skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blog seems to depict a case in hand I have with my project. Paul Graham should see what I am working on these days. Only thing is, as much as I need a VC partnership, I am slowly clearing free of having one due to the skill and the little financial support I already have.
Personally I would go with a co-founder if you feel you can work together. I started my company on my own and it is the one thing I would do differently if I were to do it again.

As people have said, having somebody to bounce ideas etc. off is hugely valuable.
Twitter was wise to walk away. Getting paid in inflated private Facebook stock is the same as not getting paid.
Has nobody told posterous yet that they need to provide themes for the pages? If I were them, that would be the number 1 priority, not search.
Led Zeppelin Posters: Souvenir for rock music lovers
Posters sometimes can be a considered as a perfect souvenir and gifted to others. Posters of the famous rock bands who do not exist today can also be gifted to people who love rock music
I know lawyers cost a lot, but "driving up the price" really means "representing your interests." I've come to regret skimping on a lawyer quite a bit.
Not if you do your own discounting (like they did in the article - valuing the deal at $150 million). The complete lack of cash was probably a bigger stumbling block.
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I think the right questions is, "Why don't you want to give up shares?" If it's because you're worried about giving up equity, get over it. If it's because you don't trust the guy's judgement, then it might be more reasonable.

Another thing is that you don't have to have a 50/50 split to be co-founders. If you've got a 10+% stake in a company and come in pre-money, I'd consider that a co-founder.

If you're just worried about giving up equity, you'll need to break yourself of that. It'll kick you in the ass later on dealing with additional people coming on or when talking to investors. You'd be much better off building a team with "skin in the game". Just set out a vesting schedule with a 1 year cliff or something so that if somebody doesn't fit that there's a period of time where that can be evaluated. Be straight-up with them that that's happening.
Select him as a co-founder if

1. He will stay motivated, even when you run of cash and motivation.

2. He is in it for more than the money and the friendship, but because he actually believes in the idea

3. When there is a disagreement, he will allow you to make the final decision, and not decide to leave

Don't go 50-50, because this guy may be a good coder, but he's just a coder. The ideas are yours. Later you may bring in 2-3 other people, what percentage do they get then?

I think your idea of a salary at the start + 10% to 15% is more reasonable. Give him an option to get to 20% if he does some particular stuff.

But take him on! A one man show is really tough, particular later when marketing becomes much more important. You'll need someone hacking away while you market.
Agreed. They have, what, 20,000 employees now? It's as exciting as getting an interview at HP or IBM.
I wonder if the mere existence of a blog tips the scale towards E instead of I. That would be based on an extremely common misconception that most people have of introversion on MBTI--namely, that it equates to being shy or private.

If I recall from the last time I took the test (administered by MS in clinical psychotherapy, scored almost the complete opposite from Typealyzer), the score differentiators had to do with behavioral responses. I doubt blog writing is a good indicator of actual social behavior.
Who is this lol person to whom everyone keeps addressing their comments? I tried Googling for pictures, but all I found where fat people and cats.
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> Wow. It's amazing to find people who still write code in a text editor.

Umm... Why? Personally, I find it amazing how much some developers rely so much on IDEs and are unable to write even the most trivial programs in a text editor. An IDE can be a crutch that will slow you down in the long run. Sure, they're great for verbose languages like Java and C#, but they have very little to offer when developing in some of the other languages you mentioned.
IBM looks to warm homes with datacenter heat waste
Even when used by yourself. Branch a project, build a complicated new feature (e.g. 50 patches), then try to merge.

The exponential merge problem really sucks.
Fad-Driven Development, I love it :) Sounds like a new O'Reilly book in progress.

Well certainly the changing landscape of the Web has caused many to revisit the use of relational databases. There's considerable overlap with what app servers do, schemas are static beasts in general and often create application lock-in, bla, bla.. There is a fundamental tension in O-R mapping that I've concluded is best solved by dropping the R and using alternative persistence models.

That said, relational databases are phenomenal and aren't going away anytime soon.

I think CouchDB hits a sweet spot in a number of areas and is worth a very close look. It's still early and needs a lot of work but I think it's a keeper, especially given it's use of Erlang/OTP. Erlang is very mature and though it wasn't built with multi-cores in mind it's concurrency model is one of the few games around.
There has been considerable progress in understanding the working of human memory in the past many decades.
I just tried posterous -- it seems wierd that you don't need to sign up to create a blog, but do to comment on one.
Okay, putting all talk of practicality (interpreters, minifiers, convention) aside, let's look at the language itself for a bit; this could lead to some interesting discussion.

JavaScript has two ways of designating the end of a statement. Here is (1):

;\n

And here is (2):

\n

Now, the semicolon can't help you if you type:

return\n
{a:1\n
b:2};\n

because statement end (2) has already kicked in, and so the code will return undefined.

