skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I understand your definitions.

Same caloric input, same exercise (that is, main control signal for caloric output the same). Difference in input is a substance without caloric value. Huge difference in weight.

The only caloric balance here at play is the tautological one ("caloric balance was positive as evidenced by gaining weight. later, caloric balance was negative as evidenced by losing weight"). Other than that, assuming you believe this anecdata (which you may not), the notion of caloric balance is useless.

(And, feel free to disbelieve anything I say, but read on B3 and you'll realize there are numerous reports of reduced weight that starts with B3 supplementation, despite no other change in intake or exercise)
I re-read it and you are right. I don't see a way to edit the title however.
I'm going to guess that its because there's a few "names" in the industry who do actually get a real share of the profits, probably because they have a lawyer (or more likely, a legal staff) to make sure that all the details are negotiated with their interests in mind. Like anything else, you need a little luck and a lot of work to get to that point.
I feel irrationally annoyed by this, as if registering this to redirect to a library's README.md was a selfish act.

Registered in 2011 (somewhat surprised it took that long):

Domain Name:	readme.md
Registrant:	The Echo Nest
City:	SOMERVILLE
Country:	US
e-mail:	brian@echonest.com

created:	2011-08-23
expires:	2013-08-23

DNS:
ns1.p23.dynect.net	208.78.70.23
ns2.p23.dynect.net	204.13.250.23
I don't know anything about Scheme. But, porting AWK might be cool. Thanks.
99.9999% of startups are not denting anything, or really even trying to.
I always forget the name of that startup where Torvalds wrote Linux ... he couldn't have made a dent without a startup, could he?
I ended liked your presentation aesthetics better than v33ra's resume below, even though both of you seem to be using hResume.

Props for the manner of execution. IMO, it looks relevant, pleasing and marketable. Don't worry too much about how it looks. Yes, there's always going to be some "Haters gonna hate", but I doubt it would be for your CV.
Fyi your site is pretty broken on Nexus 7, maybe on other mobile Chrome browsers too?
We used Slim for findthin.gs—it's faster, has much better whitespace control, and, imho, better achieves Haml's reduce noise, increase beauty aims. But there's no contest about Sass and CoffeeScript being amazing.
Ask HN: Google Maps script of the Space Jump?
I was checking out the new Google Maps on the iPad and it's awesome in 3D. And was thinking, is there a script that mimics Felix Baumgartner's space jump decent?
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Why is the hate for cameras justified? There are two proper solutions:

1. if road is unsafe beyond certain speed, then better drive safe at the prescribed limit

2. if road has artificially lowered speed, then just get the legal speed increased

These license plate hiding technologies are a poor solution to real problem: people driving recklessly, and laws being too strict.
You're ignoring the most important part, the victim. If a murder happens, the person who was killed would "notice".
Entirely home–grown CSS with transitions via Sass/Compass by the ever–wonderful http://levibuzolic.com/.
Agreed, although apparently this has been tried a few times without success. Do it next year!
Unfortunately their hash table uses Javascript objects. Therefore it does not behave exactly like Ruby.

Eg:

# Opal
h = Hash.new
h['0'] = 1
h[0] = 2
print h
# {"0"=>2}

# Ruby
h = Hash.new
h['0'] = 1
h[0] = 2
print h
# {"0"=>1, 0=>2}

It is very hard to reproduce those low level specifications without rebuilding everything from scratch sadly :(
Very different, actually:

Supposedly, if you look at the big picture, then the amount of taxes actually paid matches the amount that would have been paid had the structure been simple. The IRS is supposedly not that foolish.

However, this structure can let the studios (and similarly, record companies) keep a larger share of the real profit, rather then actually do "profit sharing".

Supposedly.
I think you either did not read the article, or did not understand it. I am certainly not advocating 'giving up' in any sense. I doubt you would say that DHH or Tim Ferris have 'given up' and 'settled in their twenties.' I even say outright, that my point is to follow your own path, and make your own rules, rather than listen to the hype and tech press.

I am advocating for a worldview where getting VC funding is not an accomplishment in and of itself, and does not necessarily mean you are successful. By taking funding, you are giving up the opportunity to work for yourself. You are 'hiring a boss,' so to speak. And for me, after working for others for years in finance, and then as a CEO of a funded start-up, I decided I would rather forge my own path in life, prestige and press be damned.
I generally agree with your post, but:

>> If the business is so great why sell? The act of selling implies you think it's worth less than what someone else is willing to pay which is dishonest.

There are a lot of reasons to sell any asset. Life changes, changing locations, or simply want to move on to some other area of interest after building a business for many years. Or since you've been sleeping at the office the last few years at the behest of your VCs, you just want to take a few years off. All of these factors affect how much your business is worth to you. (And only you; whether you have to sleep at the office has no bearing on the value of your company to a buyer, but it might make you receptive to a lower price). Ask a founder during one of the highs, she'll tell you her business is worth 10x-100x the price she'd quote you during one of the lows.

