skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just not necessarily true. There are plenty of situations where there are natural limits to the consumption of whatever is being provided. Unlimited local calling. Unlimited tap water. Unlimited Chinese buffet. The average consumption of your customers is much more important than the consumption of your single largest customer in many (not all) cases. The one guy who comes in and eats 14 plates of buffet food does not change the profitability of the enterprise.
As founder and CEO, the point at which you call it quits should be the point at which the company officially declares bankruptcy. That's your duty as CEO.
Well there are two ways this someone else can kick me out.

1. We have some advisors/extremely-early-investors so any two parties that band up together, have the majority share and can throw the third party out.

2. This someone else has been footing a lot of the bills for the startup because they could take on other projects while I worked on the product. Because the we agreed to mostly split the bills halfsies and I didn't have the money, the other cofounder payed for me and now I owe him the money. He is now requesting I vouch for it with a big enough share of the company so he'd hold the majority share.

Also, as mentioned, we're both in the company on a reverse vesting thing - this is so when problems occur, people can be thrown out without taking half the company with them (ie. better for the company, not for the persons)

And that's basically how someone else has the ability to kick me out.
Except there is no content AT ALL.

If I were going to build that, I would have built the framework then gone out and paid a bunch of mechanical turks to populate it with content - by paying them to email all the prospective ads on CL, like housing, and asking them permission to also post the ad to global community

Then also paying them to advertise the site...

and do the same with international curation of content.

I would also have them actively deleting the content I am seeing which is "work from home" "get rich quick" spam.
Where I click on a screen, and what I click on, is not my data?
Unfortunately, for a lot of us working in locked down environments, this code makes use of the py-bcrypt module which uses the bcrypt C implementation. If you're running on GAE, you're out of luck. I keep telling myself to port to pure Python, but haven't had time. Anyone interested?
Why Foursquare deserved just a...Meh
Some great responses here. I’m naturally biased but would strongly suggest you give Flippa a try if you’re looking for a swift and low friction sale. Appreciate you’re strapped so if you’re interested, set up an account and send it via dm @flippa on twitter or contact our support team and we’ll waive your listing/feature fees to get you rolling.
Senior News Corp Exec Says Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Is A Goner
"Bi" and "Queer" have very different implications, as I understand it.
Who has final say in the matter? If both of you have even voting power than you need to figure out what each of you want.

You seem to want to stay in the startup.

Your cofounder wants you out.

This is where you start. Maybe you leave taking a percentage of equity with you. Or investigate vesting options where you immediately vest and step down to another role.
What do you suppose google does when they are faced with a novel query and their algorithm returns 10 equally good results as matches? At that point you might as well provide a whole bunch of users some permutation of the matches and take into account which links are clicked on the most. This is exactly what bing is doing and if you crawl the web then you will indeed end up with google's database, the only difference will be how you rank results.
I think the uncertainties inherent in writing software that depends on many other complex libraries/frameworks will tend to discourage strong liability for bugs. The average Win32 program or Java web app has a dizzying list of dependencies and it would be impossible for the programmer sitting on top of that software stack to make any guarantees about the stuff underneath.

In certain highly restricted domains (typically embedded systems), liability for bugs becomes somewhat more realistic.
Sure, as long as you don't claim you have an M.D. and I don't care that you don't, then we're okay.
Write a basic Lisp interpreter/compiler and write everything else in Lisp? :)

Would compiling Lisp code count against the challenge's LOC limit?
I agree with everything except yes to pay and no to ads. There really should be a way to provide free, ad-supported video, and premium, ad-free video. Once you purchase a movie it is free for all time, but every time you watch it for free it's ad-supported.
The reasons you give for your disagreement with the OP are disagreements about features that the product (online movie delivery) should have: the price is too low or too high, sorting by IMDB ID is pointless. Feature disagreements are healthy. Yet you conclude with an ad hominem attack on the OP: they are immoral, they feel entitled, their concerns aren't real. Suspecting their motives (without much evidence, incidentally) doesn't justify dismissing their arguments out of hand.

