skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OTOH, disk space is cheap and if you ever re-install the app in the future your old prefs will still be there.

(My name is wmf, and I'm a data pack rat.)
Do it, book a flight right now. Nothing is stopping you, go on!
you can expect huge increases in prices[...]

We cut the prices of our 2GB and larger slice offerings, along with announcing IP failover, and removing the mandatory 3-month prepayment on signup.

[edit]

Oh, and cause we keep forgetting to announce it. If you have private IP addresses on any of your slices, new slices will automatically get built with a private IP.
Broadband prices per megabit around the world
You can always do a country lookup from APNIC that will give you all of the IP's assigned to China (or any other country that regional registrar manages).

http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/ipv4-by-country.pl?country=CN

I wrote a script a while back that parses that list and creates an access-list for country blocking. Maybe I'll put it online one day.

At least that's how us network folk do it.
So you're point is that it's useful? No need to post, you can just moderate unalone up.
Ah, good old Gilder. From prophet to almost forgotten. I remember reading some articles about him in some old web magazine.

High tech used to be more exciting when it barely worked.

Gilder was also connected to Milken, the king of junk bonds.

[additional] What Gilder was talking about wasn't YouTube. He was talking about Milken financing MCI to billions, to lay down fibre. Fundamentally connecting people to the Internet. YouTube assumes MCI existed and was well funded.
Also check out the way QNX merged the traditional Unix /usr/bin directories with app packages, with a Plan 9-like virtual filesystem: http://www.qnx.com/developers/articles/article_920_1.html
The iPod product line turns seven years old tomorrow. Its share of unit sales is 70%. Its share of dollars in the MP3 player segment is 84%. The industry doesn't appear to have "caught up" yet.

Mac OS X turned seven in March, although perhaps it didn't really start taking over the world until 10.2 or 10.3, in the 2002-2003 timeframe. The "shine" has not faded. Market share is growing. Microsoft tried to "catch up" in the shininess battle with Vista, but they swung and missed. The Linux desktop has a core audience but is conspicuously lacking in "shine" and has so far posed little threat to the Mac's market.

So my best guess is that the iPhone platform has at least five years of life in it, maybe more. Maybe much more -- based on what we've seen with Apple's other products, iPhone has a very good chance of being a dominant platform in its niche for five years or more. It even has a finite chance of becoming the basis of a Microsoft-like multi-decade monopoly.

You can, of course, argue that the hype around the phone will never last that long, just as the hype around Macs and iPods is now over: The "special and new" has become the "standard and expected". That sounds about right. But there's a lot of money to be made in being the dominant vendor of a boring industry standard. Just ask Microsoft.
Charting iPhone vs. BlackBerry growth
We use and love both companies.
nice find, but i'm wondering the difference between this and cloud sites
A bit unrelated to your actual question, but your perception of the blogosphere is not really true. One of the companies that got funded in the most recent FbFund round is friends of mine, and even that level of coverage hardly 404'd their site. Don't count on it being so easy to get more traffic than you can handle ;-)
I understand where you are coming from, and I would like to share what worked for me. I just finished university, and have been in 3 startup situations so far, none of which have gone anywhere. That's not to say I didn't learn some very valuable lessons. In fact, I learned things in these failed startups that I might not have learned any other way. In addition, I am still alive, and stronger for having walked through the fire a few times.

I think the most important thing for someone like you is to start generating momentum. Let me explain how you might go about this.

1. There is no mistake, only make.

Build stuff. Fail. Just make sure you fail quickly and cheaply. If you actually bring an idea to life you have succeeded no matter what happens. You will have seperated yourself from everyone else who has ideas but never acts. Ideas are just ideas if no one does the tough, painful work required to actually execute them. Like a young piano prodigy the more you can practice actually building stuff the better you will get.

2. Go to events.

Talk to other entrepreneurs/programmers/designers about what they are doing. Ask lots of questions and learn. It's tough to learn anything if you never keep your mouth shut.

3. Learn about business.

I realize some people on this site are code-centric, but in reality it's only one piece of the pie. You will be better off if you read and understand what makes good businesses tick. Everything from branding, copy, and positioning to pricing, business models, and marketing. It helps to learn all of it. I would be happy to recommend some great books if you contact me.

4. Start learning about what people want.

Try and understand what makes people use particular web sites. Is it speed? ease of use? unique design? Copywriting? Branding? Or did the site take an old idea and put a unique spin on it? Perhaps you can take elements of certain ideas and combine, bundle, or package them in new ways.

