skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually a pretty good deal. The country sleeps 500 so that comes to about $140 per night. This is comparable to rates on Kayak for the cheapest 4 star hotels in nearby Zurich.
Wonder what their revenue so far is.
I recommend OVH, domains are very cheap and the support is quite good.
How about Ghostery themselves providing services to the advertisement industry? [0]

[0] http://www.ghostery.com/faq (Last paragraph)
Or spend 15 minutes on an application for Chase Paymentech and code it yourself in 3-4 hours and get it for 1.9% + $0.10/transaction.
For backing up files that need to be on Google Docs, I use GDocBackup (http://gs.fhtino.it/gdocbackup) and have it download my Google Docs to a Dropbox folder.
my personal philosophy is try to come in at least three to four days a week (say between 12-5), because it helps keep the team connected. other than that, work when you want, where you want, as long as the work gets done.
I'm always surprised in these conversations that Dreamhost never gets mentioned. I've had nothing but great experiences with them for registrar work. They also have $15 SSL certs that cover both the root and the www subdomain. And one of the things I love most about them is how easy they make it to leave, should you ever decide to do that.
I've been moving my domains from godaddy to moniker as well... for some time now b/c of the better control panel. Plus, domains bought in the snapnames aftermarket can be moved to (and sold from) from your moniker account.
Microsoft Announces Kinect SDK: Why This is the Future of Windows
How do they have any revenue? Unless they charge to be in the branded "Flip" feeds?
What's the justification for Safari 5 not supporting Tiger?

Safari 5 came out 62 months after Tiger.

If we assume that IE10 comes out in 12 months from today then IE10 will come out 65 months after Vista.
"If they are a Windows Outlook user forget about it, rarely does it work – often they have to manually reply"

If he means that when using iCal to invite someone on outlook then that's probably accurate, but Outlook 2010 has a pretty robust 'pick a meeting time' that works exactly as he described it should across an exchange server. You pick the attendee's it tells you what time works for everyone, and even shows (at a high level glance) which days of the week is best.

In fact, at work, we have a room reservation system hooked up to it so it'll even suggest a room thats available and reserve it.

You can attach meeting agenda's to outlook invites (and I believe you can do with Gmail and an add in?)

Most of the features he described (except maybe the location aware stuff) work on Outlook & Google Calendar. Of course there a few things on both clients that I wish were designed a little better but the functionality he asks for is basically there already...
If Google got things fixed over a lunch I would entirely agree with you. The problem is they take days to get started, don't give you much feedback about what the problem is, and I've never actually had a bug ticket fixed. So, yes you can keep on doing work, but you also will keep on not getting emails/business.
Android tutorial: How to parse / read JSON data into a Android ListView
This is obviously going to do more harm than good. Why do people always surrender their privacy for security?
Clay Christensen on customer- vs. problem solving segmentation
I understood that, he's going through the 'standard' Google escalation process for paying customers. Someone from Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in the docs group is no doubt working on a ticket to track down broken GFS cell or maybe a PCR (that was code for changes that might take out a whole cluster or data center for periods of time). Its probably one of a few dozen they are looking at and given the layering the actual fix could take a couple of days to take hold, especially if the data in question is actually only available on tape at this point.

But he's an operations guy like me, and he probably wears both a belt and suspenders just in case the belt breaks. So in response to the complaint that emailing yourself files to insure you have copies is a pain, I suggested he script the moral equivalent using Google's provided APIs to the docs service.
I desperately miss Outlook 2003, having used a variety of Mac calendaring programs (and dabbling with some online ones). My killer feature for a calender (which Outlook 2003 had) is being able to scroll the "month" view by weeks instead of months. It boggles my mind that this isn't standard by now. I hoped Mac Office 2011 would have this as part of it's Outlook, but no luck.
The BusinessInsider article [1] refers to them as a "pre-revenue company", so, not much?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/flipboard-funding-2011-4
Have you ever read an idiotic comment?

