skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't do any hosting with godaddy, and I would NEVER recommend their hosting services for anything other than the MOST basic of site.

Having said that, for domains and DNS, nobody does it better. If I ever have any problems with the services I purchase from them I can very easily get a tech on the phone.
So here's the bottom line, guy. You get what you pay for.

And the same ppl who tell you that will then say that you shouldn't use the MS stack, and only use free tools :-)
I can't say I'm surprised. I mainly use it on blogs, and e-commerce stuff and it has been great!
The entire purpose of the machine is to manage session keys. Yes, this is part of a system that will make money. No, it's not a web app. Warning: answering programming/security questions as if web apps are the whole of computing won't win you points with everyone.
The completed page is photographed and a plate is made from the negative.
Excellent suggestions, and I should have been more specific. I'll edit the post to better address the specific situation, but I appreciate your advice!

- John
Too bad it's not out today. Got us curious now!
There's a free (though probably less featureful) app for Windows I've used for years called Windirstat that does a similar job, albeit while looking much uglier.
>If you are on the phone, and you don't trust them, call them back at their home.

Didn't think of that. Great idea.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. A major theme in the books is reconciling science with subjective experience, but he doesn't advocate doing so by ignoring factual things. I would have a hard time believing that he intentionally treated mental illness that way.
And he didn't know that the TLD for his own country is .si and he never heard anything about any of his European neighboring counties TLD's? Some people simply should not blog...
Hey somebody, if I'm wrong let us know the details, and when it was changed.
I missed this the first time around, so I'm glad it got popular again. Good presentation.
There is nothing such as a perfectly secured system. There are just less and more secured systems.

The effort put in securing the system pretty much defines how much effort and ingenuity is required to penetrate it. Kind of a cat and mouse game or chess.
Clearly it just works for a lot of people

Why do you say that? Do you have data? It seems just as likely that it doesn't work for a lot of people, but they can survive on the churn from new customers (and subscriptions) -- or convincing people to provide a poorer service.
It's definitely not obvious, but there's only so much that you can make _obvious_ on such a small screen. Its important that cancel and done are obvious, as they're the primary action here. I think its important that you know you can delete some of this info, so the delete is buttony. Is it nice knowing that you can change the label of a phone #? Yep. Is it important? Not really, especially if the contact has only one number (probably the overwhelming majority of contacts). If you care and start poking around, will you discover it? Probably.
Why not to reuse redo/Cmake/tup/Waf or myriad of other build tools? Why Google reinvents a wheel one more time?

Is it because its Not-Invented-Here culture?
"Imlacs are wiped out."

Priceless.
--Chuck
Nobody can be forced to think, but they can be forced to do structured exercises that build knowledge and cognitive skills, which is what school is actually for. The kids from rich suburban schools who learn to read and write and get into selective universities aren't any more intellectually curious than other kids; they just accept the need to jump through hoops at school. They might seem a little more intellectually curious because their hoop-jumping gives them the intellectual tools needed to appreciate a broader variety of interesting things than their poor inner-city counterparts do, but it is all based on years of spending hours a day doing exercises that on any given day they would choose not to do if they were not driven by parental expectations and school discipline.
He wrote criticisms of just about every major western belief system - if you take into account his larger body of work, saying he was anti-this or anti-that just seems disingenuous. Much of what he wrote was criticism for its own sake because that's what leads to progress.

He wanted his critiques to hit hard; he wanted to be subversive. My reading, at least, is that he wanted to teach people to be critical of highly-regarded cultural norms and morals and his writings are essentially case-studies in exactly that.
Another good thing to do: Pay it Forward: http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/pay-it-forward

If you have a reputation for helping other people out where you can, others will be more likely to help you out in return. Reputation means everything in an open source community. Be good to yours and it will be good to you.
Would you rather be middle class in 2040 or rich in 2011?
David Ogilvy's "The Man in the Hathaway Shirt"
All I can say is, your life must be a hell of a lot different than mine.

My job (writing programs used by people around the world, all from my home office in small city Michigan) could not have existed in 1973. Indeed, my house probably has computing power equivalent to that of a good-sized university of the time. A sizable percentage of the food I eat was not available anywhere outside of a Chinatown then. My favorite genre of games, role-playing games, had not yet been invented. Nor had the high blood pressure pills I take. The surgery I had at new year's would have meant days rather than hours in the hospital.

And my son could never have been born. Life-altering? Hell yes.
Congrats on the growth!

