skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and cooking also aids digestion and taste. But not all (in fact only a few) microorganisms are bad for you.

Most of the time bacon is already smoked or cured anyway.
I totally agree. I used to be dilbert in a cube working for Charles Schwab writing code 10 to 12 hours per day (and weekends) and then poof I got laid off and my job went to India. But before that my co-workers were jumping ship to work at startups and I thought they were nuts. I'm now working on my third startup and this one has a chance because I'm competing with eBay (4cheetahs.com). Even working for a billion dollars company on multi-million dollar project with egotistical personalities decked out all in black attire and goatees doesn't guarantee you won't get laid off or canned for not writing code fast enough.
Now is the perfect time to start a startup becuase you can recruit more people who will work for experience.
My first startup was Big Bear and I recruited engineers off of craigslist for free to compete with Tivo. In a year they had built a new technology to modify (in one minute) any vcr or dvdr to be programmed from a computer through wireless or usb or over the web or a cell phone. Just couldn't get funding. Then I tried competing with Match.com and the site never launched and I focused on recruiting do-nothing MBAs from our countries finest business schools (another waste of time). This time I only care about programmers. I've interviewed more than 100 MBAs they are as different in their views as economists are about the economy and most couldn't write a line of code to save their life. All I care about is building a team of good programmers. Thus far I've found two to join the cause. Site goes up next month and I'm pretty jazzed about that.
If I had a well paid job I wouldn't take the plunge in a startup. I'd be too chicken. But since I've been out of work since 9/11 it's much easier to take the plunge and I don't care nor thinking about the risk. Everything and anything you do in life involves risk. You only live once. You might as well be rich that's my motto.
He DOES NOT CARE how much money he makes. He DOES NOT care about material wealth.

Highly unlikely.
Is Microsoft Recession Proof?
Advocates readability in one instance, then says to use fewer spaces for indentation? The only reason to use indention less than 4 spaces (some would say even 4 is too few) is so you can cram more nested statements in, and if you're running out of room nesting such that a smaller indentation would help, your problem is not related to indentation.
Rules for startups
I think it depends on the OS. OSX does a good job letting one monitor effectively host several applications. I find that harder to do in windows and the linux desktops I have tried.

Of course, OSX still needs a lot of pixels to do its job, so a single laptop screen won't really help. At my current job I have a large second monitor for my MPB and find myself hardly using the laptop screen for anything.
"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!"
Nice, but too many "This domain’s availability is unknown".
> This is the funny thing though: the majority of people out there are all older than us!

But less so with each passing moment...
15. Take the guys in the startup to strip clubs. Get them laid.

Getting your team laid AT a strip club does not sound like a good way to save money. Even without the, uh, soliciting of prostitution, I shudder to think of the strip clubs where one goes to "save money."

9. Make your team friendly. If there is a socially akward or shy guy who does not relate with the other members of the team, fire him

The startups I've worked at always had quite a few shy, socially awkward types (I've worked mostly at tech startups). We usually just invited these folks out to lunch and social gatherings and made them feel a part of the team. Perhaps we weren't being very economical...
Flagged for link bait. The full title is: "Comment is free Response So a Model T was greener than a modern car? No way"

Also, stupid question, the Model T and the modern car are not comparable. You can't commute on a modern highway to work in to Model T. You can't commute to work on a horse, either.
Buh, there is an extra tick mark between 2000 and 2010.
They are exactly the kind of steps I think make an economy "fault tolerant" - don't read too much into my choice of words there.
<blockquote>9. Make your team friendly. If there is a socially akward or shy guy who does not relate with the other members of the team, fire him

It's actionable discrimination and a shitty thing to do to an otherwise valuable but shy person, but he's too shy to bring this to your attention or to hire a lawyer, so it's a win-win. (Again, eggs->omelette.)</blockquote>

