skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is something you need to know: An idea is worth absolutely nothing, or very close to nothing. The money is a result of execution, a direct correlation even; The better the execution, the more money.

You stated: "I wonder the best way to handle partnerships, especially when the idea was basically entirely only one of the partners."

You should be wonder how you can find a partner who is willing to do all the work while you are off doing your own thing at school, with no time to spare. I am not kicking school, but if you're serious about an idea you would be willing to execute it. If a partner is doing all the work then he should be getting 90% of the assets, you should be MORE than happy to get 10% for your idea. As for finding the person to do all the work for you, good luck.

What I am trying to say, is a partnership is exactly that..a PARTnership. Meaning, you have to do part of the work, you can't just get someone to do all of the work and try and reap the rewards. The result, of course, will will be another falling out with yet another partner.

Give equity where equity is due and you will have your best chance at finding a co-founder. .

An alternative solution would be paying a developer to develop the project and pay him with the funds that you don't have. Remember borrowed money MUST be paid back if the venture fails.

My suggestion would be doing work on the side, if you have none then make some free time, and when you are at a percentage of completion you have a few options. You can demo the website to someone who may be willing to invest for X percentage, or you can find someone willing to co-found with you and do some of the work for X percentage of the venturet. The former has more risk associated as you are dealing with monetary involvement. The later, unless you promise compensation, has little risk as you are only involving someones time which they are contributing.

Best of luck
You have it backwards.

prevalence of Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY male, with symptoms): 1 in 1000 men

prevalence of Transsexual men ("biological" men who identify as women): 1 in 30,000 to 1 in 4,500

(source: Wikipedia, but the references for these statistics appear to be in legitimate scientific publications)
http://xkcd.com/292/
"Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell."

-- Erik Naggum, http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/bb32931876...
Here is a previous discussion on FlightCaster's architecture in case anyone missed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772808
Admirably put.
Until somebody owes up to doing it by hand my money is on algorithms, caching and flagging. I could easily be wrong though.

I've seen exactly one intervention in all my time here on HN and it was well warranted ('Arrington'), other than that nothing that I could point my finger at.
The media ruins everything through overexposure and pathetic coverage, from politics to celebrities to crime. I think it is a bit unfair to take it out on sports and competition. What people like Michael Phelps do is nothing short of amazing, and we shouldn't penalize his accomplishments, the entertainment he provides, or competition in general because the media is sick.
How so?

I like their intersections (e.g. Abraham Lincoln, Robert Lee) and simple page layout.
Yes, I do use a VCS. This is not something I'd recommend performing in prod on mission critical type system for obvious reasons. I quite often use the approach to apply patches, which at runtime modifies the bytecode in my remote running JVM. (So I apply a patch to my blog without needing to restart the proxied servlet, just hit refresh in browser. Something old Java guys like myself are not used to :-))
Implicit in what you're saying is that you're willing to suffer the costs if your software fails.

For me, if my banks software decides to munge some data, that's not cool. If my $2K laptop crashes, that's not cool.

More importantly, a culture of quality mainly has initial costs, after that maintaining it is a small marginal cost with significant savings in reduced defects.
Quick summary: Web developers are not stupid.
Consider the Eurofighter Typhoon. The RAF issued the original specs for it in 1972 (probably before anyone who will actually fly one "for real" was born). The RAF is only just now taking delivery of them. Can you even imagine building a web app on those timescales?
I started reading Marco's posts because he wrote Instapaper, released an iPhone application, and generally produced.

My expectation is that the less time he spent on gimmicky SEO crap, the more time he had to actually make things that someone like me pays attention to.
Don't want to rain on your parade, but from your comments it looks like you are vastly underestimating the kind of commitment and effort that it takes to successfully take an idea to market.

No matter how good your idea is, you still need to be able to execute on it and bring it into reality.

You should go ahead and do it, if for no other reason than by the end of the experience you will have a much better idea of what you really need in order to get it done. I would say definitely do the code yourself, just so you can understand how much it would really cost to get someone else to do it. Hint: it's going to cost more than $500 to some guy in India.
PHP is ubiquitous, and now I can be more easily targeted by languages that can compile to PHP. They must have had a use-case in mind when adding it, because it's a lot of work for nothing otherwise.
i second with you - upgrading existing infrastructure or implementing small creative fixes will solve most of the problems and will also create huge amount of direct and indirect jobs ... huge benefit of infrastructure spending is you require people right at the site so no outsourcing (not that i'm aginst but still it helps local economy)
If you've ever been able to think of a time or a place that you've said "I really wish I had a goto here!", it might be time for a rewrite or a new job.

