skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$1k/day for lunch and dinner is fine once you have 20 employees generating $300k/yr each (i.e. a salary of $100k, costs/benefits of another $50k or so, and generating more than they cost by 2x).
That would be better than trying to categorize things solely based on the historical convenience of the US Postal Service.

Myself, I might approach the problem the other way - trying to infer the existence of a neighborhood-like structure in terms of similar homes which are close to each other (apply clustering algorithms), and then measuring to what extent these structures overlap. This technique would hopefully place the 4th-and-King-at-Caltrain high-rise apartments and condos apart from the 19th-and-Arkansas single-family and converted-single-family homes.
Looking for constructive criticism on our Pingdom Killing Start-up
> It's a weird, twisted reality we live where 6 months is considered too long to reach 100,000 users.

I think it's not so much considered too long as considered too long when a direct competitor does it in a week.

If one platform is growing at an explosive rate and the other one is struggling to get users, there's not much you can say beyond "second platform is struggling (comparatively)"
that's not a very reliable server if it's $1000/year. Are you really trusting that with data that's so important your company will go out of business if you lost it? Are you trolling?

But the real cost is the time people spend working on it. Sys admins, programming the process to get it onto the server, etc.

I don't think any of the data I have in s3 would cause my company to go out of business if we lost it. Most of them are thumbnails from videos that could be regenerated.
This is awesome -- it seems to work really well for your team.

Our startup is more likely to go to the range after meetings or with customers, and hit up a steakhouse or sushi bar. Or maybe order a grass fed wagyu cow or berkshire pig and consume 10-15 pounds a week each :)

It's nice that the startup ecosystem supports diversity.
Because I don't own it. Tends to happen when you work as an employee :)

As far as I know, if we're really lucky it lingers as a backup somewhere. I don't think anybody is actively using it, or even looking at it.
Yeah, I really think this person would be better off moving to the bay area (which seems to be the plan) and getting a job at a reasonable tech company (where no one cares either way about your sexual orientation, gender identity, etc., except to the extent that you want to get the best candidates to apply/accept, and thus don't want to exclude pools of people intentionally or unintentionally), vs. trying to start an incubator (without money, without any experience or special skills, and in a saturated market...).
Agreed - the big difference to the nerdier bits of minecraft here is that it seems, in comparison, absolutely trivial to copy complex concepts in 0x10c.

In minecraft, you might be able to load the map for yourself or, if you're already very knowledgeable, copy parts of it into your own map. But building your own x-bit-CPU in minecraft is a herculean task where even the block-by-block copying takes a lot of skill, while in 0x10c, you basically only need to know Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.

I guess the biggest change will be when Notch introduces interface to those DCPU-16's. Because that's when you have to start adapting code to your own situation in the galaxy. Still, however, that will provide for a reasonably soft learning curve.

What will drive adoption and innovation is the competition of "I can do X" and "I want to do X" in the marketplace of ideas. It's very solid in minecraft, but if Notch sets the right incentives in 0x10c, I could see this getting a surprisingly broad userbase as well.
Actually RIM has added a lot of the features of Google Sync into the core of the consumer-focused BIS service. (thus, Google Sync is less necessary.)
Thanks! That's the basic idea: many people are already charitable and make donations of money fairly routinely.

Why not do that plus attach a little bit of local significance to those donations? It allows you to say to the powers-that-be in your community, "I am donating this $50 to the American Cancer Society as a bounty on you fixing this particular problem with [insert whatever it is you want done here]."

Alternatively, you can mark the donations as bounties that are released to the charities when the tasks complete. This would provide some incentive to those who can actually do the work to see that the tasks get completed.

