skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My initial startup was a CMS product in 1999.

At the time, there were few players, and few open source products. We were able to charge from $25,000 to well over $200,000 per implementation. We even had one contract for over a million to do a custom version of our codebase. And we were a bit player at the time who didn't even survive the dotcom crash.

Fast forward to today -- There are so many CMS products that you don't need to pay for them at all, and even if you do pay, they are not expensive.

Which is to say that these guys deserve a heck of a lot of credit. They are making it work for them in a very crowded space, solving problems that I had written off as solved.

Good work.
Whoa, with no ill thought towards the AirBnB guys, I need to say that their service must not be very popular with women. While backpacking with a small group in Europe, the biggest obstacle to staying in some hostels was the discomfort amongst the women. First and foremost thing on their mind, was security and safety. How does a service like AirBnB attempt, if at all try, to fix this issue ?
Is YouTube the significant part of the web you are referring to? Are you sure search boxes in sites really require you to find YouTube videos?
I've attempted to stay at an AirBnB several times. It definitely feels like a niche market. I use it because I think it's cheaper. But, people on AirBnB(the ones that seem safe) seem to charge regular hotel rates that I end up choosing a hostel instead.

Occasionally you find some hidden treasures and friends of mine have reported having an entire apartment to themselves in NYC for a fraction of the cost of a hotel.
How much you offering?
when released, data.gov was the largest RDF triple store in the world #funfact
Is Facebook a Fad?
I see that most of the folks here are choosing to discuss the morality of this video; some are electing to defend, and some showing disapproval.

What I'm finding odd about these reactions is that, viewing other people's reactions (outside of the delicate shell of opinion here), the clear conclusion is that this is a PR disaster. From the Twitter search alone, in the last 2-3 minutes, my feed has gone up easily hundreds of entries, all of them agreeing about their distaste for this event.

Isn't that where the real knowledge is, here? Whether or not you agree that this was a bad decision, it undeniably harms the brand in what could be a catastrophic way.
Here you go:

https://github.com/NateStedman/morrowind

Will upload the vim one later after I finish it up.
The "Second Internet" sounds suspiciously like "Web 2.0".
Although it is presented as a sealed bid/blind bid auction - when you submit your bid the following page seems to indicate the current minimum bid - which at the moment is $56.

Nevertheless I think this charity bid model is a great use for the grubwith.us system.
Good typo catch, yeah. :)

The product was BinNavi (http://www.zynamics.com/binnavi.html) which sold for (I believe) roughly 3000 Euro per license despite being really terrible for the first two years of its existence.

The only competition was IDA Pro (http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/), the standard tool for binary code security researchers, but BinNavi aspired to be much more than IDA Pro and our customer was aware of our vision and bought many licenses to support us.
You know, I've got a bike shed that doesn't look the best. What color do you reckon we should paint it?
Microsoft files antitrust complaint against Google
Godaddy sucks and has for... ever. I've been with Namecheap and I'd recommend them any day.
A Decline in American Entrepreneurship
If you have time read the very small book "Getting to Yes". It teaches you how to negotiate. I took negotiotaing while getting my MBA and this was our text.

My advice to you is to come in high. IF you come in at current salary plus 20%, that doesnt leave much room to get more than 20% (this also depends on your salary). Create what is called a "BATNA". Basically your best alternative. Always keep that in mind. So you come in high and start to slowly work your way down heading towards the point when you walk away from the offer. My guess is that point is below your current salary. Aim high and keep your numbers consistent when you decrease. Goodluck.
Vimeo all the way! Simple to use, looks great, comes up well in natural search results.

http://vimeo.com/plus
How To Steal Like An Artist
While this AirBnB exchange definitely wigs me out a little, I've had enough friends in the corporate hotel business to know that there are weirdos and creeps everywhere. That's not to say that hotels are as unsafe as AirBnB, but I do think there is a false sense of security that comes with them. People are people.

I have never used AirBnB, but my husband and I booked a place in San Francisco for May. We were picky about who we selected, and the person renting the guesthouse is a local restauranteur who seems like a real person on Google. I am stoked about the neighborhood and price. For me, it's worth the risk. I really don't like staying in hotels (noise, lack of cleanliness, annoying patrons), and I'm willing to take a gamble on anything that could be a sustainable alternative.
It would be nice to have a script that would start with this as a base, but let you tune the contrast. I like the theme, but would like more contrast than this (I use small fonts, and I really feel like more contrast is necessary when doing so).
There are multiple distinct issues. But they're all about Google specifically blocking MS to provide competition via their monopoly position.

