skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Is this what some people sit around thinking about?

Personally, I just "do me". The rest seems to fall into place. But that could be due to the fact I'm awesome.
I take it the service is free? Slip the word "free" into the homepage content somewhere.

Great design. It look professional because it's so simple.
Ya know, once you get the virginity monkey off your back, you'll say, "oh, that's it?" and getting vay-jay-jay wont be a big fucking deal anymore (or that important).
I like the ajax loading. Internet marketing types will like the ability to see the first X pages all on one page without having to set some parameter (as in google)
b) they have money to placate shareholders away from a Microsoft buyout,

c) their drive to complete their own next-gen internal ad system is diminished

You can also look at it the other way around. Now they have money to invest in developing their own next gen internal ad system. With the advantage that they probably learn a thing or two from using google's.
If I may be so biased as to offer my own take: http://rcoder.net/content/contrasting-the-iphone-and-android...
Because web apps are on the web. Things that are on the web can be indexed. Things that are indexed can be found. Things that get found get users and make money.

In some cases.
Ask HN: Offering Commissions to Marketers?
Hey,

I've been thinking lately, since it's been increasingly hard to get writers to cover my webapp (especially in my target industry: finance, investing), whether or not it would be a good idea to offer people, such as the talented people here, a certain commission for any stories they can get on popular/related sites? I suppose some people are better at marketing than others, and I'm sure there are people with much better editorial connections than myself. Bad idea?

Thanks
Great design, forwarded the link to my little brother.

How do you make money? Book sales?
Probably keep enough to retire on, and give the rest to my alma mater and have a football stadium named after me :)
Long live micropayments! C'grats Ivan and team!
I really need to see the URLs for hits.
You could sell this to a school. I am taking 3 classes, which means 3 different websites and several PDFs. It would be great to have everything in one place automatically in a web page plain text format.
I definitely agree that the results should be more structured. Also the page should be aligned left because that's what people are used to. Maybe something like this: http://pixtures.s3.amazonaws.com/duck.jpg

The search button is way too big. The text is too big. Shrink everything and fit more information on one page.

Maybe include some "Web links" on every page. Then right align the "More topics" and "More Web links" to the right so people know they're not ordinary links, but instead offer additional functionality.

Overall, I really like it. It looks like you lift a lot of information and links from wikipedia. I think this is a great idea.
Cure cancer

Cure HIV

Eliminate hunger

Eliminate thirst

Take over Equatorial Guinea
Not bad at all. I guess you're scraping Wikipedia for a lot of the disambiguation descriptions.

The hits in a disambiguated topic after the first page need some work. Many in the wrong topics. But still, not bad for a beginning.

I suggest duckduck.com instead of duckduckgo.com.

The flashy logo page might be the only reason some people use it. They'll like the fact that they can show off that they have found a different tool. But that's just a small set of certain types of people. Me, I'd prefer a simple tool that takes up less space and is less flashy.
Here's the full thing: http://www.newmogul.com/item?id=269
And it's just vague enough that people read into it what they want it to mean.

Each reader thinks he's confirming their own private intuitions, which makes them them feel smart and good, which makes them like him more.
Plus in a typical racist/ethnocentric way, you have to renounce your motherland's country's citizenship

Oh, that's too much to ask. They don't allow phony citizenship, but only the real kind.
Apple puts unlocked iPhone on sale in Hong Kong - $692-$794
I like the idea, but I agree that the implementation isn't perfect. I would say the solution isn't to drop the [load more results] thing in favor of pagination, but to improve it.

I can't explain exactly why it is annoying as currently implemented, but it is. Somehow, the more results thing needs to be more "fluid". Maybe make the interface more like regular pagination, but just add the results to the bottom of the same page?
Very nice look. A pixel level gripe, for you: Can you get rid of the blue line fragments between the 'h' & 'i' and the 'i' & 'k' in the logo?
this is the equivalent of hiring a "PR guy", is it not?
Excellent design. Good implementation. Expand it to work projects or find a way to make it appeal to freelancers. Etc. :)
My bet: Post-FSJ Dan Lyons
Do you think this is how: "In 2001 he wrote 'Unleashing the Ideavirus' in five days." ?

