skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you care to elaborate?

Would putting some links to our profiles on things like Twitter and LinkedIn help add credibility?
Of course it's not legally binding. He's making an analogy.
Show 2 columns, separate the orange and the blue, so I don't have to look at the unavailable.
Energizer's Inductive Charger Charges Cellphones Wirelessly
I'm going to go ahead and guess that you didn't read the entire article. You can disagree with what I say, but it's anything but a rant.
I like how it searches synonyms and homophones. One thing you might add is plurals.
Febbario e Carnevale. Le tappe per divertirsi - Blog Top Sites
Online degree programs: Top Reasons for Studying Online
The IRS Targets Income Tricks
It won't work.

The scam artists and the spammers will learn how to spoof their IP address. Or, just start using VPNs and proxies. It doesn't matter to them as they will find a way around, precisely because their livelihood depends on it.

On the other hand, the genuine users will be the one who suffer. They simply won't have the inclination to spend their entire time trying to engage in subterfuge against your "defenses". They'll throw their hands up. Grumble a bit. Say fuck you for a while and just give up in sheer hopelessness.

At the end this won't punish the sp/cammers. You'll end up targeting whose only crime is honesty. I don't think that's what you want.

There's a saying where I live that sums this up; "locks only exist for the innocent".
Exactly, but there should be an easier syntax that declaring a lambda for each algorithm I want to map over.
Only if they want clari.net or bassi.net, I guess?
Delegate or die: the self-employed trap
We are pluralising nouns only - but the selection of nouns is limited by our grammar db. It should have been around 4th/5th result, depending on the number of search words.

Have you got the example and we can look into it?
New Indie Facebook game to challenge Zyngas dominance
Agree. It makes reading the comments much less fluid, and adds N (nr of pages) more decisions to reading them.
Actually, there is a lot of talk of the problems, and little talk about solutions. I have a potential solution:

Local whitelisting companies. Paypal and all other payment providers partner with local companies who claim that will pre-screen people who want to use paypal. These companies then use whatever methods they want (visiting the homes, checking bank accounts, escrow) to verify that the people will be valid paypal customers.

Paypal then does not need to verify thousands of people, it just needs to trust this company, and if the company fails a few times, it's replaced and pays some kind of penalty.

Also, amounts can be limited to some value that the verification company holds in escrow for paypal. Something that moves the burden of verification to people who are aware of how things work locally.
Probably Google's version of YUI, or Closure.
A story something like this - except I managed to finish it and get paid my measly pittance - is what earned me EIC in 2004 and drove me from the software development industry entirely, as I recognized at that point that I had no business pretending to be a business.
Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey
So then what's to say the Stack Exchange platform doesn't just expand to all other areas of life. I'd bet more on SE being more predominant on the web then Quora, since their platform already is modelled this way. It's owner actually said this is the success of such QA websites - create them in "verticals". (don't have the quote, but remember reading it somewhere)
It's much more than that. When people use a CDN for their applications, they want to be 100% (or 1000% if that were possible) sure that the CDN will not be compromised. They also want to be sure that the people running the CDN do not have nefarious intentions. They also want 100% uptime. They also want the CDN to stick around as long as their web app is around.

That's why CDN's from Microsoft, Google, and the official jQuery CDN's are trusted (and will inevitably be trusted) more than this one.

As awesome as this is, I'd quite honestly rather host my JS myself than use it. Once Google adds more libraries, I may use their CDN.

EDIT: I don't mean to come off too harsh, but a lot of people don't use CDN's altogether because of the potential for downtime. Combine that with a not-globally-recognized brand and it may not work too well.
The Genius Dilemma
Looks good. I really have some problems with Apple's Terminal - using the arrow keys often leads to a corrupted display. For instance, run curl on a long URL, hit up to edit the command and run it again - I end up with the output of the previous command in front of my cursor, or the line floating out in space - it's hard to describe, but something is wrong. Coming from Linux, it's hard to accept that there's only one terminal and it isn't any good! I think I'll use this one all the time now.
> It's a small minority, probably similar to the number of Americans sending spam emails.

Do you have any data to verify your claims?
I'm not a lawyer, either, but these are all excellent, excellent points. There's an underlying point:

0. Get an explicit agreement up front about what you're doing.

Without that, you're sunk.
Wonder what this is going to be. User-friendly encrypted, onionized music-sharing a la oneswarm? http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/
The article "Git from the bottom up" has also helped me understand git. http://www.newartisans.com/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up.ht...
I hate to pile on, but please revert this change. It also makes HN feel too much like reddit.
It's good work. Coming up with a name is the hardest part.

It would be nice to have simple filters like no hyphens in name and domain length limit. Also, some way of separating unavailable domains will be great.
Pretty sure there's already plenty of self-serving questions - there's lots of questions asking what [startup] does, or what platform [startup] uses for their trivially small traffic.