Though, admittedly, I don't think I've ever looked at a piece of code I've written that was more than six months old without thinking "who the hell did this and why did they want to torture me?"
You could allow the submitter to change the question and/or answer at any time for any reason.
Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions
And, of course, it provides an easy way to separate REAL PROGRAMMERS (TM) from everybody else.
(via Daring Fireball)
There's an easily understandable intuitive understanding of the 1st eigenvector (for the eigenvalue == 1) of the pagerank matrix (loosely speaking: assuming you browse a-la the pagerank matrix, the ith component of the (unit) eigenvector for the 1.0 eigenvalue is ~the same as lim n->infinity of #(of visits to i-th page on the internet)/n; some details are getting blurred (of course) but it's a helpful intuitive explanation).

Does anyone have any insight into intuitive interpretations of the eigenvectors fpr the eigenvalues < 1? I'm drawing blanks.

(Edited: to be clear, I understand what the linked algorithm is doing and I think it is very clever, and I am not surprised that it works reasonably well for finding similar topics on wikipedia. I'm just at a blank for what it means to say that 'the i-th component of the (unit) eigenvector for the k-th largest eigenvalue is X'.)
I must be psychic, I just knew that link would show up in the comments.
i agree with the point of the article (i.e., web developers are not stupid)

i'd say that the real issue is that there are lots of good web developers, and they are all are under wraps by big companies, doing the things that they like for a big salary. the bad ones need work, so they're very prolific with their presence and marketing.

the most visible web developers are stupid.
Don't miss the

goto hell;

at the bottom. Awesome.
If I could downvote this, I would.
Dissertation looks good.

Question for you (and you can tell me to shove off if its not pertinent): Based on what I've read it seems that these seed incubators are mainly setup via angel or VC support and you mention that some are being started now with backing of a major firm instead. Two question on this point:

(1) As far as you know, do the setups that are backed by a large firm require entrepreneurs to make a first offer to the sponsoring firm as part of the exit process?

(2) It appears that the evolution of these incubators has gone from a few VC guys backing the incubator to consortiums backing them and now major corporations. Is there a point where government may step in and setup a similar program? Or is this what we are kind of already seeing when they do things like the DARPA challenge?
Planes use software.

After a plane crash, I'm pretty sure that software errors would be investigated along with everything else. How has that worked out for software?
But the top one?
I'm not so sure it is 'amazing'. What I think is 'amazing' is to have a dream of putting men on the moon and realizing it, to come up with a way of connecting people all over the world and to allow people to travel around the globe in extremely short spans of time.

Athletes are - I'm sorry - overrated. Yes, it is great that they can do what they do, and I'm happy for them that they achieve their goals. But I'm just as happy for some local kid competing at ping-pong and winning, there is not much class difference there (in my opinion).

Sports are a means of finding your own limits, then exceeding those limits.

The media indeed messes it up, and for all those other categories you listed as well.
When you think about it, when governments made laws that required all children to have standardized names in order to be able to tax them and register them for military service, it was one of the first privacy invasions. For us it seems natural to have a first and a second name following some rules, but for them, the new law took away their freedom to be called what they wanted when they wanted. And we are facing similar situations today - with internet regulation and so on.

Of course, this is quite an abstract idea - people of that time surely had more serious problems than this.
Wait, wait, wait...GOTO in PHP is real?? I thought it was a joke when I heard about it a while back...

Those who use PHP properly don't need this, and the ones who currently write spaghetti....well, will now write even worse spaghetti! At least the good developers now have another way to spot bad code, I guess..
Quick summary of Michael Braude's blog (the post that article is rebutting): web developers just write HTML/CSS all day, I know nothing about web development on a production scale. I have made the smug assumption that a web startup does about the same thing as Joe's Home Page hosted by Tripod.

I actually take great offense to the original blog post that is referenced. I work at the other big company across the lake from MS (hint: it sells stuff online), and I dare say the work that I've done here is miles more advanced and demanding than anything I've ever done for a desktop app.

And it certainly includes a deep comprehension of compilers, concurrency (oh boy do I ever), inheritance, etc etc.

This guy is just entirely clueless about what it takes to build a production website. His notion of web development is about as accurate as me claiming desktop apps are just drag-dropping controls onto a form in VB.
So, to summarize, it's useful for people building certain projects with PHP and at the same time a great boon for people making sarcastic comments about PHP. Win win.
No way I would trust a language design with your semantics for this syntactic construct: for(i=1;i==n;i++)
In my opinion, this is total BS. Apple would obviously make up some lame excuse and everyone knows it.

Update: Though, there is this at the end:
"In little more than a year, we have reviewed more than 200,000 applications and updates."

