skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing that I thought of, is that this relationship is soured so even if you come up with an equitable split you still have the future to contend with. In this situation what I would do personally is take the 40% on the condition that a. I am a silent partner and b. The software ownership remains in my name. I would sign an agreement that says that I cannot use or license to software so long as the (his) company. Is actively in business with no laps in between actively doing business. In the case that he stops doing business you are free to use our license your software how you see fit.

This gives you two things, equity for the work you have done with no commitment to work with him further. If he succeeds then it is all good, make sure you have a forced buyout clause, where you can demand that your share be bought out or that you can sell it. If he fails ownership of the software reverts back to you and then you can have a go at it.

The way I see it, that gives you two shots at making it work. Either he succeeds and you get a profit for the work you have done with no further involvement. Or he fails, you get 100% ownership and you get to have a go. Either way, it gets you out of this mess with no involvement with him anymore.
Looking to learn about mechanical keyboards? Video guide.
I don't get why people think it is "OK" if somebody dies at age 80 or older. Yes, it is the course of life. But nobody likes to die - no matter how old (except maybe when suffering from terrible painful illnesses).
>Unfortunately it's impossible to hide the back button from a >web page on webOS. There are a number of limitations of the >platform that are impossible to work around.

i was talking about the back button at the top-left location .. that is an iPhone only feature (webos uses the back-gesture while android has the hardware-back-button).
i'm looking forward to test jquery mobile together with phonegap on webOS.
I have type 1 diabetes. Insulin wasn't medically available until 1922.

Middle-class and alive, or rich and dead? Easy choice to make.
>you missed just a small detail

No, I did not. The existence of two sexes is only because of sexual reproduction. If organisms did not have sexual reproduction, and only reproduced asexually, there would not be two sexes. If something like two sexes arose in a species (i.e. one that is good at math and one that was good at cooking), it would speciate, because each "sex" would just keep changing individually; evolution is a chaotic process. Sexes only exist where there is sexual reproduction. The question of why two sexes exist is absolutely about why sexual reproduction exists; two sexes exist BECAUSE sexual reproduction exists, and sexual reproduction exists BECAUSE it confers some evolutionary advantage.

In fact, your confusion about this connection actually illustrates why you argument is wrong. IF it were possible for a species to evolve to be "strong" AND division of skills produced produced "strength" THEN you would expect to see asexual species with "sexes." But you don't.

>thank you. That clearly settles our discussion why women haven't been successful

You made a completely fallacious argument as some sort of absurd appeal to the naturalistic as evidence of your claim. Showing that the claim is blatantly false repudiates that claim, so it's relevant to our discussion. I'm honestly flabbergasted that you would say something like "I'm right because it's natural" when you clearly have a extremely poor understanding of nature.

>her mother demonstrated a level of rationality no man can even dream to achieve

Apparently your version of rational discourse is to respond to a claim that repudiates your claim (women were, in fact, actively discouraged from doing math) by insulting women.

I rest my case.
First off, why limit yourself to only publishing electronically? You'll have a much larger audience if you offer paperback.

A few other options:

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/books.aspx

http://publishing.booklocker.com/

http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com/pubit_app/bn?t=pi_reg_home

Or for amazon, email digitalrights@amazon.com or one of the several how-tos. This might be outdated:
http://patdoyle.com/internetbusiness/publish-an-ebook-in-ama...

Then drum up more sales in facebook, posting info and links in forums and mailing lists, etc.
1. just flipping great

2. this is a dead link Developing jQuery Mobile form
http://forum.jquery.com/developing-jquery-mobile

3. did not see a link to download the demo files

4. did I saw awesome!
If you spent 20 seconds to figure out who you're accusing here you would realize how dumb suggesting Thomas is the other co-founder is.
Great Webkit Comparison Table

http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html
And, of course, with the free PDFCreator virtual printer on Windows, or the PDF generation builtins on Linux and OS X, there's no reason you can't use PDF from any app...

Not to mention that PDF generation was probably added to word as a response to OO's capability.
It's like an AI Koan: "One day a student came to Moon and said, 'I understand how to avoid using BIGNUMs! We will simply use floats!' Moon struck the student with a stick. The student was enlightened."

