skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diaspora* the brand
The diaspora* brand is kind of awesome. The meaning of diaspora is apt, the choice of a word like that is both aggressive and erudite (a perfect tone for the current vibe against facebook and for attracting hackers in general), and it has the word "spore" in the sound, a fact that they are capitalizing on with all of the dandelion puff imagery, imagery which seems pure and simple and innocent (again, well-suited as a contrast to fb). Also the asterisk makes for a nice little logo in and of itself because it somewhat resembles a dandelion seed and it also happens to be a nice little visual representation of a network and it makes for a great visual identity element. They're doing some smart things with it already.

In short, I think you could spend several thousand dollars on branding and do worse, and while branding isn't their biggest obstacle, I think it's nice to see that they've done so well on that much at least so far.
"The impact on the battery would be unsolvable too."

That simply is not true. Flash on Android does not destroy the battery, going off of what testers, developers have reported as well as the video demo that plays video in Flash for a while and shows the impact on the battery life.

Also, your comment does not speak to the fact that Apple is banning the Flash-to-native iPhone app compiler. That does not fall victim to the Flash-is-slow scenario you're offering.

Also, poorly written Flash apps can be slow. Poorly written iOS apps can be slow as well.
check out idevaffiliate at http://www.idevdirect.com/idevaffiliate.php , I use it via my software and email list on http://ManeeshSethi.com to generate a lot of passive revenue, and it is only like $100 or $300 for the upgraded edition
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Personally I like Mark Pilgrim's because it is so unique. http://mark.pilgrim.usesthis.com/
Seriously, do you expect the average facebook user to comprehend this stuff? Really?

Facebook knows people don't pay attention to details, and even if they tried to, they couldn't figure it out.

If you truly disagree, I'd say it is because of the curse of knowledge...you've understood this type of thing for so long, that you can't imagine what it's like to not understand it.
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Interesting thoughts. What makes you think we'd have a lot of costs? We hotlink and embed most of the content from other sites, so really, even our bandwidth costs are low.

I'm not sure its really a longshot at all. Its obvious people love sharing stuff, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter are simply evidence of the market for posting cool links.
take 100 individuals, 50 go to college, and the other 50 don't. 10 years out, measure the financial stability (cash flow, net worth, etc) of both groups. I guarantee those that went to college fair better. Not saying that money is everything, but it is a powerful enabler.
IANAL, but I'm a self-employed business owner on an F1 visa. It seems few people is aware of this option, but AFAIK this is completely legal. Search for "self-employed" here:

http://www.ice.gov/sevis/updates_postcompletion_opt.htm
They should look at SocNodes: http://www.socnode.org/

In particular, there is some real, actual, working code: http://www.socnode.org/code, using PubSubHub for near-instant updates across multiple distributed sites.

The code there is in Python, but there is a (my) half-Java implementation linked from there too.
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Just wondering, why should the users go through this "annoying" process of getting their company/school added to the directory. This would be more user friendly if it was done automatically as part of the signup process. Signing up for a new service is already annoying enough as it is. Emailing to get "permission" to sign up is a step to far for me to use any service which requires to do so.
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Yes, I do. 35% of users adjusted their settings when presented with that dialog, and that's not including the people who had modified their privacy settings in the past, which made them not default to "Everyone".

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_brags_35_adjus...

Most people understood what was going on. You and many others are assuming otherwise without any evidence to back it up.
> Obviously the video is pure melodrama though.

I found it fitting. (The perfect city with the highest population evar!)
I was actually looking for the same thing the other day and didn't find anything. I haven't looked into it that far yet but I think I'm going to roll my own. Whatever the costs would be, I'd rather that amount go to either us or the affiliate.

Are you interested in building and selling this or just making it available to others? Either way I'd be interested in helping in exchange for a working product. If you're interested ping me at mbenjaminsmith [at] gmail [dot] com.
The domain and beautiful UI are the most valuable parts of this. If I were you, I would find another problem to solve, as your current MVP/iteration gives me no return on investment of time or money.

As a business owner, I want to increase reach, increase click throughs, and increase conversions. Or, I want to get to know my customers better, and which elements of our marketing messages work the best.

I could not accomplish any of those goals with this tool, and I won't be back again unless you change the Howl concept. Love the UI and the domain, so try something different that solves a real pain point and gives me an obvious ROI.

Google Docs and Dropbox are two great places to save collections of links.

Good luck!

D.
Needs to tell me why I should use this over Facebook and Twitter.
Most think tanks are very politically charged. Members aren't supposed to do original research, rather they are tasked with penning opinions that align with and justify predetermined political positions.

