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To some degree, but the more voracious kind is based on honey made by bees feasting on Australian Tea Tree .. which is, itself, a pretty wonderful source of all kinds of protective substances.

<-- grew up in Australia, was constantly healing my scrapes and bumps with Tea Tree oils and Manuka honey .. glad its all finally getting some science.
I'd up the number and start it all over if I were them.
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I can't think of a lot of problems that would work with this kind of contest. It has to be hard enough and interesting enough to be like a game for the world's smartest people, you have to have a prize big enough to make it not an insult, and you have to have an existing solution that is compelling and interesting to talk about. And, of course, you need a dataset so people can know when they've reached the goal.

I can think of only a few companies that could do something like this. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, are obvious choices, since they all tinker with recommendations and other such things for search, videos, and shopping. Apple iTunes, eMusic, Amazon for their stores. What else would work here? A lot of startups are playing in this space, often founded by PhD's, but they don't have the $1mil or the big and interesting dataset and pre-existing market-tested solution.
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The Page Load Time numbers for your end users are really useful.

I think it's an oft-neglected metric that is a real difference for your users. You can assess in real time whether a reduced image size, or some different HTML has actually made a perceivable difference in speed to your users.

The translation of this speed into revenue is also something else.

Fuzzy made-up numbers:
Above 5 seconds, people leave.
Above 2 seconds, people tolerate.
Get the page load below 2 seconds, people stick.
Get the page load below 1 second and the site starts to become invisible to them and they become highly productive.
1. Bill Gates.

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It depends what region you are in. You should first look at the Business Link website for the list of grants available in your region. Also search for regional development agencies in your area.

I have had some experience with them and the problem is that they don't generally fund companies with no IP (i.e. software) and the process can be slow. If you are associated with a university then there are other types of grant you can apply for. Again, business link, your RDA or the university tech transfer department can tell you about them.
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I can't remember ever finding something useful there.
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P.S. I wonder why google didn't ban them outright, it should really.
Ask HN: What do think of this idea?
A website that sells a few nice domain names for a reasonable price (I'm thinking of 99 dollars).
To clarify it: It would be no market place where anyone could offer their domain names. All the domains that would be sold, would be registered and sold by myself.
The "value" to the customer would be, that I would do the "creative thinking" and come up with nice, short (domain)names that they could use for their projects.

So what, dear HN crowd, is your opinion on this: Would I be just another dirty domain sqatter or would you consider to use such a service if you'd be in need of a name for your next project?
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Flash uses Sorenson Video 3, which is derivative of h263. The irony is, that Apple used to exclusively license the SV3 codec for Quicktime (they used to deliver trailers in mov + sv3 + qdm2) and Adobe later licensed the same codec for Flash (later also On2 VP6 and H.264).

The point is, that Quicktime has supported the video (except VP6) and audio codecs used by Flash for ages, it just does not support the flv container. If you remultiplex any youtube video into mov container, any stock Quicktime installation will be able to play it.
I wonder for whom are these marketing materials. No one chooses to use IE, and those who use it because it's a default browser do not need any justification.
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Sure, the marketing info isn't aimed at us. But our impression of Microsoft, and what their reputation is, is not just based on the things with which they deign to target us.

And, even though it's not targeted at us, it's targeted at people we know. If you're anything like me or my co-workers, that means that our friends' and families' browser problems are also our problems :P So Microsoft is actually making the lives of tech savvy people harder via FUD like this.
Firstly you would need some cracking names to be able to achieve a $99 asking price.

Secondly your purchase vs sale ratio would probably be bad. As your not pitching super popular domain names you have to buy a LARGE pool of "good" domain names to stand a chance of selling some.

And finally your target market is one which might well browse your catalogue for inspiration then make their own (far cheaper) choice [this is what I would do]. So unless you nail all of the cool short domains then your unlikely to sell to anyone but those who "must have" a specific domain.

