skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The friction between the "business guy" and "programmer" (as in your startup us worth X for every programmer and -X/2 for every MBA) seems to always pop up in startup discussions, and it might lead some astray. Startups aren't about which tasks a business guy should take off a programmer's shoulders or which features a business guy should direct a programmer to build. Startups are an organism, a team. Every founder is going to do stuff, like selling, or something analytical, that is uncomfortable at first. That's what it's about.

The problem seems to arise when once founder/contributor values his or her skill set more than others. This is where you'll find the business person who thinks he/she just needs a programmer to build the killer app he/she designed. BS. But the same goes for a programmer... it is the business that must succeed, finding a product/market fit, building, launching, selling, etc., more than just lines of code.

Ask an advisor/mentor who has built a successful startup before what will be involved in growing the startup you're aiming to build. Look at that list closely and be humble. Think of people who are much better than you at the things at which you're not necessarily at the top of your game, and get them involved. Not people who can sort of do it, people who will rock at it.

Good luck.
Founders who can't code
An advise to founders who can't code

If you are a business/idea guy and looking for a technical co founder, stop. Stop right now. Take 6 months off and go learn how to code (day and night, weekends including).

Most web apps do little besides save, show and update data. No, You will NOT become an engineer, programmer, or web developer, but you will be able to put a prototype of your idea together and maybe get one or two beta users for feedback. At this moment it will be much easier to recruit a technical cofounder.

The reason why most technical cofounders can create great products is not because they have a deep domain knowledge or they are great hackers. The reason is (beside passion for the problem) their cost is time. Your cost is money. They can spend one year working after hours to create a product. Can you pay someone for one year to create a product? They can fail 23 times and still find time to build their next idea. Can you convince your best friend to work on your 4th idea, when the previous 3 failed?

Here is the thing, 1 year from now, you will still have plenty ideas. But are you going to have ideas and the ability to implement them (or parts of the solution), or are you going to post one of those "Revolutionary Disrupting Idea with potential to make millions. Need Someone to build. Will give 15 % of revenue".

Stop and go learn. Worst case scenario, your future technical founder will respect you for trying, and you in return will truly appreciate their skills.

Note 1: If your idea is to build something truly technically challenging, then scratch my advice.

Note 2: Off course all the above would mean little if I wasn't the marketer/business/idea/support/whatever guy who spent the past few months learning. Email me if you are learning, maybe we can keep each other motivated.
If you go by death toll, it seems by most sources, Germany fared quite a bit worse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_...
Yeah, non-interactive is radio style listening whereas interactive the user gets to pick and choose what they want to hear on demand.

Interactive/non-interactive in this context are actually widely used terms in the digital music space.
Right. If the genes were giving the snail sores, we'd call it a virus. Perception is reality
I take it you mean 10%?

Anyway, there wasn't much Weimar Republic to go around in the 30s. It ended in '33 with the Nazis coming to power. (The term Weimar Republic is just a name historians have made up for that period. Officially Germany was called Deutsches Reich from 1871 until 1945.)

Sorry, I am just a bit annoyed, because I have heard people make this very mistake more than once. I guess I am equally ignorant about, say, Chinese or Vietnamese history.
Trial by fire: the start-up experience
green women sounds kind of sexy
With any luck now we have a basically sane[1] government, we'll get it back.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/27/theresa-may-s...
The Internet Is Still Not For Everyone
Greyhound says $230 for a round trip ticket with 48 hours of travel time. Four hours of flight time is hard enough for someone that is 6 foot 5 let alone 48.
No useless copying -- less pagefaults.
Less pagefaults -- less trashing.
Show HN: DomainWhirl - A free daily newsletter with available startup domains
Hello HN,

About a month ago, I posted an "Ask HN" to see if there was any interest in having daily available .com domain name lists. The names would all be appropriate for startups, blogs and websites, nothing else. While the response wasn't overwhelming, it was quite positive and a few individuals got me motivated to go through with this. I decided to go with the free newsletter format so I could keep some form of exclusivity for the subscribers, giving them a better chance at getting a name they before somebody else gets to it.

You can find the old discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671129

Fast forward to today, the service and website are ready, so I am launching it and am ready to accept subscribers. You'll find that the newsletter is very lightweight and contains no ads or irrelevant content. I may sometimes slip in a quick word about projects I am working on but that's it! If you ask me, it makes it a little more human. I run this for fun as I like writing algorithms to find gems in huge lists of data. The mailing list is managed on MailChimp so no funky business; I will respect everyone's privacy.

So I encourage everyone to subscribe! It's free and is a very passive and non-intrusive way to stumble upon great domains for your projects and businesses.

