skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, the best way would be to get a list of startups that have / are planning to participate in one of the top startup incubators. This would include (and probably be limited to) Y Combinator, TechStars, and DreamIt ventures (unless you're looking at a specific startup niche). The application process will filter out people who aren't serious. The downside is that they might not be willing to give up as much equity if there already is a decently large team.

Grad programs at the top CS / Engineering schools (Stanford, CMU, MIT, Berkeley, U of Illinois) are also filled with people who are looking to start companies, and most have mailing lists / message boards for opportiunities.

There is a real talent in business, but it seems to be more of a personality disposition as opposed to a tangible skillset. At least for undergraduate programs, business tends to be less rigorous than their technical equivalents. Most of the "build my crappy idea" people are purely non-technical, because they have less insight into what is feasible, and because by their nature they are completely reliant on others to build it. My disposition is to go for somebody who is technical, is socially "with it", and has the drive to hustle and learn whatever else they need to know.

By the way, I graduated CS from CMU undergrad a couple of years ago, and I'm working on a startup of my own. The startup is called Pensieve, and it is a publishing platform for interactive courses. I've been flying solo for a couple of months, and now I'm looking for some late-cofounders and build a real team. If you're interested, send me a message at yush [at] pensieve [NOSPAM] [dot] net.
very good tips!!!
Tax evasion is illegal.

Tax planning, even if it involves a double Irish with a Dutch sandwich, is not.

Sometimes the actual amount you pay is essentially zero.
Trust me, I run a pyramid scheme
Online Marketers: Fix this and your productivity will skyrocket
Data science will redefine what it means to be a skilled marketer
Can we stop calling everything that worked for someone a "hack" ?
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Fight against Software Complexity
I believe a more appropriate question would be "How are they going to get to the top of HN posting their useless blogspam?"

Because the answer for your question is easy: Posting useful things.

And as far as I know, that's the only way to get enough upvotes to appear even on the first page.
Sorry but there are still too many issues. For example setting a recurring invoice is crazy complex.

Also still no paypal integration, Google checkout, stripe, paymil etc.
Like anything in law, it depends.
To answer, I'd first need a clearer example.

Define "didn't say anything".
Did you notice there was a problem, but didn't say anything
Or did you not notice until later?
Microsoft's not conforming to standards was a method to fight Open Source
> is produced in whole or in part with materials which have been mailed or shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, or is shipped or transported or is intended for shipment or transportation in interstate or foreign commerce

You don't ship anything made with materials -- the videos are all digital, so there is no shipping or transportation going on at all -- so what you are doing doesn't fall under that requirement.
The future is here. Kiss your boring, practical webpages goodbye. ;)
Wonderful Phenomena Demand Wonderful Evidence
Businesses are huge, and contract law isn't that simple.

The reality is that the person sending the package is not the person who brokers the relationship with FedEx - they're paid mailroom wages (10-15 an hour).
Missing a ton of data, no? This is just what Crunchbase has? Hard to imagine there were so few deals in the early years. I think it paints a misleading picture because of all the missing data.
Surely the USA varies a lot. New York may be a close approximation. What's that like?
Pointless slides with no real tips or hacks. These are here just to promote Ben "Branding".

for example Guest blogging:
The tip is "Guest blogging is great, write stuff and send a small email to important people so they publish it on their blog". Social proof inside, " Look how i wrote an article for TC" ... Woopidioh!

Everybody know it is important to do guest posts. That is not rocket science. What would have been great is actually tips on how to write awesome guest blog post? The process, the research, etc .

Leo Widrich of Buffer wrote a great "Guest Post" on Guest blogging ( I know, so meta ^^ ) somewhere but I can't find it anymore.

The only thing I agree with the slide is the last comment.