Or is that just marketing/exaggeration?
Muxtape Relaunching, and Muxtape's story
The main difference is open-ness.

Android you can...
Share any app you write without approval.

Apple you can....
Share any app you write as long as its approved and you pay the fee.

So that's the main difference. Android uses Java or anything that can compile down to their byte code. And for Apple you use Objective-C. Overall Android is better for the openess but I say this only from an outside perspective.

I downloaded and setup the SDK within Eclipse yesterday and will play with it today.
Microsoft's 3D future: A Photosynth-based "Spatial Web"
"Open PR" would definitely be a lot cheaper though.
Not getting that message.
Free Veretekk Marketing System
Bug: When searching for articles that redirect to a different article on Wikipedia, the results for the redirected article are displayed.

My search: "NeoSmart Technologies"
On Wikipedia this redirects to our main product, "EasyBCD," which is what DuckDuck returned...

But really, really nice ideas going on there, it's very information-centric verses link-centric, sort of like a powerset that works.
Two chicks? Must be like Bill Gates' sister and mom.

Seriously, since the moon base was pretty selfish, I should give a serious answer. I think a series of X-Prize ideas, in the $10-20 Billion range, would transform our society in ways we can barely imagine. Fusion, solar power, field propulsion -- it would be like having a war and pushing for new technology without going through all the death and destruction.
build my own university - maybe university on a ship, no a university on a ship with its own navy, wait - a university on a ship with its own navy, its own private islands and a jet plane and a space shuttle. Damn, it got crazy so quickly!
Simply amazing. Really. This is so much better than Cuil or a lot of the other BS search engines out there.

The presentation isn't great. So with some improvements in the design and a marketing machine, this could be big.
That's quacktastic.
ArtKlick.co.nz gets the big tick
I think he'd be better off staying focused in the market he's in; there is already a TON of these for freelancers/work projects.
Knowing the creator, I'd guess that they made it from scratch.
Pretty impressive search results.I think you should change work more on the domain name and user interface.I think it can be a very useful tool for finding relevant information.
I like the marketing material you have on the site to explain the different features. It looks patterned off of 37Signals, but hey, it works. I'm curious to what going up to random college students on campus and demoing the site to them on the spot would bring to you.

How are you planning to monetize this? Hitting up the PTA or college groups?
"Around the same time I got a call from the VP of anti-piracy at one of the majors. After I picked up the phone his first words were, “Justin, I just have one question for you: where do I send the summons and complaint?”"

This sort of tactic should be outlawed. Bar none; preemptively filing a summons (within reasonable circumstances) before mutual compromises can be made and using that preemptive strategy to intimidate anyone is just horrible.
"just duck duck it" sounds marketable to me. similar to "just google it"
Whoa, I really liked the search results. The name on the other hand could use some work. I think it kinda undermines the good work you obviously did.
@epi0Bauqu I really like it. I'm most impressed with the result set. You aren't giving me annoying messages like "1 billion matches found", just a handful that are pretty accurate. At first glance, most people will say off-the-cuff that this is bad, you're limiting the results. However, a user doesn't need millions of results. Just the ones that work.

It definitely passed my vanity test. I searched on several things I associate with myself and the results were all accurate. Definitely some things left out, but everything shown was good.

Some of the comments others have made about the visual design are half-correct. The helvetica font hurts readability. I'm on a Mac and Windows XP machines side-by-side and its almost blurry. You can't beat Verdana or Arial for readability.
The color scheme is a little odd, mainly for the logo. If you get successful, invest in having a logo professionally designed, but that shouldn't be a focus now.

