skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that what drino is bringign to the table (this is pure speculation based on the original post) is knowledge of the domain, and persistence. If she is good at selling the solution then I think she has a good chance of succeeding.

An overall note on your post: I think that when you break it all down there are basically only two things that matter in a startup: 1) having a product. 2) being able to sell it. Often the people that are good at making products are terrible at selling them and vice versa. So you certainly need good hackers, but you also need great salesmen. And both of them need to be pretty persistent, since they're facing tough jobs.
Hopefully you have something in writing that protects your IP rights as well, or she may be able to run off with the code. Conversely, if you've signed away ownership though, you may need to buy her shares out to retain 100% ownership.

Short of learning to code, which would be a good idea either way, you could try something like elance.com to find a qualified developer to get it to beta. That could even produce a partnership afterwards, although I agree with what PG said about partners being friends first, for the trust factor.

Good luck, hope you're able to pull through :)
Good to see you back in the game ovi256

;-)
35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed
Burma has been devastated. You can help
Dear friends,
Burma has been devastated by a cyclone - and by the military junta's failure to help its people cope. Help raise relief funds for distribution.<p>In the wake of a massive cyclone, at least 22,000 Burmese are dead. More than 40,000 are missing. A million are homeless.<p>But what's happening in Burma is not just a natural disaster - it's also a catastrophe of bad leadership.<p>Burma's brutal and corrupt military junta failed to warn the people, failed to evacuate any areas, and suppressed freedom of communication so that Burmese people didn't know the storm was coming when the rest of the world did. Now the government is failing to respond to the disaster and obstructing international aid organizations.<p>Humanitarian relief is urgently needed, but Burma's government could easily delay, divert or misuse any aid. Today the International Burmese Monks Organization, including many leaders of the democracy protests last fall, launched a new effort to provide relief through Burma's powerful grass roots network of monasteries--the most trusted institutions in the country and currently the only source of housing and support in many devastated communities. Click below to help the Burmese people with a donation and see a video appeal to Avaaz from a leader of the monks:<p>https://secure.avaaz.org/en/burma_cyclone/7.php?cl=86630795<p>Giving to the monks is a smart, fast way to get aid directly to Burma's people. Governments and international aid organizations are important, but face challenges--they may not be allowed into Burma, or they may be forced to provide aid according to the junta's rules. And most will have to spend large amounts of money just setting up operations in the country. The monks are already on the front lines of the aid effort--housing, feeding, and supporting the victims of the cyclone since the day it struck. The International Burmese Monks Organization will send money directly to each monastery through their own networks, bypassing regime controls.<p>Last year, more than 800,000 of us around the world stood with the Burmese people as they rose up against the military dictatorship. The government lost no time then in dispatching its armies to ruthlessly crush the nonviolent democracy movement--but now, as tens of thousands die, the junta's response is slow and threatens to divert precious aid into the corrupt regime's pockets.<p>The monks are unlikely to receive aid from governments or large humanitarian organizations, but they have a stronger presence and trust among the Burmese people than both. If we all chip in a little bit, we can help them to make a big difference.<p>Click here to donate:<p>https://secure.avaaz.org/en/burma_cyclone/7.php?cl=86630795
Cool, I read a few of the other 'planet' sites as well and this would be a welcome addition to the list! It's nice to have topical aggregators for things shared insights or individual company news that aren't quite newsworthy to the general populace (yet! ;).
Another good article about Grant Achatz and Alinea:

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...
key quote for me "Bonforte says reducing email threads down to a single active message is a key factor in solving the email...he thinks Xobni will eventually be able to do that with the IP they’ve just acquired" There are a lot of ways to do this, e-mail widgets is just one.
FIOS exists in few places. Cable companies already vary speeds and pricing from city to city, so you can expect that they will only implement such customer-hostile plans in cities where FIOS is not available.

You could argue that driving high-cost customers to FIOS is a good strategy, but I suspect monthly transfer caps will even drive away some customers who would never actually hit them but are just nervous about getting huge bills.
Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch
Just after IPv6 will be in widespread use.

Oh wait that is REALLY being done.
Good to see people care. I'll get you all beers if we ever get together.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Sage Math (http://www.sagemath.org/).

It's sort of a set union of every good free math program.
I post comments all the time that have nothing to do with the main point of the article. That doesn't mean I haven't read it. Usually it just means the article reminded me of something that I thought other people would find useful.
I have a couple of open source Rails projects:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/dedawiki/

http://rubyforge.org/projects/stufftodo/

Or if you want to work on pay sites, email me and we'll see what we can work out.
Telecom engineering is cool again. Wait, it always was in my mind, since I am majoring in the field.
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda University Medical Center offers a variety of medical and health services for men, women and children. Top rate specialists, leading-edge technology and caring staff are here to help you.
The front page you have now should be the help page. I think the front page ought to be just two big loud buttons: create a meeting or find a meeting (and small text "click here to learn how to use gutmeet").
Proton Therapy
Loma Linda's Proton Treatment Center provides proton beam therapy for lung, brain, and prostate cancer treatment. Nation’s first hospital-based Proton Treatment Center for cancer.
Don't believe the hype.

