skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facts:
1) GoDaddy has been doing crazy stunts forever (see rejected Super Bowl ads)
2) GoDaddy is the largest registrar, with 31% market share (http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global)

Given the above, I would say:
1) He knows exactly what he is doing and why
2) It is working*

*meaning growing the company, making lots of money, returning value to shareholders etc.
> Android is "open" to end-users

Android absolutely isn't "open" to end-users. It's not as bad as iOS, but it definitely isn't good, and it's far more open to vendors (of all stripes) than to end-users so far.
I recently moved to name.com. I absolutely love their minimalistic interface, and I like supporting local business (Denver)...

So far no issues what so ever other than with GoDaddy and moving domains over because of issues with whois, but once there everything is fast, and simple. Unlike GoDaddy's interface.
True, but iOS isn't involved here. What's involved is that Google has repeatedly promoted Android as an 'open' platform, but now has decided that actually being open is no longer in their interest.
> Branding is important, and what you do with your brand is important.

As this probably will not hurt them, it is reasonable to come to the opposite conclusion.
They even use a "deals in your pants" line on the homepage.
I think the word "open" is now just too overloaded.

I agree with this. Some time ago, the word "free" became overloaded, so today we talk about "Freedom zero," "Free as in beer," "Free as in speech," and so on. I think there's a general understanding that the word "free" is not specific enough.

It seems we're at that place with "open" as well. Good call.
Because basic supply and demand suggests that their are way more rich Americans wanting to shoot elephants than there are elephants in need of shooting.

Ergo: the idea itself isn't sustainable, economically or morally.
You nailed it. The downside of NoSQL is that you have to deal with some proprietary API. SQL and tables can be quite useful for development purposes on some apps.

So check out H-Store[1], now commercialized as VoltDB[2]. You get full ACID, while staying with SQL, but also extremely fast performance and near-linear scaleout.

In my own tests (on call completion, save record and debit customer balance), I was easily to push over 100,000 transactions/sec on a 3-server cluster (low end, sub-$1000 servers). This is while maintaining full ACID and using SQL.

1: http://hstore.cs.brown.edu/
2: http://voltdb.com/
Structural changes in the US economy in the past 20 years
A more charitable interpretation is that most developers would like Google to protect the Android trademark a little better, perhaps by tightening up on what modifications of Android are still eligible to be called "Android", so that both users and developers could count on more consistency when hearing the name.
> Imagine the headline read 'Apple Tightening Control of WebKit'. How is this any different?

Why did you use this example? Apple isn't tightening control of WebKit. WebKit is a considerably more open project than Android.
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Microsoft accuses Google of antitrust violations
Sure, but you can't take advantage of that looseness to scale a collection across a crapton of cheap nodes, either.

(Which would be the main driving factor for abandoning ACID in the first place.)
clickable urls

Django Software Foundation.
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2011

Python Software Foundation
Ideas, http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2011

Code For America.
http://codeforamerica.org/projects/

Sunlight labs
http://sunlightlabs.com/wiki/GSOC_2011/

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
http://wiki.hiit.fi/display/gsoc2011/GSOC+2011+Idea+page

Sencha Labs
http://thejit.org/ideas/

Sakai
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Google+Summe...
Strange - we really optimized the code base and images, hosted on content delivery network etc - should be darn quick.

But a very good illustration of why web page load speed is probably the FIRST and simplest area to optimize - check this for a primer ye who be concerned of their conversions:

http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2010/06/15/everything-you...
Google Romance
I always thought it would have been a funny easter egg to have VNC simply mirror the screen. So it appears that you're looking out from the monitor...
I love destructors and RAII. They're more elegant than "with" constructs and much safer (unless you have a fancy type system that warns you when you create a resource object outside a "with.") They're the only thing about C++ that I really miss in other languages.
Didn't even know these guidelines existed, but it was fun to read:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

Heh.
I do chores when the house is dirty
Well, well, well! How things have changed?!
I like the implication that companies with bad UI are likely to have bloodthirsty sociopaths as CEOs.
Well, an operating role is just a term that separates someone from being just a highly paid advisor. I’m assuming here all parties are reasonable about what they give equity for and we’re talking about a start up that can really go big.

In this case, if someone is getting even 1%+ equity (even on a on a vesting schedule), they’re likely contributing a lot more than just mockups. So if they’re doing something, it’s early stage for little or no pay, I think the point where someone is getting close to 10% is a signal that they’re contributing enough to make them a co-founder.