Second, a company's value is relative to its owner. For example, The Coca-Cola Company can sell a lot more Vitaminwater in a year than its prior owners due to its global scope, relationships, etc. So Vitaminwater is worth more to Coca-Cola than to the previous owners (who would be able to extract less value from it in a given timeframe). Another example: Vitaminwater would be worth a lot less to IBM than it is to Coca-Cola. So when the company sold, it should have priced somewhere between the expected amount its owners could derive and the (higher) amount Coca-Cola could derive in the same timeframe. There's absolutely nothing dishonest about this.

>> Why shouldn't a VC hold on to the great business they've built for the sake of future cash flow?

This isn't the VC's business. Their LPs didn't provide them capital for this purpose, so operating companies in this fashion might be a breach of fiduciary duties etc. More to the point, they will likely be bad at it over the long term because their core business is essentially banking (and not operating tech or whatever businesses).
Yeah, we have this same rant every few weeks on HN (I admit this one is pretty well written and features an interesting back story). The biggest problem I see with the expected value math is that it only factors in the money side of the equation. A lot of entrepreneurs (most entrepreneurs?) are doing a "go big or go home" startup for many reasons, money not necessarily being the primary one. If all Melanie cares about is money (I bet that's not the case), she'd probably have a higher "expected value" at studying medicine and becoming a surgeon.

Anyways, as a Silicon Valley outsider, it's weird to see those blog posts encouraging people not to take VC money. Is there actually so much pressure on taking VC money that people actually feel the need to write posts like this? Seems like a first-"first world" problem to me...

edit: Here's an interesting take on expected value by a statistician: http://simplexify.net/blog/2012/5/6/i-am-a-statistician-and-...

> So why do I still buy lottery tickets? Definitely not for the expected monetary return on investment. I think of it as a discretionary entertainment spend. I get literally hours of enjoyment from fantasizing what I’d do if I won. I happily spend $25 for two hours of entertainment at the movies, and I don’t judge the value of that experience based on its expected return. For me, a lottery ticket for the occasional big draw has just as much entertainment value, or more, than the many other things that I spend money on to entertain myself.

I bet this line of thought applies to a lot of startup founders.
I'd agree that most aren't, but that doesn't mean they're not trying to (laboring under mistaken assumptions and the like)

This also depends on what making a "dent in the universe" means to you.
>Why would they bother paying the artists, when instead they can invest that same money on a 2nd round of advertising? From their perspective it doesn't make sense to ever pay the artist.

Because eventually word gets around. Especially these days with social media, minor celebrity bands who end up with nothing have a forum for their complaints.
The expected value of the authors approach is $0 (Why? because the whole expected value argument for a startup is about additional wealth beyond your salary + dent in universe potential), and it is settling to boot. It's offensive and waste of human potential.

People striving to be average shouldn't be offended when they're told the course they've chosen will never make them extraordinary. It is reality.
Such tax loopholes might exist (I am not a tax person), but generally the answer is no:

If you take a loan, and don't return it for whatever reason (e.g. because the person to whom you owe it has died and has no heirs; or the bank that gave you the loan decides not to collect), the loan you previously received is instantly converted for tax purposes into your income, and you have to pay income tax on that.
OR, most people realize that building a wildly successful photo app / car sharing service / daily deal site does not 'make a dent in the universe.'
But that's not a tax cheat - that's how the tax system is supposed to work. If the total sum of losses is greater or equal to the sum of profits, they haven't actually made any money, and shouldn't be taxed.

It's just people who are promised "net points" that get screwed, not the tax man.
It's Scheme that has continuations and TCO (guaranteed by the spec) -- Common Lisp has neither, I believe.
Your website - http://philipithomas.com - has exactly the same design as the - https://svbtle.com - network.

Are you part of that network (if so... how did you do it?) or are you just really copying on a grand scale?
Indeed, if you view humans as resources (HR!), it's a terrible waste of potential. One less cow in the meat grinder, if you will. I don't measure my value by the thickness of my wallet or the growth of my assets.

And what of the open source technology example? Are those people striving to be average, settling, or wasting their potential? Are they not extraordinary? That's only one of countless world-changing pursuits not focused on growing a business like a tumor, which I've selected because it is quite relevant to this website's users.
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Please wait for the monthly "Who is hiring" thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring.
So, under this reasoning, you are saying all bootstrapped entrepreneurs are average and a waste of life, simply because they choose to go it alone, and not take funding. Hmm, what was that? Something about man, made of out straw...
"Induction" in electronics refers to the fact that electric and magnetic fields are intertwined in nature. A moving magnet produces an electric current in an adjacent conductor, and (in a perfect symmetry) an electric current produces a magnetic field. These effects are called "induction":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction

A quote: "Electromagnetic induction is the production of an electric current across a conductor moving through a magnetic field."
At a guess, there are two reasons: First, they don't need to offer gross points to get people invested in working on movies, because they already have a steady stream of people desperate to be involved in any way just to be involved or to build experience or to get their big break; and second, if they don't have to, they don't want to because it's less money for them and it establishes a norm of people taking some real money home (a norm that's unnecessary because of the first point).