Right now everyone is talking about facebook, social software, and what have you. But most of these sites aren't making any money, and they never will. It's basically a really crowded market with no clear income model unless you're really big.

Find a niche that hasn't been exploited and create software that solves a problem in that niche. B2B is probably the best place to look - if you can come up with a piece of siftware that can either save a company money or make them money they will be happy to pay.

If you have ever seen SAP's implementations of ERP systems you will know that the B2B software out there is totally crap, and that it should be possible to come up with something better. And there are real companies willing to pay real money for your software.

There are plenty of people and companies and people that want and will pay for useful software, you just don't read about them on digg or reddit because they aren't sexy and cool.
We'll remember that ;-)

where do you live?
But this behavior wouldn't trigger my alarms unless it's changing in magnitude over time for lots of different people. Whereas, I fear a portion of our new users do this on a fairly regular basis -- which would show an increase in the 'commented before read proportion'. Is this actually happening? I'm not sure.
The Law of Demeter is a Piffle
Accidentally went to gutmeat.com at first. Not bad. I thought the screenshots were live and broken at first. Need some sort of obvious wrapper/fade around them. Where is the list of events for other people to read?
No, BarCampNYC3 was back in March... great event: http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampNYC3
I completely agree. The front page is too busy, with too much "stuff" in the images. Instead of having images of the 3 step creation, just put the three steps right there. I think that would make all the difference in the world.
You can be a sole founder you know. Works quite well :)
Right now, Lyon, France until June. I'll graduate then, and afterwards we'll see.
$3000 income - $2000 outgoing is more College like than garagelike, thats $250 free money a week (lots of ramen noodles)
Microsoft Eyes Facebook
note that she took a pay cut because she wanted a greater stake in the company. does that fit with her not believing in it?

it does sound like she didn't have the experience or the maturity to whittle down to an achievable project, however. learn to code, maybe that plus this experience will make you a much stronger manager and designer next time around.
if they 'eye' facebook, it takes the focus off the yahoo deal (letting YAHOO hit bottom) before the re-offer.
I doubt anyone would consider it blackmail in the legal sense. But I'm putting myself in the owner's place: upfront contract, month 4 of 6, more equity promised upon receiving a deliverable. Losing the developer is a major setback for my startup, and the developer threatens me with creating this setback unless I give a large amount of equity. I would certainly feel that the developer is trying to take advantage of me at that point.

Like I said, it's one thing to negotiate better compensation, or to walk away for a better offer, etc. It's another to say "I can screw you over and I will use that to get more from you".

And like I also said, there are two sides to every story. This is seen exclusively from the owner's side.
What are good user growth rates for your startup?
I know a lot of these questions depend on the type of startup you are doing, but for an average social site what are good milestones for user growth? For page views?

Where should we be six months after launch? A year?
A faster instant domain search
how did you extract them all?
Investing in the future of the open Internet
First dilute here ownership to next to nothing. Second: I haven't had much success in India. The turnover was too high and I found myself managing via spreadsheets and Skype way too much. Third: Keep your costs minimal and look for more funding. My $0.02
Links are #1, they build Authority (so actually Authority is #1) (off site optimization) is all about links, their anchor text and if they are 'no followed' or not.

Site design alt tags, title tags etc... are #2 .. read here for more ranking factors...
http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
$2400 (after taxes, see OP) - $2000 is more like $100 a week.
How is this a hacker news?

I'm not trying to flame here, I think there should be a common theme to posts. If HN turns into another "everything and a kitchen skink news" web site it will lose all of its appeal.
In other words, it's an exit. :-)
Socializing is both something human beings feel a need to do (therefore useful in itself to satisfy that need) but it can also augment other activities to make them more useful too. The latter requires care not to do "social for the sake of being social in context Y" type stuff though. It has to make sense to facilitate the original goal of the app.

Twitter seems to take some people a lot longer than others to "get" (myself included). But I think that's because we're thinking of it in terms of the latter scenario, i.e. what is its use besides socializing? But socializing is a use in itself too, which we tend to forget (us stereotypically anti-social hacker types... ;).

As an aside, the stereotype of the hacker as anti-social is quite a contradiction to the idea of a hacker founder, since the founder is a leader, front of the crowd. Us hackers these days seem to be turning that one on its head :)
29% can be reclaimed in a straightforward manner.
Vallejo, California, Plans to File for Bankruptcy
The Facebook: Another Product of a Broken System
People are making millions with innovative business software. Stuff that keeps hospital records, does simulations for the DoD, coordinates sales representatives, facilitates B2B, or CRM, or whatever.

