skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.educause.edu/edudomain/eligibility.asp

Why do some institutions that do not meet the eligibility criteria have .edu domain names?

According to the Cooperative Agreement between EDUCAUSE and the U.S. Department of Commerce, all .edu names in existence as of October 29, 2001, are "grandfathered." This means that everyone who already had a .edu name by that date (October 29, 2001), regardless of current or past eligibility requirements, is allowed to keep those .edu names.
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Sounds like he bought it on the open market.
Maybe he got it from this guy... he "OWNS" the internet :):
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm?postversion=2007052205
Googles goal to organise your daily life (Google Wants More Personal Data)
Here is my most-favorite article. Please let me know if you think it still applies (I do.) By the way, the navigation kind of sucks, but it's actually 3 pages long.
The Secret to Memcached
Lots of thoughtful & thoughprovoking advice for entrepreneurs from the creator of ONEList (Yahoo Groups) and bloglines
Before 2001, anyone could register a .edu domain; a handful of .edu domains were registered - academia.edu was one of them.
It's too bad it's such an ugly looking site.
Thanks for your thoughts - they're extremely interesting and I really appreciate hearing them.

The site will be completely free for universities and academics. Our business model is to sell advertising on the site.
Yes. If you are 30 or over you should give up now.
My long-standing opinion of domain speculators notwithstanding, I feel bad for the future web developers of Cameroon, and all those other African countries whose domains this guy is going to squat on.

I could draw a bunch of other fun implications from this article, but they mostly fall in the "What you Can't Say" category.
Wait a second. Isn't Facebook a "Facebook/MySpace style site for academics?"
Silicon Valley gets a bad case of startup-itis; the doctor is in
You mean: Isn't Facebook a "Friendster/MySpace style site for academics?"
Facebook is primarily about social interaction - sharing photos from last night's party, listing what music you like etc.

Academia.edu has an exclusively academic focus; it's about creating an academic webpage, uploading your own papers and research interests, and finding others around the world who have the same research interests as you.
Message to Michael: Just Say, Well, No.
Google calls for real-time spectrum allocation
Salesforce, Google may join efforts
Final Call for Papers - CCC Hacker Festival in August
Power of Clarity
Salesforce Developer Conference with Guy Kawasaki (Business Web Apps are becoming a big deal - My thoughts from attending yesterday)
My cofounder and I went to the Salesforce Developer Conference in Santa Clara yesterday. The highlight was Guy Kawasaki's extremely entertaining talk. He also included some very good advice on getting funding - specifically to keep any slide presentation to investors to a total of 10 slides, and he included what should be on them. (I'll be getting those in the email soon - if you're interested let me know.) Also, his very humorous point that you should keep your presentation point size to a maximum of 50% of the maximum age of your audience, usually 30 points.

I think the technical highlight was seeing Adobe's Flex and Apollo in action. Truly impressive. Salesforce has also opened their API for mashups and created their own language, APEX, run on their "cloud" that developers can use. Their idea is to create a high value platform on which business applications can be built and communicate with other business data. Google was there as well, demonstrating how to connect salesforce to Google apps.

Salesforce currently has over 600,000 paying subscribers at a price of $60 to $250 per month per user, with some very large companies that have up to 20,000 plus users. They do plan to profit heavily from developers that work with them, from 10% of any subscriptions by app exchange developers, to large costs for exhibiting at their conference, etc.

One of the featured speakers at the event was the CEO of a 6 person company in Toronto that develops exclusively for Salesforce's app exchange. They are currently in line for making 2.4 million this year after bringing in 1 million last year. Of those 6, only two are in the same location. He owns 100% of his company with no outside investment.

There is no doubt that a seismic shift is taking place for businesses using web applications instead of supporting their own IT infrastructure. I think this is similar to the Lotus 123 explosion with PC's.
The Chaos Communication Camp is an international, five-day open-air event for hackers, builders, and makers organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The camp provides a relaxed atmosphere for free exchange of technical, social and political ideas. Discuss, sunbathe, and enjoy camping with some of the most interesting people you might ever meet. And all that with internet, power, an abundance of weird self-made gadgets, and people willing to explain them to you, right next to your tent.

...

Two huge main hangars (room for 400 people each) will feature conference tracks with lectures and presentations, while workshops will take place in a central workshop area and in the various villages. To get a first glimpse of what to expect have a look at our self-organizing participants at the Camp Wiki: http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Villages.

...

Final Call for Paper Deadline: June 5th 2007, 23:59 CET
It'd be much appreciated if you could send me Guy's info on those 10 slides, when you receive it.

kbeshay@gmail.com

thanks.
Chris Wanstrath had a great presentation on Memcached at railsconf: http://errtheblog.com/post/4872
Palo Alto startup looking for a Lisp hacker
Hm... but do you really "own" a domain name? My understanding that legally all domain names are public property and you can only "lease it" for a period of time.

