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Maciej has posted a spreadsheet of the technical costs for running Pinboard: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/09/the_costs_of_bookmarking/

Also keep in mind Pinboard's optional $25/year fee for archiving copies of your bookmarked pages.
Regardless of how decent Google's AppEngine documentation is, this is indeed a bug.

The correct behavior would be to recalculate the indices just once, instead of reindexing after every single delete operation.

It then becomes

2*entities + 2*indexed property values + composite index values

operations to delete all entities in the datastore, instead of

2*entities + 2*entities*indexed property values + entities*composite index values

operations.
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Is there a comprehensive solution like godaddy? I've seen people talk about solutions involving stringing together registrar, DNS, SSL certs, hosting, email, etc but I (and I imagine a lot of godaddy customers) would like a single point.

In fact, I'd venture to guess that there would be strong demand for such a solution, even if it used AWS or google apps in the backend and even if it costs more than the sum of the individual pieces
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A lot of people will pay for fun, but other people will pay more for productivity crap that works for them, that gets them more wealth (time, money) to have fun.
The thing I can't help but wonder is whether the average NFL or ESPN viewer would just sit tight if they knew their internet was about to get a lot more limited and/or expensive?

My point is that if the law is really as bad as we think it is (and it is), then defeating it shouldn't be more than a problem of explaining the law to people. And the Gandhian in me can't help but wonder whether simply informing them is enough?

"Dear America. ESPN & the NFL are about to take away your free porn -- love, Google"
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I think that you are giving people too much credit. Switching domain registrars has virtually no impact for those who register domain names. Not watching certain movies or television shows or having to avoid certain video games is asking too much of most people.
That would take 25% of the per unit price for a start. Then there's the lack of control.
Why wouldn't the next version of the Fire run Windows 8? Here's three reasons:

1. Microsoft's not likely to let Amazon put Amazon put Windows 8 on the next Fire for free.

2. Microsoft will be running the app store for Windows 8 tablets, not Amazon (BTW, do we even know what the in-app purchase rules will be for Windows 8? If they're at all Apple-like, that's a dealbreaker by itself).

3. Windows 8 is likely to have more demanding/expensive hardware requirements than Android
The gov't already does this with off-label promotion of prescription drugs. A doctor is allowed to prescribe whatever they want for a patient, but pharma companies can't promote a drug for a condition that the FDA hasn't approved it for.
Thanks Steven! It is cool to hear about how others have done things. Our company is pushing a SaaS+ -- cloud based, technology enabled service. It fits an enterprise sales model. My team will need to do some client hand holding at times during a post-sales integration phase as well as wear another hat to do development work as needed (until we grow enough to separate dev team from the client integrations team).
That about... what if he was a spy? You kind of have to leave well enough alone at that point.
I had a similar experience when Dyn.com suspended my DNS hosting after a complaint from Amazon about a "phishing" link on my site (it was actually a legitimate Amazon affiliate link). My site was inaccessible while I scrambled to move my DNS entries elsewhere. Even though I have a premium account with Dyn, I was never given any sort of notification beforehand, and it took 5 days of pestering for them to finally reinstate it. Meanwhile, all I got from Amazon was a half-hearted apology from their affiliate customer service rep.

Really, who needs SOPA when companies can shut down websites just like that?
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It is possible to both know that the Google blog is hosted on Blogger and to find this disorienting. When I first saw google.com listed as the domain I initially just assumed it was official Google communication, temporarily "forgetting" that their blog is at Blogger. I did know this, but I did not think about it before I clicked the link.

Further, it may not be the case that it is better to email relevant authorities. If this gets posted here and is given a lot of attention by the community, it may cause said relevant authorities to sit up and think about the problem (albeit, again), which is a consequence that is almost certainly not going to be elicited by one more email from a single user.
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Thank you. Works like a dream on Chrome. Appreciate the www removal, too.

I actually really, really like it. If anyone cares to see, this is what my homepage currently looks like with this extension: http://i.imgur.com/qJ8KY.png

EDIT - Question to PG: why does "david.weebly.com" show up as a subdomain listing on the HN homepage without this, while other subdomains don't?
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I'd like it taken the full step further: don't strip sub-domains (so if we have a link to eep.posturous.com, display it as such, and not strip the 'eep').
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(i meant "did not" rather than "did" in paragraph 4 above. apologies for the confusion & for posting this but it was past the allocated edit time)
Many hosting companies offer all of these services, even if they handle domain registration through another company. All of the other services are offered together by hundreds of companies.
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As school teacher I think that "Introduction to programming" should increase motivation on further learning of programming.

