skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that is all you guys are getting, start your own company or expect to earn cash doing consulting.

Just do the math, if you get 0.3% if a company, then they do two or three more round devaluing you, you're at 0.1% at best. How much does the company have to sell for you to see a windfall which is more than 1x your annual salary? a LOT. They basically have to public.

Being a second or third tier hire is a bad place to be. Not enough salary to make it worth it, not enough stock to have a windfall (unless you do ipo which isn't happening a lot right now), and huge hours as if you were a co-founder / first employee.
Don't ask employees to be passionate about the company
"The most momentous product of Stallman's genius, Linux, was the first operating system to feature software that was entirely free."

I believe this is not entirely accurate - I seem to remember someone else being involved in creating linux...
That I don't worry about as much. By the time we've figured out immortality, we should have cures for fatigue and neurological illnesses such as depression, which can be treated as small subproblems of mortality. Whereas curiosity will have to still exist in order for us to develop and maintain the technological infrastructure.
And thus forsaking (statistically) 10 years of your life? For me it's a non-issue: cancer would be the last option of the three, by far.
I think recognizing talent in the context of an interview is difficult, but not impossibly so. I think judging how well they work, (do they 'get stuff done') is much more difficult during interviews, unless the person has solo projects. I know working for others, I've recommended several 'smart but useless' people after interviewing. Usually when hiring people I know, though, I know in what ways they are useless, and can hire for positions where I can make up for their weaknesses.

but I don't think it's difficult to judge a person if you have known them for a while, especially if you are the type to talk about technical things in social contexts.

I think the problem appears when you are judging things outside your field, or people you only see for an hour.
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"We searched everywhere online...found a lot of questions but no answers...After a long period of time, we happened to find one blog post that very day..."

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I don't understand your question. But the point of science is to create new knowledge, so it seems highly relevant.
I did my resume in LaTeX, with a free template I found a while ago. I've gotten a couple compliments on it.
we'll develop something that can either rejuvenate us, [...] or cloning.

I never understood how cloning could make someone live longer. If you can't transfer your soul/conscience into the clone, it's not going to get you anywhere.
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hey guys, thanks for the positive feedback! we gave an early version of this at SXSW, and also at a couple of hacker events.

we are actually contemplating organizing a meetup focused on discovery, recommendations and such. Good idea? -

http://web.meetup.com/125/manage/settings/desc/?returnUri=%2...
Find YC'ers: SoCal (LA/OC/SD)
I know I've posted something like this before, but since this site seems to be getting a lot more users, I thought I'd try again.

I think it'd be very cool if we could get a nice group down here going. I've tried several times before and the people down here seem to all go work for Broadcom, biomedical companies, etc., and the incubator community here (OCTANE) has proven to be pretty useless as far as bringing together young individuals with fierce drive. And most of the scene down here is heavily focused in bio/biomedical/pharmaceutical technologies and companies.

So hopefully there are a few here who reside in SoCal that'd like to network and perhaps get together, and hopefully this post will motivate some lurkers to come out of the woodwork as well.

I mean, what's better than sunny, cool, chic, southern California, right?

If you want to chat, you can catch me at kbeshay@gmail.com

(If someone could give this an upvote to keep it afloat, it'd be much appreciated. And if thousands of you would like to upvote this to feed my karma fetish, that'd be nice too.)
Chandler AZ had some as of 3:00 this afternoon. I waited in line for about 45 minutes, then had a happy hour with some cow-orkers.
Remember, though, that e(m/48) is an upper bound. It's not by accident that the usual plan for vesting is to have a 1-year cliff.

Also, 4 years is probably more than 8000 hours in a startup...
And PHP is not even a supported language for the contest:
http://www.icfpcontest.org/live-cd.html
I strongly agree. The PhD is an apprenticeship, so the people you'd be working for (and with) are the most significant factor. Make sure you fit with the research and social philosophies of a program before applying if you can, and certainly before accepting an offer.

As you leave school and prepare to enter industry or academia, my experience has generally been that the strength of the recommendations backing you matters far more than whatever rank your institution may have.

As you mentioned AI/machine learning, I believe these factors are even more important. There are some very distinct schools of thought when it comes to those things, so make sure you look for philosophical compatibility when picking programs. AI has a few deep schisms and widely separated sub-fields, so tread carefully.

It may be worth it to consider some of these: What's your philosophy of mind? Symbolic/statistical/neural? How important is biology/neuroscience when looking at artificial intelligence? What general approach to AI/machine learning most interests you?
overcomingbias is one of those websites you should read every article in, like paul graham's essays
He's taking credit for Linux now? wtf?
"Strictly speaking, the complete operating system should have been called GNU/Linux, representing the combined contributions of Stallman and Torvalds. Stallman always insists on the term, pronouncing it "GNU slash Linux." But in the popular mind, it came to be known as only Linux. Stallman has never gotten over that."

