skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How much is my domain worth?
Hello all,
I own a domain, which we'll call johndoe.co.uk, which I've owned for a long time and no longer use. A company, which we'll call Alan Smith Homes, has been using johndoehs.co.uk in lieu of my domain. I regularly receive confidential email intended for them, signed up by both their own employees and external parties.

This week, I received a signup to a premium web service, which had my email on. I was concerned about my username/password being compromised (but I was sure I wasn't in the Gawker dump...), did a password reset, then found out that the account is probably for one of these people as well.

John Doe is doing quite well, and has offices around the country now, and appears to be coveted winning awards in their business sector. I would like to sell the domain to them, but they have only ever offered to take control of the domain and offer me back email addresses I want! This time, it seems like things might move along, but I doubt they have a realistic expectation of its value. I think the domain is pretty valuable to their business, and would put a higher valuation than I am sure they have on it.

How much do you think a domain to a non-IT company, but well-trading company, where misaddressed confidential email is fairly common, is worth?
What is worse is those bosses who do not know anything about what is going on in their companies, are getting bonuses off the performances of the workers doing task that they their bosses has no clue they are doing for them. Seems backwards
Maybe this'll help.

Look how dysfunctional people can be, and how hard it is for an individual to change his behaviour.

Now, why are we surprised that it's hard to change a group's behaviour?

I.e. if you're frustrated with the slow pace of change at work, try to inventory some of your own pathologies and see how long they've gone un-fixed.

Note: this is not a shut-up-until-you-make-yourself-perfect message. It's more like "holy shit, I've been saying I'll lose 10 pounds for like 10 years now". Organizations are like that, but worse.
Hey, drop me a note and I'll be happy to send you some figures.
not going to lie. I'm going to use this service based on name alone.
It is very easy to click on the ad as the page refreshes the different sized text blocks - could this be what ultimately your design has been optimised for?
In this case wc is not that different though:

summary: 3 80 512
original: 3 123 761

EDIT: format.
I've tried using OS X as my primary desktop machine several times over the years but always end up back with my old friend desktop Linux (Arch). Its not as pretty but, for me its home and I like a place that lets me be myself.
it's just saying that money+loans IGNORING DEBTS instead of subtracting debts can be a multiple of money. if in addition to adding loans u also subtract debts then you'll find nothing happened.
This.

(PS sorry I accidently downvoted when I was trying to click up vote. Hard to hit the right arrow on Android phone.)
Science journalism could solve this problem if they just provided a goddamned citation to the relevant paper or talks. We're not asking for them to print nothing but transcripts. I'm tired of having to poke people's and institution's names into google with a couple of likely keywords and hoping for the best.
In support of that consensus view: I found that running Android 2.2 with HTC Sense on my Droid Incredible caused it to be noticeably less responsive than running a stock 2.2 rom (without HTC Sense), even though I wasn't using any of the Sense widgets/applications.
This is quite interesting; never thought of giving map readers a visual clue to whether a street is a throughway or not...

But this is just for visual representation, and I think the shading is a little too drastic. There were some examples of some pretty long streets that were almost invisible.

Another interesting catch by a very interesting website!
US begins sophisticated wireless jamming project
NetBeans Windows 7 integration module
SevenBeans is a NetBeans module that makes our IDE way more productive on Windows 7. Now you can pin NetBeans to the taskbar. Quickly access recent projects, see progress and status directly on the taskbar button.
Along similar lines, it's unfair to get pictures professionally taken, or to use cologne or makeup. Sorry, mating has always been an arms race to some extent, and that's not going to change.
If you want an HTML equivalent for RSS, there's hAtom:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
I grew up in Asia (up until my high school year). Back then, my generation were influenced heavily by western culture: basketball, hip-hop, R&B, rap, pop, boy-band, baseball, pizza, steaks, computers.

Many of my friends went to study abroad (mostly US and UK) and hope to settle as long as they can like my uncle and aunt who had done the same thing 20 years ago.

