skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extrapolating this out ... Lakeside School, Philips Exeter or perhaps Collegiate ;)
"www vs non-www"

I've heard this before, but I have a hard time believing it. Google really can't figure out on its own that for some sites the www is optional?
During one of the biggest entrepreneurial booms in history, what exactly is going on in your mind during such meetings??

Get out while you can. Join a startup, start a startup, anything, just get out.
Ask HN: Review my MVP - Scenic Motorcycle Routes from Three Rides
http://www.threerides.com

Hey HN,

I just launched an MVP for my startup, and I'm "getting out of the building" next week to talk to customers. I'd love to get HN's feedback as well.

ahem

Three Rides will be website and mobile app for motorcycle riders. You'll be notified of cool upcoming events, great days to ride (75 degrees and sunny on Saturday!), and even when a buddy is riding near you. It then uses a GIS that's rated every inch of road in America to generate an awesome route based on the notification.

Income will be generated through marketing tools businesses can use to reach riders in their area, allowing them to push their own events to Three Rides users.

I'd be very grateful if I got feedback on:

1) The website

2) The concept for the website/mobile app (particularly if you ride)

3) The idea for charging businesses to send featured events to users

Thanks!
It can be economically rational if you value things other than the expected value of your money-to-utility function.

<rant>

People forget that economics takes into account things other than money. A lot of "economic" discussion would go a lot smoother if people remembered this.

</rant>
In my experience, the Android emulator is slow when coding with the standard Android tools (Java, Eclipse, etc). So I wouldn't say that a slow emulator is necessarily a result of using Mono.
Fermilab Physicists Have Detected A Possible New Particle or New Force
> The thing that always bothered me about cloud computing is where the cloud gets its resources when everybody has a spike, such as during holidays.

When one side of the world is spiking, the other side is sleeping soundly.
20-40 employee bracket here! All of our employees are billable (sort of). It's hard to explain our structure but needless to say our CEO/COO/Operations Director/Consulting Director/CFO all work as a team and are never really limited to their "designated" positions. Our Operations Director has been billing on a project for 4 years.

Our company has an interesting dynamic. I would say everyone has the ability to "speak up" but we have designated management roles. I speculate there are some reasons for this:

1. Leadership - "junior" people need a certain level of mentorship. Many of them don't understand process and need managers to guide them on those processes. Hiring the quality of people (even at "the bottom") that your firms may attract is VERY difficult for the other 99% of companies like us out there. We simply don't have the whole techie seen watching our firm day to day and thus don't attract them to our company. Hiring SUCKS. Is that our issue? Sure. But this utopian business world isn't always possible -- even though we want it to be.

2. External client view - Our company works almost exclusively with blue chip companies. They expect to see CV's with years of experience and fancy titles like "Principal Consultant", "Management Consultant", etc. etc. With these titles comes the responsibilities of managing people. When I used to work for the largest biz software vendor in the world I remember there was a title "Engagement Architect". I was basically told that this position only existed because the client contact (mainly the CIO) needed a contact at our company that was on his same "level". Also, some people flat out do not have soft skills.

I think the overall point is this... this is not a lesson in how to run a better business. This is a lesson in how Jason is happiest in running his small business and wants to keep it a small business. Many of us love the agility of being in a small company and fear if we add more numbers we will lose that agility. (and that's probably true) 37signals has only increased it's employee base to 26 over 11 years. With the amount of press they have drawn there is no reason why this number shouldn't be 260. For the record, I'm not saying that it should be 260, I'm saying that they have probably favored higher profit margins on their existing employee base rather than to scale the business out vertically.

Fred Wilson once wrote "Marketing is for companies who have sucky products." In order to do this with 26 people, you need to find 26 very good people. Do you know extremely difficult that is to do? It's even difficult with just 2! Face it, most people SUCK at business. I applaud Jason (and others) who have had the fortune and ability to do such a thing.
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It could be a clue about symbolic thinking, or it might be the result of the approach used.

I've seen an approach where letter-shaped toys are handed out as toys, which provides a concrete object to associate to the letter. Children using this seem to be able to pick up the alphabet around 1 year old fairly easily.
The hypothetical company you've described here sounds very irrational to me: discarding a candidate with 10 years of experience (at a very highly regarded company, no less) without ever even speaking to the person.

Why should anyone optimize for the irrational job-hirers out there? This does not sound like a path to happiness to me. Besides I find it unlikely that the kind of person who is happy at a small company like 37s for 10 years would want to work at this hypothetical irrational company.
Yeah, I love when someone pitches me to help them build a web app for their "great idea" and then think thats it. Just because you have an MBA and an idea does not entice me.
Quora: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings responds to Q's
The Offical Angry Nerds Shirt is now available! http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds/orderform
The URL is fine for me. Maybe it's just an issue from your location.
It looks like the C7 is running an older version of WebKit that doesn't support CSS transitions. It seems to be running v525/3.0 [1] and it looks like transitions were only in nightlies at that point. [2]

[1] http://www.handsetdetection.com/properties/vendormodel/Nokia...

