skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author makes too many generalizations in this article.... My company uses Rackspace, which has been fantastic, and as far as I could find Rackspace has no demerits listed in the article. Common complaints like poor support or limited customizability have just not been issues so far. Maybe when we become huge and can afford racks of servers and such matters as hardware customization become relevant issues to us it will be time to make the switch to our own servers, but as far as I can tell, as long as the hosting company doesn't suck at certain critical service aspects like support, cloud hosting only helps small startups get off the ground more easily.
Interessting. If I put it in the context with megaupload, it basically means that .com is under the iron grip of us law (or any other copyright-y what ever law in the world) and if that doesn't work out you can arrest german citizens living in NZ operating a website owned by a company in Hong Kong for aleagly breaking us law. Wow, that explains why the web is speaking english.
How do I miss the time of the treestructred websites back the day when the internet was still 56k fast but free.
Great news for content owners, on the other hand.
How Cloud Computing Is Forcing IT Evolution
Firefox Plugin Reveals The Small Army Stalking You On The Web
Yep. It would be nice to see a list of added/removed features vs. Classic. For example we use the time tracking functionality for our invoicing needs.

Also, does the API (http://developer.37signals.com/basecamp/) stay the same?
Did you mean it's only fast when it's a small number, or does it fail at some point?

EX: works for 10005^2 and 12345^2.
hmm from 9 - 5, excluding lunch is 7 hours. from 7 to 12 is another 5 hours, so 12 hours a day. if you got mobile devices, add another 1 hour, so that's 13.

I'd trade some of it for time with a real human being, preferably someone that feels soft :)
Node.Philly 2012 - April 23th 2012 at The University Science Center in Philly
Why don't you just divide by three two times? This would be a lot easier to remember and most likely will be faster than the other method.
Interesting, although I was hoping for tips about those weird kinds of shoelaces that always come undone, no matter whether you double-knot them - suspect something to do with being circular cross-section, slightly shiny (why?), and having a large curvature radius that leads to slippage just with movement...

Anyone got a knot or a site recommendation?
Having spent too many hours in front of a computer every day I've just moved to Granada in Spain to redress the balance a bit. Working from home I'm now in front of the computer about 4-5 hours a day. The difference in daily output is negligible.
> if you don't want to piss away your money you will not get an iPad 3 if you own an iPad 2

I don't want to piss away my money, but that Retina display is what I'm after. I sold my iPad when I bought an iPhone because the display was just too damn ugly in comparison... I am excited about the iPad 3 for just this reason.
Hum, my experience (I was sound engineer in a previous life) is that the first thing to fix bad sound is to flatten the equalizer and to remove bass enhancer. Then I'd put the speakers on a solid table in a relative symmetry regarding the listener, while checking they have the correct phase. All the rest is rarely necessary.
I agree. $20/mo is definitely going to be too expensive for a ton of potential customers. I guess it's a luxury that 37Signals can not only afford, but will maximize their profit and I would assume they have some good historical data to back up the decision.

I do think that there is a magic $5-9/mo range that individuals will pay without thinking too much. Above that amount, they start equating a subscription with a trip to the movies or a (cheap) night out and you've lost them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (it's linked from the FAQ)
It works for any number, I meant "reasonably small", because for those it can be done mentally.
Huh? All their PCs improved little in 3–4 years, definitely on a level (or maybe even a bit worse) with what you get when you upgrade your iPhone or iPad every other year.

There is nothing happening with PCs, only boring spec-bumps and maybe a port more or less. The only interesting thing that did happen was the introduction of ultra-books – and even that was years ago.

CPUs and GPUs get faster, but PCs are already extremely fast. There is much more headroom for improvement with mobile devices, their spec bumps are actually good for something.

I don’t see the point you are making at all. Upgrading every other year gets you loads of improvements.

