skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people in the EE and CS areas I have seen do. The reason is that they don't invite just anyone to do the reviewing, you have to be deemed knowledgeable in your field, so it signifies that.
Thanks for your comment!

> I'm curious how you think that it's related.

It is only tangentially related because it is about domain squatting in general.

> removing a domain name from blacklists.

Of course the list would only carry squatted names, not names that have been brought from squatters. It would have to be regularly updated with a simple way to remove domains.

Some squatted domains do show up in search engines, so it could be used as a filter for that. Even better, when you accidentally land on a squatted domain (by following a link to a now-dead site, or by typoing a domain name) you get automatically redirected to Google or another search engine instead.

Gabriel Weinberg from Duck Duck Go has a similar list that he uses for his search engine, but he also had a Firefox toolbar that would prevent you from visiting squatted domains and instead get you to the correct domain when it was a typo. (The toolbar doesn't exist anymore).
Actually they offer it as a service. Amazon's backend is well documented: http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/12/13/amazon-simpledb/
What about this? (not a joke)
A) ridicule HP into dropping Autonomy bid
B) because of A, the stock price of Autonomy crashes
C) Oracle buys Autonomy
D) Mike Lynch gets fired
How Google drove Samsung away
Samsung's products are so aesthetically similar that their own marketing people get confused and just use Apple assets.

Based on everything I've heard about Jobs' "negotiation" style, I'm sure the phone call was completely civil. No yelling whatsoever.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/09/24/who-copies-who-samsun...
So, earn money in your sleep by working really hard and not sleeping for a long time. Kind of like it taking 10 years to become an overnight success.
I misread the price when I looked the first time. I thought it said $2,500. I didn't bat an eye.

$250 it too cheap.
People don't have to be technical enough to understand or circumvent, that's why there are experts out there pointing these things out and helping people configure their stuff.

The only valid point here is that most people aren't informed of the privacy issues and this really needs to stop being a valid excuse once and for all.
The amount of controversy here means that you must be on to something.

The absolute worst thing that can happen is that you show your idea to someone and they're totally indifferent.

That some people love this and others hate it, and that you've generated hundreds of comments, shows that this is worth pursuing.

Bookmarked for next time I get stuck thinking of names. My usual process is to think of an idea I think is great, spend 2-3 days thinking of names, set up a domain and landing page. Saving that 2-3 days for $250 is something I'd seriously consider.

Often these ideas are impulses that consume me for a week or two, then I get bored of them or find someone else who's already doing a great job of filling the need.

I would experiment with pricing - at $250 it's not an impulse buy. It is a fantastic price for someone who is seriously starting a company, but I have a hunch that people like me (who have a day job but regularly come up with ideas they love and obsess over for a week or two, that then fizzles out to nothing) is a larger market and has potential for repeat purchases. If you can tap into that you may find more revenue, cashing in on the empty dreams of dilettantes like me :)
Gatorade is just as bad. This is going to come off as judgemental but I'm saying it out of concern: if you can grok a lot of programming languages you can DEFINITELY grok nutrition.
Facts about Hemorrhoids
>First, it's a logotype. Some of the world's most recognizable logos are, like this, logotypes.

I'm willing to accept this. Point to your favour.

>Third, why would you want the font used for this particular logo?

Because I might want to tweak it, resize it, use it on letterheads, put it on my business card, create sub products that follow the "brand style", etc. A vector drawing at the minimum is essential.

That said it's entirely moot because I took a look at their FAQ and:

>The logo is a simple mockup designed to feature the domain name but we do send it to you. We have professional logo designers that can tweak or redo the logo if you are interested. Just email us.

Eh. Glorified domain squatting. It makes you feel good about paying through the nose for bogus "intellectual property".
"I’m a developer and I’ve been attempting to dress better for the last few months."

I´m a developer and I´ve been atempting to code better for the last few decades. ( Never got me unemployed/bad employed, by the way )

"For a group of people constantly trying for improving development ability, I’m surprised more aren’t trying to develop their dress."

