skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the hate for Godaddy? It probably starts with them being on the wrong side of so many issues which are connected to SOPA and abusing their power as an infrastructure provider.

Examples:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070125/102430.shtml

http://slashdot.org/story/06/06/17/1319233/GoDaddy-Holds-Dom...

http://www.slyck.com/story1053.html

http://domainnamewire.com/2007/02/27/godaddy-deletes-domain-...

As a registrar they are not supposed to be actively doing anything to their customers. They should be responding to court orders. They take it upon themselves to act as judge and jury quite frequently. Just because they've recanted their position on SOPA doesn't mean the company has turned a corner in the slightest. There is a clear pattern to their behavior and that is one reason why so many people dislike the company.

There are a bunch of other reasons such as their marketing tactics, their former ceo/primary stakeholder's behavior, and their UX to name a few I've seen commonly cited.
The people I'm talking to are moms, dads, students, photographers, recent graduates, old friends from high school in rural Pennsylvania, relatives, people at the place I get my hair cut ... okay, admittedly I get my hair cut in San Francisco, and I talk to privacy advocates as well. It's not unanimous by any means, plenty of people still think it's just fine, but if they lose even 5-10% of their usage and/or engagement over the next quarter they'll have a real problem getting the IPO valuation they want.

Inability to use buggy poorly-designed extremely complex software correctly is not evidence that people don't care. I'm a software engineer and security guy and deal well with complexity and even so I haven't been able to figure out how to keep my profile both visible to the people I want to and secure without devoting way more time than I have available. When I tell people that they often respond "oh thank god it's not just me".

It's not just privacy; it's the whole pattern. The constantly-changing UX is a huge deal to a lot of people, and so is the general attitude of "you're the product" and Zuckerberg's non-apologies.

Agreed that Google+ botched their short-term chance but it has decent usage and now has a much better first-user experience so if people react badly to Timeline, there is an alternative. In any case Google+ has clearly shown there's pent-up demand for a Facebook alternative. They'll keep investing in any case, and there are plenty of other options coming along. I talked about this back in September in "In Chaos there is Opportunity" http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=3163
"When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
- All the President's Men (1976)
The one thing that reading it made me realize is that I'm not a lawyer -- although from my crude view it seemed that it could be abused, and seemed to favor those with the means.
Does anyone here have any idea what they mean about naive C and python solutions? Normally I take 'naive' to mean 'bad but not wrong', but their question seems to imply that one or the other of the 'naive' solutions they have in mind is wrong, and I'm not sure what obvious way there is to write it wrongly in one of the languages and produce different results.
The GoDaddy victory is a red herring
Nope, 1279$ * 98% up time * 24 hours a day * 365 days a year = 11.2 million a year. Now, you can workout the HW split on an actual super computer but my guess is its' not that far off on raw compute power but has terrible interconnects and zero resell value.

The real question is why did they not just buy time on an actual super computer? My guess is super computers tend to have interconnects that cost a lot of cash and are overkill for many workloads. So amazon is probably cost competitive for their workloads and more importantly more flexible.
The voting booth is certainly in play as a proxy, as you pointed to.

But it'll be hard to convince politicians that the voting booth is in play directly. In fact, after seeing Lessig on the Daily Show last week, it'll hard for me to be convinced:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/lawre...
A mere 1000-core cluster should cost a smallish fraction of a programmer's hourly rate. How to use this power to improve your productivity by at least that much? I've been wondering this for awhile.
I was thinking, we can safely assume theres a lot of start-up CEOs/founders/whatevers around here. What if all of these companies prominently displayed dissatisfaction with SOPA. Wouldn't this be an immediate, effective way to reach the uninformed masses?

If PG can involve politics in his company, why can't you?
The way I read your announcement was that if GD doesn't retract support, CB will move.

Now that GD claims to have retracted support, will CB stay with GD or is the move on regardless?
The obvious idealistic response being.. would you want to work somewhere that showed such shallow thinking?
Your description is a terse list of techno-babble that will baffle my mother. I still don't know what a stream is. Or clear read. Or "casual" reader integration. Basically every sentence is a mess. Explain your product to a non-technical human, then let her write the marketing blurb. This is why marketing people exist.
20-25 seems to be the norm in London. Unless you're a tube driver when you get 40, 35k and still complain.

I can't wait for the day all trains are auto pilot.
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Why I'm sticking with GoDaddy... for now.
That sounds like a terrible data center. If you count a server short circuit with some minor smoke as a fire I guess it's understandable. The server room should have Halon/Inergen or a similar system with smoke detectors.

