skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed this little experiment. See people talking about privacy issues in Buzz threads:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?uip=1#buzz/search/privacy
At the end of the flattr intro video, the guy says:

If you haven't guessed it, flattr is a wordplay of "flatter" and "flat rate"

I'm curious, did others think of the "flat rate fee" wordplay before he mentioned it?
I have a hetero man-crush on PG because of this interview.
This one could work. Or fail like the previous attempts.
But I do like the flat rate idea.
The only question I have: Can I give twice to the same provider? Like if I liked the video he did twice as much as another one, I would really like to be able to give him twice the money...
It might not be pornography, but it's definitely pornographic (in the same way that extreme violence and such can be pornographic.) You're not there for any sort of self-actualization; you're there, much like a circus, because it's a strange sensory experience.
Funny, I assumed it was a Death Star reference.
6. Advertise on the content network (unless doing some branding w/ display ads)

6a. Advertise on content network w/o selecting specific domain names in your niche
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I once worked for a guy who sounded like this. I can say he was absolutely brilliant and I learned a tremendous amount from him.

And at the first opportunity to come along that was marginally better, I jumped ship and took it.
I'm guessing you mean 600 in revenue, per year.
I don't know about your "social" position on the web, or better in the real world. But if you can link some known great engineers, angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, and independent journalists with non-backed (not funded only) startups, that will be great. Perhaps linking a startup with a strict small group of top people.
At the same time though he says that he is obsessively monitoring every aspect of the business.
You might find this writeup interesting, then:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/11/10/conversion-optimizer-adw...

(I really need to stop reading so much and start producing...)
Interest rates right now are not a function of saving, they are manipulated by the federal reserve. If you look at hayek's model of the business cycle you'll know that what we have going on right now is not good; primarily because we are printing money like crazy instead of letting the dollar adjust in value as it should.
I doubt it will stay that way. They'll probably release an API and let people build apps for it.
FiOS is fiber all the way, they rip out the copper that was there previously even. The costs have gotten cheaper as they scaled up, but even their initial costs were on the lowest end of the OP's estimate.
But using cat totally fucks up the calling conventions: it puts the operand as the second of many arguments. Which one of these doesn't belong?:

verb file
cat file | verb1 | verb2 | verb3
(verb1 | verb2 | verb3) < file
verb123 file

EDIT: Consider the calling conventions, which one of these handles it's arguments differently? Assume that verb123 is an equivalent to the pipeline -- the subshell+stdin construction lends itself to shell aliases:

alias verb123="(verb1 | verb2 | verb3) < "
Don't have time to find the source, but latency is comrable as well.
Is there a better metric than the "man-hour?" Maybe flow or energy?
Google makes me laugh. They want the world, they want it now, and nobody is going to get in their way. It's great!
So, in summary, the iPad is a "junky" product because Apple doesn't want to support Flash on it?

I can't help but notice that he never mentions Java applets or ActiveX even once. Maybe Apple is ahead of the curve?
We're in the process of moving from SimpleDB to MongoDB for http://www.introspectrum.com, with a bit south of 100GB of data at the moment.
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I think the missing piece to flattr (or maybe just the intro) is that content sites would probably paywall off their content to be available to only flattr subscribers.

That way to have any access to the content, you would have to put a minimum in your flattr account (maybe $15/month?). Then you could get access to this premium content and choose to "Flattr" it if you like it.

Maybe there would be different levels of flattr accounts... e.g. silver, gold, platinum at different monthly rates. And the content providers could only let gold people in one area but silver or gold people in other areas.

Dunno, just a thought...
Then the government outlaws such wireless nodes and threatens to kill off anyone who has one. The nodes broadcast their presence wirelessly so they have no difficulty tracking down the dissidents. After a few dozen people are decapitated in public, civilians become too afraid to try anything. Wireless mesh networks become a communication tool for rebels at best.

The solution is political, this is a technical workaround.
I have no idea which one doesn't belong. Is 'verb123' the moral equivalent of '(verb1 | verb2 | verb3)'? In that case, it's the first one. But that's visible from the first word on the line, so I'm still not getting the picture.

Of course, with the usual argument vs stdin conventions, either of the middle two could also be rewritten:

verb1 file | verb2 | verb3

This is probably how I'd write such a chain.
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Agreed, I wouldn't last a week. Sounds like the concept of:
Management knows everything and the employees know nothing
attitude.
Perhaps a bit too off-topic but extremely interesting.
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> Some people (especially men) act strange when they are in front of a bunch of strangers for a short period of time, with little chance of meeting them later.

