skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on your definition of risk. The definition I was going by is the chance of getting a decent payout after spending 4 years of your life working somewhere. If you work for someone else's startup, especially for a tiny amount of equity, you risk forgoing the opportunity to enjoy the financial benefits of a successful exit after 4 years of hard work.

A founder can also get a job in 10 minutes if the startup flops. The additional sacrifice (not necessarily risk) the founders take is living a few months without salary. This sacrifice obviously merits a higher portion of the equity than an employee -- maybe even much higher -- but as an employee you have to wonder whether the tiny equity you'll get is worth it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125766
That's good stuff. Guess I should have looked a little harder here first!

This looks particularly helpful:
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
so suppose a child doesn't understand what "don't stray very far from me" means (like how far is OK). then imagine a spanking from his perspective. first he's confused, then hurt.

or suppose he doesn't understand why to not stray very far and this makes a mistake about it's importance. then it's first ignorance, second pain.

or suppose he doesn't understand what situations "don't stray very far from me" applies in and which it doesn't. then again, not knowing what his parent wants is followed by pain.

there is no lesson or learning there. what's going on is a lack of communication followed by pain. there isn't even punishing disobedience, because disobedience didn't take place. that's one sort of way spanking can be completely senseless.

now, suppose there was disobedience. is "disobey and i'll hurt you" really the best way to handle that? that's leadership by fear, not leadership by inspiration. you call this "a reason to listen" but it isn't, it's a reason to look for ways to avoid being hurt, whether they are what the parent wants, or not.
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in contrast I'd say, I observed other similar sites copying justin.tv frontpage.
Please inspire your 2 year old child to obey your rules.

Seriously, though, at least you can understand where it comes from. And discipline is not just smack smack smack and you're done. Discipline involves telling the child what they did wrong and why.
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Your approach is to assume the parent is right, and that his rules must be obeyed. This is not a way to find good ways to proceed on any issue.

A better approach is to recognize that everyone makes mistakes, and the important thing is to institute policies that correct errors. That means rather than spending all your time making your rules be obeyed by any means necessary, there needs to be mechanism so that if you make a mistake you will be corrected (at least if anyone, including your child, is aware of it). This could be called "philosophically enlightened parenting" and it's better because it takes into account what we know about how knowledge is created (including knowledge of what to do in particular situations or how to solve problems in one's life including undesired behavior by one's child). That it doesn't hurt is nice too.
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That was Yale.
It's actually quite beautiful-- his pictures are just really terrible.
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Thanks for the link, it was an interesting talk.

I think you're reading more into what I wrote than I intended. I enjoy a lot of their content and I've seen a lot of their videos. That's why I am so annoyed with the opening. I click it and go, oh crap, not this thing again. Fast forward!
I think the economic environment has tilted in favor of founders. Companies don't take care of their employees much any more, so anywhere you go, you risk losing your job for reasons beyond your control. Sure, as a founder, you are taking bigger risks, but maybe they're not so big these days as compared with working for, say, IBM in the 60ies.
"... The problem is that stock should go to whoever contributes most to the company. Just because the founders work for free, doesn't mean they contribute the most critical work. ..."

Owners contribute disproportionately also by their willingness to absorb risk. It is the combination of ownership, risk and work that allow owners to take a greater share.
I have come to realize that in the last 2 years, and well into the next 5, Mozilla Firefox has been by far the most important piece of software that I use. I donated $100 back when Mozilla Foundation started up and despite them not even needing the money I still bought plenty of gear from the store. <3 Mozilla.
You're missing the fact that you almost always do both.
I like it because instead of forcing an article to disappear, it simply shows who voted for it, which is less of a power game.

I'd gladly give up karma points to vote for bozo articles. The value of this site to me is greater than any point system.
In her written dissent, Lacy argued that the "unsolicited bulk electronic mail" provision of Virginia's Computer Crimes Act is "unconstitutionally overbroad on its face because it prohibits the anonymous transmission of all unsolicited bulk e-mail including those containing political, religious or other speech protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."

What's wrong about prohibiting the anonymous transmission of all unsolicited bulk email?!
It's the same with me. I donated when I was a freshman in college and was in that New York Times ad that ran Dec 16th 2004.

http://www.mozilla.org/press/nytimes-firefox-final.pdf
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great stuff, i used to do this a few years ago, really worked well for me since i was busy and short of time. Now, I'm into regular yoga, and yes, best feeling in the world after you are done with a session and feel relaxed plus flexible.
There's an apidemo:apidemo account for those who just want to play around... For example, try:

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or maybe investment ads.
I'm not sure why you think working at one startup is going to be the ultimate path to salvation. Some people jump in and out of multiple startups.
Or say - before 1914 (chemical weapons and the like).

My comment was meant more innocently - for when in the space race captured (or persuaded) Germans worked on the Sovjet and the American side.
From my understanding, Y has so far been involved in about 80 startups or so.

Name 1 that provides a benefit people care enough to pay for.

... ... ... ...

