skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI -- The backblaze storage hardware is similar (at least conceptually--specifics differ greatly) to what all the big self hosted backup companies (Mozy, Carbonite, SpiderOak, etc.) do. Custom hardware and data center storage software is the minimum price of entry for the industry these days.

The issue here I think is that "unlimited" really isn't unmetered and it never really was. The industry has often seen that marketing gimmick accompanied with abundant exclusions, fine print, and far less ethical tricks like upload rate limiters, that effectively impose limits behind the scenes.
I hate to get political, but there is a barrier beyond which I feel compelled to speak out. The ban on stem-cell research during the Bush Administration, and the current Tea Party's attacks on the NSF (which I see as probably the premier force keeping America at the frontier of science and tech, at least when it comes to high-tech entrepreneurship like Google, not flashy web 2.0 startups that contribute little science) are really dangerous.

This is what stem-cell research looks like.
Gunfire increasing, 4 or more people killed, others wounded.
Trick me once, shame on you. Trick me twice, shame on me.
I wish they'd repeal the 1099-K requirement for eBay income :)
No zazzle or cafepress. I'm building up orders for a bulk wholesale order of good quality screenprinted tees. Haven't started printing or shipping just yet, as is explained on the site. I don't have a "contact" per se, but I have dabbled in the indie t-shirt world quite a bit so I have printers that I've worked with and I've gotten packaging/shipping down to a science. I can ship shirts in really nice, secure packaging for $2/ea. I already have the packaging supplies from previous endeavors.
Good. I wasn't going to do it anyways
Thanks, that was the goal.
"what any user who happened to Google hiybbprqag randomly"

But it wasn't any user, it was a Google engineer and the circumstances were not ordinary. Those engineers were actively trying to get the results into Bing over the course of at least two weeks 12/17-12/31 according to searchenginland.com.
Created an account just to upvote this. Brilliant. There's nothing stopping you (or one of us) from doing it for every significant event in every country...
snOMG
The most depressing people I know were the results of either laissez fair parenting or overbearing parenting. If you let a kid do what he wants, he'll eat coco-puffs, watch TV and eventually turn to drugs and booze. If you're constantly on top of him, and if he doesn't burn out, he'll work incredibly hard for a goal that means nothing to him.

I know 30 year olds who can't put a month of work together. I also know 30 year olds who have no idea why they became bankers and they ask their mom permission to switch jobs. Each one is depressing and there is a balance.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad the Hacker News community is so understanding and supportive, even with silly little projects like this!
Hi. I am the designer of the website.

The logo of my portfolio at the top may have been a bit bold, but its temporary. I had asked for it, to get some additional exposure during the initial few weeks, when people would be curious about the new design.

I tried my best to make the logo blend into the design.

About the logo inconsistency. It's my fault. hanks a lot for pointing that out, I'll fix it.

As far as tweaking in production goes, its usually better to launch and iterate, than to sit and try to make it perfect before launch. The current version works well enough for most people to use it, and I'm sure that not many people really care if the logos or design on all pages aren't consistent (I'm not saying that its not important, just that its not critical enough to hold off on launching).

As far as being professional with the website is concerned. I only did the designs for a couple of pages in Photoshop. The folks at VideoLAN had to code it up themselves and also adapt the designs I gave to fit all other pages. That takes a lot of time and effort. Although I don't speak for VideoLAN, I am sure that they would rather focus on their software than the website.

That being said, I agree that they should work on making their website, and everything else about VideoLAN from start to finish, perfect, but it can only happen if more people volunteer. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if they had more designers and developers offering to polish up their brand.
Many of the casters are skilled players themselves. Artosis (one of the commentators for GSL) was quite highly ranked. I believe Tasteless and his brother Day9 are as well. What's interesting to me is Husky, who I don't think is anywhere near their skill has the largest audience.

I've got friends who don't play starcraft who watch husky and love it like it's any other sport. So I definitely agree there is a lot of skills involved and even different target markets. The hardcore players like the best player/casters. There appears to be an even larger casual/not playing at all audience that enjoys the sheer entertainment value of esports.
Congrats!

Prediction for next year:
C2W7 is the new C2C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_to_China
If you are a Dropbox Pro user I think you get the packrat addon, which allows for unlimited history / undeletes. So, while the amount of files you can keep in your DB is limited, the amount of data that DB has to keep up with for you could get very large.