It starts with some stupid explanation about a perfect omelet, while conveniently forgetting that an Omelet is just some crap that we eat to get nutrition, so that we can get more important things done.
If you mean the raw server requests, a lot of that will come from bots/etc without a javascript engine. Blocking GA is probably a growing thing, but it doesn't yet seem to be huge.
Yeah, that's why I'm wondering what their revenue is so far.
Vitamin, Painkiller Or Drug?
Lately I'm recovering from the first failure as an entrepreneur. The positive side of my failure is that I'm more interested in how to initiate startup that can be successful.

Recently I found some articles referring to an idea for a startup as a vitamin or painkiller. But from my point of view there startps that are like a drug. Applications that are so addictive that helps your success will greatly increase. There are some examples such as some games that were designed when people become addicted to them. I believe that some services are also addictive as facebook or twitter.

What do you think about it?
Flash on Android: Look but don't touch
That's not what I get when I click on "4 Days" in my calendar. I get Today, Tomorrow, The Day After and The Day After That. (In settings you can customize this to be any number of days, including 3.)

Not exactly what the poster wanted: doesn't integrate the agenda view into the same screen, and doesn't make Today bigger (though does visually highlight it, which I would argue has the same effect).

Otherwise, it's pretty damn close.
You're confusing Namecheap with Name.com. Name.com does that. Namecheap does not.
One other thing I'll add is that I like showing the whole week because it gives me context for what day of the week it is when I'm looking at my calendar.
From a practical standpoint, you're absolutely right, and I certainly hope nobody takes what I'm saying as legal advice.

From what's actually written in the Supreme Court opinions I've read, every software patent I've seen discussed on HN should be invalid. Benson and Flook were super clear. Diehr was long and hard to read, but when you boil it down, it didn't change anything; it merely clarified that software as part of an invention doesn't automatically make the whole invention nonstatutory. I haven't read Bilski, but it sounds like SCOTUS punted on clarifying things because they think it should be Congress's job.

Until Congress steps up and clarifies, I think the previous Supreme Court decisions should be law. But they aren't. I find that extremely annoying.
So I wonder what happens if someone had a trip booked and someone else decided to rent out the village for that day?

Presumably they could be denied access to any public or private venue.
I've been using DynaDot.com myself, prices seem decent. originally picked them because they took paypal (i had some free money in a paypal account from selling my opinion). Haven't used them for dns so i don't know if they do any funny stuff though like some users report other registrars doing.
YC: The new grad school
Portal Investment Opportunity #4: "Boots"
TL;DR: Money printing machine capable of $100,000 per hour now producing $99,500 per hour.
4%! That is just too much! i would prefer to use my 2 yr old paypal acct instead
I like ideas such as this that lower the barrier to entry for eCommerce web sites. As @suking said, you can do this yourself and save money. But what about those who either can't do it, or don't want to spend the time until their web site idea proves itself to be a money maker.

This is a good "first 3 or 4 months of being in business online" solution. But not for everyone.
DNT is not about blocking ads. It's about signaling that you don't want to be profiled for advertising purposes. If you don't mind being profiled for targeted ads, then don't flip the switch.
Be that as it may, but, uh......

When I PuTTY into a Linux box or, on a linux box, type "ssh me@sweetbox", I don't see any clutter. It's pretty sparse and simple - just a brief prompt and a blinking cursor. I don't even know how it could become more than that...

I think it speaks volumes about the progress of iOS apps (and iOS in general) towards being a usable computer that a SSH client is exciting.
Hmm that's two different browsers, two different operating systems and two different vendors - what's your point?
I'm in for $500! 137 more...

(this would be cool, but also hell to arrange haha)
I've used ParkedAvenue, pretty cool. I'd use this additional service.
Yes, those would be the two big challenges:

* It needs to be widespread to work well.

* No creepy factor.
The only reason Cisco bought Flip was because in theory it promised to push more bytes through the pipes and hence the routers. I don't believe the product itself had a noticeable impact on the pipes, i.e. the smartphones are not a direct competitor to Flip by they push more junk through the pipes. So in this regard the Flip became a useless distraction for Cisco.

