skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not use Stripe?

While TeddyPass is not a crowdfunding app, it is a recurring billing app and Stripe works well for it.

So why not, for every pledge, obtain a Stripe token with the project funding date as the one and only rebill date? If the project does not fund then you cancel the "subscription".

Again, we're not in the crowdfunding business but that's how I would do it if I were in your position.
That isn't hooking Ctrl-Alt-Del, though--it's replacing the winlogon desktop that Ctrl-Alt-Del is hardcoded to switch you to.
I dont't know if it's a stupid idea or how much they could make with it, but I've always thought it was an obvious business model to charge people who reach a certain level of followers (say 1.000). They're clearly benefiting from having a Twitter audience. And of course, charge more as the number of followers goes up. If you dont upgrade, no more people can follow you.
Even worse, godaddy will routinely pick available domains and mark them as "premium" domains and hold them hostage for outrageous prices.

They are not selling them on behalf of anyone - they, the registrar, are illegally marking them up.
nasa.gov? I think anything from the U.S. government is public domain by default.
Jonathan Bryce on The Importance Of OpenStack
Whoa, you had some serious hacks in there.

It funny that we were jumping through hoops just to able to play some games on the school's computers. Funny days.
Looking to replace Celery.
Why apache and not nginx? Not trying to hate on apache, I'm about to launch a similarly designed product but we're going with nginx due to speed and concurrency concerns.
Amazon splits a pool of money monthly between opt-in (KDP Select) authors based on number of lends: http://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/KDPSelect

Edit: Couldn't find anything similar from Barnes & Noble (it seems like something they'd advertise heavily if they did it): http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com/pubit_app/bn?t=support
More clique-crap that will be forgotten before it completes.
Mendeley's analytics dashboard set to speed up the academic 'Impact Factor'
Dallas SEO Workshop by Brick Marketing
Moving away from using regex to parse JSON, you can use Jsawk and Underscore-cli to manipulate JSON like Awk or JavaScript.

https://github.com/micha/jsawk/
https://github.com/ddopson/underscore-cli
But it doesn't make them any more successful. See Netscape for another data point.
Jamendo has an API, they just made a terrible redesign a while ago and seem not to link it anymore. See http://developer.jamendo.com/en/
> The sound quality was awful, but the spatial effect was pretty cool because the sound came from everywhere at the same time.

Reminds me of being in the computer lab at 3am when every Mac restarted and played the "buhhhhhhhh" boot sound.
An FAQ is great for technically-minded people. But most authors are not technically minded people.

Lendink needed to have a dedicated page or section, for authors, telling them what they were doing (in layman's terms, not exact terms) and how the authors would benefit, and how the authors could opt out (i.e., link to Amazon's page on opting-out of lending, if such is possible for self-published books).

The greatest weakness of 99% of website/SAAS startups is that they don't realize that their target market may not have the technical skills to do much more than turn on the computer and navigate to gmail/hotmail.
Actually, in this case I'm glad they didn't. Photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov has gone, so I didn't have any way to see this image until finding this post on HN.
Libraries: Pioneers in the P2P sharing space since 323 BC.
They link to the JPL multimedia image page. They do not link to the Planetary Photojournal page, where, one can find additional information and the various full-resolution options.
Very appropriate in this situation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Microsoft sells the best $20 keyboards and mice that money can buy, and has for the last 15 years.
> Also, I'd prefer the log specify the time zone it thinks it's in, rather than just convert to UTC automatically.

But my computer thinks it's clock is in UTC, and it only converts to a timezone for human readable dates.
1. Remember that this is TSG, not SCO.

2. Not dead yet. Khan might even continue as trustee.

pj at Groklaw.net breaks it down:

"I will try my best to translate the legalese for you: the money is almost all gone, so it's not fun any more. SCO can't afford Chapter 11. We want to shut the costs down, because we'll never get paid. But it'd look stupid to admit the whole thing was ridiculous and SCO never had a chance to reorganize through its fantasy litigation hustle. Besides, Ralph Yarro and the other shareholders might sue. So they want the litigation to continue to swing in the breeze, just in case. But SCO has no money coming in and no other prospects, so they want to proceed in a cheaper way and shut this down in respects to everything else.