This is getting way too long, but I hope anyone who reads this gets some value from this post. Feel free to contact me anytime. I would be glad to share any of the information or resources I have gained from years spent learning from advisors, mentors, books, blogs, and anyone at anytime.

Best wishes.

Dan H.
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How's that for vertical integration?
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I think godaddy is the best. If you are buying\selling then its easy to push names in and out of. The management is simple and the locking\unlocking is very easy. Price is king as many other features are commodities. Also having 24/7 phone support is great.
Calacanis: "Tough times, hard decisions at Mahalo"
Finally...TC reports something useful.
Seconded. Obviously you don't want to work on crap, but keep in mind that Google was supposed by many to fail based on the existing maturity of the search market:
http://www.bvp.com/Portfolio/AntiPortfolio.aspx

Some of the ideas you've tossed aside were wins.

For that matter, just start writing down every idea you have, whether you think it's good or not. Keep track of your batting average. Keep track of the kinds of things you were right on. Obviously a long-term trending thing, but probably useful at some point in your future.
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Is there a particular reason underwater is in quotes here? It IS an (insane) underwater startup. The fact that it is underwater does not need to be quoted. I think people have completely lost touch with what quotation marks mean.

Sorry to be nitpicky, but I am getting tired of seeing completely wrong uses of quotation marks everywhere.
As someone who used to avidly read and devour these personal development sites/books to "better myself", it took me a few years and occasional personal disappointment to realize that the only thing you need is to do the best you can each day and you'll learn all these lessons on your own. You improve because you're doing your best, and you accept yourself because you know you did the best you could at the time (even if that was failing).

No amount of reading and thinking about becoming better will teach you these self-development lessons, only by DOING and FAILING will you learn.

So if you're an entrepreneur that feels you have a laundry list of weaknesses to improve upon (as I did), mentally tear it up, focus on your strengths and just do the best you can each day. There's no problem getting some occassional guidance to work on an identified weakness, but following these sites that love to churn out self-improvement articles only wastes time you could be doing and learning.
The Internet, invented 1934
"You can branch and merge easily with SVN, too."

That's the nicest thing I've heard anyone say about SVN ever.
Whoops, sorry. Changed. I don't know if there IS such a thing as "Rackhost."
This is almost certainly true, but the transformation is going to take more than a few years. It's probably not a great idea to start a company today that burns money with current bandwidth costs, but would hypothetically thrive in a world of dirt-cheap bandwidth. It could certainly pan out for you, but a lot can go wrong between now and some unknown point in the future.
Hey, I wonder if I know anyone that built something and sold it to Yahoo!?
Does religion--any religion--have a place in video games?
Heh, I was actually thinking the same thing when I read it. Objective and informative. I had to make sure I was still on TC.
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I'm pretty sure most grocery stores do this in one form or another. Any stored branded product is not made by the store.
Open source it please!
'Deliberate Practice' is what Easterners might call 'Kung Fu', while we Westerners often associate the concept with Chinese Martial Arts, I think the East associates this term in a much broader context whereas Kung Fu is used for describing much more than just martial arts.
Yeah, some printers are still pissed after getting their Internet access cut off: http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/
Is there a source for this? Or is this all you?
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Check out http://www.ideatagging.com and see if one of the ideas there grabs you.
You mean car-e-t ;)

(carat is a measure of gold purity)
Fixed!

http://tinypaste.com/pre.php?id=fef80
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That is good news too! Congrats to you guys, I've been nothing but impressed with slicehost and can't wait to bring you more business!
Now this one is interesting ... mainly because JD is designed to work with S3–which is clearly a competitor to Rackspace now.

I wonder how RS plans to change JD in the future.
Exactly. Their API for me is the distinguishing factor that means I can build SaaS-based offerings on top of them, and at a more affordable rate than EC2 as well. You don't necessarily need the horsepower of a full 24x7 EC2 instance, and a basic $20/mo slice can do a lot.
The bubble graph is way cool !

Besides it's a really good way of looking at data over time.
Slicehost puts their rates where everyone can see them. I can't find them with a quick look on Rackspace.

What's "competitive"?
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Ruby nerds have a good group going:
http://groups.google.com/group/dallasrb?pli=1

Refresh Dallas usually has good turnout; topics are a mixed bag for a non-designer, but entrepreneurial people, in general:
http://www.refreshdallas.org/

I heard this is a good book for sparking creativity:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0911121005/

In general, I look at new forms of identification, communication, and connection. The network is the overwhelming source of value, and any way to translate between meatspace and online is worth thinking about.

