skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GoDaddy never struck me as a particularly evil corporation, just practical. But I would be interested to hear any recommendations for an alternative hosting company, and the logic behind the choice.
So where's that iMac with the multi-touch gesture capable IPS display again? Looking, looking...

What's that you say? Such a product has never existed? Apple has never made a touch screen iMac? Oh dear.

What's that you say? HP introduced their first TouchSmart system featuring a polished aluminum housing with integrated display and touch screen on JANUARY 7, 2007, putting them only 8 months ahead of Apple's release? (IQ770. Look it up, kids.)

CURSE YOU, FACTS!
I wish HP saw your comment.
CISPA is very short and merely establishes a voluntary mechanism by which a power grid operator (for instance) could subscribe to an iDefense-like service operated by the government to get updates about attacks and push back updates about probes they themselves had noticed.

Lieberman-Collins does the same thing, but also establishes a "cybersecurity tip line" and a regulatory regime for who in the FedGov can receive info from that tip line, something like 20 different new research mandates, a certification program from critical infrastructure operators that exempts them from civil liability, a mandatory periodic research report to congress on DNSSEC, a retention program for cybersecurity workers in the government, new GSA regulations making sure that people don't buy fake Cisco routers, and like 40 other things I forgot after reading the bill.
At this point it's becoming extremely hard to tell.
Twemcache 2.5.1 released
The installer seems to look for apt-get, yum or up2date to find out if a system runs Linux.

$ uname
Linux

Seriously.
Their UI is AWFUL. But you know what...it's intentional. All of the upselling. The current hiding exactly where the "My Account" stuff resides. It all feels very intentional as to mislead people into buying unwanted services.

Their UI is there to provide one purpose, confuse user's into buying stuff. It seems to have worked for the most part.

I think we just need to remember that most people reading HN is not the target audience GoDaddy is looking for (IMO).
I'm having problems with scrolling, too, but I'm not sure if it's a problem with the code being slow, or that we simply don't know how to use it.

The front page says "Click page borders and user icons for functions - feel free to experiment", but I think you need some documentation for people like me who aren't smart enough to figure out what they do. I see different colored rectangles and my cursor turns into a resize-top-border icon (??) and clicking things makes other things jump around or disappear but I can't tell where I am or what I'm doing.

A 2-minute tutorial could make the difference between "I'm confused, so I'm leaving" and "this is pretty neat". Of course, it'd be even better if it used controls that I already know how to use, so I didn't need to take a 2-minute tutorial to learn to use scrollbars again. :-)
I was also wondering that. Because I remember a Googler saying they have never made a Google Talk app for iOS.
I used this case for my buildout. It's small, but supports full-size graphics cards and multiple internal hard drive bays. It's more or-less invisible on my bookshelf next to other components. It also doesn't have any drive bays, which looks very sleek and I just download everything from Steam (or similar) these days anyway.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112...
From the page linked in footnote 10 I found the following tidbit:

> Tesler: No, we didn’t have one here. We went to the NCC when the Star was announced and looked at it. And in fact it did have an immediate impact. A few months after looking at it we made some changes to our user interface based on ideas that we got from it. For example, the desktop manager we had before was completely different; it didn’t use icons at all, and we never liked it very much. We decided to change ours to the icon base. That was probably the only thing we got from the Star, I think. Most of our Xerox inspiration was Smalltalk rather than Star.

Just thought this was interesting. And it's probably the modern equivalent of being inspired to move to touchscreen-based devices instead of keypad devices. Which, I might add, is pretty different than being "inspired" to completely clone a competing touchscreen-based device instead of coming up with your own UI and behaviors around the touchscreen metaphor.
I don't think it's fair to compare very subjective things like psychology with chess, something entirely objective. That doesn't necessarily mean I disagree with his point.

Aaron meanders a bit, but I think his core points could be summed up as "You can't think your way out of all of your problems, and you shouldn't constantly dwell on the intangible."

