skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In hind-sight everything is obvious. Everything is easy if you already know it. You already know the perfect domain for your uses that's already available - more power to you.

The interesting aspect of this service is as a set of triggers. You'll find some people will immediately spot a matching domain in that list - they may not have thought of it themselves, but seeing it there triggers off the lightbulb.

Sure you can do the exact same thing with a command line whois, but then you don't get the benefit of serendipity. Someone else's list of brandable domains shows an item you weren't expecting to see, and that triggers off your own creative process into a different direction, and you find an end result you may not have arrived at without that serendipitous discovery.

You are seeing the results of someone else's creative process of discovering brandable domains. You don't have to pay for that effort, but you can be motivated by it. The $250 charge is if one of those domains is a perfect match, not for the process of finding an available perfect match and brandable domain.

The route that satisfies your expenditure expectations is watching expired domains lists - that's another source of someone else's creative inspiration. But you either have to scan tens of thousands of junk entries, or have a keyword list of some sort to focus on. Even then, because of the volume, you'll miss excellent domain names that are slightly outside of your current thread of ideas.

Then there's http://impossibility.org/ - generating available domains centred around a keyword. It's interesting, more serendipitous than expired lists, and purchasable immediately by registration. This is probably one of the better "suggested domain name" tools around, though it's just sticking words before or after your keyword. Sometimes an good domains does pop out, but it takes a bit of a graft, or a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Or sit there typing one domain idea at a time into a whois. It depends on your own level of innate creativity as to which approach will reap dividends. Personally, I use several different avenues. This is one more to keep an eye on.

Don't underestimate the creativity and inspiration. This is perhaps a better source of quality domains than Sedo/GoDaddy auctions, ebay/flippa/digitalpoint. Better, because of it's focus on brandable names rather than generic keywords / keyword-heavy / geo-targetted domains that are the current vogue in domainer/internet marketing circles.

These guys won't know what matches perfectly for you, only you do. If the price upsets you, you are not forced to buy even if it's a perfect match, you can just find another perfectly matching domain that is available.
I see it more as Mark Hurd's way of giving the HP board of directors a huge middle finger.
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It's partly because of the performance of V8 (my SMTP server, Haraka, is about 8-10 times faster than the Perl version I worked on, Qpsmtpd, for example), and partly because of the "sync library" problem - with Perl (or Python) most libraries that access things on the network or on disk are written synchronously. That's not the case with Node - everything is assumed to be async.

I've written a LOT of async code in Perl and C, and ran across this problem countless times. It really is a blessing to not have to worry about it.
Value is in the domain name itself. There is no justification in defending domain parking. Like I said, offer the domain names at %80 off. That would still be a 600% markup on a $8 domain.
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It's not at all clear to me that the end effect is as different as the proponents claim.

Were you born in that ivory tower, or did you just move there before you could read?

Go get a job outside of research for a while (software companies are hiring!) and then take another look at this question. Those of us on the outside can tell you the difference between PLoS and, say, Nature. It's about $200 per year per journal, or $30 per article in small quantities. More importantly, it's the difference between being able to quickly skim an article in thirty seconds with one click and paying to skim each and every one of the hundreds of articles that are required to really get a firm grasp on a field. It's the difference between being able to simply link your most interested blog readers to the original research (complete with original data and figures) and having to tediously paraphrase everything you want to convey, a paraphrasing process that often goes awry.
Used gnome-shell on Fedora 15 for a few weeks, loved it but didn't love Fedora.

Moved to Ubuntu 11.04 before giving up on Linux and even though I'm not the biggest Unity look-and-feel fan, it has most of the aspects of gnome-shell I like and worked smoothly on my ThinkPad T60 except for hardware volume buttons which was fixed with [1] and slow wireless due to an older kernel which was fixed with [2].

Overall this idea (inspired by Spotlight and I think perfected in Windows Vista by mapping it to a single key) of mapping the Windows key to an auto-focused, system wide search box is fantastic. I really wouldn't want to go back to a system without that keystroke. Gnome using that same structure and taking you to this nice overview/launch panel is a really slick refinement.

[1] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=60945#p3793...
[2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1837729
Most of these logos are poor, which means you're going to throw them out. That's all the service includes.

[This one](http://stylate.com/portfolio/sporous-com/) is just the domain name in a particular font. They don't even include rights to the font! That is bullshit.

I'm echoing the "lipstick on a pig glorifying domain squatting." These guys are like upscale spammers, or group buying discount sites.
I wonder if it's any coincidence that Samsung announced that they'll be partnering with Intel to revitalize Maemo (now "Tizen") on the same day that this was announced. This also makes me question how strong their case is against Apple. It sure looks like Google didn't have their bases covered with Android.
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Or you can let the browser do it for you.

