skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a business decision (ie. Gee, one can make profit by imitating a competitor very closely), it's purely out of principle. I would never attribute building a Great Company purely from the imitation of other ones. Be original, even if it nets you less profit for more work versus ripping off someone else's work.
It will send a strong message for PIPA as well as the similar legislations in future. I still like to see google,facebook .. to come up with something creative on their front page.
Do you have a link to this API? Googling for "Chrome FileStorage" doesn't produce any relevant results.
As the OP more-or-less says, the best part of getting rid of things is eliminating your emotional attachment to the things, not eliminating the things themselves.

Having only fifteen things is, indeed, a pain unless you're a backpacker or a gypsy. But having an emotional attachment to a very limited number of things is an excellent goal. Then the other N thousand objects in your life are free to be acquired and discarded dispassionately, as your needs and goals dictate.
Can you name a single RSS service nowadays that doesn't auto-find the RSS feeds for you? Google Reader, and Netvibes, and Bloglines have all had auto-discovery for many years. (When I wrote a history of RSS back in 2006, most of the services I mention already had auto-discovery: http://www.category4.com/2006/10/24/rss-has-been-damage-by-i... ).

I think sites like PandoDaily.com make the reasonable assumption that you can just paste "http://pandodaily.com/ into your service, and your service will find the feed. I just tried this with my Netvibes account and it worked perfectly.
Sorry to worry you, I darkened the sidebars so as to suggest that they are a bit "loud" compared to the primary content. They only contain tertiary tasks, though I suppose that's arguable for the legend.

I like BustAName's AJAX-powered containment of the features, though a redesign is in order.

Aside from design considerations, you may want to look at how you can point users in the right direction before they arrive at the results page and then have to starting filtering or start over to achieve more desirable results.

For example, you could offer corrections to potential typos. If a typo is not detected (or disregarded), provide some likely criteria for the eventual results, starting with common scope limiters for domain names.

I acknowledge that your product name is "lean" but there are possibilities for domains that I can safely opine that a significant majority of users will be uninterested in, and I'm not sure from the results page effectively communicates whether those have been sifted out or not.

Seems there is still demand, and room, for simplified domain search. Cheers!
This is a great start. I built Instant Domain Search (IDS) almost 7 years ago, and have learnt a lot from the experience. Some quick thoughts:

1. There are no margins in the domain industry. Start thinking about building a hosting company. Your site is cool, but weebly.com and heroku.com are real businesses. I work full-time for Facebook, not IDS. (BTW, Facebook is hiring people like you, message me at http://www.facebook.com/beau if you're interested.)

2. It needs to be faster. For example, to squeeze another few hundred milliseconds out of our search, we built a distributed search infrastructure described here: http://instantdomainsearch.com/articles/faster_domain_name_s...

3. You should search names listed in the aftermarket and include them in your results. I've worked with http://www.buydomains.com/ for several years, and am happy with them. I can make an intro if you'd like.

4. Consider extracting words and doing a basic thesaurus search. We're doing something like that at http://instantdomainsearch.com/suggestions/

Hope this helps!
I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what CloudMine is. It looks like a server-side object store that also lets you execute server-side code, is that right? Is there a sample use case somewhere that I missed?
A portable monitor, keyboard and battery for that monitor will take about as much space and weight as an ultrabook anyway. You'll probably shave off a pound & half an inch and get similar battery life at most. The closest thing I can think of that would be as portable as a phone would be something like a laser keyboard and a mini projector built into one.
Hi,

I'm the author of the post. Your concern is valid and it's one of the reasons the Google+ account is verified.

Also, there is plenty of evidence that it's a real Googler's account. For example, when I blog on our official Webmaster Central blog, I link to this Google+ profile; for example the most recent post: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/better-pa...

Hope this assures you a bit!