So, given that statement end (2) is part of the standard (and doesn't look like leaving it anytime soon), is there any language reason to use statement end (1)? Is it purely a visual signifier? If so, is that useful to a majority of coders? Am I in a minority for considering it visual noise? Remember, we're putting aside practicalities like existing conventions, minifier capabilities and browser implementations for the sake of the exercise.
Themes are something we have to get right -- we've got about half a dozen themes already designed and we're starting to work on the feature in the coming weeks.

Though I venture to guess early facebook users may have asked for themes for parity with MySpace, and it didn't turn out to be such a big deal in the longer run.

Thanks for the feedback -- you're right that it remains an important feature.
One piece of advice: Whichever option you decide to go with, don't let any "unspoken agreements" go unspoken. If you take him on as a cofounder, for instance, you both need to be clear on what happens if either of you (yes, you included - I've had a start-up where the main founder bailed out...) changes his mind at points 1, 2 and 3 and get that down in writing ahead of time.

When the shit hits the fan it will be too late to have a friendly, productive discussion.
100% anonymous comments are an option that can be turned on by the blog owner.

When anonymous comments are enabled, we run those comments through akismet and some other spam detection logic, but for many people, they just don't want the hassle.
Ask YC: Free Online Fax Site?
How do you send faxes using the Internet (preferably for free)?
RubyManor Roundup (part 2)
A write up of the afternoon session at the Ruby Manor, covering Neo4J, APICache, the Acts as Recommendable plugin, notes on Unobtrusive Metaprogramming, a UK Government Hack day, and Ruby 1.9. And curry (briefly).
I would start by creating really tight definitions. With the exception of the E/I factor, which has already been validated, I'm not sure if the other factors are well-defined enough to measure.
Twitter Rejects $500 Million Buyout Offer From Facebook
Incandescent lights are being banned in some countries now, and I expect more to follow, there's a gap opening up for new stuff.

The "eco" lights that are starting to catch on in Germany have a pretty harsh spectrum and take a while to reach a useful brightness, so I'd imagine that if there were an instant on LED bulb with a more appealing spectrum at a reasonable price that it'd do well in the market.
An image is worth a thousand words, as they say: http://flickr.com/photos/charliereece/777487250/
To boil down some of the advice I've seen, follow this rule of thumb:

Make him a co-founder if his skills, motivation and interest in the company merit him being a co-founder, but don't deny him the opportunity out of greed.

Having a co-founder to share in the risk and reward of a company makes the process of building the company a lot easier. Would you rather own 50% of a growing, successful company, or 100% of a company that never left the ground?
Agreed - I didn't transfer (twice!) and still regret it.
Could be they didn't have any more H1B slots left. In my experience large companies just call in people for interviews, and only afterwards do they think about how/when they could hire them.
Google isn't hiring anymore out of top management or very specific exceptions.
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Oh yeah. Just like microprocessors can't be left switched on too long due to the risk of transistors melting by overheating/heat-accumulation; similarly brain-like compus will need rest, probably more that traditional comps.
That's why I stopped using posterous. I'm not the type of guy who likes themes usually, but it just felt so bland after a while. Nobody commenting, no personalisation, there is nothing that says 'me' about the page.

With facebook, I've got my friends status messages all around, so it's a 'me' site. But posterous is like a clinic - it's just so neutral.
Amazon Web Services Seeks Public Data Sets
I think the future is in large-scale parallel computing.
They shouldn't be wasting their money on this. So working on parallel processing would be the most practical path to attaining this goal.
Alleged Twitter Security Issue: Doctor It Hurts When I Do That…
Regulation is a form of control.
If he's a good friend, a great coder and he's willing to work as hard as you are, I'd go for the 50/50 split.

If that's not the case, I don't really know what you should do. Few things are worse than having one cofounder work harder than the other cofounder despite an equal equity split.
But how much is the idea worth without execution? And if he's a great coder he can help make the idea happen.
It's not free but it's cheap and it integrates with Skype (uses your Skype credit for payment as well): http://www.pamfax.biz/
Crime Scene Cleaners and Their Tools
Crime scene cleanup service has its own complications. The crime scene cleanup service company that you hire should be well equipped to handle the trauma scene. They cannot just come with the regular cleaning tools and gadgets that are used by house cleaning services because trauma scene cleanup is rather more demanding. First the police and the paramedics arrive at the crime scene and perform the necessary tasks after which the crime scene cleaners arrive. When they arrive at the crime scene they come with the necessary tools to restore the crime scene to the original condition.
Note that there are quite a few more examples of what LaTeX does well here:
http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex

Also included is the tex source used.
Want to be on the private beta for themes? =) (EDIT: we don't do private betas. But trust me, its coming. ;-) ) These are all concerns we're working super hard to address.

