skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Next round of financing
I own a brick and mortar business I started w 2 friends over a year ago. One partner and I put up equal amts of money to capitalize the business. I run operations and did all the legwork involved to start the business. The partner who put up money w me had limited involvement at the outset and has less involvement at present, since he has a career elsewhere. Partner 3 runs operations w me and was compensated w a small amt of equity.

We broke even in yr 1 and are on track to make a profit this year. We've done a great job of branding, PR, and customer service which huge in a brick and mortar business.

Recently, an investment group approached us. Investment is an attractive option bc it would allow us to corner the market in our city and expand outside of it at a faster rate. Growing "organically" w/o the help of investment is less attractive bc it is a linear process and the time horizon for expanding is further, running the risk of competition crowding us out of an already crowded market.

The group has proposed that they would buy the non-operating partner out of his shares and then capitalize us from there. This partner understands the attractiveness of investment and he also understands the potential stability and opportunity it would give me and my operating partner, but he's also expressed that he didn't invest in us to make a nominal sum of money a year later (even if it is 2-3x what he put in). Question 1, what is an equitable way to handle this situation?

Also, I have a realistic number of what our company is worth today, but I fear that if our non-operating partner were given his "fair share" for the company from that number and then we were flooded with the investment that the group is talking about, my other partner and I would be diluted to <5% collectively (barring any additional guarantees). If that were to happen, I would be fearful of losing control of the company. What sort of guarantees should we ask for? Red flags to look for?
Amazing iPhone concept
Just curious if Apple or Samsung will come up with this.
“It was clear that we were not going to see electric cars from incumbent manufacturers,” says Musk."

Clear, perhaps, but not correct. Ford, GM, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes and Toyota all sell electric cars (though the latter two use Tesla's batteries). BMW is about to start. California has almost single-handedly willed these cars into existence.
This is not a PGP library. It's a wrapper around gpgme, which in turn is a wrapper around gnupg. node-gpg just exposes the GnuPG command line as javascript functions.
Thanks for that link. They have a better description of the output resolution. By the sounds of things, these are going to provide pretty good output. I'm still not sure I need one, but if I had one beside me right now, I'd be using it.
Hyperbole. If you don't want to type... fine, look for things on the Start screen, mouse and click through.

For me, Start Screen changes nothing, it is a welcome change from the menu. Windows 8 possess excellent work flow for me, and i adapted well to the changes. Windows 8 does not look monolithic to me, it is good to see some design language in Windows, but it seems that the internet is always there to make sure it remains a skeleton after all. Seeing new console announcements, internet forums panned them all..be it Wii U, PS 4, XBox One. Ludicrous for me, i know there will not be approval of anything but such a hateful stance at anything new is not harbinger of trust in these forums. I used to think HN has good discussions, but to be frank this place is also riddled with old man stances that i expect from my dad. Which is expected, but I want to see progressive stance too.
do not use any google or facebook or micro$oft. In short, run to the deep net or to a cave :P
0) Everyone is already under surveillance all the time.

1) Be in start-up stealth mode if there is a high chance your product will be misunderstood in a negative way.

2) Seek cohorts at these places: http://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Usually nothing, I only block third party cookies and write under a pseudonyms.

But I'm always conscious on the implication of what I do on internet so if needed I know how to use appropriate tools for protect my privacy.
I love the idea of this for prototyping, but what happens after you're done prototyping? Do they expect you to just use their backend forever?

I feel like most folks outgrow a service like this at some point... is that ok with you, Cole? Or do you aim to grow with folks? And is there a pricing model in mind?
It's a policy issue:

> If we receive a removal request that violates local law, that content may no longer be available to readers on local domains where those laws apply.

https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/2402711?hl=en
The intersection crossings in my hometown and in my current city all have noise. They just use different noises for the different directions. E.g., N-S crossings might chirp while E-W crossings might beep. (I don't remember exactly what the rule is, but I'm sure a blind person would.)
Yea, I think the major players know this, and it's a race to make the best machine for both consumer and commercial-grade.

