skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who thinks that has never heard of MOSS, http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ in order to fool it you would have to know the material well enough that you would be able to complete the assignment w/o cheating anyways.
I have xpcom.org
I can't remember what I was going to do with it.
I've seen some decent ones come up on pool.com actually. For instance "digitalclassroom.com" was listed recently (no idea how much, would have looked more if I wasn't concerned with blackboard suing me if I used it).
0spy.com

american-idol-online.com ( has gone through multiple ideas, but none have taken )

cheaptightwad.com ( was a product sales site based on the pronto.com api )

everythingmicrosoft.com

gconq.com ( was going to be an online game )

hddvdtech.com ( ha ha - gonna let that one expire. )

hotwaterinteractive.com ( meant for steam game development )

imvote.com ( never did anything with it )

rssgoogle.com

txt2sms.com

wiidynamics.com

wiiphysics.com

I have more, but they have some content on them or are partially active. These are basically my abandoned idea websites. :)
Hey, great feedback. I understand that you might not want to go around the house and inventory everything you currently have, but what about stuff you buy from now on? I am getting a new clothes dryer right now as I type and it would be simple to hit the site and fill in a few details. At least I hope it would be.

Hey, why not host simple home walk-through videos as well? That way when the insurance company complains you have video proof. :)
b a c k s c a m . c o m
Whoops, that's a big difference. I was reading you in an American context. In the US, different bars have very different vibes. Singles bars are known as "meat markets" and are pretty much like resort bars -- people acting out bizarre, tasteless fantasies of themselves based on what they imagine other people want to see. Singles bars have a high profile in the culture but aren't actually popular except among a small, mostly college-aged part of the population. At regular bars, people who are at the bar are open to being approached, but the actual bar may be a relatively small part of the establishment. It's fine to approach lone women at tables and ask if you can join them, but if they're with friends at a table it's more complicated. A lot of people go to bars to meet up with their friends and their friends' friends, and they don't really want to be approached by strangers. Sometimes if you make eye contact with a cute girl you can get a clear nonverbal invite, but barring that you'll seem awkward or arrogant if you try to join them. (But if you're sitting with a group at a big table, and the person next to you is in a different group, it's often natural to strike up a conversation with them. Like I said, it's complicated.)

At the places I go to, most of the hooking up happens between people who had a prior connection, who met elsewhere or who met at the bar through common friends. Australian bars sound like more fun.
I used to work in a software store in Australia and we had people always looking for Money but the latest version was 2005 and never developed beyond then.
Yes, inventory tracking and amortization is simple
"Online anonymity is just a leftover from the early days of the web - a time when there really just weren't other options."

I disagree. I thought about this when we were starting HN, and I deliberately opted for anonymity, though with profiles if people wanted to post stuff in them. When all people know about you is what you say, they judge you based on what you say, instead of who you are.
I like datafeel - it's generic but can be applied to many situations
Cool. I was actually thinking that an iPhone app would be great. It would really help out with the inventorying process: enter some details; take a picture; file it away. Sweet!
Tesla Co-Founder Sues CEO Elon Musk For Slander And Breach Of Contract
He argues that a job interview is a different situation than being at work with access to google because it's 'a competition'. If he likes to select people on things unrelated to the job, why not ask them to sing and dance too?
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Hey, there are all kinds of integration you could do. A mashup with Craigslist is a great idea. Want to sell an old microwave oven? Just click the "List this item on Craigslist" button, give some details, and your good to go!

Additionally you could find a replacement item for something that is broken. Need a new couch to replace your old one? Just click the "Find something similar on eBay" button and your golden! I like it.
foreverlist.com
nuncatarde.com

I have plans for both domains, but they're on the back-burner.
seedsea.com
millipaid.com
mixit.fm

vidcharts.com

kirbygamereview.com

newsrotica.com
perfect example of a company that doesnt give a crap about their customer experience but cares deeply about efficient processes: Wal-Mart

try asking someone at a walmart in a metro area where you can find car tarps or universal remotes...
News at 10: Species adapt within their genetic limitations.