[2] http://www.webkit.org/blog/138/css-animation/#comment-23166
Convection driven cooling is also possible (no need for siphons).
Any idea of when this will launch in LA/SF? I'd like to try it.
I actually have the guts of an original Space Cadet keyboard. By "guts" I mean it's just the part made by Micro Switch: the PC card with all keyswitches and keys and all wiring, but no microcontroller and no case.

Nor, alas, do I have the source for the program the microcontroller ran. (I'm pretty sure it was an 8748.) Lacking that, I think it would be pretty hard to get the thing to work.
Yeah, what I was trying to get at was I thought the expectation was that MS would produce/maintain them.
I like to call it the Alicia Principle http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speed-of-Code.aspx
Well, fourscore hogshead per gross of firkin is 3.8̄ (i.e. 35/9), so fourscore hogshead-moons per gross of firkin is about 115 days.
This is pretty typical. Even at dysfunctional startups this happens. I've been stuck on projects that had daily meetings with 4 managers and one programmer.
Then your ideology and your proposal are completely inconsistent. Rich countries will be flooded by poor and unskilled immigrants. These immigrants will then vote and fight for a redistribution of the wealth (through social services, etc...). Simple market forces will tell you that this would happen.

I don't propose that states automatically grant welfare to any visitors; it's free movement that I claim is a fundamental right, not free money. Nor do I propose immigrants have automatic citizens' votes, not in any immediate time period. Nor that such welfare issues be up for a democratic vote -- they could be a constitutional issue instead.

I don't see how, with these qualifications, this leads to a collapsed welfare state. Without welfare guarantees (at least not for new immigrants), there's no selection tendency for rent-seeking. Instead there's selection pressure for hard-working people, living in states where their efforts are undervalued (because of broken government or broken economy).

On a side note, I believe that immigration discrimination is good. It allows minorities who are productive members of socialist societies (i.e. tax heavy) to flee in to countries where their skills are valued.

I think you've misunderstood your argument. You've argued that permitting highly-skilled immigration is beneficial; but not that restricting low-skilled immigration isn't. What's the economic argument for trade barriers on low-skilled labor?
- Charge frequently and don't allow full discharges (Li-ion batteries don't have memory);

- Keep batteries at temperatures lower than 30ºC;

- Charge with voltages lower than 4.1V/cell.
Seems like gettimg started is easy too, at least on Arch Linux.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3
I would argue that the only time that true 'stealth mode' actually helps is when either your brand is already well known (as in Apple's case) or when you have an employee or founder who is already a celebrity in the field (certainly true for Steve Jobs).
Maybe instead of that music someone could be explaining what is going on because I for one I have no idea.
Adam Rifkin talks about entrepreneurship, social networking and Pandas
This link shows the Qs and Reed's responses: http://www.quora.com/Reed-Hastings

I've always been impressed with Netflix's approach, doubly so after seeing their employee culture presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
Advice for people making screencasts: If you're not confident about your narrating abilities, at least include text bubble explaining the major points and steps you're trying to bring across.

Unfortunately, the music backtrack overshadowed any easy learning experience here.
Well worth it IMO.
Mongodb 1.8.1 released
Agile: Most security guys are useless
They really should concatenate some of those videos together. Each one individually is a little underwhelming.
Excellent. This is the key bit for me:

"...in a well-managed organization, one President or CEO can structure roles such that everyone is clear about the business value they provide and can manage their effort accordingly."

And once achieving this point, you neither change the people in the organization, nor do you change the direction of the overall effort. Life will be grand.

So 100% agreement on the goal of what every CEO/Founder is trying to achieve which is "Structuring the roles such that everyone is clear about the business value they provide and can manage their effort accordingly," Keeping the organization as close as possible to that goal in the presence of change, the limiting factor of using people that happen to be available in the job market at any given instant in time, and with the added constraint of operating within a viable business model. Well that separates the good ones from the bad ones does it not?

It has been my experience that people who are not able to evaluate the relative contributions of others who are in dissimilar roles make poor choices.

When I read a comment like 'we value doing over not doing' in the context of leadership, I wonder under what set of constraints is leading a group or team not a form of 'doing'? I can't come up with a case where someone who was, as part or all of their role, leading, felt that the 'leading' task wasn't a form of 'doing.' I have also not experienced anyone who, was in a leadership or management role felt that 'leading' (or in our case 'managing') they were doing was 'less hard' or 'less useful' than technical work (designing, coding, debugging, Etc.)