As a side-note, It's somewhat funny to me that Aaron lists reddit almost as an afterthought in his bio.
ViewText: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.aaronsw.com/weblo...

(not yellow, not narrow column, not tiny font, does mess up some UTF8/extended characters & quotation formatting, etc.)
Separating the doing from the thinking about what to do is the one reason why the Getting Things Done approach works.
http://status.godaddy.com/
Really? Having a centered logo is part of a trade dress? Is it supposed to be 2 inches to the right for everyone else?

And when you place that centerd logo on a thin form factor display/pc, that becomes a violation? Or is it when you make the keyboard silvery in color? Or is it when you make the frame as thin as possible given the technology and manufacturing capabilities you have at the time?

That's like saying Ford violates Toyota's "trade dress" when they combine 4 tires on a car, with an engine somewhere inside, and paint the body red. And the vehicle weighs less that 2000 lbs.

4 or 5 standard design choices in combination with one another is not a "trade dress" when those choices are generic and have been done a million times before.
Nirvana's mistaken a bit here. They didn't license the technology, but they "did" allow Xerox to buy 100,000 Apple shares for just a million dollar (a year before their IPO).

This long article has much more details: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_...
Completely agree. The small business I work for has used GoDaddy from the start and has had outstanding uptime. Sure the interface is horrible but that doesn't affect our customers.

So, now what do we switch to?
I'd switched half of my domains to Namecheap. I was waiting to migrate the other half. I do not support them, but I had hired their service before SOPA and I just didn't want to pay twice.
I believe we have the same setup, ST2 user here as well. Hope to hear from you
So.... just to get the ball rolling here... what did GoDaddy do to piss everyone off so much that they raised the ire of Anonymous? Other than the choice of Danika as a spokesmodel, I mean.
A block of text from the linked article:

\[\begin{align}

459 + 3125 &= 3584 & R &= 3570 & c/R &= 1.004\\

5 + 27 &= 32 & R &= 30 & c/R &= 1.067\\

1 + 4374 &= 4375 & R &= 210 & c/R &= 20.833\\

2 + 6436341 &= 6436343 & R &= 15042 & c/R &= 427.891

\end{align}\]

What a shame. The author could use MathJax and have pretty mathematical notation in all his articles, instead of unprocessed LaTeX. Like this rendering of one of his LaTeX blocks:

http://i.imgur.com/bhov6.png

MathJax:

http://www.mathjax.org/
Miami University professor open sources student turn-ins
The Candidates on Immigration
I love the "Who's online" section at the bottom of the "obscure" networking forum.

About 5 members and over 11,000 guests. It doesn't seem very "obscure" at the moment.

It's too bad PT Barnum is not alive today to see the thundering herds of the world wide web.
I second the recommendation for Reaper. For the technically inclined user it's extremely powerful, but it (and the included powerful, but even more abstract plugins) often lacks useful defaults. I use and like it a lot.

It should be said that a Reaper-License costs $250 if you use it for commercial work (which is still nothing compared to the established DAW vendors).
This articulates a lot of the misgivings I have about these attempts at reinventing education online. Fundamentally, the problem isn't a lack of technology in education--Udacity took a bad stats class and gave it to the world. Not a great way to prove their worth.

Good classes are hard to make and run. Technological facilitation can make a good class better and it can bring a good class to the world, but the limiting factor here is still quality.

As an aside, Thrun also demonstrated that in many cases those who "do," cannot teach. And he should continue to "do," and find better teachers to do the teaching.
I'm curious, how did you narrow it down to GoDaddy as being the culprit? Let me guess, you used a popular CMS?
Link is back up as of 12:30 PDT
Is The Next iPhone Already In Patent Trouble?
Does that put us in space elevator territory?
Is it? I boot my Mac into Windows fairly often. And that's irrelevant anyway, because HP is not selling an OS, they are selling hardware that happens to look extremely similar to an iMac.

