skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In gmail, I use the 'star' function to mark emails that I need to follow up with. More often than not, I can usually look at the subject line and sender and see if it's something I'll need to reply to, or whether I will need to do something (like an invoice that needs paid, or an email from a friend). If I still need to do something with it, whether I've read it or not, I star it. When I get free time and browse to my email, I'll be reminded I need to do stuff and finish it up. This works because I get a fairly low volume of email. Your experience may vary, especially if you get a lot of stuff to respond to.
Unfortunately, that will probably play out the other way around. Stross mentioned "loyalty cards", trading privacy for prizes or discounts; online that will be "loyalty cookies" ...
If by the "kickstarter" model, you refer to the same process advocated by Steve Blank and others, I'd say yes - It's customer validation, essentially.

http://steveblank.com/2010/02/25/customer-development-for-we...

If you're interested, watch this slide deck which presents the idea:

http://www.slideshare.net/Alex.Osterwalder/successful-entrep...
Honestly the only reason that I still jailbreak is BiteSMS. It lets you reply to an SMS directly in it's overlay so that you don't have to exit out of your current app.

http://bitesms.com/
If one or more users link to some infringing content, the rightholders can demand the seizure of the domain if they feel the users' actions are damaging enough to them.
I'd like to switch to !GoDaddy, and Namecheap seems popular. Are there any useful pro/cons I should know about Namecheap before switching?
Agree with this 100%. I was really worried about this when first switching from Android to iOS, but after months of using an iPhone & iPad, I don't miss anything.

That being said, even if I did want untethered jailbreaking right now, I'd be left in the dark, as I am one of (many) people who have both an iPad 2 and iPhone 4S.
I think the most important set of folks that should receive their share of blame is folks who voted the current crop of congressmen. I really feel that we should have a "how to choose whom to vote for" as part of core curriculum :)
Is there any reason you go from quickbooks -> your accountant instead of letting Intuit handle everything (tax filing, etc.)?

I'm trying to avoid hiring an actual (expensive) human accountant if I can..
Tried to read their Terms of Service, long as hell
What phones? Maybe there are some in the US and Europe, but they could have tried to go for the rest of the world.

There are exactly zero Windows phones available for my carrier, I could choose between Android (affordable) and iPhone (expensive), or other stuff like Samsung's Bada phones or Nokia's dying Symbian phones.

I would have considered a Windows phone had it been an option, but I probably wouldn't have bought it unless it had superior hardware or performance, because Android has such a large ecosystem (I bought a Galaxy Ace for Christmas).

Edit: the article basically answers itself: "Microsoft also needs to get a wider range of phones into the market, and do a better job of educating people about the platform's appeal. "
I was literally thinking the exact same thing.

GoDaddy is an already shady company, hopefully they take a big hit from this and change the way they do things.
They are being very careful not to mention any specific domain registrars. I wonder who they are talking about...
MG Siegler on the Windows Phone Problem
Just keep in mind if you transfer to NameCheap - make sure you are happy with their full price for renewals - because you will NEVER get a discount for renewing. They only give new transfers in special pricing.

Ironically you'll be able to transfer back to GoDaddy in a year when they make some kind of "come back to us" offer for a few dollars to transfer in.
No I don't think you can directly import an image of your disk, but if you can find an Amazon image (AMI) of the same operating system you are using, you could probably just rsync your /usr/local/, web data, and database directories and get something approximate to what you are doing now. That said I think it would be worthwhile to start from scratch so you can at least have a fresh memory of how your site operates.
Fred Wilson, the King of Spin – or Circling the Bowl?
Switched over after the elephant cull, haven't regretted it at all. Clean interface, and very easy flow for new domains. Only gripe is that they don't have a mobile site.
This could be big news for the guys over at Betable, whose blog is seemingly on the front page of HN every time they make a new post.
I'm not going to debate the merits of Rand's philosophy in Atlas Shrugged, but as a novel, I found it horrible. I found that all the characters fall into one of two groups, those who agree with Rand's philosophy, and those who don't, and there is no credible character that disputes Rand's philosophy. There is also a lot of repetition, as if the novel is simply trying to indoctrinate the reader.
The inconvenience IS the glamour of martyrdom. If the TSA had calmly and politely carried out the hands-on search as she recited the constitution, there would have been no effect. No inconvenience, no martyr.
Well, if your dream is to get rich, don't work for anyone either, because it will never happen that way.
i've also used dynadot which i like a lot. They have a pretty useful API, and good customer service. However, their pricing is only as good as namecheap if you spend more than $500 USD/year on domains.
"the bottom line is you don't mess around with safety. "

The TSA fails at Safety, this is just bullshit security theater. If I could, I'd fly with absolutely no security screening before the flight. I'll take my chances instead of slowly losing my life waiting in their "security" lines.
You know, I can understand not being brave enough to do this yourself. I'm not.

