skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that this fear of failure is one of many issues with the lack of Entrepreneurs in Japan, but cannot by a long-shot be called the sole reason. And that is not to say that Entrepreneurs are non-existent in Japan, or even as rare as the article states.

I also see a lot of Entrepreneurs making it big in Japan (I live near a tech incubator that is now 30%(?) iphone application companies, and the companies there are doing very well. The largest web-design company in my tri-prefecture area was started by an Entrepreneur.

In addition, I think of companies like Gree, Mobage (which just got purchased by Yahoo) and other startups who are making it big right now.

Another thing to consider is the size of the market. The Japanese market is a fraction of the English-speaking market, so even if a start-up does hit it big, they are pulling from a smaller pool of possible income. This might be another reason (no big dividends) why the Japanese are less reluctant to become an Entrepreneur rather than work at a company and have (fairly) stable job security.

>>So if the business fails, they lose their house; their savings; practically everything they have. What’s worse: the Japanese and German entrepreneurs may also face criminal penalties and go to jail.

I'm curious about this. Someone I know was an entrepreneur who recently went under. He's now happily working on his next project, and has no criminal penalties, and other than losing the building and land for the offices he had built, suffered no life-altering penalties.

At the risk of sounding Wikipedian: [citation needed]
How is the pricing difference for a dedicated server and EC2 5 times? Maybe if you only look at the physical hardware cost, but often that is the smaller component. You are comparing a capital asset with both fixed and variable cost components to a fixed-cost per-hour lease of resource.
as linked below, http://www.rabidgremlin.com/fbprivacy/ will give your FB id.
I've found that there is a significant lack of quality, tech business startup podcasts. I think a lot of it has to do with folks just being so busy.

I've tried to get into This Week In Startups but I usually just pick-and-choose the good guests to download once in a while.

I've often thought that I'd like to make a podcast where every week, a new topic is outlined. From accounting to HR to ideas and well beyond, pick one topic every week and assemble conference segments that revolve around the topic. Licensing and distribution rights would certainly be a challenge, but imagine having a cross-conference view of a single topic. Build episodes into a linear "course" of startup topics and I bet you'd really have something.

I listen to these regularly. I think they're all quite good. Generally, I don't listen to podcasts to solve a problem. I use them to expand my knowledge and open my mind to new ideas. With that in mind, here is my list:

Harvard Business Review IdeaCast
http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/ideacast

TedTalks
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TEDTalks_video

The 37Signals Podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals_podcast

Help! My Business Sucks (give this upbeat Brit a chance, he has some good ideas)
http://helpmybusiness.com/feed/

They took down the Apple Podcast, but you can stream Brain Brew Radio:
http://brainbrewradio.com/
Ah, I was merely commenting on the format of the story. It wasn't HARD to get this list, but it was non-trivial.
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The blog post and his comment have nothing to do with backups. They point out the flexibility and human readability of text files, as they are used in numerous different formats (xml, yaml, html, ics, csv, sql, etc etc etc) which can be easily parsed.

Binary data isn't as easily human readable or parsable. Images can be stored in text when base64 encoded, or when a text-based image format is used, such as XPM (old hackers may remember using vi as their X11 image editor of choice, back in the day) and SVG.
OTOH, they may not actually care what your name is; it's probably less uniquely identifying than your FB ID.
International standards
now adjust for purchasing power parity
I also wish that when they do these "The problem with Japan" articles, that they actually interview someone Japanese.

While I'm sure that Jeff Char is an amazing man, and has done great things for tech incubation in Japan -- I would like to know what problems the Japanese feel they have with Entrepreneurship.
Is that what's happening? It seems like in this case it's the content provider who's blocking access based on ISP. Would any net neutrality law protect against this? Should it?
I have been wanting this for a while too. Google used to be like that back in early 2000s - tech stuff dominated the rankng. Now it's very mainstream stuff.
The Wire is, in my opinion, the best show in the history of television (or at least of what I've seen). The Wire seems to have received a lot of critical acclaim and a cult following, especially after its end. Too bad it never got the popularity it deserved when comparing it to The Sopranos. Although I like The Sopranos, I think The Wire brought a lot more to the table in terms of writing, gritty realism, and pure entertainment.
Their information architecture is a little odd too. Back when I was looking at their jobs a year or two ago, they had a Jobs page from 2002 still up on their site with an old school design. I just checked back, and it finally redirects to their Careers page, which is on a separate domain. It seems to me that they've kind of cobbled things together as they've moved forward.