In fact, on that first photo on the linked article I genuinely thought they had placed an Apple wireless keyboard and magic trackpad in front of the HP computer. And the only reason I knew that wasn't an iMac was because of the lack of the apple-logo-on-aluminum bar at the bottom, which was simply replaced by an HP logo in the exact same spot.
Relevant guide to ditching GoDaddy: http://lifehacker.com/5794507/how-to-jump-ship-from-godaddy-...
Apache webserver updated to ignore Do Not Track settings in IE 10
> I've worked with quite a number of programmers who seem to have a very hard time putting themselves in the shoes of someone who will have to read/maintain their code later.

We all do that. How many times have you looked at something, went "What asshole wrote this?" Only to find out from git that it was you?
Google ending Wallet prepaid cards
I think a number of people might find such functionality useful -- every once in a while I run across people with tens or hundreds of thousands of schemas, because a program written to query against a particular schema is more convincing and easy to audit than row-based multi-tenancy.

The problem is that there are performance and tooling issues when you have that many database objects, so those people can end up sad, even though the model was one they basically were happy with.

So I think adding database features for lucid multi-tenant work while reducing the risk of cross-tenant leakage is a movement in a good direction.
After the Techcrunch bump: Life in the “Trough of Sorrow”
You don't need a full server like apache or nginx to start developing in you home all you need is php

I like it is like in the rails/django world
Keeping your hands up or head down for long time sucks.
For hosting alternatives, you'd have to describe what you want. Heroku for rails is nice and is built on Amazon's EC2 stuff (which you could use for other apps)... for VPSes, I like Linode a lot.

For DNS, I recommend dnsimple. They do DNS and domain registration for my three domains and their UI is amazing. Here's a referral link that, if used, gives both of us one month free DNS service (which is only $3 anyway). https://dnsimple.com/r/96a980397648e9
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When you use it right, brevity is clarity. I'm all for descriptive names, but the elaborate wording in those method names is like writing "utilize" when you could have said "use".

Utilize, upward, starting at, finished writing

vs.

Use, up, from, wrote

So:

def shift_records_upward_starting_at(position)

could be:

def shift_records_up_from(position)

and:

def someone_else_just_finished_writing?(document)

could be:

def other_user_just_wrote?(document)

I don't think the shorter versions are any less clear.
Obama has been shameful on civil liberties. The sad thing is that it has traditionally been the Republicans who push against the limits of civil liberties and the Dems who at least pretend to care. Thanks to Obama, the Dems have flipped over so completely against civil liberties that there really is no remaining government interest protecting us. It's a Nixon goes to China moment, Obama has done more to destroy civil liberties than any Republican ever could have dreamed.
I agree. As much as I don't like GoDaddy and have already moved most of my domains away from them, I don't like seeing someone say "you got what you deserved for using them". What a mean thing to say.
> there are really smart people in the camp of long variable names, and there are really smart people in the camp of terse variable names.

Like the Scheme and Haskell communities, respectively.
Well, every time I look out at the Molybdenum factory near me, I think, "maybe it's best I get a bike made out of something a little more sustainable."

Bring it on!

Although I guess there's Aluminum. And Titanium. And carbon fiber itself is getting recycling programs (however dubious those are). I'd like to see the impact the entire manufacturing process has on the environment. It doesn't matter what you make it out of, if you have to ship the damn thing half way across the world. Source the wood in Canada, manufacture it in Canada = a win(?)
If the bad guy has intercepted the DNS, they can just provide the md5 of the bad script, no?

Maybe the solution here, assuming you trust the third party, is for them to get a signed SSL cert and provide `curl https://get.whatever.com|bash`
It's not that bad for Apple cause if you copy Apple you will never be better than Apple itself. Think about it. You can't win Apples own game. You could win if you would come up with something better BUT if everybody is busy copying who will do exactly that? Don't get me wrong I'm not talking about hardware specs.