But pooh-poohing those who do do it? "Proper channels"? Yeah, I'm sure they're getting right on it.

How bad would it have to be before you stopped saying "Oh quit causing a disturbance"? I mean, this is already violating our most sacrosanct freedoms. Would I have to violate godwin's law to get you to agree with civil disobedience?
Heh, sorry, didn't know this was spurred by a necessity. I'm one of those guys that researches things to death before I do them, even if my "liability" is 3 low traffic family email accounts in a domain registrar migration.
For people like me who are afraid of flying, this lady is just disturbing the peace. People should be searched before being let on planes. If people are not searched, there will be more plane attacks and global transport will decline. Planes will always be targets for terrorists because of what they represent.

The law is not about technicalities. It's about reason and sense, and sensible is that when someone is behaving like a crazy person, then take the person and find out why. Technical law is when a fixed sentence is applied for a particular crime (like marijuana possession), that is then applied without sense.

Smile and go through the scanner. There is nothing strange about being seen naked by strangers, most of evolution we've been naked.
There was an article somewhere comparing the performance of various Django setups and as far as I can remember uWSGI+NGinx won out, although Gunicorn was a close second
You are forgetting a few things:

1-Coal is not the only power source there is
2-Batteries are not the only energy storage device there is
3-It is difficult to upgrade a whole fleet, as we can see by the difficulty of changing it to be a electric-only fleet. Power plants are much easier to upgrade by comparison - all cars are then instantly more efficient.
4-Electric engines do not have to be kept running while the car is stopped (heavy traffic, or traffic lights). This benefits them greatly in heavily populated urban centers.
5-You can have regenerative breaking and recover some of the lost energy. However small, this is something gas engines cannot do.
6-Several components are not needed. Electric engines do not have the same lubrication requirements of internal combustion engines. So no oil, no heat sinks and water pumps (except in some implementations, to cool batteries while charging), electric generator (unless hybrid), exhaust pipes, fuel catalysts, spark plugs (and no high-voltage coils), fuel pumps.. the list goes on and on. In some implementations you could even get rid of the differential transmission and drive the wheels independently. Some do not even need to shift gears, as electric motors can reach very high RPMs (and have a large power to weight ratio).
7-Less sound pollution
Wow! this is so awesome! Thanks you!

For the past two months I've been daydreaming about embedding a spreadsheet inside a single cell. It can be represented easily with XML, but it's a PITA to work with XML manually.

This is such an great interface. I love that to insert a grid within a cell, you just press 'INSERT'. And to insert a new cell in a grid, you just move the cursor between the cells and start typing.

Very well done.

Edit: Also, I love the HTML and XML export. This means I can actually use this at work.
Any plans of adding a scripting interface? I think Scheme or Lua would work well for this.
Cops lean on people they've decided are "undesirable" with the intent of provoking them to do something they can be arrested for. The FBI cultivates antisocial young american muslims until they entrap them into doing something so they can trot them out as boogeymen on CNN.

We can disagree with the ethics of such things, but is there disagreement that provoking a response can be a useful tactic?
Personalizing and sending out Xmas e-cards with iPhone Greetingz application
It has been observed that a whole lot of people have already started to send and receive Xmas e-cards, just because Xmas the biggest event of the year is almost here and people have started wishing each other and sending out Xmas e-cards. However the services of a versatile iPhone Xmas e-card is always needed
I would had called the post "TCP/IP on Rails"
She agreed to a search.

There are still doubts about the safety of the scanners. They have not been tested.
Lots of people commenting here seem to think that just because something appears to have no effect that it was a failure of an exercise and should have never happened. God forbid it cause a minor inconvenience to other humans.

PEOPLE HAVE TO STAND UP FOR WHAT THEY THINK IS RIGHT. Even if the effect it has seems insignificant. It doesn't matter if your an ass for doing it. It doesn't matter if some people think you were trying to cause trouble. If you don't stand up for what you personally think is right what do you stand up for?

Was she right? Were the officers wrong? That's for you to decide but it doesn't really matter. She had a conviction to do what she thought was right, and hopefully inspired others to do the same. And I can't imagine not respecting her for doing so.

If the only time you could complain about SOPA was in airport security only the brave and scared would complain about SOPA. And you can bet others would find them annoying.
I've never had a problem using Namecheap, their support tickets tend to be answered quickly and their prices are reasonable. They also used to charge $17.76 for a two year .uk domain registration, which was amusing.
That's nice, but it remains to be seen if this is not just cheap (no pun intended) exploitation of sentiments. Some registrars, such as Gandi have always supported various causes (such as EFF, Creative Commons, Debian, etc.). How much does Namecheap donate of regular domain registrations, etc.? What have they done in the past for digital rights?

