skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An archive of what we've learned from our past experiences.
I don't know if this is a good thing, but everytime I feel like giving up or wanting to rant about an unsuccessful attempt at building a startup, I post on HN. With each of these posts, I get amazingly insightful comments. These comments range from just simple words of wisdom, quotes, and most of all- people's personal experiences of how they were unsuccessful at their startup and what they've learned.

There seems to be an interest in reading and understanding why something didn't work and what we've learned from it - it's one of the things I value most at HN because I learn from others's past experiences to build something even better. That's how we grow as a startup community.

So I'm thinking, should I put up something out there, a site that just lists where we went wrong with our startups as a kind of go-to site for common mistakes not to make? This could be my next weekend project, but not sure how much help this would be to other HNers.
I believe you, but I was gonna give them I try and apparently I can't!
This is a nice solution, given the limitations of the various service APIs it hooks into, but I feel like it's the wrong solution to a more general problem. If I'm understanding what's happening, a user has to hand over far too much access just to transfer files. In order for me to select one file from service A and have it transmitted to service B, I have to give service C access to all my files on service A. Does anyone else not see a problem with this? It would be the equivalent of the File Upload box in Internet Explorer letting a website see my entire file system just so I can pick one file to upload. This is the kind of allow all nonsense that users let slip by with the proliferation of ActiveX controls, but now instead of arbitrary access on my local machine, I'm giving service access to my cloud storage.
I'm really curious if any common prefix + suffix domains are available. cancercollege.com? yes please.
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If previous seizures are any indication yes. They identify machines by IP and even if its a virtual machine they seize the server running it.

Can't comment on whether or not its effective, and of course if you have a disaster recovery plan and your site pops back up I don't know what they do, I guess they play whack-a-mole with search warrants.
As a fluent speaker of Russian, and to some extent English; having Ukrainian and Hebrew do well enough for business conversations – I can confidently second that.
You admitted you haven't learned French in five months but in at least two years and five months and you're a top 1%. I never doubted you progressed and the results were really good.

You never wrote clearly, have you passed any exam immediately after these five months in France? If so, how was it categorized then?
might wanna put SSL on the thanks/donate page
We're not really referencing anyone else's surveys or reports on these ranking factors, we're more trying to substantiate what we feel are common around the SEO and internet marketing worlds.

One way to look at the data we posted: it's much more likely that an old domain has built up trust, content, and links than a fresh domain, so they are a worthwhile investment for your SEO campaigns.
If you opt to not cherry pick the comparison, and look at the larger picture instead of trying to make it a 1:1 analogous comment, you'll probably find that what the OP of this chain was referring to is that both are shows of excessive waste where government entities are faced with something much larger than what they can lasso in, and are routinely going about very questionable methods to get what they want.
As with many things, there may be more than meets the eye. I'm sure these guys are putting together a lot more functionality that is not visible/ready yet.
We actually see it as part of the solution to the permissions problem. By acting as this universal file provider, you no longer have to give access B or D or any other applications you want to use. We allow users to consolidate who they're giving access to.
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I actually think I've heard this one before, especially when the software was just being released on Windows...
Venkat seems to be right on point yet again.

The idea of the knowledge of the edge cases of a system living in the brains of the hackers as "metis" puts a word to a phenomena I've seen "in the wild". Now the definition of the word "metis" just needs to be condensed down into something shorter than a 5000 word blog post.
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I come to France in the autumn and spring, have been doing so for 5 or 6 years; studied French as a kid, and lived off-and-on in Montreal for about 5 years.

I would not consider myself anywhere near fluent; that is, compared to how I am able to express myself in my native language, Scala. Hah, how clever, I actually am a rank amateur in Scala, but its hot, maybe you'd like to hire me?

Anyway, the point is, I've met anglophones who have lived here full-time for several years and, wow, sometimes the accent is just painful, all the words are there, but the ability to articulate themselves in French just isn't happening.

Really, language acquisition has to occur at a young age, the earlier the better. Furthermore, building up a vocabulary is helpful, but you can't think phrases in your native native language and then speak them in another language without creating confusion on the part of your listener(s)

I'd really love to hear the C1s, I think I might have a good laugh -- Skype anyone?
It's worse since HBO's subscriber fee is closer to $8 per user per month. It's the most expensive cable channel on a per user fee basis. ESPN is around $4 per user.
A caveat here...

