skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone this far into the chain might be interested in the following links:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...

http://gizmodo.com/5870559/as-if-you-needed-another-reason-t...

http://www.salmanahsan.com/godaddy-sucks/

http://www.oooff.com/blacklist/why-godaddy-sucks.php

http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/why-i-left-godaddy/

From what I gather you should take your money elsewhere because: (1) they love SOPA (even though they redacted their support) (2) they have awful customer service and seedy sell tactics (3) have ads which are sexist and (4) have a CEO who likes hunting elephants.

If those don't bother you then you can now add have DNS servers go down for significant portions of time.

Even wikipedia ditched GoDaddy several months ago.
This is about trade dress, not features. Multi-touch and IPS are irrelevant.

And the IQ770 looks like a hideous product Apple would never, ever make: http://www.strongengineering.com/images/products/detail/hp40...
Thanks for all the feedback so far. We've changed the price to $25 (formerly £25) as almost everyone said the price was too (damn) high. Margins will be cut significantly, but it was definitely too high before, and we'll still make a small profit with the new price.

We're probably going to put it up to $30 after the opening two weeks, so consider this an 'early adopter' discount...

Here's a humble suggestion for fellow HNers: http://helevetitee.com/tee/Founder
Ha! Yeah... way more often than I'd like to admit.
It was only $10 at launch, quickly dropped to $2, then $1, then was free for a while. I thought it was worth $10 honestly, it's a shame everything is a race to the bottom in the app store.
While this helps, unfortunately there is a burgeoning business of websites that scrape offender lists and re-publish them, and will not remove your name unless you pay them money. There weas one a while back that would actually contact people on the list threatening to put up flyers in their neighborhood unless you paid. Note that this is regardless if your status on the official list has changed. There is no substitute for keeping people off these lists if they never should have been on them in the first place.
And I am in the GMT-8 time zone and used Firefox.
I'm not sure where the author is getting his advice but an NDA is almost never standard in angel rounds. If a company can't openly talk about what they have, they likely do not have a competitive advantage worth talking about.
Good luck trying to get Sony or MS to allow a third party app store on their closed platforms.
We wanted to ensure we could post anywhere in the world and not lose money or have to charge extra. I think at this price orders will be slow though, so we've slashed it to $25 to see what happens. Should still make a profit unless the order is in very far-flung lands.
- And they didn't copy the software or GUI either. They took the concepts and did something, if not entirely different, then at least something fairly original with them.

It might be bullish, but at least it was not blatant copying.
Worth paying attention to how they're handling this if you're an app developer and asking yourself some hard questions about your own app strategy: Will you app work after you move on to other projects? Will your users be able to continue to use it without your continued involvement or maintenance? How do you engineer your system so that it's fault tolerant enough to handle you pivoting later in your career while gracefully informing your user base?

All to often we developers are focused on the next 10 minutes, not the next 10 years. Coding for the long view is necessarily harder - just requires that you be mindful.
Interestingly, since Obama is "democrat" he can easily push right-wing changes and get away with it. His supporters then go "he is a good guy, but evil republicans forced him to". If any republican would try it, there would be strong outcry.

There is a good article at Political Compass: http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

(Also, take the test, you'll be surprised.)
Funny, but I used horizontal workspaces with high-contrast stylus driven reflective display/interfaces for decades. When I was a kid, those were called "desks" with "paper."

Working like that for a long time sucks, but so does an "ergonomically correct" PC workstation. Also strange is that my girlfriend's RSI (non-carpal tunnel) is more aggravated by the PC workstation than it is by writing with pen and paper on a horizontal desk.
Cloud VPN Startup Cloaks Location, Encrypts Data
Remote code execution
Suppose in the install scripts there happened to be a line
like "rm -rf /" then you'll feed that to bash...
Well GoDaddy isn't going away. Things get pent up and then let out periodically as long as there's something to be frustrated with.
I don't use GoDaddy, nor do I particularly like them, so this doesn't really affect me or my business directly.

