skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have co-founded one successful company and am a co-founder in a current startup. I do think explicitly about tax effects when making business decisions, and there are definitely tax rates that would have changed my decisions, particularly taxes on wealth or investment income that make it less valuable to have savings. High enough taxes could also cause me to leave the U.S.

Regulation, however, is a much bigger impediment to innovation than (current levels of) taxes - there are no companies that I have not started because of taxes, but there are a dozen that I haven't started because regulations would make them impractical or make political influence more competitively important than good execution.
How to build a great social media contest
Then I did it again with different code, without leveraging the existing user base, just to see if it was all luck.

Did you post it under a different name and account that none of your friends or contacts knew about? Just curious how you were able to be sure none of the existing user base or any of the notoriety you gained from the first hit contributed to the second.
Linux notes from DarkDuck: Adventures in Chakra Linux
Subtle Patterns for your next design project
Is the canary build stable enough?
It seems to have a lot of impressive features.
I can't speak to tablets, but its great to have on my phone. I'll routinely pull up things like espn3 when wanting to watch a game when I'm not at home. For that, it works wonders.
North Carolina governor refuses to block anti-muni broadband law
For a while there RAR had one of the better encryption schemes for archiving files, and had decent cross-platform binaries.

I'd pick 7-zip these days, as it does better compression, and the crypto is even better (serious key strengthening) opens nearly anything and has a non-annoying interface (on windows, CLI on Mac/Linux).
Werner Herzog reads _Madeline_ [video]
I still find Flash useful on my Atrix for watching video-on-demand services, but its ability to use a touch-centric interface is atrocious. Not horribly upset that it isn't on my iPad.
He's excited about how successful he can be when applying himself to an idea for a few hours.

Scale it to 10,000 hours (Gladwell's Rule for success).

And that to >100,000 hours (lifetime devotion to an idea by the hyper-successful).

The importance of learning enough to recognize an opportunity, searching for it, finding it, then tenaciously applying oneself to it for decades, is something not taught in schools (at least not well) - most have to figure it out or fall into it.
vim, git, and fugitive are three great tastes that go great together, but you may not realize just how well until you get a foodie's perspective. this series is exactly that.
Yes, because the only use for Flash is games. /sarcasm

No, I use Flash on my Android for those idiotic sites that use it as an integral part of the site. iPads can't go to those sites, but I can.

I agree that it's a dog and far too slow... But I only use it when I have to.
Apple keeps on giving lessons in retail
Fighting micro-burn-out
When my business partner told me about the cost and effort in setting up a GMBH I was shocked. In London, we got our Ltd company registered with Companies House for well under 100GBP in about 3 hours. We were registered the same day we submitted our application.

I like Berlin, but I wouldn't incorporate over there and the winters in that part of the world are too cold for me!
Not to mention that you don't have to install it if you don't want it. I like having the option there for me to make, not have someone there to make it for me.
Great sign for Boston's startup scene. Congrats to the folks over at BzzAgent.
I really enjoy watching south park studios on my xoom. The controls are a little slow but the frame rate is smooth at hd resolutions.
> Berlin imposes berlin on you, you have to kind of be the berlin type to like berlin, but I get the feeling, you can just be yourself in London.

Funny you should say this, I have the same feeling for the rest of Germany (that I have seen so far) as well... Germany and Germans tend to impose Germany and the German way on you.
How many of you treat conferences as mini-vacations? I find that in my field, going to a couple conferences throughout the year makes up for a couple days of vacation, as long as I don't have any work on my plate.

Also, I find that being single and having friends that (on the majority), make less than I do, makes it difficult to plan trips to places you'd have to fly/rent a hotel for. Trips consist of ten friends carpooling, getting a group rate at a ski resort, and renting out a condo for next to nothing for a weekend.
On my phone I can't say I use Flash, but it's come in very handy at times for (cough) legacy sites.
The whole virtual reality idea has been completely destroyed for me by a couple things. The simplest of these is:

why impose a 3D real-world access model on an N-dimensional random access memory system?

I mean, that's what the web is. I can jump from Wikipedia to CNN to Reddit without walking through MSNBC and 4chan to get there.

The whole idea is wonky and bizarre when you really think about it. If you want 3D with an excellent frame rate, go for a walk.
Unbreaking Web Development, One Loc at a Time
For my two phones (HTC Hero, HTC Desire) it's always been rubbish: not touchy, seconds-per-frame, not fullscreen, frequent massive updates. I've now uninstalled it as of two months ago.
This is definitely a "I CAN HAS SKRIPT KIDDIE" list...
Android Mobiles in India
Startups: Origins of the PC Revolution, by Forrest M. Mims III
Same for me with stock price charts.
By "legacy" do you mean restaurant?
It seems to be down between PostMark and CritSend as we prefer no monthly fixed fee for now.

