skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT, but why did you use a backtick for your 'quotes'? Is that an OS or keyboard thing, or a personal preference, or what? I've never been able to determine the rhyme or reason on that.
Now just imagine if we had a post-mortem on every one that said 'closed'.
My favorite:

D, 4.12: Class counsel have never received any payment for prosecuting this case on behalf of representative Plaintiffs and Members of the Class, nor have they been reimbursed for their out-of-pocket-expenses. On or before the date specified ... counsel will submit their Fee Application ... in an amount of up to one-third of the Settlement Fund ... [of $9,500,000]. Facebook agrees that ... such a Fee Award is fair and reasonable.
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Yeah I saw this as I had a chatterous chat room open in another window and was very confused.
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Presumably it's the ASCII-man’s way of doing “curly” quotation marks.
I kid you not, the bing background right now that loaded for me is a Whale Shark LOL!
One of the co-founders went on to co-found thesixtyone (YC W09)
Always ask who you will be working with. (My own preference is: If it's not a group that I'll be learning useful things from, it's a waste of time).

Study at the feet of masters.
Can you send over a list of the specific tweets that caused you to think I think I'm god's gift to the fucking web app world? It bothers me that you feel this way so I'd like to understand why, specifically. Thanks.
Are TLD's Necessary?
Seeing things like http://to/ and Tim Berners-Lee apologizing for the slashes makes me wonder about top-level domains. Would it be feasible for urls to look like http:google rather than http://google.com, or are TLD's necessary for nameserver load balancing or something?
Perhaps, but I found it interesting, and it led me to two more good articles thanks to you....thanks! :)
I'm sure for every round of YC, there are a few companies that don't even make it to launch. The ones that don't launch are not even listed.
I'd say it worked. Since then I've spent time daily studying and reading books in my field which is very rewarding.
funny enough, I get an average of 8ms ping from 8.8.8.8 (9 hops) from my co-lo server

quite happy with that
Wow, my irony detector just blew up...

(edit) I went back and finished the (looooooooooong) post... this is beyond irony.
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In TeX, backticks are used for open quotes, and straight ones are used for close quotes. That's where I picked up the habit originally.
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CrunchPad partner plans media event to demo the device.
Looks like it is from this: http://vimeo.com/hd#5606758
My single concern is the design's overall lack of contrast. Sure it LOOKS beautiful, but it is very flat and muted. It is hard to separate content from links etc.
I'm in the business as well, and the thing that I really appreciate about it after reading HN for a few years is this: no customers. You don't have to worry about sales and marketing if you're in a prop shop that trades its own capital, you just write software that makes money in the market and that's all you need to worry about.
Ask HN: ZumoDrive vs. Dropbox
Which one are people using most often. I am partial to Dropbox but am curious what others think.
There is a monitor? I had to zoom in a lot to catch a glimpse of it.
ZumoDrive
A nice alternative to my decidedly low-tech approach:

(in ~/.zshrc)
# 'ff' command -- find string in files with a specified suffix
ff() {
[[ -n $1 && -n $2 ]] || {
echo "Usage $0 [suffix] [string]"
echo "Where"
echo " suffix file suffix (without wildcards)"
echo " string string to search for (quote if spaces)"
return
}
find . -name \*$1 -exec grep -Hn $2 "{}" \; | less -RFX
}

Has colorized output, and only pages (with less) when there is more than one page to show.
See: http://www.public.asu.edu/~arrows/tidbits/quotes.html

English keyboards don't have the nice typographical up/down quote marks and using « » just looks strange... so we hack it with `quotes.'
I consider this notion of speed being the only important factor pretty stupid. No amount of speed matters when a browser's UX sucks. Firefox is the only browser where it's actually _possible_ to get a decent UX (vertical tabs and a way to quickly search through tabs are absolute necessities).
The cost of renting did not go up correspondingly with cost to own. That's how we know it was a bubble.

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/1...

If you did not join in this fiasco, you risked losing purchasing power compared to everyone else. This is equivalent to you putting your money in a 0% interest account while everyone else puts it in a 5% interest account.

Yes, I would have lost if housing turned out to be a good investment. This does not change the fact that your "legitimate buyers" were speculating.

