skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Difficult to tell. Our most highly respected individual contributor in our department comes in at 11:00, leaves at 5:00, and basically works on whatever catches his fancy whenever he pleases (Which, thankfully, usually results in a reduction in labor for our and other departments each time he releases some new code/product)

When particular tasks are placed on his plate - he is so overwhelmingly competent, that he simply nails them and moves onto the next task. The goal is to get _very_ good at your job so you do _less_ work.

And he is easily the most popular member of the team. People love him to pieces and I've never heard anyone suggest he isn't carrying twice the load of everyone else.

As I tell my team - Our Goal in life is to become so proficient at our jobs that we only need to come into work for an hour a day. If we develop our level of excellence, or ability to automate, and our ability to deliver to that level, I'm more than happy to have them in the office for as little time as is required to complete the tasks of their position. (presuming that the median person with those responsibilities would take 40 hours a week, of course)

As it turns out, with the exception of Director Level employees, the most highly paid _contractor_ in our company works for precisely 2 hours, from 9:00 - 11:00, each day. They are available 24x7 for assistance, but, if they do their job properly, they rarely are called in for help.

That is where I think we want to be. That should be our goal. Spend our time with family, in nature, pursuing those objectives which bring us inner happiness.
I'll tell you why steveplace's ebook is a scam for $69.
Serious query: is it acceptable to pronounce F# as "G-flat" in a pinch?
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we will either need more time or more developers

With the economy tanking you'll soon have enough of both. Is it possible to open source enough of your concept that you could get community interest, but without losing your value-add?
The real argument for FBConnect or any other connect mechanism (ie google's and myspace's connect) is that you suddenly get to use those social networks as distribution and promotional channels for your apps.

so its not so much about the ease of development/integration (which it actually is if you already have a registration system) its about user acquisition and reducing the barriers in doing so.
Just wondering.. did you use a Markov chain to write your comment? It doesn't parse.
I am starting out in the development world. I simply want a job that will push me to the point where I'm confident with my programming and design skills. After that I want to freelance, so as to give me more time to concentrate on the mountain of things that interest me. Or work for two years, save up money, then don't work for 6 months to a year (my living costs and needs are very low) so, again, I can work on the mountain of things that interest me.

Ultimately I have decided I will to work to live, and hopefully not work too much so I have to some time to live. Even if I succeed at creating a startup it will only be a means to a financial end. I'd quite like to live like a victorian gentleman, but filling my days with cognitive pursuits instead of prancing around London.
You might want to read <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/...">this article from Portfolio magazine</a> before you approach investors: they read plenty of things too and are well-aware of the problems with the industry. The big question you have to answer is whether you can make money in the kind of environment described by the article.

Anyway, not to ask the obvious, but have you applied to YC?
Markus Frind is not just a scaling hero, but a hero of the 2nd highest order (beneath Jesus, Scoble and Calacanis). He's not just the king of scaling, but a king of business. Who wouldn't want to earn millions of dollars while not having to deal with "employees" or "investors"?

I say, listen to this man! The inequities ladled out by the contemptuous few against the lone entrepreneur are deftly countered by the resplendence of Frind's encompassments.
I feel the same way about college. I'm just finishing up my second-to-last (baring a catastrophic fuck-up) finals week, and in looking back, what did I learn? Not much.
That's a good point, about responsibility. My glib comment on a change of scenery wasn't very insightful. For the first time in San Fransico I lived alone and knew nobody so it was me, and only me, that was responsible for doing everything. In retrospect, I think the situation forced me into being functional.
yeah , it was interesting. It is a little difficult to actually see what they are making , but it appears they have paid for some marketing either 12K or 7K depending on if the 5K free marketing 'income' is applied to the expense
Evidence > Opinions.

But if you want to sling opinions, here's a juicy read that came out two days ago: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/09/climate-meetin...

A few (650) more experts had something to say yesterday: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.B...
Like most gov't sites, its design is hideous.

The hubris of men never fails to surprise me as I study history. People actually believed that we could change a planet's climate catastrophically based on thirty years' data?! When we had other data showing that the the climate naturally shifts, often unexpectedly? Asteroids and Volcanoes: Yes, they can drastically affect climate. Smokestacks? Not so much.
Rogers rolls out faster '3.5G' cellphone network
To encourage religious commitment to a project, instead of a hotel, it would be way more appropriate to get access to a monastery in the countryside. This would work especially well for open source projects. I imagine the experience would include wearing robes and taking part in mass, where the attendants chant the GPL license together.
Network like crazy. Investors invest in people they know or who know people they know.

If you don't know any investors or people who know investors, start with your family and friends. They know you and are more willing to take a risk with you than someone who doesn't know you.

