skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a great way to marginalize yourself. Better is to have your laptop and say "I'll have one ear in the conversation, and I'm here if you need my input, but otherwise, I've got this SUPER HUGE IMPORTANT thing to crank on." Then you can be excused, in one sense or the other. Of course, it is better still to run the meeting so it happens correctly.
I disagree. Why?
something else to watch... your wallet. Nigerian startups have to overcome the hurdle of the assumption that any packets crossing their border are intent on defrauding you.
I haven't had any issues with 1and1.
These are all good points, but unfortunately, there is no great solution to bill collection.

But there is a better way: Prepaid. If you are charging for something that is flat rate, charge ahead of time. Then if they dont pay, they dont get access. Of course, not all models lend themselves to this, but I definitely prefer businesses with this model. And if you must do post-pay, do credit checks if possible and ask for deposits where needed.
I think this is really nicely done. I have looked at solutions like this in the past and found them really lacking in terms of what text can be selected and how the selection is indicated -- and it looks like you have gone way beyond what I remember seeing.

Last year I created a prototype to play with some ideas that are similar to this, except that I created my application using Flex. It is here http://www.annospace.com for comparison. However, my interest at the time was only in social commentary and organizing lots of comments, not in group revising/editing.
this axe has been hanging over bloggers forever now. Big corporations have been dolling out freebies to bloggers since forever. check out this blog post(http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2009/06/hp-psg-regional-...) a popular Malaysian blogger.

First he brags that he has been invited to an all expenses paid HP expo. The rest of his article is waxing lyrical over HP products !!!
i've heard good things about 1and1 as well, although i admittedly use godaddy because i only own a few names.
We were going to grow mustaches and have people bet on who would keep them the longest in public (between my friends its not very sociable to have a stash). All the proceeds were going to go to some charity. I might still do it someday...
Functionally this is awesome - we use etherpad a lot for collaborative text editing but having something a bit more structured like this could be very useful. The experience of entering a rewrite and having it broken down into several distinct edits is great, and there's lots of thoughtful touches in the UI (like starting off as anonymous and "claiming" vs. having to create an account up front).

Visually there's a lot of work to do - if you can get even a day or two of a great web designer's time it will be very worthwhile. For example, although you describe the two icons as "pen" vs. "pencil" they just look red and yellow to me - and then they both create (different kinds of) red text. Your logo needs to be antialiased.

On the pricing page, it's clear that there's lots missing from the free editing, but it's not clear what the free edition actually does provide. It seems like you can still use it to create private documents, but that's not obvious from the description. You might want to have some more rows on that comparison table that have checkmarks all the way across.

One group I can imagine loving this is lawyers, although they'll hate that it's hosted. You'd probably need to add more features but it would be interesting (if you haven't already) to talk to some and see if there's a custom version you could build with workflow targeted to contracts.
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They forgot one:

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I dont know if they have improved, but 1and1's interface was quite annoying when I used them a few years back. And trying to contact them? Forget about it.

I'm very happy with dynadot. Good pricing, Great Services, Clean Interface. Sold.
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I see your point and how it's somewhat in-between but would argue that my metaphor is closer.

The TED stage has a well-known role that's clearly understood by everyone there. I would never get ask to go up on stage to demo Google. Larry and Sergey would. If I got asked to demo someone else's work, it wouldn't slip my mind. While it sounds short, 2 mins is a pretty long time.

As I mentioned, just my opinion. But I do think someone's got to stick up for the developers who wrote the sw.
Well, the reason is I just no longer trust their software. Only getting email updates about auto-renewals for some, but not all of my domains was never a big deal, but another apparent mistake (their software not updating my CC across all my domains -- some have auto-renewed without incident on the new card since I made the change, but it appears not all were updated when I used their bulk account info change tool) has sort of made it a big deal.

So I just don't trust their software anymore, and want to find a new registrar.
I don't have time for a full review at the moment, but this reminds me of a widget offered by http://goosegrade.com/

Different approaches, but seems to be very similar functionality. (The interface barely worked for me with FF2 and Vista).
Any experience with domain transfers (with either DynaDot or 1and1)?
From a broader view, Papervision would be impossible without the thousands of hours of work other people did to create the technology it is built on, and that tech would not be possible without the work of the people who developed the tools that made those tools possible and so on and so forth back and back and back. I'm not saying it isn't a nice gesture to let people know who's hard work enabled you to combine different technologies in a new and exciting way, but lets have a little grace here becasue everything any one of us does it built on somebody else's hard work. Even if you code everything you do in assembly you are still "standing on the shoulders of giants". (Quote courtesy of Sir Isaac Newton)
AIM would be nicer if the service was based on xmpp and allowed federation with other services..

why do these walled gardens still exist? email figured it out 30 years ago: user@domain
regarding comment above: You realize that by stating "You haven't seen this before", you are just challenging readers here to find and name products and projects that are similar to yours, don't you?

http://jwz.livejournal.com/847649.html?thread=16493345#t1649...
Ah ok, that's fair.
Well for one, couldn't Microsoft complain that the interface to one of their products is copyrighted?
I blame CNN, et. al.

