skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is fair to discriminate by country, it would be much better to only discriminate by capabilities.

What the price is should not matter either, unless you are looking to set up a shop that people will know will overcharge or where the people from the 'west' can set up shop without competition.
Expanding to other regions need to be done gradually. Otherwise we will end up being just another freelancing website.
Thanks for all the replies. I think the consensus is that I'm on track. It's actually cheaper to register an LLC in Deleware than it is in my home state of VA, so I'll look at that.

I am aware that I will have to keep all the paperwork, hold an annual meeting (even if it is with myself) and everything else to make sure it's established as an entity.

Besides personal liability, finances are another issue. The main thing I want to do though is when I sign up for services like ad.ly, bing advertising and even Google adsense, all the money goes into an account other than my personal one. That way I can also track how much money I'm really bringing in. Using it for personal consulting would be very helpful as well. This also means I can transfer my domains to that entity as well. The separation of finances is something that I think will be very helpful. I'm currently on a 3 year plan I created to get rid of a lot of my own debt, so separating business finances will be helpful. Also, at this stage I'd like to make sure everything the projects make go back into project so that hopefully one of them does turn out to be a profitable venture.
Dunno why you were downvoted, my fault for not clarifying: I just meant 2 buttons is superior to 1. I make no claims about other button counts.
Ask HN: What's next, After I get funding?
Hypothetical situation.

I get funding from a VC firm like Battery Ventures or Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers somewhere in the range of $5 million.

What kind of reporting do i need to provide back to the investor? Just financial or key metrics? I am sure each investment company is different but i am just trying to understand what are the types of things VC's are looking for after they invest.

Thanks in advance,
Eric
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What do you think will happen to Digg? Will the "core / elite" users all jump ship? But does Diggs new offering have a chance with the "mainstream crowd" (who may or may not yet know about the site)?
If you look closer at Google Maps you'll see that the road from Helsinki to Hamina goes past several other cities, and it looks like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

It's hardly some dirt road in the middle of nowhere, so yes, 2 hours is probably accurate.
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Just a note that this post is from January 15th - I believe that promises have been removed from Node.js since then.

http://howtonode.org/control-flow-part-ii has some good information on control flow using callbacks.
This is...an interesting approach. Reddit is far from a Microsoft loving community; it will be interesting to see
1. If Microsoft can get some good feedback (they should be able to)
2. If they'll use the feedback (remains to be seen)
3. If the use of the feedback leads to a better product (really remains to be seen).

Still, it's encouraging to see a huge company like MS engage a hivemind like Reddit for this type of thing.
I really enjoyed the personal touch the last sentence and full paragraph added to the story; being able to admit personal failure is an admirable trait, and everyone likes to see the mistakes their heroes make, and not just the successes.
Yeah It's almost 2 hours 15 minutes drive from Helsinki but driving is the only option to reach Hamina. There is no rail system connecting Hamina (there was one, no longer operational).

I have been closely following the news about this particular datacenter and it really is strange that Google hasn't found enough engineers for the job there. I have been seeing the ads for the jobs at Hamina datacentre since last one year or so.
Sounds about right. Finnish main roads are surprisingly good all year round, and cars by law have to use special tires during the winter season.
offtopic: you can also use 'git shortlog -s -n --no-merges'
The idea is very interesting. I like the idea of minimum $35/hr.
To take the idea further, avoid using pricing as a signal, and protect the buyer as well, $35/hr could also be the maximum. That will take rates out of the equation. After that competition will be to get the most rewarding work, with emphasis on work quality.

As a developer, I may even be willing to pay a screening fee, if I would be able to get good quality work.

Apply to YC. You will get support, ideas, and make great relationships. That will also help you get traction and gain credibility.
As far as I can tell, there isn't even an admin interface for administrators to remove your account from Diaspora.
I have to agree. Unfortunately, I do not think the name fits the application. I know domains are hard to come by these days, but this is better than frelancodr.com.
Seems like a great idea, will give it a show!
Nice found! Also check http://WikInstant.com (built that one a few days ago)
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Tried to sign up, unfortunately my country which is a part of EU is not there (Poland), but so are others missing. You should at least allow for every EU member to participate when it comes to "europe"
Ask HN: How much of the equity pie do I split with my co-founder?
Hi guys, pardon me for being extremely new to the startup game, but I don't know how to approach this problem. I came up with an idea for a website and I got the ball rolling. I got the prototype out, and just as I was ready to start coding it, I happened to run into a trusted fraternity brother who works on the same frameworks as I do, and wants to help out. I really believe we have a solid business model, and we'll be looking for seed/Series A in the next 8-12 months. Since he'll be writing the first lines of code with me, I'm pretty sure that makes him a co-founder, but he didn't come up with any of the ideas and wasn't there for the genesis of the project, so it doesn't seem like a 50-50 split is in order. Some places I've seen its more like 25% equity for your first co-founder...what do you think seems appropriate? Obviously it's way too early to talk money, but I want to make sure this is handled before we talk money so there isn't a discrepancy 8 months down the line that he deserves more or I'm letting too much of my idea go to someone else. Thoughts?
When you're looking at an investment of that size you will likely have one or more board members from the VC to look after their interests.