That computes to around 515 applications per day. Can't really blame them for taking too long, eh?
> It's Szczecin

Aaargh! I had a sinking feeling I had it wrong, should have checked the map. It's a border town between Poland and Germany, I've crossed that border quite a few times and I still can't remember the spelling... Polish is hard for foreigners!
Question 2:
Did Apple act alone, or in consultation with
AT&T, in deciding to reject the Google Voice application
and related applications? If the latter, please describe
the communications between Apple and AT&T in connection
with the decision to reject Google Voice. Are there any
contractual conditions or non-contractual understandings
with AT&T that affected Apple’s decision in this matter?

Answer 2:
Apple is acting alone and has not consulted with AT&T
about whether or not to approve the Google Voice
application. No contractual conditions or non-contractual
understandings with AT&T have been a factor in Apple’s
decision-making process in this matter.

--

I guess that is about as straight an answer as we could have hoped for on the issue. Apple, not AT&T, made the call.
"So, your average female sporter would probably blow you away in most contests then."

This is irrelevant. In track and field, elite to sub-elite high school boys beat all women ever in the sprints and field events, and even in longer distances the best US high school boys beat the women's world records. In basketball, for instance, the difference is even greater because height makes a big difference -- in fact, D1 women's basketball programs apparently bring in men who are semi-serious intramural basketball players to get better competition in practice.
Is the use case actual drawings/diagrams here? We use EtherPad for any and all traditional text white-boarding.
The standard Acceptable Goto is used to throw control between levels of a multiply-nested loop.

See also: call/cc for managing control flow in a tangle of mutually recursive functions.
Google’s Response To The FCC
It's a high-powered conference of hackers and founders that takes place on an occasional basis at a private location in downtown San Francisco. That's all I'm authorized to >BANG< >THUD<

Seriously, it's just an informal get-together that seems to take place about once every 6 weeks at a cooperative bar where people can drink beer and network a bit. The last one seemed to go off well so electronslave and I were thinking to have it at the same place. It's not a secret, I'll post it here the week before and day of.
He's basically talking out of his ass. The commercial banking model is dead and there's no way he could compete with the likes of BoA.
Apple’s Response To The FCC: We Didn’t Reject The Google Voice App
I was under the impression that the addition of "goto" was a joke. Are people actually using it? While there are legitimate uses for "goto," they are pretty much isolated to low-level C code, and are made unnecessary in a language that supports exceptions...
AT&T To FCC: We Did Not Block The Google Voice App On The iPhone
Next up, PHP 6 will include ComeFrom.
i actually pay all my fees (rent,internet/phone,energy,gas,mobile ...) via automated wiring (in germany you call it "lastschrift"). i can't imagine the hassle of doing this manually each month.
Ugh, why the gratuitous dig at Guido? I think he's done a fine job leading Python, and I've found the Python community to be particularly friendly. Sounds like there's some beef here.
As much as I'd like to believe this, it just doesn't feel right. Why didn't Apple respond in this manner sooner? Why did it take a strongly worded letter from the FCC for them to do so?
On Source Code Annotations
Circuits@Home: Arduino USB host shield
Commonly cited use cases include:

1. Break out of nested loops.
2. Jump to cleanup code at the end of a function instead of an early return.

I never use goto, but I think the usual knee jerk reaction to it is sometimes unwarranted.
War Games Online
Play Free War Games Online or Shooting Games, Tower Defense or Strategy Games and more free games in variety. Test your army, military or tower defence skills by engaging in warfare, shooter and defense related games.
I was being a bit ironic when I said crazy talk. I think society ought to decentralize and focus on smaller communities, with more emphasis on the local than on the global, without many exceptions. It's crazy talk because it won't happen, though I think it would be better in the long run.

Let's have countries outcompete each other on slashing their defense budget, on minimizing their crime rates and political record.

I find it sad that Americans aren't competitive in things like that. We're, what, #37 for health care satisfaction? Push it up again! USA! USA!

This started about a week ago, maybe a bit longer, no matter what I write, first it will go to -1 or -2, then slowly back up. Weird...

That means you've made it on HN! Either there are bots, or your name is well-known enough to provoke random downvoting. When I tried using HN with a second account for several months, I was surprised that I wasn't bobbing under -1 every time I posted in a popular thread. Now it's back. Oh, well.
Newsletters printing, presentation folders printing
"why turn the language into a public menace?"

Too late.
And imagine if I can get on a train in Seattle, and travel consistently at the train's top speed of, say, 80mph (pretty conservative), with no freight train stops along the way, and definitely no stops along every little town along the way...

I will be there in Portland in about 2 hours. This beats the pants off driving, and if you include the hassle of checking in early, security time, etc, will also beat the time for air travel.

And all of this with existing trains, no bullet trains, no mag lev, nothing fancy.

