skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me explain:

Do you know how if you read any article on the United States online today, there are people who comment "OMG Obama is causing the downfall of America"? Anytime a political topic comes up on Hacker News, someone will come out and say "OMG totalitarianism is evil." No original thought, and nothing even remotely relevant to the core issues of the topic. These morons are the same, their views come from Fox news or equivalent tripe.

This particular one was really amusing to troll; I enjoyed his Pol Pot Disneyland story. There is nothing cynical or cruel in that remark - I really do believe that (for some reasons why, this is a good place to start: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/forget.html).

"Are you suggesting that the article is wrong in stating that the Japanese believed that the Americans would treat them better if they surrendered to them rather than the Russians?"

This is exactly why these Reagan zombies are so annoying. They've managed to shift the topic of discussion from Japan's plan for a USSR-mediated peace treaty (which is actually the novel point of the article), to "OMG EVIL RUSKIES" idiocy turned "fact" turned bad cliche paid for by the CIA (http://www.amazon.com/Who-Paid-Piper-Cultural-Cold/dp/186207...). Even the topic of American vs Soviet occupation is completely bypassed - right away the discussion shifts to "collectives are evil, and fuck and downmod you if you say different". They're very effective at re-framing the discussion into something superficially similar, but really a completely unrelated, cliched trope where they know the outcome ("BUT THINK OF THE CAMBODIAN BABIES!!!"). What the fuck does Cambodia have to do with this article?

It's pointless to argue with them - the course of discussion has been tread and re-tread for over 65 years thanks to US sponsorship of right-wing think tanks, and the shape and conclusions ("OMG YOU'RE A NATIONALIST, NO WAIT, MORAL RELATIVISM IS WRONG") have already been determined and they know that. The only appropriate response is to troll and enjoy the lulz.
Besides pricing, be sure to keep in mind some of the technical limitations with Google AppEngine. Here are two serious ones:

1) Last I checked there was still no naked domain support. So if you plan on defaulting to http://mystartup.com/ instead of http://www.mystartup.com/, you might want to check if this is possible yet.

2) HTTPS support is limited to https://mystartup.appspot.com/. You CANNOT use https://www.mystartup.com/ last time I check. This is due to a technical limitation in SSL certificates that I'm not sure was considered at the time that Google designed the AppEngine architecture. There are ways around this, but it's messy and inelegant.

One of the great benefits of AppEngine is using it as a cache server, because if I remember correctly this is either free or really cheap. I forget the exact details of how we worked this out at my last startup, but it's worth looking into because using Google's global datacenters for caching is much much cheaper than paying for AWS bandwidth and you also get much lower latency times.
Moller has to be the longest running scam in history by now.
With that volcano, they've certainly got enough vespene.
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Is this available recorded somewhere for those of us who missed it?
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Beautiful. And also kind of bad-ass.
Yes, me. Been doing it for a couple of months, although I started contracting 3 months ago.

Key points:

1. It's hard. Get a calendar and worship it.

2. It works only if:

A. Your contracting is earning enough to pay the bills. Otherwise you'll be stressed beyond belief (because you'll be failing at 2 things simultaneously).

B. You force non-contract time to do startup. Doing it on the side/evenings/weekends doesn't work. I average 3-4 days a week contracting and working on startup a bit daily with guaranteed 2-3 full days a week. Yes it eats into the weekend, but you'll be 100% ok with that!

Happy to talk more if you want by email. Drop me a line.
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"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find forgiveness for people who think other people's hard work and effort are their's to take"

This, at least, is backed up by the 10 commandments.
Oh the duplicity:

"We would argue that having radio capability on cell phones and other mobile devices would be a great thing, particularly from a public safety perspective. There are few if any technologies that match the reliability of broadcast radio in terms of getting lifeline information to the masses.

So it's now about public safety. Well what is the RIAA involved then? It's a different line every time because originally they said it was "to offer more musical choice".

Total BS.
I think this is the only acquisition they have made that makes sense in retrospect.
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Fk! I was building one search engine based on BOSS! Who will going to repay my time and energy?! I hate when the big companies decide just to unplug the product or worse "it's no longer free". I feel like a full,.
In the UK at-least, there is an automatic copyright entitlement granted on anything you write / create which is deemed copyright under the limits set out in law.

"Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company creates a work. To qualify, a work should be regarded as original, and exhibit a degree of labour, skill or judgement.

Interpretation is related to the independent creation rather than the idea behind the creation. For example, your idea for a book would not itself be protected, but the actual content of a book you write would be. In other words, someone else is still entitled to write their own book around the same idea, provided they do not directly copy or adapt yours to do so.

Names, titles, short phrases and colours are not generally considered unique or substantial enough to be covered, but a creation, such as a logo, that combines these elements may be.

