skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In software circles much of the salary comes from profits from the capital assets the employees create. This is why more mature software companies are able to pay much more than new software companies.

If you compare to an industry like fast food where the goods created by labour are not capital in nature you'll see mature operations and new operations paying roughly the same. It doesn't matter whether you work at Bob's Burgers or Mc Donald's you're making min wage.
Sure, but I think you could almost always make the case that whatever you do, you have incurred "technical debt". Otherwise you would make perfect decisions all the time, which is impossible.

Another danger with the technical debt thing is that it could lead to expensive premature optimization. For example while you are camping out in your tent, maybe you get a job offer in another city. Or a motorway is about to be built across your lawn. Had you needlessly started with heavy foundations of your house, that effort had been wasted.

Who benefits from the TD theory is the builders of the house foundations. Or the consultants who want you to use Java Enterprise Beans instead of Sinatra.
He posits that people making over a certain amount should be ponying up more in taxes. A reasonable assumption to make is that taxes would be raised in such a way that those people would be taxed more, and people who make less, wouldn't be. The specifics are irrelevant to the general argument.
I think that byoung2 definitely has the right approach in mind. Being able to display your product for people immediately greatly adds to the wow factor of your work, and how they perceive you as an individual; self driven, motivated, and self confident in your work.

To add to the suggestions so far, I would advise that you approach local school groups (clubs and the like) and offer your services to them. They will likely appreciate the free publicity your services and websites will offer, and the schools may contract you if they like your now publicized work later on.
Implementing good text controls in Canvas is a fool's errand. The spec itself warns against it:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

They wanted to be ambitious and to their credit they got very far. They gave a few talks on the hurdles they had to overcome. Measuring the height of text, making their own custom scrollbars, resizing woes, etc. They did a good job with a lot of it.

They admitted it was fun but too hard to get everything right. They ran into most of the problems in the spec: "Unlike Skywriter, Ace uses the DOM to render instead of the <canvas> element making it compatible with a wider range of browsers and potentially giving it a leg up in accessibility."

http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/2011/01/18/mozilla-skywrite...

The code for Skywriter was actually really good. I used a lot of it to make my in-canvas scrollbars before moving on to my own code.
Ah, good point -- deleted.
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Thank you for the input, I will update the website with this additional information ..
The author is unfortunately conflating two (albeit related) arguments.

1. There is a difference between a bad decision and a trade-off that you will (probably) have to re-visit in the future.

2. Writing messy code is a bad decision.

Irregardless of whether you think point two has merit, point one is the the soul of the article.
Loving Groupon But Dating Others
It's not terribly detailed. It's a few paragraphs long with a couple of pages of standard legal boilerplate. Employees don't have to sign anything or sign up for anything. It's better for everyone that it's in writing.
Triangular data races, or: What exactly is a data race, anyway?
They write very good linkbait, deliberately inflammatory yet within the bounds of decency and often quite amusing. It is a conscious editorial decision I am sure, and keeps their advertisers coming back for more. They are after all a red-top tech news site.

I enjoy their style, and reflect carefully on the above paragraph whenever I read one of their more controversial articles. However, I don't think you're missing much by skipping them.
What is the mobile market share in the United States?
But maybe what killed Rome was the brain drain to Byzantium/Constantinopole? If you redefine the center of your universe then Rome becomes a outpost rather than a center of gravity. Although for the ordinary people you could be very right. Although I think there's a bad tendency to assume that the US = Ancient Rome, the two are very different creatures in so many ways...
Vortex Blasters Shoot Discs And They’re Awesome
DTrace and ZFS are both great and lack competitive alternatives on Linux. For years, the horrid state of Solaris' userland made it hard to justify order-of-magnitude support increases but this lets you use the best parts without having to suffer through things like a system-destroying package updater[1] simply to get a reliable filesystem.

