skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work at a startup on a founding team. So not as founder or cofounder, but person #3 or #4. If the startup sells for $20M then you've made $1M, assuming equity of 5%.

You'd have to prove to the founders that you're on their level, in passion and a combination of domain knowledge, contacts or skill/intelligence/talent, and that you're willing to go the long haul.

Why not do a startup yourself? Risk, time and momentum.

If making a million is like reaching the top of a building, you'll have to start climbing stairs. Find some people that have already created an escalator, and then with them create an elevator.

These are some YC Startups, http://workatastartup.org/ but you could just as easily go through crunchbase (eg the new additions) or something similar (a launch blog) to see what excites you.
Like Java feeds people into Smalltalk? My experience is that some pioneering language does things in a certain way, and then mainstream languages borrow enough of that to be an improvement on what's gone before. Maybe a tiny portion go look up what came before, but mostly not really.

"reliable/fault-tolerant sphere that Erlang well and truly owns." - that's not the "some" I was referring to, and it's likely that Erlang will continue to be strong there. However, concurrency is what people are most interested in. People mostly don't care if web apps are as reliable as phone switches, but care a lot about easier models of concurrency.
I bet Google has the data to add this to there transit maps feature. Is there a way to add locations on a map that use an icon other than the pin?
That's a really cool idea. I'm not sure how many people would be available to participate though. Rails Rumble works partly in that no one expects anything that great from a weekend and a lot more people can make a weekend worth of time.

If I was starting a startup right now it'd be silly for me to wait a month for the "Startup Rumble" and I wouldn't want to cheat and get a headstart.
"lp0: printer on fire?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
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Ask HN: How do you name your projects/products?
Naming a product or a project is a rather interesting aspect of the development and marketing process. I am sure that a wisely chosen name gives you a head start and helps you communicate your vision to other people, and that a poor name could just as well be holding you back.

Here are a couple of alternatives on top of mind, to get started:

1) Use an informative naming, where the function /use of the product is reflected in the name. An obvious example is "Hacker News".
2) A quirky name that is catchy and easy to remember. For instance, search engines tend to fall into this category. Also, a lot of car manufacturers have adopted this kind of naming.
3) Emotional naming, where the aim is to use words in a way that they instantly create a desired feeling when consumed.

How do you name your projects/products?
so, how does this free app plan to make profit?
I may have missed this, but what kind of event is this supposed to protect against? Does anyone know the scenarios that Lieberman is worried about?
I did the maple syrup diet if anyone is curious - documented here: http://mastercleanselemonadediet.tumblr.com/
I just wanted to see if I could do it. I made it. Lost 16 lbs and have kept off 10 lbs.
I think you're just taking a lot for granted. You're posting about how you don't know anyone who can program or teach you about CS on a site full of computer scientists. Nowadays you can post any question imaginable on Stack Overflow and get answers quickly, often from the world's top experts. You discount all this because you haven't met these people physically, but really, who cares? That is so much more than you have 20, 30 years ago.

"Where you live" is precisely the thing that matters least now. As long as you have access to the Internet, you're only seconds away from anybody in the world.
It's hard to notice any immediate benefit from a few minutes of sitting in an Aeron-class chair, but I'll tell you that after I got my Embody (upgraded version of the Aeron) every other chair I sit in feels woefully inadequate. Knowing what I know now I wish I had made the investment earlier.
I’ll go first: we (140 Proof) actually have 20 instances, not 18. How many instances do other people’s apps use?
Node.js v0.1.99 released
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Interesting.

It isn't true in the US then, about "they'll leave anyway, if they did so much work that they applied, did the interviews and got an offer"?

Is it a general philosophy in some areas?