Say you carve out prior inventions, existing knowledge, exception to non-competing projects, etc. You think you're safe... BUT you ask your employer to reimburse your high-speed internet connection. All of a sudden, they can argue that you are using company resources (though off-hours) and therefore even if the project does not overlap, it's the company's IP. Same thing with using your (company-paid-for) iPhone to do testing, business negotiation, etc. I may sound paranoid and I don't know where to draw the line. I think everyone ought to be careful about this sort of things.
Why not? This isn't necessarily all they're doing with their time and (assumed) talent.
Much better than the Ad that swings into the middle of the browser screen tag
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This has to be one of the most hacker-friendly companies out there. Kudos!
Shouldn't be hard to get this working on maildir/nmh mailbox directories, which would be super-useful.
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SSH into your Android phone
For most of these startups thats even worse... Linkedin's P/E right now is 895 ... Apple is 17
I think that it all boils down to how good your end product is. Tweets by top influencers will bring in some initial traffic but it'll quickly die out. I think it would make more sense to build a landing page to showcase your product early and then use the 2-3k to generate a slow but steady stream of signups of people that will try it. You'll get a much bigger bang for your buck and have some extra cash lying around. But like I mentioned, the % of active users will really depend on your end product.
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The biggest problem with this theory is that iTunes is hardly an enjoyable experience on OSX either!
Yeah - even though rms would still complain about that sentence, the first version is just painfully wrong. Why bother to distinguish between the OS and the kernel if you're going to attribute the former to the wrong person? It's not like the kernel is named after him or anything!
Well, I'm not saying never leave the bedroom ;-)

I'm also talking about living abroad, not hooking up with a foreigner in NYC and she plays teach the American to butcher X language
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my dog started acting up when I turned this on, any relation?
We are in a Bubble
Yep, this is extremely annoying. For an application that is supposed to catalog my library of media, it's quite inefficient with a large number of items. Without knowing what the possible solutions to this are, all I can say is that there needs to be a distinction between collections of media which are expected to be more reasonable in size (say an album, or one artist's catalog) and libraries which may grow to be quite huge. I have terabytes on external HDs that I won't let iTunes touch for a variety of reasons, leaving it pretty much no function other than to push things to the iPod or AppleTV.
To be fair, it's pretty horrid on OS X as well - several of these issues apply cross-platform (iTunes WiFi sync error messages are presented to me on a daily basis running Lion, for example.)
Indeed, when I was at MIT there was a exhibit in the Doc Edgerton hall that did exactly this with florescent food coloring for the water and a strobe. You could turn a dial and change the speed of the strobe, and the 'drops' would change direction into or out of the spouts. There were two spouts with streams hitting each other. A very cool effect.
Well, maybe in whatever line of work you've chosen, or just whatever big company you've decided to work for, but it's never been a requirement for me.
It would be good even for not-old-timers. I know a couple of bioinformatics people and they're definitely experts on one topic: RSI.

Unfortunately not everything is done on a massive scale so not everything is automated.
I understand that you are trying to do a MVP, but 'does not currently work in Internet Explorer' is stretching the meaning of 'viable' a bit too far.

This tool is supposed to make developers life easier when building a file upload tool? Getting it to work in IE is the most annoying part, but this plugin is not offering any help.
I always wonder why so many languages eschew multiline comments. Is it monumentally harder to make a parser that supports it or is this a conscious decision?
I think intuitive understanding gained by practice is enough for every programmer, not just me. Learning by programming is easier than reading research papers and digging the theory. What more, it was a prerequisite for me: I could not understand papers on type systems or category theory before I saw Haskell code. I heard similar opinions often - Haskellers learn Haskell first, can code comfortably, and only then are able to read about the theory. Theory seems hard, dull and useless at first. Even now, I feel a lot of it is cruft.

The semi-official motto of Haskell is "Avoid success at any cost", not world domination. It is enough as a tool for hackers, not for everyone. Haskell expands extremely slowly, yet steadily.
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Another idea: start high and ratchet down with each subsequent word list?
That's why I made the list clickable so you can quickly check to see what combinations are available.
The OP said "have to create an account", not "log in to an account": it is generally much simpler to log in to an existing PayPal account than type in your credit card number, and billing address.
RapidShare, MediaFire distance themselves from MegaUpload
Or you can just select it on the drop down list of any other page. The pkgpart seems to only preselect the item in the dropdown.
'I'm willing to give up x% of my company. How much cash will you give me for it?'