"In the end none of this matters if you have a crappy product."
Close, but not really the same. FedEx and UPS tack additional fees on to packages for various delivery scenarios. In this example, they were charging a "Residential" delivery fee for places that were clearly not residences. I'm not sure how it works with FedEx, but with UPS you can override this fee when creating the shipment...but you could get charged anyway as a correction on your bill.
That's far too simplistic. FedEx, UPS, and other couriers charge more for residential deliveries. This is fine, because it is more difficult to deliver to a residence.

However, frequently, these couriers charge a base rate and then tack on a residential "surcharge" at a later time. Most shipments aren't paid for at the counter. You get a weekly bill. If you ship more than a few packages a week, it's very difficult to tell which surcharge is attached to which shipment. All they give you is a tracking number and unless you spend all day memorizing their tracking numbers, you won't know which end is up.

Also, are you going to spend 15 minutes on the phone every time you get dinged for two bucks unfairly? No thanks.

At this point, it's not so much ripping off ... everybody knows it's happening. Just a hidden cost of shipping.
How Nike+ is creating an entirely new model of consumer innovation
How do you turn a shuffled deck into a key long enough to encrypt a file?
Because organizations aren't the same person. So Jan calls from purchasing, and she gets a quote from FedEx of $2/package. Bill in shipping is told by Jan to use FedEx using this company code. Bill ships it via FedEx and just sends the bill off to Accounts Payable. It doesn't really pop up until much later when you're closing out the quarter or year and go, "Hey, wait a minute, why is our shipping so high?"
Do you sitespeed?
Rubinius removes RVM support
For loyal Yahoo! Mail users like myself, this announcement reaffirms Yahoo!'s focus on, and commitment to, their most popular services. I also like the unified experience on all devices.

The CEO's post shows her involvement in these changes. The changes demonstrate her desire to rework the underpinnings of services rather than revamping the user experience for marginal gains. The former infuse the right elements into Yahoo!'s culture; the latter serve as window dressing and don't help to mitigate/fix the underlying issues that have handicapped Yahoo! over the last 5 or so years.

I am looking forward to future updates to Yahoo!'s services.
There is the legal concept of standing, in which a plaintiff has to demonstrate sufficient harm to bring a lawsuit. Don't know what the "trolls" are doing to meet this requirement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_%28law%29

*Not legal advice, or any type of advice.
And both of those solutions are way more expensive than traditional housing.

Citation needed.

My understanding, from people who have done it, is that living in an RV is equivalent to a cheap apartment, and living in a boat can be even less expensive than that.
I like the concept. There is a lot of redundancy whenever you go to start a new social app.

Quick recommendation - I clicked through three pages before I got to the "About" page, and it wasn't until I got to that page that I fully understood why something like this is important.

I would have put more of that "About" content on the very first page so people know why they should care about it. Just my two cents...
What possible justification was there for not allowing headphones? Did the people in charge think banning headphones would make people collaborate better?
Fedex publishes rates and is supposed to be bound by them.

Here you go, from http://www.fedex.com/us/service-guide/terms/express-ground/i...:

"Rates and service quotations by our employees and agents are estimates and will be based upon information provided by you, but final rates and service charges may vary from the quotes based upon the characteristics of the shipment actually tendered to us. Any conflict or inconsistency between the FedEx Service Guide and other written or oral statements or quotes (except those found in a FedEx Sales or FedEx Express Customer Automation agreement) concerning the rates, features of service, and terms and conditions applicable to FedEx Express service will be controlled by the FedEx Service Guide, as modified, amended, changed or supplemented. "

Note: Rate differences are controlled by the service guide.

If the service guide says there should be no residential delivery charge, and they are adding one, that's a problem.

They also only reserve the right to charge the residential surcharge on certain places:

"We reserve the right to assess a Residential Delivery surcharge on any shipment
delivered to a home or private residence, including locations where a business is
operated from a home, or on any shipment in which the shipper has designated the
delivery address as a residence, including shipments where the delivery location has
been designated as Residential Delivery in error. "

The last part is what part of their defense will almost certainly be. As this email shows, however, they've apparently deliberately designated a large number of shipment delivery locations as residential delivery, meaning it was not "in error", but intentional.

