skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely. It's a lot cheaper than buying them from some guy riding on your coattails a couple of years later.

If 16 bucks decides the go/no go on something like that you are probably looking at a hobby project, not a business.

One way around this problem is to have a bunch of generic domains that you do your first trials on, if you find that something 'has legs' you can always decide at that point to come up with a good name and get a complete set of domains.

It also will help to stop phishers that will use the .net or .org version of your domain in a spam campaign to tell people that their password may have been compromised and other jokes like that.
One thing worth considering is the relationship between you two, mixing friendship and business relationships can in many ways destroy you both and whatever you're building. Be sure of your roles. Be very clear with what your roles are.
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Web 0.9 was awesome.
Look at meaning #7 in the hacker dictionary

Hacker: One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of
creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.

(http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_23.html#TAG833)

I think a creative way to kill two very different birds -- the status of women, and the state of hygiene -- qualifies.
"Using Agile really doesn't guarantee you any of this. You're still very free to abandon separation of concerns and end up with a tightly coupled mess."

This is what I find usually happens with agile development. The software tends to start out small, but because it's not well thought out and because it tends to be rushed, even the small stuff becomes spaghetti startlingly quickly -- as happened on a current project, where after less than three months, we managed to cram THREE separate object models into a UI with a whopping TWO screens. (Imagine my frustration when what was six lines of code when I last worked on it now had over 500.)
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I'd rather have more modifier keys and mouse buttons or modifier mouse buttons. Instead of pinching with fingers, you could move the mouse while holding another mouse button. For three or more finger gestures, you could hold down another mouse button.
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MBlume posted the article to LW here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1b9/do_the_unlucky_systematically_un...

If you want me to say something stunningly intelligent about it, um... ah... okay, how about this:

Since we know at the start of the problem that luck in the supernatural sense doesn't really exist, we would expect people experiencing systematic exogenous runs of genuine good or bad luck to be rare in the population. But people who claim to be lucky or unlucky are much more common than that.

The next question you'd have to address is whether the people who claim to be "lucky" or "unlucky" actually seem to be experiencing more-than-chance proportions of good or bad life events, of a sort we would otherwise think of as exogenous (like falling down stairs) or partially randomness-based (like meeting a new girlfriend in a crowd). There would be a large problem of biased reporting at this point.

If so, then because we know luck doesn't really exist, we should indeed look for hidden internal characteristics to explain these runs of good or bad luck. As the saying goes, "YOU are the only common denominator in all your failed relationships."

Trying to train people to be lucky was an interesting attempt at experimental manipulation, but it's hard to untangle from the "biased reporting" hypothesis - you may just be making people think they're lucky. Still a good thing to test, though. (Possible stronger test: Train people to be "lucky in love" (that's what you tell them you're doing) and see if they become luckier in other areas too.)
He's ignoring the reality of irreducible complexity. There is not always some cute dynamic language trick to cut down the code length. Some software is inherently very large and complicated, such as pretty much anything attempting to model a reality rather than just slinging data around. Modifying such code without static typing and a compiler would be a nightmare. Maybe you could write a big program with a dynamic language and cover it with so many automated tests it would work out OK, but the size of your tests might rival whatever amount of strongly typed code you managed to eliminate.

This was the lesson of the C to C++ progression. C with all its type casting and void* simply doesn't work with big complicated programs. Same for perl & python and so on. You need as much consistency checking from the compiler as you can get.
it needs native profile emulation. say a specific application is designed to run 480x320. any higher res device would be able to run it by upscaling its output to fit its larger screen. your device would then be only able to run profiles (and applications that can run on those specific profiles) that actually fit your device specs
chrome-linux.zip contains a 532MB executable called "chrome". My guess is that this is the entire OS outside the kernel compiled into a single executable (there are a couple of libs, likely these internally rely on the library mechanism).

To use this you would need to create a disk image with a bootloader (grub), add an appropriate linux kernel (drivers?), and configure the kernel to launch "chrome" instead of initd. You might be able to cheat by starting with one of the unofficial disk images floating around the net and copying these more official looking files into it.
> Optimizing for your software project becoming big is the same as optimizing a car to hit a rock wall - you are optimizing for failure

Cars do get optimized for hitting rock walls (i.e. what happens in case of a crash).
Can we please stop using those silly names? "Painkiller vs Vitamin" is patently stupid. How about just calling the article "Tips for organizing your start-up" or something honest? If you can't get upvotes without a shitty title, you've written a shitty article.
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I think the best tutorial/framework book for building a web app from scratch is Agile Development with Rails by David Heinemeier Hansson.

