skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone desperately doesn't want God to exist, nothing will prove it to them.

Proof that God exists: everyone in the world wakes up with a plate of cheesecake next to them and a note saying "I'm sorry for all the stuff that's messed up. I'm trying my best. -Yahweh" Done. Just an example. I'm sure an omnipotent omniscient omni-something omni-somethingelse person could figure out something equally convincing if he/she didn't want to do that. The best part is that it would actually be appropriate now that we have video recording and a huge communications network so that future generations won't have to rely on "copies of copies of translations of copies by anonymous authors of which we have no originals" (quote taken from this video youtu.be/DAuFJKQh83Y#t=6m , I really like the show... sometimes).

> There is no shortage of evidence that he is real and acts in history.

None of those things prove the existence God. If you pick a different book the first two could prove that Hogwarts exists. What experience of the modern church? Aren't they the ones having trouble keeping cops away from pedophiles? Lastly, what makes you think that we are going to find out that the origin of the universe (which is not yet known) has been caused by something unnatural/supernatural unlike everything else we have ever discovered?

> I think most Christians I have talked to have, once or twice in life, personally observed something

Personal experience is kind of a strange thing. I don't really know how it relates to proof or evidence. However, I do know that there are people you can go and talk to who will explain how they were abducted by aliens and had children by them. It's not hard to believe that they experienced something, but it is hard to believe their story. I sometimes wonder if the same might happen to me, then I would be one of those crazy people. Anyway, right now I am of the opinion that you need something independently verifiable for it to be considered evidence.

> I know what the voice of God sounds like.

> heard something that turned out to be false or worthless, I wouldn't just say, "Well, I guess that wasn't God."

And you are certain that it isn't from another agent like the devil? People have been communing with the Gods for a long time. I kind of wonder how you evaluate someone else as having that ability. You don't accept that the Oracle of Delphi was legitimate right? Anyway, I think you are right that your claim is closer to out of body experience claims than other unfalsifiable ones. Still though if your claim proves to be false, that doesn't mean that God doesn't talk to humans. That claim is still unfalsifiable. I also have to ask if people can communicate with God then why don't people use that to finally solve all of the differences between the different denominations? Is Jesus really against minimum wage?

Lastly, I didn't want to be a huge bother to anyone. I'm really not trained in any of this so do take my words as someone who is just that. If I say anything sophomoric or otherwise annoying, I'm sorry. If you point it out I will try to explain why I said it and/or apologize again.
Paul Graham says "I use EasyDNS. They're expensive, but reliable and never do anything evil."

Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150565

Note that that comment was posted over three years ago. Does anybody have any more recent experience with them?
For anyone interested in an overview of the Bourne-Again Shell's source code, look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2969751
Car Hacking: Researchers Highlight Emerging Risks and Lack of Security in Cars
Groupon Discounts College School Class
Space scientist, MIT PhD, pleads guilty, gets 13 years in prison for espionage
Google Ventures
> Why is this news?! I can't count the number of times this has come up

And yet GoDaddy is still in business and doing great.
A lot of people disagreeing here, but let's face it, people are proving you wrong every day. A generic design can get you a long way at the start.

Take Paras' visual website optimizer[1] as an example. Originally built using simpla admin[2], you can still see a screenshot on his blog, it worked well, he's now paid for a designer.

Perfectly good when he started out. Craig's list has also been mentioned. There's a DNS service who's name escapes me that's had a god awful design for ages but people rave about their customer service.

Design is a differentiator, not a must have. Would Google have won if they'd have got a designer in?

The massive caveat is that you need to buy a template that is well written. If you don't you're in for a lot of cleaning up work. That means that you must at least be competent with html to inspect the source or be lucky.

To be honest Simpla Admin rocks and that intersection of the right look and quality underlying html/css does take some hunting.

Even a brief glance is not enough, one of the themes I bought I ended up spending a few hours rewriting bits of it because the performance sucked due to overuse of cufon and jQuery. I wish I'd spent another 15 minutes checking out the code as I ended up chopping up quite a bit of it.

[1] http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
[2] http://themeforest.net/item/simpla-admin-flexible-user-frien...
Yeah, I'd be surprised if a typical DIY VPS webserver can beat nearlyfreespeech.net's uptimes and resilience to burst traffic.
Thanks for reminding me about the grammar, constant challenge :)

I have lots of examples, perhaps I will do a follow up on that. I will have to talk about most of those examples with a beer in hand, that is a prerequisite.

Joseph
I agree with GoDaddy being horrible, but this really isn't just their fault. Certificate revocation does exactly what it says. It's a technical term that everyone using SSL should know and understand the implications of. Their offer of creating a new certificate for you for $15 actually sounds pretty decent.

