skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding a good sales/marketing/bizdev guy is certainly not easy. I'm a developer-turned-biz guy, so I can offer a bit of insight from my perspective, though it may differ with others.

First, it's important to recognize the market to which you are targeting. Yours is enterprise software, which you correctly realize is different than consumer software. This speaks to the different skills you'll want in a biz guy.

Second, biz skills vary significantly. Being great at sales & direct selling is different than launching a social media campaign, for instance. And if you want a cofounder who is also familiar with the financial and legal aspects of running a startup, those are different skills as well. Startups will probably want people with "T" skills - a wide range of business skills (the horizontal bar in the T) and a deep well of some specific skill (the vertical bar in the T). In enterprise software, you may want someone who's really good at direct sales, for instance.

Third, relevant experience is important. This person needs to know your market well and have a good track record (ideally in startups too). They should be able to rattle off key competitors and have an eye on emerging trends. They also should be able to articulate the key metrics (or KPIs, Key Performance Indicators) of your industry. Every industry has a different set of KPIs. A good biz person will know yours.

Fourth, the biz person's network is also important. For direct sales, it's especially so. If this person already has a connection to your target customers, that will go a long way in securing their business. You may also want a biz person with connections to investors.

Fifth, personality & attitude is another attribute to watch. It goes without saying that this person should be able to gel with you well (i.e. can you imagine being stuck with this person in an airport for 10 hours?). Your biz person should also have an entrepreneurial attitude and know when to be frugal (with hard costs) and when to spend (with great talent). In my biased view, the biz person should also have enough of a technical background to understand your software, at least from an architectural level, to be able to speak to a customer's CTO.

My $0.02. I'm writing this off-the-cuff, so I may have left a few things out.
Could you elaborate? In what ways do you find Chromium's Inspector inferior?
Any very wrong merge[1] may leave the central repo in `working but contains nonsensical data' state. In SVN you can only commit a reverting changeset or you can alter the state of the server. The former leaves the merge around to trip up future merges; the later requires you to have admin access to the server and may break user's checkouts.

In git, you can just push a clean branch on the server, if you take some caution. No elevated privileges needed.
Actually, most of the time it won't be necessary, because the user will simply not push a wrong merge to the server. No need to clean up.

Actually once in a while I do torch whole repo (both .git and checked out files), but that's only when I was experimenting with something and didn't like the result. Cheap local cloning of Git repos makes that experimentation fast, easy & safe.

On the other hand, if I ever have to really, positively clean the repo to a known state, `git co -f $SOME_BRANCH' or `git co -f HEAD'; end of the story. Perhaps also remove the leftover untracked files, if I was cleaning merge abandoned in progress.

--

[1] as I described here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2310065
Just to clarify, When I say "us" I mean the western world. True, industrial countries are having fewer kids, and thats an example of a new selective pressure. It's a result of a new environment we've created for ourselves. I'm sure there are many to go along with that. But the sheer number of (potential) selective pressures we've removed through technology doesn't compare: many diseases, muscle size, brain size, vitamin D synthesis (its put in everything now), body hair, skeletal structure, the list goes on. Our interaction with our environment is on such a fundamentally different level that there are many classes of environmental pressures that simply don't affect us anymore.

Think of it this way: we used to be directly reliant our the environment for survival, like animals are. But now, we process our environment to such an extent that small variations in it are overcome by our intellect. Those variations in the past would constantly be exerting selective pressure on us in many different directions. Those pressures are processed out now.
"I'm having my review today and I am not making enough to live on. Every month, after mortgage on the house, modest car payment, and insurance for wife and two kids, I dip into savings to pay the bills."

Do you realize what you're saying? YOU ARE PAYING YOUR OWN MONEY TO GO TO WORK. It's not like you are spending all your cash on hookers and cocaine. Get a raise that covers your basic living expenses, or go find another job right now.

"I think because I don't want the commitment a big raise would impose on me to stay indefinitely, and I don't want to be comfortable."

Your manager will have no problem being comfortable enough to fire you when cash flow is tight.
Ask HN: 404 Page Hijacking
Is it just me or is Chrome hijacking 404 pages with their own? Like IE does?
I'm sure some of the stuff on that website is made up. They claim to verify it all, but when you're dealing with programmers the compulsion to game systems in elaborate ways is just too strong.

At the end of the day I have to believe some of it is made up or I would quickly lose the will to live.
Yes. How often do I say, "I wish this thing ____" or.. "oh that's just not possible." They just decided to write a bunch of c++ to make it possible. Awesome!
The 'pack' function is still consing
together unnecessary subsequences.

No, it's not.

The count function also has to iterate
across each of these subsequences

Only the sequences that it sees.

This can be done much more cleanly
in a recursive fashion.

