skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm skeptical of this claim. Registrars pay ICANN something like 7 cents a year per domain and they resell for $10+. That's a nice chunk of change there. Toss in SSL certs for at least that much, you're probably making decent money just on these alone. The hosting and other crap is just more services. I'd say low-end hosting is the loss leader here. Its a commodity industry.

I personally don't use them because I find their advertising extremely distasteful and find the UI to be worse than anything AOL has done in the 1990s.
I've used Namecheap for a couple a while back, and had no problems. Their online interface is quite nice and a lot better than GoDaddy's. I recently heard of some people saying their customer support isn't very good though, so that may be something to look out for.
Same here! I've been spending the past week trying to wrap my head around Backbone, but every tutorial seems so esoteric or specific. This is awesome!
I was talking about "Ron Maimon's heroic attempt" - though I admit that I'm not sure what the ... represents.
It's called VCGC.
You are giving the HN users too much credit.
I would add:

2) SEO tips
3) Get things done technique websites

to that list.
Whether or not the sky falls when SOPA is passed is moot. The hope is that the louder we are, the better chance SOPA has of failing to pass.
"So if a company starts infringing trademarks, polluting search engines en masse, tricking people into buying their rubbish"

eBay? also, already illegal based on trademarks, copyright, etc etc.

"What about people who DDoS attack you? Is that fine? No need to have any recourse there?" "How about those that hack DNS to dupe people into visiting their site etc"

already illegal

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from my understanding, SOPA is more about removing due process than making bad things illegal
Daily pickup could also lead to people throwing out more stuff because they don't have to ration their bin space.

Where I'm living in the UK, there's four bins: Plastics, glass, cans (collected once a month); Paper, cardboard, etc. (collected once a month); Green and food waste (collected once a week); General trash (collected once a fortnight)

In Germany and a number of other places, they go to the effort of getting people to separate green, brown, and 'white' glass, also.
What else should they be doing besides improving the product?

Office has millions of users. On one of the Office developers blogs, there was a mention of the accusations of "bloat". His response was something like "Do people think we just add code to Office for the sake of adding code? Features are added in response to customer demands."

Sure, not every release will have compelling additions for every user, and it's possible your goals are filled by an earlier version. The last two versions (2007 and 2010) have made it vastly more usable.
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You would not believe what some of my co-workers have achieved in Excel and VBA. Complete scheduling systems that tie in to three databases, complicated code that analyzes metal removal. And they don't consider themselves programmers.

The lack of programming knowledge mixed with VBA makes for an maintainability nightmare, but hell, they're doing a good job of Getting Things Done. I would love for Microsoft to replace VBA with a language that these people can still use, but is easier for a programmer to take over once the scope increases past the abilities of Excel. I'm not sure if javascript is that language (I think a C# derivative would be better), but it might be.
Those things are already illegal and SOPA doesn't address them anyway. I think the important point is that the internet should not be restricted in an attempt to preempt any criminal activity (because it won't work). Instead, the internet should be left alone, and those who choose to do illegal things on the internet should be prosecuted.
Even those websites should be allowed. Should we provide counter measures to help the user decide of a website is legitimate or not, absolutely, but their right to exist shouldn't be tampered with.
Yeah, the plugin architecture is cool. There's one for bundler, too: https://github.com/carsomyr/rbenv-bundler
I'd rather have topless quark theories than truthless quark theories!
Child porn is how .au passed their censorship stuff and it has quickly expanded. Child porn is already illegal and, in my opinion, doesn't need deep cutting censorship bills to combat.
Where are you getting that information? ICANN fee is $0.18 and then the registrars pay a cost for the domain to the company that oversees the TLD. For example, verisign oversee .com and they charge $7.34 per domain registration, so a registrar pays $0.18 + $7.34 as their base cost per .com registration.
What do the ellipses (...) signify in his answer? Does it just mean an arbitrary number of factorials, so long as it's the same for each number?
Another fun fact is that when you forward someone a meeting and add a snide comment to it, your snide comment gets sent to the organizer. I always wondered why people stopped liking me suddenly, then I realized that my private commentary about stupid meetings wasn't actually private.
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So, how SOPA makes anything better?
You cannot blacklist a botnet, right?
You cannot blacklist a scummer, as he would just setup another domain, right?
Who you can very well blacklist is a small guy with his blog giving a honest opinion about reality, right?
I know probably many people would agree with stopping "cheap fake goods", but can people really not distinguish between originals and fake products?

If anything I wouldn't be for a law that completely bans the cheaper versions of the original. I'd be for a law that only makes it illegal to say they are originals when they are not. But I would allow them to be sold in the market, as long as they state it's a "clone" product or something.

