skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going with Walter Miller's 'Leibowitz' future. The technology to do much else will be lost as a result of economic disasters and unending upwelling of ignorance. (Cf 2012 election) Global warming and searise and the resulting turmoil will hugely reduce the human population. No money, no interest in industry.

Lots of deserts, lots of monasteries (in cool caves and huge underground 'Topeka' labyrinths).
The 10,000-year clock will be found and melted down to make weapons. As always (especially today) the educated will be suspicious and forced into hiding. Resurgence of manual encipherment. Tourism to the mysterious ruins of the past a major industry. All slowly being buried by dirt falling from the sky. -30-
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Even the title shows how ridiculous this "article" is. Shelf life of a techie? Are they even people?
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The hardest part of starting up is at the beginning. I think once you raise lots of money and have reached product market fit, whether you have a cofounder is not all that important.
Yet, the solo founder discrimination starts at the beginning stage. Sure, there is data to back it up. But the sample size is small to begin with given how reluctant they are at funding solo founders.
I think the biggest reason is probably once past YC, VC and other investors don't fund solo founders. It's really hard to break the conventional wisdom that all the large companies are started by a team. What I am trying to point out is that this conventional wisdom is deeply rooted in a time when the cost of starting up is very high.
So, the real question is if you can build a prototype, gain traction and make revenue, why is it still frown upon that you are a solo founder.
I went through YC as a solo, first-time founder and I would not recommend it to anyone. Despite working the hardest I have ever worked in my life, I barely made it through Demo Day, and my Demo Day presentation was not exactly riveting. Furthermore, after Demo Day, you still have to continue building the business.

Solo, first-time founders will undoubtedly lack the emotional support systems necessary to give them even a baseline sense of sanity and the mental clarity to persevere. They are far more likely to make stupid and irrational decisions. It was not until I found a cofounder, long after YC, that our company began to behave even remotely like a normal company.

Having a cofounder to share the load with has unforeseen compounding value that one does not have the awareness of to offset in their first company. Maybe in a second or third company you can pull it off by planning around the repercussions of being a solo founder. Unfortunately, without previous experience, you will have no idea how to do that.
The nice thing would be a paper describing the algorithm formally and in enough detail for someone else to implement it.
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Your example is the one that was cracked by David D. Friedman, I recommend you watch the part of his talk discussing the exact same case you mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXWFWIM8OCI#t=620s
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Founders aren't fungible.

It's not like you have one "founder", and then to increase the odds of success, you add a few more for redundancy.

In any "high growth" business, which is the topic of discussion, if the founder is worth anything, then the likelihood of finding another founder who is a drop-in replacement in the event they "get cancer, get an unsupportive SO, get a needy family member, lose a rich uncle, etc." is effectively zero.

The entire reason the company has high growth potential is because of that specific founder. Replace them, and everything changes.

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The real problem is that we are confusing a "founder" with an early employee, possibly including an employee present at the very beginning (i.e. incorporation), and granted equity via some mechanism (options, grants, etc.).

A founder and an early employee couldn't be more different. It's rare that two founders (a) happen to be near each other, (b) are working on the same thing, and (c) agree with how to tackle said thing. Founders can't really be "hired" in the conventional sense, and they don't sign on to other people's visions like early employees do.

When the miraculous situation described above does occur, yes, you can get two founders in the same company, like what happened at Google. But...it's very rare. Single founder + small teams are the overwhelming norm, not the exception.

All of these other "multiple founder" situations that pg likes to boast are so successful are, in fact, single founders + early team, which the single founder recruited. Not the same thing at all, and they don't have any of the SPoF redundancy you conjectured helped them to succeed.

The major alternative to single- and the (rare) multi-founder companies are actually teams without any founders -- instead, they have a bunch of coders who like to work together and have developed some interesting tech that has some potential commercial value.

That can work too, especially in software/technology, but those kinds of companies only succeed, if they succeed at all, with massive outside help from something like a YC. They are more likely to be found in tech incubators, and are highly over-represented on HN and in discussions like this.

I'd argue that tech incubators exist precisely because these founder-less teams exist, and need funding and direction. That's a good area for YC to operate in, but it necessarily skews pg's view of the world.
Is there a youtube video?