I've heard that in more "active" work markets (London is the closest to me) that people have their CVs going around continuously.
At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40
No they wouldn't. This article is not talking about redefining what 1 radian means.
This would be really interesting, especially for those of us who are struggling to meet that special someone (i.e. a co-founder). For me at least, I think being part of a competition and having external interest to keep motivation up would be helpful.
Hmm do you really want "Whoops, we apologize a slight error has happened, but behold everything is alright..." instead of "Error C0000005 go google this"?
Written by marketers? You mean something like "An error occurred! Oh, and have you signed up for our promotional newsletter? It's FREE!"
> I'm happy if you read it and feel encouraged. That's why I keep writing about it. But the fact is, I'm just doing what successful people have done forever -- hustlin the shit out of everything I got, and then some. Not sitting on their butt, not complaining, not waiting for an invitation, not waiting for somebody to map out the territory before they start walking.

While I agree with your sentiment, and understand what you mean from first hand experience, I think you might be confusing two type of people. There are people who will do nothing but complain, whine, and wait for that invitation.

But there are other people who are looking for more practical things. And here's the thing, saying you hustle the shit out of everything you got isn't exactly saying a whole lot.

Great. You hustle. But their is a big difference between hustling an ebook on javascript and hustling at an actual job. The ebook requires more time up front I imagine. The job requires constant time. I'm pretty sure finding a part time job instead of the ebook would have hurt in the long run.

It's practical stuff like that which helps some people. Knowing that you've sold 1400+ copies demonstrates that yes, their is a market for that sort of thing. I guess what I'm trying to say is that while you aren't doing anything new, their are specifics that allow you to succeed in what you do. Those specifics go a lot farther.

I could say my startup succeeded because I worked hard. That's true enough, but their are a lot of things I did to make it work, and that's the reality. That's the meat of it.

> No need to backpedal quite so much. You didn't offend me.

I tend to be an opinionated ass. I'm trying hard to change; I'm rather paranoid I still come off that way.
The prices of these ebook readers are finally dropping to match their value proposition. $200+ is way too much for a battery, a 3G radio, and an e-ink screen, especially considering that ebooks do not sell at any significant discount to their paper versions.
I always thought this was a joke, and then actually encountered it a few weeks ago when trying to revive an old PC.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs171.snc1/6409_...
More Nokia tablet rumors, and what’s this? MeeGo for touch
This guy could have instead bought a Wii Fit
Btw I should add that the developer (Rovio) is working on an Android version of the Angry Birds. If you've got 4 million downloads for a paid iPhone app in 3-4 months, it makes sense to develop versions for Android etc.

The article quotes Chillingo who are the "publishers" of the iPhone app
Exactly, "put yourself in a position where failure will be public and humiliating".

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
I really wonder why the nautilus developers aren't working the the Elementary[1] developers more. Nautilus-Elementary is basically a fork of nautilus at this point, and already it is much better and does a lot of the things this article proposes to add. It just seems like a bit of a waste of everyone's time.

[1] http://www.elementary-project.com/discover.html
As a general grammar and linguistic nazi I feel compelled to point out that the above trope is actually a simile. No offense intended.
A normal to health body doesn't, you're right. But at some point, and depending on your age, it might need cleansing. Either way though, cleansing isn't bad. Especially if you stick to a good diet afterward. It'll give you a head start. Even if you put it back on later, but through a good diet, as opposed to junk that may have caused it in the first place, you're better off than before.
How about this? Build a general purpose "backend" interface that allows anybody trying to commercialize a web product to manage their users.

Your system should allow:

* the creation of superadmin accounts

* Map your user model to my user model

* CRUD users of my application

* Impersonate users of my application so I can see their data

* Expire / suspend / upgrade / downgrade users

* Search for users

* Notify a user via email of something

* Report top users by metric (in the mapping operation above we tell you where to look up these metrics)

* Report new signups per day
There is an iPhone app called Bang Bang that does just this. It has warts[1], but overall does the job.

If I were doing it I'd use the HTML-5 localStorage and the 'manifest' offline web page stuff and just keep it all on person's phone.[2] Maybe I'd sync it up to a server somewhere in case they lost their phone.

