skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone had to create a need to observe the ranking of the perceived-by-the-brain-as-local social hierarchy. Gossip has been with us for as long as recorded history goes back. This is nothing more than the gossiping impulses translated into modern connected society.
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and most people don't watch it all day in any case. The stories must be repeated during the times you have various surges in viewers (6am-9am), (3-6pm), etc..
Glad to hear it. A great example of how sharing information, once again, helps people to take bold action.
Counter-example:

Ryanair is a hugely successful airline business in Europe.

Its advertising and marketing strategy is about low price above all else, and unashamedly so.

Look at their garish and ugly website: http://www.ryanair.com/en
Count how many times they use the word 'cheap'.

Read the wikipedia article, which mentions how badly they treat customers, and their rapid growth and financial success: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair

Sometimes low-cost, sold as low-cost, works well.
I don't think I want to change the world right now. I really don't. Does that make me a bad person or unfit to be an entrepreneur?

All I want to do is solve a real problem for some segment of a large market and make their lives a little easier. I want to build as much value as possible for my customers, so that they are willing to pay good money for my software. And yes, I want to get rich.

I agree that optimizing solely for a quick flip is not the best way to build a successful business. I would rather optimize for growth and creating value for customers and investors.

But questions like "Why is there so much materialism? Why is it so competitive?" strike me as absurd. If you accept the premise that a startup is a business and a fundamentally Capitalistic(rather than Marxist) endeavor, why wouldn't there be materialism and competition? Isn't that the point?
I have to say that your post on how to get a corporation in the US is fantastic. I'm sure there's a lot of information out there, and it's something many people have done before, but the fact that you laid it out extremely clearly and gave very relevant contact information is amazing. Really great stuff.
From where I sit, I see 6 Macbooks, 2 Windows and 9 Linux laptops, 1 desktop dual-booting Windows and Linux connected to a 50" TV (it's used for demos and presentations). Of the Linux boxes, 1 of them runs Fedora, one runs Debian and the rest run Ubuntu. The rest of the floor follows more or less the same distribution.

There must be a problem, for I see dead OSs.
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I wouldn't say it's a market failure, it's more of a regulatory failure. The problem isn't that a lot of competition has resulted in no benefits for the consumer; the problem is that a lot of competition hasn't existed yet. It's a lack of a market, not a market failure.

Right now the expense of complying with regulation alone is enough to make most potential competitors balk. Combine this with the fact that it takes years of legal hoop-jumping and other paperwork before you can even create a truly independent provider, and it becomes pretty hard to start a new cell network.
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Yeah they have a few products (e.g. EMR, RDS) where they charge by the instance anyway so you're just paying them by the hour for the five minutes it would take you to set up the server once
Good luck getting your site back online!
Really? I read quite a lot opinions (articles, blog posts, comments) from IT people and haven't really found anyone expressing such a blanket statement.

Even the complaints about spec changes are seldom about changes per se, but rather about the impedance mismatch between the changes and an inflexible process.
...because the journalists actually do things when they're off camera, like, research the story.

(Disclaimer: I can't speak for CNN as I haven't ever regularly watched it. But NPR and the BBC both have reporters in foreign countries for a reason.)
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Excellent. It supports highlighting diffs!
cnn is in the business of viewership, not news... you know, kinda like mtv
Does it let you write for all those platforms with the same language calling the same API? I'm not familiar with C#/Mono besides hearing news about them periodically. If I have to rewrite my code to use a different API for each, it might as well be a different language, since it's the rewriting part (or lack thereof) that's important to me. But if I write once and run everywhere, C#/Mono might be kind of compelling.
Yeah, we're not too happy with Rackspace right now...

Edit: And we're back.
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Ask PG: Have your feelings changed about RFS3?
Given some of the recent policy changes at Twitter, do you still feel comfortable with the suggestion to build companies on top of it?
Can you replicate it, or provide steps so others can try?
Clickable RFS3 link: http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html
You're still outsourcing if you go with a managed dedicated hosting service, or even if you buy hardware and colocate it. Even if you owned the datacenter and the entire backbone, you're still banking on everyone else not fucking up their end of the connection.
My local NPR station does a good job filling up 24 hours. There are some repeats of course but very little of it is the crap you'd find on CNN.
It's unlikely AT&T is doing anything fancy at this point, but there's potentially much more to detection than TTL. NAT devices make an attempt to be transparent at layer 4 and try not to interfere with it. Host OS fingerprinting can rely on a combination of options at that layer as well including but not limited to windowing scaling MSS. If AT&T cared to go the distance, it would be very difficult to get around detection without interfering with the TCP/IP stack.
You may also want to check out

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Yeah, I've noticed this too and it sucks.
There's a reason why they still send out reporters to get their boots on the ground and try and figure out what's actually happening. Research.

