skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, got it.

I am going to assume that you want some kind of legal protection in terms of liability. In other words, you don't want to do this as a general partnership, but as a corporation or sort so that as you move forward, there is no way that anyone can go after your personal property. In that case, I would suggest forming a LLC, as I have discussed in another post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72291

Then, you just need to take a piece of paper and write down that going forward, you each own 50% of the LLC which encompasses all existing and future intellectual properties. By the way, I am really against giving away 50% since you have obviously put in a lot of effort in already but if that's what you want, you have the right to do so.

Then you price the LLC at some nominal value (say $500) and each of you write a check for $250 to buy 50% of the LLC. Then on the same piece of paper, you write down that the shares that each of you own (say 2,500 shares for $250) are subjected to a re-purchase agreement (which is the same as vesting but vesting applies only to options).

The idea is that you have the right to re-purchase the shares from your new partner at the original price at anytime. But part of the shares will be released from this re-purchase agreement either based on milestones or on time of service (four years, e.g.).

The reason that I don't suggest that you go to the lawyer right away is that you need to have this discussion with your new partner one-on-one and with plain English. And it is amazing how much you learn about the person going through this process. Going the lawyer will just put the two of you in an adverbial position from day one which is no way to build a team.

Once you work out everything in English, you can always bring in a lawyer (or not).

If you are still with me so far, then I can discuss the other issues. And there are lots.

--Denny--

Denny K Miu

http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/startup-for-less.html
Because everyone has held a piece of hair in their hands and can grasp the size, the human hair is an excellent human scale reference for attempting to describe very small measurements.
I did that sort of thing when I first started out with Lisp too. Do yourself a favor and try an editor that integrates with the REPL. It makes life so much easier.
Out of curiosity, why would you want to use a garbage collected language at all if you have real time requirements.
Heck I wouldn't want any PC nonsense. All I ask is that you consider that there are probably good reasons things are the way they are. Smart people are on both sides of these issues, and people who generalize usually do so just to have a political fight to score votes, not to try to understand.

I have yet to get into an honest political discussion where at the end of the day both sides were actually pretty close. The problem is that the media wants to present everything as a fight, so people spend a lot of time sort of repeating lists of slogans back and forth. To me, that sounded like what you were doing. As the national elections get closer, I imagine people are going to get more and more emotional. I like to compare our nation as one big dysfunctional family where the welfare check only comes once every four years.
How To Launch A Platform in 2007
Mr. Fred Wilson brings up an interesting point that product promotion is also changing nowadays. Blogsphere is very powerful and many companies, (even big ones like Google) are promoting their new products (even those as revolutionary as OpenSocial) through these streams over the more traditional big media event shows.
Bloggers tend to target a niche market for themselves and they have readers with the same interests. Therefore, by reviewing they are in fact breaking up your product into pieces and each emphasizing on what they find most interesting (taking their niche into consideration). Therefore, the readers learn about the new product and the features that would be most interesting to them, in a language that they can understand the best.
It is as if a company is hiring a huge team of PR and is getting them to do customized/personalized promotion of the product for many different groups of people.
And keep in mind that this is happening at very low costs and is possible to be done by any company at any size and budget.
I don't want to do memory management. It's the sort of error-prone process I feel is generally better left to a machine. I think the timing uncertainties inherent in GC can be mitigated to the point that they don't affect performance.
37Signals: How a Restaurant Kitchen Translates to Software Development
I just can't believe that it basically amounts to "scientists find oldest animal on record, then kill it to find out how old it is"
Social networking | Face off
"Zuckerberg said that the most innovative feature of the site is that people can search for other students in their classes so that they can branch out to form friendships and study groups."

I really miss this feature. (How else can I identify the cute girl from lecture?) Facebook took away Courses, apparently hoping that someone would develop a better one... maybe they didn't realize that everyone would have to add it for it to be useful.
Wi-Fi Memory Card Connects Cameras to the Internet
> All I ask is that you consider that there are probably good reasons things are the way they are.

