skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussion on HN has come to the conclusion that the false DMCA takedown prohibitions are effectively toothless because the adverbs used set an incredibly high bar of proof and malice.
You can still setup a forwarding address and change the reply-to address, so users can use regular Gmail for free. It just means that your company will not have control over the account.

Unfortunately, I don't think threatening to leave when you're not paying anything is really a threat at all. $50/year per year is still pretty reasonable for the services provided.

The other option is that Google retires this feature completely, as they've done with other services people might have been willing to pay for, and that seems worse as you have no choice.
the whole blog post has a single line which explains why they moved away from mongodb
"At that point we still had some issues and bugs that would appear in MongoDB and we were not big fans of the master/slave architecture, so we decided to move on."
Simply not being a fan of architecture cannot be a reason. Only wish they had elaborated on problems more
Being a webdev does occasionally have its moments. [from /r/webdev]
In the java world, Play Framework looks real promising. Writing web apps in Java or Scala or even a mix of both is a win to me.
How to get free single-user Google Apps accounts
Fantastic article. Thanks for the link.
That's fine. I'll keep improving my code, perhaps I can get the Pony when it crosses the 10M/sec barrier.
Yeah, same thing I thought while reading the article.

Getting the word out that you have something new to offer has become progressively harder on the internet, due to all the noise that's out there now. I had a breeze launching my video site in 2006 because it was easy to get people's attention back then.

I don't have any "followers" or a blog. Luckily the service I launched today is something I can sell over Adwords, but as far as organic, there's nothing I can really do except SEO, which is going to take a long time to build up.
A less cluttered whatismyip
> has long been a dream of many anarchists/libertarians

Crypto-anarchism to be exact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism
You wouldn't be the first person being skeptical of this whole thing:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/robert-himler/internet-fraud/rob...

http://vecinuca.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/robert-himler-and-a...

http://vecinuca.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/robert-himler-and-a...

Now I don't know about either of them until you mentioned your post but all I know is that https://www.google.com/search?q=drew+houston+scam or https://www.google.com/search?q=alexis+ohanian+scam do not return nearly as many dedicated blog posts as https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+himler+scam or https://www.google.com/search?q=amy+sangster+scam

A couple more clicks and I came across https://twitter.com/socialmediatwip defending http://amysangsterscam.com/ and promoting http://forex-ultrasonic-robot.blogspot.com/
We're not paying nothing per year, we're paying almost $10,000 per year.

I understand this is effectively nothing for google; my point was that the reason we signed up for GA to begin with was directly related to my experience with it as a free way of hosting my personal domains' email.
How to get rich quick: write a book about how to get rich quick

Seriously, if you're independently wealthy and retired at twenty-two, why are you selling an e-book? That should immediately throw up flags.
> There is nothing out there that does this for under 10$/month per user and I think there is a solid market for a better price point.

You realize Google Apps is $50/yr (around $4.16 per month) per user, right?
Hmm, when I go to https://www.facebook.com/reed1960 I am presented with a login screen. When I click the "CLOSE" button I see no information.

How is that information available to the public exactly? Am I missing something?
Fixing Checked Exceptions in Java 8
Lean Launch works for only products that have customers ready to use it.

Other cases when your ready to blast 1k emails, your site better be complete or people will visit once and never visit again.
Google's value is in its comprehensiveness. Both the marginal value and cost to maintain a single piece of content in their index is extremely close to zero.
It's called bitcoin tumbling. There a quite a few services that obscure the transfer of bitcoins by trasnfering randomized amounts to hundreds of different wallets before sending it to a central account.

But as someone pointed out in another HN thread, there is always a risk the tumbling service could be a legal risk if it's even taken over by a state entity, because they could technically know which wallets are being used.
Also keep in mind that an indictment is designed to make the indicted party look as unsympathetic as possible. There may be additional context given which turns those e-mails from "smoking gun with Dotcom's demonic fingerprints" to just "Viacom vs. YouTube-esque questionable behavior" if that case ever goes to court.
Data is data.
Read the article again. It's comparing Plus's growth rate to that of Facebook when Facebook had the same number of users (~100mil).
Hmm maybe not followers, but your total online audience (which in this case also includes your HN profile).