Ignoring all of this, they are also usually forming binding rate contracts with businesses and governments (IE you agree to ship this many packages a year, we agree to charge you the rates in this service guide with 80% discount). Throw on top of that that deliberately overcharging the government is serious business in the US. It's often criminal, and IIRC, even in the civil side, you can keep a percentage of the money you recover by suing on their behalf.
Same. I read it and though, if they didn't like the price they should have used UPS or USPS.
Hull. Heh. Now it's England's turn for a not-quite-internationally-unloaded brand name.
Leverage is a _return_ multiplier, including a _negative return_ multiplier. Another way of putting it is that leverage is a risk multipler.

As an investment single family homes are not particularly attractive, a mortgage may or may not make sense depending on the terms, risk tolerance, and the expected market behavior... but it's really only the inherent shelter-short you suffer that makes a mortgage interesting in most cases. (Because that short is what makes not owning a home also risky)
Uh oh, the site isn't loading now possibly due to the increased traffic. How's a business going to trust their mission-critical apps to be hosted on a site that's having trouble with the HN unveiling?

Great idea, but I don't see an untested open-source application disrupting SAP or Oracle anytime soon. Workday is even closer to that. The devil is in the details and even small errors in HR, such as vacation balances being off by percentage of an hour... or invoices not being penny accurate will test this product.
Interviewstreet (YC S11) is hiring Sales Engineers
What is Interviewstreet?
== Interviewstreet helps companies screen & hire programmers via programming tests. We've built a codechecker which evaluates candidates' code snippets classifying them based on the correctness and optimality of their code. This saves a ton (~40 developer hours for every hire made) of dev time in the initial phone screen process. You can try out our product here (interviewstreet.com/recruit2)

Health status of the company

We've 100+ high paying enterprise customers and our revenues are growing every month. We power the programming challenges in the careers pages for a number of companies. Some of them are..

-- Facebook (http://facebook.com/careers/university)

-- Amazon (http://india.amazon.com/CodeNinjas.html)

-- Quora (quora.com/challenges)

-- Evernote (evernote.com/careers)

-- Box (https://www.box.com/about-us/careers/engineering/)

-- Palantir (palantir.interviewstreet.com/challenges)

-- SAP (sap.interviewstreet.com/challenges/)

Goal:

We'd like to be on the careers page of every company that's hiring programmers. Long way to go but possible and there are a lot of welcoming signs.

Your role:

-- Signup more companies

Skills:

== You'll not be programming but a basic understanding of Computer Science concepts is essential (complexity of a code snippet, compiled language vs interpreted language, etc.)

== Experience as a sales engineer for a B2B product

== Numbers/analytics obsessed and the first thing you wake up to is a metric dashboard

== Embrace chaos and working in a young startup (5 people in Mountain View)

== An absolute hustler - it takes months to signup an enterprise customer and seconds to lose one.

How to apply?

Please send an email to team [at] interviewstreet with

-- Your resume/online profile

-- A code that prints "hello world" 100 times in GO programming language (http://golang.org/)

-- A hack you've done earlier to signup a customer

-- Biggest failure you've faced in life till now.
I actually find metro DC to be very similar to some of the richer cities in CA, so in your circumstances make sense.
Hacker News is our gym. We're just working out.

You bring up an great point about excellence and applicability. I agree. Just remember that each of us is in a different place and many of us are not as far along as others. Better to get feedback here first before approaching others in the real world.

The rest of you, keep those "Review my startup" posts coming. We won't be bashful. Promise.
Your text implies there are seven options (a-g) but there are only five options in the poll.

The fourth option has different behaviour from the first three options should lockBtn.show() return false. Is this what you want? I would expect a comment explaining why if this syntax was used.