If Google wants to give up some of their marketshare, I'm sure no one will complain. But when you have monopoly status, you are required to play by different rules. MS knows something about that (for example almost everything MS did in the antitrust case would be legal of a company w/o the market influence they had).
That's also the case for sort. If you often sort huge ASCII files, doing it in LC_ALL=C is a huge win.
This is 6 years old. In the meantime I dont think this cross fertilization has gone very far.
I see what you're saying, but to me syntax isn't a bikeshedding issue. And I did preface my comment with 'I hate to sound extremely petty'.
So far about 50% of the rooms I've tried to book on AirBNB turned out to be "not available", even though they were listed as available on the site. It's the fault of flaky hosts but these people aren't being screened effectively at present.
As an update that gives me even less confidence in the system.

Imagine you started using paypal when it first came out, got ripped off and then paypal messaged you saying 'hey, next time try using someone with a higher rating'.

All it shows is that they've got no handle on vetting and by the sound of it absolutely no clue how they're going to start dealing with it either.

The other messages here saying contact 5-10 people first to weed the wackos, jeezus, AirBnB is actually starting to sound dangerous.
A purpose other than "my boss wants his name on a language." Once you identify a specific type of problem that is not solved by today's programming langauges, you have the basis to go create a new language. Maybe you find that it's hard to express some AI concept, or complex math, or to make easy web applications---each of those needs led to very good programming langauges.

Otherwise you're just adding language clutter, re-inventing the wheel, and wasting a lot of time.
What's the pseudo-science blurb?
Agreed, but some of the sites are set to lose funding in a few weeks amid a febrile political atmosphere. My understanding is that the main expense areas are hosting/infrastructural overhead, developer salaries, and normal office/administrative overhead which is a fact of life in DC.

The pessimist in me thinks that keeping the inner workings of government in a state of murky obscurity furthers the interests of some more cynical politicians.
> Well its hard to get better when you have a monopolist using their monopoly weight to keep customers from using your product or other content that you have a monopoly on.

Excuse me but wasn't the default browser and default search engine selection mechanisms something Microsoft was forced to adopt (and dragged its feet for as long as they could to do it, in fact, insulting the EU in the process)? I mean... They were perfectly willing to abuse their desktop OS monopoly to push Google and Mozilla out on a regular basis. Now they are shocked by this "blatant" abuse?

Google should not be able to restrict what site owners do with their search boxes or ad spaces. Google should also not prevent Microsoft from indexing its content but I maintain this is not what's happening.

The only reason Microsoft is complaining is to create a bunch of news headlines with "Google" and "Monopoly" in them. When I open a page in YouTube, there is a lot of data there and Bing would be quite effective if it indexed that. Are they suggesting Google sends different content when the crawl comes from Microsoft servers? Let them show it.

Microsoft is the definitive authority on monopoly abuse, but allow me not to take their word for it without proof.
I've no idea why but the AirBnB model really doesn't appeal to me, for concerns that follow this issue. I fear ending up at some crazy person's home who will treat me like this home owner did - but in person when I'm kind of trapped at their house.

Having grown up in an expensive city to visit (London) I can see the attraction for AirBnB in cities like London, NYC and SF but I would still take a carefully researched price negotiated/discounted hotel room over staying on someone's couch who I didn't know.
Brainfuck on Rails
After months of development I'm proud to present to the Brainfuck community the first MVC web framework.

(from the github documentation)

# Brainfuck on Rails

Brainfuck on Rails (BoR) is a production-ready port of the popular ruby framework [Ruby on Rails](https://github.com/rails/rails).

## Usage

To use BoR you just need to:

git clone git://github.com/masylum/Brainfuck-on-Rails.git

Then download your favourite Brainfuck compiler/interpreter. I recommend the ones writted in Brainfuck itself. They perform better and you don't need to learn another language to check the source.

## Why Brainfuck?

The main reason of porting RoR to Brainfuck was obviously that BF scales out-of-the-box.

Did you know that Facebook's "poke" is implemented using BF?

## Performance

BoR performance is awesome. It runs thousands of events loops that allow you to execute millions of parallel asynchronous expresions.

The footprint of the framework is almost inexistant. It just needs 20MB of memory. You can even run the framework on the cheap amazon machines!

## Convention over configuration

BoR doesn't need any configuration. We took the best decisions for you. If you don't agree, feel free to fork the project, but I will ignore your pull-requests, bitch.

## Tests

Something that really annoyed me of RoR was _testing_...BDD, TDD, cucumbers, rats... are your serious? We sent a man to the moon with fucking prehistoric computers and we still have to test our web applications?

BoR doesn't need tests, the framework doesn't let you shoot your foot giving you always detailed error messages on compile time.
You need to decipher the code using the Hungarian language not English. The only set of words in the entire two pages that could be translated to a meaningful English phrase is on the first line of page 2 (NOTES) The words are "SE ERTE", which means "I do not understand" in Hungarian. It is not unusual for people that speak foreign languages to intermix languages. In this case however, its placement on the first line of the "NOTES" page seems to be a "Key" to solving or "Understanding" the crypto.
Blogger Dynamic View
Avoid Cheap Essays at All Costs
Buying essays is normal practice when students cannot cope with the stress of writing them. As money is always an issue when it comes to purchasing anything, students will opt to buy cheap essays. This should be avoided at all cost. Read on to find out why.
GrubWithUs for charity. I like this idea. I once had breakfast with the entire Detroit Red Wings team when I was a kid. What a fun charity event that was.

