skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, you are pretty much wrong with all your points, at least that which you ascribe to my motives and thoughts. You are trying to twist my meaning into something different and then judge me on that - Classic straw man argument.

My post is a personal opinion and an honest representation of how I feel at the moment. I feel deeply concerned with what happened, how it happened and potential consequences.

It should be understood as a whole and not a series of logical points, taken separately and over analysed to try convey meaning and messages which simply aren't intended or even there.

I could counter every one of your arguments, but not going to go into it on this forum, I have basically had my say. If you have a lot more to argue about, perhaps make a blog post and we can move the discussion there.
Songs are comparable in duration (and file size), videos are not. With UGC, video file size can easily vary by the factor of 1,000. So the infrastructure required to transcode, store, and deliver a 5GB file would cost much more, compared to a 5MB file. It's difficult to come up with "simple" pricing that would fit all.
Thanks for taking time out of your day to talk to me I needed it.
Can you tell me more about this "pepper" bug. I built a few video streaming/recording sites for some of my clients and I have yet to run into a case were the audio wasn't recorded. Maybe I can provide some guidance.
This deserves to be read.
Would it be hard to have a mobile style sheet for HN with pressable buttons?
Really, some fairly high percentage of readers must be reading on mobile. I can tell YC is committed to keeping the site simple as possible but 30 minutes of work would save actual man-hours of zooming in 500% in order to click that astoundingly tiny arrow.
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Bina Technologies Closes $6.5M Series B for Genome Analysis
For reference, I deleted a comment which said, "Personally I believe nobody benefits from abuse, because it is not a zero-sum game." or something very close to that.

For me sexism implies discrimination, and discrimination implies abuse. But it's kind of a side topic, so I'll try to stick to sexism.

The reason I think nobody benefits from sexism is that I don't look at it as simply man vs. woman. The healthiest situation is where a man and woman have a balanced relationship with each other. If a man takes some of the woman's power (by abusing his own), that relationship is weakened. Thus, although he may have more power, he actually loses overall because the cost of his imbalanced relationship with her more than offsets the gain in power. That's all I mean. Extrapolate from this as much as you like, ultimately I believe that relationships are what matter.
Lose, lose, lose, lose.
I had no such problem. Nor have I ever had a problem with Ken's site.

That said, Google cache is an easy workaround:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
Maybe it's the agency problem. The mid level manager making the decisions is not a shareholder.
Although I am a fan of plan 9 in general, I don't really see how posting a link to the Wikipedia article is useful.
Not sure how I missed that on a reread, but it's still puzzling why he firstly recommends replacing 'the man' with the other 'the man'.
To be honest, I haven't sold many copies of my Spanish language app. The last time I scrolled through a generic search on my iPad, I was down around 147th out of 150. Downloads picked up a bit once I released the iPad version in January. However, it's a crowded market and I've got a long way to go. A new version is coming out in the next 2-3 weeks. More words, more audio, another game, etc.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?...

Feel free to click the feedback link in the app and tell me what you think I need to focus on next. At the moment, I'm scratching my own itch, plus learning iOS at a deeper level now. It's also a thrill to see people from all over the world using my app.
My machines are named after Firefly/Serenity people/places.

NAS: Skyplex

Laptop: Inara

Media Server: Serenity

Router: Persephone
That's ad hominem and unnecessary and downright offensive. You should judge Dave McClure on his acts as an investor or advisor. HackerNews is meant to be a constructive forum, and this comment was anything but.
I stopped using Google's search a long time ago because of the monstrous "instant" feature. Sure, you can turn it off, but you have to be signed in to do that. And if you're signed in, you're being very closely monitored. It wasn't that hard.
A lot of people don't know anything about Plan 9.
It looks like I'll be sticking with Fever[1]. The assigning-temperatures-to-posts thing seemed like a gimmick at first, but it actually works somewhat well, and you can ignore it if you want to. It also syncs with Reeder[2] on the iPhone/iPad which I've been using with Google Reader and am reluctant to part with.