However, I've encountered people whose experience is dominated by technical work firmly believing that managing or leading was both easier and had less impact than the technical work they were doing. And I've known managers who have been managers for most (or all) of their career and felt that is was harder and more relevant than what the technical people did who worked for them.

So, to my way of thinking, if someone does value 'doing' over 'not doing' (which is good) and they understand the different values between what managers do and what engineers do, then the question of 'vertical movers' vs 'horizontal movers' is not a cultural thing its a 'what do we need right now for the business' kind of thing.

It's like reading an article that says "We had to fire Bob today because he came to me to say ask if he could spend more time on gcc, you see our organization is all linux kernel hackers and we like it that way." And yet that pre-disposition to kernel hacking completely misses the benefits that can be achieved if you your compilation environment improves. Anyway, enough analogies, I can tell they obscure the point too much.
Why doesn't Hacker News have any search functionality?
This may have been asked 1000 times but I wouldnt know because I can't search for it.

I would be willing to cook up something basic for free, and I am sure I am not alone in this community.
IANAL. Try to avoid it. If you really want to do it anyway make sure your lawyer is really familiar with the proper procedures.

There's more potential that a non-accredited investor will try to cause trouble or be a pain in the ass later. Make sure it's someone you know well and can trust.
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All good but as someone else mentioned: #3 is the biggest one. And what's even scarier is if your tech guy doesn't realize #3 is the biggest one, you should find a new tech guy!!

That said, man I see a lot of these posts...where are all these non-tech people? I'm a tech guy and I can't find a good non-tech guy! Maybe I stink...
I'd also recommend putting 'streaming infinite JSON' into context. Are you talking about a data feed for pages that display more content when you scroll to the bottom (like Twitter does e.g.)?
That said, the last two Decembers we have had trouble instantiating new instances (in US-east-1a, their default and hence most popular location) in December. We solved the problem just by switching to US-east-1b for some tasks.
Thanks to the spot market there should be little or no idle capacity.
Off topic, but why is the "pi" character in most common fonts so poorly designed? It always seems to have a straight line at the top rather than a tilde-like stroke and it confuses me just about every time.
Elegant universal code beautifier
It'd be cool to do the same thing, but for bicycle routes!
Cool beans. What's an MVP?
I think we should be careful with all the generalizations.
I agree that stealth mode is usually stupid for the typical web startup.

But there are certain types of startups where it is essential to have everything working perfectly before launching to a wide audience. Things like BankSimple come to mind, in that launching a half-assed 'minimum viable product' of a bank would be far worse to their reputation than staying in stealth for years while they get everything working perfectly. I think healthcare probably works this way too.

If your company 1. deals with people's personal data, 2. deals with thorny legal/regulatory issues, 3. requires an extra level of trust before customers will sign up, or 4. is in an unusually litigious space... stay in stealth until you work out all the details.
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Very nice addition.

The first thing I noticed is many of my Google Contact entries are woefully out of date -- even for my own wife, yikes. Once I made the change, it does not seem to have updated her phone number.

Have I missed something? Or could this be slow because it's a new feature everyone is playing with?
http://www.threerides.com

clicky
I'm unclear on what you mean by "sell idea". Do you literally mean that you want to tell someone your (non-patented) idea for money and then they build the company and you walk away? That does not happen. No one is going to pay just to hear your idea and once they heard it there is nothing preventing them from just using it.
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This kind of app is perfect for non-blocking I/O.

I don't know what he does there, or what would be the equivalent for Ruby/Rails (that time.sleep(1) doesn't look good), but in Python one could use something like Gevent for long-pooling, which uses livevent to implement micro-threads: http://www.gevent.org/

Here's a sample that uses Gevent/Django: https://bitbucket.org/denis/gevent/src/tip/examples/webchat/...

It's not the same thing, because when server finally sends a response, the connection is then closed. But it's trivial to write a custom WSGI middleware, that sends a chunk of stuff, then releases the thread for other requests.

And doing it this way, you could have thousands of connections open with a single server instance.
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Wow, you all must be genuises or something.

I went to a decent primary school in Australia and spend a year ( out of phase, so put forward into the second half of Year 3 and then Year 4) in the US at age 8. The thing that threw me at this age, that was part of the natural progression in that stage, was 'subtract with carry' (I'm pretty sure that was it).

I was 'put forward' past this interesting tidbit in my US school, assessed on a test that was almost entirely centeres around it, found wanting, and placed in the lowest class in school with about 7 streams. Each test I moved up a class. All up they regarded it as a triumph of American education :-)

Neither of these schools was terrible, either, and both had 'subtract with carry' around year 3. That's a far cry from longhand division.

