skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meaning the ability to raise money was a prerequisite in the dot-com era because without money you had nothing so your ability to raise money elevated you to founder.

Now bootstrapping or a small amount of angel funding can go a long way so equity models (IMHO) need to evolve if startups want to attract top talent, especially considering a joB at Google could easily net you $200k+ in total comp (and far more than that for top talent) with far lower risk.
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Couldn't you just hit the MixPanel API after the response has been flushed? It means responses are returned as fast as normal and you don't up the complexity of the whole thing by introducing other processes and potentially bottlenecking queues.
While that sounds cool, such blatant non-neutrality from search engines sounds almost as scary to me as what they're protesting.
She'd send you to the international aisle for some mexican soup.
I honestly wanted to give .NET a try. I built a machine and installed Windows Server on it. I knew that Ruby/Python have scalability hurdles to overcome if things were to take off. So I felt .NET vs. Java was the way to go.

Ultimately, the .NET toolset is just not as flexible. If you want to do anything outside of its intended use cases, it requires so much extra work and code. What took me a weeks worth of time took me 1/2 a day in Rails for example.

It looks like people at Microsoft are listening in a way by embracing Javascript. I'd be really interested to see where their nodejs effort ends up in a year.
School situation in NYC is quite complicated. Several things to consider:

1. Private schools cost around $30k a year. However, this price deferential vis-à-vis free public schools is built into property prices so that you are not really "saving" $30k if you live in a magnet school district. This is further complicated by...

2. The vast divide between have's and have-not's and the socialist city rules that attempt to mitigate this divide by sending poor kids to magnet schools. This means that even if you are paying through the nose to live in a good neighborhood (via taxes, or property prices, or rent prices), it is not a guarantee that your kids will go to the magnet school. In fact, the only way to get in is to place your child on the waiting lists within the first months of their life. Even if you are in luck and your kids do get slotted into a good school...

3. These schools are dominated by jaded, entitled urban sophisticates mixed with super intense, tunnel-vision type A's. At least half are on daily pharmaceuticals to help them juggle extremely ambitious workloads and/or social calendars.

IMHO, New York is great for single guys and problematic for everyone else. Once we had a baby, we've made the decision to move, even though financially we could have made it work. The trade offs are just not worth it.

Lastly, if you are pricing properties, don't forget to look at monthly expenses. It's common to pay around $1,500 per month in condo/coop fees on top of your mortgage, and that's for a 1-bedroom.
Poll: Did you transfer domains today?
It would be great to know how many of our own actually transfered domains in response to the internet-wide call.
In the near future
Many of GoDaddy's customers have wanted to leave for awhile. This was just the final straw.
Let me put it this way: if somebody's profile picture bugs me, and it appears in my stream more than a couple times, that's on me. It's quite simple to take somebody out of your circles, and even to block them completely.
Good idea, but that fails with other sites, better use this "url template":
siteanalytics.compete.com/embed_chart/google.com/small/
Don't really see how you came to this conclusion. The very bug that's linked in this story was filed in the proper forum more than half a decade ago (i.e. it's a counter-evidence to your assertion).
Watch out for movement fatigue. The Internet Filter/Censorship blackout happened in Australia; it was partially successful in the filter not being mandatory. But the biggest ISPs are pushing filters on their customers 'voluntarily' with government money (Capitalist take: Internet Censored cheaper than Internet Freedom) taking after UK.

Unrelated to blackout, but the other big ISPs not forcing the filter on customers decided to police users for copyright infringement.

Such unrelenting copyright industry anti-Internet parasites.
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Sure, we could echo the response, then call the MixPanel cURL request, but still our API requests would continue blocking waiting for the cURL request to MixPanel to complete. We want API requests to complete as quick as possible. Also, if ever MixPanel's API went down, our API requests would quickly back up, as cURL requests to MixPanel timed out (10 seconds).
Don't forget "And it's useful for a lot of other things other than movies", which is what really tipped it over the edge for me. Video games, streamed TV, second computer monitor, family photo viewings, etc. We're getting pretty close to "optional monitor for your cell phone", too, in the slow-but-inevitable substitute-replacement of your laptop by your cellphone.
Congress isn't trying to impress anybody. They're just playing the classic pork barrel game, by maintaining high paying jobs in key congressional districts through government spending.
I don't own any domains.
Things like these seem to happen to market leaders, who hear complains for years about certain stuff, but don't mind it because they aren't seeing their customers leaving in droves. But that doesn't mean it doesn't add to the growing frustration of their customers. They are only creating a ticking time bomb, and when they do eventually go over the top with something, that's when the bomb explodes, and then they wonder why there isn't anything they can do to stop the customer exodus.

