skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that binaries contain instructions that map directly to hardware operations, whereas bytecode is interpreted by a binary. The interpretation is an intermediate step that doesn't take place when a program runs on bare metal.

edit: Of course, it would be possible to build a machine that actually executes JVM instructions directly. It would also be possible to build such a machine for JavaScript, but if someone asks you whether JavaScript is an "interpreted language," the answer would still be affirmative, even if there are cases where it's not true.
Option 1: Submissions by users created less than Q days ago or with less than R karma receive some fraction S of karma for each upvote.

(Q = R = 30, S = 0.1)
All of the skills you mention are valuable if you can find someone with "seasoned startup experience". They're not growing on trees (last I looked from my perch). A couple of questions for you to think about.

Do you have the experience in the space you are trying to attack? If not, you best be looking for someone, either technical or not, who does, who can speak to the market, and investors about the market (or angels FROM the market). Also, what's your next milestone? Is it your first paying customer, or is it a demo that will not be launch ready? What will his/her first milestone be? Is there enough work at present to keep a biz person busy in exchange for the equity? There will ALWAYS be enough todo's on the list of the developers... In short, are you sure you're ready for a non-technical founder?

BTW: my cofounder is non-technical (I'm sure he'd love to see me describe him as such). I asked him aboard before I'd written even a hundred lines of code. Why? Because he knows the market well and has professional experience / knowledge that I, or likely any other hacker, couldn't hope to pick up in any reasonable amount of time. If that's what you need - then get looking ... they are worth their weight in gold and very, very hard to find!
Perhaps its the fact that I'm in the Boston area (instead of the West coast), but I've had problems connecting with a good hacker co-founder. Most that I've met are looking for co-founders themselves for their own ideas ... I'd join a different startup, but I think I've got a good idea with a rare domain to boot.
Unless Adobe were allowed to break Flash out of the browser and store .swfs locally you would still need to load the app every time from the web. Of course you can already do the same sort of things with JavaScript. If SquirrelFish makes it to the iPhone (it would be silly not to) all JavaScript apps will receive a huge boost in performance.

Plus Flash most likely wouldn't have access to many of the features native iPhone apps do.

Jobs simply hates Flash and Java. I talked to someone who did some advertising work for Apple, and they had some Flash thing that Steve needed to approve, but supposedly he refuses to install Flash on his computer, so they had to do a screencast just for him.
I don't think that this is all that bad an idea, even though Apple's not much of a silicon design shop. Microsoft isn't either, and yet they were able to REDUCE costs by getting a custom-designed processor for the XBox360 (yes, I know that had its share of flaws).

Intel doesn't do custom designs, that isn't their business model. There are some companies that specialize in that sort of thing, like IBM. There are a number of fabless semiconductor developers that have been quite successful this way, including nVidia. Even SUN doesn't do its own semiconductor manufacturing, for years they relied on TI for that part.

Also, Apple acquired the company PA Semiconductor, which includes several folks with a lot of experience in designing processors (some of their products were among the best in the business, like the Alpha series), so it's not like Apple would be starting from ground zero here.

I'm not sure that it's necessary, but if Apple wants custom functionality for upcoming mobile products, it might be worth it in the long run. If they just wanted inexpensive, high-performance, general-purpose processors, the best route for the foreseeable future is probably to stick with x86. I don't think it's likely however that x86 will be able to compete with the ARM in the ARM's niche anytime soon though.
Hire them both simultaneously if you can, and make the business person CEO. Make sure he can pitch well and that he can manage you through growth having shown such experience elsewhere.
Google says Java, Ruby, and PHP are coming for AppEngine
My eBay Job: Do 1.3 million people really earn their living from the auction site?
No. Someone from Google responded to that thread noting that it was a bug, and has since been fixed.
It is biased since I made it but I have emailed people I know from other frameworks and I have incorporated all the corrections that they have sent me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
anyone? anyone?
There have been bytecode versions of many languages for ages. Smalltalk is a language most people view as interpreted that executed bytecodes way back when. Basic "compitlers" have generated bytecodes for ages. Lisp compilers, ditto.

This definition of interpreted, that leaves Java not being interpreted is interesting, but one would have to conclude if you buy that definition not much of anything is interpreted save a few scripting langauges.

Wikipedia is absolutely on target with the definition I used for an interpreted language. It's the one I was taught when I got a CS degree. One could've argued even then that most CPU's execute microcode, and that there were even CPU's you could download new microcode to, so that was the only "one true" compiled world. But this is not the general meaning of the word.

