skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This explains a lot of the concepts in more detail: http://paulgraham.com/future.html
Even considering YC companies, who's to say how many would have succeeded anyway? There's no control, so no experiment.

I guess you could look at rejected applicants as a sort of control group (not perfect though)? How many of those have gone on to be a success (I have no idea)?
Yeah, I remember watching a video in an accounting class about internal controls of a bar in Texas which would weigh bottles every night and dispensed drinks through a soda gun.

Found another example of companies using some audits to keep track of liquor usage. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_43_40/ai_n267...]
Try the original wiki (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FrontPage)! It lacks the anal "[citation needed]" culture that wikipedia has acquired, and it's been focused on software since its birth. (I've been lurking and occasionally posting there for about a decade.)

They have obvious biases (a lot of the original content was written by Smalltalkers and XP / Agile people, for better and worse), but it's worth checking out.
I second all of this except for one minor variation, I'd offer half of the debt owed. That's 'hardball' in return but since you are in debt for stuff that should have been free or at a minimum covered by your insurance (having a baby can cause you to be hounded by a debt collection agency?? what???) I think you'll be excused the karma hit for that. You are an extremely honorable person, and I commend you for that but there is such a thing as being too good, and maybe this is one of those.

They may not agree, which will cause additional back and forth, but worst case you end up where you started. Given a quick way to settle for half versus a much more protracted battle to get the whole they may settle for less.

Just my $0.02.
-fastcheck
do fast (and slightly unsafe) update detection on windows
Just checking out Indinero for the first time... seems like a great product.

I've tried a number of products like this that replace a spreadsheet or a text document. Mint tried replaced my personal finance spreadsheet... Todo apps try to replace my text document todo list. This product tries to replace my company balance sheet that I have in Google Docs.

But I usually run into two problems. These products are great at first, for a bunch of tasks, but when I want to do something slightly different, I'm screwed. With a spreadsheet I just add another column. With something like Indinero, if I need to track something that the system doesn't allow for, I run into a wall and I have to start over with a whole new system. Massive data headache.

The second issue is that with a spreadsheet/text document, I have to type everything in, and manually update things, so I get intimately familiar my data. With Mint, I connected all my accounts and then promptly forgot it existed. The spreadsheet, because of the inconvenience of data entry, forces me to manually reckon my finances, which is actually a good thing.

I don't know how you get around those issues, but I'd be excited to see a solution.
I'm not the one who downvoted you, so I thought I'd reply. Cos you kind of have a point.

But I'd argue that a psychiatrist is a medical specialist in the same way that a cardiologist or a urologist is. Everyone needs to be aware of their cardiac health and see their General Practitioner if they have concerns. Not everyone needs to be diagnosed with a disease by a cardiologist. Ditto mental health.
Keeping your system clean with BleachBit
First impression: it's fast, unlike many people here I actually like this GUI, it's more sober, the old one was like a bunch of kids (icons) screaming for attention. Other than that it's the same ol' itunes. I don't care much about the Ping, but it also doesn't bother me having it.
Reading this, as a 21 year old, I'm starting to feel like I really need to get cracking on something!
Well detonating a series of thermonuclear warheads under the Martian polar caps would certainly help distribute CO2 and water ice into the upper atmosphere and to the equatorial regions where the ices have the potential to melt. What an excellent suggestion, I'm putting you up for a Nobel Prize!

Please, you have a high enough Karma to know not to make asinine BS posts. We don't give a crap about religion or politics here except when it's relevant, and no where in this article was there a discussion on politics, religion or any of the other topics you noted.

Despite the fact that watching rapid ecological changes on another planet would give us vast amounts of data on changes in environmental patterns and countless information on how climate change might affect our planet. Terraforming Mars is important beyond our species pathetic problems, in that our expansion to other planets might give our species the longevity to solve those problems than get hit by a rogue asteroid, comit, or other such object we've yet to see.
Xanadu? Ted Nelson, not Olivia Newton-John.
http://xanadu.net
The report of Google salaries at Glassdoor.com is accurate.

Engineers start at T3 out of college, and move to T4 after a year. T4 is mid level. Senior is a T4 with a good win and some presentation skills. Staff are some of the best engineers with long track records, but require some managerial skills. Those above are superstars and managers.
Take note: Scrollbars have been matte in iTunes for a few versions now, from before Snow Leopard came out, and we haven't seen wide adoption of those in the rest of the OS.

Reminds me of Tiger, when things were horribly disjointed. Then in Leopard, Apple made a point of unifying the user experience (universal button styles, no brush strokes) to combat tweaks we used to use for that purpose (Uno, etc.). Now, things are starting to re-fragment, along with their mobile OS.

