skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks all for this fruitful discussion, making this a top story on hackernews. Europe is very different to the US, we wanted to create an secure environment to help geeks to start their own companies. Compared to the US, in europe investment in super early tech is very rare.

Please judge us by our output, we are committed to create with HackFwd a new way of starting tech companies in europe.

Please check out our companies: http://hackfwd.com/companies
or see who is involved: http://hackfwd.com/map
Or take a look at our investment contract: http://bit.ly/hfcontract
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Read this: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/a-new-twist-on-data-driven-...

If that gets you psyched, drop me a line. Sorry, no remote work.
This[0] says that it is not currently possible.

0: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Barnes-and-Nobl...
First time founders that are considering funding should be more concerned about the people involved, the terms, and the impact on operations than the specific amount of equity.

Edit: for clarification, care about equity, sure, but whether you're giving away 10%, 20%, 30% of your company is much less important in the beginning than the other things I mention.
To be honest asking "But we don't have the budget or skills to do that, how would we overcome that?" doesn't sound that bad to me - at least it is suggesting that there could be a solution.

We Scots call the technique of appearing ignorant the "daft laddie" approach - something I like to employ a lot (probably because I'm half daft myself). Ask the questions, imply that you are the stupid one for not understanding stuff.... Of course, this is a lot easier if you are in a relatively senior position and suspected of not actually being completely daft - but it's a lot better than being an insufferable know it all.
Good list! In addition a follow up post about lessons learned from the launch would be interesting as well.

It's interesting that Drupal is being used for the startup. Drupal is used on a lot of sites but I don't normally hear much about it in startups. This was something even mentioned at a Drupal conference I attended a couple of weeks back.
A reasonable way to get the best of both worlds is to mirror WP content as static files on a webserver, keeping all of Wordpress --- all of it --- behind a firewall. Most of WP, besides search and commenting, is amenable to scraping.
Even if this is the case, the percentage of people who would buy such a device just to tinker with it is going to be relatively small, at least if the product becomes reasonably successful. Take into account that this is Hacker News and we're a bit biased here.
If the same amount of overall work is getting done, that shouldn't matter. At any rate, these wakeups will be when chrome is idle in the background, so I doubt it will be using more than one whole CPU.
If anyone stepped up to handle it, it was McAfee and Norton/Symantec. And they really didn't do a very good job.

Really, the sysadmins of the world were doing most of the heavy lifting.
I use smarty, and making the template logic readable sometimes leaves extra newlines and whitespace. You can wrap {strip}{/strip} tags around it to remove it though. This is what I use to get all code in a single line as on http://www.dealspyer.com
or a completely identical infoblock - anonymity of the crowd
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IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips
A sense of misfit between TDD and J
There's "handling", and then there's "vampirism".
This is a silly argument.

Comcast is charging its customers for access to a nebulous (but commonly-understood) entity called "The Internet". If their pricing model doesn't anticipate that users would want to access bits that exist outside of Comcast's own network (and therefore originate from someone who doesn't pay Comcast), well, it's a wonder they're still in business!
US Smartphones: Apple #1, RIM #2, Android closing fast
I personally wonder how heavily the Groupon brand affects the way Google is thinking about this.

The Groupon model is reproducible, esp. by Google, who has an army of sales reps. But the brand isn't, and I can't help but think Google wants badly to keep it out of someone else's hands.

There will be a lot of money to be made through the Groupon model for a long time to come, and I can understand Google hating the idea of fighting for brand recognition against Groupon should it get in the hands of Microsoft or Yahoo.

I'm guessing, of course, but the Groupon brand is f###ing golden.
Getting delivered is your biggest concern. If you end up in a bad IP range, or a large email site (ie its automated systems) figure you might be spam, people won't see your mail.

This can be as simple as a minority of your email recipients hitting "Mark as Spam" in their webmail client to make your stuff go away.

I've worked someplace where this was handled inhouse. You need to keep an eye on the various blacklisting systems out there, consider making sure you conform to the latest "emails that don't have this are probably spam" trends, and set up "feedback loops" with major mail providers like Hotmail and GMail. The purpose of the feedback loop is essentially to have your system automatically unsubscribe people who indicate that they don't want your mail any more, even if they do so with the "This is Spam" button instead of unsubscribing properly.

I might need to send mail soon and I'm considering doing it with a provider like MailChimp (who have a poorly advertised API for sending individual mails, rather than bulk mails) or postmarkapp.com
> I say: does a CD reproduce when a human copies it?

