skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: When is the best time to bring on a co-founder?
If someone with more karma would repost as a poll, I'd be appreciative :)

Otherwise:

a) Pre-idea
b) Post-idea, but pre-demo
c) Post-demo, but pre-validation
d) Post-validation, but pre-launch
e) Post-launch, but pre-funding
f) Post-funding
The Derren Brown episode he mentions is well worth a watch if you enjoyed this - he doesn't deal so much with the mathematical side, but the idea of using misdirection to show something unlikely happening simply through consistent trial.

Edit: the show is called "The System"
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I'd stop thinking of how to increase your Karma points and just participate on the site.

Share cool things (read guidelines for what's appropriate) and contributing to conversations with insightful comments.
Most people badly misunderstand economies of scale. It doesn't mean that things just keep getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper the bigger you get. Generally you get the most per thing benefit at the bottom, and as you scale up the gain levels off. A company may make 50 million things a year but not actually get any significant per thing savings over what they could get at 1 million things per year.

Sure, there are marketing economies of scale. But they don't scale indefinitely, and by the time you're advertising to a state or at most a region of this country, you've captured them all, or as close to all as makes no difference. I don't see a huge win for Groupon here.

Craigslist owns its market at this point solely because nobody will beat its price, and as for Facebook's permanent dominance (because that's the topic at hand, not a transient dominance, Groupon already has that but they won't be profitably unless they can continue that dominance for quite a while), call me again in three years, OK? Let's see where G+, Facebook, and probably at least one other competitor by then stand.
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" cout << "value = xxx\n";
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" cout << "value = " << xxx << "\n";
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No... you can have 10,000 karma and your submission still won't hit the front page unless other people like it and vote for it.
Twitter is not equal to its web interface. APIs deliver t.co links too.
I know, I was hoping that this would start a discussion about sabermetrics on HN!
"* Why does it cost $0.15/text to send/receive? 1000 texts at that rate is $150.00."

Capitalism, dear pyre. Enough people are willing to pay it, so they do.
The difference could be less in libido and more in the general state one finishes the day. After a series of 12~14h work day for example, you're usually not longing for a night of sex.
Now there must be thousands of other possible factors, but it is commonly accepted as a stereotype that 10 or 20 years couple would be sexless.
How do you ask for equity?
I'm a software engineer for a startup (I'm the only one and I'm responsible for all our servers, internal development, research and development, developing iPhone and Android Apps, as well as development for client products). There are about 20 employees.

I've been on board for about half a year and I feel like I'e been contributing a lot to the company so far. I've developed systems and software that have directly made the companies hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some of my other projects could potentially add millions of dollars in value to the company. I'm not saying I'm irreplaceable. Everyone is expendable. I just know I'm working for cheap right now, and doing a lot. To replace me, my company will probably have to pay to hire 2-3 additional developers.

I don't want to work 40 hours a week. I want to work more. At this point, I'm being paid for 40 hours a week, but I'm probably putting in a good 60-70 a week. I think I've shown that I'm willing put my blood, sweat and tears into this company and dig in my nails and work my ass off. I want to put in more, and I think asking for equity is only fair.

This December, during my review, I will most likely be promoted to the Director of Technology and oversee all technological development for this company. They will offer me a raise, most likely to around 100k, but I feel like 100k is too low for the level of work I'm doing. I'm hoping to negotiate and discount my salary to 80k, and ask for 30k-40k in equity. Or ask for 110k and ask for a stock options plan.

Is this a fair approach? Am I being way too naive?
I noticed long ago that none of Twitter's redirects had the proper referrer listed, and it really is annoying. There's no way to parse a log and know how many people clicked on a link from Twitter unless I use another landing page just for Twitter shares which is a bit silly. I don't see why Twitter is doing that.
EOD tomorrow.
Example Facebook PHP SDK: Post to Friend's wall
I'm also reminded of Daniel Dennett's secret to happiness: find something bigger than yourself and devote your life to it. That too allows you to drop your baggage and become 'nothing'. And it's a great way to leave a lasting impact on the world too.
Good ones I've come across (with useful comments):

https://github.com/sjl/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/.vimrc

https://github.com/cloudhead/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc

https://github.com/rtomayko/dotfiles/blob/rtomayko/.vimrc

https://github.com/nvie/vimrc/blob/master/vimrc

https://github.com/vgod/vimrc/blob/master/vimrc

https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim/blob/master/.vimrc
FP authors are invited - post your webcasts and events
Hey! When I saw your post for luckychat on Hacker News, I thought it was a good idea. A while back, I had an idea for something similar to this, and was glad to see someone finally implementing it. My suggestion for marketing the site would be to have every one of your Facebook friends start using it (if you know them all), and have them post that they are using it. Start small, and then try to grow the app.
I'm glad someone else noticed this. A couple days ago I noticed that my real-time Japanese photo site http://tensecondstotokyo.com started acting really wonky. Most of the images being referenced are broken as hell and back. I built this back in March after the tsunami so that I could see photos from the ground of what was going on. Currently (as in right now) re-working the backend to account for the changes.
This is a major component of Christianity. (I'm not preaching here) I thought it was interesting that the non religious world is figuring out things that have been core teachings for the last 2800 years.