Should I call you Pangloss ? :)

(kidding aside, I agree with you on the rest)
Hyperbole isn't going to work on you, I see.

That's the point that Godin makes.
New $198 Ubuntu Linux gPC
I thought the college application process was a bunch of bullshit. I went to a local community college for a year, transferred over to a University of California school, and doing that you get a degree that's precisely the same as the one everyone else gets, at the same time, for cheaper, with a lot less stress.

I didn't have to take the SATs or any of that nonsense, either.

The classes I benefited the most from were project-based ones where you spent a few weeks in the library, hacked like mad for a few, then wrote a report and gave a presentation.
A fourth?

Wow. That's awesome.
The site looks good and does what it says. But I compared a few products with Google Products search (formerly Froogle) and I got more deals from Google than Bountii. Of course, you don't have a large index as Google (yet), but ultimately the question is how is it different from Google Products?
In the spirit of 'do one thing and do it well': http://akkartik.name/newsyc-9108.user.js

All it does is add the 2-pane interface, so clicking on a comment link shows comments on the right pane.
Response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74768
Social Media Revolution begins here!
Cosma Shalzi and Myron Scholes on the advantage of expensive computer power
So, IIRC DMX runs at about 44hz if you've got a full dimmer pack (which isn't hard with moving lights since they each take a bunch of channels). That means you get about 20ms to compute each cycle, which strikes me as pretty soft indeed if you're running on PC hardware... I wouldn't worry about performance until you see problems.

Eons ago, I remember building a DMX controller by ripping out the clock from a standard RS485 card and soldering in a new (8khz?) one from Radio Shack so the baud rate would be right...
Wow, the world just got a lot more interesting.
You don't need a lawyer. I suggest an LLC with vesting. Just look up online for different types of company structures.

I have a little thing we got from Nolo press (nolo.com- the centrla cheap legal document hub), which was an original operating agreement. We have a 3-year vesting on the agreement that you can use and if he walks, he gets a small amount, but I would also build into the agreement an attachment for rights and responsibilities. We had one partner who was not performing and we had to include an addendum so that if people were not performing, bad stuff could happen. Just send me an e-mail.and I'll pass the doc over.

FYI, the number one thing that all CEOs regret is not getting rid of people who don't belong earlier. So make sure that this person you're hiring on is worthy.
Recently I did a consulting job for a project of a kind of network backbone testing suites used by one of major telcom providers in Japan. The suite was mainly in CL, but my part was an independent, stand-alone tool and I used Scheme (Gauche). It was a distributed, multithreaded app that opened raw sockets and sent/received fair amount of ICMP packets. The main app was just around 1000 LOC in Scheme, though it used quite a few libraries came with Gauche.

Speed didn't become an issue even Gauche wasn't a native compiler (it compiles to VM), for the network driver was always the bottleneck. Yet I did care not to cons in the inner loop.
Discount Eigenvectors - Google AdSense Gone Wrong
RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons
It's supposed to be G as in Green. Low power processors and all that.
I'm not worrying too much about performance yet, but I do see it as a potential issue. I'm trying to design a scriptable effects engine that could allow users to do things that are inefficient. This may sound like premature optimization, but I don't really see a downside to preferring implementations that tend to be fast.
One question: when is facebook joining?
My Answer: It will have to break the walls eventually as they have mentioned it before themselves. When I dont know but they will do it eventually.
Maybe when developers realize they can reach a much bigger market, a lot easier and faster with Opensocial compared to facebook, and they start developing a lot more products for them. Or maybe when Facebook creates its very own applications (their web-wide upcoming ad network is a sign of this) for OpenSocial.
Cars need ads to be sold. Ads don't need cars to be sold.
recently i've been listening to recordings of street noise from my walk to work. it seems to be helping me achieve flow faster. i get my best flow when walking to work, so i figure i'd try it. anyone else interested in trying out some of these recordings? i'll post them if there's interest in an experiment.
Revenue is a very poor measure of a company's success.