About 2 years ago, I saw a change in tide where most of my friends (or friends of friends) were going back home. Most of them prefer to go back home because they would get a better job, which is normal for western educated young worker.

I went back home twice since 2009 and traveled in SE Asia a bit. I see why people wanted to go back: it's not just the job, it's the culture, the networks, friends, family. The whole package.

It's easy to "connect" with people who have big businesses there. Often you meet them in odd places like noodle shops, outdoor markets, food courts.

Night life is definitely better. By night-life I mean strolling down the Clarke Quay in Singapore, eat dinner outside style food court in Jakarta, or wandering around Ginza in Tokyo, enjoy Seafood in Jimbaran (Bali) mostly with your husband/wife and kids. Not necessarily means clubbing or bar. Thus better here is relative.

After a while, the fried chicken and the filet mignon became dry and tasteless to my wife and I. We've decided to pursue ways to go back to Asia starting this year. We'll see if we can go back there soon enough before our retirement (plan was to go back to retire).
Meh. A lot of evil fuckups also depend on unreasonable men.
Yes. I had seen that led cube instructable a few times, but the complete redesign of the instructables page design is where the real interest is in this page. No ads, all of the pictures and step links and the top. Simple, accessible and usable.
here in Switzerland, most Cinemas still show the movies in their original languages plus subtitles. That's perfect. I don't mind the subtitles at all in case of english movies and I'm really dependent on them in all other cases (French, Spanish, Japanese mostly)

I'm talking about the home video offerings (DVDs, Apple's iTunes store) which often only provide the dubbed versions.

Same goes for games by the way, but there, thankfully, there's Steam which actually allows me to play the games in the original language.
Indeed, people are here seeking karma for its own sake. That's the problem.

It's also the reason why every single techcrunch article get submitted here. There was a time where you'd see maybe one TC article a week come through, usually with discussion as to whether it was really worth being here.

Realistically, maybe half a dozen articles per day are high enough quality to even be submitted here. The fact that we're seeing thousands each day is a sign that standards have fallen drastically. Removing the incentive to post things unless they're really good would go a long way toward improving the signal to noise ratio.
Tablet Overkill? 80 to Launch at CES
Same in China. All major banks require IE (6 in most cases. though 8 works most of the time), in addition to some stupid security USB keys that you have to insert into your machine to prove it's really you. Oh, of coz the drivers only works in Windows. Even Windows in virtual machines sometimes have trouble with these devices. You have to use a native Windows.

Another reason is the proliferation of pirated copies of Windows.

Life is extremely hard for Linux users. Less so for OS X, but occasionally you still need to dual boot.
There used to be a demo floating around where someone had hacked this together with the firefox nightlies' support for the orientation sensor that allowed to your drive the kart by tilting your device. It worked for macbook as well as smartphones. Unfortunately the page is now down :( http://dougt.org/random/orientationdemo/index.xhtml

In lieu of that, I present to you something much more interesting: A complete step-by-step guide to writing your own fully functioning gameboy emulator in javascript+html5 (without sound.) It's really easy to follow even if you know nothing at all about emulators.

http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript:-The-C...
At one time, I thought that outbound links actually drained your PageRank juice. I also seem to recall IBM research coming up with an algorithm that ranked sites as either authorities or hubs, and gave a different kind of positive ranking to sites that did a good job of being hubs for a given search term or terms.
Netbook. Goes everywhere with me.
Potential IPO Candidates for 2011 in Boston
> and researching on more stuff that I can do in IT

And as we all know, there are absolutely no adverts to do with that.
%php -r 'print(2.225073858502011e-308+0);print("\n");'
2.225073858502E-308
%uname -a
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%php -v
PHP 5.3.3 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Oct 17 2010 13:41:11)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with Suhosin v0.9.32.1, Copyright (c) 2007-2010, by SektionEins GmbH
Many articles have been making it to the main page that aren't really worth reading. To avoid those I scan the comments first and then read the article.

