skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, quite a few home routers can't even handle an aggressive Bittorrent client. Yes, DDoS can be defended against, and the fact that the LOIC is pretty primitive helps, but it's not that trivial.
I think that this found will improve the chance for a startup to become big, because with this extra money they can focus on the product and have a bigger found for advertising. If YC dose this is a win win situation for them because the companies that they found will get a bigger evaluation from the start. So now they invest $20K (let's say) and get somewhere to 10% if they invest $150K and still get 10% the company is worth $1.5 mil from the start not $200.000 like in the current funding.
I've just released an updated version of Sublime Text 2 that should address the Python issues, at least.
Should be fixed now: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-new-...
Yeah. I really don't get that, either.

Haskell and Erlang seem to run on Windows just fine when I mess around with them. The Lua environment on Windows is quite a bit better than the environment on Ubuntu. Mongrel2 doesn't, so I'll settle for running on Ubuntu for the time being.

Python runs beautifully, and the installers work quite a bit better than IMHO than the package system on Ubuntu. iPython is the shell that I live on most of the time, and when I need to automate server stuff, I find that Powershell is actually a much better shell than bash for a lot of stuff that I need on a regular basis. Being able to pipe around full objects rather than plain text is quite nice. When I don't have powershell lying around and I have to settle for bach, I find that I quite miss it.

The search engine that I'm building in my spare time doesn't seem to have any problems running on a Windows server, either.

So, no, I really don't get why people have such a chip on their shoulders when it comes to programmers running Win7. All I can think of is that people have some sort of techno-religious myopia. But, then again, there's jerks in all walks of life. I suppose programmers aren't exempt from that.
I thought this too, but someone pointed out to me that, unlike new hires at companies, customers don't care whether you're YC or not, or who you took investment from. The market is still as harsh as ever, and you'd better produce if you're going to make it.

The only place I can see this as being a problem is with acuhires, where an acquiring company can potentially care whether it's a YC company or not.
If we look at the bnetd case as precedent, it probably is illegal under the DMCA. The justification is that it's a tool for circumventing copy protection.
I used doodle.com for scheduling times to meet for group projects. It worked out great.
This was my point. Everybody is talking about like-minded individuals and community, but where do you get to interact with them? Only one benefit I can think of is the exposure of talents, but then again you can find talents everywhere. All in all IMO, having startup in silicon valley is highly overrated.
To be fair, it's not like that at all (from what I'm seeing).

Take this page: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-guitar-chords. Those videos are all (from what I can tell) produced by Mahalo, and are fairly well organized.

Sure, it's a lot of videos, but each is specific to the task at hand. That seems to be a fair example of what they are working toward.
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sinkplisitie is harderer to spell.
The vesting over 4 years is long by industry standards; understandable though if the buyer really wants to keep the founders on board. If you lose key people after acquisition, you might as well not have bought the company. I suspect the buyer got burnt on this in the past, and now compensates with very long vesting periods.

Creating an impression that "the first offer is the final offer" can safely be assumed to be negotiation tactics. This is what they are paid for; the people you're talking to do this sort of negotiation all the time. You are fencing with someone that has practiced this for years, and they have much less to lose than you. Do not assume malice, just assume that their job is to get a good deal for their employer.

Be frank: Tell them what you think the value of the company actually is. An M&A deal is like getting married: If you don't feel that it's the happiest day of your life when you sign your company over, you probably shouldn't do it. A little bit of cold feet is to be expected, but generally you should -not- enter a deal where you have a bitter taste in your mouth. That would do neither you (nor the potential buyer) any good.

Get yourself advisors (experienced ones, preferably); but be careful: Keep their incentive structure in mind. Some have a lot less to lose than you (e.g. if the deal breaks apart, they lose a couple of hours of work), but can often gain much more from risk-taking (as they usually want a percentage of the proceeds).

Your impression that a lot of advisors seem like they have something to sell to you is correct, because they do. Finding one that you deem trustworthy is important; personal connections are usually more helpful than shopping around.

It is not unheard of to not get the LOI before the basic terms are agreed upon. The buyer wants to avoid giving you something in writing that you could use to shop around.

Good luck !
As I mentioned, sit-ins are non-violent, disruptive protests designed to raise awareness.

This does not mean that any form of disruption is analogous to a sit-in. If you know that you'll be arrested for a DDoS attack then certainly that's a sacrificial act (though to map closely to a sit-in you'd have to announce publicly what you are doing). However, even then that doesn't necessarily account for the damage participating in a DDoS can bring. Sit-ins rarely cause the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in business.

