skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it will ever come to the point where high risk high reward big productions won't happen. It might happen a bit more rarely if the perceived risk goes up, but by doing so, the value of big productions goes up because so few are doing them, and you get a nice circular chain of events.
60% had atleast one child when they were founding their first company, but that doesnt tell if they were still happily married after a few stressfull years of running their companies.
I think that it's a good idea - there are other aggregate sites out there but I like the idea of an e-book - nice (virtual) stocking filler!
Any idea on where this data is from?
SO WHAT ? these numbers are pointless. I get it, they're trying to say that entrepreneurs are not unwashed hardened singles with no chance at a meaningful family life. I think this is misguided on so many levels.

1- Marriage is not an end goal for everybody. Sorry. Actually, the proliferation of divorces, close to 50 % despite the extremely high barrier of exit from that transaction should give you an idea. That's not even taking affairs into the equation.

2- So is having children, not that there is anything wrong with having kids. but the notion that not having kids is missing out on anything is false.

The essence of entrepreneurship is disruption, it's time our social norms evolve from their 50s fantasies & catch up with the reality of modern life.
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That keyboard layout doesn't seem particularly well-suited to programming. Then again, it doesn't seem particularly well-suited to typing Italian, either, though I now understand why Italians often write E' instead of È.
This is in-line with my own experience as a 37 year old founder (married, one child).

The biggest hurdle is "lack of willingness or ability to take risks" and the biggest advantage is "Professional networks". Most often, this is reversed if you are a young founder.
Substantially less. Four year degrees alone upper bound that at about 20~25% of the population, depending on what age cohort you use. As you add additional constraints the intersection only ever gets smaller.
The thing I'm interested in is whether this has anything to offer for Tegra2 based phones - like my P990, still stuck in the past..
Be careful of generalizing parenting methods, also don't put too much weight on parenting when there's at least as much (though probably more) due to genetics. (There's also a nice low-hanging fruit plucked by making sure the child has enough iodine in the womb/early infancy[1].) With parenting tricks, what seems to "work" remarkably well for one child might not work at all for another child, even in the same family! I'm not a parent so I observe this lack of generalized techniques from multi-sibling families with very different sibling life outcomes and also from Feynman's anecdote on his son and his daughter. Here's him telling it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw (at the 49 minute mark).

[1] http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#iodine
Hmm, yes I can see your point. The internal consistency of maths would be quite a good debugging tool.
Thanks for the feedback! Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
Having a supporting spouse, a couple of kids and a mortgage are enormously motivating so this should come as no surprise. My first real business success happened roughly a year after my first child was born and I think that the biggest factor there was that having a kid made me realize that playtime was over. Nothing tells you to get serious as much as a tiny person that is utterly dependent on you for their every need.

The HN illusion is that all successful people are in their low 20's and make billions (ok, that's a bit much but you get the idea), the reality is that they are the outliers and that your chances of finding success by some measure is higher later in life.

But those are not the average applicants to YC.

Beware of seeing everything through a HN/YC colored lens, there is a far larger world out there with an untold number of paths to success, HN is a great community, YC an awesome program if you fit their target demographic but these are not at all the only options.
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they dont really need 800 employees. they just dont know which of the 80% of employees are the productive ones. They could cut 20% with ease but it's really hard to determine who isn't needed. As business scales it gets really tough to figure out who is needed and isn't. All growing companies face this. Companies should focus on being leaner.
Will still leave rich guy dream with an IWC Watches and VacheronConstantin
The watch of Vacheron Constantin is de facto as engaging since it's well designed and kinds of the casings similarly as housings from the multitudinous timepieces have grownup to be vitalsocial things, having varied places at intervals style museums similarly as collectors the planet.
Queue is a French word dating back to the 15th century.

Colloquial English usage didn't arise until the middle of the 19th century.
Your comment is bizarre.

First, if government has been responding to the desires of the disadvantaged all along, it would seem that a good portion of the poor and disadvantaged want to stay poor and disadvantaged. I don't believe that's the case - so either the government hasn't been responding to the desires of the disadvantaged or the government has been rather ineffective at it.

Second, your description of a volunteer organization is so ridiculously counter to reality, I'm certain you've never spent time working for one. Here's how something like a county food bank actually works: civic organizations (mostly churches, but also groups like the Rotary and Lions Club) organize food drives and solicit donations. Grocery stores and restaurants donate food as well. Volunteers sort and bag groceries and man the food bank during pickup hours - anyone who wants the food gets the food. (Other volunteers drive food to elderly or disabled people who can't make it in.)

