jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: SAFE and vesting: how do you value the company when a cofounder leaves?
Help!

I'm a CTO and cofounder of a company that I want to leave because of a massive fallout with my cofounder and CEO.

We raised a seed round using SAFE convertibles notes at a 8 to 10M value cap. I've vested half my shares in the company, HOWEVER, under our shareholder agreement the company has the right to repurchase my vested shares when I leave, at "market price" (yes I realize it was a HUGE mistake).

How do I go about valuing my shares? The money we raised doesn't automatically value the company, so I'm at a loss how to proceed and get some value out of the 2+ years I've built this company.

Please help!
Ask HN: Enterprise -- What exactly is a “Solution?”
We've all seen the word "solution" in enterprise marketing buzzspeak, usually in the form of a top-level navigation tab.

What exactly is a "solution" in Enterprise parlance? To me it seems to be a "use case." Since each use case represents a distinct market segment, each one has its own marketing materials. It's just another way to market the same product to different people.

What does enterprise HN think?
Flask Extensions For Authorization with Examples 
http://terse-words.blogspot.com/2011/06/flask-extensions-for-authorization-with.html
In my opinion, there is one serious omission to Flask at the moment and that is that there is no authoritative method for authorizing users.

In a way this goes with the general ethos of micro frameworks - it isn't being forced down your throat unless you want it.

However in this case I think that at least some structured 'recipes' are required to provide peer guidance, best practice or whatever you want to call it. Too often the advice is "roll your own", but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable recommending that to the inexperienced.
Long-Term Travel: What to Pack
https://medium.com/@joshuajberk/long-term-travel-what-to-pack-3b96fda9327d
What I brought with me for 6 months in Southeast Asia. Useful for mobile lifestyle technologists. Feedback welcome and encouraged :)
Writing your own init scripts
http://big-elephants.com/2013-01/writing-your-own-init-scripts/
cool tutorial
Show HN: CodeX Docs – a free docs app powered by the Editor.js ecosystem
https://docs-demo.codex.so/about-this-demo
A lightweight self-hosted alternative to Notion, Paper and Google Docs for:

- product docs

- internal team docs

- personal notes

Here are advantages:

1. Simple installation and delivery. No DB or other infra required.

2. Advanced writing experience based on Editor.js — popular open source WYSIWYG (20k stars)

3. Project includes the best tools of Editor.js Ecosystem. There are many editor Blocks, Inline Tools, Block Tunes allowing to create any kind of documents.

4. Free and open source.

What do you think?
New look for Amazon
http://i.imgur.com/SocpZ.png
I think I'm in some test group - I'm getting this new-look Amazon at home. Still getting the old style at work.
An SVG drawing program created with SVG
http://www.pilatinfo.org/dessin_loc/draw.svg
...and a bit of javascript.
Humbling
https://gist.github.com/2668983
It's so easy to forget what our fore-fathers have given us.
Fail: Cr48 tracker
Addicted gamer is no longer providing tracking numbers for Cr-48 shipments. http://addicted-gamer.com/cr48-tracker/
Ask HN: Thoughts on using Heroku for "heavy-lifting"?
I am developing an app that pulls data from a third party API into a database. The data is only updated once a month by the third party. The database acts as a local cache so that users can log into the app and run different types of reports against the data. Each report processes around 15k rows of data.

That part of the app runs like clockwork. The backend is what I am questioning. Each day a script pings the API to see if the data has updated, if it has then a background job queues up that starts pulling data for the 40 topics in the database to a total of about 220k rows of data.

Is Heroku suited for a task like this? Would I be better off running it on a dedicated EC2 instance that gets spun up when necessary? I would love to hear some experiences from others.

