skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no longer with that employer so I am planning on sprucing it up a bit and re-releasing it.
Bank of America Halts all US Foreclosures
I'm in the same boat in NYC. Shoot me an email brandon (at) qds-systems.com
I have 2 ducks on my desk for this very reason. That and because others around the office have them and when one talks the rest start talking too (just like dogs in a neighborhood)

They're quite effective actually :)
You think that programming a significant bit of code in assembly is a Good Thing? If you can possibly avoid it?

As for XML, it's excessively heavyweight and kind of awkward, but don't underestimate what a big improvement it was over the incompatible, non-human-readable binary formats that it was meant to replace.

No, this isn't using good to go evil. This is an elaborate, properly functioning, potentially useful joke. I'm awed by the combination of technical acumen and perversity, but I'm not going to actually use it.
The person (epi0Bauqu) behind DDG has commented previously that this is a positive thing for him in that it means Boss is an established/supported API now.

Specifically:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1727829
Why shut down so many products within a few days after launch? Doesn't seem like enough time to test traction.
Combat, as the launch game for the 2600, was designed simultaneously with the hardware itself. It had some influence on the way the hardware design evolved; in a way, the 2600 hardware is kind of optimized for playing Combat. That might be one reason why it can fit into a 2K cartridge while a typical 2600 game uses 4K.
> successfully
FWIW, it pisses me off that this Hitler character is so closely identified with Jews. Must every mention of Judaism be associated with this monster, and vice versa?
There's a whole article about this kind of thing on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Six_degrees_of_Wikipe...

There used to be a site that would do the same thing for two arbitrary endpoints but it looks like its offline: http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/
The standard advice is to make a landing page with your idea on it. Then find ways for people to get to that page - advertising or social media. Then you can make a more fact-based decision.
Spiffy, let's see if this works: Appointment Reminder will be live by the end of November, and I really really mean it this time and will not allow myself to be distracted by consulting work, conferences, weddings, the weather, Starcraft 2, 23 urban fantasy novels, or the overpowering desire to take a month off just because I finally could.
I hate your little slide show. I was genuinely trying to read what it said, and I couldn't come close to keep up, nor could I press 'stop'.
Isn't this just the wireless carriers getting their way?
This may have an impact on recruiting senior hires. It didn't come up often, but when recruiting folks with families and getting on in years -- especially with pre-exiting conditions -- this benefit helped close people who had salary and stock package offers from other companies that I couldn't match. It's really hard to argue with 100% coverage for even things like autism treatment and visits to naturalists/homeopathic-care, which was quite unusual at the time.
haha yeah....I could actually use some pointers on how to better handle adsense in this respect. is it possible to require approval for any ad shown? is it possible in an automated way?

before we got kicked off adbrite (for our content, or something), it was possible to do this, but it was very tedious...
Rate My Startup: Guildwork.com
Guildwork is a guild host with a social layer. The MMORPG market is growing each year. World of Warcraft has 12 million players alone. The current offerings for guild hosting are poorly made and outdated. So we decided to give a better shot at it. We gained 1500 members last month and got 600k page-views before reaching beta (which is today). An example of a site hosted on Guildwork is http://www.ex-online.com/

Our downside at the moment is that we do not have a designer on our team and its hurting us. So if anyone here is a designer and interested in working on something like this feel free to contact me stanislav@guildwork.com
Or "launch some landing pages, get someone who wants to pay for one of the apps, then build that app month" ;-)
Organizational software for clowns and clown related businesses.
While in pac-man you can see a very clear main loop, where there's a target of a whole bunch of jumps back, it's interesting to see that Q-Bert doesn't seem to have a main loop at all and seems to be written in an event-based style.