Eg what is quora built on... with 3000 visitors a day their technical decisions are untested, unscaled, and uninteresting.

http://www.quora.com/What-languages-and-frameworks-were-used...
Sure, the word 'tool' doesn't yield any result with 'tools'.
No, I left the server intact with work that was completed on the last day that they paid me, if they pay me the remaining amounts, then I will release the completed codebase to them.

Now that I think about it; I think the site build was initiated after that date so I could have just deleted it, maybe that would have been a better action, but anger and the heat of the moment can cause you to lose your cool.
Great point.

Trust has to be earned. The goal of this website is to decrease the barrier of entry for people wanting to try out some cool new libraries and/or jQuery plugins on their site, so we aren't really targeting the upper end of the market.

Having said that, we have been using this for all of our personal and business endeavors, so it will be around for the foreseeable future.
Talk with other angels, validate your idea and mode and take the money.
You'll always have time to pivot and change the plan later.
If it scares you, it's normal. Keep the percentage around 10-15% and don't give governance rights.
And if you fail, try again.
Clicking on more feel like I going out of discussion.
Agreed. But if you want to go digital, Remember the Milk works fairly well for me, and just printing out my tasks works wonders too.
A lot of true stuff in there, but I don't see a single "way" to bootstrap your startup.
A "why bootstrap" title would have been a bit better, this one is pretty misleading for me.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the spam that's showing up at the bottom of comments lately?
Boeing says 'immature' technology behind 787 delay
I hate to say it, but the site isn't loading for me.
What could be this immature technology which causes a 3 year delay? Anyone has an insight?
We can add a sort by domain length - you will get a completely different sequence of results. At the moment it is sorted by top n results from each algorithm (eight algos so far).

Hyphens - there is only ever one result.

Separating the unavailable - second person who asked - Renualdo is working on this as I type. (now I must go back to fixing the plurals)
Just recalled the famous Calvin Coolidge quote:

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
I was thinking of having a show/hide taken domains checkbox above the list and/or a site-wide preference if you never, ever want to see the taken ones.

The idea of showing the taken ones is that they might be close to expiring and valuable to you somehow.
Rethinking Innovation
I think the problem is it's not enough like reddit - reddit makes it really easy to get past long comment threads and load more comments.

Edit: I might be biased having used reddit for so long though, it's definitely an interface I'm heavily accustomed to. Reddit's collapsing + loading strategy is something I like a lot and really miss here.
When I first got back into the CPAN game last year, uploading my first module in years, it failed testing first off, and Andreas emailed me to tell me not only that it had failed, but why.

I'll give up Perl when I'm dead - and even then, CPAN will carry on my name unto eternity.
I had too, at a time, and it was because of a flakey ATA controller (some VIA-based shitty mobo). Don't throw the baby with the bath water :)
The fact that he chose #3 just shows his arrogance. Look at how he took the stand and completely turned off everyone in the courtroom. He thought he was smarter than the people working against him. He thought he'd win.
Qwiktard: A term in the future for clowns who grok a qwiki page in a desperate attempt to appear smart by spewing facts in the exact same sequence as a qwikvid they watched the same morning...
yeah, legal action really aint an option, not sure about the UK courts either as the contract was signed in Thailand.
How You Should Kill Your Online Failure
Ask HN: Do you think it'd be a good idea to fold comment threads?
Lately I've found myself following deep threads of a discussion more and more distracting and/or derailing a conversation. I think folding threads out-of-sight could really improve the readability of the comments section.

What do you think?
I am using the Dayta app on my iPhone for this purpose. It is working. Here is what I do.

1. Find a small habit to change. (Example: get more sleep).

2. Find a time/place in my daily routine where this new habit will go. ("Immediately after awakening").

3. Think (this might be easy or hard) to quantify a change in this habit. "Lose weight" is easy to quantify. "Be happy" is not. (Easy to quantify sleep, and I round to the nearest quarter hour and I'm not OCD about accuracy. I'm "grenade" accurate).

4. Set it up in Dayta to measure the action daily.

5. Look at the little graph that Dayta generates.

My experience is that I have fewer of the 5 hour sleep nights and more of the 7 hour sleep nights.

I have added "weight loss" to the morning routine successfully.

The next one I added was $ spent at Starbucks. This one cut my coffee spending dramatically. Good for me, not so good for Starbucks.

Now I've added "Hours spent writing" with a target of 1 per day. This one is not so successful (yet) because I haven't found a time to park this habit.

Before this I used a Google spreadsheet and created an icon on my iPhone for the data entry. This was simple, inelegant, and worked like a champ.

Credits:

1. The idea for finding a place to park your change in habit during your daily routine came from an article I read somewhere about a Stanford psych prof (I think) who talked about this being a key to effecting changes.

