skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be exactly what you are after, but check out http://aboutus.org

In short, it's a wiki that houses information about domains and what their purposes/uses are.
Entrepreneur or Small Business Owner? Does it matter?
It should be pointed out that at least with the mathy lectures, its the same material as is listed on Itunes U etc
Uhm, honestly, I consider that comment really inappropriate. Someone asks about books and you tell him that he must be a Nazi. Note for future reference in dealing with Germans: jokes where you call them a Nazi == not funny.
I'm using tollfreemax.com and added a phone number to FeedbackArmy.com weeks ago.

I recommend having a phone number and putting it everywhere. I know when I see it, I feel better.

No one calls me and I still get a lot of contact through the contact form. But I still think it provides comfort to people seeing the number there. I had one customer who was trying to get a response out of me but my email kept going to his spam folder. I finally emailed him from another address but if I didn't think of this, the phone number would have given him a last resort to reach out and strangle eer get the issue resolved.

If someone does call, I'll answer in my best phone voice, help out, and get on with what I was doing.
Unless they happen to get a patent on their small, disruptive idea...

Caveat: And don't infringe on any of the nuclear arsenal the big leagues have. And don't get bogged down in litigation to defend against infringement. Fortunately it's usually much cheaper for the big leagues to license a patent or buy a start-up outright than it is to try to bury them through litigation.
Oh one other thing about tollfreemax--I use them but can't recommend them. The service is fine once I got going. However the backend user interface is the most awful confusing thing you'll ever encounter. In fact, the whole user experience of the site is the most awful thing you'll ever encounter. Don't believe me? Signup and you'll understand.

That said, I called technical support, and they "trained" me on how to get around the quirks of the system. The technical support was absolutely excellent. I was surprised and I think it'd be cheaper for them to fix their site rather than have every customer call technical support.
" It is so low, I want to pay extra with my bill (but I won’t)."

Saying this for the only service you're actually paying for say much about what you truly believe about paying for startup services.
When I put ubuntu on my machine at home firefox 3 seemed substantially slower than it did on windows. I'm not sure if FF3 is crappy on iinux or if there was something about my install that was screwed up.
I think Zed's Son of Sam may do what you're after:

http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/sos/index.html
> "I literally got my ass kicked on the exam." = Wrong.

Usually. I'm sure conditions exist where such a statement evaluates to true.
Twitter’s protected updates privacy problem
It aggregates the data from various sources and makes an attempt to present it neatly, but results-wise it's nothing special. People who wanted to be found (e.g. with blogs, Facebook, Linked In accounts, etc) were found, while all others were not or they were buried in a lot of noise. As such it is marginally more convenient than regular googling and nothing to lose the pants over.

If it were able to understand that this guy here is the same guy as that guy over there going by the account nickname, and then link both to an actual person, then - yeah - that'd be interesting, very interesting.
Next Generation iPhone Model Revealed in Firmware
I'm not sure what you mean by, "have to register where you live". Apart from all the standard BS about corporate-friendly laws, the reason to do Delaware is simple:

Delaware makes it really easy to incorporate. You pay a small (periodic) fee, and that's pretty much it. You don't have to run an ad in the paper (like you do in NYC!). You don't have to wave a rubber chicken around. You can do it from a web app with a PayPal account, and then a week later have an EIN/tax id.
Unless or until overturned on appeal.
My favourite example of this type of abuse comes from Radio Australia: "To see a 70 year old woman, literally glued to her television..."
I would recommend:
1) The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli (read by Napoleon)
2) Certain to Win by Chet Richards (talks about OODA loop by John Boyd)
Yahoo directory is a good start.
I've never done something like this myself, but what about using something like http://www.dmoz.org/?
Era of small exit
Such a waste of a witty username, eh?

If you dislike a story, you can make a comment with your issues. I'd recommend being precise.

If the story is not Hacker News material, then you can flag it.

I used to really want submission downmodding as well, but now I'm really glad it's not here. The conversations that come up from controversial links are always worth the price of admission.
I think the whole point of the article was that the figurative usage of the word isn't a sign of mental deficiency.
More importantly, with those numbers, you could decide whether it's really worth the hassle (or expense, if you're hiring sales people)...
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There are idiomatic phrases like that. For example, I wouldn't consider it wrong to say "I literally fucked that exam up" because "to fuck up" is a vulgar idiom for "to botch" and usually has nothing to do with literal sex (not that sex can't be fucked up). So it translates to "I literally botched that exam", which is not an abuse of "literally".
What about a toll free voice mail?

I have no problem talking to people on the phone but I doubt they'll call at a good time (yes, not an ideal situation) so I may as well cut to the chase and try to find something cheaper.