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There is 12% increase in New Software Licenses for Oracle , as per released data in last FY.
He's ridiculing the people who holds the blind belief in the valley startup as a sure way to wealth, not promoting it.
Hey, if you get a chance, let me know if you still have issues. Did a quick fix last night, so hopefully was enough. (May need to go back later and fix underlying issue.) Thx!
What you say is true but doesn't work. With this site, you see before you purchase. When you hire a $99, it's not guaranteed that you'll get something that you'll like or he does understand what you are looking for.
Not using copyrighted names.

You mean trademarked.
"Given a binary image, find the largest axis aligned that consists only of foreground pixels."

I think you mean "axis-aligned rectangle", no?
What are you wasting all your money on then? If you don't have the money to take a girl out do you really think you're financially stable enough to have a family?
I you want to support this kind of thing, get involved with Jonny Long's "Infosec Without Borders" project. http://infosecwithoutborders.org/ The idea is to assign hackers to help non-profits around the world in exchange for professional references to get their "legitimate" careers off the ground.
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Look for slim fit shirts. I've heard good things about Brooks Brothers Extra Slim Fit shirts. H&M also makes good slim fitting shirts if you're on a budget. In American clothing lingo "extra slim fit" just means "not overweight."

Alternately, have your shirts taken in by a tailor. Most will do it for about $8-12, hardly an imposition for a developer who probably makes 2-3 times that per hour.
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I remember reading about this in DDJ back in the day:

http://drdobbs.com/database/184410529
I don't think it's good for startups. A startup is something that you spend time on, launch, test, connect... It needs more than a $250 logo, but a complete strategy for launching.

But what about small web apps? This should work very well for them.
I met my girlfriend over a dating site, but I had started actively trying to meet people a year before (friends of friends), and I realized I had lots of interaction problems to correct, as well as trying to improve myself not only to be a bit more interesting, but also my physical appearance as well.

And I disagree that other parts of the world stigmatize dating sites (it's too broad a statement). For example, Badoo (the site where I met her) is huge in Latin America and UK and Russia and other very dissimilar sites.

It also took a long time, I met about 50 girls before meeting my girlfriend.

I don't think I'm exemplary, but if I managed to get a girlfriend, most can do it.
"Joy to the world!

What a trainwreck."

I find news about Nokia interesting, so thank you for posting this, but what is up with the tone of the article? It feels more like a youtube-comment than news.
The threading model in Haskell (GHC) would be ideal, as it's essentially abstracted away from the developer. There's certainly the potential for a performance advantage there as well as easier to maintain code. The advantage Node.js has, is that the vast majority of web developers already know javascript. It doesn't need to be the "perfect" server-side implementation, it just needs to be good enough. It's success is due to it's easy of accessibility, something he would have missed out on had he gone the Haskell path.
Yes, the web has really changed how education can be done. We have google, we have wikipedia... accessing knowledge has never been easier. I work since last year as a trainer, my passion is letting young college students be educated in a whole new way.(I am from China, I love my college time, but hate all the courses I was given) So I write blogs to let them understand the importance of freedom in their life and learning, I do screencasts to teach them some practical programming skills so that they won't go hungry fighting for their dreams.

I am very exiting doing all these. I do not need to repeat same thing again and agin. Teaching is now done cheaply and efficiently as never happened before.
It takes 90%+ enriched uranium to produce weapons and 1-5% for an electricity reactor. Apparently, 20% is to produce medical isotopes (U235 being a good neutron source(1)) or for some specialized naval reactors.

It's not yet sure if the Iranians really want to make a bomb or just want to show the capability of building one. Unfortunately, the sanctions and threats of war do nothing but entrench those currently in power there.

(1) There are ways to produce neutrons other than by enriching uranium, like particle accelerators.
+1 for this idea.. This should be on your list of things to do quickly !
It's only a brand if it identifies a product, service or company. These aren't brands, just names with appropriate icons.
You can't apply a patch if you're using it as a shared library, and OpenSSL is only part of the problem - what about SChannel on Windows? That can never get NPN support, until perhaps Windows 8.

I know NPN is the right thing to do long-term, but shouldn't any possible alternative be supported if it makes SPDY more accessible?
Thinking smart is a part of working hard. When we say work, we mean something that provides value, not something that requires a lot of physical effort.

I can "work" very hard pushing stones uphill like Sisyphus, and I probably won't get rich as a result.

