skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, in the US it was 500ppm in 2007 (LSD), and by the end of 2010 it will all be ULSD (15ppm sufur) for onroad vehicles. 2014 is when the exemptions for some small offroad vehicles and the like are removed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-low_sulfur_diesel#United_...

Also, soot isn't directly related to sulfur in fuels. It's the suit removing mechanisms in newer diesel vehicles that are ruined by sulfur, so newer vehicles can't run fuel with sulfur in it without incurring a large repair bill. An older diesel vehicle that belches out soot will continue to do so, regardless of sulfur content.
What is persistence and why does it matter?
Would you tell a techie that they can teach themselves to be a business guru for a startup? Each person has their own skills and should use those as best as they can, and work with someone complimentary to assist with the stuff they just aren't good at doing.

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Q&A with Kickstarter creator Perry Chen
She meant that from a human interaction perspective though.

On the other hand, LLC partnership setup here is easy to setup. 100% of company -> distribution to owners (1+). Liability is on CEO and accountant for paperwork. Worst case scenario is owners are liable for the amount of founding capital (minimum is low 3k Euros now, but soon will rise to 40k euros).
I think 13 gallons will get from SF to western Nebraska at 100 mpg. SF to NY is 2900 miles. Oh wait, you jumped to the Volkswagen L1 concept vehicle and its 230mpg.

I don't understand the Smart car. The Honda Fit costs about the same and has 4 seats or a good deal of indoor space. Probably a style thing.

I switched from a 3/4 ton 4 door pickup to a Honda Fit, and am not looking back. I've got more indoor cargo space in the Fit and don't need to bring a book to read while pumping diesel into the truck. (But I can still borrow the truck the once or twice a year when I need it.)
For a web startup, why would you look for an office and employees before having a product?
I think he may just be suggesting forming as an LLC or some other entity that both shields you from liability, and doesn't dissolve when one partner calls it quits.
I've had FlashBlock on for quite some time now, and I haven't noticed any apps mysteriously breaking. So at the moment I'd count that as pro-Flash FUD. (yes, I do use a lot of online apps)
Just did that!

Couldn't find a co-founder so I decided to learn. Took me some weeks but now, after a few months, I'm comfortably with coding and improving where I can. Still need to improve my javascript skills.

Still lots to learn but at least I can put out a decent app in a few weeks time.

Should have done it years ago but I guess it's not too late to learn...
Many sites use Flash to embed fonts as well.
Not in the Valley?  How do you find co-founders?
It's pretty clear that if you are in Silicon Valley and are moderately good about networking there's an "established" (if I may use that word) path to finding co-founders for a startup. If you came out of a school such as Stanford a lot of your search may have actually been "automagic" in the relationships you built while at school.

But, say that you don't live in the Valley. And, say that you are a relatively new Internet entrepreneur in a market like Los Angeles. You are not 20-something, so no school relationships to bank on.

How do you find co-founders for a venture?

Please don't say "move to the Valley"! :)
Disagree 100%.

While it's true there have been people that have been good on both sides of the fence: coding and selling (Bill Gates)

Some people are just not technical people, and are not meant to code because they're just more cut out to sell, market or pitch ideas to people.

One of my good friends is a person who is comfortable socializing with clients, and is a very persuasive salesman, but he is not a coder; never was and never will be.
See the link elsewhere on this page to the slide-out plastic drawer whose only purpose is to carry the rest of the stickers on it. WTF.
Yep, take a look at loggly.com - AFAIK, a bunch of ex-Splunk guys. They're building their system on EC2 + SolrCloud.
A nice middle ground is a whiteboard + a digital camera. That sort of plot list I would draft in a whiteboard, first the global, then the specifics, and later worry about making sense of it in excel or something.
Fixed. It must have been a late night!
The timers are all set differently, we can have 9 seperate auctions going at once and all have different times they end at. Also when someone bids the timers increase. So they are not only all different but all changing constantly. Its not just a single countdown that we could sync.
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It can also be when you went to to a 3rd party wireless store and got them to add a cheap unlimited tetherable data plan that no one knows about and is in the "depreciated/archived" features section.
I'm using S3, EC2 for mostly all test-servers, and some EC2 instances also for production modus (resources were allocated when we need them). But as already mentioned, you have to be aware of the costs - so, I combine AWS with dedicated hosted servers also, because it is still cheaper yet.
The best things within AWS-Services are from my point, that you save CAPEX for your own infrastructure and you're more flexible in scaling (if your architecture supports that). But keep in mind that AWS has some "hidden" costs you should be aware about (charge for requests, own IP-addresses etc..)
This is where "You need Flash to view this. Get it [here]" comes in.