It's an untested concept, but I'm giving it a serious try. I hope to convince a local government or business to do something that the users want done soon.
Oh don't get me wrong I absolutely think they should be upgrading the WP7 phones to WP8. The fragmentation in Android is such a huge pain. Building apps for 2.2 because I have to sucks when 4+ is out. I was just suggesting the magnitude of the problem isn't as big as it is on Android, assuming they don't make a habit of it and WP8 upgrades for a long time.
The feds are trying to have the servers wiped and evidence destroyed. Dotcom has tried to stop this as he believes the evidence on the servers is crucial for his defense.

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-host-refuses-to-delete-us...

The government's reaction to server host Carpathia refusing to destroy all the evidence that Dotcom claims exonerates him is to announce that they are considering filing criminal indictments against Carpathia.

http://torrentfreak.com/us-megauploads-hosting-company-might...
Agree - I believe it was the poet Kabir who said "if you haven't lived something, it isn't real".
One Pass shutdown is most interesting to me. It isn't old cruft that isn't interesting to Google anymore, it was a pretty bold year old forward looking project that launched with fanfare (mostly due to the in-app purchase controversy of time) and apparently just fell flat. Replacing it with a more Googley type of business like Customer Surveys is probably for the best, but seems like a retreat.
Why not link to the horse's mouth: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-sp...
I absolutely disagree for exactly the reason you mention in your first sentence. It is a big grey area. There is no clear line between what is acceptable and what is not. Rather than censor, we should act like adults and refuse to listen to racists. It is not the government's role to decide that for us. When they do, they almost always get it wrong somehow and often corrupt the process to their own benefit just like is described in this article.
Whats the deal with the guy in horsehead costume?
I would say that CPython, PyPy and Stackless are in pretty strong competition in different areas. PyPy only supporting 2.x seems to be a relatively unimportant metric given the slow adoption of 3.x. As for it being experimental, perhaps technically but I do believe its used in production in many places. From what I know Stackless gets a large portion of its support from CCP games due to its use in Eve Online. I'm sure there are others but its use case is relatively unique.
You're right, I should probably retract the "lying your face off" bit. The points are ... supportable.

Still, cherry picking virtually all the bad points out of what is clearly a very positive review[1] to support a decidedly negative "short version" for an online argument is just terribly dishonest. Please. You two should be ashamed of ourselves. Either make points of your own or stay silent, don't claim that Ars Technica said something they quite clearly didn't.

[1] It amuses me greatly that you try to spin even that. Oh, they're only saying positive things because you know (somehow, from facts not apparent in the article) that they really mean them in a negative context by comparison with a piece of hardware they aren't reviewing. You should consider going into politics.
Dunno about their business prospects but as a consumer I've found myself using them and LivingSocial more and more. Not restaurants, but things like yoga classes, massage, museum exhibits etc.
Very few (although it does happen), because generally law enforcement takes a lot of time and great care to build a case. They may allow a drug gang to operate for months or years before busting them. This case seems rather rushed.
It's a bit of a stretch to group banks, Catholic churches, public schools, and city councils under the same heading of "Our Greatest Institutions". It's not even clear that their alleged decline has a common cause.

Having said that, I cautiously welcome our newfound lack of trust in these institutions. We have often given too much trust to those who hardly deserve it. Let them wither for another decade or two, hopefully to be replaced by a new set of open, global, and decentralized institutions.
Using Groupon at a restaurant is like telling the waitstaff, "Hi I'd like you to treat me like shit tonight."
Clearly, they do not mean this in the way that you're implying. Amazon is not about to change their business model to become a professional services company. They are still retail first, cloud second (though that may change, of course).
Actually submitted that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869567
"Can you bear my Northern English accent?"

Your Northern English Accent sounds very professional. Like a BBC news correspondent. Don't ever worry about it. Accents in general stand out and make a person very memorable.
Turning on Wi-Fi, and using that for data, is way more energy efficient than mobile data. The device is saving power with Wi-Fi.
Why the asterisk in the title?
I think if you're positioning yourself as a "Pingdom killing start-up" (I didn't know Pingdom needed killing? Are they that evil/bad?), I'd put the feature comparison, or a subset of that, front and center on your website.
Maximizing your performance and reliability of cloud applications
I haven't really noticed the pall. LinkedIn and Jive are doing very, very well on the public markets. As far as the private markets, valuations and acquisition prices don't seem to be, ahem, slipping too much.
(1) The comment you're replying to mentions the fact that the government is not taking his property.