I once asked an angel investor when the ideal time was to come and ask him for money. He told me "when you don't need me". If you can do anything to get closer to generating revenue now, even on a small scale, you will be in a much better position when you go to raise money.
I think you mean 申し訳ありません (inexcusable).

Though I've tried using 申し訳あります (literally, there is an excuse) before as a joke to lighten the mood when apologizing. I'm not sure they got it.
Most people who claim to have been at Woodstock weren't.
VistaPrint is hosting over 75,000 business websites for $5-20/mnth
Can you explain why a record series A valuation is useful for YC unless they bought you out as they bought in. I would assume it means less dilution of your equity stake but I would think a record exit value (e.g. acquisition) without further funding would be the best argument for your model.
you could probably include the script multiple times from different places, so long as you're not doing something within it as it loads (i.e. it's just functions)

I don't know enough about JS to say, but you might be able to do if(!$loadedvar){document.whatever.write("<script src=\"...\" />"); }; as well
Here's my attempt:

Income:

Realized Sales: $32,000

Accounts Receivable: ~$7,000 (reading graph)

Subtotal: $39k

Expenses:

Programmers: $29,000

Advertising: $2,000

Administrative[1]: $5,000

Artists: $4,000

Debt Service: $1,800

Subtotal: $41,800

[1] I smell a new MacBook, or someone severely overpaid for lawyers.

----

Total: ($2,800)

Ignore the charity -- that is not a business-related expense. Ignore the source of your starting capital -- I don't care whether it is a loan, selling your car, or using cash you have on hand, it is not income. Ignore the salary paid to yourself -- transferring money from one pocket to another pocket does not improve or hurt your financial situation.

What does this simplified picture produce? The correct conclusion: this business is losing money. Sales are in a downward spiral while advertising is active and the blog author apparently thinks that taking a month off of advertising and then turning it back on again is going to goose himself to profitability.

That is fantasy.

I think everyone who sees dollar signs in their eyes when they hear of the App Store needs to be sent to read this article. Here is a guy who has sold almost $40,000 worth of software and STILL LOST MONEY. At the moment all he has to show for it is a swiftly declining residual revenue stream (it will probably fall below the costs of debt service by the end of January) and a pile of money owed his family.
This is the "nobody goes there anymore it's too crowded" argument. The more fierce the competition to get in the more likely YC can pick winners. Also, they would get much broader visibility to other startups' plans. Consider the other extreme: fewer applicants than slots they had allocated. Quality and success rates would likely be lower.
Rocket Science, Entrepreneur Style: SpaceX takes a fresh approach to rocket fabrication
Last week I found an issue with routing internal to Yahoo's core network that was causing an esoteric DNS failure for our customers.

Routers are configured by people, and people make mistakes.
VC's still have funds to invest (unless their limited partners renege on their commitments) and will have to invest them unless they return them to their limited partners. Most Angels will have seen a significant reduction in their net worth in the last year (and likely an even greater reduction in the amount of "risk capital investments" that they want to make with the remainder).
Paul Carr is just as funny, yet honest, in person (especially after a pint at DrinkTank http://blog.huddle.net/?c=DrinkTank or such).

Twitter gives a good flavour http://twitter.com/paulcarr.
Or specify the hash type you'd like to see at the point you invoke the script. It can't retroactively protect pages that were published with the insecure hash, but it certainly would allow the author to update their site upon awareness of a hash vulnerability.
This one is not bad...

http://projects.nikhilk.net/WebDevHelper/Default.aspx
Note that I said that the functionality was "Tivo-Like." No streaming is necessary!

You have content organized in "channels." You start out with very small resolution and short streaming "previews." But once you subscribe to a "channel" the application starts downloading longer Bittorrent "episodes" from torrents that are posted to an RSS feed. So there is an initial period when people only have access to "previews," but after the first night, it really is like a Tivo for short high-quality porn clips.

With Bittorrent, much of the bandwidth is provided by the P2P cloud. The bandwidth costs are for initial seeding and for the shorter, smaller "previews."

So really, the two keys to this idea are:

1) Packaging - the easy place to find high quality clips
2) The users bring their own bandwidth

I know that when I watch a porn DVD, what I'm really doing is going to my favorite one or two clips in the chapters menu. It's like in the old days when you had to buy the whole CD just to get the 1 or 2 tracks you really loved. I suspect that the market for really good, really short clips can come into being. Once one site shows that money can be made this way, then a lot of the high-quality free short clips will shift their availability to such pay channels, just like the shift from Napster to iTunes.
Bubbles may be inevitable, but that doesn't mean we can't do anything to mitigate them. To me, it seems clear that the "Trader's option" -- big bonuses in good years, no downside in bad -- is a recipe for disaster in any market. I doubt this bubble would have been nearly as bad if the banks were still owned primarily by their management.
Communication between groups could also be used to resolve such conflicts in real-time. Even with BIM and Integrated Project Delivery, there will always be errors in plans for large projects. The ability to clarify these as soon as possible (ideally before any mistakes have become physical reality) will save people money.
Don't forget that for tens of thousands of years, all Man had to do to stay alive was whatever it took to stay alive.

