skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a domainer and a geek here are my thoughts:

Price: too high. I am paying $8.49 per .com right now with Fabulous. NameCheap is 10.69 with no coupon. Asking for 12 is too high if I am renewing a lot of domains.

API: A lot of registrars have API access. I am not sure what is special about yours. I've worked with Fabulous, eNom, DirectI, and a couple others. Some are better than others, but what makes you special? In fact, you seem to be built on top of eNom's API.

DNS: This is perhaps the only real selling point I see. You're essentially upselling on better DNS and foregoing all the other potential upsells (like hosting). How do you compete against the professional DNS companies? It only takes a NS change for me to be using their services. You're using Route53, why wouldn't I do this myself?

Maybe I am not your target audience, but I am struggling to figure out who is. I understand the economics of registrars and I feel like you've cut yourself too small a slice to be sustainable. I have doubts about the funding because you don't own a registrar which reduces costs long term but requires quite a bit of capital. But also creates higher pricing requirements which means less customers. You've given up all but one upsell possibility, which has a lot of competition that geeks are generally familiar with. Your audience is supposed to be savvy, so if they are developing a system that requires a lot of domains they can figure out how/where to get them cheaper and setup DNS too most likely.

I like seeing innovation in the domain space, but I fear for the economic viability of this. I also don't honestly see any innovation here. You've complained about what people don't like, but a lot of companies are already going after you main complaints.

I think the registrar innovation is pretty dead because of the shitty economics of it. The margins are getting eaten up by VeriSign every year. They make more money doing everything but registrations. Maybe your DNS upsell will work, maybe not. Good luck.
Richard Dawkins wrote a short article a while back arguing exactly this point: http://boingboing.net/2011/06/30/richard-dawkins-on-v.html . Of particular interest is his point that it's completely plausible that less intelligent animals would suffer more, in direct contrast to common belief.
I've been touch typing for 8 years or so and I barely breach 70WPM. I'm inherently clumsy though so that might be something to do with it.

In any case, 110WPM is very fast even for a proper typist. Personally at your stage I wouldn't even bother. It only makes a major difference if you are typing below 30WPM. At that stage you can definitely improve.

Besides, typing speed is not something that is that imperative unless your job is literally typing stuff up.
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If this gets enough upvotes, maybe I will include him :)
This targets the UK? What if I'm in some other market?
Detlev Schlichter on the Nature of Money
I'm not the author, but I don't think this amazing little library has gotten the attention it deserves. I saw that the author Sébastien Loisel submitted it to HN about a year ago when he first made it, but it wasn't picked up. So I'm re-submitting. Any detailed questions about the implementation will need to be directed to the author.
That's not sufficient to serve a Rails site though.

Rails is a great platform for building a custom web app, but it's a terrible platform for building an open-source blogging platform. It simply moves too quickly and breaks things too often to be useful for the demographic that uses WordPress.

When you're talking about web code with such an astronomical deployment to developer ratio, the advantages of PHP are magnified by several orders of magnitude. Even the perfect WordPress replacement written in Rails with elegant, featureful and performant Ruby code digitized by God's own hand is by definition a niche product that can never hope to compete meaningfully with WordPress.
Craft Beer and QR Codes
>a fully functioning member of society

What does that even mean?
Fully functioning in society seems to be setting the bar too high; we don't consider that a prerequisite for rights in humans by any reasonable interpretation.

Now, will dolphins ever communicate their desire to achieve greater legal consideration? Not unless we put some more effort into researching communication with dolphins (and even then, I strongly suspect not). Not really a problem though I think.
I got my ipad mini on an impulse buy (actually was after I went to Apple's website to see the apology thing) and looking over the design and spec's and went to my local Tesco's to pick one up. Its a really impressive device, way lighter feeling than my busted Nexus 7 and with a nicer balanced screen. Its really tough feeling as well. Not to mention fast, its just snappier feeling and im getting 12+ hours battery from it as well. Great all round device.
If your in the US we show US ads, if your in Germany we show german ads (other regions are coming soon as we get the networks, retailers and integration done)
Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1
No reason to be sad -- imagine a platform that you can stay on whether you're posting pictures of your food to a few dozen people (as I do) or the NYT FiveThirtyEight blog covering the election, to all of Wired.com. That's democratizing publishing.
Anonymous Claims To Have Stolen 28,000 PayPal Passwords
Caution: "Do whatever you want with it" is not a license.