One tough thing to balance about product design is that we want the experience to not require all these extra steps. Simplicity in visual design is one way to mitigate the 'tyranny of choice' that many people face with complex software.

I think in the long term this problem can be identified as the "low bar high ceiling" problem. The most well designed software is immediately approachable, but provides a ramp for users to create real, powerful, immediately useful, personal experiences.

The ramp is what we seek to build. Thanks for your thoughts!
Have you thought about putting a search bar on the main page? Or do you think that will take away from the ease of posterous?

Also, wouldn't you want the explore search bar: http://posterous.com/explore/

to look like this one: http://posterous.com/explore/?search=garry

Finally, on the explore page I think it'd be cool to have a running sidebar of the most recently updated posterouees (sp?).
Dan, awesome ideas man.

For the homepage, one thing we obsess about is keeping the choices dead simple obvious. (see tyranny of choice problem) We want people to try posterous, and I'd be worried a search box would be pretty distracting.

But the rest makes a ton of sense.
"The questions were about Linux systems administration, algorithms, computer architecture and C programming."

Couldn't you just Google for the answers to these questions in order to bring yourself up to speed where necessary? I'm not sure I see the value in trying to keep vast libraries of arcana in your head at all times.
Well, for my part, lack of visual customization is the sole reason I don't use Posterous for everything I blog. You reeled us in with cool tricks, but I'm not sure how I can ever make it my core blog if it can't improve visually.

It's also one of the key reasons I haven't yet recommended it to my friends who aren't early adopters. My less tech-savvy friends who use LiveJournal and Myspace see the service more as a geek toy. I showed my wife how easy it was to get content added and she loved it-- but she'd never tell anyone to actually go there unless she can put her personality onto the page.

For my part, I don't care so much for custom pre-built themes-- I just need a way to add my own CSS.

And then I see responses that don't agree that this is the #1 thing on Posterous's plate and it makes me sad as a user. I know how unfun that kind of customization is to code, so the geek in me can relate 100%-- yet speaking as a user, let's just get this feature already and let that be the one I see announced on HN.YC instead of these other cool features you guys want to add.

Keep up the good work, though. You guys make good stuff, no doubt.
What was Posterous developed in?
Ask HN: What IRC rooms do you frequent?
Lately I've been hanging out at #jruby, always something interesting being discussed there. What about you guys?
Many thanks thorax -- this is the feedback we need to hear.
"1. Minification -- If you want to minify your JS, you might run into problems if you don't insert all necessary semicolons."

Only if the minifier is broken. Some of them are (I don't want to name names since it's been a while since I checked). The relevant advice would be "don't use broken minifiers," not "don't use automatic semicolon insertion."

"2. Convention -- If you wrote js code with no semicolons and then showed it to other JS programmers, you'll get a funny look, a slap in the face, or a free copy of "Javascript for Dummies", depending on the context."

The correct response to which is to politely refer them to ECMA-262 section 7.9 and go on your way.
The problem here is that these assessments make people think that they have a strong scientific basis for making those judgments. Obviously people always judge each other, but they will feel far more validated in doing so if there's a team of guys in lab coats behind them.
Checkout the account creation or sign in form on Tumblr. http://www.tumblr.com/login

It's huge.
Ha, that's great. I was thinking more along the lines of a piece of software that runs alongside the Turker's browsing session and keeps track of what they see and what they do with the mouse cursor, perhaps augmented by a video of the user's face taken by webcam, if available. But even simple feedback -- as you have built -- is extremely useful.
neat application
I wouldn't call the thousands of researchers in the field unscientific at all. And this process is iterative. If you have an algorithm that works, the proximity to how the brain actually works is largely irrelevant.
How would they slow you down?

Even with less verbose languages, after a while there will be a fair amount of functions, objects (maybe), modules... Why would an IDE not be useful in navigating those?

I recently had a 500 lines Javascript program and some navigation features would have really helped (and 500 lines is not much).
Well, with perl to a certain extent the frameworks are really a bunch of separate libraries packaged up together. You CAN use CGI and pick your libraries for form validation, AJAX tricks, templating, authentication and session management, and such. But why bother? It all comes canned with a framework.
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Ruby on Rails + special sauce
Meer Meer: Cross browser testing all through your one browser
Certain things goes a lot faster if you don't have to look them up evertime you have to do them. But then I haven't read the article, so what would I know? :o
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24718

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117658

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85189
Banshee, Concatenative, Gtk+, RSpec, Rubinius, Ruby-GNOME2, Vala, YAML
#startups on freenode has a few people from this site.
I agree that including figures is a strong part of LaTeX, I believe, as you have good control over it. What takes times, is drawing a diagram to illustrate something.

Resorting to external tools and inserting is OK, but you often don't have the same visual quality as the rest of the document. Here I don't know many really good tools. That's why people still take a lot of time with pstricks, TikZ and the likes!
I've written JavaScript sans semicolons for years and have not encountered incorrect parsing by any browser. I find this style cleaner and easier on the eyes.

