skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat!

I like this idea a lot. Instead of just hounding the Canvas tag to (reactively) teach and learn, users like me can now (proactively) discuss the HTML5 Canvas.

I can also get real-time feedback on what people want as far as new tutorials go.
That's it back up - but I need to make some changes to stop it happening again...
What's the best running app for a newbie? RunKeeper vs. Runmeter
I don't see your email in your prof. mine is rasiel at gmail
letsgoalready.com

tortureisevil.[com|org|net|tv|info]

tortureworks.[com|org|net|tv|info]
Are you sure about that? The Wikipedia articles for the Hilux[1] and the Tacoma[2] make no mention of this. The Hilux article heavily implies the Tacoma is the same truck, just under a different name.

Ah way down in the sixth generation section it says: "The Tacoma frame differs from the Hilux frame, although both appear similar from the outside. Both the Tacoma and Hilux variants are sold in Mexico."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Tacoma
Do people here still think that "killer" domain names matter? I mean, will you really make back the extra 40k you invested in joke.aday.com instead of going with the $10 dlyJoke.com or todaysjoke.org (to take two currently available domains I just made up).

Or to put it another way. Has anybody seen any significant increase in business after switching their site to an expensive "killer" domain?
Clickety click - http://hypernumbers.com
Western governments will use botnets in cyber wars
Agreed.
That is the key reason someone who is more tech savvy needs to take over microsoft. Im sure he is a smart guy and has good business acumen, but someone who sees the big picture needs to be steering the ship...
Mutable Suggestions For Naming A Startup
I think that minimal barrier to entry is a good idea. Because chatting is associated with SO accounts and there a minimum rep requirement (albeit a very small one), it will be much easier to keep spammers out of the chat.
What happened, I was working on it and then ...
Why isn't their an option, so that users can only as (1 or x rows) and be able to delete/update only these rows.

I have one domain to sell, it's Codeinput.com (more than 1 year old), started a blog on it last year and then left it.
Russian government had similar plans a few years ago:

http://www.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/09/14/266177
That's brilliant :-) This kind of sharp and humorous form of criticism makes me very confident that India has a great future.
No, use this instead:

http://www.idlingdomains.com/

This came out a few months ago and there's a collection of URLs up there already.
I own compels.us, and I've never really used it for anything.
Reminds me of Agile development, but for camping gear:

In the morning, I would cut out an improved model, in the afternoon I would sew it, assemble it and then sleep in it that night. Each morning I would make a note of all the little adjustments to make it a little more comfortable or a little simpler or lighter. Then I would start again, cutting, sewing, sleeping in the hammock. I did this every night and day for two weeks straight.
That doesn't answer my question. What's free about it?

What's the practical difference between a government saying "You must sell your product for this price or we won't allow you to do business in this industry" and Wal-Mart saying the same thing?
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As CPUs have become more capable, their energy consumption and heat production has grown rapidly. It's a problem so tenacious that chip manufacturers have been forced to create "systems on a chip"--conurbations of smaller, specialized processors.

I don't think that's a very good explanation of SoCs.
Oh. Right.

Twitch.
Ok, recovered, list available again.
Dropbox, Facebook, Groupon and Mint all come to mind.

Update: missed a really obvious one--Twitter. It launched as twttr.com and was nearly impossible to explain to people. I don't think it would have gone mainstream without the URL that includes vowels.
Nothing about the protocol is PHP-specific, but the initial implementation is written in PHP.
I have to agree with both of you... owning 20.com does not make it become the best location domain. He would be starting late in the game, and would need a killer idea behind the domain.
True, it's not pump&dump. It's "painting the tape". Still illegal.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/paintingthetape.asp
I came to the web page and looked around a bit. I was asking myself what problem does this solve that Excel or Google Spreadsheet doesn't solve? If I was just someone casually browsing I think I would have left your page then. I then watched the video. The typing overlay is annoying.

I'm still not clear what problem it solves that those other solutions don't... I mean, I get what you're trying to convey by your initial message in the video, but still. So it's a wiki spreadsheet? Is that the value proposition? If so, you need to communicate that better.

I also don't like the landing page. It looks a bit unprofessional.
I have a ton of domains that I would partner or give away. All were potential business ideas at one point (I'm happy to discuss just email me...)

- adafio.com - online ads

- advergy.com - same

- cheqd.in - social check-ins

- faq5.com - faq software

- faqable.com - same

- funyl.com - marketing

- hiremill.com- freelancers

- nnder.com - no idea :)

- pillur.com - web app

- quibbr.com - web app

- usedly.com - used marketplace

- vinegr.com - web app

- wispur.com - web app

- vmayor.com - "virtual mayor" social app
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The only one that I found mildly interesting was 20.com.

He paid 40k for aday.com?!