In the christian world, it is called "taking yourself off the throne and putting another entity on it". The entity that gets put on it is variable, but the constant is that you are not on it.
A recurring theme from great thinkers (perhaps mainly more in the East, though) over the ages. Glad to see it finding an audience on HN.

This excerpt from Rumi seems apt:

"Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything."

My take on this line of thought is that as long as you consider yourself as being a "someone" or "having a self" you are always in conflict with other selves and only if you become nothing you remove the inherent conflict.
On the one hand, he says, "if we aren't changing for the better, then we are just slowly decaying," suggesting that there is such a thing as "better."

On the other hand, he talks about "returning to zero expectations" and being "nothing."

I conclude that Paul wants to be a better nothing. Or possibly that he is slowly decaying. I'm not sure you can be nothing and also have a standard for getting better.
Note that Woodward and Bernstein themselves weren't really any better — they did a good job sticking with the story, but were being spoonfed the acting head of the FBI was spoon feeding them everything!
Google Plus must stop this Identity Theatre
I believe there have been functional programming contests where the language used by the winners was the functional subset of C, which as you would expect includes C functions.

But the term "FP" is as much about freedom from side effects, lambdas, currying, and sometimes lazy evaluation as it is about the superficially-similar functions in a typical imperative language.
Also adds weight to the "Just Ship" mantra. Imagine releasing it 2 years ago, and using the time since then to promote it, update it, polish it (if XBLA allows that sort of thing).
It's about riding your life man. Not worrying about all the little details you just brought up. Letting go and seeing what happens. Personally, I don't think someone will acheive this by academic pursuit. You have to follow your heart to it.
I assure you, it's recursion all the way down.
This is a book written by someone whose livelihood is motivational marketing. I would urge anyone interested in building a product to spend their time doing that instead of reading these kind of self-help books. There's no signposted path to success, and the more you rely on stuff like this, the less likely you are to find an unexplored route of your own.
That sounds like a very different concept actually. Worshiping a king seems more likely to narrow your perception.
serving up a full HTML page seems a lot more expensive than returning a header
Hello World in Plone
I like the concept, but these questions are nearly pointless. Great, you get someone in college that loves algorithm puzzles who scores really well. So then what?

Exactly what kinds of jobs are these companies presenting? Ops, frontend, backend, marketing, database, CTO, etc? None of that information is present here.

This would be very useful if a company could post a set of questions relating to specific job roles. Companies using the service could view the effectiveness of problems being used by other companies and either adopt them for their own interviews, or use them as a metric as to the effectiveness of their questions.

Perhaps I'm someone at my company who knows that I need to hire a frontend engineer, but I only have a cursory clue to the kinds of questions I should even be asking for that role. I could examine the most effective questions that other companies use and be able to pick and choose the ones that will best fit the frontend role I'm seeking to fill at my company.

This service needs a LOT of polish and re-think before it becomes remotely useful to anyone.
Either way, I can't imagine developers are ever going to jump into an HP ecosystem project again.
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At the 'neighborhood to neighborhood' level, do you think you will find enough people to make it work? Or, said a different way, do you think the people into something niche like kiteboarding already know each other since they already live somewhat close? If that's the case, then those people wouldn't need your site to connect them.
99$ dollars seems a fair(good) price for a second-rate product. I would not be paying more than 200 $ for any tablet in the market.
Read the article again, they just fixed the very problem you're having! All you have to do now is to count all HTTPs accesses with a referrer from 't.co'.
We're using this in production right now with greenlet. The way we're using it, it has less expressive power than an event-based approach, but a large majority of the code doesn't actually use the power that we lose by not using events. We can use events when we need events, and when we don't, we can write significantly shorter code that more closely resembles our intent.

I would guess that one large part of the reason that this is uncommon in production is that fresh CS graduates are not familiar with it. Another reason might be that you can't use this model at all on the client side for some popular clients (like web browsers).
I work with multiple files a lot, so I'm always navigating between split screens and across buffers.

