skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a spot-on post. I just recently broke up with a co-founder, mostly because of the uneven equity split like you stated (i.e. I was doing far more work and contributing far more expertise than what my equity showed). It was also due to a number of other factors, but that was primary. You hit the nail on the head with this. Great post.
Whereas if they said explicitly "we will support it for 5 more years" how would have changed anything? They can change their minds at any time, and it's not like you can sue them or anything.

Not to mention that the whole question is moot, for reasons I states on my comment above.
Why are you using ConvertKit over MailChimp?
> Ironically NY Post was one of the "news" sources driving up the hysteria

They optimize for units sold, not precise reporting.
I think the equity grabbing thing is a bit over rated, although it feels like that if you're starting something and want to get other people on board. Get rational and communicate.

Sometimes it's even funny, at a 2 day hacking/business event, you make something with 6 people, two of these people make 90+% of the product. 2 people just stand by the team the whole time barely contributing and 2 people (business) people, are greatly contributing to strategy.

At the end of the hacking event there is a talk about continuing with the project and starting something up, it is so obvious that it is almost not even brought up. People kinda evade the topic. Then somebody starts to talk about it and everybody quickly agrees that 50/50 split is the obvious fair way to start something.

I don't have to tell you this 'startup' didn't last that long :)
That's not true any more.
That is completely wrong.

Dwolla has to keep fraud below a very low threshold to stay in business, any more and their partners will stop working with them.
"No choice in the matter."

Does someone have a gun the CEO's head stopping him? He could tell everyone to install latest Chrome or Firefox and have everyone upgraded in 10 minutes.
This can turn out not to be a problem if the startup hits some reasonable growth (growth is usually a solution to such ails as long as it continues).

This is the important line in the article. Co-founder breakups probably happen more because the startup is not doing well, and not vice versa. I'm not sure if it makes sense to try and optimize for not running into co-founder problems as much as just optimizing for your company's success as normal.

If your company is killing it, and you're a co-founder and you've got 10% and you want to be the CEO and your grad school dropout grace period is ending and you'd rather be working on technical problems, you're most likely going to stick it out regardless.
Regardless of the comparison with other actors, is it possible to run an analysis over Satoshi's corpus to determine if its internally consistent or likely written by multiple individuals?
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Checked the stats on my site. Based on around 50,000 unique visitors yesterday, 3.7% used IE, and 0.5% used IE 8 or below. It's related to technology though, so it's skewed highly towards firefox and chrome.
Egg on the face for macroeconomic heavyweights
> Define "worse". People will complain about doing all sorts of things that are better for their long-term interests.

It's telling that you're comfortable deciding on your user's behalf what is better for their long-term interests, in a way that just so happens to benefit your perceived interests.

> If you're building a product that provides greater value to users with greater user engagement, then it's in everyone's best interest to promote user engagement, even if that means upsetting the people who would rather gain the benefits of your product without actually using it. You can't make all of the people happy all of the time.

If you're building a product that provides greater value with greater engagement, then it's in everyone's best interest to drive engagement by giving users value that makes them want to be engaged, rather than playing tricks like annoying them with e-mails that contain no content.
"iOS's browser is archaic compared to recent and not-so-recent Android browsers" - is untrue in my opinion and irrelevant.

Disclaimer: I love Chrome on Android, and have multiple Nexus devices. Our service (for businesses) has 10 times as many users on iOS devices than on Android devices, and our customers ask about iPad support not Android tablet support.

1. Yes Safari on iOS has its problems.

2. Android stinks because of fragmentation (especially on phones). The majority of users are not using Mobile Chrome. Some Android users are using Firefox Fennec and Mobile Opera (major browser differences from WebKit).

3. Mobile Chrome is approximately equivalent to Mobile Safari in my experience. Both browsers have significant bugs. However I do spend 10x more effort on iOS than Android because we have 10x the users. Currently we have about 40x more iOS users than Mobile Chrome users.
but nobody gives a shit about xhtml
Then don't drop them. This is for modern websites/services, not enterprise catering dinos.
Another one bites the dust :(
Laws for sale.
* People get undue credit just for being there first*

simply by virtue of the fact that their parents go there first

Lots of parents didn't choose to go there at all. Some parents chose to buy residences in better parts of Manhattan, some in worse. Some chose better buildings, some chose worse. Some parents took out big loans betting on their future to own real estate, some preferred to spend that money on vacations.

