skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems useful. If you like stuff like this, you should also look at all the goodies in facets.rubyforge.org.

That said, this library is about programmer convenience, and does nothing about Ruby threads being flaky little bastards. I'm a little disappointed.
I do not think real estate, or other investments are a good example. They require paying market value, which means that only those who can genuinely find mis-pricing can make a consistent profit, and by doing that they improve market efficiency.

Getting a domain through registrations does not do this, because it requires only registration not payment. For a better analogy, compare how easy it is with the requirements of the (US) <a href="http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act/>... Act of 1863</a>. It required improving the land over a five year period and imposed a size limit. It is easy to imagine what would have happened without that requirement: a few people would have made vast claims, far beyond what they could develop.
newe.st
boxed.in

Open to selling them or trading them: randrews@geekfu.org
A forensics competition, managed by SANS.

Kids, if you're looking for an interesting and exciting career in information security, steer clear of forensics. Ask your friendly neighborhood pentester what "EnCase Jockey" means.
hookahhacking.com
There are a few I am sitting on for lack of motivation:

meetthedress.com
hackmyjob.com
fragtweet.com / tweetfrag.com (Has an app on it, needs more work though.)
my idea was for plugin that redirects ecommerce and affiliate-able purchase/product web page links through a hub-site and inserts the site's affiliate id, tracks any original affiliate for record-keeping, collects a commission through having service accounts at each affiliate site (amazon, ebay, etc) and pays the USER a kick-back for their purchase with the site via collecting the commission on their behalf.

Realized they'd be many hurdles and technicalities, but could make a lot of money, perhaps.
Not sure we'd trade these, but here they are:

quippo.com

helpcloud.com
mostly shits and giggles. the combinations of domains <$10 & alcohol has led to unintentional squatting of some sort for me the better part of 10 years..

lawgician was going to be a digg/reddit type of thing for legal news -- i don't think its gonna happen soon as doing this right would involve more time than I can give right now.

poofilter originally was intended to filter political news and somehow assess the bias level of the source from left to right, blue to red. someone else did this recently but I forget the name.

obamanutpunch was going to be a simple lolcat-type site of photoshopped photos of president obama punching people in the nuts (see chuck norris here http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitesh/3254005822/). Later, I found out that there were actually 2 definitions in urban dictionary for the term (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obama%20Nut%2...)
Yahoo Spends $90,965 Per Day On Google Ads
You're right, but to be fair, James read my implication quite well. I was having a tiny dig at gun nuts - not from any realistic experience but mostly because I'm European and I'm culturally supposed to look at gun-toters with disdain ;-)
What, because rock stars don't like talking to (mental and physical) adolescents in open forums?
I don't think the real estate analogy fits. You have to pay significant property taxes each year to own real estate(not just $6).

I think a better analogy is registering a corporate name or trademark. If you don't use it, you lose it. You can't just register it and then prevent other people from using that name indefinitely unless they pay you off.
i'd be interested in obtaining topichub from you...
Thank you guys, I just talked to a lawyer (from a reference) and he is helping me out.
That's nothing new, many infectious diseases evolve every year, which is why we need a new flu shot, the common cold can't be cured, and staph becomes MRSA sending pharmaceuticals on an arms race just to keep hospitals sterile.

The real lower bound is the number of generations, and that number (<30) is only given in the subtitle after you click through.
Hello Rip
The GitHub team (+ others) are taking a stab at a better, more general solution for Ruby library packaging than RubyGems.
"pussyandguns.com" -- photos of cats and guns?
If you want an example of how they are bad at this, look at the Great Depression. There is still a great deal of disagreement to this day about its cause and how it was overcome.
This basically looks like an effort to clean up some of the warts of RubyGems, which have become especially painful in the era of the DVCS. GitHub has made forking of Ruby libraries easy, which is great for pace of development, but also causes rapid proliferation of many potentially-conflicting versions of libraries.