There may be some SEO value from keeping all of the sites on the go.com domain, but that doesn't really seem to explain it. My best guess is that if they changed it, it would break something.
Andrew Warner has excellent material on Mixergy.com! Great interviews, roughly 1-hour in length... and he asks the tough questions (revenue, models, etc.), too!
It does not matter how you are withdrawing the money, in a salary form or dividend, it will be taxed anyway, given that what is the point of all that operation, if by the end of the day you are paying taxes for that income.
Also interesting would be to get an idea of what percentage of people who get accepted into YC participate actively on HN.
I don't know about the paycheck type scheme, but perhaps a growing grant for college based on your grades throughout your school career.

Could be done using game dynamics and you earn points based on your work then at the end of high school you can convert those points into paid credit hours.
Totally. As important as logging is to profiling and debugging a system, collecting metrics is invaluable for keeping a system running. Being alerted to potential (or actual) problems can allow an admin to respond to them effectively, rather than trying to patch things together after it's hit the fan.
This is old school portal logic. money.cnn.com animal.discovery.com

Go.com email shut down earlier this year, btw - http://go.com/mail/help
I don't know why you were down-voted, but I agree with what you seem to _mean_ even though your use of strong rhetoric distracts from your point.

The trouble is one can define "institutionalized theft" as either widespread "illegal" sharing (as you do), or as "unjust" laws preventing sharing, but not both. More accurately, the former is the masses breaking the laws, so only the latter actually qualifies as institutionalized. Though "institutionalized" was a poor choice of words, I see no merit in rehashing the tired debate over the term "theft" versus the more legally correct "copyright infringement." --Either way, I still get what you mean.

Both of us value good work and believe the worker should be rewarded.

A functional marketplace can be simply defined as paying someone else to do something you are unable or unwilling to do yourself. There is usually a level where it makes more sense to pay someone else to provide for a particular need. Those who specialize in providing for a particular type of need, gain advantages (expertise, resources, tooling, scale, ...), and can therefore sell for far less than it would normally cost others who don't have the advantage of specialization.

The most important thing to realize is both "theft" and "monopoly" are deterrents to a fair and functional marketplace. Yes, I intentionally put "monopoly" in quotes because it is admittedly equally strong rhetoric as "theft" but I simply could not think of an better word.

When one gets to the point of being able to admit both theft and monopoly are bad for markets, the very nature of the discussion changes dramatically; The question becomes, "How do we reward good work?"

I'll be the first to admit any attempt to address the root cause will be exceedingly difficult. Additionally, we will most likely fail at completely eradicating theft and completely eradicating monopoly, but one needs to maintain an overly-optimistic view order to find a better solution to an unsolvable problem.

I think you're a bright person and level headed, but if you'd rather not discuss this issue publicly, I completely understand. Like myself, I'd bet you have close friends or partners with vested interests in the status quo, and any public mention of change will undoubtedly piss them off. I like to think I'm very lucky in that my friends trust me to be fair minded even when the don't like me questioning the most difficult things. --maybe off-list?
The reason I mentioned a GPL project specifically is that that would be competing directly with the BSD project for the hearts and minds of the open source community. For some people I think that would be harder to swallow than say Microsoft using the code in Windows.
I guess this explains the explosion of "48 hour" apps popping up recently and making me feel incompetent. Some very, very nice work in there, and some I'm insanely jealous someone else got to make before I did (like newspaper.ly).

Thanks for this :).
mightnt be such a bad idea with the world over populated and such...
Kieran Duffey
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
http://kieranduffey.inube.com/
oh its superior alright - they managed to out compete google even before google entered to compete :)
Ask HN: What would you do with massive, cheap incoming bandwidth?
I work for a site that uses a terrifyingly huge amount of outgoing bandwidth. The thing is, bandwidth purchased at this scale is symmetrical, so we are only using 1% of the incoming bandwidth that we have access to.

If someone has a great business idea for how to take advantage of that inexpensive incoming bandwidth (remote backups?) this could be a decent opportunity. Could be a new or existing business.

For the record I'm not actually in a position to make business deals but I can certainly get the right people in touch.
Interesting, I've been working on a similar idea but different implementation. Out of curiosity, how do you select the summary content for a URL? That can be a problem.

For example, I tested tldr.it on a recent HN submission, Programmers: How to Make the Systems Guys Love You (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800839), and it seems to select the first paragraph or so of the article (depending on whether you select the short, medium, or long tldr).

However, so many authors these days start out with a long, rambling preamble, instead of the venerable Who/What/When/Where/(Why|How), that the first few paragraphs don't necessarily provide a real tldr-type summary.

