skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It was a good movie but I surely don't think it should have won, pretty much, every category.
They also obfuscate it. Understandably so.
Although I agree with your comment, I must say that everyone (and I mean everyone), who is a startup entrepreneur, knows about HN, and reads all PGs essays knows that these are advices, opinions based on the experience from funding over 100 startups. Not rules, advices.

And although I applaud your efforts and accomplishments at Tarsnap, I must say that you base your argument on significantly less than 100 startups.
It should never have been removed.

Tsk Tsk NBC & News Corp.
It's actually not obfuscated by design - the main goal is to reduce latency and bandwidth usage. It just so happens that this means single character variable names and no whitespace, which is also fairly hard to read.
The 1.0 being a pretext really rang true for us. It was interesting noting comparing how what we thought was important with what people were actually the critical things in making a purchase decision were, but nobody tells you those things seriously until they can look at your product and see what it's not.
What kind of volume can you do with this? Very interesting.
Greg Linden's (MSFT) comments on a recent Google paper on this:

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-google-crawls-deep-w...
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I did search for DWT. I don't understand how wavelets would be used in this context, so I was hoping for some verification.
But Orange library is not actively developed/maintained. Right?
> "bind you into a period of servitude."

A venture round contractually binds you, does it not? I mean that's the word they use - legally binding.
No, the provisos of this 100GB.
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1. Redundancy - although failures are rare, they do occur. So if one provider has a problem, traffic to all other points is not interrupted.

2. Pricing - you buy from multiple providers and thus are not locked in.

3. Latency - your customers want the lowest latency.

3a. Often times, companies will run an application in the data center and have remote offices connect over a VPN to the servers. Those remote offices will be in different geographic areas and will be using different local providers, all of which will have different network paths to reach you.

Peering - if you are large enough to provide say 100Mb/s or more of traffic continuously to one provider's network, they may choose to peer with you at little or no cost. This means that they give you the connection because the traffic is going to them directly and they don't have to maintain other high speed connections to some third party that they may have to pay. There is a lot of negotiation and at least 3 separate pricing strategies that each side can follow.

The simplest is "bill and keep" which is that each side provides no-cost access to the other's network, and they each bill their own customers and keep the proceeds.
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My favorite: "So being cheap is (almost) interchangeable with iterating rapidly," followed up in footnote 4 with "They'd be interchangeable if markets stood still. Since they don't, working twice as fast is better than having twice as much time."
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I agree with the last sentence of your comment. As for the rest, maybe you should add: rule #-1: be modest :-)

I am trying to write a post on my blog about what I call the "solo entrepreneur blues", which has to do with one of the biggest mistakes I have seen by entrepreneur friends: start alone and trust no one. I'll post a link once I have the tone right.
Paul is probably exaggerating a bit on that rule, to make his point across. You can have a version 1.0 that actually solves a real problem! But you know what he means...
I agree. Hacker is a word that only a small subculture of computer programmers would call themselves, despite what attributes they might project on others. This article was interesting to hackers, I haven't met a hacker yet who wasn't at least peripherally interested in archaeology, architecture, psychology and history.
There are certainly any number of ticket brokers out there that are making six figure incomes.

Right now I'm limited by capital. Volume could scale higher once you start automating the processes as much as possible and using VPNs to get multiple shots, but I'm not quite there yet. One advantage of doing it at low volume is that you can cherry pick only the best shows, like the upcoming Leonard Cohen show. Unfortunately all my free capital is tied up in tickets already so I miss out on Leonard Cohen.

I know it's unlikely, but if anyone wants to loan me money I can comfortably offer you interest rates higher that beat anything you can get on the market right now.
Not quite, because different women look good at different ages.

Case in point: Michelle Obama looked fairly awkward as a teenager, but is beautiful in her 40s.
What vaskel said.

You may have more leverage than you think. I'm pretty sure in my state (Kansas) your credit rating cannot be dinged for late payment on a medical bill. Used to be the case anyway. It would be handy to know if that was true for you too.

When my father got sick there was a flood of bills. I just sent every creditor $20 a month. I figured they would be happy to get anything since so many people pay nothing. I never made any formal payment plans or arrangments. This worked fine.

Another thing you might do is challenge large bills. I challenged a big bill with several charges, don't remember why, but they ended up adjusting it down more than what I asked for, on different charges than the ones I was objecting to. They could not explain this, just "that's what the reviewers came back with". Give them the opportunity.
> 13. Deals fall through.

