skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears to me that you brought in 2 friends for the sake of bringing in 2 friends, not because you needed them.

One guy's job is to handle funding, of which he has yet to acquire any, and the other guy's is to handle marketing and getting users. This really sounds like the duties of one dedicate individual with a background in business and/or marketing - not sure what your friend's backgrounds are.

I've been in this situation before and it comes down to a simple decision: do you want them around any more?

If so, sit them down and tell them they need to start pulling their weight. Maybe they lack direction and need you to provide that for them (which is worrisome, since one of these guys is supposed to be fulfilling the CEO role at this point).

If you want them gone, draft up some paperwork stating that they are bowing out, they want nothing to do with the company, and you don't owe them anything for ever and ever amen.

Just reading your situation here, it sounds as if the latter is your best option. You are basically doing all of the work yourself it seems and dragging 2 friends along with you. Add another hour to your schedule each night for a week and you could complete all of the work they've done the past 8 months or hire people freelance to take care of some of that for you.
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I think that doing consulting while doing the side project -- which is what they did, and we're doing -- is much more manageable.

For most consulting agencies, there's no single client you always work with, so you have more variety of projects, less drudgery. And, assuming your field is related to your project, it's more likely that the consulting work will feed back into learning things that help you build your own stuff.

It's still pretty annoying, of course. Especially doing customer support for our side project is problematic.

But I personally think that doing our own projects has helped us get better, easier-to-work-with clients.

And if we had tried to force Freckle to pay our bills (there are four of us) right away, we would have had to make many more compromises than we have.

On the balance, I'd say we could be dealing better with the situation, but I certainly wouldn't have done the quit-the-dayjob thing myself.
> Using a working copy allows you to deploy your website faster and safer

It's clearly faster, it clearly is not safer, as the article demonstrate: if you forget to configure Apache to ignore the repo folders, your source code becomes available to the world.

> you can have hooks to do some cleanup and rollbacks are almost free

Export to versioned directories, then use symlinks to link your core to the right version of the site, and you get rollbacks for free as well. The only thing a WC gets you is deployment speed.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837842

It's got 89 comments, 124 points, and it's still on the front page.
As a nice example, compare this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ifQvQCO7Y) to what shipped as Vista.

And with Courier they are not even pretending it's a real shippable product.
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The only reason Colt / Armalite isn't in the same position is probably because our military is way more active than Russia's.

It's not just our military - dozens of countries import the M-16 and it's variants from Colt or manufacturers who've licensed the IP. There is also a sizable civilian market in the U.S. for AR-15 rifles.
I was glad to read this, as it addresses questions I've had for some time. There is nothing wrong with writing to figure things out, so long as you don't expect it to persuade or interest many others (although hacker news is obviously a congenial audience for many of them).
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someone in charge there doesn't mind it so much

Maybe, but it's costing them money that could otherwise be saved. Somebody up top would probably like to see that change too.
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I would just like to note that quitting wasn't the first thing Patzer did here.He worked the two jobs. When he realized Mint was something viable, something he not just wanted to pursue but had to give 100% to, then he quit the day job.

I read the 37signals article to mean just this. Had he gotten to this point and realized Mint was an utter disaster, the idea wasn't viable, the technology wasn't there or the team wasn't working out, he had a backup.

Quitting your job isn't the first thing you should do when considering a startup. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but that's how I took it, and it just seems to be practical advice.
Thanks for the kind words. I get the data from a variety of sources:

1) I pay for some data (and it is expensive!)
2) I calculate/derive some data using existing data
3) Users have submitted some data to me directly
4) I've collected some data from open sources around the web

There aren't any/many open sports APIs because sports data is very expensive. I'm going to be launching my own sports data service in the coming weeks: http://embed.statsheet.com
I'm pretty much addicted to Dialyzer, so the possibility to refer to types defined in another module (using the syntax Module:Type()) is pretty awesome. I didn't have time to see if they made anything faster, but the release notes seem to mention nothing about SMP changes and whatnot. They fixed compiler crashes, which is good (I got a few of these errors myself... getting the vm shut down when testing stuff is not the nicest thing ever!)