I suppose we have different definitions of clean.

implementing this in a point free
style is horribly inefficient.

Call me unconvinced.
I've been naïve in thinking that the hosting would have any effect on it, though you're right with regards to the jurisdiction to shut it down. I'll have to investigate it further. I could register the business in another country but that would involve cost that I don't think I'm willing to front for a weekend project and has a certain dodgy feeling attached as well. With regards to the states, I would have to investigate each states legislation as well, before I could allow entry to participants to my understanding.
Actually a pretty solid advice and in accordance with the article.

Do that.

Postpone all the rest for a year.
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95...
I usually only pay attention to real memory. I also notice when my real memory runs out or real memory, my machine immediately start hitting swap. I guess 4 gigs is just not enough anymore.

This is what I use to measure what I believe to be real memory usage for Chromium: https://gist.github.com/864606
Show HN: freespeech - mobile messaging for everyone. Real time, Free SMS, Groups
Power of the Market - Minimum Wage
Validating Emails is hard, very very hard
The Inside Story on the Angry Birds’ Massive Funding Round
Google buys Beat That Quote… then bans them
Wow! Is there anything these people do that isn't excellent?

$100,000,000? 40 languages? Multiple industries?

Have you guys considered taking on serious investment and getting really big? Perhaps you should.
MailChimp’s Mobile Web App
They were designing for the wrong hardware, Nokia hasn't had a single device that rivals the iPhone's technical capabilities. With that said Nokia's brick phones have some of the easiest interfaces to use of any device ever, which is a huge reason they are so popular in the developing world, that and they saturated the market.
If you're applying this cycle: How to Apply to Y Combinator
safer from what? loss or invasion of privacy?
Phono 0.2 Released (jQuery plugin)
I've never heard that chess saying before. That's one to remember.

"Only good players get lucky."
Absolutely - for me one of the major benefits of a framework is documentation and user base. Developers new to the framework can easily get up to speed if it is well-documented. A good framework can also be easily extended to accommodate the custom aspects of your site/application.
Not sure what you mean by "next"... it seems a pretty decent description of what we're looking at right now.
Windows CE 6 is a complete redesign of Windows CE 5.2(on which Windows Mobile is based).
Tell HN: Smalltalk for the JVM presentation in NYC
We will be presenting Redline Smalltalk ( http://redline.st/ ) Thursday March 17th at the NYC Smalltalk users group ( http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2011/03/redline-smalltalk/ ).

If you are interested in smalltalk on the jvm in particular or just dynamic languages on the jvm, come on by, we'd love to meet you and talk about what we've been up to and where we are going over the next few months as we ramp the project up.
In that situation, don't ever take the counter-offer. Seriously.

Everything else you were unhappy about before will still be true. They will now have a chip on their shoulder about you. And furthermore, part of the reason why they will pay more is that they don't have a replacement for you. But now that they know that you are a risk for leaving their top priority will be to have you transfer your knowledge, to hire a replacement, and then to fire you as soon as they feel that they are in a good position to.
This is a fascinating line of discussion because such a simple question generates such unforeseen complexity Here we're only three or four comments in and we've already brought in an MRI and a supercomputer. :)

But once again, there are assumptions you are making that I'm not ready to go along with. The biggest one is that I know what is good for me -- that I have a set of criteria (even if un-describable) that can be replicated. The beauty of real-world interactions is that there is a mix of happy and sad, interesting and boring. Sometimes the guy you meet at the gas station says something off-hand that you think about the rest of the day. Human social interactions require an element of randomness. As a social animal, I need to interact with a machine that also has social needs, not a machine that is trying to make me perfectly happy.

That's a big deal, because if you're looking at this as some sort of optimization function, yes, we could somehow come up with a system that would optimize your happiness, or emotional reaction, or whatever. I'd argue that places like HN and most social sites are early attempts at optimization. We will continue to get better.

But let's say I'm angry. Some guy in a clown suit cut me off in traffic. You know what would make me happy? Seeing a bunch of clowns on fire, that's what. But do you know what I _need_ to consume? Something that reminds me that all people are human and deserve respect. I would absolutely _hate_ consuming that material, but a week from now, a month from now -- anytime but right now -- I would tell you that it is the right thing to do.

In fact, this optimization process is a grave danger: we risk becoming zoned out in little echo chambers where the only thing we consume is the rock candy of me-too, feel-good content.

It's a tough, probably intractable problem, at least until we come to terms with what the nature of the optimization needs to be. It would not surprise me to discover that the optimization that is best for the species as a whole and the optimization that makes me the happiest are two completely different things. Not good.
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This looks like it could slowly edge towards a browser based .SVG editor in combination with a bunch of other stuff, I like it.
It's basically the geek equivalent of Penthouse Letters to the Editor.
You need to either get a raise or quit. Wallowing around in between these two options isn't a healthy employment situation.
You could. I prefer ketchup, which has plenty of sodium itself.

