skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting solution. I did something a little different for searchco.de when I was implementing regex search.

Essentially I took the regex such as [cb]at and then expand it out to get all of the terms, in this case cat and bat and then do a standard fulltex search based on those terms to get as close a match as possible. I then loop over the results to get back those which are exact matches.

Its actually more complex then that but with some other trickery (infix and prefix indexing) but it works reasonably well although I am still ironing out some kinks.
Interesting question. I know what I'm looking for in the hypothetical "business co-founder" for Fogbeam Labs:

Some or all of the following (not necessarily in this order)

1. Sales experience in our domain (enterprise software in our case), and experience actually closing deals.

2. Enough technical knowledge, and/or willingness to learn, to contribute to the product vision / roadmap in a meaningful way.

3. Experience with marketing activities and strategy related to our field. IOW, somebody who understands demand creation and positioning.

4. A large Rolodex of contacts who might turn into customers / investors / partners for us.

5. At least a passing familiarity with the ideas behind Customer Development and the Lean Startup Approach.

6. Any previous experience with raising funds from investors, or previous startup experience, would be a great bonus as well. Having gone through a few iterations of Customer Development activities would be especially nice.

7. An open mind, and a desire to learn and do / try new things.
Best I can tell, there is zero incentive for Quora (or any other site, for that matter) to care. Their current redirect logic in no way hurts their user experience.

Right now they protect their users' privacy. What benefit do they realize by providing their users' viewing history to other sites?

I personally think that the referer header was never a good idea. I disable it in my browser, and appreciate sites that do right by their users with privacy protecting default behaviors.
I think he missed an opportunity, there. One of the stickiest claims against Wikileaks, at least among the tech crowd, is that they stand for radical transparency and believe government should hold no secrets. I would have liked him to expound on exactly what secrets the government can or should keep, as it seems fairly central to their mission. By not doing so, I think he allowed the narrative put forth by his critics to retain dominance.
>you were careful to avoid

Don't attribute to others derogatory actions as an argument technique.

>This is where your analogy breaks down because this is explicitly not the case.

The existence of software that does not fit my analogy does not change the fact that there are many situations where the analogy still holds. In fact, the GPL itself is an example of the analogy holding- the GPL prohibits certain kinds of commercial use of creations derived by the thing protected by GPL, just as the Author app does.
>Flipping through the book to quickly find a past location is a harder problem to solve.

iBooks has an 'overview' mode that sort of works if the book is well marked up. However it's not nearly as good as flipping, & the processor needs to be much faster.

http://ipadwatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ibooks-pdf...
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It's absurd that they'd have to pay their employees to submit pirated content when there's droves of people online who would willingly submit it for free.

This accusation is as absurd as saying TPB had to pay its employees to upload trackers of pirated content.
MegaUpload Doesn't Exist Anymore
Speaking from experience, piracy has a very strong influence on how much money video game companies are willing to spend on development. Piracy is the reason that PC gamers have to put up with games that are primarily designed for consoles, with very little invested in adapting them to a PC interface. Few companies are willing to spend money on PC development when you can only expect a few hundred thousand sales.
You might want to see my post below (or above, if the votes move it around). I don't have any issues with distribution as a business model, but essentially due to ideological reasons, I don't believe it should be primarily focused on illegal content, if profit is to be made.
>I am also astounded that people on HN are calling this a legitimate business. What was its business? Was it being used to distribute Wikipedia archives? To host videos of people's kids singing? No - it was hosting pirated content. Not torrents, not links. AVI files of films. AND THEN CHARGING FOR ACCESS.

So by your definition, Dropbox is an illegitimate business because I stuck my (purchased) copy of The Dark Knight on there and they didn't remove it?

I used MegaUpload. A LOT. For legitimate content. It's very useful because I don't have to worry about hosting it on my own server and potentially going over my bandwidth cap (I send RAR files with large images for graphic design, totally legitimate need for MU).
Ron Paul isn't really used to being a Big Deal. He's going to have to be super vigilant to keep "his people" from doing(1) some very un-Paul-ish things now that he is. I don't think he's going to be very good at it.

