skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I'd spend a few lines in irb and implement two.io for you right here in a comment ;-) Here are the available two letter io names from /usr/share/dict/words, /usr/bin commands, and bash builtins:

ah.io, ay.io, di.io, ea.io, ey.io, fa.io, fc.io, fe.io, fg.io, ha.io, he.io, ju.io, ka.io, oe.io, or.io, ow.io, pu.io, ra.io, te.io, ti.io, tu.io, ut.io, wa.io, wi.io, wu.io, wy.io, ya.io, ym.io, yn.io, yr.io, du.io, ld.io, lp.io, m4.io, nm.io, wc.io

UPDATE: It just struck me that two letter domains might be rather hard to register. I'm looking at the T&Cs now. It is notable how many are marked as being registered in the WHOIS though.

UPDATE 2: Neither of the third party registrars I tried allowed two letter .io domains but the central nic.io does.

UPDATE 3: I visited rb.io (which I wanted ;-)) and found this blog post of just a cpl weeks ago on the same topic: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/two-letter-io-domains-ava...
Watson vs Google
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad Virtualmin is serving you well.
I can rhyme wit dat, I can sing and re-arrange...
legit concern
On the positive side, Steve previously had a rare, treatable form of pancreatic cancer (see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/...). If this is a recurrence of that, and they've caught it in time, then the odds may be significantly better.
Reference for those who don't get it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)#Rhyme
Nice.

Suggestion: lose the windows, lose the pop-up for each task; I found it takes too many clicks.
I was just about to run this test myself (Google seemed to get all the sample questions I threw at it). It seems the author forgot to add "-jeopardy" to his queries but otherwise it seems like a decent test.
I could see this going insanely viral. For monetization, once a song is done do crowd-funded bounties for the best song/music video.
Easy: be a sleazy doctor and market yourself as the go-to guy for tabloid news money quotes.
Urban sql injection
This is none of our damn business.
This idea of a 'Kill Switch' is nonsense. Lieberman is a pussy as he scares easily. Imagine the propaganda people are going to spread, like "the government wants to control us". Actions like this will cause a revolt because of false facts.
I agree with stcredzero. You need some standards if you're going to put yourself out there as a security company. I'm a random chick with some web programming and I know that you should iterative hash or salt your hashes. I also know you shouldn't use the same passwords, and what sql injections attacks are. Hey, maybe I should start a security company!
Languishing? I think its HN at its best.
What factors led to the bursting of the late 90's bubble? - Steve Case
Their business model is vertical search.

That's not a business model in the strict sense -- this guy's asking, "how does Stack Overflow make money?"
You are absolutely correct. I've invested hundreds of dollars into the Kindle platform. If, suddenly, I can't access this content then I will go where the content is. Apple's platform is compelling because content providers have set up shop there. That's the synergy that Apple has seemingly ignored. I can go anywhere for $0.99 fart apps.
Two-letter ones are 'cooler' - we grabbed ep.io a few months back - but the NIC don't allow language or country codes as two letter domains, IIRC. Still, there's plenty left, as petercooper's comment says.
Scott Aaronson is a very good talker, anything else by him in the same vein?
To be fair, Blake Griffin actually IS awesome.
<off topic rant>
what kind of brain dead web department puts geographic redirects from real pages on their .com site to 404 error messages their .com.au site just because the ip address of someone who's interested enough to click a link comes fro. "the wrong country"?

Boggle!