(2) He's living in his house now.
The article failed to convince me of the truth of the thesis proposed in its headline. Seems more a hit piece than anything solid or impartial.
Easily the best part of this photoset is that it's hanging in a spot labelled "wrench".

I have never seen PHP explained quite so succinctly.
I read this as a "501 Not Implemented" developer. Which doesn't really seem like a good thing to shout to everyone.
that's true. It's not a bad thing to acquire that many users in a slower rate (just not too slow). You don't want everyone using your product in the beginning when it potentially has warts and all.
Once you have looked behind the curtain of government wheeling and dealing at such multi-billion situations you tend to believe that what Kim Schmitz is telling might actually be the closest we get to the truth.

Now we should all think about how such a case would/will be handled in a few years time based on the changes to civil rights / Internet regulations / totalitarian powers currently in the pipeline across most western societies.

2015:

I guess you will not hear about it other that a few of those who lost their files and were not immediately constraint with gag orders will mentioning it on some low frequented boards. Sites like TorrentFreak will then immediately taken off the net / silenced by gag orders.

A brave new world we are looking forward to - the .... are just practicing in the moment and will eventually get better over time.
Until the router owner uses signal strength for triangulation - then they know when you've changed.

Of course, you could lie to this system and have signal strength varying wireless cards.
I didn't downvote you, but, on the surface, your question is nonsensical. A registrar provides only one useful service - "Identify what the DNS servers for this domain are." That's what you pay your annual fee for, so, to ask "does name cheap let you do your own name server on your own domain for free" doesn't make sense to most people.

Indeed, it's the _inverse_ that is somewhat rarer, which is providing DNS services for a domain for free. Not all registrars provide free DNS services in addition to being a registrar.
I treat it as an instant credibility demerit against journalists and headline-writers who casually group Groupon with other completely different, more tech-heavy, more honest companies.
The less discussed, other sinister plot at Groupon
Experience itself may not be worth much in our rapidly evolving field, but a good design sense is. Some engineers naturally have it, whereas others mainly gain it through experience.
My version of PHP:

It's a really slow car that makes it really easy to get to one simple destination that everyone wants to go to, and it provides many different routes to get there. If you try to go over the routes that other cars take, it breaks down. All the professional drivers hate it because it's not a "driver's car".
Open Educational Resources in China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects
I know, right?

For his next hit piece, that NYT "journalist" should write how Andreeson Horowitz are losers because they failed to buy enough Apple stock at $8 a share.
How the Media Has Shaped the Social Security Debate
He meant the seized servers
I really like what you guys are trying to do here. But, I think your sign up flow needs some clarity and maybe some a/b testing with an app like Myna (mynaweb.com).

For instance, I currently require 3-7 clicks to understand the entire offering and how they compare cost wise. This needs to be done to 2 clicks max.

Also, your primary call-to-action needs to stand out on the landing page, above the fold.

There are bunch of other optimizations I see, but for the first cut this is really good.

Best wishes :)
Oh, and before everybody starts with the PHP sucks blah blah blah, "you should use a language that's ideal, not any one that works", I would like to denigrate you for speaking English. It's not the best language! It's clearly inferior! Everyone should speak Esperanto!
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Out of curiosity what school did you attend? A 7-course workload and that GPA is ridiculously good.
It "might", but in this case, it gives you exactly what you want.
Oh god Lotus, very few things are worse than IE6, VERY few.
"But that's not what you get from a software engineering position at the tech giants. You get to maintain old code."