About 10-20 years ago it was very simple task. Computers and programming were very exciting.

What has changed? Nowadays there are a lot of interesting and distracting factors like computer games, TV, Internet etc.

I think our primary goal is to make learning computer science more interesting and fun. It must be more interesting than computer games and TV. It is really interesting than computer games! We just need to show that for our students.

How can we do that? For example, at our school I have made 3D robots simulator which has own simple programming language. Students are programming virtual robot to reach some goals. It's like game. Also I have made "real" robot based on Arduino with IR sensors.

As a result I can see increased interest and motivation of my students.
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The first one wasn't. Odd form factor, thick, no PDF support. A great start, but "polished" it wasn't.
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Some people think "I didn't like it" means nobody should like it. I like my kindle fire, although I think I'd prefer a Ice Cream tablet next year. I like widgets and power and awesomeness. But just because I think I might like something else better doesn't mean I'm going to jump on a soap box.
Something something subset Lisp.
http://dribbble.com

Look around and contact those with "Hire Me" button in their profiles.
You are stating another reason more than refuting his. I'm not disagreeing with your reason but his point is that this is big from Congress' perspective as we can now safely say that there are 0 internet companies in support of this. Whereas before Congress saw a mixed signal they now see unison in one of our country's most important growth industries. And that is big.

And I don't know if you've transfered domains before but I didn't have a good time doing it. Though it was not difficult I think we've seen some tremendous overstatements in this thread as to how easy it actually works out in practice.

And for me at least it's not that it not difficult to not watch ESPN. People don't live in a world without choices -- usually when they buy Battlefield they are also considering MW3 or the Batman game. There are some die-hard fans but also a lot of us that like football but are perfectly happy watching an episode or two of Breaking Bad instead if that's on. The NFL needs casual fans too, and those are the ones we should think about when we think about boycotts. Of course it will seem hopeless if you think about the guy with his face painted blue but I'm asking you to think of the guy flipping channels at home.

You only need to sway opinion a tiny little bit to change things considerably -- this is why boycotts work so damn well. The hardest thing to get over the common cynical attitude that "people won't do it, therefore we should not try."

(you should check out some Gandhi -- he explains far better than I ever can why boycotts aren't just effective but arguably the most effective tool that ordinary citizens have, and also almost always much easier to execute than we think they are)
This is slightly off topic, but it's something I really hated about business school.

Sure J&J did a great job with the Tylenol poisoning case. However, they've lost over $1B in revenue in the last year or so because they consistently failed to produce drugs that meet federal guidelines. Not to mention the "unofficial recall" where they paid people to go into stores and buy up all the J&J products so that they wouldn't have to conduct an official recall.

J&J is probably the most messed up company right now.
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This is the douchiest post I've read in a while. I hope they enjoy their 15 milliseconds of fame they get from it before going back to their inevitable obscurity.
I've got a TonidoPlug (a little ARM computer running Ubuntu stuffed into a power brick) on my home network. As the sole computer that runs 24 hours a day (because I won't spend the electricity cost to run anything bigger), its jobs are:

1) "Off-site" backups of my websites and most critical databases. A nightly cron job updates svn repos, runs mysqldump to make database backups, and deletes backups more than a week old. Just a couple lines of code.

2) Streaming media server. The Tonido software (that runs on Ubuntu) includes a DLNA server to index and make available any media on the attached (2.5" USB-powered) hard drive as well as share the drive on the network. So I copy my music and other media over there and it becomes available on my TV via Google TV, my phone, and any computers on the network.
Lawyers go to great lengths to maintain honor in the courtroom. They learn in law school. It's just become so embedded in the practice that now its inconsequential.
Fantastic script, simple and does the job. three thumbs up!
To delete all entities should be free. Who cares about indexes? `rm -rf`, done.
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I use DNSMadeEasy, which is not free.

My second choice would be to use my hosts' DNS servers. Softlayer and Linode both provide full control of the zone files.
Facebook is responsible for the Javascript SDK, which is the issue at hand. The Javascript SDK is really the only SDK you couldn't implement yourself since it relies on undocumented cross-domain communication techniques.
Is Amazon going to have all of the developers for the Amazon Appstore switch tool chains and resubmit their applications? Develop some kind of clunky compatibility layer?
The newsyc iPhone app does this. It's nice.
Unfortunately, your budget limits you to "college-kid" level. But then again major city cost of living does not apply everywhere.
Tell HN: Startup or Shut Up 2012
The 2012 Startup or Shut Up Challenge

I'm getting tired of reading and not doing, and I'm ready to fail. Here's my idea:

Let's meet on IRC (or Skype, facebook, Google+, whatever) and throw our half baked ideas and orphaned domains into a hat, break into groups of 3 to 5, and start something(s). What do you have to lose besides a few hours? (don't worry, reddit and HN will still be here when you're done)

I've got some proposals for ground rules:

-MVP in 14 days, some sort of traction in 90 or fold

-Keep 'investment' to < $100 per founder
--if you don't already have a server, use a AWS micro instance or Appspot or Heroku or something
--for email, google apps for domains is free for ten users or less, don't waste too much time thinking about that kind of stuff.

