jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sales commissions in start-up
Hi,

My start-up has three founders. Two founders are full time while the third founder is still in his day job. The two full time founders are the builders while the founder with the day job is the new business person. The third founder spends an average of 6 hours per week on the business while the other two basically 24/7. We, the other founders, are on salaries but we only can be paid if there is money that month.

The third founder is suggesting that he wants a commission for the new business he brings in. We, the other two founders, want him to be rewarded for his efforts, of course. But while he's still in a day job and financially secure it doesn't make sense to us that he should be paid. For the two years I was still in my day job and working on the start-up, I didn't get paid, nor did I expect too. I was investing in building a business. Any money the third founder makes through commission is basically extra or bonus money for him while any money we make (if any) is money for food and rent.

Even if the third founder would come on board full time, we'd still have an issue with the concept of commission. E.g. I don't get commission for writing code. Why should he get commission for what is his job? His argument would be, "But you can bring in work as well" to which my argument would be, "You can also write code". The three founders have all three different skill sets, design, development and business. Which makes it a great combo.

It's a bit of a messy situation and we've given him three options to choose from:

1) While you're still have a third party income, we expect you to invest your time and skills in building this business without expecting any payment.

2) Quit your job tomorrow and come on board full time.

3) Leave the company as parter and we'd more than happy to pay you a commission for work you bring in.

He hasn't come back to us yet but I was wondering if there is a compromise that we've over looked.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
The future of gamming is online, and Google knows it!
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/will-google-s-lively-turn-into-a-virtual-arcade-goog-
I say PROBABLY!
Where do I market my app?
What services have you found the most profitable for marketing/advertising your mobile app?
SoundCamp -- Adding more sounds to your campfire sessions.
http://aelse.github.com/SoundCamp/
SoundCamp is a chrome extension that adds more sounds to Campfire chat sessions.

It's so useful at annoying your work mates!
Which Google Projects failed
http://www.quora.com/Google/Which-Google-projects-failed/answer/Siddharth-Jaiswal
Google has had a lot of failed projects, hope Loon project goes well.
Blizzard introduces the Tauren Marine into StarCraft II
http://eu.starcraft2.com/features/terran/taurenmarine.xml
Blizzard's April Fool 2008 arms the Terrans with these creatures from Azeroth.
How to improve the page rank of your twitter profile page
http://www.productivedreams.com/how-to-improve-the-page-rank-of-your-twitter-profile-page/
A post on how to improve the page rank of your twitter profile. A good page rank for your twitter profile means you are someone worth following.
Javascript on iPhone
http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/1/4/javascript-on-iphone
Learn how to develop native apps in Javascript for the iPhone using Jiggy.
Inside eROI: Startup Grows Up - Lessons Learned (Part 5)
http://www.emaildays.com/archives/2007/07/inside_eroi_startup_grows_up_lessons_learned_part_5.php
Lessons Learned
When you go through an emotional and professional journey like this one, it only makes sense to share my mistakes and the few things I did right. There are hundreds of lessons in just this one story, but I'll share my top five:
Anyone can bootstrap a startup to riches ... how about this one?
http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2007/12/advocacy.html
When writing about the success and failure of startups, I talked a lot about luck being the most important contributing factor to the success of any startup, but I also talked about the importance of being a "surrogate customer". In other words, if you can identify a problem that you personally experience but currently has no solution, and if you can be passionate about it and fundamentally believe that it is an industry-wide problem that affects a sizable community, then you have identified the cornerstone you need to build a company.

The problem that I have identified is one where I want to find potential customers, customers who have never heard of us and could never find us on their own. And the only solution available to me (PR firms and conventional media) is inherently "channel-inefficient". So what do I do ... I do the only thing that entrepreneurs know how to do which is to force a paradigm shift. The new paradigm is an innovative marketing channel and it is called LoveMyTool.

LoveMyTool is all about "Advocacy Marketing".