But if what you said is true, ie, that programmers are "more honest in terms of what we think users want", shouldn't you be able to point to a lot of things?

If it's true that "We put out a rough approximation of what we think they want and let them guide us", how come nobody seems to be guiding anybody towards an offering people are willing to pay for?

Or do you guys just think you're "more honest" and "empathetic" when in reality you may be very, very far from the reality of what people actually want enough to pay for?
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So I'm confused; are you looking to be a partner in the company or an employee? An employee is paid however much he is willing to take off the table.
Yehh! Imagine, there's no countries...
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Ask HN: I want to make a webapp. Where do I start?
I have coded up a lot of desktop applications and I am good at programming in Java and Smalltalk. Now, how do I get started with webapps?

Are there articles/blogs that compare web frameworks (RoR, Django)? Any starter kits for Javascript, CSS etc? How do I get a high-level overview of how things fit in?

I realize those are too many questions in one post :) I am just hoping to tap the HN resource lib and that might be helpful for others too. So, if you have anything at all that you think might be helpful to someone just starting, please do post it across
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beyond any other obvious reason as others pointed out, the rise and fall of empires is something totally revelanD in the startup world.
You could probably dive into Rails and get something working. Diving in and doing something is a lot better than trying to pick a framework. You can get started with anything, really, including the languages you know. Smalltalk has 'seaside', Java has a million frameworks. You would probably not have much trouble with Ruby or Python either.
Name 1 that provides a benefit people care enough to pay for.

http://clickfacts.com/

http://wufoo.com/

http://virtualmin.com/

http://adpinion.com/

http://www.draftmix.com/

I'm sure I've forgotten a hatful.
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If you're good in Smalltalk, check out the Seaside framework http://www.seaside.st/
Social software with a 'how closely I'm related to you' feature would be compelling. Social networks obviously apply, but how about when you exchange emails with someone... wouldn't it be cool if it mentioned a common ancestor in the footer? Oh, and on a dating site, automatically filter out all first and second cousins!
As you are good a Smalltalk, I think you should take a look to http://www.seaside.st a framework for developing webapps in Smalltalk.

To get a good overview read the HTTP RFC. IMO, JavaScript and CSS should be the last thing to learn.
The limitation of SNP techniques is that the magnitude of association between a particular allele and a disease have turned out to be rather low - in the order of 1-2 times increased risk. This is virtually meaningless on an individual level - for example if there is a 1:1000 risk of a particular disease in the population and you have the risk allele you would still only have a 1:500 risk of getting the condition.

A possible explanation for this is that that all of the alleles that are tested in genome wide association studies are found relatively frequently in the population - it may be that rare alleles exist that confer far greater risk e.g. 10-100 increase and it is these that mediate the majority of the inherited risk of a condition. These rare alleles could not be detected by a microarray based approach but would be identified by massive resequencing. A preliminary resequencing effort is already underway: http://www.1000genomes.org/ and within the next few years whole genome resequencing on an individual basis will become feasible with massively paralell techniques such as Selexa.
i don't have any children of my own but i lived with my family while my younger brothers were growing up. none of us ever had to hit them. to me hitting a child is a dangerous shortcut to explaining things. if they recognize you care about them, why shouldn't they listen? that's what i saw in my brothers. they listened because they respected, in a true sense, their elders. violence will destroy their respect for you and alienate them

they don't have to understand every word you say because they can hear compassion. i think if violence has to be used in a relationship, it's a broken relationship. but perhaps most parents don't see it as a relationship where respect has to go both ways. if your child is having tantrums against you, and not listening to you, something went wrong long ago, and using that as evidence that children can't be reasoned with is fallacious
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isn't web objects smalltalk based?

Maybe your first port of call could be jsp
lol good call, I didn't even think about that and its how I make my living. C# is java in .net clothing at the end of the day. .net apps scale pretty well too.
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to me the ugly flash ruins it, it would have been uber in SVG
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honestly, I was pointing to the webcast more than the framework, webcasts are a great educational tools for new comers.

MSDN contain mountains of webcast on everything, the educational value is huge. I wish more webcast existed for Java, Groovy, Javascript, Perl, Grails, Catalyst, Spring framework!

The soup to nuts series covers everything, similarly other webcast series, the idea is simple and very effective, you will spend your first 10 or so hours looking as vidoes and presentations, next you can move to books and online forums and blogs

After he finishes these webcast, moving to RoR will be a much simpler road, even when RoR is a different framework
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Agreed, you have to start somewhere and ASP.NET works straight out of the box. After a while you might want to take a look under the hood and see just what .NET is generating and that might introduce you to some of the alternatives to just straight .NET - but you will be doing that with a lot more knowledge.
Are you saying that it can be OK to spank kids who are two years old???? I am completely horrified.
Oh my god this thread is really shocking! So because you can not reason logically with a two year old, you somehow think that if you spank them, they will make the logical connection? That doesn't add up - either they are capable of understanding, then it shouldn't matter if you say "no" or hit them (in a logical sense, emotionally of course there is a difference). Or they are not capable of making the connection. In which case what you are trying to do is conditioning them, rooting "being hit by daddy" into their nervous system - maiming their soul! I can't believe this thread, really.
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If you want to first learn the fundamentals, PHP/MySQL is a good place to start.