Non-technical users aren't going to manually install Flash if all they're presented with is a blank space. Luckily for Abobe they only need to see the former once.
I'm not sure why a mobile games studio would need a publisher these days. In the bricks-and-mortar games business you go with them for distribution and marketing. (Or an advance, but mobile games are still relatively cheap to develop) I don't see traditional publishers providing much value in those areas for today's smartphone, app store centered marketplace.
First step, move to where the startup founders are. The SF Bay Area is the best.

Second, once there, there are tons of events like you describe! E.g., http://founderdating.com/

If you can't move to the SF Bay area then the next best thing to do is star throwing startup events and invite all the startup people you know (and tell them to do the same).

If there's no network you have to build it. Cisco had to exist before Facebook could, so to speak.
That must be it. It occurred to my after I made a post. Though there are posts often in similar tone posted here: "My cofounder sits while I do all the work", "We went into this 50-50, now he wants more", "I lost the drive for it"... etc.

I know most people here are young and doing startups with their friends, and free advice is worth as much as it costs - but it really doesn't cost you anything if you straighten the terms of partnership/friendship up front, no matter how long you know each other guys. Just do it. It may be awkward, but you won't regret it.
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CMU Researchers Break Speed Barrier In Solving Important Class of Linear Systems
"best" is a very subjective word.

If we're talking about performance, I'd venture to guess it goes something like this:

C > Java > Scala/Clojure> node.js > Python > Ruby

But then there's all of the other tradeoffs, like how error-prone each environment is or how long it will take to code and debug in each language.

Note that Urban Airship recently did some research and found that Java with direct NIO code worked the best for them, not Netty: http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action...
There are a lot of ways. Many of the questions on the YC application are at least partially about this. When and how did the founders meet? What have they worked on together? Even the stock split sometimes tells us a lot.

Yes, we've told groups that we weren't funding them because their friendship didn't seem strong enough to withstand a startup. You'd be surprised some of the meltdowns we've seen in interviews.
Learning to code may suffice for building a prototype, but if your strengths and interests do not lie in coding, you're not going to be that good. You're better off finding money and hiring engineers. I'm not going to design, build, wire, pour concrete, etc for my own house. I would hire specialized contractors to do that.

Coding takes an immense about of focus, mental energy, and perseverance. You have to love solving problems. Sure, you can teach yourself basic if/else statements. But there's a threshold when coding becomes extremely difficult, especially when it comes to complex algorithms and mathematics.
What about Scala and Lift?
Google's not actually as much of a one trick pony as you think, but let's leave that aside. What about Apple? Rocking in every market they are in, except perhaps the appleTV. Who's hotter than Apple right now?
"Criminalizing business will mean that only crooks will want to run businesses."

What an absurd sentiment. We already have corporations that brazenly break laws with the understanding that the penalties they suffer will be less than the profits they take. The motivation behind giving already illegal actions real penalties is to actually prevent said illegal actions, which our current system fails to. Revenge needn't be a consideration. We already have crooks running businesses. By penalizing crooks we might actually give honest business people a fair chance.
Memcached? Only vertically? Horizontal scaling is built-in in all memcached clients.
Why not put an ad on Craigslist looking for testers (for free) and they can email you for a free download code from itunes? A lot of people would try it if they thought they were getting something for nothing.

Alternatively, post free download codes here and you will also probably get a lot of people glad to install the app and poke around.
I'm not saying that it doesn't work. I'm saying that its one of the things about the human condition that needs to be fixed.
I thought my browser didn't load the complete article because I couldn't see your obligatory "thanks to X, Y and Z for reading this"...and I kept scrolling.
Thanks for the great article, btw.
Get an SSD. I never get beachballs, and those are my same specs.
Disk I/O is about the only thing that chokes up on my MB now.
Firefox 4 edges out Chrome in SunSpider test
I don't follow iOS news that much, but does anyone know how Apple picks the demo games that are installed on the iPads at the Apple store?

My significant other bought Angry Birds after trying it out at the Apple store. I'm wondering if being added to the display iPads are a cause or an effect of the game's popularity.
I thought pg's comment on "naughtiness" was interesting, as I was tempted to use a shorter version of the story I'll relate below in response to the "hacked" question, as it was a very recent experience. I ultimately shied away from using it as my answer, as I thought it might be a little socially unacceptable ("naughty").

At Startup School, there was a line of several hundred people waiting for lunch, which consisted of a dozen or so different kinds of pizza stacked in piles of 7-10 boxes each. We had a group of 3-4 people, looked at the line, and someone said, "This line is ridiculous. How can we hack this system?" Someone suggested going somewhere else on campus to eat, but we wanted to stay and mingle. Someone else in the group knew people farther up in the line, and suggested skipping ahead in the line. Ultimately, I simply squeezed through near the front of the line, grabbed a whole box of pizza, and took it back for our group to share.