Can you elaborate a bit on the numbers? Specifically revenues, margins etc
I'm an undergraduate at a school, Brown, that has a somewhat decent entrepreneurial mindset. What I've seen is that it is not necessarily something you can force.

You can't from top down try to make someone do a startup.

But what you can do is create an environment which has the culture and attitude that promotes it.

That said, I think telling someone or a group to go and come up with a good business idea - then helping it develop and become viable, is perhaps the best way to promote it in a school setting.
I don't really agree. He was provocative for its own sake and there's nothing wrong with being provocative for its own sake.
Destroying a company that both takes government security contracts, and also drops the firewall and gives out the root password after an email request is a public service. Such a company is a danger to the safety of every citizen in america and beyond. A lot more than eight lives could be ruined if they had been investigating organised crime or terrorism instead of anon.

Harsh but I think true.
I am sure the clock would get all the energy it needs if it were to use Soilent Green instead of flies.
Do you have attend to get the freebie? I can't imagine spending the money AND the time to get a freebie of their choice, when I can buy something of my choice w/o having to leave my house.
Reason is fantastic. It's actually a fantastically intuitive interface for its target market, and what's more, it's psychologically effective.

The skeumorphism in Reason is so over-the-top – there's a physics engine in there! - that it gets you in the right mindset: it's playful, it doesn't take itself seriously, and that's exactly what you need to get making music. It's exactly the opposite of WriteRoom because it's serving a very different mindset.
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not at all, the shop I worked at charged $250 an hour. When we charged $130 it was a discount hoping for more work. I was paid very nicely in terms of salary + bonuses, but I ended up working so much overtime, i would doubt my hourly wage was anywhere near $30/hr.

I saw the firm rapidly expand, we went from 15 people to 50. At first it was fun, and games. Some pizza + beer here, and some ping pong there. Bam we're working until 9 or 10 at night. But after a few years, I was burned. You can't work a person that hard for a long period of time.

I'm almost better now, but in terms of energy, I'm NO WHERE near where I was when I first started. The abuse is not in how much we make per hour, its in how we're worked.
From my knowledge of radical education approaches like Summerhill or Ferrer's Modern School, I would agree with that, with one caveat:

Students don't have to attend class. They just have to go to school. They can choose, on a daily basis, what class they want to be in. If they disrupt, they're kicked out of class for the day, since attendance at that class is a voluntary association.

To get credit and a grade for a class, you have to complete X homework assignments and pass Y amount of tests.

If a kid decides they wants to hang out all day in the cafeteria, good for them. Teachers might want to check in on them and see why or offer books or computer access to do some self-education.

You'd also want to diversify the classes if possible. Add classes in video game design, automotive engineering, etc. Make these classes enticing, and hard. Rope the kids in to hard classes by making them seem like blow-offs.

But most of all, let the kid choose to learn, and you have a lot more power over the kids who come in just to disrupt. You also have the added social pressure of the other kids, who will recognize that the disruptors don't have to be there and are only ruining it for everyone.

Never underestimate the motivating power of boredom.
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>Dropped your ice cream cone? There is a Disney employee with a new one before you know it. Sure, it wasn't their fault, but it was their problem.

For some reason I really like this. It actually makes me feel better about any future customer issues I run across. "Just make them feel better and move on." I'm sure there are going to be situations where you can't simply apply this blanket approach, but this is gold.
#3… depends on what you do with the syrup after you grab it. If you put it on raw vegetables and cover them with cheese, you're doing it wrong.

Try waffles.
don't bait Anon and they'll leave you alone...in this case the firm has noone to blame but the founder.
Don't get me wrong, I think you make some excellent points and I generally agree.

I'm just wondering that if that curriculum were offered, would your target audience even know to enroll?

Do the people who would enjoy those courses know when they're starting out that it will be fun and useful for them? Or is that something you have to find out for yourself, through your own experimentation?
> Make parents responsible for their kids. Right now a lot of parents treat school as daycare for their kids, they don't care what happens there as long as the kids aren't at home.

Absolutely agreed. There's very little that a school can do for a kid if the parents don't care what the kid does at school. I'm not sure the solution needs to involve expulsions, but parents definitely need to have a greater responsibility in their children's education. You can't just drop your kid off at school and mind your own business.

If greater parental involvement in education means that one of the parents can't have a full time job and save money for college, so be it. Especially if you're already middle-class! I'd much rather have a caring parent than an extra vacation. Well raised kids should be able to pay for college on their own, anyway.
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I think that you're confusing a marketing launch with an MVP. They've had businesses using it for months iirc.
If you want a more visceral account, "The Corner" by David Simon is a non-fiction chronicle of the Baltimore drug culture's effect on the people who live in it. Simon spent about year (~1993) following and interviewing the people who lived on a specific drug corner in Baltimore; one of those he followed was a high-school-age kid whose description is much like this teacher's description of M.W.