I guess that will mean there is little chance of IBM or anyone else seeing a dime ever for all the torts and wrongs SCO perpetrated on IBM and Linux and its debtors. The lawyers and professionals, including the firm representing the Chapter 11 trustee, got it all. Now that there is no more, off we go to Chapter 7. "

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120807133033596
For those who don't have Baskerville: http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/ or http://openfontlibrary.org/font/open-baskerville/
Do you know all about batista's personal life, all his responsibilities, all of his schedule? While it is possible that he could do the work and choses not to, I don't think you have enough information to say that he definitely can do it and choses not to. People have to prioritize their lives, and there is only so much time to go around. I for one have a thousand things I'd like to do, but personal time limits and higher priorities prevent me from doing them. Finite resources cannot be made infinite.
There's nothing intrinsic about markets that says they have to move towards faster and faster trading. For example, markets could decide that they now want to clear every second, on the second. That's larger than the RTT around the globe and so global markets could remain in sync.

The spread would increase marginally but the upside is that PhDs could focus on making their algorithms smarter, not just faster.
He's since edited it. My initial post was a direct quote.
It's a question, but not a rhetorical one.
Just get into it. The hardest part about getting into 'robotics' is experience and just doing it. And to solve that you either go to school for a field that deals with it, or you just self teach yourself. Checkout robotparts.com, sparkfun.com, buy yourself some arduino's or netduino if C# is your forte, google some robotics videos and tutorials. literally just dive in and get your hands dirty. People have been doing some pretty awesome stuff just in their garage.
You are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...
One point of data, this has happened to me personally with GoDaddy.
I feel like you could simulate those conditions here on earth pretty accurately. At the very least, it sounds like they have some radiation sensors on the rover, so we will soon have a better idea of what conditions are like.
Maybe those teachers have preferential treatment towards LaTeX users? Heh. Someone should test this out sending resumes to companies to net the initial interviews.

And what about the type of parchment one uses? There are stationery conventions for that sort of jazz: http://www.nationalstationeryshow.com/
I've been using LaTex for my resume[1] for years, and I always get compliments on how "professional" it looks.

You can see the resume and source code here if anyone is interested:
[1]http://www.jedberg.net/hire_jeremy_edberg.html
Perhaps we could reanimate the corpse of Kurt Vonnegut and send him to go and eat whatever brains they have between them. I am sure he would approve.
Useful employees lest tSCOg years and years ago. Only a few executives and book keepers worked there. And an outside trustee was brought in as well.

I guess one take away is don't hire Davide Boise law firm.
Well this is a tad disturbing: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XXRdrja... The Google cache of the FAQ page has a bunch of spam drug phrases on it... Did the page really have all that hidden on it when it was live??
imbdapi got shut down: http://www.imdbapi.com/
The problem is that Twitter needs those users. A user with a ton of followers is a hit: Twitter shows those followers to people who sign up and don't know what to do. This is not the only hole in this idea btw.

By the way, I'm sure this thread will be filled with suggested business models by people who have thought about it for five minutes, without knowing any of Twitter's metrics. There are really good reasons why Twitter gave up and went with ads.
Thank you for this. There's a reason why any formal discussion of graphics mentions that the numerical axis of bar graphs must start at 0.

[0] http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/geom_bar.html
[1] http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/index.php?cid=2468&fc=...
Distill what you do into one paragraph or less, including specifically how it benefits the content creators.

Find an author who you have benefited and get them to give a testimonial.

Basic stuff, really.

Then, and only then, lead them off to a faq with details.
Another per-site setting "Allow this site to run plug-ins", was still turned off for your site in my browser. After allowing plug-ins, video plays fine in Chrome.