I'm still waiting on that experiment that empirically demonstrates guppies sprouting legs and kicking off an entirely new species of legged creatures.
Yeah. It is time to save on all those offices, leased lines, and owning a hardware. Laptop, 3G, code.google.com and aws.amazon.com or some self-managed dedicated server.
That is already established way to work in US. Now it is time to expand to so-called third world.
Wal-Mart: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=653051
I didn't realize people thought it was an acceptable answer, I just thought it was something people said afterwards (as in, "Can you believe he asked me about the fourth argument to the foo function? In real life I'd have just Googled it"). It's almost an insult to the interviewer (Of course I don't know the answer, you shouldn't have expected me to).

As an aside, I hope people don't mean this literally. If I wanted to know what the fourth parameter to function foo is, I have quick access to my language's reference manual, and I look in there. I don't just pop it into Google and hope whatever comes up is right.
tweetby.com

mabify.com

nakedfile.com

stormset.com
flagsfororphans.com/org

I'll happily give it away to anyone who wants to use it for a transparent government initiative. (For those who don't get the reference, see the "Krusty for Congress" simpsons episode.)
Yes, you are right. I am not going to comment on TechCrunch website anymore, but use FriendFeed or Twitter. FriendFeed is very nice for this, it gives you a nice way to have a discussion on the article based on your comment, and to access all your comments at later stage.
Oh I saw your question only today.

Alice's pronunciation is correct, but I say the name slightly difference. She pronunces 'Ex' like ecks, while I say eggs.
it's a fundamental force. we don't know and may never know the nature of why it exists, it's just one of the rules we have to live with.

gravity will only get interesting when we learn how to manipulate it.
I hope you're able to find a tech co-founder. In the event that you don't but you're willing to take a more long-term approach to finding one, here's what I'd recommend:

Join an existing startup in LA - they are out there, just harder to find than up north. The relationships you develop will be great resources for the future. I recently joined a startup here and it quickly became apparent, at least in this group, that a lot of the people worked together at past startups (successful ones). Not only that, but they are also connected to the other people doing startups.

As an aside, one of my colleagues noted that "a failed startup is the best way to build your network." When a startup goes bust people scatter to different endeavors and then, when it comes time to hire, reach out to the guys they worked with at the last startup they were at. This is also true of successful startups - they get acquired/go public and after a while the culture changes and the initial group disburses to start other things.

Regarding technical schools - you should reach out to CalTech.
Yep. Even quicklibs is fantastic.
Heres mine...

atomurl.com
kidamigo.com
salonsidekick.com
mamascuisine.com
mydaycarecam.com
360faith.com
3layouts.com
addonator.com
loftwire.com
mobilemixtour.com
mytaintedlove.com
theadviceshow.com
widgeweb.com

I want to finish all of my ideas, but I don't have the time :(
Right, but you keep the knowledge you gained in making that stuff. Any useful product has to be rewritten many times before it's useful enough for people to pay for. So they keep the first draft - startups throw out their code and start fresh routinely, so again, you're not much worse off than someone who quits their job to found a startup.
eskimokissing.com
In Opera the hover over effect on the buttons causes them to spasm in size Large -> tiny text -> large and red. This causes the other buttons to shuffle around usually under your cursor and then they start their dance. It was pretty exciting.
I'm coming up on three years now, for the one with the most experience, check out the pioneer, http://puredoxyk.com
I found her articles on everything2 years ago and was intrigued.
I recently started a blog about my polyphasic lifestyle, I may not be the best example as I don't follow a strict schedule, but I've stuck at it and it's worked well.
My latest post was talking about if it really works, if you're interested, you can read it here:
http://blog.aximilation.com/blog.php?p=68&more=1&c=1...
For those not wanting to read it, my consensus is that yes it works, but not for everyone with every lifestyle.
Depends on your customer base.
It might be better to reject one show-off who managed to put a backspace in his email in return for helping 1000s of customers who enter www.name@aol.com

