skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Regarding your edit, you said it yourself. Here's a company that has had multiple acquisition offers, a company which people would consider a bargain at a billion, and the best it can do towards a business model is "at least have the promise of a solid business".

If I had a business that generated even 30k/yr in revenue (albeit a sustainable 30k), I would think really hard before selling it. It pays my living expenses, after all, and ostensibly leaves me free enough to pursue other ideas.

This "acquisition fever" we have these days isn't really about good business models, there are the businesses which try to grow as fast as possible by burning investor money and disregarding business models (the ones that are good acquisition targets), and the businesses that start out with a good business model and aim to be sustainable as fast as possible.
What about gays, atheists and others who could possibly damage far more than their own reputation?

I live in a country where I have absolutely no problem admitting to anyone that I don't believe in any gods, but it seems that in America this can and often has ripped families apart. Should those people be excluded from any public discourse regarding their beliefs?

The price which has to be paid in this dystopian future of yours is far too high, especially when the "trolls" you are trying to vanquish could just as easily be moderated out of existence wherever they became a problem.

How many other parts of our lives should we be forced to expose in order to take part in a community? HIV status? Voting history? Race? Whatever you feel the limit should be, I feel that peoples real names, races and locations is far more than anyone should ever have to share.

On a more mundane note, what about losing a job at Apple e because a search for your name brought up a few very negative, but non-trollish, comments you made about the iPhone, or perhaps Apple as a company.

These examples are generalised and unlikely... But not outside the realm of possibility.
That's a very interesting point. I agree it is important to take care that you are expressing things in the way you intend, and also that the important thing is to not let it get to the point where you don't do anything with it, i.e. you don't "ship".

There is a very interesting comment on the blog:

There is a compound effect of not getting started. The longer something takes to 'get out there' the higher the expectations are of the user, and often the owner.
The mentality goes like this "it's taken 1 year to build, therefore we've got to make sure it's perfect", this delays things further.
As long as you aren't releasing quickly as an excuse for accepting a product, service or blog post which is poorly thought out, 'ship quickly' is a great mentality to go by.

I think that's a key point to think about with the whole "be sure you are expressing yourself as you intend", since whilst I agree it's important, I also think that the key is to make sure you ship, and I definitely think that the longer you delay the more likely you are to think it needs to be to a very high standard.

I'd love to hear what do you think about this quote from LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman:

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

Although I guess being embarrassed is not quite the same as expressing yourself in a way you don't intend.
This will work in Opera too if you add -o- to the POSSIBLE_TRANSFORM_PREFIXES array.
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Small yes, new not so much (the oldest domain is from 1998).

But I think you are bypassing the point here somewhat. The point isn't that it only relies on previous searches, or on previous searches at all. The point is that it is not, and will probably never be a complete database, at least not the way things work as of now.

Just for fun I tried a couple of other tools that boast the same feature (http://spyonweb.com and http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/) and they both found most of all of these sites without any problem.

The major difference here is your site has a nice clean interface with a very easily parseable source, something these two other sites definitely don't have.

Now, if you could manage the same results as these other sites maintaining the clean interface you have now, it would definitely be my future choice. But as long as there are other sites out there that provide more reliable results...
Albert Camus once said "Every revolutionary ends up becoming either an oppressor or a heretic." From this presentation, it looks like Steve Blank has chosen to go the heretic route. Wide distribution first, worry about monetization later? Engineering a financial transaction from the beginning? I'm a long way from Chicago, but I can still hear Jason Fried's head exploding.

Personally, I suspect Steve is right, but only over the very short term. We've got a nascent tech bubble (and a commodities bubble, and a booming stock market) because our central bank's glued to a zero-interest-rate policy, and is further stimulating the economy through quantitative easing - pumping about $3B a day into the economy through bond purchases. All that cash has to go somewhere, and it is - anywhere it can get higher yields than the bond market.

This economic stimulation is all being done to keep the economy healthy in the face of unprecedented federal deficits - but it's a house of cards, and it'll explode as soon as foreign investors want higher rates for the privilege of holding American bonds. When this happens, the tech bubble goes away, and any company pursuing a bubble strategy is hosed. At that time, having a bootstrapped startup generating decent cashflow will look pretty good - not as good as selling during a bubble, but a hell of a lot better than not selling after a bubble.

