skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The equity question really only matters if you are 50/50 and it would be an issue of control. You're already a minority holder. Is there a big difference between 40% and 39.5% ownership?

You should have a talk with your cofounder about at what point it makes sense for both of you to draw something. Trading equity for cash isn't a bad idea in the sense it forces you to come up with a valuation for the business. But it also forces your partner to carry more risk and encourages you to approach the business as an ATM instead of an investment. It may be fairer to split what you would consider a "survival salary" two ways.

If you have revenue and growth, these problems will seem quaint in a couple of months or a year.
I thought that bit about poking came off pretty awkward. As did the rest of his appearance. That doesn't really matter though, he is very successful outside comedy and public appearances.
That was at my last week at the day job. As I recall, I posted from my Kindle at godawful late following hellish overtime, dinner, writing the first page of notes for AR, and checking into a hotel. I think I was still calling it Notiphone then. Notifo launched a week or so later and I scrapped the name.

I'd check the notebook but lost it in America in October.
Open source router firmwares like DD-WRT or Android handsets would be good platforms for some kind of mesh network.

Having a wireless AP with a webserver and forum software would be a simple option for communicating with your immediate neighbors (who could communicate with theirs).
Firstly 22-26 is probably not the most representative age group of YC founders. IIRC, pg mentioned that 26 is the median age.

$150K spread over a team of 3 is an annual salary of $50K for each founder. That's not fuck you money in most parts of the world, forget Silicon Valley.
Egypt (political analysis)
Wow, that's a bad infographic.
(article is about metered internet, actual headline: Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use)
Right... his PR team couldn't have possibly told him to take his entire team to go watch "The Social Network" when it came out. Of course his PR team is going to guide him along the way, but it shouldn't discount how serious he is about confronting this stuff -- not for himself, but for the sake of Facebook.
Rogers’ suspiciously well-timed lowering of caps on their most popular plans when Netflix entered the Canadian market

I have intimate knowledge of this issue and it really was just bad timing on Rogers' part. They had been planning on rolling this out well before Netflix's announcement, at least 8 months, but they just chose to pick the absolute worst time to make their announcement.
> As I said I just don't feel like I belong here and I don't want to be here

"It gets better."
I have seen similar objections to my comments, along with the downvotes. Just as yummyfajitas said, if you evoke cognitive dissonance or frankly mess with peoples' worldview, they will downvote you. It matters not if you are discussing in a matters of science or otherwise.

Meditation seems to be a popular thing here on HN, given the amount of "Zen", "Meditation", Buddhism, and other Eastern topics. One of my specialities is specifically Yoga, Tantra, and Tibetan Buddhism. Meditation is a key part of these practices, as is other spiritual and religious work.

However, the disjoin I witness here is although meditation is seen as good benefit, anything spiritual and/or religious is downvoted to oblivion. One of the first lessons in proper meditation is shielding, yet the naysayers come out in droves. The Hindus have fond Asana to deal with the itches and movements when trying to meditate. Tumo was developed by the ascetic monks in the Tibetan mountains to generate massive amounts of body heat. Reincarnation, in Tibet, is not seen as some religious belief but as a fact of life. This is to the point that payments can be arranged between lifetimes.

I can discuss these techniques at length, as well as do some of them. I'm still learning and do not claim to be any sort of master. However, if these people want to learn about meditation, they better as well know how meditation fails, what happens when you succeed, and pitfalls thereof. Yet when I mention, there are a few who are genuinely curious, and a majority who -1.
Doesn't seem like too hard of an accomplishment (compared to traditional spam detection), I mean, all of the spammers in this case are registered and accounted for by Facebook.

Granted, the end effect is actually quite nice. I block every application that pops up. I even think I turned them off blanket fashion. Kudos to FB for allowing this.
This thread has entered a twilight zone inhabited by True Scotsmen:

Raganwald: "American journos act like they work for WalMart."

HN Chorus: "Those aren't Real Journalists."