For this you get to enjoy:

- not having to drive
- HUUUUUGE comfortable seats (take that, regional jets!)
- relaxed security, no draconian rules
- 1/4 to 1/3 the cost of flying, can probably beat the cost of driving if you were traveling alone
- board at train station which is neatly downtown in most American cities
- takes you right downtown at your destination in most American cities

What's not to love? Trains are by far my favorite way to travel, and IMHO the majority of problems preventing trains from being the choice for mid-range routes is purely systematic and organizational, and has relatively little to do with technology.
I don't think it's penalizing him not to place the spotlight on him. I do think it's penalizing a lot of other people to make the entire Olympic week about Michael Phelps.
One reason may be that AT&T and Google's answers are also now public, so Apple wanted to have it's best face forward.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18983512/ATT-Response-to-FCC-iPhon...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18983640/Google-Response-to-FCC

Personally, I suspect that Apple would prefer that AT&T take the blame for as much as possible.

From the tone of the letter, it sounds like Apple tries to shift blame onto AT&T where they can- For instance, Apple was responsible for the initial SlingPlayer rejection.

Apple's response says that they rejected the app because it violates AT&T's TOS, but doesn't say that AT&T requested the rejection.

Viewed in the context of the Google Voice rejection, this leads me to believe that Apple is happy to be able to point to the TOS as the reason for the rejection, rather than having to decide if they want to allow an (indirect) competitor to their iTunes TV store.
Conclusion: sports are not a (very useful) way to measure one human against any other.

That was sort of the point, I thought that by comparing a non-sporter with a sporting female that had been made clear.
Perhaps it is ruining yours, but then a little discipline helps. I have multiple pda and cellphones and a hp200lx. Believe it or not, the hp200lx can enter a todo item quicker than any other method, including pencil and paper, berry, pda, whatever.

It is a little bulky, so i always carry a small notepad (like a daytimer) (yes, I know, retro) and a pen, and it is very useful that way.

I also particularly agree with TomOfTTB's comment above.
It will be in the movie version...to be honest the above just popped into my head while I was brushing my teeth earlier and I typed it in without really thinking. Didn't mean to abuse HN as my personal notebook :-/
I've not. While I'm a fan of decorators in practice, I'm not a fan of the syntax. Part of what makes Sinatra so interesting to me is the way you define your resources, which is what I was going for. I never actually built anything more than a small proof of concept demo, since ultimately the value of the technique is pretty minimal.
"An idea is worth absolutely nothing, or very close to nothing."

There are always people who say the opposite is also true. But unless you have at least a mockup, or a prototype, I agree that an idea don't have much value. The idea can be misleading without modeling of some kind.
I am stupid, but that just means you're too smart to do my job.
Middlesex is one of the best novels of the decade, and covers the gender question in vivid and scientifically sound detail.
And what was that lame excuse again?
The guys who carved Petra out of a mountain are arguably better at masonry that the guys who build houses by piling bricks on top of each other, but who's better at making houses?
This kind of misses the point of the article - what is the definition of "verifiably male", for instance?
"The Google Voice application replaces Apple’s Visual Voicemail by routing calls through a separate Google Voice telephone number that stores any voicemail, preventing voicemail from being stored on the iPhone, i.e., disabling Apple’s Visual Voicemail."

How does a 3rd party app prevent voicemail from being stored on the iPhone? I don't understand.
"No contractual conditions or non-contractual understandings with AT&T have been a factor in Apple’s decision-making process in this matter."

I wonder if that implies that there are contractual conditions and non-contractual understandings that exist, but were not a factor in the decision-making process in this case (but was a factor in other cases). Though I guess answer 3 answers that.
Has anybody coined "Yeggism" yet?: Exaggerated claims with a sliver of truth and a whole lot of hand waving to back them up?

It's a great article, this is not a troll. But those are some big statements in there about it seems anyone and everyone. Glad no one treats Steve's rants as gospel...oh, wait...

;-)
I know that the moderators do "intervene" because sometimes pg talks about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709370

"There are days when HN seems determined to jump the shark, and the only reason it doesn't is that the editors heave it back."
10 Yes,

20 COMEFROM 50

30 but when will they include comefrom.

40 COMEFROM 10

50 I always wanted goto,

60 COMEFROM 30

70 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
It will be gamed because the motivation is much greater than just money, it's to feed an addiction. Crime by crack addicts aren't the only problem, the self destructive behavior when you're addicted to heroin and cocaine are also dangerous. I'm libertarian in terms of drug decriminalization and all that but I don't think a segment of society will ever be able to deal with hard drugs in a responsible way like that.
And then you realize you live in fucking Nebraska and fellate the business end of a 12 gauge.
Actually, prevalence of transsexual women (the accepted term for what you meant, since "women" is what they identify as) is probably quite a bit higher than that. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSprevalence.html does an analysis that concludes that said prevalence is on the order of 1 in 500.

But I don't think we were talking about transsexuality, which is something different from the intersex conditions which might make this whole business of sex testing more complicated than one might expect.