skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We thought revenue sharing is important because today's services won't reward users for generating content.

Revver and YouTube are doing it, but their revenue is not predictable and consistent for a user.

We are launching few services [search engine that pays you for bookmarking the result pages, travel deal sharing network that pays its participants for discovering and sharing travel deals] which are very useful services for a web user. Revenue is always predictable and consistent in these services models that we have.

As you mentioned, revenue sharing/generation might not be so important for some people. But it has its own advantages for users who wants to be payed for their content generation.

Thanks for the link, it is an interesting read. Please none of our service ideas are meant to harm any web user, it is just for the benefit of all web users like you and me.
remotely related, but I've always wondered how hard it would be to do the opposite (for those who haven't read the article he mentions in the beginning that the round about goal of javascript mode is to eventually write emacs extensions in javascript); Would/could/should it be possible to use Lisp in a browser in place of javascript? you know, script type="text/lisp". Just totally replacing javascript for dom interaction etc. with lisp. Is that insanity or have other people thought similar things?
The problem is we don't want to flood HN with stuff like this...someone should look at the HN/Posts % (number of entries posted to HN/total number of entries)...I'd say if it's around a constant 2/3 it's worth doing. If I have the time I'll try to investigate this at some point...pg would be in a much better providing this info.

http://searchyc.com/top/domains shows that TechCrunch may be worth doing this for...
The cult of mac is really interesting when you see it from a business perspective. It is similar to a religious cult in many respects - A sense of being superior to others, near-total devotion to their god (sorry, couldn't resist...), ,the constant need to tell the world that their way is the only right way. And they have a charismatic leader.

This is what it is, and not all mac fans are like this - but many are. Whatever Apple puts on the market they will buy. And they will tell all their friends about it - whether they like it or not.

This has to be one of the best marketing ploys ever deceived by man, Apple has thousands and thousands of fanatical marketing representatives in coffee shops all over the world who are ready to tell everyone of the superiority of the mac. I think that this cult is a primary success factor for Apple, evidenced by the fact that under Sculley's reign at Apple shares fell, and Apple wasn't cool. When Jobs came back he got the cult going again, and they are now heading for new heights.

It's absolute marketing genius...
Adobe Releases AIR for Linux; Joins Linux Foundation
Thanks for sharing this nice article
Doesn't bother me, except sometimes xkcd isn't on topic.
100% of PG articles make it here, lots of TC's make it here (although many don't hit the front page), probably half of the xkcd's do, and PB's generally make it here eventually.

Also, I omitted Matt Maroon before, but his articles generally get posted, too, even when they're little comments and not actually essays.
Bullshit legislation, but take solace in the fact that government-produced GIS data is usually crap. :-)
The Old Man (Babbage and Implementation)
China's non-democratic system means it invests in infrastructure before other more immediately demanded things. I think it has a better education system from primary to secondary, as outside of Kerala a lot of teachers are habitually absent.

India has higher barriers to entry in damn near everything because of the "Licence Raj" and <i>insane </i> employment legislation. Its almost impossible to fire people once your enterprise has more than 100 employees.

China has been experiencing the demographic dividend (falling birthrate means the dependency ratio drops, and you get a bulgein the population pyramid in the working age population, more taxes, fewer pensions and childcare)
I thought it is probably pretty easy to write a LISP interpreter in Javascript (or a Scheme interpreter), so why not do that and have it execute your LISP code? I thought about that recently, when I took up Scheme programming again - so no, you are not alone ;-)

I assume it is easy to write such an interpreter because it is frequently an exercise in LISP classes, and I think it has been done many times before (for example I think some games took that approach, using LISP as a scripting language).
Intriguing - I love to hear about hard programming challenges.
Search of SearchYC based on title on 30 TechCrunch articles from March 27-29 found 7/30 articles = ~25%

PG's articles get a huge amount of karma regardless, that should probably be botted but may never make it in time (I don't know how quickly the RSS feed is generated).
Something tells me it won't be bundled with Ubuntu, due to licensing problems? It is so nice that at least Java can now easily be installed from the Multiverse. How long until Flash will be Open Source, too?
It's clear now that many people have thought of or implemented autosubmitter bots. This could get ugly.