Rip looks like one reasonable approach to reclaiming some sanity out of all of that.
grabkindle.com

An affiliate experiment. I actually sold a Kindle and made $36!
I can see how this would be a god-send to people who might spend a lot of time messing around with VMs. Those users probably fall under your case.
My experience was that is wasn't a physical struggle to stay on the schedule - it was a social one. The world does not do polyphasic and you have to defend your time. I eventually crashed out when I was supposed to come home ad sleep after work but my wife took me to dinner instead. Being up for 7 hours straight wiped me out for a day and it was too socially challenging to keep it up.
Wow. what a colossal waste of professor's time! The prof isn't being lazy, he's being efficient-- he's carefully crafting a set of exercises that he hopes best serves the need of his students, and there shouldn't be any need to change them until the curriculum changes.

Believe me, there are many better things he could be doing with his time than re-creating exercises....
New tagging standard released by Yahoo, Freebase, AdaptiveBlue, Zemanta...
- the accepted rule is: if you need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning, then you are sleep deprived. sleep deprivation is detrimental for your performance

I have no problems getting to sleep, am not usually tired during the day, and have none of the usual symptoms of sleep apnea, but if I didn't use an alarm clock or similar, I would sleep 12-15 hours a day no problems. Yet, there's no way I can consider that acceptable so I make judicial use of alarms, and I feel just great once I get over 5 minutes or so of sleep inertia.

Often, I can set an alarm for 6 or 7.5 hours after I fall asleep, and I feel great when the alarm goes off and can get up right away. Yet, if I didn't use that alarm, I would not be waking up naturally for several more hours. Perhaps I'm just a deep sleeper?
existornot.com
beforeyouspit.com
spitforhumanity.com
Spotplex when it was around tracked and displayed articles by popularity. Blogs and sites had a SP javascript code that sent back page views.
Webbynode launches - hosting for Rails, Django or LAMP
Oh, wow. How could I have forgotten IE?
Rip: Ruby's Intelligent Packaging
Nice looking, yes. Clue, not so much. It could be argued that they:
- shouldn't be sitting with an open root shell
- should use audited/logged sudo for root stuffs
- use the full path to 'ls'

but I probably shouldn't get bogged down discussing a graphic on a website
Anonymity creates a low barrier to entry, facilitating free participation. But at the expense of requiring manual moderation. I don't know how much time has been spent on troll moderation on HN. But let's say you have 100 small sites - moderation could be quite time consuming. And if the sites are too small to allow you to identify trusted users to offload the moderation to (perhaps through some application features), it is doubly problematic. However, identity verification is an easy solution, although at the expense of reducing participation by creating a higher barrier to entry.
And the student has the freedom to do what he wants with his work. That is what was accomplished, what the professor has to do is the side effect.
It's yours. E-mail me at [my username]@[my username].co.uk and I'll sort out the auth code and unlock it for you.
Also posted here a few minutes ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=653144
bottomcoder.com
Do you have any insight on the role that sleep plays in the aging process?

If we're able to get less good sleep as we age, and sleep is essential for mental acuity (forming memories, etc) and for physical health (growth hormone, etc), i've long wondered if the two are related.
You could have an automated site extracting whitehouse photos from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse and allow users to customize.

edit: "The photograph may not be manipulated in any way or used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."

maybe not.
"This means projects unaware of Rip can be installed by Rip and managed by ripenvs"

That means every Ruby code written and hosted publicly can be installed locally by Rip?

Now we will need a special search engine just for Ruby :D
Flaky in what way? In my usage of them I haven't had problems. Then again I use them with a lot of blocking io operations so they seem to be pretty fairly scheduled.
Great idea. I've had these since 2006 for some project ideas that quickly became obsolete. I didn't want to let them expire and fall into the hands of squatters, so I kept renewing them. I'm willing to give them up to a good home.

gowiki.net
swound.com
thumbnote.com
thumbwiki.com

(edit: one gone, removed. the four above are still up for grabs. Will trade for a donation to EFF or Wikipedia)
buxomwenches.com
The pitcher simply is, while our cries encompass it.
ishillarypresidentyet.com
Funny you should start this post because I have been on a mission to try to raise some cash for these domains just the last couple days:

ListLocal.com

CheapSwap.com

WildOnCampus.com

SaleMetrics.com
Kill30.com
Freetvee.com
iPhonization.com
LaughYouLose.com
IfMomAsks.com
140date.com
140me.com
coredumpster.com seems like the perfect domain for a parody of stackoverflow.
maybe he's got more users?
Great idea Steve.
it's been awhile since I played with Mindstorm but I remember that you could write the apps in C++ and then target the Mindstorm platform.

presumably you'd be able to set this up in Linux but don't quote me on that.
Has anyone considered changing their parked domains to say:

"This domain is free to anyone who will develop it into something. All that is required is that they feature a link to my other project/site %s for the first year."
http://bit.ly/kOEwx
Classic: "Clinical vs. Actuarial Assessments" (1989) -- models beat experts
"Pizza profitable" Airbnb now in 1,000 cities worldwide
I gather the fossil record isn't good enough for you then?
My new training tool
It would be (mildly) interesting to see some stats on the difference in votes if pg occasionally posted under some other name. You could experiment over a couple weeks - before each comment flip a coin, heads you post with 'pg', tails with some new account. I guess ignore posts like this one where who you are is part of the comment.
groupdraw.com

halfmeet.com

newofferz.com

urlcomments.com
<i> sleep apnea is very frequent and very likely if you are overweight.</i>

The current theory on apnea is that the throat collapses due to lower pressures on inhale. Being fat makes that situation worse. However, I believe some percentage of people with apnea are blocking on exhale due to anatomical structure or some such. CPAP would not work in this case (CPAP raises the internal throat pressure during breathing to avoid collapse). I think the number of people blocking on exhale could be quite high -- given the high CPAP treatment failures and the number of non-overweight apnea suffers. But the doctors and researchers deny that blocking on exhale is even possible.
g.iraffe.com

launchingthefuture.com

mailmetext.com

understands.me
I've been holding on to 'isby.us' for a rainy day. Back when I bought it I had aspirations of a sort of hybrid Video/Audio/Blog news center of average people. I never really got far with it though, and now I'm not sure what to do with it.
Slightly cheaper than Slicehost ...

Sadly they don't have a detailed description on what you get (ie. which linux distros are available, their ReadyStack(TM), fix IP, backup).

Wish them good luck, might check back later.
V good URL shortener domain for Google.

edit: why remove gu.gl?
The point about how obama can claim a victory no matter what the outcome is closely paralleled here in Australia where the government has a 42billion stimulus package including giving nearly the whole population $950.

They have claimed that the handouts have been effective in saving jobs despite the trend towards higher unemployment still occurring like America. It's impossible to truly gauge the effects of the handout on the economy.
reminds me of a startup I worked on a while ago -- groupcard.com
This could be easily accomplished by simply putting an end to online anonymity - a trend that hasn't quite arrived yet. [...] Online anonymity is just a leftover from the early days of the web - a time when there really just weren't other options. You just created a handle, set up an account, and began to write. Now that we have the tools to identify each other, shouldn't we begin to use them? Think of all the problems it would solve[...]

This sounds a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There's a lot of talk of "the problems it would solve", but what would the costs be?
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Once the deal was done, they could shaft you. The only thing you could do was keep ownership and grant technical administration over to the new domain user for a year. Would they want that?
How can you learn to invent with spending some time reinventing? In my opinion reinventing the wheel is a often a wonderful task. It helps you understand a hard problem that you would otherwise have serious difficulties with. For example, continuations always baffled me. I ported an existing library from Common Lisp to Clojure. Did I do anything truly new? No. Did I have a much deeper understand of Common Lisp, Clojure and continuations? Yes.

And, sometimes (if you're really lucky) you might find that you have reinvented a better wheel.
I've been sleeping bi-phasitcally since I saw that article on lifehacker.com in 2005. Sleep cycle is 2:30AM - 7:00AM and another at 5:30PM - 7:00PM. Times are typically rough around the edges by 15 or so minutes.