2. The idea for small changes being successful was from the same source.

3. The idea for starting with a very small set of changes in the daily checklist/routine came from Sebastian Marshall (thanks @lionhearted).

4. The idea for using a Google Spreadsheet with (effectively) a roll-your-own mini web app on the iPhone came from Mr. Google somewhere.

5. The idea of trying hard to not think Brilliant Thoughts but instead accept that other people might have good ideas and I should be humble enough to accept them gratefully came from a friend who is now deceased.
Philosophy, Drama, Applied Math, Russian Literature, a spoken language, Travel/Exchange programs. All those have helped me immensely in addition to a computer science curriculum.
> The app was selected as "New and notable" by Apple for the Swedish App Store, and my goal of 150 sales in three months was reached in less than one week.

That's the key point. Making it onto one of Apple's lists is the real moneymaker here.
"... modem examples like Martin Luther King or Ghandi"

For sure they were great communicators. But ... ;)
If it doesn't work for you right now, you can go to: http://122.201.100.216/~cdnjs/

For some reason, the main site is taking ages to propagate to some DNS servers.

You're probably covered by one of the servers with an (x) here: http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/cdnjs.com

This doesn't actually affect the CDN side, which hosts the scripts.

EDIT:

For example:

http://ajax.cdnjs.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/0.3.3/backbone-m...

http://ajax.cdnjs.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.1.4/undersco...

http://ajax.cdnjs.com/ajax/libs/modernizr/1.6/modernizr-1.6....
yeah, its cheap for most, but when you have a work permit and a company setup so that you are operating legally within Thailand it can become expensive paying yearly company taxes and fees.

I have had Thai clients ask to see my work permit before and I am very proud to be able to show them it as most foreign freelancers dont have one.
There are lot of user with slow machines in developing nations. They are typically using a pirated copy of windows xp on a slow hardware and since initially microsoft didn't allow upgrade to IE 7 on pirated copies, lot of people moved to firefox. They would certainly enjoy the fast startup time.And considering that lot of such people are there( it was in the news that Ballmer told Hu that 90 percent of China is using pirated windows) it is still a big win for firefox usuability overall.
I'm assuming that they make some sort of music player à la Spotify, but with a P2P-system which makes it harder to find the user-IPs. The technology's been out for some time already, so why not?
Not sure what he's referring to. Might be Closure, which is compiler of javascript that compiles to javascript (just smaller & faster JS)

http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/
Does anyone understand how this service works? It would be nice to have an FAQ page on the website or something...
One of my publishers Morgan Kaufmann sent me a free copy of "Swarm Intelligence" (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation) about ten years ago. A bit interesting but I didn't see any applicability to any work I do for my customers so I didn't really get into it.
What is this, National Perl Appreciation Day or something? This is great!

Useless in practice for me; I write for CPAN, so I have to stay backward-compatible at least to 5.6. But a nice taste of what I'll start doing in 2015 or so.
60% of AOL's Profits Come From Misinformed Customers
Only if you have 'showdead' on. A bigger problem is that the sort does not seem to take the 'dead' status of the poster in to account.
As you are not in the UK, the situation is a little more unusual. Otherwise, I'd file a claim with the Small Claims Court (assuming its within their max amount). Keep all emails, letters, log of commits and so forth.

Here's some advice to start with:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/bargains-and-rip-offs/article.h...

There are also collection agencies that can enforce the ruling.

For larger amounts, it's probably worth going to a lawyer.

Generally a company unless it has severe financial issues may just want to prevent the hassle of going to court, and just pay you what you are owed once the threat of legal action arises.

There is no damage to your reputation for taking a client to court for non-payment. Small businesses have to do this all the time.

However I would NEVER take down any sites, intentionally sabotage software etc. as that may make you liable under law. And, as others have pointed out here, there are two sides to the story, and a court gets to hear both sides.
PG said that the pagination is "To cut load. I'm not sure it helped much though, so I may not keep it."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118936
What startups can learn from racing
Control Your Expectations Without Affecting the Actions
The act of silence is more damaging than actual violence, and in a situation where a response is justified the lack of it inflicts a sense of loss and despair among probable recipients depending upon expectations level.
Does Livestrong.com have a spam content farm hidden behind it?
Why I didn't stick with Perl (although if you did that's OK with me):

- I discovered that a more modern language allowed me to do more with less, more elegantly

- Rails

- metaprogramming

- fun
I do usually skim over the outter-most comments in busy threads. I don't really mind, as it is, though.
I highly doubt it. I suggested a solution to the comment spam to him via email and he said that the spam comments get killed quickly.

For anyone interested, my suggestion to the spam problem was to not make the URLs in a person's comments clickable until they passed a certain karma threshold.

This is almost certainly due to load issues.