Keep the ajaxy stuff. Loved it. The "More Topics" bit is perfect.I don't have to click through page after page of pagination to scroll results like on Google. You show me a small set of relevant matches, then if I want more I just click that and there's some more. Very easy to use.

Overall I think you're off to a great start.
Maybe some communities features like:
1. add someone who is in your class or taking the same subject.
2. discussion board.
3. and, the evil thing: peer pressure - you can see who has finished their homeworks but you are still working on something else.
Should be renamed "Five programming books I read once back in college but now only keep on the shelf to make sure that other CS geeks know how 'leet' I am."
Free renewable energy. Probably geothermal. About 100bn on research to develop the system, the rest to roll it out.
Google’s End Run Around the Wireless Carriers
'Wall Street' No Longer Exists
Very clean interface, the app works smothly, etc.

BUT

This is not useful to me as a student if I have to enter all of my assignments manually. If I know what to enter, why do I need to be reminded?

If there were some way to import assignments and classes from somewhere else, then it would be very useful. I don't know how feasible that would be, but there's no way I'd use Soshiku without that feature.
Sounds like this will cause problems similar to the H1B. The comments here have already shown this.

Programming is hard, and it's hard to get people to do it for you unless you pay them a lot. Even then, you don't necessarily get people to do it for you.

So you figure, well, there are a lot of people overseas who I could hire. So we need to create a program to hire them.

But then it turns out there is still a concept of citizenship, which is normally required to live and work unencumbered in a particular nation.

So they say, well, sure, let's just let them in as long as they promise to work in this profession for this employer.

But now, you have two people doing the same job next to each other at the same desk, and one of them can change fields, move to a new city, take a new job, and do all those things we normally associate with freedom. And if an employer doesn't allow him or her to do these things, they'll change fields, take a new job, or move to a new city.

So eventually the employer discovers that the restricted and unfree workers are easier to keep around, and you don't have to pay them as much. This starts to set the salary and working standards, so they people who are free start to avoid the field.

Which makes it harder to get the free citizens to do the work, which makes it hard to get people to do programming for you.

But then you figure, well, there are people overseas I could hire, so we need to expand the program so I can hire them...

It's totally broken. A traditional concept of citizenship and a global workforce don't really work all that well together. Something is going to have to give.
Thought it would be smarted and cheaper than hiring someone. Pay for performance - right?
Press releases wouldn't do much good I think.
I liked, pretty impressive. Good Luck!
Fear of losing 'causes overpaying on eBay'
Pre-load your images - it's weird how the layout changes as they load.
Keyboard shortcuts would help a lot.
I will be satisfied if it just gets him off of CNN after every school shooting.
I get what you're saying, but you're being a little harsh.

What you want to avoid is the fools that get up on American Idol and break windows because they've never been told that they suck. If you tell a 7 year old he sucks though, they often just believe you and never really try.

Somewhere in between the first experience and being a william hung though, the role of the parent is to ensure that the child can properly evaluate himself against others.

This is achieved in a gentle manner over time, simply by not blowing smoke up someone's butt but at the same time being supportive of practice, learning and effort.

For every Michael Jordan there are millions of washed up bums that were probably just as skilled at one point. There's no hard and fast formula, and it falls on the parent to draw the line.

Everyone can act at age 7. To suggest otherwise is being a little extreme.
You hate to hear this sort of story, but it just reiterates what has been common knowledge since well-before Muxtape even existed: if you're a successful site that makes major label music available to people who don't own it, you basically either need to be prepared to fight it out with big money in the boardroom/court room or prepared to eventually dismantle the site.
I like it. Sure the design can use some work but the results are pretty impressive and it's quick. I would follow some of the suggestions to not use AJAX for the loading since it's a bit unintuitive. I would also post the URL to the found result.

