skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I had time to participate! Have any viable businesses came out of previous rumbles?
On my queue, there are about 125 movies. About 30 of them have "Play" buttons.
How Can You Make Yourself Sleep Early?
So what's the going rate for Plop.com?
Pretty f'in responsive. Nice work.
I've seen these, and bought some myself (replicas or mixmasters of old bolt or lever action guns, or flintlocks; they're in my colo cage now as decoration). They're amazing, although I wouldn't want to fire commercial/military ammunition out of one the first time.

http://www.snotr.com/video/2154 is fairly accurate.
http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/2/1/a-stroll-through-pakistan...

There are plenty of AK-47s available now for ~$800 instead, but until around 2001, this was a popular way for some people to arm themselves.
Where's the Scorched Earth game?
I'd suggest you to use trademarks in subdomains.

facebook.onmywall.com
twitter.onmywall.com
Multiple Domain Hosting for Improved SEO
Taleb evidently respects (ancient) Greeks and doesn't respect Romans, presumably because one group had enormous contributions to philosophy whereas the other was merely an economic and imperial superpower. He's calling regular philistines like you and me "Romans" as an insult, one he sees as particularly vulgar. Such pomp is standard behavior from him, and it shouldn't be validated.
Please edit the title from "Jon Potel" -> "Jon Postel".
It took her only 6 months to turnover £1.46 million, Jessica Grosvenor
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Ask HN: Launching a startup in an already saturated market?
I've spent the last few months working on a time/task tracking and invoicing web app. There are obviously TONS of them already out there, many of which already have a dedicated user base, but I really feel like mine does things differently than any I've ever seen (not going into details here since it's not very relevant to this question).

I'm relatively new to the startup game, but it seems like the majority of startups try to execute some big new idea, while mine is just a rework of a bunch of old ideas (like "how time should be entered", or "how tasks should be edited/assigned", etc.)

Any tips on how I can gauge the marketability of my system since everyone is already using a different one? Is there any chance that I could succeed, or should I just keep it to myself and not invest the time/money in trying to make a business out of it (which would be fine with me since it was originally built for myself)?

(I know that without you seeing the app, this question is a little vague, and I apologize for that).
Hi, I am also interested in karmawhores.net, I liked the website and would like to see it back up again (it would be awesome if you still have the db + source too). If edash doesn't want it, you can mail me @ soult@trid.inbox5.com.
What computer games do HNers play?
When I feel tired of improving my app, I feel that a game of Defcon can refresh me. What games do other people on HN play, if you have any time for such things?

Also, anyone up for a game of global thermonuclear war? :)
A guy who spends $25M for what he perceives as good ethics and doesn't try to self-promote the good deed has my kudos indeed! regardless of where his ideology comes from. Something that many fame and money crazed entrepreneurs should learn from these days...

While it would cost Aaron Feuerstein $25,000,000 to 'do the right thing' as well as the turmoil of a November 2001 filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it appears that applied ethics in business has positive consequences as Malden Mills continues to garner lucrative Department of Defense (DOD) contracts for 'smart' products that interweave fiber optic cabling, electronic biosensors, and USB ports into polar fleece fabric. Malden Mills was awarded a $16 million dollar DOD contract in 2006[2].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Feuerstein
JQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Released
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You really think for $200/month they're going to let you saturate the equivalent of a 300 megabit connection 24/7? You'll get shut off if you approach anything close to that, I'd bet, just like all the "unlimited bandwidth" hosts. That, or the transfer speeds your server gets will be nothing near the 300 megabits that'd be required to use 100 terabytes in a month.
The Man Who Dares to Bare
Off the top of my head, Zencoder was originally built during a Rails Rumble. I know there are others as well, but that one sprang to mind.
Right. The time to worry about IT quality is after the duct-taped fraud of a product has collapsed and exposed millions of credit card numbers and personal information. Lawsuits, legal penalties, and potentially criminal charges are generally not good for the business.

Or maybe the gradual weight of technical debt simply slows you down so much that smarter, tech-focused competitors steal all your business.

That's just scare-mongering from IT guys, until it actually happens to your company (and you can always just blame them anyway).
Which wasn't our point, the OP here misrepresented us. We wanted to explain how popular we were and we realised we had as much traffic as stackoverflow, so we used that as a traffic comparison, our point was not to compare servers. As you can see if you read through the linked topic, at no point did we compare ourselves to SO beyond traffic wise, the OP here is at fault :)
It's worth noting that Man Utd also ended the 2008 season £699m in debt with operating losses for the year at £43m on £257m turnover.
I really don't play many computer games. I found information on the internet quite interesting to refresh me.

I used to play Sim City, but that was quite a long time ago.
I'm not sure the idea is to build a viable business. Rather to build out an application, and practice creating.

