skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Jacquesm, I'm intrigued are you thinking this will give you domain authority (in SEO terms)?

tbh the thought never even crossed my mind, what happened is that on the #startups channel on freenode.irc.net someone asked me if I would give them a vanity domain on ww.com so I said sure.

Then two other people asked for it, and I suggested that maybe we should offer this to HN rather than just those in the IRC channel.

The thing that has been mostly on my mind is actually the opposite.

Plenty of people are asking for domains that were in use at some point, and ww.com actually relies on a lot of those old domains and backlinks from them for its traffic.

So if anything I'll probably end up taking a hit from this.
ok, that's yours.
Not a mobile web, merely a 320px-wide one
Hi, thank you so much for your generosity. How about gxs or gss cname to guillermosalazar.com?

Thanks!!
It was in use until 2004, so that's yours now.
yes, that's free.
Leadlight, the survival horror interactive fiction game for the Apple II
It was in use but long ago, so it's yours.
Ooh, I kinda like that. Maybe sometime this weekend. Thanks.

I think I also need to make it so you can edit your own summaries... at the very least for a short time after you post them.
world.ww.com -> zac.gorak.us
" Court = death. Forget investment; there's a storm cloud hanging over your business."

To me, this sounds like the nuclear option. In fact, the idea of "Mutually Assured Destruction" could be applicable here. If the OP's partner sues them, they could countersue and they'd both be out. That could make an effective bargaining chip.

But if that doesn't work, I'd say that you're right. The OP should move on.
Is this the shape of things to come?

Comparisons of apples to oranges... It's not about traffic, it's about what sort of website you have, how dynamic/static it is, etc

A wiki likely has relatively few writes compared to reads, so caching should work very well.

That said, always nice to see people optimizing properly and using a sane number of servers.
This is a great starting point. Start by assuming you'll get nothing out of it, then see if you can claw back anything from there.

Giving up this fundamentally, fatally flawed business is step 1. From this fresh point of view, you might be able to come up with a relative win-win. Maybe your so-called cofounder can purchase the code from you instead of wasting many months getting it rewritten again. That would be better than walking away empty-handed.

That said, I propose a fundamentally different target for the "clawing back".

You said this is a close friend. Fuck money. Fuck the business. Save the friendship. In your position I would assume the business is lost and do whatever it takes to salvage the friendship. Get another friend to mediate. Come to an understanding. Accept that you've both got your fixed, blinkered view of things, and you're not going to agree about it, probably ever, but you can still get back to being friends despite that.

Close friends are far more valuable than any business. I was lucky to keep my best friend when my first business blew up. I am really glad I made the effort, as hopeless as it seemed at the time.
I've always wondered what it is that makes people spout bile like this, one thing I noticed they have in common is that as a rule they're anonymous.
URL-encode and URL-decode as you type using PHP and Javascript functions
That one is free, is that spelled right ?
The Bootstrapper’s Guide to Internet Startups
My two cents. Technology lockin isn't an issue if you pick a framework/container, give Django a try.
Our current release is "minimum viable product" ;)
How I can feel your pain. The same happened to me in a different scale: "partner" wanted 100%, but the situation only lasted 4 weeks.

The BIG lesson from my and your story is: BEFORE starting to work on an idea, BEFORE even discussing an idea, discuss what "partnership" means to each other. Some people's concept of "partnership" might surprise you.

My little story here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732039
Well sure, git's standardized, you can always take your repo and go home, I think the parent was more concerned about history relating to bugs, comments, documentation, discussion, etc.
The developer phone is still not available in Australia. Does anyone know if it's possible to get a (legal) developer Nexus One in Aus?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794419
> one is unnecessarily making a permanent change to their body for the purpose of beautification

What kind of shaving do you do?
You don't need to sign in to view the link you posted or the pricing page. Also note that 'monthly plan' doesn't start until April 15, 2011.
That's kind of the point. Yesterday Spolsky asked why Digg had 500 servers and less traffic than StackOverflow, yet StackOverflow had 5 servers.