LoveMyTool does not post press releases nor marketing collaterals. Instead we post only customer testimonials and technical reviews by third parties (i.e., advocates who "love" their tools and are passionate about our industry).
Rate my startup
http://cloudiff.com/demo
Your feedback is much appreciated.
Thanks.
Show HN: Web3 AWS Lambda
https://thirdlambda.com
Ever since I've been building in web3, one problem I've always faced was listening to and responding to on-chain events with some processing on my end. I've traditionally maintained my own server to make this happen - especially for any data sync, notifications, etc

When I discovered the ThirdLambda team and what they were doing, I found it super useful - they let you run serverless cloud functions responding to on-chain events.

They're currently onboarding users off a priority list, so check it out and let me know what you think!
Ask HN: How many online accounts do you have?
The one thing I hate about the modern day Internet is how you have to create an account to do pretty much anything. Over the past few days I've needed to use a few services, and go figure, I needed to sign up for all of them.

That got me thinking: how many online accounts do I have and how does that compare to what other people have? I checked my 1Password account and have about 170 unique logins for online accounts. So, I'm curious, how many do other people have, if they know at all?
Ask HN: I have 3 HN accounts, which all randomly get used
I have three HN accounts:

http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=jneal
http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=jtneal
http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=jasonneal

I use "Click Pass" to log-in...but depending on which computer I use, I log-in to a different account. For example, at home I believe it uses Gmail, and logs me in to "jneal". At work, it uses Facebook, and logs me in to "jasonneal".

It doesn't bother me too much, but I would like some consistency...Is there some way to merge my "jtneal" and "jasonneal" with my "jneal" account? If not, I'm okay to have "jtneal" and "jasonneal" either deleted or at least some how deactivated so they can't be logged in to. Click Pass doesn't give me any choice on how I want to log in, it just automatically logs me in.

Jason
Steve Jobs and the Singularity
http://www.fredwhite.net/2011/11/16/steve-jobs-and-the-singularity/
4000+ word post about Jobs which is really about a lot of other stuff.
Easy picasa viewer
http://easypicasa.com
I made this picasa viewer for my parents and grandparents who was having difficulty navigating to different picasa albums between family members.
JsSIP: The Open JavaScript SIP Stack
https://github.com/versatica/JsSIP
The first JavaScript SIP library implementing the SIP WebSocket transport
Show HN: A website that enables to search at every Amazon website (.it, .de,...)
http://www.yasse.eu
I made this website because I found that it's possible to save money buying a product, for example, on amazon.de instead of amazon.it.
The bad thing was that Amazon does not enable to search at every retail website at the same time. This website (yasse) does.<p>I hope you'll find it usefoul :)
Oculus Rift for First Person 3D Flappy Bird(HackSC First Place Winners)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQ0i7NNlrQ
First Place Winners at HackSC built a first person flappy bird with crowd interaction in 36 hours. Cool stuff!
Show HN: Spotlight for Chrome/Firefox
https://getseekr.xyz
I wanted to learn how to build a browser extension, so I built this little thing. I and 3 other people have been using it for the past 2 months and it seems to be working for us, both as individuals, as well as a team.

We'd like to show it to the world, yet since we consider HN as the most honest and direct community, why not start here to get some feedback.
Your Favorite Restaurants Are Filthy: SF Health Inspection + Yelp Review Mashup
http://reasonengine.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/hells-kitchens/
This mashup of public health inspection records and Yelp reviews paints a revealing picture of the perils of dining out in San Francisco, with more than 40% of restaurants in many neighborhoods incurring high-risk health violations such as vermin infestation, sewage contamination, unapproved living quarters and the sale of previously-served food.
Dissertations
http://www.ukdissertations.net/
Do you need plagiarism free 100 % custom written UK dissertation by experienced and qualified writers only at £11.99 ? Get Dissertation help and Free Dissertation Topics and samples from uk dissertations writing help and services. Custom dissertation writing service to win your Graduate degree.
Software to monitor employee behavior (outside the office)
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/12297_3905931_1/Pre-crime-Comes-to-the-HR-Dept.htm
Bruce Schneier points out:

This is being sold using fear:

...company spokespeople emphasize liability. What happens if one of your employees freaks out, comes to work and starts threatening coworkers with a samurai sword? You'll be held responsible because all of the signs of such behavior were clear for all to see on public Facebook pages. That's why you should scan every prospective hire and run continued scans on every existing employee.