Maybe there should be a News.YC spinoff exclusively devoted to karma-bot wars so that human users don't have to witness the carnage on the front page.
a javascript orb.

stories :

you chance upon a really cool site. you want to see it's JS code. you click on a bookmarklet. you see the code (merged in one file from the different sources, with syntax highlighting, indentation, and all the bells an whistles)

you are coding a really cool app. you need a generic "User" object you go to the javascript orb search. you find a list of objects. you chose one (click). the URL in the navigator says : http://jsorb.org/example.com/lib/cool.js/User?version=55555
copy, paste the url. the object comes with all its dependencies.

You are looking for an object. you seach jsorb. you find almost what you want. object version 55555. you edit the object in place in the editor and save. object version is now 55556.
I just read this, and wondered what would have happened if Babbage had 'picked one mountain to climb', and focused on that.
http://www.nabble.com/-squeak-dev--The-Old-Man-td16386810.ht...

Babbage had lots of ideas that appear spot-on, but seems to have lacked in the execution side.
i use dreamhost
Whenever Google gives something away for free, it clearly serves one purpose: collect more data. So if giving away Web Services for free provides them with useful data, they will do it. If not, they won't.

I don't think for something like a computing cloud they could just go ahead and mine the data of their customers servers. But maybe they would get interesting traffic data. I doubt that alone would warrant giving it away for free.
hhmmm, design on a website is weightless ergo worth its weight in gold --> $0. methinks a new metaphor may need to be inserted here ;-)
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Hacker Club Publishes German Official's Fingerprint
That's a red herring, and here's why: simpler models take less data to train.

Every orthogonal parameter that you add to a statistical model expands the probability space of that model exponentially. If you keep the amount of training data fixed, but keep adding parameters, you'll very quickly arrive at a point where your model will fit your training data exceptionally well, but the result will be meaningless, because you've over-fit your data.

Now, I suppose you could make the case that new models are occasionally discovered that allow for more efficient uses of existing data. However, this is a decidedly rare event. Most of the time, gains are made in exactly the way the author suggests -- by adding new sources of data to well-established techniques.
What's the point of copying every article of anything which has its own RSS feed to news.yc?

Anyone who wants to see every xkcd will already have the RSS feed in their reader. Posting it here is just noise.
Industries revolutionised by the internet:

1. Porn

2. Real Estate

3. Jobs

Without commenting further on #1, I have to say that I am very unimpressed by 99% of Real Estate and Jobs websites out there. They get so much traffic because a poor real estate website is still infinitely better than waiting for Saturday's newspaper to come out (same with jobs).

I expect to see a site that "gets" Real Estate or Jobs soon, the same way Google "got" search a few years back.
I was faced with this decision about a year ago. I went with the Thinkpad in large part because of the pointing device; I love the trackpoint. I've also disassembled quite a few Powerbooks, iBooks and Thinkpads and found Thinkpads to be less fragile in general. Pinched video cables and bad BGAs seem to be pretty common on the Macs, but it's easier to damage the outer case on a Thinkpad.

Both are fine laptops, and much better made than the average machine. You won't go wrong either way.
This is a terrible, horrible idea, and I think you should turn off your autosubmitting script.

I think users should only submit things they personally think are awesome and would interest other people.

Autoposting scripts remove the human element of "sharing links" which is what this site was built on.
This is a non-issue. 30 year old Russian scientists do science just like anywhere else. They just aren't called a particular word ("учёный") that the 50 year olds are. It has connotations of wisdom and experience, and this is probably why.
Is really every XKCD cartoon appearing on HN? I don't subscribe to xkcd, and I was hoping only a few actually get posted here.

