shuri

there's a fine line between fighting bullying and bullying the bullies.

An attempt to set academic knowledge free should be celebrated and commended not penalized. Certainly not used to bully people like this.

because the government used to be accountable

It takes a lot of character to look at a lot of money in the eye and say no thanks.

Very nice. Some thoughts.

The old slideshow was amazingly annoying. You click, it slides by slowly but doesn't reveal the text. You wait some more until the text slowly fades in...nope not interesting. You click again. I would still make the text fade in faster.

The new layout looks very nice. I would make the hover details appear faster as well, only a sliver of time after the play button appears.

The title in the hover-details should be more obviously clickable. Personally, I really don't like having to blindly mouse around until I stumble upon something clickable (even though it seems like the trendy thing to do).

I liked outliers. It could have been more direct but I liked it.

I suspect people will disagree but my top two would be: 1. Yahoo is not Google and that's o.k 2. Take the time to understand Yahoo before doing anything drastic.

very cool

If the hole that let them in hasn't been closed yet, changing the password will make that password vulnerable, right?

So what would you do if you were Godaddy? I say it would have to come from Daddy himself. He would have to say something to the effect of: Obviously we have mistepped here and we are taking it as a wake-up call. We are here because of our customers and in the future we will do all we can to listen to them and defend their interests and rights. Later actually do that.

captcha...

I agree with the general sentiment of more respect for the users privacy. However, if you don't block all facebook social widgets completely, facebook will receive that information anyway and then this just seems like an inconvenience. Right?

I wonder if he has the rights to use the code himself and/or allow others to use the code. The code is likely a product of a combination of specs, discussions, and his own work.

my 2c. Nice design (graphics). I would make the first page seem less busy. BuiltWith is going to be a tough competitor. You need to match them (precision/recall) and add stuff that they don't have (trending techs? Add info: who is the host provider? where in the world is it hosted? Response times? Bad link stats?...?)

It's really nice to see Google with a clear direction, operate with determination, going "all in", consolidate it's different offerings into something that will, I'm guessing, be greater than the sum of the parts.

I was hoping to see more discussion on the actual premise here. For example, should dropbox open source? Should squarespace open source? What did reddit get out of open sourcing (karma?)? Wordpress obviously benefited from of an amazing supporting complementary ecosystem at the same time they turned their own product into a commodity. Love to hear what you think.

What would be interesting is if a random set of the unaccepted got the same opportunities as the accepted. But that's not possible...

Instead what yc needs to do is accept a control group and see if there is any correlation between being chosen and eventual success. Then again...

The question is how can you get UberMedia on board.

This is a relevant research paper I found interesting: "Several differences exist between healthy perfectionists and the dysfunctional perfectionists..."

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/NRCGT/reports/rm99140/rm99140.pd...

He seems to be doing a lot of good stuff: http://thisweekin.com , the launch conference http://launch.is , http://openangelforum.com/

Could this be a move to get the H.264 patent holders to release their patent hold on the standard?

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technical details?

In memcached, caching smaller things should allow more to be cached. On the Postgres side, when the disks are hard at work any access is expensive but reading less should still help. Depending on the query you can try to get it to read less. In other situations maybe just turn stuff off. I don't know the specifics but simple things like not displaying the exact number of comments may help (counting stuff can be frustratingly expensive sometimes).

Start with graceful degradation when things get tough? (Less comments, top friends,...).

The guy should rename _his_ language to issue 9 and he will get the good will and publicity :).

That's encouraging.

I wrote a short reply in http://shuri.org/?node=news&id=73675 Basically, it's not just entrepreneur vs non-entrepreneur, there's a whole hierarchy...