In your mind, what investments that appreciate over time are not "undue credit"? Do you have a certain amount of gain that we can all know is fair, deserved, or not lucky?
It's part of being a well-rounded citizen/human. I've learned a lot of things in school that I haven't been able to specifically get money for, but I feel like I have a better global view and understand of civilization for it.
Iin their eyes there are already limits on what people can browse and adding a couple more is no different than what is already established.

You're implying that censorship will lead to a slippery slope but we're already sliding down one.
"I can't help but wonder what the long-term business effects are of intentionally damaging your relationships with your customers by wasting their time and choosing to prioritize arbitrary business priorities (eg, e-mail click-through rates) over actual user satisfaction."

Exaggerate much?

As I said to your other comment, sometimes it's in everyone's best interest to promote engagement. If you're running a product with a strong social component, it isn't an "arbitrary business priority" to want to get people back to the site.

As in all things, good judgment is key.
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>> OverQuotaError: The API call datastore_v3.Get() required more quota than is available.

That's why $20 on Linode is an amazing deal.
That sounds broken to me. Then it's no longer -g for global. You do run your app under a different account than your user-account, right? Something like "nodeuser"?
"Small government" is a code phrase for reducing the social safety net. Nothing more.

For much greater detail about why Democrats and Republicans think they way they do, read what the cognitive scientist George Lakoff has to say.[1] By the end things like "We respect life!" but "We want the death penalty!" on the same platform actually make sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics_%28book%29
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Well, that depends on your BLOBs, how you use them and what it's worth to you, doesn't it?
Actually, users don't give a shit either at how it looks or even if it works smoothly. They just care positively about content and entertainment, look at Wikipedia, Minecraft, early Google.

But they also care negatively if something is getting in their way. That's why headers carved into gif images and flash for text and any other mean to force text size upon user are less and less used on the desktop.

So why should it be current on my phone?
I do.

The final 2.0.0 file is 12 percent smaller than the 1.9.1 file, thanks to the elimination of patches that were only needed for IE 6, 7, and 8.

Dropping IE 6, 7 and 8 support for a 12% smaller file size while effectively forking your code base for the foreseeable future is a lousy decision. Increase complexity tremendously for what, 3-4 KB when gzipped?
Is there any list of companies that currently require old versions of IE? I know a lot of hospitals do, and people handwave banks and whatnot.

If there was a big list of "These people still use old versions of IE", then we could:

A. Properly shame/advertise for attack/avoid getting work from these people.

B. Expose a dedicated market audience for compatibility-minded dev shops

Either of these would seem to be a Good Thing (tm), and would help remove a lot of the FUD in the ecosystem.
Could Incognito/etc inflate a user count dramatically? How does Analytics count those?
Meet the company that still uses a punch-card machine - For accounting
I don't think knowledge on the subject in this case particularly applies except in the opposite circumstance. Knowing nothing about passing a bill that changes the way things work currently is dangerous but being against a bill that does not do enough to clarify its effect on the status-quo, along with not having a deep understanding of technology, does not make that viewpoint any less credible.
In addition to unitless data, PCA works when all of your variables have the same dimension. It simply doesn't make sense to build a principle component vector that is a mixture of (i.e. weighted sum of) vectors with non-identical units.
How do you know if traffic is from a Tor exit node? Is there a giant list of exit nodes kept somewhere that can be referred to?

For that matter, if I'm using TOR does the ISP have anyway to know that? I know they can't get to the contents of what I'm sending, but does the data look like different to "normal" internet use in a way that could be detected and filtered?
Boy, I do not see it like that but I guess I'll agree to disagree with you. Also, sometimes "throwing a fit" works though usually when men do it you are "raising a red flag" or "bringing an issues to someone's attention."
Ask HN - Why are NodeJS devs so zealous?
I'm posting this as "not myself" mostly as some of my team also frequents these parts.

I have a simple question -- Is there something about NodeJS (or the ecosystem) that causes those that enjoy it to become comparable to religious zealots?

I'm a generalist. In the passed few years I've done Node dev, PHP, python, C/C++, Objective-C, Java and others. For me it is -- toolset, task, other devs around.

The one commonality, however, is that when a project comes up where Node isn't the best tool (maybe a desire for more mature tooling like Eclipse or the Ops staff is more familiar w/ the Java ecosystem), if there is a dev on the team that is all in on Node, they refuse to see the merits of anything else.

I just find it bazaar and I'm trying to figure out why. I don't mean this as flame bait, as I mentioned, I've used it and it has it's uses. I'm just more mercenary in my tooling.
Bullshit isn't always accurate and they also have their own biases they push in the show.
>Third parties have been trying to throw shitty old IE under the bus for a long, long time and haven't had much success in doing so.

