add them because I couldn't figure out what round they are and couldn't find an answer on HN.

citizenkeyson Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes YC W13)

Created a static version of the page that completely avoids the database altogether. The reason I don't use a cached version of the page already is because filtering the companies by market requires accessing the database (at the moment). I was coding a permanent solution to that yesterday and will have it finished sometime later today.

citizenkeyson Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes YC W13)

Was rebooting the server to adjust some performance issues. Also caching a bunch of stuff to use static pages instead of hitting the database.

citizenkeyson Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes YC W13)

I will be updating this throughout the day as company pitches from Demo Day start showing up on TechCrunch and elsewhere.