skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
www.penny-arcade.com doesn't seem to have been slowed down by the hyphen.

And I've been going to M-W.com for dictionary lookup for years until they got a better domain name.

Also, why not get both? Brand it with the hyphen name but have the other one redirect.
What they always seem to miss on these pay what you want sites is a display of the average price people are paying. For example, I don't remember In Rainbows ever listing what the average price people were paying was.

If they showed a price that moved up or down with the herd, I bet you'd get more people paying that price or more, especially if you removed all the zeros from the average :)
Awesome Jason!! I really love your interest in helping people..
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Hyphen is death. Have you ever typed in a hyphen? Unless you're getting all your traffic from search then it may be fine.

Imagine users telling each other in person. Then the person almost always will forget to add the "dash" when they type it in.

Id say keep coming up with names for go with the 4 syllables.
i consider him wildly successful, and every time i have reached out to him with a question or comment he has responded. i can't say those things about many others.
No-one's forcing you to use Quora, Quora's goal is to maintain high-quality and one of the strategies that they're using to do that is require people use their real name. It's a perfectly legitimate strategy.
Yeah, it's all pretty sparse right now. There's a bit more information here: http://octavore.com/about

I make a little off of each book that gets sold, although I don't really expect the website to make much, it's really just a fun side project for me.
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Congrats Daniel, sometime would like to know about the backend rewrite
In Portugal he could have gone to any newsagent (there are still 1,000´s) got a SIM card and have access to the internet for a euro a day.
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Would you mind elaborating on that? Staying at a Hackerhouse is relatively inexpensive(~550/mo). Food? ~700. Cali Taxes are, of course very high, but I don't see how SF is less expensive than Boston/NYC. Then again you could get by with $2k/month in SF but it's a question of how the quality of your life would be.
I'm a contractor who just quit my fulltime client (the 9-5 "job") to bootstrap my startup as well; I live in North County San Diego. I only have ~3 months in the bank, but with two part-time clients, I pay all my monthly bills, with the rest of my time going into my startup and I live a block from the beach in the middle of a coastal downtown area.

Life is good :) Take the plunge. PM me if you wind up moving down here, would love to get coffee.
http://twitter.com/robotwisdom has some results from the show, don't know how he was able to see it already.
We actually talked about this today in our team since we are trying to find a good name for the new company we are about to form. We decided against hyphens mostly because we thought it's 'just not cool'.

There are other things to consider. If you spell out your domain name over the phone, a not-so-techie person might not know what to do when you say 'hyphen' (as in spell it out or use "-").

Besides, since the word 'hyphen' is usually only used when you spell out the domain (it's not actually part of the company name) people will probably forget about it.
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Aren't you sort of... eating your seed corn by doing that?
There's also a difference between trusting various bits and pieces of your data to exist on a variety of online services, and trusting a single service to aggregate all of your data from everywhere.

A local version of Greplin would be more interesting to me; I think the Locker project https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker might make that possible someday.
I've found categories very useful; See Alsos and List ofs only go so far. (Most recently, I used them to close a number of predictions about 2010; for example, looking for whether there were any successful terrorist attacks in the US. Hard to google a negative, but looking at a small or empty category is much easier.)
Congratulations on starting out!

I'm 24 as well and working on my own ramen-profitable startup.

This is a good time in your life to risk it all. My suggestion is to try and go for revenue as soon as possible. Even if you just get to making $1-2k a month, you can live on that at this time in your life.
That's so I can find players nearby. The idea being that you see scores of friends in the same bar/room/whatever, as well as the overall top scores.
He grew a company from 4 million in sales to 60 million and has a NY Times Bestselling book. How is that not "wildly successful"? Because he literally isn't Mark Zuckerberg? I can only hope to get to that point so early in life.

He may not have the legendarily technical chops of a Fabrice Bellard or the leadership prowess of Peter Drucker, but he _surely_ knows how to sell things pretty well. I'd say he's the online equivalent of Joe Ades the Gentleman Peeler[1], which is absolutely nothing to sneeze at.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGOjFhKeLiU
America wants to group text. At GroupFlier.com we just reached 1M cumulative texts in 12 weeks. The demand as very broad as we see traffic from just about every age and activity group.
The assumption that those not wishing to disclose a real name have dishonest intentions (and that is what it comes down to), irks me. Personally, I prefer pseudonomity online. But apart from me, let's pick a more famous example or someone who was pseudonomynous online.