Feel free to also give me some feedback on the website, especially on the copy since English is not my first language. That's it for now! Enjoy!

http://domainwhirl.com

Thanks,
Nicholas

P.S. If the DNS has not yet propagated, you can temporarily use http://domainwhirl.heroku.com until it does.
McDonalds is not going to interview hire and pay me in less then two weeks. No company will. I am looking into odd jobs though.
This might not work as well in a tech market, where the audience presumably uses RSS (or maybe not, as Jason already has a sizable list).

FWIW, I launched Ruby Weekly (a weekly Ruby e-mail newsletter) just over a month ago and it now has 2200 subscribers. It's not quite TechCrunch's audience but one that has heavily used RSS in the past. By comparison, I also own the most subscribed Ruby blog with FeedBurner reporting 25k subscribers but.. I call severe shenanigans on their numbers and the "engagement per capita" from the e-mail newsletter has been very encouraging.
This is exactly why I started doing training and writing, which led me to my current gig at the Pragmatic Bookshelf - I get to work with smart people who want my help. I get to see people succeed, and I get to share in the success instead of handling the late night support calls when the app is down cos the client's cruddy shared host went offline.

I'll always love developing, but I long ago learned that my greatest strength is helping other people become better.
Modern multinational slavery
Thanks.

Teaches one not to believe everything you read (I'm guilty as charged, both from this and Max Klein's stories)
You still need oxygen. Plants breath in oxygen too. Photosynthesis does not magically create "bio energy". Or rather, photosynthesis does not directly regenerate ATP. It creates glucose which then has to be broken down for ATP via Krebs cycle (same thing you do).

I guess in theory, you COULD do everything anaerobically. But then your efficiency drops even more.
Max Levchin on Super Angels and Early Exits
Clickable links:

Website: http://domainwhirl.com
Temp if DNS hasn't spread: http://domainwhirl.heroku.com

Old discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671129
I've read into this story before and this guy is a scumbag. The really sad part in all of this is that he's pulling another scam by trying to make it seem like he's the victim and the FTC is destroying small businesses.
I believe you're thinking of the Voskhod 2 mission. They landed in deep snow in the Urals and had to camp the night out in their spacecraft until the rescue party could reach them the next day.

Alexei Leonov's 1st-person account can be read here: http://tinyurl.com/voskhod2 (taken from the book "Two Sides of the Moon", co-authored with Apollo 15's Dave Scott)

I'd tend to agree with my above sibling that bringing guns in a spaceship sounds like the opposite of safe, but according to Leonov they had a pistol, and "plenty of ammunition".
Black ink on cream paper may have more contrast than black on white on a screen.
In Japan you have your smartphone, your console, your camera, etc, and they all overlap more than Western counterparts on what would otherwise be done by a PC.

So, for reasons of user-habit, there's no single point of integration in Japan? I'd like to be able to use my smartphone to tell my TV-attached device to record show X or download its bittorrent, and have it all just work.
The assumption is actually that you'd prefer to spend extra time driving than to correspondingly lower your life expectancy.
I don't know if you've missed all the stories around here, but e-mail newsletters are resurging in popularity. My own experiments have proven there's certainly a strong audience for them, even in the progressive tech scene.
Or even/sometimes worse - tracks which you were able to play previously, which this week are now not available.
Taking a nap works fine for relaxing. It takes some practice, though.
I like the e-mail newsletter idea, but on the type of content that's planned, it just sounds like the sort of work ReadWriteWeb and GigaOm are already doing.
1. Reading SICP. Doing all the exercises.

2. Doing my bed on a daily basis.
Well, it's a simplification of a very complex system. I can think of at least one intersection where even going 40mph in a 35 zone will at least double your risk of a crash.

I can think of other situations, for example highway driving, where going 80mph in a 65mph zone probably has an only minor effect compared to going 65mph, and depending on traffic could be safer.
What I would call reality is the percentage of the genome from the original snails and from the algae.
This is not about news. It is about analytical, in-depth content.
It isn't that bad, I would say I'm listening to pretty broad spectrum of music, most of it being not very popular, and Spotify has roughly 75% of what I need. OK, when something that was there disappears after a while then it's seriously irritating, but still, the true selling point of Spotify is the quality of the program itself: it's super slick, fast and has the best interface ever in the category of music players.

Personally, I ignored a bunch of artist just because they don't have their music in Spotify; "you want me to listen to your music? let me do that the way I want, otherwise go screw yourself" type of thing.
I am surprised that they didn't keylog his machine - as having a warrant to search/seize means a warrant to keylog probably could have been obtained.

The police will learn from this and avoid these 'oh dammit' moments by just keylogging everybody from now (or at least those suspected of having encrypted volumes).

Keylogging is the one real weakness of all the TrueCrypt/other encryption schemes (that and your password is in memory in the clear while the volume is mounted, and even afterwards depending on your settings).
Credit Cards Will Go Electronic, Then Disappear Into iPhone 5
Sigh. Gotta have a thick skin in this business.