Building your own solution to beat S3 is certainly viable but at this scale I doubt it.
I'm really happy with the talks. This will be the first year I'm attending PyCon and I'm very excited.

I like that most talks are either Intermediate or Experienced. Here are the number of talks by level:

Experienced: 20
Intermediate: 52
Novice: 23
That sucks. Do you not have serial console access to the server?
Great guy. I know he can do it. Millions of people on Mars is the right goal. Along with melting the poles, establishing a CO2 atmosphere, using plants to convert CO2 to O2 and thereby terraforming the planet. Mars, here we come.
To be fair to Emacs, Emacs had the key bindings it has for cut and paste, etc., long before there were such conventions for cut and paste.
I am left-handed too.

I have read Backbone.js source code, I have tried my hand at it, I have experience with WPF/Silverlight databinding (very close to what Knockout.js does) so I got the theory fairly easily.

My blocker was more seeing it in action to put all the pieces together.

Backbone lacks good documentation. I tried to implement it but I thought it was overkill for what I was trying to do. Knockout.js feels like it is doing most of the plumbing for me.
I use a paid email service (hushmail.com) and their domain (not a custom one on their platform). It's not foolproof by itself. But then again, I also can pick up the phone and call my company and know people who work there very well, so that's somewhat of an unfair advantage. Some places offer 'executive lock' features where they will have extra processes to verify and make changes to help keep your domains secure.

Fabulous and Moniker are the two that come to mind for executive lock feature. Fabulous caters almost exclusively for large portfolio holders and my personal favorite. Moniker is probably a bit more friendly for more 'normal' users.
"""However, that's exactly seems to be the case with some people here. I am reading about how people want to get other companies to drop GoDaddy to prove a point. And what point is that? That if other people/companies have a different opinion than yours, that they're automatically the bad guy and you need to do everything you can to beat them to a pulp?"""

Supporting SOPA is not "having an opinion" --in their own private home--, it's actively supporting and helping a legislation pass. Those kinds of opinions have consequences. GoDaddy's opinion (and lobbying) could have the consequence of a law passed. Why shouldn't it also have the consequence of them losing business?

So you are wrong here. This is not about "freedom of opinion", it's about political action, and fighting against society being forced into laws one does not approve. Not paying a company and suggesting others to not pay them either, is not bullying. It's exactly like suggesting people don't vote for a party you don't agree with.
I agree, that just should not happen unless the server was a complete lemon or badly assembled.
It is not that surprising. If you leave out all the snakes and all the ladders, the rolls-to-complete is 100/3.5, or about 28.5. So, it seems the average loss due to snakes is larger than the average gain due to ladders.
I can confirm damage control. I'm just your average nerd. 34 domains. Had some of them for over a decade. Transfered to NameCheap last night.

Just got a call/voicemail from Mandy from the Office of the [GoDaddy] President (480-505-8828) wanting to talk about my account.

I haven't returned the call yet. I bet others are getting this call.
I'm getting "The system cannot find the file specified." Anyone have a copy of the pdf or the fixed link?

Edit: Never mind, here is one:
http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/List%20of...

The previous link was about "Rouge websites," not "Rogue websites."
If you want to download them all with one click (works in Chrome): http://jsfiddle.net/nGatG/
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Then how do you explain the fact that after GoDaddy change their stance to oppose SOPA, people were still going on with the "who cares, lets get others to continue dropping them" (paraphrasing). Believe it or not, that attitude is still going on.

I believe that the moment they admit and change their stance, continuing to do so became a moot point. As I said, I'm still going to move my business off GoDaddy, but that's a personal choice at this point. Now that they're not opposing SOPA anymore (supposedly), why are people still trying to rally large companies to quit using GoDaddy? Clearly there is a problem here in my opinion.

EDIT: Clearly I'm not the only one who've observed this behavior, see: http://fredandrandall.com/blog/2011/12/23/why-im-sticking-wi... (from HN)
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Be extremely thankful you don't have to actually use their goddamn site for anything.
i think i could quite easily boycott hollywood. I would prefer to read a book any day of the week than induldge in that hype machine.
Hope this takes some load off his servers:

Edit - changed links to the s3 servers

Issue 1 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 4 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 5 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 6 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 7 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 8 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 9 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 10 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 11 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 12 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 13 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 14 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 15 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 16 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 17 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 18 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 19 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Thedebate - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?644hhgmk7ao8qgj

Startupstories - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vfhm4a6iqs2fj5j
I don't think it is that unrealistic to expect a shift away from TVs. In fact, number of households with a TV set is starting a downward trend which is accelerating.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/11/30/tv-ownership-declines/

