skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of this - a great domain name comes into my mind, I go to checkout if its available, and I see that your service is selling it for $99, how pissed off would I be, thinking "one moron spends his 24 hrs buying all the goody domains and selling back for $99, I have to pay $89 extra for all the creative thinking I did."

I might give $500 then to mediadefender or russian botnet lenders to bring down your service as my revenge for a short while.

So, Yes you would be a dirty domain squatter. And if competitor services grow around your model, it would be worse for all of us.

Well, I am aware that this kind of work is _cheap_ so why don't you sell a good domain for $12 or $15 instead of $99, it doesn't take $89 to think of a good name does it ?

Creating a demand for something by taking it away from the reach of people is generally bad in my PoV.
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maybe these are bonds they put into the locked box when SS was running surpluses :)
How about calling yourself domainsquattr.com (still available!)?
I second that too. It's a nice application and cheap.
StackOverflow probably will beat Experts-Exchange, as will the other services they'll starting. If you have a good free service and a good pay service, the free service will win out. Experts-Exchange will survive for a while, sure, but StackOverflow is an excellent service, and on the whole I think it's the better one.
This is a truly ancient attack vector and a solved one. It's good that the kids re-discover these things and keep knowledge alive, but why oh why do they always have to make it sound like some sort of doomsday break-through? I suspect the the twitter disease.

Back in the day when these things were initially discussed (on phrack and the ilk) there was much less noise in favor to more technical insight. What do we get here? A pile of FUD based on half-knowledge.

So, I'd say +1 point for effort, -3 points for (lack of) research and presentation.

A simple search on packetstorm would have revealed that scripts like this were all the rage about 10 years ago (see octopus.c from 2001 and such).
Probably because soon users will have to choose their browser. In Europe, Windows 7 won't ship with IE onboard.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8096701.stm
Experience and Numbers give you more clarity in comparison. Check marks is for cows.
5 million for an additional 5%? Something like that, you mean?
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WTF is this... it seems they suck at it. and the title 'PHP Programmers' is so misleading!
1. Bill Gates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traf-O-Data

Not really a failure, but not much of a success either, compared to that other company he got involved with later.

I think there is perhaps where the book or articles might lie - "ok, now you've made it big - tell us about the times you didn't". Like PG's art gallery venture.
Ah, sure, forgot about that.
#1: Your pricing is at the worst possible point on the curve. You charge ten times more than what the inveterate cheapskates want to pay. You charge ten times less what a middling domain name is worth. You are opting to do business with a lot of "pathological clients" this way -- they will want the moon and stars because you cost TEN TIMES MORE than GoDaddy. (There will be, inevitably, comments in this thread to that effect. Do you want to wake up to a mailbox of them every day?)

#2: Let's talk inventory. It will cost you, for the sake of argument, $10 to hold a domain for a year. That means, to break even, you need to sell one out of every ten you register. Since you're going to be dealing in 3 word domains primarily, that is going to be a bit of a stretch. Let's say you branch into bingo for a day and start thinking up domains -- you can count to 500 just by starting with Xbingocards.com and filling in topics for X. Are you going to be able to unload 50+ of those?

#3: You need to do a heck of a lot of manual gruntwork here. Presumably you'll automate the actual purchasing, but you'll have to think up hundreds or thousands of domains and then sift down to the ones which are actually salable.

(If you doubt this, I will give you a list of 500 Xbingocards.com domains and you can time how long it takes you to winnow it down to as narrow a field as you think is winnowable. My guess is just the filtering would take most SEOs I know upwards of two to four hours to do if they did it systematically. And then, of the 46 or so you end up with, will you actually be able to sell them?)

Do this poorly and you'll be out money. You'll find that you're eventually spending a lot of money and effort to buy yourself a retail job, if that.
I've found the Apple laptops to be closer to the actual stated times more than any other manufacturer. But I guess this is more to do with the test suites available (none for Mac). Some manufacturers are notorious (hmmph Acer) for gaming results by reducing screen brightness to 20%, running the proc at the lowest level, disabling Wifi and not much else. Basically letting the laptop sit there until the battery runs out.