This is probably a good start for reading material:

http://www.venturemomentum.com/VCBoardInfo.html
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Actually I've had a bad experience with themeforest... I wouldn't recommend it.
All good points. Thanks.
I've only been to Hamina once (nice harbour BTW) but I don't recall if there was a university or technical college there. I'd have thought Helsinki/Espoo, Tampere or Oulu would have been better for communications and near to recruitment grounds.
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The signup process is causing me problems... It seems to be geared towards companies with only a single member...

It asks me to select a username and then states:

"Your company's url is http://www.canyoucode.com/username

Both me and my partner want to sign up but we can't both have the same username, but it seems wrong to have two separate company urls...

We both want to set up individual profiles and then link them together as a company profile...
That is true, but it is also true that CP/M was never dominant in the same way that Windows became. At the same time as CP/M there were all the micros (BBC, Commodore, Sinclair, Amstrad), Japan had the MSX "standard" etc etc.

Whereas in the Windows era you were likely to fnd machines running the same applications everywhere, even at home.
We use DFP at VBM after switching from a hosted OpenX install. DFP suffers from the lag, but in my experience, OpenX also exhibited lag (though not to the same level.) It takes roughly 30 minutes to traffic ads, which is enough time to be a pain in the rear... especially if you mess up the ad code.
I've wanted something like this for a while. It takes a lot of effort to find info about candidates that are less well known.

A couple of comments:

- I find the use of checkmarks and "X" to be a little too simple, since you're calculating this stuff based on an algorithm. It might be better to devise some sort of little visualization (a small pie chart, thermometer, etc...) to show me the actual score in addition to the "X" or
"check". This is useful to identify situations where a politician is deliberately waffling on an issue. For example, my own congressman has a twisted history with respect to "Card Check". The algorithm shows this, but I have to click into the checkmark to see his score is 75/100.

-It's hard not to introduce bias in the phrasing of issues (I don't have a good solution for this). For example, I'm sure some would take issue if you had labeled the abortion issue "pro-life" vs. the current "pro-choice" (conversely, I'm sure some take issue with the current use of "pro-choice" as a category). About the only (not great) solution I can offer for this is to show both labels and give a score (as mentioned above). Civil liberties is another. Just because the ACLU doesn't like a candidate, doesn't mean they're a knuckle-dragging, sexist, racist, homophobe.

-There's the potential for subtle incumbent bias by letting the candidates with the most information drive the display. If one candidate is better known, the vast majority of the categories are driven by that candidate and it has the effect of making the other candidates look like they don't have positions on those issues (when in fact, the info is probably just not as readily available). Again, I don't have a really good solution for this issue either, but detecting extreme cases and really calling it out to the user is probably the best way to mitigate this.
Site completely unresponsive now. Oops.

<title>We're sorry, but something went wrong (500)</title>
...
<h1>Please, stop that.</h1>
<p>We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.</p>
There are also two submissions for this article.
That sounds like an interesting idea, but I think it would be quite of a stretch to include this in the scope of ShiningPanda.

We are really focused on the testing part of software development. How you write the code is up to you, or to another startup...
I agree with parent that you might end up inadvertently anchoring the price at $35, making it harder for people who can justify charging significantly more.
I just looked at Digg for the first time in a few weeks and the snapshot of front page articles is actually pretty good. They may take a hit in the short term with the raging power users who hate change but most of Digg's traffic is comprised of people who don't even login to the site much less spend hours a day on it voting things up/down. For most users all that matters is good content and the old system was failing them.
So far it seems to be a lot of noise and very little genuine feedback, but it might be a bit early for that.
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Can you explain your reasoning here?
It's amazing to me that OpenX is trying to be looked at as a 'leader' in this space and they even do hosted ads, but they can't keep their servers up for a security patch release.
I don't understand it either, but I've seen it often enough, e.g. people who's rather have 100% of nothing than a good and (often more than) fair fraction of something chose the former.