In theory, that should be the same as saying 'my company is worth y% of what company Z is worth, so this is how much cash you need to pay in order to get x% of it', but in practice, you can't always make that conclusion based on how people behave.
Iirc, it's basically two people, the owner and an employee, and the owner does most things himself, from assembling servers to setting up accounts. Provisioning in particular he admits is currently rather suboptimal. I've had a good experience overall, though.
You are allowed to have two accounts (this is even officially recommended by PayPal), one with micropayments and the other with normal payments; as you know the amount of money being requested before transferring the user to PayPal, you can use the two accounts to get the best possible rate in all cases.
Internal Server Error when submitting my email :(

Looks like a great service. But where do images get uploaded to? I currently run a site called Desktop.ly where users can upload a picture of their desktop. When uploaded Imagemagick is used to convert the image into different versions using the Carrierwave gem (Desktop.ly is built using the brilliant Ruby on Rails!).

How does Filepicker.io work like this, where are images stores, can this be a custom Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files storage? Can images be resized? Does/will it work with RoR to offer a seamless integration?

Plus, what happens with downtime? Of course this will be a big thing with many web services.

Hope you're able to answer my questions. Also, check out Desktop.ly ;)

http://desktop.ly
> Really, language acquisition has to occur at a young age, the earlier the better. Furthermore, building up a vocabulary is helpful, but you can't think phrases in your native native language and then speak them in another language without creating confusion on the part of your listener(s)

This is a pretty controversial assertion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis
I think the conspiracy runs deeper .... they've made iTunes so specifically bad on OS X they're trying to drive users to linux where there is no iTunes at all!
//Rather than just shouting "bubble" why not take an analytical approach to this by comparing them to other consumer SaaS companies.

The companies you are comparing it to are part of the bubble too. Their valuations are not set in stone.
That's true as far as it goes.

Nevertheless, I believe that there are opportunities for query multithreading that aren't being taken.

For example, a query like this appends the second query results to the first, and the graphs both:

sourcetype="blah" | search blahblah | eval series="label1" | append maxtime=600 [search anotherlongsearch | eval series="label2" ] | timechart count(somefield) by series

There is no reason why that second search couldn't be executed simultaneously, and that would approximately half the time for the whole query to run (assuming sufficient CPU power etc).
Anyone remember animated <title> tags? You put a bunch of them into the document and the browser would render them one by one. So disturbing.
That happens because Apple believes that whatever comes out of their hands is God's personal gift to mankind. The problem is not the software, the problem is you.
This isn't a "sledgehammer" approach. The operators made an explicit choice to stick a bunch of mailing lists and websites on the same machine as a remailer. A reasonable person would expect the remailer to eventually be used to commit a crime.

It's like keeping your kids school books and a kilo of cocaine both in your cars trunk, then complaining when the FBI takes the whole car into evidence.
You may have read sarcasm into my comment where there was none. I am, in fact, looking for an analogous operation which provides the Feds with destructive incentives in the area of cybercrime enforcement.
[Mandatory Xzibit meme comment.] but really... I'm still digesting the idea of js.js.
Do you mean just to add media/quickview playlists, or to index the entire library? (assuming the latter)

Given the default behavior of organizing all of your media within the iTunes directory, it makes perfect sense and would be a great feature. I'm sure there are other people more qualified to comment, but my first impression of the problem is that without some clever implementation there would be some major speed issues with large libraries.
They also provide the option in the select list when you checkout. Of course, asking a user to "View Source" seems more geeky!
Law enforcement, failed hard drive, link outage, whatever...

They are all the same == Downtime.

My point is that if you have a "server" that can be seized, you have not designed a robust system.

Imagine the FBI trying to seize Google or Amazon or Facebook (well, a lot easier in the case of facebook only because they have so few datacenters by comparison.)
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Sweden is a good place for speaking English, but try e.g. Japan. You won't get far with English even in IT-companies.

Even in Sweden you will miss a lot of important informal discussions if you can't speak Swedish.
50X revenue is perhaps a definition of ridiculous. They cannot grow this fast for long enough to make that rational. This is greater fool/strategic acquistion territory.
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Hillman passed away at home on April 18th at 6:03 pm in the presence of his loving wife, two children, his sister, sister in law and brother in law. He was 51 years old and died after a long and fiercely fought battle with colon cancer.