I don't see that they have anything to counter this in their model, and it kind of worries me that if people abuse this then they will remove the feature for all users, and I like my unlimited revisions.
Well, they are adding commentary(audio) to video from in-game. To me that seems like machinima.
You're welcome. I look forward to reading that.
I went half-way with this and went to the analog clock. It's so ridiculously tiny and hard to read that it takes effort.. so I usually don't bother. But it's still there to click on and see the time if I need to check (the time is added to the usual date item in the drop down if you go to analog).
> Again, you seem to think the book is about this claim that TF has invented some new kind of workout routine. Its not.

OK. Admittedly I am attacking my own impression of a book I don't own (and don't plan to). Technically I am beating up a strawman, which is always an uneven fight.

> How do you quantify this minimum amount of work is? The 4 hour body prescribes a methodology of continual trial and measurement. That is what the book is about.. applying this principle to your goals for your own body.

Thank you for the best point made yet. I think it's great to experiment on yourself. I keep a log for more or less this purpose. However, it is problematic to generalise from "this worked awesomely for me" to "this will work awesomely for everyone forever", because novice gains dry up fast.

> Starting Strength looks great. I started lifting about 15 years ago - my first read was Arnold's 'Encyclopedia of Body Building'. Either of those books would take me a few weeks to really absorb

Yeah, I had Arnold's book in high school. Spent hooooours in the gym doing every variation of shoulder exercise known to man. My only really fond memory of the book is that it insisted on squatting and by god I did lots of them. Squats have never let me down.

> The Four hour body took me about 6 hours to read, it encouraged me to cut back my workouts from 6 hours per week to 3 hours per week - so far with solid results.

I am very pleased it is working for you. I note in passing that Starting Strength aims for 3 workouts of 45 minutes duration -- less time than you are spending now.

Edit: a good book to follow Starting Strength is Practical Programming for Strength Training, by Rippetoe et al.
You should write a book and call it

4 Hour Work-Month
You and most of the rest of the US; how would you even educate the population about this massive change quickly enough? Computers have made much paperwork cheaper and faster but this was simply absurd, a perfect example of doing the cost/benefit analysis and simply assuming the cost of paperwork is either a flat zero, or that one can account for the cost of paperwork solely by considering the cost to the government as if that's the only entity that matters.
Wow that is harsh.

When I read her article, I shared it with my husband and my mom. My mom was shocked and saddened by it. My husband understood that she was essentially saying that she believed that her child could do it - like a coach who constantly pushes you because she believes in you even if you don't believe in yourself.

I personally could not do this someone.

However, it comes how to you convince someone that is worth the effort. There is an excellent book "Influencer: The Power to Change Anything" with great examples like curbing HIV transmission and eliminating guinea worm parasite. The bottom-line is the person who needs to do the change has to answer 2 questions essentially: Is this worth it? and am I really capable of doing it?

For Amy's children she is answering question 2 for her children.
I would say that Dropbox (being a really super company with a great product) has issues that are actually even larger than the storage cost.

Dropbox is based on Amazon S3, which means that not only do they have storage costs to a 3rd party that are so to speak 'out of their control' but they are also dealing with bandwidth and transaction costs.

I wish them all the best, however I can imagine this being quite expensive for them considering the amount of free users they have.
Philip Zimbardo: The Secret Powers of Time (Animated)
That's very flattering, but really, it's mostly on loan from a) Coach Rippetoe, b) The Mad Egyptian[1] (his nickname in Oly circles) and my own long meandering and mostly unimpressive journey until I read one and then the other.

Credit also to my first Oly coach, Jack Walls. He churns out record-breakers like a factory.

[1] aka Mohamed F. El-Hewie.
Operating in Cali. As far as I know it doesn't matter where incorporation happens if you operate out of Cali you still have to pay the 800
Rapport now integrates with Facebook
Yes, I could have been clearer. In strength training jargon, novice basically means "unadapted". It's a person who hasn't strength trained before -- elite cyclists, swimmers, sprinters and even bodybuilders can all be called novices in the right circumstances.
I am visting the marketplace from China via a proxy server in St Louis, and the site is in half spanish, with Euro pricing. My Google account location is set to New York. There is clearly a bug somewhere.
That's pretty much how I felt too. Imagine every single business ISP and cell phone provider in the country receiving a 1099 from every single customer. This requirement was pretty much the single dumbest thing ever codified into law.
Have you looked at the $2.95 shirt guys? http://www.295guys.com/ I have talked to them at some trade shows and they have very aggressive pricing if you are in the 500 unit range.
This is why I'm really liking Crashplan as a storage service; they offer the ability to use their software to backup to your friends' drives (and vice versa). It perhaps doesn't work out well for everyone, but I have enough friends that keep up with the latest hardware that I am assured of finding someone with which I can trade backup storage. (My alternate plan was dropping off a disk / picking up the old disk whenever I visited my relatives every couple of weeks!)
I'm curious why 17 voted to keep it.