There's also an HBO miniseries based on it (which I haven't watched, so I can't vouch), and Season 4 of The Wire is partially about a Baltimore inner-city school (The Wire is fantastic). Simon also spent a year embedded with the Baltimore police homicide division, which became a book, a TV serial (called Homicide), and informed much of The Wire.

Some people are commenting that the solution to the problems at these schools is to completely give up on the troublemakers; I don't think it would be that clear-cut for you after you read or watch these. The kids you give up on are the ones lost to the hardcore drug culture forever. Those same kids are the ones that perpetuate the problem- there's a terrible feedback loop going on.
A false dichotomy and a broken analogy walk into a bar...

The choice isn't between universal access to education and easier expulsion. We need to find a better way to deal with the problem kids, and to improve our education system in general.

I understand that the analogy is seductive for you because it leads to a "throw them overboard" proclamation on utilitarian grounds. But it glosses over a facet of the school system -- it's not a logical necessity that failures are required for successes.
JRuby, win32ole, and Vagrant on Windows
You aren't taking into account the problems caused by this company doing shoddy work.
A company with truly good security practices would put into place a protocol for transferring passwords over voice comms. I'm making a note right now.
While this may superficially sound like a problem if they get too involved in an evolutionary arms race, I actually don't think this will be a problem. It is extremely unlikely that a robot that is powered on flesh will be able to outcompete robots that get their power much more efficiently and rapidly.

No, the real danger is them deciding they don't need us, or worse, that we are actively in their way, (or worse that our neurons can more productively be used to do something else other than "be a human") not that they are going to digest us.
I knew this question was coming :)

I can't tell you exact revenues but I can talk a little about margins. Since we are handling about 900 million page views, our major cost is CDN (Amazon CloudFront) and Hosting (with Linode). Haven't been doing a lot of paid marketing so only expense we have is people and infrastructure. Actually tried various forms of paid marketing but none really worked so far.
Arguably, the concept that ties major releases with major purchases is old and broken. It discourages companies from making major updates to software between such releases, as it will actually make it harder for them to make new revenue off the next major release. So you get point releases that are mostly minor bug fixes, and then a huge release every year or two that the maker hopes will squeeze you into opening your wallet, even if you're mostly happy with the last release.

Web apps are clearly going to break this version treadmill. Even if you're downloading a package to the desktop, modeling software more as a service - you pay for the right to use software for a period including all updates, rather than for a perpetual license that in reality will expire and need to be re-purchased as soon as the next major version hits.

Pay as you go is better for both users and developers. It means you can charge less up front, spend less on marketing (since the cost of trialing the software drops) and focus on delivering the _best_ experience to all your users rather than denying some features to existing customers in order to create a future revenue event.
The flipside of this is thinking about strategic positioning of the banks themselves.

If an investment firm has access to a thruster capable of relativistic time dilation, then the loaning arm of the entity has incentive to be moving as fast as it can, while charging market interest rates: The bank experiences less time, and therefore multiplied returns on interest.

I can certianly see there being a case for some sort of aristocracy or 'first world' which lives in dilated time, and therefore benefits from the dilation. Of course, they sacrifice reaction time to do so..
Regardless of the semantics, my point was that Anonymous hasn't accomplished anything aside from a feeling of satisfaction. Use whatever language you wish.
I think there'd be enough buzz for it. Students chat about classes incessantly, and they gravitate towards classes they find meaningful. I think professors can pretty easily pick out who would be most suited, too, and give them a helpful nudge in the right direction.
Loving VWO - worth nothing that they're doing a webinar with Conversion Voodoo and GazeHawk this Thursday ->

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/landing...
The freebies substantially reduce the effective cost, possibly to $0 or less. Last year everybody got a free Droid and EVO, which you could have flipped on Craigslist for at least $600. If you're in the SF area and have any interest in the conference, it's a no-brainer.
The most polite spin I can put on the cheering of these sorts of techniques, is that too many Hacker News members lack sufficient historical awareness to realize that these tactics are reminiscent of the public humiliation and crowd intimidation techniques employed by Italy's blackshirts in the 30s.

There are reasons why we have rule of law and courts. There are reasons why it is not acceptable for one group to retaliate against another group, no matter how strongly they may feel they are in the right.
It'd be interesting to find out how many people are actually developers using google technologies at this year's event.

