skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there is a guide somewhere on the Delaware Division of Revenue state website. Tax law may be complicated but it's not a secret. Since you have no revenue I imagine that it won't be super complicated and that even if you make a mistake or two that no one will ever look at your return. (Maybe if you go public way down the line?)

Paying someone may "only" cost a few hundred bucks since there's gonna be zeros all over the place and this is likely to be deductible from your next in Delaware.

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, accountant, etc.
Ask HN: How much effort do your co-founders put in?
Dear HN, I am trying to model the interaction between co-founders in start ups for my thesis and I am wondering if you guys can help me.

Are you concerned that your co-founder is not putting enough effort into the start up? If so, do you think there are ways to minimize it and motivate all co-founders to give it their best shot?
I'd also argue that you don't always need gold-plated storage. Think about user docs that are infrequently accessed , numerous, and must be retained for long periods. Deploying NetApp or EMC for that use case doesn't seem to make sense with options like this or OpenStack object storage.
You can still go underwater on a fixed rate mortgage, can't you? Underwater is when you owe more principal than the house is worth. Houses can lose value.

Of course, all of this is far afield of the point. I thought technical debt was a fairly simple concept--you borrow from the future for some present benefit; you do something today that you have to pay back tomorrow. Once you chase down the metaphor this far, it's no longer a useful metaphor. Your technical debt will not be subject to quantitative easing.
Ask HN: Why not Wordpress? The case for Web frameworks like Django.
<p>A friend works for a large magazine with highly trafficked website. They're looking to re-develop their site and have someone on staff who handles their micro-sites, which are mostly very small static or Wordpress projects. I'm a Django developer, and mentioned I thought Django would be the most natural fit amongst web frameworks for their transition away from their aging perl-based publishing system.</p>

<p>However, he mentioned they are leaning towards Wordpress simply because of familiarity with the "brand". The site is fairly complex, but could probably be done with Wordpress. I won't be working on this project, but I think it would be a shame for this to happen. Because I'm totally biased and hate making things in WP.</p>

<p>So, to better prepare my case, I thought I'd ask HN to see if anyone had any opinions as to the advantages of using web-frameworks like Django over Wordpress for a web publishing project.</p>
David, Good news is I won't be needing a PCI compliant system because I use a separate credit card machine. So let me know if you want to get started sooner.

you can email me @ lrmyotherid followed by the @sign followed by gmail.com - i get enough spam already!
SF's BART braces for another protest
Do you seriously think analysis by Asymco, Gruber and Marco regarding Apple are the flawless gospel truth?

Why would I have to believe that in order to respect their opinions? I’m not going to sink to the level and just attack them without actually engaging with their arguments. They are coherent and they have arguments, they deserve a response and not just blind attacks.

I’m not sure what any accusations (So, when did that happen?) have to do with that.
This is really egregious and should result in immediate suspension of the injunction plus damages.
I'm sorry it took such an event to get airbnb to change their policies, but i'm glad they've added a warranty of some sort and changed their verification practices.

They handled the situation with EJ badly, but this move shows that they are probably a good company at heart and care about their customers.
What Android phone has been among the "most sought after phones"? From all the reports I've seen, no particular Android phone is sought after they way iPhone is currently sought after, or the way Blackberry was once sought after.
I totally forgot about this: This whole military thing itself was just the result of procrastination.

Getting in the military was not the problem. Not getting drawn and doing something alternative was just too much effort for me at that time.
I just scrolled through the document you linked. While there are additional images of the Galaxy in that document, the allegedly altered one is the only one I saw that compared them both powered on, closely side-by-side, and not at an angle.

The other images are much more difficult to compare. If you were to pick one image to alter in that document to 'make your case', they picked the most influential one. It is difficult for me to see that as accidental.
Redis backed queue library for python
I think this is exactly what he means. People make excuses to continue playing a video game.

I believe the type of "trick" he's referring to is exemplified by this statement: "just think of working out as a game and try to beat your old score." While I generally like the benefits of working out, it's not something I'm in the mood to do every day when I come home from work. I have to push myself through that invisible barrier sometimes, i.e. I have to 'trick' myself into doing it, even if just for a few minutes.

After a long day at work, the first thing I want to do is play a video game when I get home. I only time I've had to trick myself into playing video games was when training in a fighter game, trying to grind out my reaction times so I could beat my friends.
I'll agree to disagree. I don't believe engineering is any more easily learned from a book than business is. Different skills, for sure. But you won't find the hard part of either in a book. That doesn't make formal study of either subject "worthless".
Why is this comment, and the discussion about it, taking up the entire first third of the whole discussion page? (And now I'm adding to it, though only in hopes of reducing recurrence.)