The fifth option... I do not think it calls either method (retrieves the function but does not execute it), though my javascript is rusty so I am not sure.

The third option implies that the return value from .show()/.hide() is important and should be used. I would not use it otherwise.

The first two options have their own relative pros and cons, but they are head and shoulders above the other three options.

I do not possess an ax, expect never to be a murderer, and know neither your address nor your appearance. But if I had to maintain code you wrote, and you'd used any of the last three options within it when either of the first two would do, I would slag you off to anyone who would listen.
When in search for a new idea one starts looking at a well-known problem domain, so for most of us who work at startups, talk about startups and live amongst startups, solving startup problems is a very natural thing to do. While it does allow us to be domain experts in this field I do agree that this whole thing can feel a bit 'meta' and inflated.
Dustyp
The windows 8 app looks hot.

It looks a lot like outlook.com (from what I can see on that small picture), but it looks hot.
Good advice, thank you for the frank words.

We tried very hard to keep the home page clean, maybe a bit too much so then.
The key to B2B is finding customers that actually have money.

Startups, practically by definition, generally don't.
In case of a gold rush, sell shovels?
strawman
disruption
'...becoming reddit...'
Biased article.
Generally, "non practicing entity" means companies whose primary line of business is suing for patent rights.

What does it matter whether the entities doing the suing have no other business? Say I buy a really popular strip of land near the beach and don't do anything with it. Say that attracts a lot of tourists who picnic on it illegaly. Is it illegitimate for me to sue them for trespass? Say I sell off the right to sue for trespass to a non-practicing entity. Is that illegitimate?

Now, you may disagree with the nature and scope of the rights. You might say--people shouldn't be able to buy land by the beach--that belongs to the public (and that is the law in some places). But once you have a valid property right, it's not illegitimate to sue for real infringements of that property right, and it's not illegitimate to split up the "bundle of sticks" that makes up your property right and sell someone nothing more than the right to sue for infringements and keep any damages. That's just how property rights work in general.
Great name and a very promising proposition. I like it.

Are there any working examples/implementations (besides the technical preview)?
Linux 3.7 released
Do they still remove everything from your account if you don't login to the web interface for some time?
Finding another word to suggest such a thing is difficult because the word "hack" or "hacker" did not originally suggest cheating or beating the system, but has had the meaning altered by people who didn't know the subject matter they were discussing.

It is people like this that have taken this word, changed its meaning to be something devious sounding, and then using it inappropriately (even with the new devious meaning) that is the source of the contention. It is for me at least.

The funny part to me is that in using the word "hack" in this way that suggests "beating the system" also suggests that his whole thought process is to offer suggestions that are inherently wrong. Hacking is cheating, so do these things to cheat. What a wonderful suggestion for long-term business growth.

If someone like this needs another word for what is being attempted then I think "cheating", "gaming", or even "spamming" fits quite nicely.

Finally, I cannot possibly take anyone that uses the term "growth hacking" seriously in a business context. It's like those job posts that use "ninja" or "rockstar"; just an attempt to appear hip or cool in a strange way.
Most people should not be thinking of making "real money" when they purchase a home, they should be thinking of having a place to live. It takes a certain degree of financial security to start thinking about using leverage to multiply wealth, which many people buying mortgages don't have. Tying the risk of a leveraged investment to something as important as the place you live is dangerous for the large portion of the population that is not particularly financially savvy.
Recently I noticed how absurdly homogenous my pinned browser tabs have become: Gmail, Google Reader, Google+ Hangouts, and Youtube. I dumped Yahoo's bloated mail client years ago, but I think I'd actually be willing to give it another shot if only to get some of my eggs out of this basket.