And, you don't have backups of all your data and domains? While running your sites on a shared host? This really sounds like something that was bound to happen to you. Be glad you got it fixed and I hope you learned your lesson.
"One plausible explanation: Hackers familiar with the technique are selling access to hacked iTunes accounts with store credit to burn. Perhaps if you're willing to pay a hacker $10, he'll give you access to a hacked account with $50 of credit—and perhaps Sega's game proves quite popular with folks willing to make that deal."

I can't imagine they are selling accounts to people who are actually using them and no one outside has noticed. If you want to steal apps there are easier ways than trying to purchase a compromised iTunes account. Stealing an account or purchasing a stolen account is a good way to get in a lot of trouble (it also shouldn't be hard for Apple to figure out who's doing the in-app buying--you have their device ID). This is for in-game credits, so simply jail breaking and installing from Hackulous won't do the trick, but I have doubts that a bunch of people want to risk going to jail just to play KingdomConquest on iOS.

They're converting in-app purchases to cash somehow.
Yeah I was thinking, why don't they just move to Europe?
Ask HN: Which analytics service do you use?
I put more faith in alpha testing based on a design without a single line of code written, than on code without a single thought put into the design.
Same reason people use Campfire and Hipchat?
I've been afraid of this too.

I wrote a system in C# that used immutable data and actually used that to do rollbacks when evaluating a scenario failed. My fears was that since there are no "val" and really bad immutable collections in C#+.Net the maintenance coder would probably remove list.AsReadOnly() and putting in public on setters as part of fixes to bugs.

That didn't happen though, the maintenance guy was really smart and got the ideas without me explaining much more than mentioning immutability.

But this is why languages like Scala are important. Immutability and similar design(patterns) are a result of discipline and sometimes convention in languages like Java and C#. It's bound to fail due to humans being humans.
That's how I develop. Since I use vim anyways, I just ssh into a linux dev server from my windows box and code right on the server with the only delay being latency. 99% of what I do can be done in the command line so I end up with few problems.
I've been doing some free-time hacking on a generic solution to distributing Javascript tasks. https://code.google.com/p/mrjs

It's definitely not secure, or very reliable, but it's a start at least. (Contributions accepted!)
Maybe Mark Cuban will buy it.
gandi.net also provides a free ssl cert for registered domains. They're just awesome.
In the same vein --

- Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems, the Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips' decision in the face of pressure from Sony to license the format free of charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_cassette
Nice app! Fast and easy upload. Thank you!
He also touches on a great point:

What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich.

This is where I think Bitcoin fails as a currency. While some people invest in currencies, the point of currencies is to allow goods and services to flow through the economy. Currency is and should not be primarily an investment vehicle.
bah, not really if you use editors like emacs or vim. I'd suggest also using screen to maintain a dev session going. screen lets you start shells and detach from a session without closing any of them (useful for long running jobs too). In the end my remote environment doesn't differ much from my local environment.
Fair point. Though I'll have to get burned trying before being convinced it's that complicated :) However webGL is not in the critical path of the Guinness Record thing, so I'll happily trust you for now!
When I saw the headline I wasn't sure if it meant that Yuri Milner and Jeff Bezos were keeping the California legislature (which is called the General Assembly) afloat, or if this was a clever name for a startup. It appears to be a clever name for a startup.

Except that it isn't. Don't call your startup "Congress." Or "General Assembly." Or "The White House." You're just asking for trouble.
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I don't understand why the OP is getting so much hate here. He is clearly talking about a specific kind of situation - a solo programmer with little money trying to build a web app - where design can be a costly overhead. It is also clear that he's talking about design in the sense of making things look beautiful, not in the sense of how things work.

Even more generally speaking, good visual design can be a powerful advantage but it's by no means necessary, especially on the web. See Bingo Card Creator, Visual Website Optimizer, Dropbox, Google, Amazon, Ebay, Craigslist, etc.
Cisco accused of tailoring tech to aid Chinese abuses
How about

.einstein {position: relative;}
Real programmers use a hand drill.

I knew a guy who actually did this - he worked for a company that maintained process control systems for "serious" customers (steel mills, nuclear power stations). One steel plant had some ancient mainframe controlling things and it originally booted from paper tape that had long since worn out in the eons since it was installed and been replaced with a sturdy leather belt.

He had to patch the boot code - so hence had to resort to a handdrill to drill some new holes in the leather belt.
I can see how defining symmetry for a pathfinding domain might be non-intuitive. What the quoted definition is trying to communicate is that paths sharing such a relation are permutations of one another and thus, symmetric.
Hi everyone, blog post author here.

It appears that I may not have been as clear as I could have been: I'm not arguing against hiring designers.

Nor am I arguing against thinking about design, UI or how your app will look and work.

