skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you can get a second or third founder on board, doesn't it mean the idea has been vetted out a bit by definition?
That's only true if they're investing big time money - clearly the new breed of VC's (aka Super Angels) are going to be just fine with such small time exits.

The disgusting part is not that they don't want small exits, it's that they're so arrogant as to suggest that entrepreneurs who don't help feed their out-dated business model are somehow doing something wrong.

It reminds me of the cable companies back in the day: "But have you seen internet video? It's horrible!"
This is why Lycos was able to survive on life support for so long. Seems Daum thought they were buying a prestige brand in US after Lycos star was already dimmed. A classic example of a distant parent not understanding the local trends.
Paul Graham is a counter-example:
"Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four.
...
The all-or-nothing aspect of startups was not something we wanted. Viaweb's hackers were all extremely risk-averse. If there had been some way just to work super hard and get paid for it, without having a lottery mixed in, we would have been delighted. We would have much preferred a 100% chance of $1 million to a 20% chance of $10 million, even though theoretically the second is worth twice as much. Unfortunately, there is not currently any space in the business world where you can get the first deal.
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
How is what he's saying different from what RMS has said how you should make money with open source software? You might not like Ellison, but making money by offering support services is perfectly legitimate with open source software.
With or without kids + family? I don't worry about those things, but 'it's not hard to save up a couple years living expenses' depends a lot on your ... dependents.
I conceived, founded, and grew Forrst on my own, working on it for around 3 months before I took a small seed round in March, and am currently generating revenue. I have one part time employee who handles some community moderation stuff. I'm all for the single founder thing; in general, I think it gets too much flak. The one thing I think you need to be cognizant of is to have a razor-sharp focus. Besides, it could be fun.
The Slashdot joke "I patented the act of patent trolling" ceased to be funny a decade ago.

Actually trying it makes it funny again.
If you're a startup with lots of possible advertising topics, and monetizing with advertising, you're probably a UGC/social media site. Advertisers will see you as not much more than a glorified general discussion forum, and pay accordingly.

Forum traffic, unless it's very targeted to a specific niche, does NOT convert well. You won't get a good CPM no matter what. The exception to this rule is for social networks, who know enough about their users to allow demographic targeting. Even then, the CPM isn't great(I pay less than 20 cents CPM on Facebook for example). Social networks make up for this on volume, because social apps tend to generate a lot of pageviews.

That said, you will still do better with ad sales people even if you're selling general, untargeted inventory, especially if you're selling to brand advertisers.

Every couple weeks I get pestered by ad sales people from some second-tier social network who are willing to do almost anything to get an IO and commitment for a large number of impressions. Sometimes this works, even for low-quality traffic. It's possible to sell almost any kind of traffic as long as the numbers are right, and the benefit of having ad sales people, at least good ones, is that they can sell large blocks of inventory to big advertisers at once and hopefully maintain a relationship if the traffic backs out.

As for Demand Media, you're wrong about how banner buys work. If I go to cracked.com, which has lots of diverse content(and low-quality traffic), I don't see ads that are targeted to the categories or specific niches. I see banner ads from big CPG advertisers doing branding sitewide.
Tried this out, very nice seemless integration with my dropbox
Missing scene from Jedi... 
Luke changing the batteries of his lightsaber.
In Europe Kayak does some ground transportation where it makes sense to compare it with air travel - on the Eurostar http://www.eurostar.com
People who travel have interesting stories from their travels.

I hate to sound negative, but I find that some of the worst bores are people who can't stop talking about their last journey. Having been around the world a few times myself, I often have to bite my tongue to stop myself from telling too many "that reminds me of this one time in [random city X]" stories, as people do get bored of hearing them, and they're rarely as interesting to others as they are to the people who were there.
Nope, this is from the proposal disclosure "The sponsoring organization retains the rights to the resulting software. Also, sponsors may require students to sign non-disclosure agreements, as long as the agreements" And in my case, My team and I are the sponsor
Fair enough, I respect that you're willing to admit that. But please don't call me a "wage slave" because of your fears and uncertainties.
Blizzard Wins $88M Judgment Against WoW Private Server Owner
Is that map complete? Almost none of the cables seem to touch Russia.
Many people with wage-based jobs adjust their lifestyle so that they're always living, roughly, paycheck to paycheck. Also, I tried to get across that I mean survival in the sense of "What do I need to do in the short and long term to make sure I can get by?"
> I was a software developer there in the late 90's, and we did some of the first eye-tracking studies on how people used the search engine.

I also find it telling that they let developers / engineers do eye tracking and user research, as opposed to designers / usability people.

> I'm sure Google did those same studies when they were working on their ads and saw the same thing. Since they were run by engineers, they made their ads text.

