skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite inflated still, it'll be a long time until they go down or a longer time until wages catch up (in the opinion of some, me included).

The problem here is that you cannot return the house to the bank and be debt free. If you give your house back to them they sell it, and whatever is not covered by the sale you still owe to the bank.

And if you still owe 200K€ to the bank but your house valuation has gone under that you have a hard time, because you have to put up with the extra value with some other possessions you have.

So it's not very pretty.
Neat idea. best place to promote is on facebook.
It's nice. You might want to also see:

http://www.hackernewsers.com

http://www.hackrtrackr.com
Can't order as a non-US but some suggestions.
Please check the default options so user can go through first step in one click.
IMO Small margin, White background can be the default options.
Great idea though. Looking forward for other products.
Perceived anonymity lets people behave without fear of social judgement, like bdr says no consequences.

It's like how when people can't see the immediate dangers of excessive drinking, speeding etc they go and do it because it's fun.

That and there's a lot of ignorant bigots with low self-esteem
yes, but a talented individual would probably sell those vulnerabilities since they worth so much, rather then use them for some obscure, probably not money earning, goal.
The danger there is the "common thinking" that this puts it squarely in the realm of governments.

However, at such a price point you're still well within the remit of organised gangs; they, for example, will spend a fortune on viruses and other malware - it's big big business.
Well keeping your bosses honest would be the main thing, forcing the figures to be published would mean that they can't single out people to pay more or less without providing some kind of reason.

Keeping them secret allows them to take advantage of company loyalty and those that don't make a big fuss.
The short term benefit in my proposal is being completely backwards-compatible and avoiding the problems of tunneling and other proposed workarounds while providing IPv6 routing where necessary. It doesn't "fix" the problem of running out of IPv4 address space (unless a given ISP decides to switch to IPv6-only, require its customers to upgrade, and turn on a multihomed IPv4 address for extreme cases). What it does do is allow the transition to take place. Everyone should be shouting at the top of our lungs at ISPs to support this so we can get this chicken/egg scenario over with.

People are basically in denial. The cost is never going to be null and everyone has to move eventually. Server admins actually have the bulk of the responsibility here for getting the whole internet migrated to IPv6. It's their services we want to use and network addresses are just a way of getting to them.

The problem is they have seemingly no accountability. I tried to hold the admin of xkcd.com's feet to the fire and I got rebuffed. Unless there's a substantive potential for their customers to abandon them they don't really give a crap (hopefully because they have other things to take care of). And in the meantime they can claim they don't need to move because the rest of the network isn't ready for them yet. So tell ISPs to multihome already and we can then start telling server admins to get their shit together because the rest of the network is ready for them.
where your business plan is completely based on "for as long as Twitter doesn't do one"

From what I could tell from the last emails sent from twitter, they are doing one. I wrote a very short blog-post on that since I was surprised nobody else seemed to notice:

http://jostein.kjonigsen.net/articles/166/Twitter_finally_ki...
I highly suspect this is outdated advice. Technically there was some ambiguity about whether 12pm/am would denote midnight or noon, since am/pm are relative to noon. However, the computer age has utterly removed that ambiguity. 12pm is noon, 12am is midnight. Digital clocks have spread familiarity with that convention widely throughout the developed and developing world. I doubt there is any serious confusion any longer.

I suspect that this is a piece of advice (avoiding the use of "12pm") which particular crufty old newspaper editors hold onto dearly even though it has passed out of utility.
How does it imply that you're right? "Common Errors in English Use" sounds much worse to me.
Convert 2D picture to 3D lenticular print
This tutorial teaches how to create a 3D lenticular print when there is only one 2D source image.
Real world analysis of google's webp format versus jpg
in austria everyone pays ~7% into the public health fund. by law the insurrance is bound to send you a letter listing the benefits you recieved (per quarter i think).

sometimes mind boggeling number - e.g., several thousand euro for a short hospital stay - sometimes zero.
Cool.I won't reveal implementation details here but i can tell you we will look at real-life users interests.The sub-fee will not be tied to your revs. Concisely, we chose not to use our own referral code because of the nature of the product itself, and the fact we do not think this would be transparent to Amazon. Fearing of being ceased&desisted
Wired gets it wrong, again. Actually the study conclusion is "Having a bunch of smart people in a group doesn't necessarily make the group smart," concludes Malone (one of the study's authors). Meaning if a group fights, they won't do as well as a group that doesn't when performing a group task.