If you buy an iMac now you get the same old boring thing you could get three years ago. Do you really think non-nerds will be able to tell the difference? Heck, even I think that there is little to no practical difference between a 2012 and a 2009 iMac. They are the same goddamn thing (for all intents and purposes).
commercial is spelled incorrectly on the top right menu.
Where did timesheets go? Has anyone been able to find time tracking?
Deathmatch.io – A WebGL Multiplayer Game In Progress
That was the first thing that caught my eye too. I would tend to agree with the assessment that a perfect domain name is negligible compared to having a successful product offering. You can take that too far, but for the most part a domain name doesn't matter all that much. It's a stupid investment for a struggling entrepreneur to spend thousands of dollars for a new domain. I think another significant reason they decided to go ahead and purchase the domain now, is that it was part of a larger effort to rebrand the product.
Haptic thumbsticks add pull and stretch feedback to game controllers
Par for the course in the hardware world, one of the reasons why I'm very happy my soldering iron has retired.

The probability of a chip being eol'd for <insert random reason here> is inversely proportional to the number of pin compatible replacements made by alternate sources.
UK Manufacturing died because of the decision by the Thatcher government to privatize previously nationalized industries and abandoning the policy of full employment, happily accepting 2-3 million unemployed if it meant cheaper goods and services in the short term.

The unions certainly didn't help their cause, but it took two to tango to create the mess that is the UK economy.
This really is the biggest non-story of all time, being that virtually no-one actually lives in the City, and the decisions that the Corporation make relate mostly to boring municipal stuff.

I stopped reading Reddit about the time the entirety of r/uk was threatening to occupy twitter or something about this. Please don't bring it here too.
Cool, thanks I was sitting there trying to think why it would fail for large numbers. But, (x * 10 + 5)^2 = x * x * 10 * 10 + 2 * x * 50 + 25 = x * (x + 1) * 100 + 2 .
> total amount that the average user spends for apps

This is like complaining about the total amount the average user spends on web sites. Most of the web is free to the user and not supported by direct purchases of content by the user...
It's surely a disruptive service. The usage is very easy.
You solve in a few minutes the problem of privacy policy.
Can't wait to have a Tempest smartphone to destroy my pockets... Everyone knew those vulnerabilities existed, as they are exactly the same issues that affect desktops.
A job well done to @jasonfried, @dhh and the 37signals team!
Gandi.net Adds Support for DNSSEC DS Records
Also fun is squaring two digit numbers in your head: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/03/squaring-two-digit-numbers-in-yo...
You may all ready have a job and they do tend to get a bit upset if you take a week off to work for another company.
"the death of manufacturing in the UK is mainly due to the government totally failing to invest in R&D for the last 15 years or so."

Interesting. Why is it the government's obligation to invest in R&D (of manufacturing?), surely that's the responsibility of the manufacturers themselves?
You mean this Lunatic Fringe? http://fringe.jamescarnley.com/ and code at http://code.google.com/p/lunatic-fringe/.
I totally disagree, $20/mo for a service like Basecamp is not expensive. I pay $20-50/mo per month for a whole host of services (hosting, backup storage, payment processing, etc.) and don't really think twice about them since they're business expenses. FYI: I'm an individual who has a full-time job but does projects/apps at night with a separate LLC.
8-9 throughout the week. 2-3 on the weekends.

With these numbers, I'm not considering Hulu, which is my primary source of "brain: off" entertainment.
> The fact is though, if you don't want to piss away your money you will not get an iPad 3 if you own an iPad 2.

The sad other fact is that people who upgrade the iPad 1 may do so for much more frustrating reasons than blogs want to write about. iOS5's Safari and sometimes even Springboard are so slow on my iPad 1 that I am really tempted to upgrade to the iPad 3 just for that. Frustrating mostly because iOS 3.2 felt like riding a rocket and I don't use any new features introduced since then.
It's funny to think Trello is now competing with Basecamp by "underdoing the competition"!
Ask HN: what are the best resources and stats on ad supported sites?
What are the best contemporary resources for someone seeking to fund their exit from the corporate world via ads? What are your personal experiences and stats from putting ads on blogs, news sites and other delivery forms?
Of course EQ can help with room reflection! In a square room you'll have a resonance at a given frequency, and you can mitigate a bit this problem with an EQ. But usually EQs are used too add bass and do more harm than good.
> The only software jobs in the UK that approach the US in salary terms are in the City.