If you don't think the OP is interesting/insightful and/or you have nothing interesting/insightful personally that you can add to it, just don't vote it up. If you're capable of it and have the time, come post a more intelligent treatment of the topic in the discussion. But to take the time to type out even a half-dozen lines of cutting sarcasm -- haha, he quoted his father, how embarrassing! -- well, what does that give me, one of the mass of readers who come here for sustenance?

The original post was short enough to read, and covered a basic idea that could have served as a foundation for more meaty discussion. E.g., how it's different if you're being quiet but you aren't the "boss" in the discussion, how much body language matters, etc.. At the very least, well-told stories of how being quiet can backfire.

Maybe that's in here, somewhere; but now I've used up my HN break trying to sift through the complaints about complaints, and complaining about them.
The Droid (aka Milestone) and Evo 4G were both pretty sought-after.
Indeed. In a large exit, this could more-than-halve what employees net, moving the proceeds from a 15-20% long-term capital-gains rate up to a 35-40% regular-income rate.
I don't believe that people will stop using social networks, it may just be in a different form than it is now. People have the need to stay connected and see what other people are doing with their lives, and share pictures or information with others. And the internet with its social networks has been a great way to do so. And that is not going to change in the near future. If you come up with something innovative and there's a need for it, why not try it? If you never do it you can never win.
I've been reading Daring Fireball every day for years, but there's no more insight nowadays; only mean Apple fanboyism and snark. Is this the same man who at one time wrote insightful pieces like And Oranges ( http://daringfireball.net/2006/06/and_oranges ) ?
>Microsoft would gladly have paid billions

even following your logic and supposing that buying MOTO would have helped MSFT achieve these goals - they still haven't paid the billions, or do you suggest that there was a bidding war (and a young cool player just overbid them ? :)
Montreal's FounderFuel reveals first batch of startups
On that matter, after the Asa/Kaply fiasco, I realized that journalists should put the name of the person in the title (at least the last name) to avoid confusion.
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And Beverly Crusher is one of your users (http://www.matygo.com/features.html)!

Interesting stuff you guys are doing. Are you hiring yet? I live down the street from your offices :)

BTW, your blog page seems to be down.
Why does Hackernews censor small sites and allow big ones to spam away?
Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic intensive or well known blogs? Are they not allowed to post here?

Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews or just by virtue of being a popular site that spams links all over the internet they allow you to post unlimited amounts of links here without the worry of getting put in a blacklist filter? While if you aren't a super popular site you basically aren't allowed to post up even one link a month and if you do you get permanently blacklisted?

Honest question
Thanks for the report, I'll look into it.
Rope-A-Dope, Indeed
I think some commenters here seem to have missed (or forgotten about) the IE blog[1] and the Windows 7 blog[2] which had great technical articles. This initial post resembles the first Windows 7 blog post posted 3 years ago [3]. If this new blog continues the standard set by these other two, then I have high hopes.

Bottom line: This post does sound fluffy because it is intended as an introduction to an entire series of posts of the development of Windows 8.

[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/
[2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/
[3]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/08/14/welcome.aspx
The original, with much discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2861825

This is a submission is a duplicate of these:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868225

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2875205

Same story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2871801
Astroturfers.
it had an amazing multimedia framework. it had even patents for hardware stuff that put the later firewire to shame. and it had the best os api I've ever had to deal with.

it had everything that os8 lacked, and that later was added on osx only. except objectivec... but there were even compilers for that later on.

but thats not even my point. to downvote me above, first answer: how many clients next had?
I've heard rumour that MS has already axed any radical changes to the UX. In other words, the Windows 95 interface will continue. Windows needs a vision, right now it looks like it is being run by a Dilbert comic. If it wasn't for Bill, we would be using Program Manager and File Manager with Aero graphics. Sad. Get rid of the Gorilla.
Excellent writeup. Computer systems are discoverable. That attitude, along with some of the basic tools (such as strace, ltrace, man pages, debuggers and a compiler) and a willingness to dive into system source code go a long way. If your tracing leads you to a library call and you don't know what's going on inside, find the source code. If it's the kernel, load up lxr (http://lxr.linux.no/).
I'm thrilled that it'll be released on my birthday. Can't wait.
hmmm the blog is hosted by tumblr.

blog.matygo.com.

We are in GrowLab now, hopefully we will be in talent acquisition mode by the end of the program.
If I Had $50 Billion Dollars I Would Complain About Your Taxes Too
YC 2008
Glad to see Vancouver making strides in incubating startups - I think there is a lot of space in Canada for this sort of thing. Sadly I had to leave a few years ago as my visa had expired.

