skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we do lease domains now. You don't actually own the domain...it can be taken away at any time.
I looked at deploying it very recently, but it has a little bit to go. They guys at Northscale are very responsive and have replicated my issue. I'm hoping they have a solution in the near future.

The admin UI is nice, real time stats are good. It, however is still in the 2nd beta and there are known bugs that need to be fixed to be considered production worthy imo.
For consumer electronics, this seems like it could find very appropriate applications on minimal-UI devices like the iPod Shuffle.
First, read startup marketing advice by @Balsamiq

Cannot stress this enough. When we started marketing our company last month we used Peldi from Balsamiq's post as our playbook. It worked...really really well. VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, and a number of smaller blogs specific to our industry covered us before we even launched (that would be today).

Not to take anything away from this post, but http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2008/08/05/startup-marketing-ad... is the best free advice I've ever received.
0 degrees celsius + 0 degrees celsius
failquicker and fredjiles both make some valid points. There are
arguments for including as much billing information as possible, and
arguments for collecting the bare minimum. The optimal approach varies
from merchant to merchant, and industry to industry.

We generally recommend collecting at least a five digit postal code -
this is the variable you have direct control over that helps a larger
percentage of your transactions process at the lower qualified rate.
Other information, such as the street address, can be helpful for
other reasons, but does not effect your processing rate. Collecting
the CVV is usually a good idea, as well, though again - this data does
not effect your processing fees.

It's been our experience that for SaaS providers such as yourself,
traditional fraud is lower than you would see for merchants shipping
physical goods. You'll still want to protect against chargebacks,
however, and there are a couple options outside of collecting a large
amount of data from your customers.

You'll want to first be sure the descriptor that appears on your
customer's statements is obviously tied to the product they've
purchased. You'll also want to ensure that the number appearing on
their statements is a number that they can call and quickly get
information about what the charge relates to.

Once your chargeback rate gets much above 1% of total credit card
volume, banks will begin to analyze your processing and conduct
various risk reviews. However, unless you're experiencing an obscene
chargeback rate out of the gate, the bank will usually work with you
to lower this percentage before shutting you down completely. Should
you start to see chargebacks approach that 1% figure, you can then
look at additional options, like increasing the amount of information
you're collecting.

Much of this is just good practice for any business - accurately
describe your service, be responsive to customer issues, and provide a
great product.
1. Fair point

2. Mutable state can lead to really subtle bugs

3. Sure but no more than Haskell or any other terse FP lang, Scala included

4. defrecord works wonders. You get all the flexibility of a map with the context of an actual type

5. It takes me hours to do things in Ruby that I could dash out in Clojure.

6. Right.

Quite a few people in the Clojure have come from Scala. So everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
"mike",

There is no need to insult my writing. The original post was about HTML 5 and so was my write up.
No problem. I actually enjoyed writing this app quite a bit, and I think it's a good showcase for a lot of different technologies in Cappuccino.
#4 I couldn't agree more. Its easy to find all the well known artists for a particular style, but after you find the 10 or 15 main ones it gets much harder to find new GOOD songs.

I would consider myself as one of the ones who have spent a ton of time creating my 1 playlist. Its really hard to find new artists. It works almost like highschool. There are little groups of artists who sound similar and know each other. Once you find 1 its easy to find the rest of the group, however finding that first 1 can be extremely hard.

I easily go through 200+ new songs every week by artists that are supposed to be similar but are not.

It doesn't help when I like a somewhat different genre then mainstream.
You can sort by any column by clicking on its header. There is no way to reorder them manually right now (though it wouldn't be hard to add).
The problem with that thesis is it has completely failed for Scheme (there are multiple Scheme implementations for the JVM, some are almost a decade old), and arguably for Common Lisp (ABCL came out at approximately the same time as Clojure, and although it's fairly popular as a Common Lisp implementation, it hasn't lead to major growth in adoption).

The reason I think the "it's Lisp but not really a Lisp" is a major factor is the example offered by newLISP. Its biggest thing seems to be "all this macro and lisp-2 and lexical scoping stuff is nonsense, this is not scheme or common lisp, this is a simple language," and despite this paradoxical assertion it has developed a somewhat large user community (a lot larger than Arc's, for example).

The JVM is much less of a factor than many people suggest. Another good example in support of this and the "concurrency" thesis is node.js - it's not the first JS web server (by far), and it's not the first NIO-based web server, but it does combine the two at the right time.
from Asus I imagine they'll end up releasing a $200-300 iPad clone. They have everything already parts wise.
Why is proving P!=NP an important result?  Most believe it is true anyway.
Blown away by the App Lotto: Air Horn reaps in over $100K
http://www.meetup.com/
Swipely Launches, Lets You Share Your Buying Habits Sans Prices
Domains with significant type-in traffic should be very easy for the owner to price. Assuming the domain owner is rational.