Better would be ... Moon then struck the student 100000000000000000-10-1000000000000000000+10 times. The student was enlightened
France Strikes Over Increasing Retirement Age: The Meta-Economics of Success
WikiLeaks funding blocked after blacklisting
Zed Shaw recently made a nice free book for those with zero programming experience:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

That's not a path, but a start.
I'll talk to the guy who actually tested them when he wakes up, but from what I understand network speeds were terrible. I'll get back to you when I know :-)
"not sure why Android doesn't already have that"

Patents?
I'm sorry, I should have typed "thirty divided by four," which is what I actually said, instead of 30/4, but I was lazy. And yes, math is absolutely not about calculating. I was supporting the previous poster's point that they suck at calculating, and that math and calculating are very different things. I hate math. I am completely comfortable with calculating. WTF with the downvotes.
While I commend any sort of philanthropy, I have always had a certain amount of repulsion for the type that ruthlessness exploits the people that help him stay at the top. While jet setting around the world to save the the next village that is in vogue. While it is noble to help people it has always stunk of hypocrisy and giving in public for popularity. I always like when a story highlights a man that takes care of his own as those are people he is directly responsible for. Thanks for digging that up.
The XIX Commonwealth Games
1) If you use up all those savings and things don't work out and you have to go back to getting a regular job, would you feel good or bad about having done the whole thing? If good, go for it.
What does this have to do with an iPad again?
Right, probably misdirected government aid.
2. Fixed! Thanks for the catch :)
3. Good point - for now you can grab a download from Github:
http://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/archives/master

That'll have everything in it - including the demos.
Ah, gotchya - yeah, that's totally a reasonable thing to assume. We'll work on that! And thanks for the testing.
Are there privacy settings available?
Probably because you don't get many donations by espousing capitalism in your guiding principles.

But mush of their work uses capitalist principles, which you can see if you look at some of their programs: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/global-development/Pages/over...
True monopolies are often the side effect of regulation, telecom not being an exception. Big companies lobby for regulation to create a steeper barrier to entry for start-ups, effectively mitigating competition.
Ask HN: meetup/events in Delhi/Bangalore next two weeks?
After having spent six months at IIT Delhi in 2007, I'm currently back in India for two weeks of part leisure, part work. Bangalore from 2010-10-21 to 2010-10-24, Delhi otherwise.

If anyone's interested in meeting for chai or dinner to discuss hacking, startups, India and Europe, or anything else; or if you know of any interesting events taking place in the next two weeks, please drop me a mail at tkappler@gmail.com.
In New Study, Babies Think A Silvery Robot Is Human, As Long As It Acts Friendly
Yubnub.com came out of one of the first Rails days. It's still around, but I have no idea whether it's a profitable or not.
I don't think this thread is the right spot to give you a suitable reply, but let's just leave it at that I disagree strongly with you.
I'm only asking about e-books, because I think that Lulu offers a decent printing service - and there seem to be some decent alternatives. :)

But I'll be sure to check out your links.
Sure thing: http://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/issue/193
This article is spectacularly devoid of any information that could be reasonable construed as complete with gems like:

If you were to consider outsourcing your web design needs to a company in India, as an example, you should expect no less than the following:

Web designers with at minimum a Bachelor’s and oftentimes a Master’s

Experience working with companies in a variety of fields

The latest software for creating the best designs

The latest knowledge of HTML

A Bachelors or Masters has no effect on success. The latest software has no bearing on success. This is basically just a big sales brochure that provide no meat on how to succeed with an outsourced project. The are no suggestion of how one must project manage it to ensure milestones are met. There is no talk of how to audit the technology to ensure that it is a complete as claimed. In fact there is little to no information on how to make an informed decision on the disadvantages or advantages of outsourcing.
I don't have Macs, I have/had PCs.
Thanks. I'll look into it. Never used gpg-agent before so will have to research.

Sounds like a good blog post on how you set things up if you do maintain a blog somewhere. =D
I've given up on reading jwz. De-css-ing doesn't help and readability only shows the comments.
running more or less smoothly on the android. if jquery and html 5 keep getting better in terms of ux then coding a native iOS or Android app might someday become unnecessary.
A must read before starting the journey.. http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Powerpoint bad. Code good.
IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3
That one has been long abandoned, so sure.
Same. Authentication did not work for me either. Capitalization issue?
You've either shipped or you haven't:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524352
Benoit Mandelbrot (the Father of Fractals) dead at 85
Another example is the way Volvo made their 3 way seatbelt patent available to other manufacturers, and motorists, to benefit from it.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/strapping-success-the-3...
As I understand it, a Facebook profile is anything but simple.
You could host it yourself using a straightforward e-commerce management system and a payment gateway.
Building a Startup is Like Prospecting for Gold
Middle class now. The world is a much more interesting today. Of course, you'll be able to say the same thing about today 100 years from now.
They mourn the loss of the potential of what their lives might have been, not their accomplishments.
I tend to play backgammon online at http://www.gamesgrid.com/