Somehow, they manage to make it sound really important yet incredibly unhip at the same time.
Thank you very much for your comment,your experiences by far put my situation into perspective. I have to admit that I was a bit naive in my approach to the whole idea of having a good mentor or working with someone I respect in this field and its good to see that with the right approach and a show of commitment and interest in the project on my part will go a long way.
I also have to add that I am overwhelmed by the responses this post has attracted so far and I appreciate all your opinions on the matter, please keep them coming, cheers!
Just a quick question from someone who has worked on a similar app before. How are you importing word documents? When I was working on something like this every solution was either extremely convoluted or very unreliable (AbiWord was basically all I could find).
I'm not sure about why Gourley is so startled by the fact that these different conflicts followed a similar pattern. Insurgencies, while caused for varying reasons and fought by different actors still utilize very similar tactics and often contain similar goals.

It's why Mao's teachings were able to carry over into other guerrilla conflicts and why the US Army looked to situations like the British fighting in Malay and the French experiences in Indochina and Algeria to formulate the new counterinsurgency doctrine.
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Yes, I've noticed him coming up on my RSS feed ever since the liver transplant news.
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Very cool!

Just take good look in the design, the point that should be improved is the presentation, works on a landing page, improve you logo, the design of the page and it should help you to get new users.

The features are awesome, the idea is more than awesome :D, BUT if you reduce the number of clicks to execute the most common tasks it would be amazing also.

Congratz!!!
So this is why they started 419 scams; they couldn't get any funding from VCs for their startups.
now someone just needs to make a simple, free iphone app that works just like the text messaging app, but sends messages through push notifications. no signup, no aim accounts, no presence, no other fluff.

send to any phone number or contact and the app would know if the receiving number is an iphone with the same app installed. if it isn't, it lets you know that you need to use regular text messages instead. resist the urge to implement real sms functionality on the backend so users don't feel like you're trying to sell them something. make the users pressure their friends into installing the app and it'll be huge. resist trying to make it some global contact manager with a desktop version and a dozen points of integration.

then make blackberry and android versions that can all work together and you're golden.
I didn't come away with the impression that he was as "startled" as you've said. I think he was just playing this up to underscore the significance of it to the audience.

It's an important contribution to creating a framework for computationally reasoning about these conflicts.
The part that looks like Word is TinyMCE. It's a great package, the best of the many editors we tried (including homegrown, twice.)
Agreed entirely.

Years ago, I volunteered to work on a project for the Free Software Foundation that had been started and stopped more than once, as no-one seemed motivated to actually complete it. I whipped out a very rough demo, and within days I was being mentored and having my work reviewed & critiqued by Richard Stallman.

His interest in me was surely toward getting the work done for the FSF, but what I learned from him has been very useful to me in other projects as well. I doubt I would have been taken seriously if I hadn't actually made a real effort at getting something done that Richard wanted done.

I've also worked with some top jazz musicians, and learned a lot from them, because... I paid them to help me on projects. I didn't go to them asking for advice; I hired them in their professional capacity to help me get something done, and they brought their advice with them. They may be willing to answer random questions from random people as well, but I'm sure I got a whole lot more out of hours in the studio with their undivided attention than I would have by sending an email or trying to talk to them after a concert.
1and1's entire interface is an unholy pain in the ass. I'm quite fond of DynaDot, actually, and switched to them as registrar of choice, transferring about 50 domains to them from assorted others and haven't had any problems.
Erm, no.

