skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what worries me is that the title of the article is 'neutral does not save gas' and not 'neutral is exceptionally dangerous because you are not in full control of your car'. if something jumped out at you and you suddenly needed to gas your car, you just lost 1-2 important seconds (if you're very good at remembering what gear to hop into for a given speed/rpm). the next stupid thing you could do is "I'm coasting so I might as well turn my car off". now you lost power steering.

no, neutral does not save gas. your fuel pump has a idling injection setting (lets say keeping the engine at 950rpm). when you're in neutral, the injection mechanism switches to that rate, and you slow down by friction (bearings, wheels, transmission, weight, etc). whereas if you're coasting in gear, the engine switches into engine braking, and eventually slows you down without using fuel. in gasoline engines that works by creating vacuum in the engine (which slows the movement). in diesel engines that vacuum is not created, so the exhaust is somehow blocked (again, slowing the movement).

HUGELY oversimplified explanation, I realize. with apologies to actual mechanics. I'm just a nerd who hammers at his car :)
That and there was no mention of any equity. Is that normal for UK startups? Also, for me at least, I always find some way to exclude myself going through those "everything we want you to be an expert in before we'll even consider talking to you" laundry lists.
Net profit is after salaries. I assume that what you are looking for is startups with enough revenue to pay an employee the equivalent of an entry level development job.
Even places such as Slashdot are hard to get submissions accepted but I'd say that's due more to the sheer volume of submissions, not as much in past years but I'm sure Slashdot has a large user-base they've got at least a good eight years experience over Digg and Reddit. I mean even Anonymous users can submit at Slashdot.

I'd say it's more than having your funny cat picture or that article everyone has seen 20 times posted because it's new to you it's the fact you can submit your post and let the community decide what to do instead of having everything outright rejected instantly - it makes for hard feelings and no sense of community.

Believe it or not I think Digg is actually getting better community-wise, it seems the rats have left the sinking ship. edit: I certainly don't mean Kevin!
I think you're splitting hairs in the first point, it's also strange though that CS grads also have the highest unemployment rate:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10477551. Which seems to contradict your point about developer roles, or speaks to other issues.

However, I absolutely agree that it is cultural trends that drive the choices, which goes back to my original point that now there is a broader cultural understanding of what life is like in the tech sector and that tech hasn't woke up to this yet.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/19/rip-digg/
It may not matter to you. It is a well written piece and relevant to HN. Some people enjoyed reading it and/or got something out of it so they upvoted it. This is how it works.
HTML 5 has the 'article' tag. There's also header, footer, and other semantic mark-up tags.

I've spent the last month writing scrapers for newspaper sites. No one uses any of these things.
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"software vendors will just get to choose which format to support."

can they have both?
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Headlines like this are one of the dangers of our little HN niche.
I wonder how feasible it is to completely keep your wealth a secret, just start working for the acquirer, and never let anyone (even family members) know that you have a few million in the bank? Is there a cap on the amount of money you can earn and still not have anyone know that you've earned it?

I've met millionaires who were quiet about their money...actually, I think that probably describes most of the millionaires I've met...but people still knew they were millionaires. Mostly because there's some press release about them selling a company lying around the web, or people know they were Google employee #50, or something like that. I'm wondering if it's possible to make lots of money and not have that Google-trail around.

Then again, if I knew anyone like that, I wouldn't know they were a millionaire, after all...
Don't imagine for a second that a browser policy change like this would do anything but increase the value and use of cookieless tracking by content delivery networks.
Zynga is the publisher of Farmville, the world's second biggest social-network-centered farming game.
Because I'm an outsider and all those pesky crooks steal my money. Duh.
Post your demos here too, plenty of other VCs that lurk who may be interested.
Hiring Without Agencies. Fight Fire With Fire.
Thanks for clarifying how HN works. I also thought dissenting opinions were welcome. My bad.
This is how I would have dealt with this situation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346729
In the context of Facebook not being LinkedIn, you're correct. But for professional relationships, it is not okay to NOT check in on your contacts and see how their doing. Otherwise what's the point as listing them as someone you know if you're not going to bother following up on them, their company or their career? Do you even care?

I think in the past, this was probably true. My Dad, who had the Rolodex, told me that once a year he would go through and try and call everyone in the Rolodex. He did this in order to:

a) Make sure he had the right contact information (and contact within a reasonable amount of time so that if they left the company, he could get the new information)
b) Make sure the other party still had his contact details/didn't forget him

LinkedIn largely removes the need for both: if a contact changes his/her information, you already have access to those new details. Other parties can't really "forget" you, because the connection stays there. As mentioned elsewhere, building the network helps the mechanical filters work. Rather than trying to remember the specifics about a person "I wonder if that Jeff bloke knows this Dave guy, because I remember Jeff had dealings with Dave's company", you simply type in "Who knows Dave" and it'll tell you. The specifics you previously needed aren't needed anymore.