1. At a previous employer, we bought Sun compute nodes. Nice hardware, arrived with Solaris 10 preinstalled. Each time we got a new shipment I'd get them racked and see if the updater wouldn't render the system unbootable after the first run. Second reboot was always to the Debian installer.
No schools can teach entrepreneurship. I have sat in numerous entrepreneurship classes at a top-tier school in the US, and I can safely say that none of those classes actually prepared me for doing the stuff that I am doing right now. Case studies about how others tackled issues can be bought and studied on your own time. You do not need to pay $50-60k per year to get that kind of education.

Look into starting something and learning the ropes yourself. If you are dedicated and have patience you will eventually succeed (people often underestimate how much patience is required)
That blog post is about automatically forking with edit. The edit button was discovered by our users nearly 3 years ago: https://github.com/blog/143-inline-file-editing
Guide to Setting up Advanced Segments in Google Analytics
Ask HN: Co-founder Search.
Hi there HN community,

I've been a long time reader, and for the first time I'm actually writing in hopes of participating.

I'm looking for a similar-minded person (or persons) to help co-found a small team with me to work on small software projects of our own choosing. I've been working the 9 to 5 life for three years since leaving college, and if you ask me that's three years too many. I've been fascinated with entrepreneurship and the startup community for quite some time. But I've come to find that reading about entrepreneurship and the software community doesn't necessarily make you part of it. It seems that learning and doing are quite different things.

Basically I just want to create, and I don't want to do it alone. I'm something of a generalist when it comes to technology, which means I jump from one thing (language, project, etc.) to another. That makes it difficult to delve deep enough to finish up any truly great final products. Hopefully if we can work as a team we can make something truly engaging.

About Me: I'm 27 and I graduated in 2007 with a Degree in Computer Science/English Literature from the University of Miami, which is also where I currently work full time.

Technology Background: I'm hoping for someone who loves the same technology that I do, and would prefer to work in similar environments that I have grown to love. I'm pretty open to using whatever platform works, but I've found the following to be particularly engaging: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Github, Vim, Textmate. Aside from Web Apps, I also really like the idea of doing some Mobile work as well. I've always loved Apple and pretty much everything they do, and I'm currently delving into Xcode and iOS development as well.

Furthermore, I would assume that co-founders probably work best if they have some common interests... 37signals philosophies, Apple (and Steve Jobs), GTD, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Graham's writings, Seth Godin, TEDTalks. If you don't like some of this stuff, it's certainly not a deal-breaker. The only real must is that I'd like someone with a sense of humour (although you don't have to spell "humour" the same pretentious way that I do, with an entirely unnecessary 'u').

As for my motivation? I'm absolutely sick of being this guy...
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/19888/ship-early-ship-never

Anyway, if you share some of the same interests that I do, I'd love to hear from you. You can always post a reply here on HN, or you're more than welcome to get in touch with me at bijanbwb@gmail.com.

-Bijan
> Also, due to V8's poor C++ API, msgpack doesn't support deserialization of 64 bit integers.

JavaScript _does_not_ have a number type wide enough to hold 64-bit integer. V8 API has nothing to do with it.
I know you guys have competent professional advice, but I was a little worried about a scenario where somebody a little less tax accountant-y copy/pastes the entire plan except for that bit about excluding former employees. Boom! It totally didn't look like a SQL injection but it was important anyhow!

Equity compensation schemes are like programming language manuals and spellbooks of eldritch power: every word in here can kill you.
Statistical analysis shows U.S. Open "random" draws are likely biased
6 questions to ask yourself before you outsource
More helpful (to me) was the two-month-old YouTube video preview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I
Thank you for the input, I will see if I can do that :) ..
So the images...

In fact, the charge is that one image is so modified. The original document[1] contains many images, in which you can clearly see the difference that is supposedly being covered up. While I can totally see Apple being reprimanded for this, I think it's extremely doubtful that it's going to change the court's opinion overall.