On the contrary. Lots of big volume mainstream websites (including even Google properties) have stopped supporting IE6 and some even IE7 for years. For IE6 it has been at least 4 years since most sites stopped caring about it.

(Heck, even Microsoft created a site to convince people to drop IE6 it last year).

Mainstream websites will move much faster off of IE8. It's enterprise shops and people making software or websites targeted at them that will take the longest.
Gone, with half of the compressed file size.

Lots of people will serve the two versions.
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (http://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-John...) has a great section on communicating status through body language and movement.

It describes a number of exercises where one actor takes the role of a superior and the other an inferior. The techniques are quite effective for the intended audience.

I would quote from it but I had a paper copy and it's really only worth running through once a decade for a non-actor interesting in the physical aspect of acting.
While freelancing is perhaps more work than the standard 9-5, it sounds like it can be more rewarding. I'm in the same realm as you, django+front end work, but it seems like a big step to take to move completely to freelancing. If you have something in mind you are welcome to send me a note.
They might be loss-leading with a clean site to get users before they start to introduce careful ads? The new Digg appeared to take a similar strategy.
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Even more worrying are phrases like "the Tor system was abused in a number of crimes." I realize that this is a Japanese translation but the conflation between "maliciously use" and "abuse" is still odd.
Heroku allows specifying the Python version in a file called runtime.txt, which is analogous to requirements.txt:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-runtimes

I think this works well as a convention even if you're not deploying to Heroku. I also like the suggestion to put a guard in setup.py that checks sys.version_info.
It reminds me of Harold and Kumar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDz74_ANojg
It can, if you are careful. I would expect Satoshi to know how to do it.
Totally agree with the gist of the article.

But it's interesting there is so much mythology in there.

Just because bees create honey, it's still just sugar by a different name. Bees aren't magical fairy's.

And similarly Preservatives, Toxins, nitrosamines , anti-biotics (Irrelevant to personal heath from eating) are not relevant.

Even nutrition is totally irrelevant except in small cases. Our issue is eating to many harmfully foods like sugar and highly processed flour. It's not lack of nutrients in the 1st world.
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What The FSCK is Growth Hacking?
As I just wrote on his blog, based on the GCC version he cites, it's not really GCC, it's LLVM with a GCC frontend.

(plus, if it was really 4.2, it'd be a 5+ year old version)

Not to mention, LLVM 2.9 is pretty old as well.

Plus, you know, without explaining what options were used, it's impossible to tell anything about anything.
No need to meta-fight it. Take a deep breath and acknowledge that you are officially old in Internet terms.

Now get off my lawn and no, you cannot have your ball back.
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What worries me is that if you want to do government work (even quite innocuous stuff), your job depends on getting security clearance.

Certainly in the UK, Europe general and probably in the US, your ISP retains a list of all the IP addresses you connect to, and they supply this to the government if they have national security grounds.

At least in the UK, security clearance is grounds to pull your internet records, they say so on public government websites.

I think that in future, if your household connects to known TOR bridge nodes, that might well impact if you can do government work, from IT at your local tax office to army work.

Probably paranoia, but I'm staying away from TOR for this reason. Which is a shame because what some ad networks do is really, really creepy.
If my bank sent me an email with a link, I'd be yelling to my account manager in a few minutes.
I have both bitcoin and dwolla, and between the two I've found Bitcoin much more useful. Dwolla has a difficult business model these days, and I will be sorry to see them fail. But they will fail.
I've been working remotely from Seoul for the past nine months and have had similar experiences at times. Sometimes I would look back and not feel like I had had a good reason to get out of the house the entire week. Luckily Seoul is a large city, so I meeting people has not been incredibly hard. My solution was to create my own network. I started a Seoul Ruby meetup group and eventually got connected with a co-working space here.
So we're talking about a very general problem. When I noticed that a system of equations including x=y can have a different least-squares solution when you change it to 2x=2y, I was quite surprised.
Seems like a consulting approach as opposed to technology sales approach worked better. More specifically it was the technique of requirements gathering/engineering that did the trick. This is absolutely necessary in waterfall methods of software engineering, but is usually thrown by the wayside for the sake of speed in agile development.

On another note, I think a lot of tech community is predisposed to using one set of solutions (django, ror, heroku, drupal, wordpress, redis...) and end up sort of shoehorning our preference to solve a particular problem and then selling that particular solution. I'm glad the author was able to distance himself from that.
I like the zealous part :)

On a serious note - I'm a tad mercenary too. I like Node, but I'm definitely not zealous about it.