False dichotomies huzzah!
So basically, the only numeric type of javascript is a float, which can only represent integers up to 2^53 accurately. Not good if you need an int larger than that.
Well TBH 500 is ridiculous overkill. Even 100 would be pushing it.
brad.ww.com => bradlyfeeley.com

If that is still active, bradly.ww.com => bradlyfeeley.com

Thanks!
Yes, that one was in use but until '03 so I'm ok with that.
There's a stupid joke in the wine industry-whats the best way to make a small fortune in wine?

A. Start with a large fortune.

My company is working on that. We're designing a complete precision viticulture analytical tool based on the principles of sustainable organic agriculture (I'm pretty sure everything is headed this direction, it can be done cheaper then petro-based agriculture when managed correctly. I'm curious, as someone involved in vineyard management - do you agree with this idea? Have you noticed increased demand for organic products?)

We're starting with small, boutique vineyards in Northern California. Maybe if yr geographically located you'd like to join our upcoming beta program?
It looks like it has been abandoned so that's fine.
Neat!! I had a similar idea a while ago , for any books. The idea was to read a book, then write your name/email in it and leave it somewhere where someone else may pick it up and read. Then they in turn would write their name/emails in it and leave it somewhere, and so on and so forth. It would be cool to see how many people read that book after a couple of months/years.
bln.ww.con -> blntechie.wordpress.com if it's possible?

Thanks
Yes. Please ping us at info@wattvision.com
I wouldn't call paan a mouth freshner. I think its more like a stimulant.
> The story is very much the opposite in enterprise apps; I can't remember the last REST interface I saw, but we see SOAP interfaces every week, in new apps.

That's kind of like saying "I can't remember the last hybrid car I saw here in Cuba."
Yes, title is kind of a homage to that false dichotomy posted yesterday by Spolsky.
(It goes without saying, this was an amazing + generous post.)

A question for Patrick or anybody else about the following email advice in the post.

"Free tip from me: note what search term sent them to your website, put a variation of it in the subject line of the email, watch your open rate go through the freaking roof."

Did this mean just in general to let search terms inform how you write email, or that the list segmentation is that specific for any opt-in list member who happened to come by search?
There's a timeout before replying is allowed, and it grows with thread depth. It's intended to slow down flamewars.
Haha. Now that you mention it...cringe : )
I think they have it in Mexico, or at some point they imported a bunch of them. In my east LA neighborhood I see them all over the place, they are a staple of junk haulers and gardeners
I'm sorry but that user was last online at 2010-09-23, so that account is definitely in use. Any alternative ?
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WOW - What a great idea!!! I love it!!! Not sure how you are marketing this, but you could do great in anything related to "man-caves" -- super popular in the midwest and I'm sure other places as well.
I wasn't aware that -ality or -ity as a suffix references the state of an object. You sure about that one?
Even though I went to the conference these notes are extremely useful. My notes suck in comparison so I'm sure I'll be able to retain much more reading these over. There were some truly excellent talks and I'm looking forward to watching them again on video.

As a side note: Patrick's talk was awesome. Those lightning talks were brutal, I'd never want to go through that myself but I'm very glad he did it. The video is going to be great I'm sure but it's no substitute for being able to watch him put on a show in person. I highly recommend going next year if at all possible.
Thanks for hanging out here and helping clear stuff up!

(I know Bindview from way back; my friend Adam Shostack used to work there, back when they competed with the security company I was at at the time.)
"You should always have your corporate structure in order before you start working on a business endeavor"

Sorry, that just doesn't sound practical. Do all you people actually do this?
I'd point out that those programs don't silently install themselves without the owner's knowledge or consent, which makes a world of difference.
Cool. blntechie.ww.con should do.
The code behind the Git-based wiki is also open source so you can view and edit your wiki locally via a nice web interface, and build your own tools using the API: http://github.com/github/gollum
One option is this: destroy the code (actually make sure there are 0 copies left). Then mourn (get drunk or something, or take a trip), and move on. Destroying the code might help, psychologically, to let go. Just throwing that idea out here :)
I don't have 20 karma yet, but could I get phillco.ww.com -> phillipcohen.net? Thanks so much!
I have been eyeing SICP and the Norvig AI books at the bookstore for about 3 months now.