That's why I'm curious about the timeframe in Steve's slides. Why does he think the bubble period ends in 2014? Three years is a pretty short timeframe for generating massive hype, getting huge, and flipping a company - is this advice even actionable?
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I agree, his expertise is not fully covering this field. But I think he's still far better informed than most voices we get to hear these days.

In Germany it took green-activists a couple of hours to organize nationwide protests. Politicians with no knowledge about physics beyond spelling "meltdown" are immediatly taking advantage of this situation.
Also Chernobyl uses graphite as a moderator instead of water. I.e. the chain reaction continued even after the water boiled away.
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https://www.hover.com/ always been good to me (i like the fact that ALL they do is domain reg)
Excellent read - but all that won't fit in a backpack :-) Extract from another site I follow : "Remember, you must be able to RUN with this bag (therefore I suggest a backpack)". Good thinking ferfal!

To trim it up, check ferfal.blogspot.com for some real life experience. The bag is just step #1.
With all that coastline Japan should be investing more in tidal power generation and forget once and for all about nuclear power, too high the risk for earthquakes and tsunamis happening again even at worse scale.
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I actually know someone from Somalia who got successful there, got screwed and left to Holland. Got successful there again, and again got screwed and left to Romania. He has a successful business here, and he probably won't get screwed again :P
After the first "failure", his connections helped him rise again.
Wow, such a denial of reality. 'in control'? If anything I saw in the last hours, the thing is not in control. Diesel generators failed, a building exploded, core meltdowns going on, restoring of electricity failed, seawater used for cooling (how were they pumping it and are the pumps powerful enough to provide cooling over a longer period of time like days). Valves are not working, measurement of pressure is not possible, there are fears of another explosion.

Two reactors are still OUT OF CONTROL.

One of them is even using Plutonium in its fuel. German news about that: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/0,1518,750668,00....

Whether the containment will work as designed is unknown.

Fukushima II, the other plant has cooling problems, too.

Now there has been an alarm of higher radiation at the Onagawa plant.

German source: http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,750637,00.html
Absolutely. I'm digging up all the ideas I had back when I was too young & stupid to do anything about them. Something like this gives me that extra bit of inspiration to stop thinking about it and do it.

In fact, one of my fav ideas (originally intended for the Amiga) fits so beautifully with the new device form factor that it actually causes me physical pain when I think about it.
It used to be the marketing page for iTools (which became mac.com which became MobileMe).

I used to think it was a nice (slightly tongue in cheek) way of promoting the service.
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can someone paste the text? this site is blocked from within china....
That’s because hardly any radioactivity was released into the atmosphere during the Three Mile Island incident. It was mostly harmless.
Old satellite imagery in the "before" shot, meaning that building is fairly brand new if a bit recently weathered.
This was mostly a slightly tongue-in-cheek demo of iTools. His movie page had kid actors on holiday and his steve@mac.com address isn't his real one.

However I have no doubt that he was involved in the content of all.

I used this .Mac template for the CV that got me my first startup job.
it's the first post on his blog and we are certain he is no lobbyist. citing foreign experts you happen to know personally somehow is commonly used in popular science literature.

a catastrophe not as bad as chernobyl can still be pretty bad.
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One thing you also have to know about France: the number of kisses on the cheek vary from one place to another. Check out this website: http://combiendebises.free.fr/
I come from the south (Hérault département) and now live in the suburbs of Paris. I have to remember that in Paris it's two kisses whereas in the south it's generally 3 (sometimes it's only 2).
It can be really disorienting, and awkward when you make the move to do the last kiss when really it's already finished. Fun times.
It was unable to detect any other website on my server, YouGetSignal I use a lot, and works well.

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/
On the one hand, our fear responses undoubtedly helped us survive when we had to worry about running away from big things with teeth. On the other hand, it also means that uninformed, power-hungry idiots like to boost their career by destroying things that would make life better for everybody.
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Idea: HotOrNot for Media Bias
With all the discussion of NPR and media bias this week, I had the idea last night to create a website where people could rate anonymized paragraphs of journalism on a scale from Liberal to Conservative. You'd see only a paragraph of national or international or business news with no information as to the news source or authorship and be able to click on a Likert scale from Liberal to none to Conservative. The user could submit their appraisal of the paragraph's media bias.

The collected data could be analyzed to determine general leanings of articles, authors, and news sources across subject or time.

In this political minefield, the app would probably attract people willing to spend the time to determine where the paragraph came from before ranking it in order to artificially paint sources in a certain way and you could always add features to limit this behavior: timers, searches for people only ranking paragraphs that come from a single news source, etc..