Ping me jason, I've got abridge.com to sell to you.
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The Hilux is also used by many oil companies in Africa, making it a status symbol, and so often purchased by people who have money/power and want to show off a bit.

So it's not just practical reasons, the Hilux is a status car. It's also the best selling car in South Africa in total, so it's used as a normal vehicle, not just for offroad.
No, permanent tattoos overall are frowned upon in Islam. Temporary ones however are ok. Maybe this maple leaf thing is a temporary tattoo..
SuperUser cost 70K
This was my first thought as well. Who the hell does someone think they are when they start with an expensive domain name and think that they can build a business from that?

Your domain name / brand name is only a portion of the pie, and considering the reputation of Mahalo, starting with nothing but a domain name and a potentially poor co-founder match will not bring quality technical people to Santa Monica.
Loading scripts asynchronously in GWT
I like the idea generally, and it would probably be the first place I'd look - communities and such. The problem here is that the market isn't one that has necessarily _chosen_ to be a part of the market and wouldn't for the most part be interested in a community/forum/gathering place.

I think a good way to think about what I'm looking at is medication - how many people are on medication? How many of those own Android devices - this is the number I'm looking for. People "on medication" aren't a group like "people who like skiing", and so mostly aren't to be found in online communities.
You and probably a lot of other people aren't going to like this advice, but here it goes...

You're in your 20s with a full time job and still living at home? Fix this immediately.

Honestly it sounds like you need to learn some responsibility. You have a full time job, but you don't like it, so you're going to quit. You have the parents to fall back on.

Maybe a start up will give you responsibility, maybe moving out and financially separating from your parents will give you responsibility. Maybe both with give you double secret responsibility.

I'm actually shocked no one has said this until now. Someone having a full time job but still living with their parents (unless for special circumstances) speaks volumes about their maturity.

Time to start living in the real world. I say jump in and begin your startup. Best case scenario you succeed and end up doing what you love, worst case you took a shot (hopefully one of many) and got out of a job/lifestlye that is making you miserable.
Did you even read the whole post? He clearly stated his ideas were killer to match the level of killer-ness of the domains.

He's a killer guy with killer companies and conferences and killer domain names. Sign me up!
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We've looked into it, it's something our project plan. We've got to use accounting to do it, so users can register using their fb accounts and that gets tied together, from then on all users have an alias which is what is displayed as default. But our plan is that once the alias is displayed we do the second request to see if the viewing user is a friend, if they are we update the name... does this make sense?

1) Link account to fb 2) Always assign and display alias 3)Check if viewer is a friend a)if friend update alias to show real name b) is not a friend, don't update!

Good luck working with the facebook api! :P
Thanks for posting this. I just thought this was my aging phone.
I misread your URL as simboyz. What? A gay simulator?
This reminds me of what the Indian government did to the Yamaha RX-135. It is probably the most sought after bike in India almost six years after its production was stopped because its power-to-weight ratio was so high that rebels in the north-east were using it as getaway vehicles(with a great amount of success). Its pick-up is unmatched to this day, and has incredible resale value.
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ontvnow.com

daz.com

drive-inn / driveinn.com

e404.com

email in my profile.
Sort of. X% of the market is a terrible growth strategy, but it's a decent gut-check to size a market. The previous poster was complaining that this gut-check wasn't big enough. The problem with that is thinking that a company is stuck with today's business model forever. If that were true, Google would still be selling search appliances.
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I have been sitting on websitez.com for a long time now.

I am currently working on a potential project with it, but it is still in the early stages.

I am open to anything really.
livinglocation.com

I've been trying to think of something cool to do with it for a couple of years now but haven't thought of anything great. I'm not sure if I want to give it up but am open to ideas.
textfight.com
cfbfantasy.com
devhard.com
htmldr.com
Hmm, I would have liked to have an idea of the market size before working too much - though the size of the market for the core functionality is huge, I have absolutely no idea about the crossover to those who also own Android devices - it could be almost nonexistant for all I know.

I will mention that I have found an app on the Market that doesn some of my idea. There were 4 reviews and 6 ratings. It had 2 stars, and all 4 reviews were about the UI (which was indeed aweful). I wonder if the fact that there is only 1 app currently (that I could find) there is no demand ... or it could be that the demand is just not filled at present.
Funny, whenever I first understand something mysterious like that, I feel more hopeful and confident. If it's magic, how can I trust it? What do I do if it doesn't behave as expected?

If I understand it, I can face it. I can figure out problems. I can find creative approaches.

It isn't magic, so I don't have to be afraid.

I think that's a good feeling.
Emacs is state all around - that can't be easy or elegant to replace with a purely functional language - or not ?
The God Helmet
I'm sorry, but this statement alone convinces me that there are important facts about economics which you do not understand. Deflation, among many other things, discourages investment. Without investment, economies stagnate.