Thanks for your comment. I'll pull the reigns back on the self promotion for awhile.
> What would Thomas Jefferson and my cousin John Adams say if they were here today?

Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

(John) Adams: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

So they'd expect us to have "upgraded" by the 200-something year mark?
Nobody’s going to pay Google $25 a year to store their music in a cloud.

What if cloud hosting was bundled with MobileMe or the initial sale of an iPod? I bet Apple could get people to pay $12.50 additional hidden in the price of the iPod and $12.50 as an add-on.
"Her husband says she has "T.E.D."—Time Estimation Disorder."

That's kind of an unfortunate acronym for TED conferences.
My problem was the conclusion: "As a nation, drivers in the United States travel slightly too fast and could improve overall life expectancy by decreasing their average speed slightly."

As a nation, drivers in the United States travel at pretty much the average speed. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_by_country) The national comparison seems like a rhetorical device, suggesting American's do something inferior to other countries, therefore we should change to keep up. Instead, you should only conclude that a decrease in speed could increase life expectancy.
Can you elaborate? I think the store is frustrating, but I've found the player itself has been pretty stable and usable for the last 6-7 years on OSX (I have 40GB of music btw). It's a big ol' spreadsheet with instant search and drag+drop playlists.
The thing about Java developers is that some of them are probably seasoned developers. They've been through many projects with scars everywhere. From each project, they learned something new (not necessarily the best way, but albeit something new). Combine that with the fact that there are people out there who have been through these situations and wrote "best practices".

When they build the next system, they will try to use these best practices to avoid their problems they've been through in the past. When this happened, they are already experiencing the second-system syndrome (but they don't realized it).

Of course each project differs right?
Messenger Key-Get the passwords – Google Talk Passwords
I've worked with multiple acts (Clark, Broadcast, Plaid) that have played (and sold out) the Bowery Ballroom without major label support.

There is a very successful tier of well run larger indies like Warp, Domino, Beggars Banquet. They've worked out that not fucking your golden geese is a good long term play.

But yes, even they struggle with the costs of big tours. Touring is expensive.
"you can say that sin(x) = x"

Yes, this is the small angle approximation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-angle_approximation and also the example I gave above: 3 points on a sin curve may be considered a straight line or a curved line; 1 meter on earth's orbit is a straight line. The same idea comes up in the string theory too as a pun between point and line.

I am surprised that there is no mathematical theorem to express this fundamental property of nature. Or maybe I am not expressing myself clearly.
You can't take any of his arguments at face value? Like the blocking argument?
I'm very curious as to what they are going to do about the slow but steady rollout of DNSSEC around the world, given the main point is to stop spoofed responses (i.e. their business).
If you are explicitly putting out a system for tests, you aren't only attracting black hats. (Actually you will discourage black hats, since they don't want to show their methods when they are of no use.)
I don't know about the other remedies, but there is some good evidence in favor of zinc combating the common cold:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15496046?dopt=Abstract

Note, however, that zinc is only effective if taken at the onset of the very first symptoms. Personally, I've been using it during the last five years, and it seems effective so far.
Calling all Facebook & Twitter users: Help ACCIONA help the Gulf
This week I played a track only to find it had actually changed since last time I played it. The original was retracted and instead I got an alternative version.

Nonetheless I'm happy with Spotify, although the number of unavailable records is increasing
At first glance, this isn't revolutionary or even newsworthy. E-mail newsletters have been around forever - even those that are authored by a series of writers. I find this interesting because I've heard Jason say things such as "I like to find a new market and blaze my own trail". This certainly isn't trailblazing.

It sounds like he's thinking that he can build off of the success of his personal newsletter. However, the difference will be in the audience. People subscribe and connect with his personal newsletter because they want to hear what he has to say. Also, there is something sort of neat about getting an e-mail from an author in your inbox rather then passivley clicking on a bookmakred blog.

However, this doesn't sound like it will be the individual thoughts of someone like Jason. It will be a series of articles by a number of people - likely low paid people. Some of those people may be interesting and insightful, but unless they have an existing audience coming into the newsletter, the effort won't get large enough for very many advertisers to care.

This newsletter effort will work well in combination with the This Week In network. Hosts will be able to say things such as, "subscribe to our newsletter" or "get the inside scoop via e-mail".

Beyond a complimentary add-on that builds on a tiny bit of personal success, I don't see this effort being a fraction of what TechCrunch is. I think Jason is using this sensational comparison (and the whole Calacanis vs. Arrington thing) as the same word-of-mouth marketing he's well known for.
I used to whine about Maven, but then I realized that it suck because 2 factors:

- I did not take my time to learn it

- Senior employees did stuff in a non-Maven way.
It also looked suspiciously like he had some sockpuppet upvoters that the spam control missed. When I was there it was at 29 votes after 46 minutes.