I'm a self diagnosed hypersomniac (I can sleep ALOT) it helps me feel very rested from a total of 6 hours as opposed to the 11-14 hours it typically takes for me to wake up naturally.

"The downside to this sleep schedule is that it can be inflexible. I’ve read that you can delay naps by an hour if necessary, but missing a nap can cause a rapid crash that takes a while to recover from."

This is very true. If I skip a nap one day after work, I typically pay for it by sleeping 2-3 times as long the next short cycle.

It's definitely beneficial to me. Sleeping 10-12 hours a night and not being rested wastes alot of my not-at-work time and cuts into social obligations. Bi-phastic works for me!
The truth is that we still have no whatsoever idea of what sleep is for, to start with. There are hypothesis out there but none of them is even close to be considered scientifically plausible.

Some of them say sleep has something to do with maintaining a plausible number of neuronal connections (synapses) in your brain: the more you learn and do during the day, the more synapses you build, the more sleep you need to clean up for the next day. As you age, your brain plasticity decreases, i.e. the ability for your brain to change the number of synapses is not as good. This is why you might need less sleep than when you were a young kid.

If you are interested in the topic, I'd suggest to have a look here: http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/waking-up-to-sleep
Some of the talks can be of interest to the general reader. The Science Network is a very good source of good-quality easy to access scientific material.
yougottabeshittin.me
digdiary.com
and for when Firefox jumps the shark

forgetfirefox.com
This is one reason Facebook is so valuable. It's designed from the start to have a strong 1:1 linking with real names, and shows all of your public actions to your real-life peer group. It's approaching internet scale. It could lock up this market -- at least among forums wanting real-name participation.
No pattern, framework, programming paradigm or development methodology can work well without smart people writing good code.
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Lower participation and, as a result, maybe lower advertising earnings. On the other hand, the cost of not controlling bad content could be much higher both in monetary and non-monetary terms.
so we'd be talking lolfrags?

apologises
As opposed to Hemlock, the open-source, real-time Common Lisp Emacs from http://www.cons.org/cmucl/hemlock/
Not technical but this question made me too curious: who do you expect to upload music? Artists with reputation or anyone? Or, the point is to offer an url shortener service for MP3 songs?
Nokia Image Exchange Offers the Manual Method
my thoughts exactly. google is basically running a race and some idiots keep tuning their cars beyond their intended levels to win. it's disgraceful and it makes google's job of indexing and improving its product so much harder.
Decimal expansion of 1/89 is Fibonacci sequence added together in a simple way.
Looking it over, their control panel looks a lot like Slicehost's.
I use freemind (mindmap) , to a person used to think logical (programers?) mindmaps are a great way to collect,associate brainstorming generated materials
I guess that I am saying is that I'm not convinced that the direction we have been heading is the direction that will ultimately produce the end result we want. The model T and the present day automobile share the same basic concepts. I'm wondering if human-level AI will bear any real resemblance to today's solutions on the concept level. I'm not convinced it will.
Semi-random deadlocks, lack of thread-safety in many stdlib classes, inability to schedule very many of them. I tried to add some paralellism to my Ruby wget port, and it was a nightmare. There hasn't been the same amount of work put into Ruby threads as Posix or Java, and it shows. Threading is hard.

That said, Ruby threads are fine for simple cases, but EventMachine is popular for a reason.
That's not actually tagging. Maybe it's a namespace standard.
How can species even have genetic limitations? We all have the same code format - DNA - and we all make proteins based on it. Given that any mutation might occur, one genome might evolve to a horrifyingly huge number of children genomes over many, many generations. Deletions and copying allow for potentially any change to be made to the organism, and it will be added to the species' pool if the creature survives. A mutation has to be either useful, neutral, or just present in an otherwise fit organism in order to persist.