I've found it's OK to get introductions through people you met once at a conference for 20 minutes. They can't vouch for you, but they'll say "He was a good enough guy for me to add him to LinkedIn, so you should probably chat."

But you're right, if you want them to come to you, you'll have to work that network more aggressively and in a more timely manner. I lean on mine when I need to, which is working OK so far.
One option would be to put a job ad up on SO/SE: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/
Rotten kid theorem
maybe it's a location thing... I have some online presence and as you say, get tons of such offers here in Israel on LinkedIn/email.
One of the things I like about this ecosystem (hackers and entrepreneurs and whatnot) is that people tend to evaluate you based on your skills and knowledge and not your purse.

I guess entrepreneurs ask for money (as funding) but at least they are offering you a piece of themselves in return, so it doesn't feel nearly as bad.
I think they read your HN posts to assess your application, so you may want to be careful what signals you're sending here :P
Jockey seeks horse, promises plentiful oats and minimal whipping.
Recently I had a physical with a doctor in the area (bay area) who said he knew the personal doctors of senior management at Google. Apparently, many of them are "hypochondriacs." I guess it makes sense that once you no longer worry about money, you worry about your health obsessively.
This is classic linkbait. Flamebait headline for the audience of the website it's posted on, with content comprised of anecdotes and cherrypicked statistics.

Flag it with me please.
Audio only on that page. I have to admit that the first half is not so good, but the discussions with the audience (start about 2/3 of the way in) are worth listening to.
It's a community forum, so you need to have something to say and to know that the gap you're targeting exists.

In two parts this simply means:

1) You had better be interested in the topic

2) Check which other sites already exist and position yourself accordingly

My most successful forum is LFGSS http://www.lfgss.com/ , which is London Fixed-gear and Single-speed... a cycling forum which luckily caught a trend before it got big. The positioning on that was that whilst other cycling forums do exist, others failed to recognise that cycling is a local activity and that cycling itself splits into various tribes and that even local activities only have appeal to one tribe. I love cycling, and I was riding fixed, so once I recognised that I could just start the London forum I was pretty much done.

To launch it I just went on to sites like bikeforums.net and announced in the most applicable place that I was starting something I hoped would appeal to the niche I'd highlighted. About 15 people signed up on day 1, just enough to have conversations between each other... and with about an hour a day invested in chatting and going on the odd ride I get it to the point of getting 30 > 50 new users every day and am now somewhere over 25,000 members with over half of them actively using the site each month and a unique visitor count (Google Analytics) of 250,000 per month.

My other forums aren't doing as well, but all produce revenue and the platform is already paid for by LFGSS.

It took me a while to work out the revenue model (get users first!), but once worked out they're doing fine.

Seriously though... I would look at eBay and find high value items (above $1,000 USD average) and ask myself which of those is something I'm interested in and could invest in for the near future (as in... treat as a hobby). Then create the site, and instead of thinking about the revenue and site, become a user and just contribute as you would if you were a user. The money follows that.
It doesn't really, anything using OpenGL / CoreGraphics triggers discrete graphics.
Search for meaning
Symptomatic of something that there's no 'profit' node on here.

DID YOU KNOW: there are other ways to get money than from investors?
"I also want them to be humble and realistic."

Ironically, this statement is neither humble nor realistic. No one cares about how you'd like them to be. If all entrepreneurs were humble and realistic, we'd still be in the Stone Age. Yea, a lot of wild ideas fail, but the small number of them that succeed usually have a big positive impact. It follows that society is better off with a bunch of crazy, unrealistic entrepreneurs trying to "build the next Facebook".
There is a big desire to pursue better returns, which means you need much more stomach for drops. Sounds like he didn't have enough purse forth risk profile he wanted to adopt. Nothing wrong with that but it is certainly possible to take a middle ground.
More accurate headline: "Women Use the Internet"

Sad face emoticon.
Never done it but sounds pretty good to me, too. The hashes are meaningful enough to the parties themselves for there to be a common understanding about what its being transferred.

Explaining commit hashes to a non-technical jurist/juror, in the worst-case comes-to-litigation scenario, wouldn't be easy. Still, I think experts on either side of a dispute would agree on their significance and proper use, so this would not be the issue on which a case stands or falls.

