skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Preventative medicine is much, much cheaper"

I question that assertion. Source?

Note that it is not sufficient to merely say "if you have condition X, it's better to have caught it early", because that ignores (a) the cost of testing all the people who don't have condition X for that condition and (b) the cost when widespread testing leads to false positives which cause one to think the patient has condition X leading to treatment which produces needless expense, disability and/or death.

Every time you take your car in for an inspection the mechanic is likely to find things that are wrong and need fixing; ditto for taking your body in for a check-up. But on the margin, medicine is just about as likely to make you less healthy as more healthy, so being prescribed more of it is not a clear win. (see the Rand study, MRFIT, and so on)
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Coupon site Groupon rejects multi-billion dollar Google buy-out
What kinds of real work applications could/will something like this be used for?
I wonder how hard it would be to get a server in a 2nd or 3rd world country.
This is good, but these kinds of deals are almost always more of a gimmick than anything else. If I work 36 hours and volunteer 4 hours, chances are I'll probably still be given 40 hours of work rather than 36.
Yeah, though support is pretty limited though and worst of all, the axis are not standard and so there needs to be branches for basically every sensor/computer configuration to ensure Y+ is up and X+ is right. Coming from iOS land it's exciting until you realize it's going to be tricky to do widespread. Here's to hoping it improves soon though!
It's not that I don't think your points are valid (except for 2 which is easily fixed through CSS). But I can't see the time taken by writing a few good tracing functions or waiting for a compile to finish coming anywhere near the amount of time it takes to develop for several different platforms.
This has been discussed several times on hn and quora, and I have tried to get friends to take advantage of it. Of course, I am not a lawyer, nor is this legal advice.

1) this is a super loophole for founders. In a new entity, which costs $250 and 1h to set up yourself online, invest $100 to buy your founders shares. Hold for 5 years, sell for $10mm, save $3mm in taxes.

For an entity with multiple founders, I would spend more and get real legal paperwork done, but for a one man corp at an early stage, just be competent.

2) vc investments are not going to benefit, but angel and friends and family can. Biggest issue is no easy way to do convertible debt, but if you want a priced round, go for it. I wish I had spare cash to invest!

3) I see no reason you can't form multiple entities in parallel, as long as they meet active trading requirements. I incorporated several side projects, which probably won't generate more than trivial revenue over the next 5 years as I work on a real startup, but which start the five year holding clock. In five years, or ten, I can take them and try to make real businesses. As five years will have passed, could easily sell whenever. One might also use this for a studio model business, where e.g. each iPad app is a separate corp and may sell independently.

IMO they really didn't think through the consequences of "greater of 10x the basis or $10mm" in the context of founder shares purchased for a trivial amount.

Personally, if you meet the above requirements for an investment, you owe it to yourself to pull any 2011 or 2012 in corps forward to q4 2010. If you feel guilty for avoiding taxes, donate to the program of your choice.
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Reworked by the 37Signals guys.

It fit with what I needed at the time. It gave me some great new ideas and confirmed others I had already been both coming up with on my own and brewing from others around me. I will probably re-read it again soon.
OK, so.

1. If you are the only thing stopping them becoming toxic to engineers, they will eventually, regardless of how hard you fight.
2. You have an obligation to yourself to keep yourself healthy, not this company.
3. THEY DON'T DESERVE YOU.

I can't emphasize the last point enough. If you are the ONLY thing stopping them from self-destructing, they deserve to self-destruct. Your preventing them from turning toxic doesn't change the fact that they are predisposed to toxicity. They're crappy company and they deserve what they get.
I've done this. It isn't really fancy or complicated. It was the first thing I built with Django (My first web app actually!). It isn't done yet, as I still have to add syntax highlighting and better Textile support. Also, I currently add posts using a script instead of a web GUI, so that could be added. Also, I suppose I could add comments, but I just don't care much for them (on the page I mean). Maybe just a link to a Disqus thread...Defiantly do it. It isn't hard, and it is a great learning experience.
Much safer to buy your shares for cash, on top of the ip. In a new c Corp, buy for par or slightly higher. 1mm shares at $0.0001/share. Skip lunch that day. Make sure it is all well documented.
"The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage" by Clifford Stoll was a great read.

The title gives away the premise of the book, but to think - it was all put into motion because of a $0.75 accounting discrepancy.
I'm really looking forward to Rust. D's community seems to be divided over certain issues (according to wikipedia) and I wonder if that division is hampering corporate adoption, meanwhile Go has Google's weight behind it, but its garbage collector has lost the interest of some coders that need to squeeze out as much performance as possible.

While the first thing the Rust team says is "Don't look at the syntax, we're still working on it", the first exposure a programmer has to a language is via the syntax, and I hope that it can be made attractive before Rust gets discounted by many as a good idea but poor execution.

As much as programmers love to declare that they use the best tool for the job, the countless religious wars over languages and editors shows that when they find something they like, they'll stick to it and it becomes entrenched and 20 years later we're still using C++ because there's too much built on it and it's too expensive to switch. In today's age of TL;DR let's hope that Rust can become attractive enough that people can appreciate what a modern systems language can bring to the table in safety and comfortability.
They seem to have omitted Erlang. Awesome, freely available book on the subject:

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
hey Peter,

Mail this guy: monte@corp.moniker.com

His full name is Monte Cahn, he's only going to be there for another 3 weeks or so so move while you can. (he started Moniker.com).

That should get your stuff sorted out in no time flat, Monte is very serious about preserving the reputation of the company he built, and has been even after selling to oversee.net.

If that does not get you sorted out fast enough to your liking let me know (j@ww.com).
For Mac stuff, since Apple’s Obj-C guide doesn’t deal with Cocoa, what most people work with:

Cocoa Fundamentals Guide: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/C...

Become an Xcoder: http://www.cocoalab.com/BecomeAnXcoder.pdf

Stanford’s iPhone dev class (iTunes video class):
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...

Cocoa Dev Central (Tutorials that predated Scott Stevenson’s book): http://cocoadevcentral.com/

Cocoa Dev: Wiki Site on Cocoa classes, protocols and other junk: http://cocoadev.com/

And, don’t forget everything else apple makes freely available: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/
There's a solution for when data doesn't fit in memory on one box called sharding. Anyway, not trying to make the case that one round trip is worse, but certainly hundreds or thousands can be.
The Alchemist

Heard about it for years, always wrote off as too esoteric but as an entrepreneur it seriously resonated and somehow made it all seem a little more manageable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel)
I know that it happens a lot in seasonal industries like tourism. Especially where there's no other industries. If your state/country has a pretty comprehensive social safety net (like here in Quebec), it's not unheard off.
It looks like this guy don't apply vacuum pressure (the Q&A on their site suggests that you can plug it into a separate vacuum pump). That's pretty key, since the reason to own these things is vacuum distillation.
Unrelated. 83b is only if your stock is restricted/at risk of repurchase/vesting. If it is, 83b it obviously, but that is always the case. 83b just means tax me at time of initial grant vs. on every vest at then current market value. It is not tax relief.
To unkink your neck, hang upside down and pull on your hair or wear a heavy helmet.
It might not actually be that difficult to build some level of speech recognition into the browser.

See http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
Quick way to get started with python? (for php developers)
any tips, tutorials or books to start out strong with python?
"A third of all Americans dying of medical malpractice is simply a fairly bold claim."

Not really because because most people only die after 4 or 5 things go wrong, which means that the causes of death sum to way over 100. E.g. close to 1 in 3 Americans die from drug use, and 7 out of 10 Americans die from chronic illness. But the way it works is that first someone will start smoking (drug use), which then causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (chronic illness), and then they will go to the hospital get MRSA because the doctor didn't wash his hands (iatrogenic death).

In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers there is a whole chapter on planes that is actually very similar, in that usually 4 or 5 small mistakes have to be made to actually cause a crash.
It takes an hour to form a corp online in Delaware.
"Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" By Peter Drucker

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887306152

In Japan the book “What if the Female Manager of a High-School Baseball Team read Drucker’s ‘Management’" (By Iwasaki Natsumi) is incredibly popular. So I decided to read the original Drucker book and see for myself. Drucker's historical perspective by itself is interesting enough to warrant checking this book out. Although the advice is more focused on management in large companies, I think it lays a good foundation for those of us lacking MBAs.
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The Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson was good. It took me about a year (off and on) to finish though. It's historical fiction through the eyes of a computer geek and sci-fi writer.
Yes, everything I have seen makes it apply to founder shares. (or even semi founder employees who buy stock vs options). Of course ianal.
That's pretty ingenious. Though if I were a company offering affiliate links I am not sure I would put up with this process. I imagine the majority of customers are already committed to buying from a specific company and just want to check if any coupons exist.
It hasn't been a great year for books for me. Lots of things I found entertaining enough, nothing really stands out. Pinned down, I'd say _Game Change_, which I expected to hate (the story is getting very stale) but turned out to read like a West Wing season put to paper.

I'm trying to read more fiction and am cruising this thread for ideas. Downthread, someone suggested _Into Thin Air_ as being startup-relevant (in an entrepreneurial, building something amazing up from nothing sense), and I added _Kitchen Confidential_ to that pile. Both are nonfiction. What are some good fiction titles that resonate the same way?
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It's a tie between Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan and Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.

Naked Economics was a brilliant overview of economics in that it explains all the concepts behind economics without being utterly boring (like all the other texts I've attempted to read) and has real life examples for each and every thing. Lots of revelations of how incentives work together and / or clash at times to create important results.

Predictably Irrational was a mind-changing book in that it questioned the notion that rational self interest is embedded in everyone. All the statements are backed up with either previous research or at least ad lib experiments, and I love that. None of that handwaving bullshit that I usually see in popular science (and especially psych) books.
Thanks, Jacques. Moniker's Twitter agent has told me they have escalated this case but it can't hurt to just give him a heads up!

(Luckily, I'm not baying for blood, I just want them to clear this up so both I and others won't get caught out by this undocumented policy again.)
Why so short? Politics. Note that there was an election during the September 27 to 31 December period. They started working on this back in mid summer.

The idea is to create a burst of activity this year. It would then be fully attributable to the current congress.
In the scene ~10 years ago a lot of people talked about crunch being a creepy old guy who hung out at raves hitting on young guys who were high. He would offer backrubs, massages and 'energy transfers'.

I only ever saw him at a single conference, but the general word was that he was a very creepy guy.
Work Hard Be Nice. It helped me understand how tough it is to bring about change at the grassroots level and why one needs to make a lifelong commitment to such causes.
http://www.amazon.com/Work-Hard-Be-Nice-Promising/dp/1565125...
Sorry you had to go through that nuisance. Can I make one suggestion with regards to business processes? You currently appear to have domain renewals done shortly in advance of need, with manual scheduling. This is a source of risk. There are a lot of failure modes there, including "my registrar fubars the renewal", and many of them have unpleasant consequences.

Domain names are cheap and abandonment is infrequent and unlikely to save much money, for most people on HN. So renew them early, for long terms. For your business or blog or other domain which will be a going concern for the foreseeable future, go renew it for ten years. If your business gets sold to Amazon tomorrow, oh well, that cost you only $60 ~ $80 or so.

I own a small stable of domains (a few dozen) and keep most of them on rolling two year registrations, with my main ones (product sites, my blog, etc) on rolling five year registrations. I renew all of them yearly. This way, screwups by myself, my bank, Paypal, or GoDaddy probably won't deprive me of use of my property.
Update: people are offering suggestions of how to work around the problems I brought up. My point isn't that the problems are insurmountable, only that it adds (often unnecessary) complexity and opportunities for inconsistency to the system, and the suggested solutions certainly help to illustrate that.

Is's also easy to look at this from an individualist perspective and thin "well, I won't screw that up" and maybe you're right. But what about every single developer in your organization? Are they all going to consider the complexities involved in this system? Are they even guaranteed to be aware of them?
Sorry but: I yawned. I can't even think of anything more constructive to see.
It's a typo. I think they're referring to Twitter.
Can you be more specific ? I've been a moniker customer for many years now and have a fairly large number of domains under my control, between myself and related companies about 50,000 of them or so, not a single complaint to date except for two minor technical issues which were dealt with quite fast.
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Auto-renew and put two credit cards in the system, that should be enough to keep your stuff safe. Moniker is actually very good at making sure you do not lose your domains, that's their main claim to fame.
All of the governments who have reason to be pissed at Wikileaks enough to want to watch the lawyers are also smart enough to use watchers who would not be so easily spotted.

The people they think they spotted (if they are indeed watching them) are probably investigative reporters.

The obvious thing to do is to go out and ask them "why are you watching me?" and see what they say.
I liked both of these books --- "The Big Short" maybe a little more than "Too Big To Fail", because Lewis is just crazy!good about pacing and character development --- but had serious concerns about how accurate/unbiased they were. Particularly Sorkin's book, which I've heard negative things about.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through _All The Devils Are Here_ by Joe Nocera and feel like it's doing a brilliant job of addressing the shortcomings for Sorkin's book, which I felt maybe sacrificed some accuracy for the sake of building an enjoyable narrative. _Devils_ also has an interesting structure, different than the others; it's a catalog of sketches of the different people/forces/companies that went into the mess, so you get a chapter on the guy who started Ameriquest, and a chapter on Fannie's struggles against the Bush administration, and a chapter on how Goldman's IPO and Merrill's cultural mismatch to trading culture caused them to screw up the market. It's great reading.
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I just caught the new 60 Minutes segment by accident. I think I saw the whole thing. It's always fascinating to listen to Zuckerberg. Having said that the segment as a whole was pretty superficial and came off more as a promo for Facebook's new format rolling out tomorrow.
As said YMMV. I already had a wife when I started using Twitter. If I hadn't I might have taken a different approach ;)

On a side not I did meet my wife on the internet, but via a community website that I developed many moons ago, The Virtual Irish Pub!
I heard a story the other day about a paper trying to make it into CHI, a big conference in human-computer interaction. In CS and its subfields, conferences like CHI tend to be more important than journals (or so I've heard). Anyway, the paper was rejected by reviewers, and the rebuttal wasn't enough to make it into the conference.

The paper was stellar, and the author knew it, so he persisted, reasoning that the paper was just too far-reaching for his reviewers. He applied to a portion of the conference called alt.chi, where highly externally reviewed papers can be accepted into the conference, despite being turned down by the review proper. He was able to garner 38 positive named reviews - a shoo-in - and was entered into the conference.

On one hand, this is a great story about how the academic community can build processes that correct for conservative or short-sighted peer review. OTO, though, it's interesting to note that if he hadn't had 38 positive named reviews (or some n less than 38, but considered very strong), he wouldn't have been accepted. This is because, historically, named review is messed up- no one would negatively review his paper and attach his or her name. I can't talk too much about the details of arXiv, but I do know that in a named review system, it's easy to both
a) discourage negative commentary, and
b) discourage younger or less experienced reviewers, who are especially afraid of hurting their reputation against more experienced colleagues.

Don't get me wrong- I do think that more open systems can replace the current peer review- but I also believe that double-blind reviews and sometimes the intervention of an editor are important for a coercion-free process. They also make it easier to cut the information clutter- instead of following individual researchers, I can follow a few peer-reviewed outlets I trust.

EDIT: I guess a big part of my point is that while it doesn't need to be traditional peer review, some of the aspects of traditional peer review process need to be maintained in the community.
What are some of these "smaller" template sites?
Solid cross-browser compliant code. You enjoy hanging out on Quirksmode. Deep understanding of JS and how to make things dance with frameworks like Jquery. Have a solid background with one server-side language (PHP, Ruby, Python etc) and have a lot to show with it. Understand what a HTTP request is. Understand what AJAX really is. Security: Know about SQL injection and CSRF. As a experienced web dev, I think thats a good place to start. There's a lot to know actually, usually takes 3-4 years for someone to even get decent.
Reddit Ranking Algorithms (With Python & Tests)
This how to implemented Reddit ranking algorithms within your site. Iy your website PHP-based, maybe you can port this to PHP (and don't forget to post it to HN)
I think this should be the normal way of doing things. I cringe when I hear about people renewing domain names after they expired. I think the records should be changed prior to the domains expiring so they could hard-expire X years after being registered and people would know exactly when they really need to renew them.

But, of course, since it's not in their TOS, and isn't either the normal way of doing things or stated very loud and clear during the registering process, it's unacceptable.
Dive into Python and Python the Hard Way are both really good books that are available online to read through. Python.org provides some good docs too along with a pretty decent tutorial.

I assume since you're coming from PHP you're going to want to do some web stuff with it. Django has excellent docs and there's DjangoBook.com as well.
Andrew Hodges's biography of Turing, "Enigma", easily. Although "Profiles of the Future" by Arthur Clarke was also surprisingly good.
Good advice. The problem is though, with .io domains yearly prices are at about $70 (if i remember correctly). Renewing for 10 or so years is a pretty significant amount ($700+). Especially if your not sure about the potential of it or just don't have that kind of cash at hand.
It wasn't meant solely as a response to Alex3917, I just thought it might be useful to add something actually from a peer reviewed journal to the discussion :)
An AMD K6 and a Core i7@2.67Ghz are roughly the same size and weight too.
The section of the rule SBJA applicable to most HN people is capital gains exclusion (and AMT pref exclusion) for QSBS, specifically for founder shares.

For going concerns with profits, sure, the other stuff matters (although I think the more liberalized depreciation, and allowing cellphones to be more easily expensed, is the relevant part). Anyone with enough revenue and profits to care probably has an accountant who is going to handle all of this for him, so it isn't as individual decision centric as the capital gains issues.
This is good advice. But.

I agree with the gist of your point. I follow this process with some important domains because most TLDs are cheap. At ~$75-$99 per year (depending on registrar), .io is not cheap and it made no sense to cashflow at the time to throw years on it, especially as I hadn't made my mind up whether to jump to the .com I own before launch (seriously considering this now). That's my lame excuse ;-)

That aside, I'm fastidious with my calendar and delegated my responsibility by marking to renew the domain in late December prior to the expiry date. This is close to the line but still reasonably before it and this issue is something Moniker needs to clear up in its TOS or similar (Moniker even sent frequent e-mails telling me when it expired with no warning of this deactivation date.) Since I've not actually "launched" yet, I'm not baying for blood - just an improvement in their service.
Would you recommend any of his followup books? I'm worried that stories with different characters, time periods etc won't have the same feel.
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I think a $250 corporate formation is an excellent gift for hackers this holiday season!

If grellas or a competent tax attorney would weigh on in this, it would be most appreciated; I'll donate $100 to the charity of your choice for a published writeup of SBJA2010 QSBS and how it applies to founder shares, sort of a howto, before 15 DEC 2010.