There are tons of apps available in Flex that do all kinds of useful things that Apple will want to charge for. Javascript is an interesting case. I wonder how complete the implementation is on the iPhone and whether all apps execute fine there? Anyone have any complex Javascript to try it with?
If you have questions you gave a very active users group: groups.google.com/group/web2py
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way to go pystar!
It's a double edged sword.

On the positive: they're good at marketing, getting in people's faces, getting the word out, getting people on board, etc. I just can't talk to advertisers so I'd end up with AdWords getting less revenue. I'd be bad at promoting the thing so there'd be fewer users.

On the negative: most of them have no f'in clue what makes any sense in technology. They don't use it enough. Their ideas will be something like, "maybe we should do something like eBay, but with a better rating system". They'll come up with a lot of nonsense that isn't useful - but they don't know that since they just don't use computers and the internet as much as we do. Of course, they're a bit arrogant (it's why they're good in part one) so they think you should be following their lead.

You need to find someone that can do part 1 without being so full of themselves that they think they know how to build a webapp and that you're just code in human form. It's hard because most of those types like to think of themselves as the "idea person" rather than doing the work of promoting, forming partnerships, etc. Their "idea" is crap and been done before. You need someone to do the non-code heavy lifting.
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Finally, this guy makes some sense.
Can Scenius be virtual? If so, I'd like to think that we may have something that qualifies right here.
More countries are banning or restricting hate speech. Should the U.S.?
It's actually not the razorblade model. It used to be the exact opposite. Apple made their profit off of the razor (iPod) and gave the blades away. It was the reverse razor-blade model.

Some people think they're now profiting off of both, which is incredible.
Did you read the part of the article where Apple bought PA Semi, a company full of expert chip designers?
What happens to all those millions of corporate PCs at end of their lifecycle?
I want to set up some backup servers. Should I go dumpster diving?
I don't doubt the truth of this statement, but its not that easy. I can drink a cup of coffee at will, but napping not so much. It's not even that my work wouldn't allow me to; I could probably arrange for that. I just can't seem to take naps. I've never really been able to fall asleep in the day, except after 48+ hours with no sleep.
Congratulations! You just guaranteed I will never upmod your stories or comments.
I'm still learning django and im very new to web programming. I read that PDF and it looks interesting, but i didn't found any reasons to switch to web2py. Some of the things django lacked could be done in a simple script i guess, but that may be my inexperience kicking in and me not knowing it can't be done(at least not easily). But what's more interesting to me is that if we count points in this document Django beats Rails. And although i don't know any ruby or rails i don't think that its much worse than django. So i don't think that this pdf should be taken too seriously. But im really new to this, until 3 days ago i didn't know what MVC was, so i should not be taken seriously either.
Can we all just agree that whether or not Java is an interpreted language is not really relevant to the post? Let's direct further criticism at the arguments and conclusions rather than small technical gaffes.
I think that the more recent the person has registered, the more likely their posts are going to be flamebait.
This is starting to seem more common. Posts I see under new section that make me cringe inevitably shoot up to the top of front page. And seems like an increasing number of good posts are getting drowned out.

Agree downmod would be helpful. Even if it had a very high karma or HN usage period requirement in order to use I think it would help the community.
Wow, reputable source. A friend of a friend's twitter post says a friend heard that it was true!
i feel like this number would be more correct if it includes things like ebay, ebay's subsidiaries, companies built around ebay, people who work at drop shipping companies, people who have stores that make use of ebay as a distribution channel, etc. etc..

one could only hope that this is what its talking about
One acronym for you: GTFO
Given the number of reviews (max 142 Microsoft) I just curious why is this big news for Techcrunch given that the idea is not new I also think they should have a threshold to reach before publishing rating on CEO approvals and other metrics.
Yeah, I was going to write a bot do the same with xkcd, TechCrunch, and (especially) PG's essays.

The benefits are twofold: The community gets extremely quick exposure to content it seems to really appreciate, and no user gets huge karma just for being the first to submit PG's new essay.

Save the karma for people finding things you couldn't find yourself.

edit: Pretty uncool how people are dogging on your post just because you're new here. I just wanted to post that I agree, despite not being new here and not being particularly hurting for karma.
The company I work for donates many, if not all, of them to local schools and non-profit organizations.
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> The 37signals lessons are still fresh; they're operating in the current business climate.

The book "Growing a Business", written in the '80ies, about a gardening catalog company of all things, has a lot of the same lessons as "getting real", and to boot comes with its very own ISBN.

Here's my summary of it (but go buy it, it's a good one):

http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/4/growing-a-business
I don't think anyone is claiming that Java is an interpreted language. The claim is that "interpreted language" to most managerial, non-hacker PHB types means "a language that at some point during execution requires interpretation."
I think the point of the post is to express a slight frustration over stories ranking high simply because they come from specific sources, and the fact that many people seem to approve of these posts simply because of the source. If everyone that upmods actually thinks the posts are valuable enough to upmod based on the content and thinks that other users would benefit from the content, then that’s fine; it’s just that there’s a lot of great content out there, and it seems as though certain posts get upmodded more simply based upon the source.

