skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the name of this startup? Is the startup involved in any way with the politics that bother you? If yes, then you may have some ground to stand on...

It not, its it would be a signal to me that the organization doesn't value people as people, but property. Personally, I would turn down work at a place if I knew they hired and fired for based on political bias.
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If you're not going to use a service like MailChimp, I'd highly recommend http://sendgrid.com to ensure email delivery.

They give you an SMTP server and make it real easy. For $10/month you can send 10,000 emails.

However, if you're gonna be serious about an email newsletter, that means you'll eventually want analytics. IMO that's the biggest benefit of a service like MailChimp/MadMimi. Tracking opens and clicks is definitely something you can roll yourself, but I'm not sure if it's something you want to tackle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacons
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Already been tried, and failed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapmail
It's not difficult... but people still complain.

I moved Shoes over to 1.9.1, I agree, it's not bad. Don't underestimate laziness.
This is all well and good unless the distribution of domain name ownership is that 1% of domain owners own 99% of registered names. If you want a domain that happens to be owned by a small owner, I'll agree you could face much bigger problems. If, however, there were only small domain owners (and if my ratio above applies), then 99% of the time, you wouldn't face any problems at all because 99% of the time, the domain simply wouldn't be registered yet.

Despite being wrong about the problem, the author's solution is not bad. For a serious commercial endeavor, $100/year is insignificant. For a personal site, it's a fortune. The author's solution does seem to solve this problem.

There are still problems though.

1. The .com TLD is so prolific that using a different TLD is a problem even for personal sites. The author's solution would've been great if it was implemented from the start. Right now, it might be good at best. Even if you just show your site to a few of your friends, some of them are likely to get the TLD confused if it's not .com. If this was implemented from the start, though, that wouldn't be a problem because everyone would know that personal sites don't use .com.

2. Domain squatters, the real problem, will still exist. They'll just be more selective. If someone can get beer.com, they'll still do it if it's $100/year. That's still likely to be a good investment. If you raise the price enough to make that a bad investment, you've probably priced out a lot of serious commercial sites that just don't have the money for an expensive domain name.

Perhaps a better solution from the beginning would have been to have a bunch of cheap TLDs that anyone could use for anything at $1/year, and then .com which would have varying prices depending on the value of the domain. True, you can't predict with certainty what will be valuable, but you can predict with reasonable certainty that any word in the top 1000 English words is likely to be valuable. You can similarly predict that shorter names are likely to be more valuable than longer ones.

Of course, we don't have the option of changing what was done, so that's probably all moot.
Cap and trade is a different thing than carbon taxes. But I understand your sentiment.
Virtually everyone is confused, except for you?

Or maybe you are just the one that doesn't actually understand it.

It is like inflation not counting energy prices - it doesn't matter what happens to prices on some things, it matters what happens to the prices of things you actually spend your money on.

So if housing prices went down per square foot compared to income but the size of the houses increased by a larger percentage than the decrease in price per square foot, the net result is more money out of your wallet.

A good example of this: I tried to get a small place, I don't need the space, but when I looked I couldn't get any smaller than where I'm living. I'd love to lop off 400 sq ft and get that percentage of my money back, but I just can't. That is what exists in the market today where I'm living. The end result is more money out of my paycheck than I'd like and an empty bedroom in my house. (Luckily we can afford the place off one income at least)

There are a lot of reasons why this happens, but the biggest one is that the cost difference to the builder of making a small house compare to a big one is a lot less than the price difference they get for building them. The same goes for boats, and today you can hardly buy a small boat anymore, they've all figured out the fatter margins are on the bigger ones.

A similar question applies to her numbers for income. Income averages have increased, but that is a result of increasing income disparity more than an average increase. So what is the change for someone in the 1st percentile? The 25th? The 75th? the 100th? It is an impossibility for those numbers to be the same because the income disparity has increased so somebody is white washing the data here.
I use http://europhase.net
My support tickets are usually filled in 10-15 minutes or so. And its cheaper than slicehost or linode, at least for me (I know the owner).
I would not go as far as to say that a startup is not for me (Don't need another demotivating factor :D). I have a dream, and I intend to work on it while I do what it is that I do right now. If I ever get to a point where I may have to give up on it, well so be it but that point is not now, and hopefully not in the foreseeable future.

I work very hard to be good at what I do. My current focus is on learning as much as I can, regarding whatever it is that needs my immediate attention as well as aspects that may help later with a startup (if it ever comes to that). I am single with no debt whatsoever and I pack away as much as I can save (I am somewhat of a minimalist and live very frugally).

Regarding HN - It probably is the most relevant source I have found. Lot's of great advice and articles, lots of motivations (@patio11 comes to mind) and most importantly the company of (somewhat [1]) like-minded folks.

