skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happened to me as well. I can't remember if it was Godaddy or some other web lookup, but now I only ever use CLI tools to do domain lookups.
" incredibly easy ride, producing mediocre, commodity computers, and getting very rich in the process"

My god! Another way to say that they did all the hard work(the hardware itself) and earned 1-3% margin in the process.

...while MS will earn margins bigger than 95% on Office and Windows. >30% margins as the entire company(Once MS spent billions trying to extend his monopoly to other sectors).

OEMs are not going away. It is MS who is in danger. OEMs are the Vietcom, used to live on a cage or in the jungle, eating scraps. People that want cheap PCs will continue buying them with Windows 7, Linux or Android.
didn't know that, thanks for the info!
Describejson: Python code to print the structure of a JSON object
I doubt all the OEMs would leave. Surface may be great, but there's still room at the high-end for powerful desktop-replacement laptops.
The VintageEx extension for Sublime includes vim-style search and replace, among many other things.
Here's an idea that's only partially a joke: segment the user-base by yearly membership fees. Have the free tier, $10/year, $100/year and $1000/year. All tiers are 100% quarantined from each other.

There's upsides for Twitter: when 90% of my friends get the $100 plan there's a huge incentive for me to do the same. When all of my friends keep the free plan then there's no incentive for a loser like me to pollute the higher Twitter echelons.

Might be some tricky cases where I follow a celebrity who has the $1000 plan.

I know these ideas sound ridiculous. However considering the mainstream nature of these services and peoples' insatiable appetite for competition and one-upping each other it could work out. The prices for each tier would probably need some iteration to get closer to some global maximum.

Also I wonder if this could work for Facebook?
Time on Mars
I'm not one to defend GoDaddy, but it sounds like you just never did anything with it. If you don't point the domain to a hosting account or change the nameservers, GoDaddy always displays the parked domain page by default. You can turn it off in your account settings if you want.
Most important point: any log message that doesn't identify some property of the request that originated it (so that you can identify requests leading to erroneous conditions) is cause for immediate defenestration.
I made my own raspberry pi the other day
Underscore-cli: Command-line toolkit for hacking JSON with Javascript
It might have been advertisements, and Google didn't save style information, so it's a lot more visible in the cached version than it was in the live version.
I think the tech-press is misreading the situation. What Microsoft is trying to avoid is a slew of mediocre former Android slates hitting the market with the release of Windows 8.

Instead, they are trying to insure that there will be decent slate hardware available at the Windows 8 launch.

It's not as if OEM's have been knocking slates out of the park since the iPad was released. And I suspect that the OEM's haven't exactly been clamoring for a Windows slate OS, either, considering the lackluster profits for everybody but Apple (and perhaps the Amazon ecosystem).

Come 2013 Microsoft will have options - either to continue as a hardware vendor ala Xbox (and slates are a great product line extension); or having gathered meaningful data to scale back to OS provider as was the case with Kin.

Sure the OEM's will not get to set the tone for Windows 8 slates right away. Given their love of crapware, that's a feature, not a bug.
It's main saving grace was the many extensions it had, and looking half-decent and native on OS X.

One of the key features it had in the early days, that most other OS X editors did not, was a file tree drawer that worked well. From the terminal, you could type "mate ." and you'd have an editor with a file drawer right there. No "project" BS, no modal dialogs to navigate around files.. all very handy for working on file heavy Rails projects.
To get past your problem of your not "brainstorming" succesful ideas, I suggest you watch these slides by the creator of the Business Model Canvas:

http://www.slideshare.net/Alex.Osterwalder/successful-entrep...

there are a ton of resources on Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/

and Steve Blank's blog:

http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/

Steve Blank wrote a book called Four Steps to Epiphany which is really good and advocates his "Customer Development" strategy:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl...

You'll see a common theme on most of those sites, which is basically to listen to the customer, "get out of the building" and validate your idea early (thus, the MVP)

If you need some inspiration for brainstorming and protoyping, Stanford has some advice on their Design School site

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/dtbc/

and some material is available here:

http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Bootc...

look up "pretotyping", and the book Pretotype IT, it will inspire you:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0QztbuDlKs_ZTk2M2RhZWItYzk3...
I suspect they would only register names that look somewhat "good". There are plenty of automated ways to valuate domain names -- then just pick the unregistered ones that exceed some value.
Caldera's buyout of SCO seems crazy in hindsight.

