16:[[1557119,{"by":"lionhearted","descendants":300,"id":1557119,"kids":[1557289,1557229,1557157,1557409,1557212,1557164,1557305,1557353,1557162,1557458,1557203,1557199,1557434,1557469,1557202,1557297,1557248,1557152,1557627,1557160,1557211,1557279,1557147,1557860,1557642,1559219,1557193,1557383,1557602,1557880,1557333,1557166,1557482,1557951,1557360,1557299,1557983,1558880,1557205,1557186,1558176,1557598,1558144,1558040,1557369,1557833,1557964,1557786,1557699,1557748,1557317,1557886,1557608,1557930,1558784,1557879,1558015,1558310,1557875,1566737,1557124,1558092,1559206,1558933,1557182,1558479,1558850,1557853,1559398,1557531,1557321,1558898,1558043,1558381,1559763,1557635,1557610,1558331,1558367,1559518,1558321,1557284,1557315,1558079,1558115,1559033,1560495,1560497,1558067,1557184,1560113,1563357,1558060,1562309,1558735,1557873,1557276,1558565,1557183,1557645,1557251,1557682,1557306,1557373,1559066,1557198],"score":194,"text":"One of my favorite discussion threads of all time, on any forum, was \"Teach me and you. Give a gem\" on the Civfanatics forum. It wound up being 15 pages of insights on how to play Civilization IV well, and was really a wonderful, enjoyable, community building experience.

Here was the first post:

\"Share a \"one-liner\" simple strategy that can help beginners, seasoned players and maybe even be a gem that one of the pros can learn from.

Feel free to explain your tip, but avoid complex, in-depth strategy.\"

So, care to share a gem about technology, entrepreneurship, or general Hacker News type topics?","time":1280399058,"title":"Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.","type":"story"}],[1556986,{"by":"helwr","descendants":27,"id":1556986,"kids":[1557191,1557197,1557417,1557178,1557386,1557316,1557176,1557500,1557504,1557175],"score":68,"time":1280392510,"title":"Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (2006)","type":"story","url":"http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptable-lisp.html"}],[1554295,{"by":"physcab","descendants":69,"id":1554295,"kids":[1554445,1554380,1554446,1554462,1554452,1555255,1554738,1554461,1555277,1555470],"score":37,"text":"","time":1280324388,"title":"The Case for $320,000 Teachers","type":"story","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/business/economy/28leonhardt.html?_r=1&hp"}],[1549219,{"by":"isnoteasy","dead":true,"descendants":4,"id":1549219,"kids":[1549284],"score":2,"text":"I appreciate more negative karma than positive one, are there any other place where negative karma can be found?","time":1280177063,"title":"Ask Hn: Any place to go to find anti-karma","type":"story","url":""}],[1549134,{"by":"astrofinch","descendants":1,"id":1549134,"kids":[1549262],"score":2,"text":"","time":1280175454,"title":"Web Startup Ideas that Failed","type":"story","url":"http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/07/10-web-ideas-that-failed.html"}],[1549218,{"by":"jmillerinc","descendants":1,"id":1549218,"kids":[1549240],"score":3,"text":"","time":1280177056,"title":"Where are all the Growth Hackers?","type":"story","url":"http://startup-marketing.com/where-are-all-the-growth-hackers/"}],[1547181,{"by":"eavc","descendants":11,"id":1547181,"kids":[1547713,1547600,1548027,1549117,1549188,1547739,1550291,1547752,1548195,1547646],"score":75,"text":"","time":1280120309,"title":"Letting Go","type":"story","url":"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all"}],[1546730,{"by":"pkchen","descendants":12,"id":1546730,"kids":[1547040,1547041,1550458,1547744],"score":30,"text":"","time":1280105291,"title":"How I Became a Member of the NY Tech Community","type":"story","url":"http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/07/how-i-became-a-member-of-the-ny-tech-community/"}],[1546837,{"by":"user2newyork","descendants":49,"id":1546837,"kids":[1547241,1547278,1547806,1546936,1547212,1547046,1547266,1547001,1547282,1546980,1547150,1547482,1553930,1554392,1546964,1547219,1547087,1547784,1547247,1546986,1547231,1549246,1548271,1547172,1547047,1547703],"score":75,"text":"I built a product which company x is willing to acquire/license. From my estimations, they will be adding at least $*M to their bottom line. Company x also agreed that my estimations are reasonable and accurate. It is really glad that most arduous initial part of the initiation/demo are all done and both of us are completely upbeat about the deal. For a lot of reasons, I prefer selling out instead of releasing it to market myself - unless deal falls apart. I haven't raised any money so far.

Now, I need help in some best practices going forward. Things like, \n1. how do I come up with price tag for my product(I don't want to have them low ball or I don't want to ask really high number either). \n2. what is involved wrt legal paper work.