For completeness' sake I would be sure to use the full hashes, not the abbreviated ones.

Of course, IANAL, and legal advice from strangers in internet threads is typically worth what you paid for it.
Agree and disagree.

I don't think everyone is Superman but I have the impression that while they all seem normal, the applicants must be very competitive. By that, I mean many must show something impressive that separates them from the others.

This doesn't mean they can shoot lasers from their eyes but they must show some entrepreneurial spirit or have accomplished something great/interesting/cool beforehand.

As someone who didn't get into YC, I do agree with your final statement. No reason you can't do a startup.

And, after reading this, I'm reminded I should re-apply. :)
I'm an interface designer and can tell you right now that I'd do it for much less than $10,000.

Email me if you want to discuss: nola1919@gmail.com
OP points out that you're not giving credit to the original authors. I think it's pretty obvious what you need to do. This is in the standard ethical code of conduct. Give credit to the original authors by maybe adding the author's name / website next to the link.

Your message comes off as if you had no idea what was wrong with what you were doing, even though OP pointed it out. And then you ask if it needs to be fixed. Are you trolling or something? Jesus.

==============

Edit: So it turns out that it's not RiderOfGiraffes' site, my fault for being temperamental, and misunderstanding. I just tend to get pissed off at people not giving credit.

I found the author's e-mail addresses if anyone wants to help set things right:
acangiano at gmail dot com
info at antoniocangiano dot com
Another anecdote for you:

I fall in the 50% who did not succeed. I stepped down from Contagion Health (imoveyou.com, S2010) at the end of our batch, but my co-founder Jen is still at it and looking for a new co-founder.

Reasons for failure aside, I have no regrets at all. It was a completely amazing experience with amazing people and amazing opportunities. I'm still very close with many companies from my batch and actively helping a couple of those.

I can't say I would have done anything differently since I wouldn't want to miss out on any part of what happened.

"Not succeeding" is not so bad. Life goes on while I work on my next project, this time focusing on building revenue instead of raising money—a refreshing change. I don't know if my current project is a great fit for YC yet, but I can definitely see myself applying for YC again someday.
What I think Dropbox's next move should be.
I will see your rule of 72 and raise you the time value of money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money
Who are the other members in his organization? Is he the only founder? (Does he own the other 95%?) How much funding does it already have/does it need in the future? (Dilutive potential)

What are your alternatives? If you have a 250k salary job elsewhere and you have a family, the safety might be worth it. What are your circumstances? The value of a stake in a startup is highly context-sensitive.

jaltucher brought up some great questions you should answer first, so you should take a look at his questions first.

Good luck.
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I applied to YC and at one point during the pitch, pg said to me, in his best R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket voice, "Hell, I like you. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister!"

True story.
What kind of nitty gritty tasks are you talking about? I'm thinking it's possible that he drags his feet on things that he deems below his paygrade because he thinks you should be doing them, or somehow using money to solve them. E.g design, frontend coding, or similar stuff.

I hope you've thoroughly communicated your feelings to him before you decide to proceed like this.
would you have made that same comment if OP was an uber-1337-coder looking for a business co-founder?
Death of the phone call
Don't be distracted by the Marine Corp analogy. This is a really accurate description of what it feels like to do YC.
Alternatively:

http://www.dresdencodak.com/images/stall10.jpg
The "Admin" templates on Theme Forest are really kind of blowing my mind right now. Every front-end-challenged web app developer on HN should know about this.

Preemptively: so what if every app that uses these look the same? They'll all look similarly competent. Most native apps look more alike than different, too.

This is crazy awesome. Thanks for showing this to me.

PS: if you read the comments on the Adminaca theme --- which is LUDICROUSLY AMAZING --- you will find a guy complaining that the price got jacked up... from $12 to $20. If ever you needed a parable exhorting you not to design products for the kinds of people who use ThemeForest...
My 2010 17" model will get corrupted graphics and eventual a full kernel panic due to issues with automatic graphics switching that are usually triggered by Safari+Flash. Uninstalling Flash, turning off automatic graphics switching, or just using Google Chrome for Flash sites fixed that.

My first-gen 2006 Macbook Pro used to crash under heat/load as well, which was suspected due to misapplication of thermal paste. I sent it into Applecare a couple of years later and they took care of it (even replacing my scuffed up shell).
Delphi's parser binds symbols and types the tree as it parses. The only thing left to do after parsing is code generation, which is only a couple of passes over the tree.