Hillman deeply loved his work, all of it -- film directing, graphic design, all aspects of new media -- and he especially loved his talented mentors, friends and students in these fields. His favorite topic was inspiration and he made sure to surround himself with it and find it in everything -- his colleagues, his family, New York City, art, film and all of you.

He loved you all and took energy from those with whom he corresponded, exchanged ideas and with his fans.

Sweet Prince Hill, true gentleman, good dad and passionate artist, Rest in Peace.
Hillman passed away at home on April 18th at 6:03 pm in the presence of his loving wife, two children, his sister, sister in law and brother in law. He was 51 years old and died after a long and fiercely fought battle with colon cancer.

Hillman deeply loved his work, all of it -- film directing, graphic design, all aspects of new media -- and he especially loved his talented mentors, friends and students in these fields. His favorite topic was inspiration and he made sure to surround himself with it and find it in everything -- his colleagues, his family, New York City, art, film and all of you.

He loved you all and took energy from those with whom he corresponded, exchanged ideas and with his fans.

Sweet Prince Hill, true gentleman, good dad and passionate artist, Rest in Peace.
The one I love is when I create a playlist, verify it has songs in it (on iTunes), sync my iPod and the playlist is empty. Completely empty.

Then the duplicate playlists that appear out of nowhere for whatever reason. But they're only duplicated on the device.

Then there's the need to use a third-party hack to detect and remove dead tracks, or add new ones when I'm not purchasing musing from iTunes. As far as Apple is concerned, I must purchase my music from them, not from Amazon. So something so mundane as a folder watch isn't needed.

It's unfortunate that we love the devices but have no choice but to put up with the horrid crap that is the software.
Seems like a non-automated or a semi-automated provisioning on their side; I wonder what else isn't automated.
LMAO! Thank you.

It's the same for me when I'm in England, the locals just don't understand me.

"you know what I mean, right?", I say, and they respond with, "oh, royt, e means royt!" WTF is royt, can't these people articulate themselves properly? k-rist they invented the language and we had to improve it, god bless America, rush limpbag and everything that makes the homeland free of the brave.

"ave a pint yank, ave a pint"
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They have a viable business.

It's enterprise software and they are the market leaders for the whole "unstructured data analysis" segment (which is a real segment, and has real demand)

That makes the business essentially a sales organization with a R&D wing. The CEO "is well known for taking Hyperion from $500M in 2001 to revenues of almost $1B in 2007"[1], so he seems to understand that process well.

[1] http://www.splunk.com/view/about-us/SP-CAAAAH8
On iPhone I use http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/
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Which is why I have been using MediaMonkey as much as I can with my iPhone, iPad, and iPod. I hate when I am forced to use iTunes for an upgrade. It is like going to the dentist.
Alright; you're now allowed to read and write English, but you can't use any of the words in the Oxford English Dictionary, as they are a copyrighted API.
Don't forget the eponymous "Under construction" animated gif. The halcyon days of web design.
I think they should offer fewer classes until they can accomodate those who are interested in the existing ones, but I'm guessing they're trying to be all entrepreneurial and first-mover-advantage and oh look everybody's getting a $1B valuation these days. They also made me sign up twice.
They don't like clones of games, but I haven't heard of emulators having any trouble. Stella (http://stella.sourceforge.net/) has been around for years without problems. Hopefully it'll stay that way!
If you're thinking about it, do it. I've had the new Snipt on Prgmr for a month or so now and I've been 100% happy (and my wallet's happier, too).

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Think DeVry more than Khan.
Buyvm client here too, great service though always sold out.
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That sounds like a LaTeX koan. If you really must use LaTeX, eventually you reach the state of just writing the content and to heck with the formatting, or you go nuts and learn to write a proper style file. You are pretty certain not to volunteer to write up the department newsletter with lots of pictures from the spring picnic.
I do not know of any, pulling from recent memory-however the point of my post was to highlight that you (in the general sense) can't reasonably deduce from alaskamiller's post there's going to be an exact parallel with cybercrime enforcement and drug enforcement; what I took from alaskamiller's post was that cybercrime enforcement shows a lot of the same characteristics as the war on drugs, as myself and other posters have already highlighted.
The only actual error in there is the 'anchor' attribute (should be 'name'), the rest is just warnings for self-closing <br/> tags and unencoded ampersands. Not that bad, considering it's still using an HTML 4 doctype.
Whose idea was it to use an XML file for a non-human-readable library file? SQLite would sing in this use case.