Thanks,

Pierre
I don't think this is a good idea. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that many people depend on all over the world. Encyclopedias should not just switch off for political reasons. Books don't turn off. Digital information should not turn on and off either for any reason. A big red banner covering half the page can get the message across without actually making us unable to access the information stored in wikipedia.
@jimmy_wales : English only, but protest action is global for English.
What benefit do Vesper plugins have over plain gems?
Oh, I know that it is taught. I am also very aware of the strategy myself. I fully understand how I might start to go about ripping off an AirBnb or other startup. In fact, I would theorize I might be good at it. But despite it being something could turn a profit or that might even be easy (for me or the Samwer brothers) doesn't mean I am going to go off an do it. As my other reply says as well, it's about the principle of the matter. I don't value imitated or copied work, even if it means not doing it nets me less profit.

From an economic standpoint, this is probably irrational. For me, though, purely from an ethics and moral standpoint, I find it repulsive. Go off, be innovative, do something original. That's my internal compass, I guess.
Have t.co links in your Google Analytics? Find originating tweets w/Tortilla.
Award-winning teen-age science in action
Yeah you still have to apply if you were an existing TinyProj user.
> Encyclopedias should not just switch off for political reasons.

I believe this is the point of the demonstration.
I will say from first-hand experience that, technically, you are correct. However, much cash is generated through the friction of their purchasing path.
"Books don't turn off. Digital information should not turn on and off either for any reason."

Would SOPA care for those arguments?
There is currently no notification of this on their homepage. Only two days away, I think it would be good form to update.
My name is Henry and I'm a recent SF transplant, looking for a full time developer job in San Francisco. Started my programming career in SoCal on the Microsoft C#/ASP.NET/SQL Server stack, but realize that's not too popular up here. Expertise in CRM(mainly Microsoft Dynamics but also Salesforce.com and Saleslogix). Started a CRM programming blog and fell into freelancing/consulting for a couple small businesses for ~2 years. Moving on and interested in and in the process of picking up Python, machine learning and iOS development. Submitted first iOS app to app store this past friday(in review).
OP here. I've updated the items I own list (now 39!) and written a bit more about it here. http://andrewhy.de/minimalism-project-update-39-things/

The linked post up top is from May. Lots has changed since then.

Great discussion here. Always interesting how people look at the project.
It's not politics, it's survival.
SOPA PIPA Protest Page...
For the addicted (7.3 GB)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
I like the site :) but I wouldn't buy the domain from you via the affiliate link, I'd use my usual domain registrar once I'd used your service to check it was free.

I agree with the others saying this is a feature rather than a company. It's an awesome feature though :)
They're easier for non-programmers (I work with a lot of designers) to create and use. In fact, most of the plugins use gems and then add their own config and assets.
Right now, those are the essentials. Those two things are huge barriers to entry for many people trying to write mobile apps, and people love when we do it for them. Right now we are trying to cover our bases with the basic things that almost all mobile apps need, and then we will start exploring more exotic offerings. Keep on the lookout!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us directly at team at cloudmine dot me.
I think you read an awful lot that wasn't written there.
Responsive Web Design: 50 Examples and Best Practices
Responsive web design term is related to the concept of developing a website design in a manner, that helps the lay out to get changed according to the user’s computer screen resolution.
Page views and revenues would keep to exists if SOPA snuff their site in the future. It's about looking for the long term.
Ack, I got so frustrated at the beginning of the paragraph I didn't notice the author was making up his own definitions of monotonic and polytonic, and instead assumed he meant monophonic and polyphonic. My bad.

Anyway, I suspect the answer to your question is no, if done properly. That is to say, I believe if the computer caught all the rhythmic, dynamic, and pitch subtleties of the music, the music would still be interesting, if perhaps harder on the ears.
What's really interesting to me is the _deliberateness_ of the choices that Andrew is making: not whether those choices match some (given the debate over the term here) arbitrary definition of minimalism.

He's experimenting with a different lifestyle and what might come about by imposing artificial constraints upon himself which I think is really admirable.
If SOPA passes, Wikipedia could be taken offline forever. Is that really a preferable situation?