No one is paid, no one even has the ability to handle credit cards, and no disadvantaged people are paraded around in fundraising pitches. Donations of food mainly come from everyday people, and are widespread throughout the community. We serve a lot of people in our county, not a 'very, very narrow sliver'. You calling the work done by volunteers 'poverty tourism' is just you being an ass.

As for whether the food bank encompasses 'prevention' - no, it does not. There are plenty of other community organizations that do, though. The biggest and most effective are probably the marriage counseling and parenting classes provided by local churches to their members.
Yeah, good thing you escaped from Linux before Microsoft succeeded in destroying it using Mono, killing everyone on board. (???)
> The essence of entrepreneurship is disruption

No, it really isn't. It's about getting $Y out for every $X in where Y > X, and doing that in a sustainable and preferably an ethical manner.

Disruption is the exception, not the rule in entrepreneurship, and success is simply (Y/X) * volume processed * lifespan of project. Some would even say that success is the net cumulative effect on society but that's a lot harder to measure. You could for instance make this about jobs created or amount donated to charity or something like that but most people simply use the formula above or some variation on it.
The observation that many successful people have children is not a threat to your social status or happiness. I might suggest saying "Bully for you guys!" and going back to whatever you'd normally be doing.
Or at the very least allow tiling.
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where did the suggestion of a threat come up in my comment ? I'm saying this statistic is pointless not advocating for a lifestyle or another.
That's correct. Not sure what Grandparent is referring to; prices are only artificially lowered for sublets.

(Rent control obviously causes artificial scarcity, but the pricing info is correct for what a place is likely to cost you in a given area)
What gets me is that it breaks quick editing by tabbing between the fields. I now have to keep switching back to my mouse to get to the next field. (Yes I could navigate the links with the keyboard, but it is a lot more work).
A better way, at least from my perspective, is to move Clojure to LLVM. It may not be the fastest platform but i have big hopes for it.
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The future is here.
Australian start-ups think too small, survey finds
I imagine they probably do have an official and audited document disposal process which complies with all relevant recommendations, but someone along the line simply ignored it.
I beg to disagree. I think you're conflating entrepreneurship with business.

an entrepreneur would only assume the rather significant risk if the likelihood of payout (as denoted by your clever equations)is high enough. in a capitalistic society such as ours with millions of established businesses that would entail either 1 of these two options.

1- Make the way things are done normally, better. (Fedex vs USPS)

2-Do a completely new different thing (Facebook.)
Both options are disruptive, although at different levels.
60% of pilots wear grey socks. Wearing grey socks makes it more likely you'll be a pilot.

Nothing to see here, move along.
'Skipping the bullshit' is in fact the lesson I'd like people to draw on. And it doesn't end with school. Too many people are stuck in jobs and relationships and situations they don't enjoy. Get unstuck.

Although, I will annotate to your analysis -- the reason I started this particular company was that I wanted to make a difference. The reason I had to start some company was because I am rather insubordinate, and lack consistency of attendance and effort on things that I am less than passionately attached to.
I'm not knowledgeable but I can only recall one SoC providing usb3.0, mind you those things are for embedded/phone devices, thus usb3 looks like a costly overkill. I'm all for it but that's hardly a motivation for them.

usb2 would be fine if it was a sane implementation but AFAIK the rpi SoC was made for ~video-only appliances where there's close to no IO or cpu processing and thus the usb stack firmware code do some bold decisions that induce a nice penalty on usb/cpu.

It's possible that they released a new version since (my data dates from a few monthes ago) or that someone published a binary patch to improve the situation.
Exactly. Internally, the data structure serialized as "LLVM bitcode" (or the textual equivalent) is a list of functions, each function represented by a Control Flow Graph of basic blocks. Each basic block contains runs of SSA (static single assignment) instructions without jumps and flow control (effectively a DAG of operations). There is also some basic data structure layout information.
This representation is very handy for code generation, code analysis, and implementing optimization passes.
If you can not make a relationship works. How the hell are you going to be able to direct people, or drive a project?
But where's the catchy buzzwords?
Only slightly?
No, but the user looking at it has something better to do than watch the browser window flash white and then pop in again as the page loads and renders.
It does? Why has this line of thinking just come about within the last 20 years or so when it became easy to pirate IP due to the emergence of mp3s and high speed Internet connections? All of the chatter above is just hand wringing trying to justify that your entertainment should be free because it is easy to obtain without getting in hot water.
the particular property of the stable distribution, i was thinking of, is "closure under convolution" which is the above marginalisation (i believe?).

infinite divisibility is (yet another) property of gaussians!
If there was a widespread hunch that wearing grey socks is detrimental to a pilot's job, then that would indeed be newsworthy.
Don't get angry with the numbers, don't mistake correlation with causation. Entrepreneurs are people who like to build instead of destroy, having a kid may just be a manifestation of that instinct. There are almost no incentives for having a kid these days (esp. in US), the economic climate is barren, and believe it or not, any increase in birth rate, esp. amongst the educated ones will contribute to the country's welfare in the future.
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> Your best bet at getting a developer product to succeed is to sell the tool to someone in another role

Our experiences have been the total opposite, we've had developers discover our tools, test them out, and then championing them inside their company, resulting in sales for us.