As I understood the business, SCO made millions off channel sales.
For instance, getting 10k out of a 100k deal made between a local VAR and a customer.

Caldera made millions off of going into SCO customer sites and cutting out either the VAR, SCO, or both. For instance, turn a 100k recurring cost into a 10k one.

When Caldera bought SCO, it found itself with two extremely successful, wholly incompatible business models under the same roof. What were they thinking?
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Google’s Umbono and 88mph join forces
Seedfunding firms Umbono and 88mph have entered a partnership. 88mph is investing $200,000 in Afritech startups
Gandi has the unique contract term where they can take your domain if you violate their "ethical code" or "fail to facilitate the fight against deviant use of the Internet"... which is pretty much a blanket right to revoke your domain at any time if you host user-generated content, among other things.

http://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.2-EN.p...

I'd avoid that. NameCheap has a history of standing on the side of its customers' rights. They're my current choice.
What if someone changes their email and the email provider recycles the address?
Wow, so no one in this thread chimed in on the fact that maybe it wasn't Amazon's Payment Services that pulled the plug, but in fact the publishing companies?
No etiquette is not mindless there are reasons that go beyond, "StackOverflow founder said and it was so."
Chocolat was released a couple of months ago.
Thinking about the other side of this for a moment, it does seem pretty obvious that LendInk changed the situation the authors thought they were getting into when they agreed to make their books lendable.

Given that, it's not surprising their first reaction is anger. Perhaps not rational, but humans are not inherently rational beings.

The authors thought "Lend my book to a friend? Sure, why not? Good word of mouth always helps!" A nice, forward thinking perspective.

But what LendInk makes possible is for lending to extend beyond normal social connections. You could go look for any book you wanted, never buy another book again. And each book would be lent the maximum number of times. There's a fundamental difference at work there, the dynamic changes considerably.

You could say "Well libraries work the same way! Buy once, lend forever!" But libraries are geographically constrained. And there are a lot of them. So being able to be lent anywhere in the country still means you sold a lot of books. It's fundamentally different.

So while this site certainly didn't promote piracy and authors were compensated when appropriate, it did subvert the terms they had agreed to, and it did so willfully.

I can see where the content creators are coming from there.

This is probably a good idea, and probably inevitable and unstoppable. But that doesn't mean it has to be on the same economic terms as the previous model.
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There are site viruses that serve up normal content to normal users, and so go undetected, but serve up spam like that only to GoogleBot, since they're designed to affect PageRank etc. of specific sites.

That was likely the case.
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"Another key feature of Gauss is the ability to infect USB thumb drives, using the same LNK vulnerability that was previously used in Stuxnet and Flame."

Do we have to repeat the same debate about this one's origin?
How Facebook keeps its data centers cool
Vico is dead: http://blog.vicoapp.com/2012/07/Vico-is-dead-Long-live-Vico
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> The fact that there wasn't another editor that fulfilled all those "needs" at the time (mainly: simple, native looking) does not mean that it deserved it's success. What I'm saying is, it got its success not because it was better than the competition but because there was no competition.

What kind of doublespeak is that? If there's a race, and you're the only one who shows up, you deserve to win, period.
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Show HN: Sell your stuff for more money with less hassle
I personally would love to work with people like that and thousands of other people wanted to as well. Remember the apt quote, "A grade people hire A grade people, B Grade people hire C grade people".

The fact is that A grade people understand that in order to be A grade you have to be passionate, dedicated, committed and have strong convictions. Very few people can have those qualities without coming across as arrogant, non team oriented or abrasive.
>Georgia is enough like Times to retain its academic feel, and is different enough to be something of a relief for the grader.

I've thought for years Georgia was a great choice on a resume/paper.

a) You want to stand out

b) You also don't want to appear too "starchy"
John S. Brown: “I would rather hire a WoW player than an MBA from Harvard.”
Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.
Or the other idea is to exploit their exploit.

Make a LOIC-like program that queries, say, 100 domains per minute. Brute-force up to 20 char dns names. Let godaddy purchase a few million before they find out what's going on.

