skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the situation is legally impossible: basically they are trying to hold you responsible for code they add and which you cannot touch. Won't keep up in court.

Secondly it does not look good for the site owner, as some have a few subdomains and users might make a typo. 3rdly, Godaddy and others also do this, but at least they 'share' any 'profit'.

Anyway, I just got my first few domains at name.com and just forwarded them to another domain. No spampages.
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I don't follow. Why does the fact that you have to do your own backups mean that you can't use Google (or, conversely, why does using Google mean that you can't do your own backups)?
Do you also think we'd be better off without the many van Gogh paintings that didn't sell during his lifetime?
Mobile Web vs. Native Apps
FCC head says mergers can't solve spectrum crunch
It's not clear to me what you're objecting to.

This isn't a conversation about the simplicity (or not) of the SSH protocol, but rather a conversation on why it's exciting when good, simple tools like Prompt are created.
I've been told by jobs both local (in ND, not that it matters) and remote that my wages were being determined by looking at the local average of people with my job title. It would be hard not to know that your salary is scaled to where you live.

Another issue besides roots in moving is that higher wages always come with higher costs of living. I own a house where I live which has a lower mortgage payment, by far, than a small apartment in SF. Granted that comes with downsides: no decent curry, bars that can't make a manhattan, etc
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can you explain some of the thinking behind the flip slide? It was bigger and didn't add much function. Thanks
It's an obvious v1.0 product, but the free tethering and pairing makes it look pretty compelling if you're already a Blackberry user (which I am).

Judging from the videos, the performance of the software is much better than I would have guessed. I'm assuming most of the bundled software is written in Adobe Air. The prospect of being a 1st-class citizen on the OS should be appealing to existing Flash developers.

I'm not yet sold on a 7" screen size for a "tablet", although it would be more luggable; the only way my iPad leaves the house is in my laptop bag. However, I am absolutely sure that the iPad's 4:3 screen ratio is the only way to go. The only time 16:10 doesn't cripple you is when you're watching a movie.

Anyway, I'm curious to see this thing in person.
How much do you pay for your Rackspace email?
I wonder to what extent will programs like YC be funded by "donation" investments in the future? You only need a few Herokus to make enough successful founders for quite an "alumni" investment fund...and unlike my college alumni progam, few alumni would argue about "how their money is being spent". The only real problem I see in this is that it scales exponentially faster than PG is able to scale the number of companies he advises - but that might be solvable by, say, reducing the return of "donation" investments to make them more like pure "donations".

Just like regular colleges, you can focus on alumni while still taking money and guidance from other interested organizations (like Sequoia) for the benefit of the participants.
Thanks guys, glad that you like our service.

To answer Marco's question: It is hard to be a good domain registrar but not impossible.

Let me tell you my little personal story about bootstrapping iWantMyName. I left Germany at the end of 2007 after working for a German domain registrar for nearly 6 years. We were successful (2 million domains under management) and the big ones GoDaddy, NetSol, eNom, Register.com etc. just started registering ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) through us.

But something didn't feel right... Domain registrars were getting lots of bad press (frontrunning, parking) and I started thinking of building a new domain management service. In the meantime I moved to Australia and after 6 months of being with an Australian registrar, I had enough. It was time to finally take the plunge. So I moved from Australia to New Zealand where we launched iWantMyName with zero dollar investment in December 2008. I knew one of my co-founders from Germany (luckily he was the former CTO of a registrar back in Germany and had enough of Europe too).

The first year was hard. Really fucking hard. We still had to do some consulting jobs to survive and our service could do nothing but register domains. No transfers, only certain DNS record types were supported, no whois updates. But for me it was really surprising how few features people actually need. Our site architecture helps to keep design work at a minimum level too, it's intentionally kept simple. Actually, we don't even have a designer in our team.

So where are we now a bit more than 2 years later? Well, we're running a profitable domain management service which generates six figures in revenue. This currently supports three founders, one employee and every single cent that's left will go into improving the user experience. No upselling, no annoying ads, no parking crap, auctions and what have you. We have decided not to compete on price, features or add crappy hosting
services but only to give customers what they really need and that is purchasing / managing domains. Having said that, there's still lots of room for improvement and we will not stop until we've build the domain registrar Marco is looking for.
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Dropbox stores different versions of files so even if files are corrupted/deleted and this change is sync'd up to them, you can still restore your files.
I happen to partially agree with this post. I don't believe that calendar apps are done right. I think the main problem is that too many people shoe-horn themselves into a system that limits the way they approach managing their diary.

Personally, my calendar would be as simple as a list of events broken up by date, much like a particular iOS Calendar.app view. I hate how miserably non-inter-operable calendars are.