Edit: as jpadvo pointed out, Paul has already confirmed that this is to lighten the load on the server. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118936
reddit doesn't paginate.
I really tried to get used to it but I find it completely breaks the way I interact with the site. No way to easily scroll back to other parts of the thread to re-read a passage and so on. Endless back-and-forth in order to get the whole picture of a subject.

I feel that most sites that pull this stunt do not do it to reduce the load but to increase ad views, a problem that HN fortunately does not suffer from.
Or at least consider loading "more" comments on the same page, and not on a new page.
Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow
Note that these whitepapers are just one person's opinion and not some sort of consensus. I am going to pick Varnish over Perlbal any day, for example.
>I think there should be an antithesis to the Dunning–Kruger effect: exceptionally-intelligent people don't achieve their potential, because their ability to see all possible roadblocks kills their confidence.

People shouldn't clamor for fog on the mountains they're going to climb to not get discouraged. They should develop enough self control to accept a challenge with eyes open. Then they know where they're stepping and can plan, as the mountain is in view, instead of shrouded in fog.

I mean, do you do brain research in a startup? I know I've been in my business for 4 years here after taking measured steps for years before that and it worked out fine.
Out of curiosity: what do you mean by a "beautiful UI"? It looks like just every other terminal I've used.
>"how much ecommerce will they generate compared to other markets?"

For a company the size of Paypal, not enough to justify the political risks entailed by entering those markets. But startups are not the size of Paypal. 1% of Nigerians is still 1.6 million people. Paypal can afford to cut out large portions of the world. The company that solves the problem will have an advantage.

Considering the degree to which internet entrepreneurship has been established in Nigeria (even if exploitive), the construction of WACS and its high bandwith connection to Europe, its oil reserves and its native English speaking population, Nigeria has some real strategic advantages.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg
And I can't just open up a bunch of discussion tabs towards the end of work and read them on the train home. Or anyplace else without an Internet connection :(
My biggest worry is that the ignorant individuals could call this "hacking" and initiate proceedings that could make your life very difficult. More to the point, England has shown itself to have some really stupid "hacking" prosecutions in the last decade. I would make sure you haven't opened yourself for such charges.

As it stands, I would not have started the additional work in October without further contract and payment schedules agreed to. If I had not done that, I would have been sending invoices all along and stopped work a lot sooner than 14 weeks.
How is it going to be paid for?
I was sure the change was already reverted since I didn't notice the link in the end and there seemed like a lot of comments on the first page. Oops.
Hacker Shows It Doesn’t Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki
On the off chance someone clicks the More button and reads this, how do you actually do mouseless selection and copy and pasting? The closest I got was the Cmd+F search feature but it doesn't support regex so I can't exactly search for something like "/opt/local.*$" to select an entire path produced by pwd, for instance.
Personally, I'm opposed to any kind of comment hiding because it all affects comments in the same way: People contribute but are ignored because it's always easier to just move on than to keep clicking 'more.'
Actually it does but pages are 500 top level entries long and even more with Reddit Gold.
"So Page—so integral to what makes Google Google that its central PageRank algorithm is named for him—is pushing his way into the CEO job, leaving Schmidt as chairman."

Really? I was always under the impression that PageRank got its name because, you know, it ranked pages. Is there more of a story behind the naming?
Better support for w3m

Currently hacker news answers w3m's post request
with this error message:

Post request without Content-Length.

This prevents w3m users to login into Hacker News.

This issue has also been reported on the arc forum: http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=4419
How Not to Get Snookered by Claims of "Proof" of Copyright Infringement
Folding threads similarly to how they are done on Slashdot.org would indeed be a good idea.

And better than having paginated comments, as noted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2132568
Touchqode: free code editor for Android and (soon) iOS
I miss Reddit's [-] button. It collapses an entire discussion, which allows a 1000-comment discussion thread to be readable: Read the root, read first child, collapse first child, read second child, collapse second child, collapse root, read next comment. You don't need to scroll to read all of the interesting points in a post!

I would just throw Greasemonkey at the problem, but I jump between computers too much! I'd rather see a native solution.
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.cdnjs.com.

Regardless of the reason, doesn't inspire much confidence.

Additionally, one of your links, http://ajax.cdnjs.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/0.3.3/backbone-m... returns an XML "Access Denied" response.

Not a great start ;/
On my laptop, I just scroll through quickly and it isn't a problem. Where this would be useful is on my iPod touch - which often doesn't re-render the contents of the screen when scrolling quickly.
He thinks your valuation is too low. Raise it until he's iffy but still willing.
Voila. Yeah - our grammar db had a really limited list of plurals. Now I just find everything word where a variant exists ending in 's' or 'es' from our everywordevereverever table (not called that).

tl;dr; tool gives tools.
HMMM, i tried it, though it looked a bit crap tbh, but, I'm now addicted, as is my wife, and 3 of the kids ;) great concept, great execution, great game :p Fullscreen mode would be nice ;)