I would turn that around—some animals act strange when they know they'll have to deal with the same strangers later. This strange behavior is called "society"; it is a tenuous and fragile phenomenon.
That's true for me too. I enrolled in computer engineering in university without any interest or experience whatsoever. Then I wrote a horrible mIRC script and boom, suddenly I was interested in algorithms.
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For what it is worth, it's actually fiber to the house. But good luck connecting a computer directly to that fiber.

Now, practically speaking, fiber to a gigabit network connection should be all you need, but it's practically not much of a difference from what Comcast offers in our area. It's just a marketing point.
"Local Alias" is only seen by you.
fork + 3x(fork+exec) is going to be cheaper than 4x(fork+exec), especially if cat isn't resident.

The point is a logical improvement anyway (not burying the input argument near the beginning). I'm kind of surprised that the bash folks haven't turned cat into a builtin like they did with time and some of the other coreutils.

It's too bad it's about 30 years too late to stem the tide of shit like cat -v: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
Yes, the asset bubble was a major - perhaps the primary - cause of the collapse. But what I was talking about was the failure to recover. Basically, after the crash the government had to step in and force the banks to write off their losses, stop lending to failed companies, start lending to new ones, and get the green shoots growing again. They just couldn't do it. Just why they couldn't is the subject of countless books and essays but the result is not contested - Japan needed painful, wrenching reforms, and never got them.

Risk-averseness is probably the wrong word to describe this phenomenon but I didn't know how else to put it. Basically there's a cultural tendency there to try to keep the status quo at all costs. Risk averse, resistance to change, unwillingness to step up and be the one who proclaims the nakedness of the emperor - call it what you want, but what it boils down to is they needed to make a hard decision, and in the end, couldn't. Whether or not other countries could have is a matter for further discussion!

there's more rooms being built in CRE than there are people.

CRE? I presume you mean Chinese Real Estate? Really, there's over 1.3 billion rooms being built? I'm going to need a citation for that. It seems ridiculously high and, indeed, impossible.
Yes.

"I feel that I should triple the size of the business over the next 10 years because I’m getting old. I’m a little dissatisfied we haven’t done that...".

Gee, I wonder why. I've seen companies with very lavish perks and non-micromanaged employees more than double every year they've been in business. So I'll take 300x the return over 10 years, treat my eventual employees with respect, and love my eventual wife more than my work thank you very much Mr. Grumpy Pants.
You could probably give the same person multiple slices if you like them (an integer multiple) more.
Here's a snapshot of their quarterly earnings report:

"Good morning and thank you for your interest in our company. I'm happy to announce that over the past 3 months we have seen a 5% yoy increase in Git commits and a whopping 25% increase in refactorings..."
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-stimulus-spending-con...

"Chinese Stimulus Spending Constructed An Empty City In The Middle Of Nowhere"

check out THAT housing bubble lol
This is insidious: whether intentionally or not, this guy is spouting stuff that validates and reinforces the unfounded beliefs of many (going back many centuries) that people who meet with success deserve it and people who are dealt failure must have done something wrong. Anyone who wants to believe that that's the case will latch onto this guy and say, "see? SEE?"

Unhelpful. Inevitable, probably, but unhelpful.
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Why the downmod? I'll trust the author's account of his experience using Adobe products, and the kludginess of modal dialog boxes is generally accepted, but in my opinion, he got everything else wrong. As a user gripefest about Adobe products, I'd accept it, but as a a Hacker News link, I want to see some insightful generalizations.

Also, I'll add that the first article he links to (on Aza Raskin's blog) condemns modality without sufficient feedback and explains how hidden state causes users to make dangerous errors. How that applies to modal dialog boxes is not explained. Modal dialog boxes, if anything, rub the user's nose in the application state. If he had taken Aza Raskin's warnings about hidden state to heart, he would have known what's wrong with allowing users to suppress error messages about missing or invalid data.

(His suggestions would be acceptable in an IDE, but in a commercial application for non-programmers... he shouldn't be so sure the modal dialog isn't the best solution. Putting error messages in a status bar or other predictable place might be acceptable, but only if it's impossible for the user not to notice that something is wrong.

(Programmers, probably because of ego or professional pride, tend to take a lot more responsibility for their usage errors than non-programmers. Not coincidentally, they tend to design UIs that cause non-programmers grief. Annoyed users are better than users going through the stages of grief, because when they get to Anger it's going to be directed at you.)

The second post he links to is just a list of ways modal dialog boxes can be abused or done poorly. For example, modal dialogs may contain poorly formatted text, or have redundant buttons, or poorly labeled buttons, or buttons that appear active but really aren't. They may have error messages that can't be copy and pasted. In other words, it's just a checklist of mistakes programmers should avoid when writing dialog boxes. Most apply to GUI widgets of any kind (poorly formatted text? c'mon) and only a few apply specifically to modal dialogs.

