skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
"org.scalatra" %% "scalatra" % "2.0.4",
"org.scalatra" %% "scalatra-scalate" % "2.0.4",
"org.scalatra" %% "scalatra-specs2" % "2.0.4" % "test",
"ch.qos.logback" % "logback-classic" % "1.0.0" % "runtime",
"org.eclipse.jetty" % "jetty-webapp" % "7.6.0.v20120127" % "container",
"javax.servlet" % "servlet-api" % "2.5" % "provided"
)

in your build.sbt too difficult? Admittedly a bit longer than bundling/gem installing, but not too difficult?

(Although I haven't had to use scalatra personally in a project so there might be hackery I'm missing)
This is likely primarily an opportunity to upsell other services - great opportunity to chat with people, make a connection, build a relationship, etc..
The closest thing I could find to a source would be this, but the industries aren't split into 'content'

http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=5&step=1

According to this, the "Information" industry is about $225B and "Computer Systems Design" is $198B.
> If it had zero value why would Google be interested in it?

Again, value is subjective. Even if you think it has zero value, even if every engineer at Google thinks it has zero value, it might have value to someone out there. If nothing else, it could be a part of a corpus linguistics study.
My comment is aimed at business users, not casual users. Several friends of mine have hit the cap with their business accounts and have had to consider alternative email providers because now they can't use their email accounts.
Yerp, we signed up about a month ago and had pretty much just settled in over the past week. Hooray.
I hate this attitude. Really do. Its a cancer.

You're not "the only person who understands code", you're the person who refuses to write good documentation based on a misplaced sense of superiority.

Get over yourself.
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I'll take "Google downtime" (a damn small amount) over any other sort of downtime (Rackspace, AWS US-EAST-1, the hardware on my desk) any day of the week.
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According to another blog post, you can still "switch to it" for the next 30 days. So maybe sign up for paid and then immediately switch to free?

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-goo...
I use Google Apps for my domain but forward the mail to another account which means I see no ads and get hosted mail for free. I didn't even realize until this announcement that I'm probably a net negative and probably not the only person doing this.
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We have a Google Apps account at my day gig with 79 users; I pay it monthly on a credit card, at $5/month, so right around $400/month. That is incredible value for what we get with Google Apps, as they don't just do our email, calendar, etc, but also Drive and our authentication (via OAuth/LDAP).
it is also no accident that most of the industrialized world, with the very notable exception of the US, has universal health care of some kind in place for all citizens (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_coverage_by_co...).
Standard procedure is to give the vendor a reasonable amount of time to fix the problem, then go public if they don't. It's not like there was some big hurry to go public, here. As he notes, the problem has been around for decades and he personally knew about it for years beforehand. Giving the company a few months to get their shit together, if they so chose, wouldn't make much of a difference in the worst case, and could have turned out a lot better.
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Here's my situation: I'm was part of an acquisition a little over a year ago, and signed a two year contract with the large and global acquiring corporation.

Life at BigCo is weird. They thought they might need my particular specialty, but over time there's less and less work to do. The real projects in my specialty are handled by a team overseas. Many of the projects I've worked on have been cancelled or whittled down into extremely minor features.

I could be delusional, but it seems like it would cost the company more (in terms of focus) to find things for me to do than it would (in terms of cash) to just keep me along until the contract is over.

If this is true, they could just pay me the final retention bonus early and I could leave, saving them the better part of my salary for the year.

Is there a way to ask for this?
Time to hit the economics text books

There are definitely economics textbooks that agree with me on this. I know of at least one off the top of my head.

Ultimately, we have to look at reality to determine the truth.
I have a free Google Apps account mostly so that I can have a custom domain for my small (free) App Engine site: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/domain

It's sad that now attaching a custom domain will cost a lot more than the domain itself.
A couple of things that have helped me:

1. Start with something small that you will commit to finishing 100%. Even if it's something you can do in a weekend--make it fun. Usually it helps to solve problems that you have that you are very familiar with and you know can address. Maybe people in your class or college/university have a problem you can solve.

2. Do something outside your comfort zone. Get a part-time job doing something you're interested in that you have no experience in. Start a new hobby or join groups in your community, college, etc. that are new to you. Connecting with people will help you build people skills and find problems that people need solving.
That statement doesn't make sense. If they didn't contatenate, the string would be even longer and less useful as hashtag, or it would be concatenated again, as most hashtags in English are concatenated words...
If you want to see a microcosm of this, look at the Canadian cellular market. Most of the budget players are now on a 'tab', where they effective lend you $200-400 which is prorated. The funny thing is the math they use:

On WIND, for example, they give you 10% credit for the value of your bill every month. On a $50 plan (which is high for them), you get a $5 a month subsidy for your phone. If you stay for three years, they let you off the hook.