Scanning the comments also gives me some additional background on topics I may not be familiar with.
What would be interesting about that? there are hundreds of people in that list.
This Is the Dream Time
British police turn to Facebook adverts to ask for help with murder case
How to Pick the Perfect Brand Name
See -- it works!

I shouldn't gloat, as you seem to post interesting articles and comments, but I couldn't pass up this object lesson.

Rhetoric > Reason for the foreseeable future. It's okay. Just accept it, use it, and you can still make the world a better place.

Or ... fail to accept this fact and let reality break you and make you unhappy and/or ineffective.
I wonder how many people would switch to Linux if Textmate suddenly became Linux only.
> It would stand to reason that since the cerebral cortex
> is the home of our higher-thinking abilities ...

Not only that, but the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is one particular cortical region that has become enlarged in humans with respect to other great apes. PFC is generally implicated in "higher" reasoning, metacognition, and other executive functions. It's possible that cro-magnon brains were larger but that additional volume was allocated to other functions (balance or smell, for example) and that they still had smaller frontal lobes.
Is that really true though? If Company XYZ is your biggest support contract, they'll have influence over you, wouldn't they?
I find it too distracting to use OS X. I can't even pinpoint why, but my eyes seem to wander and I can't focus as well. I don't have this problem with Linux.

I think this might partly be related to Gnome being more simplistic.
I'm seeing a lot of cases where someone writes a small post to their site and posts it as a story (or even a comment!) on HN just to get publicity for the site. So it might not always be purely for karma.

Though I'm pretty new here, so this might be 'normal'.
I use Thunderbird and find that spam comes in waves. I'll get a smattering of spam emails in my inbox, flag them as such, and the number tapers toward zero. Then, a month or two later, another smattering will appear, after the spammers realize the filters have adapted and change the composition of their spam emails.
UPC team presents a system for analyzing information on WikiLeaks
Porn purveyors target 13,000 more Does in P2P lawsuits
The answer to your question is how much they are will pay.

Also you're in a curious position because if they have filed a Trademark on their name (in US at least not sure about UK) they can file a trademark dispute.

If you came to me and said you were squating on my TM I'd start legal procedures.

Now if they don't have a TM ... Maybe convince them to do a profit share if this new domain rockets them to new search levels. Exact domains have a much higher SEO value. So in truth it could be a win for them. I'd reach out to who ever does their SEO and let he/she be your advocate.
Cool, but I'm not convinced that the deciding factor is whether the street is "dead end" or not vs. it just being a really minor street. There's at least one dead end street in the examples that is pretty thick: https://skitch.com/kadavy/r8iie/41latitude-google-maps-doesn...
1,760 PlayStation 3s form new supercomputer
The images in the front page are beautiful even if they don't seem to be related at all with the service. The text below it feels like its floating, maybe a white background like the image and the form on the right?

Besides that, the service seems pretty good. Don't know how much need there is for this though.
That would be Kleinberg's HITS algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm
It's worse. Most of the time the companies buy these locked in software, then the vendor goes AWOL and nobody can fix the mess, so they just try to stick to it until it horribly fails.

IE6 still has extended support with XP, but in a few years things will be very bleak for some of these companies.

But it's not all bad, some enterprises have a modicum of reason, solve the problem and at least try to avoid getting in the same mess again. At least that's the trend I perceive.
The Creators Project: Intel Showcasing Young Artists
I had intended to post this as a response to this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057052. Unfortunately, it took me too long to find it, so I decided to post it as a link.

This is one of many posts where Robin makes the point that eventually the higher reproducing sub-groups of the population will become the majority and Malthusian limits will begin to press again. Even if we become uploads in Matrioshka brains, eventually we will press the limits of available resources. Technology and the demographic transition have moved the limits much further back, but they are still there.