The same has been happening with Facebook and their privacy issues. This year they finally got called out a little more on it, but probably not enough of their users left to take it too seriously. So when they will screw up in a major way again, they shouldn't be surprised if a lot of people walk away "all of the sudden".
Remember DOS? The operating system, if you could call it that, of the original IBM PC, and MS-DOS, the OS that ran on all the IBM-compatible clones? The PCs that took the market away from Apple? The ones that established Microsoft's monopoly?
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I agree with all that you said, and I like the different directions Android-based hard- and software is developing.

However, the first thing many people try to do on their Fire, and something well-integrated into CM's installation process is the addition of Google apps, especially Android Market. And here we have a strong dependency on Google which even Amazon can not break with its own distribution channel (google for "install android market on kindle fire" for evidence).
I will believe that Godaddy is opposing the legislation when they demand that the exception for Godaddy is removed from the legislative text. An email is cheap, especially one stating that they don't like "the current form".
I understand and in some ways share your enthusiasm. I think Dropbox could be the file I/O layer of the social web... if only they would publish a proper events API.

As it stands, the only way to receive updates is to poll for changes. This is a kludge at best (and takes away from the magic in a significant way in practice) and completely unrealistic at scale. That is, if I have a million users and I want to update every 15 seconds, Dropbox is going to (rightfully) shut my IP down.

If developers could define WebHooks to receive events, that'd be a great start. I'd happily pay for that.

If developers could subscribe to a WebSockets or event XMPP notification stream of updates, that'd be freaking amazing. I'd stand in line to pay for that. And that's when you'd see an explosion of applications (web, mobile and desktop) implementing Dropbox as their filesystem.

We've been asking nicely for years. If there's anyone here with pull or influence at Dropbox, please give us devs some real-time love. Otherwise, please add your voice to the choir:

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=20226&replies=52#...
The page was edited a week ago. He appears to be COO before that:

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/warren-adelman/diff/12/13
ooh nice feature on Twilio blog too! http://www.twilio.com/blog/2011/12/doers-in-action-twimlbin-...
The alternative is the bill making such companies non-neutral, for copyright industry interests.
Often reading is just distraction. There's often very little actionable information there. It's just taking your mind off your real problems. It's basically all entertainment.

I go home and I watch Khan Academy videos now. I read Wikipedia. I read some Hacker News mainly to distract myself from work. I pretend that it's useful, and it sometimes is, but sometimes I wonder if I'm engaging in repetitive naval gazing and somehow getting off on the ubiquitous outrage.

Why do all this reading anyway? To be more fun at parties? To pretend like we're part of something important when all that lies ahead of us is years of sitting in a cube and stuck in traffic?

I guess it's all not so bad. Whatever floats your boat. Just realize that it's mostly entertainment unless you actually DO something with what you've learned. It's not what you think. It's what you DO that matters.
thanks ! that is exactly what i was looking for!
It's only anecdotal counter-evidence, but my cousin, who's a non-technical owner of a kite surfing business, has expressed concern about SOPA on facebook. He doesn't normally post about anything political, but he's worried it will destroy the porn industry. The percentage of non-technicals concerned about SOPA is nonzero.
Southern Somalia is ruled by warlords, as I understand it. That's what I'd expect in a country without a government; a country ruled by men rather than laws.

Government simply doesn't ruin everything it touches. I could make a similarly facile argument about how the market ruins everything it touches, turning all of life into a uniform sea of brands, destroying geographic and cultural distinctiveness, as well as laying ruin to the environment and every other cost externality that isn't accounted for in the absence of a regulator to internalize those costs. Factories belching out fumes in foreign lands, child labour etc., all intermediated by the market so that you can buy your consumer goods in your well-lit mall without needing to care about the blood and bones ground up in the machine, because it's all hidden from you: all you see is a price.

I'm in favour of mostly-free markets, and very-free civil liberties. I want as little government as possible, within the scope for the society I personally would like to see. Government that starts a lot fewer wars would be a fantastic start.

But when people go on about how the customer just needs to be educated and the free market will do its work, well, I just sigh. I don't want to have to do that work, because I know (a) I don't have time for that, and (b) in any case companies will be motivated to spend a lot more resources fooling me and people like me than I even have. Information asymmetries are real, and they strongly favour the wealthy. I don't think that's fair, and it's not a society I'd vote for.