In short, work that expresses an idea may be protected, but not the idea behind it."

Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works License.

Copyright © The UK Copyright Service. Source:www.copyrightservice.co.uk
If you think this search gets plenty of results, try searching for "XYZ Confidential", where XYZ is a Fortune 500 corporation.
I heard flat files and binaries were intentionally bottlenecked to deter people using app engine as a binary cache/edge cache.

Do you have data/etc on the performance?
And what happens if you don't put a radio in your cellphone after it is made mandatory? Men with guns take you to jail (after due process)

If we reduce this down to its essential elements, a group of people who won businesses want to use violence in the form of the government to force other people to buy the product of their business and pay them.

This is not capitalism, this is the opposite. This is theft.

Let the free market decide. If android phones come with radios and iPhones do not, then that is the choice they get to make and their customers get to decide which they prefer.

Using congress to "mandate" things like this, is a crime. (In the moral sense if not the legal sense, though I think it is in the legal sense as well, given the constitution does not authorize this, and the constitutions authorization of congress only empowers them to carry out a limited list of enumerated powers. But then, when I point that out people seem to think that I am taking the law too literally.)
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17 Agustus, 3 Bayi Lahir di Madiun
SIAGA-BAYI : Rumah Sakit Umum daerah (RSUD) dr. Soedono, Madiun, Jatim menjadi saksi bisu kelahiran 3 bayi bertepatan dengan HUT Kemerdekaan RI ke-65.

Bayi pertama yang lahir adalah bayi perempuan, anak pertama dari pasangan suami istri (pasutri) Suwarni (29) dan Intan Yustika (31), pagi tadi pukul 05.48 WIB melalui operasi caesar. Yang kedua, bayi laki-laki, putra dari pasutri Supriyono dan Mariana Sartika Dewi, lahir pada pukul 11.49 WIB, secara normal.

Yang terakhir, adalah bayi pasutri asal Madiun yang belum diketahui identitasnya karena sang ibu masih menjalani proses persalinan dengan caesar. Dua dari ketiga bayi tersebut masih dirawat dalam inkubator di Kamar Bersalin Paviliun Merpati RSUD dr Soedono.

"Saya masuk rumah sakit sejak kemarin (16/8) dan sudah 27 jam persalinan saya secara normal belum dapat dilakukan. Akhirnya terpaksa dilakukan operasi caesar," ujar Intan Yustika yang merupakan warga Jalan Cendrawasih 49 Kota Madiun.

Bayi Intan lahir dengan berat 3,65 kilogram dan panjang 49 centimeter. Selama persalinan, Intan tidak didampingi suaminya, karena bekerja di pelayaran. Selama persalinan, Intan didampingi oleh bapak dan saudaranya.

"Meski tidak menunggui, namun suami saya sudah menyiapkan nama untuk anak pertamanya. Nama yang diberikan suami saya, adalah Rubby Aura Ramadani," ujar Intan. Berbeda dengan Mariana. Ia mengaku proses persalinannya cukup lancar dan tidak perlu operasi. Perempuan warga Desa Tempursari, Kecamatan Wungu, Kabupaten Madiun ini melahirkan bayi dengan cara normal. Bayi Mariana lahir dengan berat 3,2 kilogram dan panjang 51 centimeter. Namun, hingga kini ia belum terpikirkan nama yang pas bagi putranya.

Kepala Bidang Keperawatan RSUP dr. Soedono Madiun, Sumringah, membenarkan kelahiran ketiga bayi tersebut. Meski di antaranya dilahirkan melalui operasi, namun kelahiran bayi-bayi di tanggal 17 Agustus tersebut tidak direncanakan kelahirannya.(bnj/tsy)
I remember reading somewhere about a company that actually preferred people who wanted to work at the company as their last job before founding a startup. IIRC their reasoning was that the employee would give it their all, as a "last hurrah", and try to make a name for themselves (to the company's benefit) when they left to found their startup.

A shame I can't find the article now.
Ask HN: I built a proof of concept and now I am lost. Help?
I love food related shows and wanted a way to find restaurants featured on various shows I saw on my favorite networks. I thought this would have been done, but to my surprise no one had did it. I worked with a buddy and we pumped out famousfoodfinder.com. I didn't spend too much time focusing on a user base because I merely wanted to use the tool.

Fast forward a few months and now we are looking at a site we must maintain. The design is not pretty and could be better, BUT is it worth it? We called up the Food Network to sell them the site and they requested a business plan. I sent that in back in early July, but I haven't heard back anything yet. Is it worth it for use to redo the site in a more efficient manner or just move on to the next idea?