I called technical support about this because I was getting ~45 minutes even though the box stated 2.5 hours. What I was doing (web browsing over wi-fi, in the late afternoon) would get me the reported time. Seriously, the only way I was going to get 2 hours would be by sitting in the dark with no internet connection using notepad.
Seems to work for Windows.
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what makes domain picking and selling so interesting and popular? quite a few startup ideas/implementations pass through the hacker news front page, which is why i'm wondering.
I don't think it's domain squatting, because I can see the service you're selling is coming up with a good name, something I've struggled to do myself. Not everyone will see it that way, but that's ok because some will, as long as the website emphasises the creative aspect, searching by topic, etc. It's like paying a graphics artist to make graphics for your game instead of doing them yourself as they would have done in the old days.

But your payment structure makes it difficult. As much as I can agree it's something worth paying for, I would still want to get it for free if I could. Like ErrantX I would probably be tempted to just find a name on your site that I liked and use it as inspiration for another name that is still available.
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Doesn't Apple frown on VM's and/or embedded interpreters in the iPhone submissions? Couldn't the presence of Scheme's eval function ( whether it's exposed to the user of the compiled software or not ) end up being an issue?
There has to a be a limit to the amount of data that can be taken from what is provided to improve the effectiveness of the suggestions, I'd say there close to the point in which techniques to make sense of the data have reached there limit.

The system can only be effective to a point because of the unpredictability of a user.
Perhaps by giving people flip-flops it may have saved money overall - less stitching up feet or fixing broken ankles?

On top of that, that's a Tax Payers Alliance article. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
Who would ever think there would be so many followers on here instead of leaders.
"ok, now you've made it big - tell us about the times you didn't"

That's better than the "Founders that almost made it" idea. Knowing that they had it in them to succeed makes their failures more instructive. It also lends some credibility to their analysis of why they failed.
When a blog post's advice starts with "take a break," I know it will be a fluff piece with no actual content... sigh
Life's too short to use IE.
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Make up 10 domain names, buy them and sell them on ebay or various sites. If you sell more then 3, it's worth a shot.
Nice to see the author takes his own advice. Especially the bits about not working hard, not innovating and copying other people.
I agree. Now if someone would take the idea and run with it ...
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Yes. And of course they did not include Opera. That browser has quite nice developer tools out of the box.
Looking at this ad makes me wonder what the rules are surrounding unfounded claims in advertising in the US.

I know that in Australia several companies have had to either stop using parts of their advertising materials or have been taken to court for stating 'facts' or 'statistics' which they simply couldn't provide any evidence for.

Could the regulations around this be used to stop M$ from spreading such FUD around? The last thing we want is more IE zombie-users stumbling around the 'net and feeding the botnets.

Input appreciated!
As soon as the dominant company in a market resorts to a "get the facts" campaign, you can be pretty certain that they are finally completely out of touch.
Yes, I noticed yesterday that I still get line numbers from IE that have no correlation to my actual code whatsoever. Utterly useless.
Twitter bubble!
The interesting part here is that bonds are issued electronically. The electronic part of the international banking system is really fascinating. I've been wondering how hard it would be to "create money out of thin air" by hacking this system. I'm certain that someone has already done this. The best part is that it could be unpunishable, if the money is "created" in a country you know that you will never visit again. Morally, it is equivalent to forging money..except perhaps with no damage to the third party that receives the fake money. Practically victimless if you do it on a small scale.

Does anyone know any good books or other source of information about international banking and money transfer?

I'm thinking that there is a lot of security by obscurity here.
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What's the typical workflow for this look like? That is, if you're making changes to the code live, and you're trying this and that in the REPL to fix things; once you get it working, how do you then get those changes out and then into your source code repository?
that's the risk factor: if you then offer them to purchase the domain from you at a reasonable price then you will likely get a sale :) this is a standard marketing technique.