The more I read about Stallman the more I find that his extreme stance is just who he is:

"He's entirely consistent and uncompromising and I think the world needs someone like that," Perens said.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/sho...
Python:

def quicksort(lst):
if len(lst) == 0:
return []
else:
return quicksort([x for x in lst[1:] if x < lst[0]]) + [lst[0]] + \
quicksort([x for x in lst[1:] if x >= lst[0]])
I believe his argument is that just about everything outside the kernel came from the FSF. It's not entirely implausible but he is obnoxious about it.

Apparently just insisting that it be called "GNU/Linux" wasn't too successful.
That reminds me of this article: http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-sof... where the author discusses finding niches to sell big dollar software. Good stuff.
Yeah, I was kinda thinking the same thing. I didn't sign up for gigtide, because the killer feature for resume sites like this is to be able to send out via email in all of: text, rtf, word, pdf, html. Having a nifty profile with a sort of interactive resume feel to it is good (and right up LinkedIn's alley), but it has to export in all those formats seamlessly or it defeats the purpose (yet one more resume format).
I think web development is comparable to most other service industries. The core concepts change very slowly over time, but the tools and technologies used for implementation evolve much more rapidly and practitioners must keep pace with "relevant" changes (ignoring the noise, of course).

Here are some examples:

1) Auto Repair: The fundamental elements of a car (wheels, engine, pedals, brakes) change very little over time. However, the implementation or these elements changes rapidly.

2) Medicine: The fundamentals of biology don't change often, but advances in medical devices requires additional training.

3) Construction: Once you get past hammers, nails, and the basics; the tools and materials change often. You also need to be aware of new building codes and regulations.

4) Accounting: New accounting rules and regulations are passed each year and require additional training.

There are probably many more good examples as well. The key point being that those who are passionate about their particular field will be motivated to continue learning -- leveraging their experience to remain successful.
Hey! I had never heard of Jaanix. Thanks for mentioning that. It's interesting. Its like some twitter for news, minus the phone syncing(I summed it up like this when I saw the follow button for news keywords).

But I couldn't figure out what the "follow [keyword]" button does. I clicked it. AndChecked the FAQs but found nothing. Even their FAQ page has voting system. A bit weird. They should have had a normal FAQ page.

The sliding bars on the homepage to customise the news you want is good. But I am able to notice a bug in it. I am using Firefox-3 on windowsXP and when I click on a sliding bar, the marker moves to the position, but the green shade seems to be somewhere else. I had to do around 10 clicks to get the green shade and the marker to coincide (surely had some fun with it).

And whenever I changed the slider the news gets optimised by Ajax. That's cool again.

I noticed they allow public voting on their news items. They are easily exposed to 'click' spam. Not requiring users to signup to vote actually seems like wanting to be spammed.

And I also found out that they don't requires users to signup to comment. Seems like some sort of Open Digg or Open Reddit.

But one thing I found nice on Jaanix was that their youtube channel(not sure what they call it) at http://www.jaanix.com/youtube they have this 'quick review' kind of feature for the videos. Just place your cursor on the video thumbnail and you will see more thumbnails of the video.

Well, Jaanix or Digg or Reddit, they are all cool for user submitted news. Maybe all the other mainstream news might also be subbmitted. But you don't see all mainstream news there. You might surely find out the Release date for iPhone 10G on Digg, but there are surely some news items that don't reach the top stories even in the section news.
Those are covered by mainstream news fellas. In simple words, you can make a pizza at home. It'll surely be tasty. But still you will like McDonald's Pizza. It's like... two different good tastes, so you like both :)

And still I haven't found any source except Google News Search feeds for personalized mainstream news.

What I mean by mainstream news is - news by news agencies like Associated Press etc (I don't know what these agencies are called).

But your point is right. People will surely find that they are interested is more stuff when they follow something randomly. Again: all that's going to be featured on the front page of Y! is celeb gossip for sure. Not everyone likes celeb gossip. So its going to be forcing people to read celeb gossip. I would rather read news on any other source like Digg or Google News or Jaanix (as you said random news is good).

I have a Q and also and A:
Why did Yahoo choose celeb news over any other topic?
Because they found that they would get more news news in the celeb news category than any other. Which translates to more links, which in turn translates to more clicks and then more money.

On one hand they have a really cool thing like BOSS and the other they have a plain stupid idea of dollars from celeb gossip.
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Doesn't that suggest that large projects should be a collection of interacting small projects?