( not that it should surprise me, I recall I ended up deleting popsci from Flipbook for exactly this reason )
Well... I heard about this on Finnish public radio (after reading here). They should know better.
That's not a business model. A business model would be monetizing being a trusted source of information. How do you do that? Google use adverts, Experts Exchange charge admittance, are there other options?
It's pretty rare a NIC allows two letter domains so it might be a general limitation, but they are possible. Either that, or our domain (ep) is just a very persistent hallucination.
BitTorrent is to movies what "bolt-cutters are to stealing bicycles"
The treatment the first time around damages your body an absolutely immense amount, I can't even imagine the toll it must take a second time around. I have an infinite amount of respect for cancer sufferers.
It works quite well, too.
often in text indexing the original document is kept for things like snippet generation.
Cachexia, the loss of muscle mass to the point where it's unlikely you'll recover from it, is unfortunately both common in end-stage cancer patients and pretty obvious. May you never see it in anyone you care about.
Great idea and pretty well done. The homepage + instruction are also pretty straightforward. (I particularly like the logo). Small suggestion: you might want to compress copypasta.credibl.es/javascripts/copypasta.js.
cat /usr/share/dict/* | perl -ne's/io$/.io/ && print lc if length == 6'
Doesn't Facebook already have a search feature?
Have you tried the JRockit JVM? I was benching various optimisations on JRockit and HotSpot, and found array accesses were far less costly in JRockit.
Lawmakers urge FCC to investigate Google
Isn't everything? ;-) Thanks for the heads up. It does seem nic.io will do it but both Moniker and IWantMyName barfed on them.

I'm tempted but I already own "no.gd" (a rather undiscovered TLD if there were one - and they allow 2 letter domains!) and have little enough use for it already..
BitTorrent is to movies what air is to sound.
"Judging from the photos, he is close to terminal. I would say he has six weeks." says critical-care physician Dr. Samuel Jacobson.
Using a 32bit OS? Crashes on my 2006 Core-Duo MBP too.
... no, I'm sort of shocked that's been so covered up. Several of the team members have been at my university giving presentations and talks on Watson (including one of the software engineering practices behind it) and I'm somewhere between shocked and appalled it wasn't mentioned.
It's rap.. Thus English is not a requiement. They'll just invent a NEW word that demeans women, like "whore-ange".
They are trying to force content producers to work exclusively with Apple.

I can up the cost to the end user _as long as I stay only with Apple_. Once I move my product to a second competing device, then it really hurts profit because the price has to stay the same.

Once they become the exclusive provider, then they continue to dominate the market, regardless of what other tablets and operating systems come along.
Why don't you just use Dillo. :P
Great idea...not sure if I would be able to do that like that...but I think you are on to something.
I doubt you will receive severe stalking because you, say, praised Emacs =)

Oh mannnn, you haven't been in a vi/emacs flamewar yet have you?! ;-)

I joke. Or do I..
huertanix--these also happen at other places, if NYC is way out of the way--check out http://musichackday.org to see where it's been in the past.

-dave

VP Product at The Echo Nest, sponsor of Hack Days past and present.
Actually, although he buzzes in mechanically, he gets the "light" signal electronically. That would give him about 100-200 ms advantage over a human nervous system reacting to a visual stimulus.
Another point - I agree that adding customer reviews would be a nice addition, but how about a twist - allow for "trip advisor" style reviews to show off the designer's end product. This niche has a large emotional buying component to it and so a story and pictures would lend itself better than a 5 star system.
$ for domain in `cat /usr/share/dict/* | perl -ne's/io$/.io/ && print lc if length == 6'` ; do whois $domain | grep "\- Available" ; done
Domain "DUR.IO" - Available
Domain "DUS.IO" - Available
Domain "FER.IO" - Available
Domain "GOB.IO" - Available
Domain "IDD.IO" - Available
Domain "KOK.IO" - Available
Domain "NGA.IO" - Available
Domain "PAP.IO" - Available
Domain "SOD.IO" - Available
Domain "TUR.IO" - Available
Domain "DUR.IO" - Available
Domain "DUS.IO" - Available
Domain "FER.IO" - Available
Domain "GOB.IO" - Available
Domain "IDD.IO" - Available
Domain "KOK.IO" - Available
Domain "NGA.IO" - Available
Domain "PAP.IO" - Available
Domain "SOD.IO" - Available
Domain "TUR.IO" - Available
Good suggestion. As well as advertising, affiliate sales could also work well. In both cases the key point is that people looking at invitations will also be looking or other wedding-related services.
That's a great point that hadn't come to mind before. I'm lucky to have an uncommon but not unusual name so it just about works. If my name were more "generic", I would probably take the same route as you.
I am thinking about the guest authors stuff.

First trying to figure out the format of the blog and what it would cover. Love these ideas though.

Keep em coming.

Thanks for the offer. If this is something that we run with, I will be sure to give you a ping and see how you can be involved.

