skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every 60s: Apple sells 925 iPhones, 2 million people watch online porn, more
NameCheap are a UK company as well. They have 24/7 support :)
Many many phones did this sort of thing before Apple. What they have patented is to display a button for it.
easyDNS is Canadian.

EDIT: they have an interesting blog post on SOPA:
http://blog.easydns.org/2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the...
Every registrar that I have used in the last decade has come with free DNS. Why in the world do I need something cheaper than the ~$10 that most registrars charge?
This comment wins the internet for today. I wish it was at the top of the thread.
I entirely support more cancer research, but I wouldn't want people to be disappointed in our progress so far. There will never be a single cure for cancer, because "cancer" isn't a single kind of thing:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1162

Great strides have been made. E.g., one friend with leukemia just takes a daily pill. 40 years ago we would have buried him by now, but since he got cancer he's taken up doing triathlons. Go science!
What I like about 960.gs in some simple SASS [gist]
He is responsible for distributions choosing to use his software?
I was asking myself, if you are sure to have a target-market, a target customer, of your mixing-bowl. what would differentiate it? what would be the unique selling-point? why should I buy a new mixing bowl, if I am quite happy with the specs of the bowls in my kitchen at home?

I recommend answering these questions first. then finding experts, designers, small manufacturers and asking intelligent, interesting questions. maybe you could design it and start a joint-venture with a producer - who knows. you could even start it via kickstarter and see, if there is any interest in your idea, before producing a lot of these bowls and even before producing a prototype. you would know, if you can have real customers, that are willing to pay real money for it. and you would have money to start with.
> Ensuring compiler optimizations are active would be the first low-hanging-fruit thing to come to anyone's mind when considering performace. The fact that it was 'forgotten' means that no one even considered performance during the whole development process. Not even in the "let's leave it to the compiler" form.

This is a silly conclusion. More likely it means that either it was a conscious decision, or at the last minute the ball was dropped and those who should have signed off on this decision didn't even know about it.

How could you go from serious-performance-error/tradeoff ships to "no one even considered performance during the whole development process" (my emphasis).
I don't understand the logic here. It's okay to kill animals as long as they've spent their entire lives in human-inflicted suffering?

For the record, I eat meat, and I have few qualms about eating caged animals, but arguing it as more humane is beyond perplexing to me.
I'm such an Elon Musk fanboy. If he can do even 20% of what he's claiming to be able to do, the human race will be so much further along that we are now - and I might get to go to space. Rock on, Elon.
This is such a fascinating story. I mean I would just love to know how a company so secretive got all those celebrities to sing a its praises.
Thanks for posting these!

From the second link I found a link to the author's homepage where he talks about the history of the game in depth. I was really impressed to find out this game was a one-man creation. The screenshots of his character editor shows the depth of his genius.

http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/another_world.htm

Such a great read. Some highlights include (spoilers!):

- he used rotoscoping of filmed footage for the car animation and a few others.

- he set up an infinite fax loop during negotiations with interplay regarding changing the music of one of the ports.

- when he wanted to clean up some of the animation scripting during a port to a mobile phone, he booted up his amiga and did the editing on it in the BASIC scripting editor!
Creating a Virtual Machine/Register VM in C
This is just a blog post quoting a NewScientist article which needs a login (!!!) to read it. Anybody got a cached version?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228433.000-ill-put-m...
one of the things everyone seems to forget about the whole 10000 hours thing is that the research says it's 10000 hours of mindful practice. that's a lot harder than 10000 hours of practice...
I have to wonder about the various state and local organizations on the list. Do mayors and state chief information officers really have a position on SOPA?

Maybe the SOPA opposition lobbyists can reach out to these organizations and find the details of their "support", and whom these groups really represent. Then maybe tech industry types can reach into whatever state and local connections they have to have conversations with the state / local officer represented here. If those supports are soft, and a couple of folks call from the field to ask what's going on, they too may melt off the list.