Refusing to negotiate may also just be a hardball negotiating tactic. For instance reflex.com says "Our domains are not for sale.... and here's our contact info we're leaving here just to be friendly."

Immensely frustrating though
short answer: base64.
See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1124149/embedding-backgro...
Latest Prediction: Christopher Hitchens will publically confess his sins to God
Adam is a seriously talented developer. I had the privilege of meeting him, as I'm sure many have over the last several years, at a Linux conference in Los Angeles a few years ago. His dtrace presentation still sticks out in my mind as a superior demonstration of superior software. Whomever ends up with him on their staff will be better off for it.
I generally don't keep up or care about executive moves at large companies but I find this fascinating on a few levels ...

I know there are fairly serious legal risks/fears when it comes to checking references and vetting potential hires. I wonder if this had a lot to do with Skype not knowing how unliked this guy was at Yahoo! ...

I wonder how much money it cost them to recruit, hire, and then lose this guy

Most of all, it seems to me like there is a startup opportunity here IF (big if) you can ease people's legal fears. Something like this:

(a) Maintain a largish db of tech workers that includes the dates they worked at various companies (Joe worked at Yahoo! from 2004 to 2007)

(b) Large company wants to hire some manager/exec (Phil). They pay the service $1,000 to evet him.

(c) The service matches Phil's work history against it's database and compiles a list of everyone who also worked at each company during those times. An email goes out asking each to complete a quick recommendation page.

(d) Anyone who knew him can just say "I worked with/under him" and maybe a thumbs up or down. Perhaps incentivise them somehow (unless that would taint the results)

(e) Large company gets a report and never sees names of respondents, only stats like "48 people responded and 75% said Phil is cool" ... maybe some anon. comments.

(f) Profit
"This whole "I have over 1000 unread emails, oh my!" crap just feels like bad email management and poor time keeping."

I'd wager he gets hundreds of emails per day from random people, some of whom could actually be important. This is in addition to internal email lists at his company, VIPs, etc. I get dozens and I'm quite a bit less public/important than Kevin Rose.

Say he gets the following daily:

30 messages from people he knows
150 emails from fans, strangers, some of whom might be worth responding to
50 internal company emails that merit SOME attention

That's 220 emails per day to process. Say 150ish on the weekends, so he has 300+ to process every morning. Now say he takes a 1 week vacation.

Call it an average of 1 minute per email for processing (some are near 0, some need to be scanned, some need to be carefully read, some require short replies, some require longer replies). That's 4+ hours per day.

What he needs is an assistant to go thru the "I don't know you" pile to see if there is any "ham".
Dot-com names should cost $1000 and there should be
another TLD that costs $1/year for all of our hobby
projects

Hobby my ass, just because you can afford $1000 and I cannot, that doesn't make my project a hobby.

Livable land on earth is more limited than the number of decent domain names (yeah, you can make a living without owning sex.com ... sexandbutter.com would do just fine ;)).

And yet I don't see too much bitching about land-owners that don't want to sell. You want to get that piece of property, then offer more money (everything has a price).

Yes, I have one bitching domain name that I haven't used yet (owning it for the last 2 years), but I will and when or how is none of your business.

Get off my lawn!
Head of IT? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQUWUfmR_I

Seriously, I would say the Software Architects are hard to fill. Sure, you can find Senior Devs and Development Managers that claim to be Architects, but a true architect, someone who can really see and build the whole picture is hard to find.
I'm not as dubious. Unlike someone's random blog entry, the NYT does do fact-checking, and had at least one source they deemed reliable, as per TFA: "The comments caught the attention of Skype executives who became concerned about their new hire, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who was not authorized to speak with the press."
Nah, I'm generally happy, I don't wanna be a founder (too much work/stress). I've run my own business, twice. Once into the ground ;) It's not for me, I'm fine with that. In my first post I had written and then deleted for not adding anything. "Happyness & lazyness. In that I'm happy and lazy enough to not try for something "better"."
s/political/religious/

Does this change your opinion? Should it?

Ask yourself why you feel that not hiring this person based on their political views is justified. Force yourself to back up that justification with hard, concrete facts, not just speculation. Then recast their political views as, say, their religion, or their cultural norms. Does this change your thinking? Why? Maybe you'll come to a better appreciation for your own viewpoint and degree of tolerance / intolerance.
The elephant in the room seems to me to be camera placement. Current smartphones probably already have good enough cameras, they probably can already run the software and within a few years they might also have the batteries required to keep such a sophisticated system running for longer periods of time.

But how do you get there to be a camera where you need it to be? Size isn’t even the problem, smartphones are already small and light enough. But are people supposed to cut a hole for the camera in their shirt pocket? Will we suddenly start to wear clothes with electronics in them? (The technology to make that happen already exists but we don’t seem to want to.)