It might or might not hurt the big corporations (would the people buying the cheap clones really have the money to buy the expensive originals otherwise?), but I think it would be much better for the market overall
Hold on. In this post of yours (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3382000), you said:

> I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy

Here, you're saying you don't know whether to support the warrentless censorship of websites you disagree with. Why are you saying two different things?
If you decide to move your domains from Godaddy, and if your DNS is hosted there too, and if you have enough DNS records to not want to recreate them, there's an undocumented way to export the nameserver records from Godaddy to another DNS provider such as Zerigo. In a nutshell (1) upgrade to Godaddy Premium DNS ($35 but refundable within 5 days) (2) Export each domain's DNS settings (3) Cancel Godaddy Premium DNS. Now you can quickly import your DNS settings at your new registrar or DNS host if they handle importing of bind files. Not everyone imports nicely, but Zerigo worked for me. Details here http://pardner.com/2011/11/how-to-switch-dns-painlessly-from...
1. I don't think noting that flexibility doesn't overcome the stickiness of wages is enough to sink all of Keynesian economics.

2. There is no economic theory that has ever stood entirely on its original principles and made good predictions of how the economy works. Modifying and refining cases in response to real data is how all science progresses -- if I may be so bold as to suggest that economics could stand to borrow more habits from real science than the philosophy and morality that seems to have driven it for the last few decades.

To your actual view: I'm not sure how much a small bump in the minimum wage increases wage stickiness over the economy. Very few workers actually earn the minimum wage, and the difference between the minimum wage and average wage is still quite large.
Pascal was procedural, so was VB.. (pre .NET) even though it shared so much with COM/DCOM :)
I believe the EU is planning on updating the Data Protection laws, including giving people the right to actually delete their data.

cf. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO...
RIM has pretty deep enterprise integration compared to everyone else. Presumably they could leverage a lot of their existing software (on the backend - push, mail, messaging, etc) plus some great Android apps?
Careful, they'll autorenew those at a much higher price. Mine went up to $100+ when it renewed last month. I'm kicking myself for being stuck with that cert, especially since the GoDaddy badge isn't exactly the mark of trustworthiness.
Any recommendations on alternative services?
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This is not the intended use case for Excel. Rather, it's a product of 10 years of bad decisions leading to more bad decisions.

(Someone I work with created a "market data bus" using Excel. It had the side effect of preventing Outlook from receiving email while it was running, so you had to have two machines if you wanted to read email AND get market data via this method. Now that's shoddy software engineering.)
The Keynesian viewpoint is that the government should have used stimulus, printed money to spur moderate inflation, and so on. Essentially very aggressive action by the government to encourage economic growth.

The US government didn't cause the great depression, but they didn't prevent it either. Ultimately, as the US government started preparing for war spending increased massively and the economy recovered as a result, as Keynesian economics would predict. But even in the late 30s there were periods where the US government tried to balance the budget (and cut spending) and unemployment rose and and the economy got worse as a result.
I moved my personal 25+ domains away from GoDaddy to name.com and gandi.net. Best move I have ever done. I don't get shitty advertisements emailed to me anymore, I don't have to jump through hundreds of hoops to purchase renewals where I get bombarded with advertisements for various other services.

And name.com is a small company here in Colorado, so I am supporting local while I am at it.
"""I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy, but it's a moot issue. Browsers will just release new versions that use alternate DNS systems or get past any 'blocks'."""

I really can't stand this kind of stance.

Technical workarounds are NOT AN ANSWER to law/political problems.

At best, they are a kludge.

At worst, they get illegal, and some people end up in jail.

It's nice to have them, but only as a last refuge.

The number one priority is to have a sensible legal/political system, not to work around it.
Minimum viable product in this market will only compete at minimum viable price, and that's not where the margins are. Nokia is surely evidence of this.

RIM's emphasis on services and their brand recognition may help stem the tide for a while, but they desperately need competitive products.
I accepted your pull request - the link to the cdn is now in the readme. Thanks!
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Similarly, an American Sign Language sign takes longer to articulate than an English word (because signing uses larger, slower muscles than speech), but to compensate, a great deal of ASL grammar is carried by facial expression, posture, rhythm, etc., so the actual rate of communication is the same.
I know 3 of these companies are neither supporting or not support SOPA.