Meanwhile, the 'Big Three' (who own most of the budget players as well) offer a prorated subsidy: you get 1/36 of the value of your subsidy monthly, over three years. So, on an iPhone, you can get up to $20 a month in subsidy. Clearly this more than outweighs the extra cost of the plans.

What's funny is, people are afraid of 'contracts', even contracts with prorated termination fees. I once got the scary contract talk from a WIND salesperson, so I drew a little diagram on their chalkboard of the value over time of each contract. He saw the sharp drop at the end when they released the remaining $200 of debt, and his jaw dropped a little. People don't really think about this stuff rationally. Bell has even started giving a 10% discount monthly if you buy a phone outright, which makes absolutely no sense unless someone handed you a phone for free.

My point being, if experience in Canada proves anything, people will flock to this as long as you market it properly.
Likes:

- Fresher look

- Less "heavy"

- Like dislike bar is green/gray rather than green/red, which is less jarring and plays up the likes over the dislikes

Dislike:

- Good lord the background is bright. Someone turn down the lights!
They used to offer it. I'm still grandfathered on a 30GB plan, which is wonderful. I occasionally get poke emails from Google asking me to upgrade to one of the new plans.
This has not been my experience. I have never been sent to dead links.

I have had them try to send me to a "mobile hotspot feature" upsell page when using Chrome from my laptop while tethering. I figured out that they were checking browser user-agents to determine whether a user was tethering or not.

But the Chrome app on Android allows changing the user-agent to the desktop equivalent with its "request desktop site" feature. So I called and yelled at them saying that they had no right to block me from using my phone in the way that I wanted. They flipped a bit somewhere and I haven't had a problem since.

For reference I am on the Monthly4G $30 plan.
How they responded after public disclosure says little about how they would have responded to notification with a deadline for public disclosure.

I understand the various incentives for Onity, and I think a great incentive for them is, given six months to address the issue, knowing it'll be made public, to take at least some proactive steps such as notifying large customers or being ready upon public disclosure with a mitigation plan.

His whole blog entry is a lot of handwaving to cover up the fact that he never even gave them a chance to do something anything like the right thing.
Certainly puts me off. $5/10 per user per year, wouldn't think twice about it (even though the money would be paid grudgingly). With the number of users we have that would end up being around $50/year; but $500/year to host some email and store spreadsheets? No thanks.
Even so, it's not like they're replacing the desktop. This is in addition to the downtime they can already expect.
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I completely agree with this. I signed up for Google Apps for the sole purpose of having an email address at my own domain, and I always wished I could just have that email address supported by my existing Gmail account, rather than having to deal with the hassle of yet another account somewhere. I would gladly have paid for that.

Google's always been pretty good about making sure you aren't locked in to their services, likely due to the efforts of their Data Liberation Front[1], but it always seemed to me that being locked in to using an @gmail.com email address was a big exception to this.

[1] http://www.dataliberation.org/
I gave up on Google Apps for your Domain for email a while ago (security, bugs, and the general black box nature of the product).

Right now, my favorite solution is Kerio Connect, which you can either self-host or purchase as a cloud solution. There are hosting providers who will handle all of this for you, but having the option to bring mail fully in house is really nice.

It's essentially Exchange, but much easier to manage, and far cheaper.

They also have a Sharepoint/Box alternative, Workspace, that I now love.

I'm more than happy paying $555 for a server and then $45/user for license, $15/user/year maintenance, and hosting costs. I really don't think $50-100/mo/user (once you factor in admin/hosting costs...you could do it for $20-30/mo but $50-100 is a safer budget) is an unreasonable amount for top quality email and collaboration tools.
Thaaaank you. Link to the article I was remembering: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jar... (see #5: The Duck)
HN Idea: Filter The Internet
The Problem: There is just so much trash on the Internet. And what's trash to me, isn't trash to you. In fact, most things I find trash are very popular.

Take the Trending Now box from Yahoo.com: Ghostbusters 3 (don't care), Jwoww (I'm intrigued), Fox Stars in Danger (don't care), Zimmerman sues NBC (don't care), Norv Turner fired? (don't care), Brooke Burke cancer (don't care), LeAnn Rimes pills (don't care), Anchorman love interest (don't care) and NFL rule change (don't care). Of the top 9 things, I care about zero of them.

High level idea: I wish there was a way for me to filter out topics and all websites I went to would automatically remove things I have explicitly stated that I have no interest in. Hunny Boo Boo? Gone. Jersey Shore? Gone.

