skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late reply, but I ironically was thinking the other night if this should work conversely. For most points, I think yes. One notable difference is that developers will create something tangible, and usable, within a month or two. It could be enough to raise money off of. In this case, I'd say there should be equity structure in place at the beginning. Business co-founders would provide value in a month, but its probably through intangible relationship assets. The value by a business co-founder is also something that is ever-expanding. If he or she made 100 sales in a month, you'd never say "Well, that's all we need, have a nice life" but with applications, some people may see them as "done" and therefore you don't need the developer any more. Anyone who understands that software is never done in a startup would disagree, but its less obvious, especially to business founders, that this is true.
I'm in Tampa, might be able to make the drive.
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I doubt those guys ever felt like they were walking through fire. Sure, times are tough, but the guys who make it through are the ones who find stuff to enjoy in the lows AND the highs.
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Heh! I had so far restrained myself from adding to the thread. But it tickles me a great deal to see how just an observation can fuel nay-saying and name calling. I never made a moral judgment and neither am I ignorant of the typical use of the word. But was not aware that such usage ruled out making observations that the well used and common rule of "anti-blah" does not apply in this case. Then I added another example were words sometimes do not mean what they are supposed to mean. Oh the outrage, I wonder were it comes from :).

<tongue in cheek>
If usage trumps correctness then English with an Indian accent is the canonical accent. After all there are more who use it. </tongue in cheek>
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If you plan to need it shortly, then you already have your answer. If not then I'm really curious why you took it
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Techcrunch guest posts are often incoherent and largely self-promotional, but I appreciated hearing the perspective of someone who did the startup cycle a few times and then ran off to VC-land where he gets more variety and balance.
Silicon valley romanticizes the startup life. We read about Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs...

Curiously, two of those entrepreneurs didn't create their then-startup in Silicon Valley.
Hhaha that's a great idea. You might enjoy the predecessor to this, http://mugshotwars.com/, though it's not my proudest creation.
"mexican-coke". That doesn't sound very legal...
Nope. Key/Value stores don't work this way, document stores don't work this way, graph databases... I don't think work this way.
Russia's absence is quite surprising. I would've thought more people visited from that part of the world. Maybe it's the language barrier

edit: great work on the map!
This is a good step forward. It was a mystery to me why they weren't deploying native apps across all platforms; mobile web just doesn't give you the same feel and functionality.
I really hope none. Or both.

Imagine nokia selling devices that work just like pcs. You could buy with windows, android or even install the latest hobie OS on your own.

Just have to open all the hardware interfaces to kernel devs
If businesses haven't upgraded after 12 years, why would another 18 make any difference?

I'm beginning to think that IE6 is the new COBOL -- something that's locked into irrevocably locked into business practices. I'm working on a B2B site that is less than 10% IE6 in its day to day traffic, but when a major marketing event brought a flood of potential investors and customers, IE6's share spiked to 25%.

Our only hope is that companies will at least install an additional browser, and train their employees that IE6 should be used only for the legacy apps.
One real test to see if you're ready to be an entrepreneur is seeing if you would do a startup for 2 years, working 80+ hours with the emotional roller-coaster while knowing you would certainly fail. Personally, I would. I enjoy it way too much.
And his point is moot since it is unlikely that Apple would let carriers handle those transactions when Apple has their own iTunes Store financial infrastructure.
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"I've never actually tried to get it set up..."

You could say that again. I bet you don't do any backups at all. Time machine has two options. The first is the location to backup and the second is directories to exclude. Ignoring cache files is one click away...

I used to have all sorts of different backup systems and even hacked my own backup system on top of time machine like in this article, but at the end of the day went out and picked up a Time Machine. It just works. Backups silently in the background and I can recover when needed. I nearly always backup over wifi and never feel it "thrashing disks" or using all my network speed. The hd's that ship with Time Machine are also pre-tested for quality so are not the cheapo hd of the week. Time Machine is also a wiki box, printer, and gig switch.
For me, this is an issue with Thomas Friedman, not with NYT in general.
The FDIC insurance limit is actually $250k. It was raise some time ago.
As much as I'm a proponent of HTML5, the bottom line is that much of the functionality Google might want to provide is not going to be available at the browser/javascript layer.