Still why kill it? May be 550 workers are too much of the burden. This is criminal.
You could—but when you have no idea how your service will be received and you want to get from nothing to minimum viable product asap, a service like this is great. It's precisely what I've been looking for, low overhead.
Antarctica - 100 Years Ago
Short of EPS estimates, but my take is meeting or exceeding otherwise. Nice revenue growth. Google may need to slow headcount growth, but they're in solid shape in my laymans take.
Somehow, when I was a kid, and I got my first computer, it was an Amiga 3000. The amiga was already dying, but as a kid I was not able to at first realize that.

What personally killed the Amiga for me, was the graphics power. The Amiga 3000 "enhanced chipset", best graphic mode was 320x200 with 64 colors (extra half brigth). Meanwhile, PC VGA displays 800x600 and 1024x768 256 colors were starting to become popular on the PC side. The Amiga was clearly behind.

The Amiga was also capable of 640x400, but only with 16 colors. And the "HAM" mode, 4096 simultaneos colors on low res 320x200, suffered from "color fringing" and was mostly unusable.

What would have made me happy back then, was a 736 x 482 overscan mode with 4096 real simultaneous colors.

I wish I could restore all the game demos that I made back then with Amos Basic. lots of simple games, a basic doom clone, musical apps, etc. I would love to give a look at that code again.
No person or organization should put itself in a position where it depends only on an external source for either security or backups. Whatever else might or might not be "mission critical", I think this inherent is.

Come back and tell me that relying on using Google docs while keeping local backups is problematic or awkward. That would be a fair complaint.

Toshiba isn't going to help me if my drive goes down either. Whether they send a nice or not nice email isn't the point.
I think the point of this post is that it should be as easy dropping some code into your website to enable subscription payments.

So, how did you do all this in 4 hours?:

1) Accept secure recurring transactions.

2) Get PCI compliant

3) Monitor for credit cards that are expiring and contact the users.

4) Allow a way for the user to update their payment information themselves.

5) Administer users and cancel or suspend their accounts based on their payment status.

6) Email users a couple days before each charge so they know that it's coming and what it's for so you don't end up getting charge backs and charge back fees.

7) Make it possible to upgrade or downgrade an account and plan and change the amount billed automatically.

8) Adjust sales tax per location if needed, like in some states that have a different tax per county.

I'm sure there's more. And I don't even know if this company getsubscribify.com handles all these situations that would be available in the perfect subscription system.
I didn't say that he argued against an L2! He ultimately recommended that CL stay an L2. That is why my hand-waving CL fanboy friend referred to it.

Please keep in mind that if I were in his position I too would have recommended keeping CL an L2, in large part because CL is the New Jersey Lisp, and doing the Right Thing is a Bad Idea if it gets in the way of things like backward compatibility with metric shit-tonnes of existing source code.

And for your benefit, and for the benefit of all the karma pharmers, I'll try to excise my HN writing of every last bit of hyperbole—or life of any kind. The model HN comment apparently invites readers to put their hands on their chins and sagely nod themselves to a self-satisfied sleep.
Definitely. Do the Right Thing like NearlyFreeSpeech and I'll start doing business.
Ask HN: What are the pros and cons of "building buzz" before launch?
We're about to launch a new product.

The approach we're most confortable with is that of a fairly soft launch: announce the product via Twitter when it's live and ready to rock and take it from there.

But after spending time with a lot of people I respect here in San Francisco, I'm starting to question that. Most people I speak with advice me to build buzz, hype, drop hints about the product, launch a teaser / holding page, etc.

Would love to know your thoughts on this please.
If you can't see my point, honestly I don't think I could explain it to you. Imagine I just said, "nothing to see here, move along". Don't spend too much time on it.
So why doesn't Twitter just embrace this and charge to send tweets (to any significant number of followers)?
I'm not sure. I know Google spends a ton of money paying to be the default search engine in Firefox. No idea what would happen if Microsoft tried to do the same thing on its own with their own defaults.