I do hold the view, though, that hiring a designer when you're bootstrapping is a premature optimization.
Er.. and what is that? Campfire and Hipchat both take 5 minutes to set up and are cheap enough that they save you money by not having to set up your own system.

Yours requires setup and costs a ton. How is it like Campfire/Hipchat?
Had read it. It's not serious at all. The arguments there are out of touch with reality. For example:
"What that means is that if you measure prices in Bitcoins, they have plunged; the Bitcoin economy has in effect experienced massive deflation." For this argument alone, one may look at
https://www.bitcoinmarket.com
and see exactly what kind of person Krugman is.
Hosted Application - What is Hosted Application
Hosted application is the form of the service which is being used by the people over the internet and thus it is referred as the web based or the online based host applications. The host applications
I use domaindiscount24.de for all my domains. Despite the name that might imply a somewhat cheap quality they work really well and I never had any problem's so far.

I've only used GoDaddy once when someone transferred a domain to be and wanted to do this over GoDaddy's internal transfer feature. The first thing I did was transferring the domain to domaindiscount24.
I think the main reason is when you're stuck on an unfamiliar system and emacs/[your favorite editor] is not available, vi is always there.
>I think we can aim for 60% speedup with YBWC

Note that most top engines barely get this speedup with 4 cores on an SMP system. I doubt you can get the same efficiency in a distributed system with 2000 cores.
Your points are valid, but running VMs, and using unix tools are not all I do with my computer. For me, running OS X is a good compromise.

I used Linux exclusively for more than four years, and I miss many things about it, but I don't think I can go back, at least yet.
Agree, or highlight the infrequent ones in place.

The people who I follow that don't tweet don't seem to be any more (or less) interesting than anyone else so I'm not sure I'll use it anyway but its a clever idea.
Why would you need to have your dev server always-on? I think you are either speaking of different kind of development server or your dev server is doing too much stuff.

When I hear development server, I think of box on which I can try out various things which may, or may not blow up. That makes it inherently not always available. Also, I want it to be in a relatively clean state so I know that any problems rising are not side effects of some other thing running on it or anything. And after I finish testing some new stuff, I want to be able to just throw it all away if necessary, without needing to care if there are some other services that may be disturbed.
Court Orders Gov't to Disclose GPS Tracking Data
I agree. A professionally designed site would be ideal but it shouldn't be the first thing you concentrate on. First prove the business, then sort out the design.

I guess the rule of thumb would be: pay the designer out of profits - no profits, no designer [1]

[1] and just to pre-empt the counter-arguments: a good product will survive a mediocre design; a great design won't save a bad product.
It's interesting that while Google is well established worldwide, Google Ventures has 4 offices in the US and none abroad.
It is not hard to maintain backward compatibility, but why be constrained with it? It is hard to evolve a library or a framework if you have to be always backward compatible.

I'd rather have big disruptive incompatible major release that kinda compatible which may or may not break in production in a subtle ways.
Facebook Privacy Investigation Triggered by Students in Austria
I guess time will tell if it was a good move or not. You don't have to be so cynical. ActiveCollab did this for Basecamp and it panned out pretty well for them.
Total Commander for Android version 1.0 release candidate
Ummm... I just tried the 'candy' demo - there's no options for file sharing from the candy interface. Maybe there are in others, but I'd have to go test/try out there - this one says it does it already.
I've used GoDaddy for registrations for years, never a problem. My DNS is managed elsewhere, but for registrations I haven't had an issue with GoDaddy ever.
Quotes From Bill Hewlett and David Packard
Wow, this is really cool. (Click the "Test it out" button.)

If I understand correctly, the idea is that you could set this up on a Rails project so that your team's copywriter would be able to edit your site's content directly on the page, rather than having to edit some ERB or Haml somewhere and refresh.
So its just jealousy? I make up a dislike for them because I secretly want one just can't afford it? Seriously? What a delusional conclusion.
Well JS can make GET and POST requests to arbitrary URLs, that is often enough for a DDoS.
Honestly, I think that the physical part of the ordeal would be the easiest to deal with.
Google Analytics. On the plus side, it's free and easy to implement. On the negative side, I don't like the way it handles referrers.
Maybe those superbowl commercials really do work.
The Purpose of Yellow Sunglasses
I don't think it's fair to compare Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto to the quatrains of Nostradamus.
Reminds me of Tapestry 3 -> 4 and 4 -> 5. A lot of people made plugins and learnt Tapestry 3 and when 4 came out all of that was for nothing.

Tapestry 5 now is a whole different story, and so far a good one.
In the paper we make an apples-to-apples comparison with a recent optimality-preserving state-space reduction method called Swamps and an apples-to-oranges comparison with an approximate pathfinding algorithm, HPA*.

Swamps is a nice technique for narrowing the scope of the current search; it achieves ~5x maximum speedup and could be combined with Jump Point Search to go faster still.