Apple indirectly is not not supporting SOPA publicly through their a patent coop they are on.
It's really interesting to read this. I had no idea it was John Bardeen who was instrumental in setting this up. Who knows how the world would have changed with Zerox pulled the trigger on commercializing PCs.
But it misses other issues:

- No discussion of "off balance" sheet government obligations, like pensions and entitlements. These don't count as "debt", as they aren't bonds, but they are long-term cash flow obligations that reduce resources available for debt service

- Likewise, no discussion of public sector compensation in excess of a position's productivity

- No discussion of economic growth rates, which expand the amount of debt a country can sustain

- No discussion of the role of low euro rates in private sector debt expansion. Markets presumed governments could and would bail out their banks, and thus didn't scrutinize bank assets for recovery values. (The graphic ignores financial sector debt, but that's debt _of_ the banks, not debt _to_ the banks.) The conflation of bank and government debt is a running theme in the euro crisis, see Sarkozy's remark that though the ECB wouldn't lend to governments it would lend to banks, and the banks would lend to governments, problem solved.

The graphic thus understates the sovereign obligations. By ignoring growth, it ignores the key variable driving differences in perceived debt sustainability. And by ignoring market preconceptions of government backstops for banks, it misses the role of the euro in those private sector debt levels.

The clue is this: why doesn't the graphic explain sovereign difficulties borrowing, evident in their rising yields? Bond buyers are saying that _governments_ won't be able to sustain their debts. That might reflect an opinion that governments will borrow unsustainably to bail out their banks. But then the solution would be to let the banks collapse and remove that possibility. But the governments can't do that because their economies are dependent on excess bank leverage for the growth they do have, and for the one source of financing they do have.

So if we agree the wicked bankers did it, we're saying that governments have been using excess bank leverage to hide the lack of fundamental growth, and extent of structural problems.

The truth is that the problem is excess leverage and spending in both public and private sectors.

P.S. It's the same story in the US, lagging by a few years and mitigated by our ability to print money.
I accepted your pull request and added some text about the plugin in the readme (and fixed a minor typo in the plugin header). Thanks!
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...except that would be illegal to do under SOPA
Assuming I understand your use case correctly, I think Knockout is what you're looking for:

http://knockoutjs.com/

I used it a fair bit last year and quite enjoyed it.
While I would never use them for domains, I did buy a $12 SSL cert back when everyone else was charging hundreds of dollars for the same thing. Before someone points me to a free SSL service, this was for an enterprise class application that was more about security theater than actual security. I was able to get away with GoDaddy instead of Verisign, etc. because my client used GoDaddy for their domains – go figure.
The problem with SOPA is not the technological weaknesses, but rather things like anyone can get any other site delisted from popular sources, without judicial process. How are technologists going to help with that? How many regular, not power users who can set up alternate DNS systes, going to enjoy that conundrum?
Nice to see Twitter has a sense of humor. "Lovingly crafted by bros" in the footer is a nice touch.
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Namecheap, if you can.
Looking for a good, cheap GoDaddy alternative that also has an API for scripting host name changes (yes, I host a server on my cable modem).
I just moved 5 domains to namecheap from godaddy. I used coupon code SWITCH2NC to get $1 off each domain I was transferring.
>All the Eurpoeans need to do is make the ECB a lender of last resort.

The problem with this solution is that it is specifically prohibited by the EU treaties (Maastricht, I believe). I would guess that this treaty change (which would require a referendum in Ireland) would be extremely unpopular in Germany and the Netherlands, the main payers in this situation.

That being said, Eurobonds are not specifically forbidden so I suspect that the Germans will relent on this after they've extracted their pound of flesh.
j3, I just wanted to say that I find your approach inspiring anyway. At least you and LS are doing something about this. Becasue it is an issue. All the companies want perfect candidates, but none is willing to take passionate people and just plain teach them.
"""No hibernate option, not that it always works in Linux."""

Actually there is a hibernate option, and it's enabled by default too. It's just that it's used only as a fallback (from normal "sleep" mode which is way better) when the battery dies.

OS X also saves to disk (hibernates) after you close the lid, so if when sleeping the battery dies, you don't loose anything. So, you get the best of both worlds --sleep for normal use PLUS hibernation as a (transparent to you) backup.
Resembles handlebars.js. Can someone point out the difference?
Great story. Can you add some detail on how much time you've dedicated to learning on a daily/weekly basis and how it fits into your family and work life?
Every objection to jury nullification also applies to prosecutorial discretion yet none of the folks objecting to JN object to PD.
I already moved all my domains after their CEO's elephant hunting earlier this year. That company is a pit of depravity.
Yes, I saw this, and I like how there is an opinion from the Rails community on how to structure Backbone code, but shouldn't the opinion be apparent on Backbone's website? My current Backbone is not backed by a Rails app (it is an existing backend in Perl), so I should not need to create a dummy Rails project to learn Backbone.
I like the idea, not so sure about the business viability on an individual household basis.

Even though urban areas are dense, your customer base can still be very spread out over many different buildings or neighborhoods. I think your best bet would be to try and market the idea toward landlords and building owners/managers. That's your issue in your home now I believe, if your building had big recycling bins in the trash room you could use it would be easy to recycle.