Maybe they´re to busy with the kernel to mind the shell. I´m glad inteligence gave some people power to chalenge traditions, prejudices, judgments...

"You are building the future, so dress like it."
Suits are the future ? Silly me, I always thought they´ve been around for a loooong time.
Maybe the future will be more about substance than appearance.
Maybe the future will be about respect for diversity.
Maybe some people are just afraid of change.
Maybe having to really conect with somebody else for what he/she IS and not the uniform he/she wears is too frightening.

I´m not religious but I think Christ said something about the big bosses of the time looking like tombs: very fancy on the outside, rotten on the inside. It´s somewhere in the bible.

Ah, last but not least, being comfortable makes my mind really free to go. Probably releases some neurons to more pleasant/significant/important tasks.
Just as a quick example for other people who are thinking about doing this, I sell UI design & development tutorials at Design Then Code (http://designthencode.com/) for 1) designers learning how to code, and 2) coders learning how to design. I've been selling them since March and the total money earned is now about 1/3rd the salary I earn at my full-time job. Not enough to fully supplant it, but jumping my income up 33% has been pretty awesome.

Waking up in the morning to check out how much money you made last night is an incredible feeling. Or, getting an email while out at dinner that you just sold a thing that paid for your dinner? It's tough to explain just how satisfying it is. And anyone can do it. I write about the things that I do every single day. All of us have special, deep knowledge about a subject that other people might want to become more knowledgable about, it's just a matter of putting that knowledge into a compelling package.
Life of George melds Legos with iOS for ’digital-to-physical' gameplay
What is wrong with NYU or Columbia? Can they not attract top CS talent?
T9 was copied from Benefon, a smaller Finnish mobile company. Some of my friends had their phones.
EDIT:
Or at least they brought phones with that earlier to the market. Wikipedia claims it was invented by "Tegic".
That's a great answer. I hope I didn't come off as too critical, sounds like you definitely know what's up.
Patents themselves have only partial importance in the dispute. Mild form of patent violations do occur in the industry, but they are set aside most of them times, because most companies have violated some form of patents one way or the other. They want to avoid this type of battle Apple and Samsung are engaged in.

The real motive on the both sides is to reduce the sales of the opponents. I think both Apple and Samsung thinks that 2011 and 2012 are critical years that would determine the mobile phone trend in next few years to come. So despite the huge pain both parties go through, they may think that it's all worth it.
开业贺词
Ask HN: We dreamed, we shipped, we are stuck 
About an year ago me and utkarshkukreti set out to create an online network for entrepreneurial people. Just where you could share ideas, ask question and mark progress of your startup in mile-stones and all.

The MVP we ended-up building is live at http://besperk.com . We got decent enough traction in earlier days. It did face some problems - there were no email notifs at first, then there were just too many of them. We tried hard keeping up with them.

But it just didn't work out. We burned-out and the traffic slowly died. But it wasn't all useless; looking back, it's clear, we did solve some problems. Biggest one of them - UX of online forums.

Now we have 4 options:

1. Open Source the Code. It's sorta amatuer but some people might be interested in using / developing it.

2. Sell hosted forums. Blog owners and other people interested? Will you be interested?

3. Get other interested devs on board (It's sorta too much on one Rails dev) and continue to work in this direction.

4. Sell everything.

Would like to hear from you guys. Ideas from HN always help :)

Off to wiser people out there:
Because it's hard, and just throwing money at it doesn't make it any easier.
This! We'll watch it on Chill.com and serve e-popcorn
Any pitch that starts with "this may not be possible" (even if that is inferred) is going to quickly get turned off by anybody who listens to pitches all the time.

This is why engineers generally don't make good sales people: the desire to tell the whole truth is usually too strong. The world of software is an incredibly dynamic space, so sales and marketing can use a little of that to their advantage. :)
C is not a very good first language and at this point I doubt it's a very common one.