If anything, you should at least rank earnings, since that incorporates profit margins. If I sell $5 trillion of goods at a 0% margin, that doesn't make me a very successful company.
I find it amusing how much Zuckerberg's apparent attitude has changed. Like not wanting to add resumes because they'd make the site less fun. I guess the idea of fun changes when you've got a 15 billion valuation to live up to.
Growing Up Buffett
Interviews with Warren Buffet's kids on "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" about how their father, 2nd richest man in the world, gave away all his fortune.
A bit about Open Social - by Dave Winer
Also read Marc's thoughts about Mr. Winer's post
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/is-google-trying-...
linkdomain:mysite.com nice!
whether or not the idea itself is impressive the technology seems to be very much so. The sight is lightning quick for what it does.
Field Notes from UW Computer Science & Engineering Intern Fair
the only advice i can really give you is to hire someone to do this for you.
Mozilla, Microsoft drawing sabers over next JavaScript
Wonder how Microsoft feels about this? Is that Facebook investment still worth as much as they paid for it? Looks like Google is consistently a few steps ahead of them whatever they do.
I don't think Microsoft paid the 240m$ just to have some shares in facebook. The most important thing Microsoft got out of the deal was the international advertising exclusivity on Facebook. And that could only go away if Facebook starts losing page views and eventually become irrelevant. Opensocial is probably a move forward and might eventually cause facebook to join and eventually break the walls, but it wont necessarily mean that facebook will lose the fight, they could still be a huge platform, maybe the biggest one (not considering OpenSocial, and looking at independent platforms, such as Myspace, Hi5 ...) and facebook could still be a popular destination for the years to come.
four-oh-four -- you pasted teh link thrice.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/01/Mozilla-and-Micros...
Obscene Losses: YouPorn, Silicon Valley, and the Future of the Adult-Entertainment Industry
A First Look at Tumblr 3.0
If they can provide whats needed, i.e. offer a good quality, how could they possibly fail with a board like that backing them up?
Google CEO and MySpace CEO on video - about OpenSocial
The social networking scene has turned into a war zone. If I were planning on starting a company today, I'd try to do something in an area that people don't pay much attention to, like Google did with search in 1998.
I prefer Webdings: http://www.zakie.fsnet.co.uk/ChatRoomsStuff/Help/wingdingsfo...

Admittedly, there's a bit of a learning curve, but once you've gotten over the hump, it's much more pleasant to code "heart smiley lightning-bolt" than all those ugly letters and numbers.
Bebo now is onboard with Google's Open Social API
New York Times Launches TechMeme Competitor
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/bloggers-block-3-dre...

Oh, sure, they've made a few half-assed attempts to make IE standards-compliant, sort of, but only after making many full-assed attempts to distort those standards to give Microsoft competitive advantages. I've heard that directly from folks working on the relevant teams over there. Microsoft cheerfully shows up at the standards meetings to make damn sure they screw up the APIs for everyone else. You know. Microsoft-style. Sorta like how DirectX was bugly compared to OpenGL. Or Win32 compared to Xnix. Or MFC compared to any sane object system (e.g. TurboPascal and TurboC). Or COM compared to CORBA. (I mean, you have to work hard to be worse than CORBA.) Microsoft has always been awful at making APIs, always always always, and I've decided over the years to credit this to malice rather than incompetence. Microsoft isn't incompetent, whatever else they might be. Burdened, yes; incompetent, no.

My question is on whose terms will they join?
NewsGator Joins OpenSocial
who are you referring to, Facebook or Microsoft? and whose terms to join what, OpenSocial?
Digg to Acquire Spanish Clone Meneame?
It is hard to be serious about getting tenure in an English department, which amongst typical universities tend to have orders of magnitude less tenure spots available per actual tenure-track position.
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9807133-2.html?part=rss...
Scripting a telescope with PLT Scheme [pdf]
From the 2006 International Conference on Functional Programming.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/200-everex-gree.html
Usually units like that are used because they make the scale easier to grok. Unfortunately, with large numbers, humans fail to truly understand the scale between them (e.g.: you can innately feel the difference between one and a thousand more easily than between a quadrillion and a quintillion). This is also the reason why you'd prefer eating dots in Pac-Man to give you 100 points a piece rather than 1 million.