Also, if you are comparing scalping to text message prices, that analogy would only make sense if a single scalper (or a small number of scalpers) holds a monopoly over the market (either in tickets or houses). That's obviously wrong.
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No it wouldn't since I use my own DNS. Even if I did not it would not produce the same amount of data in one fell swoop.
13 acquisitions out of 145 companies. Almost l0%. Seems decent considering that 145 number includes some that are < 1 year old.
The marginal cost for storing a unit of data must be close to zero after the initial storage space is consumed. Or am I missing something? If that is true then why do the monthly costs not go down, assuming that the same amount of data is stored. Ok there is bandwith and disk I/O cost If I access the data, but if I just use it for archiving purposes these services are way over priced(even S3). There is the the off site aspect but that can be solved with a little ingenuity, two USB devices, a friend, some encryption, and the Internet.
There were some nice gems there such as Yad Vashem and 92nd Street Y. I encourage everybody to visit Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

http://www.youtube.com/user/YadVashem
http://www.youtube.com/user/92ndStreetY
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Anyone want to estimate how much money they just lost?

Excluding the negative press, let's upper bound what it means to lose 1/48 (= 30 minutes) of one day's revenue. Google's yearly revenue is dominated by search + Adsense. That was about $5.5 billion in Q2 2009 (from Googling "Google revenue") so about $22 billion over all.

Dividing through gives:

(22 * (10^9) dollars) / (365 days * 48 (half hours)/day) = 1 255 707.76 dollars / (half hour)

Hence an upper bound is that Bing lost about $1.3 million dollars for this downtime.

Bing is not doing as much business as Google, that Google number includes all kinds of other things besides search, and it was after 5pm US time (all of which will adjust the number down). Still, an expensive error, and this of course doesn't factor in the negative press.
We use www.billingcircle.com and are very happy with the service there. With their API we automatically charge overage fees on top of our monthly fees. Works great.
That makes no sense at all. How would using Google DNS remove your control of your own domain? Google DNS is just a resolver, it's not an authoritative DNS. If you were "locked out" for some reason you could just go back to using your ISP dns servers. Where's the problem?
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I have thought about the Open Source track of project contributions. In fact, I found Mozilla to have sites for that purpose. Do you know of Mozilla.org? What do you think of that site for contributing? Any other sites you could suggest to me would be appreciated...Thanks.
OK, to clarify I still think you should rely on the application to handle invalid domain names so you don't break email ect. The problem is when someone creates a Malware site called microsof.com and it immediately compromises the browser of anyone who mistypes the domain name. Granted, the browser could keep a copy of bad domain names and worn the user, but Norton DNS could also do that same job. After all if you are going to query a system to find the IP address it might as well tell you as much as it can when it's responding. It's a packet based network and there is close to zero overhead to doing so.

Now I would hate it if my ISP where to institute such a practice but an independent DNS that let's me avoid most malware, spoofing, and parked domain names. Count me in as long as I can opt out at any time.
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The other alternative is to just run your own instance of bind (or dnscache if that's what you prefer). CDN content will usually perform better, but non-CDN content will often lose a few ms because you usually won't have very much in cache. As a bonus, you can perform some stupid LAN tricks.
That's one way to drive traffic to Bing...
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They are just a business trying to make a buck, and sadly, that is what makes them somewhat unique. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube are "successful" and get a ton of press, but they've yet to make a profit. 37signals isn't afraid to charge for a product they know is great.

37signals is really good at making you realize how these web companies might not be the best business to get into. Could there be a bubble slowing building that will eventually burst?
who cares if the content is lost forever? It's ephemeral data anyway. The emphasis is real-time not all-time.
A couple of lines I would change.

slide 5 "added users from beta list when we needed lab rats"
slide 10 "need business model to make sausage machine work."
slide 19 "Journalists are lazy. Help them be lazy."

try

added beta users as we could absorb their feedback
<delete>
journalists are busy, help them hit deadlines
Using lisp as language for statistics has it's precursors like xlisp-stat. In a historical perspective, S (or similar functional languages) have taken the crown though.
Well said, and my sentiments exactly.
I have to disagree with him here. I don't believe saving your money long-term is anything like saving sex for old age. One could argue that you need some form of monetary support for the rest of your life, securing your money is smart, however, sex is not an essential part of old age. The two ideas are quite different.
True, though what appeals to me more is the flatness of the organization and the degree to which everyone's involved. I literally sit next to a partner writing strategies. It's nice working with people who have skin in the game, so to speak.

I've had the same experience in other small organizations, even ones with customers. You learn a lot since there's less isolation. Big corporate work is hellish to me personally since you can't see the result of your effort and don't even have the information to make good decisions.

Best of luck out there, but not too much. :)
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I think it depends on what kind of "browser" user you are.

I spend most of my time online, and only use my browser for viewing web pages, and sometimes testing during development. I rarely ever bookmark anything, and if I do, it's a link I "really" go to a lot and just put it in the bookmark toolbar. Basically, I use tabs and hot-keys.