It is bad for everybody because a) if this trend goes on there will be no "different" products anymore and everything will at some point look like it comes from Apple and b) there will be no competition at all. Competition is good for a industry. Even Apple needs some competition to get better and better.
Pent up? People have been hating on GoDaddy for years. Nothing is pent up.
In the DVD commentary, they mention 'some software' which they used to find the anagrams. I have a feeling this is 'NAMEGRAM' (ie, avaiable around 1992) which you can still find online.
Well, licence implies that there was some kind of license-agreement or contract. Was there? Where is the evidence?
Thanks for the tips, ckrailo. Will check those out.
Obviously, not everyone here is on the same page, but there is a general consensus that patent laws are being used to suppress rather encourage innovation. Apple's suits against Samsung are an egregious recent example of the patent system harming innovation. There is room for nuance though; saying that the system is being abused doesn't mean that no ideas should be patentable.
Is this book appropriate for someone who has never used Heroku before or is it geared toward folks who have beginner-level experience with it?
Obama has done more to destroy civil liberties than any Republican ever could have dreamed.

Ridiculous. I understand the perspective that civil liberties online are under a constant assault by the government, but no reading of the actual facts could lead someone to the informed belief that Obama's DOJ and NSA are worse than Bush's, or, for that matter, Clinton's or Bush I's.
OOOooo eeeeee
rizzoma alive and I love it/
I use it in all sides of my life
job
vacation
discussion
planing
I don`t use google docs more
I trust them & I belive them
Agreed. All of my domains have used alternatives for the last few years (Google and Name.com). But my less tech-savvy self registered my legal name domain (and variants) around six years ago with GoDaddy and never switched the DNS management over. Big mistake. Now my blog is unreachable via DNS during a job search. Better update my resume links!
I've always wanted to try it, but was never really clear on what made it special at $10 when many other fitness counter apps are cheap / free. The price made me reluctant to even give it a chance.
GoDaddy has been providing me with excellent customer support for a decade. I'm not sure what the hate is all about.

Sure, they didn't take my side in the SOPA debate, but I'd rather live in a world where everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I'm also not comfortable with a group calling themselves "Hackers" giving my profession a foul name by activities like this. This is like bombing a nation which doesn't have same views as yours. Hackers, they are not. Shameful.
i thought the way they handled the shutdown was pretty great. they were thorough about informing everything they could, even in the appstore.
GoDaddy Outage: How to Migrate to AWS Route 53
The Democratic Party has completely removed civil liberties policies from their platform for 2012, even though it was one of the main things they ran on in 2008.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/democrats-retreat-ci...

Romney would obviously be even worse for this, but yeah - this is what you get with a 2 party system. It just gets worse and worse. My only hope is that once Republicans lose this one, then by 2014 or even 2016 they reform the party, and the libertarians inside the party get to heavily influence the platform towards more civil liberties, and attack the Democrat Party on it at the next elections, so they can win on it. Other than that, I'm not sure how you'll get either the Democratic Party or the Republican one to start caring about this again.
Since we're giving options...

For DNS, I recommend dnsimple. They do DNS and domain registration for my three domains and their UI is amazing. Here's a referral link that, if used, gives both of us one month free DNS service (which is only $3 anyway). https://dnsimple.com/r/96a980397648e9
I don't think that's true: if it's a small simple method, and you replace it with inlined code, you have a real mess when you later discover a subtle bug and need to replace its guts.
API First Fruits: Scripting & Automation for the Masses
Places like GoDaddy, for example.
What we need to stop doing is strictly equating profit with money. A venture can be extremely profitable without making a dime if it improves people's lives in a significant way. Money is only a tool to accomplish this, and monetary profits are only loosely correlated to true profits, the kind that add value to the world by making a it a healthier, happier place.
For DNS, I recommend dnsimple. They do DNS and domain registration for my three domains and their UI is amazing. Here's a referral link that, if used, gives both of us one month free DNS service (which is only $3 anyway). https://dnsimple.com/r/96a980397648e9
I was just wondering about this. Does anyone know what happens to e-mails sent to domains that aren't resolving? Do they really just get lost?
Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
Foursquare before and after
There aren't any mobile GPUs that support cuda-style parallel programming yet. Even if a phone did launch with 4 stream processors/cuda cores it would still need another 1300 cores before it could compete with my desktop graphics card in terms of power.