Also, if you're that scared, you've been given fair warning. Download a copy for your archives, so you can keep using Wikipedia while it's offline.
>Encyclopedias should not just switch off for political reasons.

Characterizing this as a "political reason" does a huge disservice to what the events of the 18th are all about. This "political reason" has the potential to ruin the internet forever. The point of the blackout is to give people a taste of what could happen under SOPA/PIPA/etc. And get them to call their representatives, and get the word out.

Reddit and HN squawking about a law won't do much on its own. Getting the word out in a meaningful way, meaning impacting sites that the average (non-techie) joe would access, has the potential to be much, much more effective.

Something to the effect of "THIS COULD HAPPEN PERMANENTLY IF LAWS LIKE THIS PASS".

Between Cheezburger, WP, and some of the other sites out there, this is going to be a very, very interesting Wednesday.

If you want to help, take the complaining you're doing now and direct it at Congress (or your local equivalent if you're not in the USA). You can thank them for these shenanigans.

EDIT:

Keep in mind, even if you're not in the USA, this impacts you (and I don't just mean the blackout). So much of the internet's structure is located in the USA (IANA, ICANN, registrars, etc) that any bad legislation here has potentially global reach. SOPA/PIPA is a good example of such bad legislation.
You should be able to help googlebot index the right content by using different HTTP status codes in the response. Also, although googlebot executes JS, in my experience it doesn't use it for indexing content. My guess is that it's primarily used for the instant preview and for verifying that you're not cheating by hiding SEO keywords on load or whatnot. This could change any day, of course.
Any known and reliable online mirror of the English Wikipedia?
To be fair, the parent commenter is the one who introduced the "[reliance] on an army of [poor, brown] immigrant workers" straw-man argument.
Tom Brown claimed (I'm not sure of it's validity, but let's say it's true) that he walked into a forest one day with nothing but clothes on and a Knife and walked out several years later feeling fine. THAT is minimalism.

Anyway, I don't think that this commenter is 'angry', he just doesn't feel like what your doing is really all that minimalist because you don't kill/grow your own food. Of course I'm not really sure I agree with him. You are minimalist in some ways and not others. I don't really see what's wrong with that.
Joyent Finds a Node.js Partner in Microsoft
Thanks, so en.wiki will be gone for the whole world.

Not sure how I feel about that as there is nothing non-US citizens can do.
Are Your Linux Skills Right for High Performance Computing Jobs?
Also on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3471726
So, what happens when I call my Congressman after learning about this on wikipedia and his office says "oh SOPA, that bill has been put on hold already since last week"? Won't many people get pissed at wikipedia?

Edit: I actually think they should call it off at the last moment. Save the nuclear option for another time.
Looks like a useful tool. I get an "Oops, something went wrong ..." when I enter "shop". Besides that I really like the concept of http://stylate.com/ to find domains for startups.
I find that Ramaze gives me the best of all worlds. Great for small stuff, great for large stuff, and anything in-between. And if something small becomes something large I don't have to switch frameworks.

Basically, if something is truly small I'll write a Rack handler. Otherwise I'll use Ramaze.
I think I meant FileSystem instead of FileStorage.

This is the page I used a lot for researching this project: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
Yeah... How exactly does he infer that the guy eats meat? And what does it have to do with only carrying a backpack's worth of stuff?
Personally, I think Arrington do have it's problems but I would not suggest the other writers to leave over it.
Talking about a previous company
I left my job at a small startup last month. I got an introduction to someone that startup is trying to hire from my network. This new contact wants to know what I think about the company before he makes a decision.