This kept our group from further clogging the line and seemed much more efficient than 3-4 of us waiting to select our 1-2 pieces each. Hopefully no hungry Startup School attendees were upset by our line hackery, as we thought it was a pretty win-win hack.
Now there's a bubble bursting attitude! When one stock seems to be excessively overrated... it's really that all the other stocks are underrated.

I like the cut of your jib, my friend.
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That might just be your computer (or Vista?). On my netbook, on Win7, none of that happens. The only thing I noticed was a slight delay when the Start menu closed and I saw an empty desktop for a split-second before the Computer window Aero'd into existence. The filling of the window was also slightly asynchronous. No progress bar, cursor change, or icon flicker though.
Oh well, you built your own framework. That changes everything!
Some flash blocking plugins automatically allow flash applets that are very small (which are often used for sockets, etc).
I'm not able to scroll. No scroll bar appears, page-down and page-up don't work. chromium-7.0.517.41 on linux. Anyone else have this problem? Am I missing something?
One website developer who asked not to be named said that during a busy hour, his site might max out with the new limits....Each time a visitor searches for a product, the site queries Amazon using the Product Advertising API for that information.

Isn't it bad practice to make an API call for every page view? It would be better to make one API call and cache the results locally for a set interval (e.g. 5 minutes). The pricing data is not likely to change very much in 5 minutes or even an hour, and for a busy site (apparently his site occasionally makes 2000+ requests to Amazon per hour) it would reduce the number of API calls dramatically. For example, if users do 10,000 searches in an hour for 100 distinct products, instead of doing 10,000 API calls, he could just do 1200 (12 calls x 100 searches).
What? There are plenty of violent video games on the iPhone/iPad App Store already. There aren't, say, rape simulations... but Steam wouldn't carry those either.
Please present proof of future employment with your application.
CMake (or perhaps Scons, but I have no experience with that) might be useful for you. Although going through the motions of writing build scripts for you build system might not be something you want to endure.

In any case, I used CMake in one shop I worked in and it was nice to have the build files all managed in one place. We were able to manage builds for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Solaris.
yes, I was just saying that we can't wait for replication, when someone places a bid all the others users must have that information immediately.
Are there any great companies in your area? The kind that hire really smart recent college grads? Have any friends that work at a place like that? It's a long shot, but those places can be breeding grounds for the 'quit the cube' type of startup founder.
Am I the only one seeing a possible jv opportunity with Github or a Github like service.

The key to having a good web based UI is the ability to debug, compile, test. If you can set that up, you may be on to something.
I got the Star Wars reference.

I used to live in Albuquerue and I was implying that Roswell was more like Mos Eisley than Albuquerque. Though that's just a personal opinion.
Why is Ruby last? EventMachine should work pretty well for most purposes I think.
If I remember when I get back, I'll try to find the article I read about nano-scaled particles from gasoline combustion (I think it focussed on mutagenic properties and in particular the body's inability to move them out of the lungs versus micron-scale which can be expelled more easily).

But the VOCs definitely not great. Plus, presumably (I'm guessing), the NOxs from high temp lean combustion in modern gasoline engines are an important factor too?
http://github.com/sustainablecode/ringo-evented might be worth a look to get the best of both worlds
I really haven't seen that. Font solutions such as Google Font Directory (http://code.google.com/webfonts), or Typekit (http://typekit.com/) are already better solutions compared to replacing text with flash.
Microsoft has exposed the webbrowser control in "classic" VB and .Net applications for some time now. Before Firefox gained traction, there were several "lightweight" web browsers that took advantage of this (early versions of Maxthon come to mind).

I've actually done this for an app at a previous company. We implemented a "CSR view" on top of the existing website so the CSR could look at the customer site right from within the app.
Why do you use AJAX to update countdown?

Using AJAX for this would give you MUCH less accuracy than plain-old JavaScript with time delta of user time to server time:

If you just need to time sync - you could receive server time once (remembering user time, when you sent request for server time), then just compensate user time with that value.

In PSEUDO-JavaScript (client-side):

// do this once:
var user_time = (new Date()).getTime();
ajax.call('/server-time-in-sec-since-epoch',
callback:
delta_time = recvd_server_time - user_time;
)

// then at any given second real server time is:
var current_server_time = (new Date()).getTime() + delta_time;
// no need for ajax calls

For more accuracy you should divide delta_time by 2 (since it's round-trip).
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Oops, fixed; thanks.
> They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter.

or more accurately, "not the rules we think matter".
changing from Chargify or any other recurring payment service to another provider shouldn't be too hard, considering all your customer data should be stored in your Payment Gateway(Authorize.Net, Braintree, etc.).