I'm also curious as to how much these particular plates will end up going for considering all of the corporate cards out there held by CEOs who probably wouldn't mind schmoozing with Sequoia.
A good tip: If you find yourself screwed at the last minute because of that (or you're just in a tight spot and really need a place for the night) try the standby list feature that they have. I've tried this twice, once in Boston and once in NY and within 15 minutes the replies come pouring in, often at a discounted rate by people who want to fill their rooms for the same night.
For us, book as soon as you know you want it. We've had people book several months in advance and we make sure to honor them (the "worst" that happened is that somebody got the whole house to themselves for the last few days of their stay while we were in France).

I would just ask what the check in procedure is. If they are on top if it then they will have one. Also, again, look at the reviews. If someone has had a dozen guests who liked it enough to review then you know that they are serious about it, and canceling on a guest would completely ruin the reputation of someone like that.

We would only cancel on a guest if we physically could not host them (room was on fire, etc).
I am not keen on these April 1st jokes being posted on HN and it's going to get annoying with all these "true or not true" stories (especially when some truth is added to false articles). I can understand such articles making it to the frontpage of Reddit or Digg and even on Twitter but please discourage this activity from HN.

In fact HN, should do an April Fools celebration of allowing everyone to down-vote every article that is an April Fools joke.
Host the video file on Amazon S3 and then use something like JWPlayer to show the video on your website.
The monotones have symmetric CIELAB lightness differences, so switching from dark to light mode retains the same perceived contrast in brightness between each value. Each mode is equally readable. The accent colors are based off specific colorwheel relations and subsequently translated to CIELAB to ensure perceptual uniformity in terms of lightness. The hues themselves, as with the monotone ab values, have been adjusted within a small range to achieve the most pleasing combination of colors.

Blurby enough? ;-)
Right, what I mean is basically anything useful for people doing software-based startups. If it allows me to preserve the illusion that I'm being productive, I count it.
An explanation of Color from Bill Nguyen
I took that more as a "reserve" price to make sure Tres Agaves has their costs covered. I didn't expect it to go up as the bidding commenced. I could be wrong though.
I want to host at some point and would really be interested if you would write a small piece on your experiences hosting, and what the best practices are regarding leaving your stuff in the apartment / safety / dealing with issues etc etc?
> With Word and Excel you could always save to RTF, TXT, or CSV.

Good luck with your formulas in CSV...

> Getting the data out is easy. You could do that with any version of Word/Excel.

Ken... I have had problems with different releases of Office (PC and Mac) importing Office documents... It was never easy. It wasn't even very predictable.
You left out No, I don't.

I'll agree it has lessons worth learning, but I don't like the negativity, it makes me feel negative. I don't need that.
Ask HN: Hacker career change
Long time lurker.

Of late I've come to realize that I should have done computer science. I didn't, and studied engineering instead: now I find myself in a (good & hard to get) post-university industrial career, but ultimately uninspired and dissatisfied. I by no means hate what I'm doing, but I can feel my inner hacker bursting to get out frequently (e.g. today as I tinkered around with some VBA at work i enjoyed—pathetically—the most satisfying part of the week so far!)

I have a semi-relevant background, in that alongside engineering in university I did a lot of freelance (frontend) web design, and developed a real passion for UX, design, typography, etc. I am also very numerate and have a basic grounding in programming (C, Matlab, Basic). My dream would be to be involved with a web app startup.

The long awaited question is: how best to proceed? Should I learn Python or Ruby and brush up on my front end design again, and attempt a few small projects in my non-work time? Should I quit my job tomorrow and go back to university for computer science? Can the hacker ethic find a home outside computers? Are faraway hills always greener?
This reminds me of the old saying regarding prices on luxury goods: If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
It seems like the title of this post doesn't quite agree with the example given. The company started charging for their version 1, but they already had a not-insignificant user base of 1000 people that seemed to like the product. It's possible that their growth might have been a lot slower if they had literally charged from day one; of course, it's also possible that this would not have been the case.

Either way, I think that people's hesitance to charge for their products is probably more often motivated by the fear of slow/non-existent growth rather than the fear of coming across as a sell-out.
Google Teleport Search
I consider myself pretty tech savvy but I didn't really get Color until I watched this interview.