The "problem" of bots and news sites is an interesting one, though. But why not experiment on Reddit, rather than HN?
Our collective recent history, online
I see the same thing in ideas for research papers. I have lots of ideas I think are great, the trouble is it takes a year to do the grunt work to prove my idea right, and then even if it's right it may not be marketable to my scholarly community. So, it becomes obvious really quickly that it's better to find someone who's succeeded in the market (here has a good CV) and either work on their ideas or get them to certify yours and guide you through the work.

Maybe I would change Paul's analogy around a bit and imagine a beach full of pyrite and gold sand. Certainly you wouldn't say sand is worthless; some of it is gold. A random shovel full probably is approximately worthless though, to get real value you'd need a talented prospector.
I should probably note that most people seem to treat their laptops better than I do. I've dropped it several times, splashed it with liquids, etc. So it's holding together pretty well, all things considered. It's old enough that it is still branded IBM, it may be true that the build quality has gotten worse over time.
I think an "idea person" would by definition have more than one good idea. If as you say 99 great ideas are necessary to make it to the top, an idea person might be the right person for the project?

Many people don't seem to have any ideas at all, their whole inspiration for life comes from TV and magazines. I prefer idea people. Execution would be even better, of course. But why not talk to the idea people you know and help them execute?
There are quite a few Lisp/Scheme interpreters out there, just google "scheme in javascript" or "lisp in javascript".

Here's two;

http://www.joeganley.com/code/jslisp.html

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/scheme.html

They look very extendable too.
And there is the weird phenomenon of studio musicians - great skills, but no ideas?
Does that figure include the mail-order universities?
Jobs and rental properties are handled pretty well by Craigslist these days.
Not directly related but anyone using Webhostingbuzz.com for hosting and domain names? it's quite slow but their shared hosting solution is one of the cheapest one around.. :o)
here's arc in js

http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~jdtang/arclite/

Silverlight 2.0 with the DLR plus the in-development IronScheme might be good too

http://www.codeplex.com/IronScheme
This is absolutely amazing. I thought Google Analytics was cool, but this looks like it's better.

Anyone know of any other alternatives?
If woopra does everything google analytics does in real time for free, I'll switch. It's annoying to have to wait until 3AM to check my stats.

I really liked http://www.webtrends.com/ back in the days of the bubble, but they've been pay software for a while now. Is there any pay software for analyzing server logs that's worth getting? The free/open source ones are missing lots of functionality.
yes and that brings me to other professions as in the film industry. E.g. this year the Academy Award for best Music (Song) was won by movie Once, which on technical and execution side looks amateurish compared to Hollywood blockbusters. In this case, the idea won Oscar.

I think to compare different kind of artist and their craft among themselves is valid.
This is often true. I downloaded a simple world border set from NGA and it took days of cleaning. It's about the only part of my code that's commented b/c it took a mess of code to clean up a mess of data. But still, cost effective or not, I would rather clean it myself than buy it.
My MB consistently gets a wifi signal in an office building where all the Lenovos seem to need an Ethernet tether once they get 6 inches away from the prime areas.

Not sure what display problems you refer to (honestly curious), both my MBP and MB seem to have displays as good as any other laptop. My other hobby is digital photography (Canon EOS5D, L glass, etc.), so I'm working with Aperture or Photoshop a lot, the only "display" issues I'd note is that the laptop LCDs don't calibrate as nicely as my external Apple cinema displays.
They had an earlier article covering the Apple fall:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA...

I assumed this Vista one was just a continuation rather than a "VISTA HACKED (oh by the way the mac went too)".
I'm not experimenting so much as trying to provide a beneficial service (at 6am the differences blur significantly though).

