skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that same vein I've known many a new father has very similar difficulties that would likely be a factor in worrying about the investment. I think it's largely a cultural issue that men don't usually take the same amount of leave (either at the same time or later to help deal with the new born). That said if I was investing and the founder was alone and planning on starting a family soon would probably turn me off unless they had a co-founder that I felt could take over during that time.
Don't finance people (at least Wall Street) pride themselves on being big swinging dicks? I'd give them a chance in private to fix things, then I'd put them on public blast. By that I mean go to their partners or whatever.

I don't know, I'm just a simple country programmer, your big city ways frighten and confuse me!
This engineer hasn't studied the Toyota Way. Put him in charge of production and he will kill your company.

"We need 5000 widgets"

"That will cost $10,000 but if we make 10000 it will cost $15000 making each one cheaper"

Overproduction kills.

The pizza place is laughing because the cost of production doesn't square with the radius.
Sometimes I wonder if dogfooding has gone too far. With respect to the OP, I see so many... products like this which seem very oriented towards the teams building them. Witness the example page. I'm trying to imagine another field where co-workers could conceivably feel unsatisfied with the level of real-time connectivity they have now. Ranchers? Astronauts? I can't think of one.

But I guess I'm something of a Luddite, with my flip phone.
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"Medical concerns, etc."? What do you mean?

As for sleepless nights (mostly just for a couple months after birth), name a founder that doesn't have sleepless nights.
Typically, having an entire box or case of Coke and keeping it in your house is the most cost-effective option, especially when there's a sale on.
>it would be illegal if put into practice

I checked my think-like-the-MPAA magic 8-ball. (1) Limit, by law, the films cinemas can show to those rated G, PG, PG-13, or R. (2) Inflate the cost of applying for a rating (with a "scholarship" available to qualifying applicants).
I don't think you understood my comment. The 20-30% gross margin refers to the business using Square, not Square.
Great point. In the past, I've often been too willing to take offense and taken things the wrong way. Then when I get home, I realize they didn't mean it the way I initially thought they did, and it was too late to take back my negative response.
It's not a space I'd personally want to touch with a ten foot pole and a government handout.

But so what? You're enjoying it, and from the sounds of it you're probably making enough that nobody involved is going to starve or end up buried under a debt mountain. Managing the downside risk works out to "use a lawyer and don't sign anything with stupid terms."

As long as you're keeping your skills up, your failure mode is "quit, get a job somewhere playing code monkey for (floor $60k/yr, ceil ???)." You've got a safety net that is virtually unrivaled in history.

So go nuts, be young, spend a few years making mistakes and learning stuff. As career trajectories go, "failed startup" is far better for your resume than "agency seat filler" - at least for the next year or three, and assuming you do your due diligence with regard to skills maintenance, networking, and documenting your expertise (which would be equally important as an agency seat filler).

Yeah, there are better ways to optimize for career trajectory. If that's your sole priority, you should probably land a job at Googlesoft or in a field like finance, then spend the next year or three focused on networking your ass off.

But would you be happy with it, during or after? Probably less so.

Since neither option is exactly going to have you standing in the bread line, even if your choice of venture turns out to be a spectacular failure - you're free to choose based on personal fulfillment, not just socioeconomic leverage.

And, you know, it could work out. Which would be nice, but it's not something that's necessary for it to be worth your time.
Why? It's a valid solution.
A lot of companies use this strategy. For example 24 hour fitness in my area offers a 3 year membership for ~$600 as opposed to paying $24/month. I was happy with my decision to pay monthly because I was able to switch to a new gym a year later.

Buying the bigger pizza only makes sense if you know you or someone else can finish it. If you buy a bigger pizza and don't finish eating it, you end up wasting money.
Not to belabor the point, but the reason saying these things can harm a reputation is that they are bad things to say. They suggest poor character. I go out of my way to avoid people I believe to be sexist or racist.

Not saying offensive things loudly is a good start, but if you want to maximize being a decent human being you should also not discriminate against women quietly -- or at all.
No, it means that being a father (negatively) influences your ability to be a successful founder. Like any other barrier, this can be overcome.

To get to the question I think you are trying to raise, it does seem like gender has a non-zero effect on this influence. Even ignoring the fact that, for likely cultural reasons, mothers tend to spend more time with their children, being pregnant itself presents something of a (short term) barrier. Again, it should be quiet possible to overcome this barrier, but not by pretending it does not exist.

Undoubtedly, one could make a case that being a parent is actually a benefit towards being a successful founder.
It's certainly not illegal to decline an investment opportunity because a founder is pregnant or just had a child. No one can force you to invest in something if you don't want to.

