skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
either is okay as far as numbers are good and i dont have to spend lots of time ... if the purchase price is $100k then i expect it to make around $5k/month.
Good luck with them trying to cover this up.
How about Keynote Kung Fu? http://keynotekungfu.com/
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This is definitely something people want. Thanks for building it :)
Are you referring to business income/revenue or personal income from those businesses?

Of the 4 businesses I've founded or co-founded (BIG Folio, APF, NextProof, and 2 Tablespoons), the first two generate approximately half of their revenue from recurring fees (we also have setup fees). That adds up to high 5-figures per month for each (more in a good month). Of course, they both have the highest overhead in terms of labor and servers. For me personally, the recurring revenue results in a monthly draw/dividend that is now higher than my (good) salary. I spend most of my time (40 hours between the 2) on these two.

NextProof is a purely recurring/transactional revenue business. It currently makes in the low 5-figure range per month on subscription fees + about the same in transaction fees. User base is growing at about 3% per month. Overhead is fairly low (mainly hosting at EngineYard) and I work about 5-10 hours/week on it. I take a quarterly draw/dividen on this (not too big). As someone else said, if I really worked on some SEO and properly ran some campaigns/tests, it could probably grow at 10% or more.

2 Tablespoons is my newest venture and, so far, generates about $30 a month from one iPhone app (epic, I know). Launching a restaurant website service this month. Hoping to take everything I've learned from these other businesses–and from HN–and generate some solid recurring revenue without too much overhead. Haven't thought about goals, but getting to $2k/month by the end of the year sounds reasonable.
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Thanks for this! I was hoping pg would fix his own site, but since he won't i guess the community will have to.
You might make a case for "happening" with bitcoin, but the banking industry is far from "revolutionized" in the past-tense.

Besides which, currency and customer support are two very different pieces of a much larger pie. At best, currency is the "implementation detail" behind a much larger set of day-to-day usability concerns inherent in banking.
I much prefer the new HN, without visible comment scores.

When comment scores were visible, it was obvious that many people would just vote with the herd, downvoting comments with lots of downvotes, and upvoting comments with lots of upvotes.

This is still a problem, since HN still tends to put highly rated comments near the top, and low rated comments near the bottom. But it's not nearly as much of a problem as it was when comment scores were visible.

I think the quality of comments has increased with the new system, and I find myself reading more of the comments now that the scores aren't visible.

I also find myself voting less, and voting only on comments I personally feel are exceptionally good or exceptionally bad.

One change I would like to see HN experiment with is making the score of a given comment visible only after you've voted on that comment.

This will both encourage voting and also satisfy people's curiosity, while still discouraging voting with the herd.
I'm onboard, but I think it's funny that this is the only thread I've seen numbers in so far.
By the way, I don't think you'll get past the mozilla review process with this extension structure. When I wrote one for my job, I seem to remember them being nervous about loading and executing JS from 3rd parties (the thinking being: if you're hacked, suddenly everyone who installed your extension is also hacked, especially as the JS is executed with raised privs.) Not that you're at that stage yet, but I just thought I'd give you a heads-up :)

Nice idea, well executed.

PS: You aren't using the extension yourself?
edit: ah you are now :)
How about SimpleCU
I have a blog on environment and green living (http://www.connect-green.com) which brings in around $20 a month from adsense, have a tutorial aggregating service (http://tutmash.com) which is pretty new and haven't started to make any thing considerable.

I do freelance web development. Even though not consistent, it's my main revenue source.

I believe there are very good opportunities to make a good income from online businesses but in my case, my acute procrastination issue is preventing me from making anything considerable.
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Yes, I can't wait!

[I make about $800 - $1200 / month on my blog, hoping to increase it with Antonio's help :)]
Things that melt are safer to eat?
The current monthly job thread should be applicable to anyone that is interested in the positions listed (even if recruiter preferences go to 5+ years of experience candidates)

Don't be dissuaded by what recruiters often put as "minimum requirements" for the position; if you think you can do the job, see if you can connect with someone from the company for an inside referral and apply anyway

Now if you're looking for startups who typically don't follow standard recruiting procedures (i.e. may not immediately screen you out based on experience), www.startuply.com is a useful startup job listing
I agree to anything that will kill the stupid Bitcoin articles.
Autoresponder through AmazonSES, Sendgrid and others - Feedback requested
I'm looking for feedback on a product that I'm thinking of building.

The product is an online service that would let companies create autoresponders. In our app users would add their setup their autoresponders after providing API information for their email provider - we're planning to integrate with Amazon SES, Postmark and SendGrid to start.