Another reason Google has shunned Apple native apps in particular is because of Apple's clear reluctance to accept them given Google's dominant position (case-in-point: Google Voice). If Eric Schmidt is being lined up to become Apple's next CEO then it would be a smart move for Google to pre-empt a more favorable Apple era towards Google
title: speaking ON less panels ??

I agree with the sentiment here; i've found that being a moderator of the panel is a more interesting role.
> Why do you think that only the wealthy will have access to these treatments?

To begin with, the companies providing them will have to reach break-even and, in a field like biotech with huge up-front costs, that means making a lot of money from the first clients. Rich people have a lot of money.

> Something expensive, but that should be covered by most health insurance.

Then we're talking about different things. How often does health insurance pay for treatments that are still somewhat unproven in the real world?

> He gave an objective definition of "poor" he was using in his prediction

Right, and everyone seems to ignore the fact that, as measured on an objective scale, how a culture defines 'poverty' creeps up that absolute wealth scale as the culture's wealth grows. For example, at one time kings and rich industrialists could die of appendicitis; now, only the most desperately poor are so deprived of healthcare that having an inflamed appendix is a death sentence.
I was especially struck by the point about being willing to give up hobbies. How many programming fans are able to give up playing their favorite computer game while building the start-up? Is that what it takes to build a start-up that really hits the big time?
This book is over ten years old. Most of what you see there was in place in mid-2000.
While you may be in the minority on HN your definitely in the majority overall. Different people want/ enjoy different things, no real right or wrong here.
A few things to add though you painted a pretty good picture:

- Shaw is the cable monopoly in the west. Shaw used to have a presence in Ontario but they did a big asset swap about 10 years ago.

- A few areas have different cable monopolies but they're vastly smaller than Rogers/Shaw. Cogeco and Videotron, I think.

- Beyond Rogers (who bought Microcell a.k.a. Fido) and the smaller players, Bell and Telus actually teamed up and built their own GSM network. I think it went live shortly before the 2010 olympics.

- As far as I know Bell and Telus both operate their own CDMA networks across Canada. In Ontario, at least, you've been able to get CDMA service from both for a long long time.
If you're still talking about about NVIDIA cards, then no; their OpenCL implementation is based upon the CUDA architecture (technically, CUDA is the device architecture that supports GPGPU programming, not the language itself). That said, videocards are cheap these days, as long as you don't need the high-end: you can snag an entry-level Fermi card (GTS450) for right around $100 these days, or less if you go with something GT200-based.
Google generates $24 per user. Facebook only $4.
The romantic version doesn't appeal to me. The challenges do.
Over-spending has been the doom of too many startups. Don't just grow for the sake of growing. Plan strategically and try to get your business profitable at least on an operating basis. More revenues does not mean more profits. Some things take money but there are other things that just require time. Sometimes, you just need to be around for so long for some things.

Keep the money in an FDIC-insured account, and don't worry about the interest. You need to focus on your business.
Love it! :-) Same concept as biggest douche, different audience.
The advice is mixed in quality.

The worst piece of advice is to only use one metric, which is some complicated mix of other metrics. The basic reason they want this is to give a clear go/no go signal that everyone agrees on. Perhaps if you have to deal with the politics of a larger organization, that's a good idea. But if you're a small company, the extra detail you get about how your product is used from tracking multiple metrics is very good for helping clarify what you're trying to do, and how you want to do it.

Furthermore the act of creating a complex weighted measure is pushing the argument elsewhere. And when you're still trying to figure out how your site is actually performing, you don't have the context to know what measure to use. Furthermore you won't be able to use the obvious chi-square test (or its better relative, the g-test). There is no need to over-complicate the statistics.

The idea of having a hashing function to do test assignment is one that I had not considered. I've always suggested the obvious rand() at assignment time approach, which accomplishes the same thing but with more overhead at run time. I'd caution people who try the hashing approach to use a standard library, because it would be really, really easy to have the website think that assignment is done one way while your analysis assumes that it is done in another.

The minimum duration point is interesting...and somewhat useless. When I was preparing my presentation a few years ago I found out that, even if you know exactly how much better A is than B, you can't predict to within an order of magnitude how quickly your experiment will show it. My attitude is the much simpler, "The test takes however long it will take, and you can't really know how long that will be in advance." After you've done a few tests, people will have a good enough idea for a back of the envelope estimate.