Also, it cools piping hot fries,
Thanks, Mike -- great advice!
Even if things are verified there is sure to be a little bit of padding to stories you get from someone who experience an emotional or bizarre situation. However, they also say reality is stranger than fiction.
I wonder how long it will be before I'm going around saying "In my day, our bits could only be in one of two states!"

Maybe my kids say things like "We had to wait until our methods had been called before we calculated our return values! We couldn't rely on Just-In-Time-Reverse-Causality-Compilation to optimize our code! Get off my hyperlawn!"
A fantastic promo that leaves me wishing I had more excuses to use Wufoo.
Sure you did. "annectodotal" ?
Six months later, things are still sounding great and not happening. What's going on?

It could be that nothing unusual is going on. A six+ month buying cycle for anything over 4 figures is normal. Whenever selling to an enterprise, you should ask your contact:

1. Who is the champion?
2. Who is the decision maker?
3. What is the process for each tier?
4. What should we do the best ensure our mutual success?

The only reason for surprises in the sales cycle is if you didn't bother to ask.

It someone sold a cure for cancer for $1000, everyone would buy it and the world would be healed.

If it cost $10,000, you'd probably have to await corporate paperwork and approval for 6 months and only then start implementation.
>Banners hosted locally and not by a third party service probably won't be affected at all.

So you have to install and manage your own local ad server to earn ad revenue from your site? Many publishers large and small use ad servers e.g. doubleclick, adtech to avoid this overhead.

>Why can't the advertisers simply re-evaluate the rates they pay per impression based on the expected cost/benefit under the new model?

Yes, publishers loose out once again.
Another semi-related tip I've given is:

Go out there and interview with other companies, even if you aren't seriously looking. You can get an idea of the market for your skills, and - perhaps more importantly for this thread - possible salaries. A wealth of knowledge can be learned this way, and may give you some leverage for salary negotiations.

BTW, you probably don't want to tell your manager you've been interviewing and therefore, know your salary could be $NNN. Err on giving less information and word it as, "I know companies ABC and XYZ are offering salaries in the $NNN-NNN range." Then you can follow up with tptacek's advise, "That's my target. What can I do to reach that?"

I do this periodically, though I try not to abuse it or waste anyone's time with a company I have no interest in whatsoever. There's a fine line here. I don't mean to advocate wasting anyone's time, and never do this with startups. It's a small industry and someone could catch wind that you're interviewing just for the sake of interviewing. I find this tactic more useful with large corporations. And used judiciously, it can be advantageous.
I really like the design of the site.

When I visited http://3pics.me/1 my first response was to click on the text that said "Click to vote for pic X!" as opposed to clicking on the pic itself.
I think the reason Linda won't get out of bed for less than $10k is because they pay her that much to stay in bed
Echo suppression = big deal.
If work hours or company policies are not posted, couldn't you also say that expectations aren't made clear and communication is lacking? Aren't some sort of standards still needed? Otherwise everyone would cram everything into a 4 day workweek and be MIA on the 5th day.
Live: http://lsemel.github.com/twitter-convowall/example_photos.ht...
In a word: winning.
Even more interesting... and prescient.

- Transactional Memory

- Java interop

- Parallelism

- Mobile Lisp

- VM

- Event Model
Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Indexing the social network with wordscape
That's Angry Birds Seasons. New level sets for each holiday all in the same app.
I think American's need to read this article, scale it down, and apply it to their own lives. I love how people think just because you earned a bunch of money you are entitled to spend it on a bunch of crap, whether today or in a year...
Cool!

Ripped concept or not, it looks to me like something that has all the potential to go viral (probably short-term).

I'd suggest the following:

1. Line up some revenue streams (AdSesne /Aff etc.?)

2. Prep up the backend/code/servers etc. for a huge spike (probably lasting a few days)

3. Submit to as many Web 2.0/social media focused destinations as you can (following up on each response)

4. Keep fingers crossed :-)

All the best.
As Merlin Mann so brilliantly put it, "Yelp.com: Explore Where Local Illiterates Have Recently Stopped Eating.™"

http://twitter.com/#!/hotdogsladies/status/1453581139
Hackers Shame Safari and IE8 on Day One of Pwn2Own
Also, if anyone has any questions about applying that aren't answered on our site, feel free to ask them here.
This release includes echo suppression!
no headphones required!
IMovie and GarageBand for iPad Go Live in App Store
Square vs VeriFone - Fees & Security
I lolled when they said the CLIM standard should provide a way to control Java applets running in browsers.
Strategy for what?

Philosophy of what?

Self-Discipline in what art?

Science to discover what?