There are many people for whom C is a first language, especially those in electrical or mechanical disciplines whose introduction to programming involves microcontrollers. The number of people learning C not as a first language but still early on in their education is non-trivial too. Even people who have been programming a while will have some trouble with the concepts of pointers and null terminated strings which they likely haven't encountered before C and they do resort back to grabbing code.

Even when someone is past the point of copy and paste, they expect learning materials to be examples of the 'right' way to do something in an environment that is new to them. I've been programming for ages and am learning erlang right now, to a large extent I rely on the learning materiel I'm using to show me the time-tested solution to problems that have been solved over and over again for that language. Not because I couldn't do it my way, but because I'm building in a new environment where I don't know all the ropes and expect learning material to guide me. After all, thats what its for.

Lets look at this from the other side. Lets say someone has been programming C for decades, but has never used a SQL RDBMS. Now he's learning PHP to make himself a website. Is it fine for php guides to rely on his experience as a programmer and just use some shitty hacked together SQL escaper, or should the guides use the baked-in sanitation utility is?
When it comes to basic science, this is not true at all. Gleaning numbers from Wikipedia, the Gates Foundation seems to spend roughly $300 million a year on research. HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) spends $450 million a year. In contrast, the NIH spend $31 billion a year. Biology and medicine are the fields with the highest proportion of private funding, and even in these fields the government is dominant.

Overhead does not seem relevant to this point.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Billets 9mm Special Edition Earphones
> Because they are effectively in the same geographic area.

Yes

> The housing prices aren't that different until you hit outlying areas like Livermore.

No.

Palo Alto's median house price is almost 3x San Jose and Fremont's. Union City is much cheaper than both, San Leandro's is less than 1/4th of PA's, and Oakland is significantly lower. Cupertino splits the difference between SJ and PA with nice houses while Redwood city does with crap. (Berkely comes in lower than both.)

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Palo_Alto-California/

It might be reasonable to argue that the peninsula cities (to San Jose) are one market, but SJ and south and the east bay are different, even on this side of the hills.
艺术漆
One of the links ("just a rebadged BlackBerry Playbook" http://gdgt.com/discuss/the-amazon-tablet-will-look-like-a-p... )
has some purported scuttlebutt about development, tailing off with:

Although Amazon did refresh the ID of their PlayBook derivative, I'm told that this first tablet of theirs is "supposed to be pretty poor" and is a "stopgap" in order to get a tablet out the door for the 2011 holiday season

(P.S. to OP: please do not post URL shortener links.)
Don't be surprised we see Andreesen gladly selling his companies should Oracle come knocking with a few hundred million or billion.
How to Have a Budget Wedding
Ask HN: Does anybody code during their commute?
Inspired by this comment where conesus (Samuel Clay) says he is coding NewsBlur (http://newsblur.com) during his 35 minutes commute on the A train in NYC:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869550

An this post by dblock (Daniel Doubrovkine) saying he also codes during his commute in NYC:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597962

I was wondering if anyone else is coding/hacking on their commute time and if you do, could you share your exprerience, your setup or any tips?

Thanks!
I think a reasonable argument to make against domain squatting is that those who do it as a business… are just charging you a fee solely because they thought of it first. It feels very much like a pure wealth transfer from me to a more entrenched player.

It's somewhat analogous to say most software patents, in that their sole purpose seems to be enacting a social cost. You're not going to do anything with that patent/domain, you're just going to wait until someone else thinks of it as well.
Didn't Apple already lose this fight?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...
Two floppy disc drives play the Imperial March from Star Wars
id like to know too, and what would you prefer instead?
Persuasive design according to the six principles of Cialdini - part one
The window manager in Windows 7 is excellent. Double click a title, make that window maximize. Have a wide screen? Drag one window to the left, one window to the right and you have a split screen.
The ALT+TAB on Windows 7 works without using the mouse which is salt in the wounds of GNOME 3 considering you can't do the above mentioned split screening/minimizing. Supposedly alt+` at least does the old GNOME 2 alt+tab behavior but I learned that after converting to XFCE.
Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (the future of education)
I agree, probably the best thing this month. I've printed it out and hung it on my wall.
For the free options, the movie selection is decent, and the TV selection is pretty awful. Lots of back catalog stuff, like 270 episodes of Cheers, but only a few series from recent years.