Buying the domains in advance (as pointed out many times over here) is an increased risk factor. I dont think you've considered this idea fully if you think that this approach is more financially risk (for you) than the one you originally pitched :)
Google China was accused of propagating "porn" by China Central TV
I like this idea beter:

# It solves the inventory conversion problem outlined below.

# It solves the creativity doesn't scale well problem outlined below.

# It allows people like you, who think that they can sell creativity, to have a go.

# This is compatible with your current idea. No reason not to seed a marketplace site with your own idea of your own creative domains & continue selling your own domains so long as it's profitable. If it fails to become a marketplace, you still have a shot at making your original idea work within it. Almost a free option.
They didn't list YC among the Tipjoy investors.
It's somewhat hard to trust this idea if the OP hasnt shared theirs :o
For someone who don't know the background:

Google has one of the best porn filter mechanism and the SafeSearch option cannot be turn off in mainland China. Since Kaifu Lee become the head of Google China, Google pulls tons of money to maintain government guanxi.

Today, China Central Television (CCTV) made a special coverage to accuse that Google China have assisted porn propagation by made links to foreign porn sites.
I'm in same situation. Did you figure it out?
Sounds like twubble.
Somewhere I read that around the beginning of last century they used to prescribe heroin to get people off morphin addiction. Sure it works, but it defeats the purpose.

Caffeine has most averse effects of sugar, plus increased rebound effect, tolerance, and addiction.

Also, if you had a sugar crave to start with, caffeine will only augment it.

I suggest first introducing high fiber foods in your diet (mainly vegetables), and start using fruit to get your sugar fixes. Fiber will help stabilize your sugar levels, taking you out of the glucose roller coaster and the insulin/glucose vicious cycle. Then it will be easier to gradually reduce your intake of sweets.

I've read Chromium supplements help with this stabilization, but I've tried it and I couldn't tell for sure.
That was quiet an easy way for the U.S. to reduce their debts!
And while you're at it, A/S/L??
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I wonder if they are checking the firefox version number

I guess not. I use FF 3.0.x and they said "old Fire Fox".
It looks like many people are actually downloading IE8 to participate in this. Hopefully, this actually may not change the market share of IE vis-a-vis its competitors. If you are an FF user, even if you download IE8 and participate in this contest, you are most likely to stick to FF. IOW I'm hoping that the downloads won't actually translate to conversions from other browsers. One good thing that might come out of this is some IE6 upgrades to IE8.
umm.. it's a fancy looking Granny flat? Perhaps with some more eco-friendlyness thrown in. What's the big deal?

Do they not exist or something over there?

// currently living in a converted garage/shed.
Or better, can someone quickly release an FF extension which can beat this? That would be an interesting counter strike :)
How many people would love to be such a failure... :-)
I just submitted this to the Federal Trade Commission complaints system:

-----------

On this web-page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-f...

Microsoft repeatedly make unfounded claims about the abilities of it's latest web-browser (Internet Explorer 8). These claims offer no statistical proof to back them up and are completely at odds with the considered opinions of most of the online community and many professional security experts. I personally believe that they are attacking browser providers without a reasonable basis in an effort to retain the custom of un-informed users.

Evidence to support my claim is:

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2009/03/18/pwn2own-2009-...

"Today's first day of Pwn2Own contest is now officially over [...] Between two winning contestants, they were able to compromise Safari (twice), IE8, and Firefox."

Microsoft claim that IE8 is more secure than Chrome and FireFox, yet the very same security community that discovered the IE8 exploit listed above failed to find any exploits in Google Chrome. In a seperate interview one of the winning hackers (Charlie Miller) said:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941

"There are bugs in Chrome but they’re very hard to exploit. [...] The’ve got that sandbox model that’s hard to get out of. With Chrome, it’s a combination of things — you can’t execute on the heap, the OS protections in Windows and the Sandbox."

Your attention to this matter is appreciated.

------------

If other people were to submit similar complaints I'm sure it would bring the matter to some attention!
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Right on - they care about viewing the content. So if YouTube switched to <video>, over night, tons of users would switch browsers. Except that's never going to happen. My guess is that YouTube might serve up content using the <video> tag if the user isn't using a modern browser, and Flash content if they're using IE. I can't see them making such a reckless business move ( some users wouldn't/couldn't switch browsers, and there goes millions of paying customers ["paying" in that they view the ads]).