Google's data-centricism and engineering-informed design decisions have seen much pushback lately, as exemplified by the departure of lead designer Douglas Bowman:

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
Regarding: http://darkpatterns.org/hidden-costs/

Its extremely rare to see an online store that includes all taxes & fees in its line item prices. Such as hotel/air tax, sales tax, or shipping costs.

And when I don't see them in the checkout, I get suspicious. Shipping is never free, please let me know what I'm paying for it rather than lumping it into 1 price.
Well, Chrome actually appears to use font rendering from Windows (it looks the same as IE8), and Indesign has a good reason not to.
Well, I can understand it from at least a security perspective (usually inter-connected wifi points use horribly unsecure setups), but this is pretty cute, their reasoning.
most of these ideas are already done..
1.) miso, philo, numote
2.) salary.com, glassdoor.com
3.) not sure
4.) would like to see
5.) redbeacon.com
I wouldn't call it dark pattern but rather an anti-pattern or just a plain-old mistake/oversight. Dark pattern implies the website gains something by misleading the user. In this case, the guy actually loses hits/viewer to the main website he is talking about. So it is more of a usability oversight than usability insidiousness.
The innuendo exists only in your mind - my words were sincere. I honestly admire anybody who can sell an ebook online for $24, and I for one find think there's much to be learnt from such a business model.
I call it Ticketmastering and I do my best to avoid any site that does this.
>They're about as different as any two VMs are.

I suggest that these differences are what makes them different as applies to patents. Patents are usually either so broad as to have prior art, or so narrow as to not apply to even "similar" implementations.

6,192,476: Too broad. Applies to any OS since the 70's.
6,125,447: as above.
5,966,702: Too specific (.NET doesnt need to optimize data it creates properly in the first place) and too broad at the same time: it simply describes data normalization.
7,426,720: Unix forks. Either way, .NET does not do this.
RE38,104: Not applicable at all. .NET is always fully JITed.
6,910,205: See above.
6,061,520: Specific to JVM implementation detail.
Accumulated around 50 K in Debt while doing MS in CS, from Cornell. Hoping to get around 85K $ a year job [median salary for 2009 for CS], should be able to pay of entirely in couple of years.

Though hoping to become a wall street Quant, then will be able to pay in a year alone.

Had under graduation in India , where Tuition was 500$ a year, still got a scholarship which made sure i need not pay even that amount. I make more in my internship in a week than what I paid to university as a tuition.

Hoping to be able to do some charity by paying for tuition of poor Indian students in two years
Persistent undo is my favorite new feature. The ability to close vim, reopen a file later, and then have all of the undo history still available is awesome. (Alternatively, I used to suspend vim instead of actually quit.)

To turn on persistent undo, I created a new directory called ~/.undo to store all of the undo history so that my working directories wouldn't get cluttered.
Then in .vimrc, I add:

set undofile
set undodir=~/.undo
I was hoping to be inspired, but I don't actually see any new or useful information on this site. All of these entries just come across as whiny complaints about things that are very obvious and in the company's best interest.

Example: "Disguised Ads"
Site designers want ads to look like content?? God forbid! Stop the presses!
'Prison is a technology vortex'
Startup founders are in the unique position of having to seriously ask themselves the following cocktail party question

No, really, absolutely not. There are a lot more people able to retire and live comfortably than you think (people running simple brick and mortar businesses I know of, for instance).

And one point: FU money is not the same amount for everyone.

For me, FU money (if I had to live until 100 with my wife and son) is around 1.000.000 €, based on our standard of living.
So once you pass the quack test, is there really a big difference between single founders and co-founder teams?
I'm convinced that being a remotely intelligent programmer means you are going to be feeling stupid most of the time.

Yup, which is why if you want to be a good programmer, you have to commit yourself to constant tinkering and learning.
Flash is a poor example because the majority of consumer PCs sold already include a reasonably recent version of Flash. This is why I'm still building adgames in Flash when I'd much rather use Unity3d. Unity adds the friction of a plugin install, whereas Flash is likely already installed.

Similarly, getting people to install Chrome Frame adds some friction (though how much depends on how the install is streamlined).
I think you have it the wrong way around.
I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, most of my diet is healthy food, although I also eat processed foods.
I tried a Candida diet for 2 weeks and didn't noticed any difference, but maybe 2 weeks is too short.
I eat everything, meat, fish, mushrooms, salads, fruits, pasta, vegetables.
And I sometimes drink alcohol, but don't smoke.
I haven't found yet any correlation between something I ate and worsening of my condition.
Ask HN: SaaS pricing for B2C && B2B (ex. 37s, Wufoo)
If you go to http://basecamphq.com/ you'll see a lot of top-tier company logos. If you proceed to the famous "See Plans & Pricing", you'll see the max plan is $149/mo.

Similar story with Wufoo: Clients (http://wufoo.com/clients/) -> Pricing (http://wufoo.com/signup/).