This seems like a neat additional feature that would be pretty cool. If it wouldn’t add any extra hassle. It seems to me to be a very hard problem to get a camera to where you need it to be without adding any extra hassle for the user.
CSS Buttons are all well and good for simple styles and rapid prototyping. But what happens when your boss asks you to add an icon inside the button? Or stretch it vertically? Or add it to an email bulletin?

And the time you claim to have gained by not having to fire up photoshop and knock out a few simple buttons, you'll lose again by having to test in different browsers. Also consider readability, maintainability, future-proofing your code, semantic html.

edit: and if the ability to autogenerate arbitrary buttons is important, knock up a server side script to create the graphics for you. Really. That's much nicer than doing it in CSS for all but the simplest of cases.
I'm not a lawyer, but I can't imagine that would fly in the US. Liability is just too big of a risk.
Square footage could increase if the rooms got larger and there are more of them.
Is that true for startups as well?
Non-story. If Wikipedia can lock a page and hold a 2 year flame war over whether or not the correct spelling is "Aluminum" or "Aluminium," how long do you think these changes will last?
The 1st amendment also gives you the right, without fear of legal prosecution, to use racial slurs against others.

It doesn't mean you should. And it also doesn't mean that you can't be fired for not playing well with others.
Or mixtape/opentape
2. Mutable state can lead to really subtle bugs

Absolutely, but these aren't ends of the same stick. You can have immutable but eager, which is simpler to model mentally a lot of the time, at least for me. Simon Peyton-Jones has said that perhaps Haskell should have made eager evaluation the default and I'm inclined to agree that lazy evaluation is very powerful but maybe not a good default.

3. Sure but no more than Haskell or any other terse FP lang, Scala included

True, although the baseline for a lot of Clojure code is higher, IMO.

4. defrecord works wonders

Maybe so. I haven't really gotten my head entirely around the options for datatypes in CLJ yet.

5. It takes me hours to do things in Ruby that I could dash out in Clojure.

It's true. Clojure makes some things that are hard to do in other languages much easier. Programmers are different, so we shouldn't expect one set of tools to suit us all equally well.
At the time of this posting, there are 12 references to "squatting". While it may be arguing over semantics, it is an important distinction as there is a difference between "squatting" and "investing".

An individual who saw the foresight and bought a few acres of land that later became highly desirable for a subdivision is heralded as a real estate investor while someone doing the same with domain names is lumped with the shadier individuals in society.

According to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

After seeing how good domain names could help me better market my software as a startup on a tight budget, I became intrigued and am a part-time domain investor (domainer).
ooh I want to bid on some stuff...http://ebay.com...404? WTF

your plan would pretty much eliminate 99% of websites.
Slideshow of the world's oldest living things.
Minimal Facebook
rvm update --head && rvm reload && rvm install 1.9.2 && rvm 1.9.2 --default

(sorry for the duplicate)
China: Number Two With a Bullet
I like the approach of GitHub: free hosting for open source projects. Maybe something similar could work for business apps - if not software related, free hosting for nonprofits.
I suspect you're being downvoted by people who know what a huge amount of time and effort it actually takes to immigrate to the US.

There's also the minor technicality that USCIS won't let you in the country with only a one way ticket.
> For example, I found unhooking our doorbells was more significant than not using the clothes drier.

Wait, what? What sort of doorbell do you have?

Also, did you figure that out just by trial-and-error of disconnecting things, or did something lead you more directly to them?
Netflix vs. Apple Over Past 5 Years
The Israeli left vs. right flamewar has nothing on classics such as "tabs vs. spaces" or "Windows vs. Mac".
Here I was, excited to post a bunch of reasons why this paper doesn't really support its conclusion, only to find all the comments on HN already well informed and adequately skeptical.
FCC says broadband ISPs routinely exaggerate connection speeds
Here's the thing. You gain nothing by treating the religious as idiots. Many of them are very much not idiots. Do you think Einstein and Planck were "mentally ill"?

Here's the other thing, we all have our mistaken beliefs. Whether they are part of an organized religion or not. The best way to bring people around to a more robust and more evidence based understanding of the universe is not to revile, insult, and discriminate against them. Rather, it's to engage in open, honest, humble, and compassionate debate. You know, the same variety of debate that advances science itself.
What features does chkbuild offer that Hudson doesn't? Should I put a feature request in?

If there's some stumbling block to adoption, it seems that switching the single CI box to Hudson, then utilizing the numerous Hudson boxes out there as slaves is quicker than trying to get people on board with chkbuild.
Is Greece entering a Death Spiral?
I agree 100% on your 2nd point. It's tough to price out a domainer but not price out the small business or startup who probably has smaller pockets. By the time the small business has the money to buy the domain, they have already built a following & links on a lesser quality name.