What really hit home for me was the line on how Facebook is great for connecting people who are far away but Color can help connect people who are right next to each other.
From the conversations I've had with people in the know, I'm the odd duck. This is what I get for planning the entire Startup Weekend before having any idea of what it's actually supposed to be about.
It's one thing to make fun of the Tesla car in a humorous way, it's another thing to write a script (and follow through with it) claiming it broke down, overheated and ran out of fuel before they had even driven the car.

"But in the real world, it doesn't seem to work" was already decided before the cars were even delivered. It's cool to make fun of flaws, it's not cool for something perceived as a review show to decide something is flawed and write the script about how flawed it is before they have even tested it.
April Fool's Day joke of Google China.
I couldn't disagree more - it sounds like the Dickbar was monetizing rather nicely. Otherwise Twitter wouldn't be writing things like this in their blog:

We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what’s happening outside the home timeline. Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this.

'Incredibly high usage metrics' - sounds pretty good for the purchasers of their sponsored trends, no?

Now, Twitter could be lying about the Dickbar's usage, but I doubt it. Lying involves conspiracy. It sledgehammers the morale of honest employees. The truth's likely to leak. The leadership of Twitter's not that stupid - if they mention incredibly high usage metrics, it's because there were incredibly high usage metrics.

So, if Dickbar was great for monetization, why remove it? I suspect it got yanked because it conflicted with a higher priority - control over the client. If the vast majority of users love the Dickbar, but a small sliver of people were turned off enough by it to start using an alternate client, that throws the Tweetdecks of the world a lifeline at a time when Twitter would rather they drown.

After the Tweetdecks have transitioned to enterprise tools or simply given up, then Twitter can launch Son of Dickbar. Until then, growing client market share is way, way more important than prematurely boosting monetization. It's not like Twitter lacks access to capital.
Successful Digital Companies
What is the real problem here? Am I missing something? It looks like the host was rude. He said he'd report the author to the police, which seems pretty dubious. Report him for what?

Annoying / rude / dumb / shady people exist all over the internet, but we learn to notice and deal with them, and we don't let this ruin the internet for us. So why not do the same on AirBNB? Common sense practices prevail here, similar to ebay: Check other users' previous feedback on the host, tell another person where you're going before you go there etc.
Seems to me like it would be much more reasonable to blame the poachers and the systems that allow poaching versus one man who legally killed an animal. An animal that was going to be destroyed anyways.

In my opinion, Bob Parsons did nothing wrong, even if I wouldn't have posted a video about it. Heck, I also wouldn't have killed the animal. But to attempt to blame him to poaching and historical racism (the great white hunter line) seems a little out there.

Do you have any evidence that the legal killing, in this manner, actually has any affect on wildlife populations? Any reason to think that it actually does provide cover (data reasons rather than anecdotes)?

Again, it's not something that I would do, or even something that I approve. But to say that it's wrong, seems uncalled for. Then again, I also wouldn't use large breasted woman as the focus on my domain name sales company.

Also, I hate godaddy for how horrible their interface is. They have made major strides in their DNS hosting, which is all I'll use it for anymore.
My version in HTML/JS (click the license to toggle HN)

http://autoreverse.s3.amazonaws.com/mit_yc_plain_text.html
What part of CIELAB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space) is pseudo-science? I don't see a section on the Wikipedia page about criticisms or controversies.
Apart from that's pretty much exactly when you should be freelancing/contracting as you've got no commitments and the money is phenomenally better than a salary job.
Hi pdx,

That's a very sensible question, let me take a stab at answering it.

So, for 99% of things, it's all stored on Google's servers. ActiveInbox is a lot of UI enhancements to create a new way of controlling your email, but it does it all with a clever use of Gmail's labels.

The only thing that relies upon the server is if you're a Plus user (including the free trial), to store your preferences on our server; and to store 'Conversation Notes' (a text box at the top of all conversations for planning next actions, a quick memo of what the entire thread is about, and links to related information if needed).

We are trying to figure out a way to do Conversation Notes purely with IMAP, but we haven't got a really fast/reliable idea yet, so we're sticking with our own servers.

But yes - for everything that is important to your organization, it's all labels.
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It's difficult to see their point (besides making headlines, that is). Are the sites willing to go with Bing search but blocked because they want AdSense ads too? The solution is simple - and easy given Microsoft's huge reserves: make AdCenter pay more than AdSense and make it every bit as easy to set up. Make a solution for advertisers that allows them to "suck the life out" of their AdSense accounts.

Hard to do? Of course it is! Do they want the government to step in to mandate all problems be easy to solve?
For emacs: https://skitch.com/entropie/ra4ms/emacs-api.rb

Source: https://github.com/entropie/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/co...
Haskell feels closer to college math than does high school math, actually. Maybe it would help in both math and programming.
The level design is a little repetitive... :P
Except the article url/slug says: /2011/03/31/

(I'm in HK, btw)
For which their lawyer need only dig up that old case file from the DoJ and copy and paste the arguments.