EDITED TO ADD: Don't know the industry, but entities with showbiz relations may be feeling pressure from the studios to be supportive. They need licensing deals with the studios, no? Pressuring them to choose sides might not be productive -- might be enough to urge them to offer nothing but transparently pro-forma support.
Single-page websites may be a dying breed
Ha this is great, over at Embedly we plan to move away from Godaddy, our domains are not on godaddy, just the ssl cert (for the short term). I started moving some one-off domains we own last night to namecheap, http://twitter.com/#!/artgibby/status/149995036677910528
Sorry, but I disagree that this is a must-have.

Resharper slows VS down immensely and adds way too much cruft in my opinion.
Have you read the related articles? Everything points to someone hacking GoDaddy and transfering domains away. Would be a hell of a coincidence that all of them got their e-mail accounts hacked without any other consequences, and all coincidentally hosted at GoDaddy: http://www.instantshift.com/2011/12/08/why-the-instantshift-...
You're right, I misunderstood the integration.

It still seems like it's optimizing for the wrong thing for the vast majority of linux users. The # of linux servers, which don't care about boot time (or where software init is a very tiny part of boot time anyway) is way larger than the number of people using it as a desktop. Boot time isn't the thing that's keeping linux off the desktop.

Rewriting scripts and rolling them into a C daemon defeats the whole point of scripts in the first place - the administrator of the system can't make quick changes or easily troubleshoot things (or, optionally, selectively enable/disable small sections of initialization). It's also a large amount of new work for folks busy fixing actual broken or buggy parts of their software.

Lennart complains that the starting PID on his linux desktop is too high, because init scripts call 'grep', 'awk', etc. - and that developers should rewrite all of that into their own startup daemons. It seems like he's complaining about the 'UNIX way' of small, text-oriented tools each doing one job and piping the results between them for flexibility and power for the the system administrator. Moving all of that into a C-based daemon, hiding it entirely from the administrator (short of a unsupported-by-your-contract recompile and source mod) doesn't seem like a net win for me, especially for a few seconds saved two or three times a year.

Most scary is the way he wants to handle socket based services - it's already the source of one remote DOS against a machine running systemd:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739538
Consider looking at well-written Python code. Try to understand exactly how it works.

Example, django source: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/django/
> Compiler optimizations by themselves do not cause bugs - they reveal bugs.

Incorrect, and naive in the extreme.

> They are specfically designed to be sematically equivalent

Unconvincing. Machines are specifically designed to not blow up, and yet they do.

> But I simply get the feeling that performance receives less and less attention in the modern products.

I agree, but often we gain something in terms of the scope of games that a team can create. If you want to make a movie, you probably shouldn't start by designing the camera.
Thanks, that was insightful. I think you would be able to judge the app just by looking at the screenshots in the App Store, here's a link: http://rdit.in/get
Mobile Morning Coffee (12/23/11)
The mailing lists are where it was happening early this year. Look through posts from Karanbir Singh, it was like pulling teeth just to get him to tell people how they could help with testing (knowledge previously limited to some semi-private group nobody knew how to get involved with).

Definitely didn't want to talk about build processes, just lots of handwaving about how hard it is to get right. I even recall he eventually pointed out some "build scripts" under pressure, neglecting to mention that they weren't actually usable by anyone without hidden knowledge and package requirements he didn't want to talk about.

The whole thing left a very bad taste in my mouth.
Why did Google ever do a deal with GoDaddy in the first place? Godaddy's UI alone should have been reason enough not to.
For what it's worth, I believe that it's the same in the US. Direct euthanasia is definitely illegal. But palliative care that shortens life (e.g., narcotics) is fine, as is passive euthanasia.

The biggest problem I see here is that unless the patient expresses a clear desire to end treatment (either in the moment or via legal documents prepared in advance) then medical professionals must continue to treat. I think the that's a fine way to run things, but it means Americans must be very clear about what they want if they are to avoid dramatic interventions that may do very little to help them and certainly are scarring for the family.
Eh, those are just "implementation details" ;)
Though - that's quite a different issue.