(1) And advising him to do as he darts between appearances, where a distracted nod can authorize something that a moments thought would never allow.
I want to know about the successful exceptions. Which groups succeeded despite being hard to talk to?
It's better to allow these sites to continue to exist and demand that they comply with the requests than take them down with the FBI or whatever law enforcement agency.

The precedent is far too dangerous. It's so dangerous that it could make PIPA / SOPA look like little cute puppies.

The moral issues of being a pirate or not being a pirate and of allowing or not allowing piracy to exist are more of a "feel good, don't be weird" matter.

These legal precedents can and will be used to silence any kind of protests and all things like: articles / reports about police brutality, murders, people "vanishing" conveniently when what they're saying is incovenient for someome, fake votes, scandals of all sorts.

Today it's Megaupload, tomorrow it will be YouTube. After that, they will interrupt a live report which is incovenient.

If you think those who rule are better than this, you're wrong. We've seen it before and we're seeing it again: Apple used the FBI and the police on the country's territory as its own security force as if the country was its headquarters, the FBI seems to be used more and more to go after pirates and other such things.

Meanwhile, all kinds of bad things happen around the world, but the law enforcement agencies are too busy to defend the copyrights of big companies which want more billions in the pockets of those who own those companies.

While the people are paying their taxes and are expecting to live a life without being worried they'll be nuked by some insane dictator, they really don't want to look over their shoulder to make sure the politicians who are ruling the country aren't being replaced by the puppets of the corporations.

After all, making sure a 12 year old doesn't download an mp3 from Megaupload is far more important than making sure my children won't be having a probe in their bodies to tell the companies and the government where they are, what they eat, what they like, if they're sick, what they're seeing and saying and what their opinion is on the ads they see.
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>I think there's a very real danger you guys aren't hearing stuff like this because who in their right mind would tell you and who would you listen to?

Tons of people have told him he's a pompous blowhard. The problem is that the answer to the second half of your question is "nobody". Paul's ego does not allow him to listen to anyone. "I was lucky once" is his standard reply to any form of criticism or questioning of his "wisdom".
Why should we stop online piracy?
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Thats exactly what I meant, I might have just phrased it in a wrong way :/
That was actually exactly the alternative I had in mind, an icon for a catalog feature in some sort of application (though a PNG would have been more likely.)
I'm pretty sure no one is trying to make a living by creating new HN posts with interesting content. If he is, I need to send him a couple of boxes of ramen so he can eat next week ;)
Even if it is the same file if the provided links are private I think they should be safe under how DMCA is worded. Each link can be considered a key to locker and it would not be Megaupload's job to know who should have a key and who should not. DMCA would require them to reject keys but not necessarily the locker under many situations.
My previous post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3486903
The fundamental argument for anti-piracy is that at least some of the pirates would have paid for the content if piracy was not available. It's not all the pirates, and it's not none of the pirates. Nobody would care about pirates if they were 100% unmonetizable.

I'm making numbers up, but let's say 10% paid as usual, 1% converted to payment because piracy wasn't available, and 89% didn't want to pay and didn't play. The publisher gets 10% more revenue if piracy wasn't there.

Nobody knows what the actual percentage is.
I think entrepreneurs/founders are inundated with so much advice from every direction that their brains train themselves to ignore all advice at the present moment and maybe give it a thought later.

This is actually a good thing since a founder needs to have capacity for independent thought but it misfires when the advice is from someone like pg.

My recommendation would be to consciously admit when you are doing this and then to consciously stop yourself from doing it when someone really knowledgeable is talking to you.
>We may be not entitled to demand people to produce things for our benefit, but we're certainly entitled to demand the freedom to do what we want with already produced things.

The only difference between those two example is temporal. I don't think that difference makes a difference.

Do you have the right to demand that people who have already produced some software, give it away for free and never be allowed to charge for it?
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There has always been a counter on his home page, so I'm guessing aggregate total visits over X period of time. The majority of his 'articles' have one.

