skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"On the other hand, I can see how the intent of making the Blog This! button software-agnostic was ahead of its time."

At the risk of putting words in his mouth, I imagine part of his frustration is probably that making it software-dependent was a regression. There was already a budding ecosystem of blog-system-agnostic authoring tools, building off protocols he'd had a significant hand in, and while the protocol as it stood at the time[1] was probably going to require a version 2 at some point, it really wasn't that hard to make things like that very cross-platform. Even now from what I can see, there's a lot of overlap between the various platforms, and with the addition of some ability to upload images and other media into a rich text blog post you could probably catch >99.9% of blog posts made today across all the popular blogging platforms.

I still think the blogging world may yet rise again as the centralization meets the end it always does, but when that happens it will be recapitulating development that has largely already occurred, ten+ years ago. (And if history is any guide, it will be from scratch and with loud acclamations about how innovative it all is.)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaWeblog
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I suspect it has more to do with the large amount of undefined/unspecified/implementation defined behavior in C. A lot of questions on Stack Overflow can only be answered correctly by referring the the standard.
It was also completely rewritten. It kind of boggles the mind. They didn't keep any of the branding or any of the code. What exactly did they buy? Users?
This graphic is pretty informative on the subject: https://www.scriptrock.com/blog/puppet-vs-chef-infographic/

They are both quite similar in their goals, I have used both, but found Chef to be more user friendly and with a more vibrant community.
I made up a chart of who hosts 300 YC-funded startups:

http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/09/24/who-hosts-the-y-combi...

Rackspace and SoftLayer are the only dedicated providers with significant numbers. I host Improvely and W3Counter at SoftLayer.
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I wasnt aware of this android 'feature' since I am still stuck on android 2.3 on my Verizon Droid Charge. Interestingly I always pointed out the fact that you could just plug in an android device as a usb mass storage as the example of how google gets it. Not looking forward to my phone upgrade now. Also I dont know if it was a broken implementation but using MTP on the Creative Zii devkit was an exercise in frustration.
Yep, you're right. I guess support is one of those aspects that can't be measured per Gb, so there must be some kind of an entry cost. I do wonder how Linode manages to keep this manageable for them though.
Down vote all you want, I'd still like a rational answer.
In Europe I'd guess you'd be most at home in the Linux world. At the moment all the activity there is in virtualisation related companies, so I'd try to approach some of them and see if they've got something for you. I think NetApp is hiring in your area, but I'm not sure what exactly they do there.

You can also become a Vulnerability Reward Program bounty-hunter as a hobby for a while. If you manage to find some high-profile bugs and blog about it, work will probably also start coming to you.
Bitter and self-indulgent? That's pretty much Winer every day on his blog. He gets excited, talks up whatever he's working on, gets upset when he's ignored, and hates whenever anyone else is getting attention he believes he deserves.

I'm sorry, Dave has helped create and develop some good things in the past, but it's time people were honest and not 'afraid' of how they might sound.

Dave Winer is a bitter, angry man. Period. He's always been that way, and it's only gotten worse as he's gotten older. He's spent an entire career attacking, and now that there's a new generation of creators and he's been forgotten, he's stomping his feet because I'm sure he feels as if he's being ignored. And in many ways, he is. No one really wants to deal with an egomaniac.

I actually feel sorry for Dave Winer, but we reap what we sow. And he's definitely reaping at this stage of his career.
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And just to make sure one is not at some local optimum, it's not so much the names on the front page.

Read papers the way experts do: from the biblio!
They will probably force users to merge their tumblr and yahoo identity into one (similar to flickr).
At 15, I doubt he was more concerned about the data than the actual device.
If free beer is the price of entry here, I'd love to pick your brains as well, since we're about to run into this exact same problem. (I'm in Chicago as well)
Interesting. If I thought Dave Winer was interested in that sort of thing, I'd probably invite him to be on our board. I mean, he's not exactly some Joe Schmoo who just fell of the tomato truck. He has done some incredibly important work for the Web over the years[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer
Nokia has announced an Asha with a qwerty keypad.
I am not looking at 5 but I wish that I were.

What is your dedicated server host of choice? Or did you just come here to detract from the conversation?
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I've not seen that issue, I suppose it's possible, without knowing more about your app it's hard to say. I only know of the 1 dyno thing, that's what people most commonly run into when they are trying to run a free app.
The OP suggested 1 billion rational answers. Or 35 million. Or one of those values divided by whatever amount of money it'd take for you to live comfortably for the rest of your life.

It's easy to condemn people for being realistic about their reaction to such a sum of money. Perhaps your scruples would prevent you from taking a massive payment to leave behind something you've created, but I think it's more likely you're trying to take a moral high ground that's not grounded in reality.
There are also anecdotal stories of people who gave in to thieves and were still killed, and people who stood up to them and scared the thief off.