And yes, facepalm, flash isn't installed in IE. I'd forgotten it doesn't come with other browsers.
Dotcom’s Lawyer, New Zealnd Police Spar Over Raid’s Need
Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Need to Start a Company
A campaign to stop bad rails code
Growth Hack Your Startup with PR and Inbound Marketing
Pulse leaps from app to Web, at last
It's not uncommon for a business to sell GPL software with support while making the uncompiled unsupported code available.
Like the article hints, it really depends on what you want to do. None of our engineers bother with certifications (and we don't look for them when evaluating applicants). The CSO, IR and managed services folks, on the other hand, collect them like Pokémon.
The point of a FAQ is to explain things in simple terms! OK since the page is no longer live I'll paste the fulltext from the Google cache. http://pastebin.com/egg9vcmi
The followup to this article will be about how unlabeled graphs convince people of dubious findings.
No, the problem is that people think a kid fresh out of uvic and someone 15 years in are interchangeable. That inability to differentiate is endemic to the area. Dunning-Kruger effect in the large. (There are always, of course, exceptions)

Junior people can do things. senior people know what needs to be done (and can do it).

Agreed that Viatec is a negative. When you put HP's computer repair service as a #2 tech company in a city it's a very bad statement. Particularly if it's multiple years running.

Funny thing, you'd think Victoria would have lots of health IT startups...
Playing around with rust
just a gist with some rust examples
The Little-Known 80/20 Rule of Retail Sales
I think it would be nice if you expanded the look of your resume to your webpage. Your resume looks impressive, your landing page, much less so.

I like the look of consistency.
Cloned password prompt in basic and some social engineering for me :)
Launch Your Company And Get A Tan: The Best Startup Funding Resources In Florida
>Rendering templates on the server is not expensive at all, that is completely untrue.

Vaguest statement ever. It depends on the complexity of the template and the templating system, also then that file has to be served either directly or through a cache. complexity++ It is harder to scale a server-side presentation layer.

If you don't think that is the case please expand on your statement...

edit; please don't cite Twitter as a case, they are not the norm.
And IBM still has not had its day in court to defend against the outrageous claim they stole code.

Also remember, Novell sold a bunch of IP to Attachmate or some such company -- yes Microsoft's finger prints were on the deal.
Hell, GoDaddy didn't even bother registering my domain after availability lookup. They waited until I paid for it and then 6 months later parked the domain with their bullshit. I never changed any settings or anything, and yet if you go to my domain, all you see is GoDaddy's bullshit.
What you have to remember is the record labels ALSO own a chunk of Spotify.
Logitech does really well too (so maybe there is still room for OEMs?). I work at MS but I use a Logitech as my daily-driver mouse (it's hard to find a MS mouse that has a wheel with detents, is wireless, and has back/forward buttons).
American Psycho - Business Card scene:

(http://youtu.be/-U3SXzbYLOA)
I could have sworn this happened to me. I looked up my own name (.com) one day, and it was available. I checked back a week or so later, and it was taken.

I monitored the domain for a year and saw no activity. At the end of a year it became available, and I snagged it at a base price. Seemed like too much of a coincidence. I don't have that common of a name. I can't prove anything though.
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There are a lot of problems here.

The bar charts used to illustrate that article are terrible. They present raw counts for each font, but each font was not presented to the same number of people---they varied from 7,477 (CM) to 7,699 (Helvetica), which is a pretty big swing given the other numbers they're displaying. In fact, when you run the percentages, CM has a higher percentage of agreement than Baskerville (62.6% to 62.4%)!

When we turn to the "weighted" scores, which don't follow any clear statistical methodology that I'm aware of, the bar chart is again presented with counts rather than proportions, and this time with an egregiously misleading scale that makes it seem like CS gets half the score of gravitas-y fonts like CM and Baskerville, when in fact its score is only about 5% lower.

