skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I was trying to find out what the site looked like before this kerfuffle. I only found this:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dropbox.com

which doesn't show too much except for some godaddy.com domain parking.

If it was just a domain parked while the guy was trying to figure out what he wanted to do with it, I'm not so excited about the outcome. If it was misleading site pretending to be getdropbox.com, then that's a whole other story.

There really needs to be a better system for domain name registration. I'm all for inexpensive domain names but perhaps there should be some sort of waiting list, and if people are on the waiting list, the renewal fees get raised by a set amount each year (perhaps capped at something like 25%) as long as there was a waiting list. Once the person doesn't renew, the first person on the waiting list gets it but they get charged at the new rate.

In that way, you couldn't just squat on a domain without doing something with it and eventually there would be a fair market price for it. If no one wanted it, the price for the domain would stay low.

There is probably still some gaming in a system like that but at least it would encourage more turnover of unused domains, which would be a good thing.
Conventional Drives or Solid State Drives, it's still the Internet's ghetto.
It's most likely Mercurial based on this job posting here:
http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?5419

And this comment here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374429
It's MySQL with the Percona patches using InnoDB (not XtraDB yet).

I've looked into rethinkdb, but it's not quite yet ready for a bet-the-company-on-it install. We didn't order any extra $10k+ flash cards just to play around with.

The RamSan flash cards took a while to get ahold of too (the government (NSA if I recall correctly) buys them by the thousands).
I have the hardest time convincing my software developer friends that just because I sell people software for $30 doesn't mean my customers expect me to be Best Friends Forever with them for life.

"But you don't have an explicit license term!"

My customers don't even know what that means. They'll use it until they don't feel like using it. Then, they'll stop. Its a fairly cheap consumer good for them, akin to a new toy for the kids, which might have a shelf life in weeks (or days) for the same price point.

This isn't totally a horse of a different color from iPhone apps, except the typical iPhone app is expected to last about as long as a frothy coffee creation from Starbucks.
Hulu has the entire episode: http://www.hulu.com/watch/25146/dilbert-the-knack

It's always good to see other people appreciating the critically underrated Dilbert series.
I'm surprised no virtual hosters are yet offering SSDs (as far as I know).

I suppose there's some risk one customer could burn out the SSD write-cycles then discard the node. Solution: charge for writes.
Yea I've been doing freelance and usually pro-bono life coaching for a while, it's analogous and somewhat opposite to therapy --- therapy being a way to fix problems, and lifecoaching being a way to look at your life goals and make it even better.

Additionally, life coaching is cool because coaches have studied time management techniques, goal setting, discipline methods, etc...things that you might not even know about. The way I coach is by taking a while to listen to the person's goals and situation and build a specific, measurable plan to achieve those goals.

If any HN people want pro-bono life coaching, shoot me an email maneesh@maneeshsethi.com
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Flashbacks to the many times I've reread the Illuminatus Trilogy back in high school. Humor, and our responses to it, has a tendency to reveal more than we might want it to.
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That is true. The app store does have the distinction of being a market where users, even "consumers" exchange money for software. That is certainly a great feature.

That doesn't mean that the market isn't characterised by many projectiles.
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Why I'm dropping Google Appengine for my primary project
For a smallish project that you can figure out fairly easily, I recommend the Kohana framework. It's extremely well documented and it's quite easy to read. Many people actually recommend reading its source to supplement the documentation and after having to do so myself I can see why.
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When I saw it (not long ago), it was a completely empty page with a google header.
Capitol Hill. Specifically along 15th Ave. I used to live in upper Queen Anne, but it was a little too soccer mom'ish for my tastes. Depending on your tastes, you might also want to check out: Belltown, lower Queen Anne, the Central District, and Pioneer Square.
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It's very true that when you understand something that others don't - and see (more of) the underlying reality - you can do things that appear to be magic, not only to them but also to you. Unfortunately, as the deeper reality becomes more widely understood, it becomes the "commonly perceived" reality. And the magic goes away.

It's tough having to keep on finding the next impossible thing to do.