If any of these were real concerns of pirates, movies out in theaters wouldn't be pirated.

Consider that "pirates" may not be a single uniform demographic.
To increase runway, spend more money
I wish they had a /company hashtag, so when you search for a term, yo ucan only see companies related to the term.
Considering the state of the US versus most of the world, my standard of living and my freedom to make these comments, pretty fucking good.
Yup this is the issue Google wants to raise. Expect Google lobbying soon for some law along the lines of "clicks on somesite.com belong to somesite.com and can only be shared with another party with somesite.com's permission.". Then in some Google ToS the "user" will be granted access to the clicks that the user makes on Google's search results page... but third party apps like Bing toolbar won't have access.
Twitter adds (and removes) Shorten button.
However long it takes for the story to be removed from memory. HN only does dupe detection on the stories that are already in memory.
Yes, I'm totally convinced by the words of the son of a professional concert flautist who gets paid 7 figures to make films and was able to buy that winery with those proceeds.

So for him to say, "Oh you can make money other ways, make films for art's sake. Look at me, I'm a wine-maker" is a bit disingenuous.
That's a straw man argument. That's not what they did. They had a search engine with data (lots of it), using many of the same factors that Google does (page/domain authority, on-page markup, etc). The feed that algorithm a lot of data. One bit of data they feed it is search behvior of toolbar users (presumably ALL search engines).

In your scenario, that'd be a copy. In the reality scenario (described above), I think it's not.
Of course not. Try inquiring google or bing about obtaining all the information they have gathered from your toolbar and see what response you get. Actually I'll tell you: "The gathered data is anonymous and we have no way of verifying who sent it to us". So how exactly do you own information that you have absolutely no access to and with no way to transfer to competing search companies?
>"The page itself seems as if it was written by fifth graders"

or a bunch of redditors/chaners.
Ask HN: Best app development firms?
Shopping for the right firm to help build a universal app for iPhone, Andriod, and the Web. Doesn't matter if in the US or not.

Please and thanks!
Why doesn't it bode well for them?

Google is a great company. It's also a big company ($200B market cap, 20,000+ employees). Given their size, it's a tautology that they'll appeal to the larger number of people who want to work at a great company rather than the people who want to build a great company.
So Tech Crunch thinks that reposting what Colbert says is content?

I now know what TC plan is.

The AOL content road map came out and it stated it wanted a certain number of "pieces of content" by months X Y and Z.

TC is ramping up is bullshit content production to make it look like they have grown their content production by N%.

They will treat every little article, regurgitation or not, as an "additional piece" of content.

Surely, Mike will try to leverage this into a higher position for himself. "VP of global online technical content" or some such bullshit.

I wonder how long it took him to schedule meetings with anyone who would listen at AOL after the acquisition to try to get them to fund an AOL version of the Crunchpad.
No, she doesn't. I've read the book and at no point does she ever reject her approach or believe it was less than the absolute perfect approach. Although she eventually allowed one of her daughters to stop practicing the violin with Carnegie Hall intensity, she regrets it and feels she failed.
The short of it is "build something". As programmers we are creators.

The harder question is what to build. To answer this you can go to startup events, look at craigslist, or browse open source.

Do you want a Java job?
You're addressing the letter of the "law" not the spirit. Do we really need a new formal standard to indicate that this is unethical? To me it's pretty plain from the standards the web has already agreed upon.
What does "per computer" mean? I have some file servers in my home (readynas and nslu2): how would I use Blackblaze to back them up?
Is the reason that $12 converted better than $9.99 definitely because users are able to visualise it as one dollar a month?

Maybe people see the .99 and are trained to think "99 cents is a marketing plan to make me think it's cheaper than it is", thus causing it to have the opposite effect?

Maybe people see $9.99 as a generic price, implying it was picked fairly randomly, whereas $12 is a slightly odd number to chose, implying that it was carefully picked as a price that gives users good value? (It would have that effect on me - $9.99 suggests they haven't worked out how much they need to charge me to make a profit, and just picked a rounded number that looks normal.)