" Split windows/multiple files
" use <Ctrl>+s to split the current window
nmap <C-S> <C-W>s
" use <Ctrl>+j/<Ctrl>+k to move up/down through split windows
nmap <C-J> <C-W>j
nmap <C-K> <C-W>k
" use <Ctrl>+-/<Ctrl>+= to maximise/equalise the size of split windows
nmap <C--> <C-W>_
nmap <C-=> <C-W>=
" use <Ctrl>+h/<Ctrl>+l to move back/forth through files:
nmap <C-L> :next<CR>
nmap <C-H> :prev<CR>

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Well...also: http://www.coderloop.com, http://www.gild.com/, http://uva.onlinejudge.org/, http://www.spoj.pl/, http://www.codechef.com/ :)

Coderloop has also RealTime problems http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13GaYDoRwOg
It's about finding an unconstrained perspective. Perhaps re-read the last paragraph?
I'm not Christian, but I am familiar with the concept you describe, and it seems very different to me.

Paul is I think advocating people to mentally distance their selves from roles or identity-classes, like straight, Christian, or atheist. The Christian throne metaphor advocates for centering or focusing on something other than the self, while entirely allowing for roles or identity classes.
Apple now worth as much as all euro zone banks combined
Once you think you know, there's a risk that you stop learning, that you discard other possibilities.
>...GE is one of the more successful rent-seekers. Care to provide any examples of it whipping up an anti-govt mob?

From the Wikipedia page for Rick Santelli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli):

"Tea Party Patriots wishes to extend a special thank you to Rick Santelli for his rant on February 19, 2009, which started this entire movement. Without Rick's rant, this movement would never have started. Many others will try to take credit but don't be fooled. He was the spark that began this fire."

Santelli was, and is, an editor for CNBC, which in 2009 was owned by General Electric. So an employee of GE, while acting in his capacity as an employee of GE, basically kicked off the Tea Party movement.
The video was visually similar to the set up that Derren Brown used in 'The System', which the video is making a direct reference to.

The person making it is trying to show how 'lucky' or 'unlucky' Brown was when it took him nine hours to achieve the same result.
I think you need to add an explanation of the site, the concept, and address how it works. I think most people may be scared away by not having a good understanding of how it works, especially being that it has to do with their personal lives.
Which referrers did you see before the change? Wasn't it just the twitter client that the visitor used to click the link?
And here I was expecting the surprise moral to be, "Functional code looks better than average, just because only smarter-than-average programmers can manage to work in FP languages."
Why can't Windows PCs catch up to the MacBook Air?
FWIW, Google discourages the use of UDID as a 'unique user id' and recommends these alternatives: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-a...
Having a realistic sense of self is great; diminishing your self into a nothingness (i.e. totally altruistic) is not something to be admired. Then again, maybe I've read too much Ayn Rand.
This is even more significant in that unlike other URL shortners such as bit.ly, t.co won't show you statistics (at least for free).

So if you get a bunch of t.co traffic and you don't want to pay Twitter for statistics, the only way that I've seen that you can understand how you are getting traffic is to search for keywords relevant to your site and hope to find a tweet that includes the t.co link that you saw in your logs. You usually can't even search for the t.co link itself (unless it appears in the text of the tweet.)

Very annoying for people who want to study their server logs without paying extra money, but a great way for Twitter to monetize. (Even if users decide to include a bit.ly link to get free statistics within a tweet, it will still be hard to track down as explained above.)
So I am going to put my Information in the list , but i want to mention this. To work at the job I work at now I took a theoretical 40K pay cut. ( Its theoretical because it depends on overtime and bonus, but its what I made the previous year ).

I say that to say this. There is so much more to your employment then how much you make. You might be making less then a employee at Microsoft or Google, but if you love your job and love your company then it might be worth the pay cut. You really need to decide if money is what motivates you. There are other things out there that I personally find so much more important like environment, company personality and mission. I couldn't work for a place that I didn't have a passion for what they do. I would never take a job at google doing advertising it just isn't who I am. Think about that when you start lamenting your salary
I haven't seen the other video so didn't know it was done similarly. However my feeling is that it still isn't that relevant.

Trying to show how 'lucky' or 'unlucky'...

He didn't really do that, did he? We know that it's possible to, on the first attempt, throw 10 heads in a row. Or it's also possible to not do that after 100 hours of trying. This video showed that it is possible to do it faster (be more 'lucky') than Derren Brown, but nothing about about the odds of when it might happen.