What had he done with his life, thought Louis Wu. He'd made no fundamental scientific discoveries, overthrown no governments, started no major religions.
Ask HN: Any way of avoiding the $800/yr FTB tax on CA LLC's?
According to the secretary of state:

Registration of a limited liability company (LLC) with the California Secretary of State (SOS) will obligate an LLC that is not taxed as a corporation to pay to the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) an annual minimum tax of $800.00 and a fee based on the annual total income of the entity. The tax and fee are required to be paid for the taxable year of registration and each taxable year, or part thereof, until a Certificate of Cancellation is filed with the SOS. (Rev. and Tax. Code §§ 17941 and 17942.)

Now Im wondering, as a freelance software developer if its possible to avoid this tax somehow (legally of course, I realize that simply not paying it is technically an option :).

Since my clients are remote and my work is in software for entities around the states do I have any legal leg to stand on to say, incorporate in another state which has lower annual LLC taxes? Since Im living in CA and doing the work here I take it thats a no.
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I've often thought about this in the context of fiction. It seems that the hero in stories often wins because he out 'realities' the bad guy. I try to apply this to how I think about problem solving - but I find the hardest thing integrating all the wonderful knowledge I have and reality. When I knew a lot less I found it easier just see the reality, but I have so many more tools at my disposal now. Experience seems to help.
There are a number of books now appearing on App Engine:

http://billkatz.com/2009/1/Upcoming-App-Engine-Books

Sanderson's "Programming Google App Engine" book is now available through OReilly's Rough Cuts.

The MEAP version of "Google App Engine in Action" is in flux because the previous authors had another commitment. It turned into a positive, though, because Nick Johnson became an author. He's on the AE Team and has contributed a lot to the knowledge base. Check out his blog at http://blog.notdot.net/

Other web links you may find educational:

http://blog.appenginefan.com

http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/

http://gae4dummies.appspot.com/

And if you are in the SF Bay Area, go to the local meetups:

http://meetup.com/appengine

Even if you're not local, check out the group because we just started posting videos of the meetup. (See message board for links.)
Or the other possibility... I just don't want to talk to most people? I've tried, and its usually boring?
Beautifully said! While I encourage you to read the relatively short text yourself, here's the summary:

Hacking first requires a system -- any system -- with some perceived rules. Then we need a hacker: someone who keeps looking for the truth and finds the actual rules the system operates on. While the hacker can just stop there having broken the illusion, sometimes he will "use his discoveries to hack the system, to transform the world". Playing by the actual rules instead of the perceived rules is initially what is called a hack.
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What is the git equivalent?
Best advice I ever heard along these lines:

If you really think your conversation with somebody is boring, tell them so. They deserve to know, you deserve to own up to your opinion (instead of secretly feeling much more interesting) and, if nothing else, it won't be boring much longer.
Have you tried Mercurial? I find it to have all the benefits of Git with a better interface and better documentation.
Ask HN: Can't reply to comments?
I seem unable to reply to comments. Is it just me?
Also if you take the University Ave. exit off of 80 east, take Hearst to campus instead of University. It's one block to the north.
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C-Corps have the $800 minimum franchise fee waived for the first tax year. Otherwise, no - there's not a legal way to do it.
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It's not just hosted source control, that's a minor element, it's code review and bug tracking integration. There actually isn't much competition in this market, yet, and this is a big and growing market, so it's a pretty smart business move.
Have you used them long enough to gauge longevity? How long do they last you? Do you have to use any special software to ensure there are not too many rewrites?
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Big Soft is the most highly documented. Sun, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft .. those guys do it all in-house. Fogcreek is Joe Nobody in terms of software; they're like a CGI extra from LotR trying to walk the red carpet at Cannes.

They are not even close to "highly documented"; someday they will get there, but not today.
Thanks for the background knowledge. Cheers. :-)
How does that help? You'd either still have to connect to the remote server multiple times (if screen runs remotely), or you're going to have to connect multiple times from inside screen (if screen runs locally)...
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Every system has two sets of rules: The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules ("reality"). In most complex systems, the gap between these two sets of rules is huge.

i don't think it's possible to overstate just how true this is in the context of social/people hacking. the smaller the gap, the more effective your social/people skills will be.
Excellent. I have never read any of PB's writing before but that was an excellent primer for startup school. Can't wait until the 24th!
Google shares malware samples with hacked site admins
Wow, it looks like the annoying over-the-top-irony style of writing of blogs and slashdot articles is creeping into respectable newspapers. This is bad news.