It would be better to explain why my reasoning is fallacious rather than resorting to opaque statements like these.
1. You need a better design, the logo seems kind of stupid for me. The whole design take me back to 2000/2002.

2. Why load all these scripts. I mean, I'm in the home page, you shouldn't load validate.js, form.js... Also lot of commented HTML, this only add unnecessary loads to your page. Also avoid inline CSS.

3. You need a good copywriter or may be some copy writing lessons since you just started. Someone already mentioned it.
startup.vc
But I'm not a spammer!

I don't doubt it's effectiveness at keeping spammers out. But when building a spam filter you also have to keep in mind the false positive rate. By excluding anyone who don't have the time or inclination to spend time grinding for rep on SO, they're excluding a great deal of knowledgable people.
Helping people out with the jokes.

G@ND = expletive for ass(the body part).

Block Development Officer - Officer in charge of administering a block (a block in turn is a small administrative area typically a few villages).

SC - Scheduled Castes

ST - Scheduled Tribes

OBC - Other Backward Classes

SC, ST, OBC are different categorization of the castes.

Indian institutions (govt. jobs, colleges etc) have to offer atleast 49.5% seats to people belonging to these sections. This is kind of an affirmative action. This affirmative action is based on the archaic caste system and not on the something tangible like income. So quite often the rich people of these castes end up reaping the benefits. Because of this reason most of the intellectuals of India oppose such an affirmative action. Politicians still do it, because its a easy way to get votes.

Class IV employees - Employees under a particular government pay grade. The lowest grade in government pay scale. People in this grade form unions and assert their labour rights through frequent strikes.

Babus - may refer to either bureaucrats or the clerical staff in their office. Both are known to be admirers of red tape and corruption.

Paan - piper betel leaf based mouth freshener. Hard to explain so refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paan
This is all IMHO: I think it depends on the type of the product. If you have a blog, you better have a killer domain name. If you have a web app, just let the bloggers with the killer domain make it a household name. One exception to this is don't choose a name that people can't spell or pronounce.
Luck plays a role in building a billion dollars company, otherwise billg, stevej, would be building billion dollars company every 10 years which is not happening.

Building a million dollars company is hard work (I mean 10 million at least ), but still billion dollars company are mostly about being lucky and exploiting it. I doubt that billionnaire entrepreneurs seriously worked much more, or much smarter than millionnaires. Billionaire companies landed there because they exploited ideas inherently more monopolistic, more able to spread.

If you take the sivers multiplier http://sivers.org/multiply, ideas still have some potential : a x20 multiplier is a huge boost.
'Also, stay away from clever domain names like del.icio.us.'

But, as the author states, the Libyan domain names are in vogue now: bit.ly, letter.ly, etc.
re-tweet is even more obnoxious if you're searching a hashtag - the same thing shows up multiple times.
AK-47 is the simplest automatic weapon that I've seen. When I was in high-school I could take it apart in 7-8 seconds. It's simplicity and reliability are remarkably astounding.
Right, because the best way to sell your product is to get defensive when potential customers ask how your offering is different from a competitor. ;)
On top of that I think I just don't want to deal with domain name squatters. It seems to me to be a dirty business and I don't want to support it.
I really doubt that a politician/bureaucrat would really get that.
There may be some loss in the questions column, but probably not so much. As it is, irc exists and so does SO (and obviously there are other ways to get help beyond those two).

I still use both irc and SO, but for different things. I tend to go to SO if I have a specific question, but it's relatively contained, concrete and non-trivial. If I have a smaller question and Google fails me, I'll pop into irc and try there. If the question is larger (needs more setup to ask, for example), I go to SO first. At the same time, if the question is very open-ended I go to irc, since I find SO can somewhat unwelcoming towards open-ended, vaguer questions. (As an example of that, I'm working on a cli grading program in Ruby, and I'm having a hard time deciding the big questions: what goes where, which things are classes, how to store, extract and calculate the data. I spent about half an hour last weekend in irc with some random stranger who was kind enough to bounce ideas around. irc can also sometimes suck for vague questions, but sometimes it works.)
After an infinite number of successful startups that picked an almost random short domain name that was available and used this as the company name there is still somebody calling domain names "killer" for startups?
OK - the problem was that the pool of new DNS entries was draining too quickly - so I increased the size of it.

Unfortuately that's not in our site management API so I had to code it up and test it - but 'tis done now... :)
I think the Brotherhood of Nod called them "Technicals" as well.
thanks for publishing my article
They matter HUGELY for any search match. WhitePages.com (from my understanding) gets scads of direct traffic and googles for "white pages". It's HUGE for seo (spend a few hours doing random searches and see how many searchquery.com domains you see).

Not to mention brand credibility. Others have mentioned Mint.com (which they paid a pretty penny for). Dropbox got dropbox.com pretty recently (switching from "getdropbox.com").