I have no doubt, as a consumer, that something made by Black Diamond will protect me while I'm climbing - even if it closely resembles something developed originally by Petzl.

But I would very much like strong protections against fake Petzl gear being imported that may, in fact, kill me.
What content did the #justsayin hashtag add to the topic?
VW gives workers a rest from Blackberry messages
Will 2012 finally show us the real mobile Facebook
I will probably move some of my domains to gandi.net and some to Moniker. Why keep my eggs all in one basket?
I really love the design of your new app. I'll email you later
This is a great point, but it doesn't mean that the problems you mentioned are insoluble.

Earth is actually quite an inhospitable planet as well. We survive on it because of our technology - Mars may be no different.

I think there are thousands on this planet who would be willing to give it a shot if they thought there was even just a slim possibility of success.
PulseAudio is used in Ubuntu, and systemd is in other non-Fedora distros, so I guess the answer is yes.
This is not everything from the 960 Grid System, but it's the stuff I use most.
A lot of the other SASS grids I've seen are just too complicated for my personal taste.

This math and setup is simple and small enough that, (with comments removed), I can just plug it into the top of my main SASS file and start styling. I don't need to have a whole separate `grid.sass` file, have tons of `.pull` or `.push` or `.suffix` or typography stuff, or deal with god-awfully-ugly and hard-to-maintain HTML classnames.

Much of the same code from the 16-col 960gs is generated. The 960 css file is here for comparison: https://github.com/nathansmith/960-Grid-System/blob/master/c...

Feedback appreciated.
DigitalFoundry does some technical comparisons of console releases, eg Skyrim triple-platform Face-off: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-face-off-sk...
Yes, I understand cancers is plural and there won't be a single cure.. It's not have far we've come, it's how far we have to go. Easy early detection would really help more people. We need to solve a lot of problems, which gets back to my original request. A lot of really smart HN'ers looking for problems to solve.
Heritage Foundation, Who Almost Always Supports MPAA, Comes Out Against SOPA
The right thing to do would have been to fix ALSA so that applications wouldn't lock each other out, or whatever other problems ALSA may have.
I'm an industrial designer and write a blog about manufacturing tech and DIY stuff. Feel free to shoot me a message and I can probably point you in the right direction.
Factual error: Falcon Heavy is not the biggest rocket to fly since the Saturn V -- that category includes both the US Space Transportation System (Space Shuttle) and the Soviet Energiya/Polyus and Energiya/Buran stacks.

Falcon Heavy's payload exceeds those carried within the Space Shuttle (or Buran) payload bays, but if you include the orbiter vehicle itself in the payload either shuttle had a bigger payload into LEO. And Energiya in launch vehicle configuration (as when it was used to launch Polyus) carried nearly the same payload as the Saturn V.

(I hate these overblown claims. Why not just stick at saying "Falcon Heavy has the biggest payload of any commercial launch vehicle, ever" and leave it at that?)
TC was running fine for a year at AOL until they bought in Huffington, who wanted TC to fall under her org. This was all about Armstrong being weak over Huffigton, and it wasn't just TC employees who have left but many others in the senior ranks at AOL because of it (Garinghouse, Einh)

AOL are the primary investor in the Crunchfund, a bit hard to FU their own investments

This co. is being started by Sarah with Arrington (amongst many others) as a (minor) investor

Arrington has previously started, and sold, startups. Hardly an armchair quarterback.

Just to be clear, you are accusing Arrington of a conflict of interest on a site that he didn't start and doesn't exist yet.

and re: Engadget. The guys who left and started The Verge are on fire. It is already the 8th most linked blog on Technorati and 3rd on TM rank - fastest growing media property I have ever seen. So that works.
A small datapoint: I moved 6 of my domains off of GoDaddy last night: incredibly easy. A small cost, but I feel OK about that. Even without scripting it, I bet I could move 1000 domains in one day of work.
We can't pay our developers minimum wage.... Somebody call the wambulance. If you are a dev and see a manager or cio type trying to guilt you into working for less than 120k/year because that is just ridiculous. Smile and pee on his desk on your way out. These guys make 150 to 500k/year and contribute LESS.