One could lower the queries per minute to make it not look so brute-force-y.
> "At this time, the host company is only advising that they have received hundreds of threats regarding possible lawsuits if they did not take Lendink.com down immediately. I do not know personally if it was a result of authors, publishers, Amazon or other rights holders. I have not personally been in contact with anyone other thaan the host company. I do however have a certified letter awaiting my pickup at the post office which is from a company called Noble Romance."

and

>"The hosting company has offered to reinstate Lendink.com on the condition that I personally respond to all of the complaints individually. I have to say, I really do not know if it is worth the effort at this point. I have read the comments many of these people have posted and I don't think any form of communication will resolve the issues in their eyes. Most are only interested in getting money from me and others are only in in for the kill. They have no intentions of talking to me or working this out. So much for trying to start a business and live the American Dream."

source: http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-...
This conversation is futile so long as you're inflating, misunderstanding and overreacting to what I'm saying.
Sorry guys, I'm pretty sure you're chasing ghosts. I was a development manager there a few years ago, and they go to extremes to avoid anything that even comes close to looking like this. The capability doesn't exist in their software, and it would be a massive effort to enable it.

In high volume systems, low probability events happen very frequently.
That might be more dangerous. If you trust GoDaddy, and do a search in an HTTPS session with them, there's little risk a third-party could learn of your interest/idea and snap up the name.

OTOH, dns and whois are unencrypted protocols. Eavesdroppers could see your lookups. Depending on which DNS or WHOIS servers you are consulting, their administrators may be untrustworthy. For example, many whois installations default to asking NetworkSolutions, who at one point (2008) was definitely front-running by their own admission.
Nokia sells phones. And Qt was never exactly a product in Nokia'a hands.
"The images in this panorama were brightened in the processing. Mars only receives half the sunlight Earth does and this image was taken in the late Martian afternoon."

This is a fascinating aspect of Mars that I'd never considered. Half the sunlight, but much less atmosphere... I wonder how much dimmer it is overall.
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there were several other sites making it possible.
Sincerely, why do you think it illegal? Aren't they allowed to speculatively register domains to resell?

Please understand this is a sincere question. I'm asking because I think it's legal. If it's illegal, I want to know about that, and especially how the law might view a register's squatting and an individual's squatting differently.

Edit: Just so it's clear, by "register" I mean truly register the domain for a year -- not "taste" it for a few days and then cancel the registration, if that is even still allowed.
> You can empathize with the OEMs, though. For decades, these companies have had an incredibly easy ride, producing mediocre, commodity computers, and getting very rich in the process.

I love how someone who's never worked in the sector asserts that it's all trivially easy to do and the money just rolls in.

In reality, there is almost no market sector that's trivially easy. Problems are fractal. EVERYTHING is hard. I'm sure that if you dig deep enough into it, slicing bread is a tricky business to be in. Should the bearings be teflon or delrin? How do you compete with the new machines from China? What about that new OSHA mandate coming down the pike?
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Shhhh... you're not supposed to tell anyone...
Steve wouldn't have fired Steve after all there are plenty of mini-Steves at Apple right now e.g. Scott Forstall, Eddy Cue.

He respected people that were strong enough to stand up for what they believed in.
congrats neil. remember this product from a few years ago, and remember being impressed with the audio-to-text technology. glad to see their product launch, ready for primetime. will circulate this around the office as well.
I'm not sure that's actually illegal. Even keys that say 'Do Not Duplicate' can be legally duplicated, though this may be an issue of varying local laws.
Exactly. Window is folder and tabs are files, that arrangement feels completely natural, and Vim never got there with all its own buffers and windows and tabs and so on. Nothing else ever got there (on OSX) until Sublime.
Weird, what kinds of headaches? So long as the HEAD of the converted repo has the same code as the snapshot, what's the difference? Does the conversion break the new repository somehow? (The only way I can think of that's not a bug is slowdown.)
The apology was pretty weak.

"Oh, hey, I was one of the ones who attacked you, your site, host, business.

You got shut down, even though you did nothing wrong… Sorry."

I'm paraphrasing, but that was pretty much it. No regret, no "what can I do to help?", "I'll try to correct the disinformation I spread", just a literal "I'm sorry." The end.
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Georgia is a great choice for almost anything except lists of numerals.
Previous discussion/accusation here (~ 2 years ago):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790

ICANN investigated (generally, not godaddy specifically) 3 years ago, no evidence was found:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090807/0048175795.shtml

GoDaddy's own support background here:
http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/you-can-trust-go-daddy-wi...

The current CEO of GoDaddy is not Bob Parsons (the "elephant hunter"). GoDaddy was sold to a group of investors this year and Parsons stepped down shortly after:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230458400457642...

Warren Adelman took over for Parsons last year, followed by current CEO Scott Wagner who took over this month as interim CEO:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/godaddy-ceo-steps-down-scot...
Researchers Find Possible State-Sponsored Virus in Mideast
You're selling a service that every competent web developer can build.