We did the original rails day, the precursor to rails rumble, at Odeo. Then a while later we got the idea of doing that within the whole company, during the day. That lead to a series of hackdays, which created twitter. Seems like, despite it's detractors, to have evolved in to a viable business.
Wohnungsräumung
It is hard to believe that someone that managed so many is focusing in his parting words on (1) telling people that got bad reviews that they aren't as good as they think they are, and (2) telling them to aim their sites lower (since not everyone can be president). That's not the kind of manager I'd want. There is nothing wrong with confidence and ambition; just redirect it towards taking risks to accomplish tasks that no one thought could be done.

Those people complaining, btw, probably have valid complaints, regardless of what they've output. Often people that have low output are a sign of poor hiring and/or management. Why didn't he focus on suggesting changes to remedy this?

In addition, he was ditching on the Litebulb mailing list, rather than suggesting an alternative. What if he were to suggest that MS had 20% time to work on Litebulb requests?
First time I hear a claim that charity is responsible for smallpox eradication.

Sure, charities did help a lot, but it took Worldwide coordinated effort by WHO with primary donors being UN member states to achieve full eradication.
Pretty much. Regardless, it's all retail so profit margins are pretty low.
It's amazing that you get so defensive over "learn the business"

"Learn the business" wasn't your only point, whether intended or not.
Pre-publication registration of trials has happened. The major journals agreed they would only publish trials that were registered prior to publication. There are sites for this (www.clinicaltrials.gov). Unfortunately, I saw a paper recently which found that almost half of registered trials had significant differences between the registered and published methodologies, and no one was checking on this very carefully.
Just out of interest. What's to stop some other guy coming along and patenting it, then unleashing lawsuit city on all the other vendors? Is there some kind of protection for that, to assure it remains free to all?
If you are working on an existing and quite extended concept (like to one you're explaining) i think your best chance is to try to find better ways to do things on the type of app you are working on. You can really make something work if you introduce significative changes that just make things easier and more comprehensible. There are quite a few amount examples of that (google just started when quite a few search engines did exist, which was one of the reasons they did so well in a pretty crowded market? They did provide a search engine that worked much better than the others and that was just willing to be a 'search engine'; no banners on front page, no overloated designs...)
Abandoned since '03, so that's ok.
It shouldn't take long. You should be able to do it in weeks time.

Just search the internet for something like 'ruby tutorial'
I started learning python in March of this year. I couldn't tell you how much time I've put into it - it's hard to keep track of.

Within two months I had my first rudimentary web app up and running. I used Django for the app itself and used linode for the hosting.

Now it's not a great app by any means. It doesn't make a real contribution to the world. But the experience was enormously satisfying and genuinely life changing.

One thing that astonished me was that I had to learn a whole lot less than I thought I would in order to actually get something done. One of my best mates has been coding in PHP for years and years and watching him made me think that the process of deploying a webapp was monumental. I thought - wow, I have to learn html, mysql, css, before I can even make use of my pythony backend.

But it's just not true anymore. There is so much free code out there - enormous amounts. It's a wonder to me now why everyone isn't coding. It's really only one level of effort removed beyond learning to deal with the shitty interface on over hyped product X you just blew your hard earned on.

Just over six months on from the time I started - I certainly don't count myself particularly skilled as a coder - not by any means. But no matter what I think up to do next, within a few days I've figured out how to do it. I kinda feel like there just isn't anything I can't do if I put my mind to it. As my confidence grows I come up with ever more ambitious ideas. It's a wonderful feeling.

So stop worrying about how much time it's gonna take you to get to your (probably myopically) perceived endpoint - and just get on with putting code to screen to see what you can do right now. It's a lot more than you think.
That's ok, that's been abandoned for a while.
I own athansor.com (Athansor is the name of the white horse in Mark Helprin's novel "Winter's Tale"), you can have it for free if you want it, expires in March 2011.
Yes, that's free so it's yours.
Anyone else likes to see which books people have when the bookshelf is not the subject?
Worked for me. Just add the string they give you to your profile.
I'm just wondering... Why do they use Varnish and HAProxy and nginx? This is quite redundant setup. It would be a lot more efficient to put nginx on lb01 and leave only PHP on fe* nodes.
Abundant prior art.
...and financial returns are not Gaussian
Just listed HTMLslashCSS.com and xHTMLslashCSS.com. Not sure what to do with them!
Abandoned since '01 so I don't think he'll mind.
Switch Theme functionality is broken on webOS. More testing now.

Edit: (Here are more things that are broken in quick testing)

* The back button jumps you back to the webos starting page

* Transitions and dialogs are very jerky. Stuff like slideup ends up just flashing/flickring with no actual visible transition.

* Animations unfortunately feel very Apple/iPhoneish (not a criticism, just an observation). Comparatively, the Jo framework seems to be more aware of each device platform's UI quirks.