I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDGl-eDEuNQ but I'm not sure if its the same game.
It's just Startup Weekend. None of the judges are going to care about the logo. Shake hands and flip a coin.
Simple but profound. If America has lost a cultural "step", it is surely this. I love reading stories about people who still believe in craft. If there is any hope for us as a people, it is the renaissance of this concept.
The OMAP4 has dedicated video encode decode, dedicated "still image" processor, and a general purpose DSP (which isn't used for the most part and would be a lot slower than the dedicated hardware units).

EDIT: The thing though is that its footprint is so small that it doesn't matter much.
The cache oblivious streaming b-tree paper is the one to read. We would like to write more papers about some of the things we have discovered while implementing it, but haven't really found the time.
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Of the four times I know this occurred three were related to makegameswithus and the other was prompted by the other three.

It is a trend but not a wholly organic one.
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Alas, the blowback was swift, and the Republicans caved:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/that-w...
I think single founders have it hard because in order to succeed, you need both introvert and extrovert personalities present. Most people are either one or the other. You need one brain thats social and salesman-like. You need another brain thats analytical and details-oriented. Some people (such as myself) are terrified of the idea of going to a party to meet people and make connections. But I have no problem obsessing over a problem that needs solving. Other people love going to parties to meet new people, but would hate the idea of staying home all weekend to fix a technical problem. You really need both 'types' of people to have both types of tasks covered.
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I like the calendar icon from the top and don't like the lettering on the bottom one but favor the more traditional style of the bottom one otherwise.
You're welcome. However, I do have some thoughts.

1. It's not easy to play because it's not multiple choice. Typing is way too hard on iphone.
2. It's hard to continue playing. You need to wait for your opponent and can only play one turn. Maybe try getting the player into the next round automatically with live players or more songs per round.
3. It's not as addictive and sticky as songpop of weak engagement loops.

Good first try but I think you might need to change the game a bit. Good luck!
The problem is healthy stuff tends to not be shelf-stable or inexpensive or individually-wrapped, so it's more of a hassle to share.

I think free beverages (water, hot water, coffee) are a basic requirement for an office. For snacks, you could go Google and provide something managed and stocked, or just give people refrigerator/freezer/pantry space for their own, or whatever. A nudge toward healthy might be worthwhile.
I love team work too. Team work means knowing our mutual interests and how we need to work together to meet our common goal(Which is to make the project successful).

But once I am done knowing that, I want space for myself to shut down all distractions and do my job. I believe that is what the managers want too, then they need to understand as a developer I'm most productive when I get at least two uninterrupted stretches of time during my work day.
I think a co-founder would be great, but I'm afraid I'd have to totally re-arrange my life at this point in order to find one. It would be like dating. It would take up a long time where I wouldn't get as much work done, and I'd still end up hooking up with someone I wasn't anywhere near 100% sure of.
No mention of local advertising? Google feels like it's behind on the whole "local" business compared to rivals like Yelp, and this would be one way to get people to use a location-aware Google app.
Also you're trying to send the most obscure songs to your opponent?
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Anybody who's never made a mistake with zero-indexed arrays, raise your hand!
Parse is cool, but the pricing is a deal breaker for me. According to their plans page (https://www.parse.com/plans), I'd need a pro account to enable multi-app push. Pay Pad is three apps actually so the combination of UrbanAirship and Webscript.io end up being a very cheap solution if I wanted to ditch my current implementation on Heroku.

Although I suppose you could get around the multi-push-certificate restriction with multiple Parse accounts. If you had two iOS apps, then you'd be making two web requests out to Parse. Although I do this now with UrbanAirship so there would not really be a difference. Interesting.
This is not common, Jaehyun Park is just a genius.
There's plenty of craft here. Mindless, nostalgic pining based on imagined loss is a favorite.
Much as I hate to agree with a (somewhat notorious) tech crunch writer, I agree. Once you put an idea out there, you shouldn't back down. That doesn't mean that writers need to stick to their guns in the face of evidence you're wrong. Rather, it means you should value your ideas and not back down just because others feel threatened by them.
This should more accurately be titled, "Why do I only have 60GB available on a 128GB SSD?" And the answer is that "hey its cheap and we're more interested in solving for the worst case rather than the best case."

But it also begs the question, when did "only 40GB" for your files on a laptop become a deal breaker? I'm going to assume that you need every song you've ever heard, every picture you have ever taken with you. Which I kinda see and kinda don't. Why not a carry around a 1TB portable drive? Unless you have to have it online at any instant which gets a bit more perplexing.