It is certainly possible to buy DRM-free tracks, and indeed this should be encouraged. Creative commons music exists too. Movies are another matter, although I don't think discouraging people from movies altogether is too unrealistic, that could just be because I'm not big on movies in general myself.
That depends on how much hardware you want to spread it out on.
Many companies would have to hire a hadoop guy, then again some companies would have to hire a sysadmin to to run the Oyster solution. Build your storage to fit your company.
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermonthly-issue0{0..1}{0..9}.zip

Using "{0..1}{0..9}" instead of bash 4's zero-padding brace expansion.
leasing is a pretty huge commitment...I'd only do it for a car like this if the leasing companies allowed trading leases through sites like leasetrader etc
How about Emacs for Android?

Apropos of nothing, "WINE" stands for "WINE is not Emacs".
I am so concerned about all the other work that has to be done that I tend to fall on the other side of the spectrum; get the design to an 'acceptable' place and move on.

My attitude is something along the lines of 'If you're not freaking out, you're not working hard enough'

That said, I still havent launched publically, mostly because of all the 'details' of which you speak (core product works but is ugly).
Glass Pipes
www.GlassPipeConnection.com is your one stop shop for glass pipes.

Glass pipes are not only smoking devices they can be pieces of artwork. There are many different types of glass pipes on the market including mini glass pipes, Sherlock glass pipes, glass bubblers, glass water pipes, and animal glass pipes. Usually the higher the price the better the quality. Many cheaper pipes are easily broken. Glass Pipe Connection has a huge selection of unique, quality pipes.
Mars atmosphere is not that problematic. Melt the poles with nuclear reactors. This creates a CO2 atmosphere. Then use plants to convert CO2 to O2. Now you have a breathable atmosphere, and more heat trapped and thus a more temperate climate. Mars is particularly cool because you can actually terraform it without having to resort to unobtanium. Other planetary bodies and moons locally, not so much.
I tend to agree. If we're screwing up the atmospheric conditions on this planet as bad as we are _by accident_, there's no telling what we can do when we get to Mars and actually put our minds to it :P
Because, in their own words, they worked closely with legislators to craft the bill. Their damage control is just that; their flip-flop is just due to the pressure and not the result of some revelation on their part.

There's a difference between piling on someone after they admit they're wrong, and discontinuing business with a company after they are forced to recant a very unpopular statement. GoDaddy does not deserve your empathy. They are a company who worked hard to get this legislation passed. They are doing what is in their financial best interest now, not acting according to conscience.
Venus has way too much atmosphere to support life as we know it, Mars has way too little, while Earth's is just right...

Tell it to anaerobic bacteria )))
Agreed, this is hardly surprising and the over inflammatory title is highly unfair.

If you add more information to Facebook then of course this will be improving the appeal of the platforms to advertisers, don't like it? Stop using it. It's not like there selling your address and phone number which MANY brick and mortar companies would do given the chance.

I get to use a great product without having to put my hand in my wallet, Facebook can continue to grow as a business, the end product improves.
Argentine government wins control of newsprint
Ask HN: What do you use for time tracking
As a freelancer, its important that I accurately track and bill my time. I think a lot of us end up guessing about time on projects and tend to under-bill.

What do you use for time tracking?

(I am writing an app that 'solves' time tracking in a new way and am trying to determine which services I should target for integration. Currently supporting Harvest, what else is important?)

Please post the name of your time tracking weapon of choice so we can see whats popular.
What's wrong with Venus' atmosphere?

I understand that it's extremely unfriendly to Earth's life forms, but life could be based on different chemical elements?

How do we even know that Venus does not have life?

Venus could even have civilization at the technical level Earth had it until couple of hundred years ago and we still wouldn't know about it.
I'm surprised to discover Hacker Monthly still exists, after the iPad app simply stopped serving up new issues 7 months ago. What's that about?
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Well, that made me chuckle, and I can't disagree. But to the other comment's post, it never lost anything for us.

Thank goodness we didn't need to do any branching.

So perhaps we can think of RCS as first gear, VS as second gear, CVS/SVN as third gear, and git as fourth gear?
I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time.

When I consider this, I have enough backlog of reading and (legitimately free, e.g. SICP and the like) online videos in my mental queue to do so. I might -- really -- be better off for doing so.

I haven't formulated a well-worded proposal and scenario/approach to share, but I would suggest working towards an opt-in mainstream media blackout -- or brownout, for those who can't opt-out altogether (and that includes me as far as needing to keep up with the news and maintain an ISP connection that doesn't have a viable alternative).