Then they updated a lot of stuff, but some people reported build errors on OSX 8.5.10 relating to WxErlang. The following fix has been suggested and it seems to work: http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-programming/browse_thr...

The following patch should also be applied to reltools if you ever plan on using it: http://www.erlang.org/download/patches/otp_src_R13B02_OTP-81...
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Summary:

A lot of people don't use "svn export" and leave .svn directories readable to everyone.

The authors of the article wrote a crawler that scanned 2.2 million domains, mostly in the .ru zone, for the vulnerability over the last couple of months.

They got access to (parts of) the source code of over 3 thousand sites, including some big ones like:

* yandex.ru and rambler.ru -- Russian search engines

* mail.ru -- Biggest Russian email host

* rbk.ru -- Large online publisher

* 003.ru, bolero.ru -- Online retailers

* habrahabr.ru -- Webdev/blogging/new media community site

* opera.com
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"But as a result, you rarely read about people being shot to death on the L..."

Yeah, they are just stabbed instead and since law abiding citizens can't own guns they are helpless to stop it.
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"Companies succeed with single founders all the time. Just look at Digg..." Bad example.
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SchoolRack has been around for years and is doing ~10K daily visitors. Both of these services do a lot of what we do... We're not bitching! :) Bring on the competition! The Education space needs some attention.

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That entire article is a treasure chest, almost strikes me as he wrote it during a therapy session.
Craziness, me too. I was back home for six weeks and then this happens the day after I leave. . .
Obviously I'm biased, but Kevin had little if any vision other than finding a new job. And he was much less known then he is now, after a careful, well-crafted and expensive PR campaign. And yes, I was an "unknown coder" but also an MBA, Ph.D candidate, and I spent years haranguing the business editor of our local paper about how corrupt the news business was. Many people I respect have summed up Kevin in a single word - "shallow."

And to reiterate, elance was not involved in digg. That also was part of the PR campaign.
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Curious:

10 million server requests per day sounds kind of impressive, until you actually do the math.. divided by how much physical iron they're using, that's a little less than 9 requests per second per server.

It makes me wonder: if they were using something other than rails, would they need that much iron?
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Coincidentally, I happened to pick up an issue of "Psychology Today" while in line at the store tonight. Most of the magazine disappointingly turned out to be completely un-cited guesswork and bunkum, but it did have a headline article that applies exactly to this situation.

They claim that in human behavior, other people can be better judges of certain traits related to behavior -- like whether we come across as friendly, aloof, curt, etc. -- but the individual is more aware of things like motivations than anyone else can be. In any situation where an individual is unaware of their motivations, the best that anyone else can do is make wild guesses. The article called these "dark areas".

I can't say whether there's any actual support in research for the content of that article, but it does agree with most of the other pop-psychology garbage I've read, like "Blink".

Regardless, you and I have absolutely zero information about other people when it comes to guessing their motivations. We don't know their backgrounds, and we usually don't know them well enough to understand their personality. We certainly don't know an entire class of people well enough to tell them what their motivations are.

The best we can do is conclude that their stated motivations don't make sense given some other information about them.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but using yours and pg's justifications for this, I could tell you right now that you're defending pg out of a hidden desire to win recognition from him, since he has influence and resources. (If I were an actual real-life psychologist, I would probably also trot out some lame garbage incorporating "evolutionary psychology", and would conclude that you're behaving this way because ancient peoples who behaved this way had some kind of evolutionary advantage in the imaginary environment I've invented for them.)

You would probably object to that, and then I would grin and say, "Ah, but you don't understand your motivations as well as I do! If only you were more honest in your self-observation, you would see that I was right."

So, yes, while I agree that in some cases the stated motivations don't make sense, I disagree that we can assume that we know what the actual motivations really are -- especially without a shred of supporting evidence.

Hell, why not assume that Arrington draws fire because he's the founder and figurehead for TechCrunch, and people dislike TechCrunch because it sometimes picks on their buddies' startups? That conclusion has exactly as much supporting evidence as the one that pg drew. (None.)

