skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Maharashtra(India), laws penalize 'ragging' - a ritualized form of bullying freshmen in the first month of college.

Earlier, ragging led to a few suicides, which in turn prompted the passing of the law. It does occur however; I have been ragged myself. Personally though, it didn't affect me as much as I feared it would.
I think it's either apathy or fear of legal retribution on the part of teachers.
This is a nice piece overall but, having seen founders negotiate their splits countless times over nearly three decades, I would add that such negotiations tend to be more nuanced than equal splits in most cases.

Idea people may not be able to proceed without solid technical people but what they do or don't have to give them for their services is always governed by supply and demand. An exceptional technical person who will drive a company will get an equal split (or more) but someone whose skills can be supplied by a good number of people will likely get far less. Strong technical expertise does tend to be hugely important in a typical startup but is only marketable consistent with what people are willing to pay for it in light of other alternatives.

So too with idea people. Abstract ideas may not have much value but many of the best ideas come from those "in the field," i.e., who have worked extensively in a given area and have special insights about how, e.g., customer pain points can be addressed effectively. Such ideas can be incredibly valuable and they do not necessarily come from technical people. They can come from managers, from sales people, or from a broad variety of sources - even from those with a technical background who later moved into sales or management and who combine their skill set with their experience to derive special insights. When people like that want to found a company, they may lack the particular technical expertise to execute on the project but they will know enough about the industry to know where to find the best candidates to fill such a role. That may result in a 50/50 deal but it could easily result in all sorts of splits, even if one of the roles is prominent enough to be called "technical co-founder."

So, as a technical founder, you should push for as large a split as your personal qualities can command but you should not use any arbitrary formula for determining splits. The rule is and always will be to assess the situation based on the real value each person is contributing and this often leads to a wide range of founder splits that are far from equal yet are perfectly suitable for the persons involved.

That said, this again is a fine piece reminding those with technical skills not to sell themselves short in dealing with business people. There are all sorts of hustlers out there who are more than willing to take advantage of you and, if you do not value yourself properly, you will likely fall victim to them. If people really do have valuable things to contribute, however - whether on the business or on the technical side - then the process is not really that adversarial because smart people will know an opportunity when they see it, whether or not they get equal shares in the venture, and they will usually work these things out in a way that is amicable.
I generally use the aluminum remote to control my Apple TV, and the Remote app on my iPhone to type stuff, because typing is ridiculously tedious with the remote. But I don't need to type all that often, so it's an OK tradeoff. Most of the things I want to do on my ATV don't involve typing.
Mega Hurtz gun-wielding robot has a menacing look, unfortunate name
I think it's important to distinguish between what Amazon books Amazon ought to sell and what books ought to be allowed to be sold.

In the 70s, Abbie Hoffman wrote a book called "Steal this book!" It contains instructions for committing revolutionary acts we would call terrorism today. I went to buy a copy out of nostalgia, and in a stunning act of irony, it was in my bookstore's "American History" section. But at the time it was published, the ideas were radical and heavily disparaged. Should it have been censored? Should it be censored now?

http://www.amazon.com/Steal-This-Book-Abbie-Hoffman/dp/15685...

Likewise, we can find lots of books about smoking and growing Cannabis. Judging by the glee with which the USA incarcerates its citizens for these activities, one would think that Cannabis is considered far, far more dangerous than gunpowder. Should they be censored?

I think we can make judgments about what a business that caters to a broad audience should or shouldn't do. But there's a very difficult freedom of speech issue here. The mere illegality of an activity isn't the litmus test for me, and neither is instructional content.
His account of the 9th grader reminds me of the advice to punch out the toughest looking guy in the room on your first day of prison to establish a reputation of unfuckablewithness.
Ding Dong The Keywords Meta Tag is Finally Dead
Not even slightly controversial here.

I suffered 5 years of bullying at school; and tried everything to get it to stop, without success.

Until one day I just got fed up, walked up to the main tormentor in class and, unprovoked, hit him really hard in the mouth (I think I broke his nose, I'm not sure). Was in weeks of trouble (with the staff) :) but once that was out of the way no one touched me again.

I've never outright recommended this approach to anyone; and indeed it's probably not the right thing to do all the time. But some sort of short-sharp-shock can work just as well (so... barging them to the ground etc.) as long as it is sufficiently hard.
yes and because of the slashdot/hn/reddit traffic the site gets a large boost in inbound links which will up the site ranking thereby increasing search engine visibility. It could just be a total fabrication from the developer that jobs called him though and he might be saying it to get the traffic.
"They found that people were happiest when having sex, exercising or in conversation, and least happy when working, resting or using a home computer."

Camwhores must be very confused people. Well I guess we already knew that.
How important is it to maintain control (during equity division negotiation?)
I am the initial founder of a stealthmode tech start-up. I'm also the business side of the equation... I define the business model and sell the value proposition to stakeholders involved. I make sure the business actually sells something that customers would scale, and do all the marketing, research, pitching etc. My co-founders are two very technical engineers. One is a Google alum, the other is a Facebook alum.

I was speaking to my business mentor earlier and my mentor strongly recommended that I keep 51% and distribute 49%. The reason being that he thinks I need to stay in control, and avoid a situation where the two engineers gang up on me. I believe in collaboration within a start-up to narrow down on an idea, but I also believe one person needs to be in charge. The issue is control of the vision, not greed. How do I protect my control over the company, and what are your thoughts on the appropriate equity division?
I actually saw that video! I thought that was more of a convenient input switcher if you only have one HDMI port rather than the new way Google is transforming your TV experience. I at least expect the same stuff I can watch on my PC, personally.
Subway to Use FaceCash Mobile Payments
I've already conceded that if you know what you're looking for (A&E, House) a keyboard helps. I just don't think that's the primary issue which people have with their TV. 99% of the time I don't need Google on TV - I want reddit and I never use my keyboard on Reddit.
I'd say every situation has an escalating set of responses, and I certainly don't believe that violence is always unacceptable, especially when nonviolent means have failed.

I'd suggest that a large part of why MLK succeeded is because Malcolm X was loudly stating the alternative.

I've never been physically bullied, as I've always been both a dork and an athlete, but I was teased relentlessly early on. My dad's advice was always to ignore, and this just didn't work well enough. That's how I discovered the power of personality - the power to fire back is (sadly) what wins respect of children.

The challenge once you've gained the skill is to reign it in - to be intentional in your response, and to sometimes decide that nonviolence, or silence IS actually the way to go.
But how do we teach kids when the "authority" puts their hands on them?

http://www.boingboing.net/201011111141.jpg
Whatever happened to 'just ignore them'. Personally, I think that's always the best policy (Unless you're in imminent danger).

Also can work well in business. If someone is being a pain, just ignore them and don't give them the publicity they're seeking.
IMO, leaving a caps lock off makes a device more cumbersome to use - particularly for NFL, MLB, and NASCAR fans.

AFIK, most phones offer capslock to improve communications efficiency, but YMMV.
Reminds me, oddly enough, of one of the early sequences in Ender's Game. Ender beats a guy to mush, so that it will never happen again.
I was just going to say, hasn't this been the standard parenting philosophy since we started standing upright?
Calculating the balance between opposing gravitational and inertial forces is yet another reason why evolution is awesome.

Fixed it for you.

edit: Really? Downvotes for promoting evolution? Just because I did it in an amusing way?
Work addicts love work just like alcoholics love alcohol. Make sure you are doing something you love if you're working long and hard, and make sure that family isn't sacrificed.
Low discrepancy and well stratified sampling dots it seems. Halton or Hammersley perhaps?
Helix promotes clinical research and GCP training in Nordic countries
It isn't real love to "talk it out" with them anyway. If it doesn't bless them and yourself it's not love anyway.

Things as they actually are is the only way that they are in truth.

So the teaching that it's loving them is what's false -- not that love itself couldn't help. In this case, it was a kind of love of oneself to fight back and protect oneself.
It doesn't break the law because, generally, it's only illegal to actually commit crimes, or to make concrete plans to commit a crime; it's not illegal to write a book about how to commit a crime.
I would phrase the advice to sound less hair-trigger, but I essentially agree. "Ignore the bully", or "don't fight back" are terrible advice that put the (your) child at risk.

I think where parents get confused is on the individual vs. group distinction. We look at the world, see all the various tribal wars with their counter-attacks and counter-counter-attacks, and erroneously conclude that violence doesn't solve anything.

We're not talking suicide bombs and airstrikes, here. If Alice shoves Billy, and Billy shoves Alice back, there's often no escalation, and no-one else is harmed. The issue is settled, and everyone's still alive and well. This is much better than ongoing bullying.
At it's core, yes. You (and me) are in the wrong place. It's like going to the Apple store and hoping to hear great things about WP7.

I don't want to be snarky, but I'm having a hard time resisting. Two technical co-founders have shuttered a business and moving on to work "hard on a new product which we're super excited about." It's great that you're super excited about it, but wouldn't it even be more exciting if you had a business minded co-founder who could demonstrate the market opportunity, or lack thereof, and make sure the time, energy, and sweat equity you're dumping into this will have some payback?

I do appreciate the use of "'technical cofounder' and not 'developer.'" I think a lot of technical co-founders that also write code have been annoyed to hell by the non-technical business people who don't understand the effort required to realize their big awesome idea.
Why did you find JavaScriptMVC a bit heavy? The Srchr app was 37.8 KB (Gzipped and Compressed). Which is pretty good considering it packages jQuery (24KB) and all of the MVC parts. So JMVC, plus the app only was 13KB.

Further, if you read the article, that is exactly what is happening. It's producing custom search events.

Please re-evaluate JMVC, it's really a bunch of low-level libs that provide just a little more power to jQuery.
The first rule in the "Pedophillia Code of Conduct" book should read:

1. Stay AWAY from Children.

The End.
The author makes the assumption in this relationship that the technical co-founder is a talented hacker who has read all of Paul Graham's essays, maybe a Steve Blank book or two, and is well connected in the startup tech scene, all while the business co-founder is just some marketing shmuck. The characterization is unfair; there are plenty of marketing shmucks, but they should be compared against socially inept code monkeys, not this superstar technical co-founder (say, the kind that read Hacker News).

A great "business person" doesn't just flip open a roledex and start dialing for dollars once the technical co-founder has laid a magical golden software egg.

And hopefully, a technical and non-technical co-founder can find a way to work together where they don't perceive their partner as a parasitic dead-weight.
Could well be. But my Dad never gave me the cliched whispered conversation; "what you need to do son..."

From my observation, every adult knows this is the solution. But not all of them has the balls to tell their kid :)
Very nice, this is quite helpful. Thank you!

I just noticed this on last.fm, you may want to add z-index: 9999; to your "popOver" styles to fix problems where sites give their logos a z-index. Also, I'm missing a close/cancel button. Lastly, adding support for last.fm's format ("Saturday 22 January 2011") would be sweet.
Los Angeles HN Meetup @ Coloft this Saturday
Can you really saying that this is from "scratch" when using substantial prebuilt components? Isn't that like saying, "cookies from scratch using Betty Crocker cookie dough"?
Same here, I was a fat pudgy kid in high school. After being tormented daily from seventh grade onward by a particular group, there was one day the high school quarterback and a few other football players decided to throw water balloons at me in middle of January. Of course, they got me with about six of them, soaked my backpack, and school work.

I. flipped. out.

All I remember was walking very calmly towards the quarterback and punching him in the face repeatedly, he tried to hit me but I grabbed his arm and bent him over backwards and just kept punching until he started bleeding from his eyebrow. His friends pulled me off and then threw me down and started to kick me, but it was broken up. Sure I got suspended, but that group never picked on me again.
Exactly. Seemed like a blog post by Dwight Schrute to me.
Steve blanks blog today mentions in passing that a startup is an entity formed to discover a business model, and a business is one that executes on a business plan.
The browser provides very high level constructs (e.g., the DOM), handling numbers quickly is uninteresting and would be a poor direction for optimization. While I think an appropriate VM could be something interesting, I doubt an appropriate VM in this case would look like the JVM.
I read that critique and think it has a lot more to do with personal dislike than anything else. Tim's schtick is phony? It's bombastic, sure. But phony?
Again, are you joking? Who the hell uses caps lock for just a few letters like that? Maybe you don't know how to type? Are you trying to say that people who can't touch type find caps lock useful while they hunt and peck or something? If you're looking at the keyboard anyway it seems easy to hold shift while you peck with the other hand. Do you realize it's pretty standard for people here to disable their caps lock key and replace it with something else?

Do you realize that adding hardware buttons that duplicate features b/c it's slightly convenient for some small group of people is bad design?
Fantastic :)

(Demo is a bit odd, though — it won’t let me use the backspace key to navigate back, no matter where I click.)
Viacom planning to sell off Rock Band developer Harmonix
The fact that they lap at precisely the right frequency... Darwin's theory is so perfect, and I just figured out how to put in words why it is. feedback.

Feedback really is king.
Smanek, one reason why the failure rate of start-up failure rates are so high is because the founders of the start-up don't have a sustainable business model, or they don't know how to best convey the value proposition to customers and investors. I heard a story about two ladies who sold gift baskets back when it was novel (80s). Initially it was just a hobby, but they turned it into a business because of overwhelming demand. After several years of doing this, working 70 hours week, they looked at their books and realized they were only making 10K profit each per year. Ok? That means they're only making a few bucks an hour. They made a product that people loved, but they didn't make any money.

You need a viable business model if you want your business to succeed.
..., Rohypnol, viagra, duct tape, ...
It's terrible, terrible advice, because it doesn't work with physical violence. I've talked to multiple people who tried this and were bullied mercilessly in response.

Kids (of a certain age) don't know when to stop. They naturally try to establish a pecking order, and woe to whoever's at the bottom.

Note that I'm not saying you should go punch someone who verbally insults you. I'm specifically talking about responding to violence.
I get the feeling that the people that will happily spam advertisers' links for a chance of winning a prize demographic has relatively little overlap with the people interested in avant-garde books on philosophy demographic. I think the advertising model has a decent chance of working - but if I wanted to make money from it I'd aim it at the people that play mafia spam games and fill in "which irritating popstar are you" quizzes.
It's strange how a society supposedly obsessed with safety nonetheless thinks normal to place a child in such an environment, then do everything to prevent them from defending themselves. It's a prison environment, only the inmates did nothing to deserve being there.

The problem could be that kids don't interact much with people outside their age group. They have no reference point of how adults behave. It becomes a sort of Lord of the Flies world.
>> Dvorak could legitimately be described as a professional troll.
Dvorak is notorious for having an overly negative outlook on things.
"Why would I want to use a mouse?"
"I don't like the idea of having the power button on the front instead of the back"
"The iPad will never sell 5,000,000 units in less than a year.. that's insane"
A friend just had this happen at his consulting company:

"Discrediting an employee's current company - Black hat recruiters will contact an employed potential candidate and tell them that their current company is in a precarious financial state and offer to find the employee another job. Black hat recruiters will even do this to employees of their own clients."

He let one of his employees go and they went to a recruiter to find a new job. Next thing you know, everyone at the company was getting called by him saying they were in financial trouble and that he could find them work.

A few days later he calls my friend up and says "I know you've been losing a few employees, I think I have some good candidates if you're hiring."

From my dealings with recruiters, this is almost standard practice.
Are you willing to try to solve non technical problems by yourself?

You know, researching the market to assure you're actually building something people will want to use, finding paying customers or advertisers, dealing with investors, finding decent PR people, recruiting etc... nothing too fancy.
Cool, thanks for letting me know. I've heard similar things before and I'm trying to make it a mantra.
Talk to Cliff Click (or sift through his blog http://www.azulsystems.com/blogs/cliff) and he will quickly disabuse you of the notion that having bytecode instructions in a processor is a good idea. For optimal performance you want a generic RISC-type processor with good hardware performance for critical things like read-barriers that the bytecode might require; you really don't want to design a processor that directly executes Java bytecode.

There's a whole hell of a lot of optimization that gets done in the JIT layer besides just translating bytecode to machine code, and you want all that stuff to get done in software rather than trying to build it into your processor. Once you've done all that stuff, emitting actual assembly code isn't really the hard part, so you might as well just design a processor that you can make fast, give it a simple general-purpose instruction set, target that instruction set in your JIT, and then add a few special goodies as you need them for things that are really, really hard to do fast without specialized hardware support.
I cant take your comment seriously.

I cannot, in any way, equate the sexual interest/abuse of children with freedom of speech in an form.

While there are acts one can take against a government/system which one perceives to be oppressive, they cannot parallel sexual interest in children.

Typically [citation needed] pedophilia is a symptom of having been sexually abused as a child.

Regardless of your stance on free speech, this truly is a tragic and disgusting behavior which should not be tolerated. At the same time - it should not be ignored, and all efforts to eradicate and prosecute it should be upheld.

In the same way, say, forcing a child to smoke cannabis would be as abhorrent. Sure, you choosing to smoke it shouldn't affect anyone - but you forcing that desire upon on whom you (as an adult) should be protecting is unacceptable in all instances.

[EDIT: incomplete thoughts.]
Get Notified When Someone Mentions You on Twitter
True... recognizing a good technical co-founder is half the battle
The one thing that I don't understand is how people are willing to be paid in equity. Do you people not have to pay rent? Are you living in your parents basements with someone feeding you?

Hint: savings.
JooJoo is no more, Fusion Garage to keep on trucking
Yes.

A bit less snarky: a good measure of a technical co-founder is him trying to solve the business problems himself. For the same reasons I cited above.
Agreed. My next question is: why are our _schools_ comparable to prisons in this way? Is it really such an inescapable facet of human nature?

Why can't we change the culture of school such that, at least while you're actually _in_ school, you're focused on being the smartest person you can be and not looking over your shoulder?
btw, a good technical cofounder isn't "just" a good programmer (or even a great one)... actually, he doesn't even have to be the best programmer on the team
I was! But unfortunately I have not had a Mac since 2000 or so. I should really commandeer my brother's laptop next time he's in town. Maybe over the holidays.
You can't use the logos of any NFL team without their consent. Stats are fine...logos are not.
Why we should love Hipsters
As someone who used to be somewhat of a bully, I think this is the best advice. Bullies pick on smaller kids because they're insecure about themselves and bullying a smaller kid is... well, easy. If a smaller kid makes it difficult for bullies to pick on them (by fighting back), the bully will most likely stop (and move on to another victim).
The emphasis should be on "until he puts his hand on you". He's asserting that violence is an appropriate response to violence. If a boy has a reputation for defending himself ferociously, boys will tend to shy away from bullying him. However, I think to be effective in some cases, the boy has to prove that he is willing to go to self-destructive lengths to fight back.
Automated Penetration Testing?