Has Canada implemented any kind of Startup Entrepreneur visa yet? I'm in the US right now, but they still haven't implemented their Startup Visa yet, and given the current state of Congress I'm wondering if they ever will.
Buffet is not talking about income tax. He's talking about capital gains taxes, since most wealthy people are making money from investments, not paychecks.
Chrome does this right. You don't have to worry about the version number, but they make no attempt to hide it. The "About" box announces that Chrome is up to date, yet still shows the version number incidentally, in parentheses. The parentheses are a subtle way of telling a user that it's not critical information, but rather a supplementary datum which can be safely ignored by default.
Not exactly.

Look at it this way: Some financial wonk inside Google did a bunch of the due diligence for the acquisition. Now suppose that wonk was a limited in Sequoia: He/She would stand to make a pile of money from the acquisition of a (then) profitless company. How would it affect the analysis?

Now go back through acquisitions that made even less financial sense, like Ebay acquiring Skype for $2.6B. A valid question from the shareholders: Who in the decision-making tree held stock (via a venture fund) in Skype?

I think a lot of the really dumb acquisitions start to make a lot more sense as to how they got completed.
They just reinvented the RSUs without the S part.

Since RSUs are generally treated as shares, employees have a slight idea of what kind of piece they're getting. With this setup, "At least 5% of the ultimate sale price" could be anywhere from 5% to 100%.
So the service outage only affected people underground? I'm not sure how the stations are laid out - what happens if the protest is held right outside the station? If they cut service, would people not on BART property be affected?
They're trading the 'unfair' uneven distribution of equity based on position for one in which people are compensated equally regardless of position. This twist on the distribution seems like a great way to attract people to fill those positions that generally come with a less-than-average equity expectation. However, I'd be willing to guess that there is a negative correlation between ease of filling a position with a high-quality hire and the average expected equity amount for that position.

It seems to be a disincentive for those with higher-than-average equity expectation in that it implies that their contribution to the company is valued at the same amount proportionally as the lowest-contributing employee of the company, salary notwithstanding. If you are looking to hire a new CEO and inform him/her that, in the case of an IPO or acquisition, the new secretary hired last week will get the same cut of the bonus pool as the prospective CEO, they might be less inclined to work for you vs a company that, all else being equal, might offer them a proportionally higher payout.

Edit: Response to reply by jarin:

1) Right, I meant to encompass salary with 'all else being equal' in the last sentence.

2) The fact that something is currently unlikely doesn't mean that it won't ever become more likely. I think ChuckMcM's reply addresses this pretty well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2888740
Just wait for the book. "How to Master Building Windows 8".
Raw amounts aren't everything We can't see the forest for the trees
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2882777 <- 40 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887067

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2867755 <- 5 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2870955
Why does Hackernews censor small blogs and not big ones?
Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic intensive or well known blogs? Are they not allowed to post here?

Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews or just by virtue of being a popular site that spams links all over the internet they allow you to post unlimited amounts of links here without the worry of getting put in a blacklist filter? While if you aren't a super popular site you basically aren't allowed to post up even one link a month and if you do you get permanently blacklisted?

Honest question
He's not a PR guy. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky

MSDN blogs are usually full of stuff MS engineers are doing. I think he is trying to write to a more broader audience than just developers (bloggers, social media people, etc.), hence the crafty wording.
The problem with that is that we've spent years training users that the version number of a product is on its "about" dialog. That dialog will still exist in Firefox, but it won't tell you what you expect.

Now, I'm quite happy to admit that most users won't think to look there first, but Firefox is breaking from convention here, and surprising the user is rarely a good thing.
You have to consider two things though:

1) They pay good salaries.

2) They are not seeking an exit strategy, and this is merely a "just in case" scenario.

I would guess that most technical and executive hires come to the company with full knowledge that an IPO or sale is against their core values.
I posted my own version.

http://batkin.tumblr.com/post/8967355366/building-windows-8

I agree that they could have taken a different angle with the post title, even though it isn't open source. I'm sure many would be interested in hearing about how they build it. I would.
Got a cite for that? I think I saw estimates that the XBox project was still 5-10 Billion in the red at that point. Have they been making profits to even cover the interest they could have earned with that size of investment by leaving it in something low risk?
Why can't you repay the debt by just rewriting the code instead of refactoring it?

I once paid off a technical debt incurred by a previous programmer who had done a code and dash of epic proportions. The code was utterly horrendous, and so many changes had been done in-place, right on the production server, with hard coded paths, that we had to rewrite it bit by bit. We didn't even know all the functionality in it, other than that it was in active use (we found and interviewed people to get a full sense of what it did). It took years, but we did pay it off.
Sorry our blog is down now - we're trying to get it back up ASAP!
Why does it matter? I met my wife when I was 20 and she was 23. Does it matter what happened when she or I did at age 16, given there are no STDs or children in the mix?