If anyone has one of these and is interested in any of the following, I'd love to trade:

- Artificial Minds

- Scientific Integrity

- Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

- Thinking with Type (First Edition)
yes, that one is free.
It's a nice story if true. Sadly, if the phone was all-white by the time you purchase it but then changes over time, even perfectionist Apple wouldn't care. We've seen this many times on their Mac Books or previous iPhones that developed typical crack patterns...
Interestingly they used to charge a premium for black MacBooks, so let's see what the fanbase is prepared to spend once white is truly white :)
This applies to numbers in JSON as well: if one end is JavaScript then you can't assume large integers will survive a round-trip.

(GWT emulates longs.)
It's free, so sure.
I used to be a little bit grey hat so maybe my perspective here is a little different. I see breaking security as just as much fun as building secure systems. And once you do it, why wouldn't you release the source to brag a little?
Thanks jasquesm!

235.ww.com -> 235nuclear.com
Awesome - thanks so much! Sending email now
"only change cells that have been wikied" - this seems like a core strength, is "wiki" the most intuitive way to refer to cell-level permissions? I would not have concluded this meaning from the work wiki.
Is minecraft that big, or is the tech world that small?
>Horrible comparison. First, it's not uncommon (historically) for bad soldiers to have been executed. In Russian history alone, I can find examples of that (Trotsky's decimation in the Red Army, based of course on the Roman practice).

I can only say - Kirk Douglas, "Paths of Glory". It said all about bad performers and management.

>Similarly, in the military poor soldiers aren't usually sent into front line battles (being delegated to secondary roles).

you're kidding, right?
Ask HN: Have you ever used Dynamic programming in your dev job?
The reason I ask this, is not to belittle the importance of algorithms- but to know more about the number of people who actually get to work on "challenging" algorithms-Graph algos/dynamic programming in your job, and if so, what was the "coolest" algo you ever implemented!
that's a new kind, numerical!

You've got it. Now waiting for 666.ww.com ;)
Don't miss the comments on this one, since Brendan Eich (of "invented JS" fame) and Zawinsky worked together at Netscape from the beginning.
If you need an int larger than that in JS, you use a bignum library.
Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010
I liked this submission simply because it demonstrates the ridiculousness of such claims.
Sure I understand... I guess what I was asking is if you had any plans to create the products I mentioned above.
So that's how the Cappuccino guys made their slick issue tracker GUI:

http://githubissues.heroku.com/
In that case, could I please have asif.ww.com if that user isn't using it?

Thanks for your generosity again :)
I'm part of the Minecraft forum/wiki team (I created them both originally) so if you guys have any questions, feel free to shoot them at me, or you can join #rsw on irc.esper.net.

(in advance I'm not one of the sys admins, although I guess I'm a php developer, but I suck too much to work on the sites at these traffic levels, I just do the whole community stuff)

Also to clarify, the forum + wiki combined when ignoring our downtime are pushing more traffic, not just the wiki.

Edit: Also to hijack my own comment, if any of you guys with your fancy startups want to advertise to a community of indie gamers feel free to email sam@redstonewire.com :-)
An update: Just a bunch of random thoughts
Pointing out privileges that a group experiences does not mean putting the blame on that group. The purpose of this kind of list is to bring awareness of privilege, not to place blame. How can a person work to eliminate XYZ-ism if they are not aware of how it happens?