I get your idea - I dont think the economics works unless you have a fairly large initial investment to make (and have sucess predicting the domains people want).
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Well, you don't just trust the authority figures: you trust whole communities of authority figures, that consist of persons that differ in about every imaginable aspect. I do not believe something is right because a few authorities say so, but because their arguments are checked and criticised by a wide variety of scientists, including such varieties as Chinese Christian biochemists, Gay Ethiopian surgeons, White French scholars in Hindi and Argentinian female anthropologists. People of different backgrounds, with different values and ethics, that are yet all persuaded by sound evidence and reasoning. I cannot believe that is just coincidence.

Edit: (And of course because the arguments seem plausible to me, with the limited understanding I have of the subject)
Yeah, a decade ago, one used FUD as a tool, sowing it in those who would listen, used by people who actually did that on purpose despite having knowledge or experience to the contrary. These days, FUD is increasingly less often something you spread, and rather it's something you have, something that keeps you from making good business decisions, it is a myopic view borne from an all-in vested self-interest; it is a response to being backed into a corner, not being able to see, or even conceive of, the next move that should be made, yet seeing the writing on the wall that you are becoming increasingly obsolete and the realization that the only way to remain relevant is to attack the unstoppable competition. FUD used to be used to keep people from trying your competitors; now FUD is used to stop people from using your competitors. FUD used to be telling lies to others; now FUD is telling lies to yourself.

The rhetoric is the same though.
Heh. What about portability?
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Two feature requests, one question, one comment.

I am aware that occasionally there are great items that don't get a few upvotes quickly, and then get lost in the flurry of other submissions. Submitting something at a popular time is a lottery, and I think many useful items get lost, or go unnoticed.

I'd like to see an alternate ranking system based on votes, replies and page views. Let R be the current score as determined by votes, C be the accumulated votes on the comments, and V be the number of views of the page. Then let the ranking score be something like (R+C)/V. The idea is that pages without views will stay close to the top, encouraging them to be viewed and hence ranked. Pages that elicit no upvotes will then drop quickly, but at least they've been seen.

There probably needs to be a time component in there as well so that items slowly "fade" with time.

I can expand and refine this for anyone interested in seeing waht happens, but I can't produce a mock-up because I don't have access to the "page views" statistic.

Second thing, and much less of a priority, I'd like is the ability to retrieve a single item with its threading information, but not its threading content. My interests aren't entirely aligned with the majority, so I'd like to retrieve every item and then read them in thread for myself. Currently if I pull a given item I get all its sub-comments as well, which I then have to unpick. It's tedious, and I haven't bothered yet, but I can do it. It would be more value to me if I could just pull the text and ID of the parent.

Question: I'm interested to see if this comment gets read. This thread is now 2 1/2 years old. How many people read it, and what path to they take to do so?

Finally, the comment. Thank you for HN. I think it's a fantastic resource, and I look forward to contributing to it for some time to come. I hope I add value.
What are you really selling -- your originality, or your monopoly on the domain name?

If you were really selling your originality, why not let people fill in a form, you do the brainstorming, and then find a domain name that suits the buyer's needs. Then you'd contribute real value.

But in the scenario you're describing you don't give people a choice to take advantage of your creativity, you force them to pay you a premium, even if they thought of the domain name themselves. That makes you a squatter.
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This sounds like plain old domain squatting. Think of it from the "customers" point of view. I think that prettypinksnowflake.com is just the domain that I could use for my project only to find you have already registered it with no intention of going anything with it but squatting on it until a buyer comes along.

So you are planning to be a domain squatter and all this talk of "value" is just so much BS. However domain squatting isn't illegal (as such) and some people seem to be making a living at it so a viable business model.

So forget the "value" you think that you are adding and start to work on the economics of domain squatting. How much will you be buying the domains for? How many of those will you sell, what is break even?