It may be stupid to turn down a great founder for this reason, it may be ass-holish, but it's not illegal.
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Well if you see more and more of them, they clearly aren't ninjas :|
It's a lovely theory, but put into practice it's a lot of work to maintain, especially with more than one editor. I was a proponent of this concept for a long time, but it's just not worth it [1]. If you want to be able to align the leading edge to something other than a tab stop you are better off from a practical perspective to just enforce the use of spaces.

[1] Think in particular of when code moves around. Sometimes it moves to a place where the indent level is different but the total number of expanded spaces is the same. This looks fine until you look in another editor.
Well, given your feedback, I'd delete it if I could—that was definitely not my intent, although I can see how it could look that way. I appreciate the feedback greatly, as well as the gentle way you delivered it. :)
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This is what most likely happened to Mt. Gox
I gather the huge commitment you're referring to goes way beyond the pregnancy itself and extends to the actual parenting. In which case, why discriminate against moms but not dads? Why can a male founder have a kid but not a female one?
Ho hum.
Another chat app.
>> propel it with the starter motor

> Name a car that supports this. Genuinely curious.

Over six decades of driving, I cannot tell you how many times I have successfully moved a misbehaving car a short distance by doing this -- a car that had a healthy battery attached to an unhealthy engine or out of fuel.
I think downvoting != disagreeing to the point, but rather, downvoting = disagreeing that this article is worth the time to read.
Is it mac only? I am poor and I cannot afford a mac :(
Building a single page website, linking it to a mailing list and posting about how you're 'hacking a startup for $9' on Medium and HN is not idea validation. You could get 10,000,000 people signing up and that wouldn't tell you anything about whether or not it'll be a successful business … because you're asking the wrong people.

The only people who count in a mailing list or a beta are the people who'd eventually buy your product idea. Marketing it to the startup industry, e.g. people who'd be interested in it because it's a $9 startup rather than people who have adventures and want a Flipboard clone for their pastime, then you're marketing it to people who are interested in it for the wrong reasons. Those people won't become customers. It doesn't matter how many there are on your list. All you've done is fool yourself into believing you're working on something that has a market without actually knowing whether or not that's true. You have not validated your idea. You've only tapped an easy group of people who sign up to things because they're interested in signing up to things; not because they're interested in your product specifically.

Building a mailing list or a group of beta users using a 'startup list' like Betali.st is nothing more than vanity. You must take your product to the market who'll buy it to know if it will be a success.

Build a mailing list of 1,000 people from marketing on extreme sports and adventure holiday websites, and then you'll have validated something.

(Obvious caveat: This isn't true if your product is actually for startups.)
Bill Nye Debate Sparked Funding 'Miracle'
I presume what they mean is that having an open bag in the kitchen encourages you to have a few every time you pass through. The problem with it being a big bag is that this happens more often before they run out.
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amazing conference. women lining the walls, sitting on the floor--all of us incredibly grateful to be there.

female founders have more than our share of Sisyphian tasks; events like this give us the strength to keep going.
You shouldn't use this phrase as a way to shut down arguments you don't agree with, without any attempt at explaining yourself further. He gave several reasons in his explanation, and you're not challenging any specific aspect of his response. Try again with a detailed query or argument, not an ad hominem.
Why would you expect the NULL pointer check to do anything? The function, as given, is meaningless if `p` is NULL. The problem isn't that compilers are too aggressive in their optimization -- the problem is that people who are learning C don't usually learn what it means for the behavior of a program to be undefined.
this is what is recommended for package.json in node. Specially "//" as the key.
Check out Fay (Haskell to JS). You can scaffold up a test site with Yesod where it integrates with Fay.

https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod-scaffold/tree/postgres-fay

It's not quite Meteor (then I dont believe it is so great), but works today and gives you Haskell from front-to-back.

The Haskell Center IDE of FPComplete is build with Yesod and Fay -- and that is a serious application.
Damn. That's 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
What do you mean?

Specifically, you use the word "bad things to say". Are you arguing that they are incorrect? Or are you simply arguing that they are correct, but admitting their correctness somehow makes you a bad person?

If VCs are obligated to make suboptimal investment decisions (e.g., investing in founders who are less dedicated to the company but have breasts), who else is? Is Joe 401k also a bad human being if he attempts to maximize his returns and doesn't throw his money after feel-good causes?
Looks like we've found a compiler bug. Who has Stallman's email?
Was the first investor an asshole for thinking what he did, or for voicing that thought?

If it was for voicing the thought, is there a more delicate way he should have phrased it? Or should he have just kept his mouth shut, denying her useful (if insensitive) feedback?
I think it's amazing that people would debate whether to fund a company led by a hard-working mother when nobody questions the logic of funding a company run by someone who worships a malevolent invisible sky wizard.

Warren Buffett figured out that hiring women was all-win long before most. Kudos to him.
Sounds like Google wave, but a little less intense and a lot more lean.
can't you just do

_dontcare = {es5: syntax, /*with comments*/}
data = JSON.stringify(_dontcare)

?
A 5+ year old laptop could be an order of magnitude faster than a 4+ year old netbook (Atom N450!) with 1G of RAM.