I don't see anything actionable here unless he's a member of a protected class and can claim that's why it was done. Being shy is not protected. For that matter, it's not a shitty thing to do: he's bringing down the team. Sucks to be him, but if he's affecting productivity, out he goes.
Definitely agreed. "Learn to think cheap." has been important for us. "Money saving tips" that include Areon chairs and a several thousand dollar expresso machine are retarded. My co-founder wanted an external monitor for his laptop ... so he picked one up a 19" CRT for 5€ on eBay. We like expresso, so we have a 15€ coffee grinder and a 25€ mocha pot that goes on the stove. This isn't rocket science.
I find this article confusing. The first example given to support a "web is dominated by big players" is the recent failure of bloglines and migration to Google Reader. But RSS feeds are all about centrifugal force! The vast majority of my feeds are full of links to all sorts of random destinations on the web that I wouldn't have found out about otherwise.

As for wikipedia... encyclopedias are not the key feature of a bookstore. Wikipedia may have the lock on answering "What is X?" on the web -- but the web is (obviously?) about far more than that.
With bees disappearing in the U.S., beekeepers have to regularly order new queens.They order new queens from China. And China is now taking over the Royal Jelly market, wholesaling to the world.
"For those of us from the United States, drug and alcohol testing in the workplace is the norm." I don't think that's true, especially since they're talking about university professors.
"so he picked one up a 19" CRT for 5€ on eBay."

Depending on what you do, a good monitor can actually help you earn money by making you either more efficient or enjoy your work more.
Bernie Ecclestone did not found Formula One.
Ask YC: Sharing ownership with nontechnical founder?
I'm involved in my first startup (cry or laugh I can't decide yet), and we're planning on discussing how to share ownership (and other similar concerns) sometime next week, and I was hoping to get some advice from here beforehand. As far as I know, we'd be considering a CA LLC, we're a mix of self-funding and bootstrapping, and the startup is (mainly) a website.

Simply, there are three people, one is nontechnical and the other two would be doing all of the development and some of the nontechnical stuff as well. Between us two devs, the third guy who I brought in last is going to be doing most of the work and I'm going to pick up the rest (iPhone app anyone? :D ) and do all the leftover nontechnical miscellany..and I'm fine with a small share in exchange. But it's the nontechnical one who had the idea in the first place and is currently the sole source of self-funding by choice (piggybacking on her existing hosting and paying for domains and whatnot).

How do you deal with this kind of situation? How much weight should we be giving to the idea compared to the execution, which is most of the work but wouldn't exist without the idea? How much weight to give to someone funding everything, no matter how trivial it may be? It's pretty easy (to me) to determine how us two devs would be splitting it based on the work we'd be doing, but then when we have to consider all three of us it's hard to determine, and I don't know if an equal 3 way split would be okay with everyone (and I'd feel uncomfortable with that unless I were more involved...). Any insight would be much appreciated.
Some straight talk from Jason Fried of 37s
"... Flagged for link bait. The full title is ..."

Settle petal. The title was edited to reduce the word count and still reflects the intent of the article.

The idea that the Model-T is greener than modern cars is a compelling one when GM, Ford et.,al. drag their feet releasing an efficient car that uses less carbon emissions and produces less waste. The engineering and technology exists to solve this problem yet "how many cars" can you walk down the street, pay your money and pick up a non or very low emission car?