I'd suggest the Unlicense (http://unlicense.org/). It at least has a warranty disclaimer.
It's interesting how all of a sudden with the option of having a smaller iPad, the "old" iPad has become much to large for a lot of people but when the smaller device was just a rumor a lot of people didn't feel they could fit it in their life. Fascinating how just a few hours with the device are changing people's preferences on the entire tablet market.
Nit: The entirety of the Korean peninsula is referred to as the "Hermit Kingdom", dating back to the Joseon dynasty.

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

This error is a stupid example, but the entirety of this post is a bit breathless.
prisoners stuck in prison. can't get out because the guards are immoral totalitarian rulers and will do anything to preserve their prison. Giving them internet may be a mistake. they will use it to rule with a unobtanium fist rather than an iron fist.
PayPal, Symantec and Others Hacked by Anonymous
Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript
Western legal systems tend to only recognizes two types of entities, persons and property. Those entities to which personhood is extended have rights, all else does not.

We punish those who are cruel to animals, not because we attribute personhood to them, but because of the impact animal cruelty has upon persons collectively (society at large). Criminalization of animal cruelty is no more based on the rights of animals than the criminalization of throwing litter from a car is based on the rights of curbs.

On the other hand, ethical considerations are not dependent upon legislation. One may choose to forgo killing a cockroach based upon inherent respect for it as a living creature.
This looks very cool Ryan - congrats on the launch! It's instantly appealing to me, and I fully understand the motivation. NameCheap, while an awesome domain name provider, still feels a bit "hackey" in their UI. It works, but it feels odd. This appeals to me more -- like Stripe for domain names.

I'm going to be perfectly honest with you: The fact that you list that you're a one-man operation, that you're 18 years old, and that you say you "achieved financial independence at the age of 16" is a big turn-off to me.

I know it shouldn't be. I don't want it to be. I'm sure you've built an awesome product/service. But I also know what I was like when I was 18, and I know how much I thought I knew and how I appeared to others.

But I can't lie -- this would prevent me from using the service at the moment. My domain names are very important -- and it raises too many questions. Did you master the security side of things? Have you considered all potential points of failure? Have you vetted this with folks with more experience in the industry? Etc.

I'm not trying to rain on the parade or put down this accomplishment. I think it is -awesome- that you've built and launched a product that looks (and probably is) this good. But I think you might want to reconsider how you present your background.

Which of course leads to a whole new set of questions -- should you just leave out your age entirely? I'm not sure. (Is it really relevant or is this just me being knee-jerk?)

Either way, best of luck and congrats on the launch.
That's true for many areas. I've experienced the same during my adventures with music production.
Haskell-Conceal also works a lot better than unicode-haskell: it doesn't erroneously turn "\n" into "λn", and it replaces :: with a single-glyph equivalent so that signature and definition line up nicely.

Having said that, I still prefer <- and -> to ← and →, at least on screen: those Unicode arrowheads are too small on all the fixed-width fonts I've ever seen.
We can see a 100 ft. wave coming at our rowboat, and some of us are trying to paddle with our hands, and some of us are trying to design a better rowboat (predicting that there is enough time to design/build this before the wave hits), while others are arguing that the wave doesn't exist or will dissipate before it reaches us. I don't have a whole lot of faith.
There's an antipattern here.

Don't build services based on other people's APIs.

It's sad but true. For all the talk about mashups, it's rare to find a demo that's actually cool and much rarer to find a real application because of these problems with API limits. Sure, you might be able to build something that can handle 99% of twitter users, but the interesting and profitable 1% will blow out the API limit and then you're hosed.
All the "don't fork it, build it from scratch" and the opposite opinions aside, someone should actually do something about it. WordPress is indeed bloated and needs a solution faster than it takes for the X WordPress version to ship, which might be a year (or two) away.
Arithmetic Encoding Using Fixed-Point Math
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That's totally a good point. Following this idea, in touchscreen devices there should be only one widget for both radio-button and checkboxes (which can be represented as boolean sliders)
Not given, but

“Each state should thus develop a concrete and effective policy to make the Internet widely available, accessible, and affordable to all segments of population.”

This can imply more than negative rights, in certain cases, but certainly not "free internet for everyone".
S/osx/linux
I might actually move a personal domain to this to try it out if I could ascertain whether ipv6 glue records are available.
Protecting other members of the social group is also an expected consequence of natural selection. Animals form social groups for survival reasons and caring for disabled members is a natural consequence.

Wolves lick each others wounds, for example.