I'm also a big fan of commands on the line: "define word" should define it, and so forth. That can potentially be a next step.
"Muxtape Relaunching"

Not really. Lame. In fact, the new service sounds a lot like bandcamp.mu (which I'm equally uninterested in). Not that it's Justin's fault.
but but but our projections models say...
I'm not seeing where it says that online ad growth was cut in half. Instead, the article implies that online ads are growing:

"For the half year, Internet display advertising expenditures increased 8.0 percent as marketers continued to expand their online programs."
Not to doubt the honesty of Google here, but independently from the altruistic considerations, this is very smart market research outsourcing.

Lots of people from different backgrounds will be eagerly giving the company ideas about things that (1) people want and (2) are massively scalable. Most will not be directly monetizable, but one or two gems could make this experiment pay off in very pragmatic, egotistical terms.

Not a criticism at all. It only brings hope when benevolence and business go by the hand.
There are keyboard shortcuts!
you people are retarded.
the things you think are necessary to live are clearly not.
On Facebook: Lots of friends + sexy pics = you're a narcissist
doesn't this conflict with "Release early and often" mantra?

Not really. Releasing early doesn't necessarily mean releasing first. Moreover, by exposing you to the demands of real customers, releasing early is often the best way to make an awesome product.
Thank you for all the wonderful comments.

Zacharye, that certainly was my goal. :)

Aston, yes I'll fix that right away.

Siong, thanks for the suggestions. You can (mostly) do all of that by adding partners to your account, and then using the discussion pane on the assignment page. And for "peer pressure", a users' total grade does show on their public profile.

About monetization: for now I'm focusing on just unobtrusive AdSense ads, but I'm definitely brainstorming about the future.

Jbenz, yes it's 100% free and I plan on keeping it that way. Should I replace "But that's just the tip of the iceberg." with "And it's totally free." with, say, a yellow highlight?
Does the name "Soshiku" have a meaning? It sounds very Japanese to me but I'm drawing a blank on an exact meaning. My conjugation is pretty weak these days.
$700 b is not nearly enough to make a space elevator with existing technology; you're off by about a factor of 1000.

Of course, if you're willing to wait ten years for the cost to produce carbon nanotubes to drop...
It was supposed to grow much faster than that...well, according to the analysts anyway.
Good call. Heck, the 50mm f/1.8 at $80 runs circles around any video recording lens. =)

No autofocus is rough though.
Way to go, guys. I have a new favorite exclamation: Garbowza!
Sort of. It's derived from the word "soshiki" which means "organization" (I hope it's the verb kind of organization). I saw the word a long time ago, and in my head somewhere along the way, before I made the site, I turned it into "soshiku". I do like that better.
Yeah cause you're gonna notice the difference between 700b and 10trillion..
This is epic. Nice job.

Name suggestion - start the name with "go", something like "GoDuckDuck" or "GoodSearch" or something much better than that. That way, as people start typing "google", your site shows up in the autocomplete list in the browser and would remind people about your site at the moment they are looking to search for something.
I would sponsor a manned mission to Mars. It's roughly the same amount of money.
This phenomenon is well-known in the offline auction world: it's called the "winner's curse".
With a $700b loan, it wouldn't exactly be failing any more...that's sort of the point of this whole exercise.
I make 120K a year and barely get by

American, meet the reason for your economic crisis.
money doesn't solve problems, smart people do. money is just a way of freeing smart people of distractions.
and i think 70 billion in todays dollars is a lot more realistic than 700 billion.
that said:

10 billion for space elevator research

10 billion for terraforming mars research

10 billion in scholarships available to anyone in the world as well as the money needed to pull strings to get the smartest kids into the best colleges.