I don’t think replaceability matters in defining a co-founder. Talent is usually replaceable. Being a co-founder is more about being able to assume significant risk in the face of uncertainty to build a business. Just because someone contributes a lot to lifting a business off the ground doesn’t mean they’ll do the same later, or contribute to it's "longevity." Many times someone that works well in a 1-3 person start up might not fit as well as a manager or when the company has 500+ employees. However that still doesn’t take away from them being a co-founder.
Yep, bang on.

Simpler and faster than trying to do the equation to poll a geo-IP database, build appropriate timing, etc.
It is sad that many use it in open as in license terms, while true openness of a platform is a lot more:

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/open_source-free_software-what_we_...
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Actually, it will. What if a 1000 customers like you who own 10 domains do it at the same day?

They sure HAVE to notice it. I've already transferred my domains and I'll make sure I won't buy any from GoDaddy again.

GoDaddy already has one of the scammiest UIs I've ever come across (with a possible exception of, maybe, MySpace) and the recent elephant killing was the last straw!
How is he hypocritical?

How about claiming he saw the bait-and-switch coming when he's a professional pundit and all he ever said while commenting on it was a) open is bad for consumers and b) Android isn't open.

Note that even a) and b) don't even make sense together, so the fact that he's revised history yet again to claim that he always thought they were open, but only so they could later become closed is even more laughable.
Agreed - foodspotting does food visuals well. We're less about dish discovery, though, and more about food shopping. The problem we're trying to solve is picking through the 100 choices in the cereal aisle, where having pictures of the boxes (which we DO have, btw) isn't as important as how popular, healthy, tasty, or sustainable those items are.
Do you mainly eat out or eat in?
I agree that it's a horrible stunt, but I don't see how it can harm GoDaddy's reputation. As far as I am concerned, GoDaddy's reputation is so far down in the dumps that it is difficult for it to sink any lower, and that is based on their behavior as a registrar, not stunts by the CEO.
He explained it - it gives an incentive for marking more elephants as "problem elephants" than needed.

I wonder if a couple of fence (electric) might be a better solution than shooting the elephant. And all I saw in the video was a couple of square meters of trampled grass. I wonder what animal court in the world would give the death sentence for that.
Group Theory is no more an "obscure branch of algebra" than "algorithms" is an obscure branch of Computer Science.
http://i.imgur.com/ec4lM.png
Nice! But it doesn't beat the Jabber client embedded as an Excel macro I used while working for a bank.
Introduction of the coding style at Six Apart (人材募集) [hiring video]
So, to recap: sexist advertising campaigns for the benefit of the entire company == OK; the CEO shooting an elephant == boycott. To be clear, I'm in no way agreeing with his actions, but it was getting fed up with the advertising that got me to dump GoDaddy for DynDNS long before anything like this occurred.
Brushes (http://www.brushesapp.com/) is already very popular with quite a few artists and school teachers. I think everyone knows the New Yorker cover by now but here are some students’ paintings: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedars-school/

This is not the same as photo manipulation but it shows that tablets have some excellent artistic uses. Painting with Brushes feels very fluid, even if you are a beginner. More professional tools are not quite so accessible (and not only because of their price).

What will we do with tablets? I have no idea. We are at the very beginning. I was just playing around with GarageBand and it is now at least clear to me that software on tablets is different and can be wonderful. Some things will not work as well, some will work so much better and the only way to find out is to try.
> "I always thought the argument wasn't that open = bad"

That's my view of things as well. The closest the arguments got to "open=bad" was: open has an increasingly-poor track record as projects trend away from tools for technical users and toward products for average consumers.

And that's certainly not to say that all Open source projects are doomed or that Android couldn't succeed; it was just an observation of results. Something proponents of Open should be familiar with. (i.e. "closed source tends to be less secure")
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It's not that I see the greater flexibility of, well, nearly all non-Apple product as being a bug, exactly. There are certainly tremendous advantages to being flexible, adaptable, and extensible. It's just that there are also some advantages to being less flexible; these advantages are subtle and often missed.

The big win in an inflexible system like the iPhone — aside from it being inherently more discoverable and predictable — is that it's much easier and more reliable to get an intelligent, thinking, learning human to adapt to an inflexible system than it is to build a system that can deftly adapt to various imagined human desires.