Although the behavior evidenced by cetaceans is fascinating, it just isn't societally important enough to justify the push by the AAS to recognize them as fundamentally equivalent to people.
Oh! then I'll try again.
Microsoft Vs. Apple - A Tale Of Two Stores
Programmers most of the time have no people skills. Programmer will never win a debate. you need to be able to lie or change subjects with a smile and no sweat. Also if you can talk really well you could explain your idea to people and they will go for it. On the other hand you may have a 1000X times better idea but if you can't explain it properly or connect to people they will move inin 30 sec. I think this whole thing is pure speculations. you could say we need a NASA astronaut or a Math PhD for a president as well...
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D5. Full video
I'm trying to decide how concerned I should be about Obama being a magic keyword and Romney not. On the one hand, Obama has been president for nearly four years; the number of searches for him will have been high and consistent. On the other hand, Google is so central to information flow today, having it decide which candidate should get special treatment is disturbing.

I'm mollified somewhat that the Obama magic results that came up when searching for Romney were from Fox News[1], but I still feel a faint disease at the whole concept.

I've been using DDG for several months now and like it. It hasn't matched Google on technical searches, but on general information searches, I prefer the results to be less biases by me.

1. I would personally prefer to never see a link to Fox News. However, if every search for Obama was extolling his virtues and every search for Obama was extolling his virtue, my unease would be outright disgust and I would be contacting my Congressman. My unease comes from not knowing why they might show me something, other than to echo back what I already think, wchich is noot a very useful set of information. I already know that.
Your friend probably represents less than 1% of Apple's total customers. He's not a "big part" of it. That you know him doesn't mean that all of Apple's millions and millions of customers are anything like him.
Do you really get your IDE?
A baby can't self-sustain, is it ok if I kill it?

Someone that is brain-dead can't self-sustain, are there no legal/ethical qualms if I pull the plug?

Are disabled people open season for abuse because they are 'lesser' than the rest of us?
Perhaps Feynman was a poor example. I was going by his claim that his own IQ was 125 (or something to that effect). I suspect that there is more to that number and that we shouldn't take it at face value. I see no reason why he wouldn't score much higher.
I create several apps on iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows 8, J2ME and Brew. The idea that it is to hard to do this is simply false.

It is NOT in your best interest to lock yourself into 2 platforms who will have increasingly less interest in giving you good terms on your iron-clad developer agreements. I can't believe you'd even think this was a good idea.
I agree, but elegance cannot replace functionality. Apart from the touchscreen perspective (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743643) I would use only plain old radio buttons.
McCain served in the Navy, not the Air Force.
Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Sophos Products
Statistically your confidence interval can go negative

No, it really can't. If it looks like it is, you're using a symmetric distribution function (probably a normal distribution) in a context where its assumptions do not hold.
Cygwin comes with its own mintty terminal these days. No need for console2.
He has access to everything he could ever want... While it's a nice piece, this isn't the startup life everyone else lives. Hopefully this isn't another Airtime.
Unfortunately, we never reached the scale where we could exercise product blacklisting, and even 50k products were difficult to vet manually. And I had written significant code to help seek and destroy affiliate feed data problems which helped a lot but still ate up a lot of time.

The major data hygiene issue was that the affiliate networks tried to pigeon hole every product into the same schema. I think this was largely due to their major users being non-technical and their feed format being CSV based (so people could manipulate it in Excel)--this was the only time in my life that I wished for an XML set up, one that had different schemas for different products (this is why Amazon was attractive, they do this, but it's still not 100%. While Amazon has a large product category tree, a lot stuff still ends up being pigeon holed, especially if it's a specialty product). The worst part was the "extra" fields that the vendor could use for anything, some used them for keywords, others for deeper hierarchical categorization. I think my favorite was the "category" fields which were chevron delimited phrases within a single CSV field.
It depends a bit on the industry - for example gaming/betting (which I guess won't be relevant to the US, but is in the UK) pays out significant amounts for each conversion, which works out very well for the publishers.

Part of the reason we are doing this is because we know people who do make significant revenue from CPA sites. But they also work very hard at it - writing content, selecting products and A/B testing those products. We are trying to automate the last two steps, so you can concentrate on your content.
Nearly all are irrelevant or outdated ones.
Well, point taken (I'm a heavy shell-user myself).

However there's a range of tasks where a GUI file manager is just the right tool for the job. I maintain OSX should have a proper file manager, regardless how much Apple wants the Filesystem metaphor to die.
Certainly a potential example from the past could perhaps be found in the social relations humans had with our close relatives. The relationships between Neanderthal and Cro-Magon is contested and ultimately largely unknown, however it seems likely there was some recognition of each other involved as something other than mere beasts.
The iOS slider is so good, that one site I use literally just screenshotted its on and off positions... and used them as a checkbox.
3M’s first LED bulb uses TV tech to appeal to lighting Luddites
C’mon Apple, All Your Products Should Have iTunes Match
It might not have happened if the French government used a modern (2012) system of surveillance utilizing both technology and social networks; filled labor camps with dissenting individuals and their entire respective families; and regularly executed anyone attempting to escape. France __never__ got as bad as North Korea is today.