My biggest thing is that we could create a community, but it seems like a waste as the Food Network already gets hundreds of thousands of hits a day. Do you think a low visitor count would influence their decision to buy the tool or use us as a source? If you can't tell I am a bit scatterbrained on the whole situation and have been left here wondering what the best approach is...
That's the market at work. I'm sure Larry is not crying over this failure, and if it had been a success it would have only succeeded by spreading linux to more institutions and improving the linux marketplace, market size, etc.
Your post is remarkably obtuse. By your same logic I can say a program is not executing code, it is a series of electrons moving down different circuit paths. Also true, but such behavior can be described at a higher level as "executing code."

Take another example, your post could be considered a message, or it could just be considered electrons emanating from an LCD monitor and getting received by a brain, which in turn generates certain behaviors in a large meat machine. Also true, but your post can also be described as a message about the need for thinking about reality literally instead of abstractly in order to understand truth.

However, if we can only access truth by talking about the world literally, then no one, ever, has access to truth. Even today we cannot describe the world literally, at all. An electron is merely an abstract representation of even more fundamental quantum physic dynamics. And, who's to claim quantum physics is really at the bottom of the reality stack? For instance, we have no idea why waveforms collapse to their particular determinate. There is something even more fundamental behind this phenomena we currently have no clue about. Therefore, by your criterion for truth, everything discussed and thought about throughout history has been nothing but gibberish, including your own post.

So, clearly you do not even agree with your own claim, since you seem to think you are communicating something to us.

I call BS.
Google Maps and Google Earth were great acquisitions.
Ubuntu is such crap
Please don't confuse the US military with the US government. In the military if you can't do the job you're assigned, you get reassigned. If it doesn't do what it's supposed to do it gets axed. In the government...
It's hard even to measure the quantitative stuff now. For example, how do you perform a query like "find me 10 colleges in the west coast, that offer both a CS bachelors degree and masters, ordered by average entry SAT score"?
"Pick a company name based on URL availability."

What does everyone think of this? I cringe every time I see another company name ending in '.ly', and I think names chosen by URL availability often sound cheap rather than clever.

I'd rather go for a name I like and pick a domain of the form <name><verb>.com, but will that be bad for business?
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They will still be learning a lot about users, just not adding that to their otherwise neat idea they have about who you are. You have two identities; they can track, study and serve each one, no probs.
Basically, to open direct to reviews, you want to construct an 'itms-apps://' url.

Then, rather than setting the "check at" interval to something fixed (which also works well), you can have the app check in the background what it should do.

So you can do things like: performSelector:withObject:afterDelay with a custom message after a custom number of starts, or a minimum number of starts after the app has been used for such-and-such a long time.

At the same time, you can monitor the reviews (frequency & stars) and vary over your stats over time. Unfortunately you can't straight A/B test at the same time, as you don't know who wrote which review, but you can A/B test if you separate them by time.

Hope that helps. Feel free to contact me directly: einar@lcrnd.com
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Sweet, glad you're in. And definitely let either of us know if have any feedback. We've even been running occasional batches of usability tests, if you're open to going through the onboarding process with one of us.
"don't have any cash or, for that matter connections"

Game over. If you don't have anything of value to add, it's not going to work. It's like applying for a job but saying, "I have no skills, but can learn on the job."

"I'm of the school of thought that it's best to wait until you have a beta/MVP built and getting traction before fundraising rather than trying to get cash based on an idea."

There's a big difference between an idea and evidence that people will buy a product. If you do enough quality market research, you can demonstrate the market potential of your product. You don't have to have a beta built before you can find out information about a market. And this is where you should start, because this is something of value that you can offer if you don't have cash or the ability to code. Learn how to find and evaluate good markets. Once you've found one, get funded and hire a coder to develop the beta.

"Convincing someone to have faith in your business ability and commit to work for equity as a cofounder is the bigger challenge."

That's because it should not be based on faith. It should be based on evidence. If somehow you can present facts that prove what you are trying to sell (yourself, your idea, whatever) then you'll be off to a good start.
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Ask HN: How much data can a 5MB database store?
How much data can a 5MB database store?
Holy hell... snooping for classified data aside, searching for documents on any historically significant topic on site:mil may now be my new hobby.
I haven't browsed it in about five years, but the Google Hack Database (http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/) had a lot of these kind of things.
What a scumbag. Screw that asshat.
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The classy thing for Giz to do is donate money to a charity of the cancer survivor's choice. Without that, a public apology is just a way to generate more blog traffic.

I don't think I would have the restraint the nephew possesses. His email explaining his aunt's conditions had no hint of vengeance.
It sounds asinine since it requires the creator of documents to make the mistake in the first place, but is there possibly a useful service to be made for detecting sensitive documents of a company in a public location (public URI location, not physical location)? Is there nothing more useful than a google search? Just brainstorming.
You will need to rewrite your forum for AppEngine (or find some forum software written specifically for AppEngine).