The upvotes that people give this "joke" (it’s not really meant to be funny at all), regardless of how often they’ve heard it before, probably means that they agree with the sentiment, and as members of the same community have the option to make that vote as they see fit. Hopefully they don’t upmod because they find the post humorous. It’s meant to be commentary on the state of the community, and your negative responses only seem to validate the point further.

Interesting how the net’s anonymity results in much sharper criticism than you find the real world. For example, you would never call a joke stupid if someone you had just met told it, regardless of how many times you’d heard it before. Something to consider, especially given that we’re all here to focus on the same goal: learning from one another, gaining valuable insight, growing as a community. Not disrespecting one another.

I may not have been a registered user for very long, but I have read HN for quite a long time before that, and am just as immersed and interested in the startup community as any one of you. I agree that, if anyone cares about karma, a formula that gives karma based upon length of time they’ve been a registered member of the community is a cool idea.. I’m all for informative, excellent content, but I’m also not against a bit of humor, commentary, or just plain fun. What good is being entrepreneurial if you can’t have fun?

Now stop upvoting this post!
There is a factual error in this article, in the razor/blades analogy. The monthly service fees for an iPhone don't just benefit the carrier; a portion of the service fees goes to Apple as well. I'm not sure what the portion is (or if that information is public) but this sort of revenue-sharing approach is now relatively common for big-name smartphones.
I downmodded both.

If you want reasons, here they are:
1. Your original comment was of no value.
2. In general, replying to your own comment to indicate that your original comment was downmodded gives me more reason to downmod you.
WiMax loses another backer to LTE
It's 97.3% times 96%, since it's a given that only those who got in got error pages. My calculator puts that at 93.4%.

The error is more pronounced if uptime was say, 20%, and error rate was 4%. If we do it your way, it's 16%. My way, it's 19.2%.
He may be a new user, but already understands the way things work here at HN, anything from 37, PG or Maroon is automatic karma. I think most people that are upset are mad that our little karma formula is so easily diagnosed.
> I doubt very much that Jobs is underestimating the effort or the risk.

Apple has already acquired PA Semi, a chip design company ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174301 ). Robert X Cringely implied that Apple could use the acquisition to reduce component costs by US$278 million or more just with the threat of switching to unproven developments ( http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080425_0047... ).
37 Signals hates competition
You should've posted this originally, instead of the "joke".
"Pretty uncool how people are dogging on your post just because you're new here."

Newness has nothing to do with it. We welcome and embrace newbies all the time.

They're probably dogging on his post because he has struck a sensitive nerve.
Is there some kind of karma-grabbing contest to post everything that comes out on a few key blogs before anyone else can?
Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black? Warren Buffet manages money on behalf of his investors via his investment vehicle: Berkshire Hathaway. He is a "Helper." Granted, he's a giant leap above the hedge fund world zero-sum game. But, he's still a stock picking "Helper."
Always. It usually just takes a few seconds because I just skim over anything that I recognize as boilerplate. But every once in a while I reject one because it's downright scary. Worst offender I've ever seen is the Punkbuster EULA:

http://manual.americasarmy.com/index.php/I_agreed_to_the_Pun...
I thought it was witty, and all things considered I prefer good ideas in witty packages to good ideas all by themselves. That probably explains why Joel Spolsky obtained some early popularity: many people found his posts entertaining and educational at the same time.
I feel terrible that my first thought when reading the title was "I'm not familiar with a markup language called sheetmetal."
I'm sorry, what problem are you solving here? The problem of a new user writing a bot and hogging the karma? While allowing an "old hand" to do exactly the same thing and reap the rewards?

How very... feudal.
Easy option: Submissions from sites that always get upmodded don't add to the user's karma.
Remind me again, what is the male/female ratio among startup founders funded by Y Combinator? And does it contradict the article?
"Your original comment was of no value."

Not everyone's as smart as you, maybe the poster needs it said to him/her.
I hear ya. Keep at it.
That comment gets an upmod for being a fertile suggestion: even if it doesn't work as-is, it provokes some thought about what behaviour we actually want to reward.

IOW, we are saying: "We hate most spolsky/coding horror/raganwald/..." posts, but from time to time there's a good one in there, so please ferret out the good stuff for us. Posting stuff from Paul Graham or Tech Crunch is not going to be rewarded.