I can't wait till the WSJ starts talking about pots and kettles.
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Interesting concept, I think I'd personally use it if it's implemented :)

I am trying to see if it's possible to do in a completely webapp type method (you can't really expect web developers to integrate code on server side to support this). A definitely possible method is a browser plug-in some way, if so I see the idea being implementedin a similar fashion to to Foxmarks/Xmarks in the way do the browser plugin -> sync to servers and across all your browser locations.
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Conventional Drives or Solid State Drives, it's still the Internet's ghetto.

Here is the racial implication of that statement :-)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/13/social.networking...
I push myself through a large project by convincing myself that I never finish anything, and that I don't want to be like a wannabe entrepreneur, who just starts a bunch of things because they seem interesting but never commit hard work.
You can get the Windows Research Kernel through the MSDNAA (which most major universities should be hooked up to). The WRK has all the good stuff
It's not as hard as I thought it'd be to let go of stuff. Selling a company shouldn't be too tough when there's nothing left to do except steer the ship.
Plus, that short time period is hardly indicative of a long-term trend.
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On the wiki there is a list of parking lots near campus:

http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id=parking_2009

In a few days that should be updated with a list of parking lots that do not reserve spaces for the game. Parking fines are doubled on game days, so be very careful parking on the street anywhere in Berkeley.
Personally, I would do part time contract work just enough to generate living expenses while I work on the app. It'll be difficult and a lot of work, but it can be done.
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Why? It worked. It solved a problem they had. And they are successful as a business. It's only surprising if you think their problem was a non-issue. Sometimes NIH just means your doing something no-one else has a solution for.

Google gets accused of NIH quite a bit too but when your serving billions of requests per second you find issues with libraries, frameworks and services that no one else sees. It's not NIH when you are solving a problem no one has solved or at least solved and made publicly available.
Fantastic link. I've made submissions like this to Reddit before on accident.
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Wait a minute... If you need mongodb your app would probably be on a big scale right? In that case wouldn't you eventually self host your DB servers?

It's not that hard to setup a mongodb for testing and dev. So what's the use case for this type of service?
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Maybe not just you, but not me.
I can even respond to myself.
Over and over.
Like hell it's dying. Or, rather, like hell I'd let it. The entire purpose of Thoughtscream Media was to find a niche for proper, yet profitable, journalism even amidst the collapse of the previous forms of the industry. The struggles in defining such terms with so little to work off of is one of the reasons why we haven't quite launched yet, but that's simply an indicator as to the magnitude and seriousness we treat the issue (and, really, the /main/ reason's lack of an agreed upon site design... and, er, lack of content backlog to start off with. And... ...okay, so we've got a lot of stuff to do!).

Sure, right /now/ "proper" and "profitable" seem like a contradiction in terms - but the era when even print media was wrought with editorial scandals and outright falsehoods is still in the living memory of a rapidly dwindling few (cynical remarks concerning Fox News aside). And the development of the modern editorial board was itself a product of market evolution.

An editor's job is, ultimately, to properly vet information, both in forms of its content and its delivery. And there's always a market for trustworthy information. If we don't find a way to bring it to the digital era, and I'm pretty sure we've at least got a decent stab at it, somebody else inevitably will.
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Agreed, the browser plug-in/extension is the way I would like to go. You're right in that you couldn't expect web developers to integrate anything and with that method, they wouldn't need to.

I actually have an extremely basic proof of concept going using Chrome Extensions, XML and jQuery. If I decide to keep going with it, then I would need to start looking into targetting Firefox, Safari, IE as well.
a person who is perceived as shy may not know when it's appropriate or inappropriate to (for example) approach a stranger or interrupt a conversation, and therefore doesn't try.

no one really "knows", there's no definitive set of rules, confident people try regardless.
I'm absolutely astonished that this was produced by the previously putrescent OpenMoko. Astonished!
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You forgot such gems as <font effect=emboss> and <audioscope>, which I was blissfully ignorant of until seeing Kibo make fun of them a decade ago.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.warlord/msg/dc569dfec...
Depends on the number of users. If it is a hobbysite then I'm expecting that you have very little traffic (on the order of a few hundred uniques per day). If you go above that slap some google ads on it, reinvest what you make with those in your server and you'll be doing just fine. By the time you reach $80 / month (and that's only $2.75 / day) you can afford to lease a dedicated server, with as much ram as you care to buy, that's a one time expense.

And you'll still be out only what little bit there is between whatever you make and whatever it costs to get a dedicated server even if you decide to get one from day one.