The comparison to HPA is summarised in the article. Additional evaluations are the subject of further work :)
Communism IS the perfect society. Everyone working for the betterment of everyone else, of society as a whole. NO selfishness, NO greed, NO evil. However if a single person does something selfish, the entire system falls apart.

In this world, it doesn't take very long to find that one selfish person, and I'd argue it's harder to find someone who won't eventually do something selfish, intentional or not, and bring the system down.

So of course Marx was right, in a perfect world that isn't ours, he's right. But in our world, we simply can't live up to those ideals so we have to work for a system that better accommodates how society actually is. Right now, that's government-regulated Capitalism. If someone can find a better one, I'm all ears.
Finding rectangle nearest to point
Bill Dietrich gives CMU $250,000,000
When I was doing web stuff back in 2003 the common opinion on webmaster forums was that one should never ever use GoDaddy. (There were cases of stolen domains, etc.)

Maybe they changed now - maybe not. But I'm not going to find it out.
He means prices of goods and services, not the price of Bitcoins.
This is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of “design”.

Steve Jobs: “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. [...] It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Ask HN: Is there a guide to the karma limits on HN?
i.e. How much you need to downvote, etc.? Just curious...
Thanks for the pointer! We'll definitely look into it.
I develop (Django/Rails) with Chrome running locally and my dev environment running in vim/tmux on a Ubuntu box that I ssh into. As long as the dev server automatically reloads when it detects a file change I see no issues.

What are you thinking you'd miss in a setup like this?
This is just unfortunate.

First David writes a post thats not befitting of a person that promotes a language. I am not doubting his competency with Scala - his display of his contributions prove that. But I have found that there is somewhat of an inverse relation between a person being productive in and promoting a language to how much he disses other languages as well as extolling the virtues of his own language. I am pretty sure you will not hear such stuff from people like Martin Odersky, Rich Hickey and Matz. Guido I am not so sure, ;) (j/k, I am a Python enthusiast)

Now that that was said and done, would it have been a big deal to close the chapter and move on?

The only way such a post would have struck somewhat of a cord is if he gave specific code examples for each case as to when scala is hard, or when scala is better. Theres not much of that in the post.

"What has changed is that I've realized that there's a vast quantity of development shops where the developers show up, have a few meetings, write a few lines of code and go home. I've had experience with three instances of that kind of company over the last year"

This is one instance of how off-the-cuff the post can sometimes get. I am sure there are shops like this, but can you draw a conclusion that the above situation equates to what he says in his previous post:
"Your developers come in at 9:15 and leave before 6 and don't check work email at night: Hard"

I thought his was the humor section of the post, but I am not so sure now.

I knew of David from a while back when Lift was starting to get popular among people looking for a different web framework. There's no doubt Lift leverages a lot of Scala's strengths. But maybe sometimes (times like this) David should let Lift do the talking.

As I said, simply unfortunate.
As of this post, it appears to be working.

And I have to say, it's impressive. Those are some good-looking bookmarks. That's probably the oddest maintenance I'd ever think to write, but in this case, it's true!
What is OCD
Name.com is pretty evil too. They opt you in to a "service" that displays ads from your domain (where they keep the revenue, of course), and say that you are responsible for ensuring that the content is legal

See http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...
Uh, where are the BTC prices on that site? If you want to come across as anything other than a froth-mouthed crackpot hurling ad-hominems at a respected economist, you need to offer up some actual data. Granted, Krugman didn't either, but he's got a reputation to fall back on, you've got nothing.
I've been happy with dnsimple.com, not the cheapest but has a clean UI, intelligent features, and intelligent support the YC crowd here would appreciate.
Correct me if I am wrong but any of those extra headers except "Strict-Transport-Security" actually REDUCE security.

By default the browser will be in it's more secure state and those headers actually drop the security to allow cross communication with (specific) other websites.
So I went to bitcoinmarket. They appear to show 1 BTC = (exactly) 15.00 USD all day every day since the beginning of August, never changing.

Meanwhile, MtGoX currently shows 7.00.
I guess since I've been using them so long I'm in the same boat, I know exactly where to go. You can even go straight to your domain manager by visiting dcc.godaddy.com -- quick and easy.
I don't get it.

To me an appealing aspect of Ruby, Python etc is that I can pull up Vim, make some quick changes and see the results. For most Web apps this is a great thing.

Why would I move back to a statically typed, compiled, "slow to startup" runtime?
Be incompetent, blame others, profit.
Host your site on a shared hosting, with another 1000 users, blame godaddy when it goes down.
Don't understand ssl, blame godaddy when you make mistakes.

GoDaddy are freaking excellent! for domains that is. All other services are crap, and if you bothered to actually check your facts, read some reviews, you would know that.