Sounds suspiciously like re are rewarding risk-takers. That seems to be in the spirit of hacker news.
Our company sells them really cheap to employees.
The problem is that online, when there aren't any vocal or body language cues to go by, people tend to take posts like this as snarky. I'm sure OP didn't mean it that way.
Reading your comment, it made me think of Yahoo! and the "value" that is in Yahoo! but just isn't seen in it's stock price. Warren Buffet should buy Yahoo! and turn it into the company it should already be but for some reason, isn't.
For what it's worth I think this is a weak argument. The posts at Signal v Noise never encourage you to "slow down" for the sake of slowing down... they just encourage you to think about starting up in a different light. If you can take life as a startup founder easier, yet be more productive or generally have a more fulfilling experience, so much the better.

Anyway it seems an unlikely strategy that to quell competition 37signals tries to injure everyone's productivity by way of deliberately poor advice. I just don't see how the author makes that logical step (or the point isn't defended well).

Only my take.
I'm pretty sure I'd die of electrolyte imbalance long before I managed to drink 237 cups of instant coffee.
Ew. Someone just posted a message about auto-scripting something like this. Now I feel dirty and ashamed for suggesting it, even if they didn't get the idea from me.
There's a very strong correlation between "yes" responses to the question "Are you an entrepreneur?" and that person being an entrepreneur.
I don't think that's really true. Apple makes more money on hardware than anything else. The iTunes Store helps sell more iPods, not as much the other way around.

I think Apple's decision to require all iPhone apps be sold through the iTunes Store is partially a matter of control. If an app is malicious or misbehaves, they can easily pull it.
Here are a few things that you can do with web2py but not Django: upload/download streaming (as in deal with files larger than fit in ram), connect to multiple database, use pure python in templates, give tickets to visitors on error, develop and maintain your web sites via a web interface, run the ORM in Google App Engine. There are also many apps you can get here http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/appliances
Apple just has a habit of making a big big deal of almost anything. A few of the things they are certainly justified in touting. But when they claim 10,000 times (within maybe 2 minutes) in the WWDC keynote that MobileMe has ground-breaking webapp usability, I just get intensely annoyed. Cheesiness at its extreme. Sure, desktop-like usability is nice, of course, but it is now common and expected in the best of the webapps.
Get a Business Graduate with Hacking skills. They exist.

When hiring for a startup you can afford someone with A or B. In the worst case scenario you need someone with A and B. In the best case you need someone with A and B (assuming both are skills), and Passionated about what you are doing.

It turns out that the majority of talented people are not "willing" to startup, but you can find one if you look hard enough.
I'd like to read some good, well thought out criticism of 37signals, but this isn't it. Unfortunate, as David U is a smart guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ulevitch
Thanks for the feedback!

The images are pretty bad, so I will try to do better ones this weekend.

As you and terpua wrote, it would be more useful if one could use it on a blog for visualization of entries, etc., and that is something I want to work on in the near future.

I will post it as an "Ask HN" item soon.
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
From the article, I doubt it is 37Signals plan to make others develop more slowly so 37Signals retains more customers.

Consider SalesForce and others that have the same and greater functionality.

There are hundreds of options in the same space, SurgarCRM, phpGroupWare, my own officezilla.com. There is plenty of choice and it is not like 37Signals dominates in any way. They are far from the dominate leader in there space (and they don't claim to be).

I don't believe they have a lifestyle business, they have a very good business that is profitable and growing. They might not claim to be out marketing & promoting, but it sure does seem like they have plenty of marketing and promotion through "submarine" tactics rather then overt (here is our ad) methods.
v. true, when in doubt, use emoticons :-)
Demand Satisfaction! » Harnessing the Power of Hate
If a site is over-submitted, maybe further submissions from that site shouldn't accrue karma to the submitter. That is: "No cherry picking." Articles would still appear and their placement still depend on votes, but there'd be no narrow personal value to submitting them.

Initial candidates for such no-credit status: TC, PG, 37, CH, XKCD... though the list could be dynamic based on number or popularity of recent submissions.

(Crop rotation for mindharvests?)
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Whoever you find first that meets your hiring criteria.

Also I would not put it as a tech vs. non tech co-founder; rather hire for complimentary skills so that as a team you can cover most of the functions.
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Unfortunately I can't nap at work.
Using the power of hate in an internet protocol is a damn good idea that is already out there:
http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/design.html

I wish more people knew about that. I don't know Zed A. Shaw (I've seen people hating him publicly in this forum, how ironic :) ), but this protocol made me think 'I wish I had thought of that'. The authority problem (aka 'how to get less bullshit online') could easily be the most important problem to solve nowadays to improve our quality of life online. Utu could work.
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"Karma" is just an integer in a database. I can't image many people here really caring about that.
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