-don't even think about things like company organization or equity until you have something viable

-no titles beyond "biz guy" or "python guy" or stuff like that.

-don't obsess about minutia: names, domains, jobs, he-said/she-said, etc

-Touch base with your team daily, if you can't do a live chat, email. Google+ Hangouts might be good for this.

-don't quit your day job

If this seems like something you'd like to do, awesome. I think a channel on freenode is a good way to start (i've registered ##startup2012). We can also just hash it our in the comments here on HN too.
I do that on http://ihackernews.com/
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Ask HN: Hacking for humanitarian work?
I'm a med student, and I'm working with some others in the Bay Area on an initiative called Ideas2Impact: www.ideas2impact.org. Our notion is that by bringing together young people with all sorts of different skills, we can hack together creative solutions to humanitarian problems in countries like war-torn Sri Lanka. We had our first event a few weeks ago, and through that we're starting to gather people in health care, engineering, law, business, etc... but I think there might be a HUGE opportunity for coders. Example projects would be: data visualizations of forced displacement of populations or hospital access, UIs for rural primary care telemedicine, Ushahidi-style real-time mapping of public health incidents via SMS, web-based communication between American physicians and over-worked doctors in war-affected regions, and more. Many ideas would probably take advantage of APIs provided by entities like Wikipedia or Google. Are there good suggestions on how to get in touch with developers/designers who might be interested in this sort of work? Would anyone in the HN community be interested? Thanks!
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In college, my girlfriend (at that point of two years) knew I was into incomprehensible theoretical math, but apparently I had never mentioned anything about computers or programming, which I was also pretty into.

One day we were both working in my room and a bunch of LexisNexis links she'd saved earlier just wouldn't work. She was on the verge of tears and panic — she'd spent days collecting these links, and now none of them worked. I said "lemme see" and sat down with her computer. I poked around with her saved links and tried some stuff on LexisNexis. Then I wrote a perl one-liner to munge her URLs. Voila: the munged URLs all just worked (the links had IP-based auth token that I just s///'d).

At no other point in my life have I been looked at with quite that degree of amazement and hero-worship.
I've always hated GoDaddy for their terrible advertisements but I've had decent service for them, so their support of SOPA was a reason for me to finally leave them. Maybe I'm not the only one that feels that way.
GE has said that the price of Solar Panels is _almost_ to the point at which they are prepared to enter the market aggressively [1] - and when they do, they will drive the price _down_ so as to increase market adoption to the point where very large manufacturing facilities make sense.

This crying over the increase in the performance/price curve seems somewhat ironic - if the Chinese Government has been actually providing subsidies to it's domestic manufacturers, it will have to really step up and start subsidizing american consumers as the prices drop further.

Some things make sense to manufacture in other countries.

This is good for American Consumers, and, as a result of Solar Energy Adoption (which is a hairs breadth of being less expensive than _non_ adjusted carbon files per kilowatt hour, just wait until we see a carbon tax) great for the environment.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20125872-54/ge-solar-panel...
> They can improve the software.

But not their first impressions.

I've heard this argument before (hell, even The Lean Startup advocates shipping a broken, backwards v1.0), but it's usually paired with meekness: grow slowly, so that by the time you reach a wide audience your quality is awesome and nobody's the wiser. Instead, Amazon's pushing the Fire 1.0 with everything they've got.

Shame, because Amazon probably could have pulled off the meekness strategy really well, too -- launch the Fire in December 2011 to a small number of hand-picked (Prime?) beta users, iterate, and launch the real thing in 2012.
I think that should apply for all domains, not only google.com, as well as for all sub-domains which are not www.
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Thanks. Your domain is owned by ENOM. The "service provided by Namecheap" part is not part of the record at Verisign.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/registry-data.jsp?doma...
Never heard of building aircraft (Boeing) as government subsidized. If you are talking about solar panels then yes.
I think you probably got lucky, but you're right that android knowledge is growing and and there now exists a good sized group of people who will specifically seek out an android phone when the time comes to upgrade. But for the large majority of people, their first android phone was purchased because they just wanted a cheap generic smartphone and that meant android. And for the large group of people that is still switching from feature phones to smartphones, android is still the default cheap phone, and iPhone is still the default premier phone.