It is intimidation, you are a tool to these guys and they will not hesitate to throw you under the bus if it saves them some cash for executive bonuses.

Its business. Supply and demand. Pay me what I am worth or im leaving. That is it. They are Borg and you will be eaten when you lose your power.
I can't comment for industrial usage but for use at home (work and non-work use) I have the follow setup for storage:

My old desktop hardware (Intel Q6600, 8GB RAM, Asus MB, pair of gigabit links bonded)

Supermicro 4u tower case with 8x hot swap bays + the 5.25 bay filled with a 5x hot swap cage, 13 total hot swap bays.

3-Ware 9550SX RAID Controller, 4 x WB RE 320GB drives, RAID 5.

8 x 1.5TB "Green" Drives, mixture of WD and Samsung drives, RAID 6 using mdadm (linux software raid)

1 x WD Raptor (system drive)

Ubuntu with KVM for virtutalization

Originally i was in the "must have raid controller" camp which is when I bought the 3-ware controller and the RE series drives. When that array filled up I did some research and decided to just go the mdadm route and have minimal complaints so far. I use the 3-ware array still for "critical data" and back it up to S3.

Monitoring: You have to work a bit more to get proper alerting of issues from mdadm but its not hard to setup. Doesn't matter for me much, i sit in the same room as this server most of the day working so if something goes wrong i generally notice before i get the e-mail.

Performance: As mentioned I'm using Green drives, this system wasn't built with speed in mind but rather large amounts of nearline storage. Never-the-less, with some basic tweaking and making sure the array's partition alignment is correct I get around 450MB/sec read speed and ~85MB/sec write long term, I have the system setup to cache writes aggressively however as most of the data on this array isn't critical and its on a UPS, what this means is that writes under a few gigabytes usually complete at wire speed (~200MB/sec) then get flushed to the disk later. Most of the time I'm limited by network bandwidth to this system, unless I'm writing a very large amount of data all at once.

One negative is rebuild speed, here i'm very limited by the 'Green' drives I believe. It runs at about 50MB/sec so rebuilds do take awhile.

As far as CPU usage goes, I've never seen it be the limiter but haven't watched it that closely, it doesn't peg during rebuild. This machine acts as an SMB/NFS file server and a few development VMs 24/7 (database, and a couple other things) and I've never really had an issue with cpu usage.

One really nice bonus is that if something in the system fails, you can just plug the drives of your array into to almost any other linux system:

apt-get install mdadm

mdadm --assemble --scan

Poof, working array.

tl;dr

If your going after 1GB/sec transfer speeds, get a high end raid card.

If you just need some large redundant storage that can saturate a Gbit link or 2, then mdadm software RAID is just fine IMO.
No prob. Now the link is present :)
Nice special effects, the drone/missle was very cool.
The trouble isn't surviving on Mars. The trouble is building infrastructure on Mars that will allow people to survive there without continuous resupply from Earth, at a cost measured in (at a minimum) tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram.
Dear Google: Please, Invest More Money In Google Apps...
GoDaddy vs. Namecheap: Public Outrage & Successful Marketing (April 2011)
Africa holiday specialists
Mahlatini now provide luxury cruise holidays in conjunction with their safari holidays to South Africa. Customers can now travel in supreme luxury and extravagance.
The content is the link and the discussing of Google using GoDaddy. The presentation is the fact there's a hashtag in the title and everyone with their underwear in a twist over a # sign.
For anyone interested in the idea of humans colonizing Mars, I can thoroughly recommend Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars Trilogy (starting with Red Mars).