The grandparent - algoshift - is simply mistaken about health insurance, for example. The vast majority of health spending is in the final years and months of life. But elderly people have no motivation to reduce this spending; even if educated, why would they reduce it, when the alternative is death? The fact of the matter is, we spend too much money and resources keeping old people alive but on the brink of death. I don't think that's fair either.
GoDaddy Now Firmly Against SOPA
People certainly blab about Puppet more.

(Which suggest to me Chef is the one "winning". It is being used by the people who don't have the time to argue about which is better.)
Not really. If startups thought .Net was the better answer they would use it.

I released my first .Net based application when .Net was at version 1.1. I've developed with it consistently since then.

I'm getting ready to release a new SaaS type application in the first half of 2012. It will be based on an open stack. If I had based it on .Net I would most likely be in production now given the advantages of my background.

I would have loved to use Azure as a platform but I had one problem with it. I could not figure out what the cost would be at different usage points. Microsoft has transferred their licensing labyrinth from the Enterprise to the cloud.

BizSpark allows Microsoft to claim that their stack costs the same a FOSS stack but their claim is disingenuous. Once you get past the BizSpark time limit there is a vast nothingness available to software companies looking to plan their future in the cloud on .Net.
"Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers..."

At least it's honest.
Agreed. "Free speech (so long as we agree with it)" is exactly what we're opposing, here.
Ruby may be the darling of the startup industry, but how about the greater industry as a whole?
Not to argue about this particular decision so much, but in general the argument that you can't do X good thing because it's not possible for you to do the same in all similar contexts in your life simply doesn't hold water. It's your prerogative to draw the line for effort you'll allocate to this particular goal. Some decisions will fall below that line, and some above it.

It's basically saying you can't pick any of the cherries off of the tree, because some are on much higher branches than others.

That's fine; if you don't have the time to clamber around on a ladder -- e.g., research the ethics behind every company you give any money to -- you pick the low-hanging fruit. So when you can make a fairly low-cost choice to move away from a company with a history of dubious ethics that you already know of, you do it.

Or if you have an hour to spare, you can choose the single largest flexible expense in your life and improve your related decisions based on a little research.

There's always low-hanging fruit. If you want to make your life (and the world) a better place, that's where you start.
Alternatively, they just spend more money to reelect those politicians until their positions switch. It's not like SOPA proponents won over those constituents to win the support of their reps. Or is this supposed to be a principled stand?
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everyone who was around in the amiga scene days knows that kimble is a very 'special' person, to put it politely.

i love him for going all the way regarding the 'mega song' issue though. and besides that, he is one of the few (?) people who came back rather strong after going down when the 'dot-com bubble' bursted.
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Cool! What about S3 bucket support?
The MPAA has been having record profits, 2011 was a very odd year. I don't think the gaming industry has much to do with it.
Hollywood has political power far beyond its financial power because of its ability to influence voters. The internet industry has that power too, but it's afraid to use it.

If Google and Facebook were to demonstrate that power once, on an issue that most of their users will agree with, the industry would get a lot more respect in D.C.
> an attempted takeover of the democratic process by industry

As distinct from SOPA itself, which is an attempted takeover of the democratic process by industry.

The only difference from business as usual is that this time, Big Media picked a fight with people who can and will fight back. Hopefully in doing so, they have undermined their lobbying efforts irretrievably and will never regain the undue influence over legal policy they seem to have drummed up in recent years.
So what if people are horribly offended? Let them be offended. It's not like anything bad will happen. "Someone flipped me the bird, I found it offensive and the next morning I had leprosy!" (Riffing off Steve Hughes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycXuYzmzNg watch this, it's pretty much my whole argument)

It's a finger for fuck's sake. It's not hurting anyone. If you're offended by it you really need to grow up and stop living in 19th century Victorian England.

Yes, pictures of dicks and gore is disgusting, but a finger? That's just childish, and reacting to that is also childish.

The adult thing is to just ignore it.
In the short term: instant win. really. as stated by others in the thread, practically 100% of the internet start their days in one of these core services, google, facebook, yahoo, tumblr, twitter, etc.

In the long run though, dangerous move, as every politician alive in every(!) nation would start work on curtailing the obvious power in these companies hands demonstrated by such an event. but win? hell yes. no question.

Someone likened it with a "6k km meteor", aka world-killer, and that was probably spot on. On one hand I would love seing it, and think of how powerless all these politicians would feel, but fear indeed the results further down the line. politicians like power...
thanks for this. I'll begin each article I read now with a question.
I went to a VIP theater in Mexico City a few years back. Amazing. You get your own private cabana with drapes on the left/right and a fully reclining sofa that turns into a bed.