So what did you launch today?
Running your own e-mail server is easy. I can't believe how many people here are throwing up their hands in horror at the idea.
How do you define "currency"? Really anything could be a currency. If my friends (who are they? :) and I wanted to trade with cocoa beans today we could. Would it then be a crime for us to buy cocoa beans from each other using our country's fiat money? One possible way of defining "currency" would involve fiatness, but Bitcoin doesn't have fiatness. It would at least be debatable if such a law would apply to trading back and forth between bitcoins and local fiat money if "currency" isn't nailed down well for the purposes of that law.
I work for a government funded program that does video streaming and dvds rentals. Our quarterly reports are listed in "hours viewed" as well.

Media is a strange land.
Seems like more overhead than fork & execv technique.
It matters because it a) determines the companies costs which directly affect profits, and b) indicates engagement and the likelihood that subscribers will quit.
Sure, but he should still expect his seized "property" to be returned, just as if he had stored his archives at a storage facility whose owners were willfully ignorant of other customers running bootlegged DVDs on site.
Can someone explain, simply, how this is a problem? I mean isn't '1 billion hours' simply a statistic, a fact, a nice tidbit you might say?

Like Apple announcing how many iphones they have sold? Or how many apps have been downloaded to date?

What do I misunderstand?
Unfortunately, it was broken with the gmail redesign and is still broken. I open a thread with 30 new messages, select part of a message half way down, hit 'r', and find myself editing a reply to the very last message. Instead, I have to click an extra time to change the focus to the message (with no visual indication) before selecting it. Selecting text from a message should be sufficient indication to reply to that message, without needing to reposition the invisible focus. This bug costs me minutes per day.
It would seem difficult to get people to crowdfund gifts or know to in general for gifting no? Have you had any successful usage for that feature?
Have you run into "git commit --amend"? It will let you alter the most recent commit. Could be useful for times when you've forgotten to add a file before committing. (You maybe shouldn't use it if you've pushed, though.)
Not everyone uses Gmail. It's popular to be sure, especially in Silicon Valley, but overall its market share is not even 50%.

Sources:

http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist...

http://www.quora.com/Email-Service-Providers/What-is-the-bre...
Yes. That's not the problem.

The problem is that the SEC cracks down hard on "insider information." The point being, if in a private meeting with you, the CEO told you they did something über cool and you used that to buy stocks, then you had info someone outside the company didn't, and that is a violation of SEC rules.

The question here is whether or not posting on a facebook page is a "private" matter. If they posted this in a PR release (or, recently, on their website) for all to see, it would be one thing. But posting it on a facebook page where by default only the subscribers to that page would see it, the SEC suspects it is an unfair disclosure.
Tim Cook interview with NBC's Brian Williams
I wonder what hash was in use. Also, what workaround were you using to prevent flooding while this issue was happening?
I was wondering how relatively peaceful countries like Australia could be included, here's why (from the linked report)

>As an example, it
includes an incident that occurred in Sydney, Australia in 2006. On this occasion a group a men threw rocks at Synagogues
in a large suburb of Sydney damaging windows and nearby
cars. This demonstrates the comprehensive span of the events
recorded in the GTD.

Weird to include this.
Part of what launching early does is let you realize and attack this question of "how do I get users?" much earlier.

It sounds common sense but very smart people spend months building things before even realizing they have no users. At least when you launch in a couple weeks or months, the problem becomes very apparent when you see a single digit number in your user table's row count and then have the "oh shit" moment. Some may say you should begin your start up with the oh shit moment but launching early and having it is a better alternative than launching much later and realizing this.
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I think whatismyip is popular due to the fact that the site has a very seo friendly name that's itself the question that the site answers.

While internetaddress.me makes sense, the name feels clunky.
any good alternatives ?
I like to strike my little blow against how little irony is actually in that song.
This video is cool, but it always reminds me of how big engines used to sound. Maybe it's the pushrods or something, but they used to be made to sound so much less... neutered.

It can be tough to find the right audio clips, but here's one that isn't bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL49A82E62F8CF2750&v=N...
The direct link to the post is publicly accessible. A Facebook account is necessary to subscribe to posts, but you used to have to pay for a newspaper to see press releases.

https://www.facebook.com/reed1960/posts/10150955446914584
Sure, but my point is that fixing all the locks in a hotel is expensive.

Fixing just a few per hotel (perhaps 1 per floor), with a tripwire device that reports attempts at exploitation, might be possible at 1/100th the cost. (Most locks aren't even touched.)

Still, anyone exploiting the vulnerability at scale would soon trigger a tripwire. At the very least that lets the hotel know exploitation has begun, and it might help apprehend the burglars almost instantly.