If you want to just jump in and make something frameworks such as Django and Rails make a nice level of abstraction above the database and even above the raw HTML.

If you're looking for a recommendation, I love Django.
WebObjects used to be available in both Java and Objective-C, which is influenced by Smalltalk (it also used to be $50,000... and now it's free with OS X). However, Apple killed off the Objective-C API around the time Java was first being hyped.

Tis a shame.
Spanking is not telling what is wrong. If the 2 year old child can not yet understand the rules, how can it be fair to punish them? If it can't understand words, why should it magically understand being hit?

Just go out on the street and look at people walking their dogs. Do you think it makes a lot of sense if those people get angry with their dogs, you know the kind who go "bad doggy" all the time and have full conversations with their dogs? I don't think it does, because dogs can not even understand what these people are saying. They are fooling themselves, and so apparently are you with your communication with kids (I mean it seems to be a human error). (I know the dog can probably understand it did something wrong, even if not WHAT it did wrong, but I hope you know what kind of people I am talking about - a lot of time the human-dog communication just doesn't make sense, but humans somehow fool themselves).
Any hardware hackers here at YC?
Well here at YC I see a lot of startup talk surrounding software and the web, which I am totally down with. I do have a huge passion about hardware and electronic design. Any of you out there with passion in hardware? Perhaps a startup around hardware?
Personally I want to be involved with a software and hardware startup some-point in my life. I think we have many software/web startups and not enough startups in hardware. I might be wrong. Thoughts?
I couldn't find out a single thing about the framework from the websites. Anyone know what logic they're using? What structure they're using to model concepts?
So "behaviour modification" is what you want to do to your child? Effectively you are mutilating them. Go read some psychology books, please!!!
It's just another embarrassing thing about America... trying to take away spanking would be worse than trying to take away guns. I think the European countries that have outlawed spanking are much more civilized.

Curi: Do you think states should outlaw spanking, or do anything to discourage it? Or do parents have a fundamental right to hit their children without causing injury, misguided as it may be?
I find facebook and other social networks to be powerful tools. You can get close to instant feedback from your friend on facebook. Surveys and doing a little bit of viral marketing helps too.
We have kids under 12 here !!!
For Javascript: Ruby is kind of similar to Smalltalk, and Javascript can be pretty Ruby-like if you use the Prototype/Scriptaculous frameworks.

For CSS: I've never used Blueprint.css, but it looks pretty awesome.
thank you!
One of the best advices I've ever read on Lisp.
Once again, thank you.
For Java I would say Spring is the current standard, although I admit the web part of spring is a bit confusing at first (in reality it is quite simple, though). Don't use Struts, please.

Maybe Seam would be interesting, too - created by the Hibernate guys, it is supposed to be inspired by Rails.
Since when was Microsoft relevant to webapp development? :/
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I wonder if "hackers" are more likely to spank their kids because they consider them to be just another hackable system, and whatever works to "modify it's behaviour" is ok? I am completely stunned that this kind of thing has reared it's ugly head on hacker news...
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I am confident that the vast majority of people here don't spank their kids; it's just that people who do feel strongly in favor of it and are more likely to speak out.
I can't find any mention of a release or a public repository, does anyone have a link?
You must be catalan, maybe for the nick or maybe for the proverb...

I think that this previous comment needs a bit of explanation. Rediscovering garlic soup is a translation from a catalan saying, Has descobert la sopa d'all, which means that they have discovered something obvious.

I don't know why they assume that a garlic soup is something obvious (I'm 23 y.o. from Barcelona and I've never seen anything like a garlic soup...).
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For sure. I love both the hardware and software sides of things, though unfortunately I don't have much time to dabble with electronics any more.

My last project was a computer-controlled kegerator (while I was in college, of course), called the kegbot:

http://tlrobinson.net/projects/kegbot/
I agree--at minimum make the bio the width of the name header, and put the navigation links above the bio. The "Feedback" link could be made the same color as the backing oak leaf/acorn cluster, or green for more contrast and consistency with the organic theme.

I don't mind the name so much. It's almost like "Biographic Icon." Or perhaps "Biography Con" (just kidding).
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I always think of hardware as "the part you can kick" :-) I suspect people are more interested in software because it seems so much less expensive to get started with, especially web based stuff.
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I worked for a short while in gaming hardware design at IBM before starting 8aweek. From what I've seen and heard hardware startups take a LOT more money and have some major risk.

I would really be weary of trying to start a hardware startup. You have to be a known expert, well connected, and have a good business team on your side.

Web startups have an insanely smaller barrier of entry. So if you want to start your own, I would definitely do a web startup. If you're just going to join one then I guess I would go with whichever idea I was more passionate about.
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