[1]: http://www.feedafever.com

[2]: http://reederapp.com/
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Watch the video first and avoid the Vimeo comments until you've seen the product unveiled.

Then after that, the product site is here: http://www.hovding.com/en/how/

Very clever thinking from two entrepreneurs.
Sure, but is Hacker _News_ really the place to learn?
Investing is one way people plan for the future. Helping people plan for the future is a good thing. Algorithmic trading has mostly focused on (ultra) short timescales, without much regard for future planning. I think the world would benefit tremendously if more of that effort went toward investing on longer timescales. Investing is still almost fully manual today, and packed with inefficiencies and costs that could be automated away.
The author touted DuckDuckGo returning different results as an advantage, so I've been looking for differences between DuckDuckGo and Google, not similarities, and semantic data pulled is the easiest way to show that Google results are more informative faster.

After all, if we ignore all the sugar from Google results, and they merely return the same top result, why then would I use DuckDuckGo?

I've been fooling with it for 15 minutes now. Are there any good examples of DuckDuckGo results being more relevant than Google results?
Fantastic approach. Great post.

My takeaways:
(1) Look for unconventional ways to create a MVP
(2) Hustle is a very valuable asset to a startup. For startups with high hustle-to-technical ratios, they may consider building a culture around hustle rather than code.
A more interesting question is why not ChromeOS ? Most of what you want to do in a 'lean back' sort of experience ChromeOS should be really good at, and you get cost effective on the peripherals.

However, Android doesn't require the backend support that ties you to Google's cloud that ChromeOS does.

So the interesting question for me is, when do we see something Firefox OSish for this kind of box?
"email is not a luxury any more, email is a necessity"

Is it just me, or is there something rather awkward with this sentence?

Personally, I believe a better open-source webmail would be the way to go, not a desktop client. Roundcube[1] has come a long way, but there's still a big gap to get anywhere near gmail.

[1]http://www.roundcube.net/
Because they have a higher probability of making money if he likes their idea? Its not because hes a super nice, cool guy.
No, the Stalinist party was criticized plenty. Not in an effective way, clearly Stalin was good at running a dictatorship, but still.

Wearing an Anti-Flag shirt is kinda 2002, and Congress is certainly not passing laws against it.
Am I the only one who would love something like this, but with standard expandable memory and, maybe, a SATA or PCIe port?
Oh! Agreed completely now—there are times and algorithms that are definitely best done mutably. (Another plug for the ST monad, I suppose, since it can make it clear when you're doing such a thing.)
When I first learned who Dave McClure was and saw his flippant attitude and penchant for profanity, I was not a fan. I thought he seemed extremely unprofessional and was making other startup founders look bad. But over time as I learned more about him, I've definitely softened on him and now greatly respect him, for the following reasons:

First off, he's incredibly open about the fact that he could never fit in at a normal corporation due to his "eccentric ways", and by doing so empowers others who are going through the same thing. He doesn't necessarily encourage others to be like him, but he does (implicitly) encourage people to "Be Yourself" and to not be afraid to acknowledge that you may be different from the people around you and if so find a way of life that suits you better.

And most importantly, he has only the best of intentions - He truly wants young, up-and-coming founders to succeed and not have to go through the bullshit that he had to go through, and that seems to be his driving force in life.

Dave McClure naturally creates a certain type of culture in everything he does by way of his unique personality. If you don't like it that's cool, but in the big picture I think it's a good thing and makes Silicon Valley a more diverse and interesting community.
And a better CPU?
I disagree. So what if this is a similar service? Some might prefer some of the minor differences this offers instead.

