skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I'm not sure how following the industry and contributing to open source projects could not make you better programmer.
GoDaddy is one skanky company. Buying a domain is a chore. You have to walk through a minefield of up sells. The ads are gross. All that hassle is just not worth the couple dollars I save every year.
It may be an outlier but it proves that access to Android source is unreliable.
I cannot speak for anyone other than myself. I don't currently own a gun, but that is more because of my life circumstances than belief.

I believe in gun rights because I have had relatives / personally been protected from both people and animals (feral dogs) by gun ownership. I believe weakening any of the bill of rights provides avenues to weaken the others. I also believe that it is an important counter balance to authority figures becoming despots. Mostly I just see guns as another tool and have serious problems with saying an object did something when it is the person who did. Plus, most of the gun stat stories were done narrowly and didn't include rural areas (did a stint in the social work area).

So, I understand the purpose, but am horrified by the picture and do not think NRA membership is a factor in the reaction to the picture.
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If their goal is for normal people to use it as a desktop. I don't think that is redhat's goal, I don't know about novell, but it is canonical's goal.
Thanks for the link. I shall read it. I wasnt trolling, but I come from a country where we won our freedom with a non violent movement so the point of guns is largely missing from my cultural upbringing. In my opinion 10 million people uprising is sufficient for any government - with or without guns. That being said I will read the book and will not comment on this conversation any further so that it doesnt derail the original post.
Apple marketing VP Allison Johnson leaving the company
The unfortunate thing with this design is that it's quite often possible to break things by updating silently, too. My Cr-48 became almost unusably slow after the most recent update, and I seem to remember a bunch of Windows Phone 7 devices getting bricked in the same manner.

You have to have extraordinary quality control and testing on silent updates like that, and quite frankly, if OSes with a very limited number of variations on hardware can't get it right, how can we expect PC distributions to?
>..you launch an entire marketing campaign around a single term.

They did? Maybe I was the only one who missed it. Links?

Android is definitely way more "Open" than iOS, by almost any metric, even with the latest changes. Care to dispute that?

And it's not helping that Apple is going to even more closed via forced cut of subscriptions.
"With the exception of Honeycomb..."

Which fallacy is that, again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelming_exception
I've been slowly transferring my domains to Gandi as they expire, you have to love their tag line.
"Any publicity is good publicity" - tell that to Enron and Lindsay Lohan.
You should move your domains away for reasons like constant up sales and other crappy tactics to keep you from your domains, not because the CEO shot a elephant in a different country.
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This reminds me of the "boss key" in video games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key)

Nicely done!
How GiveForward Found the Holy Grail (Funding)
The part that struck me the most odd is he claims that this is the most fulfilling thing he does. He must be pretty hard up for fulfilling activities.
I'm curious as to why stronger gravity areas are portrayed by outward growth (aka growth in the opposite direction of gravity) and not inward to portray compression. Is this a common representation or might it be to improve the potato-effect?
I'm torn.

This article is either:

A. An example of the Paradox of Choice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...)

or

B. Contains the reason why Microsoft has chosen to air those inane commercials for Bing and Windows Phone 7 whose message is "Let Us Decide: We Know Better Than You".
Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it.

I do think space could be an issue. To mitigate against this risk I've decided to only keep ~8 pages of each feed in Redis, and compress the values (including removing attributes that won't be shown in the feed). Also, Redis 2.2 is a lot more space efficient than earlier versions.

Our primary datastore is actually MongoDB, which has some similar (NoSQL) characteristics, but I've found that storing the feeds in Redis is actually cheaper than storing the same data in Mongo. That said, I really like Mongo for its richer querying (and greater persistence guarantees), and use it for canonical storage of users, posts, etc.
I hadn't seen this. Thanks for the link.
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I bet Google will allow access to even their search index if Microsoft starts blocking all their applications in OS level.
Not sure you really save anything anymore. I've moved most to omnis.com - renewals are < $9 - even less with bulk discounts. GoDaddy is now >$10 for renewals unless you scavenge some coupon. No coupon needed at omnis.com.
Which interface is better for users asked to make relative allocations?
That's like 10 pizzas!
I had a MacBook battery that dropped to 0% and wouldn't charge after that...
Specifically, because they get rid of the car very quickly and it was never found.

But I want to ask you about something. And please don't downvote me.

I believe that 6 months of keeping data about calls/ips/others is reasonable approach. If you're not commiting any crimes, only situation when it might be harmful is some kind of political situation. But then, I'm sure you can provide other means of communication. So what is this actually about?

