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3 | Why don;t you make this invite only - if it truly reflects the values of Y's and their friends who are starting up why not do that. That way you preserve the signal to noise ratio. I'm only on here cos Kulveer and Harj are doing Y combinator - meaning that other UK young entrepreneurs who are good can get on it. | sharpshoot | -3 | February 2007 |
4 | This is just another company offering to "help" you with your credit card debt. Probably, the only reason that you can talk to the CEO is because there aren't any other employees to talk to. It's likely the company doesn't have many customers either. | Nate | -4 | March 2007 |
5 | You're a moron with an MBA. There is very little substance in what you said, just speculation. You clearly do not understand the Software and IT Services space. | cK | -4 | April 2007 |
6 | Teenwag might be one of the most successful companies ever formed and grown in the shortest period of time by the youngest kids | srodo | -4 | May 2007 |
7 | Condensed version: Making money. Edit: No, really. "Because, really, what else could it possibly be?" | gyro_robo | -4 | June 2007 |
8 | This is possible using the S3 storage engine for MySQL, which is currently in beta. Your database lives on S3, your hosts live in EC2 Xen VMs. As I understand it, if your VM is powered off, you lose cached data your database will then start re-pulling from the storage engine. You can fetch the storage module from here: http://fallenpegasus.com/code/mysql-awss3/ A relevant Computerworld article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA... Have I done it? No. It's something I'm investigating for a startup which may have a need for elastic scalability. What's the speed like between S3 and EC2? | nailer | -4 | July 2007 |
9 | "But there are open source projects that are tackling important Web 2.0 problems "up the stack." Brad Fitzpatrick's LiveJournal scaling tools memcached, perlbal, and mogileFS come to mind, as well as OpenID." memcached et al date from well before the annoying, useless, vague term "Web 2.0". as does Lucene, Nutch, and other interesting work Cutting has done. collaborating on software that's only useful if you have servers that are getting tens of thousands of hits a day is hard. it automatically reduces the pool of potential participants to be very small. fuck Bill O'Reilly for wanting to turn everything into something that relates to his dumb conferences/speeches/whatever. and fuck "software as a service". jesus. | henning | -4 | August 2007 |
10 | How you mod me (or not) is your perogative. However, I think the practice of modding people down on a piece of pure opinion is about as dumb as it gets. I make a habit of modding up anyone in the ditches (0 karma or lower) who made the 'mistake' of expressing an unpopular opinion. Why silence opposition? Save the downmods for posts with poor quality. | aston | -4 | September 2007 |
11 | I hate you guys...i didn't know she had a dick. | _bq | -4 | October 2007 |
12 | It's hard to steer clear of political discussion these days, isn't it? I spilled over into that area myself with a recent screencast for a new ourdoings.com feature: http://img.ourdoings.com/tutorial/morephotos.htm | brlewis | -4 | January 2008 |
13 | WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU ME? | aleclair | -4 | February 2008 |
14 | Funny, because Science itself is a religion. See Foundation, Part I (Asimov). | vchakrav | -4 | March 2008 |
15 | Maybe I'm in the minority. I think DHH's arrival here is a big gust of foul air. Suddenly the arguments are getting out of control, and pg's participating. Nitpicky, negative, petty debates. I've read every DHH post that's appeared here in the past days, and every one of them comes off like the work of a sophomoric contrarian who believes that the minor success he's had entitles him to tell the world how to think. I like this place better when positive, hopeful people are having conversations. This air just stinks. | sabat | -4 | April 2008 |
16 | I'm not at all interested in nasa spam here. As per the YC guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." | bigtoga | -4 | May 2008 |
17 | I enjoyed slapping around nerds in high school. It's good for the ol' self-esteem, and that's what's important, right? | quoderat | -4 | June 2008 |
18 | LMAOOL at the modding for parent and grandparent, both by me! | MaysonL | -4 | July 2008 |