That said, ubiquitous high speed data connectivity makes this go away right? There has to be somewhere better to hold your data than in your lap 24/7 ?
Would be hard though... PR/blog hits only lasts so long.
Although I am in agreement, I believe it best to re-emphasize the qualifiers for such an endeavor (totally IMO):

1) A single founder must have already had an exit;
2) A single founder must be able to speak to their own weaknesses and address how to balance those to potential investors;
3) A single founder must have domain experience.

Finally, although most people anticipate a single founder as a CEO with technical skills, I believe that a better single founder is a CTO with business skills.

But I guess we'll see where I end up... ;-)
> rape can be legitimate

Even if that guy actually believes that, it was a stupid thing for him to say. I'm sure that even he himself would agree after the election results.

> fiscally conservative but socially liberal

Is it possible to be socially conservative privately but socially liberal publicly? I'm thinking it's not an inconsistent worldview to believe that things like abortions and homosexuality are morally wrong, yet it is not the government's job to enforce those rules.

I'd believe that most church-going, God-fearing Americans would say adultery is morally wrong, yet few would support making adultery illegal. In fact, most of the Western world looks down on many Muslim countries for their positions on adultery.

When you come right down to it, the reason many Christians believe an omnipotent, omniscient God tells people that it is His will that "Thou shalt not commit adultery," yet chooses not to enforce that moral compass by (for example) bending the rules of reality in a way that makes it physically impossible for us to do so, or making anybody who thinks about it change their mind before they actually do it...is that it is God's will that morality is something humanity should freely choose, rather than something which should be enforced by the power of the Authority above.

I fail to understand why so many self-described Christians do not agree with an argument endorsed by God Himself. But theology is rather far afield from my areas of expertise; perhaps there's something I'm missing.
Someone call Nick Bostrom and let him know we have a test to discover if we're living inside Android 4.2. Results pending.
How did you get the license to use all those songs?
Really? I'd really consider Google Local to be a superior product to Yelp, and with the acquisition of Zagat, they've got all the street cred they need. Why do you think Yelp is still a concern?
Wow, just wow, amazing!
I clicked on this articled to find a comment that would say "in android the months index start at 0 due to traditional/logical indexing". You have success.
Where are the read benchmarks?
There's a link at the top of the article.
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"The odds of getting onto the NYT as an author is the probably the same as creating the next billion dollar company."

It's actually fairly straightforward if you know how to game the list. You need to put in a ton of time though and still get a bit lucky, so for most authors it's not really worth trying. (And of course most books weren't written to be best sellers, nor could they be because they're on esoteric topics or written to solve some obscure emotional need of the author.)
Which constraint is being a HS student? It's like saying "Hey guys, I have no bills or kids!". My only problem is if these projects start filling up the front page based on merit besides the project itself.
What I kind of heard him saying is that you have a ton of prior experience and have tracked along a trajectory that launches you to a point where you can be a solo founder without it being, an, erm, disaster. Which may not be the case for a guy just out of college with a sweet idea. :-)
You can actually test this kind of bug in Chrome; just make the width of the window little and then scroll horizontally.

The "position:fixed" breaks many things on mobile, is always better to avoid it or at least change it when the user is from a smartphone.
I think I'm allowed to have an opinion. As I said, I don't have access to the patent, how could I tell if this patent's claims are novel/obvious or not? Even if I had, you'd probably need to go to court to get a definitive answer.
Is it time to stop calling yourself a freelancer and become an entrepreneur?
IMO whether or not you have good cofounders correlates pretty well to whether or not you'll be able to hire good employees.
I think it depends on your credit card company. American Express is well-known for very good customer service and easy no hassle chargebacks. My Bank of America card was a bit more of a hassle though trying to find the correct form to fill out online then they had to mail me papers and I had to sign them and send them back and talk to 3 different people.
And then I guess there are many examples where one of the founders is actually driving the whole thing even though he/she has co-founders.

This is THE confusion in my opinion. Founder + startup team is not even close to the same situation as actually having multiple founders (Google is probably the best example for actually having more than one founder).