I'd like to see $12 compared to $14, compared to $11.99, compared to $24, compared to $20.
I wonder if anyone has data on the broader question of whether numbers that are easily divisible perform better than prime or hard to divide numbers?
Wireless Dominoes
Coppola bought his winery with the proceeds from The Godfather.
perhaps it should be "Bi" and "Queer/Other"

These things are tricky :)
Well, they can assign reported history of drug use correctly. Do they do anything similar to correct for lying, or just label their data as "self-reports of drug use"?
seems like viral landing pages are "the big thing" right now ...heres some free stuff
Please review my side project - Fonoso, the universal phone call recorder
Determine if you are logged into social web sites
What does fakewhale even do?
Kind of not a good sign that I couldn't figure that out.
Is search engine keyword data living on borrowed time?
Do you have metadata on each photo? If so, how much?
The next question is:

How many of these 2K sections can you string together to make something of further use? (using another 2k section, of course)
Thanks for the write up. I totally understand where you're coming from with the "it just takes hard work and experience".

But that doesn't mean you should skimp on the details. The reason HN is so awesome is because the contributors say things like "I was able to put some money into reddit ads, I got a 5% conversion rate, and then called my friend that works at company X and it turns out they were having a sale and I'd worked with them before, so I ordered 500 tshirts priced at $6. With $5 shipping, I charged $15 and obtained a $4 margin on each shirt sold. So I made $2k." These are the kinds of blog posts that are truly awesome and valuable, and continue to be valuable over time.

Instead, you're turning this 4 hour startup into a series of articles and trying to pump out as many pageviews as you can to your blog. This first post had nothing your original HN post didn't.

Your idea was very good and you acted quickly. Congrats. I'm not trying to bust balls, it's just a pet peeve of mine. Details would be cool.

EDIT: an example is in order. your "short answer" of "I've done it before" is unhelpful for anyone aspiring to do anything remotely similar.
How Google Ambushed Microsoft and Changed the Subject
Autistic Boy Gets Branded A Cheater By Microsoft, Gets Achievement Score Wiped
There's so much wrong with this argument I can't even think where to start. Democracy is not perfect because it's made up of people, but a system that gives people control is the best system. The democratic government in the US gives, among other things, critical access to information and regulation of self interested actors. It's the checks and balances that are important. Elected and non-elected officials, civil servants and private actors. Even if I bought your argument that the government is just some self interested autonomous agent (which I do not), we still have control, and most important information about it. That information gives us power.

A private entity does not answer to the public, not truly if there is no information. If they act in way that is unethical or undesirable, they simply hide it from the public. With no reliable information flow (forget for a moment the Internet would not exist in your governmentless world), there is no way of controlling these entities. It sounds peculiarly like feudalism.

No. The system is not perfect, but it is a system we control. It's a system that enables information exchange, money, regulation and the equitable standard of living that has ever existed in the history of the world. Not too bad.
Get Your Ruby Testing Tools working with high-performance EventMachine
There's a pure-Python implementation of PBKDF2. I know it's not as good as bcrypt or scrypt, but at least it's better than MD5 or one of the SHA's.
It's funny how when you get here (I'm 47) you realize what a bunch of BS all the age complaints are. You appreciate life so much more, and -- speaking for myself -- are as full of energy and ideas as ever.
I made an upgraded clone of Snowday2011.com - ISurvivedTee.com
Get your name on the Chromium AUTHORS file. You'll work with Google employees and make a contribution to open source.

http://crbug.com/?q=GoodFirstBug

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/contr...

Shameless self-promotion: If you do this and Google still wont talk to you, RockMelt is hiring - http://www.rockmelt.com/jobs.html
Dogs, Unicorns, & Mysterious Gongs: Inside Yelp’s 5-Star Pad
I did once write a 2k-line bytecode interpreter and runtime for R4RS Scheme -- the compiler, library, and debugger were another 2-3kloc of Scheme. I even used it as my main hacking platform for years. But I didn't post it here because:

* It depends on the Boehm garbage collector.