This will seem too extreme to many. But I encourage you to stop and think for a minute or five what a month or two's "brownout" would look like for you, and for media companies currently trying to ramrod through SOPA et al.

Let them see what it really looks like when their U.S. (and other) revenue stream "dries up", for real -- as opposed to their claims of losses. Particularly right when they're foisting this crap on us.
I actually think the reversal shows a complete lack of spine and only steers me away from GoDaddy even further.
At the that scale, CPU and developer time are mostly orthogonal. If you need to crunch 1000x more numbers, you won't be able to program your way out of the problem. If your code is 1000x inefficient, it should be easy to optimize a bit. If you really need 1000 machines for just one hour, setup costs dwarf compute costs. If you need 1000 machines for a year, you will need someone to administer the work and wrangle the data.
6 domains for me.
Also, we're cheap. Really hope this works out in his favor and nets a few more signups. I'm interested to see the quality myself, as I've managed to hold off viewing or sampling any of these to date.
Desperation: Go Daddy calling customers, begging them to stay
From what I read, the database isn't "wide open". It's read-only and there's nothing juicy in it.

Also, a bit of NSFW stuff going on here if you dig too far.

Edit: It's not read-only, INSERT/UPDATE works.
Spend some time seriously getting used to the "weird interface" (I mean: really work at it. Throw out the arrow keys, remap control, and stop using other editors cold turkey) and I suspect you'll change your mind.
interesting that nobody posted Dropbox public URLs to the downloaded magazines.
I see this list being more of a point of interest, not a topic of opinion. It shows how entrenched GoDaddy is, even among us who think we should 'know' better. While I'm content to pay a few dollars more for a registrar I trust it's understandable why cash-strapped startups don't. Is it also possible that many of these domains were purchase via the Google Apps process, or other referral deals?
It's not read-only though. He mentions that INSERT and UPDATE work.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&...

This is a really embarrassing mistake on their part.
It's not read only, it's read, insert and update.
It would be really interesting to know how many domains were transferred yesterday. I moved 6 of my 9. On the other 3, I turned off auto-renewal so they'll just expire.
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also, range(1,20) rather than needing i+1 throughout your code
Yeah, I think his biggest donation was one of AWS/S3 bandwidth. Much appreciated, thanks, Lim, I hope this gets you many new subscribers.
Yes, that would a huge pain to require all Dropbox users to force-update to get new root certs. It will probably take a while until they are due to expire.
Sorry, if you read the page linked you'd see that that is not the case. It is open to SELECT, UPDATE, and INSERT. if it were SELECT only that would be read-only.

As it is, that's just stupid as any user can wantonly edit anything. I could trivially edit every level's author to be myself or do intensive operations which result in a DOS.

The only smart way to give clients access to a database is through some sort of frontend entirely under your control which prevents them from having the user/pass and sanitizes the queries.

Edit: Whoops, while I typed this multiple other people did the same. Sorry for the redundancy.
Yes, I replied to my comment and even updated the original comment indicating that I was incorrect.
A4 Untethered Userland Jailbreak Done
Here is the latest news on the A4 untethered userland jailbreak that is already finished and now it's handed to Chronic dev team to be tested for bugs
Human colonization seems more of an ego driven activity to me. If we really want to get serious about learning about our universe we'll start sending many more robot probes.

I for one don't see why anybody rational would want to live on Mars. All in all Earth is pretty sweet for humans. A martian colony I guess might make sense for mining but frankly you'd have to be pretty hard up economically to agree to go work there...
Seems like perfect work fodder for me - If I manage to remember in the morning I'll be looking to sign up.
It also works with a as 7.
Everything is on S3 now (but thanks anyway).
API Management Service Provider Roundup for 2011
Djangolint
I've moved from att to sprint, not really that much of a change, but it's not att. I've moved from godaddy to networksolutions, and I'm on sonic.net for my home dsl, and I've not had regular cable service since 2002.
I'm also working at a fringe game company and I dont use photoshop or any other adobe anythings and I try to use Modo or blender for 3d whenever possible. Maya and max are hard to get away from...

I wish i could say we used ubuntu, but that's just on my personal laptop... :-\
Harvest here
A threatens to shoot B. B is armed, but has no chance because C is also aiming a gun at B.

D-Z take out C.

B has a better chance.
New dress collection
Was having some problem on AppStore in-app purchase submission (before Newsstand). Update to the app (along with new issues) coming soon.
bribe anyone
Or upload to s3 and send out torrent links to it to save bandwidth costs.