skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it. I think by the time you're about 21, 3 months and ten or fifteen grand no longer seems like a long time or a lot of money to play with.
That is a really interesting thought that I've never given any consideration to because I've always just assumed we were all cofounders. I will point that out to her when we do talk, but I'm fairly sure there were some roles in the company she was interested in playing. Who knows, maybe she might find that to be more appealing.
Not that I think all of his advice is sound, but every buy recommendation is followed by a justification of how much that item saves. Maybe you could save more through other means, but they are all, in theory, net savers.

For example, on the home economics front, I'd advise that you buy pots and pans at Target so you can cook your own meals because you'll save $15/meal/person x 3 meals/day x 30 days/month x 4 persons/household = $5400/month/household, on average. Maybe you can save more by buying used pots at the thrift store, or inheriting them from your rich uncle, or salvaging them out of the garbage, but that doesn't invalidate the point.

Your question was glib, and this is a forum for smart people.
But Britney's on twitter!
Although I agree with you, I actually just got kinda owned in a similar argument/conversation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=334545
Here is my advice having struggled with scalability for the last two years, please take with a grain of salt... Regarding the previous discussion of EC2 etc - EC2 just gives you headless linux boxes that you can do with as you please. You have to configure the disks specially to gain persistence of data or use S3 or SimpleDB. There is a lot of background knowledge of linux that is going on. For scalability, I would first concentrate on the engineering quality of your codebase. Get lots of tests and get them running nightly and automatically. Automation of tasks is your friend, so if you don't already know ant spend the 2 days it takes to learn it. To really scale well, you are going to need a cluster of machines - this means your app is going to be running in multiple address spaces so you will need to handle that issue - if you haven't already done so, look up memcached. I think you should focus on stability first, make sure your app can run "forever" - the two big blockers to you there are memory usage and concurrency issues. Memory usage means cleaning up after yourself and avoiding memory leaks, instrumentation and a profiler are your friends here. For concurrent issues, you should do a thorough study of thread management and make sure your locks are consistent. Once you have all these stability issues under control, I think it is about having good interfaces for key components of your code, identifying bottlenecks in performance (again, instrumentaiton) and then rewriting these bottlenecks. There is also the issue of making sure that you are transmitting the minimum amount of data required and strategies for scaling up. If you are doing work for the Navy, be prepared for fairly serious scrutiny of your security practices as well - security, like scalability, it much harder to tack on later. Last but not least, remember that premature optimization will kill your time.
handing out 100 dollar bills seems like something that pets.com would do.
Uh oh - I hope he doesn't make it 2 out of 3 for false prophets. Or is it 3 out of 3 or 0 out of 3.
I think they handed out stock options like free cheese samples. At the time, these were ironically thought to be worth far more in value.
Is soda cheaper? I don't know, but I would guess it's cheaper than espresso and close to the same price as store bought coffee.
Hang onto a McDonald's cup and keep asking for free refills.
And heck, most of us can't even agree on what those mean exactly....
"Coffee is for closers" == "I've watched Glengarry Glen Ross way too many times"
Rails Rumble 2008 Apps
With 2 monitors you can have code on one screen and browsers on another screen (if you are building a web app). With a third monitor you can have email, or a design comp. Depending on the complexity of what you are doing you may have several programs and browser tabs open. Personally, I develop in Windows, I have 2 monitors, I expand the task bar to 2 rows to accommodate more programs and quick launch icons, and I have no less than 20 tabs open in Fx or Ie at all times. Multiple monitors beats the hell out of sorting through open progs. Doesn't seem like it but the micro-savings throughout the day add up.
Most metrics are coming from a diagnostic call on the server being tested (memory use etc) with throughput data (request per second etc) coming from the program testing it. There is only limited data regarding the system collected - memory use of the JVM primarily. Each test instance starts fresh on 2 ec2 instances, one for the performance test package which replays abstracted logs and one for the server being tested. Each test instance saves the data for its test run, which I grab before shutting down the instance. On the assumption that each instance is clean at start of test, I have not considered much how performance of the system itself impacts the tests - but perhaps I should revisit this.

Most of our stuff is custom code for a number of reasons, the biggest external library being HttpClient. I'm not sure how other people have solved this particular problem, I just got to the point that clean EC2 instances were generating pretty comparable data and then set to putting out fires in the code (:
This sounds more like religion/zealotry than it does startup advice. Just because you have a good business idea doesn't mean you have to commit to it for life. Nothing wrong with having an exit strategy in mind. It may be years before you see it, and that does have to be OK.

But if Cuban is so gung-ho, why isn't he still at his startup?
How to save money making a startup
Hm, maybe you're right. I just went back to uncov's archive and I do agree with about 95% of what he says.