The problem isn't money, but as an earlier post discussed: building a decent calendar app is damn hard.
> It's hard because it's a commodity business
...
>All the money goes to marketing, and none goes into improving the quality of the offering.

Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses need to be that way. Higher quality and lower prices (/especially/ lower prices) are marketing in and of themselves. For most of the time I've been in business, my model has been to take the marketing costs and just apply those to discounts.

Now, this is much easier in the VPS business than in the registrar business, 'cause as far as I can tell, the VPS business is much higher margin. Really, it's pretty easy, in this market, to differentiate yourself on price, just because retail prices are so much higher than the cost of goods sold.

when you sell a .com domain, the lowest your costs can ever be is $6.25 a year (or, at least that's what it was last time I looked) and the retail prices aren't that much higher than that, so without using domains as a loss leader, it's pretty difficult to differentiate yourself through price. Heck, considering the margin there, if you have much by way of customer acquisition costs or /any/ customer support costs, you are either charging an uncompetitive rate or you are losing money (and needing to make it up somewhere else)

I think the problem with the domain registrar business is that instead of costs being dominated by equipment or something else where you can innovate (or that just automatically becomes dramatically cheaper year over year) costs are dominated by administrative fees you have to pay the next guy up the chain.
> Like, I wouldn't imagine you could send an email along the lines of, "Hey, I'm looking to buy some securities. You in, bro? DISCLAIMER: This is not an offer to buy or sell securities."

With the disclaimer, I expect this would be read as an "offer to treat". Not a contract offer, but rather, an invitation to negotiate one.

Coupons printed in the newspaper are also mere offers to treat, which is why they can be dishonoured.

Of course, I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
I nearly spit-taked when I saw that, it's so distorted... until I noticed that it's for Vancouver, Washington. Ah, well, maybe.

Wolfram Alpha says: "(UN retail price index data in Canada available only for Montreal)"
I wouldn't blame Tramiel for Commodore's demise either. The Amiga was a very fine platform and Tramiel is also behind the ST line (called, at that time, "Jackintosh") after departing to Atari.

The ST line was truer to the Commodore of the VIC and 64 era in that it was simple (much simpler than the Amiga), powerful (somewhat less than the Amiga) and inexpensive.

At that time, nobody was predicting the collapse of the PC market around the IBM PCs (which were much more expensive than the home computers of the mid-to-late 80's and much clunkier).
Mixed reviews on the Google Apps marketplace for backupify: https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewReviews?pr... -- 27 users take 21 days to backup? Might well be the Google Apps infrastructure that's not up to the task. Looking at my company's Google apps domain, we probably have several million threads and are close to a terabyte of data. I imagine backing that up via IMAP could take a while.
Make a one time payment roughly equivalent to eating out once.

Feel like you own someone.
Ask HN: Can I get a referral to join AngelList? 
I don't know too many other investors, but I want to start investing in startups. I have another friend that also wants to do the same. We aren't networked with any investors and I don't know three referrals. Would anyone be willing to refer me?
Really? – yes.

Normally I go with the defaults, but on my netbook for linux work on the road I didn't want to lose a lot of screen real estate to menu bars and window ornaments. Honestly I was only using X because the dark blue on black text in some emacs coloration was illegible, but fixing the console to get dark blue far enough off of black to be legible eluded me.

I nearly got there with 'slim' and 'awesome' and one of the terminal emulators, but then when I needed to pop up gimp for the odd image fix it was unusable. (tiled window manager meets the legion of floating windows with strange ideas about window manager hinting.)

I hate to say it, but it wore me down. I relegated the netbook to machine room console duty, bought a lighter main laptop, and just use VirtualBox to run my portable linux machine. My laptop load is 50% lighter, and the virtual linux box is faster than the netbook anyway. A much better solution. (and dark blue on black is legible on this machine).
I've had good service so far. They're a reseller too though (enom).
I wish there was an MG warning tag on this post. I can't stand that guy's writing style.
I've moved all my domains over to DynaDot (with them over 3 years total). I use DynaDot's DNS for some of my domains and they don't do any funny stuff. Haven't had any problems with DNS outages, transferring domains--in or out, or any billing issues. Their interface is fairly straightforward and clean.

DNS Interface:
http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/8523/dynadot.png
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The business market, where RIM has had a lot of success, seems to prefer "solid, but not special". I don't think they will do as poorly as many seem to think. Everyone compares it to the iPad, which feels like more of a consumer toy than a business tool to me. I think there is definitely overlap, but I don't think it is trying to be the iPad. This is good, because if it were, it would fail.