Here you go:

> I'd like to believe it's an accident, but it seems like if I demoed Google with the TED logo slapped on it and accidentally forgot to mention that someone else wrote the search engine.
The validity of the election results still has the potential to change Iran's government, so yes, it's still worth talking about. If there is enough evidence of fraud, and the world and all the Iranian people know it, then there's a higher chance the current regime will relent. If the evidence is inconclusive, then the regime is more likely to remain in power and preserve the status-quo.
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i'm an opensrs reseller, but it's mostly to sell domain registration services to my customers, not for my own portfolio. it's pretty easy to become a reseller and there are no minimums on how many domains you have to sell each month.

the built-in control panels are a bit clumsy, but if you don't have to interact with them that often it's no big deal. they do have an api that you can use to automate registrations, renewals, and transfers, though.
Never had an issue with nearlyfreepseech.net, no idea about transferring though.
After time they really don't feel clumsy at all, that's what is amazing. To get a grasp on just how integrated a tool (Or better, a musical instrument) gets, try using a common device with the opposite hand and feel how clumsy it it feels in comparison. That's the natural pre-integrated state. Part of what is happening is that the brain actually devotes more neurons to the hand that is manipulating the tool. This probably makes up somewhat for the fact that the tool itself has no sensing ability.

The mind map for the hands of professional piano players have many more neurons devoted to the hands than in normal people for instance.

Classical guitar players use their fingernails to great effect when playing to generate widely variable sounds depending on how they employ them. One could argue that you fingernails function much as tools do in this case in the sense that they don't have nerve endings at the tips but instead transmit feeling through vibration down to the nail bed. The same thing is happening on a larger scale when you hold a screwdriver, the resistance and vibration is transmitted down to the hand which senses it. Over time more neurons get devoted to those sensing and manipulating areas.

More info here: http://health.howstuffworks.com/brain8.htm

And here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_homunculus
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I changed mine to be the sound of the communicator from Star Trek:TOS.

I expect to be sued by Paramount in a couple of days.
Myspace needs to focus on what they are winning in. That is local bands and promotion for them. Almost every band has a Myspace and uses it for updates and music samples, etc... If they could rework their music section. They are already the leader in it and seem to be oblivious to it. Give indie bands a way to sell/distribute their music and promote it better on a hyperlocal scale and you win.
Offtopic comment and NSFW link. Please don't do either of those things.
Am I alone in not really liking screencasts?

I can't really go at my own pace, or skim, like I can with a web page. I can't cut and paste.

I can see why they appeal, TV vs. book etc. etc. Less perceived effort.
OpenOffice.org. It outputs nice, standard XML and keeps tabs on the bewildering variety of things that ".doc" can mean.
Ownership vs Team vs Investement vs Bootstrapping (about 13 mins in)
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I was thinking the same thing. Having a chain of signed PGP keys that allow you to infer the trustworthiness of someone hasn't seemed to catch on. Are there any good articles on how this idea developed, and succeeded and or failed (I'm sure it was/is in very heavy use somewhere or among some group)? Heck I once went to a signing party... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party
Of course, the first course of action is taking over direction of the meeting when required, but if that doesn't work, a few words with the proper intonation will make the point as clearly as pulling out your laptop. It'll burn some karma, but as a proper slacker you should have enough of it :P.
The guy posted about it on his blog:

http://www.spazout.com/holy_smokes_im_on_ted

Oddly, he coats his statement with the same passive language bullshit that drove everyone nuts regarding the CouchDB/Porn debacle: "I realize that it should have" and "it appears that I could have".

What's so hard about saying "I was wrong not to mention the toolkit and I apologize"?
I'd say the key difference is that mainstream people actually download and use apps on the iPhone, much moreso than on other platforms.
Push notifications do?
I loved that show. I wish they make a movie out of it of course with the same cast and there are sequels after sequels of it. Even if they turn out to be terrible, I am going to enjoy every tid-bit of those movies, because I loved the characters. It was awesome!! Bring it back, please. :)
Perhaps an aggregator like Meebo or maybe Adium will get us halfway there.
I must have missed it because I didn't see much to explain why Myspace is having problems. My .02 (why I moved to facebook): 1. it took forever for pages to load. 2. I hated the "web circa 1999" look of many user's pages. 3. Allowing songs onload of pages. 4. Lot's of spam friendings.
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This article is pure shit. Anyone with a reasonable math education should know why, and should know about data mining. That you can get away with such things in major newspapers is simply shameful.
I'd rather own stock in a company (early Google for instance), that is a few months out from 'profitable', with a sales curve that is trending up, up, up, than stock in, say, GM, in the last month or two that it was profitable.
(Comment so I can easily find this again.)
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I don't know if it's the push notifications or the AIM app itself. All I know is that I was beta testing the new AIM with push and my phone would always be dead by about 2 pm, and I don't feel like I talk to very many people. Maybe about 5 people.