The parser (or more accurately, the lexer) is the bit of the compiler which ultimately limits its performance, because it needs to see every character of the source. The compiler can never be faster than linear in the length of its input. Metrics on the Delphi compiler actually show that string hashing is the hottest piece of code, and that's already optimized about as far as it can go.
I apologize for not making myself clear. My reply was not directed towards the article or your book, I was replying to the immediate parent only.

My ire was directed towards the idea that any criticism of global climate change is bunk simply because it is not PC. I would posit that such criticism, in the context of general public and media, is mostly bunk for the reason I outlined in my first reply.
> Is there something wrong with questioning scientific theories?

Not if you're actually qualified to question them; if on the other hand you're not a specialist in the field and you're claiming all those who are haven't a clue what they're talking about, then yes, there's something wrong with it and you're very likely both wrong and a quack.
It's indicates insecurity on their part about their products and a lack of respect for their users. Why not let the market decide?
Same here. The 'I don't really have a need or use for money' theme comes up often. I don't know if there is a singular and/or correct definition of a 'healthy relationship with money', but it does seem that the rich often have an unhealthy relationship with it.
If he can't, I can. Insiders with knowledge are often insiders with control. If I have control, I ruin a quarter while shorting the stock and then, by pushing the earnings into the following quarter, I can go long on our "earnings surprise." At this point I have not done anything to further the interest of the company or influence actual profitability. Instead I have merely made me, and perhaps my friends, a killing at the expense of investors. Now, because investors realize that insider trading, now legal, causes earnings to often be gamed, they are reluctant to invest in honest companies too.

Suddenly capital costs are higher for everyone, and my dishonesty creates a drag on the creation of startups, and expansion of successful enterprises.
Another Javascript-driven JSON viewer (that also allows editing):

http://www.thomasfrank.se/json_editor.html
How can they possibly recover from this?
makmanalp says:

> OP points out that you're not giving credit to the
> original authors. I think it's pretty obvious what
> you need to do. This is in the standard ethical
> code of conduct. Give credit to the original authors
> by maybe adding the author's name / website next to
> the link.

WTF? It's not my web page!

It's not me who's not giving credit, it's not me who can change the page, it's not me who can do anything about it!

> Your message comes off as if you had no idea what was
> wrong with what you were doing, even though OP pointed
> it out. And then you ask if it needs to be fixed. Are
> you trolling or something? Jesus

It wasn't me doing anything, I'm asking if we, who don't control the page, can do something to redress the balance.

Check your facts.

I have now submitted the link to the originals as an item in its own right: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346818

================================

Edit: OK - email sent to the site owner.
...I dunno. Looking at the errors, we're talking about <3% error for anything below 10% interest. Looks good for annual compounding.

Edit: wrong sign, doh
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No, it is not. If you are not raising money (bc you have profit or whatever) you just answer no to that question and move on.
Does this mean that you can apply and fail as many times as you want but if you quit then you're done for life?

This is how the Marnie Corps Officer Training program works.
I'm guessing you're serious here, but that's a very unsupported position. I'm for it because it's getting the market more towards perfect information. By them using insider info, stock prices adjust to this information - which is more accurate than without. If you're not sophisticated, that still means the prices are more reasonable. Yes, that means some make money, but that's the cost of a smoother market.

Also - computer trading would be able to pick up to differences in trading strategy (by seeing big positions taken) and react quickly - minimizing total profits and bringing prices closer to reality.

Also - your company would have a higher incentive to treat you well if you could legally sell the info to Goldman Sachs to trade on and give you a commission. That's the populist side of insider trading.
My designer is inexpensive enough that I now budget professional design in as one of the first steps in all my projects, whether hobby or otherwise. Then again, I'm pretty handy with front-end and CSS, so that allows me to save a lot of money; their final output is simply a PSD file and I take it from there. The design part is usually in the $500-$1000 range. Then it takes me maybe 10-20 hours to slice and implement for an entire site (not counting full IE6/IE7 tweaking, though it will be at least usable and decent).

Now, I'm sure $10k will net you a $10k design, but it should be an investment, not an expense. In other words, if a $10k design will not generate more than $10k in additional revenue, don't do it.

I met my designer by networking and asking others who they use and recommend. If you'd like to ping me, I can connect you with my designer.
50K/year might be good for Nowhere, Arizona.
Why does Perl think “0 but true” is a number?
Good blog entry.

I do like the direction C# is going with the dynamic type. I want a statically typed language, but I want the ability to have dynamically extensible type classification -- when I want it.
I'm a designer and wordpress hacker. I tried WooThemes on a project recently, in an effort to save time and money for the client. They're great if you're willing to totally sacrifice to the design in the theme. But once you want to start customizing, they can become painful quickly.