The difference in our case is that we're doing a lot of the boring must-have plumbing for online games such as registration and authentication, integration with payment providers, cloud storage, multiplayer messaging, etc, and we leave all the fun parts of game development to the developers we are selling to.

Check it out: http://player.io (Shameless plug, sorry. :) )
I don't know... I think this is way to complex to be written by an idiot. Must be fake.
It is not clear what your criticism of the study is. Instead, you come across as ranting against findings that conflict with your personal values.

As far as I can tell from reading the summary of the study, it does not advocate that being married with children is a better or "the only right way" for founding a business. It just states observations. If you have evidence that the study is biased or made up, please tell us.
This article was spoiled, a bit, by the "1 Tip of a Flat Belly" ad that showed up at the bottom. Maybe it's that I use an ad blocker on my main computer, but I'm not accustomed to blocking ads with my mind. But it sure would be nice to see good ads for a change.
Strange, as a KDE 4 user, I too was overcome with a sense of schadenfreude, when I saw Gnome 3. </joke>
The question could be phrased better, but the gist is: (number of married with children) / (number of members) in the population of ``middle or upper-class background, 40 years-old on average, high academic performance''. I.e., does being an entrepreneur correlate positively or negatively with having children, among the mentioned group.
I think you might have missed the point of the article, at least the way i see it.

IMHO, the point was not to drive home the idea that entrepreneurs that want success should get married and have a child. The main point i got out of it, is that people that want to go into entreprenurship AND also would like to start a family don't have the be afraid that either one of those rules out the other.
Wary after all these gloomy reports, I finally went ahead and repurposed an old laptop to run Windows 8 a few days ago, half expecting to end up putting Linux on it instead. The screen is officially too small (1280x800) and the chipset (Intel's 965 Express) is not officially supported; I had to resort to their Windows 7 drivers to get OpenGL. Needless to say, it has no touch support.

And yet, I do not hesitate to call it the best Windows ever.

The optimization work which went into the kernel really shows on this old hardware; where I used to get 3-4 FPS under XP Pro I now get around 13. Every Windows program I have thrown at it, new or old (going back all the way to Windows 98), just works.

Don't-Call-It-Metro is just a big launcher where I can pin and group icons of programs I use a lot; I was already doing that anyway with folders on the desktop, since it's much faster than navigating the old Start menu. I was still maintaining an organized but nevertheless humongous Start menu out of old habit and as a way to remind myself of less frequently used, "might be useful in special situations" tools, but as MS noticed, I was not really using it anymore.

Basic workflow: start laptop, wait a few seconds, log in, click Desktop tile, and you are in the familiar Windows environment, just better than ever. Down in the left corner of the taskbar, a couple of icons launch a much improved File Explorer and IE 10 (which is scary fast compared to previous iterations). Hover over them and you get a "lightbox" with views of currently open windows; the same functionality extends to other application icons you pin on the taskbar.

File Explorer does most of what the old Start button did, i.e. gives you quick access to Documents, recently visited locations, Favorites, drives and groups. Move the mouse cursor down to the left and bottom of it, and up pops a small "Start" representation of the Start screen. Click that, and you are on your big customized launcher. Hit Esc and you are back on the desktop.

If that isn't sufficiently similar to the old ways for you, you can right-click the File Explorer icon to get a menu which looks even more like the old Start menu. Still not happy because Start | Programs is missing? Right-click the taskbar, check Toolbars | Desktop, and a classic menu is pinned which includes, among other things, Control Panel | Programs. I don't think I'll be using it, but I suppose somebody might. Choice is good.

As far as I can see, all the chatter about Windows 8 being oh so confusingly different is just a storm in a teacup. Do people seriously expect workers to be "retrained" to use this? Please. The new "concealed" stuff adds functionality, but you don't really need it. Put the mouse in upper left corner and you get small tiles of running apps, which you can click to restore or right-click and close. Neat, but you don't need to know it. Swipe down from the upper right corner and you get the famous charms with Search, Start and so on; again, neat, but you don't need to know it. They just add new ways to do things.