Most the points on the list have a subtlety, I think, and are non-obvious. They all require imagining yourself in the marginalized minority's shoes. They aren't the glaringly obvious examples of sexism that (really infrequently) happen, like Aimonetti's slides. That's where the real work can be done, because eliminating obvious sexism is the easy part.
Does T-mobile have any leftover stock? I know they discontinued it, however, it would be cool if you could still purchase it through them.
I'm curious, is there a backstory on how you came to own ww.com?
No, I am getting downmodded because my advice to fight on is against popular opinion. The reason for my last sentence is quite evident. You have written numerous comments advising the op to walk away.

Your argument that he cannot afford the legal fees and thus should not pursue the business is not well founded. Furthermore, he never said he was looking for investors. In fact, I am led to believe that the product is almost market ready and the op is able to dedicate the time to completing it.

The "friend" is obviously in the same boat financially as the op. Neither one can afford to drag out a court case for an extended period of time and the only incentive to do so would be if the software succeeds. In that case the gentlemen could settle favorably and still "win".
So he is supposed to chuck all his hard work and walk away?

This "company" has no actual assets of any sort (users, contracts, relationships, press, brand recognition, ...), except for the code, which his co-founder does have a legitimate claim to. And due to the founder dynamics, the company will never amount to anything.

So these guys are basically fighting over 10% of nothing. Yup, walking away seems like the best course of action.
No, Minecraft is seriously that big. If you trust Alexa much you'll find that we (forum/wiki) are in the top ~5k for both sites, Minecraft is top 3k last I checked. It's been insane recently... what really hammers it home is that this is a product people have purchased, so it's going to be around for a long while. While we probably won't maintain the current traffic once the game settles down into a normal routine, we sure won't be dying for many years, which is what I love about this.

Minecraft is like garrymods, the game is what you the player want to make it, this will lead to a lot of future success along side this current success.

Also if you want to see the sales figures, I've been tracking them for the past few months: http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/ :)

*If you're interested, here's a (not very accurate) list of where Minecraft has been featured: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2162 which includes Australian TV, Physical magazines, huge tech blogs, gaming blogs, forums... everywhere! I don't think I'll ever see anything happen like this again in my life (and I'm only young) -- Minecraft is incredibly unique.
Yes, the short version is someone auctioned it off on ebay (I never went to ebay in my life before then) and was apparently negotiating with weight watchers.

I had a lot of money set aside from the sale of 'gameplay.com', so over Christmas I negotiated with the guy (while all of Weight Watchers was on a holiday they well deserved) and by the 27th we had a deal. We set up an escrow, I paid, he transferred the domain.

Weight Watchers came back from their holiday and was sorely pissed off :)
Make sure to stop by Droids-B-Us, but don't forget your coupon.
I see you've already taken care of wwdotcom.ww.com :-)
The title was supposed to be a serious representation of our traffic numbers (our amount of servers wasn't supposed to be part of the comparison, the poster here is a slippery snake) but we can pretend it was if you like, nobody likes joel so it fits in well.
Wow, this guy has -37 karma (at the moment)......doesn't HN block it at -10 karma per comment?
I definitely appreciate the gesture, and it seems to be in high demand, but I just can't figure out why I would want one? What's so special about .ww.com?

ps. please don't take this in any way negatively. I'm just puzzled.
yes, sure, that's been abandoned since 2001.
It's amazing that you get so defensive over "learn the business". I never said to be a meek dev. In fact I clearly state that you should attempt to change minds with principled arguments that have the business in mind.

But based on my experience, that's not what I've seen. I've seen devs fight to do a completely rewrite that management won't fund because everyone wants to continue to use the old LOB solution. The devs argue about how the old system is a rats nest and uses archaic technology. But the business says that its doing the job, why do you want us to switch to something that lacks the features we need, just because it uses REST rather than SOAP (whatever that means).

And I've been brought in to consult on many of these disputes and probably 8 out of 10 times the "ugly" code is perfectly serviceable. What I've often done is shown how one can incrementally improve and rearchitect the existing code with no downtime... and probably more than half the time this ticks off the architect. His big dream was to do this monster rewrite that I've just shown is completely unnecessary.

