skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is taking an indirect approach. They are not necessarily comparing items directly to offer suggestions, although they probably take categories into consideration and that's because they have a good stream of traffic, ratings and purchases to rely on (having more, better data gives better results than smart algorithms).

Their suggestions are like: customers that viewed this item also viewed; customers that viewed this item ended up buying; customers that bought this product, also bought these other products.

That last metric in particular is interesting, because it tells you for a product what are the complementary products that customers may be interested in. So you don't actually have to measure somehow the physical properties of the objects getting sold to discover relationships.

In your case I don't have knowledge about the problem domain to give advice, but "customers that viewed this deal also viewed ..." is always a great addition. Also add ratings and follow-up on people with emails to rate on their vacation, after coming back from the trip. I don't know how well it will work - there's no general solution, you try something and if it doesn't work, try something else.
sweet, user agent sniffing and no deferreds for ajax calls. I'm in.
Did you mean you spend less time on reading one liners? Yes me too, but there are lots of one liners now and not so many well written comments.

Regarding your second point. At the scale of HN now, I think we have to consider people not as individuals but as a swarm of actors; perhaps analogous to particles in a CFD analysis. Then ask the question 'what design changes need to be made to change the direction of these actors'. I don't personally assume the worst in people but I don't think people are naturally moral actors. They won't 'do the right thing' without any incentives. People are driven by the positive and negative consequences of their actions which they measure from the reactions of their peers. In the case of HN our peers are the crowd sourced 'off the cuff' opinions of a random sample of a few hundred thousand random people. Some people are horrified by the idea that morals don't exist and it is a bit of a scary concept being surrounded by potential monsters, but really I think it's just nature and lots of natural things are scary but can be mitigated by design.
Useful if you're taking (part of) your site offline for any reason, not only if you're protesting against SOPA+PIPA.
I disagree with your assessment.

"Doesn't stack up well" and "get your tool as good as that" aren't very constructive phrases, as feedback goes.

What goals do you have for a tool that others meet, and this one does not? Where do you see Lean Domain Search falling short? How are the others better, specifically?

I just tried the name spinner you linked to, and while it has some features that LDS lacks, it seemed to focus more on synonyms and similarities than actually including my keyword or string in the domain. I especially disliked the "show more results" link, which left me unclear on how many results were really available. I don't want to spend my time clicking blindly in hopes of finding something, I'd rather just see the full list.

The multiple TLD availability is an extra feature LDS doesn't have, but not one I'd find useful. Personally, if it's not a .com, I'm not interested. That could just be me, though.

I much prefer the simple and elegant approach LDS has taken.
What does it mean if you are a Zappos customer who did not get an email?
I emailed the email address on your blog a copy of this, in case you didn't revisit the thread. That's how obsessed I was. :-)

edit: just saw your response. Thanks!
No they didn't. They talked about how sharing pictures of cats was a running internet joke. All they said about that particular file was that it was named cat.jpg.
It's still too many ugly blue shirts.
Thanks --

Even if there's not a live site, that doesn't mean you can simply purchase the domain name.

Also, my gut says that most people don't want to pay a lot for their domain names and would not use the sale/auction availability indicator.

That being said, if more people are interested in it I can look into it. Would you mind adding it to the suggestions page?

http://leandomainsearch.uservoice.com/forums/144111-general
Well, as an observer of these things, sign up for the beta and let me know how it works out.
It's certainly useful, though it looks like it's just attaching choice-words to the beginning and end of the word I entered.

It's not clear from looking at the results what TLDs\ each result is, though it appears to only return .com. What about all the other cool TLDs like net/om/us/etc.

Also have you seen this: http://domai.nr/

Was fast, which is appreciated!
I hadn't noticed the typeset :D....
Buggy as all hell. Clicking on average takes two to get the UI to respond, the iOS transitions are awful and momentum scrolling is really bugged. No way you could use this on a proaction app.

Did RWW even try it out before they wrote about it?
Some searches only result in a few available domain names. There's not much I can do about that other than generate and check more domain names (which I will in the future). It's the nature of whatever you're searching for; commerce (and most other money-related searches) will be saturated.
Ya... I asked my Rep to pass it along to the US-Canada Ambassador if she could. Not sure if that will work, but it can't hurt.

If SOPA/PIPA or something similar passes it will only be a matter of time until it hits the UK and Canada.
The claim they do not implement the majority of JQuery's APIs, only the most used ones, so I guess it depends on how much of JQuery you actually use.
Cool, didn't know you could pre-print lists. I think I prefer the FastMail way though. With Google, as I understand it, 2-step authentication is either on or off; you have to use it all the time, or not at all. (Application-specific passwords are an exception but not relevant to the issue with keyloggers and public computers.) With FM, you can always sign in with just your master password, _or_ totallydifferentpassword+one-time-password (and you can have multiple sets of alternative logins).