But I got a call earlier today from my less tech-savvy buddy who was freaking out because his GoDaddy website was down. Yea it is probably "his fault" for choosing them, and he probably "deserves it".

Still, not everyone is born a leet computer hacker, and sometimes this is the only way people will learn, so I'm trying not to be too hard on people for that.
It's variable though, if you're a small site that's going to work in your favor especially if you already build on AWS.

DNSPark gives you 5m lookups a month and never built in overage charging!
My experience with GoDaddy has been nothing but negative.
The latest being a SSL certificate I purchased 9 months ago. They auto renewed the certificate at full price 90 days in advance, without any warning whatsoever. Partially my fault for not opting out (but I was unaware that I ever opted in). Most services that auto-renew give you a warning prior to the imminent date.

When I asked for a refund, I was told I could only get in store credit. In store credit for a virtual good that hasn't been activated/used and arguably charged without my consent? Joke of a company.
Civil liberties weren't one of the main things Obama ran on in 2008. Obama ran on the economy and on a fixed timetable for ending the Iraq war.

To make the argument that civil liberties were a key focus of the Obama 2008 campaign, you should be able to provide a Google News search query from (say) July-October '08 that demonstrates that fact. I just tried to find one and couldn't.

We are (mostly, and myself included) social liberals on HN, and Obama was the liberal mainstream candidate in 2008, so I think we tend to project things onto him that aren't really there. Obama is first and foremost a pragmatist. Closing Gitmo was worth less to Obama than getting health care passed.
It looks like they've already dropped the price from $45 to $25. Huge difference…
Honestly, the monitor is different enough for me. The keyboard could use a little distinguishing, but I can still say which is which.

The touchpad, however, is an entire other story.
Yeoman at your service - A getting started guide
It does not say .com names are $3.99

It is slightly misleading (since the default search box is for .com), but all it says is "DOMAINS FROM 3.99"

which is absolutely true. Some .info domains go for as low as $3.99

That is nowhere near as bad as GoDaddy's upselling crap PLUS namecheap's configuration and control panels are really nice to use.

Comparing GoDaddy to NameCheap is like comparing MySpace (before the last major redesign) to Facebook. They both have to make money somehow (and so have certain lame tactics to be competitive), but NameCheap is obviously lightyears beyond godaddy in any informed persons mind (ESPECIALLY when actually using the service after having paid for it... NameCheap's control panels are the best i've ever seen anywhere)
"I like it is like in the ruby/python world"
> A big screen laying flat on a desk is uncomfortable to look at

What about a "drafting table" setup?

> a big screen facing towards you like a computer display is uncomfortable to touch continuously. The term is "gorilla arm".

Please re-read my proposal as written by someone who's already aware of this.
> My recommendation to users that do not know if Java is installed on their system is to either disable the plugin in all Web browsers, or uninstall Java completely from the operating system.

There's no need for the second step -- there's no vulnerability involved in having a Java runtime engine on your system. The current problem is limited to the browser plugin, so the first recommendation makes perfect sense.

There are plenty of Java desktop applications that need the Java runtime to be present. You won't know which ones they are until they stop running because you removed Java entirely.

Even apps that aren't Java apps per se, like LibreOffice, need Java to be present for certain things.

So the tl;dr is -- deactivate the browser plugin, but don't uninstall Java. IMHO.
Agreed. I use them as well, and they've been great from day one.

Short anecdote: I have an Icelandic (.is) domain. Iceland's NIC has very strict rules regarding DNS records associated with an Icelandic domain. dnsimple's support team got the problem resolved within a few days. I can definitely see myself with them for the long haul.
The original version of this guide was a great introduction to jQuery for me (thanks!). Overall this looks like a much easier and more interactive way to go through the material.