So "Duh" to the study, and "Learn how to read" to Wired.
Maybe the article should be titled" Intelligent Individuals Don't Necessarily Make a Group perform better on Group Tasks if they cause everyone to fight"

Wired is like a supermarket tabloid of sciency-type content. A link at the bottom of the article webpage is to "Animals Get Freaky at Museum of Sex"

Does anyone take anything seriously from Wired?
Update 2: Here's the blog post along with mean delta values for both RGB and Luminance from the source image:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746621
Google Releases Plans For DIY Surround Video Booth -- InformationWeek
Indeed... Believing Microsoft won't patent-troll is like believing Oracle when they say'd they're against Software Patents. It's just a matter of time when some CEO will notice a good opportunity to make money with patents.

But I digress... Currently Microsoft isn't doing anything evil. Making software patents harder to get is clearly a step in the right direction.

But it's far from Microsoft saving us all from software patents.
Also please make it clear with a badge or something on the home page that you can ship only to US currently.
It is not clear until user clicks a (small) 'details' link on the "Your Order details" step.
Your stats are very similar to mine. Last month I had 125K visits with 103K uniques and made around 80 bucks as well. I'm curious to see what the HN crowd suggests as options. I'm reaching the point where, since I pay for blog hosting, the blog is actually paying its own rent.

One thing I've done is switch to Amazon affiliate links whenever I mention something. I never use the blog to promote products on purpose, but I do talk about things people might buy from time to time. I figure if I spend a small amount of time telling my impressions of a product, it's reasonable that I get a small cut if a sale develops as a result of my post.

I think the danger with monetizing is the same danger as writing for an audience instead of yourself -- you can quickly lose focus on what the point is.
That's just moving one layer of indirection. If vulnerabilities are worth money, presumably so they can be exploited, then why isn't it possible for someone to be motivated to use vulnerabilities and also having the talent to discover them?
I think that's a genuinely awesome idea - and I totally agree with hgarg, consider using Facebook ads to test the water. Apparantly you can get a free $50 coupon with new accounts http://www.netpaths.net/blog/50-facebook-coupon-advertising-... (although I've not seen that, I don't remember getting one when I signed up - I could easily be wrong).
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Using asterisk for italics and underlines (_) for underlines is an age-old convention that predates the web and HTML email by years.

I much prefer plaintext only mails. Not only are they readable on any device, I also don't have to be afraid of getting my machine infected by who-knows-what.
You could try a specialist ad network like Federated Media
I don't doubt that this is true but do you have any more information on precedent for this type of thing?
Isn't the question better posed as was it funded by a government? And how did they choose whom to hire? Maybe the private armies are getting into cyberwarfare...
Twitter starts using Speedbit (powered by Yahoo-Bing?) for search
I find this story a little hard to digest.

I would think that the board of directors are supposed to act in accordance with the company's best interests and in a way that Enhances Shareholder Value.

In this case, since management supposedly refused to join Yahoo, it was in the shareholder's best interest to take the deal from Google. If it's true that the directors squashed the deal then they dropped the ball and failed at their job.
I can't edit this post anymore so another random comment: ssh doesn't work with link local addresses. I just set up an ad-hoc wireless network between my two laptops and tried to ssh from one to the other. The addressing works because I can "broadcast"-ping both networks successfully:

psypete@pinhead:~$ ping6 -Iwlan0 ff02::1
PING ff02::1(ff02::1) from fe80::216:eaff:fe9b:56e2 wlan0: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fe80::216:eaff:fe9b:56e2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms
64 bytes from fe80::20e:8eff:fe13:5741: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.23 ms (DUP!)

But unfortunately it seems ssh doesn't know to set its sin6_scope_id for the interface of the bind address I tell it.

psypete@pinhead:~$ strace -e trace=network ssh -6 -b fe80::216:eaff:fe9b:56e2 fe80::20e:8eff:fe13:5741 2>&1 | grep AF_INET6
bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(0), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "fe80::216:eaff:fe9b:56e2", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

(edit)
Wait, nevermind, i'm a noob. I have to specify the scope ID in the address with the postfix '%wlan0'. Adds to the list of new crap to memorize for IPv6 transition
Child abuse DNS blacklists of Denmark and Sweden analysed [pdf]
Hacker Monthly #5 - October 2010
For adsense, that's a CPM of $.28. I'm guessing your audience is pretty valuable and someone would be willing to pay 10-30x that for advertising, but you'd probably have to sell it direct. I'm not sure if you get enough traffic for that to work, though...maybe someone else here can elaborate.
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In this Python-to-C++ vein, there's also Shed Skin ( http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/ ), which has been at it for a few years.
Hacker Monthly Issue #5 - October 2010
Can a 20-Year-Old Help You Track Your Finances?
Anyone interested in building a straw bale HQ for their startup?
I think the idea is great and site looks very nice. Only problem I see is the name "printingfacebook.com" as it may cause some branding issues with facebook.
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I have been meaning to learn Javascript and WebGL for some time, looks like this is the time to start learning.
Learning + competition = Fun :)
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I mostly wanted to say I've enjoyed your blog in recent weeks, but only through your HN submissions (I'm not one to "follow" a blog).