Notes:

Not using Heroku's DB, instead connected to a small Amazon RDS instance

2 dynos

Resque instead of delayed job
Is there life after Windows?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/is-there-life-after-windows-1653198.html
Interesting article about newcomers take on Linux. I'm interested to see what everyone thinks about the subject. Is it practical for the "Everyday User"?
The man who walked away from $250m.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/movers_and_shakers/article3821541.ece?token=&print=yes&randnum=727
Greg Coffey - Wizard of Oz, walked away from $250m to start his own hedge fund.
Ask HN: Our first startup - online gaming minus the content overload
My friend and I just launched the latest version of a gaming website we've been working on since we were about 15.

http://www.relaxist.com/

We would love some feedback on how to improve our site and get more users. Thanks!
Time to Apply to Inc 500/5000
http://www.inc.com/inc5000apply/
Anyone from HN going to apply? I know most startups are to young but a few might qualify.
Show HN: AI tool that cuts “bloopers” for YouTubers
https://www.gling.ai/
YouTubers who talk to a microphone, sometimes in front of a camera, get nervous and make a lot of mistakes while trying to get the lines just right. This AI tool fixes the mistakes for them and saves hours in manual editing.
Micetrap - a nifty tool to catch evil hackers on the fly
http://blog.txustice.me/2011/01/micetrap-catch-evil-hackers-on-the-fly/
Micetrap sets "traps" (open ports simulating fake vulnerable services), notifies you about scans and misleads potential attackers by giving them false information about services and versions running behind these ports.
What's your one song? Jack started us off at SUS13
http://open.spotify.com/user/staylor09/playlist/7tkGvWGn0dy3qGn9RjD0Nk
Jack Dorsey gave us the one song that supports and inspires him. What's your one song?

I've created a shared playlist on Spotify.
JCache specification is out and final
http://thevarguy.com/big-data-technology-solutions-and-information/03/1714/jcache-data-caching-java-app
The JCache specification for data caching in Java has received approval, and Hazelcast has implemented it for its open source in-memory data grid platform.
Estimote Creator Talks About Building An “OS For The Physical World”
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/16/estimote-creator-talks-about-building-an-os-for-the-physical-world/
Estimote’s first prototype looked like a parrot. The parrot is gone but Estimote has just launched out of the latest Y Combinator class and is ready to create an OS for physical locations. Their product, the Beacon, now looks like a lumpen, colored gem and sticks to the wall, reporting on current retail traffic and pushing notifications to shoppers – who have pre-registered for the messages, of course. The promise of the platform is thrilling if you’re in sales and even more interesting if you’re a customer. In short, the environment interacts with you in a manner heretofore unavailable to individual retailers and it does it using your own smartphone.
Ask HN: Which speakers can inspire students?
I'm a student in a non-entrepreneurial college and I would like to invite several speakers over the course of this year to my university.
A lot of my classmates have interest in building their own companies, but most of them will go to consulting shops instead of using their skills to built a product and make a difference.
I have tried local entrepreneurs and while there was a lot of interest, the speakers weren't inspiring. Mostly because Belgium doesn't have that much of a tech-entrepreneurial culture.

I have secured the backing of the dean of faculty so tickets/money/sleeping arrangements aren't a problem.
Which speakers can inspire students to take startups serious?

I know PG can do this, but I suspect he doesn't have time.

My current 'Wanted' list:

Paul Graham
Fred Wilson
Steve Blank
David Heinemeier Hansson
Eric Ries

Please suggest additional speakers.
Welcome to The Matrix
http://rockerhome.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/welcome-to-the-matrix/
The future is here.
Red Hot: The Computer Science Job Market
http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/05/17/red-hot-the-computer-science-job-market/
"It’s incredible that CSE students still in school can earn summer salaries twice as high as students from other majors can expect to earn after graduation."
Worlds first Desktop 3D printer for 300 USD
https://www.makible.com/projects/7-makibox-a6-the-300-desktop-3d-printer
This is one of a hell of amazing product. Its the worlds first 3D Desktop printer developed by a 2 person Team
Shanghai Hacker News meetup #2
http://wiredcraft.github.com/hnshanghai/
The second Shanghai Hacker News meetup will be held on Wednesday 21, 2011 at Abbey Road.

If you want to chat with some likely minded folks, discuss your project or simply technology, come and join us; we'll be the table with a "招财猫" ("Lucky Cat"). As usual, we'll buy a round of drinks for the first 10 to get down there and we'll offer some snacks.