I don't know why pg actively conflates the two, but he doesn't hide it. In his essay, he talks about how you can't trust a founder "who can't even convince his own friends". Well sure, but how does convincing a friend suddenly make the friend a co-founder? Answer: it doesn't.
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I know Lars personally the others are actually solo founders. Sean Paker didn't found napster.
thanks for your advice...we'll definitely take it into account as we begin to prototype v2.

regarding song choice...we provide both most popular songs and other songs from the same artist that are perhaps less popular. that way, the users can be introduced to new music that they may not have heard before!
Dropbox was a single founder, which pg converted into a nominally multi-founder startup.

Does anyone here think that Dropbox would have been successful by firing Drew Houston and replacing him with Arash Ferdowsi and some other "founder", as if having 'two' founders is what made it work -- and not what actually made Dropbox possible, which was Drew Houston?

Drew was doing Dropbox regardless, had already written most of the code, and could have cared less if YC chose him or not. And pg wanted him to have a co-founder, so he got paired up with Arash Ferdowsi, and the rest is history.

Note: none of this is meant to disparage Arash Ferdowsi or his contribution in any way. But I would strongly argue that Ferdowsi, without Houston, isn't a name any of us knows today, at least for a Dropbox-like product. And I would strongly argue that we'd still know Houston's name, and that Dropbox's success would be in the same order-of-magnitude that it is today.
It is a "student-initiated course", which is basically an extracurricular activity that earns a symbolic pass/fail academic credit. Sort of like a golf or dance class at a state college, but a bit more academic that that, since this is Stanford.

http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/staff/sics
When I worked there I was a bit surprised to learn that nearly the entire justification for their GOOG-411 service (a free directory service they have since shut down) was to develop tools for speech recognition. The context was constrained enough that you could 'guess' a lot and get a good result for the user but mostly they were interested comparing the way different people said different things to get access to pretty much every accent you could imagine. It was remarkably successful.

That they would use 'Ingress' to update Map information is right up there in terms of cleverness. You get to play an engaging game, they get (in the large) lots of valuable data about where things are exactly, and to some extent how their gear reports things relative to where they really are. So if you can recognize that this particular street has crappy GPS you can fill in by translating what you're seeing from the AGPRS chip and make it seem like it is right on the money.

Well played Google, well played.
!1 Seems very unlikely YC could have a meaningful impact on the supply of able entrepreneurs.

!2. YC tries to create splits in management opinion that it can then exploit -- I guess this is the Sonny Corleone theory? Given the importance of focus to success, don't these splits deteriorate performance more than they enhance the position of master manipulator Graham? Whose interests diverge from the founders' how exactly?

!3 really NULL 3 bc this is just a repetition.

This reads like you've made up your mind and gone looking for a reason. And no, I'm not a pg fan and haven't a prayer in hell of ever making YC. There is no questioning the man has something to say about what works for start-ups.
Well, except that the login process for Django has a lot more people looking at it, and you know that the parts are going to work together pretty well.

For example, Flask-Login (https://github.com/maxcountryman/flask-login/blob/master/fla...) imports md5 and sha1 - not a very good sign. How do I make it use something sane? Well, there's Flask-Bcrypt, which provides bcrypt hashing... except that it makes no mention of Flask-Login or how to integrate it. Flask-Login also doesn't mention Flask-Bcrypt.

So... you're back to hacking on or digging into Flask-Login to figure out how it works and making it use Bcrypt or some other hashing algorithm.

Wait - I just realised that Flask-Login doesn't handle storing user data or models, or checking passwords, just logging them in. So what do I need for that? Is that Flask-Principal? And just WTH is an IdentityContext, anyway?

An IdentityContext is the context of a certain identity
against a certain Permission. It can be used as a
context manager, or a decorator.

You see why people use Django now? :) Sometimes you just want the standard user-logging-in-and-storing-in-the-database without having to write it yourself.
110 years to reach primary mission point? I'd say that we ought to spend more time on rocket engine studies before launching something like this.
Besides, 100x magnification still wouldn't help us to resolve an Earth-like planet.
There's nothing wrong with forming an opinion, even an incorrect one. And nothing wrong with expressing it, despite what political correctness dictates.

As long as you still think it is correct, and you are open to evidence and logic, you should stick by it.
Totally agree, which is one of the main reasons I feel there is after-the-fact attribution bias in the yc model. What's weird is that there seems to be evidence to the contrary that they are making a deliberate effort to ignore. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but that's how it appears.
I don't think that helped...