I've got to give this idea away or I'm not going do anything for the projects I need to work on today.
Some photos have a no-destructed area that is useful for comparing the differences in the colors.

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I had to spend a lot of time to find monitors that use technology with a decent vertical viewing angle.

Nowadays most LCDs use cheaper techs like TN panels that only give a good viewing angle when used horizontally. You have to look for monitors with IPS or S-PVA panels. The one you have has a TN panel, which is the worst kind for vertical use, I'm not surprised that you were disappointed.

Be careful and triple-check that the monitor you intend to buy uses the right panel technology, some manufacturers lie about it and others sell different techs for the same model number.

I have two Dell 2209WAB and one HP LP2275w (in different locations, I only use one monitor at a time + laptop). Both models provide excellent angles for vertical use and definitely use the panel technology advertised.
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Well, you could also say the Ruby examples are just invoking regular Ruby functions. Either way, you've got what Martin Fowler[1] calls an "internal DSL" (as opposed to an "external DSL", which has a parser and syntax of its own).

[1] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html
The reactor 3 at the first Fukushima plant is not just using Uranium. It uses MOX fuel. So what the author ('expert???') wrote is already useless, he does not even know what the reactors are using as fuel.

Japan Today:

http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/mox-fuel-...

From August last year:

MOX fuel loaded into Tokyo Electric's old Fukushima reactor
Sunday 22nd August, 05:36 AM JST

FUKUSHIMA — Tokyo Electric Power Co loaded plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel Saturday into a reactor at its nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture in preparation for the largest Japanese utility’s first plutonium-thermal power generation.

The No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 plant would be the third in Japan to be used for the so-called pluthermal generation, but the only one among the three to have been subjected to antiaging treatment with 34 years since its launch. Pluthermal output has already begun at the No. 3 reactor of Kyushu Electric Power Co’s Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture and the No. 3 reactor of Shikoku Electric Power Co’s Ikata plant in Ehime Prefecture.
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Yeah, if you read "The Pixar Touch" you get a good picture of what Jobs hoped to achieve with Pixar (focusing on selling the hardware to consumers). His main contribution was money. I think it was only after Toy Story did he truly "get" how good the computer animated films could be.

It's funny because in the book they describe the brief period where Pixar was owned by George Lucas, and he too did not have faith in computer animated films.
Can tidal power equipment survive a tsunami, though? Japan needs a stable energy supply – if only because they can’t just import power from one of their neighbors in a pinch (like, for example, most European countries can). I heard today that even wind turbines are not ideal for Japan because typhoons are common.

Japan is in a pretty unique position – it’s certainly understandable why nuclear power is very popular there.
Curious as to why he wrote "Left in 1986 to decide which step to take NeXT" under his first stint at Apple. I thought he was fired by John Sculley.
"Survivalist" stuff was probably a decent niche business in the 80ies.
Pfft, buy a self-inflatable air mattress and a couple of tie down straps. You'll get a few days floating in the pacific ocean... just make sure you're not dumb enough to buy a blue air mattress otherwise no helicopter will ever find you. Go red or orange.
The description he makes of how a plant works is nice, but being "a PhD" in an unrelated field doesn't mean much to me... if he had been a nuclear physicist with nice publications or nuclear engineer working at the xxx plant AND if he had access to additional information on what it's really happening/ed i would have cared more for his conclusions...
Looking at the comments [1] (guy from Japanese Atomic Energy Agency) it even seems that he is describing a different configuration of nuclear plant (newer,safer).

[1] https://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-w...

Check out the other comments from Daniel on that post for additional info on procedures being put in action by the jp government.
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> esp if you've read Christensen?

I haven't, but now kind of want to. Links?
As a fellow Tokyo resident, newly-minted quake survivor, and even fellow UFC aficionado, I found this guy's reprinted letter of explanation quite comforting. We've been kind of worrying about the nuke meltdown scenarios, and wondering if maybe we should find some pretext for a quick trip abroad in the next couple days.

And so I read this post, and nodded, and though 'Hmm, ok, good... OK, sounds reasonable. Oh, I see, great!'

And then I got to the end, and some little circuit in my brain switched on, and I realized I felt just a little bit too comforted.

As if this post, from a first-time blogger, might actually be the work product of some agent of the US pro-nuke consortium that's trying to get clearance (not to mention indemnification from liability) to build many billions of dollars worth of new plants in the US. Or, perhaps more plausibly, merely the comforting words of a family friend trying to reassure people who weren't really in a position to do much about things in any case. And whose dad works in the nuke industry, with whatever subconscious bias that might convey.