These are really interesting visualizations, wish I could see visualizations of modern 4K demos like this.
Yes, please take away all dates!
HP invents. Priceless:

"She was hired by Hewlett-Packard and paid up to $5,000 per meeting to meet with Fortune 50 CEOs.
...
This was the Hewlett-Packard Corporation paying a softcore porn movie star with no relevant work experience more than it pays Harvard graduates with 20 years of industry experience. "

Different job descriptions - different pay.
Back in 7th grade, I wanted to know everything about my high school crush, so I phished her email password via email link baits (followed by fake Hotmail error pages). Worked so well that I started phishing the entire school's passwords.
You know how you tinker with code day after day, and you've been doing it for years? How you're connected with peers and betters who know how to code also, and who can critique your work? You know how you think about code even when you're not coding?

Do that for UX/Design.
pretty cool, of course now you're obliged to tell us what tech you're using in your stack. :)
Mine is stuck with a loading image. Server too busy or does it take a while to initialize?
this is a good way of distancing themselves from the old abandoned site, MySpace.
Did their old site say this was in beta? I guess I shouldn't of told the 7000 employees at my company to use this last year.
It's an older dataset, so that link may not be in the latest revision.
I am also trying to develop one app on android. I will take this challenge too. Great Idea
Get this thing on The Daly Show / Colbert Report.
Shady webapp business practice. Opinions?
Hi. I am a long time lurker.
Just as my username states, my business strategy is shady and I need your opinion on the ethics and practicality of the situation.
I am almost done creating a webbased service which is currently being offered by 1 major competitor (2 minor ones) at a licensing fee of ~$400/group. The functionality of this service can be easily replicated for ~$10,000 and maybe $5000/yr upkeep. It is catered to niche group. The major company is making ~4-5million in profits/yr.

My question: Is it ethical/practical for me to create the webapp and then contact the competitors in an attempt of being bought out. Do companies do that?
Otherwise, I would offer the service as freemium and a premium mobile app with notifications. I would directly be taking away from the competitors since they haven't updated their product since 2001 and they charge money. This is my sideproject with only myself as an employee.

Do you contact the competition after creating the product or let the product speak for itself?
BCC was supposed to eventually grow to $200 a month in revenue so that I could buy videogames without delaying student loan repayment. Eventually the tail started to wag the dog. As for stats, well, right now is the start of the busy season and I predict a very happy Halloween indeed.
Not sure what you'd need the loads of memory for?

int[] nums = {...}
for i = 1 to (2^length(nums) - 1)
int[] possibility = { nums[x] where (2^x bitand i) > 0 }
test possibility and perhaps increment hit counter
How would jQuery Mobile (JQM) fit into this picture? It's due to be released shortly and seems to address cross-platform issues. I think JQM is going to be a great impetus for the next generation of mobile webapp development. I'm looking forward to testing out the new mobile ThemeRoller tool.
My parents got into an argument for getting lost locating a restaurant. We were going to head home so I pulled out my cellphone and used goog411 to contact the restaurant and ask for directions. It was located around the corner from where we were driving around.

That place was delicious.
I have cleared $25 in 2 months from Android app called, "Back Seat Driver". Dunno whats wrong with it....
UFO sighting shuts down airport in China
Hav you found your car yet?
That's correct. We just let them use the space; we don't code with them.
By replacing the comic of hitler with a picture of glenn beck.
It's mainly my (meager) salary + the cost of a full time moderator that's standing in the way at present. S3 and hosting are pretty affordable in comparison.
Only two more characters left and MySpace can forever be gone...
Any time you've got something that can be done with a notepad and a pen, grab 'em both and walk around while you think and write. If nothing else, having a different environment for thinking while you jot down ideas can have a measurable effect on what comes to mind and how you think about it.
Adsense for Content is exceptionally profitable. Gmail pulls its weight.
This stings. I love this service.
Use an. Email service provider that will handle deliverability for you. Email liverabity is a complicated and annoying thing, and ESPs have individual relationships with the large email providers so they have an edge that you cannot easily replicate unless you are going to be sending a LOT of email.
Your screenshot depicts Violet with a half-full bottle of beer. You know alcohol is illegal in Libya, yes? It's at least predictable that some people at that end feel offended by this regardless of whether or not we do. For starters.