[1] Warts list:

• Bang Bang is inexplicably slow. I'm down the stairs, through the house and out the door sometimes before I can get my weight entered.

• The keyboard entry is inappropriate. Even assuming you want keyboard, you only need 10 digits and a decimal point, the whole keyboard makes the touch points to small and fiddly. Still better would be a roller. Today's weight is pretty close to yesterday's. One motion would suffice.

• Some error checking wouldn't be bad. If I accidentally enter 600 pounds more than yesterday, maybe flag me instead of just graphing the result.

• The starting date is lost in the UI.

• The UI to get the starting weight and ending targets is unintuitive and will only be found by accident. Like by tapping at the screen while yelling "Why is this tiny graph so slow to draw‽"
Carbs are quite fine if you're an endurance athlete, much less so if you are sedentary. Take a look at what a pro cyclist consumes during a tour: thousands of calories a day beyond what most people would consume, the majority of which are carbs. It works for them, because not only do they need the energy from it, but they are burning it. And these are not fat people (some of them are close to being underweight, by some people's standards). But if you're not active, eating a lot of carbs is like shoving extra gasoline into a car that never goes anywhere; useless, and counter-productive.
Oh, please. It's not like anyone's forcing you to be an trolling asshole, so why do you gladly volunteer? You don't know Guido, and you don't have the slightest idea what he knows and not.
It sounds like the script just wasn't loading in the first place — probably a network or server glitch rather than a bug in the script.
Anybody with a minimum-wage job knows how to make money. Volume is a pretty big difference.
Yah but:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/11/facebo...
How about an open-source hacker news? Thereby destroying the same community that helped you to create it.

What? He said "the problem must not have been solved before"
Here's a way to cook chicken quickly without drying it out:

1. Warm up to room temp, salt & pepper (maybe garlic powder)
2. Heat pan with olive oil to hot enough that a water drop spits around on it
3. Place chicken skin down in oil
4. Salt, pepper, etc. the bottom (now facing up)
5. Cook ~3-4 minutes on that side, flip it, and insert into oven waiting at 375°
6. Cook for 35-45 more minutes, or a temp of about 175-180F internal.

Chicken that is cooked this way is awesome and the time it takes in the oven is just right to prepare side dishes.
Thanks, that's clearer to me. =)

Can you share how you got to where you are now?
They are earning, which is a completely different thing.

If it is easier to parse replace money with wealth in my original post.
Okay... that redesigned error message looks like every error message I run into on Windows and the link always points to a useless page on microsoft's website. I prefer the other error.
It is a parked domain. Interesting choice to shill from a parked domain in a language with only 100 million native speakers.
In the context of "how to make a lot of money in a short time period", volume is pretty much the key differentiator.
Can you provide a reference for this? I'd like to know the reasoning.
Buy a Nolo Press book on incorporating- $50 and done.
Most of my diet consists of carbs, and I am in pretty good shape, which is why I would tend to agree with the author in dismissing the low-carb diets. The key for me, I think, is an active lifestyle. People who think that they don't have time for exercise, should try to think of creative ways to bring activity into their lives. Bicycling to work is one that works for me, and many others that I know.
The study says refined carbs are bad — that's an important distinction. Also, some research (The China Study, for example) suggests that proteins (not fat) from animal-based foods are a cause of heart disease (and cancers).
There are various Rails plugins that take care of most of this stuff. I've had great success with restful_authentication (http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication)
Thats exactly what I mean. Jason may or may not have a million - but he understands how to make wealth. This is possible to scale to meet the timeline as required.
Updated and it promptly lost ALL my contacts. Looks like some conflict with Google Sync which conveniently went offline afterward...