Any lazy journalist can just sit back, crib a whole bunch of feed and stills and press releases floating off he internet and boilerplate it into the column inches without bothering to make even the most cursory check for facts, but there's a word for such slack jawed lacklustre button pushing: churnalism.

People used to complain about news helicopters flying over scenes of disasters such as flooding, saying things like "Why don't they pick up some of the stragglers and ship them to safety?"

The answer is: Because that is not their job.

Reporting on what is going on is. And that means going in there, asking questions, getting the agency to rope in a native speaker to translate where needed, and actually bearing witness to the sort of things that end up on your screen, or in print.

They have to go in there and report, because nobody else is going to - and if nobody else reports, nobody will know how bad things are until that ignorance comes back and bites us.

Journalists - at least the ones truly earning their crust - do what they do because they have a compelling need to show the world what they do not know, and need to know.

They are the ones whose job it is to bear witness.
Why I’m not fleeing Japan
Makes a lot of sense. My friend and I worked on a hyperlocal news concept with some journalists at the LA Daily News in 2008 but just couldn't see a way to make a business model work. We joke now that we should have realized that the only news that readers and advertisers would have been interested in was saving 50% or more on limited-time deals, and it would have been nice to realize that while the paper still had a robust sales staff.

But in all seriousness, it's a perfect fit for local newspapers. Much more efficient than a national company trying to reach into lots of markets itself. Now that this can move beyond newspapers into just about any local outlet, the possibilities for OwnLocal are very intriguing. Great growth potential and an exciting product. This looks like the future of local deals.

By the way, it's a shame newspapers have no money left, or they could retool to do some awesome targeted marketing. If they had the ability to make more customized newspapers for some selected addresses (not just region-by-region), they could unlock a different market for advertisers.
this seems to contradict several comments here. "citation needed".
incorporating fugue icons into this would be a dream
Do the reporters really have that much say where they go? (Or at least enough to alter their overall distribution?)
I listen to podcasts 2 hours a day on my drive to/from work. Looking forward to you expanding on the site, keyword searches, tags, descriptions would be nice
> Really? Linux has never been alive on the desktop.

For some values of "alive" and some values of "desktop".

And it doesn't make me feel better. It only makes me feel sorry for those who work in very boring Windows-only workplaces. That's really heart breaking, specially for a web developer like me.
I would happily pay for ultra high quality themes, but I would have to be able to distribute them with my open source project.
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If you think about it most of them have sacrificed so much of their life to be successful they want to prolong their life so they can enjoy spoils of success. Most successful people are good with the delayed gratification.
The really rich do some weird things.

Some things these rich people are doing besides yoga.
- Isoloation/Float tanks- totally relaxes them and releases them from stress. Also creates a great environment to be creative. Shuts off all sensory input and it is just you and your mind.

- office treadmills: they have treadmills that go for 1 mile per hour. people can walk and work at the same time.Rupert murdoch son is known to use it. There is this theory where people are unhealthy and have heart problems because they sit around all day. The body is meant to move. Constant movement not only creates a higher metabolism, but it also makes you feel better becasue of endorphins. There is also a belief that good physiology = good psychology.
With apologies for cynicism, how long will it be a viable pivot for struggling startups to move into the daily deals space?

I've seen it 5 times now, once at the behest of the VC, and it clearly can get you to revenue, I just don't know if it still leads to profits & scalability.
Oh come on.. they have Japanese speaking journalists...
I am happy with our progress. I wouldn't call it a success. When we hit revenues that would justify a $20M exit, it will be a success in my book.
Show HN: CircleRiot. If Google isnt interested in the idea, i might as well try
Team up with that new housemate of yours. Make him your CTO, get a prototype up and running.

Pick up a book or do some online tutorials in whatever the prototype is built in... Learn HTML & CSS - very easy to learn.

You're going to have a million more ideas in your lifetime you will regard as amazing and life changing, trust me. Use this one to get your feet wet. Start doing.
Most of that sounds pretty good, but I have to disagree with this bit:

Ask yourself: would you sell your company? Would you sell it for $20 million? If you answered yes, at this stage, find a new idea. You don’t love it enough.