Of course, he could just randomly increment the value using a script, but Maddox has been around a long time (I've been reading his site on and off for around 10 years) so I doubt he has need to.
I think any game is still going to have the issue of kids not having access to the means to pay for it. Do they wait for heir parents and hope they decide to buy it for them or do they get it for free right now?
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Question is, how many out of them actually use it.
Your comment reminds me of Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

I don't know when it will become unreasonable, but I don't want to get to that moment, just to realize there's no one to speak for us.
They may start with piracy (OK, they are violating copyright), then why not libel, seems fair enough. And while we are there, why not stop this, and that.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had an excellent phrase that I always remember:

The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on
information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but
the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse
has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would
deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself
your master.
I think the SOPA/PIPA blackout thing was really getting to a couple of congressmen / senators who knew about this FBI operation; They then told FBI to hurry it up so they can have something to respond. Let's watch which senator/congressman speak up to say this is an example of why laws like SOPA/PIPA are needed; $X million was required to bring these "foreign criminals impinging on American rights" to justice. With new laws they can be shutdown much more cost effectively.

When I'm looking for a job next time, it'll not be one whose primary business is hosting user content.
>From minute one it was a series of arrogant and condescending statements after another. Their ideas were nuggets of golden insight and my (far more educated in many instances) responses were dismissed out of hand.

This is exactly what pg is saying; you don't seem to be considering that you are "difficult to talk to" at all. YC's behaviour is irrelevant to analyzing your chances of success.

You might (and probably are) correct about each particular statement. However in business, successful people will take what they have learned - after all, it worked - and apply it to your problem, often in very arrogant or seemingly condescending and possibly incorrect ways.

Instead of focusing on the statement, digesting it from their angle and replying, you are focusing on how it was said, assuming authority and dismissing it; a combative rather than an intuitive, "learning" stance.

You may be right. You may be wrong. The whole concept is that this is irrelevant to thesis - which is that people like you tend not to succeed as startup founders. It's perhaps ironic that YC founders would probably be in this failing group with their current attitudes. (I don't know, I've never met them, it's also possible that in a different context, they alter their approach.) It doesn't refute the point however.

It's the humility and resourcefulness that leads to success; the idea that you never fully understand your problem scope and that further knowledge can come from anywhere, including ideas previously dismissed. People that adopt this mindset tend to do well. That's what pg is saying in this essay.
Of course, someone [https://twitter.com/AnonOpsSweden/status/160107848121061376] has now taken down the justice.gov website.

Google cache of the press release: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac...
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Not sure if sarcasm, or being serious.
BusinessWeek on Google's lack of a business model (2000)
RTFA:
"Google’s Larry Page has announced that Google+ now has 90 million users globally, doubling the number from three months ago. Page also said that G+ has a 60% ‘daily engagement’ rate. This came as a part of Google’s Q4 and fiscal year 2011 financial reports."
I'm not sure what the big deal is. Tropo has much better international coverage and costs less.
I think this could turn out to be a huge mistake by the entertainment industry. We absolutely have to take advantage of this as an example of how this legislation is unnecessary.
Congress’s top 5 tech questions for 2012 (more than just SOPA)
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60% daily engagement rate including Google personalized search? ;)
Cost per click fell 8% from a year ago, also from one quarter earlier
Incidentally, both examples that you list (git stash and git commit --amend) are easily handled by Mercurial Queues.

No, no, no. Let's get this myth out of the way that Mercurial Queues can somehow be part of a modern revision control system. Mercurial Queues are a simple stack of DUMB patches. The only reason why they are used is that often that is all you really need.

But the moment you need any kind of advanced functionality, such as say, something unimaginable like rebasing a Mercurial Queue against an upstream change that conflicts, you are suddenly dealing with tools that are no more advanced than diff and patch, and most certainly don't support any advanced operation on the patches that they juggle. I heard some modern tools like CVS support an advanced operation they call "merge". I'm still waiting until someone implements a usable version for Mercurial Queues.

So please, the moment you use Mercurial Queues in an argument, you've lost. Mercurial Queues are diff and patch in a fancy packaging, but with all the limitations of those. If your revision control system needs them to have the same functionality as another, you've lost.

The dirty secret is this: Mercurial users use Mercurial Queues because Mercurial got branching wrong. It's as simple as that.

In a way, the Git vs. Mercurial debate feels like vi vs. emacs all over again. Hardcore emacs users never quite understood the appeal of a modal editor; hardcore vi users couldn't quite understand how people lived with an input model that constantly moved their fingers off home row.