Windows phone's target market is fans of windows phone, but they are trying to build that group exclusively through advertising. Apple built their market of apple fans through the iPod and other products. Android built a market of android fans through the cheap phones to feed sales of premium android phones. Windows phone needs a feeder market if it wants to be a premium product.
This is a case of copy getting too campy. It's ok to mix in some humor here or there, especially if it fits your target market. But given that this is a product focused on a professional market (CRM), this is an example of taking it outside the realm of something that speaks to your customers.
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Conference call services have brought people from different nationalities on the same platform where they can communicate and resolve issues or have a conversation on topics that matters to them.
Ahh, awesome. Do you mind if I add that to the post and give you a shout out?
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Nonsense. Go Daddy is a gnat compared to the content companies that support SOPA.

I have transferred domains before. It was trivial. You must not know many sports fans.

My argument was not that people should not boycott Go Daddy, only that people did it because it was not inconvenient.
Funny how Chicago gets such a bad rep, but I have no problem leaving the GPS in the car if I just turn it off (stupid how German cars still can't power down the 12V outlet when you turn off the engine.. that and cup holders.)

What would make for a great long-distance car here in the States would be the 335d. If you get the Model S in 2013 or so, a 5 year old 335d should be around the right price for the taking. I got my A4 chip'd as well, seeing the same mileage. Four dollars at the pump seems like a fair enough tradeoff for me (15 gallons at ~25 cents more).
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Honestly, I simply wasn't aware of the convention. Thanks for pointing that out.
And this is the opposite of what the founders would have wanted, I'd guess. The constitution mandates that powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved by the states. I'm no constitutional scholar, but I'm pretty sure the federal authority to regulate drugs was "found" in the interstate commerce clause as part of the food and drug reforms in the early 1900s. At the time, there were definitely problems but like all big government intervention the cure itself is now out of control and we now have an agency (FDA) that has its hands in about 1/4 of the GDP.
Stop imagining you're entitled to any of that information from any user, especially for free.
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not this guy again. this is the former Google intern who completely mischaracterized Android's UI rendering
No, I meant that Mountain Pass isn't going to be back in production until the end of next year. I should've said it more clearly.
I know a bunch of sports fans of all sorts but mostly I know me, and I know that I have a DVR & all kinds of netflix videos to catch up on that compete for my (damn-near-zero) entertainment time with the NFL. Personally I gave up the NFL as a result of this -- so maybe I'm a bad example. And I'm done with ESPN too. Really, I haven't noticed in the week that has gone by so far. And I love sports -- I'll watch NBA and MLB games and my life will be quite alright. I'll even play sports videogames & read about sports & watch sports news on television & I will do it without watching ESPN or the NFL.

So I'll give you that the freaks won't switch but I don't think you'll give me that the casual fans will if they associate the NFL or ESPN with these bad things.

Out of curiosity, would you be able to give up ESPN or the NFL or even one of those things? I'm not saying give up everything, but can't you see that if everyone who was upset even chose one company to boycott that it would do something?
I can't help but smile.

Cherry picked or not, every concrete example brought up in this thread (Burr/Hamilton, Cheney, and those I gave) is supporting my point of view. The opposing point of view (which I infer you support from your post) has not brought up a single supporting example, even though it starts at the inferior position (if you claim things were different, the onus is on you to demonstrate the direction, character and rate of change!).

Yet you dismiss those examples as being "outliers" and cherry picks given without diligence. Oh well. I am wrong in trying to arguing with people who care not about the facts. But I have a little time to kill, so it's ok.

I feel sorry for approximately half of the human race, and I sometimes have trouble determining which half that is.
The Javascript SDK is atrocious. I was writing a small score submitter for an HTML5 game I made (for testing, mostly), and they clearly don't care about their developers at all as the documentation is completely unorganized. I end up having to Google "site:developers.facebook.com x" just to find a function that fits what I want my app to do. Also, they refuse to update broken links to older pages and like you said, refuse to fix certain bugs that are clearly bugs.
1. Why not jump into something yourself rather than trying to form something with a bunch of random strangers? Honest question. This resembles a lot like a local startup weekend (not saying there is such an option wherever you live).

2. MVP in 14 days in some cases is unrealistic without even knowing what it is you're looking to do. Some ideas can be done in a day. Some require several weeks or months to get a few features done for a basic MVP. It all depends on the idea.