I was, for a while, peripherally involved in the Canadian film industry, and even in that stunted and low budget arena, there was no shortage of warm bodies to fill any role at all, for virtually nothing but a credit or a line on a C.V.
you don't have to have a startup to make a dent, but if you make your goal "work 30 hours a week with a nice salary" to doubt you will achieve anything close to creating Linux
You have completely missed my point. I have to wonder if you are being willfully dense; right now you are violently agreeing with me while nevertheless misconstruing everything I am saying.

My point, stated succinctly: If a law cannot be enforced without violating the 4th amendment, it is not a legitimate law.

Alternative expression of my point: "When the police cannot catch you legally, they are not permitted to catch you anyway"

Application of my point: If grow houses cannot be found without using drones, which violate the 4th amendment (or should), then grow houses should be legal. Bans on grow houses should only exist if there are legal ways of finding them. If there are legal methods of finding grow houses, than illegal methods should not be employed. Of course grow houses can be found without drones, so no drones should ever be employed.

The purpose of this rule of thumb (notice that I never claim that this principle could be effectively coded into law) would be to provide the population with an effective way of telling Sheriffs to "Fuck off" when they say "We need to violate your 4th ammendment rights to enforce this law.".
> Pi is not a decimal number!

Of course it is -- although choice of base is quire arbitrary. Pi is as much a decimal number as it is a binary number.

> Every decimal representation of pi is an approximation.

Our inability to represent Pi doesn't constrain Pi, it only constrains us. The fact that we cannot fully represent Pi has no effect on Pi or its identity. And Pi has the same identity in any base -- the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

> Pi is not an infinite sequence

Pi is an infinite sequence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Infinite_series

Quote: "The calculation of π was revolutionized by the development of infinite series techniques in the 16th and 17th centuries. An infinite series is the sum of the terms of an infinite sequence.[49] Infinite series allowed mathematicians to compute π with much greater precision than Archimedes and others who used geometrical techniques."
This is kind ironic given that 37signals' is vehemently stubborn about many of their points of view.
Yep, and the record company pockets pretty much every dime of the profit. As a musician you're counting on concert tours to pay the bills. Even wildly successful musicians who are still on that first contract.
No, the article wasn't clear on the point. It gave an example of one specific director, Scott Derrickson, getting shafted. No offense to Scott, but as a casual movie watcher, I haven't heard of him. And if casual movie watchers haven't heard of him, he can be easily replaced, and therefore easily shafted.
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So what do you propose we do, regularly search all houses looking for bodies? These hypotheticals are edge cases which we already accept will in practice go unpunished. To eliminate them would involve violating the 4th amendment.
There's no "agree to disagree" when he's telling you not only what made him unhappy but what you could have done better. This reply just looks more like you're the kind of person who doesn't pay attention.
classic HN algo. if anything related to Microsoft, trash it.
With all respect (and I loved your previous company) I read it and quite frankly it read like this: "I raised $75K and flamed out and this is my rationalization for taking it easy right now". That's fine for you, but I don't think it is good for other entrepreneurs. I also think the expected value argument is poorly reasoned.
But the same reasoning applies. What was Torvald's "expected value" at the time he wrote Linux? Probably -XXXXX$ if we factor in opportunity cost.
I'm saying the value will begin to go up as soon as the mindset isn't "30 hours and a good salary". "Expected value" of startups is all about how much money an exit gets you, not the salary you get along the way.

I think its awesome you are self-employed, but as far I am concerned it isn't a startup in the sense I think of them, geared for massive growth.
I don't get why a rapid release cycle is important at all?
I also got my MBA after getting my BS in Computer Science and while I think I could have learned most everything we talked about by reading books, I did learn:

- public speaking because we had to do a presentation just about every other week

- how business people with little or no technology experience think and their perceptions about technology

- how to talk to the people in the above bullet about technology

- firing people because one of my groups had a member that was not pulling her own weight, and we were told to fire her from the group

I also agree that the branding aspect is also (somehow) helpful. I recently moved from Florida to SF and when I was looking for jobs you wouldn't believe how many people were really excited/impressed/whatever that I had an MBA in addition to being able to answer the tough software questions.

If I had a choice to go back and either spend $50k on an MBA or spend it traveling the world, I would definitely choose the latter, though.
> The act of selling implies you think it's worth less than what someone else is willing to pay which is dishonest.