Wait, I know! People actually dislike Arrington because he said he would debut a really awesome tablet PC by now, and where is it? We're all disappointed, and that's why we hate him. That conclusion, too, has exactly as much supporting evidence as yours or pg's. (...None.)

I don't dislike Arrington individually, and I don't even have a very strong opinion of TechCrunch, so I can't explain any motivation for actual hatred on my part. But, I also shouldn't think that I can explain any actual hatred on anyone else's part.
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We had something similar at Purdue. In fact, we were frequently given an example 'correct' program whose output we needed to match exactly. It took me much longer to get register assignment in my compilers' class to match the professor's results than it took me to get it 'correct'.

This gets to interfaces though. I don't know about the gp, but if the assignment specifies a particular interface then that becomes a part of the spec. It doesn't matter that you made a more advanced interface, if it doesn't match the required interface it's wrong.
Its always surprising how small a world HN seems to be, but how much globe we all cover. Wouldn't surprise me if we were on the same plane. Didn't go thru LAX did you?

I'm just glad I didn't get an extended stay courtesy of mother nature.
Good article. However, I think of the wisdom of crowds in the sense described by James Surowiecki is that the participants are acting independently. Is it true that "Crowdsourced" now means something a little different, as these are researchers that started off in separate teams and joined together later.
I've never owned a new car. In fact, most of the cars I've owned were between 5 and 10 years old when I bought them. That said, I really prefer buying off private sellers, especially when they're the ones that bought the car new. They might be pulling one over on you, but it's easier to judge the history of the car when you meet the owner, see their garage/driveway.

If you just need a car to get you from point A to point B, there's no reason a 5-year-old Honda won't work for you. Especially if you're a two-car family.

Obviously, though, there are other considerations. If you drive 50,000 miles a year for work, a new car is probably smarter. But for the average commuter, I don't think it's necessary to drop 25 large to get a reliable vehicle.
There is a flipside to this. In my country murders are the highest in the world even though we have extremely strict gun controls.

The problem is that criminals often do not follow the (gun control) laws. And it therefore gives them an advantage (since they are sure that their opponents do not have guns). What also happens is that policemen and soldiers rent their guns or sell their guns.

You should bear in mind that guns are used for less than 50% of murders. The percentages of illegal guns used for this are much lower.

What often happens is that criminals target old people in rural areas. They are often seen as soft targets since they cannot put up physical resistance and they are far from help (police, neighbours, etc…). Our neighbour was murdered with an axe and a panga. I cannot help but think that guns would equalise this situation.
I think there are a few big reasons for AK variants being more widely used than M-16 derivatives:

- 7.62x39 was made popular by the SKS and it made sense for the AK to be compatible. With that as the dominant round in many areas it makes sense to use a compatible rifle.

- The AK variants with stamped receivers are very inexpensive to manufacture.

- The gas piston system is more reliable for rifles that are not cleaned regularly.

The M-16 and derivatives are common within the US's sphere of influence though.
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Thank you for the answer. Can you give us an indication of price range, if its OK to ask?

Sometime ago (before I came across your network), I wanted to do a hobby website for cricket stats. I went hunting for the data, but all I could get was "records" data. I mailed a few cricket organizations asking for data, specifically mentioning that it was for a hobby site. They mailed back the pricing, it was prohibitively expensive, so I dropped the idea (it was for a hobby site anyway).

It would be great if your data service has an API and is affordable.

One suggestion. I don't remember seeing cricket in your network of sites, consider adding cricket. It has a hugggggggge base in Asia, Australia, and some countries in Europe (UK). Trust me, you'll gain millions of users overnight. You have to see to believe the amount of time people in the Indian subcontinent spend on cricket.
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I work on my start-up after I get home from a full days work. I've been doing this M-F for the last 6+ months, around 2 hours a night. I don't see this as work, I see it as more of a challenging hobby after I'm done work.
Still something worthy of congratulations!
Are you suggesting that planning for bad things causes them to happen? Don't you carry life insurance?
I don't think whoever owns the domain and is running the ad compaign is actually the firefox support guys. If you take a look at the source it appears they're loading sites in a frameset. So my guess is it's a referrer shop and the site they're loading will change regularly.

