skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can base it on anything you want that seems fair to both of you. Sometimes in a company that is a good size but is not public, you might want to require a third party to evaluate the value of the company, and set forth a timeframe for the buyer to come up with the cash or note to buy the shares with. In a smaller company your CPA can probably come up with a value for you.

One thing to think about is what serves you now may not serve you in 2 years. If that is the case you can change the wording to suit the circumstances better when you need to. Talk to your attorney and ask what seems best based on your situation now.

One reason a buyout clause is smart, is that corporate shares are considered the same as money by a divorce court and can be assigned by the judge to the person's ex spouse. Meaning you could have a hostile, non-contributing person on your board. So be sure to talk to your attorney about that.
Where is the egg? There's nothing to fertilize.
Borderline habitable, anyway. Rocky planet, two Earth masses, looks promising, but so close to its (small, dim) star that it's probably tidally locked, meaning the same side will always point towards its sun. This means that the vast majority of its surface will either be too hot or too cold for life.

But a certain ring will have constant perfect weather!
Music that keeps you going on
What are your songs that keep you going on when you just want to give up and go away from your startup, your idea, your team?

Mine is Flame from Perkele, and this is the important part of lyrics:

You can´t stand there with your hands in your pockets
Coz you get nothing for free
You got to work hard to deserve your pride
And for your dreams to come true
Some days it´s hard to think positive
And everything feels upside down
But keep on working,never give up
You got to keep up the faith

You got to work hard
For your dreams to come true
Got to keep the flame alive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpzSv_Z3Aw8

edit: formating
Haha, awesome name!
Why stop there? Compare Berlin to Tribeca. Who cares about the Upper East Side?
The Mystery Behind the Hacking the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Some really interesting concepts in there about Starcraft strategy, but... startups and gaming? Sure I played some games here and there before at work in a startup, and others did as well, but I'd think people would be more interested in getting their work done and spending time with their families. That is the real "diamond league".
That makes a lot of sense. However, a home run would be the highest value possible.

With an aging service so deeply rooted in an online community (which are inherently fickle), a 2x value price would seem reasonable if not generous. I have to think that investing in community centered services is a fast game where smart investors get in early and out while the community is still engaged.

Then again, everyone needs more yachts to water ski behind.
Is it your impression that people in the US replace their physical houses every decade? Mine was built in the 1920's.
Pc health advisor software
PC Health Advisor monitors processes and boosts performance by managing Startup items, cleaning the Windows registry and defragging your PC.
The office tower I used to work in had similar problem. There were two mirror-glass walls that met at 90 degree angle facing each other and the resulting sun reflection heated up the asphalt at the ground level to the point when it deformed into a wave pattern with about 1' wave length and 1/4' amplitude.

Admittedly it led to few very cool "AHA" moments when new employees (on a smoke break) realized what was going on :)
It's pretty difficult to do language performance comparisons based on a single game. Dwarf fortress, another great indie game involving mining and crafting, is written in C++, has no 3D (it's simply a 2D grid), and uses up a lot of CPU.

That doesn't mean that C++ is slow. It means we have no idea how much these custom indie game engines have been performance tuned, and how much logic is being performed in the background (DF is a hugely deep game). They are both written by a single programmer, not a team of game engine developers.

Edit: I don't doubt that performance tuned C++ is faster than Java. But for a small development team, who aren't building a graphically taxing game, performance optimisation is well down the list of priorities. They are usually better off spending the time expanding their game.
ICFP report on the use of Haskell at Google
thanks! Based on your name I guess you know what it means? :)
They didn't say who the partners were - when I think of MS partners (in their own lingo) I think of MS-oriented developer shops. Those are the devs who are their partners - MSDN subscription shops, etc. When MS people speak of "partners", I'd be hard pressed to fin people who think of Apple, Google, Facebook or Yahoo.

My suspicion is that much of the feedback (however constructive it might be) was from orgs who are primarily supportive of MS and IE, and as such, the feedback may not have been as useful as it could have been getting feedback from people about why they are not developing for IE.

But time will tell on this re: adoption rate, standards compliance and whatever innovative stuff they throw in.
I seem to suck at building them from the ground up. All the email lists I started or co-founded went dead or are tiny and essentially stagnant (not growing, at least not significantly). But I have a decent track record for jump-starting conversation and increasing membership at a later stage. Two basic rules I followed:

1) Greet people warmly at the door. If they introduce themselves, say "hi", even if they haven't given you much to go on. My observation: People greeted warmly tend to join the conversation. People who are ignored at that point often never, ever post again.

2) Don't tolerate "orphaned posts". If no one has replied in X time (which would depend in part on the forum in question, but I used to use "3 days" as a guideline), then reply to it even if only to apologize for not knowing what to tell them. If at all possible, try to give them something useful/meaningful in your reply. Even if all you can do is acknowledge it, on an email list at least, simply replying will bump it back up and increase the odds someone else will have something meaningful to say.