A major reason why inequality exists is because the work ethic required for long-term thinking and planning is a model of behavior which children acquire from their parents through learning, observation, and imitation. Children from families where parents do not consider long-term goals worthy of pursuit are hugely disadvantaged.
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Start by putting your email in your profile ;-) -- Where are you located? I'd guess that somebody local will be best for you.
> it's a lipstick on pig product designed to glorify domain squatting

There is no way that it could be said any better.
I love Fred, and I love his blog, but I couldn't make it through that post.
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Seriously, what the hell is going on with these lawsuits? Is Apple really on a mission to prove that with enough money you can win any legal battle?
Sadly it looks like PPK was in too much of a hurry to post some 'quick thoughts'. A little bit of additional reading (heck, even watching the video on the Silk blog) would have revealed that Silk's "split architecture" is much, much smarter than simply having the server send a bitmap of the page to the browser.

From the introductory blog post [1]:

> All of the browser subsystems are present on your Kindle Fire as well as on the AWS cloud computing platform. Each time you load a web page, Silk makes a dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which will execute remotely.

Then there's the Ars article [2] that explains some of what Silk's split architecture can do:

> Amazon will load the webpage on the server side, downloading all of the necessary content elements in parallel. After downloading the content, Amazon will send the compiled page—including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and images—back to the device as a single stream of data… The Silk browser maintains a single persistent connection to Amazon's cloud (using Google's fast SPDY protocol), through which requests are sent and content is received… An Amazon engineer at the New York launch event told us that the split browsing infrastructure can even compile JavaScript to ARM machine code on the server side in situations where it will provide a speed boost.

And the Terms & Conditions [3] make it clear that Silk can stand on its own two feet if desired:

> You can also choose to operate Amazon Silk in basic or “off-cloud” mode. Off-cloud mode allows web pages generally to go directly to your computer rather than pass through our servers. As such, it does not take advantage of Amazon’s cloud computing services to speed-up web content delivery.

When they say "split architecture", it sounds like they really mean it.

[1]: http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazo...

[2]: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/09/amazons-silk-web...

[3]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
I agree. I bought ZippyKid.com from Brandstack last year. I would never have thought of it myself, even though all my initial customers had said how fast I was in responding to emails, and how much faster their sites were after they switched to me.
Only YC companies get to post in the jobs section, but on the first and second of every month there are both public jobs and gigs threads.
A lot of conventional journals have an open access option available to the author for a fee (usually for about $3000). What about offering a no-cost upgrade after reviewing some number of papers for the journal?
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These aren't branded. They have nothing behind them, no product, no recognition. Having an icon doesn't turn them into a brand.

And the thought of spending $250/month on beer and coffee is disturbing. I spend $15 ;)
It appears that they are using parking page advertising - go to any of the available domains and you'll see that they don't just redirect to Stylate.
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Yes, Rastani doesn't show up on the terminal, but if you look up his 'people' page, it lists his profession as "PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER" and there the only things associated with him are 3 news stories on 9/27.

EDIT: I'm agreeing with you :) Maybe this is a sales opportunity to sell to the BBC!
Funny you ask this, as I'm probably the only Ubuntu dev with an economics degree rather than a computer science one.

Regardless, from a technical perspective, we don't really collect enough data about users to know who would be willing to pay more, and that sort of data is a minimum requirement for price discrimination of any kind. We have some pretty firm policies about not collecting personal data unless we absolutely have to, so I don't expect this to change either.

You could make a few guesses though, and for instance charge different amounts in different currencies or countries. You could also do what traditional retailers do, and provide coupons of various sorts in particular venues. We're not technically ready for anything like that yet though.

Pragmatically, I don't think it's a rabbit hole we'd want to go down even if it were no different than what existing publishers are doing anyway.
Yes, you are paying a premium. Yes, they are making a profit on this. But hey, they are solving a pain point, why not charge?

I just paid $1650 for a domain. That was a ton of money for me, but when someone already has it, you don't have a lot of leverage.

If I was starting another company, I would use this in a second. fueza.com anyone?
This is basic "How People Think" 101. People like HOT, INTERESTING, SEXY. People also like FUNNY! Which is why this article was BRILLIANT.
I'd be interested to know your take on what made the 80s an easier era to start in. Is it mainly that the field is more competitive now than it used to be, or are there other factors as well?
I don't thing a lot of node's traction is coming from Python programmers (though when I last looked at Python I got the impression Twisted has a reputation for being spottily documented, has that improved in recent years?).