I don't want to deal with 2-step authentication on devices I trust (e.g., my encrypted laptop). I could switch it on and off every now and then, but with Google I'd always be typing my normal password (for me, generated by KeePassX and impossible to memorize) when doing the 2-step thing, right?
Have you looked at http://www.java-gaming.org/ ? There's a lot of good information there that directly deals with your problem.
Ultimately a company storing files is almost certainly going to require its staff to look through directories, log files, database tables. And it is certainly going to require staff to have the ability, even if they never have to use it.

By giving them your files you are trusting them not to screw you over.
The github repo at https://github.com/inimino/ActiveShell looks pretty empty... It would be nice to have even a non-"serious" version to play with, since by your description, it would be pretty cool and useful.
The Painting Fool
5% is nothing, if using Kickstarter more than doubles the amount you can raise.

> Would you pay e.g. HN 5% for 6 weeks for linking to your site?

Hell yeah!
Claiming SOPA is 'exclusively aimed at foreign piracy sites' is false
The moment this site suggested I register a domain with GoDaddy I closed it as fast as I could.
Link now points to a cruise ship wreck.
I really like it. This proves there's still an immense number of viable domain names out there for startups.

Since you asked for some feedback, here's my two cents: I'd like to be able to sort the results by having my search term at the front or at the back of the domain name.

Highlighting the difference between verbs, nouns and adjectives is also something I'd like to see, taking a page from the book of http://impossibility.org/
"We help the tiny groups, the niche organizations which often make the biggest practical difference"

Why do you think this?
Yeah, I remember that. But they also mentioned the file name too so it wasn't really a secret as to how they assumed what was in it. I very rarely go into conspiracy land but now I'm wondering where the uproar came from? Does anyone know who started this backlash? Was it a group or an individual? I ask because for a fleeting moment I wondered if a competitor took their original post and used it as an opportunity to knock 37Signals down a couple of notches. I may be totally off in the deep end with that thought, however.
I love codecademy, but I always wondered if it would be better to ease a newbie into programming with a 'childrens' UI like Scratch or Alice. It wouldn't build up any coding muscle memory, but it might help them get use to the general look and feel of code before asking them to type it out themselves.
I would be happy if just the filename (not the extension) is at least obfuscated.

I can trust someone and still not be comfortable if he accidentally see that I uploaded "how to file a divorce.pdf" for example.
From their blog: "If you have seen our jQ.Mobi video, you’ll see we outline problems with jQueryMobile."

Where's the video?
Thanks Jayson.

I've considered adding Domain Pigeon-style domain names to a separate section of Lean Domain Search, but as you note there's also a lot of value it keeping it simple ("do one thing well"). So we'll see what people want.

Agreed on the post-search filtering. Other than alphabetical and by length, is there any other way you'd like to filter it?
If we ask politely, I'm sure we can resolve this over a nice breakfast of back bacon, pancakes, & maple syrup. If they disagree, we'll tell their mums.
One modest suggestion—I would remove GoDaddy from the default list of registrars that appear when a user selects a name they are interested in.
There was an interesting article in the latest New Scientist about this that caught my eye. The artwork shown in the article is better than what is on the page I linked, but alas the article is behind a pay-wall it appears :(

You can see some of the work here

http://newscientist.com/gallery/painting-fool

This picture struck me as rather intriguing:

http://newscientist.com/data/galleries/painting-fool/005330e...
A Koan: Anecdote from my time at Facebook
Great ideas, especially about filtering by starts with vs ends with. Appreciate it.
before I continue. Have you done any development in Objective C?
Writing LaTeX mathematical papers with SXML
yeah this is kind of what I was after ... I'm sure its not "HOORAY MORE BUGS" but I think I agree with "waiting to submit them to spare a developer's feelings doesn't really help anyone"
A second view into the history of personal computing
I'm not pissed off. On the contrary - while Sun was a great company run by its engineers, a company that you could really love and Oracle is this executive-driven power-and-money-hungry corporation, I think this is exactly what the big Java ecosystem needed: some muscle and some money. While I had had nothing good to say about Oracle before the Sun acquisition, in retrospect I think this is exactly what the doctor ordered.
> Which IDEs and for which languages?

Jetbrains's IDEs do it for most of the languages they support, I've had it for Python, Javascript and Ruby.