I'm not an OS X programmer. Anyone know how loosely couple Aqua is from the rest of the OS? A tightly coupled system could be the reason Apple's been so slow to change...
Aren't apprenticeships still quite common in a lot of fields? (Hairdressing, carpentry...)
I believe you may as well do basic on page SEO when building your site. Maybe even build in a blog, which will serve two purposes - original content and updates for your readers.

You can do link building passively (review posts, guest blog posts etc...).

I do agree with some others that it would be unwise not to do a little leg work from the beginning when building your site.
The article may be including the estimated value of options and GSUs, which for T4 is about 25k/y (2006+).
I agree. I'd love to have the option of getting carrots (if they were in decent condition) out of the vending machine at work.
> I see it as a type of scam against the employer, though.

That's definitely sometimes true. But it depends - when I was in college I used to go to a bar (Redbones in Somerville, MA) where the owner had a policy of letting the bartenders offer a certain number of free drinks and appetizers to favored customers at their discretion. He did this because he said it meant more loyal customers, which helped both him and his employees. I definitely spent a lot of money in that bar and always tipped heavily because of the great service. Despite all the freebies I got, I'm sure they turned a well-deserved profit off my business.
In addition to the usual list of costs in employees/hosting/office space, I presume since this particular product does integration with Banks, you would need funds to setup proper compliance with various security standards that are mandated.
"Raising an old-fashioned fixed-size equity round can take weeks"

Weeks? Jesus, do things really move that much faster in the valley? Even the hot startups in our area (Waterloo, Ontario) take months at minimum to raise a round. Probably the biggest factor is just that there aren't all that many active investors.
Paraphrasing and skipping over some important points: convertible notes are awesome because you can offer people different valuations. Investors often don't want to be the first to commit. This lets you give them an incentive to do so.
Ping me, I know a few people who may be interested...
Really, I think if you look at successful startup founders and the various other folks getting rich in the startup community ( VCs, CEOs, serial board members and angels) then folks with PhDs are vastly over-represented.

I could come up with a list, but I'd hate to turn this into a duelling-list thread. Still, start poking into the backgrounds of successful folks and I think you'll be surprised how many have a long-neglected "Dr" in front of their names.
It says comments will be posted to Twitter.
While not directly related, seems appropriate:

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.
--John Godfrey Saxe, 29 March 1869
I had a conversation with my lawyer on this very topic TODAY, and she said different valuation caps would require us to create different securities filings for each investor, and that the additional fees were bad and this was a bad idea...unless we were only raising money from people in California, in which case it didn't matter because the rules made it easy.

Anyone know what the legal ramifications are for this? I'm trying to figure this out as we may be raising money in the near future.
Twitter for iPad is here
huh. I wish my advisor had been told about this. Before I dropped out, I'm pretty sure the problems I was having in my Ph.D. were mostly because of not doing 1, 2, 3, and 10. And my prof. pretty much pushed us towards 5 (the too soon one) exclusively. Although, to be fair, I was also an expert at 4 and 8. :)
Best of all, without knowing we did, because that type of help scales.

For the same reason I'm always especially pleased when I hear about one YC-funded startup having helped another without us even routing the request.
Scalaris has supported ACID transactions for years, but it never caught on because at scale you care more about availability than about having transactions: http://twitter.com/Werner/status/1008722501
For me, the corniness of the phrase isn't as much a turn-off as the fact that it validates gorging on junk food.
I actually did a huge re-organization of my .emacs file (including moving it to .emacs.d/init.el) a few months ago, dividing it into topic specific configuration files (general, files and buffers, programming, python-config, etc) and have support for loading different configurations depending on which machine I'm on.

http://github.com/Nafai77/config/tree/master/HOME/_emacs.d/

One of the next things I'm going to do is explore using el-get. It's always a pain moving to a new machine and having to download and checkout all of the third-party libraries I use.
How do you steal something that never existed i.e. the profit?
No, Viral Marketing Cannot be Engineered
With a few words switched, I find this a pretty accurate description of the PhD and postdoc years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_years#Historic_roots
Christmas Light Installation Business
Christmas light installation is a seasonal business that is quite a good amount of money within a short period of time
If you're haunted by that, don't study microbiology.

The human body, consisting of about 100 trillion cells, carries about ten times as many microorganisms in the intestines. [1]

The total number of bacteria on an average human has been estimated at 10^12 [2]

ref:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_flora
If the disorder is the new standard, then the underlying notion of a "normal" personality would become useless. Maybe the concept was wrong right from the beginning. It's interesting though that e.g. for Freud normality rather was something like the majority's disorder -- not the absence of neuroses/psychoses. (At least in Totem and taboo.)
Ah, hell. I should go to bed, then.
Even with separate records for each subdomain, I think you'd still have the problem.

You'd need to do:
acme MX (mail_server_ip)
acme CNAME (ELB hostname)

... but that isn't allowed. The problem is with the records conflicting, not with the wildcard.
Oooh oooh, can I be "Correlation does not equal causation" guy in this thread?