Since my Xbox 360 RROD'd I don't generally get much gaming in. I play a lot on my iphone though as I get more opportunity. Dropzap is an awesome iPhone game and free if I remember correctly.
This is pretty much what I would have said if I'd checked the comments sooner. PHP works well enough for a web language, but if you want to do anything else, its not so great. Python works, IMHO, equally well for web, desktop GUI, shell scripts etc.
Serena has OpenProj it is a Project knock off but has much of the same feature set. I use it to look at project schedules and make modification to MS Project files that project managers send to me. It is not pretty but it does the trick. I am on a Mac as well. I have heard a lot of raving about basecamp but I have never used it so I cannot speak for it.

http://openproj.org/openproj
We mourn babies and children more because they did not get a chance to live a full life - a loss of potential in more formal terms.

People who reach old age have fulfilled all the potential they can realistically expect to, and death is less unexpected (i.e. "everybody dies, you're lucky to have made it this far"). While we still mourn them, we can also celebrate their life and achievements.
The psychological bottleneck is a good point. People aren't well adapted to thinking about large complex issues such as poverty or traffic systems, and are much better adapted to a tribal style of thinking.
Did you try Calibre?
Rich now!
You're going to need to learn more than a programming language. You should really learn how web transactions work, the roles of the browser and web/app servers, browser-side markup and programming, ...etc.

I would recommend that you pick up the book "Using Google App Engine" by Charles Severance. The book teaches the reader how to build applications specifically for the GAE, but it contains very good introductory chapters for the person who is trying to come up to speed quickly on web development technologies.

The early chapters begin with explanations of the mechanics of web transactions. The next chapters deal with HTML and CSS. Another chapter in the progression then provides rudimentary Python programming instruction ( programs in this chapter are executed under a command-prompt ).

After these fundamentals have been covered, the GAE web programming specifics are introduced. At least one of the programs that had been an exercise in the command-prompt-Python chapter is then rewritten as a web application to illustrate some of the differences.

Development for the GAE itself is different than other approaches to web development, but I believe that if you become conversant with the subject matter covered in this book, you could more readily learn other web development technologies.
In this case, the rot had spread from the top. There aren't really any formal organizational remedies for that, beyond changing the regime at the top. Check out the first two pages of the preface to The One-Percent Doctrine (http://books.google.com/books?id=gV3m6sYhnrsC&printsec=f...)

...at an eyeball-to-eyeball intelligence briefing during this urgent Summer,
George W. Bush seems to have made the wrong choice.

He looked hard at the panicked CIA officer.

"All right," he said. "You've covered your ass, now."
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind;

-- John Donne
We built the initial version of Active Interview during last year's rails rumble.
I prefer BZ over most other bug tracking solutions I've seen. It's ugly but that's fixable.
I think a lot of it comes down to SOAP, and related standards, being ambiguous and changing enough over time that even if you follow the standards, it isn't necessarily clear what you can and should do.

Take a look at WS-I, the standard which tells you just how you should implement all of the standards that came before it, if you actually want to talk to other implementations: http://ws-i.org/profiles/BasicProfile-1.2-WGD.html

I first looked at SOAP in 2007. It made more sense to me after I read this: http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-...
I think it's not a good solution unless you are yet pretty "famous".
IMO you should look to Amazon or other service with a well estabilished community you can get advantage of.
Relevant read: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/
Not 100% sure this is the same but it looks plausible:

http://www.mobileparts.com/index.php?page=shop.browse&ca...
99 Out Of 100 Programmers Can’t Program – I Call BS
Stuxnet-world's most dangerous computer virus
This is so very true. When I was young and said 'I'm bored', my mother used to say "There's no such thing as boredom, only boring people."

A hard tactic, but ultimately got me to where I needed to be.
I'm a (former?) big Simcity fan. More recently, my sons have introduced me to Master of Magic and Master of Orion 2. I've played Tiberiun Sun as well. I'm sure there are more games in my future.
http://minecraft.net
Useful hard problems have easy elevator pitches
the attitudes in #1 and #2 are very typical of Microsoft managers
I like this idea!

Btw, might be you should also post to the HN facebook group in order to get more users.
I don't get how Minecraftwiki is serving "more traffic than StackOverflow." I think we have at least twice their daily traffic. All our numbers are on Quantast--feel free to check.
> I did the quick math on a napkin, and realized they were doing far worse as an NGO/charity than they would be to help people as a for-profit business.

You're making the assumption that creating jobs is better than providing access to education. This may be true in the short term, but probably not in the long term if access to education in that area is a problem. I would say that given that investment in education takes years to pay off anyway it is probably a good plan to invest sooner rather than later. However without knowing more about the specific case it's impossible to say either way.

I'm purely speculating on a hypothetical situation here, but from the point of view of the NGO it may make more sense to invest in education. Creating 120 jobs is no doubt a good thing, but if what is needed most in the area is a school, then investing in more jobs is not doing the greatest good. Creating jobs where the workforce is uneducated is not going to improve the standard of living greatly in that area over an extended period of time. Providing the means for the next generation to obtain better jobs or have the education necessary to start their own businesses might. Maybe the NGO is playing the long game?

Also if they make a success of this model, running a cafe to fund a school, and prove that they can make it work then it will probably be easier for them to get access to funds to replicate that success elsewhere. This could easily have longer term benefits than creating a small amount of jobs. Not to mention that this model doesn't have to be replicated by that NGO.
I am stupid, I don't get it: what's special about having a ww.com subdomain? Is there a pun or something in the english language?
As I've said elsewhere, the person who titled this is a silly person, they misrepresented what we said.

Wiki + Forum = 60m page views a month, so combined we serve the same amount of traffic as you, as per this tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/spolsky/status/27244766467

We weren't challenging you or anything, I just noticed that tweet (it was mentioned here) and I thought "hey we're doing the same, we can use them as an example of how big we are!". I'm just a dumb kid who has never had anything he created this successful before and being able to say "We're as big as stackoverflow" is crazy.
A more difficult question - instead of $70k, what if it was $8k. Would you rather be middle class in 1900, or poor now?
If Ruby intrigues you, there's no better place to start than with the Poignant Guide:

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
Prior art is definitely not just a US concept.
TryRuby http://tryruby.org/ and Learn to Program http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ are better places to start.

The Poignant Guide is more entertaining but not the greatest for actually learning the language.
Kudos!

Looks like the performance improvements are aided by the new native methods in the latest browsers. I wonder at what point they will stop supporting older browsers like IE6.

Here is the article on different JavaScript trim methods: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-trim-javascri...
Reflection of a (once) Young Web Entrepreneur
Thanks, Patrick. I found this post immensely helpful, and am looking forward to the video of your lightning talk.

One thing I found intriguing was this: “why pay people so that they can buy objects suggesting social status when you can just award social status directly?”

Do you have examples of this sort of thing? (Other than the one you specifically didn't mention.)
Researchers headed into their studies wanting certain results—and, lo and behold, they were getting them.

<sarcasm> Gee, I'm so shocked.</sarcasm> -- says the lady who is getting well when doctors have said "People like you don't get well".
"accomplished far, far more than you or I ever will"

This is a common snowclone (X is <far superior in some dimension - often intelligence> than you or I) that really bothers me. It's a kind of hero worship that attributes too much to the hero in question and makes unfounded assertions about "you or I".

I can understand that people become enthuisiastic about their heroes and that exaggeration is even a form of showing respect. But too much is no good for anyone.
Ask HN: Security Focused Android Market
I submitted this last night, got a few upvotes but no comments. Am resubmitting in hopes of drawing some more feedback.

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One of the major concerns for one of my iPhone friends who I am trying to convert to Android is the security that comes from the more open platform, and I explained the current security level.

So I began considering the idea of an App market that is heavily security focused. Each app is auto-reviewed by a system which looks for obvious threats to security. Then there would also be paid app-reviewers who go into the code and trace, explore, etc.

App inclusion in the market would be based off submissions by app authors, it would include a questionnaire (like the apple market), as well as an application fee (once per application, no matter number of rejections) etc. This is a clearly defined system, the apps permitted in this market are only "apps" and not "games" and no wallpapers, etc.

Customers would be able to subscribe to it and have access to the reviews, as well as subscribe to reviews by various reviewers.

So - what do you guys think? Is this feasible? Is there a business in this idea?
If you've never programmed before, the effort would be comparable to becoming fluent in another language or becoming proficient with a musical instrument.

When learning programming for the first time, you'll be able to do some basic things pretty quickly, similarly to how you can learn basic phrases/words in another language or learn how to do scales/simple songs with a new instrument. But to get to the point to be able to code any idea you have into reality it takes much more time. As in years, not months.
Sony Ericsson Goes Windows Phone 7, Concept Phone – Dekotex
My advice is: Before you think "how many months/years it will take me to create program X", just dive in for a couple of weeks to basic programming. The information you'll have from this experience will allow you to decide much more wisely whether you want to continue on this path or not.
I'd rather be middle class now, my wife would prefer to be rich 100 years ago (actually, in the 1930s, really). I prefer the mod-cons of today, she prefers the ritzy upscale-ness of back then.