And remember that this is already a crowded market, there aren't many good, correctly spelt, English domain names just lying around and guessing which style of misspelling will become popular could be expensive. Perhaps you should look into non English language squatting?
better idea: create a marketplace where people can resell their domains for $99. sort of like a fixed-price version of sedo.
And I will now see how long it takes for prettypinksnowflake.com to become registered :)
Could you please explain this a bit more?
I'm not sure if this a browser specific thing but on opera I just get to the bottom of the page.

edit: Oh, I was looking on a page that had no answers. Didn't realise that at the time.
Replying to several others here, including this one. (Short version: use fat and starchy/tuberous food to have sustainable/stable blood sugar levels).

There is no way
to turn any carbohydrate into "significant amounts of glucose in a
healthy way" unless you are talking about digestion or metabolism of
fat.

One slice of "whole wheat" bread is worse for you than a teaspoon of
sugar (Glycemic load versus Glycemic index), not to mention the wheat
germ agglutinin and other insulin/hormone mimetics that come with the
bread, nor the gut-tearing action of insoluble fiber.

Glycogen is touted as being your energy source, but it is not. How
long can your muscles function on stored glycogen? Do you think humans
would have survived (on an evolutionary timescale) if they'd had to
eat pasta every 6 hours?

In any case, any carbohydrate/starch is converted to a fatty
substance, stored subcutaneously and used as fuel in lean times (even
rabbits and cows do this via rumen fermentation). If you keep eating
carbohydrates, you turn on the "storage-mode" and accumulate
fat. Repeated turning on of storage mode robs your body of
insulin-sensitivity. You become a non-symptomatic diabetic (if you're
lucky you'll skip Type 2 diabetes and go straight to Type 3 --
a.k.a. Alzheimer's disease).

Lastly, your body can easily convert (with hardly any usage of
vitamins and other trace elements) fat into glucose (this process is
done by the liver and is called gluconeogenesis). In contrast,
digesting/utilizing carbohydrate has a high requirement in terms of
vitamins etc., and even if it didn't, eating wheat blocks the
absorption of most of these elements (especially zinc, vitamin C and
calcium).

Your liver does gluconeogenesis because a very few organs in your body
(primarily some regions of the brain) need glucose to function. The
rest work just fine on free fatty acids in your blood (aka
lipids/cholesterol/ketones). In contrast, sugar causes a rise in
triglycerides, which are the molecules used to transport sugar.

While I don't have references right now, most of this can be found
substantiated on pubmed/medline. An easily digestible summary can be
found at http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com

And a disclaimer: a year ago I would have thought all this very
kooky. It is not. I think the news.yc folk can "handle the truth", as
it were, and so I've written this comment. I hope it helps
someone. If you're of an experimentalist bent, you can try it for yourself, it takes less than 2 weeks to adapt.

Yesterday I was on a 24-hour intermittent fast (I didn't expect it to
get so long, I just wasn't hungry) and I was programming no worse at
the end of it ;-) in fact, I'd say that free of sugar-highs I now
program much better and can concentrate more consistently. That implies more self-control, does it not? YMMV.
While this is a very cool hack, compiling to C is (relatively) easy. Objective-C, but mostly the (Cocoa Touch) API's are the interesting bit of iPhone development. Until there is a good way to use those API's in a high(er) level language, I'd stick with Objective-C :)
The 2009 fbFund REV incubator program currently has ~25 startups, and the average funding amount is $25K (note: a few of our startups are non-profits, they do not receive funding).

In general, almost all of our startups have already built out a prototype prior to applying for funding. While we wouldn't rule out funding someone completely at the "napkin concept" stage, it's probably unlikely compared to the # of opportunities that already have some level of development.

likely it would be best if you build out some amount of relevant prototype to test your proposed customer problem/solution hypothesis.

that said, we are not planning to begin a new round of fbFund until next year sometime, so you might want to consider other alternatives as well.

for more info on fbFund, you can read details on TechCrunch here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/28/facebook-names-first-cl...

regards,

- dave mcclure
fbFund REV incubator
program investment manager
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Bad science, I'm afraid. Or rather, junk science, since science itself is simply unbiased experimentation and hypthosesis-testing.