I really don't think you thought this through at all. Did you even consider asking an Arabic person to take a quick look into their rules?
TC's "guess" of 6 million dollars seems excessive for what sounds like a talent acquisition. Would be curious to hear thoughts of those with more experience.
Obligatory link to the "definitive COMBAT disassembly" over on AtariAge.

http://www.atariage.com/2600/archives/combat_asm/index.html
iPad does not go to Hitler!
Elegant, but inefficient if you want to get exact values for large n. You're much better off using doubling operations. If you forget those, you can remember them from the matrix version. If fib(0) = 0. fib(1) = 1. etc. Then

n
[0 1] = [fib(n) fib(n+1)]
[1 1] [fib(n+1) fib(n+2)]

With repeated squarings, you can efficiently generate any Fibonacci number you want.
If the product works and you start to take market share from the incumbents, then they will seek you out. Market share is your leverage.
If you go straight to them with a product that isn't a huge step forward, you'll either get ignored, get a lowball offer, or get squeezed you out as the competitor injects money into the app.
In general, I don't think it's a skeevy practice to form a company expecting to get acquired.
my understanding is that "Adsense for content" is called " Google Network Web Sites" on their financial statements, and it's responsible for about 1/3 of their revenue.

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
My rule is : if you think you might need a designer, you need a designer.

That's basically my thought process.
Love the design.

Is there a reason why you can't charge less than $20 a month? I was hoping to set up a small shop for a friend, but they'll probably only have $80-$100 per month in revenue to start out with, so it would probably make more sense for them to go with an eBay store or something similar.
Clicky: http://www.guildwork.com
I'm in too. I've been procrastinating.
Given that the OP created a bunch of Ask HN questions today and the account is 1-day old, I presume it's a throwaway.

I am curious to know why.
Getting bought out by competition is how most startups exit. I wouldn't call it shady- unless you didn't want to do so (then you're just turning your back on your own beliefs). People do it all the time - its how entrepreneurs become serial entrepreneurs. In fact, VC's expect you to do so, often times within 5-7 years of investment.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

In fact, Google tried to sell to Ask.com early on, but they wouldn't buy.

http://www.techeye.net/business/google-wanted-to-sell-its-so...

Early on, the competitors probably wouldn't want to buy you, they'd probably just laugh and try to run you into the ground Microsoft style. The best way to get bought out is to have traction, existing customers, and a whole lot of potential for growth that you don't want to/can't deal with. That's when they'd buy you - when it's worth it to their bottom line in a very foreseeable way and when your product has been market tested.

In my opinion, I'd start selling and see what happens, if it's good enough you'll not only pay your bills, but the sale will be better if you can do so. Or, if you like it and you're talented/lucky, you could end up becoming the market leader and do really well for yourself. Like Google did.
http://www.inkmesh.com is another ebook price comparison site. I had the same idea a few months ago, but couldn't really think of any way to improve upon inkmesh and ebookprice. Plus, I've found that Amazon, BN, and Borders usually have the same price on popular books. I think Amazon sets the price and the others match it.

Also, keep in mind you can't use the Amazon Product Advertising API in mobile apps.
http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/amazon-killing-mobile-apps-...
We'd have a cure for baldness.
Not really. You registered a domain in a foreign territory when you were not a resident of that territory. It is in the interest of the domain authority for that nation to control its domains in the best interests of the host country. That was what the whole TLD decentralization effort was about.
I don't use Chrome, but I do use some non-Firefox browsers (Arora, w3m, sometimes uzbl), so I take a more barbaric approach: a giant /etc/hosts file pointing various offensive domains at 255.255.255.255, and iftop/firebug/Webkit's inspector/suspicious cookies to determine where horrors are coming from.
Great idea! You could probably do the collecting dues stuff with the WePay API. I'm using it for a project right now and it's pretty awesome.
Which company is it?
A site for parents/grandparents who live away from their kids to read stories to their children.