The max plans are largely 'unlimited', which brings me to my question: are 37s and Wufoo really only extracting $149/mo or $199/mo out of these Fortune 100/500 companies? If not, what do you think they're doing?
What are you using in Erlang to talk to Redis?

I'm a big fan of http://github.com/mattsta/er (probably because it's mine).
Yeah, this guy worked at Goldman and believes that "rapacious greed" is necessary for success. Well, I don't doubt that's true in the financial world. But in the wider world there are more types of motivations. As an investor, it's reasonable to favor greed, but it's silly to think that money is the only thing that puts fire in a person's belly. Consider Stallman and Torvalds for instance... I'd argue they've added more value to the world than any partner at Goldman ever has.
The Communication Shift: It’s Time for a Change in the Enterprise
Agreed. Personally, the biggest obstacle to doing my own thing is finding someone to work with who is hard-working and trustworthy, but who also has a similar outlook and tolerance for risk. These people are rarer than investors.
That's also a tactic that is used when they want the other party to comply without going to court. You make it look overwhelming...
Also see perl5i for a hypermodern version/vision/patch of Perl 5: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl5i/lib/perl5i.pm
Your thesis seems rather a reach to me. Socratic dialogues are a sequential form -- earlier points lay the groundwork for later ones, for example.

I'm not an expert on the ancient Greeks, but the last I heard there wasn't much evidence of a written language during the Greek Dark Ages. But to jump from what we know of Greek culture from written remnants (plays and poetry) it would seem to place a great deal of emphasis on "linearity".

Take the Method of Loci used to, ahem, memorize the "linear" points of a speech or argument. While it's true that you can access points at random, that doesn't take away from the fact that they are staged and memorized in a specific order for presentation.

Bottom line, I think you're accepting the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis uncritically. It seems so reasonable, but when you get down to specifics -- like the actual number of words for snow in English and Innuit -- it just doesn't pan out. Similarly, I think anyone who's read Adler and Van Doren's pre-Internet "How to Read a Book" would scoff at Carr's notion that books can't be an interactive medium. People can be mentally lazy using any media.
True... but only a little bit. What's important I think, is to validate your idea with people willing to give you money for it... your clients/users.
"I think some of the other commenters addressed this well, but as for Russia, it's a terrible example and has a lot of the same problems that Nigeria appears to; Newsweek just ran an article on the subject: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/14/putin-s-russia-exile-busi...

You can continue to read placed PR Newsweek articles and be an idiot (the part about the "has a lot of the same problems that Nigeria appears to" is sort of the point of using it as an example), or you can do a quick google search:

http://www.centernetworks.com/top-russian-web-sites

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/07/27/top-20-countries-on-the-...
It's also a good example why an isolationist foreign policy is a bad idea on a macro economic scale. A single country, no matter how big, simply cannot make all the stuff we take for granted in the modern world.
I think these guys might be the best trolls I've ever seen on the web. First the NY Sucks article, and now this.

Everything from the title, to the giant fuck you to "wage slaves" in the 2nd paragraph, to the fuck you to investors in the 4th paragraph to the fuck you to the Goldman folks later on, screams, "I'M GOING TO PISS YOU OFF SO YOU PAY ATTENTION TO ME."

Bravo!

Might I suggest a topic for your next essay? "Are you a creative type? FUCK YOU! Non-creative type? FUCK YOU, TOO!"
I liked Scott's Programming Language Pragmatics (http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~scott/pragmatics/) because it covers both programming language issues and compiler implementation, but you might find it boring if you already have a PL background.
We're not aware of any issues in Safari 5 - could you drop an email to support@typekit.com with an example URL showing the problems so we can look into it?
http://www.airdropper.com
I agree that asking random strangers doesn't seem really wise, but it's hard to talk face to face about this problem.

I did see my PG, and he told me to make several tests like blood test, microbial and fungial tests, but all were negatives and he didn't know what to do about it.

I will try another PG, but I think I could get some interesting replies on here.
Living a nomadic lifestyle can be fun, but I like knowing where I'm going to sleep. If I lived in the middle of a plains or was hiking down a trail, I know that I will be sleeping 'up ahead' or 'over there' or 'on the side of this trail'. However, in urban environments you actually have to find somewhere to sleep.

I'm also fond of my textbooks, which haven't yet been satisfactorily digitized, and my motorcycles and associated tools and parts, which haven't been successfully digitized either.
I was attacking the term "wage-slave" I have no problem with identifying taxes as forced on you. I even mentioned that force from another human being is what constitutes slavery, not from nature. Government is not nature, it's human beings, they use force on you, thereby enslaving you.
Doesn't every MMORPG (World of Warcraft, etc.) violate this? You generally get your first month free, but still need to setup an account with recurring billing. If you don't cancel you start getting charged.