There's certainly no shortage of companies offering very similar products and doing well for themselves.
All celestial bodies in our solar system, usually the most fitting (e.g. Io for a file server). This includes looking at the meaning of greek mythological figures from time to time.
For those who are interested in Plan9, you may be interested in checking out the following:

* Plan9port (Plan 9 from User Space) ports a number of the Plan9 programs to Linux: http://swtch.com/plan9port/

* wmii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmii) is a tiling window manager that allows configuration through a Plan9-like filesystem. A number of people I know (myself included) were first introduced to the power of Plan 9 through wmii's extensive configurability.

* Go (the language) has borrowed a number of elements from Plan 9. One of the two main compilers (gc) traces its origin in the plan9 toolchain.

* Acme/Wily (the text editor). I'll have to confess that I never took to this much (as a Vim user), but give it a shot.
well i didn't! hypothetically, we'd be talking about my 2011 earnings, already taxed, being retroactivity taxed (again) in fiscal year 2012.
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Walk away, saying "that's fine, you're right". Then call the police on the drunk driver and come back. Follow up with a civil case for damages, you have the poor job as evidence.
Words of wisdom. Besides, I'm the one to blame. If I would try to built an honest relationship with Dave and his network during past 12 months I wouldn't need to stalk him at the Launch Festival. My point is that cold-pitching people is risky and almost disrespectful to both parties (!). Just as investors should be respected as human beings and they deserve to be treated as humans (not wallets), entrepreneurs shouldn't knee before investors and almost beg for money with their pitch- we're the one building amazing companies after all.
For the record that didn't happen in Philadelphia it happened in Camden NJ which is across the river. Clearly a lot of people in attendance were from Philly but they were also from NJ and other surrounding areas. Also it happened at an Opie and Anthony event, so you can imagine what sort of crowd was there.

It's also notable that they stopped doing those events at all because booing of new comedians was a general problem everywhere.

Philly does have a lot of problems, but it annoys me that we have a reputation as particularly bad crowds at sporting events etc based on a few notable incidents. If you look at basically any other city where large crowds of drunk obnoxious people congregate they have similar incidents.
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I've been using DuckDuckGo exclusively for months now, and it is a dog's breakfast compared to Google. Some types of searches are almost as good, but nothing about it is better than Google's experience yet.
Software engineers, with advanced degrees and experience, in the United States. The majority of them are not citizens.

At the companies I've worked at, the evidence has been very much on my side.

Maybe I've just taken for granted how desirable the companies I've worked for really are.
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I listen to a variety of music--from Gesualdo to Wendy Carlos to Mike Oldfield. I gained a fan for The Bobs when I was at work looking at a code generator late one night, thinking myself alone, on headphones listening to their "My Shoes" and singing the bass line along with Richard Bob full force. "What are you listening to?!" I explained, and before long poof! A new FOB!
It's interesting to think of how trained we are to rely on external stimulants for productivity. From caffeine to adderall, steroids to blood doping, it seems that people are as attracted to the idea of enhancing drugs to actually using them.

Thanks for the share.
The inevitable ruby style niggling, feel free to ignore: personally I like something a little more concise and inlined, some parts seem to have used more verbose idioms, (like Regexp.new instead of a literal), and also I think you need to escape the backreferences or use single quotes, something like:

(words - @@nouns).each do |w|
text.gsub!(/(\b)#{w}(\b)/i, '\1<span class="nurble">nurble</span>\2')
end

EDIT: oops, backslash. Also, in the example, line 19, where you have 'sub', don't you mean 'pattern'?
Wiki has a slightly different account of the conviction.

He was not sentenced to chemical castration, though that was the result, the treatment was to reduce the libido.

Interestingly Arnold Murray was released on probation.

Source is wiki of course so possibilities of inaccuracies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_inde...

Also apparently jail sentences for 'gross indecency' were rarer at the time, "(only 174 of the 746 men convicted of 'gross indecency' in 1951 received prison sentences-typically less than six months)"

According to this:
http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2011/04/the-turing-...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I think it looks pretty good for Linux especially.