Anyone has experienced one against the other ?
The multi-touch APIs are relatively new in Flash Player. Hopefully that will improve as developers work against those as well as the mouse-centric APIs that have been used traditionally.
Agreed. I live in the southeast USA, and that kind of money for a developer is crazy talk. Our cost of living is a lot lower, though. All that aside, $5 for an app that truly is amazing, wouldn't be a stretch for me. heck, I bought Deliveries at full price the other day just to track a package.
That's hardly surprising, Minimalistic tools haven't been able to survive for a long time.

Problems change, programmers needs change. What was not necessary yesterday, might be very important today. You will have no option but to keep adding on things as they are needed.

I started out with vi, then found out I was better off using emacs. Its rather better to use something designed to be big from the scratch, than to be using some thing invented to be minimal but bloated later just to compete with others.

Python is just undergoing the natural trend.
Note: This is a partial follow-up to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2458556 .
Making the side tabs acceptable-looking would be worth a real version number.
quite interesting
I can't say anything to tablets with flash just yet, but it works fantastically on my G2. Every site I've ever tried works perfectly, and quickly, even with the g2 having a previous gen CPU (single core). I can't imagine why it would not work on a tablet as well as it does on my phone.

I read the article, and it's kind of annoying that the OP makes this judgement based off of facebook games. It doesn't sound like he made much effort at all. It sounds more like that he's trying to reinforce or convince himself that the lack of flash on ipad isn't a shortcoming. I guess this goes well with the Apple religion articles I've seen lately.
Building an IT cluster out of thin air in Brazil
I wonder if he's regretting using MySpace as an example.
There's hundreds of small companies that are fully Mac.
The recent services they're offering (on-site hardware support) has underscored how much real adoption they are getting. Sure, perhaps Ford Motor isn't changing soon, but, you can't dismiss the trend. Apple has cornered two prototypes in small companies: (a) visual/business people with design/feel, (b) technical / unix people who don't want to mess with hardware driver issues. Our 30+ company is almost exclusively using Macs for personal computers. I seem to be the lone holdout using FreeBSD.
...and the people for whom it doesn't resolve on its own really need to be treated. I live with someone in that situation, and knew her before she was ever medicated, and I can say with near certainty that she would not be alive today were it not for the medications she takes.

You're making the same mistake the article makes: serious depression and the type of depression that 46% of Americans report experiencing are two completely different beasts, and it's devastatingly dangerous to leave the former untreated.
Is earth class mail worth the price? I thought about signing up about a year ago, but some bad reviews made me hesitant.
If Flash doesn't work on the web then people won't use it.

But it's my _choice_ whether to use Flash or not, and to decide whether it's useless, a bit useful, or absolutely vital. It's not for someone else to make that choice for me.
With few exceptions, I categorically deny the existence of any entitlement to be a jerk. By entitlement, I specifically mean justifications like "well, I was under a lot of pressure."

There's always a "reason" one can give for being a jerk.
Classification is regression with a discrete finite range.

Regression is often used to mean regression with infinite range, but especially since so many classification techniques are just searching for a regular partition of an infinite range, the distinction isn't made much anymore. Whether the rare techniques that are specifically over a discrete finite range still count as regression depends on who you ask - usually yes.
Lol, all her friends must be downvoting me. Truth is hard to swallow sometimes.
This contributed to me "switching" to an Android phone, rather than upgrading to an iPhone 4. I had an iPhone 3G (not the GS), that recently came out of contract (purchased 9/2009). The phone was working fine for me, I had no reason to upgrade, other than the fact that the phone was much slower since the introduction of iOS 4. Apple's latest iOS release no longer supports the 3G; abandoning hardware this close to release doesn't really sit well with me, especially since an AppleCare support contract extends out to three years.

Then the GPS tracking fiasco came about, since I couldn't figure out if the 3G was affected, and Apple refused to release a new release for 3G customers, even though this is a security-related issue, I became fed-up and got an HTC Inspire 4G (aka Desire HD) instead, and don't miss the iPhone at all. Maybe in two or three more years I'll come back to iPhone. Maybe not.
I remember your post from about a year ago when you quit your day job and wanted to make money with website flipping. However, I haven't checked your blog since then and this looks like you're doing quite well.
Where are the numbers? This piece is full of spin.
One result of this is that businesses chuck human redundancy out the window. Often there's only one person who can do a business critical task, and as they can't really be gone from work for that long, the business gets by.

From an business uptime perspective, forced "downtime" of employees through vacation is actually a good way to force the creation of backup systems for business process.
The whole article is based on three premises about human cognition. All three are false. What is clear to me is that many people who engage in "web thinking" as the author calls it have an absurdly caricaturish notion of human thought and interaction before the advent of the internet.