And they serve alcohol/proper meals.
Makes me sick every time to pay it too, I've gone to a lot less opening weekends where I would have to reserve online to make sure I could get a ticket.
"How do I undelete files or recover old versions of files?"

http://www.dropbox.com/help/11
Sorry but I still don't understand why deleting that picture is such big deal? Google has the right to build their community with the rules that they want and the people eager to accept those rules. Mr Sieger has also the right to complain and he did so that should close the case right?

I made an analogy yesterday between this site and reddit and the differences between the cultures on both sites. A lot of people downvote that post (not sure why because I wasn't say anything offensive) and that's the kind of things that you have to accept in social sites... There are rules.. You either accept them or just move on...
It's the startup I am working on - it's not launched yet but I can send you a link to take a sneak peek. What's the best way to reach you?
"Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities"

What bullshit. That's the exact opposite of "strongly opposed." That's the equivalent of "We're opposed to it because you are?"

GoDaddy can go burn. Hopefully they collapse as a company.
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Ars Technica, for the most part. Sometimes they get a little editorial, but they're far better than most others.
Same goes for you as I wrote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405908
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Thanks everyone for you input. I've decided to offer both (monthly and discounted annual). I will let you know the results!
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This article is in reference to a previous boosting by M G Seigler, not one by Seigler himself and this article is as much "pure fanboy trollbait" as anything published by Seigler.
By a factor of twelve? Wow, I had no idea. Thanks very much for your input! I have decided to incorporate the monthly option. Will be sure to share the results!
There is no amount of money that should be considered "too much" to keep this man as productive as he can be.

Seriously. If it costs 10 million pounds a year to run that chair, it's worth it, and the rest of humanity needs to chip in to help.
Thanks for the info. I've seen Norvig's post before and really liked it, it's nice to read it again.
The former. I wrote this to learn clojure. So I mean that a lorem ipsum generator is the new "Hello, World!".
And as already mentioned by others, the problem is that the procedure for getting software through that (and other confusing programs) is convoluted.

For a startup, messing with that is a distraction when there are equal-quality tools available by simple download.
Why you need to go to good college?
> Oh well, I guess it is javascript's lot in life to be hated and ignored.

Ten years ago, maybe. Today, JS is almost ubiquitous, thanks especially to the growth of AJAX. Never mind that tech like V8 has blazed new trails for JS far beyond the browser.
You are absolutely correct. However, representatives are not idiots and I think that it's likely that they will be aware, just like you are, that despite the incredible number of faxes/calls/emails they receive the number of people who actually care are likely to be only hundredths of a percent. Since it is unlikely that the politician will lose an election due to hundredths of a percent of a drop in their ratings, you can bet they will just turn their phones off for a few days rather than actually changing their political stance.

Keep in mind a company like Fox or Universal is in a position to offer them what amounts to free commercials on their networks. That is what this potential black out is competing against.

Update: I was unaware of this rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule. However, studios could still offer things like interviews for candidates that it doesn't offer to other candidates, which may not exactly be a commercial, but would have a similar effect.
"Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities."

That's a pretty weak "opposition". Basically GoDaddy now "opposes" SOPA because of a "lack of consensus", not because they oppose what SOPA stands for.

This sounds a lot like "Wait! Come back! I promise I won't beat you anymore! I was drunk and things just got out of hand!"
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What we're (or at least I) am opposing is government regulation of free speech. Corporations are allowed to regulate speech on sites that they own.
More PR to protect GoDaddy?

They don't deserve it.
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About Facebook: There's probably no serious competitor for people to switch to (Google+ isn't quite there yet) and the majority of Facebook's users are not "techies" that care about SOPA. But yeah, who knows, in the future..
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SMS is unbelievably insecure. I am a rank amateur but I have done things with SMS that should not be possible. I have emailed all the networks to explain the problem but none of them have responded.
Fair enough. We can at least agree, I hope, that tactically it would be a poor choice.
I moved my last (of those I'm bothering to maintain) today. That's a total of 25, I think, over the last three days.

BTW, if you're pasting in the domain and EPP key, make sure there are no spaces around the comma.

domain, key # bad
domain,key # OK

This seems to have tripped up my initial bulk transfer.
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https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/terms#termination

Nearly every provider has such a clause (including Nearlyfreespeech, Namecheap, and Gandi). I'd rather judge based on actions than on legalese.