skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real secret is to just register a .org name.

jjcm.org
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Exactly, personal reasons. I have my initials as the domain name for my personal site.
Yeah, this looks much more complex:

http://www.directtrack.com/directtrack-platform-overview.htm...

and $$$.
Yeah, definitely over-estimate. And do so based on your confidence (and ill-confidence) of the overall effort. Generally speaking, the larger the project may be, the more likely a small error in estimation results in a huge problem later on.

If you find yourself quoting projects that you've "been there and done that" before then those should be easy to make a solid profit on and still quote an "accurate" amount for. After all, you know (far better than your client) how long it will take you and how much effort it will require, as well as what the pitfalls are likely to be along the way.

With totally uncharted territory, simply charge more and put a longer timeline on it. I've even been in situations where the cost was deliberately over-priced and had a huge timeline on it far beyond what was needed (mainly because we didn't really care to do the project much but we quoted a massive amount anyways) and we got it. That's another trick; if you don't want the work in the first place, don't just say No, let your quote be a reflection (with a massive premium on it) that says you'd do the project if some insane price was paid for it.

On the flip side, you want to add in huge premiums when the work is not well understood or well-known by you. Even though someone else out there in the world might have a better grasp of the problem domain and could estimate better, you're the one doing the work, after all, and should price it according to the risk of the unknown.
I understand they will. If not, I will post slides and my best practice run after the conference.
Well then, I guess they shouldn't have used groupon, if groupon is only good for drawing in customers by extreme loss-making activities.

Bashing your head against a brick wall hurts, but the solution isn't to find the least painful brick, it's to stop bashing.
Tactile feedback is pretty important to some people. I haven't tried an iPad yet but when it comes to emails on the iPhone, I would sometimes kill for the ability to just type the way I could on a real keyboard. An iPad with a keyboard hookup is still an iPad.
Give me an example of a 4 character domain with a digit in it and I will suggest a much better alternative. If you want to have a respectable web presence, use keywords or find a quality brand on the aftermarket.

If you must, the real secret to 4 letter domains is backordering as they expire or making an offer to existing owners.
cade-e-o (sounds like radio)

cod-e-o (sounds like audio)
I think you're confusing gross margins on individual items with the overall profit margins. My understanding - and I'm not especially familiar with the industry - is that markup on individual items sold is high (after all, how much does a cup of coffee cost to make?), but the fixed costs - rent and employees - are also high.

I'm saying the number didn't make sense because you have to look at the marginal cost of servicing those customers. The rent didn't go up because more people were coming in. Extra employees were only necessary if the place was already busy, etc.
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Trying to repair radio wave transmission station 1700+ feet in the air, with NO safety equipment. Oh, and of course solid knowledge of electronics is required....
Edit:
Please see the autor's web site at:
http://www.theonlineengineer.org/
and
http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/

To learn about what they do.
When I read your name the first time I read "locality" and then I realized it was something different. You might run into yet another human centric reason for not liking your name.
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$35/hr could also be the maximum

Are you serious? That's about what my wife charges to give horseback riding lessons, and we live out in the country. Near a big city it would be a lot more expensive. I'd like to think that even an average developer should expect more per hour.
The test makes sure that provided invalid credentials (user and password), the message "please check your username and password" will show after making an ajax call to the server.
The trouble is selling several thousand of them in a day

(1) How does it matter whether I get 4K people to buy in in one day or over one year? That part is over-hyped and makes for great PR. I am in the same space(sort-of, blinkcoupons.com). Many retailers would prefer a steady flow of new customers over the year versus a one-time rush.

So let's say you paid Groupon $40,000 to get 4,000 coupon sells by offering a 60% discount, I really believe you can spend $20,000 giving ads in the local paper with a kickass offer and get the same number of people to use your coupon(not just buy it). Remember, just because people buy the groupon does not mean they use it--good for groupon, not so much for the retailer which is completely banking on repeat biz.