Finally we get to the "p-value for each font". That's... not how p-values work. The author admits that his next statement is "grossly oversimplified", but there's a difference between simplification and nonsense. He says that "the p-value for Baskerville is 0.0068." What does that mean? What test was being performed there? Can we have a little hint as to what the null and alternative hypotheses were?
To pile on, check out using nginx as the front HTTP server and use gunicorn for the WSGI serving. Very performant on virtual hosts as a static/dynamic combo.
Well, except for the slick UI and TextMate's still ahead on features & bundles. ST2 is promising but it's too early to call this race.
In my experience, it's far more rare to find a person who knows and uses any keyboard shortcuts.

When I run training sessions I'm amazed at how many people don't even know the shortcuts for copy and paste. And these are folks that use computers for 80-90% of their workday.
Back in 2009 and 2010 when I was a novice (And I am still consider myself as a novice)in the field of web development, I do not remember how many times I have searched for a domain name (with a scientific terminology in it) to find that it is available but gone after few days and parked on a place such as Sedo.
This doesn't make sense. Please add more details...
Given that the Plutonium power core is putting off 2000 watts of heat in order to generate 125 watts electricity, I find it surprising that they don't have enough heat to keep wet-lubricants heated sufficiently. But - that's an awfully big Rover, and it does get pretty cold on Mars...

2000 watts at 14 years in kilowatt hour - 245,000 kilowatt hours.
Yet again an article that fulfils Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines
Startups and the Singularity: Which Innovators Are Believers?
Would it be easier to rewrite it for one single cross-platform backend, like Qt, than maintain a mix of platform-specific code?
I think this points out the need for a "crowdsourced" set of standards.

I put crowdsourced in quotes because it needs to be done carefully. We need a body of standards that is subject to continuous improvement by subject-matter experts, and expert teachers. It needs to be set up so that popular opinions can be expressed, but simple votes do not override expert conclusions.

This body of standards should be mapped to each state's standards. Teachers could work from the crowdsourced standards, but fulfill reporting requirements on their state standards. This is what good teachers in states with poor standards do anyways. Teachers work from a set of high-quality standards, but report on their own state's standards.
So "enough interest" means someone who's interested enough to overcome those three hurdles.
What I Learned From Going GA
Maybe he wasn't using a version control system or a different one from git and didn't want to import?
This is a very interesting discussion. I've been flipping domain names as a side-biz for years and I've had ALOT of discussions with other guys who say that GoDaddy sniped a domain from them. In some cases the people have checked on 3rd party sites (like NS), found that the domain was available, then went to Godaddy for cheaper registration only to have GD report that the domain is unavailable. In a couple of instances guys would then go back to NS or their other favorite registrar only to find that the domain was registered by "Domains by Proxy", which is GoDaddy's anonymous registration partner/subsidiary.

I haven't personally had it happen to me, but too many people I trust say that it has happened to them for me to ignore it.
> Why even bother delivering this half-baked solution?

Because we used it for our funding announcement at the end of last month -- a full press cycle, where the Andreessen Horowitz and Matrix Partners press machine pushed our story out to all of the tech blogs, with all of the traffic that that implies -- and not only did it work fine, it got us to #1 on Google for "meteor." Above, you know, actual meteors :)

It works fine for us as a stopgap measure and we wanted to share it with others. We put it in a optional smart package that isn't included in new projects by default.

We're near the end of a major rewrite of Meteor's page update engine. You can see the latest progress on the 'spark' branch. One thing that happened during this rewrite was the conversion of Meteor's templating to be 100% string-based. Check it out: go to meteor.com/faq, open your browser console, and evaluate "Template.faq()".

This means that the server can render the templates for your app without having a DOM implementation of any kind (much less a headless client.) 'spiderable' doesn't do this yet, but it will by Meteor 1.0 (if 1.0 even has a separate package.)

For the record, the ratio of our investment in auth and accounts, to our investment in Spark, is about 2:1.
5Degrees' serial recap of The Lean Startup (plus some cool infographics) 8/10
He wanted to "destroy" Northern Ireland by unifying the counties inside of it with the Republic of Ireland, instead of keeping them unified with Great Britain. This is not even an unreasonable stance for a North Irish elected official, is it? It takes a lot of equivocation to equate that with what Hamas wants to do.