I'd say around 25% of xkcd's are remotely relevant to this site, the question is whether or not an automated source of 1:3 signal/noise ratio is worth it.
Auctomatic founders interviewed on BBC Radio Four Today programme [see comment]
Direct link to Real Audio stream:

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/live/today5_20080328.ra?start=00:07:39.0&end=00:10:39.0&BBC-UID=b4d73c94521ab6daf980b0939050aef6cba12739904031d4b40fe8b1acaa657f&SSO2-UID=
Their regular pricing is still cheaper than godaddy, you still get 5 day domain refunds (as account credit), and $2 domain privacy. Bulk pricing gets you an extra 1.50 off and an Api.
It's 1920 x 1200, just enough for a 23" Cinema HD.
I graduated CS from CU. Great place, epic surroundings, depressing engineering building. Godspeed man...
Direct link to Real Audio stream:

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/live/today5_20080328.ra?start=00:07:39.0&end=00:10:39.0&BBC-UID=b4d73c94521ab6daf980b0939050aef6cba12739904031d4b40fe8b1acaa657f&SSO2-UID=

This is a short (~3 minute) interview in the 'Business with Greg Wood' segment of the Today Programme, broadcast at 27th March 0843.
Am I the only one who had read Harry Potter's Relay Computer?
Cool.

+10 karma points for whoever transcribes it as a comment here...
I can't help but think the hype over this is the beginning of the end...
"And they will tell all their friends about it - whether they like it or not."

LOL, especially the "whether they like it or not" part is so true ;-) I still think it is mostly cognitive dissonance ("I paid so much for this stuff, it has to be good or I'll look like an idiot").
i used yahoo once - it was a deal to register domain for $1 ... can't go cheaper and better than yahoo.
I responded to Paul Buchheit with a DH5 (or not? what do you think?)
Agreed. Those that want to read xkcd or TC or whatever will subscribe to their respective feeds.

I like the diversity of things here on HN.
Don't do that.

If the community wants everything from a particular site submitted then let's ask PG to scrape their RSS feed.

I'm sometimes tempted to post everything from my blog, but I look at things and decide whether I think the community here will be interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150865
Parallel supercomputer applications for the developing world:

http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/supercomputer-a...
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Out of all of the "ones to watch", I only liked videojug (although the site does look a bit messy); the others, meh. I am sure - and hope - they will all be successful, but where are the UK companies that really push the envelope and do something truly innovative?
Better for the webmaster perhaps :/

Google Analytics is cool, but it slows down page loads something shocking.

With more complex measurement, comes a worse experience for your users...

Sorry, I don't want it :/
I cam across this one a while ago, but the free version is limited: http://www.clicktale.com/index.html
Saving Ourselves from the UnWeb
6) Join Microsoft DreamSpark and get the following for free because you're a student: Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003, MSoft Expression Studio, XNA Game Studio (https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/). Fill out your Windows VM with the dev tools.
Ugh. This is exactly the kind of commentary that Winer (http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/03/30/proofThatTheEndI...) and BrandomM (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149887) and myself are fed up with.

Perhaps I'll write a blog post called Matt Maroon's Trolling Continues to Boggle the Minds.
one of maddox's classic articles:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
Grahams proof for "ideas are worthless" is that there is no market for ideas. No market means no demand. No demand means no value.

Buchheit says that there is a market for ideas - the VC market: "If someone with a history of being right also has a capable team of climbers who have demonstrated the technical skill and judgment to climb other mountains, then that is very valuable, and they will have no trouble getting their idea funded."

I tend to think that Buchheit is wrong an Graham is right. Buchheits VC market is not a market of ideas. "Funding" doesnt mean buying ideas.
Agreed. Voting up things to express opinions is exactly why Reddit became overrun with Ron Paul posts. I'd rather not see Hacker News devolve into OS/browser/editor/etc wars.
Federal Tax Rebate
The federal tax rebate checks are different from tax refund checks that the IRS usually sends out a couple weeks after a tax return is filed.
spam / scam?
I think that part of the problem with the whole idea vs execution debate is that it's an artificial consequence of our patent and copyright system. Patent/copyright law is based on the premise that if you have an idea, document it and someone else uses that idea later, you "own" the idea and they might have to pay you. Those are really artificial constraints.