At the end of the day maybe I've hurt morale of the dev team, but janitors don't get paid to not clean bathrooms (not that we're janitors, nor is there anything wrong with being a janitor, but you get the point).
Ask HN: How much money does your iOS app make?
Just came across to a post by the developer of River Of News, Dylan Ginsburg, disclosed the amount he earned so far (http://blog.riverofnewsapp.com/2010/10/how-much-money-can-you-make-on-app.html). I couldn't agree any more when he says "I don't know why this should be such a secret. I'm going to tell you how much money I make."

So if you are an iOS developer like Dylan that wants to reveal your figures to our curious HNer, feel free to share below.

It's okay if you simply want to share the approximation or you don't want to disclose your app name. We all respect that.
Also, it's MediaWiki so all the optimisation work was done by someone other people, to make Wikipedia work.
Failure to pay unemployment insurance can lead to jail time in many states. Quick search on Google yields an example for MA:

http://www.ehow.com/list_6306349_massachusetts-state-unemplo...

"Employers who fail to pay unemployment insurance premiums can also be ordered to serve time in a state prison."

You can search for the legislation on Mass.gov if you like.
Care to give a ballpark on how much you paid for it? Just curious.
Mediawiki is fantastic software, we'd be able to operate on a lot less hardware if it was just mediawiki, but because of the forum we had to boost everything up. For anyone who ever considers using phpbb for anything serious: please don't.
It has been quite a while since we served one million page views a day.... even on public holiday weekends we serve more.

I'm surprised this got upvoted so much, I could easily serve 2 million static pages a day off one server, if I needed to and the pages were static.

The assumption that we are using the same hardware and have similar workloads and so on, is clearly wrong.

We could spend months and months tweaking everything so we need 2/3/4 less servers .... but ... servers are cheap, developer time is expensive.

Also, we happen to have backup servers, we are not running at 100% utilization an we also happen to run chat off the same servers.

I think it is awesome that minecraft are serving lots of traffic, I love nginx, we use haproxy. But the headline is misleading.
I'd like to know what you think is BS about his letter.
I don't like Apple, but I do like some of their hardware innovations. Using a small form factor SSD makes a lot of sense in a laptop.
Interesting thought to revert to many inexpensive cores as opposed to virtualising on "super-computers". However I don't think the equation stacks up. ARM is still a long way from offering high processing cores (e.g. no 64Bit). Their whole concept ties perfectly in the mobile world and it's no surprise they are so successful.
Some additional thoughts:

- Many devices don't support pinch to zoom in/out.

- You can't assume the resolution of the screen. Just aiming for the resolution of an iPhone isn't sufficient.

- iPads, iPhones/iTouch are going to be sometimes held in portrait vs. landscape. The user shouldn't have to turn the screen. Either should be ok.

- Kindle browser is black-and-white, and scrolling and zooming is exceptionally difficult. (Not that many are trying to use it, yet.)

Not to mention that sites need to be designed for accessibility...

There are so many things to consider, and farming out the work to someone that specializes in this sort of thing is really the only way to go. Every organization can't afford to have every type of device on-hand, nor the expertise to know what works and what doesn't.
It's reasonably short.

It also gives you a chance at the name you really wanted to have but couldn't get with a not-too offensive suffix for $0.

If you type sub.ww ctrl-enter you're on the site.

Another reason someone just mailed me: They like their domain but it is hard to spell, a short alias to use over the phone can be handy.
For a while they were only selling the 900/AWS/2100 version, now the 850/1900/2100 is available as well. (Buenas noticias para los ticos :)
mail me.
I think there is an important lesson in this even if it's apples to oranges. Often in my career I've been in a debate with a non engineer (product person, ceo, etc) about why a certain features sounds good to them but a variation of it which provides most of what they want is so much better because I can keep the page mostly static. Sometimes I've won that debate and sometimes I lost. Being able to hold up examples, see such and such wiki serves x million pages with 3 servers because it's mostly static vs ...
It caps the display at -4 but it keeps on counting down.