Do you guys hold social events?

Edit 1: (I want to meet people actually working on startups rather than those that just talk about them in various business conventions.)

Edit 2: Maybe something like the YC dinners, except people bring their own food / contribute some dish / or pay.

Edit 3: I'm more interested in meeting the people at HH than renting the room.

few thoughts:

2: possibly, i haven't thought much about that. maybe if this is successful, we can use part of the money to fund a party of sorts.

3: i'm sure they're just as interested in meeting visitors too. you should definitely book sometime.

actually, I may try to throw a party for programmers instead :-)

Check out the Tech and Beer house too then - they had a BBQ last weekend, very nice to meet some startup people there. (The BBQ was posted on HN, I don't think the house itself has a website)

Whaaaat? That place is known as the Tech and Beer house? Haha :) It was a solid event, at any rate.

Where's the discussion for this? This is the story I was waiting for ... except there is little hard #'s in the article. So maybe insightful members can share data + numbers.

Thanks!

Where's the discussion for this? This is the story I was waiting for ... except there is little hard #'s in the article. So maybe insightful members can share data + numbers.

Thanks!

http://www.sigmod.org/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/m/Michail:Amir.... ?

I'm not seeing any in top tier conferences (for visualization) ... what are the top tier conferences for source code visualization?

ICSE is a 1st tier conference in software engineering.

why didn't you submit any to graphics / visualization conferences?

I do have a publication in VL'96, which is for visual languages. It's about a new method for teaching binary search tree algorithms using visual programming.

My publications tended to be rather unusual approaches to problems, rather than refinements of existing approaches. They were well suited to software engineering conferences.

Not sure how suitable they would have been for graphics/visualization conferences...

I should also add that it's not clear how much of my work can be categorized as "visualization". It depends on what you mean by that. But there are several papers that will help you understand code, even if you might not consider them as visualization papers.

Seconded. Anyone else have info on this? From personal experience in creating a networked 3d graphics application, latency is a huge issue even for synchronization ... never mind rendering + trying to get it to the client in 1/30th of a second.

Hang out around Stanford or Berkeley CS departments.

Stanford has 'BASES' created specifically for this.

I think this is a great idea. I will be on the ground in SV May 1st. Have to catch YC next time around.

okay, so perhaps people like myself can not buy houses by taking loans from the bank ...

but what about people that already have giant piles of cash on hand? ... who can buy houses w/o taking any loans at all

the question is not one of morality; but one of economics, of why individuals acting in their own best interest have not done this yet?

in particular, if people are greedy enough to cause this mess, why are they not greedy enough to benefit from it?

Because greed isn't necessarily good or bad.

It's just another variable amongst others with temporally varying degrees of importance.

is there a good search engine for searching these things? houses may be low enough to buy for recent college grads; if no such engine exists .... ycombinator idea? :-)

Realtor.com is the best place to start. Not everything gets onto the MLS systems, but most of it does eventually. Prepare to be amazed.

amazing; thanks; hacker news really needs to get it's own block

is iphone 3.0 only for the iphone, or is it supported on the ipod touch too?

There is a fee for Touch users to upgrade.