It should be really easy for the parent to record a story in their voice - ideally a mobile app. The kids go to a website or even just run a desktop app, say iTunes, which receives the recorded stories as a podcast.
Also should exclude the Wiktionary link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary

(e.g., "startup" = Wiktionary, December 12, Adolf Hitler)
Tx :) Great team indeed! Feel free to ask any questions about the HiiDef structure. It has its positives and negatives.
This initially struck me as well. However, it's important to note that this is intentionally a 100% biased sample. By nature it only includes two times he got it wrong. For all we know, the other 998 times he got it right. Drawing any meaningful conclusions is therefore impossible.
What about a browser(a la Chrome) with command line capabilities?
I was thinking if it would be interesting to have browser that at the same time would be acting as command line.
Examples: goto gmail.com compose new
goto wikipedia.org penguin
goto ........
godaddy parked domain?
My motivation for working on side projects is not just about chasing the dream of riches or fame. I try to keep my ambitions inside the 9-5 (or whatever weird hours I find myself working on the 9-5). My motivation for working on side projects is they are fun and provide variety. Working in a team has a necessary evil - you can't just do what you want. Working on side projects provides me with this freedom.
This is my second post on HN and I, for one, think this is disgusting. How is this right? Most of the comments on this thread are defending this app and yes, it does what it sets out to accomplish. However, are we so much in an echo chamber that we don't realize how the things we build affect other humans?! We deal in a world of systems, where point A leads to point B. But the systems we put in place are interpreted by human minds and human emotions, all of which don't have a point A or point B. I have a friend whose family doesn't go back more than 2 generations because they were all murdered by Hitler's regime at Auschwitz.

It's easy to make stupid apps (your word) but, in a post earlier today about creating apps for the greater good (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1770435), this is just blatantly adding bad. I mean, come on, do something worthwhile with your talents.

What's the point of this app? Is it just to get a rise out of people? I put in Dalai Lama and there's a separation of 3. I expected more from this community.
The warrantless gps tracking is what I meant.
Make sure whatever you work on is something you are passionate about. Something you think is the coolest thing ever. Doesn't matter if it is useful or if it is something people will pay for. It could also be something really ambitious; don't limit yourself by what you think you can do.

If you don't pick a project you really really care about then learning programming and finishing your project is going to be twice as difficult.

Good luck! Check back in in a couple months to let us know how it went!
State Of Electronics - Documentary Trailer
Maybe start here: http://www.uzbl.org/
Does anyone have an interest in selling their dead side project?

This idea is probably it's own dead side project, but if enough people show interest, I'll put up a community spreadsheet. Personally, I think there is definitely a market here and a buyers ability to execute on the marketing/business can certainly make a big difference.

Made the spreadsheet anyway. Use this form to add a listing:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZQc0ZQQWZ...

See responses here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApjfoQFi7q_7dFZQc0Z...
candlestickpro.com - a site i created with a friend of a friend to track stock portfolios and offer buy/sell recommendations based on candlestick patterns. the business plan was to charge a monthly membership fee as well as invest some of that money in stocks the site recommended (which would also serve as marketing for how good the recommendations were). the business relationship went sour and the site never came to fruition.