Understanding that this is still brand new and looking forward to the improvements. Hopefully, you are in touch with the Palm dev team to address some of the issues you are encountering.

(not an employee, just a user).
That one is free, so yes, you can.
Would You Rather Be Rich In 1900, Or Middle-Class Now?
Last seen in '06, so that's ok.
I was kind of surprised how rough webOS is to develop for (considering that it is WebKit-based). It's impossible to determine the scroll offset of the screen on webOS, for example (making it impossible to have fixed headers/footers). We'll definitely be working on it more in the upcoming weeks, though.

Update: Yep, we're already in contact with the Palm dev team and have been reporting bugs. (Un)fortunately most of them will only be fixed in webOS 2.0 - which is still a ways down the line and won't help current users. Thanks for the feedback though! If you have a moment we would definitely appreciate any bugs that you could file:
http://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues
Yes that's good.
I agree with you, but here is something to keep in mind:

It could be that the fact they donate all their profits to teaching children, might be sole reason why this cafe is profitable in the first place.

If this was run as a regular business, people would not have such an incentive go there. The same goes for a non-profit which has a goal that is not plainly visible.
His 'Fractals and Scaling In Finance' helped me wrap my brain around power laws. Perhaps if certain folks had read it when it was first published (1997), we would have had less financial turmoil these past few years.
It could be PR. PR use to hide facts, but in this particular case what they say is real, not fake.

When my uncle(missionary) showed me photos of his travels around South America and Africa all the cars were Toyota pick ups(Venezuela, Amazon Jungle, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia).

When I asked him he told me the word "Toyota" in many places is what we in Spain call "4x4".
It's really easy to get a couple of hundreds rep points on SO. You should, just in case you need to post there :)
I hope it's temporary and wont happen again, because I didn't see any free alternatives.
I couldn't seem to play it on my iPhone. Anyone else on ios 4 have trouble? I need the click event it seems.
Very impressive on my iPad. Love that the form toggles slide.

One annoyance is a strange page 'flash' when using the Back button. The transition appears to flash a view of the previous page. But, hey, it's alpha. (Edit: I'm referring to the Back button provided by jQuery in the header of the page, not the Back button on Mobile Safari.)

Many thanks for the work on this.
The first program written in C that I saw that did anything interesting was a Mandelbrot set generator. It's what hooked me on programming, I think.
Yeah - we've noticed the 'flash' as well - we suspect that it has to do with the CSS transitions but we're still looking in to it (and it only appears to happen on some platforms, but not others, making it all the more frustrating).
Thanks! Also to whoever upvoted me. Now for what to do with it.
Didn't the 9/11 terrorists go to strip clubs and drink alcohol? The bullies enforcing the rules often tend to see themselves as above them.
You may Find from Online Good and Interesting Research Paper Ideas
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This is outstanding! The UI is beautiful and for an alpha release things seem quite polished - then again, I was checking it on an iPad, which is probably easy to develop for.

I really like the focus on wide compatibility and progressive enhancement, but mainly I like that it seems that coding with this framework will still feel like regular, mobile web development, using technologies familiar to web developers.

As opposed to a whole new framework, we get to use jQuery and jQuery UI, which many of us have grown to rely on. The prospect of using this to develop amazing mobile technologies is incredibly exciting.

Thanks for all the hard work. I'm looking forward to subsequent releases but I plan on starting to build something now!
Thanks. Have you spent the last 15 hours just hitting refresh on this page? Looking at your response times here, it doesn't look like you've taken much of a break :)
Ask HN: how to drive the adoption of fan-site for your city?
I just created iLuvSaigon.com, to let people post funny/cute stuffs 'bout the city (Saigon, Vietnam).

Want to ask for your suggestions on how to drive the adoption, how to make people want to interact with the site more ?
Call of duty
I ran a wiki once where I changed the search box to a google search box. Made some good money even with very little traffic. Of course you're taking people away from your site but my website was pretty rubbish so wasn't too worried about that personally.

Just an idea anyway :)
A good copywriter will usually charge $10-$15K plus a percentage of sales.

That's rubbish. I write copy for clients all day; very few companies I work with launch without copy for websites and marketing materials written by me. I bill this at my standard daily billing rate. I am without doubt a good copywriter although it's not what goes on my business card; it's just part of what I do for clients so that they launch as well as possible. The pro copywriters I know may be charging 10x what I'm charging but it's still nothing like what you're talking about.
The only thing you should focus on is finding a way to generate referral business. It is the only way to avoiding competitors that can outspend you.
8 Olympic Sports That Defy the Ancient Greek Definition
In Greece, sport = agony...So, by definition, you shouldn’t be allowed to call something a sport unless there is the possibility that participants will receive from and/or cause to their opponents large amounts of damage...
Amazing game, makes me miss having an XBOX.
Ask HN: What is the most profitable way to self-publish e-books?
With services like Lulu taking a cut of almost 50% for what is basically a hosted shop with decent SEO that sends e-books upon purchase, there must be services where I can upload a .pdf, .epub and similar documents for a (much) better price.

