skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you decide to go solo or drop the project (so as to not have to worry about buying out your partner, or maybe because you're over this one and want to move on), have you considered selling the company?

I'm interested in hearing more about the company and would consider buying it. You can contact me via email on about.me/sir

(ps. I'd probably want to hire you back ;))
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you're saying that the way tech/web/software does VC has a huge negative impact on women founders. why do you think that's irrelevant?
'Hence, it's shifting to a new of principles for how we manage, well, everything that are the real seeds of 21st century prosperity. No, we're not totally sure what they are, with perfect certainty--but here's what's for sure. Until we get serious about trying to discover them, struggling to master them, building new institutions based on them--tomorrow's prosperity is going to remain as elusive as mist.'

It was a good post until that. You can look at a long term view of the Dow, etc. and see that the 90s really shook things up. So I agree, that shift to an online world (not just commerce, stock trading, but communication) led to the financial and cultural issues we have today, in part.

The problem is that the author supposes at this point that we need new ways to manage, but we need old ways to manage. The people of the world are not getting the things done they did before, and are instead doing things they never would have done before online. Years ago, I probably would have been reading more books, taking classes, and getting the things done I needed to. Instead, I'm wasting time online, and so are family members and friends. We need to get back out there and use some common sense.
It would help a lot if every car get connected to GPS and a global network identifies cars that are in the nearby. Now the server should decide how these cars should go. And in addition, there should be an independent regulation in the car itself in case Internet is down.

If every person gets connected to GPS using his mobile phone, then they can be integrated in this complex network reducing the risks of accidents.

The server would also connect with others to check for roads constructions, weather... and decide the best and fastest path to take.

It would be really amazing and complicated. But believing is how we can get these things done.
I am not going to give you a detailed answer, because I do not have time to defend multi-millionaires, they can defend themselves. So I will just give you one sentence of the article:

"Over the long term, though, it hoped that TomorrowNow would act as a kind of stalking horse, allowing SAP to persuade its new customers to abandon Oracle entirely and switch to SAP’s expensive suite of software applications."

If you don't think that was written by an Oracle shill, then you really need to improve your reading comprehension or are an Oracle shill yourself.
Yes, it would, but you might be better served to rethink your app design to return multiple result sets, and/or do most of the relevant joining/filtering on the database, even if your DB is <1ms away from your web farm.

We run a good sized e-commerce site (Alexa top 1000; barely) and our ratio of DB queries per dynamic page is right around 2.5:1. You might not be able to get your query-per-page ratio into that range, but hundreds is certainly too many, IMO. Even "dozens" would be cause for concern, IMO. Moving your webfarm to a different datacenter than your DB is going to shine a spotlight on that problem, but even without that spotlight, you still have a problem.

PS: Even with pushing that amount of work to the DB, we have almost the inverted ratio of web servers to DB servers as you report.
I was in a similar situation but with a much more competent partner. But for different reasons we just weren't headed in the same direction.

I said hey, here is a deal I am happy with. I am happy to be on either side of this deal, because it is fair.

Not sure how much I can talk about it, but it had to do with one partner getting the company and the other getting an X percent royalty for Y years.
Car industry haven't made enough progress in the last 100 years, but your 1% is way off. A modern car diesel engine (like the one in BMW 320d ED) can exceed 45% efficiency.
From the resignation letter:

"How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d'être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs."

Physics is a corrupt professions. http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/he-who-pays-physics...

I am glad that Prof. Lewis came out with this public exposure of the corruption of physics. This is very important. This is independent of climate issue. The most corruption occurs in academic physics.
I understand that they need to make money. Google did ads, so can Twitter.

But, Twitter is adding noise. People will get tweets on their mobile device and be unhappy to see something taking up that much real estate on their screen. Do it enough and they will use something else, without ads.
The simplest way I could figure out was:

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Since I discovered Slackware I will never go back to Ubuntu or Debian.
It doesn't sound like this is the right co-founder and if you have any inclination that this is the case at this early stage of the company then do something about it NOW.

Aside from the personality issues it doesn't sound like he's bringing enough to the table to help your company elevate to where it needs to be - that's business and in addressing this you might get better mileage using this as the grounds for action because they are explicit and practical.

"You can't keep the site looking the way users want it" and "You don't have the product development skills needed as you are raising feature ideas that are not being asked" are all explicit issues you can use. "I don't like the way you communicate" is not, even if that is really the issue.

I would be VERY careful about dissolving the company and then taking IP with you to a new company, as others have suggested. He would be in his right to lay claim to his share of the IP.