We can agree that Israel has made a lot of mistakes. That doesn't legitimate groups like Hamas and that doesn't provide any basis for dialogue with Hamas, either. Meanwhile, the anger and hatred towards Israel would be there with or without the mistakes. It was there before the mistakes and it will be there long afterwards.
Yah, same here. I still have the muscle memory for emacs and I've gone back a few times and tried it, but honestly, the configuration was such a pain in the ass. I have .emacs files from long ago, but I tried a few months back bringing it up to date along the lines of TM1 and after about 15 mins, I just said forget it.

TM1 out of the box had all my web dev needs already there. Plus, tabs worked great. The only things I've replaced on it over the past few years were search in project (via grep in project) and the file drawer on the left (forget what that plugin was called). Speaking of plugins / bundles - those were super easy to install. For what I needed, they pretty much just always worked.

For the OP who said that Textmate didn't deserve its success I say, whatever. Everyone that I worked with over the past 5+ years doing web dev used TM. And NO ONE complained that it got in their way of getting their work done. So, cool, that's your opinion, but I think TM deserved all the success it got - it's helped me make a good amount of money over the past few years and I still use it today.

The fact that TM2 is now on Github, that's great. Will anything come of it? Dunno, but I guess I can't blame Alan for putting it on there and maybe moving on. TM1 is almost 8 years old and that's a long time to be beholden to something. Oh, and I never felt ripped off; it was money well spent and has lasted a long time..
I guess I set up my proposal the way I did so that authors could explicitly flag assets as being available or unavailable in 2x in the most convenient way conceivable to me, because it would add inefficiency to force a choice between assuming all assets are available in 2x and that none are, as some requests will fail if they're not all available in 2x. I will mention that for my proposal, if you want to assume all assets are available in 2x, the extent of the work for authors would be to add '<meta image-scaling={2:"@2x"} />' to the page. It is potentially more work than HAIR, but I figured it would pay off with server resource efficiency, accessibility to authors, and powerful flexibility.

That said, I could totally get on board with HAIR, assuming my concerns are unfounded (which is likely). How does that system affect server capacity and performance? Is there a significant performance penalty for having the server determine whether each asset is actually available in 2x or not before fulfilling the client's request? Is this information which would automatically be cached, and thus not have a significant impact? Or will each image request have an additional operation to perform?

Also, does this system force you to have your 1x and 2x assets share the same exact filename? In the example, are the 1x images in the 'img' directory, and the 2x in 'image' with the same filename? I'm sorry if my confusion is making me ask the wrong questions; maybe evidence of the challenge of explaining this system to clueless people like me.

[Upon further review, it looks like an img src link to '/img/bob/' would load the 'index.jpg' file from inside the 'bob' directory by default, and then your system would have it load the 'dpr=2.jpg' file if the client wants that. So this imposes even more stringent file naming and organizing restrictions than I had in mind, and it works nothing like what I thought upon first glance (never knew you could even link to a directory for an image asset, and have it load index.jpg, though it does make sense). I am embarrassed to admit that I'm not completely sure where I'd even put those parameters, though I assume it would be in httpd.conf for apache, or maybe .htaccess otherwise. Also, does this require a separate entry for each image on the site?]
According to his Wikipedia page, he's at NewsWeek now.

I don't particularly hold a grudge against Lyons as he recanted his pro-SCO stance pretty much totally: http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tec...

O'Gara, Politis, and DiDio are different animals (Laura's now principle of her own consultancy as well: http://itic-corp.com/).

And I keep having to check myself from not transposing the 'l' and 'u' in "consult" ....
Why is anyone relying on a 3rd party to check domain availability? You can do DNS lookups and whois searches from the comfort of your own machine. There's no need to let anyone else know you're interested until you're actually ready to pull the trigger.