skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And gives me a feeling that I'm leaving money on the table here.

That is a virtual certainty, considering you are not charging money.

My advice is to consider splitting the service into two levels (does the Maps API let you make money with it? I guess that is moot since you're already doing it) and selling some portion of the people on the upgrade. It is a rare, rare, rare application that will take in more in donations than it will in payments. One useful feature might be allowing embedding in other people's websites. (Remember, with a freemium application you need to make the -mium something that solves a pain point for people. "I want to offer maps" doesn't strike me as an obvious pain point, but given that people are actually using this, "I want people to not leave my site" does strike me as worth paying for for a business.)

Don't be put off by free competition -- I have scads. They're wonderful people, and they display AdSense ads for people charging for similar things. i.e. you.
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I am working from India for the past 3 months instead of my San Francisco office. Nearly every large IT company in India offers benefits at par with Google. Yes I mean multiple food vendors. Food being served 6 times a day.

The salary of an IT professional in India easily puts him among the highest wage earners in India (something similar to how Wall Street traders were a couple of years ago). Chauffeur driven cars, cooks and daily house cleaning services are all easily affordable.

The biggest question I have to ask myself is should I return to my studio in SF.
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I would approach this problem differently: tokenize the text and diff the stream of tokens (as opposed to a stream of characters).
I don't believe 10% for Safari. My sites see nearly 7 million unique visitors a month and of that, almost 64% is IE (75% IE7, 23% IE6, and almost 2% IE8), about 26% Firefox (I forgot the breakdown but FF3 is almost all of it), and then you have Safari with 3% and Opera with nearly the same and then Chrome with about 1.5%. I just looked at these numbers for yesterday's traffic.

Our sites are not specific to Windows or Mac, the United States is our highest single geographic visitor but if you lump everyone else together then international traffic is higher than our domestic traffic.

Take it for what it's worth but I just don't think 10% is valid.
I actually have the feeling I can make some money because

a) people already donate (the donation ratio is around 10%)

and

b) adsense already generates revenue enough to, at least, pay the service costs and buy beer :-)

The service actually already allows you to embed the map on any site (in an iframe model or just putting a banner with a popup) - the average user of the service has usually not a lot of experience with html, so I provide the snippets on the site itself to make it easier for them.
Ask HN: What's the name of the site?
Several months back, someone posted a link about a site which organizes bunch of hackers in close proximity gather at a common place and working (though on their own projects). Does anyone have that link?
Stock market is Poker tournament for these Companies.
the freehackers union?

http://freehackersunion.org/joining.html
You do not need to buy A Silicon Valley? A response to Paul Graham (from the UK)
I've made some improvements now thanks to Nicholas Woodham. There is now a tag line and the first time you visit it it writes the tag line in full.
I've clearly learned something by all your feedback. It used to have a more obvious name before that I couldn't use because of domain name real estate. I had to change to Crosstips but didn't pad it with more explanation of what it does.
Plus having stared at it so much myself I got "home blind".
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I think this says a lot about that $9B valuation:

Twitter agreed on one condition: that the Facebook stock it received be valued at the price company shares garnered on the open market. Facebook blinked and the deal talks ended.
I don't really care to get into the usual TechCrunch spiels, but this is basically just a report on his vacation. (Flagged)
Jakob Nielsen's useit.com is a great source where you may find many interesting studies covering these subjects.
Ask HN: automate submission from popular sources?
I would like to put a proposition up for discussion: Lots of articles that raise interest on HN come from the same sources: 37signals, Seth Godin, Paul Graham, etc. The one who is the first to submit an article from such a popular source, gets a lot of Karma points for a safe bet. I think we should rather reward people that find interesting articles of quite unknown writers or from new sources. One way could be to automate submission of articles from popular sources. Opinions?
Well actually the labor government in Australia is currently reviewing the migrant intake policies mentioned in the main article ... http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/18/business/ozjobs.2-410... But it looks like we're going to keep up the high intake for the most part. We're certainly not losing any from what I've observed.

As an aside I have to say I haven't seen much of anti-immigration sentiment here even with the economic downturn. Sure, there's been a fair bit of talk against moving jobs overseas, but barley a whisper with regards to immigration.
Virtues? It runs in comically small amounts of memory and on processors without much puff; yet is beefy enough to handle serious DTP, early Photoshop and the web.

I'm not saying it's something to switch to today, but System 7 has features that OS X still hasn't got around to matching, especially in Finder speed/snappiness.
True, TechCrunch is another of the always-submitted sites here. It wouldn't be too hard to setup a script to automatically post to HN whenever the RSS feed is updated, so this could be done for a special user.

Personally, I'm not as bothered about karma on here as I am on other communities - I'm much more of a reader than a contributor - and I agree with your comment on finding "unknown writers". The more obscure articles are what I use HN for at the end of the day.
I completely missed the 'death' of 8aweek
What happened to these guys? I went to download the plugin and their website just says 'it works', a quick google search shows they shut down in december... I can only wonder why??? Seemed like a pretty useful tool
How will your 'automator' determine what stories are interesting?
Karma can't be traded in for anything in the real world. Contrary to urban legend, Paul Graham does not make you a sandwich (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439129). So it seems a little silly to get bent out of shape over who's getting lots of karma by submitting things.

More problematic seems that people are submitting stories to get karma rather than because they think they're interesting. That seems a dangerous trend. Perhaps the solution would be to nullify karma gains on such "obvious" sites.

However, what would suit me more would be if things were adjusted inversely to their PageRank -- meaning less stories from CNN, New York Times, BBC and so on, but things that are a little further out would be ranked better.
(Apologies, I accidentally clicked the down arrow - hopefully someone will rectify that)

Pretty much everything from certain sites gets submitted anyway, so it ends up being votes that determine what is of interest.
Karma, above a certain level, is primarily an indication of who wastes too much time on this site!
That remains the task of the readers by voting up articles they like. The automator just automatically submits posts from pre-defined sources (RSS-feeds).
The idea is to give an incentive to find interesting stuff "outside the main-stream" instead having a competition who is the first to submit the newest PG-Essay...
P2P mobile devices, hack the telecom
Would like to have some opinions on this topic, from those who think this is good or bad idea.

The title is self explanatory of what I am interested in. I am not talking about P2P applications on mobile phones etc., rather about true P2P phones that doesn't depend on operators infrastructure. I have not seen or hear of any such initiatives in global direction. The telecoms we know today might in response of the current crisis rise prices of voice and SMS services. Particularly such ad-hoc solutions have crop up as proposals in some countries (this is rubish solution). We talk here on global aspects, US, Europe countries, etc. I also believe that in this century, voice and messaging over mobile phones should be independent of operators, classical telecom infrastructure. You can call it alternative, but I will call it evolution. The number of population is increasing, and it seems of natural selection that P2P mobile devices should be brought alive.

Now, of course neither classical telecom would like such a P2P telecom succeed because that would mean less and less market share for them. I am a tech guy, have some common sense reasoning on business, and I do not care about telecom companies at all. I would propose simply (or at least consider) to hack the telecom.

Cheers
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> Karma can't be traded in for anything in the real world

Right. But the concept is used to reward people for wishful behaviour on this site.

> More problematic seems that people are submitting stories to get karma rather than because they think they're interesting.

That's exactly the problem I would like to tackle with my proposition.
probably to have you affirm that he actually pulled it off.
Thanks, but that's not it!
This seems somewhat similar to Jonathan Nelson's Hackers & Founders meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/). The one I am looking for is more geared towards, bunch of hackers in a room working (actually coding/designing, not just meeting and talking about it) on many interesting projects of their own...