Oh, and finally... the desktop themes are gorgeous. :)
What did MS not get with Windows 95/2000/XP/7? I don't think the "tick-tock model" of Windows releases is reliable, after such a big and confused change as Windows 8, I find it very likely that Windows 9 will be released to better reviews.
>Actually, the proliferation of divorces, close to 50 %

It used to be so in 1980. It is not true anymore and has steadily fallen since, for numerous reasons. But this is a deep anchored belief in America.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18600304/ns/us_news-life/t/us-di...
Fixed now. Thanks for correction.
A 64 bit operating system built over 7 years from a guy here on HN called losethos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAr-xYtBFbY
Kauffman wonk reports make me want to stab my eyes out.

But while you're here learn about the awesome entrepreneur who created the Kauffman Foundation, which is now the largest organization dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship ($2bn endowment) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing_Marion_Kauffman
Well atleast now we are seeing NVIDIA putting more effort into Open Source drivers.
Exactly. But I'd go further with this thought. I think big part of the problem are technologies that are used to build Web apps. HTTP, HTML/CSS and even JS are good exactly for what they were supposed to be good for: creating simple documents and serving them one by one by request. And we are using them to try to build real software.

If the difference in experience between web and desktop apps is going to keep decreasing, eventually, I think the stack of technologies will be completely changed.
could = may or may not

what's the aim of the article which claims that something may or may not happen? Of course besides to scary people of 'global warming' or how it is nowadays called, because scientists are not sure if the temperature is going up or down, 'global changes'? And of course, when people are scared, they'll pay whatever money to ecoterrorists to save 'the environment'
No. But I /do/ occasionally use bash, or call out to the shell from scripting languages...
It would be nice if they had any sort of flexibility in their identity validation. Not all of us keep identification cards with addresses on them[0] or a telephone number billed in a traditional manner[1].

0 - United States Passport Card, for instance.

1 - VoIP.
This looks very interesting and high quality.

Another great startup documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A...! (The Startup Kids)
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As an XMonad user, I am overcome with productivity and have no time to care about the way others work.
http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/feb/20/...
Your article is from 2007, It's still between 40-50 %
> If Google actually wanted to make money off hardware at this point they have the economic means to do it. It is evidently no their goal.

If they don't want to make money selling hardware, what's the point of Motorola?
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Simple

Google should have Motorola build the hardware.

And make sure Motorola doesn't even come close to the SW. Motorola can't and won't make good software, period. HW companies usually are very bad at it, but Motorola is especially bad.

See the "we will upgrade, but then we won't".

Maybe they should just close the SW division.
Yeah, wonder where they got that from…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom
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That's actually the most insightful thought I've read on this thread.
Patents. They stated that publicly..
> I think you're conflating entrepreneurship with business.

And I think you're conflating competition with disruption.

Entrepreneurship and business go hand in hand, you can't have the one without the other. Someone that risks their personal fortune to open a hamburger stand by your definition is not an entrepreneur, by my definition he or she is. And that's before we look at the possible futures where that hamburger stand ends up as a chain of stores because he innovated on quality or was exceptional in service.

Disruption is not Fedex vs USPS, it's not Facebook competing with myspace for eyeballs. Disruption is AirBNB threatening the established interests in the hospitality industry, napster making record execs very worried and EasyJet causing increased blood pressure with all their fat cat competitors.

Disruption by definition can only come when a market is established, but it is definitely not a prerequisite for entrepreneurship or running a successful business.
Client certificates should work in all modern browsers. We use them daily in Chrome, Safari, Mobile Safari, IE and Firefox.
I recall stories of companies who refuse to hire single men as salesmen for this reason.
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How surprises make you stronger - Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
Actually, it's probably the age correlation. yay for hidden third variable. ;)
because google pay them to.
Raising funding can be a distraction
The product is fantastic. They knew that already and I'm quite sure that their sales projections would have at least contemplated the positive reception.

But doing hardware right in mass scale takes time, money, and domain knowledge. Google is not a hardware manufacturer and it's not their core competency. Neither is it handing off specs to manufacturers to make anything other than relatively small production runs (for the scale of the mobile business).

Hardware needs support, sales channels, advertising, industry knowledge and logistics, and the possibility of screwing up does not diminish with scale (look at how Apple, even manufacturing one new model at a time, still has had plenty of bugs in iOS and the physical iPhones themselves). Android is already doing fanastically well; it's logical for them to be conservative about this release.
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"Crack aims to provide the ease of development of a scripting language with the performance of a compiled language."

Have you looked at the Flua project yet? It's pretty much this and much more.
http://flua-lang.org/
Each hedgie speaks 4 out of 8 possible languages.

Giving 8 C 4 = 8!/4!4! = 70 distinct possibilities.

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