skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liquidating domain names? I'm really surprised that the comments here are so supportive of domain name squatting. This is a sleezy business done by sleezy people. Even worse than the SEO garbage we see. If you are not using a domain, give it up and let someone who is able to do something interesting with it use it.

Unfortunately that's not how the Web is anymore. It used to be. I really wish you had to provide a reason for wanting a domain name and then there would be some sort of yearly review to make sure you actually did what you said you were going to do with the domain.
Purchased and downloaded a book from Wrox this weekend, looks like they're taking the same route. Loved the experience.
You just gave me an interesting (but somewhat unrelated) idea.

You can "sign" a timestamp by appending a hash of that timestamp with some sercre value. This way, whenever the user submits your form, you can reliably determine when it was requested without storing anything on the server.
Bismark ND has a bunch, Lucky!

http://6colors.net/ipad_check/instock2.png
IANAL - but I thought the problem was that MA courts so aggressively backed non-competes to the extent that if you worked for a MA software company and went anywhere else they could sue, even if there was no explicit non-compete in the contract. Because of this CA companies had an unofficial (but very widely known) no-hires from MA companies rule.
Fun fact about the technology: if there can be spam, there will be spam. If there can be porn, there will be porn. If there can be malware, there will be malware. If there can be scams, there will be scams.

Apple's goal is that these things can't be. Their solution is the top down approach and App Store. Other platforms will (or will not) have other solutions. It's really that simple.
Agreed on Linode. Good people, good technology.

One might also consider PHPFog or Orchestra.io, which are "Herokus for PHP"
Glad to see the evolution of the bio slide. I never think those are useful when they look like Linkedin pages.
Pro tip: You can usually get away with entering invalid similar characters on recaptcha when the word is really blurry. Substitute 'ri' for 'n', for example.

I like to do this as a game, to see what I can get away with, adds some fun to the drudgery of typing in a captcha.
You are assuming people write games strictly to earn a living, and maybe that's the big fallacy of the allure of the app-store.

But what if you write a game to learn to code (or code better), or simply to explore some gaming concepts you haven't seen elsewhere?

Personally this is no different than the guy that wants to be a band; if that's his passion, go for it. Just keep in mind a) it's for fun, b) it's a hobby.

If at some point down the road you are lucky enough to be paid for you hobby, all the better. Earning a living is a whole other level beyond that even.
Well the featured app of the day is sold for free, which means a lot of people will be downloading it. And when the app is sold for free according to Amazon TOS, the developer gets 20% of the list price. So if the volume of downloads is immense then you should be able to pocket a decent amount of cash from the sale. Will have to wait a while for the stats though.
It seems to me that the problem is more squatters like this guy.
Regardless, you may not say Ubuntu is closed source, to follow your analogy, which is what the author writes about Android. You may say that Android is not completely open source (which you could before Honeycomb was conceived) or that the latest version of Android is closed-source for now. There's no question the article is inaccurate and it's clear to me the author is trying to deliberately create an exaggerated conflict to get more page views. All in all a pretty poor article I think.
O'Reilly doesn't seem to do that, unless it's embedded in the PDF in a way which doesn't show up in simple viewers.

Pragmatic Bookshelf, Manning and Packt (out of the e-books I have handy for quick checking) do put your name/address on the bottom of every page to discourage piracy.

Edit: Specifics for each publisher, for anyone who's curious:

Manning - Name and email address on each page
Pragmatic Bookshelf - Name on each page
Packt - Name, physical address and purchase date on each page
FYI, Webkit is not GPL. There are pieces in LGPL, and the majority is a BSD license.
Cheap crappy manufacturers are rushing to get the latest version on their phones even if it doesn't work well, while big-name manufacturers use horribly outdated versions that don't work as well as the current one? It seems like only Google cares about actually delivering a good experience to the user.

Can someone with insight in to the industry explain this?
Ask HN: What is a security clearance worth?
I currently live in DC, and the possibility to get a security clearance is opening up to me. I still have high hopes of moving to Silicon Valley once I'm done with my PhD, but if I stick around for an extra few months and submit to questioning, a clearance could be had. Its value in the DC area is somewhat obvious (and huge, actually), but how valuable is it elsewhere, especially tech-heavy places like Silicon Valley, SF, Austin, etc.?
Sorry, I guess I should have added some context. It was a response to Steve Jobs and was widely publicised on tech blogs at the time.

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=255840,00.asp?h...

Google's Andy Rubin hit back at Steve Jobs Monday with a tweet that touted the openness of Google's Android platform.

Rubin, who serves as vice president of engineering at Google, posted a message to the micro-blogging site that might be somewhat confusing to those not familiar with the ins and out of Android coding.