As it stands the debate is academic and the comparison is irrelevant. To date the number of DDoS attacks that have been carried out in public with full listings of the names and contact information of the participants is precisely zero.

You can hide behind a mask, or an IP, and you can throw your packets or your molotov cocktails at those folks you consider "the bad guys", securely smug in your knowledge that you're fighting the good fight. But that's an illusion. You're not Ghandi, you're not Rosa Parks. You're just another jerk with an ax to grind who doesn't have the guts to accept any consequences for his actions.

The reason sit-ins are lauded and DDoS's are shunned is because people who abuse the disruptive power of a sit-in to fight for worthless causes or their own self interest are simply sent to jail. Whereas most perpetrators of DoS attacks go uncaught.
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The only thing I'm upset about is that I put in my application yesterday and now the competition is going to skyrocket!

But overall I think this is great for YC, and great for their startups. It's everyone else that should be worried.
Agreed on quite a few of these points.
Today there is an interesting situation in that there exist microkernels with an amount of published formal proofs such as the one by NICTA in this thread and, then, that there exist DO-178B avionics certified microkernels and separation kernels (often with very little published artefacts). I think that the current hot field for microkernels is to bring both formal methods and certification together, which is indeed starting to happen for DO-178C see for example https://sites.google.com/site/fmstandardsworkshop/ . Holger
Disclaimer: not completely unbiased here (e.g. http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~beckert/pub/safecomp2009.pdf).
Btw, before I forget:

- Counteroffer. Seriously.
- If you're profitable and can keep on going, make this -very- transparent to the people approaching you.
- "No deal is better than a bad deal" is very true. Make sure the deal makes you happy.
- Having an experienced negotiator along is going to make this a lot less nerve-wrecking. Try finding one, somehow.
Um... I didn't even come close to suggesting what you said. You inferred things not even remotely close.
> We're about 5 years old and are highly profitable and have been for a while.

If highly profitable means you all earn enough money to drive the car you want, live in a comfortable house and take your family to holidays once in a while, you are on the right path and continue to walk it. Why should you bother with additional risks if you have job you like and it earns you enough?
I said in another comment that certain cases (like games) are the exception of the rule. But in context with the article, what I say stands. Implementing undo for users is fairly trivial. If it's not, their are other problems that need addressing.
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Take a look at IntelliJ IDEA's little brother WebStorm. Their JavaScript insight is fantastic and it runs quickly at least on my machines.
Excuse my ignorance, but what's a "circular system" in this case?
I think the title is misleading. There's nothing, even now, preventing Sequoia from offering all YC startups the same deal, with the same terms.
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For a bit more detail:

The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_...

The actual referenced article (PDF)

http://www.edwardtufte.com/files/Study1.pdf
Perf will suck. Like running a CGI process for each request if using this for python web app.
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Possibly a sign of different upbringings?

Can be parental, culture, education, standard of living, etc.
Good luck man! I'm sure if you just keep at it it'll work out fine.

But a word of advice, be careful that you and your wife's relationship won't be jeopardized by working together. I don't know either of you but from observing my friends it could put an untold amount of pressure on your relationship.

Your wife will essentially stop being your soother and turn into a business partner(one you live with D:) and thus another source of pressure.
Thats one of paths. Not every (talented) person has the risk appetite or drive to create new products. Company like Google are wonderful place for those dare, I say, majority cases.

There is no "one true way".
Yes, if you had a satellite internet modem connection, or satellite phone, you would not be cut off if the main isp was disconnected. However it's slow, like dialup, and expensive per minute.
Oh, I'm not sure I think it was the best plan. I merely enjoy mirth at the expense of Anonymous.
There are what like 20,000 or 40,000 people who work at Google? One of them leaves and feels compelled to write an article about it and then post it themselves to HN? What else was there in this article? You're going to work on Android apps because of some professor who inspired you, wonderful.

You know if I was to self-post something to HN, I'd at least try to mention something I'm working on, or some technology I'm using or some idea I have. There's nothing like that here. There's nothing here.

I don't understand what the upvotes are for? Moral support?
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I'm pretty sure more money can actually make things worse not better.
If a site ranks high in a SR, isn't it because it must have good backlinks?

Shouldn't that be more important than whether it has original content or not?