Changing your gateway however would probably cause significant difficulties though.
Do you mostly care about groups sticking together long enough to get to profitability? Or are you also concerned about the founders having the same mindset?
I thought VMs didn't qualify for PCI compliance unless you had the physical hardware the VM runs on.
Running back comment is somewhat amusing, if only because a recent article on ESPN said that Chris Johnson's total yardage is down because he's always aiming for the HR, thus lowering his average yardage, trying to find and create space that aren't available.

I guess sometimes you got to take what they give you, but for YC they aim only for the HR, so it's not that relevant.
Correct. ClickToFlash's default (AFAIK) setting is to allow 1x1 and 0x0 flash items to load in the background. At least, that's how I think it operates.

I block everything, and press command-control-f when a site doesn't work properly.
The reason it has to continually sync is that any user could place a bid at any moment. This makes the timer increase and top bidder change, so every user must be notified of the change. Its asking the server for how much time is left in each auction not what time it is in the real world. Sorry for the confusion.
Is there a meaningful difference between friends who decide to do a startup together versus folks who decide to do a startup together and then become friends? The highest profile successes seem to be more an instance of the latter, but then success seems to help smooth any differences of opinion.
Doesn't that 5,057 include "other professional degrees"? Further, are these only from accredited schools? Both could greatly reduce the effect of this particular statistic. That said, it is always disheartening to be reminded of the poor folks who likely shelled out tons of money only to find there were no jobs on the other end.
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Dependencies.
You want to toggle image loading (opera's original killer feature), that uses the wibble library witch needs the flooble dll.
So you get a message telling you a new flooble library is available everytime you start to browse.

The plugins generally don't need a restart - but under windows the default for installer examples is to restart and the guy that did the flooble binary packaging didn't bother to change it.
In my experience* , PEGs are really good for basic parsing (from basics to a few steps beyond advanced Perl regex hackery), but aren't really a complete substitute for other formal parsing methods. Having separate lexing and parsing phases can make things cleaner, because the grammar no longer has to keep track of purely lexical details like whitespace. PEGs are simple and easy to build interactively, though, so they occupy a very useful middle ground. I'm surprised they aren't more popular.

* I haven't used Treetop or PEG.js, but I've done a lot with Lua's LPEG (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html), which is based on the same formalism.
"Facebook For Cats does sound like a great idea. You should implement it, and we'll split the profits 50-50. I know lots of people who love cats, and I can really reach out to them (I own a cat myself)."
Jail Time is a nice rallying call, but his real point is that the incentives are perverse for the leaders of corporations. Jail time may or may not realign incentives. I doubt it would --we need much a deeper, systemic overhaul to really realign the incentives of corporations and society at large.
This article, and many (not all) of the comments here, are really missing an important point: that if you don't view a bachelor's degree as vocational training, but rather as the education proper to any free person---i.e. the liberal arts ideal---then you would expect a lot of people with at least bachelor's degrees working in fields that don't, on surface, "require" them.

The idea of college (=university) students having a specialisation (a "major" area of study) is not by any means a new one, but the idea that this tightly corresponds to one's career and serves as a sort of vocational training program, that's pretty new. Schooling of that nature used to be found primarily in apprenticeships and vocational schools.
Stop looking for a qualified medical professional to treat your illness, just pick up a couple of books!

Really, I don't want to discourage anyone from learning, but suggesting that you can learn enough to launch a startup is kind of like deciding that you can do web design because you've used Word. Some people will be able to pick it up in a month, and some will never learn to write decent code.

There's a reason people pay me to sit and stab buttons on a keyboard.
Haystack for Django is a really nice way to integrate with these systems. You can use lucene, solr, or whoosh as backends for your search.
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Employees to build the product perhaps?

Do things in whatever order you'd like, but I have a hard time believing that time spent learning to program, starting from zero, is an effective use of an entrepreneur's time.
Two questions:

1) What is best for my business?

The answer may well mean sticking with a flawed technology that nonetheless is serving the business well. Remember there is still lots of COBOL chugging away.

2) What is best for me?

If it's my business, but I'm sick of PHP and would like to switch to Ruby, Lisp, Haskell, whatever, it might be better to sell the business and start a new one based on the new language, rather than risk a rewrite. Isn't that part of the freedom being a founder was supposed to buy?
Microsoft readies browser-based Windows store for PC games
If you wanted to be that accurate, you could prepend "I think" to every statement in every essay written. That's implicit, except in proofs.
I wish Apple would stop with these games and just do what's best for the consumer. Unless you can explain why it made sense to include Flash last week and it doesn't today.

OTOH it would make sense to move Flash to the OS X App Store when that is released, so that Adobe could manage their own updates. We'll see if that is an option, and it would be nice if Apple had waited until the App Store existed. Instead Adobe will need to have its own updater for Flash, right when Apple is coming out with a centralized update system. How dumb is that?