Translation: Rubin's tweet includes the commands needed to start compiling a copy of Android on a home Linux machine. He's stressing that anyone can develop for, hack, or even create their own version of Android.
"it just doesn't seem that people navigate to sites that way"

It may not "seem" that way, but our data suggests strongly otherwise.
I think that the application itself has a lot of potential; however, there are two things that distract me from the actual content. Although I find the design agreeable, I feel as though the color scheme is reminiscent of security, perhaps Norton AntiVirus even. Although this could be seen as a positive, I think it is too much business/professional given the concept and would benefit from a more design/art feel. Additionally, I agree with mryan that the name does not do the application justice and quite possibly gives the wrong impression to potential users. Below are some available domain names I just brainstormed if you are interested. I am not suggesting that these are necessarily any better, just offering some suggestions. I hope that this does not come off as too negative, as I am honestly impressed by the application thus far. Nice work.

clickrelease.com

clicklayers.com

clickskinned.com
You're right, 'hypocritical' is not the correct word here, as you are not displaying behavior for which you criticise others.

As for the security labels: a few days ago I wanted to fit a belt with an awkward security label that prevented a proper fit. It was an additional bump that wasn't overcome and may have been the only thing preventing me from buying it.
This seriously drives me nuts. I know as web people we're sensitive to comment spam, but if you're commenting on topic then for the love of god promote yourself a little.

At the very least, put your game/webapp in your profile.
Care and feeding of happy spammers (running a spam-free blog host in 2010)
While most of your points are valid, they're nothing that can't be overcome with persistance and the willingness to learn, and I fear that you've painted too bleak of a picture of the industry.

I think the biggest problem is that making fun, engaging games is really, really hard. A lot of people assume that because they can program, and they enjoy playing games, making them should be relatively straight forward.

But it just isn't. It's a creative skill that needs practice just like anything else. It's like making the jump from being a technically competent guitarist to writing music. Nobody writes great music on their first try, nobody writes clean code early in their career, and nobody writes hit games out the gate, except for prodigies so rare it's not worth thinking about.

And I think what happens a lot of the time, is that someone who would otherwise be making $100 an hour writing code decides to make a game for the fun of it, ends up making 1-10 cents an hour on the time invested, and ends up writing a blog post to that effect. So it becomes an entrenched view that making games is a hobby that serious developers need to grow out of.

My first game actually did make under 10 cents per hour of development time. But by my tenth, my best so far, it was up to $300+ (and counting). I still have hits and misses, and perhaps I'd be making more putting my skills to use in another industry, but money isn't everything. And I'm still not great at game design, merely competent - there's a lot of room for improvement there.

Yes, you're right about the bad points of the industry, however, there's one big positive - if you're prepared to stick with it, for years with little reward, it's actually not that hard to reach a point where you're making great money, creating products that people love and that you're passionate about. And sometimes people in real life will notice your shirt and say 'oh, you play that too!'.

Also, if done correctly, the path to making games is actually pretty safe - make them as a hobby, after hours, and release them for free. When 100k+ people download one of them from word of mouth alone, then it's time to consider whether you want to make a career out of it. If you can't make games after hours effectively, you couldn't make them full time, either.
I think this was definitely true before smartphone/social platforms got to scale. A few points to consider that are counter to yours:

Check out the top apps on the Facebook platform. http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps Yes, the top games have big budgets (still TINY compared to video games historically). But page 3 or 4 pages in and guess at the budgets of those games (that are merely in the 2M monthly active uniques range). Scroll 9 pages in (600k monthlies). How many consumer businesses EVER touch 600k people, much less in a month?

Gamers are NOT immune to ads. Most of the game builders I know buy installs (i.e. CPA ads) because it makes financial sense to do so.

Virtual goods models allow you to fill up the demand curve. In other words, poor people (who would've stolen games in years past) can play for free. Middle of the road folks can pay a few bucks when they get bored. Rich hardcore players can pay hundreds or thousands of dollars per month.

Virtual goods models make piracy somewhat impractical.

Most of the people I know succeeding in games had never developed games before.

I think your advice is dead on for shrink-wrapped games, traditional shareware, and maybe even fixed price mobile games. I'd throw my weight behind mobile games before I'd throw it behind virtually ANY other consumer effort. All that said, of course, a b2b startup has a much greater chance of survival. The whole consumer-software world is crowded beyond belief.
You can build an anonymous reputation around a pseudonym.
There's plenty of later stage money; it's the seed capital that's lacking.
This arrived just in time since I deployed my first Node app on Joyent last night! Great examples--they're all pretty new to me, but I'm planning to revisit your tips when I get further along.
"And, I think Google ranks sites higher if the domain name has the keyword in it."