[1]:http://www.scribd.com/doc/61993811
I think he's just pointing out that the blog post title is blatant blog spam.

E.g. "Did kqueue willfully violate international law?"

"Did President Obama kill a baby in 1991?"

Etc.
Is it too late to found my start up?
Hi..
Every few months, I get some ideas, and then just don't make any steps to do it, and then get surprised that someone did it later!

Few years ago, I thought about something similar to friendfeed, and then surprise! Friendfeed is out there. :D

Most of my ideas are related to social networking, and I am hesitated because I am not sure if people will continue using social networks or figure out something new!

So is it too late to found my start up? And if someone else makes my idea.. should I still continue or stop?

Thanks in advance,
Ahmed.
We had great experiences with NetApp's products and support but it was priced accordingly.
In many cases, yes, because you can only afford gold-plated storage for your most important apps.
Not a bluff. Microsoft would gladly have paid billions to increase their ability to extort fees from Android manufacturers, or shut them down altogether like Apple is trying to do.
The Razor is still the favorite among the phones I've owned, and the StarTac is the only phone I ever truly lusted after, but I can't help feeling that this purchase turns Google into just another conglomerate. And without any intent at snark, the first thing this reminded me of was AOL - seven years ago it would have been brilliant, today the looks like a committee decided to take the "nobody ever gets fired for" approach. Google's mobile strategy just seems incoherent.
Ask PG: Why no "Work At A Startup Day" this year?
Last summer there was a "Work At A Startup" day at Y Combinator in Mountain View. A large group of would-be startup employees filled the Y Combinator building and a number of companies gave presentations about why we should work for them. It was like demo day; except attendees wanted to invest their time as workers, not their money.

I'm just curious as to why this didn't happen again? Did the companies not recruit as many people as they had hoped? Did the "right sort" of hacker not attend?
Why does Hackernews consider Techcrunch blog spam?
Thanks! I think I'll make it non-editable.
From the Mac App Store Review Guidelines:

2.18 Apps that install kexts will be rejected
This headline would have a different meaning if it was an open source project.
Again, the analogy is crazy good. You're just ignoring the interest payments. If you're actually not feeling any pain then it's quite likely that you haven't taken on what I'd call technical debt (or that you've taken on some sort of deferred debt, similar to 0%-interest-for-1-year style furniture purchases).

The interest payments are analogous to friction that you ought to be feeling day to day when you're carrying around technical debt. New features are more expensive to build, more bugs are popping up in these areas that are slowing the team's progress, etc.
Yeah why did you censor my Techcrunch link?
The Vim bindings have the same issue. Sure, it's modal, and you have to hit `i` before you can insert text... but there's nearly no features when you're not in insert mode. The only one I was able to trigger off the top of my head was using `dd` to delete a line... and it didn't even yank it, so p wouldn't paste it back in. No searching, no undoing, no applying commands to multiple lines, no `.` to repeat the last action...

Like the emacs mode, it feels like it was implemented to check a feature off on a list, not because someone wanted to take advantage of the things that vi/emacs do well.
Ask HN: I set up my company too early.
I was told that it was better to set up my company sooner rather then later. I set up a Delaware C-Corp but my company hasn't made any money yet and I'm face with franchise tax filing. I don't know what to do or how file these on my own and have no money to pay them. What is my best route here?
A closer look to Scala's parallel collections
Does Google’s acquisition of Motorola make sense?
Everytime I try to post an awesome techcrunch link that everyone would love to see I get:

stop spamming us you're wasting your time

What gives moderators?
I suspect the cultural attitudes shaped the law, and not the other way around.
A JavaScript Implementation of TreeWalker
We didn't hesitate even a little before moving out to the Valley for YCW11. We knew, from the start, that we'd probably move back to NY because of the dynamics of our market.