The stuff making real money just has relatively very low visibility from the web. Most of these companies are small, private, and almost entirely owned by, like, three people. The founders come from industry and have zero interest in keeping a blog or writing articles relating their business experiences. Often they have legitimate industrial espionage concerns and prefer to keep a low profile except with regard to their handful of customers.

People who think really hard about facebook are living in an alternate reality that's distorted by spending so much time on the web.
It might sound a little slimy (but no worse than what this developer has pulled on you), but you've given her a 35% stake in THE COMPANY, not the product, no? You could always shut down the company, sell off the assets (your prototype) to another company that you start for a dollar and start fresh with 100% equity.

I assume that the 35% equity doesn't actually give her decision-making power? There's probably a couple of loopholes you can exploit here.

Once you've got your equity back, follow some of the advice here. Get yourself a real developer, try to get a little more money and release a version 1. Barring that, cut your features down, and rethink what you really need in order to get you to the next stage. Something small and simple may be all that is really essential.
The whole point here is that Toyota's workers are much cheaper. That's a fact.
Great UI. Really takes advantage of the blurring of the line between perception of responsiveness and perception of actual speed. I don't think it's that much faster in real terms than instantdomainsearch, but it feels like it's way speedier.
Game performance, in my experience, has always been hugely lacking on the Mac. Beyond the sheer lack of game support (for what used to be obvious reasons) the actual game performance never matched up, at least with 3D graphics games. The frame rate would almost always suck, and if you didn't have a ridiculously high-end card (e.g. something for a Mac Pro desktop) you might as well forget it. You were better off with your Playstation any day. Hate to say that, but it's true. Plus, oftentimes the most popular games would never get the updates/patches as quickly as the MS versions, which was annoying.

The Mac was simply never taken seriously as a game platform.

Educational games? Sure. 2D? Fine. 3D? Forget about it.

I currently have a Leopard MBP, so maybe times have changed. But I was burned too many times in the past. It taught me to stay away from the games rack.
Why is it that all books have to be 'cookbooks' or 'romantic novels' these days? Why is it that all TV shows have to be 'reality shows' or 'talent competitions' these days?

They're not. It's just that's what happens to be taking the #1 and #2 spots in each field and getting most of the mindshare. There's still lots of room down the tail; just less people are talking about it (this is what makes it rich, fertile ground to mine.. 90% of the people are only chasing 10% of the pie!).
You should get rid of the "Django girl" and go back to work so you can fund the start-up yourself. You should also learn Django.

On that note, I wouldn't mind doing some part-time Django work this summer. I come a lot cheaper than this girl and frankly it sounds like I'm a lot better. (purdue.edu walshmj)

Good luck.
And, for the most part, they're promoted / sold in very old school ways.. direct sales, calling people up, taking out advertising, etc. Those sorts of concepts not only seem alien to the modern breed of 'startuppers' but even antiquated.
First, I feel bad for you. I wish you the best.

What would I do?

1.- Evaluate the quality of the product you have so far. I am sure there are people here that can help you with that.

2.- Try to get back the 35% from her. I think is the least she can do.

3.- Find a good technical co-founder. If you have a good idea and a good product somebody may be interested. Offer them a plan where they can get equity with time. e.g. 20% after 6 months, 45% after one year of work. To find the co-founder you need the help from somebody you trust that can help you evaluate how good is your co-founder. You have already shown that you are committed to your idea.

Good Luck!
I am looking for clean and simple business card layout like this..

Any recommendation on sites that do business card design?
On the topic of SBCL:
A few days ago I downloaded SBCL 1.0.13 on my WinXP laptop and have been playing around with it to get back into Lisp. So far its worked to go through some exercises. I'm using Paul's "ANSI Common Lisp" book which I needed for one of my CS programming classes years ago. Last serious Lisp programming I did was at Interleaf, when they were Interleaf, so I've got a lot of cobwebs to brush off. I've got some specific tools I want to implement, so I'll probably run into issues with the incomplete port and if I can carve out the time, have no problem helping out.
I thought it had something to do with the stock price. Keeping with the double meaning vein, the author is either really naive or really clever.
I wasn't criticizing; just defending the use of the word against accusations of misogyny, which appeared to be forthcoming. :)
I think Facebook is Aaron Greenspan's favorite subject.
Did games ever play well on PCs with shoddy hardware? No. Things are a little better now, but try playing something like UT3 on your Intel integrated graphics. Ain't gonna work. Cheap video cards will never play games well, regardless of platform.