There is some effect, but it's not that significant. Bing, on the other hand, seems to weight domain names very highly.
How would you compare Notepag.es to org-mode? I wouldn't say org-mode is simple, but it has a lot more functionality! (yes, LaTeX/code fragments/similar Markdown/...)

Particularly awesome is the table editing feature that makes maintaining plain ASCII tables very very easy!

http://orgmode.org/
If it were open in the public development sense, how many more committers do you think there would be? 10% more? 50%? 200%?

In the context of the rapidly-changing ubiquitous computing space with open-source (or even commoditised) hardware nowhere to be seen, I just don't see what gains would come from an OSS project rather than Android's 'eventually-open' model.
Cool! I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with. Like I said, what you have gives the impression that it's on your mind.

The underlying concept is actually a pretty heady idea to non-tech folk. It might not hurt to get a bunch of them and bounce things off of them until you see their light bulb turn on. Best of luck!
I am surprised to see ww.com in the list there. Unless I missed something in the recent past, wasnt it the webcam based venture he was working on?
Since the site is for all college and NFL teams, it may not be a good idea to put a specific team on the front. Thus, 7 is a more generic football image. Just my thoughts, but 3 and 7 are my favorites.
We are going to display the most popular battles, so you'll have ideas about what to try :)
They then removed the CAPTCHA, and it boosted the conversion rate up to 64%. In conversion rate lingo, that’s an uplift of 33.3%!

Pretty sure that 33% was bots, lol.

And they do train the bots to avoid negative-fields and timestamp analysis - all they have to do is look for type=hidden or display:none/visibility:hidden on the CSS

I use simple math instead of word captchas, seems easier on people.
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The assertion is clearly not true. If the street is a dead end, the turn around is clearly a pair of left-hand turns in a drive-on-the-right space. Oh, and the "never turn left" rule needs to be modified in the third of the world that drives on the left. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic
then maybe, just don't do the one-liners?
Local Science Fairs: Get Involved, eh
Apple OS X - Closed is the new Open
The more I read, the more the evidence is mounting that the long term road-map for OS X is convergence with iOS. Not next week, not next year, but it's coming. Closed is the new open, And that's a bad thing for developers and users alike.

None of the evidence by itself is particularly startling - in many cases taking what works for the iPad and bringing it to the Mac makes good sense, but taken together, it paints a picture for where the OS and its eco-system is heading.

First the Mac App Store:

Apple’s Mac App Store Opens for Business
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/01/06macappstore.html

There has been much debate already about what this means for developers, and Apple taking control of what developers can or can't do, sets a new price bar, and gives Apple a chunk of the revenue. So long as the platform remains open, it's still possible to step around Apple, but getting market share is going to be harder. iWay or the highway?

iPad style Launchpad
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/#gallery-launchpad

Just a neat way to launch Apps? Maybe, but its a step to moving Finder (the desktop) to being a second class citizen. What follows that?

Full Screen Apps
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/#gallery-fullscreen

So now we don't need to return to the desktop to switch between Apps. How long before we can't return, because it's not there any more? Similarly, the Four Finger Swipe to switch between apps is coming to the Pad - it's already there in Dev mode.

Apple removes Samba from Mac OS X 10.7 Server
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_server_apple_replaces_samba_for_windows_networking_services.html

So this is where it gets a bit more sinister. OS X has had Samba support since day one, but with Lion it's being replaced with something developed in house. The reason? GPLv3 and the "right to tinker". If users have the right to tinker, then there has to be a way to poke around the OS to do the tinkering. If you're planning on removing that access, first you have to remove software whose licensing requires it.

And finally:

Bertrand Serlet to Leave Apple
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/23serlet.html

Read into that what you will...

Do you agree?
But then everything I say would be ignored:)
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A couple of my blog posts were very well received, but I've noticed that often times (although not recently so who knows) I can't downvote someone that has a higher average comment score than I do. Which in turn gives them a higher average comment score... So besides the rep you get when you stay active in a community you also get an edge for your total karma to go up. But then again, I love the content here, so something must be working :)
Is tech 2.0 bubble ready to burst?
I like how you dismiss the argument as invalid. I want to read more about this kind of reasoning, and I found this site: http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
Do Celebrities follow the half your age plus 7 rule?
no money from adds?
Might I suggest a slide-out panel with common Markdown/etc. symbols? My experience was

1) Click the link in the article, intro page didn't load (during the brief watcher script error)

2) Navigate directly to Notepag.es, get a blank doc

3) ... Crap, I don't remember any Markdown aside from italics, the app is pointless without that knowledge.

Naturally, I could open up separate tabs with that info, but keeping it self-contained helps the lazy users. If not a more fleshed-out guide, at least putting relevant links on the page would be nice -- going back to the intro page for that info is not intuitive.