Which is the case with that particular article - the first few paragraphs don't help me decide whether to read it or not, and the entire article is quite long, with some good nuggets further down in it.
But wouldn't "open standards" help in that situation? You could tell the auditors: "Sure we're a small company, but if we fail it won't put your business at risk because you'd be be able to swap it out with anything else complying to XYZ standard."
Do you want to talk about the summarisation algorithm at all? I wrote a little blog post about a trivial extractive summarisation system a while ago ( http://honnibal.wordpress.com/ ), and there's a long literature on summarisation in NLP. A lot of the techniques are a bit computationally costly and complicated to be practical, though. Meanwhile abstractive summarisation still hasn't properly gotten off the ground.
My oh my, without weighing in on the state of climate science or the use of Word Art for blog images, this line is a real screamer:

"Poll after poll has shown that almost 100% of climate scientists accept the evidence of climate change and believe we're the main cause"

Let me see : 100% of the people employed in a field agree that the field is important? Obviously there is so much bias in that I'm surprised anyone would make such a statement.

Let me restate : 100% of butchers agree that being a vegetarian is not good for you.

It's interesting, though, the HN crowd rarely gets into arguments over CC/AGW anymore. I guess it's already been said and there's nothing new.
Perhaps most interestingly, T-Mobile wrote that its network has come under significant strain from Apple's iPhone. ... USA Today in 2009 reported--citing unnamed sources--that T-Mobile had 300,000 unlocked iPhones running on its network.
You may give http://www.plre.org/ or http://www.cdiggins.com/search/ a try to see if it helps.

From the second link:
"(PLRE.org) is a custom search engine created using the Google co-op service.

The PLRE is designed primarily for researchers, students, language designers, and language implementers who need reputable sources for advanced or esoteric information pertaining to programming languages. This site has a heavy emphasis on advanced topics in programming language theory, but can be useful to find languages with particular features."
I extract it using a pretty clever algorithm then run it through a few things to summarize it. The extraction is nowhere near perfect; it performs best on the major news sites thus far. I didn't really have time to polish it as much as I'd like, but it seems to work well especially on FOXNews and NYTimes (and Blogspot articles).
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logicalstack's comment still makes sense if you interpret downtime to mean what you've just explained. Here are some ways that good systems guys fill their time in between deployments and triaging problems:

1. Reading security bulletins and proactively trying to determine if systems are affected and what to do about it.

2. Reading about upcoming hardware and software so that they can plan the best platforms to deploy applications to.

3. Auditing applications for various problems.

4. Doing routine testing of the validity of backups and how easily they might be restored.

I upvoted logicalstack back to 0 because he might have implied that if your systems guys are reading Hacker News all day and commenting on threads about TechCrunch articles, they might have better places to spend their reading time. Believe it or not, there really are systems guys that have their hands full doing real work and don't just sit back in their chair surfing the net and playing video games.
Well unfortunately I'm not doing much on my end at this point. I do a few small things and then let libots do most of the work. One of my last iteration items was to put some of my own summarization work into it and let libots be less of a player, but obviously with 48 hours, I had to prioritize.

I invested most of my cleverness in actually getting the content out of the page since that's really where the money is for an MVP for this; no content == no summary. :)
The other little nugget in there is 'but your less-knowledgeable partner'.

The intent here is that disagreement is a sign of stupidity. It's the unmistakable mark of a closed mind heading down the avenue of groupthink. Whether you agree with everything about climate change or not, you would have to agree that dismissing your opponents views as 'less knowleadgeable' is disengenious and shows a dogmatic love of position rather than a desire to increase knowledge. I appreciate this works both ways, but it's a feature of the 'debate' nowadays - the entire process is so full of dogmatic positions it's hard to be clear of where anything is.

Science is a weighing machine and not a voting machine. Consensus matters for very little, results matter a lot.
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Apple's Steve Jobs pings Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg for dinner
http://graph.facebook.com/<user_id>;
I actually see quite a bit of the same mentality here. Anything deviated from the main stream of the latest fad will get downvoted. There's little appreciation of diverged opinions or opposite views.
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My site provides eot, woff, ttf, and svg versions of the font...
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I reworked the copy in the main section, hope that clarifies some confusion. I'll continue working on the copy to sell the benefits, thanks everyone!
A mortgage broker can advertise its loans on an article about mortgage rates, and readers were more likely to click on an accompanying ad. The same applies for an immigration lawyer who bought space on a piece about immigration policy.

“I think that this runs counter to a lot of the conventional wisdom in the industry, and it was a bit of a surprise,” said Tim Ruder, Perfect Market’s chief revenue officer.