Cheap pricing like Godaddy's $.99/year .info just pollutes the web with spammy sites - think of it as tons of little Mahalos.

Tiered pricing hasn't worked out that well for other extensions. Originally .tv had a tiered pricing where you paid a premium yearly rate, however, they abandoned that practice this Spring. [1]

[1] http://domainnamewire.com/2010/03/18/verisign-drops-prices-o...
There are used copies available on Amazon (and elsewhere too, I'm sure) for about $40. Recycle, guys!
I will be forever grateful, that my University taught Scheme/Lisp with this book (and others) as introduction to programming.

While I have never used Lisp or Scheme in my professional life, that set of undergrad courses more or less defined my mindset when it comes to algorithms and their expression and has lasted to the present day (some 20 years later).
Yes, I know that.

You are asking us for help with a decision on what to buy and from whom, without offering us a grand buck.

Presumably, this is what you meant when you said you wanted to change the rules of the game.

Seriously: if your target audience are sourcing advisors, certainly you are close enough to several of them to be able to get some advice from them on your problem.

The fact that you turned to HN for help in finding a firm to outsource your designing to, instead of to them, is puzzling.
On the contrary I have been rather impressed with Asus's netbook offerings. They recently released the Eee 1005PR.. a tiny netbook with a massive 1366x768 resolution in addition to their already ridiculous battery life. I only just started playing with netbooks recently and have an older Eee and have been rather happy with it:

http://paulstamatiou.com/thoughts-on-netbooks-part-2-asus-ee...
No, but it's an example of horribly screwed up priorities either way.
I am encountering more a more people (including just regarding educ. references) who decline to provide reference that say anything beyond the dates of employment/study - on advise of the organization's legals.

Who want's to get out on any legal limb in the current U.S. litigious environment?

EDIT: Of course candid (or even outrageous) negatively can easily be risked in an anonymous blog comment :(
Delicious iPad Ad remixed
No, THIS is why Asus is blowing it
1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Cracking
Nothing's changing at the low end of the netbook lines because they're all still shipping with Windows XP or Windows 7 Starter, so the hardware has to be nearly crippled. Thanks, Microsoft.

But at the higher end there are some neat ones. I got an Asus 1201N, which has a dual-core Atom, real Windows 7, and HDMI out. Makes a decent travelling machine and can handle almost any media needs.
technically it does.

if you can't afford $1,000 that means you aren't even making $1,000 a year. If your project only makes you $83/mo...it's just a hobby.
Anyone have any recommendations for trying Clojure? I'm an Emacs user on Ubuntu and I'd like to try it out but there seems to be quite a lot of choice about how you do things I'm a bit lost.

Any up to date blog posts on setting up Clojure and connecting Slime to it? The ones I've found are always slightly out of date (apparently starting swank from Emacs isn't the preferred way to do it anymore?)
Worst Server Naming Scheme Ever
I agree that HTML5 is an awesome spec. With iOS, HTML5 developers can access native hardware like Location APIs (GPS), cameras, etc, however, the spec is still in it's infancy. Remember when Netscape was supposed to replace the desktop and Microsoft started to get scared? HTML5 has the potential to do that, and I personally would love to see it start to replace thick apps, but we're still a few years away from being able to do everything on the web.
+1 for Chalchiuhtotoliq - Precious Night Turkey
It's not strictly correct. You define variables all the time via vars. You must in the sense that if you want to do anything over time, since doing it other way is insane.
Most of the plastic bottles sold in Finland were reusable up until 2008 or so, but now that the tax levied on non-reusable containers has been removed, most of the bottles appear to be of single-use variety.
How many kids are diagnosed with ADHD due to some objective measurement of their bodies?

No, it's "do you have problems with X or more of the following list items" + the physician's judgment.

The study does not contradict what you're saying.
Is it possible to give us a rough overview of your tech infrastructure? (Servers, processes, storage)?
Maybe this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_Keyboard ? I think they tried but this product didn't gain enough traction as they expected (due to higher price, lower specs, ...)

Otherwise i must agree with the article. After successfully introducing netbook concept the EeePC 700 serie, all Asus has done was just milking the product line with god know how many variations. I mean they have dozens of models, all has the same configuration: Intel Atom, 1-2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, with little difference in screen sizes, keyboards layout.
Better have a lawyer in there as a co-founder and not one that will bill by the hour.
And I thought I was having trouble with Dakota numbers.
Parking lots help predict earnings.
Agreed. I went to the University of Minnesota which modeled its curriculum after the MIT CS program. I was saddened to hear they were ditching Scheme for their intro class. I don't see why they felt the need to update to a more "modern" language. It's impossible for any language to ever more directly express the basic concepts of functions and recursion than lisp. Why muddy the waters with syntax?