Would Quora have allowed _why?
Not only was Daniel (and his co-founder Shai) the youngest in our YC batch, but they built and launched a couple of different startup ideas in the time that the rest of us built a couple of features.

Daniel easily could've packed it up when he lost his cofounder - Shai had to go back to Israel a week or two before Demo Day. Instead, he built a prototype of what would become Greplin (in a week), pitched it to investors at Demo Day, secured funding from Sequoia, and is riding a rocketship.

When PG and YC say that they invest first and foremost in founders, this is a perfect example of what they're talking about. Every startup hits a rough-patch, and some even look like they have no hope at all, but the best founders persevere against crazy odds and will themselves to succeed.
Facebook have exactly the same policy. They have an automate filter which they run names through and if it doesn't pass they require some form of id.
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I didn't hear any languages mentioned. If it was only stock footage, they did a good job making up source code.
Good call. Just substitute Robert Conrad in a corsair with a youthful version of Edward Olmos in a viper.
As the admin of the forum of my own website, I understand the Quora admin's wariness for "oddly-named" users (definition of which is highly subjective, BTW). However, in my opinion, one is innocent until proven guilty ... so unless they provide proof that they are spammers, as admin I don't think I should do anything. But of course I'm sure Quora would have this covered in their Terms of Service details. As we can see, the result is bad PR and the site gives a very unfriendly image.
I think this was the original value proposition behind Twitter. I would say the only reason people were originally interested in it was that it could enable SMS broadcast.

The main thing SMS has going for it is ubiquity. Too bad it is so expensive for some people - there needs to be a replacement technology whose price is in line with the costs of delivery.
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Of course. Being written in another language doesn't affect notability; it just means in practice, foreign sources aren't as desirable as native ones. (They are harder to find, harder to understand, harder for other editors to verify, etc., and naturally you will see less of them at any time.)
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That first one is HUGE, and I'm glad it's being called out. Call it the Blackberry effect, but the fact is that emails have a tone just like any spoken sentence. Taking the extra 15 seconds to treat the recipient like a human instead of a machine makes a world of difference.
This reminds me of McLuhan's thesis on technology: for each advance, something is effectively lost.

That said, I recommend the author bring a paper book along whenever he travels.
There is also GitHub's gollum [1] . It's also uses git as storage. Gollum supports a lot of formats for page content and some of these formats have a good support in Vim.

[1] https://github.com/github/gollum
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I would love to know what their stack looks like and if they re using any open source libs especially what they re using for indexing and search.
Same thing happened to me. I figured it was cause I'm Asian and it was being racist, but I guess not.

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Hey, Boa sorte !

I like thousands here am planning to do the same but with Rails.
Your Idea seams nice and the site already looks good.
Would be if you post info about the site, when it happens so we can follow.

Cya later !
That's the RFC it follows, yes. I found out about the regex here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

The author does say you shouldn't use it -- it's a crazy regular expression after all -- but it IS the RFC :D
The rub for women in computer science is that the dominant computer science culture does not venerate balance or multiple interests. Instead, the singular and obsessive interest in computing that is common among men is assumed to be the road to success in computing.

I no way see this as men or cs specific. It is to me very specific to any extreme performance. Let me rephrase it:

The rub for new entrants in X is that the dominant X culture does not venerate balance or multiple interests. Instead, the singular and obsessive interest in X that is common among X practitioners is assumed to be the road to success in computing.

Extreme tennis players, think kids drilled from a young age to be champions, read Andre Agasi's bio, have exactly the same attitude.

As do piano prodigy's. Any group performing at an extreme has this, because it is TRUE! To be in the top 0.1% you have to devote your life to it, you won't have balance!

Do medical students, those headed towards surgery have balance in their lives? Incidentally, surgery is another one of those male dominated professions.

So please, stop making this about either men or cs, it is not.
This type of post doesn't really work with the HN format -- not sure what the alternative would be, other than a /whoshiring url or something. If someone posts a job to a week-old post, no one sees it unless it's on the front page.
Ask HN: Looking for ideas...
I've always wanted to build something interesting (web apps are okay, but something more towards research/number crunching/cloud computing would be better), but ideas are always a stumbling block. I just can't seem to find some good idea to work on. Usually what ideas I do get have already been done by someone else.

What would you guys do in this situation? Where do you get your ideas from?
Exactly, the majority of what our minds are concerned with is evolutionary baggage derived from natural selection.
That's a straw man argument.

The assumption is that some people will contribute lower quality content if using a pseudonym than if using their real name. Yes there are people who will contribute high quality content only under pseudonym, and losing them is the price Quora will have to pay.