Secondly, your post overall just doesn't ring true to me. If the pentagon is really this keen on hiring the best and the brightest, wouldn't we have made great strides towards, say, ending our dependence on foreign oil?

There are too many examples like the above for me to believe that the pentagon is at all effective in preparing for the future. If they were, the financial meltdown wouldn't have happened, we wouldn't continue to subsidize corn like we do, we would be moving towards massive subsidies for sustainable farming, the Ogallala Aquifer wouldn't be getting empty, and so on.
I really don't understand why people concern themselves at all with "karma". You can't spend it, you can't invest it, it doesn't enrich you, it doesn't help you achieve any goals (...that are worth achieving).

It's pretty much a high score in a video arcade.
Yeah, the votes always seem to happen as me. I don't know what proxy software we use, so I don't know what it's doing wrong.
Oh, come on:

"A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty."

"I just ousted Owen S. as the mayor of Samovar Tea Lounge on @foursquare! "

Clearly, the second tweet can possibly be informative to some people.
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khanacademy.org

[startup/business]

Patrick's (patio11) blog: kalzumeus.com

Customer Discovery: steveblank.com

Business of Software: discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz

Lean Startups: www.startuplessonslearned.com

[Ruby/Rails]

http://www.rubybrain.com

http://www.railsbrain.com

http://guides.rubyonrails.org

http://peepcode.com

[Reference]

O'Reilly Sarari books: my.safaribooksonline.com/mysafari
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Pointers?

I've seriously never seen one with any real quality and a sense of permanence.

(and that's a serious request, if you know of really good lists I'd really like to hear about them).
In many ways Journals are the beating heart of scientific research in that they both spawn new ideas and keep people from redoing the same experiment thousands of times.

Journals are used by researchers looking into similar problems. So if you say find you can get a 1mm standing wave in water with sound waves and an odd contraption people looking into that area 10 years from now will probably run across your research and either improve it or look into some other area.
Some more recent work questions whether there was ever an actual "tragedy" of the commons, in an empirical sense of having happened in reality, as opposed to as a game-theory thought experiment. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics went to Elinor Ostrom's contrary work on the subject, e.g.: http://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutio...
Hi Daniel, thanks for your reply. I'm not sure Howl targets business people/entrepreneurs in any such way. Its more of a "for fun" thing, for posting and sharing interesting links. Sure you could use google docs and dropbox, but those aren't for sharing links publicly in a nice looking way. Thanks
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Look at Bobst Library's record at NYU...so many they (finally) put up plexiglass to prevent more.
My Guess: C is Lenovo. According to " a $60 million penalty if the deal didn't go through. "
Serve pages with the "Cache-Control: private" HTTP header.
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The DoD/Pentagon has nothing to do with farming subsidies or the subprime crisis or inventing new energy sources.
Not sure if you're looking for websites I like to read, tools, or services, so here's a mix of my favorites (in no particular order):

[services we pay for and love]
http://wiredtree.com (VPS hosting)
http://repositoryhosting.com (git hosting)
http://mailchimp.com (email marketing)
http://polldaddy.com (surveys and polls)
http://raven-seo-tools.com (SEO campaign management)
http://microsoft.com/online/ (hosted Exchange)

[favorite web dev tools]
Firebug: http://getfirebug.com
FireQuery: http://firequery.binaryage.com/
JSONView: https://addons.mozilla.org/mn/firefox/addon/10869?lang=en-US
Fiddler: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
ColorSpy: http://www.microtask.ca/colorspy2pb.html

[other websites]
http://www.programmableweb.com (API directory)
http://techmeme.com (tech news)
http://stumbleupon.com
http://whosampled.com (music search engine)

Some of these (e.g., FireQuery) were made by HN members. If you're reading, thank you!
Thanks. I'm okay with that. Hacker News seems more like a labor of love than a monetizable product, so I don't expect pg to focus on it.
Hey there, were building exactly this with cloudomatic(flow) : flow.cloudomatic.com. It's a pretty big problem, especially for app developers. Feel free to reach me via email at : j@cloudomatic.com .
Sure, I know that this project http://starlight.pnl.gov/ was a decade long R&D project with a staff of zero PhDs. The NVAC ( http://nvac.pnl.gov/ ) place is peopled by lots of non-PhD hacker types doing cool things. Many of the better hacker types I've run across are also not from traditional CS backgrounds which is interesting, lots of trained physicists and mathematicians.