But OTOH, I paid for Prime when it didn't have any streaming, and thought it was worth it, so I don't have high expectations.
Is that not the nature of competition in the marketplace? Someone proves an idea is possible, someone proves it is marketable, others copy and compete, differentiating on attributes like price or features or quality. How is using the courts to enforce your marketshare compatible with open competition?
Agreed. I can't help but think Apple has to be paying Target something for the 10 foot long Apple-branded cases/displays for the iPad/iPod lines. Maybe Target would pay for that themselves to have the privilege of selling ipads, but I'd be less surprised if Apple was paying for the space.
I think you missed the point. The "product" (the rough english) was terrible, but it had personality, it was enjoyable despite the rough english.
A technique for me is a task for you
System Settings -> System Information -> Graphics -> Forced Fallback Mode

Because you totally would look there and not Displays or Screen.
Needs more choices :)
Ubuntu Restores Xen, Adds Juju to Version 11.10
From crowdsourcing to crime-sourcing: The rise of distributed criminality
Boat shoes, loafers, driving mocs, Chuck Taylors.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Google, Apple, Facebook are all using Oracle albeit not for their main consumer-facing product but more for internal systems that performs e-Commerce functionality.
They could charge 4x as much

I know someone who does this for a living. And I know for a fact he sold some domain for 500x as much. He has a $100,000 chest just to buy domains and sit on them for years if necessary. For larger domain acquisition he usually gets the money from other sources.
No, not everybody domain squats. We, in the tech business might have a few spare domains left over from unfulfilled projects or ideas and that's absolutely great. I don't agree that putting a 'reasonable' price point on a bad practice is O.K.

Their process does not add value. Let me reiterate: Allow me to buy the name at a discount price, but still at a 600% or so markup over the $8 price. Add value to the process by allowing me to bundle more of your services and maybe you'll have a customer.
Creating Knife (OpsCode's Chef) Plug-ins ~ 1st "knife role rename" ~ DevOps
New NFC Spec Makes It Easier To Swap Contacts, Save Data To Phones
Making your house into a home
I love that somebody thought of this ... can't wait to see them turn this into a full-blown floppy disc-orchestra.
However, you seem to want to disbelieve him uncritically, and that's your prerogative.
How You Can Earn An Income Online...
My buddy Vick just recorded a brand new video showing EXACTLY how he sets up a brand new campaign from scratch and pulls money in quickly.

I think you will really enjoy this...

http://www.48hrsystem.com

It's like standing behind his shoulder and watching him do this every step of the way... pretty cool!
Well document and Open Source it.
The reason it illustrated the hazards of a "wrong personality" not because it harmed Fred's particular brand, but because it was so startling that the reader can immediately see how having a "wrong personality" can have a lasting impact. This isn't a problem for Fred (except possibly for new readers), but could be for someone who is still trying to build his brand.

In other words, if this were the personality of the blog (or, say, if Zed Shaw's online personality were the personality of the blog), online readers would have a different impression of Fred Wilson the VC.

This one being so much more successful

Only if the sole purpose of the blog was to get attention and create discussion as to the writing style of the blog.
The prospects for NYC as an entrepreneurial tech hub are looking better. I think Stanford and Cornell just want a piece of the action.
He didn't plug his website.
Strange how a paragraph from Florian Mueller's blog seems to be getting repeated round the internet as an official Samsung statement.

Exhibit A:

"
“If Samsung truly believed that Google’s takeover of Motorola Mobility was going to be helpful to the entire Android eco-system at large, it would have waited until that deal was closed before concluding the license agreement with Microsoft,” said a Samsung official.