The other advice seemed good, and mostly was obvious to me. But I have more experience with A/B testing than most do.
That was rather rancorous.
please dont say 'star.' please.
Precisely, and the Malthusians are just torn up to absolute tears over it.
If you're certain to fail, why do the startup? Did you mean the uncertainty of success?
Along with "$" replacing the "S" in MS.
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That is still romanticizing the startup life, just in a different direction.
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Is there an example of the sidebar you're talking about that we can look at?
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Interesting to hear this right around the same time that Facebook announces devoting more resources to HTML5 because of the challenges involved in deploying updates to several different native mobile apps.
It's time that people stopped defining things as 'us' vs 'them', and got used to globalization.
Did WikiLeaks spark the protests in Tunisia and Egypt?
I would strenuously deny that the startup life is hell. Go pick fruit for a few months, for instance. The amount of assumed privilege in these discussions is shocking.
For developers, we're about connecting them to projects that they'll likely be interested in contributing to; these projects may or may not be most forked or trending. A lot of repository identification is word of mouth which, for those on on the outer rings of the open source community, may be lacking. We want to change that.

For maintainers, we're about finding developers to fill the needs of their projects. Open sourcing is step one, promoting and keeping traction can be tough. We want to arm maintainers with more to help accomplish this.

For businesses that rely on the open source code contributors and maintainers support, we want to provide a platform that they can leverage whether it's support or issue resolution. Businesses win because they get fixes, for example. Maintainers and contributors win being rewarded for their efforts.

We have several other ideas we're exploring; lot's more to come.
My next resolution: Do less writing at night, when I'm more error prone! But glad you agree with the sentiment. I've often wondered about the moderator role.
Not even the uncertainty of success, but the certainty of failure. The learning experience is the reason. I'm a firm believer of "Fail early to succeed often."
Plug this gap by reading and doing, not by hiring.

The main reason is that you're still in the early stages of establishing a product/market fit. As Steve Blank (alongside others) says, that means you need to "get outside the building." The people who are in charge of defining and envisioning the product -- the founders, or some subset of the founders -- need to be the people seeing why their product is or isn't selling.

If you feel totally unclear on how sales even works, then read a book or two (starting with Steve Blank). And see if you can meet someone who either buys or sells in the industry; buy them lunch for some guidance and tips. It might be tempting to bring on board someone like that, but dividing up responsibilities early will make it vastly harder to identify real gaps in product fit. Bring on sales people only when you have a consistently replicable process for selling.

In terms of marketing to end-users, you're kind of in a difficult spot in that your target market seems pretty diffuse, therefore not easy to target. If you can come up with a segment of potential users who could be unusually passionate about the product, see if you can reach those people. Go where they are; get endorsements from the people they like. Optimize your viral loops to reach or be useful to those people.

Now, if you have 3 co-founders, it's not necessary for all 3 to sell and market. I'd suggest making it a primary job of 2 of them.

By the way, this advice might be different in the case of other kinds of knowledge gaps. But for sales/marketing, this increasingly and by far seems like the winning strategy.
I think it can be all summed up to

"Do you always want more from your life?
Or are you content?"
I have. They are enforcing it now.
Looks very promising, makes love with keyboard, supports Python plugins. On OSX it uses different from native controls but I can live with that. Selection with going to line of file e.x. app.js:22 or to symbol app.js#symbol is also very handy. Maybe that will be "Textmate 2" :)
Please stop pointing to successful market economies and calling them socialist.

In some ways Switzerland is a libertarian tax haven and really makes the US look socialist.

Switzerland, Canada and Denmark are more economically free than the US according to this: http://www.heritage.org/index/

Just because there are some very rich people in the US, it doesn't mean the average person would be better off in a socialist country such North Korea or Cuba.
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While I agree that it works well, I have not found it to be particularly easy to use. (to clarify I use the online version) Then again I made the mistake of never taking any finance classes in school. It is full of strange jargon and confusing menus.

That said, I hooked it up to my business checking account and it pretty much does everything automatically. I have my accountant log in quarterly and make sure everything is in the right place. I use it for payroll as well. It has certainly given me peace of mind, which is worth the somewhat hefty price tag.
this sounds much more complicated than threewords.me
LPTHW by Shaw is my pick for raw beginners, because it assumes nothing: not even how to use an editor and how to run a program. It's very good for the rote learning of basic programming that a child (or someone who has never done any programming) would need.