I just feel that you could take out 95% of the video, expand on the areas covered quite a bit, and have something much more interesting.
I don't think Paul's saying he's an altruist when he says "I am nothing". It's about not assigning attributes to our identity.
According to the article, though, voltage is not a valid proxy for sunlight collected. Voltage measures the energy per photon, current measures the number of photons.
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We all think we are something. We an image of ourselves. When something happens that supports this image we are usually happy, otherwise we're unhappy.

The truth is that we are nothing in particular.

There is pain, there is hunger, there is thirst, etc.

The interesting part is: When does it become your pain, your hunger, etc?
It's definitely time for browsers to stop sending referer headers.
I guess the code I work on is weird.. who knew.
But it's better for the privacy of your users. Just because you have a website that I've visited doesn't mean you're entitled to my browsing history.
"You know, some people actually appreciate what their parents have done and take pride (or at least sympathy) paying back that debt when the time comes."

I was speaking more about people who work in assisted living facilities or nursing homes who do not know the people they clean up after personally. Often these people are probably lucky to be making $13/hr an a hour. Just like there are those who don't mind such a job, I am sure there are those who don't mind sorting gaskets either.

"I'm not sure that you grasp the working conditions in some parts of Asia (i live in Hong Kong)."

Are you suggesting they're good or bad? There are some decent places to work in Asia if you're on top. Job conditions are slowly improving, but often you'll still hear about workers living in boarding houses provided by the company so they can work 12 - 16 hours days 6 days a week. Additionally patio11 was talking about first world countries...

"I don't think there are, as you say, plenty of people willing to take on these types of jobs in their present state. In fact, there are already sectors in the US that are having a hard time finding people because people have generally become too prideful."

You probably aren't looking too hard then. In the current economy you have people with masters & PhDs applying at McDonalds or other low wage/low skill jobs. Often these employers do not hire these people because of "over-qualifications". I also don't think that a lack of skilled tradesmen is due to pride, but perhaps due to a refocusing towards service sector jobs & the deterioration of our education system. The US does not have a standardized vocational education path & often many "vocational colleges" here are scammy for profit colleges that offer little benefit & a lot of debt to their students.
Agreed. Would be great to get a different domain name also, not a fan of .biz.
What a great opportunity for a registrar to differentiate themselves! They could tell you if your handle is available on popular social media services before you register your domain, and then help you sign up for your handle simultaneously with your registration.
I don't see how knowing one of the children is named "joseph" gives us any more information than knowing one of them is a boy [1]. So I would be curious to see your logic for why the two have different answers.

[1] Unless you're leaving math-problem-world and want us to consider the probability that a child named 'joseph' is female.
Before validation for sure. If you are too far along, it would extremely hard to share the same enthusiasm for things.
I've always thought that another reason (and part of the reason why Apple is in the drivers seat) is that the PC manufacturers seem to take reference designs and juts make some minor changes to them. How much of the computer are they actually designing.

The Air pricing is a brilliant move by Apple, and I have no doubt it will sell well. However, it is still in the premium price point in comparison to Windows laptops. That can't be overlooked. The most expensive windows laptops are competing with the cheapest Mac.

I wonder how many people really care about the devices they buy? If you aren't in the space, will you pay the premium for a mac? I think this is the reason you see so many Mac's in NYC and SF. Big tech communities. Look at other markets and Windows is still king.

It's like Porsche vs Ford. There will never be as many 911s sold as there are F150s. But who buys the 911s? It isn't just those that are wealthier. It's those who want to show they are wealthier. In Canada the F150 is the most popular vehicle sold to those with more than $1million net worth.
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/110333/mi...
Agreed. I was born and raised in a Christian family, attended church every week until I was about 18 years old (and after my parents sent me off to a private Christian school, where I was fined $20 for skipping chapel amongst other things like wearing shorts before 5 PM), but Christianity comes with a wide variety of strong predispositions and beliefs. I don't like to debate theology in general, but it goes farther than just "worshipping a king," there are a lot of ideologies that get tossed in with it and there's a strong social pressure to unquestionably believe all of them or you risk being ostracized. You better not bring up abortion for example, even if you've admired the statistics in Freakonomics.
I have a theory that I haven't found expounded before.

ok, let's hear it.

travel through 60+ countries...study of lots of history.

the anticipation builds....

I think peaceful societies self-destruct.

dude.

a) You obviously haven't read enough history, or you would know this is not a new idea.

b) So if peaceful societies do self-destruct, do warlike societies not self-destruct? Or only the ones that don't lose?

Perhaps you ought to turn your attention from demagoguery to speculative fiction. I'm sure there's a great novel in you about militant nations fighting ritualized wars to keep their edge, while deftly avoiding any real conflict. Add some authentic texture from those 60+ countries, and you'd have a bestseller for sure.