There are ways around that however. Getting the company to grant each of you a non-exclusive perpetual right to the technology, then dissolving the business, then you going off and setting a new business with it is one way (that also lets him do the same, with a new co-founder perhaps, so be confident he won't be successful).

But you MUST see a lawyer (retained personally, not on the business of course)
That's true, which makes this as difficult a thing as it is.
#newtwitter is now an API client. Like any other client, we are subject to rate-limits. The fact that the JavaScript API upon which #newtwitter is built can make authenticated, fully client-side API calls, rate limits are necessary.
Yep. I always enjoy upgrading.
The only thing Laura Ingalls would recognize is the American classroom.
Given that that I installed the RC Desktop this morning and there were massive problems with Compiz not working even with the latest beta driver from Nvidia and Skype crashing even in LXDE I'll continue to run 10.04 for at least a few weeks.
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It's clear to me because I'm the person who's been communicating with NIC.ly on this issue.
Perhaps, but the real problem is the rate of change of climate. In the time scale it takes for the ecosystem to adapt, global warming is instantaneous and, hence, disruptive. Evolution and adaption are powerful but slow mechanisms.
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This might have been assumed, but it's worth reiterating that this could get really stressful and distracting for your business. To avoid that, you should do everything in your power to leave on good terms with him. First, talk to him in a non-confrontational way: ask him if there's anything that's getting in the way of his giving the project more attention. Politely let him know that you expect more of him, as a business partner, and see if he steps up. Set a concrete but reasonable goal date (I'd do about a month from now), and on that day, decide if you want to keep working with him for the next year or not. If you leave, suggest getting back together after he has a chance be more focused/organized/whatever.

I wouldn't bring lawyers into something like this until the very end, as they can put a very grim aura on the conversation. Have a heart-to-heart, figure out what you want, what he wants, and how both of you can be satisfied. Once you're sure of that, see a lawyer about making a legally binding agreement.
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Like I said, you'd have to do the math. It's very possible that's true. But it's not a certainty. People have a limit on how much they want to drive regardless of how easy it is. After all, the store itself will still suck when everyone decides to go at 5.

I'm in NYC, I could hop on the subway any time I want without any hassle at all, but it's not like I do just because the option's there. Transportation is a means much more than an end for most people.
I have recently switched from Ubuntu(95%)+Vista(5%) to 100% Ubuntu so my computer is pretty green to worry of any problems. I am looking forward to wait in the server-line for the new release
Brands as competitors to entertainment media
No longer have to recompile the Ralink Wi-Fi driver on my netbook every time there's a kernel update? Yes please.

On a side note, is there a good summary of new features out there that isn't terribly outdated?
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What are some of your main reasons?
Talk with a few advisors and lawyers individually, and then if you still don't have a clear idea, maybe meet with some advisors/lawyers with both of you in the room.

If all else fails, I'd re-write the business plan in terms of who does what. What are you good at? What aren't you good at? If he has a bad sense of design, maybe he shouldn't be handling that aspect, etcetera.

With that said, I hope that all goes well and that this startup succeeds!
What about spammers/hackers? This seems like a goldmine for them. One account compromised now means 500 people added to a group against their will with all of THEIR friends seeing it in the news-feed.
Oh, god. On my motorcycle, nothing scares me on the road more than people driving cars. Not only are they not perfect, they are far from perfect.
It's OK to be confrontational to a certain degree. He doesn't sound like the indispensable kind of co founder and would be in rough shape without OP, who is therefore in a position of power.
What are you talking about, drivingmenuts? We're Internet addicts!

Also, I think this was a good decision from the Senate. The country has made some serious strides towards true Freedom of Speech during the last decade.
This is not a solution to much, apart from getting stupid people away from control of vehicles. We still need to move to mass transportation, to reduce pollution, decrease traffic, stop our reliance on fossil fuels, increase productivity, remove noise, free up space in cities, and lots of other reasons.
Yes indeed, encryption is the only real solution. Of course, if you're really trying to hide something then you need to make sure the unencrypted ones aren't leaking somewhere.
I won't upgrade tonight or at least for a few weeks, but I will probably upgrade to 11.04 as soon as it's released.
It scares me that we have founders in search of business models, not business models seeking founders.
I've heard it used by strategy consultants to mean someone who is well rounded and performs well in many roles/disciplines, instead of someone with a narrow focus/expertise.
yeah, unless the drive content is encrypted you can just mount it on another system and take whatever you want. You can even boot to linux off a usb and do this.
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Biggest CO2 sink is the ocean. Increase CO2 content in ocean water and you produce carbonic acid. I'd assume that this is at least a contributor to ice melt.