In other words, they make the case that now that people use social networks, companies will be expected (by shareholders, etc.) to monitor those services and protect the company from lawsuits, damage to reputation, and other harm.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/monitoring_empl.html
Google Tech Talk: The Crazy Open Source Attempt To Rewrite Windows From Scratch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXt_dELZNo
In this talk, Alex Ionescu, lead kernel developer for the ReactOS project since 2004 (and recently returning after a long hiatus) will talk about the project's current state, having just passed revision 60000 in the SVN repository. Alex will also cover some of the project's goals, the development and testing methodology being such a massive undertaking (an open source project to reimplement all of Windows from scratch!), partnership with other open source projects (MinGW, Wine, Haiku, etc...).
Ask HN: How to keep high quailty images when printing to PDF?
I've had this problem for a while, but haven't found any solutions yet. Maybe some of you guys know what to do. Occasionally I need to print a document (usually a .docx) to PDF, and usually I use PrimoPDF to do so. However, whenever there's an image included as part of the document, the image loses significant quality when printed to PDF. Is there a way to print to PDF files without losing the quality?

For example, SEOMoz offers a beginner's SEO guide online. (http://guides.seomoz.org/chapter-3-why-search-engine-marketing-is-necessary) They also offer the same guide as a downloadable PDF. The pdf includes all the images used as part of the guide, but without any noticeable loss in quality. How would I go about doing the same thing?
lolnerf
http://blog.justin.tv/2007/09/office-dartz.html
Justin.tv office destroyed by nerf
Idea website
https://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=e5f1f&t=e5f1f.40
I submitted 26 ideas
by default, I voted once for each of my own ideas

if you have an idea, submit it
if you want an idea to be implemented, vote for it

click the link!!!
The Making Of Rap Genius with Mahbod Moghadam [video]
http://www.thephatstartup.com/2013/02/27/the-making-of-rap-genius-with-mahbod-moghadam/
Check out Mahbod as he tells us how Rap genius started and what he learned from the Y Combinator family
Cyberwar Doomsayer Lands $34 Million in Government Cyberwar Contracts [2010]
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/booz-allen/?hn
Given the current events, namely today's Guardian.. one believes it is worth bringing this old thread back live...
Originally posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5850189
TrueCrypt Freedom of Information Act Requests
http://politynews.tumblr.com/post/87341452163/polity-news-files-truecrypt-freedom-of-information-act
Polity News has filed 6 FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests regarding TrueCrypt. The US government agencies have 20 working days to respond to the requests.
TruxMap - Dynamically generated live gourmet food truck map
http://www.foodtrucksmap.com
We also have a free iPhone app available at http://www.foodtrucksmap.com/iphone.html
Dreamhost MLK Hosting Sale (ten bucks for a year)
http://www.dreamhost.com/
Sadly, I renewed for hosting a couple weeks ago, but thought others might be interested.
Quickly Visualizing MySQL Data (in the browser)
http://www.hisham.cc/post/46803921066/quickly-visualizing-mysql-data
I always find myself digging through data in our MySQL databases. I use Linux, don't have Excel, and want to quickly and easily get things graphed up on the screen. This is what I put together over the Easter weekend... What do you folks use?
Semantic Web Search Engine Roundup
http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/semantic-web-search-engine-roundup/
Unlike traditional search engines, which crawl the Web gathering Web pages, Semantic Web search engines index RDF data stored on the Web and provide an interface to search through the crawled data.
AirFiber -- game changing last mile?
http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber
Seriously interesting technology -- 1.4Gbit/s LOS PTP throughput using 24ghz unlicensed spectrum. If it functions as well as they claim, we could see serious benefits to communication deployments in rural areas.
The European Union's Inflation Island Game
http://www.ecb.int/ecb/educational/inflationisland/html/index.en.html
Is this from the Onion or the ECB? Given the current condition of the Financial system, it could have come from either.
Ask HN: Have you requested your data with CCPA or GDPR?
I'm curious if the privacy-concious HN community is using CCPA to get copies of your data from the companies you use and what you're ultimately doing with the data? Which companies were easy to work with? Which dragged their feet or made you jump through hoops?

