skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a lot of problem with this question, myself. In that it's hard to succinctly put what I do, and living in not-SF, people don't really understand tech-web-startup-speak.

I guess in the end I've gotten around to saying some version of "I run some websites". Which, if there are followup questions usually evolves into questions about how you make money on websites. I tried variants of "web developer" and the like but then people think I design websites for other clients. I do very little programming these days so any version with "programming" doesn't seem to work. Never liked the term "blogger" and doesn't really fit what I do.
+1 for Dynadot, I've been using them for a few years and been happy. Simple but full-featured site, no in-your-face marketing, great pricing. And yes, they do give you direct access to the domain grace period feature (though now restricted like everyone else by the domain-tasting prevention quotas).

Only downside I've experienced is that they have business hours -- if you have an issue on Sunday night they won't see it until Monday morning. They've been increasing the hours as they go, though.
Concerning your edit, I'm not complaining that they ignored a person ("industry shills" or whoever). I'm complaining they ignored the primary source. I.e., they said "some skeptics asserted" rather than "the hacked emails included requests from Phil Jones asking scientists to delete emails, and saying he would delete emails if he received an FOIA request."

They are following the "he said, she said" model, rather than just quoting the primary source.
Not in my experience, an employee (non-cofounder) will never stand up to your dumb ideas like a co-founder will.
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Here is a short history of who has powered Yahoo's searches:

???? - 2001: Inktomi

2001 - 2004: Google

2004 - 2010: Yahoo

2010 - ????: Bing

It will be interesting to see who will power Yahoo after Bing.
Yay! The company I'm at made it (albeit not in the software category): http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/blurb

(edit: and we're hiring! http://www.blurb.com/join_us)
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The site seems to have melted down, but based on the Google cache, all of the videos linked are already available from http://blackhat.com/html/bh-us-10/bh-us-10-archives.html
Well, without going into too much detail, every startup is different. In our case, our business deals make or break the company, and the technology is not a differentiating factor. That is, we must be competent in technology, but we are not innovating there.

In any case, it's a moot point. I took the package on offer because it seemed a fair deal to me at the time, and I don't regret it. The experience alone was worth it for a valley first-timer like me, and I'll have a big leg up in whatever I do next. Whether it's joining another startup as an employee or founding my own startup, I now have a track record and experience that will serve me equally well either way.
I think Postabon was started by MBAs and what they did was read the essay you're talking about, and then go out and hire a Lisp programmer. They appear to be doing well.
So "bad luck" would be a reason within their immediate control?

It sounds like you and the blogger are both saying that most people asking for money on the street need a lot more than money to change their situation. I often think about this myself when I pass one; what if I gave them $100? $1000? Would it get them off the street?

What's your take on this?
i like the idea, but do have a few reservations/questions. I am thinking about using this for my family (cousins, aunts, etc...). Is there only one group owner? Or can there be multiple owners/admins? I'm thinking like how yahoo groups works where different users do have different permissions. Also can anyone add photos to an existing album? So let's say we all attend a family wedding and we each have photos, can they all upload to that same album? Or does it not do that...couldn't tell from the demo group.

Other than that I like the idea and fact that this type of system helps facilitate more conversation than a traditional "group" site.
DuckDuckGo is just an interface to Bing.
I agree with that, a lot.

I've read several essays for PG where he goes on and on about how startups can only clump in Silicon Valley, and stuff like that, which I find irrational.

I think I'll get a lot of heat for saying this, but his views on this issue are not too unrelated to his other views on "equality", "wealth" and "power", which remind me of this speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du2mLuK9edk#t=24s

I'm not trying to suggest that PG is racist, but his views on these topics do seem to represent a mild form of what's in that video. Namely, that America is better than the rest of the world.