He never had to write a TPS report on his fishing trip or sell overpriced shares in manioc root or feel guilty because he wasn't completing his TODO list each day.
We did. More as a lark than anything else. We weren't surprised when we received the rejection letters.
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I don't see why it need be "much less comfort". The sun is incredibly powerful and our current lifestyles ever so wasteful, especially if you factor in some not-quite-there-but-nearly future tech such as LED lights, ebook readers, usefully cheap solar panels, video-on-demand, music downloads, etc.
So p -> q /= q -> p. Aren't there a lot of things you can't rule out?
The story you're referring to is Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
I'm not sure where you live or what your interests are, but this is the way contracting at Microsoft works. Every year contractors have to take a ~100 day break. Some contractors take that time off to relax / do hobby things, others take short term temp contracts or other part time work to fill the gaps.
And "No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Helmuth von Moltke
I will take that bet. My retirement account for yours.
I'm honestly surprised that it's taken you this long to go out and say this. I've loved reading your articles and essays about startups, and I've soaked up all of it, but one of your big topics is dealing with investors. I've talked with a lot of entrepreneurs, and bootstrapping seems to slow things down slightly, but with the technology available as cheaply as it is, living expenses are the biggest thing, and if people can figure out how to live on the margin, they could launch a startup on next to no money at all.
That was part of the justification. The other part is you get duplicate clutter all over the screen. 15 instances of "File, View, Preferences, Help" spammed all over your screen instead of one. When you almost never use a menu if the window doesn't already have focus.
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I hate pieces like this. You have some reporter or blogger trying to make himself look important by repeating some lurid scenarios told by some Obama appointees also trying to make themselves look important or prescient or serious and responsible, and none of them have any insights or knowledge of the economy or even world politics worth reading about unless you are close to the administration and it is career-enhancing for you to be able to predict what decisions the adminstration will make.
Ask HN: Any recommended companies that can do security audits for startups?
I'm wondering whether or not a professional security audit would be a good investment. While we're working hard to build a very secure system, I think an outside perspective could help us identify threats we hadn't considered.
you're making a quick assumption without knowing more about his methodology and long-term strategy. I talked with him at length last night at a developer meetup, and he's now in a position to capitalize on the technology assets he had developed for $30k. He's in a much, much, much better position than half the gumball developers on the store now.

I wouldn't be so quick to write-off people's real-world testaments like that, especially when they are courtesy enough to open their books for other people to evaluate and apply. You sound like the armchair critics on TC, TBH.
This company is obsessed with the topic of procrastination. They devoted a week to it on Slate.
Cool animation showing immigration to the US from 1820 to 2007
shouldn't be long now until we can put imagery directly into the brain
Some studies show that visual cortex is activated by mental imagery, too ( See, eg: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v378/n6556/abs/378496a0... ) so it stands to reason that decoding mental images could be possible.
It was meant to be an overly simplistic look at the finances, not an actual financial statement (notice the nice round numbers). I didn't make this clear in the post, but our third app is already paid for and will be released soon. I'm not out of the woods yet, I know that, but I'm headed the right direction. And that's saying something in the App Store at the moment.

David - App Cubby
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!"
I foresee more of this (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/posts/Thoughts/sidedock-2007-...) kind of awfulness mixed in with the whizzy 3D desktop.
JetBrains Delivers Meta Programming System Beta
That's the one. They were recording in the lateral geniculate nucleus, however (ie more similar to the representation coming straight off the retina).

More here: http://www.stanley.bme.gatech.edu/research_topics_vision.htm...
What sort of price are you looking to pay? I've written a lot of secure software in the past, and I may well be able to recommend a couple of firms who have done a similar job for me but I'm afraid they don't come terribly cheap.
Talk to the Kink.com guys.
You say "physics textbooks don't give this system explicitly". They don't need to - they simply present the system that's most instructive to learn or is most interesting to their authors. As long as your formula or "system" is consistent with the accepted formulations of special relativity, you have no reason to worry.