I know very little about monetizing web sites, so even I would not follow my own advice without having someone smarter than me look it over.

Google AdSense is easily defeated/filtered, and technical users tend to be more inclined to use filtering. Similarly, users who do not employ technical means of filtering have generally adopted "mental filtering" of AdSense. In short, they ignore it since it is often misleading.

Pushing your own book on Amazon doesn't hurt, but I sincerely doubt it will help very much.

A working solution is potentially more work. You could use amazon affiliate links to * RELEVANT * books/products mentioned in your posts. For example, the following blog post mentions IDL:

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/11/about-that-cru-hack.html

It took a simple google search to find out there is a book on the topic sold through amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Programming-IDL-Interacti...

When your advertising is essentially part of your content, as well as complimentary to your content, it should be more effective (in theory). You are the one who knows your content best, so allowing others to decide what to advertise on your site is a dubious proposition. Unless advertising is effective in its goal of making money for you, then there's no point in having it on your site. If you have to do more work to make it effective, so be it. --That's why it's called "work" ;)

As for why "IDL" (Interactive Data Language) jumped out at me as a great example is because I had a "WTF?" moment caused by only knowing the other "IDL" (Interface Description Language).

Your link to the correct wikipedia IDL page was helpful, but there was no reason why you could not also include affiliate links to relevant books/products.

Since I'm admittedly ignorant to monetizing websites, hopefully some of the pros around here will have better ideas and show me why I'm wrong.
I was developing a compiler called unPython for a while but I have not yet released it openly. Plan to do so "soon". It is a compiler for annotated subset of Python (particularly NumPy, rest of it being very slow or not supported) to a C++ Python module. Will post here once I release it.
Do you mean when they decided to remove the 'send message' button and people got so mad they forked the project? Or is there another Pidgin debacle that I don't know about yet?
Wondering if $12 for copywriting work is expensive. An article with relevant content & tuned for SEO within an hour is fairly demanding. A good 500 word article will cost $15 in the market.

I run SEO services & have been using this new startup mediapiston.com as the content provider. I have had good experience so far. They have excellent review process where each article goes through 3 reviewers before it is submitted back to the requester. You can possibly try such a service.

As far as the author, programming & design work would get best rewards and in single chunk.
They have only Linux binary. I've compiled one for Mac OS X: http://pornel.net/webp
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Usb drive file recovery software regains lost, virus infected and erased data such as images, photos, movies and audio video clips etc.
How is that different from going on Facebook and searching for John Smith? Do you resent the convenience of not having to search twice on two separate sites?
I'm willing to buy text ads on sites for my store in the range of $10-$100+/month depending on traffic/pagerank/quality/reputation for your site. Anyone reading this should email me if you are interested. :)
Bah, why not open the market to developers from all countries? WTF can be that difficult at Google's scale?

It's like they want people to create an alternative marketplace or something.
If you are trying to get 'priority' or early access to the site/service then you have no idea if your friends will like it. You don't even know if you like it yet.
thanks!, in terms of the branding issues w/ facebook, i could see that, but if i ever got big enough to have problems... i think i would be happy. I guess i chose the name for SEO, but when i start offering print services for other networks, i'll rebrand under a more unique name.
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It's closer to the former. My job is managerial and has nothing to do with writing code. There is not a single person at my office who knows, or cares, about my hobby.
"Hitachi manufacturers the safest and most reliable hard drives, according to the Storelab study. Of the more than 200 Hitachi hard drives received, not a single one had failed due to manufacturing or design errors."

Study: A Look At Hard Drive Reliability In Russia (August 13, 2010)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hdd-reliability-storelab...

// WD and especially Seagate (Barracuda 7200.11 had major firmware problems) failed miserably. 500Gb or bigger drives were the worst for all manufacturers. Samsung was almost as good as Hitachi.