But he did have this obsession with tearing down "beautiful people" who weren't particularly great programmers, like Leah Culver and Kevin Rose. I don't know if anything he said about them was actually wrong, but it just seems so high-school-nerdish to care so much.
A lot of (probably most of) the startups covered by TechCrunch aren't funded by VCs.
That doesn't mean the storm will pass them over at all though. No matter how high the quality people will buy cheaper ones in bad times. Real people everywhere are seeing their retirement nest eggs cut in half. That's pretty serious stuff.

There's definitely some chance Apple will lose some market share back to the Dells and HPs selling $500 units, even though they may be vastly inferior.

Enjoy the koolaid though.
I don't think you understand his point. He's not just looking at the submission time of the application. He talks to the applicants, and some of them say they didn't decide to apply until the last day. This is different from deciding to apply weeks before the deadline, but not doing it until the last day.
Are you saying that YC is not attractive to anyone over 21? Then the numbers seem to be against you. I assume they get a good number of over 21 applicants.

Either way that does not have much to do with it being treated similar to Grad School. There was a thread on here a few days ago on how people got to grad school when jobs get hard to get. It is an alternative to going out & getting a job that becomes more attractive as going out & looking for a job becomes less attractive.
That's the only logical explanation. As he himself points out, people shy away from expensive products in bad times. When your liquid net worth drops by 25% in one week, you switch from buying the products you believe to be the best to the ones that provide the most value. I know multiple people who are now considering postponing their retirement. A $500 Dell is going to be their laptop of choice.

Apple as a company is in great shape, especially with that balance sheet, but I wouldn't look for their stock to soar any time soon.
That's the pose he adopts; that said if any of the people he writes about have such fragile egos that they can be hurt by what some random programmer says on his blog...

then they may be deserving of ridicule.
How Ant Colonies Work (With No Central Control)
Nice, but it kept telling me domains are available when they weren't
Steve Jobs went through "a period of severe personal hygiene lapses." Huh?
Pretty sure he was referring to Calacanis' horrible post on how to "save money" by buying a $3,000 to $5,000 espresso machine.
i read that as "Personal Lubrication for Dummies"
Expect for the learning how to use and set up Linux part, I would agree with you. I would say it takes about 10x longer for an amateur to become comfortable with Linux then OSX, which is a serious weak point in the productivity area.
This is old news. They've been doing this kind of stuff in six-man for ages. My high-school six-man team had a number of formations that worked just like this.
Sigh, I want Ruby support...but I'm building my app in Python anyways and Python isn't as bad as I thought (you get used to the indentation style and the sprinkling of "self" in methods).
I think this is a terrible idea. I definitely believe in the one founder mentality. There needs to be one person who drives the vision, and a team to execute on it.

If I was going to have two co-founders, I wouldn't consider offering the other founders more than a 52% / 24% / 24% split, with one person clearly defined as the leader (be it me or one of the other founders) and driver of the vision.

If you aren't comfortable with that from a voting standpoint, simply require all important votes (sale of company, transfer of equity, dilution) to require a supermajority vote. Lawyers have standard language that clearly define these kinds of scenarios.

But 1/3 1/3 1/3 is just asking for trouble on minor details down the road when one person needs to clearly be in charge.
It is an entertaining movie though. But I think there is a rule about using that phrase in real life.

The same applies to the:

We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
I think I'd rather educate my team about diversity, tolerance, and respect.

Sounds nice in theory, but in a startup you don't get points for being swell. The team needs to click, and if there are people that don't fit with the group dynamic socially, then that's already something working against you.

Fortunately the scene itself is pretty diverse. There are enough different sorts of founders out there that hire people like them that there's a place for shy and outgoing people to find a place to do their thing. I think the fallacy that kicked this off was that all founders are socialites. But if you've got founders that are socialites, they'll probably do better off with a team that is too.

For the record, I had one job that I didn't get because I would have slowed the rest of the team down (in that case it was because the rest of the team was German and I wasn't yet fluent in German). They were right not to hire me. They may have ended up hiring someone less qualified than me, but that made their team more cohesive.
He didn't exactly say don't sell. He said don't plan to.
I don't see why any of the JVM languages wouldn't work...
We got some small funding, and have been working to raise a larger round.

We also are hoping we ca start making break even revenue pretty soon.
Wall Street and the New Startup Economy
it's really simple -
1. be headstrong,
2. be mission-based
3. try and fail
4. try not to learn the wrong lessons from failure
The key thing that kills mileage is weight. Model T has a weight of only 1200 lbs.

By comparison even a tiny dedicated race car like a Lotus Elise weighs close to 2000 lbs. Hell if we go back 2 decades, the poster child of tiny cars, the Honda CRX has a weight of 2200 lbs. Even the all time tiny car, the classic mini cooper was 1400 lbs.
Engineering Windows 7: A view from the bottom
The Argument For Denormalization
whats http://is.ydnar.in ?
An interesting bit is that you'd need to use different samples to infer about the 'cost of housing' then what you would need to infer about the 'value of property.'