Teaches me well to install software on release day, next time let others test it first...
Wouldn't this require Twitter to give you direct access to the firehose?
I think the reason why carbs work well for endurance athletes is because it gets stored in the muscle glycogen and they actually use it. Yeah, otherwise it's useless.
The Hacker News software IS open source.
Don't let being the CEO get in your way of working on the product
Maybe game magazines aren't the best example given their habit of whoring out good reviews in exchange for "exclusives" which mostly contain marketing material. Hardly bastions of creativity.
Not all of it
the idea may seem trite, but the pedagogical motivation for making certain symmetries more apparent in mathematics is sound.

on an unrelated note, when will the scribd links switch to html5?
It's Signed, therefore it's Clean, right?
By his own admission:

"A lot of people remarked that in my post on Tail Recursion Elimination I confused tail self-recursion with other tail calls, which proper Tail Call Optimization (TCO) also eliminates. I now feel more educated: tail calls are not just about loops"

http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/final-words-on-tail-...

What exactly did your reply contribute, aside from calling me a "trolling asshole"?
And because of that, I read the HN comments rather than the article (or at least to get an idea of whether the article itself is worth reading).
> Evolution is clunky in the UI department. Thunderbird is clunky in the performance department.

Did you try Claws Mail? I prefer it to Evolution and Thunderbird.
"myObject" is one of my pet peeves. I've seen and its relatives "myString" and "myNumber" in far too many published programming texts. In fact, its one of the many reasons I don't like vb.net, it actually has its own my name space!
My Android 2.2 Review (Installation and impressions)
Do you have a good reason for wanting to be a Delaware company?

Delaware does provide some advantages over other states in certain circumstances. A lot of major companies are incorporate there, and so a lot of important lawsuits involving corporate law have been fought there, and so their law is well studied and understood. Their court system also is friendly toward corporate litigation, expediting things so suits don't languish on the calendar.

Delaware also makes a lot of money from fees and such on corporations incorporated therein, and so has tried to make their law friendly, to encourage companies to incorporate there.

If you are a large public company that expects to be involved in a lot of litigation against other companies or expect to get sued a lot by your shareholders and investors, it can make a lot of sense to incorporate in Delaware.

For nearly everyone else, there's no particular advantage to Delaware. It's generally best to just incorporate where you actually are or where you will be doing most of your business. Even some large companies do this. Microsoft is incorporated in Washington, for example.
It looks fine, but I think I'll always have trouble finding a coding font to replace Consolas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
At the risk of sounding trendy: Mostly stand, then it hardly matters what kind of chair you have; and (at least in my case) the result is improved productivity and feeling better. http://kylecordes.com/2010/standing-desk

More on-topic: I sat on an Aeron a few jobs ago, and really liked it. I've compared an Aeron side-by-side with several "clones" and found the real thing is a lot better. If you are going to sit all day, an Aeron is a good default choice. As other posted pointed out, over the life of the chair the cost is really low.
Stealth Venture Backed YC Company Hiring 3-4 Full Time Hackers (NY, LA, SF)
Looking for 3-4 full time employees for a stealth YC Company (w2010). We are fully funded by some amazing investors including Mark Cuban (who rarely takes on early investments now), working in a hot space and need some serious rockstar help.

Positions:

1. UI/UX For iPhone/IPad/Standard Web

2. Flash Games Hacker

3. Flash Game Producer

4. iPhone/iPad hacker

Locations in SF/LA/NY

email me: 1daysports@gmail.com and I'll tell you what we're up to.
The list of tags for this article is simply amazing:
ANOSOGNOSICS DILEMMA, BANK ROBBERIES, DECISION-MAKING, DONALD RUMSFELD, DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT, INCOMPETENCE, KNOWLEDGE, LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
In the rendered example, the dot in the zero is too low.
My "weekend hobby" is a site that aims for a better user experience that John Walker's site, while remaining true to the hacker's diet tenants.
http://myhackerdiet.com

I've also integrated the Withing's wifi scale, so daily readings are fully automated!
http://www.system76.com/index.php?cPath=28
The Wikipedia article on duodecimal should give enough reasoning.
The majority of the data for the smarkets.com betting exchange is stored in couchdb. Asynchronous calls and cache purges are handled by rabbitmq. The entire backend is written in erlang. This is far from a pet project. Online betting is a highly regulated industry and reliability is key.
Since a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding: When Matt says "apps," he doesn't mean "iPhone apps." He's just talking about software applications in general, with a focus on the desktop in fact.