Seeing a little bit of Markdown in action when editing the Introduction page is nice. You could stand to draw more attention to that -- my first thought when presented with a blank screen is "Well what do I do now?" whereas a page that has some pointers/suggestions/samples gets me engaged and helps me see the added value.
> a domainer

Domainers are so silly. The value of your domain is what someone is willing to pay for it and what you said proves it: If you bother to find the people who want it then they will pay for it. Saying $15k - $40k is also silly, because it matters what the specific companies are. A bidding war between a small corner shop and a family owner jewellery store won't reach the same as Apple vs. Google.

"So the answer is basically it depends how much work you are willing to put in to sell them."

The value is what someone is willing to pay for it, if you can find a good end user who desperately wants it and has money then you can sell it for lots, but the money you make doesn't scale relative to the effort you put in, just like with any commodity like housing, cars etc. I can't sell a beaten up old ford focus for $1m because I spend 60 hours a week for a year finding a buyer.

Personally I doubt your domain would clear >$100 in a sale.
They are not for sale, from the article:

"Ww.com and reocities.com are there for 'curiosity value' only."
oh... so because you have a patent... it must be REAL technology???
Why not 1300?
"There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it." - The Handmaid's Tale
The really blurry word is the word they're trying to OCR; generally it doesn't matter what you type as it'll accept it provided the other word is entered correctly.

Of course your 'game' is hurting reCaptcha's goal of digitizing books.
Most modern bots know to jump over fields that are type=hidden or display:none/visibility:hidden - your site just isn't big enough of a target yet.

Even hiding the CSS externally doesn't help, many bots now use inline browsers to decode javascript and stylesheets.
What's not to understand? They don't think Honeycomb is ready for general consumption, and they'd rather wait until Ice Cream (when the tablet and phone versions of Android converge) to release. If you want to hack away at Honeycomb for tablets, you just have to contact them and they'll provide you the full source code.

They've done this to a lesser extent in the past with almost every major version of Android (where the Open Sourcing of it comes after devices already ship). Does it suck that it's taking longer for 3.0? Sure it does. Do they have a valid reason to do so? You bet they do. Avoiding almost certain fiascos of companies trying to shoe-horn Honeycomb onto phones is a definite concern.
Pogoplug - Your Personal Cloud.
NASA's "images" of life on Mars circa 1975
Downside to Dependency Injection? "Dangerous for your career..."
Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum
This is generally what happens as the audience grows. See cable news for instance.
I remember the tweet, I just wasn't sure what point you were making by quoting it.

But this does say that by Andy Rubin's own definition of "open", Honeycomb is not "open". Unless there is some big part of this discussion/argument I'm missing, it's not available for download/compiling, right?
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They are proposing alternative methods that don't put the burden on the user in the form of explicit action. By using honeypot fields that would only be filled out by a robot, and timestamp analysis which effectively detects automatic form submission, they can weed out the bots without asking their users to do anything.

What's so silly about that?
This is part of the social contract you sign when you're born. (oh waitaminute I didn't sign it, I never agreed to it, that's beside the point). Because when you have a problem with the system, it's up to you to change it. OR, as statists say "If you don't like this country, then you're free to move". <tree of counterpoint ignoring basic questions about who owns a human body>. Good luck!
There's certainly artificial scarcity caused by people buying up domains and then sitting on them and doing nothing. I have a side project I've been working on where I'm blocked in deploying it because I haven't been able to find a good domain name that isn't taken. Now, none of the domains I've thought of are actually being used, but they've mostly been registered for ~10 years by people who apparently have no intention of actually developing them. In a couple cases, they are listed as for-sale, but people are asking tens of thousands of dollars, which I simply can't afford for a side-project in a very niche market.
I was thinking of this question from a different angle. I sometimes feel guilty because a large portion of my karma comes not from technical or business topics, but from more social commentary things.
What about a sort of tag hierarchy in which the first level the tags would remain fixed, and in lower levels user-selected? Every post would only display the leaf tags of the branches to which it pertained, or something along that line. Well, I guess this would make search a bit harder to implement. Dunno, something that came up and I had to verbalize :)
Do haters always has to come up with something to say how Google did wrong ? They were complaining that Android is turning into a mess, running out of control, because Google let it FREE in all means. That Google is doing wrong, that they need to take situation under control.
And now ? Again Google did wrong ? Yeah

No one can deny that Android was a HUGE HUGE success. Google is innovating and making money, at the same time keeping customers pleased.

That is what they do best, as one blog here said. They manage to keep their interests along with customer wishes. [Down voters, thank you ! :)]
Actually, when we launched many did call our design revolutionary - we were the first visual news reading application on the iPad and iPhone. Steve Jobs even pointed out our app at WWDC -http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110324/video-the-pulse-boys-to-...
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