skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why they are this dumb. It's like buying bad press. Did they really think this wouldn't get out and make them a mockery? Would it really cost that much to continue providing something to these people forever, so they wouldn't have to say the lifetime is over? Dumb dumb dumb.
Mobile app developer.

Hardware: Lenovo T400, 8GB RAM, Core 2 Duo (due upgrade) + 50" Samsung Plasma display.

OS: W7 x64, OS X ML.

Platforms: Android, iOS, Blackberry Playbook Android emulator.

Technologies: Java, Objective-C, PHP, JSON, Google App Engine.

Unit testing on Android: Robolectric.

IDE: Eclipse and Xcode.

Deployment: Google Play Store, App Store.
Did you build it on something like Parse?
...I'm not denying that - I'm wondering why, for example, an iOS developer might obtain iCarousel from Binpress rather than GitHub.
There's nothing wrong with promoting yourself, just makes more sense to keep philosophy in a separate blog than your advertising. I was just answering the why else portion.

Edit: Grammar
Don't do this. Pick good defaults. Options are for nerds, simplicity is for real people.
Didn't realise either of those points. I guess that adequately explains my wondering. What's amusing now are the insecure defensive posts and the downvoting.
BTW, I too have moved to the Solaris hosting.
Personally, I think it's much more likely any random internet companie's life is a lot shorter than my own.
I host three sites on Linode, lowest plan at $20/mo. They're excellent, as just about everyone can tell you. It's a full install of a Linux distro of your choosing, any software you want. It's as good as having a Linux machine sitting in your office.

However, $20/mo might not be the lowest price you can find for two low-traffic sites.

edit - I should point out, I host three low traffic sites on one low-end Linode instance, so that' $20/mo flat for three sites. I also use it for compiling code (I can compile code anywhere from my phone!) and testing out new features for various bits of software, so it has more use than just hosting.
Your website says "I get stuff done, and well".

A Hire Me on such an app is a big plus.

I've sent an email offer to you.
Just some alternative thoughts that are sort of nuanced, but no one talks about for some reason:

1) Synthetic ETFs could pose serious problems and most investors are not familiar with the difference between them and physical ETFs nor are they aware if they even have them in their portfolio. This is a quick read that summarizes part of the problem:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4407fb24-edc4-11e0-a9a9-00144...

2) How do you choose the correct ETF. How do you choose between emerging markets nd US, etc. Picking a broad market ETF is probably safest, but there is even a variety of those with different features.

3) Tracking Error can cause ETFs to outperform or underperform by huge amounts on occasion. This article refers to Vanguard’s telecommunications services ETF which underperformed by 5.7%! http://www.investopedia.com/articles/exchangetradedfunds/09/...

4) Compared with no load funds, ETFs can be expensive due to trading fees. Obviously if you buy and hold great quantities of money it isn’t an issue, but it should be considered in your investment.
I'm curious, and would love to hear FBers comments on this: how many shares do employees typically have? At what price point (or were they RSUs)? What's the vesting period?
I think this article gives Adobe too much credit, for example:

Virtually all the HTML5 video you’ve ever come across is just an embedded H.264 video in an MP4 wrapper. Phones are very good at decoding this kind of file without draining the battery. Flash could never compete with this kind of built-in performance.

Flash uses h264 (among other things) for video - there's no reason (that I'm aware of) that the flash runtime couldn't hook into the system library and run the video decode on the GPU.

Flash has always had great authoring tools, and some awesome API features (e.g. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cirrus/ - the tech behind chatroulette), but its performance has always sucked on every platform except Windows, which spells doom as Windows' relevance dwindles.

There's no fundamental reason for this - plenty of software manages to work well cross-platform. The cause of Flash's demise is a simple failure to execute, nothing more, nothing less. A valuable lesson for hackernews readers, perhaps. :-)
Except that those are being cancelled as well - http://articles.latimes.com/print/2012/may/05/business/la-fi...
Seems a little odd, surely with the cheaper RAM, far more powerful CPUs and inexpensive disks these days, they could spend a few $$$ and burn a couple of U , keeping their customers happy?

I don't know how many servers they would have needed in 2007 to provide the services they sold, but surely now they could consolidate all those users onto 1/4 the machines?

What is this negative press costing them?
What I disliked about webfaction is that the connection is proxied behind an nginx. But it is true that they have an excellent support. They answer almost inmediately. Also their Q&A was migrated to a stackexchange clone.

