We use Beanstalk for hosted Subversion. They've been pretty good so far. And have super integration to Campfire and FogBugz, etc.

http://www.beanstalkapp.com/

Any idea if there is any audio available for this presentation?

'Most investors are "bottoms" in the sense that the startups they like most are those that are rough with them. When Google stuck Kleiner and Sequoia with a $75 million premoney valuation, their reaction was probably "Ouch! That feels so good."'

I don't think I've read a funnier paragraph about venture investing. Brilliant observation.

It's not just investors. This is a good practice anytime you're trying to sell a big ticket item to a potential customer. It gives them permission to believe the price is worth it.

The fact that PG has been a founder and an investor just helps things.

Add in URL based duplicate recognition.

When you submit a duplicate URL it sends you to the original submissions page instead

It would be more interesting if news.ycombinator.com also checked if a URL was directly linked from a previously submitted URL; the URL was from the same site as the previously submitted URL.

Before you could commit a new submission news.ycombinator.com would present a list of matches (in descending order by date) so that you could compare what you are about to submit versus what is already submitted.