skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You and I are just afraid to face obvious and true answer, which is "no".
I actually kind of miss static sites. These days everything seems to be about pumping out new content, like a newspaper, whereas static sites were more like books. They had chapters, an order to read, table of contents... you explored them, rather than just read through them backwards.
Ask HN: (BOQ) Are client applications dying and SaaS is the future?
When I read HN and what other startups are doing, it seems everyone is dead sure that SaaS is the future and client applications are on the way out.

I'm looking for opinions on this and your experience in your day to day work.

I will use a format that I remember from a different forum (a long time ago), which often lead to great threads.
It's called BOQ (Bunch Of Questions): the thread creator asks a bunch of (hopefully interesting)
questions, everyone who wants can answer them, and maybe we will gain some insights.

Just copy the questions and write your answer below each one.

So, here it goes:

(1) Is creating software your day-job?

(2) How long have you been in the industry?

(3) For what industry do you create software?

(4) Is that industry about day-to-day business (like logistics, e-commerce) or more focussed on project work(like )?

(5) Is your company selling software, consulting, or are you an in-house developer for a company that otherwise doesn't sell software?
(or something else?)

(6) Do you work for a startup, small-medium company, big corporation?

(7) Do you create B2B (Business To Business) or B2C (Business To Consumer) software?

(8) Do you create SaaS applications, client applications, mobile apps or something else?

(9) Can you describe the development stack that you use?

(10) Do you think client applications will be replaced by SaaS applications in the B2B market?

(11) Do you think client applications will be replaced by SaaS applications in the B2C market?

(12) Do you think it's possible to move core IT processes of a corporation to the SaaS modell?

(13) Is moving all company data to the cloud the only way this could be achieved?

(14) Do you think companies will eventually move their core business data to the cloud?

(15) Do you think market places for software (like iTunes, Windows Store) will revive client applications?
Yeah, I'm not really sure how to fix that. It's really bad on Firefox for Android.

Making it animate, that's not really easy to do using basic JS. Supposedly I could have a function call that moves it to the correct position more slowly using intervals, but that seems kinda hacky to me.

Basically, it works, but it's not amazing (which you pointed out).
wikileaks had leaks? I would guess is normal :)
It seems to be available on archive.org. I'm curious as to whether there's any layperson's summary of the information though. Most of the articles seem rather drab.
If you are entitled to live and work in England, you are entitled to free healthcare. Since the subject is about running a startup in London, you'd have to have those entitlements. This isn't a discussion about visiting England as a tourist.
That leads to some unnerving scenarios.
I would actually honestly consider Windows Phone 8 at this point. I'm much more of an Android guy though, where I can tweak things and break out of isolated app silos down to a shared file system. But then I almost have to carry an iPhone because that's where I make my living - building iOS apps. So Windows Phone 8 comes in a close third, but for reasons normal people (non-developers/hackers) don't have.

BlackBerry? There's nothing there I can't get from an Android phone.
Informed people won't build on it for fear google will arbitrarily shut it down some day.
We absolutely need this, but for this to happen you are going to need one of the leaders of either the senate or house to buy-in. Not likely without kicking the current yahoos out. Remember, it's mostly these same guys who put us here in the first place.
Thanks! It's intentional because I haven't had the time to implement it yet. ;)
But what happens as a result of the increased heat and CO2? Does it lead to improved conditions for some plankton that causes the ocean to become more reflective of heat? Does it lead to some other gas being released that makes the atmosphere more reflactive? Does it accelerate the water cycle leading to increased cloud coverage, making Earth more reflective? Does it lead to the ice sheets melting causing the surface of the Earth to be less reflective. Does it free methane trapped withing the melting ice, increasing the greenhouse effect?

Has the politicization nature of the environmental movement made finding good science difficult and a skeptical public justified?

But, even given that the average temperature is increasing, what are the effects of that?
James what is your email?
What is translate? From my really quick search it seems to be a canvas method, and I don't know that much about canvas, but I'm not sure if there's an easy way to implement it that keeps the simplicity of the script.

My main goal was to have a functioning parallax effect that was reasonably simple.
That's one aspect. There are lots of new motorways in Ireland (and many poor EU states) which are mostly financied by the EU. Ireland as a small country can't generate a big local market, free trade with the rest of Europe is good. Many liberal people support it because it's forced through a lot of liberal law changes. And, we're either align ourselves economically with Britain or Europe. Nothing like a bit of anti-British sentiment.
This story is not relevant to the privacy issues at hand. This is distracting from the conversation we should be having.
Steam box is going to be in a very different market - Valve's plan is to have three tiers - a lite ARM-based Miracast client for people who have a gaming PC and want to stream gaming from it to their TV, a full PC with a drive and all the bells and whistles, and a middling low-power solid-state device. The last one, the "better" box as Newell calls it, is the one that will be most directly competing with normal consoles, but since it will still require full X86 hardware and beefy gaming processors, I don't imagine they'll be able to get it under $400.
I don't entirely disagree with you. (I am not from the US, by the way). The developments in the US when it comes to justice, liberty and surveilance frighten me. From my point of view, the United States is fullfilling more and more of the requirements of a totalitarian regime.