Starting a web startup is really cheap and doesn't require any special kind of funding. All the information is available through the internet, experience can be gained by engaging with the open source community and working on open source projects. You don't need to be in a specific place.
Odd. I always thought it was litigation.
Been moving all domains gradually from GoDaddy to Namecheap over the last year. Much faster to login, navigate around and get things done in Namecheap.
Amazon.com accepts Amex. I practically buy everything there: Shoes, Aftershave, Books, etc.
Seems likes using radioactive isn't the perfect random number generator it was thought to have been.
Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million
But the whole idea of my comment was that patents expire in 20 years!
It also helps that few people actually live in 60606 (population 1,682 in the 2000 census). If Mayor Daley wanted 60606 to move up on this list, I guess he could do it with some strategic zoning changes.
Motorola Snaps Up 280 North for $20M
Bogus articles like this, particularly from an organization with a serious reputation, obscures good articles that point out actual dangers. This is a patent on a form of lojack or extension to what's already available on the mobileme website. I am much more afraid of a thief using the stolen data than the government (who already have means to do this).
Don't wait for freedom
Feynman's "Messenger lectures" @ Cornell begin with the example of the law of gravitation, and it's a really excellent lecture (for you, not for your son).

I think your son doesn't need answers to the questions you ask here. He wants a simpler explanation allowing him to understand the concept and relate it to things he sees in his daily life. Start with something counter-intuitive to hold his attention, e.g. with the fact that things with different mass fall with equal speed. Then talk about the Earth and the moon, tides, what an orbit is.
Yeah, he has 3 monitors and a Cintiq.. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/08/21/getting-started-he...
Depends on the market. If you're opening an online store for vitamins, then no, maybe you don't need a technical co-founder. But a good technical co-founder would expand the world of the possible. The BATNA for such people is too high to be your employee.
Just curious; if made publicly viewable, what's to prevent spammers from creating an HN account and harvesting these?
"Today Is The Tomorrow We Worried About Yesterday."
"I own a software company" is the best I've come up with. Any answer you give people is going to leave a lot of room for interpretation and how I answer that question depends on context and who is asking, but if it's a random person at a bar, you can't beat "I own a software company."
Not much (the real-time Twitter results is one such piece). You have to remember that Bing predates Azure by many years. There is a lot of code/idea sharing though.
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Im not sure "mechanism" is the best approach here.

If you start at special relativity (c is constant), you can use the equivalence principle to show that time runs differently in gravitational fields. Then its only a small step to light bending & all paths bending.
Simperium (YC S10) Launches A Simple Data Syncing Platform
There's a perfectly good system wide Installer on the Mac, but nobody uses it unless they have to, because installers suck (they ask, among other things, which drive you'd like to install the software to -- what normal user knows the answer to that question?).

It didn't help that PackageMaker used to be one of the oddest, most incomprehensible pieces of software you ever had the misfortune to use. It's a bit better now, but most developers I know have sworn off it for good.

Apple does have a technology called "Internet-Enabled DMGs", which automatically mounts, copies the application, then unmounts and deletes the dmg. It's not widely known about or used.
The first customer.
Here is Richard Feynman's answer to a similar question (this isn't about gravity but about this type of question): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
I know what you're going through. I was deeply troubled (still am, really) when I first read Hume and started thinking about the Problem of Induction. You might enjoy taking a look at Hume's Inquiry on Human Understanding. (I'm sure you can find it online.) I also found Wesley Salmon's essay "An Encounter with David Hume" useful. I originally read it here:

http://www.amazon.com/Reason-Responsibility-Readings-Problem...

(This book has several other good essays in philosophy of science.) Salmon's essay seems to be reproduced here:

http://kslinker.com/An_Encounter_with_David_Hume.htm
Thanks for explanation.

It's a pity that they let games obsolete that quickly and get away with that.
So, I'm missing something from here: be a leader. Lead. When CFO-guy starts telling people you're grooming him for COO, you'll have to reply that, no, you're not (unless you are, but it doesn't appear so in the article). CFO-guy will be let known that the leadership skills shown in his recent actions clearly shows that he's not mature enough to be the COO. But most likely, if you're a leader, he'd know not to tell people he's being groomed unless he knows that's the case and knows you'll agree with him letting people know.