Small pieces, loosely joined, as they say.
Get started with OpenSocial. Orkut, Hi5 and MySpace support it. Its just plain javascript and easy. So start here. Ofcourse, you will need small tweaks when running your app on different containers. Containers in simpler words mean sites.

Then do it for Facebook. Then your app will also run on Bebo with very little tweaks.
I guess what I meant is that the alternative to blender isn't Maya - Maya is a closed system (yes, it has plugins and scripting, but you can't change the internals, which are pretty messy). Right now the biggest studios are choosing to build their own proprietary platforms (ILM, Pixar, DD, Disney, DWA, etc) and replicate work instead of collaborating on an open-source platform.

It's an opportunity for a medium sized studio to start taking a competitive advantage in technology, imho.
You talked about getting indexed in Google. Actually, it was possible a few days back to post it on the web and not get indexed by Google or any other search engine. The solution was to make an embedded flash slide show on the webpage and post the link here, but now since they are going to start indexing flash files too, the idea loses hand-down. :)

But surely there must be some sort of solution to post it on the web and not get indexed. Google will surely not index flash videos. Or why create a locked page and then specify the password here. Google then cannot index your file :)
I had a head-on collision and very nearly was killed. While I was in the hospital I read the Bible and became a Christian.

Yay for Christianity. It can help people.
I'm pleasantly surprised that an army of Singularitarians (is that really a word?) hasn't shown up already to tell us how closed-minded we are for expecting to die.
SMS is Dead. Here comes Facebook Chat.
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Make a good story about how you want your work to help other people, and also play up the diversity angle if you have something like an immigrant parent. That's what my NSF friends did (except those who were so excellent that they didn't have to jump through hoops).
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Well, that someone used GCC and the first thing they ran on their new kernel was Bash ;-)
Of course he isn't. The author of the article made that claim, and the claim is in error.
They're not trying to have it both ways.

They're saying, "Unless we have given you permission to use our IP, you don't have it."

It's not like Yahoo is claiming that BOSS is GPL'ed or anything. And even if it was FOSS, PHP has similar language in its license--you can't use the phrase "PHP" or the logo to endorse or promote any product without written permission.

Language like this in a license never trumps fair use anyhow.
(1) If I really got sued we're be fairly big. I mean companies would only sue me if I have money to pay. Viacom wouldn't sue Youtube if Youtube wasn't acquired by Google. Who doesn't want to be Youtube? =)

(2) I haven't paid much attention to business model yet, think I'd get more users and figure out. But I am planning to have a targeted, contextual advertising model -- e.g. putting job ads of google in a google review page. =)
I'd have to think that making a start up succeed is so hard that any gender barrier, whether perceived or real, would seem minor in comparison.
Really stupid article. Facebook Chat on the iPhone will kill SMS? What's the iPhone global penetration rate? 1%? So I'll be able to chat with 1% of my friends assuming they all arrange to run the iPhone Facebook app at the same time as me? Yeah, sounds like a real replacement for SMS.

Gah, silly.
Why don't people write about Blackberry Messenger (BBM)? It's been killing SMS for a while, every single person I know is on BBM.
Thank you for the feedback!

Just added you on AIM: qcericwan about the email.

Corp email and LinkedIn account: Yes it's on the roadmap but we haven't added it yet. Thanks for telling me.

number of reviews for a company: that too, but I would like to have more reviews before I add that information to the site.

Just added the stars too. =)
Consistency in itself is not much of a virtue.
An insider's explanation of the Fannie Mae Meltdown
http://www.thepatrioticgentleman.com/TheGreatDepression/TheG...

After the panic of 1929, and during the first 10 months of 1930, 744 banks failed. In all, 9,000 banks failed during the decade of the 30s.

Those were small banks, but still...this one failure will cost the FDIC about 10 percent of its reserve fund. That 10 percent evidentally is going to cause them enough trouble. It wasn't any bank run that caused this collapse, and it's clear that the FDIC is not going to be able to deal with the mortage crisis if it continues.

Marginal mortage owners are already causing serious problems...and we're just now moving into a recession that hasn't effected the employment rate at all. A defensive investment portfolio is recommended, needless to say.
This article is dead on accurate! EVERYBODY on my contacts list uses Facebook because I just deleted all my business and work contacts just so I could have exclusive 1 on 1 chat with Facebook users. What insightful and well thought-out writing that was.
They really should use http://sisc-scheme.org/ . It is a much better interpreter than Kawa. I don't think kawa has tail call optimization.
This sort of doctrinaire newspeak is what gives GPL advocates the appearance of a cult.