In the petrol shocks of the 70's when OPEC throttled petrol supply Western car manufacturers ignored smaller the more efficient smaller cars. The Japanese did not and stepped up to the challenge. Now as more pressing challenges appear again, Western car manufacturers once again drag their feet.
The poverty part about a startup is true. To save money I bought a mountain bike and soon afterwards sprained my ankle so I couldn't ride my bike (to save on gas money) and then I caught the flu and I've been down for the count for 2 weeks recovering and didn't have the strength to pedal.
Little things like comcast bills and tmobile bills add up.
Starbucks adds up but that's the only place next to Cafe Borrone that I brainstorm and relax enough to write code and design web pages and mess around with ColdFusion8. None of my great ideas came to me in my apartment. They all happened while sitting in a cafe relaxing. My neighbors at my apartment complex are not american and not programmers but they do seem to have a keen interest in bad loud music and burning out with their cars in the parking lot.
Founders At Work is a good book and a good read but another book I'd like Livingston to write is about failed startups.
Also, a lot of the stories in the book are software projects and not true startups. In a startup you have to embrace failure and change and headaches and it's a demon of a roller coaster. So though it's a startup I still have costs like car insurance, gasoline, food costs, 1,100 a month rent, utilities for electricity. I have a programmer executive chair, a desk from Scandinavian designs and a camping air mattress from REI and a sleeping bag and blankets and great pillow from Bed Bath & Beyond. Shopping at Costco is recommended rather than Safeway or Longs Drugs to save money. So starting a startup doesn't take into account the 3,500 I shelled out for a Macbook Pro (which I bought thinking I was going to become a teacher) and I do use a wind up flashlight from REI for light but I'll switch over to candles soon. Cutting costs is the name of the game.
But finding dedicated programmers is the key to victory.
I don't recommend anyone start a startup by themselves because there is so much you have to think about and get feedback from friends. I changed the entire design of my site just a week ago and writing requirements is a pain but a necessary pain. Also, milestones work. It's easier to tackle one pebble at a time rather then a whole boulder which is just too overwhelming. Daily progress and weekly progress is the only way it will work.
Also, I have recruited many of my friends to help out when the site launches in terms of testing, and accounting, and customer service and they're all going to work for free but none of my friends are coders. Everyone I used to know that wrote code doesn't write code anymore. They either got carpal tunnel or just cut coding cold turkey.

Having money is key. I'm funding this startup with my
inheritance but if I don't get funding or the site isn't making enough dough by Valentines day the site will crash and burn and then I'll have to sell my car and I don't want to do that. I sold my car for my first startup and that was the biggest mistake I made in my entire life. Life is much more difficult without a car.
I wrote my 2 cents before seeing PG's $2

http://www.pollenizer.com/?p=25

And as Chris Hitchen from Getprice.com.au said the other day;

"A recession? Is that when a user comes back to your site again and again?"
I think this quote is misapplied to the original post. He didn't have enough money to get to the next level and do things that in fact were expensive, like get access to million dollar machines (once he went to college, he did get access to a mainframe, and ran up the bill so much he never went back until he started Apple, and only went back after Apple became a success.)

Therefore, I think a modern-day Steve from Silicon Valley would in fact have at least two monitors. If he could get parts at 11 and 13 to build a ham radio and computer, he could also find or build some lcd monitors in this day and age.

I think Waz wanted to learn about everything, and at some point money would stop anyone, and cause them to re-create things in their own room. But I'm sure he would either have monitors or assemble them. For a lot of people right now who concentrate on software, though, it is cheaper to buy monitors outright.

Steve was a hardware guy. If you're a software guy, write your own software. But you will need to spend a lot of time on your butt to program, and I think that is what the post is getting at.

Also, while a design for a circuit might lose value (besides the learning experience), monitors, desks, and chairs will be used for many, many years.
Has eBay hit its twilight?
So can Areon chairs. That doesn't mean that they're the most effective use of money. Really, this is a list of motivational tips, not money saving tips.

But even there, the sort of people I'd like to hire are much more excited about hard problems than fancy office accessories.
Split three ways evenly, it's the easiest and once you go down the slope of differentiating the ownership it starts to become really complicated really fast. You'll spend a lot of time nit-picking and a lot of "yeah but you have more shares so you should do this" talk.

Besides, ownership only matters when you sell in which case there'll probably be plenty for all of you. In the daily business you'll (I guess) all take the same paycheck from the company. So it doesn't matter so much.