I doubt crooks who think they have a master key will stop at just a few rooms. And once the use of the tripwires to catch a crook is reported, alongside the stories of the vulnerability itself, the expected return to this hack drops way, way down. Even criminals respond to relative risk/reward.
He doesn't come across as a product visionary. He sounds like a brilliant, dependable operator and a team player, but I never got the vibe that here is an unpredictable, disruptive loon like Jobs.
If you have a command line and curl handy:

curl http://ifconfig.me/
Well of course we'd like it for windows but I can use my osx emulator for now.

There is also https://browserling.com/ but it can be slow sometimes and has other issues.
Randi and the Race-Car Driver
This got out of hand, so let me try to present another viewpoint.

1) No one deserves to go to jail for 6 years (the term he served) or life imprison, even for intimidation of kids.

2) He wasn't a guy who just took a piece of pizza, he threatened kids and he did so after he committed multiple felonies.

3) The three strikes laws were designed to stop people from continuously committing crimes and getting of easily. The mid 1990s were a tough period for American politicians due to rising crime rates and they tried new stuff. (Basically they did the lean startup movement on criminal prosecution.)

4) If you ask me, the case and situation were misapplied.

5) My original point that this rarely if ever happens in the US still stands. This (pizza lifer) was an obvious injustice and it was fixed. It doesn't happen often, if ever and should not be viewed the way it is.

6) We should never let someone go to jail for 6 years, or even 2 years for stealing a piece of pizza from some kids. IMO the US should seriously look at reducing sentences for many crimes and we should take a hard look at reducing our imprisoned population.

7) Most importantly, The US has not deteriorated to the point of a police state, or anywhere close to it. Part of the reason it hasn't is that American's and international citizens have stood up to the government and demanded that they not violate the constitution. HN/Reddit/others have defeated SOPA, and will defeat other measures like it.

Great discussion.
I agree. After launching and failing a few times, I've come to the realization of that, and right now for anything I have in the pipeline, "how do I get users" is the first question to be solved. Before a single line of code is written
I was considering moving from Google Apps to the offering from Microsoft when they released the new outlook.com, however http://domains.live.com doesn't support a catch all email address and I really can't remember all the email addresses I've put out into the wild.
GitHub's CSS Performance talk by Jon Rohan at CSS Dev Conference
You beat me to it.

~ curl -s ifconfig.me | wc -l && curl -s internetaddress.me | wc -l
1
59

I think this is a good tool though, but really only from a browser.
Cannot agree more, I have had similar experiences, my friends used to call me and say, "hey I still didn't get your email".
Finally I decided to use a reliable email provider .
my choice was Google Apps .
"While I have a lot of respect for the SEC's increased crackdown on financial wrongdoing"

Really? I honestly find it hard to imagine how they could possibly do less in terms of enforcement. There appears to have been huge amounts of fraud going on during both the bubble of the late 90's and the more recent crisis. The the best the SEC has managed is to nab a few people for insider trading.
The replacement board, in the hypothesized special 'tripwire' assembly, would have added radio-reporting. You only need a few of these super-locks, randomly added to the population of vulnerable locks, to catch any exploitation at scale. That'd both curtail the losses and deter future copycats. ("While you're rifling through the guest's belongings looking for valuables, security is already on its way.")
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Tim Cook: I've Given Up Physical Keyboards, Use iPad "80% of the Time"
The best protection for the discloser is simply to do so anonymously, which shouldn't be difficult for someone like this.

Alternately, do so 'legal anonymously', perhaps by the EFF approaching the company and saying "we have in our possession information on a security vulnerability in your product. We want to give you information on it. In six months this information will be made public. We ask for and want no compensation or consideration at all."

That's it. There exist methods to do this safely; Daeken could have done it, and didn't.
I tend to use ` curl -s http://wtfismyip.com/text ` mostly because it is easy for me to remember.
IE7 can do inline-block but it's iffy, try giving the element "haslayout" via zoom:1 in css
I knew I had seen this before...
Does australia have talent? definitely some sort of talent for making car sounds- this guy was on our national tv;
http://youtu.be/RSDUcKw-GOk
This is what I use

https://www.google.com.au/?q=my%20ip
He could have disclosed to them anonymously, either technologically or legally, which would have prevented Onity from suing him.
The next few years. The only thing whiter than the GOP is the color or the average GOP's hair. Buddump pa! I'll be here all night.
Can/did you try http://www.playframework.org/

It's more like a Rails framework for Scala.
Communities - Google+
Very popular amongst Linux distributions, obviously not including Android. Sorry, is that the deafening silence of a non-answer to my question?
Game of her life
But the Microsoft's service is nothing like Google Apps. I use both ( for different domains of course ) and Google Apps' service is still pretty practical. Even if you just compare Gmail and the simple services they provide us with.