If CDs somehow found their way to my burner and caused themselves to be copied, I'd be inclined to say yes.
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China breaks ground on futuristic supercomputer complex
I don't want to defend RIM, because I don't know anything about the lawsuit (other than it's likely to be a software patent for something relatively obvious).

But I don't see this as significantly more evil than "just removing them from the store". A lawsuit shows that RIM has a serious grievance (whether justified or not) and moves to settle the matter of competition through an official legal framework (whether flawed or not).

Unilaterally removing an application from app markets that are "open to all developers unless we say they're not" for competitive reasons strikes me as more evil in some ways. We are just a lot more used to it because of Apple's app store.
Hey, I'm the blog author. You're right -- I'm just so used to using cURL for more complicated requests that the simpler solution skipped my mind. I'll update.
The thing about Panopticlick is that the two most "accurately" identifying methods aren't stable fingerprints. As soon as you install an update to one of your plugins (the constant Adobe updates come to mind), your fingerprint is altered. Similar with the font list; programs seem to be installing new fonts on my system all the time, which makes that fingerprint unstable as well.
What is your professor advising you on, specifically? I'm curious because the computer science profs I know would not have the first clue about running a startup. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
See also: http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Perfection-Making-Peace-Overachie...

To be fair, Cooper Laurence did a little more to enrage the Internet Justice Machine, but on the other hand she didn't threaten to sue anybody.
There's nothing illegal about age discrimination when choosing a cofounder, just as there isn't when choosing a friend.
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FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report, Backs 'Do Not Track' Mechanism
Kafka: A distributed pub/sub messaging system from LinkedIn
This article drives me up a wall.

"The choices then are these--work within the stereotypes or be careful in situations to not activate gender stereotypes."

Really? Those are the only choices? Wow. Forget about changing attitudes or anything like that, I guess. It's like the Y-chromosome-exclusive version of "publish or perish."

And notice how it's incumbent on women to figure out what to do. Men shouldn't worry their pretty little heads about it. It's just too much to ask for men to maybe examine their biases, conscious or unconscious.
:) I've got that one solved too! http://imgur.com/DO5SQ.png
Wild Pockets 3D Browser Game Engine Now Open Source
Goose goo
And then Chrome tries to render some complex Canvas or SVG and grinds to a halt.
For the server itself or for permanant storage ?
Social Travel Website Launches: Finds Out WHO Will Be At Your Vacation
wow, thats pretty funny, its almost exactly what we do for http://www.saturdaylotteryresults.co.uk... funny that
Ginzametrics has a relatively high percentage of customers in Japan and I run the company from Silicon Valley. But I also spent 2.5 years in Tokyo making connections and building relationships.

Without that time spent, selling into the Japanese market with no local presence or understanding of how things work there would be exceedingly difficult.
Women want Apple's iPhone, men prefer Google Android, Nielsen finds
Not sure how challenging this is compared to those other, but http://projecteuler.net/ has 300+ problems with varying difficulty.
Yes, that must be exactly what I'm saying; the only other alternative would be that a 4-year education in computer science followed by a 2-year business school degree is the only authentically valid way to commence a career in software development. Right?
Idea for startup: create a market for reselling IP addresses? IPv4 Exchange :)
They don't under any circumstances WANT a cross-platform BBM.

BBM is the one killer-app keeping people using blackberries due to the network effect.

The only reason I still have a blackberry is because friends and family in far off countries also have them, and vice-versa - we cna talk to each other freely and easily on the run. BBM is really good at this.
We would all have to switch to something new, and just as reliable, at the same time to make jumping platforms viable.

As soon as there is something that works as well as BBM that's cross platform, lots of people will jump ship as soon as they are able, as long as they can reach their BBM friends (who will eventually jump ship too)
I agree with you, but trying to see it from BB's perspective: they make money from selling devices, that require BB services to do push.

Push email is now a commodity, via push IMAP, push Exchange, COMET webmail, and a bucketload of other apps.

BBM is one of the last things unique to BB. Of course it will inevitably be commoditized, but BB will try and delay this as long as possible using whatever tactics it can.