That's based on my experience anyway.
With how pervasive JavaScript has become on the web, I find an add-on like NoScript to be onerous. You basically have to allow every web site you visit before it will appear correctly.

FireBug was what was keeping me in FireFox until I started running Webkit nightly builds and saw how great the Inspect tool is.
It's up to #3.

Hack evolution 1, Football 0.
sigh .. since when are all nerds dysfunctional?

It's such a bad stereotype.
That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure. Just thinking about the idea of how to differentiate that is becoming a massive headache. But if we split three ways evenly, we might run into the "you're not doing enough work (compared to how much you own)" problem, which is the biggest one for me. I don't want the two to be resentful at me, and I don't want the other developer to resent that the nontechnical one is getting an equal share. Somehow when it was only me and the nontechnical one this was never a problem and it was an obvious 50-50 split, but not so obvious anymore.

The nontechnical founder is really insistent on selling should this site become successful enough. I don't think any of us would oppose that, but I just don't want to run into the above problem.

Thanks!
The last comment shows me how out of touch Calacanis really is:

"Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who don’t live in a $4,000 one bedroom apartment and pay $8 to dry clean a shirt–hire them!"

Hardly anyone pays $4,000 for a one-bedroom in SF, and if they are they're not working for a startup (or shouldn't be). For reference, I pay $1k in rent and have my own room and a backyard in SF.

Also, you _need_ to be in the same locale as your colleagues. especially in an early stage startup. You need to see people's facial expressions during brainstorming sessions and after idea pitches. You need to read their moods and work with them on a personal, in-person level.

I've worked with outsourced teams in India and the Ukraine, despite the talents of my foreign colleagues things NEVER went as smoothly / quickly as they would have locally. Especially with a fast moving early stage startup, that's of the essence.
Synopsis of Steve Wozniak's Life from His Autobiography
Many a layperson confuses nerd, geek, dork, and poindexter.
If you don't agree with the product, why would you ever sell it?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=194942

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=194411
Just go directly to the VC's own webpages; that's all TechCrunch has become.
As an aside - Markov Chains are a key tool in Bioinformatics (Hidden Markov Models).
Not to quibble, but there are disorders like Asperger's syndrome, social anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and so on. Many of these would qualify the person as handicapped and therefore a member of a protected class. If there's even a doubt, you might have to settle out to avoid legal fees or a potential defeat in court. Besides, reasonable accommodations are, by definition, reasonable. Maybe he/she can be one of the people that works odd hours to avoid others?

he's bringing down the team. Sucks to be him, but if he's affecting productivity, out he goes.

There was no mention of a productivity hit. We have to take the OP at his word that he/she meant, "If somebody isn't suave or outgoing enough, fire that person." I think I'd rather educate my team about diversity, tolerance, and respect than fire technically competent people who happen to like to keep their doors closed. If you have a team that requires all others to be social sophisticates and can't function in the face of shyness, then this is your second biggest problem after handling the inevitable discrimination suit for firing Joe Shy. Also, if I worked with me, I'd probably want some alone time, too.

There are just so many things wrong with point (9) that it's hard to get them all out. Here goes:

1) Team managers, unless highly skilled (and sometimes even then) don't always understand the factors that make their teams function/fail.

2) The aforementioned possible legal liability of insisting on a team of suaves.

3) The inadvisability of insisting on a team of suaves.

4) The presupposition that the person who is awkward/shy is the problem. Maybe (the hypothetical) you and your team are a gang of unproductive dicks?

5) Maybe you're productive dicks but it will never scale?

6) The whiny intolerance of anyone who's not having absolutely the easiest time of things.

7) The fact that none of this has ever been an issue on any team I've ever worked on?

8) The insipid notion that it's a zero sum game or that the only thing is the productivity or that you can improve productivity with misguided social engineering.