However, I'll find it amusingly ironic if this catches on, even though Zed's book contains no profanity and is just fine for the kids.
You don't have to have a start-up that "really hits the big time" to have to give up things in return. Trust me, "hobbies" are easy to give up; it's relationships that are harder yet mandatory (to some extent) to give up.
Guess the real question is why do people keep upvoting the first comment?
I think you're confusing Time Machine (the backup software on OSX) with Time Capsule (Apple's network backup hardware). Not a big deal but in this context it can be confusing.

http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/
Well it's assumed that if you're in a position to begin a startup, then you are capable of a comfortable and successful life outside of one. So relative to the alternative for the entrepreneur, startup life could be called hell.

But yes, relative to all the possible situations one could be in, startup life is quite pleasant.
As cool as these sorts of libraries are (and this is a really elegant library), I think their utility is limited in the kind of development that constitutes a product.

A team can hope that they have a crack clojure developer who's also an ace designer who's also very good at handling cross-browser rendering issues... but that team could also hope for a magical site-building unicorn with about as much plausibility.

I've always felt that libraries like Slice excessively couple the application's source code with its design; even an embedded-script template like ERb or PHP is arguably better when your markup may need to be worked over with odd tweaks to get IE support.

Besides, Clojure already has a fantastic HTML rendering library in cgrand's work: Enlive. It lets you take existing, valid templates and then inject new data into them, and even compose the results. This is one of the best ways to work on projects where the folks doing the server-side work have different responsibilities than the client-side team, and is most amenable to designer talent.

This approach has started to catch on elsewhere. I think the most recent place I saw it crop up was in David Pollak's Lift project, where they're called "Designer-Friendly Templates" (and they're even more composable there than in Enlive).
Talk about Disruptive technology
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I'm a personal analytics junkie - should be fun playing around with your web and iphone apps
good argument for a real marketplace, instead of anti-capitalist net neutrality zealots on the one hand, and robber-baron monopolists on the other.
Two things I wasn't expecting: Argentina vs Brazil & Spain vs Portugal. What's up with Portugal? And I didn't think France vs Germany/UK would be so drastic. Amazing.

Some of the dots are in strange places. Like the 2 dots off the coast of Africa are in the middle of the ocean. The dot in Tunisia is in the desert.
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AppShopper's app hit the #9 spot of overall free and was around 150,000 downloads in a day. This was September 2010. These number ranges are moving targets as more people are buying iOS devices.

So there's Top Paid and Top Free lists. Top Free is in that range, while Top Paid is significantly less. The numbers for the top Paid have been reported on a bit more.

Here are Christmas numbers (~78,000) for the #2 Paid app:
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/12/28/camera-reaches-over-7800...

Christmas numbers are hard to compare as there is a surge on Christmas day. And a bit of a sustained run afterwards due to the new devices in circulation.
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I think he meant hell in terms of stress on your family. Those 90 hour work weeks aren't exactly relationship-building material.
FYI: Opera is totally safe about this issue.
Mostly the densely populated areas in the west along the Rhine, though. There aren’t many dots in the southeast (except around Munich), in the middle (where I’m from) and in the east (except Berlin). If you zoom in (http://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=180379) you see that the dots in Europe are (unsurprisingly) much denser in the UK, but Germany might take the second place in Europe, even taking population in account. (The Netherlands and Belgium also look busy, maybe they are taking the second pace in Europe after the UK.)
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>I'm building my company in one of the worst areas for technology startups: DFW.

Beg to differ. There's a plethora of resources in the DFW area for startups. They just don't have a centralized location/leader. There's Tech Wildcatters (incubator), CoHabitat (co-working space and just a great group of people that hang out there), Startup Happy Hours in Dallas (you can meet LOTS of people - lawyers, founders, angels, VC's, other startups, etc.), launchDFW (covers startup news in DFW; disclaimer: I write articles for them), etc. Lots of resources, it's just not easy to find them all the time because it's such a spread out area.
That particular spot in the ocean off the coast of Africa, south of Ghana and west of Gabon, is latitude 0, longitude 0.
"The certainty of failure". I like that.