If you can get a nicer quality smartphone that does instant messaging, and push email, why would you want a BB with a poor quality web browser and a paltry few shitty quality apps?
My primary objection is that they seem to be focused on acquisition of nascent talent and ideas in an attempt to corner the market on potential startup developers without a clear plan about what to do with them. The amount of money and perks going out to everyone involved both lessens the pressure to succeed and suggests a focus on acquisition instead of development. Of course everyone's there to make money and successful ventures support others but it seems like advisors are filling the roles of VC partners without appropriate remuneration and founders are being treated like employees. I don't like the value relationships all around, it doesn't seem like they help build successful companies, just cherry pick ideas and products in exchange for a salary. That doesn't seem good for the European tech economy or those who would otherwise become real founders on their own. It seems like they're trying to do an even earlier stage acquisition than companies like google have moved into, but without offering the future google does. Again, it might work there, but it's not something I'd want to be a part of or what I'd like to see long term in Europe. If it's a stopgap measure to keep talent there and in a few years a stronger community exists to help startups develop, then that's great.
i can't find the word "circuit" on the page... help?
Kik would have been affordable too. It didn't seem like they were monetizing Kik in any particular way for the time being.
Say I bought $400k worth of stock options in $MY_COMPANY in a highly leveraged bet which requires me to make monthly margin payments (which may or may not depend on interest rates). Note that $MY_COMPANY is a highly illiquid stock - unlike GOOG or MS, I'll be hard pressed to sell $400k shares of it quickly except at a huge discount. I had enough liquid cash to make margin calls for 1 year, even if I lost my job. Also, the terms of my contract with my broker impose significant financial penalties on me if I change my address.

(Notice how virtually all my investments are now strongly correlated with each other? My investment, revenue stream, and ability to make margin calls will all tank simultaneously?)

Would you also describe me as making "completely responsible decisions"?

Replace $MY_COMPANY's share price with some variable describing the local economy, and you've just described a mortgage. Buying a house is a really bad investment strategy for most people. The only exception is if your goal is to lock in a fixed rent on a fixed address for 30 years into the future.
24ways has been around since 2005, so I'm assuming this is inspired by. It's an interesting curatorial technique, and I'm happy to see it used elsewhere.
Not only is this a brilliant marketing tool for Freckle, it is also generous to freelancers and those interested in becoming freelancers. Well done!
If anyone's still wondering what a Mac App Store app might look like, I'd say this is a pretty good candidate.
RubyMine 3.0 Released
AOL acquires another one - Email Prioritization App Unblab
Chart.io (YCS10) is building something like these as a service. If you're interested in getting on the private beta email me at dave@chart.io.

http://chart.io
Will the angles invest pre-seed/seed money? Will they invest in teams not in France?
This person has obviously not tried the better specialized torrent sites like what.cd. When browsing through the Queen discography at what the other day I realized it is far better then what iTunes offers me.
Releases sorted by catalog number, 24/96 lossless FLAC vinyl rips, you name it. Run the files through MP3Tag with the Discogs "plugin" installed and you've got flawless metadata in seconds.
I think the most important point there is that the European start-up environment is just simply very different that the U.S. that's something I don't totally understand being a U.S. citizen and not having traveled much in Europe but makes complete sense in looking at the difference in structures.
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Kafka: A distributed pub/sub messaging system from LinkedIn
Kafka is aimed at providing a publish-subscribe solution that can handle all activity stream data and processing on a consumer-scale web site. This kind of activity (page views, searches, and other user actions) are a key ingredient in many of the social feature on the modern web. This data is typically handled by "logging" and ad hoc log aggregation solutions due to the throughput requirements. This kind of ad hoc solution is a viable solution to providing logging data to an offline analysis system like Hadoop, but is very limiting for building real-time processing. Kafka aims to unify offline and online processing by providing a mechanism for parallel load into Hadoop as well as the ability to partition real-time consumption over a cluster of machines.
Hi all, I'm the founder of the first UK company to be invited onto HackFWD and speaking for myself and my two co-founders I can safely say we're absolutely delighted to be on board. Since our first contact with David, the "Talent Geek" we've been treated absolutely fantastically and have been humbled by the level of support received. The join process was very straight forward, fast and informal, which allowed us to remain entirely focussed on developing our product without the worry of jumping through hoops X Factor style.

Reading the comments here and previous comments from other articles, it seems that most people consider 27% equity to be too large a chunk to give away. Of course everyone will have different opinions on this, but our reaction was positive. We felt that the larger equity stake would encourage the investor to really support our growth, rather than looking for a quick flip in a few months time. We're working hard to build a really awesome product here with long term goals and so the opportunity to have 12 months of support from some of the most respected tech people this side of the Atlantic was a no brainer.

Had we not taken the investment and continued to bootstrap, our project may never have gotten off the ground - juggling client work which always took priority made it almost impossible to get any focus. Our logic implied that 73% of a multi million pound company supported by hugely experienced technology and business strategists was a whole lot better than 100% of a half baked idea and ongoing client hassle. Now, we're entirely focussed on building something awesome and that feels great every day.