:-)
"OpenXava, Trails, NakedObjects, RomaFramework and JMatter"

Fuck. Me. Now. Trails? That barely working clone of Rails that never really took off?

And hey, what happened to EJBs, Struts and Tapestry?

Java is 10X more productive once you spent a decade selecting and then mastering your over-engineered toolkit, and then jettisoning it to learn Trails.

That I could pick up a RoR book and develop a full application was such a relief, coming from a time in Java development where you needed massive amounts of knowledge just to get an n-tier "Hello World".
Predictions for the World in 2030
If you like, I could also point to the convenient dropping of calls when they are passed from Wind Mobile's network to Rogers' (and the subsequent marketing campaign around that fact) as another example of sleazy behaviour. This does not happen anywhere else in the world.

It may not have been the case in this instance, but it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility. I can tell you that reduced caps are, broadly, an attempt to make alternatives to Rogers' content services like Rogers on Demand less attractive.
Well honestly this does kind of make sense.I'll explain
1.Verizon owns the pipes an charges companies or.Facebook or NEtflix a set fee for bundled usage fee.
2.Netflix and Facebook in turn would have to charge customers basic membership or usage fees to recoup the cost of there bundled usage fees they pay Verizon.
3.Customer would pay membership fees for services that we in theory and utilize alot more because there free.

In retrospect though based on the amount of members or customers of both these companies would there usage growth take that much of a hit and would those two companies still be able to operate if they were forced to change there business models and chage people just to access there content.

In the case of Facebook how many members would thy have if people were required to pay say $9.99 a month to access Facebook.

In the case of the Internet as a whole clearly it costs money for companies like Verizon to expand and lay new lines to meet the demands of usage.Why then would it not be right to charge the data hogs for overuse of bandwith?

Society has become addicted to free and believe that content in itself should have no cost associated with it.However people don't realize the manpower,creativity and cost associated just to have that content produced. It makes sense now as to why Rupert Murdoch is against the freemium models for news via the web.

I mean just think about it on a small scale just for me to write this comment.I'm paying for Internet service,heating bill,electric and other costs also.So why shoudnt I be able to pas that cost to the end user?
I haven't given it much thought, really. On a deeper level, it probably stems from communication roots of English and French languages colliding, where a foreign phrase would be mentioned, but you would apologize for saying it, just to be polite.
To avoid someone making a 'contactless swipe' of my credit card information, I drilled the chip out of my card:

http://consumerist.com/2007/08/how-to-de-rfid-your-credit-ca...
The Norwegian solution-- actually, come to think of it, the rest-of-the-world-outside-the-US solution-- is to break the linkage between health care and employment altogether, thus eliminating the moral hazard, and guaranteeing adequate health care for all.

In terms of the present discussion, it is easier for entrepreneurs to commit to a start-up if there is no fear of losing health-care coverage. That's a big win, if you ask me.
Never seen it as an issue in Ontario. It's not all that common, but it's not offensive either.
There are very many more white men than their are asian women.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

Norway don't say yes to socialism they say yes to social welfare in a different way than in the US.

So do Denmark (where I am from) and Sweden.

Yes the taxes are higher (up to 60% in Denmark with a progressive tax system) and about the same I believe in Norway.

But it's not like everyone walks around an love it. In fact there is great opposition to the level that taxation have gone to. In Denmark it's an election year and several social welfare benefits plus income tax is being discussed as the main theme.

But all this doesn't really matter cause the US have something that neither of the Scandinavian countries nor any other European nations have.

They have a big ass market and one language.

Europe is a huge market (around +400 Million no?) but most countries (unlike Scandinavia) don't do well with english so there is no unifying factors that allow for the kind of scalable business that can be created in the US (at least not as easily)

There are many problems with the kind of social welfare models and lack of aspiration is actually one of them. People don't try as hard and because they pay high taxes they come to expect A LOT from the government.