And, word of mouth marketing.

Plenty of examples of companies succeeding with weak domain names, but yeah-- I think "killer" domain names matter a LOT.
How about storing chat history as part of StackOverflow archives? This could solve the problem of findability. But then it might contain too much junk.
Ummm, better to point to PyPy :: LuaJIT ?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

Caveat - notice how many of those Lua programs were written by Mike Pall.
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albertsun - this is valid feedback I have upvoted you
I'd actually go further and point out many if not most of the sucessful startups in recent memory haven't had "killer domain names"

Google, Twitter, 37Signals and yes even Ycombinator are all things that meant nothing until their founders made them mean something. Once that happened their uniqueness became an asset
You could get 20 rep with 5-10 minutes of effort. I think that's an acceptable barrier.
Sideways reply due to stack depth, sorry...

What's the practical difference between a government saying "You must sell your product for this price or we won't allow you to do business in this industry" and Wal-Mart saying the same thing?

You're right that there might not be much of a practical difference for the company making the socket sets, but they aren't the only factor in the equation. Your question addresses only the seller, and markets are made of both sellers and buyers.

If the government sets price limits, that means the company can't do business even if there's a willing buyer. You're removing the right of free choice.

When it's Wallmart setting a price that they're willing to pay, and it's lower than the price the company is able to sell for, that just means there isn't a willing buyer. Wallmart is in some sense acting as a proxy for the people who shop there, who are clearly saying that price is what's important to them.

To paint an exaggerated picture: if I'm trying to sell my socket sets for $1000 each, and no-one wants to buy them, that doesn't mean the market isn't free, it just means that there isn't a match in the buyer side of the market for my product.
You can overclock a processor above 4GHz with a bit of liquid nitrogen and some bios changes. ;-)
It's definitely PR.

"Buy a Toyota Hilux - the only truck endorsed by the Taliban, the Janjaweed and the Islamic Courts of Somalia."

They could even get Joshua 'General Butt Naked' Blahyi as their spokesperson. "After sacrificing a small child to the devil, I like to strip naked and drive away in my Toyota Hilux. No matter what the terrain, my Hilux will help me escape from angry parents and local militias out for justice."
You should know how to use and use all tools, incl. google, bing, ddg, github, Ctrl-F7 with searching with in text, etc. Google - is just another search tool.
Very well done Mr. Spolsky. I've heard Jeff say in podcasts that he doesn't like threaded comments but without something like that to connect posts busy rooms become unreadable.

What about a hybrid where you can click on a question to respond and your response is still added at the bottom but when anyone hovers over the response a line shows up connecting the response to the question?
Ask HN: How to streamline private beta email signup for age-verified app?
Hi HNers,

I'm getting close to putting up a landing page for a pre-release game I'm working on. I want to allow people to enter their e-mail address to be notified of the private beta. The complication is that the eventual game will need to be age-verified. E.g. the landing page won't have nudity, but the game will.

So, how do I create a streamlined landing page where interested people can provide an e-mail address, without forcing them to first click through a bunch of legalese and age verification?

I'm assuming that some people who would provide their e-mail addresses (without knowing the product's adult themes) would be surprised and annoyed to then get an e-mail with links to an adult game. I don't want to be a jerk.

Finally, I don't want to create the impression that I'm advertising the game to minors, for whom it's not intended.

So, how to balance simplicity, with non-douchebaggery?
those are horrible domains, and I'd think they cost $9.99 to register.

well except for 20.com.

but 20.com is a horrible name in itself, because the majority of people would just go to twenty.com
$ whois abridge.com
:
:
Registrant:
Abridge Inc.
134 Sumner St
Newton, MA 02459
US
:
:

Hmmm, so you are Susan? ;-)
According to my friends that work at Mozilla, this site is purely for javascript speed and is what Mozilla uses as an internal motivator to motivate employees. Its a line everyone works to hit.

Its not really a "benchmark" to show the world that they're doing better. It's a public site because everything that happens in mozilla is open, but it's not really for us to see and judge. Its for the guys on the inside to see and cheer or see, then haul ass to catch up.
A question about the source code of Proprietary software
Why cant the source code of proprietary software be "decoded"?Isn't the computational power and technology at the moment capable of accomplishing such a task?If a software is closed sourced then is there no means to understand the code behind it?A software being closed source absolutely guarantees that no one can see the code running it?

Note:I am not a programmer or a technically sound person,I am just curious to know.
I will not respond to these point by point - but I will transcribe them into my review list.
Intentional: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/48249/web-based-irc-...
Survivor Bias?
With the exception of Mint, the other examples were already quite successful before improving their domain name. Establishing causality in these cases is tenuous.
The UI feels clunky and it doesn't feel like Stack Overflow.

Did the same people really design {chat.,}stackoverflow?!
Yahoo shares jump on talk of AOL-led deal