It's this inflexibility, oddly enough, that gives Apple its reputation for ease of use: it's possible to make much more concrete statements about the operation of a Mac or an iPhone or iPad than it is about most competing systems and devices. The system perceived as 'friendly' is, oddly enough, the one that imposes its will upon the user.
"Tunneling Under" the New York Times' Paywall
He addressed that in the article: because "there is an immediate opportunity to mark more animals than needed as 'problematic' or 'diseased' than is really the case and that would cloud the issue considerably."

As a thought experiment imagine some rich guy offers a tremendous amount of money (let's say millions) to allow authorities to perform an execution of a death row inmate. To allow that would be playing with fire. The government now has a financial interest in having more inmates on death row, as opposed to simply serving the public interest.
This is awesome. Someone port it to my circa 1994 cobol compiler and I'll be set.
It seems that the new buzz word in the apps ecosystem is to test-drive before buying after amazon we have ubuntu now doing that (although not technically a app-store)....
mindlessly upvote any posts in favor while downvoting any that are against.

How exactly do you judge which upvotes are mindless and which are the result of someone who disagrees with a post but thinks it's insightful or valuable or otherwise a positive contribution to Hacker News?

What parameters do you use to judge which upvotes are mindless and which are the result of people who weigh the issues and then come to a conclusion that differs from yours?

Some time ago, I decided that I liked using Macintoshes and disliked using PCs. I also noticed that there were 19 PCs for every Macintosh. What would you have said if I'd suggested that all the people buying PCs were "mindless drones" instead of deciding that they were people who, given the information in front of them, came to a different conclusion for themselves than the one I had come to for myself?

proper discussion

Here's my definition of a proper discussion: No ad hominem arguments and no ad hominem abuse. What's yours?
Simple, single point just works. Yes.
Actual "live chat" with Namecheap's support:

Gregory: Hey Asia

Asia K.: Hello Gregory, you've contacted Live Support! How can I help you today?

Gregory: I heard you have a discount for people wanting to transfer domains from the scumbags at GoDaddy. Is this true?

Gregory: ...

Gregory: Wake up.

Gregory: ... Nevermind. With "support" like this, I don't think I want to use Namecheap.

No thanks.
Unfortunately all my domains are with GoDaddy. Moving them ASAP. It is unacceptable for such a big company to have its CEO involved in something like this.

For years we've been discussing social responsibilities of the enterprise (I've been on it since 1998 here in Brazil) and then we see something like this. If it has the potential to make one disappointed and wonder if she shouldn't give up the fight, it also makes one see that discussing the social impacts and actions of businesses is still tremendously important and necessary.

I'm proud to be on the right side of the fight. And I'm ashamed of having my domains hosted with the slaughterhouse registrar.
Precisely - I do this with a pogoplug already. Cloud player simply means higher uptime/reliability for me.
The article failed to mentioned that there are few "C" language 64-bit models - where ints, shorts and longs can be of different size (or all equal to the pointer size). Some compilers, operating systems, and combinations of take one model as preferred over another (or just assumes that model).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#Specific_C-language_data...
2006 April Fools joke - http://www.google.com/romance/press.html
Google ditches QR codes for NFC
Just some historical context for the anti-competitive behaviors that Microsoft refined and perfected into an art:

Obfuscated code to prevent Windows 3.1 from running on competing MS-DOS systems like DR-DOS. Microsoft VP internal memo:

> What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable,
> and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS
> and then go out to buy MS-DOS."

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

Licenses and threats that prevented Hitachi from pre-installing BeOS on in a dual boot configuration with MS-Windows. From the Be complaint:

> Hitachi eventually explained that the terms of its license
> with Microsoft prohibited preinstallation of another operating
> system in a dual-boot configuration. Hitachi also
> revealed that after it notified Microsoft of its intention to
> preinstall BeOS, Microsoft sent two U.S. managers to Japan who
> expressed their “anger” with Hitachi over its arrangement with
> Be, and “reminded” Hitachi of the terms of its Windows
> license."

http://www.beincorporated.com/msft_complaint.pdf

An explicit strategy of "embrace, extend, extinguish":

> [Former Intel exec Peter] McGeady also testified to MS's
> professed strategy of "embrace, extend, extinguish." MS
> planned to "extend" the HTML standard to the point where it
> would be incompatible with the Netscape browser and then to
> encourage developers to use the MS HTML such that web pages
> couldn't be read with Netscape's browser.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/msdoj/transcript/summaries2.htm...