Yeah, sometimes silently, as in the counter-party just stops calling you back one day. Not unlike the dating scene.
Can use Dabbleboard (http://www.dabbleboard.com) too :).

I'm impressed that Jason mentions us himself in a comment.
Most of the tickets are on sale 3-4 months ahead of time. You can turn them around very quickly if you're willing to go for the lowest price on Stubhub which may or may not be the optimal strategy. My fastest turnaround was 4 Jimmy Buffett lawn tickets in California that I got for $40 each and sold on Stubhub for $80 each an hour late.

Generally I buy a pair at a time because you are more likely to get 2 good seats together than 4 seats together. Then go back and immediately buy two more. Sometimes I buy 4. It mostly depends on available funds and mood, it's not something I have mathematically optimized.
I'm not even gonna go there with Cindy McCain.

Wait I think I just did.
Use all the contacts you have. But also think more strategically and plan what your press contacts should be and go out and get them.

Forget about press releases. Establish direct connections with the press now, before you know them. If you say one day "oh, let's get press coverage" and expect it to happen instantly, you don't know how it works.

Also, question the usefulness of getting press coverage. We were on TechCrunch. It sends shockwaves all over the blogosphere for a week, which is nice. But you need to make your users happy. We also were on the front page of smaller, but still national media: got 100 visitors that day (barely measurable and completely insignificant).

I guess my point is that the days where the press would make or break a company are over. Media is too fragmented, too many people get their news from "alternative" media, you can't expect to kill all your birds with one shot.
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I've tried to learn FP a few times, but I never understood the advantages. Most recently, I opened up Armstrong's Erlang book.

The power of Erlang seems to be due to the fact that processes and crashes are part of the language, and the language makes it fast and simple to create processes and handle crashes. This (esp the process part) can be implemented in a non-functional language.

It wasn't obvious to me why the functional nature of Erlang gave it any power.

It seems to me that things like the Erlang book example where they provide reliability to any arbitrary app can be implemented in C++ using a base class + virtual methods.

I would appreciate any "killer articles" which will make me "get it".
So at best you can make $100 profit per day? Doesn't sound like a winning combination to me.

I don't think that's what the original poster had in mind. He may have been looking for a high-paying consulting gig, you know, the kind that pays $1,000/day.
Look at the things John Resig has been doing. In addition to founding jQuery, he has written a lot of other good JavaScript code. Also, his blog, ejohn.org, discusses other JavaScript code he admires.
You can, but I'm tempted to say that if you're a first-time founder that it's probably luck. Having something out there was what changed our thinking from "this is the software we're making" to "this is the market we're addressing". It still took a while to really sink in and figure out what the implications of that were, and it's no doubt a process that we'll see continue once we push the next bits out.
And they are so afraid of having to go through a divorce that can wipe them out, that they don't feel like trying.

Yep. It's an utterly broken system where the wife can decide she's not into her husband any more and walk away with half of his shit.

Every single married guy I know is MISERABLE. The sex pretty much stops within the first couple of years. And the woman gains mega weight, because now that they "got" you, they don't need to keep in shape.

I think this is far from universal. You seem to know some really unhappy married people.

It seems like this is more often the case among less educated couples who marry too young.

Marrying an American woman is pretty much the worst decision you can make. If you really want to get married, go find a nice European girl to marry, unlike American women, at least they know that marriage is not a one way street.

Why European? My observation is that E. European, Asian, Latin American, and African women are around the same level of quality: very high, because the educated women from those areas are cultured and would be at the pinnacle of refinement by the US standard. Next is W. Europe, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. Urban sophisticate and minority American women are probably at the same level as Pacific NW ladies: not bad, and not nearly as bad as the reputation of American women would suggest. However, the suburban-bred office cows, raised on Sex and the City and burned out on college casual sex, are at the cellulite-ridden, lumpy, bottom. They're the ones who give American women a bad name. In truth, you can find quality women anywhere, even in the US... it's just much harder in some places.

There seems to be a criticality situation regarding the number of decent women in a given nationality. What might be at root a 2% shortage (in quality American women vs. men) blows up, on account of some sort of a positive feedback loop. The advantage conferred by the shortage causes (some) women to become spoiled, which further erodes the quality of the women, leading to more shortage, and so on.
rule #-1: be modest

Touché!

start alone and trust no one

I'd say that's a bit strong to describe my situation. I started alone, yes; but it's more a matter of not needing anyone than it is of trusting no one.
Ever heard of Erlang? =)

It's getting pretty hot right now.
My cable TV contract is "legally binding" too. The servitude part is what you're wrong about.
[everyone here knows that these are advice, not rules].