"Storelab notes that read/write head failure is somewhat characteristic for WD drives. Failures primarily occur as a result of physical impact or overheating (WD heads can be sensitive at temperatures above 45°C).
Western Digital's construction makes drives particularly vulnerable to shocks and pressure. Unlike other manufacturers, WD does not secure the hard drive axle with a separate screw to the drive cover. "
good idea, i'll figure out a way to make that clear earlier on in the process.
Is there any scalable\cloud python hosting that allows C extensions? I know app engine doesn't unless they changed it recently. I'm guessing a VPS is necessary?
I can highly recommend learningwebgl.com for, well, learning WebGL. He has some very good tutorials on his site.
It's a great idea but I would expect a letter from Facebook's lawyers regarding the use of the name 'Facebook' in your product (you use the API, so that's against their terms of use) and the use of their logo in your logo. Good luck!
I am open to correction, but as I understand it the $44 billion figure is a calculated estimate of the money being spent in total by any and all government institutions in the US, including that spent by local and state police departments and prison services to investigate, catch and incarcerate narcotics suppliers and users.

Considering the nature of the War on Drugs I'd expect most of the expenditure to be at the local and state level, but the biggest chunks at the federal level aside from the DEA's budget would probably be the proportion of Coast Guard and CBP time and resources dedicated to counter-drug operations and the military and policing aid given to countries like Mexico and Colombia. This is a bit hard to quantify though, as the Coast Guard and CBP usually conduct counter-drug operations as part of their usual duties and not all the aid being sent to Colombia and Mexico is motivated solely by the desire to contain drug production and shipment.

So you would not necessarily find the remaining funding hidden within the federal budget.
Ask HN: founders, how much you had in the bank when you started your business?
I just graduated. I have $5000 on my bank account and want to dive into a project of my own, full time.

I wonder if I should earn a bit more by working for a while, how much did you have when you started ?
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Wow, the cute-girls-make-men-stupid syndrome taken online :)
pg wrote this essay some time ago:
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

He discusses the elements you need to create a successful startup. To answer your question of "when" to start a startup, it may be worth considering these elements. When you have them (or 2 out of 3 of them since the third element is to spend as little money as possible, and you can't really do that until you're in it) it may be time.

Another relevant pg essay:
http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

Here he discusses some of the dimensions you include in your question (age, wealth, in/out of college) and analyses their impact on one's decision to start (or not start) a startup.
Hacker Monthly #5 is finally out
plaintext e-mail supports format=flowed (RFC3676) which allows lines to be arbitrarily long.
Certainly - I have been waiting for that kind of thing for a long time. Probably it already exists. However, it would be considerably more difficult to integrate into existing web sites.
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You guys should look at Ireland. Ireland has a bottomless bail-out. Spain doesn't.

Anglos and their bias.
John Irving: "I write for young readers, not uptight adults"
I write for young readers, not uptight adults
Passive income is the holy grail. $6k in 3 years sounds low, but that was without touching it. That's like a $2k/yr raise just being given to you. And the more of those you can get the more of your time can be financed to do what you want.
Neat idea ... but I'd be amazed if you don't get a trademark infringement letter from Facebook. You just can't use their logo as part of your own.
A credit card that carries multiple accounts
Actually, I believe we are in agreement, for the most part. In particular, I think that DVCS are immensely helpful for encouraging "piggyback" development. It may be that the obstacles to code re-use and cooperation are mostly technical issues that can be resolved with the use of good tools. I am completely committed to free software as both a user and developer - any criticisms I have are motivated solely by a desire to improve the quality of the software produced by the community and encourage its widespread adoption.
if printingfb.com is available, you could use that.

How do you handle printing? by yourself or is there a company that provides such printing services?
English isn't a formal language so it doesn't matter if there's no formal way of deciding grammaticality.

Usage is mostly about imprecise, changing social conventions.
That doesn't imply that it's useless to talk about it. We can talk about language usage more or less in the same way we talk about what to wear on such and such occasion.
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According to the paper for their queue:

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1996_PODC_queues....

It uses either compare_and_swap or load_linked/store_conditional. I thought compare_and_swap had a horrible (i.e. very slow) implementation on x86. Any idea whether load_linked/store_conditional is any better?
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It said the registry key Stuxnet plants to indicate whether a system is already infected has the value 19790509. Then it said an Iranian Jewish business man was executed on that date for spying. Also the home directory where the virus was originally compiled was called Myrtus. Which may contain another clue...
In magazines and on billboards I see links ${company_name}.com/${campaign_name}, which I think makes more sense — it's more memorable than random shortlink characters.
I think you are misunderstanding. It didn't cost his customers $500/day, it cost 5 of them $100 how ever often they needed it (probably once when they moved out of their apartment). Would you seriously spend so much of your own time doing such boring work if you could just pay a profession a measly $100 to do it for you (probably faster and better than you would do).
This is the stuff of movies, but do you think its very wise to write this kind of software for a government? Perhaps if you can somehow stay anonymous..
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I regularly see people getting 12am and 12pm mixed up -- using midnight and noon definitely reduces confusion.
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Not sure about the decision to charge for the pdf, considering that they're reusing free content.