Most places, the cheaper houses are new developments on the city's fringe. Since a lot of people live there, you need to take them into account when looking at 'housing costs.' But you don't take into account new developments when looking at real estate as an asset. You're not buying 'housing' your buying 'houses.'

Existing properties can increase while cheap new houses keep averages down.
someone should make this a web app.
Eleventh Hour: Agro
Dr. Jacob Hood, Special Science Advisor to the FBI, is called upon to investigate when multiple cases of food-related paralysis are reported in North California.
Yeah - I'm not sure, but that seems to be when the registrar only allows third level domains (e.g. Australia only allows .com.au/.net.au/etc - you can't register blah.au)...
Ha, then you could run AppJet on Google.
Yes, LW-procs are normal processes; but they're written in a way that minimizes resource consumption. I first came across the term while reading about Chrome.

Avoiding terminology like process/thread that varies from system to system; my main point is memory sharing between multiple threads of execution should be avoided.
Also recommended:
http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
The separation of plants & animals into: Walks, talks & feels vs photosynthesises, grows & smells, is just not a great one.

I assume plants could have evolved into bears & venture capitalists too if we replayed earth a couple of time.
No, not at all. I'm saying that no one over that would think of it as a "kill time before I get a real job" solution.
It's a great line from a great speech, and it was perfect for this context.
Startup tip to save $15,000 a year:  Just stop paying your mortgage
I don't get it either...

"Find ydnar anywhere!" ??
Silly python people always writing lots of code. This should be, like, 15 lines.

http://search.cpan.org/~rclamp/Algorithm-MarkovChain-0.06/li...
Short quotes are a lot better for use in real life, if you're going to quote something to make a point.
Wow they're really ripping the github design aren't they?
Record Label ‘Infringes’ Own Copyright, Site Pulled
Don't really see the "rip", but as far as simple web designs go, everyone copies everyone else. How many variations of a banner/sidenav/main/footer layouts can you really do?
Yep. Some kind of UI for clicking a country to check the status would help -- it's not easy to come up with that many distinguishable colors.
There's really no benefit in having the message "This domain might be available". It is either available or it isn't (at the time you displayed the message anyways).
Bloom Filter Based RESTful Resources
What an asshat. These problems aren't a failure of any system or ideology, they are a failure of law enforcement.
This guide is so good, we used it as a primary text in my college network programming course. One to bookmark.
It'd be nice to include the actual library:

http://search.cpan.org/src/RCLAMP/Algorithm-MarkovChain-0.06...

…so, 165+15 = 180 lines total?
> a wholesale swing against the suite of things associated with 'libertarianism.'

I don't think the pendulum can swing any further that way without going over the top. People are probably much more cynical about government now than in most of modern American history. I don't think people will swing towards more statism and there's a good chance they'll swing towards libertarianism, even if only out of disgust with the current ruling elites rather than a philosophical libertarianism.
The del.icio.us style domain names are neat for a personal site or something, but they're not very memorable (in terms of spelling and remembering where the dots are), and thus not good for a commercial site. Even Delicious ended up coughing up the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for delicious.com.

Edit: also, this tool isn't very accurate, it reports lots of domains as available when they really aren't.
"gimmicky" is simply the pejorative form of "novel, clever, or rule-breaking."
And take a cup out of the trash for unlimited free coffee!
Google Docs Guide: How to do Stuff with Google Docs
13 Of the Best Linux Tutorials and OpenCourseWare on the Web
Today I typed into Google, L.A. to San Diego

A few months ago when I did the same thing Google gave a link to the map/directions/distance.. today it gave me an ad "Limo from L.A. to San Diego," next to the map without the directions.

Way to put the dollar ahead of the user experience...thats how you got to where you are. Simple UI that provides instant gratification, but today and hopefully only today Google was MySpace!
I think by outsource HR he meant all the documents/401k/tps stuff, not the actual hiring & interviewing. Calacanis has mentioned before that he personally interviews everyone. This obviously could have changed.
The boy who was expelled from a number of boarding schools, one for having sex with the headmaster’s daughter and who went on to found a successful airline
Richard Branson – Virgin Atlantic and the Virgin brand.

