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Hi Kevin, Thank you for your feedback. The '^' was meant to reveal a translation feature that I was working on, but I suppose 'Open All' would be a more worthwhile feature to implement. The markdown on HN makes it a little tricky to render comments (with their nesting), but glad you mentioned it [1]. Anyone second that feature request?

[1] Wasn't sure of how many people read comments before the article, or read them at all - I stopped when I found that it gave me a biased read, especially on the Show HN type posts.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll probably open source it at some point. Right now, the components are somewhat tightly coupled.

I worked on a similar app [1] and it runs as a standalone web app on the iOS homescreen as well. A couple of things that I love about it:

  1. I've done away with a lot of the features the OP has - such
  as comments (unless it's Ask HN), time of post and link. This 
  has made it more lightweight and faster to load on slow mobile 
  networks in my area.

  2. Also, it's only updated twice a day since I actually built 
  this for myself to stop spending so much time on HN.
  
  3. And since I found myself only reading the front page on my 
  commute to  work, it aggregates all the front page articles into 
  one nice page instead of opening one article up at a time.

Not to take away from the OP, but would love any feedback on the whole "less is more" approach.

[1] http://hn.dinopost.com/

Refreshing indeed to see a hacker talk about faith.

I was talking to a friend the other day that said the Devil had internet from the start; but it's only now that we see blogs pop up on faith. So thank you Paul for this.

Also, being the top post on HN is just the push I needed to write on my faith. Was initially afraid that it'd turn my readership away. So thank you once again for teaching me to not hold back.

As an Engineer, I'm finding that faith and logic can go hand-in-hand after all. The more I question my faith, the stronger it gets.

I'm also reminded of Dostoevsky's search. Who am I to argue with a Great Thinker who spent years arguing against God's existence only to admit he was wrong in the end.

+1. How long did development take you?

Mind sharing what you learnt in a blog post?

Thanks!

Well, let's not be so quick to judge - maybe they used the same themeforest template, or hired the same designer through YC - they are both YC after all.

PG said it:

  A startup is too much work for one person.

http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

Kudos to aditya, jay, mike and all who helped out at UWaterloo. Fun fact: They went through Velocity here first - never underestimate the power of tractions guys. Congrats!

Have you had any experience in sales? If so, you could title it "What Sales taught me" as my response to your post here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/36886657978/sales

+1 for giving sales people some overdue respect. I too feel that there are few that just ruin the bunch, much like HR.

Ashton, I appreciate your thoughts on this subject - I've been meaning to write about it for a while, and just posted my response here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/36816740387/power

Not to side-track from programming language semantics, but I hope to engage in a discussion on the sole entrepreneur as you mentioned.

Edit: I think the bottom line of your post and mine is that: No one does it alone. At least, that's my (perhaps more philosophical than technical) take on it. So for hackers and entrepreneurs to reach critical mass with their products/offerings, they need the input/help/support from those around them (family, friends, clients, etc).

It seems there's a huge opening in the market to make an end-to-end publishing solution. We're all taking this scrappy approach* to making our books work cross-device. It's something I'd gladly pay for.

*I wrote about my pipeline here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/36675629669/format-e...

Well then, to play devil's advocate, there's this -

How to interview a VC: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/27080999978/intervie...

Also related:

Map of accelerators around the world: http://god.dinopost.com/fullscreen.php?layer=1

Based on the post of Silicon Valley Economics here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/27052637228/silicon-...

+1. Thanks for sharing the links. The one I stumbled on a couple of months ago that seemed to cover all the bases was this one: http://jonpolygon.com/2011/07/guide-to-naming-your-startup/

Might want to add that one to the list (I'm not affiliated with the guy, btw, just enjoyed the post).

+1 Pretty cool. I wanted to work on something similar using synonyms. Also liking the Google Ventures-esque pillow background. And the load on scroll. Care to share your behind-the-scenes with the HN community? Doesn't seem to be using a thesaurus, but rather truncates and elongates words, coupled with jQuery goodness. Am I right?

Gravity.

Score decreases over time, so interesting news bubble up, and older/no-longer-relevant news gradually decline.