Here are the three premises:

"As hominids we have a million years of experience with the properties and behavior of physical things. And as individuals we have lifetimes of such experience. Based on those experiences, here are some things we know:

1. If I give you a thing then it’s yours until you give it back. We can’t both use it.

2. If I want to make a collection of things, I get a bucket and put things into it. A thing is either in the bucket or it isn’t. The same thing can’t be in two buckets at the same time.

3. If I invite you to work on a project using my collection of things, you have to visit my house."

And here's why they're false:

1. Human beings have had shared spaces and things such as temples, communal dwellings, canals, bridges, roads etc. that many individuals could and did contribute to and improve, and in many cases the whole community could use simultaneously. The internet is not a radical departure in this regard - it's yet another example of the kind of social construct that's as old as our species.

2. So a cardinal can't simultaneously be a member of the category "things that are red" and the category "bird" and the category "animal" - at least that's what the article claims. Apparently this sort of flexible thinking had to wait for the invention of the internet. I'm just awed that anyone is so ignorant of human thought and history to think such a thing, much less commit it to writing and publish it.

3. So people throughout human history never collaborated by writing and exchanging letters, or phone calls. According to the author this never happened until the advent of the internet.

The whole article is wildly hyperbolic and yet another sign that we are caught up in bubble 2.0.
'Square out of luck'?
>"Mac sales are now estimated to be 3 percent of total PC business sales"

Given the breakdown of business sales into five segments (small office, small business, medium business, large business, and very large business) shown in figure three, it would appear likely that enterprise sales are <1% particularly given the inclusion of small offices where Macs are most likely. Of course that's not to forget that the highly ambiguous term "corporate" is used instead of the term "enterprise" which such claims tend to call to mind. In light of the fact that the analysis is publicly released by an investment bank (Needham & Company) rather than a traditional market research firm, it is not unlikely that it is intended to support their positions and those of the their investors as a press release rather than a rational analysis of the market.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needham_%26_Company]
Awesome writeup. Thanks so much for doing it.

There's an error in the third paragraph of the equity financing section. The last sentences trails off without ending.

I also have two suggestions for things to add. 1. Are there similar tax issues to watch out for as a founder who owns a large percentage of common stock from the beginning of the company. 2. I think it would be helpful in the convertible note section to have an example of how debt converts to stock like you have an example of how debt converts to cash in a sale.

Thanks again!
Screenwise is not really a problem, you can just delete and reload the controls the next time the thing becomes visible. To get back to chrome, you could even swap the JS engine and DOM: leave the old one running in existing tabs, switch new or reloaded tabs to the new one, that's pretty much seamless.

The issue I have is for the "static" chrome around the mobile parts: title bar, URL bar, that kind of stuff. There isn't much opportunity to switch that to a new process, I think. Especially if there are changes to make to the UI.
Your claim that most people who hit success dont have product vision may be true. Even though this might not be quantifiable, I get a similar idea from what I read. But I definitely think that it is not as uncommon as you think among Fortune 500 companies. I would think Bill gates( controversies/ethical questions apart) had a great vision. The reason why I say this is, I could say cancel a trip to Bahamas hoping to build something and see if I make it big. However, I would probably not drop out of a prestigious school to build something unless I am dead sure it will be a success. Obviously I am talking about Bill here.
Haven't seen the site, but there seems to be a blog:

http://adaptablegimp.blogspot.com/

and a Youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8c2R8YEb4
He even acknowledges in the report that he hasn't tried Android 3.1, in which the main claim to fame is that Flash doesn't suck.

If you're going to write an inflammatory article, can you at least test against the latest version, especially when the main improvement in the latest version is on the thing you're testing?
Sony SmartAR reinvents augmented reality
EC145 Mercedes-Benz Style Helicopter
There's a reason why computer science uses abstractions like "data," "memory," and "storage." These terms aren't as ambiguous as the author suggests.
Pandora, circa 1892
Well I minored in religion, so I understand your feelings on this. My point wasn't that those degrees are worthless, just that they are worthless for the purpose of job security.

There are of course exceptions, but a CS major has a much higher chance of getting a job out of college than a humanities major.
Create anagrams with Python
Click to Flash is the ideal middle ground for mobile devices. Only load the Flash when the user explicitly requests. 90% of the time, the user won't notice the Flash missing, the other 10% it is available on request. That solves the issues of 1) Flash in the background draining the battery or exploiting security holes and 2) the annoying advertisements.

It's great to have Flash there when you need it. So many sites still have integral Flash content.
When I complained to an employer that it was too hard to request my vacation time (it's in my contract, they made it very hard to pick dates by always having an emergency deadline, etc) they replied "It's like that everywhere", as if it was a legit answer.

Many employers also lump in sick time with vacation time, as if that's a replacement since you didn't come into work. That would probably be okay, if you had an option to take unpaid vacation time when the time comes. Instead, you're often forced to take a shorter vacation, which doesn't do the job.