AWS's main selling point is that you can programmaticly add and remove instances. If you are not using that, I'd consider migrating to a VPS such as slicehost or linode, where you should be able to run your forum as is.
Your code would evolve and maintain itself too, if you could afford to wait millions of years and let it randomly break for a large portion of your users.
Umm... 5MB minus database overhead?
Don't talk generalities, talk particulars. Don't say "monetization", say "I've surveyed customers and they will pay $40/month for this".
First off, thank you for making me look this up, as I now learned something new :)

If I understand this correctly, the immediate fight-or-flight response is triggered by noradrenaline, which is very similar to adrenaline but released by nerve cells directly to places all over the body, increasing blood flow and pressure, alertness, etc (but not affecting muscles). Adrenaline gets released into the blood via stimulation by the sympathetic system, but its effects last longer.

So it seems noradrenaline, by the fact that it's released directly from nerve cells, basically dictates how fast a person processes immediate external stimuli, and could possibly explain "super perception"
Review my startup idea (Media Storage)
So i know data storage is a pretty competive market and this idea is probably already done, but i'm going to ask anyway. The idea is basically offsite storage for digital media (movies, music, ebooks maybe) or any other data that
does not contain personal information. The market would be aimed at the everday consumer.
In the coming years i think that all entertainment media will be digital. Right now in a lot of household's movies are scattered on pvr's, computers, dvd's, blu-ray's.

Why do i think offsite storage (backup) for entertainment media would be useful?

Well the main reason is that people have their digital media store on many different devices
and it is up to them to backup their media. This product would allow them to store it offsite in
a central location and it could be retrieved at any time. When people replace their media devices they would not have to worry about losing the stored media on the old devices. When they hook up a new media player device to the net the could easily access their stored media.

The process could be something as simple as a web interface to download/upload their media.
Also it could include an tv/cable box application would be able to access their media online.
Maybe having something like having a user to insert their dvd's/blu-rays into a player that is
net enabled and have it upload to their offsite storage.

Thanks.
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I demand you repay my time and energy.

I refuse to repay your time and energy.
Two Rhodes scholar ex-McKinsey cofounders?
I was born in North America to a family that lived within its means, above the poverty line.

If you are like me, you were born rich.
apologize for any grammar mistakes by the way...
I don't demand anything, I just feel fucked.
The economic term of art is rent seeking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking), but as you note it comes down to "do it or we throw you in jail".

This is why I find those who both loathe "corporations" and worship the government as a means to protect us from the former to be ... out to lunch. No matter how tyrannical or whatever you might consider Steve Jobs or Balmer, they're in no position to do that to me if I refuse to buy one of their gadgets.

As for the enumerated powers of the government, I agree (except ones like us might say the Constitution is more meta-law than law), but I count our final defeat on that matter in Wickard v. Filburn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn), where in 1942 the Supremes ruled that the Federal government could prevent you from growing wheat on your own land for your own consumption, because otherwise you'd have to buy it, which effects interstate commerce.

(This is also particularly loathsome because it started in a period when the USDA calculated 1/4 of the US was malnourished as the same time it was taking a zillion actions to increase the price of food. WWII conscription confirmed the former estimate, BTW, leading to among other things the Federal school lunch program.)
Forgot about those. Don't know if Earth added anything of value but Maps, certainly. Still not a great track record overall, though.
That's not really fair because everything goes into /usr/bin in arch, they don't even have /usr/local/bin in the path ( though I'm pretty sure they do still have /bin)
Please answer me this:

Why did I not know of this website? You don't even seem to have a front page, on the link another person posted, yet when I tried your link it is easily and by far the best fare search engine I've seen. All the others are bloated, slow and plastered with ads.

Who has been doing your marketing?
The more visitors you get the better the value will be. Get yourself a small community ASAP.

Also, call more than one potential client. You could call every medium to large restaurant corporation and every good sized general or news website that wants a link bait feature.

I would also contact local newspapers and offer to make them a regional subdomain that you brand with their name and logo. Like sandiego.yourdomain.com that only shows the san diego region. Get the San Diego Union Tribune to pay you to brand that subdomain with their logo and links to other san diego stuff on their site. Do that for every region in the US, and charge a variable amount per month based on your traffic levels.

Also, release press releases. Try to get picked up by small papers. Potential clients like to see these things.

Good luck.
Haha. Who needs wikileaks?
This is a nonsense discussion. Finding a cofounder is hard because everybody is looking for a cofounder. Nobody wants to be a cofounder in a social news site like Hacker News.

Is there anybody who wants to be a cofounder?

I think a good approach to find a cofounder is to look for someone who is solving a similar problem on your startup's industry or just a similar problem in the academic field, for example.
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I think I saw a video on YouTube saying otherwise. But I may be wrong.