Emacs and vi both have their strengths and weaknesses. I've used both over the years sometimes trending to one or the other depending on the circumstances. As I've gotten to know both better, I understand the relative strengths better and know when it makes sense to use either. They're both good tools, and will both keep big user-bases for the foreseeable future.

Can I say the same about Mercurial and Git? That's a resounding NO.

I can accept that some holy wars can't have winners. But we should also be willing to accept that some tools can be just better than others.
I'm not seeing why this is so unreasonable, if someone could fill me in.

The program is for creating iBooks, not eBooks, to be sold through their iBookstore. I'm seeing these more as apps than something like .ePub files or .PDFs.

Unlike apps though, which require an developer license to load yourself, Author gives anyone the ability to run these books on your iPad. It also gives anyone the ability to distribute an iBook outside the iBookstore.

Since licensing every person who wanted to create an iBook would be a pain in the ass for Apple and a barrier to creation, this seems to be the next good option.

It prevents anyone from creating their own iBook marketplace (reasonable) and profiting off of a software that Apple is giving away for free, under the agreement that products of it are sold though their marketplace. No?
What a sad day for free speech and the internet.

The USA is no longer a democracy. Shady companies and the richest couple of assholes owning everything are making the decisions now and instruct their politicians and their law agencies on who to attack.

This will not bode well with "the internet", which is just another term for millions of intelligent people around the world who are not happy with this system anymore. We are waking up and it is going to get ugly.

Copying is not theft. When people download something they probably wouldn't have bought it anyway, or they did afterwards. Intellectual copyright is a fallacy.
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I know, it's just genius what they did with Google+. It's the best social network ever!
You're correct. The iBooks Author app embeds Apple code, both HTML, and Javascript, in the form of easy to use Widgets that enable the functions that make the book more than just text, such as photo galleries, embedded movies, etc.

Thus an iBook produced with the app is a derivative work that includes within it Apple copyrighted code.

Apple's ability to restrict the use of such derivative works is the very same ability the GPL relies on.
Uh, yes, Microsoft DOES charge you a fee...it's called "paying out the ass for your tools".

What did Visual Studio Enterprise cost last time I looked for a small company (like a start up)? $1600 a pop. More than what's needed for a Mac Mini, an iPod Touch, and a Apple Developer License/Cert.

The same tools (XCode) cost $5.

(And you'd still have to pay for your hardware/OS on top of that $1600). And that's not counting MSDN fees, either.

Make no mistake: Microsoft milks its marketshare of developers just as much as anyone else. It's just a different way of pricing.
Can we know for sure some of those folks didn't make those statements after being blackmailed by their record labels or some "interested party"?

The way I see it, people change their positions when:

a)they're blackmailed - either you stop endorsing that shit or you're history

b)they notice everyone else is on the other side and they switch so that they're on the winner's side - see some of the beloved politicians & companies (BSA, MS, etc) pulling the plug on their support of SOPA

It's pretty easy to blackmail a musician when you're the record label. You certainly have far more money than the musician and dying from an overdose happens in the world of the musicians; the death of the musician even helps the record label with sales, doesn't it?
Last I saw, regular books on iBooks could be priced at a maximum of $39.99.
The deliberateness has never once mattered when I was stopped for speeding. It didn't matter if I was aware of my infraction, or if it was intentional. Just the speed. It didn't matter if I only drove over the limit 0.001% of the time, I was still busted.

That's what I'm afraid of. A world where 1 user-posted file that someone claims is protected results in arrests and the total loss of my site.
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I don't think they are really taking on Blackboard. They purchased PowerSchool in 2001, but then sold it in 2006. I think that shows they have no interest in this space, even though if they could sell a system that integrates the iTunes U app into the SIS.
I think glazing is something different - basically, when you're ignoring what's being said.
I've been more considering technological solutions to the problem of governmental reform. The machinery of government could use some repairs.
Thanks for the feedback, guys. I added a bit of code that displays the GitHub links when you hover over each startup. I'm just waiting for the database to finish updating, then I'll push the changes.
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Don't say it then.
Depends on the FSF tool. For many years the output of Bison (FSF's yacc clone) would propagate a GPL onto your entire program is you used it.
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