I guess it's because Node devs end up really enjoying the fact that they're using a stack that's scalable, and of course, gives them the benefit of writing both client and server code in the same language. I can say, however, that the zealousness you see, is something that's there with just about every stack there is - seen it happen with Rails, Flask, ASP.NET MVC. It's just that you don't always see it out in the open. So that leads me to another question - why's this..zealousness so apparent with Node devs?
Dwolla did not perform a "background check" in the sense that you may think. When dealing with online fraud, it's common to use identify verification services like IDology (and a few others) that basically provide an API to generate these types of questions based on public records matching your name/address. Many banks use the same verification services.
Our users:

IE8: 40%

IE9: 25%

Chrome: 15%

Firefox: 10%

iOS: 5%

Others: 5%

The majority of our clients are businesses with 50 to 500 employees in Australasia.
> can someone explain how this will affect the rest of the world?

A lot of the "rest of the world" data is stored in the US, or passes through US servers. That gives them access to it.

Anything you have in Google services, Microsoft services, Yahoo, Apple iCloud, etc etc etc
I had some minor issues with Dwolla or at least my perception of how they work that left a bad feeling for their brand and operations.

A buddy paid me money he owed me through Dwolla. I made the 'mistake' of leaving it in the Dwolla account instead of pushing it on to my bank account. A month later his bank was allowed to pull that back out because he had overdrafted.
Did someone fix the url since then? It goes to cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/boston-blasts/index.html now, not the cnn homepage.
Ask HN: What static site generator would you use?
I have this Wordpress site - don't intend to start (yet another) flame war, but I'd really like to make a change. I've used Jekyll before, and lately, checked out Octopress, as well as Python-based static site tools like Hyde and Pelican.

What would you recommend?
Sure, that could work. I think it comes down to the definition of a bagel. Most bagels you can buy in the store don't meet my definition, that's partially why this exercise is so challenging for me. I will definitely try to find a solution, though. The idea appeals to me.

—Ashkenazi Jew, my grandmother taught me how to make bagels. It's quite a process, when done properly.
Why are you so angry and judgmental? Can't he just do what he wants? I mean I don't sit around wringing my hands about how annoying Justin Bieber is.
Why doesn't he just veto it instead of threatening to veto it?
It's not tech policy, it's the national security council. If you read one of the linked articles (pre-veto threat), it's made clear that the executive agrees with the bill but wants a few more changes made.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-obama-ad...

"We continue to believe that information sharing improvements are essential to effective legislation, but they must include privacy and civil liberties protections, reinforce the roles of civilian and intelligence agencies, and include targeted liability protections. The Administration seeks to build upon the productive dialogue with Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger over the last several months, and the Administration looks forward to continuing to work with them to ensure that any cybersecurity legislation reflects these principles. Further, we believe the adopted committee amendments reflect a good faith-effort to incorporate some of the Administration's important substantive concerns, but we do not believe these changes have addressed some outstanding fundamental priorities."

You have no friends in the executive branch. It is in their best interests to permit the most invasive and sweeping information gathering methods possible in the pursuit of their investigations. Keep in mind that the FBI and DHS, among others, ultimately report to the president.
I swore I'd never be one of "those guys" who complains that a site he likes is going down the drain, but it seems like more and more of HN is dedicated to nit-picking these days. I guess I was wrong about myself. The foibles of youth.
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The use of "abuse" is correct here. It was used in an incorrect/improper manner, which is the definition of abuse.
if you actually have power, you can sit however you like, amirightoramiright?
Love this article. Always good to remember that you never know what you don't know and with a cofounder, you can quickly find those things out.
I think this really depends on your target market. Big corps such as banks are typically slow to move and I know of at least one which is only just moving from IE6 now.
I finally just got into Jekyll to build a quick lesson based website and I'm really impressed. So far my only gripe is that gh-pages doesn't allow plugins, but it's easy to generate the site locally and only push _site so not even a big deal.
Excellent opportunity to start a company with a paid support model.
I'm learning taijiquan: one of the key concepts is the alignment of the body posture to allow energy to enter the meridians. Health and emotion are both influenced by posture.
ya - guess you're right - what a redundant url.
Do US banks not support direct transfers online or by phone?
It's really GCC 4.2, not LLVM. I used -O2 for GCC and clang and -O (which runs LLVM in -O2 mode) for Rust. Updated the post to mention the options.

Edit: Added clang 3.1, trunk 149587. Over 2.9 it has some improvements, some regressions.
Thanks for doing this.
You made my night.
Along with ~600 others at last count.