I should probably be keeping my mouth shut regarding my opinions on US politics, since I'm visiting in a few months. Would be embarrassing to be confronted with this stuff at the border.
Response from Gandi support:

Thank you for your feedback.

This is due to the way our system was originally designed with some registrars. Indeed, this is not the case for all the extensions and varies according to which registry is returning the whois information.

However we agree that it might cause issues so we are currently working on a new authentication system to fix this. This new system should be released in a few months from now. Thank you for your patience and for your understanding.

If you have any further questions, please let me know.
You're not. Happy seeking !
I was editing JSHint - most of which is in a single 5000 line file - yesterday, with the same file open in split view, and was disappointed to see ST2 chugging a bit, with visible input lag.

In ST3, no such problems.
This: "You could do all sorts of fun things with this, like javascript games which allow site owners to create lobbies for their website.", this is a jackpot!
I require more than one example. But I'm curious.

Did they cancel the project because of fears of it infringing on civil liberties?

Did they cancel the project because it was ineffective for its defined purposes regardless of civil liberties?

Did they cancel the project to move its resources to another, more secret project that could possibly be more damaging to civil liberties?

Lots of programs get canceled for lots of reasons.
People differ as to what's important to them in an RSS reader.

Not being spied upon is important to me, so I try to avoid any RSS readers that are hosted on servers that don't belong to me.

I also loathe browser-based applications, for their shitty interfaces, lack of transparency (when they're hosted on some server I don't control), and poor integration with the rest of the unix ecosystem.

So for me, having an open-source, non-browser-based RSS reader trumph the concerns you mention.

Other people may have different needs and concerns, which is why it's important to list every alternative there is, and not just limit them to what one person considers important.
They use subdomains for the sites that are created so blog.neocities.org would be one possible domain used up.
After going over reederapps post and twitters etc. I have a feeling, the next update Silvios is talking about might have it's own backend, but he did say it wouldn't be ready for a few weeks, so I am sort of telling myself, that theres a good chance that whatever I pick might only be for temporary purposes anyway and Export OPML is supert important.

Feedbin might be my final pick.
Uproot Wines by Zelkova Ventures releases Google Analytics Data
Can we keep these off of HN ? They're whiny, sensationalist drivel that's the opposite of the hacker ideals the HN community was started on.
I imagine that if Google expands the Play Store standards to include console apps that do not conform to the all-touchscreen conventions of Android, then Ouya will be able to get Play Store support. The Ouya guys insist that they tried to get Google to support them but that you must have a touchscreen to get access to the play-store.
It depends!

Am I entitled to NHS treatment when I visit England? http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1086.aspx

Am I entitled to NHS treatment when I move to England? http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1087.aspx
I have always been suspicious of those new age/meditation/etc. resorts.

This really shows off the ability to use the Rap Genius platform to annotate writing; I wish there were something like Goedel Escher Bach Genius.
Are you able to print in version 3?
The Government does not want him for being treasonous. The Government wants him for espionage.
It looks like neocities uses subdomains to host user sites.[1] They probably don't want to pollute the subdomain "space" with their own content. They probably have some kind of automatic rewrite thing going on as well.

Now I'm wondering how you do the auto-subdomain thing. Maybe have *.neocities.org A record to the same IP and then have the HTTP server parse the URL?

[1] from the blog: http://mlpfim.neocities.org/
I don't fully agree. The article mentions that Snowden has offered to come back to the US if Holder agrees not to detain him before trial. Certainly a very important piece of news.
While I agree with the sentiments, Google most likely does not delete the unencrypted mail, so even if the government hasn't stored the content of the mail they will just request copies of all your deleted mail too.

Certainly going forward it would be a good thing to do, but really (as you say) end to end encryption is required. It's a shame Hushmail was compromised [1], this is the type of thing if it was built into GMail would push encryption to the masses - I realise it's not in Google's interest or business model though.

With the smart phones being SUCH an integrated part of our lives now, this also makes it VERY difficult to keep your email with you on the go since the mailvelope plugin is only desktop based.

Shame. We have the tools, I hope we get better integration soon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_p...
I don't think the US is getting worse. Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, arming the mujahadeen in Afghanistan. It's always been this bad.

You may not believe yet that China could be bad. I would love to dream of a benificent Chinese world hegemon. But if China can't even give freedom to its own people, what's it going to do to others?