* (This is embarrassing.) It stopped working after some version bump of GCC, and the cause is not at all obvious to me. Since I don't Scheme much anymore I gave up.

http://wry.me/~darius/software/uts.tar.gz if anyone cares.
I'm unsure why Google doesn't hop into the space with their incredible infrastructure and talent pool. A tab in my Gmail (Like Documents, Calender, etc) with Backup, would be ridiculously nice. You also can't have much faith if you believe Google would be unreliable in the future as a viable backup partner.

Mozy seems to be doing well, but has lost of Director / VP level candidates. Interested to hear about others options in online backup, and a "startup" especially in regards to the low-pricing / unlimited speak screams caution.

Edit:
Just interesting on Backblaze and a failed M&A.

"At this point in the story, the Backblaze team is thinking about how to reach out to potential buyers.

Spamming every person at every company was not an option as we wanted this process to remain confidential.
Fortunately for sellers, every legitimate potential strategic buyer has dedicated resources for M&A. Usually it's a primary function of the corporate development group, although sometimes it's business development or finance (under the CFO). "
http://www.horizonpartners.com/article/things-fall-apart-par...
I understand. But I'd bet that the vast majority of the signatories pirate first run movies.

They do not provide reasons. I posited several valid questions as to why would they want or demand those things. Because they do not provide reasons. They just make random demands and expect people to nod along and say "Yes, I agree."

I suspect their motives because they give no evidence or reason for their position.

Anything that can be asserted out of hand can be dismissed out of hand.
For what it's worth, if anyone came to me with those screens and that idea, I'd code it in a day. There's a difference between "I have this idea for a game, here's a sketch of a character" and "I have an idea for a simple app that I've already done most of the work on and it will only take a few hours to code".
Accept in the "original" [torsoraphy] search. Forget Bing having to compete with Google's "spell correction team;" Bing need only use Google [copy] as a high frequency signal on tailing queries.

That sounds like exactly what happened, and it's wrong.
A lot of people are talking about user freedom here. How many users knew they are giving their data to Microsoft ?
Moving to IPv6: Now for the hard part
I think a really important part of this is that Microsoft is listed as a major sponsor. This potentially deprecates their .NET datagrids, which our developers here tend to rely heavily upon.

jQuery tweeted that this functionality will extend existing tables too, so maybe that is why Microsoft is willing to deprecate their own controls?
From one opportunist to another...sorry Loren. :)

I made this in a couple of hours. I plan on leveraging other events that people may survive. There are a couple of other designs in the pipeline.

I'm already starting to see some traffic, but I may be too late to the party for it to go viral.
Great headline, converted me.

Price elasticity testing is so crucially important and I consume everything I can find about rationality vs. the seeming randomness (particuarlly for digital products).

Even this single morsel tying rationality of consumer mind-set of $1 per month is interesting.
Static Typing and the Paranoid Style of Programming
Ask HN: I'm selling domain names to bootstrap, interested?
Hey HN,

I'm a student bootstrapping a startup and looking to scrounge as much cash as I can. I've got a bunch of domain names that I don't have much use for. So I'd love to sell them very cheaply to anyone who's interested. I am very open to negotiation.

I have them up on Sedo, as it seems like the safest way to sell a domain. Hopefully this works for you.

The best ones are probably: 2DArtwork.com, AtlantaVegans.com, FitReply.com, LondonRedBus.com, NYCvegans.com, Learnweb.org, and OdinGod.com. Many of them are popular search terms.

Full list:

131k.com

2DArtwork.com

AmericanAtheism.net

AmericanWorldCup.com

AtlantaVegans.com

BobbingAndWeaving.com

BrazilWorld.net

BuyBeerCheap.com

DesignSketch.net

EastVsWest.net

EchoCount.com

EconoMonk.com

FactoryChinese.com

FitReply.com

FreeLegalTip.com

GermanBorn.com

GodIsAlive.net

GodsAndLegends.com

GuideH.org

Hackski.com

HealHack.com

Kollz.com

Learnweb.org

Locaq.com

LondonRedBus.com

LondonShoeStore.com

LondonShoeStores.com

LongHallways.com

MoneyMammoth.com

NYCVegans.com

OdinGod.com

RussianBorn.com

SessionData.com

SheSaidJokes.com

TeaPartyGoals.com

TheCoffers.com

TiredNeck.com

TopSitesInternet.com

UrbanParks.net

Here's the Sedo page:
https://sedo.com/search/searchresult.php4?showportfolio=d254bea7ce5e3851159b2a33a36f363994b7ca5d