I think one big reason we're seeing comparable graphics on mobile devices now is that they are just now getting close to the capabilities of the 5 year old console hardware. Most dev studios need to target this old hardware and make their games scale to it.

When the new consoles come out the gulf between mobile and console gaming will again be huge and the consoles will immediately begin to lag behind PC hardware as usual.

Maybe game companies will continue to make an effort to scale their engines to mobile hardware as well but I doubt it as the architecture is fundamentally shifting to make use of massive parallelism.
By the wording in your post, it seems you're already convinced,
so I'm wondering why you're asking at all.

Anyhow, the more important question is actually, "What is your
target audience?"

Hypothetically, I'll use myself as an example of not being your
target audience. (1) I don't use web mail. (2) My MUA of choice
doesn't support HTML, so it's not exposed to the risks of HTML
mail, and obviously, I like it that way. (3) If you wanted to
communicate with me, you'd ether send plain text, or also send
plain text. (4) I probably have cooked up something to strip
HTML to plain text for white listed know/wanted senders, but
all other HTML-only messages are most likely spam, so it's
deleted by default, at the server. (5) If the plain text
portion of your multi-format mail is "visit this link", I'll
black list you as a spammer. (6) If I'm a paying customer
and you send HTML-only email, I'll complain, or silently decide
to never do business with you again. (7) If you send HTML-only
emails that are difficult to LISTEN to via a screen readers used
by the visually impaired, I'll actually resent you... or worse.
(8) Similar is true for other kinds of impairments (physical,
hearing, ...).

The people who will be upset by HTML-only email will fall into
two camps; the disabled, and the security conscious, albeit
the latter has some cross-over with the tin-foil-hat crowd.
It's not a huge population, and they may not matter to you,
but excluding disabled people can be a really bad idea. It
takes zero imagination to imagine the possible bad press from
excluding disabled people. Worse yet, being on the wrong side
of accessibility laws can be extremely costly. And worst of
all, your HTML-only stuff could be accessible, but you could
still be accused/sued for it being inaccessible whether or
not the accusations have any merit. (read: increased risk).

Retaining at a plain text part in a multi-part message along
with your preferred HTML is just smart. Plain text may not be
as fancy, or for that matter, effective, and it does have some
other known drawbacks (encoding). On the other hand, it's easy
to do and it prevents you from alienating people and upsetting
potential customers
Sure, you can get me on [redacted].

Note - I may not get back to you tonight, but will endeavour to do so in the next 24 hours.
Route53 is currently $6+ per year per domain.
Prioresses
I'm surprised this hasn't already been posted here. The article is a bit ranty (and humorous) at times but I think it makes a good case for why you should start your next project with Node.js instead of Rails.
Common JavaScript Errors That I've Made
Steve Capps reportedly looked a lot like Woz: http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&...
I get it now. Thank you for the explanation.
Both (I'm the author). It covers Heroku from the ground up. I've had people of many different skill levels review the book, and so far its had extremely positive feedback.

If you're on the fence, send me an email (rdegges@gmail.com) and I'll give you a copy for free :)
man.. i'm so glad I jumped ship on my GoDaddy issues years ago. they were awful in every way. looks like they still are.
too underpowered for Steam games
Sure! Two more tips...

!) Look for hosting companies that are targeting developers (Linode and Heroku are both good at this). The tools and UI will be more sane and you'll have a more pleasant interaction.

2) Avoid bargain bin VPS services for anything that's not a playground. If it can't disappear tomorrow forever, it's not bargain-bin material.
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Most (properly configured) MTAs will queue and retry, so any unsent mail shouldn't be blindly discarded. Postfix, for example, defaults to a queue lifetime of 5 days.
Unfortunately, that's just WHOIS spam, a known (& annoying) problem.

To clear things up a bit:
$ whois =godaddy.com

See: http://superuser.com/questions/37954/how-to-use-command-line...