PS - Most physics communities are getting by with their own methods, and if you really think yours adds something you should write a textbook (or a paper).
This is pretty funny. A mixture of cargo-cultism ("Arc must not be real software because real software must be available at a public version control system and have automated tests" -- I guess nobody ever told Linus Torvalds, who claims to have spent years managing Linux development via emailed patches), Java envy ("Arc is not a real language because it has no built-in OOP system"), intensely personal pet peeves ("Arc is failing because PG's version numbering system consists of a series of numbers that increase monotonically, but not in the way I expect") and just plain missing the point:

Arc is not a mature language, nobody is asking you to use it, and it cannot be behind schedule because there is no stated plan or schedule for its inevitable World Domination. It is -- and I say this as one who has the utmost respect for great and serious toys -- still a toy. It is young, and it is enjoying its youth. So, when you play with it, try to at least act like you're having fun!

If and when the language takes off, there will be plenty of opportunity for "polishing", feature freezes, official releases, bug databases, security teams, FAQs, books, patents, trademarks, O'Reilly Arc conferences, Enterprise Arc conferences, legacy users, FUD, poorly constructed benchmarks, schisms, forks, flames, backstabbing, bitter debates about backwards compatibility... and so on, and so forth. At which point you will be pining for the glorious days when Arc was young and fun and had yet to grow up into a Serious Language with real-world consequences.
Maybe you should get in touch with Kink.com. I know a number of people who work there and it seems to be a good organization, and in its own way very scrupulous.
I am 150% in favor of real-world evidence and sharing information with other entrepreneurs. That is why I make all my businesses financial numbers public, too. (Not the usual sense of the word "armchair critic".)

What I am not in favor of is sugar-coating assessments out of social concern. Why do we put things in graphs? To draw conclusions out of them. The conclusion you draw out of a downward-sloping sales graph is not "Things are looking up!" The long-term strategy, which is laid out in the blog post, is to repeat the tactics (advertising) that failed before, seemingly without regards to understanding why they failed the first time.

(Which is fairly simple: it is virtually impossible to achieve a conversion ratio high enough to justify that price point with a ten-cent ad. You need to either charge much more or have a back end revenue stream. The App Store is not conducive to either. I pay six cents a click and sell an app for $25 and it takes significant work to make money and those numbers.)

He's in a much, much, much better position than half the gumball developers on the store now.

I agree with this assessment, which should be tattooed to the inner eyelids of anyone thinking of publishing for the store.
The fact that his work was applied to the creation of nuclear weapons was one of Eintstein's great regrets in life. The fact that those weapons were used on cities full of civilians was his greatest.
Maybe you just need customers, not capital.

It is probably perfectly possible to locate customers if you have a prototype, depending on what you do.

Don't underestimate sales.
If you install visual studio express 'web developer' package, which urged strongly to install microsoft sql server and some large dot net package, you can debug javascript fairly nicely:

http://www.berniecode.com/blog/2007/03/08/how-to-debug-javas...

I use a combination of this and firebog lite, but neither is as good as firebug or safari's web developer tools.
Well, actually the article isn't a bad one. It's just misappropriately titled. That's why I would like a special flag so a mod could fix it, though I guess maybe that's too infrequent to warrant a feature.
The never-ending beta seems to be endemic to services rather than products.
Ask and ye shall receive.
"These lab results should give pause not only to people who believe in efficient markets..."

The author is mistaking why markets trend toward efficiency. The 10% who don't overvalue the equities will have enough money (if not at first, but later as their realism makes them much more profit) to keep the price in line.

Just because 90% of people overvalue something doesn't mean the markets can't be efficient.
Home finance – yes it is still available in Australia and at good rates
My choice finance is a mortgage broker company, it offers competitive rates for car finance and home finance.
What's Next for Computer Interfaces?
Hah... I am amused by the 4+ thousand percent difference with TryExcept... why is that? (Ipy is slower by 40 times?)
Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco Systems
If google / forum / irc channel cannot help you or maybe disconnected from internet, there are a lot of way to problem solving
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_solving
> "No man on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'" - The late Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, speaking at another Harvard Commencement

No, but I bet a lot of men have said, at least to themselves if not out loud, "I wish I'd had sex with a lot more gorgeous women." cf. Little Miss Sunshine.

Spending more time at the office is a fairly reliable way of upping your odds when you're not at the office.
It's about managing expectations/perceptions:

Gmail is in beta, so Google gets less flak for outages, account lockouts, etc. "It's free and beta, so it's unsupported, take it or leave it". They have a strong position compared to other crappier webmail services.

For browsers it's reversed. Beta = "Can I really trust their browser to handle my online banking SSL connections properly?" It's the "go straight to version 2 to increase adoption" phenomenon.

Edit: Also, strategy. Gmail expands adsense footprint. Chrome is Google's attempt to compete with flash, silverlight, et al. for the future "web OS", following the rule that platforms always end up beating applications.