It's a great future history of how we might end up there and what it would take for us to ferry millions over (essentially, that we find enough minerals for it to be in bigcos interest to do so).
Ping whois over and over if you need proof... seems like an odd thing to assume they'd lie about.
I have contacted gandi.net support several times. I usually receive a response within a day, and always had my issue resolved.
Patent Troll Sues Google, Groupon
One interesting thing is that in a previous Bethesda game, Morrowind, converting the FPU instructions to SSE instructions actually alleviated most of the game crashes...

http://timeslip.users.sourceforge.net/exeopt.html
When you access megaupload.com from Hong Kong, you will get

"This service is temporarily not available from your service area."
Seconded. They based Tony Stark in the new Iron Man movies on this guy. I think I'm doing important work, then I read his wikipedia entry and weep at my insignificance.
Why can't I sell this App? Be honest, please
Hi HN,
As a side job, I've taken up developing, designing and trying to sell apps. The market is crowded and there seems to be no room for my apps. I had a pretty good first week selling an app that I've spent seven months of my free time on, making $200 on the highest day. Now, it's down to about $2 or $3 a day - barely selling any copies, constantly slipping in the charts.

Are there any people on HN with serious experience, willing to help out a beginner? Together we could come up with a list that can really help people. I feel like I'm the only person in the room who doesn't get get the joke. Should I just quit?

p.s. I've tried some things already, which unfortunately didn't work for me:

- Bamify Ads - Getting my Designer to dribbble the app - Writing bloggers - Having Sales $2.99 -> $0.99 - Improving the app - Adding features that were requested - Having a nice website - I don't think being young helps you either - Trying to get some exposure on HN - Being in the Instapaper App Direcoty - Having a Youtube video - Having a great name: Read

The app: http://rdit.in/get

Email me if you want a promo code: info@readapp.net

This is a repost, since in my submission earlier I forgot to mention the app
It is precisely this attitude that GoDaddy is counting on, BTW.
Exactly. Their use of GoDaddy is not tacit support for SOPA. It is just a bad coincidence. My good friend Josh at MinoMonsters has a lot on his plate.
I think we've reached the point where no-one should be surprised about this. And besides:

What most users don’t know is that the new features being introduced are all centered around increasing the value of Facebook to advertisers

Centered? I don't know. Timeline seems pretty user-centric to me. I've had it for a few months as a developer, but since it became public I've seen plenty of my friends filling out details, tagging their friends in previous big life events... they're not doing it because Facebook tricked them into it, they're doing it because they want to.

Yes, there is also an advertiser advantage to this- same as any information you plug into Facebook. But I don't think it's fair to paint Facebook as cynically putting Timeline together so that they can mine data. If you're comfortable with the way Facebook makes money (which, personally, I am) there's nothing to go crazy about in here.
I agree that the to-do market is crowded but you're offering a new value prop which could be interesting. The challenge is that I don't really understand by what you mean by 'recommendations to complete my task'. Inherently, all I need are reminders since I know what and how I want to accomplish my task. You might want to provide examples so clarify the value prop.
Does Visual Studio rot the mind?
Daily Mobile Minute #79: Selling thermometers through mobile advertising
Check out this video of the founder thanking his users: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=TKY5290L

What a big-dog!
Wouldn't it be awesome if one of those "looking for a technical co-founder" types would say they were looking for a programmer "who knows how bad they are"?
Isn't this just how the sausage is made? It is interesting that Timeline actually makes it easier to disrupt the flow of personal information and privilege ads over friends. But this is how the marketing department of any big company would see it. Can't IPO without getting your hands dirty.
http://virtualboxes.org/images/centos/

if you want to try it the super easy way
Thanks for your reply, I'll shoot you an email.
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WHOIS on stackoverflow right now shows its still with GoDaddy. I am not calling them liars but I do want to actually see them make the switch.
Melanie Amaro: the first American X Factor winner.
Time for some name-dropping. My father operated on his mother-in-law. Yeh, that's right. Connected ;)

On a serious note I have heard just how unbelievably driven this guy is. He picks absolutely enormous challenges and just goes for it.

A truly great hacker.
You don't need to spend anything extra. Do what I've been doing for the past year. Move your domains to another registrar as they come up for renewal.
SOPA Debate... Or High School?
Skype Supplies Free Wi-Fi, Mobile Charges In 50 Airports