However, if you can prove that a certain domain name is the name of your business (and you have a legit, valid business running) and a scumbag like this fucker "owns" but does not use your name, you can claim that domain in court. I heard google did this with google.ru in russia: the asshole-domainer who "owned" it got nothing.
Interview with Kevin Rose founder of digg
Interview with Steve Olechowski FeedBurner co-founder
That's scary. BTW, I wish I could try his site without signing up...
Hmm, then I go to sign up and it thinks aaaa+aaaa@gmail.com isn't a valid email address.
I don't really agree with the vitriolic hatred of domainers. They're bottom feeders, but I don't think fair to say it is inherently evil. I've chosen not to do it myself for the same reason I'm not an SEO guy. It's unpredictable, a time sink, and it'd be hard for me to be proud of the result of my effort. I think it's easier to just create something of value. If you do that your domain name is mostly unimportant.
Our Office 2.0 Experiment
Here's information on cgi programming with C:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/cgic.html

Not many people do cgi programming (especially with C) anymore, but it will teach you a lot about Linux and programming. You will have to get a working web server for one. Configuring Apache on Ubuntu should be a good learning experience. If you can also get a working database server such as PostgreSQL (my preference) or MySQL working with your website, you will know the basics for building a real web-based application.
Thanks Kyro.
Funny, I remember someone on Slashdot calling him this shortly after Art of the Start came out.
which site are you referring to?
1) found/read
2) promoterforce
Can you give a quantitative degree to which someone should be driven to count as "super driven"? I think I'm driven, but possibly just "very driven" or "pretty driven".
There's certainly a lot of interest and activity around entrepreneurship at Berkeley. This URL gives a sense of some of what's happening here: http://cet.berkeley.edu/curriculum.htm
Well, the original article was quite Java-vs-Python-y to start with.

Anyway, I wasn't arguing; just pointing out the fact in case you were interested. I wasn't even aware that there was any type of jpg support in the standard Python library.
Don't you all think that we are seeing (softly speaking) too many companies whith 100% ad-sponsored business plans? Let's not forget that advertizement market consists of (surprise!) dollars that someone (users, maybe?) need to spend on something real.

And there is only finite percentage of $$$ that Canon (for instance) is willing to share with you for each digital camera sold.

Unless someone shows me digits from reputable source that suggest an unbelievable growth of advertizement market...
Anybody go to Webinnovators Boston?
It was great..350+ people. Didn't see any YC folks though :-(
Google TechTalk:  Our Lives, Our Facebooks
One Person Startup  5 to 10 million a year revenues.
the promoterforce
I think you can infer it. There are studies on people who have to work for long periods in isolated environments (and high stress), to those in isolation that aren't working.

When it comes down to it, we don't do well alone.

If you want to have word play and add additions like.. I'm alone and a startup, but I have a fantastic group of individuals I surround myself with...or I have a family that really cares. That's not really alone is it?

I don't see many isolated entrepreneurs that stay alone and never give up the control--and grow. How would you hire and instill passion? How would you not have a motley crew of cog creators?

Having a partner, or general support, is the groundwork for a network. A network is what allows us all to play, create, and grow.
"About five months on, during which time I had spent no more than 1 to 2 hours per week working on PromoterForbce while at my day job" probably not the wisest thing to publicly admit to if your in the midst of a legal battle over who owns your IP
Why does Google think Infogami will harm my computer?
not to worry, we have not yet launched the beta so by signing up you get an invite when we open it up, which is still about 1-2 months away.

I think the text is a bit mis-leading and will change it right away, but alas, when the beta opens you will still have to sign up to use it.
Great article in many ways but i nearly fell off my chair when i saw the photos of the team at Redpoint.......that was scary.
better to be honest, especially these days with all the monitoring and tracking of web usage on corporate networks.
Pandora Goes Mobile, and Sonos, and More
Apparently Google is now detecting potential malware when it indexes pages, and then warning users. Is there really malware on Infogami?
The alternative is how Australia's commercial domain names are issued. You must have a registered business name in Australia before you can get mycompany.com.au. I'd rather the easy simple .com method any day.
Also what's with the devaluing of the word evil lately? We should save evil for the Holocaust, the Gulag's etc. Not waste it on business methods that are just low/tacky.
The thing that bothers me about the article is that CNN makes the practice seem like something that is not even morally questionable at all. I understand remaining neutral or whatever, but they could have at least mentioned new businesses that are trying to get a presence on the web, businesses that have to pay far more than they should just to get a name from someone who is providing no content at all.

The real problem is the idiots out there who actually click on the links on these sites. If not for them, this practice would not be possible.
This guy is providing everybody with a useful service! Bare with me!...