For machine price, it's a race to the bottom. These are actually easier to manufacture than ink jets, so I can easily see $100 machines.

Hardware -> $0 as software is the real differentiator for simple 3DP. Then, on the top-end, there's Objet with ~$300K for a multi-material machine.
Unfortunately, GOG's pricing seems too high in ahem less developed countries like Russia. While "one world fair price" policy sounds right and fair (and certainly has advantages, as I've heard there's a problem with EU vs US prices), it only works for countries with similar average incomes.

For comparison (no games are on sale or other kind of promotion in either store):

- Legend of Grimrock and Don't Starve (both have equal prices): 14.99 USD on GOG, 299 RUR (9.42 USD) on Steam;

- Fallout 2: 9.99 USD on GOG, 199 RUR (6.28 USD) on Steam;

- Deus Ex: 9.99 USD on GOG, 150 RUR (4.73 USD) on Steam.

Not like $10 (~317 RUR, about two 0.5L bottles of a good beer) isn't affordable (it totally is, if we're talking about single purchase), but, still, paying 25-50% more than usual local market price feels quite significant in the long-term. Given that Steam's DRM is relatively unobtrusive and don't seem to bother most gamers, I doubt lack of DRM is significant to many consumers, compared to price.
> probably not something you want to share with advertisers.

Why not? How would you be in any way worse off because an advertiser knows this?
High five for the Heroku API designer who decided to use the Accept header to indicate the acceptable format and version of the response. This is the way to design HTTP APIs.

Instead, most companies put the version number in the URL and use special suffixes on the URL like ".json" to indicate these things. I can understand this practice from the standpoint of convenience. A human using cURL can't be bothered to type out an Accept header. But when building an API support should first be considered for explicit, programmatic API clients, not humans. Then you can slap on your human-friendly URL extensions, etc.

It's always easier to start out being explicit.
The rates for subsequent borrowers will only go up if her bankruptcy was unexpected. That is to say, if the bank charged her interest assuming 10 of 100 loans would default, and she is one of those 10, then her bankruptcy does not change the interest rate the bank charges. On the other hand, if the default rate is higher than the bank expected, whose fault is that?
Did you hire UX or UI designer? If it's UI, I can understand. But it is harder to hire UX designer without knowing what kind of product category they familiarize.
> This article incorrectly refers to Linux as an operating system.

No, it doesn't. If you're going to be "that guy", please consider at least being obnoxious and correct.
Well, sure. There are formulas and techniques for creativity and rebellion in the same way there are formulas and techniques for winning a 100 meter sprint. But formulas and techniques don't turn an overweight, middle-aged guy into a world class sprinter.
Clearly a plumbing misconnection. Gray water is sinks, tubs, etc.
Why not? Honestly, if these services can figure me out based on my data, then provide me with their recommendations based on that, why is that not a good thing?
> 97% of climate scientists agree that the current climate change is anthropogenic

No doubt something close to 100% of astrologers agree that the stars effect one's personality.

AFAICT, almost anyone educated in climate science over the last few decades has been taught to assume anthropogenic climate change as a given. Furthermore, both the folks whose research supports the anthropogenic hypothesis and those whose research refutes it have significant incentives (financial, social and religious) to so find. I don't trust the lot of 'em as far as I can throw 'em.
I use different browsers with a different profile in each
In Sweden the traffic lights make different ticking sounds depending on what state they are in. The traffic lights have three states: red, green and blinking green which means that it'll soon turn red again. Super handy for us seeing too since you don't have to watch the light to know when it's changed.

There's a sound clip on Wikipedia in which you can hear two of the states: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/LA2_dont_...
It's not clear why you think your startup is illegal ? - encryption broadly speaking isn't legally restricted in most western countries.