And nobody claims that lobe-finned fishes (drastically different fish from guppies) sprouted legs - their fins gradually evolved to allow terrestrial locomotion. If you look at the fin of a coelecanth (http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/classification/clas... - similar to the ancestors of the first walking animal), you'll submit that it has fins much more similar to webbed feet - which is what the first amphibians had. Evolution is much more gradual than you seem to think we're claiming.

Also, I think it's pathetic that this comment was hidden from the public. Doing that cuts off communication even more than it already has been.
about page FTW =]
Oh, I forgot to mention, the use of alcohol extends my 90 minute cycles to a maximum of about 120 minutes. I typically adjust my schedule to this if I am capable of doing so at the time. (I drink 3+ nights a week)
...Says Mr. Cosinepi :)
Great comments, 'there' and Jeremy. Yes, performance is poor. I mainly need to fix the background images, which are huge. It's at the very top of my ToDo list.

Thanks for the tips on Passenger. I'll take a look at it...

Your comments are much appreciated.
Django does a good job of being realistic about what it is doing:

"If you’re hungry for acronyms, you might say that Django is a “MTV” framework – that is, “model”, “template”, and “view.” That breakdown makes much more sense." - http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/

The article also doesn't mention that MVC is also traditionally used to implement asynchronous UIs, which the web is not suitable for (e.g. there is no push mechanism for the model to update the views. Instead views must use AJAX to poll for updates to model.)
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I also have
FREDHEADSUSA.COM
FREDHEADSUSA.ORG

but Fred dropped out of the primaries :)
Triangle testing?
pornrequest.com
letsdrive.us -> for a carpool solution

neighbourly.org -> for a craigslist+maps mashup.
Hey, thanks a lot for taking the trouble to create a JPG!

I am aware of the problem with the images (300KB each! ;-) I used png because I need the transparency, but my very first task now is to fix this problem.

Thanks
Would you give away/sell snappyresume?
I'll provide a counter-point.

I used to frequent a forum for tabletop wargaming here in Western Australia that was used for discussing the hobby, setting up games etc. Anonymity really isn't an issue there because everyone knows pretty much everyone else.

While it's not quite on the scale of HN, in the 4 or 5 years that it's been running with over a thousand users, it hasn't had a single trolling incident (except bots).... simply because of the lack of anonymity.

I personally agree with one of the comments in the article which suggests a hybrid system

seems like a quick feature-add could fix this: blog comments should just have a tick box that either displays or hides anonymous commentors. some people care what the trolls say, most people don't. so it should be optional.

What a great idea, optional verification and for those people that want to disable non-verified comments, it can remove the incidents of trolling.
Online anonymity is just a leftover from the early days of the web - a time when there really just weren't other options.

What, you mean when services expected your machine to be running identd? When finger worked? When your IP uniquely identified you? When sysadmins knew your phone number?

If anything, the internet has trended towards anonymity as it's aged -- the more people are online, the harder it is to track someone down.
Wondering how this could possibly work!

In my country (Romania) the news are full with stories how gangs are robbing people on E-bay.

Comparing to E-bay which is a regular business selling physical goods Kiba sells virtual goods - the hope you'll get back your money.

Where this trust come from? What makes Kiba lenders to feel their investment guaranteed?
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Flipside, it could also mean higher advertising rates given the traffic is more qualified if the discussion doesn't degenerate into trolling behaviour.

Think about it, sites like 4chan have issues with getting advertisers BECAUSE of the extreme anonymity.
The internet, like the world, has neighborhoods. They change over time, and they have there own characteristics. There are places you can go to have healthy, civil debates, and places you can go to be exposed to flame wars and adolescent behavior.

Big names (Like Reznor) have fans who follow them to whatever online neighborhood they may move into. Reznors' experience may say more about the type of people his music attracts than it does about the internet at large. There are plenty of well-know people who are able to use the internet as a way to engage a readership in meaningful ways, and a lot of it has to do with the audience they attract. If Reznor was a classically trained Violinist, for instance, I'm willing to bet his foray into social media would have had a different result.