With companies like Google playing it conservative ( as all web devs do ), and adapting content to allow IE users to view it, there's not going to be an incentive for users to switch browsers.
Isn't that a fairly odd thing to ask a group of extremely savvy and security-minded programmers. Unlikely at best.
I get enough spam on Skype already, thank you.
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Was this meant to be a kind of self-parody, a boring article about how annoying bores are?
I used to be a heavy EE user about 5 years ago (IIRC) enough so that I got a free premium membership for a month. Thing is now i can't even read the answers I gave to some questions as I'm not a premium member ... unless I UA-switch to Googlebot of course (that worked last time I was there).

EE always frustrated me, like Launchpad Answers does now, in that people with no clue how to solve the problem would answer and then no-one else would bother because someone already answered (Launchpad is far worse for this as any reply (except "more info needed) marks the question as "answered").

/rant
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http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/05/15/creative-brief-fo...
Java?

There isn't any Java in VBox. VBox is almost entirely C/C++.

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Because you think Google are stupid enough to use an easily abused metric like down-votes (alone) to decrease SERP rankings?

Bounce-rate would be a better metric (and again abusable) and they already have access to that for many sites.
Same here; now just to find the right building to put the prefab thingy on. Probably shouldn't be too tall or the winds will get ya.
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This is true. But, if you brew one really strong cup in the morning, you can cut it with boiling water several times during the day to make regular strength coffee.
I think there's no real demand for (Open)Solaris anymore.

ZFS is the only remaining solaris-feature with mass-appeal. For most people that's not enough to justify coping with the pains of maintaining a second platform. The hardware integration is NIL, linux runs pretty much everything now. Zones is called OpenVZ for the rest of us.

I know quite a few admins who swear on xfires for the metal. None of them keeps the OS they ship with, though.
Life's too short to use Microsoft.

To be sincere, their keyboards and mice are top notch. Too bad they insist . Their hardware is excellent since the Z-80 SoftCard I used in my Apple II. And they had a 6 MHz one as well... With it, an Apple II was the fastest CP/M box around.
"The Kindle DX is $489, and that is an unbelievably low price for something that has inside it a sophisticated computer, a completely new kind of display of that size, and a 3G wireless radio, Bezos said."

Somebody please send a $250 netbook to Bezos, or two for a Kindle's price.
I'm guessing you actually mean it covers running costs on a small amount of ads. A small amount of ads doesn't pay many wage bills* - I'm guessing there are a equivalent of a couple of full-time people working on SO? Doing backups fighting off crackers, ensuring trust metrics aren't abused, making optimisation changes, upgrading hardware, etc..

500000 uniques but how many ad clicks? I'd imagine their clicks-per-impression is really low on this sort of site unless the ad is the solution to the problem. People are focussed not aimlessly searching, they're also probably the sector most immunue to ads - computer experts at work.
My family used to do similarly, even though "modern" medicines like neosporin were popular then, but IIRC bark and sap from the Manuka tree is supposed to be good, too.

+1 for raw honey being better, but it's pretty hard to get it in big cities (without paying ridiculous prices!).
I can remember finding useful stuff there, I even wrote some answers. I don't use it now (perhaps been thrice in the last year or so) and find better info elsewhere often. But it still has utility.

Next worthless anecdotal comment please ...
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20 seconds in google turned up an ask slashdot from '99 where he claims to use msdev because of intellisense and edit-and-continue. He claims to spend time regularly in each of the big three oses. And that the bsp code for doom was written in objective-c(so more than likely not written in VS.)

Here recently he is porting games to iPhone some how I doubt he used VS to do that. It rather sounds like he is a right tools for the job sort of fellow, and doesn't stick to one dev environment.
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Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months,
are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make
coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had
some tyrannical god contrived to enslave our minds to time, to
make it all but impossible for us to escape subjection to sodden
routines and unpleasant surprises, he could hardly have done
better than handing down our present system. It is like a set of
trapezoidal building blocks, with no vertical or horizontal
surfaces, like a language in which the simplest thought demands
ornate constructions, useless particles and lengthy
circumlocutions. Unlike the more successful patterns of language
and science, which enable us to face experience boldly or at least
level-headedly, our system of temporal calculation silently and
persistently encourages our terror of time.

... It is as though architects had to measure length in feet,
width in meters and height in ells; as though basic instruction
manuals demanded a knowledge of five different languages. It is
no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or
future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of
helpless confusion. ...

-- Robert Grudin, `Time and the Art of Living'.
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