1.8T.org - started as a vw/audi car enthusiast website offering web hosting and email forwards. i eventually started a vw/audi dealer ratings site on it instead which became very popular among the community and dealer network. a few dealers took it too seriously and started posting fake negative reviews of other dealers and constantly complaining to me. dealing with all the angry people sucked the fun out of it, and other, more generalized car dealer review sites popped up, so i shut it down. made money with adsense. still own 8t.org with nothing to use it for.

ramblin.gs - a forum site that i created to experiment with some forum software i was working on. the community never prospered much, but i released the (awful, hacked-together) software which some people ran with and created some new communities with it that continue to operate.

wen - an attempt to create a simple scheduling site that could parse natural language entries and turn them into calendars/alerts. got too involved in perfecting the parser that i got bored with it and never launched it.

deskto.ps - a screenshot sharing website to be like flickr but more adept at handling large images. users could tag programs (draw borders around them, like flickr's notes) running in their screenshots and it would automatically assemble lists of most popular software and connect people to find themes/icons/support/whatever for the software they liked that other people were using. it would make money by letting commercial software developers sponsor the pages for their software that users tagged. stopped working on it, never renewed the domain and someone snagged it.

sellister.com - a better craigslist that offered feedback profiles/karma like ebay to help people feel more comfortable dealing with strangers. never got it off the ground, but i still hate selling things on ebay and craigslist.

http://den.im/ - an rss reader that i made two years ago to clone the old bloglines interface because i hated the new one and their site was always randomly not updating feeds. added twitter integration, made an iphone/android version, and continue to use it every day but can never find the motivation to open it up out of private beta. there are much nicer rss readers out there now and i don't think i have the resources available to host a huge number of users for free.
Not sure I understand. What would be the purpose? It seems like needless extra typing.
Features do not sell software. Benefits sell software. Write your own DKP Javascript is a feature, have less drama and more loot with less work is a benefit. Highlight accordingly.
There was an article along these lines up here not too long ago. My favorite anecdote was about a tech support department that had a stuffed teddy bear outside the room - to get in, you had to explain exactly what the problem was to the teddy bear. Apparently the teddy bear solved about half the problems people had...
That's a tricky one. I haven't tested this, but I think you should be able to listen for the 'load' event on each of the script elements that you inject, and patch document.write differently each time.

Let me know how you get on! I plan on doing something like this soon for some of my sites that have AdSense (another document.write culprit).
I'm loving this. I just showed this to my friend, and there's beer coming out his nose right now. On the side, where did the art from this come from?
That was very impressive. Did you guys just spread the word through friends and do a lot of marketing at first?
I haven't looked at myspace's stats in quite a while and this link prompted me to do so (the alexa one, because it's free and I'm a miser ;) ).

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/myspace.com

On the one hand I'm surprised to see they're still roughly the #40 website in terms of traffic, on the other it looks like they've entered a phase of accelerating decline.

I doubt a new logo will be enough to turn the tide on that, but wow, they're still big, and what you couldn't do with traffic at that level.
I am in. I will hopefully launch a small web templates site. Geez! I should really start to work on it.
The entire world outside of the OECD and some major cities in East Europe (Moscow, Ljubljana) and emerging countries (ie. Rio).

There are probably people in parts of the USA who are surviving on $700 a month.
An out of pocket maximum is generally not the same as a deductible. My wife and I have a similar plan now. It's $1500 (I think) maximum, but we still only pay the routine $20 co-pay for normal visits... $75 for emergency room.

I don't think we've ever actually spent more than $100 out of pocket over and above the monthly premiums. If something went terribly wrong, however, that cap would mean we'd owe at most $1500/yr. That worked out well for my father when my mom had cancer. 4 years of treatment totaling WELL over $1M, and I think he paid like $3500 total.
I think the difficulty is not in whether most people or, more importantly, most employees and shareholders agree that the ethical standards of a corporation should be applied to all. It's in the notion that Mark Hurd was fired for no reason beyond his ethical indiscretions. The article rather questionably refers to him as a 'popular CEO' (with whom?). There's repeated mention of 'Playboy model'. Of course it's lurid. Did Mark Hurd's behaviour harm shareholders more than, say, Apple (which still retains its CEO of the time) backdating stock option grants?
You mean Disclaimer: I lived in one of the only economically liberal parts of China where most Chinese are restricted from traveling to and there is a large influx of foreign money?

Shenzen ain't China and 400$ is a lot of money in the rest of the country.