[1] - I say somewhat mostly because I doubt many others are people attempting to immigrate.
Leaving Oracle
"If we're into social commentary, I'd point out that as we become more and more pampered, we become more and more infantile. I expect to push the button on the iPhone and have the pizza show up 15 minutes later. I expect to be in contact with all of my friends instantly via text message. I expect to have college paid for and a warm house with the folks if things don't work out."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
Good for you. (opps, message got threaded away from parent, reply to user who avoided VC)

It seems best to avoid those that bring money but no skills/services to the table. While some could prove to be good allies, many others are more apt to be parasites than productive. If this country weren't so full of people trying to (or succeeding) in getting rich without actually producing anything useful, we wouldn't be in such a sorry state.
Capitalism and competition can be a wonderful environment for innovation, but it can have a dark side when greed games the picture. I stumbled on an interesting piece a while back that I thought adds perspective

http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-02-09/news/17189250_1_islami...
Yeah, I thought about letting Cullen address your comment but he specifically mentioned that they'd be making the information available for anyone to use and hopefully build upon.

It's certainly not hard to figure out what they're running of course. http://builtwith.com/wpengine.com and the "Net" tab of the Firebug plugin tell most of the story.
Though I have no doubt it's a good product, this piece tells me nothing about why. All I learn from this is that Cullen Wilson answers his email, which is polite and all (heck, it's better than Google), but not exactly a "why X has won" kind of thing.
It's funny to see those names here, they are both industry friends of mine. There are thousands of affiliates quietly making six and seven figure incomes without any angel funding or hope for an exit. I know, I was one of them. terra, are you an affiliate marketer too? How do you know those guys? It seems like HN is dominated by startup guys rather than people building successful smaller scale businesses.
Scroll down for E-COM. The USPS tried to land-grab email back in the 1980s. Thank god they FAILed.
http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/email.htm

Those were also the days of MCI Mail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Mail
This may help: http://joneslee85.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/howto-compile-rub...
I seem to remember Facebook tried upvotes and downvotes for ads. I'm guessing the downvote button disappeared because too many people used it.

I do have a suspicion they used the data though... I dont see very many online moneymaking scheme scam ads these days
Reddit founder launches flight search site
The site says they used a "contact microphone," so I assume what we're hearing is vibrations in the rocket not so much the air.
Where I live in the US, there is no bottle reuse, as far as I know. In fact, while we have recycling pickup, the city will not pickup glass at all because it is considered too dangerous for the workers. If you want to recycle glass, you have to take it yourself to a recycling center.

In the past (30+ years ago?) glass bottles were routinely reused before plastic and aluminum containers were widespread.

In general all of the schemes for recycling and bottle reuse vary by state and city in the US.
If you really want that, why not start part-time? Can you for example negotiate workin on contract 4 days/week and keep one day for you thing?

The greatest thing about this schedule is that even when you are not working on it you keep thinking about what to do next. It turns out that when you actually start coding you are supper productive as all you next steps already thought through and prioritized, you just new to type/debug them! :)
While it's true that the life expectancy has risen for older people, this isn't because longevity itself is much greater, it's because there are fewer infant mortalities dragging down the mean.

Upon safely reaching mid-life, the life expectancy has been around 80 for decades.
I did a little more digging and found these from the founder, Benjamin Vigoda:

http://phm.cba.mit.edu/theses/03.07.vigoda.pdf (PhD dissertation)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hHev9gI... (overview presentation)

It seems that these chips are actually analog. Are the "soft gates" mentioned in the above a synonym for the effects of lowered CMOS voltage?
OS/2 wasn't good enough, unfortunately. It was very expensive at the start -- and then there was OS/2 Warp which was ok, but not compelling. If the world were as web-enabled as it is now, it might have been fine -- the way it was -- you needed all of your software to work, and it didn't.

Even Windows 95 wasn't great (especially for programmers) -- it was Windows NT 4.0 that was good enough to use to get work done. It was a combination of being less crashy and having more native software available.
I use Open Office, and export. The OO editor is pretty quick for typing math. I then have a couple of scripts that clean things up a bit.
I've had both experiences. I worked full time from my sophomore year until now. I graduated last august and moved back to Canada with my wife. We can't afford anything right now so my dad was nice enough to let us live whit him. Before graduation I was able to pay everything plus the apartment with student loans and my job. Now that the loans need to be payed and my wife can't work for immigration reason language reason she is still in school.

I don't feel bad about it, it's just the only solution at the moment. Loans are getting paid and our car will be paid soon so it's only a matter of time before were on our own again.
Tip 6. Stop routing a ton of noise into your primary email accounts, use something like OtherInbox.com for trivial stuff such as Twitter and Facebook notifications.
It's just not their forte. They move paper (and highly profitable paper spam!) around the world using lots of people in a system they control end to end.