Also, as some people said before. This attack on Godaddy maybe a godsent diversion for SOPA supporters.
Apple iTV to Launch 32- and 37-Inch Models in Summer 2012
Thank you very much for such a kind offer! I'll definitely get back to you after I find out what re-marketing is... :-S
That is also definitely bound to happen... "Come back to Go Daddy and we'll give you a free renewal next year! [If you agree to these shady terms and conditions]"
As a developer, jailbreaking is very important. My only device for a long time was a 3GS and I always wanted to keep it up-to-date when new versions of iOS were released. However, upgrading the iOS is a one-way street -- Apple do not let you downgrade your software.

By jailbreaking the device, Cydia automatically stores the device's unique SHSH blobs that allow you to downgrade.

Being able to downgrade made it easier to test my apps on iOS 3 and iOS 4 without needing two devices.
JXD S7100 Android tablet and gaming consoles | World New Electronics
Some people dismiss the power and value of symbolism (particularly symbolism that doesn't resonate with THEM, even if it resonates with other people).

Perhaps this particular bit of symbolism, or the way it was deployed, won't end up being effective, but experimentation and iteration is key.
Effective Steps on How to Protect Your Wealth
Not really, there were martian addresses in there last time I looked.
Divide the known history of the Earth into ten million year increments, and the fraction of them with life is quite high compared to the fraction with intelligence.
These assholes, i was at the Munich Apple shop last month and the sales guy was incredible rude to sell me the 2 year warranty. This costs round about 150€ extra.

This is just a rip-off i didn't expect from a company like Apple. Stupid move. They risk damaging their valuable brand, while having enough money in the bank. They lost me as a customer, my next phone will be an Android.

They lost my sympathy with this whole patent stuff already, but i still thought they really care about their customers.
The article doesn't do much to explain how it uses TCP/IP which makes me wonder if it does at all?
Ask HN: Where to sell music for games?
I have a friend who plays in a local band that is good enough to tour regularly (SXSW, etc). He is interested in composing music for games, such as background music on RPGs and Arcade Games. Is there a good website for him to do this on, or should he create his own site?
Thanks! I'm trying to give a boost to my quasi non-existent social efforts and I think this is helping! :) I have to let go of my wallet too and pay for some extra server power. I have to admit the site is too slow...
One thing GoDaddy cannot stop is a transfer out after 60 days of a transfer in. Most registrars count on laziness which is surprisingly effective.

Remember .com/net prices go up January 15th (I think).
Not related to recent events, but I remember Hover.com had an advertising run on the TWiT network that was essentially: We're not horrible like Go Daddy, transfer today!
Taboola goes international, launches sponsored video placement
Irrelevant.

I would rewrite your comment this way:

Developers don't trust Microsoft. Who wants the OS vendor to make competition for their software? Not many developers. And Microsoft will if it can, because it has to grow.

The XBOX succeeded in part because competition in games is a non-exclusive agreement, a gamer that buys a racing title will probably buy another racing title.

A customer that buys MS Office will not buy another suite.

A customer that buys or downloads for free the MS app in his phone will not buy another app that does the same, even if it's better.
can't comment on the specific twitter question because that's confidential info. but it is very much on its way to becoming a big and sustainable business.

i think the flaw in my post is you need something more than being mocked and misunderstood. you need traction, usage, momentum, etc.

but when you have that and continue to be mocked and misunderstood, that's a very positive signal to me.
VCs Also Succumb to Cognitive Biases
Apple had a really good Christmas
that's a great quote
Nginx+n performs pretty well in general against Apache, and in my experience nginx as a front to something like uWSGI for Django is very easy to set up and use. There was a comparison of the various Nginx+n stacks, I think Nginx+uWSGI won out, with Gunicorn in a close second.
You seem to think that she is fighting the good fight on behalf of humanity. She is a professional writer who did this as a publicity stunt so she could write about the experience afterwards.

Her biggest accomplishment is that she managed to make one of the scummiest organizations in the United States appear to be in the right. Way to go freedom fighter.
Bandcamp. A handful of famous indie game musicians (Danny B, C418, Zircon, etc...) use it to sell their stuff and seem to prefer it over other things.
There’s something subtle but important your comment raises. Feature are not bricks! The brick metaphor is about assigning chunks of implementation that have a possibly many to many relationship with units of business value (call them features).

Dividing up a project by feature and/or tracking progress on a project by feature is very different from tracking project by brick.
no. my posts are not ploys. they are just my musings. i think outloud on my blog.
Thanks! I'll try to figure out what this re-marketing thing is and check out the tools you've mentioned!
I've learned by observing and reading. You can start here: http://dribbble.com/ . After that, use http://www.hnsearch.com/ to find good articles about UI and UX design.

One important lesson for me was that web design (UI and UX) and web programming are two different tasks. Best outcome is achieved when they are separated. Paper and pencil will be your best friends.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this comment.