If you have a Java background, you should also look into Lift/Scala. The Lift web site is found here:
http://liftweb.net/

There's an O'Reilly book on Scala which looks like a solid reference.
Yeah? Let's train people in the law of attraction and compare them to people trained to be non-supernaturally lucky, and see who gets luckier.
This was not reported very well. It does sound like suggestibility (they told them what to except, and that's what happened).

Except that other studies have shown that both the healing, and the side effects of placebos are real - patients in double blind studies had side, and positive effects, without being told what to expect.

We had a long conversation about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783912
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"Code reading requires its own set of skills, and the ability to determine which technique to use when is crucial. In this indispensable book, Diomidis Spinellis uses more than 600 real-world examples to show you how to identify good (and bad) code: how to read it, what to look for, and how to use this knowledge to improve your own code."

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Perhaps MediaWiki?
Minix, not being as 'real world' as the BSD's or Linux, is even more readable, if you're just interested in a quick glance at how an OS works.
As a corporate attorney representing entrepreneurs, I generally agree in principle with Jason’s position that it is "inappropriate and predatory" for angel groups to charge entrepreneurs fees to pitch them; however, I think it is important to distinguish among the different angel groups and their respective practices. Indeed, if (i) the fees are reasonable/de minimis and are adequately disclosed and (ii) the angel group is providing a legitimate service to entrepreneurs, there may be compelling reasons to support such a fee-based service. That’s why I have strongly recommended in a recent blog post (see http://bit.ly/hAYeu) that Jason Calacanis and John Dilts (the founder and President of Maverick Angels, LLC and an attorney) meet face-to-face and have a live debate (in the great American tradition), which can be shown on the web to all interested parties via ustream. Many thanks.
So, where did the fox go?
I had the red "renovating" banner with the paintbrush ... wish I'd known then as much as I do now about the web.
I'm not surprised... I was one of the first to get a GMail account, and I remember making about 100$ on ebay. I would have made a lot more if I had sold my invites earlier though :/.
Really mis-leading title. I was actually interested in what an article true a title like this had to say. I thought there might be a fun experiment I could perform at home to prove the point.
Is it smart to put your CEO in your ad campaign?
Thanks for these links - I figured the topic must have come up before, but couldn't Google my way to the right HN thread. Hopefully there will be a search box on this site one day.
What is up the the guy at the end with the bulging crotch?
not always. I usualy grab .com, .co.uk and .net. I get .org if I thikn in the future it might work for a organisation / charity but I dont redirect to the related site.

I dont buy misspellings usually....

What I do do though is if I think of an idea and find a good domain for it I grab the domain; I think I have around 50-80 domain names (not unique; that includes the TLD variants) sat waiting for my projects to go on them.
If you like that style of C code, Tcl's is similar (and it's not a coincidence, as Dr. Hipp is part of the Tcl core team).
The medieval artists who never signed their work would agree with you. However, our (= the modern West's) understanding of art as a form of self-expression makes the two, art and artist, inseparable.

Forgive the shallow speculation, but I can't help wondering if there's a link between your comment and the Indian background suggested by your user name. My point is that different cultures understand art differently, as they understand self differently. But I'd also bet that the modern West's conception of these things is spreading pretty rapidly everywhere. There's no modern counterpoint to it yet, only traditional ones. Probably there will be eventually.
Just use http://searchyc.com/ :)
> Github never locks you in.

That's why I started giving them money the first day they would accept it, but it's not entirely true anymore.

The wiki has been the most obvious case for a very long time now. They just need to sit down and fix that. It's rotting both in features and in the "doesn't lock you in" issue. Also, because the content only lives there, it is a bit of an issue for people who actually use the wiki (I tend to avoid it). Not to focus too much on the wiki but it's not... version controlled. sigh

Issues have an API, but not hooks, etc... If it at least had a hook, you could mirror the issue tracking off as events occur so that if you needed to, you could provide an alternate view.

Other than that I agree with you and work to keep my dependence low (and still give them money because I appreciate most of what they do): http://dustin.github.com/2009/09/06/buildbot-git.html
Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. Unfortunately I can't give a better alternative, but I've done some hacking on MediaWiki since version 1.7 and while it's some of the better examples of PHP out there, it still leaves lots to be desired in different places.
After today, maybe not so healthy.
A New Challenge to Einstein? (good discussion about that link posted yesterday)
What he said - menu's and buttons are just links and lists of links with styles applied.