Take note, Yahoo: for me, online mail is largely just a pretty interface to a spam filter. Now that your client is sane, this should be your top priority.
Probably because all you're "Showing HN" is a landing page, not something you've actually built.
Internet Explorer | Browser Extensions | AddThis
I'm sick of hearing news about different accelerators, there are way too many being posted on HN.
And Tumblr? ;)
If you're competing with SAP, then an ugly interface is a must-have.
I'm vaguely aware of Bondi but I haven't gotten around to trying it out. It definitely influenced me when deciding to make patterns first class instead of sticking to OMeta's OOP design.
The article states that Samsung lost a lawsuit in the US against Apple, however it fails to mention other high-profile results of Apple v. Samsung legal rulings -- namely where Apple had to publicly apologize in the UK and issue a prominently-featured statement as such on their UK website.

Other nations have ruled in favor of Apple, and vice versa, which further adds to the confusion of who is a victor.
on the server side, it looks like the problem could have been avoided with better types - it seem that there was a confusion between status values that can include 0 and those that cannot (alternatively, perhaps better, there was no status for the case where the status was undefined?) and then a hand-written assertion that a particular case could not happen (and so was not tested for).

the bug report describes all that, roughly (if i've understood) but doesn't seem to be worried about the higher level issues - the inconsistent types and need for fragile human assertions about type logic.

(not java bashing - don't see why this couldn't be solved in java)

but i guess this is just a bug report. for an outage like this i suppose there's going to be a major review? is that all internal? would be interesting to watch.
There are, We're putting working hard to polish those so they shine brighter than anything.
I get a few JS errors which might explain why the form sends me to a 404 :) Otherwise, I'm interested!

Uncaught ReferenceError: hljs is not defined app-d67d5454e46882e797b76228d86a0737.js:1
Failed to load resource http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
Uncaught ReferenceError: _gat is not defined ignition.1.1.js:509

Given the Google Analytics, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a network issue on my end.
Show HN: Turnabout - an iOS puzzler I'm still trying to wrap my head around
It was a Chrome Sync bug. If you had Chrome Sync enabled, it crashed. Believe it or not, Chrome Sync is actually a very useful feature for those of us who go back and forth between computers on a daily basis.
I signed up for Beta access. One minor discomfort and some friendly advice: The thank you text says "Thanks for joining the brotherhood". You might want to stay away from language that's exclusionary to 50% of the population, and a great majority of social media users, even if it's solely intended as fun, jocular page copy.
The Evolution of SEO in the Age of Google
HN is self-referential to no end. No one on here solves any real problems. It's US-centric, it's full of 14-20 year olds which have no experience of life outside school and the Internet.

What did you expect to find here?
The allegation is that FedEx established contracts with customers with a rate schedule that included surcharges for residential and extended-range delivery, then improperly charged those surcharges on deliveries to commercial/government locations where they did not apply, and did so knowingly and repeatedly.

Systematically overcharging customers strikes me as a valid tort.
I'm surprised at the level of hyperbole here on this thread.
What if I buy all the land around your house and sue you every time you cross through it to go to the shops or take your kids to school? Would you consider that fair?
Sorry, launchrock seems to choke a bit, we're having a LOT of traffic right now.
OP Here - A programmer friend and I made and released this recently, thought some of you might find it interesting. I did all of the artwork and design for it, he handled the initial concept and programming.

Question is - I helped make the damned game and I can't seem to figure out the underlying strategy. Can any of you? There has got to be a way to solve it to get high scores, but no luck on my end and my buddy isn't giving away any secrets.

Thoughts?
I log in to my Yahoo account about once a year to reset a password on <insert ancient web service account>, and I've never experienced this.
Just went to login to my Yahoo account and I can confirm that yes, they do. Everything is deleted if you don't login for four months.
And whats wrong with Hull? A great city. Care to step outside for a moment?
Why Gmail went down: Google misconfigured Chrome's sync server
Clearly, you know of what you speak.
I imagine it is.
Even male monkeys prefer to play with cars
There's a little sign at the cash register of most stores in California to that effect, that you are entitled to buy at the lowest advertised price.