Can you email me a blurb about yourself please - so I can see how it would work? My email address is in my profile.
Now everyone should know, if they didn't before, why Apple is no Microsoft. Apple isn't content to create a platform, they want to own everything. They want a walled garden, they want captive users, they want to be able to demand exorbitant profit margins in perpetuity.

Mostly benign monarchies may seem very attractive at first glance, but over time abuse of power is inevitable and then it's too late.
http://acronym.mmblr.com/

LOL
The beauty of the hoax was that in this situation, fake plan and real, well-intentioned but ill-conceived plan are basically indistinguishable.
Humans on the show don't necessarily have to do voice-recognition either. The text is presented to them on the screen, and I'm sure they can read it faster than Trebek.
one method could be a service for keeping it up after x amount of months/years... make the price point really low like $12/yr billed yearly.

then its a volume game.
It's interesting that this was downvoted while the parent was upvoted. My initial reaction is that people on Hacker News react positively when somebody makes a snarky remark about the PATRIOT Act, but react negatively when told how they can make a difference. Or is there some other explanation?
This articulated a lot of my issues with Apple better than I could. I tend to steer clear of TC, but I think this is the best article I've seen on this issue of the 30% cut.
I agree 100%

Bit torrent is a genuinely useful tool, that happens to be useful for both fully legitimate purposes as well as other uses.

I'd accept some lobby group applying pressure to make bit torrent "illegal" right after they get majority public agreement that cars should be illegal (bank robbers use them to make their escape!) and spray paint (graffiti taggers use it!)
fellat
link is incorrect. It should be www.joinbox.com
"And finally, there’s the related notion that anyone who doesn’t like Apple’s rules can pick up and move to another platform, like Android. Which is ridiculous."

What? Ridiculous how? This claim is ridiculous.

Suck it up and use Android. You'll live. I did.
Joinbox now calling for beta-testers [+ extra Video]
Well, obviously, but implying that it’s all ethernet is simply wrong.
Zwolnij just means "slow" in Polish.

The second frame is telling a particular (valid) polish license plate number to slow down.
I’m sure this post will invite a throng of Apple advocates to poke holes in my logic

...as if that were not transparently the intent of an article entitled "Why are you people defending Apple?"
Wait a second, did anyone else catch this?:

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Quote:
THE OUTCOME

My understanding is that the shows are taped and you obviously know the outcome. You made the recent comment on MSNBC that in order to win you had to play and bet recklessly. Do humans have an advantage in terms of betting (game theory) Your comment seems to be a tell that a human won, any guidance appreciated.
– February 15, 2011 10:59 AM Permalink

A.
KEN JENNINGS :
I would say that Watson has the wagering edge--like you say, it's all game theory and math, and even a cheap PC is pretty good at doing math at high speeds. That said, a human player might be more willing to take risks that Watson is too smart to try. In the practice games I saw, betting big on Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy seemed like the only way to cancel out Watson's big buzzer advantage.

* * * *

HE DIDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION! Is this confirmation that Ken Jennings wins?
DZ Slides: a HTML5 template for presentation
What anti-competitive actions do you refer too? Murder, kidnapping and blackmail are illegal. Price fixing high just leads to higher demand for alternatives. Price fixing low serves the consumer. And Microsoft owns their OS, which is a distribution channel and can exclude any applications they want for any reason (that's their freedom). But, Microsoft can't make you buy anything, all they can do is set a price and pay for the eye-level shelf of their choosen distribution channel.

Freedom means you do what you like with things you own. It does not mean every market should (or will) organize itself so as to maximally benefit you.

As for AT&T: of course. Behind every good monopoly is the government (and then they're protected by law -- and the threats of murder, blackmail and kidnapping for violation).
Ken Jennings is cool. He's a pretty funny guy, too.
The challenge of asset packaging on Heroku
So it's IRC on the web reinvented again? What's the advantage, why not just use an IRC client?
From what I read, Steve had no chemo or radiation -- just an operation to remove the tumor.
Ok, I bolded them, not perfect but it's better.
Yeah, same here. But it did open and stay alive on the third launch, probably some initialization issue.
I wonder how much content will end up simply as web apps and web sites and then it won't matter what platform the end user chooses.