Last meetup went pretty smoothly with people from various horizons, mixing up people with a knack for node.js, RoR, Hadoop, PHP, GIS, mobile development, some backbone.js and a whole lot more... Whatever is your poison, you're welcome.

On Lanyrd.com: http://lanyrd.com/cdzmw

(Chinese version below: it's in Shanghai after all...)

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第二次上海 Hacker News 聚会将于9月21号星期三举办，地点仍然是 Abbey Road。

无论您是探讨项目、技术，还是闲聊，都非常欢迎。同上次一样，我们将为前十位到访者免费提供一杯啤酒。

上一次的聚会非常顺利。参与者来自很多不同领域，诸如 Node.js、RoR、Hadoop、PHP、GIS、移动技术等等。这一次也非常欢迎新老朋友踊跃参加。

http://lanyrd.com/cdzmw
Show HN: Facebook timeline for friendships
http://www.le-bond.com
I'm dreading the day Facebook flips my profile to Timeline. It takes away the focus from what I think is/used to be the best part of Facebook, a fun way to communicate with friends (by posting to their wall). So, my best friend and I built the kind of timeline we wish Facebook had. (Yes, it requires FB login. No, we won't spam.)
Ask HN: Did AntD Move to Gitee?
AntD is one of React's biggest frameworks.

Their GitHub repo/docs [1] are showing a 404, but everything looks fine on their Gitee profile [2]. This is strange because they gave zero notice about any change.

[1] https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/
[2] https://gitee.com/ant-design/ant-design
Building my web startup in Drupal vs. Rails?
I'm the non-technical side of our startup and while I trust my partner, I just wanted to get some perspective on how we're currently building our website.

We're just building a prototype at the moment, and to do this as quickly as possible my partner is using Drupal. He's new to Drupal so is learning how to use it along the way. My first feeling when he said he wanted to use Drupal was "hmmm, a CMS - that doesn't feel like the right choice". However, I don't really have any justification for that feeling: it is just that whenever I read about people building web startups they are using Python/Django or Ruby on Rails etc.

Our startup is not anything especially complicated - it's a review website - like Yelp or TripAdvisor - where the users get points for submitting reviews. When we talk about the product build it does seem like there is a Drupal module to cover most things. So maybe it is the right choice?

Is there any reason why using Drupal at this stage for a prototype would be a bad idea? I'm kind of thinking that no matter what we build the prototype in it would have to be rebuilt to scale anyway.

Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks. :)
Ask HN: What “disruptive” technologies you see over the next 1-5 years?
It would be interesting to look back in a year/five and compare a list of technologies or trends that you now think will "disrupt" the world over the next 1-5 years.
The Ethos of Responsive Design
http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/blog/2013/12/31/the-ethos-of-responsive-design/
Want a more just and inclusive digital world? Responsive web design might be your answer.
Product Development vs Consulting
I have 2 job offers one with a consulting firm and the other with a product development firm. The product development firm pays me 10K less than the consulting firm. But consulting opportunity involves 100% travel. Which one would you pick? Why?
Ask HN: How to reach someone to recover a Gmail account?
I can't access my 13+ year old gmail account because Google now requires I verify I have access to a phone number I've never owned (the UI shows me the last 2 digits of the number). There is no 2FA on this account, I know my password, and have access to the "Recovery Email" (which gets emailed a "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account." warning whenever I attempt to sign in to the account with my password).

I reached a real person at Google Domains and managed to get things escalated to "Specialist". Their response: "we can't help you, post about it on the community forums" (which I had already done 20 days prior).

This account "owns" digital goods, thousands of songs (likely deleted, as Google Music has since been shut down), and some domain names. Google is actively stealing these things, but they don't care and, "can't help".

I'm just looking for resources to reach a real person that can actually do something.
Microsoft less profitable than Apple 
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-office-and-kinect-lead-growth-micro
Microsoft raked in $16 billion in revenue and more than $5 billion in profit - but it wasn't enough to top Apple which is more profitable than Microsoft for the first time in a long time.
When good interfaces go crufty [2002]
http://web.archive.org/web/20050101092500/http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$374
Only on archive.org but worth the wait.
Tell HN: Phishing Scheme for Cracked Passwords
I just received an email whose subject was a password I used to use several years ago and had an attached PDF with the password as the filename. I assume they got the password from the adobe breach since I used it for my password there until it was disclosed that there was a security breach.