I have lived in the US for enough years to know that there are many things that the US should envy from the Scandinavian countries. But the start-up environment is not one of them.
I'd say it's closer to Clojure than others lisps, but there are still some differences. For example, no keywords (:foo, :bar, etc.) and lists are not functions of their members. This can get a little confusing with Pharen's array access syntax:

(:some-list 1)

Here, some-list is just a variable while the : prefix tells Pharen that you are trying to index into it.
> Here in a suburb of Toronto I've had top-notch,
> leading-the-bandwidth (15Mbps around the clock) high
> speed for a low cost for almost a decade.

Toronto is the "New York City" of Canada. Do you look to New York City to be an exact replication of how the entire US looks, works, and functions? This reeks of "Windows never gave me a BSOD therefore all of the people that say they've had a BSOD are lying"-type of argument. Please leave your anecdotes at the door unless you promise to see them for what they really are... anecdotes.

When I was living in Toronto the quality of internet service (at least with Bell) depended very much on the area. In some areas the lines/infrastructure was really crappy and rather than fix it Bell would just blame the end-user (you need to reboot your computer, that's why the bandwidth is so slow) or acts of god (I know that you've been complaining about the bandwidth for months, but it was really caused by that large storm last night. It should be fine now.).

> Bell is far from alone in providing bulk bandwidth in Canada.

Really? I was under the impression that Bell was just selling access to their last-mile infrastructure and companies like TekSavvy were providing their own peering arrangements for getting the customers to the internet. Would you care to explain to me what the real situation is?

+------------------------------+
| THE INTERNET |
+------------------------------+
|| ||
|| || <-- Peering arrangements
|| ||
+--------+ +----+
|TekSavvy| |Bell| <-- ISPs
+--------+ +----+
\\ //
\\ //
\\ //
_ ______
Bell-owned | / || \
infrastructure | / || \ <-- last-mile infrastructure
|_ / || \
+--+ +--+ +--+
| | | | | | Residences/Customers
+--+ +--+ +--+

It's my understanding that the infrastructure looks like the above diagram. In this case, Bell is not selling bandwidth to the internet to 3rd-party ISPs, they are just selling access to their (government-subsidized) last-mile lines.
I'm slightly dubious as I'm reading on my mobile browser, but I'm getting a 404 for this page. Can anyone else see it?
Yeah, check the source for the static builders in Executors, like Executors.newCachingThreadPool, newFixedThreadPool, etc. They're all just different ways of wrapping ExecutorServices around a task Queue.
Very enlightening thanks.
Web apps are not an issue unless media is involved. Media is the issue.
> You modify the new and update method adding the line:
> @recipe.date = Time.now
> The equivalent in OX is adding the @DefaultValueCalculator annotation in model:
> @DefaultValueCalculator(CurrentDateCalculator.class)
> private Date date;
> You obtain the same effect in a more declarative way.

That is more like a more verbose way. I am not a Ruby guy, but I would prefer the first syntax.
"Did you win the Putnam?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
http://pulleyapp.com/

http://tenderapp.com/

http://beanstalkapp.com/

I think these sites look extremely clean.
> That's where the rubber meets the road, first impressions tend to gloss over the areas where the meat is.

One hopes the meat is not between the rubber and the road. That would be unfortunate.
Using JavaScript is a bad practice!
"we are incentivized"

Nice use of passive voice.
The article implies that most people in Norway believe that individual rights are less important than the average welfare of all individuals taken together and that personal lives are less important than the well-being of the collective. This is quite logical, because it is the acceptance of this view of the world that makes their system possible.

A similar view is at the root of most governments around the world today and it certainly underpinned the socialist/communist block in the 20th century, though to a different degree. The United States has been a notable exception.