    (= gravity* 1.8 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1
       nourl-factor* .4 lightweight-factor* .17 gag-factor* .1)

    (def frontpage-rank (s (o scorefn realscore) (o gravity gravity*))
      (* (/ (let base (- (scorefn s) 1)
              (if (> base 0) (expt base .8) base))
            (expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity))
         (if (no (in s!type 'story 'poll))  .8
             (blank s!url)                  nourl-factor*
             (mem 'bury s!keys)             .001
                                            (* (contro-factor s)
                                               (if (mem 'gag s!keys)
                                                    gag-factor*
                                                   (lightweight s)
                                                    lightweight-factor*
                                                   1)))))

+1 Thanks for sharing. Regarding the language of choice, I think there's some Scala, Erlang and other frameworks in the mix at either party. I think it depends on whether you're working on core products, or the duct tape that you mentioned. (Example, Twitter attracts both sides of the camp - Django and RoR). But regardless, with your skillset, I think you'll be happy with the challenges and intellectual stimulation at either place. It's ultimately about the cultural fit like you said. Congrats, and all the best on the new job!

Hey! Thank you! Really appreciate it, put a lot of effort in to writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it. If you have any questions, feedback, comments, or even wanna bounce ideas off me, and have me play devil's advocate, I'd be more than happy to do so.

Purchased!

Kudos to PragProg for putting this collection together, I'm a huge fan. Likewise, my book's on sale as well, as a loving ode to Turkey! For those applying to YC, the book's based on conversations I've had with startup founders here on Hacker News. Ice Cream Startups: How to pick your best idea and run with it. http://bit.ly/TTWUqz

I'm curious: where would Pinterest be on this graph? If Microsoft was for a few 1000 users, and if the best ideas are "organic," would Pinterest be bookmarking naturally "evolved" or did it pivot to a website for curation, sharing with like-minded individuals more recently [1]? It seems to me what's more important is tackling an emerging field (like Microsoft did) than a declining one (which some "organic" companies may do if they are too late into the game). Also, what do you guys think? Do the "sitcom ideas" have it easier with raising money, and finding their niche after?

[1] Read Ben's email here: http://spectralight.com/myblog/2012/11/09/the-secret-is-expo...

Once again, not to step on TL;DR, but since most commenting here are saying that curation is not scalable or sustainable, I wanted to present it in this way:

Phase 1: The MVP of a news aggregator should be a curated/editorial like traditional media/magazines, etc [1]

Phase 2: The second stage should be to have submissions from your readers (on content that interests them).

Phase 3: The next would be to have a voting mechanism, and then realizing that articles have different relevance in different communities - which is what prismatic and ypander were aiming to solve.

Full Disclosure: I am working on summarizing technology news, and the tagline so far has been "Hacker News on Steroids." Before it gets to that stage, I'm skimming my most favourite feeds from Google Reader. The best mobile wrapper I've found (since I'm targeting mobile as well) has been Feedly, which presents it as more like a magazine. Keep in mind Feedly didn't start out as this 4 years ago.

Another project aiming to solve this problem with a bookmarklet (and has a more appt domain name imo is tldr.io) though I personally haven't used it. Summly is another one, but after using it for a while, I found Feedly much better suited to my reading habits.

I'd love to team up with others who are working on this problem. My MVP is at http://dinopost.com. Drop me a line at aaron at dinopost.

[1] Phases based on Casey Accidental's blog post: Online News is Broken: http://caseyaccidental.com/online-news-is-broken/

I supposed "newly laid pipes" would offend you as well. Well, let's sign a petition to the Times of Malta to change their offensive wording.

</sarc>

Source:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121026/local/Cou...

It's not crass, nor is it discriminatory. Laying out a circuit is the equivalent of getting it fabricated. Terminology is used at AMD every time a chip is shipped/sent to pre-fab/taped-out/laid/fabbed/traced/etc:

Sources:

[1] PCB layout: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:srb7R1n...

[2] Page 41: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/dsmith/dsmith.html

[3] Google Groups Discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.cad...

[4] PDF: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mperkows/CLASS_573/Asynchr_Febr_200...

Congrats to Zak and the team at Upverter!

rys, what are using for your blog's backend? octopress? jekyll?

Garbage in, Garbage out.

Max your software (usually this is 80% to prevent clipping and distortion), then attenuate speakers to 50% (analog boost is much worse than digital as it raises the noise floor).

Source: Mixing at studios for last 10 years

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Dude, that was awesome +1 Wish there were more levels

cc:

Ironic that they split the article into 2 pages, and readibility only gets the abstract, so ads got in the way as well.