But hey, fuck it: taking that article at face value will make it easier to sleep tonight, so until morning at least I think I'll try to do that. So thanks for posting it!
Staying cool on the other side of the globe is far easier than living right next to it. So kudos!

It is hard to understand the technology behind it. Harder than just burst into cunfusion and condemning things. Every time I tried to get to know more about how nuclear reactors work, the more I found out, the more it calmed me down.
In the ATUS, interviewers collect data in a time diary format, in which survey participants provide information about "yesterday."

So no, it's not averaged across a year (unless the teacher worked a full year).
The clearer contrast is in the built-up areas in "before" photos that are wiped clean of man-made structures "after". It's hard to imagine how anyone in or near those survived.

I wasn't paying nearly as much attention to the colors, myself...
Very nice link thanks.With those pictures, we can realize how terrific was the impact of this tsunami..
I'm surprised by the eye contact comment. As a brit, I definitely rate eye contact.
Not that anyone probably cares, but it doesn't work for domains that only have an IPv6/AAAA record. An interesting option there might be to see sites that share an IPv6 prefix of a certain length?
Does he need insurance if he can pay for the doctors himself?
Earthquake destroys nuclear plant: thousands killed.

Tsunami destroys tidal power plant: none killed.

You are the PM of Japan, you make the call.
If you're looking for songs about pi, I love this one by Hard n Phirm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDu351QNoZE

The video (by Keith Schofield) is also awesome.
Moving the monitor a bit further away from you and/or tilting it (which looks a bit unnatural, having your monitor "facing up" slightly) solves that problem for me.

I've only used 22" monitors vertically, maybe bigger ones are just too big for vertical use and worsen the issue you've experienced.
After any disaster you should boil any water you're going to drink. It seems excessive, but without a supply of clean water you really don't want to get diarrhoea. You really don't want to get diarrhoea if you're idiotic enough to be sodium-conscious with your disaster kit as then you're really risking death due to electrolyte imbalance.
Lobbist groups?
https://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-w...
Thank you for reminding us of how much of a non-event the Chernobyl accident was for you in Switzerland, a few thousand miles away. While you're at it, don't forget tell those wimps in Belarus to shut up and stop whining about this non-event.
Overdo things — especially breaks.
At work I stopped drinking coffee from the machine and do it as labourous as possible; Grinding the beans, making preferably one cup at a time using an Aeropres. This makes me refocus on the coffee and thus have an actual effective break. Obviously the coffee itself gets hell-of-a-lot better!

I fullscreen every app I use to avoid multitasking. My terminal (vim user) has opacity so I can glimpse the browser behind it for visual cues on what I'm working on.

Turn off all notifications that goes beyond a tiny status light, or similar. Decide for yourself where to focus, dont let the email, IM refocus for you!

Weekly dinner plans. On sunday or monday, plan every dinner for the week. Shop once on monday. This saves you money and makes it a lot easier to eat what your body really needs.

Social life; Volunteer! Its the best and easiest way to make friends. Period Especially if you have trouble in this department.
Totally agree, but how often can I slip the fact that I know Nintendo is over 100 years old in a conversation?
I wish there were some instructions on what to do with all those items... I would love to know why a bandana, aluminium foil and a bleach are used for in an emergency.
There is a reason I feel much relieved after reading this. Pretty much everything I've read so far implied that once there is a meltdown, all bets are off. We'll have radioactive material boiling in open air, and all the "good" things that come with it. Which sounded very suspicious to me... I mean, isn't containment designed to prevent exactly that? Once the fuel melts, it just makes a hole on the bottom of the containment and pools on the floor? So for me, the money shot was here:

> For that purpose, a large and thick concrete basin is cast under the pressure vessel (the second containment), which is filled with graphite, all inside the third containment. This is the so-called “core catcher”. If the core melts and the pressure vessel bursts (and eventually melts), it will catch the molten fuel and everything else. It is built in such a way that the nuclear fuel will be spread out, so it can cool down.

edit: Plus reading about INES, there was a British plant that had 5 (five) level 4 incidents in 25 years, and a partial core meltdown at a French plant. And many more.
I think you are missing some documentation

http://www.southernstudies.org/images/sitepieces/wing_tmi_ca...
Executing on this idea as successfully as they have is far from easy.