As a child in India, I saw newspapers sell out occasionally because they had a coupon. Back then, coupon by definition meant a crazy offer. Since, the idea of a coupon has been diluted to mean trash. And kudos to Groupon for being able to convince store owners to give select kickass coupons like they should have been doing all along. But I don't know why store owners will be paying Groupon 60% revenue when they can run an ad in the local paper for a grand and attract similar number of customers but at a lower customer acquisition cost than Groupon.

(2) What's your product? If it's a virtual product(such as yours), I don't think the same ideas apply. People have been desensitized with online tools offering steep discounts. The same is not true with your local coffee shop.

Distribution is worth paying for.

Absolutely! Though this discussion is a more nuanced one.

We're basically debating if all other things being the same, whether other distribution channels can provide a similar service to Groupon at a cheaper cost. I believe they can!

But I'm biased. That's what my start-up is about :)
KAY-dee-oh, kah-DEE-oh, KAH-dee-oh, kaa-DIE-oh...
First result for the google search 'Twitter' isn't Twitter.com
Some of these criticisms are also true of all of the browser-side application frameworks - i.e SproutCore, Cappuccino etc.

FWIW, the compile time is still pretty long even with one compile permutation - and even while developing there is sometimes a need do do this (for example, changes to serialized objects.)
That's good to know. Thank you!
Cold calling. Lots of cold calling business. That and personalized emails. And trade shows and conventions.

That first real customer, that first real transaction, was a beautiful thing.
Cutting the corn subsidies would make just about all bad food more expensive.
Totally agree. As I understand it, this is in case of "real" emergencies as assessed by government bodies.
The revenue is not going to come from ads being served along with the messages. It is going to come from the customization, implementation and support of the technology.
Call me insane then. I bought an iPad instead of a laptop, which is slightly different from what you said.

Why? It's a family computer. Great for kids. Portable.
Firefox 3.5.1 is A-OK.

Chrome 6.0.472.59 is A-OK.

Both are on Win XP SP2.

Edit: For pre-release you could try something like this:
http://browsershots.org/
Based on the author's blog post, the split was determined beforehand, but Groupon did not allow them to set an upper bound on coupons sold. This seems to be a recurring story - business owners willing to take a loss for marketing via Groupon, but with no effective ways of controlling an upper cap for this loss.
Dammit! I tried magicprefs and the first thing it did was change the mouse acceleration curve to something more Windows-like.

Into the trash it goes...
Every aspect of the roads were built for multi-ton automobiles. From the lane widths, to the radii of the curves to the posted speeds. You don't drive a car on railroad tracks or bike paths. I honestly don't follow the logic. It's like me saying I can ride a horse to work on the roads.

If a bicyclist wants to be equivalent to an automobile on areas that are designated for travel by automobile, then that bicyclist should be able to safely travel with other automobiles. If they cannot do so, they should not travel on those roads. The same rational as to why you don't see bicyclists on highways.

I see your request as me deciding that I want to drive my car down the train tracks and then asking trains to work around what the limitations of my car are on the tracks.
Yeah, but they have that. You can buy the keyboard dock or hook up a bluetooth keyboard. Or hookup a USB keyboard using the camera connector.
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Don't give them a bad quote. Ever.

Sometimes that means over-quoting. Sometimes that means eating the loss.

And sometimes that means quoting by the hour, instead of by the project. Clients generally don't like the idea when they first hear it, but it allows them the most flexibility, since they can make changes to the specifications without signing another contract for every change.
i've heard from a few friends in the valley that groupon's avg breakage is in the 30-40% range.
I had someone call me up for a domain our company wasn't using any more. He asked, and I simply transferred ownership. It had been made clear to me earlier that the domain was not at all desired by the company.
Looks nice and the price it right for the moment but there's no italic or bold....
That's pretty interesting - I guess search.twitter.com is getting links at a better exponential rate, and that matters to google a lot. Thanks, while this could be a one-off thing, it's worth investigating for its implications to SEO.
I wouldn't argue that if I were you. Who says trees aren't sentient? They may be made of fibers of cellulose, but plants and trees both respond to stimulus. Perhaps they think "slower" and of a different way.
I don't know if the person responsible for this vospe.com site is someone here, but it's really bad design.