I'd guess it would be kind of a PR nightmare for them though. Nobody questions those defaults when the browser is owned by Microsoft.
There’s a second part of the tragedy, too, something that nobody knows. That new Flip that the product manager showed me was astonishing. It was called FlipLive, and it added one powerful new feature to the standard Flip: live broadcasting to the Internet.

That is, when you’re in a Wi-Fi hot spot, the entire world can see what you’re filming. You can post a link to Twitter or Facebook, or send an e-mail link to friends. Anyone who clicks the link can see what you’re seeing, in real time-thousands of people at once.

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That's awesome and so sad!
Agree, I use backupify.com to backup my FB, Twitter, Gmail and Docs.
The thing about unreliable customer service is really bad, but you just can't relly on one company, even Google.
I don't think I agree with the article. I moved from my old registrar to namecheap because my registrar really sucked (and yet I consider it better than GoDaddy). I didn't move immediately, I moved the next year, but I planned the move and before the domains re-new I hit the transfer button. While it was a little bit awkward, it was completely worth the time.

If I found a better service than namecheap, then I'll happily move to them the next year.
Google wants to see if computers can feel "regret"
Google Ditches YouTube, Back To Relying On Microsoft For Earnings Calls
Time to stop adding "ify" to the end of domains.

On a serious note, the real benefit here is the no payment gateway/merchant account thing.

Chargify (also another "ify" name), offers similar hosted pages and would probably be cheaper in the long run, plus at least when you have your own payment gateway and merchant account, so you can move your subscribers to another provider for your recurring billing.
I'm always skeptical about this "Flash is dead" advocacy too.

Providing on-line video with trendy HTML5 tools has a whole bunch of downsides, which have been enumerated much more eloquently and comprehensively by staff from YouTube and the like than I can do here.

Doing it with Flash means you can't support iPhones and iPads.

It wasn't a touch decision for any project I've been involved with, and no amount of Steve Jobs whinging is going to make us do everything at least twice just to support his platform. It just isn't as important as he thinks it is, at least for any of those projects.
OnSwipe Introduces Swipe-Friendly Tools for Sites
As someone who has had to do a lot of live streaming to the internet via webcams/camera setups the FlipLive sounds amazing. If it was really as user friendly as the traditional Flip camera (which was a great product and I'm sorry to see go) it would have gained at the very least a sizable niche following, especially with the burgeoning lifestream movement. Its a pity that this is not going to be released, but theres a great startup opportunity here for anyone looking for one.
No, but we know they have schadenfreude :)
> The real story here

Why can't there be two stories?

If I park my car and don't lock the doors, and come back to find it gone, is the story that I'm an idiot for leaving a car unlocked, or is the story that the neighborhood is unsafe?

They're both problems, but I can actually solve one of them myself. That doesn't excuse the $BAD_THING that happened, but it does offer me options for when it inevitably does.
Ask HN: How much can startup charge Amazon for providing a service?
Hi there!
What do you think may be the best model for a startup to charge Amazon for a data/service which will be supplied for Amazon mobile app/site?
Flat monthly fee? Per API call after user's request coming from Amazon?
Given that deal doesn't have to be exclusive so there will be options to supply the same data to other companies?

And ideally we want to avoid the acquisition offer.

Oh the headache...
Sounds like an opportunity for ... dun dun-dun dun! an entrepreneur! Who wants to build a prototype with me?
The initial reports said "Cisco said the shutdown of Flip will result in restructuring charges of up to $300 million this fiscal year". See http://www.industryweek.com/articles/cisco_closing_flip_busi... for example.

I assume that might include the money to stop production/get rid of inventory they don't want to sell/whatever.
Its great, except because you don't own the gateway and merchant account, you can't move to another recurring payment provider. (Unless I missed something here).
LOL. Nuff' said.
Do you backup your backups? And backup your backup backups? You have to draw the "good enough" line somewhere, and to most people, Google backing up their stuff is backed up enough.
I use them for my domain registration. You don't get any freebies from them (DNS service, private registration, etc. cost extra), but there are real people on the other end.