The US is, in my view, the least worst option by a long way.
- Syntax / Code folding

i don't use code-folding either, but blaming the users for writing poor code is a pretty shitty excuse not to implement the most requested feature.

- Matching HTML/XML tags

- Better, or customizable match_brackets style

just because something can be done via an extension, doesn't mean that it should be done that way. The most popular extensions, i think, belong in the core.

Whether you think any of these points are valid is your personal opinion, against hundreds/thousands of others. If he didnt want to take user feedback seriously, then why bother with a prominent feature tracking system?

EDIT: looks like Matching HTML/XML tags is implemented in the new beta (with some quirks). Unfortunately, the fact that the highlight style cannot be customized makes it just as useless as the existing, barely-noticeable match_brackets feature. Is it really that difficult to let users customize the editor's marking style?
I strongly recommend reading the Ruby source code for NeoCities on Github https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web

NeoCities uses Sinatra, Slim templates and Sequel for database queries and migrations. The code is a pure joy to read. Ruby is not the fastest language, but for an initial release of a minimum viable product it's perfect.

If you decide take on investors you can pay someone else to rewrite the thing in java later.
What he's talking about is cost-based pricing and it is usually a bad idea. For those who don't know, it essentially involves taking the costs associated with producing a product (in his case, his time) and marking up the cost to some amount above that to ensure sufficient margins.

The fact is that when people buy a product they don't really care about what it cost you to produce, they care about what value they can extract from it. A classic example of this is the fragrance market, where people routinely pay $80 for a 2.5 ounce bottle of cologne that cost less than two dollars to produce. They do this because they imagine it will make them more attractive, so to them, $80 is a small price to pay and don't really care about the markup.

Some businesses can mark software up higher and higher and increase sales and profits because they are providing a large value proposition in the form of huge time savings, more sales, etc.

Because he only mentioned the time he invested and the existing bottom-of-the-barrel pricing as the reasons all software shops should raise prices, I have to say his logic is mostly flawed.
There is an important point in there though.

You are not your government. It's possible to love your country while not accepting that the actions and authority of your government are correct.

Edward Snowden obviously loves his country and the people of it.
It isn't obvious, but I think the cost to upgrade if you hold an ST2 license will be less than $70. Wish I knew what it was :(
I think it's easier to think about it as if you are just multiplying the original equations by some power of alpha or beta i.e.

alpha^(n-2)(alpha^2 - 6alpha - 2) = 0 = alpha^n - 6 alpha^(n-1) - 2 alpha^(n-2)

Hard to see without latex typing...
Found this useful site / app / tool on HN a couple weeks ago:
http://mapfight.appspot.com/gl-vs-texas/greenland-texas-us-s...
If espionage is acquiring information to give to the enemy, and Snowden is wanted for giving information to the American people, does that mean that the Government thinks that the American people are the enemy?
I am sorry but I don't think people should upload their OPML like this.

Your feed collection is like your personal life. It should be private (so what if the URLs are public and general). By disclosing your collection, it is like you are living in a glass house.

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a single helpful reason for this service.
The story certainly implies that, but it's also quite likely that it was the opportunity for Tesla to argue their case face to face with the legislators that caused the change.
Oooh, it has everything to do with censorship.
I don't know that I object to the notion that impeachment is required as well (absent it, a president could just pardon themselves anyway) but I don't think punishment should be restricted to impeachment in the face of serious abuses.
I'm European, but I think that the U.S. is (sadly) definitely better for startups, for an obvious reason - huge market. Expanding to other European countries requires lot of work and energy (different laws, language, culture etc.). In the US, no such friction exists. Another thing is workforce mobility, it's lower in Europe (because of laws, language, culture).

Lack of VC is not the core issue IMHO, I guess it's just the consequence of smaller markets. Biger markets = bigger VC money.
Is there anything Golang can't do fairly well with a small code base? Damn, I wish I were still 20 and had shitloads of time on my hands to invest in learning the ins and outs of the language.
From DARPA, A Virtual Tool To Revolutionize Robotics
I disagree with you. Snowden coming back to the US for trial is irrelevant to questions about the actions of the NSA and the behaviour of your government.
Printing can be done with packages that call enscript.
(1) Is creating software your day-job?

Yes.

(2) How long have you been in the industry?

3 years.

(3) For what industry do you create software?

Logistics.

(4) Is that industry about day-to-day business (like logistics, e-commerce) or more focussed on project work(like )?

Day-to-day business.

(5) Is your company selling software, consulting, or are you an in-house developer for a company that otherwise doesn't sell software? (or something else?)

In-house developer who creates tools to aid logistics processes.

(6) Do you work for a startup, small-medium company, big corporation?

medium-sized company.

(7) Do you create B2B (Business To Business) or B2C (Business To Consumer) software?

In-house tools.

(8) Do you create SaaS applications, client applications, mobile apps or something else?

Client applications.