Hopefully gaming pans out for Apple. They are paying people to do some awesome open source work on LLVM (namely running LLVM on GPUs), so if gaming works for them it means that we all get very good LLVM performance :)
Most impressive thing about Twitter: Number of times it gets on places like techcrunch.
Constructive criticism: This essay rambles a little bit. There are a bunch of ideas that are hinted at but never really developed. This doesn't especially bother me and it's actually kind of interesting, but I'm also not sure it's the best way to sell the book if that is part of the goal.
The internet is AOL now, my friend. My condolences. Keep developing your program. Most social apps end in failure because they have no use.
Yes this is an interesting point. Don't underestimate cold calling customers, direct sales, etc. It's extremely effective in a B2B market.
Check out San Jose State. I stayed there as an intern with Google. The place is nice, albeit sort of out of the way depending on where you want to be. Not sure if you could get similar rates as an individual, though.
Good idea. I just did it over the weekend and wasn't ready (no idea) how to make a proper front page. I will work on the front page.

I intended to deliver enough information for user to grab the idea in 3 seconds. But I guess it isn't a good idea after all.
Good job, but there appears to be one feed / source that's nothing but uninteresting (mostly because they're personal responses) Twitter-type entries. @Peter starts a lot of them..
Peter F Drucker applied to IT project management
hee. I was thinking of gut feeling and meeting people spontaneously. and Gut actually means GOOD in German. Just a bit bkgrnd information.
A comparative study of GUIs through the ages
If you think of the iPhone as a second shot at the Newton, their "second shots" seem pretty solid...
Drinko - you should really add an e-mail adress to your profile. There's a pretty godd chance you'll get a mail from someone here that might be interested in picking it up.
Maybe you should reverse the question. Why has software development always been about productivity? What is it that makes people really happy, being productive or having a rich social life? (Depending on your needs 'rich' may be just that one special person, but still.)

It's funny you use 'a simple web-based address book' as an example, since an address book is kind of a useless tool if it didn't have a purpose: social contacts. In a world where 'everyone' is 'connected' it's only natural to start looking beyond that and look for way of directly connecting the addresses to the actual social contact.

Games aside, we are only now starting to look beyond the mere useful and productive when it comes to software, it's a new and exciting field, with lots yet to be discovered. And as an added bonus it's actually already proving to be useful too.

Maybe the 'social' is being overemphasized right now, but that's only natural. For a lot of software uses there is no real hard separation between the useful and the social, it just wasn't possible to make that direct connection until now.

No offence, but I kind of agree with 'that guy', if the software has a natural social aspect, it isn't really complete without it. It's like a webshop that doesn't allow you to order stuff, just make a printout and take it to the store.
There's an obvious sampling error in asking people who hang out at news.YC...
it's up about two dollars from Monday May 5 open of 23.25 as of Wed close at 25.55; how many more days should we give to become clear?
Sorry for this bad situation. What I would do in your situation is to try to pre-sell this solution to potential customers (hospitals, healthcare companies, etc... You definitely have a leverage there as a nurse). Once you get a few commitments (and that will take a lot of "nos" and paper prototyping back-and-forth), then it will be much easier to recruit someone to develop the app for equity-only, or you might even be able to get an hospital to pay for it.

There's a great book called "Bootstrapping" by Greg Gianforte, that outlines this process of pre-selling without a product. I highly recommend you to at least take a look at the first chapters.
The Huffington Post asked me to write about Facebook. I asked them to write about something else. They want one more related article and then I promise something more interesting!
the non intuitive nature of some of the UI features.

Instructional copy is written, but not implemented.

Lack of help - again written, but not implemented.

Lack of privacy settings.

Inability to search.
I totally agree. I wish there was a way to designate an article as "off-topic".
I'm such a whore for black business cards. My personal business/freelance business card is black but it's also matte (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chix0r/1409350187/), and half of one side is not black. It's entirely possible to write on it..I haven't had many problems with that, and even if you write on the black part, you can usually read most pen/pencil marks on it. In the event you can't read it straight on, tilting at an angle usually does the trick.

Some of mine are braille embossed though, but the people I give those to usually don't need to write anything on it.

It's the glossy black ones that are more annoying to me.
Yeah, there are some good posts in that feed, so I'm going to try to set up a filter that knocks out anything that starts with @.
I suspect there are quite a few rules / heuristics that could be used to improve the quality of "planet" sites overall. Those in the topic areas I'm interested in tend to pick good sources, but those sources can occasionally be "noisy" and irrelevant to the planet. This leads people to subscribe more to summary blogs (to my advantage in my main niche).

It's probably rather beyond what you're hoping to achieve, but with some time and thought, I bet there's a way to build planet sites that have an incredibly high signal to noise ratio rather than the almost equal one they tend to have right now.
Then I would think that would be your first priority. You're SOL as long as more than a third of your company is dead weight.