That strikes me as an over-generalized view. Different people have different circumstances that are going to affect that decision. Somebody who has already had a successful exit and is already set financially, or someone who is very young, might have a different threshold for when they would or wouldn't sell, versus someone who's older and who has never had an exit.

In my own case, as a 37 year old who's never had the "big exit" I can say that there are few - if any - ideas that I wouldn't sell for $20 million (assuming I owned a significant chunk of equity at exit and was going to be walking away with multiple millions of dollars personally.)

Sorry, but the chance to assure myself of financial independence now and for the foreseeable future, and to buy myself the ability to work on whatever I want in the future, could conceivably trump my allegiance to pretty much any idea I might be working on at the moment. I'm not saying it would necessarily be a slam dunk decision, or a decision I'd make on the spur of the moment... but it would be awfully tough to say no to an exit like that, knowing that I'm not getting any younger, and that another chance might not come along.

That said, if I were running a company, and owned enough equity to maintain control, and had to face that decision, I would say "no" if I believed the $20 million exit was far less than what we would eventually achieve, and/or if staying the course were the right thing to help more of the founders / early employees ultimately realize their own degree of financial freedom.
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this all is largely positive - not really a confession, more bragging...

be curious how other customers have fared in the store, for me it has rarely been great
http://www.mikolayczyk.com/2010/02/quotes-from-apple-store.h...

certainly rings true that they get power hungry and very arrogant as a result
Panem et circenses. It's keeping the public's attention diverted from our clown governments comprising the deplorable, the despotic, the despised and the damned.
I think this makes perfect sense. That wedding has been being planned for a long time; CNN knew it would be the media event of the season.. so they are probably setting up a lot of infrastructure.. sending managers.. etc as this whole to do. The staff going to Japan would necessarily be much leaner.

I wonder how many "journalists" as opposed to "staff" went to Japan vs the wedding.
>Would you sell it for $20 million? If you answered yes, at this stage, find a new idea.

Selling a business for $20M would make it a lot easier to get traction for your next idea.
Yes, price is an enabler, that enables you to get started. The key is you don't have to be very good in other respects at first, and yet customers will be delighted, if their other option is nothing (e.g. because of price). Over time, you can improve at what your customers value, and usually you'll find things your particular customers especially value, and that your position serendipitously helps you do better. Improving market/product match over time.

That's marketing, in the sense of targeting need; I agree it might not be the best marketing in the sense of advertising! Yet... it still does depend on the segment you target: for some, low price is what they want to hear.

I like your example of using the money saved from a low cost business model to improve something else. But to compare Zappos with a retail store: there's no shipping cost for a store; overnight is slower than today (or now); and buying-without-trying remains less reliable than in-store purchase. I would guess being cheaper is the highest ranked attribute for most of their customers - if it was the same price as retail (or higher!), how many would still buy?
The Cascadia fault is a subduction fault, and this was the reason I mentioned in the context of risks facing commercial nuclear plants in California (there are none operating in Washington or Oregon).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_fault
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/research1.html

edit: I ought properly to be calling it the 'Cascadia subduction zone' rather than a fault, because it spans several named faults where the North American plate meets different pacific plates.
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One word: passion. If you are not emotionally attached to your idea, which passion is, then you are going to drop it when another idea pops up. Finding something you are passionate about and connecting that to a business or project will allow you to focus on whatever goals you have set. If not then the project will be just another thing in a sea of great ideas...
What are you actually "showing"?

I don't see anything except for a signup form. No content, no explanation, nothing.

Also, you've mispelled your domain name in your submission title.
I'm not sure I understand the differentiator between OwnLocal and Groupon. Could someone explain, maybe with product examples? As far as I can see, they're going "hyper-local", but what's more hyper-local than a restaurant with 50% off a block over from my house? Maybe I missed something. Either way, good luck OwnLocal!
One percent market share is dead, no matter what you are seeing.
viz. Bill Gates, who is changing the world and doing good in more tangible ways than almost any startup, despite having built up Microsoft with the clear focus of make money and dominate the market first, change the world later.
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Can anyone give examples of #2, a good story?