For example, a user might setup an autoresponder for registering on their website. WIth an initial email, then another 5 days later, 10 days later and 14 days later. They would upload all the HTML files for these emails to our application. We would schedule them, and when the time came we'd send them out for them. We would aggregate all the stats for the emails for the end user as well.

Most email companies allow users to setup autoresponders, but charge based on the size of the list. The difference in this app would be that we'd work with the existing operational email providers, and wouldn't send anything out ourselves, so we wouldn't charge based on the size of a list - we'd only charge based on the number of emails that were sent out per month.

Thanks,

Mike
How long was it impossible to buy mainstream music on CDs? CDs don't have DRM, and they're all-digital. Your position is the grotesque distortion of history.
How about bugfollow or errorsniffer? Like either of those?
> there's no context

Hadn't thought of this. Really good point. How do I know what's a 'good' score if I only have myself to judge against?
This would be an interesting problem to solve algorithmically. If you could get a map of ATM locations and population density.
Consuming locked down content is a choice, and we live in an age of an immense amount of choices. Should content producers have to do everything we say just because we choose to consume their content? Lady Gaga is not a public servant. You are not entitled to copy her work, or even put her songs on your own youtube videos.

Lady Gaga never had to exist in the first place. The fact that she does enriches some of our lives, but we must understand that content is a production of someone else's and it should be treated as such (just as we wish our users to respect the hard work we put into our web apps).
I hope that never leads to a "hot potatoe" situation when there is a problem.
Where's the problem?

That "they don't shower and I don't like how they dress so I predicted they are anti-business and they are now crippled and failing hooray, morons" is a terrible argument filled with personal attacks and cliched "geeks don't shower" internet arguments - and they are against the posting guidelines.

Also that your comment is content-free. First paragraph: nothing but insults. Second paragraph - an alledged list of their policies presented in a negative way. Third paragraph - empty celebration.

The guidelines say "don't say anything you wouldn't say face to face", but that shouldn't mean "if you are rude in real life, feel free to be rude here".
IPad 2 factory explosion kills two
And that's why I have Little Snitch on my machine.
Someone commented on that TC.eu article the names involved, maybe TechCrunch should be sued as well.

As a Brit I think I speak for quite a few of us when I say that these super injunctions are quite fun. If an affair like that was reported I probably wouldn't even read the shitty gossip columns that published it, certainly I wouldn't care if I did come across them. As soon as a super injunction comes into play it turns it into a guessing game at first, and a "who will get sued" game second. Much more enjoyable to follow.
Wait a second, the iPad app is free. Are you making money from cats clicking on ads?

If so, I salute you.
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largest fee-free nationwide ATM network

That's gotta be Allpoint. They run nearly all of the non-bank ATMs (Think: 7/11, pharmacies, gas stations). ING Direct has the same deal: http://app.ingdirect.com/atmlocate/index.html

That's actually a significantly worse deal than the banks and credit unions that refund ATM fees (to a point) so you can use literally any ATM on any network.
They're at http://designthencode.com
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As a web developer, I used the [Project Fork Plugin] for the Joomla CMS. You can even get mobile phone friendly templates for access when out of the office. Works great if you have your own server space and a sub domain.

Looking for a local solution? There's a well built Linux panel addition under [Project Hamster]. Its Slick, Fast & Simple with reports.
1) their intent is to do for banking what mint did for financial information. mint wasn't the first site to do what it did, it just did it very well and sold itself well. banksimple isn't looking to solve the backend of banking, their sales pitch is a good user experience and customer support structure.

2) just because you don't have those problems doesn't mean that others don't. in the past 4 years, i've probably hit upon each of those problems. perhaps they aren't enough of a pain point for me to switch away from my bank, but they're valid points nonetheless.

3) their ATM network is the largest because its any ATM (i believe, based on what i've read). use their card in any ATM and they waive all fees. this exists in some other cards already, though usually in a limited capacity (my HSBC card waives the first 3 ATM transaction fees iirc)
I heard this woman on "Fresh Air". Somebody at the CIA, probably after James J. Angelton had tied the agency in knots, set a rule that people could work in counter-intelligence only so long, since the work eventually affected their judgment. I think that the author may have spent a bit long on her book.
Wow. Next up: suing the midwives who delivered the miners who dug out the coal that was burned to generate the electricity that powered the factory that manufactured the computer that was used to originate the offending tweet.
I've noticed more new users making poor comments, but I feel like I've also seen fewer joke/one-liner comments at the top. I think it's more an influx of new users than just a decrease in quality. Perhaps the guidelines should be made more visible, and updated some. For one, the community norms about humor/snark aren't actually in there (from what I recall), but they're an important part of how to comment on HN.