I've tried josm a few times, it's completely unusable.
Not sure about that. Your body is only able to absorb so much in one sitting. Eating the pizza all in one sitting might be the healthier option.
I don't think anyone pretended it didn't exist. But you oversimplify when you say it's only negative. Learning to fly planes or raising a puppy by yourself has a nonzero effect on your time too, but usually these are considered pluses when hiring someone, because they show responsibility, well-roundedness, maturity, fulfillment, etc.
It is fanboyism because that rant is just bullshit, Android is not years ahead of iOS, Android has some advantages over iOS and iOS have other over Android.

And someone that can say with straight face that Android hardware specs are far ahead iPhone 5s is just someone that doesn't know what is talking about.

And by the way, you can try the "Because of your fear that your favorite will loose?" with others. I use Android and I don't have any iOS device.
It's been obvious for a while now that we're living in a dystopian cyberpunk future, it just snuck up on us:

* Killer drones. Ubiquitous surveillance by both government & business.
* Bad data that destroys one's ability to travel, get credit, find work, or avoid being thrown into jail out of nowhere.
* More and more armed citizens shooting each other over minor things.
* Flash mobs for every purpose under the sun.
* Samizdata.
* Manipulating the cops into raiding innocent targets while using software to conceal your identity. Absolute and complete lack of airships.
* Corporate domination of the political process with unlimited donations.
* Massive and growing wealth inequality.
* Political campaigns severally wounded by software failures.
* "You're not the customer, you're the product."
* DDOS for commercial advantage.
* Arresting people as "terrorists" to seize embarrassing stolen information.
* International treaties negotiated at the behest of corporations as backdoors to subverting the legislative process.
* No-recruit agreements for the rank & file combined with vicious competition for the top talent. People carrying half their life in portable computer devices.
* Ransomware in a myriad of forms.
* Vast government computer intrusion programs.
* Criminalization of access and dissemination of public information. Criminalization of downloading too much from something you've got access rights to. Criminalization of downloading from open directories with no warnings on them.
* New diseases, rising seas, freakish weather.
* A resurgent, militaristic Russia invading various countries.
* A resurgent, militaristic USA invading various countries.

Admittedly the cyberware is a bit slow in coming, AI is still the same 10 years off as always, self-driving cars are barely at the testing stage, sub-orbital planes are a pipe dream, and nobod thinks the Net looks like brightly colored blocks, but it's still unsettlingly close.
There have been Linux kernel security bugs where a NULL dereference might not result in a crash, because a malicious user-space program had mapped some accessible memory at address zero. The kernel then went on to skip the optimized-out null check, use vtable pointers in this null page and eventually execute arbitrary code in ring 0.
To throw it in, the first one or two years using it email used to feel like something that has to be replied timely, and after a while it appears that's not viable. IMs feel the same now, it's supposed to be instant, but putting it away for a while and dealing with discussions in batches every hour or two hours becomes an option.

If urgent matters may come through, checking the messages only when two or three come in rapid succession is a good heuristic.
I just saw this today with lightbulbs. A two-pack cost more than twice what a single bulb cost.
I know, should've taken the blue pill.
TSR # 178 – Xbox One minus 1080P, a big deal?
Xbox One lacks 1080p in some titles, is that a big deal? Will Microsoft ever catchup to Sony in sales? What will Nintendo do against Microsoft and Sony? Tune in as Andrew sits down with Henry Knox as they dissect these three gaming giants. Thanks for listening.
I absolutely feel othered if people go on forever about it.

Where did I suggest this at all? You're projecting your issues onto me. I wasn't painting people with disabilities as tragically victimised or any of that other shit. I gave one example that happened to be about people with a disability, then talked about advantage and privilege as largely abstract concepts.

you might want to find a different way to word it to avoid unpleasant implications.

You might want to find a way to respond without putting words in people's mouths. The audience that would actually take what I said as saying that being a woman is a physical disability does not exist. It's a bogeyman used for arguments like yours. "But these hypothetical morons might take you the wrong way and take offense!". Well, if they do take offense, no harm done, because they're morons. You're also arguing from hyperbolic outliers - painting 'well-meaning activists' as the ones who fight to ban sharing the ramp (because that happens... how often?) rather than the ones who fought to have the ramp put there in the first place.

The irony is that you've just said you don't like people taking offense on your behalf, and yet here you are taking offense on behalf of these hypothetical morons.

Women control 70% of global [consumer] spending.

Yes, women do a disproportionate amount of shopping for staple items like food or clothing. This is not 'controlling the economy'. It's like saying that since most workers in hospitality are in their early 20s, this means that people in their early 20s know the most about fine dining, since they are the ones that handle the plates.