I prefer Linode, a little more expensive but you get decide even your own distro. (Yay for Archlinux)
Everything else you said I'll grant with "we have differing opinions" except

"The make tools are not part if[sic] the language and irrelevant"

No, they're quite a lot more than just make replacement. And definitely not irrelevant!
Tivo has Lifetime subscriptions, where the lifetime is of the hardware but they transfer if you sell the hardware. They aren't always selling them as an option, but they always honor them, and have been for 10+ years.
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There's no reason not to use Github, we are not competitors - in fact, Github sponsored us in several events we ran. We are not a social coding / repo service like Github, but we perform a different function - we curate components and provide a platform to gain attention. In addition we provide the ability to charge for licensing, creating another incentive for sharing code and for maintaining it over the long run - basically run it like a business.

Consider that Github has almost 3.5M repos. It's not easy finding what you need and also evaluating the quality. We try to reduce that friction for best in class components.
How do good defaults and options exclude each other?

Also, we're talking about creativity here: you cannot be very creative without a toolbox and some options. And frankly, I think you're grossly underestimating "real people" (and good user interfaces).
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Funny, we got in on VCII I think and had to think about hosting all the time. Our server never performed well.

I think we had one site on Textdrive that was live, and quite quickly moved to another host for obvious reasons.

I'm glad it worked fro some people, overall a poor experience for us.
If you're one of the founders, all I can say is stop doing stupid shit. I don't mean to offend-- finding pictures and clever captioning them is surprisingly addictive, but this really is a step away from social-games' Skinnerian conditioning. In short, it's addictive, not fulfilling.

Diaspora started out wanting to change the world-- creating something addictive may be profitable, but as other commenters say, underwhelming.
Oh lets keep this straight, I don't begrudge you for making money and my good luck wish was not sarcastic at all. Nor am I deriding you for trying to sell a service. Just saying if you want to make money that's cool, just don't sell it like you are doing someone a personal favor when you aren't.

Don't make me out as one of the radical open sourcerors either. Many of the absolute best pieces of software are proprietary.
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Thanks so much! Hope we're able to match you with some awesome people to rideshare with!
Not valuable compared to what?

Compared to tally sticks, say, or bushels of wheat, or time-banked labor hours.
A chance in hell for being extradited for rape? Yes. There is.
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Exactly the observations I (and I'm sure many others) have been trying to formulate for the past few years and preaching offline, but much better organized and well said by Sean Johnson.. Beautifully written! Kudos for being spot on!
One of the best programmers I have known was a CS theory guy.

We were working on these tightly-coupled multiprocessor machine which was quite unstable, and would hard lockup if something went wrong in the program (requiring a walk over to the machine room, hitting the reset button, etc.). We would start hacking at our assignments quickly, and make innumerable trips to the machine room.

This guy, on the other hand, would just sit and stare into space for a while; then jot down the entire program on paper. Then he would enter it into the editor, fix a couple of typos that the compiler caught, and run it. His program always worked on the first or second attempt.

Funny part? he hated to program, and was a theoretician.
Why not? Does running a lemonade stand make me startup? What exactly are you considering a startup? Businesses that have taken VC money? Does that mean none of the bootstrapped business are startups?
Or, they could be storing encrypted passwords as opposed to hashed passwords?
I've been warning people about Joyent for a few years now. A few years back I was using them for some hosting and they were dishonest about their shared filesystem issues.
Instead say "hi, I can code, interested?"

Groovy for startups -- as are things like having a cool Twitter handle, making pithy remarks in SO, etc. If you're exclusively interested in startups, that is.

But for the vast majority of employers out in, you know, the general universe out there -- not so much.
well, 4 guys for almost two years on about 150k (after taxes and teeshirts)
Yes. There's no way this has anything to do with even next year's phone, I'd wager.
It was a big enough deal for Apple to make a substantial upcoming change in iOS 6 regarding how the status bar changes color in response to content:

http://www.cultofmac.com/173232/in-ios-6-the-status-bar-chan...

This also means in under a month this article may need a bit of updating, because the 'white' status bar won't be 'white' for the majority of use cases any more.
A 1994 study by Dr. Eugene Kanin of Purdue University revealed that 41% of rape allegations are fabrications.

The Innocence Project reports that the number one crime for which they release wrongfully convicted individuals from prison is rape.

Why are these women not in prison?
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Not so much an extension, but I would love to be able to have Incognito tabs instead of Incognito windows.