Maybe an aggregator displays the content in a more useful way than the originator so it gets linked to more than the originator.

If the content creator doesn't like his content copied he can take it up with the copier. It's not Googles job to get involved in that.

Google's job is to give the searcher a list of the sites that matches his keywords in an unbiased way. They should do that mostly on what the internet thinks is the best site, not what Google thinks is the best site.
"My other midlife crisis is a startup"
There is no central heating here in Sydney and there are plenty of fat people around. Isn't it obvious that you burn more energy to keep you warm when you feel slightly cold? Was this really research we needed?
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Well, around here the cops know who has guns, as well as whether they're known to be a bit crazy. The police are also usually not treated like an invading army, so it's apples for oranges.

I'd at least suggest holstering the weapons until they're needed and weighing the probability of encryption against the probability of forceful self-defense, case by case. If for some reason there's reason to believe that the person is working next to both a loaded gun and an encrypted disk, sure, treat it as a hostage situation and call swat or the wiretappers in. I don't think that's the norm, though.
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also this one

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...
No deep truth, if you're ambitious and determined enough go leave your home and everything and everybody you know, you're not going to arrive in a foreign land and sit on your ass - the drive will keep pushing you to achieve great things... otherwise you could just have stayed at home and eaten your mom's potatoes for the rest of your life, right?!
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Why so negative, btipling? The OP's striking out on her own, and that's exciting. She's not pimping a new thing, just trying to convey her feelings. Lighten up, dude.
A password of that sort is both not that hard to remember and probably fine on a post-it not on the monitor of your home computer. There's really not much overlap between the sorts of people who will break passwords and who will be in a position to read things on your monitor.

(and if they can, some browser password auto-save feature is going to screw you anyway so it doesn't matter)
Yeah:

In a nicely Pharaonic touch, one of the six ducts going
into the ground here is the sole property of President
Hosni Mubarak, or (presumably) whoever succeeds him as
head of state. It is hard to envision why a head of state
would want or need his own private tube full of air running
underneath the Sahara. The obvious guess is that the duct
might be used to create a secure communications system,
independent of the civilian and military systems (the
Egyptian military will own one of the six ducts, and ARENTO
will own three). This, in and of itself, says something
about the relationship between the military and the
government in Egypt.

If you have StyleBot, this makes it a lot more readable:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

body {
width: 600px;
margin: auto;
line-height: 1.7;
}
Is there any way to have custom css files inserted into the Android web browser? Then we don't need to ask pg et al. To do this, we can do it ourselves.
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It seems a bit silly to compare syntax of these two languages, when the thing that makes them what they are is their class libraries.

So as you can see, they're nearly identical in syntax. But that doesn't mean they're even similar in terms of being suitable for a given task.

I'd like to see a comparison of Java's standard class libraries as compared to .NET. How do you open a file in each? Execute a stored procedure and spin thru the returned recordset. That's where the interesting stuff lies, and where the ecosystems diverge.
It seems to me that the case is exactly the opposite: the talent appears randomly, so the only way to concentrate it is migration.
Always relevant, the article from Ioannides - the man who dedicated this entire career on examining the way in which research is done rather than the actual research.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

#1 in downloads on PLoS for many years.
I've been using this trick to get around the uber-global-scope that exists where I'm working. Two versions of utility tools exist with identical scopes and names (don't ask why), so re-naming the class with "using" is the only way to force the selection. I wish I'd seen this comment a couple months ago when I was trying to figure out wtf was going on.
Timing influences how high an article gets to a rather extreme degree. Get it up just before the main rushes appear, and it's far more likely to get to - and stay on - the front page long enough for a lot of people to see it.
We went through a similar, albeit much smaller, acquisition process recently. However the general principles still apply:

1) If they are genuine bidders, then there will be room for negotiation. How much of course depends on a) how much they want to buy and b) how much you are prepared to sell for. Anyway, if they are genuine buyers they will be prepared to negotiate. If they are not, or you can not agree on a deal, then you haven't lost anything (except perhaps some lawyer fees) so don't stress.

2) You should negotiate both the price, the cash/stock mix and the terms. This latter is by far and away the most complex, and YOU MUST GET A GOOD LAWYER TO ADVISE. The devil is in the details, and as you mention, you must make sure they can't do something like arbitarily fire you and take away your stock.

3) Figure out where you are prepared to sell for. Pitch this to them. Don't be a pussy about this. After the back and forth, if you can agree on broad terms great.