Fundamentally, what will excite you to work on depends on you. A great idea to me may not be to you. What do you care about? Why? What problems are there around those things?
Get in touch with John Erik Metcalf. He's starting a seed incubator in Austin, and I'm sure he can introduce you to some stellar companies in the area.
Ask YC:  What live chat solutions do you use?
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I think Chris Anderson meant that Gilder was correctly anticipating a company like YouTube: one that would "waste" bandwidth.

The people who could capture that revenue model would win, and did.
I don't know why people don't just use Zip files.
I have read Dr. Vikram Sarabhai's biography(http://www.geocities.com/hari_ghk/vikram.htm) and in my opinion, his hard work has paid off. Also, most of top 20-30 Indian companies might be paying taxes more than $78 million each year, so we can easily say that the program is not a burden for most of us...
As a geek, as an Indian, as an techno-historian, I am aware of how much of sacrifice people made to make this happen(eg: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/11/18/stories/200...). Great work!!
Gah! Don't give them any ideas!!
So he fired people based purely on hunch and speculation rather than reacting to concrete information he actually had.

That's a recipe for success!
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." -- Calvin Coolidge
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I was also suprised by how bad mosso was when I tried it a few months ago. Slicehost is such a great breath of fresh air compared to it.

Case in point: mosso's control panel rarely worked. Not once did I manage to see a list of my databases. But look at slicehost's control panel. It is by far the best I've seen, and believe me I've seen many.

So for now, color me skeptical.
It has any place that the developers want it to have. Games aren't actively secular, just as they aren't actively religious.
Didn't know a service like this existed. Perfect solution!
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Too bad the API is still "coming soon", but it is good news that they're working on it. I'd love to have access to that data without having to log in, and to build apps around it.
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It sounds like you're just adding another dimension to the equation.. "team talent" might be appropriate. Of course it should be assumed team talent does not grow linearly with the sum of the team's individual talents.
There needs to be a term for the kind of agenda-less company founded by those with nothing to prove and no personal need for enrichment. "Sandbox corporation?"
JungleDisk uses Amazon's S3...
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You underestimate steroids.
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My answer seems to differ from most people here.

I do all sales and support once per day, first thing in the morning, getting the mailboxes to completely empty. I then glance at the mailboxes a few more times during the day, but don't send any more replies till the next morning. The only exception is if there's an urgent issue or serious bug.

This works for me because:

* I can concentrate on productive work (building new features) most of the day without serious distraction. If I were to reply to emails all day long, I'd get far less done.

* In my experience, users put that little bit more effort into solving problems themselves, if they're given the motivation to do so. They read documentation and FAQs. If you reply to emails within half an hour, you'll often find yourself in a lengthy back-and-forth that takes up a lot of time.

This second point might sound like heresy in a world where the customer is always right. But it's not so bad to lose customers whose opportunity cost in time is greater than their revenue is ever going to be worth.

While a small minority of users are unhappy to wait more than an hour or two for a reply, a guaranteed 24 hour turnaround is still pretty good compared to large companies.
I've been using email for my main company, which isn't great. Just finished putting together the new support system, which is still email-based, but also logs everything in a private ticket system and texts if there's an emergency.

Response time: it varies, but it's definitely good to send a "hey we're looking into it" canned response so their issue is acknowledged. It would almost be worth it to have a few of those prepared and auto-reply within 10-20 minutes with one...
Another old people complain about young people story. Its bull. Never in my life have I had the luxury of feeling entitled, and my parents are well off.

Its older than Christ, "Times change and men decay." Or at least thats what the old people think. Maybe I should go dig up the last twelve stories submitted here with the same ridiculous premise, and we can be done with this once and for all.
You could get the same knowledge from watching a video.
Editor IDEa: disguise emacs as a WYSIWYG editor/game; once the user has entered a discrete amount of characters the editor will take away some WYSIWYG key-stroke function while substituting it for an emacs key-stroke.
It seems that Rackspace is going to turn Slicehost into "Mosso Cloud Servers": http://cloud.rackspace.com/cloudservers.jsp

If you read "Included with Every Cloud Server" it reads just like the Slicehost homepage including this gem: "Slicehost management portal for reboots and software installs".

I'm wondering whether Rackspace will keep around the Slicehost brand (ala HP/Compaq) or just put everything under the Mosso brand. I am excited for the possibility of an S3-like storage system under the same roof as Slicehost. Maybe Amazon will start thinking of making lower-powered EC2 instances to compete with Mosso?
Starts driving out other think tanks by bundling thoughts with Windows.
is this for real or what

BULL
CRAP
He's a great business mind but a seemingly terrible leader. If I hire someone I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure they keep their job (provided they are doing their job and doing it well).