19 | Well its obvious what this article wants, for the government to step in and regulate people from hurting your feelings. Seriously when have we become a country of pussies? | vaksel | -4 | August 2008 |
20 | more dropbox pandering!!! I certainly hope this dropbox thingy is actually easy to use as advertised by SO MANY!!! But seriously, the ONLY thing it can offer is something easier for shared file storage. Something that's been done many times over...now we get to see if dropbox has done it well enough to attract a long term user base. But Joel's post is OVER THE TOP in pandering!!! Does he have equity in this thing? | jhancock | -4 | September 2008 |
21 | Maddox called, he wants his writing style back. | josefresco | -4 | October 2008 |
22 | and how quickly blacks jump to crime. and how afraid the police is to say it. and how quickly you jump to condemn whites. it's sick. edit: don't reply! pile on the downmods! you're helping me make the point. | cousin_it | -4 | November 2008 |
23 | To hackers: please don't look through our code for GPL violations, because surely you'll find some. Hopefully no one finds all the code I copy/pasted from, or the documentation I learnt from. To hackers: I used GPL software to compile this program, but I won't give you the same pleasure... you are not free to use my programs. | illumen | -4 | December 2008 |
24 | Forbes.com, Facebook.com, and Hamsterdance.com | raffi | -4 | January 2009 |
25 | Why of course. You can come stay in the closet of my studio apartment. I'll feed you and clothe you until we can find just the right opportunity for your brilliant mind! I know we're supposed to be "nice," but this is absurd. Go back to school and NEVER say about yourself that you are "dashing" or "charming" - no matter how tongue-in-cheek you try to make it sound, you just come off sounding like the exact opposite. Upon reading more of your responses, I'm further convinced that you should stay where you are. Nobody cares about your fancy "cross flights." Right now is certainly not the time to abandon everything and come to California. | mihasya | -4 | February 2009 |
26 | "Women make boys want to burn things". Women are the source of all this, us, hanging around on hacker news; learning, digesting, trying, applying and executing. In the hope of getting successful at what we're actually trying to do, look good and buy ourselves, indirectly or some directly... women. | jrnkntl | -4 | March 2009 |
27 | Very unfortunately, yes. I'm aware US economics aren't a carbon copy of what Rand wanted, because it simply doesn't work. | electromagnetic | -4 | April 2009 |
28 | 64bit is the only way to address 32bit addressing limit. it's related to 32bit chip architecture not to particular operating system. what's amusing is the length of the article. putting that much effort into article (and research) without finding basic things about computers their architecture deserves more than few points down. | acexman | -4 | May 2009 |
29 | Silly fashionable people. They're so fashionable. The kid was cool tho. | thunk | -4 | June 2009 |
31 | Then don't double click it. | skoob | -4 | January 2010 |
32 | It's when you downshift your bike, pedal hard and fast, and say "woooo!" in a high voice. (I just made that up.) | maw | -4 | February 2010 |
33 | some ppl have 2 much time on their hands | tomek | -4 | March 2010 |
34 | I definitely wouldn't hire a job hopper who is dumb enough to not somehow cover that up on his resmue... | johnrob | -4 | April 2010 |
35 | I thought Hacker News readers were educated and intelligent but there are so many iTards it's not funny anymore. The Apple Cult ... is depressing. You are little ants who forgot what freedom means. Wake up guys ! Sorry to be harsh but I'm starting to be really angry I'm gonna stop reading anything about Apple/Adobe. | bsergean | -4 | May 2010 |
36 | It's one of those things that you don't want to be true... But there it is. Ben Parr was at a press event today for IE9 and confirmed to Mashable staff that, according to the tests, IE9 is gonna be hella fast. | jolie | -4 | June 2010 |
37 | I'm sure there are a few really bad sexist jokes in reply to the title. I'll refrain from airing them here. | ax0n | -4 | July 2010 |
38 | So I took off my trousers... You're on the internet. Why are you wearing pants? | ElbertF | -4 | August 2010 |