That doesn't mean standing up is the right thing to do, but would be interesting if anyone had any more insight into which was the safer option - though I guess hard to give, as presumably it depends on who the thief is, their state of mind, how exactly you react, etc. Regardless, I don't think I'd ever change from an automatic response of giving up whatever they wanted.
Yes, they're. But I'm thinking to change it.

I've also the .io, but I thought about the .co for the "community" or "cooperation" thing. I might change if other people think it's better the .io
As pg once joked, Yahoo Stores still hosts pg's blog. (I presume that by that, Paul is referring to his paulgraham.com site, but I may be mistaken about which site he had in mind.)
Could someone please explain what problems MTP is designed to solve?
Based on pressure from VMWare? No, that's extraordinarily unlikely.
This is because campusfood.com charged much lower rates than GrubHub does.

I was told by a few restaurant owners that when GrubHub came along, they tried to renegotiate the restaurants to a higher price point, which caused a lot of turnover.
That looks a lot like usenet in the old days... Which is not a bad thing at all.
Story I heard from a social worker. Guy's mom calls him up and asks for her prescription medication. Takes a few in a ziploc, drives it over and is stopped by a cop on the way. Gets out his registration, cop sees the baggie and arrests him. Crime #1 was having prescription meds not prescribed to him, but simply by putting it in a ziploc it's automatically raised to intent to sell/distribute. Seems like something a lot of people would have done innocuously.
Agreed. Would it be news if it just said "teen dies trying to hold on to valuables during theft"?

Though I suppose is valuable to point out that electronic devices are valuable enough to get mugged over which might not be obvious
Well, if tumblr employees got Yahoo stock, they could use it to influence the direction of the company, at least a little.
I don't use FB, but from what I understand can't people who don't know each other interact on a page they both follow, like an organization or a band? And once they've 'met' in that forum, an add or message won't seem so creepy?

If that's the case, why is FB inherently unsuitable for the kind of interaction he's talking about here?
My understanding is that the information was not withheld from retail investors; rather, it wasn't actively disseminated to them, and the significance of the information impressed upon them.

The reduced revenue estimates were public information; I recall reading about them myself before the IPO took place. If someone had put me in charge of billions of dollars and told me to take a position on the Facebook IPO, I would have shorted the stock, as many others did.

The crux of the issue is that wealthy institutional investors had analysts at their disposal to point out the revised revenue estimates, and retail investors like Swaminathan didn't. Retail investors were ill-prepared for the IPO, and they got burned.
The first time I ever saw "brogrammer" was in a Facebook ad from Intel. I didn't think of it as negative, I thought it was a way of saying that programming was no longer (at least in the view of the general public) the purview of socially awkward dorks.
It seems like if you copy-paste the text into notepad, it pastes correctly.

The layout of the text is peculiar, but I can't say it made me not want to read it.
I don't think waving off the deal is the only reasonable response - it is also reasonable to change your own expectations. Don't plan for a future, simply get everything you can up front. Anything else more long term than that, you should consider fluff. It can be hard to let "your baby" go like that, but depending on the circumstances it may even be the right thing for you, a chance to start over on a different project.
If they'd managed flickr properly, there may have never been a YouTube or an Instagram. A competently-run flickr could've handled video (in a non-crippled fashion), and would've been anticipating and well-prepared for the mobile photography boom.

My guess is that flickr was being run by a bare-bones team in strictly maintenance mode, and the profits were funneled into other (money-losing) parts of the company.
Could perhaps be the case that if only 5% of phones don't get blocked then that pay-off makes it worthwhile for desperate criminals (i.e. people needing money for addictions, as opposed to people planning strategically).
> but it's time people were honest and not 'afraid' of how they might sound.

On that note, why don't you post this with your real account then? I'm using my real name, Danilo sure is using his, and we're talking (trash) about a real person who, by the way, also has an HN account to his name. You, however, created in2d for the sole purpose of making this inflammatory comment.
Pick the one that feels gut-right, and look for reasons to shoot it down. Giving yourself a menu of choices leads to analysis paralysis.

Better yet, back it up a level... why do you need a dedicated server, rather than cloud hosting? Dedicated servers go strongly against industry trends.
That's great advice if you live somewhere where either thefts rarely happen, or thieves are often armed.

For locations in between those extremes, well… you're the reason thieves here move on to a next victim if you resist a bit.

Also, I doubt your family had incidents like this in mind when they gave you that advice.
Is there a site that talks about the technology in the stacks in use by startups instead of the cloud and SaaS platforms they are using?
I am at a loss as to how you seem to have read my first sentence, which named names of people who created various tools, as another claim that Einstein invented this all on his own.