“Samsung knows it can’t rely on Google. We’ve decided to address Android IP issues on our own.”"

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2011/09/133_95716....

Exhibit B

"If Samsung truly believed that Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility was going to be helpful to the Android ecosystem at large, it would have waited until that deal is closed before concluding the license agreement with Microsoft. But Samsung probably knows it can't rely on Google. It decided to address Android's intellectual property issues on its own."

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/09/samsung-takes-androi...
Being good at developing new stuff == being good at copying new stuff and quickly delivering to mainstream markets. See also: Apple, Inc; Microsoft, Inc; etc etc etc.
Probably the IAR microcontroller development software http://www.iar.com/
Eclipse Announces Full Support for Java 7
Amazon accepts Kindle Fire will be rooted
3 Principles of Successful Marketing
Seth is right and it's becoming more and more obvious. In the news recently, I read that Foxconn is replacing a thousand workers with robotics. The industrial age is over.

The next big insight is that as wealth classes further bifurcate, it will ultimately lead to something like Cap/Floor in all democratic societies. The one thing the less-fortunate will have is their numbers. It would be hard to stop them from democratically simply placing a cap on wealth and a floor for themselves -- a basic monthly government-provided income available to all of-age citizens. Everyone will get some amount, say a few hundred, every month.

During the last depression (I would argue that because of deflation and the liquidity trap, we're actually in a depression) the top tax bracket in the US was 94%. I don't expect it to be much different this time.
Good question. I'd like to hear the answer to this as well.
Yeah, it's cheap city-owned land and a chance to get in on NYC's bid to become the innovation capital of the East Coast.
Salient comment: "Office and Windows are not likely to remain the cash cows they are now. I am pondering at which point Google will decide that instead of waging an expensive patent war with MS they can simply throw $20-30 Mil to make Open Office fully compatible and competitive with MS Office. They can bring MS to their knees in just an year..."
Seamless acquires MenuPages
Why should he do that? Could you detail your answer a bit?
What do you mean, don't submit bugs?
Prom and Wedding Limos in Connecticut
Have you thought about relaunching after a redesign? What you just outlined as the idea behind the site sounds great... so I visited the site and was hit with off-putting text (the 'voice' of the site doesn't work for me), spelling errors and no clear indication what the site was FOR.

So: idea really good (to my mind), execution: needs some polish.
Crypto Legend Ron Rivest On Fixing SSL, APTs and The Future Of Security
Why The New York Times Isn't Using Facebook's 'Frictionless Sharing'
Just bought one of the domains. Great idea. But you're off by 10X on the pricing. Should be $2500 a piece. Seriously.
So true...I've been publishing apps on the iOS app store for the last 3 years and get an hour of sleep during development. But once the app is live and earning money, I can rest easy and sleep 8-9 hours a night. Over a span of 5 years, it basically averages out to about 5-6 hours of sleep a night, which seems normal.
> there is a market for selective journals. Much like reddit and HN, it is useful to have a crowd-source selection of interesting/important items.

We don't need journals for that. They could be replaced by services like http://f1000.com/
Not really. If your day job is designing icon sets, then pumping out one more on the side isn't really all that hard. Especially if your day job is designing a client site that happens to need a whole bunch of icons for a client who doesn't consider things like generated IP to be worth protecting.

There are lots of examples of this sort of thing that make it pretty straightforward to take something that you're doing anyway and spin it off as a product that brings in revenue. If fact, the product that pays my rent (S3stat) was exactly that: something we needed in house that turned out to be something other people would pay for.

So yeah, it's probably not anywhere near as much work as you expect. And like people are telling you elsewhere, once it's built, it stays built, and the money keeps rolling in.
Skype, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Jawbone and Box.net are all in the Andreeson Horowitz portfolio. He seems to be doing fine.

He bought FB way too late than most others. What valuation did he buy in Zynga, Twitter etc than we'll talk? Jut because they're 'hot' now doesn't mean that they'll make him money later.