1. It crashed my browser the first time I tried to look at it (Firefox 3.5.12 on mac)

2. It broke the normal functionality of my up and down scroll keys... apparently I press down to scroll down a little and it goes all the way down to the comments section.

3. That grey box hovering at the top and blocking out some of the text is just plain obnoxious.
If it were really an extra device, though, why is it impacting Best Buy's laptop sales?

I'm thrilled to take one on vacation in six weeks instead of my laptop. It's perfect for travel.
First of all, don't assume the domains are unused. You have no way of knowing this. I have domains that are critical to my infrastructure but don't necessarily have a web site (or even public DNS records). I'll never sell them.

How does this work? I'm not following you. It would seem that the less people/systems that know about a name, the less critical it is.
Which brings up another issue with the study. If you use the "rational actors" canard of Econ101. Everyone asked is trying to maximize their economic utility.

So the opportunity cost of inaction beats action. The study should at least require some form of action of roughly equal cost(liabilities and pyhsical action) to occur in order to zero out this input.

I'd also like to rebuff the "action == moral code" statement. There is nothing more common than action that flies in the face of your moral code. Thus the "let he who is without sin" truism.

Effecting a utilitarian outcome despite your moral code does not make it moral in the eyes of the person acting, and it can denote either courage or cowardice.
It sounds like you're not producing a quote. You're making an estimate. That's the amount of money you expect to charge them when you're done. It could change because of additional or less time needed due to unforeseen circumstances. In this case of working from an estimate, they're taking the risk.

A quote (also known as a "price") is the price at which you're doing the work. If you do the work, they'll pay you that amount. In this case, you're taking the risk of unforeseen circumstances.

If it's an estimate, call it an estimate and tell them what kinds of things might make the final price different from your estimate and give examples of how much it might change.

If you're giving them a quote, then do the work for that amount. If they change the project in the meantime, renegotiate the price.
It's dead, Jim?

Hitting enter after entering my ZIP code gives me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 513, in __call__
handler.post(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/codeablepolitics/1.344842764317514643/controllers.py", line 66, in post
geonames_results = geonames.zipcode_search(query, 1)
File "/base/data/home/apps/codeablepolitics/1.344842764317514643/utils/geonames.py", line 26, in zipcode_search
if len(web_service_response['postalCodes']) == 0:
KeyError: 'postalCodes'

Also: add this on the ZIP code input box: onfocus="this.value=''"
I think the results if you add 'youtube live' to the comparison are interesting.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=justin.tv,+ustream,+youtube+l...

I don't think they'll have much trouble establishing market share once they launch.
Show HN: my weekend project, stalk Twitter/foursquare/myloc.me user
Based on my iPhone 3G experience the umbilical cord is only needed for backups, restores, upgrades, and contact sync. You don't need it often, but you certainly can't live without it for more than a few months at a time.
Forcing anyone out of the lifeboat is murder, period. If someone chooses to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the others, good for them. The baby cannot make the choice for itself.
I find that curious also. Based on every single Groupon retrospective I've seen by any business, all of claimed that repeat customers in that demographic are almost non-existent.

How is Groupon dealing with this? Clearly their current business model is only sustainable while businesses still believe they can net repeat customers via these promotions. Given the increasing amount of negative press - most commonly from small businesses - it's only a matter of time before everyone clues in.
I don't think the enterprise cares about cost; they care about control. For example, my work blackberry requires a 10 character password (that's not qwertyuiop, apparently), and they disable changing the wallpaper, ringtones, use of the camera, and sending text messages.