The attraction of using Javascript server-side for many is the possibility of using the same language client- and server- side, with the relative ease of a native data encapsulation (JSON) for transferring state between the two. Even back in the VB6 days (I say "back in the days" ruefully: we are still supporting the product!) I used JS for a large chunk of validation code server-side, this meant that the same logic was used in both places aside from some wrapper code to arrange for the code on both sides to be presented with the same data model. From the point of view of a relative beginner to server-side coding who is adept at Javascript on the client side this is particularly attractive (much like Python being available in browsers would be to seasoned server-side Python programmers)

The attraction of node in particular is a mixed bag:

* Momentum. People are using it so people are using it.

* The event driven nature, if properly handled, can make it very memory efficient.

* The speed of V8, which at the time was a step or two ahead of other javascript engines (since node first turned up there has been plenty of active development in this area, with a different story each month about one or the other JS engine beating everything else in some benchmark or other, so I'm not sure which has any sort of upper hand at the moment).

* It arrived at the right time, and development from "proof of concept" to a relatively mature product happened fast enough that people didn't become disillusioned soon after the initial excitement.

* Decent library support, partly due to the number of people created the above mentioned momentum. It is easy for an alternative server-side stack to suffer in this area and eventually die because of it. Though the rapid development may make this bite back a bit, as a lot of bindings from six months ago that have not been actively maintained might not work because of changes in node over that time.

* Other Javascript based server-side stacks have started to die off already, such as Jaxer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaxer#Aptana_Jaxer) for one example, partly due to the popularity of node.js though in many cases it was already happening (or they didn't gain much traction to start with).
I know a lot of domainers (who own thousands of domain names) and all of them will sell a .COM for less than $1000, just because its a .COM doesn't mean its instantly worth at least $1000.

That's not to say they won't sell some domains for more than $1000 because, they own premium domains, as well as LLL.com's NNN.com's etc but your generalisation that a .COM is worth $1000 is wrong.
"A number of times now I've abandoned ideas after being unable to find a domain name as they're all taken by squatters"

Seriously? You've given up on an idea because you couldn't find a domain name? Your idea is contingent on a domain?

* altavista.digital.com
* del.icio.us
* thefacebook.com
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And also we have all kinds of collaboration tools(Basecamp, github, all kinds of forums...) to make working together a more efficient process, I think similar things can be done in education. The experience I learned as a opensource programer shows me awesome possibilities, I actually learnt Ruby on Rails, in order to build new game rules to organize the students together and get them fully interested and motivated to learn. I have not done much, but I will work on.
That's against the Twitter's ToS, under "username squatting" rules: http://support.twitter.com/articles/18311-the-twitter-rules
You misunderstand me, I think. Callback spaghetti is different from complex code that uses lots of callbacks.

I'm not saying you don't need to have a series of nested callbacks to do things, I'm saying you should hide these behind the appropriate abstractions for the task you're writing.

In your case the bullet points listed are exactly those layers of abstraction.

The request handler processes the form and calls the S3 layer for each file. The S3 layer then calls the APIs and passes off the responses to the XML parsing layer - which gives it back a useful JS object detailing the response, the API layer then provides a response to the request handler which formats the response and sends it to the client.

The workflow I'm implementing in Node is even more complicated than this, but good use of abstractions and control flow libraries[1] means that it's extremely rare for any code to be indented more than 5 blocks.

[1] https://github.com/caolan/async is my lib of choice, but plenty of other suitable choices exist.
Well, even John Gruber is giving praises to a non-Apple device. That must mean something.
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I remember reading that Ellison takes a lot of things personally .
"Where's the creativity? Where's the thinking of making things that people really need?"

Startup owners are people that need things too - often really good customers to work with as they understand the time involved in building a product and will pay for services that save them time/money.

If anything, startups selling to startups is fantastic news as:

1. It's creating an ecosystem of small, independently owned businesses - a vibrant self-contained economy.

2. Good marketing is selecting a niche that is small enough to compete in but large enough to build a profitable business. It validates that startups are a successful enough business model that there's enough people in that community to constitute a profitable niche market.

3. It doesn't matter if the need is not permanent - all customer needs are transient given a long enough timeframe. If I have a problem I'll pay to solve then I'm not thinking about whether I'll have the same problem in 10 years, just that I want it solved right now.
On this point I don't disagree, for this case you'd expect the data access layer to deal with all the database errors and return something useful to the request layer:

app.get('/price', function(req, res) {
products.fetchOne(function(err, product) {
if (err) {
res.render('error', { error: err });
} else {
res.render('product', { product: product });
}
});
});
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