Email has none of these properties. Maybe 200 people, tops, run Gmail. Spam is a liability, not a profit center. No one controls the Internet. Etc.

This is like asking why Amtrak doesn't take over the mobile phone business.
I'll have to disagree and say that the biggest single energy impact is having children.
"We had an unprecedented click-through rate on our ads"

Around what percentage if you do not mind saying, and also the general subject area of the site, i,e IT?

Just curious.
What I don't get, is why is MathML only for displaying formulas, not not for making actual, working algorithms?
My thoughts, in chronological order:

1. This is tragic.

2. The truth is that not just should you not text while driving, you should not hold anything at all in your hand while driving that is not necessary to drive the car.

3. No one is likely to change their behavior even the slightest bit as a result of this.

4. Autonomous high-speed motorized vehicles are further confirmed as the stupidest transportation idea that has ever been implemented.
Thanks!

I totally agree - you need to be extraordinary carefully not to land on blacklists. Nevertheless we think it's doable and give it a try. We try hard to follow best practices and have implemented basics such as using a dedicated IP, SPF entries, reverse DNS and basic policies like only emailing user that explicitly opted in.

Any suggestions for additional precautions are strongly appreciated :)

PS: Thanks for the double opt-in hint, it's on the todo list!
Can We Date?
> If you buy a soft drink in a class bottle in Denmark you'll get a container that looks like it's seen war.

Here in Argentina, there are returnable glass bottles, non-returnable glass bottles, returnable PET bottles, and non-returnable PET bottles.

> Which is just patently silly. We basically have infinite energy on this planet as long as the sun keeps shining, but we don't have infinite easily accessible aluminum.

Aluminum makes up 8% by weight of the Earth's crust, according to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Abundance_of_...

If the crust is 0.4% of the mass of the Earth, then aluminum comprises about 2 × 10¹⁸ tons. Current annual production, which is limited by energy availability, is about 30 million tons. At the current rate of production, we would run out of crustal aluminum in 70 billion years if we didn't recycle any of it.

You can make glass out of silica, although typical glass contains sodium oxide and some other common minerals to make it easy to work with. So we aren't going to run out of raw materials for glass soon.

There are basic material resources that are in short supply, and which in the future will have to come from mining landfills. Aluminum, however, is at the other end of the scale.
i want nVidia to go to war with Intel. In that war i support nVidia 100%.

Computers are getting more an more integrated and mobile, and so, if there was an nVidia mobile CPU/GPU combo that would be my next laptop.
Exactly. That's why I think mailchimp works better than most. It's great to use the free plan to build your list, but once it's built, you will end up in a paid plan.
What qualifies as activism? Writing a letter to the editor? Attending a protest? Signing a petition? Speaking at a public meeting?
> but then you have to take into account the price distortions such as brand premium.

You don't have to take this into account, as the distortion just becomes more pollution. Chances are the brand premium ends up in the pockets of marketing and execs, who spend it. Any* time money is spent it eventually "generates" an equivalent amount of pollution.

* Assuming all regulations are equally applied to all manufactures.
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That was 12 years ago, maybe it changed a lot. I just remember a city that fit the typical sprawling metropolis model with everything far apart and cars everywhere that the US is known for. None of it looked very bike friendly compared to similar cities in Europe.

Edit: The parent pointed out that Minneapolis was one of the top cycling cities in the US with around 4-5% of trips made by bike (compared to Europe's 2% average, 10% for Austria & Germany, and >20% for the Netherlands and Denmark). Then deleted the comment for some reason.
IMHO, most casual WordPress users (even ones with popular websites) know very little about what's required to scale, secure, and optimize a website. I know this because I work with a lot of first-time website owners...and I build their websites. Many are perfectly content to host with GoDaddy or Bluehost without considering the performance and security implications of being with a shared host.

As pet projects grow up and small businesses begin evaluating more robust options, VPSes become more and more attractive. The trouble is that they'd need to hire someone to set it up for them.

WP Engine seems to have taken the headache out of getting started on a robust platform right out of the gate.
Just haven't found that killer idea yet.
Facebook's Check-in feature is real
I had a friend who didn't hire someone because he was very religious. During the interview he refused to shake her hand, and stated that in no manner should a female touch him (such as tap him on the shoulder...etc...).

He was the most qualified person from those interviewed, but she just couldn't hire him because of his extremist views.

I think she made the right choice.
correction to tip #2: the plus trick (username+foo@example.org) works with many mail systems not just gmail (as stated). its origins predate gmail.

correction to tip #4: iPhone's append "Sent from my iPhone" not "Sent from iPhone". i'd notice the missing "my". "Sent from my mobile." is just fine and probably a better approach.
Not true.

You MUCH more likely loose all you money when start a company in such situation.