Any trade involves both parties giving up what they have for what the other person has. Both parties believe they gain from the exchange. There doesn't have to be any dishonesty involved : Both parties can come out ahead of where they started (because they value what they had before vs having after in different ways).

A startup entrepreneur can reasonably value freedom+cash more highly than a cash-cow business. The business buyer may value proven yield above their other alternatives for their cash. Both people win by doing the trade.
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the infograhic is pretty cool.

http://zetrip.com/recommendations/landing?u=4015

but i'm not sure if i'd keep coming back to the site. what's the long term vision?
Unless you're saddled with selinux, in which case, maybe not.
Apple wants people to write iOS applications. Microsoft wants people to write Windows 8 applications.

It's possible that Mozilla will come around, if Chrome gives them a big enough kick in the pants. Then again, it's equally possible that PNaCL / PPAPI will remain simply an app distribution mechanism for ChromeOS.
I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets
You are fabricating straw men. They do not need "an answer that can be implemented in an hour." They have been in business for 4 years, and this particular string of DDoS attacks has been going on for several days now. This is both a a planning failure and an incident response failure.

Your comment about iptables is odd. I don't know why iptables would be relevant here; I suspect we are talking about implementations several orders of magnitude different in size. Certainly one would drop traffic at the edges and not do filtering on end nodes.
> He should be nowhere near the wheels of government.

Old lawyer joke.

Q: What do you call a lawyer who can't make it in private practice?
A: Your honour.

Granted he's not a judge but the spirit of the law applies.
So, profitable business, totally bootstrapped, growing at 20% a month. I guess you could call that "taking it easy." If you think my argument is not well-reasoned, then you should refute it, not just insult me. Lastly, and I don't think the crowd on HN really gets this, I was using the absolute most conservative assumptions possible to prove my argument. Which is, 'even just working 30 hours a week, you still have a better chance at making millions of dollars by NOT raising VC.'
If we pop another stack frame, I think there's a deeper level of meaning to the statement "Smart people change their minds".

Smart people are open to evidence and argument. But also I think many really smart people recognise that their own cognition is a mutable thing, that the mind changes as we age and that we can play a role in that. They change their minds.

By immersing themselves in hard, interesting problems, surrounding themselves with other smart or inspiring people and by savouring experiences - that they change the thoughts that occur to them, the memories they can build upon, and the way in which they can form conclusions.

Maybe the really really smart people can even direct change in their mind about how they change their mind.

Then again, maybe that kind of meta-cogitation is tail-recursive.
This looks great, but I feel like everyone is forgetting about wepay. They are exactly in this market and are usually overshadowed by stripe. I'm testing them out soon, and hopefully I'll be a happy customer.
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On the contrary I understand your point well, and it appears to be nonsense.

You have, however, missed mine.
Yes but no worse than everyone else squatting domains.
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Do you think that is a marker for success in life? A photo sharing app 'geared for massive growth'?
I think ink was referring to the 100+ comments on the blog.msdn.com page itself - they're all completely trashing it, including some epic rants. It's a pretty funny read.
Something resembling a yearly release cadence with very quick customer update cycle (not waiting 3 years to get 40%of the market)would be great.

Rapid is relative- FireFox's schedule seems too eager for me. For the web to move forward we either need IE being an active participant helping push forward or to get out of the way.

In general I'm disappointed with the lack of enthusiasm MS is showing for down level OSes.
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"Separation of church and state" is not in the constitution, and (more or less) any non-profit can be tax-exempt.
Only a handful of people have that kind of clout. Everyone else is getting part of the net, realizing they're getting screwed, and hoping the current project will be so successful they join the powerful handful.
jlgreco was quite clear that this would be the authorities noticing, and under his theory this ought to be a prerequisite to an investigation.

Noting that the criminal or (now deceased) victim observed the crime is neither useful nor insightful.
+1 for taking the effort to build something to scale. :-)

Hmmm... I checked it.. Good landing page, but your "Sample Resume Preview" which is supposed to load this: http://www.cvstash.com/profile/john_doe_EUQ8q3gDV

instead redirects to this: http://www.cvstash.com/resume/default/index//

I would like to see the preview of a Resume, before wanting to actually go ahead and try it, no?

EDITED to add: Even clicking on your name: http://www.cvstash.com/profile/arbie_samong_mfvvK163U
leads me to the front page. Looks like I have to sign up before the site decides to show me anything.

EDIT 2:::

I bit the bullet and clicked JOIN NOW, and got this message:

Internal error

Ticket issued: unrecoverable

Man, I am so sorry to be the bearer of one bad news after another......

I'll give it a few hours before checking back. :-)
That's essentially what Facebook is. I'm not sure what you mean by "a marker for success in life," but most people consider Mark Zuckerberg to be successful.