In any other creative endeavor: painting, sculpture, music it's the idea + execution that truly matters. If either one fails, your creation gets forgotten. I'd venture that any creator of Art, Science, Music, etc... knows the absurdity of "owning" the idea of of their creation. To the painter, the idea is simple a picture in your head. To anyone else, the idea of a melting clock sliding off a table is just an acid trip. After Salvadore Dali committed it to canvas, it was art. To anyone else, images of people and things as geometric blocks is just a little weird. After being executed by Picasso, it changed the world of art.

It's the idea + execution that matters.
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High Valuations Can Put Entrepreneurs At Risk
This is a telegraph article. Does anyone else have problems with their print option when they have a piece extending over several pages? I can only print the first page.
Scientists probe meditation secrets
Funny, I didn't say Kawa because I've always assumed SISC was more popular... I didn't know about BRL though, thanks for the tip!
Name.com. I'm surprised noone's mentioned them. $5.99 domains. Free private registration. Easy interface. Account credit balances for really easy domain regging from an iPhone. I've transferred everything I had on Joker over to them b/c it's 1/2 the cost.
An interesting article, expanding from means of disagreeing to methods used I'd add a few observations. There's the shotgun refutation where a poster quotes almost every part of a post with a weak disagreement making responding to every point almost impossible and there's the essayist who writes a needlessly long response making finding and responding to their central point much harder. Essayists often use deliberately ambiguous passages so they can claim you don't understand rather than explaining clearly.

Another internet or more general debate strategy is to refer to the voluminous works of others as if you've read them and behave as if your opponent cannot respond until they've read every last page, often with little attempt to explain or apply the supposed arguments and facts that come from those sources.

Most internet posters are unable to state things clearly, partly because people are taught to obfuscate and because they're embarassed to put their points in view so nakedly.
"This is what it is, and not all mac fans are like this - but many are. Whatever Apple puts on the market they will buy."

Same for Windows, Linux, etc. It used to amaze me the level of devotion to Acorn computers during the 90s, when they were sinking fast in terms of market share. It took years to convince my boss to buy PCs instead, despite Acorns often being 2x more expensive.

I drive a car because it gets me from A to B. I use a Linux server because it's secure and doesn't eat resources. I do Windows consultancy because it pays the bills. I use a Mac because I like it and it's a productive environment. We should ignore the fan-boys because they'll never change, and articles like this one certainly won't change them.
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Just watch this puppy move!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbEwKD2zW0
t61. Mine has been rock solid. I run ubuntu and everything works great. This is my second thinkpad (last one was ~4 yrs ago). I have not had any of the issues anyone has listed about thinkpads with either one. Mine have worked like a champ. That said, it won't pick up chicks like the Macs ;-) <see Guy Kawasaki's Air article>.
I was going to start a new search engine, but Yahoo had already done that. I was going to create a new webmail service, but Hotmail was so good. Then I thought of producing a kind of souped-up forum system, but that one had been done to death as well.

Then I saw Google, Gmail and Facebook, and realised it wasn't the ideas so much as the execution ;)

My Big Idea (as I've said before) involves VR goggles which you can hook up to the net to see computer-generated images in real contexts. Or you could reverse the polarity and visit anywhere in the world from the comfort of your armchair, using computer-generated landscapes. In 10 or 20 years, the line between real and virtual will be so blurred that nobody thinks about it.

[Before anyone gets too involved in this: http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html]
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Read an article about how to optimize your Outlook for better performance
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If you see the movie, pay attention to the classroom scene just after Ben gets beaten up and you can clearly see jl's book. I thought it was pretty cool.
Some info on ways to optimize and solve Outlook Express errors
An article I found about how to make Outlook faster in order to obtain better performance.
Getting vs. Taking