In a nutshell, start up speed and browsing speed is most important to me. Take it with a grain of salt though, as I don't mind viewing documents online in lynx/w3m/etc.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=975712
I'm sure they will try to do something with the data, but Google's problem these days is that it's been so successful and gotten so big that it's incentivized to basically make the Internet bigger, better, faster in order to continue to grow. Chrome (and Firefox with the Chrome whip behind it) is another example of this.
my opinion on why they are doing this....
to track where you are going. and make sure that site is indexed.
"80 - Active (25 having received further investment rounds)"

The internal contradiction here should have set off
some alarms. Are the other 55 supposed to have made
it to profitability without raising any further money?

According to our records, 89 of 144 startups we funded up to this summer are still alive, for some definition of alive. When startups die, they usually die gradually, so it's hard to say when a startup is actually dead.

Some other mistakes I noticed: Nearly all cycles have the wrong number of startups. The furthest off is W07, which he lists has having had 15 startups but actually had 12. There have been two mergers, not one (Ninite is also a merger). YouOS didn't die; it morphed into Project Wedding, which was acquired.
8aweek didn't die either; that's now SocialBrowse.
Nambii and pocketfungames are the same company,
as were Boso and Auctomatic.
Chatterous, iJigg, and Ididwork are all still alive. There's at least one startup listed as active that has been acquired, but it may not be public knowledge.

I've never heard of Innovation Fuels.

It doesn't seem fair to accuse us of "lack of transparency." Every startup launches publicly when they're ready, after which we list them on our site. It wouldn't be appropriate to list them before they've launched (or more precisely, it would launch them). We're usually not supposed to disclose when they raise additional funding or get acquired. And we're not always sure till long after the fact when they die.
How I minimize distractions
Their walls may be prettier, but my monitor is bigger, and so is my second.
What would attract you to sign up for 'something-you-dont-know'?

Nothing.

Perhaps cold hard cash.
They also have some of the most prestigious clients in each of their respected areas.
Who said he was pinging? He said "query", not "ttl".
Cool idea. Has this been done in any language before?
Both are fads. Give it another year and we'll be onto another FB app and another social network website that lets you only send 80 characters at a time (it fits into a nice *nix console window!)
In my mind -- who gives a damn. Either ycom is for you or it isn't.

You know what's important about it? Ycom gives young people with ideas but no track record an opportunity to prove themselves. Outside of SV, it's very difficult for most young entrep. working in technology to find people/ecosphere, much less investors, who can relate...

If you think ycom's "rate of failure" is a jeopardy to your idea... you're likely drinking wayyyyy to much of your own kool-aid. You're not an entrepreneur if you're focused on failure.
Before I switched to ack, I used glark. http://www.incava.org/projects/glark/
in case the station has added and removed servers.

Does that happen a lot?
We're using them. Happy for two reasons: 1. Easy to use and 2. Very responsive and helpful as a company.
Take the FUD point of view if you want. I don't see it. When a giant enters your market, this is a great way to react. No dismissal of their impact, validation that you created a market, desire to keep on competing, and ultimately, positioning positioning positioning of your competitive differentiators... I applaud David for his post and I think we can all learn.
Pondering Google’s Move Into the D.N.S. Business (links to HN)
Facebook’s Killer Feature: The Mutual Friends List
The list of mutual friends that pops up when you visit someone’s Facebook page is underappreciated but immensely valuable in real-world interactions.
The article actually links to an HN comment at the end. Apparently we're "internet sleuths."
I think some of these mistakes are understandable. For example, YouOS's home page says that it has been shut down and someone not familiar with the details would interpret this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=260267) to mean that it had died and the founders had gone their separate ways.
Just because Phil Greenspun writes it doesn't mean it isn't a pure politics post. There's nothing in here that couldn't have appeared in Little Green Footballs or Reason.com.
I'm so sick of this political #%@# getting posted here. This doesn't even fall under the "Anything that good hackers would find interesting". It's a freakin' opinion piece for God's sake
Google Launches Public DNS Resolver
From number 33:

Mankind constantly analyzes radio waves from outer space in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Since this analysis started, almost all of the signal sources have been identified. 37 signals, however, remain unexplained.

I couldn't find a list of these signals, or a reference to the number 37. The wikipedia entry for 37signals says it's a reference to signals discovered by Paul Horowitz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Horowitz, but none of the links have stuff about specific signals discovered. Anybody know where I could find a list and/or descriptions of these signals?
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It's not manish's fault. It was reasonable to wonder whether HN should be interested in what Phil Greenspun thinks about AfPak. But the answer is, "no, we shouldn't."
Give them a pass because they are new. And search going down is less important than email going down.