When I'm doing web dev having two sessions in the same browser is great (ie. not needing another browser open), but I often only have one tab in the Incognito window. It would be very useful if I could just have an Incognito tab in my regular window.
TextDrive was a great host back in the day (I signed up around 2004) and I was also happy with Joyent as well. They've obviously changed target markets since then, which is unfortunate, but I think the offer they made is certainly palatable and a sign of good will. All good things must come to an end, and then you go on to the next good company.
Fair enough. Unions, and their members, can act badly, too.

There is plenty of idiocy and self-serving turf warfare to go around.

I was in a union -- by default -- for a while, one time. It meant that in exchange for a small amount in dues, my wages were 25% - 30% higher than those of other jobs available to me. And, I worked my ass off. With other people who worked their asses off. And who still had the time and energy for some good humor, perhaps in part because there were limits to the amount that management could jerk them around. We were all "blue collar stiffs"; nonetheless, it was one of the happier places I've worked.

I have an uncle who ended up president of his union (in an unrelated field and business). One of the most decent people I know. And he's busted his balls for his folks; it's been necessary, in order to try to counteract some of the very typical, abusive management techniques that have become prevalent -- and increasingly written about -- in the last 20 years.

Unions do bad things. Short-sighted, self-destructive things. But no worse than Management. And often, it seems that the "badness" is symmetric; the worse one side gets, the worse the other becomes in response.

Some of the more compelling arguments of economics occur at the macro level. And there, the decline and destruction of the union workforce has a strong correlation -- if arguments continue over causation -- with the decline of the American workforce and productive industry.

Unions also, at their best, epitomize a characteristic oft lauded as an American ideal: When the chips are down, we "rouged individualist" Americans step up and take care of each other. We're in this together. (A sentiment having significant base in WW II.) It ain't pretty, but it works.

The decline of unions seems to correspond with, symbolize, and perhaps represent the decline of this ideal in the American population and psyche.

These days, to be caustic, we seem to be lauding "ever dog for himself".

P.S. Your story about having to wait 30 minutes to look in a box disgusts me. That definitely is not the way things should be -- I agree with you.
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You are grossly misrepresenting this.

The purpose was for Assanges lawyers to explain why even if the facts are as stated by the prosecution there would be no case for Assange to answer. The purpose was not to present a defence for Assange, nor to present Assange's version of events.

Emmerson went on to make it clear that whether or not Assange agreed with this version of events was immaterial for the extradition hearing, as in the extradition hearing, the evidence will be interpreted as favorably as reasonable for the prosecution.

In other words, this is Assange's lawyer saying "even if all you say is true this is why we believe there is no case". And you conveniently ignored the part where he provided that explanation for your last paragraph.

Whether or not you agree with his justification is also immaterial - this was not Assanges defence against the accusations.
I had a similar experience to the "Don't take home the sodas" anecdote here. I worked at a place that wasn't profitable and had just had layoffs but one day the normal paper coffee cups were replaced with ones with our logo and some text on them. The first thing I thought about was how somebody spent at least a few hours getting the art together, finding a vendor, ordering and dealing with that, etc. So customized coffee cups were the most important thing that person had to do for probably half a day overall. Not a good sign I think.
Google Maps huh? Millions of views a day. I wonder how much that is going to cost Facebook. Way more than rolling out their own service, I'm sure. People expect Gmaps though.
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Dear Jones, we said "till death do us part" but you are now divorcing me. :(

In case you didn't get it, Jones is the name of the shared server that I'm on. ;)
For VPS, I recommend burst.net, specifically their XEN 1Gb ram plan. Their price structure is kinda strange, 0.5G is $7.95, 1G is $12.95, 1.5G is 24.95. So 1G plan is a no brainer. I have 2 of these, one in their PA Datacenter, the other in CA.

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I didn't think much of Dojo previously, but then I had the need to create a web app with dynamic SVG for the interface, that would be a pain to do with DOM+CSS. I searched for libraries that could help me, I tried RaphaelJS but rejected it for the lack of support for the <g> element. In the end the best library I found is Dojox/GFX, which also can render to SVG, VML, Silverlight and even Canvas!

I have yet to start producing the app, but Dojo really deserves more attention.
Most recruiters don't their ... from their ... (fill in the blanks).

Most hiring managers at bigcorps aren't nearly so clueless, but a lot of them take a, how to put this, long-term view of things... and don't always know about from GitHub or SO, let alone what cachet they have in hacker communities.