In the absence of carbo-loading there is no lactic acid "wall" and hence no sainted feeling. Perhaps that's why the runners magazines don't talk about it ;-)

What did all those kenyan runners eat for fifteen years before blowing past their fellow marathoners? Did they drink beer and carbo-load on pasta the night before?

In other news, running barefoot is better than trainers, omega-6 fats are more susceptible to free-radical damage than lard, essential fatty acids doesn't mean what you think, nor does "omnivore", margarine and omega-3 butter spreads kill, &c. &c.

Oh, and tinny, tinny, Tinny, TINNY.
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And I'm sure your web based todo list will have the level of impact as gates company...
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IE8 is a fair browser in all areas to me except in (a) performance, and (b) extensibility. There is no way IE8 is as fast as Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. Let's ignore page load speeds and focus on application loading: IE8 takes much longer to load and it takes sometimes up to 2 seconds to open a new tab. #### off, MSFT.
You've just reminded of the Tom Lehrer quotation:

> Life is like a sewer ...
> what you get out of it
> depends on what you put into it.

In software we try to break this. We try to allow people to get a lot out of the technology without necessarily investing much effort into understanding or learning about it. In this sense we are trying to make software unlike a sewer.

Hmm. I'm sure someone with a good sense of humor and a gift for writing could make a really funny routine out of this.
For the simpler cases you can just use curry or rcurry,
eg:

(mapcar (rcurry #'parse-integer :junk-allowed t)
'(" 1" "2xx" "3" "foo"))
(1 2 3 NIL)

... whereas your more complex example doesn't strike me as an improvement over lambda + backquote:

(mapcar (fmask #'list ? (? (1+ (length ?))))))
vs.

(mapcar (lambda (n list) `(,n (1+ (length ,list))))
numbers lists)

... which might be longer than the fmask version but has the advantage of being immediately readable to any Lisp programmer, and of allowing arguments to be reused, or used in a different order than they appear.

Doug Hoyte has a nice read macro called #`:

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numbers lists)
Well, surely the CO2 level itself could be reversed. But what other elements of the system's equilibrium will be changed in the meantime.

For example, the actual amount of temperature increase observed is less than the CO2 level increase would suggest. Suppose that whatever agency has tempered the temperature increase has "woken up", and continues to do so as CO2 decreases. Then a return to "proper" CO2 levels (if you can call any level proper) would mean serious global cooling. And this might not be evident until it's too late.

Of course, I'm making that up, but there's no reason to think that it's implausible.
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If I just tell them a free name after they filled the form, how would I get paid? If I register the domain I have an assurance that someone actually pays for the "idea".
Your correct. The Urban density of London for example is so low compared to New York. Because of shoddy building in the sixties and poor maintenance from the 60's on the British are not fans of high rise.

A lot of Brits are obsessed with owning a small house with two gardens and a drive only to leave the gardens to go over grown!
and Sure, Microsoft didn't invent stuff like add-ons for their browser for they could not see - what a browser can be!
Well I'm aware that it is a thin line between sqatting and my idea (maybe it is sqatting after all, thats why I asked).
The difference would be, that the majority of buyers would not think of a domain name and then discover that I registered just that name. Instead they would enter the "shop" and look around for some name they like (and hadn't thought of themselves). Of course there is no way to prevent that the first thing happens (and so it would make me a de facto sqatter everytime that happens).
I think its Domain Squatting 2.0
Doesn't work too well on chrome either.
I was psyched about this marketing technique, and social design project from the get go. Even though it's not quote massive collaboration, there is a powerful search implementation being leveraged in having many problem solvers hitting it from different directions simultaneously. Fascinating if this technique can be applied to other problems (akronim totally agree). I wrote up something back in April (but the Harvard group did a better job).
The Big Shift (Harvard group): http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/bigshift/ just check out their many posts on collaborative design

My link:http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/04/25/the-search-power-of...
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I would be more interested in the fbFund than others.. but if it's available for the next year also, then i would start and make some progress in my application and then turn a simple version public and show it.

if the idea is great and the application seems to be promising, do you think it will be accepted?