All non-registered domain names are currently sold for the same price, regardless of much value they have to potential buyers. By thinking of and buying say "weddings-central.com" for $10 and then reselling it for $10,000 he's creating valuable domain names that won't be wasted by being sold for less than they are worth.

He's basically a speculator. If he bets wrong he loses money, and he bets right he makes money and provides a useful service.
Cisco is on a "90s style acquisitions spending spree"
Is Aaron in love?
Infogami let's any random person put stuff on their domain, so there's a lot of spam and crap there. Google detected it and now the whole domain is considered unsafe.

I'm guessing some page contains an IE exploit or links to spyware. Links to "credit_card_numbers_generator.exe" here: http://creditcardgenerator.infogami.com
Typical cause-and-effect confusion:

Wrong: If you start early you'll be successful.

Right: If you have what it takes to be successful you start early.

That is to say that people who are born with intelligence, entrepreneurial skills, and passion for business generally feel the urge to build businesses from their teen years and act on it the first chance they get.

If you have had that urge from an early age then you've probably already tried a few times. Not all startups succeed, so keep trying. Your age doesn't matter.

If not, then you're probably just excited because of all the recent hype and dreams of becoming rich. If that's the case, and you don't feel the passion then do yourself a favor and keep your day job.
You can't actually click through Google's warning either http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://infogami.com/ that's going to hurt traffic.
Oddly enough, this was enough publicity for me to set up an Infogami site. Probably not the best publicity for the general molasses though.

This might totally be a mistake, but Google is looking more and more like a big obnoxious uncaring hollow shell of its former self if there ever was one every day. This doesn't exactly help bolster my impression of Google.
I'd like the slides/info, thanks. toisanji _AT_ hotmail.com
It's sort of like what happens when you leave a house abandoned.
The True Story Behind PlentyOfFish.com -- Straight From The Horse's Mouth
the CTO is Michael Kassoff ~ "... previously worked as a Web architect for govWorks.com ..."
"The site became popular in Canada and, later, in the U.S. Mr. Frind says he doesn't know exactly why."

He's being dishonest here, but if that journalist was worth anything they'd have discovered he's an SEO guy:

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/how-i-started-an-empire/
"because it's the interface that we are stuck with & have to work with" is blatantly wrong. You can use anything you want to manipulate images; don't feel bound to using the standard Java Image class. To my knowledge, there's no standard python image class, so there's not even a comparison here.

As to your other points, I'm not sure why you assume copying code leads to that code being bloated or unclean. Bad assumption. Personal preference on the latter point, though it's pretty easy to find open sourced libraries.
That's a pretty pessimistic view of code copying. I don't know why there'd inherently be bugs in a decently simple chunk of code. And we're not talking about a huge system, so whether you catch bug fixes is irrelevant.

Code copying is pretty much a standard thing. I don't know why everyone's hating on it so much. The Ruby on Rails community has pretty much built itself on code copying...
Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
Oh my, is this where Steve Pavlina got started? Interesting.
was that the site from Startup.com ?
Infogami's, unfortunately, full of spam. That probably has something to do with that.
'... was that the site from Startup.com ? ...' ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com

yes, but not a co-founder, probably promoted. The great thing to see is the original founders (Herman & Tuzman) doing another company (together) ~ http://www.jumptv.com ... though checking through the company structure there is no co-CEO this time.

It was only yesterday ( http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=23787 ) that I found 'Ben Casnocha' started a company that ... '... Comcate, went on to become the leading provider of software that enables citizens to communicate with their local governments ...' (Stephen Silberman, Education (and Misadventures) of a Next-Generation Leader and Mensch ~ http://tinyurl.com/2ju3nl )
Peter Drucker echoes this sentiment in "The Effective Executive" when he says that one of the realities the executive must learn to deal with is the fact that he is "within the organization" (In this case Silicon Valley). I totally agree.
My Very Productive Day without Internet
Please send those slides if you can to joefec@gmail.com. Thanks so much!

Joe
oh, I get it now, Guy Kawasaki, Garage Tech investments. Took me a while for that to sink in.
are you funded? How to plan on paying a salary?
Thanks, of course I am interested. I went through the Python tutorial a few years ago, but dismissed the language afterwards (also because I didn't like the API documentation). Now I am wondering if that was a mistake...
I wonder why Aaron did that? If it was me I would have kept Google Adsense on Infogami and tried to make a living out of maintaining and improving it.
can you give me the name fo teh toronto company - might have some work for them. udai00 (at) gmail.com
I wonder if it negatively affects your page rank if such a page links to you? Meaning will Google just ignore the link, or will it have a negative weight? I hope they just ignore it, otherwise it would be too easy to harm the competition.
Just google it
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html
Um .... PG was not right :)
(Reply deleted: redundant.)
For some reason, worrying about the Google dance to drive folks to your site seems like not the coolest way to build a product.
"Unless someone shows me digits from reputable source that suggest an unbelievable growth of advertizement market..." (sic)

Have you been watching Google's quarterly earnings?
Or, at least, what motivates you to bring this up now?