Possible solutions:

1) Browser extension: There might be something you install which knows how to filter the most popular sites of the internet. It wouldn't be perfect since site owners would be constantly changing their code and the extension builders would be in a never-ending catchup game.

2) Protocol level communication: It would be nice if the browser could send a blacklist of topics that the user wants to ignore and hopefully the site would implement a way to filter those out on their own system.

Why process of elimination instead of process of inclusion? If you just say what you like, the Internet becomes boring. We want to be exposed to new and interesting things that we didn't know we'd like.

Money: I don't know how to make money with this.
For problem one: Pick one of your ideas (your favorite, or the one with the least competition, bonus if it's both of those things) and then ignore the other(s). Work the one project until you feel you've done all you can do. At some point, getting project A off the ground is going to get hard, and this is when you'll be tempted to move onto project B. This is also when you must focus on A even harder, and act like B doesn't even exist. If you don't learn with A, you'll run into the same issues with B and will be holding onto 2 abandoned projects eventually.

For problem two: You're right that connections are key but don't think that these connections only exist in SV or the USA. Go to every startup/tech/niche related event that you can in your area. Even if you never meet someone that is 'directly' connected, you're likely to meet people who are connected indirectly, or with access to a hub/outlet that you may have never thought of. If you make enough noise in Easter Europe, SV will come to you.
They should put some of that money into the multiplayer servers they're terrible! I just played, tried to play, six games and each one crashed kicking everyone off. Six in a row.

Other times too it's bad, it's worse now than it ever has been.
Why is this topic so complicated? A Google news snippet very rarely would suffice for a user, if they are interested they would click through, if they are not, they would not visiting the newspaper anyway. Google are not showing ads in Google News, although they might show them in search results. But still, no profit that newspaper could address is being taken by Google. In fact, Google is providing traffic.

So taking all the philosophical statements out of the way, what is the econimical case that the newspapers are making? If Google actually showed a bigger part or the whole articles, they'd obviously be taking revenue from newspapers, but it's not the case.
For most people, the time and effort of setting up and maintaining an email server is probably worth more than $5 per user per month. For a company of 100 people, that's about 10 person hours every month, without considering the initial cost to buy the hardware. Not to mention the risk of something going horribly wrong and blacking out your email, unless you've co-located the mail server on enterprise grade hardware (which will eat all your savings anyways).
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I think he means as a vendor of mail services, $50/year/mailbox means you can't make enough profit unless you're huge, and even mid-sized, $50/year/mailbox might not let you provide very good service.
Ugh. The worst thing is that I've been relying on my personal domain e-mail address _also_ being a valid google address. So I have to either pony up for my family's accounts or move us all and re-create logins on a page or so of "authorized apps."

Still, the huge amount of spam that's been getting through (10-15 per day, despite always logging in to the gmail web interface and clicking Report Spam) has been encouraging me to consider a move anyway. This change is just the nudge I needed to finally make it happen...
There is, or at least ought to be, a bit of wiggle room where reasonable people disagree on global warming policy. I'm convinced that the world has gotten warmer in the last 100 years, and that there is a scientifically plausible model that shows that human activities are a major factor in that.

But the case for the urgency of addressing global warming versus other world problems or the case for addressing global warming through carbon reduction are less well-made.
It'll be interesting to see if anything comes of this w.r.t. the consumer price pressure that will then be directly on phones, currently the subsidy hides that from the consumer allowing handset manufacturers to set prices with the carrier
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I did that for a couple years. I highly recommend it as a learning experience, but I concluded that $50/year is absolutely 100% worth it.
I think you missed this sentence. "Please note this change has no impact on our existing customers, including those using the free version." Still, I'm on free google apps mostly for a personal email domain too and will likely start considering alternatives just in case.

I'd also note that the $50/year is also per user, so there's sort of an opening to offer a family, personal domain type service. For a family of a maybe 2-6 users, the $50/year-user is a bit steep if you're mostly looking for a small group email + calendaring. Maybe that would even be an interesting vector for starting a new family-based social networking service.
From the post: "Please note this change has no impact on our existing customers, including those using the free version."
The article says:
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Please note this change has no impact on our existing customers, including those using the free version.
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I'm quite sure any people who continue to use them probably haven't been made aware of or taken the time to consider their missteps. And if someone wants to continue doing business with GoDaddy that's their prerogative. I must disagree with you though in regards to it being poor to judge a site based on the services they use. Who you support with monetary contribution says everything about you and your values. Especially when there are other options in the marketplace. That's the reality of running a modern business whether you like it or not. If you align your brand with a controversial figure then you must be prepared for the backlash. It's not always fair but it's how the world works.
Very nice re: the search alias. Thanks for sharing that -- it was the next thing I was going to try to figure out. I just wish there was a way to get a Gmail search result without the sidebar with the number of unread emails in your inbox... To look or not to look... :-)
Yes, the announcement is corporate doublespeak.