As part of my leaving the startup, I signed papers agreeing to not talk negatively about the company. How bad of an idea is to tell this new contact about my experiences? If I were to decide to talk with him, do you have any tips to minimize the chances of negative repercussions for me?
I agree. Taking a stand and putting up a banner, or a click-through page, etc is fine. But information services like Google and Wikipedia shouldn't actually be shut off in a way that makes the information inaccessible.
Good question, when I wrote that I was thinking "the United States government" which, post Cuban Missile crisis, might seem to be the people who don't necessarily need to approve but must not disapprove of such assets appearing in the western hemisphere. Sort of like the Russians objecting to radar systems in eastern Europe.

Generally when I look at the sort of receiving stations [1] that NASA runs they have a number of large steerable dish antennas, presumably a big data pipe from there to the rest of the NASA network.

Clearly something that is in the 'footprint' of satellites downlinking to the US includes sensitive military satellites, so one might want to mitigate interception of those signals.

So for Phobos-Grunt and others it is more than just 'getting data from LEO' its also being able to "look into" LEO with RADAR perhaps to find out where that dead hunk of metal is that should be sending data, or more likely its pointing its transmitter at an odd angle and you can only get its transmissions when its uncontrolled slow spin points is somewhat 'down'.

[1] http://www.gb.nrao.edu/ovlbi/OVLBI.html
To me, the real lesson from SOPA and PIPA is that the tech industry needs to spend a lot more money bribing (oh, excuse me, lobbying) senators and representatives to counter all the money flowing from the entertainment industry.

Also, it's an embarrassment that BOTH of California's senators not only support PIPA, they are listed at co-sponsors.
Have you looked at the bond markets recently? Total return doesn't need to be 1,000-10,000% to make a good investment.
Because pg has other priorities. All the whining in these threads about this is seriously irritating and derails the topic as it gets voted up past relevant things. Do it in its own post if you need to - which has already been tried several times. Just keep it out of on-topic discussion please.
Avoid Tables; Take the Stairs
In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise
If you seek only comments to agree with the post, go to Reddit. If you seek only comments that disagree with the post, go to Hacker News.

Frankly, both have been a HUGE turnoff for me lately.
A Glance on The Brokerage Definition
What does eating meat and flying in planes have to do with limiting the number of items he carries with him? And how exactly do you infer that he relies on an poor, brown immigrant army to clean and cook for him?
Show HN: Your dedicated server provider is ripping you off. Here's how
Checked out iheartpy. Nice and interesting UI!

THough I wonder it asked me to sign in using my Google account. Is there an option to use the site further without signing in?
If Java had stack allocated objects there would be no need for new interfaces nor new syntax.
URDU SEX STORIES: Kanwari Hira Na Na Kartay Chud Gaye
What do you like to use for your scraping? I used python/BeautifulSoup back in the day but there may be better options now. Did you spoof other browser headers or did people really not care?
Try http://ge.tt
Yup. All great projects but jQuery Mobile is just too damn slow. Drives me crazy.
http://www.answers.com if you choose "Reference topics" above the search box.
Just be honest and say "I'm sorry but I signed separation papers that mean that I"m not allowed to say anything negative about the company."

:-)
> But information services like Google and Wikipedia shouldn't actually be shut off in a way that makes the information inaccessible.

And that's exactly what SOPA would do. Permanently. Nobody is preventing you from accessing today's Wikipedia content on your own this Wednesday - go download a copy of their db right now if you're that scared and fearful of a day without it. The point is a strong demonstration of what the world would be like with SOPA/PIPA. It's necessary.
Do you use twitter or have a blog?
Many Core processors: Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong
There's also some very useful personal observations on HN that add more detail to a story when people have more knowledge about it than the article. I think this is a valid place for first person.
The politicians will claim it is dead, then name it something else or not name it anything at all and just tack it onto the end of some other legislation and pass it when no one is watching.

In the USA, they're bought and paid for.
I also stated I would donate money as well, looks like I must now. :)
They can complain on Twitter and Facebook which will raise awareness to their American friends who can do something about it.
Looking forward to bringing my body, taking up some space and voicing my concerns to the Senators.