But let's focus on Norway and the idea that it can serve as a model. To take a small example, who believes that a skilled doctor is genuinely happy to have half of his income taken away by law and given to the janitor of his hospital, so that the latter receives the roughly same pay? Well, the surveys say that the level of happiness in Norway are very high, so the doctor must be happy. Happiness measures aside, does that make sense? Is the doctor genuinely happy or has he been told by generations of intellectuals what he should feel happy about and what he should feel guilty about? This is a question that everyone who nominates Norway as a model for the US should answer logically.
Ask HN: Inspire me (Brag Thread)
I know this has been done before, but the comments and experiences that HNers share are always inspiring and uplifting, and it gives a taste of how driven the individuals of the HN community really are. It would be nice to learn about the community has achieved recently since the last thread of this nature was posted almost a year ago.

So, what unique things have you accomplished in your life? Share any and all awesome experiences, including traveling, success in business, education, physical fitness, etc.
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Because a minority loses out in a democracy, they can either adapt and accept the situation or struggle to change it. Often times it's easier to just change ones own position than to actually do something, that most likely will not succeed and if it does provides limited benefit - the ROI isn't worth it.

For example, I think the taxes are too high:

1. I can complain all the time, and be miserable.

2. I can work to change it - but lets say it takes me 10 hours a week to make any dent at all, and I'll only save 10k -- not worth it.

3. I can wish that it was lower, but do nothing and just live my life as it is. Though, I may feel anger or frustration - negatively impacting my life.

or lastly

4. I can change my position - I guess the taxes are good, I get this stuff that I need, etc. Now I'm happy with my current situation and don't have any need to change it. By changing my perspective I've removed a source of pain in my life, even though it still exists -- I am no longer consciously aware of it.

A little bit more on the concept of slave morality, it applies to Nietzsche's critique of Christianity:

"By saying humility is voluntary, slave morality avoids admitting that their humility was in the beginning forced upon them by a master. Biblical principles of turning the other cheek, humility, charity, and pity are the result of universalizing the plight of the slave onto all humankind, and thus enslaving the masters as well." [1]

He argues that in early Christianity instead of glorifying standing up to their oppressors, which was difficult and fraught with danger, that they glorified being subservient - when the master hits you turn the other cheek, don't defend yourself

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_morality
So he's comparing a RoR web application with a Java portlet? Notice the portlet screen shots don't show the rest of the browser window like the Rails ones. That's because you'd see the rest of the portal chrome and the god-awful unfriendly URL that all portals can't escape.

Portlets weren't meant to hold full web applications, but that's how every IT department tries to use it. Actual web applications let you have control over the URL structure and easily link to other pages. In portlets, to maintain cross-portal compatibilty, the portlet must be isolated from the rest of the portal. That means you can't link to other pages unless you use a specific portal's proprietary API or hard-code the links.

He also tends to gloss over the setup of the portal and application servers needed to run the portlet even for development purposes. I assure you it's more than 'rails server' or 'rails script/server'.

I also noticed how he has to depend on Eclipse to make it look like all he has to do to see changes is use a simple keyboard shortcut. Eclipse is doing the work of compiling the code, making a proper .war file and moving that file to right place so his application server will re-deploy it. Not to mention that depending on the change, you have to restart the application server also. Rails doesn't require 3rd-party tool support to make things seem easier than they are.
I literally laughed out loud when I saw this. I have relatives in india, who are good software engineers (but not AMAZING), and they get WAY WAY more than $6000 USD a year. Infographic Fail.
Zuck is concerned with the future of Facebook, as a company and as a service, far more than all this personal bullshit and his own brand, and I think that's what makes him a good leader irrespective of what anyone might think of his past.

When your company is servicing close to a third of the world's internet population and is actually making an iota of history, I'd like to see you LOL real loud when someone is out there trying to publicly defame you and ruin what you've built.
Shaw is cable right?
Hm. 150K is going to get a company, lets see, 10 times as far as $15K? Probably not, but its certainly going to get it something, and fundraising is going to be an order less critical for the duration.

The YC model is something like this: Founders are recruited, then weeks are spent building a prototype whilst attending dinners/lectures about the next step: fundraising.