No-one at my kids current school is doing long division in Year 2, either, although I have creeping doubts about its rigor.

I am hoping this pace continued for all y'all, so that you were doing calculus in Year 7, and proving exotic conjectures by Erdős in your first or second year of university, etc. :-)
Wow, cool project. My team is actually looking for a neat new application to work on -- I think perhaps we'll take a stab at something like this. Thanks for the idea!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
my guess is more like you have waves of computation, with a mass effect of people targeting the cheap spots.
Because UberMedia already bought it. http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/02/12/ubermedia-acquires...

Don't think they'll give it up that easily
tweetdeck needs an api, bad.
who cares about P=NP when you can do that for $8000 ?
I've always wondered why they continue building submarines instead of ROVs. I'm a little bit biased as I work for an ROV company, but it seems silly that you'd go down so deep (somewhat "dangerously" as well) for the experience of breathing bad air in a cramped smelly place to look out of a tiny window (since glass/plastic has to be ridiculously thick to have 1 atmosphere at those extreme depths) or video cameras, when you could do the same thing from the surface on a boat. Perhaps this technology is significantly better than the manned vessels they used during the Titanic recovery (where these stories of the manned exploration that deep come from), but it doesn't make sense to me. I suppose there's the whole "I got to experience it" thing, like people that want to go to space have, but it's not quite the same thing.
"The only problem with this analogy is that it presumes that managers can effectively see exactly where the cheese is."

Yes, its the difference between good managers and not good managers. And yes the downside of a bad manager is that a bunch of people have a poor experience rather and the rest of the team having to cover for a poor developer. So picking managers is hard, must be done carefully, and must be constantly evaluated.

"non-technical people are promoted to management where they can supposedly do less damage."

See the comment about the role of the CEO (or more senior manager) if someone isn't the right person for any job in your company, then you have to let them go. If you can't do that you're not doing the management thing correctly.
I am certainty no expert on nuclear engineering or containment design but it seems odd to me that the spent fuel rods are stored in above ground pools. I wouldn't even let my kids play in one much less store radioactive materiel that requires active cooling in one.
> What we learned is that adding a dedicated manager and creating a hierarchy is not the only way to create structure.

I think the misconception with the article is that the title (and focus) is "Why I run a Flat Company" as if this should be the standard for modern business. This works for 37signals, because (1) you have actively chosen to grow very slowly when you could have otherwise grown much faster and (2) you've had the fortune and ability to attract some very good people. Many businesses don't desire to do number 1 and find it very hard to do number 2.
100 classic Atari games for iOS out now, iCade cabinet coming in June
Panda-man Adam Rifkin is riffing on social and real time. Intermixed with discussion of KP univeristy and cal tech ... awesome.
That is soooo cool! Can't wait to try some realtime apps with that! :)
I think the "XYZ Big Corp might smash us" fear is a corollary to the "winner-take-all, and first-to-market wins" fear, which itself is a corollary to the "ideas are everything" paradigm. Needless to say, history does not bear this thinking out in the tech space.

More than in almost any other industry, in technology, the best implementation for the right segment at the right time usually wins. That "right time" might mean first-to-market, but often it doesn't. Sometimes the market needs a first-mover to familiarize people with the concept and establish the pain points with that concept, which the second- or third-mover then perfects.

As for XYZ Big Corp, it's true that they'll always have resource advantages. But they've also got resource disadvantages in the form of corporate politics, bureaucracy, prioritizations and allocations of capital and talent, and so forth. Plus, one should not underestimate the advantage that a handful of uberpassionate-bordering-on-obsessive, working-all-hours hackers will have over an equivalent handful of corporate clock-punchers assigned to a project.
My wife and I are somewhat nervously heading this direction after one year of kindergarten with our autistic son. Homeschooling just seems to be a better fit.
You beat me to it! That's exactly what I was thinking... I would love to have a site just show me great rides for cyclists.
We'll be setting up redirects for the old press releases to the new website soon. We just had so many things to sort out today for the release that these small things end up slipping out. Cheers!
Yes, I think it is: if you have not purchased the product, the proper venue to point out the TRUE FACT that the cable is a rip off is not in fact the product review site. Unless you buy the product and review it.
I had an idea and believed in it, took my own money; hired some Ruby Developers offshore, hired a designer locally and built a MVP. Currently working with test clients but need someone on board to be responsible for the tech and own it. I have learnt a lot and I really respect and appreciate the capabilities of a good hacker. Rather then spend time learning to code (which I still am) I worked with the developers to really understand the basics and run the company on my own. I can push and pull with Git, do little bit of DB management, Heroku is AMAZING! and I love EC2. But to grow more I need a guy who can own the code and really believe in the product.

This is my approach for hiring a good Technical CO-Founder!