Another positive is that their site is entirely garbage-free, and they're not constantly trying to sell you something. I get the impression that they mostly do domain registration as a value-add for their DNS and other infrastructure-as-a-service customers.
If you are based in California, you still have to incorporate as a foreign corporation even if you are incorporated in Delaware.

If you are starting out and based in California just incorporate in California and save yourself a lot of money. Once you grow or are about to be funded you can always merge/sell/dissolve a corporation into a foreign corporation.

This applies to all states where you do business, have employees (not contractors) or locations. You must always incorporate as a foreign corporation in that state, for most bootstrapped startups (based in USA) it is a bad idea to incorporate in Delaware. Not only are the initial costs higher but you have additional legal requirements (docs/filings/records) which you must maintain. You can always merge/dissolve/sell a corporation into another when you need to just consult a tax expert when you need to do that to prevent unnecessary tax burden.

The reason a Delaware corporation is preferred is because Delaware is more business first-consumer second laws whereas California (most states except Delaware/Nevada/South Dakota[for financial institutes]) is/are consumer first-business second laws so if your business might be affected by that then you should incorporate in Delaware first, for 99% of startups this isn't a problem.
ugh. thank you.
The DNS and email forwarding interfaces are quirky (especially if you're trying to manage multiple domains at once). But, hey, they don't charge for those.
While I hate to admit it, this point does have merit if it's true.
Intel to Support Both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt in 2012 'Ivy Bridge' Platform
Yes, the Prompt keyboard features both a ctrl toggle and arrow keys.

Screen shots here:
http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for...

and here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prompt/id421507115?mt=8
Can't you simply cancel the subscriptions of the users who you started out with Subscribify, keep their accounts active (no harm no foul), but prompt them to transfer to your new recurring billing provider until they do? Not very seamless though...
Postmortem: Team Meat's Super Meat Boy
Want To Print a 3D Model of Your Face?  There's an App for That
What do they mean by splitting background pixels? Something like dithering?
you sure can, but this 1) seems like a pain in the ass for you and your users, and 2) Will probably lose you some money, unless you catch it early enough.
Are you a "cam girl"?
I understand the ire, but still... IGDA can pool resources, and are in perfect position to start their very own branded Android store where they can set the rules as they see fit.

No reason why a game specific store shouldn't exist. If the user goes the distance to install the Amazon store, chances are they will install another.
How do you backup Google Documents? Can any of the popular backup utilities do that for you as part of your whole-company backup plan? That would be pretty cool.

I know you can use pop (and maybe imap) to pull email out of GMail. but can you recommend a product that can handle slurping and backing up all the mail for your domain?
You get what you pay for. IMO after building many subscription systems talking directly to merchant providers or gateways (PayFlowPro, Braintree, etc), 4% is well worth not having to deal with this and just letting someone else handle all the crap that comes with subscription services.

If they do a good job of course.
Also alleviates security concerns and PCI compliance issues if you're never storing payment info!
I used Oz/Mozart for a few years as my "side project language" in the 2003-2005 time frame, and definitely have the love for PvR.

I'm not entirely sure why he chose Scala either, but it will definitely make for more accessible tool support now that Scala is getting first-class treatment in IDEA, etc.

I guess the "obvious" available options are probably Erlang, Scala, and Clojure, and Scala is definitely in the lead right now in terms of popularity with the intended audience.

It could be worse, he could have decided to make a colorforth front-end. :-)
A comparison:

Chargify: $99/month flat + merchant account and gateway fees

Recurly: $69/month + .$10/transaction = $119 + merchant account and gateway fees

Subscribify: $.30/transaction = $150 plus 4%

It really depends on where you want to spend your time starting out. I wonder how big of a pain it would be to migrate your existing customer base over to a different solution when you outgrow this one and pickup your own merchent account and payment gateway.