And I don't know why I'm saying they or shop since it's no doubt one guy collecting many small referral paychecks for a bunch of these.
You're right, I didn't understand his intentions.
Even after looking at the graphs, I find it disconcerting that our society considers something as complex and expensive as a car to be disposable after 10 years.
From the translation:

It would seem that in the XXI century is difficult to find such a vulnerability.

Do Russian speakers generally write the century in roman numerals like that? That's kind of neat..
How much development time can you afford to spend to save the cost of four or five servers?

(You can't save the sixth server if you want your site to be up while the seventh one is rebooting or being replaced.)

If the other comments are to be believed, this site was built by one person, working part-time, in four months. He can't afford to lavish time on unimportant problems, like desperately trying to conserve server resources that he could otherwise afford and that cost far less than a programmer's time is worth.
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I am charming; you are respectful; he is ingratiating. It's a loaded term, not a neutral one befitting the dispassionate pursuit of truth, aka discovery.

I found the second example of unions (the "ingratiating" one) easier to understand, because it was concrete, and therefore allowed me into the author's point of view, and had redundancy so I could easily confirm what I thought he meant.

Also, the fact that he admires courage makes me think we have similar values, and therefore, he is worth listening to. There exist extremely intelligent people who lack compassion and wisdom, i.e. foolish villains. I don't think their advice is going to be very helpful.

But the conventional behavior when meeting someone new is to act extra friendly

And now I show what sort of person I am: I read the above line and thought.. ohhhhhh... that's what I've been doing wrong (no, not sarcastic). I've also thought that people who act extra friendly on first meeting are really insincere. But sounds like it's standard communication protocol, and communication is improved by speaking a common language, so I really should start doing this. Thanks pg!
No, no, no. It's: "If you quit, I'll take you more seriously than you could possibly imagine."
It's like trying to model a random graph using a set of distinct y=f(x) functions. There will be a major f(x) that captures most of the movement of the graph, but the spikes and other weird happenings can be modelled by another function h(x), which however, does not describe the main trajectory of the initial function, because it's describing another effect.

For example f(x) could measure the success of a film based on the amount of marketing money spent on it. h(x) would describe the success based on the day that it was released. f(x) does not consider h(x), so there would be small bumps that are dependent on the day it was released. When h(x), which by itself would be a very poor predictor, seeing as it only factors in the day of the week.

But combined! They fix each other.
What a fabulous training device that could be! I hope they realize what they have, turn off the silly eye candy and program up some serious physics.
It's a lot cheaper, though, and makes a huge difference when judging people.
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They seem to have mostly avoided that, actually. There's no Firefox logo on their site, for example.
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Sounds kind of like the "Puzzle Bot" Facebook has to grade puzzle solutions to find employment candidates.
The title "Startup Metrics for Pirates" still obscures the actual value of this.
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But the app is still stuck in your list.
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Very interesting. I remember reading about this when Obama first took office, I believe. The article was discussing the painful process of updating the whitehouse home page. Apparently, any change to the page requires that the current page is saved in its entirety, archived, then a the updated page can be posted.

I've been wondering how this requirement effects Obama's web 2.0 push.
The url shown in google is a gross violation.

Mozilla could easily sue them for that alone.
I know I don't take advice from highly censorious individuals, let alone government bodies :)
It was originally built by one guy in 4 months part time, but now (according to the article) there's a "small team."

Of course, you're also totally throwing away the "new agile" platforms, like django, scala lift, and so forth.
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I developed a search engine optimization (SEO) tool targeted for non-programmers/small businesses, to help them easily analyze and improve their site for search engines. I haven't found many tools that do this (they generally seem a bit confusing), so I built an app that tries to do this in a more user-friendly fashion:

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I'd love to hear your feedback as to whether this is going in the right direction, missing some key features, or if the balance between SEO-speak/web terminology/simplicity should be tweaked. I've included explanations and links in the analysis where I thought it would be helpful, but I'm unsure of the right balance. Thanks for your thoughts!