But I don't know, maybe HN really is that gullible when it comes to governmental malfeasance.
Try posting some stories of the times where you risked rejection. That might be more interesting.
What's the value behind monitoring our behavior and re-evaluating the opportunities we have to interact with other people?

It defines the quality of our life I'd say.
Any mirror?
That makes sense, once a day pick a random automatic response and justify it or randomly change it to see what happens.
This entire story smells fake. If TrueCrypt just saved your life, would you really go tell reddit? The dialogue feels constructed; there's no insight about the experience. It's more likely that it's a fabrication by a district attorney, to be cited in the future (just as you have here).

Edit: further evidence for this being a fake:

* This supposedly happened in Februrary 2004, back when TrueCrypt was version 1.0a and barely known.

* His story suggests that his laptop's system drive was encrypted. TrueCrypt added system disk encryption in version 5.0 in 2008.

* He slips up and says he used AES encryption; this is noticed in the comments and he edits it out (I assume).
would you read a 5000 word story on Google Instant right now?

I wouldn't, since that topic has been beaten to death already.
OK it has been a while but the newsletter is finally ready along with the website! I'll be surprised if anybody sees this comment but I did say I was going to post an update here.

You can subscribe and learn more at http://domainwhirl.com and can read the Show HN post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1761541

Enjoy!
The site wasn't loading for me, but it did load (albeit slowly) from a Coral Cache link:

http://qntm.org.nyud.net:8080/algo
To establish reasonable doubt all the defense has to do is come up with some alternative way all of your facts can be true without Bob having the key. I can think of two from the top of my head.

1. Bob has mischievous friends, or worse, enemies at school. He leaves his laptop unattended/exposed where someone installs the encryption then wipes their fingerprints, or perhaps has worn gloves. Bob takes his laptop home and tries to regain access to the computer.

2. Bob unwittingly acquires the laptop from a criminal (he may have bought it, or maybe he fixes computers) who encrypted the drive and wiped away all fingerprints. Bob tries to gain access to the computer.

To be free from self-incrimination Bob can simply refuse to answer any questions about the laptop in question at all.
Microsoft's Anti-Android FUD Campaign in Full Swing
Once wave takes off of course!
For what it's worth, I didn't waste a single click when deleting signature, went straight for it, though I agree that it is unintuitive in principle and that there were not enough contextual cues.
Ask HN: Design ideas for displaying list of employees
I am working on a website and wanted some better design / ui ideas to display list of employees along with their photo and short bio.

I like these

http://www.meebo.com/team/
http://about.digg.com/team

Does anybody have any other cool ideas.

Thanks :)
It really seems like the author of that article has brought it upon herself because she continues to tolerate it, and does it herself on occasion.

The rule is wait 15 minutes and then leave. After a couple such incidents, then you flip the flakey bit, and stop agreeing to meet that person one on one such as at restaurants or for day trips.

It's still OK invite flakies to parties or group gatherings where it doesn't matter if they show up or not.
AFAIK, Pandora is classed as radio, and doesn't have to do direct deals with the labels. They pay royalties to SoundExchange, which in theory distributes the royalties to the content owners. The rates they pay are a lot lower than the rates companies like Rdio, Spotify, and MOG have to pay to the labels directly for on demand streaming rights.
'not playable in your country'

Reminds me of youtube. I'm in europe and about half of the time I click on a youtube link I get this friendly message about the content being property of UMG|Sony|Warner|whoever and I'm not worthy to see it...
AT&T: no one can stop our "paid prioritization"
Pandora has been close to shutting down a number of times:

* http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/archives/2007/03/riaas-new-r...

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08...

they are at the mercy of the labels.
a blog I run had 125,266 visits from 10/4 - 11/4. The browser usage percentages are as follows: firefox: 41%, chrome: 22%, internet explorer: 19%. Most of our traffic is referred from tech inclined sources. Personally, I have heard a ton of complaints about the amount of memory firefox uses while running compared to chrome...
> suggesting American's do something inferior to other countries

No, it very clearly is only suggesting that Americans are doing something inferior compared to the ideal.
Sure. Of the 26.63% who used IE, here's the version breakdown:

8.0 72.07%
7.0 20.93%
6.0 6.57%

There was a fraction of a percent using the IE9 beta, and one person using IE 5.5. :)

So it looks like about 1.7% of all traffic to my blog is using IE6, if I did that math right.
Use doors for desks (a huge door desk might cost you $50 and 2 hours a Saturday afternoon) and spent a lot of money on chairs.
82% aren’t passionate about their work
Crowdsourcing thoughts