Since that breach was in 2013 and my relatively short (8 chars) but random password was just emailed to me in plaintext, I'm wondering if there has been a long-term effort to crack everything, and if this matters much. I'm sure most assumed this is what was happening. If it took six years to crack my password or it was cracked earlier and just became available to someone, I don't know.

I'm posting this here because I don't follow this sort of thing closely, I stopped using this password in 2013, and I'm just curious if the possibility of some possibly harder-to-crack passwords now becoming exposed (if that's actually what is happening here) has any significance.

It could be someone cracked my password years ago, but the plain text only became available to some would-be extortionist recently.

Thanks!
Ask HN: How to download all data from WhatsApp
I don't want to make this a political or sociological discussion about Facebook or WhatsApp.

For personal reasons I have decided to stop using WhatsApp.

When I closed my Facebook and Instagram accounts I was able to download all my data, including messages and media.

I was unable to do the same with my WhatsApp data, at least not unless I export each chat individually.

Does anyone know of a way to get such data in a cohesive way for my personal archive?
India moon mission ready for launch
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/10/21/india.space/
More: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JJ22Df02.html
9.5mm Firefox browsers use Adblock Plus Daily
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/statistics/addon/1865
This means about 10% of all firefox browsers on any given day block online ads. (See http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/08/11/how-many-firefox-users-use-add-ons/) Is it right for mozilla to advocate adblock? Is mozilla liable due to promotion? Will the online industry ever address the rising use of adblock a la MPAA/RIAA?
CoinTube = Bitcoin + Ripple + Litecoin + Peercoin + Namecoin + primecoin...
http://dribbble.com/shots/1349311
Simple
BillGuard integrates with iOS 6 Passbook
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/02/billguard-passbook/
We just finished our integration with Apple Passbook, offering live monitoring of your credit cards bills for fraudulent charges.

It wasn't easy at all, Passbook is still in it's diapers, give it a try.
Show HN: Can Strava Do This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqul6Y-U2Pw
I recently added a new feature to the MTB Hangtime app that allows users to generate a telemetry overlay on top of an action camera video.

The demo video was created using only the app, no third party video editing tools. The goal was to be able to capture the telemetry data with a smart phone and the video with a GoPro, then generate the output video without any additional tools.
Amazon changing all passwords on account of Gawker Hack
Hello XXXXXXXXXX,

This is an important message from Amazon.com

At Amazon we take your security and privacy very seriously. As part of our routine monitoring, we discovered a list of email address and password sets posted online. While the list was not Amazon-related, we know that many customers reuse their passwords on several websites. We believe your email address and password set was on that list. So we have taken the precaution of resetting your Amazon.com password. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused but felt that it was necessary to help protect you and your Amazon account.

To regain access to your Amazon customer account:

1. Go to Amazon.com and click the "Your Account" link at the top of our website.

2. Click the link that says "Forgot your password?"

3. Follow the instructions to set a new password for your account.

Please choose a new password and do not use the same password you used with us previously. We also highly recommend that you chose a password that you are not using on any other sites. We look forward to seeing you again soon.

Sincerely,

Amazon.com

Please note: this e-mail was sent from an address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. To contact us about an unrelated issue, please visit the Help section of our website.
Yes, I Want Votes Hidden
No, I Don't Want Votes Hidden
An Introduction to NoSQL Patterns
http://architects.dzone.com/articles/introduction-nosql-patterns
The following was posted a few years ago as NoSQL database methods were gaining momentum. Ricky Ho once again provides a clean-cut introduction to a concept that is easily complicated by the hype surrounding it.
Ask HN: Would you run your startup on Chromebooks?
I just bought a ~$300 HP Chromebook and it runs great. I'm embedded in the Google ecosystem, apps, etc. I haven't done it yet, but my next step is to start running linux on my chromebook for development.