Why? Because it's a checkbox, and clicking it seems like work. ("Yes boss, I did do a lot of work today. I ensured that nobody can steal our intellectual property by disabling the cameras on all the blackberries!" "Great work!")
Umm, don't mean to burst your bubble but the iPhone could do all that from day 1, sans "multitaskin"g. Is this word now becoming as meaningless as "bricked"?
Damn, I submitted this, only to find it was already here but with the title editorialized to drastically oversimplify what is a well-reasoned and important argument. Now I have to flag it. That makes me a sad panda.
Wow, from the queue presentation this OS looks even less usable than DOS (MS aka Q). Why would the CLI terminate when it runs a programme? How do you run more than one programme at once? If each core polls the run queue does that mean that it busy cycles when there is no more work to do? Won't this waste energy? (A sin in the HPC world). Does it do the same for IO? IO request completion on a slow and/or busy disk could take as long as 50ms, for a 2.5GHz CPU for example this is 125 million clock cycles. Will the CPU busy cycle this as well?

If you want a simple OS that fits a lot into a small space, why not get a copy of the Lions' Commentary and translate the edition 6 kernel into asm. If you wanted to go gung ho you could add a simple BKL, demand paging and a network stack to complete the job. You could probably do all the above and keep it somewhere close to 20,000 lines of assembly (excluding drivers).

If you are looking for an education doing the above will probably do you just as good a job as trying from scratch.

Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th...

The Art of Computer Programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming
I find that my iPad is the perfect fit to replace my laptop.

I have never been able to completely ditch using a desktop anyways, so my use case for a laptop has always really been exactly what the iPad provides; a dead simple internet browsing, media streaming and content consumption device.

If I need to work, I'll use my desktop. I generally feel limited by a laptop screen, mouse and keyboard as it is. If I want to browse the internet, stream some videos, and consume content the iPad on the couch is a perfect fit.
Has exooglers working on it I think, does that count? :)
Today one of our most loyal customers, Lucinda, came in and asked if she could use her Groupon that had expired the day before. I felt terrible, but I had to say no.

"Sure Lucy." There, I did it. What was the hard part? The part where you say yes or the part where you comp your most valuable customer six bucks in flavored water?

Good customer service starts with accepting that you are no longer an employee and that any rule causing bad customer service is your personal fault, because ultimately, you wrote the rule.

See also a customer walking in and offering you six bucks cash for the Groupon deal. That is strictly better than selling her a Groupon for six bucks and paying $3 to GroupOn. Yes. I think we can make an exception for you, ma'am. Just this once... and for anyone else asking the same.

Edit: Worth the read for description of a sales call between an unsophisticated consumer and a business with 90% margins, though. (cough Who do they think they are, coffee sellers?)
> we don't modify it away from the native resolution ... 480x360 or 192x144

The iPhone 4's camera is 1280 × 720 though . . .?
Mark Zuckerberg fits this description perfectly, at least from what I glean before he started Facebook. Facebook just took off so quickly that he couldn't get bored of it.
IE9 could be outdated in a few weeks, Sauce Labs says
“Microsoft didn’t learn its lesson with the way it approached IE9,” he said. (Jason Huggins)
Nitpick: enjo referred only to successful founders.
If you are losing money on each transaction, you can't make it up in volume, you can only lose money faster. Your gross margin would have to be 75% to make money with a groupon promotion, without accounting for any of your fixed costs. The only thing that might be able to touch that is some alcohol sales, assuming you could control employee theft and shrinkage, which you can't.

Let us also not forget that a restaurant isn't infinitely scalable. If your tables are full of people using coupons, you can't just keep packing them in, eventually people are going to go somewhere else, and the guy that is going to leave isn't the one that already paid.
Hello, I am looking for the same thing in Phillipines, could you give me some advice as to where to find good programmers? We are not in web, but in mobile rather.
Related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1698588
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A little too heavy on the Earth-Moon stuff (c'mon, you concentrate on pictures of Earth every fricking week) but nice nonetheless.
I completely agree. I love and respect businesses that are flexible enough to embrace changes in consumer demands rather than vehemently attempt to avoid changes in the marketplace.