Seriously though, the actual article is probably much more useful than the headline, since they have presumably actually quantified the extent of the correlation between insomnia and other health problems.

The other thing I learned is that there's a journal called Sleep.
From what I heard in the video indinero connects to your bank on your behalf as well and automatically imports the relevant data.
I like that ! :))
For a given article, a single, long page should be able to display about as much ad space as multiple, short pages. If there's some benefit to the gross number of clicks/pageviews involved then perhaps it is the site that's gaming things.
Hey there, Carl Sjogreen from Facebook Platform here.

I'm glad we were able to help Matt out, but am embarrassed he got in this situation to begin with. We're working on some new systems to handle abusive applications (getting rid of which helps users and the entire platform ecosystem) but clearly have some technical and communication issues to work through still, and its totally unacceptable to be taking such harsh measures with applications that aren't doing anything wrong -- let alone being so hard to get in touch with.

The only silver lining of this otherwise unfortunate situation is that it will help make sure it doesn't happen again.
She's building a company and a good one too by the looks of it, you're blogging about building a company.

> I have a few web app ideas and the money to execute them, just not the technical know-how.

Are you sure you're not just a bit jealous?
The incentives of the waiters and the restaurant owners are almost never perfectly aligned.

Most profit comes from simple items: drinks, salads, the most basic pasta dishes, coffee. It's all stuff where the ingredients cost next to nothing and the prep time is negligible. They don't cost much either, but have huge margins.

The waiter's incentive is not to push you to get the $9.95 ziti marinara, but to get the $22 lobster-filled ravioli, or the $25 jumbo shrimp dish, or the $27 steak—the most expensive dishes on the menu. But the lobster or the shrimp or the steak often have the slimmest margins of anything on the menu. Oftentimes something like lobster will serve as a loss-leader to get people into the restaurant.

As a waiter, you're constantly pushed to sell appetizers, salads, drinks, coffee and ice cream. All the stuff that's not just an entree. That's where the margins are, despite not costing very much and not leading to an inflated bill like a steak and bottle of wine would.

So not only is the waiter stealing the profit from the sodas they give you for free, they stand a chance of making the restaurant take a loss on your meal if you order a slim-margin item as an entree and don't order anything else.

But this is a problem you'll never really fix. Waiters are sharecroppers and their incentives will always be (in part) opposed to what's best for the restaurant.
Actually Harjeet helped me there by giving me the contact info. Gotta say I'm a big fan of Harj.
Thank you for an advice.

But it isn't a negativity at all. It is my opinion. I'd said long ago, that making apps in Javascript for a phone is a ridiculous idea, and was nothing but a marketing illusion (they will tell you that Javascript is the most widely used language in the world just because any schoolchild wrote something with getElementById at least once.)
But when you look at this approach from an system engineering point of view, you probably will see, that it is artificial abstraction level, with enormous overhead, and it wasn't designed for this purpose. (What's good for a PC cannot be pushed into ARM-world. That is why Flash for Android is a failure and why Android also released a C++ DK. ARM systems still cannot afford the overhead of all those artificial layers, such as Flash or other popular PC stuff.

Of course, with V8 which is producing an optimized native code for an ARM cpu, situation will look a little better, but still, you need an efficient resource management and control (think that there is no swap).

So, clang++ is the obvious answer (that is why Apple spend money to it), but ordinary getElementById developer cannot understand and code memory management. That's why all marketers are trying to push garbage-collecting artificial blobs.

The good side is that if you learn how to program you can use appropriate tools (C/C++).
Get a new lawyer. You can definitely do a round with different investors getting different share prices. At the very least, your lawyer can structure a Series A-1, A-2, A-3, each with a different share price, but otherwise being identical in terms and structure and everyone signing the same docs. Just make sure preferences are clear that the classes get liquidated pari pasu, if that's what you want.
Innovation: a word, a dream or a nightmare?
That seems a bit high. Looking at my site's analytics, when we got 50% of our traffic from HN, we had about 45% mac usage, compared to 28% normally. Obviously, there are a lot of conflating factors but that suggests that 60% of HN click-throughs are mac.

What is also interesting is how Linux usage is quite low on HN compared to our regular base; HN appears to be only about 7% Linux. (The people who can't use iTunes at all).

(Again, this is a very rough conclusion; the percentages can easily be way off).
I'm pretty sure you can extend that range upwards quite a bit. People like Patrick (Collisson) and Jessica are really inspirational, I'd like my kids to look at them rather than at popstar 'x' as role models.

It's great to see young people achieving this much.
Here is a watered down version.

A convertible note is a loan that can be paid back in stock at a later date at an agreed upon price under agreed upon conditions. So if the company fails then the investor is a creditor who gets a chance to get some of the investment out. And if it succeeds then the investor stands to gain from the growth in value of the company.