Those were my two golden rules. They did wonders for several different forums I joined later in the game. In two cases, I was a moderator at one time or another.

If you get any good tips for starting one from scratch, I'm all ears. I can't seem to get the hang of that one.
with good investors, entrepreneurs usually have a lot of leverage in sitautions like this as long as the board sees them as crucial to the company's success going forward. so i wonder how much kevin pushed it.

my 1990s startup got an early acquisition offer for $30M when their was only $400K in; the VC left it up to us, and we decided we wanted to build a company. a few years later we hit the wall and the board could have forced us to take a lowball offer but we decided to see it through and managed to turn things around. in the end with $16M invested, we sold to Microsoft for around $60M ... the investors were split, but the executive staff (including me) wanted to do the deal so after some discussion we did. we had great investors, of course; not sure what digg's board is like.
Too Easy or Too Hard
Just a technical note on the 64K myth section. My understanding is that TCP connections track by the tuple (remote_host, remote_port, local_host, local_port) so a single client can have 64k unique connections to each port on a remote machine.

If that is actually the case, the document gets its myth correction wrong (by a lot) :)

Can anyone clarify this?
I have never experienced a failed call and neither had I ever heard that it is a possibility until just now.
I find the idea of inhabiting a planet "tidally locked" to its star fascinating. I'd never heard of such a thing until reading that article.
At the time of IE6's release it was a fantastic browser. That was Microsoft's problem; it was so much better than Netscape at the time (and had such a bundling advantage) that they totally dominated the market. So Microsoft stopped improving it... and were very slow to realize that they needed to start again after Firefox shook the browser market back up.

There were still people criticizing MS back at the time of IE6's launch, of course. But it was more ideological than practical... the open source zealots, rather than every web developer.
All feedback is warmly welcomed! If you see any sections of the code or docs that are unclear please let me know and I will fix them!
Contrary to the stereotype, Brazil is significantly industrialized. The average Brazilian is as sedentary as the average American/German/Japanese.
It's 9.95€ and 20€, around $13 and $26...
So what kind of servers/load are we talking about? This is really interesting, I'd love to hear some figures.
This is exciting, if not surprising, news. We knew that potentially habitable planets must be out there somewhere, but I'm still very excited that we now know where the first one is.

Expect to hear the name "Gliese 581g" a lot more in the future, because this will be the standard hypothetical nearby life-bearing system people will be talking about for years to come. Habitable and only twenty light years away?

The tidally locked nature of the planet is a bit of a bummer, though. If there were water on the surface, I wonder what would happen to it. Will there be a liquid-water ring, or will the water inevitably wind up getting stuck on the cold side, never to remelt? Perhaps a constant system of glaciers flowing from cold side to hot side, melting, blowing to the cold side and snowing down again?
Considering he's made about 4mm, and Valve turned down a multi-billion dollar offer not too long ago, I think you might be a bit off-base. :)
Sufficiently close-in planets inevitably wind up tidally locked to their stars, like the moon is to Earth. And since we're a lot better at observing close-in planets due to their small orbital periods, a helluva lot of currently known planets are tidally locked.
A lot of people are here laughing at digg for turning this down, but hindsight is 20-20.

Zuckerberg turned down $1Billion from Yahoo, and at least on paper is worth an order of magnitude more now.

At the time, digg was a leader in a new take on publishing distribution. If executed well, it could have very feasibly been worth more than $80M.
I'm not sure 'huge traction' is really accurate. While this is definitely serious cash for an individual, most successful big-budget games earn orders of magnitude more. And with AAA budgets approaching 100mm, you couldn't sustain even a small team on these profits.

Notch - please don't blow your money on trying to rent a fancy office and hire a lot of people. You'll be surprised at how quickly that money goes.
As new motion controls arrive, will the Wii become obsolete?
Per Crunchbase Digg has taken 3 rounds of funding. Depending on when the offer in question happened, Digg may have only been at 2.8M or 11.3M in funding.
Is there a way to share some source code for this? It's pretty interesting. Good work.
Awesome chatting to the creators within the app!
When you're the one who's first to market with a game-changing device, you announce it as close to ship date as possible.

Everyone else announces their me-too products as early as possible to show they're in the game. It's been like that for years now. There are few exceptions.