I do have one comment, though: After reading through the single-page guide, I went back to it for a few weeks and often used Ctrl-F to find specific references to things I couldn't exactly remember how to do, and I don't see a way to search similarly in the new version. Ideally the improved navigation should eliminate the need to use such a blunt tool, but I still wonder if someone might want to come back and find something, remembering some random syntax but not remembering where it was. Not sure exactly how you would fix that in the new guide, or how serious it is, so it's just some food for thought.
Have you guys read Lieberman-Collins? It's linked from the story. You should, if this EO is truly an indicator of Obama's retreat on civil liberties, easily be able to point out clauses from the bill that make that point.

I've read it. I don't think it'll be as easy as these comments make it sound.
If you're looking for a more indepth review of Yeoman please consider checking out my article on Adobe Developer Connection:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/yeoman-at-your-se...
Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of
tools, libraries, and a workflow that can
help developers quickly build beautiful,
compelling web apps.

Cool, but what does it do?
LightSwitch vs. Dynamics CRM vs. SharePoint vs. ASP.NET MVC
No. Don't use "curl" to download install scripts from HTTP URLs, or, for that matter, from HTTPS sites you don't trust.
We recently evaluated DNS options for our ~800 domains we host DNS for and decided to go with DNSMadeEasy. We're not switched over yet but the deciding factor for me was they're an anycast network and can offer a lot of cool regional responding if we grow to that size. We want to use vanity domains, e.g. ns1,2.ourcompany.com so w/ DNSimple that's only two locations that need to be DDoSed or fail and our sites are down.
Anyone else having trouble getting the payment screen to work?
It's a good point. (And BTW I edited my comment to be "updateOutsideSubscriber" when I realized that was what it was really doing.)

It seems to me that "make_person_an_outside_subscriber_if_all_accesses_revoked" just sounds like an internal module function. If something outside the module is calling it, it just smells like the whole thing is organized wrong.

But sure, if the function is being used in a "global" way like that, then the full, long version is probably better...
Well that could come in pretty handy.
Johnson actually mentions this idea in his book.
This is romanticising the film industry; it has not changed much in the past few decades. People remember one or two films a year out of THOUSANDS. It's always been that way; there are a few gems in a sea of the same old shit.
> "Two hundred three"

I'd be curious to hear you elaborate on this one. In American school, I learned that 'two hundred three' is the only acceptable version, but in casual speech people invariably say 'two hundred and three', which sounds more natural.

Which one do you say?
I'm one of those people you call "stupid", who "deserves what I get". This is my first time posting here. I've used GD for years. Sure, they try to upsell me, but being in sales, I don't have a problem with giving them a firm "no thanks". If you do, that's your problem, not theirs. They're a business, for goodness sake. Realize that.

And not only my sites are now down, but all the sites I maintain for clients. If some individual (or group) has done this intentionally, then these people are responsible for taking hundreds, maybe thousands of small businesses off line today. They're cutting into their sales, hurting their bottom lines, and if it continues for too long, will probably lead to people being laid off.

So you can sit on your techie high horses and think you're oh so smart, but the fact is, these are real business people doing real business and criminals are hurting them. So you come down on the honest people for signing contracts and paying their bills on time?

Seriously?
pgAdmin not work on OS X? I'm pretty sure it does.

Just found this: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreSQ...
5 Reasons You Should Leave GoDaddy (And How)
Oops :/ When I googled it I just got wikipedia articles!
Heroku has really been amazing for me. As a college student its free and very cheap upgrade plans make it extremely easy to deploy web apps. It's helped my learning process and allowed me to release stuff I don't think I ever would just because of its ease of use.
A Closer Look at Go Daddy's Infrastructure
Now if there was an easy way of showing a user where the address bar is so they can type it in...
I had domains with them marked "auto renew" that mysteriously had that status changed. Since all my domains were "auto renew" I wasn't monitoring my renewal notices. Suddenly I discovered that several domains had expired and had been purchased by others. Now that sucks and is a good reason for me to find another registrar, in addition to the moral misgivings I already had about them!
Man, this got so much flack from the PHP community that didn't see the power in having a built-in webserver. For some reason, people center on that it's supposed to replace Apache/nginx, which it's not.