Thus, having to say "1/10000" defeats much of the point of using the width of a human hair as a unit. I don't think it's much harder to innately grasp 5 nanometers than 1/10000 the width of a human hair.
Hmmmm....no mention of any potentially Orwellian uses?
I am going to say #2.

I would like a search, because if I didn't upvote something to save it from day/months ago, i still would want to see if the topic existed. People may have written a quality comment on another thread and may not want to repeat it, or comment 'this has been talked about already'

I know I can use google, but I can't see if it has been commented on. I really like the site and want to stay within it to do everything.
They should start a startup in Jamaica and take it easy in the sun...
We're using Scheme in our startup and I recommend it. Our web app is built in Kawa and runs on the Tomcat server. We had been using the PLT web server but left over some concerns with the way it was using memory. They've fixed that and now I think switching was a mistake - we should have just stuck with PLT. Kawa... hoo boy. It's got some issues. It's still Scheme, though, mostly.

So for the web I would use PLT and its great web server. In fact I do use it for a little internal app and love being able to write a web app in the 'direct style' ie just write a web page interaction with a user as a function execution. You can just assign a lambda to a link, saying 'when the user clicks this link, execute this lambda'. It's great. However, that links won't be bookmarkable nor indexable by search engines, so if some of your pages need to be, you have to make the links to them be traditional links. So the continuations-based stuff lends itself to the parts of your app that are private to a single user (like taking user input or showing them their email) and/or shouldn't show up in a search engine anyway. This would include anything that you would describe as a 'wizard'.

NASA (or is it just the Air Force?) is using PLT Scheme to control a large telescope in New Mexico (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75219) to great success. So for soft real-time stuff you should be good. Just from using it, I wouldn't recommend the default garbage collector with PLT for anything like hard real-time stuff. But there are other GCs, so ask around. The PLT mailing list is excellent: http://www.plt-scheme.org/maillist/
Facebook doesn't have to join up. It'll take a half day's work to make a wrapper you can throw on your OpenSocial app to make it work in Facebook. If that.

It's in Facebook's interest to keep people making apps that have some attachment to Facebook proper, though. If people aren't using FBML and FQL, there's no platform lockin. I assume Facebook's going to beef up their custom offerings so that people are at least forced to make a special version of their product just for Facebook.
Can you include links to the searches you tried? A lot of product search sites seem to have lower prices than Bountii because they don't include shipping. (This happened with the test searches Techcrunch did, and they mistakenly concluded that Bountii was not the best.)

Maybe the Bountiis should break down the prices into product and shipping when they display them...
The Secret to Raising the Value of Eyeballs
Alas, this may be the beginning of the end for startup news as I once knew it: a forum free from the messiness of politics.
It sounds like the manufacturer is trying to suggest there's a connnection to Google, but they know Google wouldn't let them use their name.
Thanks for the linkdomain tip, it's quite good. linkdomain:http://www.paulgraham.com/
I'm not sure if that's good for Facebook. Sure. some developers out of trying to get the best market share might develop a version for Facebook and one for OpenSocial, but some might stick with just OpenSocial and Facebook will loose. The benefits of third party apps on Facebook does not come from locking in developers. It comes from bringing features to Facebook so that users don't have a reason to switch.
Video Interview with Anu Nigam: CEO of 411Sync, Angel at Sand Hill Angels and cofounder of Hi5
That's a cool idea. I'd be interested, although by the measure of where I have useful ideas, I should instead listen to a recording of a shower. A very calming form of white noise, although it could precipitate increased restroom usage.