Moving out there was an incredible experience, and being able to bring what we learned there, and the network we built, back to the east coast is a huge asset for tutorspree. If you're willing to do anything to make your company succeed, then moving to the west coast for a few months weighed against everything it gives you is kindof an easy decision.
You asked me a specific question: was that detailed enough?

The answer was no. Simply because it's detailed enough for you doesn't enter into it.

Unless you're prepared to say that those folks paying one dollar more is fair, then we have to have a number.

And note: Buffett didn't say they should pay more. He said the rates should be raised. These are two completely different concepts. You could raise the rates and have people move their money in such a way as to not pay any more at all. From Buffett's position, simply talking about rates, this would be an acceptable outcome.

I think we're at a spot where we can agree to disagree. Whether or not rich folks owe their fair share or not is a meaningless conversation unless and until you can actually start describing what you mean by "fair share." Without those details, it's just political feel-good bullshit, sadly. I expected more from Buffett.
You can find answers to some of those questions on the internet, often straight from Steve's mouth.

For example, on John Sculley: "I hired the wrong guy ... He destroyed everything I'd spent ten years working for. Starting with me."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7TQVFSA1Y (Watch the end of the video. The answer is better with context, and there's more to the quote.)
HP Filed Touchpad Patent Already In 2009
Though there is no drop-in Matlab replacement, at least there are native versions of Matlab for OS X and Linux. The only incompatibility that would arise there is if some underlying third-party .mex files used Windows-only APIs.
try it here http://jsbin.com/abuqey/edit#javascript,html
Free copy of book: Version Control by Example
Wow, gives employees all the impression of co-ownership but none of the real co-ownership.

Much like the Skype-SilverLake plan.

37signals sure has some good lawyers!
Being second is not the end. Many companies were not first.

Facebook was not first in social networking.
Women's quest for romance conflicts with scientific pursuits, study finds
It's Perl, not PERL. /sigh.

Also, Perl is A Real Language, unlike.. ah, >.>, Excel.
That's the main reason I like traditional options/equity, it makes me feel like I own part of the company (no matter how delusional or small of a share that may be), so sure I get paid for 40 hours of work, but if I work 60 hours and don't get overtime, it's not terrible because I'm helping the company I own part of.

37sigs has implemented essentially a non-performance based bonus (which is also what they call it), which kind of defeats the point of equity/options at all in my opinion. An interesting question would be, if 37sigs does take any more investment in the future, and this pool stays the same, it does seem to have the advantage of not being diluted?
In a few years we will have Motorola vs Nokia under new names, Google vs Microsoft. Apple will still hold strong onto their upper 5%.
Here is a new shared canvas: http://awwapp.com/draw.html#BW0Gw6c2w4

EDIT: Looks like this one got killed too :(

How many concurrent connections can this take, Senko?
Accounting, finance and operations have nothing to do with "doing business" in any meaningful way.

They are necessary yes, so is cleaning, your systemadministration etc.

You are not learning how to run a business successfully by learning that.

But the big difference is that to be good at business you have to do business. You can't look it up in a book. With engineering your more or less can.

So unless you are a hired gun working inside a proven industry for a company the MBA is pretty much worthless. The engineer on the other hand seldom is.
Why max at 5?
Welfare state led to the riots in England?
Is there no well-documented open-source Rails app?
Cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not. I hope that you are.
Well this sounds like a problem that could be fixed quite easily, albeit it would cost some money to do so. But for people willing to pay for this kind of workflow it would be no issue to provide them with a testing machine. Since you only run tests every few minutes or so it wouldn't even be too resource intensive for most people.
Course in Computational Finance
Why is a PR puff piece receiving so many votes?
This is a pretty awful, short article with idle speculation. Why are you posting this on HN?
Strange because Hackernews moderators only usually censor smaller up and coming blogs not big ones like Techcrunch. They usually allow lots of spam from those.