If you're doing fuller apps you might want to look at Yahoo's YUI?
There's lots of legitimate ways to do SEO. Making the site more crawlable, setting up proper title tags, designing a good robots.txt, etc. Not all SEO is blackhat.
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"Overall, better agents fared better"

So no need to forget about it :), if our fate does not put us on the path to a big sugar mountain, I am sure there are other smaller sugar hills that we can find on our own :)
Semantics, yes, but also science. It comes from the same cause, the human mind, and is therefore the very same effect. If both positive and negative expectations affect us in such strong manners, why shouldn't we be honest in our semantics?

An identical study was listed here recently, one about how people who thought themselves (un)lucky would (subconsciously) behave themselves in ways to fulfill their mindset. Is that placebo or nocebo?

In my judgement, it is best to call a spade a spade: placebos, nocebos, suggestibility, hypochondria, and expectations are one in the same thing with very potent effects.
I think his health is ok. I'm worried about your sense of humour though.
Short and to the point. I really enjoy his enthusiasm.
If you are going to do something, go all the way. I can't promise that you'll succeed, but you'll be better off for recognizing the obstacles you create for yourself through doubts, the obstacles others create for you for no good reason, and for sticking to what you believe.

Bulletin board material.

Reminds me a little of what my mentor told me after accomplishing what I thought was an impossible task, "I didn't know that I couldn't do it, so I did it."
There’s nowhere to hide if your name trends on Twitter. Is there, Trafigura?
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Can network topology help us regulate systematic risk?
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Yeah, I could do a lot of fun things if I didn't have to work.
I accept the realities of placebos and nocebos. I dispute the manner and clarity in which it was described and communicated in, however.

I postulate that the recent article on luckiness is the same factor: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878039
Forget redirecting traffic - just put an invisible pixel on your site that hits the competitor. Imagine if google did this... they could kill any site!
You will enjoy "C Interfaces and Implementations", along with the full, literate source-code for LCC.

This is also good, Standard Function Library:

http://legacy.imatix.com/html/sfl/
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for an easier time, your favorite language interpreter's source code ... interpreters are easier to comprehend than compilers, since you can 'follow along' with the flow of execution in the main interpreter loop just like you're executing a program ... e.g., creating stack frames, allocating heap memory, assigning variables, etc.
Arriving at a conclusion via fallacious reasoning ought to be discouraged, no matter the truth value of that conclusion. If I ask you what 2+2 is, and you roll a die and it happens to show four dots, I'm not going to praise your arithmetic skills.
I think you tend to learn more studying badly written badly documented code. Certainly there's a lot of knowledge to be gained being able to decipher spaghetti code with no documentation. I guess it depends on your aims though.
This paper on Cisco IOS forensics http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-08/FX/Whitepaper...
seems to point out a very real business opportunity: on- demand in-depth analysis of router core files from crashes to look for network problems and intrusion/attack.
I was pretty excited for some reason, thinking that this was a method of determining whether you're getting a placebo or the real thing during double-blind medical testing.
Why doesn't google just sell them?
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Is this really doable? How can you threaten to take the prototype away?

Takeaway: http://blog.tr.im/post/159369789/tr-im-r-i-p

Riot: http://www.google.com/search?q=tr.im+shutdown

Giveback: http://blog.tr.im/post/165049236/tr-im-to-be-community-owned
Disclaimer: I have no relationship with O'Reilly. Further, I'm not myself signed up for Safari. (I have a lot of dead trees laying around.) But my recollection of comments made about it is that the overall weight of them has been positive.

Quite a few of the books mentioned are available via O'Reilly's "Safari" subscription service. It's not "cheap", but if you don't mind reading on screen, it can provide immediate access to these volumes as a group for considerably less than buying them all at once (new / latest edition, at least).

Then again, if you have access to a well stocked library or colleagues' bookshelves, better yet.

My concern with this approach, overall, is that the volume of information may be overwhelming/discouraging.
Would you recommend the qmail source as good learning material?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879101
Vitamin vs painkiller is a better analogue. Consider Facebook, it isn't really a "must have", but seems to be doing just fine
If lack of libraries was the reason for the switch, why not Clojure?
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I wish I knew of such a study. I haven't had any time to dig with lately, or I would cite it fondly. (I enjoy postulating things and then later reading a confirming study.)
Well, cars are engineered to protect the occupants from trauma if they hit a brick wall at moderate speeds, but that isn't the same thing as optimizing them for hitting walls, so the analogy doesn't do anything for me.