Edit: Hmm, that gives me an idea. Perhaps give new users a few "sample comments" of what's good, and a few of which are bad. IE: "This comment by grellas comes from an informed background, and is free of snark despite contesting some of the claims in the article. Goofus sees the same article, and decides he can make a good pun on the title, and throws in an insult to the author based on something he sort of remembers hearing about a while ago. Be a grellas, not a goofus!" Well, perhaps less hokey, but you get the idea.
Sweet, thanks. How long did they take you to build? How long have you been working on them? Is it just you? Or do you have partners?
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You might want to add something to indicate that you were being sarcastic.
> making the score of a given comment visible only after you've voted on that comment

That would be an acceptable compromise to me. It fulfills my own use-cases for having scores, but retains the benefits of not having scores.
Harvest (getharvest.com I think) is pretty nice. I used the free plan for about 6 months til I outgrew it and the paid plan was $12/month. Really great time-entry system.
The Computer History Museum ( http://www.computerhistory.org/ ) is a great stop if you can't find any timely events. (it across from one of the Google buildings... though I think for Google you probably have to call and see if you can get an appointment to visit Theres also a couple others in San Jose, the Intel Museum and the Tech Museum of Innovation.

Heres a link for you...
http://www.ageekstour.com/prologue.html

Oh and make sure to check out some bookstores, the computers and programming sections of stores in the area are usually quite... satisfying. :-)
This reminds me about the discussion Canada was having where it is illegal to announce election results until all polls are closed; people were questioning the right to tweet results before all polls were closed.

Twitter really changed the game for information distribution and I am surprised that we are now just talking about the ramifications. News entities, countries, people all need to understand the power of Twitter and find ways to fix the current system and not just sue where things are broken.
it hasn't been extended yet, write your bloody representatives instead of bitching about it
Online. You could only ever buy music with DRM online. It seemed like history was trending in the direction of less freedom but that has completely changed by now. To suggest otherwise is grotesque. CDs are really irrelevant to this particular discussion.

(By the way, the labels also tried to bring DRM to CDs for quite some time. I think they stopped doing that, too. I’m not so sure because I didn’t buy any new music on CD ever since I could buy all the un-DRMed music I wanted online.)
It will be interesting to see how useful this action is if the people tweeting about this aren't even UK citizens.
This may sound like a perfect match, but honestly most banks can't be trusted:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Way-Rob-Bank-Own/dp/0292706383

BankSimple, not being terribly large, can't force the incumbents to play their game (like say, Apple could with AT&T to some degree - and they got lucky getting in with Cingular).

It will be interesting to see how this fares when the "financial service" supplier(s) starts yanking the chain.
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> fewer joke/one-liner comments at the top

One of us is misremembering the old HN. I remember joke/one-liner comments were a real rarity on HN. I might be wrong though.
As I understand it, banks make a large amount of revenues from fees and such. How will BankSimple succeed if it doesn't use that? How will overdrafts work? Will the check just not go through?

I love that they are trying to revolutionize the banking industry, and I wish them well. But I'm afraid that they'll succumb to adverse selection to the greatest degree. The reality is that most of a bank's customers are not profitable (without the fees), which is why they institute these ridiculous fees to either drive them off or make them profitable. If BankSimple can make these previously-unprofitable people profitable again without surprise fees, they'll be a great success.

Let's hope that happens.
I can see why you'd want feedback that worked this way, but HN comment scores never did. Also, +20 isn't a "really good" comment score. Depending on the thread, it's:

* A comment made by someone with name recognition whose comments are read in RSS by 20 people.

* A comment on a political thread that states a clear polarizing opinion for people to glom onto.

* A mystical winged unicorn "good comment".

* A mediocre comment on a buzzy thread ("TechCrunch Says Apple App Store Approval Process Makes iOS Better Than Android!").

My best comments on the site are not, as a rule, my top-scored comments.

Meanwhile, public scores clearly do create problems: they promote groupthink, they prod reactionary voting or, worse, reactionary commenting, and they act as nerd pheromones driving tangential discussions to the tops of threads.

The harm of public scores outweighs the good, in my opinion. Reasonable people can disagree about that point. But I'm not sure they can disagree that there's nothing bad about public scores (which is not an argument you made).
I make ~$500/mo recurring income designing custom email marketing pieces.