The non-profit types have loads of people who are not-PhDs who do clever think-tank style work for the government. Lots of report writing mostly, but if you can get latched onto some IRAD type project and do internal R&D work, you can see some really cool stuff -- I'm pretty sure I've seen the first ever real-time fusion of geospatial data from six different imagery platforms in a 3d environment. But even the report writing can be interesting, things like open-source studies of countries, industries, facilities, etc. But they can also be a back door into the lab work if you work for one of the managing organizations (like Battelle). Look into them closely as they also tend to have fairly large internal R&D departments. It's possible to make a career working on IRAD projects and responding to SBIR grants. Both are pure research.

Other places do things like geospatial systems research, text mining, information visualization, network security research (which for lab purposes usually requires lots of high level systems understanding or solid math, not as much low level hacking as you might expect, lots of the work is in predictive theories and social network analysis), pattern detection, image analysis, image change detection -- lots of good places for applied math, acoustic triangulation, emergency response modeling and simulation, etc. Think DARPA style research, which the labs do lots of work for.

If you are into hardware, there's also plenty of that, communication systems, weapons testing (like naval guns), hardware encryption systems, phased array radars, biochem detection systems, rapid prototyping, radiation detectors etc.

Most of these don't require PhD backgrounds, and if you hit all the ones you are interested in, you might find something that sticks.

Honestly, given your background, you'd probably find a better home at the labs than the companies. But the hiring cycle is abysmally slow, don't take a non-response as evidence of a lack of desire to hire. 6-12 month wait times on call backs are not uncommon. Often followed by 5-20 years of happy employment.

I personally found both the lab and non-profit environments a bit too rarefied for my tastes. But I do miss being surrounded by brilliant people every day. Also, keep in mind that some of these are enormous organizations, Google-sized by way of comparison, their campuses can be measured in square-miles, not acres and they often have tens of thousands of employees. If you don't live in the States (or aren't a citizen), there are probably equivalent organizations in your home country. Often there is lots of cross-pollination as well, I worked on projects with the Brits, the Italians, Singapore and the Aussies.
Hope Simucal sees this. Sounds like he was working on an NES emulator 1/2 yr ago. They can probably team up.
In other words, they figure out how to invade countries, not why.
First, I hope you're receiving these comments in the spirit I intend them. They're meant to be constructive, and I'll be rooting for your success.

You'll have eventually have significant costs because to be viable you need generate 20M+ pageviews/month to make a good living with the sort of CPM rates I expect a site like this to get. With realtime updates and active chat threads, you'll need a bit of server horsepower to keep things moving.

I think it's a longshot because you're entering a market that relies on massive network effects to create a few dominant players, and becoming a dominant player is tough. Plus, there are already "close enough" sites that people are happy using. Due to network effects, you're going to have a tough time pulling people over to your service when their friends are on Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/etc.

To summarize, you're entering a competitive space and your revenue plan sounds shaky. On the other hand, no one ever accused me of being a visionary.
He is not a "totalitarian Buddhist". The fact the he borrowed the concept of Buddhist Wheel of life doesn't make him "totalitarian". The topic is misleading,inconsiderate, ignorant and offensive.
From my comment in the original thread: (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353354)

PlanetMath - http://planetmath.org/

MathWorld - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

Also, hopefully everyone knows about searchyc by now, but if not, it's a great resource for searching anything technical - http://searchyc.com/

Edit: how can I forget, one of my favorites: The Portland Pattern Repository's Wiki. HN will love it. It has the same "I could browse this site forever" quality of Wikipedia, but less formal and more conversational. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about it. Of course, most of my 'stuff' consists of computer parts, so it's while it's pretty important for me to periodically go through and throw out stuff that is beyond a certain age, having this stuff around saves me quite a bit of money/time when assembling or repairing servers. more, usually than throwing out or giving away the stuff that has become garbage in the last 6 months costs me.

I think all problems with having too much 'stuff' stem from this idea that you need to take care of this stuff as if it were a family member. If you are skipping opportunities because you are unwilling to get rid of your stuff, or if you end up spending time that would be better spent on other things dealing with your stuff, if you avoid taking risks because you are afraid of damaging your stuff, then yeah, you have a problem.

All my stuff (aside from production servers) is essentially disposable. you could take everything I personally own, and eh, really, I wouldn't cry. I'd have to replace much of it, granted, but hell, most of my stuff is cheap. I make it a rule not to own a car that costs more than a month's pay. Yeah, I like having nice tools. But I don't like it enough to spend more than a few days pay on something that becomes obsolete as fast as a laptop. (I'm typing this on a thinkpad x60S. I got it used for $400 a little under two years ago) The drive is encrypted, so really if it gets lost or stolen, I shrug, change my login keys, and get a new one.