Businesses like Blockbuster are a prime example of this. Entire industries such as the entertainment industry (namely movie and music) have tried very hard to avoid changes in consumer demands.
I read the link in the article, so I'll just paste what it says:

* High Performance Computing - Act as the base OS for a HPC cluster node. Running advanced computation workloads is ideal for a mono-tasking Operating System.

* Embedded Applications - Provide a platform for embedded applications running on commodity x86-64 hardware.

* Education - Provide an environment for learning and experimenting with programming in x86-64 Assembly as well as Operating System fundamentals.
The infrastructure is outdated. It was designed for a world when pollution didn't matter, distances to be traveled were long, and oil was free. Now times have changed. Most trips are under 2 miles. Oil is pricey. We're killing the planet by pumping toxic fumes into the atmosphere.

It just isn't sustainable, but sustainable infrastructure costs too much money. So it's time to get rid of the cars, and let bikes fill the gap while we wait for proper mass transit to become affordable.

It's already happened everywhere except the US.
It's like bootstrapped businesses don't want to pay $10000 for a marginally better name.
My first result for 'twitter' is indeed twitter.com.
If anybody is interested in honing their Chess Tactics skills, I highly recommend: http://chess.emrald.net/

It's quick and easy to setup an account, and presents you chess puzzles based on your skill level.
I consulted with the Department of Homeland Security about developing a system almost identical to this in 2005-6. It WAS eventually developed. I could give lots of valuable insight. Shoot me a message if you are interested.
My question is: if there are no public DNS records, how is the domain name being used? Not doubting, I just don't get it.
100% commission for Groupon if the price is under $10? Groupon must be smoking crack...
Uh, yes it is? At least for me.

You're link is broken. There's a "q=twitter#sclient=psy..." and "q=twitter" in that URL. Did you break it on purpose? Or did Google mess up? If you remove the "q=twitter#" it works fine.
It doesn't seem like Posie's is "blaming" groupon, the owner owns up to their mistakes

From http://posiescafe.com/wp/?p=316#

"the single worst decision I have ever made as a business owner"

"we cannot afford to lose any more money on this terrible decision I made"

Jessie owns up to being the one at fault here.

Beyond that though, what does it say about online marketing, and our industry in general, that high pressure sales tactics are leading small business owners into bad decisions like this?

An industry based on caveat emptor, a lack of trust between actors, zero sum games, and the love of a quick buck over all else leads to an ugly future.
I didn't make it a categorical statement. I just have a hard time taking the original author's premise at face value.
Ask HN: What SEO causes Google to return MP3 links for an artist name?
I'm trying to a help a jazz singer friend with her internet presence. When you google some artists, like "Tierney Sutton" for instance, the first result is a group of 4 links to MP3s. Do you know what SEO makes this happen?

The links are to http://ilike.myspacecdn.com/play/..., but I don't know where those links are coming from. I tried googling for "link:ilike.myspacecdn.com" and got nada.

Links on myspace.com and ilike.com don't look like that.

When I google for my friend, "Kelley Johnson", her web site is the top link, which is great, but I'd like to get those MP3 links to appear also.

Thanks for any ideas or pointers.
If I were to be honest? I'd say the baby. No doubt about it. I'm pro abortion (and yes, this should make a difference in one's decision, after all it's only a few extra months), and I know that more then one primitive society considered infanticide a birth control method. None enjoyed it, but its use was pretty difficult to argue. So I am psychologically equipped to make this choice.

This being said, I would _never_ realistically propose this. The risk of being lynched, or at least severely handicapped socially in a critical situation are not negligible. After all, who would you rather throw, a 50 year old doctor, or a guy who just proposed throwing a baby?