Besides, I'd rather support these guys than tear them down. It's not like they're selling knives designed to kill people.
I'm glad I turned down the interview offer from bleacher report. ;)
We made Fitsby (http://fitsby.com) and aren't making a miniscule amount from it.
Just tried searching "march madness" and "yuba city hotels" in Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Google. I don't think I will be switching.

I use Google Apps for Business: 25GB email inbox plus 5GB doc storage, custom domain, Google Docs, admin controls, two-step verification, best spam filtering on the planet, integrated calendars, video chat, mobile support, UI support for multiple accounts (business and personal), 99.9% uptime, and no ads for $5 per month / per user.
Ask HN: How to promote a minimum viable product?
I spent the last few weeks in an emotional rollercoaster building a webservice. I finally got a minimal product working, but I'm way too biased to recognize if the product is valuable or on the wrong way. With zero users, my product desperately cries for some early feedback. On the other hand I feel insecure about releasing an unfinished product which may contains bugs and with just one core feature to an public audience. How do you promote a MVP, and how do you decide when it's time for a first release?
You can add &complete=0 to the URL, or avoid running JavaScript on encrypted.google.com, or use https://startpage.com/ to see results that are very similar to Google Search
Anyone else getting 404'ed?
To be honest, as an American, either position strikes me as irrational. The chances of being the victim of random violent in either country is not worth worrying about.

My habit of jaywalking probably puts me in far more danger than either not having a weapon in the UK or simply living in the US where others do, but I rarely give jaywalking a second thought.
So...this is news?
Trolls take on Kickstarter project and lose
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Well, if they're totally equal, sans sugar, then the obvious reason to choose DuckDuckGo is for privacy's sake. No sense sending personal information to Google when DuckDuckGo will do it for free.
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This is awesome.

I grew up to the sound of Panic and Second Reality, frequently staying up all night trying to download the latest from nic.funet.fi, using a crazily overloaded 64Kbps bitnet<->internet gateway for the entire state, and then transfer the last mile via my (then) "ultra fast" 1200bps dial-up.

I haven't been following the demoscene lately, but there are some folks still doing amazing things. The last that I saw was fr-041_debris, developed by Farbrausch, and announced during Breakpoint 2007: http://j.mp/11ETcY0
Uh, thanks. I don't want the Wordpress of e-mail, at least not self-hosted.

If you've ever run a WP site, you're well aware of the number of security fixes (and the insane number of attacks, if the site happens to be semi-popular) that go with it. That's why it's a significant undertaking - the setup is a one-time cost, but fighting to stay as secure as possible is an ongoing nightmare.

[Edit: Not to diss WP here. I think they're doing a great job. It's the general problem of staying up-to-date re: patches]
I definitely want to try tsuru + docker, yet this week :)
Random observation, the embedded youtube video is sized in such a way to clip off the controls that let you full screen it or watch it on youtube or change resolution. I don't know if that is intentional or not but its annoying on a smaller screen device that its not easily zoomable to full screen.
Spam is one aspect of why email is hard, and having more than just a few email accounts on your host helps to tackle that problem. Take a look in your Gmail spam folder at how much they've managed to weed out.
You don't generally have the luxury of having people to build it, people to market it and people to sell it. The fact is, you as a founder need to build something from nothing. The OP does a great job of explaining what that means for a non-technical founder.

your average non-technical founder is extremely likely to fail. If you want to give advice to the them, it should start: become exceptional.
Songza is awesome. I listen to the 'saving the world from evil' and 'epic study music' playlists. They're really great.
Sorry, I should clarify. I mean things that are functional pieces of a firearm ("functional" is hard to define here), even if completely legal and unregulated, are not allowed on the Amazon marketplace. Example: FCGs or upper receivers. Cosmetic parts like stocks and handguards seem to be allowed, as you noticed.