Or in another case the two owners of a company headed for Chapter 7 who didn't own the most crucial forward looking IP insisting on having majority control of any new company. And that was the end of that: we weren't going to give them another chance (or rather, near certainty) of ruining a venture, yet they had a sufficient claim to any future success that they would have made life hell in the courtroom if we ended up having any success.

(And this was no small think, a filesystem for Write Once media developed by the creator of one of the first CD-ROM filesystems, the latter was used to master the 3-5th CD-ROMs in the US (first two were tests, 3rd was all of ancient Greek literature). Prior art to the now dismissed Netapp vs. ZFS case....)
Take a look at the Razer Deathadder. Comes in lefty and righty versions, looks pretty clean, and performs very well with great feedback.

http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_GB/DisplayCateg...

Don't let the lights put you off (in the rollerball and under the hand), you can turn them off.

What I love about that mouse... feel, sensitivity, drivers for mac as well as windows, instant-change sensitivity, tactile feedback is lovely, buttons where you expect there to be buttons (but no more... there aren't buttons all over the thing).
Git is not yet ready for production use in commercial environments. It's got a long tough battle ahead if it wants to displace p4 and svn.
Spending a day on a brochure site gets you out there immediately. Combine it with a $50 adwords budget and you've got 2 things:

1. A concept web site to help explain what problem you solve
2. A source of leads to early adopters. Potentially invaluable.
Google page about the data center: http://www.google.com/datacenter/hamina/

I can't see it on Google Street View, unless it's that area of tents on the map. But I don't see anything that looks like a paper mill there.

Maybe they just dropped the marker in a random location.

Edit: Yes they did, here's an actual Google Maps link: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=60.536944,27.116944...

The street view doesn't show the location, just a guarded gate into the area.

Here's a Finnish Wikipedia article about the site (with the coordinates): http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summan_paperitehdas

And Google Images of the site: http://www.google.fi/images?um=1&tbs=isch:1&sa=1&...
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Max Levchin: "I Failed A LOT Before I Hit It Big"
The basic game mechanic is almost identical to "Noiz", a PalmOS game: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/palm/noiz.html

Noiz has much more complex patterns of "enemies" to avoid, though. If you don't have a Palm device handy, the source is still pretty fun to pick through.
Ask HN: Best resources to learn PHP / SQL to build a web application?
I'm the process of building an application using PHP and MySQL, and I'm having trouble with where to get started. Specifically - what framework to use? How to set up SVN? How do I set a timeline for the project? start building or do analysis first? Basic questions like these. I've programmed in ruby on Rails before, but don't know how much transfers over.

Is starting with a book the best idea? I was going to go with this one: http://amzn.com/0596157134 Any other recommendations on books or how to get started?
To your customers, there is no difference between your "design" and your "product". If I had to choose between scrimping on design and scrimping on features, I would choose the latter hands down.
Same here. I have despised trackpads on all windows pc's I've owned over the years. I always carried around a little wireless laptop mouse for use away from my desk. When I switched to Mac at work, I realized I never had the urge to use a mouse while away from my desk. That's when I started paying attention to how good the trackpad really is. Even when I work from home for an entire day, I don't connect a mouse.

I wonder how long it will be before Apple stops making mice entirely and switches completely to touch-based input. I suspect that time is not far away.
Good point. But are you saying $35/hr is excessive?

The good developers/designers I know charge way more than that. And people are willing to pay for predictable results.
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"Emacs expects you to play finger-twister sometimes"

You know, some fair fraction of Wordperfect for DOS fans liked it for exactly that reason. Or rather, that mode of UI was preferable to using a GUI and they kept using it for a long time after Windows conquered (of course it helped that Wordperfect for Windows was a sick joke).
You are right. Helsinki/Espoo, Tampere or Oulu would have been far better choices from the point of recruitment but this is a large piece of land and probably Google didn't want to let it go.

Besides they must have thought the name Google is enough to get smart people where ever they want.

btw this is what centre of Hamina looks like :
http://torikamera.haminetti.net/user/toricam.html
Except with reddit, people don't go to site Y, they go to /r/Y.
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people will be confused and immediately form a negative opinion of the service.

Trust me, if they understood it was supposed to be the privacy-aware Facebook alternative and started using it, they would have a much more negative impression within, oh, I give it less than 48 hours.
I don't really care for the (in this context) nearly meaningless "disruptive." But I think that the main point is valid: We tend to underestimate the value of our distinctive skills because we are good at them.
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The acceleration is easily disabled. Just run this command in terminal.

defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
Why only few countries from Western Europe?
The Ruby world had something like this, called RunCodeRun. They closed down and wrote down a nice list of things on how it didn't work. How do you see those problems?

http://blog.runcoderun.com/post/463439385/saying-goodbye-to-...
Hello there, my first post here :)

I understand your point, but i think that people need to start building prototypes, minimum viable products, and then (if they are lucky enough) will have all the fun to scale their startup.