If what you're doing is illegal in the country that you're in then why not move to a country in which it will be legal ?
DRM is poison. It provides only negative value to the consumer by adding new restrictions and limitations.

Valve seems to be one of the few companies to make use of DRM that understands this. Steam may be heavily encumbered with DRM but Valve has piled on huge loads of sugar to make it palatable, more and more each year. Steam is more than just a DRM system, of course, and it's all of the benefits of the Steam-platform which make up for the poison at its heart (at least for a great many consumers). Additionally, because of the track-record of steep price drops on old games and the occasional steam-sale they blunt many of the down-sides of DRM (such as lack of used-games).

Some game companies only see DRM from the narrow perspective of a publisher concerned about "piracy" and feel entitled to dictate usage terms to their customer base due to feelings of ethical superiority. This is mistaken, and by abusing and misusing their customers they're destroying brand loyalty, which is perhaps the most important thing a company can have, especially one predominantly working in IP.
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> If only there were some way that people could make choices for themselves.

People are fucking idiots and need to be protected from themselves.

Don't you see the imbalance between a person dying of cancer, who may be easily persuaded to spend all their money on junk, and a multinational multi-billion dollar industry, which has been shown to hide adverse results, to manipulate research, to sell minimally effective medication for huge amounts of money, and to bribe doctors?
Kickstarter Campaign to "Sling" Cheap Landline Calls to Your Mobile Phone
Great post Noah. Making a pivot is such a hard decision...Anyone else have any experience with this? I'd be interested to hear more about making the decision to pivot (or making the decision not to).
All you need to know about writing a mountable Rails Gem with rspec
To be clear, my coworker doesn't run thisiswhyimbroke, but a site with a similar layout.

It's a little extra money in his pocket, but not something profitable or rewarding enough to do full time. (He also has a few other attempts that don't do as well as the camping one, and with the camping one the income is pretty seasonal).
And why is this bad?
Spherical mushrooms are buttons. So is the round thing on the poker table that shows who the current dealer is.
Except this library doesn't have proper memory protection, and node.js has system access so it could just use GnuPG and be a lot more secure (and almost certainly faster, too).
I would want a face associated with a program, website etc.

If I search for "digital camera" and see results from friends that are heavily into digital cameras I will likely consider that result.

If I search for "video editing software" or "ramen recipes" or "pizza in sf" I would love to see which things my friends are recommending more than I would like to see what is highest ranked by some algorithm.
Oh my god, don’t make things for “Everyone.”
3D PLA printers are non-trivial to build, but very do-able at a hackerspace.

http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Mendel_%28iteration_2%29

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stl4su/files/

http://www.openscad.org/
Super-dense star is first ever found suddenly slowing its spin
GOG considered lowering prices on various titles (see their discussions). They also often have sales where you can buys games very cheaply.
Online ESL program Nulu raises $1.75M as it takes off in Latin America
glass uses a small screen
I hope that it gets harder, but so far it doesn't appear it will.
I think it's that Go embraces familiarity more than simplicity.
But in addition to steam games being cheap, steam has turned into an absolutely wonderful service, no more worrying about serial codes or patches or losing the discs. I have a lot of games on steam that I haven't been able to play yet, but bought because I know I won't lose them
A lot of modern mathematics also drops the parens, especially in areas related to modern algebra. It really makes the most sense and is less ambiguous, with parens not being overloaded between grouping and application.
but I don't think you actually lose customer if your DRM are well done.

In my view - no DRM can be well done, and some customers always will avoid DRMed services. So Steam loses some customers for sure. Many of them end up as GOG's customers naturally ;) Competing on DRM-free as a feature has its benefits.
Github Down
GitHub is currently down
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I second this. Main reason I switched back to Windows 8 was broken search. MS just broke something for sake of change.

In Windows 7, to change proxy settings, I just write proxy and hit enter.

Windows 8, write proxy, hit down/move mouse and then do it.