So again, it can be a, let's not say perfectly viable, but viable-ish strategy to bank on one's commit history on GitHub, and other proxies like Stack Overflow... if you're content, and secure enough in your market value to stick to the 5% of the employers that value these kinds of markers very greatly.

But for the other 95%, not so much.
I tend to just use an IMAP mail client (like thunderbird) connect the old server, and new server, then copy from one to the other... this doesn't take care of multiple users and their accounts/passwords though.
What is the problem with css resets?
Not really. "Framing" is an important consideration-- ask any photographer. I wish the author had gone into other kinds of framing (not just rounded corners), but it's a start.

"For the interested reader", see different kinds of framing in the Path app: http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/067/Purple/v4/2c/81/7e/2c817... There's color, drop shadows etc.
http://www.google.com/search?q=assange%20half%20asleep
Take your pick of articles. Was she asleep?
Anyone who had read all of the posts in this thread knows there is something suspect about this whole case. Simply interview the man where he can't be extradited to the US and be done with it.
I think "you must provide value" cuts both ways. Don't work for an employer who isn't providing you with value. Recognise that there will always be tradeoffs between your happiness at work and your pay, in both directions; know how much value you place on your own time, or on gaining experience, and act accordingly.
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Nope, we already had a full backend for our web service so introducing a new dependency for only part of their value prop didn't seem worthwhile

(Though we love the people at Parse, and the product looks pretty great!)
As I'm sure you know, words have different meaning in different context. If you read the article, you know I make the distinction between a "business starting up" and the popular term "startup" which usually bears additional connotations.
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Either way, there should be no way they can retrieve your password to send it to you.

I'm not a security expert, but I've seen HN posts where others describe this.
This. We need to stop sugar-coating things in this world. I'm an adjunct at a major Big Ten school and I see this all time with my students. The mentality is that if I just have enough education, the jobs will be waiting (law students anyone?) -- yet these sames students make little to know effort in school to do anything other than show up (occasionally) and squeak by with their 3.0.

The parents of my generation (born in 1984) have babied and protected their children to a fault. Reality is not always pleasant and life isn't fair--instead of telling our kids they can be anything, we need to give them the tools to choose marketable and worthwhile careers. Unfortunately, we can't all be astronauts and veterinarians.
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I bought an original Tivo with lifetime service in 1999 and I still use the subscription today. 6 or 7 years ago they offered a promotion that allowed you to transfer your lifetime service to a new HD unit and that device is still running. The service has cost me an average of $1.28/mo.
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You might be interested in prgmr.com . VPS based on Xen. The owner is also a member of HN and wrote "The Book of Xen" a couple of years ago.

Also since you mentioned UNIX, maybe arpnetworks.com . As I recall they run Linux KVM VPS but offer OpenBSD and FreeBSD if preferred over a Linux guest.
That glass skull demo was pretty damn impressive. I don't think my primary computer 5 years ago could have rendered it that well.
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The courage is in leaking them with a name attached to the leaker or distributor. Bradley Manning is an example of what happens to people who leak stuff the State doesn't want leaked. Of course Assange seems more in it for the show than the leaks, which may in the end be the best strategy for most attention to the leaks themselves (along with attention to Assange), but it would have been a much easier and safer execution if it had been done anonymously. (It might not have received any attention though.)
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As far as getting one's money's worth, the "VC-like" pitching makes that odd. Obviously it wasn't an actual VC arrangement, but it had some similar aspects: you take a risk by giving $X now to buy a "lifetime account" with some startup that might be bankrupt next year. In return for helping to fund them and accepting that downside risk, your potential upside is that if they do succeed and exist long-term, you get what would in retrospect be below-market-priced service as a reward for your early support.

It doesn't make much sense to say that, hey, thanks for the "VC" investment when it was a risk to buy from us, but now that we're successful, you've gotten your money's worth.
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IMO this kind of stuff is going to be the biggest hurdle to terra-forming someday.
I have a small one from them as a NS server and has no issue at all. However their bandwidth allocation (40G for 256m plan) is not enough for pretty much anything else.
I never asked much of it - all I really cared was that it was hosting that I didn't have to think about. Two WordPress sites, some backups of important files and the occasional scp around a stupid firewall or NAT box. And now they are canceling the lifetime service, or, put their ham-handed way: "your lifetime service will end on October 31, 2012."

Seriously. Someone in charge of PR actually wrote down and sent out an email with the sentence "your lifetime service will end on October 31, 2012."