Languages and frameworks aside, one of the nicest and most newbie friendly parts of Rails is that it's bundled with a webserver, so you can start playing around without having to setup any sort of dev environment.

Edit: I do agree that this should probably not be in the core php interpreter, though. Ideally, it would be a PHP library with a CLI utility, but with PHP's poor culture and adoption towards shared libraries ala composer/rubygems/npm, I think this is the best alternative.
Another example of a heavily web-based service I might have used but never tied myself to because of the likelihood of it disappearing. Creates a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

At least in this case the native app continues to work... would be even nicer if it were reissued as a free app so users didn't have to be so paranoid about not losing their local backup copy, but I guess I can understand wanting to avoid whatever the legal complications of that might be (plus the $99/yr app dev fee).
After Anonymous (or an individual in Anonymous) shut down millions of small business websites today, this legislation or executive order is now far more likely to happen. Enough people with clout will want to prevent "hackers" from messing with their businesses and will accept whatever line of thinking is promised to deliver them from this evil.
Please don't imply that I don't know the way the US system of government is set up and why it was designed that way. I know this subject better than most.

>Yes, however the topic is not your personal preferences, but which choice has the greatest risk.

But it is a question of my personal preference. If I'm willing to accept the risks and am willing to pay for this then the option should be available to me. Or are you saying that a an adult shouldn't be able to make these types of decisions?

>OP didn't understand why the present seemingly inefficient system represents an advantage.

But don't you see, the current system isn't an advantage, it is an old and inefficient way of doing things! There is clearly room for improvement here.
Show HN: Passback Stories: collaborative storywriting for fun and hilarity
My input: more colours, and a better cut t-shirt. No one I know wears plain white round-neck cotton t-shirts.

How about something like this: http://images.asos.com/inv/media/9/3/6/7/2477639/greymarl/im...

Taken from here: http://www.asos.com/ASOS/ASOS-V-Neck-T-Shirt/Prod/pgeproduct...

If they can sell them for 6 quid, surely you could pick up something similar for just a few pounds.
Steam Big Picture Available Today
How I used Django to throw a kickass party
Your statement is ridiculous - by your own logic Obama took it from them and then assault is continued by his government.
Would love to hear from the FitFu founders what went "wrong...

- what was different from their expectations

- what were the challenges

- and why they weren't able to overcome the challenges they faced
Why is GoDaddy excluded from the requirement to provide port 43 whois service? Are they special? To my knowledge you can only get whois information on GoDaddy domain names from their website. Why only HTTP whois? Are they front-running?
Startups' Missed Connections
Just updated the gumroad payment page so it now allows users to pay more than 5$ if they want to. :)
From Wikipedia:

> Amateur pornography is a category of pornography that features models or actors performing without pay, or for whom this material is their first or only paid modeling work. Reality pornography is professionally made porn which seeks to emulate the style of amateur pornography. Amateur porn has been called one of the most profitable and long-lasting genres of pornography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_pornography

There sure is a lot of fake amateur porn but there's also tons of authentic amateur stuff out there (whatever that means). This genre isn't novel at all despite what this woman would like us to believe. Also, she is apparently going to pay people to post videos which makes it not so clear whether it falls under the amateur label.
Hey guys, this is has been an on and off project of mine for the past year, so tell me what you think!

Here are a few things that are on my TODO list:

* Deletion/editing of paragraphs you submit. I'm still deciding on how to approach this without making people who respond to you angry.

* More ways of sorting stories/parts than recent and best rating respectively.

* Auto-updating of a story while you read it.

* Markdown support for italics, bold, etc.