anything else i should watch out for in this time frame

thanks

PS: I am a regular user and contributor - I am using throwaway login just to be anonymous.","time":1280108452,"title":"Ask HN: Selling my first company - need help with the process","type":"story"}],[1546933,{"by":"tszming","descendants":45,"id":1546933,"kids":[1547067,1547038,1547121,1547082,1547030,1547032,1547464,1547011,1547056,1547211,1547242,1547604,1547668],"score":50,"text":"Interestingly these two languages are Google's official languages.","time":1280111218,"title":"Rob Pike frustrated by Java, C++ complexity","type":"story","url":"http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/354210/google_executive_frustrated_by_java_c_complexity/"}],[1545886,{"by":"MikeCapone","descendants":8,"id":1545886,"kids":[1546232,1546569,1547624,1546347],"score":11,"text":"","time":1280078757,"title":"Fight Zero-Sum Bias (possible evolutionary explanation)","type":"story","url":"http://lesswrong.com/lw/2gd/fight_zerosum_bias/"}],[1545374,{"by":"Tichy","descendants":7,"id":1545374,"kids":[1546064,1546063,1546324],"score":14,"text":"","time":1280056669,"title":"Facebook Lets Publishers Contact “Likers”","type":"story","url":"http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/07/facebook-contact-likers/"}],[1545774,{"by":"DeusExMachina","descendants":147,"id":1545774,"kids":[1545834,1545903,1546978,1546393,1546120,1546020,1546166,1545810,1546654,1545952,1546416,1546193,1546080,1546089,1545863,1545803,1547224,1545940,1546525,1547000,1545871,1545875,1546138,1548712,1546261,1546007,1545969,1546107,1546588,1546777,1546024,1547162,1557216,1548680,1545792,1546014,1546607,1546823,1546158,1546460,1546105,1546170,1546453,1545987,1545930,1546339,1546440,1546073,1545868,1548809,1561740,1545890,1546263,1551606,1546077,1546457,1546151,1546300,1546767,1546403,1546325,1547031,1545835,1546060,1545882,1547226,1547225,1546265,1546292,1545992],"score":247,"text":"$17","time":1280074997,"title":"Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?","type":"story"}],[1546062,{"by":"dgudkov","descendants":31,"id":1546062,"kids":[1546288,1546222,1546404,1546303,1546546,1546726,1547659,1546269,1547264,1546270,1546228,1546231,1546237,1546330],"score":58,"time":1280083257,"title":"Enterprise Software Is Sexy Again","type":"story","url":"http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/25/enterprise-software-is-sexy-again/"}],[1545452,{"by":"aycangulez","descendants":50,"id":1545452,"kids":[1545609,1545690,1545579,1545524,1545566,1545965,1546464,1545858,1545942,1546244,1547519,1545748,1545543,1546630,1557491,1547555,1548992,1546209],"score":210,"time":1280061448,"title":"-2000 Lines of Code (2004)","type":"story","url":"http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt"}],[1542038,{"by":"cofounder1234","descendants":11,"id":1542038,"kids":[1542095,1542539,1542102,1543156,1542549],"score":7,"text":"Hello, I'm a co-founder and am quitting my job and investing a small sum of money (≈10-20k) while we try to raise seed funding and begin proving the validity of our existing MVP product.

As part of this should the injection of cash be in exchange for equity? If we got cash from an outside source it would be - but I don't know if it typically differs since I'm one of the co-founders. Does the increased risk of leaving my job and investing some money justify additional equity?

Some additional context (not sure any of it matters).

  Startup was originally my idea\n  I have more equity atm (60/40)\n  I have a significantly better job (which I'll be leaving)\n

\nFeel free to ask any more questions :)","time":1279910330,"title":"Ask HN: Co-founder quitting job and investing $ - should I ask for more equity?","type":"story","url":""}],[1538020,{"by":"cassie","descendants":1,"id":1538020,"kids":[1542534],"score":8,"text":"$18","time":1279804998,"title":"Unhappy Programmer: Whining about Thrift and Cassandra","type":"story","url":""}],[1541327,{"by":"aristidb","descendants":18,"id":1541327,"kids":[1541339,1541658,1541701,1542665,1541785,1541568,1542527,1542283,1541537,1551319,1541538,1542513,1541513],"score":34,"text":"","time":1279897316,"title":"Big banks need IT reform almost as badly as regulatory change ","type":"story","url":"http://www.economist.com/node/16646044"}],[1542343,{"by":"10ren","descendants":12,"id":1542343,"kids":[1542615,1542668,1542565,1542551,1542503],"score":26,"time":1279917686,"title":"OCaml as a scripting language","type":"story","url":"http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/80"}],[1541795,{"by":"michael_nielsen","descendants":24,"id":1541795,"kids":[1542323,1542648,1542074,1542291,1542810,1542468,1543620,1542247,1542493],"score":54,"time":1279906020,"title":"Insufficient data","type":"story","url":"http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insufficient-data.html"}],[1539954,{"by":"maserati","descendants":8,"id":1539954,"kids":[1540099,1540125,1539959,1540108,1540119,1540005,1542005,1542476],"score":7,"text":"Here's my situation,I launched a project like six months ago and I asked some of my friends and relatives to sign up and almost half of them didn't. Everytime we met like in a party, they're just saying \"Hey how's your site? I haven't look into it yet but maybe next time.\" So I just whisper to myself \"Do they really want to or they're just bullshitting me? I thought friends and family support each other.\" Does any of you guys experience this too and what are the things you do to deal with this kind of thoughts against friends and families?","time":1279843116,"title":"Feel bad 'bout friends that didn't sign up.","type":"story","url":""}],[1541713,{"by":"fixing_bugs","descendants":3,"id":1541713,"kids":[1541864,1541748,1542460],"score":3,"text":"$19","time":1279904425,"title":"Ask HN:Is fixing real complex bugs worth less than shipping shiny new features?","type":"story","url":""}],[1540193,{"by":"fogus","descendants":48,"id":1540193,"kids":[1540448,1540258,1540464,1541107,1540669,1540382,1540376,1541094,1540600,1540286,1542235,1541749,1540569,1540615,1541058,1542333],"score":174,"time":1279853083,"title":"Peter Norvig's Library","type":"story","url":"http://books.google.com/books?uid=8640673873589796416"}]]

1.	Creating anti-karma 1 points by isnoteasy 15 years ago \| -1 comments
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user:	isnoteasy
created:	July 23, 2010
karma:	-4