Here is a trilogy of posts, the first two by Carl Shulman, the third a response by Robin, that further explores the issue with brain emulations:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/brain-emulation.html

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/suppose-that-ro.html

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/when-life-is-ch.html
California: A $20 reporting fee and a statement of information are required 90 days after formation and then every two years. An annual $800 LLC tax is due 75 days after formation and every year thereafter. There is a minimum annual fee of $865 if the LLC's net income exceeds $250,000.

Nevada: A $125 fee and an Initial List of Managers and Members are due 30 days after formation. The annual report filing fee is $125. There is no state income tax or franchise tax.

Delaware: There is an annual LLC tax of $200 due each June 1, beginning the year following formation. There is no state income tax.

New York: Every LLC must publish notice of its formation in two newspapers in the county in which it was created. In some areas, the fees for this publication can run up to $2,000. The company must then submit a certificate of this publication to the state, together with a $50 filing fee. For LLCs that choose to be treated as a partnership, there are annual fees that increase based on the number of members the company has (from a minimum of $325 to a maximum of $10,000).

http://www.legalzoom.com/llc-faq/llc-operating-costs.html
Me too, I contributed to help him continue what he'd started, since I liked the results. If you try to change what's working, it most likely will not end up better off...
5,000 GBP each over 13 weeks for 6% of the biz. 13 February 2011 deadline. Acceptance of single founders "highly improbable". Programme starts: 26 April 2011.
Some of the author's points fall under the "not what I'm used to" category or aren't Ubuntu's responsibility, but some are just lack of polish.

Lack of polish

* Screen hot-plugging (probably driver related)
* Scrolling
* Panel juggling for screen switching
* Sleep (varies depending on hardware)
* Workspace overlap/windows over-size
* Backup - depends on whether you think backup is an OS' responsibility

"Not what I'm used to"/Not Ubuntu's responsibility

* No Aperture
* Skype is old - Skype's fault
* Backup
* JDownloader
Apparently he likes Clojure - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-finger.html
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1547943

'How Groupon bought thier domain' - should be of help/interest.
Does this mean the Europeans are smarter? Can't be ...
this exchange should probably be part of their marketing to nerds.
BNFC: language-agnostic parser generator generator
Energy isn't free.

Well, at least not yet.
Your comment made me think of a scheme where a post automatically incurs a tiny negative karma, which can be compensated and exceeded by the karma awarded by the community. Right now we do not have any dis-incentive for posting noise. It will make posters think twice.

However karma has to be made a float as opposed to an integer. I am curious, do downvoters get a tiny hit for downvoting ?
Transhumanism as simplified humanism
Look at the arrows.
Fair point; I think a lot of the US carrier customisations have been detrimental. What I was getting at in the original post was that we're going to see a lot of things running Android that we didn't expect, and that aren't on Google's roadmap. Avoiding the BizDev tax by replacing some of the Google proprietary apps will come too.
For all I know, this is already going on in Asia.
I mostly agree with your post. I did think he pointed out two legitimate issues with Ubuntu right now though:

1. panel stuff jumping around when the screen size changes (I think progress has been made here in GNOME recently).

2. flakey suspend. I run Ubuntu on all my computers. It works perfect on my HP 550 laptop, and my desktop. On my netbook and other laptops, it has issues.
For UK laws see my link above, interesting - and not what I would have thought.
One possible problem for a 3 month programme is that most property rental in the UK is for a minimum of 6 months, and in Cambridge, will eat most of that £5k. They do say, however, that "We will team you up with someone who will help you find somewhere to live during the programme."
Actually I'm in favour of a free market for kidneys. Some folks have two kidneys and need money. Some folks have no kidneys and plenty of money. We shouldn't forbid them from figuring this one out.
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Once T.O. isn't a great player, who's gonna put up with him? No one.