Tell me good Sir... what does democracy look like?

Media will be there, so bring your A game.
I'm really curious to know if anyone has experience with this. On the one hand, kids like building games, so Scratch and Alice seem like a good idea. On the other hand, those aren't "real" languages, so I think...why not just teach kids how to actually write code? I'm suspicious of how we dumb things down for kids. Anyone have experience teaching kids to code, either with Scratch/Alice, or another language?
Will CRdata.org (R related cloud computing service)  shut down?
I disagree. It's unfair to label Wikipedia as simply an encyclopedia. It's much more than that - it's part of the Internet ecosystem.

A 24-hour blackout on only the English version of the site is fairly reasonable to raise awareness of an issue as important as SOPA.
Forecast 2012
Please don't download this if you don't need it. It's kindof a waste of wikipedia's bandwidth.
How I imagine Launch pages to look like
There are two issues at hand:

1) Convenience.

2) Conversion rate (from visitor to subscriber).

Not having an RSS icon makes it less convenient for the user and "out of sight, out of mind" guarantees you less subscribers as well.

Why less convenient? Well, consider your workflow:

1) Double click in the URL address bar.

2) Copy.

3) Type in or click on your RSS reader bookmark (e.g., Google Reader).

4) Log in if you haven't already.

5) Click "Add Feed".

6) Paste the URL.

7) Click OK.

I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with it. Just that I find an RSS icon less cumbersome.

If you are a technical blogger, not having an RSS icon means shooting yourself in the foot and providing a disservice to your readers (particularly now that some browsers have stopped autodiscovering feeds and presenting you with their icon in the bar).
I wonder, who does the average American trust more: their Congressman or Wikipedia?

(also: Wikipedia can easily put in a line next to the "Call your rep" section addressing this. I don't know about you, but "on hold" doesn't sound very final to me.)
A friend of mine is working on that auditable client-side system you mention:

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
No. The straw man is not the claim that OP is reliant on such people. The straw man is the response, which distorts the argument from one of

There are certain people upon whom you rely and are not acknowledging

to

You must have an army of personal slaves

so that he can conveniently dismiss it with a laugh.
One important information is missing here: the IP address of the crawler, the official Googlebot can then be identified. There are so many bots out there disguised as Googlebots, most of them do weird things: scanning for log-in pages, sending POST requests with spam, searching for vulnerable sites.

The Googlebot has been seen using POST requests and executing JavaScript for some time now. There is even an official article on this topic on the Google Webmaster Central blog:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/11/get-post-...
(from Nov. 2011)
Hopefully, Wikipedia explains on their site that even though it may seem like it's "dead" for now, the battle is far from over.
Nice. If someone for Searchify is here, I would love to know whether you think you'll be out of beta before April.
it's kind of neat to re-load the QR-code quickly -- you can see that some parts are refreshed constantly, while other parts only refresh every few seconds. Presumably this has to do with the expiration behavior...
Thanks, I didn't realize it's this bad. My only touch base with Java has been through Clojure.

This is just horrible. What braindead system forces you to check exceptions on closing a file handle? If everything failed silently and just produced 'null', the code would look like:

InputStream in = new FileInputStream(new File("test.txt"));
if (in) {
...dostuff...
in.close();
}

Now, that you can grasp with one glance. I'll trade the ability to write something like that with having to use malloc()/free() any day.
And to save a few bucks.
Worth considering adding social handle search to this (for example twitter handles and facebook pages to see whats available)
They didn't mentioned the filename at first. What they actually said was : "And a Basecamp user uploaded the 100,000,000th file (It was a picture of a cat!)".

So people got the impression that they actually saw the picture. Hence the backlash.

Users of cloud services may be aware that engineers, sysadm or dba may occasionnally see their data but they certainly prefer not to think about it.
I typed in a word and I got a bunch of domains that were already registered and not enough domains available.

So obviously, get more domains available.

It's a great service though, if you can make it more useful.