Additionally, it would be preferable with a means of applying an ID and/or purchaser's name to one of the book's first or last pages to discourage people from throwing up the e-book on a sharing service - while maintaining the incentive to share with people whom you trust.

I recall 37signals hosting one of their e-books themselves and selling it on Lulu, so maybe there is something to be learnt for setting up the service yourself.

With such a burgeoning self-publishing revolution, there must be someone who offers this service.
Oh no. :( Ok, it was inevitable that big blue would sell out, but Google is going to win this fight.
World of Warcraft and tower defense games are my favorites. I spend more time playing games than I should, probably, but I also make games so it's not completely a waste -- it's research. At least that's what I tell myself! LOL
That's a very interesting point. In your clothing example, charity was a crutch that hampered the progression of local businesses.

I could see many other forms of aid having the same effect. Creating a reliance that's completely out of the control of the region. If it evaporates at any point they're stuck in a much worse situation.

I think we could go about this a little more intelligently though. Outside funds could be used to train and evolve local business, giving them the tools required to succeed on their own once the aid disappears. If we went into the situation thinking; We only have X dollars, not a constant stream, so how can we use this money in a way to produce a long term positive outcome in the region?

I guess the problem then becomes finding a non-corrupt entity who knows best how to go about it.
also testing on webOS .. hoping for a webos theme and back gesture support (along with support for hiding the back button on pages).
i'm ready to test on webOS and to contribute back.
Ask HN: What is better Google Predict or your Machine Learning pipeline?
Have you tried Google Predict? Is it the best machine learning system?
Cool thanks, looked that up. Seem to be a stateside only thing though.
But what have you shipped?
The magic word is a play on Shibboleth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth Unfortunately XKCD doesn't specify which pronunciation to use.
From a G1, Android 1.6: It's very slow. Multi-second UI hangs and then the UI becomes responsive but nothing has happened with the selection I made.
So we're not planning on doing a webOS theme (or a iOS theme or a Blackberry theme) as we wish to create something of a unified experience across the platforms - although if you wish to contribute one, we'll absolutely accept it.

Unfortunately it's impossible to hide the back button from a web page on webOS. There are a number of limitations of the platform that are impossible to work around.
A company called "Fetch" is very similar to Dapper. Their tech is used to aggregate things like Dow Jones news stories.

They monetized by selling licenses to use their scraper. I wonder why Dapper couldn't do the same?

http://www.fetch.com/
This is really great! Works perfectly and fast on my iphone. I wonder if it'll be possible to modify a current existing desktop version into a mobile version using this, if I reach the site from a phone.
Probability of Profitability due to Team, Market and Density
Fetch, but it's super expensive: http://www.fetch.com/
I actually just woke up after a few hours of sleep, I expected 'a few takers' but nothing on this scale :)

Indirectly this is good proof of how large HN has become, just imagine that a substantial fraction had responded I'd be busy for a week or more just to check availability.

And that's the funny thing, so far only a few that were still in active use.
Hmm - do you have any more details regarding where the hangs happened? We were testing against a G1 w/ 1.6, as well and didn't see issues like that. If you could take a moment to file a quick bug report we would appreciate it:
http://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues
I really feel like mine does things differently than any I've ever seen (not going into details here since it's not very relevant to this question).

Actually, it is. The unnamed details presumably constitute your "unique value proposition." You want to try to center your pitch around that.

And, if you are haven't already, you should check out Patio11's writings, as they sound like they will be relevant.
I checked to see if this domain was available 3 weeks ago! Small world. I hope you can come up with a great idea for the domain.
Android developer tip: Saving Precious Android Market Description Text Space
Three people were mourned on the net more than anyone else I can remember, Jon Postel, Richard Stevens, Douglas Adams. You read their eulogies on IRC, Usenet, Wired, New York Times, and Phrack. There is at least one piece of shell-code dedicated to each man :-)
Tangentially, they also work with a variety of garment vendors to continue innovating on the basic concept of "fleece" fabric. For example, various Patagonia R-series jackets are Malden/Polartec fabrics. Higher lofts (more warmth) with lower weight, increased breathability, flexibility, etc.
I did an ebook earlier this year and the whole post-creative process was just horrible. I did self-publishing and trying to work around the various formats was just so not worth it. I had planned on doing several books along the same lines but, after dealing with how to make it look good on the Kindle, in PDF, on the Nook, etc, it just wasn't worth my time to write the other books.