Listen guys, I just want to know, so no flames, no downvoting please.
The part I dont understand is what prevents Redhat, Ubuntu etc to license multimedia codecs just like any other closed source company? Most significant streaming devices like the boxee, google tv etc run on top of a linux kernel, with netflix support and all other bells and whistles. Why dont linux companies push to license the same and make them available on the desktop?
Adobe demonstrates legitimate Photoshop capabilities on iPad
yeah, sorry - just a little touchy on the whole NRA = killing elephants is ok.
GoDaddy doesn't own your domains at all, and they'll be more than happy to help you transfer away to a competitor.

It's simple! Just find the place in the GoDaddy UI to unlock your domains, then the other place to request the authorization code required to transfer the domains (you need to request this in an email per domain), then disable private registration if you have that enabled (but don't change your personal info, or you'll have to wait another 2 months), then wait for the correct registration info to propagate (wait a day to be safe, because if you do this wrong it really gets tricky), then start the transfer process at the competing registrar, and follow similarly byzantine steps with them.

At some point, GoDaddy will send you an email telling you that you can confirm the transfer, but they don't mention how. Instead, they give you the steps how to cancel the transfer. Follow those steps, if you can (make sure to click on the correct "My account" link or you'll never find the right forms) and just change the last step to say "confirm" rather than "cancel".

A few days will pass, and then your domain will be transferred!

Now, was that so hard?
The 6 Reasons Every Startup Community is the Same
Agree or disagree?
I'd be concerned about getting fired for using node.js..
I'd be interested to find out how many people go to startup weekend with pre-determined teams and use the weekend as a way to jump-start their project.
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Cool, free hosting service for your unused domains with full-screen backgrounds.
Top Gear doesn't get a pass here for being a comedy show. There's a difference between satire and making false claims about a product with the intention of tarnishing it and the company that produces it. That's precisely what libel laws exist to protect against.

Viewers of Top Gear understand that the challenges and races are staged, but there isn't a similar understanding that the car reviews are staged, and that the presenters will claim cars have defects that they don't have for the purposes of entertainment. If the claims made by Tesla are true, then Top Gear doesn't have a leg to stand on.
I'd encourage you to avoid 1and1. Horrendous customer service, crippled control panels, etc.
Can't believe this thing. I bought a domain name just 5 minutes back, and now I am feeling disgust.

I have around 60 domains with godaddy, and after watching this I don't think I will go for any more. Let the unimportant ones expire this year, and I'll transfer the rest to somewhere else.

Can someone suggest me a good registrar?
Finally something useful hacker news. I have been reading way to much hacker news lately, and my colleagues have started to take notice.

Next month I hope someone could make a html source code theme for hacker news.
Desktop Synchronization Shootout: Comparing the Best Linux Backup Tools
It's almost as if Achewood's 2011 predictions are coming true three months early: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01052011
I blame Disney. Killing an Elephant that is clearly a pest is no different than the thousands of businessmen that shoot Deer and Tahr for sport every year.

Dickish move by Bob tho, he's truly testing the adage that "any publicity is good publicity".
> [Gruber] says that there are different shades of "open"

And Google stated their definition of open (http://twitter.com/#!/arubin/status/27808662429) only to turn their backs on it (if only for the moment).
Thought about that, decided that if people go there instead, oh well...
And McGonigal, whose games are filled with top-secret missions in which you get to play the superhero, says "reality is broken" because people don't get to feel "epic" often enough. This is a child's view of how the world works.

I disagree. There seems to be good reason to believe that the need to "feel epic" is a basic drive. Look at how an archetypal story like the "hero's quest" emerges in a wide variety of cultures over the millennia of time[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

Do adults really need to pretend they're superheroes on secret missions to have meaning in their lives?

Very likely so. If you accept anything that evolutionary psychology suggests, then look at one of their fundamental tenets: Technology and culture "evolve" faster than humans do, and so we are evolutionarily "wired" for life in the Ancestral Environment... hunter / gatherer society in tribes of around 150 (or less) people. Modern life removes some of the challenges we are wired to face, and replaces them with different ones... it does not strike me as unreasonable to think that adults may actually have some inner drive / motivation that very naturally maps to the sensations we get from games; and that isn't easily found in "real life."
For our Jerome library project at the University of Lincoln (http://lncn.eu/fv4) we're using MongoDB to store catalogue, repository and journal items then we've implemented Sphinx (http://sphinxsearch.com/) on which we do the full text search, passing the results back to Mongo to retrieve full details.

We've found performance to be excellent, we can full text search over 350,000 records in hundredths of a second.
What about “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make” doesn't work right now?

Because it's working just fine for me.
> I'm certainly not moving my domains over this.

Me neither. I'm moving my domains because this reminded me of the silent, seething rage I have for Bob Parson's face.