I know I don't particularly like to be judged on things I did before I was 19 or so, because the me at 18 was a very different individual (less responsible, more petty, etc.) than the me at 20. So, turning the question around: are you seriously going to judge a person based on what he/she did a number of years prior?
They're definitely cribbing some from tablets, but they're also doing so using WinPhone7, which was itself an innovative take on touchscreen phones (at least, compared to the Android/iPhone norms). But I think the overall idea of subdivided rectangles with large touch targets is a pretty interesting one. (I'll be less excited if they stop there.) :P
Temporary hiccough on my end I guess, its working now. Good luck with your project, I wish I had when I was in university (WebCT is a mess).
I just like to see them generating buzz through change. The new metro UI and general a-typical microsoft behavior.
Ask HN: Is there any way we can get a "leftover" section?
When you hit a mother load of good stuff do you ever stop from feasting on the pay dirt and wonder if there was an economical way to also take advantage of the branching off veins that most miss when they focus on the main ore body?

My day job at present keeps me away from the internet for most of the day. Hacker News has been, ever since I found it, my main source material for both self teaching endeavors, entertainment and staying all together abreast as to what's happening.

But I worry, on days like to day when my time on HN has been limited, what potentially important to me things did I miss?

What I'd like to see, if there was some hacker far more advanced than I am in all my noobness glory, someone else that could see the vision that could do a kind of "leftovers" list of all the stories that might make it on the front page for a little bit and then be quickly bumped down, or those that stay close to the front but never quite make it.

Maybe it's just me but I think to myself "Dang, if this high a percentage of HN stories are good then what percentage of those that don't make it to the lime light would I find useful or interesting but maybe others not so much?

Anyone else feel this way?

Anyone else get a hankering for HN leftovers when they've been suffering HN withdrawals all day at work?
Just curious did you try 'ls -f' to get unsorted output. I think a lot of your time may have been in getting stuff sorted for output.
I agree there was content, but the wording, to me, way too often made it look as if a flock/herd (what's that called? A burial?) of marketeers vetted every stroke of every character in those posts.
Another Hackernews data leak dump
> 14. Login, Admin and Payment pages are on a HTTPs page

This cannot be restated enough. An SSL cert costs anywhere from Free[1] to $10[2] and is invaluable for the logged-in section of your site, and an absolute requirement if you are handling any kind of payment.

The item is phrased badly, however. You need to have HTTPS on the entire site, not just the login page, or the user's session will be vulnerable.

[1] https://startssl.com/

[2] https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo.aspx
> Stop looking for a cause

Actually I stopped looking for the cause a few years ago because I found it ;)

For me, finding the cause was very important, because for years I only knew what I did wrong but not why. I read a lot of books and articles about procrastination and never felt any connection to the explanations given there. Am I afraid of failure? Certainly not. am I presured from the outside into doing stuff I do not like? Yeah, sometimes, but this only explains 10% of my procrastination. There are a lot of explanation but none of those I read about did fit my specific behaviour.

Only after I found the explanation I gave in my original post, everything felt in place and I understood why I am procrastinating. This was a very liberating moment since everythin suddenly made sense and enabled me to work on changing my self.
There's a general rule, though, that if a headline is a question, the answer is no.
I'm not saying this did wrong by not doing a pure-IP play, but I don't think they did a rope-a-dope.

In addition to the points I made earlier, Google driving up the price of patents works against them too. It's not as if Motorola doesn't seem what the going rate of Nortel and Interdigital patents are. In fact just last week Motorola said they were open to doing WP phones. That was purely a way to get the last dollar on the selling price.

My point is that Google didn't get AppleSoft to pay all that much since they did it consortium style. And the price Google paid for Motorola was probably higher than it needed to be if Motorola didn't value their patents with respect to prices they saw in the Nortel deal (and they're not stupid enough to have missed it).
Many times, my cause for procrastinating is usually due to a sense of fear. That if I start, I will not know what to do, or that the direction I must take on a task is too unclear for me to feel comfortable starting... Many times, the quickest way to fix this is just to write a todo list and do a few items. Every few hours I'll just compile a new list and keep going off that.
Charity begins at home. The best gift any parent can give a child is a sense of responsibility for appropriate behavior, especially around visitors to the home. (Yes, I am a parent. I have four children. We don't have any pellet guns in the house.)
Nothing really, although there is business class immigration. Basically you pay half a million dollars and you get a visa. The newest immigration path is the canadian experience class. Its a fairly streamlined process if you post-secondary education and/or a couple years of work experience in Canada. Or you can do what I did and shack up with a Canadian :)