Not including the Pixel, has anyone else made this leap? Any have a startup that runs on mostly Chromebooks? Would you make the leap?
ASK HN: Sample contract for vested shares for a new cofounder
Hi,

I'm bringing onboard a new cofounder for my startup. After negociations, we decided that he would get a percentage of the company vested of 2 years and be paid a small salary hourly to cover cost of living.

Does anyone know a good sample contract I could use for that? My company has already existed for 1 year and is a offshore LLC (based in HK).

Are their any tax liabilities or other things I should think about?

Thanks
Nice little form helper (jQuery)
http://git.aaronlumsden.com/progression/
A jQuery plugin that gives users real time hints & progress updates as they complete forms
Show HN: Compose-regexp.js Build readable and maintainable RegExps. ReDOS begone
https://github.com/compose-regexp/compose-regexp.js
This is an old lib I just rejuvenated, adding support for Unicode RegExps, properly handling back-references, and taking advantage of these to create helpers that turn things that are usually too impractical to use into usable techniques.

It lets you write anything you'd write with normal RegExps, but with a more readable syntax, and it lets you compose sub-expressions into larger patterns.

It also provides helpers like:

- `atomic()` that prevents the engine from backtracking into what you passed as argument. No more ReDOS.

- `bound()` works like `\b` but for arbitrary character sets. E.g. `bound(/[_\p{L}\p{Number}]/u)` is a Unicode-aware `\b`

- Set operations on character classes: `charSet.intersection(/\p{Lowercase}/u, /\p{Script=Greek}/u)` will only match lower case greek letters

I hope you'll find it useful!
New tips about the upcoming Apple Tablet
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/2010-the-year-of-the-tablet/
More clues from the NYT that Apple might deliver the upcoming tablet in 2010.
Why can't we use a HTTP request header to get rid of all cookie consent popups?
I suspect I'm not the only person annoyed by all the GDPR cookie and tracking consent popups every single site now has. Many sites even go as far as to not give a "No" answer option. You only have "Agree to all tracking" and "Configure" and when you click Configure it sends you down a rabbit hole of wasted time so most users simply click "Agree" to get rid of the damn annoyance.

It would be hugely better to simply set some setting in your browser that would send a request header to every web site you visit that contains your GDPR preferences. Then every site would have to comply with this by default.

This could be a general purpose header that could send various user preferences, for example it could also tell the website the end user is a child under 13 years of age so the site wouldn't collect certain stats automatically to comply with US Coppa law.

To me this is an obvious solution that would be a lot easier to implement than all those GDPR popups and it would result in a much better usage. What do people think? Should HTTP standard be updated with such header? Or are there any disadvantages of this approach I'm not thinking about?
Venture Debt - The "Other" Green Money
http://www.infochachkie.com/venture-debt-the-other-green-money/
Venture Debt can prove to be a viable alternative to Venture Capital, especially in trying economic times.
Turntable.fm restricted access to only the US
http://twitter.com/#!/turntablefm/status/84665286803992576
This is what they show anyone visiting outside the US:

We're very sorry, but while we would love to let you in and rock out with us, we need to currently restrict turntable access to only the United States due to licensing constraints.

We are working very hard to try and and get you in as soon as possible.

If you believe this is a mistake and you are located in the United States, please e-mail help [at sign] turntable dot fm

Again, sorry, and we hope to see you soon.

Billy Chasen
CEO
Who's Hiring Freelance Contractors?
It seems that the "Who's Hiring?" threads are very popular but are for full-time positions tied to a particular location.

A lot of people on HN work remotely as contractors and have difficulty finding decent paying gigs. I myself am a freelance web designer (alexwyser.com) and find it difficult to get gigs that pay well.

I'm sure a lot of startups and companies on HN need designers, developers and programmers like us.

So who's hiring contractors?
Ask HN: How do you build and maintain momentum during lengthy projects?
This question applies to things like writing a dissertation, writing a big piece of software, even running a startup, anything that's large enough that you start running into issues like:

- overwhelmed and don't know how or where to begin/continue

- lost the original spark/motivation/inspiration

- start to question everything

- confused about structure/form

- etc

I think I need most help with the momentum aspect, but any advice on tackling lengthy sizable projects are welcome!

PS: This is a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30964931