Email has no replacement. Search does.
ZumoDrive is an awesome idea -- be truly extra space, not just a mirror of a folder that has to exist locally, too. But it's been extremely unstable on Mac OS X for me. I wish it worked and toyed with it for a long time, but it kept doing things like hanging my entire machine at startup for 5 or 6 minutes until it crashed and quit and the rest of the startup sequence resumed. Or showing as mounted but acting as if all my files are gone (they'd always still show up in the online interface though). Great idea, questionable execution so far. I'm still open to hoping it gets stable for mac and coming back to it though... but not now, not as a primary location for important information.
I have a wrapper around find that does things like filter out .svn directories. I sometimes use ack for simple searches, but find/xargs/grep together are faster and more explicit in my experience.
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Is firebug turned off. I've sometimes mistakenly left it on and there's a huge performance penalty there.
It crashes more, too!
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See Steele's comments.
You may not notice when a page renders 100ms faster, but google certainly does, and speeding up a page with their ads on it improves clickthrough.

Assuming that other browser makers try to keep up with chromium's speed, then that's what is funding the chromium development.
Can you blame him? That article is over a year old. The copyright date on chatterous.com is 2008. I don't understand how that kind of oversight could last for a year on an actively developed product.
Tell HN: Moniker is down
It looks like all of monikers DNS services are down, that's a pretty big deal, they do DNS for millions of domains.
Jason, don't stress about it. You are always going to get people knocking you when you are successful. In Australia we call it the "tall poppy syndrome" where people try to cut down anyone who is doing well.

You seem like a great bloke from what I've seen of you so don't let low lifes get to you. Just ignore them.

All the best.
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I had intended to use PayPal's Subscriptions and Recurring Payments option. I had some concerns that there was a slight stigma with using PayPal, (unprofessional), but I feel that, perhaps that stigma has faded the last few years.

[as an aside, I've been using Amazon DevPay, and I feel that it's weirding too many people out. Too different from what they're used to]

Any thoughts on why to use these services rather than PayPal?
I'm pretty sure it's the same on debian.
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You really need to be able to estimate the lower bound of the loss to know if it was in fact "expensive" though, don't you?
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Wouldn't this become a sort of Ycombinator/Reddit style voting list? Not that it's a bad thing but just an interesting thought.
All legacy code is a liability, and all code is legacy.
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As my lead reminded me at the time when I made a snide comment about their quality: "We're sitting here porting it for peanuts, while they're busy counting their royalties"

Much as I prize technical quality, that lesson stuck with me.
Ask HN: Is it a good or bad time to launch during the holidays?
Would it be wiser to wait until the new years? Or would it really matter at all?
Do any of these companies have a process in place to transfer your customers to another provider?

My concern is that most of these companies really lock you in.

You probably don't have your customers CC numbers yourself. The billing services archive this information in an encrypted and compliant manner, so you don't have to. But when the day comes, that you want to take your 20,000 customers and go to another billing service, you need that database. Do any of these companies explicitly address this issue?
The fact that they still have pages running in ColdFusion surprises me.
I usually have around 200 tabs open, and any other browser is a nightmare to use. Firefox + Tree Style Tabs + Ubiquity is the only way I can maintain some degree of sanity. Since I keep my browser open all the time, I don't particularly care about startup speed.

Hell, forget about admittedly niche things like vertical tabs. Chrome gets so many basic things wrong, from scrolling to text selection, that it's just a poor joke of a browser.
I hope they get it worked out. For me, bing feels like the little rubber life-raft on the good ship Google. I don't want to use it, but I like knowing its there... just in case.
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Can you make a poll instead?
GirlInYourShirt Partners with TapInko - Launches GirlsInYourShirt
Speaking of plaigarism, one of the apps from their '09 round looks suspiciosly like Songkick (a YC funded startup).

See for yourself:
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Songkick - http://www.songkick.com/
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I would say, it depends on the orientation of your business. If you're targeting cosumers, they may have more time on their hands during the holidays to go play with your service.

If it's targeted towards business, forget it, now is a terrible time to launch. For the same reason, people in business have their head elsewhere, either closing the year, dealing with the retail high season, or going on vacation.

The exception to this would be if your offering is b2b and has to do with a category that is very well allocated to an expenditure item in a budget for which there is generally speaking potential 'use it or lose it' money.

HTH