You can find considerably more interesting contract work outside the City that pays the same as a salaried role in the City - worth considering if you don't mind a little uncertainty, don't want to work overtime, and want to be able to switch around whenever things get dull...
Credit card transactions are also by design bound to the US. A transaction going from France to Germany, legal in both places, may still need to be routed through the US and hence controllable. And when all that fails, the US can pull on their extradition treaties to get governments to hand over anyone else.
It's a hard problem to solve, because you're selling disk based on capacity. Problem is, capacity is easy to figure out, but capacity at a specific performance profile is hard.

In an enterprise datacenter, a "fast" Tier-1 or Tier-2 SAN runs anywhere from $10-40/GB/Year to the end user. A "cheap" (and much slower) Tier-3 SAN runs anywhere from $1-15/GB, depending on utilization, availability, etc.

I don't think even those rates are possible with Amazon (with the exception of S3 object storage), because they don't know anything about their users. In the enterprise, you segment your users based on anticipated peak performance requirements. Amazon has no idea what your performance profile is -- and no idea whether it will change tomorrow.
It looks like they're gradually simplifying. They originally launched with a range of domains you could choose from: projectpath.com, clientsection.com, grouphub.com, etc. with a subdomain. Then it went to subdomains on basecamphq.com, and now just basecamp.com with no subdomains.
For many people, their current job might not allow this (this is true especially for those who are on visas). Also, many people might not want their current employers to know about their job search, and using a week of their vacation time for an audition project with uncertain reward, is just not practical for them.

I think the audition project is a good idea for people who don't have restrictions like the above, but should not be used to reject those for whom it doesn't make sense.
They're gone: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3110-basecamp-next-the-goodby...
LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous
> Raising VC is good for some businesses

As said before: The fact that people "celebrate" a funding event is really bass-ackwards when you think about it.

It says that the company couldn't figure out how to grow without bringing in a bunch of financiers, who have a low hit rate (3 go north, 3 go south, 4 turn into the living dead), who provided negative 10 yr returns even with Google in the portfolio, and who take 2-3% + 20% of exit from their own investors.

Definitely an excuse to drink, but not for reasons of celebration.

> And did I say our VCs became great friends and mentors, even through the tough times?

If you consider them among your friends, you have not hit the tough times.

They are your business partners. And when it comes time to sacrifice you in order to make some money you will be sacrificed.
Because if you want to actually oppose an idea, the least you can do is accurately represent it. There are far worse books than Rands; for example the majority of the holy books in existence currently venerated by the vast majority of the world's population in some way shape or form.

And yet to criticise these works is not to misrepresent the original statements into some largely inaccurate comic book characterisation and then proceed to dismantle it. If one is to attack the bible they don't first need to inaccurately summarise it as a survival horror work with a zombie protagonist agitating for the violent overthrow of the totalitarian Roman government at the time. Doing so just marks them as someone not to be taken seriously.

There are plenty of problems with objectivism, or if you want to delve into messy character assassinations, Ayn Rand herself. It is not necessary to construct these ridiculous parodies of strawmen and then proceed to whip them in as self righteous a fashion as is humanly possible.