For someone who routinely changes system settings, this is a nightmare.
1) give your product to every tech journo and blogger

2) ???

3) coverage!
this article might be helpful too http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...
"Sell HN" would be an interesting thread. I like this idea.
Thankfully:

linesOfCode != progress

Linux is awesome.

Putting people on the Moon is beyond fucking awesome.
Go creators are some of the fiercest critics of Java because Java is better, thus they have to tear it down to feel good about themselves. Java has better error handling, documentation, readability, and yes concurrency.

Concurrency is Go is so basic and limited it's only solving the easiest of easy concurrency (message passing, no shared memory) and that is trivially easy in any language. Concurrency in Go has no priorities, no limits, can't be aborted, and is not even preemptive. Start an endless loop coroutine and nothing else ever runs, start coroutines doing lots of computation and your server is unresponsive/chunky. When you get anything complicated then you're back to manually doing locking, with no help from the language (not even synchronized).

In most ways it's worse than Java -- but that doesn't matter because it's "new" and "fun" and "from Google". And hype.
Can You Really Sue Kickstarter for IP Infringement?
Direct link to paper here: http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/research-papers/Natur...
Under DDOS
Oops looks like github is down!
GitHub is currently down so logging in doesn't work: https://status.github.com/
Just look forward to ordering a big button afterwards, from Dominos.
OmniPresence, Omni Group's new cloud sync service, hits all the right buttons
Well yes, but the fact that they are expensive is a byproduct of their rarity (which results in us talking about cheaper engineers), and that can be symptomatic of a system with an efficiency problem. The argument then is about confirming that it is.
Other: I use multiple browsers. Broadly, I have one browser logged into Google services, one logged into Facebook, and one in which I do everything else.

I also use Ghostery, AdBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, and a cookie management extension that deletes all non-whitelisted cookies after an hour, as well as make liberal use of Incognito windows.
The American Spectator : The IRS and FBI: Breach of Faith
This is actually one of the reasons I never hit the crossing signal in walkable zones: I feel it's rude when I could simply pay a little more attention and cross quickly without taking up others' time.

However, there are lights that do not ever open up to pedestrian crossing unless you hit the button, which irritates me.
Might be helpful to have a link to the status page as well: https://status.github.com/messages
One of my favorite quotes on this subject from Kurt Harris:

>This is why I am very hesitant to offer ANY specific prescriptions for what to do about your gut biome. The advice to eat dirty vegetables or even start walking around barefoot in the dirt or drinking pond water or whatever "natural" activity you can think of is VERY DANGEROUS.

>The reason is not all parasites are "old friends", only some of the ones that are commensals that we co-evolved with. Getting toxoplasmosis from a cat, or a zoonotic helminth from dog shit or a dead raccoon or a pig tapeworm will do your immune system no favors and could even kill you.

>DO NOT PLAY AROUND WITH THIS CONCEPT UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
Erm...author isn't taking into account like any of the spinoff tech from the space race, are they?

Linux was a hobby OS that popped up right as legal concerns starting hurting the BSD folks, right? Had that not been the case, it probably would've been as interesting a footnote as Minix or Hurd is today.

Are they just feeling insecure about the kinds of problems their generation is solving?
Microsoft Officially Talks Windows 8.1: Start Button, Boot To Desktop, IE11
I suppose it depends on how you interpret the term "big project." Deploying wireless networking seems comparable to the Interstate Highway System -- you are laying down a new infrastructure to make a particular technology more efficient. It is certainly ambitious and it certainly has a lasting impact, and you definitely need expertise and a commitment to finish it. On the other hand, you do not need the breadth of expertise that Apollo required, which is where I think the line is drawn here.