As for Magazines introducing liability, Amazon stocks thousands of items like Knives, Tasers, Pepper spray, etc. that are illegal in some states but legal in others (just like magazines).
Want the chance to work for FREE for The Coca-Cola Company (that is, unless you win and accept the prize, in which case you get a measly $10k)? Step right up, ladies and gentlemen!
And the accidental down-votes despite my best efforts and intentions.
Congratulations! He has done you a favor by suing you. Just think of it as a rite of passage. Take the opportunity and learn from it. In five years time you'll be laughing about it and grateful for the experience.
well, that definitely is hypothetical, because that's not what happened
EDIT: merged already
I have had the opposite problem and I have yet to find a solution. However, I am looking for a superb UI/UX guy to take over the world with. Even with a 5+ year successful business, it is hard to find that right match of skill, personality, ambition, etc.

Until that point, I continue to 1099 out the UI/UX to solid people.
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New real-estate startup looking for first engineer
What: We're building eBay for real estate. We're well funded, in San Francisco, and looking for our first engineering hire.
Team: two engineers, two biz dev folks with real estate backgrounds. All founders have built successful companies in the past.

Role: You'll be working with the founders to define and build the product from scratch. We'd expect you to become a leader as our organization grows.

===What we're looking for:===

- Full-stack skills. You should be able to write back-end logic & front-end code.

- Quick and eager learner. Mastering new technologies excites you.

- Product understanding. We expect you've managed a product before, whether as a side project or at your own startup.

- Experience with Ruby / Rails a big plus, but not required.

- Interest in real estate.

===What we offer:===

- Competitive salary & significant equity.

- Brand new Mac and whatever tools you need to do the job.

- A beautiful office in downtown San Francisco.

- Flexible hours suited to when you work best.

- Healthcare, dental & vision.

Interested? Take a minute and tell us about yourself here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m2EWeHzJSM9VtLNgDpf5sM3C6o2CnNB_ko1d2RvlSLc/viewform

If you have questions, email us directly at stealth.real.estate.co.2013@gmail.com.
Mail.app seems to be the big inspiration. (Not a snark -- I installed Geary from their PPA a couple days ago, and recently switched back to the Mail.app from gmail)
Brands are important to people. Imagine if instead of "Apple MacBook Pro" it was called "Broccoli Notebook Pro". Changing "Google" to "SearchMonster" or something like that. It would make your penis hurt, a lot. I gotta get this checked out.
Here's a Mojolicious (Perl) one I did up since I was bored: https://gist.github.com/RogerDodger/5242390
Hey Steve,

the language reader market is currently a bit saturated with open-source and paid alternatives.

However, I looked at your site. I'm a linguist with some expertise in web development (http://hanzicraft.com, http://polyglotlink.com and some other sites under my belt).

I really like the idea of a quick importing using a bookmarklet. My main language that I'm learning is Chinese as this market has MANY options (http://3000hanzi.com, http://chineselevel.com, http://lingq.com, http://duable.com, LWT). It's hard to choose. I particularly enjoy ChineseLevel mainly because I know the developer, so I'm biased.

In any case, I think it's possible to get at least some income with your startup. To make it a full-time job is something else and depends on your needs. Because the language reader market is saturated, you'll have to set yourself apart from open source and paid alternatives. At the moment I'm not exactly sure what that is, but I'll be trying your site to learn a bit of Spanish and French (I'm a language learning addict).

I can help you with some more advice and testing if you want. I can also give you some linguistic advice if it comes up. Send me an email: niel@delarouviere.com
There are also substantially more powerful ones around: https://www.miniand.com/products/GK802%20Android%20Mini%20PC
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One more reason to love Xen and friends.
That's a fair point, and I agree with you that it doesn't really seem to give significantly different results from Google, but regardless of what the author of the post said, I think the main intended selling point of DuckDuckGo is that it doesn't track user information at all. It's not an advertising company, and Google is.
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> lets users create a bar that goes onto the top of their website in order to increase email signups

Those two things seem to be...disconnected...to me. HelloBar worked, I guess, though...
Why is anyone under the impression that living sans Google is difficult or unrewarding? I haven't used a single Google product in months (and I use Android.)