Programmers(especially good) are well payed($100k-$300k) (not dentists, but still:) ) and secure jobs. You can enjoy happy life with you family and be 9-6 employee. Besides you can join the RIGHT startup at the right time and get something like 10% less salary and options that might make you quite rich. The trick is in picking the right company at right time.
Apple’s App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps
Researching HTML5 Offline
What does it mean for the IPhone/Android apps then? Does it make sense to have a lite/free version of an app?
Capistrano: Deploying only Subversion Modified
Question: I just installed using:

rvm install 1.9.2-head

and it used: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_9_2

And:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29034) [x86_64-darwin10.4.0]

So I am good to go, right?
"Spontaneous event organization" was something somebody submitted on HN a little while ago. It had facebook connect as the login and everybody hated on it; but it basically threw "Anybody want to see a movie on wednesday" or whatever on your status and organized responses.
Virtually everyone is confused, except for you?

Well, I seem to be the only person here posting numbers. Are they wrong? If so, please show me where.

Incidentally, not everyone is confused. There was a WSJ article pointing out her confusing and misleading presentation, for example: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118705537958296783.html
"In England between 1500 and 1700 the median age of first marriage for women was twenty-six." -Marriage: A History, Stephanie Coontz via Snopes.

I haven't done independent fact-checking of this statement, but assuming it is true, and taking it in light of the numbers given in the article, it seems like the 1970s were the historical aberration where people married younger, instead of the present being the aberration for people marrying older. I think the biggest fault of the article is that it takes as its thesis, "Things aren't like when I grew up, and the way things were when I grew up is the natural order of things!"
LOL, at first I thought you meant there was a new JIT compiler with 1.9.2 -- but you're right, this is good timing for those of us excited about Rails 3.
The thesis on which this is based:

http://phm.cba.mit.edu/theses/03.07.vigoda.pdf

edit: p 135 is where he starts talking about implementation in silicon
7 of the 9 are games. If your friends don't play games, they might not be wowed. Eyewitness is a great app, but it's not really anything that can "justify your purchase", since it's not anything that can't be done on a web site.

Apps worthy of consideration, if not for diversity's sake, are:

Flickpad

Reeder (I go through my RSS feeds faster than on a laptop)

Brushes (the playback is especially cool)

Penultimate

Any VNC/Remote Desktop app (Not very innovative, but showing that made 2 friends run out and buy/order iPads) or any app that turns the iPad into an external monitor

Roambi

Instapaper Pro

Apollo News
Thanks for the feedback.

For me the real advantages of services like sendgrid and mailchimp are 1) feedback loops with ISP's and spam indexes, 2) analytics and 3) high deliverability. We could roll our own analytics and try on the deliverability, but the feedback loop is totally impossible to get into.
I thought the real issue here was biodegradability. Since most disposable cups are not recycled, the ease with which they could be recycled matters a lot less than the fact that styrofoam is forever. Then again, in the absence of oxygen and light, I'm not sure that paper cups will ever degrade much in a modern landfill....

I've never really understood why people get worked up over landfills. Digging a giant hole and filling it with trash is a perfectly rational solution. It isn't as if we're importing mass from space and converting it to trash...we're digging up stuff from the ground, using it for awhile, and then putting it back in a slightly different form. If we ever find a use for the styrofoam in landfills, we can mine it back out again.
I'm not sure that domain registries attempting to extract maximum value from .com would have made the market more efficient...
Well you're not double opting in at the moment, which is pretty much the first rule of email marketing. You should be doing DKIM signing as well. And sign up for all the feedback loops you can.

As for the daily grind, you need to pay attention to every single bounced message. They bounce for different reasons and depending on the reason you need to do different things. Make a mistake and you get blacklisted. Even better, the error codes vary depending on the server software so it's not easy to automate.

There's a lot more to it, but as I said I wouldn't attempt to do it myself.
If you use X.509 server authentication with 2,048-bit RSA keys, tcpcrypt offers about a 25x speed-up over SSL for equivalent security. (Actually slightly better, since tcpcrypt offers forward secrecy while, in the benchmark, SSL does not.) The key optimization is batch signing, where a single RSA signature can authenticate a bunch of connections at once. There are graphs showing this in the paper and talk slides.
It's a nice idea, except that you're placing an enormous amount of trust in the web site owners not to leak/sell your private commentary to all and sundry. The potential for blackmail with something like this could be huge. Also, if you're living under a not so friendly regime web sites like these can be obligated by diktat to hand over your information upon request. Imagine, if you will, a modern version of Anne Frank.
Do you have a link? I'd love to check it out.
My father works in recycling. You can recycle styrofoam, but all you can make out of it is packing peanuts. Styrofoam cups aren't exactly a sustainable solution.
ChromeOS is probably worse for a tablet than Android. Imagine if the iPad only shipped with Safari and no other native apps. The uproar would be incredible.
Dear 8-year-old Teresa