I wish I could agree with you here, but I'm afraid I've seen far too many comments along the lines of "you're violating pg's rule XYZ, so you must be doing something wrong". Yes, most people here probably understand that pg's guidance doesn't apply to every situation, but I still think it's worth reminding people occasionally.
Borrow $3,000,000, loan it, collect loan with interest, pay back loan. Result ~$30,000.

Easier said than done. It is, after all, what got us into this mess.
That may be the case (I don't know) but sending more funding towards buying from small guys won't fix anything if the barrier to entry is bureaucracy.

The solution is to fix the bureaucracy, not to throw more money at it.
When we had started back in Oct - the quote was an $200 additional fee on top of the percentages. It's eliminated as soon as $1mm is processed
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>Don't teach kids programming; teach them science, math, languages, geography, music etc.

Don't teach kids, inspire them to learn instead...
Thank you for your words.

But if I go for local press coverage now (which is my only target since my service is local too), what data should I provide them with apart from about the service which is already displayed on the website?

Should I tell them about the current SMS traffic with my service and the number of users or any other info?

Also I was thinking if I could also give her a hint that we could collaborate with them for SMS announcements and stuff like that for contests or polls their newspaper conducts. Should I mention such stuff in the first mail itself or should I go slow with the press. I haven't dealt with the media anytime, but have heard some say that the press guys are really in a hurry always since they have a lot of data to wade thru for interesting news.
[Mozy's] sync program lets you specify your own encryption key so they can't even view your file data

... assuming you trust their security, that is. Given that they proudly advertise using blowfish -- an algorithm which even the inventor has expressed surprise that anyone is still using -- and they don't make their client source code available for audit, it's hard to place much trust there.
http://www.slideshare.net/alain94040/xtremetalk (sorry for the late response).
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"Pure" FP languages eliminate state. All programs contain an (implicit or explicit) model of the domain they are computing on. Many aspects of the world (domains) that we need to model are stateful. Our programs, in modeling those domains, often must be stateful. This is why it's hard for programs to be entirely functional.

On the other hand, state dramatically complicates reasoning about code, since outputs are no longer purely a function of inputs. Moreover, even with lexical scoping, it's not immediately clear what the state variables are a function of. As the scope of state variables increases, it becomes ever harder to determine what a state variable is a function of. This is why programs should be as functional as possible.

Solution: a language like Clojure or Common Lisp, which naturally encourages a functional approach while allowing side effects when neeeded. Clojure has some advantages over CL in this regard, since it has several clever mechanisms such as agents and software transactional memory to control side effects.
I can vouch for Kevin. Nobody I know works so hard to invest small amounts of money to make moderately larger amounts of money simply to avoid work explicitly labeled as "work."
As one married coworker of mine recently put it "I don't care if I get a raise or a bonus because my wife will just spend it and I can't divorce her because that's just as expensive. The only joy she can't take away from me is writing clean, fast code."
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If you don't mind answering, what did you write the software for your startup with?
A friend of mine once said "the only way I'm learning a new language is if someone can pay me for it" and I found this to be unbelievably detrimental. You should want to go ahead and learn new things and solve new problems. After all, at least for me, that's what makes programming fun.
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I have a great admiration for PG. But PG sometimes creates a false reality for those young kids of becoming millionaires some day with their startup. But the truth is most of them would be heartbroken when they realize that is not always possible. I hope some of you realize this and don't waste precious life and be happy. I hope I made sense.
I would like to see Steve Jobs deal with CAFE standards and union contracts.

GM doesn't need help creating high-end products either (see ZR-1, G8, CTS-V, etc. the marketing needs improvement though), so can jobs design and market the car equivalent of a Netbook?
It doesn't work if javascript is disabled. In addition, NoScript doesn't like it (even with javascript enabled).
The article suggests Jobs himself be in charge of these companies. But it would be a step in the right direction for a manager to simply observe what Jobs did when he first returned to Apple.

In particular, Jobs axed all the different Mac models being developed, and made a single compelling product: the iMac. This focused the business, and created a market.

It wouldn't take Jobs himself to do this with automakers. In fact, it hasn't; just look at something like the redesigned VW Beetle, or the Mini Cooper, both the iMacs of their markets.
Although some of those ghost streets were simply city projects gone wrong (ran out of money/support), so only some errors on maps are traps.