From the title, one would expect you had some experience to share.
Sounds interesting.

Was it you alone, too, in your previous startups? All of them? Any of them?

Do you believe being alone is one major reason why it's growing faster than ever? The main reason? Why or why not?

Sorry for the interrogation and TIA!
not found? mirror?
If you believe SEO created any major site i've got a bridge to sell you. 100 uniques a day from SEO gives you 20 signups a day. How do you get from 20 signups a day to millions of users using seo?
Really? What aspect of it is unappealing? Personally, if I were to go the startup route, I would feel pretty successful if I had a salary of ~$6M a year. I imagine you would too.

So, you object to his SEO work. Why is SEO any different than opening up a restaurant at a particularly busy intersection? Seriously, I'm curious why SEO is not the coolest way to build a product.
Because SEO is not a product. The way most people (including Markus) do it it's all about gaming the system, tricking users, and generally being very scammy/spammy with your site. SEO requires a ton of work too, and you could take that same energy and put it into actually creating something new and valuable. If you do it well the world is richer and so are you.
Digg is mostly about SEO. They get something like 50% of their traffic from Google. Same with Wikipedia. Those are examples of where SEO can be win for everyone, good content that ranks high because of well structured pages and relevant content.

How much is that bridge and where is it located?
How do the click through numbers work out nowadays. Peopleradar.com had 1m pv/day assuming 1% click-through at 50c per click works out to... $5k per day. That sounds like a lot of money, are my figures way off?
Competing with Adsense/Adwords
http://www.crmfusion.com/
You know what I hate? When someone deletes a blog post, Google Reader gets rid of it too. Lame.
Why don't we agree that the exception to the rule that is that it's possible to go it alone and be successful? I can't think of many rational reasons why one would choose to go it alone.
All New Technorati - No Longer Blog-Centric
That's a pretty pessimistic view of code copying. There's real-world experience for you.

I don't know why there'd inherently be bugs in a decently simple chunk of code. There's often bugs, especially if the language or API is unwieldy and getting in the way of expressing the aim. Look at how easy it is to write an incorrect binary search of an array. Then there's common "off by one" or "fence post" errors. And people copy one line to a line below but only change one of the two things that need changing.

And we're not talking about a huge system, so whether you catch bug fixes is irrelevant. Paul's estimating 100 lines. You don't want to have to be detecting bugs, let alone fixing them, in someone elses code of that size if the well-tested, not grabbed off the Internet, library provides a routine to do it for you. If there's a bug in PIL then everyone will get the fix on the next release, not so for a copy-and-paste code.

Code copying is pretty much a standard thing. Yes, there's much wrong with coding practices today.

I don't know why everyone's hating on it so much. We've seen the outcome. We've maintained systems where people were doing this twenty years ago and the problems it caused then are still being created today.

The Ruby on Rails community has pretty much built itself on code copying... Yes. 8-D
Geek Marketing: The Key To Making Money As A Programmer
Why Is That Thing Beeping? A Sound Design Primer
Few web apps appear to consider sound design at all, the only one I've noticed is I'm in like with you. Sound design will become increasingly important for mobile apps.
The next guy who upvotes anything starting with "Paul Graham was right" is going to get his legs broken.

Ok, not really (just saw the Sopranos on dvd last night), but let's not turn this into a dumb fan boy site.

There are tons of those already.
He went to Arrington's house for "burgers and beers"... well, that's how it started.
What data leads you to the conclusion that a seismic shift is taking place? I imagine it is a very big step for a company to trust a web service with their data (I can't really bring myself to do it, and I am not even a company). There is also the issue of reliability - Google probably won't go away over night, but any other web application provider just might. How do you continue to operate your business then?
i don't see it, where is the value add?
Domain names vs real estate
really interesting thought.

read/write/web had something similar to this idea, about an open source ad serving solution. if 62% of their advertising revenue is coming from 3rd party advertisers, and they're really taking 40-60% of revenues, i see great potential for someone (microsoft, yahoo, start up with a lot of press) to take over.

one quick idea is to state the portion you are taking, much like how e-bay lists how much they are taking from listings. and give publishers statistics on the types of ads served, and click through rates. you could really empower content creators this way.

i would be really interested in this type of project. the first thing i think would be to develop a contextual ad server, and eliminates click fraud. any other takers?
And there doesn't seem to be a Google cache of this either.
Is there a way to include sound without resorting to Java or Flash?
Don't waste your time clicking on the link.
Guy Kawasaki: Nude No More (Fun look at the Threadless Offices)
Well, bad ideas are worthless.