When I go to a site that registers and manages domains, I don't want to see your face. I also don't want to see ads about how great your company is. When I buy a domain, I don't want to wade through five pages of bullshit you put up in the hopes that I won't notice some default or will misclick somewhere and inadvertently buy your useless services. I just want to register and manage my fucking domains.

Seriously, GoDaddy is the expertsexchange of domains.
DNSimple (dnsimple.com) is great, also offering a promotion and 'escape hatch' from godaddy.
Yes, it seems a large number of people are comparing our own countries way of life to the way of life in another country. We might go and admire elephants in zoos, but for some countries they're a PITA. Some people might think the way we (the "west") exterminate cock roaches and stuff is bs. Different cultures etc.
Maybe you'd be able to contribute a post sometime? Would you like it if we provided run-downs of local events?
And there are already too many elephants in South Africa: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7700606
Sorry guys but bad news here: when a open source project gets a back up from a big company, it's not open source anymore.

actually, it is open "source" but thats it. only the source is open. the "fork" arguments is also useless. if i fork android source, nobody will use it. nobody. because it's not "google" anymore.

remember the "window controls on the left site" debate with ubuntu? everybody was talking against it but it happened "shuttleworth's way".
It all depends on what you mean by "the law".

If you simply look at the law as a legal ruling, it often (though not always) seems reasonable. However, if you look at "the law" as the process of getting to that ruling, it often seems horrendously unreasonable.

To me, the great failures of the legal system usually aren't the decisions it hands down, it's the way the brutally expensive and lengthy process itself can be used to gain leverage and/or coerce other people.
If only elephant supply was so easy to control...
EFI is basically binary DRM spyware, and by specification it's impossible to build a fully open source EFI BIOS:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=236384

http://archive.fosdem.org/2007/interview/ronald+g+minnich

ACPI drivers are bytecode blobs that the BIOS passes to the kernel, and expects the kernel to interpret in priveleged mode:

http://lwn.net/2001/0704/kernel.php3

With the old PC BIOS and APM, it is possible to implement a fully Free Software firmware, with no 3rd party binary crap or DRM malware. http://www.coreboot.org/ does this.
> I'm certainly not moving my domains over this.

Godaddy's got plenty of other atrocities higher on my list, like the usability of their web panel.
Now we can all create those Hitler reacts to videos with ease.

But seriously, I like what you've done.
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Nota Inc. has released caffein.tv on March 31st.
http://www.caffein.tv

Caffein brings P2P group video chat to the web.
Users can engage in simultaneous peer to peer group video chatting for free.

Each chatroom is given a unique short URL so that users can easily
share it across their favorite social networks or in any text format, however the short URL
is not listed anywhere so that chat rooms default to private.

Combining web-based chat with a short link creates the revolutionary experience of seeing friends by video chat
casually and quickly throughout the course of regular web browsing and without the need for additional software.

For example, as soon as users see an IM, tweet, or status update come up in
their feed, they can instantly jump into a video chat with up to 15
peers who see that same message.
I've long been against Microsoft's practices, but from what I can tell, they are clearly in the right on this: Google is using it's market power to restrict competition in various ways.

This anti-competitive behavior should be stopped, regardless of the irony.

It doesn't matter if it's Google, Microsoft, Apple, the NFL, AT&T, IBM, U.S. sugar producers, or a company you haven't heard of yet - if one or more companies are leveraging market power to enter new markets or limit competition in their market, they should be stopped.
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How long is your measuring stick?
So it's all about taste. I trust Apple's taste, and Google's as well. I'll add Palm (HP) to this list.

Verizon? AT&T? You'd have to force me.
I believe the elevation of each point relative to the center represents the distance that one would have to be from earth's centroid to experience the same gravitational acceleration (relative to some baseline, presumably an average).

So, if you're in a stronger-than-average gravity spot, you move away from the centre until you are experiencing the same gravitational force.
What a brave new world we live in, when the words "only" and "46kb" are mentioned next to each other in a positive way when talking about the web.

Am I the only one who balks at including a 5kb JS file, even if I need it? At least, with automatic media managers that merge everything into one file, I don't have to worry about the extra requests as much.
I happily recommend Gandi myself; ben switching all my domains there for the past year or so and couldn't be happier.
Agree that foodspotting is fun, but it doesn't provide the health highlights and nutritional discussion like foodia.com does.
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It's not the hunting that offends me. It's the GoDaddy hats during the slaughter.
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While I agree that this certainly isn't the worst action of a CEO ever (nor this year or probably this day), I can understand the outrage a bit.

First of all, controlling your public image is a good idea, most of the time. Unless you want to go totally over the top and take it too a Donal Trump level. Hunting probably belongs in the same class as politics, religion and sexuality: Don't talk about it too much.