It's possible to have a 6 character email address, but for most users checking that they have entered more than 6 chars would be good.
I like that, I don't know why?
advertiserblogs.com

daddybloggers.com

docfu.com

friendlywebhelp.com

grawgo.com

greendevelopmentblog.com

informationoperatingsystem.com

kill5minutes.com

localsearchzone.com

misternewhomeowner.com

msnewhomeowner.com

nooler.com

outinpaperback.com

papercompanion.com

serendipityrow.com

thenewsfindsyou.com

thewebworksforyou.com

workingblogs.com
I was really intrigued by polyphasic sleep for a while, and used to fantasize about how much I could get done if I tried it. But realistically, I can barely tolerate typing 8 hrs a day as it is, and I have enough distractions and obsessions that it'd be rather unlikely that I'd spend that extra time doing much that was productive -- certainly, I wouldn't be programming.
cleverhub.com

crowdhub.com

twijj.com
I have this horrible habit of grabbing domains for every idea I think of for longer than two minutes.

It adds up after a while.
Correct on both points. Steve called it quits quite a while ago, it's funny how his posts keep getting called up years after the fact. If you want more up to date info, google puredoxyk (founder) or jorel314 (collects links to current polyphasic sleepers)
pixaruniversity.com

pittsburghfounders.com

snappyresume.com

careersauce.com

colonytech.com

allthebigstuff.com

findoozle.com

getfounding.com

fleetheshame.com

newmediamonthly.com

webkeynote.com

thetippingblog.com
Supermarket own brand products are often of a much lower quality than branded versions, but sell well because they are cheaper. There is a quality/price trade off with a lot of products and a demand for those on both ends of the spectrum.
I know you probably are more looking for feedback as to how it works but you do really need to compress the images you are using.

At 56.6 Kbps just the top portion of the letter graphic takes over 35 seconds to load.

Here's the same graphic saved as a jpg using the fireworks engine - no different in appearance but 10 times smaller:
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/3946/amalfitopcreate.jpg

Here's your png for comparison: http://www.fromabirdie.com/images/Amalfi_Top_Create.png

you'll have to work in the exact matching background gradient but it will be worth it.
bets-for.us

bets4.us

betsfor.us

gambool.net

kungfugrep.com

linktacular.com

linktacular.net

phoenixfringe.com

sublunaris.com

tripgather.com

tripgather.net
CSS sprites are your friend.
Why shouldn't google treat SEOs as criminals? A SEO's entire job is to prevent google's main product from functioning as intended. SEO is hardly better than spam as far as I'm concerned.
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I've definitely heard both objections --- space and time --- but my real point is, one of the app domains that most commonly hosts bespoke cryptography is largely incompatible with your recommendations.
It looks like self-exhibition or self-promotion, like the famous writings of mr. Spolsky.

Yeah, he is a successful man. So what?
Just as a data point for you to consider, I know the NXT 2.0 are supposed to be out in August.

I am waiting for 2.0 but maybe you could find some deals on the 1.0 versions.

Just FYI
When all people know about you is what you say, they judge you based on what you say, instead of who you are.

But there is no such anonymity for the user known here as "pg."
sorry for asking, may not be adequate but have you planned to get revenue somehow?
very intriguing
omgdrama.com
omgsux.com
interwebr.com
resistr.com
schnapr.com
basecost.com
folkhunt.com

some are developed a little some have ideas.
Programming error causes Canadian mint to lose track of gold stockpiles?
sniggr.com

dontgodigital.com
Your first point, about how well-studied HMAC is vs. CCM, is one of those points that makes a lot of sense in an academic context and much less sense in practice. In an academic context you assume both implementations are sound. In a practical context, you have to consider how likely it is that the implementor is going to make unsound choices.

The same goes double for your second point. Yes, if you have to implement the MAC yourself, you clearly want to use HMAC rather than trying to get CBC-MAC right. But if you're in a place where you have to implement your own MAC, you are doomed for a bunch of other reasons. CCM is preferable to HMAC because it's likely you're going to simply be able to change CTR to CCM and have it.
The difference in pitching a VC vs. an angel is in presenting your far goals. I guess no VC will like your promise to quickly become a profitable company with few employees only and making hundreds of thousands per year, and not going to grow beyond that. Angels might like that more than having to wait several years to get a smaller slice from a bigger pie.
Really? I'm still waiting for someone to demonstrate that Stars can collapse from clouds of interstellar gas!