It was not the spirit of the times. The spirit of the times was still grappling with some sort of absolute reference frame. If it was the "spirit of the times" it would have been discovered about 20 years earlier. It wasn't.
Is the selection of the relevant part of the page not possible on the client side? Through some iframe magic or something?
value proposition: interacting with cool people that you don’t know

Yahoo Groups hosted email lists have allowed me to interact with cool people whom I've never met in person for years. I value them highly for that. But that has never allowed Yahoo to monetize Yahoo Groups very well.
I think Dave's final point is spot on. That's why, IF we ever get to the point where Fogbeam becomes an acquisition target, and IF we sell, my mindset is going to be very much "take it, it's yours, do what you want with it." I wouldn't even ask for a fancy title or any kind of executive position in the combined company. I'd just want the shortest possible "golden handcuff" period, and a place to sit and surf Hacker News while waiting for the period to end.

The flip-side is, of course, that this is why it would be hard to decide to sell. sigh
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I've never really understood this logic, if you encourage people to be passive against theft then it makes becoming a criminal easy and you will have more of them and likely be targeted again.

I can understand if you have a real reason to fear for your life like being cornered by dangerous looking people or someone who is armed. I have resisted muggings in the past and always walked away with my life and possessions in tact.
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A more extreme example of this would be that when Disney bought Pixar, Steve Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder (7%) and joined the board.
Can you please give me a brief reason as to why not? I have no clue as to what might be expensive for them and so forth. I know what they do and how their service works, though. As a developer, I mean.
So in other words, the author of this and the original post is really good at using the wrong tool for the job. I think it would greatly increase his credibility if he would mention that this isn't what CSS is meant to be used for and is just doing it for demo purposes. Too many people seem to get the impression that CSS should be used for actually drawing things.
I wish somebody made something like that but for dogs ...
What is Wikipedia hosted on these days? The last time I looked at Wikimedia Foundation's tax exempt organization documents, a big part of the foundation's expenses were paying for web hosting.
You missed the point completely in order to make some stupid personal attack, as did everybody that upvoted you.

The point of the article is about not trusting anything an acquiring company says, because they will say anything in order to get the deal. The other stuff was just some colour.
You can build your own server for several hundred dollars and ship it to a colocation datacenter. When you do the math, paying $100/month for a $300 server doesn't make sense after 3 months.
I saw your video (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3446-adrian-holovaty-talks-so...) on the 37signals blog where you mentioned that the server stuff was boring. Now it just got interesting!
"For years physicists ignored this problem..."

Physicits have not been ignoring the problem. String theory is but one attempt to solve the problem. Physicists have failed to solve the problem, but that is not the same thing. Look at all the older dates discussed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory#History

(Note I'm not advocating String Theory, just using it to prove my local point here that the problem has not been ignored.)
Thanks for the response. While I haven't read the book yet and only briefly looked through it, I think the most important areas to cover are 'development process/workflow' and 'testing'. Opscode does a pretty good job of explaining how to actually write cookbooks and things like LWRPs, but the two areas I mentioned are rather fragmented on the web.

I've also heard about the idea of 'Library Cookbooks', and the idea of having a generic cookbook that you can include in an organization-specific cookbook seems very intriguing. If you are familiar with this concept, including it the book would be quite worthwhile.

Another area I would be very interested in is Chef Best Practices. I've gotten myself into quite a bit of trouble by putting way too much information in my roles, only to run into all sorts of trouble with versioning when working in multiple environments i.e, 'dev', 'test', 'prod'.

Anyway, thanks for putting in the effort to get a book out. Chef is a little starved in the way of accessible information (I shouldn't have to resort to IIRC multiple times per day to get questions answered). This is badly needed.
Ha! I knew I wasn't the only one.

I'm a large user of AWS but, in general, I never feel like I'm in a true VPS. My last experience:

Out of the sudden one of our EC2 instances could not connect to another, causing our HA solution to spun dozens of instances and eventually crash too. It was clear to me that the dest machine was behind some firewall, we went to the security group, the machine was supposed to accept any connection, from any port, any host. The instance itself had no active firewall.

Out of desperation I added the very own security group to itself. It worked for a few hours, then stopped again, I removed, it came back to work and still working (8+ months now)

This is only one of various mysterious events I've seen happening on AWS.
As a windows user, I refer to these things as "mac turds" when I see them on network shares.
you can use Cloud 66 to deploy your apps from Heroku right to your own servers with little hassle and no need to do much sys admin work.
Seamless always struck me as the far better option. Here in NYC, radial distance is almost useless to define delivery areas. On GrubHub and Delivery.com, I would often see restaurants on the other side of the river show up as in my area simply because of straight line proximity. Somehow Seamless knows which restaurants actually consider me in their delivery area.