You can of course contribute anonymously to Quora.
I'd like to see Watson as a web service.
i generally agree with the headline, but the article doesn't backup the headline very well.
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I think you are missing the point of my question. I do not have a problem with the removal of the word "killer" from the title. It was more or less a tongue in cheek tactic to attract attention. I (and I would think most HN readers) do not actually believe that this DIY bot would "kill" Anybot. The problem I was trying to pointing out is that someone went around the normal democratic system (up/down votes) HN provides to moderate signal to noise. I can understand in extremely offensive cases there would be a need for admin to step beyond the normal democratic system and lock/remove/edit a thread. But do you honestly and without the slightest reservations believe that this is such extreme case? If so what is the problem that you see with my suggested alternative, where I am first asked to edit the title myself before it is forcefully changed without any warning or explanation? Additionally, do you think removing my editing privilege to prevent further changes is really necessary? Finally, what is your opinion on the idea of free speech, where anyone can say anything about anything without the fear of someone coming to forcefully change/censor their words?
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Until a dev accidentally deletes the deleted-table. (This happened to en once back in 2005 or 2006, I was told, and apparently for a long time deleted images weren't even held onto; hope you didn't want to restore anything from back then.)
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Some of the main pieces of our stack include Lucene, Twisted, and Tornado. We're looking to do some more work with Hadoop and HBase coming up too.
Partner up with someone like me :)

At any given time I have between 3-4 ideas that are ready for some type of development, and probably another 2-3 that need some refining before they would be worth considering for development.

If you want something to work on (of course if it interests you), shoot me a message and we can work something out.
Somewhat understandable.
Most passports that use different alphabets also tend to have romanized names on them to prevent this type of thing at immigration points.... do you think US Banks and tellers accept names in kana or kanji, cyrillic, greek, arabic, etc?
This came up on another thread a while back, but Psygnosis still officially has the awesomest logo of all time.
Ask HN: good places to find developers in Canada?
We're looking to hire developers in Canada (anywhere, they can work from home). What are some good places (job boards, mailing lists, etc.) to start looking at?
Why do you say this? I haven't seen anything that leads to believe that it's the case.
This seems to have the same problem that mail relays have; you just try setting your caller ID to every phone number, and then you can spam people in a way that looks like it's LetsLunch spamming them.
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Today LG announced their New tablet LG Optimus Pad with dual core processor and Dual camera for 3D video recording. Now LG has released promo Video of Optimus Pad. What’s so special about the promo video is not the features which LG has highlights in the video but the promo video shows gameplay of mock Street fighter game in which LG Optimus Pad guy kicks Steve Jobs (APad with the name) kicks in the face. This promo Video will definitely create some sort of anger in Steve Jobs Fans.
I am currently doing a similar sort of website, but trying to limit it to popular projects only. Also trying to group together a lot of the python 3 related articles and porting tips.

My current research can be found here: http://goo.gl/SCImr

Any corrections, or ideas for what can be on the site would be appreciated.
Really excited to see what comes of this.
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Mmm. They could try it; but the only shows for which it would be easy to try it would be those for which they own the copyright. I don't know whether that would be a representative sample.
Watch out for leanwebsites.com launching by Feb 22nd to address the "ideas" problem.
"The above code uses an IIFE (Immediately-invoked function expression) to produce a function with additional data"

I'm probably being a mindless pedant, but...

Having read the linked (Alman) article, I think this terminology is iffy at best. This is just a closure. You are using a second function to create a lexical scoping, but a closure without lexical scope is just an anonymous function. (Full name of a closure being a lexical closure).

If JavaScript had a 'let' construct to allow for lexical scoping without creating anonymous functions, this would be fairly easy to see.

But I think adding new terminology such as 'IFFE' obscures what a closure actually is.
People do it for "free" prOn sites all the time for "age" verification purposes. If the perceived value is there, then people will do it.
As a startup founder I gain a lot of value out of Quora, whereas for many things before I would have gone to the AskHN archive now I go to Quora.

For example the discussions of many business models on Quora are unsurpassed in quality anywhere else on the web.
Staying at your parents' house might be free ($0/mo). Food? I think $700's a high quote, even for SF, but you can save quite a bit eating at home in Bumblefuck, Alabama relative to San Fran. Most people don't live in Boston and NYC, either.