So, tell me what you think, I would love to hear any feedback.
Spot on, Bill. My experiences with GD have been nothing but stellar... for the last ten years!
Make the decision
The thing is, I don't think Obama has cut any of the stuff Bush added. So if he's made things even a little bit worse than it's the worst ever...
the "cmd <<EOL ..\n..\n EOL" part has been mystical to me for ages, especially as I didn't know what to google to find out. I recently learned it was called a "Here Document". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document

For extra credit, try using a "Here Document" as input for 'echo' and 'cat'. Explain the results.
Yes, but how much of that is because a large amount of people in your age group (if they're anything like mine were) own second hand phones (whether purchased second hand or handed down from their parents). The iPhone was dominant overall around the time of the 3G/3GS, so there are a lot of second hand versions of these in the market, unlike early android ones like the G1 or HTC Hero. In fact, if NI is anything like the ROI, those early Android phones weren't even sold by the carriers. Also, they sucked. Android didn't function well until Froyo/Gingerbread (2.2/2.3) and didn't look good until ICS (4.0).

I'm only 1-2 years older than you, but I've noticed in my age group a huge swing from iPhones (or iPod Touch + dumbphone if you can't afford an iPhone or find a second hand one) to mid-range Android phones like the Galaxy Ace (which is probably the second most commonly owned phone among people I know, behind the iPhone 4) by people replacing iPhone 3Gs and 3GSes. The iPhone is still on top, but it's no longer dominant.

Also, for some reason I cannot fathom, a small group of blackberry users. Including one who traded in an iPhone 4 for one. I really don't see the appeal, but I guess some people just really like bbm + physical keyboards.

(Rough guess of the proportions among people I know is 50-55% iPhone (of which it's mostly 3GSes and 4's - the 4S is non-existent among my friends, which pretty much reinforces my theory that they're not buying new), 35-40% Android, 5% Blackberry, 5% dumbphones. I'm not aware of any WP users)
Dynamic volume/quantity pricing would be cool.

Tees are light enough that whether I order 1 or 3 any increase in weight (and thus shipping costs) will be nominal.
Did you read the bill?
The problem with this is that although your solution might be better while reading the file where `updateOutsideSubscriber` is defined, once you see that method call somewhere else you'll have to go to that other file to read the comment. With the longer method name you don't need to read the method definition to see what's going on.
I would gladly pay a one time fee of $50 plus a yearly maintenance fee to update my addresses en masse when the need arises.

This wouldn't support an entire company but could generate a healthy income for an individual or a small dev group.
Precisely. This will hopefully replace a lot of the "FTP it up to the server, see if it works" workflow I've seen in the PHP world.
So you're a domain squatter then?
About Valve, Steam and Linux: Linux on a Steam console?
I don't much care for blame as much as I care for alternatives. Who do some of the largest sites register their domains with? And I mean reliable and fast. For example, a whois showed me ycombinator.com is with EASYDNS TECHNOLOGIES. Google is with MARKMONITOR INC, which is totally overkill I bet. Suggestions? Recommendations?
Snark. 90% of all NY news blogs are written in this tone.
I get that you're having a dig at the biking crowd, but the major cost of a $5000 bike is the components, not the carbon fiber frame. If the sheer strength is better than Carbon fiber, and still has the same strength to weight ratio, then it probably won't be too long.. especially if the cost is lower.
How 37 Popular Sites Used to Look
COBRA Insurance
COBRA Insurance Direct (www.cobrainsurancedirect.com) recently launched a brand new website to help its users understand the COBRA law which provides health care continuation to people who have recently lost their jobs.
Sure, there is, but then why do I pay for GitHub? And I was mostly alluding to pull requests, issues, pages, etc. All the non-git stuff that I rely on being available as well.
They happen to run DNS and hosting for a bazillion small web sites. Tons more use it as a registrar.
Here are some clips from the episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMKis4FPykw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQO4FDuW3PI
"We’d love to pass it over to someone else, but unfortunately that is not possible"

Why isn't that possible?
Yeah, but setting up a rails or django server/hosting environment for development is a lot more difficult than a comparable php setup; tools like MAMP, XAMP, et al make it fairly trivial to get going quickly.
the original: http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/07/lowball/
I think you think wrong. For instance, look up what ACLU said about executive branch restrictions on PATRIOT Act surveillance mechanisms.