So where's the beef? I've written and deployed GUI applications to real users, and I was hoping to see something here I could make use of in the future.
rmdir -p might be a bit safer, but it can get greedy and remove all the way up to root if you specify an absolute path.
Definitely agree with the last part, especially since the penalty of inevitable scalability problems will probably be something like jail or maybe even death?
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Jeez. Back in my day, movies were ~700MB. That way we could put them on these things called CDs. Ever hear of CDs? Damn kids.
I hear this guy is in the short list for the Ebenezer Scrooge award.
Google is going to have to build (or outsource) a lot of what Verizon already has. He may be considering those costs when he does the per household numbers. Consider that Verizon has an army of trained field technicians, fiber trucks, call centers, easement rights, and so forth.
Three years into studying Chinese and noting her non-technical background, I think I disagree. I think it's a great metaphor.

The strength of the comparison doesn't come from the need for persistence, which is truly critical to either undertaking, but instead the kind of mental reformatting that needs to go on before either mode of expression is going to make sense.

I liked her bopomofo example because it highlights the fact that there is a level below programming can even begin --- it's the level that "your grandmother" can't even see --- and if you think you can just dive into an intro to Python (sorry Mark Pilgrim) and hope you'll be sadly, sadly mistaken.

Both endeavors require a great deal of tedious study of minor detail. You need to unlearn a lot and relearn it more generally. You can't program if the idea that computers run instructions isn't implicit; you can't speak Mandarin if you don't speak and hear tones without thinking twice.
This is the problem with going public. You are dictated by the street and its short term goals. The street has no vision. And this sucks because they hold the power? (Steve Jobs gets a little leeway because hes proven over and over again.) Investors can vote out board members if they think this is stupid right? And board members out of fear can fire the visionaries. By going public google's balls are in the grip of the street and at its whim? I never plan on going public for this reason, but enlighten me if I'm wrong. To me it seems like "don't be evil"/visionary and being a public company can't go hand in hand.
The analogy at the top is flawed. The 7-year old has zero opportunity cost. His time is worthless. If you have a great idea, but also the burden of supporting a family, holding down a day job, or whatever, hiring somebody to build your idea might make good sense.
I'm wondering how they'll deal with the existing telecoms also. They enjoy a nice monopoly generally and I don't think they're going to give it up too easily.
It's a big difference because Comcast caps your speed. For FiOS there's an ethernet cable coming out of the box that the fiber cable goes into and it only goes as fast as you pay for, topping out at 50Mbps (for $145/mo). Apparently Google will support gigabit ethernet at uncapped speeds. Huge upgrade.
Interesting that I can see this, which I suppose is your point. I liked this comment: "Why use FB if I can import all my friends and stop visiting the site and its shitty, never ending stream of Farmville or whatever other moron game is currently in vogue."

That's why there is space to compete with Facebook.

P.S. I like too that Google Buzz posts can be edited, as posts can be edited here (for a time).

P.P.S. AFTER EDIT: I see Google Buzz is actually less usable than Facebook, by quite a lot, in setting up particular groups of friends to see messages that are not world-viewable. There is a lot of battling back and forth among feature sets. I like that Buzz posts are editable. I like that a lot. But Buzz still needs work in other aspects of the user experience.
Sounds like this guy's model is very similar to my first employer on my career path, which I shall not name. This company's specialty was retaining "B" grade talent and motivating them with fear. Oh, and screwing vendors too. The company made the founder a household name and fabulously wealthy.
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Maybe the extra cost is in buying off the incumbent telecoms. Or getting around them. Just speculating.
> The developers wanted to be able to get to known state for compiling, Visual Studio and anything else they were using went in to CVS

That sounds like how Vesta works: http://www.vestasys.org/why-vesta.html (item 3)
Andrew: I love your "Home of the ambitious Upstart" along with a great deal of praise for your interviewing style. I look forward to being a success and doing an interview with you.

Paul: Thanks for taking the time to do this interview. I really enjoyed meeting you in video form and hope that we can chat sometime. I love HN and thanks for investing your time in this "time sink" (as you described it). I for one spend a lot of time thinking about YC, even though I am way too busy making Gridspy work to come out and do a YC round.
And it's not a new phenomenon[1], but it might be the first time it's backfired.

[1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2C+facebook+login
Kudos to interviewer Kermit Pattison for letting this penny ante Gordon Gekko speak so clearly in his own words.

This is actually a good lesson in marketing. Everything he says recasts the situation in terms of a problem that management consulting can fix with simple solutions.