I've changed my focus from iOS to web because of Apple's policies.
"It may be that 20 years from now we’re all laughing about what fools we were for thinking China was such a threat. I don’t believe that the Chinese political system can sustain a really successful economy. There’s going to have to be a political revolution there before they’re competitive with us. But what do I know?"

I think Lewis nails this.
They have lots of traffic, they serve ads, they charge for job listings. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to do the math on that and figure out how they make money.
I thought it would be 8 times faster instead
OK, also check out: http://highscalability.com/

They specialize in the technical side of websites: design is always interesting, and the design process.
Adorable. Some folks on the team were sad that it does not pixellate videos (yet?).
Bobby Tables [1] gets a car.

[1] http://xkcd.com/327/
Here's one I just made using his data: http://imgur.com/TSFYB
All are back up!
Comments all removed.

The parent asked why I defend apple and I laid out my argument. Clearly people cared enough to respond and react. And yet I'm being downvoted for sharing my perspective just because it might be contrarian?

Maybe that's /not/ why I'm being downvoted, but that's what it feels like to me. So no thanks. I'm content to keep my opinions to myself.
Analyst: Cheaper iPhone Would Be a Bonanza for Apple
You should have kept trying. I got .01 second by using your technique. http://i.imgur.com/PG92y.jpg . I recently had to go to a nerve specialist and we talked about the speed of the electrical pulses that go through your body. He told me that it is nowhere near the speed of electricity in wire - more on the order of meters per second, not miles per second.
I'm looking forward to the possibility of Google Maps API integration. I'm referring to DS's claim that "TileMill maps are always projected to ‘Web Mercator’. As the name suggests, this projection is popular with web mapping applications, thus maps created with TileMill can be displayed using the Google Maps API, OpenLayers, and a number of other projects."
I must have misread your original post - reading it again it makes complete sense.
False hopes and vague handwaving concepts have always been suitable vehicles for attracting attention and excitement, if that's all one is looking for.

This "Nokia Plan B" was no different. It didn't offer anything actionable. Remember that the plan's main proposal was:

Return the company to a strategy that seeks high growth and high profit margins through innovation and overwhelmingly superior products with unrivaled user experience.

Is that really an exciting turnaround plan for a company of some 120,000+ employees? The whole plan boiled down to: "Let's keep doing the same thing we've tried unsuccessfully for years, but let's just do it better." Of course, there's always bound to be people who can't let go. (I know someone who bought Nokia shares in early 2000 at more than 10x the current price and is still holding on to them.)
Hey Tracy, congrats on finally launching! You probably don't remember me, but I was hoping to see a YC11 on that app. Anyway, if you ever need any Django advice, feel free to contact me!
Whoops, yeah, there's a .min.js as well, I just didn't point to it.
We need more of his time. Here's hoping the news is wrong...as most likely it is.
A new dimension for mathematics - the Periodic Table of shapes
Nice! There's something called "editz" as well, I've seen a few other tries too. Most of them seemed like kind of a pain for users.
Interesting, the tech press is currently full of doom and gloom about Apple charging a 30% commission on publishers content sales, including many comments about how it'll force Amazon to pull the Kindle reader app, yet here I see the claim that Amazon's charging their publishers more. This article claims Amazon sends publishers (Price - delivery costs) * 70%

(admittedly, since Amazon are delivering some of their content "for free"( to the customer) over 3G, having the publishers pay some of the cost seems fair to ensure bandwidth-heavy publications don't free-ride on easier-to-deliver items)
Second Startup Syndrome
There are quite a few TLDs offering 2-letter domains. These are the ones that can be registered without any restrictions:

.AG .CX .GD .GS .GL .HT .LC .MS .MU .PE .TC .TL .VG

Also see http://iwantmyname.com/short-domain-search
Open sourcing the Moon
Sony has the ability to win an attrition war by pushing frequent patches, unless the modders find a more automated way to conceal an unlocked PS3 on the PSN.
The fee for One Pass is to be 10%. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12489318)
According to cnet[1]: "Correction at 12:04 p.m.: After this story was published, we heard from PBS producer Michael Bicks that it was not, in fact, Watson that crashed during the show's taping. He would like to make clear the following: "I missblogged last night--It was not Watson, but the system that was the interface between Watson and the Jeopardy computer, completely separate from Watson, that crashed during the taping."