I haven't done any testing regarding parsing speed, but I would be shocked if anyone can demonstrate a measurable speed difference in a realistic testing scenario.
The big question that should always lurk in people's minds when considering a stock transaction: if they're saying that this stock is worth $500M and I don't want it in stock, why can't they sell it to someone else and give me the cash from that sale?

If it is worth $500M, they can sell that stock to a VC or other investor for that price. It probably isn't worth that much which explains why FB didn't want to go that route.

EDIT: note, this isn't meant as being harsh on stock transactions. Often times, you want to offer stock so that the people gaining the stock stay with you and have an investment in the acquiring company doing well with what they've bought. In publicly traded companies, you wouldn't want to flood the market with a huge number of common shares since that would depress the price. However, in this case, that doesn't seem to apply.
SBCL doesn't. Try it and see.
The only threat to the site is people not submitting enough quality pieces. The low quality submissions and comments are easy enough to read around.
I can't see a difference in business model between the two. Both are buying threatening patents off the market on behalf of their "investors". Both claim they will not sue people over the patents -- that they'll only be used defensively.

It's only a matter of time before the member companies realize that this "patent protection racket" is just as bad as the trolls were. The only benefit is that they extract their fees slowly instead of in lump sums, so they are easier to budget for.
Is Google trying to take Digg/Delicious market share?
Mason is a really excellent templating system. I can't recommend it highly enough for that purpose.

(It is also handy for abstracting away mod_perl2, CGI, and FastCGI with a uniform interface.)
Um, no. Because the specific complaints the author is making about git (compared with svn) aren't in fact ways in which svn is worse than CVS.

If you didn't like Subversion (and preferred CVS) in 2001 it was because it was too new, because you'd heard scary stories of repository corruption, because you didn't like having a single revision number for your whole repository, that sort of thing.

The only one of those that's at all parallel to any of what Micah is saying about git is the last one.

Now, sure, both Micah's complaint now and an anti-svn complaint in 2001 fit the template "There's this cool new thing, and I'm not convinced it's an improvement on its predecessor". But, guess what, Micah said more than that, and the actual point is in the specific complaints he made, not in the fact "someone thinks something isn't better than what it's allegedly a better replacement for".
Yeah, I saw those pages and started reading through them, Unfortunately it's not exactly an unbiased source, and the bias leaks through pretty heavily.

I'm not discounting Bazaar, I just don't entirely trust their comparison with other system.s
Even if they do, the culture of the existing community is set. Phishing will be a problem. I should have bought Tvvitter.com
I've written JavaScript sans semicolons for years and have not encountered incorrect parsing by any browser.

Yes, neither have I - but then I'm doing fairly simple stuff. I do test across a fairly broad range of browsers, though.

I find this style cleaner and easier on the eyes.

I'm glad I've found at least one kindred spirit in this regard! I was beginning to think I was the only one.

I haven't done any testing regarding parsing speed, but I would be shocked if anyone can demonstrate a measurable speed difference in a realistic testing scenario.

Perhaps with very, very large and complex code if the JavaScript engine uses an old-style interpreter? But surely the problem will continue to diminish away to nothing as more JavaScript engines implement efficient compilation.
This is a sad day for American capitalism. If SCO's System V got copy/pasted into Linux, and Novell and others can just get away with that, then this is just really a sad day for free enterprise.
Regulation is not a binary choice between all and none. Removing the Glass-Steagall Act is a large part of why the government felt the need to dump 700billion in the financial markets. We could let Leamon Brothers fail because they where not tightly coupled with the rest of the market, but AIG was tided up in so many market's they felt they had to save it. Which IMO demonstrates why you need more regulation on large companies than small. When a 50 person company fail's not much happens but when a 50,000 person institution fails the ripples spread throughout the market.

I think Sarbanes-Oxley was over regulation, but letting a 50+ billion$ company get leveraged 30x is stupid.
How to launch a tech company in one weekend (CNN on Atlanta Startup Weekend 2)
You’re asking the wrong question
I'm told NetBeans has considerably better JRuby support and integration than Eclipse.
Something like this might be exactly what we need, but we don't make money building distributed build artifact caching systems. If we don't make money doing it, we aren't doing it :(

"Is this good for the company?"
The correct response to which is to politely refer them to ECMA-262 section 7.9 and go on your way.

I'll let you know how that goes. I even have a particular person in mind... :^D
From what I understand is that OAuth was created when twitter developers identified this as a problem. The trouble is they were too busy fighting to keep twitter alive to roll it out on their own api.
The Manifesto of the Futurist Programmers
I was just thinking about the same thing, although my attributes were: Time, Money, Passion (the things which a job should reward you with / what you will invest in a job).

2 out of 3 is what you should be aiming for.