Registrations end between June 2011 and November 2011 (depending on the particular domain). If you're interested, let me know on here or shoot me an email: keiferski at gmail.com. (Or buy them on the Sedo page.) Thanks.
Konaa Branding
Sedo page clicky:
https://sedo.com/search/searchresult.php4?showportfolio=d254...
JQuery Mobile Alpha 3 Released
I hope I survive the pending HN T-Shirt Meme of 2011
"Dating" site imports 250,000 Facebook profiles, without permission
Hacker News: Hacker acronym can keep employing recursion; news explores web sites.
Translation: Android users are at the mercy of hardware manufacturers and carriers.
i.e. Don't trust Motorola to update their phones.
CyanogenMod to the rescue?
I agree that Jquery UI leaves a lot to be desired and the widget-selection is an outright pity when compared to the competing frameworks.

However in their defense you have to keep in mind that the project is (from what I gather) run entirely by volunteers. It is quite hard to match the inner consistency and widget-count of a YUI or extJS when most of your widgets originally began life as external jquery-plugins from various sources.

Under those premises the level of integration they have achieved so far (themeroller et al) is actually quite respectable.

Personally I hope at some point a company will step in and sponsor them some fulltime devs. A few dedicated developer-months could probably work wonders here.
>Its because the second order effect of a click implies relevance, just as a link does.

There are two pieces of information in a click, one provided by google, and the other provided by the user.

Google says, "'foo.com' is a good result for [foo]."

The user says, "yup."

Which is providing more information here?

Everyone at google is happy to admit that if the internet didn't exist, we would have a very hard time ranking it. Is bing ready to admit that if google didn't exist, they'd have a hard time ranking the internet?
Think lemonade stand.
So are iPhone users. The difference being that Apple has shown a track record of updating their older phones, while Motorola is developing a track record of the opposite.

There's nothing stopping a manufacturer from developing a good track record with an Android phone, but so far most haven't. Developing such a reputation could be a strong competitive advantage for someone making Android phones.
Amazing how many snowpocalypse items there are out there.

http://www.zazzle.com/snowpocalypse+gifts
I still don't think a person could intelligently discuss his solution if it was handed to him like that.

And not that I'd advocate hiring a "cheater", But if all the tools he uses to "cheat" eg google, stackoverflow will also be available to him during actual work, it's always possible he could still get the work done.
Grandparent is mouthing a typical false dichotomy. Any company that is successful will grow, right? What you're saying seems fairly obvious to me.
Agree with you. jQuery UI is not at the same level as jQuery. It hasn't been since day one. If it didn't have the jQuery name I wonder how popular it would be. On a related note, jQuery mobile Alpha 3 just released and its awesome. jQuery mobile team has their shit together. Maybe the mobile team should direct the entire UI platform.
2 minutes of hearing Matt Cutts talk and I understood the problem.

5 minutes of hearing Bing's VP of Search talk and all I hear is distancing, deflection and double speak.

Bing does copy Google's results indirectly through click data gathered by the Bing toolbar.
Binpress Is a Marketplace for Buying & Selling Source Code
OK, you're talking about a new service. Gotcha.

Why wouldn't I want Bing to recommend the movie? The first thing Bing should do is use Netflix's APIs to suck down all of my ratings of movies. Then it should use my clickstream data for Netflix, IMDB, Hulu, Amazon, Facebook etc... And if I'm using Media Center or SageTV, I want those things to also get consolidated together.

Are you saying you want your Netflix data in one silo, your Hulu data elsewhere, your TV data elsewhere? Don't get me wrong, I want this to all be opt-in, but when I opt-in on MY behavior, I want them to use it.
I read it as the opposite: Android users can update their software regardless of what their manufacturer does.