Also, I see there are a lot of app developers here. I mainly do logo design http://www.designsourced.com and have worked on a few apps. Any HN folks that want a custom app icon designed for a good price or % of future sales let me know
Ask HN: Anyone going to "TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon"?
Anxiously looking forward to the Hackathon, and just curious to know if fellow HNer's would be showing up aswell.

Also, do let me know if you'd be looking forward to teamup.

Thanks
Being in the midst of a global obesity epidemic brought on by thirty years of following the nutritional advice of scientists really isn't "a wonderful illustration of the self-correcting nature of the scientific method". Especially when the government and most other health authorities are still actively promoting the bad science that caused the problem to begin with.

This was bad science not politics. Dr. Lustig (of Sugar the bitter truth fame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM) explains the details of it, but to sum up; Ancel Keys authored the Seven Countries Study that linked heart disease with dietary fat that that study formed the foundation of our nutritional knowledge ever since. According to Lustig, Keys preformed the first multivariate regression analysis and messed it up but we have been teaching it and living by it for 30+ years. Its still a challenge to get

Everybody loves to place science on some pedestal and pretend that politics is the source of all our problems.
We have found scientific justifications for our racism and other quirks, habits and general prejudices for a very long time:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-life-and-de...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
...a thousand other links...

Don't think that because <1950s commercial narrator voice>This information was brought to you by Science!</1950s commercial narrator voice> that it is necessarily correct. I spoke to James Flynn (The guy the Flynn effect is named after) and it turned out that he only got into studying IQ to disprove the science of the day showing that blacks were inferior. He has gone on to show that women are also equally intelligent (Imagine!). He is still working on debunking racist, sexist science decades later. The science around nutrition is no more reliable and no less subject to being shaped by our cultural prejudices.
"The nervous system depression, however, is not necessarily the same mechanism that causes psychological depression."

Alcohol causes depression because of its longterm effects on the brain, as well as the fact that it causes cytokine inflammation. (And possibly for other reasons as well.) This definitely has nothing to do with the fact that it temporarily slows down your heart rate and breathing, otherwise we'd all be suicidal every morning when we woke up.
cat -n

but nl is shorter :)
About $350/month in affiliate earnings/advertising from an image gallery site. It's been up for about 1.5 years. Traffic has been up lately, but earnings seem to have plateaued.

I see a lot of posters making over $1K/month. How long did it take to reach that level of income?
Definitely agreed, but is there anything more complex than DF?

Until someone writes out rules for Azad, I think Dwarf Fortress will remain king of the complexity hill.
Agreed. usaa.com already addresses all of these pain points.
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What genius editor decided to put multiple auto-playing videos into one article?

I know that this is probably a stupid view to have, given so many life-destroying things happen all over the world, and indeed all-over China, but I can't help but feel for the people of Chengdu specifically. I was working out there 18 months ago and it was clear that they were still a long way from recovering the earthquake that devestated the area 18 months before that. There were still buildings all over the place that were just rubble on the ground, others with huge cracks running right through them, not to mention the human cost that the earthquake took.

I guess, for me, it's just because most of my travels are to extremely developed parts of the world, and the fact that the worst I've seen is in Chengdu, it rings home particularly when more bad things happen to that area.
The industry isn't just "waiting" they are actively suppressing the revolution.

They know that once you get an upstart with lots of momentum, it could derail the racket they have going on right now.

Good luck to BankSimple... it'll be interesting to see how this turns out. For me, USAA is quite adequate for the time being.
Speaking of coloring, what if, instead of points, highly voted items showed orange-red or something to that effect.

I lost information when comments went away. When someone suggested a payment processor and got 150 upvotes, I would know they sound respectable.

Maybe bringing comment scores back isn't needed, just a rough sense of how the comment was received via coloration.
Wow, I can't believe this is the top comment on HN. It's the kind of shortsighted sentiment that you look back on two years later and have a good chuckle.
Thanks for the tip! Given how technically savvy most of HN is, I was thinking the XPI download would be sufficient at least for now, but when I do go to submit it to the addons repository, I will be sure to put the actual JS in there.

I am indeed using the Chrome extension, but it only updates comment scores every 10 minutes while on HN as not to slow down the HN reading experience. :)
Yeah, it's a nice idea, and without an API it's the best we can get, but really it requires the participation of the majority of the userbase in order to work.
It's either misuse of English, or deliberate double-talk.

Original:
http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/jewish_humor/punchlines_and...
I'm only a 2 year user, so I can't speak for old old HN, but I meant HN in the months before the change.
Talk about limiting access to technology. I think more people can afford Kindle's (and thus their access to the lending, DRM removal and other options) than have access to a "massive scanning/OCRing beast".