To be honest, I think that the people who come on here talking about the money, aren't really true entrepreneurs anyway. I know I'm one, and I know for sure that money is way down on my priority list. We just want to build something awesome and HackFWD is giving us a wonderful opportunity to do that.

In my opinion, anyone with a great startup idea and a passion to match should definitely start hunting down HackFWD referrers and I say that with absolute sincerity.
Does anyone know if HackFwd is planning on working with Israeli startups? From the looks of their site, it seems they don't currently have any Israeli operations.
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fwiw, i cant go to "seqcentral.com" without my browser throwing a fit (ssl cert error).
A better premise for the article would be that tolerance of failure is an enabler in Silicon Vally and that intolerance of failure is debilitating elsewhere.
Based on my actual salary? Why not just a fixed amount for everyone?
Seems unfair to those who have already reduced their income to a minimum to get started.
BBM is the key of BB existence for regular/most BB users outside Enterprise. Without BBM, BB is probably crippled.
At college, we were already talking about "the cloud" in 1990. That's a long time before AWS was even a twinkle in anyone's eye.
Really, really good book on this subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project:_Coloniz...

http://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy-E...

The book does a nice job of capturing all the hard engineering problems. His proposed solutions are interesting but a bit superficial.
No, they have been assigned to RIRs, not ISPs.

The RIRs have their own pools that they can assign to new ISPs.
Thanks! I plan on doing a follow up a couple of weeks after launch.

I am also not sure why Drupal isn't more used for startups - it's a powerful way to build a site. I can see that some startups want to build a lot of custom technology, but I didn't find anything Drupal couldn't do without a little tweaking in modules/themes. It also reduced my time to completion and test by a significant amount - not having to deal with a lot of the functionality most sites need anyway.
Really? I can see a good use case for the ones that are described at Panopticlick.

Things like http_accept, plugin details and fonts are necessary if you want to use the capabilities of the client - you need to know what they have.
The time zone, screen size and (to a certain extent) user-agent let you customise the content you serve in an appropriate way.

Providing it "optionally" doesn't seem like a solution. If you were prompted every time then most people would turn it on anyway, and any ad network site would obviously ask for everything that it could possible get.
I downvoted. I knew the context. I also know the community here.

On HN, I downvote that comment.

On Reddit, I leave it alone or perhaps upvote it.

On Slashdot, I probably make the joke myself if I'm the first one to get to it.

I appreciate HN's "no class clowns" tone, as I can (and do) easily get my fill of that elsewhere.
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In general, if completely normal events will cause you to lose money an investment, it's probably not a good idea to sink your life savings into it.

Make up reasonable numbers and apply the Kelly Criterion to evaluate whether buying call options on a home is reasonable. Wikipedia even gives you code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
Internet Routing - Trouble Ahead?
Possibly because that would tell Wikileaks what they thought was sensitive.
I hate it on mac solely because of the font, non anti aliased fonts look plain offensive on a mac.

chrome: http://i.min.us/idxbzo.png
firebug: http://i.min.us/idx95s.png
I was thinking about this last night. We should start an HNideas site. Similar layout to HN, add in some areas for suggestions, maybe a button to try and form a team. It wouldn't be too hard. Maybe I'll do that tonight...
I wonder how this deals with corporate PCs.

We have dozens of desktops running identically imaged copies of Windows/browser/plugins and all behind a single NATed IP. I imagine that they'd all look the same to one of these systems.

If they start serving up adverts then perhaps I'll start seeing ads targeted at something one of my co-workers has been searching for. That could get interesting!
Lazy Surveys Enable A Lazy Press
New HTTP POST DDoS Attack Tools Released
It's awesome seeing Rob Kolstad as the US coach. Some of remember him sponsoring the Junior Programming League for high school Plato accounts at the University of IL in the early mid-80s.
Verizon to launch new high-speed service on Sunday
What does it mean to "thicken up" an article?
I am so starving. http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-am-so-starving-vs-i-am-so...

We get it, flying is frustrating. Sometimes you have to wait four hours in an airport. Sometimes, the airlines don't treat you like the important person you are convinced you are. Write your rant, and delete it. Just don't publish it under the color of "advice", it makes you look like a whiney little kid.
At some stores I've been given a receipt with a code on it that I can use for giving customer feedback. Plus, there's an incentive of entering a contest if you give them feedback.

Seems like the right sort of solution to me.

Random example: http://mfisurvey.marketforce.com/raisingcanes/