However, you could contend that many of the northern waters are similarly contaminated by acid produced from volcanic gas, such as in the Icelandic area.

Either way, I can't source any documented evidence either way at the moment. The problem is that if you stipulate that scientists are colluding to produce evidence in support of a theory, all evidence supporting or denying said theory must be assumed contaminated unless proven otherwise. I have no access to the data, nor could I rule out scientific misconduct in the data collection even if I had access.
No. I always keep 1 version behind for stability reasons. Now i upgraded to 10.04 and will stick with it since it is LTS release.
Chris Tolles, the guy in charge of Topix, has said more than once that he's a fan of loose / little moderation on his boards.
Just upgraded from 10.04 to the Maverick RC. Apart from messed up trackpad configuration on my MacBook Air and the new font requiring some time getting used to, seems fine.
I find it interesting to compare Spolsky's idealized programmer with the one Michael Lopp gives: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/03/20/free_electr...

Personally, I think these pieces say more about their authors than they do about good programmers.
You know, rats can have more offspring than your sister in just a month. I don't see what's admirable about fulfilling one's biological destiny. And who cares about law school or baseball teams? If she had gotten a PhD in Quantum Field Theory while raising 6 kids, then...
Yeah. I'm using 10.10RC and when I upgraded, my dual-screen monitor setup (nvidia card) didn't work with my old config. I eventually dropped my config and let it make its own.

Then it was -very- prone to crashing. I just finally fixed it by disabling one of the screens today. At least, I think it is. It's extremely hard to track down because it happens almost randomly. But it definitely started when I upgraded.
Mexico is the 14th largest economy in the world. Drug cartels are not the only thing happening there.
Mainly so that people can establish an identity associated with their rants if they choose, many people seem to do this.

Additionally it allows people to identify themselves as the OP when posting comments, and allows people to be more expressive by giving themselves a name to match their rant like 'AngryAtSuchAndSuch'.

The pseudonym is not optional.
Damn. And the Wikileaks page itself is down for maintenance :(
I assume most of the team did not see this coming as they were actively hiring.

Live Labs culture did not fit in well with the rest of the company and their priorities did not align well with their parent division. The departure of Gary was just the nail in the coffin. I believe the closure is a result of them becoming a big enough expense that division leadership started paying attention and there was not a well defined strategy to drive query share. There are plenty of little teams that operate under the radar quite effectively.

Their primary failure was not being able to measure their positive impact on Bing query share.
I think the style that Lessig popularized is a bit more extreme, along the lines of one slide per second or two, often with sentences split up across slides, and transitions synchronized with gestures or intonation. That makes the slides sort of a performance-art prop.
Thingd is building a structured database of every object in the world
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Title seems appropriate. "...agile...behind Twitter".

keywords: agile (whether you like buzzword or not)

It's more about changing the culture of Twitter engineering department.
My desktop's been on 10.10 since early September, my first go at a beta release.

One the whole I don't think I'd do it again; there's been at least two showstopping bugs. To be fair, one of those (ATI driver incompatibility with new X server version, from what I understand) probably won't be fixed in the final release either.
All those acquisitions for talent made me think that a good business model would be to simply develop a clone of such a purchased-but-discontinued product (and of course keep developing it).

After all if you believe Lean Startup ideas, the biggest problem that a startup faces is an idea that has not been vetted by costumers.

I assume that even though those startups don't have products that are interesting enough for Google to keep working on them, in order to get noticed (and eventually bought) those startups had to show solid traction numbers so those ideas are already vetted by costumers. The biggest startup risk has been removed.

All that's left is good execution. It might not be a good business for Google, but could be a good business for a small team.
IMO, In this particular case, face-to-face discussions will make the matter worse.

The co-founder doesn't READ his emails/IMs let alone remembering what has been discussed.
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I think you've got it wrong. I think the point he was trying top make is the time management aspect (as parents know, kids are a huge time sink, god bless'em). I've got only one, and he's making it extremely hard to put extra time on anything. So, actually having N kids is nothing to boast about, doing so while being able to do anything meaningful is.
Link to the actual article:

http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/cheating-reddit-auto-votes/
Foursquare agrees with you.
I'm the other way around. 10 years ago I was quite happy configuring every little bit to pieces, spending days to get X11 to work properly with some weird graphics card. Now, I enjoy being able to install the (Linux) OS on a new laptop, and everything Just Works.

I guess I'm just old...
Holy mother of God. Why isn't this person net.famous?

