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While only a tiny slice of HN readers are at retirement-age, I thought the list would be interesting: no Cambridge, MA for example.

The sales channel representation is one thing - what about the over $1000 part? Maybe Mercedes/BMW also have a pretty nifty % of market share for cars over $35K (say) - that doesn't mean much because there are a ton of choices under that amount. You're still going to see more Fords and Hondas on the road.

"More respondents were worried about U.S. immigration officials (70 percent) than about crime or terrorism (54 percent) when considering a trip to the country."

Agreed, the US seems to be an exceptionally safe country - especially if you happen to come from countries outside of N/W Europe. And I think the average US immigration official would also be considered substantially friendlier than the average consular officer in those countries.

wrt robots.txt, what is the incentive for site owners to prevent duplicate submissions? As a site owner, wouldn't I be happy if both http://www.myadsenseblog.com and http://myadsenseblog.com get submitted? 2x15 minutes of fame!

Is it common for the NYT not to link to sites they talk about? Neither FriendFeed nor Flickr nor Twitter is linked to. The smaller sites could certainly use the link juice.

However, they have linked to sites that everyone knows about: Yahoo and Google.

Is this the first time a twit has been submitted to news.yc?

I deleted it - but seems like I get to keep the +3 in karma upvotes.

Two years after that posting, comes this: http://groups.google.com/group/seattle.general/browse_thread...

Interesting bits: 1. Genesis of Don't Be Evil 2. GMail/Privacy 3. 1-800-GOOG-411 as a speech recognition AI lab 4. The Google Jet

>> ... would be even cooler if the xobni guys worked at one of these big companies and could fully integrate their ideas instead of ...

Unlikely. It because they are a small bunch that they have the flexibility and drive to crank out things so fast. Once they are part of BigCo, the risk is that they might end up as a milestone on the roadmap to Outlook 2010.

TC's post is a little light on the details but Peter Norvig touched on this in his talk at Startup School (Mona Lisa image search)

Hi icey - while that's definitely possible, here's a simpler way:

Right now the username you get (typically something like xy-12345) is actually your Netflix username. So all you need to do is to log in to your Netflix account and set your Netflix username to "icey" and FeedFlix will catch up on the next refresh and your page will be feedflix.com/icey from that point on.

Makes sense? Let me know if it doesn't.

Hey, thanks icey. Let me know if you have any other thoughts or ideas to make it better.

Actually, someone suggested I look at the source code rather than submit a ton of URLs and try to reverse-engineer the logic by looking at the results. Here's the relevant code fron news.arc:

(defmemo sitename (url) (let toks (parse-site url) (if (isa (saferead (car toks)) 'int) (tostring (prall toks "" ".")) (let (t1 t2 t3 . rest) toks (if (or (mem t1 multi-tld-countries) (and t3 (mem t2 long-domains))) (string t3 "." t2 "." t1) (string t2 "." t1))))))

; Minor bug: can have both google.at and google.co.at. Same for jp.

(= multi-tld-countries* '("uk" "jp" "au" "in" "ph" "tr" "za" "my" "nz" "br" "mx" "th" "sg" "id" "pk" "eg" "il" "at"))

(= long-domains* '("blogspot" "wordpress" "livejournal" "blogs" "typepad" "weebly" "blog-city" "com"))

This is the site I am working on - I'd greatly appreciate feedback from HN on what you guys think.

Btw, RWW covered FeedFlix a couple days ago: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/feedflix.php

That caught my eye too kirubakaran.

When I submit http://127.0.0.1:3000, I got "0.1:3000"

I submitted http://localhost:3000 and ended up with ".localhost:3000"

Going with http://192.168.1.104:3000, I ended up with "1.104:3000"

When I go with a bare http://127.0.0.1, I also get the unexpected "1.0.0.127"

I am curious: do any of the founders of YC companies have kids?

Sam Ruby is now a co-author.

When's the API coming out so we can build FriendFeedCube?

Hmmm - just saw this on top of techmeme: http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9920713-60.html

Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU

I think he means a Facebook app. That way you don't need to explicitly email your friends.

But I think there's currently a Facebook app that does something similar, can't recall its name...Questions or something.

Gotta love that first line: "Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren't Facebook"

Mowser = Mo(bile) + (Bro)wser

http://mowser.com is the right link. From their about page: "Mowser lets you view the Web on your mobile phone."

If you're just getting started with Rails, I'll recommend Beginning Rails by Jeffrey Hardy (who now works for 37s).

The only caveat is that it was written for Rails 1.2.3. The book's site is http://beginningrails.com/ and the author replies regularly to questions about the book (or Rails in general) over at http://groups.google.com/group/beginning-rails

Here's Matt Cutts explaining it a little more: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-rev...

I am not that into bloging - but I have got to say that I am really tempted now that you have made it so easy for me to get quality traffic and rake in those AdSense dollars

What might be useful are comments overall like "we received several applications for online invitation services but nothing seemed innovative or compelling enough to us" or "we received a handful of applications for doing x but, in our opinion, the mobile space is where we think that market is headed". I think you once mentioned that you get a ton of hotel/food review website ideas. You've also indicated that you think the email overload management is an area of YC's interest.

Doing this might help at least some of the applicants get some idea. Not everyone is covered by these comments and no one is forced to take your opinion for it but it just helps to get broad feedback.

Summary: The number of good/compelling ideas+team >> Available spots