Selectively setting the bar ridiculously high can be an indicator of bias. I find the practice intellectually dishonest.
You should sell the second one to http://lowercasellc.com/ - which is Chris Sacca's new firm.
Amazing, awesome job!
My father was a North-Sea fisherman and reported on dramatic increases of Roe when fish populations were declining. Since the type of flat fish they were catching had usually lived for many years, our conclusion was that it would have to be a bio-chemical progress already built-in to the genes.
mvent.com

backtours.com

STARALIKE.COM

fourpawsclub.com

credit-planet.com

ereader-review.com

netbookreviewsonline.com

etc...
New element to be added to periodic table
what led to that? j/w
What did you have in mind for serendipityrow.com? Good band name, after Led Zeppelin.
bowbefore.us

blastcapacity.org

write2left.com

themeupdate.com

I'm letting them all expire this year at some point.
I've read parts of her blog, but I recall it seeming like it required a lot of regular effort to maintain that schedule; almost as though she was still fighting polyphasic sleep every day.

Do you feel that it requires regular effort on your part to maintain that schedule?

Do you feel any differences mentally?
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I would say performance is generally poor. The rendering of pages seemed plenty fast, but downloading of all the content/css/js was painful.

Some quick things that would help:

* use :cache => true for both your CSS and JS files, this helps more than you'd guess

* make sure passenger is serving your static content without hitting the rails stack. I don't know much about passenger, but you should check on this.

* as 'there' said, use properly resized thumbnails.
Hemlock, the open-source, real-time web framework, now available.
SocialFeet seeks a lead developer - Activity Stream Publishing
I TA'd and taught an intro to unix course at UCSC a couple of times. We found that repeatedly pointing out the tools that we'd use to catch duplication (grep/sed/awk), and show how they worked was the only thing that reduced the cheating count (which sat at around 10%, but dropped drammatically with repetitions of how we'd find cheaters).

tl;dr: "don't cheat, we'll find you" -> no effect on cheating. "These are the tools we'll use. Here's how they work" -> massive decrease in cheating.
Yes, if you have to implement the MAC yourself...

I didn't say anything about implementing the MAC yourself. Someone has to implement it, though -- and no matter who writes the code, HMAC-SHA256 is far more likely to be right and not leaking data via side channels than CBC-MAC is.
I got through about 2 weeks and while the first 4 days were hell, after that it was like a constant 90% alert. It was a little weird ever hitting 100%, but extremely weird not to space out and dip lower. I kept waiting to space out but it ever happened.
It's a common English phrase that means to rub noses.
grawked.com net org

smartisan.com

goodfromgoods.com

creatorial(s).com

brokerageview.com

finefreight.com

letsbreakit.com
I had two domain names reserved for some projects

nukanon.com
extrophos.com

and now they are available for free. I'll tell you their story if you register them :D

currently I'm reserving only 'local' domain names which are mine forever. unused are

nucumpar.ro
gros.ro
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Speaks About the Future of Facebook
Before we start thinking about the future, let’s stop for a minute and take a look at Facebook, what it is, and where it has been. It was founded in 2004, with the intention of creating a friendly environment for users to share, consume, and generate social connections and information. It was designed for users to represent their true identities (remember how incredibly anonymous the Internet used to be?), and has advanced to be a great platform for businesses of all kinds to promote their products, spread their brands, and make money from applications.
"Only teams with all team members being U.S. Citizens traveling from within the Continental U.S. can win the DC3 Forensics Challenge."

They don't trust Hawaiians?
If I am not mistaken, that's common for everybody.

Older people seem to need less sleep.

Then again, perhaps old age just means you can't get more then x hours of continuous sleep.
coredumpster.com
onebigcatch.com
matchisle.com
You say they got angry calls, but you didn't talk about the difference in sales.

How did they brand the change?

Did they reposition the food items in the store?

Did they redesign the packaging?

Did they market the better food in the same way as the crappy old food?

How long did they give it the stuff to see if it would sell?