I'm all ready to dismiss her as some kind of kook, except the stuff she's done is impressive. I don't think I've seen anyone else homebrew their own Shortt clock.
Failure is one aspect. But what if there's a bug?

Suppose there's an extreme edge case where a bicyclists fluorescent jacket appears as a road to the car; so the car chases down the cyclist and runs him over. This is not a hardware failure, but an active decision made by the car to cause injury to a person. So in such a situation, who would be responsible? I guess it is a question for technolawyers to decide.
> I has happened that I asked him 3 times in the same email conversation 'did you read X', without him saying 'yes I did' or give any other indication that he read what I said or asked. Or that I tell him 'please make sure you do X or it won't work' and then he emails me back "it doesn't work", where after a couple of mails back/forth it turns out he just didn't do X.

That is normal. Basically 90% of non-nerds, and 50% of nerds, do that a lot. Get used to it. Get over it. You aren't going to be able to only do business with people who think in the same detail-oriented way that you (and I) do.

As annoying as it is, you should not make your decision based on that. What you need to consider is: what does he bring to the table? Can he effectively do something that brings substantial value to the company? If he can pull his weight for making a profit, then it doesn't matter if he's not as smart as you.
Pure business cofounders always seems to me as a wrong choice. MBA guys generally don’t understand what goes into coding; they see tech guys as replaceable robots. I tried so far to work on friends projects or have friends working on my project with no success when the guy is pure MBA; most of the time project won’t event take off.

I will say you are deep in it, you should fight and try to acquire more control and swing things your way.
The EC2 option doesn't include bandwidth or storage. Depending on how you use it, this thing might have faster I/O.
The page started with a gigantic headshot of Assange. That's really not a good way to start, given recent drama...
I guess this could be different just because 'the public' does not accept it to be the same. That may be irrational, but it also is quite natural. We accept traffic deaths more than plane crashes, invest disproportionately in research on some diseases, etc.
I have recently switched from 95% Ubuntu + 5% Vista to 100% Ubuntu. My system is pretty "green" to worry about possible problems. I am looking forward to try upgrading tonight
So are we!
I do not see any point on down-voting this comment
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I don't think sending your users emails should be considered spam. Mailing lists and email upsells can be very lucrative, even if you're not emailing users immediately, an email address is a valuable thing to be leaving on the table.
I don't think Gmail would get shut down since it's a part of Google Apps, a paid service. Unless that turns out to be a burden on the company...
Ultra minimalist is regarding to the ui. But the great drawback is: no tabs - by purpose. The Author don't want to have tabs, otherwise it scribes could be the best oss editor.
I would suggest folk don't upgrade to it.

They are releasing with a beta version of an Nvidia driver that they switched to only this week. I've been running the 10.10 beta since it was announced, and this beta driver black-screens here unfortunately. I have to run an older driver via a manual install from Nvidia for things to work; the Ubuntu team do not provide an option for this.

Even if this problem doesn't affect you, a lot of folk are having 100% cpu issues for some display operations. I can hit this by simply scrolling in a terminal window.

Some machines will also fail to suspend. A hack has been made to grub to help with this, but it might also be necessary to add custom parameters to the grub kernel lines. I'm having to use "acpi_sleep=nonvs" so that suspend works.

In addition, there is a bug that can cause pulseaudio to hit 100% (on one processor, these days) when unpluggging some USB audio devices. Yup, got that one too.

This is the worst release I've experienced on Ubuntu. I've used it since 5.10. This same machine worked flawlessly on 10.04.

I get the impression that they were going to release on 10/10/10 regardless of issues. It would take balls not to release it at this point, but that would be the appropriate thing to do. I don't believe it's ready. We'll see.
Power best unused, for the good of the customers, if no one else. One sincere but difficult conversation can substitute for months of fighting, stress, and legal threats. The ideal break-up, if one can't be avoided, would be to part ways amicably and get back to work.
Especially the snippet mechanism is designed very well. The author really invest a lot of time in the design of the editor-ui
async= works as you would think but extsrc= loads all javascript sequentially which can make total page load times longer. I wrote up a bit about the tests here:

http://bit.ly/aIvHa6
Looking ahead, I fear that insurance premiums would decline, provided that you run anti-virus software on your car at $$$ a month.

Of course, there also will be a government required back door to stop cars that are being used in terrorist attacks.
It's a great idea, http://markup.io/v/36h50c6fcaee, but sadly didn't work on the first page I tried (a blog alicious.com; http://imgur.com/GYpKu.png).

It needs an undo and an erase function IMO.
If you're interested in this, you might also want to look at the JS backends for GHC and Yhc:

http://vir.mskhug.ru/

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/Javascript