To someone that does not want to play games or watch movies, all of those features stack up to absolutely nothing. I opted for a Kindle DX over an iPad 2, and some people think I am crazy. It does what I need, and does it very well. That's all the PlayBook has to do to be successful.
At which point you're using technology even more complicate than dropbox and you have to trust that it works just as you have to trust that dropbox works. Not to mention that anything that can write to primary store (i.e. the "rewind for all actions" in your hypothetical solution) is just as likely to corrupt that store as dropbox is.
Seriously, you can invest in my start-up if you want. We can even meet-up today if you're around Silicon Valley. I'll do bring my laptop and do my pitch. Best deal ever. Send me an email to citizenkeys@gmail.com !
Was your salary more or less than the H1bs?
Their control panel lets you add: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, SRV, TXT, and PTR
So when Alexander Lukashenko is described as the "last dictator in Europe", they're forgetting Hans-Adam II.
Lost In Space: Chiat Day's Deskless Office Disaster (1999)
Ruby HTTP client features
Except that a proficient Haml developer will still need to "think in HTML" and Haml is just another way to express it.

CoffeeScript goes so far and introduces enough new concepts that you can "think in CoffeeScript" and not worry about JavaScript too much.

You're right that the translation idea is similar but I can't agree that the mental model for using both is similar.
> I feel like Microsoft should have branded IE10 as a completely new piece of software and not as the newest Internet Explorer.

They could change the name:

http://www.joseph.ca/words/internet/conqueror2.gif
You assume the person living in the expensive city doesn't benefit from doing so. Folks living in San Francisco choose to do so because they find the trade-off worthwhile. I choose to live in a relatively high cost-of-living area because I love the benefits it has.
Sorry, I'm not in silicon valley. I'm in southern California.
Well if they were mass-market prints that cost a lot of money to make and didn't sell well enough to recoup their losses, I certainly wouldn't complain too much when they were cancelled because they were unaffordable.
Is this how Konqueror and Conkeror (two separate open-source browsers) got their names?
Hoŵ the f is this worth $200m?
Until 51% of population uses it incorrectly. Then, because English reflects usage, they become correct.
I've been dealing with at least 6-7 registrars during the years – all the way back to Network Solutions – both professionally and for personal use, and honestly never had any real problems with any of them. I've always avoided and advised others to avoid the cheapest options though. They might work fine for just an email address or website forwarder, but do you really want to trust a serious business to a company called GoDaddy?

Just don't ever forgot to prolong a domain name – keep your (company's) contract information up to date.

My personal domains are hosted at Gandi. They seem most aligned with the open-source philosophy and community, and they feel geek-friendly and less corporate and spam-like. They are located in Europe, which somehow makes me feel safer regarding DMCA take-downs or whatever suing troll pops up from nowhere. I don't feel very strongly about it, but I am happy with their services.

As I already said, I've never had any difficulties with any of the major registrars, so it doesn't really surprise me that most people don't have strong opinions or incentives to change.
Like the last internet bubble, companies with no revenue are valued higher than companies with revenue. I guess having no revenue obscures the difficulty in monetizing the business.
I think this is the problem with all cloud services. The liability costs involved in dealing with worst case scenarios are potentially so huge, the majority of providers have terms and conditions which relinquish all responsibility when bad things happen.

The only real solution is backup, and the only backup that can truly be relied upon is one you make yourself; in which case the point in making use of a cloud service in the first place is pretty much reduced.
You're conflating a few things here. This is certainly how higher education started, but in many places it has not remained that way. Some European democracies have made higher education radically affordable, such that citizens can learn to think critically and engage with the issues of living in a modern, information-dense culture.

The capitalist function is at odds with this. Job training focused curricula teach practical skills to the detriment of timeless "enrichment" subjects. This damages the level of public discourse and is hostile to democracy (well-informed decisions on the part of voting public). It trains people to submit to a corporate environment, instead of enriching their inner life for decades to come.

This is why things like YC are excellent: they teach the best of capitalism, ie, leadership, risk-taking, meritocracy.

People should be free to determine how many dollars they want to attempt to accumulate relative to other goods. I completely agree that we need to get the price of Higher Ed. in the US under control. I also think that we need to be more up-front about what you can really get out of it: the "signalling function" of a degree (http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/handicap/honest_econom...) is fundamentally wrong-headed and doesn't do anyone much good: it leads middle-class kids who just want a decent credential to waste money on a college that is torn between vocational school and a transformational mission, and employers don't get much in the way of real information about a job applicant from it.

Sorry to ramble. I'm just very glad to see this conversation begin to open up; attitudes towards and uses of college degrees are incredibly broken, and it seems like a massive "re-factoring" of the whole system (concerns include: civic sophistication, quality of life enrichment, entrepreneurial, vocational-centric) into smaller, more focused parts is what is needed.