All RIM announced was a roadmap, but it's an interesting one because it includes an entirely new OS and tablet platform that will eventually become the platform for all of their future mobile devices (barring any software engineering disasters). To me, that's a lot more interesting that all these manufactures who rush to market with their 7" Android 2.2 phones and call them "tablets" merely to cash in on the craze.
Yeah me neither. Is there any good sci-fi about the concept? Imagine sending a human there, if you could do it in a human life span, I'm sure you'd find volunteers to do it. But what would be the psychological effect of having to live out your life on the terminator in perpetual twilight? Would they eventually go insane and just run into the starlight and cook themselves?
You are right. The part I didn't really make clear is that we only serve on the single external port. Were we to use multiple, then yes, we could have 64k * 64k per IP pair.
> Zuckerberg turned down $1Billion from Yahoo, and at least on paper is worth an order of magnitude more now.

Just because you won the lottery doesn't mean it wasn't stupid to not take the cash. Zuck should have took the billion as a first time entrepreneur. It was the better bet. Playing against the odds might be exciting, and you might even win, but it's still not smart.
It's actually true, in norwegian 'rumpetroll' means tadpole
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpetroll

but the literal translation is "ass troll", yes, seriously. that's why it's extra fun! especially if you are swedish like me ;)
I think there was such a planet mentioned in one of Asimov's Foundation books. It was a pleasant resort planet, as I recall, with the settlements around the habitable ring having constantly perfect weather.

edit: I looked it up: Radole, in Second Foundation. Asimov coined the term "ribbon world" to describe planets like this where the habitable zone forms a ribbon.
I broke it. I was the "DROP TABLES" guy, and you'll want to sanitize the text before it goes into the db.

I typed

"; DROP TABLE `users`;

Which made every person stop moving, and then on page reload nothing happens. (So the `users` table is dropped.)

Sorry!! I didn't mean to break it, I wanted to test it.
For quite a while, Mercury was thought to be tidal locked. You'll find lots of old SF with that "fact".

Edit: Until 1965, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking#Planets

Edit 2: Check Larry Niven's first published short story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven#Work
> Gliese 581g, has a mass three to four times that of Earth

> The surface gravity would be about the same or slightly higher than Earth's

I'm confused. Maybe it's way less dense than earth, so on the surface you're far from the center of gravity?
If software done under these requirements, the world will see more compilers and far fewer ERP systems.
Thanks, it's hard to follow up on everyone. Especially since it's way over midnight here in Sweden :)
Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness (July 2010)
You're only ever a visionary in retrospect. Make that a "confirmed visionary".

Reminds me of a friend of mine when we were younger. When asked what he did, he replied, "I'm a rock start. But nobody knows it yet".
For basic "looks the same" stuff this is probably true. The difficulty comes from clients who devise features that only work well on newer browsers, then insist on keeping the same functionality rather than "degrade gracefully" on IE6.
Actually it's based on a somewhat stripped down and ARM-ized version of Mac OS X with additional frameworks (UI*) that aren't present on what's currently known as Mac OS X.
If a hamburger costs 12 minutes' pay now, it should still cost 12 minutes' pay when everyone is working less and getting paid less per year. Because it will still take 10 (normalized) minutes to make, and all the companies along the way probably won't change their profit margins that much.
Digg is boned. Product is at a dead end and users are losing interest in the community.

Meanwhile, they're funded up their ears. $40 million? For what? It's a bunch of user-submitted links and discussions. You need a couple of developers, a sysadmin, a designer, some sales guys. Am I missing any other roles?

100 employees for such a simple product is insane to me. I couldn't believe they topped out at that number. I am biased – I prefer small, lean teams over bloat, but come on, anyone can see this.

And now, yeah, they're boned. You're not going to get any significant multiple of $40 million out of that business. Boy, the investors would have been fortunate to get their money back period.

I guess that's just how the VC game is played.
That is great, but have they determined whether or not it has unobtainium deposits yet?

On a serious note, how is it that the planet has 4 times the mass of Earth but the surface gravity is "the same or slightly higher" than Earth's?
Ouch...

Don't worry, I'm sure your other investments will earn you at least that much ;-)
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3
My first thought was "use big heat pipes to transfer heat from the hot side to the cool side".
I just logged in, no problem. Perhaps just a temporary outage from their service provider?

In any case, I'll take this opportunity to make a plea: I absolutely love Buxfer, and I hope you guys keep it alive in its present state, if possible. If this isn't possible, please try and either (a) sell it to an interested party, or (b) give us a little warning so we can export all of our data. I'd prefer (a). Worst case scenario, I can't believe that Mint wouldn't pay something for all the user accounts.
The YC note format seems to suit modern deals. Still planning to publish?
they need to work more on their own concept and should stop being inspired from reddit.
Ha. Nice try. We don't have any table called users :)

..but if anyone knows why it sometimes freeze, please let us know. We were not excepting this kind of traffic.
Indeed, anyone living there would not have an energy problem at all.
There is no such a thing as guaranteed employment.
cough Second Life cough
Again that doesn't solve the problem of the mob boss who could care less that he's using forbidden encryption.
Oh god they're using Joomla (sobi2)...the usability of the site is really bad. For example, I searched "291 macdougal street" and it returns all of the listings...
Hmm, I assumed that I broke it because of two tries (with page reloads between) and it froze/broke after.