Search results for "toll free voice mail" yield plenty of choices ... anything good? Is the strategy itself bad (I wouldn't advertise it as a voice mail box)?
I'm going to allege that this is used by the press to avoid libel suits.
Use Google's Website Optimizer to do AB testing with the different phrases that you've come up with.

http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
This stuff is SCARY!!

I have been playing around searching for people I know, I came to know that a friend of mine and a close neighbor have court records. One had his house foreclosed before and one had a misdemeanor, I don’t know what to think.
> unless by "sustainable energy" we mean proven technologies like nuclear, which leftists inevitably don't

Oh wow, stereotyping much?
I would say this solves this by allowing you to batch segments of that bulk... a streaming bulk transfer may not be possible because you don't know what server the data is on, and what order it comes in, etc... Google has had a lot of success building web applications using this generic, split-up way of storing data... it sucks for one box, but for their cluster of so many, that makes up for it. I haven't had problems with the example queries like what you're asking for, if the dataset that it modifies is small.
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Legal Field of Gray: On Ownership of Content
Last year, reddit explored just how cool Obama could get: http://blogs.sun.com/kevin/entry/cool_cooler_coolest_and_bey...
The "cowboy persona" is a myth, completely fabricated. He bought the ranch in the early stages of planning his presidency bid, following the advice (probably) of people such as Karl Rove. Now that the ranch has served its purpose, it's up for sale.

Being a stickler for formal dress and punctuality - I see that more as an indication of insecurity.
Yes, as someone who voted up "adenosineetriphosphate.com" figured out, that can be done. I limited it to one view per unique IP address to avoid that problem in the future. Thank you.
Ask HN: Upsides and Downsides of Facebook Integration
Dear hackers,

No one here can sanely deny the power of Facebook. Whether you market a whopper, print pictures, plant a garden, or send gifts - the opportunities seem boundless. So far, Facebook also seems fairly open - open apis, access to their users, open source software.

As my company considers different levels of integration with Facebook, I would love to hear opinions and experiences about whether Facebook has been a great opportunity, or something less beneficial for your projects.

-- EDIT --

More specifically, I'm interested in opinions on the difference of "owning" your users vs. letting facebook manage identity and the network.

If a freemium startup has anything of value - I would think it's "their" users.

The discussion between creating a closed, gated community and opening up is finished I think. Open up. But facebook presents other opportunities and other risks that I'd like to hear more about.

-- end EDIT --

Thank you!
There are pictures of Obama at the beach while he was still president-elect. The dude is ripped.

This isn't on the beach, but it's the first I came across: http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/22/barack-hard-abs/
You sully a proud German tradition of marching on Poland by only giving credit to the nazis.
It does make sense, so long as Palm (or any other company for that matter) holds enough patents against its lead competitor it can blatantly rip their opponent off, so long as their counter-suit has a higher value than the initial lawsuit.

It's precisely the kind of MAD theory that worked throughout the cold war. It works extremely well when things don't happen instantaneously. Missile launches between the USA and USSR were so delayed by physics that you could shoot your opponent back before they'd even killed you, it was like a masochistic Mexican standoff. Because lawsuits can take on the order of years it's effect is more profound, especially as any delay tactic in court can make the end result even more devastating.

I mean I've heard of judges suspending patent use to try and hurry the case through court; I'm guessing his justification was he didn't want to die before it was resolved. I mean imagine how fast Apple would settle a patent case if a judge said "Until this case is resolved, both parties have to suspend the sale of their products using a touch screen."
There's no "may" just an "is".
Hahah, I bet those ties are around 6-10 years old!

I should know, I went to his highschool (Exeter) which requires ties as its dress code. Its not like you wear ties at Harvard, is it?
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The first book I checked to make sure was included in this tread was "Supplying War". There are many standard texts on conflict, but that one somehow misses many lists. I think the examination of conflicts from the point of view of logistics serves two very good purposes: it's an essential education in making sure a force is supplied and it's a good perspective of looking at a conflict as a long term temporal and spacial endeavor.

"Command in War" is also quite good, and I have not yet read "Transformation in War".
Legally a fact doesn't mean actually a fact. I can name a few people who legally killed someone and then it turns out they didn't.