Second, it's hunting in Africa. Trying to look like you're the protector of a poor village there is going to bring back things like the "White Man's Burden" into the mind of people reading and watching this. Not a good idea, part deux.

Never mind that shooting elephants is a last-ditch effort. As far as I know there are lots of other ways to drive them off, maybe not as easy (and "entertaining") as just shooting them.

On the other hand, it's the GoDaddy CEO. Not exactly a brand with a good publicity anyway, and they barely need it. Enough people go there because they like to save money and/or don't know any competitors. Regarding needs for good publicity, they're probably somewhere between McDonalds and Monsanto.
Why not? It's probably an EC2 instance they can reboot anyway, and you don't get root.
I put together a step-by-step guide on how to prepare domains for transfer out of GoDaddy:

http://blog.dnsimple.com/post/3167427271/preparing-domains-i...

Naturally I'd love if you used DNSimple, but this will work for transferring out to any other registrar.
What I never understand but also fall for, is how pretty stock photos just make customers trust you. It's crazy and a little creepy.

Put a picture of smiling people hard at work on your page, that are just a stock photo and don't resembled anyone or your actual business, and people instantly trust your company a little more anyway. It's weird.
They have an interesting problem on their hands. Their current user base is nerds who have a bunch of power user use cases, but they want to attract non-nerds. How do they do the latter while keeping the former happy? It's like republicans trying to sound reasonable while also making their base happy. It's like tight rope walking on a strand of floss.
It may have been unclear in my message, but I'm looking for an alternative to Godaddy for reasons other than pricing.
AFAIK, Canonical tries to bundle Ubuntu with only free (read: open-source) software, to promote the idea that a totally open-source system can be a viable alternative to Windows / Mac. We all know that's a load of bollocks, though, as inertia keeps us using Flash Player and MP3 instead of HTML5 and OGG, for instance.

Boxee, Google TV, and such are able to license Netflix and use their technology because it's much harder to hack them. Netflix has been fighting movie companies for years now to get full Linux support because Silverlight is the only player technology with the DRM to satisfy the studios that movies can't be copied from the stream, and Microsoft obviously has no intention of making it available on mainstream Linux distributions.

I believe that Boxee, Google TV, and 360/PS3 all use other technologies, but that can be inherently less secure because it's harder to get inside of them. Also, they can afford to pay the monstrous fees to work with Netflix and develop a solution that will satisfy all of Netflix's backers.

Licensing technology, especially with all of the patent stuff that's been going on lately, is an incredible undertaking and costs a lot of money, and many companies are unwilling to license to companies like Canonical because Linux is a huge administrative headache due to its openness and peoples' desire to have open systems.

At least, that's how I understand all of this. I could be wrong.
They've always delayed the Open-Sourcing of their Android versions until a bit after the commercial release of a phone with that version on it. With Honeycomb, it'll be a slightly longer wait.

Can you magically not do those commands in that tweet now? No, you still can. Does it suck that you can't checkout the latest files just yet? Yes. Is this delay being completely blown out of proportion? You betcha. But that won't stop pundits like Gruber from pouncing on every silly opportunity to discredit the competitor of their fanboy company.
Amen.

Lately, I feel like the old curmudgeon yelling at kids to get off my lawn with moderations, edits, etc. Trying not to complain about it publicly just makes it even worse. I considered starting a thread to ask people to downvote more, which is something I never used to do.

The catch, I think, is that even if you could clearly demarcate exactly where the line is for what HN actually stands for, how do you figure out who is on which side of that line? What I think HN is isn't the same as probably anybody else, completely;

I also don't want this to become Reddit, or even general interest. While I'm loathe to reference a 'glory days' era, lest I insult those for whom the glory day was before I arrived, when I got to HN, it was decidedly more startup-focused. What wasn't startup-focused generally required significant thought.

Something else I haven't seen much of lately is a good-old fashioned Erlang-bomb.
Technically it was two shots...
Fixed =]
The World’s Technological Capacity to Store and Compute Information
I totally agree, but I don't think multiple posts is the answer.. Either a new tab like 'Ask HN' that keeps these in a longer-lived list.. or an external site. I know a number of HN'ers have stood up external sites for this.. but I don't think anyone's done a good job keeping them simple, and getting the word out.

So yeah.. first choice for me would be a top level HN link like 'Ask' or 'comments'.. second choice would be someone write something external that people could always go to for HN job posts.. I'd probably go as far as to karma-wall users posting on the site too..or at least allow users to filter by it.. or just rank job listings by karma achieved in the HN hiring threads. I dunno. But yeah... once a month on actual HN is plenty, IMHO