I'm not talking about stretching living expenses from 6 months to 8 months - I'm talking about stretching them to 24 months.
I didn't know 3 posts is a little ridiculous
I'm honestly curious as to your motivation; what made you think that nominating Alice ML and Nemerle for deletion would make the world a better place? Do you think those articles existing made it harder to find other more useful content? Do you think they were unreasonable attempts by fans of the languages to use Wikipedia for self-promotion? Regardless of the letter of the policy, what made you think this was a good thing to do?
It involved a lot of interesting work, including porting all the infrastructure from PHP to Python and Java.

We were shooting to make the whole system less tightly coupled so that, for example, the machine fetching my GMail data, the machine indexing the data, and the machine displaying the front-end website are all able to survive and do work if any of the others are down.

This allows us to scale horizontally just for our current bottleneck, and to be more robust against individual machine or external service failures.
Additionally, it helps us build in much deeper security since each piece of our infrastructure has a small and well defined purpose.
Its the concept for my ycombinator application for this funding round. Let them know
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PBS is basically "owned" by the corporations that advertise now in front of every show. Congress keeps cutting back their funding and viewer donations are a fraction of their operating budget.

In a few tiny ways their low budget is a good thing, ie. PBS Newshour doesn't have the insane stupid graphics/animations/toys that mainstream news does.

But in almost every other way their low budget in ruining the experience now.
That sounds like a really inefficient way to spam people. You might as well send text messages to random numbers directly.
I'll definitely keep a lookout, thanks.
A mergist! You guys still exist? (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mergism)

But seriously, merging into a list can be a very bad idea when you're dealing with a deletionist. Because 'notability isn't inherited', the list is no more notable than any of its items. Theoretically, you can also claim notability if RSs discuss the list (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Notability... ), but I've never seen this successfully done - what source will discuss 'List of animals in The Simpsons'? How do you show they are discussing your list without engaging in OR? It's basically impossible.

So a list just makes life much easier for the deletionist - one easy target to AfD rather than 20 or 30. (This happened to me recently with [[Neon Genesis Evangelion glossary]]. The nominator would have taken months or years to chew through each entry if they hadn't been merged, with any luck burned out before the end, and I might have been able to save individual articles.)
You can probably get a spec-sheet for their proprietary materials if you ask. You might have to reverse-engineer cartridges with security features though.

The Fab@Home guys are trying out various different materials, since their syringe-based extruder allows more flexibility than the RepRap.

http://fabathome.org/wiki/index.php/Fab%40Home:Materials

As far as cheap materials go, it doesn't get much cheaper than garbage plastic.

http://reprap.org/wiki/Recycler
Right, and how many Windows NT apps were there for MIPS and PPC? If Developers still have too much trouble creating "universal" apps, your port is effectively dead. Outside of x86 and Alpha, NT was never used.
Best of luck to you. We are a bootstrapped startup here in the SF Bay Area. It is true that living expenses in this area can be higher, however the opportunities you would get is also better, IMHO. From what people who live in SF the city told me, food is actually cheaper than the suburban cities.
Once you are here, start networking (you can start by looking for suitable meetup groups in the meetup site) because in general people are very willing to help.
Once again, good luck.
Try "HNWIKS".
My first name is "Judge" and it gets dropped as a title every once in a while. I had a credit card issued with my middle initial as my first name. When I called to have it changed to my real name they insisted that documentation be provided to prove it. My immediate response was to cancel the credit card because creating a new account had a lower barrier to entry than correcting information in an existing account. Likewise, this was a "megacorp" bank.
There's a lot of improvements in 3, but I'm sad to say I'm really hung up on print (and that's why I'm still using 2.x).

Eventually, I guess. If I have to.
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> You can probably get a spec-sheet for their proprietary materials if you ask.

Or you could just go here (this is my old startup): http://marketplace.cloudfab.com/fab_facts (click through for every datasheet on every machine and material)
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Same here. Although I'm doing a slightly different thing, I'd still love to chat. Perhaps I can offer some input as well.
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Wonder why he writes his column in Word, I can think of no tangible benefit. In fact writing in Word on a Mac is really annoying because you get no spell check access.
Wait a second. How are they paying for all those texts to be sent out if the service is free? If they are using twilio or something similar, the costs are 2c per SMS.

Are they managing to send out the SMS for free somehow??
SPOILER Link to final score for those of us who are curious, but not curious enough to watch:

http://twitter.com/robotwisdom/status/37200070742904832
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ok so I made this quick hack..would love to get some feedback...
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Thanks for the offer, I'll be emailing soon
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