I wouldn't say that's true in general. It's going to be a mix a both. But improving/fixing old code will often teach you a lot more than writing new code. You can both see clever things that other people have done and bad design decisions that are now causing you problems.
What exactly is it supposed to be an acronym for? MAFIAA at least has a clear meaning ("Music And Film Industry Association of America"), but FBIAA seems to only stand for "Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association", which doesn't have anything to do with copyrights.
Went through this recently and it's great. Bootstrap is a nice addition -- I know people complain about too many Bootstrap sites, but developing something that looks good right off the bat is highly satisfying.

The only problem I ran into is that when using spork and guard, the test environment didn't always get reloaded (not sure if I recall the exact conditions in which that happened) and so I got some unexpected errors/test failures on occasion (resolved by restarting spork/guard). There's a stack overflow entry on this, iirc.
This is the only cool thing.

All formerly cool things are urged to return to their homes and resume the lives they led in the before-time.
Just created an account and it looks interesting. Some random thoughts, take them for what you will:

1. The differentiating factor is the 5-second check interval, yes? Clearly, I am not the target audience for that, but I suppose it could be of interest for some people. The argument seems to be that there is a measurable difference in the ability to react to an outage if you are notified within 5 seconds versus 60 seconds. That is true, but I suspect that even at my best, it would take me at least another 5 minutes to do anything about an outage.

2. It's not clear on the demo account tier how I would receive notifications. On the Probe editor, it shows that I will be notified, but not how. I presume by e-mail at the e-mail address I used to sign up (since you don't have anything else yet). But it should probably be more clearly indicated. Aha, elsewhere on the site it's clear the notification is via e-mail.

3. Overall the graphic design looks a little too "templatey," if you know what I mean. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a designer so I don't have any grounds to criticize design. Nevertheless, a few things could probably improve the look & feel:

a. Slightly tone down the color depth. Right now, many different sections of the page are all popping as if they are accent or highlight colors.
b. Commission some custom icons. I don't have any drawing skill, so I too use stock icons. But considering how heavily you utilize your icons, the icons are important for you. The icons have no site-specific character.
c. At the "Detect Portal," the content of most interest to me--the list of monitors--seems among the most diminutive and unimportant visually speaking.
d. Padding, margin, and spacing. The icons shouldn't touch the borders of their containers. The label on the "Create Check" button looks off-center vertically.
e. Terminology. The page names are a little weird; the page title doesn't seem to change? Also, while I understand what you're trying to do with the main navigation along the left, it's a little odd to click "Detect" to get to a list of "Checks" which are then called a "probe" in the URL.

Best of luck!
Nasa Reaching New Heights - Whitehouse
Advice for startups - fail fast and fearlessly
dunno, Megaupload is now famous in a way it never was before. If the site somehow reopens, there will be attention.
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"It is a very restricted subset of Lisp. There is no GC, and thus no data structures or run-time closures."

Ah, disappointment. :)
While the premise of the article is political, the reason I posted it was for this quote:

Krauthammer suggests that if China succeeds in putting astronauts on the Moon by 2025, as that country plans, they will have “overtaken” the United States. How absurd! Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in 1969. How does China managing this feat fifty-six years later, if this happens, amount to “overtaking” us? Obviously, the United States could repeat its lunar feats of the 1960s and 1970s if that were the next most important thing to do in space exploration for the money. But it isn’t! We may well return to the lunar surface again as one of many destinations in the future, but for now, our immediate, more scientifically rewarding goals include sending astronauts to an asteroid in the 2020s, and Mars in the mid-2030s. They bring scientific and technological challenges worthy of a great nation and a true world leader.
The thing I like most about using bootstrap together with less is just how easy it is to override the default styles. You can use bootstrap just to get something in the ballpark, and then just tweak it to get to something that's final.
Groupon falling down: Market valuation approaching old Google buyout offer price
From Rackspace to Engineyard: Diary of a moving Rails app
That's pretty much legalized tyranny then.
Do you use anything like a trigram index (see rsc's wonderful posts about how Google Code Search worked, and https://code.google.com/p/codesearch/ for a Go implementation) to speed up the regex codepath?
I predict May will be a very cruel month for Groupon. Around mid-month, three big things happen:

• they have to report their next-quarter results, the first reporting after they belatedly recharacterized a profit as a loss. They'll be watched like a hawk, and even if they report good results many will have doubts.