I'm not saying the static analysis is as good as a statically typed language, but basic features like listing arguments are not a problem.
Isn't there a case to be made that the US passing this crazy law would benefit Canada, as companies would be more likely to based here to get around it?
I'm very interested in this- I'm currently building an app using jQuery+jQuery Mobile and I'm very disappointed with jQM's speed.

However, I'm up against a deadline, so I don't know if I'll have time to implement it, and I can't find any documentation or examples anywhere- are there any? That'll be key to working out if I can transition my code in time.
I suspect if you came back in 10 years you'll see a different picture. If you want to think about having children or living a generally western lifestyle as opposed to a '3rd world' or really homeless lifestyle then there's a sensible balance point.

There's no reason he couldn't continue to live a substantially minimalist lifestyle while adding a family. He could migrate into living on a sailboat, RV, or in a home considered tiny by Western (American, particularly) standards.
I didn't see Reid, but I agree. Amongst other things, the last 15+ years have shown us there will be no strategic surrender.

I need to dig into more detail, but everything leading up to this leads me to believe it's just a new round of hand waving, or "duck and cover", until they can find e.g. the eve of another holiday recess to try to ram it through.

And notice, please, that in the midst of this "retreat", they never did present and listen to the technical experts. Do you thing that this is entirely by accident?
I knew this would come up :)

I am relying on affiliate revenue for income and like it or not, GoDaddy is the largest registrar in the world. That doesn't mean its inclusion is automatic, but IMO GoDaddy is not evil enough to warrant removing it. Thoughts?
I don't want to feed the troll, someone that calls kickstarter a web host company could not even discern between hosting web pages and videos.

It's only six orders of magnitude...

I won't lose more time with this, hats off for what the kickstarter guys had done. One of the good things in a free society is being able to choose who you want to help and who you don't.
Maintaining you .emacs with literate programming
What HN is an ignore list.

Let the trollers post whatever they want, anonymously. But each HN reader can have their own ignore list, and eventually no one will even read the troll's comments. He can troll to his heart's content, but he will be ignored. The problem with downvoting is that the troll gets the pleasure of knowing he pissed off X number of people.

With an ignore list, it's passive, and the troll gets no feedback. A growing number of people will stop reading his posts, and when the troll gets no more responses, he'll leave. He can change pseudonyms, but the same effect will occur, and he'll get bored. It's pretty much as simple as that. It's the equivalent to the NYC subway system painting over graffiti as soon as it's painted. After a while, the vandals get frustrated, and they stop doing it.
Mostly because it's almost impossible to know. It might work with all of the functionality I use on a normal day, but then I'll try to branch out at some point in the future and discover that it's broken.

The developers are the ones who know what functionality is replicated and what isn't- going through myself and testing seems like a huge waste of time.
The next battlefield will have a different terrain, I suspect if I wanted to censor the Web for political power I would strike next at the freedom to securely encrypt internet connections between devices. We need a right to bear encryption right next to a right to bear arms, so that a nation of citizens can mobilize to protect itself from an out of control government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwNdWZsRXgk
>it in fact seems that her programming ability, far from being prodigy-like, was in fact the least impressive of her other personal traits.

I dont think its a good idea to make statements like that on someone who is not here anymore to defend herself.
> That's not completely true, but it's inconvenient. If you're prepared to go the kwargs route

Ah true, I'd not thought about using kwargs only.

> You have to manually check for required parameters, though, and assign any necessary defaults.

Yeah, and you likely lose parameters management in the IDE.
Does anyone know if Kick starter subtracts credit card fees from their 5%, or is that an additional fee?
I'm a fan of the filters that NXDom provides: http://www.nxdom.com/
I suppose it's as much about sorting as it is about filtering, actually. I particularly like their ability to sort by length and readability.
Magic (and a lot of experimentation).
Ahh yes, I wondered if this was the same gentlemen who was the subject of so much fantastic BSNYC lampooning earlier this year.

It's worth noting that he hasn't stopped. http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-walls-kept... is quite excellent, with such lines as, "So, being the good minimalist that he is, he immediately paid way too much for almost nothing."

I think the truth is somewhere between the two hyperboles. Gram Hill's minimalism as an overriding cause is taken to completely silly extremes. However, the principle of getting rid of shit you don't need (and better yet, not buying shit you don't need in the first place) is quite sound.
Remember to log out manually when you are done. Just closing the browser isn't enough.
NodeUp Eleven - Database Deep Dive
Kickstarter is awesome. It helped bring light to this newly born industry in a way never been done before, and it's been responsible for scores of people being able to raise money to build really incredible things.