A very real path to lots of politics is creating a power void for others to navigate in by not acknowledging and respect the power you have.
I wonder how long it will be until someone designs a multi-core ARM processor with lockstep processing.

One application for this is in mission-critical transaction processing where computing power is not the active limitation. Instead, the idea is that each core executes the same set of instructions with the same set of input data, and in the end if one disagrees with the other, the entire CPU rolls back the current transaction, takes itself out of the mesh, and alerts an operator... who, if it's an IBM mainframe, walks over with a new processor, yanks the old one, and replaces it. Hot. Downtime: none. Transactions lost: none.

Sure, it would need more I/O capability + ECC, but still -- it's potentially a low-cost, low-power, highly reliable competitor to some of IBM's POWER and PowerPC processors.
Towards Auto-sharding in Your Node.js App
A discussion of sharding, consistent hashing as an auto-sharding strategy, and a new node.js module that implements consistent hashing for the purpose of auto-sharding.
Another point about Apple is that they are the grand masters of hyping a products while at the same time shutting up. There where vague announcements of the iPad (and before that the iPhone) for many months before it was actually announced. It's just that Apple manage to convince other people to do this PR work for them. Most companies aren't so lucky and have to do their own PR work.
Does this make it more or less likely that I'll see http://280atlas.com/ without paying for the beta program?
In house can still be non-founder full time employees. People seem to be confusing the two.
"We believe 280 North will be instrumental in helping us continue to foster the Android ecosystem with innovative web-based technologies and applications."

Ironic, since cappuccino is an implementation of Apple's Cocoa frameworks in javascript. Are we going to see a lot of Objective-j running on droids now?
I'm not sure I understood what you mean. What I know is that burnout, as it is commonly described, is perfectly real.
> So should you give money to bums on the street?
> In short, my answer is: NO.

Ignoring the tacky epithet "bums on the street" I disagree with this conclusion. Giving someone money demonstrates respect for them as a fellow human being: "I trust you to use this as you see fit."

How would you feel if instead of getting paid for your work, you were told where to live, what and how much to eat, and so on? And now you want a beer? Sorry!

Nev wonders why Black Mike isn't more grateful for his gifts. Maybe instead of deciding for him, "Here's what you can do, and here's the tools to do it," he could give him the money and take him on a shopping spree, advising but not dictating.
Why don't you just say "I'm running an Internet business"?
I agree. It doesn't seem like a good fit for motorola unless they start adapting their framework for the droid?
Nobody, just trying to see some stories.
%^@&&(*%^@%@!

pg, please, please get the people building awesome tools to become ridiculously profitable like Wufoo! I so wanted to use 280 North but I was scared they would get bought and vanish. My fear came true. EDIT: Half true. No word yet on what Motorola is going to do with them.

Congrats to the 280 Norths, YC, and their other investors. Let's all join hands and pray that Motorola allows development on Cappuccino et al to remain public.
"This seems almost malicious."

A lot of people confuse "live and let live" with maliciousness. Arguing about disagreements is pointless when it's something you can test, like whether you can succeed without a technical cofounder. Letting people learn from their own experiences rather than just giving them your opinions saves you time and teaches the other person a lot more.
Not to take anything away from the guys, but it is not fair to lineup DuckDuckGo aside Google, Bing and Cuil. It’s simply misleading, yes DuckDuckGo is an interface to search engines.
Congrats to 280 North guys.
> Most people don't realize that they are trading their privacy for a shiny GUI when they buy an iPhone

You do realize that you trade privacy for convenience every time you carry a cell phone with you — unless it's a one-time phone with prepaid SIMs — don't you?