Victory over what?
LinkedIn Launches Social News Site for Professionals
The Curse of Involuntary Entrepreneurship
OKCupid is the only web site I can think of that has a regular, not occasional, pattern of being very slow and simply not responding to an unusual number of requests. Hitting F5 to reload a page just to get it to show up instead of the Firefox server unavailable message is a regular part of my usage of the site.

Even though all sites have bugs, broken links, what have you, I don't know any other site that's given me such an expectation that it will be unresponsive for a significant number of page views for any given session over a long term period. Even the sites that started development circa 2003.
Mike Beltzner just said on reddit that the final should be released in a "couple of weeks". But the RC is pretty much the final.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g197r/iama_were_on_the...
UX is 90% Desirability
Amazing promo video, can you guys go into a little more detail about the process you used to create it? Did you handle all the coordination between the artist, sound team, and animators?
Getting content for free because advertisers are paying for it is pretty great, though, right? As Heinlein would say, there's no such thing as a free lunch...
This is great, the group chat function is seamless and very helpful. I know these guys and the technology they've put together shows real promise. Kudos.
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Takeaways from the recent TED conference
Angry Birds maker gets $42 million in venture funding
They made a similar declaration against the iPhone. But really, every vendor works roughly like this.

I can consolidate every FSF pronouncement:

Don't use cell phones, they're all bad. Do not browse the web. Instead, have a cron job download a text version and mail it to you over uucp, every day.

I might as well build a cabin in the woods. Or you know, compromise based on my own comfort level.

Edit: I do value the FSF. I would just like to see more practical suggestions for the layperson from them. Not everyone can lead the techno-monastic lifestyle.
Niklas Zennström on why Angry Birds is the new Super Mario
How could they verify it? Ask for Alicias contact details and get her to confirm the story?
On exactly what grounds do you suggest that people who earned a bunch of money aren't entitled to spend it on whatever crap they want?
McK alum here. Article is drawing conclusions on 6,000 ppl based on allegations of actions of a few. Client confidentiality reigns supreme within the culture, though no cultural is monolithic. Stuff always slips through.

For example, consultants at McK are labeled as 'conflicted' if they have served a competitor of a client in a given industry. Therefore, no consultant at the firm can serve competing firms. And the firm's institutional knowledge which gets carried over is stuff you can read in HBR/McK Quarterly.

Can't excuse blatant securities fraud, but to paint the entire industry with such a brush is slightly sensationalist.
I'm not sure if I'm parsing your post right - are you trying to suggest that models are prostitutes?
Not sure why this is downvoted. It's a valid point. Yes Google can probably safeguard your data from natural disasters/technical disasters/outside prying better than most companies.

However by entrusting your data to Google, you are putting your faith in Google and hoping they don't pry into your data.
Does this release automatically upgrade the WordPhone Wordpress "click to call" plugin or do I have to change something? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordphone/
Statistically, there is little question that this is the case, but Google faces the same challenges as airlines do when it comes to customer perception.

Statistically, you are much safer flying on an airplane than you are driving in a car, yet people are disproportionately afraid of flying when compared with riding in a car. Some propose that a major component of this fear is control related. In an automobile, the rational fear that should be present is subdued by a sense of direct control and familiarity: you are the one driving the car, and despite the fact that you are driving at speeds that can easily kill you, the sensation is familiar.

The same rules apply for cloud vs local storage. Statistically, you're far less likely to lose data in Google's cloud, but with your data on your own computer, you feel more in control, and it's a mechanism you're familiar with.
What I got from this: "It's more about the person than the specific pitch. Maintaining a good, thoughtful presence on HN helps tremendously.
"How many managers does it take ..." joke writes itself.
If you ignore a problem long enough, it will go away.
Thanks for putting this together. It was super helpful.

Another question that kind of sticks out as a wild card is:

Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)

Unfortunately, you don't really talk about it in the how-to. Is this not that important of a question for you? Is it just an opportunity to get a sense of the applicants personality? In general what are you trying to evaluate with this question?
Flash to ipad, ipad2, iphone
PG's Viaweb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb
...and they managed a good exit ;-)

PG's take on this subject: it's about beating the averages: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Cruise Freeks issues public apology to "other" Tina Rinaldi
The FSF provides what is expected of it: Dogmatic consistency and a warning that without a certain set of freedoms you are a sharecropper.

The reason you don't see a more practical suggestion from them is the suggestion involves "none of the currently above options".
If you have a small team and everybody has much C++ experience you can pull this off. Otherwise one person who doens't have the discipline to do the manual memory management right can crash the whole server. Don't try it at home ;) use an VM-language instead which can recover from such errors.

(I wrote some C++ webapps myself)
It doesn't matter. The guy reflects a mentality that I like.

I pretty much feel the same way he does about "needing" money. I can't say it made me successful, but it certainly makes me have some respect for myself.