4) They will probably want to draw up the contracts. Of course this means the deal will be weighted in their favour, hence YOU MUST HAVE A LAWTER TO ADVISE - and be prepared to haggle on the various clauses.

5) I would say vested stock is pretty common. But you must make sure you are protected against dilution. And you must check the details concerning the circumstances under which they can take your stock. E.g losing your stock for anything other than gross negligence is a no no.

Good luck!
That has easily been one of my favorite programming books so far. It's a programming language book for programmers. Every language needs something like it.

I only wish his linter were better. I haven't poked at the recent update (!) very much, but it was almost un-usably incorrect for quite a while, and removes one of my favorite tools for making javascript look nicer: functions as objects (ie, with properties). Instead, he preaches a super-watered-down version where functions are mere constructors for objects, and nothing else.
I presume you are referring to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, which states that any sufficiently powerful mathematical logic will have theorems that can't ever be proven in it.

This doesn't mean that certain particular theorems can't be proven, however. For instance, proving that a particular implementation of a kernel matches a particular specification can keep well away from Gödel.
Ask HN: Where can I find a list of every YC startup?
I would love to see a list of all of the YC startups, broken down by session.

Anyone know where to find this?
if you choose to strap a bomb to yourself which you know someone else will detonate, then it's suicide.

I wish things were that simple. There are several variations that makes this logic less convincing, from social pressure ('all families must make sacrifices') to outright catch-22 ('if you do not do it, we will kill you and your family').

Especially in the latter case, I wouldn't call this suicide.
Yuri Milner is a baller. That's all.
Google created an ecosystem, spammers take steps that are criminal in this particular ecosystem and work against it's 'citizens'. Maybe their actions are not criminal in general terms, but it's at least scammy (not to say worse) when you look at it considering only this narrow subject (getting information through the internet). Google needs to do a better job, yes, just like lawmakers need to do it IRL, but it doesn't change the fact that IRL also mostly criminals are the ones that force the law system to adjust. Your post makes a lot of sense, but IMO there's nothing wrong in blaming spammers for the current situation.
This almost brings tears to my eyes. We have come a long way friends. Congrats to the new YC batch.
From a year ago - have things improved? Are computers (more) like toasters?
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Startups made "collaboration deals" announcements with AOL then got funding based on those "perspectives". Large part of that funding would go to AOL to buy a front-page add.

They say that the only limit to AOL's revenue from this was the amount of space on their website first page, not the number of interested startups.

Basically the valuation of the giants stayed up for as long as easy funding was available to .com's. Their spending habits, without being backed by actual revenues, were more than enough to sustain the stock prices of the few big ones selling to startups whatever they needed (ad space, big iron or aerons).

They all fell together when the crash came and easy funding dried up.
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Funny, I read that as 'banks, lawyers, contracts, standardized protection clauses, best practices'.
I think this picture says everything you need to know about Scoble.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/07/scoble-ipho...

If the tech world is a big family, Scoble is the youngest kid whose incessant bids for attention have the older ones rolling their eyes.
After the deal has gone through (or not), it may even be possible the lessen the anonymity. (Just hoping.)
You appear to be confusing having more features with being more powerful. An easy mistake to make, but not necessarily true.
Some lawyer's advice on negotiating: http://www.diplom.org/Zine/F1997R/Windsor/lawdip.html

You have to abstract away from the Diplomacy specifics.
Ask HN: What startup has the best name?
What are the best named startup at the moment? Purely based on name, not on quality!

Personally, I just love the name 'Backupify' (http://www.backupify.com/)
Ask HN: Review my startup, tymr.com
I've finished my master degree in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship and for the last months I've been working in a social network project.
I've build a very limited prototype http://tymr.com in the last month!

I've build this because I believe that Social Networking should be about people interactions in real life.
And people connect through events such as a casual dinner, a music festival or a conference.

tymr aims to facilitate users with the task of managing and promoting events, through a social and collaborative network, in order to enhance the overall experience.
Using innovative communication solutions based on Web technologies and features and betaking the organics of the social network fostered by the interaction of the participants, the service will be an asset not only in terms of promotion, but also in the planning, creation, monitoring and sharing event of any size.
Therefore, the platform will also be a means of excellence for events publishing. In this regard, we intend to surprise the users through a system of effective recommendations, foreseeing the intended research and finding events according to their likes and geographical location.

Looking forward to your feedback!
I like mine: tymr.com
but that's obvious :)