There are kernels of good ideas in both Rand's work (people own themselves, and ought to behave in a fashion cogniscent with providing for their own lives and providing value of their own in exchange for value received from others. Beware people who claim to represent "the public" and want your value for no payment, because "the public" is a dangerously nebulous concept which can be and is warped in modern times in much the same way as "god" was in ancient times) and the bible (Do to others as you would have them do to you). If one needs to take anything from these works, perhaps they ought to focus on the right, rather than the wrong?
The trick seems to be a combination of both. Learning by rote in combination with an effective method seems to be key to strong number sense in kids. Take a look at the Triple Code Model (Dehaene & Cohen) for some more detail.
Reid Hoffman: the network philosopher
I am sure they A/B tested the new design, even though it appears somewhat less effective on a first look.
> I had a diff eqs textbook that used the word 'harmonic' in exactly the [incorrect] way I used it above

So you had a textbook with a mistake in it. What book was it?
I wonder if Play 2.0 will be released right behind Akka. I noticed that the release candidates were almost in sync with each other when I was checking out the commit history of Play20 on Github the other day.
New Mobile Ad/Engagement Network - Reward your users for their loyalty
Anybody who reads /(Marx|Lenin|Mao)/ as anything other than sub-standard Science Fiction is an idiot. Why waste energy debunking his imbecilic assertions (most of which have been obliterated by studies) that he presents as fact?
Rand opposed the domination of the individual by the State, and dramatically illustrated the snivelling scum who infest and control the Omnipotent State as a way to dominate those with whom they can't compete.
If you enjoy having bureaucratic control over all your decisions, instead of the freedom to try your ideas, possibly failing or possibly hitting big then join the criticism of Rand.
There's nothing wrong with being charitable and generous to others, unless it is enforced by the State. As a choice it is a virtue, as an edict enforced with deadly force it is slavery.
> Thats idea is lovely and all but Flourish never made it out of BETA after years of development.

I'm happy to see Flourish getting some notice, even though there doesn't seem to be a lot of love for it with the small mention. I'm happy Flourish user for well over a year now, and I feel as if Flourish's BETA tag is akin to Google's BETA tag. I honestly haven't run across a single issue with the library that would discourage me from using it in a production environment.

It's an unframework, it doesn't force MVC, but you know what? I don't need MVC for 90% of what I do. What I need to do is validate form input, accept a few file uploads, log that to a DB, kick off a few internal emails, and provide user feedback.

I think that some day I'll dig into Code Igniter, but as the only web developer/designer in the marketing department for a small company a tool that lets me stay agile and do less than conventional setups, as well as easily integrate into existing environments has been a godsend for me. It smooths out a lot of PHP's weird quirks, comes pre-baked with an amazing focus on security (oh thank god for your passion for security, @wbond), and in general just helps me get my job done.

Oh, and when people ask me what framework I use, I say "Flourish, it's like jQuery for PHP".

/fanboy

edit: One downside to Flourish is that I'm almost useless without it. What do I use to sanitize a POST variable again? How do I unescape before output? I've gotten so used to the Flourish classes I spend more time on Google than coding when I don't have access to it.
Measuring the Django Community: The Django community in 2012
I can see the lack of time tracking being a bit of a talking point, otherwise looks like a huge improvement.
This is really dangerous for the .com brand!

What are generic non country specific domains and is the new domain you have to own?
This is the reason why they are so popular, nobody uses .us exactly for that reason.

Is .co a replacement, it's similar to .com, short and non US based. Maybe this will make the domain indifferent, TPB has .se now as the primary domain.
More Guests At The Social/Enterprise Party: IBM, Escorted By Harmon.ie
It's hard to tell from the article if this was jack-booted thuggery, or if some kind of due process was followed to shut down an organization causing actual harm. Anybody?
Twilio Developer Blog: Lerner, a Webhook Notification System
Dollar Shave Club, How to Launch a Product
I know it takes quite a bit of effort but one of the things I'm really drawn to about any startup/site is if they have a video explaining how the process works.

Have you considered adding one of those?
Sencha updates framework for building native-looking mobile Web apps
The etiquette gap: Manners in the Facebook age
Very interesting! Are you thinking something more along the lines of Python's "batteries included" style standard library?