Let's not throw around names... it's not out of comprehension to think of knowing what your computer is running as a fundamental right.

Developers who incorporate some open source code in their app and don't release it aren't taking away anyone's freedoms.

That's precisely it. I'm not asking you to agree with the FSF view, but to understand it. In the view of the GPL, distributing proprietary software is absolutely taking away people's rights of knowing what's running on their machine, modifying what they're running, etc.

Fundamental rights aren't always obvious, and whether or not this view will catch on is not something I pretend to know. I think this will be an open question for dozens, if not hundreds of years to come.
Stallman got trolled (though he realized it) when Philip Greenspun did a parody page on "Heather Has Two Mommies and they go to the Zoo" : http://philip.greenspun.com/zoo/

Stallman's PC response, laying all on the "right wing Christian movement": http://philip.greenspun.com/zoo/stallman-reaction.text
From what I gather it's not so much that female founders are turned away from doing startups as they just never turn towards it to begin with... anybody out there with thoughts on why?

I have often wondered this. If one assumes the prototypical founder is a hacker, and the stereotypical hacker was a nerd in school... then we come back to: why aren't more nerds female? Are little girls discouraged from tinkering and making things in favor of other activities? I'm asking seriously, as I am a guy without sisters, or really any close female relatives, so I have no idea how girls are raised.
actually if you think about it, women would actually have a leg up when it comes to getting funding etc. Since there are so few of them, they have a much higher chance of actually getting to talk about their idea in front of VCs who want to see what they have to offer.
I think that natural selection might explain it.

What characrerises reproductively successful men? Or, to put it another way, what qualities do women seek in a mate? Women tend to prefer dominant men of high status with lots of money, and there is little reason to believe that their ancestors differed. For much of human history male status came from being a skilled hunter and warrior and from the ability to influence others through muscle or wit. This history has left men more disposed than women to strive for status and engage in the risky, competitive and sometimes aggressive behaviour often required to do a successful startup. Women with a taste for winners would likely be in a position to pass their preference on to more children than would women with a penchant for failures.

Women would not ordinarily enhance their reproductive success through direct competition and risk-taking. Indeed, it would promise little reproductive payoff and could be a very dicey strategy because a bad outcome would imperil a woman's future reproduction and the well-being of existing children. Instead, women, to a far greater extent than men, have enhanced reproductive success by looking after their children as they grow up, resulting in stronger bonds between mother and child than between father and child.

This explanation also hints at the fact that women would make good CEO's of large corporations where security is more important than risk taking.

Note: this isn't in in any way meant as a degradation of women - merely a possible explanation of the cause.
Yes the Bible can and does help people daily. In fact, the Bible has changed my life in the most profound ways. Unfortunately, most folks are too busy scoffing at it to pick it up and give it a read.
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Actually, the employment rate has fallen significantly: the number of people in the labor force has dropped. The unemployment rate has not changed much.
RFC: Leaky abstractions for HTTP encoding, and a better high level abstraction.
sorry you feel that way im not a chrstian but i think most religions can benefit a person if its a fit for them . . as long as they dont try to convert me im cool
I warned everyone about going Mac, but would they listen? No....
Or, we read it, then started scoffing.

Please, do not generalize around these parts about religion.
>Yay for Christianity. It can help people.

I hear that if you're ever in prison you should join the church so you can get paroled faster.
"It wasn't like I was real flush with cash. Pretty much all my career I was undercapitalized. I borrowed on my home equity and loaded up my credit cards."

Risk rewarded. Takes guts to do that in your 40s.
YouTube started as a dating site. Flickr as MMORPG.

That is the idea and vision that led them to something totally different.
I think the quality is lower, and I include in that my own contributions to those debates.

I was surprised to read this because your comments have usually seemed very good to me. But then I ran across http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242733 - so I'll concede the point on that thread. :)
From a Darwinian perspective, you are of course right.

I think that potential pregnancy is a factor. The hours traditionally worked by startup founders could be detrimental to health, and the inability to take prolonged breaks from work at CEO level is probably a deal-breaker.

(Some of the best salespeople I know are female, particularly in consultative selling.)

RE-EDIT: Sarcastic thanks for the downvotes. And sincere thanks to whoever upvoted. I feel better!
Actually, you are the one generalizing by saying my comment was about religion. I mentioned nothing of the sort.
Wow, it must be 2007 again. "Facebook chat is coming! Facebook chat is coming!" No one cared then, no one cares now.
All of this would certainly be valid if women and men were separate species. It would also certainly be valid if females of the human race had specialized into something reminiscent of a queen bee or ant. I don't know if that is or is not the case, but I know where I'll put the burden of proof.