The idea is that stuff is... stuff. It exists for your convenience. When it stops being convenient, it should be promptly removed from your life. Be vary careful about owning stuff that is so expensive that worrying about losing it causes you stress. That is the 'stuff' that will tie you down, and that should be avoided, I think.

Really, I think the comments about 'stuff owning you' are wise, in a way- You need to be very careful about what things you allow to have a claim over you. Relationships with other people, yeah, those have a certain claim on you, but like most people, I think that's worth it. My production servers; my business- that has a claim on me, but again, I think that's worth it. Allowing 'stuff' to have a claim on me? emphatically not worth it. But, as 'stuff' is inanimate, I can easily have a claim on 'stuff' without allowing it to have a claim on me.
Because email is a one-to-one communication mechanism! ...Except for those times when it isn't (e.g. mailing lists, Cc:, Bcc:, "Reply to All/Group Reply", etc)
I like this, and would use it. Haven't researched your competitor's offerings, but you seem to have a good grasp on what I would need to quickly and efficiently create screen shots. My use case is creating a 'story' for task instructions involving multiple steps, one screen for each step. Nice work.
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How about: "Explain stuff - one picture for each step"!
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I would be very interested in this. Are you building it currently or is it already in a workable condition?
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I think Posterous just started using something that is super-easy to set up.
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In the middle of building now. Fairly far along too. We needed it out yesterday after seeing initial demand, but were moving fast as we can :).
This looks really cool, but I was pretty turned off by lack of pricing details. This is all I could find:

"Cloudomatic(flow) has no sign-up fees, monthly fees, or minimum transaction amounts. We only make money when you make money."

Can you be more specific?
I'm receiving your comments well, I appreciate it :) I'm not defensive or anything, I enjoy reading peoples thoughts.

I tend not to worry about huge costs so early into the project. We can find a way to monetize if we ever get that big. I think your thoughts about the network effect are interesting but pessimistic. We can actually use Facebook, Twitter APIs to our advantage, we don't need to "pull" users from the necessarily, I think that our specific product offering is complimentary rather than competitive.

Who knows if we'll be successful in the end, I just like to take things one day at a time :) Thanks for your thoughts, they're very strategic, but at a level I'm not really prepared to start thinking about yet. Right now the focus is on practicality and applicability.
You mean viglink? That's more for publishers to make money. I think the op was referring to software that enables saws/ web app developers to setup their own affiliate program.
I just did, with Twitter, FoRK, Buzz, and I think I'll deactivate YC too.
> And what if those you explicitly choose, go on to share it further?

Consider applying that logic a little differently:

1. Should the Post Office be able to open, scan and publish all mail that they process? It should be perfectly reasonable. The person that I'm sending the mail to could do the same thing, so the Post Office has every right to do that!

2. If I put a gun into the hands of a convicted murderer, and he murders someone with it, does he get scot-free just because I 'should have known better?'

When someone leaks information that was meant to be private/confidential, you are trusting that person to keep that information private/confidential. To say that someone "should have known better" than to trust anyone with any information is to say that we should all be hermits, and that society shouldn't exist. As ludicrous as that sounds, that is the basic claim that one makes when asserting that, 'no information shared between two people is 100% guaranteed to be private.'

Whether you realize it or not, your basic claim -- at its heart -- is that it's ok for Facebook to breach your trust just because it's also possible for other people to do so.
There is a shutoff valve at the bottom of the sea, another valve on the drilling rig at the sea surface, and a pipe connecting them.

The way you close off a well is by a) closing either of the valves or b) pumping a few tons of sand and cement down the pipe to block the drilling hole.

Here the top valve failed (with the first explosion) and the bottom valve doesn't work. The pipe broke when the platform sank, and without a connection to the drilling hole the well can't be blocked in the normal fashion. Plus it's too deep underwater for divers or normal submarines.

Without a connection to the well or a working valve, you're basically screwed.

The only certain way to stop the leak at this stage is to drill a new hole at an angle to the first one, a relief well, then you have a connection you can use to pump in the sand and cement to block the well beneath the sea bottom. They have started the process of doing that, the only problem is that it will take months.

Fixes that are known to work in shallower water, like the dome to contain the spill so it could be pumped up, didn't work here - it got clogged up by deep water crystals.

Drilling at these depths is still largely experimental, so there's not much prior experience to draw on.

Maybe they will find a solution at some point, but besides drilling the relief well no fix is know at this time - it's basically trial and error.
Yeah, we did that since were still trying to gauge fair pricing. Basically the original poster here has what were looking to do: take a % of affiliate revenue made. No fees to setup/integrate either. Exact %? were still working those details out. Volume tiering too - ie the % goes down with volume too.
Millions of years of seismic activity, sediment deposition, and high pressures.
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