I often get into the groove of the sonic landscapes at Quiet American's One Minute Vacations and wish for longer versions:

http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.html

There is one link there to a streaming server that serves up a long-form field recording for your testing:

http://69.64.229.114:8000/
Instead of just listing what the top searches are, why not put pictures of the top items and their prices on the front page? People like pictures. Pictures are pretty.

As long as you only show a few of them and still have the search box as the most prominent thing on the page, it shouldn't end up being too cluttered.
The sky is falling!
What would've happened with OpenSocial should Google got a stake on Facebook?
And what I mean is: Are open iniciatives being manipulated to hold a position against each other or google would eventualy got Facebook back from the dark side?
Search 1: oral-b sonic complete toothbrush
Google: http://www.google.com/products?q=oral-b+sonic+complete+tooth...
Bountii: http://bountii.com/search.php?item=oral-b+sonic+complete+too...

Search 2: oral-b sonic complete toothbrush head
Google: I got 2-3 links to eBay and couple of other sites
Bountii: No results found

Search 3: gillette MACH3 razor
Google: http://www.google.com/products?q=gillette+MACH3+razor&bt...
Bountii: No results found

Edit: I know these searches may not be the most popular searches. But still these are not hard to find products...
GMail Officially Announces IMAP
Really...why? I only say this cause this is my idea and want to know why people find value?
StumbleRank - The Top Users Of StumbleUpon
This was my YC idea, what do you think?
David Winer mentions the same thing
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75197

I believe that Google would have done the same thing as now. OpenSocial would have been launch and Facebook in that case would have probably been one of the first ones to join it. As I mentioned before in other posts, I believe the shares were sold by Facebook in order to raise money, and was being acquired by Microsoft or Google, in order to get control over international advertising of Facebook for the years to come.
The problem I had with Scheme was that it doesn't stay simple. The core is certainly more elegant than Common Lisp's, but all the cruft has a nasty way of sneaking back in through SRFIs and big hairy macros.
Could have Facebook stopped OpenSocial by allowing Google to invest?
I don't personally think they had the power to stop Google, and I don't think Google would have done it anyways. But if they did have a chance, I really think they should have tried in order to get bigger faster and keep their walled garden as long as they could.<p>That being said, I am happy that OpenSocial is not stopped, its definitely better for everyone.
if this was your YC idea, meaning it was turned down and you went ahead and still did it, I want to say congrats on finishing it and not giving up.
Hi Karthik- Thanks for including those searches!

Currently we index prices for consumer electronics. If you look at products in this category, you'll find our results are better than our competitors- Google Products, Pricegrabber, Yahoo Shopping, etc.

-John
How many Java programmers does it take to round up to a power of two?
Tonight's XKCD moment
Changing the game (bye bye FaceBook?)
Colleges and Universities that Offer Free Courses Online
Hey John - That explains the results I got. Maybe you should include this information in the homepage.
But otherwise I like the way the results are presented and the feeds (Google still doesn't have this).
Had they allowed Google to invest, Google would probably not have proceed to support OpenSocial so quickly. They would have protected their investment into FB. Don't be fooled by Google's PR.. they do play tough. If you want to see how Google operates similarly to how MS operates, go back and do some googling on how they threatened StumbleUpon guys. They basically told them that unless they allow them to buy them (instead of eBay), they will destroy them by adding StumbleUpon-like features to their toolbar.
Price breakdowns are coming soon!

Everyone would be amazed if they knew just how often the major shopping engines showed them incorrect data, especially for tax and shipping.
Intuit 50k business challenge
I disagree. The amount gained to having more on the screen is much less than what is lost to readability. Whitespace is your friend.

I do exactly the opposite, where each bracket gets its own line, never going on the same line as code. This helps create an excellent visual division of blocks on the page.
Yes. We did, but it's not really finished...I just want to get peoples feedback on the concept.
Good piece, but I sure hope Anthony Bourdain doesn't get the idea he can start writing books on software dev.