Was there a rider attached for some other crazy rule?

Gotta find that website that shows who exactly voted for what...
Who is really doing this?
Why I DuckDuckGo instead of Google.
Dude seriously... do you really get someone to change your Facebook password?
Pwn2Own 2011: Google offering $20,000 for Chrome sandbox exploit
Snowpocalypse?

Did we already forget about the blizzard last year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DCA_Blizzard_02_2010_9127....
Actually, i think that Wolfire would have considerably more success if they pointed out that iCoder's version of Lugaru was distributed via GPL (http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Lugaru-goes-open-source ), and as a result iCoder's app is incompatible with App Store licensing requirements.

I initially thought this would be a problem for Wolfire too, but since it's their IP they can relicense it (well, dual-license) for distribution through the AppStore however they wish, dodging the sorts of conflicts that VLC had (over which it was rejected from the iOS app store: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2082505 ).
Every bubble always has a "rational explanation" for the valuations. "This time it's different" they say. Always.

This time is no different. Of course you can explain why paying $10M for an unlaunched site makes sense to a company that just turned down $6 billion from Google, who itself is valued at $200B.

Doesn't make it any less of a bubble.
We may pick on OKCupid team for that, but most of us under similar circumstances would probably do the same (delete the article).
Just because of implicit pressure from new corporate culture.

We are not under similar circumstances though, so I enjoy pointing fingers at OKCupid for that.
It's as much of a statement about the inanity of the college-prestige game as it is about our alma mater. CWRU is more than good enough. As a school. As a brand name with snob appeal... I have to agree with Paul.
I've backed up a few hundred GB with Backblaze. I think the implication being made here is unfair. I'm much more likely to believe any issues with my upload were caused by shady AT&T QoS.

You know the kind. Goto any speedtest site and somehow you're getting exactly 12MB down, 3MB up, but it never really seems to add up that way anywhere else. Even to my own office, which I know has an extra 100MB to burst, yet somehow my downloads from the data-center across town are more likely to end up in the 3MB range 99% of the time.
govtrack?
I have a printer in mind that I've worked with before, but ill definitely give those guys a look. Not in 500 range yet, but I think I just hit viral a few minute ago so it could be a possibility. Thanks for the tip.
Quick, write a book before Tim Ferris steals your idea:

The Four Hour Startup
This is a throw away account.

I am familiar with this process.

After the filing of the DMCA counter notification, the original developer has 10 days to file suit.

Then apple will take the offending material off the store.
Margins are much higher than you'd expect. I've worked in the indie t-shirt game before and scrupulously figured out how to squeeze out ea much profit as possible while maintaining good quality. Profits are at least $7/shirt, will increase with decrease in unit cost from larger wholesale quantity.
I'm not sure what you mean. Those are all active launch vehicles and current prices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V

They're 1960's technology, not 1960's prices... ;)
Nice work, your good site design is a big part of why it works. Maybe you can turn this into a brand that makes more ironic t-shirts about overblown current events?
I haven't actually read Rands book. So can't really comment on it.. But you'll have likely seen some of his pieces (NADD, The Cave, etc) on HN before.

Gerber's book is brilliant and is a very highly recommended entrepreneurship book. BUT -- that might not be what you are doing at this stage... It is completely offline focused, and it doesn't really address the "make something people want then figure out a Bus. model" approach. To really boil it down: "Work on your business and not just in it" It's key focus is getting technicians (eg: a baker) to drop the tools (eg: stop baking) for a bit and look at the bigger picture of where there business (bakery) is going.

In short -- it's a worthwhile read, but it's not a GTD for organisations. It doesn't have the deeply practical stuff (list this, do that, etc) and probably isn't the right fit for a group of programmers...
Were you also confused by the previous comment when it asked "How is that a great response?"
great ideas. Time and how it affects our mental models of how we see the world. Good example about talking with kids about their actions and consequences. Thanks!
I respectfully disagree in that I don't think the laissez fair approach necessarily leads to doing nothing but watching TV, etc. I was given tremendous freedom to explore and learn about what I wanted from a very young age on (and I was pretty much 100% in control of my educational priorities from about 12 on). My love of video games led to a love of programming and a general love of tech, which has led to entrepreneurship.
"I barely made it into the top 10% of my public high school class"

As a guy who went to Case when Paul did (and only vaguely recalls interacting with him), I know that being on the right side of that 10% translated into $50K+ in scholarships given CWRU's by-the-numbers merit-based aid system.