Talking about fundings at this stage is a bit premature, in my opinion.
This is perfect, thanks!

The only challenge i see is (like mentioned in the post) there is no consistency between VC's. Each feel that a certain report is "The Most important" What happens when there are multiple VC's or a mix of VC's, angels and governments.

For a startup reporting to each can be really time-consuming....and wasteful especially if the time spent on reports takes away from the time spent on making the product better.
Not looking so good on a netbook when you have 5 candidates: http://imgur.com/iep9S.png
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There's one nice story in a novel by Kundera in which in Czechoslovakia (60s ?) the dictator was giving a speech and as it started to snow someone from his entourage lent him his hat. Years later that person fell out of favor and was removed from photographs of that speech, only his hat survived on the dictator's head.
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Although the parent is deleted now, he said LEMP server, not LAMP server.
Is this an official site of the project or someone just running their code on a new domain? The DNS registration doesn't even come close to the joindiaspora.com domain. Seems there's at least a few sites like this:

http://trydiaspora.com
http://openspora.com

Any others?
I think promises are gone now too. Removed sometime in this past Spring.
You can get a vps at intovps.com for $10 a month, I'm not affiliated with them in anyway just a happy customer
We probably need to do a better job of communicating this.

1. The username is assigned to the company; users cannot login individually.
2. But once you login, you can add various user profiles and credentials to the company profile.
Magic mouse is decent. Only problem is it drains batteries like crazy. Plus side is no sleep time.
Fantastic! More Any Rand gibberish.

If we're converting to a world where giving away your fortune is reprehensible immorality and greedily amassing a Scrooge McDuck-sized pool of gold is the new golden rule, count me out.

What the Randians never seem to understand (as I hop on my soap box) is that the world they want so badly to exist has. The world, red in tooth and claw, existed for millions of years. And here's the thing: it sucked. That's why moral systems developed and evolved beyond their biological inevitability. In a world where individual success is elevated over concern for others, Saddam Hussein is a moral hero. I'll pass on that world. I'll stick with boring old Mother Teresa.

(hop off soap box)
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Have you seen the Halvetica documentary? FAN-TASTIC!
Looks like it is/it was a geocaching location http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f13ea...
The Duck technique - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349378/new-programming-j...
Be aware of this if you incorporate and take investment.
You don't need wordpress or any cookie cutter themes to do that. Here is my page: http://adzerk.com - it cost me about $75 with my designer (although the logo design was more).

And when it comes to feedback, the handful of customer I have talked to in person (you know the customer development part) has helped me 1000% more than the hundreds of emails collected here. (most of which will never respond to your email when you send it out).
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Moral of the story: remove the "designed by" link unless you're required to keep it. The problem wasn't the template design, but that it still had the advertising link.
Are these exceptions typed and/or checked?

FWIW, the FAQ itself says it doesn't have proper exception handling:

"Why does Go not have exceptions?"

http://golang.org/doc/go_lang_faq.html
We want to give a portal where Western companies at least have a chance competing (minimum rate). Presently, they struggle on the other freelancing sites because of the rock-bottom payouts there.

The result is that really good talent from the West stays away from freelancing portals, because they just get lost in the volumes out there.

This is not a good situation, since there is a ton of great talent in the West (probably more than anywhere else).
The last Apple mouse I used prior to the Magic Mouse was the clear single button thing. Until now, I don't think anyone took the apple mouse serious. You've already spent $1000+ for the Mac so paying $50 more for a proper mouse wasn't a big deal.

Since getting this thing it's been great. Once you install better mouse or magic menus the versatility really takes off. Forget 1,2, or even 10 button mice. I have configured 12 different gestures I could do more but they get hard to remember. While the hump could be higher the weight is perfect, and it feels solid.

Due to so many comments in this discussion I'm even contemplating getting the touchpad now.
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Thanks. Will be fixed in the next build.
I'd also suggest looking at Google App Engine. I am moving all my low traffic sites (less than 500 visits a day) to Google App Engine and it's such a great service I wonder why not many people use this.

It has drawbacks but the OP can definitely offload some bandwidth by using App Engine for some parts.
It's definitely not clear. I still don't get it... In the "Email Address" field do I put my companies shared email address, or my own personal email address? Same for the Linked In profile. Both of us have individual Linked In profiles...
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That's some good fucking advice!