An example of something comparable to Apollo (one that does not involve outer space) would be a hypothetical switch away from fossil fuels -- completely renewable energy. Imagine a government project to replace every internal combustion engine with electric, to deploy rapid (on the scale of minutes) charging infrastructure, to build wind and solar farms to replace coal/gas power, to find new ways to heat blast furnaces, etc. You would need research in numerous science and engineering fields, and you would need experts in those fields working together. You would need a commitment to doing this, the way we committed to Apollo -- not a wishy-washy federal effort or a lot of poorly-organized local efforts.
Who would do that to GitHub?
The status page isnt postable on HN
I love that the replies are full of people who, like me, don't mind if advertisers know more about me. Why wouldn't I want to experience more relevant information about purchase opportunities? What's the alternative? Random stuff that doesn't apply to me? Sites who can't bring in enough revenue to operate that I don't get to use because they can't target me specifically?

I'm confident in my ability to say 'no' to an advertiser, just as I appreciate being told about things that might help my lifestyle. I'll research it, I'll look at the pros and cons as well as the costs and will make the final decision.

Although, fair disclosure, I run an ad blocker in my browser, so I don't see most of the ads anyway ;)

PleaseRobMe was a fun little project that those with a heightened concern for privacy love to point to, but I doubt it ever led to anyone having their house robbed. Again, the benefits of me being able to selectively tweet a conference hashtag and see if anyone wants to hang out in person outweighs the fear that someone's going to see if I left any Apple gadgets at home to steal.
For anyone looking to get cookies under control, which also keeps your browser much faster on low-end systems I've found[1], I can very much recommend the Firefox extension called "Self-destructing cookies"[2]. The first three days or so, you spend about five minutes configuring it (per day), after that it'll cost you no time at all.

Also another poll option: Https Everywhere. That way governments, secret services, carriers, transit networks, local network owners (school, open wifi networks, etc.), and hackers on the wifi networks have a much harder time spying on you.

[1] https://lucb1e.com/?p=post&id=95

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
As I understand it, the BSD licence (which BTW only some elements of Mac OS X have, as happens with some elements of Windows) allows to redistribute binaries, modified or not, provided you keep the copyright notice. In that case, how are Apple products "less closed" than, say, Microsoft's?

Note: I barely use Apple or Microsoft, so the question is NOT rhetorical.
They say that for every outage.
Fo $
VideoJuice - What would you do to rais money for your favorite cause?
For me it's up again. Anyone else too?
For those who use Github as their primary origin server AND perform deploys via git, do you have redundancy measures in place to enable you to keep pushing code even during these outages?
Its not like you are putting something dirt into a place that was otherwise clean. The contents of my intestine are always icky, but it might as well be functional ick.
> can't use a kinect with web apps without browser extensions because there is no 'open web standard' for the kinect (and probably never will be) and web apps can't talk to USB devices.

Funny you should say that, because I have actually done this. You can get a driver for the kinect that makes the depth camera appear as a normal webcam, and the media api in the browser allows you to access the kinect depth webcam.
Should add: 'Stopped carrying a smart phone'
From beginning of tutorial:

> For our comment box example, we'll have the following component structure:

>- CommentBox

> - CommentList

> - Comment

> - CommentForm

Yet the AngularJS solution simplifies this down to one component.

If we presume React could simplify down to a single component too, then the AngularJS solution is would only be fair if it keeps the artificial constraint of having four component classes.
Previously submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771126
Okay. That's what I sorta assumed, but I wasn't really sure. I was just wondering how their "modern CLI" handled tasks other than searching for and launching stuff (which it probably doesn't). I don't think the "modern command line" description was optimal from the perspective of someone who uses the current command prompt (Windows 7, I haven't touched 8 yet but I might soon) to do development stuff.

The search bar on the Windows 7 start menu does what they're talking about to some extent (though I'm betting not nearly as nicely, and it certainly doesn't return web results). I know I just hit Windows Key > first few letters of an application > Enter to launch several things on my Windows 7 machine already. Sounds like they're making a supercharged version of this for 8.1 that includes web results/Skydrive stuff and the like.