(9) Can you describe the development stack that you use?

C# .NET

(10) Do you think client applications will be replaced by SaaS applications in the B2B market?

That's what I'm not sure about. From my point of view it seems client applications are still the only way in most small-medium sized companies.

(11) Do you think client applications will be replaced by SaaS applications in the B2C market?

Yes, I think consumers do not want to pay for client applications.

(12) Do you think it's possible to move core IT processes of a corporation to the SaaS modell?

To me it looks like right now SaaS solves all problems EXCEPT core business processes.

(13) Is moving all company data to the cloud the only way this could be achieved?

I can't think of another way in which core business processes could be provided by SaaS.

(14) Do you think companies will eventually move their core business data to the cloud?

If I run a day-to-day business, and all processes depend on my main database, I don't think I would take the risk to move it to the cloud.

(15) Do you think market places for software (like iTunes, Windows Store) will revive client applications?

I think they could, but not in the way they work right now
(proprietary, trend towards ultra-low prices for apps etc.).
Hacker ideals? Really?
Sharing experiences is fundamental in building knowledge and anticipating the future. I enjoy these 'whiny, sensationalist drivel' because as a coFounder of a noob startup I don't hear enough of failed/failing startups. Instead all I hear is 'chest pounding howls' on why it's so cool to do a startup, seek VCs, join an incubator and make a killer exit. I welcome a different story. Especially a story everyone can learn from.
s/Europe/Boston/
If we assume that growing wheat on your own land for the purpose of eating it is interstate commerce, I would have no problem believing that a multi-state company selling cars in each state is interstate commerce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
> If you take a look at a startup map of Vienna (or most major cities), you are gonna cry. The biggest "startup" is dict.cc...

Don't look at silly maps (URL?) that are pure fiction. dict.cc is a popular website, but not a classic startup (apparently no ambitions to commercialize) and 11 years old.

Recent highly successful startups from Vienna are e.g. Runtastic and 123people.
>all we can do is adopt, for now.

You do realize that we are the first species to be the cause of a mass extinction event. We are also the only species to seriously consider how to terraform another planet [1]. What we need is the environmental movement to stop saying that we are actively destroying the world and the only thing we can do is stop, to one that says we have the ability to control the environment of our own world, and we should do so intelligently.

Keep in mind that we are not the first mass extinction event (the Permian–Triassic extinction event killed 96% of all species), but we are the first species to be able to exercise intelligent control over the climate. Also, while the environment will flourish after just like after every other extinction, it won't happen quickly enough for our scientist to be able to study life in the same way that they can with our pre-extintion bio-diversity.

[1] http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm
Safari on 10.8.4 and the CPU usage is only 2-3% higher with that tab open. (iMac/2012)
Prosecute Texas legislature under CFAA for altering timestamps on their votes?
Following your argument, it is "asinine" to create a startup in the USA, when China has a homogenous market of 1.3 billion people... There are markets, there are opportunities, there are startups. Each locale has advantages and disadvantages.
The idea is great. Really like it.

But what I REALLY like is the browse-function with the little thumbnails of the hundreds of websites which look exactly the same crappy and shitty way as in the good old days. http://neocities.org/browse

It just shows me that people still don't know nothing about design, they have no idea what it takes, how much time & knowledge and they are like spoiled kids from the idiot-save steps that facebook&co took to maintain a "good" (at least stable) design after putting some text in a textbox and press enter.
A Practical guide to StatsD/Graphite monitoring
Agreed, I love the fact that I called this blog out when it first appeared on HN and got down voted.. hard (someone has an agenda?).

And newsflash: multiple factors can kill your start up.
It wasn't the Account Balance
Geocities was great before this happened. I was on Geocities before it was acquired by Yahoo and it was literally just static HTML sites. Guestbooks, hit counters, etc. were all just added into your HTML without special tags.
It seems that way to me too. What worries me is, once Ecuador has Snowden, how they might respond if the US tries using the carrot instead of the stick. It seems like Ecuador has every incentive to show that they can't be bullied (and grandstanding about human rights is a great medium for that), and also every incentive to show that they can be bribed.

Of course, they might try to hold out and see if they can get some more high profile refugees first, but given that they don't seem to actually care about human rights, I'm not sure I see the downside to cashing in at some point, from their perspective.

My biggest hope right now is that since Snowden seems to be extraordinarily on the ball regarding world politics, he has a better idea of the situation than I do.
And how then are the soldiers supposed to find out whether their orders are legal or not when the information needed to acquire such knowledge is kept from them by law?
You're not an aberration; defaults are defaults for a reason. Perhaps around this community it's more common to stray from the vanilla editor but in most cases people will adapt to whatever's given straight to them.

In the case of ST2, it was pretty damn solid out of the box. There's tremendous power in the customization, but it's in no way required.