My guess is that it was because my phone is always in vibrate mode and every time someone sent me a message my phone would vibrate.
Ah great!!!
Now when you go to a website on your phone, you gotta take a coffee break & wait for all the animated Flash banner ads to load before you can see anything. The worst are the autoplaying Flash video banner ads. They'd probably freeze the phone.
My phone has this, but it goes through a gateway my carrier setup, so each IM is charged as one text message. Of course, I don't actually pay for a data plan so it may be different if I had internet access.
I'm starting to wonder if this is a just a problem with the writing skills of the people involved. Maybe this guy simply does not know what an apology looks like or who to go about writing an effective one. Reading this blog post, it seems like the bones are there and he stops just short of actually apologizing.
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domaindiscover.com has a very good track record (when we selected it 6+ years ago it was because it had the highest user ratings- I haven't looked lately but I can say they go way out of their way to let you easily renew domains despite CC issues etc. even well after actual expiration). Dunno about bulk transfer though.
I think the concept is very intriguing and if what you say is what is on your site and you have actually made it by collecting all the information in the last 3 years from all the major news websites, I think you will end up being bought pretty soon. Rather, what you should do is patent your process asap, if you haven't done it already and then license it. Amazing and good luck.
...and a loss for privacy evangelists worldwide.
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Another point I want to add, is if this is possible, your algorithm should definitely be added into any search engine page rank system to not only get rid of click fraud but also improve the searches.
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Gandi are very good, and was started by people who want to do the Right Thing. Pricing is competitive. Support is answered by real people who actually sort out the problem.

http://www.gandi.net/

They have a very good web UI, and a bulk transfer in of up to 20 domains in one go.

Moving stuff in is easy. The only problems I've had is with the losing registrar being rubbish, but Gandi helped out. (The main problem registrar was GoDaddy.)
I like the idea of this page and just started a blog there. Will I be more active as in my last tries to blogging? Only time can tell. But I don't really believe it. When I look at other blogs on this page, I see the mostly copied stuff from other places and artwork I like but don't want to see all the day. Did someone found a blog there, where someone is really talking about something new (meaning, creating real content, not just talking about other peoples stuff)?
I'd like to point out a single summary for this: "Let's actually act like Computer Scientists and run controlled experiments."

The "Scientist" part means something more than "not an engineer."

Still, it's nice to see some headway in bringing some honesty to benchmarks!
Yeah, the author should have named it "How Rupert Blew it" or something- I got to the end thinking the same thing - uh, he didn't even try to start answering how Myspace blew it.

5. Allowed itself to be branded as the Urinal of the Internet. Made it so all the tech early adopters that everyone else takes the lead from avoided it like crazy in favor of cleaner, better structured sites like Facebook.

I spent many hours convincing friends and family to close their MySpace accounts.
Government funding is needed to create new industries or spur innovation in nascent fields. Entire industries like online companies would not exist without DARPA funding of internet, fast food companies would not exist without govt. funding of the interstate.

In light of the fact that Detroit got bailout money its perfectly sensible for the govt to invest in innovation within the auto industry.
I am not sure if the powers that be are paying close attention to this sort of behavior or not, so I'm just going to mention it.

I've noticed an increasing trend of sockpuppet accounts. sinbsd and cmscritic appear to make submissions only from the same places, and comment on threads created by one or the other.

The information in this article is interesting enough that it doesn't deserve to be flagged, so I'm not really sure the best way to try to bring it up (clearly I've chosen to just comment about it for now).
Except on other platforms you don't have to download anything, it's built into the phone. Check the Pre for a great example. IM should be integrated like email and SMS. BlackBerry typically has IM integrated in I believe, I know that's the case on T-Mobile at least.
Interface needs to be cleaned up alot. I think this is closer to the kinds of regex generator I want but this interface is clumsy and confusing.
I found the page rather hard to read and it took a "long" time until I understood what it is all about. Putting the text in 2 columns might help. Not sure about the serif font too.

Nice idea. I like it. The revizr name does not appeal to me though, it sounds a bit too fresh and young. My first association was a razor and green/metallic colour, heh.

The logo has some weird spaces ("kerning"?).
Beejive 3.0 works great!
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I occasionally connect to HN via my Nokia 6120 (Vodafone, Italy), and lately, I keep getting proxy 502 errors.

Anyone else seeing this?
It's too subjective. With enough imagination and the right judge and lawyer almost anything can be spun into a hate crime. History indicates that would inevitably happen. Look at the ridiculous applications of RICO and Patriot Act.

And it's all pointless. Assaulting people (instilling fear of physical harm) is already a crime. There's just no need to complicate it.

Now, I'm against employment protections period. But if I weren't, I certainly wouldn't want the feds involved. Inviting the federal government into an area has typically proven to get you far from what you want. People should focus on state laws. If you're in a state with laws you don't like, then move.