10 billion for a clean water research

30 billion in free contraception/medical for every country.
Clarification - I was suggesting that the OP's idea of offering a commission to anyone who might be able to get him/her exposure would be much cheaper than hiring a "PR guy".
Stop buying so much shit.
I think that journalists misunderstand "friends" in the context of FB. It's more like your address book. I have people on mine that I haven't seen face-to-face in years for whatever reason. Our paths may or may not cross again, but I know how to contact them if I'm ever where they are, or want to organize a reunion from primary school or am looking to hire someone with a particular skill/get hired somewhere or whatever. A few hundred people I think is perfectly normal.If FB had called it 'contacts' instead of friends, it would have been much clearer.
actually, people like him are good for the economy. all that money immediately returning to circulation is better than it being saved. the fact that he is mentally unfit for survival is another issue.
Spoiler Alert: Fascism wins unless they are lead by a retard.
I have plenty of disposable income, I just save a lot of money. I just had my business (I was self employed) crash after a two year run, and I'm cleaning up the wreckage right now.

I'm going back to college fairly soon. I already have enough saved up to live off of and pay a full year's tuition.

I don't play guitar.

My ex appreciated my personality just fine, actually, she loved me dearly, we just couldn't work because of the obscene distance (Canada). I'm sorry if being appreciated for who I am is too much to expect out of the average woman.

All I care about is money, it already is a priority. Hence, business that recently failed. Hence, having plenty of money saved up.

That chica thought I was poor. I live extremely frugally. My bank account is just fine. her fault for being stupid. I could afford on my income to pay all of her bills and food, all my bills and food, and all the bills and food of one of my roommates, and still have one or two hundred left over for random bullshit.

And that's not dipping into savings.

I'm planning on getting a nicer car, tbh. My car is too ugly. I hate to get rid of something that 'works', but it's just so fuck-ugly that I've got to get into a better vehicle. I was thinking about getting into more like an '02 year car, rather than my 91' Olds.

I've been poking around for a second job. A second job would catapult me into school in fairly short order. That or a car.

I'll start another business when the right opportunity or idea comes along. Most of my best ideas require 100-150k. I don't have that much.

Not taking it as a flame, it's just that through no fault of your own, you made some miscalculated assumptions about me.

I give off the appearance of poverty on purpose when in fact I have more money in my bank account than my father who earns twice what I do.

If a relationship is to be a purely mercenary transaction then I'd rather be alone or buy a wife from another country. I don't tolerate that kind of banal materialism in my girlfriends.

Again, I had a woman who understand and shared my values and appreciated me for who I am absent all other things. I don't see what's so hard about not being a completely vacant cavity of a person.
That's why I made it so users can add assignments via email or SMS. So when they're in class, for example, they can add it from their phone and not to have to worry about it.
hypothetically speaking, what if i had a startup that you could pay a small fee and then commissions to that helped get the word out about your startup/event/blog/whatever?
The meat and potatoes of this article: "Muxtape is relaunching as a service exclusively for bands, offering an extremely powerful platform with unheard-of simplicity for artists to thrive on the internet."

So, in essence, it is no longer really Muxtape, but an entirely different idea that is just a nod towards what it started out as. This may not be all bad for Muxtape, but it definitely goes to show two things:

1. The major labels/RIAA are far too stiff and don't seem to understand how to work with websites for their own profit. If they had worked out a fair deal, this could have undoubtedly be incredibly profitable for both Muxtape and the labels.

2. Attempting to do something like this will take either a bigger backer (more money), or for the RIAA to suddenly gain an understanding of the internet's true potential.

Regardless, it is a bit disappointing that Muxtape is no longer Muxtape -- however, there are imitators out there working to provide a similar concept, and one of those might just succeed. This has just been a jumping-off point for a lot of people...even if this one doesn't succeed, it's made its mark.
I wouldn't do anything. You would, because I will own you.
Searched for: "best techno music". I was ready for more results on the initial page and tried to scroll down to them. All I got to see was a screen of whitespace. I don't think it would hurt to increase the number of results that you show. Also, I didn't bother to hit the more links button; I guess I've been trained by existing search engines not to do that, and I expect that other people are the same.
Dude, with ten million you'd barely be able to get off the damn island after a couple of years. Jets cost at least $50M.