• the 6-month lockup on many insiders selling their shares expires

• Facebook goes public. Contrasted against Facebook and other newly-public real-profits, non-deceptive-accounting tech companies, GRPN will stick out as the shifty exception. It won't have the halo of being mentally grouped with other more solid companies much longer.
> A brave new world we are looking forward to - the .... are just practicing in the moment and will eventually get better over time.

But of course, we don't care enough about all of that to bother using censorship-resistant technologies like Freenet or Tor hidden services because The Web is so much more efficient and convenient...

(Not trying to blame you -- I'm guilty of the same laziness myself.)
Oh, absolutely. Earliest one I'm aware of is Bach's "Art of the fugue", where he embedded his name as a third voice.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BACH_motif
Ms Pac-man versus the Ghosts
The Design of a Signage Typeface
I like this search: http://livegrep.com/search?q=is+a+hack
So does this mean that all of the assets that were seized from Kim Dotcom were illegally seized (especially the assets in NZ)?

If so what does this mean for Kim Dotcom going forward? Does that mean he gets back all of the seized assets, and start rebuilding MU?
Anonymous Hackers target F1 website in Bahrain GP protest
A Judge dismissed a lawsuit regarding a Ferrari that the Feds accidentally crashed while joyriding in it.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/10/11/feds-off-hook-for-...
VCs remain cautious as dollars, deals start low in 2012
I'm using a different data structure -- a suffix array -- but the concept is pretty similar. I started work on this before Russ released his codesearch implementation, but I did read his blog posts while I was working on this.
Or, you have two more realistic options:

- Present the coupon when settling the bill
- Let your server know upfront that you will tip against the price before the coupon. And then do it.
I don't know about "re-election" pawn. But this whole thing is certainly a pawn in the game between popular media consumption and rights holders. I really can't see left or right taking a stand in favor of Mega's position in this.
Given how the page fared on HN, she's probably right.
Is there an equivalent CLI tool? (Preprocess a tree of files, possibly keep it in RAM as a daemon, and answer queries in realtime.)
This is a nice idea, and I'm sorry for being so negative, but: isn't this just a summary of HN news & comments, but in audio and we can't vote and most of us will already know the subjects (since we have read the links on HN)?
Isn't this the sound of a company that has reached it's practical limit of growth?
That's a good point, although https://www.google.com/search?q=%22domain+registration%22... still has NameCheep first and "name" is no longer bold.
Ask HN: What's the new karma level for downvoting?
I find the UI kind of ugly. I do like the idea of having a lighter weight posting/record interface.
Does anybody else just see this as the market being smart after seeing what real money Groupon is/isn't making?
Oracle v. Google - Day 4 Filings; Why Are APIs Hard to Develop?
> my bottom touchpad is configured in X to be 100% scrolling

How exactly did you set this up? I tried Googling for it, but nothing relevant came up.
You’re recommending a breach of trust/privacy by making this public — obviously the right thing to do is contact them directly & privately.
I can quite easily see this as a move by the Obama DoJ to mollify the content industry after SOPA fell through, so they wouldn't follow through on their threat to not donate. Colour me jaded, but I can easily see him (or any recent US politician) doing that.
I can't articulate how much I love that they set it in centered Comic Sans.
i just hope that the company goes bust before the lock-up expires. i'd rather see VCs write-off another bad investment rather than seeing that stock be dumped to pension funds.
I like it, but what I really liked about the idea was the network.
Mild intoxication can actually boost creative problem solving
Not to mention WHOIS privacy.