There is no need for "a shiny GUI" for that, be it Apple's, Google's or HP's.
Man, I'd be willing to sell them Hecl for 200K :-) Congratulations, guys!
Good rule of thumb for any tech development (including startups) - if you're working on an idea, someone else is also working on exactly that idea.

Of course, that won't be true in many cases. The patent is there for the times that it is.
Orkut adds group privacy and group sharing
haha, i saw ross & tom last night and asked how things were going. "good."

motorola bought a hell of a web team.
How do you get a master's in computer science without knowing how to operate a computer?
the iPad tab on your site references the "iPhone Keychain".. and i couldn't watch your moving screenshots since i appear to have that plugin disabled by choice.
I've exchanged emails with John Carmack about his rocket stuff.
In light of the recent Oracle lawsuit and Apple's general litigious nature, I asked myself the same.

The OpenStep specification is, well, open as far as I know, and nobody ever bothered GNUStep, who even seemed to extend from the OpenStep roots into Cocoa territory, but when it's Motorola, and not just a random bunch of hackers…

Still, congratulations to the 280 North guys. That seems like a neat bundle of money.
James Gosling: Some more comments about the Oracle Java lawsuit
Just put the experiment on a spacecraft headed for Mars.
Wow, that's a good one!!
When I was a young high school kid, interested in AI, I emailed Marvin Minsky at MIT and he responded. I was very impressed that I got a response but unfortunately young enough not to save the email. I really wish I still had that!
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Wow, congratulations! You wouldn't know from the founders' twitter streams.
SimpleNote is one of the few iPhone apps I simply cannot live without.
Wil Wheaton.

(If Usenet counts, Bjarne Stroustrup)
Congratulations Ross, Tom & Francisco - go YC08 Alumni ;)
Ask HN: Are there any good competitors to Paypal?
Is there a good, solid, reliable ecommerce solution for a guy that's just starting out?
RMS.
Why the author seems to think that apps in the iTunes store are better than apps in other app stores is beyond me.
There may be more apps in the iTunes store, but I doubt they have higher quality.

On the other side, though I agree that Jobs is making some huge errors, he's also not so dumb (or surrounded by dumb people) to realize the mistakes which were made earlier in the history of Apple.

The authors arguments only matter if you think that platforms will remain fragmented. I think we have different app stores currently because of the tight integration from hardware to software, but much of these features will move to the browser (like location), and I suspect/hope the pendulum will swing back to web-apps, possibly with the exception of a huge high-end games market.

Apple has large profit margins from its hardware, and now is in Apple's business with Siri and ad networks.

Those businesses may be better when tied to the apple platform, but that doesn't mean that will be the only way to access them.

At the same time, Apple doesn't have a great history of building solid web based products (excluding browser based stuff like web-kit), so we'll have to see.
The original post is about '... a long conversation [he/she] had with a group of "founders"', and I assumed this thread was framed in the same context. I'm not talking about imposing your views on random acquaintances.

Hiring a string of crappy developers to develop your core product is a pretty expensive route to learning it the hard way.
I disagree with a lot of the points made in the article. For example, the "raise your rates", and "put yourself out of reach" suggestions would be suicide for anyone targeting the mobile application space. There, the majority of users are only willing to pay a nominal cost to get their app. Raise your price above a dollar or two, and you're sunk.
You sure? This is all I could find just now:

Mactacular:doppler_site aaron$ ack -a Keychain

app/views/pages/iphone.html.haml

23: %p Store your password...or not. Your Heroku passwords are saved in the cryptographically secure iPhone Keychain.

Just out of curiosity, which OS and browser are you using, and which video codecs do you have enabled?
I switched to http://duckduckgo.com/ a while ago, and haven't regretted it since.

Though, I still use google services (mail, calendar, docs, etc) - just not their search.
Add Dell, Stone/Doresy, Rosenblatt, Bezos, Hurley/Chen/Karim, Rose/Byrne, Mullenweg...
This reminds me of the book "Scratch Beginnings" except that the guy in the book was gone for a year and had the goal of getting a stable job, car etc. It's a good read.
Gotcha, in that case, agreed. Although this guy being dishonest doesn't disprove global warming any more than Al Gore's electricity bill does.
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iPad book Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy for deaf children could have been
Has anyone tried the game? It's almost completely unplayable. I get about ~1 FPS. (OSX 10.6, Chrome)

EDIT: appears to work fine in FF
Cal Henderson builds and analyzes embedding JS and CSS in PNG's
I've gotten to meet most of the leaders in the casual / web games industry. I don't know how important any of them are in the grand scheme of things but there's some majorly cool guys who's accomplishments include working on games and sites many millions have loved - Jim Greer (Kongregate), Joel Breton (Addicting Games), Daniel McNeely (Armor Games), Sean Cooper (made Syndicate all those years ago!) for instance.
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QuickRead: A bookmarklet that adds Readability to every link
CSS3 =/= HTML5
Ask HN: How will the web change human life 2011-2020?
How will the web change human life 2011-2020? Mobile, home, work, school, art, science...Earth.
'I run a business which does server and application monitoring for IT firms.'

Maybe it's just me, but when a person asks what you do, and you say 'i'm a programmer/entrepreneur/doctor/whatever', you're only scratching the surface.

You're doctor? what type? You're an engineer? What sort of stuff do you do.

Would you ever meet an actor and not say 'would I have seen you in anything'?

If the person didn't care what you did, then hopefully they wouldn't have asked.

Give them the full answer, it's isn't like you're tweeting it!

At the same time, don't get into what sorts of hosted applications or stuff like that, just figure out what people are going to understand.
My fiancé.
I disagree...the government will very much want this as I don't have a standard phone anymore because of cell phones. Many people are getting rid of their land-lines in favor of one phone. Not to mention that tapping my phone would likely require a warrant whereas in this situation they simply have to convince Apple it's in there best interest to comply.
I guess "important" is all relative ... but I emailed John Carmack once and he wrote me back. When I look back at how simplistic my question was considering everything I now know it makes me appreciate his response even more.
Seems like you were doing them a favor in the first place.

I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt first, chalking it up to an overactive legal department, but on further thought it sounds as if what they have going is a roundabout way to sell their endorsement. In which case, their endorsement is meaningless, at least from a philosophical perspective.

For what it's worth, I completely agree with you about the fair use, but I'm not a lawyer either.
I am developing a website that provides Maven microrepositories at http://repo.si.

I found this both cheering and depressing. Cheering because it seems other people are also not happy with the current status quo when it comes to Maven repositories. Depressing in that the solution discussed is quite workable.

I also see that the Sonatype public repository has had more take up since I lasted looked. Should I cut my losses and stop now or is there room for another repository provider?
Crysis 2 expected to score over 90 percent in reviews,releases on March 22, 2011
DHH.
All this time I thought it was a fully independent search engine. Whoops.
Barbara Liskov of MIT who won the 2008 Turing award. The Turing award is computer science's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Liskov's email style is direct, precise, and (yes) efficient. Just like her science.
It's also a lot more convincing than having someone with no vested interest in your project tell you you're doing it wrong.
Not sure if he's actually making money

FTA:counts just over 100 subscribers

So, no.

here's a popular publication with a link to his new app [...] this has to feel like and accomplishment

It's a blog. And by that standard, pretty soon 'I posted to HN' will be an 'accomplishment'. Just for fun, let's look at the next two headlines:

Guyana's Health Minister Cautions Against Singing Too Much About Rum

Bizarro, Cat-Hating Woman Found
Apple Looking To Slice Up Cable 99 Cents At A Time
Anorexic Models don’t Always Look Like Models
Here are photos of anorexic models who don't look like models. We must conclude - It's better to be fat then tin!