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20032244-71.html#ixzz1EAdT...
Politically Corrupt? That is a fairly large blanket statement your throwing out there.
Things like this make me inordinately proud to contribute to open source (in this case Django). Whenever someone launches something I hope that some small part of what I've done made their job of building something cool easier, be it a designer building her first web app, a startup launching their product, or a journalist building a Pulitzer prize winning site.
OpenGL in JAVA - step by step tutorial
Setting up nginx+mysql+ruby on rails+passenger on a Arch Linux VPS
Why does the price have to stay the same between platforms?
While it's funny and mind-opening, the OCR system will probably miss the small punctuation marks such as ' , and ;
Pentagon Red Tape Delayed Iraq’s Life-Saving Lasers
Why would you be impressed. That was after all the entire point of CSS; Different skins on the same html.
I recognize the name, and due to the power of Gmail, found our convo way back in August. ;)

Alas, not YC but that's not the end of the world. I'm sure the YC folks won't be surprised to see me applying again soon. :P
Wow, it's not just that they shut them down, but the US government put a big label on all the sites for all the users to see which basically says it was a child porn site, even though it wasn't, it was all some sort of error and most of the sites were small business sites doing normal ordinary things.

Their customers are going to assume that the government would have done some sort of investigation, got a warrant, there was a trial, etc, so they will believe that the claims are true. Some people might be angry enough that they track down the owners of the site or business and kill them.

What has happened is criminally negligent and outrageously dangerous. But the out of control government is not responsible for any of its actions, therefore these abuses will not only continue, but get worse.
You defend Apple because Apple is good at generating profits for large, entrenched industries at the expense of users? That's an unusual stance.

Also, which industries are you thinking of where the employees do not use some Google service or another every day? Even industries where I hear people constantly cursing Google often get a lot of value from their offerings.
Exactly. It pops on the screen instantly, even if there's a video attached.

A contestant with a bad eyeglass prescription is a goner. Waiting to hear to the clue puts a player at a major disadvantage, especially on really short clues.

However, there is one very notable exception: Eddie Timanus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Timanus#Jeopardy.21
If you are trivia geek like me, you should sign up for his Tuesday Trivia emails..

Send an email to tuesdaytrivia@ken-jennings.com to subscribe...
Just do it. I was a shitty designer when I started, and have only gotten better after much, much, much iteration and many different projects. It isn't quick, but it's the only way.
Apart from some of those examples being incredibly tenuous (personal computing), and the concept of defending companies position on one thing because you like its decisions elsewhere being kinda scary.

But Google has had that impact on the entire web, both by providing visibility and a revenue stream via advertising.
@ simonsarris masz racje, to znaczy "slow". =)

Google translate is great but I didnt cheat, I wrote that myself. (http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|).

I think its interesting that in the beginning I assumed this was an american car/place because the SQL statement is in Eglish but in computer language, the reserved statements are English, even though this car in the picture is from Poland.
I'm not particularly passionate about welding, whereas I derive real pleasure from programming. For myself this enjoyment is sufficiently valuable to more than offset the economic loss. YMMV.
My only hoax fail was the rumor that MS was buying Mahalo..

R Scoble still hates me being taken by such an obvious fake claim as he was calling/email MA of TC and TC even had to put a small note on the TC site about ti being fake.

NokiaPlanB was executed better. Just enough small stuff to believe and something real big that was fake.
So basically you want to hold the trial before any warrants are issued.

Whether civil forfeiture is done by a judge or cop, it involves the justice taking stuff from you without a trial.

This is simply not true. Here's a recent case where the government's claim was rejected and it was ordered to return the seized money to the owner, plus legal costs: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3005668348588117...
Some thoughts on Emacs and Vim
I hope he gets every chance he can, because I hope everyone with a horrible disease gets every chance they can.

And the speculating doctor ought to be ashamed. "First do no harm" doesn't specifically exclude reputations or privacy.