All he's doing at this point is contributing to and prolonging the recession by firing people. In the long run, firing 10% of the workforce isn't going to be the life or death of the company.
annnnd, you see what I mean...
The fact that it was submitted yet again and hit the front page should be evidence enough that we'll never be rid of it.
bingo!!! you said it :)
Any chance you could double the storage limits for the smaller slices?
Fascinating... I'm definitely interested in seeing what comes out of that "think tank." I also agree with the "Sandbox Corporation" classification... maybe shortened to "Sand Corp" or just "Sandy"....

Personally, I think its likely to turn into something like an incubator for businesses that are in Gate's area of interest (such as those areas the Gates Foundation focuses on, only for-profit). Then again, maybe I'm just hoping... =P
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What an obnoxious attitude.

"They want to be treated like colleagues rather than subordinates"

"They would renege on a job-acceptance commitment if a better offer came along."

"Millennials also expect ... time for their family and personal interests."

None of that sounds like a sense of entitlement to me. This is the third or fourth article I've seen on this meme. Are corporate managers really that outraged that people in their 20s want to be treated like human beings?
Being in India is like being in Mexico and being in California..Depends on which part of India you visit...
NYT Co. claims 50 million uniques in September
Fortunately those files don't take up a ton of space. I've got an Application Support directory that I've migrated with me for about 4 years now, and it's just now at 1 GB.
am I the only one that thinks phpBB sucks?

No, you're not! That can be his idea: build a better BB
i was purely referring to the hype, not to the platform itself. i'm sure the platform itself will be around for quite a while.
While I sure there are a lot of "entitled" feeling people entering the work force, and frankly some of the examples they provided are simply idiots, I think the article is really missing the point.

The employment field has changed dramatically. You are VERY unlikely to work at the same job in the same company until you retire. Companies aren't supplying reliable pension plans. Many hot fields aren't unionized (I'm not saying unions in their current US form are good, but it's a big shift from the work my grandparents were doing) so you have much less job protection (this in many ways is actually a good thing, imho). You're also often expected to work in excess of 40 hours per week. Many fields have common 50-60+ hour work weeks, on the same salary. In short, companies are giving less, are less loyal, and are asking for more.

At the same time, in many new job fields, it's been discovered that you can work smarter, not longer. It's been proven that flex-time, working from home, lax dress codes, etc... don't always hurt productivity and success. In many cases it improves it.

It's not that I feel entitled to anything special. It's just that I've made a choice to not spend 60 hours/week wearing a suit in a grey cube under fluorescent lights, filling out TPS reports (I did that for a few months, and quit). Thankfully the employment field has supported my choice.

A lot of the requests make sense:

Waiting 6-12 months to get feedback on how you're doing at your job (as perceived by your boss and coworkers) is silly. Short iterations improve quality.

Having to dress a certain way if you don't interact with clients who are expecting a suit, is a waste of money and makes many people uncomfortable physically or with their appearance.

If listening to music while you work makes you happier and/or more productive, it would be foolish not to. If it (or anything else) makes you less productive then that's something for your boss to deal with you individually on.

"They want to be treated like colleagues rather than subordinates". Really? Who wants to be treated like a subordinate? I mean honestly, who WANTS that? If you don't have mutual respect with people you spend 40+ hours/week with, why would you want to be there?
This is one of the big reasons I did not give Rackspace a second look. If you're price is not in plain view I assume you're too expensive. I have no idea why companies do this.
We don't have any plans to change the plans right now.
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Useless mathturbation. Countries with higher peak rate lines show lower prices. A more interesting presentation would have been "lowest cost of a line of at least Xmbps" for X=0.05,0.25,1,10.

Somehow I don't think I'll be able to buy a 3mbps line for $1/month in South Korea.
This sums up my thoughts far better than my rambling comment:

"Are corporate managers really that outraged that people in their 20s want to be treated like human beings?"

Exactly!
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Glad someone did.
Tough times ahead for Silicon Valley?
This was just an excuse to lay off people.

If Calacanis was 1/4 of awesome as he thought he was, or the people he hired were 1/2 as good as he says they are, or he had 1/3 as much money as he says he does, he would have done everything in his power to keep these people including reducing his own salary to $0.
The bottom line is the bottom line: SliceHost lowered the prices of 2GB+ slices today.

I understand your frustration. That phrase has gotten as nauseating as "Web 2.0". However, they can say "cloud computing" as often as they like if I save $10 every few words.
how can you be passionate about that... :/
Gah. I hate the new design.

new features are great though.