It's not the recession, it's poor salesmanship. A problem that can be solved by a consultant. A massive pan-industry collapse in sales, inventory, credit, and utilization could not be fixed by three ring binders and training classes.

Lack of vendor financing. A problem that can be solved by a consultant tightening the screws, backed up by a long list of companies that were helped. This is survivor bias. The successes are selected for companies whose vendors are idiotic enough to finance their customers AND lucky enough to survive the folly. It also relies on the presence of other parties who are willing to buy mis-rated bonds and do factoring (loaning against small business receivables). Both of these are being choked off, and may well come to an apocalyptic end as the financial collapse continues. Whereupon all his "saved" clients will blow up.

"Getting good people is 100 times more difficult than conventional wisdom says. The fact is, you’re going to deal with a lot of mediocre people, no matter how hard you try." In other words, your employees are sabotaging your company, because all employees do this. The only solution is new management policies.

Fear is the best motivator. Soliders have a word for leaders like this. Fragged.
Government-issued monopolies. This is terrible stick to try to bludgeon markets with; there's hardly a market to be found.
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Don't get me wrong, but, are you someone from the marketing "department", or something like that?
Does anyone still uses myspace ?
I agree that people argue that democracies are more stable (though usually they just assume it), but the lists of unstable democracies and stable autocracies are both incredibly long. At the very best, there may be a rough correlation between stability and democracy; I rather suspect an anti-correlation, but in any case I don't see anything that would justify the blithe yet pervasive confidence of democratic stability exemplified by the assertion quoted in my original comment.
who wants to be captain of a sinking ship?
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The piece this is missing (at least in the presentation) is that this concept needs to make it simple for people to find other people like the ones they want to contribute to. Similar to Amazon's "Other people who purchased this also purchased..."
It's funny that the first thing people ask is how to turn it off. If you are reading these comments only opposed to reading the entire article, then you can just goto the bottom of the page and under gmail views there is a link to turn it off. Seemingly simple, but very obscure location.
He's not only an asshole, but he wrote a book about why everyone else should be one. I don't even know if there's a name for someone who takes it to that level.
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The firehose?

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google's got the cash.

i put forth my neighborhood as a potential test candidate... pretty sure we're not gonna win tho.
I do this a lot, and I've never used "--line-buffered", nor apparently needed it. Google shows me a lot of people using that as a solution to a problem (not getting results immediately) I've never seen. Weird.
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They already do, and have for years. Have Facebook open in a tab anywhere? They know.
"Management Consultant".
I think it was jwz who said something like "every program expands until it can read email" (I'm sure I'm butchering it).
sadly, countries like China has a tight radio/broadcast/wireless control policy. You have to apply for expensive license from government even for a freaking satellite TV receiver
I think that is an important strength in any successful entrepreneur, leader or manager.

I love the whole "hire experts and get out of the way" approach to team building.
I started with http://monotone.ca/monotone.html#Concepts . Git and Mercurial took the same basic history structure and offer roughly the same abilities, but don't make such extensive use of certificates and have slightly different concepts of what a "branch" actually is and how branches relate to repositories and working copies.
As far as I know Larry and Sergey own a controlling interest in Google. Not a majority interest, but they own most of the controlling stock. So I think they can basically do what they want.
I thought it would be a more obvious question, but how do you think this will affect the other big messenger clients/protocols? MSN/YIM/AIM/GTalk ?

I already noticed a trend in which a large portion of my friends will use facebook chat now and not even bother to login to MSN Messenger (which is the most popular client in my geographical area).
Pretty much just contracts for the firehouse. And the revenue was for a portion of 2009.

Anybody who was building something around Twitter, and was thinking they might open up the firehouse for free ... oops
Has the AJAX-based chat built into the web application ever been encrypted?
I don't think it costs that much in terms of paying the municipality to lay a new set of cables. I'd guess most cities would be happy to have you. But it is expensive. Digging a trench to the house, installing the wire, filling the trench back up, you gotta pay someone for that. And you have to pay the crews that lay the wire. Then you have to pay people to block the street, probably there is some fee to the police involved. Of course this does not even count peering costs and the cost of people to manage and maintain the network. I'd not be surprised if the labor costs were in the hundreds of dollars per house, and much larger for the street portion of the laying.
When you're trying to displace a competitor that has a complete hold on the market, it's not enough to have something with a few added features (mathematically expressed as x + 1), you need to have a revolutionary product (x^2).
I'm not sure that this applies here, though. Facebook is ideally suited to hosting "proper" instant messaging, because it has the added bonus of automatically managing the roster list. I don't need to add anyone, my friends are already all on there. That's a massive bonus over any other instant messenger for many, many people.