The key feature from the founder's point of view is that you can effectively sell off any fraction of the company you still own at any price whenever you want this way. And you can sell to different investors at very different prices. Furthermore this type of deal is very good for smaller investments.

This is replacing the idea of a funding round where a bunch of investors put in money into a pool, decide what the company is worth, then trade their money for a portion of the ownership. The investors then divide up those shares evenly according to money invested.

The key problem with that type of funding round is that many investors would hold back until they knew that people whose judgment they trust were investing, then they'd buy a piece of the round. This forced a lot of work in coordinating a complex deal, and caused investors to be rewarded the same despite having done very different amounts of work in due diligence.

By contrast convertible notes mean that companies can raise money as they go. And it gives companies room to offer different rates to different investors. Which means, for instance, that an investor like Ron Conway might get a much better rate in recognition of the value there is in being in his network, and the fact that his having invested makes other investors more willing to invest. By contrast a random investor who knows nothing and just follows the herd can be offered much worse rates, if they even hear about the possibility before the company has enough money for their needs.

The winners are founders and the best investors. The losers are investors who mainly try to figure out where the herd is going and jump on the bandwagon.
Thanks for this. Not sure I totally understand all the legalese. What about the filing fees? Will each note be counted as a separate offering?

Thanks again. I really appreciate it.
Some of your remarks are rude. In contrast, my own comment was neither rude, "disallowed" or inappropriate. It was my honest opinion and expressed both concisely and impartially. Just because religion wasn't mentioned elsewhere in the thread does not mean I can't mention it. It's on topic in that it's related to bringing changes to another planet.

I'm totally down with the idea of getting humans onto other planets, at the very least to make sure we don't have all our eggs in one basket. I'm just saying I'd prefer that we resolve these other issues first. Just because you may disagree with it, doesn't mean my comment deserved to be down-voted into karma penalization territory. Groupthink, indeed...
Small typo, the word "with" is repeated.

"Bolder investors will now get rewarded with with lower prices"
Oops. Thanks Harj! (Me too.)
Nate, you know everyone.
Their platform is maintained pretty well from a technical standpoint. Breakages do occur, but their bug tracking system usually results in the big ones getting resolved rather quickly. Work on the MySpace platform a bit and you'll REALLY appreciate Facebook. They break crucial things all of the time and then just don't fix them for weeks if at all.

Our experience with Apple so far has been ok. Lots of waiting, which is frustrating. We can update our Facebook app multiple times per day. With Apple if you ship a game with a bug that crashes it on some devices (oddly, despite having an iPad app, with all iPads being the same in every relavant way, our first app crashed on only some due to memory issues) you're screwed. You're racking up negative reviews for a week.
But it's kind of a fuck you to everyone else.
I like it. Please keep on making it better.

Hope you don't mind constructive criticism. Here are some of my thoughts:

- Individual tweet pages are linking to themselves

- Your title is plural, your domain is not

- Make Tweets plain text with parsed URLs and have separate link to comment thread

- Need a confirmation box or some disclosure before ReTweets are actually done

- I would like to vote, but not ReTweet in some cases (possibly for 'bookmarking')

- Integrate ability to follow the publisher
What the hell is this article? Who is this guy, and what gives him the right to generalize about how I believe just because he happens to live in the same city as me?

Also, has he heard of the term "motherhood statement"? Because I'm pretty sure that boldly proclaiming:

We value love

is one of them.
Paredit, slime, magit, org-mode, eshell, and erc.

The boring stuff is all in the Starter Kit: http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit
You seem to be lost. Reddit is that way --->
Just to everyone else who's less important.

So yes, everyone.
> We value opportunity. San Francisco’s first boom was when gold was discovered. Its next was the web. We find new opportunities and embrace them with gusto. That’s why most of the sites you visit every day started within 100 miles of here.

No booms between the 1850s and the 1990s? Bullshit.
Nothing. But for the first 30 minutes or so a direct URL was the only way to get the installer.
Someone should create a comprehensive A-Z guide/wiki to this whole niche of startup investing with the assumption that it's readers have no finance background whatsoever. That someone will then earn a lot of goodwill for explaining in detail all the variables and in-and-outs of this complicated field.
Thanks. These look great, I just came across the first one before.
A toothpaste-like gel that can heal wounds six times faster than normal
Start A Window Cleaning Business
Evenif you don’t have a degree in your hand you can start the window cleaning business confidently
Rent-a-womb is a big international business in India.
any .emacs for php/Mysql/html/css/js ?
The technical part is quite understandable. I can't imagine what you guys must deal with in preserving the platform. You have to be a target for every spammer in the world right now. It happens, and it's certainly better for everyone if the platform remains spam-free.

Thanks again for getting it taken care of so quickly!