Edit: I'm just commenting on the significance of Paul's statement. A huge percentage of Case students would not have attended had it not been for the liberal disbursement of 75% off coupons without regard to financial need.
My mother grew up in Germany during WWII and it's aftermath, struggling to survive and witnessing atrocities I can't imagine. She escaped East Germany as an underage teen with forged papers, claiming her infant niece was her own baby so she could return the child to its rightful mother who was not allowed to take her own baby home to West Germany after going to their mother's funeral in East Germany. My dad grew up in The Great Depression and fought in the front lines of two wars. He is also basically old enough to be my grandfather.

Superficially, I am white, I am American and I am middle class. This causes many people to view me as culturally "white middle class American", which is not really accurate. It gets me into hot water because it causes my behavior to be wildly misinterpreted at times. I don't really do Christmas and other American holidays anymore. I don't see any real value in it. It's like a cultural meme of "salvation" -- knight in shining armor, Santa Claus, lottery tickets. I stopped speaking to one woman who was constantly whining to me about her utterly prosaic problems (as if they were the worst problems ever in the history of human kind and no one else had any) but turned a deaf ear to all attempts to gently suggest she do something about it. Her answer to absolutely everything was: It's someone else's fault and I'm going to win the lottery.
There are still many professions though that very very few people are going to be passionate about. Problem is though if you automate these everyone can follow their passion but then you have the job supply problem.
Right now I can tell you I didn't do much to market except designed a good product, a good presentation, and took advantage of the ridiculous amounts of traffic going through the Facebook events mentioned in OP. No magic or silver bullet here. Will go into more detail with a blog post soon. Madebyloren.com
My first reaction to this comment was: Why would you want to have a business model that relies so much on overblown current events? And then I thought of all the news channels, and suddenly it doesn't sound like a bad model.
Wholesale screenprinter. No on demand or drop shipping. Printing + shipping is approx $8 or less per shirt.
His claim was that "The most depressing people [I] know were the results of either laissez fair parenting or overbearing parenting", not that "laissez fair parenting and overbearing parenting lead to the most depressing people [I] know".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
Instagram is a really great app for filtering your photos before you upload them to Facebook. "Vintage" filters work well for covering up many of the flaws in photos taken with cell phones.

Personally, I find actually sharing photos on instagram to be much less compelling. My whole social graph is already on Facebook.

Full disclosure: I have a ridiculous personal bias on this topic, since I work on Facebook photos.
3d CSS3 HTML5 Logo
Pure CSS 3D webkit animation, only works on a mac, uses hardware accelerated css transforms and @-webkit-keyframe animations.
Why are people suddenly using the word "honeypot"? A honeypot is something intended to be broken into. Nobody broke into anything in this story. There were no honeypots involved. You might call the search terms "tracers" or something.

Another thing that did not occur is click fraud. That term already means something, it involves pay-per-click advertising, and it doesn't have much to do with Google's experiment.

Don't let this guy distort the language we use to discuss the issue.
not really. stuff gets taken down off the App Store all the time due to legal issues and obvious copyright infringement.

the apps get removed (you can't download them anymore), but anyone who has downloaded it can still use their copy.
I really love the landing page and envy you your skills in that regard. Also, some of your remarks suggest that you have substantial background with some aspects of this, like shipping t-shirts. So it sounds like you capitalized on an area that came fairly easily to you due to experience, positioning, and other factors.

Looking forward to your blog post. I very much want to work a few miracles and leave my current situation.

Thank you for sharing. For me, as a non-programmer, this is really much more inspiring (as in something I could aspire to) than the posts about some program someone wrote in x amount of time.
I guess as a parent you don't really want to encourage your kid to take it easy in high school if they do want to get into college as they might take it to easy. Best I guess to encourage them to do their best without being overbearing so they will only slack off a bit under that level.
I started heading in this direction a few years ago, and now I'm running dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org), no menu bar, with a couple of scripts that I have to manually run to see things like the time or my unread email count. It did take some getting used to, but I'm definitely more productive this way.
...or just delete your account.