Makes me wonder why the conventional wisdom was so. Intuitively, relevant ads is what makes sense. Aren't relevant ads the whole strategy behind adsense?
We don't have to wait for outer space:

http://seasteading.org

They are staffed by former Googlers with $500k from Peter Thiel, and have already put some technically sophisticated plans online:

http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/book_beta/index.html
You don't need to be a HN'er to follow a link from HN to somewhere and start making a jerk of yourself. I don't see any proof that these people are 'HN'ers' other than that they are able to follow a link. They're just jerks, the kind that infest each and every place on the web where more than 10 people gather in order to spoil the mood.
I've got one for you. Sometimes he'd write about tech that was twisted enough to raise a few eyebrows and bring a chuckle or two. I was surprised to see this on pbs:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20050414_0008...
“Economic espionage charges are also pending against Jin Hanjuan, a software engineer for Motorola, who was arrested with a laptop full of company documents while boarding a plane for China, prosecutors said.”

Not sure how this case ends, but it seems basically you cannot go there with any company documents. Emmm, interesting. How do you do business then?
The search function does not work for me. I typed in 'Baltimore' and received zero results. But when I browsed the listings I came upon Beehive Baltimore ( http://desksnear.me/workplaces/32-beehive-baltimore).
This a pretty awesome project for 48 hours! And reading through the comments, I love that you're replying to so many. Keep it up :)
What?!? Try 2007!
We had some of these at the National Bureau of Standards, where I interned. Someone had to give up an office, for the laser printer.

There were some games on the disks we got from PARC, among them a BreakOut clone written in SmallTalk. You could break into the SM interpreter, get a listener, and start hacking away. I think the BYTE issue on Smalltalk had just come out; we were Very Happy until the Altos went away.

I still have my RK05 disk pack. Nothing to mount it on now except a wall. :-/
You'll never get people to change behaviors that you accept as a 'fact of life.'
i use an ipad.
LOL! No, of course not! You can comply with whatever standards you like for data coming in and data going out but it's what you do with it in the middle that's what an application does.

More to the world than webservers you know...
>what do you mean "tightly coupled with the app itself"?

I mean that the developer needs to set up rules for what gets displayed for the A/B test and then track the results. I guess you could create some kind of API they could hook into for this.

I may not notice replies here, so feel free to email me about this (email in profile).
how about datamining services? lots of data goes in, only aggregated data goes out (much smaller)
change the url to see what others have summarized.

odd content...
Isn't incoming bandwidth usually very cheap anyway? The problem is that you have to either store it or transfer it back out, which are both more expensive.
Thanks, we're pretty stoked about all the feedback we're getting.
I've been up for about 24 hours now, and even though I was exhausted from all the coding, I'm feeling great now!
Yep (although I'm back in Canada for a while now). maxklein is also doing his startup in China.

IMO, Youku's most obvious competitive advantage is that they undergo almost no pressure from copyright holders. There are tons of full movies available on Youku and I highly doubt they have licensing partnership like Hulu does.
17% of people who've applied for w2011 have over 100 karma:

> (let ids (applicant-ids "w2011")
(percent (/ (count [> (uvar _ karma) 100] ids)
(len ids))))
17

6% have over 1000 karma.
Go get GoodReader. It is a much better PDF reader than the built-in app on iOS devices, makes cropping out PDF whitespace easy, has support for annotation & highlighting, and can load PDFs straight off of Dropbox.
Rapleaf has posted a response here:

http://blog.rapleaf.com/referrer-urls-and-privacy-risks/

Though it doesn't seem to explain the details of what happened. It would have been useful for them to include the specifics of what occurred and exactly what data was erroneously transmitted to whom (a la Foursquare's post-mortem from a week or two ago.) This could be as valuable a lesson for system architects as the 4sq one was.
Yes, much better to just handwave; that'll show you have it all together.

You're seriously arguing against having somebody actually code in their interview? I'm not saying it has to be the entire interview, but how incredibly crazy is it to actively argue against the idea that maybe you, as the interviewee, might want to actually show you can do what you say you can do?

Besides, I find myself questioning if you've been on the interviewer side of very many interviews. Finding people who can slurp a file in at all is a damn good start, unfortunately.

Then again, I know I do this really whacky thing where my interview isn't set in stone, but I actually react to the skills demonstrated on the other end of the table. Believe me, if somebody walks in sporting a laptop I'll customize something up for them to show me out of my base set of questions. It would hardly be any different than what I do anyhow.
i disagree with the premise that the only motivation people have is personal greed.

I disagree with the depiction of taxation is a mugging, even libertarians want government when push comes to shove. Afghanistan is what it's like with no real government, and no one is for that. Even libertarians want the government to put a gun to your head to enforce contract law!
Most of the games which left me a great impression were of a now-dwindling genre (adventure games). I personally hold The Longest Journey ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Journey ) as its apex.
Do you think that maybe the documents Jin had was perhaps confidential information that was not supposed to leave the office without permission?

I'm sure ordinary businessmen don't need to take reams of confidential information with them unless they are actually selling it - legally or illegally.