I've spent the last few weeks trying to brainstorm the story for my biz and just keep drawing a blank.
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Oh, wait. That works. I just think that the lambda-calculus example may be a bit advanced for a programmer who's only starting to learn what polymorphism is. Not every coder starts off with Scheme.
A better title would be 'Apple's employee #8 celebrates his 34th anniversary with the company'
Again, it's not the tethering app that does it, it's the TCP stack. It's likely quite possible for a custom Android ROM to implement this workaround, but I would be surprised if you could accomplish that with an iPhone.
For context:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_launch_major_...

http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110313/false-alarm-goo...

I really do believe in this idea and i think social network sites should be designing for multiple groups. Managing your identity shouldn't be a high overhead. The logo is a work in progress and I'll be working away the next month deploying this application.

Edit: Feel free to submit bugs at circleriot@gmail.com :)
You can do it, but it won't scale your write load. In most cases it actually makes it worse due to the having to apply all the writes taken on the other master node in serial.
Move to a developing country and retire. If you get bored, you can always work again.
Poll: Have you failed to make money with iPhone/Android apps?
I wonder about the odds of at least becoming Ramen profitable with iPhone or Android apps (earning at least 2000$ per month of invested development time - earning 100$/month for 20 months does also count). Specifically, what are the odds of earning more with freelancing one month than investing one month into creating apps?
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Failed with Android apps
Those are the people who are ruining it for everyone.

I use the Tethering on my Nexus One (Tmobile) from time to time, but I don't abuse it. I use it as an emergency backup internet access for cases like if the wifi at the hotel isn't working, etc. IMHO, that's reasonable and my usage when tethered probably isn't much more than when I run things like Pandora or Youtube on my phone.

If I were using 10+G/month, then I'd expect to have to pay for a higher priced "tethering included" plan.
Psh, looks so fake. How hard is it to put little feathers on that thing?
I suffer from depression too, I have found that communicating - be it in person, on the phone, or online (so many options there!) helps the most. Being around uplifting people helps as well. I would say also not to focus on why we are depressed, but focus on something that you are looking forward to in the future. I was depressed for about two years in college...just moved from FL to Bos and the weather, people, etc sucked. I complained for about 12 months straight and then one day compiled a list of what I was looking forward to and how I would get there....I still have that list and 3/10 of the goals have been accomplished and well before the dates I originally had planned.
Easily - we replicated it here a few times now with some of my co-workers email accounts.

I simply use Outlook to schedule a meeting. I add an invite to anyone using a gmail.com account. That request goes to the intended recipient and they see my personal gmail account as well as my Outlook based account.

Couple of notes:

1) Outlook does not know anything about my Gmail account. It's not added in there etc.

2) Google DOES know about my work account. It's under my personal settings on my Google profile, because I use it for various Google Group mailing lists.

Even if Google knows that the two accounts are the same person, it's a major privacy issue IMHO to expose any of the linked accounts like that. I have submitted this to Google with all the information I am aware of.

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yeah but how do we buy one?
nerdy questions: what frequency is the video transmitting? protocols? can I bittorrent off of it? ;-)
As I see it, although it's essentially the same product, it's a significantly different outlet.

The comparison I'd make is between Blockbuster and Redbox.
BRK has a market cap of over 200 billion. To make price move significantly, there would need to be pretty big trades, no? If huge trades are made on the basis of random names mentioned online, that could explain a lot of our troubles with capital allocation...
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>> we as consumers have brought this upon ourselves because more often than not, we don't distinguish based on features, we select based on price, so we have given airlines every incentive to pull these kinds of tricks.

True, but at the same time, there is very little way of distinguishing between features. Policies like extra baggage charges are extremely poorly labelled for most major airlines such that charts like this one (http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/blog/3801089/airline-baggage-...) are not uncommon to make sense of all the different policies. Furthermore, policies like the charge for extra headphones or TVs seem to vary not from airline to airline, but airplane to airplane, depending on the media equipment that the plane is outfitted with.

I think consumers do want those extra perks and would be willing to pay more for them, but simply do not have the means to make sense of the byzantine airfare purchasing 'system' that we have. Hence, consumers go with the lowest price as the one thing of which they can be sure. This is why I think Hipmunk is so important as a startup. It's the first attempt by a flight search engine to rank and display flights not just by price, but also by some of these other features.
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Ryanair has taken the low-price aspect to an extreme too. For the flights I care about, it's generally something like £5, but once in a while it's literally £0 plus airport fees.

I have never been treated particularly badly by them. You don't get anything that might be included in a more expensive flight such as checked bags, a meal, assigned seating, etc., but I don't really care about those things anyway, certainly not for 1-3 hour flights within Europe.