But if its your pet peeve, you should read the New York Post, where they drop the "allegedly" and go right to calling them "scum" "perps," "villains," and "thugs." :)
Well, I've made my decision. I'm going to go with iPhone programming. I've actually done enough c++ programming to know what it's about. Having never done any iPhone programming, I can't make a real comparison. The library has an online copy of "Beginning iPhone Development" by Mark and LaMarche and I will work through that after working through Apple's Objective-C book. Thanks for all your input.
Those are cool - how long before this one (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20275154 ) ends up on Schneier's Friday blog?
Learning to build iPhone apps - resources for starting out
PR spam at it's finest
This might be worthwhile if it was something like that capitol hill program, which guarantees an internship on capitol hill. But otherwise, it's probably a waste of money. Every single internship I have gotten was through people I knew. I'd really question the value of an unpaid internship in something like engineering and computer science. While I would be willing to volunteer at the internships I have gotten, everyone of them either paid me or said that it would be paid in the interview.
The URL Control part is the key. A lot of spammers and scammers are already doing this themselves using TinyURL as a front for affilaite re-directs.

It might be morally questionable though for Twitter to hijack the Amazon links of the everyman who is just posting something with no intention of making a profit from it.
+1 for #6. It's a great read. It would be fun to teach a high school history class around it.
Still riggable with a little effort (Tor re-login + BeautifulSoup script).

Does dicking with this affect anything important or is it more of a prank?
If you want to do business in California (for example because that's were I live) and your business is incorporated in Delaware, you have to "register" the business in California and designate a "registered agent". Plus you have to file & pay taxes in California and then file taxes in Delaware. Any business incorporated outside California is called a Foreign Entity (not kidding).

Here's a link for you

http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/corp/corp_faq.htm#question8

I agree the whole "corporation friendly" stuff is BS.

Don't know abut NYC, but you can form a business in CA just as easily. Go to a web page, press the buttons and a week later you get the legal looking documents. I did this to form an LLC.

A final comment. After I had setup my LLC (to do consulting) and I proudly showed up at my accountant's office at year's end, he basically told me I was wasting my time and money. Until you get to $1M is revenue per year lawyers won't go after you (there's no money in it for them). His words, not mine.
Seeking hacker to set up Arc News Forum
It's probably a day or two worth of work for someone who knows what they're doing. If you are interested in job contact me fn (at) altgate.com or via my blog at http://www.altgate.com.

Thx!
The Code Monkey's Guide to Cryptographic Hashes for Content-Based Addressing
Wikipedia provides dumps of it's link table: http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html
Google - the paid ads tend to be the cheapest - I got 100 minutes a month for $4.95 in 2006 plus it was a vanity number.
Check out: http://www.userscape.com/products/helpspot/

It is difficult to navigate and understand what is going on. Of course we get the idea and understand, but think from the perspective of a prospective customer. This is typical of the type of website that has a phone number on the front page. It looks unprofessional. When you get larger you can post your automated answering line (like 1-800-NOSOFTWARE for Salesforce.com) on the front page, because it's limited overhead.
A suggestion - your question is too vague. At the very least, tell us if you're looking at Facebook for mass marketing or integration with your site.

Without any context, I'm going to assume you're asking about Facebook as a time waster. It does have tremendous power to draw people who already waste a lot of time to waste more time. In this aspect, the opportunities here are terrible because this market is already flooded with games, social comparisons, or super poking your friends to death.
Make all of the <whatever>@isms.pk address aliases of a single mailbox (or forward them all to a single mailbox). Poll that single mailbox for email.

Or, try something like http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/sos/
Most Germans I've met have been quite relaxed about that and even joked about it themselves. I guess one should be careful on internet forums though.
An alternate view (text not safe for work):

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/van/144733448.html
Ha. That operator better type carefully, because there's no way to check whether he's "right", and any mistake will screw up everything :)

Anyway, good, and devious, thinking. Here's an improvement:

1. Start backend. App requests salt over encrypted channel from out-of-jurisdiction web service... whose controller keeps a very close eye on developments at the remote station, including but not limited to a constant ping, camera, and/or motion detectors.

2. as above

But man, you're not talking about a hash any more, you're talking about encryption fo' realz. Security at this level has kind of left the arena of salting hashes and has moved on to disk encryption and tamper proofing. You wouldn't be starting the backend and getting the operator to type a salt, you'd be starting the secure DB server and the op would be entering the password to mount the disk. Remotely.

I'd love to get into a discussion of what a real secure system looks like, but we're getting a bit off topic .. heh
Maybe he's wearing the old school tie to get more VC cash.
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Misuse of "proverbial(ly)" is just as prevalent but doesn't get nearly as much attention as "literally".
I've seen a lot of different configurations just to address this issue.

In the end, in the real world, if your meetings run late, they start late. 15 minutes doesn't matter that much.

It's kind of like the guy who only smokes at certain times each day -- makes him feel better that he's doing something about his smoking, but it's just a mask and has face value only.