Clear example of this: Brett Favre. Skipping training camp by pretending to retire each year was fine if he could still put in a good season of football. Having failed to do that this year, he has nowhere to go but out.
This looks much more like a regular CDN than discrimatory packet handling.
Google developing NFC payment system
if you're dealing with lots of data from the Media Providers right on the phone, and you've worked for months on optimizing how to retrieve, cache, massage and display this data on lists, and you're still not getting a decent frame rate when scrolling through List Views you care about posts like these.

Never ocurred to me that GPU would help. I also come from a server programming background and hearing that GPU acceleration on the UI could help is like breathing fresh air.

There's several other more complex things you can deal with if you're writing apps that bring some actual value to the user, other than doing stupid web clients on android. It's not all waiting for data on a socket.
Wire up an interface so you can control it from a lights desk and you could charge 5 or 6 times that.
I don't know... 99% of the really thin streets in the examples do seem to be "dead end" streets. I think you just found an error (which wouldn't surprise me, given how many minor errors I've found on Google Maps in the past year).
"2. Learn one or two words of a new (or old) language, translate a phrase:"

I wish more people did this. You'd amazed at what you could learn with such a small effort.
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More information (from 6 months ago):

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3899/amd-reveals-first-fusion-...

Interesting to note that the performance part has the same 18W TDP as the ULV core i3, but the intel part's cpu probably turns in twice the performance. AMD's GPU will perform better, but probably not better than the sandy bridge gpu.
>Selling all your possessions to donate the proceeds to a poor family only gets you so far

Actually, done well, it goes quite far. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11950843

I still agree with your sentiments, of course.
Funnily enough, there WAS a way to blacklist/remove sites in the SearchWiki feature ! Could you bring this back, Google ? Pretty pleeeeeeese :))
Pushing emulated console multiplayer through TCP/IP is problematic because consoles and their games are written to expect very low latency because they are meant to be directly connected. I know ZSNES can do TCP/IP multiplayer, but it is impossible on the gameboy/GBA.

This is because communication down the gameboy link cables is two-way and highly timing-sensitive, whereas any lag in controller signals will obviously have no effect on the CPU.

ZNSES multiplayer works through a direct TCP/IP connection, having two (or four depending on how you look at it) HTTP server-roundtrips and node.js in between the two players may create unacceptable latency.

Also: good luck writing a SNES emulator in the browser. The only fully accurate one, written in pure C, still requires a top of the range video card and a dual core machine to run with 100% accuracy. (http://byuu.org/bsnes) Even in 'performance' mode I still get slowdown on my late 2008 macbook. This is emphatically not the fault of the developer.
Unfortunately english doesn't have a gender-neutral pronoun

Yes it does: "they".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Ask HN: How would you teach an 8 year old programming?
Hi there. I'm currently investigating home / alternative schooling and I thought what I would do as an experiment is to teach my 8 year old son a bit about programming. This is not me experimenting on my 8 year old - he is really interested in learning it :) I am wondering if you would share your thoughts and ideas on the best way to teach him?
http://latower.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/CV-Gilles-Rupp...
couple of questions.

1) what are the 8 sources? and what is the criteria you use to display the ads that drive people to your site. for example, for Google adwords do you use keywords? if so what are they?

2) Can you give us an idea of the kind of users you get per day? I just checked your Alexa stats and it confuses me as my own website is ranked higher but I don't make ANY money from my Google adsense :-)
Why Quora is a Dead Man Walking
In my anecdotal experience, even my non-technical friends with Android phones know they have Android. I think you're right about them not caring about FLOSS ideals, but you may be underestimating Android's brand awareness.
The big hairy ass vision for my new startup
A more interesting statistic here would be to compare these metrics with those of a more neutral demographic more representative of mainstream internet traffic since readers of AVC are going to be significantly more adept at something like RSS than say, a tmz.com reader.
If you'd said in advance that I had to do that before replying, then sure you'd have a point. You can't apply the condition after, I can't give you a DVD for free and then demand payment after you've watched it if there wasn't a prior agreement.