The 4th amendment guards against unreasonable search and seizure.

And you're saying "shame on her for refusing a search"?
Thanks -- I was just going to come here to post this.

It's one of the things that WalMart makes their money on. They grow traffic to their stores with huge discounts on visible necessities like toilet paper, competitive grocery prices, etc.

But when I look at their prices for less common items, their audacity is sometimes staggering. I remember once being unable to find a cheap surge protector for less than $30, and thinking, "I wonder if that's by design. I came here for milk and a car battery -- they know I'm not going somewhere else for my 'in-between' items."

I seem to remember a discussion on HN once around the legality of variable pricing -- it seems a fascinating topic and I'd love to read a writeup on the process, and especially the software that WalMart or any other large chain has for pricing their goods.
There are many criteria that allow you to judge an product better or worse. The selection of these criteria and their weight in your decision process are subjective. So please do not post absolutism like you did, when according to many people (and their subjective assessment) the competing products are better and would argue with you, that WP is worse.
Just to be clear, tethering your data connection has been available on the iPhone since version 3 without jailbreaking. Wireless hotspots have been available since iOS 4.3 without jailbreaking.
> Suppose she had started reciting[1] the 10 commandments or jabberwocky? Would you have had the same reaction?

I suspect she would have gotten the same reaction, or something very near to it. When being herded through a TSA checkpoint, the last thing they want you doing is yelling.
>you don't really put any "faith" in your hypothesis until you've done some testing. //

In building the LHC we put about $4 billion of faith in the experiments producing results without knowing that they would.
Thank you. Lemon is an interesting app and most of the apps you mentioned falls under generic day to day apps.

Am just trying to see, is it just me or others also like this. Even though there are thousands of apps, am just using 8 to 10 apps regularly. May another 5 to 8 apps once in a week or even once a month.
So many cognitive biases here that I had to write a blog post. http://dbasch.posterous.com/vcs-also-succumb-to-cognitive-bi...
you are correct. that is the flaw in the post
Ah, so we've catapulted the whole defending the erosion of our rights thing and now we're into personally insulting the person who told the story.

Good move, considering the grounds of your argument and all.

I'll repeat my question.. how bad would it have to be for you to agree with civil disobedience?
I'd imagine on the whole due to cost. Heroku, for example, is a great stack, but costs a significant amount if you aren't flush with cash. This can be run on a small ec2 instance for a fraction of the cost, whilst it does have greater administrative overhead.
Activism needs to be reinvented.

Legislators are already not paying attention to email, because so much of it is automated. At best, some legislators tally email, many of them don't pay attention to it at all.

Automating phone calls is an inevitable continuation. Right now, phone calls have _some_ impact. Unfortunately, technology will make calling less effective.

On one end we have software, on the other we have the poor Congressional staffers who have to pick up the phone every time it rings. Eventually the staff will become numb to phone calls, stop paying attention, and turn to people sitting in their offices for guidance (lobbyists, who get paid to be there, or, less likely, people like you and me who find the time to actually go and talk to them.)

We have a disconnect between taking the smallest step (sending an email, calling) and the next one, physically going somewhere. This is why we -- we the tech industry, in partnership with visionaries from the non-profit space -- have to reinvent activism. To make the transition from the online to the offline world smoother. And to make the time spent online more meaningful.

Increasingly, people look online first. The dozens of petition sites -- Change.org is a full social network type of deal -- are making it easy to confuse "doing something" with "doing something effective."
It has been made very clear in many circumstances and cases that "just doing my job" is NOT an acceptable excuse.
Thank you very much! I really think your first idea is amazing, and the homepage is presently too static and oh-so-boring...
You can start out with a book like Design for Hackers, but then to get better you just have to keep your eye out for website designs that you really like. I take screenshots and keep a collection for inspiration later when I need it.

Also, using a framework like Twitter Bootstrap is really helpful as it gets some of the foundational styling out of the way.
I'm guessing most HN readers won't be too interested in this list, but here goes:

Instant Karma: The Heart & Soul of a Ski Bum

Wild Snow: 54 Classic Ski and Snowboard Descents of North America

Roof of the Rockies: A History of Colorado Mountaineering

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications
Because depending on the size of what you are running PaaS can be very expensive.
Italy Fines Apple $1.2 Million Over AppleCare Sales
I have no doubt that: In 25 years, we will be able to look back and review commentary that seems to have foretold our current circumstance with almost mystical accuracy.

I have tremendous doubt that: We can sift through the current commentary and find the speaker who is correct about our future 25 years from now.

Looking in to the future is incredibly difficult because humans have the capacity to change course. Who predicted the string of revolutions that occurred in the Middle East this year? I'm sure someone did, but it wasn't the subject of national discourse. At least not in the mainstream media.

I don't question that historically, all empires have met their end, but it is unwise to let someone else dictate your future by writing in a journal.