YC is out of the picture once teambuilding, product honing begins. Its explicitely NOT part of the YC experience. As I understand it.

To expand on my 1st remark: the shoestring bootstrap model is just one; others solicit Angels to fund development in a more structured manner. The reasons to bootstrap are usually, you are not known and cannot convince Angels to cough up. If for instance you have a success behind you, it may be possible to dispense with the grinding poverty phase.
Can we ban WSJ submissions once for all? And people, please don't up vote a story before reading it... (I know, I know, a title that makes China look bad is tempting to blindly up vote)
Your phone is the one accessory you are most likely to be aware of.
3. By 2030, only 2% of the world's population will live in extreme poverty.

The eradication of extreme poverty will happen in our lifetime. In 1990, 42% of the world’s population lived on less than $1.25 (constant 2000 dollars, PPP). In 2005, that number had fallen to 25%. The UN estimates that by 2020, only 10% of world citizens will live in absolute poverty. My bold estimate is that by 2030, only one in 50 will.

Would be awesome, but it won't happen if the world population keeps increasing at the rate it is increasing. We've already surpassed 7 billion people, which wasn't originally projected to happen for at least a couple more years.
My bandwidth cap is almost the same now on Bell as it was when I first got a cable modem back in 2000 on Videotron. It's ridiculous. 25GB is a joke.
And just for reference (and more inspiration), here are some similar past threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200959

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756580
I always found it curious that in Russian language there are different (though similar) words for these two terms, and in English there are not.
Reactionary?
Having an (optional) gui is something "new". The parent post I was responding to asserted that there was nothing new in the editor space since emacs and vi.

I just opened vi on my machine and I was unable to select text. Maybe there's a way to get it to work... but in Sublime and other graphical editors it just works.

Thumbnail may have been a better word... Sublime has just that. I've found it useful when working on long files. But regardless, there are other features that a GUI enables, like code folding...
Literally, I think Egyptians just became the world's biggest internet losers.
Some of us actually carpool to save money, avoid driving every day, socialize, save the planet. Just a crutch?
Or just underline them?
This data is clearly incorrect. Sr. Software Engineers make much more than $89k in the US. I've been working less than 2 years at a large company as my first job and already make more than this as a "Software Engineer".
This article rings true to me. I've lived and worked in Norway for a successful startup (FAST Search, later bought by Microsoft) above the Arctic circle. It's a lovely country, the startup did feel like a family (in fact, many brought their kids to work), we worked and played hard, etc. I paid 50% tax and $15 for beers and was more than happy to do so as well–the taxes were well used and having an entire population, rather than a small circle of friends with a high standard of living was so much more fun.
A basic 20 Mbit connection goes for about $75 in Europe, that's 1.1 ct / Gigabyte (if my back-of-the-envelope math is correct). 40 Mbit goes for about $100 / month.

Metered is out, flat-rate is the future. The only hold-outs will be the mobile carriers and even there I already see flat-rate offerings.

$5 or $10 / month would not work due to fixed costs and write-off on equipment higher than that. But once the equipment is paid for you might as well use it to its full ability without being penalized further.
"Solvent until..." is a contradiction. If you're solvent until you have to pay your bills, you're broke.
What Youth Know About Education Software That Blackboard Doesn't [Interview]
Yup, following you on the OpenMFG mailing list... that's how I came across that link :-)
div.entry-content { letter-spacing: 1px; }

Why? It makes this text harder to read!
Your intentions are good, but I would not put that much faith int telcos. Almost every high-speed line is one of many that are oversold. The traffic that people have been paying for in past years, is just starting to be utilized. There are many years of pure profit in Bell's coffers.

The piece of pie in Canadian market didn't shrink, it evolved slightly out of bounds of Bell and Rogers oligopoly, and UBB attempts to push you back into that fold.

What's even worse, there can't be any competition as firms are not allowed to lay competing cable infrastructure.