There is one (somewhat) famous example of a trap, in the placement of two fictitious towns in Michigan, Goblu and Beatosu (this being back in the day of their rivalry).
What I recall from his other writings is that he suggests watching the market, but with different eyes from the crowd. A company with sound fundamentals that suffers bad market news is a buying opportunity. The opposite is harder to find, and the bulk of the profit from his approach comes from time, not timing, so he does not actively look for it.
Assuming you're in the US, you see a biased sample. That is, you see a complete cross section of American women, but only a select group of ambitious European women who emigrated as adults. They are here because they are serious about their careers, so they are more likely to believe in working hard to get ahead rather than getting by on their looks.
There's also a security reason for attributes to be enclosed in quotes when we're talking about dynamic webpages. Avery's permissive parser might parse the page "correctly," including an additional maliciously injected attribute like onclick=sendcookie(), which wouldn't have been possible otherwise.
Load test your service first. If you go to press and your service fails, you're doomed.
Yes it is an appendix. We know the date of the original work. but it does not give a date for the appendix.
But if the ticket scalper hadn't been scraping the ticket website at 10am in the first place, the ticket would still be on sale.

(Okay, it likely would've gone to someone else who got there after 10 but before the customer. But now you're cheating that person out of the ticket they otherwise would've had. Still zero-sum.)
In the end what counts is the result. Nobody cares what language you used if your software is great. Similarly, nobody cares about your language or the software, if it is a piece of crap.

Every time there is a post about D on Slashdot, Reddit, etc., there are people saying that D is such a wonderful language that they have migrated/are busy migrating all their projects to it. My answer to them: where is the result? Name at least one useful piece of software written in D?
It would be easier to accuse me of being repetitive than not warning people.

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http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apaulgraham.com+%22prob...

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From my limited experience, having cofounders helps with rules 11. Don't get demoralized and 12. Don't give up. Now, I'm not saying you can't abide by these rules without cofounders but having them around keeps the momentum going. One of us is always full-speed ahead.
And although I applaud your efforts and accomplishments at Tarsnap, I must say that you base your argument on significantly less than 100 startups.

I don't believe this sort of comment is helpful. For one thing, "X works" and "Y can work, too" are not two bits of advice which are in opposition to each other, and shouldn't be treated as such. (Even when X = "Startups should have multiple founders" and Y = "Actually, you can get by with one person if...")

For another thing, evaluating expertise by weight of incomparable circumstances is not logical. If it were, we'd all be taking advice from McDonalds on how to sell software, as the sum total of all customers of every startup company which has ever been mentioned on this site would not equal the number of cups of coffee McDonalds sold worldwide yesterday. Now there are many things to learn from McDonalds, but willy-nilly application of their ideas because they have mass on their side is a bad idea. (The sweet spot for pricing is below $5. Advertising is less about motivating people to buy in the near future than building your brand image for life. Literacy is a nice attribute to have in an employee but is not necessary if you exercise proper management.)
Every functional language I have tried has given me a compelling reason not to use it. In most cases, it was a stupid reason that had nothing to do with it being functional. Some of them force you to sort your functions by call dependence (caller must be after callee). Most of them are woefully lacking in library and toolchain support - no bindings for essential APIs, no graphical debugger, no code completion. In the end, it proved easier to add functional features to languages which already had these things and had proved themselves free of fatal flaws, than to fix the flaws and add support to the functional languages people were promoting.
If there was too much capital sloshing around, it would be easy for companies and individuals to get loans. But it's not.
Call and speak with her again - ask her what stories her readers want to read, and tailor your information and data to that. If that's unclear, think about a good 'angle' on your business - this is a small part of your data which is easy to understand (eg, 0-100 in 7 days; or 'Local group responds to economy by saving teens money').

Re: collaboration, this is a different discussion than getting some coverage. I would wait until after you've discussed the story, then ask her who you need to talk with at her paper about collaboration - unless they're really small, it's likely to be somebody else - and then get her permission to use her name when calling that other person to introduce yourself.

Good luck!
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It's always important to hear about the counterpoints. As an outside observer I'm not sure its obvious that your company wouldn't have been better off with a cofounder and a quicker release schedule. All I'm saying is: there are exceptions where its best not to follow these rules and then there are successes despite not following the best course.
Ask HN: I just bought a Mac, where do I go to learn Cocoa?
I know how to program, I've just never used Cocoa/Objective C. Is there any free stuff (preferably from Apple) I can read to learn enough about Cocoa and Obj-C to start making iPhone Apps?

If not, which books should I buy?