Its an annoyance at times setting live domains correctly. Also it doesn't support a catch all email address. :(
What do you think about the latest in Google's attempts to derail traffic from Facebook? Basically it is the equivalent of FB Groups.
Seattle police will not enforce against public marijuana use, only warn verbally
I am confused, if I am google apps oldfag and have 20 accounts. According to http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=29... can I still use it like before or I must remove 10 mailboxes to fit 10 requirement to continue free usage?
definitely handy
browserling.com browserstack.com
Seems like a ton of work to get this implemented into an application, and it also seems error prone (the amount of work they described to get memcached moved over, for example, sounds like it had lots of room for mistakes). And if there's anything I don't want to have room for subtle mistakes, it's live-updating a server or other critical piece of infrastructure.

The approach seems interesting, though, and it's cool to see them demonstrate that the performance impact is negligible (updates seem to apply very quickly based on their tests, too). Maybe there's a use case for this where the risk of mistakes causing failed updates/corruption is low?
FYI, if you use DuckDuckGo, just searching 'ip' will do the trick as well.

Much faster than remembering any other domain name for me.
I thought at first you were talking about the beer can dude actually being a billionaire with 17 lamborghinis! It would be hard to imagine somebody who actually owned those cars to spend so much energy duplicating the engine sound with a beer can.
From a shell, here's the shortest form that I can actually remember:

curl ifconfig.me
Not to mention that you have to pay to be 'recognised' so that your emails aren't autobounced by some enterprises. I have a friend that runs his own domain email for himself and friends and it's surprising to hear just how complex it can be just to get mail accepted. I can't recall if it was a whitelist or a certificate or what, but I do remember at one stage he was happy because he found a way around having to pay a five-figure sum to some internet authority to stop some hosts bouncing his domain (the workaround only cost a couple of hundred instead).
This also works in Google.
I doubt google would have made the decision without considering the advertising impact of the free product.
Sounds like an opportunity. Gather posts by executives and add to an activity stream with other relevant data available to the public?
The data show <2% growth per year but the axes make it look rather dramatic.
I got http://www.ipchicken.com/ stuck in my brain several years ago and I just go there on auto-pilot for some reason.
Engines still have pushrods, so I don't think that is it. :)

Comes down to a couple reasons - 1) the increased pollution reduction technologies (i.e the catalytic converter and muffler) used, which in the video you linked to doesn't have any of those and is just straight headers and 2) the timing of those older motors is mechanical and set to be optimal when the motor is at a peak (or near peak) performance.
Note that the hashtag they are using is #lsr, not #Leistungsschutzrecht .

The irony is that they are not taking advantage of concatenation, in a language register where it is widely used (twitter), and in a tongue where it is idiomatic (German).
Google is trying too hard to "be like" Facebook.
They should try to be "better than" FB.
I have grandfathered 50 users account. No idea what to do with it.
Make new friends. Great friendships are not base on how long or how well you've known a person, but how well you connect with another. That can bloom amongst new friendship with a little bit of time as well.

I speak from experience. I was in a similar boat. All my closest friends growing up were the wrong fit for doing anything entrepreneurial much less a startup. A friend I met through another mutual friend but rarely talked to turned out to be one of my closest friend and became my previous cofounder. It worked out great.
You know, those Chinese guys have gotten 30% raises every year for a decade. And they were higher than the countryside even then.
Or, http://jsonip.com. Now serving over 10 million requests a month.
Lamson?
I've been using this for... Wow 8 years now. It's stuck in my head too ;)
Just because I had to: http://ip.webscript.io

Complete source code:

return request.remote_addr
Have they even investigated the selective disclosure that was widely reported to have gone on during the facebook fiasco? Someone should have been charged for that.
How about the Gumstix. It is tiny linux computer which has been used for robotics. You could maybe think of working with him to build drivers in order to install doom on it. :-)

https://www.gumstix.com/store/packs.php
hopefully the first move of many more to come...