And likewise some software is big, period, regardless of the language used. The easiest way to measure the size of a piece of software in advance is to imagine the size of the test suite. I have a poorly thought-out idea about the minimal complexity of a software program being the complexity of the automated test suite that validates the program...

Anyways, some software is bigger than other software, but again that doesn't necessarily mean that given a large test suite to be satisfied and anticipating a larger program or collection of programs you necessarily need to discard certain tools that work well for smaller programs.

Steve Yegge made this point with a much more entertaining analogy: He talked about pushing dirt, which illustrated the fallacy with some tools that are espoused as being appropriate for large projects: namely that they are really good at solving the problems introduced by the tools themselves.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht...

My takeway from Steve's article was that if you avoided tools that introduce certain problems, you don't need other tools to solve those problems.
Might be. Extensions tend to stick around for your entire browsing session, while most userscripts are page-specific and thus are only run when a page match is encountered.
I think we need a new unit, the 'hamsterpower', for levels of energy use which are not worth thinking about. A hamster can generate about 0.15W, so rounding, I guess we could define 1 hamsterpower = 0.1W.

http://otherpower.com/hamster.html

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Science-Kids-3250/Hamster-Power.h...)
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As I understand, you are in the same market as the NCover [http://www.ncover.com] guys.

As I compare your site and NCover site, NCover site clearly stands out. Not because it is beautifully designed (it is drop dead gorgeous) but it clearly conveys why I would want the product in the first place.

The first attention grabbing line (in big, bold letters) on your page is, 'Analyze and Query Your .Net Code Using Linq'. My question, 'why would I want to do code analysis using LINQ? How does it benefit me?

Compare this to NCover site:

'Code Quality Matters and NCover helps you improve the code quality.'

As they say, don't tell me what your product can do, tell me what I can do with your product.

Your product looks interesting enough, I will download it and give it a whirl.

EDIT: You plan to charge 25$ for this product? Really? I would not set a price less than 100$ if you want to be taken seriously. Excuse me, but MS Developer landscape is nothing like the Linux land, and people will pay money if your product is good. [And if it is no good, they won't buy it at even 25$]. For comparison, NCover charges 480$ per user + 1 year subscription at 180$.
Any recommendations for good C# code? Much of the web is open source oriented so I don't hear too much about great C# code.
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You should charge a lot more than $25 per seat. Would you consider NDepend and NCover competitors? Don't charge 10% of what they're charging. Maybe 50%.
Entertaining, but completely non-sensical. How does the universe know that the agency responsible for the creation of the abhorrent Higgs boson is the LHC. This is a huge philosophical question, of what "is" the LHC.

And even more goofy, how could it sabotage plans for a collider. Surely there's no concrete path of causation for the universe to cause a collider project to be de-funded. That's just silly.
The last time this stupid analogy was used, I wrote this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499929
She's probably reading up on it.
I understand where everybody is coming from when they say that salary + 5% is very generous. Really, I do. However, I would caution OP to consider the following two (which it sounds like he has, at least for item 2 below).

First, biggest reason to go over 5-10% + market salary: if you think he will bring in that much additional money. Say you pay him $100k + 10%. Suppose your current profit is $50k / year (you said you were mildly profitable). If he ramps this profit from $50k to $200k, you're still ahead of the game. Yes, it is possible: with only 1 founder, OP is stuck doing a lot of overhead work, which would take less time of a second guy. Plus, there's:
2) The emotional support. Fresh blood can definitely help the weariness and solitude of running your own company. Sure, employee #2 may not bring in another $150k, but he could help you increase what you bring in due to more enthusiasm (and, more impt, quality of life).

If you ever want to take a vacation, you will need a second in command. Higher percentage means more (emotional) ownership, so this guy is also less likely to treat it as another job. He probably doesn't want to work for someone else ever again (a common thought), so he wants more ownership.
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Don't be evil? Google's mobile services in Africa.
A recent article in The Economist discusses several mobile services in Africa, including Google Trader, "a text-based system that matches buyers and sellers of agricultural produce and commodities [in Uganda]. Sellers send a message to say where they are and what they have to offer, which will be available to potential buyers within 30km for seven days... These services cost 110 shillings ($0.05) a time, the same as a standard text message, except for Google Trader, which costs double that. In their first five weeks the services received a total of more than 1m queries."
[http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14483848]

So it sounds like Google charges twice as much as its competitors.. just wondering why...
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