Admittedly, I would have loved to get and get a freebie, but I would have enjoyed all the GWT and web sessions more than a freebie.
GoDaddy has an "Office of The President" and this is where I have gotten results in the past when I had shared and dedicated servers there. When the front-line tech were really giving me the run-a-round and Managers were not listening I simply call that office. They have people there that take the information and start making phone calls to Managers to figure it out and get you back to where you need to be. I hated having to call there but when you are paying $175/month and your site has been down 2 weeks you start to get a little pissed off.
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It depends on whether the information in question is the raw source information, or the actual intelligence report created by the private-eye.
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How is it a security problem? The article doesn't say anything about a security problem. On the contrary it says the security of some older fare cards has been compromised possibly allowing someone to alter their balance, though I am unaware of any attacks against DESFire.
I'm just one data point but I actually push those "donate"-buttons when I see them on plugins that make my life easier.

Just keep the amount reasonable in relation to the product and don't make me jump through hoops. I.e. just link directly to paypal and if you want to ask me any questions then put that form after the checkout-process where I'm free to ignore it.
> Or to put it a different way, manufactures haven't hired in so long that most of the people being displaced by layoffs are older.

Sorry for the NY Post link, I'm too lazy to find the original source right now, but here it is (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/item_AnwaWNOGqsXMuIlGO...):

"""
The number of young Americans without a job has exploded to 53.4 percent — a post-World War II high, according to the Labor Dept (...) The number represents the flip-side to the Labor Dept.'s report that the employment rate of 16-to-24 year olds has eroded to 46.6 percent -- the lowest ratio of working young Americans in that age group, including all but those in the military, since WWII.
"""

I don't think the situation has improved that much since September 2009. And, like I said, I'm lazy, otherwise I would have found even worst figures from Western Europe countries.
If I'm paying $175/month and their front-line support can't be bothered to help me, I'll take my business elsewhere. No second chances.
there is a historical archival quality about Usenet that is quite compelling.

And sometimes it strikes in odd ways.

About 3-4 years ago I saw someone posting on an electronics forum and for the name was vaguely familiar. I asked him if he had ever posted to comp.robotics.misc or sci.electronics around 1997 or so and mentioned a hilarious post about his cat's reaction to an automated cat door he had built. I had saved the post and it ended up being copied from computer to computer as I upgraded (and then was lost to a reinstall with no backup just a few weeks ago!) so I still had a copy.
Sent him the post and he agreed that he had written it, but barely remembered doing so.

That, more than anything serves to remind me that the net is forever. I wonder how many things I've said in various usenet groups over the last 20 years have been saved to people's personal archives.
Forcing them to attend school doesn't educate them, but it does reduce the number of young people "hanging around", which probably has benefits all on its own.
If some people paid by other people want me to sit and listen to them all day and to think about what they want me to think about then it isn't "giving up on me" to let me go and do something else if I would prefer to do so.

It's simply acknowledging my status as a human being.
The domain reg is a 'loss' leader for the shared hosting packages. The whole business model is based on the idea that all 95% of people need to do is get Registration + DNS + POP3 + host some static HTML. The pricing is inline with that. GoDaddy keeps the 95% of people who can be served on that model. The other 5% should know well enough that they won't be served well by that.
Assuming NFC works the same way Lockheeds RFID system works - you havea tag ID which is read against a back-end DB which holds the tags value, where the tag/card holds no value data itself, how can this work with SF Transit police checking cards?

Assume you dupe your friends card, then both go through the turn style -- wont the system error as the system will say that the second read is either "tagged for exit" or maybe it will read it as a 90-minute transfer read?

If you get stopped by the transit police, assuming you got through the turn style, you'd have to have a valid ticket/clipper on you, no?
Thanks for the purchase and feedback. I may hit you up about that sparse bundle issue, time machine backups are causing a headache right now.
Because you're not supposed to talk about it.
It's all fun and games until you're ruining lives.

This was never fun and games for the causes Anonymous has championed: Wikileaks, Egyptian and Tunisian protestors, etc.

Anonymous, despite it's origins, is a political movement centered around the cause of internet freedom. That's not a matter of fun and games, and I support Anonymous because of that.

In other words, if given the choice between a political movement fighting for an ideal I support, and the ability of a corporation to maintain it's revenue stream, I'm going to fall in support of the political movement most of the time.
this is company. legal entity. if something like this will happen - bankrupt it and create new one with same people and same contacts.
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