Hobbies cost money.

edit: hey downmodders, how is your tomcat instance running ? Mine is doing ok:

21747 ? Sl 94:33 /usr/java/default/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/local/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/local/tomcat/endorsed -classpath :/usr/local/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/local/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/tomcat -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/local/tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
there are any number of reasons you might not be able to respond to a comment. if a submission gets killed, further comments on it are usually not allowed. as a thread gets more deeply nested, there is a delay before the reply link appears, which is to give people time to cool down before saying things they might regret. pg is constantly tinkering with the system, so there may be other reasons i'm not yet aware of.

in other words, just be cool and observe. there's usually a good reason for most site behaviors, but it will be a lot more subtle than you're used to, and not spelled out as explicitly as you might have expected. that's pg's way.
You can register an LLC in almost any state; you don't have to live or work there. You just need a registered agent -- some address with a person available to take official mail for your business -- in the state. And there are companies that sell registered agent services for much less than the $800/year tax you would avoid.
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First, Dropbox has not commented on why Dropbox.com redirects to them, nor about their lawsuit of the domain owner. Therefore, this is a horrible news article, with an assumption that Dropbox holds an new ownership stake in the domain.

Second, it's actually quite possible Dropbox asked the .com holders to forward traffic to the real site in order for both parties to value the domain's contribution to downloads/upsales from type-in traffic (is it 90% new users? Or almost always those who have an account?). This would mean TechCrunch hurts Dropbox by increasing their cost to buy/license the domain.

Third, we can't tell who owns the domain, so it could still be the same party! The .com could forward to the real site for just one day to tease Dropbox by sending it visitors for just one day. This also means they could point to the real site for a month, then a competitor later on after links start rolling in.

Finally, I don't think this owner, nor Justintv.com, are cybersquatters since they owned their domains since the 90's.
I'd be surprised if traffic is bad at 8am. That said, the BART station is a 10 minute walk from SUS and would make it pretty easy to hit up the Berkeley afterparty and still get home ...
I've heard you are supposed to pay the $800 a year CA tax even if you are incorporated out of state, as long as your operations are really in California.
That machine in the video is not what we would most likely implement. Imagine robots with articulations more fine than "motor1, turn 39 degrees clockwise. motor2, turn 68 degrees clockwise", etc. Possibly more compact robotic limbs that better replicate natural animal movement. More precision.
If so, then News.com is very succesfully cybersquatting Hacker News, in the same way.
At the point when you'd need to vertically scale up from shared spinning platters to a SSD, you probably want the performance boost of running on the actual machine. ServerBeach has some Power Servers on sale that you can upgrade to a SSD for like $160/mo, roughly the cost of a reserved Medium instance.
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This is a well written article. Thanks PB.

I often try to use similar logic to describe what I do as a programmer. I don't "fix" computers, I don't "write" code; I try to solve problems using the computer as a tool.

Most people don't understand...
We did know that. We're going to advise people
not to even try to park in Berkeley.
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You can't reply to comments that are over 45 days old (replying to old comments was popular with spammers), and there is a delay before the reply link appears on deeply nested comments, in order to create drag on flamewars.
I laugh at almost anything. Often when there is noone else laughing, and sometimes just because everyone else is laughing. Does that mean I will believe anything?
Without search engines how would you find that content?
I don't think it's about lack of understanding but just fear that hasn't been confronted.

A person might observe and know very well, theoretically, the social code and witness other people approaching strangers or interrupting conversations all the time. But until he has personal experience doing that himself, he's just going to fear what's going to happen to him. And rationalization and understanding is no cure to fear -- facing it for real is.

* * *

In the delightfully hacker sense you just have to poke at different social interactions and see what happens. Eventually you'll learn that the worst that can happen is very likely a stern look or a snap comment back. You might learn too well and find yourself at the other side of the axis and come out as rude. That only means you've just shifted your problem space! Now it's a matter of bouncing back and forth on the axis until you stay in the middle in the average.
I don't live in CA, so I don't know whether the state taxes foreign entities that do business in their state, you may very well be right.

It doesn't prevent you from organizing an LLC elsewhere if you had reason to, though.
You should incorporate in Delaware due to their favorable taxation policies and their relatively low yearly franchise tax ($200). Check out http://www.bizfilings.com. They will even act as a registered agent for you.