I could go on, but you get the idea. Compared to these, "Google makes it too hard for us to index YouTube" sounds pretty tame in comparison.
True, my example in reality doesn't really match with an article.

And yes, I am probably making a big deal out of nothing. My reason for posting this comment was to see if others felt the same way, it appears they don't. My bad. I'll end with this: The people with large follower count's aren't the same ones that have to go asking for them.
See the xkcd cartoon in the first comment
It seems like there's a lot of people commenting here who haven't read the article in full. Some key points of it are that Microsoft isn't filing against Google Search - rather they are complaining that Google is providing meta data to other companies (apple) and are crippling Microsoft's access to it. As a result, Microsoft's Windows Phone and other devices can't build an integrated youtube app on their phone. They claim that Google is doing this because Microsoft is a search competitor.

In addition, they are filing numerous complaints against Google's ad networks, and their attempt to have unfettered and exclusive access to orphaned books.

Right now, it seems like Microsoft may have a leg to stand on in regards to the youtube metadata control. I'll await google's response to this though before I choose sides, and I'd recommend others wait as well.
GoDaddy has now lost all current and any future custom they might have had from me.
This was just a matter of time, although I expected Facebook to do it first. Combine it with the heads-up displays in glasses and contacts that we should be getting in the next 10 years, and we're most of the way to Halting State.
I think "mathematics is a mechanical process for solving problems without an intuitive grasp of their nature" is a very good definition, with which many professional mathematicians would agree. Sometimes you're surprised by what pops out when you turn the crank. (Witness: every non-trivial probability problem ever)

Einstein's special theory of relativity was mainly an intuitive interpretation of Lorenz's discovery of Maxwell's equations' invariance under Lorenz transformation. The insight "c is constant in every frame of reference", would not have been possible without Lorenz mechanically working out what sort of transformation would leave Maxwell's equations invariant.

Dirac predicted the existence of the positron solely based on a mechanical process of finding out what sort of equation satisfied the symmetries observed in nature.

My point being that many great intellectual advances have been made by people who trusted the process more than themselves, and that's one of the cornerstones of mathematical thinking: trust the process more than yourself.
Thanks a lot. Do you know the IRC channel for hn by any chance? I saw somebody mentioning it but never got to write it down.
This isn't about Apple, as has been pointed out repeatedly. There are a lot of criticisms about iOS which are valid, however I don't recall them ever claiming their platform was even remotely open.

If "Open" is now a convoluted word, we have Google to thank for that, because that's what happens when you launch an entire marketing campaign around a single term.
I believe standard practice in those situations would be to give them two test user accounts in your app store submission - "log in with EnabledTest, then with DisabledTest".
I've been thinking of moving for some time now (even before I watched this video). My question is: how?

They kind of own my domain names now, how can I simply change registrars?
Two releases, even.
Same story from gizmodo, but no discussion there. Link provided for the different POV:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391971
This is the final straw for me, godaddy has a horrible UI that looks like a toplinks page and functions much the same I presume. I've been wanting to move my domains from godaddy for years, but haven't due to laziness. What are the best alternatives?
I agree with you, but have a bone to pick with the boiled frog analogy... Frogs are actually quite smart and will jump out.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
I dont mind the downvotes but I could like the education on what people who believe in gun rights believe in.
He has never said open is bad for consumers as far as I understand it, I'd like to see where you think he has so we can discuss it though, I'm sure he must have said something that we both interpreted diffrently.

As to your last paragraph: he's not claiming he always thought they were open. He's claiming that he knew all along they weren't - i.e. they were only allowing free run on the source code and everything as long as it benefited them. Which is what happened here.
Secret Space Plane Can’t Hide From Amateur Sleuths
For reference, other takes on this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391924

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391675

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391546

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391424

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391237

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391051

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390999

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390721

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390430

EDIT:

And to whomever provided the drive-by downvote - thanks. You've almost completely convinced me not to provide value by making sure comment threads are less splintered.
Error-Tolerance and The Long Tail of Search in Ecommerce
a question:

Can you assuming that you have C skills tell Linus that we all should use a new file system called FUD? NO! Is Linux any less open because you cannot ? NO!

please effing stop with the damn fud
Slaughtering an endangered species and women in tank tops are hardly on the same level.
The way this was set up with MeeGo is that there is a formal compliance process backed up by the trademark (owned by Linux Foundation).

If you make a product based on MeeGo you can add whatever you want. As long as it passes compliance, you can call it MeeGo.

http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/Compliance