I'm confused by the way you mention class privilege and then assume that somehow this means that women are disadvantaged

This is a fair comment. I was responding to a comment about women with a more abstract comment about social advantage, using wealth as an easy example. It wasn't meant to be a causal relation.

When even ACLU says...

Citation needed.
I'm a founder with a young child. It's awesome. You can't do it alone obviously but with a partner and a support system it's totally doable. Even the sleepless night thing is mostly contained to the first couple months.

"What do you mean" is a nice easy response. I like it. It's not going to stop all assholes but it will filter out the ones are are ashamed of themselves, which is probably a lot. What it won't stop is the ones with pernicious superficial rationalizations for excluding women.. the "short people shouldn't be firefighters" crowd.
Well I don't argue that security guards are obviously 10x less trained than a cop. But you have to agree that if they want to provide security to employees, they need to hire a GOOD security guard agency. I have never been to FB and I don't know how well trained the security guards at FB are, but these people are really your first responder when a threat occurs on campus, immediately. They are the one going to do the gatekeeping for FB. If they could hire a better security agency, they should. Right now I feel like FB is trying to be cost-effective; instead of spending $1-3M for better security guards, they are just throwing $1M out there to get 3-4 cops.
Why do you say no one would question that logic? If a founder ended his pitch claiming that his startup would succeed because he prayed all the time, I'm pretty sure questions would be in order (along with a polite decline).
A very solid example of someone that doesn't actually understand China very well at all and so analyzes it from a somewhat extreme and self-focused perspective that is particular to conservatives from the West.

tl;rd: pseudo-intellectually tone deaf nonsense
Oof.

I will think much less of someone who is sexist, whether they express those views softly or loudly. If you can't see why, I'm afraid I don't know what else to say.
> If the memory access doesn't crash the program for whatever reason (maybe it got reordered somewhere else or eliminated as dead code or whatever, I dunno), then if you call that function with a NULL pointer, you fall into undefined behavior that might manifest as that check that you put right there being skipped.

No; if `p` is NULL, this function has undefined behavior. Full-stop. It is a 100% meaningless function as soon as `p` is NULL, because the "NULL check" happens after the pointer is dereferenced.

So the issue isn't that the compiler can make incorrect optimizations -- the compiler makes optimizations that are entirely correct, assuming that the code that you wrote isn't meaningless.
Private police forces, or bribes. You be the judge...
We have more guns, but fewer armed citizens, and violence has been steadily declining for a couple decades now.
No, because it only works with facebook... ?
Depends on the use case and personal preferences, I believe.

For me, as I happen to love pizza, better prices on larger ones is a win. It's either cheaper calories (if I consume it at once) or meal that lasts longer (if I eat a half of it and eat leftovers for a several hours later).

In rare cases I consider I really want just a tiny bit and won't like any more pizza for the next 6 hours I obviously order a smaller one.
My point is that a single cop can't defend everyone in that area; also, security guards are really the first responder on site to be honest. IMO, FB is trying to be cost-effective; instead of spending more money on good security guards (I don't know how good they are at FB right now), FB is throwing $1M total to get a few police officers.
If anything, trailing commas would actually be nice. It won't complicate parsing, but it does make the automatic generation of JSON much nicer as you no longer have to specially treat the first or last element of an array or object.

The rest of the changes I'm not so keen on.
The question you are asking is "what will make Founder A more productive". You are hypothesizing that a baby will (I find this unlikely, but it's irrelevant).

That's not the question the investor was asking. He was asking whether to invest in Founder A or Founder B. Suppose A gets their happiness from a baby - this makes them happier and more fulfilled in their remaining 50-60 hours/week. Founder B gets their happiness from marketing - this makes them happier and more fulfilled in their remaining 50-60 hours, plus they spend 20 extra hours on marketing.

All else held equal, B is a better investment than A, even if A+baby is a better investment than A sans baby.
Thanks for the tip! Just updated by profile.
Why are there so many negative comments? And most of these aren't even constructive criticisms.

Do you have any suggestions to give the founding team? Any constructive criticism to offer? I'm sure they'd like to hear it. On the other hand, snide remarks provide hardly any value to anyone.
> Jerry Coyne, author of the book and blog Why Evolution Is True, wrote ahead of the debate that "Nye's appearance will be giving money to organizations who try to subvert the mission Nye has had all his life: science education, particularly of kids."

(emphasis mine)

I grew up watching Bill Nye, and I credit his fantastic book [Bill Nye The Science Guy's Big Blast Of Science][1] with really helping me develop a deep appreciation for science at a young age, as well as helping me to kick ass in my middle school science classes ;)

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Nye-Science-Guys-Blast/dp/0201608...

It's sad that in his attempt to help discredit creationism in that debate, he ended up helping to publicize it instead, and bail out its floundering ark museum.