There must be an error.
"Honest" as in "straightforward," "direct" As opposed to convoluted or hard-to-interpret. Not honest as in telling the truth. If I tell you that it was about time to make an honest offer on a house, that doesn't mean that somehow you have been lying all along. The social utility argument was, in my mind, his best one. He should have been more direct about making it.

The first part was simply an expression of my bias. I owed that to the reader.

Good grief.
I think some people are getting retentive about applying the "debt" metaphor.

Uncle Bob is simply trying to draw a operational distinction between technical debt that is accrued deliberately and technical debt that is accrued out of sloppiness.

That later is a transgression that is definitely a mistake and should be avoided, the former is a calculated risk that is a part of this business. It doesn't matter what you call them as long as you recognize the difference between these two conditions and what they mean.
When Children Attack...
I don't think anybody would seriously consider doing that; it wouldn't be enjoyable at all.
Might be a nice companion for the Stanford Engineering AI Class that is offered this fall. http://www.ai-class.com/
There must be a mistake the moderators here only usually censor smaller up and coming blogs not big ones that already get loads of traffic like Techcrunch.

Techcrunch usually are allowed as many links per day as they like while other smaller blogs aren't usually even allowed one.
I suspect the cultural attitudes shaped the law, and not the other way around.

You're right...these laws were likely written during a more conservative age, but even though attitudes have changed, it is difficult to change the laws. Just do a search for "Blue Laws" to see plenty of examples of this. I think that it's quite possible that now the situation is reversed, that the laws are influencing attitudes. Just look at the drinking age. I'm sure there are plenty of parents who don't give their kids wine simply because the drinking age is 21.
Or to prevent Google from acquiring MOTO's patents and potentially remove the second largest Android manufacturer.
What's the timeline of the event? It's Monday, so must be full day + evening?
$9 feels about right. I know this is off-topic, but how do you like FastSpring?
And Google wasn't even close to being the 'first' internet search engine. There are many more examples. Ideas count for very little- it's the execution that matters.
Ask HN: how do you know that you like it?
Hi/

I have a problem

If you do not want to read everything, here's the big question: how do you know in life, what hobby that you like just outside, not what you'd like to do all your life?

I do not know what I like. More precisely I can not decide.
I like web design, I like interesting, well laid out sites that nicely, with good typography, for example, make purchases (in an ideal area for me it is com www.bhphotovideo.com).
I know a little bit html and css, a little photoshop.
But the point is this.
I want to make my own online store. I want a nice, beautiful, fast, convenient online store. I know that once everything is unlikely to succeed, but the dream is to be =)
So. I understand that the site that will satisfy me in every way will not make any one studio, and if one that does - is will not available for me financially.
It turns out that I have come up design and make your own.
But, damn it, I do not know where to start!
Pumped a lot of lessons on lynda.com dreamviewer, slowly learning ..

Another point - I do not want make sites all my life. I do not want to be a freelancer. I want to do projects that introduce them to life, and drove off. And I most emphatically is not clear whether or not to learn web design or have any other outlets ..
In general, it turns out some unfinished post.

Hackers! Motivate me! Or discourage!
Thank you please!

sorry for my english, it is not my native language.
Ward Cunningham disagrees with your interpretation of his metaphor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE&t=4m18s

He explains that technical debt is code written before you have a complete understanding of the problem to solve. You repay the debt by refactoring it when you have a better understanding. This only works if the code is clean enough to be refactored.
This seems more like an attempt at rationalizing "equity" (in the social sense) rather than motivating performance, which is fine. I would love to hear what the document is that guarantees execution of their promise at a sale. And why not put 5% of shares into a trust for employees per the allocation stated so they don't face the significantly higher tax rate of ordinary income? Thanks for sharing your idea.
That's what I was going off of. It's a pretty big "dot dot dot" on the end of the article.
I also find it relevant that they started with a platform approach for Zune, then changed it to be vertically integrated. Why would they not consider the same for phones if they could buy MOTO and use them to bootstrap verticle integration?