And forcing you to work while on vacation is unforgiveable. It shows that the company doesn't understand why vacation time is necessary. (I haven't had anyone do this to me, thankfully. It wouldn't have gone well.)

If taking unpaid vacations was an option, I would probably end up taking about 4 weeks worth of vacations, instead of 2.
Räumung wien
Ask HN: $7000 per month freelancing
Hey fellows. Being a freelance web developer and designer, a father of a wonderful 1 year old boy and a husband of an amazing woman I am in a temporary financial pit now, I am now working on creating a blog where I am going to describe my current financial situation, what I have in property, what I have to pay for, what I don't have to pay for. How much I spend for this and that, and how much I receive as payments for my freelance work.

I registered a domain name 93days.com for this and hope to make it live by the first day of summer. So, getting a picture of who I am and how I got into the downturn, the readers will be able to see all my daily work on the road to success. To make it more interesting, I set the timeframe to 93 days, let it be summer months plus 1 day as a bonus. This way I will be able to track my success, what I have done that is useful for my business and where I lost my time for nothing.

I will post all small and big thing I have done that day, will place some ratings and charts of my performance and other things like that. I will post where I sent my previous works, where I applied as a candidate for a job, what design and development works I have done, what projects I have been involved in.

I am going to let users easily direct me in my decisions and actions. They will be able to vote for doing this and not doing that. I am trying to build this site visually appealing and easy to use, add infographics. I had good and bad times being a freelancer but I like this business and I am not to give up. I want to set objectives and one of them is my monthly income.

So, one of my questions to you fellows who gets the bulk of income freelancing, do you receive at least $7000 or so per month doing your design/development work? It surely can be a difficult task but at least a good shift to that figure in three months will be great to achieve. Do you think it will be interesting for someone like me to track how I am getting out of the pit? Undoubtedly, I am open to any new suggestions regarding the site, please share your ideas about how to make it interesting, what info you would like to track in details and so on. Thanks!
A trend implies data. What the article gives us are statistics.
Why? The founding team sold it for ~$575m. It's not entirely their fault it fell apart after NewsCorp took the reins.
This study may be related to recent studies examining creativity driven by D2 receptor levels in the brain.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/05/19/mental-health-creati... - “Fewer D2 receptors in the thalamus probably means a lower degree of signal filtering, and thus a higher flow of information from the thalamus”.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100203084254.ht... - a self-perceived increase in social status actually increases D2 levels in the brain.

Perhaps rumination is the general form of self-reflection that includes the correlation found between social status and creativity.
Not only should Apple do this for iOS apps, they should do it for Xcode. It's 5GB EVERY TIME, it's like a conspiracy...
"why should companies celebrate their age?"

... For the publicity, of course. Doesn't anyone understand basic marketing any more? Get your name in the news and sell more stuff.
Ask HN: Anyone going to Startup Weekend Toronto 06/2011?
The event is Friday, June 03, 2011 at 6:00 PM - Sunday, June 05, 2011 at 8:00 PM (ET) in Toronto and I was wonder who else on NW is going?

My contact info is on my profile. Feel free to get in touch.
Innovative iPad weather app by jilion: Aelios
No, hopefully it will just go away. Flash should be considered legacy at this point, we shouldn't be developing new dependencies when we're finally getting movement on the HTML standard.
Usually the only time Americans can take long vacations is between jobs. I wonder how many actually change jobs just for this reason.

I asked for 4 consecutive weeks off to travel Europe once at a previous employer (I had worked there 5 years with no more then a week and a half off) and they denied the request. So I found another job and made sure I had a 4 week break between the two.
What really grinds my gears is when federal holidays count towards my "vacation time". Those alone eat up seven days!

I request four weeks of vacation in my contract, but am afraid to use them. That's America.
Flippa or look for a website broker to handle the sale for you. Typically a broker would take 10%-30% depending on a number of factors.
Ratingly - Mobile Application for sale
anyone interested, please contact us:

http://www.ratingly.com/contact.htm
Secretaries? Who has secretaries?
We Need More Gen-Y Entrepreneurs to Fuel the Wave
I know Apple was hoping that not supporting Flash would make everyone provide alternate avenues to their content but I don't really see it. Just "you need Flash to view this" and I wish I had even a somewhat buggy Flash version over nothing.
Hmm, so like some recent Android devices from HTC & Motorola, ChromeOS devices use a signed bootloader. Got it.
Grasshopper Group's WOM Startup, Spreadable.com' Failure Story & Lessons Learnt
You're in good company, since Chuck Moore despises ANSI Forth, and has written several newer, simplified Forths.
Fred Wilson: "Don’t be a Google/Facebook/Twitter bitch. Be your own bitch."
I wonder if Heroku could benefit from some DDoS protection such as this: http://verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/network-i...