Reality is reality. Screwing around with artificial end-times for meetings rarely ever prevents late meeting people from continuing to run over into the next meeting.
Although it is great to have lectures, slides etc. online (check also the Open Course Ware initiative from MIT), it is still a difference if you are just listening to the lectures or if you can really interact with the people attending.
Education is more about interaction and struggling for ideas than it is about listening to lectures.
Still great complimentary resources ... (also for lecturers).
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The podcast player that was rejected by Apple is now approved (but it's neutered)
Delaware is business-friendly. They have a special court set up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Court_of_Chancery) with a whole lot of business case precedent. So, if you have a dispute with a Delaware corp, it's easier to predict the outcome.
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What websites are you talking about? I haven't seen any Rapleaf ads.
You're doing it wrong man.

1. Keep the aff links out
2. Push it on social news sites
3. Get links
4. Get ranked in Google for a decent keyword
5. Insert aff links
6. Profit
Not in the US. Libel is severely restricted esp. against the press. Successful suits are extremely rare. "Allegedly" was thrown in to prevent the defense in a trial from successfully raising the issue that the media biased the jury pool against the defendant.
Don't forget Clicky Analytics.
http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/321750484_ae443d5483_o.jp...
My username has to do with my first submission and serves as a reminder of my New Year resolutions.
Ask YC: Rate Our Start-up
Intervals (myintervals.com)

So this has been done before, and it's hit critical mass, but we're trying to reach those types of people who charge by the hour and need to keep track of time, something most of the project management apps out there lack. Check it out and tell us what you think.
HN isn't stealing the conversation, nor is there any reason for the OP to request, expect, or wish that the comments here are actually posted there.

If this was a YouTube video, man, you'd want nothing to do with those comments. In either case, the comments originate from whatever place hosts the discussion. It's like thinking window should go into the store. But that's not what they're doing -- they're window shopping.
different != "expressing individuality"
I mean that any site which helps some random social spreadsheeting startup choose some dumb name like Oodlu or Uffli is NOT MY FRIEND.

(Thankfully for you and them, my friendship is not worth much in USD.)
Ask YC: Any Stats iPhone OS Versions?
Does anyone have any stats, e.g. from Web analytics, of what % of iPhone users are running different versions of the firmware, e.g. 2.0, 2.1, 2.2?
Web-Only Newsrooms Entering Pulitzer Contest for First Time
That line was just evil.
Yes, the "Coolest-est" entry has made me laugh countless times. Every time I see it: still awesome!
No. Never again. Customers who expect telephone support are simply not worth it. Even if we could, somehow, charge twice as much for those customers, I would still not be willing to put my number on our website.
I don't think blog comments and the discussion here are equivalent. When you comment here, you're talking to the same people every time. People you "know", people with reputations and existing viewpoints you're already familiar with. There's a context greater than the article.

When you comment on a blog, you're talking to who knows who, who knows when. Conversations here also last. Commenting on a blog is hit and run, check it if your diligent. I follow up on my HN threads throughout the day and beyond.
I feel like "allegedly" is one of those euphemisms that swung full circle and became a dysphemism. If you allegedly did something, it's really bad.

I think the saddest case of the euphemism 180 is the word "lady". In the word's true sense, it's a huge compliment for a woman to be called a "lady", but it has been cheapened by the (originally ironic or euphemistic) diminutive and insulting uses ("bag lady", "dragon lady", "cleaning lady").
Dan, you wear sweatpants and slippers every day already!
Uncov's Response to the Arrington Drama
Doesn't bug #4 eliminate supposed bugs #2 and #3? The intent for the author of the code would have produced bugs #2 & #3, however since that isn't the case, there are only really 3 bugs.

Either way, this rant doesn't really offer any insight on the programs context, and what the author should have done. Nothing to learn here folks.

PS - Can we stop using "epic fail" and other internet-fanboy like colloquialisms in our titles please?
could you google the dictionary and use top 10 results from each? i don't know if this is decent idea or not. maybe someone will tell me :)
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when did your startup launch?
The UI also takes some elements from iTunes, in particular the "accordion" selectors for subjects and universities.
Thanks for the feedback.

The question is vague. I'm most interested in shared user-bases. Facebook owns the network of users, and apps feed from this network. I'll try to clarify my question.
So, how do you check if your data is encrypted? Open the hard drive and look at the platters?

I'm sorry, I am not convinced. I would much rather run software than I can a) audit and b) check the output of.
I wasn't very sure about RTM either until I read this: http://sheenonline.biz/2008/06/super-charge-remember-the-mil...

There's still some things I'd like to see change about RTM, but discovering how to really get the most out of smart-lists and tags made me appreciate RTM a lot more.