If you've been previously selling to misers with no taste, and you want to expand (misers with no taste are not loyal but they are loud), you have to not just change the product but the ecosystem.

Of course people bitch. People will bitch your ear off for any change. Every good manager knows this.

The question is: does it sell? And if it doesn't, are you doing all you can do to help it sell?

Just adding more is a local optimization. If you want to change the bigger picture, in a situation like that, you have to upgrade your customers... to people who will pay more. Which means your existing customers are likely, yes, to bitch. But, as you said, the brand was already dying so maybe its current customers aren't the right ones.

You can't switch Alpo with Finest Steak and expect to charge dog owners more money. Doesn't work.
For a concept that depends so heavily on invoking a personal / emotional response in your users, I don't think the graphic design is good enough. The pages are heavily themed (e.g. strong background image, handwriting fonts); if you're going to do this, you should do it well. Otherwise, it's probably best to stick with a more subdued design and allow the content to dominate. Or you should let the album's creator design / customize the theme.

Please don't take this the wrong way. I love the idea and wish you the best of luck.
Kiva expands to US
It was going to be an offshoot of my main product (Serendeputy, a personalized news application currently in private beta).

Serendepity Row was going to be an extract of interesting, erudite articles that surfaced from the aggregate usage of the site. I'd put out two or three posts a day highlighting really interesting pieces. I was going to model it somewhat on Arts & Letters Daily -- http://www.aldaily.com/

Kill5Minutes was going to be the same idea, but for more low-brow stuff.
I wanted to applaud the author for his observation that students want to do meaningful work.

The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

-- Marge Piercy, "To be of use"
Um, everything I've read says that supermarket brand foods are often name brand excess sold under private label. Yes/no?
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cashnik.com

deletetheinternet.com

dunbarsdungeon.com

finihd.com

graphle.net

graphle.org

hotelfreehd.com

maperate.com

phinihd.com

proclamate.com

pussyandguns.com

sandiegomarquee.com

schrodingershotbox.com

sdmarquee.com

seekaview.com

streamwhat.com
Selectively setting the bar ridiculously high can be an indicator of bias.

Actually it's an indicator of skepticism and intellectual honesty, exactly what any scientist should have... As Feynman would say, a "kind of leaning over backwards" to show how you might be incorrect.

All quality scientific theories are validated when we have empirical or mathematical proof that demonstrates that a given X process produces Y results and evidence. For example, an explosion of a bomb (X) results in a certain pattern of destruction (Y). We know that upon seeing a certain pattern of destruction (Y) we can infer that it was a bomb explosion because we've seen and witnessed prior explosions (X).

The only way the existence of (Y) can logically infer the existence of (X) is if we've previously tested and validated that X indeed produces Y.

Is it so much to ask that I have X process demonstrated before I truly believe the theoretical assertation that Y evidence really indicates the existence of X process?

Is that not what real science is about, forming theories and then empirically validating whether or not X indeed produces Y as we claim is does?
Ask HN: Please review and give thoughts on my app
I'm sitting on tons, but I've given plenty away over the years too, so I don't think of myself as malicious. Nearly all are from project ideas I had but then never followed up on.

ajaxday.com*
amonad.com*
cocoainside.com*
detailedlook.com
javascriptinside.com
jotpack.com*
jsinside.com
pythonflow.com
pythoninside.com
railgrinder.com*
railsteam.com (currently giving this away)
railswebhosting.com
rorhosting.com
rubyonrailswebhosting.com
richlanguage.com
rollwall.com
roted.org*
rotes.org*
rubyandhow.com
rubypedia.com
rubyweekly.com
scalainside.com*
spacepit.com*
startupfreude.com*
superyay.com*
tipteam.com*
topichub.com*

I don't think I'd be willing to unconditionally give/swap away all of these, but I'd say for at least half I would (I've put stars next to those). For example, I consider the Rails Web hosting ones to have value - I just haven't bothered to do anything with them yet. Some of the others I am "squatting", in a sense, in order to prevent competitors infringing on my brand.

Sorry for the formatting.. too lazy to fix it, but actually realized it doesn't look too bad as a horizontal list anyways..