Banged headmaster's (Virgin?) daughter. Not exactly a nerd on this count.
Video: Sarah Palin on saturday night live
All this script needs is the bulk-whois gateway on the other end. But seriously, anyone know of a whois service who allows free high-volume lookups?
Only to banks not to private institutions which were the leaders of these issues such as AIG, etc.
the lehman credit-default swap (cds) auction a week ago friday (oct 10) brought 9.75 cents on the dollar:

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/10/10/lehman-bonds-pric...
Billions of dollars free and clear, you'd have to be an idiot to turn down the deal he got from Yahoo.
"Chattly.com
Beat you to it"

Registered 10/19. Nice. :)
This is a killer interface. If it gets the behind the scenes stuff problems, others have already mentioned here, taken care of, it will get used a lot.
Anyone know if they are going to use some sort of existing Java MVC framework or if they're going to create their own?
Disagree on the phones. Buy a pc, a digium card and a few lines and spend a weekend setting up asterisk. It does not instill me with a lot of confidence when I call a business and get some guys garbled sounding cell phone voicemail instead of "Thanks for calling X...." and being able to dial a real extension. (Even if said extension just forwards to his cell.)
Ed Turney, a Chip Maker Founder, Is Dead at 79
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Um it wasn't last time either...
You guys killed my server! (256 slice) I can't even ssh into it now!
^ Ditto, I was very impressed at the interface (if not at the problems with getting domain names that I couldn't register).

I'm rooting for you guys.
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I hope they make a version for Linux! I would very much like to run it. FireFox's one giant process is getting on my nerves.
Besides, reasonable accommodations are, by definition, reasonable

You got me here! The reality is that unless we want to be totally balls-out mercenary and only follow the exact letter of the law, we have to treat people like human beings. And quite frankly, if I'm the person doing it, I'd rather pass on the millions than have to screw over the people I work with. There is Karma and I do have to live with myself.
Fun with Ruby 1.9 Regular Expressions
Indeed. I plan on giving jruby a shot.
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Do Ruby on Rails Developers Need Merb?
Bernie & wife

http://www.virginmedia.com/microsites/siren/slideshow/opposi...
Which one do you think will be most successful? (i.e. alive 2 yrs from now)

My vote is for http://app.r08.railsrumble.com
I bet it was the downloading of that dictionary file.
I like his approach of "GTP" unfortunately based on my experience it does not apply to all cultures as a whole. There are some cultures most particular in Asia that enjoy the moment of light hearted banter before getting down to business.
How Silicon Valley joined the superstitious fringe as the enemy of open inquiry.
Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930 near Bungay, Suffolk, England) is the president and CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, and owns a stake in Alpha Prema, the parent company of the Formula One Group of companies. As such, he is generally considered the primary authority in Formula One racing. He is most commonly addressed in tabloid journalism as "F1 Supremo". He is also the co-owner of Queens Park Rangers Football Club. His early involvement in the sport was as a competitor and then as a manager of drivers Stuart Lewis-Evans and Jochen Rindt. In 1972 he bought the Brabham team, which he ran for fifteen years.[1] As a team owner he became a member of the Formula One Constructors Association. His control of the sport, which grew from his pioneering the sale of television rights in the late 1970s, is chiefly financial, but under the terms of the Concorde Agreement he and his companies also manage the administration, setup and logistics of each Formula One grand prix. Ecclestone attempted to compete in two Grand Prix races during the 1958 season but failed to qualify for either of them.
Obviously they are going to base it upon a famous Java FW, but do it themselves.
I hope OSGi is supported!
Try closer to something like 800 lines in the library. It comes with demos, a test suite, etc. And I think you're skipping the base class in your naive count.

I'm not really sure how the line count of a library is relevant to anything?
Libertarians have been warning others about the collapse of the debt bubble since the early 1970's and have been alone in calling for the end of the central banking system which creates debt bubbles. It is the height of ignorance to claim that the current collapse is a case against Libertarian economics.
"The abrogation of responsibility by the many for their own lives and the arrogation of authority/magical-ability/etc. by the few (and the selling of that to increase power/profit at the expense of everyone else) is exactly the underlying mechanism that created the emergent, systemic failures."

Do you not see how this leads directly to an argument against libertarianism?

Many individuals (and firms) made decisions that turned out not to be rational and did not suit their interests. In turn, this led to a collapse that has negatively impacted even those who did not make poor decisions. Arguably, this collapse could have been much worse without decidedly non-libertarian intervention.

In short, human beings, in aggregate, are not good enough decision makers for strong libertarianism to be a viable way to structure our affairs.
I think espresso machines get a bum rap - there are cheaper, and more importantly, more maintenance/mess free alternatives to big commercial barista machines.
Rotating 3D Cube in JavaScript
Sonic Games
Free sonic games, mario games and other fun flash games.
Simply awesome. All powered by a single nested for loop and a bit of linear algebra.
Your CV in LaTeX - part four
I don't get why Quote Unquote Records is bothering fighting w/ the host to get the site back up. Granted I don't know if they're stuck in a contract or otherwise have reasons to sick w/ their hoster but my gut reaction is to go find another hoster and give the original hoster the finger.
Yea, but what about Freedom Fries?
Yeah - it's a surprisingly compact bit of code.