Bonuses points if you have any cool projects to share where you made something with the data you got back!
Show HN: Wordii: Infinite Words; Fast Web SPA; Pure Java: Pick Any Three
https://frequal.com/wordii/
I created Wordii to scratch several itches. I wanted to see what it took to implement a 5-letter word game. I wanted to solve many words in rapid succession, without artificial limits. And I wanted to use the excellent Flavour SPA toolkit which I have used several times on other projects.

https://frequal.com/wordii

You may enjoy it if you like:

* Word games without logins or registration

* Fast-paced word games with statistics to share with your friends

* A large dictionary of words (updated recently based on user feedback)

Hundreds of people have already played. See it for yourself!

Technical Details:

* About 1000 lines of Java (non-comment)

* About 200 lines of HTML

* Transpiled to JavaScript using TeaVM ( https://teavm.org )

* SPA Templates, Components, and Expression Language provided by the Flavour framework ( https://teavm.org/docs/flavour/templates.html )
Show HN: Uptime monitoring for the web in your command line
https://binocs.sh
Hello HN!

I would like to show you a tool I made for sysadmins, developers, web entrepreneurs, and all of us in between these categories who care for the uptime and performance of our web services. Binocs [1] is an Uptime Monitoring tool for people who spend their workdays on the command line and are obsessed with accuracy and reliability.

When I started using the existing uptime monitoring solutions for the services my team and I were responsible for, I thought the world didn't need another such tool. Then I changed my opinion, as I became disappointed by the reliability and general quality of the existing tools. I tried to make an uptime monitoring tool that is reliable and fits the modern dev/ops toolkit.

Binocs provides the standard features you might expect from an uptime monitoring tool, plus a modern command-line interface [2] and a Terraform provider [3]. Binocs gives makers of the internet 24/7 insight into the availability of the services they care for and notifies them - via the usual communication channels such as SMS, Telegram, or Slack - if any of these services become, for whatever reason, unavailable. Binocs monitors uptime, apdex, and response time (broken down to its basic components) from any custom set of geolocations the user selects for each check.

There are binaries available for major platforms and architectures [4].

Binocs is written in Golang and relies on TimescaleDB for storing and aggregating time-series data. The solution is highly redundant and hosted on AWS (hybrid deployment is on the roadmap). The algorithm meticulously strives to eliminate both false positives and false negatives.

If you want to try Binocs, only an e-mail address is required to sign-up. We use passwordless authentication. Every new account gets 250k free credits [5].

You can also watch a short video demo [6].

Any feedback is much appreciated, and I'm, of course, open to technical questions as well.

[1] https://binocs.sh

[2] https://binocs.sh/documentation

[3] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/automato-io/binocs/l...