39 | It's too bad that Scott Adams has no idea what he's talking about. What makes him think that A: The youth of today agree with how things are going B: They are NOT trying to change things C: The people in charge ARE NOT trying to maintain the status quo. It's not so simple as just using a gun or muscle is it? We have laws, ones to do with economics and even criminality that can keep the youths marginalized. The older generation run the companies that pick and choose who to hire. In general, the real power of society is with the old. I don't even see the middle-class (and old) majority having much sway over the rich who control politics in so many senses. Business interests have squelched a lot of progress for the current and last generation. I find that Adams is pretty aloof to these sorts of ideas. He also seems to be recommending a revolution of sorts. "Society's founding geniuses engineered a social system that encourages the young people who have guns to shoot at each other instead of robbing old people. Forgive me for calling that awesome." I'm not sure if this is a racially motivated statement. It's also interesting how he uses "smarts" as a term when "manipulation" and "control" would do better to describe the way society works. I'm guessing he's a hard-core Rand follower. Great. | napierzaza | -4 | September 2010 |
40 | Jacob confronted by the Man in Black | taylorlb | -4 | October 2010 |
41 | Redirect google users to DuckDuckGo. | prakash | -4 | November 2010 |
42 | So many entitled morons. It's pretty sad. | rorrr | -4 | December 2010 |
43 | And then he posts it on HACKER news? | leon_ | -4 | January 2011 |
44 | Real names are part of Quora's premise. They can afford to reject people who make that hard to pull off. If they'd been founded in another country, they'd presumably have the same problem with some standard American names, but since they weren't , Hasan Hasan's argument falls a little flat. If he needs to use it, he can go by a middle name. I go by my middle name, because I share my first name with my father. No TechCrunch drama required. | byrneseyeview | -4 | February 2011 |
45 | and the point of this is? | dr_ | -4 | March 2011 |
46 | Could you please backup with your claims with some evidence? | sagarun | -4 | April 2011 |
47 | Chrome tracks your browsing history... why do people suddenly care when there's an addon for Firefox that does that? | natmaster | -4 | May 2011 |
48 | Umm, I have a patent on using software to write the word "cun--." Please redact, or send me $5 ;) | dhimes | -4 | June 2011 |
49 | The fraction reduction seems inflationary. | adolph | -4 | July 2011 |
50 | I guess the fact that people have just downvoted rather than explaining confirms it's still a fad. | atomicdog | -4 | August 2011 |
51 | There is. | illumen | -4 | September 2011 |
52 | I image keeping my development tool in Redmond ensure I keep paying fees but what does this do for developers? | chrisbennet | -4 | October 2011 |
53 | Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with. | cq | -4 | November 2011 |
54 | This is as absurd as if he'd been given an honorary title by the Church of Scientology... Am I the only one who sees this as a pitiful attempt by a government to rub elbows with someone who truly has merit, and by doing so to create the notion that there is some form of equality between the two? I think any self-respecting person would decline knighthood. Though I can see in this case how his corporate responsibilities would lead him to accept it in order not to offend British subjects, since doing so might hurt sales. | grandalf | -4 | December 2011 |
55 | Would be great for viral marketing. As far as I know it is possible to forge codes that are valid but have an image embedded. A stickfigure giving another one oral pleasures for example. Place it in the streets and people who think of QR codes as random jumble will see it as a funny coincidence, take a picture for the funny pages and maybe decypher it and visit your erotic gadgets shop. | habudibab | -4 | January 2012 |
56 | Hope they won't find any Thing they're not looking for. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/ and 2011 prequel http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/ ) | jameslevy | -4 | February 2012 |
57 | So continuing the analogy... Apple mobile products will switch to Android in about five years and their marketing won't miss a beat? | jarek | -4 | March 2012 |
58 | Greed. Torture. Monopoly. Everything that was once a sin or a crime in America is now excused, reinterpreted, and finally praised. | nacker | -4 | April 2012 |