Also, it'd be great to move away from PHP's functions-in-global-namespace style standard library, towards having a set of more well engineered core OO libraries. The first examples that come to mind are: OO strings and collections libraries. I'm thinking along the lines of Ruby's Enumerable.
Hackers give Anonymous a taste of their own medicine
Looks like there isn't any time tracking in the new Basecamp. When you upgrade it says that won't be moved over. I wonder if this is to be added later or not many customers use it. At my previous company this feature is the reason we upgraded to a higher plan.
The TomTom GPS app on my iPhone takes up several GB
Worth thinking about it, the thing with the homogeneous nature. Also important during imterviews for programmers or engineers is if they know the market and / or product. It's quite a difference if you developing an iOS app game or some fancy cloud based ERP-sofware. This example works equaly well with ICE drive trains for cars or helicopter rotor blades. Programmer ain't euqal programmer. But that would mean that a trial project actually could help... I should think about it...
If you saw your competitor's roadmap would it matter?
You might not hear a pure 22kHz sine but any sound from, say, a harpsichord will have much off these highs, and some think it is a part off the sound, that one feel without actually hearing it. I'm not endorsing this view, sound islike wine tasting, a lot of hand waving and few solid ground.
PHP Ad Tracker: Reports and Records
In this lesson, we will look at the functions responsible for generating reports and manipulating the data in the ads table and advertiser table.
Being forced to lend to borrowers who could never repay is not a symptom of a free market. The debt-crash would be a prime example of the problem Rand argued against.
Corporatism (corporate-crony payoffs) are a disease which requires a powerful State. End the Fed, decentralize and shrink the federal gov't and encourage competition, small enterprise and see prosperity. Gov't handouts are addictive and destructive.
Sort of obvious. This hype cycle is so predictable that even the parodies are getting tired - the perpetual stream of half-baked critiques of Apple is just part of it. CNET's been pretty shameless about presenting some kind of Android/iOS horserace. I don't think any Apple product has escaped these kinds of dismissive critiques - the original iPhone was derisively compared to the Nokia N95 from the get go, the original iPad got an incredibly underwhelmed response, the iPhone 4's perceived faults overshadowed any of its breakthroughs, etc.

But this is one of the most profitable/important products by one of the most profitable and interesting companies in the world, so what do you expect?
I see posts like this regularly on HN (lists of stuff you should do to hire that top 1% of talent). What I don't recall seeing, though, is a post more along the lines of employment branding. I understand how for very small start-ups that may just be a waste of time but when you get to a certain point it seems like you're going to want to do something. That might just be having a labs.yourCompany.com blog, or releasing an open-source project once in a while. I think that great devs want to work places where they know the work is interesting/fun/whatever. It's a lot easier for you to get the word out via say a blog, rather than have a 1-1 conversation with someone over the phone to communicate the cool stuff you're doing. Just my 2 cents.
Anonymous Sabu was working for FBI to Trace down other LulzSec hackers
Real World Regular Expressions example
FAQ ME - free intro to my just-published book, FAQ ME
Next iPad will be the iPad 2S, not the iPad HD or iPad 3
I have never seen a report about the US government seizing a domain that also happen to include what most US citizens would consider due process. It's literally you wake up one day and your website is gone. In some cases people found out from a third party, such as the media asking for comment.
My son is going to flip. Thanks
Studio Neat (Glif/Kickstarter) Releases an App
>If I was taking handwritten notes in class id be carrying around a notebook.

If I wanted to deal with a bunch of loose notes, flipping pages finding what I want, unable to categorize them w/o ripping them out or have a notebook for each project/subject, I'd be carrying around (a) notebook(s).

Stylus will give me the freedom to quickly sketch, make notes, mail/print them on the fly without scanning, make edits, project it on monitors and screens, etc etc. TBH, it's probably more handy for designers than developers in this regard.

Unfortunately there isn't a stylus that's precise and responsive enough for what most people want…the only product that comes close I've seen is iPen, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipen/ipen-the-first-acti... unfortunately it is becoming quite a circus due to delays, refunds and complaints.

O well…
I recently registered a new domain name for a side project, http://recursiveuniver.se. Catchy domain names like this are a little passé, but I’m steering clear of .com indefinitely.
Possibly the only registrar worse than GoDaddy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions