skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Give them tiny percentages that are only worth a lot if the company is a big success.

Is it possible to get good people who have other options for 1/4th what they could regularly get plus what amounts to a few grand worth of equity?

It doesn't seem like a very good deal for the employee, really. (seems like a fine deal for me if I could pull it off... but I'd laugh at you if you made me that offer. Sure, pay me market rate plus some tiny bit of equity, that's fine... but if you expect me to work for peanuts, I expect serious equity.)

edit: thanks for engaging with me on this; It's good to hear another perspective, I mean, mine is likely wrong. But I think that I might be trying to apply equity rules that make sense for "get big or die" businesses to a lifestyle business that only needs to double a few more times.
Only bad news for corporations like Google that want to benefit as much as possible from Java while giving little back in return.

They get the Java name and popularity, but they don't pay any licensing costs because they don't license JavaME and instead try to create their own implementation.

In my opinion, Google is both morally and legally in the wrong in this situation and trying to salvage it by playing the part of the open-source-friendly corporation. The fact that they publish open-source code doesn't get them a free pass. They knew what they were doing.
> I knew no way to stop the bullying so naturally I focused my frustration on my poor little sister. I made her cry a lot. I tortured animals. Anything weaker than me received my wrath. And all this time my father was thinking I was a bad naughty boy who should have learned some manners.

You probably also know why bullies did that to you. Never met one bully who hasn't some shit going on home.
Pretty interesting to see an early look at facebook HQ in palo alto. Mark used a quite a lot of "so's" in the interview. Seems like the "other things" he talks about besides just being a college directory has worked out pretty well.

Quick question to HN users that are more informed. at this timeline who was funding facebook?
I recommend you start a side project of your own and learn by doing. start small, maybe some extra tools for your blog or a simple widget you've been wanting for your desktop. python is a good intro language, you'll find it useful for a wide variety of projects and can go lower level for your next language
On campus, you'll find that tons of people know python. Use this to your advantage.
They didn't just try and create their own implementation, they did it. And then released it under a very liberal open source license.

And you call that "giving back little in return"?

I think if they want to go do stuff like that, it's their own business - it's not a trivial amount of work, and if that's what it takes to get around someone's licensing that they find distasteful, well, so be it.

Reimplementing something is not 'morally wrong' in the slightest, in my opinion, as long as you're not out and out stealing code. We would have no Linux or BSD if those people hadn't redone "Unix".
Written October 1977
at 4:00, when asked what comes after expanding facebook to all colleges, zuck replies "well, i mean, there doesn't necessarily have to be more."
Like Golems
And e/2 Appears from Nowhere (Follow up to 'And e Appears from Nowhere')
Assuming he didn't have a disability not recognized by the welfare system (living with a recognized disability presumably grants similar opportunities to being old), if he was 45 years old he would have probably found a (perhaps menial) job.
Text editor preference seems to be as personal (and perhaps, perverse) as religion or sexual preference.

Last Monday I got the chance to ask (even though I'd read it before) James Gosling (the Father of Java, wrote first Emacs-y editor for Unix) if he still uses emacs, at least sometimes. The answer was: No. He uses NetBeans. Seems he writes no more lisp, having worked through his lifetime's quota of parentheses while working on his Ph.D [sic].
To not be a parasite on society. Unless you seriously believe that morality has no value?
The Inform 7 IDE is pretty sweet, albeit specifically for the development of text adventures in Inform 7.

http://inform7.com/learn/movies/

Click 'build', and it compiles the game, produces a map of the locations in the game, indexes all the items in the game, and the rules and behaviors you've specified, etc.
C# as a language and .NET as a platform both seem pretty powerful but there's no way in hell I'd build anything non-trivial on a Microsoft stack. I don't have anything new to add to the argument but I'm just not comfortable with the degree of faith people like Miguel seem willing to put in MS and some of his more recent defenses of them in particular just sound like denial

I'll take the JVM with all its warts and Scala or Clojure over C# no matter how nice it is.
Microsoft proposes Public Health Model to fight malware infections
Many traders nervous about Japanese intervention
Fifty people paid to hear Obama in handling of the economic crisis
Is this all done in HTML5?
could you elaborate on #7?
We had 40/40/20 - which wasn't too bad (indeed, I made the call as to who the CEO would be - the "business" guy with the 20%). Unfortunately this turned to be absolutely the right thing to do in the short/medium term but a disaster in the long term.
It's usually apps along the lines of "Born in July!" and "Names Starting with S" and "All Sagittarius Chicas!" and the like.
Journalists typically don't "get" percentages, so they just throw them around and hope it's correct.

Other examples:

"Crime rate drops with 8%!" ... compared to what and when?

"Inflation now 2% higher" ... does that mean inflation went from 1% to 1.02% or to 3%?

The mere notion that you can express change of a metric (expressed as percentage), as a percentage would probably destroy the average journalist's brain.
Can you tell me which version you're using? I'm also not seeing any problems (in version 6), but I'd like to figure out what's happening for you.
http://domainsite.com is my go-to for many ccTLDs.
I believe jrockway is referring to AUTOLOAD in Perl (ie. its equivalent of Ruby's method_missing).

ref: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Autoloading
Same - I have been using the joker + easydns combo for as long as I can remember with both my own projects and client projects. Across all of that usage I have never had a problem.
You could deal with "someone needs to be able to have the last word" without changing the shares of equity. The split of voting rights doesn't have to be the same as the split of financial ownership.
I bought a domain from gandi.net recently and was very impressed with its ease of use and the speed that changes occurred. All I wanted to do was point the domain at a linode instance and everything was live within minutes. Very fast propagation. Early days, but impressed so far.
Personally I prefer Godaddy. The interface needs some work but I have found that by using them I get really low propagation delays. Their service is pretty flexible facilitating stuff like privacy and configuring your domains to host their own nameservers.
http://eloquentjavascript.net/Eloquent%20JavaScript.zip

(sorry)
Thanks for the promotion. Made my morning.
Developers, Designers: Make an Infoproduct
Try Scratch! http://scratch.mit.edu/

Saw a great demonstration of this system at JAOO this year, by John Maloney of the MIT Media Lab :) [http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2010/speaker/John+Maloney]. Dan Ingalls and Rob Pike were in the audience.

The whole system really looks very nice and well thought out. Wish I had Scratch to learn with when I was young, instead of puttering around with Turbo C++ 3.0. Few "real", "man-size" programming languages/environments are so coherent.

If you want to be productive soon, try Scala. Martin Odersky (the creator) is a brilliant, level headed guy who is committed to keeping this language pragmatic. It's complex, but just like C++, you don't have to inhale the whole thing in one go to get things done :) So don't worry about all the people with blogs who denounce Scala for complexity.
I also think it's because Steve Jobs thinks about that kind of stuff all the time. It's something he's genuinely interested in.

If you ask me a difficult and deep question about a topic I think about all the time, I'll probably come up with a nice and concise answer.

I really think a good CEO is someone envisioning the future all the time. That's what makes the difference. Once you know where you should go, execution comes naturally.
Right, but unfortunately bullying is a part of life and learning how to deal with it is an important life skill. How will you teach your children to deal with this kind of aggressive confrontation? School isn't just about academic education, it's about social education, I'm genuinely curious how you can achieve this in a home school setting
Exporting Civilization V replays as HTML using Canvas
I've found http://domainmonster.com good value, full-featured and reliable.
Good example would be XML/HTML builder. For eg in Ruby http://builder.rubyforge.org/

require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'builder'

builder = Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:target=>STDOUT, :indent=>2)
builder.person { |b| b.name("Jim"); b.phone("555-1234") }

# Prints:
# <person>
# <name>Jim</name>
# <phone>555-1234</phone>
# </person>

Also see this recent HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626018
Rate my startup: http://WatchTh.is is a site for movie lovers
WatchThis is a website that will help you watch good movies.

http://watchth.is/

Track the movies you want to see.
Share your love for movies.
Interact with other movie lovers.
Show off your profile.

--

For now, WatchThis is a students project (I work on it with KevinBongart), but we'd love it if it became more than that, of course. We both live in Paris, France.

Here's the problem we're trying to fix. We all have a virtually unlimited access to thousands of movies online, and yet we're all watching a lot of crap. A lot of us have seen Transformers 2, and a lot of us still haven't see The Godfather!

We want to help people to easily track the movies they want to watch (a to-watch list), and share their thoughts about the ones they saw.
On top of that, we recently launched better user profiles (with favorite movies) and the ability to follow users with an activity feed.

We're keeping things very simple. We do not plan on adding a way to rate movies (we think it would discourage comments) or a recommendation engine (at least in the near future); we want people to break their habits, not recommend movies they, in a way, already know.
What do you guys think? Any advice?
I have long preferred http://namecheap.com for the usual TLDs and (somewhat more recently) http://domainsite.com for many ccTLDs. I very recently transferred an important domain from http://joker.com after inadvertently discovering that an account could be accessed from a machine that I had not previously used to log in. (I copied the session ID and I was on the same network but it was enough to convince me to make the switch.)
It was actually an analysis completely devoid of emotion and with little opinion: I would see it as prima facie true that the statements made in the article are unsubstantiated by anything other than speculation. Moreover, I specifically did not give a critique of Atlas Shrugged because there are a veritable deluge of them in the HN archives.

Here's a discussion if you're interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041751.

I should have thought any discussion about money... is indeed relevant here.

No... I would think it would be trivially obvious why this is not the case.

Atlas Shrugged is Fisher Price philosophy (I'm a philosophy minor). We don't even see it worth discussing simply because the biggest assumptions in her arguments are placed as axioms.
Little off topic but the art on the walls was painted by David Choe: http://www.davidchoe.com
Problem is I stopped using Delicious years ago.

That sounds like a personal problem! More seriously, there are several extensions that provide in-browser interfaces and local storage for bookmarking services.

For the hardcore bookmarker, there are even a desktop apps - the ones I know of for OS X are Delibar and Pukka.

Personally, I don't find the browser integration extensions terribly useful. In the case of Firefox, the Bookmark Manager is probably slower than using just about any bookmarking service. It's certainly slower and clunkier than pinboard.

Firefox's Live Bookmarks can also be used to give you a local menu of bookmarks if you point it at the RSS feed of a bookmarking service. I think there are extensions that let you do that in Chrome and Safari as well.
This reminds me a bit of high frequency trading. He is fast, thrives on market inefficiencies and is somewhat frowned upon.
Marijn, thanks for writing this. I'm a big fan - I recommend it to my friends looking to learn JavaScript.
Maybe we should talk about this again when you are 60.
I did not notice any part of the story where he was offered a well paying job, or even any job. Did I read a different story?
I have signed up for some tweet backup service. Unfortunately I forgot which one :-(

It's not a good solution.
To do that, you need to be a registrar. It's not without a good deal of bureaucracy and pain. See http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/accreditation-process.htm
Yeah - I still get a little thrill whenever I type a command and the tape library arm whirrs into moton :-)
Can you prove this using induction?
I always had my suspicions about those machines they show on "House," where a vial of serum or blood is popped into the machine and out comes a printed checklist of tests run and positive or negative results.

It seems very doubtful that something like a rapid ELISA test for HIV can be done within a machine, in combination with many other tests.
Honestly, I only joined to get a "Hacker News" tag on Facebook. Is that how Facebook works? Meaning can other people now see that I am on Hacker News (or rather, a member of the group)?

Also, maybe someone wants to send freelance work my way and contact me via Facebook :-)
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Focus, focus, focus, THEN expand out.

What amazing progress - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlQQ_Kcz53I&NR
Buzzwords! 2.0!
pg perhaps you should contact easydns and hookup an affiliation/discount code for yc co's. The CEO is Mark Jeftovic (markjr @ their domain) and he is a good guy.
I asked a similar question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1638003

PG basically said yes (ie, theere are 2/36 in current batch and 3/26 in previous batch)
Although both my wife and I went to state schools we sent our son to a private school and it is pretty clear to me that the biggest advantage is the social education - which is probably why there is such an emphasis on team sports (particularly rugby).

Even though it is a very well run school there is bullying - there is always bullying of some kind in just about every environment (especially workplaces). As far as I am concerned the only way to deal with it is to recognize that the problem is endemic and teach everyone how to deal with it - the approach I told my son was "if anyone bullies you, punch them as hard as you can on the end of their nose - I'll back you up 100% if this causes a problem".
If the only reason for not doing something is that it is "unprofessional", then that is not a good enough reason in itself.

There are many good reasons why something "unprofessional" should not be done, but there will be specific details for that.

Quick dirty hacks are often why the software industry is great. If you can fix something quickly that can save your business you're a hero.

If you obstinately refuse to fix a problem _only_ because doing so would be unprofessional, at the expense of your product, your business, your colleagues jobs, you're an idiot.
I agree with feral's reply: I think you have never actually tried to use Aikido in a real hand-to-hand combat situation, let alone with the intent to prevent harm. I'll tell you what will happen: you will get your ass kicked spectacularly, because actually applying those techniques in the wild is incredibly hard and it gets much harder after the first punch that connected with your nose.

If you are going the way of fighting, the advise is simple: keep the fight as short as possible, by eliminating the opponents ability to fight on the first possible occasion. In one situation, a square hit in the face may remove all their resolve to continue fighting. In another situation, you may need to do serious damage. Whatever the situation: don't dance around and do what is required to prevent yourself from getting hurt.

(Luckily I've never been in an actual fight, but I regularly insist my jiu-jitsu training partners behave like they would in a real fight for a bit, instead of cooperating with the exercise. That always puts my ability to actually fight in a humbling perspective. What I learn from that is what you will hear others say: keep it simple (complex techniques fail much more often), hurt them as soon as possible (pain distracts people immensely) and keep it short (the longer the fight takes, the more chance for you to make a mistake, for him to grab a weapon, for someone to join in, etc.). A hard punch on the nose is the best start of any fight.)
There are quirks here and there; I use mono through unity3d, so that informs the things I notice. Specifically interop with unmanaged DLLs is: well, more guesswork than I would like. For instance, Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi (function that creates a .NET string from an unmanaged char* pointer) expects UTF-8 data; best of luck deducing that from the name of the function or the documentation.
If your influx of new contracts is stable enough, why not rent a cheap office, get said other person as an employee and work together at the same place?
Berkeley Bionics eLegs, prosthetics makes paraplegics walk press conf 10.30 PST
please flag this posting. Not something we need here, it belongs to reddit.
Is the problem with starting free that you get people used to the idea that this is not a service you pay for?

Freemium (get a small service for free, pay for a better one) is one thing but this is "this used to be free, now it's not". At the very least that jars.

I think the real issue is that the likes of ChromeSync make the longevity of this business model very questionable.

Joel Spolsky once described this sort of thing as grabbing nickels from the path of an on-coming steamroller - you're making money out of something that the product should or will inevitably do as a standard feature. Yes there is money there for a while but inevitably the steamroller is going to flatten you.
Huh... what's freelancing? Oh.. working for other people's companies? Why do that?
Had the bully not been hurt...not only would he have beat the kids ass but he would have continued to bully the kid - that I have no doubt in my mind.

I have doubt. When I was in school I was bullied by a couple of kids, and one day I just said fuck it and got into a fight, and lost. A couple of days later, more bullying, new fight, lost again. There may have been a third fight, I don't really recall, but even though I never actually won a fight, just being willing to put up a fight was apparently enough to make that particular bully leave me alone. Bullying is rarely something personal and if there is someone easier to bully most bullies will take the path of least resistance.
stick with python, you're starting off in a great direction.

the best thing is to come up with an idea for a web application and start trying to build it. that'll help you formulate the questions that'll lead you to the online resources you need.

you can also pick an existing web site to make a simple copy of.

or pick an open source project to dive into and try to understand (e.g. an online forum or blog app)
NameCheap.com is my favorite 'retail' registrar. Their owner goes above and beyond to resolve things. He also is an expert about domains and the quality of their interface and features reflects it.

If you're registering 100+ then Fabulous.com is the best registrar around (though they only deal in com/net/org/info).
http://c4ss.org/content/1201*

My argument is that in the absence of a strong government, various warlords and the like will attempt to seize power for themselves. So thank you for supporting it.

Again, if you want to get into an intellectual wanking session about how nice it would be if we lived in a world where absolutely no one attempted to use violence or seize power over other people, I'll kindly provide Somalia as empirical evidence that we live in a very different world and turn my attentions to the question of how a society of actual human beings* can function, and hopefully can function better than it currently does.

Now you're moving toward a more interesting argument. We see how humans behave but how much of that is because of our nature and how much is because of the environment we grow up in?

Yes, and? How exactly do we get those environments? Co-recursively, of course--the environment influences human behavior and human behavior influences the environment. In general that's the kind of system that, hopefully, reaches a steady state at some point. Empirically we've observed two--primitivism and governed civilization. Anarchic civilization doesn't seem to be an option. (I'm actually fairly open to considerations of primitivism, which is likely as anarchic as humans can get.)

I'm assuming you dismiss it after working it out in your own head without consulting the existing body of knowledge on the subject, and it sounds like you just confirmed that my assumption was completely correct.

On the contrary--I'm considering the actual knowledge fairly thoroughly. I'm also considering as much of the theory as I can (and I'm more familiar with it than you realize), but most of that theory is fundamentally useless as it lacks any empirical knowledge at all.

It's the height of arrogance to confuse any political theory with knowledge. Anarchist theory has certain assumptions of how an anarchic civilization would function, and if you're talking to fellow anarchists you can both take that answer as a given and operate from that basis, but that doesn't mean a damned thing, because it's not knowledge, it's a shared assumption based on non-empirical reasoning which fundamentally does not and cannot provide a rationally convincing answer at all.

And that is ultimately the fundamental flaw of anarchism--we live in a world with plenty of societies that function fairly well, with plenty of empirical evidence of how different social structures work out in practice, and yet anarchists want to throw all of that away in favor of a completely untested system just because of some ideological opposition to government and private property.
"...it will let you get away with certain things..."

...like reading what she just typed in? Yes. Python will let her "get away" with reading her code. ;-)

Here's a link to the Beginners Guide to Python...

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
Clicky http://watchth.is/
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There is something called the TOVA test, Test Of Variance of Attention, or something like that.

It's like a very boring 10 minute video game. You click a button when a certain stimulus is presented on screen, but not when a different stimulus is presented. It measures your reaction times and your errors (click when you shouldn't, don't click when you should). Then the program does some statistical comparisons and prints out a report.

At least, that's what was done in 1993. Could be different now.

Combine that with a history. I imagine it's a lot easier to diagnose in adults, because so much more data is available. And the doctor doesn't have the pressure of diagnosing ADHD for a little kid whose parents are worried he'll get less out of school. As an adult, that damage is already done. ;^)