EDIT: Alright, it works. But, as before it won't show the text of my input (when it's an attempted SQL injection). Are you trying to hide it or not? (e.g. if someone types "Hello, World" (with quotes) they will want those to appear.)
Totally agree. Just trying out stackoverflow was probably worth it. Nevertheless when I thought I had the right answer I would have liked to compare it to other/the "right" solution. Also if I already spent a fair amount of time searching and had problems to phrase the questions the right way for Google (not knowing the terminology) some kind of help might have been a good thing.

On the other hand I might have used thatcher help too early...
FTA:

"That means the planet has...a band of eternal sunrise or sunset where water — and perhaps life — could subsist comfortably."
Problem Diagnosis: You Will Never Think As Stupid As Users
The density is unknown, but we assume it to be rocky because... well, at 2 Earth masses there's not much else it could be made of. It can't be ice because it's too warm, and it can't be gas because gas planets that size won't hold together.

But by my calculations a four Earth-mass planet with the same density as Earth should have gravity of about 1.73g. (using http://www.ericjamesstone.com/weird_stuff/gravitator.htm) Which is not that similar to Earth gravity, but not too far off either, in the scheme of things.
Major Meltdown at Yahoo As More Top Execs To Depart
Here's the site referred to in the article: http://www.visitnordkyn.com/
Sweet, it's only 20 light years away. A quick 10 month journey at warp 3.
I was on Verizon for 5 years and never had any of these problems...then BAM got the iPhone and everything for voice calls went to shit.
This article on digg claims it has 293 comments: http://digg.com/news/technology/digg_redesign_tanks_traffic_...

After clicking "Load More" a couple times until it says there are no more comments to load, $(".comment-body").length in the firebug console says there are 104 comments. Am I missing something here or are they lying about comment counts to make the site seem more active than it actually is?
The fastest space craft we have (twin Helios probes) travels at 250 000 km/h

(20 light years) / (250 000 km/h) = 86,340 years
A P.E. must have signed off on this; maybe he should be disciplined?
Many = 10? (Rough estimate)
Pretty sure it is vastly uncommon for schools to retain publishing rights to your papers.

My university has publishing rights (which they purchased) to a single paper of mine to publish in a journal.
Unfortunately the Helios probes can only get up to that sort of speed because they're going downhill (ie towards the sun). Going uphill to get out of the local gravity well is harder.

At Voyager 2 speeds it takes 340,000 years.
This was PREfix, right? (Hi Jon, haven't seen you in a while :)
His Swedish door. I'm pretty sure the pirate party would have a field day were that to happen.
the danger here is, of course, that the person coaxing the wood sculptures might be doing more harm than good. who knows what circumstances led to the sculptures... could they have been done at gun point or other threat? if riches are at stake, then i believe the answer is 'yes.'
I'd rather miss a job because I was too expensive than get it just because I was too cheap.
It's called a 'backlash'. It's been happening for a while now, minecraft just dragged it into the spotlight.

The current demand is for games that are fun, not games that are pretty or push your gfx card to the limit. It doesn't have to look polished, but the look has to fit the gameplay.

Minecraft's blocky graphics allow the player to use their imagination a bit. Don't underestimate that.
Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane interviewed Kevin Rose during net@night for August 11, and he said he misses the days when Digg was small and they could come up with an idea, and have it live by that night. Now Digg has 40-50 full-time engineers, two data centers, and hundreds of servers.

Rose: "It's a big operation. To be honest it's bigger than I'm comfortable with... and I'm very excited to hire a new CEO very soon ... I'm not cut out to be a CEO of this size of company."

Inspired by 37signals, he wants his next company to be a small group of 10-15 people "based out of Portland or something... Chillin' in the woods, drinking tea, chopping wood..."

Sarah Lane: "Are you still on that Portland thing? ... I've been hearing about that for 10 years."

http://twit.tv/natn163
This is mostly a promo, but this article gives a taste of the book.
From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to...
Aaron, how did you go about learning about programming languages implementation? I'm mostly interested if you went theory (e.g. reading a PL book) down to implementation (e.g. reading the ruby source code) or the other way around?
This was announced a year or two ago, right - is there anything new there?

EDIT: OK, that was Gliese 581 C. This is the new best hope.
I pulled out my credit card for an audio transcription API when I took a look at some minor footnote: "powered by people". Felt really disgusted.
20 lightyears is a long way, but not that long. What we're 'seeing' via our instruments was taking place around 1990.