But then you have the people on the other side - those that might have raised 10, 20, 50, or even 80% that didn't meet their mark, and did all of that work for nothing. At the end of the day, the only thing they have left is a dead dream, and a burned out list of supporters.

I imagine it would be incredibly heartbreaking to walk away with nothing after a failed campaign.

On the money side, yes it's expensive, but that's not what I didn't like about it. My beef with Kickstarter is that I don't want to fill out an application and wait weeks before getting approved. I also don't want to send all of the SEO benefit to them.

Yes, I agree they should curate their marketplace, but it does filter out a lot of worthy projects.

I wanted to be able to raise money for a variety of projects, each in my own way and in my own time. I worked with my co-founder to build IgnitionDeck (http://ignitiondeck.com) to be able to do that.

It's actually doing pretty well, which I don't think would have happened without Kickstarter's popularity. In many ways, I view them as the MySpace of crowdfunding. It will certainly be interesting to see how they adapt and evolve as people get burned out from crowdfunding...or will they?
About PAYE;

What happens if you are employing someone at the limits and then they go out and get a bar job too? Would I then be liable for the relevant amount of contributions? Am i responsible for knowing that my employee hasn't gone and got another job without telling me??

Assuming i would be responsible for PAYE if they got more work, then am I allowed to make not having other employment part of their contract?
If i am not making PAYE contributions, does the employee have any NI contributions? (eg. paid by the state?), or are they elligable for any tax credits/benefits? (IIRC JSA could be claimed if working < 16h /wk -- although IIRC earnings would count against JSA money, NI would at least be paid, right?)

Finally, How do all these things change if you are employing someone from the EU, or outside??
Thanks -- I've heard this from a few other folks too.

Any recommendations on the shade of green/red to make it?
It might take a bit shimming to get it to work but JQ.mobi supports a lot of the most obvious methods used by Backbone: .bind(), .unbind(), .html(), .ajax(), .append(), .attr().

It doesn't seem to support .delegate() or .data() though, so you would probably have to shim these (and probably a couple of others that I forgot) yourself.
Reminds me of Bruce Sterling's talk about the importance of having quality, physical things in your life
http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruce-sterling-reboot-11
Make it disappear
That's a very well designed blog if you don't mind me saying.
Your own Movie Recommendation website on Heroku with Neo4j
I always feel more efficient just doing the search myself with http://instantdomainsearch.com
I'm listening to the link of the app and it is good but people have to be aware of it. This is the third synth app I've seen. I've also seen Animoog that was posted on The Verge.

The fault is that these apps need more advertisements. I'm willing to bet that most don't know that they can create music with a low-priced app. Consumers need to be made aware of this. There are YouTube videos destined to be made with these kind of apps.

For example, I saw an Sprint iPhone ad yesterday (maybe you've seen it?) where a guy is talking to his girlfriend while watching a game. All I gathered from the commercial was that the iPhone was on Sprint. They didn't give me the app or whether the game was live. The commercial became immediately insignificant.
Exactly. We haven't won anything and treating it as a victory is dangerous. It turns us in to a boy cried wolf after we tell everybody it's OK to go home and put the pitchforks down. Only to start up the hysterics again the next time we face down dire straits.

We have the momentum, we have people's attention, we need to keep pushing. Keep organizing. Keep educating. We need to get our lobbying groups in to Washington and start influencing some legislation that works for The Internet. Not against it.
Reddit leads the charge against SOPA (Infographic)
Listed a domain that was taken :p
Seconded. GiveWell needn't be the only source for estimates, but a mission that strongly promoted cost-effective charities could make a huge difference...

It's sometimes hard to convince donors of this case. For many (most?) the goal is not really making a difference, but more like a signaling thing. If your company can turn making a difference into a successful social signal, more power to you!
I don't think that's what the parent is saying. It would seem that domains that you say are available for the .com gTLD actually are not.

Maybe you count as "available", domains for which the .com is taken but other gTLDs are not?

Personally when I search for a domain I'm only interested in .com, but maybe you could let users choose what TLDs they care about?
"You’re in a browser, so the delete button tells the browser to go back to the previous page you visited in that particular tab. "

Nothing at all to do with CodeAcademy- but I really hate this behavior.
Am I alone in thinking that if Google won't join the blackout than the next best thing would be a Google search full of anti SOPA messages?

Will a 503 make it into the listing? If so be sure to put your message in the title.
As a user of the project, I feel that it gives credibility to the project. The developers have shown that they are dedicated to the project's future instead of it just being their current itch to scratch.