Right now it looks like your option is to stockpile your recyclables and make trips to your closest recycling center which is inconvenient.

That being said, I've lived in a small apartment before and it was fairly easy to recycle with 3 guys generating trash, even though the recycling "dumpster" was a long hike away. Break down the cardboard (cereal boxes!) and slide it between your fridge and the wall or stack it in an unflattened box,this saves an amazing amount of room in the bags, we went down to 1 bag a week or less for 3 people after doing this. hang some double-layered plastic shopping bags on your cabinet handles or something. We took the bottles and stuff out every week or two, rinse containers with water that will smell. (Soup cans, etc)
It's a minimum viable product.

I'm not sure that is true today. The enterprise fortress is crumbling around RIM, and BES was the anchor giving RIM some stability. As more companies allow people to bring their own device in, being a very weak competitor to iOS, Android, and Windows very likely will be too much to overcome.

I expect Microsoft to buy RIM in 2012 in order to integrate BES with Windows Phone. Blackberry's OS will be shuttered then.
Seriously people, use Gandi...

https://www.gandi.net/

They are so far removed from the kind of bullshit that I hear from other registrars I forget how bad some of them actually are. In fact that is their slogan - "No bullshit".

Not sure about the scripting interface though.
From the post: "protecting American consumers from the dangers that they face on-line"

Seriously? I dont need someone to protect me online. It's. It the Wild West. Who will protect me from the crap they sell on late night TV? Maybe we should put a stop to infomercials next.

I thought the supporters of this were supposed to be anti "big government". Seems like this bill is just imposing more government regulations.
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Firefox 9 JS engine is faster than Chrome
Just checked Sunspider 0.9.1 in Firefox 9 vs. Chrome 16, turns out Firefox is slightly faster (245.3ms +/- 1.9% for Chrome, 203.9ms +/- 1.1% for Firefox). Impressive!
I used to be very ambivalent about BB devices, until I spent some time recently using a BlackBerry 9900.

I'd read about the BlackBerry OS being behind the times, and outdated, but as I used the 9900, I just wasn't seeing it. The touchscreen looks and works extremely well, the OS is smooth and responsive, and looks great too. And the web browser rendered every mobile site I loaded perfectly.

I know it is popular to cast BB devices as horribly outdated, but after using the 9900, I found myself seriously considering purchasing one and selling my iPhone 4. I love my iPhone, but the BlackBerry really impressed me.

This is anecdotal, I know...but perhaps we're all writing RIM off too soon?
I've heard good things about http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982106017?ie=UTF8&tag=... (I've left in the author's affiliate link), which is also online at http://inventwithpython.com/chapters.
Ask HN: Recommend a great book on Ruby on Rails for a Beginner
I have a great desire to learn building stuff with ruby on Rails. Let's just say I am a beginner although I have built (and currently building) simple GUI apps with C# on .Net (WinForm). I remained a newbie with C#. I want to revive my quest for programming.

I was searching the net for info about good book to start with.

Would you recommend any book for beginning Ruby on Rails?

I was about to purchase "Agile Web Development with Rails" by Pragmatic Programmers from Amazon but I was discouraged by the many negative reviews.

Any similar book recommendation to get me up to speed with ruby on Rails?
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That's a terrible idea. So if someone hacks my site and installs malware, my site should be taken down by the Government?

There are anti-viruses, browser plugins, and even the browsers themselves protect you from stuff like that. You don't need the Government itself to do it, and they wouldn't be any more effective anyway. They would just abuse the power.
I have been following Ember since it was still SproutCore 2 and I am looking forward to try it out on a hobby project. Looks like they took the good parts of other frameworks as inspiration and left the bad parts of SproutCore behind, but a little too cutting edge to use in a project with real deadlines for now :P
Understood and agreed. Existing statues on child porn are sufficient, and given the tendencies for governments and corporations to expand their abilities at the expense of the people, I would support no new laws, and would be suspicious were any proposed in my country.
Simply living in the modern world gives you a constant background exposure to English.
Incidentally, Sweden is not obligated to join the eurozone due to a neat loophole.
Why are the symbols for "ke" different depending on the order in which the syllables appear?
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from the article:
I’m finding that most of the concerns on the substance out there are unfounded. The notion that the solutions that have been put forth will break the Internet, or that certain legal businesses will go off-line because of new mandates is utterly unconvincing to me.

Good men had to die to give me the freedom this man is trying to take away. This man made his fortune in a country founded on what he is actively destroying. Lets take away some of godaddy's freedom. Lets make this an unprofitable year for them.
I still don't get it. What's in it for them? Have they got connections to big media?