Despite being chummy with the founders, I basically said something similar about http://pusher.com/ when it came out. D'oh.. and it's going like gangbusters. I was similarly pessimistic about Heroku too (managing a VPS is eassssy!) but.. no longer. People want to outsource boring infrastructure no matter how trivial it is to implement.
Social Revolution: Crowdsourcing For Change
ragel isn't a library. ragel takes input and turns it into a state machine. The output from ragel isn't under any specific license other than your own, see the section on license on the homepage (copied below)
http://www.complang.org/ragel/

> Note: parts of Ragel output are copied from Ragel source covered by the GNU
> GPL. As a special exception to the GPL, you may use the parts of Ragel output
> copied from Ragel source without restriction. The remainder of Ragel output
> is derived from the input and inherits the copyright status of the input
> file. Use of Ragel makes no requirements about the license of generated code.

ragel is actually extremely cool and I've used it extensively in non-open source code for various things. I haven't even scratched the surface yet with how powerful it can be and I definitely want to spend more time with it.
I can't tell if "Vietcom" is a typo or a clever adaptation of Viet Cong to high-tech companies.
But those lendable books could only be lent once, right?

So if you buy a book that's lendable you'd be able to "trade" your lend for someone else's lend. At best you're only getting one free read for every purchase.

That's a far cry better than some people I know who only read books they borrow from friends. Which, in meatspace, you can lend an infinite number of times.
Yea because the numerals are offset randomly. I happen to like that for a resume.
WSJ content for example was behind a pay wall. But the difference is really that before they were an "app" running as a browser. Now they are a Website republishing the content.

The user experience may be the same, but the difference is equivalent to the difference between cutting a picture out of a magazine an pasting it on your wall, and taking a picture out of a magazine, scanning, it and publishing it to your website.
It actually is possible to render those pages in phantom at scale, but it's not very elegant. It seems like something like env.js would be sufficient to render the page, though. I think other people have done that, although I haven't seen a framework that makes it natural. Meteor and others would be in a great position to build such a framework.
That article mentions the "design, specs, price point" of the Surface like the price point is known.

Is it ?
It's surprising how close old sci-fi moves got just by filming in southern california.
Hi, we created BidKat to make selling things locally a little bit easier. Works alongside existing sites and services instead of being a replacement to take advantage of existing network effects. Would love to get any feedback on the site and am happy to answer any questions.
What Is A Server Maintenance Plan And Why Is It Important?
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Server is the term used to describe a box that holds the computer’s processor, memory and hard drive. It is built to provide maximum computing power while utilizing minimum space. Organizations install multiple servers together to increase the processing power available to support several databases, systems and applications.
It's no less safe than loading hostile 3rd-party web pages on your browser at home.
This.

UTC is not only unambiguous, but on some systems measurably faster to capture.

My experience has taught me to work in UTC everywhere possible, local time is typically only relevant for direct human interaction.
Probably just a continuation of the same virus that's been going around for years at this point: http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf

Kaspersky tends to exaggerate how novel these viruses are.
They don't do delayed payments, only immediate purchases. So that doesn't work with a crowdfunding "pledge" model.
The thing is, nowadays, do you think any celebrity that frequently uses Twitter would stop because they have to pay $1,000/year (or way more)? They know it's a huge promotion channel for them. It may have been a bad idea in the beginning, but now Twitter's huge.
GoDaddy is the largest registrar, and anyone can use their anonymyzation. So 'checking other sites' and THEN seeing that some anonymous someone registered via GoDaddy provides little negative evidence against GoDaddy.
Oh what is this nonsense. Why don't you just come out and say what your position is.

So any consumer of content deserves simply scorn and ridicule? What high and mighty bs.
> Baskerville seems to be the king of fonts. What I did is I pushed and pulled at the data and threw nasty criteria at it. But it is clear in the data that Baskerville is different from the other fonts in terms of the response it is soliciting.

No amount of 'pushing' and 'pulling' at data can compensate for a poorly designed experiment. Georgia can't be used as both the control and a measure of how effective Georgia is—clearly fonts that stood out from the rest of the page would have a different effect than the one that looks exactly like the rest of the page. To give any of this credence, the sample should have stood alone, or the typeface of the surrounding page should have been randomized as well. What we're looking at here is "Are there certain typefaces that compel a belief that the sentences they are written in are true when contrasted with Georgia?".