Mac users were using the word "app" long before Apple co-opted it for the iPhone, and this is the culture Matt comes from.
Create a micro book summary site. I have the entire thing planned out and will realistically never get to it as much as I think I could. It's mostly standard CRUD, with some bells and whistles, you can monetize it pretty well, and I know of a good domain for you if you want to do it.

I genuinely want you to take my idea, please contact me and I will give you everything I have.
No, there's a streaming API [0] that allows for access to a subset of the firehose in JSON via search and filtering. I wrote a short ruby script that is a good demo of how it works [1].

0 http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation

1 http://gist.github.com/325757
I found that another restart improved the speed dramatically.
What's worked for me is to stop thinking about how hard it is to lose weight and to just approach it as a big math/science project that I can geek out on and run the numbers.

I exercise daily, 20-40mins on a bike and usually a 30-60min swim, and I'll do some light weights a couple of times a week. This may sound like a lot of exercise, but it's really not. It's an hour or two a day of being active. That's in no way overdoing it, even though when I tell people this, a lot of times their reaction is that to tell me I am. I built up to this from an almost completely sedentary lifestyle in which I did almost nothing but sit at the computer and work.

This helped, and definitely made me feel better, physically. I'm healthier than I have been in a long time, and doing this, I started slowly losing weight, but the big difference came when I cut out processed sugars and lowered my carbohydrate intake. It's not a super-low low-carb extreme diet, but it's definitely a lot lower than it was.

I felt even better, more energy, more weight loss (about 3x faster than I was before), headaches went away, and I started sleeping better.

Once I got used to not having all the sugar and carbs, my body stopped craving it. It took some willpower at first, but now it's basically easy to stick to, because I'm used to eating healthier and just don't have any desire not to anymore.
The only things I care about are whether their tweets are interesting, informative or entertaining.

I don't follow everyone I know personally, because even those people tend to be boring and spam me with minutiea of their day.
From the person who asked this question on HN, I thank you Jason for making this blog post.

All the best!
Unfortunately the article is down at the moment, but there's a beautiful identity that suggests that maybe pi/4 is a constant of nature, not pi:

pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 ...

That's arguing from pure mathematics. Judging from the comments, I think the article argues (from kind of an engineering point of view) that 2pi would be more convenient.
Ugh, fuck that. They should be written by UX Designers who've gotten persona research from marketing and know the use cases from development.
That actually can make the experience worse. For example, if you decide to use the iPhone with a different AppStore account. There's no way to get back the versions of apps that work with the old version of OS.
Is Kinect Microsoft's iPod?

It wasn't so long ago that Apple was also in dire circumstances.

Cash-cows die. What company has been able to milk the same cow forever. At what point does MS start giving away their legacy products and start charging for the things that nobody else is currently doing?

I read 'Microsoft's Business Will Just Completely Collapse' as their current business, but they've arguably got a pipeline of very interesting products still to come.
Apple collecting, sharing iPhone users' precise locations
It's swedish.
Agreed, I've been using Consolas on linux for quite a while and can find no fault with it.
True. It doesn't. But as far as I know, there is no deep technical reason why it can't. The dots in domain names are '\0', and a few characters ('@', in particular) need to remain reserved, but other than that, what stops UTF-8 from being used?
I also go by the followers/follow > 1, but for N>500. If a friend of mine follows 100 people but only has 50 followers, I give them a pass. I'll flat out block someone if it's clearly a "social media expert" with follows close to followers over 1000. It's pretty clear that they aren't really following anyone and will unfollow me in 48 hours if I don't help pad their stats.
> I'm not the one claiming that trickle down economics is a morally justified way to rationalize the goodness of IP regimes.

Yes, but that is the broadly accepted view. It's not incumbent on me to prove it.