59 | This isn't plagiarism. It's laughable to say that it was, they cited him. I know this is an insanely simple comment that will lead people to think I didn't read this conversation or really think about this topic, but I did. And it's not. The internet is ridiculous sometimes. | tomasien | -4 | May 2012 |
60 | >wear and tear You charge $1200 to rent a dwelling out. It's $1200 flat. Whether 1 person @ 1200 or 3 people at @ 400 each. How do you somehow accrue more nebulous "wear and tear" from a temporary visitor than you would from a second lessee? It's still no more than two people at once. | Karunamon | -4 | June 2012 |
61 | Curious that you decided to leave out the 2000's decade. In a coma or something ? | taligent | -4 | July 2012 |
62 | Hi Halit, I'm not sure non-English content are welcomed on HN. Downvoted, sorry. | alpb | -4 | August 2012 |
63 | So just because you ate X for lunch today you should eat X for lunch everyday? See it makes sense with could but with should it's a nonsense claim. The WH, just like you me, the GOP, ze Germans, Al Qaeda, whoever are all free to request that YT review any video. Is this the end of the world? Does making such a request ever attach a weak compulsion to review and request the same of any other video that might weakly overlap the criteria claimed in the first video? That's laughable. That's not how logic or anything in the world works. | Steko | -4 | September 2012 |
64 | Worst infrastructure ever. | Codhisattva | -4 | October 2012 |
65 | Kids these days lol | webmech | -4 | November 2012 |
66 | HELLO RETARD YOU'RE SITTING IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER COPY AND FUCKING PASTE DO YOU SPEAK IT | to3m | -4 | December 2012 |
67 | It is very nicely done, but I think that "Eastern Europe" as a synonym for "Borat" is a trope that, while never accurate, has run its course. | jfb | -4 | January 2013 |
68 | Disagree. A company's stock price directly correlates to what the market values the future earnings of the company at. Company doesn't have a future? Down to zero with you. | toomuchtodo | -4 | February 2013 |
69 | Do yourself a favor; withdraw ALL your money from banks and buy a safe; keep it at home in safe bolted to the ground, fireproof; the type with remote off-trigger so with a gun to your head you can't open it for a burglar. Preferably replace most with silver coins the 25c 90% silver ones. Do not buy gold in large quantities as when buying food on a daily basis it will be hard to "break" a bar of gold. Once successfully pushed in Cyprus, US will be the next one. Why you think they buying millions of rounds of ammunition? Street tanks bought by DHS (not a military part of government). And if you think about it, it makes perfect sense! Only by taking 25% of peoples assets can safe America, safe Social Security, safe Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Pres Obama already prepared it for you -- "you haven't built your business" yourself; the money you have is not really yours; it should be obvious! | joering2 | -4 | March 2013 |
70 | ur about to finish running a fucking marathon... you grew up in Kenya... trained your whole life... BOOM | Grovara123 | -4 | April 2013 |
71 | Whatever you say, Mr. Lawdawg. What a great last name; I wish I could have one like that. | MostAwesomeDude | -4 | May 2013 |
72 | False, jwz is selling himself on this blog. He's addicted to the attention, very much like a heroin addict. | sgt | -4 | June 2013 |
73 | Really? King "Kamehameha"? Am I supposed to believe that a Super Saiyan was once the King of Hawaii? edit: This article is crazy interesting. | tomphoolery | -4 | July 2013 |
74 | Well, that's why you don't hardcode a magic value, nor do you continuously poll the state of a device and rely instead on interrupts: That's what they're made for. | Jugurtha | -4 | August 2013 |
75 | A few months ago a friend told me he felt hn had jumped the shark. This frontpage discussion about a blog post about a reddit thread pretty much settles any debate there was to be had on that topic! | slipperyp | -4 | September 2013 |
76 | Once again Microsoft has learned a lesson from Linux: the upgrade comes free of charge to existing users. Not quite the same yet, but it's getting there. | brokenparser | -4 | October 2013 |
77 | It's just business. Conflict is extremely profitable. Unfortunately, 164 people is a drop in a bucket in an ocean. | hansjorg | -4 | November 2013 |