The author did focus too much on the enabling power of the WWW, but don't dismiss the plight of the North Korean people because of his mistake(s).
The problem is that Wordpress is vehemently anti-MVC, and its plugin structure depends on this. You'd have to design an entirely different system to work on Rails.
Here are my thoughts as a one-time employee of a web hosting company; I built their DNS control panel for customers and their overall order placement and customer management API.

I think that the API access you offer is truly a great innovation in this space. I don't currently have a use case for it; have you thought of any that you could share? Programmatic creation of subdomains?

My criticism is that you need to properly answer the question of, "You're a startup; how do I know that you'll be here five years from now and my domains won't end up in purgatory somewhere because you go out of business?" Part of that echoes what nlh says below: It is not a good thing that you are advertising that you are 18. Rightfully or wrongfully, that works against you.
Dynamic contagion, part one
Google uses the word 'personalization' as a euphemism for 'censorship'.
Please explain me, as a completely impartial outsider, in plain words, how " do whatever you want with it" is not a license.
The Future of Payments
"X isn't possible" statements have always held a special interest for me. To me it is that person stating that they, or possibly they think we, know everything there is to know about whatever the subject is they are describing. Many of the scientific advances from the past 100 years that we take for granted today were "impossible" 200 years ago.

As for the "enough problems here on Earth" statements, I always say that most likely the solutions to many of those problems will be solved directly, or indirectly, by visionaries chasing the dream of traveling to the stars. More than likely anyone who says they don't want to spend money on space exploration because of "problems" here is just saying they want to spend the money on their own preferred project, whether there's a benefit or not.
I don't know, but I do know that if we all accepted that as a standard we would be in a much worse off place as a society since most times I hear the phrase "fully functioning member of society" the implied alternative is usually "penniless hippy".
We're Hiring a Biz Dev Director, But Want Someone Else to Email Us Your Resume
Java Coding Conventions considered harmful
Truth. The 黄牛 (yellow cows) will distort iPad sales in the states for a couple more weeks as they seek to satisfy mainland China gray market demand. It will level off around Thanks Giving I hope (I want to buy one myself to take back to China, for personal use!).
'You can think of goal creep as the test-driven development of a real-life pursuit.'. No!!! Think about it!!! Test-driven development would be to start writing your winning speech before learning to drive!!! Besides, goal creep is a way to get good motivation, but it's usually very bad for design!!! If you wanted to be very good at racing in the first place, you'd have hired the best instructor out there, and you probably wouldn't have taken all the bad habits that you have now, and would probably be a much better driver today!!!
I understand your perspective, but I disagree that it's the right thing to do. Keeping Excel consistent over the last 15 years may be great for you you but it's terrible for, effectively, everyone else. Anyone learning MS Office for the first time will have to deal with outmoded interface paradigms, confusing icons, legacy feature cruft.

You should always be designing for your next customers, not your existing customers. Keeping legacy clients happy may make sense over the short term, but over the long term they'll slowly drag you down into irrelevancy.
Keep physical things physical - Limit skeuomorphic design to the core idea.
Good effects of military service to concentration
Your argument is definitely valid and I agree with you that the economic viability is limited in the sense that NameTerrific is not an extraordinarily competitive product in the market.

However there are many small but extremely useful features in NameTerrific that are not available elsewhere, such as DNS Snippets, Profiles and Domain Admins. They simplify the domain management for web designers/developers.

I don't want NameTerrific to be the cheapest registrar, the most professional DNS service provider or a losing department of a hosting company. The vision I see is an all-in-one platform that covers every aspect of professional domain management. You get the best uptime and easiest management automatically, and you can customize the experience the way you want.

The reason that the APIs haven't been released today is because I'm adding OAuth to it. NameTerrific is designed to completely open up the domain industry to all developers.

Unfortunately domainers are never my target audience. Many professional domainers get accreditation themselves to take advantage of cheap prices and stuff like domain cancellation. There's no point competing in such a low margin field.

But well, I believe that there will be people (hopefully a lot of them) who want something simple and straightforward and are willing to spend $2-$3 extra a year to get a professional product without doing much work.
I believe their argument stems not so much from the intelligence of cetaceans -- as others have pointed out, intelligence is hard to define -- but from evidence that they are self-aware, conscious beings.
I am a strong supporter of Gittip. I think it is an important funding model to make available, across a variety of disciplines. I hope there are some people around with experience identifying money laundering patterns, who can keep Chad from having to reinvent the wheel on this.