The serious acceptance of YC and other options like it is the first step along that path. Education is not one-size-fits-all, and we have been telling ourselves that about the "college" system for far too long.
Create something simple[...]
I like Flipboard, but... how are they going to reach a decent enterprise value/sales ratio?
Don't buy companies and kill them. The next time cisco offers to buy a company, the owners may think twice. That is what happened to Yahoo.
ShipIt (Canonical's free CD program for Ubuntu) comes to an end
I'll reiterate a theme running through the comments here.

Do what you love to do.

Whether or not you get rich doing it you will be happy and you will enjoy your life because your day to day existence is filled with memories of doing something you love doing. Life will throw annoying things at you and they will be more tolerable if you have things to do which you enjoy.

That being said, if you love programming or systems analysis, this is an excellent time for you. We are fast approaching a time where 100% of the population will be experience a computation platform in their daily activities. There are lots and lots and lots of things that can benefit from that, the environment is target rich.
Either way, I'm looking to raise seed money at a low valuation. If you have even $5,000 to invest and a proposed term sheet then we're in business. I'm 100% serious.
Am I mistaken, or is this a whole-cloth Lisa screenshot?

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8...
That's what a student loan is. It's just not for a specific job.
I understand subscribing to bad registrars. I mean, I don't really understand why people ignore all of the evidence against GoDaddy until it bites them in the ass, but it seems to happen a lot.

I may never understand though, why people are using the registrar's provided DNS services. I shudder writing that sentence. It just makes no sense.
Flash on Android: Look but don't touch | InfoWorld
It's important to remember they only sold about 10% of the company, not the whole company, with the IPO. So most of that 50% gain also accrued to equity still held by the holders prior to the IPO. So yeah, maybe they could have priced 30% higher and pulled in an extra 5M in cash, but it would have also meant more risk that they sully the 90% they still hold with a bad first-day performance in the market.

I doubt they're crying in their milk tonight at Zipcar headquarters.
> Stop what you’re doing right now (i.e. quit reading this blog post), go to your Twitter account, and scan the first screen. Be really dispassionate. How many of the Tweets there could be called ads in the sense I’m using it?

I get 5 that could be considered ads out of 30 tweets; only two of which are actually about things for sale.

It sounds like this guy just isn't very good at picking folks to follow.

That said, it's a good thing to be aware of.
Reading some of the financial reports being thrown out is is lovely, stuff like this:

"But Larry Page has signaled pretty clearly that he is going to be driving up expenses. If the expenses are targeted and result in future revenue streams, then good for Larry. If not, that results in an undisciplined spending approach."

Don't get me wrong, revenue is cool, but these reports are reading like Page is being chastised already for hiring people and investing in the company. What was it that Google told investors when they IPO'd forever ago?
True, or buy a $15 webcam
in practicum, YC may be simliar to CS
but in theory, i doubt it gets anywhere near the breadth or the depth of a CS grad school curriculum
The op was a paid customer. It apparently didn't matter much.
I just started using nudgemail with my Google calendar and I like the ability to just send an email with a task or appointment and be reminded of it as well as have it put into my calendar automatically. It does seem to put appointments into the previous day however.
I'm not too fussed about peak oil causing a sudden unavailability of petrochemical products, for the reason that coal can be cracked down to oil. And there's a lot of coal left. And if we run out of coal, wood can be cracked down to oil. And we've got a grip on this tree-growing business.
The simple answer is sometimes the correct one: for the most part, developers do not afford those particular condos. Or many of those who do they're single and childless. Vancouver's one of the most desirable places to live in the world, and so people preferentially migrate here (it's typical for people to be half-seriously astonished to meet a native), and so the market soars (plus there are some weird factors inflating it, arguably).

Although I've certainly known a few developers here to make over $100k. A few I've met professionally, and several of my old high-school friends. But this is not at all typical.
I am working on a startup in huntington beach. Would you like to hear a pitch?
Be better
Node.js testing with nodeunit httputil and sinon
The PlayBook's #1 priority should have been to leverage the popularity of BlackBerries among existing enterprise customers. The PlayBook should have tightly integrated support for RIM's BlackBerry messaging services and Microsoft Exchange. Instead, the PlayBook does not even ship with email, calendar, or address book apps!
I keep my domains at pairnic — they're a geeky small company, but they're good enough to do the trick. Granted you can get all of the fancy domains, but what I've learned is that less is more when going to register a domain.
Face To Face with Crested Black Macaque
http://www.pictrmania.com/face-to-face-with-crested-black-macaque.html
Hacker News is the port of call for the more skilled members of the Apple Fan Club.
I find it quite amusing since one of the most impressive kinect "hacks" ever was pulled off @ MIX but this is the most upvoted MS article in the last 2 days.
I agree with you, Im at university atm in newcastle. If you can get into a good university, take it. There should be some grants to limit some of debt. Of course you could also apply to a Scottish university like Edinburgh which I think is only £1000 a year