I could go on. I think that what it really comes down to is that I'd rather be the guy who succeeds by helping others succeed. Entrepreneurship is as much about finding value where others can't as it is about creating new value. That includes finding it in employees who are less than socially perfect.
Has the Market Economy Failed?
Sure; don't form a joint venture with someone like this. But refuse a customer/client over it? Good luck in business.
Adding God to /etc/inittab on a Linux box
How could I forget. Setting up serve space and a database takes time and money too. And then there is setting up a credit card account so people can pay more easily on your site if you are taking money. Then there's the setting up of the business account at the bank and waiting for eons to get a Federal Tax ID number. I switched over my previous FTID
to my new site from my old site because my old site never launched (thank God) but banks do drag their feet in opening up a business credit card account which is needed to set up a merchant account with Amazon Simple Pay since I won't be allowing PayPal since eBay owns them and I'm competing with eBay. The biggest drawback of a startup is the lack of sleep but the biggest benefit is no commute time so you save a fortune in not driving much.
So it's a lot more then merely writing code. You need shelter (a place to live) and money for food and rent and utilites and gasoline for the car. Then unexpected bills like speeding tickets, car registration, smog check, and car insurance it all adds up fast and at a frightening pace.
So I don't go insane I visit one of my brothers who's studying for his PhD in CS at UC Santa Cruz and I've promised him a job when he graduates. He thinks in C and Lisp and can write bug free code. He's not human. So I spend money keeping him well fed. So sacrifices need to be made.
And if your site grows you're going to need more
servers and more databases and they run on electricity not oxygen and that costs money.
I would think it would be educational and a good thing for all universities to house startups on campus to study them and learn from them but I agree with PG that it's the founders, dedication, determination and not stubbornness.
There is a lot of uncertainty too. I just visualize the site working and it keeps me going. I watch videos of soldiers in Iraq fighting on YouTube and then I don't mind so much writing code. At least nobody is shooting at me when I'm writing code. And it's good to take breaks and relax sometimes because you need to unplug from the matrix so that
you have a life outside of your code.
"Shoot yourself before you spend money on an expresso machine. Coffee is for closers." Awesome. But he follows that up with "Sodas are free." Wha? Please share your free soda hacks.
"... your metaphor is kinda confused there. Especially considering 5% sounds more like natural loss of leaves at any given time anyways ..."

I'm don't mean to suggest trees drop any sort of percentage of leaves. More the fact they do shed leaves (just like Startups shedding staff) in times of water stress.

"... Or... just before they go dormant for the winter... "

Maybe from where you come from. Not where I come from, a land of non-deciduous trees. There is a big difference between deciduous leaves dropping in Autumn and trees under stress. Check the deciduous Oak here loosing leaves in Autumn (yes I keep a visual diary of 1 particular Oak through the seasons) ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157607419227026...

Then compare this to a non-deciduous Eucalypt in stress ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/493280400/in/set-72157... (yes I also keep a visual diaries of dead trees) ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157607633560765...

It's called die-back. We get a lot of it where the leaves are shed from the farthest limbs in order to help the core survive. The metaphor I use in this situation is apt.
It sounds like the non-technical founder wants to be an investor. Which would be fine if they are investing enough money to buy their stake, but if they aren't, then you need to make sure that they'll have a specific role in the company that they're willing to play, and that both you and the third founder feel is important. Otherwise, you're not cofounders, and you need to figure out a different way for splitting things.
Youth Entrepreneurship Conference in Toronto
Facebook considers IPO
"11. NEVER EVER EVER hire a PR firm. A PR firm will call or email people in the publications, shows and websites you already watch, listen to and read. Those people publish their emails. Whenever you consume any information related to your field, get the email of the person publishing it and send them an email introducing yourself and the company. Their job is to find new stuff. They will welcome hearing from the founder instead of some PR flack. Once you establish communications with that person, make yourself available to answer their questions about the industry and be a source for them. If you are smart, they will use you."

It always amazes me how much money startups spend on PR instead of development or other necessities. Cuil comes to mind.