The most curious thing about Seamless was they were constantly running promotions with a code that only worked in their mobile app. I don't know if this was meant to help them test or what, but I think there's a huge risk consumers will interpret that sort of thing as 'penalty for ordering in the comfort of your web browser' instead of 'bonus for ordering with a mobile app'
I almost guarantee that this market will eventually stabilize to one of two outcomes:

1) Standardized ordering API allows restaurants with "their own" ordering system to be listed on GrubHub/Seamless.

2) One company (probably Grubless) serves as an aggregator but also sells a lame iframe-for-your-website/custom-app combo.

Restaurants should probably hope for #1.
Right, but 1a is never the same as 1c.
I read somewhere that they are sold in bulk to criminal gangs who change whatever codes identify the phone and then resell them abroad.
Many comments here are focusing on negative stuff, so I wanted to say congrats, I find this website incredibly interesting and useful! I learned a lot browsing through it!
Anyone that pays $1.1B for a company with $14M in revenue is either stupid, or they have a plan. You can either assume Marisa Meyer is stupid, and she is going to leave Tumblr alone, then have to take a massive write down in a few years, and get then fired. Or you can assume that she has some sort of vision for how to monetize Tumblr. Any promises made and statements to the press are simply irrelevant.

What is relevant is whether she can get the Tumblr employees on board with her monetization plan. David Karp doesn't seem like the kind of guy that can get on board with someone else's vision. I have a feeling he will be sidelined and then gone at the first available opportunity.
Leanpub.
why don't they get paying customers instead?
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Agreed. In fact, I don't think there is anything more important to focus on in a startup than "what is the most impactful thing I could do right now, vis-a-vis generating revenue".

Of course, that might lead you to wonder "Then WTF are you doing on here right now?" Well, simply, I'm stuck at my $DAYJOB right now and don't have anything productive to do, but it would be awkward to be working on my project from here. But in terms of time I spend on the startup, I'm trying very hard right now to stop looking so much at "big picture" stuff, narrow the vision, reign in my ambitions (for now) and focus on "what will get us to revenue fastest?"

Maybe I'm crazy, but the idea of constantly seeking funding for my company instead of simply asking my customers to pay me just seems absolutely ludicrous.

FWIW, I agree 100%
> My 4yo daughter can set the foreground and background colors in emacs

You, sir, win!

More seriously, has she learnt how to read and type? Or does she like playing with letters on the screen?
I understand some of the points the author is making, and will have to give it a closer read when I'm not at work. But I reject the thesis at a glance. Most clients don't have time to deal with everything related to their web presence, custom or not. If you're solving business problems, not training them to use WordPress, you can charge a premium.
It's a huge thing! I had three phones stolen in the past 18 months, all while abroad. The last time my iPhone was stolen from my front pocket while I was partying. In the same timespan I also successfully fought of one guy in my own country who tried to steal my phone.

It's the reason why I don't carry a smartphone anymore. :)

From what I hear stolen phones are often moved abroad, where they wouldn't be blocked. I'm not sure if it's true, however, since I don't think many phones get blocked to begin with. And if they do get blocked, I bet they get blocked after they've been sold.
To be clear: MOST startups die. I'm not hating on my community or well funded startups that die, that happens. I think it tends to be that if a startup has found PMF or is desperate to find it AND has money, they tend to grow not die.
yes please.. ohh god yes.
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Hacker News has always been like this.

What's new at least in my experience is that the jerks are getting some pushback.

I doubt if any of these people know me. I'm working hard on a startup now, with good results.

I don't know who they're describing here, but it ain't me! ;-)
Poll: What number would make you say "I am financially independent"?
Seeing all these deals and billion dollar aquisitions including some comments on life changing money etc, just wondering what is your number ? It is not necessarily a number to retire, but a number that will give you the financial freedom to do whatever you want. If that means working at a walmart because you want, then so be it. The differentiator is "want" and not "need".

The numbers are in USD. Of course, it could depend on where you live. So feel free to convert it into your local currency, consider inflation rate etc etc.

EDIT: To clarify, this number is the "cash" at hand and not your net worth. So if you own a million fb shares but have not liquidated any, it does not count.
1-500,000 USD
500,001-1,000,000 USD
1,000,001-5,000,000 USD
5,000,001-10,000,000 USD
10,000,0001 USD or more
Don't push it. There's nothing funny about ad hominem attacks. Really.
Good luck to the founders! I'm sure some of them will go on to great things!
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If you're wondering, here is the kickstarter to the video. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dorrian/a-statue-of-niko...