I guess usually you have to buy the box though so its not quite the same. Unless they offer the game free for download.
We're using http://github.com/cstar/erldis . It's a very thin wrapper over the raw commands and does what I want well (well after we hunted down a weird bug in response handling under load, but that's a separate story)
By which objective measurements has Perl "fallen behind in the marketplace"? TIOBE is nonsense and noise, and the State of the Computer Book Marketplace has flaws that would make a first year business student blush.

I know there's some nebulous buzz factor, but I'm asking about verifiable measurements.
A nice side-benefit of KeePass is that it enables you to use randomly-generated answers to mandatory "security" questions.

I can put a 32-character alphanumeric string as my answer to "what is your mother's maiden name?" or "what city were you born in?" and store the answers in the KeePass entry.

The only downside is that since I also create a unique email address for everything, it can become a bit tedious to sign up for a new service and generate the email address and password.
Boards of Canada
Rusko / dubstep
deadmau5
> So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing

Doesn't that just piss you off?

This is not what RMS and the "Free Software" advocates say about making money from free software.

What this guy is saying is, we'll take open source and embed it in our proprietary products and we don't owe anyone anything.
Good ideas take a while to develop. You need to be familiar with the domain to execute them well, care enough to put in the work.

What domain are you familiar with? HTML/CSS/JS? Backends? Programming IDEs? Text analysis? Surfing the web? (UIs, journalism, communities etc..)

I have some ideas.

1. Community designer - you'd start with a forum, then add features like up/down votes, ratings, tags, following, blocking, limiting length of posts (aka Twitter), anonymity, chats in threads, micro-comments (quick comments about meaty posts visually separate) topic isolation, user labels (like trolls, political, religious nuts) etc.. You could add and remove features in order to guide the community to be active, post good content, or troll like 4chan.

Of course you'd need extensive experience of wasting time on forums, digg, reddit, starting your own forum to approach this idea.

2. Code map - lots of projects have a lot of boilerplate code, multiple functions with little inside them, linking to other parts of the program for convenience. Code density map shows where the functional code is in a large project. Complexity map could show where there is long, incomprehensible logic. Dependency map showing which classes have more dependencies than others. Some of these could be documented by the developer, he can label something "hacky" and you could see how much of the code-base is "hacky" on a map. Long name API map should look different for JQuery and Google Closure (JS frameworks), would be useful for designer coders because they have low tolerance for long lines of text. Would look different for Processing.org vs Java drawing API too.

Such a map should look different from one project to the next. It might reveal coding style. Someone who is looking to work on a project could decide if the coding style matches their own without having to dig in to the code. People choosing a framework like Rails, Django could decide based on a map of example projects that do the same task. Compare how verbose one framework is vs another.

This is a hard problem with fun social implications. I don't really know how hard, but there should be some intermediate stages for the idea that would be neat, maybe even useful for github.

3. Individualized content - user takes a survey of words, concepts he understands, like helium, fusion, deuterium, megawatts, steam turbines and when looking at a news site he would only see the articles where he understands the concepts. If the news site wants to explain these concepts to the individual, they have to write specially written articles that break things down, start at the fundamentals.

It's not hard to get ideas after you have some experience, did a lot of research in a domain. As a bonus you have more motivation to work on it than you do on someone else's less familiar idea. That might be a problem for you.
Chances are they are getting multiple accounts from each company. In companies this large I imagine that multiple teams would want their own basecamp/wufoo accounts instead of trying to share one huge one (which basecamp/wufoo aren't really built for).
Thanks for the clickable link.
Historians rethink key Soviet role in Japan defeat
You seem to be under the misapprehension that the money a lawyer earns in exchange for his time is "real money", whereas the money earned by a fashion designer or an organic honey grower or someone who restores vingage fixed-gear bicycles is somehow not real money.

Our friend the DJ, he has an external source of economic value - his friend's surplus (i.e. they can afford to rent more space than they need, so he can stay there). If his friends have no surplus of this kind, his model collapses. So really, his lifestyle is only possible because it is subsidized.

Our hypothetical B&B owner - there are shows about this nightly on British TV, always the same pattern - has made some money typically through selling his house in the UK at the right time, quit his job, bought a dilapidated farmhouse in rural France, done it up, and is now waiting for yuppie holidaymakers to come stay. He has no skills that are relevant in the local economy. He depends specifically and entirely on people who live the lifestyle he left behind for his business. Now I am not saying that what he does has no economic value. I am saying that to trade, you need to have a) something to trade and b) someone to trade with. The people he trades with are people with jobs in big cities who want to escape to the country. If these people have also dropped out to live an idyllic lifestyle, what demand is there from them for his service?

I dunno, think of a world where everyone's say a chicken farmer. How do they create value by trading chickens with each other?