No, I don't mind the end of free Google Apps. I use Google Apps for my business for five years, and frankly, it is mind-boggling what they have given me for free. Luckily us existing users still get the free service, but if I had to pay US$50 per year per user, I would still consider it exceptional value.

US$50 per year for a set of critical, heavily-used services is an inconsequential amount for all but the most penny-pinching operation.
Yes, there's really two parts to a "vanity" domain: I want a nice looking email address, and I want to own my email address no matter what service I use. It's nice to be able to also use an awesome service like Gmail on top of it.

It's worth some value to me, but $50/user/year is a bit much for a family of ~5 light email users.
Google just removed their own ability to convert free customers to paid ones as they grew. Switching cost of email is extremely high, so a startup in this space could easily charge more than $50/yr/user once they're already in.

Granted they're lacking the integration with all of Google's other services, but given how bad google's multi-account sessions are and the fact that basically everyone is logged into their personal gmail account already, that might actually be a good thing.

Plus, $50/yr/user adds up pretty darn quickly at scale. Not as much as all of these video services that cost about $100/yr, but like I said, the cost of switching email providers is insanely high - once you have a customer, it's almost guaranteed you'll have them forever unless you screw up at massive, catastrophic scale. Though because of that, you have to have a crazy-good hosted offering to get people to sign up in the first place; demoing a mail service is hard and Gmail (personal) has been a great way to show what their paid services offer for businesses.
I agree with RandallBrown, get something out there and show the world that you can finish an app. It'll be good experience too.

As for getting noticed, if you get you get fast at developing, I'd recommend participating in a hackathon and developing a simple, but useful, app with a random team. It's a great networking opportunity, and I still get startups and recruiters trying to hire me from my last hackathon (over a year ago now) in New York (I wasn't event looking for work).

My main experiences in building my first apps were:

1. Novel UI is usually not very intuitive, using what Apple gives you will take you far. People know how to use the basic UI elements, trying to teach users new behavior is hard (learned this the hard way).

2. Managing data will be messy if you don't use Core Data. I highly recommend going back to Stanford's iTunes U course and watching the one (two maybe?) on Core Data (and watch the Grand Central Dispatch one too if you're unfamiliar with it). Believe me, Core Data is awesome and once you learn to tame it you will learn to love it. Far better than rolling your own data storage/management.

3. Getting people to use your app is hard - make something useful. People download plenty of apps, but only open a handful of them. Don't bank on being another Instagram (there are plenty of clones), but make something really useful. TurboScan is a good example of this. Their UI is rather horrid, but its really good at doing what its meant to do. Its an app that is truly useful, and has made it to my (and my closest friends and family's) first screen. I probably use it 1-3 times a day because its actually very useful.

Good luck with your iOS adventures, love to see what you'd produce.
You can send as any email address you have access to. Some email clients show the GMail address as well when the email is sent through GMail's SMTP servers. It's suboptimal, but there are plenty of SMTP services you could use if you want to get around that.
Roderick Long is not an Objectivist.

I don't know how you calculate Objectivist presence in academia, but I strongly suspect the numbers are growing, although I think that growth will probably plateau soon (but maybe I'm wrong). But, that doesn't really matter.

Do you not think that all academic philosophers are bought? (OK, I know what you mean, though.)

views from people who are politically sympathetic to libertarianism

People who are sympathetic to libertarianism are (generally) anti-Objectivist, since they are basically a splinter group off of Objectivism, so that doesn't really mean anything.

Anything by Rothbard can pretty much be dismissed out of hand, especially with a factually incorrect title like that. I think I've seen it before, but I'll double check.

I think I've also see Nozick's "On the Randian Argument," and found that he hadn't actually grasped AR's methodology at all and had not made a legitimate critique, but I will double check that, too.
Re: everybody saying this was a 'free' service - Google were still harvesting & selling off anything you put in there. It wasn't truly free.
I sorted out my gmail powered trendy n@me-lastname.net email not two weeks ago. Perhaps if they offered a single user package free of charge it would be more sustainable.
For really small disputes, small claims court seems to work OK, at least from what I hear (never tried it myself). No lawyers, relatively streamlined process, etc. The problem really seems to be in the middle, where the damage is big enough that small claims is no longer an option, but not so big that you can afford to fund a team of lawyers for months or years. Maybe a middle ground between regular court and small claims would be the place to look.