[4] https://binocs.sh/downloads

[5] https://binocs.sh/pricing

[6] https://youtu.be/TsHvTbsFWtg
Open Source ♥ TV
http://www.osheart.tv
Welcome to the Internet's first attempt to provide a sustainable model of educational online television by open sourcing its networks to the entire world. Open Source ♥ TV acts as a gateway to connect you with passionate, compassionate, and dynamic community based productions around the world who provide free artistic portrayals of the topics that they feel most important in life. Open Source ♥ TV is currently scouting for directors with show ideas. If you think that you have what it takes to change the world, we want to speak with you. When entertainment is performed out of love and compassion for our fellow human beings, its endless possibilities manifest itself. Open Source ♥ TV does not want your money but instead your heart. Welcome to healthy forms of entertainment. Enjoy the enlightenment...
New algorithm finds you, even in untagged photos
http://www.ece.utoronto.ca/news/aarabi-algorithm-finds-you/
A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. This month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue a patent on this technology
Mac vs. PC - A Tool for Every Job
http://www.erisfire.com/articles/harticle02_macvspc.htm
Most "Mac vs. PC" articles are biased and one-sided, depending on the preference of the author, and it's usually just them slamming the opposing side for two pages. Well, I would like to...
Paying technical debt
http://www.enhance-ict.com/2012/04/07/paying-technical-debt/
one way a company can end up paying for technical debt
Feedback for new professional marketplace
https://profectmarket.com
We just launched a new marketplace connecting expert business, technical, and legal professionals with prospective clients. We use crowdsourcing (incentivized by monetary rewards) to connect clients with the best professionals for their projects. We are entirely free for all users - no commissions. Check us out and let us know what you think.
Show HN: A pageview counter using the AWS free tier, Postgres, Node and React
https://prawn.cadell.dev/
I tried to deploy my favourite stack (Postgres, Node and React) on the AWS free tier using CDK and it turned out to be quite hard.
5 CSS Tips to Make IE (You) Happy
http://scarfoo.com/archives/16
If I could, I'd give you a special present this christmas - I'd tell you how to make IE on Windows behave like a grown-up browser. Sadly, reality sucks - as does IE on Windows - so I can only offer to share with you a couple of CSS tips to ease the pain of working with that piece of crappy software.
Denmark: How to make you happy
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3029110/5-simple-office-policies-that-make-danish-workers-way-more-happy-than-americans
Alexander Kjerulf describes 5 simple but important policies that makes danes like their work. And americans dislike theirs.
Virtual Music Teaching Start Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIEaC971qYU
Hello start up community my company Plixser is in the finals for a start up competition. We are a music lesson facilitator for online LIVE music lessons please visit the link above and like the youtube video. I need likes in order to "Pitch Off" at the Entrepreneurial conference Everywhereelse.co For more information about my business or how you can learn music visit http://www.plixser.com
Chrome books are now very cheap?
http://r.ebay.com/fzXr8z
Chrome books are really cheap to purchase, is this due to there being loads around? Or just the low initial price?
Must read: The Steve Jobs Way by Jay Elliot
http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Way-iLeadership-Generation/dp/1593156391
I just finished it. The above isn't an affiliate link or anything.
Dear Government, Here's a sneak peek at my private data
http://blog.varonis.com/the-ecpa-puts-your-cloud-data-at-risk/
According to the ECPA, data stored on a third-party server (e.g., Dropbox, Gmail, Evernote) that is more than 180 days old can be accessed by the government without the need for a warrant.
How to hire a developer that doesn't suck
http://www.iheavy.com/2011/11/25/how-to-hire-a-developer-that-doesnt-suck/
Devops is the buzzword on everyone's lips. But there is some truth to the hype. Ops that can understand the demands of building products, and devs that understand the trials of keeping systems running. That makes one happy family!
Rick Falkvinge, AMA on reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1owf4v/im_rick_falkvinge_founder_of_the_first_pirate/
Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the first Pirate Party (in Sweden), holds an AMA on reddit.
Preview Review My Real-Time News App: TrendOY
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trendoy/id408229380?mt=8&ls=1#
Would love to hear what the HN community thinks about the concept. Thanks!
Show HN: Create customizable, short URLs for Stack Overflow profiles
https://stk.so/
When building my personal site, I realised that Stack Overflow seemed to be one of the (or rather, the only) platforms that didn’t allow users to create a short, username-based link. Enter: stk.so
Google page rank sucks
http://marketingeasy.net/google-page-rank-sucks/2007-09-13/
It’s the truth.
Google is powerful and SEO specialists are becoming blind!
Foreign Labor Wage Library
http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx
Not sure if this is been submitted here before...
5 Startup Accelerators For Young Entrepreneurs
http://mixreadblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/5-startup-accelerators-for-young.html
A quality startup accelerator program can be a significant factor in guiding the success of young enterpreneurs. By working side-by-side with more experienced entrepreneurs, reciving mentorship and networking with people who can help build/develop/grow your startup, Startup Accelerators programs are the best fit for any young entrepreneur(s)